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CEO of Gallup is worried he might "suddenly disappear" for criticizing U.S. government unemployment numbers

Pam Martens and Russ Martens
Wall Street on Parade
Thu, 05 Feb 2015 20:49 UTC
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Gallup CEO, Jim Clifton
Years of unending news stories on U.S. government programs of surveillance, rendition and torture have apparently chilled the speech of even top business executives in the United States.

Yesterday, Jim Clifton, the Chairman and CEO of Gallup, an iconic U.S. company dating back to 1935, told CNBC that he was worried he might "suddenly disappear" and not make it home that evening if he disputed the accuracy of what the U.S. government is reporting as unemployed Americans.

The CNBC interview came one day after Clifton had penned a gutsy opinion piece on Gallup's web site, defiantly calling the government's 5.6 percent unemployment figure "The Big Lie" in the article's headline. His appearance on CNBC was apparently to walk back the "lie" part of the title and reframe the jobs data as just hopelessly deceptive.

Clifton stated the following on CNBC:
"I think that the number that comes out of BLS [Bureau of Labor Statistics] and the Department of Labor is very, very accurate. I need to make that very, very clear so that I don't suddenly disappear. I need to make it home tonight."
After getting that out of the way, Clifton went on to eviscerate the legitimacy of the cheerful spin given to the unemployment data, telling CNBC viewers that the percent of full time jobs in this country as a percent of the adult population "is the worst it's been in 30 years."

Comment: Clearly there are people who are aware that the unemployment numbers touted by the government and media are a bunch of lies, but the fact that the CEO of Gallup is worried he might "black-bagged" for speaking the truth speaks volumes about the state of the American government at this time. This man is obviously afraid to speak the truth, since it goes against the propaganda that is being fed to the American public, and that doing that would put his safety in danger. This is the reality in the U.S., even powerful people are afraid.

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Bizarro Earth

SOTT Exclusive: Massive explosion in Donetsk signals renewed chaos in Eastern Ukraine

Shane LaChance
Sott.net
Mon, 09 Feb 2015 04:28 UTC
Donetsk chemical factory explosion
© Screenshot from youtube.com/user/gorlowka
A powerful explosion lit up the night sky Sunday night in Donetsk at 10:50 pm. Shock waves shook the city, blowing out windows, and the blast was felt in the neighboring cities of Gorlovka and Makeyevka. The explosion was reported in the Kuibyshev region of Donetsk at or near a chemical weapons factory that was also targeted in September and November of last year. The location of the blast appears to be within the chemical factory area, but the Saker reports the impact was 1000 meters away from the main buildings. Russian TV has shown a crater 10 meters deep. Donetsk Republic leaders have said it would have needed the equivalent power of 1 ton of TNT to create, raising the possibility that a new type of weapon is in use.

Casualties from the explosion have yet to be confirmed from Donetsk, while Ukraine's leader of the radical Right Sector, Dmitry Yarosh, claims the blast killed "200 terrorists".

The explosion could be seen tens of kilometers away and residents have been posting their footage online:


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Dollar Gold

Greek finance minister warns of collapsing euro if Greece exits, warns Italy is next

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Sun, 08 Feb 2015 19:45 UTC
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The time for the final all-in bet has arrived.

As we explained yesterday, when we wrote that "Greece Gambles On "Catastrophic Armageddon" For Europe, Warns It "Only Has Weeks Of Cash Left"", and as confirmed further by today's fire and brimstone speech by Greek PM Tsipras, in which he not only did not concede one millimeter to Europe but raised the stakes even higher, by promising among other things to raise the minimum wage and to halt foreclosures, Greece is now betting everything that Europe will not allow it to exit, hoping that "this time is not different", and the existential terror that would be heaped on the Eurozone as forecast in 2012 by the likes of Citi's Buiter and IIF's Charles Dallara, will still take place, and Europe will concede that spending a few more billion on Greece's bridge program is worth to avoid what could potentially spiral into an out of control collapse.

To be sure, that is precisely what Yanis Vaourfakis implied today when he said that "if Greece is forced out of the euro zone, other countries will inevitably follow and the currency bloc will collapse, Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis said on Sunday, in comments which drew a rebuke from Italy."

The comments emerged from an interview we commented on earlier with Italian state television network RAI, Varoufakis said Greece's debt problems must be solved as part of a rejection of austerity policies for the euro zone as a whole. He called for a massive "new deal" investment program funded by the European Investment Bank.

Comment: It will be interesting to see what happens in Europe in the next few weeks, what with Greece standing up to EU pressure and France and Germany meeting with Russia to solve the Ukraine mess. It might behoove Greece to also "look to the east" and ally itself with Russia, so that Russia could offer economic shelter.

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Pyramid

Best of the Web: Egyptian daily Al-Ahram interviews Vladimir Putin

Vladimir Putin
Al-Ahram
Mon, 09 Feb 2015 19:30 UTC
Putin el-Sisi
© RIA Novosti / Mihail MetzelRussian President Vladimir Putin (R) and Abdel Fattah el-Sisi
In the run-up to his visit to the Arab Republic of Egypt, Vladimir Putin gave an interview to the Al-Ahram daily newspaper.

QUESTION: How do you assess the current state of bilateral relations between Russia and Egypt following the revolutionary events in Egypt in 2011-2013? What is your vision of their prospects, particularly in light of the outcomes of the visit of Abdel el-Sisi, President of the Arab Republic of Egypt, to Russia in August 2014?

PRESIDENT OF RUSSIA VLADIMIR PUTIN: Egypt is a long-time and trusted partner of Russia. The history of modern diplomatic relations between the two countries that dates back to the year of 1943 has been eventful and colorful. For more than seven decades, both our countries and the international arena have seen numerous transformations. And yet, our desire to work together towards the development of Russia and Egypt as well as ensuring international and regional security has remained unchanged.
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Magnify

Constitutional attorney reveals FDA drug testing corruption


Activist Post
Sun, 08 Feb 2015 19:18 UTC
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The FDA continues to be one of the most dangerous government agencies in the United States. The sheer scope of people it affects with its corruption is staggering. As Jon Rappoport has highlighted, the FDA's own webpage admits that the drugs it certifies as safe contribute to over 100,000 deaths per year.

And as you'll see in the video interview below with constitutional attorney, Jonathan Emord, not only does the FDA routinely approve drugs over objections from its own medical reviewers, but the FDA does zero independent medical testing of its own. It is a system built upon conflicts of interest that leaves consumers completely in the dark about the true consequences of taking Big Pharma products.

As the newly inflamed vaccine debate rages across America, the fundamental role of the FDA in disseminating false information and flat-out covering up widespread health dangers must be examined more fully. Here are two key articles from natural health author, Catherine J. Frompovich, which add to the information presented in the following video:
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Red Flag

Court documents reveal Merck tried to pay off its owns scientists to remain quiet about vaccine fraud

Jonathan Benson
Natural News
Sat, 07 Feb 2015 18:02 UTC
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As the corporate media desperately attempts to dupe as many people as possible into getting MMR (measles, mumps, and rubella) vaccines for the protection of "the children," uncovered court documents revealing major vaccine fraud at Merck & Co., the multinational drug company that produces MMR vaccines for the U.S. market, are only getting the attention they deserve from the alternative media.

Back in 2010, two former Merck scientists, repulsed by what they saw taking place at the highest levels of the company, filed a False Claims Act in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. The filing accuses Merck of lying about the safety and effectiveness of MMR vaccines, tampering with study data, defrauding the U.S. government and various other high-level crimes.

Claims by Merck that the mumps component of the MMR vaccine is "95 percent effective" are also questioned in the filing. Stephen Krahling and Joan Wlochowski say Merck senior management falsified data specifically on the effectiveness of the mumps vaccine, intentionally spiking blood samples with animal antibodies in order to trick the public into thinking that the vaccine is effective.

"Merck... added animal antibodies to blood samples to achieve more favorable test results, though it knew that the human immune system would never produce such antibodies, and that the antibodies created a laboratory testing scenario that 'did not in any way correspond to, correlate with, or represent real life... virus neutralization in vaccinated people,'" explains CourthouseNews.com.

Other alleged transgressions include Merck swindling the U.S. government out of "hundreds of millions of dollars for a vaccine that does not provide adequate immunization," as well as promoting the spread of mumps with its fraudulent vaccine. This elaborate scam, which the duo says has been taking place since the late 1990s, has allowed Merck to monopolize the vaccine market, specifically with regard to MMR vaccines.
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Attention

Rightwing Le Pen: U.S. trying to start war in Europe


RT
Mon, 09 Feb 2015 18:53 UTC
Le Pen
© Reuters / Charles PlatiauMarine Le Pen
The leader of France's rightwing Front National (FN), Marine Le Pen, has called Brussels "American lackeys" over the EU's Ukraine policy. She further accused Washington of attempting to start a "war in Europe" and expand NATO towards Russia's borders.

"European capitals do not have the wisdom to refuse to be dependent on US positions on Ukraine," Le Pen told French journalists on Sunday.

"Regarding Ukraine, we behave like American lackeys," she said, before warning that "the aim of the Americans is to start a war in Europe to push NATO to the Russian border."

She went on to accuse European leaders of turning a blind eye to the Ukrainian government's "bombing of civilians," adding that both those in Crimea and Eastern Ukraine believed the country should be federalized.

Comment: "Humiliating Russia is simply unacceptable." Neither is attempting to give Putin an ultimatum on an issue for which he and his country bear little to no responsibility, which is what some media reports are saying Merkel did when meeting with Putin in Moscow. Peskov responded: "We've already said everything about the tone of the negotiations. Nobody has ever talked to the president (Putin) in the tone of an ultimatum - and couldn't do so even if they wanted to."

See also: More sanity from Hollande: Europe faces total war if West arms Ukraine

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Briefcase

The Swiss bank leaks

Bill Whitaker
CBS News
Sun, 08 Feb 2015 18:15 UTC
Hervé Falciani
© CBS NewsHervé Falciani
The following script is from "The Swiss Leaks" which aired on Feb. 8, 2015. Bill Whitaker is the correspondent. Ira Rosen and Habiba Nosheen, producers.

This story was reported in collaboration with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists.

The largest and most damaging Swiss bank heist in history doesn't involve stolen money but stolen computer files with more than 100,000 names tied to Swiss bank accounts at HSBC, the second largest commercial bank in the world.

A 37-year-old computer security specialist named Hervé Falciani stole the huge cache of data in 2007 and gave it to the French government. It's now being used to go after tax cheats all over the world. 60 Minutes, working with a group called the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, obtained the leaked files. They show the bank did business with a collection of international outlaws: tax dodgers, arms dealers and drug smugglers -- offering a rare glimpse into the highly secretive world of Swiss banking.

Comment: One can only hope these revelations and more like it will help people become more aware of the pathology running this world we live in.

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Bomb

Donetsk explosion, Kiev economy tanking

The Saker
The Vineyard of the Saker
Mon, 09 Feb 2015 18:17 UTC
1) The explosion in Donetsk

Russian TV has just shown footage of the crater left by the explosion and it is absolutely huge. See for yourself:

Donetsk explosion crater
Russian TV screenshot of the massive blast crater in Donetsk

The crater is about 10m (30 ft) deep. It is located on the territory of a chemical factory, but it did not hit any of the main buildings. Whether there was any building at the actual location of the explosion is impossible to tell: the earth is black, all the trees scorched and there is nothing left at all. DNR experts estimate the blast as being the equivalent of 1 ton of TNT. The sound of the explosion was heard 50km away. From the shape of the crater, it does not appear to be a fuel-air explosive (FAE), but 1 ton of equivalent TNT is way bigger than the 500kg HE warhead the Tochka-U can carry. This leads me to believe that the Ukrainians might have used a new weapon or, at least, a modified one. All we know for sure is that it was not a nuclear device. Also, it makes me wonder what in the world they were trying to hit - maybe the chemicals factory, but if that it the case, then they missed by 1000m or so. At this point, I honestly don't know. I also want to remind everybody that the junta has used White Phosphorus again against its own population:

Comment: Some more news-bites from the past day or so:

  • After giving Poroshenko a chance to show some common sense in Munich (and after Poroshenko refused to do so), the NAF has sealed the Debaltsevo cauldron, according to Semen Semenchenko, head of Kiev's Donbas Battalion.
  • As more and more Ukrainians and EU leaders are calling for a ceasefire and federalization, Oleg Tsarev predicts that mega-oligarch Kolomoisky, also jumping on the peace bandwagon, will have a change of opinion and support Novorossia.


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Bizarro Earth

What is a conspiracy theory? What is the truth?

Prof Michel Chossudovsky
Global Research
Thu, 05 Feb 2015 17:47 UTC
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War is peace
Obama is on a hot war footing. Western civilization is allegedly "threatened by the Islamic State".

The "Global War on Terrorism" is heralded as a humanitarian endeavor.

We have a "Responsibility to Protect". Humanitarian warfare is the solution.

Evil folks are lurking. 'Take 'em out", said George W. Bush.

The Western media is beating the drums of war. Obama's military agenda is supported by a vast propaganda apparatus.

One of the main objectives of war propaganda is to "fabricate an enemy". As the political legitimacy of the Obama Administration falters, doubts regarding the existence of this "outside enemy", namely Al Qaeda and its network of (CIA sponsored) affiliates must be dispelled.

The purpose is to tacitly instill, through repeated media reports, ad nauseam, within people's inner consciousness, the notion that Muslims constitute a threat to the security of the Western World.

Comment: "Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind".~ George Orwell

"In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act".~ George Orwell

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