Comment: Prof. Chossudovsky ends his report with a call to face the problem head on and 'dismantle the mainstream media' as the solution to altering the elites' global agenda. The likelihood of that succeeding is small. Much better to ignore the drivel put out by the MSM. Reading SOTT is a great step forward in doing just that. Help your fellow human beings by sharing SOTT as a source of objective analysis of MSM lies and spin. Dismantling the MSM may not be so feasible, but starving it of an audience is!
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In this stage of advanced globalization, banks earnings and corporate profits continue to soar even as real wages continue to plummet. This does not just lead to mass poverty and unrest, but it sows the seeds for geopolitical conflict and military confrontation.
Comment: Prof. Chossudovsky ends his report with a call to face the problem head on and 'dismantle the mainstream media' as the solution to altering the elites' global agenda. The likelihood of that succeeding is small. Much better to ignore the drivel put out by the MSM. Reading SOTT is a great step forward in doing just that. Help your fellow human beings by sharing SOTT as a source of objective analysis of MSM lies and spin. Dismantling the MSM may not be so feasible, but starving it of an audience is!
Comment: Prof. Chossudovsky ends his report with a call to face the problem head on and 'dismantle the mainstream media' as the solution to altering the elites' global agenda. The likelihood of that succeeding is small. Much better to ignore the drivel put out by the MSM. Reading SOTT is a great step forward in doing just that. Help your fellow human beings by sharing SOTT as a source of objective analysis of MSM lies and spin. Dismantling the MSM may not be so feasible, but starving it of an audience is!
More than half of the $700 million seized from 'inactive' bank accounts since 1959 was taken in the past year.
Pensioners and others saving for a rainy day have reported trying to access their savings only to discover their money had been seized by the government because it had been dormant for three years or more.
The government has collected more money from inactive bank accounts under the three-year rule than the total amount captured in the past five decades combined.
The government takes away Kim Taylor's money from her bank account because she hadn't touched it in more than three years
Nearly $360 million from 80,000 accounts was funnelled into government coffers in the year to May after Labor lowered the threshold, eclipsing the $330 million netted between 1959 and 2012, during which time idle accounts could only be touched after seven years.
The Treasury now looks poised to raise the threshold in the face of fierce lobbying from the banking industry, with Finance Minister Mathias Cormann releasing a discussion paper on changing the definition of inactivity from three years to five. Such a change would halve the number of inactive accounts taken by the government each year, he said.
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Just another Sunday sermon.
Just another Sunday sermon.
The war of back-and-forth competing racial and religious slurs has a planned aspect. It's a form of propaganda, and it begins with a heavy overemphasis on politically correct speech.
This sets the stage. It establishes an "official level" of sensitivity to language, and promotes the notion that words which exceed this level are uniformly damaging to defined groups.
The program has two goals: inflame feelings to create discord and animosity, and limit, in wide-ranging ways, what a person will permit himself to say or think.
Create an overall sense of caution that goes beyond the racial and religious.
Notice that this objective is the also Surveillance State's objective. The two programs work hand in glove.
"We're watching you all the time."
"There are many things you shouldn't think or say."
We live in an increasingly collectivist nation, and to guide its devolution, leading it into deeper levels of slavery, clearly defined groups must work off their frustrations by attacking each other.
The eventual goal is enlisting everyone in groups, up to their eyeballs.
Thus, an individual's sense of himself as independent is lost.
This is the program.
It seeks to erase the individual.
Comment: Mind control is most successful if it is inflicted upon those who have pre-conditioned susceptibility and fall under the influence of others. Consider mass media's numbing effect on the public and the persuasive methodologies utilized in the Science of Communication. To ensure the predictability of a large democracy, manipulation is guised as collective freedom and individual free will, a palatable package of mass delusion, social conditioning and behavior control.
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These developments are taking place amid the increasing deployment of foreign military forces mandated for peacekeeping operations by United Nations Security Council and other regional bodies.
The number of troops now occupying the CAR include a bolstered French force of 2,000 along with 6,000 personnel from regional African states (MISCA), European Union Forces (EUFOR) of 1,000 and the impending intervention of some 12,000 other soldiers under the rubric of the Security Council. Nonetheless, the minority Muslim community is still facing organized violence while more people are being forced out of Bangui and other cities across the country.
Interim President Catherine Samba-Panza was appointed after the forced removal at the aegis of Paris of the previous transitional leader Michel Djotodia in January. A Muslim, Djotodia came to power in March 2013 when Seleka Coalition rebels entered Bangui without any real opposition from French troops that were already maintaining a presence in the CAR.
Comment: See also:
- Hollande seeks European cannon fodder and money for wars in Africa
- The brutal ivory trade, fueled largely by U.S. demand, is wiping out elephants and funding terrorists
- Imperialist Meddling: France triggered slaughter in Africa
- France sends military to deal with another 'ex'-colony, Central African Republic, under pretext of intervening in 'humanitarian crisis' it helped create
- French military oversees power-sharing deal in 'former' colony, the Central African Republic
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A US Defense Department official has anonymously confirmed to AP that five ISAF servicemen killed by friendly fire in southern Afghanistan were actually American soldiers. This could become the worst friendly-fire incident in 13 years of the Afghan War.
On Tuesday, international coalition officials confirmed that five servicemen died on Monday in what appeared to be a friendly-fire incident, without giving the details or disclosing the nationalities of the deceased.
Reportedly, the servicemen came into contact with adversaries in Arghandab district of Zabul province and came under an airstrike alongside the enemy forces.
The soldiers who died in the incident allegedly called in the airstrike that killed them.
"ISAF troops were returning to their bases after an operation when they were ambushed by the insurgents. The airstrike mistakenly hit their own forces and killed the soldiers," shared local Police Chief Ghulam Sakhi Roghlewanai.
Qari Yousuf Ahmadi, a spokesman for the Taliban movement, claimed that a group of insurgents engaged with an ISAF unit when assault helicopters got into combat and mistakenly attacked the foreign unit.
Comment: 5? That sounds like rather a lot for 'an accident'.
Will we later discover they were taken out like Pat Tillman?
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"The city of Mosul is outside the control of the state and at the mercy of the militants," an Interior Ministry official told AFP on Monday. It is now the second city to fall under control of Islamist fighters since the beginning of this year. In January militants seized the city of Fallujah, displacing over 70,000 people
On Monday night fighters from Al-Qaeda affiliated group Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL or ISIS) stormed provincial government headquarters armed with rocket-propelled grenades and heavy machine guns.
Comment: The U.S has actively trained and funded the ISIL to fight in Syria. Now that life is getting increasingly difficult for terrorists in Syria, they turn to easier targets. Chaos in the Middle-East is to the benefit of the U.S.
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A US citizen requested access to the document, entitled "Bioeffects of Selected Non-Lethal Weapons," under the Freedom of Information Act a little over a year ago. There is no evidence that any of the technologies mentioned in the 10-year-old report have been developed since the time it was written.
The report explained several types of non-lethal laser applications, including microwave hearing, disrupted neural control, and microwave heating. For the first type, short pulses of RF energy (2450 MHz) can generate a pressure wave in solids and liquids. When exposed to pulsed RF energy, humans experience the immediate sensation of "microwave hearing" - sounds that may include buzzing, ticking, hissing, or knocking that originate within the head.
Pakistan airport shootout: "Well-armed" Taliban tried to hijack airplane leads to at least 27 killed
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Smoke still billowed from the terminal on Monday morning, but officials said no aircraft were damaged during the attack.
Smoke still billowed from the terminal on Monday morning, but officials said no aircraft were damaged during the attack.
"The main goal of this attack was to damage the government, including by hijacking planes and destroying state installations," said Shahidullah Shahid, a Taliban spokesman, as Reuters reports a well trained and heavily armed group of Taliban fighters attacked Pakistan's largest airport in an attempt to hijack a plane. 27 people were killed (including 10 militants ) as the Taliban spokesman added ominously, "this was just an example of what we are capable of and there is more to come. The government should be ready for even worse attacks." This attack comes a day after John Kerry's dismissal of threats by some released Taliban prisoners that they will return to the battlefield and kill Americans as "a lot of baloney."
As Reuters reports, a squad of highly trained Taliban fighters attacked Pakistan's biggest airport in what they clearly expected to be a protracted siege.
Seven fighters were shot dead by Pakistani forces after five hours of intense gunfire at Karachi's Jinnah International Airport. Three died after detonating their suicide-bomb belts.
At least 27 people, including 10 militants, were killed.
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Wearing Airport Security Force uniforms and armed with automatic rifles and rocket-propelled grenades, the group shot its way into the airport after arriving at the cargo terminal in two mini-vans.
A senior police officer said that the militants then split into two groups, with one attacking a gate called Fokker to create a diversion and the other storming the cargo terminal.
Another senior police officer, Raja Umar Khattab, told Reuters that the attackers then broke into groups of two and pressed ahead with the assault.
"They operated in pairs. That's why their bodies were found lying in pairs," he said. "It seems there was some ill-planning on their part. They did fire two rockets but they didn't hit their targets."
He added: "They wasted 10 men, but couldn't inflict serious damage on the airport. They didn't wear suicide vests, but instead used suicide belts. This is the reason why their faces and upper bodies were not badly mutilated."
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IMF chief Christine Lagarde
IMF chief Christine Lagarde
Comment: Without doubt the average person living in Britain will say: "What growth?"
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A military-style armored personnel carrier, top, that the Seminole County Sheriff’s Office in Florida bought off a contractor.
A military-style armored personnel carrier, top, that the Seminole County Sheriff’s Office in Florida bought off a contractor.
The 9-foot-tall armored truck was intended for an overseas battlefield. But as President Obama ushers in the end of what he called America's "long season of war," the former tools of combat - M-16 rifles, grenade launchers, silencers and more - are ending up in local police departments, often with little public notice.
During the Obama administration, according to Pentagon data, police departments have received tens of thousands of machine guns; nearly 200,000 ammunition magazines; thousands of pieces of camouflage and night-vision equipment; and hundreds of silencers, armored cars and aircraft.
The equipment has been added to the armories of police departments that already look and act like military units. Police SWAT teams are now deployed tens of thousands of times each year, increasingly for routine jobs. Masked, heavily armed police officers in Louisiana raided a nightclub in 2006 as part of a liquor inspection. In Florida in 2010, officers in SWAT gear and with guns drawn carried out raids on barbershops that mostly led only to charges of "barbering without a license."
Comment: Big Government just seizes your bank accounts after only three years of inactivity - and then YOU have to take the time, effort and money to get it back!
And that's assuming you'll get it back...
This is definitely another sign that CorpGov intends to just swipe everyone's money while the they can (and while money still has perceived value).