Philosophers stone

Sources: On-duty cop caught on video stealing from Pat’s Cafe

By DAVID GAMBACORTA
Philadelphia Daily News

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Pat’s Cafe, a tiny corner bar in the Lower Northeast, is regarded as something of a sacred space by local residents and men and women in blue.

It is the place where Officer Gary Skerski, a beloved community-relations cop, lost his life when he interrupted an armed robbery on a warm spring night four years ago. An old wreath, a pair of decaying roses and a few small candles still mark the spot outside the bar, at Castor Avenue and Arrott Street, where Skerski was gunned down.

Imagine, then, how cops and locals felt yesterday when word spread that an on-duty police officer stole money from the bar’s safe early Tuesday, law-enforcement sources said.

The cop, who was joined by another on-duty officer and a third man in civilian clothes, hung out in the empty bar for about 40 minutes, watched TV and even drank beer, the sources said.

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Court in Khabarovsk region orders internet provider Rosnet to block YouTube over ultra-nationalist video

The regional ban was made because YouTube hosted Russia for Russians, an ultra-nationalist video. Photograph: The GuardianRussia‘s blogosphere reacted with anger today after a regional court banned YouTube because it carried a single video containing “extremist” content.

The court in Komsomolsk-on-Amur in Khabarovsk region in the Russian far east ordered Rosnet, a local internet provider, to block YouTube as well as three online libraries and a website that archives deleted web pages.

The regional ban was made because YouTube hosted Russia For Russians, an ultra-nationalist video which was added to the justice ministry’s federal list of banned extremist materials after a separate court decision in Samara region in November.

The other four sites – Web.archives.org, Lib.rus.ec, Thelib.ru and Zhurnal.ru – all carried copies of Hitler’s Mein Kampf.

Anton Nosik, Russia’s leading internet guru, condemned the decision. “The level of crassness in this court ruling is typical of legal proceedings concerning the internet in Russia,” he said. Google, the owner of YouTube, said the ruling violated Russians’ constitutional right to freedom of information.

Many bloggers also decried the ban, warning it could be a slippery slope to tighter censorship across the country.

“I can imagine it now,” wrote Ghost82 on LiveJournal. “Russia in 2015, YouTube is banned everywhere. In search of a gulp of air, people travel to the border with Georgia where they will sit with their laptops and pay unimaginable sums to connect to the internet via powerful Wi-Fi transmitters for a taste of depraved western civilisation.”

Alexander tweeted on RuTvit: “YouTube has been given to understand that Russia, Pakistan and North Korea have much in common.”

An engineer with Rosnet said the company had suggested prosecutors should contact the portals concerned directly to request they take down the offensive material, rather than issuing a blanket ban. “They [prosecutors] remained deaf to these pleas,” he told the Gazeta.ru news website. Rosnet is appealing the ruling.

While television is tightly controlled by the state, Russia’s soft authoritarian government has so far done little to rein in the internet. Social media and blogging sites are popular and provide a vital outlet for opposition and civil movements.

However, a package of laws to be reviewed by parliament in October could give the security services new powers to close down sites at short notice.

The YouTube ruling is likely to be an embarrassment for President Dmitry Medvedev, who recently launched his own channel on the video-sharing site.

Other countries that have banned YouTube include China, Pakistan, Turky and Iran.

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By Giordano Bruno

Neithercorp Press

For years, perhaps even decades, the Liberty Movement or elements of it have been waging a relentless and arduous battle; a painful and sometimes demoralizing struggle with no end in sight. This battle has consumed some people’s lives with few victories to speak of, making them bitter and indifferent to the fate of their fellow man. I speak not of our fight with Global Elites bent on centralized control of every country in the world, but of our fight with the average know-nothing American; our next door neighbor, our fellow employees on the job, even our own family members. The very same people we have recently come to term “Sheeple.”

Part Of The Herd

For people in the Liberty Movement who are privy to so much background knowledge of world events, it is often tempting to immediately label those people who have not yet been exposed to the facts as “Sheeple,” but this is not always the case. At one point or another, every one of us in the movement were completely unaware of the big picture, or had only a very vague impression of what Globalists were and how they manipulate the political and financial underpinnings of our society. Were we also Sheeple? If not, then what set us apart from others who did not take the initiative to learn more?

The fact is, it takes more than simply “not knowing” to be a part of the herd. It takes a special kind of willful ignorance.

When members of the Liberty Movement were first confronted with the reality of the “New World Order” (termed by global elitists, not us), we perhaps scoffed at first, but our intuition told us to look deeper, and we listened. Sheeple, on the other hand, are people who are confronted with the truth consistently, perhaps even daily, yet make the internal decision to ignore it, to block it out completely, to consciously make the decision that they will not even consider the possibility of the information’s validity. In psychology this level of denial is often associated with mild to very severe forms of mental illness, and in a sense, that’s exactly what Sheeple suffer from. Let’s examine further…

Did You Build Your Own World View, Or Was It Made For You?

Do you actively participate in the expansion of your own world view, or do you just parrot the talking points you hear on your favorite television news channel? Take honest note of what opinions you express and how you express them. How often do you repeat word for word what you hear from others? How often do you say only what you think other people want to hear? How often do you actually formulate your own conclusions on a subject based on facts you researched for yourself, instead of heard from someone else?

The problem is that many American’s are barely involved in the making of their own perspective, and this reflects a complete lack of interest in their own self awareness. In order to create one’s own world view, one must take interest in himself. This sounds vain, but taking interest in ones self also includes one’s failings and weaknesses; a frightening prospect for some people. Many decide that the pursuit of self knowledge is either too much work, or too painful to face, and instead choose the “path of least resistance,” become apathetic, and allow their environment to tell them who they are and what they believe. This creates a level of suggestivity akin to hypnosis, and the results on a mass scale can be horrifying. In a society of apathy, whoever controls the expressed world view of the general environment controls the world view of the people in it. The Mainstream Media accomplishes this task spectacularly.

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By Niall Ferguson

We have been raised to think of the historical process as an essentially cyclical one.

We naturally tend to assume that in our own time, too, history will move cyclically, and slowly.

Yet what if history is not cyclical and slow-moving but arhythmic, at times almost stationary, but also capable of accelerating suddenly, like a sports car? What if collapse does not arrive over a number of centuries but comes suddenly, like a thief in the night?

Great powers and empires are complex systems, which means their construction more resembles a termite hill than an Egyptian pyramid. They operate somewhere between order and disorder, on “the edge of chaos”, in the phrase of the computer scientist Christopher Langton.

Such systems can appear to operate quite stably for some time; they seem to be in equilibrium but are, in fact, constantly adapting.

But there comes a moment when complex systems “go critical”. A very small trigger can set off a phase transition from a benign equilibrium to a crisis.

Complex systems share certain characteristics. A small input to such a system can produce huge, often unanticipated changes, what scientists call the amplifier effect.

Empires exhibit many of the characteristics of other complex adaptive systems, including the tendency to move from stability to instability quite suddenly. But this fact is rarely recognised because of our addiction to cyclical theories of history. The Bourbon monarchy in France passed from triumph to terror with astonishing rapidity. The sun set on the British Empire almost as suddenly. The Suez crisis in 1956 proved that Britain could not act in defiance of the US in the Middle East, setting the seal on the end of empire.

What are the implications for the US today? The most obvious point is that imperial falls are associated with fiscal crises: sharp imbalances between revenues and expenditures, and the mounting cost of servicing a mountain of public debt.

Think of Spain in the 17th century: already by 1543 nearly two-thirds of ordinary revenue was going on interest on the juros, the loans by which the Habsburg monarchy financed itself.

Or think of France in the 18th century: between 1751 and 1788, the eve of Revolution, interest and amortisation payments rose from just over a quarter of tax revenue to 62 per cent.

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People Begin Living without Electricity and water in California

I couldn’t find statistics for local utility shut offs in my area, but I knew we would start to see more and more of this.

Houses everywhere are going vacant. People don’t say goodbye, they don’t leave a number, they just disappear. With their disappearance we add another vacant house to the street. But families living in housing without utilities is a new sight for me to behold. I spoke recently with a rep from So Cal Edison who, full time contacts residence who have had their electricity turned off due to non payment. She has a negotiator sent in and they work on a reduced payment. It’s amazing to me, that now, it is becoming acceptable in California to camp out in your home.

People are losing their homes, losing their cars and losing their dignity. How are we going to afford kids clothes and school supplies for the coming year? How can we expect families to pay for all these additional costs when the economy is in the shape it in. I ask myself this everyday.

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By Barry Grey

More than one in five Americans in 2009 suffered a household income loss of 25 percent or more over the previous year, according to a new report sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation and entitled “Economic Security at Risk.” The report documents a steady increase in economic insecurity since the 1960s, and concludes that annual income losses of 25 percent or greater increased by 49.9 percent between 1985 and 2009.

“Putting this trend in terms of population,” the report states, “approximately 46 million Americans were counted as insecure in 2007, up from 28 million in 1985.” The head of the research team that prepared the report, Yale University Professor Jacob Hacker, told an interviewer, “What we’re seeing, basically, is what we’re calling ‘the new normal.’ We’re slowly ratcheting up this level of economic insecurity.”

The research group has devised what it calls the Economic Security Index (ESI), which measures the share of Americans in a given year who experience at least a 25 percent decline in their available household income and who lack a financial safety net to replace the lost income. Such a sudden income drop—usually due to the loss of employment, high medical expenses, or a combination of the two—often leaves people facing destitution.

The report does not include 2010, when long-term joblessness has become endemic. The ESI for this year will doubtless be considerably higher than for 2009.

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By Sally Exoudhu.

First, the military and police are an unfortunate temporary expense. In the new upgraded transhuman, posthuman, post-democratic order they are to be either culled or re-engineered. That is a fact!

Standard sample letter to friendly military/police personnel:

Dear military person or police officer,

We, the taxpaying public appreciate the fact that you have joined the force for protecting, the general public, from fascism. You have joined with honourable intentions. However, we notice sadly that the force has been taken over by fascists at the highest levels, and that you are unwittingly being manipulated into becoming pawns in the process of establishing a brutal Police State. Your superiors are conspiring against you and turning you against us, the very people you initially signed up to protect.

In Nazi Germany and Soviet countries, people swore allegiance to their psychopathic leaders. They were used as pawns to attack the public. You have not sworn allegiance to any ‘great leader’, yet you have been manipulated into a position whereby your job is to treat civilians as if they were terrorists, criminals and lowlife. Any country that accepts this is not a country worth living in, I am sure you will agree.

Please bear in mind your own children and grandchildren who will be living in the Police State. You have been harvested, duped and are being used, unwittingly as a weapon against your own children and against the decent, honest, hardworking, taxpaying people who make this country what it is.

The real criminals and assailants are at the top of, what is clearly a corrupt pyramid of power, using you as – dare I say it – useful idiots, to further their agenda of corruption. We find this an insult to your integrity!

There is one word for these criminals and one word only.

THEY ARE TRAITORS.

They are committing the crime of treason, and pulling the wool over your eyes, and ours. Treason is the most serious crime imaginable. It amounts to the murder of an entire country, your country, my country. It is the handing over of a country to an enemy. It amounts to the tearing up of the constitution, for which our ancestors fought and died. We are not blaming you, as you and we, are the victims of an entire complex mechanism, a web of lies and deception, and we believe the traitors are training you to not trust the public, and treat all with suspicion. This is a socially, and scientifically designed system to divide-and-rule everyone, leading to a total breakdown and debasement of our cherished society, with everybody spying on everybody else – a psycho-political technique perfected in, and imported from, the Soviet Union.

Those of us (including you) who know about the treason are complicit in the crime, and are ourselves automatically guilty of the crime of Misprision of Treason, for which we could go to prison. Therefore, it is our solemn duty as upstanding citizens to report the criminals, and see to it that the twisted manipulating perpetrators of the treason pay the price. The police and military need to wake up to the treason, stand up, blow the whistle and speak out on behalf of the innocent people whom they have initially signed up to protect. Should this involve a mutiny within the force, so be it!  Such a mutiny would be rightful and just, and in the interest of integrity, morality and future generations. We feel that our only hope is to reach the human element within the military and police.

Respectfully Yours

Signed …………

Above a just one example of a letter which could be sent. Use it, change it, alter it, adapt it, or scrap it or write your own letter in your own words. Use your own name, a pseudonym or send it anonymously to someone within the police or military who you know to be an honest upstanding person.

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By Neil Foster

Don’t you find it a bit strange that a bank being investigated for fraud, which the taxpayer is bailing out with billions of Euro is now taking over one of the oldest biggest department stores in Dublin with your money?

How can this happen when these crooks won’t even tell us where all the money went that we kindly handed over to them thus ensuring utter slavery for generations to come?

The truth is, we’re being screwed but then I probably don’t have to tell you that. I think it’s pretty obvious even to the Fine Fail coterie of partisan voters out there who must surely be starting to realise that they are going to lose everything too as the IMF crooks rape the country of even more wealth, including state assets to fill the coffers of their criminal mafia bosses, namely the international bankers.

Even David McWilliams, you know, the guy who can do no wrong when it comes to predicting the collapse of the economy and now a climate change guru to boot, is now saying that to sell state assets at bargain basement prices is a mistake.

Well, I might not be an ‘economic expert’ like Mr. McWilliams but to be honest I don’t have to be to see that selling state assets at bargain basement prices is a mistake. But let’s face facts here it isn’t a mistake at all. It’s a deliberate act of plundering which has been planned for some time by the IMF, World Bank etc to ensure that every nation is raped of its wealth and brought to its knees in line with the plans of the elite bankers who have deliberately crashed the world economy.

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When your father is a former U.S. President and your mother is the Secretary of State, having your wedding reception in the local pub isn’t an option.

Chelsea Clinton’s big day in a country mansion on Saturday could cost up to £3.2million.

No expense will be spared at what will be the American society event of the year, with the equivalent of £6,400 being spent on each of the 500 guests.

Last-minute shopping trip: Chelsea Clinton stocks up on books ahead of her wedding this weekend

Tents costing £400,000 have been set up, £70,000 is going on tables and crockery and a staggering £320,000 is being spent on flowers, thought to be Casablanca lillies and orchids.

Miss Clinton’s dress, designed by Oscar de la Renta or Vera Wang, is rumoured to be a cool £16,000, and the jewellery she wears on the day is worth £160,000. The cake alone will cost £7,000 and security a further £130,000.

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Floodwater is discharged through the Three Gorges Dam in central China’s Hubei Province. Photograph: Du Huaju/CorbisRecord high water levels are putting the capacity of China‘s massive Three Gorges dam to the test after heavy rains across the country, compounding flooding problems that have left more than 1,200 people dead or missing.

The dam’s water flow reached 56,000 cubic metres per second (1.96 million cubic feet), the biggest peak flow this year, with the water height reaching 158 metres (518 feet), the official Xinhua news agency reported. This is about 10% less than the dam’s maximum capacity.

Chinese officials for years have boasted the dam could withstand floods so severe they come only once every 10,000 years. The dam is the world’s largest hydroelectric project.

Floods this year have killed at least 823 people, with 437 missing, and have caused damage worth tens of billions of dollars, according to the state flood control agency. More heavy rains are expected for the south-east, south-west and north-east parts of the country.

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By Dan Olmsted and Mark Blaxill

Abnormal brain growth and function are features of autism, an increasingly common developmental disorder that now affects 1 in 60 boys in the US. Now researchers from the University of Pittsburgh and Thoughtful House Center for Children in Austin, Texas, have found remarkably similar brain changes to those seen in autism in infant monkeys receiving the vaccine schedule used in the 1990’s that contained the mercury-based preservative thimerosal.

The group’s findings were published yesterday in the journal Acta Neurobiologiae Experimentalis. They used scanning techniques that assessed both brain growth and brain function in the same animals over time. The research team was able to see differences in the way the brains of vaccinated and unvaccinated animals developed. Scans were performed before and after the administration of primary MMR and DTaP/Hib boosters that were given at the human equivalent of 12 months of age.

Throughout the study period, vaccinated animals showed an increase in total brain volume – a feature of the brain in many young children with autism – when compared with unvaccinated animals.  However, a specific part of the brain associated with emotional responses that is thought to be important in autism, the amygdala, did not show abnormalities until after the 12-month vaccines had been given. In addition, after the 12-month vaccines only, the functional brain scans showed significant differences between vaccinated and unvaccinated groups. These functional scans looked at the activity of receptors for morphine-like compounds (opioids) that may play a role in the brain of children affected by autism. Vaccine administration was associated with an increase in opioid binding activity in the amygdala compared with a decrease in the unvaccinated group.

The results indicate that multiple vaccine exposures during the previous 3-4 months may have had a significant impact on brain growth and development in ways that are consistent with the published data on autism. For the amygdala, the novel findings of abnormal growth and function appear to be a function of more recent vaccine exposures – the 12-month primary MMR vaccine and the DTaP and Hib boosters.

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