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901  Economy / Speculation / Small Bitcoin dump 03/10/17 on: March 10, 2017, 11:44:21 PM
This morning I saw Bitcoin at http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/ above $1250... maybe close to $1280. They show some kind of average. Bitstamp would have been near this. Now Bitcoin is below $1100.

What's going on? Does it have to do with the new Bitcoin Core version? Does it have to do with THAAD (http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/News/214173-2017-03-10-china-warns-of-nuclear-first-strike-in-response-to-thaad.htm)?

What's it all about?

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902  Other / Politics & Society / The Report from Iron Mountain Leads Back to the Mother of All Deep Underground on: March 07, 2017, 02:52:16 PM
The Report from Iron Mountain Leads Back to the Mother of All Deep Underground Bases





Only to learn what the future may hold. Sometimes these artifacts of history come in the form of myths routed in reality and steeped in mystery with no definitive point of origin. Often these stories live on long after they have been marginalized as is the case with the Report from Iron Mountain. An urban legend crops up in the public consciousness that persists only because of its relevance and accuracy. A publication as controversial as the Report from Iron Mountain, an admitted satire by its author Leonard Lewin, could evoke such mystery. A statement of the research put out by cold war think tanks? A prototype Agenda21 white paper?

Originally setting out to profile the document itself only to find the real story behind the legend. There has been so much written about this document it could easily fill ten books. This publication's origin may be in doubt. It's namesake certainly isn't.


Read more at https://www.lewrockwell.com/2017/03/no_author/report-iron-mountain/.


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903  Other / Politics & Society / It Will All Go Horribly Wrong on: March 07, 2017, 02:38:37 PM
It Will All Go Horribly Wrong





So why is less than 0.5% of world financial assets invested in gold and gold stocks? There are several reasons for this. Firstly, 100 years of massive credit expansion and money printing have mainly inflated the asset classes that investors understand, be it stocks, bonds or property. Also, financial repression, which in layman's terms means manipulation, has totally distorted most financial markets. With the help of derivatives, governments, central banks, investment banks and hedge funds can create false markets in most investment areas. If a market is massive and global, like currencies, they are very hard to manipulate, except if several major sovereign states collude. But in a small market like gold and silver, it is extremely easy to manipulate prices. Even more so when a lot of it is done with the assistance and blessing of governments.


Read more at https://www.lewrockwell.com/2017/03/egon-von-greyerz/will-go-horribly-wrong/.


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Read more at https://www.caseyresearch.com/cm/date-gold-is-poised-to-soar.


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904  Other / Politics & Society / David Brock Laundered Taxpayers Money To Fund Clinton Campaign on: March 06, 2017, 02:53:29 AM
David Brock Laundered Taxpayers Money To Fund Clinton Campaign





Brock has been found guilty of taking part in a scheme that laundered taxpayer money to fund the presidential campaigns of both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.

Disobedientmedia.com reports:

The effort has revealed that organizations tied to high ranking members of Shareblue and its holding company conspired with John Kerry's Department of State to use taxpayer funds in an effort to unseat Benjamin Netanyahu as the Prime Minister of Israel.

The funds appear to potentially have then been laundered and returned via a campaign consulting group tied to former President Barack Obama, ultimately being used to fund the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton.

I. Funds Passed From The Department Of State Were Used By OneVoice In An Attempt To Unseat Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

Peter Daou is the CEO of Shareblue's holding company, True Blue Media LLC. Mr. Daou played an integral role in the site's transformation from True Blue Media to Shareblue. Mr. Daou was also a former advisor to Hillary Clinton, John Kerry and former Senator Arlen Specter.


Read more at http://yournewswire.com/david-brock-laundered-taxpayer-clinton-campaign/.


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905  Other / Politics & Society / Inductive heating of Magnetic Nanoparticles enables safe thawing of cryopreserve on: March 04, 2017, 01:19:17 AM
Inductive heating of Magnetic Nanoparticles enables safe thawing of cryopreserved...





A new study reveals that nanotechnology can be used to rapidly rewarm cryogenically treated samples without damaging delicate frozen tissues, which may someday help make organ cryopreservation a reality. More than 60% of the hearts and lungs donated for transplantation must be discarded annually, because these tissues cannot be kept on ice for longer than four hours. According to recent estimates, if only half of unused organs were successfully transplanted, transplant waiting lists could be eliminated within two years. Long-term preservation methods like vitrification - which involves super-cooling biological samples to a glassy state - could establish tissue storage banks and reduce transplant rejection rates, greatly facilitating the process to find matching donors when needed.

* we have been able to vitrify organs since the 1980s but have not been able to safely thaw them
* we need to evenly and rapidly heat cryopreserved organs
* microwaving leaves hotspots that damage thawed organs
* magnetic nanoparticles enable the necessary rapid heating (100 degrees per minute) but without hotspots


Read more at http://www.nextbigfuture.com/2017/03/inductive-heating-of-magnetic.html.


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906  Other / Politics & Society / Storm Runoff In California Gold Country Exposing New Motherlode? on: March 02, 2017, 02:23:19 AM
Storm Runoff In California Gold Country Exposing New Motherlode?





"Miner Gary" Thomas said he always finds at least a little gold here on his property near Jamestown in Tuolumne County, but this year, there's so much more runoff than normal and it's shaking the gold from these hills.

Thomas said it could provide a "Eureka" moment for those inclined to come up here and look for it. "(The runoff) kind of 'etch-a-sketches' everything," said Thomas. "Eveything I had dug up and now my dig spots are all gone."

The known gold digs were washed out, trees uprooted, and landscape eroded. The runoffs have also removed gold out of the old abandoned mines and sent it down the river.

"It's going to bring down more gold," said Thomas. "It's going to bring up new areas that I never got to."

Thomas runs tour groups through his property and said now is the optimum time for gold hunting because the storms have just finished churning the landscape.


Read more and watch the video at http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2017/02/27/storm-runoff-in-california-gold-country-exposing-new-motherlode/.


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907  Other / Politics & Society / Trump Slashes Nat'l Debt by $12 Billion In First Month, Media Silent on: February 27, 2017, 08:02:15 PM
Trump Slashes Nat'l Debt by $12 Billion In First Month, Media Silent





The Trump administration managed to decrease total US public debt by $12 billion in a month, while former President Obama increased it by $200 billion over that same period.



Credit – Reuters

Despite the numerous controversies during his first month in office, President Trump successfully decreased the US total public debt by $12 billion within his first 30 days as president. Yet, as Trump pointed out in a series of tweets, few media outlets covered the significant debt decrease though they were more than happy to pounce on other recent stories casting the new president in a negative light.

The Trump administration managed to decrease total US public debt by $12 billion in a month, while former President Obama increased it by $200 billion over that same period.

Though some may take such statements from Trump as self-serving and not factually sound, the US Treasury Department has confirmed Trump's claims. According to data released by the Treasury, the overall national debt on the day of Trump's inauguration stood at $19.95 trillion and dropped to $19.93 trillion on February 21st. Then, between February 22nd and 23rd, the debt dropped even lower to $19.91 trillion.

Not only that, but Trump's assertion that former President Barack Obama increased the national debt by $200 billion within his first month in office was also proven to be accurate by official government statistics. In Obama's first month in office, the US national debt began at $10.62 trillion and jumped to $10.84. Over Obama's presidency, the national debt soared by 86%, hitting a record high at $19.6 trillion.

Yet, the mainstream media's ignorance of the national debt crisis is nothing new. The national debt has been and is so out of control that it threatens to bring down the entire national economy and completely obliterate the US dollar as a currency of value. Essentially, the Federal Reserve – through years of currency manipulation intended to enrich the wealthiest Americans at the expense of the rest – is forced to keep interest rates at near-zero, lest it unleash the true weight of the national debt upon the American public.

Davidson Stockman, the former director of the national budget under Reagan, recently summarized the situation:

The puppet politicians in Washington D.C. have only done what their "invisible government" puppeteers have instructed them to do. They don't answer to the voters or their local constituents. They answer to Wall Street bankers, the military industrial complex, mega-corporation CEOs, and shadowy billionaire oligarchs who fund their corrupt existence.

These feckless politician hacks could never have added $13.8 trillion to the national debt in the last sixteen years and run the country's unfunded welfare liabilities to $200 trillion without the Wall Street controlled privately owned Federal Reserve manning the printing presses and manipulating interest rates to enrich their "invisible government" benefactors.


Read more and click the links at http://www.trueactivist.com/trump-slashes-natl-debt-by-12-billion-in-first-month-media-silent/.


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908  Other / Politics & Society / Obama DHS Attempted to Hack Indiana State Electoral System Nearly 15,000 Times on: February 26, 2017, 10:04:19 PM
Obama DHS Attempted to Hack Indiana State Electoral System Nearly 15,000 Times in 2016





The news comes in the wake of months of post-election talk the Russians helped Donald Trump get elected, thwarting any chance of Hillary Clinton to win in November of 2016.

Yet even with the bipartisan parade of politicians, including former president Barack H. Obama, Lindsey Graham, John McCain, and others, the American people have not been presented one shred of evidence to suggest the Russians attempted to meddle with the elections. Free thinkers everywhere are scratching their heads, and asking themselves if they're supposed to believe the so-called leaders in Washington, without being presented with any proof the Kremlin had anything to do with Clinton's loss.

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Seemingly miffed by the IT intrusion is Indiana Secretary of State Connie Lawson, who also serves as president of NASS. She told Pollack, “we know that between November 1 and December 16, we were scanned with about 14,800 scans, nearly 15,000 different times,” an action which was traced back to a Department of Homeland Security computer’s IP address, which was the same system used to hack into Georgia’s electoral system as well, making it the second time the federal government has been implicated in attempting to hack into state election systems. She points the finger squarely at the Obama administration’s DHS, saying she believed the scans were possibly retaliatory since the state chose not to allow DHS to get their hands on Indiana’s electoral infrastructure. “We declined their assistance,” she said but added, “our voter registration system was not penetrated.”


Read more at http://www.dcclothesline.com/2017/02/24/obama-dhs-attempted-to-hack-indiana-state-electoral-system-nearly-15000-times-in-2016-2/.


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909  Other / Politics & Society / Chemtrail Coal Ash is Being Sprayed on YOU on: February 22, 2017, 12:34:22 AM
Peer-Reviewed, Court-Admissible, Scientific Research Paper Published Exposing Geoengineering

SOTN Investigative Research Team
State of the Nation
Scientific evidence now exists which indicates the presence of “toxic coal combustion fly ash” in the Earth’s atmosphere.  The following abstract excerpt comes from a recently published peer-reviewed article in the August 11th issue of the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health under the title quoted above and linked here.

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With that understanding the EPA has just committed the biggest and most transparent blunder in its history.  The profound and unparalleled transgression against the American people and environment concerns coal fly ash.  Coal fly ash is one of four types coal combustion residuals (CCRs) which are produced by industrial and power plant coal-burning. Current air pollution control standards require that it be captured prior to release by the appropriate pollution control equipment.

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For the last two decades the source material for chemtrails has been a mystery. Finally, the apparent ‘perfect’ element base material of chemtrails sprayed from airplanes—both government and commercial—that causes blanket clouds and welsbach reflective materials in the atmosphere, has been identified. It’s coal fly ash wastes from coal burning power plants!

In the almost 13 minute video posted below, the basic scientific analysis of coal ash identifies fly ash, which is high in aluminum oxide—about 30%. From the 9 minute mark on the timeline, important information should be noted.

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CHEMTRAILS are COAL ASH! THE PROOF!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=F6r0GqbH9Os#t=7



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910  Other / Politics & Society / BREAKING: Health Ranger threatened by left-wing media goons: ... on: February 19, 2017, 03:26:20 AM
BREAKING:
Health Ranger threatened by left-wing media goons:
“Destroy Alex Jones or we will destroy YOU”






FULL DISCLOSURE: I am being threatened with the "complete destruction" of my reputation, my brand and my character by left-wing media operatives who have issued a new threat this week: "Destroy Alex Jones or we will destroy YOU."

Alex Jones, of course, is the founder of InfoWars.com, one of the most popular multi-media publishers of pro-America news, videos and radio broadcasts in the world.

The warning implies that a barrage of left-wing media stories will target me personally — obviously spreading "fake news" lies — unless I agree to go public with "opposition research" targeting Jones that was previously delivered to me on a physical thumb drive.

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Now, it seems, the stakes are even higher because of the victory of President Trump, a true patriot and determined warrior who is waging an epic battle against globalist forces, the “fake news” media and the corrupt elements of the so-called “deep state.” As the publisher of Trump.news, a pro-Trump REAL news website, I am being targeted as part of a left-wing media effort to discredit and destroy all Trump supporters who are prominent media innovators or personalities.


Read more at http://www.naturalnews.com/2017-02-16-health-ranger-threatened-by-left-wing-media-goons-destroy-alex-jones-or-we-will-destroy-you.html.


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911  Other / Politics & Society / Environmental Protection Agency To Officially Terminate On Dec. 31, 2018 on: February 17, 2017, 03:08:52 AM
Environmental Protection Agency To Officially Terminate On Dec. 31, 2018





In the handful of weeks that Donald Trump has been President of the United States, a lot has happened. The stress that's been mounting due to recent events just increased, however. That's because, by the end of next year, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will be terminated.

H.R. 861, which was introduced by House Republicans on Feb. 3, only contains one sentence: "The Environmental Protection Agency shall terminate on December 31, 2018." As Daily KOS reports, the bill which was introduced by Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Florida) and cosponsored by Reps. Steven Palazzo (R-Mississippi), Thomas Massie (R-Kentucky), and Barry Loudermilk (R-Georgia) is presently awaiting action in the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.

No information has been shared detailing what will happen to the bounty of knowledge and researched produced by the EPA over the last decades. Additionally, nothing is said about what will happen to the Clean Air Act, or the Clean Water Act, or even the Endangered Species Act. Considering Donald Trump and many of his cabinet picks believe climate change is a "hoax" invented by the Chinese, environmentalists aren't optimistic about might occur. Finally, the single statement in the legislation fails to mention what will happen to the EPA's $8 million budget or the 15,000+ workers who are employed by the agency.


Read more at http://www.trueactivist.com/environmental-protection-agency-to-officially-terminate-on-dec-31-2018/.


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912  Other / Politics & Society / Massive Child Sex Ring Busted in CA -- 474 Arrested, 28 Children Saved on: February 03, 2017, 01:56:41 AM
Massive Child Sex Ring Busted in CA -- 474 Arrested, 28 Children Saved





In a massive statewide operation targeting human traffickers, hundreds of people were arrested and dozens of sexually-exploited children were saved.

The bust was part of a statewide operation to combat human trafficking, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department announced Tuesday.

According to KTLA, more than 30 federal, state and local law enforcement agencies and task forces, as well as the Los Angeles Regional Human Trafficking Task Force, participated in the third annual "Operation Reclaim and Rebuild" enforcement operation, according to a sheriff's news release.

The operation resulted in 474 arrests including 142 males on solicitation charges, and 36 males for pimping.

It is important to note that some of these arrests included people trying to simply pay another willing adult to have sex with them.

In the Land of the Free, it is against the law to get paid to have sex, unless that sex is filmed, distributed on DVD, and taxed. One of the least talked about systems of oppression in the US is that of persecuting prostitutes.

When referencing prostitution, it is critical to point out that we are talking about the mutually beneficial exchange of sexual favors for money by two or more consenting adults; not forced human trafficking.

That being said, however, during the operation, officers rescued 28 children who were being sexually exploited and offered services to 27 adults they said were victims of sex trafficking. These victims were not part of a voluntary process and instead were bought and sold as commodities to sick individuals without their consent.

As corporate media writes off talk of 'pizzagate' as if it's some tinfoil conspiracy theory that couldn't possibly happen, this scenario shatters their claims. In fact, Los Angeles County Sheriff Jim McDonnell says the arrests represent a "very sad commentary on the condition we're dealing with."

"Pretending this issue doesn't exist only makes us more complicit in it," newly elected San Diego City Attorney Mara Elliott said.

While it is currently unknown if any of these charges involve high-level government officials or law enforcement, the fact that it existed should not be ignored. Throughout the first and second weeks of December, since the mainstream media first reported that Edgar Maddison Welch, of Salisbury, N.C., fired a shot inside the Comet Ping Pong Pizzeria in Washington, DC, the mainstream media has been declaring the so-called child-sex "Pizzagate" child-sex ring, a false conspiracy theory based on lies.

Welch was reportedly searching for child-sex slaves inside Comet Ping Pong based on stories he'd read online involving pedophilia and the Washington elite. Ironically, and without any real investigative, Chris Hanson style journalism being conducted, the mainstream media and its pundits have declared all the claims found in the conspiracy theory to be false, lies constructed by "fake news."

In fact, The Washington Post simply declared, "None of them were true." That may, indeed, be the case. But if it can happen in California on such a large scale, it can certainly happen anywhere else in the United States, and all such claims must be investigated thoroughly by properly trained police officers with the tools necessary to uncover such deviant sex crimes involving children. We applaud the California authorities for their investigations of child-sex rings. May justice be swift to the sickos involved in exploiting children.


DA Press Conference: Human Trafficking, Operation Reclaim and Rebuild January 31, 2017

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4R3tDA1CBo



Read more at http://www.thedailysheeple.com/massive-child-sex-ring-busted-in-ca-474-arrested-28-children-saved_022017.


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913  Other / Off-topic / Scientists have turned cooking oil into a material 200 times stronger than steel on: February 03, 2017, 12:37:06 AM
Scientists have turned cooking oil into a material 200 times stronger than steel





Researchers have found a way to turn cheap, everyday cooking oil into the wonder material graphene - a technique that could greatly reduce the cost of making the much-touted nanomaterial.

Graphene is a single sheet of carbon atoms with incredible properties - it's 200 times stronger than steel, harder than diamond, and incredibly flexible. Under certain conditions, it can even be turned into a superconductor that carries electricity with zero resistance.

That means the material has the potential to make better electronics, more effective solar cells, and could even be used in medicine.

Last year, a study suggested that graphene could help mobile phone batteries last 25 percent longer, and the material has the potential to filter fuel out of thin air.


Read more at http://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-have-turned-cheap-cooking-oil-into-a-material-200-times-stronger-than-steel.


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914  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Trump's Attorney General Vows War on Encryption on: February 03, 2017, 12:28:18 AM
Trump's Attorney General Vows War on Encryption


Trump's Attorney General Vows War on Encryption

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4C5AVVtqpPA



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915  Other / Off-topic / Medical first,children had cancer cured with genetically engineered T-cells from on: January 29, 2017, 03:27:48 AM
Medical first,children had cancer cured with genetically engineered T-cells from another person





Experiments, which took place at London's Great Ormond Street Hospital, raise the possibility of off-the-shelf cellular therapy using inexpensive supplies of universal cells that could be dripped into patients' veins on a moment's notice.

The ready-made approach could pose a challenge to companies including Juno Therapeutics and Novartis, each of which has spent tens of millions of dollars pioneering treatments that require collecting a patient's own blood cells, engineering them, and then re-infusing them.

Both methods rely on engineering T cells—the hungry predator cells of the immune system—so they attack leukemic cells.

The British infants, ages 11 and 16 months, each had leukemia and had undergone previous treatments that failed, according to a description of their cases published Wednesday in Science Translational Medicine. Waseem Qasim, a physician and gene-therapy expert who led the tests, reported that both children remain in remission.


Read more at http://www.nextbigfuture.com/2017/01/medical-firstchildren-had-cancer-cured.html.


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916  Other / Politics & Society / Scientists Researching 'Psychological Vaccine' To Protect Against 'Fake News' on: January 29, 2017, 03:11:31 AM
Scientists Researching 'Psychological Vaccine' To Protect Against 'Fake News'





In a well-timed paper from three universities in England and the U.S., researchers lay out a strategy for "inoculating" the public against the fake news and alternative facts that have been rampant in recent history. They dub the method "psychological vaccination," since it's conceptually similar to medical vaccinations: You insert a little bit of the material you want to inoculate against (normally, a piece of virus; here, a word of warning about fake facts), and the person becomes more resilient when confronted with it in the future. The idea is that those who are in the business of relaying actual facts may want to implement the strategy to prevent against the spread of "alternative facts."

To test the theory, the researchers first presented participants with accurate or inaccurate facts about a subject known to be susceptible to misinformation: Climate change. Some participants were presented with a pie chart illustrating a scientifically sound fact: "97% of scientists agree on man-made climate change." Another group was presented with a website, the Oregon Global Warming Petition Project, which displays a (fake) petition attesting that "human-caused global warming hypothesis is without scientific validity," and which more than 31,000 American scientists appear to have signed.


Read more and click the links at https://www.technocracy.news/index.php/2017/01/25/scientists-researching-psychological-vaccine-protect-fake-news/.


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917  Other / Off-topic / Scientists unveil new form of matter: time crystals on: January 29, 2017, 02:02:28 AM
Scientists unveil new form of matter: time crystals





To Norman Yao, these inert crystals are the tip of the iceberg.

If crystals have an atomic structure that repeats in space, like the carbon lattice of a diamond, why can't crystals also have a structure that repeats in time? That is, a time crystal?

In a paper published online last week in the journal Physical Review Letters, the UC Berkeley assistant professor of physics describes exactly how to make and measure the properties of such a crystal, and even predicts what the various phases surrounding the time crystal should be — akin to the liquid and gas phases of ice.

This is not mere speculation. Two groups followed Yao's blueprint and have already created the first-ever time crystals. The groups at the University of Maryland and Harvard University reported their successes, using two totally different setups, in papers posted online last year, and have submitted the results for publication. Yao is a co-author on both papers.


Read more at http://www.nextbigfuture.com/2017/01/scientists-unveil-new-form-of-matter.html.


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918  Other / Politics & Society / Trump Asks "What The Hell's Going In Chicago?" on: January 28, 2017, 06:04:44 AM
Trump Asks "What The Hell's Going In Chicago?"





After threatening to "send in The Feds" yesterday - after seeing the "carnage" in Chicago - President Trump asked (rhetorically) during his address to Congressional Republicans today, "what the hell is going in Chicago?" He received a surprising one-word answer that seemed to sum things up rather well...


Read more and watch the video at http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-01-26/trump-asks-what-hells-going-chicago-gets-one-word-answer.


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919  Other / Politics & Society / US exit from United Nations could become reality with fresh bill on: January 23, 2017, 10:36:58 PM
US exit from United Nations could become reality with fresh bill





A Republican-proposed House Resolution has quietly slipped past the public radar – proposing that the United States withdraw its membership from the United Nations, just as another bill was being concocted to cut US funding to the body.

The bill, proposed by Rep. Mike Rogers (R-AL), entitled American Sovereignty Restoration Act of 2017, seeks a complete US withdrawal from the UN, that the international body remove its headquarters from New York and that all participation be ceased with the World Health Organization as well.

Rogers and other prominent Republicans have repeatedly voiced the idea that US taxpayer money should not go to an organization that does not promote US interests – especially one that does not stick up for Israel together with the US. The new document is merely the latest manifestation of sentiment that has been brewing for some time.

The bill was quietly introduced on January 3 and was passed on to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs. If approved, the bill would take two years to take effect. It would also repeal the United Nations Participation Act of 1945, signed in the aftermath of WWII.

"The President shall terminate all membership by the United States in the United Nations in any organ, specialized agency, commission, or other formally affiliated body of the United Nations…The United States Mission to the United Nations is closed. Any remaining functions of such office shall not be carried out,"according to the text of HR 193.

The bill would also prohibit "the authorization of funds for the US assessed or voluntary contribution to the UN," which would also include any military or peacekeeping expenditures, the use of the US military by the UN, and the loss of "diplomatic immunity for UN officers or employees" on US soil.

Rogers had tried to pass the same bill in 2015, albeit unsuccessfully.

"Why should the American taxpayer bankroll an international organization that works against America's interests around the world?" Rogers asked at the time in defense of his idea.

"The time is now to restore and protect American sovereignty and get out of the United Nations."

Another supporter of HR 193, Rend Paul (R-KY) also put it like this in January 2015: "I dislike paying for something that two-bit Third World countries with no freedom attack us and complain about the United States… There's a lot of reasons why I don't like the UN, and I think I'd be happy to dissolve it," added the Kentucky senator.

Later, in June 2015, Rogers had introduced his document – then named HR 1205, but essentially the same USExit idea he's proposing now.

"The UN continues to prove it's an inefficient bureaucracy and a complete waste of American tax dollars." Rogers went on to name treaties and actions he believes "attack our rights as US citizens." These included gun provisions, the imposition of international regulations on American fossil fuels – but more importantly, the UN attack on Israel, by voting to grant Palestine the non-member state 'permanent observer' status.

"Anyone who is not a friend to our ally Israel is not a friend to the United States."

That same logic was used this January when House Republicans prepared a legislation that would decrease – even potentially eliminate – US funding to the UN. According to calculations by the conservative Heritage Foundation, the US provides over 22 percent of all UN funding.

The bill to cut the funding was introduced shortly after the UNSC voted 14-0 to condemn the continued construction of illegal Israeli settlements – the resolution Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu considered a backstab from the US, which declined to veto it, as per former President Barack Obama's suddenly critical attitude to Israel at the end of his presidency.


Read more at http://www.prisonplanet.com/us-exit-from-united-nations-could-become-reality-with-fresh-bill.html.


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920  Other / Off-topic / "Scientists Now Warn Of A New Ice Age" on: January 21, 2017, 11:55:46 PM
Pravda: "Scientists Now Warn Of A New Ice Age"





Snowfall paralyzed the city of Istanbul, Turkey. Massive snow falls across the Balkans, Italy and Greece. Dozens of Europeans have since frozen to death. Northern Albania villages have been cut off by 120 cm of snow.


Read more at http://globalwarming-arclein.blogspot.ca/2017/01/pravda-scientists-now-warn-of-new-ice.html.


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