Weekly News Wrap-Up 1.24.14

4By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com 

Syria is the top story.  Before the second round of Geneva peace talks even started, Iran was uninvited to the talks by the U.N.  It was because Iran would not agree that the President of Syria, Bashar al-Assad, should be removed as part of any peace plan.  The Syrian peace talks have turned into a name calling event with both sides posturing.  This is why the headlines say things like peace talks get off to “Belligerent Start.”  The Syrian Foreign Minister says, “The West claims to fight terrorism publically while they feed it privately.”  Secretary of State John Kerry says there “is no way possible in the imagination” that Syrian president Assad should be allowed to stay in power.  Kerry said Assad is “. . . a one-man super-magnet for terrorism.”  Kerry and the Obama White House have long said Assad should go.  Russian President Vladimir Putin cut a deal last year to remove Syria’s chemical weapons, and war was averted.  Now, the U.S. is, once again, saying Assad should be removed from power as part of any peace plan.  The Russians and the Iranians are not going along, and that means more war.  The U.S. is considering more funding for the rebels who are, in part, al-Qaeda.  The peace talks are solidifying the fact that more war is coming, and it will likely intensify.   This shows that after 130,000 were killed in the bloody Syrian civil war, there is no end in sight. 

Meanwhile, Israel stopped an attack on our embassy there.  This was a foiled al-Qaeda bombing plan to blow up the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv.  Could someone explain the bad al Qaeda that wants to blow us up and the good al Qaeda that the U.S. wants to arm in Syria?  

It also looks like the deal to curtail Iran’s nuclear program is on shaky ground.  One CNN anchor called it “a train wreck.”  Iranian President Hassan Rouhani told CNN “not under any circumstances” would it destroy key parts of its nuclear program, such as thousands of centrifuges.  This is a key component of enriching uranium needed for nuclear weapons.  Iran has always maintained its nuclear program is for the peaceful production of energy.  Many countries in the West, including the U.S., don’t buy that claim.  It looks like there is no real deal to curtail Iran’s nuclear program, and that is going to mean trouble.  Both Saudi Arabia and Israel are very upset by the Iranian nuclear program.  They fear it could upset the balance of power in the Middle East.  Both countries have made threats against Iran.  Just this week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, “Iran’s military nuclear program must be stopped, and Iran’s military nuclear program will be stopped.”  Netanyahu did not say how it would be stopped, but the prospects of a peaceful solution are not looking good. 

Obama Care is in big trouble, and it might take down some big insurance companies.  Moody’s is downgrading the outlook for the health insurance industry because of Obama Care.  Moody’s says, “If these things don’t work, it may have a longer and more detrimental effect on the industry. . . ” Meanwhile, Accenture has been brought in to fix HealthCare.gov.  It has to be done by mid-March.  Some industry experts say that a half billion lines of code need to be fixed or added.  If this is not done, one government document says the “healthcare law will be jeopardized.”  How do you think the potential failure of Obama Care could affect the debt ceiling debate?  You think the Obama Administration will need some cash to keep Obama Care and insurance companies solvent?  You think the Republicans in Congress are going to give it to him?  What a mess.  This could not only bankrupt some insurance companies, but also the country. 

There is no wonder why the President’s poll numbers are at fresh all-time lows.  This is why the President and the Democratic Party want to change the conversation to “income inequality.”  According to the polls, that is way down on the totem poll of priorities.  The economy and jobs are one and two for the majority of Americans.  You want to do something about income inequality?  Stop the $35 billion a month of Fed banker bailouts.  That is more than $400 billion a year!  You want to really help people?  Fix the economy.  Don’t just keep giving us spin such as mind control headlines that use the word “recovery” when there is no real recovery.  

Why isn’t the main stream media doing real stories such as continued money laundering by big banks?  Whistleblower Everett Stern says money laundering for terrorists is still going on at HSBC.  He blew the whistle last year, and HSBC bank paid a nearly $2 billion fine last year for laundering money for drug cartels and terrorists.  Where is the NSA when it comes to this?  You launder money for terrorists and you get fined?  No jail time?  No felony charges?  Doesn’t the NSA call Edward Snowden a traitor?  Hasn’t he been charged with multiple felonies?  Isn’t laundering money for terrorists treason? 

Join Greg Hunter of USAWatchdog.com as he analyzes these stories and more in the Weekly News Wrap-Up.

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Comments
  1. Rodster

    Michael Synder wrote a great article “20 Early Warning Signs That We Are Approaching A Global Economic Meltdown”

    http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/20-early-warning-signs-that-we-are-approaching-a-global-economic-meltdown

    Ties in nicely with this article: “Two Powder Kegs Ready to Blow: China & India”

    http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-01-23/two-powder-kegs-ready-blow-china-india

    • Greg Hunter

      Rodster,
      We need to have Mr. Synder back again! Great stuff and a great guest. Thank you.
      Greg

      • Ake

        What resonates with me still is what Sinclair said. “What if tomorrow isn’t the day, or the day after?”

        Like he said “currencies go into disarray”, “cost push affect” . See what happened this week with currencies?

        Like you said “People are willfully ignorant” please excuse if I mis quoted you from Sinclair’s interview.

        Have a good weekend.

        • Greg Hunter

          Ake,
          You are good man!! Thank you for not being “willfully ignorant.”
          Greg

      • guy

        Greg,Best of times worst of times.Ya cant make this up.You have a nice way of putting forward and making sense of this mess.im afraid for our way of life and for our families and friends.Your standing up and saying no, and alot of we the people must stand up and say no.Words od Ben Franklin,” WE EITHER HANG TOGETHER OR WE WILL HANG SEPARATELY “ben

    • Rodster

      Greg a Bank Run in China maybe starting to take place. We need to keep our eyes out on what’s going on in the East.
      http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-01-23/china-bank-run-beginning-farmers-co-op-unable-pay-depositors

      CNN.com got hacked with: “China Dumps All US Bonds”
      http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-01-23/hacked-cnn-reports-china-dumps-all-us-bonds

      • Greg Hunter

        Rodster,
        You know it is getting to the breaking point when guys like this say things like this.
        Greg

        • Rodster

          Yes sir, totally agree with that but he is not alone. Michael Pento, Rob Fitzwilson and others are sounding the alarm and the alarm is this will be global.

      • Rodster

        Apparently a bank run FEARS have started in Europe. HSBC is imposing restrictions on large withdrawals. Depositors now need to prove why they need the money.

        http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-25861717

        • Galaxy 500

          WOW…GREAT LINK / ARTICLE
          I suggest everyone read this and for Greg to put under top stories. This shows two : It’s not your money and they don’t have to give it to you if they don’t want to.

          • Uglys

            Galaxy500.
            Of course the money is not ours. Does not it say, ‘Federal Reserve Note’? It does not say, ‘Ugly Reserve Note’ nor ‘America Reserve Note’. Therefore, it is the note of the Federal Reserve. Therefore, they write the Notes and they that play it also owns the debt that goes along with it. Therefore, the Federal Reserve is loaning all the players the Note.

            Whoever owns the Federal Reserve is also the same folks running the debt that we players will pay–and pay dearly we will. The NWO….

          • Liquid Motion

            @ Uglys
            I assume You know who owns the Federal Reserve ? If not may I suggest ….
            “The Creature from Jekyll Island” – G Edward Griffin.
            Follow the money ..as they say…it all leads to the Rothschild Dynasty.
            BUT…just as there are Royal Families/Great Wealth of Europe….look no further than China itself for really immense wealth.

        • Rodster

          Sky News is reporting that Lloyd’s and TSB Bank customers can’t use their debit or ATM cards. Is this a sign of more potential problems?

          http://news.sky.com/story/1201359/lloyds-and-tsb-hit-by-card-and-atm-problems

    • Rodster

      Something is seriously not right about this unless they are spooked and know something we don’t.

      “S.KOREA TO HOLD EMERGENCY MEETING ON JAN. 26 TO DISCUSS MARKETS”
      http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-01-25/stocks-drop-4-their-all-time-highs-and-happens#comments

      Bloomberg: South Korea Vice Finance Minister Choo Kyung Ho will host an emergency meeting tomorrow at 11 a.m. with counterparts from Bank of Korea and financial regulators to discuss market instabilities in emerging economies including Argentina, ministry says in text message.

    • Rodster

      Things just keep getting more interesting. Welcome to 2014 folks !

      “China Halts Bank Cash Transfers”

      The People’s Bank of China , the central bank, has just ordered commercial banks to halt cash transfers.
      http://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonchang/2014/01/26/china-halts-bank-cash-transfers-2/

      • Galaxy 500

        Incomplete link

      • Mark

        Bad link

  2. Agent P

    The real ‘bubble’ forming Greg, is the bubble in LIES, Double-standards and rank Hypocrisy of the U.S. government and its Wall Street cronies. The citizenry is (finally?) beginning to see that something is very wrong here and that trust has been broken – on many different levels. What follows the breach in the people’s trust, is confidence. But while the The Power Elite could care less about whether Joe-the-plumber trusts them or not, they can ill-afford for Joe-the-plumber to lose $confidence – especially in the $currency. And it is precisely the currency that is headed next for a breach of trust, but the trigger will not come from within but rather, the fuse will be lit from outside our borders, far out of reach from the long arm of the Exchange Stabilization Fund and the folks at the State Department. Major change is in motion –

    • Greg Hunter

      Agent P,
      A “bubble in LIES” and they will only get bigger until it blows up.
      Greg

    • J.C.Davis

      Agent P I have seldom agreed with your comments. Until now. You said It is precisely the currency that is headed next for a breach of trust, but “the trigger will not come from within but rather, the fuse will be lit from outside our borders,” far out of reach from the long arm of the Exchange Stabilization Fund and the folks at the State Department. Major change is in motion –
      This is what China has been working toward for more then 10 years. Thank you for your post. Greg hunter has taught me this above all (Full grown adults should be able to disagree, and still be civil).

      • Galaxy 500

        JC,
        You wrote, “Full grown adults should be able to disagree, and still be civil”. Well said my friend.
        That’s the difference between most conservatives and this current crop of so called liberal. Liberals believe free speech and civility stops when it diverges from their evil and wrong headed views.

    • TORNasunder

      I concur AgentP. What is happening now is that the truth and the narrative are moving farther apart and at a greater rate. As reality continues to kick more and more people in the gut the lies become more apparent. TPTB want a major change, and on a worldwide scale. I believe a global financial meltdown or WWIII would provide the necessary ‘problem’ to fulfill their hegelian dialetic. It does not need to start in the West, and most likely will not since they’ll want to ‘blame’ some other country for ‘starting’ the problem.

  3. Jim G

    Greg I enjoy your astute commentaries and you are generally right on the mark. Only bone of contention was your statements that ObamaCare COULD bankrupt the country. Of course, you and many others know the country is already bankrupt and at a point of no return. It would have been more accurate to just state that ObamaCare will hasten the inevitable end to the USS Titanic, which has already hit the proverbial iceberg.

    Keep up the good work.

    • Greg Hunter

      Jim G,
      Point well made and well taken. Thank you for adding it.
      Greg

  4. Oracle 911

    Hi Greg
    I watched all of your interview this week. And I must say, You are right, sadly.
    Hypocritical cowardly lying gangsters with double standards are in charge. If you like them, you can keep them. Period. End of story. (Putting joke on Obama.)

    Your thoughts.

    • Greg Hunter

      Oracle 911,
      Vast deception going on. It is global and Biblical in size. If you take the “Red Pill” you can see the spin and attempted mass mind control every day. Take the time to watch this (everyone should watch it.)
      Greg

      • Diane Ryan

        “Global’ and ‘Biblical’… Greg, you ‘get it’. And even more important you have the courage to expose the evil doers. Thank you.

        We are sick of the orchestrated distraction of ‘Republicans VS Democrats’ and ‘CNN VS Fox News’ implying that we are getting ‘both sides’. Keep up the great work!

        • Greg Hunter

          Thank you Diane Ryan! Dems and Repubs just take turns ripping us off.
          Greg

      • lastmanstanding

        Global and Biblical has been going on almost everywhere in the world except here in the US forever.

        We have always seemed to be exempt…well some here in the US that is.

        The planet earth does NOT work that way.

        • Liquid Motion

          You can’t be the world’s super power and have the world’s reserve currency without having someone benefit from the power and control that is bestows on the nation…CAN YOU !!

      • lastmanstanding

        I can’t speak for the rest of you but I will get exactly what I deserve.

        I’m good with that.

  5. Albert Tesla

    On Israel and the Middle East.

    I got a lot of love for good Jewish people, good Muslim people, and good Christian people.

    But when I look at Israel (and the middle east in general), I see so much hypocrisy and just sheer insanity

    I think the blame game can evenly be dispersed between all Abrahamic religions, and indeed each religion has suffered persecution one way or another. Jews during holocaust, the Muslims of Yugoslavia, The Christians of ancient Rome, just some examples.

    But what the hell is going on with these people?
    I read a book about the prophet Muhammad ( I was more so interested in his tactics of conquering the middle east rather then religious significance). When he conquered his foes in battle, he would then welcome them with open arms under his banner, and take them IN WITH NO PUNISHMENT IF THEY WERE CHRISTIANS AND JEWS. that’s how he was able to hold such vasts amounts of land, by making EVERYONE HAPPY.

    ….

    What happened to this mentality that Islam once possessed? where the hell did it go? God knows how many examples of Muslim’s erasing Christians and Jews off the map exist, i thought the prophet Muhammad was the figure they strive to be like, yet somewhere down the line the “heads” of this religion completely lost a grasp of this beautiful idea.

    Again, blame game is even though. Not just Muslims messing up, its everyone. Israel makes NO sense to me whatsoever….Before WW2, Jews did not have a nation….Due to the acts of Germany….they then are given a piece of land in the middle east? Why is the middle east suffering and having to pay for the errors of nazi germany?!? Why wasn’t a chunk of land given to the Jewish people in GERMANY they are the ONES WHO STARTED THIS WHOLE MESS….they should be the ones who pay the price! Hasidic Jews, who PRACTICE THE TORAH WITH EVERY DETAIL IN MIND…are FOR THE MOST PART AGAINST ISRAEL BEING A JEWISH STATE….

    And Christians, i’m getting tired off writing so much, so i’ll just wrap this one up by saying the other day on the news i saw a clip about the pope, they showed him with a solid gold cross on his neck the size of my face. Enufffff SAID.

    Again, sheer insanity.

    why cant they all just SHARE….like how GOD would want it to be?! Oh yeh, politics, that’s why.

    Israel is like a ticking time bomb….its a small nation surrounded by misguided Muslims…Its the equivalent of putting a mouse around ten cats….And i think this was intended by the powers that be ( i wish everyone in Israel, and the world in general, good health and prosperity, but its a harsh reality.)

    Sun Tzu Art Of War – Out of chaos, comes opportunity. Israel might possibly be that ticking time bomb of chaos, and the opportunity? One world government.

    • Galaxy 500

      Albert Tesla, any kin to Nicoli? Hate to break this to you but Israel was a nation of the Jewish people for hundreds of years. God gave the land of Israel to the Jews and said that when they come back, which happened in the 1940s, they would never be pushed out again. The Jews are fighting for their lives. You see, last time someone said they would kill them all and let God sort them out, they didn’t take them seriously, to their own detriment. The Arabs are saying this again but this time they believe.

      • Sidj

        Just for historical context: God gave the land of Canaan to the 12 tribes descended from Jacob (Israel). Judah (the Jews) was one of those tribes. The scriptures say the other tribes will also one day return.

      • allen ols

        G 500

        exactly; wherever abraham put his foot, became Israel’s. the difference between arabs and Jews is God or yahweh chose Isaac over Ishamel, as Isaac is the offspring of sarah and abramham. Ishmael is the seed of abraham and hagar

      • allen ols

        G 500

        exactly; wherever abraham put his foot, became Israel’s. the difference between arabs and Jews is God or yahweh chose Isaac over Ishamel, as Isaac is the offspring of sarah and abramham. Ishmael is the seed of abraham and hagar, and HE said he would bless them. ‘oil’ lol But because of the work of Christ, we can all be grafted in to the new kingdom jews and arabs alike.

        al ols fopusawd

    • Sidj

      I read a book about Islam too. It noted that when the muslims conquered other peoples, the muslims collected tributes from those peoples as a recurring income. For a long time only arabs were allowed to become muslim because muslims did not have to pay any tributes. Later that rule changed which allowed non-arabs such as the Persians (Iran) to become muslim too. Lingering rivalries such as this may be a reason why arab muslims don’t want Iran (Persians) to get too powerful in the muslim world.

      • mohammad

        False!

    • Liquid Motion

      One shudders to think that Religion is but a cover for the real reasons.
      Religion is blamed for everything. In fact you would be interested to know that those that control the states and countries are far from religious. Truth is they despise all forms of it. Their interest lies in controlling the masses through servitude and accumulating wealth.

  6. Frank

    This last report was a particularly good one. You are one of the few to report things the way they really are. Keep up the good work & keep telling the truth!

    • Greg Hunter

      Thank you Frank for supporting the site!
      Greg

  7. Jerry

    Greg. Thank God for U.S.A. Watchdog. You are the only source of the truth left while we are surrounded by lies, lies, lies.

    Lie #1 – The economy is getting better. Really? Hold on to your hat, the recovery elevator is going down. The Chinese just dumped our Bonds back into the market.

    http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user5/imageroot/2014/01/CNN%20hacked.jpg

    (Lie #1- Is a joke. Or is it ?)

    Lie #2 – The Affordable Care Act will help everyone get Health Insurance? Wrong. Did you know that in Missouri if your income is below the federal poverty line of $11,490. for an individual or $15,510. for a couple you can’t enroll in the government exchange and get a subsidy or tax credit? Guess what ? You can’t enroll in Medicaid either because Missouri opted out of Medicaid expansion. You fall into a coverage gap where your only option is to buy coverage off exchange where the rates are about 50% higher. What do you think most people in this situation will do? That’s right go without Health Insurance. Brilliant law !

    Lie #3- Peace talks in the Middle East about Syria and Iran? Don’t make me laugh. I have relatives called up for duty 6 months ago, who have yet to return home. Assad is toast because the Saudi’s want him gone, and right now they are the only ones backing the dollar.

    • Greg Hunter

      Thank you Jerry for the comment and intel.
      Greg

    • tROT

      Jerry Toast? Don’t forget the Sunburn missile. I pray we don’t.
      It will be anchor’s away on a voyage to the bottom of the sea!

  8. Smaulgld

    I agree things look stark in Syria but the global financial markets are in even greater risk of imploding. Many deals can be struck to avoid war which will benefit all the parties. NOTHNG can be done to avert the collapsing of multiple debt driven centrally planned bubbles.
    A war would have the effect of crashing the markets and driving silver and gold higher- they don’t want that-they want to preserve the markets. I think war becomes a bigger risk AFTER the markets collapse and it will probably be Germany, China or a domestic event that triggers it.http://smaulgld.com/how-germany-and-china-could-mess-up-the-feds-taper-plans/

    • Greg Hunter

      Smaugld,
      One thing we both can agree on is it ain’t looking good. The world has never seen a FUBAR like the ones we are facing now. Thank you for your comment and support.
      Greg

      • Smaulgld

        Today’s market action may mark the start of the collapse. The “recovery” is based on rising stock prices, so if they fall the recovery is over.
        Oh btw Walmart’s Sam’s club is doing a massive lay off and Jamie Dimon got a raise!

  9. Jerry

    Hey Greg.
    I know you probably saw this yesterday, but I had to ask you question.

    http://www.usagold.com/cpmforum/

    Do you think they will pull out the Shorts again like did before when Gold started putting pressure on the dollar last year? Noting the Gold delivery debacle with Germany, I’m just wondering who they can sucker this time.

    • Greg Hunter

      Jerry,
      Who the heck knows. We do know the evidence is showing physical gold in large quantity is dwindling. If they do short the market with massive action it will not last long.
      Greg

    • Liquid Motion

      As I have said …the smell of shorts being burned is in the air…and some of this large money will suffer 3rd degree burns. It will be a horror show and these guys will go up in flames.

  10. Uglys

    Revelation says that when Satan and his spirits are cast to earth terrible things will happen because they know that their time on earth will be very short. The Beast of the Sea is probably in the making and the Man of Daniel is more than likely alive and walking around on this planet. Prepare folks and live in peace, because that is all we can do.

    • Greg Hunter

      Uglys,
      The Book of Revelation is a gift from God. He wants us to prepare physically and more importantly spiritually. Peace Brother!
      Greg

    • allen ols

      Ugly, Greg, super true alols

  11. art barnes

    Greg, Iran will never destroy their nuclear program they have worked so hard to get and they announce that almost daily now. They have only agreed to “hold” still from improving (enriching) any further, that is what they agreed to, nothing more. The U.S. Administration & the State Department was in such a hurry to get a “deal” it took the deal hoping Iran the “non destruction” issue would not come out publicly. The reason Iran did agreed to the “deal” in the first place was that once they got their sanctions lifted they know they can start up again at any time and the West will be hard pressed to put the sanctions back in place; probably impossible. At that point they get their cake and eat it to, no sanctions, start up again and go nuclear. Obama didn’t miss the non-destruction issue, the Administration was just hoping it wouldn’t come to light before it could slap itself on the back for a job well done and call the “deal” a success. The wild card, of course, was Israel who knew the “deal” was not a dismantling of the program, only a halting. Israel keep the pressure up including regular press releases until Iran came out publicly and brought it in the open (that they weren’t destroying anything); but not until the first part of the sanctions were already lifted and the “deal” was well under way and no one wants to go back to square one again. Frankly, relations & policy with and about Libya, Syria, Egypt, Saudi Arabia (just to mention a few) have all have been blunders, mishaps, & miscalculations during the Obama Administration, it should be no surprise that they would mess up the Iran nuclear policy matter as well.
    After 6 years of Obama its clear to me that although I believe to be a nice guy, good father and husband, etc., his community organizer mentality & skills, and no matter how smart he is, is just not up to the job of international politics. The proof is in the pudding as my learned father used to say.

    • Greg Hunter

      Art,
      I will be shocked if there is not at least a regional war in the M.E. this year. I cannot see a peaceful resolution coming on either Iran or Syria. I hope I am totally off the mark here.
      Greg

      • Galaxy 500

        No regional war. You’ve got Lybians, Iranians, Palestinians, and Iraq’s fighting in Syria. You’ve got Pakistanis and Iranians fighting in Afghanistan. Etc, etc, etc
        The USA under the Obamanation is giving arms to both sides and is dumbfounded when our Ambassador to Libya is murdered by the terrorist we shipped from prisions in Iraq to Libya. Looks like an undeclared regional war to me. All of this chaos caused by a person whose beliefs about the world and our enemies don’t mesh with reality.

  12. TJ Jackson

    Most excellent analysis of the situation. The second half of today’s offering should be mandatory in every college classroom today. You really hit the nail on the head and you did it without a teleprompter. I am visibly impressed. Great job.

    • Greg Hunter

      Thank you TJ. I do have some bullet points and notes, but you are correct–no teleprompter.
      Greg

  13. Geo. T (formerly George)

    Greg wrote, “Could someone explain the bad al Qaeda that wants to blow us up and the good al Qaeda that the U.S. wants to arm in Syria? ”
    Sure Greg, easy to explain. Its the same flawed thinking FDR used toward the Soviet Union during WWII. These liberal wackadoodles don’t understand that you can not arm or provide technology to your enemies without it biting you in the arse later. This administration is at best third string and is wholly incompetent. They think that you can deal with people whose only wish is to destroy us. And what moron would provide any weapons to people that not only want you dead but actively seek to kill you? Obama can do.

    • Greg Hunter

      Thank you Geo!!!
      Greg

    • Liquid Motion

      Good or Bad….no difference…they are one in the same. ENEMY. Whether they are paid by the US or by some Saudi Prince….doesn’t really matter. They’re motivation is to vent someone else’s frustration.

  14. Geo. T (formerly George)

    Greg,
    They have to keep up the spying to keep control on the citizens of the USA. They are not looking for terrorist. If they were, with the FBI and Russia warning them and all the tweeting and Facebook post these clowns in Boston were doing should have thrown up a red flag, right? More like a solar flare. The NSA is just a modern day version of J. Edgar Hoover’s paper files on people of power. Think about it

  15. Eddie

    I have been following your weekly wrap-ups for over a year and this is one of your best ones since. Very strong.

    Keep up the good work.

    I don’t know what we are going to do when they shut down the internet.

    You should look into an alternative broadcast mode like HAM radio for when they cut off the internet.

    • Greg Hunter

      Thank you Eddie, good idea!
      Greg

    • Smaulgld

      Have bitcoiners thought that one through?

    • Galaxy 500

      Having a radio source for The Hellfire missiles to home in on might not be a good business plan. If they cut off the net, do you think ” real” news will be tolerated in any form?
      Just curious about what people think things will look like here if things get so bad they cut off the net. Thoughts anyone?

  16. Galaxy 500

    The Prez says marijuana is safe, he smoked it in college. A scientific study says it isn’t. Maybe drugs are to blame for the O man being incompetent and out of touch with reality. Hell
    did he say he had stopped?

    • k

      Please educate yourself rather than ignorantly complain about such a sensitive topic. We should all work together to make this country better.

      http://www.drugpolicy.org/drug-facts/10-facts-about-marijuana

      • Galaxy 500

        Dude,
        There is clear evidence that in the very least in damages young minds. Smoke all you want. I am not ignorant because I don’t buy the junkies propaganda. Knock yourself out.

    • Liquid Motion

      Apparently he’s not too shabby at shooting baskets !!!! 😉

  17. Dwain

    Isn’t medias primary responsibility to blow the whistle on government lawlessness and allow citizens to voice their concerns and grievances? This is what the pioneers thought anyhow. But now media is a government lapdog, providing cover for and abetting government lawlessness. Go figure

  18. mohammad

    Tesla,

    If you do not diagnose right you miss the picture and get lost in small details and eventually you will miss the treatment, wrong medicine kills the patient.

    Please allow me to put it the way i see it, if you do not like it throw it behind your back, no problem here.

    God created every thing for a reason, a very good one that is.
    TO KNOW HIM.
    That shows how great god is in creating us with the choice of following or disobeying the creator and by having that choice we will be responsible for the consequences.

    Satin out of envy to Adam (because Adam was created to be the khalifa of god on earth….hence came the name of khalifa in islamic state…) he decided to be his enemy from day one by luring him into disobeying god and failing the test of staying away from the only tree he was asked by god to not eat from as a test.

    From there the CONFLICT began.

    When god sent prophets to guide people you find throughout history believers and disbelievers, the purpose of sending the prophets is to send with them the manual (religion) that keeps people relations within the boundaries the creator outlined so they remain happy during their test period (their lifetime).

    Absolutely throughout human history satin did not sit still and will never do, he wants to through EVERY human out of track same way he threw their grandfather ADAM out of track.

    THAT IS THE WHOLE STORY which you know and every one knows but the difference and major difference is when some one follows satin and thinks he is following god.
    THAT IS THE CULPRIT.
    THAT IS THE TEST.
    how do you know? how can you tell?
    God did not leave us alone and he told us throughout time with those manuals he sent with his prophets how to differentiate, he gave us the tools (brain, senses, mind, consciousness…..etc) which if we work in a neutral way WE WILL REACH THE TRUTH and WE WILL NEVER GO ASTRAY.

    Since you talked about muslims among other beliefs i would like to draw your attention to their holy book QURAN.
    IT IS THE ONLY BOOK THAT WAS TRANSFERRED FROM CHEST TO CHEST OVER 1500 years without any CHANGES to it.
    If you go from east of the globe to the west and from north to south you find all muslims recite ONE QURAN!!! that deserves taking notice.
    And it is the last manual god sent to humans to follow . If you read it you will know why.
    NOW I WILL SAY SOMETHING VERY IMPORTANT HERE:

    Under no stretch of imagination i am saying follow what i say, and in no way I am underestimating other beliefs, all am saying here is am giving you my way of seeing things and it is up to you to take it or leave it.

    At any rate God will decide the outcome when Jesus comes back and kills the Anti Christ.
    Only then the whole world will understand what was in Quran and what the prophet Muhammad (who believes in Jesus) had said all along.

    • On The Beach

      Mohammad~
      Jesus said:
      “By this all will know that you are my disciples, if you have love among yourselves.” (John 13:35)
      Such love reaches across racial, social, and national boundaries, drawing people together in genuine brotherhood. So strong is this love that it sets them apart as being truly different. When the nations go to war, who have enough love for their Christian or Muslim brothers in other lands that they refuse to take up arms and kill them and or certainly wouldn’t cut out their fellow believers heart out and eat it?
      Mohammad you do not believe in Christendom’s Trinity. You worship the one true God, the creator of heaven and earth. Am I right that you believe that Jesus was a prophet? . . . Was he a true prophet? . . . Then what he said was from God and if other teachings do not agree with it, they must be from another source, is that not so?
      Isa. 2:-4: ” It must occur in the final part of the days (last days) that the mountain (government) of the house of Jehovah will become firmly established above the top of the mountains (governments) . . . And he will certainly render judgment among the nations and set matters straight respecting many peoples. And they will have to beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning shears. Nation will not lift up sword against nation, neither will they learn war anymore.”
      (Those that have heeded Jehovah /Allah’s judgment give evidence that he is their God.)
      2 Cor. 10:3, 4: “Though we walk in the flesh, we do not wage warfare according to what we are in the flesh. For the weapons of our warfare are not fleshly, but powerful by God for overturning strongly entrenched things.” (Paul here states that he never resorted to fleshly weapons, such as trickery, high- sounding language, or carnal weapons, to protect the congregation against false teachings)
      Luke 6:27, 28: “I [Jesus Christ] say to you who are listening, Continue to love your enemies, to do good to those hating you, to bless those cursing you, to pray for those who are insulting you.”
      1st. Corinthians 13: 4 L O V E N E V E R F A I L S !

      • On The Beach

        ‘Ya habibi, USAWatchdogs!’

        • mohammad

          Lots of false in your post, I can refute, I would not turn the site to religious quarrel, to each his/her own belief.

  19. Galaxy 500

    Greg,
    Great to make it another week without the music playing. So many things reaching critical mass.

  20. mohammad

    Greg,

    Here is a frosting on the cake,
    Abbas is feeling the letdown by US and is turning to (what else?) Russia for aid and support.
    Just imagine Russian influence is coming back to Jerusalem.
    THAT IS A MILESTONE!
    As a reminder to viewer, Russia is the representative to eastern Christianity and Jerusalem is the heart of it.
    Russia is making a come back to holy land just because US is NOT RELIABLE!
    Another milestone will be Hagia-Sohpia cathedral in Turkey and I have no doubt in my mind that the Russian’s eyes on it are like a hawk’s eyes on its prey.

    http://news.yahoo.com/abbas-seeks-1-billion-gaza-deal-russia-143355144.html

    • Greg Hunter

      Mohammad,
      So many awful developments. I can’t keep up. Thank you for posting this–very important!!!
      Greg

    • Smaulgld

      Return of the Byzantium Empire!

    • Galaxy 500

      Wow Doc. Thanks for the link. Does anyone think Israel will allow Russia to arm the Palestinian terrorists? In the end, the only solution to the question of a people that seek to destroy you is to put them to the sword. You have a group of powerful old terrorists getting the young to strap on bombs and murder women and children just for being Christians and Jews. The only people that will mourn the loss of the Palestinian terrorists or other moslems terrorists.

  21. mohammad

    Greg,

    When it comes from Roubini it is serious.
    Seems every one in Davos is comparing 2014 to 1914 to your credit, they are expecting a war!
    This is what he tweeted:
    “many speakers compare 2014 to 1914 when WWI broke out & no one expected it. A black swan in the form of a war between China & Japan?”

    link:
    http://finance.yahoo.com/news/roubini-doom-scenario-looks-1914-105552501.html

    Isn’t it odd that it comes on the 100 years cycle?
    1914
    2014 !!!!

    • Greg Hunter

      Mohammad,
      1914 and 2014 both odd and very scary. They didn’t have nukes back then.
      Greg

    • Galaxy 500

      Not buying the cycle theory. But the article link you posted is interesting reading. Thanks

      • mohammad

        Well let me give you another 100 cycle to chew on.
        Libya was conquered by Italy in 1911, again by Nato in 2011!!!!!!!!!!

    • Liquid Motion

      There is a saying that history never repeats but it does have a tendency to rhyme.
      That is another way of saying that we are evolutionary. We develop, grow and are more dependant on what mother nature has to offer, whilst having a tendency to become disruptive and aggressive from time to time, when things aren’t in harmony.
      What is occurring now (albeit on different scales and levels) seems very analogous to what we could term “seasons” or “cycles” or “rhythms” or “patterns”. We have been here before…..all impressions are we will be reminded of that experience very soon.

  22. 8Ball

    Yup, the world is in a mess… Americans keep re-electing the usual suspects and then wonder why nothing changes. As someone once said: “As you make your bed, so you must lie (up)on it.” or You have to suffer the consequences of what you do.

    Carl Sagan was a smart guy and he must have thought about all of this at some point in his life. Here is one of his quotations:
    “One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.” (Carl Sagan)

    • Greg Hunter

      8Ball,
      Great quote and so true today!! Thank you for posting it here.
      Greg

  23. brian

    Man Greg, I don’t know how you can be so calm while laying out the high points of the utter f#@# job we are all being given by the big money monopolists, their f@#@#&g government and its complicit press…..and I get even more furious when I look and see that it looks like these #@#&%@g #@@# #$#@#s are actually going to get away with @#$&@@ every @#@##@##@##@#@%$# thing they did while we are stuck with the MONSTROUS price of all this!

  24. OutLookingIn

    Digging into the MSM. Rot is where you find it!

    For close to 100 years or a little more, the Bancroft family owned the Dow Jones Company, which included:
    The Wall Street Journal
    Barron’s Magazine
    Factiva
    Market Watch
    Brummell Magazine
    Wealth Bulletin
    Smart Money
    On December 13, 2007 the Bancroft family sold The Dow Jones Company for $5 billion to News Corp then headed by Rupert Murdoch of Fox Network fame. He turns around and sells 90% of Dow Jones Indexes for $607.5 million (which includes the Dow Jones Industrial Average) to the CME Group of COMEX fame. So, guess who now calls the shots in the so-called “free financial media”? The rot goes deep.

    http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_assets_owned_by_Dow_Jones

    • Sidj

      Quote:
      “If you don’t read the newspaper you are uninformed.
      If you do read the newspaper you are misinformed.”
      — Mark Twain

  25. Anne Elliott

    Maybe HSBC wasnt prosecuted more because they were funding the “good” Alcaida…

    • Greg Hunter

      Anne Elliott,
      You made me laugh but it might be true!!
      Greg

  26. Anne Elliott

    A note on the economy – I live in Illinois and we were just notified by a friend that propane costs are going to rise substantially very soon, and the amount of propane we can buy will be limited on top of that. We paid a relatively low cost of $1.87 per gallon of propane this September when we filled our tank. Apparently there was a propane pipe disruption to the Midwest, because yesterday the price rose to $5.00 a gallon, and is expected to rise soon to $9.00 a gallon because now they’re going to have to truck the propane in from Texas (so the rumor is going). My husband and I went to the hardware store today, and about four couples were buying electric room heaters. They said they were on propane and were getting the heaters “just in case” the propane ran out. Oh, and it’s expected to be 5 below tonight, too.

    • Anne Elliott

      Correction – it was 5 below last night.

      • Galaxy 500

        Wow,
        stay warm. You are in our thoughts and prayers.

      • TORNasunder

        Anne this is not really about the economy per se, it is about the very harsh cold winter and obviously people were not prepared. I read a good article about the propane shortages last week, in fact do a search on ‘propane shortage’ and you’ll find plenty of articles. The main problem is not an actual lack of propane, but of getting the propane to where it is needed(from the SW-W to the N-NE). Also most of the transport of propane is moved by truck.

    • Rebecca

      I would add to Anne’s real world reporting:
      Last fall it cost about $65 to $70 to fill a 100-lb. propane tank.
      Today (right now) it costs $144.
      I personally know a elderly lady in Arkansas who is wearing layers of layers of clothing, trying to keep warm — and wearing gloves inside her house because her hands a cold.
      My son spoke to an elderly lady here who said she has to keep her thermostat at 50°, because heating fuel costs are so high.
      For those heating with wood, the talk is that usage has more than doubled this winter. We are looking for 20-30 below zero temps again beginning Monday a.m.
      This has been a bitterly cold winter for us and the local NWS meteorologist told me that there is not going to be any early “thawing” this spring.

  27. Steven Starr

    Paul Craig Roberts made the point (in his most recent interview) that he wasn’t sure what the Federal government *wouldn’t do* . . . that includes starting another war, right? Everything is going completely to hell here in the former democratic republic of the USA, so it seems to me that it is time for another WAR to distract whatever attention the public has left. But if they pick a fight with Russia, who knows where that will end? The damned fools are likely to get us all killed.

    • Greg Hunter

      Yes Mr. Star, the war card is in play as we speak.
      Greg

  28. chu

    Greg,
    I just listened you on Wallstformainst talking about main stream media.
    Just take a look at this:
    Andrea Mitchell Had To Interrupt An NSA Discussion With Breaking Bieber News
    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/24/andrea-mitchell-justin-bieber-nsa_n_4657934.html

    These two recent news never appeared on Main stream media neither
    CONFIRMED: The DEA Struck A Deal With Mexico’s Most Notorious Drug Cartel
    http://www.businessinsider.com/the-us-government-and-the-sinaloa-cartel-2014-1

    HSBC faces £70bn capital hole, warn Hong Kong analysts
    http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/hsbc-faces-70bn-capital-hole-133705984.html

    • Greg Hunter

      Chu,
      Thank you for adding these links to the site and for joining the conversation Welcome.
      Greg

    • Smaulgld

      Chu that Justin Beaver viewer alert from Andrea Mitchell looked like a joke. She was interviewing a congresswoman and interrupted her to bring the news that a celebrity child was arrested for bad behavior!
      They play to and create their audience…

    • Anne Elliott

      Omgosh… “Andrea Mitchell Had To Interrupt An NSA Discussion With Breaking Bieber News”???? There are no words for how sad that is…

  29. Rich

    Greg,
    I am not sure if this is crossing the line of the intent of your site, if so no problem.

    @Al Ols
    UV82 baofeng question: charging unit output is 1-5w via 110 converter.

    Biolite thermoelectric unit output via USB is 2-4w. Do you think that the Biolite could be used as an off-grid charging unit for the Ham Radio?

    Thanks for any input.
    Rich

    • Galaxy 500

      Email the company if the specs work. They will know.

    • Jerry

      Yes. I planning on using it that way. It will work.

    • allen ols

      rich

      I dont know, cant help u with the electronics of the unit. btw i drove 3 miles away and was still talking clear on 2 way talkie. i am impressed,

      al ols fopusawd

  30. [email protected]

    Five bucks says the “Credit equals gold” scam in China’s shadow banking mess will explode . However , I’m personally not losing any sleep . We’ve learned through our “Lehman” moment that they will in the end get bailed out . There is a Bloomberg article out today already predicting this . The nice thing is that at least in China some peoples heads will roll (or be chopped off) .

    • Greg Hunter

      [email protected],
      I wouldn’t take that bet. Looks bad over there and it’s probably coming here. Thank you for jumping in here!
      Greg

  31. Sherrie

    Hello,
    I always look forward to your interviews, they are so full of information I can share with others. Thank you for taking the time of put this all together and get it out here to us.

    As someone who grew up a 1950s kid, I am beyond disgusted at what we have allowed this country to become. I remember the mid 1960s as being a time when you could feel things begin to go the wrong way only to accelerate wildly in the past ten years.

    After watching what happened to Ron Paul in the last election, I have no doubt they will do everything possible to prevent us from ever having a president who will actually be able to represent we the people. That being said, I still have hope thanks to people such as yourself spreading facts as opposed to propaganda, we may be able to all come together and take back and rebuild our once great republic.

    Thank you again for all you do sir, your work is much appreciated.

    • Greg Hunter

      Thank you Sherrie for your comment and support.
      Greg

    • John Galt

      Very good post Sherrie. I feel the same way. It’s a sad day when when a good man is treated the way Ron Paul was. Another observation could be made on the run for senate by Peter Schiff in Connecticut. If I am not mistaken he lost to some female wrestler. Hey… that gives me an idea, maybe Roger Staubach could be president! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNJvW8w5JSU

  32. dave

    Hey Greg
    Long time.I just seen this post and though if it could happen there ,when will it hit home?Anyhow ..OUCH!

    http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/americas/venezuela/140123/venezuelan-foreign-exchange-forex-bolivar-dollar

  33. Uglys

    Golly Greg,
    First you give us all this bad news and numerous things to worry about, and then you end your message with ‘….have a good weekend’.

    On recovery, people have recovered. The Big Banks have recovered, the warmongers have recovered, the phony mortgages have recovered, the POTUS and 535 have recovered, con artists have recovered, the phony stocks have recovered, liberalism and communism have recovered, Buffet and Soros have recovered, billionaires have recovered. You see, you missed our recovery.

    On stocks, I think I am ready for their crash. I am tired of my friends bragging about the ‘killing’ they have made in stocks since 2009. I tell them why, but they don’t care. They think I am the idiot. Thus I don’t care when it crashes either (albeit crash after I cash in my last mutual fund–not before).

    On war, I hope the POTUS and 535 have a great time fighting for us. We’ll leave the light on for them….

    • J.C.Davis

      Proberbs 1: My son, if sinners entice you
      consent thou not.
      11 If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood,
      let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:
      12 let us swallow them up alive as the grave;
      and whole, as those that go down into the pit:
      13 we shall find all precious substance,
      we shall fill our houses with spoil:
      14 cast in thy lot among us;
      let us all have one purse:
      15 my son, walk not thou in the way with them;
      refrain thy foot from their path:
      16 for their feet run to evil,
      and make haste to shed blood.
      17 Surely in vain the net is spread
      in the sight of any bird.
      18 And they lay wait for their own blood;
      they lurk privily for their own lives.
      19 So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain;
      which taketh away the life of the owners thereof

  34. J.C.Davis

    Greg, not many post today. Your site has been hitting on all cylinder’s for several months now. I am so thankful to read the postings and the links your posters give. The colored shirts bring a good contrast to the back drop. War or peace? who knows? One thing is certain 20 trillion of debt is not going anywhere fast. 20 trillion by 2016 is not unbelievable. the good thing is there has been many to see what they should be getting ready for. Thanks to you and your posters

    • Greg Hunter

      J.C.
      I did have a bunch, it just took me awhile to read and poat them all. Thank you for weighing in here.
      Greg

  35. Jim H

    Great wrap up Greg.
    Indeed please tell us who’s the good enemy and who’s the bad enemy? How bout that stock Market? Still way high from where it should be.
    Here’s a link that makes me feel good. Hope it does the same for all who see it. I’m for the guy in the small boat.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYhg6gZtS1A

    Have a great weekend, seek the truth and fear not. There are still 9.5 billion more of us than there are of them.

    • Jerry

      That’s a really good video, but you still better have a food supply. Noah still had to build an Ark and load the animals.

  36. Anthony

    Hi Greg,

    Long time watcher of your programs and first-time responder. I love how you put facts together and how you aren’t afraid of both covering and going to controversial subjects for information (i.e. Karen Hudes etc.) if it helps to make sense of what is going on in the world.

    In that vein, I have come across a rather astute piece of detective work by a blogger who outlines what has been a long-term, planned process leading us to where we are today: on the brink of financial Armageddon, with China coming out on top in the end:

    http://blog.redefininggod.com/2013/10/24/the-new-brics-financial-system-what-theyre-not-telling-you.aspx

    Dismiss his comments about ‘the cabal’ and ‘illuminati’ and focus on the facts as he presents them. The charts he presents are particularly eye-opening. It makes for quite a compelling tale, helping explain what is happening, as well as giving us a way to predict how things might be ‘going down’ in the near future.

  37. Grawlix

    not hearing anyone reporting this:

    on my W2 form, my employer reported what was paid towards my healthcare plan. it also had a statement that this was not taxable, and was being report for my information. (check your W2 box 12)

    what most people don’t know is in 2016 your healthcare plan will become taxable income.

    Our healthcare plan is $16,000 for the family plan, which means come 2016 my federal income tax bill will be going up about $5,000.

  38. Grawlix

    please delete my last post..

    I wanted to confirm the date, but looks like it was changed..

    here’s the latest:

    A 40 percent excise tax will be assessed, beginning in 2018, on the cost of coverage for health plans that exceed a certain annual limit ($10,200 for individual coverage and $27,500 for self and spouse or family coverage). Health insurance issuers and sponsors of self-funded group health plans must pay the tax of 40 percent of any dollar amount beyond the caps that is considered “excess” health spending.

  39. art barnes

    Greg, the market (Wall Street) on Friday is worried, what they refuse to note about the source of their worries poor employment. They are concerned with profits being scantly. But Walmart announced Friday that 2 percent of Sam Clubs employees will be laid off, citing among others, poor holiday performance; this is just the tip of the “new” 2014 recession coming. Laid off people can’t drive the economy making profits for Wall Street thereby rising up stock prices. Frankly, you simply can’t give you jobs away for short term profits, then have your stock price climb to heaven and stay there forever, because at some point you can’t sell your products because of not enough disposable income to buy them. The economy is getting ready to implode, watch the FED stop the tapering, that will help Wall Street, but once again will not help the unemployed which are becoming a real threat to the MSM’s pravda reporting that all is well. By the way, the debt ceiling comes back into play in Feb. and I’ll be you a buck against a dime it will be raised.

  40. art barnes

    Greg, actually the layoffs at Sam’s Club is 11,200 employees, SOMETHING TO SNEEZE ABOUT!

  41. Craig

    Hi Greg, I just want to give you a great big pat on the back for your sincerity and dedication to presenting the REAL news! I look forward to your news wrap-up on Fridays, but THIS week your passion and frustration filtered through a bit, and that, to me is not a bad thing. In fact, that’s what’s missing from the MSM and most all other commentators. I’ve been following you for a few years now and as I’ve deleted most other websites as rubbish, you are consistently on the mark and I enjoy your choice of news stories as well as your professional presentation. Now, I’ll go to the donations button! Thanks for telling it like it is!

    • Greg Hunter

      Thank you Craig for your kind words and for supporting the site!!!
      Greg

  42. mohammad

    Ukraine is been heating up and reaching a dangerous point.
    West wants to pull it to EU.
    Russia wants to pull it towards it.
    Today the president offered the opposition the prime minister seat, they refused.
    Watch Ukraine !

  43. jholbrook

    You should look up Operation American Spring 2014 and investigate it! Thanks for all that you do!

  44. mohammad

    Greg,

    Cairo is burning today, while the Army’s supporters were celebrating and dancing in Tahrir Square.
    The motto was:
    Either you dance (supporters) or get killed (opponents).
    Scary stuff Greg, am not sure what to watch any more, every spot in the world all of a sudden is heating up.

    http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/20/world/middleeast/violence-erupts-in-cairo-as-egypts-military-cedes-political-ground.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

    • mohammad

      Sorry wrong link this is the one:

      http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2014/01/24/347500/six-killed-in-clashes-with-egypt-police/

    • Uglys

      mohammad.
      The world is going down the drain. The petro-dollar is part of the problem. The USA has spent itself in a corner and other Nations see that the Dollar is no longer the future. Mucho chaos coming. People need to see this and begin to prepare for it. You cannot prepare for this in one year, let alone longer….

  45. albert tesla

    you said….’he gave us the tools (brain, senses, mind, consciousness…..etc)”

    Let me start here. i have read the Torah (old testament obviously), the Bible, and the Qur’an. In my opinion, my brains, senses, mind,, and conciseness all function at pretty “good” levels.

    I learn things with NO BIAS…meaning when i read something, i completely negate all outside influences of what i’m reading, meaning factors like “popularity’ and “fame” are something that doesn’t effect how I take in information, that way, its i and i only who is influencing my view on a “thing’, so really, i don’t care if someone tells me “well look, 40 percent of the world believe in this, it must be true!” . I and only I filter and alter my views on things, nobody else.

    Im guessing your Muslim with a name such as Mohammed. Just my assumption, i could be wrong.

    I love learning abut everything, one of my favorite things to do is see how all peoples in the world live and view life. I’ve studied Islam and the history of the middle east / Sumeria for quite some time.

    Correct me if im wrong –

    In islam ( note that all abrahamic religions share this story to an extent) the story with the devil is (in a quick summary)

    God created Jinn of smokeless fire. Then, he created Angels of fire, then he created man, from Clay. Iblis (lucifer) was Allah’s (gods) favorite/loved angel before creating man.

    Then, one day, out of the blue, Allah (god) comes around and tells Lucifer and all his Angeles “Hey everyone, basically I am now creating new beings out of clay, who are superior to you because they are made in my image unlike yourselves, so from now on you are supposed to bow and worship them to an extent”

    The Qur’an then goes to say in detail that 1/3 rd of all Angels with Lucifer leading the pack revolted.

    1/3rd of all angels sheesh thats alot? seems like a decent amount of angels agreed with lucifer on the injustice that was being done on the “angel race” on labeling them inferior in compariosn humans made of clay. The American revolution was started by by about less then 10 % of the population so I’ve heard.

    Hmmm, this sounds so familiar to me, kind of very similar to the whole “master” race aryan ” concept that was pushed by the Nazi’s, you know, my race is better then your race bow before me?

    So, i gave you an example above, that in my opinion shows how the supposed “uncorrupted” qur’an you speak of, is infact, unfortunately tainted (like all abrahamic religious texts…again, in my opinion). Don’t get me wrong though…the “cores” of these religions are indeed pristine.

    That entire story above, shows that the qur’an promotes an underlying almost subliminal agenda of “do not revolt”.

    That story to me (again in my opinion) says that Lucifer was not some deviant lying deceitful “thing”, when I read it, it seemed to me like he was revolutionist fighting for the rights of his people in the name of freedom.

    How would you feel? If one day your country/state/place of living was forced to one day worship someone who was supposedly “just better then you”. Sounds quite pro colonialist / totalitarianism driven does it not? That helps all those royal families in Islamic nations to keep a nice steady grip on the stability of their lands.

    The Colonists to the British
    Somalians to Musslani
    Indian/ghandi to Brits
    Che, Mandela.
    Northern Ireland conflict
    Palestinian conflict
    Ukraine to Russia.

    all examples of humans resisting similar forms of oppression. Not saying i agree with all of them fully or if any, but again, examples of humans rising up in because they felt one way or another, oppressed.

    All consciousness, living, breathing,individual, thinking, “entities” in this world, and all the worlds in between, all (in my opinion) have UNIVERSALLY GIVEN RIGHT of being FREE. Angels can’t be “free?” i don’t agree with it.

    Doesn’t fit into my eyes of “god like”. The god i tend to believe to exist doesn’t possess the trait of a tyrant.

    I’m well read, i like understanding how other nations/people behave, believe, and think. Im not a Muslim, christian, or a jew I’m not saying Islam is a complete lie and bullshit, i’m just trying to say that at the end of the day, the bible, Qur’an, torah, etc are good at its core, but they are not invulnerable to corruption. Humans are amazingly deceitful and cunning its engineered in our survival. : ) and some are VERYYYYYYY good at it.

    What a coincidence, this story really helps the royal families of islamic states help keep a better grip on the masses.

    • mohammad

      Allow me to correct some false misconceptions you have mentioned in you post.
      No where in Quran it was mentioned that 1/3 of angels revolted (angels do not disobey).
      No where in Quran it was mentioned that anegls are made of fire, (they are made of light and in arabic they are called “noorani” creatures which means light.
      Iblis is not an anegl.
      Iblis is JIN and yes you are correct when you said he was created from fire.
      Angels do not disobey god, in many occasions in Quran it was mentioned that they do what they are ordered to do and never disobey. However Allah gave the freedom to Jin and Humans to disobey because they will be responsible for their actions in the day after.
      No where in Quran it says that humans were made in the shape or appearance of Allah. God is in no way confined to a shape or a place or time.
      Lucifer (Iblis) fell in the hatred of Adam and envy that lead him to the curse from Allah, and he vowed to lead astray who ever follows him from Adam’s offspring, HE HAS NO CONTROL OVER BELIEVERS.
      And yes …. Quran never got tainted because Allah vowed to preserve it since it is the last message (at least this is from my side as a muslim and others are free to believe what they wish).

      Again please take my notes in an open chest since am only explaining my side as a muslim.
      To each his or her belief, after all we will stand in front of the creator one day and answer some tough questions, we have the opportunity now to examine all the possibilities, but once the bell rings and the test is over (when we DIE) then that is the point of no return, and do not tell me then i did not tell you and explain to you, and vice versa if you were right you will definitely tell me and let me know then, I FOR SOME REASON AM SO SEREAN AND COMFORTABLE WITH MY BELIEF!!!!

      • mohammad

        Sorry last sentence i meant “SERENE”

  46. Davis

    Is The Coming Week Going To Be The One We Have Been Warning About?

    Well I won’t stick my neck out that far just yet but every indication is that it’s going to be highly volatile week at the very least. If the last few years have taught us anything it is to not underestimate the central bank’s ability to print even more vast quantities of monopoly money to cover up the failures of fiat policy.

    After closing out last week on the DJIA with two down days in a row and Friday alone down 318 points; the DJIA futures are showing an opening position down a further 335 points as of 3:00 PM EDLST. If fact all of the markets (those covered on Bloomberg at least) with the exception of China’s smaller CSI index, are showing in the red across the board.

    Both the Turkish Lira and the Argentine Peso (again) are in free fall. The Venezuelan Bolivar has already been devalued another 40% but that is largely just plain old socialist ineptitude and corruption. How many other national currencies teeter on the brink is hard to tell but I would bet it’s more than a few.

    The question then becomes; Just how much more monopoly money is new FED chairman Janet Yellen prepared to print and dump into global markets to stem the fall and how quickly can she do it? Any hesitation may prove to be instantaneously fatal. Not that even quick action will do anything but slow the trend. To reverse it at this point is all but impossible.

    The key will be the response to more US printing by the central bankers and finance ministers across the globe and how effective US pressure will be on them not to start dumping US and other national debt paper. If private holders of Treasury paper start selling and the rates climb in response to falling prices the only choice left may be the suspend the markets under the guise of “waiting for cooler heads to prevail.”

    Then there will be the reaction of the individual bank depositor to take into account. The backlash to HSBC’s attempt last week to impose withdrawal limits was swift and decisive, leading HSBC to announce that they felt that policy was justified as in the customer’s best interest but will be rescinded never the less.

    So if you have spent at least a modicum of effort to prepare and defend yourself against this eventuality, sit back and watch and perhaps indulge in a bit of schadenfreude. The rest of you; Well you were warned now weren’t you? And no neither Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton nor Jeb Bush will be able to save you from you stubborn refusal to believe any of this was even possible.

  47. Judith

    http://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonchang/2014/01/26/china-halts-bank-cash-transfers-2/
    This sounds ominous, but maybe I’m seeing doom everywhere even when it’s not there.

    • Greg Hunter

      Good story pick Judith! I think you got the right frame of mind! Thank you for the link.
      Greg

    • Jerry

      Judith, Davis.
      The Banking system will be collapsed when the NWO elites have the new exchange system in place to replace the Britton Woods system currently being used. Hint. Think Titanic. When did the ship go down? Right after the wealthy secured their possessions and were a safe distance away.

      • Liquid Motion

        The Ship is Sinking and the Wealthy have already moved their wealth to safer ground. Like the people scrambling for a life-jacket on the Titanic….its our turn to be serenaded by the string quartet and literally face the music.

  48. Johnny Utah

    All American sheeple need to hear this wrap-up !!

    • Greg Hunter

      Thank you Johnny Utah!
      Greg

  49. JohnZ

    First of all nobody should believe anything the White House says. They are all liars and traitors.
    Second: There is absolutely no evidence what so ever that Iran is pursuing a nuclear weapons program. This has been confirmed by the IAEA, every single U.S. intelligence agency and Israhell’s as well. Nuttybombyou has been saying this for twenty years. This man is a lying psychopath. Do not trust anything he says to even remotely resemble the truth. All zionists are liars.
    The only belligerent country in the middle east is israhell. It always has been and always will be as long as that little toilet exists. Israhell has between 200 and 400 nuclear war heads on MIRV and threatens too use them on everybody. Remember the Samson option.
    The same thing goes for Syria. This is all for the benefit of zionist israhell who actually used a small thermo nuclear warhead in Syria. The proof is 100% positive.
    Israhell is not to be trusted what so ever.
    Saudi Arabia and Bandar bin Laden are behind the violence in Syria…it’s all for a natural gas pipeline that will benefit the Saud family.
    Unfortunately U.S. foreign policy is run completely by AIPAC and the zionist 5th columnists who have infiltrated the government.

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