Submitted by Tyler Durden on 05/30/2015 - 22:23
It took a paltry $1.15 million in bribes to get everyone in the Senate on the same page. And the biggest shocker: with a total of $195,550 in "donations", or more than double the second largest donor UPS, was none other than Goldman Sachs.
from The Sleuth Journal:
“The Bible is for the government of the People, by the People and for the People.” –John Wycliffe
Just in the month of May, we have seen the attacks toward America’s Christian heritage intensify. Lance Cpl. Monifa Sterling was court -martialed for refusing to take down a paraphrased Bible verse on her computer. General Craig Olson stated at the congressionally supported National Day of Prayer Task Force that God guided him and strengthened his career and that he was a redeemed believer in Christ. Soon afterward, the anti-theists wanted to have him court–martialed. A high school principal was fired after he read the Bible and prayed with a group of students during a volunteer Christian group meeting. A Florida teacher humiliated a 12-year-old boy in front of an entire class after she caught him reading the Bible during free reading time. The good news is that, in each situation, they are contesting their rights and are fighting back (Jude 1:3).
Read More @ Thesleuthjournal.com
“The Bible is for the government of the People, by the People and for the People.” –John WycliffeJust in the month of May, we have seen the attacks toward America’s Christian heritage intensify. Lance Cpl. Monifa Sterling was court -martialed for refusing to take down a paraphrased Bible verse on her computer. General Craig Olson stated at the congressionally supported National Day of Prayer Task Force that God guided him and strengthened his career and that he was a redeemed believer in Christ. Soon afterward, the anti-theists wanted to have him court–martialed. A high school principal was fired after he read the Bible and prayed with a group of students during a volunteer Christian group meeting. A Florida teacher humiliated a 12-year-old boy in front of an entire class after she caught him reading the Bible during free reading time. The good news is that, in each situation, they are contesting their rights and are fighting back (Jude 1:3).
Read More @ Thesleuthjournal.com
China Will Establish No-Fly Zone Over Islands If "Threatened"
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 05/31/2015 - 10:45 "Whether we will establish an ADIZ in the South China Sea will depend on whether our maritime security will be threatened," Adm. Sun Jianguo, deputy chief of staff of the People’s Liberation Army said at a security event in Singapore on Sunday. China also claims its man-made islands in the Spratlys are primarily for providing "international public services." Its regional neighbors aren't so sure.
by James Corbett, The International Forecaster:
There are two types of people in this world: the glass-half-fulls and the glass-half-empties. The fulls see the silver lining to every gray cloud and the empties scoff at silver linings. It’s the yin and yang of human nature, and, like all such dualities, we’re all a little bit of both, depending on the situation.
But whichever side might be more dominant in you, one thing is for certain: locking ourselves away from the other perspective isn’t healthy. It’s too easy these days to get lost in the echo chamber of online opinions where we only ever read what we already believe to be true. The fulls believe everything is hunky dory because the websites they frequent and the people they talk to focus on the positives and downplay the rest. The empties are the opposite.
Read More @ The International Forecaster
There are two types of people in this world: the glass-half-fulls and the glass-half-empties. The fulls see the silver lining to every gray cloud and the empties scoff at silver linings. It’s the yin and yang of human nature, and, like all such dualities, we’re all a little bit of both, depending on the situation.
But whichever side might be more dominant in you, one thing is for certain: locking ourselves away from the other perspective isn’t healthy. It’s too easy these days to get lost in the echo chamber of online opinions where we only ever read what we already believe to be true. The fulls believe everything is hunky dory because the websites they frequent and the people they talk to focus on the positives and downplay the rest. The empties are the opposite.
Read More @ The International Forecaster
In
a press release, the groups highlighted the links between
Citigroup—which has lobbied extensively on the TPP, TTIP, and Fast Track
authority—and Froman, who they note “received a more than $4 million
golden parachute from Citigroup upon leaving the large financial
institution to join the Obama administration in 2009.” In particular,
the letter’s signatories are concerned that provisions in proposed trade
agreements like the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) or the
TransAtlantic Trade & Investment Partnership (TTIP) would weaken or
rollback existing U.S. financial regulations, for the benefit of big
banks.– From the Common Dreams article: Is US Trade Rep a Wall Street Crony? Groups Demand Transparency.
No one is pushing harder to pass the multi-national corporate giveaway masquerading as a free trade deal, known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), than Obama’s top trade representative, Michael Froman. Therefore, we probably should know a little bit about him. What do you know? Probably not much.
Read More @ libertyblitzkrieg.com
from Peter Schiff:
from The News Doctors:
On Friday, G7 finance ministers agreed that China’s renminbi inclusion
into the International Monetary Fund’s SDR currency basket is
desirable, but the technical requirements review must still precede
renminbi inclusion. This isn’t exactly news.
The main takeaway is that German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble’s statement can be construed to indicate that the US position has moved further towards the embrace of the renminbi’s inclusion into the IMF’s SDR basket. The IMF held its informal board meeting earlier this month. In the fall, a formal review will proceed and a decision is likely to be announced.
Read More @ TheNewsDoctors.com
On Friday, G7 finance ministers agreed that China’s renminbi inclusion
into the International Monetary Fund’s SDR currency basket is
desirable, but the technical requirements review must still precede
renminbi inclusion. This isn’t exactly news.The main takeaway is that German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble’s statement can be construed to indicate that the US position has moved further towards the embrace of the renminbi’s inclusion into the IMF’s SDR basket. The IMF held its informal board meeting earlier this month. In the fall, a formal review will proceed and a decision is likely to be announced.
Read More @ TheNewsDoctors.com
from Outsider Club:
The volatility of global equities was on the rise this week, with
significant sell-offs on the major stock exchanges in the U.S. (Tuesday)
and China (Thursday). This coincided with a downward revision of
first-quarter GDP amid an array of other disappointing economic data.
Funds continued to crowd into the bond markets, though the precious
metals still traded flat.
Distinguished Spanish-American philosopher and writer George Santayana was probably the first to utter this prescient wisdom in the late 19th century; the insight has been repeated in slightly different forms many times since. In spite of these widespread references to the idea of humankind being damned to repeat its follies if the lessons of history are ignored, we ironically continue to make this same error time and time again.
Read More @ OutsiderClub.com
The volatility of global equities was on the rise this week, with
significant sell-offs on the major stock exchanges in the U.S. (Tuesday)
and China (Thursday). This coincided with a downward revision of
first-quarter GDP amid an array of other disappointing economic data.
Funds continued to crowd into the bond markets, though the precious
metals still traded flat.Distinguished Spanish-American philosopher and writer George Santayana was probably the first to utter this prescient wisdom in the late 19th century; the insight has been repeated in slightly different forms many times since. In spite of these widespread references to the idea of humankind being damned to repeat its follies if the lessons of history are ignored, we ironically continue to make this same error time and time again.
Read More @ OutsiderClub.com
from KingWorldNews:
For the first time in its country’s history, Portugal sold 6 month
T-bills at a negative yield. The 300 million euros ($333 million) worth
of bills due in November 2015 sold at an average yield of minus 0.002%. A
negative yield means investors buying these securities will get back
less money from the government than they paid when the debt matures. To
put this in perspective, the 10 year note in Portugal now yields just
2.38%, down from 18% a mere three years ago. Back in 2012, creditors
grew wary of the countries referred to as PIIG’s (Portugal, Ireland,
Italy and Greece) and their ability to pay back the massive amounts of
outstanding debt. Consequently, creditors drove interest rates
dramatically higher to reflect the added risk of potential defaults.
If a person had fallen into a deep slumber in the midst of the 2012 Eurozone debt crisis and awoke a week ago, they may make some reasonable assumptions as to why there was a collapse of Portuguese bond yields on the long end of the yield curve; and even displayed negative yields on the short end.
Michael Pento continues @ KingWorldNews.com
For the first time in its country’s history, Portugal sold 6 month
T-bills at a negative yield. The 300 million euros ($333 million) worth
of bills due in November 2015 sold at an average yield of minus 0.002%. A
negative yield means investors buying these securities will get back
less money from the government than they paid when the debt matures. To
put this in perspective, the 10 year note in Portugal now yields just
2.38%, down from 18% a mere three years ago. Back in 2012, creditors
grew wary of the countries referred to as PIIG’s (Portugal, Ireland,
Italy and Greece) and their ability to pay back the massive amounts of
outstanding debt. Consequently, creditors drove interest rates
dramatically higher to reflect the added risk of potential defaults. If a person had fallen into a deep slumber in the midst of the 2012 Eurozone debt crisis and awoke a week ago, they may make some reasonable assumptions as to why there was a collapse of Portuguese bond yields on the long end of the yield curve; and even displayed negative yields on the short end.
Michael Pento continues @ KingWorldNews.com
by Christina Sarich, Natural Society:
The infiltrated US Department of Agriculture may have given AquaBounty
Technology’s (ABTX) genetically modified salmon a green light, but the
Canadian government has issued a draft statement saying that GE salmon
is not safe since it is ‘more prone to disease.’
If AquaBounty had their way – the company’s GE salmon would be the first ever approved GM animal approved for human consumption – but Food & Water Watch, the Center for Food Safety, Friends of the Earth, and Consumers Union (among other groups) are asking the USDA to reconsider in light of the 400-page risk assessment drafted by the Canadian Department of Fisheries and Oceans.
Read More @ NaturalSociety.com
The infiltrated US Department of Agriculture may have given AquaBounty
Technology’s (ABTX) genetically modified salmon a green light, but the
Canadian government has issued a draft statement saying that GE salmon
is not safe since it is ‘more prone to disease.’If AquaBounty had their way – the company’s GE salmon would be the first ever approved GM animal approved for human consumption – but Food & Water Watch, the Center for Food Safety, Friends of the Earth, and Consumers Union (among other groups) are asking the USDA to reconsider in light of the 400-page risk assessment drafted by the Canadian Department of Fisheries and Oceans.
Read More @ NaturalSociety.com
from The Money GPS:
Will A Robot Steal Your Job?
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 05/31/2015 - 09:58 Will a robot steal your job? It turns out that the answer depends on the prevailing macroeconomic conditions much more than people think.
from Peak Prosperity:
As we’ve been discussing of late here at PeakProsperity.com, humans
desperately need a new story to live by. The old one is increasingly
dysfunctional and rather obviously headed for either a quite dismal or
possibly disastrous future. One of the chief impediments to recognizing
the dysfunction of the old story and adopting a new one is the most
powerful of all human emotional states: Denial.
I used to think that Desire was the most powerful human emotion because people are prone to risking everything in their lives – careers, marriages, relationships with their family and close friends – pursuing lust or accumulating 10,000 times more money and possessions than they need in their desire for “more.”
Read More @ PeakProsperity.com
As we’ve been discussing of late here at PeakProsperity.com, humans
desperately need a new story to live by. The old one is increasingly
dysfunctional and rather obviously headed for either a quite dismal or
possibly disastrous future. One of the chief impediments to recognizing
the dysfunction of the old story and adopting a new one is the most
powerful of all human emotional states: Denial.I used to think that Desire was the most powerful human emotion because people are prone to risking everything in their lives – careers, marriages, relationships with their family and close friends – pursuing lust or accumulating 10,000 times more money and possessions than they need in their desire for “more.”
Read More @ PeakProsperity.com
from Ready Nutrition:
Antibiotics are one of modern day’s greatest discoveries, but it’s
failing us. By our own hand, we have abused this medical achievement by
using it as a “fix-all”, and it has caused antibiotic resistance issues
that spans across the globe. In fact, antibiotic resistance is one of
the biggest health threats of the 21st century. Superbugs,
Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus (VRE),
drug resistant Typhoid,
and multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MDR-TB) are
increasing throughout the world and have the capacity to cause worldwide
health issues. Moreover, no one wants to even walk into a hospital for
fear of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae, or CRE, that have been
reported at hospitals around the country.
Read More @ ReadyNutrition.com
Antibiotics are one of modern day’s greatest discoveries, but it’s
failing us. By our own hand, we have abused this medical achievement by
using it as a “fix-all”, and it has caused antibiotic resistance issues
that spans across the globe. In fact, antibiotic resistance is one of
the biggest health threats of the 21st century. Superbugs,
Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus (VRE),
drug resistant Typhoid,
and multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MDR-TB) are
increasing throughout the world and have the capacity to cause worldwide
health issues. Moreover, no one wants to even walk into a hospital for
fear of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae, or CRE, that have been
reported at hospitals around the country.Read More @ ReadyNutrition.com
from Western Journalism:
Conservative politicians and pundits, analysts, and authors have long
warned that Barack Obama and his liberal cohorts want to grant amnesty
to millions of illegals in order to greatly swell the ranks of loyal
Democrat voters. The real purpose behind the plan to grant certain
rights of citizenship to non-citizens, it’s argued, has far more to do
with expanding and consolidating political power than with showing
compassion for hardworking families seeking a better life in America.
Here at Western Journalism, we’ve written often about the “hidden agenda” behind the progressives’ insistent push to let many millions of illegals stay in the United States. In a recent opinion piece, L. Todd Wood observed: “Conservatives have known for a long time that all of this executive action, child immigration, and reduced deportations has served an agenda to increase votes for the Democratic party. If they can’t win in the arena of ideas, then give a bunch of illegal immigrants citizenship — and they will vote Democratic for life.”
Read More @ WesternJournalism.com
Conservative politicians and pundits, analysts, and authors have long
warned that Barack Obama and his liberal cohorts want to grant amnesty
to millions of illegals in order to greatly swell the ranks of loyal
Democrat voters. The real purpose behind the plan to grant certain
rights of citizenship to non-citizens, it’s argued, has far more to do
with expanding and consolidating political power than with showing
compassion for hardworking families seeking a better life in America.Here at Western Journalism, we’ve written often about the “hidden agenda” behind the progressives’ insistent push to let many millions of illegals stay in the United States. In a recent opinion piece, L. Todd Wood observed: “Conservatives have known for a long time that all of this executive action, child immigration, and reduced deportations has served an agenda to increase votes for the Democratic party. If they can’t win in the arena of ideas, then give a bunch of illegal immigrants citizenship — and they will vote Democratic for life.”
Read More @ WesternJournalism.com
from The News Doctors:
Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is off and running after his formal
announcement for the presidency this past Tuesday before 5,000 cheering
supporters in Burlington, Vermont. He is starting from the region that
launched the American Revolution and he is promising to“begin a
political revolution to transform our country economically, politically,
socially and environmentally,” with “the support of millions of people
throughout this country.”
He will take on the corporate plutocracy and its servile political oligarchy with numerous assets. In his long, scandal-free elective career, from Mayor of Burlington to the House of Representatives to the U.S. Senate, Sanders can match his progressive rhetoric with a consistent voting record.
Read More @ TheNewsDoctors.com
Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is off and running after his formal
announcement for the presidency this past Tuesday before 5,000 cheering
supporters in Burlington, Vermont. He is starting from the region that
launched the American Revolution and he is promising to“begin a
political revolution to transform our country economically, politically,
socially and environmentally,” with “the support of millions of people
throughout this country.”He will take on the corporate plutocracy and its servile political oligarchy with numerous assets. In his long, scandal-free elective career, from Mayor of Burlington to the House of Representatives to the U.S. Senate, Sanders can match his progressive rhetoric with a consistent voting record.
Read More @ TheNewsDoctors.com
from ThePatriotNurse, via The Victory Report:
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The Internet is filled with revelations of how the global elite want
to depopulate humanity by 90%. Landmarks such as the Georgia Guidestones
are at the top of the evidence list for proof of this agenda. There is
an emerging body of evidence that the Georgia Guidestones are a correct
representation of this idea.
The United States is preparing for a possible war against China and
Russia aimed at preventing the collapse of the Western banking system,
an American political commentator and activist says. 
“As we can see with the bull market in China, once a bubble forms it
has an internal logic of its own and it will grow until it has outgrown
all of its surroundings,” wrote hedge fund manager Crispin Odey in a
letter to his investors on May 28, after a fund in his $12.9-billion
Odey Asset Management company had lost a breath-taking 19.3% in April
alone and was down 18.2% year-to-date.
In
early 2013, before Mary Jo White was confirmed as the head of the
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), I wrote a post predicting she
would be a bankster codling fraud in the post, 
I came across an interesting story from India recently.
A bill allowing the licensed open carry of a handgun has passed the
Texas legislature, with newly-elected Governor Greg Abbott promising to
sign the repeal of a law that dates back to the post-civil war era. The
controversial bill was backed by the National Rifle Association, as
noted in the governor’s tweet.
While EASTERN demand for physical gold investment remains strong, most
of the folks in the WEST are bored with the barbarous relic as they
continue to funnel their funds into highly inflated paper assets.
However, the Germans seem to look at gold a bit differently… actually a
lot differently.
It’s hard to imagine what the world would be like if everyone had
access to genetic engineering. Whether it’s for curing hereditary
diseases, making designer babies, or giving humans incredible
abilities, we’re in for one hell of a strange future should this ever
come to pass. And believe it or not, that world is closer than you
might think. The technology for this is advancing at an impressive
rate, and it won’t be long before you’re able to choose the genetic
makeup of your children.
On Friday, the federal government announced that the U.S. economy
contracted at a 0.7 percent annual rate during the first quarter of
2015. This unexpected shrinking of the economy is being primarily
blamed on “harsh” weather during the first three months of this year and
on the strengthening of the U.S. dollar. Most economists are confident
that U.S. GDP will rebound back into positive territory when the
numbers for the second quarter come out, but if that does not happen we
will officially meet the government’s criteria for being in another
“recession”. To make sure that the numbers for Q2 will look
“acceptable”, the Bureau of Economic Analysis 
Many in Spain are starting to figure out that the only way to survive
is to get your money out of the bank. Accounts can just be frozen as
they did to the 
Economist Martin Armstrong claims there is a “secret meeting to end
cash” set to take place in London before the end of the month involving
representatives from the 
For most consumers of alternative news and media, the lineup of the
players constitutes the tyrants and their systemic control, and the
enlightened underground, with both sides fighting the great battle of
winning the hearts and minds of the rest of the public. 
The aggravated global financial situation is working toward a series of
powerful climax events. It cannot be saved. It is cratering. It is
rotting from the inside. It is fracturing. It will fail. The fiat paper
currency system and its many attendant systems are seizing up, being
rejected, and are failing in what has begun to be the grandest financial
event in modern history.
An oversight committee looking at the health of folks living in the
Fukushima Prefecture of Japan near the stricken Fukushima Daiichi
nuclear power facility has found that the thyroid cancer rate in young
people has jumped by an astounding 6,000% throughout the region since
the disaster first occurred back in 2011.
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