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Tuesday, November 5, 2013

Greek Companies Unable To Pay Taxes Explode From 182K To Over Half A Million In One Month





The US bug, whereby the worse the economy, the higher the stock market and bond prices must have shifted to Greece, because while the Greek stock market was the best performing "asset" class in October, and Greek bond yields are plunging just because the greater fool stock posse has now moved to the insolvent nation if only for a few months, the economic reality just gets worse by the minute. 
Case in point - Greek corporations, or what's left of them, and what Greece needs more than anything - taxes. Kathimerini reports, in what is now nail overkill on the Greek economic coffin, that "hundreds of thousands of enterprises are unable to fulfill their tax obligations, according to the data published on Monday by the Finance Ministry. 
Within just one month, from the end of August to end-September,the number of corporations that have fallen behind on their taxes soared from 182,785 to 526,477." No, you read that right: the number of companies that went in arrears on their tax obligations has tripled to over one half million in one month. The same month in which the Grecovery was rumored to be in full swing and when John Paulson was buying every Greek stock he could find.
It's a crazy pills world as Kathimerini reports.
According to a senior ministry official, most of those 343,692 additional enterprises that failed to meet their obligations have entered special payment programs in the hope of settling their debts in 12 installments. The total amount that corporations owe to the state comes to 39.3 billion euros, but only 647.69 million euros of that has been arranged for payment.
There was a silver lining: with virtually nobody working officially, as unknown amounts have shifted to the gray economy, the taxpayer debt have plunged. Why? Simply because if one doesn't officially make money, a luxury corporations can't afford, one doesn't officially have to pay any taxes, hence no taxpayer debts.
Surprisingly, the opposite trend is apparent in taxpayer debts, as debtors numbered 2.8 million at the end of August, a figure which fell to 2.59 million at end-September. In total, they owe 22.6 billion euros.

A ministry source pointed to the improvement in debt collection, as total receipts in the year to end-September amounted to 2.13 billion euros, up by 35 percent year-on-year.

September revenues grew by 37.2 percent from September 2012, which the general secretary for public revenues, Haris Theoharis, attributes to “the high level of collection of past years’ debts.”
Good luck collecting in current year debts when the unemployment hits fresh record highs, and thus the base of taxpaying individuals craters.
As for corporations, our best advice is for Greece to tax the bankruptcy process. That's the only way the dying country can possibly collect any "owed" funds from what is left of the country's once thriving businesses.
But at least the Greek economic skeleton still has its precious euro.
Meanwhile, elsewhere in the same basket case country...
Three police officers were injured on Monday as a group of protesters smashed into a courthouse in the city of Iraklio on Crete where the trial of 92 farmers arrested in 2009 was under way.

The three officers suffered scrapes and cuts from falling glass when a group of farmers smashed through the courthouse’s main door at around 3 p.m. demanding that their colleagues be acquitted of all charges.

The 92 farmers standing trial are accused of obstructing public transportation, among other charges, after staging a blockade of Iraklio Airport in January 2009.

Credit to Zero Hedge

Monday, November 4, 2013

Wisdom

Hamas preparing terrorism infrastructure against Israel


Defense minister says Hamas is preparing to moment it decides to renew violence, adds Israel is working to thwart that.


Defense Minister Ya'alon visits soldier wounded in Gaza tunnel explosion. Photo: Courtesy Defense Ministry

Hamas is digging attack tunnels as part of its efforts to create a terrorism infrastructure against Israel for future attacks, Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon said Sunday, adding that Israel is concerned by the threat and is acting to counter it.

Speaking at the Soroka University Medical Center in Beersheba, where he was visiting IDF soldiers wounded when a Hamas tunnel bomb went off during an army demolition mission over the weekend.

Ya’alon added that Israel views Hamas as the sovereign entity in the Gaza Strip.

“It is the one digging tunnels and controlling Gaza,” Ya’alon said. “We say again: Quiet will be met with quiet. All provocations will be met with a firm response by us. We’ll continue to act as we’ve acted until now.”

Ya’alon added that there is a connection between events in Gaza in recent days and Israel’s negotiations with the Palestinians.

“Hamas is certainly deterred and that’s why it is maintaining quiet, even after this operation. But it is preparing itself for the moment it decides to renew violence and an escalation,” he warned.

These preparations include a local production program to manufacture arms, since Hamas is unable to smuggle in weapons from Sinai due to Egyptian counter-terrorism activities and Egypt’s destruction of smuggling tunnels, Ya’alon said.

“Other organizations are also manufacturing [weapons] by themselves and the tunnels are part of these future preparations,” Ya’alon said. “When the tunnels will be ready, Hamas will attack us, that’s why we’re acting to thwart all of the intentions,” he added.

Ya’alon didn’t comment directly on reports that Israel struck a facility housing missiles destined for Hezbollah in Syria last week, but stated: “We’re not intervening in the bloody civil war and we are continuing to stress the same red lines that are known. We talk about them publicly too.

Not to allow them to transfer weapons from Syria to hostile elements, especially Hezbollah in Lebanon. Not to transfer chemical weapons to those same hostile elements, not to break the quiet on the Golan Heights, not to violate our sovereignty.”

Hamas is digging tunnels, Ya’alon said, because it is facing great difficulties in carrying out terror attacks on Israel due to the IDF’s strong defense system around the Gaza Strip. Hamas’s rockets are intercepted by Iron Dome and the terror regime pays a heavy price after firing its rockets, he argued.

“Hence, it is going underground.”

On Friday, the commander of the IDF’s Southern Command, Maj.-Gen. Sami Turgeman, visited the soldiers in the hospital and warned Hamas that any attack on Israel would be met by a “painful response.”


Credit to Jerusalem Post




Mystery explosion at Iran’s Arak heavy water reactor



Tehran did its utmost to conceal the mystery blast which last week struck the heavy water reactor under construction at Arak in western Iran. It is revealed here for the first time by DEBKAfile’s intelligence and Iranian sources. The explosion, whether accidental or not, will delay for a second time the reactor’s first test with real fuel. Tehran informed the International Atomic Energy Agency in August of a previous holdup.

The cause of the blast and the extent of the damage it caused have not yet been established. According to the partial information initially reaching our sources, it occurred inside the reactor building when preparations were underway for a test scheduled for this month with artificial fuel and light water. The site of the explosion may have been the large coolant containers and the pressure gauges attached to the reactor’s core.

Iranian Atomic Council experts and intelligence agents are testing four possible causes of the explosion:

1. Sabotage.
2. A virus planted in the computers that control the systems administering the test.
3. An error in engineering calculations in the design of the coolant containers which underestimated their strength for standing up to the required level of pressure.
4. The deliberate sale to Iran of inferior steel materials that were not strong enough to withstand such pressure.

Last August, Iran informed the nuclear watchdog that the test with real fuel would be the final one before the reactor entered its running-in stage. The damage caused by the explosion will have postponed that stage indefinitely.
The Arak reactor, known as IR-40 and designed for a capacity of 40 megawatt, is the cause of deep concern in Israel because it is capable of producing plutonium for use in nuclear bombs as an alternative to enriched uranium.

Credit to DEBKA file

Are YOU a Terrorist?

Weaponized Food to Enslave America





As the controversy surrounding the $36 reduction in food stamp entitlements continues to build as the event enters its second day, more reports regarding the government spending over $80 million to protect its own buildings from food stamp rioters continues to proliferate in the media.
Although it is possible that the controversy surrounding the food stamp program will not spread beyond the 15 million Americans that are affected, that is not likely. I am convinced that the government’s spending of over $80 million protect its buildings was merely an excuse to pre-position security forces on the street in anticipation about what’s coming, which is full-blown martial law. Food and the distribution of food, will play a central role in the administration and application of that martial law.

An Applicable Aside….

As an aside to the possibility of impending martial law, I appeared last Sunday on Shasta/Redding, CA. KCNR’s “We the People Radio”, and both hosts as well as the producer of the show informed me that the prison located just north of them at Susanville Prison, was making martial law signs. Interestingly, one of the hosts Erin Ryan, is a congressional field representative for her local congressman and as such, is not prone to public fanciful speculation. Also, since I have written about my controversy with the personnel at the Voice of Russia state-sponsored radio program, regarding martial law and what I believe to be the use of Russian soldiers to enforce that martial law, I have received numerous reports from people around the country with sightings of Russian soldiers on American soil. I think it would be an interesting project to begin to catalog and publish sightings of these Russian soldiers. Make no mistake about it, they are here and they are up to no good as the Russian media (VOR) is attempting to discredit any reports about impending martial law and the use of Russian soldiers in an effort to prevent the American public from becoming aware of the significant danger.
Speaking of the Russian media, and in particular the Voice of Russia, I recently discovered another example of how the VOR is engaged in state-sponsored propaganda activities. Approximately 6 weeks ago, I had the pleasure of interviewing Blaine Cooper and I published the contents of the interview on my website along with a video in which he appropriately confronted Sen. John McCain for being a traitor and telling the senator at a town hall meeting in Prescott, Arizona, that he should immediately resign. The video and Cooper’s accompanying story subsequently went viral. Like myself, Cooper was approached by the Russian propagandists at the VOR and asked for an interview. Mr. Cooper contacted me yesterday and informed me that he was very unhappy with the Russian media because they had inappropriately characterized his interview in much the same fashion that they had done to me. The intent of the Russians was to cast an area of controversy in his confrontation with John McCain as an example of the military versus the government. The VOR inaccurately and inappropriately characterized Mr. Cooper as a former member of the American military. Mr. Cooper makes it clear to everyone that he has never been in the American military.
As I step back and try to wonder why the VOR would attempt to mischaracterize Cooper’s background, the proverbial light came on. Why would Russian soldiers be needed to enforce American domestic martial law? The answer is simple, because the American military might not be fully counted on to enforce brutal martial law and fire upon American citizens to the degree needed to enforce compliance. The Russian military might will be needed. I see the purpose of the Cooper interview on the VOR, to promote an artificial division between the American military and the present administration of this government that has been hijacked and controlled by the central bankers of the world. Mr. Cooper will be appearing on The Common Sense Show in the last half-hour of the Sunday’s program to detail his experience with the Russian media and not surprisingly, his experience matches my experience.
One would have to be blind not to see the proliferation of this material regarding the Russians and the role that they are going to play in our future. How could we not be highly concerned about the presence of Russian soldiers on our soil? And has a reminder, FEMA has reached a bilateral agreement to train thousands of more Russian soldiers on American soil.
When one considers the compilation of the above-mentioned facts, it is extremely clear why Obama is purging the leadership of our military. Can there be any doubt that Obama is following in the footsteps of Stalin as he purged his military’s leadership prior to starving millions of Russians to death. I’m sure that this is a very sensitive comparison for our “friends” over at the state-sponsored, propaganda-filled, Voice of Russia. At this point I would like to issue a warning to all who were invited to appear on the VOR, the Russians will mischaracterize your background and your story to fit their propaganda purposes. And the fact that Russian soldiers will be used to subjugate us, I would encourage all Americans to not make the mistake I did, by appearing on the VOR.
The Past As Prologue
Is it possible that many of us are just misreading signs in our society that the Russians are going to be used to help subjugate the American people in upcoming martial law? Some might argue that it is possible that we are overreacting to a few isolated incidences, but to them I would say history speaks clearly to this fact and the American government has had a long-standing policy of creating legalistic policies designed to use food as a tool of enslavement. And these policies completely parallel past practices of time-honored despots who have done the same thing.
The rest of the article is dedicated to the historical demonstration of using food as a weapon to subjugate the masses as well as to demonstrate that the United States legal code in various presidential executive orders and have pre-positioned the necessary legal apparatus in this country to impose such draconian policies.

Historical Precedent of Governments Using Food As a Weapon

The two most notable examples of dictators using food a weapon in order to destroy the free will of their people comes from the regimes of Stalin and Hitler.
Josef Stalin engaged in his own Soviet-style Holocaust when, in 1932 and 1933, and estimated six to 20 million people in the Ukraine died from starvation when Stalin implemented his prescription of “hope and change” policies in order to eliminate the Ukrainian’s desire for becoming their own nation-state.
Upon assuming power, the Stalinist Communist regime rapidly nationalized the food industry and forced all of the region’s farms into collectives. Thus, Stalin’s version of the Holocaust came to fruition in what history has dubbed, the “Holdomor,” in which millions perished in only a two year period when the Soviet government began to exterminate the Ukrainian population by taking control of food and food production. And why would Stalin do such a thing to his own people? The Ukrainians were discussing and publicizing some very dangerous ideas about freedom, liberty and the ability to act of political autonomy.
Hitler proclaimed that food could be used as a tool “…to discipline the masses” and he did not hesitate to use the control of food as a type of carrot and stick in which he would reward accomplishment and punish failure as well as to ferment preferential class distinctions in which his armed forces received the largest food ration cards. Skilled workers who were engaged in industries critical to the building of the German war machine, received food ration cards which were slightly less in value. And, finally, the prisoners and the Jews received the lowest valued Nazi food ration cards. Food ration cards were also utilized as incentives to increase industrial production and were also increased in value when productive Nazi workers would be promoted. Food ration cards were diminished in value for the failure to meet Nazi production goals. Hitler’s use of what psychologists refer to as classical conditioning techniques reduced the will of the German population to a pack of Pavlovian dogs who were conditioned to be totally dependent upon the government for their survival. The presence of 50 million Americans on food stamps would certainly make an applicable parallel to Hitler’s practices and the potential for Obama to follow and Hitler’s footsteps.
Most recently, Somalia thug, Farah Aideed, systematically starved his people into submission as a brutal civil war raged in both Darfur and Rwanda where the Islamic regimes sought the annihilation of ‘infidels’ and the use of food was one of the primary weapons designed to force compliance. And of course, Pol Pot, Castro and Mao all used food deprivation to quarantine their political opposition and exact absolute allegiance to their respective dictatorial regimes.

“The Government Would Never Do That Because I Did Not See It On TV”

I venture to say that most individuals who get their “news” from FOX and CNN would hold fast to the belief that the benevolent U.S. government would never use food as a weapon against the American people and if they did, we would certainly all see it on television. Someone should remind these “sheeple” that this is the same U.S. government which has been caught shipping guns and drugs into Mexico underOperation Fast and Furious which has resulted in the deaths of a half dozen U.S. law enforcement officials. Yes, this is the same government which has turned a blind eye to HSBC bank setting up fictitious bank accounts in order to launder money derived from the profits of drug trafficking and running guns and then turning around and sending this money to fund various terrorist organizations. Yes, this is the same banker-hijacked government which permits the Federal Reserve to send trillions of American dollars in order to bail out their own personal banking interests in Europe. Yes, this is the same U.S. government , through the TSA, which commits second degree sexual assault on airline travelers under the guise of protecting Americans from the very terrorists that they are complicit in funding through organizations such as the HSBC bank. Therefore, it is prudent to ask the question, would the United States use food a tool of governmental policy in order to control its population? Unfortunately, this question has already been asked and answered in the affirmative.
American Government and Their Complicity in Creating a Weaponized Food Policy
It is shocking to discover just how long that the withholding of food as a weapon has been a part of government policy. The use of food by the U.S. government has been a matter of official U.S. governmental covert policy since 1974-1975.
In December, 1974, National Security Council directed by Henry Kissinger completed a classified study entitled, “National Security Study Memorandum 200: Implications of Worldwide Population Growth for U.S. Security and Overseas Interests.” The study was based upon the unproven claims that population growth in Lesser Developed Countries (LDC) constituted a serious risk to America’s national security.
In November 1975 President Ford, based upon the tenets of NSSM 200 outlined a classified plan to forcibly reduce population growth in LDC countries through birth control, war and famine. Ford’s new national security adviser, Brent Scowcroft, in conjunction with CIA  Director, George H. W. Bush, were tasked with implementing the plan and the secretaries of state, treasury, defense, and agriculture assisted in the implementation of these insane genocidal plans. Today, we also see the manifestation of NSSM 200 through Bill Gates’ eugenics policies of mass sterilizations and vaccinations on the continent of Africa.
NSSM 200 formally raised the question, “Would food be considered to be an instrument of national power? … Is the U.S. prepared to accept food rationing to help people who can’t/won’t control their population growth?” Kissinger has answered these questions when he stated that he was predicting a series of contrived famines, created by mandatory programs and this would make exclusive reliance on birth control programs unnecessary in this modern day application of eugenics in a scheme that would allow Henry to have his cake and eat it too in that the world would finally be rid of the “useless eaters!”
Third world population control, using food as one of the primary weapons, has long been a matter of official covert national policy and a portion of President Obama’s Executive Order (EO 13603), National Defense Resources Preparedness is a continuation of that policy. Only now, the intended targets are not the LDC’s but, instead, the targets are the American people. With one out of six Americans on food stamps, and a reduction of these benefits under way, the policy of using food as a weapon against the American people already has a significant beachhead.
13603With the stroke of his pen, Obama has total and absolute control over all food where his EO 13603 states:
e)  “Food resources” means all commodities and products, (simple, mixed, or compound), or complements to such commodities or products, that are capable of being ingested by either human beings or animals, irrespective of other uses to which such commodities or products may be put, at all stages of processing from the raw commodity to the products thereof in vendible form for human or animal consumption.  “Food resources” also means potable water packaged in commercially marketable containers, all starches, sugars, vegetable and animal or marine fats and oils, seed, cotton, hemp, and flax fiber, but does not mean any such material after it loses its identity as an agricultural commodity or agricultural product.
(f)  “Food resource facilities” means plants, machinery, vehicles (including on farm), and other facilities required for the production, processing, distribution, and storage (including cold storage) of food resources, and for the domestic distribution of farm equipment and fertilizer…”
This unconstitutional EO is particularly disturbing in that it clearly states that the government has control over anything that is “capable of being ingested by either human beings or animals…”  If you thought that you and Fido were going to get through coming food crisis by storing and consuming dog food, think again.
How will farmers maintain the nation’s food supply when all fertilizer, their farm equipment and all of their vehicles are under the control of this sociopathic  President or the next power-hungry President?

The Wide-Ranging Food Control Policies of EO 13603

The term “all food storage facilities” includes your refrigerator, your pantry and even the very food in your cabinets as well as what is on your kitchen table. In short, anywhere you keep food is now under the control of the government and can be seized and redistributed. Those who are storing food, you better find a way to hide at least a portion of your stockpile.
Have you recently been scratching your head in bewilderment as you watch on the news as the Amish have had their farms raided, raw milk producers have been jailed and the kids running lemonade stands have been shut down and ticketed? Now you know why these abuses are being perpetrated by the government in that it represents a mere conditioning process designed to get all U.S. citizens used to the idea that the government owns all food and food production. Welcome to the Hunger Games, American style
The most clever aspect of this EO is that no Hegelian Dialectic (i.e., false flag event) is needed as a pretense to seize food and imperil survivability. Section 201(b) of the Obama EO clearly states that this EO is enforceable under both emergency and non-emergency conditions.”
Even Ray Charles could see that Obama is setting the table to take his place among Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot, Castro and Mao as another despot in the long line of tyrannical leaders who would grant themselves the authority to subjugate the masses by using food as a weapon. Americans desperately need to look at history in order to understand what happens every time the people of a government allows the government to control its food supplies and farms. It was with great forethought that the second part of the title of this article reads “…systematic population reduction.”

Conclusion

Food deprivation and gun confiscation go hand in hand as it relates to the subjugation of the American people. This is why the Russians troops are on American soil. This is why they are training with the Department of Homeland Security. And people which permits its government to seize its guns and its food supplies is courting genocide.
In hindsight, I have often wondered how prophetic was Obama’s campaign speech when he promised tofundamentally transform America? This was actually one campaign promise that Obama is trying to keep. NSSM 200 has come full circle, but in this case, it is specifically aimed at the American people.  History show us that Socialists, Communists, Islamists and Marxists, use food and the production of food as a weapon against their own people in order to solidify power and control. Hitler himself said that using food as a weapon was “a beautiful instrument . . . for maneuvering and disciplining the masses.”
Through the National Defense Preparedness Act, Obama is following in the footsteps of Hitler and Stalin. And when consider the role that the domestically trained martial law Russian troops are going to play, we should all be worried, very worried.
 
Credit to The common Sense Show

Fukushima #4 Fuel Removal a Catastrophic Threat to N. America

What You Need To Know......

Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) has announced they will soon begin attempting removal of more than 1200 spent nuclear fuel assemblies from a cooling pool more than 100 feet above ground at the severely damaged Fukushima #4 reactor. As previously reported by AlertsUSA Threat Journal on multiple occasions, scientists worldwide have warned for well over two years of the global dangers and implications of this process.

In the case of Fukushima Unit #4, the racks holding the fuel assemblies weredamaged and deformed during the earthquake and explosion in March of 2011. The building is shattered, structurally unsound and highly vulnerable. In addition, spent nuclear fuel cannot be simply lifted into the air by a crane. It must be lifted and transferred at all times in water and heavily shielded structures.

During the removal process, if the fuel assemblies touch, are dropped or break open there is potential for uncontrolled nuclear reactions and explosions to occur.



According to Robert Alvarez, former Senior Policy Adviser to the Secretary of Energy, Deputy Assistant Secretary for National Security and one of the nation's leading experts on spent fuel pools, "There is more than 37 million curies of long lived radioactivity stored up in the spent fuel just within this single pool. If another severe earthquake were to strike causing the pool to drain, or some other event such as an explosion, it could result in a catastrophic radiological fire releasing nearly 10 times the amount of Cs-137 [into the Earths atmosphere] as was released by the Chernobyl accident.

And that is just one of approximately 200 different types of radioactive isotopes that could potentially be released.

According to Gregory Jaczko, former Chairman of U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the upcoming attempt to remove Fukushima Unit 4 spent fuel is"unprecedented, the pool has significant structural damage and that the overall effort is very risky."

According to Arnie Gunderson, Sr. Engineer at Fairewinds Energy and a former nuclear industry executive with more than 40 years experience, "TEPCO has already admitted that the boron shields in the fuel racks separating the fuel bundles have deteriorated. These shields absorb neutrons and keep the the fuel cells subcritical."

According to Yale University Professor Emeritus Charles Perrow, a frequent author for the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, "This has me scared." In the event of an explosion, "Tokyo would have to be evacuated because of cesium and other poisons that are there will spread very rapidly. Even if the wind is blowing the other way it's going to be monumental."

According to Shunichi Tanaka, Japan's Nuclear Regulatory Chairman, "I am much more worried about this than contaminated water.”

According to Mycle Schneider, an energy consultant and adviser to members of the European Parliament and the Int'l Atomic Energy Agency, "A massive spent fuel fire would likely dwarf the current dimensions of the catastrophe and could exceed the radioactivity releases of Chernobyl dozens of times."

His and other's concerns are not limited to Japan. An accident in this fuel removal process will have dramatic public health ramifications for the United States and Canada many times worse than the original Fukushima explosions and meltdowns.



It must be understood that the U.S. is directly downwind. In a worse case scenario you will have only a few days to make any type of preparedness moves to protect yourself and family as prevailing winds and weather patterns carry airborne contaminants to the East for rainout / fallout across N. America.

And here is the kicker: The fuel removal process is expected to take many months, if not longer. But it has to be done. Leaving the spent fuel in the damaged pool is not an option.

Readers need to give serious to consideration to the warnings in this story. As repeatedly referenced in the lead up to this fuel removal effort, we strongly urge you to download the 3 free nuclear emergency preparedness guides below and actually read them. They are written for you by some of this nation's most skilled and knowledgeable in the area of radiation safety and preparedness.

As we reported just a few weeks back, even the federal government is making plans for such a disaster with the recent emergency purchase of tens of millions of dollars in medications to help combat radiation sickness. While they are not publicizing the move, this is your cue. You don't want to be caught looking at your feet. Judging from the near non-existent mainstream news coverage here in the U.S., the time for you to prepare is now.

Credit to Threat Journal