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£3.3bn Royal Mail privatisation pushed through ahead of possible strike

Rupert Neate
The Guardian
Fri, 27 Sep 2013 05:39 UTC
The Royal Mail
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The Royal Mail share offer, implying a valuation of £3.3bn, was announced on the day postal workers start voting on possible industrial action
Shares to be priced between 260p and 330p in listing on 11 October - 12 days before earliest legal strike date

The government is racing to push through the £3.3bn privatisation of Royal Mail before postmen and women have the chance to walkout on strike against the "great British flog off".

Vince Cable, the business secretary, on Friday announced the coalition will sell up to 70% of the 497-year-old postal service on the stock market on 11 October.

The announcement comes on the day that more than 100,000 postal workers begin voting on whether to take days of paralysing strike action. But the result of the ballot will not be known until 16 October with the earliest legal strike date not until 23 October.

Billy Hayes, general secretary of the Communication Workers Union (CWU), which represents 115,000 Royal Mail staff, said: "The government continues to press ahead with the sale of the UK postal service despite consistent opposition from the public.
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The U.S. is going to experience one hell of a collapse

Eric King
King World News
Wed, 25 Sep 2013 05:05 UTC
economic collapse

Despite continued mainstream media propaganda, today one of the legends in the business warned King World News that "the U.S. is going to experience one hell of a collapse." This man has lived in 18 countries around the world, and he described his first-hand account of the collapses he witnessed which took place in many of these countries. Keith Barron, who consults with major companies around the world and is responsible for one of the largest gold discoveries in the last quarter century, also warned about the further destruction of the already disappearing middle class.

Below is what Barron had to say in this powerful interview.

Barron: "The Fed did not come through with tapering, so now there is this ridiculous speculation about a future tapering. The reality is that there is a general consensus out there that the US economy is just not strong enough to take away the punch bowl.

So I think we will just see a continuation of the status quo for the time being. In fact, I'm not even sure why that taper talk even happened. It was always just propaganda from the Fed....
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Alert -- One step closer to the big event, be prepared!!

X22Report
YouTube
Wed, 25 Sep 2013 04:56 UTC
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The central bankers/US government are in the process of building the propaganda that al-Qaeda and al-Shabaab are now very strong terrorist groups. They are making the case that these groups are much more sophisticated and will be able to strike America. The Government officials along with the corporate media are making the case that the economy is getting better but when you look at the hype you can see the economy is not doing as well as they are making everyone believe. The government and corporate media are playing mind games with the American people.

Please check the Sentinel Alerts for the latest news on the economic collapse. The Sentinel Alerts are updated throughout the day. If you haven't already, go to "The People" and join the community of people who are helping each through the economic collapse.
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Barack Obama LOST his citizenship by not registering for Selective Service

George Spelvin
Coach is Right
Fri, 13 Sep 2013 04:50 UTC
US President Barack Obama
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The matador's bright red cape and his agile moves to anger and tire the animal are the outstanding metaphor used by Attorney W. L. Albert. Moore, Jr., who is bringing an Amicus Curiae in support of lead appellant L. Dean Johnson in the request for an Alabama Supreme Court oral argument in yet another case dismissed by lower courts in the Barack Obama eligibility saga.

Moore, no relation to Alabama Supreme Court Justice Roy Moore, is a nationally certified fraud attorney who has a completely new angle on the American political nightmare that just will not die. Moore told CiR in a very lengthy phone interview on September 3, that the "real issue is not the eligibility clause (2-1-5, US Constitution), but the fact that Obama would not or did not register for Selective Service, thereby signifying his LOSS of US CITIZENSHIP! The issue is not Obama's status at birth - Obama probably is an NBC - but rather, his abrogation of US CITIZENSHIP, Moore said.
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The Global Situation Has Taken a Turn For the Worse: Recovery Unlikely

Laura Knight-Jadczyk
Sott.net
Sat, 28 Sep 2013 11:30 UTC
Liberty In Ice

Liberty has been buried under the weight of modern scientific hubris and corruption
As I glance through the headlines today, I feel a rock sinking to the pit of my stomach with the realization that the pathological minority ruling our world are truly taking all of us over the cliff. I am reminded of something Andrew Lobaczewski wrote in his seminal work, Political Ponerology:
"Germs are not aware that they will be burned alive or buried deep in the ground along with the human body whose death they are causing."
Applied to the topic of this essay, the saying is not just a metaphor; it is deeply and frighteningly accurate. Imagine a world that believes in global warming that is hit by the sudden onset of an ice-age. Studies reveal that ice ages are probably preceded by periods of freak weather patterns (check) hot spots and cold spots (check) torrential, localized rains and flooding (check) increased comet dust in the atmosphere (check), increased volcanism (check) a series of particularly cold and harsh winters (check) interspersed with localized heatwaves and drought (check); and then, finally, the watershed winter comes when the increased heating from within the planet itself (evidenced by the increasing volcanism) and its concomitant increased evaporation of the seas, combines with the cooled and lowered upper atmosphere, and the snow begins to fall and fall... and fall... and fall. Convert the extraordinary rains that have fallen in parts of the upper northern hemisphere in the past few years to snow volumes, and you can easily see that entire regions could be quickly buried under many meters of snow that, assuming that the albedo effect does not rapidly take over and prevent the snow from melting, by the time it did melt, multiplied millions of living things - including people - would have perished, buried along with the pathological leaders they have erroneously believed had their best interests at heart.
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From 'Hiding the Decline' to 'Burying the Pause': Man-made Global Warming is still a lie

Joe Quinn
Sott.net
Sat, 28 Sep 2013 08:33 UTC
"For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it."

- Some dude, somewhere, a long time ago.
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Humor me for a moment and pretend that the biblical hell exists. The Global Warming proponents among the world's climate scientists are going there. It's a fitting place for people who prostitute their skills and energy to serve the despicable agenda of the global elite; people who use their positions of influence and authority to bamboozle the world and try to convince us that black is white, up is down and that humans are causing global warming on the planet when the Northern Hemisphere has experienced an unprecedented five successive bitterly cold winters. Perhaps if their transition to hell is sufficiently seamless, and, unaware that anything has changed, they'll be able to convince themselves that they were right all along.

Gifted with minds pre-disposed to scientific investigation and given access to data and instrumentation with which they are supposed to objectively explore our reality, these men and women are, more than anyone else, in a position to influence the course of human destiny towards positive or negative ends.

Sadly, many of them have chosen the road to hell.

Take, for example, the recent IPCC 'Climate Report', wherein many 'esteemed scientists' reaffirm the lie that "human impact [on climate change] is 'unequivocal':
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Sen. Ron Wyden: NSA 'repeatedly deceived the American people'

Glenn Greenwald
Guardian
Fri, 27 Sep 2013 10:31 UTC
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James Clapper decried the release of the information and said media reports about it have been inaccurate
About the Snowden disclosures, the Oregon Democrat told the NSA chief: 'the truth always manages to come out'

The Senate Intelligence Committee yesterday held a hearing, ostensibly to investigate various issues raised about the NSA's activities. What the hearing primarily achieved instead was to underscore what a farce the notion of Congressional oversight over the NSA is.

In particular, the current chair of the Senate Committee created in the mid-1970s to oversee the intelligence community just so happens to be one of the nation's most steadfast and blind loyalists of and apologists for the National Security State: Dianne Feinstein. For years she has abused her position to shield and defend the NSA and related agencies rather than provide any meaningful oversight over it, which is a primary reason why it has grown into such an out-of-control and totally unaccountable behemoth.

Underscoring the purpose of yesterday's hearing (and the purpose of Feinstein's Committee more broadly): the witnesses the Committee first heard from were all Obama officials - Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, NSA chief Gen. Keith Alexander, Deputy Attorney James Cole - who vehemently defended every aspect of the NSA. At the conclusion of their testimony, Feinstein announced that it was very, very important to hear from the two non-governmental witnesses the Committee had invited: virulent NSA defender Ben Wittes of the Brooking Institution and virulent NSA defender Timothy Edgar, a former Obama national security official. Hearing only from dedicated NSA apologists as witnesses: that's "oversight" for Dianne Feinstein and her oversight Committee.
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War Whore

Twilight Zone: College protests led by 'professors' taking place in U.S. against ABSENCE of 'shock and awe' in Syria


War is Crime
Fri, 27 Sep 2013 07:47 UTC
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Come gather round people wherever you roam. And admit that the bullshit around you has grown.

Students used to get out of tests and assignments by explaining to sympathetic professors that they had been busy protesting the war on Vietnam. The times they are a changin'.

Today college professors lead teach-ins to protest the absence of an all-out U.S. war on Syria. Back then, the public and the government trailed behind the activists. Now the public has grown enlightened, and in a significant but limited way won over the government, blocking the missile strikes, but it's not just the U.S. President who looks mad enough to spit over the casus belli interruptus. Professors are pissed.

The University of Virginia's law school has another law school next door belonging to the U.S. Army. The University has built a research "park" next door to the Army's "Ground Intelligence Center." State funds are drying up, and the Pentagon's tap has been left all the way open. This Central Virginian military industrial academic complex is where Washington finally had to turn to find anyone willing to pretend the famous aluminum tubes in Iraq might be for scary, scary nukes. In defense of that record, this week is Iraq War Beautification Week at the University of Virginia's Miller Center, always a gung-ho proponent of militarism.
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The Matrix: Pentagon wants ALL data to recreate 'parallel virtual Earth' for testing and conditioning human responses to psy-ops in real time

Mark Baard
The Register
Sat, 23 Jun 2007 20:15 UTC
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'Sentient World Simulation' is Total Information Awareness by another name
Perhaps your real life is so rich you don't have time for another.

Even so, the US Department of Defense (DOD) may already be creating a copy of you in an alternate reality to see how long you can go without food or water, or how you will respond to televised propaganda.

The DOD is developing a parallel to Planet Earth, with billions of individual "nodes" to reflect every man, woman, and child this side of the dividing line between reality and AR.

Called the Sentient World Simulation (SWS), it will be a "synthetic mirror of the real world with automated continuous calibration with respect to current real-world information", according to a concept paper for the project.

"SWS provides an environment for testing Psychological Operations (PSYOP)," the paper reads, so that military leaders can "develop and test multiple courses of action to anticipate and shape behaviors of adversaries, neutrals, and partners".

Comment: The Pentagon's interest in this Leviathan project is not to produce results that are "optimal" from the viewpoint of ordinary people; rather, it's to retain exclusive, 'eyes-only', walled-off oversight over human activities. Think Bentham's Panopticon...

It may be wishful thinking on their part to believe they can achieve anything approaching 'Total Information Awareness'. Nevertheless, their megalomaniacal drive to 'see all', and then exploit the information by tweaking the system - spark a border skirmish here, start some political scandal there, launch a strategic false-flag or two - gives us much insight into the psychopathology underlying their ambitious belief that humanity is a herd to be corralled towards finer and finer levels of control.

To a psychopath the world is a boardgame filled with predictable automatons to manipulate and control for personal entertainment. Much like a child can break an ant hill to watch what the ants will do, psychopaths continually do the same thing to the whole world. For thousands of years mass starvation, genocide, slavery, and other forms of mass torture and manipulation have been the norm, and continue to be the norm. If the world is not shaken awake to the reality of this genetic deformation in 6% of our population, it may soon be too late.

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MOD urged to make repatriation ceremonies low-key and use more drones, SAS and mercenaries to reduce 'body bag syndrome'


Daily Mail, UK
Sat, 28 Sep 2013 04:41 UTC
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The document suggests that the MoD should "reduce the profile of the repatriation ceremonies" as they reduce support for war
  • Report says images of flag-draped coffins reduces support for military action
  • It adds special forces and mercenary deaths don't hit public as hard
  • MOD says document is to foster 'debate' and is not policy
Repatriation ceremonies for the remains of dead soldiers should have a lower profile in order to make war more palatable to the British public, according to a report for the Ministry of Defence.

It examines how to sway 'casualty averse' public opinion, a situation commonly known as 'body bag syndrome', and was published by the MoD's strategy formulation unit.

The document suggests that the MoD should 'reduce the profile of the repatriation ceremonies' where coffins carrying deceased soldiers are brought back to UK bases such as RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire.

It discusses ways to 'reduce public sensitivity' and methods of explaining that 'risks are knowingly and willingly undertaken' by armed forces personnel.

Suggestions included making greater use of the SAS and other special forces, as well as mercenaries, because it claims losses sustained by the elite soldiers and hired guns do not have the same impact on the public and press.

Comment: Now we know why back in 2002 Donald Rumsfeld and his Pentagon cronies decided to massively privatize the US military and send 200,000 mercenaries to Iraq and Afghanistan. Can't have the folks back home realising that psychopaths in power are using their sons and daughters, fathers and mothers, brothers and sisters, as cannon fodder for imperial expansion to line the pockets of elite and control normal human beings all over the world.

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