Monday, June 22, 2015

COMPLETE BEN FULFORD UPDATE 6.22.2015



Bush, Rothschild prosecutions, new disclosures, Greece, all signs of accelerating cabal take down
Posted by benjamin

June 22, 2015
There are rapidly accelerating indications the Khazarian crime syndicate that illegally seized power in the United States and many European countries is being systematically dismantled. A New York appeals court, for example, has ruled that officials who served during the George W. Bush, Jr. regime can be sued and can face criminal charges. That opens the way for the mass jailing of the perpetrators of the 911 mass murder incident.
Another sign is that a French judge has ordered one of the most senior members of the Rothschild family, Baron David de Rothschild, to be questioned by police on fraud charges.
Also, the killing of J.P Morgan (Bush) bankers has reached a new height with the “sudden death” of their Vice Chairman and high powered deal maker Jimmy Lee. More than a dozen JP Morgan bankers have died suddenly recently and it is clear somebody is following a trail. Rest assured that trail leads to the Bush/Clinton crime family.
Meanwhile, there is a growing consensus the Greek crisis is coming to a head soon and massive withdrawals of Euros from Greek banks show that at the street level people know a Greek default is inevitable. However, a formal Greek default would start a domino effect that would topple Germany, France and the rest of the Euro zone before eventually reaching the United States. For that reason the Greek government knows that the EU central bank, the IMF and their Fed bosses will not pull the plug on them but will instead buy time with various accounting tricks. That is why Greece’s Economy Minister made confident predictions about the Greek debt crisis in Moscow last week after meeting with Russian officials.
Despite all the fudged numbers and smoke and mirrors coming out of Western governments, the Western financial system (the Federal Reserve Board) is already bankrupt. The Fed’s corporate subsidiary, the United States of America Corporation headed by “acting president” Barack Obama has been issuing fake financial data for years now to create the appearance all is well. Recently, for example, their total debt numbers have stayed frozen at $18.11 trillion since March 16th, over 100 days.
The White Dragon Foundation also received new confirmation the Fed has been bankrupt for a lot longer than that. Some senior Asian bankers who met with Alan Greenspan (when he was head of the Fed) and with then United States President Al Gore to ask about Manchurian gold the Federal Reserve was obligated to return to them were told by Greenspan that the Fed could not pay back the gold they owed them “because they had none.”
Greenspan also said the Fed could not pay them trillions of dollars of cash instead because “that would bankrupt the government.” Instead, the bankers said, they were offered a “master trader license.” After they left the Federal Reserve Building in New York, they went to a Starbucks for coffee. While they were having coffee, their car exploded. They immediately took a subway to the airport and caught the next available flight to the Philippines.
They then went to see the head of Interpol in Europe. The head of Interpol took them to see the P2 Freemasons who run the Vatican. The P2 explained to them there would be a coup d’etat in the United States followed by an invasion of Iraq “because that was how the system worked.” They thought these people were crazy until September 11th, 2001.
These Asians still have their legitimate claims against the Fed and the Feds will not be allowed to bomb their way out this time. The current public faces of the Fed cabal are puppet president Obama and Fed Chair Janet Yellen.
Since they also cannot pay the money they owe the Asians, the Asians and their BRICS allies have been busily building an alternative financial system. The new BRICS bank is expected now to open on July 7th while the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank is also moving ahead.

This move is being accompanies by major cyber warfare. A lot of it is being reported in the corporate media in the form of stories about data being stolen on all United States Federal employees etc.
However, plentiful anecdotal evidence suggests the real cyber-warfare is taking place between world financial networks. A senior banker at the cabal-supported Asian Development Bank in Manila was worried about his United States dollar bank account inside the United States so he asked for the money to be transferred to his bank in the Philippines. The Philippine bank told him they could not make the transfer because the cabal-controlled SWIFT international financial transactions system “was not working.”
This writer also experienced some trouble when trying to pay his VISA bill at an ATM. I was told I needed to contact a human representative. I went to a VISA processing office and the clerk put my card into their ATM. The bill that appeared was way bigger than my real bill and the clerk told me to ignore it and not to worry about it but just pay the amount on my paper bill. She explained they were having “system adjustments.” A funny thing also happened when this writer asked for financial details from the Paypal internet transaction system. Paypal sent me detailed financial data belonging to an entirely different person. When asked why they would send me the wrong person’s private transaction data they explained “they were having system troubles.”
This is all anecdotal but the fact that most of the over 50 bankers who have recently died suddenly and mysteriously were IT experts shows that financial cyber-warfare is moving out of cyberspace.
The fact is the Western financial IT system has created hundreds of trillions, if not quadrillions, quintillions or more dollars and Euros that have no basis in reality. At the end of the day, analogue reality is going to win and that is why the BRICS alliance with their control of commodities and manufacturing, are winning. The Pentagon is also winning because they actually control men with weapons who are willing to fight if necessary.
The people who are losing are the Khazarian mob. The fact that Bush/Clinton house-slave Barack Obama is being pressured to release the 28 pages about Saudi Arabia redacted from the official 9/11 report shows the Saudi’s are the next Khazarian dominoes to fall.
Newly-installed Saudi King Salman sent his son to Russia last week to offer the Russians complete control of the global oil market in exchange inter-continental ballistic missiles and nuclear weapons, according to Pentagon officials. He returned empty handed. The Saudis have the nuclear weapons the Israelis gave them but they cannot fire them much further than Yemen. That means they cannot use nuclear blackmail to prevent the ongoing takedown of that odious regime by Pentagon White Hats and their regional allies.
The Nazi regime installed by the Khazarians in the Ukraine is also freaking out now that their patrons are clearly losing the battle for the planet earth. According to Sputnik News (a possible agency front) Ukranian President Petro Poroshenko asked the Ukrainian Constitutional Court to rule that the overthrow of his predecessor Viktor Yanukovich was unconstitutional.
In other words, a key participant in the illegal Khazarian coup against his predecessor is suddenly criticizing the coup. The best advice we can give Poroshenko is to tell him to forget about trying to suck up to the Russians and find a deep hole to hide in instead.
However, there is unlikely to be anywhere on this planet, or even in this universe, for the Khazarian Satanists like Poroshenko to hide in anymore.
The collapse of their global debt slavery regime is accelerating and their immunity from prosecution for mass murder is evaporating along with their funny money.
The British, the Swiss, the Germans, the French, and the Vatican have already abandoned the Khazarians and allied with the WDS and BRICS alliance.
Pope Francis recently confirmed this change by issuing an encyclical calling for almost exactly what the WDS has been calling for, a massive campaign to end poverty, and stop environmental destruction. The global warming part of his talk was out of touch with reality but clearly the Pope’s heart is in the right place. Negotiations between the Vatican and the WDS are ongoing and friendly. The same is true of the British, the French, and the Germans.

Regime change is also coming to Japan. There is a lot about that we cannot report at the moment but clearly the puppet regime here is on its last legs. The last dominoes to fall will be Washington, D.C., Israel, and New York.
We do not like to put specific dates on when this will happen but we do note that the IMF has postponed a meeting to decide how to proceed without the United States until September. We note that a year of jubilee (Debt forgiveness as described in the Holy Bible) has been predicted by the Vatican, religious Jews, and many others to start on September 13th, 2015. September 13th this year falls on a Sunday so the last trading day before that will be September 11th. Remember, remember, the 11th of September. Also remember the blood moon on September 28th.


This amazing canopy melds nature and technology into something awesome!

This amazing canopy melds nature
and technology into something awesome!


VIDEO

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EcoLogicStudio in London has designed an Urban Algae Canopy, which produces
the same amount of oxygen daily as a forest of 40,000 square meters.
This cutting-edge technology was unveiled this week at Expo Milano 2015 Future
Food District.

The prototype is the world’s first bio-digital canopy, integrating micro-algal cultures
and real time digital cultivation protocols within a unique architectural cladding system.

Once completed, the Urban Algae Canopy will produce the oxygen equivalent of four hectares of woodland and up to 150kg of biomass per day, 60% of which are natural vegetal proteins.

Designers say: “In EcoLogicStudio we believe that it is now time to overcome the segregation between technology and nature typical of the mechanical age, to embrace
a systemic understanding of architecture. In this prototype the boundaries between the material, spatial and technological dimensions have been carefully articulated to
achieve efficiency, resilience and beauty.” 

Awakening To The Truth: You’ve Felt It Your Entire Life


June 21, 2015 by Sophie McAdam


If this sounds like you, pass it along and wake someone else up...

GREAT "SHORT" VIDEO

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=NpPJtPwdk8k


If you haven’t seen this short video by Collective Evolution (entitled You’ve felt it
your entire life),  it’s well worth watching (and sharing). With Morpheus‘s message
to Neo making a powerful voice-over, the video uses a montage of clips from films
like The Matrix, Into the Wild and cult classic They Live to illustrate a few (difficult)
truths about the society we live in.

Contrasting some beautiful shots of nature with some ugly shots of our violence
towards it, this video has a powerful message. Morpheus says it better than anyone
could:

“You’ve felt it your entire life. There’s something wrong with the world.
You don’t know what it is, but it’s there, like a splinter in your mind, driving you mad.
The Matrix is everywhere.

It is all around us. Even now, in this very room. You can see it when you look out
your window or when you turn on your television. You can feel it when you go to work… when you go to church… when you pay your taxes. It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth. Like everyone else you were born into
bondage. Into a prison that you cannot taste or see or touch. A prison for your mind.”

It doesn’t have to be this way, the film tells us. There is so much more to life than consumerism, mainstream culture and media lies, environmental devastation, working in jobs we hate until we die, eating junk food and spending more time on social media than we do speaking to our friends and family. This is a real-life matrix. But all of us have the power to take the red pill, offer it to others, and make choices to change our lives- and
the lives of those around us- for the better.

This article (Awakening To The Truth: You’ve Felt It Your Entire Life) is free and open source. You have permission to republish this article under a Creative Commons license with attribution to the author and TrueActivist.com.
comment from reader:

Gene Landrum · Top Commenter · Oregon State University
Its, possible but unknown, that the Human Race, has been 'studying' 'Signs' in Nature since the beginning of time, as
to 'what we are'? and the Why we are? The 'ancient human's' now extinct, failed! Then the 'Homo Erectus' followed by
the 'Homo Sapiens Sapiens' learned to 'adapt' but now are writing down their 'findings' of what they 'think' 'What we are
and Why we are'? Yet, as this Article' explains, we still don't know! My opinion! Quantum Theory of Everything, is the
closest to-date, of coming up with a 'Empirical Scientific' answer to those 'two questions' and validates the Science
of Theology! 2015


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Powerful Film: What Have Governments Really Done?


June 22, 2015 by Sophie McAdam


A powerful clip from the documentary Engines of Domination

MUST WATCH:<<this is Soooo True !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=5ABhLs_5FuU


The melody used in this video is essentially a happy, folky tune that initially makes you think of apple pie and 1950s baseball stars. But the footage of governments beating citizens, killing foreign ‘enemies’, and destroying the planet makes a strong contrast to the upbeat rhythm of the song.

The lyrics are also loaded with a snarky dig at our current political system and those who govern over (rather than alongside) the rest of us. It criticizes the hierarchical pyramid structure and asks: What have governments actually done for us?

This is a clip from the 2014 documentary
What Governments Have Done: Political Power And The Human Emergency
by Mark Corske and Lifting The Veil.

Domination: ‘A tool for making tools of human beings.’

This article (Powerful Film: What Have Governments Really Done?) is free and open source. You have permission to republish this article under a Creative Commons license with attribution to the author and TrueActivist.com.
Mark Corske · Taos, New Mexico
The documentary's title is actually Engines of Domination :). It and many related videos available at the EnginesofDomination YouTube channel >>  https://www.youtube.com/user/enginesofdomination


14 Ways to protect you, your family from the NWO -<<< IMPORTANT


Sunday, June 21, 2015

14 Ways to Protect You, Your Family,

and Friends from the NWO Agenda

Dees Illustration
By Paul A. Philips

The price of ignorance towards the NWO (New World Order) agenda could be very costly. Fall for any of its carefully cultivated illusions and you could end up broke, losing property, become seriously ill or even end up dead.

Desperate measures are indeed needed for desperate times. Big black totalitarian clouds loom on the horizon...

The psychopathic world ruling elite owning the banks, weapons, gold, drugs and oil ... while having the politicians, police, military and mass media, etc. in their pockets are further tightening that unrelenting grip on the control of our money, health, food, water, air ... and all the related science and technology for complete domination over the human populace...

In response, this is my heartfelt advice on how to prepare for survival in the unpredictable not-too-distant future. Here are 14 ways to protect you, your family and friends from the
 NWO agenda.


1. Stop giving attention to corporate-sponsored mainstream media news

Switch off the TV (Tel-Lie-Vision). Turn to alternative media sources instead for the truth.
 Learn to discern the differences between disinformation and the truth as in the case of the Internet.


2. Stop voting for any of the major political parties

By voting for one of these parties you’re only giving your power away to help the ruling criminals’ further advance their NWO agenda. Stop believing in Republican-Democrat; or,
if you’re in the UK, the Lib-Lab-Con sock puppet campaigning shows backed and financed
by T.H.E.Y (The Hierarchy Enslaving You).


It doesn’t matter who gets voted in. They’re all funded and backed by the ruling elite. So, whoever wins, the politicians who get in office will only be there to serve their lords and masters: The politicians serve the demands of the ruling elite instead of the wishes of
we-the-people.

Yes, there are a growing number of people who know this, but many still don’t fully
understand: Any advantages of selecting one party over the other because of a policy
in your favour or to your advantage will only be a short-term payoff. In the end, if you vote
for one of the major parties because of this then you’ll only have to suffer the far greater
long-term cost for having chosen the party with their connections to the ruling elite’s
agenda.

3. Detoxify yourself

Use specific foods as well as supplements to detoxify yourself of lifelong body pollution. Restore health and protect the body by removing fluoride, chloride, bromide, heavy metals, radiation and other noxious substances...

4. Drink good clean or filtered water

Avoid chemically impregnated tap or plastic bottled water. Use filters such as those using reverse osmosis to filter the water. Drink adequate supplies.

5. Eat organic food

Eat plenty of organic fruit and vegetables, seeds and nuts... Don’t begrudge the extra cost.
In the long run it’s worth it.

6. Avoid junk food

Avoid junk food with its high sugar, salt and cheap/nasty trans-fats ... for disease protection. Chemical-laden, processed, irradiated or GMO foods should be avoided.

Avoid cooking with microwave or non-stick coated or aluminium utensils which, in effect,
turns the food into junk food that could lead to health problems through toxic contaminants.

Don’t cook food using high temperatures for too long. Extreme temperatures cause the nutritional value (vitamins and enzymes in particular) to denature and greatly reduce the
food value.


7. Use natural or organic personal care products

This avoids toxic chemicals often found in non-organic personal care products...


8. Avoid low frequency EMFs (electromagnetic frequencies) radiation

The list includes power grid lines, cell phones and towers, Wi-Fi sources, microwaves,
breast cancer mammograms, microwaves, body scanner X-ray detectors such as those
at airports ... and compact fluorescent lighting (use LED [light emitting diode] clear or
white lighting).

Don’t fall for the corporate-sponsored junk science brigade claiming that
 these EMF sources with their applications are okay. Anyone with a couple of investigative
brain cells to rub together will find out that
frequent long-term use has been known to cause a range of serious illnesses related to
 cancer, nervous, hormonal and behavioural problems...


9. Avoid vaccines and vaccinations

Vaccines are NOT safe and have been known to be ineffective. You could end up seriously ill, brain-damaged or even dead from these fraudulent big pharma money spinners to which the revenue-raking government and their paid-off media are only too happy to spread the related disinformation and lies...

10. Don’t fall for joining the military

Don’t become a sucker for the ruling elite’s secretly manufactured wars for power, profit, and political gain, planned population reduction agenda ... I know, like other things mentioned in
my list, this may come as quite a shock to some people.

11. Have toxic amalgam fillings removed

Mercury amalgam fillings have been known to cause brain damage, lower IQ, contribute to depression and harbour disease-causing bacteria ... See a biologic or holistic dentist to get them removed and replaced by safe alternatives such as Zirconium Implants (DON’T use metal-based or plastic BPA resins). Don’t support dentists who use mercury amalgam or fluoride.

Dental decay can be prevented with good nutrition; like, for example, using coconut oil as
a mouthwash since it contains the antibacterial lauric acid.

12. Maintain well-stocked supplies of food and water

In case of a crisis, stock up with a few weeks supply of food and water in the hope that by
then things would have died down with normality somewhat resumed. The crisis could be
a financial one such as a currency collapse, or a fake war, a staged attack (fake alien
invasion perhaps, you never know??) or a HAARP (High Frequency Active Auroral
Research Project) secret weather modification ... etc., used for inducing chaos by the
ruling elite and their associates as an excuse to declare martial war on citizens....

13. Maintain self-sufficiency

In line with 12, grow your own food. There are indeed many excellent websites advising
how this can be done. I have been saying that self-sufficiency, especially in the way of home-grown food, is a major factor in workable communities. Discernment and unity are
other major factors.

Have sufficient physical cash on standby in case of emergency: You may want to consider converting some of your hard-earned cash into gold or silver coins as a good investment.

Try looking at non-power grid alternative energy supplies to power up your home. How
about solar panels or batteries or supplemental wind generators ... etc.? Electric vehicles
would also not be a bad idea.


14. Spread the word

"Those who have the privilege to know, have the duty to act." - Albert Einstein

This is my ultimatum:

Wake up! Use this or similar pieces to spread the word to your family and friends to get active.

You can read more from Paul A. Philips at his site New Paradigm, where this article first appeared

This article may be re-posted in full with attribution.

http://www.activistpost.com/2015/06/14-ways-to-protect-you-your-family-and.html

Nomi Prins, Keynote Speaker; WARNS There Is NO SAVING This Global Financial System

 
Nomi Prins, Keynote Speaker Who Addressed The Fed, IMF And World Bank,
Warns There Is
No Saving This Global Financial System
 
June 20, 2015
 
                                                                                                               
Today Nomi Prins, who was the keynote speaker that just addressed the Federal Reserve, IMF and the World Bank, warned King World News that there is no saving this global financial system in the second of a series of powerful interviews that have now been released.
                                                                                                          
             Who Will Save The System The Next Time It Begins To Implode?
Eric King:  "You mentioned that we are in unprecedented times.  And the concern is that when the 2008 collapse unfolded there was all this money printing and the banks were bailed out.  It really fell on the shoulders of the taxpayers, but the concern as you said is that this leverage is growing.  There are over one quadrillion dollars of derivatives.  With the leverage totally ramped up in (terms of) the central banks' (balance sheets), who will save the financial system (this time around)?  Who will save the banks?  There are all these bail-ins that have been written into law in the West and it seems like the next move is just to steal money from the public.  Who will save the system this time when it implodes?
Nomi Prins:  "When it implodes it will implode more dangerously.  The IMF and the Fed have different ideas about whether rates should stay low or go up.  In this particular round the IMF won.  They want rates to stay low because they don't know what's going to happen to the global financial system if the availability of cheap money goes away..
"Right now everyone knows, whether they admit it or not, that (cheap money) is the only thing that's keeping this (global financial) system afloat.  It isn't production.  It isn't savings of individuals because nobody has any money to save.  So there is no there, there.
                            
There Is No Saving This Global Financial System
So the only policy that these central banks have is to continue to do more of the same.  And the only thing that does is continue to push this next crisis, or the second leg of the current crisis as I look at it, down the road.  There is no saving this (global financial) system.  
All they can do is continue to push the current policies to make it look as if things are operating functionally - as if these banks are solvent and as if these markets are somehow elevated on the basis of value and not on the basis of the cheap money that they are infusing into the system.  That's all they can do.  They just hope that somewhere along the line this will work out." 
 

“It’s Time to Hide Cash Under the Mattress”: Bond Manager Warns of System Wide Collapse

currency-crash
No one knows how well prepared the system is to handle potential bank runs and massive demands for cash withdrawals if the system tanks.
And no one knows how much longer the system can hold.
The erratic and unnatural market forces from the Federal Reserves’ zero interest rate is driving things towards an unstable tipping point, and no one knows what will happen if it does.
Millions may be left without a way to access their funds – perhaps for days or weeks – and banks may lose funds that governments are unwilling or unable to repay.
So a top bond fund manager is warning to diversify holdings into things like gold, silver and savings accounts, and to keep some cash on hand in cash everything else comes to grinding halt. The London Telegraph warned:
The manager of one of Britain’s biggest bond funds has urged investors to keep cash under the mattress.
Ian Spreadbury, who invests more than £4bn of investors’ money across a handful of bond funds for Fidelity, including the flagship Moneybuilder Income fund, is concerned that a “systemic event” could rock markets, possibly similar in magnitude to the financial crisis of 2008, which began in Britain with a run on Northern Rock.
“Systemic risk is in the system and as an investor you have to be aware of that,” he told Telegraph Money.
The best strategy to deal with this, he said, was for investors to spread their money widely into different assets, including gold and silver, as well as cash in savings accounts. But he went further, suggesting it was wise to hold some “physical cash”, an unusual suggestion from a mainstream fund manager.
[…]
“The problem is that people are struggling to work out how to diversify if QE programmes stop,” he said.
That nightmare could happen according to Ian Spreadbury, particularly with markets locked into a damned if you do, damned if you don’t scenario under razor thin interest rates and swelling debt.
The bond expert signaled that the risk is significant and could set off events in the short term, within the next few years:
He declined to predict the exact trigger but said it was more likely to happen in the next five years rather than 10. The current woes of Greece, which may crash out of the euro, already has many market watchers concerned.
Putting that together with other financial warnings, it seems clear that the system knows something big is coming.
The elite players are unwilling to play it safe with the money of others, and the market rewards only short term risk.
Global finance is being deliberately pushed to the edge waiting for a tipping point. It is not just the most extreme scenarios that could crash the system, it is a gravity that is pushing everything towards the brink.
Ordinary people are losing out on their savings, their pensions, on fees and handling surcharges, all while the insiders are trying to phase out cash and lock down finance inside a digital grid they alone control.
No one is looking out for the average person at the bottom, and only prepared individuals with cash money and physical assets set aside stand a chance at riding out whatever wave may come.
Prepare for the worst, and hope for an end to this madness before it happens.

http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/its-time-to-hide-cash-under-the-mattress-bond-manager-warns-of-system-wide-collapse_06222015

Sunday, June 21, 2015

Greece news from Voice of America


News
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Emergency Eurozone Summit Set on Greece's Debt Crisis

A woman waves a Greek national flag and a European Union flag during a rally outside the Parliament, calling on the government to clinch a deal with its international creditors and secure Greece's future in the Eurozone, in Athens, Greece, June 18, 2015.
A woman waves a Greek national flag and a European Union flag during a rally outside the Parliament, calling on the government to clinch a deal with its international creditors and secure Greece's future in the Eurozone, in Athens, Greece, June 18, 2015.
Lisa Bryant
Last updated on: June 18, 2015 7:24 PM
PARIS— Leaders of the 19-member eurozone will hold an emergency summit Monday to try to overcome a standoff over Greece’s debt crisis after a meeting of European finance ministers in Luxembourg failed to produce results.
With an Athens payment of about 1.6 billion euros ($1.8 billion) due to the International Monetary fund by June 30, eurozone officials urged Greece to seize a last chance to resolve the crisis.
Eurogroup President Jeroen Dijsselbloem, speaking Thursday at a news conference in Luxembourg after hours of inconclusive talks with the Greek finance minister, said that "we sent a strong signal to Greek authorities that it is really up to them to submit new proposals, additional proposals in the coming days. … As of today, it is still possible to find an agreement to extend the current program before the end of the month, but the ball is clearly in the Greek court to seize that opportunity.”
The same message came from IMF chief Christine Lagarde: "We are waiting. … The institutions have put together some very sensible proposals that are a clear easing from whatever was previously considered."
European officials want further reforms from Athens before they agree to unlock the remaining cash in its bailout fund — about 7.2 billion euros ($8.21 billion) — but the Greek anti-austerity government is rejecting them.
A different view
Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis offered a different perspective on Thursday's talks.
“Our side sent a strong signal to our partners and to the institutions by presenting a comprehensive proposal that can, in a short space of time, resolve the Greek crisis once and for all,” he said.
Varoufakis said the two sides had come close to an agreement but failed because negotiators on the other side lacked a mandate to strike a deal. He acknowledged that relations had reached a low point. "There is a lack of trust in the eurogroup,'' he said.
With the clock ticking, Lagarde said Greece's debt obligation is not up for negotiation. "There is no period of grace of one or two months, as I have read here and there,'' she said. The payment to the IMF "is due on June 30.''
On Wednesday, Greece’s central bank had predicted there could be a painful exit from the eurozone for Athens — and even from the European Union.  Dijsselbloem said the euro currency union was committed to keeping Greece as a member, but was “prepared for all eventualities.”
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, whose country is Greece’s main creditor, told German lawmakers Thursday that she was "still confident" a deal was possible.
But if no solution is found by the end of the month, Greece could be left to its own devices, without even the support of the European Central Bank to prop up the country's banks. Since Greece is effectively broke and relying on outside help, it may have no option other than to introduce a new currency — most likely, the centuries-old drachma — to pay wages, salaries and pensions.
Market reaction
Fears over the country's financial future, whether in the eurozone or not, have been a key driver across financial markets recently, notably in Greece itself. On Thursday, stocks in Europe advanced before the outcome of the talks in Luxembourg was known.
Uncertainty about the future is also having an impact on the day-to-day decisions of the Greeks themselves. There have been signs that people are withdrawing money from banks in increasing amounts, raising fears that the government will be forced to put up controls on the free flow of capital.
Varoufakis wouldn't be drawn on the possibility of capital controls but said the deposit outflow started in December, before the radical left Syriza party came to power following elections in January.
"On the question of capital controls, permit me to say that they are the precise antithesis of a monetary union. A monetary union that contemplates capital controls is one that has failed in its duty,'' he said.
As Thursday's meeting broke up, at least 7,000 people gathered outside Parliament in central Athens in a peaceful rally backing membership in the currency zone and the European Union.

Judge defies appeals court in OPEC case

Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2015 14:39:40 -0400


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 ( OPEC - Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries )
 
Judge defies appeals court in OPEC case
 
By Bob Unruh
WND.com
June 20, 2015
 
A federal judge in Washington has refused to follow instructions from the District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals in processing a "terrorism" lawsuit against OPEC, the plaintiffs say, and they now are asking for an order to make that happen.

U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton earlier had dismissed the action, which alleges conspiracy, price-fixing, hampering distribution and limiting production, that was filed against the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, based on international law that restricted how the organization could be notified of a lawsuit.
But the circuit court, at that time, returned the case to the district court with the instructions to find a way to serve the group, which is headquartered in Austria, "even if the alternative means would contravene foreign law."

"Service," the appeals court ruled at the time, "may be accomplished in contravention of the foreign country."

 
 
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