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‘All Pain, No Gain’: The Irish Backlash to Europe’s Austerity Plans | Common Dreams

Published on Sunday, May 27, 2012 by Common Dreams

‘All Pain, No Gain’: The Irish Backlash to Europe’s Austerity Plans

And In One Small Irish Town, Loophole Allows for Return to Pre-Euro Currency

- Common Dreams staff

In the small town of Clones, near the Northern Ireland border, an unique experiment is underway that uses a little known loophole to help a local economy ease the pain from a ravaged national economy.

A political sign in Dublin depicting German leader Angela Merkel and calling for a “no” vote to Eu-driven austerity policies. (Photo: Crispin Rodwell) The loophole, explains The Guardian‘s Henry McDonald, “deems that up to 285m punts [the older Irish currency] stuffed under Irish mattresses, inside piggy banks, salted away as souvenirs in shoeboxes or in latent bank accounts, are still legal currency.”

“Holders of the old currency are invited to visit Clones and hand over their punts in exchange for blue and yellow laminated vouchers which are then usable at any of the 45 businesses that have signed up for the scheme.” Continue reading →

Memo from Laura – I am Fine and Home, my Email Account Was Hacked

Good morning,

I have received a phone call this morning from a dear friend who was worried for me. It transpired from our phone conversation that someone had hacked into my email account pretending I was in Spain and in need of money. They have also deleted my contact lists of various people posting my channelled messages and translations, along with all my list of sent emails for the past year, so that I am unbale to trace back email addresses.

Just wanted to reassure everybody who the email was sent to, and I have no idea of how many people and who the email was sent to, I am home and all is well. Please do not send any money for me :) .

Very sorry for this, this is a known prank with channelers I am afraid :( . I have now changed my password, so I hope this will stop any further pranks or rather attacks…

Love and light to all, Laura

Buckle Up for June – by James Gilland | 2012: What’s the ‘real’ truth?

Thanks to Jean Haines -  Laura

Posted on May 25, 2012

It has been an interesting May with the Solar Eclipse and the alignment with the Pleiades, Alcyon. Several CMEs – coronal mass ejections – have also shifted the energies. We are seeing another major time compression where days seem like hours, weeks like days and months like weeks. Many are reporting contacts with Angelic realms, Ascended Masters, spiritually and technologically advanced off worlders, our ancient ancestors, as well as some of what was thought to be mythical Gods of old. In meditations people are seeing visions of Poseidon, now Prometheus, Egyptian Gods in what seems to be a great reunion. Prometheus the God of fire might just be warning us about the upcoming Solar Flares just as Poseidon warned us about the tsunamis in the past. Continue reading →

Lloyd’s of London preparing for euro collapse – Telegraph

The chief executive of the multi-billion pound Lloyd’s of London has publicly admitted that the world’s leading insurance market is prepared for a collapse in the single currency and has reduced its exposure “as much as possible” to the crisis-ridden continent.

Lloyd's of London preparing for euro collapse

Richard Ward said Lloyd’s of London could have to take writedowns on its £58.9bn investment portfolio if the eurozone collapses.

2:50PM BST 27 May 2012

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Richard Ward said the London market had put in place a contingency plan to switch euro underwriting to multi-currency settlement if Greece abandoned the euro.

In an interview with The Sunday Telegraph he also revealed that Lloyd’s could have to take writedowns on its £58.9bn investment portfolio if the eurozone collapses.

Europe accounts for 18pc of Lloyd’s £23.5bn of gross written premiums, mostly in France, Germany, Spain and Italy. The market also has a fledgling operation in Poland. Continue reading →

A Meditation Event to Support Bill Brockbrader and Whistleblowers Everywhere – Sunday, May 27, 2012 | Activist Awake

Note from laura: Thanks to Pat for sending this. Also if you wish to support Bill, he asks us to write him a letter of support, in order to show how much support he receives to his lawyer. Here is the address: To help Bill with a letter please post to

William Brockbrader 1046233 CO ADA County Jail, 7210 Barrister Drive, Boise, Idaho 83704.

Posted on May 27, 2012 by

We invite you to participate in a mass meditation event, scheduled for Sunday May 27 at 10:30 AM Pacific / 1:30 PM Eastern.

With this meditation event, we are inviting lightworkers and justice seekers to shield and protect a very courageous man, former Navy Seal and whistleblower, Bill Brockbrader.

This meditation will be led by Bill Brockbrader (now in custody), on the phone with Eva Moore and Frank Jordon. It will be broadcast on Wolf Spirit radio.

Here is the website where you can join in: http://www.wolfspiritradio.com/main/listenchat/ (See times below.)

A little background

Bill has been unfairly and unjustly charged and re-arrested on a case that was basically dismissed in 1998. The reasons for this are obvious, as Bill is still trying to fight the good fight by making the public aware of the crimes still being perpetrated by the Military Industrial Complex. It appears that they are now trying to do to Bill, what the government did to another very courageous whistleblower . . . Private Bradley Manning. Continue reading →

Money laundering probe puts spotlight on the £15 million sale of the Duke of York’s home – Telegraph

Thanks to Steve – Laura

The deal which saw Prince Andrew’s marital home sold for £3 million more than its asking price is being examined by two international money-laundering investigations.

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Sunninghill Park in Surrey Photo: REX

By , Investigations Editor

10:00PM BST 26 May 2012

Prosecutors in Italy and Switzerland are looking into how the purchase of the Sunninghill estate was put together by a group of oil executives.

The inquiries are focusing on “a network of personal and business relationships” allegedly used for “international corruption”.

Under the spotlight is what was decided when a group of wealthy Kazakh oil executives and Prince Andrew’s close friend Goga Ashkenazi met at a Thai beach resort, when the deal to buy the Prince’s home was discussed.

The sale of the Sunninghill estate, a wedding gift from the Queen to the Prince and his then wife, the Duchess of York, has already raised concerns after it was disclosed the buyer was an offshore trust belonging to Timur Kulibayev. Continue reading →

REVEALED: Hundreds of words to avoid using online if you don’t want the government spying on you | Mail Online

Thanks to Ana C. – Laura

  • Department of Homeland Security forced to release list following freedom of information request
  • Agency insists it only looks for evidence of genuine threats to the U.S. and not for signs of general dissent

By Daniel Miller

PUBLISHED: 09:32 GMT, 26 May 2012 | UPDATED: 17:46 GMT, 26 May 201

Revealing: A list of keywords used by government analysts to scour the internet for evidence of threats to the U.S. has been released under the Freedom of Information Act

Revealing: A list of keywords used by government analysts to scour the internet for evidence of threats to the U.S. has been released under the Freedom of Information Act

The Department of Homeland Security has been forced to release a list of keywords and phrases it uses to monitor social networking sites and online media for signs of terrorist or other threats against the U.S.

The intriguing the list includes obvious choices such as ‘attack’, ‘Al Qaeda’, ‘terrorism’ and ‘dirty bomb’ alongside dozens of seemingly innocent words like ‘pork’, ‘cloud’, ‘team’ and ‘Mexico’. Continue reading →

Chief exorcist says Devil is in Vatican – Telegraph

Thanks to Terry A. – Laura

The Devil is lurking in the very heart of the Roman Catholic Church, the Vatican’s chief exorcist claimed on Wednesday.

Chief exorcist says Devil is in Vatican

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St. Peter’s Square in the Vatican Photo: REUTERS

By Nick Squires in Rome

6:30AM GMT 11 Mar 2010

Father Gabriele Amorth said people who are possessed by Satan vomit shards of glass and pieces of iron.

He added that the assault on Pope Benedict XVI on Christmas Eve by a mentally unstable woman and the sex abuse scandals which have engulfed the Church in the US, Ireland, Germany and other countries, were proof that the Anti-Christ was waging a war against the Holy See. Continue reading →

Pope Benedict’s butler Paolo Gabriele arrested by Vatican police on suspicion of leaking internal documents | Mail Online

  • Thank to Steve – Laura
  • Documents also show how contracts were awarded to favoured people
  • Paolo Gabriele has been at the Pope’s side for six years
  • Furious Pope appointed senior cardinals to investigate the leaks

By Nick Pisa

PUBLISHED: 18:31 GMT, 25 May 2012 | UPDATED: 03:52 GMT, 26 May 2012

Vatican police have arrested Pope Benedict XVI’s personal butler following an investigation into the leaking of sensitive church documents, it emerged today.

In a scenes worthy of a Dan Brown thriller, the butler identified as Paolo Gabriele, 46, was held by gendarmes after a special commission of three top senior cardinals had been appointed by a furious Pope Benedict to identify the source of the leaks which have caused severe embarrassment.

Gabriele, who has been at the Pope’s side for six years, is one of the German born pontiff’s closest members of his inner circle which totals just four lay people and four nuns and he is always at his side – he is so close that he and the nuns who look after him are described as the ‘pontiff’s family’.

The Pope's butler, Paolo Gabriele (bottom L) has been at the Pope's (right) side for six years. He has been arrested on suspicion of leaking internal documents

The Pope’s butler, Paolo Gabriele (bottom L) has been at the Pope’s (right) side for six years. He has been arrested on suspicion of leaking internal documents

It is believed that Gabriele, who is known by the nickname Paoletto (little Paul) was held as he arrived for work at the Papal apartments in the Apostolic Palace behind St Peter’s and tonight he was being held in custody – the first time in years the Vatican jail had been used.

Vatican spokesman Father Federico Lombardi said a man had been detained with ‘documents in his possession’ adding that he was not supposed to have them and he went on to describe him as ‘a lay person and not a member of the clergy’. Continue reading →

Egyptian election results present ‘nightmare scenario’ | World news | guardian.co.uk

Fears of weeks of tension as results point to a run-off between the Muslim Brotherhood candidate and a former general

Mohammed Morsy and Ahmed Shafik

Egyptian election results point to a run-off between Mohammed Morsi and Ahmed Shafik. Photograph: EPA

Egypt looks set for weeks of tension and uncertainty after the first round of its landmark presidential election produced a runoff between the candidate backed by the powerful Muslim Brotherhood and a former general who is seen as a hangover from the regime of the deposed Hosni Mubarak.

In what many described as a “nightmare scenario” that will mean a polarised and possibly violent second round, Mohammed Morsi of the Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party polled around 26% in the two-day first round. Ahmed Shafiq, Mubarak’s last prime minister, came second with 23% when 90% of the votes had been counted. Continue reading →

Motherships in the Mother City – Back Page | IOL News | IOL.co.za

Thanks to Steffie – Laura

SA Time: Friday, 25 May 2012 8:41:14 PM

May 25 2012 at 01:24pm

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The truth is out there – and it could be closer than you think.

Cape Town residents have been experiencing close encounters of a spooky kind in recent weeks.

Hundreds of UFO spotters have reported fresh sightings just off the coast of the Mother City.

And others have reported sightings of “ascending orbits” – better known as angels – directly over the Cape Flats.

One 34-year-old UFO expert who calls himself Jack Bauer, says our night-time skies have become a hotspot for “alien fly-bys”.

Jack, who is originally from Mitchell’s Plain, regularly visits local beaches such as Kommetjie and Muizenberg to view this “phenomenon”. Continue reading →

Four in 10 young women sexually harassed in public spaces, survey finds | Life and style | guardian.co.uk

Woman waiting for train

The poll found 31% of women aged 18-24 had experienced unwanted sexual attention on public transport. Photograph: Alamy

Sexual harassment is a persistent and dangerous problem on Britain’s streets, women’s charities have warned, as a poll reveals that more than four in 10 young women were sexually harassed in the capital over the last year.

A YouGov survey of 1,047 Londoners commissioned by End Violence Against Women Coalition (Evaw) found that 43% of women aged between 18 and 34 had experienced sexual harassment in public spaces in the last year.

Despite a growing intolerance of unwanted sexual attention, harassment was still very common and made women feel unsafe particularly when travelling alone, said Holly Dustin, director of Evaw. Continue reading →

Healing Unseen Negative Forces~Eceti News by James Gilliland « The World is Changing

Many have asked for this healing technique during these amazing shifts of energy where the veils between worlds get thinner and thinner. Practice and do them until you feel clear. If you dont like what you are feeling, do a healing.

Healing is a must for all those who desire to op

erate in other realms of consciousness. You must have self – authority and maintain control.If you are experiencing negative vibrations, they are either thought forms, limiting mental concepts,psychic bonds or discarnate entities(lost souls) in need of healing. They are bound to the earth vibration due to lower vibrational attitudes and emotions. Some are coercive and desire to manipulate or control.Love heals. Casting out only sends them to another place, another personal . IN all healings, remember that god is love. It is the power of love that heals and lifts., We will give you the following steps to clear the energy. Continue reading →

Portal 2012 – Reboot of the Grid Successful

Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Reboot of the Grid Successful

 

Our mass effort was a great success. The critical mass has been achieved. Although not everybody was doing the exact meditation that was given, enough people were synchronizing their consciousness stream to allow the Light forces to put a computer virus into the artificial intelligence Matrix program on the etheric and astral planes. 

 

 

This means that fuzzy logic program of the Matrix is now being busy within a closed loop, unable to repair itself and fill the cracks of clear space/time structure in the distorted etheric/astral Matrix electromagnetic field. Those cracks were created with our conscious effort on May 20th. They will never be closed again and Light will always shine through.

 

 

The Matrix will now slowly start disintegrating. There will be less and less dark entities on the etheric and astral planes and Light will shine through more and more. 

 

The positive etheric leyline grid around the planet has been reactivated at the Reboot. This has prevented some quite strong earthquakes that would happen otherwise. It has also allowed an acceleration of the transformation process for this planet to reach a higher vibrational frequency.

 

 

The exact moment of the Reboot has initialized a timeline of events that will ultimately lead towards Disclosure and First Contact.

Portal 2012.

BBC News – Facebook and banks behind flotation face lawsuit

23 May 2012 Last updated at 21:37 GMT

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Facebook, its founder Mark Zuckerberg and the banks leading its flotation are being sued by disgruntled shareholders.

A writ, filed in a Manhattan court, alleges that Facebook’s revised growth figures were not disclosed to all investors.

US financial regulators have already said Morgan Stanley may have questions to answer over the disclosure of information ahead of Friday’s float.

The lead underwriter to Facebook said it had fully complied with the rules.

The lawsuit claims that defendants concealed from investors during the flotation marketing process “a severe and pronounced Continue reading →

Secret service director Mark Sullivan tries to calm concerns over sex scandal | World news | guardian.co.uk

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Secret service director Mark Sullivan is popular on Capitol Hill. Photograph: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

The head of the US secret service went before Congress on Wednesday in an attempt to play down the Cartagena sex scandal, but his testimony appeared not to convince sceptical senators.

Mark Sullivan apologised for the Colombia incident at the homeland security committee hearings and said it was “not representative” of the service as a whole. Continue reading →

Fair play? UK to ban leaders accused of human rights abuse from Olympics — RT

Published: 23 May, 2012, 21:49

Reuters / Mathieu Belanger

Reuters / Mathieu Belanger

TAGS: Conflict, UK, Politics, Human rights, London2012, Katerina Azarova

The seemingly noble move is tainted by the fact the very people accused of rights violations in their home countries – like the King of Bahrain, for example – were warmly welcomed by the Queen just last week, at her Diamond Jubilee lunch.

Foreign Office Minister Jeremy Browne told MPs that leaders linked to such crimes will not be allowed into Britain to attend the summer Olympic Games.

“Where there is independent, reliable and credible evidence that an individual has committed human rights abuses, the individual will not normally be permitted to enter the UK,” Browne said. Continue reading →

‘Biggest Act of Civil Disobedience in Canadian History’ | Common Dreams

Published on Wednesday, May 23, 2012 by Common Dreams

‘Biggest Act of Civil Disobedience in Canadian History’

Marchers defy Bill 78; Neighborhoods fill with sound of banging pots and pans

- Common Dreams staff

“The single biggest act of civil disobedience in Canadian history.”

That’s how yesterday’s Montreal protest is being described today. Hundreds of thousands red-shirted demonstrators defied Quebec’s new “anti-protest” law and marched through the streets of downtown Montreal filling the city with “rivers of red.”

Tuesday marked the 100th day of the growing student protests against austerity measures and tuition increases. In response to the spreading protests, the conservative Charest government passed a new “emergency” law last Friday – Bill 78. Continue reading →