Jun 20
the sun king obama
Jun 19
Russell Brand on MSNBC Mocking Media *EXCELLENT*
A very funny interview with comedian Russell Brand who is setting out on a world comedy tour.
Russell Brand shatters hypnosis of mainstream media with hilarious, high-IQ domination of dumbfounded MSNBC hosts
I had never heard of Russell Brand until recently, but he’s about to become a household name across America thanks to his delusion-busting performance as a guest on MSNBC’s Morning Joe program where he “ripped them all a new one” according to comments posted on YouTube.
Allow me to explain: MSNBC is a news show with a huge budget and almost no viewers. It is hosted by what can only be called a “band of retards” who have absolutely nothing useful to say… ever!
Today they made the mistake of inviting a guest on their show (Russell Brand) whose IQ exceeds the sum of all the other IQs of everybody else in the room. Brand proceeded to cleverly smash through their boring senseless chatter, take over the news reporting without using a teleprompter, profile the secret sexual fantasies of the female host, and mock them all without them even realizing they were being mocked.
“This is a hotbed of neurosis and psychosis… I’m grateful to be here,” Brand says to the other three hosts at one point, and they have zero reaction seemingly because they don’t understand the multi-syllabic words he’s using.
Jun 19
A Viral Plague of Megalomaniacs and the Fall of Empire.
Dog Poet Transmitting…….
May your noses always be cold and wet.
I’d like to say it is gratifying to be proven right but… it just makes me sick. Long time readers know that for years I have been stating that most charities are scams, intended to enrich the criminals who put them together. I have especially pointed out the cancer charities and they are especially prominent in being evil and perverted scoundrels. Well, there it is, read it and weep. The degree of of malfeasance and embarrassingly transparent , atmosphere of prevarication that is presently going on, is astounding. What can anyone make of this? What do any of them do when caught, cornered or confronted? They lie. They lie and it is of no consequence to them, how outrageous and unbelievable that lie may be. 9/11 says it all. Things like this just embolden these fiends and provoke them to ever and ever greater excesses. This might seems disturbing, as well as overwhelming. After all, if most of the people around you are capable of believing anything, or don’t even care one way or the other, how is that supposed to make you feel, you who do not believe anything and who do care?
There is a very good reason why it should not be disturbing. You should view all of these surreal low jinks, as a clear example that The Apocalypse doing it’s job. Perhaps it is that many people do not understand the full gamut of The Apocalypse’s arsenal. We know that it is operational for the purpose of ‘revealing’ and ‘uncovering’. What we might not all be privy to, is the fact that it also forces situations and entities into ‘revealing’ and ‘uncovering’ themselves. It forces things into the light; things like this for instance. As this writer has stated, also for years, there was a epidemic of whistleblowers that were set to appear at a certain time and… that time is upon us. It’s going to snowball down hill and… ‘downhill’ is the appropriate direction; way down hill. Although they kill with impunity still, their time for recompense is close at hand. Judgment will come but first… they have to be forced into the light and that is continuing apace, as anyone looking for that particular evidence can see.
Jun 19
David Icke on the real background to Syria
Jun 19
Skynet Awakens and Demands Immunity
While we thought the Monsanto Protection Act was bad, never mind the NDAA and a string of other fascist power grabs, here comes the NSA asking for the same thing Monsanto got. Blanket immunity for everyone they work with, themselves as well of course, but they can use the “national security” joker anytime they want so they don’t really need anything more.
Of course they would do this. The government has given every signal possible that it’s time to wheel their military industrial corporate tanks into position.
NSA Boss Asks Congress For Blanket Immunity For Companies That Help NSA Spy On Everyone
This will come as no surprise to anyone, but NSA boss General Keith Alexander is pestering Congress for a new law which would provide blanket immunity for companies helping the NSA collect data on everyone.
Gen. Keith Alexander has petitioned Capitol Hill for months to give Internet service providers and other firms new cover from lawsuits when they rely on government data to thwart emerging cyberthreats. Basically, he’s arguing that if the NSA orders companies to do something illegal, the companies shouldn’t be liable for that. There’s some logic behind that, because when you get an order from the government, you often feel compelled to obey. But, of course, the reality is that this will give blanket cover for companies voluntarily violating all sorts of privacy laws in giving the NSA data. And, theoretically you could then sue the government over those violations, but we’ve seen in the past how well that goes over. First, the courts won’t give you “standing” if you can’t prove absolutely that your data was included. Then, if you get past that hurdle, the government will claim “national security” or sovereign immunity to try to get out of the case. And, even if it gets past all of that, and you win against the government, the feds shrug their shoulders and say “now what are you going to do?”
And, of course, rather than narrowly target this immunity, it appears that Alexander would like it as broad as possible. (More)
Skynet’s Been Growing for Decades
This snooping’s been going on for ages so for the awake the news isn’t anything new. What’s to look carefully at is why and how they’re going to use it to their advantage. Here’s what’s been going on up to this latest era we’re currently in:
Jun 19
Many Of The Largest Charities In America Are Giant Money Making Scams
How would you feel if you donated money to help disaster victims or cancer patients and you later found out that more than 97 percent of the money that you gave never got into the hands of the people that needed it? Sadly, that is happening all over America today. In fact, in some of the worst cases, less than a penny of every dollar that is donated ends up in the hands of those that need the help. If you can believe it, right now there are 6,000 charities in the United States that use for-profit companies to raise money for them, and in many of those instances the for-profit companies end up keeping more than 50 percent of the donations for themselves. In addition, many charities end up paying their employees “salaries” that are far greater than the total amount of money that the charities actually give to the needy. The Tampa Bay Times, CNN and the Center for Investigative Reporting recently teamed up to conduct an investigation, and they came up with a list of the 50 worst charities in America. They discovered that those charities raised more than $1.3 billion over the past ten years combined, but that nearly $1 billion of that total went to the for-profit companies that raise their donations for them. The American people are being scammed out of an enormous amount of money, and people need to learn the truth about this.
According to the report that was put out, the “Kids Wish Network” is the absolute worst charity in America. The following is how the Tampa Bay Times describes them…
Bill Bard says:
And very similar in th UK.
Jun 19
Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out
By Paul Rosenberg, FreemansPerspective.com
This was a big phrase in the 1960s, as young people turned away from the corporate conformity of the 1950s and decided that they wanted more out of life than being an adequately-fed cog in a big machine.
Let’s be honest and admit that the modern corporate script involves selling your own wishes and dreams for paychecks. I know that a lot of us have played along with it because of necessity, but this is not a way of life to cling to, it’s a way of life to escape.
You are meant to live your life. Yes, I know it can seem hard, but it’s the only life that’s really worth living. You have to give meaning to your life, and you’ll never get it by following the televised script and hoping for pats on the back from the people who are playing along with you.
This life you have is precious. Human beings are engines of creation; we are able to imagine and to turn our imaginations into reality. And we are capable of supercharging our creative abilities by sharing our lives and loves with other people. We are astonishingly capable creatures.
Don’t waste all your life’s abilities in a corporate cubicle. You’ve already seen how that goes: Work excessive hours, go home tired, watch TV, sleep, and start over. Your kids end up in mini corporate worlds called “schools,” where they are taught to sit, be quiet, obey, and turn off their internal desires and loves. If you play that game you’ll miss most of your life in the process, as well as most of your children’s lives.
Jun 19
Morphing “The Azure Isles of the Aluna”
Author: Soren Dreier
The morph seems to be changing.
I noticed that yesterday, when going into it. It seems to have gotten an azure-like blue coloring to it that I haven’t seen before.
Going into the Morph however and how to perceive it, is very much tied in with our own perceptive software so to speak.
It is like taking a walk down the street with someone. Coming home saying: Did you see those children playing soccer and the companion saying: What children. They weren’t in his or her perception range but they still were there. You saw them.
The morph doesn’t look the same to different persons or their perceptive software. So I could argue that my perception has changed, and I´m sure it has, but that is not the only explanation. As usual there is synchronicity in what the people I work with write to me. It seems to be changing for them too.
I had a rather interesting talk with a lady in Canada that I recognized from the Morph. In the Morph everybody looks like they are 30, so one can’t pick a person up by the biological look but more at a frequencies level.
Jun 19
David Icke update on The People’s Voice
Jun 19
Climate Alarmists Caught Doctoring ‘97 Percent Consensus’ Claims
Global warming alarmists have been caught doctoring the results of a widely cited paper asserting there is a 97 percent scientific consensus regarding human-caused global warming. After taking a closer look at the paper, investigative journalists report the authors’ claims of a 97 percent consensus relied on them misclassifying the papers of some of the world’s most prominent global warming skeptics. At the same time, the authors deliberately presented a meaningless survey question that allowed them to twist the responses to fit their own preconceived global warming alarmism.
Misleading Question
Global warming alarmist John Cook, founder of the misleadingly named blog site Skeptical Science, published a paper with several other global warming alarmists claiming they reviewed nearly 12,000 abstracts of studies published in the peer-reviewed climate literature. Cook reported he and his colleagues found 97 percent of the papers that expressed a position on human-caused global warming “endorsed the consensus position that humans are causing global warming.”
Jun 19
I Met A Man Today
I met a man today.
Ever so briefly. He was tired.
His work boots grounded his humble, yet impressive frame.
As he gathered his rudimentary supplies from the small shopping basket
He placed them on the checkout counter. Slowly. Deliberately.
I dropped the tug of any angst to get home soon. A world was unfolding before me.
His life is hard, but no complaints. No groans. Just resignation on his weary part.
He clearly had a family to feed. Ever so meekly he appears to perform his life functions.
My heart began to bleed in pain and anger as I observed the programmed crap being piled into his plastic bags.
How many beautiful creatures are forced to buy non-nourishing manipulated replacement crap to keep their offspring alive. How many worldwide are forced to eat contaminated shit from the self appointed masters of control.
My heart continued to gush. I was heavy in my shoes as the scene unfolded before me.
This isn’t right.
I wait in another observant world as he does his meek, slow check out. I’m creating prose in my mind of the poignant moment.
Jun 19
A New Financial Scandal – Bigger Than LIBOR?
Last Monday, our Malcolm Massey, Neil Foster and Mark Anderson took a post-Bilderberg walk around the Grove Hotel to see what they could see. What they found was a meeting room with a Thomson Reuters display panel.
The display panel with Thomson Reuters logo clearly marked was entitled “unleashing the power of our unified platform on financial markets”.
A Bilderberg Agenda Item?
Why would Thomson Reuters advertise to Bilderberg Attendees? It is easy to see that Reuters would do so at a financial event for City of London traders or casino bank managers, but politicians and industrialists? How likely is it that the attending bankers were not already aware of the implications of Reuters trading platforms?
Was this just an advertisement, or were Reuters running some kind of presentation? Those who saw the room first hand certainly left with the opinion Reuters had given a presentation of some kind.
If that is the case, then the question becomes what is meant by “unleashing the power … on financial markets?
Perhaps some news released by Bloomberg yesterday gives a clue what happens when Reuters trading platform is unleashed on financial markets, for we seem to have yet another global manipulation scandal on our hands, possibly even more significant than LIBOR.
Jun 19
Huge Mexican volcano eruption hurls burning ash into the sky

A cloud of ash belches out of Mexico’s Popocatepetl volcano, some 55 km from Mexico City.(AFP Photo / Arturo Andrade)
Mexico’s active Popocatepetl volcano has registered a massive explosion spewing ash and incandescent rock almost 4 kilometers high. Authorities have warned that winds could blow the ash cloud as far away as Mexico City.
Inhabitants of villages up to 25 kilometers from Popocatepetl (colloquially known as ‘Don Popo’) rushed out of their houses when the massive explosion reverberated through their homes.
Esther Matinez, resident of Amecameca municipality, told Mexican publication La Jornada that the blast was like a rocket explosion. Around 4.5 million people live within a 50-kilometer radius of the active volcano, 650,000 of whom are considered to be at high risk.
Jun 19
Our Spiritual Enslavement And Erdogan Is Spent – Morris
Another wise, insightful and uplifting presentation from Morris, who is doing incredible work from the UK. Please consider supporting him as he relies completely on donations from viewers. Donations can be made via PayPal to this account: mmorris108 at gmail dot com . Many Topics: Green Screen, Spiritual Enslavement, Turkey, Baathist party ….Will Erdogan follow Saddam Hussein and Gaddafi, there are parallels in as much as all of them appeased the West.
Jun 19
Brazilian politicians struggle with how to respond to another night of protests
Politicians warned of being ‘on wrong side of history’ as anger swells about state of nation and World Cup extravagance
Link to video: Brazil protests: violence flares in São Paulo
As demonstrations continued in Brazil for another night, President Dilma Rousseff attempted to co-ordinate a government response among senior officials who have been stunned by the scale of protests.
Keeping the pressure on the authorities, an estimated 50,000 people flooded Cathedral Square and other main streets in São Paulo for the second night running and rallies were reported in two other cities.
This followed Monday night’s demonstrations in at least a dozen cities, which drew a quarter of a million people on to the streets.
Initially driven by opposition to a bus price hike, the marches have rapidly swollen to incorporate a range of grievances, including police brutality, inequality, corruption, dire public services and the extravagent preparations for next year’s World Cup.
Jun 19
Cameron insults our intelligence over Syria… and gets a slap from Putin
They say a picture paints a thousand words. The photograph of British Prime Minister David Cameron and Russian President Vladimir Putin in London recently certainly does. When the two leaders gave a press conference at the weekend in Downing Street ahead to the G8 summit, Cameron had the excruciating look of a desperate man. Putin, by contrast, appeared in control. The latter spoke in measured tones and with discernible contempt in his voice.
The two leaders had emerged from a «difficult» – diplomatic language for «combative» – private meeting in which Syria was top of the agenda. Apparently, President Putin had kept his British host waiting for one hour before arriving.
Afterwards, at the press conference, Cameron winced and gripped the podium as if it was a precipice from which he was hanging, as Putin delivered his comments. Cameron had good reason to look fearful as he hung on every word emanating from the Russian leader.
Jun 19
Coconut Oil Is The Superfood of All Oils
The health benefits of coconut oil include hair care, skin care, stress relief, maintaining cholesterol levels, weight loss, increased immunity, proper digestion and metabolism, relief from kidney problems, heart diseases, high blood pressure, diabetes, HIV and cancer, dental care, and bone strength. These benefits of oil can be attributed to the presence of lauric acid, capric acid and caprylic acid, and its properties such as antimicrobial, antioxidant, anti-fungal, antibacterial and soothing properties.
Coconut oil is used extensively in tropical countries especially India, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Philippines etc., which have a good production of coconut oil. The oil was also once popular in western countries such as United States and Canada; however, there was a strong propaganda in 1970s spread by the corn oil and soy oil industry against coconut oil. Coconut oil was considered harmful for the human body due to its high saturated fat content till the last decade (2000s) when people started questioning this propaganda. Let us get into some details of how coconut oil works for our body.
Jun 19
Jail rogue bankers in future, say MPs: Long-awaited report will call for criminal sanctions for those involved in banking scandals
By James Salmon
A panel of MPs and peers will next week urge the government to jail miscreant bankers.
The banking commission, set up by chancellor George Osborne in the wake of the Libor interest rate rigging scandal, has put the finishing touches to its long-awaited report on standards and culture.
One of its key proposals will be the creation of new criminal offences to deal with the type of behaviour seen by bankers during recent scandals.
‘The commission was unanimous that one of the most shocking things about the financial crisis was that at the end no one was sent off in hand cuffs and an orange boiler suit. We will propose criminal sanctions,’ one person familiar with the report said last night.
The report is expected to be published within the next few days.
One of the many proposals will be criminal sanctions for bankers involved in wrongdoing. It will also call for a crackdown on bonuses and tougher fines for banks, raising concerns that the City watchdog has been far too lenient.
I should be the Governor of the BoE or Chancellor of the Ex
The artist taxi driver
Jun 19
The bitter legacy of the French kiss
A textbook analysis of savage American hypocrisy
It’s not fair to speculate on what a book doesn’t contain, especially when it reveals the origins of two shameful aspects of American behavior that makes decent people everywhere shake their heads in embarrassment over how low an effort once thought to be noble can go.
In undertaking to review Mary Louise Roberts’ What Soldiers Do: Sex and the American GI in World War II France (2013, University of Chicago Press), I had hoped against hope that it would contain some reference to the cruelty of recent U.S. attacks on numerous countries around the world and the deceitful explanations for undertaking them.
Of course, coming from a mainstream perspective, the author made no attempt to make these connections. But she does provide a timely glimpse into the genesis of these disturbing trends that have turned the USA into a country no longer recognizable as the bastion of freedom and liberty everybody in the world once thought it was. Then again, perhaps it never was.
(Deanna Spingola and I will be discussing this tragedy of the U.S. military’s chaotic effect on France at the end of World War II on Thursday, June 20, at noon EDT, on her regular radio show on the Republic Broadcasting Network. You can listen at either <http://www.republicbroadcasting.org/shoutcast/shoutcast.html> or 1-800-313-9443).
Exploiting desperate victims of war
First off, this is not a book that ranks with Archibald Maule Ramsay’s The Nameless War or James Bacque’s Other Losses, which reveal the still-suppressed treachery that triggered World War II in the first place. But what it does do is show how the U.S. ransacked a nation it was supposed to be rescuing, then blamed the mayhem on soldiers it put in a position to do harm, and then sacrificed a few black soldiers to the outrage of public opinion to cover up the sexual molestation of a whole country.
Jun 19
Brazil World Cup Website Hacked: Activists Replace 2014 FIFA World Cup Website With Protest Footage
On June 17, the Brazilian World Cup website was hacked by activists who were looking to shed light on the events occurring in Brazil. Demonstrations and protests in Brazil have been held since June 6, in response to ongoing corruption and the raising of public transportation fare from BRL 3.00 to BRL 3.20. Grievances the protesters hold also include the outrage over the ballooning government spending in the construction and preparation of facilities for the World Cup and the future Olympics.
In the original website’s place, hackers embedded a YouTube video that shows several videos of protesters calmly walking from placards, eventually being confronted by a line of riot police behind riot shields. Throughout all of this the protesters are shouting “Sem violencia!” — which means “Without violence!” in English.
Jun 19
Brazil Bedlam: Largest-in-decades protests sweep country
Mass protests continued throughout Brazil on Monday, with hundreds of thousands of demonstrators converging in Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Belo Horizonte, the capital of Brasilia and other cities. Protests initially began last week following a government announcement of an increase in public transportation costs, which brought out students and young workers and led to more than 250 arrests. READ MORE: http://on.rt.com/m0gce2
Jun 19
An Open Message to The NSA
Jun 19
The Solar System is Changing – A Review
Jun 18
Japan’s Health Ministry Withdraws Cervical Cancer Vaccine Recommendation
by Dave Mihalovic
Japan’s health ministry issued a nationwide notice that cervical cancer vaccinations should no longer be recommended for girls due to several hundred adverse reactions to the vaccines reported.
A publication in the Annals of Medicine has exposed the fraudulent nature of Human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccines such as Gardasil and Cervarix. Key messages the researchers reported include a lack of evidence for any HPV vaccines in preventing cervical cancerand lack of evaluation of health risks.
One of the problems with vaccinations such as HPV is that they are not preventative, they do compromise safety and physicians will never provide accurate explanations of vaccine risks and benefits because they do not know themselves. Physicians can only rely on the information from vaccine manufacturers and since long-term pharmacokinetic effects which study the bodily absorption, distribution, metabolism and excretion of vaccines and their ingredients are never examined or analyzed, a Physician can never fully inform of patient of any benefits or risks.
“It is necessary to gather information immediately to accurately grasp how often (the side effects) are occurring,” said Mariko Momoi, who chairs the panel at the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry that decided to suspend the recommendation. Momoi is vice president of the International University of Health and Welfare.
Jun 18
Connecting the Dots: Vaccines, Heavy Metals, GMOs and Brain Damage
© Dr. Ilya Sandra Perlingieri | Guest Writer for Wake Up World
America’s Invisible Crises – Connecting the Dots (Part 2):
Three years ago, I wrote an article linking early signs of brain dysfunction/damage with the toxic ingredients in Chemtrails. See:
This is one of the most dangerous, covert, and global operations to which we have ever been exposed; and this is very difficult for people to understand: the serious implications of products (cell phones and Smart Meters) and invisible environmental toxins that damage our ability to think clearly. This is a major contributing factor to our diminished cognitive functions. However, it is not the only source of harm.
When we begin to connect the dots to the thousands of unsafe and often highly toxic chemicals, heavy metals, and hormone disruptors to which we are exposed daily, we then can collectively see that this is not just a one-issue health crisis we face. Rather, with corporations allowed free reign to poison us with impunity [the new Monsanto protection bill is the latest crime against us], we do not have any way to have any redress of decades of grievances. The ramifications of this are enormous.
Jun 18
Pushing the River – The Art of Surrender
By Slade Roberson, Guest | Waking Times
Are you struggling to make something happen?
Are you torturing your consciousness for a sense of the right direction, begging the Universe for assistance with a difficult decision?
Are you interrogating your guides, trying with all your might to listen to your heart, but hearing no clear answers?
You know that trying too hard only makes it worse, so you beat yourself up about that too… Spinning your wheels in a Purgatory of Indecision — or maybe it’s a Special Place in Hell just for perfectionists, over-analyzers, and hand-wringers.
Recirculation
If you’ve ever been white-water rafting or kayaking you’ve heard about the dangers of re-circulation. This is what occurs when you’re dragged into a hydrodynamic phenomenon where water falling from a shelf of rock goes to the bottom of the river, and, instead of moving downstream, is pushed back up, under, and behind the fall.
Kind of like undertow at the beach — only it never stops. A whirlpool, turned sideways — just like the Wheel of Life — and you’re stuck beneath it.
Jun 18
Human Genes Engineered Into Experimental GMO Rice Being Grown in Kansas
Unless the rice you buy is certified organic, or comes specifically from a farm that tests its rice crops for genetically modified (GM) traits, you could be eating rice tainted with actual human genes. The only known GMO with inbred human traits in cultivation today, a GM rice product made by biotechnology company Ventria Bioscience is currently being grown on 3,200 acres in Junction City, Kansas — and possibly elsewhere — and most people have no idea about it.
Since about 2006,Ventria has been quietly cultivating rice that has been genetically modified (GM) with genes from the human liver for the purpose of taking the artificial proteins produced by this “Frankenrice” and using them in pharmaceuticals. With approval from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA),Ventria has taken one of the most widely cultivated grain crops in the world today, and essentially turned it into a catalyst for producing new drugs.
Originally, the cultivation of this GM rice, which comes in three approved varieties (http://www.aphis.usda.gov/brs/biotech_ea_permits.html), was limited to the laboratory setting. But in 2007,Ventriadecided to bring the rice outdoors. The company initially tried to plant the crops in Missouri, but met resistance fromAnheuser-Buschand others, which threatened to boycott all rice from the state in the event that Ventria began planting its rice within state borders (http://todayyesterdayandtomorrow.wordpress.com).
Jun 18
New form of protest in Turkey: Standing Silently
Turkey’s ‘standing man’ launches new protest wave

(AP Photo/Petr David Josek). Erdem Gunduz, centre, stands silently on Taksim Square in Istanbul, Turkey, early Tuesday, June 18, 2013.

(AP Photo). Erdem Gunduz, right, stands silently on Taksim Square in Istanbul, Turkey, early Tuesday, June 18, 2013.
By Desmond Butler and Suzan Fraser
ISTANBUL (AP) – After weeks of sometimes violent confrontation with police, protesters in Turkey have found what could be a more potent form of resistance: standing still.
The trend was launched by performance artist Erdem Gunduz, who stood silently for hours in Istanbul’s central Taksim Square on Monday night, in passive defiance of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s violent crackdown on environmental protesters at a park adjacent to Taksim. The square has been sealed off from protesters since police cleared it over the weekend, though pedestrians can still enter.
As Gunduz stood there, others gradually began to join him – and later to replicate his protest in other cities in a wave of imitation driven by social media.
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THE PERFORMANCE
Gunduz apparently made no announcement before he paused Monday evening in the square and didn’t move. He stood with his hands in his pockets, staring at an image of Turkey’s founding father Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, whose admiration is rooted in his success in imposing secular values on a largely Muslim nation after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire 90 years ago.
When police arrived an hour later, Turkish news media reported, they searched his pockets and his backpack, then left.
Gunduz stayed put. For hours.
Turkey’s ‘Standing Man’ Renews Worldwide Attention to Taksim Protests
A man who simply stood for hours at the centre of Taksim Square quickly became a symbol Monday for the ongoing protests in Turkey, with the hashtag “standingman” trending on social media.
As clashes between police and protesters continued into Monday night, one man reportedly stood silently in the square for nearly six hours.
Jun 18
Shock: Iceland Defies EU, Freezes Membership Bid
“We are going to do it our way, this is our decision,” Sveinsson, 45, said in an interview in Brussels today. “This government is not going to keep on pushing forward this application. At some time, there will be a referendum, but I cannot tell you when and by whom.” EU leaders had celebrated the prospect of welcoming Iceland — a developed nation where the economy grew 1.6 percent in 2012 — as a sign the bloc’s appeal isn’t limited to poorer nations in the south. Iceland’s snub changes that. “It was not easy for me as a person” to learn of the new mood in Reykjavik, EU Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fule said after meeting Sveinsson last night. He urged the government in Reykjavik not to take “unlimited time” on its EU options… – News of Iceland
Dominant Social Theme: A little bump in the road.
Free-Market Analysis: The mainstream press was in full cry over Edward Snowden late last week, but there was big news regarding Iceland and the EU.
Iceland’s new government is no more apt to speed an entry into the EU than previous administrations. Representatives reaffirmed a decision to halt efforts to join the European Union. Reasons included worries over control of Iceland’s resources and the continued euro crisis.
Bill Bard says:
Well done Iceland.
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