The Cave: 10/18/09

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YEAR 2006

Lets look at this paired with another piece of data from the Fed. I have shortened the timeframe to focus on the last 5 years as most of the real action in the charts have happened in the last year and a half.

Chart 1: 5 year Monetary Base

Chart 2: Excess reserves of depository institutions

Notice how similar the charts look? Lets see how the actual increase in the monetary base and the "excess reserves" by the banks match up with the actual data...I think you will see something very interesting.

Lets go back in the time machine all the way back to March of 2008 and the collapse of Bear Stearns. That month showed a slightly increased 3.5 billion dollars onto the monetary base. Depository institutions holdings increased by 1.25 billion dollars that month. Interesting since that is the exact amount that JP Morgan paid to acquire Bear.

Now, fast forward to September of 2008. The dreaded month of Lehman and Merrill Lynch dying. That month the first of the big 'injections' occured--the monetary base raising by 60.3 Billion. Guess What? Bank excess deposits went up a corresponding 58.1 billion. Once again, interesting because of the purchases of Lehman and Merrill for a combined 54 billion and change.

But now, we have to get serious. The Fed must print the money to funnel to its owner banks. The presses must go into high gear. There is a crisis.
Look how these compare--the monetary base and excess reserves...printing cash and giving it to the banks:

Oct 08--Monetary Base +225.3 billion, excess reserves +207.8 billion
Nov 08--Monetary Base +309.3 billion, excess reserves +291.1 billion
Dec 08--Monetary Base +224.1 billion, excess reserves +208.4 billion
Jan 09--Monetary Base +48.3 billion, excess reserves +30.8 billion
Feb 09--Monetary base -149.9 billion, excess reserves -154.8 billion
Mar 09--Monetary Base +84.7 billion, excess reserves +81.1 billion
Apr 09--Monetary Base +105.9 billion, excess reserves +99.7 billion
May 09--Monetary Base +22.2 billion, excess reserves +19.7 billion
Jun 09--Monetary Base -90.8 billion, excess reserves -92.7 billion
July 09--Monetary Base -11.4 billion, excess reserve -18.4 billion
Aug 09--Monetary Base +33.1 billion, excess reserves +32.9 billion
Sept 09--Monetary Base +94.9 billion, excess reserves +94.2 billion

Interesting, huh? Seems as though over 95 cents of every dollar that is added to the monetary base ends up in the banks vault at the Fed. THAT is why inflation is not rampant right now. The money is "in the bank".

What is the net of all of that in the last year? The fed has increased the monetary supply by just under 956 billion dollars. Of that, 858 billion is sitting in the banks vaults at the fed. 89.76 cents of every dollar.

What is next? why another credit squeeze of course. We have build up the cash in the vault--now we need to create a crisis so that cash can be put to work buying real assets--homes, factories, etc....for pennies on the dollar.

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Updated: Tuesday, 27 Oct 2009, 2:45 PM MDT
Published : Tuesday, 27 Oct 2009, 2:45 PM MDT

By TIM KORTE, Associated Press Writer

ALBUQUERQUE (AP) - An independent safety oversight board is warning that a major earthquake could cause a catastrophic fire at the main plutonium laboratory at Los Alamos National Laboratory, which could trigger a massive radiation release.

The four-page letter issued Tuesday by the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board urged Energy Secretary Stephen Chu to make changes to reduce potential hazards.

The board is an auditing agency that oversees federal nuclear programs. It typically examines worst-case scenarios involving national nuclear facilities, then makes recommendations to the Department of Energy on how to minimize risks.

Lab officials released a response, citing several actions taken this year to improve fire safety at the plutonium laboratory building known as Technical Area 55.

Los Alamos is one of two laboratories in the United States where classified work towards the design of nuclear weapons is undertaken. The other, since 1952, is Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

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http://www2.nict.go.jp/y/y223/simulation/realtime/index.html

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In the marvelously sensitive eyes of mantis shrimps, scientists have found cells that could inspire an overhaul of humanity’s comparatively clumsy communications hardware.

Mechanical analogs of their eyes “are among the most important and commonly used optical components, and the cellular structure we describe significantly outperforms these current optics,” write researchers in a study published Sunday in Nature Photonics.

Mantis shrimps are reef-dwelling marine crustaceans who trace their evolutionary lineage straight back to the Cambrian age 500 million years ago, before vertebrates had even evolved. They’re so biologically unique that biologists call them “shrimps from Mars.”

They possess the animal kingdom’s most complicated eyes, capable of distinguishing between 100,000 colors — 10 times as many as humans — and seeing circular polarized light, or CPL, which can’t be detected by any other creature.

FULL STORY

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I wish to Thank reader Awake for this article--Great Catch!!!

Many Blessings,
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VeriChip shares jump after H1N1 patent license win

24.09.2009
By Gabriel O’Hara

The Reuters report below tells how on Monday VeriChip shares jumped 186% due to a patent on their swine flu pandemic detecting mini-microchip for the purpose of human implantation which is a massive upgrade to their current microchip already in thousands of people from children to the elderly. If your grasp of technological devices hangs from floppy disks to WiFi let Reuters inform you a little bit about VeriChip’s device (actually Reuters promotes the corporation’s stocks):

“Reuters
21.09.2009

Full Article at this link:

http://www.reuters.com/article/hotStocksNews/idUSTRE58K4BZ20090921

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HR 615 - Please forward this message to everyone you know.
Not a single American voter can be against this

Subject: HR 615 On Tuesday, the Senate health committee voted 12-11 in favor of a two-page amendment, courtesy of Republican Tom Coburn which would require all Members of Congress and their staff members to enroll in any new government-run health plan.

Congressman John Fleming has proposed an amendment that would require Congressmen and Senators to take the same health care plan that they would force on us. (Under proposed legislation they are exempt.)

Congressman Fleming is encouraging people to go to his Website and sign his petition. The process is very simple. I have done just that at:

http://fleming.house.gov/index.html .

Senator Coburn and Congressman Fleming are both physicians. Regardless of your political beliefs, it sure seems reasonable that Congress should have exactly the same medical coverage that they impose on the rest of us. Please urge as many people as you can to do the same!

Thanks.

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Report: Palestinians denied water Israel is denying Palestinians access to even the basic minimum of clean, safe water, Amnesty International says.

Barney Frank: “We Are Trying On Every Front To Increase The Role Of Government”

New York Fed’s Secret Choice to Pay for Swaps Hits Taxpayers In the months leading up to the September 2008 collapse of giant insurer American International Group Inc., Elias Habayeb and his colleagues worked nights and weekends negotiating with banks that had bought $62 billion of credit-default swaps from AIG, according to a person who has worked with Habayeb.

Capmark Files for Bankruptcy With $21 Billion in Debt Capmark Financial Group Inc., the lender owned by companies including Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and KKR & Co., filed for bankruptcy protection after posting a second-quarter loss of about $1.6 billion.

How UK police rebranded lawful protest as ‘domestic extremism’ There is no official or legal definition of the term. Instead, the police have made a vague stab at what they think it means.

AFRICOM and America's Global Military Agenda: Taking The Helm Of The Entire World “AFRICOM facilitates the United States advancing on the African continent, taking control of the Eurasian continent and proceeding to take the helm of the entire globe.”

Iran Opens Exchange to Trade Crude Oil and Other Petrochemical Products The bourse, based on the Gulf economic free zone island of Kish, has been planned for years but had faced repeated delays. The first phase of the exchange for trading oil products was inaugurated in February.

Baghdad governor sees Iraqi security force ‘collusion’ in recent attacks Baghdad's governor on Monday blamed negligence or even collusion by the security forces for devastating twin suicide bombings that killed around 100 people in the heart of the capital.

SEC and Homeland Security say Internet could get clogged during flu pandemic

VIDEO: Bo Dietl Talks about the New World Order

UN Secretary General: ‘A climate deal must include an equitable global governance structure’ Every day, the critical December summit in Copenhagen grows closer. All agree that climate change is an existential threat to humankind. Yet agreement on what to do still eludes us.

Castro's Sister Worked For The CIA Using the codename "Donna," the younger sister of Fidel and Raul Castro worked undercover for the CIA in Cuba in the early 1960s, helping opponents of their communist rule escape execution and imprisonment, she said in memoirs published in exile on Monday.

Medicare Fraud Raises ‘Troubling Questions About Our Government’s Ability to Manage a Medical Bureaucracy’

Chinese military backs closer U.S. ties China's military sought to assure the United States on Monday that its arms buildup was not a threat and said Beijing wanted to expand cooperation with the Pentagon to reduce the risk of future conflicts.

Stimulus contracts go to companies under criminal investigation The Department of Defense awarded nearly $30 million in stimulus contracts to six companies while they were under federal criminal investigation on suspicion of defrauding the government.

Secret court raids homes, seizes billions from elderly A secret court is seizing the assets of thousands of elderly and mentally impaired people and turning control of their lives over to the State – against the wishes of their relatives.

UK Police gather personal details of people who attend political meetings and protests in nationwide intelligence databases Police are gathering the personal details of thousands of activists who attend political meetings and protests, and storing their data on a network of nationwide intelligence databases.

FDA Fails to Pull Worthless Drugs from Marketplace The Food and Drug Administration has allowed drugs for cancer and other diseases to stay on the market even when follow-up studies showed they didn't extend patients' lives, say congressional investigators.

Bernanke Not Obama to Make “Trillion Dollar Decision” The biggest decision of the economic recovery will be made in the next six months, and Barack Obama will have almost nothing to do with it.

Greyhound bus passengers get screened, pat down in special TSA operation Bryce Williams wasn't expecting to walk through a metal detector or have his bags screened for explosives at the Greyhound bus terminal near downtown Orlando.

Bosnia 'on brink of new civil war' Bosnia is heading for a new civil war as a constitutional crisis threatens to cause the collapse of the political system, the country's leaders have warned.

After the Billionaires Plundered Alabama Town, Troops Were Called in ... Illegally An Army investigation found that soldiers should not have been sent to man traffic stops in a small Alabama town after 11 people were killed in March during a shooting spree.

Poland joins growing list of countries opposing Tony Blair’s bid to be EU president Tony Blair’s hopes of becoming the first president of the European Union have been dealt a potentially fatal blow by Poland.

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The three-tiered s

tructure of the United Nations Executive Council is well-positioned to take mankind forward into the New Era. Some of the tools needed are outlined in detail in The 7th Sense, which also explains that there is a place for American leadership in the task ahead.

In Barack Obama, the United States now has a leader with a vision and the drive and courage to achieve lofty goals for Americans and the whole of mankind. He has the goodwill of Americans and most people around the world.

Not only can President Obama change America and move us forward into the New Era, he has the unique opportunity to leave his indelible mark on the lives of billions of people around the world by working through, and with, the Executive Council.

As emphasized in The 7th Sense, the Executive Council will not be composed of world “rulers.” Members will be world “leaders” serving mankind. Because a leader serves his people.

This is just one of the many life-changing lessons you will find in The 7th Sense as Rev. Magnus takes you on a journey of spiritual discovery. If you wish to understand your true place in the universe — and want to stop standing on the sidelines and give purpose to your life, just as President Obama has urged by calling on volunteers to step up — then this book is for you.

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U.S. NATIONAL DEBT CLOCK

The Outstanding Public Debt as of 28 Oct 2009 at 12:18:23 AM GMT is:

The estimated population of the United States is 307,179,806
so each citizen's share of this debt is $38,745.25.

The National Debt has continued to increase an average of
$3.81 billion per day since September 28, 2007!

Concerned? Then tell Congress and the White House!

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October 27th, 2009 2:43 pm - It’s bad enough that the War on Terror has been reduced to “Overseas Contingency Operations.” Now the UN has come up with a report urging us to fight terrorists with Overseas Gender Operations.

You can read all about it in this Fox News article on “U.N. Report Demands Repeal of Counter-Terrorism Laws to Promote ‘Gender Equality.’ ” This is yet another product of the same UN Human Rights Council which in April brought us the Durban Review Conference in Geneva (with Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as a star speaker) and recently adopted the Goldstone Report on conflict between Israelis and Hamas in Gaza (with a Human Rights Council resolution slamming Israel and excusing the terrorists of Hamas).

The author of this UN report, Finnish law professor Martin Scheinin, wants counter-terrorism policies replaced with gender-equality policies at all costs, such as loosening terror-financing restrictions to help organizations that promote gender equality. In Afghanistan, he wants an end to force and a new policy responsive to the concerns of “women, gay, bisexual, transsexual and intersex individuals in local contexts.”

With the UN at the center of U.S. foreign policy, we may never defeat Al Qaeda, but we can go forwad with confidence that every effort is being made to ensure the ranks of terrorists worldwide include not only women, but a full complement of every gender permutation dreamt of in Martin Scheinen’s counter-terrorism philosophy. Just another case of your tax dollars, and UN diplomacy, at work.

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The Austin Lounge Lizards perform their satirical ode to bank bail-outs. Written by Lindsey Eck.

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SEC and Homeland Security say internet could get clogged during pandemic -- Securities exchanges have a sound network back-up if a severe pandemic keeps people home and clogging the Internet, but the Homeland Security Department has done little planning, Congressional investigators said on Monday.
Related Info:
* GAO issues report on dealing with possible internet slow down during height of pandemic -- Key Securities Market Participants Are Making Progress, but Agencies Could Do More to Address Potential Internet Congestion and Encourage Readiness - summary
* Full report - 77 pages (pdf)

InfoWars.com | CIA to Monitor Internet Chatter for Anti-Government Sentiment
High-tech fascism straight out of V for Vendetta on the horizon.

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ALTERNATIVE TRADING PLATFORMS AND THEIR EFFECT ON LIQUIDITY

The equity markets provide perhaps the best example of a highly evolved complex ecosystem, where care must be taken to preserve the benefits that have evolved from competition and innovation…

Crucially, liquidity is what helps to solve this mismatch problem. Market makers that see large volumes are best positioned to match differing size transactions. In traditional exchange trading, bids and offers are public, and this transparency helps buyers and sellers to achieve the best price.

For some market participants, however, the openness and transparency of the equity market actually mean they are unlikely to achieve the best price. The risk, particularly for large transactions such as those undertaken by pension funds or large mutual funds (where most small investors have most of their equity exposure), is that other market participants will use this transparency to undercut the intended transactions.

From a Goldman Sachs lobbying document (emphasis mine)

effective-reg-part-4.pdf (application/pdf Object).

This is from a lobbying document Goldman has been passing around the Senate on financial regulatory reform in general.

There is a lot of crazy stuff in this document, but the most notable is probably this passage, in which Goldman pooh-poohs the notion that complete transparency in markets creates accurate prices.

Instead, the bank argues that an over-the-counter market in which big traders like Goldman get to do deals in the shadows in “dark pools” without the retail investor having any knowledge of what the hell is going on is somehow better for everybody, that this somehow produces better prices. Of course the reality is that the two-tiered system creates one pool of fools whose every movement is visible to every animal on the Serengeti, and another pool of giant bloodthirsty carnivores who get to walk around invisible, picking off the dik-diks one by one.

Everyone I showed this to had the same reaction — “I can’t believe they said this out loud.”

One friend of mine put it this way: say Goldman buys a big block of stock from a pension fund in a dark pool. Now they have shares they want to get out of and flatten out their risk. So where do they sell? Well, a big chunk of it might go to the retail schmuck who has no idea what’s going on. He’s buying 1000 shares of whatever at $28, not knowing that Goldman has another 50,000 shares to go. Next thing you know, the schmuck’s shares are at $27.

Goldman salutes this process, noting the magic of so-called “non-displayed liquidity.” What the rest of us would describe as “hiding shit from the rabble,” Goldman calls “separating liquidity from information about the transaction.” You almost have to admire the sheer balls of this sort of propaganda:

Alternative trading platforms – so-called “dark pools” of liquidity – have evolved to address this problem. They work by separating liquidity from information about the transaction – the participants, lot sizes and transaction prices. Through the process of “non-displayed liquidity”, information does become available to both regulators and the public market – but not until the transaction is complete.

God bless this company. They’re never boring, that’s for sure.

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October 27, 2009 - The FDIC seizure of Washington Mutual's banking operations has resulted in a myriad of claims in which the bank holding company is seeking to get back as much as $17 billion.

Besides the $4 billion WaMu argued JP Morgan owes it in a hearing last week, it also alleges that the FDIC owes it $6.5 billion in capital contrubtions made to its bank, $4 billion in preferred securities and $3 billion in tax refunds, according to an article in the New York Law Journal.

That article provides highlights and analysis of each of the various pending lawsuits and can be found here.
FULL STORY

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October 27, 2009 - At this point, I don't think that many doubt that taxpayers are generally not on the better end of the deal when it comes to government bailouts. Still, an article today on Bloomberg accentuates this belief. It explains how the New York Federal Reserve gave banks that had credit default swaps (CDS) with AIG 100% par value to retire the derivatives, essentially ignoring the market value. This is disturbing for a few reasons.....

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October 27th, 2009 - Stacy Summary: Just had a tip (from someone who wishes to remain anonymous) that Bank of America is meeting at Wynn Hotel in Vegas this week and are operating under the name BAM to avoid public and bonus anger management issues. I guess BAM would stand for Bank of America Merrill?

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Here is a direct link. (Right-click and "Save Link/Target As...)
http://www.opendrive.com/files?5660481_fg3l4

And a backup link:
http://rapidshare.com/files/298768604/Clif.High.on_Beyond.the.Ordinary_Oct.27-09.mp3

http://rapidshare.com/files/298769566/Clif_on_BTO_Oct_27-09.mp3.html

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October 27, 2009 - President Obama on Tuesday announced a $3.4 billion federal investment to modernize the country's outdated power grid.

The money will go to 100 projects in 49 states to add automated substations, digital transformers, electric meters in homes and other high-tech equipment to create a "smart" grid.

"We're going to create an energy superhighway," Mr. Obama said when making the announcement at Florida Power & Light Co.'s DeSoto Next Generation Solar Energy Center in Arcadia, Fla., one of the country's biggest solar-power facilities.

Mr. Obama used the nationally televised event to promote climate-change legislation in Congress that would reduce greenhouse gas emissions over time.

"We've heard these arguments before," he said. "People don't like change. They get nervous."

The House has passed the legislation, and the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works began hearings Tuesday morning on its own version.

The money will be released in the form of grants through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, and recipients will have to match the federal money with an equal amount of private investment.

Administration officials said that the program includes $4.7 billion in private investments and that grants range from $400,000 to $200 million.

RELATED:
1. Smart Grid: Government spying targets Rural America

"RFD America | Smart Grid will allow the government to collect information about you, your habits, and possessions."
www.infowars.com/smart-grid-government-spying-targets-rural-america/

2. London police fear violent protests at G-20 economic meeting

"20 Mar 2009 ... Look up smart grid, look up who owns GE, search bbc news and look ... How much did Obama spend on smart grid? what is smart grid capable of? ..."
www.infowars.com/london-police-fear-violent-protests-at-g-20-economic-meeting/

3. Bilderbergers to Meet in Greece

"These fools are putting in smart grid here in the United States. Obama passed it in his 2009 stimulus bill. 15 billion going to smart grid. ..."
www.infowars.com/bilderbergers-to-meet-in-greece/

4. Power grid hackers probably got inside by attacking PCs

"Think Smart Grid – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_grid, Wireless infrastructures, portable media, lack of encryption, unnecessary features being enabled ..."
www.infowars.com/power-grid-hackers-probably-got-inside-by-attacking-pcs/

5. Change.gov: Obama & the new War on Terror

"9 Nov 2008 ... Obama will establish a Grid Modernization Commission to facilitate adoption of Smart Grid practices to improve efficiency and security of ..."
www.infowars.com/changegov-obama-the-new-war-on-terror/

6. Army Times Details Army Invasion of U.S.

"A smart grid delivers electricity from suppliers to consumers using digital technology ... The term smart grid represents a vision for a digital upgrade of ..."
www.infowars.com/army-combat-team-to-train-for-homeland-sscenarios-under-northcom/

7. New World Order Rams Through Sham Cap & Trade Bill

"With General Electric's smart grid technology in place, energy companies along with their customers will have no other choice but to convert to the ..."
www.infowars.com/new-world-order-rams-through-sham-cap-trade-bill/

8. Cybersecurity Is Framework For Total Government Regulation ...

"Paul Joseph Watson & Kurt Nimmo | Surveillance grid will be allied with “smart” technology to create a behemoth of big brother management of our behavior ..."
www.infowars.com/cybersecurity-is-framework-for-total-government-regulation-control-of-our-lives/

9. Snooping through the power socket

"But yeah… they designing and building it right now for the smart grid. They'll let you know how hot and cold your house should be, how much hot water your ..."
www.infowars.com/snooping-through-the-power-socket/

10. Homeland Security chief seeks to repeal Real ID Act

"Wouldn't be surprised if they push for implant soon, possibly as part of the new 'smart grid' or helping with illegal immigration (though Napolitano thinks ..."
www.infowars.com/homeland-security-chief-seeks-to-repeal-real-id-act/

11. Cap and Trade: $3900 per Family per Year

"Cap and trade……smart grid…..illegal gardens. How the hell are we suppose to grow our own weed! Ummmmm…….I mean tomatoes. Jester Reply: ..."
www.infowars.com/cap-and-trade-3900-per-family-per-year/

12. Latest Government Boondoggle: Cash for Dishwashers

"How else is the gov't going to implement the Smart Grid program? These energy saving appliances have a chip in them that can be read by Smart Grid ..."
www.infowars.com/latest-government-boondoggle-cash-for-dishwashers/

13. Every house to have gas and electricity 'smart' meter by 2020

"Plain and simple, smart meters cost you money, period. Mystic-Creations Says: May 13th, 2009 at 4:55 pm. Finding a way to get off the grid is ultimately the ..."
www.infowars.com/every-house-to-have-gas-and-electricity-smart-meter-by-2020/

14. California City May Install License Plate Cameras

"11 Jul 2009 ... This is the same thing as the IBM Smart Grid Technology, they tell you it's good for you and us and it will help fix the world! ..."
www.infowars.com/california-city-may-install-license-plate-cameras/

15. Secret meeting of world's richest people held in New York

"I suspect that this has something to do with GE'S smart grid technology which obama and his envirocronies think will save the world. I disagree. ..."
www.infowars.com/secret-meeting-of-worlds-richest-people-held-in-new-york/

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October 27, 2009 - Last November, in his role as president of the New York Federal Reserve, Tim Geithner personally interceded in negotiations between AIG and banks like Goldman Sachs, Société Générale, and Deutsche Bank, and arranged for said banks to receive in-full payment on the credit default swaps they had purchased rather than the 40 cents on the dollar the struggling insurance company was proposing. Per Bloomberg:

The New York Fed’s decision to pay the banks in full cost AIG — and thus American taxpayers — at least $13 billion. Under the agreement, the government and its taxpayers became owners of the dubious CDOs, whose face value was $62 billion and for which AIG paid the market price of $29.6 billion. The CDOs were shunted into a Fed-run entity called Maiden Lane III. FULL STORY

RELATED:
Collateralized debt obligations (CDOs) are a type of structured asset-backed security (ABS) whose value and payments are derived from a portfolio of fixed-income underlying assets. CDOs securities are split into different risk classes, or tranches, whereby "senior" tranches are considered the safest securities. Interest and principal payments are made in order of seniority, so that junior tranches offer higher coupon payments (and interest rates) or lower prices to compensate for additional default risk.

A few academics, analysts and investors such as Warren Buffett and the IMF's former chief economist Raghuram Rajan warned that CDOs, other ABSs and other derivatives spread risk and uncertainty about the value of the underlying assets more widely, rather than reduce risk through diversification. Following the onset of the 2007-2008 credit crunch, this view has gained substantial credibility. Credit rating agencies failed to adequately account for large risks (like a nationwide collapse of housing values) when rating CDOs and other ABSs.

Many CDOs are valued on a mark to market basis and thus have experienced substantial write-downs on the balance sheet as their market value has collapsed.

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http://www.reuters.com/article/world...59Q3XH20091027
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A rocket fired from Lebanon hit northern Israel on Tuesday causing no damage or injury, an Israeli police spokesman said.
A Lebanese security source confirmed a rocket had been fired from southern Lebanon from the village of Houla, and another Lebanese security source said Israel returned artillery fire at the area.
Micky Rosenfeld, spokesman for Israeli police, said a Katyusha rocket "landed in upper Galilee" after darkness and that there were no reports of damage or injury. An Israeli military spokesman had no immediate comment.
The Israeli-Lebanese border has been largely quiet since a U.N.-brokered truce was reached after a 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah guerrillas.
But two rockets were fired a month ago after a long lull and a military group with links to al Qaeda claimed responsibility.
There was no immediate claim made for Tuesday's rocket which fell in an area near the northern Israeli border town of Kiryat Shmone, an Israeli security source said.
(Additional reporting by Yara Bayoumy in Beirut; Writing by Allyn Fisher-Ilan; Editing by Alison Williams)

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/134085

(IsraelNN.com) Terrorists in southern Lebanon fired a Katyusha rocket on the Upper Galilee around 7 p.m. (1 p.m. EDT). No one was wounded and no damage was reported, but a fire broke out at the site of the explosion. Lebanese sources reported that the IDF retaliated with artillery fire, but Israel has not confirmed the report.
The explosion occurred near Kiryat Shmona, and police and civil defense authorities are searching for the point of impact. Lebanese authorities confirmed that the rocket was fired from a village near the Israeli border.

The rocket may have been fired by a terrorist cell not directly connected with Hizbullah.
Earlier in the day, Defense Minister Ehud Barak visited the area and said, “Quiet has been maintained here for nine years after many years of attacks and the painful five-week period of the Second Lebanon War." Tuesday's attack was at least the ninth since the end of the war in 2006.
United Nations Interim Forces in Lebanon (UNIFIL) forces have been mandated to keep Hizbullah out of southern Lebanon as part of the ceasefire agreement to which Israel agreed to end the Second Lebanon War in August 2006.
Its commanders said at the outset that they would not carry out the mandate to disarm, Hizbullah, which is estimated to have stockpiled between 60,000 and 80,000 rockets since the end of the war, more than three times the amount it possessed before it attacked Israel with more than 1,000 rockets.

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http://www.reuters.com/article/world...59Q3XH20091027
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A rocket fired from Lebanon hit northern Israel on Tuesday causing no damage or injury, an Israeli police spokesman said.
A Lebanese security source confirmed a rocket had been fired from southern Lebanon from the village of Houla, and another Lebanese security source said Israel returned artillery fire at the area.
Micky Rosenfeld, spokesman for Israeli police, said a Katyusha rocket "landed in upper Galilee" after darkness and that there were no reports of damage or injury. An Israeli military spokesman had no immediate comment.
The Israeli-Lebanese border has been largely quiet since a U.N.-brokered truce was reached after a 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah guerrillas.
But two rockets were fired a month ago after a long lull and a military group with links to al Qaeda claimed responsibility.
There was no immediate claim made for Tuesday's rocket which fell in an area near the northern Israeli border town of Kiryat Shmone, an Israeli security source said.
(Additional reporting by Yara Bayoumy in Beirut; Writing by Allyn Fisher-Ilan; Editing by Alison Williams)

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/134085

(IsraelNN.com) Terrorists in southern Lebanon fired a Katyusha rocket on the Upper Galilee around 7 p.m. (1 p.m. EDT). No one was wounded and no damage was reported, but a fire broke out at the site of the explosion. Lebanese sources reported that the IDF retaliated with artillery fire, but Israel has not confirmed the report.
The explosion occurred near Kiryat Shmona, and police and civil defense authorities are searching for the point of impact. Lebanese authorities confirmed that the rocket was fired from a village near the Israeli border.

The rocket may have been fired by a terrorist cell not directly connected with Hizbullah.
Earlier in the day, Defense Minister Ehud Barak visited the area and said, “Quiet has been maintained here for nine years after many years of attacks and the painful five-week period of the Second Lebanon War." Tuesday's attack was at least the ninth since the end of the war in 2006.
United Nations Interim Forces in Lebanon (UNIFIL) forces have been mandated to keep Hizbullah out of southern Lebanon as part of the ceasefire agreement to which Israel agreed to end the Second Lebanon War in August 2006.
Its commanders said at the outset that they would not carry out the mandate to disarm, Hizbullah, which is estimated to have stockpiled between 60,000 and 80,000 rockets since the end of the war, more than three times the amount it possessed before it attacked Israel with more than 1,000 rockets.

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By Suhail Shaheen

Former Chief Editor of the Kabul Times

October 27, 2009 - Despite the Afghani Taliban's fierce resistance against the foreign troops and the government, they have moved onto adopting a more pragmatic approach of good relations towards their regional neighbors. The upcoming run-off elections between incumbent president Karzai and his opponent Dr. Abdullah, have not seemingly affected the movement's view of the US occupation and any US-backed regime.

Our contributor Mr. Suhail Shaheen tracks such a turning point in the strategic outlook of the Taliban that is consciously moving away from Idealism towards a Realist agenda of regional relations.

Mullah Muhammad Omar's last Eid Message, was quite different from his previous messages in content and tone. It indicated a shift in Taliban's general policy and approach towards neighboring countries, the US and Europe.

The Taliban's leader, in his message, assured Afghanistan's neighboring countries that the Taliban will not harm them if they gain political power but rather will develop relations based on mutual cooperation. He said: "The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan wants to maintain good and positive relations with all neighbors based on mutual respect and open a new chapter of good neighborliness of mutual cooperation and development."

In the same tone, he assured China, India and Russia that the Taliban is going to play positive role in establishing peace and stability in the region. He added: “We consider the whole region as a common home against colonialism and want to play our role the peace and stability of the region."

In the same direction on October. 7, the Taliban issued a statement on the eighth anniversary of the American aerial attack on Afghanistan, which further elucidated the Taliban's new policy: "We announce to all, that our aim is obtainment of independence and establishment of an Islamic system. We did not have any intention to harm other countries including Europe nor do we have such an agenda today." FULL STORY

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October 27, 2009

Dinosaur experts in Dorset are examining the fossilised skull of a sea monster so large they say it could have eaten a Tyrannosaurus rex for breakfast.

The fossil head is 2.4m (8ft) long, suggesting that the beast measured up to 16m (54ft) from the tip of its massive, crocodile-like snout to the end of its muscular tail, making it one of the largest specimens ever found.

The skull belongs to a pliosaur, one of a group of giant aquatic reptiles which roamed the warm seas over what is now southern Britain 150 million years ago. Full Story

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BANGALORE (India), October 27 (RIA Novosti) - The foreign ministers of Russia, India and China agreed on Tuesday to enhance energy cooperation.

Russia's Sergei Lavrov, India's S.M. Krishna and China's Yang Jiechi met in the Indian city of Bangalore to discuss energy security, the fight against terrorism and climate change.

"India, Russia and China are seeking to intensify international energy cooperation on a new basis to help make the energy market more open, transparent and competitive and reflect the common interests of all the parties involved," the three diplomats said in a joint declaration.

The ministers recognized Russia as a leading oil and gas supplier for energy-hungry India and China, major suppliers of manufactured products and services.

"Trilateral relations can be forged in the future through the establishment of mutually advantageous energy contacts," the declaration read.

The Indian and Russian foreign ministers held talks in Moscow on October 21, while the Indian and Chinese premiers, Manmohan Singh and Wen Jiabao, met at the weekend on the sidelines of an ASEAN summit in Thailand.

The three countries are also members of the BRIC union with Brazil.

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October 26, 2009 - Africom is overseenby General William “Kip” Ward, the Army's highest-ranking Black American, and is the sixth U.S. geographic combatant command. Prior to Africom, the Pentagon's presence in Africa involved three geographic commands.

Created in February of 2007, launched in October of 2008 and headquartered in Stuttgart, Germany because it couldn't find a home base in Africa to protect U.S. interest abroad, this entity has been “charged with supporting U.S. military partners in Africa.”

Sounds more like the premier of the sequel to Ollie North and the boys Central American Insurgency. According to Colin Powell's former chief of staff during the Bush administration, Larry Wilkinson, it might not be far from the truth. “You have an enormous constituency for war, you have an enormous constituency for the instruments for war,” he told “Africom or Africon?” host/narrator Ragel Omar. Without skipping a beat, Mr. Wilkinson asked, “What constituency does the State Department have?”

“To find a voice that equals or exceeds the voice of the Pentagon is virtually impossible. How do you put up $30 billion,” which Mr. Wilkinson suggests is State Department's budget and “chump change,” against “nearly a quarter of a trillion dollars”—the estimated annual Pentagon budget.

Mr. Wilkinson went on to say, “That kind of money interests every congressman, every senator, every military contractor, from Haliburton to Lockheed.

According to the four-part series, when President Bush came into office, he had a series of meetings with oil executives. Mr. Wilkinson's “educated surmise” suggests they discussed “ensuring American's way of life,” and getting “our hands” on a “substantial” amount of oil to guarantee the continuance of the above. FULL STORY

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Final_Call

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Earthquakes on the above map

	MAG	UTC DATE-TIME y/m/d h:m:s	LAT deg	LON deg	DEPTH km	Region
MAP	5.2	2009/10/27 16:25:53	6.707	-72.976	157.5	NORTHERN COLOMBIA
MAP	4.8	2009/10/23 18:55:19	6.823	-72.882	143.3	NORTHERN COLOMBIA
MAP	4.5	2009/10/23 02:12:45	6.706	-72.925	167.8	NORTHERN COLOMBIA

Distances
50 km (30 miles) SSE of Bucaramanga, Colombia
105 km (65 miles) ESE of Barrancabermeja, Colombia
135 km (85 miles) NNE of Tunja, Colombia
265 km (165 miles) NNE of BOGOTA, Colombia

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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125665647056710555.html

WASHINGTON - October 27, 2009 - Congressional Democrats are set to announce Tuesday legislation aimed at squeezing more information from foreign banks and U.S. citizens with offshore accounts to ferret out tax evaders....

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WASHINGTON — October 27, 2009 - US President Barack Obama's Senate allies launched a three-day push Tuesday for sweeping legislation to battle climate change, with time running short before a high-stakes global summit in December....

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On 8 October, the rock crashed into the atmosphere above South Sulawesi, Indonesia. The blast was heard by monitoring stations 10,000 miles away, according to a report by scientists at the University of Western Ontario.

Scientists are concerned that it was not spotted by any telescopes, and that had it been larger it could have caused a disaster.

The asteroid, estimated to have been around 10 metres (30ft) across, hit the atmosphere at an estimated 45,000mph. The sudden deceleration caused it to heat up rapidly and explode with the force of 50,000 tons of TNT.

Luckily, due to the height of the explosion – estimated at between 15 and 20 km (nine to 12 miles) above sea level – no damage was caused on the ground.

However, if the object had been slightly larger – 20 to 30 metres (60 to 90ft) across – it could easily have caused extensive damage and loss of life, say researchers.

Very few objects smaller than 100 meters (300ft) across have been spotted and catalogued by astronomers. FULL STORY

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Several C-Class Flares / Solar Flux above 80
10/27/2009 - Several low level C-Class flares have taken place around Sunspot 1029 in the past 24 hours. There will remain a chance for C-class and perhaps an M-Class flare. Sunspot 1029 has grown in size and is a pretty impressive sunspot cluster for Cycle 24.

The solar flux reached 81.3 on Monday, which is yet again a new record for Cycle 24. This is the highest Flux reading since March 2008 when Cycle 23 sunspots were present on the sun.

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October 27, 2009 - El Niño has brought Floridians a calmer hurricane season, but the winter could be a much different story.

Think downpours, floods and tornadoes.

"We're going to have a very active winter," said Daniel Noah, the warning coordination meteorologist for the National Weather Service in Tampa Bay.

No hurricanes have threatened Florida this season, which ends Nov. 30. But tornadoes have killed more people in Florida than hurricanes in recent years, so the National Weather Service is trying to get the word out about the flip side of El Niño.

El Niño forms every three to five years as warm surface waters in the Pacific Ocean shift from the west to east. Those warmer waters form upper atmospheric storms that can thwart hurricanes forming in the Atlantic.

But they can also cause havoc during the winter months.

This El Niño started in July and weakened eight hurricanes, Noah said. Now considered a moderate El Niño, it is expected to strengthen in the coming months, producing hazardous weather.

The opposite of El Niño — La Niña — occurs when surface water in the eastern Pacific cool to below average temperatures. That produces warmer winters, drier summers and a more active hurricane season in the Atlantic.

The last El Niño was during 2006 and 2007, and it led to the Christmas Day tornadoes that damaged about 100 homes in Pasco County. FULL STORY

Tuesday, October 27, 2009