Tuesday, September 17, 2013
Turkey downs Syrian helicopter, claims it violated airspace
A Turkish F-16 jet has shot down a Syrian MI-17 attack helicopter, saying it made a 2 km incursion into its airspace and ignored warnings.
The Turkish military has released a statement saying that it first identified the Russian-built helicopter 26 nautical miles (48 km) away from its airspace, and radioed the pilots until it was within 5 nautical miles (9 km) of it.
Reacting to the incident, Syria has accused its neighbor of trying to escalate tensions along the border.
"The hasty response from the Turkish side, especially as the aircraft was on its way back and was not charged with any combat missions, is proof of the true intentions of Erdogan's government toward Syria, to increase tensions and escalate the situation on the border between the two countries," Syria's armed forces said in a statement reported by the state news agency SANA.
Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc said the helicopter was shot down after it ventured up to 2 km into Turkey near the border town of Yayladagi.
"It was continuously warned by our air defence but as the violation continued, it fell on Syrian soil at 2:25 pm (1125 GMT), having been hit by missiles from our planes," Bulent Arinc said to reporters in Ankara.
The helicopter was shot down by a patrol of two US-made F-16s launched from the Kurecik Air Force Base, on the eastern side of Turkey, which shares a 900 km border with Syria.
Arinc said that the army relaxed its rules of engagement after Syria shot down a Turkish plane in June last year, killing two pilots. Now, any approach from an aircraft operated by the Syrian government is treated as a “military threat”.
Credit To RT
Fukushima 'Emergency Measure': Pumping Radioactive Water Into Pacific After Typhoon
After Typhoon Man-Yi tore through Japan and hit the Fukushima area, workers feared that heavy rainfall caused by the typhoonwould raise the water levels to the point where flooding would occur, they decided to open the barriers and release what TEPCO claims was low level contaminated, aka radioactive water into the Pacific.
The amount of water released is not known.
Due to TEPCO and Japan downplaying previous bad news, there is no way of knowing how serious this new "event" truly is.
If the problems at the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant aren't enough, Kyodo reports more issues at Japan’s Monju test reactor site in Fukui as data has been suspended since early Monday.
Transmission of reactor monitoring data to the government's Emergency Response Support System stopped before 3 a.m., the NRA said. The NRA is collecting necessary data from the Japan Atomic Energy Agency that operates the reactor.
There are no prospects for restoration of data transmission for now, with the reactor site in Tsuruga, Fukui Prefecture, inaccessible due to mudslides and fallen trees caused by the typhoon, it said.
The amount of water released is not known.
Due to TEPCO and Japan downplaying previous bad news, there is no way of knowing how serious this new "event" truly is.
If the problems at the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant aren't enough, Kyodo reports more issues at Japan’s Monju test reactor site in Fukui as data has been suspended since early Monday.
Transmission of reactor monitoring data to the government's Emergency Response Support System stopped before 3 a.m., the NRA said. The NRA is collecting necessary data from the Japan Atomic Energy Agency that operates the reactor.
There are no prospects for restoration of data transmission for now, with the reactor site in Tsuruga, Fukui Prefecture, inaccessible due to mudslides and fallen trees caused by the typhoon, it said.
What Is More Deadly, Guns or Secular Liberalism
Well here we go again… All those on the Left have been chomping at the bit to use the horrific Newtown mass murders of last year to go after our second amendment rights. No doubt these will continue their push as they seek to now exploit the D.C naval yard mass murders for their own lawless agenda. In the lawless reprobate mind it is the “evil” gun that kills people not the psychopaths who use them. The idiotic rational behind the “gun-less” utopian vision is that if we rid the world of all our guns and conservatives who carry guns we will then enter into a world peace and all hold hands as we sing “ I’d Like to Buy the World a Coke”. I know this illustration sounds quite silly but this is what these godless moral relativists truly believe. I should know, I talked with a couple of them today and was stupefied at the reasoning. My dear friends, there is absolutely no talking to the individual that has given themselves over unto liberalism and a reprobate mind, especially those who adhere to moral relativism (Rom. 1:18-31, Jude 1:10).
Secular moral relativistic liberalism is a far more deadly then any gun out there in America society today.
These are void of moral absolutes, brain washed with political correctness and dominated by unbounded emotional passions which is based on a hatred of absolutes. As I concluded my conversation I was inwardly sadly laughing at the stupidity and lack of God given common sense that these two individuals adhered to. Then it hit me like a ton of bricks; secular moral relativistic liberalism is a far more deadly then any gun out there in America society today. As I started to ponder on this truth it revealed itself to me as the height of hypocrisy for any liberal to damn guns and responsible gun owners; for the liberal godless mind who pedals moral relativism and political correctness upon a healthy society is a far more destroying force filled with destruction, death, violence and social devastation and all who receive its teaching as a society are under its oppressive jack boot.
A gun is an amoral object. It can neither be good or evil. It can be used for good or evil based on whom ever is using it. To place a ban on all guns will not rid the world of the mind which has sold its self over to lawlessness, violence and anarchy (Rom. 1:18-31, 3, Gal. 5:19-21). If guns are removed these raging demoniac will find something to strike out and to destroy with. Before the gun was the spear and sword and before the spear and sword was a rock and a fist. People have found countless ways to act out their aggression and if all guns were taken away they would find something else to use. That is simple enough.
The reprobate mind is filled with violence, moral relativism and lawlessness designs and its actions have ravished this nation beyond all recognition of what the founding fathers envisioned.
Let us first look at the barbaric act of abortion. Since 1973 there has been 55 million abortions of our American children. May I say that NO gun has ever achieved that statistic not even all the combined arsenal of WW2! The abortion agenda of the Left is the holy grail of their godless ideology. The abortion ideology is a narcissistic ideology, which at its core is rooted in pure death. Of all issues that liberalism promotes and seeks acceptance for none is more championed and protected by these barbarians then abortion. Oh the hypocrisy of the Left!
We as a nation have received the Left’s critical theory as absolute today and our family unit, men, women, children and every aspect of our society in the name of “liberation” and personal freedom have reaped the whirlwind upon our culture and society.
Another deviant practice of the liberal mind is that of sexual deviance. The lawless liberal mind seeks to legitimize and promote all unnatural acts of sexual perversion which has reaped absolute devastation on our American culture and society. Sodomy, pedophilia, adultery, pornography, nudity, immodest dress, deviant sexual promiscuity etc. have all been legitimized and pushed on our Judeo/Christian culture by our 24/7 media, Hollywood, the music industry and Internet. We as a nation today have been dumbed down and placed under a demonic hypnotic stupor. We as a nation have received the Left’s critical theory as absolute today and our family unit, men, women, children and every aspect of our society in the name of “liberation” and personal freedom have reaped the whirlwind upon our culture and society (Isa. 5:20, Rom. 1:18-32, 1 Cor. 1:18-31).
Aids, sexually transmitted diseases, abortion, death, many faceted philological problems, violence, oppression, tyranny, slavery, addiction, damnable dependency etc… etc… have all come to be and now have their jack boot on the neck of our nation all because of the reprobate mind which has now become legal (Isa. 5:20).
My friends it is not too hard to see for those who adhere to light and right (John 3:19-21, 8:32, 36), but our day has become so dark, so deviant, so lawless and yes relativistic that the average Joe or Sally is totally oblivious to Divine REALITY and moral absolutes. Today absolutes are so twisted out of proportion, words and morals are redefined to legitimize lawlessness. Good is called evil and evil good! Such were the days in which Isaiah the prophet spoke about and here we are today with the very same spirit at work in our nation.
My dear friend our day is only going to get worse until we as a nation finally implode on ourselves. Decadence, lawlessness and moral relativism are now the dominant ideology of our land. We indeed as a nation have apostatized not just from Almighty God and His Word but from moral absolutes as well. The result of this apostasy is very evident today throughout our U.S. culture and society.
Do not let reprobate minds who are saturated with lawlessness deceive you into what is right and what is wrong. So subtle are their lies that many today are being deceived and allowing their emotions to do their “thinking for them.
It is easy to deduce that the Liberal mind - void of Almighty God and moral absolutes is the exceedingly far greater evil and threat to our culture and society than a gun.
My dear friends the inmates are now running the asylum, Washington and the media. May Almighty God’s Word give you the light you need and keep your rooted and grounded as we as a nation and a world head strait into the Day of the Lord.
The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!
DJP I.F
Credit to The Ignorant Fishermen Blog
Earthquakes Swarm at Yellowstone National Park
More than 100 earthquakes have shaken Yellowstone National Park since last Tuesday, with the strongest, a tremblor of 3.6 magnitude, felt Sunday, according to the University of Utah Semisograph Stations.
The quake occurred at 9:53:02 a.m. Sunday; the epicenter of the shock was located in Yellowstone's Lower Geyser Basin area, 8 miles north of Old Faithful, and 15 miles southeast of West Yellowstone.
According to the seismograph station, the swarm began September 10 and has included quakes near Lewis Lake, the Lower Geyser Basin, and in an area northwest of Norris Geyser Basin.
"A total of 130 earthquakes of magnitude 0.6 to 3.6 have occurred in these three areas, however, most have occurred near the Lower Geyser Basin," park officials reported. "Notably, much of the seismicity in Yellowstone occurs as swarms. The University of Utah Seismograph Stations continues to monitor Yellowstone earthquakes and will provide additional information if the earthquake swarm activity increases."
Credit To National Parks Traveler
25 Fast Facts About The Federal Reserve
As we approach the 100 year anniversary of the creation of the Federal Reserve, it is absolutely imperative that we get the American people to understand that the Fed is at the very heart of our economic problems. It is a system of money that was created by the bankers and that operates for the benefit of the bankers.
The American people like to think that we have a "democratic system", but there is nothing "democratic" about the Federal Reserve. Unelected, unaccountable central planners from a private central bank run our financial system and manage our economy. There is a reason why financial markets respond with a yawn when Barack Obama says something about the economy, but they swing wildly whenever Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke opens his mouth.
The Federal Reserve has far more power over the U.S. economy than anyone else does by a huge margin. The Fed is the biggest Ponzi scheme in the history of the world, and if the American people truly understood how it really works, they would be screaming for it to be abolished immediately. The following are 25 fast facts about the Federal Reserve that everyone should know...
#1 The greatest period of economic growth in U.S. history was whenthere was no central bank.
#2 The United States never had a persistent, ongoing problem with inflation until the Federal Reserve was created. In the century before the Federal Reserve was created, the average annual rate of inflation was about half a percent. In the century since the Federal Reserve was created, the average annual rate of inflation has beenabout 3.5 percent, and it would be even higher than that if the inflation numbers were not being so grossly manipulated.
#3 Even using the official numbers, the value of the U.S. dollar has declined by more than 95 percent since the Federal Reserve was created nearly 100 years ago.
#4 The secret November 1910 gathering at Jekyll Island, Georgia during which the plan for the Federal Reserve was hatched was attended by U.S. Senator Nelson W. Aldrich, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Department A.P. Andrews and a whole host of representatives from the upper crust of the Wall Street banking establishment.
#5 In 1913, Congress was promised that if the Federal Reserve Act was passed that it would eliminate the business cycle.
#6 The following comes directly from the Fed's official mission statement: "To provide the nation with a safer, more flexible, and more stable monetary and financial system. Over the years, its role in banking and the economy has expanded."
#7 It was not an accident that a permanent income tax was also introduced the same year when the Federal Reserve system was established. The whole idea was to transfer wealth from our pockets to the federal government and from the federal government to the bankers.
#8 Within 20 years of the creation of the Federal Reserve, the U.S. economy was plunged into the Great Depression.
#9 If you can believe it, there have been 10 different economic recessions since 1950. The Federal Reserve created the "dotcom bubble", the Federal Reserve created the "housing bubble" and now it has created the largest bond bubble in the history of the planet.
#10 According to an official government report, the Federal Reserve made 16.1 trillion dollars in secret loans to the big banks during the last financial crisis. The following is a list of loan recipients that was taken directly from page 131 of the report...
Citigroup - $2.513 trillion
Morgan Stanley - $2.041 trillion
Merrill Lynch - $1.949 trillion
Bank of America - $1.344 trillion
Barclays PLC - $868 billion
Bear Sterns - $853 billion
Goldman Sachs - $814 billion
Royal Bank of Scotland - $541 billion
JP Morgan Chase - $391 billion
Deutsche Bank - $354 billion
UBS - $287 billion
Credit Suisse - $262 billion
Lehman Brothers - $183 billion
Bank of Scotland - $181 billion
BNP Paribas - $175 billion
Wells Fargo - $159 billion
Dexia - $159 billion
Wachovia - $142 billion
Dresdner Bank - $135 billion
Societe Generale - $124 billion
"All Other Borrowers" - $2.639 trillion
Morgan Stanley - $2.041 trillion
Merrill Lynch - $1.949 trillion
Bank of America - $1.344 trillion
Barclays PLC - $868 billion
Bear Sterns - $853 billion
Goldman Sachs - $814 billion
Royal Bank of Scotland - $541 billion
JP Morgan Chase - $391 billion
Deutsche Bank - $354 billion
UBS - $287 billion
Credit Suisse - $262 billion
Lehman Brothers - $183 billion
Bank of Scotland - $181 billion
BNP Paribas - $175 billion
Wells Fargo - $159 billion
Dexia - $159 billion
Wachovia - $142 billion
Dresdner Bank - $135 billion
Societe Generale - $124 billion
"All Other Borrowers" - $2.639 trillion
#11 The Federal Reserve also paid those big banks $659.4 million in fees to help "administer" those secret loans.
#12 The Federal Reserve has created approximately 2.75 trillion dollars out of thin air and injected it into the financial system over the past five years. This has allowed the stock market to soar to unprecedented heights, but it has also caused our financial system to become extremely unstable.
#13 We were told that the purpose of quantitative easing is to help "stimulate the economy", but today the Federal Reserve is actually paying the big banks not to lend out 1.8 trillion dollars in "excess reserves" that they have parked at the Fed.
#14 Quantitative easing overwhelming benefits those that own stocks and other financial investments. In other words, quantitative easing overwhelmingly favors the very wealthy. Even Barack Obama has admitted that 95 percent of the income gains since he has been president have gone to the top one percent of income earners.
#15 The gap between the top one percent and the rest of the country is now the greatest that it has been since the 1920s.
#16 The Federal Reserve has argued vehemently in federal court that it is "not an agency" of the federal government and therefore not subject to the Freedom of Information Act.
#17 The Federal Reserve openly admits that the 12 regional Federal Reserve banks are organized "much like private corporations".
#18 The regional Federal Reserve banks issue shares of stock to the "member banks" that own them.
#19 The Federal Reserve system greatly favors the biggest banks. Back in 1970, the five largest U.S. banks held 17 percent of all U.S. banking industry assets. Today, the five largest U.S. banks hold 52 percent of all U.S. banking industry assets.
#20 The Federal Reserve is supposed to "regulate" the big banks, but it has done nothing to stop a 441 trillion dollar interest rate derivatives bubble from inflating which could absolutely devastate our entire financial system.
#21 The Federal Reserve was designed to be a perpetual debt machine. The bankers that designed it intended to trap the U.S. government in a perpetual debt spiral from which it could never possibly escape. Since the Federal Reserve was established nearly 100 years ago, the U.S. national debt has gotten more than 5000 times larger.
#22 The U.S. government will spend more than 400 billion dollarsjust on interest on the national debt this year.
#23 If the average rate of interest on U.S. government debt rises to just 6 percent (and it has been much higher than that in the past), we will be paying out more than a trillion dollars a year just in interest on the national debt.
#24 According to Article I, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution, the U.S. Congress is the one that is supposed to have the authority to "coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures". So exactly why is the Federal Reserve doing it?
#25 There are plenty of possible alternative financial systems, but at this point all 187 nations that belong to the IMF have a central bank. Are we supposed to believe that this is just some sort of a bizarre coincidence?
The Economic Collapse
ABC Reported Navy Attack Day Before It Happened!
The Associated Press, as shown in this screenshot of an ABC story, reported the DC Navy Yard shooting on September 15th, a day before it actually happened. Nearly identical to an incident that happened at Sandy Hook, is there any explanation for this? Notice the headline; then notice the date right below it. The commenters on this story picked this right up as shown in the 2nd screenshot down below. Conspiracy theory forums are having a blast with this one….what’s going on? Is this still more proof of another false flag unfolding before our eyes? Dahboo77 gives his take on what is looking more and more to be another false flag in the video below.
Credit AP
Russia Reopens Military Base to Control Key Part of Arctic – Putin
MOSCOW, September 16 (RIA Novosti) – Russia will reopen a military base in the New Siberian Islands, an Arctic archipelago north of Yakutia, to secure control of the strategic region, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Monday.
“Our forces left the area in 1993, and in the meantime it has become a very important point in the Arctic Ocean, a new stage in the development of the Northern Sea Route,” Putin told a meeting of Defense Ministry officials.
Putin said Russia “will not only reinstate the military base in this area, but will also restore the airfield and allow for collaborative work with representatives of the Emergency Situations Ministry, hydrologists and climate experts to ensure security and efficient operation of the Northern Sea Route."
Under international law, the Arctic belongs to no single country, but the huge area is strategically important for northern hemisphere countries and is believed to contain huge quantities of hydrocarbons and other minerals.
Russia's Defense Ministry said Saturday that the arrival of a Russian naval task force at the New Siberian Islands signaled the return of a permanent Russian military presence in the Arctic Region.
“Two days ago, a naval task force from the Northern Fleet began major exercises around the New Siberian Islands. We arrived there, or, more accurately, we have returned there forever,” Deputy Defense Minister Arkady Bakhin said after a meeting chaired by Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu.
The Russian task force is led by the heavy nuclear-powered guided-missile cruiser Pyotr Veliky, and includes the large amphibious assault ships Olenegorsky Gornyak and Kondopoga and a variety of other support vessels. The group of ships will take part in exercises around the New Siberian Islands, which are located between the Laptev Sea and the East Siberia Sea, Bakhin said.
The Northern Sea Route is a transport corridor along Russia’s northern coast linking Europe and Asia. The route is becoming increasingly open to commercial traffic as the climate warms and Arctic sea ice retreats.
Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said late last year that Russia risked losing its sovereignty by the mid-21st century if it does not assert its national interests in the Arctic today.
Credit to Ria Novosti
Italy Public Debt Will Rise More Next Year and Spain Debt Also Rises To Record
For all complaints about painful, unprecedented (f)austerity, the PIIGS (even those withrestructured debt such as Greece) sure have no problems raking up debt at a record pace. Over the weekend, Spanish Expansion reported that Spanish official debt (ignoring the contingent liabilities) just hit a new record.
"The debt of the whole general government reached 942.8 billion euros in the second quarter, representing an increase of 17.1% compared to the same period last year. Debt to GDP of 92.2% exceeds the limit set by the government for 2013..." Moments ago, it was Italy's turn to show that with employment still plunging, the only thing rising in Europe is total debt. From Reuters, which cites a draft Treasury document it just obtained: "Italy's public debt will rise next year to a new record of 132.2 percent of output, up from a previous forecast of 129.0 percent."
The Treasury is due to officially update its economic and public finance forecasts on Friday.The debt-to-GDP ratio came in at a record 127.0 percent last year and is forecast at 130.4 percent for 2013. The document did not contain any new forecast for this year.The document said Italy "cannot afford" to allow its budget deficit to exceed 3 percent of output this year, which would risk a return to the European Union's blacklist of countries with excessive deficits.
Which, incidentally is driven by the same factors as those faced by the US where total commercial loans and leases are now roughly where they were at the time Lehman filed.
And while in the US the slack is taken up by the Fed which pumps reserves into the economy and monetizes Treasurys to stimulate credit creation, in Europe in lieu of direct monetization, it is the Sovereign-Bank complex which is the sole source of debt issuance (banks buy sovereign debt, and pledge it back to the ECB as collateral) in Europe at a time when, when supposedly well into the "recovery", loan issuance to private businesses has never declined at a faster pace. Expect many more such budgets to be breached in the near and not so near future as the credit-driven recovery funded by sovereigns fails to translate into private sector credit creation.
Credit to Zero Hedge
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