From time immemorial, royalty, priest classes and other self-appointed
elites have used any means necessary to dominate the population and keep
it divided amongst itself. Alex Jones uses the games of chess, risk and
monopoly to explain the classic modes of control used by rulers,
representing classic warfare between two factions, world warfare with a
complex conflict, and, of course, economic warfare.
12 Aug 2012
Syria, Michele Obama & Mars - Afshin Rattansi
A look at the London 2012 Olympic Games as it comes to an end. We
investigate the impact of nuclear weapons on sheeps. We also talk to
Ammar Waqqaf, member of the Syrian Social Club in UK, about what is
really going on in Syria. These and much more are all reviewed in this
edition of Double Standards with Afshin Rattansi. Source
Apartheid: Israeli prisons increase repression during Ramadan - Remember Palestine
Prisoner Hatem Qafisha, an administrative detainee, said the prison's
administration started to handcuff the prisoners' hands and legs during
meetings with the lawyers, and when using bathrooms. Qashafa also said
that the prisoners suffer from these brutal procedures besides the hard
living conditions due to the hot weather
Obama's slumdog brother: Meet the hopeless drunk from a Nairobi shanty town who is the U.S. President's BROTHER
- Whilst the President inhabits the luxurious surroundings of the Oval Office and flies aboard Air Force One, his half-brother George Obama lives in a notorious African slum
- George Obama has battled addictions to drink and drugs for most of his life at the same time as his relative has enjoyed a meteoric rise to power
- The 30-year-old, who was once hooked on cocaine, says that his surname is frequently a burden to him
By
Andrew Malone: As a tall, strangely familiar figure
leaves his one-room shack in a notorious African slum this week, a few
people jokingly call out to him: ‘Mister President! Mister President!’
Heading
for breakfast through his junk-strewn yard, stepping over streams of
sewage, the appearance of this slim, angular man prompts giggles and
pointing from children in rags playing in the muck.
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George Hussein Obama, the half-brother of the most famous man in the world, pictured in the Nairobi slum he calls home
Farmers abandon fields larger than Belgium and Luxembourg, food prices set to surge due to drought
By Madison Ruppert: The
worst drought in the United States in a half a century has led to the
destruction of roughly one-sixth of the expected corn crop in America
over the past month and will likely lead to a significant rise in the
price of corn in the very near future.
To make matters even worse, much of the corn crop in the United States is genetically modified and thus susceptible to so-called “superbugs” and is the same strain which has been banned in multiple countries in the European Union.
This July has been the hottest in American history
and has caused major damage to the corn crops throughout the United
States making some farmers actually entirely abandon fields greater in
size than the nations of Belgium and Luxembourg.
Obviously such a major reduction in the corn supply will certainly
lead to a rise in the price of corn, it is simple economics.
Unfortunately it doesn’t look like such a surge would diminish any time
soon.
Even more unfortunate is the fact that corn is not the only commodity
which will be negatively impacted by this drought and heat wave.
The Solution... Is the Problem - Eric Sprott
When we wrote Part I
of this paper in June 2009, the total U.S. public debt was just north
of $10 trillion. Since then, that figure has increased by more than 50%
to almost $16 trillion, thanks largely to unprecedented levels of
government intervention.
Once the exclusive domain of central bankers and policy makers,
acronyms such as QE, LTRO, SMP, TWIST, TARP, TALF have found their way
into the mainstream. With the aim of providing stimulus to the economy,
central planners of all stripes have both increased spending and reduced
taxes in most rich countries. But do these fiscal and monetary measures
really increase economic activity or do they have other perverse
effects?
In today’s overleveraged world, greater deficits and government
spending, financed by an expansion of public debt and the monetary base
(“the printing press”), are not the answer to our economic woes. In
fact, these policies have been proven to have a negative impact on
growth.
Bankrupt cities in America with Mish Shedlock and Max Keiser
Max interviews Mish Shedlock from MISH'S Global Economic Trend Analysis.
He talks about the bankruptcy of many municipalities across America and
the role of banking fraud in that. Mike "Mish" Shedlock is an
investment advisor at Sitka Pacific Capital. He writes the widely read
Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis. Source
U.S Banks Told To Prepare For Total Collapse!
Controlling the web
In January 2012, two controversial pieces of legislation were making
their way through the US Congress. SOPA, the Stop Online Piracy Act, and
PIPA, the Protect Intellectual Property Act, were meant to crack down
on the illegal sharing of digital media. The bills were drafted on
request of the content industry, Hollywood studios and major record
labels.