Monday, July 13, 2009
Benjamin Fulford | More about the Office of International Treasury Control (OITC)
These so-called “debt instruments” were created by the U.S. treasury department over the years and given to countries that have trade surpluses with the U.S. There are, for example, special sets of boxes specific only to certain countries or institutions.
The problem is that after nearly a century of issuing these debt boxes, the chickens are coming home to roost. President Obama tried at the recent G8 plus 5 meeting in Italy to borrow more money than George Bush junior did in 8 years. He was told a resounding no. The result should be total economic chaos in the U.S. by September 30th . The good news for the Americans is that it is not the U.S. that is bankrupt but rather a corporation known as the United States of America Corporation headquartered in the independent statelet known as Washington D.C. Once the Feds go down the drain of history, the American people will be provided with extremely generous funding to rebuild their industry and develop suppressed technology. The Pentagon will also be given generous funding to help it transform itself into a more benevolent organization. In the meantime, we know the Feds are not going to go quietly into the night so we have to be extremely vigilant in stopping whatever crazy thing they try next. The question for Mr. Dan is, when are you going to go public and tell the world the truth?
Breaking News and Commentary from Citizens For Legitimate Government | 13 July 2009
CIA Had Secret Plan to Assassinate Terror Foes --Initiative at Heart of Spat With Congress Examined Ways to Seize, Kill Terror Chiefs 13 Jul 2009 A secret Central Intelligence Agency initiative terminated by Director Leon Panetta was an attempt to carry out a 2001 presidential authorization to capture or kill 'al Qaeda' operatives, according to former intelligence officials familiar with the matter. The precise nature of the highly classified effort isn't clear, and the CIA won't comment on its substance. According to current and former government officials, the agency spent money on planning and possibly some training. It was acting on a 2001 presidential legal pronouncement, known as a finding, which authorized the CIA to pursue such efforts.
New reports of massive spying, criminality by US government By Patrick Martin 13 Jul 2009 Reports in the American press on Friday and Saturday reveal massive illegality in the US government and intelligence apparatus. They demonstrate not only routine violations of democratic rights through illegal spying and wiretapping both at home and abroad, but also disregard for legally required reports to Congress... The military/intelligence apparatus operates according to its own rules, disclosing or withholding information from its supposed civilian superiors only when it is felt politically necessary. What is being revealed... is the existence of a "state within the state," a secret government that continues to function regardless of the individual who inhabits the White House.
Stop bombing us: Osama isn't here, says Pakistan 12 Jul 2009 Osama bin Laden and the top Al-Qaeda leadership are not in Pakistan [right, the latter is in Langley], making US missile attacks against them futile, according to the country’s interior minister. "If Osama was in Pakistan we would know, with all the thousands of troops we have sent into the tribal areas in recent months," Rehman Malik told The Sunday Times. "If he and all these four or five top people were in our area they would have been caught, the way we are searching."
In Afghan war, Brown accused of dereliction of duty 13 Jul 2009 With Britain mourning the recent deaths of eight soldiers, Prime Minister Gordon Brown faces accusations of "dereliction of duty" in his handling of the war in Afghanistan. Pressure has been piling up on the British government after the deaths of eight soldiers on Friday pushed Britain's toll in Afghanistan to 184 from a force of 9,000 -- five more than its total losses in Iraq.
Mounting Casualties in Afghanistan Spur Concern Death --Tolls Compare to Iraq as Number of U.S. and NATO Forces Surge; Criticism of War in U.K. Heats Up 13 Jul 2009 A series of attacks in Afghanistan has left four U.S. Marines and eight British soldiers dead in recent days, stoking concern among U.S. and allied forces over a surge in battlefield deaths, as thousands of troops pour into the country. The mounting deaths have contributed to harsh criticism of the war in a handful of NATO countries that have lost soldiers in recent months, including Canada, Germany and France. It has been an especially divisive issue in Britain, which has lost 15 soldiers in the past 11 days, including the eight killed Friday. Those deaths have brought Britain's total losses to 184, a tally that exceeds the 179 British military personnel killed in Iraq.
Afghanistan: More helicopters will not prevent deaths, Defence Secretary claims 13 Jul 2009 Bob Ainsworth, the Defence Secretary, has said that increasing the number of military helicopters in Afghanistan would not prevent all deaths among British soldiers there. Eight soldiers were killed in 24 hours last week, and the Afghan death toll now stands at 184, more than the total suffered in Iraq. Military commanders and opposition parties say that some of those casualties might have been avoided if more troops were able to move in helicopters instead of by road.
Iraq inquiry video shows soldier screaming at prisoners 13 Jul 2009 Video footage shown to the Baha Mousa death inquiry today shows a British soldier screaming abuse at detainees. Six prisoners with sandbags on their heads are seen spread around the edges of a bare room. Their backs are to the walls and their arms are secured with plastic handcuffs. The sound of moaning, whimpering and panting is heard as the detainees are forced to maintain "stress positions".
Baha Mousa public inquiry to examine allegations of torture in British custody 13 Jul 2009 A major public inquiry into the death of an Iraqi civilian called Baha Mousa in British military custody with the former Queen's Lancashire Regiment will begin on Monday. Hotel receptionist Mr Mousa died while being detained by soldiers from the QLR in 2003. The wide-ranging inquiry into his death and the British Army's use of so-called conditioning techniques to "soften up" prisoners for interrogation will take place in central London. While in the custody of the Preston-based Queen's Lancashire Regiment, the receptionist was beaten to death, sustaining 93 separate injuries, including fractured ribs and a broken nose.
U.K.: We revoked Israel arms licenses, but it's no embargo 13 Jul 2009 The British Embassy in Tel Aviv confirmed Monday that the United Kingdom has revoked a number of arms export licenses to Israel following the Gaza war, but insisted that the move did not constitute a partial embargo. "There is no partial U.K. arms embargo on Israel," the embassy said in a statement to Haaretz. "U.K. policy remains to assess all export licenses to Israel against the consolidated EU and national arms export licensing criteria."
U.S. ambassador to Iraq unhurt by convoy bomb 13 Jul 2009 A roadside bomb exploded near a convoy carrying U.S. ambassador to Baghdad Chris Hill in southern Iraq, but the envoy was unhurt, the U.S. embassy said on Monday. Hill was traveling in Dhi Qar province, about 300 km (185 miles) southeast of Baghdad, on Sunday when the bomb struck his convoy, U.S. embassy spokeswoman Susan Ziadeh said.
13 doctors demand inquest into Dr David Kelly's death --13 specialist doctors compiled a detailed medical dossier that rejects Hutton conclusion on grounds that a cut to the ulnar artery, which is small and difficult to access, could not have caused death 13 Jul 2009 The death of Government scientist David Kelly returned to haunt Labour today as a group of doctors announced that they were mounting a legal challenge to overturn the finding of suicide. Dr Kelly's body was found six years ago this week in woods close to his Oxfordshire home, shortly after he was exposed as the source of a BBC news report questioning the grounds for war in Iraq. Unusually, no coroner's inquest was held into his death. The only official verdict has come from the Hutton Inquiry, commissioned by Tony Blair, which concluded that Dr Kelly died from loss of blood after cutting his wrist with a blunt gardening knife. Critics regarded the report as a 'whitewash', and Mr Blair remains acutely sensitive to the accusation that he has 'blood on his hands' over the scientist's death.
New! CLG Pandemic Action Alerts 12 Jul 2009 Petition against mandatory vaccines; contact the White House, US Congress [All hands on deck! Please sign CLG's petition - ours and others with the same goal you see on the Web - and get ready to *raise holy heck* if the deadly, pharma-terrorists' vaccines are mandatory! CLG has been warning of this for years. We have documented, over and over, the fact that the US government was funding and creating killer flu in labs. We cited legislation - passed under Bush two days before Christmas when *no one* was paying attention - giving US pharmaceutical companies full-blown immunity from liability for their deadly products used during a 'health emergency.' We showed that the DoD would carry out military missions and enforce quarantines. Most of these articles would appear on the Web on a Saturday night and vanish within days. The CLG has also revealed numerous deaths -- mathematically odds-defying -- of microbiologists under bizarre circumstances. This ultimate weapon of mass distraction has suddenly emerged so that discussion of the Bush Depression; Bush/Cheney torture, war crimes and treason; and the Iraq/Af/Pak war money pit -- vanishes from the landscape. --Lori Price]
Swine flu virus related to 1918 pandemic 13 Jul 2009 Swine flu penetrates deeper into the lungs and can inflict more damage than ordinary seasonal flu, scientists have found. The discovery could explain why the virus is able to cause severe illness in people with no underlying health problems. Experts also believe swine flu is closely related to strains responsible for the 1918 pandemic which killed up to 40 million people worldwide. [Want to know where it came from? Killer flu recreated in the lab 07 Oct 2004 Scientists have shown that tiny changes to modern flu viruses could render them as deadly as the 1918 strain which killed millions. A US team added two genes from a sample of the 1918 virus to a modern strain known to have no effect on mice.]
Swine flu 'five times more virulent' --Experts warned that any cluster of deaths could indicate the virus had mutated and become nastier. 13 Jul 2009 Swine flu has been blamed for two more deaths -- of a family doctor and a six-year-old girl -- as the first full analysis of the virus shows it is five times more virulent than ordinary seasonal flu. The first full analysis of the H1N1 virus, published in Nature, shows it causes more lung damage in animals than seasonal flu. For two strains of virus tested, five times less was needed to cause the same damage as seasonal flu.
New flu "unstoppable", WHO says, calls for vaccine 13 Jul 2009 The CDC estimates at least a million people are infected in the United States alone and clinics everywhere are advised not to test each and every patient, so keeping an accurate count of cases will be impossible. The United States has documented 211 deaths and WHO counted 429 early last week. Kieny said WHO would also work to get better viruses [!] for companies from which to make vaccines.
Vaccine May Be More Dangerous Than Swine Flu --Vaccine contains squalene and gp120 By Dr. Russell Blaylock 07 Jul 2009 This virus continues to be an enigma for virologists. In the April 30, 2009 issue of Nature, a virologist was quoted as saying,"Where the hell it got all these genes from we don’t know." Extensive analysis of the virus found that it contained the original 1918 H1N1 flu virus, the avian flu virus (bird flu), and two new H3N2 virus genes from Eurasia. Debate continues over the possibility that swine flu is a genetically engineered virus. ...Baxter Pharmaceuticals and Novartis Pharmaceuticals have had agreements with the World Health Organization to produce a pandemic vaccine. The Baxter company has been associated with two deadly scandals. The first event occurred in 2006 when hemophiliac components were contaminated with HIV virus and injected in tens of thousands of people, including thousands of children. Baxter continued to release the HIV contaminated vaccine even after the contamination was known. The second event occurred recently when it was discovered that Baxter had released a seasonal flu vaccine containing the bird flu virus, which would have produced a real world pandemic, to 18 countries. Fortunately, astute lab workers in the Czech Republic discovered the deadly combination and blew the whistle before a worldwide disaster was unleashed. Despite these two deadly events, WHO maintains an agreement with Baxter Pharmaceuticals to produce the world's pandemic vaccine.
CBS "60 Minutes" documentary on 1976 U.S. swine flu epidemic 19 Jun 2009 It aired only once and was never shown again. (Video)
Everyone in the UK to be vaccinated against swine flu pandemic 13 Jul 2009 The entire UK population is to be vaccinated against with swine flu following the death of the first healthy British patient. The NHS will receive the new vaccine in the next few weeks and is expected to fast-track the drug through regulatory approval within five days. However, NHS Scotland chief executive Kevin Woods recently said in a letter to local NHS board officials: "According to current delivery estimates vaccine for 100 per cent of the population could be received by November 2010." [Yeah, they might want to lower their estimates. The other day I saw a comment: 'We'll take your shot after you take ours.']
Swine flu strikes Downing Street – and almost reaches G8 summit [Damn. I must say, that would have solved nearly every one of the world's problems.] 13 Jul 2009 The first case of swine flu has struck Downing Street and it nearly caused a diplomatic crisis. Gordon Brown's senior climate change adviser Michael Jacobs was banned from attending the G8 summit in Italy for fear he would pass the contagious disease to Barack Obama and other world leaders. It is understood that Jacobs contracted the disease while involved in climate change talks in Mexico.
Sotomayor hearings: Feingold takes a swipe at Bush administration 13 Jul 2009 Sen. Russell D. Feingold, a Wisconsin Democrat, singled out what he called one of the most important qualities for a Supreme Court justice: courage. He brought up courage while recounting actions by the high court to counter anti-terrorism efforts by the Bush administration. The implication: The court showed courage standing up against President [sic] Bush. He noted that, in recent years, the Supreme Court repeatedly rebuffed the Bush administration on a number of fronts.
Sotomayor Addresses Senators as Her Confirmation Hearing Begins 13 Jul 2009 Sonia Sotomayor, the first nominee to the Supreme Court by a Democratic president in 15 years, told the Senate Judiciary Committee today, on the opening day of her confirmation hearing, that her judicial philosophy can be distilled to just a few words: "fidelity to the law."
Text of Supreme Court nominee Sotomayor 13 Jul 2009 Text of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor's opening statement before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Monday, as delivered.
Obama Selects Alabama Doctor as Surgeon General 13 Jul 2009 President Obama has chosen Regina Benjamin, a family physician from Alabama, to be the next Surgeon General, filling a key public health post ahead of an expected surge in the H1N1 flu next fall. Benjamin gained fame through her public efforts to rebuild her rural health clinic after Hurricane Katrina devastated it. She founded the Bayou La Batre Rural Health Clinic in 1990 and rebuilt it after the hurricane.
AIG seeks to pay $235 million in bonuses By Andre Damon 13 July 2009 American International Group (AIG), the credit insurer that received a $40 billion government bailout in March, last week requested government approval for paying out $235 million in bonuses to its top employees. When, in March of this year, AIG announced that it planned to pay over $165 million dollars in bonuses, a public outcry arose. On March 19, the House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved a measure to tax executive bonuses at companies receiving TARP assistance. The bill stalled in the Senate after Obama came out against it.
Previous lead stories: H1N1 flu: UK to vaccinate 30 people an hour in 'military-style operation' --Swine flu vaccine to be cleared after five-day trial 12 Jul 2009 When the new vaccine for swine flu arrives in Britain, regulators said this weekend, it could be approved for use in just five days. Regulators at the European Medicines Agency (EMEA) said the fast-tracked procedure has involved clinical trials of a "mock-up" vaccine similar to the one that will be used for the biggest mass vaccination programme in generations. It will be introduced into the general population while regulators continue to carry out simultaneous clinical trials. The first patients in the queue for the jab - being supplied to the UK by GSK and Baxter Healthcare - may understandably be a little nervous at any possible side effects. A mass vaccination campaign against swine flu in America was halted in the 1970s after some people suffered Guillain-Barré syndrome, a disorder of the nervous system.
Cheney Ordered C.I.A. Concealment of Terror Program 12 Jul 2009 The Central Intelligence Agency withheld information about a secret counterterrorism program from Congress for eight years on direct orders from former Vice President [sic] Dick Cheney, the agency’s director, Leon E. Panetta, has told the Senate and House intelligence committees, two people with direct knowledge of the matter said Saturday. The report that Mr. Cheney was behind the decision to conceal the still-unidentified program [Cheney's 'executive assassination ring,' revealed by Seymour Hersh?] from Congress deepened the mystery surrounding it, suggesting that the Bush regime had put a high priority on the program and its secrecy.
Probe of Alleged Torture Weighed --White House Has Resisted Inquiry 12 Jul 2009 Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. is leaning toward appointing a criminal prosecutor to investigate whether CIA personnel tortured terrorism suspects after Sept. 11, 2001, setting the stage for a conflict with administration officials who would prefer the issues remain in the past, according to three sources familiar with his thinking. The White House successfully resisted efforts by congressional Democrats to establish a "truth and reconciliation" panel.
Congressman Ron Paul | FED INDEPENDENCE OR FED SECRECY? CONGRESS CAN REVOKE THE FED's CHARTER ANY TIME
Fed Independence or Fed Secrecy?
Last week I was very pleased that hearings were held on the independence of the Federal Reserve system. My bill HR 1207, known as the Federal Reserve Transparency Act, was discussed at length, as well as the general question of whether or not the Federal Reserve should continue to operate independently.
The public is demanding transparency in government like never before. A majority of the House has cosponsored HR 1207. Yet, Senator Jim DeMint’s heroic efforts to attach it to another piece of legislation elicited intense opposition by the Senate leadership.
The hearings on Capitol Hill provided us with a great deal of information about the types of arguments that will be levied against meaningful transparency and how the secretive central bankers will defend the status quo that is so beneficial to them.
Claims are made that auditing the Fed would compromise its independence. However, by independence, they really mean secrecy. The Fed clearly cherishes its vast power to create and spend trillions of dollars, diluting the value of every other dollar in circulation, making deals with other central banks, and bailing out cronies, all to the detriment of the taxpayer, and to the enrichment of themselves. I am happy to challenge this type of “independence”.
They claim the Fed is endowed with special intellectual abilities with which to control the market and that central bankers magically know what the market needs. We should just trust them. This is patently ridiculous. The market is a complex and intricate thing. No one knows what the market needs other than the market itself. It sends signals, such as prices, that should be reacted to and respected, not thwarted and controlled. Bankers are not all-knowing and cannot ignore the rules of supply and demand. They might act as if they are, but their manipulation of the market just ends up throwing it wildly off balance, which gives us the boom and bust cycles.
They claim the Fed must remain apolitical. No organization is apolitical that relies on the President to appoint the Chairman. In fact, it is subject to the worst sort of politics – power to create trillions of dollars and affect the value of every dollar in the country without the accountability of direct elections or meaningful oversight! The Fed typically enacts monetary policy that is favorable to particular administrations close to elections, to the detriment of long term considerations. They do this partly because of the political appointee process for the Chairmanship.
SpaceWeather.com | A fireball of magnitude -10 (about 250 times brighter than Venus) lit up central Colorado at 2:28 a.m. MDT on July 13th
Data has been recovered from the following cameras:
- Cloudbait (details, video)
- Tom Ashcraft's camera in New Mexico.
SteveQuayle.com | Hot Headlines - July 13, 2009
Her Highness Technology
After Losing Homes, Families Move into Tents
The Vanishing Class
Awash with Cash
Major Lender Faces Crunch
Is Your City Prepared for a Home-Made Nuke?
Study: San Andreas Fault Suffering Ominous Tremors
Philippines' Most Active Volcano Restive Again
Obama: Don’t Shoot Back at Taliban Terrorists!!!
Africa Wants Obama to Rule All Their Countries!
House Dems: Panetta Testified CIA has Misled Congress Repeatedly
'Global Governance' Coming with Carbon Tax, Says Gore
John Holdren, Obama's Science Czar, Says: Forced Abortions and Mass Sterilization Needed to Save the Planet
Germany Shocked by the Other Lives of Civil Servants
David Cameron ‘Could Be a Direct Descendant of Moses’
Christians in Jerusalem Want Jews to Stop Spitting on Them
Turn in Your Neighbor for $1000 – video
13 Doctors Demand Inquest into Dr David Kelly's Death British Company Barcodes Trees to Protect Forests
Large 6.3 magnitude earthquake hits 60 km (38 miles) E (87°) from Hua-lien, Taiwan - Tuesday, July 14, 2009 at 02:05:02 AM at epicenter
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Potassium Iodate -the Government is stocking up -- are you? | Medical Corps Potassium Iodate Tablets, KIO3
If there were a nuclear event in our country, radioactive iodine would be released, which can damage your thyroid gland or even cause thyroid cancer. This may be prevented by taking potassium iodate- KIO3- a thyroid blocker which is the only known protection for this problem, immediately after fallout.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) stated July 1, 1998 in USE OF POTASSIUM IODIDE IN EMERGENCY RESPONSE:
Potassium Iodate is now on Wikipedia!
"Potassium iodide tablets, if taken in time, blocks the thyroid gland's uptake of radioactive iodine and thus could help prevent thyroid cancers and other diseases that might otherwise be caused by exposure to airborne radioactive iodine that could be dispersed in a nuclear accident."
KIO3 tablets are stocked around the world for such an emergency and they are formulated for both adults and children; particularly children. The cost is reasonable, they work and could save your life. They should be part of every family's emergency kit.
Health experts now estimate that the greatest health concerns affecting the largest number of people from a nuclear event anywhere in the world, will be from the release of Radioactive Iodine 131 that is then carried downwind for hundreds of miles. The latest news indicates that Nuclear Power plants, over 100 in our country, are at risk from a terrorist attack.
Anyone living down wind from a nuclear reactor or nuclear strike—the “down winders”.
Radioactive Iodine 131 is a major radioisotope that is abundantly present in both nuclear power plant accidents and nuclear bomb explosions and can travel hundreds of miles on the winds. Thyroid cancer attributable to Chernobyl has been documented up to 300 miles from the accident site.
Radioactive Iodine—The bad Iodine (131-I) is always released in any type of nuclear reaction. It can be in the form of a gas or particle and will be taken up by the thyroid either by ingestion i.e. breathing the gas or particle, drinking or eating. Once in the body it will lodge in the thyroid and do irreparable damage.
Radioactive Iodine—How potent is it? In medicine, minute amounts of 131-I (Radioactive Iodine) are used for thyroid ablation. This means that we use 131-I to chemically destroy a diseased thyroid. Unfortunately, significant amounts of 131-I are always released during ANY nuclear event. Fortunately, KIO3, a thyroid blocker, is the one thing we can take to prevent the exposure before the damage becomes irreversible.
Very small amounts of inhaled or ingested Radioactive Iodine can do serious damage because it will always be absorbed and held the thyroid gland. Eventually, by absorbing a large amount of radiation in the thyroid, abnormalities are likely to result, such as nodules in the thyroid, loss of thyroid function, or thyroid cancer.
What age groups of the population are most at risk? All are at risk if the release is heavy. However, the older you are, the higher the absorbed radioactive dose has to be to cause immediate damage. Young children, babies, newborns and babies in the womb will be affected first and suffer most from 131-I poisoning. The younger the child, the worse the damage will be.
Medical Corps and other health experts agree: The greatest danger from Radioactive Iodine is to the thyroid glands of children. Medical Researchers have found that in certain parts of Belarus, for example, over 30% of children, who were under the age of 4 years old at the time of the accident, can expect to develop thyroid cancer. That is why we chose to develop KIO3, and have formulated it for children, as well as adults.
How will KIO3 help? KIO3 is a thyroid blocker. If there is a nuclear event and fallout is headed your way then—and only then—should you take KIO3 or any thyroid blocker. Taking a thyroid blocker will saturate (fill full) a healthy thyroid with “good Iodine” which will prevent the thyroid from absorbing 131-I “the bad Iodine”.
What happens if I do not take a thyroid blocker? If there is a nuclear event—and you are caught in fallout—and your thyroid is not “blocked” with good Iodine then your thyroid will absorb the radioactive Iodine. Your thyroid does not know the difference between good Iodine and Radioactive Iodine.
Should I buy KIO3? Our job is to do what has never been done in our country. To provide the opportunity for every American to be able to make an informed decision before a perceived threat becomes a reality, because, if a nuclear event happens and you haven't acquired KIO3, then it will be too late.
How Much KIO3 do I need? Estimating How Much KIO3 you need is simple: You need one bottle for every adult in your family and one bottle for every two children, and any extra bottles to send or give to the people you love.
Should you want to purchase KIO3 for your pets, you should consider pet needs as same as a child. Dosing instructions accompanies your order.
Pataskala, Ohio | Tornado dome offers shelter for mobile home park residents
The cost of inflation is a small price to pay for safety.
With the help of a FEMA grant and matching funds from a local businessman, a tornado dome that can double as a community shelter went up in Pataskala, Ohio.
"Historically we've had some serious tornadoes here in Licking County with our data going back 55, 60 years," said Licking County Environmental Planner Jim Mickey.
"Our goal is to, obviously, to protect the residents here, save lives, reduce injuries in severe weather events, but also use this as an opportunity to educate people how they can better protect their families and their community in severe weather."
One of the greatest dangers in tornadoes is injury from flying debris, which can act like projectiles, penetrating walls.
The dome is 50 feet wide and 18 feet tall, capable of withstanding 250 mile-per-hour winds. The wind-resistant pliable fabric within the dome is reinforced with steel attached to a four-by-six concrete foundation and sealed with polyurethane foam.
"It's kind of a shelter in a full-service building to provide for these people in this modular park, so it's really great, and when severe weather comes, they've got someplace to go," said Licking County's Director of Homeland Security Jeff Walker.
The shelters, which cost about $229,000, are invaluable. Licking County plans to have up to six tornado shelters completed by the end of the year.
InsideCostaRica.com | UFO's Visit Costa Rica's Arenal Volcano
http://insidecostarica.com/dailynews/2009/july/13/cr06.htm
The activity of the Volcan Arenal during the past week or so has not only attracted national and foreign tourists to the La Fortuna de San Carlos, but also visitors from the outer world.
Reports of unidentified flying objects (UFO's) have been pouring, according to Ufologist, Edgar Picado, who is investigating the latest reports.
Picado insists that visits by extraterrestrials to the volcano are common and that the recent increase in reports is due to the increase interest in the volcano due to its recent activity.
George Ure's UrbanSurvival.com | The Next 'Battle for Washington' - July 13, 2009
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The Next 'Battle for Washington'
We begin this week with a note from a very savvy private investor that's worth sharing:
For several decades, the financial players have had a wonderful time playing the game of Three Card Monte. Instead of having just three cards on a sidewalk stand or three walnuts and pea, they've had a half dozen regulators and literally a hundred countries to hide in.
Why else would the AIG Financial Products operation be set up in London, allegedly supervised by the US Office of Thrift Supervision, and write private insurance contracts called Credit Default Swaps on US mortgage bonds issued by unregulated non-bank finance companies owned by Wall Street brokerages? Lots of walnuts, just one pea (the risk), and literally dozens of street corners where the pea could be hiding, that's why.
The new Agency proposed by Barney Frank would put a stop to the game of choosing the weakest regulator, and then hiding in some corner of the world that prizes financial secrecy. It would regulate activities, not institutions, and that would spoil the fun.
Imagine if we had regulated mortgage lending from a single authority, no matter who makes the loan? Perhaps the trigger to the meltdown, the subprime mortgage "business" and its evil derivative spawn (CDO and CDS) would not have turned into a threat to the entire world economy. After all, roughly 90% of the subprime mortgage bonds were issued by virtually unregulated entities controlled by Wall Street and a handful of "non-bank" finance companies like Ameriquest, New Century and Countrywide.
It's time to put aside the foolishness that blames banks for the subprime meltdown, since the entire banking industry had only about 10% of the business. While we're at it, forget blaming Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, since they never guaranteed any subprime loans, and actually lost market share to the "private label" business in the crucial bubble years from 2003 - 2007. Finally, let's put a stake through the evil political heart that tries to blame the Community Reinvestment Act. Unlike subprime (or even prime) loans, those CRA loans performed BETTER than expected, because the banks that made those loans held onto them and kept the risk for the full thirty years of the loans. CRA mortgages are the kind of loans that so many conservative pundits think our entire banking system should make -- you know, where a local bank loan officer knows the borrower and the neighborhood, and makes a loan based on character, collateral and capacity to pay, and then takes 100% of the risk if the borrower can't or doesn't pay. It should be no surprise that CRA loans performed far better than subprime loans, and better even than some of the so-called "prime" loans that banks originated but then sold about thirty seconds later.
I don't care if you call yourself a bank, an insurance company, a mortgage bank, a Wall Street broker-dealer, or a marching band -- if you made residential mortgage loans, those loans will be subject to the mortgage regulations and examination by the mortgage regulator. If some hedge fund wants to claim they are really in Anguilla and not Connecticut, then they should be able to make all the mortgage loans they want to Anguillans, secured by Anguillan property. If they want to lend to people in the US secured by houses in the US, they should be subject to US mortgage rules, period.
If you write insurance policies in any of their forms, then the insurance regulators can look over your books. Calling the insurance contract a derivative CDS under the Commodities and Futures Modernization Act just doesn't cut it.
If you sell stocks and bonds to individuals, then the new consumer protection replacement for the SEC looks at your stock and bond operation. I imagine a few of Stanford's "Antiguan CD" buyers wish our SEC had made sure those bonds he was selling were legit. But the SEC is hopelessly compromised, given the professional career path every SEC employee hopes to follow. There is absolutely no personal professional future in protecting consumers from unbridled greed at financial institutions "regulated" by the SEC.
So now it's easy to understand why a multi-million dollar propaganda campaign is cranking up to keep the regulators balkanized, to preserve those cracks in the system that allowed short term profits to be created by virtually unregulated subsidiaries, offshore trusts, special purpose vehicles and private over-the-counter transactions. Credit is the lifeblood of capitalism, and the Vampire Class needs its pools of darkness to keep feeding on the sheeple.
Don't be surprised to hear your own elected representatives spouting slogans like "keep consumer choice" or repeating unsupported conclusions about how it will make credit more expensive for all of us. As if anything could be more expensive than several percentage points sucked out of our entire economy accounted as phantom bankster "profits", paying very real bankster bonuses like an unregulated, uncapped tax on breathing.
Bear in mind that political contributions are the trump cards of politics, and your vote means squat to a Congressman faced with the chance to buy enough TV time to buy thousands of your neighbor's votes, especially if all he has to do is resist the formation of a Consumer Financial Protection Agency. Besides, it's proposed by a Congressman that millions love to hate, and it sounds like more Big Government. What could be easier? The banksters are gathering in Washington, and they brought their checkbooks to buy the best government they can afford.
OK, let's take a spin through media and see how the spinning is going in efforts to keep regulation and meaningful reform from happening. A few headlines from this morning:
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"Elitist Protection Consumers Don't Need" says a column in the Washington Post. Say, isn't this the same Washington Post that was headlined in the UK as the "Washington Post sorry for ethical lapse'?
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In fairness to the WaPo, they did report last week that "Industry takes aim at plan to create financial protection agency". Facts versus opinions...OK, I'm down with that.
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The Corpus Christi Caller-Times headlines that "Debate heats up on financial regulatory reform."
And my fave of the week so far on this? "Banks may lose $1b in penalty fees owing to new law" headlines TopNews.
Yeah...and the problem with that is what? 'Bout time consumers get out from playing bottoms all the time.
The Weak Ahead
Futures are pointing to a lower open for the week. While there's a lot more discussion in this week's ChartPack for Peoplenomics subscribers, the next stop should be the shoot-out at the 7,800 coral before we move either up for a last gasp (potentially violent) rally, or suck on down toward the 6,626 March lows.
Popcorn and watching from the sidelines is a dandy place to be.
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Producer Prices tomorrow along with retail numbers and then the CPI on Wednesday. That will be the most interesting to watch because the consensus is that CPI will be up 0.1% - which it might be if you weight housing prices collapsing just so, but pay particular attention to the core - food and energy which while I can't speak for where you live, around here, has been drifting up at a 5-6% annualized rate. We'll see...but put me into the pool for higher than consensus.
Attention Fiction Writers
The new Treasury Budget is due out this afternoon at 2 PM Eastern. Read and learn.
SupCo Nod Coming
Despite lots of rumor and innuendo on the net, looks like Sonia Sotomayor's nomination to the supreme court bench is a done deal, at least in the MSM. No doubt the republicorps will try to blow something up, since they have their own problems like...
Cheney's What Squad?
Hitting at terrorists, or what? We may never know - the spin machine is past agitprop and now into full speed spinning... The NY Daily News has an interesting read on former veep Dick's 'secret counterterrorist program' that is causing an uproar. The part about '...but was it illegal?" is sounding oh so reminiscent of the Clintonista era "depends what you mean by sex..." kind of logic.
Summer of Hell Department
More rioting this weekend in China. More dead, too.
Oh, and remember when I told you months ago that we'd see the summer of hell entering into prime time when rioting came to France? (UK and US are to follow this temporal marker, so get ready...). Third night of rioting (in France) after death in custody..." This being a summer of hell, this should expand into much larger riots later on (maybe later this week/next weekend, if my read of the time posts is right).
And as Europe 'lights up' keep an eye on emotionally hot headlines like "Nazi Greek State: Night of Crystalls in Patras, Bullets in Athens, Torture in Simi." which seem likely to drive events, too.
Now this is the lead-in to the summer of hell meme I'm talking about....
Motorcycle Weather: Biker Notes
Been accumulating a few notes of interest to serious bike riders: "Third Hells Angel charged over fatal brawl" caught my eye in news out of Australia where bikers are called bikies.
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Efforts to outlaw the club in the Netherlands have failed...again.
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Other chapter news: "Hells Angels’ impending visit changes Spirit Valley Days" up in Duluth, Minnesota.
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The British Columbia club is seeing headlines like "Convictions could hinder gang: RCMP"
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And, while I haven't seen anything in the press about it, heard through friends that Smilin' Rick will be out in four after a sentencing appeal last week up in the PNW...
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Last, but not least, the summer uptick in bike accidents is now in full swing. Leathers, helmet, and lights on. Call me a wuss...but I'm still here. Figure I've cheated death enough, so I roll with the red car now and then when I feel the need for speed... If some Monday the column doesn't appear, that might be me being snagged by radar for 2X the speed limit, or some such...
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Coping: Trouble in the WuJo
Chill with me here, grasshopper. Here at the Complete Web Reality School's DoJo it's time for for a little deeper inquiry into the nature of time and what's to happen between now and 2012. This is all the fault of a reader who ventures into the lands of "WuWu" (a/k/a/ woo-woo) who asked me about time-line jumping. Hated to explain, but best I can reckon (after hanging with the time monks for nearly 10-years now) the concept of 'time lines' makes about as much sense as confusing shipping lines on a nautical chart expecting actual lines on an ocean. There are no 'time-lines' per se, any more than going down to the local marina you'd see 'chart lines' drawn neatly up the channel outside the marina. Things don't work that way.
Of course, the question may arise "If we're not jumping time-lines, what's going on?"
Here comes your ponder from Monday at the WuJo. For hundreds of thousands of years, people lived as tribes. The whole sphere of their consciousness didn't extend more than perhaps 35 miles - what a determined man could walk in one day. Write this down: tribal consciousness.
A little later, along come carts and then sailing ships and the expanse of knowledge - the boundaries of how people though, so to speak - got pushed back. Thus arose (write this down, too) Global consciousness.
As technology grew, and we started expanding our ability to see farther out including into the depths of space, along comes (write this one down, too) galactic consciousness. The Internet has been a key (or is that chi?) component facilitating this uniting of the global population (that which is GlobalPop in our modelspace) into a single emerging consciousness. Which (as you'd expect) just scares the hell out of the controllers and those who would retain power they used (and abused) during the earlier reign global not-yet-galactic consciousness.
Then as some point, we will get to where all signs point - if'n you know how to read them - which is what? (Pen ready?) Universal consciousness.
How here's the thing that's about to happen: The swings that impact the existing 'global consciousness' and 'galactic consciousness' are going to becoming progressively larger and more extreme as we get closer and closer to fall of 2011. It will become even more apparent as we get to a place (you'll see it in this upcoming ALTA report if I get Cliff to explain the mechanics - a fair bit of work, though) in 2010 through 2012 where events will occur that will be of such magnitude that they will have the emotional impact of years and years of emotion - all being released in a short number of weeks. And later, even days or hours. Maybe even seconds!
And as we go forward, although there will be pauses while various cycles 'synch up' the whole of the cloth is that groups of people will be moving from one level of consciousness to another, such that by late 2012 we will be at a place where events could be releasing centuries of emotion/karma not in weeks, but in minutes. Hard head-trip, that.
That stressing and straining seems to possibly be how 'universal consciousness' is given birth, and all the increasing intensity of the events and the related time compression is to consciousness what contractions are to a mother's contractions in labor. At some point you'll just have to 'let it all go' and return to the One.
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Still, the question persists about timelines, but these come from people who don't yet suffer from a condition called "hyperchroniac disease" - or the acute awareness of time to where even the smallest variations in its fabric are of note.
I don't claim to be 'special' in any regard, but the only real hyperchroniac event I've ever personally experienced was in May of 2001 when Elaine and I were living on our sailboat at Oyster Point marina in South San Francisco. We awoke one morning with clocks akimbo and a feeling that our experience of time had somehow become viscous and syrupy. Within hours, things were back to normal and a day or two later I had my answer to my questioning "Wow! So that is what just zinged by!"
Turned out to be the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory breaking a world record for the world's strongest magnet. I personally had an altered state experience at exactly that 'time' and so that's what I attribute it to.
And that's how I see all the pieces all fit: My fascination with things electric/electronic, being partial to m-wave antennas (as opposed to e-wave/Hertzian designs), the Philadelphia Experiment with high powered magnets, why some folks claim to see apparitions after & around MRI machines.
There's a common track here that involves energy and vibration and it's clearly NOT something you conjure up in the backyard. Might get it crossing the galactic ecliptic, or at a subtle level, it may drive people mad when they can't reconcile the rapidity of change coming at us, but it's not something you 'do' at a planetary level. Nonsense, although it may sell well.
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The hyperchroniac experience is tough to describe, but having experienced all of the following, it's somewhere between - to try and put a fence around the experience): a near-death experience (which I had with childhood asthma), an 'enlightenment moment' where you dissolve into Universe and become part of the great ocean of everythingness, along with a touch of delirium like you may have experienced with your worst-ever flu.
If I were to mix up a batch of the feeling, it would be 10-parts of the touching everythingness, one part NDE and 3 parts what delirium is like. That's what hyperchroniacs feel when time gets a bit 'loose' from it's moorings. Vibratory states move about.
And it may be a 'whole body' kind of experience, since a magnet in the area of my head doesn't seem to do much...which gets me to the next phase of my personal researches - where I work on placing multiple magnets so as to build a 'field' to see if I can create a local hyperchroniac 'hot spot' and do a little personal time twisting. Magnets and chakras are on the experiments like along with the quest for the zero-point energy, which would be the axis around which all vibrations work.
But claims by some that they've done doing planetary time twisting? ROF-LMAO Take it from me...t'ain't the case.
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And my credentials are what? Don't know if you read up on who my great great grandfather was on my dad's side. But besides being an apologist for the British factory-owning class, for his "Philosophie of Manufacturers" (a fine economics text) Andrew Ure was also reputedly the source of inspiration for Mary Shelley's book "Frankenstein". That's the downside of the family, Butcher of Glasgow stories and such. But. the upside is that our 'shocking experiments' were century-early precursors to defibrillators...if you're awake enough to follow.
So, you see, the nut falls not far from the tree, Grasshopper. This poking around at the edges of how the animation of humans works is hard-coded into my genes. And this much is clear to me: We vibrate - each at our own frequency because we each have our own destiny & karma to work on - and we don't all just 'jump'.
Yet.
You'll know we're close to a planetary change when you start to seeing people standing around drooling because what's going on 'outside' can't be reconciled with how firmly they hold to previous mental constructs of how things work. That level of change/reality-storming comes along every so often.
Yep. Frozen stock still and drooling...a pervasive sense of surreal - like walking around in a dream in a syrupy state of time becoming incongruous and warpy...should be an obvious enough clue, don'tcha think? And when it passes, we 'stick' to whatever plane we're ready for. Some folks even get to run 'time backward' from there, but that's another day under the lotus tree. Kinda graceful in a Big Cosmic Blender way. Like a planetary LSD trip but without the drugs. And where you come down is where you're ready to land and work the cycle through again.
Think commencement and school.
Oh Crop!
As long as we're stumbling around the WuJo, explaining the Great Mysteries and exposing sorcerers for what they are to the few magicians about...our cartoonista, Rebecca Price of www.tuen-republic.com will now reveal a complete explanation of crop circles!
Oh those orbs.... Now, suck up some coffee and let's get back to here, now, and actionable...
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Peoplenomics This Week: Some Grand Strategy for Average Folks
Yes, trying to figure out whether you should bail out of your 401(k) and pay off your home or your vacation property is a damn tough question. A far more complicated one, in fact, than most people will ever bother to think through. But in the interest of getting ahead in the long run, let's roll up our sleeves and consider it this week. Be warned though: This is real work and you'll want to go over this with your financial advisor because I am NOT a financial advisor...just a fellow with a little street sense and a fair to middling grasp of economics - and the future - which many advisors seem to lack. Remember who got this decline right? If your advisor had you putting money into stocks at the top in either late 1999 or mid 2007, you might want to hit the phone book, so to speak. Ready to get some work done?
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