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The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement say that it looks increasingly likely that Israel was responsible for a series of cyber-attacks on their campaign’s website. The Palestinian-led movement said in a report on Thursday that its website was attacked six times in February and March. Press TV reports: The report, which was compiled by an online security service, eQualit.ie, said the cyber-attacks had a level of “sophistication and commitment” and knocked out the website for several hours each time.

America’s Greatest Threat Is Its Crazed “Leadership” And Its Brainwashed Population

Insouciant Americans do not even know what they should be worried about.

A Russian Warning

By Dmitry Orlov, The Saker, Victor Katsap and Evgenia Gurevich

Submitted by Charles Hugh-Smith of OfTwoMinds blog,

Leaders face a no-win dilemma: any change of course will crash the system, but maintaining the current course will also crash the system.

The end-state of unsustainable systems is collapse. Though collapse may appear to be sudden and chaotic, we can discern key structures that guide the processes of collapse.

After yesterday's two key events, the ECB and OPEC meetings, ended up being major duds, the market is looking at the week's final and perhaps most important event of the week: the May payrolls report to generate some upward volatility and help stocks finally break out of the range they have been caught in for over a year. However, even today's jobs number will likely be skewed as reported previously as a result of the Verizon strike which is said to trim some 35,000 jobs from the headline print, casting anything the BLS reports today in doubt.

Following Mario Draghi's seemingly constant mention of The ECB's credibility during yesterday's press conference, none other than ECB member (and Austrian national bank chief) Ewald Nowotny exclaimed rather oddly that "The ECB is the most independent central bank in the world." This was apparently more than former Greek FinMin Yanis Varoufakis could handle as he unleashed a scathing op-ed to explain why, in fact,  The ECB is the least independent central bank exclaiming that "the pretense of independence serves as a fig leaf for interventions th