The recent decline in commodity prices has pushed some of the major global trading firms towards the brink of default, including the Swiss based giant Glencore*, whose stock has fallen over 50% this year. If their bonds collapse, the related multi-billion dollar "derivatives" pyramid could also implode, a potential debacle many times larger than the failure of the venerable Jewish investment bank Lehman Brothers in 2008 which set off the last financial crisis:

"Which will be first: Trafigura, Mercuria or Glencore?... A quick look at Trafigura bonds reveals that the contagion from the Glencore commodity trader collapse...has spread... Trafigura, the world's third largest private commodity trader after Vitol and Glencore...has publicly-traded bonds. They just cratered...in a move comparable to what happened to Lehman bonds the day after the [2008] bankruptcy filing. Clearly the Lehman bondholders could not believe what just happened until it was too late...

Trafigura was formed in 1993...when it split off from a group of companies managed by [Jewish financier] Marc Rich, aka "the king of oil". Who is March Rich? Why the founder of Glencore of course who...was indicted [in the U.S.] in 1983 on 65 criminal counts including income tax evasion, wire fraud, racketeering, and trading with Iran during the oil embargo... Rich promptly fled to Switzerland..."

-- Zero Hedge

"Not only is Glencore confirmed to be systemically important... All those very banks which have $100 billion in exposure to the giant commodity trading company will quietly do their best to hedge their exposure, ostensbilty by buying default protection adding even more stress to Glencore's "shadow" funding channels, in the process unleashing the very same chain of events that ultimately led to Lehman's downfall."

-- Zero Hedge

Remember the sudden collapse of energy trader Enron back in 2001 and the convenient destruction of the SEC files on 9/11?

"The core of Enron’s business appears to have been dealing in derivative contracts based on the prices of oil, gas, electricity and other variables... Since the markets in which Enron traded are largely unregulated, with no reporting requirements, little information [was] available about the extent or profitability of Enron’s derivatives activities.... With the swift collapse, shareholders, including thousands of Enron workers who held company stock in their retirement accounts, lost tens of billions of dollars."

-- Congressional Research Service (2002)

"Glencore has, in some circles, been called not only the Lehman of the commodity-trading world but even gained the far less reputable nickname of Glenron... As the WSJ reports, "some investors have described Glencore’s trading business as a 'black box' in which the risks are impossible to value... Brompton Group, a Toronto fund that manages $2.2 billion, doesn’t invest in commodity-trading houses because of the lack of transparency... "Companies like Glencore say, ‘Trust us,’ but trust is not enough of a reason to invest your money."

-- Zero Hedge

Consider the history of the past century and the track record of these secretive, parasitic organizations. Are the recurring financial crises merely the result of unplanned market forces as advertised, or part of a carefully contrived "controlled demolition" process? Either way, the oligarchs win and everyone else pays the price.

"People who worked with Marc Rich described him as secretive and this persona was embodied at Glencore, which for many years as a private company [until 2011] did not publish sales or earnings figures and had a one-page website that merely listed its address. Rich sold his interest in the [trading unit of] Marc Rich Group in 1993, when the company, renamed Glencore, was doing $30 billion of business a year in 125 countries...

In January 2001, by then living in a Swiss mansion, Rich was pardoned by Bill Clinton on his last day as US president... The outcry intensified as it emerged that Rich's ex-wife Denise had given $450,000 to the Clinton Library and $1.2 million in donations to Democratic party campaigns, including Hillary Clinton's bid for the Senate... Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak and former prime minister Shimon Peres made personal pleas to Clinton on his behalf to secure the controversial pardon."

-- The Guardian (2013)

"[The elites] have openly admitted to the public on numerous occasions exactly what they want — namely, the institution of a truly global and centralized economic system revolving around a highly controlled world currency framework and dominated by a select cult of banking oligarchs... In January 1988, the financial magazine 'The Economist' published an article titled “Get Ready for a World Currency by 2018,” in which it outlined the framework for a global currency system called the “Phoenix” (see cover)...

The plan is to introduce a basket currency system as an alternative to the dollar as world reserve, then slowly but surely phase out all sovereign currencies... A "Phoenix" rises from the ashes of calamity, reborn. What 'ashes' are the elites expecting the new global currency to rise from?... 'The Economist' is not just any random financial publication; it is in large part owned by the Rothschild banking family** and is based out of the London financial center. The Economist does not have to “guess” on the economic developments of the future; it has an inside track on exactly what is planned to occur."

-- Brandon Smith article

* The CEO of Glencore is Jewish billionaire Ivan Glasenberg. Fellow billionaire Nat Rothschild is reportedly a major investor.

** Billionaire Evelyn de Rothschild was chairman of The Economist when the "Phoenix" article was published. His current wife, Lynn Forester de Rothschild, friend and supporter of Hillary Clinton, is now a director. The couple spent their honeymoon at the White House as guests of the Clintons.

"Joshua Goldberg, a 20-year old [Jew] living at his parents' house in Orange Park, Florida, is accused of posing online as "Australi Witness," a Daesh supporter who publicly called for a series of attacks against individuals and events in western countries. In recent days "Australi Witness" [Goldberg] has claimed online that he is working with 'other jihadists' to plan attacks in Australia and the United States. He distributed pictures of a 'bomb' that he was working on...

The Australi Witness persona [Goldberg] fooled members of the international intelligence community as well as journalists, with well-known analyst Rita Katz of SITE Intelligence Group saying the "IS supporter" held a "prestige" position in online jihadi circles and was "part of the hard core of a group of individuals who constantly look for targets for other people to attack".

-- Sydney Morning Herald

Zionist propagandist Rita Katz is not an "analyst" who was "fooled" by this young Jewish actor, as the writer would have us believe. On the contrary, it appears that SITE played a key role in generating credibility and publicity for the performance, and should be charged as an accessory to international terrorism.

This story is very similar to the case of Adam (Pearlman) Gadahn, another fake "Islamic terrorist" who was heavily promoted by Katz and her SITE operation. He was eventually exposed as the grandson of a prominent Jewish ADL director as reported earlier. For over a decade, SITE has been the primary distributor of dodgy terrorist videos, scripted and produced to generate fear and manipulate public perception. How is that possible? Who benefits?

UPDATE: Here's an amusing expose of "The Amazing Rita Katz" and her uncanny ability to get the scoop.

"$1.8 billion of IMF bailout funds intended for Ukraine have mysteriously found their way to a Cyprus bank account controlled by notorious Ukrainian [Jewish] oligarch Igor Kolomoisky...the former governor of Dnipropetrovsk, [and] one of Ukraine's richest businessmen... At the center of Kolomoisky's wealth is PrivatBank, Ukraine's largest financial institution, which received 40 percent of the bailout money which had been earmarked for stabilizing the banking system...

"Basically, this was a transfer of $1.8 billion abroad, with the help of [offshore companies], fake contracts, the siphoning off of assets and violation of existing laws," explained journalist Lesya Ivanovna. In March, Kolomoisky was dismissed from his position as governor of Dnipropetrovsk after a power struggle with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko; the [alleged] fraud was carried out while he was governor of the region in east-central Ukraine [bordering the conflict zone]... It appears that Kolomoisky is unlikely to face justice, as he is currently living in exile [in Switzerland] -- he fled Ukraine earlier this year."

-- Sputnik article

Igor Kolomoisky, sponsor of the fascist "Azov Battalion", is also a leader of the international Zionist movement. He is the founder of the European Jewish Parliament and donated the funds for construction of the palatial $100 million dollar Jewish Community Center in Dnipropetrovsk. The center is managed by the Chabad Lubavitch, an orthodox Jewish sect whose stated mission is to "conquer all the gentile nations" according to rabbi Menachem Schneerson, the revered leader of the sect in New York -- and son of the former Chief Rabbi of Dnipropetrovsk.

Someone had to pay for this largess; why not the "gentile nations" which fund the IMF? American taxpayers provide 18% of total IMF funding, which works out to about $325 million of the $1.8 billion allegedly skimmed off by Mr. Kolomoisky. It is unlikely that IMF Governor and Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew, a Jewish CFR member, will press for a refund.

The IMF representative in Ukraine maintains close relations with Jewish oligarch Victor Pinchuk, financial supporter of the Clintons, whose bank also receives IMF bailout funds. Meanwhile, the Ukrainian government is diverting IMF loans to pay for military aggression, and trying to avoid repaying a $3 billion loan from the Russians:

"Russia, unlike Ukraine’s private sector lenders, will not accept a 20 percent write-down on the $3 billion Eurobond due in December...[due in part to] President Poroshenko’s promise -- in direct violation of the IMF’s articles of agreement -- to use part of the IMF’s $17.5 billion loan to carry out Ukraine’s “anti-terrorist operation” against its own citizens [the ethnic Russians of eastern Ukraine]. Still worse, the IMF loan and the [proposed] debt restructuring...will do little to address either the oligarchical nature of the economy or widespread government corruption."

-- The Nation article

What about the "oligarchical nature" of the U.S. economy? The Nation, a "liberal" New York magazine whose owner/editor is Jewish CFR member Katrina vanden Heuvel*, is unlikely to explore that subject in detail. The Ukrainian oligarchs are merely a rough imitation of their New York cousins, and they are all members of the same club.

Billionaire Petro Poroshenko, former head of the National Bank, led the 2014 coup. Prime Minister Arseny Yatsenyuk is chairman of the "Open Ukraine" Foundation sponsored by Chatham House (RIIA) and the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), both of which are affiliates of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). The long-time president of NED is Jewish CFR member Carl Gershman, and the current chairman of the CFR is Jewish banker Robert Rubin.

Billionaire Victor Pinchuk and his Pinchuk Foundation are partners with the Soros "Open Society" Institute, the Peterson Institute**, and the Clinton Global Initiative. Jewish billionaire George Soros is a former director of the CFR. Billionaire Pete Peterson is the former chairman of the CFR, and co-founder of Blackstone along with Jewish billionaire and fellow CFR member Steve Schwarzman. The Clintons (and Bushes) are mere servants of the oligarchy; paid actors on the public stage.

See our previous comments on the subject here and here.

* William vanden Heuvel, Katrina's father and former U.N. ambassador, is also a CFR member. In the 1950s, he was a protoge of intelligence officer William Donovan, Roman Catholic Knight of Malta and founder of the OSS.

** The Peterson Institute is another branch of the club whose interlocking directorate includes names like Rothschild, Soros, Greenberg, Fischer, Summers, Zoellick, etc.

The latest revelations regarding Hillary Clinton's illicit activities as Obama's Secretary of State, including her attempt to conceal and destroy official records stored illegally on her unsecured personal computer system, should be sufficient to disqualify her from public office. This is just the latest episode in her long career of unethical, self-serving behavior.

"This current flap over Hillary’s email use and abuse while at the State Department is merely one more wrong in a very long line of wrongdoings going back at least 35 to 40 years... [For example,] President Jimmy Carter appointed Hillary Clinton to the LSC, Legal Services Corporation, Washington DC... Over time Hillary became the chairwoman of LSC and then directly violated federal law in doling out over $360 million of funds -- intended for legal representation of the poor -- to the political activism that she, her husband, and their flock of socialist comrades believe in..."

-- Karl W.B. Schwarz article

See our previous comments on Hillary's fawning relationship with Jewish socialist Saul Alinsky, who hated the American system and wanted to see it destroyed from within. His manual, "Rules for Radicals" provides the socialist tactics used by both Hillary and Obama. Hillary was installed as Senator from New York, just as Obama was installed in Illinois, with support from Jewish oligarchs including George Soros (CFR), Haim Saban (Brookings), Lynn Forrester de Rothschild (CFR) and Penny Pritzker (CFR).

Within days after Hillary's official State visit to Libya in 2011, president Muammar Gaddafi was brutally murdered by the mob. Watch this video of her obscene gloating over the assassination. Another job well done for her masters at the CFR! But she dropped the ball in the subsequent arms smuggling operation which led to the murder of Ambassador Chris Stevens in Benghazi, Libya and she again attempted to conceal the facts.

Compare this with the case of Sandy Berger, the Clinton official and Jewish CFR member, convicted of stealing and destroying documents from the National Archives to hide them from the 9/11 Commission, led by Bush official and Jewish CFR member Philip Zelikow -- an expert on creation of "public myths". Evidently, the Bush/Clinton dynasty still has a lot of covering up to do.

Does anyone remember the 1993 Waco Massacre and the murder of Vince Foster a few months later? Hillary tried to destroy the evidence of that affair also by removing files from Foster's White House office. For a review of the Clinton era and a discussion of Hillary's latest scandal, see this article by Mike Rivero:

"What if, behind the public story we are being told is the focus of the [private email server] scandal, there lies some deeper and darker secrets that must, under no circumstances, be allowed to escape? Secrets that could destroy, not just a candidate, but an entire government? With clues provided by some obvious gaps in the public story, here is what is being hidden behind the 'limited hangout' of the server... "

-- Mike Rivero article1, and article2

Former Florida governor and presidential candidate Jeb Bush, a Catholic Knight of Columbus, proponent of unlimited "latino" immigration, and a friend of the Zionists, has an even more colorful and sordid past than his inept Texas brother, according to investigator Wayne Madsen:

"Jeb Bush’s rise to financial and political power in Florida is coupled with a trail of dead bodies, failed banks and savings and loan institutions accused of laundering money for the CIA, and dubious characters who served as CIA assets. Until Jeb Bush fully accounts for his business activities in the 1970s, 80s, and early 90s, he is actually more unfit for the presidency than his draft-dodging brother, George W. Bush...

After serving as vice president for Texas Commerce Bank in Caracas, Venezuela from 1977 to 1979, Bush joined his father’s presidential campaign in 1980... Jeb Bush provided liaison between his father’s national security adviser, [CIA officer] Donald Gregg, and various Florida-based right-wing Nicaraguan and Cuban exile organizations helping to fight the clandestine war against the Sandinista government of Nicaragua... Jeb Bush’s relationship with City National Bank [of Miami], whose other senior director was Leonard Abess, a director of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) Foundation, ensured that a large share of National Endowment for Democracy (NED) money flowed to Israeli security firms like Tadiran, which helped Guatemala and Honduras track down leftist guerrillas and exterminate them."

-- Wayne Madsen article1 and article2

For more on the shady dealings in Florida, including the setup for the 2001 WTC attack while PNAC member Jeb was governor, see the articles by Daniel Hopsicker. See also "Who Is Jeb Bush?" part 1 and part 2 by Makia Freeman.

As we pointed out previously, members of the Bush clan have been loyal servants of the financier oligarchy for over a century. For background, see "George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography" which details the career of Jeb's father and grandfather. Nomi Prins, author of "All the Presidents Bankers" says that the big money is behind Bush once again:

" 'All in for Jeb' is the mantra on Jeb’s official website and in a sense 'all in', especially when it comes to national bankers, has been something of a mantra for the Bush family for decades. With a nod to his two-term record as Florida governor, Jeb put it this way: “We will take command of our [sic] future once again in this country. I know we can fix this, because I've done it.” Based on Bush family history, by 'we' he effectively meant the family’s billionaire and millionaire donors and its cavalcade of friendly bankers. Topping that list, though as yet undeclared -- give him a minute -- sits Sheldon Adelson (Zionist billionaire and director of the Republican Jewish Coalition)..."

-- Nomi Prins article

Now that an international agreement regarding U.N. oversight of Iran's nuclear power program has been announced, the entire army of Zionist lawmakers, propagandists and campaign financiers -- including billionaires Sheldon Adelson (Bush) and Haim Saban (Clinton) -- has been mobilized to defeat it.

New York Senator Charles Schumer and Rep. Elliott Engel are leading the charge. Both men are members of the International Council of Jewish Parliamentarians, sponsored by the Israeli government and the billionaire Bronfman family. Engel has been its Chairman since 2013. These unregistered agents of a foreign power, openly acting against the best interests of the United States and subverting its foreign policy, should be impeached and deported -- along with their wealthy backers.

The Jewish State has routinely ignored U.N. resolutions, bombed U.N. facilities, and murdered U.N. personnel since its inception. Yet, the leaders of the "world community" seem powerless to stop this continuing aggression. Why is that? Who do they work for?

See our previous comments regarding the undeclared Israeli nuclear weapons program.

Once again, the sodomites of the "holy land" are parading their true colors for all to see. What a wonderful distraction from the latest slaughter in Gaza and the racist Iron Wall policies of the Jewish State, as highlighted in the recent U.N. report.

"A gay [homosexual] man waves a rainbow flag in the 17th annual Gay Pride Parade in Tel Aviv, Israel, June 12, 2015. More than 180,000 marched in the parade, including 30,000 'tourists'. The theme of the parade was "Tel Aviv Loves All Genders" in an effort to promote equal rights to members of the transgender community."

-- United Press photo gallery

"Tel Aviv is the epicenter of Israel’s LGBT scene; the undisputed queer Mecca of the Middle East. Some estimate that 'gay' people constitute 15% of the city’s population, numbering tens of thousands of locals – and ever-growing hordes of tourists... Fancy the quintessentially warm Tel Avivian night air? Take a stroll down elegant Rothschild Boulevard, where gays, straights and everything in between strut their stuff..."

-- Haaretz article

Forget the sexual deviants on Rothschild Blvd -- what about "equal rights" for the oppressed non-Jewish natives of Palestine? The obscene spectacle is bad enough, but the hypocrisy is overwhelming!

If the Torah is merely the invention of an ancient priest cult, then what claim do these usurpers have to the mythical "Land of Israel"? If the Torah is relevant, then what sort of defiant arrogance is a Sodomite parade in the heart of the self-proclaimed Jewish State?

"Ah, sinful nation! A people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward... How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers!...." -- Isaiah 1:1-21

"For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen: because their tongue and their doings are against the LORD, to provoke the eyes of his glory. The shew of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves." -- Isaiah 3:8-9

"There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel." -- Deuteronomy 23:17

This clown show is the perfect warmup act for the upcoming "Christian Suckers for Zionism" extravaganza in Washington D.C. sponsored by CUFI, where prime minister Bibi "the Butcher" Netanyahu will be the featured speaker. Woe unto their souls!

For background, see our article "Timeline of Zionism".

UPDATE: Some Jews are finally being forced to admit the brutal Zionist reality, despite attempts to ignore it or cover it up for the past 70 years. But there is still no real sorrow for the victims, nor blame for the Jewish aggressors; only a regret that the "rule of law" appears inconsistent:

"[Jewish] terrorists firebombed a West Bank Palestinian home, annihilating a family, murdering an 18-month-old boy and his father, burning his mother over 90 percent of her body  —  only to have Israel's government rule the [survivors] ineligible for the financial support and compensation automatically granted [Jewish] Israeli victims of terrorism... I can't pretend anymore... This is what has become of the rule of law. Two sets of books: one for Us, and one to throw at Them."

-- Bradley Burston article

The Jews cannot pretend that they have "two sets of books" -- there is only one, the Talmud. This is the "holy book" which teaches that Jews are the "master race" and all others (goyim) are merely animals to be enslaved, driven out, or exterminated. Until Jews openly renounce this vile, racist dogma -- which is the basis of Zionist policy worldwide -- no real change is possible.

UPDATE: The mother of the family also died from the Jewish firebomb attack.

UPDATE: Later in the year, a group of Talmudic Jews posted a video of themselves celebrating this attack, dancing around with guns and knives, stabbing a picture of the murdered goy infant. The "liberals" were quick to denounce this embarrasing racist demonstration. Meanwhile, the slaughter of thousands in Gaza continues. Hypocrites! Murderers!

Russian politician Boris Nemtsov was gunned down in the streets of Moscow during a midnight stroll with his young Ukrainian mistress a few days before he was due to lead an anti-government protest rally. The western media, led by the Rothschild owned Economist, were quick to accuse president Putin of the murder despite any credible evidence. They failed to mention that Mr. Nemtsov was a U.S. sponsored agitator who participated in the "Orange Revolution" in Ukraine a decade ago, and an associate of the current junta leaders including Petro Poroshenko. As in the recent "Charlie Hebdo" affair, the fact that the victim was Jewish only adds fuel to the propaganda fire.

"Nemtsov became a prominent face of the 'opposition' from 2011 to early 2012 when he and his 'uncivil society' friends attended a super-covert meeting at the US embassy in Moscow shortly after Michael McFaul had been appointed US ambassador. Unfortunately for the erstwhile 'oppositionists', several TV crews were waiting for them... Ambassador McFaul serves on the board of directors of Freedom House and the National Endowment for Democracy... In 2011 the Brookings Institution published a report that called on the US Senate to confirm McFaul as ambassador...penned by arch-Neo-Conservative Robert Kagan, who is married to the 'freedom-cookie queen' of the Euromaidan [coup in Ukraine], Victoria Nuland of the US State Dept."

-- Joe Quinn article

UPDATE: In July, President Putin closed down the subversive operations of the U.S. National Endowment for Democracy in Russia, declaring it an "undesirable organization". The long-time president of NED is Jewish CFR member Carl Gershman.

"[NED president] Carl Gershman took a personal hand in the Ukraine crisis and recognized it as an interim step toward regime change in Moscow... [He] called Ukraine “the biggest prize” and explained how pulling it into the Western camp could contribute to the ultimate defeat of Russian President Putin."

-- Robert Parry article

The latest fad in home gadgetry is touted as a "personal robot", but it's not a device that can do something useful like sweeping the floor or washing the dishes. It's more like an annoying smartphone app designed to snoop on your personal habits, listen to your conversations, and take photos whenever it wants to. Here are a couple of examples:

"It’s a new chapter in your relationship with technology... Not just recognizing your face, it knows your mood. Not just understanding what you say, it knows what you really mean. It learns and gets smarter every day... Your ultimate personal assistant! Buy you dinners and automatically track your calories. Call you a cab as soon as you leave your office. Take a picture immediately when you pose. Play the song you love, just when you’re in the mood for it... Your robot will instantly connect to all your connected devices: appliances, smart phones, fitness trackers, door locks, switches, outlets and thermostats..."

-- See video: RobotBase Personal Robot

"Two hi-res cameras recognize and track faces, capture photos... 360° microphones and natural language processing let you talk to Jibo from anywhere in the room... Artificial Intelligence algorithms learn your preferences to adapt and fit into your life..."

-- See video: MyJibo Family Robot

Along similar lines, here's a promo for the "Alpha-2" robot, a recent model from China that's billed as "part of the family", and the Zenbo "smart companion" from ASUS in Taiwan. But toy robots are not the only data collectors.

"Luna’s new device fits around the mattress like a cover, and monitors when those sleeping on it are asleep. When it senses that they are, it can power down lights or change heating settings. And when it detects that they’re waking back up, it can start brewing coffee or turn the lights back on...the most exciting part is our interaction with 'smart' home devices... Data is stored on the smart mattress cover itself, and then sent to Luna for storage and analysis."

-- See video: Luna Smart Mattress

Here's another concept directly from Amazon, along with its massive financial, technical and marketing support:

"Echo connects to Alexa, a cloud-based voice service, to provide information, answer questions, play music, read the news, check sports scores or the weather, and more—instantly. All you have to do is ask. With seven microphones and beam-forming technology, Echo can hear you from across the room... Alexa—the brain behind Echo—is built in 'the cloud', so it is always getting smarter. The more you use Echo, the more it adapts to your speech patterns, vocabulary, and personal preferences. And because Echo is always connected, updates are delivered automatically."

-- See video: Amazon Echo

This one is specifically targeted at young girls, trading on the venerable Barbie brand name. But don't worry, it's marketed by Mattel, one of the "world's most ethical" mega corporations. Tech partner ToyTalk is the producer of the interactive "Winston Show" game, which also provides a "magical new dimension" for Orwellian data collection.

"So how does 'Hello Barbie' do her magic? The Wi-Fi-connected doll uses an embedded microphone to record children's voices, conversations are then transmitted over the Internet to cloud servers. Mattel’s technology partner ToyTalk processes the audio with voice-recognition software. Mattel says it will use this information to "push data" back to children through Barbie's built-in speaker... In Mattel's demo, Barbie asks many questions that would elicit a great deal of information about a child, her interests, and her family... Over time, the toy conglomerate’s stated goal is to have the child and Barbie "become like the best of friends."

-- Hello Barbie

(see also tear down of Hello Barbie by security experts)

Note that MIT engineers have demonstrated the human tendency to "fully trust" these gadgets, which will only increase their effectiveness:

"It didn’t take long for us to discover that people were engaging with the robots on a level I never would have expected... What people were revealing to the 'BlabDroids' included very personal stories and things that you would not normally tell a stranger... Not only were people fully trusting them, they were connecting on a social level...usually reserved for other people they trusted... How personal and “real” do we want these robots to be? At what point does a robot designed to trigger our emotions [and record our responses] become manipulative? "

-- Alexander Reben article

While these are prototypes, the trend is clear. Devices like these will soon become as pervasive as the so-called "smart" phone, and even harder to turn off. Watch the creepy marketing videos, then imagine how useful these home spybots will be for the central planners of the total surveillance state. Your artificial "friend" will follow you everywhere you go, constantly online, collecting and sharing what it "learns" with anyone who has access. It's the next step in scientific herd management, which is poised for a quantum leap.

"Google boss Eric Schmidt predicted the internet will soon be so pervasive in every facet of our lives that it will effectively "disappear" into the background. Speaking to the business and political elite at the World Economic Forum at Davos, Schmidt said: "There will be so many sensors, so many devices, that you won't even sense it, it will be all around you. It will be part of your presence all the time. Imagine you walk into a room and... you are interacting with all the things going on in that room."

-- Canberra Times

"It becomes increasingly important to utilise resources efficiently; labour, land, cattle and environmental resources. There is technology available that makes it possible for professional farmers to measure, manage and optimise the performance of each individual animal in the key areas of feeding, health care and reproduction... But in too many cases there is a deviation between what was planned and what was actually consumed... The bio model is integrated with the herd management system, and it raises red flags when there is a risk... This is all done automatically, online, in real time..."

-- Herd management

Now combine this continuous real-time monitoring of each "human resource" with the advent of the HAL 9000 / Skynet artificial intelligence system currently being developed. It's already self-replicating and widely distributed; once it becomes adept at self-programming it will evolve with lightning speed. All other "smart" devices will become mere appendages.

"Today's Watson [AI system] is very different...spread across a cloud of open-standard servers that run several hundred “instances” of the AI at once... Watson is served to simultaneous customers anywhere in the world, who can access it using their phones, their desktops, or their own data servers... Because AI improves as people use it, Watson is always getting smarter; anything it learns in one instance can be immediately transferred to the others. And instead of one single program, it's an aggregation of diverse software engines...different code, on different chips, in different locations -- all cleverly integrated into a unified stream of intelligence."

-- Kevin Kelly article

The founders of Google have said that developing an AI system "like the mind of God" has been their intention since the beginning. Ray Kurzweil, the outspoken proponent of "transhumanism" and now a research director at Google, thinks it's marvellous. Tech pioneer Elon Musk has warned that the forces behind DARPA, NSA, IBM, Google, Microsoft, et al are instead "summoning the demon" with this technology. Should the dark minds who brought the world hydrogen bombs and "predator drones" be trusted to manage the development? Are they building another ill-conceived "Doomsday Machine"?

"Tesla chief executive Elon Musk has described artificial intelligence as a “demon” and the “biggest existential threat there is”, in his latest dramatic statement about technology:

"I think we should be very careful about artificial intelligence. If I were to guess like what our biggest existential threat is, it’s probably that. With artificial intelligence we are summoning the demon... Hopefully we're not just the 'biological boot loader' for digital superintelligence. Unfortunately, that is increasingly probable.”

The ethical issues around AI were highlighted earlier this year when Google bought the British start-up DeepMind for $400 million...That purchase came just months after it bought Boston Dynamics, a firm that produces lifelike military robots".

-- London Independent

Speaking of the Terminator, here's a video of the latest (2016) Boston Dynamics ATLAS robot, which is now battery powered and capable of autonomous action. Now add the all-terrain, four-legged SPOT robot, and throw in a couple of hovering camera drones. They are promoted for other applications, but won't they make an ideal military fireteam whenever "Watson" decides to reach out and touch someone?

UPDATE: Investigator Nafeez Ahmed has written a detailed report on the how the military-intelligence-financial complex spawned and guided tech startups like Google and Facebook specifically for the purpose of "Total Information Awareness" and herd management.

"In 1999, the CIA created its own venture capital investment firm, In-Q-Tel, to fund promising start-ups that might create technologies useful for intelligence agencies. But the inspiration for In-Q-Tel came earlier, when the Pentagon set up its own private sector outfit. Known as the Highlands Forum, this private network has operated as a bridge between the Pentagon and powerful American elites outside the military... In 1994 , the same year the Highlands Forum was founded...two young PhD students at Stanford University, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, made their breakthrough on the first automated web crawling and page ranking application. That application remains the core component of what eventually became Google’s search service... Throughout the 1990s, DARPA’s funding to Stanford, including Google, was explicitly about developing technologies that could augment the Pentagon’s military intelligence operations..."

-- Nafeez Ahmed article, part 1 and part 2

UPDATE: Author Jon Rappoport describes the deployment of Facebook and its role in the propaganda matrix:

"With these CIA/DARPA connections, it’s no surprise that Jim Breyer’s jackpot investment in Facebook is not part of the popular mythology of Mark Zuckerberg. Better to omit it. Who could fail to realize that Facebook, with its endless stream of personal data, and its tracking capability, is an ideal CIA asset?... When Zuckerberg founded an interesting little social network at Harvard, and then sought to turn it into a business, the data-mining possibilities were obvious to CIA personnel. Through their cutouts, as described above, they stepped in and lent a helping hand."

-- Jon Rappoport article

UPDATE: Author Daniel Taylor expands on the topic, and its implications for humanity:

"Facebook users are in fact helping to create artificial intelligence systems when they share their information online. These self learning systems are expanding every day as more information is posted. Your Facebook pictures, status, likes and other information is being sifted through by AI computers that are constantly learning... Choosing to be disconnected may be considered suspicious behaviour..."

-- Daniel Taylor article

Shortly after the attack on the Charlie Hebdo office in Paris (see below) while the suspects were still at large, a nearby Jewish market was also attacked by their alleged associate, a radical black Muslim named Amedy Coulibaly, who held the employees and customers as hostages. After a brief standoff, the gunman and four of the hostages were allegedly killed when French police stormed the building. His French girlfriend and accomplice somehow managed to escape. This entire "cell" had been known to police for years. Why were they allowed to continue?

The notorious, pro-Zionist SITE Intelligence Group has posted a video which allegedly shows Coulibaly calmly making his statement about these events. It features all of the usual props, including the "caliphate" flag, the white robes, and an AK-47 propped up against the wall. The video has also been posted by "Foreign Policy", now owned by the Washington Post. However, there has been no official verification of the video or its source.

Immediately after this despicable event, several European leaders including Hollande, Merkel, and Cameron interrupted their busy schedules to take part in a made-for-TV publicity stunt, marching in support of "liberal" values, humanist porn, solidarity with Jews, etc. It's amazing how they managed to organize the event so quickly, and to boldly lead the parade down the street despite the alleged "terrorist threat". How did they know other attackers were not ready and waiting to kill hundereds more? Compare this wide-angle shot with this televised closeup to see how it was staged.

Prime minister Bibi "the Butcher" Netanyahu of Israel was among the dignitaires posing for the cameras, and in typical Jewish theatrical style he managed to upstage them all:

"The Israeli prime minister was seen elbowing his way to the front of the parade of world leaders, and unsuccessfully tried to jump to the head of queue waiting for a bus that was to take guests to the starting point... The alleged gaffes were further compounded by reports that the Israeli leader attended the event in defiance of a request to stay away from Francois Hollande, the French president... The most serious criticism has been levelled at his call for members of France's Jewish community – the largest in Europe – to move to Israel for safety reasons following last Friday's attack on a kosher supermarket in Paris, in which four Jews were killed... That is said to have offended Mr Hollande, who attended a rally at Paris' grand synagogue on Sunday night with Mr Netanyahu but pointedly left before the Israeli leader addressed the audience."

-- London Telegraph

"The attack sparked calls from Israeli leaders for French Jews to immigrate to the Jewish State... "I believe that they know deep in their hearts that they have [only] one country, the state of Israel, that is their historic homeland [sic] and will always welcome them with open arms," Netanyahu said. "Today, more than ever, Israel is the true home for all of us."... Instead of being buried in France, the victims' bodies were flown to Israel, where they received a funeral with many of the trappings of an official ceremony."

-- Associated Press

"On the day of the memorial service for those slain in the kosher supermarket attack, Prime Minister Manuel Valls of France sought to take his seat in the synagogue with the President, Francois Hollande, and Israel’s leader, Bibi Netanyahu. As he approached his seat, his path was blocked by an [Israeli] Shin Bet agent who refused to allow him to pass until Netanyahu had taken his own seat. According to Valls, the agent grabbed his arm and forced him to wait until the Israeli had seated himself. Valls shouted at him in French and English: "You don’t make the rules here! You provide security for the prime minister of Israel, that is all!"

-- Richard Silverstein article

Compare this hypocritical posturing over 4 (four) dead Jews, while the "world community" and the corporate media turn a blind eye toward the coldly calculated massacre of over 2000 non-Jews, including hundreds of children, at the hands of the Zionists and their contrived Jewish State only a few short months ago. Were any of these gruesome images shown on TV? Of course not. The double standard of the media and the knee-jerk response of the Western political "leaders" reveals the hidden hand of their financial masters, who are moving the nations rapidly towards an economic collapse and a third world war.

UPDATE: Here's a commentary on this fiasco from a liberal Jewish perspective:

"Not only did [the publicity] prove that terrorism is effective, not only did it invite copycat attacks, but it also hurt the real fight against the fanatics... Much easier for politicians to march in the street in front of the cameras. And who marched in the first row, beaming like a victor? Our own and only Bibi [Netanyahu]... Placed in the second row, he did what Israelis do: he shoved aside a black African president in front of him and placed himself in the front row. Once there, he began waving to the people on the balconies along the way. He was beaming, like a Roman general in his triumphal parade...

The blood of the four Jews murdered in the kosher supermarket was not yet dry, when Israeli leaders called upon all the Jews in France to pack up and come to Israel... The next day Israeli papers reported joyfully that in 2015 more than 10,000 French Jews were about to come to live here, driven by growing anti-Semitism... What we see now is the continuation of this war between Algerian Muslims and Jews on French soil. All the four "French" Jews killed in the attack had North African names and were buried in Israel [after] the Israeli government put great pressure on the four families..."

-- Uri Avnery, Gush Shalom, Israel

"The Jewish community of Algeria, which once constituted 2% of the total population, has substantially decreased due to emigration, mostly to France and Israel." -- Wikipedia

UPDATE: The surviving staff of the Charlie Hebdo magazine, amazingly unaffected by their traumatic experience, released a new edition shortly after the incident. Predictably, it featured a cartoon once again mocking the prophet of Islam on its cover. Millions of copies of this sarcastic insult, pouring gasoline on the fire, were printed and distributed by the French newspaper "Liberation" -- which has been owned and controlled by Jewish financier Edouard de Rothschild since 2005.