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Friday, August 9, 2013
Couple Performs “Obscene” Sex Acts On Plane In Front Of Shocked Passengers, Faces Jail Time
hehe where were the 'marshals' lol or did anybody STOP looking long enough to throw some COLD water on the 'perps' or get 'their' cell on & post ??? WTF LMAO ...smoking gun ? hey our NEW 'reality' STARS ...kim who ?
33-year-old Jessica Stroble and Christopher Martin were arrested after they performed “lewd, indecent, and obscene” sex acts on a plane full of watching families.
The
plane’s passengers, which were mostly children, watched Stroble give
Martin oral sex after his private parts were exposed for several
minutes. “This is not the sex education I wanted to give my teenage
sons,” said one shocked mother on board.
Stroble gave Martin the oral sex shortly after takeoff. According to court documents, the pair performed another lewd sex act midway into the flight. Despite being confronted by airline staff, they did not stop.
During the second sex act, it was Stroble who was exposed. The couple stopped midway when the snack service came down the plane isle, but then picked up again afterwards. Apparently, it was extremely heated and passionate.
Stroble works as a hairdresser at a salon called The Smoking Gun. When approached for a comment she acted clueless towards the entire situation.
With regards to her relationship with Martin, she would not go into details but said they are not married. She claimed to not have his contact information.
Riiight…
Couple Performs “Obscene” Sex Acts On Plane In Front Of Shocked Passengers, Faces Jail Time
The flight on an Allegiant Airlines plane from Medford, Oregon, to Las Vegas was unforgettable to say the least.
33-year-old Jessica Stroble and Christopher Martin were arrested after they performed “lewd, indecent, and obscene” sex acts on a plane full of watching families.
The
plane’s passengers, which were mostly children, watched Stroble give
Martin oral sex after his private parts were exposed for several
minutes. “This is not the sex education I wanted to give my teenage
sons,” said one shocked mother on board.Stroble gave Martin the oral sex shortly after takeoff. According to court documents, the pair performed another lewd sex act midway into the flight. Despite being confronted by airline staff, they did not stop.
During the second sex act, it was Stroble who was exposed. The couple stopped midway when the snack service came down the plane isle, but then picked up again afterwards. Apparently, it was extremely heated and passionate.
Stroble works as a hairdresser at a salon called The Smoking Gun. When approached for a comment she acted clueless towards the entire situation.
With regards to her relationship with Martin, she would not go into details but said they are not married. She claimed to not have his contact information.
Riiight…
11 Secret Documents Americans Deserve to See
SOURCE – Decrypted Matrix
Many
documents produced by the U.S. government are confidential and not
released to the public for legitimate reasons of national security.
Others, however, are kept secret for more questionable reasons. The
fact that presidents and other government officials have the power to
deem materials classified provides them with an opportunity to use
national security as an excuse to suppress documents and reports that
would reveal embarrassing or illegal activities.
I’ve been collecting the stories of
unreleased documents for several years. Now I have chosen 11 examples
that were created—and buried—by both Democratic and Republican
administrations and which cover assassinations, spying, torture,
50-year-old historical events, presidential directives with classified
titles and…trade negotiations.
1. Obama Memo Allowing the Assassination of U.S. Citizens
When the administration of George W. Bush
was confronted with cases of Americans fighting against their own
country, it responded in a variety of ways. John Walker Lindh, captured
while fighting with the Taliban in December 2001, was indicted by a
federal grand jury and sentenced to 20 years in prison. José Padilla was
arrested in Chicago in May 2002 and held as an “enemy combatant” until
2006 when he was transferred to civilian authority and, in August 2007,
sentenced to 17 years in prison for conspiring to support terrorism.
Adam Gadahn, who has made propaganda videos for al-Qaeda, was indicted
for treason in 2006 and remains at large.
After he took over the presidency, Barack
Obama did away with such traditional legal niceties and decided to just
kill some Americans who would previously have been accused of treason
or terrorism. His victims have included three American citizens killed in Yemen in
2011 by missiles fired from drones: U.S.-born anti-American cleric
Anwar al-Awlaki, Samir Khan, an al-Qaeda propagandist from North
Carolina, and Awlaki’s 16-year-old son, Abdulrahman al-Awlaki.
Obama justified his breach of U.S. and international law with a 50-page memorandum prepared by the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel. Attorney General Eric Holder argued that
the killing of Awlaki was legal because he was a wartime enemy and he
could not be captured, but the legal justification for this argument is
impossible to confirm because the Obama administration has refused to
release the memo.
2. The Obama Interpretation of Section 215 of the Patriot Act
Section 215 of
the Patriot Act allows the FBI, in pursuit of spies and terrorists, to
order any person or entity to turn over “any tangible things” without
having to justify its demands by demonstrating probable cause. For
example, a library can be forced to reveal who borrowed a book or
visited a web site. According to Section 215, the library is prohibited
from telling anyone what it has turned over to the FBI.
The Obama administration has created a
secret interpretation of Section 215 that goes beyond the direct wording
of the law to include other information that can be collected.
Democratic Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon, who, as a member of the Senate
Intelligence Committee, was briefed about this secret interpretation, urged the president to
make it public. “I want to deliver a warning this afternoon,” he said.
“When the American people find out how their government has secretly
interpreted the Patriot Act, they will be stunned and they will be
angry.”
Wyden and Sen. Mark Udall of Colorado,
also a Democrat, have implied that the Obama administration has expanded
the use of Section 215 to activities other than espionage and
terrorism. In a letter to
Attorney General Eric Holder, Wyden and Udall wrote that “there is now a
significant gap between what most Americans think the law allows and
what the government secretly claims the law allows. This is a problem,
because it is impossible to have an informed public debate about what
the law should say when the public doesn’t know what its government
thinks the law says.”
3. 30-page Summary of 9/11 Commission Interview with Bush and Cheney
You would have thought that, in the
interests of the nation, the Bush administration would have demanded a
thorough investigation of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001,
the deadliest assault ever on U.S. soil. Instead, they fought tooth and
nail against an independent investigation. Public pressure finally
forced President George W. Bush to appoint a bipartisan commission that
came to be known as the 9/11 Commission. It was eventually given a
budget of $15 million…compared to the $39 million spent
on the Monica Lewinsky/Bill Clinton investigation. When the commission
completed its work in August 2004, the commissioners turned over all
their records to the National Archives with the stipulation that the
material was to be released to the public starting on January 2, 2009. However, most of the material remains classified. Among the more tantalizing still-secret documents are daily briefings given to President Bush that reportedly described increasingly worried warnings of a possible attack by operatives of Osama bin Laden.
Another secret document that the American
people deserve to see is the 30-page summary of the interview of
President Bush and Vice-President Dick Cheney conducted by all ten
commissioners on April 29, 2004. Bush and Cheney refused to be
interviewed unless they were together. They would not testify under oath
and they refused to allow the interview to be recorded or transcribed.
Instead the commission was allowed to bring with them a note taker. It
is the summary based on this person’s notes that remains sealed.
4. Memos from President George W. Bush to the CIA Authorizing Waterboarding and other Torture Techniques
Four days after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, President George W. Bush signed a “memorandum of notification”
(still secret) that authorized the CIA to do what it needed to fight
al-Qaeda. However the memo did not address what interrogation and
torture techniques could be used on captured suspects. By June 2003,
Director George Tenet and others at the CIA were becoming worried that
if their seemingly illegal tactics became known to the public, the White
House would deny responsibility and hang the CIA out to dry. After
much discussion, Bush’s executive office handed over two memos,
one in 2003 and another in 2004, confirming White House approval of the
CIA interrogation methods, thus giving the CIA “top cover.” It is not
known if President Bush himself signed the memos.
5. 1,171 CIA Documents Related to the Assassination of President Kennedy
It’s been 49 years since President John F. Kennedy was shot to death in Dallas, yet the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) insists that more than one thousand documents relating to the case should not be released to
the public until NARA is legally required to do so in 2017…unless the
president at that time decides to extend the ban. It would appear that
some of the blocked material deals with the late CIA agent David Phillips, who is thought to have dealt with Lee Harvey Oswald in Mexico City six weeks before the assassination.
6. Volume 5 of the CIA’s History of the Bay of Pigs Fiasco
In the late 1970s and early 1980s, CIA
historian Dr. Jack B. Pfeiffer compiled a multi-volume history of the
failed US attempt to invade Cuba in April 1961. In August 2005, the National Security Archive at
George Washington University, citing the Freedom of Information Act,
requested access to this history. The CIA finally released the
information almost six years later, in July 2011. However it refused to
release Volume V, which is titled “CIA’s Internal Investigation of the
Bay of Pigs Operations.” Although more than 50 years have passed since
the invasion, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ruled that
Volume V is exempt from the Freedom of Information Act because it “is
covered by the deliberative process privilege” which “covers documents
reflecting advisory opinions, recommendations and deliberations
comprising part of a process by which governmental decisions and
policies are formulated.”
7. National Security Decision Directives with Classified Titles
The day before he left the White House on
January 20, 1993, President George H. W. Bush issued National Security
Directive (NSD) #79, a document so secret that even its title remains
classified almost 20 years later. The same goes for National Security
Directive #77, issued a few days earlier, as well as four others issued
in 1989 (#11, 13a, 19a and 25a). If the “a”s are any indication of the
subjects, it is worth noting that NSD 13 dealt with countering cocaine trafficking in Peru; NSD 19 dealt with Libya and NSD 25 with an election in Nicaragua.
President Ronald Reagan also issued six NSDs with classified titles, and President Bill Clinton issued 29. President George W. Bush issued two such NSDs, presumably shortly after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. President Barack Obama has issued at least seven Presidential Policy Directives with classified titles.
8. Major General Douglas Stone’s 700-Page Report on Prisoners Held in Afghanistan
Marine Corps General Douglas Stone earned positive reviews for his revamping of detention operations in Iraq,
where he determined that most of the prisoners held by the United
States were not actually militants and could be taught trades and
rehabilitated. Based on his success in Iraq, Stone was given the task of
making an evaluation of detainee facilities in Afghanistan. His
findings, conclusions and recommendations were included in a 700-page
report that he submitted to the U.S. Central Command in August 2009.
According to some accounts of
the report, Stone determined that two-thirds of the Afghan prisoners
were not a threat and should be released. However, three years after he
completed it, Stone’s report remains classified.
9. Detainee Assessment Briefs for Abdullah Tabarak and Abdurahman Khadr
In 2011, WikiLeaks released U.S. military
files known as Detainee Assessment Briefs (DABs), which describe the
cases of 765 prisoners held at Guantánamo Bay. However, there were
actually 779 prisoners. So what happened to the files for the other fourteen? Andy Worthington, author of The Guantanamo Files, has noted that two of the fourteen missing stories are especially suspicious: those of Abdullah Tabarak and Abdurahman Khadr.
Tabarak, a Moroccan, was allegedly one of
Osama bin Laden’s long-time bodyguards, and took over bin Laden’s
satellite phone in order to draw U.S. fire to himself instead of to bin
Laden when U.S. forces were chasing the al-Qaeda leader in the Tora Bora
mountains in December 2001. Captured and sent to Guantánamo, Tabarak
was mysteriously released, sent back to Morocco in July 2003, and set
free shortly thereafter.
Abdurahman Khadr, the self-described
“black sheep” of a militant family from Canada, was 20 years old when he
was captured in Afghanistan and turned over to American forces. He has
said that he was recruited by the CIA to become an informant at
Guantánamo and then in Bosnia. When the CIA tried to send him to Iraq,
he refused and returned to Canada. His younger brother, Omar, was 15
years old when he was captured in Afghanistan and accused of killing an
American soldier, Sergeant First Class Christopher Speer, during a
firefight. He was incarcerated at Guantánamo for almost ten years until he was finally released to Canadian custody on September 29, 2012.
10. FBI Guidelines for Using GPS Devices to Track Suspects
On January 23, 2012, in the case of United States v. Jones,
the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that attaching a GPS device to a
car to track its movements constitutes a “search” and is thus covered by
the Fourth Amendment protecting Americans against “unreasonable
searches and seizures.” But it did not address the question of whether
the FBI and other law enforcement agencies must obtain a warrant to
attach a GPS device or whether it is enough for an agent to believe that
such a search would turn up evidence of wrongdoing.
A month later, at a symposium at the
University of San Francisco, FBI lawyer Andrew Weissman announced that
the FBI was issuing two memoranda to its agents to clarify how the
agency would interpret the Supreme Court decision. One memo dealt with
the use of GPS devices, including whether they could be attached to
boats and airplanes and used at international borders. The second
addressed how the ruling applied to non-GPS techniques used by the FBI.
The ACLU, citing the Freedom of Information Act, has requested publication of the two memos because
they “will shape not only the conduct of its own agents but also the
policies, practices and procedures of other law enforcement
agencies—and, consequently, the privacy rights of Americans.”
11. U.S. Paper on Negotiating Position on the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas
The subject of international trade
negotiations is one that makes most people’s eyes glaze over. So why is
the Obama administration fighting so hard to keep secret a one-page
document that relates to early negotiations regarding the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas (FTAA), an accord that was proposed 18 years ago and about which public negotiations ended in
2005? All we know is that the document “sets forth the United States’
initial proposed position on the meaning of the phrase ‘in like
circumstances.’” This phrase “helps clarify when a country must treat
foreign investors as favorably as local or other foreign investors.”
Responding to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by The Center for International Environmental Law, DC District Judge Richard W. Roberts ordered the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR)
to release the document, but the Obama administration has refused,
claiming that disclosure “reasonably could be expected to result in
damage to the national security” because all the nations involved in the
failed negotiations agreed to keep all documents secret until December
31, 2013…“unless a country were to object to the release of one of its
own documents at that time.” Judge Roberts ruled that the USTR has
failed to present any evidence that release of the document would damage
national security.
Most likely, the Obama administration is
afraid that release of the document would set a precedent that could
impede another secret trade negotiation, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP),
also known as the Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership
Agreement, which seeks to establish a free trade zone among the U.S.,
New Zealand, Chile, Singapore, Brunei, Australia, Peru, Vietnam,
Malaysia and possibly Canada, Mexico and Japan.
GAO to Investigate Planned Parenthood's Taxpayer Dollar Use
Friday, 09 Aug 2013
The announcement came after 72 members of Congress, petitioned the agency in February seeking an audit of the country's largest abortion provider and other providers that receive federal funding, Fox News reported Thursday.
In 2010, the GAO released a report that indicated significant discrepancies in Planned Parenthood's reported spending and funding.
In the Republican-sponsored letter to the GAO, the lawmakers called on the agency to provide an update on how federal funds are being spent by organizations that provide abortion services.
"Planned Parenthood and other organizations who provide abortions are dependent on Uncle Sam, but there is no accounting with what they are actually using the money for," said Louisiana GOP Sen. David Vitter, who along with Tennessee GOP Rep. Diane Black, is leading the push of an audit.
Last year, clinics affiliated with the Planned Parenthood Federation of America performed a record 333,964 abortions and reported a record $1.2 billion in revenue generated, according to a report by Life Decisions International.
Taxpayer funding of the organization reached $538.5 million last year and accounted for 45.2 percent of Planned Parenthood's total annual budget in 2011-2012.
Meanwhile, the organization is under renewed scrutiny after its Texas affiliate was forced to pay a $4.3 million at the end of July to settle a whistle-blower lawsuit alleging that the organization fraudulently billed Medicaid over $30 million, according to the Houston Chronicle.
"Federal and state auditors and investigators have specifically tabbed Planned Parenthood affiliates with at least $12.5 million in waste, abuse and 'fraudulent overbilling' of taxpayers. Former Planned Parenthood employees and others allege many millions more," Casey Mattox, a lawyer for Alliance Defending Freedom, said after the settlement.
The alliance group has filed lawsuits against Planned Parenthood and has produced a report that it claims tracks the organization's waste.
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During The Best Period Of Economic Growth In U.S. History There Was No Income Tax And No Federal Reserve
By Michael Snyder, on August 8th, 2013
How
would America ever survive without the central planners in the Obama
administration and at the Federal Reserve? What in the world would we
do if there was no income tax and no IRS? Could the U.S. economy
possibly keep from collapsing under such circumstances? The mainstream
media would have us believe that unless we have someone "to pull the levers"
our economy would descend into utter chaos, but the truth is that the
best period of economic growth in U.S. history occurred during a time
when there was no income tax and no Federal Reserve. Between the Civil
War and 1913, the U.S. economy experienced absolutely explosive growth.
The free market system thrived and the rest of the world looked at us
with envy. The federal government was very limited in size, there was
no income tax for most of that time and there was no central bank. To
many Americans, it would be absolutely unthinkable to have such a
society today, but it actually worked very, very well. Without the
inventions and innovations that came out of that period, the world would
be a far different place today.It is amazing what can happen when the government just gets out of the way. Check out all of the wonderful things that Wikipedia says happened for the U.S. economy during those years...
The rapid economic development following the Civil War laid the groundwork for the modern U.S. industrial economy. By 1890, the USA leaped ahead of Britain for first place in manufacturing output.When hard working, industrious people are given freedom to pursue their dreams, great things tend to happen. The truth is that we were all designed to create, to invent, to build, and to trade with one another. We all have something that we can contribute to society, and when families are strong and the invisible hand of the free market is allowed to work, societies tend to prosper.
An explosion of new discoveries and inventions took place, a process called the "Second Industrial Revolution." Railroads greatly expanded the mileage and built stronger tracks and bridges that handled heavier cars and locomotives, carrying far more goods and people at lower rates. Refrigeration railroad cars came into use. The telephone, phonograph, typewriter and electric light were invented. By the dawn of the 20th century, cars had begun to replace horse-drawn carriages.
Parallel to these achievements was the development of the nation's industrial infrastructure. Coal was found in abundance in the Appalachian Mountains from Pennsylvania south to Kentucky. Oil was discovered in western Pennsylvania; it was mainly used for lubricants and for kerosene for lamps. Large iron ore mines opened in the Lake Superior region of the upper Midwest. Steel mills thrived in places where these coal and iron ore could be brought together to produce steel. Large copper and silver mines opened, followed by lead mines and cement factories.
In 1913 Henry Ford introduced the assembly line, a step in the process that became known as mass-production.
It is not a coincidence that the greatest period of economic growth in U.S. history was between the Civil War and 1913. The following information comes from Wikipedia...
The Gilded Age saw the greatest period of economic growth in American history. After the short-lived panic of 1873, the economy recovered with the advent of hard money policies and industrialization. From 1869 to 1879, the US economy grew at a rate of 6.8% for real GDP and 4.5% for real GDP per capita, despite the panic of 1873. The economy repeated this period of growth in the 1880s, in which the wealth of the nation grew at an annual rate of 3.8%, while the GDP was also doubled.Wouldn't you like U.S. GDP to double over the course of a decade now?
So why don't we go back to a system like that?
In 1913, the Federal Reserve and a permanent national income tax were introduced. Today, the unelected central planners at the Federal Reserve totally run our financial system and the U.S. tax code is about 13 miles long. The value of our currency has declined by more than 96 percent since 1913, and the size of our national debt has gotten more than 5000 times larger.
Meanwhile, control freak bureaucrats seemingly run everything. Almost every business decision is heavily influenced either by taxes or by the millions of laws, rules and regulations that are sucking the life out of our economic system.
My favorite example of how suffocating red tape in America has become is the magician out in Missouri that was forced by the Obama administration to submit a 32 page "disaster plan" for the rabbit that he uses during his magic shows for kids.
It is no wonder why we don't have any economic growth. The central planners in the federal government are killing our economy.
And the central planners over at the Federal Reserve are killing our financial system. In school we are taught that the Fed was created to bring stability to our financial system, but the truth is that they have been responsible for financial bubble after financial bubble, and now Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has created the largest bond bubble in the history of the world. When that thing bursts, and it will, we are going to see financial carnage on an unprecedented scale.
Unfortunately, the truth is that the Federal Reserve never has been looking out for the interests of the American people. It was created by the big banks and it has always worked very hard to benefit the big banks. During the Fed era, the big banks have become the most powerful economic entities on the entire planet. Our entire economy is now based on debt, and the big banks are at the very center of this debt spiral. The following is an excerpt from a recent article by Paul B. Farrell...
And as we saw back in 2008, the Federal Reserve is going to do whatever is necessary to prop up Wall Street. Most Americans never even heard about this, but during the last financial crisis the Fed secretly loaned 16 trillion dollars to the big banks. Those loans were nearly interest-free and those banks knew that they could get basically as much nearly interest-free money as they wanted from the Fed.Today’s world includes four Wall Street banks each with assets over $1 trillion, each more than Goldman. Plus eight other big global banks each have over $2 trillion total assets, including, among the 100 largest, Barclays, HSBC, Deutsche, ICB-China and Japan’s Mitsubishi.Yes, this new world is changing fast. Back in 2008 the world’s financial banks were in ruins. Wall Street sunk into virtually bankruptcy. Goldman and its Wall Street too-big-to-fail co-conspirators had trashed the global economy, triggered a virtual depression, and Wall Street’s casinos lost over $10 trillion of Main Street retirement funds.
So how much nearly interest-free money did the Fed loan to normal Americans?
Not a single penny.
That would be bad enough, but it is also important to remember that since 2008 the Fed has actually been paying banks NOT to lend money to the rest of us.
What is it going to take for the American people to start demanding that the Fed be abolished? They are absolutely destroying our financial system.
Meanwhile, the central planners in the Obama administration have been doing their part as well. During the second quarter of this year, the number of Americans working between 30 and 34 hours per week fell by 146,500. During that same time period, the number of Americans working between 25 and 29 hours rose by 119,000.
Why is this happening?
Well, the Obamacare employer mandate will apply to workers that work at least 30 hours each week, so employers are starting to cut back on the hours their employees are getting in order to comply with the law.
But this is just one example out of thousands, and most Americans already know that the U.S. economy has been crumbling for many years.
In fact, things have gotten so bad that even 53 percent of all Democrats believe that the American Dream is dead even though Barack Obama is residing in the White House.
But this is just the beginning. Things are going to get much, much worse. We are going down the same path that Greece has gone, and the unemployment rate in Greece has just hit a new all-time record high of 27.6 percent.
That is where the U.S. is headed eventually. Decades of very foolish decisions are catching up with us.
The primary reason why all of this is happening is debt. As a society, we simply have way, way, way too much debt.
The biggest offender, of course, is the federal government. Since 1970, federal spending has grown nearly 12 times as rapidly as median household income has, and since the year 2000 the size of the U.S. national debt has grown by more than 11 trillion dollars.
When government debt gets too large, it has a profoundly negative effect on an economy. The following is an excerpt from an outstanding article by Lacy H. Hunt, a Ph.D. economist...
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Here are the studies, starting with the one with the broadest implications:
- "Government Size and Growth: A Survey and Interpretation of the Evidence," from Journal of Economic Surveys. Published in April 2011, Swedish economists Andreas Bergh and Magnus Henrekson (both of the Research Institute of Industrial Economics at Lund University) found a "significant negative correlation" between size of government and economic growth. Specifically, "an increase in government size by 10 percentage points is associated with a 0.5% to 1% lower annual growth rate."
- "The Impact of High and Growing Government Debt on Economic Growth: An Empirical Investigation for the Euro Area," in European Central Bank working paper, Number 1237, August 2010. Cristina Checherita and Philipp Rother found that a government-debt-to-GDP ratio above the threshold of 90-100% has a "deleterious" impact on long-term growth. Additionally, the impact of debt on growth is nonlinear – as the government debt rises to higher and higher levels, the adverse growth consequences accelerate.
- The Real Effects of Debt, published by the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) in Basel, Switzerland in August 2011. Stephen G. Cecchetti, M. S.Mohanty, and Fabrizio Zampolli determined that "beyond a certain level, debt is bad for growth. For government debt, the number is about 85% of GDP."
- "Public Debt Overhangs: Advanced-Economy Episodes Since 1800,"by Carmen M. Reinhart, Vincent R. Reinhart, Kenneth S. Rogoff, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Volume 26, Number 3, Summer 2012, pages 69-86. The authors identified 26 cases of "debt overhangs," which they define as public-debt-to-GDP levels exceeding 90% for at least five years. In spite of the many idiosyncratic differences in these situations, economic growth fell in all but three of the 26 cases. All of the instances, which lasted an average of 23 years, are included in the paper. They found that average annual growth is 1.2% lower for countries with a debt overhang than for countries without. The long duration of such episodes means that cumulative shortfall from the debt excess—i.e., several years in a row of subpar economic growth—is potentially massive.
But it isn't just federal government debt that is the problem. The rest of us have way too much debt as well.
If you can believe it, the ratio of private debt to GDP was 273.3% for the twelve months ending in the first quarter of 2013.
That is an astounding figure.
And as Hunt explained, having too much private debt is also very bad for an economy...
In Too Much Finance, published by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in March 2011, Jean Louis Arcand, Enrico Berkes, and Ugo Panizza found a negative effect on output growth when credit to the private sector reaches 104-110% of GDP. The strongest adverse effects are for credit over 160% of GDP.When you add our private debt to GDP ratio of 273 percent to our federal debt to GDP ratio of 101 percent, you get a grand total of 384 percent.
The second is the 2011 BIS study authored by Cecchetti, Mohanty, and Zampolli. They found that private debt levels become "cancerous" (in BIS economic advisor Cecchetti's own words) at 175% (90% for corporations and 85% for households)—just slightly more than the UNCTAD study.
This is how we have funded the false prosperity of the past couple of decades. Essentially, we have been putting our good times on a credit card.
And as anyone that has ever tried to live on credit knows, the good times eventually run out.
But this is what the Federal Reserve was designed to do. It was designed to get the U.S. government trapped in a debt spiral from which there would never be any escape.
It is not an accident that our national debt has gotten more than 5000 times larger than it was when the Fed was originally created. This is what the bankers wanted the system to do.
They wanted a system that would extract wealth from all of us through taxes, transfer it to the government, and then transfer it to them through interest payments.
We never needed a central bank, we never needed the IRS and we never needed an income tax. America would be doing just fine without any of them.
But instead, America chose to go down the path of collectivization and central planning, and now we are heading toward the biggest economic disaster in the history of mankind.
US Military Caught Manipulating Social Media, Running Mass Propaganda Accounts
hehe we fill in OUR own "dossiers" ..almost everyday on ' FB,tw, etc.etc.etc. ANY 'social media ' fer the NAZI 's lol & the only kooks who don't believe that ...r the 'tin foils' LMMFAO (laughing my motherfucking ass off ) funny how that turned around Oops :o hey remind me again (been a LONG time since 'Bible study' ....which is the god that "spy's" (a) & which 1 is ALL knowing,everywhere at once ..Knows Our Hearts/Minds ...IS full of LOVE fer 'his/her' children ! Love,LOVE ! fer his kids (b) um ah oh yea i am gonna go wit a.) the motherfucker wit the 'pitch fork' :o
How many times now has such ‘conspiracy nonsense’ now been reported
years later by the mega media as undeniable fact? In the case of the US
intelligence propaganda machine that even the New York Times has covered in an article entitled ‘The Real War on Reality‘,
we are seeing just that. The New York Times report goes on to detail
information uncovered from hacked data regarding the military operation to stage ‘grassroots’ responses and organizations in order to deceive via psyop. Professor of philosophy Peter Ludlow writes for the Times:
An excerpt from a particularly concerning summary of a recent German report on how political activists are targeted reads:
1. This means that the United States military and intelligence communities are highly afraid of alternative networks and the overall public perception when it comes to the United States government and the state of the corrupt political mafia at large.
2. This also means that the United States military and intelligence agencies are losing the informational battle, and the only way they can even fight back is to run a conglomerate of fake accounts attacking legitimate users and journalists. You know, the terrorists that dare to question anything.
Social media pages, comment systems on top news websites, and various other areas online are the targets of a pinpointed ‘cyber psyop’ by a government that simply can’t answer real questions. And instead of actually doing anything about the outrage, disinformation campaigns are of utmost priority.
US Military Caught Manipulating Social Media, Running Mass Propaganda Accounts
It has been common knowledge to anyone paying attention within the alternative news community for years, but once again the media is now admitting that the US military and intelligence agencies are indeed running massive propaganda campaigns that cover a vast array of online networks.
US military soldier on social media.
“The hack also revealed evidence that Team Themis was developing a “persona management” system — a program, developed at the specific request of the United States Air Force, that allowed one user to control multiple online identities (“sock puppets”) for commenting in social media spaces, thus giving the appearance of grass roots support. The contract was eventually awarded to another private intelligence firm.”This cyber warfare is clearly not just in the capacity of ‘improving international reputation’ as military commanders are claiming on record (just like there is ‘no such thing’ as domestic spying and it’s only for terrorists). Instead, we’re talking about running a major network of computers that are constantly running code specifically written to post to social media and news comment pages. Something that was revealed all the way back in 2011 by RawStory and brushed off in the name of national security by the military.
Intelligence Agencies Running Mass Number of Propaganda Accounts
And remember, this is the same military that says political activists are terrorists and need to be targeted. At the highest levels, combating ‘terrorism’ simply means going after law-abiding citizens and journalists — especially so-called ‘leakers’. With propaganda scripts that run 24/7 and are intended to discredit people like Edward Snowden, top level intelligence agencies are teaming up with the military to combat whistleblowers through such phony means.An excerpt from a particularly concerning summary of a recent German report on how political activists are targeted reads:
“The targets of these attacks are scientists… It does not stop at skirmishes in the scientific community. Hackers regularly target various web pages. Evaluations of IP log files show that not only Monsanto visits the pages regularly, but also various organizations of the U.S. government, including the military. These include the Navy Network Information Center, the Federal Aviation Administration and the United States Army Intelligence Center, an institution of the US Army, which trains soldiers with information gathering.”Now admittedly the news is not getting nearly as much coverage as it should, especially when considering it highlights two essential points:
1. This means that the United States military and intelligence communities are highly afraid of alternative networks and the overall public perception when it comes to the United States government and the state of the corrupt political mafia at large.
2. This also means that the United States military and intelligence agencies are losing the informational battle, and the only way they can even fight back is to run a conglomerate of fake accounts attacking legitimate users and journalists. You know, the terrorists that dare to question anything.
Social media pages, comment systems on top news websites, and various other areas online are the targets of a pinpointed ‘cyber psyop’ by a government that simply can’t answer real questions. And instead of actually doing anything about the outrage, disinformation campaigns are of utmost priority.
Exclusive Interview With Extortion 17 SEAL’s Father – The Scandal That Led To The “Worst Loss Of Life In The Afghan War”
August 9, 2013
Tim Brown
Before there was
Benghazi, there was Extortion 17, which was the Chinook helicopter that
was shot down by the Taliban. All 38 people aboard, including 17 Navy
SEALs and seven Afghan National Army commandos, were killed. Among the
dead was Navy SEAL Aaron Vaughn. Tomorrow, August 6 will mark the two
year anniversary of Extortion 17 being shot down. In an exclusive interview
with Freedom Outpost, Aaron’s father, Billy Vaughn told us what he
knows and about his new book due out this month, Betrayed: Exposing the
High Cost of the War on Terror, and the corruption and incompetence
behind what took place that led to his son’s and others deaths.
Mr. Vaughn told me that he and his wife
have dropped out of the lawsuit that we reported on back in May when the
story about the Muslim cleric in Afghanistan prayed and condemned six
Navy SEAL team members to Hell, saying that the lawsuit was “too broad”
and was not in their best interests.
However, Vaughn did say that they were
very much involved in the investigation that has been announced by
Congressman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) recently, following a visit that he
and his wife took to Washington, D.C to meet with Chaffetz and Congressman Darrell Issa (R-CA) a little over a month and a half ago.
When asked about the objective of their
involvement with Congress, Vaughn said that “it’s going to be a pretty
high goal, but Vice President Joe Biden committed a breach of national
security when he outed the SEALS. We want to see him held accountable
and if need be, we want to see him punished.”
Vaughn also said that in addition to
Biden being held accountable, he wants to see former Defense Secretary
Leon Panetta held accountable for his national security breach, when he
outed the Navy SEALS back on June 24, 2011. “
And then,” he continued, “we have a lot of questions that need answers.” Among those questions they want answers
to is the identity of the seven Afghans who were onboard. Vaughn said
that the names on the manifest were not the names of those who were
actually aboard. Mr. Vaughn said that it would be necessary information
to know why these Afghans were swapped. In his conversations with others
in the military and on the investigative team, they had not been made
aware of the changes.
The Vaughns also want to know why the rules of engagement continue to keep America’s troops from engaging like they did the night his son’s helicopter was shot down.
“When the chopper went in…. a declared
‘hot area’…three and a half hour firefight had already been going on”
Vaughn said. “No pre-assault fire was laid down by the air weapons team
in the air because of the rules of engagement. Their quote, their testimony was ‘It’s almost impossible to get cleared for pre-assault fire.’”
“So this chopper went into that ‘hot
zone’ just like it was landing at a Wal-Mart parking lot,” Vaughn added.
Mr. Vaughn then told me the chilling words that we don’t even want to
think about when he said, “We suspect that the mission was compromised.”
What evidence is to that effect?
According to Vaughn, there is written testimony that says that the
“Afghans were moving toward the landing area, the insertion area, for
the SEALs, before the SEALs ever got there.” This indicates they were
aware of what was going on and also indicates that Extortion 17 did not
have a secretive approach.
Vaughn said that his son’s team as well
as others have to work with a group called the OCG (Operational
Coordination Group), which is made up of Afghanis, who are involved in
all the intelligence that the Special Ops do and are involved in the
planning and even carrying out of missions. The frightening thing about
working with the OCG is that Vaughn says “they are not properly vetted.”
The military has confirmed that
Pakistanis have infiltrated the OCG, which obviously result in
compromised and deadly situation for America’s soldiers to be operating
under. I’ll add that it also reflects on the commander-in-chief to be
using foreigners in assisting our Special Ops forces, which gives them
information on how we operate and also makes them vulnerable to lethal
attacks.
“This OCG group actually has the
authority to squash a mission that our military needs to have performed,
if they want to,” Vaughn said. “So in theory, we’ve placed our men
under the authority of the government of the Islamic Republic of
Afghanistan. It’s treacherous and it’s treasonous for our government and
this administration to allow this to go on.”
Vaughn went on to elaborate on the
particular mission the night that Extortion 17 was shot down. “The night
that Aaron was killed, those men were flying with general purposes aviation. Both, general
purposes and special operations, I believe, are equally important to
our national security, but they have different duties and at that time
they were being placed together, to fight together, for the first time
in the Afghan theater.”
There was no training
outside the theater before they got there and all at once they were
brought into the battle together and it ends with both groups, general purpose group and special operations, getting killed.
Mr. Vaughn went on to say that the general
purpose operations don’t even use the same equipment as Special Forces.
The do not use “assault-style” equipment and Vaughn said that the
helicopter they were using was just one example of that.
Vaughn communicated some personal thoughts about others he would like to see held accountable, but I agreed not to print those in the article, due to the steps that need to be taken to achieve the goals already set forward.
He did point out just how our military
is being demoralized in Afghanistan. Citing Special Operations numbers
in Afghanistan, Vaughn told Freedom Outpost that in 2009 we were
conducting 56 special operations missions per month. By 2010, the number
of special operations being conducted jumped to more than triple to 186
mission per month. From August 2010 until July 2011, a month before
Extortion 17 was shot down, the average of Special Forces missions being
conducted in Afghanistan skyrocketed to an average of 335 mission!
“While the number of Special Operations
strike forces were increased to accommodate those missions,” Vaughn
said, indicating that his information was obtained from the military,
“the number of Special Operations aviation was not and is not being
increased because it is not available.”
As a result, Vaughn says “We have forced our special operators and our general
purpose aviation into very compromising situations by placing them
together and having to do these missions together. It limits the special
operators in what they are able to do and what they have been trained
to do and endangers their live. Obviously, it endangers the lives of the general purpose forces, who were never trained to fly special operations missions.”
The Vaughns long-range goal is not only
to find out exactly what occurred around their son’s death, but also to
get what Vaughn calls “ridiculous, if not criminal” rules of engagement changed to be more in favor of our warriors and less in favor of the enemy that they are trying to neutralize.
Billy Vaughn and his wife Karen began
finding out disturbing information about the crash and what was going on
by October 2011. By the end of that month they were already reaching
out to Congressmen to help get to the bottom of what happened with
Extortion 17. At that time, most of the Congressmen didn’t respond to
him. However, he did tell me that he received a response from former
congressmen Allen West, Tom Rooney (R-FL) and Stephen Fincher (R-TN).
Since that time, they have had communications with various congressmen.
Vaughn eventually spoke with retired Army Major General
Paul Vallely about what he was uncovering and they teamed together to
produce a book that will be out this month titled Betrayed: Exposing the
High Cost of the War on Terror with a foreword written by Lt. General Jerry Boykin. If you would like to order the book, go to SpecialOpsBetrayed.com.
This article first appeared at Freedomoutpost.
Kim Dotcom Will Move Mega Privacy Services to Iceland to Avoid Spying
- August 9, 2013
The
uproar kick-started by the revelations of Edward Snowden don’t appear
to be going away any time soon, as citizens increasingly become aware
that their online privacy rights can be disappeared at the touch of a
button.Just yesterday the NSA spying controversy claimed another victim, with email service Lavabit announcing that it will shut down rather than “become complicit in crimes against the American people.” The email service would not provide additional details but their silence is being interpreted as a symptom of US Government pressure.
With Snowden now living in Russia, the rest of the world is trying to cope with its apparent privacy-free status. One of people’s first reactions to eavesdroppers in the real world is to lower their voices, and in the digital domain the reaction has been much the same.
The recent announcement from Pirate Bay founder Peter Sunde, that he is now part of a team bringing an NSA-proof messaging app to the market, was greeted by an enthusiastic audience putting their cash on the line. Privacy clearly matters to people.
This hasn’t gone unnoticed by Kim Dotcom either, who is already heading up Mega.co.nz, aka ‘The Privacy Company’. Mega’s moves towards encryption preceded Snowden’s revelations, but Dotcom is well aware that the market is now ripe for spy-proof services.
The German-born entrepreneur is already prepping two new products – an encrypted messaging app and an encrypted email service – both due to market within the next few months. While previously set to launch from Mega’s New Zealand base, Dotcom has now cast doubt on that assumption.
This morning, Dotcom told his 313K Twitter followers that if new local spying laws become reality, Mega will move its privacy services overseas to Iceland.
“Mega plans to move privacy operations away from New Zealand to Iceland if the new #GCSB & #TICS spy laws are becoming reality,” he said.
The GCSB and Related Legislation Amendment Bill and Telecommunications (Interception Capability and Security) Bill are a concern to Dotcom and other New Zealand citizens as they will force telco providers to provide intercept capabilities so that police, security and spying services can access citizens’ communications online. The bills give GCSB, New Zealand’s spy agency, sweeping powers of oversight into the design and operations of all local network providers.
And Dotcom isn’t on his own with his concerns. Last week Microsoft suggested it may withdraw from New Zealand if the surveillance laws are introduced, warning that they represent a threat to its industry.
But of course other countries are also engaged in widespread spying, and Dotcom has issued a warning to new companies preparing to invest.
“Privacy startups & encryption services should move to Iceland or other privacy friendly jurisdictions,” he said, specifically warning against setting up in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
Hitting governments in their pockets might be the only way to get them to sit up and listen but we’ll have to wait to find out whether citizens care enough to vote with their wallets too.
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