Sunday, January 10, 2010
RevolutionRadio.org | Headlines - January 10, 2010
Britain is ruled by 26 illegal Brussels sprouts
The EU’s Commissioners are still occupying their posts illegallyFood costs to soar as big freeze deepens
• Farmers struggle to harvest supplies
• Brown chairs urgent talks on crisis
Guardian.co.uk
Britons have been warned to brace themselves for an increase in food prices as plunging temperatures leave farmers unable to harvest vegetables and hauliers struggle to distribute fresh produce.
Is this the end of food as we know it?
new film paints an apocalyptic picture of a world reduced to tinned goods. But could it ever happen here
TelegraphUK
Walk Away From Your Mortgage!
John Courson, president and C.E.O. of the Mortgage Bankers Association, recently told The Wall Street Journal that homeowners who default on their mortgages should think about the “message” they will send to “their family and their kids and their friends.” Courson was implying that homeowners — record numbers of whom continue to default — have a responsibility to make good. He wasn’t referring to the people who have no choice, who can’t afford their payments. He was speaking about the rising number of folks who are voluntarily choosing not to pay.
The mini ice age starts here
DailyMailUK
The bitter winter afflicting much of the Northern Hemisphere is only the start of a global trend towards cooler weather that is likely to last for 20 or 30 years, say some of the world’s most eminent climate scientists.
Their predictions – based on an analysis of natural cycles in water temperatures in the Pacific and Atlantic oceans – challenge some of the global warming orthodoxy’s most deeply cherished beliefs, such as the claim that the North Pole will be free of ice in
summer by 2013.
Climategate investigated by – WTF? – the ‘National Domestic Extremism’ team
Finally the Norfolk rozzers are on the case of Climategate. Are they investigating fraudulent misuse of grant funds? Misleading manipulation of data by a taxpayer-funded research institute? Conspiracy to encourage the squandering of trillions of dollars on a non-existent problem?
Obama Asks Congress to Bypass Conference Committee to Finalize Health Bill
If Democratic leaders agree, the House would work on and amend the Senate version of the legislation before sending it back to the Senate for a final vote. Renouncing to a conference committee would help speed up action on the health bill and allow a passage before the State of the Union address in early February.
Obama takes new tack in disregarding parts of laws
WASHINGTON – The Obama administration is lowering the volume in a long-running argument between Congress and the executive branch over when, if ever, a president has the power to bypass federal statutes he has signed into law.
“Small Government Conservatives” Who Worship the State
CenterForAStatelessSociety.org
Some time back, someone commented on an earlier column by saying “small government” conservatives only hated the government when it offered people a crutch, not when it clubbed them. There’s a lot of truth in that.
No Acquiesce to Depredation
“A little government and a little luck are necessary in life; but only a fool trusts either of them.”
“When politics are used to allocate resources, the resources all end up being allocated to politics.”
Resistance Is NOT Futile: Forgotten Lessons from the Nullification Crisis
Even as calls for nullification of proposed federal health care mandates have intensified on the state level, an almost hysterical effort has arisen to discredit such measures, and paint them as part of an obsolete theory with no bearing on modern politics.
A TERMINUS AD QUEM
By Sheriff Jim R. Schwiesow, Ret.
NewsWithViews.com
This nation is riding an ominously prophetic swell that foretells the end of a decade-long precipitous slide to a jumping off point into a crescendo of ever-ascending calamitous events preceding a final plunge into devastation and oblivion. I continue to receive mail from those who advocate for the salvation of this country via a political route. Will we ever understand that the afflictions that are upon the nation have their roots in a deep and abiding spiritual sickness? The futility of looking to corrupt politicians and fallible men for answers ought to be evident. Everything the politicians and their bureaucratic minions turn their hands to moves the nation deeper into a morass of fiscal insolvency, non-winnable wars, societal conundrums and moral abasement. It is truly the devil’s course that these arrogant cretins follow, and his seeds that they sow.
The Surge in U.S. Personal Bankruptcies, Foreclosures and Job Losses
by Bob Chapman
Global Research
The number of Americans filing for personal bankruptcy rose by nearly a third in 2009, a surge largely driven by foreclosures and job losses.
Geithner’s Fed told AIG to hide “backdoor bailout”
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York, during its $180 billion bailout of American International Group, Inc., instructed AIG to omit details of its purchase of certain toxic assets from a December 24, 2008, Securities and Exchange Commission filing, according to e-mails between the company and the Fed released Thursday.
Just Biding Our Time Before The Crash In 2011
Still a man hears what he wants to hear
And disregards the rest
– The Boxer, by Paul Simon
“They Are Rocking Even Me”
This will be my tenth annual forecast issue. Time has flown by, and I enter a new decade of writing Thoughts from the Frontline. And even as I write about the high level of uncertainty of the current times, I am optimistic that at the opening of the next decade we will look back and realize that there has been an enormous amount of progress made. None of us will want to revisit the pleasures of the past ten years in some nostalgic dream. I am so ready for a new decade. And speaking of Paul Simon (above), reading the lyrics of The Boxer, one of my favorite songs from my youth, another few words seemed to hit home:
The Military-Industrial Compex is Ruining the Economy
Everyone knows that the too big to fails and their dishonest and footsy-playing regulators and politicians are largely responsible for trashing the economy.
Trilateral Geithner: Corrupted Regulator?
Timothy Geithner is a rising star within the membership of the Trilateral Commission: He is highly educated, has extensive regulatory experience, and is wiling to bend, break or obscure the rules to favor his global elite bosses.
Domestic Espionage Alert: Spy Drone Discovered
KPRC news in Houston recently filmed a secret experiment by law enforcement agencies including the Dept. of Homeland Security of a drone intended to spy on Americans.
Chavez orders currency devaluation by 50% in Venezuela…
Venezuelans rushed to the shops on Saturday, fearful of price rises after a currency devaluation that will let President Hugo Chavez boost government spending ahead of an election but feeds opposition charges of economic mismanagement.
Japan Airlines ‘about to collapse’
JAPAN AIRLINES, Asia’s biggest carrier, could fall into bankruptcy within days in the latest sign the bad times are far from over for the aviation industry.
Blackwater Fever: High Crimes and Hired Guns
Scott Horton of Harper’s gives us chapter and verse of the Justice Department’s very deliberate — and insultingly brazen — sabotaging of its own case against the Blackwater mercenaries who murdered 17 Iraqis in Nisoor Square back in September 2007. As any sentient observer could have told you then, these hired killers — gorging on taxpayer dollars as they assisted the mass-murdering invasion and occupation of Iraq — were never going to do time. Why should they? They were just doing what they were paid, by us, to do: kill ragheads.
BlackListedNews.com | Headlines - January 10, 2010
| "We don't need to look at naked 8-year-olds and grandmothers to secure airplanes," Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, said Friday. "Are we really going to subject 2 million people per day to that? I think it's a false argument to say we have to give up all of our personal privacy in order to have security." | |
| New revelations about the failed Christmas Day attack on Northwest Airlines Flight 253 continue to emerge as does evidence of a systematic cover-up. | |
| Welcome to the European border of the not-too-distant future. | |
| Billed as a world first, Roxxxy the sex robot made here debut in front of adoring fans at the AVN Adult Entertainment Expo in Las Vegas. | |
| The minimum stay is two years, and life is an unremitting gauntlet of physical abuse and forced labour without any drug treatment, according to former inmates and substance abuse professionals. "It was a hell I'm still trying to recover from," she said. | |
| It's round one in the 2010 fight against global warming and Minnesota has landed the first punch against coal-fired electricity that crosses its borders. The state is seeking to place a tariff on carbon dioxide turned out by coal plants in North Dakota. | |
| Christmas Day false flag means big payoff for US mercenary firms | |
| The number of Americans filing for personal bankruptcy rose by nearly a third in 2009, a surge largely driven by foreclosures and job losses. | |
| African revolutionaries now have to sleep with one eye open because the United States of America is not stopping at anything in its bid to establish Africom, a highly-equipped US army that will be permanently resident in Africa to oversee the country's imperialist interests. | |
CaveNews YouTube Channel - Animated Magnetosphere - January 10, 2010
OUR PLANET'S PROTECTIVE MAGNETOSPHERE UPDATE |
| About Real-Time Magnetosphere Simulation http://www2.nict.go.jp/y/y223/simulation/realtime/index.html http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oE32JbxQsow JANUARY 10, 2010 AT 7:21 PM CDT |
Obamarket Special Update for January 8, 2010 Part 1: It’s Dead Jim
By John Galt
January 9, 2010
As if this was not easy enough to predict a year ago.
All of the idiotic programs started by the idiot who proclaimed that he (paraphrasing) had to murder freedom, er capitalism, to save it have been adopted, expanded, and multiplied by America’s favorite socialist.
Thank you George.
Now that the left wingnut socialist crowd can spew the “wow, those John Galt types really are fair and balanced” let me unzip my furor and piss into what would be your hollowed out eye sockets if I could get you into range. You Marxist dirt bags pieces of crap are about to get your wish and guess what? I still hope you fail although I know deep down in my heart, you shall succeed and soon have the ability to have people with guns chasing me into the countryside shooting at my small, firm, male butt like I’m sort of freaking pheasant in a video game restricted hunt. But enough about the dire reality of our political situation and this much delayed report which was interrupted when my wife decided to have one of her girlfriend office parties at my casa last night, forcing a mandatory evacuation for sanity purposes.
This will be divided into three parts so it will be easier to read. Part one will cover the employment report, part two the November Sales and Inventories Report, and part three enough graphs to make your eyes bleed and beg that alien fermenting in your intestines to bust out of your stomach and show its true face, that of an inflationary Federal Reserve Alien ready to sell you and I out to anyone on the world stage which offers a better compensation package.
Part 1: JOBS, JOBS, JOBS, JOBS, JOBS, JOBS, NOT
The Obama administration obviously is still run by snot nosed rookies. When you promis a statistical improvement to demonstarte that your administration is effective, you are supposed to deliver and just how hard would it have been to have the PCOSBDC (Presidential Chief of Staff Birth/Death Computer) dial up oh, say 225,000 new jobs created out of thin air? Sheesh, it really is an embarrassment that we are run by such rank amateurs.
With that vent out of the way, the U-3 stayed stable at 10% but we lost 85,000 jobs “officially” which means that in reality it was a whole lot worse than they are letting on. To make matters worse, from December 2008 to December 2009 the civilian population rate from Table A-13 in the BLS Report indicated a further drop in the total civilian participation rate with a drop over the past year of aproximately 3,545,000. Not an indication of a growing economy no matter how one cuts it, much less a recovery beginning to take shape and with the civilian participation rate at an over twenty year low, it is time to get concerned about the massive issues our nation will face in 2010.
Thus why my graphics package will not be encouraging nor something the Federal Reserve nor Obamites want to admit:
That massive debt monetization does not save an economy from a downturn nor create jobs.
First, here’s my favorite table from the BLS report, Table A-12, U-6 which suddenly is being widely reported by the Bubblemedia, which is a sign that the reality can not be denied:
As you can see we are settling into a pattern of a 15% plus persistent unemployed/underemployed status for the extreme long term. This is born out further when you compare the seasonal and non-seasonal numbers for the same table:
From these graphs it is easy to figure out that since December of 2008 we have pretty much insured a 12.5 to 13% long term underemployed/unemployed rate and since November of 2009, that number has jumped once again. The median and average duration of unemployment also bear the charts above out to be quite correct only because the work force that is actively looking for employment really has little opportunity to find family sustaining much less long term survivable employment:
Thus with the evidence at hand that indeed we are seeing more people unemployed for longer durations than since the Great Depression of the 1929-1939 era, one has to ask some serious questions as to the extend that this “recovery” will actually begin, much less expand into the lower and middle classes. Toss in the data from above along with the information that many follow about workers employed 27 weeks or longer and it starts to hit home even harder:
So everyone thinks that the manufacturing sector will crank back up and bail us out just like the Bubblevisionistas get on television every day and proclaim about our “new” economy. Let’s see what is happening with all manufacturing, durables and non-durables:
Kind of ironic that FDR was President last time we saw numbers like these, isn’t it?
Maybe the Obamites intend for us to make Nash’s and Edsels or perhaps a Studebaker or two?
NaturalNews.com | Today's Featured Stories - January 10, 2010
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Today's health headlines from across the 'net
(Hand-picked by the Health Ranger for your education and amusement)- Man slips through HHS building security by posing as Secret Service agent
- Patient dies in waiting room at NYC hospital after waiting 24 hours with a blood clot
- Baby boomers still love to get high, now using prescription meds
- DuPont complaints that Monsanto is running a seed market monopoly
- Soda fountains contaminated with fecal bacteria
- Food industry too secretive over nano particles
- Truckloads of unused swine flu vaccines now being returned
- Calorie counts frequently inaccurate on food labeling
- Pomegranates reduce the risk of breast cancer
- Cell phone radiation *prevents* radiation? (I very much doubt it...)
- Kansas City woman goes crazy with "Hamburger rage!"
- Hieress to the Johnson & Johnson toxic personal care product industry found dead at age 30
Saturday, January 9, 2010
Large 6.5 magnitude earthquake hit OFF THE COAST OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA - 22 mi WNW of Ferndale, CA - Sat, Jan 09, 2010 at 04:27 PM at epicenter
| MAP | 6.5 | 2010/01/10 00:27:39 | 40.674 | -124.655 | 16.4 | OFFSHORE NORTHERN CALIFORNIA |
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| Location | 40.674°N, 124.655°W |
| Depth | 16.4 km (10.2 miles) |
| Region | OFFSHORE NORTHERN CALIFORNIA |
| Distances |
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| Location Uncertainty | horizontal +/- 0.7 km (0.4 miles); depth +/- 1.1 km (0.7 miles) |
| Parameters | Nph= 99, Dmin=35 km, Rmss=0.36 sec, Gp=212°, M-type=regional moment magnitude (Mw), Version=3 |
| Source | |
| Event ID | nc71338066 |
To: U.S. West Coast, Alaska, and British Columbia coastal regions
From: NOAA/NWS/West Coast and Alaska Tsunami Warning Center
Subject: Tsunami Information Statement issued 01/9/2010 at 4:32PM PST
At 4:28 PM Pacific Standard Time on January 9, an earthquake with preliminary magnitude 6.4 occurred 15 miles/24 Km southwest of Eureka, California.
The magnitude is such that a tsunami IS NOT EXPECTED. However, in coastal areas of intense shaking, locally generated tsunamis can be triggered by underwater landslides. This will be the only WCATWC message issued for this event.
The location and magnitude are based on preliminary information. Further information will be issued by the United States Geological Survey or the appropriate regional seismic network.
Link to Standard Information Statement
Link to XML/CAP Message
Link to Printable Message
CaveNews YouTube Channel - Animated Magnetosphere Update - January 9, 2010
OUR PLANET'S PROTECTIVE MAGNETOSPHERE UPDATE |
| About Real-Time Magnetosphere Simulation http://www2.nict.go.jp/y/y223/simulation/realtime/index.html JANUARY 9, 2010 AT 5:52 PM CDT |
Record drought in Texas ends
RevolutionRadio.org | Headlines - January 9, 2010
Blackwater Fever: High Crimes and Hired Guns
Chris-Floyd.com
Friday, 08 January
Scott Horton of Harper’s gives us chapter and verse of the Justice Department’s very deliberate — and insultingly brazen — sabotaging of its own case against the Blackwater mercenaries who murdered 17 Iraqis in Nisoor Square back in September 2007. As any sentient observer could have told you then, these hired killers — gorging on taxpayer dollars as they assisted the mass-murdering invasion and occupation of Iraq — were never going to do time. Why should they? They were just doing what they were paid, by us, to do: kill ragheads.
Homelessness, utility shutoffs lead to house fires, freezing deaths. US cold snap highlights depth of social crisis
By Kate Randall
AxisOfLogic.com
Thursday, Jan 7, 2010
A protracted cold spell eased somewhat Wednesday, but wide areas of the US—from the Northern Plains to the East Coast and stretching to the South—were bracing for more winter weather and freezing temperatures this weekend. The cold snap has spelled misery for many, especially in areas unaccustomed and ill-prepared for the frigid conditions.
CONGRESS INCREASES WITHHOLDING TAX ON WORKING AMERICANS.
January 8th, 2010by SusanAnne Hiller
BigGovernment.com
Recently, retired military have received e-mail messages notifying them of a withholding tax increase.
NO ANNUAL COST OF LIVING ADJUSTMENT (COLA) WILL BE ADDED TO MILITARY RETIRED PAY IN 2010.
Terrorists R US
January 8th, 2010An excellent short testimony from Mike Prysner, an Iraq war veteran connecting the dots between corporatism and militarism.
US sheds 85,000 jobs in December, dampening optimism
January 8th, 2010RawStory.com
Friday January 8, 2010
The US economy lost 85,000 jobs in December while the unemployment rate held at 10.0 percent, the government said Friday in a report dashing hopes of a turnaround in the ailing labor market.
Energy security questioned as National Grid cuts off gas to factories
January 8th, 2010Exclusive: Severe weather and creaking power infrastructure lead to first tangible sign that fears over energy shortages are translating into supply disruption
Terry Macalister
Guardian.co.uk
Thursday 7 January 2010
Future air security could involve mind-reading technology
January 8th, 2010HonoluluAdviser.com
Friday, January 8, 2010
CHICAGO — A would-be terrorist tries to board a plane, bent on mass murder. As he walks through a security checkpoint, fidgeting and glancing around, a network of high-tech machines analyzes his body language and reads his mind.
America Rising: An Open Letter to Democrat Politicians
January 6th, 2010Doom and Gloom, British-Style…
January 6th, 2010By: Rick Ackerman
GoldSeek.com
Wednesday, 6 January 2010
Explaining why the rampaging bear rally of 2009 is likely to fizzle this year, British journalist Ambrose Evans-Pritchard packs quite an analytical wallop into this sentence: “The surplus regions (China, Japan, Germania, Gulf ) have not increased demand enough to compensate for belt-tightening in the deficit bloc (Anglo-sphere, Club Med, East Europe), and fiscal adrenalin is already fading in Europe.” There are other yellow flags out as well, most significantly a contraction of M3 money in the U.S. and Europe, and a looming bond crisis in Japan.
MarketWatch Calls Out Fed To Disprove It Is Manipulating Index Futures
January 6th, 2010by Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge.com
A week ago we presented the observations of TrimTabs’ Charles Biderman, who laid out a logical case for why there is significant circumstantial evidence that the Fed is manipulating markets by purchasing index futures in the aftermarket: “One way to manipulate the stock market would be for the Fed or the Treasury to buy $20 billion, plus or minus, of S&P 500 stock futures each month for a year. Depending on margin levels, $20 billion per month would translate into at least $100 billion in notional buying power…This type of intervention could explain some of the unusual market action in recent months, with stock prices grinding higher on low volume even as companies sold huge amounts of new shares and retail investors stayed on the sidelines. For example, Tyler Durden of ZeroHedge has pointed out that virtually all of the market’s upside since mid-September has come from after-hours S&P 500 futures activity.” Today MarketWatch has an open appeal to the Fed to put Biderman’s allegation to rest by publicly disproving that it is involved in any direct market manipulation. “Biderman’s accusation of PPT market manipulation is another argument in favor of a complete public audit of the Fed’s books…there is a widespread belief that the PPT does manipulate stock prices on a daily basis to enrich its pals and screw individual investors. It would be useful to prove them. ” We couldn’t agree more.
Five reasons why you should own Silver coins
January 6th, 2010By Dr. Jeffrey Lewis
CommodityOnline.com
January 06, 2010
There are a multitude of reasons the average investor should have at least some of their assets invested in silver. Consider these five reasons that can help you grow your assets while preserving your wealth.
Stealing Your Firearms
January 6th, 2010Neither Sword Nor Shield: Full-Spectrum Civilian Disarmament
by William Norman Grigg
LewRockwell.com
“We need to make it clear,” fulminated Patrick Lynch of the New York City Policeman’s Benevolent Association, “that if someone lifts even a finger against a police officer, their life could be on the line.”
Stepping into a Financial Hole
January 6th, 2010America’s Unhappy New Year
by Jack D. Douglas
LewRockwell.com
The Baby Boom officially begins crashing this year. Some Baby Boomers began retiring early, but the big retirement Crash begins now and will go on for many years.
CIA Killings Spell Defeat In Afghanistan
January 6th, 2010Doug Valentine
MindBodyPolitic.com
Disrupting the Accommodation:
Why?
“Why?” The grieving family members ask. “Why did the terrorists kill our loved ones?”
The hardnosed colleagues of the four fallen CIA officers comfort the wives and children (and one husband). They shake off their sorrow, huddle together by the graves, and vow vengeance. They bathe themselves in their seething anger like it was the blood of the lamb.