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Strauss-Kahn hired to advise Serbia


France 24
Fri, 13 Sep 2013 21:45 UTC
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Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn has been retained by Serbia's Socialist government to advise the prime minister and finance minister on managing the country's debt as it seeks to join the EU, officials in Belgrade said Friday.

Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn has agreed to advise the Serbian government and is expected in Belgrade next week, Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said Friday.

"We have agreed in principle, there are only technical details to be settled," Vucic told AFP.

"It is expected that Dominique Strauss-Kahn will come to Belgrade within a week," he added.

Earlier, Vucic said in an interview to state TV that Strauss-Kahn "will be a government advisor, he will advise the finance minister, me and the prime minister", Ivica Dacic.

The length of Strauss-Kahn's appointment and his remuneration were not disclosed.

The 64-year-old economist "will help Serbia to reprogramme its debts," Vucic said, adding that Strauss-Kahn "was not in particular satisfied and happy when he saw our balances but already offered several solutions."
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France's ex-budget minister faces probe over assets


France 24
Thu, 12 Sep 2013 21:42 UTC
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France's disgraced former budget minister Jérôme Cahuzac was in trouble again on Wednesday when he was placed under formal investigation for allegedly failing to fully disclose his financial holdings to the state, according to a judicial source.

France's former budget minister Jérôme Cahuzac was hit with yet another formal investigation in connection to a tax evasion scandal, but this time for allegedly failing to disclose all of his financial assets to the state, judicial sources said on Wednesday.

Cahuzac resigned from government on March 19 amid an embarrassing investigation into allegations he had stashed money away in a Swiss account. In the months leading up to his departure, Cahuzac adamantly denied the reports, which first surfaced on the French investigative site Mediapart in late 2012.
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The Armageddon Looting Machine: The looming mass destruction from derivatives

Ellen Brown
Web of Debt Blog
Wed, 18 Sep 2013 16:07 UTC
Increased regulation and low interest rates are driving lending from the regulated commercial banking system into the unregulated shadow banking system. The shadow banks, although free of government regulation, are propped up by a hidden government guarantee in the form of safe harbor status under the 2005 Bankruptcy Reform Act pushed through by Wall Street. The result is to create perverse incentives for the financial system to self-destruct.
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Five years after the financial collapse precipitated by the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy on September 15, 2008, the risk of another full-blown financial panic is still looming large, despite the Dodd Frank legislation designed to contain it. As noted in a recent Reuters article, the risk has just moved into the shadows:
[B]anks are pulling back their balance sheets from the fringes of the credit markets, with more and more risk being driven to unregulated lenders that comprise the $60 trillion "shadow-banking" sector.
Increased regulation and low interest rates have made lending to homeowners and small businesses less attractive than before 2008. The easy subprime scams of yesteryear are no more. The void is being filled by the shadow banking system. Shadow banking comes in many forms, but the big money today is in repos and derivatives. The notional (or hypothetical) value of the derivatives market has been estimated to be as high as $1.2 quadrillion, or twenty times the GDP of all the countries of the world combined.
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U.S. Navy Yard shooting: Is it possible to learn the truth?

Jon Rappoport
Jon Rappoport's Blog
Mon, 16 Sep 2013 14:27 UTC
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I've covered a number of mass shootings. Assuming the people arrested or killed had anything to do with them, one of the top questions is: was the shooter on psychiatric meds?

The mainstream press doesn't push for answers.

It's a vital question. In school shootings, we've learned that the answer is often yes. For example, Eric Harris at Columbine in 1999 was on Luvox, an SSRI antidepressant. These SSRIs are well known for pushing people over the edge into violence; and the manic effects can also motivate them to form grandiose plans for destruction. (See the website "SSRI stories" for documented accounts.)

In the last few years, the US Armed Forces have loaded down their personnel with psychiatric meds, which have led to suicides and killings.

Typically, at these shootings, pharmaceutical investigators show up to find out whether their drugs are involved, so, if necessary, they can clamp down on "information leaks" and instead divert the conversation to: "he had a mental disorder," as if that, rather than the drugs, was the key factor.
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Washington Navy Yard Shooting: What's The Point?

Joe Quinn
Sott.net
Tue, 17 Sep 2013 16:04 UTC
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Police State: Civilian employees at the Washington Navy Yard are frog-marched out of a building with their hands up following the mass shooting in Washington, D.C. on September 16, 2013
Yet another apparently motiveless massacre has taken place in the U.S., this time in the nation's capital.

It's 16th mass shooting in the U.S. since Obama came to power.

Once again, the initial reports described 'multiple shooters'. Once again, those reports were replaced by 'the lone shooter' narrative, this time a former U.S. Navy reservist named Aaron Alexis.

So, did he just snap and 'go postal'? Given the increasingly stressful financial, social and environmental conditions most of us find ourselves living under, that may well be what happened here.

But it's also worth asking: was Alexis another mind-controlled dupe?

We know that mind control is not science fiction; it's fact. Techniques for manipulating people to undertake horrific acts they would not ordinarily do were perfected by the U.S. government decades ago.

But why would the U.S. government, or any government for that matter, carry out such macabre schemes?

Well, if you generate enough fear, you can get people to accept almost anything.

There's a slight problem with this strategy, however, a problem that could spoil all their best-laid plans.

Let me try to explain...

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Sarcasm: Ambrose Evans-Pritchard's grovelling apology to Herr Schäuble

Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
The Telegraph
Tue, 17 Sep 2013 18:22 UTC
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Wolfgang Schäuble: he's right about everything
German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble has been vindicated.

For my part, I have been wrong about everything. German discipline policies for the eurozone have been a tremendous success. I am ashamed for suggesting otherwise.

As the wise, patient, and always self-effacing Mr Schäuble writes today in The Financial Times, the Euro-sceptics talk and write relentless drivel.
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Mother Agnes Mariam: The chemical attacks in East Ghouta used to justify a military intervention in Syria

Mother Agnes Mariam
Global Research
Tue, 17 Sep 2013 14:10 UTC
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Sister Agnes Mariam

Read this report very carefully. It says the truth. It reveals how the lives of innocent children were used as part of a criminal staged event, which was subsequently used to justify a military agenda on humanitarian grounds.

The preliminary report of The International Support Team for Mussalaha in Syria under the helm of Mother Agnes Mariam can be accessed in pdf (Global Research Editor, MCh)

To read the full report in pdf click here (large pdf slow download)

Excerpt from the Forward of the Study:

"From the moment when some families of abducted children contacted us to inform us that they recognized the children among those who are presented in the videos as victims of the Chemical Attacks of East Ghouta, we decided to examine the videos thoroughly. ...

Our first concern was the fate of the children we see in the footages. Those angels are always alone in the hands of adult males that seem to be elements of armed gangs. The children that trespassed remain without their families and unidentified all the way until they are wrapped in the white shrouds of the burial. Moreover our study highlights without any doubt that their little bodies were manipulated and disposed with theatrical arrangements to figure in the screening.

If the studied footages were edited and published to exhibit pieces of evidence to accuse the Syrian State of perpetrating the chemical attacks on East Ghouta, our discoveries incriminate the editors and actors of forged facts through a lethal manipulation of unidentified children. ...

Thus we want to raise awareness toward the humanitarian case of this criminal use of children in the political propaganda of the East Ghouta Chemical Weapons Attack

We present this work to distinguished Spiritual Leaders, Heads of State, Members of Parliament Humanitarian actors and to any person who has heart for truth and justice and seeks to due accountability for evil deeds."

Mother Agnes Mariam de La Croix,

President, International Support Team for Mussalaha in Syria

To read the full report in pdf click here

This report is preliminary. The final report with interactive links to the videos and sources is forthcoming.

Spread this report far and wide, post it on Facebook. May truth and justice prevail.
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Keiser Report: CIA, NSA & economic espionage

Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert
Youtube
Tue, 17 Sep 2013 13:44 UTC
Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert discuss economic espionage and, perhaps, sabotage by the NSA against the corporations and innovators of competitor nations. In the second half, Max interviews author, journalist and filmmaker, Greg Palast of GregPalast.com, about the Larry Summers' secret 'End Game' memo and the decriminalization of what were once financial crimes.


Comment: Max Keiser is pretty clear in this episode that the banking elite are psychopaths who do not care if millions die and that they are now ready to wage war on the American public. Greg Palast in the second half makes it clear that it is the banking cabal that chooses the president and not the other way around.

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Online security pioneer predicts grim future

Marshall Honorof
LiveScience
Tue, 17 Sep 2013 13:49 UTC
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One of the creators of Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encryption believes that the future of Internet security will see everyday users getting the short end of the stick.

The United States' National Security Agency (NSA) has likely compromised SSL, one of the foremost methods of Internet encryption. In theory, this gives the organization access to everything from email records to online shopping history for almost all Americans, regardless of whether they are under any kind of governmental suspicion.

SSL is a common method of encrypting sensitive data online. Suppose you buy an item online. You enter your credit card information to pay, and the store receives your credit card information in order to charge you.

Protocols like SSL ensure that while the data is en route from you to the vendor, all of your information is encrypted and inaccessible to malicious third parties.

Although cracking SSL encryption is a relatively new advancement, Paul Kocher, president of Cryptography Research, Inc., and one of the minds behind SSL, says that collecting information is nothing new. He believes the NSA has been working for some time to collect as much data as possible from people who would ordinarily be above suspicion.
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UNSC resolution on Syria won't be under Chapter 7 allowing use of force - Lavrov


RT
Tue, 17 Sep 2013 08:06 UTC
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, right, and his French counterpart Laurent Fabius have a meeting in the Russian Foreign Ministry's mansion
The resolution that the UN Security Council is to adopt in support of the plan to destroy Syria's chemical weapons won't refer to Chapter 7 of the UN Charter, regulating the use of military force on behalf of the council, Sergey Lavrov says.

The foreign minister explained Russia's position on the future document after meeting his French counterpart Laurent Fabius in Moscow.

The resolution, Lavrov stressed, is meant only to affirm the support of the UNSC to the roadmap for destruction of the chemical weapons stockpile, which will be penned by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW).

It will also outline measures which fall outside of the OPCW authority, particularly providing security for the organization's inspectors, who would oversee the process on the ground in Syria. But the resolution would not include any references to Chapter 7 of the UN Charter, which grants the Security Council a right to use military force to restore peace, Lavrov stressed.

"The resolution of the Security Council, which will approve the decision of the OPCW executive council, will not be over Chapter 7. We said it distinctly in Geneva and the document that we agreed on says no single word about it," Lavrov said.

Russia has brokered a deal under which the Syrian government agreed to scrap its chemical weapons arsenal to defuse tension that sparked after a sarin gas attack on August 21. The agreement, prepared by Russia and the US, put on hold American plans to use military force against Syria over the attack, which Washington blames on Damascus.
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