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Oba ma sealed Iran nuclear deal by dropping charges against arms smuggler who helped kill HUNDREDS of U.S. troops in Iraq http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4440812/Obama-dropped-charges-against-arms-smugglers-Iran-deal.html
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Grace Kelly's childhood home her son recently bought for $750k http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4440982/The-scandalous-past-Grace-Kelly-s-childhood-home.html316 chars, < 1 min read
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Has Assange already been eliminated?
HOWEVER, it is awful telling when Jeff Sessions wants Assange arrested, rather than Hillary, Podesta, and others whose crimes he exposed.183 chars, < 1 min read -
This is a very important interview of a big money insider
Watch here and download it if you can
Summary:
For if there is only one 39 minute slot free in your precious time today, please take that time to watch this video, an extraordinary story of one smart young man with entrepreneurial skills who was enticed to join the world of financiers who manage huge flows of money that circle the world. In order to agree to learn this new and exalted trade which would bring him much more personal wealth than his old import/export business, he was told he must put his conscience in the freezer and keep it there, 100%. Being young and foolish, he laughed and agreed. What follows is a riveting tale of how the money matrix world works, connecting the dots that lead from gigantic money flows all the way through to the Luciferian religion and its sacrifices of young children. As he says, he failed at becoming a psychopath. Why? Because the freezer broke down; he simply couldn’t stomach performing the murderous acts through which they would have blackmailed him, thus ensuring his compliance, forever.
His conscience had come back to life. Which meant that he could no longer “do his job†easily. He began to refuse assignments. Had trouble pretending to be who he used to be. Finally, his body broke down from the stress. And when it did, he found himself looking down upon his body from a corner of the Emergency Room. This awareness, of his existence beyond the body, woke him up further to what lay beyond the world of not just money, but matter itself.
Extremely interesting and articulate, even though it is hard to watch in translation, with subtitles.
With this one biographical story, the entire sleeping world could wake up.
https://vimeo.com/212237317
MEXICAN ANONYMOUS1,930 chars, ≈ 1 mins read -
From Russia Insider.
The Media Is Lying About Russian Troops Massing on the Border With North Korea
Russian troops massing on the border with North Korea are about as real as Harry Potter's magic wand. The entire North Korea "crisis" is manufactured hogwash
We keep trying to warn you but you never listen, do you?
"Escalation" with North Korea isn't real. It's a distraction.
The following is the exact text that was not allowed to post: "The same media that told you a mighty American armada is anchored off the Korean Peninsula is now claiming that Russia is massing troops on the border with North Korea, and Chinese bombers are on high alert and making "unusual moves".
You're being lied to in the most spectacular and hilarious ways."
For whatever reason, the server refused to post that! I can't figure out why, but it took numerous attempts, and I narrowed it down to that exact text that would not post. VERY ODD!
At any rate, I have repeatedly stated that I think America's hype on North Korea was at least partially fake. Maybe it is entirely fake!
Ok, so for what reason would the U.S. want a fake script in the public concience? why would they possibly want that? Well, how about "they need the American people primed for an attack, so when it does happen they immediately blame North Korea and do not stop and question what is going on? Would that be a reason to totally spew endless B.S. about Russian troop placement, Chinese bombers, and Kim Jong far beyond stupidly claiming he can vaporize the U.S. to ash? Believe me, for whatever it is worth, Kim Jong is HIGHLY EDUCATED, probably a man of TOP education and there is no conceivable way he'd actually threaten china and then turn around and be stupid enough to think he can "wipe the U.S. off the map".
Since the U.S. already got caught red handed lying about carrier placement, would it be beyond the realm of doubt to think the U.S. is telling the truth about anything at all? I sure would not doubt a complete fabrication of every last word spewed!
Russia insider did a very comprehensive report on this topic, where they go line by line in detail, marking out where the U.S. media has been completely phony on the topic of North Korea. This is well worth a read, SEE THIS.
http://russia-insider.com/en/us-lying-about-russian-and-chinese-troop-movements-near-north-korea/ri19668
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Every Senator invited to White House for classified briefing on North Korea from Mattis, Tillerson and top military and intelligence officials
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4441054/Military-leaders-brief-senators-N-Korea-Pentagon.html
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Every Senator invited to White House for classified briefing on North Korea from Mattis, Tillerson and top military and intelligence officials
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4441054/Military-leaders-brief-senators-N-Korea-Pentagon.html
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Attorney General Jeff Sessions must stop doing private prison companies’ bidding
Private prison companies like Corrections Corporation of America and the GEO Group spent big money support Sessions and Trump -- now their investment is paying off.
Why? Just follow the money. Throughout his career, Sessions has benefited from huge sums of political spending by private prison companies. And that industry made massive investments in Donald Trump’s presidential campaign -- one firm, the GEO Group, spent $100,000 to elect Trump through a SuperPAC, then gave $250,000 to his inauguration.
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HUMAN RIGHTS
24 Astounding Facts About the Private Prison Industry
"You could sell prisons just like you were selling cars, or real estate, or hamburgers."
By Justin Carissimo / AlterNet March 9, 2015
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The private prison market is as hot as ever. Who wouldn't want to get rich off the increasing number of incarcerated American citizens, staffers who sexually assault minors and the horrific living quarters that plague offenders and spark riots?
1. The for-profit prison industry is worth more than $70 billion.
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2. There are currently 33 states with private prisons.
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States with contracts to private facilities include: Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah and Wyoming.1,089 chars, < 1 min read -
According to the Bureau of Prisons, there are 207,847 people incarcerated in federal prisons. Roughly half (48.6 percent) are in for drug offenses. According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, there are 1,358,875 people in state prisons. Of them, 16 percent have a drug crime as their most serious offense.Jul 17, 2015324 chars, < 1 min read
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~ In many countries, they are now deciding to vote for someone who is a "Populist". Once they are elected, then the "Tyranny of the Majority" soon begins to manipulate the rules and laws so they can stay in power. ~ These people ran under the "Guise" of being the only one that could fix everything and help you, but their real intent is too hurt the "Minority" and remain in power at all cost. ~400 chars, < 1 min read
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Domingo Alberto Rangel Hijo1,161 chars, < 1 min read - There’s too much violence
in black communities:
Is there an answer?
Hint: Values Matter © 2017
Part 1
Every day, not one, but several people are shot. It’s our strongest reminder just how violent many black communities have become. Some of the acts of violence have been triggered by the smallest, the dumbest of arguments. Remember the woman on a city bus who stabbed another woman to death over a bump? Remember how one man tried to kill another man over a potato chip?
As Malcolm X might have said, “The chickens have come home to roost.” Translated, it means the failure of black parents to teach their children socially acceptable values is now coming to the surface to haunt the black community.
If it is true that you can judge a tree by its fruit, then, you sure can judge a parent by the behavior of that parent’s children. Maya Angelou said it so well: “All vices and virtues begin in the home.”
Not all black parents, but too many black parents have been failing to teach their children the following values:
• Respect themselves.
• Respect others.
• Respect for the property of others.
• Respect for life.
• They must work for what they want in life.
• They must put a premium on education, and it’s not an option.
• The must respect the law, authority and their elders.
• They must get God into their lives.
When parents fail to teach their children these values, their children will inevitably drift, they will hang out late at night, they will get involved with the wrong crowd, they will carjack, commit home burglaries, robberies, get into drug use, etc.
The violence in our communities is terrible, to put it mildly, but it’s solvable. It won’t happen overnight. It will take about 20 years for the current menaces to be imprisoned, die off, or settle into old age. The good news that is almost every problem has a short term and a long-term solution.
In the short term, the black community has to be more aggressive in protecting itself. We must set up neighborhood patrols that will work closely with the police. The community has to protect itself from black criminals who have no allegiance or love for the black community or any other community. Criminals need to know they’re being watched, and they will be “snitched” on. People can snitch anonymously, by the way.
The black community must not feel guilty about demanding long prison sentences for people who have proven they have no love for the black community. Popular rhetoric will decry the number of black men who are imprisoned. But most of the ones imprisoned are there because they’ve committed some very serious crimes against their own black people, up to and including murder. They’re hardly “political prisoners.”
2,954 chars, ≈ 2 mins read - There’s too much violence
in black communities:
Is there an answer?
Hint: Values Matter © 2017
Part 2
In the long term, the black community is overdue for a second cultural revolution. The first cultural revolution was the “Black is Beautiful” cultural revolution. The second cultural revolution has to focus on black parenting, which has been horrific in many respects. Bad parenting needs to be called out.
When you think about it, so many of the problems African Americans face are actually symptoms and the effects of bad parenting.
When you look at our abysmal school drop-out rates, the parent(s) has to share much of the blame. How can a young person expect to be employable if he/she has dropped out of school and doesn’t have the skills to get a decent job? A child comes into the world with a blank slate. The parent can impress upon that child socially acceptable values that will lead to the child’s success, or the parent can impress a victim’s mindset.
Like the first cultural revolution, the second one needs to be promoted. Let us promote it in the following ways:
• In music.
• In television program.
• In movies.
• In barber and beauty shops.
• On talk radio.
• In conversations with each other.
• In books.
• In magazines.
• In tweets and posts.
In sum, let us promote the idea that values matter, not just in other communities, but in our communities too. No one group or political party has a monopoly on values. All decent people have values. Like other parents, black parents also are responsible for teaching their children values.
The result will be safer and more prosperous black communities that will also diminish the desire of some of us to move 20 or 30 miles away from each other just to live in more peaceful neighborhoods.
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http://tinyurl.com/lzjlyon351 chars, < 1 min read - El Islam vs cristianos
The only way Islam and Christianity can get along is if most Muslims become secular.
America and Europe need to impose harsh restrictions against Radical Muslims who want to live in these countries and refuse to adopt secularism.
No Muslim nation would tolerate Christians telling them what to do in their nations. Yes, some countries like Indonesia allow other religions to practise, but there is a limit on what they can do. On that note, while many claim Indonesia is radical. Indonesians are some of the most accepting of all Muslims. They are nothing like their hardnosed and hate filled Saudi Brethren. We are talking in general terms as there are decent Saudi’s and crazy radical Indonesian Muslims, but most foreigners are pleasantly shocked when they land in the capital and find out how easy-going Indonesians are.
Europe has been flooded with individuals from the Middle East and North Africa; both areas are home to some of the worst known terrorists, and Radical Islam tends to flourish in these areas. Europe would not have the same level of violence if they invited Indonesians or other moderate Muslims into their countries. However, that is a story for another day. The video below created by a very smart lady who is well versed with Islam and is from the Middle East illustrates the hidden dangers of allowing radical individuals from Africa and the Middle East into Europe and America. As they say, if you don’t learn from History you are doomed to repeat it. We are on our way to the second crusades, and for now, the biggest and most painful battles will be fought in Europe. Europe is now home to some of the most dangerous Islamists the world has ever seen.
The reason we cover a wide swath of topics that on first glance might not appear to be related to the financial markets
The short and straightforward answer is that all these fields are connected; we do not have free market forces anymore. Everything is manipulated; from the food, you eat to data you are provided. If you are aware of this, you can plan accordingly. Identifying the problem is over 80% of the solution, and this is why most people do not know what to do because they do not understand the problem. Now you know why we are the only financial website that covers such a wide array of topics that on the surface appear to be unrelated but are in fact, deeply interwoven. Mass psychology is a very powerful tool, and if employed correctly can help you spot the abnormal levels of manipulation, the masses are subjected to. It would be a good idea to familiarise yourself with the concept of “ Plato’s allegory of the cave.”
If you seek freedom, the 1st task is to attain financial freedom so that you can break free the clutches of the top players who strive to enslave you. They want you to run in a circle like a hamster that runs on a spinning wheel; the hamster thinks the faster it runs the further it will go, but sadly it is going nowhere.
We teach how to use Mass psychology to your advantage, how to view disasters as opportunities and how not to let the media manipulate you and direct you towards actions that could be detrimental to your overall well-being. Visit the investing for dummies section of our website; it contains a plethora of free resources and covers the most important aspects of mass psychology.
Secondly, subscribe to our free newsletter to keep abreast of the latest developments. Change begins now and not tomorrow, for tomorrow never comes. Understand that nothing will change if you do not alter your perspective and change your mindset. If you cling to the mass mentality, the top players will continue to fleece you; the choice is yours; resist and break free or sit down and do nothing.
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Olga Patricia Rendón Marulanda
Atrás quedaron los días en que el presidente Juan Manuel Santos tenía “un nuevo mejor amigo”, como la oposición se ha referido siempre a su relación con los presidentes venezolanos Hugo Chávez y Nicolás Maduro.
Por tercera vez en dos días el jefe de Estado pidió la intervención de la ONU en Venezuela, se preocupó por la militarización de civiles y declaró el fracaso de la revolución bolivariana. Esto por la situación política que vive el vecino país y que ha atraído las miradas internacionales.
En tres semanas de protestas en contra, y algunas a favor, del régimen chavista ya van ocho muertos y Maduro aseguró que armaría a 500.000 civiles venezolanos.
A esos pronunciamientos se sumó una reunión que tuvo ayer el mandatario con el diputado opositor, Luis Florido, en la cual, según el venezolano, Santos habló de la necesidad de “elecciones sin presos, sin inhabilitados, generales donde puedan participara todos los venezolanos”.
Pero Maduro le salió al paso amenazando con divulgar secretos del proceso de paz y diciendo que conoce un plan para matar a los miembros de las Farc, con quienes negoció el Gobierno colombiano, lo que tiene que agradecérsele a él y a Chávez.
La relación bilateral
Para Diego Cediel, profesor de Ciencia Política de la U. de la Sabana, el presidente Santos tiene que atender el desafío interno doméstico en función del proceso de paz y su implementación, por lo que “puede prescindir, en mayor medida, del apoyo logístico, diplomático, mediático, incluso territorial de Venezuela para sacar adelante el proceso de paz”.
Aunque afirmó que es probable que “de aquí a mañana se solucione todo y vuelvan a ser amigos, porque así es la política”.
Pero Vicente Torrijos, internacionalista de la Universidad del Rosario, aseguró que lo que el presidente Santos pretende es darle gusto al presidente de EE. UU., Donald Trump, “su fin es ponerle una vela a Dios y otra vela al diablo”, señaló.
E insistió en que entre Santos y Maduro hay una afinidad muy profunda, marcada sobre todo en el nexo son las Farc y “ese entendimiento se seguirá dando porque durante 6 años el Gobierno colombiano lo que ha hecho es amparar y auxiliar a la dictadura venezolana porque sin ella no se hubiera podido llegar a los acuerdos a los que se llegaron con las Farc”.
Los caminos de la oposición
Tres semanas ajustan las marchas de miles de opositores en las calles venezolanas, que cada día, a pesar de los disturbios, de los gases lacrimógenos y de las muertes, siguen en pie protestando por el retorno de la democracia.
Incluso en la jornada de ayer volvieron a presentarse enfrentamientos entre los manifestantes y la Fuerza Pública.
¿Pero más allá de las marchas qué podría pasar en Venezuela?, los analistas consideran va a ser muy difícil que el régimen de Maduro termine, pero que los pasos que está dando la comunidad internacional hacia la derecha y la terminación del apoyo de países como Colombia, Brasil y Argentina podrían ayudar un poco.
Para Torrijos es el movimiento popular el que está poniendo los ojos del mundo en Venezuela, y agregó que la “gran virtud de la oposición es que no ha caído ni va a caer en la tentación de la violencia”.
Tras tres semanas de represión a las marchas de la oposición venezolana, el presidente Juan Manuel Santos empezó a desmarcarse del apoyo que le ha profesado a Nicolás Maduro.
¿QUÉ SIGUE?
¿ELECCIONES EN VENEZUELA?
3,558 chars, ≈ 2 mins read- There’s too much violence
in black communities:
Is there an answer?
Hint: Values Matter © 2017
Samuel K
theblacksilentmajority SM
Every day, not one, but several people are shot. It’s our strongest reminder just how violent many black communities have become. Some of the acts of violence have been triggered by the smallest, the dumbest of arguments. Remember the woman on a city bus who stabbed another woman to death over a bump? Remember how one man tried to kill another man over a potato chip?
As Malcolm X might have said, “The chickens have come home to roost.” Translated, it means the failure of black parents to teach their children socially acceptable values is now coming to the surface to haunt the black community.
If it is true that you can judge a tree by its fruit, then, you sure can judge a parent by the behavior of that parent’s children. Maya Angelou said it so well: “All vices and virtues begin in the home.”
Not all black parents, but too many black parents have been failing to teach their children the following values:
• Respect themselves.
• Respect others.
• Respect for the property of others.
• Respect for life.
• They must work for what they want in life.
• They must put a premium on education, and it’s not an option.
• The must respect the law, authority and their elders.
• They must get God into their lives.
When parents fail to teach their children these values, their children will inevitably drift, they will hang out late at night, they will get involved with the wrong crowd, they will carjack, commit home burglaries, robberies, get into drug use, etc.
The violence in our communities is terrible, to put it mildly, but it’s solvable. It won’t happen overnight. It will take about 20 years for the current menaces to be imprisoned, die off, or settle into old age. The good news that is almost every problem has a short term and a long-term solution.
In the short term, the black community has to be more aggressive in protecting itself. We must set up neighborhood patrols that will work closely with the police. The community has to protect itself from black criminals who have no allegiance or love for the black community or any other community. Criminals need to know they’re being watched, and they will be “snitched” on. People can snitch anonymously, by the way.
The black community must not feel guilty about demanding long prison sentences for people who have proven they have no love for the black community. Popular rhetoric will decry the number of black men who are imprisoned. But most of the ones imprisoned are there because they’ve committed some very serious crimes against their own black people, up to and including murder. They’re hardly “political prisoners.”
In the long term, the black community is overdue for a second cultural revolution. The first cultural revolution was the “Black is Beautiful” cultural revolution. The second cultural revolution has to focus on black parenting, which has been horrific in many respects. Bad parenting needs to be called out.
When you think about it, so many of the problems African Americans face are actually symptoms and the effects of bad parenting.
When you look at our abysmal school drop-out rates, the parent(s) has to share much of the blame. How can a young person expect to be employable if he/she has dropped out of school and doesn’t have the skills to get a decent job? A child comes into the world with a blank slate. The parent can impress upon that child socially acceptable values that will lead to the child’s success, or the parent can impress a victim’s mindset.
Like the first cultural revolution, the second one needs to be promoted. Let us promote it in the following ways:
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