U.S. Is Broke, Can't Afford to Raise the Debt Ceiling

SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS!!!
Mark Matheny
September 26, 2013

Obama is claiming that raising the Debt Ceiling in the U.S. doesn't raise the debt. We know however that over the last 100 times that Congress raised the debt ceiling, our debt has increased with it. Peter Schiff is saying that the U.S. is so broke we are not in a position to raise the debt ceiling anymore.

Obamacare Passed and We Still Don't Know What's In It

Infowars Nightly News
September 26, 2013

It was one of candidate Obama's most vivid and concrete campaign promises. Forget about high minded (some might say high sounding) but gauzy promises of hope and change. This candidate solemnly pledged on June 5, 2008: "In an Obama administration, we'll lower premiums by up to $2,500 for a typical family per year..... We'll do it by the end of my first term as President of the United States." Unfortunately, the experts working for Medicare's actuary have (yet again[1]) reported that in its first 10 years, Obamacare will boost health spending by "roughly $621 billion" above the amounts Americans would have spent without this misguided law. http://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothe...
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TSA To Roll Out “Covert Surveillance” Vans

Details of snooping technology kept secret

Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
September 26, 2013

In another indication of how the TSA is expanding its turf way beyond airport security, the federal agency is about to roll out high-tech vehicles that will utilize secret technology to conduct “covert surveillance operations” in cities around the country.

Image: DHS Surveillance Van.

According to a synopsis posted on the Federal Business Opportunities website (PDF), the TSA is set to purchase technology to retrofit three vans in Arlington, VA, Chicago, IL, and San Francisco, CA in order to convert them into surveillance vehicles that will “conduct covert surveillance operations in the course of investigations.”

Precisely where such covert surveillance will take place is not mentioned, although in 2010 it was revealed that US government agencies were already using roving street surveillance vans that deployed backscatter x-ray vision technology to inspect other vehicles.

In 2011, the Electronic Privacy Information Center also revealed plans for the Department of Homeland Security and the TSA to roll out mobile surveillance vans that had long-distance X-ray capability and eye movement tracking.

TSA Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response (VIPR) teams are responsible for around 10,000 checkpoints every year in the US, and have expanded from airports to bus & train terminals and even highways despite the fact that there is “no proof that the roving viper teams have foiled any terrorist plots or thwarted any major threat to public safety,” according to the L.A. Times.

The total cost of outfitting just three vans with the covert surveillance technology will be a jaw-dropping $160,000 dollars.

Despite their tax dollars paying for such equipment, American citizens are not privy to any detailed information on what this surveillance system will actually entail.

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Part 7: How Reagan And Pope Conspired to Destroy Communism

SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS!!! 
Mark Matheny
September 26, 2013

LORENZ O RICCI’ S strategy of dividing the British imperial system can be discerned in events occurring as early as 1752.

Mark Matheny discusses this in this exciting episode.

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American Banker Wharton Barker’s First-Person Account Confirms: Russian Tsar Alexander II Was Ready for War with Britain and France in 1862-1863 to Defend Lincoln and the Union – Americans “Will Understand”

Tarpley.Net
Webster Tarpley
September 25, 2013

Matheny's Note: What's not told here is the fact that Both empires were to a certain extent Jesuit-driven. Great Britain was run by the Catholic-loathing system of Freemasonry, 
whose highest adepts obeyed the revered “unknow n superior.” 
France was run by Louis XV, who obeyed the same superior through his Jesuit confessor. Even Lincoln himself knew who the real enemies were. Here is what he said of the Jesuits:

“I feel more and more every day,” [stated the President] “that it is not against the Americans of the South, alone, I am fighting. It is more against the Pope of Rome, his Jesuits and their slaves. Very few Southern leaders are not under the influence of the Jesuits, through their wives, family relations, and their friends. “Several members of the family of Jeff Davis belong to the Church of Rome. Even the Protestant ministers are under the influence of the Jesuits without suspecting it. To keep her ascendency in the North, as she does in the South, Rome is doing here what she has done in Mexico, and in all the South American Republics; she is paralyzing, by civil war, the arms of the soldiers of liberty. She divides our nation in order to weaken, subdue and rule it.... “Neither Jeff Davis not any one of the Confederacy would have dared to attack the North had they not relied on the promises of the Jesuits that, under the mask of democracy, the money and the aims of the Roman Catholics, even the arms of France, were at their disposal if they would attack us. I pity the priests, the bishops, and monks of Rome in the United States when the people realize that they are in great part responsible for the tears and the blood shed in this war. I conceal what I know, for if the people knew the whole truth, this war would turn into a religious war, and at once, take a tenfold more savage and bloody character.... - Fifty Years in the Church of Rome

Wharton Barker

This account, written by the American banker Wharton Barker and published in The Independent (LVI) of March 24, 1904, recounts Barker’s conversation with Russian Tsar Alexander II, the celebrated Liberator of the serfs, on August 17, 1879, a few years before his assassination at the hands of anarchists. Here the Tsar confirms that, at the height of the American Civil War in 1862-1863, the Imperial Russian government had issued an ultimatum to Britain and France specifying that, if these powers should intervene on the side of the Confederate States of America, they would immediately find themselves at war with the formidable Russian Empire. The Tsar explains that the Russian battle fleets which arrived to great éclat in New York and San Francisco in September-October of 1863 were the visible tokens of this policy. He also situates the Russian approach to the Civil War in the context of other cases in which Russia had acted to preserve a European and world balance of power designed to check the inordinate geopolitical and economic ambitions of Great Britain. Alexander II’s policy may be compared to the war-avoidance doctrine of Putin and Lavrov today. This extraordinary document will thus repay study by historians of the events of 150 years ago, as well as by statesmen of today.

Barker’s greatest hope, as he says at the conclusion, is that his countrymen will finally comprehend the motivation of their great friend in their hour of need. He writes that “if they will give due thought to the words of the Emperor Alexander II, [Americans] will do what is more vital in the shaping of the destinies of a nation. They will understand.”

And today, before they can understand, they will have to remember. Therefore we take this opportunity to cast belated light on these great events.

— Webster Griffin Tarpley, Ph.D.

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Alliance of rebel groups calls for an Islamist Syria, not a U.S.-backed democracy

Washington Times
September 26, 2013

Matheny's Note: I have said this will be the agenda all the long. They want radical extremist fundemental Islamic groups to control Syria...... The Obama administration is funding this......

Eleven Syrian rebel groups, including a powerful al Qaeda affiliate, have rejected the Western-backed opposition coalition, calling for a new Syria under Islamic law and dealing a severe blow to U.S.-led efforts to support a democratic alternative to embattled President Bashar Assad.

In a statement read out in an online video late Tuesday night, the rebel alliance called on other militants fighting to topple the Assad regime to unite under a “clear Islamic framework.”

“The prospect that the Islamists are going to be able to set up some sort of overarching political and military coordination and organizational structure should be troubling not only to the Syrian secular opposition, but also for Washington,” said David Schenker, director of the program on Arab politics at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.

The rebel alliance rejected the leadership of Ahmad Saleh Touma, who earlier this month was elected the interim prime minister of U.S.-backed National Coalition of Syrian Revolution and Opposition Forces, also known as the Syrian Coalition. But it pointedly made no mention of Gen. Salim Idriss, head of the Supreme Military Council of the Free Syrian Army, the military wing of the political opposition. Gen. Idriss also serves as a conduit for foreign assistance to the rebels.

The rebels’ declaration also shunned “all groups formed abroad,” a reference to the Turkish-based Syrian Coalition.

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Going for broke: The multiple lost decades of US household income. Is it possible to have a recovery while the standard of living collapses?

MyBudget360
September 25, 2013

The growing wealth divide in this country is devouring every piece of the middle classthat is currently left.  The stock market is largely a sham for most Americans.  Why?  Many hedge funds and other large Wall Street firms are in the business of making quick profits even if it means destabilizing the underlying economy.  Many large companies have made larger profits since the recession ended by slashing wages and benefits.  More importantly however, is that this dramatic bull market in stocks since 2009 has been one big sideshow for most Americans.  A Pew Research survey found that 53 percent of Americans own no stocks, including in their retirement accounts.  And the fact that only 10 percent of Americans have pensions, many (most) are going to rely on Social Security as they enter old age.  Why is the stock market a sham for working and middle class Americans?

A decade of no real gains

The buy and hold idea hasn’t really worked for nearly 14 years.  Take a look at S&P 500 returns going back to 2000:

Adjusting for inflation, if you invested $1,000 in the S&P 500 in 2000 you would have $1,010 today, nearly 14 years later.  You would have been better off with savings bonds or even with a low rate savings account.  Beyond that, look at the incredible volatility.  At one point in 2009, it would have been down to $417.  Of course the mantra is “buy and hold!” but that assumption assumes most Americans own stocks in any meaningful amount.  Which they clearly do not:

“(Pew) This factor is also made clear in Pew Research Center surveys and analyses that show which Americans do or don’t own stocks, and how this dividing line has widened the wealth gap in the period since the recovery began to take hold in 2009.

A Pew Research survey in March found that 53% of Americans say they have no money at all invested in the stock market, including retirement accounts.”

Most Americans don’t have any stocks to their name.  In fact, many Americans don’t even have any savings to their name.  Those 25 to 34 have a median amount saved for retirement in the sum of zero dollars.  So this incredible amount of volatility has largely produced nothing for most American families.  And we have recently seen that household incomes adjusting for inflation are back to levels last seen in 1989:

Beyond the more obvious reasons that Americans are not participating in the stock market, you have the more apparent reason that the stock market is gamed and largely operates like a casino.  Think about the big banks.  These banks created financial products that brought the global economy to the brink of implosion.  Packaging junk and selling it off to unsuspecting investors and many times, even betting on this toxic waste since they knew it was merely time before these products went bust.  Instead of protecting regular investors, global governments and central banks rallied around the banks to save their own skin.  In the mean time, the rest of the public is getting proportionately poorer.  These aren’t titans of industry trying to help improve the economy.  These aren’t the job creators that are glamorized in the media.  These are merely glorified bucket shops hiding behind Bloomberg terminals itching to find the next company to sink and the next segment of the country and world to exploit.

So is it any wonder that Wall Street has been deep in cahoots with the for-profit college industry?  Of course not.  It is also no surprise that the Fed’s low rates have spurred on another real estate mania but the gains are largely going to big time investors (many that helped implode the market to begin with).  So like the stock market, these new real estate gains are going to a small portion of the population:

Isn’t it great that real estate is going up?  Not really given that banks are buying up those 5,000,000 foreclosures that have hit since the crisis began (a crisis they created).  They are buying it cheap and the nation is adding a fleet of renters.  Oh, and rents are going up faster than overall inflation.  As we mentioned earlier, incomes are back to 1989 levels adjusting for inflation so more money is going into real estate (a sector that is now largely being pulled away from Americans).  Do you see a pattern here?

The stock market has become even a larger sham because of other things like High Frequency Trading (HFT) and derivatives.  They try to sell it to the public that stocks are easy to understand but only a few years ago, these same banks were selling toxic junk to the public laughing all the way to the bank as the bets imploded and their options boomed in profits.  These investments were sold as easy to understand as well.  Those that failed didn’t really fail either.  They got bailed out.  The public was largely left holding the bag and the end result is a massive wealth disparity in the country:

The top 5 percent control 62 percent of all the wealth in the US.  Wealth is the true measure of power in the current economy.  If you make $50,000 a year and spend all $50,000 then you are left with zero dollars at the end of the year (which seems to be the common path for most Americans).  Yet more and more wealth is being aggregated in the hands of a few.

Part of the sham isn’t the idea of stocks or real estate.  In fact, real estate has been the most common form of wealth building for average Americans for a couple of generations.  The problem is the market now favors short-term booms and busts and casino like economics.  The slow growth model is out the window.  How can a regular investor compete with banks that essentially control the government and also have HFT machinery that is completely out of reach for most?  The fact that the S&P 500 adjusting for inflation has returned virtually zero dollars for 14 years should tell you something (forget about the most volatile time since the Great Depression).  The market is a sham for most because there has been zero substantive reforms since the crash happened.  Yet they expect the public to dive in and gamble again on the next repackaged toxic waste?  This is assuming most of the public is even investing which they are not.

Muslim Brotherhood Linked to Malik Obama and Obama Admin.

The New American
September 24, 2013

President Obama’s half-brother, Malik Obama (shown), may be added to Egypt’s terror watch list as a result of his alleged ties to the Muslim Brotherhood. Malik also serves as the executive secretary of the Dawa Organization, a group created by the government of Sudan, considered by the United States State Department to be a terrorist state. According to WND, Malik also served as the best man at Barack Obama’s wedding to Michelle in 1992.

Malik is currently being investigated by the Egyptian government for possible terrorist connections because of his role in the Islamic Dawa Organization (IDO), as well as IDO’s umbrella organization, the Muslim Brotherhood. The IDO’s mission is to spread Wahhabist Islam across Africa.

According to a news report from an Egyptian media source, provided by former PLO member Walid Shoebat, a complaint has been filed with the Egyptian Attorney General against Malik Obama:

Dr. Ahmed Nabil Ganzory, in his capacity as lawyer and agent for Dr. Sadik Rauf Obeid, and resident in the United States of America, filed a complaint with Egyptian Attorney General Hisham Barakat, against Malik Obama, accusing him of supporting terrorism in Egypt and for his involvement in managing the Islamic Dawa Organization (IDO). The complaint also asks to include Chancellor Tahani Al-Jebali to substantiate claims against Obama....

Complaint No. 1761 for the year 2013 reported to the Attorney General asked the Egyptian High Court to consider the suspicious activity of a group called the Islamic Dawa Organization, which is owned and managed by Malik Obama. This group is now being investigated by international bodies and the attached evidence proves beyond a reasonable doubt that a close link exists between Malik Obama and some of the most notorious characters already wanted for their involvement in terrorism, as is consistent with the pictures and reports attached.

The complaint requests that Malik Obama, a resident of the United States, be summoned for questioning regarding his terrorist ties, and seeks permission to declare Malik a defendant outside Egypt diplomatically, through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Malik has also been identified as an attendee at an IDO conference in Khartoum, the capital of Sudan, which was also attended by Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir, a man wanted by the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity.

Bashir’s regime gave Christians until March 1, 2012 to leave North Sudan, but many were stranded, leaving them as open targets for Muslims. Foreign missionaries have been deported under Bashir and churches have been bulldozed.

The complaint also references Tahani al-Gebali, former chancellor and current advisor to the Constitutional Court of Egypt, who levied accusations that Malik was linked to the Muslim Brotherhood. Gebali said that Malik was “one of the architects” of the investments made by the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. Gebali had also threatened to expose the Obama administration’s support for the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt.

Gebali contends that the Obama administration supported the Morsi government even after Morsi welcomed the Muslim Brotherhood into the government.

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Was an American security team inside Kenya massacre mall?

Harvard graduate claims she was rescued by ‘Americans’ after she saw man sat next to her shot dead

HELEN POW and JAMES NYE
UK Daily Mail
September 25, 2013

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An American woman who was trapped inside the Nairobi mall as terrorists ran amok claims she was eventually rescued by an ‘American security team’.

That is according to Bendita Malakia, the Harvard-trained lawyer who was caught up in the siege and hid along with 15 others in a store inside the mall for five hours before the armed men arrived to lead them to safety.

Thirty-year-old Malakia, who is from Elizabeth City, North Carolina, recounted the frantic scene tonight in an interview with NBC News as her rescuers bluntly told her, ‘If you guys want to get out, we understand it’s dangerous, but this is probably your best shot. If you don’t get out now you may not get out.’

Rushing to the exit, accompanied by the armed security men who she believed were from the United States, two grenades thrown from only 30-feet away detonated near to them, but thankfully for Malakia she escaped and returned home to her parents on Monday.

While there has been no official confirmation of any direct American involvement in the stand-off between the heavily-armed militants from the Somalia-based al Shabaab and Kenyan Defence Forces, the statement from World Bank employee, Malakia, seems to suggest there was.

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Kerry to sign UN arms treaty, despite senators' opposition

Fox News
September 25, 2013

Secretary of State John Kerry plans to sign a controversial U.N. treaty on arms regulation on Wednesday, a senior State Department official told Fox News -- despite warnings from lawmakers that the Senate will not ratify the agreement. 

A State official said the treaty would "reduce the risk that international transfers of conventional arms will be used to carry out the world's worst crimes," while protecting gun rights. 

"The treaty builds on decades of cooperative efforts to stem the international, illegal, and illicit trade in conventional weapons that benefits terrorists and rogue agents," the official said. 

U.S. lawmakers, though, have long claimed that the treaty could lead to new gun control measures. Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Okla., one of the most vocal opponents of the treaty, sent a letter to Kerry declaring it "dead in the water," since a majority of senators has gone on record against the agreement. 

"The administration is wasting precious time trying to sign away our laws to the global community and unelected U.N. bureaucrats," he wrote. 

Kerry, who is in New York attending the U.N. General Assembly session, announced earlier this year that the administration planned to sign the treaty. 

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OPEN CARRY ACTIVISTS STUNNED WHEN CONFRONTED BY MICHIGAN DEPUTY – BUT IN A REALLY GOOD WAY

The Blaze
September 25, 2013

Open carry activists in Orion Township, Mich., had the police called on them during their “For Liberty Friday” protest last week. However, they were pleasantly surprised when they were confronted by a sheriff’s deputy who completely supported their demonstration because it is protected under the Second Amendment.

“We saw the a [sic] OC Sheriff car pull up so we all took out our camera-phones right away, anticipating trouble,” the video’s description reads. “This officer gets out of his car, waves to us, and walks right over. He shakes all of our hands, introduces himself, and states his purpose for walking over to us.”

The officer reportedly never asked the protesters to disarm or asked for their names or identification as they were not suspected of committing a crime.

“I think I can speak for everyone in the group that it was an honor to meet this man,” the video description continues. “This is what we need to see from police officers everywhere! THIS MAN IS A HERO.”

In the video uploaded on YouTube earlier this week, the deputy says “people call, I gotta come.”

“You guys are exercising your freedom of speech, your Second Amendment rights and that’s all good,” deputy Paul Buell says. “I’m out to catch bad guys, not people that are exercising their constitutional rights.”

He also talks about how guns will scare the “uneducated,” much like someone holding a can of gas in one hand and a lighter in the other.

Watch the video below:

One of the men behind the “For Liberty Friday” weekly protest, Nicholas Somberg, was reportedly detained during a different protest and had his firearm confiscated temporarily by police, who he called “scum bags.”

He appeared on local Fox affiliate WJBK-TV to discuss the concerns surrounding open carry:

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(H/T: StoryLeak.com)

Pres. Obama "Fired Up" and Ready to Repeal Second Amendment

The New American
September 24, 2013

On behalf of your children, President Obama plans to take the guns you own and make it harder for you to buy them.

During a speech September 21 at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s Phoenix Awards dinner, the president promised he was turning his attention back to his gun control agenda.

Referring to his failed efforts to irreparably infringe on the right to keep and bear arms begun after the massacre of 20 children and six adults at an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, President Obama declared:

We fought a good fight earlier this year, but we came up short. And that means we've got to get back up and go back at it. Because as long as there are those who fight to make it as easy as possible for dangerous people to get their hands on a gun, then we've got to work as hard as possible for the sake of our children. We've got to be ones who are willing to do more work to make it harder. 

There could hardly be a more receptive crowd, and the president’s remarks were met with cheers and applause.

Admitting that although there was so much to be done and the repeal of the Second Amendment would be a tall order, President Obama promised supporters that he was “still fired up.”

Given his penchant not only for ignoring the Constitution, but for zealously pursuing the permanent, piecemeal destruction of the roster of fundamental rights it protects, there is little doubt that this will be one promise that President Obama keeps.

Gun owners — the “dangerous people” being targeted by the president — have legitimate reasons to fear the federal government’s assault on the Second Amendment.

After the recent murders at the Navy Yard in D.C., White House spokesman Jay Carney reported that the president is committed to redoubling his efforts to enforce the score of executive orders he signed in the wake of the Newtown tragedy. “The president supports, as do an overwhelming majority of Americans, common-sense measures to reduce gun violence,” Carney said.

Prior to the shootings at the Navy Yard, Vice President Joe Biden announced that through “executive authority,” the president was closing two so-called loopholes in federal gun restrictions. First, corporations purchasing guns will be subject to a background check. Second, the re-importation of almost all surplus military weapons to private individuals will be banned.

His water carriers in Congress were no less anxious to use tragedy as a pretext for tyranny.

Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) lamented the “litany of massacres,” asking, “When will enough be enough? Congress must stop shirking its responsibility and resume a thoughtful debate on gun violence in this country. We must do more to stop this endless loss of life.”

Ironically, that is the same question Americans are asking themselves about the federal government and its daily demolition of the Bill of Rights.

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Russia accuses West of exploiting Syria chemical weapons deal against Assad

Jerusalem Post
September 22, 2013

Lavrov: West trying to pass UN resolution to OK use of force.

US President Barack Obama and Russian FM Sergei Lavrov [file]Photo: REUTERS

MOSCOW - Russia accused the West on Sunday of trying to exploit a chemical weapons deal with Syria to push through a UN resolution threatening force against President Bashar Assad.

Assad's government has handed over information about its chemical arsenal to a UN-backed weapons watchdog, meeting the first deadline of the ambitious US-Russia accord which the UN Security Council is due to endorse in the coming days.

But major powers on the council, who have disagreed throughout a conflict which has killed 100,000 people, remain divided over how to ensure compliance with the accord.

The United States, France and Britain want a council resolution issued under Chapter 7 of the UN charter, which could authorize sanctions or military intervention if Damascus reneges on its commitments.

Russia, which along with China has blocked three draft resolutions on Syria since the 2011 uprising against Assad erupted, opposes Western threats of force against an ally which Moscow has continued to arm and support during the civil war.

"They see in the US-Russian deal not a chance to save the planet from significant quantities of chemical weapons in Syria, but as a chance to do what Russia and China will not allow, namely to push through a resolution involving (the threat of) force against the regime and shielding the opposition," Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.

Lavrov also said Russia, was ready to send troops to Syria to ensure the safety of UN chemical weapons inspectors.

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Too Big To Fail Is Now Bigger Than Ever Before

The Economic Collapse
September 20, 2013

The too big to fail banks are now much, much larger than they were the last time they caused so much trouble.  The six largest banks in the United States have gotten 37 percent larger over the past five years.  Meanwhile, 1,400 smaller banks have disappeared from the banking industry during that time.  What this means is that the health of JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Citigroup, Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley is more critical to the U.S. economy than ever before.  If they were "too big to fail" back in 2008, then now they must be "too colossal to collapse".

  Without these banks, we do not have an economy.  The six largest banks control 67 percent of all U.S. banking assets, and Bank of America accounted for about a third of all business loans by itself last year.  Our entire economy is based on credit, and these giant banks are at the very core of our system of credit.  If these banks were to collapse, a brutal economic depression would be guaranteed.  Unfortunately, as you will see later in this article, these banks did not learn anything from 2008 and are being exceedingly reckless.  They are counting on the rest of us bailing them out if something goes wrong, but that might not happen next time around.

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Humankind’s Most Dangerous Moment: Fukushima Fuel Pool at Unit 4. “This is an Issue of Human Survival.”

Global Research
September 20, 2013

We are now within two months of what may be humankind’s most dangerous moment since the Cuban Missile Crisis.

There is no excuse for not acting. All the resources our species can muster must be focussed on the fuel pool at Fukushima Unit 4.

Fukushima’s owner, Tokyo Electric (Tepco), says that within as few as 60 days it may begin trying to remove more than 1300 spent fuel rods from a badly damaged pool perched 100 feet in the air. The pool rests on a badly damaged building that is tilting, sinking and could easily come down in the next earthquake, if not on its own.

Some 400 tons of fuel in that pool could spew out more than 15,000 times as much radiation as was released at Hiroshima.

The one thing certain about this crisis is that Tepco does not have the scientific, engineering or financial resources to handle it. Nor does the Japanese government. The situation demands a coordinated worldwide effort of the best scientists and engineers our species can muster.

Why is this so serious?

We already know that thousands of tons of heavily contaminated water are pouring through the Fukushima site, carrying a devil’s brew of long-lived poisonous isotopes into the Pacific. Tuna irradiated with fallout traceable to Fukushima have already been caught off the coast of California. We can expect far worse.

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Larry Pratt to Bashir: ‘Do You Have Any Remorse’ for Those Killed in ‘Your Gun-Free Zones?’

Infowars.com 
September 22, 2013

Executive Director of Gun Owners of America, Larry Pratt asks MSNBC’s Martin Bashir “Do you have any remorse for those that were killed in your gun-free zone? “Do you have any remorse for the parents and the family who are suffering and the grief they are going through?”

Pope attacks global economics for worshipping 'god of money'

Yahoo News
September 22, 2013

CAGLIARI, Sardinia (Reuters) - Pope Francis made one of his strongest attacks on the global economic system on Sunday, saying it could no longer be based on a "god called money" and urged the unemployed to fight for work.

Francis, at the start of a day-long trip to the Sardinian capital, Cagliari, put aside his prepared text at a meeting with unemployed workers, including miners in hard hats who told him of their situation, and improvised for nearly 20 minutes.

"I find suffering here ... It weakens you and robs you of hope," he said. "Excuse me if I use strong words, but where there is no work there is no dignity."

He discarded his prepared speech after listening to Francesco Mattana, a 45-year-old married father of three who lost his job with an alternative energy company four years ago.

Mattana, his voice trembling, told the pope that unemployment "oppresses you and wears you out to the depths of your soul".

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Suicide Attack at Christian Church in Pakistan Kills Dozens

The New York Times
September 22, 2013

Deadly Attack at Pakistan Church: A suicide attack on a historic Christian church in northwestern Pakistan killed dozens on Sunday.

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A suicide attack on a historic Christian church in northwestern Pakistan killed at least 75 people on Sunday in one of the deadliest attacks on the Christian minority in Pakistan in years.

The attack occurred as worshipers left the All Saints Church in the old quarter of the regional capital, Peshawar, after a service on Sunday morning. Up to 600 worshipers had attended the service and were leaving to receive free food being distributed on the lawn outside when two explosions ripped through the crowd.

Dozens of people were killed and more than 100 wounded, said Akhtar Ali Shah, the home secretary of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province.

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