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Best of the Web: Paul Craig Roberts: 'Washington leadership has totally failed the world'

Paul Craig Roberts
VeteranNewsNow.com
Tue, 01 Jul 2014 10:10 UTC
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A final number for real US GDP growth in the first quarter of 2014 was released today. The number is not the 2.6% growth rate predicted by the know-nothing economists in January of this year. The number is a decline in GDP of -2.9 percent.

The negative growth rate of -2.9 percent is itself an understatement. This number was achieved by deflating nominal GDP with an understated measure of inflation. During the Clinton regime, the Boskin Commission rigged the inflation measure in order to cheat Social Security recipients out of their cost-of-living adjustments. Anyone who purchases food, fuel, or anything knows that inflation is much higher than the officially reported number.

It is possible that the drop in first quarter real GDP is three times the official number.

Regardless, the difference is large between the January forecast of +2.6 percent growth and the decline as of the end of March of -2.9 percent.

Any economist who is real and unpaid by Wall Street, the government, or the Establishment knew that the +2.6 percent forecast was a crock. Americans' incomes have not grown except for the one percent, and the only credit growth is in student loans, as those many who cannot find jobs mistakenly turn to education is the answer.
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Piggy Bank

Best of the Web: Global economic crisis is accelerating - 18 signs

Michael Snyder
TheEconomicCollapseBlog.com
Mon, 30 Jun 2014 09:49 UTC
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A lot of people that I talk to these days want to know "when things are going to start happening". Well, there are certainly some perilous times on the horizon, but all you have to do is open up your eyes and look to see the global economic crisis unfolding. As you will see below, even central bankers are issuing frightening warnings about "dangerous new asset bubbles" and even the World Bank is declaring that "now is the time to prepare" for the next crisis. Most Americans tend to only care about what is happening in the United States, but the truth is that serious economic trouble is erupting in South America, all across Europe and in Asian powerhouses such as China and Japan. And the endless conflicts in the Middle East could erupt into a major regional war at just about any time. We live in a world that is becoming increasingly unstable, and people need to understand that the period of relative stability that we are enjoying right now is extremely vulnerable and will not last long. The following are 18 signs that the global economic crisis is accelerating as we enter the last half of 2014...

#1 The Bank for International Settlements has issued a new report which warns that "dangerous new asset bubbles" are forming which could potentially lead to another major financial crisis. Do the central bankers know something that we don't, or are they just trying to place the blame on someone else for the giant mess that they have created?

#2 Argentina has missed a $539 million debt payment and is on the verge of its second major debt default in 13 years.

Comment: It is far better to be prepared for collapse than caught unaware.

See: Should one prepare for a collapse or not?

Also see our Forum thread here on Preparedness.

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Cult

"Russians are Subhuman" says Kiev's Arseny Yatsenyuk

Tony Cartalucci
New Eastern Outlook
Mon, 30 Jun 2014 00:00 UTC
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© © REUTERS/ Gleb GaranichArseny Yatsenyuk has more in common with Ukraine's Neo-Nazi political parties Right Sektor and Svoboda than perhaps most people think.
Self-appointed prime minister of Ukraine, Arseny Yatsenyuk of the "Fatherland Party," referred to Russians as "subhuman," echoing the racist vitriol of Nazism Yatsenyuk and others in his regime subscribe to. It was a violent, armed coup spearheaded by Neo-Nazi militants that placed Yatsenyuk into power in the first place, along with the Neo-Nazi political front, and paved way for fraudulent elections that predictably yielded a pro-US-EU client regime.

Yatsenyuk made his comments amid ongoing fighting in the east of Ukraine, where Kiev is waging war upon fellow Ukrainians, shelling and bombing cities in provinces that refuse to recognize the regime's seizure of power during late 2013 - early 2014. After a significant loss of life during one of Kiev's many ill-conceived military operations, Yatsenyuk stated:
They lost their lives because they defended men and women, children and the elderly who found themselves in a situation facing a threat to be killed by invaders and sponsored by them subhumans. First, we will commemorate the heroes by wiping out those who killed them and then by cleaning our land from the evil.
From fabricating an "invasion," to claims of "threatened" lives, to the labeling of Russians as "subhuman," Yatsenyuk has recited fully the script of Nazism used to justify its various historical crimes against humanity. Kiev's forces in eastern Ukraine are not fighting an "invasion," but constitute an invading force themselves, making incursions into eastern Ukraine and holding territory only through unmitigated brutality against local populations clearly collaborating with armed self-defense forces intent on resisting Kiev's authority.

Comment: Is it any wonder then that the mostly Russian population of Crimea called for a referendum that would bring them under the protection of the Russian Federation? And that those living in the eastern regions of Ukraine, who also have strong cultural and ethnic ties to Russia would be terrified of the new regime in power in Kiev? They have every right to be.

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Cult

Syria's Grand Mufti: "Erdogan & Davutoglu are behind abduction of two Aleppo archbishops"

Eretz Zen
Youtube
Tue, 01 Jul 2014 06:36 UTC
Kidnapped Syrian archbishops
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The Grand Sunni Mufti of Syria, Ahmad Badreddin Hassoun, discusses on camera the circumstances that led to the infamous abduction of the two Archbishops of Aleppo, Yohanna Ibrahim for the Syriac Orthodox and Boulos Yazigi for the Greek Orthodox. He accuses the current Turkish government of sending a Chechen group that was trained in Turkey to abduct the two Archbishops, after dissatisfaction with the Syriac Orthodox Archbishop Yohanna Ibrahim several years prior.

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Stormtrooper

Rule of the jungle: How Blackwater survived Iraq probes of being "Above the Law" - by threatening to kill investigators

Tyler Durden
Zerohedge.com
Tue, 01 Jul 2014 04:39 UTC
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Just weeks before Blackwater guards fatally shot 17 civilians at Baghdad's Nisour Square in 2007, The NY Times reports that the State Department began investigating the security contractor's operations in Iraq. However, as James Risen reports, a senior official of the notorious private security firm allegedly threatened to kill a government investigator leading the probe into the firm's Iraqi operation. Stunningly (or not), the US embassy sided with him and forced the inspector to cut the visit short.

As The Times reports, based on documents which were turned over to plaintiffs in a lawsuit against Blackwater... According to the documents, the investigators found numerous violations, including changing of security details without the State Department's approval, reducing the number of guard details and storing of automatic weapons and ammunition in Blackwater employees' private rooms.

There were also discipline problems, with guards having parties with heavy drinking and female visitors, including one episode in which an armored Blackwater car was requisitioned by four drunken employees, who drove to a private party and crashed the $180,000 vehicle into a concrete barrier.
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Eye 1

SOTT Focus: Abducted Israeli teenagers found dead - A convenient development (for Israel)

Joe Quinn
Sott.net
Tue, 01 Jul 2014 05:23 UTC
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Three of the thousands of Palestinian children killed by Israeli forces over the past 20 years.
Ya gotta wonder...

About a month ago, a Fatah-Hamas unity government was sworn in. Netanyahu warned/threatened the whole world not to recognize it because, he claimed, it 'opened the door to terrorism'. He also attempted to threaten Fatah by claiming it would be responsible for any 'rocket attacks' from Gaza into Israel. The real reason for Israeli aversion to a united Palestinian government however is that Israel has worked very hard over the past 40 years to prevent any form of Palestinian unity. A united Palestinian front committed to achieving Palestinian rights through peaceful processes would make it much more difficult for the Israelis to justify their Apartheid state built on the decades-long occupation of Palestinian land by force, not to mention the regular murder of Palestinian civilians by the Israeli military.
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Eye 1

Police state: Britain to deploy 10,000 officers at NATO summit


Press TV
Mon, 30 Jun 2014 05:12 UTC
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Britain is planning to deploy 10,000 police officers to shut out anti-war protests during NATO's summit in the Welsh city of Newport, documents reveal.

The Police Federation briefing documents released on Friday showed that there will be one officer for every protester at the Celtic Manor Hotel, which will host the NATO summit on September 4 and 5.

"To ensure the safety and secure passage of the event a mutual aid authority has been agreed to secure the deployment of nearly 10,000 officers," it said.

This would be one of Britain's biggest police operations since the 2012 Olympics and the biggest in Welsh history.

Peace activists, who have pledged to descend on the summit venue to express their outrage at NATO's warmongering policies, criticized the British government's decision, saying it is spending millions to protect NATO leaders from peaceful protesters.

Comment: While cutting wages, ignoring mass unemployment, reducing social services and fleecing the populace with ever more taxes, the UK government is spending millions to "protect" corrupt politicians from peaceful protesters - that is, if they don't deploy their own troublemakers to "heat" things up, to give them an excuse to clamp down violently on protesters. All the while military spending is going through the roof and banks rake in record profits ... The "people" they are supposed to represent are an impediment to their plans, we are their enemy!

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Pistol

Ukraine president Poroshenko unilaterally terminates ceasefire


RT
Mon, 30 Jun 2014 19:16 UTC
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Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has decided to not prolong the ceasefire with Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics, announcing an end to a fragile deal to deescalate tensions in the eastern regions of the country.

"We will attack and will free our land," Poroshenko said. The ceasefire officially ended at 19:00 GMT, according to a statement that appeared on the president's website shortly after midnight.

Since then, heavy shelling and intense shooting was reported in the city of Kramatorsk in the Donetsk region.

"The shelling started at 22:25 local time," American photographer Patrick Lancaster told RT by phone from Kramatorsk. "We are in the basement of the Kramatorsk Hotel. About two hours ago, mortaring started on the center of the city. Each wave lasted anywhere between five to 20 minutes, and there were three different waves of mortars. I don't have any direct information about wounded or killed, but there were so many explosions that I really think there is large number of casualties."
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USA

US supreme court declines to vindicate Google over street view violations


RT
Mon, 30 Jun 2014 00:00 UTC
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© Reuters / Gustau NacarinoA man takes pictures with a Google Street View Camera in Plaza Sant Jaume in front of the town hall of Barcelona
The Supreme Court of the United States said Monday that it won't consider a request from Google to weigh in on a matter concerning the Silicon Valley giant's Street View map feature.

Refusal on the part of SCOTUS to grant Google's request for an appeal from the high court now leaves intact an earlier decision handed down by a federal appellate panel in California.

The case itself surrounds the Google Street View platform, which for years has photographed huge swaths of the US and abroad by sending camera-equipped cars down roads around the world. Google was hit hard with litigation concerning that program in 2010 though after acknowledging that had accidentally collected payloads from unsecure internet networks, including data consisting of usernames, passwords and email contents.

Google said that it did not intend to collect the data and promised it would never be used, but the San Francisco-based Ninth US Circuit Court of Appeals found the company at fault in 2010. Last year Google reached a settlement with 38 states in the US over the data collection valued at $7 million.

Comment: It is interesting to see that the US supreme court, which has been in bed with politicians and businesses until recently, starting to make these decisions against them.

Supreme Court limits President's ability to make appointments during Senate recesses

'Get a warrant' to search cellphones, says unanimous Superme Court Justices

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Institutionalized sexism: Tennessee Baptist leaders to revoke pastor's credentials for licensing women ministers

David Edwards
Raw Story
Mon, 30 Jun 2014 16:30 UTC
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The leaders of Primitive Baptist Churches are considering whether to revoke the credentials of a Nashville pastor because he went against 100 years of church tradition by licensing women as ministers.

Pastor Frank Stevenson told WTVF that he broke St. Luke's Primitive Baptist Church's "don't ask, don't tell policy" when he licensed 15 women to be ministers earlier this month.

That decision prompted church elders and pastors in the Cumberland Association of Primitive Baptist Churches to call a meeting on Thursday to discuss Stevenson's future. In the end, they decided to put the fate of Stevens in the hands of a committee, which will consider the case over the next few weeks.

Stevenson argued that the 100-year-old tradition of not allowing women in the ministry had no basis in scripture.

"I was actually preparing for this before we licensed the ministers," he explained to WTVF. "I knew that there were some that would again hold to tradition versus the spirit of God. So we had already been praying and looking at all the avenues and aspects that we needed to address this very biased way of trying to orchestrate ministry."

Stevenson said that his congregation backed the decision to license women ministers.
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