ANALYSIS

ANALYSIS

News and commentaries that reveal historical facts and trends that place current events into perspective and make it possible to anticipate future events.

A team of Oregon State University experts found that blue-green algae contains a compound, called coibamide A, that cuts off the ability of cancer cells to communicate with blood vessels, causing cancer to die. It is effective against two of the most aggressive forms of the disease: brain tumors and triple-negative breast cancer. [It is fascinating to read how researchers, having found something in nature that works against cancer, immediately set out, not to grow the algae and mass-produce it, but to find out how it works so they can create a synthetic version in the laboratory. That’s because anything in nature cannot be patented, which means low profit. Synthetics, on the other hand, are patentable and can become the source of fantastic profit margins. That’s why nothing from nature, no matter how effective it is, will ever be approved by the pharmaceutical industry for cancer therapy. All of that becomes painfully obvious in this article.] DailyMail posted 2016 Apr 21 (Story) (Cached)

A Gulf War veteran had his children taken away by the State of Kansas over his use of marijuana as a medical treatment for PTSD symptoms (sometimes called battlefield stress). The bigger story is that Child Protective Services and the profit-driven industry that it funds kidnaps children from families and adopts them out for profit. Armies of lawyers, social workers, psychologists, therapists, judges, and local governments depend on the system for funding. Bonus payments are made to states when adoptions increase, and bonuses range form $5,000 to $10,000 per child adopted. InfoWars 2016 Apr 19 (Story)

US: Last week, the Federal Reserve scheduled an unprecedented number of secret meetings, including an emergency meeting with Obama. Bank insolvency has surfaced once again, this time because of over-extended credit to oil companies. As many as 60% of the loans to these companies are about to go into default – as a result of depressed global oil prices. The author of this analysis believes there is little that the banks and the government can do now to prevent a total collapse of the system. He may be right, but we should not forget that depressed oil prices appear to be motivated, not by free-market competition, but by political intervention from Washington as an economic weapon against Russia and her allies. The outcome of these secret meetings, therefore, possibly could involve an end to low oil prices. Even that, however, will not solve the problem of bank insolvency – which, literally, is not solvable without tax subsidies – or allowing the corrupt banks to fail. Therefore, there is little doubt that the near future of the US will see bank bail-ins, negative interest rates, and an end to large-denomination US currency, all which will force Americans to keep their monetary wealth in bank accounts where they can be legally and easily plundered by banks to keep them in operation. Wealth Watchman posted 2016 Apr 17 (Story) (Cached)

Here is Ron Paul’s analysis of the recent flurry of secret meetings between Obama and the Federal Reserve banking cartel. Paul concludes that Congress must cut spending, and the Fed must be audited and then abolished. Ron Paul Institute 2016 Apr 17 (Story) (Cached)

The Federal Reserve and FDIC issued a 19-page letter to Jamie Dimon, the CEO of JP Morgan Chase, claiming that the bank’s lack of a credible plan for winding down if the bank should fail poses a threat to ‘the financial stability of the United States’. Morgan Chase is the country’s largest bank and has $2 trillion in assets. Large as that may seem, it is frail support for its $51 trillion in derivatives. (Derivatives are bets on the future value of something else. They have no intrinsic value of their own.) That means a slump of only four percent in the market value of derivatives would cause Morgan to be bankrupt. [Keep in mind, however, that a ‘credible plan to unwind’ in the event of failure could include such mechanisms as negative interest rates, bail-outs, bail-ins, and other manifestations of legalized plunder. Don’t think for a second that the Federal Reserve is the White Hat in this story. It is merely insisting that all banks get their plans in place for the next big move.] Wall Street On Parade posted 2016 Apr 16 (Story) (Cached)