Wednesday, September 18, 2013
Tuesday, September 17, 2013
Cui Bono from the Poison Pill? Cui Non? Geoeconomix and Safeway
Read between the lines! What's really going on in this story?
Safeway adopts poison pill to prevent takeover
NEW YORK (AP) - Safeway adopted a plan to prevent a hostile takeover after learning of a significant accumulation of its stock by an investor.
The announcement Tuesday sent shares of the grocer spiking 8 percent to a five-year high.
So-called "poison pill" plans allow existing shareholders to acquire more stock at a discounted rate to discourage a takeover by an outside entity. In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission later Tuesday, Jana Partners disclosed that it had amassed a 6.2 percent stake in Safeway's outstanding shares.
Hello! Our grocery stores are peddling shit for food made by chemical corporations and we wondering why we are over-fucking weight, and dumbed down. Mind Control Baby! Imagine how they can make people commit violent actions without question of morality. I am of course talking about the violence at the Navy Yard. That young man Aaron was on pharmaceutical drugs and played violent, military grade video games. He was probably shopping at Safeway, like most of us do. Half their food isn't even natural by any stretch of the imagination. But it was the LEGAL DRUGS he was taking the turned him into a patsy. But I digress.
Why is Safeway being taken over? Who is the investor? I'd like to know. Let's see if the alternative or the mass media tell a better story this time. Let's take count. Let's measure it. I'd like to see how the various propaganda campaigns play out. What is the financial, economical, and psychological damage to the economy and the communities around Safeway if it is shutdown or downsized or split up. Will crime go up? Will crime go down? Will shoppers head to Whole Foods or Trader Joe's? Cui bono from this action. And what is the public and private reaction? Shock and awe or like a banker vulture, do you jump in and seek a profit from their misfortune. Maybe that's ok. I think it's not black or white, zero or one hundred. It is a series of gray, several degrees of grey, however, you spell it.
So let's measure. 0 to 100. How do we do that? Should I setup a Facebook page or a Google Hangout. Should I call my local television station and ask them? How can I learn the answers to these very important questions.
Maybe I could measure it with Google Analytics, but then maybe they will push my results down cause I am talking shit.
How many visits do I get to my online newspaper. How many comments do I get? How much of that would earn me money. None. I dont get paid to do this. I just want you to read this story and start to think about how the Safeway employees lives are being threatened right now. Our economy sucks for people not in high tech or banking or defense. ((We are not all part of the military industrial complex like Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, CISCO, Intel, shit the list goes on forever. The military buys a lot of shit. Mostly they make bombs. Drones. Apparently they dont make their own bullets because the DHS is buying a billion bullets for domestic use. I guess they are expecting a lot of "home inspections" and "surveys". Checking on you. Taking notes. Over time. Monitoring your behavior online, travel, etc. You know, your car tells GM Onstar where you are and then GM gives that tracking data to the NSA for merging with their Fusion Center databases and kabam! Nazi Fucking Germany all over again. The Fourth Reich. All we need to put us there is another "new pearl harbor". Some sort of national emergency - climate related, economic, psychological, whatever. REX84. Look it up. I fear another false flag like 9/11 could be the next straw. Some of this is sarcasm because I don't know the whole truth.)
Now look at the Bilderberg members over the last 70 years. I bet their companies have done quite well. I bet they have been lucky in their investments. There certainly wasn't any collusion or coercion or insider trading. Right? No fraud? No criminal court cases? That's what I would like to see. Give me and 1000 others jobs exposing the corruption of the Bilderbergers and perhaps we can save the frickin economy. Hire some damn private investigators, like Jesse Frickin Ventura. That's who you want for CEO of the company that fights the Bilderbergers in court. Expose those bastards on C-SPAN, but make sure EVERY FRICKIN WORD is stenographed, on record, subtitled in 50 languages and heard all around the world.
Sorry i ramble when i write. i don't have time to sit down and think for hours about some new piece of news. Anyway, you get the point. Do the research. Share the word. Question More.
Sorry i ramble when i write. i don't have time to sit down and think for hours about some new piece of news. Anyway, you get the point. Do the research. Share the word. Question More.
Sunnyvale, CA: Penthouse magazine owner files for bankruptcy
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India Escalates Gold Capital Controls
India Escalates Gold Capital Controls, Hikes Duty On Gold Jewerly Imports To 15%
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 09/17/2013 - 13:59
Over the past year, India has unleashed the most unprecedented series of gold "capital controls" ever seen in a modern nation, shy of confiscation (and even that may be imminent). Today, India added yet another more measure to its list of prohibitions that seek to minimize the size of the gold market available to citizens, yet which will only result in even more interest and demand in the yellow metal. As Reuters reports, India increased its import duty on gold jewellery from 10 percent to 15 percent, setting it higher than the duty on raw gold in a move to protect the domestic jewellery industry. Why is the government doing this? Simple: "To protect the interests of small artisans, the customs duty on articles of jewellery ... is being increased," the ministry said.- COMMENTS: 63
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#NavyYardShooting Security Questions Remained Unanswered
Navy Yard shooting: psyop, loose ends, media parrots
by Jon Rappoport
September 17, 2013
After covering a number of mass shootings and bombings over the last 20 years, I question the official explanation when a new one occurs. Automatically. Always. Every single time.
They lie. They obfuscate. They parrot. They don't investigate beyond a comfortable point. They leave loose ends, which are often far more important than the supposed central facts.
And there is always a psyop after the event. It goes like this: "tragedy," "unspeakable," "will bring to justice," "our thoughts and prayers are with," "this didn't happen in a war, it happened here," "vigil for victims," "grieving," "closure," "nation mourns the loss."
Why is this a psyop? Because the government officials and mainstream media reporters don't feel what they claim to be feeling. Their "positions as leaders" feel something, which is the same thing as saying it's an act.
Beyond that, the purpose of the psyop is to divert attention from the fact that law-enforcement officials are bending the investigation, abandoning significant leads, and taking the short path to a "satisfactory" wrap-up.
To boil down the psyop: "it was tragic, and now it's solved." One, two. Open wound, closed wound. That's the government/media formula.
In my previous article, I mentioned the psychiatric drug connection as a distinct possibility that haunts every one of these crimes. Rarely will reporters bother to look into this. It's dicey for them. Exposing pharmaceutical companies and their horrendously toxic drugs is bad for business.
Imagine this front-page NY Times headline: "Four leading physicians state that, in all likelihood, the shooter was on one of the SSRI antidepressants, which can and do push people over into violence, including murder."
Sub-head: "The doctors vow to press the authorities until they get to the bottom of the psychiatric-homicide connection."
Sure. That's going to happen when a rooster flies a spaceship to the Orion Belt.
If the purported shooter at the Navy Yard, Aaron Alexis (where is/are the other shooters?), was suffering from PTSD, as his family apparently claims, was he seeing a psychiatrist? What was the diagnosis? What drugs were prescribed? What effects do these drugs have?
Perfectly reasonable and legit questions.
Then we have the drills. In a number of these shootings/bombings, official drills that cover the same kind of event that eventually happens were held at the crime scene. Normal? Or op rehearsals? Desensitization of personnel to the real thing?
It turns out that Navy Citadel Shield security drills were held nationwide, at naval facilities, in February/March of both 2012 and 2013. From dcmilitary.com, Feb. 28, 2013: "...various training exercises with an emphasis on realism to train personnel. Scenarios included active shooters, mass casualty drills, bomb threats, surveillance, and false credential exercises."
From USA Today, 9/16: Dave Sarr, an environmental engineer, was walking down a nearby street when he saw people running from the Navy Yard. Sarr had seen an evacuation drill a few days earlier at the Navy Yard. "At first I thought it was another drill," Sarr said. "Then I saw an officer with his weapon drawn."
The same USA article cites a federal law-enforcement source (off the record) who states that Aaron Alexis, the accused shooter, cleared a Navy Yard security checkpoint in his car. After parking in the lot, he got into an argument and opened fire on one or two people. He then entered the building where he went on a killing spree.
So did Alexis shoot his way past security guards at the building's separate checkpoint? Why weren't the guards waiting for him just outside the building with their weapons drawn, after he, Alexis, had already shot people in the parking lot?
And then, of course, we have the many reports of one or two additional shooters at the Navy Yard. Where is he/they? Authorities now state one of these suspects has been cleared.
In Columbine, Aurora, Sandy Hook, there were reports of "extra" shooters. They faded out in the repetitive media reports of horror, shock, and grief, never to be mentioned again.
The author of an explosive collection, THE MATRIX REVEALED, and the New EXIT FROM THE MATRIX, Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29th District of California. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics, medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe. Jon has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics, health, logic, and creative power to audiences around the world. You can sign up for his free emails at www.nomorefakenews.com
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Saturday, September 14, 2013
Thursday, September 12, 2013
Stratfor: War with Syria has morphed into a U.S.-Russian Confrontation (#ColdWar2.0 or #WW3)
Note, US private intelligence Stratfor thinks that Russia WILL NOT respond militarily no matter what the US does. This is the advice given to the President and Senate Committee as confirmed by Senator McCain in the video below.
Periodically, Stratfor publishes guidance produced for its analysis team and shares it with readers. This guidance sets the parameters used in our own ongoing examination and assessment of events surrounding Syria's use of chemical weapons as the crisis evolves into a confrontation between the United States and Russia. Given the importance we ascribe to this fast-evolving standoff, we believe it important that readers have access to this additional insight.
In the wake of President Barack Obama's change of tack from a strike on Syria, the threat of war has not dissolved.
The president's minimalist claims are in place, but they are under serious debate. There is no chance of an attack on chemical weapons stockpiles. Therefore, the attack, if any, will be on command and control and political targets. Obama has options on the table and there will be force in place for any contingency he selects. Nothing is locked in despite public statements and rhetoric in Washington, London, Paris or Moscow.
Remember that all public statements now are meant to obscure real plans and intentions. They are intended to shape the environment. Read them, but do not look at them as anything more than tactics.
The issue has morphed into a U.S.-Russian confrontation. Russia's goal is to be seen as an equal of the United States. It wins if it can be seen as a protagonist of the United States. If it can appear that Washington has refrained from an attack because of Russian maneuvers, Moscow's weight increases dramatically. This is particularly the case along Russia's periphery, where doubts of American power abound and concern over Russian power abides.
This is not merely appearance. After all that has been said, if the United States buys into some Russian framework, it will not be seen as a triumph of diplomacy; it will be seen as the United States lacking the will to act and being pushed away out of concern for the Russians.
The Russian ploy on weapons controls was followed by the brilliant move of abandoning strike options. Obama's speech the night of Sept. 10 was addressed to the U.S. public and Obama's highly fractured base; some of his support base opposes and some -- a particular audience -- demands action.
He cannot let Syria become the focus of his presidency, and he must be careful that the Russians do not lay a trap for him. He is not sure what that trap might look like, and that's what is unnerving him as it would any president. Consequently, he has bought time, using the current American distaste for military action in the Middle East. But he is aware that this week's dislike of war can turn into next week's contempt on charges of weakness. Obama is an outstanding politician and he knows he is in quicksand.
The Russians have now launched a diplomatic offensive that emphasizes to both the Arabs in the Persian Gulf opposing Bashar al Assad and the Iranians supporting him that a solution is available through them. It requires only that they ask the Americans to abandon plans for action. The message is that Russia will solve the chemical weapons problem, and implicitly, collaborate with them to negotiate a settlement.
Obama's speech on Sept. 10, constrained by domestic opinion, came across as unwilling to confront the Russians or al Assad. The Russians are hoping this has unnerved al Assad's opponents sufficiently to cause them to use the Russians as their interlocutors. If this fails the Russians have lost nothing. They can say they were statesmen. If it succeeds, they can actually nudge the regional balance of power.
The weakness of the Russian position is that it has no real weight. The limit on American military action is purely domestic politics. If the United States chooses to hit Syria, Russia can do nothing about it and will be made to look weak, the tables thus turned on them.
At this point, all signs indicate that the domestic considerations dominate U.S. decision-making. If the Russian initiative begins to work, however, Obama will be forced to consider the consequences and will likely act. The Arabs suspect this and therefore will encourage the Russians, hoping to force the U.S. into action.
The idea that this imbroglio will somehow disappear is certainly one that Obama is considering. But the Russians will not want that to happen. They do not want to let Obama off the hook and their view is that he will not act. Against this backdrop, they can appear to be the nemesis of the United States, its equal in power and its superior in cunning and diplomacy.
This is the game to watch. It is not ending but still very much evolving.
Wednesday, September 11, 2013
Watch this - Nearly 2 Million People Have Seen It Already!
As the 9/11 anniversary approaches, let's spread the #truth like butter. Let's see if we can get to 2 million views. http://t.co/bmo3Jbn6xA
— James Corbett (@corbettreport) September 4, 2013
Is this a #DebtJubilee Kickoff? Poland Cancels Sovereign Debt By Nationalizing a Portion of the Private Pension System
“The Polish government said Wednesday that it would reduce the role private funds play in the country’s pension system by getting them to transfer sovereign bond holdings worth around $37 billion to the state.”
“Finance Minister Jacek Rostowski said Wednesday that the pension system overhaul should immediately lower public finance debt as a share of GDP by 8 percentage “
- ING, Aviva, AXA, and a few other GWRE customers were directly affected.
Start Here: Poland seizes bond investments in private pension plans | Wintery Knight http://bit.ly/15NWN6Y
Then go here: Poland Tells Private Funds to Hand Over Bonds - Emerging Europe Real Time - WSJ http://on.wsj.com/1azP0Bp
And here: Poland to Cancel Bonds From Pension Funds in System Revamp - Bloomberg http://bloom.bg/15N7Y5L
Additional Viewpoints:
WND: Polish Government confiscates half of citizens’ pensions http://bit.ly/1azT8S7
Ratings Version: RPT-Fitch: Pension change looks neutral for Polish sovereign | Reuters http://reut.rs/1azNm2N
Extreme Version: Poland steals half of private pension funds to “cut” sovereign debt | http://bit.ly/1azOgwk
Trader Version: Cyprus Bailin Goes Mainstream! Ireland On Tap http://bit.ly/14tdR7j
Tuesday, September 10, 2013
Monday, September 9, 2013
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