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New book by investigative journalist reveals ponerology is rife in NZ politics

David Fisher, Adam Bennett
The New Zealand Herald
Wed, 13 Aug 2014 02:18 UTC
Author Nicky Hager
© Mark MitchellAuthor Nicky Hager with copies of his book, Dirty Politics. His previous book from 1996 details the world wide electronic spying network Echelon.
Dirty Politics, the new book from author and investigative journalist Nicky Hager, will feature leaked emails between National Party figures and right-wing bloggers.

The book, which has been released in Wellington tonight, aims to tell the story of "how attack politics is poisoning NZ's political environment".

It includes email correspondence between Whaleoil blogger Cameron Slater and Jason Ede, one of the Prime Minister John Key's press secretaries, in relation to information found on Labour's website.

Mr Hager said the Prime Minister's office had been "collaborating" with National Party "proxies" who were carrying out attacks on behalf of Mr Key while working to preserve his image.

The book shows Mr Slater and Mr Ede discussed the information and how to avoid being caught.

Comment: Nicky Hager must be commended for bringing attention to and exposing pathology in high places.

For an understanding of this topic, which is the topic and which permeates our society on every level, educate yourself about ponerology. Here is a starter:
Ponerology: The official ponerology website
Ponerology 101: Snakes in Suits

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Shameful: Florida school forced kid to wear "shame suit" for dress code violation

Eliza Murphy
ABC News
Thu, 04 Sep 2014 01:15 UTC
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A Florida mom is outraged that her 15-year-old daughter was forced to wear what she called a "shame suit" at school.

On her third day of school, Miranda Larkin, a sophomore at Oakleaf High School in Orange Park, Florida, was told by a teacher that her skirt was too short.

"It was right after first period," Miranda told ABC News. "I was in the hallway and I got stopped by a teacher who told me my skirt was too short and sent me to the nurse's office. They told me I was going to have to change and put on the dress-code-violation outfit."

The school's dress-code-violation outfit consists of a neon-yellow t-shirt with "DRESS CODE VIOLATION" emblazoned on the front of it in capital letters, along with red sweatpants with the same message down the right leg.

"The school has said this is to embarrass you," said Miranda. "It's supposed to embarrass you so you don't do it again."
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As the destruction of family values continues unabated, single Americans become majority for first time


RT
Wed, 10 Sep 2014 00:48 UTC
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More people in the United States are apparently leaving wedding rings sitting in jewelry stores, as new data shows a majority of American adults are now single.

Specifically, about 50.2 percent of American adults over the age of 16 - roughly 124.6 million people - were single in August, according to a new Bureau of Labor Statistics report cited by Bloomberg. This marks the first time that single Americans make up the majority of the adult population since the government began tracking the data 38 years ago.

In 1976, single Americans made up 37.4 percent of the adult population. The number of individuals who have never been married also rose to 30.4 percent, up notably from 22.1 more than three decades ago. Divorced Americans, meanwhile, now compose 19.8 percent of the population, compared to 15.3 percent in 1976.

As these numbers continued to rise, economist Edward Yardeni said the development will have significant ripple effects for the economic, social and political scenes in the United States.
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Police in Miami search for vandals who spray-painted swastikas onto walls of a synagogue and at Publix grocery store

Amanda Batchelor
Local10.com
Mon, 08 Sep 2014 19:46 UTC
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Police are investigating after swastikas were found spray-painted and drawn onto the walls of a synagogue in West Miami-Dade and the back of a Publix in Surfside over the weekend.

Rabbi Manuel Armon of Temple Beth Tov-Ahavat Shalom told Local 10 News the vandalism at the synagogue on Southwest Eighth Street and 64th Avenue happened sometime between Saturday night and Sunday morning.

He said crude words and other signs that were mostly illegible were also drawn on the wall next to a swastika.

The Surfside Police Department said someone also spray-painted a swastika, the letters "KKK" and other symbols on a wall in back of a Publix at 9400 Harding Ave.

Police said another swastika and letter "V" were painted on the street nearby in the 9500 block of Bay Drive.

If you have any information about either of these incidents, call police.
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Liberia bracing for upsurge in Ebola cases as WHO predicts exponential increase in infections across West Africa


Breitbart News
Tue, 09 Sep 2014 14:49 UTC
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Liberia is bracing for an upsurge in Ebola cases, following a grim World Health Organization assessment on Tuesday that the worst is yet to come in the fight against the killer virus.

While the WHO predicted an "exponential increase" in infections across West Africa, it warned that Liberia, which has reaped the lion's share of misery with half of all fatalities, could initially only hope to slow contagion, not stop it.

The UN's health arm upped the Ebola death toll Tuesday in Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea and Nigeria to 2,288 out of 4,269 cases, noting nearly half of all infections had occurred in the past 21 days.

The WHO also evacuated its second infected medical expert, a doctor had been working at an Ebola treatment centre in Sierra Leone.

Emory University Hospital in Georgia on Tuesday admitted an American who had contracted Ebola in West Africa, but the hospital has declined to confirm it was the WHO employee.
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Economic benefit of college eduction relatively small for those in 25th percentile - study

Trey Williams
Wealthydebates.com
Sun, 07 Sep 2014 19:32 UTC
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As noted in a prior Capitol Report post, the New York Fed estimates the economic value of college degree at around $300,000 over the course of the average graduate's career.

But that doesn't mean college is a good investment for everyone. The New York Fed's Jaison Abel and Richard Deitz have crunched more data. The annual wage for the 25th percentile of those with a bachelor's degree, and that number sits closer to that of those with only a high school diploma, at below $30,000 per year.

That means one in four college grads are making about the same, or less, than the average high school graduate worker - all the while racking up student-loan debt.

"In fact, once the costs of attending college are considered, it is likely that earning a bachelor's degree would not have been a good investment for many in the lowest 25% of college graduate wage earners," the report says.

The authors point out though there is no way to be sure that those in the 25th percentile wouldn't have earned even less had they not gone to college. Still, they note, "this pattern strongly suggests that the economic benefit of a college education is relatively small for at least a quarter of those graduating with a bachelor's degree."
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The era of widespread biometric identification and microchip implants is here

Michael Snyder
The Economic Collapse Blog
Tue, 09 Sep 2014 18:28 UTC
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Are you ready to have your veins scanned every time you use your bank account? Are you ready to use a "digital tattoo" or a microchip implant to unlock your telephone? Once upon a time we read about such technologies in science fiction novels, but now they are here. The era of widespread biometric identification and microchip implants is upon us, and it is going to change the way that we live.

Proponents of these new technologies say that they will make our private information and our bank accounts much more secure. But there are others that warn that these kinds of "Big Brother technologies" will set the stage for even more government intrusion into our lives. In the wrong hands, such technologies could prove to be an absolute nightmare.

Barclays has just announced that it is going to become the first major bank in the western world to use vein scanning technology to control access to bank accounts.
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And another chemical plant goes BOOM! This time in northern Germany


RT
Tue, 09 Sep 2014 18:08 UTC
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A massive explosion rocks German chemical plant.
A powerful explosion heard from kilometres away has rocked a chemical plant near Bremen, in northern Germany. Several people have reportedly been injured while the plant buildings sustained "serious damage," first responders say.

More than 300 firefighters have been called in to battle the explosion and massive fire at the Bergolin company plant in Ritterhude, a city north of Bremen with a population of 15,000. The plant reportedly produces primarily industrial coatings.
picture of a hat Explosion in Bremen Germany 09.09.14 pic.twitter.com/HKQQk48aqT
- Marco Wegener (@wegener0815) September 9, 2014
The explosion was heard several kilometres away, a spokesperson for the local police department told the Bild newspaper. Several plant buildings were on fire and one factory employee has been reported missing from the scene of the accident.

Comment: Chemical plants seem to be exploding more frequently these days, this is a partial list from the last 9 months or so.

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Russian PM: We will support Russian companies hit by sanctions


RT
Tue, 09 Sep 2014 17:28 UTC
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© (Reuters/Dmitry Astakhov)Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev leads a government meeting in Moscow, August 7, 2014.
Authorities have supported and will continue to support all Russian companies - both state and private - hit by Western sanctions regardless of the reasons why they were targeted, Russia's prime minister has said.

"It is the government's responsibility - to protect Russian businesses should they face unfair and unlawful actions by foreign states or foreign companies," PM Dmitry Medvedev said in a Tuesday meeting with the chief executive and co-owner of Novatek Leonid Mikhelson.

"This is definitely a violation of international law, not based on anything," the prime minister added.

Novatek is the largest independent natural gas producer in Russia. In July, the United States imposed sanctions against the company and its other co-owner, Gennady Timchenko. Currently Novatek is leading the Yamal-LNG project which is estimated to cost $27 billion. On Tuesday the prime minister said Moscow will "respond asymmetrically" should the EU impose a fresh round of sanctions, warning that Russia may shut its air corridors to Western airlines.

Comment: The bastion of 'free trade', the US, is shooting itself in the foot with all these economic sanctions. They also look the fool considering they are based on nothing at all.

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The fight for reporters' rights in digital age - not to get screwed by Obama admin


Common Dreams
Tue, 09 Sep 2014 14:45 UTC
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CPJ launches anti-surveillance campaign

NEW YORK, NY - Revelations about surveillance, intimidation, and exploitation of the press have raised unsettling questions about whether the U.S. and other Western democracies risk undermining journalists' ability to report in the digital age. They also give ammunition to repressive governments seeking to tighten restrictions on media and the Internet. To combat these trends, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) today along with more than 45 supporting partners including The Associated Press, Getty Images, Bloomberg News, The Huffington Post, First Look Media, Slate, Global Voices Advocacy, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation launched the campaign "Right to Report in the Digital Age."

"When journalists believe they might be targeted by government surveillance systems, pulled into an overbroad criminal investigation, or searched and interrogated about their work at the U.S. border, their ability to inform the public is eroded," said CPJ Advocacy Director Courtney Radsch. "So too is the U.S. government's credibility on key issues such as press freedom and other human rights, Internet governance, and the rule of law."

Comment: The systematic and comprehensive measures taken by the Obama administration (dictated by his masters of course) to suppress the voices of the press and media have made it one of the most repressive and darkest period in U.S. history. It speaks volumes that there even have to be organizations like the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) to protest the ways in which journalists have been persecuted in recent years. The PTB's tactics are clearly commensurate with the volumes of laws they are breaking and lack the time and resources they have to change in advance. This is an all out information war.

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