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9.2+ Mega-Quake Imminent; FEMA Warns 100 Ft Tsunami Will Hit West Coast (Video)

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<p><strong>Report: Mega-Quake Would Destroy Big Portion Of Pacific Northwest – First Warning – Shepard Smith Reporting</strong></p>
<p><strong>The New York Quote A FEMA Official: Everything West Of Interstate 5 Is Toast!, Everything West Of Interstate 5 Is Gone!</strong></p>
<p><strong>Seismologists: Earthquake Unleash Colossal Tsunami</strong></p>
<p><strong>Report: First Sign Of Mega-Quake Will Be “Cacophony Of Barking Dogs”</strong></p>
<p><strong>Thousands Of Dogs Will Bark At Alert, Before The Ground liquefy In One Area & A wall Of Water Up To 100 feet High – Its Coming It is A Certainty!, The Question Is When?</strong></p>
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9.2+ Mega-Quake Imminent; FEMA Warns 100 Ft Tsunami Will Hit West Coast (Video)

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Report: Mega-Quake Would Destroy Big Portion Of Pacific Northwest – First Warning – Shepard Smith Reporting The New York Quote A FEMA Official: Everything West Of Interstate 5 Is Toast!, Everything West Of Interstate 5 Is Gone! Seismologists: Earthqu…

September 23, 2015 – Gates of Heaven will close and Gates of Hell will open

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September 23, 2015 – Gates of Heaven will close and Gates of Hell will open

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In this video, we look at the Guiness commercial pointing to the end of the age of grace taking place on 9/23 and the beast (shark) is released. We also look at CERN and the connection with Rihanna (who also points us to 9/23 in her latest video) an…

How Corporate Tax Breaks from Washington Fueled Puerto Rico’s Staggering Debt Crisis

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<h2>How Corporate Tax Breaks from Washington Fueled Puerto Rico’s Staggering Debt Crisis</h2>
<span>How Corporate Tax Breaks from Washington Fueled Puerto Rico’s Staggering Debt Crisis</span>
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<div>This article originally appeared on <span>The Washington Post</span></div>
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<p>BARCELONETA, PUERTO RICO — The sprawling pharmaceutical plants nestled in the hills of this town west of San Juan are testament to the unusual nature of this island’s struggling economy.</p>
<p>The factories once employed a small army of highly trained workers that would be the envy of many other places in the United States. But those jobs — for engineers, chemists and others skilled in precision manufacturing — have been rapidly disappearing for largely the same reason they came here in the first place: policy decisions made in Washington.</p>
<p>A generous series of tax breaks enacted by Congress shielded the profits of U.S. corporations operating here and helped transform Puerto Rico from a largely agrarian society to a manufacturing powerhouse. But what Washington gave, it also took away.</p>
<p>When Congress decided to phase out a crucial tax credit that ended in 2005, it helped plunge Puerto Rico into a recession that began a decade ago and has yet to end. Last week, Gov. Alejandro García Padilla said the island could not repay more than $70 billion in debt, setting it down a path that could rock the municipal bond market and lead to higher borrowing costs for state and local governments across the United States.</p>
<p>Officially a U.S. commonwealth, Puerto Rico is treated in some ways like a foreign country, in other ways like a state, and in still other ways unlike anywhere else. But it has never had full control over its destiny.</p>
<p>Now, it’s again at the mercy of Washington, as García Padilla asks Congress and the president to allow the island and its public corporations — which provide basic services including electricity and water — to file for bankruptcy, a process that would give Puerto Rico and its creditors an orderly way to restructure the territory’s staggering debt. Without that power, Puerto Rico is at risk of spending years in a situation akin to the Greek debt crisis playing out in Europe.</p>
<p>“In some ways, what you have in Puerto Rico is an economic crisis manufactured by the U.S.,” said Victor Rodriguez, a professor in the Department of Chicano and Latino Studies at California State University Long Beach who closely tracks events on the island. “Now trying to fix it is like fighting a championship battle with your hands tied.”</p>
<p>The tax change by Congress is just one chapter in the history of the island being whipsawed and hampered by decisions made 1,500 miles away. Lawmakers closed several large military bases in the early 2000s, triggering the departure of tens of thousands of troops and civilian personnel and costing the economy hundreds of millions of dollars a year.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, a federal law dating from 1920 requires every product shipped to Puerto Rico from the mainland to be transported on U.S.-flagged vessels, raising the prices of a wide variety of products.</p>
<p><strong>New Relationship Urged</strong></p>
<p>Some analysts and business people say that forging a lasting solution to the island’s economic problems will require a reworking of its convoluted relationship with the federal government.</p>
<p>“This is the worst crisis ever that we have had in our history, and we have no tools to fix it,” said Gustavo Vélez, an economist and former legislative and gubernatorial adviser here. “We have to start a conversation with the U.S. government to change the current restrictions on Puerto Rico. We have to revise the current economic relationship with the mainland.”</p>
<p>The implications of Puerto Rico’s debt are also serious for investors on the mainland, because more than 180 municipal bond mutual funds have at least 5 percent of their portfolios in Puerto Rican bonds, according to Morningstar, an investment research firm.</p>
<p>Overall, Puerto Rico is the third-largest issuer of state and local debt in the United States, behind only California and New York. This, too, is partly a result of federal tax policy, which made Puerto Rican debt exempt from federal, state and local taxes and thus encouraged the island to borrow money and enabled it to do so at relatively low rates.</p>
<p>“The federal government has a great deal of responsibility for the problem,” said Jeffrey L. Farrow, chairman of the Oliver Group and former co-chair of President Bill Clinton’s Interagency Working Group on Puerto Rico. “Not exclusively. Puerto Rico created a lot of the problem itself. It doesn’t have to be in the situation it’s in. But there is a big element of federal responsibility."</p>
<p>As much as some Puerto Ricans chafe under rules made in Washington, it is also true that, as U.S. citizens, Puerto Ricans are protected by the federal safety net. About 40 percent of the island’s residents receive federal support, including Social Security, retirement benefits, food stamps and disability insurance. Meanwhile, they do not pay any federal tax on local income.</p>
<p>In addition, analysts say, Puerto Rican policymakers carry their share of the blame for the island’s economic problems. Government workers account for an outsize share of the overall workforce. Business people complain that local regulations discourage job creation and the development of clean energy, which would help the island lower its exorbitant electricity prices. And servicing the staggering debt consumes nearly half the island’s budget.</p>
<p>High oil prices, which began to set in around the time the key tax break was phased out a decade ago, have also pushed the commonwealth into recession because the electric utility relies on oil for about 70 percent of its generating capacity.</p>
<p>Many Puerto Ricans have looked at all these problems and decided to flee to the mainland, a prime reason the island’s population is declining by roughly 1 percent a year. But for the 3.5 million Puerto Ricans left trying to carve out lives amid rising taxes and dwindling job opportunities, the stakes in finding a solution to the island’s problems are high.</p>
<p><strong>Factories Came and Went</strong></p>
<p>“There is so much uncertainty,” said Victor Guilbe, 41, an engineer with drugmaker Abbott Laboratories. “The taxes here are always changing, and the price of energy is very high. “When taxes change, many corporations have decided it is better to go elsewhere, or to lay people off.”</p>
<p>He knows that firsthand. Guilbe worked for years at pharmaceutical giant Merck, only to be laid off before picking up his current job seven years ago. His wife, Vanessa, spent eight years at Bristol-Myers Squibb, and another seven at Merck working as a chemist, before finding herself out of work when its plant here closed.</p>
<p>In 1996, when Congress began phasing out the tax break that made subsidiaries of U.S. corporations operating on the island exempt from federal taxes, the impact was severe. Factories downsized or closed, causing manufacturing employment to plunge by more than half. The balance sheets of Puerto Rican banks, once flush with corporate deposits earned in those plants, began to shrivel.</p>
<p>“Puerto Rico is more dependent on manufacturing than any state in the U.S.,” said Waleska Rivera, president of Danosa Caribbean, a firm that makes roofing material, and a former head of the island’s manufacturing association. “Even with all the job losses, manufacturing is still 48 percent of our economy. We have to find a way to protect it.”</p>
<p>As manufacturing slowed, tax revenue withered, leaving the government to borrow heavily to cover its spending. Though the government has recently raised taxes, the island’s public debt has more than doubled in the past decade.</p>
<p>With the island’s central government coming to an economic reckoning, local officials here in Barceloneta are looking for ways to make up for the loss of factory jobs. Some of the plants have gotten new operators. Meanwhile, the town’s mayor, Wanda Soler Rosario, is proud of its large outlet mall and the Olive Garden and Chili’s restaurants that have opened in recent years.</p>
<p>The town is looking to expand coffee production and to promote itself as a tourist and sports destination. A new skate park is nearing completion, and the town has an aquatic park and a park for BMX biking.</p>
<p>“There is a lot of anxiety among the people,” said Wanda Hernandez, the town’s events coordinator. “But the mayor is doing all she can to create jobs.”</p>
<p><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/puerto-ricos-problems-can-often-be-traced-to-one-source-washington/2015/07/09/2cbd401e-21cd-11e5-84d5-eb37ee8eaa61_story.html" rel="nofollow">Originally published by Washington Post</a></p>
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<p>A weekend of high tension that threatened to break Europe in two climaxed on Sunday night when the leaders of Germany and France presented Greece’s Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras with the ultimatum.</p>
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<p>From Madrid and Barcelona to Zaragoza, A Coruña, Cádiz and other major Spanish cities, government is now in the hands of independent citizen fronts called “confluences” – revealing a seismic shakeup in European politics.</p>
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<p>While big banks continue to ruin communities and personal lives with light impunity, in some cases the people are fighting back.</p>
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<p>No longer just targeting animal rights activists, the Property Protection Act outlaws exposing abuse at elder care facilities, day cares and charter schools – revealing the power of ALEC-backed legislation at the state level.</p>
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<p>Greece could provide an inspiring model of sustainable prosperity for the world – but it's being strangled by a hegemonic power in a financial war that is being waged against us all.</p>
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How Corporate Tax Breaks from Washington Fueled Puerto Rico’s Staggering Debt Crisis

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How Corporate Tax Breaks from Washington Fueled Puerto Rico’s Staggering Debt Crisis How Corporate Tax Breaks from Washington Fueled Puerto Rico’s Staggering Debt Crisis This article originally appeared on The Washington Post BARCELONETA, PUERTO RIC…

1 In 3 California Households Can No Longer Pay Their Bills

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<h2>1 In 3 California Households Can No Longer Pay Their Bills</h2>
<span>1 In 3 California Households Can No Longer Pay Their Bills</span>
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<div>This article originally appeared on <span>Al Jazeera America</span></div>
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<p>Almost one in three California households struggles to make ends meet and people of color are disproportionately affected by the state’s high cost of living, according to <a href="http://www.unitedwaysca.org/images/StrugglingToGetBy/Struggling_to_Get_By.pdf" rel="nofollow">a new study</a> by United Ways of California.</p>
<p>The report found that 3.2 million California households do not earn enough income to pay for food, rent, health care and other essentials “to maintain even an adequate level of economic security.”</p>
<p>United Ways used a Real Cost Measure that goes beyond the federal poverty line and centers on a household budget that also includes the cost of child care, transportation and out-of-pocket health expenses and taxes. As a result, this index shows a poverty rate for California double that reported by the U.S. Census Bureau.</p>
<p>“Things that are surprising is that half of households with young children have income below the poverty level,” said Pete Manzo, president and CEO of United Ways, which represents 34 United Way organizations in California.</p>
<p>“Children are our future but the poverty rate is much higher for them. If you had households led by single mothers with young children, the poverty rate is 76 percent or three out of four.”</p>
<p>There are no comparisons to other states or to the U.S. as a whole but United Ways hopes to eventually expand its real-cost research to show a national comparison.</p>
<p>In some California counties, the “real cost of living” can exceed the federal poverty level by 300 percent. In San Diego County, for example, the household budget for two adults with one infant and one school-age child is $57,759 or 248 percent above the federal poverty line.</p>
<p>Five of the poorest neighborhood areas are in Los Angeles County, including Watts, South Central Los Angeles, Bell Gardens and Huntington Park. Contra Costa County, in northern California, had the highest number of neighborhood clusters with low poverty rates.</p>
<p>“We want to get people thinking about how do families actually live in a place like Los Angeles,” Manzo said. “Some people argue there’s no way that you need $60,000 to live in L.A. County.”</p>
<p>But housing costs are so high that what may seem like a good income elsewhere doesn’t go far here.</p>
<p>Research by the Southern California Association of Non-Profit Housing found that in the city of Los Angeles, the average rent for a two-bedroom, one-bath apartment is $2,197 a month for a total annual cost of $26,364, which would eat up almost half of a $60,000 income.</p>
<p>“What’s surprising to a lot of people is how much it costs to meet basic needs,” Manzo said. “There’s no fluff in the (real cost) budget. No dining out. No savings.”</p>
<p>Nine out of 10 families in poverty are working, he said.</p>
<p>“There are more and more of these reports coming out on the state of the California economy,” said Larry Gross, executive director of the Coalition for Economic Survival, a Los Angeles non-profit. “They all essentially speak to the same facts. We’re facing economic catastrophe here and the hardest-hit are always low-income communities and people of color.”</p>
<p>More than half of Latino households and 40 percent of African American households have incomes below the real cost measure, compared to 28 percent for Asian Americans and 20 percent for whites.</p>
<p>Immigrants in particular are disproportionately affected: 60 percent of households headed by a non-citizen struggle to make ends meet.</p>
<p>The shortage of affordable housing is so dire that the Los Angeles City Council is considering legalizing rental units that do not now have a city permit, as long as they don’t violate health and safety standards.</p>
<p>“The California dream people are looking for has become the California nightmare,” Gross said. “It’s clear that more and more people are in homes they can’t afford to pay.”</p>
<p>Two-thirds of renters in Los Angeles are spending more than half their income on rent. As a result, Los Angeles County has seven of the 10 ZIP codes in the nation with the worst overcrowding.</p>
<p>“People are forced to double up and triple up because they can’t afford the rent,” Gross said.</p>
<p><a href="http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/7/15/almost-a-third-of-california-households-struggle-to-pay-bills.html" rel="nofollow">Originally published by Al Jazeera America</a></p>
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<p>Greece could provide an inspiring model of sustainable prosperity for the world – but it's being strangled by a hegemonic power in a financial war that is being waged against us all.</p>
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<p>“For me, as a young black woman, to run against an older white male incumbent, powerful, with the ability to raise close to a million dollars, the skeptics wanted to know: how could I have the audacity?”</p>
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<p>On the anniversary of the Lac-Mégantic crude oil disaster, activists staged protests last week aimed at stopping the transportation and use of fossil fuels, and scored arrests in the process.</p>
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<p>The poor and the working class in the United States know what it is to be Greek – they know underemployment and unemployment, they know life without a pension, they know existence on a few dollars a day.</p>
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<p>The punditocracy may declare Walker the “most electable” based on his plain vanilla demeanor and shortage of gaffes – but his record as Wisconsin governor makes him the most dangerous, extremist candidate on the GOP stage.</p>
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1 In 3 California Households Can No Longer Pay Their Bills 1 In 3 California Households Can No Longer Pay Their Bills This article originally appeared on Al Jazeera America Almost one in three California households struggles to make ends meet and pe…

Why Clinton and Bush Are Now In the Pockets Of Walmart, Chevron and Goldman Sachs

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<h2>Why Clinton and Bush Are Now In the Pockets Of Walmart, Chevron and Goldman Sachs</h2>
<span>Why Clinton and Bush Are Now In the Pockets Of Walmart, Chevron and Goldman Sachs</span>
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<p>Hillary Clinton and Jeb Bush, the 2016 presidential candidates leading the money race in the Democratic and Republican fields, are amassing fortunes that will leave them politically indebted to some of the most influential lobbyists in Washington.</p>
<p>Disclosures to the Federal Election Commission reveal how lobbyists for Walmart, Chevron, Facebook and Goldman Sachs have been acting as fundraising captains for Clinton and Bush, bundling donations to channel to the two frontrunners.</p>
<p>Lobbyists have long sought to maximize their impact over candidates by pooling donations from their deep-pocketed contacts, often by encouraging them all to make the maximum permitted donation.</p>
<p>A joint analysis of FEC documents by the Guardian and the Center for Responsive Politics reveals that in the current campaign cycle, Clinton and Bush have been the primary beneficiaries of the practice.</p>
<p>Although lobbyist bundlers helped raise only a slice of the two candidates’ overall cash hauls, their support could pay dividends, in terms of access and influence, should either be elected to the White House next year.</p>
<p>Clinton disclosed 40 named lobbyist bundlers who brought in, on average, $54,614. In total, lobbyist bundlers generated more than $2 million for her campaign.</p>
<p>Bush revealed the identities of eight lobbyist bundlers, who between them raised $228,400 at an average of $28,550.</p>
<p>Although Bush had fewer lobbyist bundlers, who raised less cash, the figures in his case likely show only the tip of the iceberg. The former Florida governor has opted to make an allied Super PAC – rather than his official campaign fund – the principal recipient of money to back his White House bid.</p>
<p>This information will therefore remain behind a wall of secrecy. Super Pacs, unlike candidates, are not required to release lobbyist bundler names.</p>
<p>The only other candidate who benefited from lobbyist bundlers, according to FEC records, was the Florida senator Marco Rubio, who disclosed three, including one in-house lobbyist from Goldman Sachs.</p>
<p><strong>Clinton Cash</strong></p>
<p>The registered lobbyist who bundled the most money for Clinton was Jackson Dunn, who works for K Street lobbying shop FTI Government Affairs. He raised $231,554. In the 1990s, Dunn worked in Bill Clinton’s White House; he now serves clients such as PepsiCo, Mastercard and Dow Chemical.</p>
<p>Another lobbyist playing an important role for Clinton is Tony Podesta, who has made millions from a family based empire and is considered one of the most influential Democratic lobbyists in the Beltway.</p>
<p>His brother, John Podesta, another alumni from Bill Clinton’s White House and a former lobbyist himself, is now Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman.</p>
<p>In addition to his brother, John Podesta can draw on the support of dozens of other lobbyists bundling donations, such as Andrew Smith, who looks after the interests of the Washington Redskins NFL team and raised $133,350, and Steven Elmendorf, a former Democratic operative who now lobbies for Facebook, Microsoft and Goldman Sachs. He helped pool $141,815.</p>
<p>David Jones, a partner at Capitol Counsel who includes Walmart in his long list of clients and was a member of Clinton’s finance committee in her failed run for the White House in 2008, raised $120,675, the FEC disclosures show.</p>
<p>Clinton amassed an additional $114,775 from in-house Microsoft, Starbucks and Exxon Mobil lobbyists who collected bundles of donations from associates.</p>
<p><strong>Family Connections</strong></p>
<p>The support from lobbyists bundlers comes against the backdrop of Clinton and Bush accumulating large war chests at the expense of mainly rich donors, many of whom are connected to formidable networks of wealthy contacts built by their families over decades in frontline politics.</p>
<p>Those networks are closely entwined with major corporations and their registered representatives in Washington. Bush’s two biggest lobbyist bundlers were William Killmer (who pulled together $36,200) and Dirk Van Dongen ($33,900). They lobby, respectively, for the Mortgage Bankers Association and the National Association of Wholesalers.</p>
<p>Bush also counts on the support of Richard Hohlt, who works for Chevron and specializes in tax legislation, and Ignacio Sanchez, a former Rubio supporter who lobbies for Diageo, the drinks conglomerate.</p>
<p>However, Clinton and Bush’s success in tapping up wealthy donors – both lobbyists and the wider pool of wealthy contributors in Wall Street – has not been matched by support from small donors.</p>
<p>Small donations – of $200 or less, which are often made online – fueled Barack Obama’s early campaign in 2007 and are considered one gauge of grassroots momentum for candidates who can claim to be comparatively free from corporate influence.</p>
<p>In a worrying sign for Clinton and Bush, both struggled to lure this kind support. Less than 17% of Clinton’s overall campaign tally of $47.5 million came from people who gave less than $200. For Bush, who has raised $11.4 million since announcing his presidential bid last month, the proportion was even smaller: just 3.2%. Indeed, Bush actually gave to his own campaign ($399,720) more than all of his small donors added together ($368,023),</p>
<p>Those figures stand in stark in contrast to candidates like Vermont senator Bernie Sanders, who is mounting the most serious challenge to Clinton. He raised an impressive $15.2 million, mostly from donors giving less than $200, who contributed to more than three-quarters of his overall tally. No candidate did as well as Sanders in generating money from a broad array of small donors – his campaign said he had 284,000 individual donors whose average contribution was just $35.</p>
<p>On the Republican side, Ben Carson and Rand Paul also raised most of their money from a wide base of donors giving less than $200. The FEC figures, based on filings made by eligible candidates on Wednesday, cover financial activity between April 1 April and June 30.</p>
<p>They are obscured by the fact that Clinton, Bush and all other Republican and Democratic candidates except Sanders, who refuses to have an allied Super Pac, stand to benefit hugely from millions in uncapped donations pouring into allied political action committees.</p>
<p>Clinton’s Super Pac, Priorities USA, has reportedly raised an additional $15.6 million. Bush, one of a slew of Republican candidates experimenting with transferring core campaign functions to their Super Pac, will benefit from the staggering $103 million raised by Right to Rise.</p>
<p>Taken together, the combined Super Pac and campaign hauls – $63.1 million for Clinton and $114.4 million for Bush – eclipse the sums raised by their Democratic and Republican rivals.</p>
<p>Official FEC disclosures from Super Pacs, which are not bound by the same transparency laws as campaign funds, will be made public later this month.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jul/16/hillary-clinton-jeb-bush-lobbyist-donations" rel="nofollow">Originally published by The Guardian</a></p>
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<p>A weekend of high tension that threatened to break Europe in two climaxed on Sunday night when the leaders of Germany and France presented Greece’s Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras with the ultimatum.</p>
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Football Player Locks Himself In Hot Car To Demonstrate How Dangerous It Is For Dogs

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<p><a href="http://cdn9.trueactivist.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Tyrann-Mathieu.jpg"><img alt="Tyrann Mathieu" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-36120" height="225" src="http://cdn9.trueactivist.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Tyrann-Mathieu-400x225.jpg" width="400" /></a>Professional football player Tyrann Mathieu recently locked himself in a hot car to simulate what the experience is like for a dog. The demonstration was a part of a public service announcement to raise awareness about how dangerous a hot car can be for any living creature.</p>
<p><em>“If you’re going to make a dog a part of your family, then make him a part of your family. Don’t treat him like you wouldn’t treat someone you cared about or someone you loved,”</em> Mathieu said in the video.</p>
<p><em>“I seriously couldn’t imagine leaving my dog in a car like this,</em>” he added.</p>
<p>During the video, the temperature in the car reached over 120 degrees in just eight minutes. After 8 minutes, Mathieu had to give up and get out of the car because he could not take the heat anymore.</p>
<p>Last week we reported that a <a href="http://www.trueactivist.com/new-law-protects-people-who-break-into-hot-cars-to-save-pets/" target="_blank">new state law in Tennesse</a> protects citizens from being sued if they are freeing a pet from a hot car.</p>
<p>Watch the full public service announcement below:</p>
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<p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/jgvibes" target="_blank">John Vibes</a> writes for True Activist and is an author, researcher and investigative journalist who takes a special interest in the counter culture and the drug war.<br />
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The 6 Grand Illusions That Keep Us Enslaved

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<p>By <a href="http://www.filmsforaction.org/author/sigmund-fraud/">Sigmund Fraud</a> / <a href="http://themindunleashed.org/2015/02/6-grand-illusions-keep-us-enslaved-matrix.html">themindunleashed.org</a></p>
<p>For a magician to fool his audience his deceit must go unseen, and to this end he crafts an illusion to avert attention from reality. While the audience is entranced, the deceptive act is committed, and for the fool, reality then becomes inexplicably built upon on a lie. That is, until the fool wakes up and recognizes the truth in the fact that he has been duped.</p>
<p>Maintaining the suspension of disbelief in the illusion, however, is often more comforting than acknowledging the magician’s secrets.</p>
<p>We live in a world of illusion. So many of the concerns that occupy the mind and the tasks that fill the calendar arise from planted impulses to become <strong><em>someone or something that we are not</em></strong>. This is no accident. As we are indoctrinated into this authoritarian-corporate-consumer culture that now dominates the human race, we are trained that certain aspects of our society are untouchable truths, and that particular ways of being and behaving are preferred.</p>
<p><a title="Psychopath vs. Empath: the War Between Truth and Deception" href="http://www.wakingtimes.com/2015/01/22/psychopath-vs-empath-war-truth-deception/" target="_blank">Psychopaths</a> disempower people in this way. They blind us with never ceasing barrages of suggestions and absolutes that are aimed at shattering self-confidence and confidence in the future.</p>
<p>Bansky, the revered and elusive revolutionary street artist, once commented:</p>
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<p><em>“People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. <strong>They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small.</strong>They make flippant comments from buses that imply <strong>you’re not sexy enough</strong> and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. <strong>They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate.</strong>They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are The Advertisers and they are laughing at you.” – </em><strong><a title="Find at Amazon" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1844137872/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1844137872&linkCode=as2&tag=wakitime09-20&linkId=PY5SOPF2IXTZRAOE" target="_blank">Banksy</a></strong></p>
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<p>Advertising is just the tip of the iceberg. When we look further we see that the overall organization of life is centered around the pursuit of illusions and automatic obedience to institutions and ideas which are not at all what they seem. We are in a very real sense enslaved. Many call this somewhat intangible feeling of oppression ‘the matrix,’ a system of total control that invades the mind, programming individuals to pattern themselves in accordance with a mainstream <a title="Nonconformity and the Normalcy Bias" href="http://www.wakingtimes.com/2014/05/28/nonconformity-normalcy-bias/" target="_blank">conformist</a> version of reality, no matter how wicked it gets.</p>
<p>The grandest of the illusions which keep us enslaved to the matrix, the ones that have so many of us still entranced, are outlined below for your consideration.</p>
<h3>1. THE ILLUSION OF LAW, ORDER AND AUTHORITY</h3>
<p>For so many of us, following the law is considered a moral obligation, and many of us gladly do so even though corruption, scandal, and wickedness repeatedly demonstrate that the law is plenty flexible for those who have the muscle to bend it. Police brutality and police criminality is rampant in the US, the courts favor the wealthy, and we can longer even lead our lives privately thanks to the intrusion of state surveillance. And all the while the illegal and immoral Orwellian permanent war rages on in the background of life, murdering and destroying whole nations and cultures.</p>
<p>The social order is not what it seems, for it is entirely predicated on conformity, obedience and acquiescence which are enforced by fear of violence. History teaches us again and again that the law is just as often as not used as an instrument of oppression, social control and plunder, and any so-called authority in this regard is false, hypocritical, and unjust.</p>
<p>When the law itself does not follow the law, there is no law, there is no order, and there is no justice. The pomp and trappings of authority are merely a concealment of the truth that the current world order is predicated on control, not consent.</p>
<h3>2. THE ILLUSION OF PROSPERITY AND HAPPINESS</h3>
<p>Adorning oneself in expensive clothes and trinkets, and amassing collections of material possessions that would be the envy of any 19th century monarch has become a substitute for genuine prosperity. Maintaining the illusion of prosperity, though, is critical to our economy as it is, because its foundation is built on consumption, <a title="The Secrets of the Banking System" href="http://www.wakingtimes.com/2015/01/13/debt-fraud-secrets-banking-system/" target="_blank">fraud, credit and debt</a>. The banking system itself has been engineered from the top down to create unlimited wealth for some while taxing the eternity out of the rest of us.</p>
<p>True prosperity is a vibrant environment and an abundance of health, happiness, love, and relationships. As more people come to perceive material goods as <em>the</em> form of self-identification in this culture, we slip farther and farther away from the experience of <em>true</em> prosperity.</p>
<h3>3. THE ILLUSION OF CHOICE AND FREEDOM</h3>
<p>Read between the lines and look at the fine print, we are not free, not by any intelligent standard. Freedom is about having choice, yet in today’s world, <em>choice </em>has come to mean a selection between available options, always from within the confines of a corrupt legal and taxation system and within the boundaries of culturally accepted and enforced norms.</p>
<p>Just look no further than the phony institution of modern democracy to find a shining example of false choices appearing real. Two entrenched, corrupt, archaic political parties are paraded as the pride and hope of the nation, yet third party and independent voices are intentionally blocked, ridiculed and plowed under.</p>
<p>The illusion of choice and freedom is a powerful oppressor because it fools us into accepting chains and short leashes as though they were the hallmarks of liberty.</p>
<p>Multiple choice is different than freedom, it is easy servitude.</p>
<h3>4. THE ILLUSION OF TRUTH</h3>
<p>Truth has become a touchy subject in our culture, and we’ve been programmed to believe that <em>‘the</em>‘ truth comes from the demigods of media, celebrity, and government. If the TV declares something to be true, then we are heretics to believe otherwise.</p>
<p>In order to maintain order, the powers that be depend our acquiescence to their version of the truth. While independent thinkers and journalists continually blow holes in the official versions of reality, the illusion of truth is so very powerful that it takes a serious personal upheaval to shun the cognitive dissonance needed to function in a society that openly chases false realities.</p>
<h3>5. THE ILLUSION OF TIME</h3>
<p>They say that time is money, but this is a lie. Time is your life. Your life is an ever-evolving manifestation of the now. Looking beyond the five sense world, where we have been trained to move in accordance with the clock and the calendar, we find that the spirit is eternal, and that the each individual soul is part of this eternity.</p>
<p>The big deception here is the reinforcement of the idea that the present moment is of little to no value, that the past is something we cannot undo or ever forget, and that the future is intrinsically more important than both the past and the present. This carries our attention away from what it actually happening right now and directs it toward the future. Once completely focused on what is to come rather than what is, we are easy prey to advertisers and fear-pimps who muddy our vision of the future with every possible worry and concern imaginable.</p>
<p>We are happiest when life doesn’t box us in, when spontaneity and randomness gives us the chance to find out more about ourselves. Forfeiting the present moment in order to fantasize about the future is a trap. The immense, timeless moments of spiritual joy that are found in quiet meditation are proof that time is a construct of the mind of humankind, and not necessarily mandatory for the human experience.</p>
<p>If time is money, then life can be measured in dollars. When dollars are worth less, so is life. This is total deception, because life is, in truth, absolutely priceless.</p>
<h3>6. THE ILLUSION OF SEPARATENESS</h3>
<p>On a strategic level, the tactic of divide and conquer is standard operating procedure for authoritarians and invading armies, but the illusion of separateness runs even deeper than this.</p>
<p>We are programmed to believe that as individuals we are in competition with everyone and everything around us, including our neighbors and even <a title="Ayahuasca and Iboga – Messengers of Truth from Mother Earth" href="http://www.wakingtimes.com/2014/02/21/ayahuasca-iboga-messengers-truth-mother-earth/" target="_blank">mother nature</a>. Us vs. them to the extreme. This flatly denies the truth that life on this planet is infinitely inter-connected. Without clean air, clean water, healthy soil, and a vibrant global sense of community we cannot survive here.</p>
<p>While the illusion of separateness comforts us by gratifying the ego and and offering a sense of control, in reality it only serves to enslave and isolate us.</p>
<h3>CONCLUSION</h3>
<p>The grand illusions mentioned here have been staged before us as a campaign to encourage blind acquiescence to the machinations of the matrix. In an attempt to dis-empower us, they demand our conformity and obedience, but we must not forget that all of this is merely an elaborate sales pitch. They can’t sell what we don’t care to buy.</p>
<h3>ABOUT THE AUTHOR</h3>
<p><a title="Sigmund Fraud" href="http://www.wakingtimes.com/contributors/sigmund-fraud/" target="_blank"><strong>Sigmund Fraud</strong></a> is a survivor of modern psychiatry and a dedicated mental activist. He is a staff writer for <a href="http://www.wakingtimes.com/">WakingTimes.com</a> where he indulges in the possibility of a massive shift towards a more psychologically aware future for mankind.</p>
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He Didn’t Always Speak. But when He Did, He Gave the Greatest Speech of All Time.

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<p>One of the most inspirational speeches in recorded history was given by a comedian by the name of Charlie Chaplin in the movie “The Great Dictator”. If you like what you see please share the video any way you can and pass the message on, thanks!</p>
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<p>I’m sorry, but I don’t want to be an emperor. That’s not my business. I don’t want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone if possible- jewish, Gentile, black men, white…</p>
<p>We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each others’ happiness, not by each other’s misery. We don’t want to hate and despise one another. In this world there is room for everyone. And the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way.</p>
<p>Greed has poisoned men’s souls; has barricaded the world with hate; has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed. We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in. Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical; our cleverness, hard and unkind.</p>
<p>We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery ,we need humanity. More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost. The aeroplane and the radio have brought us closer together. The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in man; cries out for universal brotherhood; for the unity of us all.</p>
<p>Even now my voice is reaching millions throughout the world, millions of despairing men, women, and little children, victims of a system that makes men torture and imprison innocent people.</p>
<p>To those who can hear me, I say “Do not despair.”</p>
<p>The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed, the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress. The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.</p>
<p>Soldiers! Don’t give yourselves to brutes, men who despise you and enslave you; who regiment your lives, tell you what to do, what to think and what to feel! Who drill you, diet you, treat you like cattle, use you as cannon fodder!</p>
<p>Don’t give yourselves to these unnatural men—machine men with machine minds and machine hearts! You are not machines! You are not cattle! You are men! You have a love of humanity in your hearts! You don’t hate!</p>
<p>Only the unloved hate; the unloved and the unnatural.</p>
<p>Soldiers! Don’t fight for slavery! Fight for liberty!</p>
<p>In the seventeenth chapter of St. Luke, it’s written “the kingdom of God is within man”, not one man nor a group of men, but in all men! In you! You, the people, have the power, the power to create machines, the power to create happiness! You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure. Then in the name of democracy, let us use that power.</p>
<p>Let us all unite.</p>
<p>Let us fight for a new world, a decent world that will give men a chance to work, that will give youth a future and old age a security. By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power. But they lie! They do not fulfill their promise. They never will!</p>
<p>Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people!</p>
<p>Now let us fight to fulfill that promise! Let us fight to free the world! To do away with national barriers! To do away with greed, with hate and intolerance!</p>
<p>Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men’s happiness.</p>
<p>Soldiers, in the name of democracy, let us all unite!</p>
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New Study Finds Connection Between Fracking And Increased Hospitalizations

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<p>A study published earlier this week reveals a significant connection between fracking and increased hospitalizations.</p>
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<p>A new study conducted by some of the nation’s top public health researchers determined a relationship between increased hospitalizations and hydraulic fracturing.</p>
<p>Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is a method of extracting oil and natural gas. The process has surged rapidly in the United States over the past decade. While the technology has been credited with decreasing the nation’s dependence on foreign and imported fuel, the method is a known contributor to air and water pollution.</p>
<p>As <a href="http://www.treehugger.com/fossil-fuels/fracking-linked-more-hospitalizations-pennsylvanias-marcellus-shale-region.html">Treehugger</a> shared, researchers from Columbia’s Mailman School of Public Health as well as Penn’s Perelman School of Medicine and Center for Environmental Health set intention to figure out if increased fracking along Pennsylvania’s Marcellus shale formation has had any effect on the health of nearby communities. The researchers analyzed the number of hospitalizations and the number of fracking wells for different zip codes in Bradford, Susquehanna, and Wayne County.</p>
<p>All data analyzed for the study was from 2007 to 2011. During that period of time, a substantial increase in the number of fracking wells in Bradford and Susquehanna occurred. Bradford has since banned fracking because the area is so close to the Delaware River watershed.</p>
<p>The researchers shared their findings in the <a href="http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0131093">open access journal PLOS ONE</a>. What they found is that hospitalizations for heart problems, neurological illnesses, and other health conditions were <strong>higher</strong> in <strong>areas with a greater density of fracking wells.</strong></p>
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<p>While some might believe the connection is a coincidence, the authors state that finding such a significant association over this short of a time period is <strong><span>remarkable</span>. </strong></p>
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<p><em>“At this point, we suspect that residents are exposed to many toxicants, noise, and social stressors due to hydraulic fracturing near their homes and this may add to the increased number of hospitalizations,”</em> said senior author Reynold Panettieri, Jr., MD in a statement. <em>“This study represents one of the most comprehensive to date to link health effects with hydraulic fracturing.”</em></p>
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<p>Even though the study cannot yet determine what factor of fracking is to blame for causing more health problems (correlation doesn’t prove causation, after all), the connection is an intriguing find.</p>
<p>The researchers go on to suggest that more study of the health risks of fracking is merited and that the economic benefits of fracking should be weighed against healthcare costs.</p>
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Congress Could Soon Pass A Ban On GMO Labeling (Introduced by Monsanto)

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<p>Monsanto recently introduced a bill to ban all mandatory GMO labeling in the US, which was approved by the House Agriculture Committee.</p>
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<p>Biotech companies know the power of consumer awareness, therefore, have been doing everything within their power to keep individuals and their families ignorant of what’s in their food. While suppression techniques and buy-outs have worked in the past, advocates for GMO labeling aren’t giving up the fight anytime soon.</p>
<p>In fact, 90%+ of the population (in the United States) has <a href="http://www.trueactivist.com/shocking-68-of-doctors-believe-gmos-should-be-labeled/">expressed desire</a> to see genetically modified foods labeled. And amazingly, <a href="http://www.trueactivist.com/shocking-68-of-doctors-believe-gmos-should-be-labeled/">68% of doctors want to see a label</a> slapped onto GMO foods as well.</p>
<p>But because Monsanto knows <a href="http://www.non-gmoreport.com/articles/march-2015/is-non-gmo-hurting-organic.php">56% of consumers</a> would likely opt out of buying genetically modified foods if labeled, they have quietly introduced a bill to <strong>ban all mandatory GMO labeling in the US. </strong></p>
<p><strong><em>The worst part is</em></strong>, the bill, introduced by Monsanto’s star representative Mike Pompeo, was <strong>just</strong> <strong>approved</strong> by the House Agriculture Committee. That means it is one step closer to becoming a full-fledged law. The bill is formally known as H.R. 1599, or the ‘Safe and Accurate Food Labeling Act of 2015.’</p>
<p>A more precise name, however, might be the <strong>‘Monsanto Protection on Steroids.’</strong> As <a href="http://naturalsociety.com/bill-ban-gmo-labeling-for-good-3/">Natural Society shares</a>, the bill was drafted by the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA), and was burdened upon the public by the usual food and drug companies who desire to keep consumers ignorant of what’s in their food.</p>
<p>Because the bill has <em>not</em> been passed, however, <em>there is good news</em>. Activists <strong>still</strong> have the power to raise awareness of this issue, vote with their dollar, and urge their representative to get involved in the GMO debate by advocating for everyone’s ‘right to know’.</p>
<p>By <strong>sharing</strong> this article and letting the world know what Mike Pompeo and Monsanto are up to, you are making a difference.</p>
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Nike Partnered With A Disabled Teen To Create An Easy-Entry Shoe, And It’s Incredible!

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<p>After a 16-year-old with cerebral palsy asked Nike to develop an easy-entry shoe, the company partnered with him to create a pair anyone can slip on.</p>
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<p><em>“If you have a body, you are an athlete,”</em> said the co-founder of Nike, Bill Bowerman. And for those who have at any time in their life been inspired to be the best versions of themselves, such a statement is not only empowering, its <em>truth. </em></p>
<p>For 16-year-old Matthew Walzer, Bowerman’s declaration was inspiration enough to believe that even with cerebral palsy he could – and will continue to be – a great athlete.</p>
<p>In an inspired move, the teenager <a href="http://www.upworthy.com/unable-to-tie-shoes-a-16-year-old-with-cerebral-palsy-wrote-to-nike-they-came-through-big-time?c=ufb1">wrote a letter to the athletic apparel company</a> to develop a shoe for people like him with disabilities. In the video above, Walzer shares the frustration and difficulty that can come from not being able to tie his shoes. Having an easy-entry shoe would liberate him from needing to depend upon his parents in college, an exciting – and necessary – move for the teen.</p>
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<p>The letter Matthew wrote to Nike follows:</p>
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<p><em>“Out of all the challenges I have overcome in my life, there is one that I am still trying to master, tying my shoes. Cerebral palsy stiffens the muscles in the body. As a result I have flexibility in only one of my hands which makes it impossible for me to tie my shoes. My dream is to go to the college of my choice without having to worry about someone coming to tie my shoes everyday.</em></p>
<p><em>I’ve worn Nike basketball shoes all my life. I can only wear this type of shoe because I need ankle support to walk. I am currently wearing the Lunar hyper gamer and LeBron Zoom Soldier 6’s. At 16 years old, I am able to completely dress myself, but my parents still have to tie my shoes. As a teenager who is striving to become totally self-sufficient, I find this extremely frustrating, and at times, embarrassing.</em></p>
<p><em>I know that Nike makes slip-ons, sandals and other types of shoes. However, I and many other physically challenged people are unable to wear them due to a lack of support. When I think of Nike, I think of one of America’s most innovative and forward thinking companies. Nike is always pushing the limits, making their shoes lighter, faster and stronger by using new materials, new designs and new technologies. This benefits people all around the world. Bill Bowerman said it best, ‘If you have a body you are an athlete.’ I believe everyone, no matter what their physical, economic, or social circumstances may be, deserves to call themselves an athlete, and deserves to have a sense of freedom and independence.”</em></p>
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<p>To Matthew’s delighted surprise, a 23-year-old <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaNM_T1d1as">Nike product manager responded</a>, saying that he, too, has cerebral palsy and a passion for sports. GNN reported in 2012 that Nike’s designers were inspired by the young man’s letter, and therefore worked with Matthew for the next few years on a lace-free prototype that he – and other disabled individuals – could easily slide on and off.</p>
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<p>The <a href="http://news.nike.com/news/the-flyease-journey">Zoom Soldier 8 FLYEASE</a> shoes are definitely something to get excited about. The unique footwear features a wrap-around enclosure that opens the back of the shoe for those with limited hand function.</p>
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<p><em>“When I put the shoes on every morning, they give the greatest sense of independence and accomplishment I have ever felt in my life,”</em> Matthew replied to Nike.</p>
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<p>Since Nike has worked with well-known athletes such as Michael Jordan, Serena Williams, and Kobe Bryant, the shoe was designed to incorporate similar features. In fact, the new design includes the same ankle support as Lebron James’s line – Matthew’s favorite NBA basketball player.</p>
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<p>Later this month, Nike will outfit U.S. basketball teams participating in the 2015 Special Olympics World Summer Games with the new Zoom Soldier 8 FLYEASE shoes.</p>
<p>And as the shoes hit the market mid-July, Matthew will <em>finally</em> have a pair to kick back in – just in time for college.</p>
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UK Commits to Less Welfare, More Warfare

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<p><strong><a href="http://theantimedia.org/team/michaela/" target="_blank">Michaela Whitton</a><br />
July 16, 2015</strong></p>
<p><strong>(</strong><a href="http://theantimedia.org/" target="_blank"><strong>ANTIMEDIA</strong></a><strong>)</strong> What’s that noise? It’s the U.K. drums of war beating.</p>
<p>Less than a week after George Osborne’s emergency budget declared a <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/jul/11/uk-young-fairness-george-osborne-budget" target="_blank">war on young people</a>, Britain suddenly has enough funds to <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-33358267" target="_blank">re-consider</a> a bombing campaign in Syria.</p>
<p>David Cameron visited U.K. drone base RAF Waddington on Monday, backing up his <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-33500006" target="_blank">commitment</a> to spend more on drones, spy planes, and special forces—which, according to the latest terror hysteria, is “<a href="http://www.lincolnshireecho.co.uk/David-Cameron-visits-RAF-Waddington-say-Britain/story-26890665-detail/story.html" target="_blank"><em>vital in keeping us safe</em></a>.”</p>
<p>The use of British drones began in Afghanistan in 2007.  More recently, drones and Tornado jets carried out over <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/news/defence-secretary-thanks-uk-military-personnel-tackling-isil" target="_blank">70 strikes</a> against Islamic State militants in Iraq, also providing support for the Iraqi army and Kurdish Peshmerga forces. So far in <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/oct/21/uk-to-fly-military-drones-over-syria">Syria</a>, U.K.  drones have been limited to a surveillance role.</p>
<p><em>“As Prime Minister, I will always put the national security of our country first. That’s why it is right that we spend 2% of our GDP on defence because this investment helps to keep us safe. It has only been possible because of the difficult decisions we have made to ensure a strong and secure economy.</em><em>”</em> David Cameron <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/07/12/spend-more-on-drones-chiefs-told_n_7781446.html" target="_blank">said</a> on Monday.</p>
<p>Let that sink in.</p>
<p>The difficult decisions he is referring to must be the £12 billion worth of welfare cuts, literally hounding Britain’s poor to <a href="http://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/one-in-five-benefit-related-deaths-involved-sanctions-admits-dwp/" target="_blank">death</a>.</p>
<p>But do not despair, Cameron wants to make sure Britain is safe in a ”<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-33500006" target="_blank"><em>very dangerous and unstable world</em></a>” and is convinced Islamic extremism is at the root of the problem. He plans to make sure Britain has the equipment to deal with the threat at “<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-33500006" target="_blank"><em>its source</em></a>.” Oh no—not that old sketch! We are all familiar with Britain’s exemplary record of dealing with threats at the source, namely, the mass destruction in <a href="http://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2015/03/23/isis-the-unintended-consequences-of-the-us-led-war-on-iraq/" target="_blank">Iraq</a>, <a href="http://www.stopwar.org.uk/news/libya-where-humanitarian-intervention-turned-into-its-exact-opposite" target="_blank">Libya</a> and <a href="http://stopwar.org.uk/news/how-britain-spent-40bn-suffering-humiliating-defeat-in-afghanistan-while-trying-to-impress-the-us" target="_blank">Afghanistan</a>.</p>
<p>A <a href="http://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_reports/RR400/RR446/RAND_RR446.pdf" target="_blank">study</a> produced by the RAND corporation clearly outlines that aerial interventions do nothing to stop terrorist organisations and are more likely to escalate conflict. Since when does dropping bombs make the world a safer place? The hypocrisy of Britain contemplating air strikes on Syria while <a href="http://theantimedia.org/middle-east-burns-business-usual-uk-arms-trade/" target="_blank">arming</a> countries like Saudi Arabia—the largest exporter of extremist ideology and mercenary fighters in the region—is mind blowing.</p>
<p>In messy, cruel wars that have no regard for civilian casualties, the West could be  engaging in diplomacy and humanitarian aid, working towards alleviating suffering on a longer term scale. Instead, the aim seems to be to get the public to buy the idea that dropping bombs on other sovereign countries will protect U.K. citizens from “terror.”</p>
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UK Commits to Less Welfare, More Warfare

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Michaela Whitton July 16, 2015 (ANTIMEDIA) What’s that noise? It’s the U.K. drums of war beating. Less than a week after George Osborne’s emergency budget declared a war on young people, Britain suddenly has enough funds to re-consider a bombing camp…

Pizza Employee Takes Smoke Break and Saves Kidnapped Child

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<p><a href="https://twitter.com/thesmgibson" target="_blank"><strong>SM Gibson</strong></a><br />
<strong>July 16, 2015</strong></p>
<p><strong>(<a href="http://www.theantimedia.org" target="_blank">ANTIMEDIA</a>)</strong> On July 9th<strong>, </strong>Courtney Best was clocked in for her shift at Papa Murphy’s Pizza in Corpus Christi, Texas when she felt the itch that smokers know all to well. Little did the 26-year-old know at the time, her sudden urge for <em>this</em> particular cigarette was about to save a child’s life.</p>
<p>Typically, when Courtney needed to satisfy her nicotine cravings at work, she would step out back for a quick smoke, but for some reason, on this day, she decided to light-up out front.</p>
<p><em>“I stepped outside, I was standing by the trashcan, and I seen a white car pull up, and I just happen to take my phone with me, cause we don’t look at our phones at work, and I looked down and I saw ‘white Dodge Avenger Amber Alert,’ and I was like, ‘Nah, that’s not him,'”</em> <a href="http://www.kristv.com/story/29516418/pizza-shop-employee-helps-rescue-kidnapped-child" target="_blank">Courtney told KRIS TV</a> in Corpus Christi. <em>“The man was walking across the parking lot looking at me … cause I was the only person out here, with the little boy and the little boy looked scared and I was like no, that’s not him.”</em></p>
<p>The Amber Alert was issued for 7-year-old Nicolas Gomez who had been <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/news/texas-pizza-shop-employee-helps-police-track-down-kidnapping-suspect/" target="_blank">abducted</a> the day before in nearby Alice, Tx.</p>
<p>As Courtney watched the pair walk into a neighboring dollar store, her gut told her that she had to do something. <em>“My stomach started knotting up, so I was like, ahh, I’m gonna go, I’m gonna check and see,”</em> Courtney said.</p>
<p>Thinking on her feet, Courtney ran to her car and nonchalantly drove past the vehicle that the man and the young boy had emerged from. As she got a clear view of the license plate number, she confirmed that it was a match.</p>
<p>In disbelief, Courtney immediately picked up her cell phone and dialed 911. By this time though, the man and his victim were already back in the white Dodge and were driving away.</p>
<p><em>“And I’m on the phone with 911 and I tell her, look, the plates match up, he’s turning left on Staples but I’m gonna follow him.”</em></p>
<p>Luckily, police officers caught up to the suspect and he was <a href="http://www.caller.com/news/local-news/crime/amber-alert-police-search-for-missing-alice-boy-suspect" target="_blank">arrested</a> on a $100,000 kidnapping warrant obtained by detectives.</p>
<p>Nicolas is now back with his mother in Alice and 29-year-old Channing Eloy Galbraith is being held at Jim Wells County Jail on charges related to kidnapping.</p>
<p>As for Courtney, she admitted that she never paid much attention to Amber Alerts before, but now <a href="http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/texas-pizza-worker-takes-smoke-break-and-saves-kidnapped-child/ar-AAcV3VE" target="_blank">states</a> that she will definitely be on high alert the next time her phone signals a missing child.</p>
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Pizza Employee Takes Smoke Break and Saves Kidnapped Child

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SM Gibson July 16, 2015 (ANTIMEDIA) On July 9th, Courtney Best was clocked in for her shift at Papa Murphy’s Pizza in Corpus Christi, Texas when she felt the itch that smokers know all to well. Little did the 26-year-old know at the time, her sudden …

City Cuts All Ties With 5 Big Banks Over Corruption Charges

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<p><strong><a href="http://www.occupy.com/author/matt-stannard/" target="_blank">Matt Stannard</a><br />
July 15, 2015</strong></p>
<p><strong>(<a href="http://www.occupy.com/" target="_blank">OCCUPY.COM</a>)</strong> It’s hard being a big private bank these days. Ongoing awareness of the <a href="http://wallstreetonparade.com/2015/06/goldman-sachs-doesnt-have-clean-hands-in-greece-crisis/" target="_blank">role that Goldman Sachs played in the Greek debt crisis</a>; that Greek voters <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/06/greek-feferendum-no-vote-why-young-people" target="_blank">said no</a> to Europe’s harsh austerity demands; <a href="http://rooseveltinstitute.org/policy-and-ideas/big-ideas/dirty-deals" target="_blank">recent revelations</a> of unreasonably high fees and interest rates for lending to municipalities, and the role of <a href="http://www.occupy.com/article/material-responsibility-what-banks-did-baltimore">big banks in the Baltimore crisis</a> and <a href="http://www.occupy.com/article/detroits-bankruptcy-plan-adjustment-latest-giveaway-big-banks">Detroit bankruptcy</a> all suggest that irresponsible finance ruins millions of lives.</p>
<p>And then there are the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/21/business/dealbook/5-big-banks-to-pay-billions-and-plead-guilty-in-currency-and-interest-rate-cases.html?_r=0" target="_blank">six banks</a> that manipulated exchange rates between euros and dollars and manipulated LIBOR, which sets the “benchmark” for what banks charge one another.</p>
<p>In May, Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, Barclays, Royal Bank of Scotland and UBS Group AG pled guilty to felonies. Swiss Bank had cooperated with authorities early on, and was ultimately not charged. The banks face collective fines of a little over $5 billion – paltry in relation to the money they handle and the money they manipulated. But while big banks continue to ruin communities and personal lives with light impunity, in some cases the people are fighting back.</p>
<p><strong>Santa Cruz Stands Up</strong></p>
<p>In California, Santa Cruz County Supervisor Ryan Coonery has written books on capitalism and is a founder of Next Space Coworking, a company specializing in shared workspace. He’s no revolutionary, nor an enemy of the free market. He doesn’t throw bricks. But when the U.S. Department of Justice announced on May 20 that most of the wrongdoer banks were pleading guilty to felonies, Coonery prioritized local over global, and working people over corporate profits.</p>
<p>Spurred by a growing interest among many in Santa Cruz for economic reform, Coonery <a href="http://sccounty01.co.santa-cruz.ca.us/BDS/Govstream2/Bdsvdata/non_legacy_2.0/agendas/2015/20150609-659/PDF/029-1.pdf" target="_blank">requested</a> that the board “not do new business for a period of five years with Citigroup, JP Morgan Chase, Barclays, Royal Bank of Scotland and UBS as specified, and further direct that the County unwind existing relationships with these five banks to the greatest extent feasible.”</p>
<p>According to <a href="http://www.allgov.com/usa/ca/news/where-is-the-money-going/santa-cruz-county-slashes-business-with-five-big-felonious-banks-150707?news=856899%5D" target="_blank">commentator Ken Broder</a>, Coonery was specifically reacting to the way the banks had been found to have “messed with hundreds of billions of dollars a day in transactions for five years, right through the financial meltdown… The banks made untold billions using a private electronic chatroom to manipulate the spot market’s exchange rate between euros and dollars.”</p>
<p>From the beginning, the crux of the move was symbolic. “We currently don’t use these banks for our day to day banking and if that contract comes up in the next five years, these banks would be excluded from applying,” Coonery told me recently. Although Santa Cruz has purchased “commercial paper” (short-term unsecured promissory notes) from some of the banks, “the County Treasurer under this new policy will no longer do so,” he explained.</p>
<p>Local sustainable economic activity is important to Coonery, who said he’ll still scrutinize the banks even after the five-year ban ends. “I still have a preference to investing our funds locally,” he added.</p>
<p>“I sponsored a policy when I was the Mayor of Santa Cruz to have the City put its money in local financial institutions to spur the economy. However, if these banks have cleaned up their act and not committed more crimes, they can be considered for our investment pool again.”</p>
<p>Amanda Robinson, vice chair of the Santa Cruz County Democratic Party, was also instrumental in making the Supervisors’ decision happen. Once people started talking about it, she said, the community realized it was a no-brainer – and by passing the measure 5-0, Santa Cruz sent a clear message that the county is in control of its money.</p>
<p>“The Supervisors can make a strong point and show disapproval with our dollars,” she said. “We will no longer put up with unethical and illegal banking practices. I hope other cities and counties will follow our lead and remove their monies from banks that don’t benefit local communities.”</p>
<p>While Robinson is happy the decision has gotten <a href="http://www.gtweekly.com/index.php/santa-cruz-news/santa-cruz-local-news/6718-rebuild-the-art-banks-for-nothing.html" target="_blank">national publicity</a>, she believes the conversation shouldn’t end with the supervisors’ action. Like Coonery, she wants local investment.</p>
<p>“We are all aware of the benefits that investing with local banks can have for a community,” Robinson said, and “It would also be nice to see other ‘bad banks’ added to [the] list, i.e. Morgan Stanley, Wells Fargo and Bank of America.”</p>
<p><strong>The Power of Local Politics</strong></p>
<p>Why not envision that? Supervisors play a uniquely powerful role in local affairs, and now they might be a cornerstone for the coming pushback by municipal governments against big banks. Supervisors aren’t bound by separation of powers concerns like those that characterize federal and state government. In <a href="http://www.counties.org/general-information/county-structure-0" target="_blank">California and elsewhere</a>, “the Board of Supervisors is both the legislative and the executive authority of the county. It also has quasi-judicial authorities.”</p>
<p>Combine that with a strong mandate from citizens and you have a county ready to fight. “I’m very lucky to represent a community that very much believes in standing up for what is right,” Coonery said, “even if it is against very powerful interests.” He has also read the <a href="http://rooseveltinstitute.org/policy-and-ideas/big-ideas/dirty-deals" target="_blank">reports</a> about banks’ unreasonably high service fees and interest rates that have sparked so much investigative interest of late – and says his eyes are now wide open. “I’ve just become aware of these efforts and am looking at what we can implement in Santa Cruz County,” he said.</p>
<p>In the meantime, banishing the banks is a small but important step. More important than the actual financial ripple caused by Santa Cruz’s decision might be what it’s able to show other municipalities considering similar action. Activists should learn about the power and structure of their counties’ supervisory boards. They have all the power except judicial power.</p>
<p>The enthusiasm propelling Santa Cruz reflects a broader realization: that firm local actions are part of a larger, growing vision to retake public control in a world that increasingly seems wholly colonized by capital. Mark Karlin of Buzzflash/Truthout <a href="http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/santa-cruz-county-won-t-do-business-with-big-banks-that-act-like-crooks" target="_blank">points out</a> that in the long-term, “the current banking system needs to be completely restructured…[and] the creation of public banks across the U.S., based on the model in North Dakota, is a more desirable long-term goal – but for the moment, governmental entities severing their ties to Wall Street would be a salutary step.”</p>
<p>Amanda Robinson agrees. “We have to start somewhere,” she said.</p>
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<p><em>Matt Stannard is Policy Director for Commonomics USA and is on the Board of the Public Banking Institute.</em></p>
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City Cuts All Ties With 5 Big Banks Over Corruption Charges

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Matt Stannard July 15, 2015 (OCCUPY.COM) It’s hard being a big private bank these days. Ongoing awareness of the role that Goldman Sachs played in the Greek debt crisis; that Greek voters said no to Europe’s harsh austerity demands; recent revelation…

Pope Calls on World Youth to Rise Up Against Global Capitalism

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<p>'Make a mess, but then also help to tidy it up,' Argentinian pontiff said in address to Paraguay youth</p>
<p><a href="http://cdn10.trueactivist.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/pope.jpg"><img alt="pope" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-36070" height="219" src="http://cdn9.trueactivist.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/pope-400x219.jpg" width="400" /></a>By:<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/author/lauren-mccauley-staff-writer" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Lauren McCauley,</a></p>
<p>The latest call for a youth uprising against global capitalism came not from grassroots groups, but from the leader of the Catholic Church, who on Sunday gave a rousing speech during which he <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HJ_ZI-o6G8">told</a> a crowd of young people in Paraguay that it is their time to “make a mess.”</p>
<p>The address marked the end of Pope Francis’ week-long pilgrimage to Latin America, during which he also <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/12/world/americas/in-fiery-speeches-francis-excoriates-global-capitalism.html">assailed</a> the prevailing economic system as the “dung of the devil,” saying that the systemic “greed for money” is a “subtle dictatorship” that “condemns and enslaves men and women.”</p>
<p>During Sunday’s rally, which was held on the banks of the Paraguay River outside the capital Asunción, the Argentinian pontiff went off-script as he addressed tens of thousands of local youth.</p>
<p>“They wrote a speech for me to give you. But speeches are boring,” Pope Francis said. “Make a mess, but then also help to tidy it up. A mess which gives us a free heart, a mess which gives us solidarity, a mess which gives us hope.”</p>
<p>He also encouraged those present to look at their less fortunate peers, some of whom he met earlier in the day during a visit to the Banado Norte shantytown, and spoke of the connection between authentic liberty and responsibility and the necessity of fighting for the right to lead a dignified life.</p>
<p>“We don’t want young weaklings. We do not want young people who tire quickly, who live life worn out with faces of boredom. We want youths with hope and strength,” Francis told the crowd.</p>
<p>Pope Francis’ South American visit comes just week after the release of his Papal Encyclical, which many hailed as a “radical statement,” in which he <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/06/18/climate-common-good-pope-francis-calls-justice-warming-planet">told</a> leaders of the Catholic Church that there is a moral imperative for addressing climate change.</p>
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<p><em>This article (<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/07/13/pope-calls-world-youth-rise-against-global-capitalism">Pope Calls on World Youth to Rise Up Against Global Capitalism</a>) is free and open source. You have permission to republish this article under a </em><a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><em>Creative Commons</em></a><em> license with attribution to the author <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/07/13/pope-calls-world-youth-rise-against-global-capitalism">commondreams.org</a> and </em><a href="http://www.trueactivist.com/"><em>TrueActivist.com</em></a><em>.</em></p>
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Pope Calls on World Youth to Rise Up Against Global Capitalism

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World’s First Hotel Staffed By Robots Opens In Japan

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<p><a href="http://cdn9.trueactivist.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/japan-weird-hotel-robots.jpg"><img alt="japan-weird-hotel-robots" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-36059" height="225" src="http://cdn10.trueactivist.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/japan-weird-hotel-robots-400x225.jpg" width="400" /></a>It was recently reported that the world’s first robot hotel has opened in Japan, and it even features a dinosaur robot as a receptionist.</p>
<p>The Henn na Hotel in Japan, translated to “The Weird Hotel” in English, opened for its first visitors this week. The hotel is located near the Huis Ten Bosch amusement park in Sasebo, in southwestern Japan.</p>
<p>Hideo Sawada, president of the hotel company responsible for the innovation, has said that he made the move to cut back on prices.</p>
<p><em>“I wanted to highlight innovation. I also wanted to do something about hotel prices going up,”</em> he said.</p>
<p>Unfortunately though, he said that the robots cannot yet do everything that a human can do.</p>
<p><em>“They still can’t make beds,</em>” he added.</p>
<p>The savings are passed along to the customer, who pays just 9,000 yen ($73) for the average room. The most expensive room in the hotel reportedly costs just 14,000 yen ($113).</p>
<p>Some critics may argue that robots take away jobs from humans, but this traditional narrative has never actually been proven, it is merely an assumption that has become generally accepted. In the past, technology that has replaced working humans has not actually diminished the amount of jobs available for humans, it has merely pushed the industry and the workforce in a different direction. For example, plows, tractors and other farming equipment is responsible for the fact that there are fewer farmers today than there were hundreds of years ago, however, new jobs were created by that technology that people in the past would have never dreamed were possible. There will always be ways for humans to provide value for one another, even if robots are hired to complete all of the menial tasks that people can do, there will still be a need for goods and services, and there will still be a marketplace for humans to interact on that level.</p>
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Australian Government Sets Up New Agency To Kill 2 Million Cats

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<p><a href="http://cdn10.trueactivist.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/cat.jpg"><img alt="cat" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-36051" height="300" src="http://cdn10.trueactivist.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/cat-400x300.jpg" width="400" /></a>Austrailian Environment Minister Greg Hunt said this week that the government plans to kill at least two million feral cats. The minister says that the extermination is an attempt to save local wildlife that are threatened by the cats.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.news24.com/Green/News/2-million-feral-cats-to-be-killed-in-Australia-20150716">The announcement was made at a wildlife summit in Melbourne</a>, where Hunt said that they will be launching the Threatened Species Strategy, a program that will divert $4.8 million towards the extermination of wild cats.</p>
<p>“<em>By 2020, I want to see two million feral cats culled, five new islands and 10 new mainland areas as safe havens, free of feral cats, and control measures applied across 10 million hectares,”</em> Hunt said.</p>
<p>Hunt appointed Gregory Andrews as the Threatened Species Commissioner, who will oversee the trapping and killing of the cats.</p>
<p><em>“We don’t hate cats. We just can’t tolerate the damage that they’re doing to our wildlife,”</em> Andrews said.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.trueactivist.com/australian-government-admits-that-they-killed-hundreds-of-koalas/">Earlier this year we reported</a> that Australia’s western Victoria Environment Minister Lisa Neville recently admitted that the state killed as many as 700 Koalas, in an attempt to control their population.</p>
<p>The killings took place during the years of 2013 and 2014 at the hands of wildlife officials. Neville told reporters that the koala population is “a very challenging and complex issue” and added that the killings were “humane and effective”.</p>
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<p><em>This article ( <a href="http://www.trueactivist.com/australian-government-sets-up-new-agency-to-kill-2-million-cats/" target="_blank">Australian Government Sets Up New Agency To Kill 2 Million Cats</a> ) is free and open source. You have permission to republish this article under a</em> <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><em>Creative Commons</em></a> <em>license with attribution to the author and</em> <a href="http://www.trueactivist.com/"><em>TrueActivist.com</em></a><em>.</em></p>
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What the Media Won’t Dare Reveal to You About Jade Helm

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<p><strong>7/15/2015: OPERATION JADE HELM OFFICIALLY KICKED OFF!</strong></p>
<p><strong>The Jade Helm military exercise kicked off today and already the media is diligently beating away at “those crazy conspiracy nuts”. They’re all to happy to focus on some of the more unbelievable theories floating around, but not a single agency has discussed what was revealed months ago.</strong><strong>In the first video below, Lee Ann McAdoo further confirms what I talked about yesterday in my post titled,</strong> <strong><a href="http://beforeitsnews.com/politics/2015/07/russian-television-reports-martial-law-fear-sweeping-parts-of-u-s-2726776.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Russian Television Reports Martial Law Fear Sweeping Parts of U.S.</a></strong><strong> </strong></p>
<p><strong>Despite mountains of evidence piling up daily that something nefarious is clearly beginning to take shape right in front of us, the American media is noticeably ABSENT in reporting anything of significance. All we hear them are crickets from their lack of reporting anything “newsworthy” all together, or as Lee Ann discusses in the video, they default to finger pointing and laughing. Our own media won’t use an ounce of journalistic integrity and actually do their jobs, so Russian Television did it for them, complete with an accurate lesson in American History. </strong></p>
<p><strong>In the video, Lee Ann brings up what is conveniently being lost in all the buzz, and predictably something the media has stayed far away from entirely since word of Jade Helm first broke, and that’s the operational goal of Jade Helm: To Master the Human Domain. What does that mean?</strong></p>
<p><strong>Jade Helm is more than a simple military exercise. If you understand the technologies, you will see that Jade Helm is more an intelligence operation using Geospatial Intelligence mapping.</strong> <strong>In military terminology, “the human domain,” or “the human domain analytics,” refers to anything dealing with people. </strong> <strong>The battlefield of the future is not going to be between Nation states, rather there is literally a war on for your mind. It’s going to be about “</strong><strong>Total Information Awareness.” He that controls information, controls. </strong></p>
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<p><strong>In the second video below,</strong> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9LgXE83J11NLZhKONjOmNA" rel="nofollow"><strong>BrewingWaves</strong></a> <strong>confirms much of what was learned in a previous post of mine titled,</strong> <a href="http://beforeitsnews.com/politics/2015/06/cia-and-jade-helm-surround-u-s-veterans-thanks-to-maps-given-by-bilderberg-head-2719294.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><strong>CIA and Jade Helm Surround U.S. Veterans’ Homes Thanks to Maps Provided by Bilderberg Head Peter Thiel</strong></a><strong>.</strong> <strong>To briefly recap and save some time, “JADE” is a software application the military is now using that allocates manpower and equipment on-the-fly based on prior experience, prior events, and the capability of being able to “predict criminal activity.” It is an artificial intelligence application that learns which tactics and personnel were most successful in different scenarios, and then builds on its knowledge as it goes. That is the “JADE” part of Jade Helm. Remind you of any movies you’ve seen? [Hint: Terminator Series]</strong></p>
<p><strong>JADE is taking the helm (lead) in this exercise, and according to the information in my previous post, for now the plan is to encompass the most dense pockets of veterans based on location information obtained by Peter Thiel and then turned over to the CIA during Bilderberg. </strong></p>
<p><strong>WARNING: VIDEOS NOT FOR FAINT OF HEART!</strong></p>
<p><strong>VERY DISTURBING CONTENT!</strong></p>
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<p><strong>“EVEN IF EVERYTHING YOU SAID IS WRONG, AND I DON’T SUSPECT IT IS, IT’S STILL JUST SO COMPLEX, AND SO DIABOLICAL, AND SO SCREWED UP, BUT IN THIS BEAUTIFULLY ENGINEERED WAY, IT’S EXTRAORDINARILY MONSTROUS!”</strong></p>
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What the Media Won’t Dare Reveal to You About Jade Helm

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These 5 Crazy Things Were Found on Earth, and Some of Them Still Can’t Be Explained

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<p>This ancient stone structure found just outside of Peru uses nothing to hold the stones together, and they fit together like a game of Tetris.</p>
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<p>This is an obelisk, which is essentially a decorative stone pillar, but the cracks in the granite signal that the project was ultimately abandoned.</p>
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<p>This intricate, Stonehenge-like structure resides in Bolivia and is possibly the spot of origin for all of mankind.</p>
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<p>hese caves are manmade, and likely are the remnants of the Qin dynasty, dating as far back as 212 BC.</p>
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<p>This Canadian province is the result of Viking settlers, proving that Chris Columbus was not the first dude to touch land on the continent.</p>
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These 5 Crazy Things Were Found on Earth, and Some of Them Still Can’t Be Explained

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1 Saksaywaman This ancient stone structure found just outside of Peru uses nothing to hold the stones together, and they fit together like a game of Tetris. 2 An Unfinished Obelisk This is an obelisk, which is essentially a decorative stone pillar, b…

The 5126-Year Mayan Cycle And December 21, 2012 Point To September 23, 2015

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The 5126-Year Mayan Cycle And December 21, 2012 Point To September 23, 2015

anon anonymous news The 5126-Year Mayan Cycle And December 21, 2012 Point To September 23, 2015

They are ALL CONNECTED! There are 5,126 days between 9-11-2001 and 9-23-2015 This is it folks, it’s real and it’s THIS YEAR! As one commenter stated: “It is the 70th Jubilee since the Exodus, but it is also the120th Jubilee since the fall. My spirit …

(EXCLUSIVE VIDEO) Sharks Discovered Inside Underwater Volcano

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<p>A real life sharkcano? Ocean engineer Brennan Phillips led a team to the remote Solomon Islands in search of hydrothermal activity. They found plenty of activity—including sharks in a submarine volcano. The main peak of the volcano, called Kavachi, was not erupting during their expedition, so they were able to drop instruments, including a deep-sea camera, into the crater. The footage revealed hammerheads and silky sharks living inside, seemingly unaffected by the hostile temperatures and acidity.</p>
<p>Phillips said, “You never know what you’re going to find. Especially when you are working deep underwater. The deeper you go, the stranger it gets.” They knew they would see interesting geology but weren’t sure about the biology. “No one has ever looked in the deep sea there, period. No one’s been out to anywhere in the Solomon Islands and gone deeper than a few hundred meters or deeper than a scuba diver has gone, really. So we were very excited. We thought there was a lot of potential.”</p>
<p>Normally, the deep-sea cameras are programmed to film underwater for several hours. The team felt like that was a bit too risky inside a submarine volcano, so the camera was only at the bottom of the crater for an hour. The footage has to be downloaded and reviewed after the camera returns to the surface. As Phillips explained, “One of the videos from inside the main caldera of Kavachi shows some jellyfish hanging out. They seem to be there naturally. And then we see some snappers and some small fish … and then sharks start coming after the camera. Sharks are cool in their own right—all of them are—but a hammerhead is particularly neat looking. And they’re in there, in numbers, inside the volcano! Now I want to spend years trying to study that and why that is the case.”</p>
<p>The National Geographic Society/Waitt Grants Program supported the expedition.</p>
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A real life sharkcano? Ocean engineer Brennan Phillips led a team to the remote Solomon Islands in search of hydrothermal activity. They found plenty of activity—including sharks in a submarine volcano. The main peak of the volcano, called Kavachi…

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