ZeroHedge – When The Defaults Come, So Will The Wealth Grab – 5 July 2014

The biggest problem with the epic Central Bank rig of the last five years is that propping up a bankrupt financial system by printing money only works for so long.

The reason for this is that no one, whether it be a country, company, or person, can defy mathematics.

A loan can be extended, it can be restructured, or it can be finagled in countless financial ways. But at the end of the day, if your creditors lost faith in your ability to repay it… it’s GAME OVER.

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Suzanne Lie – Back To The Beginning – 5 July 2014

As I come toward the conclusion of the Pleiadian books, I am coming towards the conclusion of many other areas of my life. Primarily, I recognize how the outdated behaviors of my third-dimensional self lower my consciousness. Third dimensional behaviors have always limited our consciousness, but we could not identify them quickly enough to see the connection. Then, a long “time” after that behavior we would realize the cause of the situation that we had created.

Mish/ Mike Shedlock – Who Is Foreign Aid For? Foreigners Or U.S. Corporations? – 5 july 2014

Logically, one might assume that “foreign” aid is legitimate aid to foreigners. A little digging reveals the true nature of “aid”.

For example, please consider the Foreign Policy Journal report Monsanto and Foreign Aid: Forcing El Salvador’s Hand.

U.S. foreign aid is expected to promote poverty alleviation and facilitate developmental growth in impoverished countries. Yet, corporations and special interest groups have permeated even the most well-intended of U.S. policies.

CommonDreams – Hillary Clinton: Snowden Should Submit To US Indictments – 5 July 2014

Hillary Clinton: Snowden Should Submit to US Indictments

Likely presidential candidate says whistleblower has right to defend himself even though law he’s charged under forbids protections

– Jon Queally, staff writer

Hillary Clinton that if Edward Snowden really wants “debate” about NSA surveillance, he would submit himself to legal process she admits knowing very little about. In comments made to the Guardian newspaper on Friday, former U.S. Secretary of State and likely presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden should return home and face charges levied against him by the U.S. government.

“If he wishes to return knowing he would be held accountable and also able to present a defense, that is his decision to make,” Clinton told the newspaper during an interview conducted over video stream.

Snowden, whose disclosures have led to global uproar surrounding U.S. government surveillance on the world’s population, remains in Russia where has received asylum status. Both his lawyers and the former intelligence contractor himself have said that because he has been charged under the Espionage Act he would be denied protections afforded whistleblowers which would prevent him from arguing that his decision to leak the classified information was made in the name of the public interest.
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CommonDreams – Defenders Of Bees Celebrate Retreat Of Corporate Pesticide Peddler – 5 July 2014

Defenders of Bees Celebrate Retreat of Corporate Pesticide Peddler

Agrochemical giant Syngenta withdrawals a request for ’emergency exemption’ of harmful ‘neonics’ in the UK

– Jon Queally, staff writer

In a victory for environmental campaigners fighting to prevent the use of bee-killing pesticides, the agrochemical giant Syngenta on Friday withdrew an emergency application seeking permission to use such chemicals in the UK this planting season.

British Gas Forced To Pay A Sum Of £1M For Mis-Selling Energy Packages – 5 July 2014

In the latest scandal to hit the UK Energy sector, British Gas has agreed to pay £1m to customers who were mis-sold energy deals. The compensation package was secured by Ofgem, a regulatory body responsible for monitoring the UK’s gas industry.

British Gas has admitted 5,600 customers were possibly mis-sold energy packages between February 2011 and March 2013.

The energy firm’s staff misquoted savings customers could make from switching to their tariffs, according to the regulator. Inflated savings estimates were issued to prospective customers in Sainsbury’s stores and London’s Westfield shopping centre.

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12 More EU States Warn Businesses Against Dealing With Israeli Settlements – 5 july 2014

Amid growing Palestine-Israeli tensions, 12 more EU states have joined European heavyweights – such as the UK, Germany and France – in urging their nationals to refrain from doing business in Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.

READ MORE Spain, Italy warn against investing in Israeli settlements

The group of those who issued warnings for their citizens on includes: Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Denmark, Finland, Greece, Ireland, Luxembourg, Malta, Portugal, Slovakia, and Slovenia.

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NaturalNews – L.J. Devon – Water Being Auctioned For Millions Of Dollars In California As Drought Reaches Extremes – 5 July 2014

(NaturalNews) As the water shortage crisis in California rises to a boil, desperate farmers are coming forward to bid on the remaining steam. The Central Valley in California is indeed drying up, but private landowners who still have leftover water reserves on their property are now looking to cash in.

A California water rush is on, as water is being auctioned for millions and aquifers are depleted.

NaturalNews – Paul Fassa – Compelling Evidence: Slathering On Toxic Sunscreen And Avoiding The Sun Could Jeopardize Your Health And Shorten Your Life – 5 July 2014

(NaturalNews) According to a June 2014 article featured in The Independent (UK), a major study conducted by researchers at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden found that women who avoid sunbathing during the summer are twice as likely to die as those who sunbathe every day.

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Just 4 Fracking Wastewater Sites Cause 20 Percent Of All Central US Earthquakes – Study – 5 July 2014

Just four wastewater wells in Oklahoma – where energy companies dump water after completing the hydraulic fracturing process – have caused scores of earthquakes this year, some 30 km from the site, according to a new study by top US universities.

The report, published in Science magazine, focused on the Midwestern state, which has produced 45 percent of the country’s magnitude 3 or bigger seismic shocks in the past five years – with the numbers rising rapidly to match the intensification of fracking activities in the area.

While hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, – which involves pressuring rock formations with liquid until they crack, and then extracting the oil and gas within – poses an inherent risk of earthquakes, according to the authors, the biggest culprits were the wastewater wells, where the liquids used for fracking are pumped, once a reservoir is opened.

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