Friday, February 27, 2015

Lulzbot Mini is the 3D printer you've been waiting for: receives Editor's Choice award from Natural News

http://www.naturalnews.com/048779_Lulzbot_Mini_3D_printer_review_Editors_Choice_award.html

Bottom line? The Lulzbot Mini is the printer to beat

The 3D printing industry is moving at lightning speed, but as of right now, the Lulzbot Mini is hands down the best consumer-grade 3D printer available today, in my experience. If there's anything better out there, please let me know and I'll be happy to review it!

The Lulzbot Mini is also surprisingly affordable: $1350. That's about half the price of the Type A Machines Series 1 3D printer, which is my second-best recommended printer.

At $1350, the Lulzbot Mini is a true bargain. It has a heated print bed, the miraculous PEI print surface, the "automagic" bed leveling feature, a nozzle wipe feature that keeps the print nozzle clean, easily replaceable nozzle parts, high print temperature support and a host of other features.

The only drawback to the entire system is that it must be connected to a computer to be used. It can't operate as a standalone printer running on SD cards. This is a minor drawback, but the other features and benefits of the Mini more than make up for it. The print bed is also significantly smaller than most other 3D printers, but it's big enough to print everything I'm inventing, so that's no drawback to me.

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/048779_Lulzbot_Mini_3D_printer_review_Editors_Choice_award.html#ixzz3Sxvg7hif

Thursday, February 26, 2015

Paul Craig Roberts: The Neoconservative Threat To International Relations

http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2015/02/26/neoconservative-threat-world-order-paul-craig-roberts/

Ukraine Prepares for an Attack Against Russia

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2015/02/ukraine-prepares-attack-russia.html

ABBOT AND COSTELLO DISCUSS UNEMPLOYMENT

Believe it or not, this gives you one of the best explanations of the current unemployment stats

COSTELLO: I want to talk about the unemployment rate in America .
ABBOTT: Good Subject. Terrible Times. It’s 7.8%.
COSTELLO: That many people are out of work?
ABBOTT: No, that’s 14.7%.
COSTELLO: You just said 7.8%.
ABBOTT: 7.8% Unemployed.
COSTELLO: Right 7.8% out of work.
ABBOTT: No, that’s 14.7%.
COSTELLO: Okay, so it’s 14.7% unemployed.
ABBOTT: No, that’s 7.8%.
COSTELLO: WAIT A MINUTE. Is it 7.8% or 14.7%?
ABBOTT: 7.8% are unemployed. 14.7% are out of work.
COSTELLO: If you are out of work you are unemployed.
ABBOTT: No, Congress said you can’t count the "Out of Work" as the unemployed. You have to look for work to be unemployed.
COSTELLO: BUT THEY ARE OUT OF WORK!!!
ABBOTT: No, you miss his point.
COSTELLO: What point?
ABBOTT: Someone who doesn’t look for work can’t be counted with those who look for work. It wouldn’t be fair.
COSTELLO: To whom?
ABBOTT: The unemployed.
COSTELLO: But ALL of them are out of work.
ABBOTT: No, the unemployed are actively looking for work. Those who are out of work gave up looking and if you give up, you are no longer in the ranks of the unemployed.
COSTELLO: So if you’re off the unemployment roles that would count as less unemployment?
ABBOTT: Unemployment would go down. Absolutely!
COSTELLO: The unemployment just goes down because you don’t look for work?
ABBOTT: Absolutely it goes down. That’s how it gets to 7.8%. Otherwise it would be 14.7%.
COSTELLO: Wait, I got a question for you. That means there are two ways to bring down the unemployment number?
ABBOTT: Two ways is correct.
COSTELLO: Unemployment can go down if someone gets a job?
ABBOTT: Correct.
COSTELLO: And unemployment can also go down if you stop looking for a job?
ABBOTT: Bingo.
COSTELLO: So there are two ways to bring unemployment down, and the easier of the two is to have people stop looking for work.
ABBOTT: Now you’re thinking like an Economist.
COSTELLO: I don’t even know what the hell I just said!
ABBOTT: Now you’re thinking like a Politician.

Russia Launches Own 'SWIFT' Service, Links Up 91 Credit Institutions

http://sputniknews.com/business/20150213/1018240631.html

The new service, will allow Russian banks to communicate seamlessly through the Central Bank of Russia. It should be noted that Russia's Central Bank initiated the development of the country's own messaging system in response to repeated threats voiced by Moscow's Western partners to disconnect Russia from SWIFT.

Read more: http://sputniknews.com/business/20150213/1018240631.html#ixzz3Suit6MWu

How to make your own Food Rising Mini-Farm Grow Box - Part 1

http://foodrising.org/How-to-Make-Your-Own-Food-Rising-Mini-Farm-Grow-Box-Part-1.html

Police Get New Handcuffs That Will Shock and Drug The Restrained

http://topinfopost.com/2015/02/23/new-police-handcuff-2015

The Disclosure Project

http://disclosureproject.org/

The Disclosure Project is a research project working to fully disclose the facts about UFOs, extraterrestrial intelligence, and classified advanced energy and propulsion systems. We have over 500 government, military, and intelligence community witnesses testifying to their direct, personal, first hand experience with UFOs, ETs, ET technology, and the cover-up that keeps this information secret.

Q&A The 2001 Disclosure Briefings

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEXT_s-dLL8

http://disclosureproject.org/

The Fed Is Blow-Torching The Economy With QE

http://investmentresearchdynamics.com/the-fed-is-blow-torching-the-economy-with-qe/

The Federal Reserve exists for the sole purpose of enriching big banks…The Fed does whatever it takes to keep a yacht filled of failed executives and their friends unimaginably rich. If this requires an economy of 300 million people to be blow-torched, then a blow-torching is what that economy will get. – John Titus, “Bailout Films” and “Best Evidence”

My good friend and colleague has written, narrated and produced a short video showing – with data directly obtained from the Fed’s own website to support his analysis – that there is almost a 100% inverse correlation between QE and the Labor Force Participation Rate. I was stunned when he showed the evidence.

The only purpose QE has served is to keep the big banks solvent and to fund the massive pay packages paid to big bank executives. Please watch this video closely and pass it along to everyone you know – it is truly extraordinary:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfTfsWhZi5E

Karl Denninger: Net Neutrality Vote In The FCC: You Lose America

http://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?singlepost=3374419

The Grand Illusion

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article41109.htm

The truth is that the risk of an American being killed by terrorism is close to zero, having been calculated at 1:20,000,000

In the years since 9/11, American police alone have killed at least twice as many Americans as died in that single large event, the annual toll of police killings being somewhere between 500 and 1,000, the variation owing to many such events going inaccurately reported by police.

Each year, somewhere between 30 and 40 thousand Americans are killed in automobiles, the level having declined in recent years. Each year about 15,000 Americans are murdered, down from about 25,000 not too many years ago. Each year about 100,000 Americans are killed by medical malpractice. About 40,000 Americans commit suicide annually. These are just a few causes of death in America, not the largest ones but some of the more interesting.

Ready for Nuclear War over Ukraine?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article41105.htm

Wednesday, February 25, 2015

Will 'Mistress Europe' Show the American the Door?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article41062.htm

MARTIN ARMSTRONG'S LATEST BLOG POSTS

Australia Proposes to Fine Foreigners for Investing in their Country

Posted on February 25, 2015 by Martin Armstrong

Of all the brain-dead solutions to international capital flows I have ever heard, this one coming from Tony Abbott in Australia tops the cake. He refuses to review the negative-gearing that is a socialist’s dream in home buying, but he wants toimpose fines and civil penalties on foreigners buying property in Australia. Good on Ya! Why don’t to end all travel, ground Qantas airlines, while you are at it, just do what the Chinese did – simply kill the foreigners as they did in the Boxer Rebellion for similar reasons.

We really are plagued with dumb and dumber running the entire world. These people are pretending to be world leaders when they could never leave because they are incapable of finding a door. I had pondered retiring to Australia. Obviously that is off the list.

Julius Caesar & Debt Crisis – Negative Interest Rates?

Posted on February 25, 2015 by Martin Armstrong

The Debt Crisis of 49BC that set off a Civil War I have written about in detail. Much of what the public was led to believe centered around politics and Cicero casting Julius Caesar as a power-hungry dictator. Anything but that image was correct. Cicero was on the wrong side and I collected all the contemporary writers to demonstrate it was all about debt once again. The people cheered Caesar as he crossed the Rubicon and the Oligarchy (Senators) fled Rome to Asia. Now if Caesar was the bad guy, why did they flee and people cheer Caesar? Strange that they would even name the Cato Institute after one of the most notorious anti-Republican/Democratic corrupt politicians of all time – thanks to propaganda.

Caesar was the only person in history to solve a debt crisis amicably. He forgave all interest and required whatever interest had been paid must be applied to the principle loan. He then also appointed a board who reappraised the value of the property to when the loan was given. So none of this stuff where you borrowed $500,000 for a house, it collapses to $200,000, and then the lender demands you pay the full $500,000 plus interest. Caesar realized that the value of money fluctuated – a brilliant observation. The purchasing power has risen and fallen with the economy even when money was gold and silver coins. The gold promoters have misled people to think that all our trouble is tied to paper money. Sorry, money rises and falls for it has historically been on the opposite side of wages and assets from the beginning of time.

In the subsequent Debt Crisis of 33AD under the Emperor Tiberius, he too relied upon the solution of Julius Caesar. He suspended all interest payments for 3 years. He engaged in quantitative easing for there was a banking collapse, crazy laws that tried to stimulate the Italian economy, which totally backfired, and no choice but to increase the money supply as deflation swept the Empire.

So when it comes to financial crisis, we NEVER seem to ask today has anyone ever tried this or that and we never ask the question – Did it work? We never learn from history and it seem the majority find it boring assuming they just know better so why bother. Those of us who do see patterns within history, are condemned to what others repeat it time and again.

Julius Caesar Spirit Is Alive in Croatia?

Posted on February 25, 2015 by Martin Armstrong

Croatia is introducing a more direct stimulus plan. They will cancel the debts of the poor up to May 2015 if they do not exceed 4,550 euros and their monthly income does not exceed 325 euros. All claims for debt relief will be restricted to citizens who have no properties or other assets and their bank account is locked for a year because of the debt. This is at least more direct than handing billions to bankers who do not lend it out anyway. A little thinking out of the box.

Kick-The-Can Has Morphed Into A Blatant Farce

http://davidstockmanscontracorner.com/kick-the-can-has-morphed-into-a-blatant-farce/

Kick-the-can has morphed into a blatant farce. Everywhere in the world central banks and financial officialdom are engaging in desperate, juvenile maneuvers to buy time—–amounting to hardly a few weeks at a go. Never before has the debt-saturated, speculation-ridden global casino rested upon such a precarious foundation.

Alan Greenspan Warns: There Will Be a “Significant Market Event... Something Big Is Going To Happen”

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-02-22/alan-greenspan-warns-there-will-be-%E2%80%9Csignificant-market-event-something-big-going-hap

The man who is essentially the architect responsible for domestic monetary policy under four U.S. Presidents has now said that a significant market event will take place when the Fed is eventually forced to exit their monetary easing and zero-interest rate policies.

Are you prepared for that day?

Tuesday, February 24, 2015

17,000 Federal Employees Earned More Than $200K Last Year

http://www.nationaljournal.com/budget/17-000-federal-employees-earned-more-than-200k-last-year-20150224

As Republicans Concede, F.C.C. Is Expected to Enforce Net Neutrality

BREAKING NEWS

Tuesday, February 24, 2015 5:40 PM EST

As Republicans Concede, F.C.C. Is Expected to Enforce Net Neutrality

Last April, a dozen New York-based Internet companies gathered in the Flatiron Building boardroom of the social media website Tumblr to hear dire warnings that broadband providers were about to get the right to charge for the fastest speeds on the web.

The implication: If they didn’t pay up, they would be stuck in the slow lane.

What followed has been the longest, most sustained campaign of Internet activism in history, one that the little guys appear to have won. On Thursday, the Federal Communications Commission is expected to vote to regulate the Internet as a public good. On Tuesday, Senator John Thune, Republican of South Dakota and chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, all but surrendered on efforts to overturn the coming ruling, conceding Democrats are lining up with President Obama in favor of the F.C.C.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/25/technology/path-clears-for-net-neutrality-ahead-of-fcc-vote.html?emc=edit_na_20150224

MARTIN ARMSTRONG'S LATEST BLOG POSTS

Site is Being Moved Today

Posted on February 24, 2015 by Martin Armstrong

We have had a dramatic increase in traffic so much so the hosting company said we were bringing down their entire system. we are moving the site today to a scale-able server. We now how a huge readership in Russia that has suddenly surpassed even Europe as a whole and Asia is growing in leaps & bounds. So it is time to spread our wings to be able to handle all the traffic coming in globally.

So today, there will be no updates while we move. Thank you all for your patronage. What lies ahead we will make it through.

PUTIN’S RUSSIA: NEMESIS OF THE ANGLO-AMERICAN AXIS

http://www.storyleak.com/putins-russia-nemesis-of-the-anglo-american-axis/

Paul Craig Roberts: Washington Has Resurrected The Threat Of Nuclear War

http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2015/02/24/washington-resurrected-threat-nuclear-war-paul-craig-roberts/

Study: Fluoride Can Harm the Thyroid … Leading to Depression, Fatigue and Weight Gain

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2015/02/study-fluoride-can-harm-thyroid-leading-depression-fatigue-weight-gain.html

Anti-homeless spikes: ‘Sleeping rough opened my eyes to the city’s barbed cruelty’

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/feb/18/defensive-architecture-keeps-poverty-undeen-and-makes-us-more-hostile?CMP=ema_565

YOU THINK GOVERNMENT OR CORPORATIONS GIVE A DAMN ABOUT ANY OF US?

THIS IS WHAT THEY THINK OF THE HOMELESS.

Health Ranger unveils Food Rising grow system at Health Freedom Expo in Naples, FL, Feb. 21 2015

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mrKexPh1nM&feature=youtu.be

Monday, February 23, 2015

West Guilty Of Ukraine War Crimes

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article41066.htm

Justice Department Investigating Ten Big Banks For Precious Metals Rigging?

http://investmentresearchdynamics.com/justice-department-investigating-ten-big-banks-for-precious-metals-rigging/

...let’s face it. This is just another episode of the U.S. Government’s Kabuki Theatre version of “let’s show the public we’re cracking down on the illegal activities of the big bad banks.” I can guarantee everyone reading this that, at best, the Justice Department will issue some small wrist-slapping sized fines and pat the banks on the butt and send them on their way. This is just wash, rinse and repeat of the “crackdown” on mortgage and foreclosure fraud.

How come the Justice Department and the CFTC are not investigating the obvious illegal price rigging activities going on their own backyard at the Comex? I’ll tell you why. Because every single legal professional at the Justice Department and the CFTC have either worked in the in-house legal teams at every Too Big To Fail Bank OR want to work on the legal teams at those banks.

You think I’m exaggerating? Watch this: How Eric Holder Turned “Justice” Into a Wall Street Criminal Protection Racket.