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Run or stay and fight?: Pros and cons of expatriation

Dave Hodges
Intellihub
Thu, 24 Apr 2014 15:58 UTC

Are you tired of living under relative tyranny where every email is read, every phone call is listened to and your every movement is tracked and dissident journalists are harassed and even murdered by federal agencies such as the rogue NSA, CIA and IRS?

Are you thinking about escaping our corrupt and criminal government? The level of growing tyranny and brutal martial law enforcement is off the charts. Many are too old to fight and to fat to run. However, if you want you and your family to have chance to grow old in relative peace, my advice to all Americans is simple. If you are not going to fight, then you better get out of the country while you still can.

Record Expatriation of US Citizens

Americans are leaving the country at record speed and the annual rate of expatriation is growing as over 150,000 Americans departed the former land of liberty for greener pastures overseas in the past year. In fact, there are now over five million Americans who are choosing to live outside the United States. Just why are Americans leaving this land of "freedom" and opportunity in record numbers, with no end in sight?

Would you renounce your U.S. citizenship if it meant you'd be sending less of your hard-earned dollars to Uncle Sam? Do you want affordable health care? Do you desire to live a long and healthy life? Do you want your children to have an affordable college education? Do you want to retire in relative comfort? Do you desire to live your life with more freedoms than you presently enjoy and not have to worry about government harassment? On balance, should most Americans stay or go?

That's a bad sign: 100ft crucifix built in honour of John Paul II collapses and crushes a man to death days before he is declared a saint

Hannah Roberts
Daily Mail, UK
Thu, 24 Apr 2014 15:45 UTC

Tourist Marco Gusmini, 21, was killed instantly after the 100ft crucifix built in honour of John Paul II collapsed during a ceremony in Cevo, northern Italy, (main picture) in the lead up to his canonisation. The tragedy will inevitably be seen as an ill omen for Sunday's celebration when John Paul II (inset right) is to be declared a saint, along with Italian pope John XXIII. The cross (top left) was built in 1998.

* Marco Gusmini was killed when the sculpture fell in Cevo, northern Italy

* The 21-year-old tourist had been visiting the Alpine village on a church trip

* 100ft high wooden cross was built in honour of John Paul II in 1998

* It fell suddenly during a ceremony in lead up to his canonization on Sunday

A 21-year-old tourist has died after being crushed to death by a 100ft crucifix built in honour of John Paul II after it collapsed during a ceremony in the lead up to his canonization.

The 100ft high wooden cross, supporting a 90 stone statue of Jesus, created when John Paul II visited the area in 1998, fell suddenly following a few crunches.

Marco Gusmini, who was on a church trip to the Alpine village, was unable to get out of the way in time and was killed instantly, Italian media reported.

The 100ft crucifix built in honour of John Paul II in 1998 collapsed during a ceremony in Cevo, northern Italy

Psychopathic 18-year-old charged after friend tapes him beating duck to death with baseball bat

Dominic Kelly
Opposing Views
Tue, 22 Apr 2014 12:38 UTC

An 18-year-old has been charged with animal cruelty after video of him beating a duck to death with a baseball bat was put online and went viral.

William Luke McDowell of Lexington, N.C., was arrested over the weekend after authorities were made aware of the video. McDowell's 16-year-old friend caught the cruel act on camera, and many people are outraged over the seemingly senseless and random act of violence against the innocent duck.

"It's not dead yet, it's not dead," screams the voice of the friend operating the camera as McDowell brutally beats the duck until it does finally die. "Hard as you can. He's suffering, just whack as hard as you can."

"It's a young man laughing as he approaches a nesting duck who is minding his own business and he beats that duck to death with a bat," said Tiffany Young, founder of the Duck Rescue Network.

Comment: "We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals." ~ Immanuel Kant

U.S. real inflation rate hits 50%

Dean Arrindell
Yahoo! Finance
Wed, 23 Apr 2014 12:19 UTC

Do you love bacon? How much?

The price of bacon has gone up 13% in the last year and a whopping 53% since January 2010, according to 24/7 Wall St.

Prices of fruit, meats - even coffee - have increased dramatically over the last few years. Drought conditions and disease affecting crops and livestock are reducing supply and driving up the prices of many food staples.

While food prices are rising, the Federal Reserve is concerned that inflation is too low. In a speech last week, Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said, "With inflation running at around 1%, at this point I think the risk is greater that we should be worried about inflation undershooting our goal and getting inflation back up to 2%."

In the corresponding video, Yahoo Finance Editor-in-Chief Aaron Task spoke with Lauren Lyster about rising food prices at the same time the Fed is concerned about inflation being too low.

Comment: The reason why the Fed's rate of inflation is nothing like the real world rate of inflation is because the Fed is reading cooked numbers. They're artificially keeping the dollar casino economy going by pumping funny money into it ('quantitative easing').

Banker death 'epidemic' spreads to China

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Wed, 23 Apr 2014 17:12 UTC

Until now, the terrible trail of dead bankers has been only among US and European financial executives. However, as Caixin reports, the increasing pressures on the Chinese banking system appear to have take their first toll. Li Jianhua, director of China's Banking Regulatory Commission (CBRC), died this morning due to a "sudden heart attack" - he was less than 49 years old.

Li was among the main drafters on new "caveat emptor" market-based rules on China's shadowy banking system and recently said in an interview that "now is not only a time to control risk, but to transform the trust industry.. if it's too loose, it's a big problem." Li was found by his wife.

Manila, Philippines: Police turn fire hoses on anti-Obama protesters

Oliver Darcy
The Blaze
Wed, 23 Apr 2014 11:45 UTC

© AP Photo/Bullit Marquez
Police train their fire hose at protesters as the latter try to force their way closer to the U.S. Embassy for a rally against next week’s visit of U.S. President Barack Obama, in Manila, Philippines, Wednesday, April 23, 2014

"Obama not welcome."

Those were some of the words emblazoned on signs carried by Filipino protesters demonstrating against a visit to the Philippines by President Barack Obama this week, as well as a looming security pact that would increase U.S. military presence in the island country.

Boy, seven, fighting for life after being doused in gas and turned into human fireball by group of children in prank

Bill Craven and Charlotte Thompson
The Daily Mail, UK
Fri, 18 Apr 2014 21:00 UTC

Fighting for life: Preston Flores

Emergency crews called to the scene in Aberdeen shortly before 2pm
Relative claims Preston Flores and his friends were playing with a petrol canister from the back on a van parked on the street
Boy is believed to have lived on street with mother and four other children

A seven-year-old boy was last night fighting for his life in hospital after being turned into a human fireball.

Preston Flores ran into the street 'on fire' near his home in Aberdeen after his clothes became doused in petrol and ignited.

The youngster, who is thought to have suffered 80 per cent burns, may have been deliberately set on fire - or been the victim of a prank gone wrong.

Last night, he remained in a 'serious' condition in hospital, with his mother Luisza at his bedside.

People power! Ukraine coal miners on strike, refuse to pay Kiev coup damages bill

RT
Thu, 24 Apr 2014 01:09 UTC

Over 2,000 coal miners in Lugansk region have been on strike for the second day running, demanding higher wages and refusing to accept a pay cut to fund the restoration of Kiev, which suffered damage during the coup that overthrew the government.

Some 80 percent of miners from five coal mines belonging to "Krasnodonugol" enterprise in the city of Krasnodon have not shown up to work. The mines are all owned by one of Ukraine's richest man, Rinat Akhmetov of the mining and metallurgical "Metinvest" corporation.

Angry miners are pressing for wage increases to match region's average pay, better social and living conditions and higher social bonuses. According to the strikers they get an average of 6,000 hryvnas ($520), while the average salary in the coal industry in the region is up to 10,000 hryvnia ($860).

Miners are also refusing to pay a 10 percent tax on their salaries, imposed by the post-coup authorities to restore the Maidan square in Kiev. The square and nearby buildings suffered significant damage during months of rallies and the violent standoff that led to a coup in February.

According to local media reports miners have seen around a 10 percent cut in their paychecks to restore the Ukrainian capital.

"I don't understand why are we involved!" one of the protesting miners, Stanislav Denisenko told Itar-tass. "It was not us who dismantled the stones and burned the houses down. I get about 900 hryvna a month, that is around 9,000 rubles ($260). I don't understand why they are taking away my salary."

What the 1% Don't Want You to Know - Bill Moyers interviews Paul Krugman

TruthOut
Sun, 20 Apr 2014 18:06 UTC

Economist Paul Krugman explains how the United States is becoming an oligarchy - the very system our founders revolted against.

The median pay for the top 100 highest-paid CEOs at America's publicly traded companies was a handsome $13.9 million in 2013. That's a 9 percent increase from the previous year, according to a new Equilar pay study for The New York Times.

These types of jumps in executive compensation may have more of an effect on our widening income inequality than previously thought. A new book that's the talk of academia and the media, Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty, a 42-year-old who teaches at the Paris School of Economics, shows that two-thirds of America's increase in income inequality over the past four decades is the result of steep raises given to the country's highest earners.

This week, Bill talks with Nobel Prize-winning economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, about Piketty's "magnificent" new book.

"What Piketty's really done now is he said, 'Even those of you who talk about the 1 percent, you don't really get what's going on.' He's telling us that we are on the road not just to a highly unequal society, but to a society of an oligarchy. A society of inherited wealth."

Krugman adds: "We're seeing inequalities that will be transferred across generations. We are becoming very much the kind of society we imagined we're nothing like."

Transcript below.

End of freedom: Police may stop drivers based only on an anonymous tip

RT.com
Wed, 23 Apr 2014 13:27 UTC

Law enforcement officials may now stop US drivers based only on the information gleaned in an anonymous tip phoned in by a caller who dialed 911, the Supreme Court ruled in a tight decision Tuesday.

The high court ruled 5-4 that relying only on a comment from a 911 caller is reasonable because "a 911 call has some features that allow for identifying and tracking callers." In most cases the justices are split along ideological lines but Tuesday's decision was enough to split the two most conservative-minded justices, with Justice Clarence Thomas writing the majority opinion and Justice Antonin Scalia leading the dissent.

The case considered a 2008 California incident in which an anonymous 911 caller told the police that a pickup truck had forced her off the road, providing the location, as well as details such as the truck's make, model, and license plate number. Police soon stopped a vehicle matching the description and reported smelling the odor of marijuana as they approached driver Jose Prado Navarette.

Navarette was arrested because officers found 30 pounds of marijuana in his vehicle, although he argued that the initial stop was unconstitutional because police did not have reasonable suspicion to stop his truck. His legal team asserted that the police could not have determined with any accuracy the identity of the caller or challenged her credibility.

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Society's Child

Run or stay and fight?: Pros and cons of expatriation

That's a bad sign: 100ft crucifix built in honour of John Paul II collapses and crushes a man to death days before he is declared a saint

Psychopathic 18-year-old charged after friend tapes him beating duck to death with baseball bat

U.S. real inflation rate hits 50%

Banker death 'epidemic' spreads to China

Manila, Philippines: Police turn fire hoses on anti-Obama protesters

Boy, seven, fighting for life after being doused in gas and turned into human fireball by group of children in prank

People power! Ukraine coal miners on strike, refuse to pay Kiev coup damages bill

What the 1% Don't Want You to Know - Bill Moyers interviews Paul Krugman

End of freedom: Police may stop drivers based only on an anonymous tip

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