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2012-02-02T18:53:00.000-06:00

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Split over Syria: Russia holds war hawks to letter of law - RT video ~ link ~ Russia holds firm on Syria. Stirling

Americans to rally against war with Iran ~ link ~ A large number of US-based anti-war organizations have planned a nation-wide demonstration to demand Washington stop its warmongerings against Iran.

According to the StopWarOnIran website, “No war, no sanctions, no intervention, no assassinations against Iran” will be the demand of the coordinated demonstrations which will be held across the US on February 4, 2012.

The ad hoc group organizing the demonstrations has agreed “on the need to stop US imperialism and/or Israel from launching a military attack on Iran.”

Radiation leak at nuclear power plant near San Diego - video ~ link ~ We spoke of this in detail on the NutriMedical Report today. The $600+ million new steam generator has failed and will have to be replaced! Stirling

Unprecedented Global Monetary Policy as World Trade Volume Craters ~ link ~ It appears that the deliberately created economic super-crash is beginning to unfold, as I have been predicting. Stirling

With the IMF cutting its global growth forecasts and signs of slowing evident in the dramatic contraction in World Trade Volume in the last few months, it is perhaps no surprise that the central banks of the world have embarked upon what Goldman Sachs calls an 'Unprecedented Alignment of Monetary Policy Across Countries'. Our earlier discussion of the European event risk vs global growth expectations dilemma along with last night's comments on the impact of tightening lending standards around the world also confirms that this policy globalization is still going strong and is likely to continue as gaming out the situation (as Goldman has done) left optimal CB strategy as one-in-all-in with no benefit to any from migrating away from the equilibrium of 'we all print together'. Perhaps gold (and silver's) move today (and for the last few months) reflects this sad reality that all your fiat money are belong to us, as nominal prices rise (but underperform PMs) in equities (and risky sovereigns and financials).

While the 25 year low in Baltic Dry is explained away by the simple over-supply of ships (as if that is a good thing) with little thought as to the near-record high inventories of Iron Ore and so on around the world, the reality as shown above is a world in which trade volumes are down dramatically. The 3 month rate of change has turned negative and that trend is accelerating as the 6 month average is about to turn negative - a very weak signal.

Goldman Sachs:- The 'Globalization' Of Monetary Policy

In this daily, we draw attention to the intensification of monetary policy coordination around the world.
We show that the magnitude of policy synchronization has been unprecedented since the financial crisis...
...and it is still going strong in spite of some divergence across and within EM and DM central banks.

UK first war signal arrives in Falklands/Malvinas ~ link ~ I am very concerned about this area. This is a time when the War Theaters for WWIII are being established. There does not need to be another war over these remote islands, that could put Argentine cities at risk from UK nukes! Stirling

Moreover, British Ministry of Defense (MoD) also announced on Tuesday that it will send its most advanced warship, destroyer HMS Dauntless, to the islands. The move was considered by a navy source as giving the Argentina government “serious pause” for thinking about their claims, since the warship could “shoot down Argentine fighters as soon as they take off from their bases."

Analysts believe that Britain's controversial decisions to deploy an heir to throne and a sophisticated warship to the region were apparent war signals to Argentina, as the British government has been seeking to militarize the dispute over the occupied islands.

Egypt stadium riot: 74 Dead and 1,000 wounded - with photos ~ link ~ This is total insanity. I recommend that anyone considering travel to Egypt cancel. Stirling

Security forces loyal to ousted Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak have been blamed for sparking the football riot.

The final whistle prompted more than 13,000 home fans, armed with knives, iron bars and machetes, to storm the pitch and attack rival Al-Ahly players and their 1,200 supporters.

Anger quickly spread across the country - and thousands of protesters turned up at the Ramses terminal to chant 'Down with military rule'.

160 Die due to extreme freezing temperatures in Eastern Europe ~ link ~ Since the BP Oil Disaster the entire World's weather patterns have been abnormal. This is due to the fact that the massive amount of oil, and the use of a large amount of dispersants to sink the oil leaving about half still in the Gulf of Mexico, has killed the Loop Current in the Gulf. This in turn has significantly reduced the heat transfer levels of the Thermohaline Circulation System in the Atlantic Ocean. This in turn has lessened its ability to act as a steering mechanism on the atmospheric Jet Stream. It is the abnormal Jet Stream behavior that is playing havoc with the World's weather. The mainstream news media will never ever tell you this, or that Goldman Sachs and key BP insiders sold large amounts of their BP stock about a month before the "accident", or that BP drilled into a well known (since the 1950s) and very dangerous massive salt dome causing the disaster. Stirling

Morgellons Exposed ~ link ~ Good site with some interesting information on this nano 'infection' that the powers that be don't want you to know about. Stirling

The Real Economic Picture: "There is NO Recovery" ~ link ~ No kidding! Stirling

War with Iran and the Connection with the American Elections and Netanyahu - video ~ link ~ Interesting, this details how Newt is simply a whore for a key Netanyahu supporter. Stirling

The Police State... - video ~ link ~ Good One! Stirling

China plants 'bitter seeds' in South America farmland ~ link ~ Few were surprised when Venezuela announced a deal with China last week to restore 1.4 million acres of unproductive farmland across the oil-rich but impoverished South American nation.

China increasingly is buying farmland and agricultural companies in South America to feed its ever-growing population, currently estimated to be 1.34 billion.

FM Lieberman to meet with Clinton in Washington next week ~ link ~ For the first time since 2010, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman will meet with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Washington next week.

This is only the second time that Lieberman will be visiting the United States capital since he assumed the position of foreign minister almost three years ago. He is due to depart for the U.S. on Monday, and will be meeting with senior officials in Congress and leaders of Jewish organizations.

Will Iran be bombarded from Georgia? ~ link ~ Today, on January 30 Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili will meet his American counterpart Barack Obama. According to the experts Georgian possible participation in the military operation against Iran will be the main issue of the discussions. Mr. Saakashvili seems to be ready to present Georgian territory for the conflict against Tehran and he will explain its readiness with the necessity to be protected from the “Russian military danger”. Russian kommersant.ru writes about this.

The experts have no doubts that M. Saakashvili will agree with the USA> “Georgia will be more loyal in case of war with Iran compared with turkey and other Iranian neighbors”, experts on conflicts Paata Zakareishvili assures. Tbilisi has demonstrated its devotion to Washington for many years. On 2012 Georgian forces in Afghanistan will be increased and will include 1600-1700 soldiers and officers and will become the biggest staff in Afghanistan of the countries which are not NATO members. “I do not except that Saakashvili will participate in anti-Iranian campaign for keeping his position”, Georgian ex-President Eduard Shevarnadze considers. It may become a real catastrophe for our country. War against Iran must not be led from our territory”.

Diet Drinks: America's Passion for Poison ~ link ~ It is amazing how many normally intelligent people think that drinking this crap is OK. I have had a running argument with a friend, whose son and brother are physicians, about the safety of Aspartame/etc. for years. He says that his son and brother say they are alright. The research data (other than that paid for by the sellers of this poison) says something very different, but he simply will not listen. Stirling

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2012-02-02T16:03:00.001-06:00

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The Ongoing War on Iran ~ link ~ The way in which the growing confrontation with Iran is being sold by the US, Israel and West European leaders is deeply dishonest. The manipulation of the media and public opinion through systematic threat exaggeration is similar to the drum beat of propaganda and disinformation about Iraq’s non-existent weapons of mass destruction that preceded the invasion in 2003.
The supposed aim of imposing sanctions on Iran’s oil exports and central bank, measures officially joined by the EU, is to force Iran to abandon its nuclear program before it reaches the point where it could theoretically build a nuclear bomb. Even Israel now agrees that Iran has not yet decided to do so, but the Iranian nuclear program is still being presented as a danger to Israel and the rest of the world.

Panetta believes Israel will attack Iran this Spring ~ link ~ United States Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta believes that Israel will attack Iran in April, May or June, the Washington Post reported Thursday.

According to the report, written by the paper’s senior opinion writer David Ignatius, Panetta is concerned that Israel will launch an attack before Iran enters the so-called “immunity zone” when its nuclear facilities will be heavily fortified and a military strike will no longer succeed.

US worries Israel is about to strike Iran ~ link ~ Very soon,the Israelis fear, the Iranians will have stored enough enriched uranium in deep underground facilities to make a weapon — and only the United States could then stop them militarily," explained Ignatius. The U.S., however, does not intend to hit Iran until it has intelligence that Iran is actually building a bomb, and "Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu doesn’t want to leave the fate of Israel dependent on American action..."

When Barak asked last month to postpone a planned U.S.-Israel military exercise, he may have been signaling that an Israeli attack is imminent, the senior journalist wrote. Barak "apologized that Israel couldn’t devote the resources to the annual exercise this spring."

UN mulling revised Syria resolution ~ link ~ Won't work, Russia and China are wise to this crap after Libya. Stirling

UN Security Council ambassadors on Thursday were considering a revised resolution aimed at stopping the bloodshed in Syria that removes an explicit reference to President Bashar Assad stepping aside.

The latest draft, obtained Thursday by the Associated Press, still "fully supports" the Arab League's Jan. 22 decision to "facilitate a political transition leading to a democratic, plural political system."

Israel: Iran's nuclear arms program is complete, its missiles can reach USA ~ link ~ I use to have a set of BS (bullshit) Flags that I would post for outrageous articles, but this was so bad the flag polls melted and the flags burnt. Stirling

Iran has completed the development of a nuclear weapon and awaits nothing more than a sign from Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to start assembling its first nuclear bomb, said Israeli Military Intelligence Chief Major General Aviv Kochavi on Thursday, February 2. Assembling a bomb would take up to a year, Kochavi estimated. With 100 kilograms of uranium enriched to 20 percent grade and another 4 tons of uranium enriched to 3.5 percent already in stock, Iran would need another two years to make four nuclear bombs.

Therefore, by the end of 2012 or early 2013 Iran may have a single nuclear bomb, but by 2015 the figure would jump to four or five.

Some 200,000 missiles aimed consistently at Israel says top IDF officer ~ link ~ Sounds like a real good reason NOT to go to war with Iran/Syria/Hezbollah! Stirling

War on Iran & Syria: What They Are NOT Telling Us

2012-02-02T08:39:00.001-06:00

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War on Iran & Syria: What They Are NOT Telling Us

If we were about to launch a massive attack and wage war on nuclear armed Russia and China, there would be mass fear, panic, and widespread knowledge that the END would be upon most of us....that the resulting counter-strike from Russian and Chinese nuclear forces would kill most of us. However, we are rapidly approaching war with Iran, a nation that can deliver the same level of death upon Americans, Canadians, Europeans, etc. that the combined nuclear weapons of Russian and China can deliver. Yet, most people do not understand the real and present grave danger to themselves and their families, neighbors, co-workers, etc. We remain focused on the stock market, the price of oil, the next election, sports, etc., and fully expect to see 2013 and beyond.

We have been conditioned, by seeing films of mushroom clouds and images of nuclear destruction in Japan at the end of WWII, to have some understanding of the horrific effects of a nuclear war. We have NOT been conditioned to understand the effects of Twenty-first Century advanced biological war. The kill numbers are very similar, just with biowar you don't get the "big bangs", the mushroom clouds, the nuclear bombers, the ICBMs, etc. Just sub-microscopic genetically engineered super killer viruses that we have absolutely no defense against, delivered in secret, with a slow horrifying unstoppable migration through the global human population. All the fear of a naturally mutated form of "bird flu" that might kill tens of millions is simply "child's play" compared to multiple designer military viruses that are built to kill in the many hundreds of millions to billions of people globally.

It costs approximately US$1 million to kill one person with nuclear weapons-of-mass destruction but only approximately US$1 to kill one person with biological weapons-of-mass destruction. Bioweapons are truly the "poor man's nukes". The Iranians are known to have a biological weapons program and they, and their allies, certainly have the means to deliver biowar agents into the Israeli and European and North American homelands. Bioweapons do not have to be dispersed via missiles or bombs, they are perfect for non-traditional normally non-military delivery systems. Being very small (there are, for example, typically approximately 40 million bacterial cells in every gram of soil and massively more viruses in the same gram), they lend themselves to an enormous variety of non-detectable methodologies for delivery and use in war, both regionally and globally.

What is being missed here, with all the talk of Iran developing nuclear weapons or not (depending on one's viewpoint), is that Iran is already a state that possesses WMD. HELLO, ANY WAR WITH IRAN IS HIGHLY APT TO INVOLVE LARGE SCALE DEATHS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD DUE TO THE NATURE OF THE IRANIAN WMD THREAT. Hello again, this means that YOU...the person reading this...is apt to die from biowar in event of a war with Iran!

We are in a MAD....mutually assured destruction....pre-war state with Iran, just as we are with Russia and and to a lessor extent with China when it comes to nuclear weapons. A famous line from the movie "Wargames" (referring to engaging in nuclear war and the odds of "winning" such a war) is "the only winning move is not to play". Sad to say, this does not seem to have any bearing on the apocalyptic strategy of the neocon push for war with Iran.

The nature of biowar is that it is a "gift that keeps on giving". Once released, advanced recombination DNA based viral bioweapons will continue to spread and kill and kill ....regardless if Iran (and its ally Syria) are but a sea of green radioactive glass devoid of all life. With advanced biowar agents, it is not the quantity that counts but the quality; humans themselves become the vectors and delivery systems of the bioweapons. It does not require large amounts of weapons running into the millions or billions of tons of high explosives; nor does it require ICBMs and cruise missiles and $100 million dollar warplanes to deliver the bioweapons. A very small group of human assets, prepositioned with small amounts of easily hidden biowar weapons (submicroscopic viruses), in the Middle East, Europe, Canada, and America can begin the process that will result in the deaths of hundreds of millions or even billions of human beings. When you get right down to it, does it matter if you die from some exotic bioengineered hemorrhagic fever or from radiation poisoning/nuclear blast .......dead is still dead.

To begin to understand the truly horrific nature of the biowar threat, one only has to look to history for some "mild" examples. The Black Death bubonic pandemic, believed caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, is estimated to have killed between a third and two-thirds of Europe's population after it spread to Europe in 1347 from South-western/Central Asia.

Yersinia pestis, being a bacteria is massive when compared to a virus, and is easily treated with modern antibiotics. However, the Soviet Union's Biopreparat organization turned Black Death from a medieval plague into a 20th Century bioweapon. The Yersinia pestis bacteria was exposed to every then-known antibiotic, in a process that any advanced high school or early undergraduate college level biology class student could undertake, and the resulting antibiotic resistant Y. pestis was bred and loaded into a small number of Soviet ICBMs aimed at America. The resistant Y. pestis had also been exposed to various levels of radiation to "radiation harden" the bacteria. The intent was to hit American survivors of a nuclear war with a new and untreatable form of Black Death that itself could survive the effects of nuclear fallout.

As frighting as a totally antibiotic resistant Yersinia pestis bacteria is, it remains "child's play" compared to the more advanced recombination DNA technology used in most biowar programs. This typically involves the recombining of viral DNA into new virus, "designer virus". The Soviets, years ago, engineered a new virus that combined elements of Smallpox and Ebola. With the genetic engineering of viruses those doing the "designing" can engineer into the virus a wide number of different characteristics. For instance, an advanced hemorrhagic fever can be designed to be: airborne (capable of being transmitted via sneezing), with a very small amount of viral material required to infect a human host, with a incubation period of 14 days or longer, with most of the incubation period that is both highly contagious and at best looks like a mild version of the common cold, with the resulting hemorrhagic fever having a mortality of 90% or more.

The same technology can be used to create a large number of different viruses which can all be released on a target population at the same time, vastly complicating detection and containment and treatment programs. In fact the normal research and development process used in genetic engineering results in a large number of different new viruses.

Those nations not directly involved in a strike upon Iran, that is most of the rest of the world, will nevertheless face massive deaths within their nations...they will lose more of their citizens to the war, that we are about to unleash, than they lost in World War II and ALL THE OTHER WARS IN HISTORY COMBINED. Needless to say, this will have a profound effect on their actions towards those nations who have started the mess in the first place. The global military, political, economic, and medical chaos resulting from global biowar will make the use of nuclear weapons a likely outcome as America, the United Kingdom, France and other nations starting the war will be seen as out-of-control "mad dogs" who have unleashed World War III. The Book of Revelations speaks of one-third of the world dying, in the Final Battle, from plague ....biowar; and another one-third of the world dying from "wormwood"....which we now know to be nuclear war effects ...Chernobyl, which comes from the Ukrainian word "chornobyl", translates into wormwood (or its close relative mugwort). (Chernobyl is the site of a massive uncontrolled nuclear meltdown disaster in the Ukraine on the 26th of April 1986).

We are in a period of extreme danger to us all. Even more dangerous than the Cuban Missile Crisis of the 60s. Yet far too many people are so uneducated as to the real dangers from advanced Twenty-first Century biowar that they are totally blind to the profound risk to their own lives.

Stirling

[Earl of Stirling]

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2012-02-01T21:35:00.000-06:00

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Likely Hezbollah Drone Explodes at Secret Israeli Airbase ~ link ~ An exclusive report from a confidential highly-placed Israeli source says that a booby-trapped drone crashed and exploded at the top-secret Israeli airbase Sdot Micha. Sdot Micha (also profiled here) is the home of the Israeli missile arsenal including its long-range Jerichos capable of striking Iran. There were civilian and military eyewitnesses to the crash, which happened within the perimeter fence of the facility, which covers a large area just outside Bet Shemesh.

The eyewitnesses and Israel’s wish to avoid pressure to retaliate against the Iranians, necessitated the publication of a media cover story. The story claims an advanced Israeli drone crashed near the Yesodot moshav, 10 miles from Sdot Micha. Israel also claims the drone took off from Tel Nof airbase. Eyewitnesses may be able to produce video documentation of the precise location of the crash unless it is impounded by the IDF.

The cover story reminds me in crucial ways of a similar one put out by the U.S. when it lost control of its advanced drone inside Iran. It did everything in its power to make the world believe that the drone crashed by accident and we vehemently denied it was brought down by Iranian electronic warfare capability. The more we denied the more people believed we were protesting too much.

Indian Army preparing for 'limited war' with China says US intel ~ link ~ Noting that India is increasingly getting concerned about China's posture on its border, a top United States intelligence official said on Wednesday that the Indian Army is strengthening itself for a "limited conflict" with China.

"Despite public statements intended to downplay tensions between India and China, we judge that India is increasingly concerned about China's posture along their disputed border and Beijing's perceived aggressive posture in the Indian Ocean and Asia-Pacific region," Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said in his prepared testimony before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.

High level radiation cloud detected flying over New Zealand city - Peaks reached an "incredible" 1.84 microSv/h ~ link

Iran Supreme Leader warns US against Syria meddling ~ link ~ Syria is a backdoor to war with Iran, to a General Middle East War nightmare, and to WWIII. Stirling

America is 'Serious' about its plan to Wage War on Iran - Pentagon acknowledges Scenario of HEAVY COMBAT CASUALTIES ~ link ~ Just WHY THE HELL IS ALL THIS NECESSARY??? Because the Global Banking Cartel wants it??? Because the rulers of tiny Israel want it??? Screw them! Stirling

What is really going on in Syria: Insider Update ~ link ~ Good One! Take the time to read it all at the link. Stirling

In this article Boris Dolgov, a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Oriental Studies in Moscow, reports on his recent trip to Syria. His field investigation is particularly valuable since most of the information about Syria in recent months has emanated from Beirut, Paris or London.

Professor Dolgov confirms that, far from a contrived "Arab Spring" scenario, Syria is undeniably grappling with the threat of foreign occupation. He observes that while the offensive is inordinately violent, the population will not be intimidated. Aware of the disaster wrought by NATO "humanitarian" operations in Yugoslavia and Libya, the Syrians refuse to be drawn into a sectarian ambush. A process of reform and development is on track, but it will not be dictated from abroad. In Syria, one may object to the president, but not to national sovereignty.

The current situation in Syria remains one of the most important components of the Middle Eastern and international policies. Using Syria’s domestic crisis and pursuing their own goals NATO, Israel, Turkey and the monarchies of the Persian Gulf are trying to undermine the Syrian regime.

Since the beginning of the crisis in Syria I have made two trips to that country as a member of international delegations in August 2011 and in January 2012. If we watch the dynamics of situation’s development over that period on the one hand we can state intensification of terrorist groups in Syria and on the other hand we see a broader people’s support of President Bashar Assad and a clear demarcation of political forces’ positions.

Virgin Mary calls for day of prayer and fasting to prepare for The Warning ~ link ~ This is from a couple of days ago. There is a significant group, of mostly Roman Catholic, believers who believe that Christ will give each of us a Warning at the same time globally, shortly before Armageddon begins. That this Warning will be to save souls. That every person will see him/herself as God sees them. Many will be so shocked that they will die of fright. Is this going to happen...stay 'tuned'. Stirling

Syria: Text of leaked Arab League Mission Report reveals media lies regarding Syria ~ link ~ In the USA 96% of the mainstream news media is owned by only six firms that are controlled by the Global Banking Cartel and managed by hard core Zionists. Stirling

Syria: Arab League Observer Mission refutes mainstream media narrative ~ link ~ Check this one out at the link. Stirling

The report of the Observers mission that was concluded on January 19, noted several important observations.(1)

1. The mission noted that there were false reports being made of explosions or violence and when the observers went to the location, they found that the reports were unfounded.

2. The mission found that media accounts were exaggerated about the nature of incidents or numbers of people killed in incidents and protests.

3. There were discrepancies in the lists the Mission received of people in detention. Names were repeated, or information was missing or inaccurate about detainees.

4. The Mission observed armed groups committing acts of violence against Government forces, resulting in the death and injury of the forces being attacked. Some of the armed groups were using flares and armour-piercing projectiles.

5. A French journalist who was killed and a Belgium journalist who was injured were the victims of opposition mortar shells.

6. The mission was the target of a hostile media campaign with media publishing untrue statements, distorting the truth, and attributing statements to the head of the mission which were never made.

7. Such accounts by the media undermined the work of the observer mission and seemed to be aimed toward making the mission fail.

8. The Observer mission was able to fulfill its mandate.

The most important observation was as the Report stated, that it had “determined that there is an armed entity” that had not been mentioned in the protocol setting up the mission.

Europe's Lost Generation: How it feels to be young and struggling in the EU ~ link ~ As more and more people wake up to the fact that all of this economic horror did not just happen, but was programmed to happen this way by the global banksters, the level of anger will get rather pronounced. Another reason for WWIII to divert everyone's attention and to 'justify' ever more intense fascist police state measures. Stirling

Maybe being young is never easy. But being a twentysomething young European has rarely been more stressful. More than a quarter (28%) of Italians between 16 and 24 are unemployed. Others are struggling to get by on unpaid internships or poorly paid jobs with little security.

It's not just Italy, of course. Eurozone unemployment is at a record. According to Eurostat, the EU's statistical office, 16.3 million people are out of work in the 17 countries that joined the euro. The story of a lost generation is becoming the scandal of a continent. In Spain, 51.4% of those aged 16-24 are jobless. In Greece, the figure is 43%.

Irish Journalist Vincent Brown vs the ECB: "Explain why the Irish people have to bail out billionaire bondholders!" - video ~ link

Senator Bernie Sanders: The Top Ten US Corporate Tax Avoiders ~ link ~ Good One! Stirling

Gerald Celente: USA becoming an Immoral nation! - video ~ link ~ Another Good One! Stirling

Shanghai new home prices tumble 41% in past week ~ link ~ WOW! China going into economic crash big time. Stirling

World War One - First Christian Holocaust ~ link ~ Those who are ignorant of history are doomed to repeat it! Stirling

Overview: HAARP, Earthquakes and Hurricanes ~ link ~ HAARP is part of Scalar Warfare and Scalar Warfare is one of three major global forms of strategic warfare (thermonuclear, advanced biological, scalar warfare). Stirling

Unusual volcanic episode rapidly triggered Little Ice Age, researchers find ~ link

Stress reduction ~ link ~ Anti-anxiety drugs are powerful, but addictive and dangerous, and withdrawal symptoms can be so severe as to produce seizures, anxiety and a wide range of adverse effects which, paradoxically, are identical to the very conditions they are taken to treat -- especially the benzodiazepine class which includes Xanax and Klonopin.

Due to this fact, natural alternatives are needed now more than ever. Back in 2002 an amazing discovery was reported in the Japanese Journal of Pharmacology. Researchers found that the simple inhalation of patchouli and rose oil reduced sympathetic nervous activity by 40%, with rose oil reducing adrenaline concentrations by 30%.

37 Reasons to avoid genetically modified foods ~ link ~ Reason number one in my book is that they simply do not know fully what they are doing; number two is that they (Big Agri) don't care. Stirling

World's largest Blue Whale colony - video ~ link

Oakland Occupy Arrestees Tortured ~ link ~ Land of the Free no more! Stirling

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2012-02-01T14:19:00.000-06:00

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20 Signs that Europe is Plunging into a Full-Blown Economic Depression ~ link ~ One that is totally created by the global banksters and is greatly compounded by their demands for across-the-board Austerity Fascism. This is a good article, please take the time to read it all at the link. Stirling

#1 The unemployment rate for those between the ages of 16 and 24 is 28 percent in Italy, 43 percent in Greece and 51 percent in Spain.
#2 Overall, the unemployment rate for those under the age of 25 in the EU is 22.7 percent.
#3 Citigroup is projecting that the economy of Portugal will shrink by 5.7 percent this year.

Syria resolution has no chance, says Russia - live updates ~ link ~ Syria is the backdoor to a war on Iran, to a General Middle East War, to World War III, and the satanic forces of the Global Banking Cartel and the Netanyahu extremists are ramming that backdoor as hard as they can! Stirling

'Syria on its knees - prelude to NATO invading Iran' - video ~ link ~ This is an excellent video! The military alliance of Syria and Iran and Hezbollah cannot afford to allow any one part of the alliance to fall to Israeli/Western forces. If it appears that Syria is close to falling, they will begin a all-out regional war that will be horrific in its use of weapons of mass destruction and almost certainly begin World War III. Stirling

Iran, perceiving threat from West, willing to attack on US soil, US intelligence reports finds - from 'The Washington Post' and 'Foreign Policy' ~ link ~ also see ~ link ~ This is a classic example of how the mainstream news media treats the public just like mushroom farmers treat their crop, 'keep them in the dark and feed them manure'. The threat that this article alludes to is the standard narrative of crazy Muslin attacks that manage to kill a few innocent civilians but never do an real strategic damage. This article does not touch on the real threat to America (and to Canada, and to Europe) from a desperate Iran under massive attack from the West. That is the massive advanced biowar arsenal that Iran has and is capable of using as a global strategic weapon of mass destruction with approximately the same level of deaths as a global strategic thermonuclear war. Why ignore the real danger and keep feeding us the same narrative crap? Well if the public were fully aware of the real danger to themselves from a war on Iran/Syria/etc. they would freak out and raise ten kinds of hell to stop it! Hence the presstitutes in the mainstream news media will not talk about the very real and very grave danger to mankind from what is being set in motion in the Middle East. Stirling

Petrodollar pumping US policy on Iran, backfire looms ~ link ~ As tensions between the US and Iran heat up, author Michael T. Winter believes the main reason behind America’s harsh stance is Tehran’s move to seek an alternative to the dollar as an oil currency.

Economic sanctions, spearheaded by the US and, less willingly, the EU could have a disastrous effect on both of their respective economies. If Iran cannot sell their oil to Europe, there are plenty of customers waiting in the wings, and if they come bearing not petrodollars, but gold and sovereign currencies, then all the better for Iran. These sanctions, if enforced, will in effect place a serious dent in the power of the petrodollar.

Any rhetoric regarding Iran’s nuclear program and the insistence on crippling it is nothing more than a US attempt to force regime change for one more receptive to maintaining the hegemony of the petrodollar.

Destination Persian Gulf - US nuclear submarine and guided-missile destroyer enter Red Sea ~ link ~ The US Navy usually does not like to send its subs and warships through the Suez Canal, too much attention and costs. They do so, from time to time for one or more of three reasons: (1) To maintain their right to do so; (2) To draw attention to the movement of naval forces; (3) To rapidly build-up naval forces in the area. Stirling

Two ships of the US Navy, the nuclear submarine USS Annapolis and the destroyer USS Momsen have passed through the Suez Canal into the Red Sea. Although their destination is confidential, they are now getting dangerously close to the Persian Gulf.

The ships’ passage was a major operation for the Suez administration as due to safety reasons they had to close off the canal to all other traffic and even shut down the bridge, disrupting the link between the banks for some four hours. The traffic on the roadways alongside the canal was also restricted, Interfax news agency reports.

There are no reports regarding the destination of the vessels, but the news come amid the ongoing crisis in the relationship between the US and Iran. There is mounting speculation that the Annapolis and the Momsen are heading to the Persian Gulf to reinforce the US naval forces already present in the region.

Terrorists shell residential areas in Homs ~ link ~ So much for the bullshit that this is all about peaceful unarmed civilians demonstrating. This is a foreign trained/equipped/led/organized/staffed military force that is invading Syria! Stirling

At least 20 people have been injured as terrorist groups shell several residential areas in the Syrian city of Homs, where violent clashes between security forces and armed gangs continue to take their toll, Press TV reports.

Witnesses say terrorists fired shells at al-Zahra and al-Nezha neighborhoods in Homs on Wednesday and several homes and schools were hit.

Syrian president visits injured soldiers ~ link ~ The Syrians and Iranians know who is behind all of this and are being very reserve in their actions. But they are bound to be deeply angry. When things full explode into a regional war, they are not so likely to hold back. Stirling

Syria says more than 2,000 security forces have been killed and many others injured by armed groups since the beginning of unrest in the country 10 months ago.

Syrian state television has also aired confessions by terrorists admitting to receiving money from foreign element to open fire on civilians and security troops in order to tarnish the image of the Syrian government.

Clandestine Western-Arab operation for Assad's ouster revealed ~ link ~ The alliance is US/NATO/Israel/Saudi Arabia/Turkey/GCC Gulf States. This is driven by the global bankster families and the Netanyahu extremists. Stirling

UN Sec-Gen to Netanyahu: Israel must refrain from settlement construction ~ link ~ Farmer to head fox: the foxes must stop eating the chickens...Sure that will work...NOT. If any other nation on Earth did what Israel does year after year, it would at the least be banned from all international trade and be totally treated as a outcast. Israel is not for two reasons: (1) It uses local Jews and organizations to bribe and blackmail national politicians throughout the World; (2) The Rothschild led Global Banking Cartel/Illuminati have always planned for three world wars, the last one to be started between the Zionists and the Muslims, to reach their satanic goal of a 'New World Order'. Stirling

Netanyahu to UN: No new construction freeze in Judea and Samaria ~ link ~ The attitude of the Israelis to the Arabs and frankly to all goy is that the goy are simply soulless two-legged animals. Stealing from them is not stealing, raping them is not rape, killing them is not killing, as they are not humans just goy. That hyper-racist attitude, which SOME in Israel have is at the root of so much of the trouble in the Middle East. Stirling

Bibi 666 Netanyahu declares victory in Likud party primaries ~ link ~ He is doing 'such a good job' that he won re-nomination. Sad, very sad, that the jerk that is leading his nation and the World into total destruction wins re-nomination. Stirling

Green Light to WWIII -'US needs human face for Iran invasion' - RT video ~ link ~ Good One! Stirling

47 Signs that China is absolutely destroying America on the global economic stage ~ link ~ Have you ever watched a football game or a basketball game where one team dominates the other team so badly that calling it a "blowout" would be a huge understatement? Well, that is what China is doing to the United States. China is absolutely destroying America on the global economic stage. Once upon a time, the Chinese economy was a joke and the U.S. economy was the most powerful the world had ever seen. But over the past couple of decades the U.S. economy has decayed and declined while the Chinese economy has skyrocketed. Today, China makes more steel, more automobiles, more beer, more cotton, more coal and more solar panels than we do. China has the fastest train in the world, the fastest computer in the world and they export twice as much high-tech equipment as we do. In 2011, our trade deficit with China was the largest trade deficit that one nation has had with another nation in the history of the world, and China has now accumulated more than 3 trillion dollars in foreign currency reserves. Every single day, we lose more jobs, more businesses and more of our national wealth to China. In technical economic terms, China has "taken us out behind the woodshed" and has beaten the living daylights out of us. Unfortunately, most Americans are so addicted to entertainment that they don't even realize what is happening.

If you do not believe that China is wiping the floor with America in front of the rest of the world, just keep reading. The following are 47 signs that China is absolutely destroying America on the global economic stage....

The Six Enemies of Food Storage ~ link ~ Regardless of where in the World you live, if you have not yet begun to gather as much food/water/supplies as you can for as many months as you can afford NOW IS THE TIME to begin. Stirling

Water industry, World Bank pilot new scheme to drive public water into private hands ~ link ~ What's next, the air we breath??? Stirling

19 Crazy things that school children are being arrested for in America ~ link ~ America was once the Land of the Free, now it is a rapidly growing fascist police state where the Constitution and the Rights of the People mean nothing to those in power. Stirling

With each passing year, the difference between America's prisons and America's public schools becomes smaller and smaller. As you read the rest of this article, you will be absolutely amazed at some of the crazy things that school children in America are being arrested for. When I was growing up, I don't remember a single police officer ever coming to my school. Discipline was always handled by the teachers and by the principals. But today, there are schools all over the country that have police officers permanently stationed in the halls. Many other schools will call out police officers at the drop of a hat. In the classrooms of America today, if you burp in class, if you spray yourself with perfume or if you doodle on your desk, there is a chance that you will be arrested by the police and hauled out of your school in handcuffs. Unfortunately, we live in a country where paranoia has become standard operating procedure. The American people have become convinced that the only way that we can all be "safe" is for this country to be run like a militarized totalitarian police state. So our public schools are run like prisons and our public school students are treated like prisoners. The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world by far, and our schools are preparing the next generation to either "do time" in the prison system or to live as good little slaves in the Big Brother prison grid that is being constructed all around us. But what our schools are not doing is giving these children the critical thinking skills that they need to live as free citizens in a nation that used to be "the land of the free and the home of the brave".

Of course very few people would deny that the character of American schoolchildren has changed dramatically over the decades. Back in the 1950s, some of the biggest school discipline problems were gum chewing and hair pulling. Today, kids bring knives, guns and drugs with them to school. Gang activity is rampant in many of our schools and in some schools kids are even having sex in the school bathrooms.

So there is definitely a discipline problem in our schools.

But what is going on in many areas of the country is absolutely ridiculous. For example, in 2010 alone police down in Texas issued an astounding 300,000 tickets to school children.

Yes, if a kid pulls a knife on someone the police should get involved, but teachers and administrators should be able to use some common sense and handle the vast majority of discipline problems that happen themselves.

What you are about to read is absolutely going to amaze you. The following are 19 really crazy things that school children are being arrested for in America....

General Middle East War Tripping Point

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Tripping Point

There comes a point in the build-up to war, when events have progressed to a certain point - the tripping point - that war will happen soon regardless of which side fires the first shot. They will lie about who fired the 'first shot' regardless. It appears that the Middle East has reached the Tripping Point for a massive regional war.

The near coup (providing that yesterday's Debka report is factual or close to factual) that almost happened last night/this morning in Damascus by a bought-off Syrian Armored Division commander was to have been a coup d'etal followed by a coup de main. A drive to the center of Damascus by 300 tanks, the taking of key government buildings, and the announcement of same at the UN Security Council, with a quick follow-on of "rebel" forces in Turkey supported by Turkish forces and US/NATO/GCC commandos to finish the job.

That this would certainly have triggered the launching of Syrian/Iranian/Hezbollah missiles in vast numbers against Israel and GCC nations and US and NATO bases in the Middle East and the counter-response to same does not seem to have been a matter of serious concern for the plotters.

A truly massive military build-up in the Middle East, unequaled to anything save for those on the eve of the First Gulf War and the Iraq War, has been taking place for some time now. This multinational movement of enormous land/sea/air assets can only mean one thing - a massive regional war is about to unfold in the Middle East that will overshadow anything before it in history.

That all of this comes at a time when the EU economy is crashing and the entire world's financial and economic systems are close to the abyss is not an accident. Nor is it an accident that in so very many nations, there is a growing police state type of fascism, often coupled with austerity fascism. Further, the latest international treaty on the Internet (which the US Senate has not approved as the US Constitution requires; but Obama intends to enforce via a extra-legal Executive Order) will allow for the effective closure of Internet based alternative news media sites when the powers that be decide to.

The Global Banking Cartel families have invested a massive effort over the last several years setting up a total global economic collapse. This is part of their drive to establish a new global system of governance and the financial/economic systems to go along with it, which they call the New World Order (NWO). It has not been a secret that many want both a new World War to help reorganize things for their NWO and to dramatically reduce the human population base.

Certainly 21st Century warfare will "reduce" the current population base of 7 billion souls. In fact, the real and very grave danger is that the combination of the three main types of global strategic warfare, thermonuclear, advanced biological, and scalar will be so effective at population reduction that all higher forms of life on the planet will be at danger.

In fact, the amazing thing about the unfolding events in the Middle East is that the globalist side (which includes the extremist Netanyahu government) is determined to begin a terrible regional war in the full knowledge that there are not only weapons of mass destruction on all sides but that the Iranians clearly possess an effective MAD (mutually assured destruction) counter-force against not only Israel and their other enemies in the Middle East but also have a unstoppable MAD against the North American and European homelands and population of their NATO enemy. This is based on the advanced biowar program that they effectively purchased from the collapsing Soviet Union 20+ years ago, by hiring a large number of the out-of-work ex-Soviet biowar scientists.

Just as there is no real effective protection for the Israeli population from the 60,000 rockets and guided missiles in southern Lebanon that Iran and Syria have provided to Hezbollah, nor the many tens of thousands of Syrian and Iranian based guided missiles with their precision targeted fuel-air warheads (and chemical and radiological warheads), there is also no real effective protection for the North American and European population from the genetically engineered recombination DNA based viruses that can be spread by in-place bio-terrorists, once war breaks out.

The Middle East is looking at unheard of civilian deaths from a combination of nuclear, fuel-air, chemical and radiological warheads. In many nations, on both sides, there will not be sufficient people alive left to bury the dead.

Europe and North America are looking at a third or more of their civilian populations dying from one of the many dozens of new man-engineered killer viruses. The only effective defense is self-quarantine, however, few people have the necessary months of food/water/household supplies necessary to maintain such a self-quarantine.

When I look at what is being played out, and the utter illogical nature of fighting a enemy that possess a true MAD counter-force I can only assume that the 'players' are insane or driven by a virtually demonic force. There will be no winners from the Third World War. As the late President Kennedy said, "the victors will have ashes in their mouths".

Tim Earl of Stirling

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