Thursday, February 18, 2010

Surviving the Revolution and Earth Changes Emailed News Update - Thursday Evening - February 18, 2010


It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.
-Samuel Adams



Thursday Evening - February 18, 2010





Could this be affecting our planet's magnetosphere?

Is this incredible thing in heavens a sign from God?

'The truth is, we're still struggling to understand what this means'

Posted: February 17, 2010 8:39 pm Eastern
WorldNetDaily

Some people are seeing a flying cross, or perhaps a Star of David.

Others say it resembles a ninja-style throwing blade or even a science-fiction spaceship from such Hollywood creations as "Star Wars," "Star Trek," "Babylon 5" or "The Last Starfighter."


While scientists don't think it's a comet, they're not exactly sure of the precise origin of the incredible object soaring some 90 million miles from Earth, snapped just a few weeks ago by the Hubble Space Telescope.

"I've seen thousands of astronomical images over my career, but this is one of the few absolute jaw-droppers: A flying X-pattern with trailing streamers," said Ray Villard, a contributing writer to Discovery News. "Whatever it is, nothing quite like it has ever before been seen in the heavens." READ MORE

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=125439


"Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people"

- John Adams - Second President (1797 - 1801)


Governments Plan for Warming Based On Corrupt IPCC Science

Canada Free Press - Thursday, February 18, 2010

There is no need for any government action on CO2, global warming or climate change. But as usual governments are making the situation worse as they waste billions preparing for warming when cooling is the future. The misdirection is caused by the corrupted science of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change particularly their omission of major solar changes. My last article identified the Milankovitch Effect, a solar mechanism excluded from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).




ACTIVE VOLCANOES WARM UP WATER!!!

Team Finds Subtropical Waters Flushing Through Greenland Fjord

Waters from warmer latitudes -- or subtropical waters -- are reaching Greenland's glaciers, driving melting and likely triggering an acceleration of ice loss, reports a team of researchers led by Fiamma Straneo, a physical oceanographer from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI).

WhatReallyHappened.com Webmaster's Commentary:

Talk about functional fixedness.

Okay, look at the map in this article. Find Greenland. Now find that tiny island immediately below it. That is Iceland, soon to be the bastion if freedom of speech for the planet. It is also the tip of a massive and active volcano system whose submerged extent is not explored.

Gee, I wonder why they are finding warm waters near Greenland.

Just like Medieval Witch Hunters who were paid to find witches saw them everywhere, People paid to study global warming see global warming everywhere, even to the exclusion of an active volcano right in the middle of where they are looking
.





OUR PLANET'S PROTECTIVE MAGNETOSPHERE UPDATE
About Real-Time Magnetosphere Simulation
http://www2.nict.go.jp/y/y223/simulation/realtime/index.html

February 18, 2010 at 5:17 PM Central Time




Our 'protective' magnetosphere - a magnetic reversal today!

Magnetosphere at 7:23 UT on February 18, 2010 or (1:23 AM Central) today:








MOON UPDATE
Current Moon Phase
http://www.die.net/moon/

Recommended:

What the Hell is Going on Up There?





SUN UPDATE
http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/sunspots/
http://solarcycle24.com/

Classification of Solar Flares

Magnetic fields trigger solar wind


From my CaveNews YouTube Channel: LASCO C2 Feb 12-Feb 18, 2010:



Solar Update - New sunspot 1049 continues to show some growth in the southern hemisphere. In the northern hemisphere, both Sunspot 1046 and 1048 have decayed into spotless plages.



NASA Images Earth-Sized Objects Inside Corona Of SUN



NASA Images Earth Sized Spherical Objects Inside Corona of SUN


EARTHQUAKE UPDATES

New York state is experiencing earthquakes today approx 25 mi West of Albany, NY - February 18, 2010


http://folkworm.ceri.memphis.edu/recenteqs/Quakes/quakes0.html

TODAY:
map 2.4 2010/02/18 08:20:42 42.585N 74.154W 18.0 16 km (10 mi) SE of Schoharie, NY
map 1.5 2010/02/18 05:30:12 42.584N 74.145W 20.0 16 km (10 mi) SW of Altamont, NY
map 2.0 2010/02/18 02:01:46 42.584N 74.166W 22.0 15 km ( 9 mi) SE of Schoharie, NY
map 2.7 2010/02/18 01:32:55 42.590N 74.154W 19.0 15 km (10 mi) ESE of Schoharie, NY



map 1.7 2010/02/15 03:08:04 42.584N 74.156W 20.0 16 km (10 mi) SE of Schoharie, NY
map 2.2 2010/02/15 02:46:25 42.589N 74.157W 20.0 15 km ( 9 mi) SE of Schoharie, NY
map 1.9 2010/02/14 05:36:58 42.584N 74.138W 19.0 15 km (10 mi) SSW of Altamont, NY
map 1.6 2010/02/14 04:41:35 42.582N 74.133W 19.0 15 km (10 mi) SSW of Altamont, NY
map 1.5 2010/02/13 23:52:47 42.584N 74.132W 18.0 15 km ( 9 mi) SSW of Altamont, NY
map 1.3 2010/02/13 23:47:19 42.584N 74.123W 17.0 15 km ( 9 mi) SSW of Altamont, NY
map 1.7 2010/02/13 21:23:32 42.582N 74.158W 22.0 16 km (10 mi) SE of Schoharie, NY
map 1.9 2010/02/13 21:14:12 45.599N 74.584W 5.0 85 km (53 mi) NNW of Chateaugay, NY
map 1.7 2010/02/13 20:51:20 42.580N 74.137W 18.0 16 km (10 mi) SSW of Altamont, NY

Latest Earthquakes Magnitude 2.5 or Greater in the United States and Adjacent Areas and Magnitude 4.5 or Greater in the Rest of the World

Update time = Fri Feb 19 0:22:32 UTC 2010

MAG UTC DATE-TIME
y/m/d h:m:s
LAT
deg
LON
deg
DEPTH
km
Region
MAP 5.1 2010/02/18 23:49:45 46.774 152.434 66.8 KURIL ISLANDS
MAP 3.4 2010/02/18 21:43:32 18.340 -68.873 127.7 DOMINICAN REPUBLIC REGION
MAP 2.5 2010/02/18 21:22:17 60.031 -152.347 94.4 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 5.3 2010/02/18 20:56:34 -23.105 -68.180 111.2 ANTOFAGASTA, CHILE
MAP 2.5 2010/02/18 20:23:17 34.009 -117.194 7.8 GREATER LOS ANGELES AREA, CALIFORNIA
MAP 2.8 2010/02/18 20:22:12 34.011 -117.190 5.5 GREATER LOS ANGELES AREA, CALIFORNIA
MAP 2.6 2010/02/18 19:45:14 60.137 -141.110 0.1 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 2.5 2010/02/18 18:14:46 38.817 -122.819 3.0 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 3.5 2010/02/18 13:54:33 53.345 -167.480 33.0 FOX ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA
MAP 3.2 2010/02/18 12:29:26 19.273 -67.426 7.0 PUERTO RICO REGION
MAP 2.7 2010/02/18 12:00:14 18.891 -65.240 24.8 PUERTO RICO REGION
MAP 3.4 2010/02/18 11:00:32 20.055 -155.966 9.8 HAWAII REGION, HAWAII
MAP 2.8 2010/02/18 07:41:19 33.962 -116.733 18.3 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 2.7 2010/02/18 07:32:56 42.590 -74.154 19.0 NEW YORK
MAP 2.5 2010/02/18 02:44:34 35.271 -92.431 4.4 ARKANSAS
MAP 2.8 2010/02/18 01:28:19 18.983 -66.745 5.4 PUERTO RICO REGION
MAP 6.9 2010/02/18 01:13:19 42.581 130.537 573.8 CHINA-RUSSIA-NORTH KOREA BORDER REGION
MAP 3.0 2010/02/18 00:27:50 62.046 -151.071 51.9 CENTRAL ALASKA




VOLCANISM NEWS


New report says oil drilling behind Indonesian mud volcano


Radio Australia - Stephanie Foxley - ‎13 hours ago‎
A new report into the Lusi mud volcano in East Java, Indonesia, has provided the strongest evidence to date of a link between the drilling of an oil well ...


Yellowstone Volcano Observatory

Recent Yellowstone Earthquakes Website

Yellowstone Earthquake Swarm Summary as of 11 February 2010

The rate of earthquake occurrence in the Madison Plateau area is now at background levels. As of February 11, 2010 4:00 PM MST there have been 1,805 earthquakes located. The swarm began January 17, 2010 around 1:00 PM MST about 10 miles (16 km) northwest of the Old Faithful area on the northwestern edge of the Yellowstone Caldera. Swarms have occurred in this area several times over the past 30 years. Visual observation of landforms and geothermal features by Yellowstone National Park personnel did not show any changes that could be attributed to the earthquakes.

This swarm is now the second largest recorded swarm at Yellowstone. It was longer (in time) and included more earthquakes than last year's swarm beneath Yellowstone Lake (December '08/January '09).


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Fire and smoke - Austin, Texas


( Trey Jones / Associated Press / February 18, 2010 )

Smoke billows from a seven-story building after a small private plane crashed into it. A software engineer who had a dispute with the Internal Revenue Service was the pilot. The federal agency had offices in the building.


DrudgeReport.com headline:







Austin Plane Crash Labeled “Right-Wing Domestic Terror Attack” By Obama Supporters

Prison Planet.com | Comments on both Democratic Underground and Fox Nation are blaming the attack on Tea Party activists and others in the freedom movement.


Texas crash does not appear to be terrorism-White House

18 Feb 2010 The White House said the crash of a small plane in the Texas state capital Austin on Thursday did not appear to be terrorism and that President Barack Obama had been briefed about the incident. The Homeland Security Department is looking at investigating all angles of the incident, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs told reporters on board Air Force One before leaving on a trip to Colorado. "It does not appear" to be terrorism, Gibbs said.





Stripping Away The Disguise of Derivatives

Fascist Soup

Feb 18 2010

The Financial Times has issued a report on Greece’s use of derivatives to mask its true debt spending.

For those who don’t know, the FT is a total fascist mouthpiece with a globalist agenda. The editors are a bunch of treasonous villains on the order of Kissinger’s CFR, so I’m not sure why the FT has issued such a report. I have to assume they have an agenda or they are covering their ass ...

... As the Business Insider article by Ron Paul notes:

Because of our globe-straddling empire and lingering reserve currency status, perhaps no one has a more vested interest in keeping this system cobbled together than our own government and the Federal Reserve. The agreements that Iceland and Dubai and Greece have negotiated can amount to little more than kicking the can down the road, as their overall spending habits remain largely intact, fiat currencies are still legal tender and more debt is issued on top of unsustainable debt. The American people have the right to know if they are going to be the ones holding the bag in the end because the Federal Reserve secretly put them on the hook for it. This knowledge would be a key factor in peacefully dismantling this immoral and unconstitutional system.

With the FT publishing that Greece was heavily involved in using derivatives to mask its debt obligations, and the fact that the Fed may be involved, one has to wonder just what our own criminal government is up to.







US Media Replays Iraq Fiasco on Iran

February 18, 2010

Veterans Today

Major U.S. news organizations, including the New York Times and the Washington Post, are engaged in a replay of the kind of slanted coverage that paved the way to war in Iraq, only this time regarding Iran.

The treatment of Iran’s election last June, the depictions of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the alarm over Iran’s nuclear program all parallel the one-sided coverage that the U.S. news media directed toward Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein and Iraq’s alleged WMD program before the U.S.-led invasion in 2003. ...

Hillary Clinton Is Kidding about “military dictatorships”


Does anyone believe that Hillary Clinton has any more commitment to democracy than...



Palin Tells Tea Party to Merge with Republican Borg Hive


Kurt Nimmo | Palin declared America is firmly mired in the two party system and the Tea Party has to make a choice.




Lie Exposed: U.S Guns and Mexican Crimes






WayneMadsenReport.com | February 18, 2010




QUAKE NEWS (Chapter III of "The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism" by Emmanuel Goldstein, 1984, by George Orwell: "All members of the Inner Party believe in this coming conquest as an article of faith. It is to be achieved either by gradually acquiring more and more territory and so building up an overwhelming preponderance of power, or by the discovery of some new and unanswerable weapon . . . others explore even remoter possibilities such as focusing the sun's rays through lenses suspended thousands of kilometres away in space, or producing artificial earthquakes and tidal waves by tapping the heat at the earth's centre. Secretary of Defense William Cohen, Pentagon briefing, April 28, 1997: "Others are engaging even in an eco-type of terrorism whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves.")



INTERNATIONAL NEWS


NATIONAL NEWS


COUNTRY FOCUS: United Kingdom. Zionist British Foreign Secretary David Miliband accsued of being soft on Israel over Israel's assassination of Hamas official in Dubai. Just like the United States, Britain suffers from the "dual loyalists.".





General: 8-Week Class Could Turn Taliban Into Soldiers






Department of Homeland Security (DHS) loses 243 weapons

Some guns ended up in hands of criminals, inspector general says.





EXCLUSIVE: Help Wanted -- 'Arrogant Americans' Need Not Apply

Fox News Feb 18 2010 - An information technology staffing firm based in Rolling Meadows, Ill., posted an advertisement for a technical writer that warned that an "arrogant American" would not flourish in the position.




Russia warns US against attacking Iran

17 Feb 2010 The chief of Russia's General Staff, Nikolai Makarov, has warned the US against striking Iran over the country's nuclear program. "The consequences, I believe, would be dreadful for Iran, as well as Russia, the entire Asia-Pacific community," Makarov said on Wednesday. The Russian military chief further suggested that the United States might turn its military attention on the Islamic Republic once its operations in Iraq and Afghanistan have been completed.







Heads up! WHO to decide new flu vaccine formula

18 Feb 2010 World 'Health' Organization advisers will announce the make-up of this coming year's seasonal flu vaccine on Thursday... The WHO advisers could potentially vote to have the pandemic H1N1 strain substitute for the current H1N1 seasonal strain.

This would be good news for vaccine makers and governments
that have made and stockpiled doses of H1N1 vaccine that have not been used and could become part of the seasonal flu vaccine mix. [Translation: The World Homicide Organization wants to push Baxter's mercury-laden vaccines on us again because people wisely avoided the sh*t the first time around. --LRP]


UN should replace US in Haiti, says Brazil


[Apparently, they're tired of the child trafficking, 20,000+ American troops, mercenaries, and the corporaterrorists.]

17 Feb 2010 The Brazilian foreign minister says the UN mission in Haiti should be the only operator in the aftermath of the crisis in the quake-ravaged country, dismissing the long stay of the US forces in the Central American nation. "Once emergency work is finished, it's best that UN forces are the only ones remaining on the ground," said Celso Amorim, referring to the United Nations mission in Haiti, or MINUSTAH. "It would be a mistake to think that the United States are resolving the Haitian crisis," Amorim told Spain's El Pais newspaper, reported AFP on Wednesday.

[Yeah, letting the US in to 'help' is like letting loose forty child molesters on a playground. --LRP]





USA’s Global Military Dominance: Real Reason For Sanctions Against Iran

The U.S.-sponsored drive to impose new economic sanctions on Iran has nothing to do with the noble cause of limiting proliferation of nuclear weapons on the planet. It is directly linked to the U.S. military doctrine of establishing ‘full spectrum dominance’ – i.e., military dominance on land, sea, air, and outer space over all other countries in the world. The logical extension of this doctrine is that only countries firmly allied to the U.S. government should be allowed to acquire nuclear weapons or to even develop the capacity to do so.




Obama Press Secretary threatens US attack of Iran. US military: when will you expose these war lies?

*hyperlinks and video live at source*

The US war emperors have no clothes. Iran never threatened to destroy Israel. Iran is in full compliance with the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), including their use of nuclear medicine with isotopes. It was the US who initiated the UN Charter that limits war to the narrowest use of self-defense only, almost identical in law to the limits for you or me as individuals.

When will leadership emerge from the US military and/or US government to speak these truths that are objective facts for anyone and everyone to verify?


Biden: Israel has 'sovereign right' to attack Iran

In interview with ABC, VP Biden suggests Washington won't stand in Israel's way should it choose to attack Iran's nuclear facilities







U.S. Navy Visit to Hong Kong Analyzed for Meaning

With tensions mounting between the U.S. and China, the tea-leaf readers were out in full force to analyze the significance of what would at other times be a routine port call to Hong Kong by the giant nuclear-powered USS Nimitz aircraft carrier and it’s 5,000 sailors.»





Under threat of a credit rating downgrade, the City Council tells agency heads to eliminate 3,000 jobs -- in addition to 1,000 cuts already planned -- "by any means necessary, including layoffs."








FROM THE ONION ... a little from the lighter side







In anticipation of the snowstorms that paralyzed the mid-Atlantic, store shelves were stripped bare, leaving some unlucky citizens without the bare essentials. Here are the items you should not be without if you're snowed in:

  • Jigsaw puzzles: If you can't get out of the house, an old-fashioned jigsaw puzzle is the perfect way to while away the hours, and the perfect catalyst for a fight with your family or roommates when you get sick of doing the same puzzle for four hours...

Melissa Donley, author and cat relationship expert, visits Today NOW! with some tips for people in long term relationships with their cats. ...more»





China urges concrete US actions for healthy ties


02-19 07:18
"The U.S. act ran counter to the principles set forth in the three China-U.S. joint communiques and the China-U.S. joint statement," Foreign Ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu said.





BlackListedNews.com | February 18, 2010






More than 75,000 computer systems at nearly 2,500 companies in the United States and around the world have been hacked in what appears to be one of the largest and most sophisticated attacks by cyber criminals discovered to date, according to a northern Virginia security firm.

Britain will consider severing its intelligence-sharing agreement with Israel if Mossad agents are proved to have stolen the identities of British passport holders, The Daily Telegraph has learnt.

The underground or "black" economy is rapidly rising, and the fault is mainly due to government policies.




The number of U.S. workers filing new applications for unemployment insurance unexpectedly surged last week, while producer prices increased sharply in January, raising potential hurdles for the economic recovery.

It's being called the largest research fraud in medical history. Dr. Scott Reuben, a former member of Pfizer's speakers' bureau, has agreed to plead guilty to faking dozens of research studies that were published in medical journals.



The economic elite have robbed us all. The amount of suffering in the United States of America is literally a crime against humanity.

On Peter Lavelle’s CrossTalk, Israel critic Norman Finkelstein faces off against a formidable spokesperson of Israel’s ’soft power’.

If the current Web is already allowing us to blow off the steam which we would otherwise channel into social protest, can you imagine how much more so in a 3-D, multi-media, full immersion internet?

Either Bill Maher was doing his best effort to impersonate Mel Brooks as King Louis XVI in “History in the World, Part I” or he has a complete and utter disregard for the intellectual competency of the American people.

U.S. states face a total shortfall of at least $1 trillion in their funds for employees' pensions and retirement benefits, and their financial problems are quickly mounting, according to a report released by the Pew Center on the States on Thursday

Three pages of ABC neWz about the snowballing debt crisis and not one word about the WarBama regime’s absurd military spending increases and adventures.

Will the European Union use Greece's debt crisis to claw more economic power away from its member governments?




WhatReallyHappened.com | February 18, 2010



Musings Of Glenn Beck's 911 Truth Double Standards
"How Mr.Beck uses the Neocon term "Truther" as a tool to be used against people he alone sees fit to use on, in order to "discredit" who he wants. His hypocrisy in this matter is quite astounding, it is just another example of who the man really is. He is one deceptive and dishonest individual."

IMF To Sell 191.3 Tons Of Gold On Open Market
I'd suggest that before you pay for it, you'd better take a hacksaw to it to be sure it's pure.

Repeal the 17th Amendment. Restore Liberty.
Until 1913, when the 17th Amendment was ratified, the citizens of the states elected U.S. senators indirectly: Voters elected the state legislators, and they in turn selected U.S. senators. From 1913 onward, voters have directly elected U.S. senators in statewide elections.
This change has led to a number of negative results, including
-Vastly increased federal power and vastly decreased state, local, and personal authority due to the state governments losing their representation in the federal government;
-The domination of Senate elections (and legislation) by forces outside of the particular states wherein elections are being held, e.g., out-of-state donations, political party operatives, and campaign consultants; and
Webmaster's Commentary:
Interesting that the 17th Amendment changing how Senators were elected occurred in the same year the Federal Reserve Act was passed and the 16th Amendment proclaimed to be "in effect" by Secretary of State Philander Knox.

Yet Another Congressman Questions 9/11
Congressman Jason Chafetz just said that we need to be vigilant and continue to investigate 9/11.
A real nutjob, right?
If so, he joins quite a few other Congressmen:

'US gave up war plans because of Iran's might'
“The US planned and carried out the 9/11 attacks with support from Zionists," Fars news agency quoted Pourdastan as saying on Wednesday.
“The US claimed that terrorists have carried out the attacks in order to find a pretext for presence in the [Middle East] region," he stated.
Webmaster's Commentary:
Would you be heartbroken if we told you we already knew?

Myth of the Iranian Nuke
Did Robert Gibbs let the cat out of the bag?
Last week, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told the world that Iran, unable to get fuel rods from the West for its U.S.-built reactor, which makes medical isotopes, had begun to enrich its own uranium to 20 percent.
From his perch in the West Wing, Gibbs scoffed:
“He (Ahmadinejad) says many things, and many of them turn out to be untrue. We do not believe they have the capability to enrich to the degree to which they now say they are enriching.”
But wait a minute. If Iran does not “have the capability” to enrich to 20 percent for fuel rods, how can Iran enrich to 90 percent for a bomb?

Climategate 2.0 — The NASA Files: U.S. Climate Science as Corrupt as CRU

New Surveillance Drones With Tear Gas, Rubber Bullets, Tasers
Original Post by Paul Joseph Watson at Prison Planet
“French company Tecknisolar Seni has demonstrated a portable drone armed with a double-barrelled 44mm Flash-Ball gun,” states the report. “Used by French special police units, the one-kilo Flash-Ball resembles a large calibre handgun and fires non-lethal rounds, including tear gas and rubber impact rounds to bring down a suspect without permanent damage" ...the fact that the Flash-Ball devices have caused “permanent damage” in the form of head injuries is glossed over....“Taser stun guns are now so light (about 150 grams) that they could be mounted on the smaller drones. Antoine di Zazzo, head of SMP Technologies, which distributes tasers in France, says the company is fitting one to a small quad-rotor iDrone....
The fact that every one of these fascistic and futuristic tools of enslavement is being primed to be used mainly against protesters only confirms that the police state is not coming, it’s not some future threat, it’s here in 2010 – we’re living in a world that does not tolerate dissent against its overlords, we’re truly living on a prison planet.

FDIC Opens A Massive New Office Near Chicago Just To Handle The Coming Tidal Wave Of Midwest Bank Closings They Are Expecting
The FDIC is opening up a massive new satellite office in the Chicago area that will be dedicated to managing receiverships and liquidating assets from failed Midwest banks.


We, The People, Call For Total National Strike April 15-18
The spark of Freedom is igniting within the hearts and minds of the people in America, as well as globally, and we all have the moral obligation to fan the flames. The time for taking our freedom for granted has passed.
It is now time to stand for freedom individually and collectively, and make the sacrifices necessary in order to reclaim it. But it is easier than most of us know.
There are only 3 things we need in order to ensure success. We must be Pro-Active, Non Violent, and Massive in numbers. There are over 300 million of us, here, in this country, trying to survive under corporate fascism. It is time to stop the so-called "Wheels of Progress" from crushing our lives and our planet.

TSA's handling of high-level security badge questioned
The screener, whose name has not been made public, committed armed robbery at the age of 17 and entered a guilty plea a year later, according to Richmond airport officials. Because he was a juvenile at the time of the crime, the felony did not disqualify him from later being hired and credentialed by the TSA.

The United States Is In Deep Doodoo!
We've borrowed so much money the lenders are getting nervous. Back during the Johnson administration Charles DeGaulle demanded the United States collateralize the loans owed to France in gold and started carting out the bullion from the treasury. This caused several other nations to demand the same and President Nixon had to slam the gold window closed or the treasury would have been emptied, since the United States was even then in debt for more money than the treasury could cover in gold.

Italy's Government Seeks Control Over Online Videos
Italy's government is drafting a decree that would give it control over online video content.
In a country where Internet usage is still relatively small, the measure is seen as an attempt by Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi to protect his TV empire from future competition from the freewheeling world of Google and YouTube.
Webmaster's Commentary:
The Silicon Curtain descends over Italy!

The Richest 1% Have Captured America's Wealth -- What's It Going to Take to Get It Back?
The U.S. already had the highest inequality of wealth in the industrialized world prior to the financial crisis -- and it's gotten even worse.


Greek Ex-Minister: Other Euro Countries Did Swaps Too
Greece's 2001 deal to swap some of its debt using currency derivatives was in line with what other euro-zone countries were doing, Yiannos Papantoniou, the country's finance and economy minister when the deal was made, told CNBC.com Wednesday.
The transaction, intermediated by Goldman Sachs, involved exchanging about 2.8 billion euros ($3.8 billion) worth of bonds denominated in yen and US dollars — that would have generated substantial outflows in 2002 — into euros, maturing in 2019, Papantoniou explained.
"We took a loan that was to be repaid in 2019," he said in a telephone interview. "It was public. I know that what we've done then was consistent with what was done by many euro zone countries."
Webmaster's Commentary:
So, Goldman Sachs was helping ALL the U conceal the true scale of their debts from their own people?
This IS going to turn into a global revolution.

PROPAGANDA ALERT - FOX - Iran Must Be Stopped
The situation with Iran continues to become more dangerous by the day. How many will needlessly die before we act to prevent a repeat of what the world experienced during the time of Hitler?
Webmaster's Commentary:
What the world experienced during the time of Hitler was an arrogant and ruthless nation using a war to get out of economic calamity, lying about other nations and invading them one after the other after the other to loot their wealth while scapegoating and torturing a convenient ethnic minority as a distraction.
If it sounds familiar it should, because those words describe the actions of the United States.
Iran, who has not invaded anyone in 200 years, and whose Jewish population are so content that the refused to emigrate to Israel, is not the problem. It is the United States which is the 21st Century version of Nazi Germany.

17 Police Union Boss: ‘Sorry If The Average Citizen’s Taxes Go Up to Cover My Raise, but I Have To Look Out for Myself’
“I’m not running a popularity contest here,” Mesley said. “If I’m the bad guy to the average citizen . . . and their taxes have go up to cover my raise, I’m very sorry about that, but I have to look out for myself and my membership.“
Mesley added: “As the president of the local, I will not accept ‘zeroes.’ If that means . . . ticking off some taxpayers, then so be it.

World Trade Center developer Larry Silverstein wants own bailout
Silverstein is requesting cash for at least two of the three planned office towers, sources told the paper.
Anxious to see the project completed, the Port Authority is considering stepping in, but not without concessions, The Journal said.
Silverstein has less than $1 billion left from the $4.5 billion insurance settlement he got after the 2001 terror attacks, The Journal said.
Webmaster's Commentary:
And he'll probably get it because he can blow the whistle on what really happened on 9-11.

The ax is about to swing on state budget
Webmaster's Commentary:
Start with the governor and the legislators.
We actually NEED the Fire Department, Police, roads, and schools.


Greece Bans Cash Transactions Over 1,500 Euros
Effective January 1, 2011 every transaction above 1,500 euros will be considered illegal if it is done in cash. Transactions will have to be done through debit or credit cards.

Fourth lawsuit seeks $33 million over taser gun incidents
The current lawsuit alleges -
• The school resource officer, Lonnie Netzel, allegedly used a taser gun on a 13-year-old boy's leg in the school's hallway, in October 2009.
• Netzel allegedly used a Taser gun on a 12-year-old boy on Jan. 12 while supervised by two teachers, Jessica Labon and Teresa LaReau, who were named in the first two lawsuits.
• Netzel allegedly shocked 12-year-old boy who suffers from mental illness on Jan. 12, while supervised by another teacher, Bradley Netzel.

Greece loses EU voting power in blow to sovereignty
The European Union has shown its righteous wrath by stripping Greece of its vote at a crucial meeting next month, the worst humiliation ever suffered by an EU member state.
Webmaster's Commentary:
Do these idiots WANT riots?

TSA to swab airline passengers' hands in search for explosives
Webmaster's Commentary:
Like terrorists building bombs can't get rubber gloves?
Also, the glue from cardboard boxes can trigger a false positive on the nitrates test.

Bin Laden: Dead and Loving It

'Influenza vaccine has no effect': study
There is no evidence to support the contention that the influenza vaccine administered to the over 65s is of any more use than opening the windows and washing hands, a new study from the Cochrane Collaboration claims, according to a report in the Svenska Dagbladet newspaper.

Pimping Weapons to the World
If the Hollywood export Avatar sweeps the world, bringing in multi-billions, it’s front-page news. If American arms exports sweep the world, bringing in multi-billions, you’re lucky to find out about it deep inside your ever-thinning daily newspaper (and such stories seldom even make it onto the TV news). If we sell weaponry repeatedly to the Indonesians or the Saudis or the Qataris or the Israelis, it’s a ho-hum matter. The norm. Like those bases in Afghanistan.

Wall Street’s War against Main Street America
Former Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson wrote an op-ed in The New York Times, (Feb. 16)[1] outlining how to put the U.S. economy on rations. Not in those words, of course. Just the opposite: If the government hadn’t bailed out Wall Street’s bad loans, he claims, “unemployment could have exceeded the 25 percent level of the Great Depression.” Without wealth at the top, there would be nothing to trickle down.
Webmaster's Commentary:
I am tired of being trickled on by Wall Street, aren't you?

White House Won’t Rule Out Attacking Iran
Underscoring the very real threat that remains of an American war against Iran, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs today declared that the Obama Administration will not rule out attacking Iran over its decision to enrich uranium to 20 percent.
Webmaster's Commentary:
As I stated in a previous article today, Netanyahu is denying claims that Israel is preparing for a war against Iran because he is expecting the US military to do the fighting, getting maimed, and dying in any attack against Iran.
And a memo to White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs: don't you guys have a science advisor somewhere around the place, so that you don't look like a consummate ignoramus when characterizing the Iranian uranium enrichment to 20% as evidence of a terrible "threat"?!?
Didn't anyone happen to mention to you that this level of enrichment is to produce medical isotopes?!?
Didn't anyone happen to mention to you that in order to get weapons grade uranium, you have to enrich that uranium to over 95%?!?

Rising tide of suburban homeless across U.S.
Homelessness in rural and suburban America is straining shelters this winter as the economy founders and joblessness hovers near double digits — a “perfect storm of foreclosures, unemployment and a shortage of affordable housing,” in one official’s eyes.
We see a spiral in food stamps, heating assistance applications; Medicaid is skyrocketing,” Blass added. “It is truly reaching a stage of being alarming.”
Webmaster's Commentary:
Welcome to the country of "Ameristan", brought to you, courtesy of the previous and present administrations!

The Federal Reserve's Exit Strategy: Unlegislated Bailout of Fannie and Freddie
If one is alert, it is evident that the Federal Reserve and the U.S. Treasury have disposed of the need for Congressional approval, and have engineered a de facto bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, at public expense.

Move Over China: Beijing Sells Whopping $34.2 Billion Treasuries In December As Japan Becomes Largest Official Holder Of US Debt
Gradually we are getting confirmation that Chinese "posturing" about offloading US debt is all too real. The most recent TIC data confirmed the Treasury's greatest nightmare: China is now dumping US bonds. In December China sold $34.2 billion of debt ($38.8 billion in Bills sold offset by $4.6 billion in Bonds purchased), lowering its total holdings $755.4 billion, the lowest since February 2009, and for the first time in many years relinquishing the top US debt holder spot to Japan, which bought $11.5 billion (mostly in Bonds, selling $1.4 billion Bills) bringing its total to $768.8 billion.
Webmaster's Commentary:
Remember that what the US Government is selling is your future enslavement to these foreign nations. That is what they are buying; your willingness to work and pay back the bonds plus interest.

Another of Newsweek’s ridiculous “conspiracy theory” claims has been debunked after a prominent former Mexican foreign office minister called for a North American Union and a single unified currency, adding to the voluminous reams of evidence that confirm an EU-style integration is being developed for the Americas, a notion Newsweek dismissed as “discredited” in their feeble “Know Your Conspiracies” hit piece.




Seoul



(Suh Myong-gon / Yonhap / February 17, 2010)
A South Korean man searches for his shoes among a pile of recovered footwear that had been stolen by a thief. Investigators nabbed the thief earlier this month. He had stolen about 1,200 pairs of luxury-brand shoes from funeral halls at large hospitals and stored them at a warehouse, aiming to become a street vendor.




UN cafeteria closed due to "suspicious envelope"





Big Pharma researcher admits to faking dozens of research studies for Pfizer, Merck


It's being called the largest research fraud in medical history. Dr. Scott Reuben, a former member of Pfizer's speakers' bureau, has agreed to plead guilty to faking dozens of research studies that were published in medical journals.

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US Debt Clock

FDIC:
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation


FDIC "insurance" is a Ponzi scheme, except in this case Mr. Ponzi has the power to create money and bail himself out indefinitely



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Clif has posted that he has 'postponed' The Shape of Things to Come, Issue 4



From George Ure's UrbanSurival.com this Thursday morning:

Web Bot Run Delayed

Yes, the spiders are out gathering data. However, due to Universe intrudes, the "Shape of Things to Come, Issue 4" which had been planned for March 21st or so has been put on hold indefinitely.

The delay is not due to anything dark, murky, or anything like that. Cliff's got and agenda - a good snapshot of what's ahead is in the December 2009 report, and the pressing issues have to do with preps of the sort one can't just write a check for.

For now, the Shape Of Things To Come/ rickety time machine project report from December should get you enough of a picture of what's out there that we're focused on things like personal health, gardens, and boats...to see why Universe's intrusions (now and pending) are so important to address.




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George Ure's UrbanSurvival.com:

Coping at the WuJo: Oh! THOSE UFO's

You may remember a while back we began to 'go hot' on one of the web bot predictive outputs - the "alien wars" and the whole hidden history of mankind's interactions with the 'whatever' the phenomena is...

Well, this morning "Thousands of UFO's have been spotted in the last 20 years around the US, according to newly released documents" and this only covers the period from about 1990 through 2000.

The files range from large (2 MB) to 'are they freakin' kidding? (194.7 MB) so downloading them from the UK's archive site here is not the kind of thing to be undertaken with, oh, dial-up say... Nevertheless, you want UFO/alien wars background, here it is.

An example report:


And the UK folks apparently pulled a web graphic related to this because it's in the files (page 73 of defe-24-2010.pdf)

When one goes through the letters which are sent back to groups or persons filing UFO reports, there's a very interesting tendency; namely to say the "...Minister of Defence's only interest in sighting of 'unidentified flying objects' is whether there is any evidence that the United Kingdom's airspace might have been compromised by hostile or unauthorised air activity..."

Which is an interesting way of putting it, since one could read this as 'leaving the barn door open" wide enough to wonder (if you're a particularly keen conspiracist) to the possibility of some UFO's being authorised. I mean, we do live in a world where president's can say things like "depends what you mean by 'sex', so why not 'depends what you mean by authorized' or 'hostile', eh?


Right, then...So you don't want to go to YouTube and hear what researcher Ed Grimsley (and others) have been seeing in the skies overhead. After you go through everything that pops up under the YouTube search for "UFO +nightvision +battles" an interesting thought may occur to you, as it has to me.

What IF (and this is only an if) humans are some kind of 'soul carrying cattle' and that [whatevers] are fighting about who gets to harvest or shepherd the herd down here on the ground?

Just a thought, and no, not a pleasant one...but it's in keeping with the part of modelspace in Cliff's work that goes to 'alien wars' and revelations about same this year....








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Thursday, February 18, 2010

Typos may earn Google $500m a year
Ingenious 'typosquatters' securing slightly askew web domain names for profit.
— New Scientist

Chickens See Color Better than Humans
Research indicates remarkably complex nature of birds' eyes.
— LiveScience

UFO 'sightings' revealed in archive files from 1990s
Latest batch of UK UFO files includes a number of intriguing drawings from witnesses.
— BBC News

New Clip Shows JFK Arriving in Dallas in 1963
Rare color footage surfaces of Kennedy only a few hours before his death.
— Associated Press

Dead Woman Comes Back to Life at Burial
Case of 'Lazarus Syndrome' stuns Columbian funeral home workers.
— FOX News






This frame grab from a Nov. 22, 1963, film provided by The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza, shows President John F. Kennedy on his arrival in Dallas on the day he was assassinated. The short clip was shot on 8mm film by William Ward Warren, then a 15-year-old student.

(AP Photo/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza, William Ward Warren)





Roundtown Mercedes Of Maryscot, or Sadie, a Scottish Terrier, stands in the winning circle after winning Best in Show at the 134th Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show at Madison Square Garden in New York, February 16, 2010.

REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton



ASIAN CARP NEWS

Analyst says Chicago exaggerating costs of closing locks to keep Asian carp ...


Los Angeles Times - ‎22 minutes ago‎
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) - Government officials and Illinois businesses are overstating the economic pain that would result from closing Chicago-area shipping locks to block the Asian carp's path to the Great Lakes, two transportation specialists said ...


As Asian carp swim every closer to Lake Michigan, politicians are now diving into the issue





Lolo, a black Jaguar, with her newborn spotted cub inside their cage at Jordan's zoo in Yaduda February 16, 2010. The two-month-old cub made his first public appearance on Tuesday after being born to Lolo and Falah, who originate from South America.

REUTERS/Ali Jarekji




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