Ethanol Guide. How to make Ethanol / Alcohol Fuel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Q504fv8xLY
Here is how I distill my Ethanol I put in my car. Very simple
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9nld-bswHU
Saturday, July 25, 2009
LINK: Survival Salterwater Distillation - Part 1 & Part 2 (videos)
Survival Salterwater Distillation Part 1
Survival Salterwater Distillation Part 2
Survival Salterwater Distillation Part 2
Simple "side jet design" alcohol stove built out of a couple of pop cans
For info on how to make these stoves, check out www.zenstoves.net
Simple "side jet design" alcohol stove I built out of a couple of pop cans. It has an inner wall and an open top which lets it preheat itself, allowing the fuel to heat up and vaporize. Once it gets hot enough, you simply cover the middle hole by setting a pot on top of it, then just let it burn until the water boils. It's not an exact science, but ultralight backpackers and hikers love them for doing simple chores like boiling water. They're cheap to make and easy to use, plus you can find the fuel pretty much anywhere. I use HEET, which is less than $2.00 a bottle at most gas stations, dept stores, and even some grocery stores. However, you can use denatured alcohol as well. DO NOT use rubbing alcohol.
Simple "side jet design" alcohol stove I built out of a couple of pop cans. It has an inner wall and an open top which lets it preheat itself, allowing the fuel to heat up and vaporize. Once it gets hot enough, you simply cover the middle hole by setting a pot on top of it, then just let it burn until the water boils. It's not an exact science, but ultralight backpackers and hikers love them for doing simple chores like boiling water. They're cheap to make and easy to use, plus you can find the fuel pretty much anywhere. I use HEET, which is less than $2.00 a bottle at most gas stations, dept stores, and even some grocery stores. However, you can use denatured alcohol as well. DO NOT use rubbing alcohol.
Emergency Heat - Alcohol ... my latest project in learning - Have found the heater I want to buy!
Looking at alcohol as a fuel is my newest project. Have been researching tiny alcohol stoves used for cooking and learning about alcohol - how clean it burns. This is an example of the fuel:
Denatured Alcohol
A clean burning fuel for chafing dishes, wick-type alcohol lamps and stoves. No. 83416: Pint No. 83432: Quart No. 834G1: Gallon No. 834G5: 5 gallon.
My next project is learning how TO MAKE ALCOHOL ...
Denatured Alcohol
A clean burning fuel for chafing dishes, wick-type alcohol lamps and stoves. No. 83416: Pint No. 83432: Quart No. 834G1: Gallon No. 834G5: 5 gallon.
My next project is learning how TO MAKE ALCOHOL ...
| HeatMate 5200 Portable Alcohol Heater |
| New portable alcohol heater doubles as a stove |
MotorHome, January 2009 |
| When a heater or stove fails, life can get mighty uncomfortable. The HeatMate 5200 Portable Alcohol Heater from Contoure International provides a safe source of warmth that doubles as a stove. An excellent addition to emergency provisions, the HeatMate produces 5,200 BTUs of heat. When the lid of the compact and efficient heater is removed, HeatMate transforms into a cook top that is capable of boiling a quart of water in nine minutes. The HeatMate non-pressurized canister system contains a nonflammable wick material that absorbs approximately 1-1/4 qts. of environmentally-friendly alcohol fuel. Even if turned completely upside down, its unique design prevents fuel from leaking. Extremely reliable, the HeatMate canister system eliminates the messy hoses and valves of pressurized systems, as well as the tiresome pumping, priming and pre-heating. Alcohol fuel is easily extinguished with water. Constructed of durable aluminum, the compact HeatMate measures 11-3/4" H x 11-1/2" W. With a handy carrying strap, the heater/stove weighs 5 lbs. 3 oz. The suggested retail price of the HeatMate 5200 Portable Alcohol Heater is $169.95. For more information contact InterCon Marketing, 1540 Northgate Blvd., Sarasota, FL 34234. 941-355-4488. |
Emergency Preparation Idea: Canned Heat - burn time approx 10 hours - Safe Indoors
Cave Editor's Note: I haven't done a real web search on the best deals on this particular product - but perhaps an idea to put on your list.
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Product Description
Ideal for use anywhere you would use canned heat,i.e., chafing dishes, camping, emergency kits, etc.. HEATCELL will burn longer than other conventional canned heat and is SAFER to use for both INDOOR and OUTDOOR cooking or heating. HeatCell Keeps food hotter longer with no danger of alcohol gel fires, and more heat than wicks. Fuel can is spill resistant and does not dry out like others when not in use. Burn time is approximately 10 hours per can. ENCAPCELLON TECHNOLOGY™ Should the can fall face down, it safely extinguishes, eliminating the risk of fuel leaks and burns. The odorless, clean burn eliminates carbon buildup and offers the lowest CO emissions available. Easy to relight for significant cost savings and reduced waste. HeatCell's NON-FLAMMABLE shipping classification has no special storage requirements or shipping restrictions unlike most other canned fuels. In addition HeatCell has an UNLIMITED SHELF-LIFE since it does not evaporate. HeatCell Advantages: Even Heat Maintains Food Temperature Container Size: 3 7/16” Dia x 2 3/8” H Description: | ||||||||||||||||
D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled July 24 that the Department of the Interior must account for billions of dollars in mismanaged Indian trust funds
Appeals court: Indian trust accounting needed
Indian plaintiffs still disappointed
By Rob Capriccioso
WASHINGTON – The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled July 24 that the Department of the Interior must account for billions of dollars in mismanaged Indian trust funds.
The ruling upends a previous district court decision, which said a full accounting could not be performed due to lack of funds from Congress and constraints within the department.
“The statute [the American Indian Trust Fund Management Reform Act of 1994] gives the plaintiff class a right to an accounting,” according to the unanimous appellate decision.
The court’s ruling said the accounting, which has long been called for by approximately 500,000 Indian plaintiffs in what’s widely known as the Cobell litigation, does not have to be perfect and does not have to include accounts that were closed as of 1994. It also said the accounting can include statistical sampling.
“The purpose of an equitable accounting, as we have tried to articulate, is for Interior to concentrate on picking the low-hanging fruit,” the decision said. “We must not allow the theoretically perfect to render impossible the achievable good.”
The case centers on the argument that the federal government mismanaged billions of dollars in oil, gas, grazing, timber and other royalties overseen by Interior for Indian trustees since 1887.
Interior officials had begun an accounting during the George W. Bush administration, but did not complete the effort due to cost issues and continuing legal battles.
U.S. District Judge James Robertson will now be charged with the “equitable power to enforce the best accounting that Interior can provide, with the resources it receives, or expects to receive, from Congress,” the ruling said.
Robertson, who began overseeing the case in 2006, ruled in January 2008 that a full accounting was “impossible.” Then, last August, he ruled that the plaintiffs deserved $455.6 million – a number that fell far short of expectations. Lawyers for the plaintiffs argued they were entitled to $47 billion.
The appellate ruling vacates Robertson’s previous decision, saying he “erred” in his judgment. A settlement amount is therefore off the table for now.
The lead tribal plaintiff, Elouise Cobell, a member of the Blackfeet Nation, expressed concern with the court’s decision to relax the rules that will dictate the accounting. She said the ruling effectively calls for the government to only account for funds that it can identify easily – a development that she believes is not fair to Indians.
In a statement issued by Cobell’s spokesman, the plaintiff "expressed appreciation for the court not freeing the government from its burden to render an accounting."
Cobell said the plaintiffs would “continue to seek justice in this case,” no matter how long it will take.
In the spring, Cobell said she was disappointed that the Obama administration had not moved to settle the case.
Interior officials said they are reviewing the decision.
Lincoln, Nebraska's People's City Mission opens free clinic serving 15-20,000 people per year - WITHOUT a dime to the taxpayers
A free medical clinic opened in Lincoln this week to address what its organizers say is an urgently underserved population that can't afford physical and mental health care it needs.
The People's City Mission opened its clinic Monday in a building just north of the mission at Second and R streets.
"We hope to serve 15,000 to 20,000 people a year, without a dime to the taxpayer," said Tom Barber, executive director of the mission. "With volunteerism we can do a lot of things. We were entrepreneurial, creative and innovative about getting this done."
The clinic eventually will offer mental health services, as well as optometry, dentistry and general physical health care.
For now, it is staffed by three full-time employees - two administrative and one nurse practitioner - and it is open weekdays, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Barber said the clinic was funded by a single anonymous gift of $200,000. Labor, medical equipment and supplies have been donated.
The opening follows three years of planning, necessitated by a lack of services of this kind in Lincoln, he said.
"I've had four people die (because they didn't have medical care) at the mission since I've been here," Barber said of his four years with the organization. "People are using the emergency room as their only care provider, and they often wait until the situation is serious."
Barber and others involved in improving public health in Lincoln agree the need for indigent health care is pressing.
"Even if people qualify for indigent medical care (through Medicaid), the paperwork is sometimes too onerous for them to apply," Barber said. "Or people don't have cars - unless the clinic is in direct proximity to where they live, they don't go."
What they do not agree on is how to create services - from urgent care clinics to general practitioners offering a full range of care, including preventative - so that people who are on the margins of society can access them.
"There is a huge need ... it has to be met in a coordinated effort," said Joan Anderson, executive director of the Lancaster County Medical Society, a group that represents doctors. "We don't want clients going from one clinic to the next and getting a Band-Aid."
Doctors want to see free and sliding scale clinics coordinate their efforts so requests to donate time aren't duplicated, Anderson said.
Barber said there is a gap in Lincoln for people unable to pay for health care, even with other clinics already in operation.
At Clinic with a Heart, a local cooperative effort based out of the Center for People in Need, doctors are donating their services for two hours a week.
The People's Health Center, 1021 N. 27th St., provides free and sliding scale care, but the earliest a new patient can see a doctor is October, Executive Director Deb Shoemaker said.
"In the beginning there may be some confusion with what a person can receive (at the People's Health Center versus the People's City Mission clinic)," Shoemaker said.
Nonetheless, she said, the need for free medical care is significant in Lincoln, so much so that it overrides any concern about competition for limited resources.
Shoemaker said her staff will refer people to the mission clinic for more immediate services, while they wait for appointments with doctors at her center.
Therein lies an important distinction for public health experts, said Bruce Dart, health director of the Lincoln-Lancaster County Health Department.
Fundamentally, the mission's model is different than the continuing care offered by doctors who work full time at the same office and see the same patients with some regularity, Dart said. Those doctors can often spot when a medical situation is more serious than a one-time visit may imply.
"(The People's Mission clinic) is not going to be a medical home. With volunteer clinics, patients jump around; it causes fragmentation," he said. "Whether that's going to happen there, I don't know."
Both Dart and Anderson serve on the board of the People's Health Center.
Barber said the mission's clinic will be staffed by doctors who will be asked to volunteer for three hours an evening every other month. In this regard, the mission clinic will function more like Linc Care or other urgent care clinics than a typical family doctors' practice.
All agree that keeping people from using emergency rooms for nonemergency needs or as de facto primary care is a worthy enterprise. This exhausts hospitals' charity care funds and drives up costs for insurance companies and policyholders.
"People in Lincoln are underserved medically," Shoemaker said. "The People's Health Center is part of the solution."
Barber said he hopes the mission's clinic can be, too.
Friday, July 24, 2009
Homemade Yeast Recipes
Yeast Starter
100 g (1 cup) + 50 g (1/2 cup) flour
100 ml (6 tbsp.) oil
100 ml (6 tbsp.) water
> 10 g (2 tsp.) honey
Place the 100 g (1 cup) of flour, oil, water and honey in a bowl.
Mix well and knead, adding a little more flour as needed to keep the dough from sticking to your fingers.
Let rest at least 2 days near a radiator.
Add the remaining 50 g (1/2 cup) of flour and knead again; let rest another 2 days. Your starter is ready to use.
Witch Yeast
l cup mashed potato
1/4 cup sugar
2 tsp salt
l cup warm water (105-115)
Stir together in a quart glass jar, cover with a cloth and leave in a warm place (80-85 degrees) for two days or until it ferments, bubbles up, and smells pleasantly sour. Use, or seal and refrigerate. Can be used in the white bread or in other sourdough recipes if you choose.
Recipe From: A cookbook published by the Methodist Church women of Delphi, Indiana.
Substitute for Yeast
Boil one pound of flour, one quater pound of brown sugar and a little salt in two gallons of water for one hour. When milk-warm, bottle and cork close, and it will be ready for use in twenty-four hours.
Recipe From: Compendium of Cookery and Reliable Recipes, 1890
100 g (1 cup) + 50 g (1/2 cup) flour
100 ml (6 tbsp.) oil
100 ml (6 tbsp.) water
> 10 g (2 tsp.) honey
Place the 100 g (1 cup) of flour, oil, water and honey in a bowl.
Mix well and knead, adding a little more flour as needed to keep the dough from sticking to your fingers.
Let rest at least 2 days near a radiator.
Add the remaining 50 g (1/2 cup) of flour and knead again; let rest another 2 days. Your starter is ready to use.
Witch Yeast
l cup mashed potato
1/4 cup sugar
2 tsp salt
l cup warm water (105-115)
Stir together in a quart glass jar, cover with a cloth and leave in a warm place (80-85 degrees) for two days or until it ferments, bubbles up, and smells pleasantly sour. Use, or seal and refrigerate. Can be used in the white bread or in other sourdough recipes if you choose.
Recipe From: A cookbook published by the Methodist Church women of Delphi, Indiana.
Substitute for Yeast
Boil one pound of flour, one quater pound of brown sugar and a little salt in two gallons of water for one hour. When milk-warm, bottle and cork close, and it will be ready for use in twenty-four hours.
Recipe From: Compendium of Cookery and Reliable Recipes, 1890
Magnitude 6.2 Earthquake hit 80 km (50 miles) WSW of Arawa, Bougainville, Papua New Guinea PNG - Saturday, July 25, 2009 at 11:42:28 AM at epicenter
Earthquake Details
| Magnitude | 6.2 |
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| Location | 6.499°S, 154.883°E |
| Depth | 65.7 km (40.8 miles) |
| Region | BOUGAINVILLE REGION, PAPUA NEW GUINEA |
| Distances | 80 km (50 miles) WSW of Arawa, Bougainville, PNG 195 km (120 miles) W of Chirovanga, Choiseul, Solomon Islands 900 km (560 miles) ENE of PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea 2325 km (1450 miles) N of BRISBANE, Queensland, Australia |
| Location Uncertainty | horizontal +/- 5.3 km (3.3 miles); depth +/- 12 km (7.5 miles) |
| Parameters | NST=124, Nph=124, Dmin=645.7 km, Rmss=0.85 sec, Gp= 50°, M-type=teleseismic moment magnitude (Mw), Version=7 |
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| Event ID | us2009jmae |
- This event has been reviewed by a seismologist.
Breaking News and Commentary from Citizens For Legitimate Government | 24 July 2009
Bush Administration Debated Using Military On U.S. Soil In Terror Sweeps --Yoo document: Neither Posse Comitatus Act nor Fourth Amendment 'tied a president's hands' 25 Jul 2009 Top Bush regime officials in 2002 debated testing the Constitution by sending American troops into the suburbs of Buffalo to arrest a group of men suspected of plotting with Al Qaeda, according to former administration officials. Some of the advisers to President [sic] George W. Bush, including Vice President [sic] Dick Cheney, argued that a president had the power to use the military on domestic soil to sweep up the terrorism suspects [the Lackawanna Six], and declare them enemy combatants. The lawyers [John C. Yoo and Robert J. Delahunty], in the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel, wrote that the Constitution, the courts and Congress had recognized a president’s authority "to take military actions, domestic as well as foreign, if he determines such actions to be necessary to respond to the terrorist attacks upon the United States on Sept. 11, 2001, and before." The document added that the neither the Posse Comitatus Act nor the Fourth Amendment tied a president’s hands.
DHS, agencies to go on high alert for first nationwide terror exercise --Exercise will include agencies in Britain, Mexico, Canada and Australia; federal, regional, state, tribal, local and private sector officials throughout U.S. 24 Jul 2009 Law enforcement and intelligence agencies in the United States and abroad are preparing to go on high alert as part of a massive terrorism prevention exercise -- the first of its kind here. Beginning Monday, security officials at all levels in the United States and four other countries will scramble into action in the wake of a fictional terrorist attack somewhere outside the United States. The scenario envisions the receipt of intelligence that a follow-up attack is planned inside the United States, forcing agencies inside and out of the country to test their coordination, intelligence and terror prevention skills.
DHS Coordinates National Level Exercise to Prevent Terrorist Attacks with Federal, State, Local Tribal, Private Sector, and International Partners (dhs.gov) 24 Jul 2009 The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will launch on Monday the five-day National Level Exercise 2009 (NLE 09)--the first national level exercise to focus on terrorism prevention--in conjunction with federal, state, local, tribal, private sector and international partners... The NLE 09 scenario focuses on preventing a terrorist from entering the United States to carry out additional attacks in the aftermath of a terrorist event outside of the country, prioritizing intelligence and law enforcement activities that detect, disrupt and deter preventable terrorist incidents.
Dozens of Britons Abroad Held In H1N1 Quarantine 24 Jul 2009 At least 160 Britons are being held in quarantine abroad because they are suspected of having the H1N1 flu virus, the Foreign Office said on Friday. The Britons, a mixture of adults and children, are being held in China, Singapore, India and Egypt. The actual number could be higher because some Britons are likely to be held in quarantine without getting in touch with the Foreign Office, it said.
'We have to prepare for the worst.' U.S. panel prepares to OK swine flu vaccine trials 23 Jul 2009 The U.S. Food and Drug Administration wants to help rush through approval of new vaccine to fight foment the pandemic H1N1 virus, promising to watch closely bad effects from the immunization, officials said on Thursday. The FDA said it would help companies design ways to quickly test experimental versions of the vaccine. [See: Legal immunity set for swine flu vaccine makers 17 Jul 2009 Vaccine makers and federal officials will be immune from lawsuits that result from any new swine flu vaccine, under a document signed by Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius, government health officials said Friday.]
Swine flu spreads; health officials plan vaccines 24 Jul 2009 Global health officials stepped up efforts to prepare for quick vaccination 'against' the H1N1 pandemic virus, saying on Friday it appeared now to be affecting older age groups spared earlier in the pandemic. WHO said vaccination against H1N1 might start in weeks, even though clinical trials to test the safety, efficacy and needed dosage of H1N1 vaccines have barely started. [See: Vaccine May Be More Dangerous Than Swine Flu --Vaccine contains squalene and gp120 By Dr. Russell Blaylock 07 Jul 2009.]
All U.S. children should get seasonal flu shot: CDC 24 Jul 2009 All U.S. children aged 6 months to 18 years should get a seasonal influenza vaccine every year, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Friday. The CDC's Dr. Anne Schuchat said the agency was strengthening recommendations for children to get the vaccination against seasonal influenza, especially with fears that the new H1N1 virus will be added to the already expected burden of seasonal flu.
Germany Orders 50 Mln Doses of Swine Flu Vaccine --Doses will cost around EUR700 million 24 Jul 2009 Germany is ordering 50 million doses of vaccine for the A/H1N1 influenza strain, known as swine flu, the Thuringia State Health Ministry said. The order is sufficient to vaccinate around one third of the population to follow World Health Organization recommendations to vaccinate particular groups, said the ministry, which currently chairs the conference of federal and state health ministers.
Companies reaping the swine flu windfall 23 Jul 2009 The effects of swine flu are already showing up in higher profits for makers of vaccines and antiviral drugs as the first pandemic of the 21st century makes its way onto corporate bottom lines. Vaccine and flu drug orders lifted drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline to a better-than expected quarterly profit, the company said on Wednesday. Glaxo predicts flu vaccine sales will spur second-half strength.
Petition link: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/refuse-and-resist-mandatory-flu-vaccine
CLG Pandemic Action Alerts page: http://www.legitgov.org/pandemic_action.html
U.S. Officials Met With Iraqi Insurgent Groups Twice in Spring 24 Jul 2009 U.S. officials engaged in negotiations with Iraqi 'insurgent' groups in two meetings this spring that culminated in an agreement to organize talks intended to bring the groups into Iraqi political life, an insurgent leader and Turkish and American officials said Thursday. The negotiations involved at least three insurgent leaders and at least three State Department officials, who met in Turkey in March and May, said Sheik Ali al-Jubouri, an insurgent representative. U.S. officials declined to provide details of the meetings, which they said took place in March and April.
U.S. soldier dies of non-combat incident in Iraq 24 Jul 2009 The U.S. military said an American soldier died of non-combat related incident in Baghdad on Friday. A military statement said that a Multi-National Division-Baghdad soldier died in eastern section of the Iraqi capital, without giving further details about how and where exactly the incident took place.
52 percent of U.S. soldiers wounded in Iraq, Afghanistan diagnosed with TBI 24 Jul 2009 Some 52 percent of soldiers severely injured in Iraq and Afghanistan who have come to the U.S. Army's largest hospital for treatment have been diagnosed with traumatic brain injuries (TBI), an internal study has found. The results of the study, carried out by Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center (DVBIC) at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, also showed a steep increase -- from 33 percent -- in TBI cases since the end of 2008.
Defence chiefs send urgent reinforcements to Afghanistan 24 Jul 2009 The high number of troops killed and wounded on the battlefield has led defence chiefs to send urgent reinforcements to southern Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence announced tonight. In an unprecedented move, 125 personnel, some of them explosives experts, are being flown to Helmand where British forces have suffered the biggest attrition rate since the campaign against the Taliban and other insurgent groups began more than three years ago.
US 'will not' cut cash flow to Israel 24 Jul 2009 The White House has dismissed speculations that the US is considering economic sanctions to force Israel into freezing its West Bank settlement activity. State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said on Thursday that a remark made by deputy spokesman Robert Wood on Wednesday had been misinterpreted.
Terrorism trials should be held in US federal courts: rights group 24 Jul 2009 Terrorism suspects should be prosecuted in US federal courts instead of military commissions, according to a report released Thursday by Human Rights First. The report, prepared by two former federal prosecutors, claims that the civilian court system is fully equipped to try terrorism cases and argues against the creation of a new security court system or indefinite detention of certain individuals.
U.S. courts convict 91 percent in terrorism trials: study 24 Jul 2009 Guantanamo prisoners could be successfully tried in the United States because an overwhelming number of terrorism cases in U.S. courts since the September 11 attacks have led to convictions, a study released Thursday said. Moreover, the trials did not leak national secrets or endanger surrounding communities, Human Rights First said in report regarding how to prosecute foreign terrorism suspects held at the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
BlackBerry maker: UAE partner's update was spyware 22 Jul 2009 BlackBerry users in the Mideast business centers of Dubai and Abu Dhabi who were directed by their service provider to upgrade their phones were actually installing spy software that could allow outsiders to peer inside, according to the device's maker. Research in Motion Ltd., the Canadian company that makes the mobile gadgets, said the application users unwittingly installed was a surveillance program developed by a privately held Silicon Valley company called SS8 Networks Inc. SS8 describes itself in a company brochure as "the leader in communications interception and a worldwide provider of regulatory compliant, electronic intercept and surveillance solutions." It markets its services to intelligence agencies, law enforcement and communication service providers.
Obama Says He Regrets His Language on Gates Arrest 25 Jul 2009 President Obama said Friday that he "could have calibrated" his words more carefully in the controversy over the arrest of a black Harvard professor by a white police officer, but added that there had been an "overreaction" by both sides in a case that touched off an intense discussion about race in America. "To the extent that my choice of words didn’t illuminate, but rather contributed to more media frenzy, I think, that was unfortunate," Mr. Obama said, making an unusual unannounced visit to the White House briefing room.
Cop Won't Apologize For Arresting Obama Trying To Get Into White House By R J Shulman 24 Jul 2009 Metro DC police officer Mark Conyers says he will not apologize to President Obama for arresting him for disorderly conduct when Obama tried to get into the White House when the front door stuck... Apparently, the front door of the White House stuck and Obama was trying to get it open with his shoulder when Sgt. Conyers asked him for identification. "I told him he couldn't go in there," Conyers wrote in his police report, "but he looks at me and says 'yes I can.'" (Satire)
Perry raises possibility of states' rights showdown with White House over healthcare 23 Jul 2009 Gov. Rick Perry (R-nutjob), raising the specter of a showdown with the Obama administration, suggested Thursday that he would consider invoking states’ rights 'protections' under the 10th Amendment to resist the president’s healthcare plan, which he said would be "disastrous" for Texas. Interviewed by conservative talk show host Mark Davis of WBAP/820 AM, Perry said his first hope is that Congress will defeat the plan. But should it pass, Perry predicted that Texas and a "number" of states might resist the federal health mandate.
You're Appointing Who? Please Obama, Say It's Not So! By Jeffrey Smith 23 Jul 2009 The person who may be responsible for more food-related illness and death than anyone in history has just been made the US food safety czar... If GMOs are indeed responsible for massive sickness and death, then the individual who oversaw the FDA policy that facilitated their introduction holds a uniquely infamous role in human history. That person is Michael Taylor. He had been Monsanto's attorney before becoming policy chief at the FDA. Soon after, he became Monsanto's vice president and chief lobbyist. This month Michael Taylor became the senior advisor to the commissioner of the FDA. He is now America's food safety czar. What have we done?
CA Assembly passes most of $26B budget 24 Jul 2009 The state Assembly has approved a plan to close most of California's $26 billion budget deficit, sending the package of financial fixes to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. The Assembly rejected two of the most controversial measures: a plan to take about $1 billion in transportation funding from local governments and allowing oil drilling off the California coast for the first time in 40 years.
Bank regulators resist Obama's encroachment on their turf 24 Jul 2009 Federal bank regulators sparred before Congress on Friday, trying to maintain their current powers as the Obama administration seeks to strip them of the authority to regulate consumer credit and give it to a new watchdog agency. The heads of the Federal Reserve, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., the Office of Thrift Supervision and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency testified for and against portions of the administration's proposals to revamp the regulation of the financial sector with an eye toward protecting consumers.
Waterford Village Bank 58th bank failure of 2009 24 Jul 2009 Waterford Village Bank of Clarence, N.Y. became the 58th bank to fail in 2009, and the first in New York this year, according to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Friday. Evans Bancorp Inc. will assume all deposits and purchase all assets.
Palin Favorability Rating Dips As She Nears Exit, Poll Finds --53 percent of Americans view Palin negatively 24 Jul 2009 As Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin prepares for the next stage of her political 'career,' a majority of Americans hold an unfavorable view of her, and there is broad public doubt about her leadership skills and understanding of complex issues, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.
U.S. Rebuffs U.N. Requests for Guantanamo Visits, Data on CIA Prisons 23 Jul 2009 The Obama administration has declined requests from U.N. human rights investigators for information on secret prisons and for private interviews with inmates at the U.S. military detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, U.N. officials said, dampening their hopes of greater U.S. cooperation on human rights issues. The rebuffs are the latest instances of the U.S. government resisting international human rights organizations' efforts to learn about Bush regime practices. In June, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton turned down a request from the top U.N. anti-torture official for a meeting in Washington to discuss practices at secret CIA detention centers and at Guantanamo Bay, despite the administration's avowed commitment to being open to greater scrutiny by the United Nations.
Iraq PM admits US troops may stay 23 Jul 2009 The Iraqi prime minister has admitted US troops could stay in the country beyond 2011. Under the US-Iraq Status of Forces agreement, which sets out a timetable for the withdrawal of US forces from Iraq, American troops must exit the country by December 31, 2011. Al-Maliki's apparent willingness for US forces to stay in Iraq beyond the 2011 deadline comes a day after he met Barack Obama, the US president, at the White House.
'The company had been preparing for a pandemic for the last three-and-a-half years.' Drugs giant GlaxoSmithKline predicts swine flu gold rush 22 Jul 2009 Britain's biggest pharmaceutical company is preparing to sell £3bn worth of swine flu drugs this year, it emerged today. GlaxoSmithKline revealed its vaccine, one of the world's first, could be available by September after the UK government placed advance orders for 60m doses. The chief executive, Andrew Witty, said the company had been preparing for a pandemic for the last three-and-a-half years and had spent more than £1bn to ensure its factories could crank up production at short notice.
Peter Schiff Economic Predictions | The Coming Collapse in the value of the US Dollar
The Government Doesn't Have any Wealth
Barack Obama's policies will unleash a greater economic crisis than the world is now facing, believes US financial forecaster, Peter Schiff.
Pittsburg G20 Resistance Project is coordinating march & rally planned for Sep 23 & Sep 24 during Group of 20 Summit in Pittsburgh
PITTSBURGH - Protesters are planning marches and other demonstrations during the Group of 20 summit in Pittsburgh.
The Pittsburgh G20 Resistance Project, which is coordinating activities, says a march is planned for Sept. 23 and another for Sept. 24, the day the summit begins.
On Sept. 25, dozens of simultaneous actions will take place "that connect the struggle against the G20 to a broader arena of local and international social resistance."
The actions, which weren't detailed, will culminate in a march and rally in the city's Oakland section, home to the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University.
The group says it wants to "disrupt the summit and undermine its attempts to gain legitimacy," but asks that participants avoid police provocation.
CommonDreams.org | The American Empire Is Bankrupt
Published on Monday, June 15, 2009 by TruthDig.com
by Chris Hedges
by Chris Hedges
This week marks the end of the dollar’s reign as the world’s reserve currency. It marks the start of a terrible period of economic and political decline in the United States. And it signals the last gasp of the American imperium. That’s over. It is not coming back. And what is to come will be very, very painful.
Barack Obama, and the criminal class on Wall Street, aided by a corporate media that continues to peddle fatuous gossip and trash talk as news while we endure the greatest economic crisis in our history, may have fooled us, but the rest of the world knows we are bankrupt. And these nations are damned if they are going to continue to prop up an inflated dollar and sustain the massive federal budget deficits, swollen to over $2 trillion, which fund America’s imperial expansion in Eurasia and our system of casino capitalism. They have us by the throat. They are about to squeeze.
There are meetings being held Monday and Tuesday in Yekaterinburg, Russia, (formerly Sverdlovsk) among Chinese President Hu Jintao, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and other top officials of the six-nation Shanghai Cooperation Organization. The United States, which asked to attend, was denied admittance. Watch what happens there carefully. The gathering is, in the words of economist Michael Hudson, “the most important meeting of the 21st century so far.”
It is the first formal step by our major trading partners to replace the dollar as the world’s reserve currency. If they succeed, the dollar will dramatically plummet in value, the cost of imports, including oil, will skyrocket, interest rates will climb and jobs will hemorrhage at a rate that will make the last few months look like boom times. State and federal services will be reduced or shut down for lack of funds. The United States will begin to resemble the Weimar Republic or Zimbabwe. Obama, endowed by many with the qualities of a savior, will suddenly look pitiful, inept and weak. And the rage that has kindled a handful of shootings and hate crimes in the past few weeks will engulf vast segments of a disenfranchised and bewildered working and middle class. The people of this class will demand vengeance, radical change, order and moral renewal, which an array of proto-fascists, from the Christian right to the goons who disseminate hate talk on Fox News, will assure the country they will impose.
Market-Ticker.org | HOLY !@#!! Treasury Auction Schedule
Oh My......
Let's see if I can count this up....
70 day CMBs, $30 billion (tomorrow)
13 week Bills, $32 billion (July 27th)
26 week Bills, $31 billion (July 27th)
52 week Bills, $27 billion (July 28th)
2 year Notes, $42 billion (July 28th)
5 year Notes, $39 billion (July 29th)
7 year Notes, $28 billion (July 30th)
19 year, 6 month TIPS (reopened), $6 billion (July 27th)
That's two hundred thirty-five billion dollars over the next week!
Almost one quarter of a trillion....... geejus.
I guess you should get while the getting is good, but this is going totally parabolic. That money has to come out of somewhere, by the way, in order for the sale to succeed, which is going to get rather interesting at some point - but exactly where it matters is impossible to know.
I expected that when we crossed the $100 billion threshold in a week the market would throw up all over it, but it didn't. Now we've got the government trying to sell a quarter of a trillion dollars in debt over the next week, the announcement is out there, and while the bond market is selling off to a material degree equities could care less!
This is flat-out insane. At this run rate we would be trying to sell twelve trillion dollars over one year's time, an obviously ridiculous and impossible-to-peddle amount of debt at any price. READ MORE.....
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