September 10, 2015:
University of Arizona, Vatican and Jesuits Name New Telescope ‘Lucifer’
Added Apr 23, 2010, Under:
By Greg Szymanski, JD
April 23, 2010
Housed at Mt. Graham, critics wonder are the ‘evil ones’ planning a staged end times scenario.
The University of Arizona, together with the Vatican and Jesuit Order, announced today it named its newest high-powered telescopic instrument ‘Lucifer’.
There has been a great deal of speculation, among Vatican critics, why in the first place the Jesuit Order was allowed to build a huge stellar observatory on Mt. Graham in Arizona – on holy Indian ground – in cooperation with the state-run University of Arizona.
With the naming of Lucifer, critics claim the Vatican has showed its true colors, using God and Jesus as shills for their true master — Lucifer.
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http://www.arcticbeacon.com/greg/headlines/university-of-arizona-vatican-and-jesuits-name-new-telescope-lucifer/
Could the FDIC Seize Bank Deposits During a Crisis?
Submitted by Phoenix Capital Research on 08/18/2015 08:21 -0400
As we noted last week, one of the biggest problems for the Central Banks is actual physical cash.
The financial system is predominantly comprised of digital money. Actual physical Dollars bills and coins only amount to $1.36 trillion. This is only a little over 10% of the $10 trillion sitting in bank accounts. And it’s a tiny fraction of the $20 trillion in stocks, $38 trillion in bonds and $58 trillion in credit instruments floating around the system.
Suffice to say, if a significant percentage of people ever actually moved their money into physical cash, it could very quickly become a systemic problem.
Indeed, this is precisely what caused the 2008 meltdown, when nearly 24% of the assets in Money Market funds were liquidated in the course of four weeks. The ensuing liquidity crush nearly imploded the system.
Because of this, Central Banks and the regulators have declared a War on Cash in an effort to stop people trying to get their money out of the system.
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http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-08-18/could-fdic-seize-bank-deposits-during-crisis
Say Hello to China’s New Toys
China’s aggression is destabilizing its neighbors in the South China Sea. China never stops cheating on world trade. China’s stock market is a trap for investors. China’s devaluation of the yuan is a dirty trick. China is imploding. President Xi Jinping does not have any credibility left. And China is a major threat because the Pentagon said so.
Whatever.
Cue to clear blue skies over Beijing – engineered with a hefty dose of political will. Lots of glittering toys – aerial and terrestrial. Guests from all over the world (absent the predictable Western suspects). A made-for-TV spectacular dwarfing the Oscars (no teary-eyed acceptance speeches!) What’s not to like?
And then, there it was, strutting its lethal stuff on the Tiananmen catwalk: the Dongfeng-21D. A cracking land-based anti-ship ballistic missile capable of destroying one of those multibillion-dollar US aircraft carriers with a single hit.
No wonder China’s parade celebrating the end of WWII had to be demonized to oblivion.
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http://atimes.com/2015/09/say-hello-to-chinas-new-toys-escobar/
China foreign reserves took record hit last month
China’s decision to lets its currency float, and fall, last month proved to be a very expensive choice.
The People’s Bank of China on Monday said that the country’s foreign-exchange reserves plummeted a record amount in August as it tried to stabilize the yuan.
After the central bank devalued the currency on Aug. 11, stock markets around the world tumbled on fears the world’s second-largest economy was slowing at a much faster rate than expected. The move sent the yuan lower than expected and the PBOC spent $93.9 billion, the largest-ever monthly drop in dollar terms, to prop up the yuan and prevent it from falling further.
At the end of August, the PBOC still held foreign reserves of $3.56 trillion. Although down from a peak of nearly $4 trillion in June 2014, it still holds nearly one-third of all holdings by central banks world-wide.
The implications for the US government-bond market remains uncertain. As of June, China was the world’s largest holder of Treasury bonds, holding $1.27 trillion, according to US Treasury Department. About 40% of China’s foreign-exchange reserves are held as Treasurys, according to Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
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China intends to oust dollar from oil trade
Published time: 8 Sep, 2015 13:52
China is planning to launch its own oil benchmark in October, similar to Brent and WTI, striving for a more important role in establishing crude prices. Unlike the Western benchmarks, the Chinese contracts will be nominated in the yuan, not the US dollar. China is one of the world’s largest oil buyers. Nearly 60 percent of its oil consumption comes from imports.
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http://www.rt.com/business/314732-china-oil-contracts-dollar-yuan/
Mislabeled U.S. Meat Found to Contain Different Animal Species, Including Horse
Wednesday, September 09, 2015
Buying ground beef comes with the assumption that it contains meat from cattle. But a new study has found some hamburger sold in the U.S. also contains traces of horse meat.
Researchers at Chapman University’s Food Science Program gathered 48 meat samples from local supermarkets and online specialty meat distributors and tested the DNA contained in them. The results showed 10 of the 48 samples were mislabeled—and that nine of the 10 mislabeled samples contained additional species. Two of the 10 included horse meat, which is illegal to sell in the U.S. for consumption.
