Here is a dummies guide to what went wrong in Europe:
Helga is the proprietor of a bar.
She realizes that virtually all of her customers are unemployed alcoholics
and, as such, can no longer afford to patronize her bar.
To solve this problem, she comes up with a new marketing plan that allows
her customers to drink now, but pay later.
Helga keeps track of the drinks consumed on a ledger (thereby granting the
customers’ loans).
Word gets around about Helga’s “drink now, pay later” marketing strategy
and, as a result, increasing numbers of customers flood into Helga’s bar.
Soon she has the largest sales volume for any bar in town.
By providing her customers freedom from immediate payment demands, Helga
gets no resistance when, at regular intervals, she substantially increases
her prices for wine and beer, the most consumed beverages. Consequently, Helga’s gross sales volume increases massively.
The intelligence assessment Israeli officials will present later this week to [Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Martin ] Dempsey indicates that Iran has not yet decided whether to make a nuclear bomb.
The Israeli view is that while Iran continues to improve its nuclear capabilities, it has not yet decided whether to translate these capabilities into a nuclear weapon – or, more specifically, a nuclear warhead mounted atop a missile. Nor is it clear when Iran might make such a decision.
Defense Minister Ehud Barak said on Wednesday that Israel was “very far off” from a decision about an attack on Iran over its nuclear program.
Barak was speaking on Israel’s Army Radio ahead of a planned visit this week by U.S. armed forces chief General Martin Dempsey that has triggered speculation Washington would press Israel to delay any action against Tehran’s nuclear program.
As bounty hunters with bush knives entrapped them in a circle and moved in for the kill, the only thing this mother orang-utan could think to do was to wrap a giant protective arm around her daughter.
The pair seemed to be facing a certain death as a gang of hunters surrounded them in Borneo, keen to cash in on the palm oil plantations’ bid to be rideof the animals.
But, happily, a team from the British-based international animal rescue group Four Paws arrived in time to stop the slaughter and saved their lives.
The pregnant mother and daughter were captured and moved to a remote and safe area of the rainforest and released back into the wild – but not before the mother was equipped with a radio device so she and her young can be tracked to ensure they remain safe.
‘Our arrival could not have been more timely,’ said Dr Signe Preuschoft, a Four Paws primate expert.
Mother and daughter were captured and moved to a remote and safe area of the rainforest and released back into the wild – but not before the mother was equipped with a radio device so she and her young can be tracked to ensure they remain safe.
‘Our arrival could not have been more timely,’ said Dr Signe Preuschoft, a Four Paws primate expert.
‘A few minutes later and the orang-utans could have been dead.
Once when we were on holiday in Greece on the Island of Crete we visited a restaurant to have a drink we were sitting outside and it was a warm and beautiful night and we were talking to some of the locals.
One of the people we were talking too asked if we were Germans and to my horror I saw he had a knife out and pointed towards my husband. I told him we were Dutch and New Zealander and he put his knife away. The next morning we went to another place to have breakfast and to our surprise the prices had dropped by about 75%. What’s more people shouted us drinks (yep in the morning) and we were told that we were OK because we were not Germans. That is how much the Greeks still hate the Germans who killed many thousands of Greek in the second World War.
If you think the Greek don’t understand what is happening I have a bridge in New York you might like to buy.
It was tried previously (several times) under “slightly different” circumstances, and failed. Yet when it comes to taking over a country without spilling even one drop of blood, and converting its citizens into debt slaves, Germany’s Merkel may have just succeeded where so many of her predecessors failed. According to a Reuters exclusive, “Germany is pushing for Greece to relinquish control over its budget policy to European institutions [ZH: read ze Germans] as part of discussions over a second rescue package, a European source told Reuters on Friday.” Reuters add: “There are internal discussions within the Euro group and proposals, one of which comes from Germany, on how to constructively treat country aid programs that are continuously off track, whether this can simply be ignored or whether we say that’s enough,” the source said.’ So while the great distraction that is the Charles Dallara “negotiation” with Hedge Funds continues (as its outcome is irrelevant: a Greece default is assured at this point), the real development once again was behind the scenes where Germany was cleanly and clinically taking over Greece. Because while today it is the fiscal apparatus, tomorrow it is the legislative. As for the executive: who cares. At that point Goldman will merely appoint one of its retired partners as Greek president and Greece will become the first 21st century German, pardon, European colony. But at least it will have its precious euro. We can’t wait until Greek citizens find out about this quiet coup.
Iran’s nuclear energy and medical isotopes are all legally accounted for in IAEA inspections with zero evidence of unlawful use of nuclear material or technology; President Obama leads the lies of “Iran’s weapons” for another criminal war. Mr. Obama also leads the lies that Iran’s president threatened Israel when the speech is absolutely clear he said Israel’s government will fall from within if they don’t respect democracy for Palestine. A third lie is of omission to never mention that the US overthrew Iran’s democracy from 1953-1979, and then supported an unlawful invasion via Iraq from 1980-1988 that mass-murdered about one million Iranians.
So far Soros has a finger in every dirty pie, no compunction about manipulating global events and entire Nations so I’m not in any doubt he is doing exactly that. But I also think that we are indeed heading to collapse and chaos.
Over the past couple of weeks, George Soros, the IMF and the World Bank have all issued incredibly chilling warnings about the possibility of an impending economic collapse. Considering the power and the influence that Soros, the IMF and the World Bank all have over the global financial system, this is very alarming. So are they purposely trying to scare the living daylights out of us? Soros is even warning of riots in the streets of America. Unfortunately, way too often top global leaders say something in public because they want to “push” events in a certain direction. Do George Soros and officials at the IMF and World Bank hope to prevent a worldwide financial collapse by making these statements, or are other agendas at work? We may never know. But one thing is for sure – many of the top financial officials in the world are using language that is downright “apocalyptic”, and that is not a good sign for the rest of 2012.
Right now, George Soros is saying things that he has never said before. Just check out what George Soros recently told Newsweek….
“I am not here to cheer you up. The situation is about as serious and difficult as I’ve experienced in my career,” Soros tells Newsweek. “We are facing an extremely difficult time, comparable in many ways to the 1930s, the Great Depression. We are facing now a general retrenchment in the developed world, which threatens to put us in a decade of more stagnation, or worse. The best-case scenario is a deflationary environment. The worst-case scenario is a collapse of the financial system.”
Even Israel admits Iran is not even trying to build a nuclear weapon and while Israel has hundreds of nukes illegally Iran which has signed on to the non-proliferation treaty legally has the right to peaceful use of nuclear energy (I hate nuclear energy with a vengeance but we are talking international legal matters here)
Earlier this month, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta said:
Are they [the Iranians] trying to develop a nuclear weapon? No. But we know that they’re trying to develop a nuclear capability. And that’s what concerns us.
Director of National Intelligence James Clapper confirmed in a Senate hearing – following the release of the classified National Intelligence Estimate in 2011 – that he has a “high level of confidence” that Iran “has not made a decision as of this point to restart its nuclear weapons program.”
Mohamed ElBaradei – who spent more than a decade as the director of the IAEA – said that he had not “seen a shred of evidence” that Iran was pursuing the bomb.
All nuclear material in the facility remains under the Agency’s containment and surveillance.
In other words, all nuclear fuel is accounted for and is being controlled and monitored by the international agency tasked with nuclear non-proliferation.
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The huge war thread to be played as and when the financial elite can no longer hide their epic malfeasance and they need a diversion is continuing to deteriorate. Here are some pointers:
European countries have not agreed to and economic oil boycott. It will sign no more contracts with Iran and will break the existing ones June 1th.
11 US Warships are no permanently in the Strait of Hormus. One of with is the USS enterprise expected to be the sacrificial lamb in a possible false flag attack.
Iran has vowed to block the strait of Hormus which will trigger, in all likelihood, a nuclear response from the US and NATO.
Both India and China have announced to continue to buy oil from Iran with India pledging to pay in gold while the embargo stretches to Iran not being allowed to trade in Gold and Silver.
Israel has announced to give the US only a 24 hours in advance warning of an attack on Iran.
PressTV, the Iranian English new channel has been banned in England in an attempt to shut down news different from the BBC and other government mouth pieces
Right action, wrong rating agency. Standard & Poor is owned by the too big to fail banksters and would have been a much better choice!
The USS Europa Discorida story just gets more and more surreal.
ITALY PROSECUTORS WIDEN RATINGS AGENCY PROBE TO FITCH, UNDER INVESTIGATION FOR MARKET ABUSE, INSIDER TRADING – INVESTIGATIVE SOURCE
ITALY FINANCE POLICE SEARCHING FITCH OFFICE IN MILAN, ANSA SAYS
S&P maybe? Sure. But piss off the French rating agency? As if anyone even trades in collusion with the completely unmoving announcements by the most irrelevant of the NRSROs? This is just the definition of irrational Italian scapegoating which will do nothing to help Italy-French relations, but at least it will provide “justification” for Fitch’s evil downgrade when it comes – after all it was obviously in retaliation for the Italian police just doing its job. Finally, how long would an Egan-Jones office in Milan stand before it was burned to the ground: 1 week? 1 day? 1 hour?
WASHINGTON — A judge in Georgia has ordered President Barack Obama to appear in court this week in a lawsuit challenging whether he is a natural-born US citizen qualified to be president.
The latest case was spawned by the so-called “birther” movement that has made claims — which have not been substantiated — that Obama was born overseas.
Although it is unclear whether a court could force a sitting president to appear in a court case, Georgia Deputy Chief Judge Michael Malihi has denied a motion by the president’s lawyer to quash a subpoena that requires Obama to show up.
A Georgia resident made the complaint, which is intended to keep Obama’s name off the state’s ballot in the March presidential primary.
On the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, many commemorations were being held across the nation. While an official ceremony to show support for the war in Afghanistan was taking place on the deck of the retired USS Midway in San Diego, a group of 9/11 activists was set up across the way with an impressive 40-foot-long display of photos and information on what really happened that fateful day.
Air Force Lt. Col. David Gapp (Ret.) educates passersby about 9/11 Truth in the same uniform he wore in the latest ad from the Remember Building 7 campaign
This is no ordinary band of street activists. San Diegans for 9/11 Truth includes an impressive group of experts who give one Sunday per month to freely share their collective knowledge on the subject. On hand were Dwain Deets, former NASA Chief of Aerospace Projects Director; Ret. Air Force Lt. Col. David Gapp, former crash site investigator; Ted Muga, former Naval aviator, retired Commander and retired Pan Am pilot; Jerry Bischoff, retired architect; and Ginger Gainer, retired American Airlines flight attendant and purser. Members of Veterans for Peace also provided support – including Vietnam and Iraq War vets.
I’m sure the Gaddafi loyalists are not necessarily loyalists to the former despot but more likely to be of the same tribe as the Gaddafi family meaning tribes are now warring with each other as in civil war.
Fighters loyal to Muammar Gaddafi have seized control of the town of Bani Walid, a pro-Libyan government militia member has said.
“They control the town now. They are roaming the town,” the militia member, in Bani Walid, told Reuters news agency.
Fierce clashes in the town, located about 90 miles (140km) southeast of Tripoli and a former regime stronghold, broke out this morning.
A Bani Walid resident claimed the violence started when Gaddafi loyalists angry over the arrest of one of their men attacked revolutionary fighters in the town.
The fighting is said to have originally centred around the revolutionary brigade’s base, but then spread to other parts of the town.
Mahmoud al Warfali, a spokesman for the revolutionary brigade in Bani Walid, said up to 150 pro-Gaddafi fighters had battled revolutionary forces in the streets with rocket-propelled grenades and AK-47s.
Monsanto ‘There is no need for, or value in testing the safety of GM foods in humans’ Corporation has acquired the private mercenary company Blackwater (Xe) and if that doen’t scare the bejesus out of you you have not been paying attention!
No sooner had TEPCO announced that the Fukushima was in cold shut down or it had to admit that the fuel in the second reactor had disappeared meaning a cold shut down was impossible. In fact TEPCO had to admit the radiations levels are rising by some 20%.
Here are the observations of the owner of Washington’s blog who as usual makes an airtight case with the many, many links he supplies in order to allow you to verify for yourself.
And what does the global elite, who just love nuclear energy because you can put a meter on it and keep energy monopolised, do about this epic fail? Well raising the levels of what is acceptable seems to be the main action. I feel much saver now don’t you?
Some of you might be wondering if my life is dominated by the dreadful things I research and talk about on this blog so I decided to give you some links to things that are really important in my life and are the reasons why I keep doing this.
First of all there is my husband, family, my friends and much appreciated fellow awake travellers of course whom I shall leave in their much appreciated privacy but they really are the most important thing in my life.
Second here are some pictures of the Aurora Borealis due to the solar storm which hit Earth last night and which makes me in awe of even being alive.
This is something which has been escaping most people but those chickens in your backyard really are dinosaurs. Remember that when you eat one of them. Many of them had feathers equal to that of the modern bird (the velociraptor made infamous in the lost world series turns out to be a feathered creature not much bigger then the modern day turkey) and the genome of the T-rex dinosaur is so close to that of our modern day chickens you should be grateful history decided to erase the big boy out of existence. The sheer history of our chickens and other birds is another thing that makes me grateful to be alive.
And recently I have finally discovered an art form which turned out to be the most intriguing all consuming activity and which did not leave me bored to tears after a couple of weeks simply because I don’t think I will ever be able to master all I can do with it in my life time.
Love to you all and lets get back on track educating people about the realities of life in order to save our loved ones and our world and the things and activities that make us grateful for being alive.
Just in case you think the Mafiosi in Washington and Hollywood are going to stop trying to destroy the free internet.
SOPA and PIPA may have been put on hold — thanks to possibly the most contentious uproar seen on Capitol Hill and in the tech world ever — but other legislation was introduced this week to combat online piracy.
Rep. Darrell Issa (R-California) introduced H.R. 3782, the Online Protection and Enforcement of Digital Trade Act in the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday, the same day as an Internet protest when a number of high-profile websites such as Wikipedia went dark. Issa says the new billdelivers stronger intellectual property rights for American artists and innovators while protecting the openness of the Internet. Senator Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) has introduced the OPEN Act in the U.S. Senate.
OPEN would give oversight to the International Trade Commission (ITC) instead of the Justice Department, focuses on foreign-based websites, includes an appeals process, and would apply only to websites that “willfully” promote copyright violation. SOPA and PIPA, in contrast, would enable content owners to take down an entire website, even if just one page on it carried infringing content, and imposed sanctions after accusations — not requiring a conviction.
Will this justify the use of the FEMA camps and possibly an all out civil war in the US?
Ominous music plays as images appear on the screen: Muslim terrorists shoot Christians in the head, car bombs explode, executed children lie covered by sheets and a doctored photograph shows an Islamic flag flying over the White House.
“This is the true agenda of much of Islam in America,” a narrator intones. “A strategy to infiltrate and dominate America. … This is the war you don’t know about.”
This is the feature-length film titled “The Third Jihad,” paid for by a nonprofit group, which was shown to more than a thousand officers as part of training in the New York Police Department.
It’s a practice more closely associated with third world countries, but in bleak times in a Chicago-area suburb, 30 people were buried in a mass grave on Wednesday.
The pauper’s burial section at Homewood Memorial Gardens was established for those who could not afford to pay for a burial plot.
And it is a problem that’s sweeping America as tough economic times have led to an increase in the number of indigent burials the morgue must perform.
Mass burial: Workers fill a pauper’s grave at Homewood Memorial Gardens with remains from the Cook County, Illinois morgue
No mourners were present for the burial at the cemetery, which lies 25 miles south west of Chicago.
The gruesome discovery of the pauper’s burial section at Homewood was made last year, sparking a call for more strict federal regulations for cemeteries.
As I’ve pointed out since day one, the Japanese government and Tepco have covered up the extent of the radiation released by Fukushima and its health effects on the Japanese and others. See this and this.
The government inspectors declared Onami’s rice safe for consumption after testing just two of its 154 rice farms.
Then … more than a dozen [farmers] found unsafe levels of cesium. An ensuing panic forced the Japanese government to intervene, with promises to test more than 25,000 rice farms in eastern Fukushima Prefecture, where the plant is located.
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The repeated failures have done more than raise concerns that some Japanese may have been exposed to unsafe levels of radiation in their food, as regrettable as that is. They have also had a corrosive effect on public confidence in the food-monitoring efforts, with a growing segment of the public and even many experts coming to believe that officials have understated or even covered up the true extent of the public health risk in order to limit both the economic damage and the size of potential compensation payments.
Critics say … the government can no longer pull the wool over the public’s eyes, as they contend it has done routinely in the past.
“Since the accident, the government has tried to continue its business-as-usual approach of understating the severity of the accident and insisting that it knows best,” said Mitsuhiro Fukao, an economics professor at Keio University in Tokyo who has written about the loss of trust in government. “But the people are learning from the blogs, Twitter and Facebook that the government’s food-monitoring system is simply not credible.”
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“No one trusts the national government’s safety standards,” said Ichio Muto, 59, who farms organic mushrooms in Nihonmatsu, 25 miles northwest of the Fukushima Daiichi plant.
The government buried a worst-case scenario for the Fukushima nuclear crisis that was drafted last March and kept it under wraps until the end of last year, sources in the administration said Saturday.
When major shocks occur at the Earth’s surface or at depth, waves of different types, magnitudes and speeds may move out from the source location. Such waves can be detected by seismometers located at recording stations, and the data from the recordings can be analyzed to learn many details of the source events. Seismic signals were recorded at stations in New York and four neighboring states on September 11, 2001 during the period when the North and South Towers (WTC1 and WTC2, respectively) were struck by airliners and collapsed, as well as during the collapse of Building 7 of the WTC, which had not been hit by a plane.
Data from the Palisades, NY recording station, located 34 km north-north-east of Manhattan, published by the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University (LDEO), provide the most detailed seismic waveforms for analysis, particularly for the determination of the locations (aerial, surface, or subsurface) and timing of the events that created the seismic waves.
Seismologists have been puzzled in their analysis of signals recorded for the events at the World Trade Center, as the contradictions are significant. They are particularly intrigued by the presence of seismic “peaks” before the collapses. This text focuses on the study of the seismic signals from Palisades. The new interpretation presented here renders the assertions of the seismic analysis of the events at the WTC, presented by the government, null and void.
STUDY OF THE COMPOSITION OF THE DIFFERENT WAVEFORMS
Five waveforms will be analyzed below. They are attributed by the LDEO team to specific causes, as follows:
1. the signals that, according to LDEO, match the moment when the planes hit WTC1 and WTC2, respectively, shown in figures 1a and 1b;
2. the signals that match the collapses of WTC1 and WTC2, respectively, shown in figures 2a and 2b; and
3. the signal that shows the collapse of WTC7, shown in Figure 2c.
The analysis presented here will question LDEO’s identifications of the causes of the waveforms.
Determination of the Timing of the Signals’ Origins
In these five cases the origin of the signals was attributed, by the seismologists who published the data, to the impacts of the planes or the collapses of the buildings (Kim et al. 2001; Irvine, 2001; Hoffman, 2006). Normally in this type of study, the time of origin is known with great precision (to the millisecond), which is necessary in order to calculate the propagation speed of the different waves. Unfortunately, that precision is not possible for the events at the WTC. In this case, timing of the waves must be correlated as well as possible utilizing video evidence.
The video used in this study for the North Tower (WTC1) was from a recording made by CNN with a time stamp on the screen (Hoffman, 2006), and the results were compared with the method utilized by LDEO (Kim et al. 2001). LDEO’s method consisted of assigning an estimated speed of 2km/s for a Rayleigh wave (a type of surface seismic wave) that traversed several stations (see Figure 3) situated at various distances from the point of origin. The major inconveniences of this method are that the stations are not situated on a straight line and that the surface terrain, in which the surface waves move, varies and, therefore, the waves don’t have the same speed of propagation as they pass through different materials.
Every year, the State Department issues reports on individual rights in other countries, monitoring the passage of restrictive laws and regulations around the world. Iran, for example, has been criticized for denying fair public trials and limiting privacy, while Russia has been taken to task for undermining due process. Other countries have been condemned for the use of secret evidence and torture.
Even as we pass judgment on countries we consider unfree, Americans remain confident that any definition of a free nation must include their own — the land of free. Yet, the laws and practices of the land should shake that confidence. In the decade since Sept. 11, 2001, this country has comprehensively reduced civil liberties in the name of an expanded security state. The most recent example of this was the National Defense Authorization Act, signed Dec. 31, which allows for the indefinite detention of citizens. At what point does the reduction of individual rights in our country change how we define ourselves?
Yesterday it was announced that the US would send one of its oldest aircraft carriers to the strait of Hormuz. The USS Enterprise, the first nuclear aircraft carrier will arrive at its destination in order to send Iran a loud message or so we’re told.
But why this old ship and not one of the more dangerous new ones? Is it possible that we are looking at a the set up of another Gulf of Tonking false flag attack? And if so could it be Israel who will do the deed? Well, this is Avi Perry, a former intelligence expert for the Israeli government, who appears to be hinting how Israel plans to induce the United States into attacking Iran,
Iran, just like Nazi Germany in the 1940s, will take the initiative and “help” the US president and the American public make up their mind by making the first move, by attacking a US aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf.
The Iranian attack on an American military vessel will serve as a justification and a pretext for a retaliatory move by the US military against the Iranian regime. The target would not be Iran’s nuclear facilities. The US would retaliate by attacking Iran’s navy, their military installations, missile silos, airfields. The US would target Iran’s ability to retaliate, to close down the Strait of Hormuz. The US would then follow by targeting the regime itself.
And exhibited none of the characteristics of destruction by fire, i.e.
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Slow onset with large visible deformations
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Asymmetrical collapse which follows the path of least resistance (laws of conservation of momentum would cause a falling, intact, from the point of plane impact, to the side most damaged by the fires)
High-rise buildings with much larger, hotter, and longer lasting fires have never “collapsed”
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As bounty hunters with bush knives entrapped them in a circle and moved in for the kill, the only thing this mother orang-utan could think to do was to wrap a giant protective arm around her daughter.
Air Force Lt. Col. David Gapp (Ret.) educates passersby about 9/11 Truth in the same uniform he wore in the latest ad from the 
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