Russia, Brazil Bring Bilateral Cooperation to New Level – Brazilian President

MOSCOW, July 14 (RIA Novosti) – The partnership between Russia and Brazil is getting stronger and moving to a new higher level, Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff said Monday.

“Our common strategy and partnership are getting stronger and moving to a higher level, which implies development of new projects. We see that your country is a very important player in terms of geopolitics both nowadays and in the future,” Rousseff stressed following the results of a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

The Brazilian leader also pointed to Russia-Brazil long-term partnership and expressed hope that it would further develop in various spheres.

“Our countries are one of the largest in the world and we cannot limit ourselves to what we have at the moment. The recent events show that scientific and technological cooperation is extremely significant, that is why I would like to say that I am glad that Russia has joined our scientific work and implementation of GLONASS satellite navigation systems in Brazil,” she said.

According to Rousseff, Russian companies could also expand their presence in Brazil “in the spheres of the oil sector and railway construction.”

The Brazilian president thanked Putin for “an excellent organization of the Sochi Olympic Games” and said she was convinced that “Russia and Brazil could always cooperate in sports projects: both in the 2018 World Cup and the 2016 Olympics in Brazil.”

President Putin met his Brazilian counterpart as part of his Latin American tour. On July 15-16, the Russian leader is due to attend a meeting of the BRICS nations also including India, China and South Africa, in the Brazilian city of Fortaleza.

Credit to RIA Novosti

The hidden intelligence agendas behind Hamas’ 1,000-rocket barrage

Hamas launches M-75 missiles


Speculation has been rife about the motivations behind Hamas’ more than 100-rocket-a-day barrage against the Israeli population, week after week. The most popular theory is that the Palestinian Islamists are aiming for a spectacular victory over Israel by hitting an important strategic target and/or causing a high number of fatalities. Until one or both those objectives is achieved, the Palestinian Islamists won’t stop shooting.

But, as the Israeli Operation Defends Edge ended its first week on July 14, another explanation was finding acceptance among well-informed military and intelligence observers: They don’t believe Hamas tacticians have squandered 1,000 rockets thus far on a whim or at random. They are most likely motivated by three goals, which are also important to Hamas’ future plans – and not just Hamas:

1. Why would Hamas keep on shooting when so many of its rockets miss their targets or are destined to be downed by Israel’s Iron Dome interception batteries? The answer is that its tacticians have a hidden agenda. The rocket crews and their masters are testing the strengths and weaknesses of Israel’s wonder weapon for future reference.

Hamas knew in advance of the massive rocket blitz it launched against Israel in the last week of June that the Iron Dome defensive shield was if not impermeable then a major impediment.

At the same time, by battering the very areas where this shield was deployed, Hamas planners sought to expose its weak points and provide the Palestinians terrorists and their allies, Iran and Hizballah, with valuable data about the linchpin of Israel’s defenses.

This explanation would account for the changing focus of the rocket barrage: After three days of concentrated fire on Israel’s three main cities, the Tel Aviv conurbation, Jerusalem and Haifa, Hamas turned Monday, July 14, to its familiar victims around the Gaza Strip’s borders. In those three days, data had been collected on Iron Dome’s performance and handed over to the analysts.
2. When the distribution of Hamas targets is examined, a premeditated program becomes visible: They were not randomly aimed at Dimona, Tel Aviv, Modiin and Hadera, but sought out the nuclear reactor (Dimona), Israel’s national and business heartland (Tel Aviv), the national power center (Hadera), Ben Gurion airport (Modiin), Israeli air bases near Negev towns, and military and port installations in Haifa, Ashkelon and Ashdod.

Hamas strategists noted that when the rocket fire intensified, so too did the Iron Dome interceptions.

While not averse to hitting Israel’s prime strategic sites directly, the Palestinians were their missed launches to develop data for guidance systems that would make their rockets and mortars more accurate in future conflicts.
The first Hamas drone from Gaza over Ashdod coast, shot down by a Patriot anti-missile early Monday, served this strategy,

The drone appears to have spent some time over the Mediterranean without approaching the Israeli coast before it was detected and downed. It may have been gathering information on the Israel coast and the strategic facilities located there.

Hamas later boasted that it had lofted not one but six unmanned aerial vehicles, whose range was 60 km and which were claimed capable of both surveillance and attack.

The IDF responded fast by declaring the southern coastal area a closed military zone.
Israel’s armed forces have been engaged in rocket-air combat for seven days, conducting a total of 1,470 air strikes, compared with more than 1,000 rockets fired by Hamas and its partner Jihad Islami.

Hamas still retains the bulk of its rocket stockpile. Some observers suggest that the Israeli Air Force will soon run out of worthwhile targets. The air force’s target bank is renewed almost hourly by incoming data. To replenish the dwindling stock, the military would have to expand its intelligence assets and resources, including surveillance and other means of monitoring the sites used by the enemy for control and command, as welll as informers.

Inserting a variety of sensitive intelligence resources at key points in the Gaza Strip is an essential requisite - not just for the current conflict, but for the long term. They would be there to have quality intelligence ready and available in real time, so providing a key factor for tipping the scales in the current and future rounds of violence.
Special forces working under cover to “label” targets for dedicated payloads to be delivered by air or “smart artillery” would provide such intelligence, just as Hamas uses rocket attacks and drones to suss out the secrets of Israel’s advanced defenses.

Above all, the clandestine insertion of special forces into the Gaza Strip could break the standoff between Israel and Hamas by cracking the control and surveillance communications systems linking commanders with the ranks and the politicians running the territory.
Ironically, the primitive nature of those communications makes them invulnerable to the IDF’s sophisticated Signal Intelligence (SIGINT) methods.

Credit to DEBFKAfile

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Is Your Church Part of the New World Order?

As this Sunday comes and goes, I will not be attending church. With a scant few exceptions the church has been invaded in the same manner that our Constitution has been obliterated.

Refusing to Stand Up to Evil

As the country struggles to come to grip with the illegal alien invasion, which threatens our economy, our collective health and out national sovereignty, we are unable to look to our churches to provide the leadership needed in this time of crisis. I have previously documented how several of the recent  unscreened illegal aliens have very serious illnesses, some of which have been caught by the Border Patrol, and nothing is being done except for the federal government’s threatening the whistleblowers with prison. I have also documented how some of the illegal immigrants are members of MS-13 who have decided ties to the Mexican drug cartels and ultimately to the most dangerous terrorist organizations on the face of the earth. Instead of heeding this well documented warnings, many of our churches are not condemning the evil. Instead, they are embracing the evil.

Most of the disciples of Jesus Christ were martyred for their uncompromising views towards corrupt civilian authority, except for John, who died of extreme old age and Judas, who committed suicide after betraying Jesus. Many of Jesus’ followers met an untimely end. For example, Peter was crucified, head downward, during the persecution of Nero. James, was thrown from a pinnacle of the Temple, and then beaten to death with a club. Thomas, the doubter, was run through the body with a lance at Coromandel, in the east Indies. Yet, today, most of our 501 C3 tax exempt churches have embraced the suicidal course of Judas as they have made a deal with the devil by espousing government doctrine even when it violates the word of God.

In opposition to the early founders of the church and in opposition to the teachings of Jesus Christ, today’s church bends over in the face of evil. It acquiesces to the evil and drags its followers to the gates of hell by demanding compliance to the illegitimate authority and decidedly non Christian forces which are subjugating this country. Today’s pastors are doing so under the guise of Romans 13.

Case In Point

Two San Bernardino-area churches; Fontana’s St. Josephs Catholic Church and St. Catherine of Siena Parish in Rialto. These churches have provided travel cash and bus tickets to recent illegal immigrants  as they are permanently embedded into the mainstream of our country. Many of these immigrants come from countries who have virulent outbreaks of very serious diseases and viruses for which the average American has no immunity. Yet, the Catholic Diocese of San Bernardino spokesman John Andrews told NBC Los Angeles that we will serve these people for as long as need to (even when it threatens the existing population). Why don’t these churches just hand out blankets on the street corners laced with small pox?

First, I would like to point out to these “benevolent” churches that we have homeless Vietnam veterans on seemingly every street corner begging for their next meal. Where is their compassion for these people? Charity begins at home and these two churches are examples on why I do cannot find a church worthy of trusting my soul to. If you want to feed today’s illegal immigrants, that is a noble cause. However, to pay to embed them in our society with no health screening or naturalization period is the height of social irresponsibility.

Today’s churches have been bought off by embracing a false interpretation of Romans 13.  IF these churches care so much for these recent immigrants, then pay for health screening physicals before transporting them into the heartland of country and exposing the reset of to some very serious health conditions. However, this will not happen, because the church has been successfully politicized and taken over.

The Church and Constitution Have Both Been Conquered

I recently condemned pastors who support and lead churches who “enjoy” the 501-C-3 tax exempt status offered by the IRS. Does your pastor command you to follow the will of the government because it is your Christian duty to do so under Romans 13? If so, your pastor is likely  a traitor to the word of God.

The modern interpretation of Romans 13 is pure blasphemy. This scripture has been morphed into a doctrine espousing the “Divine Right of Kings” in which God has somehow chosen a king to ruthlessly rule over a people and it is incumbent upon the people to accept their “God-given fate”,  The flock are commanded to “…submit himself to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established.”  This false interpretation is nothing but a divine coronation of a ruthless, self-serving government and Christians are expected to capitulate and honor the same kind of thievery, lawlessness and murder which inspired Jesus to expel the moneychangers from the Temple.

As I contemplate what many of the churches will be like as they embrace a perverted interpretation of Romans 13, I am left wondering what kind of God would condone the horrific abuses being perpetrated by the Obama administration? What kind of God would command its religious leaders to simply ignore the American Holocaust which has witnessed the murder of over 50 million American babies, since Roe v. Wade, in 1973? What kind of God would not have its clergy and its followers fail to condemn the bankster controlled wars of American imperialism which have resulted in the unnecessary deaths of millions of human beings? What kind of God would fail to command his clergy to not speak out and to condemn the actions of the criminal money changers on Wall Street, who are inspired only by the love of money as they continue their heinous assaults upon humanity in the form of unlabeled poisonous GMO’s, the theft of solvent home mortgages by the mega banks, and the secret detentions and the murder of American citizens under the NDAA. What kind of God would order his followers to remain silent as the bankster controlled government plans to commence a world war starting with Ukraine, Syria and Iran in order to support the preservation of the Petrodollar which will result in the potential death of billions of human beings?

In actuality, no God of the Bible would ever command his followers to both enable and to serve the evil which permeates our government. For any church that encourages complete obedience to a corrupt government has taken a big step towards accepting the Mark of the Beast. This is a very dangerous precedent, and this could potentially imperil the salvation of millions if Christians allow this false doctrine to expand across our nation’s churches.

The Clergy Response Team

If your church attempts to solicit donations from you to support the ongoing infiltration of our country by unscreened hordes of people. Get up out of your seat and walk out and do not return to that church. Why? Because it is likely that your church is a member of the Clergy Response Team and NOVAD.

The Clergy Response Team falls under the umbrella series of programs known as National Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster (NOVAD) which is a non-profit, member organization which shares knowledge and resources throughout a disaster. The organization helps to prepare, respond, recover and to mitigate the damage caused by some unknown disaster presumably which lies in the future of humanity.

Amazingly, NOVAD claims to be a faith-based coalition which is structured as a non-governmental organization and operates on a national scale and is supported by tax dollars funneled to DHS.

Instantly, Bible believing Christians should smell a rat. Since when, in the modern era, has the federal government ever sponsored organized religion? The answer is not since well before the advent of the atheist activist, Madalyn Murray O’Hair, who was successful in banning prayer in the public schools in 1963. Then why would the government suddenly fund and support a “faith-based organization” on a national scale?  The simple answer is that Homeland Security is seeking to control our churches and ministers, before the impending train wreck comes to fruition inside of America. DHS desperately is seeking to control all Christians through the perversion of Romans 13 and this is one of two cornerstones in this movement designed to control Christian leaders. And this government foothold into the control of our churches begins with accepting the 501-C-3 tax exempt status which gives the government license to control the message and to ultimately pervert the word of God.

According to the Internal Revenue Service, no substantial part of a religious, tax exempt church may engage in any activity which may be attempting to influence legislation and the church may not intervene in political campaigns. In other words, if the government decides to secretly disappear dissidents, the church must remain silent or risk losing its tax exemption. If the government continues to expand its infanticide policies by extending the murder of babies to include post-delivery abortion, then the church must remain silent. If the government engages in any heinous, genocidal act, such as the murder of 1.2 million Iraqi’s, under the false pretense of looking for weapons of mass destruction, the church must remain silent or risk losing the tax advantages for being a 501 (c)(3) tax exempt organization.

Combine the 501 (c)(3) financial motivation with the DHS inspired NOVAD directive for clergy to remind their flocks of their Christian duty to obey their government under any and all conditions, we are witnessing the neutering of our most precious institution and the ultimate salvation of millions could hang in the balance.

Conclusion

Who do you think is behind the immigration crisis? The United Nations, that is who. Who is behind the United Nations? The New World Order. Who does your church support?

With each passing crisis, that this administration refuses “to let go to waste”, our people increasingly are looking for leadership in all the wrong places.  If your pastor is a member of these federal organizations, run from that church. If  your church is a tax exempt church which worships money over God, don’t let the door in your church sanctuary hit you on the backside as you run from your soon-to-be former church.

Form prayer and home study bible groups, do not let a perverted phrase from the bible be used to subjugate you.

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You Want a Solution? Try Not to Get Hurt When It Collapses

Submitted by Charles Hugh-Smith of OfTwoMinds blog,

Once the deadwood piles high enough, the random lightning strike ignites a fire so fast-moving and so hot that it cannot be suppressed, and the entire financial system burns to the ground.

In discussing our broken healthcare system with a 22-year college graduate, I opined that Obamacare hadn't fixed anything that was broken. She observed that real reform was impossible due to vested interests and the only real solution was to "start over."

Exactly.

People constantly ask me for solutions to our all-too visible ills. You want solutions? Here's the solution for every systemic, structural problem we face: Avoid getting hurt when it collapses, then start over.

Over the nine years I've been writing this blog, I've offered dozens of systemic solutions, and have reprinted dozens more submitted by readers. For example:

Boomers, Prepare to Fall on Your Swords (June 2005)

The "Impossible" Healthcare Solution: Go Back to Cash (July 29, 2009)

Want to Reduce Income/Wealth Inequality? Abolish the Engine of Inequality, the Federal Reserve (January 28, 2014)

Nobody likes these solutions because they disrupt everyone's place at the feeding trough. People get deeply offended when their place at the trough and their complicity in a corrupt, inefficient, wasteful, fraudulent and unsustainable system are challenged.

And furthermore, all these solutions are impossible.

As a result, my work draws untold numbers of negative and derogatory comments and commentaries, "Charles is f**king crazy" being one of the kinder ones.

A relative handful of insiders who refuse to drink their institution's KoolAid are courageous enough to call it like it is, and these few confirm that the key sectors and institutions of our society and economy are hopelessly corrupt, inefficient, wasteful, fraudulent and unsustainable.

Healthcare: broken. Medicare: broke and broken. Higher education: broken.Welfare: broken. Corporate subsidies/welfare: broken. Taxation: broken. War on drugs: broken. The legal system (tort, criminal justice, patents, etc. etc. etc.): broken. Defense procurement: broken. National security state (to anyone who's glanced at the U.S. Constitution): broken. The Imperial Presidency: broken. Congress (i.e. lobbyists and campaign contributions): broken. The financial system: broken.

Do I have to go on? Every major system is fundamentally broken, yet we persist in claiming it isn't broken and only needs a few policy tweaks because our self-interest is served by keeping our place at the feeding trough intact, never mind the consequences.

We're collectively horrified and frightened by the notion that the whole travesty of a mockery of a sham is precariously perched on a financial house of cards and so we desperately attempt to marginalize the informed critics, whistleblowers and truth-tellers.

So let me ask you one question: did silencing the informed critic ever solve any fundamental problem? The answer is no: the only possible way to avoid collapse is to listen to the informed critics and whistleblowers. This is a scale-invariant truth: it's the same for marriages, families, communities, enterprises, institutions, nations and empires.

I welcome informed criticism, because we learn from failure and fair criticism. I receive thousands of emails every year and do my best to read each one and respond to as many as my over-scheduled workload allows (alas, very few).

The critiques I've received fall into a few camps:

1. The Complexity Excuse: All large complex bureaucracies are inefficient, wasteful and corrupted by vested interests and powerful constituencies--it's the nature of the organization. As a result, there's nothing to be done; real reform is impossible. The rules will always be complex and therefore open to being gamed by insiders and monied Elites.

The implicit conclusion: we are powerless, so let go of all ideas of reform. Just enjoy your life and quit tilting at windmills.

Fine, but let's not forget that whatever is unsustainable will collapse and vanish from this Earth. To say that large centralized bureaucracies are intrinsically inefficient, wasteful and corrupt suggests an obvious solution: the only real solution is to get rid of all centralized bureaucracies entirely.

That is of course "impossible" until the financial firestorm burns down the forest loaded with deadwood, and suddenly all sorts of things that were "impossible" are not just possible but painfully obvious.

2. The Self-Serving Excuse: This is the best possible system, given the alternatives.Those toiling inside these institutions are naturally drawn to defend them as the "best possible system" because to question their role in a broken system is to question their identity, security, self-image as a good person and their role in perpetuating a broken system.

As immortalized by the insider's insider, Larry Summers: Insiders also understand one unbreakable rule: They don’t criticize other insiders.

Larry Summers to Elizabeth Warren in 2009: “Insiders Don’t Criticize Other Insiders”(Liberty Blitzkrieg)

What is so incredible about the quote above is that it essentially proves correct everything I and many others have been saying about how “things work” in America these days. The statements above describe a petty, childish oligarchy of arrogant fools. This small club of people call all the shots and do not listen to “outside” ideas whatsoever. This is why nothing changes. This is why the same people are recycled through positions of power over and over again no matter how badly they screw up and how many millions of lives they ruin. This is why there is a two-tiered justice system in which the rich and connected never go to jail, while the average citizen can have his home raided by police for a parody Twitter account. This is why the 0.01% have been able to loot all of the nation’s wealth while median inflation adjusted wages have been declining for 40 years.

The reason is because the “status quo” in America consists of a deranged, immoral, arrogant, selfish fraternity of inept children who protect each other at the expense of everyone and everything else. Until the status quo gets the boot, this nation will continue to decline. Forget reforms, the entire status quo needs to be tossed aside once and for all. The insiders must be turned into outsiders.

3. The same Elites have been running the country for X number of years. This is a variation on the Complexity Excuse and it leads to the same implicit conclusion: we are powerless, so let go of all ideas of reform. Just enjoy your life and quit tilting at windmills.

You want solutions, but you don't want anything to actually change? Sorry, you can't have it both ways. Let's jettison all the distracting complexity--the 2,000-page laws, the 40,000-page tax code (or is it 80,000 pages? Does it really matter beyond 1,000 pages?), the arcane financial games that keep the whole fraud afloat (Quantitative Easing, reverse repos, credit default swaps, shadow banking, rehypothecation, etc.)--and distill the choices down to their essence:

1. Embrace your place at the feeding trough of the Status Quo and put your faith in its sustainability, regardless of its inevitable warts. Denounce critics and defend the Status Quo with some variation of the three primary justifications/excuses.

2. Position yourself to avoid getting hurt when the unsustainable mess collapses in a heap of financial over-reach and fraud.

Interestingly, nobody actually believes a few policy tweaks will reform/fix what's broken. Virtually none of the thousands of emails I receive present a few policy tweaks as credible "fixes."

We all know the system is broken and the proposed policy tweaks aren't fixing anything, but human nature being what it is, we hope our place at the feeding trough will somehow survive unscathed as the financially unsustainable house of cards collapses around us.

In essence, we all know the system is broken and can't be reformed, but we play along with the illusion out of self-interest.

There is a peculiar self-referential quality to our predicament. The only way to enable meaningful reform is to listen closely to informed critics, whistleblowers and truth-tellers.

But we choose to crucify whistleblowers, mock and denigrate informed critics and marginalize/demonize truth-tellers as threats to our place at the feeding trough.

So meaningful reform is impossible--even if vested interests woke up to the fact that their favored place at the trough is precarious.

This entire dynamic has been articulately laid out by Thomas Homer-Dixon in his seminal book The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity, and the Renewal of Civilization: I highly recommend this work and another long-view book that illuminates the dynamics of our impending financial implosion, The Great Wave: Price Revolutions and the Rhythm of History by David Hackett Fischer.

You want solutions? Just do nothing, and the whole rotten financial contraption will collapse, very likely within the next decade. I prefer the analogy of the forest fire:The Yellowstone Analogy and The Crisis of Neoliberal Capitalism (May 18, 2009).

Vested interests are threatened by the losses generated by small financial fires, so these are systemically suppressed. As a result, the fallen deadwood piles ever higher, creating more fuel for the next random lightning strike to ignite.

Once the deadwood piles high enough, the random lightning strike ignites a fire so fast-moving and so hot that it cannot be suppressed, and the entire financial system burns to the ground.

So go ahead and keep defending the Status Quo as the best system possible, or believe Elites will keep suppressing fires forever because they're so powerful, or whatever excuse, rationalization or justification you prefer. It won't matter, because the firestorm won't respond to words, beliefs, ideological certainties, reassurances or official pronouncements. It will do what fires do, which is burn all available fuel until there's no fuel left to consume.

As I noted last week in A Reader Asks: How to Find Shelter from the Coming Storms?,Centralized systems such as governments and global corporations are either bankrupt and don't yet know it or are bankrupt and are well aware of it but loathe to let the rest of the world catch on.

If you want to believe this is the best possible system and it's sustainable, be my guest.

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