A Portuguese bank on the verge of collapse - what were they thinking?

That would have been the response of many newspaper readers this morning upon learning the New Zealand Superannuation Fund has lost nearly $200 million in taxpayers' cash on a "risk-free" loan it provided to Lisbon-based Banco Espirito Santo (BES) on July 3.

The loan - part of a US$784 million credit package US investment bank Goldman Sachs put together through its Oak Finance vehicle - was made exactly one month before BES collapsed and Portugal's central bank split the country's biggest lender into two, with one part holding the good assets and the toxic assets placed in the other.

@темы: link, Europe, economy

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The Straw That Broke the Back of the American Economy

As many of you know, we have an $18 trillion dollar debt, a $240 trillion dollar debt, a $200 trillion dollar consumer credit debt and we have the ultimate elephant in the room, the one quadrillion dollar derivatives debt. In a country that imports 20% of its food supply, it was reported yesterday by KTAR 92.3 FM (Phoenix) that massive amounts of food are rotting on ships waiting to be offloaded and the docks awaiting shipment.

We should be wondering how much more can the economy take? What will be the straw that breaks the camel’s back?

@темы: link, US, economy

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Too Many Lies, Too Much of the Time

I am beginning to wonder if Americans have grown so accustomed to the lies told by the President, his administration, and others said to be highly regarded, that we are losing a sense of outrage?

@темы: link, society, US

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U.S., Turkey Sign Deal to Openly Arm ISIS-Linked Syrian Rebels

“Armed groups qualified as ‘moderate’ are closely coordinating their activities with terrorist groups,” Alexey Borodavkin, the Russian Federation ambassador to the U.N., said to a Human Rights Council, adding that Syria is facing a “huge army of trained, armed terrorists.”

@темы: link, US, Turkey, Syria, Prison Planet

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UN Report Reveals How Israel is Coordinating with ISIS Militants Inside Syria

The Syrian conflict continues to develop into a proxy war, pitting various foreign ‘national interests’ against one another, including US vs. Syria, US vs Iran, Saudi Arabia vs Syria, Qatar vs. Syria, Turkey vs. Kurdistan and Iran vs. Israel – to name only a few. So the support network behind Washington’s ‘Moderate Rebels’ and terrorist groups fighting in Syria is comprised of many contributing covert intelligence agencies, including the CIA, MI5/6, Mossad, France, NATO, Jordan and Saudi Arabia.

@темы: link, Syria, 21st Century Wire, Israel

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Jerusalem of snow, Istanbul of snow

Another cold snap that hit the Middle East this week has disrupted daily life in Egypt, Jordan, Palestine and Israel.

Snow falls in Golan, Jerusalem, and even in Negev desert

The Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality said Thursday that the snowfall in Istanbul has broken a 28-year record in the Turkish city, with snow reaching as high as 75 cm in the Çatalca district, in the westernmost region of greater Istanbul, The Hurriyet Daily reported.

@темы: link, Global Warming

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Holocaust is based on fakes, frauds, and forgeries

David Cole is not an “anti-Semite” or “revisionist”. He is ardently pro-Zionist, pro-Israel Jew. He is author of book Republican Party Animal. In his latest article, entitled Justifying My Existence, published at TAKI’s Magazine on February 17, 2015, he wrote: I attempt to correct the historical record regarding the Holocaust, primarily by sniffing out and exposing fake artifacts and fraudulent or improperly-used documents.

@темы: link, fascism, Israel

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There is no debate: Vaccine data is largely based on research fraud and intimidation

When pro-vaccine scientists and skeptics claim that they believe what they believe because of "science," it's important to remember that much of what is assumed to be science today is actually pseudoscience for the promulgation of special interests.

@темы: link, US, Medical Tyranny

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If You Can't Make It Fake It: UK Claims Russian Missiles in Ukraine

In a similar story, a Guardian journalist behind a report claiming Russian forces shelled Ukrainian positions from within the Russian Federation turned out to be a research fellow with CENTRIC, a UK based security and intelligence organization based at Sheffield University with close links to the British intelligence community

@темы: link, UK, WW III

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UK Defence Secretary Accused of Delusion Over Baltic Threat

"In NATOs' view, they've never said to Ukraine ‘you will be a member'. Similarly, this thing happened with Georgia; there was never any promise of membership. Russia has had this historical narrative about NATO enlargement and encroachment on their backyard."

@темы: link, Europe, UK, WW III

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The Superfish certificate has been cracked, exposing Lenovo users to attack

Lenovo's Superfish bug just went from bad to worse, as researchers have turned up an easy way to take advantage of the security flaws opened up by the pre-installed software. Superfish is present on Lenovo laptops sold between September 2014 and January 2015, although Lenovo says no Thinkpads were shipped with the software. The bug has come under fire for breaking fundamental web security protocols, routing all encryption through a single password-protected certificate authority owned by a third-party adware company that makes Superfish. Anyone with the password that unlocks that certificate authority would be able to completely bypass the computer's web encryption.


How to remove Superfish adware from your laptop

@темы: link, web

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Obama Destroyed Libya

What he did to Libya is as bad as what Bush did to Iraq and Afghanistan. He doesn’t deserve a historical pass.

@темы: link, US, Libya, the daily sheeple

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From Manhattan Project to A.I.: The Coming Synthetic Rewrite of Nature

Officially denials be damned – from vaccines to chemtrails to dangerous GMO and food additives, it is very clear that the work of the Eugenicists of the late 19th and early 20th Century is being continued today mostly covertly, via advocates for climate change, population control and technocratic control over our bodies. To say a slow kill is underway is completely justified… as Jay makes clear, it is all too apparent in the themes of varies films, books and monuments throughout the past century… those who would deny something is deliberately going on to weed out the unchosen and modify and upgrade the select are simply not paying attention

@темы: link, society, US, Medical Tyranny, GMO, Truthstream media

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Just Six Companies Control 90% of What You Read, Watch, and Listen To

The Illusion of choice: did you know a whopping 90% of what you read, watch, and listen to comes from a total of just six companies?

Terry Gilliam’s latest The Zero Theorem portrays a near-future society run by scientific materialism, a place where hyper-stimulation through the ever-present telescreens, billboards, targeted advertisements that literally follow you down the street, pop music, signs and other continuous stimuli have created a dumbed-down, consumerist society with little meaning

@темы: link, society, US, Truthstream media

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Hyperinflation To Start in 2015

Economist Says Get Supplies : “Gold, Silver, Canned Goods, Toilet Paper, Bottled Water…”

@темы: link, Investment watch blog, economy

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Shaken Baby Syndrome

often just a cover story for children who are brain damaged by vaccines

@темы: link, US, Medical Tyranny

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What Really Happened Radio Show: Michael Rivero Thursday February 19 2015

@темы: video, WRH

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Report Finds We Are Eating ‘2,500 Tons of Fake Food’-

From fake antifreeze vodka to phony butter

@темы: link, society, US

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Lenovo caught installing adware on new computers

The adware, named Superfish, is reportedly installed on a number of Lenovo’s consumer laptops out of the box. The software injects third-party ads on Google searches and websites without the user’s permission.

@темы: link, web

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What weapons does US ship to Europe for war in Ukraine?

Germany is unable to stop arms shipments to Ukraine, including from the US and Canada, Karl-Georg Wellmann, a member of the Christian Democratic Union stated in Bundestag, Pravda.Ru reports with reference to Bloomberg

@темы: link, US, Ukraine, WW III