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Gerald Celente: EU Collapses in 90 Days, Bank Holiday and War
Post Date: 2012-01-05 14:39:54 by Capitalist Eric
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Twenty-two months of hysteria of an impending European financial collapse, starting with Greece in March of 2010, will finally come to an end in 2012, according to the founder of Trends Research Institute, Gerald Celente. Hysteria of the horrid possibility of a European meltdown and the dire implications for the world economy a collapse implies will end, as the event finally turns into unequivocal reality by April 1, with accusations of ‘fear mongering’ by a significant portion of the mob quickly dropped in favor of the next predictable reaction to the crisis: outrage against those who allowed the collapse. “I would say, since I’ve been doing this work, over 30 years ...
Europe cannot save the euro, nor save itself from the euro
Post Date: 2012-01-05 13:24:38 by Capitalist Eric
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It is customary at this time to act like two-faced Janus, looking back at the year that has passed while predicting what may happen in the one ahead. However, from what we have seen of the two great political fantasies of our age, it is now much easier to say what is likely not to happen. Each of these acts of make-believe has got so out of hand that a violent collision with reality is inevitable. But those who are in their grip are so locked in denial that it is only safe to predict that nothing will bring them back to earth until that nemesis intervenes. A first prediction is that it is no longer conceivable that the sad little nonentities who preside over the affairs of the EU will be ...
Iran Shrugs At Looming EU Ban On Its Oil
Post Date: 2012-01-05 12:40:40 by Brian S
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Iran on Thursday played down the impact of new Western sanctions targeting its vital oil sector, after European diplomats said they have reached preliminary agreement on an EU oil ban from the Islamic republic. The National Iranian Oil Company said demand was so high for Iranian oil that it would have no trouble selling it elsewhere. “We hope that Iran’s oil is not sanctioned officially but if so we have taken the needed arrangements,” the company’s director of international affairs, Mohsen Qamsari, was quoted as saying in a report on Iran’s oil ministry website. The 27-nation European Union has struck “an agreement in principle” to ban Iranian oil ...
Lt. Col. Tony Shaffer: Ron Paul’s Iran Policy Most Accurate
Post Date: 2012-01-05 09:25:53 by Capitalist Eric
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Paul receives more support from U.S. military than all Republican candidates combined Despite numerous Republican candidates attacking Ron Paul over his “dangerous” foreign policy, Lt. Col. Tony Shaffer praised Paul for being the “most accurate” out of all the GOP contenders when it came to his perspective on Iran. “I think Ron Paul’s perspective or policy on Iran is probably the most accurate of the current GOP candidates,” said Shaffer during an appearance on Fox News, adding that Iran probably already has a nuclear weapon. As Shaffer points out in the clip, Iran would be committing suicide if it decided to create any kind of pretext for a ...
Israeli spy chief downplays Iranian nuke threat
Post Date: 2012-01-04 20:19:18 by jwpegler
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The head of Israel’s intelligence agency says that a nuclear-armed Iran does not necessarily pose an existential threat to the Jewish state, according to Israeli ambassadors. Mossad chief Tamir Pardo addressed a conclave of Israeli ambassadors in Jerusalem on Thursday, saying that Israel’s existence is not inevitably endangered by Iran acquiring an atomic weapon, even as Israel has tried to disrupt Iran’s nuclear program. “What is the significance of the term ‘existential?’” Mr. Pardo was quoted as saying by several ambassadors. “If you said a nuclear bomb in Iranian hands was an ‘existential’ threat, that would mean that we would have to ...
In Jerusalem, the Holocaust Is Trivialized
Post Date: 2012-01-04 15:03:14 by Brian S
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An Israeli protest over the weekend by ultra-Orthodox Jews who dressed their children to look like inmates at a Nazi concentration camp highlights the sometimes peculiar role the Holocaust plays there in political discourse and even in everyday exchanges. The spectacle at a Jerusalem square Saturday night, staged by the most extreme of the ultra-Orthodox community’s myriad factions, featured mostly adults but also several dozen kids in striped uniforms and yellow stars, evoking the Holocaust’s most iconic images. The demonstrators were protesting an effort by secular Israelis to roll back gender segregation on some bus lines and in certain neighborhoods—a ...
Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood Says It Won’t Recognize Israel
Post Date: 2012-01-03 12:12:35 by Brian S
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MB says 'will not recognize Israel under any circumstances'; move to cancel peace treaty could represent strategic chance too great for MB as it seeks international legitimacy. By Jack Khoury The Muslim Brotherhood, the overwhelming victor in the first round of elections for the Egyptian Parliament, has announced it will not recognize Israel and intends to bring the Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty to a referendum. "We will not recognize Israel under any circumstances; we are talking about an occupation entity and a criminal enemy," said Dr. Rashad Bayoumi, the deputy head of the Brotherhood. "There is no condition that obligates the movement to recognize ...
Pope: Other Christian Denominations Not True Churches
Post Date: 2012-01-02 21:10:53 by A K A Stone
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LORENZAGO DI CADORE, Italy — For the second time in a week, Pope Benedict XVI has corrected what he says are erroneous interpretations of the Second Vatican Council, reasserting the primacy of the Roman Catholic Church and saying other Christian communities were either defective or not true churches. Benedict approved a document released Tuesday from his old office, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, which repeated church teaching on Catholic relations with other Christians. While there was nothing doctrinally new in the document, it nevertheless prompted swift criticism from Protestants, Lutherans and other Christian denominations spawned by the 16th century ...
British Darth Vader fighter dies aged 89
Post Date: 2012-01-02 21:08:09 by A K A Stone
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Former Olympic fencer Bob Anderson, who staged fights in Star Wars films and From Russia With Love, has died at the age of 89. Anderson fought light sabre battles as Darth Vader in The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, two of the original Star Wars films. In the non-fight scenes, Vader was played by David Prowse and voiced by James Earl Jones. The British Academy of Fencing confirmed Anderson died on 1 January. It was Mark Hamill, who played Luke Skywalker in the Star Wars trilogy, who revealed Anderson was behind the fight scenes in a 1983 interview with Starlog magazine. "It was always supposed to be a secret, but I finally told George (Lucas) - the director - I ...
Iran Test-Fires More Missiles During Navy Drill
Post Date: 2012-01-02 16:01:27 by Brian S
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TEHRAN, Jan. 2 (Xinhua) -- Iran successfully test-fired long- and short-range missiles during its military drill in the Strait of Hormuz on Monday, state media reported. The launch of the missiles came one day after the Islamic republic test-fired an anti-radar, mid-range missile during the naval drills in its southern waters. The home-made, coast-to-sea Qader (Mighty) missile fired on Monday could hit the target "successfully" and could destroy it, said the official IRNA news agency. Deputy commander of Iran's Navy Rear Admiral Seyyed Mahmoud Mousavi was quoted as saying by IRNA on Monday that the ultra- advanced Qader missile has been upgraded in terms of its radar and ...
Brother Says Missing China Rights Lawyer Held in Remote Prison (Coming to America under Democrat/Republican junta's)
Post Date: 2012-01-02 15:59:41 by Fibr Dog
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The brother of a prominent Chinese dissident lawyer who has been missing for 20 months says Gao Zhisheng is being held in a remote prison in far western China. Gao Zhiyi said that he had finally received an official notice of a Beijing court's decision on Sunday. He said his brother is being held in the Shaya County Prison in Xinjiang. Gao Zhisheng, who earlier said he had been kidnapped and tortured by Chinese authorities, had been missing for more than a year and a half, until state media reported last month that he had been sent back to prison for three years for violating his probation. Gao was sentenced to three years in prison in 2006 for inciting subversion of state power. He ...
Iran's nuclear plant connects to electric grid, the country says
Post Date: 2012-01-01 20:04:34 by We The People
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Tehran, Iran (CNN) -- Iran says its Bushehr nuclear power plant is now online, making it the first Middle Eastern country to produce commercial electricity from atomic reactors. The Bushehr plant joined the grid Saturday night with a capacity of 60 megawatts, the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran announced. On its website, the agency said Bushehr "joined the national grid" Saturday night at 11:29 p.m. (2:59 p.m. ET) The plant is expected to produce 1,000 megawatts of electricity when fully operational, about 2.5 percent of Iran's current electricity consumption, acording to the International Atomic Energy Agency. The state-run news agency IRNA said a ceremony to inaugurate ...
First sign of an apocalyptic year to come? Thousands of blackbirds fall to their death in Arkansas town for second New Year's Eve in a row
Post Date: 2012-01-01 13:41:58 by A K A Stone
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Ancient Mayan legend says that 2012 will bring the end of the world.
A small Arkansas town might have shown the first example of that as approximately 5,000 blackbirds dropped dead from the sky last night in the early hours of the new year.
As if the incident was not strange enough, it is the second time in two years that the birds have fallen as the calendar year changes.
On the streets: Estimates put the dead bird count well into the thousands
Clean up crew: Town workers were not expecting this job when they went to bed last night, but were awoken early in the morning with the task
'I thought the Mayor was messing with me when he called me,' said Milton McCullar, ...
Occupy Beijing
Post Date: 2011-12-31 11:18:43 by lucysmom
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Rapid economic growth hasn’t been able to stem the rising tide of discontent in China. Even as the economy has soared, the number of protests has jumped. So what’s really wrong? The outbreak of spontaneous mass protest against corruption and abuse of power in China is showing no signs of abating. In the latest instance, which received sustained Western press coverage, thousands of villagers in Wukan, a farming community in Guangdong Province, “occupied” their village for nearly two weeks before successfully extracting important concessions from the provincial government, which had to dispatch a deputy party secretary to negotiate with the villagers. The specific trigger ...
Hungry Monkey Eats Babies Balls The Video
Post Date: 2011-12-31 00:02:32 by A K A Stone
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DRIVING IN CHINA : Tragic! Monitoring the probe came to light 108 lives lost in the moment of Heze accident! (HD version)
Post Date: 2011-12-30 23:43:29 by A K A Stone
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China's most wanted man admits crimes: report
Post Date: 2011-12-30 23:28:25 by A K A Stone
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BEIJING -- China's most wanted man, who was deported from Canada in July after a decades-long legal battle, has admitted to his crimes and will now be handed over to prosecutors, state media reported on Friday. Beijing had sought the deportation of Lai Changxing for years, accusing him of running a multibillion-dollar smuggling ring in the southeastern city of Xiamen in the 1990s in one of China's biggest political scandals in decades. Nothing has been heard of him since he was returned to China over the summer. A brief report on state radio's website said the probe into his crimes had finished and that Lai would now be handed over to Xiamen prosecutors. “Lai Changxing ...
China auto rules could ward off new firms: analysts
Post Date: 2011-12-30 23:24:27 by A K A Stone
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BEIJING -- China's decision to “withdraw support” for foreign investment in its auto sector is unlikely to see global firms leave the country but will make it harder for new carmakers to enter, analysts say. The guidelines — released by the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), the top economic planner, late Thursday — signal an end to incentives for foreigners and discourage fresh projects in China. The move comes as sales in the world's biggest market slump and Beijing tries to shore up the economy by helping domestic companies and opening up other industries to foreigners such as environmental technology. “The government is signaling that ...
How North Korea created an 8ft giant soldier... or did they?
Post Date: 2011-12-30 10:30:36 by We The People
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Eagle-eyed observers of how North Korea's media covered Kim Jong Il's funeral believe they have been up to their old tricks - with a spot of Photoshopping. A seemingly doctored photograph has emerged of a soldier, who appears to be well over 8ft tall, in the back row of one block of mourners. The image was captured as the funeral procession passed near the Kumsusan Memorial Palace in the capital Pyongyang. Official news agency KCNA took the photo, and the giant soldier appears to be shown from several different angles. This has led some to say that the photo has not be manipulated. Others believe it could be 7ft 8in tall North Korean basketball star Ri Myung Hun, dubbed Michael ...
1,100-year-old Mayan ruins found in North Georgia
Post Date: 2011-12-29 22:09:38 by A K A Stone
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Archaeologists have discovered the ruins of an ancient Mayan city in the mountains of North Georgia believed to be at least 1,100 years old. According to Richard Thornton at Examiner.com, the ruins are reportedly what remains of a city built by Mayans fleeing wars, volcanic eruptions, droughts and famine. In 1999, University of Georgia archeologist Mark Williams led an expedition to investigate the Kenimer Mound, a large, five-sided pyramid built in approximately 900 A.D. in the foothills of Georgia’s tallest mountain, Brasstown Bald. Many local residents has assumed for years that the pyramid was just another wooded hill, but in fact it was a structure built on an existing hill in ...
Doe attacked by golden eagle
Post Date: 2011-12-29 00:15:47 by A K A Stone
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This plucky fawn had an incredible escape when it dived under a fence to get away from a huge golden eagle. The young doe had to run for its life after the golden eagle swooped in for the kill. Photographer Milan Krasula snapped away as the chase played out in front of him. The 30-year-old spent four days trying to get a great picture of the annual eagle hunt, where owners release their birds to hunt prey. But instead of diving for a smaller animal, the eagle amazed watchers by dive-bombing the deer and trying to fly off with it. He said: "You have to be very lucky to get a good shot, as you cannot predict where the prey will be hiding "I found an area that I thought it ...
Britain’s borders close if euro goes
Post Date: 2011-12-28 23:59:26 by A K A Stone
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The emergency measure would block hordes of French, German and Dutch nationals who would be desperate to withdraw cash here with credit cards if banks in their own countries dry up. It is feared a run on British banks could also result in them being unable to service UK businesses. Emergency measure ... George Osborne Emergency measure ... George Osborne Chancellor George Osborne has confirmed extensive contingency plans are being drawn up to safeguard Britain. The Treasury will not reveal specifics. But there will be limits on how much money can be deposited in British banks in any European stampede to "safe havens" like the City of London. Such a rush would send the Pound ...
Ron Paul Interview with the Israeli Press: Honest and Open
Post Date: 2011-12-28 17:33:27 by jwpegler
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Texas Congressman Ron Paul, who is leading the polls in advance of next Tuesday’s Republican caucuses in Iowa, denies allegations that he has promoted anti-Semitism, saying that this would be “a betrayal of my own intellectual heritage.” “Any kind of racism or anti-Semitism is incompatible with my philosophy,” Paul said in an interview with Haaretz, conducted by email. “Ludwig von Mises, the great economist whose writing helped inspire my political career, was a Jew who was forced to leave his native Austria to escape the Nazis. Mises wrote about the folly of seeing people as part of groups rather than as individuals,” Paul said. Paul said that he has ...
U.S. Fifth Fleet says won't allow Hormuz disruption
Post Date: 2011-12-28 12:45:07 by We The People
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The U.S. Fifth Fleet said on Wednesday it would not allow any disruption of traffic in the Strait of Hormuz, after Iran threatened to stop ships moving through the world's most important oil route. "Anyone who threatens to disrupt freedom of navigation in an international strait is clearly outside the community of nations; any disruption will not be tolerated," the Bahrain-based fleet said in an e-mail. Iran, at loggerheads with the West over its nuclear program, said on Tuesday it would stop the flow of oil through the Strait of Hormuz in the Gulf if sanctions were imposed on its crude exports. "Closing the Strait of Hormuz for Iran's armed forces is really easy ...
Israeli girl jeered on daily walk highlights rift
Post Date: 2011-12-28 12:09:23 by We The People
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(AP) BEIT SHEMESH, Israel - A shy 8-year-old schoolgirl has unwittingly found herself on the front line of Israel's latest religious war. Naama Margolese is a ponytailed, bespectacled second-grader who is afraid of walking to her religious Jewish girls school for fear of ultra-Orthodox extremists who have spat on her and called her a whore for dressing "immodestly." Her plight has drawn new attention to the simmering issue of religious coercion in Israel, and the increasing brazenness of extremists in the insular ultra-Orthodox Jewish community. "When I walk to school in the morning I used to get a tummy ache because I was so scared ... that they were going to stand ...
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