(The False Prophet) Pope Francis Wants to Decentralize the Catholic Church to Pave the Way for the One-world Religion of One-world Government (Kingdom of Antichrist)

Maybe Pope Francis will be the one who establishes the "One World Religion" under the guise of peaceful resolutions for all nations. Prophesies in the Book of Revelation must be fulfilled...period! Those who are not well-versed in biblical scriptures will be easily deceived.

In July 2009, Pope Benedict XVI called for world government by stating that we needed a “true world political authority.” In December 2009, the Pope made the following statement: "It is important to acknowledge that among the causes of the present ecological crisis is the historical responsibility of the industrialized countries." The Pope continued by saying: "This means that technologically advanced societies must be prepared to encourage more sober lifestyles, while reducing their energy consumption and improving its efficiency." The Pope should understand that “climate change” is a lie, it’s not something man has caused; rather, it’s the natural cycles of the sun and its effect on our planet. This is all being done under the guise of “climate change;” let the world unite as one to stop this disaster, we are told. [Source]

Climate Change Scare is Population Reduction, Not Science

September 20, 2015

IceCap.US - This statement was written by Paul Driessen as a message to EIR’s September 22, 2015 press conference in Manhattan, announcing the release of the special report, “‘Global Warming’ Scare is Population Reduction, Not Science.” The report features a lengthy interview with Driessen.

One of the dark undersides of the extreme environmental movement is its long obsession with population control. Once linked to alleged resource depletion and global famine, human population control is now tied to the assertion that our Earth cannot possibly meet everyone’s aspirations for modern housing, transportation, energy and living standards ... without causing irreversible climate change and sustainability disasters.

It is also driven by claims that human populations must be reduced and then limited to some arbitrary “carrying capacity.” President Obama’s Science Adviser John Holdren and Pope Francis’ senior climate change adviser Hans Joachim Schellnhuber both say our planet’s maximum carrying capacity is a mere one billion people. (See the special report on the unholy alliance that has been advising Pope Francis on the environment and climate change here. )

Naturally, they are carefully and deliberately vague about exactly HOW we are supposed to “progress” from 7.2 billion men, women and children on our planet today - or a projected 9.6 billion people in 2050 - to just one billion some years from now.

They prefer not to discuss how six to 8.5 billion people are to be removed from the human gene pool...which billions must perish...and who gets to decide. It’s all cloaked in pious, ecological, euphemistic language. However, statements by prominent environmentalists offer solid clues.

Mr. Holdren and Population Bomb author Paul Ehrlich have written: “We need to de-develop the United States” and other developed countries, “to bring our economic system into line with the realities of ecology and the global resource situation.” We must then address the “ecologically feasible development of the underdeveloped countries.” [emphasis added - from their Human Ecology book]

Ehrlich also said: “Giving society cheap energy is like giving an idiot child a machine gun.” Even more outrageous, he claimed that the “instant death control” provided by DDT was “responsible for the drastic lowering of death rates” in poor countries. Since those people were not practicing birth control, certainly not at the level he deems necessary, they need to have a “death rate solution” imposed on them.

And so radical environmentalists have waged campaigns against using DDT as a powerful insect repellant to prevent malaria. They oppose modern fertilizers and biotech foods that feed more people from less land, using less water, and even during floods or droughts.

They are also viscerally against all forms of carbon-based and nuclear energy, which yield far more reliable and affordable energy, and far more energy per acre than wind, solar and biofuel alternatives.

These statements and policies make several things abundantly clear.

In the view of population control advocates - mostly less educated, darker skinned people in mostly poor, underdeveloped countries are less desirable, and less worth saving, than people in richer, mostly Caucasian countries. People in the political, ruling classes must be exempt from decisions about population control, resource allocation, housing, travel and living standards.

And someone must decide how many people, having which skills, will be needed to feed and clothe - and provide energy, raw materials and technologies for whatever portion of that remaining one billion people are not in those ruling classes.

From my perspective, it is a crime against humanity to impose policies that pretend to protect the world’s most energy-deprived masses from hypothetical, computer-generated climate, resource depletion and other catastrophes decades from now - by perpetuating energy deprivation, poverty, malnutrition and disease that now kill millions of people every year.

These are all fascinating issues. One has to wonder how the vast majority of the world’s people feel about them - and who will ask President Obama, Pope Francis, Ban Ki Moon and UN climate director Christiana Figueres some of these very troubling and inconvenient questions.

Pope calls for church that is far more decentralized

October 17, 2015

AP - Pope Francis called Saturday for a Catholic Church that is far more decentralized, where the laity play a greater role, bishops conferences take care of certain problems, and even the papacy is rethought.

Francis issued the call during a ceremony Saturday to mark the 50th anniversary of the institution of the Synod of Bishops, a consultative body formed during the Second Vatican Council that was intended precisely to encourage more collegiality in the running of the church by inviting bishops to offer their advice to Rome.

Over the past five decades, the synod has been little more than a talk-fest. But Francis has sought to re-energize it, and the contentious meeting under way at the Vatican, in which conservative and progressive bishops are squaring off over ministering to families, has been the result.

Francis noted that he launched the family synod process two years ago by sending out a questionnaire to Catholic families around the world asking for their input — a strong sign that ordinary lay Catholics have an important role to play in the governance of the church and spreading the faith.

"How would it have been possible to talk about the family without engaging families, listening to their joys and hopes, their pain and anxieties?" he said.

One of the main themes running through the current synod is whether individual bishops' conferences can take on greater responsibility in charting pastoral strategies to deal with issues like ministering to gays and divorced and civilly remarried couples. Conservatives insist that only Rome can offer such doctrinal guidelines; progressives say the local churches know better what individual circumstances require.

In his speech, Francis said the church needed to reflect further on "intermediate types of collegiality" involving bishops, even going back to some aspects of the greatly decentralized church of the past.

Finally, he said a truly collegial church has implications for the papacy — and therefore relations with other Christian churches that split from Rome precisely over the primacy of the pope.

Francis has been keen to insist that he is perhaps first and foremost the bishop of Rome.

"The pope is not, all by himself, above the church but rather inside it as a baptized Catholic among other baptized Catholics, and inside the episcopal college as a bishop among bishops," he said.

At the same time, he added, the pope is called "to guide the church of Rome that presides in the love of all the churches."

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There is no doubt at all that the Catholic Church has been taken over by the "gay lobby" which was evidently involved in the shooting of JPII and the wrestling takedown of B16. The result is Francis and his alliance as with J23 with the Communist establishment to create the proletariat and to then take over the "means of production". Capitalism is through and the "entitled" will rule the earth.

I am very concerned. The world is rejecting natural law at a pace unlike that in human history, and Pope Francis wants to shrink? Man is becoming mechanical in all things, and the Pope wants Rome to cease and desist?

Hillary Clinton's Connection to the Saudi Puppet Regime

"The sudden implosion of the vast Iraqi Army of the Baghdad Puppet Regime constructed by the U.S. is an excellent early warning of the fates of the other U.S. puppet states in the Muslim World—Afghanistan, Egypt, Pakistan, Yemen, Libya, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, U.A.E., and lesser ones. As always, there are many differences among these puppet states, including degrees of being puppets of the U.S., but the general picture of them and their situation now are roughly similar. The U.S. War Against Islam, which began with the annihilations of Afghanistan and Iraq roughly thirteen years ago, led to a sudden, immense, secret transformation of the Muslim World from anxious allies of the  U.S. to secret enemies and led to the rapid growth of the Holy Warrior guerrilla groups and parties started earlier by Hizbollah and al-Queda because of the U.S. support of the Israeli occupation of Lebanon and Palestine and the growing hatred of the older U.S. puppets, especially Saudi Arabia." - The U.S. Puppet Regimes In The Muslim World Are All Paper Tiger Tyrannies Hated By Their Oppressed People, Jack D. Douglas, June 16, 2014

Hillary moneyman highlights new Saudi connection

October 17, 2015

Yahoo! Politics - The Saudi government, under increasing criticism over civilian casualties from its airstrikes in Yemen and a harsh crackdown on political dissidents at home, has just hired a powerhouse Washington, D.C., lobbying firm headed by a top Hillary Clinton fundraiser — an arrangement that critics charge raises fresh questions about the influence that foreign government lobbyists could have on her campaign.

The Saudi contract with the Podesta Group, owned by veteran Washington lobbyist and Clinton campaign bundler Tony Podesta, calls for the firm to provide “public relations” and other services on behalf of the royal court of King Salman.

It included an initial “project fee” payment of $200,000 last month and unspecified further sums over the course of the next year, according to documents recently filed with the Justice Department Foreign Agents Registration Act office.

The retention comes at a time when the Saudis are being condemned by United Nations officials over reports that their bombings against Houthi strongholds in Yemen’s civil war have resulted in the deaths and injuries of hundreds of innocent civilians, including children.

Adding to the international pressure, the Saudis are also facing criticism from human rights groups over their continued refusal to allow basic rights to women (e.g., the freedom to drive cars). They are also being criticized for their hard-line domestic suppression of political dissidents, with draconian punishments such as the sentence — by beheading — recently given to a 20-year-old Shiite political protester.

“They are very nervous about an American policy change, and so they are betting on the horse they think will win — Hillary Clinton,” said Ali Al-Ahmad, a Saudi analyst with the Institute for Gulf Affairs, and a frequent critic of the regime, about the hiring of the Podesta Group.

The Podesta Group is now on a roster of a half-dozen D.C. lobbying firms representing the Saudis, including the giant international law firm DLA Piper and the firm Hogan Lovells, whose principal on the Saudi account is former Minnesota Republican Sen. Norm Coleman, who chairs the Congressional Leadership Fund, a super-PAC that is a major source of House GOP campaign funds. (Former Texas congressman Tom Loeffler, a top bundler for Jeb Bush’s presidential campaign, for years represented the Saudis, but his current firm, Akin Gump, now lobbies for the United Arab Emirates, among other foreign clients.)

But the retention of the Podesta Group has gotten attention in Washington lobbying circles because of its unusually close ties to Hillary Clinton’s campaign: Tony Podesta is the brother and former business partner of Clinton’s campaign chairman, John Podesta. He is also a prolific Democratic Party fundraiser who is among 43 Washington lobbyists (many of whom also represent foreign governments) listed as Clinton campaign bundlers in reports filed by the campaign with the Federal Election Commission.

The reports disclose that Podesta had raised $140,175 for the Clinton campaign through Sept. 30. Two weeks ago, just days after filing its Saudi contract with the Justice Department, Podesta held a Clinton campaign fundraiser at his home that offered fine Italian food cooked by five gourmet chefs, including himself and his brother, the campaign chairman.

The Podesta Group point man on the Saudi account is David Adams, who previously served as assistant secretary of state for legislative affairs in 2011 and 2012, making him Clinton’s chief Capitol Hill lobbyist for her last two years as secretary of state, according to Justice Department filings reviewed by Yahoo News.

But Tony Podesta, while calling himself “a proud Clinton bundler,” vigorously denied that the Saudi contract had anything to do with his efforts to elect her president. “I’ve never had a conversation with Hillary Clinton or anybody in the campaign about the work of the firm,” Podesta said when reached by Yahoo News on his cellphone while he was dining at a restaurant in Sicily. “We represent a dozen foreign governments around the world — we do good work for them. And it has nothing to do with the Hillary Clinton campaign.” 

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Former Pink Floyd Frontman Roger Waters Supports Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Movement Against Israel

Roger Waters Ignites New War of Words With Political Stance on Israel

October 13, 2015

Variety - Former Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters had some very strong words for rock star Jon Bon Jovi before the latter’s Oct. 3 concert in Tel Aviv.

“You stand shoulder to shoulder with the settler who burned the baby,” he wrote in an open letter to the rocker that went viral across U.S. and Israeli media. “The dead can’t remind you of the crimes you’ve ignored.”

His sentiments were not surprising to anyone familiar with the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, a pro-Palestinian campaign that encourages an embargo of Israel’s economic and cultural exports, levying political and economic pressure on Israel in a bid to end the Israeli occupation of the West Bank.

For years Waters has been one of the industry’s most vocal critics of Israel, and he routinely takes it upon himself to publicly excoriate artists who defy his calls to nix concerts in the Jewish state.

Artists from Rihanna to Justin Timberlake have been targeted by the BDS movement for playing concerts in Tel Aviv, and Scarlett Johansson found herself facing criticism after she signed on as a spokesperson for SodaStream, the Israeli company previously based in the West Bank (it has since relocated).

But the movement has all but failed when it comes to swaying big names to boycott Israel. Madonna and the Kardashian sisters are said to be apartment hunting in Tel Aviv. Kanye West, who made a personal visit with wife Kim Kardashian and daughter North in April, returned on Sept. 30 for a sold-out show. Natalie Portman and Richard Gere both recently wrapped Israel-based film projects, and Israeli TV exports continue to penetrate the U.S. and European market.

However, the movement does appear to be making headway with smaller acts.

Arab States Call an Emergency U.N. Security Council Meeting: Palestinians Urge International Protection in an Escalating Conflict with Israel, Where Long-simmering Palestinian Anger Has Been Transformed into Outright Rage

On November 29, 2012, the 193-nation U.N. General Assembly overwhelmingly approved a resolution to upgrade the Palestinian Authority's observer status at the United Nations from "entity" to "non-member state," implicitly recognizing a Palestinian state. There were 138 votes in favor, nine against and 41 abstentions. The vote amounts to a massive international show of displeasure with Israel, particularly over its continued construction of Jewish settlements in the West Bank and east Jerusalem. Moving forward, the resolution could weaken Israeli claims to keeping parts of the West Bank and east Jerusalem, the section of the holy city claimed by both sides for their capitals. After years of deadlock in peace efforts, the world seems to be laying the blame on Israel.

Palestinians urge international protection, Israel says no

October 17, 2015

AP - The Palestinians urged the U.N. Security Council on Friday to immediately provide international protection for the Palestinian people in an escalating conflict with Israel, which rejected any international presence at Jerusalem's holiest site.

The exchange at an emergency council meeting — called by Arab states after a spate of Palestinian stabbing attacks and an Israeli security crackdown — highlighted the deepening anger and distrust between the two sides after decades of conflict.

Palestinian U.N. Ambassador Riyad Mansour told the council the issue of protection "has become more urgent than any time before" because of what he called Israeli aggression "against our defenseless Palestinian people," including at the Jerusalem site that includes the al-Aqsa mosque, the third most sacred place in Islam, and the ancient Hebrew Temple Mount, the holiest place in Judaism.

Mansour called on the council to implement a 1994 resolution adopted after a Jewish settler killed 29 Muslim worshippers at a holy site in Hebron. It called on Israel "to guarantee the safety and protection of the Palestinian civilians throughout the occupied territory" including by "a temporary international or foreign presence," and to disarm settlers.

But Israel's new U.N. Ambassador Danny Danon repeated Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's commitment not to change the status quo at the site and told reporters before the emergency meeting that "Israel will not agree to any international presence on the Temple Mount." His deputy, David Roet, repeated the same words minutes later in the Security Council chamber.

Danon said "any such intervention would violate the decades-long status quo."

Jordan's U.N. Ambassador Dina Kawar, whose country is custodian of the al-Aqsa compound, said Jordan is not pushing for a new international force. But she said Israeli security forces should stay away from al-Aqsa.

Danon urged the council to break its silence and make a statement against "the incitement that fuels terror" and in support of direct negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians. He accused Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas of leading "the dangerous incitement" with his "hate-filled speech" and claims that Israel is trying to change the status quo at the Jerusalem site.

Taye-Brook Zerihoun, the U.N. assistant secretary-general for political affairs, told the council that Israel's long occupation of Palestinian territory and diminishing prospects for achieving a Palestinian state "have transformed long-simmering Palestinian anger into outright rage."

He said "this stark reality" has been compounded by increasingly dire economic conditions, including bleak employment prospects for Palestinian youths and expanding Israeli settlement activities.

Gazans Join Palestinian Unrest: "We Have Nothing to Lose; Our Life is the Blockade, Unemployment, Destruction; and No One Cares About Us"

With nothing to lose, Gazans join Palestinian unrest

October 15, 2015

AFP - Samir rushes forward and hurls the flaming bottle with all his might at the observation tower and the Israel soldiers inside, his contribution to the "intifada".

"We either kick out the Jews or we die," says the 20-year-old Palestinian, one of hundreds protesting violently near the Gaza Strip's border with Israel.

"Anyway, we have nothing to lose. Our life is the blockade, unemployment, destruction. And no one cares about us."

Gaza, the tiny enclave on the Mediterranean hit by three wars with Israel since 2008, has been drawn into the unrest that erupted recently in annexed east Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank.

Nine Gazans were killed by Israeli fire in border clashes over the weekend, and dozens have sought to breech the fence.

In response to two rockets fired from Gaza, Israeli warplanes carried out an air strike Sunday, demolishing a house in northern Gaza and killing a pregnant woman and her two-year-old daughter.

Israel said it was targeting two arms manufacturing facilities belonging to Hamas, the Islamist movement that runs Gaza.

But some analysts say they believe that Hamas, which does not recognise Israel's right to exist and opposes the Jewish state's occupation of Palestinian lands, does not want yet another conflict.

Last year's 50-day war killed more than 2,200 people and left 100,000 homeless, and reconstruction has been slow.

But Salafist jihadists and other movements are also active in Gaza, and Hamas would likely not remain on the sidelines and watch the situation develop beyond its control.

There are more than enough hopeless young people in Gaza who would be potential volunteers for the cause.

The strip has been under an Israeli blockade for years. Unemployment among its 1.8 million people is around 45 percent, one of the highest rates in the world, and more than half of the population wants to leave.

- 'We want to fight' -

Samir walked the five kilometres (three miles) to Tuesday's protest at the Erez crossing with his friends from his home in Jabaliya. Like many protesters, he wore a traditional Palestinian keffiyeh scarf to cover his face.

They aimed to confront the Israeli soldiers posted behind the long wall separating Gaza from Israel.

"We came to support the young people in the intifada in Jerusalem and the West Bank," he says. "We want to fight, even with stones and firebombs."

Atop the tower the youths were targeting, the barrel of a submachine gun can be seen, but no soldiers.

But eventually, the tear gas cannisters fly and gunfire rings out, and some of the youths fall to the ground.

During the clashes, 35 people were wounded by live fire or rubber bullets, or were overcome by tear gas inhalation, Gaza medics said.

The work of ambulance medics has been complicated not only by the gunfire and tear gas, but also by protesting youths blocking roads. Some have gone on foot to retrieve the wounded with stretchers.

Suhail, a 31-year-old teacher, decided to volunteer after seeing the rescuers difficulties on television.

"I thought that I should come with my friend to help transport the wounded," he says. "I don't want our young people dying for nothing; they're there because they're desperate and only want a better life."

As for the stone throwers, they seem unconcerned by the danger.

"We know that our stones will not kill any soldier, but I swear to you they tremble before us because we are the generation of freedom," says one of the protesters, his face hidden.

U.S. Patrol of the South China Sea and Stronger Military Approach Against China Could Incite a Global War

Is The U.S. Headed Towards War With China?

October 13, 2015 

 

Value Walk - A former US Senate candidate and political commentator, Mark Dankof, has warned that the United States’ decision to patrol the South China Sea and take a stronger military approach against China may prove to be the tipping point that incites a global war.

U.S. Plans Military Action In South China Sea

Washington is currently debating the possibility of deploying U.S. Navy ships and aircrafts to the South China Sea. U.S. government officials have shared that the decision has been prompted by a need to inhibit China’s growing aggressiveness in the region. The U.S. may soon conduct “freedom of navigation operations” in the South China Sea.

U.S. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter has reportedly recommending authorizing aerial patrols over China’s claimed islands in the South China Sea. The Defense Secretary has also suggested sending U.S. Navy ships into the 12 nautical mile radius around the Spratly Islands that China has claimed as part of its territory.
China has continued building artificial islands in the South China Sea despite international arguments against the same. Beijing maintains that its islands are within its legitimate territory and cites historical rights to the same.

Washington, however, has stated that China is building in international waters and as such, not only are the artificial islands not to be considered legal, actual islands but outposts, they are also in violation of international laws on shared waters and do not count as China’s sovereign territory. Washington’s latest decision to take stronger military action in the region has been inspired by a need to curb China’s growing territory and boldness in the region. By sending its fleet into the waters that China claims as its territorial seas, Washington intends to alert Beijing that it does not consider its claims lawful and does not recognize China’s sovereign rights to the region.

Most recently, the U.S. has conducted aerial surveillance patrols near China’s outposts in the South China Sea. The U.S. has also been running the USS Fort Worth in close proximity to China’s claimed territories. Details regarding updated surveillance routines and closer patrols have not been shared as yet. The Pentagon is reportedly reviewing different plans and is expected to submit a proposal to the White House to deploy U.S. navy crafts within a 12-mile radius of the artificial islands. The U.S.’ decision on the matter is made all the more complex by the fact that it does, in fact, recognize some islands as part of China’s rightful territory while not extending the same title to others.

As such, should the U.S. government authorize more robust action in the South China Sea, it will have to navigate its way through an extremely intricate situation- a reality that the Pentagon is clearly weighing into consideration. In May 2015, Press TV reports an unnamed high-ranking U.S. government officer as saying, “We’re just not going within the 12 miles—yet”. Whether the U.S. is now ready to revive that stance remains to be seen.

American Asia-Pacific Commander Calls For Stronger Action

The head of the U.S. Pacific Command, Admiral Harry Harris, is running point on stronger U.S. military action in the South China Sea. The admiral has warned, “If one country selectively ignores these rules for its own benefit, others will undoubtedly follow, eroding the international legal system and destabilizing regional security and the prosperity of all Pacific states”. To ensure that the other claimants in the dispute do not mimic China’s actions in the South China Sea, Admiral Harry Harris has said that the U.S. ought to “exercise freedom of navigation wherever we need to.”

Admiral Harris has not shared details regarding the proposed operations and has not confirmed the U.S.’ plans to enter into the 12 mile radius of China’s newly constructed islands in the South China Sea.

Syrian Rebels Backed by CIA are Targeted by Russia

The Syrian conflict has killed at least 250,000 people, according to the UN, and more than half of Syria's prewar population of 22.4 million has been internally displaced or have fled abroad. Assad said what is happening in Syria was not a civil war but a war, he told Phoenix, a Chinese television channel. You can say this is a civil war when you have a certain line that divides between different components of a certain society, whether sectarian or ethnic or maybe political line, something that we don't have in Syria," he said. "Civil war has internal factors, not states supporting terrorists who come to Syria while they announce publicly that their aim is to change the state or, like what they call it, the regime." Assad also said that following the Russian intervention, the situation in Syria had improved in a "very good way". [Source]

Officials: CIA-backed Syrian rebels under Russian blitz

October 10, 2015

AP - CIA-backed rebels in Syria, who had begun to put serious pressure on President Bashar Assad's forces, are now under Russian bombardment with little prospect of rescue by their American patrons, U.S. officials say.

Over the past week, Russia has directed parts of its air campaign against U.S.-funded groups and other moderate opposition in a concerted effort to weaken them, the officials say. The Obama administration has few options to defend those it had secretly armed and trained.

The Russians "know their targets, and they have a sophisticated capacity to understand the battlefield situation," said Republican Rep. Mike Pompeo, who serves on the House Intelligence Committee and was careful not to confirm a classified program. "They are bombing in locations that are not connected to the Islamic State" group.

Other U.S. officials interviewed spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the matter publicly.

The CIA began a covert operation in 2013 to arm, fund and train a moderate opposition to Assad. Over that time, the CIA has trained an estimated 10,000 fighters, although its current size isn't clear.

Unrest Spreads from West Bank to Gaza as Israeli Troops Kill Six Palestinians

Several Palestinians have been reported killed in riots, including on Saturday, when two Palestinian boys, Marwan Barbakh, 13, and Omar Othman, 15, were shot dead by Israeli troops during confrontations in southern Gaza -- less than 24 hours after IDF forces killed six Palestinians during protests at the border.  The IDF says "a thousand rioters infiltrated the buffer zone" and were attempting to storm the border fence while burning tires and throwing rocks and grenades. The Jerusalem Post reports 332 Palestinians were wounded in clashes with security forces in Gaza and the West Bank on Sunday alone. [Source]

The Latest: West Bank explosion caused by gas canister

October 11, 2015

AP - The latest developments in ongoing violence between Palestinians and Israelis (all times local):
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4:15 p.m.

Israel's Shin Bet security agency says an explosive device set off by a Palestinian woman in the West Bank that wounded police officer and the attacker was a gas canister, not a bomb.

The 31-year-old woman set off the explosion in her vehicle, critically wounding herself and lightly wounding the officer.

It was the first use of an explosive device in the current round of violence, which has mostly consisted of stabbing and shooting attacks against Israelis in Jerusalem, the West Bank and elsewhere.

The Shin Bet says a police officer motioned for the woman to stop after noticing her trailing a police car. When the officer spoke to her, she said "God is greatest" before exploding the gas canister.

Israeli police stand near the body of a Palestinian who, according to the police, stabbed two police.

The security agency says handwritten letters were found on her person that praised Palestinian "martyrs." It says the woman is a resident of east Jerusalem but lives part of the time in the West Bank.

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12:00 p.m.

Israel's prime minister says he is holding consultations to promote sanctions against the Islamic Movement in Israel.

Jerusalem's Mayor Says a Well-armed Citizenry Plays a Key Role in Stopping Palestinian Attackers

AP Interview: Jerusalem mayor defends gun display

October 9, 2015

AP - Jerusalem's mayor, caught on video this week with a gun slung over his shoulder while visiting a Palestinian neighborhood, is making no apologies for the display of force. He says he's helping keep his city safe.

In an interview with The Associated Press, Nir Barkat urged other licensed gun owners to follow his lead, saying that Israel's plethora of well-trained army veterans gives the country an added edge as it confronts a wave of attacks carried out by lone Palestinians.

"In Israel we're fortunate to have many ex-military and current military reservists that are professionals, well trained, they know how to fight. They know how to use weapons," said Barkat, himself a former Israeli paratrooper commander. "For us, it's an extra security measure that's not happening in the rest of the world."

Barkat described Israel as caught in the midst of an unprecedented battle, with his city at the heart of the unrest.

The violence erupted last month during the Jewish new year with clashes at Jerusalem's most sensitive holy site, a hilltop compound revered by Muslim and Jews.

The clashes have spread to the West Bank, and in recent days, Palestinian assailants have carried out a series of stabbings in Jerusalem and across Israel. At least seven Palestinians have been killed, and scores wounded, while four Israelis have been killed and more than a dozen Israelis wounded.

The unrest in Jerusalem has been fueled by Palestinian allegations that Israel is plotting to change a sensitive arrangement at the holy site, revered by Jews as the spot where the biblical Temples were built and by Muslims as the place where the Prophet Muhammed is believed to have ascended to heaven. The compound contains the Al Aqsa Mosque, the third holiest site in Islam.

Under a longstanding arrangement, non-Muslims are allowed to visit, but not pray, during specific hours. In recent months, the site has experienced growing numbers of visits, including by Jewish nationalists who seek a greater presence at the compound, fueling Palestinian fears and rumors.

Barkat accused Palestinian and Muslim leaders of spreading "incitement and lies," and like other Israeli leaders, said Israel has no plan to change the delicate status quo.

He said Israel must do its best to "tell the truth" to calm the tensions, but in the meantime, must do its utmost to stop attacks on its city streets. While the city's rate of violent crime remains low by global standards, the atmosphere is tense, and on Thursday, the Old City was teeming with police patrolling its narrow alleys.

Barkat said Israel's well-armed citizenry plays a key role in this strategy, stopping attackers quickly in cases when police aren't around. He pointed to stabbings in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv this week where attackers were quickly shot.

Ben Carson Says An Armed Citizenry Would Have Been Able to Greatly Diminish Hitler's Slaughter

"To conquer a nation you must first disarm the citizens. Nothing drives the people harder than sudden fear of death." - Adolf Hitler

Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms. - James Madison

The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that... it is their right and duty to be at all times armed. - Thomas Jefferson

The great object is that every man be armed. - Patrick Henry

For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security. - Thomas Jefferson 

Militia: a military force or ‘citizen army’ (1590); a body of citizen soldiers as distinguished from professional soldiers; a body of citizens organized in a paramilitary group and typically regarding themselves as defenders of individual rights against the presumed interference of the federal government.

Ben Carson says armed Jewish people could have stopped Holocaust

Ben Carson followed up on his ‘Holocaust’ remarks by clarifying his thoughts on gun free zones, disarmament and ‘the left wing press trying to stir up controversy”. Click here for the video.

October 9, 2015

New York Daily News - Ben Carson, the neurosurgeon-turned-politician, said Thursday that gun control played a part in the World War II slaughter of 11 million people deemed "undesirable” by Nazis, including six million Jews.

“I think the likelihood of Hitler being able to accomplish his goals would have been greatly diminished if the people had been armed,” he said in an interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer.

The comment came after the CNN host read a passage from Carson’s book, “A More Perfect Union,” which was released Tuesday.

“German citizens were disarmed by their government in the late 1930s, and by the mid-1940s Hitler's regime had mercilessly slaughtered six million Jews and numerous others whom they considered inferior ... Through a combination of removing guns and disseminating deceitful propaganda, the Nazis were able to carry out their evil intentions with relatively little resistance,” the passage read.

Blitzer rebuffed Carson’s suggestion by pointing out the Nazi’s military supremacy.

“They had a powerful military machine, as you know, the Nazis,” the host said.

“I understand that,” Carson barked back. “I’m telling you that there is a reason that these dictatorial people take the guns first.”

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• Retired Army Officer Warns That Homeland Security is Preparing for War Against U.S. Citizens

Almost Every Modern War Was Started by a False Flag Operation

"With 99.8% certainty in the Jackass mind, 9-11 was an inside job to convert the United States of America into a fascist nation, to move the National Security Agency into a strong position of power, and to put the CIA in control of the White House. It was an event with at least five principal groups involved. The United States has been transformed into a giant police state. The event was a celebration of fascism, a magnificent bank heist and bond-sealed deal, and climax of the narco lineage of presidents. Despite all the big clues, which would result in considerable reasonable doubt in any grand jury court room session, the pattern is clear for over half the nation: they accept the official story, then work backwards, dismissing evidence, ignoring the cornucopia of data that contradicts the 9/11 Commission Report, which is a fairy tale and fascist concoction and pure drivel. The reality goes beyond 9/11, as the USGovt has been under fascist control for 50 years. The death of Kennedy marks the beginning of the fascist lineage of USGovt and its selected presidents.

"Nixon made a deal with the devil to cooperate with the coup d'etat and in return dropped the Gold Standard. Recall that Nixon was dead political timber until revived by a cooperative press. Nixon then established the NSA, set up as the uber-Gestapo. The war theme has become part of the US social, commercial, and sport fabric. Even the USOpen tennis tournament had an honor guard and giant flag folding ceremony. The regular war footing is evident with every hot spot on earth, with 170 USMilitary bases scattered around the globe. The military drones killing civilians (in foreign nations and soon possibly inside the US), pervasive eavesdropping (overseas and at home), constant high security alert, the alienation will all nations including allies, the airport checks, the difficulty to renew passports, the theft of private accounts, these are the tell-tale signals of a fascist regime in power. Freedom of speech and assembly have been shattered, as has due process. The treatment of Occupy Wall Street as terrorists, the torture in Guantanimo, the viruses hidden in vaccines, the Monsanto chromosome devices with food, the constant propaganda, the chemtrails in the sky, the contamination of groundwater systems from Halliburton fracking, the thefts from central banks, the gigantic $23 trillion in gift loans to cabal bankers around the world, these are the tell-tale signals of a fascist regime in power.

"The link to gold from the entire 9/11 event is direct and indirect. The $100bn in gold bar thefts depleted foreign nations and foreign companies of their legitimately held gold assets, held in the WTCenter vaults. It was mainly a gold heist. However, what followed was a path created by the Fascist Business Model. The model merges the major corporations with the state, permits fraud and thefts, allows the big banks to write legislation in the Congress, puts bankers in regulatory posts to monitor banks and stocks, and generally leads to elite corruption, fraud, malfeasance, murder, lawlessness, and indescribable inefficiency within the capitalist system.

"The 9/11 tragedy set events in motion which gave the Fascist Business Model a full official blessing, resulting in annual $1 trillion deficits, a USGovt deficit that cannot be financed, a QE disastrous monetary policy resembling those in Africa, and an assured death of the USDollar. Its demise, which is in progress by means of the dismantled Petro-Dollar machinery, will usher in the return to the Gold Standard. The hidden derivative losses are in the multiple $trillions. Since the United States is the least likely to produce a valid gold-backed currency, the risk is greatest for the US to fall into the Third World.

"The naive sheep among us actually wonder why, if it really was an inside job, people do not come forward and speak from the stump. Because they are jailed and killed and threatened and disenfranchised, that is why. The targets are for prevention of disclosure in the mainstream, not the alternative media, like internet journals. We net gurus in the alternative press are supposedly the kooks. Ok, except we have the data, the evidence, the logic, and the forensic conclusions on our side. Call me a Truther." - Jim Willie CB

9/11 Memory: Fascism & Gold

September 14, 2015 
 

Jim_Willie_CB - The ultimate patriotic act is to invest the life savings in Gold & Silver, which does honor to real money, shows disdain for paper merchants who rule the central banks, and forces nations to put forth honest sound money in usage. It is important to recall the 9/11 event, however based in reality, not the official story. Honor should be given to the 2500 victims of the mass murder event. The official story makes far less sense than the Kennedy assassination, while the two events appear to be front and back bookends of the same Fascist takeover of the United States Govt.  

The Patriot Act was a fascist manifesto, much like the Enabling Act installed in Germany over seven decades ago. The two acts have a 90% correlation and overlap, yet the American public remains largely in the dark on the similarity in template.

The USCongress passed the controversial Patriot Act, which has totally opposite direction to patriotism, under threat of anthrax in their ventilation system (rumored to be engineered by the FBI).

The creation of the Homeland Security Agency should ring loud gongs about the Gestapo similarities.

That the US & London & Swiss bankers are fascists with roots to 1930 fascists should also be brought to public attention. The US bankers on Wall Street actually had loans extended to the German Nazis, a fact the public seems to overlook. Operation Paperclip, which opened the US gates to the several hundred bankers, scientists, and industrial captains, should have been a wakeup call to Americans, but they remain asleep.

Imagine a nation that makes a mockery of citizens seeking the truth on the event, calling them disparagingly the Truthers. Recall that truth is the enemy of fascist regimes, and the early victim of any war.



The 9/11 event was the coming out party for the American Fascists. It was also a complex sequence of criminal events to abrogate $230 billion in Russian bonds, to wipe clean the Black Eagle Fund on gold obligations.

Teamsters Facing Cuts in Pensions of Up to 60 Percent

When pension funds go empty, all bets are off

October 10, 2015

NY Post - Some 407,000 Teamsters are learning a painful lesson: Their private-sector pensions aren’t as safe as they once thought.

Pay attention, government workers — and taxpayers — in New York and New Jersey.

Last week, letters informed these Teamsters they’re facing cuts in benefits of up to 60 percent. Why? Because their pension fund is going broke.

The Central States Pension Fund covers workers from more than 1,500 trucking, construction and other companies in 37 states. Thanks to trucking deregulation, declining union rolls, aging workers and weak stock-market returns, the fund is now paying out $3.46 in benefits for every $1 it takes in. That’s $2 billion a year in red ink.

At that rate, doom arrives in 2026, sinking Central States and maybe even the federal fund that’s supposed to insure such private-sector pensions. Retirees would get even lower benefits — or maybe nothing at all.

Which is why Congress and President Obama last year gave “multi-employer” funds like Central States the green light to restructure if necessary — and slice benefits.

At least a few big pension systems are sure to follow Central States.

And so the retirement security countless workers have long counted on went poof.

Government pensions aren’t immune. Yes, many state constitutions bar pension cuts — and if the funds sink, politicians would find it easier to hit up taxpayers in a crunch than anger unions and their members by trimming benefits.

Easier at first, anyway. But when the well runs dry, what’ll happen?

That’s the nut New Jersey governments have been grappling with in recent years. New York’s situation is better — but it, too, faces a reckoning.

That’s even though Jersey’s funds need a whopping $200 billion to make good on their pension promises, while Empire State funds need $308 billion. Driving the shortfalls: Too many retirees for each current worker, as with Central States; overly generous pension promises pols made to please unions — and governments’ habit of not paying what they should into the funds.

Trouble is, New York and New Jersey taxpayers already bear a heavier load than in any other state and have been fleeing the area for years. Squeeze them too hard to plug pension gaps, and you start losing taxpayers in a downward spiral.

That’s part of what drove Detroit to bankruptcy — and when the Motor City went belly-up in 2013, a judge OK’d cuts in public-worker pensions — never mind what it said in Michigan’s constitution.

Local public-sector unions and their members would do well to rethink their stubborn resistance to reforms and their endless fight for ever-costlier benefits.

“What we’re asking is to let us tap the brakes a little now, and let us avoid insolvency,” says Central States Executive Director Thomas Nyhan. “The longer we wait to act, the larger the benefit reductions.”

That math is the same everywhere.

New Unrest Rocks the Powder Keg That is Israel and the West Bank

As of October 13, 2013, eight Israelis and 27 Palestinians have died in a month of Israeli-Palestinian unrest. 

New unrest hits Israel, West Bank despite calls for calm

October 8, 2015

AFP - New violence rocked Israel and the West Bank on Wednesday, with three stabbings and an Arab shot dead by police, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Israelis to be on maximum alert against "terrorism."

In the West Bank, meanwhile, men thought to be undercover Israeli police opened fire on a group of Palestinian stone-throwers they had infiltrated, wounding three of them.

Israeli and Palestinian officials reportedly met for security talks in the West Bank Tuesday evening, and there were calls Wednesday from the European Union for calm and a return to political dialogue.

In the meantime, however, Netanyahu had a stark message for his citizens.

"Israeli civilians are at the forefront of a war against terrorism and must also be on maximum alert," he said Wednesday after visiting a Jerusalem police headquarters.

"The goal of terrorism is to spread fear, and the way to defeat it is to maintain composure and resilience on both a national and personal level," his office quoted him as saying.

Netanyahu, who postponed a visit to Germany to tackle violence that has raged for three weeks, added:

"We have known worse times than this, and we will overcome this new wave of terror by maintaining our determination, responsibility and unity."

President Reuven Rivlin has warned that Israel and the Palestinians are "sitting on a volcano".

In a potential sign of efforts to ease tensions, however, a report in the Haaretz daily said Netanyahu had ordered police to bar ministers and lawmakers from visiting the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem.

Blocking Israeli politicians from the compound would be aimed at lowering tensions and reducing the level of Palestinian violence. It is the third-holiest site in Islam and the most sacred in Judaism.

Muslims fear Israel will seek to change rules governing the site, which allow Jews to visit but not pray to avoid provoking tensions.

Iran's Supreme Leader Bans Further Negotiations with the United States

Iran's supreme leader bans negotiations with the United States

October 7, 2015

Reuters - Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Wednesday banned any further negotiations between Iran and the United States, putting the brakes on moderates hoping to end Iran's isolation after reaching a nuclear deal with world powers in July.
 
Khamenei, the highest authority in the Islamic Republic, already said last month there would be no more talks with the United States after the nuclear deal, but has not previously declared an outright ban.

His statements directly contradict those of moderate Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, who says his government is ready to hold talks with the United States on how to resolve the conflict in Syria, where the two countries back opposing sides.

Khamenei was quoted as saying on his website:

"Negotiations with the United States open gates to their economic, cultural, political and security influence. Even during the nuclear negotiations they tried to harm our national interests."

"Our negotiators were vigilant but the Americans took advantage of a few chances."

Although he supported the last 18 months of negotiations, Khamenei has not publicly endorsed the nuclear agreement with the United States, Germany, France, Britain, China and Russia that settled a standoff of more than a decade.

The West feared Iran wanted to develop nuclear weapons, suspicions Tehran denies.

The agreement, which curbs Iran's nuclear program in exchange for crippling sanctions being lifted, was welcomed by Iranians who are keen to see their living standards improve and better relations with the rest of the world.

2015 Housing Market is Already in a Bubble Larger Than 2006

Housing today: A 'bubble larger than 2006'

October 6, 2015

CNBC - Home prices are gaining steam again, fueled by tight supply amid growing demand.

Nationally, home prices were nearly 7 percent higher in August compared to a year ago, according to a new report from CoreLogic. That is a bigger annual gain than we saw during the spring market in May and June. Other monthly reports have shown the same phenomenon.

"It is clear that house price growth has picked up recently," noted analysts at Capital Economics, comparing August's annual gain to a 4.8 percent rise in February. "Indeed, with the months' supply of homes close to a 10-year low, if anything, both CoreLogic and Case-Shiller are reporting slower growth than might be expected."

While home prices nationally have not yet returned to their peak of the last housing boom, some local markets have surpassed it. Now, some claim the housing market is in a bubble far worse than the devastating one in 2006. The argument: Housing is far less affordable today than it was back then, and the home price gains are driven not by healthy, end-user demand but by a lack of construction, artificially low interest rates, and institutional and foreign all-cash buyers.

"In the days of 'anything goes,' ninja financing caused housing prices to lurch higher, which forced people to rush in and buy, which in turn pushed prices higher, thus increasing volume more, and so on. But when it comes to the new-era, end-user buyer, that can't happen any longer, as buyers actually have to fundamentally 'qualify' for the mortgage for which they apply," wrote housing analyst Mark Hanson in a note to clients.

Hanson, often criticized for being a housing bear, points to the institutional and foreign buyers who have flooded the market since 2012, buying up distressed and lower-priced homes, as well as some new construction, all with cash. He calls it an exact replay of the last housing boom, "when unorthodox demand with unorthodox capital would pay any price it took to hit the bid."

California-based real estate analyst John Burns, of John Burns Real Estate Consulting, called Hanson's premise "ridiculous." He said you cannot compare affordability today to the heady days of the housing boom when anyone could get a loan with no money down and artificial — now illegal — teaser rates.

"That was an awkward, unusual period that is not coming back," said Burns, who claims 90 percent of the nation's local markets are "affordable" when home prices are weighed against income.

He also pointed to low down payment FHA loans. "All you have to do is show up with that down payment and prove your income," he said.

That said, rising mortgage rates are a concern, Burns said, admitting home prices have been inflated in part by artificially low rates.

"We will have a problem if rates go up," he added.

First-time homebuyers, who are having a very hard time getting back into the housing market, say they are often outbid by all-cash buyers. In markets that were particularly hard-hit by the housing crash, like Phoenix, Las Vegas and Atlanta, they simply cannot compete with investors.

Investors put a floor on prices during the recession, but they also drove them far higher than expected. Institutional investors may make up a small percentage of overall homes purchased since 2012, but they make up a huge share of buyers of distressed, low-priced properties. Also, the impact of individual investors and foreign buyers is largely underplayed. They, too, come bearing cash.

"In short, end-users today are being handed a red-hot potato market already in a bubble larger than 2006," noted Hanson.

The argument is founded in basic mortgage math. The majority of regular, owner-occupant homebuyers today need to get a mortgage to finance the purchase. Unlike during the last housing boom, when money was basically free, they have to have a down payment, good credit and enough income to qualify for the debt.

Even with interest rates today considerably lower than they were during the housing boom, housing today is far more expensive. Buyers can't just pay interest on the loan, they have to pay principal as well. They have to put at least 3 percent down, and if they are using that low a down payment, they have to pay mortgage insurance. The income needed to qualify for a loan today is also far higher than it was then.

Wall Street appears to believe that housing is going gangbusters right now, because prices are jumping and demand is returning. Home construction, however, while improving from the depths of a pit, is still dramatically lower than it was not just during the housing boom but even during more normal housing cycles. That is the disconnect.

"Four years in, I would think the housing market would be further along. I think it means we're going to have a longer, slower recovery ," said Doug Yearley, CEO of luxury homebuilder Toll Brothers (TOL),on CNBC's " Squawk Box " last week.

In the same interview, Yearly claimed housing is more affordable today than it was during the last housing boom. That may be because prices have not returned to those peaks.

But as with everything in real estate, affordability often has to do with location. For young adults in big cities and hot real estate markets, homebuying can be a challenge.

A caller into C-SPAN's "Washington Journal" on Tuesday morning identified herself as Rachael, a married, working millennial who pays $1,600 a month to rent her one-bedroom apartment in Northern Virginia, but, "would love to buy a condo." She said she cannot afford the sky-high prices.

"It gets really expensive for a first-time homebuyer," she said.

On July 3, 2014, Two Months Before Her Mysterious Death on September 4, 2014, Joan Rivers Said Barack Obama is Gay and Michelle Obama is Transgender

Joan Rivers Says Barack Obama Is Gay, Uses Trans Slur Against Michelle Obama

July 5, 2014

The Huffington Post - Joan Rivers took her "jokes" too far yet again this week, when she hurled a trans slur at the first lady, shortly after officiating a gay wedding at a book signing for "Diary of A Mad Diva."

Inquiring about the impromptu ceremony, an unidentified reporter asked controversial octogenarian when we will have a gay president, to which she replied, "We already have it with Obama, so let's just calm down."

She then goes on -- unprompted! -- to say "You know Michelle is a tranny." When the reporter attempts to clarify, she responds: "A transgender. We all know."

Click over to Vincent Paolo Villano's 2012 op-ed for The Advocate, should you need a reminder of why calling cisgender women trans (even without the use of slurs) "only furthers the marginalization of women and transgender people."

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• The 13 Bloodlines of the Illuminat
• The Bush-Clinton Dynasty, Obama, the New World Order, and the Banking Cartel 
• The American Presidency and Secret Societies
• Obama, the Illuminati, and the Zionist Agenda
• Banker-Engineered World Socialism and the Cloward-Piven Strategy

Donald Trump Does Not Want to Be President - What is That Illuminati Hand Sign?

On August 16, 2016, Michael Moore penned an essay claiming that “Donald Trump never actually wanted to be President of the United States. I know this for a fact. I’m not going to say how I know it.” He also theorizes that Trump is sabotaging his own campaign. Moore wrote: "On June 16th of last year, he rode down his golden escalator and opened his mouth. With no campaign staff, no 50-state campaign infrastructure — neither of which he needed because, remember, this wasn’t going to be a real campaign — and with no prepared script, he went off the rails at his kick-off press conference, calling Mexicans 'rapists' and 'drug dealers' and pledging to build a wall to keep them all out. Jaws in the room were agape. His comments were so offensive, NBC, far from offering him a bigger paycheck, immediately fired him with this terse statement: 'Due to the recent derogatory statements by Donald Trump regarding immigrants, NBCUniversal is ending its business relationship with Mr. Trump.' NBC said it was also canceling the beauty pageants owned by Trump: Miss USA and Miss Universe. BOOM... It took 13 months of racist, sexist, stupid comments before he finally undid himself with the trifecta of attacking the family of a slain soldier, ridiculing the Purple Heart and suggesting that the pro-gun crowd assassinate Hillary Clinton. By this past weekend, the look on his face said it all — “I hate this! I want my show back!” But it was too late. He was damaged goods, his brand beyond repair, a worldwide laughing stock — and worse, a soon-to-be loser."



By Anonymous commenter at YouTube
October 6, 2015

The world is a big stage, and we are all actors in it. Donald Trump is being used as a distraction (psy/ops). If you want to play the game, you have follow a script.....

Trump sounds like he is really for America, which is refreshing.  I didn't even vote the last two elections, because I could tell the candidates were liars.  Trump must be an even better liar, because I believe what he says -- but I know that the puppet masters won't let him actually change things, and he must know that too.  :-(

And as Mark Twain said back in the day, "If it made any difference that we vote, they wouldn't let us."

Trump was put in the presidential line up to get the sheep to support the Republican brand.

When are you all going to realize that it does not matter who is president? If Trump wins, so what? Do you really think that the un-elected bureaucrats care who holds the office of president thinks? Do you think the bankers really care who wins? Washington is so corrupt that one man cannot change it. Sin in this country is so rampant that judgment is upon it with a corrupt government. So stop worrying about who will hold the office of the president and get your own house in order. Time is short.

Trump's popularity proves that the people are fed-up with the way things have become in this country, and what he says openly is what so many of us have to be content with merely thinking or saying between ourselves. I think that's his main appeal to the public.

I haven't watched this video yet (I will soon). I just wanted to pop on here to tell you that this morning as I was checking out the latest hoax explosion in Bangkok I was scrolling through the news media pictures on Yahoo mail with all the numbers, symbolism, and Saturnian color coding in every picture (27 dead=9 at 715pm = 13). Anyway, I was clicking NEXT-NEXT-NEXT and then Trumps giant face popped up in the scroll!  THAT was weird, but blatant subliminal messaging, and when I then clicked the BACK button, his picture was no longer there. Anyway, just keep your eyes wide shut (haha) my friends.

Mom Sues Cops for Punching Her in the Face During Arrest While Her Kids Looked On

Video of woman's terrifying arrest could land cops in hot water

October 5, 2015

SheKnows - Cindy Hahn describes it as her "most horrific day": A seemingly innocuous exchange between her and a police officer escalated, until she was on the ground, being punched in the face. A bystander caught the whole thing on camera, and now she may finally get some justice.

Hahn was leaving a birthday party in 2013 with her 7- and 11-year-old children when, she says, she passed a police officer standing near a car, blaring its alarm, and asked him what was going on. The police officer allegedly responded by telling Ms. Hahn to "mind [her] own f***ing business," prompting the mom to call the nonemergency police line to complain about the officer's behavior.

Instead the officer followed Hahn as she got into her car, and pulled her over immediately, ostensibly for a seat belt violation, a citation Hahn maintains she never received. She was asked to exit the vehicle, and that was when things got out of control: The video above shows Hahn, pinned to the ground, screaming for help over and over again while onlookers ask, "What are you doing to her?" Another officer arrives on the scene, but instead of de-escalating the situation, it appears he joins in, punching Hahn in the face "with a closed fist," according to court documents.

The video is shocking — there's no doubt about that. The fact that her children could only look on from the back seat of the car while their mother was beaten makes it worse, but by far the scariest part is that before the video surfaced, Hahn was facing charges of felony battery on a peace officer, fighting a court battle that ultimately lasted two years.

Those charges were finally dropped when the video surfaced, making it clear that Hahn — and not the two officers — was the victim in this altercation and not the instigator, as they had initially alleged.

This isn't the first time a bystander has affected change just by switching on their phone's camera. We've seen a number of instances like this in recent years, and the reaction to these videos is practically universal: shock and outrage.
 
That's because with the technology we all have in our pockets and use every day, these victims have something they wouldn't have had in years past: a perfectly accurate witness to their ordeals. A camera can't forget details or be intimidated or confuse a timeline.

It's one thing to hear about something like this, but it's a completely different thing to see it for yourself. In the past, an onlooker couldn't do much but witness what was happening right in front of them. They might try to intervene, which could be risky, or they might report what they saw, which could be easily discounted or ignored. Now, we all have a way to help, and we carry it with us every day.

In this instance, it's what's going to hopefully get Cindy Hahn and her family the justice they rightly deserve.

Israel Bars Palestinians from Jerusalem's Old City as Violence Spreads

On Monday, troops shot dead 13-year-old Palestinian Abdel Rahman Abdullah -- the second killing of a Palestinian in 24 hours -- as dozens were wounded in clashes. After Abdullah's funeral on Tuesday, about 100 masked youths stoned soldiers who responded with tear gas and rubber bullets. Netanyahu has announced new measures including bolstering security forces, expediting demolition of suspected attackers' homes and more detentions without trial. Rules for when security forces can open fire have also been loosened. Israel lifted temporary restrictions Tuesday barring Palestinians from Jerusalem's Old City, where only residents, business owners and students had been allowed in for two days. It also said it was removing restrictions on Muslim prayer at the Al-Aqsa compound which had since Sunday been limited to men aged 50 and above, although there were no restrictions for women. The clampdown was imposed after two Israelis were stabbed to death in the Old City. Around 300,000 Palestinians live in Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem, where the Old City is located. [AFP]

Netanyahu vows 'fight to death' as clashes spread after attacks

October 5, 2015

AFP - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged "a fight to the death against Palestinian terror" as clashes spread after two deadly attacks, while Jerusalem's Old City was closed to Palestinians for a second day Monday.

The Israeli premier's comments late on Sunday came as he convened security chiefs immediately after landing back from the United States to discuss the clashes in east Jerusalem and the West Bank.

Palestinian youths throwing stones and firebombs have faced off against Israeli security forces using both live rounds and rubber bullets. Jewish settlers have also clashed with Palestinians.

The rioting has followed three attacks in recent days that have killed four Israelis and wounded several others, including a two-year-old child.

Threatening to further stoke the flames, Israeli troops shot dead an 18-year-old Palestinian during clashes in Tulkarem in the West Bank on Sunday, Palestinian police and medics said. Dozens of others have been wounded.

There have been fears that the sporadic violence could spin out of control, with some warning of the risk of a third Palestinian intifada, or uprising.

Netanyahu, facing pressure from right-wing members of his governing coalition to respond forcefully, announced a package of new measures "to prevent terror and deter and punish the attackers".

They included swifter demolition of the homes of those accused of attacks, broader use of detention without trial for suspects, and police and troop reinforcements for Jerusalem and the West Bank.

He also spoke of using restraining orders to keep "inciters" away from the flashpoint Al-Aqsa mosque compound, the site of repeated clashes in recent weeks.

Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas, who said in a UN speech last week that he was no longer bound by previous accords with Israel, accused the Israeli government of escalating tensions.

It was not clear what Abbas's UN declaration would mean in practice, including whether he would act to end security cooperation with Israel.

Early on Monday, Israel carried out an air strike on the Gaza Strip in response to a Palestinian rocket attack from the territory, an army statement said. No casualties were reported from either side.

The Gaza Strip is run by Abbas's rival, Islamist movement Hamas.

- Old City ban -

In a rare and drastic move, Israel barred Palestinians from Jerusalem's Old City on Sunday as violence spread after two Israelis were stabbed to death. The neighbourhood remained mainly quiet early Monday, with hundreds of police on patrol.

The Old City restrictions are to be in place through Monday, when Jews wrap up celebrations of the eight-day Sukkot holiday. Only Israelis, tourists, residents of the area, business owners and students were allowed in.

Worship at the sensitive Al-Aqsa mosque compound has been limited to men aged 50 and above. There were no age restrictions on women.

Around 300,000 Palestinians live in Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem, where the Old City is located.

Palestine May Seek International Process for Two-state Solution to the Long-festering Conflict with Israel

Abbas says Palestinians no longer bound by pacts with Israel

October 1, 2015

AP - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas told world leaders Wednesday that he is no longer bound by agreements that have defined relations with Israel for the past two decades and are meant to form the basis for a two-state solution to the Middle East conflict.

But what sounded like a potentially explosive declaration was blunted by the lack of any detail on how he plans to move forward.

Addressing the United Nations General Assembly, Abbas said Israel had repeatedly violated its commitments, most notably by expanding settlements in the West Bank and east Jerusalem, on lands the Palestinians seek for a future state.

Abbas' speech reflected growing Palestinian frustration and appeared aimed at focusing the attention of the international community — busy with the Syrian civil war and the migrants' crisis in Europe — on the long-festering Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

However, the Palestinian leader stopped short of specific threats that would irrevocably put him on a collision course with Israel, such as suspending security cooperation. Instead, he closed on a conciliatory note, saying that eventual peace between Israelis and Palestinians is "in the interest of our future generations."

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office issued a statement in response, saying that Abbas had delivered a "speech of lies that encourages incitement and unrest in the Middle East."

Netanyahu called on Abbas to "act responsibly" and answer his proposal for direct negotiations with Israel without any preconditions.

"The fact that time after time he (Abbas) does not respond is the best proof that he has no intention of reaching a peace agreement," he said.

No serious talks have been held since Netanyahu came to power in 2009. Abbas says he will not return to negotiations without a settlement freeze and an Israeli recognition of the pre-1967 frontier as the basis for border talks. Unlike some of his predecessors, Netanyahu has refused to accept the 1967 line as a starting point.

Abbas said Wednesday that Israel has repeatedly violated its commitments, including by expanding settlements, and called on the U.N. to provide international protection for the Palestinians.

The Palestinians "will not remain the only ones committed to the implementation of these agreements, while Israel continuously violates them," Abbas said.

"We therefore declare that we cannot continue to be bound by these agreements and that Israel must assume all of its responsibilities as an occupying power."

Israel's actions "render us an authority without real powers," he said.