Submitted by Tyler Durden: That Greek suicide rates have exploded over
the past two years is very much expected: after all, in order to
preserve the sanctity of the failed monetary status quo, the Greek
economy and its less than prosperous population have been sacrificed by
the legacy elite and the wealthy. The socio-economic collapse has
resulted in a total crash in economic production of goods and services, an nosebleed-inducing unemployment rate which increasing at a mindboggling 1% per month, and the rise of neo-nazism, with the Golden Dawn party now the third most popular political organization in the country (and rising rapidly). Sure enough, Kathimerini has confirmed that
the" Greece's suicide rate increased by 37 percent between 2009 - 2011,
To Pontiki newspaper reported quoting police data. The data, which was
presented in Parliament by Public Order Minister Nikos Dendias following
a request by SYRIZA MPs, showed that 3,124 suicides and attempted
suicides have occurred in the debt-stricken country since 2009, the
weekly newspaper said." As noted, no surprise in this very tragic
headline on the day in which the world's still wealthiest nation gives
gratitude for all its "wealth."
Yet while the causes of the depressing Greek reality are well-known,
what may be less known are the concurrent events which are taking place
to help "fix" the country. Because if one listened to the Troika, the
Eurogroup's now monthly 4:00 AM stressed and confused press conferences,
and the Greek government, the people are suffering solely due to
"austerity" which has to take place to restore balance. Yet as we have
documented repeatedly, "austerity" in the true sense of the word has
hardly been implemented anywhere. Instead, what has been
implemented is a toxic spiral of rising corruption coupled with ever
greater government imposition of control and the evisceration of a free
market, which, and not "austerity" - which is merely another word for deleveraging, or returning to a sustainable sovereign debt level
Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert ask, "who knows what evil lurks in the heart of the global financial system?" And find the answer is that "the Shadow banking system knows!" The shadow banking system has grown to $67 trillion and has the power to cloud men's minds so they cannot see the fraud. In the second half, Max Keiser talks to Jan Skoyles of the Real Asset Company about clients wanting to park their gold in Singapore and about what is happening in the gold market in China. Source
By IMMORTALTRUTHZ0: Holocaust Revisionists and Historians claim that the genocide of Jews
during World War II ~ usually referred to as the Holocaust did not occur
at all (seldom) or in the manner or to the extent historically
recognized.
Key elements of these claims are the rejection of any
of the following :: that the German Nazi Government had a policy of
deliberately targeting Jews for extermination as a people; that more
than six million Jews were systematically killed by the Nazis and their
allies; and that genocide was carried out at Concentration Camps using
tools of mass murder, such as gas chambers etc etc. An Extensive
documentary showing the lengths Zionists went to in order to bring
about their goal of achieving the illegal state of Israel. Source
By Madison Ruppert: In September of this year, I wrote an article about the Defense Science Board calling on the U.S. Department of Defense to “more aggressively use autonomy in military missions.”
Now Human Rights Watch (HRW) has produced a 50 page report entitled “Losing Humanity: The Case Against Killer Robots” (PDF) calling on a complete ban on “killer robots,” or, more precisely, “fully autonomous weapons.”
Before delving into this report, I am obligated to point out that HRW is far from a faultless organization, as seen in this article on HRW on SourceWatch. That being said, HRW is the apparently the first non-governmental organization (NGO) to address the issue thus far.
The use of drones is questionable enough, as highlighted by the work of applied ethicist Dr. Robert Sparrow, but the concerns surrounding autonomous systems go far beyond those of drones.
HRW is now calling on Governments to “pre-emptively ban fully autonomous weapons because of the danger they pose to civilians in armed conflict,” which is indeed something which must be done in order to preserve human rights.
Fully autonomous weapons systems are even more dangerous than typical drones because “humans could start to fade out of the decision-making loop, retaining a limited oversight role—or perhaps no role at all,” according to the HRW report.
By John Aziz:
The Telegraph reports that George Osborne thinks big banks are good for society:
The Chancellor warned that “aggressively” breaking up banks would do
little to benefit the UK and insisted the Government’s plans to put in
place a so-called “ring fence” to force banks to isolate their riskier,
investment banking businesses from their retail arm was the right way to
make the financial system safer.
“If we aggressively broke up all of our big banks, I am not sure that, as a society, we would benefit from it,” he said. “We don’t have a huge number of banks, sadly, large banks. I would like to see more.”
His comments came as he gave evidence to the parliamentary commission
on banking standards where he was accused of attempting to pressure
members into supporting his ring-fencing reforms.
“That work has been accepted, as far as I’m aware, by all the major
political parties. We are now on the verge of getting on with it,” he
said.
Several members of the Commission have argued in favour of breaking up large banks, including former Chancellor, Lord Lawson.
John, a former FEMA inspector details disaster atrocities and a federal
relief money trap that most home owners should know about. John also
talks about what he saw while conducting home evaluations in the
aftermath of natural disasters, the horrible treatment to babies and
children who were not getting help from the federal government was
incredible. The shocking stories told by john knows no bounds as he
describes what can only be called as..."HELL ON EARTH" Source
By Brandon Smith: A mass exodus from ignorance and organized opposition to tyranny is the
dream of every freedom loving person within the Liberty Movement today.
We would like nothing better than to put an end to the expanding
establishment police state in the most peaceful manner possible. We
dream of a day when a transition back to the Constitutional values that
once made America brilliantly unique in the world is possible, and can
be accomplished without incredible pain or terrible bloodshed. We long
for that once-in-a-century uprising, that great march, that spontaneous
eruption of the citizenry demanding a more truthful government. At the
same time, though, we realize that such events are rare, and few if any
great changes in the history of man are made without sacrifice, and
without direct confrontation.
The reason why peaceful and
popular activism almost never occurs successfully, the reason why good
people are made to stand and suffer, falls not only to the establishment
elites who seek out and abuse power; there are others who share in the
blame. Regardless of the age, the culture, or the social conditions,
there is ALWAYS a percentage of the general populace that embraces the
totalitarian dynamic. There is always someone in our neighborhood, in
our workplace, and within our family that finds vindication or advantage
in supporting the state, even if the state has turned viciously
criminal. They are not only useful idiots; they are conscious
participants in the process of pacification and enslavement of their own
society. They understand their role perfectly, and they enjoy what
they do.
By Madison Ruppert: As unbelievable as it sounds, facial recognition technology is now being deployed in mannequins. While this might sound completely insane, it’s not all that surprising given the rise of facial recognition systems capable of scanning 36 million faces per second, the FBI giving out facial recognition software to police and rolling out a $1 billion facial recognition system across the United States, not to mention drone-based facial recognition along with behavioral recognition and much more.
Indeed, the rise of this type of technology has become a global issue, evidenced by a facial recognition-based border control system in the Netherlands that is slated to process the one millionth passenger by the end of the year.
According to Bloomberg, the EyeSee system is sold by the Italian mannequin maker Almax SpA and is used to “glean data on customers much as online merchants are able to do.”
While this might seem innocuous enough, recently it was shown that the massive data mining industry mentioned in the above quote regularly sells the personal information they gather to third parties.
By TheFederalistSociety: The Fifth Annual Rosenkranz Debate was
held on November 17, 2012, during The Federalist Society's 2012 National
Lawyers Convention.
By unitedforchangetv: In this lecture, Pulitzer Prize-winning
journalist Chris Hedges will examine how America has devolved,
economically and politically, into a Third World country and the role
that inverted totalitarianism plays in consolidating the control of
rapacious elites over our political and economic systems. He will also
discuss the implications of the current arrangement for the world and
what are the steps necessary for the masses of people in this country to
begin to push back. Source
By
CHOICEandTRUTH: The modern day movement of Zionism is most visibly traced back to a man by the name of Theodor Herzl.
Known as "the father of Zionism" Herzl was a Jewish Austro-Hungarian
journalist who wrote "Der Judenstaat" (The Jewish State) in 1896 which
proposed the establishment of a Jewish homeland in Palestine (modern
day Israel) to avoid growing prejudice toward Jews in Europe.
The pamphlet (later published as a book) gained widespread attention,
which included the support of a Christian reverend named William Hechler
(known as the first "Christian Zionist) who believed "the second coming
of Christ" depended on the Jews return to "their" homeland.
Hechler was well connected and managed to introduce Herzl to German
royalty, which although did not gain him access or promise to a future
homeland for the Jews, it did serve its purpose in gaining more support
amongst the public for the cause of Zionism, which is to say the
movement for the establishment of a Jewish homeland. Although this cause
seems noble enough on the surface, as you continue to read you will
find it is much more questionable than what we have been led to believe
to say the least.
