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Wednesday, February 4, 2015
Tuesday, February 3, 2015
OPEC LEADER: OIL COULD SHOOT BACK TO $200
He's far from the only one that sees a return of triple-digit oil prices
Image Credits: Joel / Flickr
by MATT DILALLO | CNN MONEY | FEBRUARY 3, 2015
Right now the oil market is totally focused on finding a bottom for oil prices.
However, according to OPEC’s Secretary-General Abdulla al-Badri we’ve already hit bottom.
Not only that, but he sees a real possibility that oil prices could explode higher to upwards of $200 per barrel in the future. He’s far from the only one that sees a return of triple-digit oil prices.
Finding a bottom: According to recent comments by the Secretary-General when he was in London, the oil market doesn’t need to look for oil prices to bottom as the market has already bottomed. Instead, he offered quite bullish comments by saying, “Now the prices are around $45-$55, and I think maybe they [have] reached the bottom and we [will] see some rebound very soon.”
» Meet the 77th Battalion – The British Army is Mobilizing 1,500 “Facebook Warriors” to Spread Disinformation Alex Jones' Infowars: There's a war on for your mind!
The British Army will revive one of the most contentious special forces units of the second world war
Image Credits: Marco Paköeningrat / Flickr
by MICHAEL KRIEGER | LIBERTY BLITZKRIEG | FEBRUARY 3, 2015
The British Army will revive one of the most contentious special forces units of the second world war, the Chindits, as a new generation of “Facebook” warriors who will wage complex and covert information and subversion campaigns.
– From the recent FT article: Army Revives Chindits as ‘Facebook Warriors’ for Smart Battle
Get ready, social media is about to get far more treacherous than it already is. Be extra careful jumping to conclusions, always think for yourself and use your best judgement. Government psy ops are about to go into overdrive.
Gizmodo reported the following:
A new group of soldiers, referred to as “Facebook Warriors” will ” wage complex and covert information and subversion campaigns,” according to the Financial Times. This unit will be named the 77th battalion, whose number also has a historical significance. FT says:
The original Chindits [77th battalion] were a guerrilla unit led by the swashbuckling British commander Major General Orde Wingate, one of the pioneers of modern unconventional warfare. They operated deep behind Japanese lines in Burma between 1942 and 1945 and their missions were often of questionable success.
These Facebook warriors will be using similar atypical tactics, through non-violent means, to fight their adversary. This will mainly be achieved through “reflexive control,” an old Soviet tactic of spreading specifically curated information in order to get your opponent to react in the exact way you want them to. It’s a pretty tricky trick, and the British army will be doing just that with 1,500-person (or more) troop using Twitter and Facebook as a means to spread disinformation, real war truths, and “false flag” incidents as well as just general intelligence gathering. The 77th battalion will reportedly begin operations in April.
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“Non-Official Cover” – Respected German Journalist Blows Whistle on How the CIA Controls the Media
Propaganda 101 – How the Pentagon is Trying to Rewrite Vietnam War History
U.S. Propaganda Enters Into Insane, Irrational Overdrive in Attempt to “Sell” War in Syria
More Proof Emerges that “Meet the Press” is Pure Propaganda
Time Magazine Cover: This is What Propaganda Looks Like
Remember Zero Dark Thirty? Turns Out it was a CIA Propaganda Film After All
Monday, February 2, 2015
Blaming Anti-vax Parents for Mickey Mouse Measles
"That vaccine-induced herd immunity is mostly myth can be proven quite simply. When I was in medical school, we were taught that all of the childhood vaccines lasted a lifetime. This thinking existed for over 70 years. It was not until relatively recently that it was discovered that most of these vaccines lost their effectiveness 2 to 10 years after being given. What this means is that at least half the population, that is the baby boomers, have had no vaccine-induced immunity against any of these diseases for which they had been vaccinated very early in life. In essence, at least 50% or more of the population was unprotected for decades.
If we listen to present-day wisdom, we are all at risk of resurgent massive epidemics should the vaccination rate fall below 95%. Yet, we have all lived for at least 30 to 40 years with 50% or less of the population having vaccine protection. That is, herd immunity has not existed in this country for many decades and no resurgent epidemics have occurred. Vaccine-induced herd immunity is a lie used to frighten doctors, public-health officials, other medical personnel, and the public into accepting vaccinations." comment by Elena0411
Written by Rebecca Terrell
California's measles outbreak has climbed to 91 confirmed cases, prompting a vicious attack from USA Todaycontributor Alex Berezow against "anti-vaxxers." He blames them for the epidemic that CDC officials sWritten by Rebecca Terrellay was introduced at the Disneyland theme park by a person infected with measles overseas. Berezow's knee-jerk reaction is to declare, "Parents who do not vaccinate their children should go to jail." He erroneously maintains that measles could not spread in a fully vaccinated society and discredits as "ludicrous" concerns regarding the safety and effectiveness of vaccines. Claiming there is a "mountain of data" proving otherwise, his one and only citation links to a page on the federal government's vaccination-promoting website, Vaccines.gov. It offers a short, unsubstantiated article that begins with the flippant pitch, "Vaccines work really well," and displays a single graph illustrating the decline in U.S. measles cases since the inoculation was introduction in 1962.
Berezow also illogically condemns religious objections as a violation of civil rights. "Your right to be sick ends where my right to be healthy begins," he quips. (But won't your inoculation protect your right to be healthy, Mr. Berezow?) He compares unvaccinated persons to drunk drivers who "pose an imminent danger to others" and says jail time for parents who turn "their children into little walking time bombs" is the only way to send a sufficiently strong message about the "deadly consequences of failing to vaccinate children."
The illegality of Berezow's proposal isn't its only problem, but it is easily the most troublesome, considering our current regulatory environment. Writing for The New American during last summer's Ebola scare, Alex Newman outlined state and federal measures already in place to strip personal liberties in the name of protecting public health. Roughly 80 percent of states across the nation have, since 2002, implemented in varying degrees the Model State Emergency Health Powers Act, developed by a collaboration of government entities including the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the UN World Health Organization. The act grants tremendous powers to states at the expense of personal privacy and individual freedom, allowing forced involuntary quarantines and government-mandated vaccinations during officially declared "emergencies."
On the federal level, the Public Health Service Act (PHSA), along with executive orders signed by Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, established broad federal quarantine authority. In the event of public resistance to such draconian measures, Obama is prepared to deploy the military to enforce these unconstitutional policies. Newman explained the dangers involved:
In other words, a bureaucrat could deprive a U.S. citizen of his unalienable rights — for as long as said bureaucrat considers necessary — on the mere suspicion that the person being detained has been in contact with some disease. Contrast the purported federal authorities under the [PHSA] with the plain language in the U.S. Constitution's Fifth Amendment, which outright prohibits the deprivation of liberty without due process of law — a timeless and essential principle enshrined in the Magna Carta almost 800 years ago. State constitutions across America recognize those fundamental rights as well.
But desperate times call for desperate measures, right? Shouldn't we be willing to part with personal liberties in the interest of public health? Aren't diseases such as measles far worse than the prospect of forfeiting the Fifth Amendment?
Before answering "yes" to any of these questions, let's consider a few points about vaccinations in general and measles in particular, notwithstanding Berezow's facetious warning of the "deadly consequences of failing to vaccinate children." First, measles is very rarely fatal, and most people recover completely. In an analysis of CDC data at VaxTruth.org, Dawn Papple notes that prior to the introduction of the measles vaccine in the 1960s, only 0.015 percent of measles cases resulted in death, and the percentage of people who die globally from measles today is very low at 0.00328 percent. These numbers are not meant to downplay the tragedy of individual deaths but to illustrate that we are not talking about a killer such as smallpox, so lethal that it has been used as a biological weapon of war since ancient times.
Moreover, between the early 1900s and the 1960s, numbers of both measles cases and deaths were already in steep decline because doctors discovered the efficacy of cod-liver oil, which is rich in vitamin A. The New England Journal of Medicine confirmed in 1990 that vitamin A is essential in measles treatment and declared that "all children with severe measles should be given vitamin A supplements, whether or not they are thought to have a nutritional deficiency." (Emphasis added.) And while vitamin A proves itself an effective therapy, the measles vaccine cannot promise the same. Quoting VaxTruth.org: "It is worth noting that in the 2011 measles outbreak in New York, when 88 people contracted measles, the 'ground zero' patient was a fully-vaccinated ... 22 year-old woman."
Which brings us to the question of vaccine safety and effectiveness in general. Researchers may call a vaccine "effective" simply because it causes the injected person to develop antibodies. However, "it is important to understand that effective and protective in vaccine research are not synonyms," explains Dr. Sherri Tenpenny, a medical doctor and outspoken critic of vaccines. (Emphasis in original.) She cites the package insert of the HiBTiter® flu vaccine, which states that "the contribution [antibodies make] to clinical protection is unknown," and CDC literature about the pertussis vaccine, which admits, "The findings of efficacy studies have not demonstrated a direct correlation between antibody response and protection against pertussis disease." This effective-vs.-protective distinction explains how outbreaks can occur in fully immunized populations, such as the 1985 measles epidemic in a school in Corpus Christi, Texas. Similarly, a number of cases in the current California outbreak involve previously immunized patients.
Tenpenny recalls that she was drawn into the debate years ago when she realized that "tens of thousands have been injured and have died as a result of vaccinations." Among associated health problems are autism, sudden infant death syndrome, allergies, juvenile diabetes, and childhood arthritis. Yet Vaccines.gov claims, "Vaccines are some of the safest medical products available." If this is the case, "why does our federal government protect vaccine manufacturers from product liability lawsuits?" MaryJo Perry, co-director of Mississippi Parents for Vaccine Rights, asks this question in USA Today. She notes that taxpayers have been funding the U.S. Health and Human Services Administration's Vaccine Injury Compensation Program since 1989 to the tune of $3 billion paid to victims of these "safest" of medical products. "When citizens can't hold corporations accountable in court for the safety and effectiveness of vaccines, it is very important to protect our legal right to vaccine exemptions," Perry states.
Barbara Loe Fisher of the National Vaccine Information Center agrees. "From now on — unless we stand up and draw the line on vaccine mandates — the government can legally use police powers to force every American to get hundreds of vaccinations or be punished," she writes, "while those who are hurt by vaccination can be more easily swept under the rug and left to fend for themselves."
UPDATE: Con-Con Debacle Vote Today?
Dear Activist, Don't ever believe calling your elected officials is a waste of time! Because of your efforts, the Virginia House adjourned on Friday without voting on HJ 497 & HJ 499, the dangerous plans calling for an Article V Constitutional Convention. You stopped these bills two days in a row. But the State Senate is prepared to vote as early as today on their version of this plot, SJ 252 and SJ 269. If any of these resolutions pass, other states could soon follow Virginia's footsteps and the Constitution could be shredded. Please contact your state senator immediately and urge him or her to oppose the third reading of SJ 252 and SJ 269. Then contact your state delegate and urge him or her to oppose HJ 497 and HJ 499. Click here for contact information. In a desperate effort to whip up last-second votes, well-funded special interest groups and their leaders are viciously spreading lies about liberty activists who oppose this. And they're promising political payback against our strongest pro-liberty allies in Richmond who oppose their plot. That's why your immediate action is critical to stopping it. Please take action immediately, and then read my message below. -Dustin
Dear Activist,The bills applying for a dangerous Article V Convention could be voted on TODAY! It’s critical you take action immediately to stop these bills in the General Assembly – the vote could come at any time! You can find your State Legislator's contact information by clicking here. Demand your State Legislators vote NO on any bill to call an Article V Constitutional Convention. Do you remember how Establishment Republicans treated the liberty delegates at the 2012 GOP conventions? Just imagine what will happen at a convention being held to manipulate the U.S. Constitution, with BOTH Republican and Democrat Establishment and hundreds of progressive, George Soros-types pulling the strings. Without an outpouring of opposition to this bill, I’m afraid every amendment in our Constitution will be put at risk – some groups are pushing for amendments to rewrite the Second Amendment and limit free speech! That’s why it’s so urgent you take action immediately. Article V of the Constitution allows states to apply to Congress for a convention to amend the Constitution. Once a majority of states have submitted similar applications, Congress must “call” the convention. It’s true that our federal government has strayed. And many well-meaning conservatives believe an Article V Convention is the proper remedy. But Article V does not empower the states to have any control over the convention itself. Once the required number of states apply for the convention, the rest is up to Congress! You would have NO control over the rules of the convention, proposed amendments, or who attends to represent you – contrary to what some convention supporters are saying. And the organization behind one of the applications admits on its own website that if a convention is called, “the convention of states itself would determine which ideas deserve consideration. . .” It’s critical you take action immediately to stop these bills in the General Assembly – the vote could come at any time! Demand your State Legislators vote NO on any bill to call an Article V Constitutional Convention. You can find your State Legislator's contact information by clicking here. Dustin, literally hundreds of progressive organizations, such as Sierra Club, Code Pink, Alliance for Progressive Values, MoveOn, and “Occupy,” have been pushing for a convention since 2009! Attendees of the convention will come from all political persuasions, and each one will have the opportunity to tamper with the Constitution. Do you trust the hundreds of progressive organizations calling for an Article V Convention to do the right thing and rein in the federal government? Do you trust the powerful special interests, backed by George Soros and his ilk, to do the right thing? Do you trust progressive states like California, New York, and Illinois to fall in line with what Virginia wants? For all these reasons (and more), Virginia Campaign for Liberty opposes an Article V Convention. It’s critical you take action immediately to stop these bills in the General Assembly. Demand your State legislators vote NO on any bill to call an Article V Constitutional Convention. You can find your State Legislator's contact information by clicking here. A convention is extremely dangerous – especially today! These bills must be stopped. In Liberty, Dustin Curtis Virginia State Coordinator Campaign for Liberty
UPDATE: Con-Con Debacle Vote Today?
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Mon, 02 Feb 2015 16:34:46 GMT
Welcome to the Scientific Dictatorship: Hysterical Americans Call to Jail "Anti-Vaxxers"
Melissa Melton
Activist Post
I don’t really like using the word sheep, but what else do you call it when people allow a scientific dictatorship with a television to do all their thinking for them?
Sorry we’ve been a little behind the curve on this one. See, we don’t have television. So when large swaths of the American populous start completely flipping out over whatever the television fear du jour is, we’re always a little slow on the uptake simply because we don’t pay to have propaganda piped into our home. We didn’t realize that so many people have completely lost their wits because a whopping 100 people got measles at Disneyland (out of the 15+ million people who visit that park each year).
You know what I really don’t get over this, guys? All the calls to KILL. Commenters a couple articles back even wished my children would die for talking about this. I’ve seen more people threaten to murder people and their children in article comment threads simply over asserting their rights — in America, ya know, where we supposedly still have them — to decide whether or not to vaccinate than I’ve ever seen before pretty much ever.
Someone even took the time to petition White House.gov to raise health insurance rates on families who do not vaccinate their children (the death cultists who wrote Obamacare are surely rubbing their hooves together with glee at that one).
Did someone turn up the fear meter this month or what? Has the They Live signal been jacked up to eleven?These people want so desperately to “save” everyone with vaccines, but threaten to KILL YOU or say they hope your children DIE if you don’t want to get one??? Makes all kinds of logical sense, right? These are the same people that scream about a woman’s right to choose… an abortion. You can choose an abortion, but your right to choose ends there because you definitely don’t have a right to choose whether or not to give your child an injection which no one can prove is entirely safe for them to take or even does what it says it’s going to do (which it obviously doesn’t if they have been able to scientifically trace back measles outbreaks to FULLY VACCINATED PEOPLE).
It’s not even about whether or not you do or don’t vaccinate anymore — now it’s about the idea that a group of fear-wracked sheep who completely freak out at whatever they’re told to freak out about at the moment (ISIS, Ebola, Isis members with Ebola, whatever it is) can suddenly attempt to DEMAND that other people are stripped of all of their rights, sued, jailed and even murdered just because they do not agree with them.
That’s one slippery ass slope if you ask me.
For more on how, prior to the vaccination, measles used to be a SITCOM PUNCHLINE here in America, watch the video below. Today, talking heads are selling people on the idea that they might die tomorrow and millions are at risk if we don’t force vaccinate everyone in sight…oh, how the tune has changed when there’s money involved.
Here's the dreaded measles before the vaccine:
Melissa Melton and Aaron Dykes operate TruthstreamMedia.com. Follow them on Youtube, Twitter and Facebook.
Welcome to the Scientific Dictatorship: Hysterical Americans Call to Jail "Anti-Vaxxers"
Activist Post
Sun, 01 Feb 2015 21:11:00 GMT
This Housing Chart Destroys The Arguments Of The Economic Optimists
Michael Snyder
Activist Post
Did you know that the rate of homeownership in the United States has fallen to a 20-year low? Did you know that it has been falling consistently for an entire decade?
For the past couple of years, the economic optimists have been telling us that the economy has been getting better. Well, if the economy really has been getting better, why does the homeownership rate keep going down?
Yes, the ultra-wealthy have received a temporary financial windfall thanks to the reckless money printing the Federal Reserve has been doing, but for most Americans economic conditions have not been improving. This is clearly demonstrated by the housing chart that I am about to share with you.
If the economy really was healthy, more people would be getting good jobs and thus would be able to buy homes. But instead, the homeownership rate has continued to plummet throughout the entire “Obama recovery”. I think that this chart speaks for itself…
Of course this homeownership collapse began well before Barack Obama entered the White House. Our economic problems are the result of decades of incredibly bad decisions. But anyone that believes that things have “turned around” for the middle class under Barack Obama is just being delusional.
If the U.S. economy truly was in “good shape”, the percentage of Americans that own homes would not be at a 20 year low…
The U.S. homeownership rate fell to the lowest in more than two decades in the fourth quarter as many would-be buyers stayed on the sidelines, giving the rental market a boost.The share of Americans who own their homes was 64 percent in the fourth quarter, down from 64.4 percent in the previous three months, the Census Bureau said in a report. The rate was at the lowest since the second quarter of 1994, data compiled by Bloomberg show.Rising prices and a tight supply of lower-end listings have put homes out of reach for some entry-level buyers, who also face strict mortgage standards. The share of U.S. homebuyers making their first purchase dropped in 2014 to the lowest level in almost three decades, the National Association of Realtors reported last week.And it appears that this trend is actually accelerating. During 2014, the rate of homeownership plummeted by a total of 1.2 percentage points for the year. That was the largest one year decline that has ever been measured.So why is this happening?
Well, in order to buy a home you have got to have a good job, and good jobs are in very short supply these days.
Over the past decade, the quality of the jobs in our economy has steadily declined as good jobs have been replaced by low paying jobs. In addition, government policies are absolutely murdering small business. At this point, small business ownership in the U.S. is hovering near record lows.
This has resulted in millions of people falling out of the middle class, and it has contributed to the growing divide between the wealthy and the rest of the country.
If our economy was working the way that it should, the middle class would be thriving.
But instead, it is being systematically destroyed. If you doubt this, I have some statistics that I would like to share with you. The following facts come from my previous article entitled "The Death Of The American Dream In 22 Numbers"…#1 The Obama administration tells us that 8.69 million Americans are “officially unemployed” and that 92.90 million Americans are considered to be “not in the labor force”. That means that more than 101 million U.S. adults do not have a job right now.#2 One recent survey discovered that 55 percent of Americans believe that the American Dream either never existed or that it no longer exists.#3 Considering the fact that Obama is in the White House, it is somewhat surprising that 55 percent of all Republicans still believe in the American Dream, but only 33 percent of all Democrats do.#4 After adjusting for inflation, median household income has fallen by nearly $5,000 since 2007.#5 After adjusting for inflation, “the median wealth figure for middle-income families” fell from $78,000 in 1983 to $63,800 in 2013.#6 At this point, 59 percent of Americans believe that “the American dream has become impossible for most people to achieve”.You can read the rest of that article right here.
The group that has been hit the hardest by all of this has been young adults.
Back in 2005, the homeownership rate for households headed up by someone under the age of 35 was approximately 43 percent.
Today, it has declined to about 35 percent.
From a very early age, we push our young people to go to college, and today more of them are getting secondary education than ever before.
But when they leave school, the “good jobs” that we promised them are often not there, and most of them end up entering the “real world” already loaded down with massive amounts of debt.
According to the Pew Research Center, close to four out of every ten households that are led by someone under the age of 40 are currently paying off student loan debt.It is hard to believe, but total student loan debt in this country is now actually higher than total credit card debt. At this point, student loan debt has reached a grand total of 1.2 trillion dollars, and that number has grown by an astounding 84 percent just since 2008.
If you are already burdened with tens of thousands (or in some cases hundreds of thousands) of dollars of debt when you get out of school and you can’t find a decent job, there is no way that you are going to be able to afford to buy a house.
So we have millions upon millions of young people that should be buying homes and starting families that are living with their parents instead.
Back in 1968, well over 50 percent of all Americans in the 18 to 31-year-old age bracket were already married and living on their own.
But today, that number is actually below 25 percent. Instead, approximately 31 percent of all U.S. adults in the 18 to 34-year-old age bracket are currently living with their parents.
Something has fundamentally gone wrong.
Our economy is broken, and anyone that cannot see this is just being foolish.
So what is the solution?
Please feel free to share what you think by posting a comment below…
This article first appeared here at the Economic Collapse Blog. Michael Snyder is a writer, speaker and activist who writes and edits his own blogs The American Dream and Economic Collapse Blog. Follow him on Twitter here.
This Housing Chart Destroys The Arguments Of The Economic Optimists
Activist
Mon, 02 Feb 2015 14:09:00 GMT