Friday, March 28, 2014

Chris Hedges: Recalled to Life

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/recalled_to_life_20140323

The poor in America usually get only one chance. Then it is over.

David Stockman: The War Party At Work In Syria: Another Nation Destroyed, More Blood On America’s Hands

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article38050.htm

Another Middle East nation has been destroyed because the “opposition” was provoked, supplied, trained, armed and financed by the West and the Persian Gulf sheiks.

...the “civil war” is not about better government for the Syria’s suffering population because it is no longer a civil war at all—if it ever was.
Its a proxy war–pure and simple. The aim yet again is ”regime change”, and not because the Assad’s are so bad; its because in the imaginations and propaganda of the neo-con War Party, the rulers of Iran are so evil. The real purpose of the US-Saudi sponsored civil war is to eliminate the Syrian link in Iran’s alleged arc of influence thru the Levant and Hezbollah.

Paul Craig Roberts: Three Who Made A War

http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2014/03/23/2nd-attempt-three-made-war-paul-craig-roberts/

Economic Weakness Creates Military Weakness

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-03-27/guest-post-economic-weakness-creates-military-weakness

It has happened over and over again throughout history.  Nations, empires, and dynasties have made bad economic decisions which lead to their own destruction.  The scenario usually goes something like this--one generation sacrifices and works hard to overcome global challenges and creates an economic powerhouse, which in turn allows it to project military power.  Follow on generations take their elders work for granted and ignore and even denigrate the fruits of hard labor, they just want the benefits and start giving away the spoils for free.  The next generation indulges itself in sloth and corruption and is overrun by the barbarians.

Unprecedented Surge In Chinese Applicants Willing To Buy US Green Cards

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-03-27/unprecedented-surge-chinese-applicants-willing-buy-us-green-cards

few weeks ago, Canadian authorities decide to scrap its controversial 'investor' visa scheme (which had allowed waves of rich Hong Kongers and Mainland Chinese to immigrate and blow the real estate bubble ever bigger). This was met with hollers of derision from the Chinese demanding retribution. What was less well known, until now, is the massive surge in interest from wealthy Chinese in a US program offering 'investors' green cards in exchange for cash. "There is a panic being created in China," warned one immigration lawyer, withChinese nationals now accounting for more than 80% of visas issued, compared to just 13% a decade ago. It seems the Chinese are in a hurry to get their money out.

Thursday, March 27, 2014

MARTIN ARMSTRONG'S LATEST BLOG POST

Obama & Lagarde – Destroying the World Economy- A Lethal Combination

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Christine Lagarde is a french lawyer who became chairman of the Chicago firm Baker & McKenzie. Obama endorsed Lagarde ahead of the vote claiming a woman would be proper after  Dominique Strauss-Kahn, had to resign after being charged with attempted rape in New York. However, the maid was found to be anything but credible and there is a dark cloud that hangs over this entire ordeal.  Strauss-Kahn was against some of the corruption he saw and to get Lagarde in that position made it perfect to turn Strauss-Kahn into an alleged rapist. Very curious.
Lagarde has been a notorious French socialist to say the least. In an interview with The Guardian in May 2012, Lagarde was asked about economic crisis in Greece. Her response gave a deep glimpse into how the French elite view people with any money and her endorsement by Obama is no coincidence.
“Do you know what? As far as Athens is concerned, I also think about all those people who are trying to escape tax all the time. All these people in Greece who are trying to escape tax.”
Even more than you think about all those now struggling to survive without jobs or public services? “I think of them equally. And I think they should also help themselves collectively.”
How? “By all paying their tax. Yeah.”
It sounds as if you essentially are saying to the Greeks and others in Europe, you’ve had a nice time and now it’s payback time. “That’s right.” She nods calmly.“Yeah.”
Obama is of the same mindset and views anyone who even tries to hide money as a criminal. Sources have been warning all along that Obama would like to see the tax rate restored to where it was before Reagan – 70%. With the new technology to track money and with Lagarde, the two have been pushing to try to shut down every possible avenue to store wealth they cannot get their hands on.
Lagarde and Obama are actually pushing the rest of the G20 into destroying the world economy. They think they actually have a right to whatever you earn and it is their decision how that should be spent and they should decide what you “need” to sustain life. This is a very serious issue for these two are responsible for the inability of the world to recover and this is why the emerging markets have declined so sharply because these people are wiping out the ability to expand investment globally for anyone who has money outside their reach is assumed to be criminal,
The failure of government and their inability to pay pensions will be blamed on anyone who has money, which is the real definition of the “rich”. If you earn any income, it belongs to them to decide what to do with it. They tell themselves that their intentions justify their actions, but they are still violating the Ten Commandments by coveting their neighbor’s goods.

Zuckerberg and Musk back software startup that mimics human learning

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/mar/21/zuckerberg-invest-startup-brain-software-vicarious

San Francisco startup Vicarious aims to create 'a computer that thinks like a person except it doesn't need to eat or sleep'

​Facebook plans to spread web access with ‘drones, satellites and lasers’

http://endthelie.com/2014/03/27/%E2%80%8Bfacebook-plans-to-spread-web-access-with-drones-satellites-and-lasers/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+EndTheLie+%28End+the+Lie%29

General Assembly Condemns Russian Annexation of Crimea

BREAKING NEWSThursday, March 27, 2014 12:13 PM EDT
General Assembly Condemns Russian Annexation of Crimea
In the first barometer of global condemnation of Russia’s annexation of Crimea, Ukraine and its Western backers persuaded a large majority of countries in the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday to dismiss the annexation as illegal, even as Russia sought to rally world support for the idea of self-determination.
The resolution — which garnered 100 votes in favor, 11 votes against, with 58 abstentions — represented the latest effort to isolate President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia over the annexation.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/28/world/europe/General-Assembly-Vote-on-Crimea.html?emc=edit_na_20140327

Paul Craig Roberts: How Much War Does Washington Want?

http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2014/03/26/much-war-washington-want-paul-craig-roberts/

“America does not at the moment have a functioning democracy.”
Former US President Jimmy Carter

Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Your Job Taught to Machines Puts Half U.S. Work at Risk

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-03-12/your-job-taught-to-machines-puts-half-u-s-work-at-risk.html

When robots take our jobs, humans will be the new 1%. Here's how to fight back

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/mar/22/robot-jobs-humans-used-to-do-fight-back?CMP=ema_565

From assembly lines to highways, the workforce is becoming more autonomous. Good thing we're still smarter than machines

An online Magna Carta: Berners-Lee calls for bill of rights for web

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/mar/12/online-magna-carta-berners-lee-web

Exclusive: web's inventor warns neutrality under sustained attack from governments and corporations

The NSA is burning down the web, but what if we rebuilt a spy-proof internet?

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/mar/24/david-byrne-nsa-rebuild-secure-internet?CMP=ema_565

To realize what we've given away, imagine going totally offline. Better yet, believe in what a truly secure online life might look like

Tuesday, March 25, 2014

Deutsche Bank-er Explains Why He Committed Suicide

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-03-25/deutsche-bank-er-explains-why-he-committed-suicide

The dismal list of financial executive deaths has recently increased to 11 in the last few months. Speculation has surrounded many of these deaths (and suicides) as to the reasoning; none more than the first - William Broeksmit, an executive who worked in Deutsche Bank's risk function and advised senior leadership who hanged himself in his South Kensington home in late January. However, as the WSJ reports, we now know why this poor man felt compelled to take his own life: he was "anxious about various authorities investigating areas of the bank where he worked" (and yes, we are well aware of the grammatical and temporal impossibilities suggested by this article's title).

A List Of 97 Taxes Americans Pay Every Year

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-03-25/list-97-taxes-americans-pay-every-year

If you are like most Americans, paying taxes is one of your pet peeves.  The deadline to file your federal taxes is coming up, and this year Americans will spend more than 7 billion hours preparing their taxes. When the federal income tax was originally introduced a little more than 100 years ago, most Americans were taxed at a rate of only 1 percent. But once they get their feet in the door, the social planners always want more. Since that time, tax rates have gone much higher and the tax code has exploded in size. Why do we have to have the most convoluted tax system in the history of the planet?

GLENN GREENWALD: Obama’s New NSA Proposal and Democratic Partisan Hackery

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/03/25/obamas-new-nsa-proposal-democratic-partisan-hackery/

Paul Craig Roberts: Ukraine: Stefan Molyneux Interviews PCR

http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2014/03/25/ukraine-stefan-molyneux-interviews-pcr/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrDMRe5850w

Monday, March 24, 2014

Ukrainians on the verge of a nervous breakdown

http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2014/03/ukrainians-on-verge-of-nervous-breakdown.html

In this intercepted phone call Yulia Tymoshenko, a likely Ukrainian presidential candidate (but there will be no elections*) talks about using nuclear weapons on the eight million Russian citizens who live in Ukraine. Good thing these "Ukrainians" don't have any nuclear weapons, but they do have plentiful baseball bats and AK47s looted from armories in the west of the country.

Obama to Propose Ending N.S.A.’s Bulk Collection of Phone Records

BREAKING NEWSMonday, March 24, 2014 9:15 PM EDT
Obama to Propose Ending N.S.A.’s Bulk Collection of Phone Records
Under President Obama’s proposal to Congress, data about Americans’ calling habits would be kept in the hands of phone companies, according to senior administration officials. The changes would end the most controversial part of the bulk phone records program, a major focus of privacy concerns since its existence was leaked last year.
Under the plan the administration is now advocating, the officials said, the government would no longer systematically collect and store records of calling data. Instead, it would obtain individual orders from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to obtain only records linked to phone numbers a judge agrees are likely tied to terrorism.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/25/us/obama-to-seek-nsa-curb-on-call-data.html?emc=edit_na_20140324

MARTIN ARMSTRONG'S LATEST BLOG POSTS

World Economic Conference XXV Starts Tomorrow

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The seating for 300 at the Cycles of War Conference sold out and additional hundreds viewed it around the world live. The video streaming appears to work well – it was our first attempt at a worldwide broadcast. The feed seems to work for people in China, Russia, South Africa, Brazil, India, and the Middle East in addition to Europe and North America.
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We have attendees from every continent and will be covering the world. We provided a live demo of our systems where you will be able to talk to the website and it will show you charts, reversals, do technical analysis for you, and show you the arrays. It will answer questions and you will be able to input your portfolio and have it watched.

The Real Conspiracy – The IMF Tax Agenda

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While people keep yelling about banks and secret societies, there is a real conspiracy going on that they cannot see right before their eyes. The culprit is not these private groups, but government. Obama is on board fully with the IMF agenda to raise taxes substantially French style. The IMF has been behind the scenes going to every former tax shelter and threatening them to turn over data. They have hit the Caribbean islands right down to Panama. Obama has laced the Ukrainian aid with the IMF Poison Pill. The IMF wants a shit load of money to tear apart the global economy in search of unpaid taxes. The Obama Administration has conspired with the IMF behind closed doors and entirely out of the Congress to pursue this secret agenda. They are on the path to destroy Western Civilization as we know it. This is no joke.

Cycle of War Conference Moved to Marriott Hotel


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The Cycles of War Conference has been moved to the Marriott Hotel on Market
5th Floor Street 1201 Market St, Philadelphia, PA 19107 (215) 625-2900Cycles of War
This Friday – March 21st – 1-5 PM EST
This will be Available for Delayed Viewing for 2 weeks
Because of the overwhelming number of people who would like to attend but the travel is too extensive, we are trying for the first time a live stream broadcast globally. This will be available also on a delayed based after the event. This is more expensive than just renting a hall. The price will be $350.00. You may now log in and purchase the event. Go to the Account Page, click Upgrade, Select Cycles of War Live Stream that will then take you to PayPal, after which you will have access to the video live stream.
To avoid everyone coming in at one time, please sign up now.

Obama and Allies Agree to Exclude Russia From Group of 8

BREAKING NEWSMonday, March 24, 2014 4:08 PM EDT
Obama and Allies Agree to Exclude Russia From Group of 8
President Obama and the leaders of the biggest Western economies agreed on Monday to exclude President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia from the Group of 8, suspending his government’s 15-year participation in the diplomatic forum and further isolating his country.
In a joint statement after a two-hour, closed-door meeting of the four largest economies in Europe, along with Japan and Canada, the leaders of the seven nations announced that a summit meeting planned for Sochi, Russia, in June will now be held in Brussels — without Russia’s participation.
“This group came together because of shared beliefs and shared responsibilities. Russia’s actions in recent weeks are not consistent with them,” the statement said. “Under these circumstances, we will not participate in the planned Sochi Summit. We will suspend our participation in the G-8 until Russia changes course.”

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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/25/world/europe/obama-russia-crimea.html?emc=edit_na_20140324

Ukraine Leader In New Leaked Recording: 8 Million Russians In Ukraine "Must Be Killed With Nuclear Weapons"

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-03-24/ukraine-leader-new-leaked-recording-8-million-russians-ukraine-must-be-killed-nuclea

After a month ago a leaked phone call between US assistant secretary of state Victoria Nuland and the US envoy to the Ukraine, Geoffrey Pyatt confirmed that it was the US that was pulling the strings in what was about to be a violent coup overthrowing Ukraine's president Yanukovich, "someone" has just leaked another phone conversation, this time between parliamentarian Nestor Shufrych and former PM and ideological leader of the Ukraine "revolution" Yulia Tymoshenko and most probable future president of West Ukraine, in which Tymoshenko makes several new threats but the the smoking gun, and where Putin once again shows just how masterful of a chess player he is, is the following statement by Tymoshenko, after asked, rhetorically, by her counterparty, "what should we do now with the 8 million Russians that stayed in Ukraine. They are outcasts"... to which she replies: "They must be killed with nuclear weapons." And just like that Putin has his provocation carte blanche - because the second something, anything happens to any ethnic Russian in east Ukraine, Putin can point to precisely this conversation as proof of how Ukraine's "government" feel toward the ethnic minorities in the east, and why "they deserve to be protected." Which has been precisely Putin's ploy all along.

THE SURVEILLANCE SOCIETY


Sunday, March 23, 2014

The Corporation State


Obey: The Routine Of Obedience

Video Documentary

"We're an animal of habit, we live, fight and ultimately die for our habits."

This is a film based on the book "Death of the Liberal Class" by journalist and Pulitzer prize winner, Chris Hedges.

It charts the rise of the Corporate State, and examines the future of obedience in a world of unfettered capitalism, globalisation, staggering inequality and environmental change.

The film predominantly focuses on US corporate capitalism, but it is my hope that the viewer can recognise the relevance of what is being expressed with regards to domestic political and corporate activity.

It was made completely of clips found on the web.
Posted February 21, 2013


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hH6UynI5m7Y

Meet Global Corruption's Hidden Players

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article38040.htm

When the son of the president of a desperately poor country starts buying mansions and sportscars on an official monthly salary of $7,000, Charmian Gooch suggests, corruption is probably somewhere in the picture. In a blistering, eye-opening talk (and through several specific examples), she details how global corruption trackers follow the money — to some surprisingly familiar faces.

Global Witness co-founder Charmian Gooch is the 2014 TED Prize winner. At her NGO she exposes how a global architecture of corruption is woven into the extraction and exploitation of natural resources.
Posted March 23, 2014


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nhx1_yXMwCg

Chris Hedges: “This House Would Call Edward Snowden A Hero.”

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article38036.htm

Video and Transcript - Oxford Union Debate 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYykQTZ55zg

SEVERAL MORE VIDEOS ARE UNDER THIS ARTICLE USING THE LINK UNDER THE TITLE OF THIS POST AND ANOTHER CHRIS HEDGES ARTICLE APPEARS LOWER ON THE PAGE.

GLENN GREENWALD: Some Facts About How NSA Stories Are Reported

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/03/23/facts-nsa-stories-reported/

Saturday, March 22, 2014

Jacob G. Hornberger: TREATING PEOPLE LIKE GARBAGE

http://fff.org/2014/03/20/treating-people-like-garbage/

It's time for the American people to lead the world in the right direction, in a moral direction. It's time to stop treating people like garbage. It's time to dismantle the U.S. Empire.

Friday, March 21, 2014

NASA Study: "Collapse Is Very Difficult To Avoid"

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-03-20/nasa-study-collapse-very-difficult-avoid

As any long-time reader of this column knows, we routinely draw from historical lessons to highlight that this time is not different. History is full of examples, from ancient Mesopotamia to the Soviet Union, which show that whenever societies reach unsustainable levels of resource consumption and allocation, they collapse. We’ve been writing about this for years, and the idea is now hitting mainstream. A recent research paper funded by NASA highlights this same premise. According to the authors: "Collapses of even advanced civilizations have occurred many times in the past five thousand years, and they were frequently followed by centuries of population and cultural decline and economic regression." The results of their experiments show that some of the very clear trends which exist today– unsustainable resource consumption, and economic stratification that favors the elite – can very easily result in collapse.

Take These Steps Today To Survive An International Crisis

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-03-20/guest-post-take-these-steps-today-survive-international-crisis

With the Crimea referendum passed and Russia ready to annex the region, the United States and the European Union have threatened sanctions. The full extent of these sanctions is not yet known, and announcements are pending for the end of March. If these measures are concrete, they will of course befollowed inevitably by economic warfare, including a reduction of natural gas exports to the EU and the eventually full dump of the U.S. dollar by Russia and China. As I have discussed in recent articles, the resultof these actions will be disastrous. For those of us in the liberty movement, it is now impossible to ignore the potential threat to our economy. No longer can people claim that “perhaps” there will be a crisis someday, that perhaps “five or 10 years” down the road we will have to face the music. No, the threat is here now, and it is very real.