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SOTT Focus: Requiem for the American Empire (VIDEO)


Sott.net
Tue, 13 Jun 2017 00:00 UTC
jfk funeral
The United States of America, shining city on a hill. The exceptional nation; a dream sold to many. From what was it made? The backs of slaves, the blood of natives; the lives of millions. The country we knew never existed. A secret government grew; power concentrated.

Some tried to show us a better way - and were stopped. Special forces, psychological operations, social engineering. America convinced many of its righteousness - its goals.

Citizens programmed. The world in its spell by individuals that rule; whose names we do not know, and allegiances hard to fathom - a revival of past intentions, a bid for total control. The experiment refined; this time larger; using old methods and new ones.

The danger is growing. The American Empire is falling. And taking everything it can down with it.

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Wishful thinking? - The elites want to transfer consciousness to a new body and live forever

Melissa Dykes
Truthstream Media
Sun, 11 Jun 2017 05:07 UTC
Rockerfeller
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There's a body of research — treatments, cures, procedures — that are afforded by wealthy elites, quietly worked on in private labs and little talked about in the media. The never ending quest for immortality has truly never ended.

While this seems like the plot from a Twilight Zone episode, like all good Twilight Zone episodes, it's much more science fact than science fiction.

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Swedish police add 8 more areas to list of 'especially vulnerable' high crime zones


RT
Mon, 12 Jun 2017 23:16 UTC
Rinkeby Stockholms Sweden no-go zones
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A new report from the Swedish police lists eight additional areas as being "especially vulnerable," where it is more difficult for law enforcement and other emergency services to do their job.

In 2015, the Swedish police released a report describing 53 districts throughout the country as "vulnerable," and 15 listed as "especially vulnerable." Vulnerable areas are described as having high rates of crime and poverty where police face unique challenges and have to adapt their approach. These neighborhoods may also host violent religious extremism, and locals don't report crime to police for fear of retribution.

The new report, which has not yet been made public but was seen by journalists from the newspaper DN, adds eight more areas to the list, raising the number to 23.

These new areas are in the cities of Boras, Gothenburg, Landskrona, Malmö, Uppsala and in the capital, Stockholm.

Comment: More on the violence in Sweden:

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F-35 grounding at Arizona air force base extended indefinitely after multiple incidents of pilot oxygen deprivation


RT
Mon, 12 Jun 2017 20:02 UTC
F-35
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The decision to ground all F-35 fighters at the Luke Air Force Base in Arizona was extended indefinitely, as special teams of experts struggled to figure out what caused multiple incidents of pilots reporting oxygen deprivation.

Brigadier General Brook Leonard, commander of the 56th Fighter Wing at Luke, suspended flight operations on Friday after reports of five "physiological incidents" since May 2. Flights were supposed to resume. Monday, but the ground stop remained in place.
"The 56th Fighter Wing will continue their pause in local F-35A flying to coordinate analysis and communication between pilots, maintainers, medical professionals and a team of military and industry experts," base spokeswoman Major Rebecca Heyse said in a statement. "This coordination will include technical analysis of the physiological incidents to date and discussions on possible risk mitigation options to enable a return to flying operations."

Comment: There seems to be no end to the problems with the F-35 jets:

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Iranian General: 'US blames Iran for terrorism, yet Saudi Arabia supports Islamic State'


RT
Mon, 12 Jun 2017 12:15 UTC
Donald Trump in Saudi Arabia
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The blame game against Iran is not new but it is infantile of the US to keep pointing the finger at Iran when everyone knows that it is Saudi Arabia that is behind groups like ISIS, political analyst and commentator Shabbir Hassanally says.

Deputy Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces Major General Mostafa Izadi said on Sunday the country has evidence that Washington is providing direct support to ISIS. That statement comes after two terrorist attacks hit Tehran last week. Both were claimed by ISIS, but Iran says they were only possible because of Saudi and US support for the terrorist group.

Riyadh and Washington denied any links to the attacks.

RT: It is a major blame game now between Iran and the US as they accuse each other of supporting terrorism. What it could lead to? Could it mean a bigger rift between the countries than now? What impact could it have on the Gulf region?
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Theresa has placed Britain in the worst of positions for Brexit negotiations

Seth Ferris
New Eastern Outlook
Mon, 12 Jun 2017 15:10 UTC
Theresa May
© Sky News
Well that worked out well, didn't it?

Theresa called the election despite the Fixed Term Parliament Act, despite repeatedly saying that she wouldn't do it, despite the fact she already had a majority. She insisted she wanted a mandate to pursue a hard Brexit, which hadn't been part of the Conservative manifesto at the previous election, when she hadn't been the leader and Prime Minister presumptive.

Now she has lost her majority, despite having started the campaign 20% ahead in the polls and seen the UKIP vote collapsing and the other parties making no impression. Now the newspapers are calling the election a gamble. It was no gamble, it was a certain win, and she managed to mess it up. This ranks alongside George Seawright being expelled from Ian Paisley's Democratic Unionist Party, DUP for being too bigoted, and considered as the greatest political achievement in living memory.
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Riyadh 'sin tax' doubles price of cigarettes to recoup lost oil cash


Sputnik
Mon, 12 Jun 2017 22:40 UTC
Saudi Arabia riyals
© AFP 2017/ HASSAN AMMAR
Saudi Arabia has introduced a new tax on cigarettes and energy drinks that has led to a 100-percent price hike, as the kingdom continues to struggle with sunken oil prices.

The newly introduced tax has cranked up prices on cigarettes and energy drinks across Saudi Arabia, according to various media reports. Prices for carbonated drinks have been increased by 50 percent as well.
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Speeding more drugs to market: U.S. Supreme Court overturns 'biosimilar' drug delays


RT
Mon, 12 Jun 2017 16:20 UTC
Amgen, Inc.
© Robert Galbraith/Reuters
A California-based pharmaceutical company cannot use federal law to enforce a rule delaying the sale of a copycat "biosimilar" drug, but may appeal to the federal circuit court to use state law instead, the US Supreme Court ruled unanimously.

Amgen Inc. sued Sandoz, a subsidiary of Swiss-based Novartis AG, for patent infringement and sought to delay them from selling a biosimilar drug until six months after receiving US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval and another six months from filing a marketing notice. Sandoz's drug, Zarxio, would have competed with Amgen's Neupogen.

Statutory context of the law contains a single 180-day timing requirement, rather than the two requirements posited by the federal circuit court, Justice Clarence Thomas wrote in the decision. Had Congress intended to impose two timing requirements, it would have done so, Thomas noted.

"Amgen's contrary arguments are unpersuasive, and its various policy arguments cannot overcome the statute's plain language," Thomas wrote.
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Are the Central Banks getting ready to crash their rigged stock market on schedule?

David Haggith
The Great Recession Blog
Sun, 11 Jun 2017 00:00 UTC
Fed Roulette
We just saw a major rift open in the US stock market that we haven't seen since the dot-com bust in 1999. While the Dow rose by almost half a percent to a new all-time high, the NASDAQ, because it is heavier tech stocks, plunged almost 2%. Tech stocks nosedived while others rose to create new highs. Is this a one-off, or has a purge begun for the tech stocks that have driven the nation's third-longest bull market?
Yesterday's dramatic "rotational" divergence between tech stocks and the rest of the market, which as Sentiment Trader pointed out the only time in history when the Dow Jones closed at a new all time high while the Nasdaq dropped 2% was on April 14, 1999, stunned many and prompted Bloomberg to write that "a crack has finally formed in the foundation of the U.S. bull market. Now investors must decide if any structural damage has been done." (Zero Hedge)
This is important because, without the nearly constant lead of those tech stocks, the market would have been a bear a long time ago. Tech stocks created half of the market's gains in 2017. Financials, which led the Trump Rally, also hit the rocks in recent weeks, at one point erasing almost all of their gains for 2017, though they recovered a little of late. If both continue to falter, the rally rapidly implodes and maybe the whole bull market with it.
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Still on hold: 9th Circuit Court rules against Trump's revised travel ban


RT
Mon, 12 Jun 2017 18:55 UTC
Donald Trump
© Nicholas Kamm / AFP
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled against the revised executive order by President Donald Trump halting entry into the US from several Muslim-majority countries.

Responding to a lawsuit pressed by the Hawaii attorney general, the federal court rejected the government's claim that the March 6 executive order was valid on its face, arguing that a "mountain of extrinsic evidence, mostly in the form of statements by the President himself, indicating that the stated rationale is a sham."
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