Famed investigative reporter Seymour Hersh ruffled a few feathers last week with comments in Minnesota regarding an alleged "executive assassination ring" -- a squad of elite killers who have allegedly been infiltrating foreign countries and murdering ... well, officially, nobody knows who their victims have been, really, but if this story were officially acknowledged (whatever that means these days), we would no doubt be told that the alleged victims of the alleged murders were "the worst of the worst", without whom America will now be safer, huzzah huzzah.
Read more @ Winter Patriot
3.19.2009
Military Laser Hits Battlefield Strength
Huge news for real-life ray guns: Electric lasers have hit battlefield strength for the first time -- paving the way for energy weapons to go to war.
Read more @ Wired.com
...Peasant here....
OK, look. I know Noah Shachtman is a (presumably) well-paid, well-connected journalist working for a respected media outlet, and I am a nobody blogger with no connections doing this for free. So take it for what it's worth, but if you think these guys are just working out the kinks now and will have some trouble rustling up $100 million to "get it right," take another hit off that crack pipe.
Here's a little sample of my laser library. Click through some of the links in these posts to see what I mean. When I wrote this stuff, the Pentagon showed up in my stats, and I had about 3 readers at the time. So what does that tell you?
Who Killed Benazir Bhutto? 3/1/08
Use Your Imagination 1/8/08
Laser Technology 1/5/08
A Laser Beam? 1/4/08
Excerpt from Laser Technology:
Read more @ Wired.com
...Peasant here....
OK, look. I know Noah Shachtman is a (presumably) well-paid, well-connected journalist working for a respected media outlet, and I am a nobody blogger with no connections doing this for free. So take it for what it's worth, but if you think these guys are just working out the kinks now and will have some trouble rustling up $100 million to "get it right," take another hit off that crack pipe.
Here's a little sample of my laser library. Click through some of the links in these posts to see what I mean. When I wrote this stuff, the Pentagon showed up in my stats, and I had about 3 readers at the time. So what does that tell you?
Who Killed Benazir Bhutto? 3/1/08
Use Your Imagination 1/8/08
Laser Technology 1/5/08
A Laser Beam? 1/4/08
Excerpt from Laser Technology:
JOURNALIST: Mr. Secretary, can I ask you a question about some of the technology that you’re developing to fight the war on terrorists, specifically directed energy and high-powered microwave technology? Do you—when do you envision that you can weaponize that type of technology?
DONALD RUMSFELD: Goodness, it is in—for the most part, the kinds of things you’re talking about are in varying early stages. Do you want to—do you have anything you would add?
GEN. RICHARD MYERS: I don’t think I would add much. I think they are in early stages and probably not ready for employment at this point.
DONALD RUMSFELD: In the normal order of things, when you invest in research and development and begin a developmental project, you don’t have any intention or expectations that one would use it. On the other hand, the real world intervenes from time to time, and you reach in there and take something out that is still in a developmental stage, and you might use it. So the—your question’s not answerable. It is—it depends on what happens in the future and how well things move along the track and whether or not someone feels it’s appropriate to reach into a development stage and see if something might be useful, as was the case with the unmanned aerial vehicles.
JOURNALIST: But you sound like you’re willing to experiment with it.
GEN. RICHARD MYERS: Yeah, I think that’s the point. And I think—and it’s—we have, I think, from the beginning of this conflict—I think General Franks has been very open to looking at new things, if there are new things available, and has been willing to put them into the fight, even before they’ve been fully wrung out. And I think that’s—not referring to these particular cases of directed energy or high-powered microwave, but sure. And we will continue to do that.
I don’t know how you read that, but to me it sounds like these gentlemen had no qualms about using live human beings as guinea pigs for their cool new weapons toys that US taxpayers pony up a half a billion dollars a year to develop.
Think of it this way. If someone parked a Lamborghini in your driveway, left the keys in the ignition, and passed out in a drunken stupor on your couch at 3am, would you take the car out for a spin? Just around the block for shits and giggles?
Oh, and by the way, you’re a cop. Does that help you decide?
Feds undercut ammo supply
Responding to two Democratic senators representing outraged private gun owners, the Department of Defense announced last night it has scrapped a new policy that would deplete the supply of ammunition by requiring destruction of fired military cartridge brass.
Read more @ World Net Daily
Read more @ World Net Daily
Army investigating how and why troops were sent into Alabama town after murder spree
I was beginning to wonder why the U.S. Army didn’t write back. *snort* I guess they’ve been busy trying to figure out how to eat such a giant shit sandwich.
Via Cryptogon
Via Cryptogon
3.18.2009
Aha!! The true psyop comes out in the Washington Post
AIG hires renta-cops to protect bankers against "mob effect" (hint hint hint hint hint....I think they want us to do the "mob effect" thing soon.... - Ed.)
A tidal wave of public outrage over bonus payments swamped American International Group yesterday. Hired guards stood watch outside the suburban Connecticut offices of AIG Financial Products, the division whose exotic derivatives brought the insurance giant to the brink of collapse last year. Inside, death threats and angry letters flooded e-mail inboxes. Irate callers lit up the phone lines. Senior managers submitted their resignations. Some employees didn’t show up at all.
“It’s a mob effect,” one senior executive said. “It’s putting people’s lives in danger.”
More Kabuki Coming: AIG's Liddy faces grilling on Capitol Hill
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Edward Liddy may wish he'd stayed on as a partner at private-equity firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice come Wednesday.
The former Allstate chief executive and ex-Goldman Sachs director -- who became chief of American International Group Inc. when the giant insurer collapsed into the arms of the U.S. government in September -- will face the grilling of his career on Capitol Hill at a hearing likely to be dominated by outrage over its latest bonus scandal.
Read more @ Market Watch
Read more @ Market Watch
The Real AIG Scandal
It's not the bonuses. It's that AIG's counterparties are getting paid back in full.Posted Tuesday, March 17, 2009, at 10:41 AM ET
Everybody is rushing to condemn AIG's bonuses, but this simple scandal is obscuring the real disgrace at the insurance giant: Why are AIG's counterparties getting paid back in full, to the tune of tens of billions of taxpayer dollars?
Congressional Hypocrisy
Excerpt:
The fellows at AIG are indeed amoral pigs, and they make no pretentions to be otherwise, whereas Chuck Grassley and his ilk are venal hypocrites who are attempting to deflect attention from their own significant role in the current financial crisis, and a disastrous foreign policy conducted under false pretenses for the enrichment of private interests and corporations.
Those who take his pious pronouncements seriously are born to be shorn, over and over, again and again.
Read more @ Jesse's Cafe Americain
Senator Grassley is a ranking member of the Senate Finance Committe. As such, he presided over a decade of erosion of safeguards and balance in our financial system.
He is also a member of a political party and a government that had the lead in ruining our country, undermining the Constitution, and allowing financial racketeers like AIG to flourish.The fellows at AIG are indeed amoral pigs, and they make no pretentions to be otherwise, whereas Chuck Grassley and his ilk are venal hypocrites who are attempting to deflect attention from their own significant role in the current financial crisis, and a disastrous foreign policy conducted under false pretenses for the enrichment of private interests and corporations.
Those who take his pious pronouncements seriously are born to be shorn, over and over, again and again.
Read more @ Jesse's Cafe Americain
Business collapse can end union contracts, but not AIG bonus contracts
When psychopaths make the laws, this is what you get: screwed. Nice to see people noticing. - Ed.
by Chris Steller
Contracts guaranteeing bonuses to executives at collapsing businesses — like American International Group (AIG) — are held inviolable, while labor union contracts regularly get voided or reneged-on when corporations declare (or even threaten) bankruptcy. Labor experts say it’s the law of the land.
Read more @ The Minnesota Independent
by Chris Steller
Contracts guaranteeing bonuses to executives at collapsing businesses — like American International Group (AIG) — are held inviolable, while labor union contracts regularly get voided or reneged-on when corporations declare (or even threaten) bankruptcy. Labor experts say it’s the law of the land.
Read more @ The Minnesota Independent
Tax on Bonuses Eyed
Isn't it amazing how they can pull together when they want to? It's almost like our congresspeople enjoy making a big show of how outrageous this all is, and how hard they work to protect you, despite the fact that they passed legislation and looked the other way for years to make it all possible in the first place. It's almost like they want you to be really, really angry now, don't you think? - Ed.
Congressional anger over AIG leads to threat of levy WASHINGTON - Sprinting to get ahead of the public backlash against bonuses paid to American Insurance Group employees, members of Congress vowed yesterday to pass legislation taxing nearly all of the money unless the employees return it.
At least three bills have been introduced in the House this week seeking to place an excise tax of 95 percent to 100 percent on the $165 million in bonuses paid to about 400 employees of AIG's Financial Products division.
Read more @ Baltimore Sun
Congressional anger over AIG leads to threat of levy WASHINGTON - Sprinting to get ahead of the public backlash against bonuses paid to American Insurance Group employees, members of Congress vowed yesterday to pass legislation taxing nearly all of the money unless the employees return it.
At least three bills have been introduced in the House this week seeking to place an excise tax of 95 percent to 100 percent on the $165 million in bonuses paid to about 400 employees of AIG's Financial Products division.
Read more @ Baltimore Sun
Obama says Americans will get a good F.U.C.K.I.N.G.
FAUX News-Washington, DC
President Obama unveiled his plan to help Americans with the slipping US dollar. "I feel your pain," President Obama stated, "And I am officially releasing my latest plan for righting the economy, called "Fixing Up Currency Keeping It New & Good," or as it will become known as F.U.C.K.I.N.G.
"Under my watch, Americans will get a good F.U.C.K.I.N.G. from the Treasury Department and my dear friend, Secretary Geithner. The Secretary has assured me this FUCKING will be relentless, in order to bring about a new order to this crisis by inflating our way out of this mess caused by our dear friends at the Federal Reserve
"Our trusted friends at the Federal Reserve, led by Chairman Ben "Shalom" Bernanke, tells me this FUCKING will be a good one and that at first, Americans should expect a little pain, but only those in the lower or middle income classes."
Read more @ Goon Squad
President Obama unveiled his plan to help Americans with the slipping US dollar. "I feel your pain," President Obama stated, "And I am officially releasing my latest plan for righting the economy, called "Fixing Up Currency Keeping It New & Good," or as it will become known as F.U.C.K.I.N.G.
"Under my watch, Americans will get a good F.U.C.K.I.N.G. from the Treasury Department and my dear friend, Secretary Geithner. The Secretary has assured me this FUCKING will be relentless, in order to bring about a new order to this crisis by inflating our way out of this mess caused by our dear friends at the Federal Reserve
"Our trusted friends at the Federal Reserve, led by Chairman Ben "Shalom" Bernanke, tells me this FUCKING will be a good one and that at first, Americans should expect a little pain, but only those in the lower or middle income classes."
Read more @ Goon Squad
Tribute to Rachel Corrie and Palestine, by Saladin
Calling All Angels, by Jane Siberry
Santa Maria, Santa Teresa, Santa Anna, Santa Susannah
Santa Cecilia, Santa Copelia, Santa Domenica, Mary Angelica
Frater Achad, Frater Pietro, Julianus, Petronilla
Santa, Santos, Miroslaw, Vladimir
and all the rest
a man is placed upon the steps, a baby cries
and high above the church bells start to ring
and as the heaviness the body oh the heaviness settles in
somewhere you can hear a mother sing
then it's one foot then the other as you step out onto the road
how much weight? how much weight?
then it's how long? and how far?
and how many times before it's too late?
calling all angels calling all angels
walk me through this one
don't leave me alone
calling all angels calling all angels
we're cryin' and we're hurtin'
and we're not sure why...
and every day you gaze upon the sunset
with such love and intensity
it's almost...it's almost as if ...
if you could only crack the code
then you'd finally understand what this all means
but if you could...do you think you would
trade in all the pain and suffering?
ah, but then you'd miss
the beauty of the light upon this earth
and the sweetness of the leaving
calling all angels calling all angels
walk me through this one
don't leave me alone
callin' all angels callin' all angels
we're tryin' we're hopin'
we're hurtin' we're lovin'
we're cryin' we're callin'
because we're not sure how this goes
Robert Fisk: Why Avigdor Lieberman is the worst thing that could happen to the Middle East
Only days after they were groaning with fury at the Israeli lobby's success in hounding the outspoken Charles Freeman away from his proposed intelligence job for President Obama, the Arabs now have to contend with an Israeli Foreign Minister whose – let us speak frankly – racist comments about Palestinian loyalty tests have brought into the new Netanyahu cabinet one of the most unpleasant politicians in the Middle East.
Read more @ The Independent
Read more @ The Independent
A remarkably blithe discussion of Israel's options for attacking Iran
A new report has assessed that Israel could use ballistic missiles to attack Iranian nuclear facilities, rather than air power. The report also warns that such action could trigger a response that would escalate to include the use of WMDs.
Read more @ Jerusalem Post
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1237114853776&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
Abdullah Toukan of the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) wrote that Israel's use of Jericho III missiles to strike Iran's nuclear sites "could look much more feasible than using combat aircraft," because of the lower political and operational risks Israel would face in such an attack, since Iran still lacks an adequate missile defense system.
Toukan estimated Israel would need about 40 Jericho IIIs for the initial volley, and cautioned that an Israeli-Iranian ballistic missile exchange would turn Jordan and neighboring countries into "Ground Zero."
And your problem is......?????? - Ed.Read more @ Jerusalem Post
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1237114853776&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
Rabbi tells Pope not to wear a cross to the Western Wall. "Crosses are a symbol that hurt Jewish feelings."
Ahead of Pope Benedict XVI's May visit to Israel, the rabbi of the Western Wall, Shmuel Rabinovitch, has said that it is not proper to come to the site wearing a cross.
..."My position is that it is not fitting to enter the Western Wall area with religious symbols, including a cross," said Rabinovitch in a telephone interview with The Jerusalem Post Monday. "I feel the same way about a Jew putting on a tallit and phylacteries and going into a church."
Read more @ Jerusalem Post
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1237114844980&pagename=JPArticle%2FShowFull
..."My position is that it is not fitting to enter the Western Wall area with religious symbols, including a cross," said Rabinovitch in a telephone interview with The Jerusalem Post Monday. "I feel the same way about a Jew putting on a tallit and phylacteries and going into a church."
Read more @ Jerusalem Post
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1237114844980&pagename=JPArticle%2FShowFull
3.17.2009
Oath Keepers: Active military people you can support without worrying about them following orders to kill or imprison you.
YES!
Declaration of Orders We Will NOT Obey
Declaration of Orders We Will NOT Obey
1. We will NOT obey orders to disarm the American people.
2. We will NOT obey orders to conduct warrantless searches of the American people
3. We will NOT obey orders to detain American citizens as “unlawful enemy combatants” or to subject them to military tribunal.
4. We will NOT obey orders to impose martial law or a “state of emergency” on a state.
5. We will NOT obey orders to invade and subjugate any state that asserts its sovereignty.
6. We will NOT obey any order to blockade American cities, thus turning them into giant concentration camps.
7. We will NOT obey any order to force American citizens into any form of detention camps under any pretext.
8. We will NOT obey orders to assist or support the use of any foreign troops on U.S. soil against the American people to “keep the peace” or to “maintain control.”
9. We will NOT obey any orders to confiscate the property of the American people, including food and other essential supplies.
10.We will NOT obey any orders which infringe on the right of the people to free speech, to peaceably assemble, and to petition their government for a redress of grievances.
(Read the full declaration here)
Read more @ Oath Keepers
Urban Survival: Technology Breakthrough to watch
Web Bot Hit: The New Electrics Arriving
THE Tech Breakthrough To Watch
You ought to be keeping an extremely sharp eye on Carbon Nanotubes (CNT's) because it turns out that CNT's may replace copper wire in some applications.
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Of course, if you're into electronics, you caught the bit about transmitting 'both AM and FM radio signals" which is akin to saying a straw can carry water or milk, but they key thing is that CNT's are the future. Sorta like the movie Mrs. Robinson where the fellow says "I have one word for you: "Plastics".
Seems, since the linguistic reports of HalfPastHuman (which you may find useful if you're trying to live ahead of the future, instead of under it) say we're right now in the dawning of a period called 'the New Electrics", CNT's are where to place your bets.
ABC News: Don't you dare complain, because it could have been worse. You're lucky we don't screw you twice as bad. Suckers.
When AIG chief executive officer Edward M. Liddy argued that legal obligations made it nearly impossible for the bailed-out firm not to pay $165 million in retention bonuses, critics found it hard to imagine a worse scenario for taxpayers whose money has already been used to keep the company afloat.
But AIG and legal experts agree that, as far as payouts to employees go, it could indeed be worse -- twice as bad, to be exact.
If the crumbling insurance giant didn't make good on its retention packages, employees could sue the firm for at least $330 million -- double the total size of the bonuses.
Fire Sale of bank assets will hurt taxpayers
Statement of SEIU Secretary-Treasurer Anna Burger on Secretary Geithner's latest TALF proposal
Washington, DC --Treasury Secretary Geithner's plan to invite private equity and hedge fund investors to a fire sale of bank assets is a return to the very same policies and practices that triggered the financial crisis in the first place.Secretary Geithner's proposal for the Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility (TALF) would enable private equity firms and hedge funds to buy up higher quality loan securitizations, including auto, consumer, student and small business loans. The Federal government would provide low-cost financing for up to 95% of the purchase price, with private firms putting down as little as 5% and the securitizations as collateral. The hope is then to expand this proposal to include toxic mortgage-backed securities.
Read more @ SEIU
h/t Greg Bacon
Ray McGovern: Obama caves to Israel lobby
On Tuesday morning Director of National Intelligence, Admiral Dennis Blair, employed the indicative mood in describing the high value that Chas Freeman, his appointee to head the National Intelligence Council (NIC), will bring to the job – "his long experience and inventive mind," for example. By five o'clock in the afternoon, Freeman announced that he had asked that his selection "not proceed."
Read more @ SOS
Read more @ SOS
Gardening industry sees boom as families grow their own veggies to save on groceries
Excerpt:
Food is the gateway through which clarity on many other issue areas can flow. Once people understand how they’re being shaken down with regard to food, lots of other topics come into view. Energy, alternative health, deep politics, money/debt on and on.
Masses of people deciding to produce even a small amount of their own food has got to be the ultimate pants shitting event for the elite. Small scale food production is a very dangerous path. It can lead to a near wholesale rejection of the programming that makes the status quo horror show possible. It’s inevitable that people who never thought that it would come to “this” are going to start bartering, trading and selling food to each other, despite what the Legion of Doom has in mind. If the government is actually stupid enough to try to stop this under the auspices of food safety… I don’t know. I guess we’ll see.
A different kind of revolution
Mike Whitney: I have been beating the same dead horse for three or four years now and many people are getting tired of the endless iterations of collapsing markets, rising unemployment and growing pessimism. What's needed is a vision of the future and a concrete plan of action, but I don't have one. So, tell me, what is to be done?
Bede Vincent Curley: I do not know what is to be done in the US.... Thinking people can see that most Americans veer between manic-depression and paranoid-schizophrenia. While they know they are getting kicked around by the rich, there's such a strong tradition of obedience to authority in America that most people just take it in stride and just get on with their lives. This is a population with an severe "abuse" problem. I compare it to the compulsive behavior among women and children who've lived in abusive relationships. The sickness passes from one generation to the next without interruption. It is a condition that has to be treated, which means creating a process where the person can see that the violence being done to them is violence and not love. America is a nation badly in need of therapy.
Read more @ The Truth Seeker
Bede Vincent Curley: I do not know what is to be done in the US.... Thinking people can see that most Americans veer between manic-depression and paranoid-schizophrenia. While they know they are getting kicked around by the rich, there's such a strong tradition of obedience to authority in America that most people just take it in stride and just get on with their lives. This is a population with an severe "abuse" problem. I compare it to the compulsive behavior among women and children who've lived in abusive relationships. The sickness passes from one generation to the next without interruption. It is a condition that has to be treated, which means creating a process where the person can see that the violence being done to them is violence and not love. America is a nation badly in need of therapy.
Read more @ The Truth Seeker
Madoff 'Ponzi scheme' scam: Jews avoiding American taxes?
Is the Madoff 'Ponzi scheme' itself just another misdirection to cover up a massive plan by rich American Jews to avoid paying American taxes? The Jews don't mind having American taxpayers pay for the Wars For The Jews, but perhaps they'd prefer to pay their taxes to another country, say, Israel. Consider:
It was scammer Madoff himself who immediately fessed up and labeled his operation a 'Ponzi scheme'. 'Ponzi scheme' has become the way Madoff's operation is always described by the Jew-controlled media. People understand that a Ponzi scheme is a method whereby victim investors are cheated by an unscrupulous financier.
Read more @ xymphora
It was scammer Madoff himself who immediately fessed up and labeled his operation a 'Ponzi scheme'. 'Ponzi scheme' has become the way Madoff's operation is always described by the Jew-controlled media. People understand that a Ponzi scheme is a method whereby victim investors are cheated by an unscrupulous financier.
Read more @ xymphora
Goon Squad: Making "Mad Money" from gaming the stock market in 1929 and 2008
CNBC's Jim Cramer screams that "Bear Stearns is fine!" and "NO! NO! NO!" ... "Bear Stearns is not in trouble" ... "Don't move your money from Bear! That's just silly! Don't be silly! to investors while Bear Stearns was still trading at over $60 a share, down from a high of $171 just over a year ago.
This just 5 days before Bear Stearns sold to JP Morgan for $2 a share, in a Fed brokered bailout.
Read more @ Goon Squad
This just 5 days before Bear Stearns sold to JP Morgan for $2 a share, in a Fed brokered bailout.
Read more @ Goon Squad
3.16.2009
AIG Reveals over $100B of payments to banks, states
The cash was used to cover collateral payments, cancel derivative contracts and meet obligations at its securities lending business after the firm had to be bailed out last year.
Most of the major U.S. and European banks were represented on the list, but AIG (AIG) revealed that
Classic - the amazing elasticity of the "Rule of Law"
THEY CHANGED THE LEDE ON THIS STORY ALREADY, MOVED IT DOWN AFTER THE FLUFFING BY BERNANKE. SOMEBODY OVER THERE MUST HAVE REALIZED THAT IT WAS JUST A LITTLE TOO FUCKING OUTRAGEOUS AS WRITTEN, OR MAYBE NOT. HOW DID IT GET PAST THE EDITOR IN THE FIRST PLACE? WELL, YOU KNOW. THESE PEOPLE ARE ALL ON THE DOLE THEMSELVES, SO THEY HAVE A LITTLE TROUBLE RECOGNIZING HOW OFFENSIVE THEY ARE TO US WORKING STIFFS. SORRY FOR THE CAPS I'M SPITTING NAILS CAN YOU TELL? - ED.
While there's seemingly no shortage of outrage aimed at beleaguered insurance giant AIG's plan to pay out $165 million in executive retention bonuses, it may turn out that the best the country can hope for in response is to learn its lesson for next time and make sure it doesn't happen again.
You got that, suckers????!!!!??????
Read more @ ABC NEWS BRING A FUCKING BUCKET.
While there's seemingly no shortage of outrage aimed at beleaguered insurance giant AIG's plan to pay out $165 million in executive retention bonuses, it may turn out that the best the country can hope for in response is to learn its lesson for next time and make sure it doesn't happen again.
You got that, suckers????!!!!??????
Read more @ ABC NEWS BRING A FUCKING BUCKET.
Dick Dick Dick...Who cares what you think?
Former Vice President Dick Cheney said Sunday that President Obama had made the country less safe, asserting that the new administration’s changes to detention and interrogation programs for terrorism suspects would hamper intelligence gathering.
Read more @ NYT
Read more @ NYT
Bibi strikes deal with Lieberman
Look at this glassy-eyed nutbag. - Ed.JERUSALEM -- The leader of a controversial nationalist political party in Israel, Avigdor Lieberman, has agreed to join Prime Minister designate Benjamin Netanyahu's government in exchange for an appointment as foreign minister and a handful of other influential cabinet seats, a spokeswoman for Mr. Lieberman said Monday.
Read more @ WSJ, where they probably consider this great news.
Ratings Agencies "sold their soul" joining Wall St and the Government
A Congressional committee is holding a hearing today on the credit rating agencies and their role in the financial crisis.
Specifically, the big 3 ratings agencies - S&P, Moody's and Fitch - kept companies' credit ratings high for years after they should have been slashed due to inadequate capital, overstated assets, over-exposure to derivatives and other risky investments, and other chronic problems.
Indeed, emails show that the rating service employees knew they were acting fraudulentlyRead more @ George Washington's Blog
Message to the Future
By: Peter Chamberlin
This is written for you, the survivors. Two or three years ago, I decided to write this message to you. My only intentions were to find the best solutions to the nightmare visions and ease the suffering billions of souls who were scheduled to pay the final price of a world system based on greed. There is no sense in having a nightmare vision of the future that you know is real if it cannot be shared with others today, in real time. Warning of an impending massive fatal mental illness as a timely prescription for avoidance is an act of futility, in a population inured of life and deaf and blind to any signs of greater “Life.”
Read more @ There Are No Sunglasses
Embrace a World Currenty, or Not
It should be obvious to everyone by now that the manufactured world economic crisis has a pre-planned agenda, a one world currency controlled by a world central bank run by a handful of the world's bankers. A cashless, micro-chipped way to further destroy sovereign nations, including our own US, and enslave those that happen to survive.
Read more @ Kenny's Sideshow
Read more @ Kenny's Sideshow
American foreign aid in the age of the Second Great Depression
President Obama has called for more transparency in our government.
What, with the whole earmarks hullabaloo (which was bullshit - the earmarks were only 1% of the bill - what should be examined, really, is the whole bill, not the smokescreen of earmarks, but that is another topic...), with our tax money being spent to help out the elite 0.05% of this country, I believe that this is something I can get behind.
So lets have some transparency in our government's spending, shall we?
Read more @ American Goy
What, with the whole earmarks hullabaloo (which was bullshit - the earmarks were only 1% of the bill - what should be examined, really, is the whole bill, not the smokescreen of earmarks, but that is another topic...), with our tax money being spent to help out the elite 0.05% of this country, I believe that this is something I can get behind.
So lets have some transparency in our government's spending, shall we?
Read more @ American Goy
The Satanic Roman Catholic Church in Limbo
Brazil - Doctors perform life-saving surgery to save 9-year-old girl, raped and pregnant with twins. Bishop of Recife and Olinda excommunicates the girl but not the monster who raped her.
On International Women’s Day, exactly how does the Roman Catholic Church justify yet another Medieval position divorcing the Vatican from the hearts and minds of Humanity and which does more damage to the Church than Satan himself?
And what protection has the Church provided for this girl? None.
Dom Jose Carlos Sobrinho, Bishop of Recife and Olinda, excommunicated the 9-year-old girl, her mother and the doctors who performed the life-saving operation but not the stepfather who raped her, claiming that abortion is a worse sin than rape.
Read more @ SOS
On International Women’s Day, exactly how does the Roman Catholic Church justify yet another Medieval position divorcing the Vatican from the hearts and minds of Humanity and which does more damage to the Church than Satan himself?
And what protection has the Church provided for this girl? None.
Dom Jose Carlos Sobrinho, Bishop of Recife and Olinda, excommunicated the 9-year-old girl, her mother and the doctors who performed the life-saving operation but not the stepfather who raped her, claiming that abortion is a worse sin than rape.
Read more @ SOS
The case against Israel's "right to exist"
An Open Letter to Representative David Price (D) 4th District, NC
By Roger Tucker
As you know, Mr. Price, I was invited to join a group of activists who met with you Monday morning to urge you to take action regarding the siege of Gaza, the Occupation and American support for Israel. I declined to attend because my particular focus is on One State advocacy, and you have made it crystal clear that this is not your view, nor is it ever likely to be (unless and until, in the due course of time, it becomes politically expedient). You represent the Triangle (Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill), fondly known as the pat of butter in a sea of grits, a highly educated, liberal, metropolitan area that votes heavily Democratic. You received 63% of the vote in the recent election, and fly under the "progressive" flag. Yet you voted for House Resolution 34, supporting Israel's massacre in Gaza.
Read more @ Atheo News
By Roger Tucker
As you know, Mr. Price, I was invited to join a group of activists who met with you Monday morning to urge you to take action regarding the siege of Gaza, the Occupation and American support for Israel. I declined to attend because my particular focus is on One State advocacy, and you have made it crystal clear that this is not your view, nor is it ever likely to be (unless and until, in the due course of time, it becomes politically expedient). You represent the Triangle (Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill), fondly known as the pat of butter in a sea of grits, a highly educated, liberal, metropolitan area that votes heavily Democratic. You received 63% of the vote in the recent election, and fly under the "progressive" flag. Yet you voted for House Resolution 34, supporting Israel's massacre in Gaza.
Read more @ Atheo News
3.13.2009
Inevitability...
Excerpt:
Now see this….
Humanity, this planet, and all that encompass it, are as a large body of water, a river flowing.
Israel/USA, are a hand, stirring the water as they have done for some time now believing that they control the flow of the water, influence it. Splashing in the water will draw attention……..
But as anyone will tell you….remove the hand from the water and the river will continue to flow in it’s inevitable course. There is no hole left where the hand once was in the water.
This renders the hand that stirred the water inconsequential, irrelevant in the course of the flow of the water.
Israel/USA are the hand. It tires. It becomes weary. It has spent its energy.
When they are inevitably removed, the river will continue to flow, and they Israel/USA will prove themselves irrelevant. They will cease to exist.
This is the law. Think about it. And rejoice.
Read more @ The Truth Seeker
Now see this….
Humanity, this planet, and all that encompass it, are as a large body of water, a river flowing.
Israel/USA, are a hand, stirring the water as they have done for some time now believing that they control the flow of the water, influence it. Splashing in the water will draw attention……..
But as anyone will tell you….remove the hand from the water and the river will continue to flow in it’s inevitable course. There is no hole left where the hand once was in the water.
This renders the hand that stirred the water inconsequential, irrelevant in the course of the flow of the water.
Israel/USA are the hand. It tires. It becomes weary. It has spent its energy.
When they are inevitably removed, the river will continue to flow, and they Israel/USA will prove themselves irrelevant. They will cease to exist.
This is the law. Think about it. And rejoice.
Read more @ The Truth Seeker
Goon Squad: The next Israeli false flag will be against Iran
The next Israeli "false-flag" will be against Iran, with Israeli jets painted with American colors and showing USAF decals bombing Iran. These American made and supplied F-16 Israeli jets will NOT have the Star of David on their fuselage.
This will help to fool the Iranians into thinking they were being attacked by some US jets launched off an aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf, which will make Iran respond by striking back at American ships in the Gulf and off we go, fighting another war for Israel.
The last Israeli false-flag, 9/11, got America to invade and destroy a country that had NOTHING to do with 9/11 and was NO threat to the USA, but a country Israel didn't like, Iraq. This one will get the USA to bomb to hell and gone another ME country that is NO threat to the USA, but one Israel considers an "existential" threat, Iran.
Read more @ Goon Squad
This will help to fool the Iranians into thinking they were being attacked by some US jets launched off an aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf, which will make Iran respond by striking back at American ships in the Gulf and off we go, fighting another war for Israel.
The last Israeli false-flag, 9/11, got America to invade and destroy a country that had NOTHING to do with 9/11 and was NO threat to the USA, but a country Israel didn't like, Iraq. This one will get the USA to bomb to hell and gone another ME country that is NO threat to the USA, but one Israel considers an "existential" threat, Iran.
Read more @ Goon Squad
Final Gaza toll shows 960 civilians killed
Rights group says Israelis used indiscriminate force
* Israel says made every effort to minimise harm
(Adds Israeli military comment)
GAZA, March 12 (Reuters) - Israel's 22-day offensive in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip killed 1,434 people, including 960 civilians, 239 police officers and 235 fighters, a Palestinian human rights group said on Thursday.
Israel carried out attacks by air, land and sea from Dec. 27 to Jan. 18 in a bid, it said, to force Hamas and other militant Islamist groups to stop firing rockets and mortars at southern Israeli towns across their border.
Read more @ Reuters
* Israel says made every effort to minimise harm
(Adds Israeli military comment)
GAZA, March 12 (Reuters) - Israel's 22-day offensive in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip killed 1,434 people, including 960 civilians, 239 police officers and 235 fighters, a Palestinian human rights group said on Thursday.
Israel carried out attacks by air, land and sea from Dec. 27 to Jan. 18 in a bid, it said, to force Hamas and other militant Islamist groups to stop firing rockets and mortars at southern Israeli towns across their border.
Read more @ Reuters
NWO Wet Dream - world currency
Things like this are why Mordechai Vanunu told them to stick their Nobel Prize where the sun don't shine. - Ed.
KAZAKH President Nursultan Nazarbayev has won backing for his plan for a single world currency from an intellectual architect of the euro currency, Nobel-prize winner Professor Robert Mundell.
Nazarbayev, speaking at an economic forum in the glitzy new capital he has built on the Kazakh steppe, defended his proposal for the "acmetal'' world currency saying it might "look kind of funny'' but was not.
And he received intellectual support from the Canadian economist Prof Mundell, who helped lay the intellectual groundwork for Europe's single currency.
"I must say that I agree with President Nazarbayev on his statement and many of the things he said in his plan, the project he made for the world currency, and I believe I'm right on track with what he's saying,'' Prof Mundell said, adding the idea held "great promise''.
Obama "Highly Optomistic" about economy
Pass the crack pipe... - Ed.
A third strong day on Wall Street bolstered President Obama's remarks on his confidence in the economy as he addressed members of the Business Roundtable on Thursday afternoon. Media coverage of the President's comments, which included reports in two network newscasts, noted the President's "optimistic" message. On NBC Nightly News, Savannah Guthrie reported the President is "looking to engage the business community, who, let's face it, is a little bit skeptical of some of his proposals, particularly on tax increases, his plans to cap carbon emissions." ABC World News noted Obama "called the roller coaster economy of the past decade the illusion of prosperity, making the case that his program of aid to the financial system, stimulus, energy, and health care, is the answer to greater stability."
Read more @ USNews.com
A third strong day on Wall Street bolstered President Obama's remarks on his confidence in the economy as he addressed members of the Business Roundtable on Thursday afternoon. Media coverage of the President's comments, which included reports in two network newscasts, noted the President's "optimistic" message. On NBC Nightly News, Savannah Guthrie reported the President is "looking to engage the business community, who, let's face it, is a little bit skeptical of some of his proposals, particularly on tax increases, his plans to cap carbon emissions." ABC World News noted Obama "called the roller coaster economy of the past decade the illusion of prosperity, making the case that his program of aid to the financial system, stimulus, energy, and health care, is the answer to greater stability."
Read more @ USNews.com
"The money has gotten scarce...but the truth is getting fierce"
The 1975 lyrics of Murray Head from Say it ain't so Joe seem appropriate for this stage in the Obama presidency:-
Read more @ SOTT
they told us that our hero has played his trump cardThe question in our minds is just how fierce does the truth have to get before people wake up and really start questioning how the world works.
he doesn't know how to go on
we're clinging to his charms and determined smile
but the good old days have gone
the image and the empire may be falling apart
the money has gotten scarce
one man's word held the country together
but the truth is getting fierce
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Gold and the Panic Phase
A couple of bright friends reported to me some overriding themes at the PDAC gathering in Toronto last weekend. Apparently, some surprise came to them. They mentioned that more than a few analysts, writers, and speakers still do not get it. They actually believe the situation with the USEconomy and US banking system has begun to stabilize. That is like saying a college basketball player has Michael Jordan under control, or a farmer has his Clydesdale horse under control, or a misguided King can call back the ocean tide, or a man has a hurricane under control as he clings to a roof rafter. The USEconomy has entered an accelerated phase of disintegration, while the populace has entered a new panic phase. The US stock market is under the microscope, and it just broke a key multi-year critical support level. This article is intended to be constructive, with a list of perceived meters and conditions, followed by a four-step foundation for a recovery. When finished reading the four planks, one should easily conclude that no solution, let alone attempt, is on the correct path or is in the works.
Read more @ Financial Sense University
Read more @ Financial Sense University
What does one trillion dollars look like?
All this talk about "stimulus packages" and "bailouts"...
A billion dollars...
A hundred billion dollars...
Eight hundred billion dollars...
One TRILLION dollars...
What does that look like? I mean, these various numbers are tossed around like so many doggie treats, so I thought I'd take Google Sketchup out for a test drive and try to get a sense of what exactly a trillion dollars looks like.
3.12.2009
Sy Hersh describes 'executive assassination ring'
At a “Great Conversations” event at the University of Minnesota last night, legendary investigative reporter Seymour Hersh may have made a little more news than he intended by talking about new alleged instances of domestic spying by the CIA, and about an ongoing covert military operation that he called an “executive assassination ring.”
Hersh spoke with great confidence about these findings from his current reporting, which he hasn’t written about yet.
In an email exchange afterward, Hersh said that his statements were “an honest response to a question” from the event’s moderator, U of M Political Scientist Larry Jacobs and “not something I wanted to dwell about in public.”
Hersh didn’t take back the statements, which he said arise from reporting he is doing for a book, but that it might be a year or two before he has what he needs on the topic to be “effective...that is, empirical, for even the most skeptical.”
You Don't Know Dick
In February 2006, I chronicled some of then vice president Cheney's little-known shenanigans.
Given Pulitzer-prize winning investigative reporter Seymour Hersh's new revelation that the military ran an "Executive Assassination Ring" throughout the Bush years which reported directly to Cheney, I have reposted below - as context - my 2006 essay, called "All Roads Lead to Dick Cheney".Read more @ George Washington's Blog
Madoff's resufal on conspiracy said to block deal
Ah ah ah ah staying alive, staying alive....ah ah ah ah staying a-liiiiiiiiiiiiiive. (That's a Bee Gee's song for you young pups.) - Ed
March 12 (Bloomberg) -- Bernard Madoff, facing a lifelong sentence for the largest Ponzi scheme in history, didn’t agree to a plea deal with prosecutors because of their demand that he admit to a conspiracy, a charge that would require him to say he worked with others, said people familiar with the matter.
Madoff’s decision not to negotiate a deal means the government won’t have his help in determining whether his employees assisted in the fraud, the people said. Madoff, 70, will plead guilty today to all 11 counts he faces without any promise of leniency or anything else in return. He could receive 150 years in prison at sentencing on charges including fraud, perjury and money laundering.
Read more @ BloombergThe Martyrdom of Mordechai Vanunu
March 10, 2009
The best understanding of a martyr is one who chooses to suffer, to die rather than renounce their principles. A martyr is also one who has given themselves up as a witness. The essence of Christianity is to bear witness to what Jesus was always on about; forgiveness, love, reconciliation and the intrinsic equality of all people.
Within days of the announcement of a record 205 nominations for 2009’s Nobel Peace Prize, [one of several prizes endowed by Swedish industrialist and dynamite inventor Alfred Nobel] perpetual nominee Mordechai Vanunu declined the honor in a letter to the Nobel Peace Prize Committee in Oslo:
I am asking the committee to remove my name from the nominations…I cannot be part of a list of laureates that includes Simon Peres…Peres established and developed the atomic weapon program in Dimona in Israel…Peres was the man who ordered [my] kidnapping…he continues to oppose my freedom and release…WHAT I WANT IS FREEDOM AND ONLY FREEDOM….FREEDOM AND ONLY FREEDOM I NEED NOW.
US official: Obama won't cut military aid to Israel
Golly, another miracle. It's like the Passover. Everything is harmed by the world financial crisis EXCEPT for military aid to Israel. That's some cool shit, huh? - Ed.
U.S. President Barack Obama will not cut the billions of dollars in military aid promised to Israel, a senior U.S. administration official said Wednesday.
The $30 billion in aid promised to Israel over the next decade will not be harmed by the world financial crisis, the official told Israel Radio. He spoke on condition of anonymity.
Read more @ Haaretz
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1070318.html
U.S. President Barack Obama will not cut the billions of dollars in military aid promised to Israel, a senior U.S. administration official said Wednesday.
The $30 billion in aid promised to Israel over the next decade will not be harmed by the world financial crisis, the official told Israel Radio. He spoke on condition of anonymity.
Read more @ Haaretz
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1070318.html
US intelligence chief rains on Israel's 'let's bomb Iran' parade
The issue of Iran’s so-called ‘nuclear weapons program’ continues to be propped up by the Israeli propaganda machine and is unlikely to be resolved until, if Israel has its way, Iran has been bombed into regime change.
Unfortunately – for the Israelis at least – and fortunately for the rest of the sane world, it seems as though the more sensible and realistic members of the US intelligence community’s hierarchy are raining on Israel’s ‘lets bomb Iran’ parade by telling the US Congress that Iran does not have any material with which they can build a bomb; that Iran is not known to have any facilities by which it is able to produce uranium enriched to the levels required for a nuclear weapon; that Iran has not made any decision to build a nuclear weapon, and that Irans recent launching of the Safir Space Launch Vehicle, while helpful in ballistic missile technology, was unrelated to Iran’s current nuclear project.
Read more @ Telling the history of the 21st century as it really is
Unfortunately – for the Israelis at least – and fortunately for the rest of the sane world, it seems as though the more sensible and realistic members of the US intelligence community’s hierarchy are raining on Israel’s ‘lets bomb Iran’ parade by telling the US Congress that Iran does not have any material with which they can build a bomb; that Iran is not known to have any facilities by which it is able to produce uranium enriched to the levels required for a nuclear weapon; that Iran has not made any decision to build a nuclear weapon, and that Irans recent launching of the Safir Space Launch Vehicle, while helpful in ballistic missile technology, was unrelated to Iran’s current nuclear project.
Read more @ Telling the history of the 21st century as it really is
The Martial Law Mind Set
While Archimedes is rightly revered for his many imperishable contributions to science, he could also be considered the first recorded victim of lethal police brutality.
A native of Syracuse, Archimedes did his considerable best in the doomed but worthy effort to repel Roman invaders. Following the conquest, Roman soldiers were dispatched to "pacify" the restive streets of the newly conquered city.
Read more @ Pro Libertate
A native of Syracuse, Archimedes did his considerable best in the doomed but worthy effort to repel Roman invaders. Following the conquest, Roman soldiers were dispatched to "pacify" the restive streets of the newly conquered city.
Read more @ Pro Libertate
Terrorist watch list hits 1 million, yet we're still alive!!! It's a miracle.
Washington - The government's terrorist watch list has hit 1 million entries, up 32% since 2007.
Federal data show the rise comes despite the removal of 33,000 entries last year by the FBI's Terrorist Screening Center in an effort to purge the list of outdated information and remove people cleared in investigations.
It's unclear how many individuals those 33,000 records represent - the center often uses multiple entries, or "identities," for a person to reflect variances in name spellings or other identifying information. The remaining million entries represent about 400,000 individuals, according to the center.
Read more @ SOTT
Federal data show the rise comes despite the removal of 33,000 entries last year by the FBI's Terrorist Screening Center in an effort to purge the list of outdated information and remove people cleared in investigations.
It's unclear how many individuals those 33,000 records represent - the center often uses multiple entries, or "identities," for a person to reflect variances in name spellings or other identifying information. The remaining million entries represent about 400,000 individuals, according to the center.
Read more @ SOTT
3.11.2009
Economic fiasco forces housewife to nix house cleaning from budget
by Sharon Hebert
Due to a price increase at Merry Maids, I have been forced to postpone my top-to-bottom spring cleaning routine this year from March 21st to April 21st. I simply do not have the cash to get my house clean.
As it happened, while I was watching the fall reruns of American Idol, a stampede of bears from Wall Street hopped my garden fence and trampled my harvest, so I am left with no organics to feed my children and the sticker prices at Whole Foods are draining our Disney Vacation slush fund.
I phoned Merry Maids, but due to a recent raid by INS, they have been forced to hire locals and offer health benefits because, according to the Department of Labor and Statistics, people below the 150 percentile poverty level get just as sick and just as often as us middle class folk. Therefore, the adjusted hourly rate is too steep for my household budget this year.
I’m determined to tackle the job on my own, but the February issue of Martha Stuart Living magazine has issued a warning on the hazards of inhaling oven cleaner fumes. To add insult to injury, the handle on my new synthetic swiffer mop contains lead paint. I tried to save money by purchasing it at The Dollar Store, but as my Mom always says, “A penny wise, a pound foolish.”
Those Green Products are simply out of the question. I’m all for saving the environment - don’t get me wrong, I do still manage to send a little something to Save The Polar Bear Fund each year - but they simply do not cut through grease like the old toxic-shock mixes at Home Depot. My neighbor, Naomi, swears by them, but they are so very expensive (which would explain the orange sticky-note from Wells Fargo tacked to her front door).
So I am forced to live with this mess and push my annual cleaning date off into the future. Nobody knows how long this will last, but I am told these things do come in cycles, and as the nature of cycles go, this mess will get turned around as soon as the government’s economic stimulus kicks in.
Perhaps I should just let go of my anxieties and resume my Tuesday morning coffee dates with the neighborhood housewives. The country cottage look is coming back in style anyway and opulence is SO last year!
Anyone would agree, I am sure, that April is a more suitable month for cleaning since it always snows in March now and it’s not really a month for opening up the windows to aerate the abode. If I could just get the ear of my congressman, I would petition to switch the official first day of spring to April 21st and this whole spring cleaning fiasco would no longer be an issue.
If my guests comment on those dust balls gathering under my Pottery Barn baker’s rack like mini tumbleweeds in the wild, wild West, I’ll blame it on those damn bears. Times are certainly tough, but I am a survivalist at heart.
Due to a price increase at Merry Maids, I have been forced to postpone my top-to-bottom spring cleaning routine this year from March 21st to April 21st. I simply do not have the cash to get my house clean.
As it happened, while I was watching the fall reruns of American Idol, a stampede of bears from Wall Street hopped my garden fence and trampled my harvest, so I am left with no organics to feed my children and the sticker prices at Whole Foods are draining our Disney Vacation slush fund.
I phoned Merry Maids, but due to a recent raid by INS, they have been forced to hire locals and offer health benefits because, according to the Department of Labor and Statistics, people below the 150 percentile poverty level get just as sick and just as often as us middle class folk. Therefore, the adjusted hourly rate is too steep for my household budget this year.
I’m determined to tackle the job on my own, but the February issue of Martha Stuart Living magazine has issued a warning on the hazards of inhaling oven cleaner fumes. To add insult to injury, the handle on my new synthetic swiffer mop contains lead paint. I tried to save money by purchasing it at The Dollar Store, but as my Mom always says, “A penny wise, a pound foolish.”
Those Green Products are simply out of the question. I’m all for saving the environment - don’t get me wrong, I do still manage to send a little something to Save The Polar Bear Fund each year - but they simply do not cut through grease like the old toxic-shock mixes at Home Depot. My neighbor, Naomi, swears by them, but they are so very expensive (which would explain the orange sticky-note from Wells Fargo tacked to her front door).
So I am forced to live with this mess and push my annual cleaning date off into the future. Nobody knows how long this will last, but I am told these things do come in cycles, and as the nature of cycles go, this mess will get turned around as soon as the government’s economic stimulus kicks in.
Perhaps I should just let go of my anxieties and resume my Tuesday morning coffee dates with the neighborhood housewives. The country cottage look is coming back in style anyway and opulence is SO last year!
Anyone would agree, I am sure, that April is a more suitable month for cleaning since it always snows in March now and it’s not really a month for opening up the windows to aerate the abode. If I could just get the ear of my congressman, I would petition to switch the official first day of spring to April 21st and this whole spring cleaning fiasco would no longer be an issue.
If my guests comment on those dust balls gathering under my Pottery Barn baker’s rack like mini tumbleweeds in the wild, wild West, I’ll blame it on those damn bears. Times are certainly tough, but I am a survivalist at heart.
Freeman speaks out on his exit
Retired Amb. Chas Freeman, who said today that he no longer accepts an offer to chair the National Intelligence Council, has just sent this message:
You will by now have seen the statement by Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair reporting that I have withdrawn my previous acceptance of his invitation to chair the National Intelligence Council.I have concluded that the barrage of libelous distortions of my record would not cease upon my entry into office. The effort to smear me and to destroy my credibility would instead continue. I do not believe the National Intelligence Council could function effectively while its chair was under constant attack by unscrupulous people with a passionate attachment to the views of a political faction in a foreign country. I agreed to chair the NIC to strengthen it and protect it against politicization, not to introduce it to efforts by a special interest group to assert control over it through a protracted political campaign.
Read more @ Foreign Policy
Note the comment thread
Pass the Crack Pipe
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said yesterday that the federal government may have to spend even more money to shore up the nation's ailing economy, on top of the more than $1.6 trillion so far approved by Congress.
With the jobless rate rising and the economy continuing to slow, Pelosi (D-Calif.) told reporters: "We have to keep the door open to see how this goes."
Pelosi's remarks came after senior House Democrats met behind closed doors with four prominent economists, who praised the actions taken by Washington to ease the effects of a recession that threatens to be the most severe since the 1930s. The $787 billion stimulus package, a $700 billion bailout for the U.S. financial system and President Obama's proposal to stem the tide of residential foreclosures are all sound policies that should begin to make a difference in the coming months, they told lawmakers.
Read more @ The Washington Post
Space opens between US/Israeli position on Iran
US Intelligence Chief: Iran Not Seeking N. Arms | | |
Director of National Intelligence Dennis C. Blair said that Iran has not decided to pursue the production of weapons-grade uranium and the parallel ability to load it onto a ballistic missile, the Washington Post reported.
...
Blair said Israel was working from the same facts but had drawn a different interpretation of their meaning.
"The Israelis are far more concerned about it, and they take more of a worst-case approach to these things from their point of view," he said.
Read more @ Fars News Agency
Iran says capitalism on the verge of collapse
TEHRAN (Reuters) – Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told regional leaders on Wednesday that the capitalist system was close to collapse.
Opening a one-day summit of the 10-nation Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) including Turkey, Pakistan and other neighbors, he also suggested a single currency should be used in trade between members.
"After the collapse of the closed socialist economy, the capitalist economy is also on the verge of collapse," Ahmadinejad said in a speech.
A 'phase change' in public mood
I used to be a fan of Kunstler until I realized that he's a tool. Look how he fans the flames of riots and 'phase change.' He's just dying to help the police state get on its feet, the Zionist pig. Embedded in an otherwise good piece by Tim Iacono. Gee, Jim, how much did they pay you to make this helpful suggestion that we become a 'vicious mob'? - Ed.
Excerpt:
The bigger question for now is whether any of these authorities will act effectively before the public simply goes apeshit and starts burning down Greenwich, Connecticut. The dangerous shift in public mood is liable to occur with shocking swiftness, in the manner of "phase change," where one moment you see a bewildered bunch of flabby clown-citizens vacuously enraptured by "American Idol," and the next moment they are transformed into a vicious mob hoisting flaming brands to the window treatments of a hedge funder's McMansion. The moment of opportunity for avoiding that outcome is looking sickeningly slim right now.
Read more @ The Mess That Greenspan Made
Don't be a tool.
PLEASE DON'T RIOT - IT'S JUST WHAT THEY WANT
Excerpt:
The bigger question for now is whether any of these authorities will act effectively before the public simply goes apeshit and starts burning down Greenwich, Connecticut. The dangerous shift in public mood is liable to occur with shocking swiftness, in the manner of "phase change," where one moment you see a bewildered bunch of flabby clown-citizens vacuously enraptured by "American Idol," and the next moment they are transformed into a vicious mob hoisting flaming brands to the window treatments of a hedge funder's McMansion. The moment of opportunity for avoiding that outcome is looking sickeningly slim right now.
Read more @ The Mess That Greenspan Made
Don't be a tool.
PLEASE DON'T RIOT - IT'S JUST WHAT THEY WANT
Defense atty in meatpacking case says Iowans persecute the Jewish owners
Attorneys defending the former owners of the Agriprocessors kosher meatpacking plant in Postville have now played the Holocaust card in a trial that has become a bizarre chess game of strategy and counterstrategy.
According to the Iowa Independent, Jim Clarity, a defense attorney representing Agriprocessors, has “compared the plight of mounting a defense in the Northern District of Iowa to that of the Jews facing Nazi persecution in 1939 Poland.” Clarity has also referred to the pretrial publicity surrounding this case as “sickening,” and he wants the trial moved to either Minnesota or Chicago simply for his belief that “Iowa is poison.”
Understand the psychopaths: Incest dad represents self in court, cross-examines daughter
Rabbi Israel Weingarten cross-examines daughter at molest trial
A rabbi charged with molesting his daughter subjected her to hours of cringe-worthy cross-examination Tuesday in Brooklyn Federal Court.
Israel Weingarten, 59, who chose to represent himself against charges that could send him to prison for 20 years, rambled on all afternoon as his daughter looked away, wiped tears and struggled to understand what he was asking.
“Do I have to answer?” the now-27-year-old asked Judge John Gleeson in a trembling voice before gathering the strength to shoot back when asked why she didn’t complain sooner.
Read more @ The Path Whisperer
Irony overload - the strange case of Charles 'Chas' Freeman
Chas Freeman resigns from his positon - PDF document on Director of National Intelligence website
In case you are in the majority, part of the 99.999999999999999999999999999999999% of clueless Americans, the name Charles W. "Chas" Freeman does not strike you as significant.
What, with Dancing with the Stars and Lost on the TV, there are more important things to consider than the future of this country.
But if you are just a tad bit curious about what this is all about...
Read more @ American Goy
In case you are in the majority, part of the 99.999999999999999999999999999999999% of clueless Americans, the name Charles W. "Chas" Freeman does not strike you as significant.
What, with Dancing with the Stars and Lost on the TV, there are more important things to consider than the future of this country.
But if you are just a tad bit curious about what this is all about...
Read more @ American Goy
3.10.2009
Les Vis: Apocalypse...Revealing...Disclosing and Unveiling
Hardly a day goes by when I don’t reflect on the definition of Apocalypse. Once again, here it is… “uncover, reveal, disclose, unveil” and there are others as well but not applicable to my purpose and in some cases there is also the implication of concealment and covering. Revelation is also an interesting word and shares quite a few of the definitions of Apocalypse. Then there’s whether you look at it as ‘The’ Apocalypse with the four horsemen and all the attendant special effects or, ‘the’ Revelations from the New Testament. I’m supposing any number of people can spend their whole life studying these things and still not know much about them in the end. Well now… you know what? Now that I think about it, I am sure that is the case more often than not.
Urban Survival notes today is a designated happy day
After the market dropped about 80 points (Dow points, we're talking) Monday, I went to bed last night wondering "I wonder if the commercials will be able to suck the public back into the market again with another bottom-picker's rally before we get a real wash-out, fear to the point of wetting ourselves - panic-is-everywhere - bottom?"
Sure enough, despite headlines like "Asian stocks advance, but economic worries linger" I woke up this morning to a crawler that told me the Dow futures were pointing up more than 100 points.
[snip]
The moment the Chinese wake up and proclaim: We want something of real value, not just more paper, then the U.S.A. has a serious problem on its hands. That's when our currency collapses, China becomes the world economic superpower and we drop to nth place as a third world country. But not to worry; the linguistics on this indicate it won't get underway until a particular part of May of this year and the workout will run from late summer out through 2010 and beyond.
So much for trying to spot a bargain...and yes, the concept of buy and hold really is dead except for one class of companies: Those that are domiciled in; use raw materials almost exclusive from; and have a market both inside the USA and overseas; and last nut not least, have a tangible product with decent barriers to entry for would-be new competition.
The woman who could have prevented this mess was silenced by Greenspan, Rubin and Summers
"Break the Glass" was the code-name high-level Treasury Department figures gave the $700 billion bailout; it was to be used only as a last-resort measure. Now millions have been sprayed and damaged by broken glass. But more than a decade ago, a woman you're likely never to have heard of, Brooksley Born, head of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission -- a federal agency that regulates options and futures trading -- was the oracle whose warnings about the dangerous boom in derivatives trading just might have averted the calamitous bust now engulfing the US and global markets. Instead she was met with scorn, condescension and outright anger by former Federal Reserve Chair Alan Greenspan, former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin and his deputy Lawrence Summers. In fact, Greenspan, the man some affectionately called "The Oracle," spent his political capital cheerleading these disastrous financial instruments.
Read more @ du
Read more @ du
Story: Queen's $52 Billion Stolen under Obama's Regime
WHITE HOUSE ATTEMPTS TO GET US TO BLAME PREVIOUS ADMINISTRATION
Monday 9 March 2009 16:00
QUEEN'S FUNDS WITHDRAWN ON 29TH JANUARY 2009 AFTER OBAMA CAME TO OFFICESO THE $52 BILLION OF HMQ'S MONEY ('GUARANTEES') WERE STOLEN UNDER OBAMA
A SCANDAL THEY HOPED COULD BE DEFLECTED AWAY FROM THE NEW WHITE HOUSE
WHY THE VIBES BETWEEN OBAMA AND BROWN DURING BROWN'S DC VISIT WERE SO BAD
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Corporate Media version of top 10 political sex scandals
Hmm. You know, I bet there are literally hundreds of truly scandalous sex stories regarding our sick and twisted Illuminati elites that would curl your hair and make you vomit, but heaven forfend anyone in corporate media ever report on Bohemian Grove, Monarch sex slaves and pedophile rings. No. Instead you have this compilation of patsies. - Ed.
TIME, in partnership with CNN, presents the Top 10 Political Sex Scandals
1. Eliot Spitzer
2. John Edwards
3. David Vitter
4. Kwame Kilpatrick
5. Larry Craig
6. Barney Frank
7. Mark Foley
8. Bill Clinton (At number 8, for Pete's sake. Seemed rather more urgent at the time, did it not?)
9. Gary Hart
10. Jerry Springer
TIME, in partnership with CNN, presents the Top 10 Political Sex Scandals
1. Eliot Spitzer
2. John Edwards
3. David Vitter
4. Kwame Kilpatrick
5. Larry Craig
6. Barney Frank
7. Mark Foley
8. Bill Clinton (At number 8, for Pete's sake. Seemed rather more urgent at the time, did it not?)
9. Gary Hart
10. Jerry Springer
Today is apparantly designated a "good news" day. Let's see how long that lasts.
Medvedev says signals from Obama 'very positive'
MOSCOW, March 10 (Xinhua) -- Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said Tuesday that the signals Moscow has been receiving from the new U.S. administration are encouraging.
MOSCOW, March 10 (Xinhua) -- Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said Tuesday that the signals Moscow has been receiving from the new U.S. administration are encouraging.
The signals sent by U.S. President Barack Obama are "very positive," Medvedev told a meeting with members of a U.S. commission that studies American policies toward Russia.
Palestinians meet in Egypt to agree on unity government
CAIRO (Reuters) - Rival Palestinian groups began crucial talks on Tuesday in Egypt to agree on the formation of a unity government that would prepare for presidential and legislative elections and oversee the reconstruction of Gaza.
Iran says nuclear plant to start operating by 8/22/09
TEHRAN (AFP) — Iran said on Tuesday that its much-delayed nuclear power plant, where testing began last month, would start operating by August 22.
The 1,000-megawatt Russian-built plant in the southern port city of Bushehr will first generate around 500 megawatts by August 22, Energy Minister Parviz Fattah said, quoted by state television's website.
Greenwald parses the changing Israel debate
Anyone who doubts that there has been a substantial -- and very positive -- change in the rules for discussing American policy towards Israel should consider two recent episodes: (1) the last three New York Times columns by Roger Cohen; and (2) the very strong pushback from a diverse range of sources against the neoconservative lynch mob trying, in typical fashion, to smear and destroy Charles Freeman due to his critical (in all senses of the word) views of American policy towards Israel. One positive aspect of the wreckage left by the Bush presidency is that many of the most sacred Beltway pieties stand exposed as intolerable failures, prominently including our self-destructively blind enabling of virtually all Israeli actions.
Read more @ Salon
Read more @ Salon
3.09.2009
Please don't riot...it's just what they want
by David Icke
As I travel around America it is clear that this country is on the brink of an economic catastrophe the like of which it has never seen. And, of course, it is not alone. A similar story can be told around the world.
The foreclosure figures are fantastic as families and others lose their homes through no fault of their own on a scale that, according to current projections, is destined to become a tidal wave.
The credit explosion was orchestrated through Illuminati agents and Satanists like Alan Greenspan, who represents the interests of the Illuminati’s Bilderberg Group, Council on Foreign Relations, Trilateral Commission and other far more exclusive and sinister secret societies.
Greenspan was the long-time head of the privately-owned ‘US central bank’, the Federal Reserve. Once his policies had manipulated as much personal and commercial debt as possible the plug was pulled on the system to trigger what is designed to be global economic meltdown.
Greenspan, who led ‘the Fed’ under Reagan, Father Bush, Clinton and Boy Bush, operates at a deeper level within the Illuminati network than most of their public figures, and I was told by a former Satanist, an unofficial offspring of the Rothschild family, how he remembered Greenspan at sacrifice rituals he attended:
‘I can recall the Rockefellers and the Bushes attending rituals, but never having the supremacy to lead them. I still regard them as lackeys and not real brokers of occult power. Except for Alan Greenspan, most of these fellows were camp followers in the occult, primarily for the economic power and prestige. Greenspan, I recall, was a person of tremendous spiritual, occult power and could make the Bushes and the younger Rockefellers cower with just a glance.’
This, then, is the man who was controlling the United States economy from 1987 to 2006 and who, as planned, oversaw the insane economic policies that led to the current global collapse. Go to another level of understanding and you can see that Greenspan and other Illuminati place-men throughout the world knew exactly what they were doing and what the outcome was planned to be.
Agorism! Fight the Fed's coup d'etat
How many sparks do we need for the powder keg to blow? Is the Federal Reserve coup d'etat not incendiary enough, or are we as a population more a powder puff than powder keg?
Trillions of dollars are being funneled to banking elites with zero oversight, zero transparency, and zero accountability -- hell, with zero accounting!
Read more @ the dignity of struggle
Trillions of dollars are being funneled to banking elites with zero oversight, zero transparency, and zero accountability -- hell, with zero accounting!
Read more @ the dignity of struggle
Israeli troops open fire on women outside mosque
This story should come as no surprise to anyone. Successive Israeli governments have given ample evidence over the past 60 years that, in their opinion, Palestinian life is worth little more than that of the animals that extreme orthodox Jews sacrifice to their destroyer god "Yahweh". Indeed, at least on a symbolic level, the murder of Palestinian men, women and children by Israeli soldiers is seen by Zionists as a similar type of blood offering to the all-too-human "god" that "promised them Palestine" 2,500 years ago.
With such callous disregard for the life of other human beings, what does anyone expect the end result of the manufactured "Middle East crisis" to be, other than the murder of probably millions of innocent people, Arabs and Jews alike, with only the Zionist leaders escaping unscathed, as always.
Read more @ SOTT
With such callous disregard for the life of other human beings, what does anyone expect the end result of the manufactured "Middle East crisis" to be, other than the murder of probably millions of innocent people, Arabs and Jews alike, with only the Zionist leaders escaping unscathed, as always.
Read more @ SOTT
Scientists say pandemic is CERTAIN, so who wants to be a hero?
Scientists say pandemic is certain --Expert panel tells emergency managers it's just a matter of when the avian flu will spark a pandemic. By Stephanie Backus 07 Mar 2009 Many scientists are now sure that a version of H5N1, or the avian flu, will cause a pandemic in the future. While speaking to health officials at the National Emergency Management Summit Thursday, several experts said the issue was no longer an "if" issue, it was now "when." "Grief and loss is a certainty in planning for the pandemic," said P.J. Havice-Cover, a mental health professional and program coordinator for the state of Colorado. "You can respect and normalize people's grieving processes by giving them updates on progress. Don't just ignore the losses. If you're in a position to inform the public, talk about it. Community memorial services are very important." She said it was also important to be prepared to be quarantined for months at a time. Quarantine could be an important part of the fight against a pandemic. "When you're talking to people, voice your appreciation for those in quarantine. Talk about how they're hometown heroes and doing waht they need to be doing in order to protect the community," said Havice-Cover.
Read more @ Citizens for Legitimate Government
Propaganda: Vaccines are just GREAAAAT!!
THURSDAY, March 5 (HealthDay News) -- Boosting T-cell immunity may be one way to improve existing vaccines so that they can protect people during a bird flu pandemic, says an Australian study.
"The 'killer T-cell' is the hit-man of the immune system. It is able to locate and destroy virus-infected cells in our body, helping rid us of infections," the study's lead author, Stephen Turner, from the microbiology and immunology department at the University of Melbourne, said in a university news release.
"Unfortunately, current influenza vaccines are poor at inducing killer T-cell immunity," he said. "Therefore, we wanted to see if we could improve the current vaccine formulation to induce killer T-cells after vaccination."
Turner and his fellow researchers added a compound known to increase immunity to a flu vaccine.
"The addition of this compound promoted significant generation of potent killer T- cell immunity and provided protection from infection," he said. "The significance of these findings is that, rather than having to design a new vaccine altogether, we can improve current flu vaccines by adding this potent immune modulator."
Bird flu being managed in source countries
Centre monitoring bird flu situation in Darjeeling
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New Delhi: The government is closely monitoring the situation in the Kurseong block in Darjeeling in West Bengal after the Department of Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries notified the outbreak of avian influenza there on February 24.
So far, 644 birds have been culled in the affected block.
A Central Rapid Response team of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has been deputed to assist the State health authorities.
Containment operations are on, as also surveillance within 0-3 km. and 3-10 km. radius.
The district authorities have been provided with adequate personal protective equipment, said an official press note.
Pamuka, Burito to move out to curb spread of bird flu The city administration plans to relocate the two bird markets of Pramuka in Central Jakarta and Barito in South Jakarta to other locations away from residential areas, to help curb the spread of bird flu.
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Clinton a VICTIM of disinformation campaign, Jerusalem mayor says
A victim? When in Rome, do as the Romans do... - Ed.
JERUSALEM — A day after Secretary of State Hillary Clinton gently chastised Israeli officials for demolishing Arab homes in East Jerusalem , the city's new mayor pushed back Thursday and suggested that America's top diplomat had been the victim of a disinformation campaign.
During her first visit to the region as secretary of state, Clinton criticized the unfolding home demolitions as "unhelpful" to tenuous Israel-Palestinian peace talks and a violation of Israel's commitment to the diplomatic process.
Brzezinksi, Scowcroft urge Obama to talk to Iran
WASHINGTON — The United States should extend its nuclear umbrella to its Middle East allies and offer enriched civilian-use uranium to Iran and other countries in the region to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapon, two respected former presidential national-security advisors told senators Thursday.
Read more @ Yahoo News
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Madoff investors prepare for court confrontation
NEW YORK – Bernard Madoff has yet to face the many investors he is accused of ripping off in a jaw-dropping Ponzi scheme that amounted to one of the biggest financial frauds in history.
Read more @ Yahoo News
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"Outlaw the shadow banking system"
by Matthias Chang
When I read the remarks of President Obama and Prime Minister Gordon Brown after their meeting at the Oval Office on March 3, 2009 and the speech of the latter to the Joint Session of Congress on March 4, 2009, I realized that a growing antagonism has emerged between certain factions of the ruling elites in the City of London and in Washington DC.
The first warning of the acute differences was sounded by President Obama himself and it was most surprising that the mass media paid hardly attention to it. In his weekly address on February 28, 2009, President Obama said:
World's biggest banks to meet in London
TOKYO (Reuters) - Chief executives of leading Japanese, European and U.S. banks will meet in London to discuss the future of the financial system, the Nikkei newspaper reported, as the global financial crisis prompts a barrage of new regulatory proposals for the sector.
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