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Shell Icebreaker Retreats After Portland Showdown with Rappel and Kayak Protesters

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<h2>Shell Icebreaker Retreats After Portland Showdown with Rappel and Kayak Protesters</h2>
<span>Shell Icebreaker Retreats After Portland Showdown with Rappel and Kayak Protesters</span>
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<div>This article originally appeared on <span>Al Jazeera America</span></div>
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<p>A Shell Oil icebreaker vessel appears to have retreated after a showdown with environmental activists dangling by ropes from the tallest bridge in Portland, Oregon.</p>
<p>Environmental activists on St. Johns Bridge and kayakers on the water below had been blocking the icebreaker from heading to the Arctic for a drill operation.</p>
<p>But hours later, a federal judge in Alaska ordered the U.S. arm of international environmentalist organization Greenpeace, the main organizer of the blockade, to pay a $2,500 for every hour that protestors continued to block the vessel.</p>
<p>U.S. District Court Judge Sharon Gleason ruled Thursday in Anchorage that Greenpeace is in civil contempt. Gleason in May granted Shell's request that activists protesting Shell's Arctic drilling plans be ordered to stay away from Shell vessels and beyond buffer zones.</p>
<p>The icebreaker Fennica arrived in Portland for repairs last week. The vessel was damaged earlier this month in the Aleutian Islands when it struck an underwater obstruction, tearing a gash in its hull.</p>
<p>It started its journey to the Arctic early Thursday before stalling in the face of 13 dangling activists linked by ropes. It then turned around and inched its way back to Vigor Industrial's dry dock, delighting those gathered on shore in the city known for environmentalism.</p>
<p>"I think it's inspirational," Portland resident Lisa Szot told The Oregonian about Thursday's demonstration. "It's a really beautiful protest."</p>
<p>The U.S. Coast Guard warned the danglers they were breaking the law, but it did not take action. Petty Officer 1st Class George Degener said the agency did not tell those aboard the icebreaker to turn around.</p>
<p>"I don't know what led the master and the pilot on board to come to that decision," he said.</p>
<p>The icebreaker is a key part of Shell's exploration and spill-response plan off Alaska's northwest coast. It protects Shell's fleet from ice and carries equipment that can stop gushing oil.</p>
<p>Environmentalists hope to delay the ship long enough for winter weather to prevent Shell from drilling until 2016. By that time, they hope President Barack Obama’s administration has a change of heart on the issue.</p>
<p>"There is no Plan B, just as there is no Planet B; we have no intention of moving until President Obama rescinds the permit for Shell to drill in the Arctic," said Daphne Wysham of the Center for Sustainable Economy.</p>
<p>Shell did not immediately comment Thursday.</p>
<p>Portland police closed the bridge to traffic during the standoff. It was reopened shortly after the icebreaker reversed course.</p>
<p>The activists say they have water and food for the long haul. They also have their phones to stay in the social-media loop.</p>
<p>"The fennica is headed back to its dock where it belongs — not the arctic! #ShellNo," tweeted Dan Cannon, a Greenpeace activist dangling from the bridge.</p>
<p><a href="http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/7/30/shell-icebreaker-retreats-after-protest.html" rel="nofollow">Originally published by Al Jazeera America</a></p>
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<p>Activists dangling by ropes from the city's tallest bridge, and kayakers on the water below, blocked the icebreaker from heading to the Arctic for a drill operation.</p>
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<p>America's overstretched military has hired hundreds of private-sector contractors to analyze top-secret video feeds and help track suspected terrorist leaders – a secretive industry worth hundreds of millions of dollars.</p>
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<p>"Politicians and parties whom the electorate condemned for their efforts to turn Greece into a protectorate are now persecuting me. I wear their accusations as badges of honor."</p>
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<p>Through discovery of place, through story, and through personal connection with people along the way, we are journeying 1,100 miles to the tar sands of Alberta – and are asking for your support in our venture.</p>
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<p>"I tell you what, I wish instead of spending so much money on [incarcerating people], they'd come fill some of these crater holes behind my house."</p>
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<p>The incident occurred Sunday during protests against the arrest of a 14-year-old.</p>
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<p>“This is the first time fracking activists have got together on this scale internationally – from Kurdistan to Brazil, from Ukraine to Portugal and Algeria," says Catriona of Ireland, who attended the recent Frackanpada.</p>
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<p>Being sick and having nowhere to turn is terrorizing far too many Americans – as medical fraud, huge price markups and pharmaceutical copyright laws are contributing to growing illnesses and early death.</p>
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<p>Prosecutors said officer Ray Tensing “purposely killed” 43-year-old Samuel DuBose, an unarmed black man who was pulled over for a missing front license plate.</p>
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<p>This week, Aaron Draper invites you to see the humanity in the homeless via external flashes and light boxes. Next, Congress is peddling poison and wants to keep you in the DARK.</p>
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<p>The reports confirm social media surveillance of the movement and related events in Ferguson, Baltimore, Washington, D.C., and New York – including watching over vigils, parades and other benign gatherings.</p>
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<p>The Oakland-based activist and performer says workers need to look beyond city councils and form a radical new labor movement – through strikes, stoppages and occupations of the workplace.</p>
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Secretive Airspace: Private Companies Are Now At the Heart of U.S. Drone Warfare

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<h2>Secretive Airspace: Private Companies Are Now At the Heart of U.S. Drone Warfare</h2>
<span>Secretive Airspace: Private Companies Are Now At the Heart of U.S. Drone Warfare</span>
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<div>This article originally appeared on <span><a href="http://www.guardiannews.com/" rel="nofollow">The Guardian</a></span></div>
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<p>The overstretched U.S. military has hired hundreds of private-sector contractors to the heart of its drone operations to analyze top-secret video feeds and help track suspected terrorist leaders, an investigation has found.</p>
<p>Contracts unearthed by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism reveal a secretive industry worth hundreds of millions of dollars, placing a corporate workforce alongside uniformed personnel analyzing intelligence from areas of interest.</p>
<p>While it has long been known that U.S. defense firms supply billions of dollars’ worth of equipment for drone operations, the role of the private sector in supplying analysts for combing through intelligence material has remained almost entirely unknown until now.</p>
<p>Approximately one in 10 people involved in the effort to process data captured by drones and spy planes are non-military. And as the rise of Islamic State prompts what one commander termed “insatiable” demand for aerial surveillance, the Pentagon is considering further expanding its use of contractors, an air force official said.</p>
<p>Companies that stand to reap the benefits include BAE Systems and Edward Snowden’s former employer Booz Allen Hamilton.</p>
<p>The U.S. dependence on armed contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan has attracted close scrutiny, partly because of the notorious 2007 incident in which employees of the company then known as Blackwater killed 14 civilians in Baghdad. But the use of private companies in drone operations has so far happened largely under the radar.</p>
<p>The contractors review live footage gathered by drones and spy planes flying over areas of interest, and help uniformed colleagues decide whether people they spot are potential enemies or civilians.</p>
<p>Though private contractors do not formally make life-and-death choices – only military personnel operate armed drones and take final targeting decisions – there is concern that they could creep in to this function without more robust oversight.</p>
<p>Even now, contractors are aware that any errors of analysis they make could lead to the wrong people getting killed. “A misidentification of an enemy combatant with a weapon and a female carrying a broom can have dire consequences,” one told the bureau.</p>
<p>The ability to transmit live footage from above the villages and towns through which its enemies move has become central to the US war machine, and the air force has struggled to keep up with demand. Each day, armed and unarmed drones and surveillance planes gather 1,100 hours of video data – all of which needs to be analyzed.</p>
<p>Most of the time the analysts are conducting long-term surveillance – establishing what constitutes “normal” in a particular place. Some monitor images as they unfold in near-real time, while others scrutinise individual shots more closely to make sense of them.</p>
<p>In so-called “kinetic” situations – those that entail lethal force – the assessments passed on by the analysts can affect whether someone on the ground is seen as a threat.</p>
<p>Missions include long-term surveillance of suspected militants and their resources – known in military jargon as “high-value targets” – and gathering intelligence for special forces or standard military operations on the ground.</p>
<p>Almost exclusively ex-military, contractors say they are more experienced in what they are looking at than their uniformed counterparts, who are frequently moved between posts.</p>
<p>Some openly advertise their skills on sites such as LinkedIn: one even boasted of assisting with the “kill/capture of high-value targets.”</p>
<p>Another contractor suggested that at times their skills in effect placed them within the military chain of command. “It will always be military bodies or civilian government bodies as the overall in charge of the missions… however, you will have experienced contractors act as a ‘righthand man’ many times because typically contractors are the ones with subject matter expertise, so the military/government leadership lean on those people to make better mission-related decisions,” the analyst said.</p>
<p>By analyzing and cross-referencing a database of millions of federal spending records, military contracts, interviews with current and former contractors and online job ads, the bureau has identified 10 companies that have supplied the US government with image analysts in the past five years.</p>
<p>The contracts identified relate only to operations of conventional military and special forces. CIA contracts, which cover the agency’s controversial operations in Pakistan and Yemen, remain classified, so any role of the private sector in their controversial drone operations remains unknown.</p>
<p>The companies involved are a mixture of large defence contractors and smaller tech and intelligence-focused firms, and offer image analysis alongside other services ranging from logistics to translation.</p>
<p>Among the largest known users of image analysis contractors are branches of the Special Operations Command, which conducts drone operations and supports commando raids on the ground. A 16 May swoop on the Isis commander Abu Sayyaf, in which Sayyaf was killed and his wife captured, was supported by Predator surveillance, according to media reports.</p>
<p>Federal transaction records show that a company called Zel Technologies is supplying analysts to Air Force Special Operations Command (Afsoc) in a contract worth $12m in its first year. According to a copy of the contract obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, Zel is providing more than 100 analysts. The contract also requires Zel to provide experts “in the areas of the Horn of Africa, Arabian peninsula, Somalia, Syria, Iran, north Africa, Trans-Sahel region, Levant region, Gulf states, and territorial waters”.</p>
<p>A further Afsoc contract details how an Ohio-based firm called MacAulay-Brown was tasked to “support targeting, information operations, deliberate and crisis action planning, and 24/7/365 operations”.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, New York-based L-3 Communications won a contract with Special Operations Command (Socom) in 2010 that was to bring in $155m over five years.</p>
<p>Booz Allen Hamilton, which has been given a contract for supporting special operations, posted a job ad calling for personnel “providing direct intelligence support to the global war on terror”. British defence company BAE Systems, too, has advertised for video analysts to be “part of a high ops tempo team”.</p>
<p>Laura Dickinson, a specialist in military contracting at George Washington University law school, called for the Pentagon to make more information available about the role and scope of private contractors in drone operations.</p>
<p>“We urgently need more transparency,” she said. “The issue is not that some contractors may be doing imagery analysis. The problem is the ratio of contractors to government personnel. If that ratio balloons, oversight could easily break down, and the current prohibition on contractors making targeting decisions could become meaningless.”‬</p>
<p>A spokeswoman for the air force said ISR (intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance) was “vital to the national security of the United States and its allies”, and in “insatiable demand” from combatant commanders. She said this demand was the reason for increasing use of contractors, which she said was a “normal process within military operations”.‬</p>
<p>On the issue of whether private contractors’ assessments risk pre-empting the military’s official decisions, she said the service had thorough oversight and followed all appropriate rules.‬</p>
<p>‬‬“Current AF [air force] judge advocate rulings define the approved roles for contractors in the AF IRS’s processing, exploitation and dissemination capability,” she said.</p>
<p>“Air force DCGS [distributed common ground system] works closely with the judge advocate’s office to ensure a full, complete and accurate understanding and implementation of those roles. Oversight is accomplished by air force active duty and civilian personnel in real time and on a continual basis with personnel trained on the implementation of procedural checks and balances.”</p>
<p>The Pentagon declined to comment.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jul/30/revealed-private-firms-at-heart-of-us-drone-warfare" rel="nofollow">Originally published by The Guardian</a></p>
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<p>America's overstretched military has hired hundreds of private-sector contractors to analyze top-secret video feeds and help track suspected terrorist leaders – a secretive industry worth hundreds of millions of dollars.</p>
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<p>"Politicians and parties whom the electorate condemned for their efforts to turn Greece into a protectorate are now persecuting me. I wear their accusations as badges of honor."</p>
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<p>Through discovery of place, through story, and through personal connection with people along the way, we are journeying 1,100 miles to the tar sands of Alberta – and are asking for your support in our venture.</p>
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<p>"I tell you what, I wish instead of spending so much money on [incarcerating people], they'd come fill some of these crater holes behind my house."</p>
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<p>“This is the first time fracking activists have got together on this scale internationally – from Kurdistan to Brazil, from Ukraine to Portugal and Algeria," says Catriona of Ireland, who attended the recent Frackanpada.</p>
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<p>Being sick and having nowhere to turn is terrorizing far too many Americans – as medical fraud, huge price markups and pharmaceutical copyright laws are contributing to growing illnesses and early death.</p>
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<p>Dozens of kayaktivists took to the water to block Shell's Fennica ice breaker from leaving port, while a group of 13 climbers rappelled off a bridge in Portland, Oregon, with enough supplies to last days if needed.</p>
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<p>Through discovery of place, through story, and through personal connection with people along the way, we are journeying 1,100 miles to the tar sands of Alberta – and are asking for your support in our venture.</p>
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<p>A spate of bills attached with riders are moving through Congress that would dismantle the historic law by transferring authority from the federal level to the states – inaugurating an era of unrestrained development.</p>
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<p>Being sick and having nowhere to turn is terrorizing far too many Americans – as medical fraud, huge price markups and pharmaceutical copyright laws are contributing to growing illnesses and early death.</p>
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Witchhunt In Greece As Yanis Varafoukis Becomes First, and Biggest, Scapegoat

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<h2>Witchhunt In Greece As Yanis Varafoukis Becomes First, and Biggest, Scapegoat</h2>
<span>Witchhunt In Greece As Yanis Varafoukis Becomes First, and Biggest, Scapegoat</span>
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<div>This article originally appeared on <span><a href="http://www.webofdebt.com/" rel="nofollow">Web of Debt</a></span></div>
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<p>In the modern global banking system, all banks need a credit line with the central bank in order to be part of the payments system. Choking off that credit line was a form of blackmail the Greek government couldn’t refuse.</p>
<p>Former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis is now being charged with treason for exploring the possibility of an alternative payment system in the event of a Greek exit from the euro. The irony of it all was underscored by Raúl Ilargi Meijer, who opined in a July 27 blog:</p>
<p>"The fact that these things were taken into consideration doesn’t mean Syriza was planning a coup... If you want a coup, look instead at the Troika having wrestled control over Greek domestic finances. That’s a coup if you ever saw one.</p>
<p>"Let’s have an independent commission look into how on earth it is possible that a cabal of unelected movers and shakers gets full control over the entire financial structure of a democratically elected eurozone member government. By all means, let’s see the legal arguments for this."</p>
<p>So how was that coup pulled off? The answer seems to be through extortion. The European Central Bank threatened to turn off the liquidity that all banks – even solvent ones – need to maintain their day-to-day accounting balances. That threat was made good in the run-up to the Greek referendum, when the ECB did turn off the liquidity tap and Greek banks had to close their doors.</p>
<p>Businesses were left without supplies and pensioners without food. How was that apparently criminal act justified? Here is the rather tortured reasoning of ECB President Mario Draghi at a press conference on July 16:</p>
<p>"There is an article in the [Maastricht] Treaty that says that basically the ECB has the responsibility to promote the smooth functioning of the payment system. But this has to do with... the distribution of notes, coins. So not with the provision of liquidity, which actually is regulated by a different provision, in Article 18.1 in the ECB Statute: 'In order to achieve the objectives of the ESCB [European System of Central Banks], the ECB and the national central banks may conduct credit operations with credit institutions and other market participants, with lending based on adequate collateral.'</p>
<p>"This is the Treaty provision. But our operations were not monetary policy operations, but ELA [Emergency Liquidity Assistance] operations, and so they are regulated by a separate agreement, which makes explicit reference to the necessity to have sufficient collateral. So, all in all, liquidity provision has never been unconditional and unlimited."</p>
<p>In a July 23 post on Naked Capitalism, Nathan Tankus calls this “a truly shocking statement.” Why? Because all banks rely on their central banks to settle payments with other banks. “If the smooth functioning of the payments system is defined as the ability of depository institutions to clear payments,” says Tankus, “the central bank must ensure that settlement balances are available at some price.”</p>
<p><strong>How the Payments System Works</strong></p>
<p>The role of the central bank in the payments system is explained by the Bank for International Settlements like this:</p>
<p>"One of the principal functions of central banks is to be the guardian of public confidence in money, and this confidence depends crucially on the ability of economic agents to transmit money and financial instruments smoothly and securely through payment and settlement systems... [C]entral banks provide a safe settlement asset and in most cases they operate systems which allow for the transfer of that settlement asset.</p>
<p>Internationally before 1971, this “settlement asset” was gold. Later, it became electronic “settlement balances” or “reserves” maintained at the central bank. Today, when money travels by check from Bank A to Bank B, the central bank settles the transfer simply by adjusting the banks’ respective reserve balances, subtracting from one and adding to the other.</p>
<p>Checks continue to fly back and forth all day. If a bank’s reserve account comes up short at the end of the day, the central bank treats it as an automatic overdraft in the bank’s reserve account, effectively lending the bank the money in the form of electronic “liquidity” until the overdraft can be cleared.</p>
<p>The bank can cure the deficit by attracting new deposits or by borrowing from another bank with excess reserves; and if the whole system is short of reserves, the central bank creates more to maintain the liquidity of the system.</p>
<p>The most dramatic exercise of this liquidity function was seen after the banking crisis of 2008, when credit was frozen and banks had largely stopped lending to each other. The US Federal Reserve then stepped in and advanced over $16 trillion to financial institutions through the TAF (Term Asset Facility), the TALF (Term Asset-backed Securities Loan Facility), and similar facilities, at near-zero interest. Toxic unmarketable assets were converted into “good collateral” so the banks could remain solvent and keep their doors open.</p>
<p><strong>Liquidity as a Tool of Coercion</strong></p>
<p>That is how the Fed sees its role, but the ECB evidently has other ideas about this liquidity tool. Whether a country’s banks are allowed to “access monetary policy operations” is seen by the ECB not as mandatory but as discretionary with the central bank. And as a condition of that access, if a country’s bonds are “below investment grade,” the country must be under an IMF program — meaning it must subject itself to forced austerity measures. According to ECB Vice President Constâncio at the same press conference:</p>
<p>"[W]hen a country has a rating which is below the investment grade which is the minimum, then to access monetary policy operations, it has to have a waiver. And the waiver is granted if there are two conditions. The first condition is that the country must be under a programme with the EU and IMF; and second, we have to assess that there is credible compliance with such a programme."</p>
<p>Liquidity is provided only on “adequate collateral” — usually government bonds. But whether the bonds are “adequate” is not determined by their market price. Rather, political concessions are demanded. The government must sell off public assets, slash public services, lay off public workers, and subject its fiscal policies to oversight by unelected bureaucrats who can dictate every line item in the national budget.</p>
<p>Tankus observes:</p>
<p>"Europe now has a system where liquidity and insolvency problems can occur and can be deliberately generated (at least in part) by the central bank. Then the Troika can force that country into an “IMF program” if it wants to continue having a functioning banking system. Alternatively, the central bank can choose to simply “suspend convertibility” to the unit of account [i.e. cut off the supply of Euros] and force the write down of deposits [haircuts and bail-ins] until the banks are solvent again."</p>
<p><strong>Pushed to the Cliff by the Financial Mafia</strong></p>
<p>Were liquidity and insolvency problems intentionally generated in Greece’s case, as Tankus suggests? Let’s review. First there was the derivatives scheme sold to Greece by Goldman Sachs in 2001, which nearly doubled the nation’s debt by 2005.</p>
<p>Then there was the bank-induced credit crisis of 2008, when the ECB coerced Greece to bail out its insolvent private banks, throwing the country itself into bankruptcy.</p>
<p>This was followed in late 2009 by the intentional overstatement of Greece’s debt by a Eurostat agent who was later tried criminally for it, triggering the first bailout and accompanying austerity measures.</p>
<p>The Greek prime minister was later replaced with an unelected technocrat, former governor of the Bank of Greece and later vice president of the ECB, who refused a debt restructuring and instead oversaw a second massive bailout and further austerity measures. An estimated 90% of the bailout money went right back into the coffers of the banks.</p>
<p>In December 2014, Goldman Sachs warned the Greek Parliament that central bank liquidity could be cut off if the Syriza Party were elected. When it was elected in January, the ECB made good on the threat, cutting bank liquidity to a trickle.</p>
<p>When Prime Minister Tsipras called a public referendum in July at which the voters rejected the brutal austerity being imposed on them, the ECB shuttered the banks.</p>
<p>The Greek government was thus broken Mafia-style at the knees, until it was forced to abandon its national sovereignty and watch its public treasures sold off piece by piece. Suspicious minds might infer that this was a calculated plot designed from the beginning to throw Greece’s prized assets onto the auction block, a hostile takeover and asset stripping for the benefit of those well-heeled entities in a position to purchase them, including the very banks, hedge funds and speculators instrumental in driving up Greek debt and destroying the economy.</p>
<p><strong>No Sovereignty Without Control Over Currency and Credit</strong></p>
<p>In the taped conference call for which Yanis Varoufakis is currently facing treason charges, he exposed the trap that eurozone countries are now in. It seems there is virtually no legal way to break free of the euro and the domination of the troika. The government has no access to the critical data files of its own banks, which are controlled by the ECB.</p>
<p>Varoufakis said this should alarm every EU government. As Canadian Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King warned in 1935:</p>
<p>"Once a nation parts with the control of its currency and credit, it matters not who makes the nation’s laws. Usury, once in control, will wreck any nation."</p>
<p>For a nation to regain control of its currency and credit, it needs a central bank with a mandate to serve the interests of the nation. Banking should be a public utility, serving the economy and the people.</p>
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<p><strong>MEANWHILE, Yanis Varoufakis, writing on his blog "thoughts for the post-2008 world," defended himself Wednesday in a post entitled <a href="http://yanisvaroufakis.eu/2015/07/29/treason-charges-what-lurks-behind-the-bizarre-allegations/" rel="nofollow">Treason Charges: What Lurks Behind the Bizarre Allegations</a>:</strong></p>
<p>The bizarre attempt to have me indicted me on… treason charges, allegedly for conspiring to push Greece out of the Eurozone, reflects something much broader.</p>
<p>It reflects a determined effort to de-legitimise our five-month long (Jan. 25 to July 5) negotiation with a troika incensed that we had the audacity to dispute the wisdom and efficacy of its failed program for Greece.</p>
<p>The aim of my self-styled persecutors is to characterise our defiant negotiating stance as an aberration, an error or, even better from the perspective of Greece’s troika-friendly oligarchic establishment, as a "crime" against Greece’s national interest.</p>
<p>My dastardly "crime" was that, expressing the collective will of our government, I personified the sins of:</p>
<p><strong>Facing down</strong> the Eurogroup’s leaders as an equal that has the right to say "NO" and to present powerful analytical reasons for rebuffing the catastrophic illogicality of huge loans to an insolvent state in condition of self-defeating austerity.</p>
<p><strong>Demonstrating</strong> that one can be a committed Europeanist, strive to keep one’s nation in the Eurozone, and, at the very same time, reject Eurogroup policies which damage Europe, deconstruct the euro and, crucially, trap one’s country in austerity-driven debt-bondage.</p>
<p><strong>Planning</strong> for contingencies that leading Eurogroup colleagues, and high ranking troika officials, were threatening me with in face-to-face discussions.</p>
<p><strong>Unveiling</strong> how previous Greek governments turned crucial government departments, such as the General Secretariat of Public Revenues and the Hellenic Statistical Office, into departments effectively controlled by the troika and reliably pressed into the service of undermining the elected government.</p>
<p>It is amply clear that the Greek government has a duty to recover national and democratic sovereignty over all departments of state, and in particular those of the Finance Ministry. If it does not, it will continue to forfeit the instruments of policy making that voters expect it to utilise in pursuit of the mandate they bestowed upon it.</p>
<p>In my ministerial endeavours, my team and I devised innovative methods for developing the Finance Ministry’s tools to deal efficiently with the troika-induced liquidity crunch while recouping executive powers previously usurped by the troika with the consent of previous governments.</p>
<p>Instead of indicting, and persecuting, those who, to this day, function within the public sector as the troika’s minions and lieutenants (while receiving their substantial salaries from the long-suffering Greek taxpayers), politicians and parties whom the electorate condemned for their efforts to turn Greece into a protectorate are now persecuting me, aided and abetted by the oligarchs’ media. I wear their accusations as badges of honor.</p>
<p>The proud and honest negotiation that the SYRIZA government conducted from the first day we were elected has already changed Europe’s public debates for the better. The debate about the democratic deficit afflicting the Eurozone is now unstoppable. Alas, the troika’s domestic cheerleaders do not seem able to bear this historic success. Their efforts to criminalise it will crash on the same shoals that wrecked their blatant propaganda campaign against the ‘No’ vote in the 5th July referendum: the great majority of the fearless Greek people.</p>
<p><a href="http://ellenbrown.com/2015/07/30/the-greek-coup-liquidity-as-a-weapon-of-coercion/" rel="nofollow">Originally published by Web of Debt</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.occupy.com/sites/default/files/field/image/DEFAULTBANK.jpg" rel="nofollow"><img alt="Yanis Varoufakis, Syriza, Troika, Greek debt crisis, Greek bailout, Grexit, Bank for International Settlements, bank liquidity, parallel liquidity, alternative currencies" src="http://www.occupy.com/sites/default/files/field/image/DEFAULTBANK.jpg" title="Yanis Varoufakis, Syriza, Troika, Greek debt crisis, Greek bailout, Grexit, Bank for International Settlements, bank liquidity, parallel liquidity, alternative currencies" /></a></p>
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Muslim Woman Leaves Islam, Converts To Christianity, And Marries A Christian Man. Her Family Takes Her Husband And Shoot...

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<p>A Muslim woman in Pakistan, named Nadia, left Islam and converted to Christianity. She ended up marrying up a Christian man named Aleem Masih. Her family was so enraged that they captured them, and shot Aleem to death; they shot Nadia as well, she survived but is in very critical condition, and according to the doctors she will most likely not survive. According to one <a href="http://www.pakistanchristianpost.com/headlinenewsd.php?hnewsid=5512" target="_blank">Pakistani report:</a></p>
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<p>Nadia’s father kidnapped the couple, and he let the rickshaw driver leave while the couple remain seated in the rickshaw on gun point and then he brought the rickshaw in the farms and there the brothers and father of Nadia brutally beaten and killed the couple. They gunned three fires on Aleem one on his ankle so that he could not run, the other in his ribs and the last in his mouth. Whereas Nadia got fired in her ribs and belly, the family thought that both are dead, after that Nadia’s brother Azhar told everyone in the village that he has killed a dog and afterwards called the police and arrested himself.</p>
<p>When the police reached the place of occurrence they came to know that Nadia was still alive and they sent Nadia to General Hospital, but Doctors said that she is very critical and there are very few chances of her survival. Moreover Nadia was covered by Muslim men and women so that when she became conscious she could not give any statement against her brothers and father. Although there was police on her security but as we all know that Police matters nothing when religion is the matter of dispute.</p>
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<p>This evil is happening throughout Pakistan, and continues to take place every day. This is just one story. There are tons of these stories that don’t ever make it to the media.</p>
<p>This is the type of cases that we at Rescue Christians are dealing with on a daily basis. We have rescued thousands of Christians in Pakistan from slavery, sexual torture and murder. We must be a light to the world and help the brethren of Christ. Please help us help more persecuted Christians in Pakistan.</p>
<p><a href="https://ffmu.webconnex.com/rescuechristians" target="_blank"><strong>THERE ARE SO MANY CHRISTIAN SUFFERING IN PAKISTAN. HELP US RESCUE CHRISTIANS FROM ISLAMIC PERSECUTION. CLICK HERE TO MAKE A DONATION THAT WILL SAVE CHRISTIAN LIVES FROM MUSLIM TERRORISTS</strong></a></p>
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<p>By BI: Remember the 2013 massacre of Christians by al-Shabaab Muslim terrorists at the mall in Nairobi, Kenya? That was financed, in large part, by the poaching of elephants for their ivory.</p>
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<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/kenya-mall-islamic-terrorists-financed-killing-people-by-killing-elephants/">Frontpage Magazine</a></span>  How is the carnage at an upscale shopping mall in Nairobi linked to a surge in the poaching of wild elephants in Africa?</p>
<p>Elephants are being slaughtered in record numbers in Africa. As reported in The Washington Post last summer, more than 30,000 elephants were killed by poachers last year, the largest number in decades. Over the last five years there has been a huge spike in poaching that threatens the extinction of one of the planet’s most intelligent and iconic species.</p>
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<p>Islamic terror group Al-Shabaab finances as much as 40% of its operations this way. The supply of ivory for al-Shabaab and other militant groups is, obviously, dead elephants.</p>
<p>As demand for ivory continues to surge in China and other Asian countries, the slaughter is growing industrial in scale and efficiency, fueling a trade worth $7 billion to $10 billion a year.</p>
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<p>A 2011 report by the Elephant Action League, whose mission is to fight elephant exploitation and wildlife crime, dubs elephant ivory “the white gold of jihad.”</p>
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<p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Sudanese Muslim militiamen and Somali al-Shabaab terrorists help finance their jihad from poaching raids against endangered wildlife mainly in Christian neighboring countries.</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.africareview.com/News/Cameroon-crack-unit-to-foil-Sudanese-poachers/-/979180/1622934/-/1d7cdu/-/index.html">Africa Review</a></span>  The janjaweed poachers use the profits from massacring the African elephant to continue their massacres against black African Christians in Darfur.  The common link is their utter disregard for life and for the rule of law.</p>
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<p>Cameroon’s Special Forces have been deployed to foil an imminent raid by Sudanese poachers who for eight weeks earlier this year slaughtered half the population of elephants for their ivory at one of the country’s wildlife reserves.</p>
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<p>The poachers have been attempting to take park guards in northern Cameroon by surprise by exploiting greater ground cover that has sprouted in the rainy season, according to international conservation body World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), which said it had been informed by high ranking officials of the Rapid Intervention Battalion (BIR) on Friday.</p>
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<p>“This is the same group of poachers that in early 2012 travelled more than 1,000km on horseback from northern Sudan across the Central African Republic and Chad to kill over 300 elephants in the Bouba N’Djida National Park in northern Cameroon,” WWF said.</p>
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<p>The heavily armed and well coordinated poachers, who had told local villagers of their plans to kill as many elephants as possible, claimed they had killed as much as 650 out of some 1,000 that roamed the park.</p>
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<p>The elephant population in Cameroon and in central Africa is estimated to have been halved, mainly by poachers, between 1995 and 2007 with the number of elephants killed still on the rise…<a href="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Africa-elephant-poaching.jpg"><br /></a></p>
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<p>A story from the <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/04/world/africa/africas-elephants-are-being-slaughtered-in-poaching-frenzy.html?pagewanted=all">New York Times</a></span> in September explained that Sudan’s janjaweed, the Arab Muslim supremacists who bear responsibility for the genocide against black Africans in Darfur, are offenders in the illegal ivory trade.</p>
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<p>Der Spiegel <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/blood-ivory-brutal-elephant-slaughter-funds-african-conflicts-a-855237.html">reports</a></span> that janjaweed poachers use the proceeds for arms:  “The millions of dollars their poaching raid must have brought in will allow them to replenish their weapons stores.” The New York Times also identified al-Shabaab from Somalia as an ivory poaching participant.</p>
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<p>al-Shabaab, the militant Islamist group that has pledged allegiance to Al Qaeda, recently began training fighters to infiltrate neighboring Kenya and kill elephants for ivory to raise money.</p>
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<p>One former al-Shabaab associate said that the Shabaab were promising to “facilitate the marketing” of ivory and have encouraged villagers along the Kenya-Somalia border to bring them tusks, which are then shipped out through the port of Kismayo, a notorious smuggling hub and the last major town the Shaabab still control.</p>
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<p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Sadly, the Islamic tradition of raiding, pillaging, plundering and exploitation of natural resources and property is alive and well in Africa.</strong></span></p>
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DONALD TRUMP attacks Hillary Clinton’s Muslim Brotherhood-linked right-hand woman, Huma Abedin

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<p>By BI: Unfortunately, he hasn’t yet attacked her for Islamic terrorism-connections, but hopefully he will. Below are several links that explain in detail why having Huma Abedin anywhere near the White House would be like inviting in the terrorism-linked Muslim Brotherhood, which has been banned in Egypt and the UAE.</p>
<p><a href="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/HillaryandHuma-e1438503998780.jpg"><img alt="HillaryandHuma" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-83276" height="389" src="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/HillaryandHuma-e1438503998780.jpg" width="789" /></a></p>
<p class="mol-para-with-font"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3180305/Trump-launches-attack-Huma-Abedin-deviant-husband-Anthony-Weiner-claims-pair-access-Clinton-s-secret-classified-emails.html">UK Daily Mail</a></span>  Donald Trump charged Wednesday that a sexually ‘deviant’ former congressman who is married to <a class="" href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/hillary_clinton/index.html" target="_blank">Hillary Clinton</a>‘s closest aide has likely seen the contents of classified emails that passed through the former secretary of state’s private home-brew server.</p>
<p class="mol-para-with-font">Huma Abedin, the Pakistani-American chief of staff to Clinton, was wed in 2010 to then-Congressman Anthony Weiner, the Democrat whose star fell to earth amid lewd sexting scandals.</p>
<p class="mol-para-with-font">Abedin sat on the board (below) of the MSA (Muslim Student Association) a main front group for the Muslim Brotherhood. It was established from Saudi-backed efforts to establish Islamic organizations internationally in the 1960s, for the purpose of spreading its Wahhabist ideology across the globe.</p>
<p class="mol-para-with-font"><a href="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/MSA-board.png"><img alt="MSA-board" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-83279" height="617" src="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/MSA-board.png" width="653" /></a></p>
<p class="mol-para-with-font">Republicans in Washington are furious with Clinton for destroying tens of thousands of emails dating from her time in office, and for including classified information in an unknown number of others.</p>
<p class="mol-para-with-font">Trump told DailyMail.com during a wide-ranging interview in his New York City Office that ‘the person seeing her emails more than anybody else is Huma. And who’s Huma married to? The worst deviant in the United States of America, right? Weiner!’</p>
<p class="mol-para-with-font"><a href="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/HillaryandHumaAbedinMother.jpg"><img alt="HillaryandHumaAbedinMother" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-83277" height="369" src="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/HillaryandHumaAbedinMother.jpg" width="396" /></a></p>
<p class="mol-para-with-font">Abedin holds a security clearance as a former State Department deputy chief of staff, of the kind that would typically come with detailed guidance on what kind of information must be kept secret from family members, including spouses.</p>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">The <a class="" href="http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/article29519419.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">McClatchy </a>news service reported Thursday that so far, information in the classified emails idenfidied as having resided on Clinton’s private server has been traced back to five different U.S. intelligence agencies.</p>
<p class="mol-para-with-font">There is no evidence that Weiner himself has been made privy to sensitive or classified information, but such a lapse in data security would create a new headache for Clinton, who is gamely keeping her presidential candidacy afloat while investigations swirl around her.</p>
<p><a href="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/HUMAN-ABEDIN-AND-THE-MB.png"><img alt="HUMAN-ABEDIN-AND-THE-MB" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-83280" height="638" src="http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/HUMAN-ABEDIN-AND-THE-MB.png" width="718" /></a></p>
<h3 class="mol-para-with-font"><span style="color: #ff0000;">THE SORDID FACTS ABOUT HUMA ABEDIN & THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD:</span></h3>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.barenakedislam.com/2012/07/25/hamas-linked-cair-and-one-of-their-dhimmi-pals-vilify-michele-bachman-for-her-call-for-an-investigation-of-huma-abedins-muslim-brotherhood-familial-connections/">hamas-linked-cair-and-one-of-their-dhimmi-pals-vilify-michele-bachman-for-her-call-for-an-investigation-of-huma-abedins-muslim-brotherhood-familial-connections</a></span></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.barenakedislam.com/2012/07/27/looks-like-huma-abedins-sister-heba-also-has-ties-to-the-muslim-brotherhood/">looks-like-huma-abedins-sister-heba-also-has-ties-to-the-muslim-brotherhood</a></span></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.barenakedislam.com/2012/07/27/now-its-the-huma-and-heba-abedin-show/">now-its-the-huma-and-heba-abedin-show</a></span></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.barenakedislam.com/2012/07/25/cmon-john-mccain-what-say-you-about-hillary-clintons-top-aide-huma-abedin-serving-on-a-board-with-an-al-qaeda-member/">cmon-john-mccain-what-say-you-about-hillary-clintons-top-aide-huma-abedin-serving-on-a-board-with-an-al-qaeda-member</a></span></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.barenakedislam.com/2013/07/20/looks-like-anthony-weiners-muslim-wife-huma-abedin-has-wrangled-him-some-al-jazeera-blood-money/">looks-like-anthony-weiners-muslim-wife-huma-abedin-has-wrangled-him-some-al-jazeera-blood-money</a></span></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.barenakedislam.com/2011/06/16/forget-about-weiners-weiner-what-about-weiners-muslim-wifes-familial-connections-to-the-muslim-brotherhood/">forget-about-weiners-weiner-what-about-weiners-muslim-wifes-familial-connections-to-the-muslim-brotherhood</a></span></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.barenakedislam.com/2012/07/23/looks-like-huma-abedins-familial-ties-to-terrorism-extend-beyond-the-muslim-brotherhood/">looks-like-huma-abedins-familial-ties-to-terrorism-extend-beyond-the-muslim-brotherhood</a></span></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.barenakedislam.com/2012/07/19/walid-shoebat-exclusive-former-muslim-walid-shoebat-explains-with-facts-why-john-mccain-and-his-gop-cronies-are-dead-wrong-about-hillary-clintons-deputy-chief-of-staffs-muslim-brotherhood-tie/">walid-shoebat-exclusive-former-muslim-walid-shoebat-explains-with-facts-why-john-mccain-and-his-gop-cronies-are-dead-wrong-about-hillary-clintons-deputy-chief-of-staffs-muslim-brotherhood-tie</a></span></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.barenakedislam.com/2012/07/19/rep-michele-bachmann-fights-back-against-attacks-from-islamopanderer-senator-john-mccain-and-his-muslim-brotherhood-pals/">rep-michele-bachmann-fights-back-against-attacks-from-islamopanderer-senator-john-mccain-and-his-muslim-brotherhood-pals</a></span></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.barenakedislam.com/2012/07/18/senator-john-mccain-r-az-defends-the-islamic-enemies-of-america-with-his-despicable-attack-on-rep-michele-bachmann-r-mn/">senator-john-mccain-r-az-defends-the-islamic-enemies-of-america-with-his-despicable-attack-on-rep-michele-bachmann-r-mn</a></span></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.barenakedislam.com/2012/07/17/chris-tingles-matthews-tries-to-mccarthyize-rep-michele-bachmann-for-investigating-muslim-brotherhood-ties-to-hillary-clinton/">chris-tingles-matthews-tries-to-mccarthyize-rep-michele-bachmann-for-investigating-muslim-brotherhood-ties-to-hillary-clinton</a></span></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.barenakedislam.com/2012/07/04/walid-shoebat-tells-us-why-huma-abedin-daughter-of-a-muslim-brotherhood-member-would-marry-anthony-weiner-a-jew/">walid-shoebat-tells-us-why-huma-abedin-daughter-of-a-muslim-brotherhood-member-would-marry-anthony-weiner-a-jew</a></span></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.barenakedislam.com/2013/12/15/egypt-not-only-was-obama-named-as-a-co-conspirator-with-the-muslim-brotherhood-now-hillary-clinton-has-been-named-as-a-collaborator-in-muslim-brotherhood-domestic-insurrections/">egypt-not-only-was-obama-named-as-a-co-conspirator-with-the-muslim-brotherhood-now-hillary-clinton-has-been-named-as-a-collaborator-in-muslim-brotherhood-domestic-insurrections</a></span></p>
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anonymous armageddon isis islam war DONALD TRUMP attacks Hillary Clinton’s Muslim Brotherhood-linked right-hand woman, Huma Abedin

By BI: Unfortunately, he hasn’t yet attacked her for Islamic terrorism-connections, but hopefully he will. Below are several links that e...