Wednesday, November 11, 2015

2015-11-11 US: Controlled by Deep State

2015-11-11 US: Controlled by Deep State
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America’s next president will inherit more than a bitterly divided nation teetering on the brink of financial…
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2015-11-11 Cold War 2.0 - gas pipelines...

2015-11-11 Cold War 2.0 - gas pipelines...
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Did Someone Try To Sabotage Russia's North Stream Gas Pipeline With An Underwater Drone
An unmanned military underwater vehicle rigged with explosives was spotted on the seabed in the vicinity of the Nord Stream gas pipeline in the Baltics on Friday, Swedish media report. The device is expected to be disarmed on November 9.
An abandoned expendable remotely-operated mine clearance underwater vehicle allegedly with explosives onboard has been detected in multinational waters of the Baltic Sea by the Swedish Navy, Svenska Daglabet reports.
The discovery was made during a routine check of the Nord Stream pipeline. Since it was discovered in the Swedish economic zone, north of the island of Gotland, the Nord Stream pipeline operator immediately notified the Swedish military.
The type of ROV (remote operated vehicle) found near Gotland is typically used to disarm big unremovable munitions found on seabed, as the drone is blown up along with the dangerous object.
The national identity of the drone has not been verified so far, as many countries use UUVs of a similar construction, Stolpe said
"An unmanned military underwater vehicle rigged with explosives was spotted on the seabed in the vicinity of the Nord Stream gas pipeline in the Baltics on Friday,…
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2015-11-11 US: Fed controlled by the Banksters...

2015-11-11 US: Fed controlled by the Banksters...
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Why Hank Paulson Is Laughing: 4 Of 5 Regional Fed Voters In 2017 Will Be Ex-Goldman
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Submitted by Tyler Durden on 11/10/2015 15:41 -0500
Spin revolving door, spin.

At a certain level, the staffing of government agencies, regulators, and other public sector bodies with former Wall Streeters and various bulge bracket bigwigs has become so ubiquitous that it’s hardly even news.
Still, it’s worth paying attention to the dynamic because losing track of who’s really running things is a bad idea if you want to understand why it always seems like regulatory outcomes are never commensurate with the crime and if you think monetary policy and all types of other high level decisions regarding the economy are conducted at the behest of those who are ultimately beholden to the bankers.
Case in point: Less than two months ago, Harvard professor Robert S. Kaplan who until 2006 was vice chairman of none other than Goldman Sachs replaced Richard Fisher at the Dallas Fed and amusingly, Fisher went on to become an “advisor” for Barclays.
Well, with the appointment of Neel Kashkari to the Presidency of the Minneapolis branch of the Eccles cabal, we get just the latest example of what amounts to egregious regulatory capture. Here’s The New York Times attempting to be polite about it:
Mr. Kashkari is the third new president of a regional reserve bank named this year, and all three of the men previously worked at Goldman Sachs. The Philadelphia Fed in March appointed Patrick Harker, a former Goldman trustee, as its new president. The Dallas Fed in August selected Robert Kaplan, a former Goldman vice chairman.
Yes, "all three previously worked at Goldman Sachs."
As of course did the second most powerful central banker on the planet... and as did the Treasury Secretary that, with the help of Kashkari, engineered Wall Street's bailout in 2008...
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2015-11-11 US: Univ of MO - deranged nation...

2015-11-11 US: Univ of MO - deranged nation...
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Mob-Violence-Inciting University Of Missouri Media Professor Resigns
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 11/11/2015 - 08:46
A victory for common-sense? Who knows anymore. But following the disgusting debacle on Mizzou's campus yesterday, Melissa Click - the media professor who incited mob violence against a reporter who was doing his job - has reportedly resigned. As NYTimes reports, Click noted in a statement, "I regret the language and strategies I used," which we suspect, roughly translated, means "I regret being caught bullying a reporter." The university seems to be distancing itself from Click, noting that her position was a "courtesy appointment."
A victory for common-sense? Who knows anymore. But following the disgusting debacle on Mizzou's campus yesterday, Melissa Click - the media professor who…
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2015-11-11 Words of wisdom, applicable to our felonious age...

2015-11-11 Words of wisdom, applicable to our felonious age...
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"People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage. Intellectual myopia, often called stupidity, is no doubt a reason.
But the privileged also feel that their privileges, however egregious they may seem to others, are a solemn, basic, God-given right."
John Kenneth Galbraith, Age of Uncertainty
“Misdeeds, once exposed, have no refuge but in audacity. And they have accomplices in those who are fearful in their complicity.”
Tacitus, Annals

2015-11-11 PORTUGAL v BANKSTERS...

2015-11-11 PORTUGAL v BANKSTERS...
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"Democracy" is a nice concept, until it gets in the way of the banksters...
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"No QE For You!": ECB May Cut "Lifeline" To Portugal After Socialists Overthrow Government
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 11/11/2015 - 09:35

In what sounds like the plot of a McCarthy-era propaganda spy novel, the Socialists and Communists have overthrown the government in Portugal. That means it's time for the troika to start pushing back against the undesirables by threatening the country with financial ruin. Just call it "tough love."
In what sounds like the plot of a McCarthy-era propaganda spy novel, the Socialists and Communists have overthrown the government in Portugal. That means it's time…
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2015-11-11 US: Murderous police - a cardinal sign of a totalitarian regime!

2015-11-11 US: Murderous police - a cardinal sign of a totalitarian regime!
The number of shootings by Los Angeles police has nearly doubled in 2015, the city’s new police commission president said. He says changes will be made to stop…
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2015-11-11 US: Deranged???

2015-11-11 US: Deranged???
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US Defense Secretary Threatens Russia and China
By Patrick Martin
November 10, 2015 "Information Clearing House" - "WSWS" - US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter delivered a pointed warning of future wars Saturday in an address to a forum at the Reagan Library in southern California. The reckless and provocative character of the Pentagon chief’s speech is underscored by the targets of his saber-rattling: Russia, with the world’s second largest stockpile of nuclear weapons, and China with the third.
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Giving only brief mention of the ongoing US wars in Afghanistan and against Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), Carter said he wanted “to focus my remarks this afternoon on another kind of innovation for the future, which is how we’re responding to Russia, one source of today’s turbulence, and China’s rise, which is driving a transition in the Asia-Pacific.”
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The defense secretary claimed that both Russia and China, in different ways, were challenging the foundations of international order laid down by successive US administrations throughout the period since the end of World War II. “The principles that serve as that order’s foundation,” he said, “including peaceful resolution of disputes, freedom from coercion, respect for state sovereignty, freedom of navigation and overflight–are not abstractions, nor are they subject to the whims of any one country.”
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According to Carter, “Russia appears intent to play spoiler by flouting these principles and the international community. Meanwhile, China is a rising power, and growing more ambitious in its objectives and capabilities.”
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After denouncing Russia for “violating sovereignty in Ukraine and Georgia”...
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Carter raised the danger of what he called “Moscow’s nuclear saber-rattling,” which he said “raises questions about Russia’s leaders’ commitment to strategic stability, their respect for norms against the use of nuclear weapons, and whether they respect the profound caution nuclear-age leaders showed with regard to the brandishing of nuclear weapons.”
Carter used this nonexistent danger to justify the vast US expansion of its own nuclear arsenal, by far the world’s largest, in an Obama administration initiative now estimated to cost more than $300 billion.
He then hinted enthusiastically at the potential of new weapons for use against Russia, including “new unmanned systems, a new long-range bomber, and innovation in technologies like the electromagnetic railgun, lasers, and new systems for electronic warfare, space and cyberspace, including a few surprising ones that I really can’t describe here.”
The defense secretary reiterated the US commitment to Article V of the NATO charter, which requires an all-out war by NATO in the event of a conflict between Russia and one of the Baltic states, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, each ruled by rabidly anti-Russian cliques and with large Russian-speaking minorities. Few citizens of the United States—or Britain or Germany, for that matter—realize that their governments are committed to war with a nuclear-armed Russia in the event of a border clash with Estonia.
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2015-11-11 PALESTINE: Routines of the occupation...

2015-11-11 PALESTINE: Routines of the occupation...
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New Sheriff in Gush Etzion (near Hebron)
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A settler stopped Palestinians, who came to harvest their own olive grove, and were accompanied by Israeli Human Rights activists and by IDF security detail (olive harvest is routinely the scene of settlers' violence). He claimed he was the "New Sheriff", acted violently against those who photographed the incident, and stopped even IDF soldiers from entering the Palestinians's olive grove...
The entire incident lasted about 10 minutes.
No information regarding any enforcement action against the settler...
"יש שריף חדש בגוש עציון - כך לפחות טען בתוקף מאבטח בהתנחלות נוקדים שבגוש כלפי חקלאים פלסטינים ופעילי ארגון זכויות האדם "שומרי משפט", שהגיעו לסייע לחקלאים במסיק הזיתים באזור. ה"שריף" לא הסתפק בכך, וגם עיכב חיילים וקצין מהמנהל האזרחי שהתלוו למסיק על פי הנהלים. האירוע עצמו נמשך כעשר דקות, במהלכן התעקש המאבטח שלא לתת לחקלאים הפלסטיניים או לחיילים להיכנס לשטח המדובר, הנמצא בסמוך להתנחלות.

תחילה צעק המאבטח על הפעילים שצילמו ותיעדו את האירוע – ודרש מהם "להוריד את המצלמה". בהמשך, הוא אף התקרב לאחד הפעילים שצילם אותו באופן מאיים. נוסף על כך, דרש המאבטח מהפעילים כמה פעמים לזוז, זאת בכדי שיוכל לשוחח עם קצין המנהל והחיילים".
למרות נוכחות חיילים וקצין המנהל האזרחי באירוע, הפציר המאבטח כי "אני פה השריף,…
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2015-11-10 PALESTINE: Routines of the occupation... [video] צפו: מותה של סרוואת' שעראווי בת ה- 73 במחסום בחברון

2015-11-10 PALESTINE: Routines of the occupation... [video]
צפו: מותה של סרוואת' שעראווי בת ה- 73 במחסום בחברון
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Palestinian 73 yo Sarwath Shaarawi, grandma of 24, was shot to death a couple of days ago at an IDF checkpoint in Hebron. According to Israeli media she was "a terrorist", attempting to run over IDF soldiers, alternatively - trying to stage a stabbing attack against the soldiers with a knife. According to Israeli media, the video originated in an IDF soldier, and investigation is under way to identify him and prosecute him. No intention to investigate the incident itself.
הסרטון המראה את מותה של סרוואת' שעראווי בת ה- 73 במחסום בחברון אינו תואם את דיווחי התקשורת שניסתה לדרוס חיילים... מקורו של הסרטון ככל הנראה בחייל צה"ל. ועל פי התקשורת תיפתח חקירה למציאתו והעמדתו לדין, אבל לא שמענו על כל כוונה לחקור את האירוע עצמו.
نشرت مواقع التواصل الاجتماعي مساء اليوم السبت فيديو يوثق لحظة اعدام قوات الاحتلال للشهيدة ثروت الشعراوي 72 عاما شمال الخليل. ويفند الفيديو ما زعمه الاحتلال ح...
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2015-11-10 TPP - The Most Brazen Corporate Power Grab in American History

2015-11-10 TPP - The Most Brazen Corporate Power Grab in American History
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By Chris Hedges
The Trans-Pacific Partnership would be another step in the global capitalists' march to enslave us. Open, sustained revolt is our only option. -
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2015-11-10 Workers across the US demonstrate and strike for higher minimum wages

2015-11-10 Workers across the US demonstrate and strike for higher minimum wages
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‪#‎FightFor15‬
The latest Tweets from Fight For 15 (@fightfor15). International movement of underpaid workers taking a stand against poverty wages. We are winning, join us. #FightFor15. On Strike
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The Fight for 15 campaign, a three-year-old nationwide labor movement seeking wage hikes at the likes of…
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2015-11-10 Noam Chomsky: America's Empire of Chaos

2015-11-10 Noam Chomsky: America's Empire of Chaos
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US policies in the 20th century involved military and covert actions, designed to gain power over local resources and local markets for US corporations.
In contrast, in the 21st century, with general decline in global US influence, intervention is designed to spread chaos and destroy other nations and their infrastructure.
The reasons? Is it because the US has little to export today?
Chomsky's explanation: When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
Chomsky reflects on the violent dynamics of US foreign policy in the 21st century.
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2015-11-10 FACEBOOK - spying even on non-users!

2015-11-10 FACEBOOK - spying even on non-users!
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A Belgian court has given Facebook 48 hours to stop tracking the online activities of non-Facebook users in Belgium unless they have their explicit consent or face a…
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2015-11-10 UK: Following the US in drift to totalitrian systems

2015-11-10 UK: Following the US in drift to totalitrian systems
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Legislation will enshrine security services’ licence to hack, bug and burgle their way across the web – with judicial oversight still to be determined
Legislation will enshrine security services’ licence to hack, bug and burgle their way across the web – with judicial oversight still to be determined
theguardian.com|By Alan Travis

2015-11-10 US: Police brutality - a cardinal sign of a totalitarian regime!

2015-11-10 US: Police brutality - a cardinal sign of a totalitarian regime!
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Several videos showing a University of Alabama student being tasered and beaten by police have emerged, showing the arrest over a noise complain from different…
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2015-11-10 ICELAND and the banksters

2015-11-10 ICELAND and the banksters
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Only free nation on this planet???
Iceland’s revolutionary approach to dealing with the international financial meltdown of 2008 certainly deserves every bit of the attention it’s garnered. -…
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Israel, the Media and the Anatomy of a Sick Society

Israel, the Media and the Anatomy of a Sick Society
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The video of 13 year old Palestinian Ahmed Manasrah bleeding to death on the pavement of an East Jerusalem neighborhood has been described as “shocking,” “disturbing,” and “painful to watch.” The c…
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2015-11-09 ANONYMOUS official KKK list, including several law makers

2015-11-09 ANONYMOUS official KKK list, including several law makers
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http://pastebin.com/wbvP95wg
Report and discussion of the same:
http://www.dailykos.com/…/-And-so-it-has-begun-Anonymous-re…

2015-11-09 New Zealand - provided black hole prisons for CIA?

2015-11-09 New Zealand - provided black hole prisons for CIA?
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As the complicity of US allies in CIA torture comes to light, New Zealand has become the next nation to investigate its own possible ties to the secretive programs and…
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Adam Smith 'heads will roll' - hitler campign slogan in 1932

2015-11-09 CHINA: OOOPS!

2015-11-09 CHINA: OOOPS!
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Rights groups raise fears for Gui Haiming, last seen after travelling to Thailand, Lu Bo and Zhang Zhiping, who headed to China, and missing Lin Rongji
theguardian.com|By Ilaria Maria Sala

2015-11-09 US under the Greater Depression

2015-11-09 US under the Greater Depression
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Goldman Now Thinks "The Economy Might Start To Overheat Unless Growth Slows From The Current Pace"
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 11/08/2015 - 21:19
Here comes Goldman, not two months after it said that the Fed should think about easing, with what can only pass for Sunday evening humor saying that 7 years to the day after it landed on the zero bound on December 16, 2008, the Fed will hike because, "the economy might start to overheat by late 2016/early 2017 unless growth slows from the current pace".
Here comes Goldman, not two months after it said that the Fed should think about easing, with what can only pass for Sunday evening humor saying that 7 years to…
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2015-11-09 US: Sat night entertainment

2015-11-09 US: Sat night entertainment
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Photographer Captures Amazing Time-Lapse Video Of Trident Ballistic Missile Launch
Tyler Durden's pictureSubmitted by Tyler Durden on 11/08/2015 22:31 -0500
Earlier today, we reported that just after 9pm local time on Saturday evening, a dramatic white light lit up not only all of California, but stretches of Arizona and Nevada, in what was subsequently revealed to be an unannounced launch of a Trident II (D5) missile from the Kentucky, an Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine situated off Point Mugu. But while the entire internet was throttled under the weight of millions of snapshots and short underexposed clips of the missile flight being uploaded to YouTube, Facebook and Twitter, one person captured the whole event in its dramatic entirety on time-lapse photography.
That person was Justin Majeczky, who was conducting time-lapse photography above the Golden Gate bridge, when he noticed an unexpected object in his viewfinder: an ICBM.
The result, first noted by Foxtrot Alpha, is 3 minutes of breathtaking imagery that not only catches the missile emerging from the horzion following its submarine launch, but disappearing far off into the sky on its long voyage to the Marshall Islands.

2015-11-09 US under the Greater Depression

2015-11-09 US under the Greater Depression
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Krugman Doesn't Understand Why "Darkness Is Spreading Over Part Of Our Society"
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 11/09/2015 - 08:27
"...middle-aged whites have lost the narrative of their lives. ... while universal health care, higher minimum wages, aid to education, and so on would do a lot to help Americans in trouble, I’m not sure whether they’re enough to cure existential despair."
"...middle-aged whites have “lost the narrative of their lives.” That is, their economic setbacks have hit hard…
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