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USA, a manmade sinkhole: What's worth fighting for?

John Stanton
Pravda
Wed, 07 May 2014 08:59 UTC
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"Now come on Wall Street don't be slow, why man this war is a-go-go. There's plenty good money to be made, supplying the army with the tools of the trade. Now come on generals let's move fast, your big chance is here at last. Time you got out and get those Reds, because the only good commie is one that's dead. You know that peace can only be won, when you blow 'em all to kingdom come." Vietnam Song, Country Joe and the Fish, 1969
"Corruption is strangling the land. The police force is watching the people, and the people just can't understand. We don't know how to mind our own business, 'cause the whole world's got to be just like us. Now we are fighting a war over there, no matter who's the winner we can't pay the cost. 'Cause there's a monster on the loose, it has got our heads into the noose. And it just sits there watching. America, where are you now, don't you care about your sons and daughters. Don't you know we need you now, we can't fight alone against the Monster." Monster by Steppenwolf, 1969
First, Reduce the Masses Ability to Reproduce

A nation that refuses to take care of all of its mothers and all of its young children has no future.

"The United States was among just eight countries that experienced an increase in maternal death rates since 2003 - joining countries including Afghanistan and El Salvador....'There's no reason that a country with the resources and the medical expertise that the US has should see maternal deaths going up," said Dr. Christopher Murray, Director of Institutes for Health Metrics and Evaluation and a co-founder of the Global Burden of Disease. "The next step would be to examine local-level differences in maternal deaths to look for patterns and the drivers behind those patterns," reports Jennifer Abel writing in Consumer Affairs. Actually there is a very good reason why the maternal deaths are rising in the USA. Most American leaders really don't care who in America lives or dies-or why--and neither does the bulk of the American population. The elected representatives are merely a reflection of the callous, hollow nature of a long warring republic.
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Local Mormon church and missionary accused in child sex abuse case

Laura Yanez
KESQ.com
Wed, 07 May 2014 09:20 UTC
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Jacqueline Tyler, 42, of Rancho Cugamonga, said she was only 13 when a missionary at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Palm Desert repeatedly sexually abused her from July to November of 1985. She gave birth to a son on June 30, 1986.

"He tried to convince me to get an abortion," said Tyler. "I think that's what he wanted me to do. Get rid of the proof. Get rid of the child."

The former Palm Desert resident filed a lawsuit Friday with the Riverside County Superior Court in Palm Springs. It claims the Mormon Church, its members and the 24-year-old missionary tried to cover up the child sex abuse.

"This family came forward and was told, 'Be quiet. Go away.'" said Attorney Michael Kinslow.
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20 examples of American schools traumatizing, assaulting or even murdering kids

Jeff Berwick
The Dollar Vigilante Blog
Thu, 08 May 2014 09:08 UTC
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Everyday your child goes off to government public school his or her life and well-being is in danger. Nowhere in the world is this truer than in the United States.

But the risks aren't just limited to just the danger of being unable to read and write. I mean literal physical danger. Here are twenty examples why:

#1. Andrea Hernandez, a senior at her high school, refused to wear the RFID necklace her school demands students wear. The school offered to let her wear a badge (like the Star of David Jews wore in Nazi Germany?) with no chip in it so it just looks like she's being tracked like an animal, and she refused that, too. The judge declared Andrea property of the school, and said she must wear the chip. Her and her family argued against it on religious grounds.

#2. Christopher Carter of the University of Incarnate World campus police "emptied his gun" into one student who had been "disrespectful" by making a "sarcastic comment." Student was unarmed and non-combative. "I didn't hear him say anything like, 'Get down on your hands and knees,' you know?" one witness explained, "I didn't hear him say anything. He just started shooting. He emptied the gun on him... Boom, boom, boom. Six shots - five or six." It is reported that the victims' last words were, "Oh, you're gonna shoot me?"

#3. At one public school in Texas, a 12-year-old girl was arrested for spraying herself with perfume.

#4. Police were called when a little girl kissed a little boy during Physical Education.
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Entrepreneurism in America is at lowest point in decades says Brookings Institute report


RT
Wed, 07 May 2014 08:36 UTC
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Entrepreneurism in America has been on the decline for at least 30 years, a new report suggests, and for the first time in three decades the number of business "deaths" in the United States exceeds that of "births."

The report, published on Monday this week by economists from the Brookings Institute, examines business dynamism in America - or how the process by which firms are continually born, fail, expand and contract - during the years 1978 through 2012.

"Research has firmly established that this dynamic process is vital to productivity and sustained economic growth," Ian Hathaway and Robert E. Litan wrote for the think-tank, adding, "Entrepreneurs play a critical role in this process, and in net job creation."

"But recent research shows that dynamism is slowing down," they continued. "Business churning and new firm formations have been on a persistent decline during the last few decades, and the pace of net job creation has been subdued."

Indeed, the economists' research indicates that for the first time since the US Census Bureau began examining firm entry and exit rates in the US during the late 1970s, more companies are failing then being formed.

What's more, though, is that this trend is nothing new, relatively speaking, and is evidenced across the board: according to Hathaway and Litan, business dynamism in America has been on the decline for decades, and is noticeable from coast-to-coast and in all 50 states.
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Unemployment data manipulated: True figures show nearly 102 million working-age Americans jobless


RT
Mon, 05 May 2014 08:27 UTC
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A woman stands in line with some of the 1,500 people seeking employment during a job fair at the Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater in Washington, DC
Although the US unemployment rate has declined, more and more Americans are choosing to opt out of the labor market altogether and no longer even figure in the employment data.

Efforts by the Obama administration to dress up the employment picture are a bit like attempting to stuff a circus elephant into a ballerina costume. As Washington trumpets last month's drop in the unemployment rate (6.3 percent), it has quietly moved more than 988,000 Americans into the "not participating in the labor force" column.

If you add the current number of Americans without a job (9.75 million) to the number of US citizens not in the labor force (92.02), you come up with 101.77 million working age Americans who do not have work, according to data from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).

Now compare that figure to April 2000, when 5.48 million Americans were unemployed and 69.27 million Americans were not participating in the labor market. The number of Americans 14 years ago without work was 74.75 million. That means that the number of working age Americans without a job has risen by 27 million since the year 2000. However Washington wishes to fudge data that is bad news for the Obama administration.
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More police officers have died from 9/11-related illnesses than on the scene at Ground Zero


RT
Wed, 07 May 2014 08:06 UTC
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A police car sits amid rubble near the base of the destroyed World Trade Center towers in New York on September 11, 2001.
More police officers have now died as a result of illnesses blamed on the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks than the number of cops killed during the actual event as the tragedy unfolded 12-and-a-half years ago.

On Tuesday this week, 20 new names were added to the New York State Police Officers' Memorial in Albany, NY, including 13 individuals who died in recent years due to 9/11-related illnesses. The Associated Press reported that authorities attribute those 13 deaths to cancers caused by rescue and recovery efforts in Lower Manhattan after the World Trade Center collapsed more than a decade ago.

All told, the memorial in the New York state capital now contains the names of 71 officers who died due to 9/11-related illnesses. The actual terrorist attack itself claimed the lives of 60 cops, and nearly 3,000 civilians.

"I live near the World Trade Center. I inhaled the toxic smoke that permeated every square inch of lower Manhattan," New York state Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver said at Tuesday's ceremony, the AP reported. "I know how nobly and heroically the NYPD carried out their duties on that tragic September day and the terrible days that followed."
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Cult

Medieval Saudi Court sentences web manager to 10 yrs. in jail, 1000 lashes


Fars News
Thu, 08 May 2014 06:37 UTC
Raif Badawi
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Raif Badawi, who started the "Free Saudi Liberals" website was sentenced to 10 years in jail and 1000 lashes. Free speech is not something that is appreciated in Saudi Arabia, the great US ally.
A court in Saudi Arabia has sentenced the editor of an internet forum founded to discuss the role of Wahhabis' ruling in the conservative kingdom to 10 years in jail and 1000 lashes, Saudi media reported.

Raif Badawi, who started the "Free Saudi Liberals" website, was originally sentenced to seven years in prison and 600 lashes in July last year, but an appeals court overturned the sentence and ordered a retrial, Al-Alam reported.

Apart from imposing a stiffer sentence on Badawi in his retrial, the judge at the criminal court in the Red Sea City of Jeddah also fined him one million riyals ($285,000). Badawi's website has been closed since his first trial.

His lawyers said Wednesday's sentence was too harsh, although the prosecutor had demanded a harsher penalty, news website Sabq reported.

The prosecution had demanded that Badawi be tried for apostasy, a charge which carries the death penalty in Saudi Arabia. The judge in last year's trial had dismissed the apostasy charges.

Badawi was arrested in June 2012 and charged with cyber crime and disobeying his father - a crime in Saudi Arabia.

His website included articles that were critical of senior religious figures such as Saudi Arabia's Grand Mufti, according to Human Rights Watch.

Comment: Neither Obama or Kerry or their recent visits to Saudi Arabia mentioned human rights, because Saudi Arabia is our great ally and are helping us bring tyranny democracy to the Middle East.

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Odessa tragedy survivor tells how 'many people were strangled after escaping the fire'


RT
Thu, 08 May 2014 03:33 UTC
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Tatyana Ivananko, Odessa massacre survivor
Radicals set the building with innocent people inside on fire in Odessa, then strangled the survivors and finished them with bats, while police did nothing to prevent the bloodshed. That's the scary picture a survivor of the massacre told RT.

"First of all, nobody expected such cruelty, and secondly, it was too late to escape," Tatyana Ivananko told RT's correspondent Alexey Yaroshevsky about the Odessa tragedy on May 2, after which at least 46 people died in flames, when radicals set ablaze the local House of Trade Unions with anti-government protesters trapped inside.

According to the witness, pro-autonomy activists wanted to hide from the radicals by barricading themselves in the building.

"On our way up the stairs, we were taking plywood sheets inside so that we could block the doors and prevent them from getting into the building," she says.

Comment: So most of the so-called independent experts will come from the US. How can that be independent? There are numerous examples of these enquiries, that serve only to whitewash unsavoury events and justify the agenda of the PTB.

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U.S. Navy system admin hacked 220,000 sailors from inside nuclear carrier


RT
Thu, 08 May 2014 03:20 UTC
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A former systems administrator who worked for the US Navy's nuclear reactor department is accused of infiltrating government networks using the Navy's own computers and posting links to the materials he found on Twitter.

Nicholas Paul Knight, 27, was allegedly the leading member of a blackhat hacker group, along with Daniel Trenton Krueger, 20, that called itself Team Digi7al. The group, according to court papers obtained by The Register, was a "criminal association organized to hack protected computers, steal sensitive and private information, make unauthorized public disclosures of that stolen...information and commit various others crimes related to its hacking activities."

Prosecutors say the pair, with help from other members of Team Digi7al, hacked the Navy's SWM database, which held information about 220,000 Navy sailors. Others alleged targets included the US National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, a military mapping agency, and the Los Alamos National Laboratory, a government-run developer that build the atomic bombs dropped during World War II.

Knight, a Virginia native, has been portrayed as the group's ringleader in part because of the prosecution's claim that he attacked a Navy database during while on active duty serving aboard the USS Harry S. Truman, one of the Navy's ten nuclear-powered aircraft carriers.

"Knight called himself a 'nuclear black hat' who fought for the people of the United States, not the government," prosecutors said, adding that Knight said he led the hack "out of boredom" while another said they did so because it was "fun, and we can."
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New app to enable the impoverished to benefit from the excess greed of the rich by buying their food scraps before they toss it

Alison Spiegel
The Huffington Post
Thu, 01 May 2014 21:13 UTC
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"Good food is a terrible thing to waste." So reads the opening quote on PareUp's website. PareUp is a new app that aims to connect consumers to restaurants and food shops with excess food. Before retailers throw away food, they alert PareUp users and offer the extra food at a discounted price.

In a country that wastes between 30 and 40 percent of its food, PareUp is an app that is sorely needed.

PareUp is the brainchild of Margaret Tung, Jason Chen and Anuj Jhunjhunwala. The founders identified the common issue of throwing away unused food at home, and wanted to help chronic food wasters make good use of food doomed for the trash. They realized the worst offenders, restaurants and food stores, were also the best targets for change. What if restaurants could profit off excess food by selling it instead of throwing it away? Wouldn't consumers be interested in food sold at discounted prices? Thus PareUp was founded and an app is set to launch by the end of the summer.
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