The German magazine “SPIEGEL” surrendered military instructors of the USA in Ukraine!

Posted on May 18, 2014 by Real War In Ukraine

“About 400 elite soldiers of the American private military company «Academy» which is earlier known as «BlackWater» take part in military operation in the East of Ukraine “- writes the German edition “Spiegel”.

As the edition explains, the staff of the company is involved in the special military operation in Slavyansk.

A source in the Ukrainian Law Enforcement Agencies reported earlier that «mercenaries of «BlackWater» dressed in the form of the special subdivision “Sokol”(Falcon) (which belongs to the Ukrainian Ministry of Internal Affairs) had been sent by the Kiev authorities to the Donetsk and Luhansk region for suppression of the protests».

The «BlackWater» company received popularity during the war in Iraq in connection with civilians’ murders by the BW’s soldiers and arms trafficking.

This information probably proceeds from the Secret Service of the USA. The question has been apparently raised at the regular meeting of the Head Office of the Chancellor under the chairmanship of Peter Altmayer (CDU).

The heads of Intelligence services and Federal criminal police, the Coordinator for investigation items at the Office of the German Chancellor and the Senior Officials of power ministries participated in the meeting.

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Government Stops Glenn Greenwald from Publishing His Big Snowden Revelation … But Others Will Release ALL of the Snowden Documents to Prevent a War

Posted by: George Washington

Post date: 07/01/2014 - 12:43

New Snowden Revelations in July

New Snowden Revelations in July

It’s been a dramatic day for whistleblowing news.

A month ago, Glenn Greenwald announced that he was going to publish his biggest story yet: the names of those the NSA has been spying on.

Earlier today, Greenwald tweeted that he would finally publish the story tonight at midnight.

8 hours later, he tweeted:

After 3 months working on our story, USG [the United States government] today suddenly began making new last-minute claims which we intend to investigate before publishing

Many responded that it’s a trap, and that the government is dishonestly and illegally censoring Greewald.

At the same time, Cryptome announced that all of the Snowden documents will be released in July … supposedly in order to avert a war.

As the Register notes:

All the remaining Snowden documents will be released next month, according t?o? whistle-blowing site ?Cryptome, which said in a tweet that the release of the info by unnamed third parties would be necessary to head off an unnamed “war”.

Cryptome said it would “aid and abet” the release of “57K to 1.7M” new documents that had been “withheld for national security-public debate [sic]“.

The site clarified that will not be publishing the documents itself.

“July is when war begins unless headed off by Snowden full release of crippling intel. After war begins not a chance of release,” Cryptome tweeted on its official feed. “Warmongerers are on a rampage. So, yes, citizens holding Snowden docs will do the right thing,” it said.

“For more on Snowden docs release in July watch for Ellsberg, special guest and others at HOPE, July 18-20: http://www.hope.net/schedule.html,” it added.

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THE GREAT WAR- World War I- and the ruination of banking globally...inciting... The Great Depression- WAR BONDS

Thus, the Great Depression was born in the extraordinary but unsustainable boom of 1914-1929 that was, in turn, an artificial and bloated project of the warfare and central banking branches of the state, not the free market. Nominal GDP, which had been deformed and bloated to $103 billion by 1929, contracted massively, dropping to only $56 billion by 1933.

Crucially, the overwhelming portion of this unprecedented contraction was in exports, inventories, fixed plant and durable goods—the very sectors that had been artificially hyped. These components declined by $33 billion during the four year contraction and accounted for fully 70 percent of the entire drop in nominal GDP.

So there was no mysterious loss of that Keynesian economic ether called “aggregate demand”, but only the inevitable shrinkage of a state induced boom. It was not the depression bottom of 1933 that was too low, but the wartime debt and speculation bloated peak in 1929 that had been unsustainably too high.

Sarajevo Is The Fulcrum Of Modern History: The Great War And Its Terrible Aftermath

/users/tyler-durdenSubmitted by Tyler Durden on 06/28/2014

Submitted by David Stockman of Contra Corner blog,

One hundred years ago today the world was shook loose of its moorings. Every school boy knows that the assassination of the archduke of Austria at Sarajevo was the trigger that incited the bloody, destructive conflagration of the world’s nations known as the Great War. But this senseless eruption of unprecedented industrial state violence did not end with the armistice four years later.

In fact, 1914 is the fulcrum of modern history. It is the year the Fed opened-up for business just as the carnage in northern France closed-down the prior magnificent half-century era of liberal internationalism and honest gold-backed money. So it was the Great War’s terrible aftermath - a century of drift toward statism, militarism and fiat money - that was actually triggered by the events at Sarajevo.

Unfortunately, modern historiography wants to keep the Great War sequestered in a four-year span of archival curiosities about battles, mustard gas and monuments to the fallen. But the opposite historiography is more nearly the truth. The assassins at Sarajevo triggered the very warp and woof of the hundred years which followed.

The Great War was self-evidently an epochal calamity, especially for the 20 million combatants and civilians who perished for no reason that is discernible in any fair reading of history, or even unfair one. Yet the far greater calamity is that Europe’s senseless fratricide of 1914-1918 gave birth to all the great evils of the 20^th century— the Great Depression, totalitarian genocides, Keynesian economics, permanent warfare states, rampaging central banks and the exceptionalist-rooted follies of America’s global imperialism.

Indeed, in Old Testament fashion, one begat the next and the next and still the next. This chain of calamity originated in the Great War’s destruction of sound money, that is, in the post-war demise of the pound sterling which previously had not experienced a peacetime change in its gold content for nearly two hundred years.

Not unreasonably, the world’s financial system had become anchored on the London money markets where the other currencies traded at fixed exchange rates to the rock steady pound sterling—which, in turn, meant that prices and wages throughout Europe were expressed in common money and tended toward transparency and equilibrium.

This liberal international economic order—that is, honest money, relatively free trade, rising international capital flows and rapidly growing global economic integration—-resulted in a 40-year span between 1870 and 1914 of rising living standards, stable prices, massive capital investment and prolific technological progress that was never equaled—either before or since.

During intervals of war, of course, 19^th century governments had usually suspended gold convertibility and open trade in the heat of combat. But when the cannons fell silent, they had also endured the trauma of post-war depression until wartime debts had been liquidated and inflationary currency expedients had been wrung out of the circulation. This was called “resumption” and restoring convertibility at the peacetime parities was the great challenge of post-war normalizations.

The Great War, however, involved a scale of total industrial mobilization and financial mayhem that was unlike any that had gone before. In the case of Great Britain, for example, its national debt increased 14-fold, its price level doubled, its capital stock was depleted, most off-shore investments were liquidated and universal wartime conscription left it with a massive overhang of human and financial liabilities.

Yet England was the least devastated. In France, the price level inflated by 300 percent, its extensive Russian investments were confiscated by the Bolsheviks and its debts in New York and London catapulted to more than 100 percent of GDP.

Among the defeated powers, currencies emerged nearly worthless with the German mark at five cents on the pre-war dollar, while wartime debts—especially after the Carthaginian peace of Versailles—–soared to crushing, unrepayable heights.

In short, the bow-wave of debt, currency inflation and financial disorder from the Great War was so immense and unprecedented that the classical project of post-war liquidation and “resumption” of convertibility was destined to fail. In fact, the 1920s were a grinding, sometimes inspired but eventually failed struggle to resume the international gold standard, fixed parities, open world trade and unrestricted international capital flows.

Only in the final demise of these efforts after 1929 did the Great Depression, which had been lurking all along in the post-war shadows, come bounding onto the stage of history.

America’s Needless Intervention In The Great War And The Ensuing Chain of 20th Century Calamities

The Great Depression’s tardy, thoroughly misunderstood and deeply traumatic arrival happened compliments of the United States. In the first place, America’s wholly unwarranted intervention in April 1917 prolonged the slaughter, doubled the financial due bill and generated a cockamamie peace, giving rise to totalitarianism among the defeated powers and Keynesianism among the victors. Choose your poison.

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Even conventional historians like Niall Ferguson admit as much. Had Woodrow Wilson not misled America on a messianic crusade, the Great War would have ended in mutual exhaustion in 1917 and both sides would have gone home battered and bankrupt but no danger to the rest of mankind. Indeed, absent Wilson’s crusade there would have been no allied victory, no punitive peace, and no war reparations; nor would there have been a Leninist coup in Petrograd or Stalin’s barbaric regime.

Likewise, Churchill’s starvation blockade would not have devastated post-Armistice Germany, nor would there have been the humiliating signing of the war guilt clause by German officials at Versailles. And the subsequent financial chaos of 1919-1923 would not have happened either—-meaning no “stab in the back” myth, no Hitler, no Nazi dystopia, no Munich, no Sudetenland and Danzig corridor crises, no British war to save Poland, no final solution and holocaust, no global war against Germany and Japan and no incineration of 200,000 civilians at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Nor would there have followed a Cold War with the Soviets or CIA sponsored coups and assassinations in Iran, Guatemala, Indonesia, Brazil, Chile and the Congo, to name a few. Surely there would have been no CIA plot to assassinate Castro, or Russian missiles in Cuba or a crisis that took the world to the brink of annihilation. There would have been no Dulles brothers, no domino theory and no Vietnam slaughter, either.

Nor would we have launched Charlie Wilson’s War to arouse the mujahedeen and train the future al Qaeda. Likewise, there would have been no shah and his Savak terror, no Khomeini-led Islamic counter-revolution, no US aid to enable Saddam’s gas attacks on Iranian boy soldiers in the 1980s.

Nor would there have been an American invasion of Arabia in 1991 to stop our erstwhile ally Hussein from looting the equally contemptible Emir of Kuwait’s ill-gotten oil plunder—or, alas, the horrific 9/11 blowback a decade later.

Most surely, the axis-of-evil—-that is, the Washington-based Cheney-Rumsfeld-neocon axis—- would not have arisen, nor would it have foisted a $1 trillion Warfare State budget on 21^st century America.

The 1914-1929 Boom Was An Artifact of War And Central Banking

A second crucial point is that the Great War enabled the already rising American economy to boom and bloat in an entirely artificial and unsustainable manner for the better part of 15 years. The exigencies of war finance also transformed the nascent Federal Reserve into an incipient central banking monster in a manner wholly opposite to the intentions of its great legislative architect—the incomparable Carter Glass of Virginia.

During the Great War America became the granary and arsenal to the European Allies—-triggering an eruption of domestic investment and production that transformed the nation into a massive global creditor and powerhouse exporter virtually overnight.

American farm exports quadrupled, farm income surged from $3 billion to $9 billion, land prices soared, country banks proliferated like locusts and the same was true of industry. Steel production, for example, rose from 30 million tons annually to nearly 50 million tons during the war.

Altogether, in six short years $40 billion of money GDP became $92 billion in 1920—a sizzling 15 percent annual rate of gain.

Needless to say, these fantastic figures reflected an inflationary, war-swollen economy—-a phenomena that prudent finance men of the age knew was wholly artificial and destined for a thumping post-war depression. This was especially so because America had loaned the Allies massive amounts of money to purchase grain, pork, wool, steel, munitions and ships. This transfer amounted to nearly 15 percent of GDP or $2 trillion equivalent in today’s economy, but it also amounted to a form of vendor finance that was destined to vanish at war’s end.

Carter Glass’ Bankers’ Bank: The Antithesis Of Monetary Central Planning

As it happened, the nation did experience a brief but deep recession in 1920, but this did not represent a thorough-going end-of-war “de-tox” of the historical variety. The reason is that America’s newly erected Warfare State had hijacked Carter Glass “banker’s bank” to finance Wilson’s crusade.

Here’s the crucial background: When Congress acted on Christmas Eve 1913, just six months before Archduke Ferdinand’s assassination, it had provided no legal authority whatsoever for the Fed to buy government bonds or undertake so-called “open market operations” to finance the public debt. In part this was due to the fact that there were precious few Federal bonds to buy. The public debt then stood at just $1.5 billion, which is the same figure that had pertained 51 years earlier at the battle of Gettysburg, and amounted to just 4 percent of GDP or $11 per capita.

Thus, in an age of balanced budgets and bipartisan fiscal rectitude, the Fed’s legislative architects had not even considered the possibility of central bank monetization of the public debt, and, in any event, had a totally different mission in mind.

The new Fed system was to operate decentralized “reserve banks” in 12 regions—most of them far from Wall Street in places like San Francisco, Dallas, Kansas City and Cleveland. Their job was to provide a passive “rediscount window” where national banks within each region could bring sound, self-liquidating commercial notes and receivables to post as collateral in return for cash to meet depositor withdrawals or to maintain an approximate 15 percent cash reserve.

Accordingly, the assets of the 12 reserve banks were to consist entirely of short-term commercial paper arising out of the ebb and flow of commerce and trade on the free market, not the debt emissions of Washington. In this context, the humble task of the reserve banks was to don green eyeshades and examine the commercial collateral brought by member banks, not to grandly manage the macro economy through targets for interest rates, money growth or credit expansion—to say nothing of targeting jobs, GDP, housing starts or the Russell 2000, as per today’s fashion.

Even the rediscount rate charged to member banks for cash loans was to float at a penalty spread above money market rates set by supply and demand for funds on the free market.

The big point here is that Carter Glass’ “banker’s bank” was an instrument of the market, not an agency of state policy. The so-called economic aggregates of the later Keynesian models—-GDP, employment, consumption and investment—were to remain an unmanaged outcome on the free market, reflecting the interaction of millions of producers, consumers, savers, investors, entrepreneurs and even speculators.

In short, the Fed as “banker’s bank” had no dog in the GDP hunt. Its narrow banking system liquidity mission would not vary whether the aggregates were growing at 3 percent or contracting at 3 percent.

What would vary dramatically, however, was the free market interest rate in response to shifts in the demand for loans or supply of savings. In general this meant that investment booms and speculative bubbles were self-limiting: When the demand for credit sharply out-ran the community’s savings pool, interest rates would soar—thereby rationing demand and inducing higher cash savings out of current income.

This market clearing function of money market interest rates was especially crucial with respect to leveraged financial speculation—such as margin trading in the stock market. Indeed, the panic of 1907 had powerfully demonstrated that when speculative bubbles built up a powerful head of steam the free market had a ready cure.

In that pre-Fed episode, money market rates soared to 20, 30 and even 90 percent at the peak of the bubble. In short order, of course, speculators in copper, real estate, railroads, trust banks and all manner of over-hyped stock were carried out on their shields—-even as JPMorgan’s men, who were gathered as a de facto central bank in his library on Madison Avenue, selectively rescued only the solvent banks with their own money at-risk.

Needless to say, these very same free market interest rates were a mortal enemy of deficit finance because they rationed the supply of savings to the highest bidder. Thus, the ancient republican moral verity of balanced budgets was powerfully reinforced by the visible hand of rising interest rates: deficit spending by the public sector automatically and quickly crowded out borrowing by private households and business.

How The Bankers’ Bank Got Hijacked To Fund War Bonds

And this brings us to the Rubicon of modern Warfare State finance. During World War I the US public debt rose from $1.5 billion to $27 billion—an eruption that would have been virtually impossible without wartime amendments which allowed the Fed to own or finance U.S. Treasury debt. These “emergency” amendments—it’s always an emergency in wartime—enabled a fiscal scheme that was ingenious, but turned the Fed’s modus operandi upside down and paved the way for today’s monetary central planning.

As is well known, the Wilson war crusaders conducted massive nationwide campaigns to sell Liberty Bonds to the patriotic masses. What is far less understood is that Uncle Sam’s bond drives were the original case of no savings? No credit? No problem!

What happened was that every national bank in America conducted a land office business advancing loans for virtually 100 percent of the war bond purchase price—with such loans collateralized by Uncle Sam’s guarantee. Accordingly, any patriotic American with enough pulse to sign the loan papers could buy some Liberty Bonds.

And where did the commercial banks obtain the billions they loaned out to patriotic citizens to buy Liberty Bonds? Why the Federal Reserve banks opened their discount loan windows to the now eligible collateral of war bonds.

Additionally, Washington pegged the rates on these loans below the rates on its treasury bonds, thereby providing a no-brainer arbitrage profit to bankers.

Through this backdoor maneuver, the war debt was thus massively monetized. Washington learned that it could unplug the free market interest rate in favor of state administered prices for money, and that credit could be massively expanded without the inconvenience of higher savings out of deferred consumption. Effectively, Washington financed Woodrow Wilson’s crusade with its newly discovered printing press—-turning the innocent “banker’s bank” legislated in 1913 into a dangerously potent new arm of the state.

Bubbles Ben 1.0

It was this wartime transformation of the Fed into an activist central bank that postponed the normal post-war liquidation—-moving the world’s scheduled depression down the road to the 1930s. The Fed’s role in this startling feat is in plain sight in the history books, but its significance has been obfuscated by Keynesian and monetarist doctrinal blinders—that is, the presumption that the state must continuously manage the business cycle and macro-economy.

Having learned during the war that it could arbitrarily peg the price of money, the Fed next discovered it could manage the growth of bank reserves and thereby the expansion of credit and the activity rate of the wider macro-economy. This was accomplished through the conduct of “open market operations” under its new authority to buy and sell government bonds and bills—something which sounds innocuous by today’s lights but was actually the fatal inflection point. It transferred the process of credit creation from the free market to an agency of the state.

As it happened, the patriotic war bond buyers across the land did steadily pay-down their Liberty loans, and, in turn, the banking system liquidated its discount window borrowings—-with a $2.7 billion balance in 1920 plunging 80 percent by 1927. In classic fashion, this should have caused the banking system to shrink drastically as war debts were liquidated and war-time inflation and malinvestments were wrung out of the economy.

But big-time mission creep had already set in. The legendary Benjamin Strong had now taken control of the system and on repeated occasions orchestrated giant open market bond buying campaigns to offset the natural liquidation of war time credit.

Accordingly, treasury bonds and bills owned by the Fed approximately doubled during the same 7-year period. Strong justified his Bernanke-like bond buying campaigns of 1924 and 1927 as helpful actions to off-set “deflation” in the domestic economy and to facilitate the return of England and Europe to convertibility under the gold standard.

But in truth the actions of Bubbles Ben 1.0 were every bit as destructive as those of Bubbles Ben 2.0.

In the first place, deflation was a good thing that was supposed to happen after a great war. Invariably, the rampant expansion of war time debt and paper money caused massive speculations and malinvestments that needed to be liquidated.

The Bank of England’s Perfidy

Likewise, the barrier to normalization globally was that England was unwilling to fully liquidate its vast wartime inflation of wage, prices and debts. Instead, it had come-up with a painless way to achieve “resumption” at the age-old parity of $4.86 per pound; namely, the so-called gold exchange standard that it peddled assiduously through the League of Nations.

The short of it was that the British convinced France, Holland, Sweden and most of Europe to keep their excess holdings of sterling exchange on deposit in the London money markets, rather than convert it to gold as under the classic, pre-war gold standard.

This amounted to a large-scale loan to the faltering British economy, but when Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill did resume convertibility in April 1925 a huge problem soon emerged. Churchill’s splendid war had so debilitated the British economy that markets did not believe its government had the resolve and financial discipline to maintain the old $4.86 parity. This, in turn, resulted in a considerable outflow of gold from the London exchange markets, putting powerful contractionary pressures on the British banking system and economy.

Real Cause of the Great Depression: Collapse of the Artificial 1914-1929 Boom

In this setting, Bubbles Ben 1.0 (New York Fed Governor Benjamin Strong) stormed in with a rescue plan that will sound familiar to contemporary ears. By means of his bond buying campaigns he sought to drive-down interest rates in New York relative to London, thereby encouraging British creditors to keep their money in higher yielding sterling rather than converting their claims to gold or dollars.

The British economy was thus given an option to keep rolling-over its debts and to continue living beyond its means. For a few years these proto-Keynesian “Lords of Finance” —- principally Ben Strong of the Fed and Montague Norman of the BOE—-managed to kick the can down the road.

But after the Credit Anstalt crisis in spring 1931, when creditors of shaky banks in central Europe demanded gold, England’s precarious mountain of sterling debts came into the cross-hairs. In short order, the money printing scheme of Bubbles Ben 1.0 designed to keep the Brits in cheap interest rates and big debts came violently unwound.

In late September a weak British government defaulted on its gold exchange standard duty to convert sterling to gold, causing the French, Dutch and other central banks to absorb massive overnight losses. The global depression then to took another lurch downward.

Inventing Bubble Finance : The Call Money Market Explosion Before 1929

But central bankers tamper with free market interest rates only at their peril—-so the domestic malinvestments and deformations which flowed from the monetary machinations of Bubbles Ben 1.0 were also monumental.

Owing to the splendid tax-cuts and budgetary surpluses of Secretary Andrew Mellon, the American economy was flush with cash, and due to the gold inflows from Europe the US banking system was extraordinarily liquid. The last thing that was needed in Roaring Twenties America was the cheap interest rates—-at 3 percent and under—that resulted from Strong’s meddling in the money markets.

At length, Strong’s ultra-low interest rates did cause credit growth to explode, but it did not end-up funding new steel mills or auto assembly plants. Instead, the Fed’s cheap debt flooded into the Wall Street call money market where it fueled that greatest margin debt driven stock market bubble the world had ever seen. By 1929, margin debt on Wall Street had soared to 12 percent of GDP or the equivalent of $2 trillion in today’s economy (compared to $450 billion at present).

The Original Sub-Prime: Wall Street’s 1920s Foreign Bond Mania

As is well known, much economic carnage resulted from the Great Crash of 1929. But what is less well understood is that the great stock market bubble also spawned a parallel boom in foreign bonds—-a specie of Wall Street paper that soon proved to be the sub-prime of its day. Indeed, Bubbles Ben 1.0 triggered a veritable cascade of speculative borrowing that soon spread to the far corners of the globe, including places like municipality of Rio de Janeiro, the Kingdom of Denmark and the free city of Danzig, among countless others.

It seems that the margin debt fueled stock market drove equity prices so high that big American corporations with no needs for cash were impelled to sell bundles of new stock anyway in order to feed the insatiable appetites of retail speculators. They then used the proceeds to buy Wall Street’s high yielding “foreign bonds”, thereby goosing their own reported earnings, levitating their stock prices even higher and causing the cycle to be repeated again and again.

As the Nikkei roared to 50,000 in the late 1980s, the Japanese were pleased to call this madness “zaitech”, and it didn’t work any better the second time around. But the 1920s version of zaitech did generate prodigious sums of cash that foreign borrowers cycled right back to exports from America’s farms, mines and factories. Over the eight years ending in 1929, the present day equivalent of $1.5 trillion was raised on Wall Street’s red hot foreign bond market, meaning that the US economy simply doubled-down on the vendor finance driven export boom that had been originally sparked by the massive war loans to the Allies.

In fact, over the period 1914-1929 the U. S. loaned overseas customers—-from the coffee plantations of Brazil to the factories of the Ruhr—-the modern day equivalent of $3.5 trillion to prop-up demand for American exports. The impact was remarkable. In the 15 years before the war American exports had crept up slowly from $1.6 billion to $2.4 billion per year, and totaled $35 billion over the entire period. By contrast, shipments from American farms and factors soared to nearly $11 billion annually by 1919 and totaled $100 billion—three times more—over the 15 years through 1929.

So this was vendor finance on a vast scale——reflecting the exact mercantilist playbook that Mr. Deng chanced upon 60 years later when he opened the export factories of East China, and then ordered the People’s Bank to finance China’s exports of T-shirts, sneakers, plastic extrusions, zinc castings and mini-backhoes via the continuous massive purchases of Uncle Sam’s bonds, bills and guaranteed housing paper.

Our present day Keynesian witch doctors antiseptically label the $3.8 trillion that China has accumulated through this massive currency manipulation and repression as “foreign exchange reserves”, but they are nothing of the kind. If China had honest exchange rates, it reserves would be a tiny sliver of today’s level.

In truth, China’s $3.8 trillion of reserves are a gigantic vendor loan to its customers. This is a financial clone of the $3.5 trillion equivalent that the great American creditor and export powerhouse loaned to the rest of the world between 1914 and 1929.

Needless to say, after the October 1929 crash, the Wall Street foreign bond market went stone cold, with issuance volume dropping by 95 percent within a year or two. Thereupon foreign bond default rates suddenly soared because sub-prime borrowers all over the world had been engaged in a Ponzi—-tapping new money on Wall Street to pay interest on the old loans.

By 1931 foreign bonds were trading at 8 cents on the dollar—-not coincidentally in the same busted zip code where sub-prime mortgage bonds ended up in 2008-2009.

Still, busted bonds always mean a busted economic cycle until the malinvestments they initially fund can be liquidated or repurposed. Thus, the 1929 Wall Street bust generated a devastating crash in US exports as the massive vendor financed foreign demand for American farm and factory goods literally vanished. By 1933 exports had slipped all the way back to the $2.4 billion level of 1914.

1929-1933 Foreign Bond and US Export Bust: True Source of the Great Depression

That’s not all. As US export shipments crashed by 70 percent between 1929 and 1933, there were ricochet effect throughout the domestic economy.

This artificial 15-year export boom had caused the production capacity of American farms and factories to become dramatically oversized, meaning that during this interval there had occurred a domestic capital spending boom of monumental proportions. While estimated GDP grew by a factor of 2.5X during 1914-1929, capital spending by manufacturers rose by 7X. Auto production capacity, for example, increased from 2 million vehicles annually in 1920 to more than 6 million by 1929.

Needless to say, when world export markets collapsed, the US economy was suddenly drowning in excess capacity. In short order, the decade-long capital spending boom came to a screeching halt, with annual outlays for plant and equipment tumbling by 80 percent in the four years after 1929, and shipments of items like machine tools plummeting by 95 percent.

Not surprisingly, in the wake of this drastic downshift in output, American business also found itself drowning in excess inventories. Accordingly, nearly half of all production inventories extant in 1929 were liquidated by 1933, resulting in a shocking 20 percent hit to GDP—a blow that would amount to a $3 trillion drop in today’s economy.

Finally, Bubbles Ben 1.0 had induced vast but temporary “wealth effects” just like his present day successor. Stock prices surged by 150 percent in the final three years of the mania. There was also an explosion of consumer installment loans for durable goods and mortgages for homes. Indeed, mortgage debt soared by nearly 4X during the decade before the crash, while boom-time sales of autos, appliances and radios nearly tripled durable goods sales in the eight years ending in 1929.

All of this debt and wealth effects induced spending came to an abrupt halt when stock prices came tumbling back to earth. Durable goods and housing plummeted by 80 percent during the next four years. In the case of automobiles, where stock market lottery winners had been buying new cars hand over fist, the impact was especially far reaching. After sales peaked at 5.3 million units in 1929, they dropped like a stone to 1.4 million vehicles in 1932, meaning that this 75 percent shrinkage of auto sales cascaded through the entire auto supply chain including metal working equipment, steel, glass, rubber, electricals and foundry products.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-06-28/sarajevo-fulcrum-modern-history-great-war-and-its-terrible-aftermath

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Eliminate fractional reserve banking and usury.

Paying interest on top of interect is evil.

Paying a fixed fee up front is perfectly fine.

Devaluation of the currency must end.

Sure, growth is limited, but so are the wars!

comment:

War sucks, but military might is the way Markets are created by the State. Best strategy: make some money off the racket!

"...money and markets do not emerge spontaneously...if one simply hands out coins to the soldiers and then demands that every family in the kingdom was obliged to pay one of those coins back to you, one would, in one blow, turn one’s entire national economy into a vast machine for the provisioning of soldiers, since now every family, in order to get their hands on the coins, must find some way to contribute to the general effort to provide soldiers with things they want. Markets are brought into existence as a side effect."

David Graeber (2011) Debt: The First 5, 000 Years
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debt:_The_First_5000_Years

comment:

Trying to blame the US for all the post WWI problems in the world is a bit of a stretch. The sort of libtard reasoning that Obama belives in.

The reason that the US went to war in 1917 was that Germany declared unrestricted submarine warfare in 1917. The US had repeatedly said that that would mean war. If Germany had continued its submarine war against England there would have been famine in England by 1916 and and an end to the war. Germany abandoned submarine warfare when it was working and then resumed it when it no long made any difference.

Stupid German strategy cost them the war. They almost captured Paris early in the war. They almost starved England out of the war. They almost knocked Russia out of the war in the first two years. Almost Almost Almost.

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nor would there have been a Leninist coup in Petrograd or Stalin’s barbaric regime.

I cry BS on this one. Tsarist Russia was collapsing long before WWI came along. The upheaval was inevitable.

COMMENT:

You memorized your NWO schoolbooks almost word/lie for word/lie. The war was planned in the 1890's to take down the four empires, break everything up along more manageable ethnic lines, impose the new social order, and seize control of mideast oil. The IRS, Fed, BIS, etc. were all set up before the war to catch the jackpot that they planned to flow into their control. Rinse, repeat. And don't think for a split NSA second that they're done.

comment:

The Leninist coup was created by the German Foreign office (it was Zimmerman of the notorious Mexican telegram who supposedly came up with the idea of breaking the deadlock on the Western front by facilitiating Lenin's move to Moscow via the famous "sealed train", freeing up the Eastern troops for the Western front to neutralize the American entry into the War).

Without German active support, it is unlikely that the Bolsheviks would have been able to succeed in their coup against the majority Mensheviks, so Stockman is probably right). As a minimum, if the US had not entered, Germany would probably have WON WWI had Germany still put Lenin in power, but this at least would have avoided Hitler and WWII...

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You're a bloviating twit....

WW I was in the cards and all it needed was someone to light the fuse. Some lessons needed to learned the hard way...

The military experts were clueless as to what awaited them when a cursory examination of the US civil war, in particular the battle for Vicksburg told them what was in store...

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Muted reaction to record BNP Paribas penalty

LIZ ALDERMAN THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Last Updated July 1, 2014 - 8:58pm

Diplomatic uproar dies down afterbank fined $8.9 billion

Georges Dirani, general counsel for BNP Paribas, and attorney Karen Patton Seymour, leave New York state Supreme Court on Monday. BNP Paribas, France’s largest bank, pleaded guilty and agreed to pay nearly $9 billion to resolve criminal allegations that it processed transactions for clients in Sudan and other blacklisted countries in violation of U.S. trade sanctions. (RICHARD DREW / AP)

PARIS — As the American authorities announced a record penalty Monday against BNP Paribas for violating U.S. rules on trading with blacklisted countries, the French political establishment had an unusual reaction: silence.

French President François Hollande, who had appealed to U.S. President Barack Obama for leniency and even buttonholed him in a Parisian restaurant in June to further press his case, was absent from the French airwaves. Equally quiet were his cabinet members and the French central bank chief, Christian Noyer, who had warned U.S. prosecutors that the case could have dire repercussions for a bank that France deems too big to fail.

It was if, after all the lobbying, French officials had grimly concluded that — while onerous — the fine of about $8.9 billion and a guilty plea were about the best outcome that could be hoped for, based on the facts of the case and the doggedness of U.S. prosecutors.

Just a month earlier, “l’affaire BNP,” as the case is known here, had ignited trans-Atlantic diplomatic tensions. French officials stepped up to defend one of the country’s corporate icons, citing fears that what was then expected to be a $10 billion penalty and an unprecedented ban on the bank’s ability to conduct dollar-based trading activities in New York could destabilize BNP and cripple its ability to do business with international clients.

But the penalties announced Monday in New York were somewhat more lenient.

Instead of placing an immediate long-term ban on BNP’s dollar-clearing function, as the American authorities had originally proposed, BNP will be barred from processing oil and gas transactions in dollars for a year, beginning Jan. 1, 2015. Other forms of dollar-based transactions were spared.

Had the United States imposed a full ban on dollar clearing, French officials had argued, the move would have ricocheted internationally. BNP clears several hundred billion dollars a day, and its dollar-clearing operation would be impossible to replace quickly, jeopardizing the safety of the global financial system.

The modified deal coming out now “seems workable, and there are several months to prepare,” a French official who had been briefed on the settlement but was not authorized to speak publicly, said Monday. “Most likely, the government will wish to appease tensions now that a manageable outcome has been reached.”

The Bank of France said in a statement after the settlement was announced that it had “examined the situation of BNP Paribas and concluded that the BNP Paribas Group has a solid solvency and liquidity position, which will allow it to absorb the anticipated consequences of this decision.”

But while the U.S. prosecutors obtained most of what they fought for, financial authorities here are warning of a potential negative consequence for the United States.

The dollar clearing at issue in the BNP Paribas case was conducted in the United States. But, said a person with direct knowledge of the negotiations, there is concern that using dollars in international trade could “trigger risks even if you do things outside the United States, because one day the dollar you used may be seen as an opening for an extraterritorial application of U.S. legislation.

“That means that using the dollar is now perceived as less safe than before the episode, and it will probably reinforce the willingness of many countries to trade as much as possible in other currencies,” the person added.

Nor will the French government easily forget the episode. French officials are still upset that U.S. prosecutors appeared to be imposing a standard of justice on foreign banks that has not been applied to U.S. financial institutions. And the fine and partial ban on BNP’s dollar clearing also goes well beyond financial penalties that U.S. officials have been applied to other foreign banks, including HSBC, which paid a $1.9 billion fine for money laundering, and Credit Suisse, which paid a $2.6 billion penalty for aiding tax evasion.

“There is a perception that France was targeted,” the French official said.

That impression could not have come at a worse time for Hollande, whose popularity remains near all-time lows as France struggles with weak growth and a stubbornly high unemployment rate of more than 10 per cent. His perceived weakness as a leader cost him last month in European Parliament elections, where the far-right National Front won backing from some voters disenchanted with Hollande’s management style.

On Sunday, as officials at BNP’s Paris headquarters held daylong meetings to deal with the crisis, Hollande attempted to enhance his image by attending a concert featuring actress and singer Vanessa Paradis at a gathering at the Longchamp racetrack in Paris to raise money for the fight against AIDS.

Despite Hollande’s initial willingness to intervene with American authorities, “his public opinion polls are very low, and it’s not a good idea to come to the defence of a bank,” said François Godement, a senior policy fellow in Paris at the European Council on Foreign Relations.

France could turn up the heat on the United States on other fronts, especially in negotiations now underway on an American-European trade deal. “It will probably mean that the French attitude will be even tougher,” said the French official close to the discussions.

Intensifying French resistance to the deal could undermine the European Commission’s ability to champion trans-Atlantic trade, Famke Krumbmuller, a London-based analyst for the Eurasia Group, wrote in a recent note to clients.

Also unclear is how the U.S. action will ricochet at a European level. The European Commisson has already imposed hefty fines on Microsoft and other large U.S. technology companies for violating antitrust behaviour in Europe’s backyard.

Given that the financial penalties by the U.S. authorities against not only BNP, but other European banks, have been eye-popping, “the temptation may be there to also raise the level of the fines in Europe,” Godement said, “and we could get into a kind of tit-for-tat war, which has the added advantage of replenishing public coffers.”

Whatever the softening of the penalties, the BNP affair will sting in France. “This amounts to targeting probably the closest ally that the U.S. has had in Europe over the past four to five years,” Godement said. “It is very disquieting.”

http://thechronicleherald.ca/business/1219725-muted-reaction-to-record-bnp-paribas-penalty

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F**KING FRACKING- NO WAY- USA/AUSSIE/EU RICH DIRTY WHITEMEN NEED 2 STOP TRYING 2 DESTROY OUR CANADA- LIKE THEY DID THEIRS AND THE LATIN AMERICAS AND ASIAS AND AFRICAS.... seriously... Like Pope Francis says- water and people is more precious than gold....

Public responses to fracking panel well informed, report finds

SELENA ROSS Staff Reporter

Last Updated July 2, 2014 - 6:37am

Ian Mauro is the lead author of a paper about the public submissions to independent panel studying hydraulic fracturing. (YouTube)

In the opinion of one Nova Scotian following the fracking debate, the final decision can only be made one way: by referendum.

He or she put the idea in writing to the independent panel studying hydraulic fracturing, whose work this year was meant to help inform the provincial government on whether to allow the controversial energy industry into Nova Scotia.

According to research, that citizen has a point, found Ian Mauro, the lead author of the panel’s most recent paper and a geography professor at the University of Winnipeg.

Mauro analyzed the 238 original public submissions to the panel, not including form letters, and compared them with scientific research on fracking.

“A critical finding is that 238 citizens interacting with the panel were well informed and much of their socio-environmental concerns are substantiated by the available literature,” he wrote.

“While early risk research assumed scientific knowledge was superior to that of the public, it is increasingly clear that citizens are highly capable of estimating hazard potential and the assumption that experts have superior risk judgment is now questioned.”

In submissions, the writers often saw the dangers of fracking in the context of their own lives, describing risks to their property or livelihood. Sometimes a lack of information on a certain question was enough, they wrote, to decide against supporting fracking.

A family doctor wrote, “I am concerned about potential contamination and overuse of public water supplies, both drinking water and agricultural irrigation water, with many Nova Scotia communities already painfully aware of their lack of sustainable potable water supplies,” according to Mauro.

“The municipalities will experience reduced valuations and property values,” another person wrote in a submission.

The 238 unique submissions have not been made public, except in excerpts in Mauro’s paper, which was released Tuesday night. Submissions came from individuals, academics, organizations and municipal governments.

The responses aren’t a representative poll of Nova Scotians, as he noted. Among the 238 submissions, three-quarters explicitly supported a moratorium or ban on fracking, while only 1.7 per cent did not want a moratorium. The rest of the writers didn’t comment on that question.

In a wider poll last year by Corporate Research Associates, 53 per cent of respondents said they opposed the development of fracking in Nova Scotia, “even with stringent government regulations.” Thirty-nine per cent were supportive and eight per cent were mostly undecided.

Public opinion in American communities with fracking potential tends to be more mixed, Mauro wrote. He suggested that was partly because of a land ownership system in the United States that give property owners subsurface rights.

In Nova Scotia, the province would collect royalties on underground hydrocarbons.

“Studies have found U.S. citizens who hold land leases and collected royalty payments view local shale energy development positively, while those who do not receive income perceive the industry negatively,” he wrote.

Some Nova Scotians weighed short-term versus long-term benefits, saying the pros and cons had not been thought through.

“Do you discount future costs (the potential contamination of an aquifer in 50 years’ time as contaminants work their way to the surface through failed casings and cement) to a possible short economic boom over 10 years?” wrote an engineer.

“The health impact of increased air pollution, noise pollution, increased road traffic, loss of peaceful country vistas cannot easily be measured. That does not mean it is not important and does not exist. Impact on the mental health of residents affected by fracking must also be considered,” wrote another doctor.

To compare these concerns with documented risks, Mauro used previous research by the Nova Scotia panel chaired by Cape Breton University president David Wheeler. He also drew heavily on a recent report by the Council of Canadian Academies, which forms multidisciplinary panels of experts to answer questions of public interest.

http://thechronicleherald.ca/novascotia/1219751-public-responses-to-fracking-panel-well-informed-report-finds

Comment:

Pretty incredible video here. From the NB government panel on fracking (Nov 16, 2012, Durham Bridge NB). The people speak. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

AND... UMMMMM. STUDENTS AND PROFESSORS (cause ur behind most of this sheeet).... who's going 2 pay your beautiful salaries.... and pay ur tuition 4 kids in Canada 2 attend fine universities...???

u need 2 be very very careful.... biting the hand that feeds u.... can kill ur dreams.... we learned this in the 60s... why are all these old issues arising... where is the new ideas and movements that identify this generation??? where??? the 60s and 70s and 80s is over.... why not latch on2 funding with the conglomerate companies and find ways 2 work 2gether??? it's time...imho... invent new ideas ... invent new kids of solutions 2 meet this generations needs... seriously... imho...

EDITORIAL: Dalhousie needs environmental breakthroughs, not divestment

THE CHRONICLE HERALD

Published June 30, 2014 - 4:29pm

http://thechronicleherald.ca/editorials/1219424-editorial-dalhousie-needs-environmental-breakthroughs-not-divestment

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To Canada's Clara Hughes- who raised and inspired Canada up 2 embrace Mental Illness Stigma and hold millions of children and folks close 2 us... and just love them without fear or judgement- or ignorace, prejudice,or just plain indifference. Canadians are better than that.... and Clara Hughes proves 2 us each and all.... we matter folks.

Ride Clara - Canada Day- from the voice of a Canadian Child

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzW-ajXkKGs

Published on 1 Jul 2014

This Song was created after a missed meeting with Clara Hughes in Waterloo, Ontario. The girls followed Clara's 110 day ride via Facebook, they are fans of Clara & Little Red. They will welcome Clara at the Finish Line in Ottawa on Can

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Many Canadians have already been saying that they’ve given up on Mr. Obama and now count the days until he leaves office. That may be a good survival strategy for Canada. But it can’t be good for the U.S., which doesn’t have so many allies that it can afford to offend one of the most important.

The U.S. tells Ottawa: O Canada, stop pouting

http://business.financialpost.com/2014/07/01/the-u-s-tells-ottawa-o-canada-stop-pouting/

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Bible saved Digger from early grave

Malcolm Quekett The West Australian July 1, 2014, 2:50 am

https://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/wa/a/24354203/bible-saved-digger-from-early-grave/

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from New Zealand- told u.... HOW CAN THE BEST LIKED MAN IN AFGHANISTAN - ABULLAH ABDULLAH- GET OVER 45% OF 7 MILLION VOTES in the June 5 2014 election.... and not even come close in the 2nd runoff- cheaters cheaters????

Abdullah Abdullah stayed in Afghanistan all during the war since 2001- Ghani his opponent absconded 2 the USA during this time hiding...and even took out USA citizenship.

Afghans will not tolerate Karzai/USA/United Nations chosen Ghani-

AFGHAN AND GOD WILLS IT... that the honest man of Afghanistan- loved by Afghans, kids, youth, women and elders- God loves Afghanistan and God loves Abdullah Abdullah- it is His will... because Afghanistan matters...

God bless our Nato troops and God bless their Afghan Comrades who trained so brilliantly... and our precious Afghans... love u... still here since 2001.

Election result delayed in Afghanistan

Wednesday 02 Jul 2014

Afghanistan's presidential election result has been delayed for several days, as a dispute over alleged fraud threatens to derail the country's first democratic transfer of power.

Abdullah Abdullah, reported to be far behind in the vote count, welcomed the delay and called for an anti-fraud audit that could trigger a prolonged political stalemate as US-led combat troops end their 13-year war against the Taliban.

The United Nations and donor countries have been trying for months to prevent a contested election outcome, fearing a messy power struggle that could fuel ethnic unrest.

But with Abdullah and his poll rival Ashraf Ghani at loggerheads, many fear the deadlock could tip Afghanistan into street protests and uncertainty.

The Independent Election Commission (IEC) said on Tuesday (local time) preliminary results due out on Wednesday (local time) would be delayed as some ballot boxes from the June 14 run-off vote would be checked "to make sure of transparency".

"Now there is a time, there is a space, because of the delay," Abdullah told AFP in an interview at his heavily-fortified residence in Kabul.

"We are talking about measures that would be more robust, vigorous auditing (and) that would take care of the fraudulent ballot papers.

"Almost everybody now agrees there has been industrial-scale fraud... The outcome will not be considered legitimate if that is not being taken care of."

Abdullah, previously seen as the front-runner, boycotted the vote count over the alleged fraud, while his rival Ghani said the election was fair and claimed victory by more than one million votes.

Ghani's campaign team on Tuesday criticised the delay in results, but said it welcomed any attempt to reduce fraud.

"We believe the election commission should work in accordance to the election timeline and announce results on time," campaign spokeswoman Azita Rafat told AFP.

"If this delay is for the sake of transparency then we accept it, though it runs against the election law."

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Clara Hughes - 2010 Canada's Walk of Fame Awards

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DqN-GtV5b4

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Oh Israel- 3 innocent Israel teens butchered by Hamas- the world is sick of this sheeet seriously Israel has only 8 million people surrounded 1.7 billion Muslims - 3 kids 4 Christ's sake.... am sick of UN harbouring Hezbollah and Hamas... and USA???? WHAT IS UP WITH U??? ----------

Naftali Frenkel, Gilad Shaar and Eyal Yifrach- Peace of Christ and tears and prayers 2 the families - what can we say.... it's just so wrong... they're just kids... and what did they do 2 them be4 they butchered them??? u break our hearts... United Nations... u break our hearts.

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WALK A MILE IN MY SHOES- JOE SOUTH-60s

CHILDREN OF THE SECRET- One Billion Rising- no more abuses- no more excuses
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The failure to place the sexual abuse of children in a category of its own, as a sinister crime, was not restricted to those who disapproved of sexual licence: there was also a notorious blindness on the part of those who campaigned for a more liberal society. The former Labour cabinet minister, Patricia Hewitt, who was general secretary of the National Council of Civil Liberties in the Seventies and early Eighties, only recently admitted that they were wrong to associate themselves with the Paedophile Information Exchange (PIE), which was campaigning for the legalisation of sex with children.
It is, in retrospect, to the credit of that clumsy Tory MP Geoffrey Dickens that child abuse disgusted him. One of the first campaigns into which he dug his teeth was to have PIE banned. The liberal view at the time was that no matter how much you might disagree with PIE, their right to campaign for the lowering or abolition of the age of consent ought to be respected. Thus when a former Home Office employee, Steven Adrian, speaking as a member of PIE, argued in 1983 that “sexual relationships with a responsible paedophile gives a child a far greater sense of self-respect and self-awareness… It’s a spurious protection against sexual assault, which, in fact, works as a weapon against children’s sexual freedom,” this was duly reported in the media as a point of view, rather than an incitement to criminality.

Geoffrey Dickens believed that the law was being far too soft on people with sexual designs on children. A few months before his arrival in Parliament in 1979, a member of the public had found a package of child pornography on a bus and handed it into the police, who traced it to no less a person than the former High Commissioner to Canada, Sir Peter Hayman, who was also reputedly an officer of MI6. He was a member of PIE, and one of a group of seven men and two women who were writing to each other about their shared interest in child sex. One of the nine was also separately corresponding with a tenth paedophile with whom he shared fantasies about torturing children to death.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/westminsters-dark-secret-adultery-homosexuality-sadomasochism-and-abuse-of-children-were-all-seemingly-lumped-together-9593131.html
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CHILDREN OF THE SECRET- One Billion Rising- no more excuses - no more abuses-PAEDOPHILES AND PROSTITUTES- this needs 2 stop.... destroy the Paedophiles help the Protstitutes

CHILDREN OF THE SECRET- One Billion Rising- no more excuses - no more abuses
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She said: "Survivors of abuse have a deep and well-founded distrust of authority figures given the breach of trust they have experienced as children. To enable them to be able to believe in the findings of this inquiry and for it to be seen, in their eyes, as a safe environment in which to talk about their experiences, there can be no shadows of doubt cast by links to allegations of an establishment cover-up.

Butler-Sloss's child abuse role in doubt as conflict of interest row grows
Former high court judge criticised over fact her brother Lord Havers was attorney-general at time of some of controversy
Patrick Wintour, political editor

theguardian.com, Wednesday 9 July 2014 11.30 BST

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/jul/09/butler-sloss-appointment-opposition-growing

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Afghanistan tribute comes to Fort York for Canada Day

Dozens of plaques bearing the names of more than 200 people who died

By Mary Wiens, CBC News Posted: Jul 01, 2014 11:20 AM ET

One of the things Sgt. Hasan Aygun loved most during his almost eight month tour of Afghanistan was the sense of camaraderie "outside the wire" as soldiers called the area outside the safety zone of the remote mountain patrol base where he was posted.

Barbed wire surrounded many Canadian military bases in Afghanistan, creating both a literal barrier and a metaphor for danger, "going outside the wire".

Improvised explosive devices — IED’s in military-speak — were planted outside the wire near the Sper-wan Ghar patrol base, often in clear view of soldiers living at the base. But just as often the bombs were placed unpredictably, making excursions beyond the base extremely dangerous.

‘Outside the wire’, the soldiers’ senses were sharpened, along with their awareness of how much they depended on each other. "Infantry and artillery -- we used to joke about each other all the time," says Aygun, when they were still in training in Canada. "Tell each other they’re useless, just jokes back and forth."

But once in Afghanistan, that changed. "Everybody realizes we have a job to do," says Aygun, who was 24 at the time. "We protect each other."

As a member of the artillery unit, Aygun usually stayed behind the wire, providing fire support to the infantry. But as often as possible he volunteered to leave the base with the ‘forward observers’.

"Our howitzers, we can’t be in direct fight. We’re firing from the back," Aygun explains. But accompanying the infantry on missions outside the wire, Aygun could see what was happening on the ground. "I can see through their eyes. I know they’re up ahead of us, waiting for our bombs to land to give them cover."

Sharing those risks was what Aygun loved best — perhaps because it intensified the bond that so many soldiers treasure long after their military service has ended.

That disciplined camaraderie is at the heart of a moving exhibit in the officers’ barracks at Toronto’s historic Fort York this Canada Day. The display in the centre of the hall includes dozens of plaques, bearing the names of more than 200 people who died in Afghanistan.

An informal tribute that soldiers created for their fallen comrades, these plaques were once mounted on a boulder at the Kandahar airfield.

Most of the names on the plaques are of Canadian soldiers, but there are also Americans -- under the command of the Canadian military, a diplomat, a military contractor and a journalist.

When the Canadian military withdrew from Afghanistan, they brought the plaques home with the idea of creating a permanent exhibit that will tour Canada this summer, starting at Fort York through Canada Day.

A set of bagpipes, a ceremonial chaplain’s scarf and a Canadian flag complete the exhibit, symbols of what is sometimes called the ultimate sacrifice.

Sandra Shaul, former museum administrator for the City of Toronto, helped the military find a spot for the exhibit in Toronto.

As a project manager with the City, Shaul organized the Bicentennial commemoration of the War of 1812 in Toronto, and worked with the military on the Battle of York in 2013. It was the first time in her life she’d worked on a military project and it instilled a new respect in her for the Canadian military.

"If you’d told me at the age of 18," says Shaul, "that I’d have a relationship with the military, I’d ask what you were smoking."

Hasan Aygun

Hasan Aygun show in Sper-wan Ghar in Afghanistan. (Matt Seto)

Looking back, says Shaul, "The mistake I made 40 years ago was to confuse the politics of who sends these people into battle from the people who go."

"Bottom line," says Shaul, "it’s an incredible commitment to make."

As a project manager, Shaul was amazed to find how much she enjoyed working with soldiers who demonstrated — well, military teamwork.

"I was blown away by the sense of teamwork," says Shaul. "As a project manager, I’m usually the enforcer."

Working with the military, she says, she finally learned to relax. "When they told me, ‘don’t worry, Sandra, we’ll take care of it,’ they meant it. I was just bloody impressed by how smart and dedicated and really organized these soldiers were."

The art world, Shaul says drily, which she was more familiar with, "isn’t exactly characterized by teamwork."

Working on the Battle of York commemoration, Shaul immersed herself in the history of the young soldiers who died on April 27th, 1813. She was moved to find that their sacrifice two centuries earlier had never been honoured by Canadians.

"At Fort York, 181 people died over six hours," says Shaul. "In 200 years, they were never really acknowledged because they lost the battle."

Shaul was struck by how young the soldiers were.

So when an army officer asked her for advice about displaying the collection of plaques from Afghanistan, Shaul was struck once again at how young most of the soldiers were.

"I just thought, here we go again," says Shaul. "All these young faces, that’s who goes to war. All the stuff I was cynical about 45 years ago, I wasn’t cynical anymore."

Four years later, back from his tour in Afghanistan, Hasan Aygun is now 28, living at his parents’ home in Scarborough, waiting to hear if his job application with the Ontario Provincial Police has been accepted.

But on Canada Day, he’ll be in military uniform again at Fort York, talking to members of the public about the Afghanistan tribute and sharing his memories of serving at the remote patrol base at Sper-wan Ghar.

"I’m glad I went through that experience," says Aygun. He remembers meeting two of the soldiers whose names are on the plaques. "Every Remembrance Day is a little bit more important to me. It’s great if other people get a chance to see the exhibit at Fort York. But every soldier carries a bit of the memorial inside them in their own heart and mind."

See the Afghan vigil from until July 3, in the Blue Barracks. Open for viewing 9:00 am to 9:00 pm daily.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/afghanistan-tribute-comes-to-fort-york-for-canada-day-1.2692577

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TODAY IN HISTORY: July 1 CANADA

In 1867 , Canada officially became an indep endent country as the British North America Act came into being. There were four provinces in the new Confederation: Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. Sir John A. Macdonald was sworn in as the first prime minister, and Ottawa was named the capital. Although independent of Britain, Canada was still not allowed to deal directly with other states, control immigration or command Canadian armed forces except through British officers. A vast central area purchased from the Hudson’s Bay Co. allowed for the creation of the provinces of Manitoba in 1870, and Saskatchewan and Alberta in 1905. The additions of British Columbia in 1871, Prince Edward Island in 1873 and Newfoundland in 1949 completed the 10 provinces.

and..

In 1980, O Canada was o fficially designated the national anthem.

PHOTO: The grand ceilidh parade in Mabou on Canada Day is pictured in this photograph from the 1980s. Halifax Herald- Chronicle Herald

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Don't always agree with Jan- but by God just love her journalism... she's just ... well so Canadian

This Canada Day, my thoughts are with Dad

Jan Wong is a jour nalism professor at St. Thomas University in Fredericton.

My father, Bill Wong, couldn’t cook to save his life. But you can probably thank — or blame — him for that made-in-Canada phenomenon, the all-you-can-eat Chinese buffet now offered everywhere from Helsinki to Beijing .

Dad was born in Montreal in 1920. For the first 27 years of his life, he was not considered a Canadian. He could not vote. And he carried ID card No. 10933, with his baby picture glued on, issued by Canada’s Department of Immigration and Colonization.

During the Great Depression, his own father remained in Montreal but the rest of the family returned to China. Dad, the oldest child, grew sweet potatoes in Guangdong province to keep the family alive. He was nine.

The Second World War came early to China. In 1937, when the Japanese invaded China, Dad got passage back to Canada aboard a Canadian Pacific ship. En route to Vancouver, it docked at Yokohama where Japanese authorities ordered my 17-year-old father off the ship.

The ship’s doctor, a fellow Canadian, intervened. Dad sailed on .

Those eight early years in China undermined Dad’s English. For the rest of his life, he spoke with an accent. Hilariously, his report card from the High School of Montreal shows a better mark in French than English.

He enrolled in engineering at McGill University, supporting himself with a massive paper route. Graduating around the time Ottawa finally repealed its infamous anti-Chinese immigration law, Dad worked for the phone company as an engineer, an excellent job at the time.

He quit when he discovered the paltry sum the president hims elf earned. Instead, Dad got a job as a manager in a Chinatown restaurant to learn the business. A few years later, in the early 1950s, he opened the first Chinese restaurant in Montreal outside the ghetto.

His innovations included take-out Chinese food and free delivery, both unheard of at the time. But his biggest innovation was the buffet .

In 1962, he attended a wedding in Toronto where the restaurant served all-you-can-eat prime ribs. Dad decided the buffet concept would work even better for Chinese food; a lone diner could sample doz ens o f dishes.

Dad soon opened more restaurants, including his flagship, Bill Wong’s Inc. By the time he was 40, he had made his first million .

He was a feminist — mostly. His few missteps included paying me less than my younger brother for the same summer job: dining room host. And, alas, he only took my two brothers, never me, to Canadiens games at the Montreal Forum .

Unlike many ethnic parents, he didn’t object when I said I wanted to stu dy history or become a journalist, both paths with dim financial prospects. The only time he demurred was when my newspaper, post 9-11, wanted to s end me to Afghanistan .

“Don’t go," said Dad. So I didn’t.

When I became ill with severe clinical depression, Dad never felt any ethnic shame over mental illness.

During the 1995 referendum, he paced nervously, waiting to see if Quebec would separate. He flinched when Jacques Parizeau went on television to blame the PQ’s defeat on “money and ethnic votes."

Dad never missed voting in any election — federal, provincial or municipal — until this spring when he became too frail to go out, even in his wheelchair.

He died last week on St-Jean-Baptiste Day.

He was 93.

On this Canada Day, I cherish his memory.

Dad was a true Canadian, even if he wouldn’t ever touch the sweet potatoes at Thanksgiving dinner.

http://thechronicleherald.ca/opinion/1219455-wong-this-canada-day-my-thoughts-are-with-dad

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MONCTON PROUD

N.S. firm’s fireworks to honour slain Mounties

THE CANADIAN PRESS

A spectacular fireworks display is planned for tonight in Moncton, to pay tribute to the three RCMP officers killed in the line of duty on June 4.

Fred Wade of Fireworks FX in Grand Pre says three large shells will be fired into the air at the beginning of the Canada Day fireworks display.

He says the shells are expected to create a golden canopy about one square kilometre across, followed by a minute o f silence.

Wade says he wanted to do something special to remember constables Dave Ross, Douglas Larche and Fabrice Gevaudan.

Justin Bourque, 24, is charged with three counts of first-degree murder and two counts of attempted murder in what was one of the worst mass shootings in the RCMP’s history.

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Opinion

EDITORIAL: Long way to go on mental illness

by Editorial - Burnaby NewsLeader

posted Jun 30, 2014 at 4:00 PM

Few can argue that mental illness touches everyone.

There are, of course, those who have been diagnosed. Then there are their children, siblings, parents, friends and co-workers.

Even complete strangers are often hit with the ripples, as society bears the burden of missed work days, medical visits, inadequate treatment options, etc.

It doesn’t matter that research has led to many strategies and treatments that can help sufferers live productive, even normal, lives.

Perhaps if it felt easier to talk openly about mental illness, things would be different.

For those directly affected, it can feel simpler to try to ignore the reality.

While there have been great strides in the realm of mental illness, society still has a hard time accepting it as a disease.

‘Mental illness’ is still a phrase that doesn’t dare get said in polite company.

But slowly that shroud is lifting.

Some people are becoming more brave to step into the spotlight, to talk about their own struggles.

Clara Hughes, for instance. The former Canadian Olympic cyclist and speedskater shared the story of her own family’s battles with mental illness as she cycled 12,000 kms across Canada. Clara’s “Big Ride” concluded on July 1 in Ottawa and connected with more than 23,000 young people in 105 communities.

People like Hughes, and those enduring their challenges less publicly, know the difference that acceptance—both of the conditions and the person trying to live with them—makes, and we can all learn from them.

But there is still a long way to go.

No one should feel the need to hide something they cannot control.

The reality is, many of us share the blame for the fact so many people do just that.

—Peace Arch News

http://www.burnabynewsleader.com/opinion/265299371.html

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EDITORIAL: Celebrating Canada’s birthday in 1914

By THE CHRONICLE HERALD

Published June 30, 2014 - 4:29pm

There’s been so much focus — and rightly so — this year on the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of the First World War, let’s look back a century to see how Nova Scotians celebrated their country’s birthday on July 1, 1914.

There were far fewer Bluenoses then, roughly half a million, and they knew the July 1 holiday as Dominion Day (renamed Canada Day in 1982). Nationally, Canada`s population stood at almost 7.9 million.

Nova Scotian-born prime minister Robert Borden, who grew up in Grand Pre, was visiting his home province as Canada entered its 48th year as a nation, though one that remained constitutionally subservient to Great Britain (a situation that would not change until the Statute of Westminister was passed in London’s parliament in late 1931).

Still, the editorial in the Halifax Herald that Dominion Day 100 years ago was triumphant in tone, praising Canada’s progressive history of geographical and industrial expansion since its birth in 1867.

“A great beginning has been made,” this paper said. “Confederation has been a great success; even its strongest opponents must now admit that.”

In words that sound familiar due to circumstances a century later, our editorialist in 1914 also noted that Canada had fared better than most other nations in recent years despite restricted industry and “tight money” worldwide.

“There’s every reason to believe that the Canadian people will prove equal to working out their country’s destiny to a glorious future.”

Still — and again, familiar themes emerge — a complaint that Nova Scotia’s interests had not received the same attention as other founding provinces was added to the Dominion Day editorial, although that was now changing, our paper said, thanks to Mr. Borden’s attentions.

Another similarity was in the jammed schedule of events planned in communities across the province to celebrate Canada’s birthday, including a circus in Yarmouth, tennis matches in Halifax, festivities at Camp Aldershot in the Valley and other celebrations in many towns.

Unfortunately, a chilly and overcast day — far different from the scorcher forecast for this year — put a damper on a number of July 1 events in 1914. A Dominion Day motorcycle race from Dartmouth to Windsor did go ahead, this paper noted, the winner spending four hours and 40 minutes on the road to victory.

This was almost seven years before the famed schooner Bluenose was launched in Lunenburg and more than three years before the Halifax Explosion. And another July 1 page one headline that year, mere days after the assassination of Austria-Hungary’s heir to the throne, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, ominously noted Europe now dreaded the “tinder” lying hidden in the Balkans.

One thing, thankfully, has not changed. That’s our love of country and being Canadian. Happy Canada Day to all!

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voice of the people

LAY OFF MACKAY

What I gathered from Peter MacKay’s Mothers Day Message was that he acknowledged how hard moms work. Thank you, Mr. MacKay. How did his message get so blown out of proportion?

Cathy Petley, Dar tmouth

AND

voice of the people

READER’S CORNER

No sympathy for deadbeat dad

I was reading your June 27 story, “Passport plight keeps Halifax man in cash catch-22," and was lost as to why a deadbeat dad would make the cover of a respected newspaper such as The Chronicle Herald.

Was the story meant to get sympathy for this guy? A man who has played the game and has probably ducked and dodged and done everything he could do to rob his child of his support.

I happen to be a single parent with three kids and have played this game of chase-my-tail in the court system unsuccesfully trying to get my children’s mother to pay child support.

If the man in your story wants a passport, he should find a little thing called honesty and pay his support. This guy gives up and runs to the paper because he doesn’t have any other options . . . just like his ex-wife and s on when he was enjoying his life and not paying while they suffered. He needs to find a job here and pay up. Simple.

Paying support shouldn’t be an option. After reading about Justice Minister Peter MacKay’s emails to staff, I guess I can understand why governments don’t have this on their radar. Peter MacKay has parental views from the distant past, and is part of a governing party that has ideas from the ’70s. I wonder if Mr. MacKay realizes there are men like me who do everything for their kids and have never thought about gender roles, only what’s best for our kids.

Single parents have issues with deadbeat parents, with transportation and with child care, and a man with as much experience in the political system as Mr. MacKay could help with that. He could speak about the justice system and how to make deadbeats pay, because as a lawyer, he knows the subject.

Mike Hawkins, Cooks Brook

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NOVA SCOTIA - YOUTH FOCUS ON MENTAL HEALTH - this is huge

Mental health of youth focus of program in Eskasoni

TOM AYERS CAPE BRETON BUREAU

Last Updated June 29, 2014 - 9:10pm

TOM AYERS CAPE BRETON BUREAU

tayers@herald.ca @TomAyers2262 ESKASONI — Daphne Hutt-MacLeod says a new pan-Canadian demonstration project will provide Eskasoni with the opportunity to improve mental health supports in the community.

If successful, the project could have ripple effects across the country.

Eskasoni has been selected to join 12 other sites that will receive funding for mental health s ervices targeted at teenagers and young adults ages 12 to 25, a group that Hutt-MacLeod said has been neglected in the past .

“The vast majority of mental health issues or challenges take place during the adolescent years and, unfortunately, the current system is set up to address issues for young school-aged children . . . (and) older adults," Eskasoni’s director of mental health services said Sunday.

“District health authorities have child and adolescent services as well, but it seems to be difficult for young people to get the internal fortitude to access child and adolescent services that currently exist, because they’re hospital bas ed."

She said b eing s elected as one o f the pilot project sites will help Eskasoni, and others.

“It’s a big deal. It’s pretty exciting for us because we’re the only community down east that is set aside as a site . . . east of Queb ec.”

The Access Canada Network, funded with $25 million over five years from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and the Graham Boeckh Foundation, has created the Transformational Research in Adolescent Mental Health project to improve mental health outcomes among young p eople.

The funding will flow later this year as the program ramps up, said Hutt-MacLeod. She said it is hoped Eskasoni will start to have a good idea of what it will all mean within six months to a year.

She said the project is exp ected to provide a space in the community, a clinician and support workers who will help not only thos e with mental health issu es, but also teens and young adults who need help with other life skills, such as resume writing and job hunting .

The project is unique, said Hutt-MacLeod, because each site has core elements that will be implemented, and each site has the flexibility to incorporate other components specific to their cultural group or geographic region.

It will also use scientific evaluation to determine what works and to share that with others.

Not all of the 13 sites are in First Nation communities, but Hutt-MacLeod said the funding program has a strong aboriginal fo cus.

“It’s not just about Eskasoni. This is about scaling this up for Nova Scotia and, ultimately, Canada.”

First Nation communities are not the only ones with mental health issu es, she said, but colonial trauma and residential school trauma are among the larger issues facing aboriginals, and the need is great.

“In most First Nation communities, it’s a problem. There’s not really a First Nation community that you can’t visit where almost every individual has had an exp erience with having a friend or relative or loved one or a classmate who has either attempted or committed suicide.

“Really, what we’re hoping to do is change all that.”

Hutt-MacLeod, also in charge of Eskasoni’s suicide help line, said the service has gone through a transformation over the last couple of years and will be returning to its original form next week.

The crisis line was set up several years ago to address a high rate o f suicide in Eskas oni among young people. The program grew to include all First Nation communities in Nova Scotia, but funding for that provincewide effort ran out March 31, Hutt-MacLeod said.

Meanwhile, the province has established its own crisis line for Nova Scotia, so Eskasoni has decided to restar t a line for its residents with round-the-clock service Tuesday.

http://thechronicleherald.ca/novascotia/1219299-mental-health-of-youth-focus-of-program-in-eskasoni

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NO MORE BULLYING- NO MORE- CANADA'S STEPPING UP...

TO CANADA'S CLASSIFIED... 4 EVERY KID IN THE WORLD- whether ur 2 or 102- we've all been there...

see u got that Inner Ninja going on- and don't 4get kids and elders are also ur fans- u chisel ur words in stone on our hearts and bring hope from despair 4 homeless kids and kids who have just had a shitty chance at life- thanks Canadian son... and taps out 2 David Myles who also has Canada's flag wrapped around his heart and soul- the Buddy Holly of Canada

Classified - Inner Ninja ft. David Myles

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGhyL8zg3_I

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life can be a little rough - it can make u feel like ur 3feettall... when there's no1 there 2 catch ur fall...

CLASSIFIED- 3 FOOT TALL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLqxX71s8S0

LINKS ON BULLYING AND CHILD ABUSE- (Mind Rape/Physical Torture/Sexual Assault)

FOR KIDS- TWEENS-TEENS-YOUNGBLOODS- But perhaps most of all..... each and every Canadain Adult- we must take more responsibility and be more vigilant:

To learn more about bullying and if u r being abused- check out:

www.stopcyberbullying.org

www.cyberbullying.novascotia.ca

www.prevnet.ca

www.cpha.ca/en/activities/safe-schools.aspx

http://needhelpnow.ca/app/en/ AND http://needhelpnow.ca/app/fr/

RespectED: Violence & Abuse Prevention

http://www.redcross.ca/article.asp?id=000294

www.kidshelpphone.ca

If you are a victim of bullying, call The Kids Help Phone at 1-800-668-6868.

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Homeless Youth

Published by the National Coalition for the Homeless, June 2008

This fact sheet discusses the dimensions, causes, and consequences of homelessness among youth. An overview of program and policy issues and a list of resources for further study are also provided.

DEFINITIONS AND DIMENSIONS

Homeless youth are individuals under the age of eighteen who lack parental, foster, or institutional care. These young people are sometimes referred to as "unaccompanied" youth.

The number of the homeless youth is estimated by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention in the US Department of Justice. Their most recent study, published in 2002, reported there are an estimated 1,682,900 homeless and runaway youth. This number is equally divided among males and females, and the majority of them are between the ages of 15 and 17 (Molino, 2007). According to the U.S. Conference of Mayors, unaccompanied youth account for 1% of the urban homeless population, (U.S. Conference of Mayors, 2007). According to the National Network of Runaway and Youth Services, six percent of homeless youth are gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender (GLBT) (Molino, 2007). The number of homeless teenagers who are pregnant is estimated to be somewhere between six and twenty-two percent. (Health Resources and Services Administration 2001) According to the National Alliance to End Homelessness, five to seven percent of American youths become homeless in any given year. (NAEH, 2007)

CAUSES

Causes of homelessness among youth fall into three inter-related categories: family problems, economic problems, and residential instability.

Many homeless youth leave home after years of physical and sexual abuse, strained relationships, addiction of a family member, and parental neglect. Disruptive family conditions are the principal reason that young people leave home: in one study, more than half of the youth interviewed during shelter stays reported that their parents either told them to leave or knew they were leaving and did not care (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (a), 1995). In another study, 46% of runaway and homeless youth had been physically abused and 17% were forced into unwanted sexual activity by a family or household member (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (c), 1997).

Some youth may become homeless when their families suffer financial crises resulting from lack of affordable housing, limited employment opportunities, insufficient wages, no medical insurance, or inadequate welfare benefits. These youth become homeless with their families, but are later separated from them by shelter, transitional housing, or child welfare policies (Shinn and Weitzman, 1996).

Residential instability also contributes to homelessness among youth. A history of foster care correlates with becoming homeless at an earlier age and remaining homeless for a longer period of time (Roman and Wolfe, 1995). Some youth living in residential or institutional placements become homeless upon discharge -- they are too old for foster care but are discharged with no housing or income support (Robertson, 1996). One national study reported that more than one in five youth who arrived at shelters came directly from foster care, and that more than one in four had been in foster care in the previous year (National Association of Social Workers, 1992).

CONSEQUENCES

Homeless youth face many challenges on the streets. Few homeless youth are housed in emergency shelters as a result of lack of shelter beds for youth, shelter admission policies, and a preference for greater autonomy (Robertson, 1996). Because of their age, homeless youth have few legal means by which they can earn enough money to meet basic needs. Many homeless adolescents find that exchanging sex for food, clothing, and shelter is their only chance of survival on the streets. In turn, homeless youth are at a greater risk of contracting AIDS or HIV-related illnesses. Estimates for percentages of homeless youth infected with HIV are generally around 5%, but one study in San Francisco found that 17% of homeless youths were infected (Health Resources and Services Administration 2001). It has been suggested that the rate of HIV prevalence for homeless youth may be as much as 2 to 10 times higher than the rates reported for other samples of adolescents in the United States (National Network for Youth, 1998).

Homeless adolescents often suffer from severe anxiety and depression, poor health and nutrition, and low self-esteem. In one study, the rates of major depression, conduct disorder, and post-traumatic stress syndrome were found to be 3 times as high among runaway youth as among youth who have not run away (Robertson, 1989).

Furthermore, homeless youth face difficulties attending school because of legal guardianship requirements, residency requirements, improper records, and lack of transportation. As a result, homeless youth face severe challenges in obtaining an education and supporting themselves emotionally and financially.

PROGRAM AND POLICY ISSUES

Homeless youth benefit from programs that meet immediate needs first and then help them address other aspects of their lives. Programs that minimize institutional demands and offer a range of services have had success in helping homeless youth regain stability (Robertson, 1996). Educational outreach programs, assistance in locating job training and employment, transitional living programs, and health care especially designed for and directed at homeless youth are also needed. In the long term, homeless youth would benefit from many of the same measures that are needed to fight poverty and homelessness in the adult population, including the provision of affordable housing and employment that pays a living wage. In addition to these basic supports, the child welfare system must make every effort to prevent children from ending up on the streets.

RESOURCES

Bass, Deborah. Helping Vulnerable Youths: Runaway and Homeless Adolescents in the United States, 1992. Available for $23.95 from the National Association of Social Workers, 750 First Street, NE, Suite 700, Washington DC 20002-4241; 202/408-8600.

Center for Law and Social Policy, Leave No Youth Behind: Opportunities for Congress to Reach

Disconnected Youth, 2003, pg.57.

Cwayna, Kevin. Knowing Where the Fountains Are: Stories and Stark Realities of Homeless Youth, 1993. Available for $5.00 from Fairview Press, 2450 Riverside Ave., South, Minneapolis, MN 55454; 800/544-8207.

Health Resources and Services Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Program Assistance Letter: Understanding the Health Care Needs of Homeless Youth, 2001. Available free at http://bphc.hrsa.gov/policy/pal0110.htm.

Institute for Health Policy Studies. Street Youth at Risk for AIDS. 1995. University of California, San Francisco.

Jarvis, Sara and Robert Robertson. Transitional Living Programs for Homeless Adolescents, 1993. Available for $7.00 from National Technical Assistance Center for Children's Mental Health, Georgetown University Child Development Center, 3307 M St., NW, Suite 401, Washington, DC 20007-8803; 202/687-8635.

Molino, A.C. Characteristics of Help-Seeking Street Youth and Non-Street Youth. (2007). National Symposium on Homelessness Research.

National Network for Youth. Toolkit for Youth Workers: Fact Sheet. Runaway and Homeless Youth. 1998. Available from the National Network for Youth, 1319 F St., Suite 401, Washington, DC 20004; 202/783-7949.

Pires, Sheila A. and Judith Tolmach Silber. On Their Own: Runaway and Homeless Youth and the Programs That Serve Them, 1991. Available for $7.00 from the National Technical Assistance Center for Children's Mental Health, Georgetown University Child Development Center, 3307 M St., NW, Suite 401, Washington, DC 20007-8803; 202/687 8635.

Robertson, Marjorie. Homeless Youth on Their Own, 1996. Alcohol Research Group, 2000 Hearst Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94709; 510-642-5208. Available from author.

Robertson, Marjorie. Homeless Youth in Hollywood: Patterns of Alcohol Use, 1989. Alcohol Research Group, 2000 Hearst Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94709; 510-642-5208. Available from author.

Roman, Nan P. and Phyllis B. Wolfe. Web of Failure: The Relationship Between Foster Care and Homelessness, 1995. Available for $8.00 from the National Alliance to End Homelessness, 1518 K St., NW, Suite 206, Washington, DC 20005-1203; 202/638-1526.

Shinn, Marybeth and Beth Weitzman. "Homeless Families Are Different," in Homelessness in America, 1996. Available for $43.50 from the National Coalition for the Homeless, 1012 14th Street, NW, Suite 600, Washington, DC 20005; 202/737-6444, email: info@nationalhomeless.org.

U.S. Conference of Mayors. A Status Report on Hunger and Homelessness in America's Cities: 2007. Available for $15.00 from the U.S. Conference of Mayors, 1620 Eye St., NW, 4th Floor, Washington, DC, 20006-4005, 202/293-7330.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services(a). Youth with Runaway, Throwaway, and Homeless Experiences... Prevalence Drug Use, and Other At-Risk Behaviors, 1995. Volume I (the Final Report, including the executive summary) is available for $48.15; the Executive Summary alone is available for $3.15. Order from the National Clearinghouse on Families & Youth, P. O. Box 13505, Silver Spring, MD 20911-3505; 301-608-8098.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services(b). Report to the Congress on the Runaway and Homeless Youth Program of the Family and Youth Services Bureau for Fiscal Year 1995, 1996. Available for $3.15 from the National Clearinghouse on Families & Youth, P. O. Box 13505, Silver Spring, MD 20911-3505; 301-608-8098.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (c). National Evaluation of Runaway and Homeless Youth, 1997. Available from the National Clearinghouse on Families & Youth, P. O. Box 13505, Silver Spring, MD 20911-3505; 301-608-8098.

Zangrillo, Patricia and Monique Mercer. Housing and Foster Care: Results of a National Survey, 1995. Available for $10.00 from the American Public Welfare Association, 810 First St., NE, Suite 500, Washington, DC 20002-4205; 202/682-0100.

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National Clearinghouse on Families & Youth, P. O. Box 13505, Silver Spring, MD 20911 3505; 301-608-8098.

National Network for Youth, 1319 F St., Suite 401, Washington, DC 20004; 202/783-7949.

National Coalition for the Homeless

2201 P Street NW

Washington, DC 20037-1033

202-462-4822

info@nationalhomeless.org

Page last modified: February 21, 2012

http://www.nationalhomeless.org/factsheets/youth.html

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TAKING A STAND FOR ABUSED KIDS....

Billy Currington's life... and his country music debut "Walk A little Straighter Daddy..... says more about it all... and touched children and youngbloods from ANON etc. than any song or video... it's the truth music... raw... real and righteous... and billy currington nails it.... with a song... he started writing this song that stole our hearts.... and broke them... at 12 years of age...

Boy have I been there.... on both sides of the table.... this simple stunning song and that 'voice'... and that billy currington with the southern soul that only can be born to you.... Georgia's backwoods country boy.... told it like it is.... for all the youngbloods.... who know real and raw... and the truth song.... Billy Currington will always have tarnished angels like him.... for fans..... because we walked.... his talk.... and lived to tell the tale.... (how many of us tarnished angels have lived this life.... the drinking... the violence... and the tip toe around freaked out adults who are supposed to lead us)..... TEARS AND PRAYERS BABY... TEARS AND PRAYERS...

Billy Currington- WALK A LITTLE STRAIGHTER DADDY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1no7Or9BeI

CLASSIFIED TEACHES US ALL A LESSON WITH THIS INCREDIBLE SONG..... OF THE FACT.... THAT LIFE WORKS .... IF U WORK IT.... and life can get better ...if you empower yourself to do so. Canada's buddy holly voice wrapped in Canada's flag accompanies.... moving video (cried- seen it...and lived it)....

Classified - The Day Doesn't Die

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZH3VXyIWL8

For each an every youngblood.... please know millions and millions of us love and support you.... you are NOT throwaway toys or trashdrops.... each and every one of you is a treasure as individual and as beautiful as a raindrop with the sun sparkling on it so beautifuly it takes our breath away...... each and every one of you are 'would be' artists, musicians, poets, scientists, inventors, spiritual guiders, history and keepers of the written word... so many things... all things... and we love you... admire you.... please don't give up on us.... we need you terribly. Thank you Jimmy Wayne.... and all your friends along the way..... lonliness and hoplessness and despair knows no race, colour, creed or orientiation... it's just a soul stealer..... let's take back our world ... and our beautiful youngbloods.... each and every one...

IT'S NOT WHERE YOU'VE BEEN- IT'S WHERE YOU'RE GOING

Jimmy Wayne.mov (Please help homeless kids and youngbloods- USA 1.7 Million (much higher/Canada hundreds of thousands and so on)

Knixcountry.com Supports Jimmy Wayne

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0mOjYAllQo

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Suffer the little children

Youngsters who've endured abuse or neglect need time, treatment and lots of love to overcome trauma

Features writer Lois Legge

investigates the struggles and ongoing challenges facing children traumatized by abuse or neglect

T HEIR LITTLE heads tenderly touch. And sweet smiles shine through the cherished family photo.

Two boys, 4 1/ 2 and 5, in dress shirts and ties - seemingly happy, perfectly safe.

But not long ago, one of them didn't smile at all - so noticeably that people always asked his adoptive parents why.

He screamed, inconsolably, through the night.

He banged his head against walls.

He ripped out his own hair.

He was afraid of any kind of change.

His younger brother, "a blank slate," didn't return kisses or hugs.

"Didn't understand affection."

"Didn't," says his adoptive mother, Marsha Robinson-Bourque, "feel joy."

These kinds of extreme behaviours or abnormal affectations aren't uncommon among children traumatized by abuse or neglect.

In fact, beatings and instability and the kind of neglect that leaves children unfed or unclothed or unloved does something to their developing brains. It actually stops the reasoning part of the organ from fully developing, stops normal responses from happening.

"Danger brain," the emotional brain, takes over. And finding success with traditional methods of parenting becomes as elusive as lost memory or recaptured youth.

Robinson-Bourque and her husband, Mark Bourque, learned this only after long, "heartbreaking" nights trying to calm their oldest son from unknown terrors - when he was "just absolutely screaming," she recalls, "like he was not even there."

Or, countless days trying to help both boys - whom they fostered, then adopted - feel some semblance of safe.

They struggled, feeling confused and helpless, until finally finding a parenting program at the IWK Health Centre that they say has transformed their lives.

The Bourques can't reveal - for reasons of safety and confidentiality - exactly what their children endured.

They know some of it. But not all - "probably . . . a small portion of it," says Mark Bourque.

But "both of our boys were quite traumatized," his wife says. Local psychologist Kristen McLeod leads the IWK parenting sessions, specifically for people who've fostered or adopted children removed from their biological parents and placed into protective provincial care.

She's also counselled children who've been beaten or witnessed domestic abuse or been so neglected they've lived in rooms with feces on the walls.

Situations faced by other kids - before they were placed "in the system" - are like a sad litany of desperation and despair: five-year-olds regularly changing their younger siblings' diapers, toddlers locked in rooms while their parents go out partying for the night.

"It's a gamut of suffering," says McLeod, who works exclusively with children who are, or have been, in the child welfare system.

"And there's not a lot of kids in permanent care and custody that haven't had their fair share" of it. So much so that even when they're finally safe, these kids still live in fear - see danger in strangers' smiles, threats even in praise.

"If you have a child who's potentially been abused, somebody could be smiling and hitting them at the same time," says Robinson- Bourque.

"Their poor little brains don't understand emotions like they should. It's a learned thing. They weren't taught what happy felt like. They weren't taught what sad felt like. So when they act out, even when you try to say to them 'Are you sad?' they don't know what that means."

Before they could help their "beautiful little boys," who aren't biologically related, the Bourques had to understand what their behaviour meant.

Why did their youngest screech at the top of his lungs if adults looked him in the face?

Why did their oldest rock back and forth and make strange noises, like "un, un, un, un?"

Why did he have public tantrums so loud that, as RobinsonBourque recalls, "everyone in the building knew we were there."

"What the research is increasingly showing is that the trauma/ neglect . . . alters the way their brain develops," explains McLeod, who works at the IWK Child Welfare Mental Health Clinic in Lower Sackville.

"So their emotional regulation skills are poor - everything from having trouble sitting . . . to having trouble managing their frustrations. So if another child gets frustrated, they might know to go to an adult and seek support. Our kids are more likely to act out aggressively, for example, to hit another child.

"They're acting up a lot in school, they're having difficulty being able to stay in the regular classroom setting, they're getting into fights at recess, they might be into harmful behaviours if they're teens, so we see more drug and alcohol use and school suspensions . . . and we also see sensory concerns, kids who struggle to manage loud rooms and really the gamut.

"Kids have general difficulties managing arousals of any kind."

They also face extreme stress, she says. The so-called "fight or flight" button is always on, always on high alert.

"They don't trust other people."

So McLeod tries to teach their adoptive or foster parents how to build that trust and how to trust themselves enough to help the children heal.

Discipline, or at least the traditional forms like timeouts and grounding or removing privileges, isn't as important for these parents as soothing their children and making them feel safe.

"We kind of tried the traditional raising of kids and when it doesn't work, you're kind of like 'OK, I don't know what to do from here,' " says Mark Bourque.

"So it was more of teaching us new strategies, new things to try that were . . . not what you would intuitively do."

Many of these children, even the older children, are actually much younger developmentally than they are chronologically, McLeod says.

They haven't learned to "selfsoothe," to calm themselves in everyday upsets.

So, in some ways, they're more like toddlers than their actual five- or six- or even 16-year-old selves.

McLeod's classes teach parents or caregivers how to react accordingly - how to, most importantly, stay calm in the face of tantrums and turmoil, and "not to take it personally."

Just recently, Robinson-Bourque found herself soothing her oldest boy after a particularly trying couple of weeks taking him to and from daycare - a tumultuous transition after he'd been home for a long Christmas break; a high-alert situation for a child who sees danger in change. "Dropping him off in the morning was a nightmare," she recalls.

"Picking him up could take 45 minutes. He would just absolutely lose it. He would try to break the window out of the car, he would try to undo his seatbelt, it was taking us an extra hour to get home.

"There was a trigger. He was home for an extended period for vacation, then he had to transition back to daycare, which is a change. He doesn't do well with change, it kind of takes him back to that (feeling of) life is unpredictable.

" 'Why is it different? I was home, now why do I have to go back?' "So when we got home, I sat with him on the couch. . . . I held him almost like you'd hold a baby and we wrapped him in a blanket and we rocked and we talked and we comforted and we hugged and cuddled and let him calm down and feel safe.

"So as much as you're angry because it took an extra hour to get home from work and you are just trying to struggle with understanding why is he doing this, we understand from the program why he acts out, why it's extreme. We don't take it personally."

And while such outbursts still occur, temper tantrums are far fewer in malls and cars and the Halifax-area home that used to be so full of chaos.

A lot of the sadness has faded away too.

The couple's youngest, the one who used to be "like a blank slate," who "didn't feel joy," now "comes running - open arms, gives you big hugs and kisses and goes 'Love you, mommy!' " his mom says.

And the oldest finally smiles.

(For more information, contact kristen.mcleod@iwk.nshealth.ca.) (llegge@herald.ca)

'What the research is increasingly showing is that the trauma/neglect . . .

alters the way their brain develops. So their emotional regulation skills are poor - everything from having trouble sitting . . . to having trouble managing their frustrations. So if another child gets frustrated, they might know to go to an adult and seek support. Our kids are more likely to act out aggressively, for example, to hit another child.' KRISTEN McLEOD

IWK psychologist

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Actually it nails it.... back then this would have been huge!

CREEPY CHILD ABUSE tv Commercial 1975

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XL2-YFE6ww

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f**king paedophile.... God made a special deal with the devil.... 4 these evil chlld sould stealers...

Rolf Harris found guilty of sex assaults

LONDON - Rolf Harris, a mainstay of family entertainment in Britain and Australia for more than 50 years, was found guilty on Monday on 12 charges of indecently assaulting young girls over two decades.

Harris, 84, was unanimously convicted by a jury of six men and six women of sexually assaulting four girls, some as young as seven or eight, between 1968 and 1986.

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2014/06/30/21775276.html

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· SESAME STREET'S Elmo accused of child sex abuse... - Stormfront

www.stormfront.org/forum/t924953 Cached

... Voice of Sesame Street's Elmo accused of having 'sexual relationship ... leading Orthodox authority on child sex abuse, himself charged with child sex ...

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· Savile abuse report 'distressing' - MSN

news.uk.msn.com/savile-abuse-report-distressing-1 Cached

... the most vulnerable people in society and this evil man was ... Entertaining kids is child's play for ... Jimmy Savile abuse claims reach 500, including child ...

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· Maple Leaf Gardens sex abuser pleads guilty to 100 more charges

www.canada.com/news/centre+Maple+Leaf+Gardens+abuse...

The Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto is ... yet to find grounds to charge him again, Goldkind said. The Maple Leaf Gardens sex abuse ... help for accused ...

Martin Kruze committed suicide at the less than 2 years 4 the horrific PAEDOPHILE ABUSE of him and so many boys- "I was a Paedophile's dream".

and,....

I WAS A PAEDOPHILE'S DREAM

Martin Harold Kruze who told the story of his horrendous abuse at Maple Leaf Gardens- COMMITED SUICIDE- at tender 23 yrs of age- AT THE LITTLE BIT OF JAIL TIME THE PAEDOPHILE MONSTERS GOT.... Dr. Michael Irving built the ONLY.....Children's Abused Surviivors Healing Monument- which is in Toronto, Ontario- Canada

http://www.irvingstudios.com/child_abuse_survivor_monument/Martin_Kruze.htm

Martin Kruze- I was a Paedophile's Dream- young hockey player- 3 days after PAEDOPHILE'S 2 YEAR VERDICT- young hockey play Martin Kruze was so distraught = he commited suicide

Martin Kruze on Reaching Out Child Abuse Monument- TORONTO, CANADA

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

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Former Bloc leader says Canada is 'a great country'

Brian Daly, QMI Agency

Jun 30, 2014, Last Updated: 3:05 PM ET

MONTREAL — Canada got a ringing endorsement Monday from the unlikeliest of people — lifelong separatist and former Bloc Quebecois leader Gilles Duceppe.

In a column in Le Journal de Montreal, a QMI Agency newspaper, Duceppe extolled the virtues of the country he tried to break up during his 21 years in politics.

He blasted federal politics in general and Stephen Harper's Conservatives in particular, but Duceppe said Canada Day gives him positive vibes.

"I understand why Canadians celebrate the 1st of July, since Canada is a great country," he wrote. "I always said that we should not push for sovereignty against Canada, but for Quebec."

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2014/06/30/21775906.html

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Our beloved Israel... this just breaks our hearts..... ONE TINY COUNTRY/STATE ON THIS WHOLE PLANET- ISRAEL (Mere population 8 million people) ...... surrounded by 1.7 Billion Mislims...... N TERROR GROUPS HAMAS AND HEZBOLLAH.... MUST BE STOPPED BY UNITED NATIONS.... SERIOUSLY...

‘We are burying a child today’: Tens of thousands of Israelis gather to bury and mourn three slain teens

http://news.nationalpost.com/2014/07/01/we-are-burying-a-child-today-tens-of-thousands-of-israelis-gather-to-bury-and-mourn-three-slain-teens/

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#TECHNOLOGY: THESE BRICKS ARE LIKE #LEGO FOR FULL-SIZED BUILDINGS

http://shoutout2day.com/2014/07/01/technology-these-bricks-are-like-lego-for-full-sized-buildings/

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Obama Worst President Since World War II, More Say US Would Be Better Under Romney, Latest Poll Finds

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 07/02/2014 - 07:58

The president is increasingly finding that telling the Mr. Chairmanwoman to rig the market to all time highs does not translate to a comparable popularity rating. In fact, just the opposite. While Obama's slide in the polls is nothing new, the latest data from the Quinnipiac University Poll is about as bad as it gets for the president: in fact, perhaps the only thing more shocking than Obama "surpassing" George W. Bush as the worst president since World War II is the onset of revisionism, with some 45% saying the US would have been better with Romney as president, compared to just 38% who say Obama remains the better choice. Which incidentally confirms what we reported yesterday: while the Republican view of Obama has certainly never been lower, what is worse is that even the core democrat faithful are now giving up on the hope and change bringer, confirmed by the latest Gallup poll which saw democrat confidence in the economy tumbling to the lowest level for 2014.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-07-02/obama-worst-president-world-war-ii-more-say-us-would-be-better-under-romney-latest-p

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CANADA: True Patriot Love Foundation launches Highway of Heroes concert tour

Wednesday, July 2, 2014

REAL WAR IN UKRAINE

YOU MUST KNOW THE TRUTH! DON'T BELIVE YOUR TV! Here only truth about civil war in Ukraine!

The German magazine “SPIEGEL” surrendered military instructors of the USA in Ukraine!

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