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By Patrick Martin

Global Research, October 14, 2015

World Socialist Web Site

Theme: Global Economy, Poverty & Social Inequality

A new report issued by the Swiss bank Credit Suisse finds that global wealth inequality continues to worsen and has reached a new milestone, with the top 1 percent owning more of the world’s assets than the bottom 99 percent combined.
Of the estimated $250 trillion in global assets, the top 1 percent owned almost exactly 50 percent, while the bottom 50 percent of humanity owned collectively less than 1 percent. The richest 10 percent owned 87.7 percent of the world’s wealth, leaving 12.3 percent for the bottom 90 percent of the population.
The Credit Suisse report focused not on the top 1 percent, but on a slightly smaller group, the 0.7 percent of adults with assets of more than 1 million US dollars. This figure includes both financial assets and real assets, such as homes, small businesses and other physical property.
The report’s eye-catching “Global Wealth Pyramid” divides the human race into four categories by wealth: 3.4 billion adults with net assets of less than $10,000; 1 billion with net assets from $10,000 to $100,000; 349 million with net assets from $100,000 to $1 million; and 34 million with net assets over $1 million.

Image: The global wealth pyramid

The lowest category comprises 71 percent of all adults and owns only 3 percent of total wealth; the next-poorest group comprises 21 percent of adults and owns 12.5 percent of the wealth; above this is a group comprising 7.4 percent of adults and owning 39.4 of the wealth; and finally the top layer, 0.7 percent of adults owning 45.2 percent of the wealth.
This top layer, defined by the report as “high-net-worth individuals,” is itself divided very unequally, as shown in a second pyramid: 29.8 million with assets of $1 million to $5 million; 2.5 million with assets of $5 million to $10 million; 1.34 million with assets of $10 million to $50 million; and finally, 123,800 with assets over $50 million.
These 123,800 “ultra-high-net-worth individuals,” as the report calls them, are the true global financial aristocracy, exercising decisive sway not only over banks and corporations, but over governments and international institutions as well. Of these, nearly 59,000, almost half the total, live in the United States. Another quarter live in Europe (mainly Britain, Germany, Switzerland, France and Italy), followed by China and then Japan.
The Credit Suisse report notes the particularly rapid rise in inequality since the Wall Street crash of 2008 and relates it directly to the stock market boom that followed the bailout of the banks, initiated by the Bush administration and greatly expanded by the Obama administration. A key passage reads:

“There are strong reasons to think that the rise in wealth inequality since 2008 is mostly related to the rise in equity prices and to the size of financial assets in the United States and some other high-wealth countries, which together have pushed up the wealth of some of the richest countries and of many of the richest people around the world. The jump in the share of the top percentile to 50 percent this year exceeds the increase expected on the basis of any underlying upward trend. It is consistent, however, with the fact that financial assets continue to increase in relative importance and that the rise in the USD (US dollar) over the past year has given wealth inequality in the United States—which is very high by international standards—more weight in the overall global picture.”

In other words, deepening global economic inequality is being driven above all by American capitalism, with the United States being both the wealthiest and by far the most unequal country in the world. The US has less than 5 percent of the world’s population, but a staggering 46 percent of the world’s millionaires.

Image: Number of dollar millionaires by country

Far from demonstrating the health of the US economy, this disproportionate growth of the super-rich resembles the spread of a cancer that is rapidly metastasizing, with fatal consequences for the entire social organism.
Never have the rich increased their wealth so quickly as in America since the financial crash of 2008. But side by side with the amassing of previously unthinkable private fortunes, the infrastructure of America is crumbling, education, health care and other social services are starved of funding, and the living standards of the vast majority of the population, the working people who produce the wealth, are declining.
The Credit Suisse report also calls attention to significant regional differences within the structure of global capitalism, focusing on the diverging fortunes of three main regions: North America, Europe and the Asia-Pacific.
Total global wealth declined slightly in 2015, according to the report, but only because the bank’s calculations were in US dollars, and thus were affected by the depreciation of the euro, the Japanese yen, the Russian ruble, the Canadian dollar and many other currencies against the US dollar.
US wealth rose $4.6 trillion, despite a global decline of $12.7 trillion, with Japan, Russia and the European Union countries showing the biggest drops, largely because of currency depreciation. Australia and Canada lost $1.5 trillion in wealth between them, a substantial drop for the two mid-sized economies, which are heavily dependent on resource extraction.
China, whose currency is loosely pegged to the dollar, saw a $1.5 trillion gain. But this has likely already evaporated, since the report is based on figures ending June 30, 2015 and the Chinese financial markets have plunged 25 percent since then, as the report’s foreword notes.
These disparities between countries, like the growing social disparities within countries, have immense significance for world politics. They are a major factor in the increasingly explosive character of international relations, particularly the conflicts between the major imperialist powers—the United States, Japan, Germany, France, Britain—and countries like Russia, China and Iran that are being targeted for their huge natural and human resources.
US imperialism uses both its preeminent military position and the role of the dollar, still the world’s main reserve currency, as weapons in seeking to offset its economic decline relative to its major rivals. America is both a social powder keg, with class tensions at home approaching the breaking point, and the most destabilizing force in world politics, seeking to maintain its position of global dominance by increasingly reckless and militaristic methods.

Copyright © Patrick Martin, World Socialist Web Site, 2015

5 Reasons Monsanto Is Crashing And Burning + 17 Countries Saying Goodbye To GM Crops & The Fight Against Genetic Armageddon

Posted by George Freund on October 14, 2015

October 14 2015

It’s hard to believe that the once almighty Monsanto is on its knees. But their dirty deeds seem to have finally caught up with them.

Monsanto shares have already dropped 27 percent this year and they just posted fourth quarter losses wider than estimates. They also announced cost-saving measures to counter their plunge; deep cuts to their workforce and exiting the sugarcane business.

Related: The World’s Most Credible Medical Journal Outlines Bad News For Monsanto

Bloomberg reports:

“Monsanto Co. said it will eliminate 2,600 jobs as part of a cost-savings plan, joining a growing list of major corporations struggling to contain the damage from the decline in world commodities prices.

The St. Louis-based agricultural giant announced the reductions - the equivalent of 12 percent of its workforce - as it reported a loss of 19 cents a share in the fiscal fourth quarter and warned profit would remain weak through 2016."

Monsanto enjoys a near monopoly on corn and soybean in North America. They appear to have it all; they own the farmers, the industry, the politicians, and the regulators. And, yet, they’re crashing and burning.



Bloomberg cites slumping commodity prices for Monsanto’s decline. “Like DuPont Co. and Glencore Plc, Monsanto, the world’s largest seed maker, is taking steps to combat the effects of a commodity slump…”

However, Here are 5 Real Reasons Monsanto is Tanking:

1. Consumer activism: The market doesn’t want herbicide-soaked genetically modified food anymore. As people are becoming more health conscious, they prefer to eat organic food. It’s really that simple.

2. Lawsuits with farmers: Monsanto spends untold resources suing family farms for patent infringement. Farmers are forbidden from saving patented seeds year to year. Additionally when Monsanto’s GMO crops pollute neighboring farms, Monsanto sues those farms too. Not a great business model when your primary customers are farmers. An organic farmer in Australia is hoping to reverse this revolting practice.

3. Funding anti-labeling campaigns in multiple states is draining Monsanto of millions of dollars. This seems to be the majority of their “marketing” budget. They spent at least $8M in 2012, over $9M in 2013 in Washington State alone, and combined for $8M to defeat just a county initiative in Maui County Hawaii this past year.

4. Flagship product causes cancer: A recent World Health Organization report concluded that the active chemical used in Monsanto’s flagship product “Glyphosate is probably carcinogenic to humans.” This unsettling realization hasn’t even begun to sink in yet. Although some cancer-stricken farm workers are suing the big “M” over their illness with many more likely to do the same.

5. National bans: An increasing number of countries are banning either GMOs or certain pesticides, or both. At least 15 European Union members move to ban GMO crops. Meanwhile some small nations like Bermuda and Colombia have banned glyphosate.

To summarize, when people no longer want a product, market share and regulatory control mean nothing. This a long-term problem for Monsanto that can’t be fixed with cost-savings measures. That is why they’re doomed.

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These 17 Countries are Saying Goodbye to GM Crops

The battle against genetically-modified organisms (GMOs) continues on, with a growing number of countries saying goodbye to these crops for good. There are many countries who are making moves to rid their markets of GM crops.



As of this week, these countries have initiated moves to ban GMO crop cultivation:

Austria, Croatia, Scotland, Slovenia, Italy, Germany, France, Greece, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Bulgaria,Russia, Denmark, Wales, and Poland. Many of these governments are choosing an “opt-out” clause of a EuropeanCommission rule that was passed in March, and it would allow for these countries to abstain from growing GMO crops.

Regardless if these GMO crops are already authorized to be grown within the EU, this clause will allow these nations to refuse if they wish to. Although, it's unclear how new trade deals like the TPP would put their refusal option at risk. Currently, the only GM crop that is allowed to be grown in Europe is Monsanto's MON810 maize.

Overall, roughly 65 percent of the EU's population is saying that they want to ban the cultivation of GMO crops. Clearly, a growing number of people are wanting to opt-out of being a part of the experiment, and when given the opportunity to choose; many will prefer to eat food that isn't genetically-modified. “At least half of the EU’s governments are rejecting the commission’s drive for GMO crop approvals. They don’t trust EU safety assessments and are rightly taking action to protect their agriculture and food,” says Greenpeace EU food policy director Franziska Achterberg.

Many of these countries already have anti-GMO legislation established, but more are joining the cause and they are increasing the strict regulation and bans against these crops. All 28 nations currently within the EU require GMO labeling, unlike the U.S. which is still battling over whether companies should be forced to label GMOs. But companies don't need to be forced to label GMOs in order for people to be able to find out what is and isn't genetically-modified, the voluntary non-gmo label verification project is evident to the success of alternative, voluntary methods.

Monsanto and other bio-tech corporations continue to face pressure from the public, over concerns for potential risks that GM crops might pose to health or the environment. From lawsuits to large-scale, world-wide public demonstrations against GM crops, and more, it's clear that people aren't going to let their concerns for these crops subside anytime soon.

Related: Agricultural Workers Diagnosed with Cancer Sue Monsanto

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The Ugly Truth About Poverty In Britain

By Graham Vanbergen

Global Research, October 13, 2015

True Publica 13 October 2015

Region: Europe

Theme: Global Economy, Poverty & Social Inequality

David Cameron gave his keynote speech at the Conservative Party conference in Manchester last week and there was a definite change in the political wind with an attempt to move towards the centre ground. He said that central to tackling big social problems is an all-out assault on poverty. Perhaps, Cameron could see the Conservatives being seen as the ‘nasty’ party again, some have said that this is the true man.

Amongst others things he mentioned that if the Conservatives understood the problem there was a need to tackle the root causes of poverty and that the best route out of poverty is work – “It’s simple, get the adults a job”. “So let the message go out: if you work hard, want to get on, want more money at the end of the month…the party for you is right here in this hall”.

Yvette Cooper made poverty central to her leadership campaign.

The truth about poverty in Britain is much more wide ranging and deeply ingrained and David Cameron, no matter what his motivations has little or no chance of making meaningful reductions whilst the status quo remains in place.

The UK economy has just about doubled in size since the early 1980s – yet the number of those suffering below-minimum living standards has increased by more than double, a study claims. In addition, the study determines the number of British households falling below minimum living standards has more than doubled in that same period of about 30 years. It’s the same in the US.

According to a study by Poverty and Social Exclusion (PSE), 33% of all UK households endure below-par living standards – defined as going without three or more “basic necessities of life”, such as being able to adequately feed and clothe themselves and their children, and to heat and insure their homes. In the early 1980s, the comparable figure was 14%. A 140% increase.

Almost 30% of working women are earning less than the living wage. The figures also showed nearly 50% of young people are on low wages in London, with the figure rising to 58% outside the capital. In all, this accounts for 6 million hard working people, the number jumping 19% in just four years.

Billed as the most detailed research study ever of poverty in the UK, PSE claims that nearly 18 million Britons live in poor and inadequate housing conditions and that 12 million are simply too poor to take part in all the basic social activities. It reiterates that one in three people cannot afford to heat their homes properly, while 4 million adults and children are not able to eat healthily.

Having a job does not prevent British families from facing tough living conditions either. The research determined that many households were financially struggling with the aforementioned and had at least one adult in work.

The report makes a number of observations, for instance; that 5.5 million adults go without essential clothing; that 2.5 million children live in damp homes; that 1.5 million children live in households that cannot afford to heat them; that one in four adults have incomes below what they themselves consider is needed to avoid poverty, and that more than one in five adults have to borrow to pay for day-to-day needs. It is estimated that Britain will have 5 million children living in poverty by 2020.

One thing is clear, attempts by government to tackle overall poverty has failed. Poverty and deprivation has increased. The poor are suffering from deeper poverty and the gap between the rich and poor has widened considerably in the last 30 years.

It is interesting what this high quality, scientific evidence highlights. The statistics show that poverty has come about due to the cost of housing, cost of heating, the cost of clothing and food – these are the basic measures of poverty.

Successive governments in Britain since the Thatcher era have gone down a political ideology leading to over 4 million council homes being sold off in the ‘right-to-buy’ scheme that eventually saw 40 percent of them in the hands of private landlords. Another 1.3 million under Cameron are heading that way.

The selling of council homes stock was accompanied by the slashing of housing budgets and ever more draconian controls on local authority borrowing and spending. The result was large rent rises, falling house building and, by 1986, an estimated £19bn repair backlog for council homes and £25bn for private sector homes. The more the Conservatives cut and financially constrained, the more privatisation became the norm for both tenants and local authorities. The Conservatives also introduced greater powers for private landlords and liberalised mortgage lending for buy-to-let investment (continued by Labour) to boost the private rental sector and help to develop major property companies, agencies and estate agents.

This 30 year strategy has led to a housing crisis with home ownership now a dream more than an aspiration for millions of ordinary hard working people. The average deposit today to buy a property now stands at over £70,000 or £41,000 if you’re a first time buyer. 40% of property sold in the UK today are to wealthier cash buyers.

Successive governments in Britain have also supported privatisation of the state infrastructure.

Surging energy prices was the universal experience of everyone after privatisation that is now having a savage consequence for household discretionary incomes. Thousands of old people will certainly die this winter again as a result of the corporate deception that some like to euphemistically label a ‘regulated’ market – designed in large part by the same John Major who you may remember called for the introduction of a windfall tax on energy profits as even he can see the awful consequences on an already strained working class.

During the winter months, an elderly person dies every seven minutes in Britain due to being too cold in what is called ‘fuel poverty’. That’s 206 deaths every day or 25,000 per season. For five million pensioners, heating bills are a major concern.

Then we had water privatisation. Prices rose by over 50% in the first 4 years and privatised water companies are planning to increase prices by 40% by 2020.

Food prices are predicted to rise faster than incomes every year until 2018, and that was a statement made in 2013 that has only got worse. Meat and fresh fruit and vegetables becoming only an occasional treat for many as we now have ‘food poverty’. Over 2 million people in the UK are estimated to be malnourished, and 3 million more are at risk of becoming so.

Amazingly, 36% of the entire UK population are just one heating bill or a broken washing machine away from hardship with 1 in 6 parents going without food themselves to afford to feed their families.

At the end of the 19th century about 25% of the population was living at or below subsistence level. Surveys indicated that around 10% were very poor and could not afford even basic necessities such as enough nourishing food. Not much has changed then.

The scenery of the ‘cost of living crisis’ saw British workers suffering the biggest drop in real wages of all major G20 countries in the three years to 2013, according to the International Labour Organisation. It gets worse. A report at the end of 2014, by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), found that overall wages having fallen for six years in succession and are now at levels last seen 14 years ago.

According to an annual report, “Monitoring Poverty and Social Exclusion 2014” by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, based on research by the New Policy Institute, as many of the poor now live in working households than in non-working households.

Leading charities and independent experts now state that child poverty is on course for the biggest rise in a generation, reversing years of progress that began in the late 1990s that saw Tony Blair’ government half child poverty in just eleven years from 1999 to 2010.

Enver Solomon, of the National Children’s Bureau, said: “Over the next five years, as austerity bites, we risk creating a country where poverty is so stark that children grow up in parallel worlds where rich and poor families have entirely different lifestyles that are poles apart.”

London is the sixth richest city in the world, it provides 20% of UK ‘s GDP and yet alongside prosperity lives poverty. 4 in 10 London children now live in poverty. In some inner city areas of London it’s 50%. Britain is now on the approach to having one third of ALL its children living in poverty.

The reasons for increased poverty are both complicated and simple. There has been a massive increase in the profits of corporations in the last three decades accompanied by a 140% increase in overall households falling into poverty as a result of suffering the effects of real declining wages and terms of work. In just the last 15 years, property prices have risen by about 250% in the UK. Private renting has soared in the last decade, and now 2 million sit patiently on a council housing list.

Almost 40% of British families don’t have enough money for a socially acceptable standard of living. Hardly surprising when Britain is the only country in the G7 group of leading economies where inequality has increased this century.

Given the political will, which is little more than token words along with general corporate greed, David Cameron’s words on meaningfully reducing poverty in his final few years as PM are only as absurd as it is unattainable.

Copyright © Graham Vanbergen, True Publica, 2015

THE DJINN OF BABYLON

• Posted on October 13, 2015
• by Ron Patton
• in Articles

THE DJINN OF BABYLON

In this new era of modern warfare, we are reading and hearing about weapons that are being developed from some of the most outstanding technologies known to man. The world takes warfare seriously, with all of the nuclear weapons, rumored space weaponry, autonomous drones and artificial intelligence, we can now see that billions of dollars are going to mechanical and remote control methods to assassinate and torture an enemy.
War has now been elevated to an extreme standard. It is not always played by the rules, and the methods of war are not only there to have the enemy fear its adversary, but to have the subjects that are affected by the war’s fear of the encroaching empire.
The more advanced weapons our country creates, the more our guns pale in significance. They become obsolete against bigger guns, bombs, and even nuclear weaponry.
These weapons guarantee our fear the empire; the more weapons they create the more we are coerced into respecting and loving those who rule over us. We count on the protection of the empire and perhaps we will see our old fashioned weapons surrendered to a new government that is annexed and supported by the global order.
However, our weapons are not protecting our way of life and the American lifestyle is deteriorating rapidly. It appears that our material creature comforts keep us from feeling burdened – we really don’t notice the deterioration as long as we can eat, have a roof over our heads and entertainment on the television or internet.
But we must understand that the spiritual Armageddon has begun, and you may think that all victories in warfare are based on who has the better weapons, but there is an esoteric factor that is rarely brought up in conversations about war.
The spiritual mentality in war, creates dangerous tulpas and thought forms that theoretically plunge us towards a mass genocide.
It can be said that in spiritual warfare and material warfare, Christians and Muslims have been fighting and in some the minds of both groups, there is an evil desire to hunt each other into extinction.

We have become numb or desensitized to how the violence between Christians and Muslims has reached fearsome levels. ISIS has recorded and broadcast hideous beheadings of people and the fiery immolation of prisoners. We have seen the desecration of dead Muslim farmers where soldiers have urinated on lifeless bodies.
The attitudes of both Muslims and Christians have been so galvanized with vengeance and the want for more death and destruction the powerful resonance may be creating a spiritual black hole that at its zenith, will be contained and used in manner that no man can fathom.
In fact, it is believed that it is already happening.
Russian president Vladimir Putin once commented that the fate of the world is darker now because many nations are ignoring traditional religious values and are participating in rituals and are relying on the darker powers to ensure their murderous victories in war.
Putin said: “Many Euro-Atlantic countries have moved away from their roots, including Christian values… Policies are being pursued that place on the same level a multi-child family and a same-sex partnership, a faith in God and a belief in Satan.”
These statements were met with controversy because many believe that these comments were aimed at the United States, especially when an avowed Satanist was once appointed to be the Chief of Psychological Warfare for the US military.
Throughout much of the 1980s, Michael Aquino was at the center of a controversy involving the Pentagon’s acquiescence to outright Satanic practices inside the military services. Aquino was also a prime suspect in a series of pedophile scandals involving the sexual abuse of hundreds of children; including the children of military personnel serving at the Presidio U.S. Army station in the San Francisco Bay area.
Furthermore, even as Aquino was being investigated by Army Criminal Investigation Division officers for involvement in the pedophile cases, he was retaining highest-level security clearances, and was involved in pioneering work in military psychological operations.

For Aquino, “Mindwar” is a permanent state of strategic psychological warfare against the populations of friend and foe, nations alike.
Aquino believes that , “In its strategic context, Mindwar must reach out to friends, enemies and neutrals alike across the globe … through the media possessed by the United States which have the capabilities to reach virtually all people on the face of the Earth. These media are, of course, the electronic media-television and radio. State of the art developments in satellite communication, video recording techniques, and laser and optical transmission of broadcasts make possible a penetration of the minds of the world such as would have been inconceivable just a few years ago.”
America is still involved in psychological warfare, however, it is now being theorized that the Obama administration’s psychological operations are being conducted against the American people.
Especially on Americans who previously viewed themselves, their country, their Constitution and their overwhelming belief in God as a force for good in the world.
Measures have been taken and polices have been pushed on the public that are tantamount to spiritual espionage as our wars and course of action force Americans to hold on to psychopathic and dissociative thoughts and they willfully disobey the reverent spirit within.
The Apostle John’s prophecy in the biblical Revelation warned that man’s beastly nature would rule him if he fell to the beguilement of the Whore of Babylon.
This Whore of Babylon was defined as a world government that employs a unified effort to mingle philosophical, religious and political dogma in order to bring about a new spiritual enlightenment.
In essence, men would place themselves in positions of political and religious power, acting on behalf of God eventually declaring that their lawlessness is ordained of God.
The Imperial Cult will also use scapegoats and straw to draw the blame away from their lawlessness, identifying evildoers as the contemporary persons or institutions of the times.
The Whore of Babylon also sets out to divide people and throw them into confusion.
Any group that is divided usually folds in on itself leaving the body politic in a state where it looks to the World government for its emotional, spiritual and material support.
There are many people today that fear some invisible universal threat. While many who claim to be enlightened say these threats are hoaxes, keep in mind that these threats and dangers are very real. They have a potential to harm.
They may not be harming you now, they may not even reach your city or neighborhood, but their potential for harm triggers the primal fear and creates the need for man to act primal, to tap into his bestial nature and become an unwitting survivalist. Most of the reported dangers today are being exploited and magnified in order to trigger physical and emotional response.
All of the attacks and plagues that await us are becoming tools for political and religious control. They are guaranteed to trigger memes in people. These attacks and threats of disease and plague can be used as complex psychological operations, carefully designed to convinced those who are already prone to apocalyptic fantasy that their world is on the brink of collapse and that a new world awaits them in the future.
These psychological operations are ritualized and carried out by the darkest of custodians. They gather darkness and chaos to trigger dangerous catastrophes, wars, and trauma in order to control the masses.
The possibility of danger can trigger an upheaval in the public consciousness. The crisis created relies on the dissemination of certain political, religious and emotional memes that overpower the need for rational consideration of evidence and probability of such things actually doing harm at all.
The danger, while very real, could easily be diffused. However, we do not hear of the solution until it can be either marketed or exploited for the sole purpose of getting people to sway in a direction that may be just as harmful.
The United States is not the only country engaged in political demon conjuring.
We are now witnessing a pervasive belief in sorcery in the Middle East and darker magic is being used against Christian and Jewish aggressors. Ironically, this sorcery is punishable by death in the Middle East.
This is showing the desperation of those who are battle weary – the women of the Middle East and some men are now practicing sorcery and necromancy to nudge the war into becoming more violent against those who persecute them. In times of war, witchcraft is a force to be marshaled for self-protection or greater strength in battle.
Muslims are now turning to sorcery and the control of Djinns to explain adverse events.
Djinn are powerful magical beings of Arabian descent. These creatures live in all areas of the Middle East and Central Africa.

Some compare the Djinn to the fairy folk of European legend, and others see them as demons that are products of the Ibilis – the Muslim version of the devil.
They are considered to be soul-less creatures that once were spirits of nature, created from smoke and fire.
Throughout history, the Djinn took mortals as slaves, had sexual relations with women, much like the Nephilim spoken of in Genesis Chapter 6 in the Bible. Djinn would also inhabit or incarnate into human forms and some were shape shifters.
By the time of Solomon, Djinn were very well known, and he had bound at least 70 of them to his service through the use of a special key or talisman.
Belief in witchcraft, and practicing sorcery, magic, conjuring of ghosts, and demons is widespread and is being used as a form of spiritual warfare throughout the Muslim world.
Magical beliefs are expressed in the wearing of amulets, consulting spiritual healers and fortunetellers, shrine worship, exorcisms, animal sacrifice, and numerous customs and rituals that provide protection from the evil eye, demons, and Djinn that have not been contained or trained to serve their masters.
A few years ago, a little known story was generated out of the Middle East about an organized attack against the United States from Iran. In this attack no bombs were thrown, no was gunfire exchanged, what happened led to the arrest of two close allies of then President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
What happened was that magicians in Iran were conjuring the power of Islamic demons and wanted to use them to carry out spiritual and physical attacks on their enemies.
Ahmadinejad was struggling against major powers both from the United States and the country’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Several people said to be close to the president and his chief of staff, Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei, were arrested for invoking the powers of the Djinns.
The religious establishment has long had its eye on Mashaei, the man behind much of Ahmadinejad’s political and religious thinking, because he practices an alternative Messianic –though no less fundamentalist — version of Islam that includes aspects of the occult and a more limited role for clerics.
The challenge for these magicians was to conjure the djinn and in a reverse exorcism or mass curse send them to enter the bodies of their marks. Abbas Ghaffari was described as Ahmadinejad’s “exorcist” or “jinn (genie) catcher” and allegedly had the ability to do a spell or a “working” of transference to an unsuspecting victim. Transference is literally the ability to conjure a spirit and then place it in a bottle, or another container including a human one.
Abbas Ghaffari was said to be “a man with special skills in metaphysics and connections with the unknown worlds.”
Now keep in mind that any kind of sorcery is punishable by death or in incarceration. However, that does not stop an organized effort where Muslims unleash the power of the Djinn to carry out spiritual espionage against the West.
The Al Qaeda in Yemen claimed last weekend to have killed four men suspected of practicing witchcraft and sorcery in an area controlled by the militants.
Residents of Mayfaa, a town in the southeastern province of Hadramawt, said Al Qaeda militants had distributed a pamphlet naming the four men.
It did not say when the killings were carried out. Al Qaeda imposed a strict version of Islamic law, executing or lashing those they accused of various crimes, among them homosexuality and sorcery.
It is not clear if these men were trying to use the Djinn for warfare activities.
There is a lot of reference made in the Quran to Iblis and the Djinn, Iblis being the Arabic name for Satan and Djinn being the Arabic term for “Demons.”
All of the chaotic supernatural forces seem to fighting and inhabiting the bodies of those who are the blood thirsty horde that now see themselves as a great and powerful force.
It is believed that Egyptian tomb robbers and those employed by ISIS to destroy Muslim religious sites have been emboldened by the Djinn and have been known to appease them in order for protection against the vengeful spirits who haunted the sites that they have burglarized and destroyed.
This raises the question of whether or not ISIS has been protected or even empowered by the Djinn.
Melek Taus is an Islamic demon and is worshipped by the Yezidis. Melek Taus is depicted as the peacock angel who carries with him fire from heaven. Melek Taus has a will of his own, a characteristic associated in Islamic tradition with the Djinn as opposed to angels who have no choice but to obey the will of God.

Now keep in mind that the Djinn are made through a smokeless fire and can live, fall in love, marry and die. The spirit of the Djinn can possess human kind and they can do the will of the Djinn.
Don’t you think that it is too much of a coincidence that the US launched attacks in Iraq shortly after ISIS attacked the Yezidis? During the attacks fire rained down from heaven.
Melek Taus is generally believed to be the devil by most mainstream Muslims. Is the god of the Yezidis, which compels us to wonder if we are participating in activating the fire of the Djinn, fortified by the activation of the Yezidis demon god? ISIS is already possessed with a passion for blood lust and now we have somehow activated the Djinn in the territory. The threat of the fire Djinn has now been employed, esoterically.
If we go back to ancient times and Middle Eastern mythologies, it was Thoth who restored the head of ISIS and helped her when Osiris was murdered by Set. Thoth also describes the purging of Babylon of all of the Djinn and other chaotic entities in order to find the body parts of Osiris. The Iblis and seven Djinn were cast out of the Emerald Mountains (heaven).
There are also accounts of Djinn that shape shift and have been known to seed or possess humans in order to commit acts of chaos. It is a creepy thought that there may be people possessed by the Djinn and that there are magicians and wizards who are capable of conjuring these Djinn and sending them our way as an act of psychic warfare.
When James Foley was beheaded by a masked member of ISIS several British Jihadists were under investigation. The chief suspect in the beheading was 24 year old Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary. He was a rapper who went by the name of L Jinny or Lyricist Jinn.
He posted a picture of himself holding a severed head on Twitter after resurfacing in Syria. The gruesome picture, believed to have been taken in the Isis stronghold of Raqqa, was captioned: “Chillin’ with my homie or what’s left of him.”
While Djinn have been relegated to fantasy characters in the West, to countless believing Muslims, there is no doubt they exist.
An August 2009 Gallup poll, for example, found that 89 percent of Pakistanis respondents surveyed, believed in Djinn. witches, sorcerers, and fortune tellers are all believed to be under the guidance of Djinn and are sometimes referred to as “Djinn catchers.” The Islamic strategy has always been to encourage their followers to have faith and to submit to Muslim dogma.
This provides supernatural protection; it is also a solution for the woes of their people. They see all of their problems as spiritual in nature. So it is not out of the question that a deep fear of powerful Djinn can provide safety or even defense in times of war.
U.S. leaders tend to attribute the root causes of violence to secular, social, and economic factors such as poverty, illness, illiteracy, and hunger. It will never be said that there are custodians of causal engineering that imprison the people within the Hegelian dialectic.
But the power of a darker influence is evident. As with every good we see transpire, there is a powerful evil that keeps us fearful and in some cases faithful.
We see our demons and angels as powerful entities in religious dogma. However, due to the relationship with our enemies, we must also see their evil entities as powerful agents in a war that is not only material but spiritual as well.

Exponentially Rising Global Terrorism

By Stephen Lendman

Global Research, October 13, 2015

Region: Middle East & North Africa

Theme: 9/11 & 'War on Terrorism'

Washington’s war on terror is a war OF terror on humanity, largely responsible for exponentially rising incidents worldwide.

The Global Terrorism Index (GTI) recorded around 18,000 in 2013, up 60% over the previous year – holding ISIS, Al Qaeda, Boko Haram in Nigeria and the Taliban most responsible.

All are US creations. Washington’s so-called war to defeat terrorism increased it exponentially, what lunatics in Washington intended.

GTI reported 3,361 incidents in 2000, up dramatically to 11,133 in 2012 and 17,958 in 2013, likely 20,000 or more when final 2015 figures are published. US imperialism bears full responsibility for the exponentially rising numbers.

As long as US direct and proxy wars rage, expect terrorist incidents to keep rising annually. In 2013, 80% of terrorist fatalities occurred in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Pakistan and Nigeria, said GTI.

The Homeland Security-funded University of Maryland’s National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) publishes a Global Terrorism Database (GTD), beginning with the 9/11 attacks, its figures differing somewhat from GTI’s.

Saying since George Bush declared “war on terror” post-9/11, global terrorists attacks increased ninefold – from 1,882 in 2001 to 16,818 in 2014.

It names the same five countries as GTI, accounting for 80% of the incidents, it said.

These indexes and similar reports exclude what’s most important to know. Wars are acts of state terrorism. What’s absent from the above numbers are the millions of fatalities they cause, post-9/11 alone – from violence, diseases, starvation and overall deprivation.

America is an unparalleled state terrorist, responsible for more willfully caused deaths in its history than any other rogue state by far, greatly exceeding the most notorious regimes.

Its killing machine keeps operating unrestrained, waging endless wars on humanity at home and abroad.

CHINA LAUNCHES ITS INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL ...

Posted on October 13, 2015 by Joseph P. Farrell • http://gizadeathstar.com/2015/10/china-launches-its-international-financial-clearing-system/

Well, now it's official: China has announced and launched its international financial clearing system, CIPS, the China International Payment System, according to this TASS article shared by Mr. L.B.:
China launches CIPS international payment system
As the article notes, the system is designed to be a deliberate alternative to the SWIFT system based in Brussels. But more importantly, this will be a yuan-based system:

BEIJING, October 8. /TASS/.The China International Payment System (CIPS) officially began its operations on Thursday, a statement posted on the country’s State Council website has said.
Fan Yifei, deputy governor of the central bank, the People's Bank of China, told a ceremony in Shanghai that the establishment of CIPS "will allow increasing efficiency of cross-border settlement in yuans and encourage the yuan’s use globally."
The new payment system is also expected to help improve the support of the real economy and the strategy of the Chinese companies’ access to global markets," the central bank official said.

Or to put it country simple, China isn't waiting around to gain admission of the yuan into the SDR(Special Drawing Rights, the international basket of currencies that forms the units of account for the IMF, World Bank, and other international clearing and finance institutions). It is making its play to transform the yuan into a parallel reserve currency now, and hence taking direct aim at the US dollar hegemony.
What does this portend?
One thing, and a highly significant one, is what it is implying about China's space capabilities. As I've noted many times on this website, international financial clearing is dependent upon two large factors: a strong navy to protect actual physical commerce moving globally, and a strong space communications system and the ability to protect it. By all public measures of such assets of power and power projection, China's capabilities in these areas is still dwarfed by America's. And this leads us to an interpretive problematic: either China's move is bluster, a bit of "financial gun boat diplomacy", or there are largely unknown and undisclosed naval and space assets and technologies backing it up. It's the latter possibility that's going to have western intelligence services, particularly in the UK and USA, burning the midnight oil.  And I suspect - strongly in fact - that it is a mixture of both cases, weighted on the side that China has "unknown and undisclosed" capabilities.
There's yet another geopolitical factor at work here: Russia, and Japan. Recall that recently Russia and Japan signed an agreement giving Russia access to the Japanese Credit Bureau's clearing system in Eastern Asia and the Western Pacific, a significant move that builds redundancy into the clearing mechanisms Russia is trying to contruct, for this gives it access bypassing any Chinese system, while at the same time, Russia and China have also entered into bilateral clearing arrangements by-passing the dollar entirely.
Put all this together and one obtains a very intriguing picture: Japan, Russia, and China are engaged in erecting parallel clearing systems bypassing the CHIPS-SWIFT system entirely, and in addition to this, they are building redundancy into the global system of international clearing, capable of functioning in more than one currency. Of course, the real question here is why? Why the need for such redundancy, besides the clear desire of those countries to get out from under the thumb of Washington? The answer is a suggestive one: one typically builds redundancy into communications systems out of "worst case scenario" analysis, i.e., out of real or potential perceived military threats. With the heightening of geopolitical tensions on planet Earth, it's a smart move. The real question is, are those tensions the only reason for the redundancy?