Sunday, November 29, 2009
Global warming is inherently a Scam
Here is the reality of what is going on.
Those people still supporting AGW (anthropogenic global warming) are dependent on funding to support their current positions. That funding is in turn dependent in the continuation of faith that AGW (anthropogenic global warming) is correct. After all, when Galileo proved that the Earth Orbited the Sun, funding for continued research into epicycles vanished abruptly, along with tenures and the value of every degree issued in the field of Epicycles.
The same applies here. With precious rare exception, every academic whose degree and funding is based on AGW (anthropogenic global warming) is looking at a stark unemployment picture. In their minds, they are not fighting for scientific truth; they are fighting for their livelihood, and the proof is very simple. If their primary concern was really the long term welfare of planet Earth, one would think the Global Warming Cult would be delighted to find out there really is no danger after all. But, as is clearly evident, the goal is to support the orthodoxy even against the revelation that their core scientific foundation is based on a fraud.
Quite a few people, including President Obama, are financially invested in the Global Carbon Credit scheme, in which licenses are issued to pollute, with the surplus units bought and sold through brokerages. Al Gore and his fellow investors have already spent $150 million to "sell" anthropogenic global warming. They will not walk away from that investment easily.
Beyond the researchers whose degrees and funding are dependent on the continuation of a perceived public threat, the media outlets and government officials who signed onto this campaign are now realizing that they have wagered their entire credibility on AGW (anthropogenic global warming) at a time when their credibility was already strained from Saddam's "nookular" bombs, the economy, 9-11, etc. etc. etc. Climategate could well be the final nail in the coffin of the public's trust of media and government.
And looming over all of this is the push for a global government, which rested one third of their justification on the need for a global environmental authority to "solve" the problem of those icky humans messing up the globe.
There is a vast amount of personal reputation, money, and power on the line here. Climategate is the start of a major fight for the truth, one which if won will see the end of many well-known institutions of government and media.
Saturday, November 28, 2009
Gore Flees in Panic from Chicago Book Signing
Appearing at a bookstore in the downtown Loop, Gore was confronted by a team of demonstrators from a grass roots group called "We Are Change," as he was signing his latest fascist screed on the global warming swindle. Gore bolted from the bookstore, raced down an alley, jumped into a waiting car, and tried to speed off, with protesters chasing after him and banging on the car. Midwest LYM organizers, who were also on the scene to confront the global warming swindler, provided an eyewitness account of Fat Albert's flight of fear.
Make no mistake about it. This little encounter is typical of the kinds of things going on all over the country, as the fascists who brought you the near-destruction of the United States and an onrushing global Dark Age, are no longer walking the streets, smug in the belief that they are literally getting away with murder. The mass strike dynamic is playing out in thousands of ways, every day, and the recent revelations about the "smoking gun" emails from the East Anglia University global warming propaganda center, have made Al Gore's life a little more miserable.
As Percy Shelley wrote in "The Mask of Anarchy," "We are many, they are few."
It's just plain simple: CO2 tax agenda front man lining his pockets on the back of global warming fearmongering.
Breast Cancer and Lung Cancer No Match for this: Woman's leg amputated by mistake following false cancer diagnosis
Word to the wise: Be careful of what doctors tell you to cut off following a cancer diagnosis. Submitting to cancer surgery can cost you an arm... or a leg.
Increasingly, cancer surgeons are recommending that woman have their healthy breasts surgically removed as a way to prevent cancer -- even when those women have no cancer! But recently, an even more bizarre story surfaced: According to a BBC report (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/...), a UK woman had her leg amputated by a cancer surgeon who claimed her leg showed signs of a malignant cancer tumor. She naively agreed to undergo the surgery and awoke with quite a shock: Not only was her leg missing, but the doctor told her she never had cancer in the first place.
I'm trying to figure out who made the bigger goof here: The doctor who claimed there was cancer, or the patient who agreed to let a doctor amputate her leg without getting a second opinion...
Here's what the doctor reportedly said upon her regaining consciousness: "I've got a bombshell to tell you - I'm very sorry, but we shouldn't have taken the leg off."
At that point, I think the patient should have picked up that amputated leg and beat the snot out of the surgeon with it. But that's just me...
Criminal Mastermind Keeps Signing Global Warming Checks
Excerpts from a post by Michael Shedlock - "It's now official. Much of the hype about global warming is nothing but a complete scam. The global warming thesis was completely fabricated.
"Inquiring minds are reading Hacked: Hadley CRU FOI2009 Files on The Reference Frame by Luboš Motl, a physicist from the Czech Republic.
"So far, the most interesting file I found in the "documents" directory is pdj_grant_since1990.xls which shows that since 1990, Phil Jones has collected a staggering 13.7 million British pounds ($22.6 million) in grants.
"Phil Jones, the main criminal according to this correspondence, has personally confirmed that the website was hacked and that the documents are authentic. See Briefing Room.
"He says that he "can't remember" what he meant by "hiding the decline." Well, let me teach him some English. First, dictionaries say that hide means
1. to conceal from sight; prevent from being seen or discovered: Where
did she hide her jewels?
2. to obstruct the view of; cover up: The sun was hidden by the clouds.
3. to conceal from knowledge or exposure; keep secret: to hide one's feelings.
4. to conceal oneself; lie concealed: He hid in the closet.
5. British. a place of concealment for hunting or observing wildlife; hunting blind.
6. hide out, to go into or remain in hiding: After breaking out of jail, he hid out
in a deserted farmhouse.
I wonder if Phil remembers the $22.6 million in grants. I wonder if he "remembers" only those things that the IPCC wants him to remember.
If Every Soldier Fighting is Killed How can We Win
What is a true betrayal of our troops is putting them in harm's way when there are other ways of obtaining the desired geopolitical outcome rather than with brute military force.
Right now, I would like to remind the corporate media drones who spew this kind of drivel, that as late as August of 2001, the Bush administration was negotiating with the Taliban about the cost of the installation of pipelines, but thought the price too expensive.
That unholy trinity of Cheney, Bush, and Rumsfeld then decided that an invasion and occupation was going to be "cheaper".
So the American people were "softened up" by every conceivable media lie to prepare them for a war against Afghanistan, and the installation of a corrupt dictator who would do what the US wanted.
And our brave young men and women who would fight, die, and get maimed for live from this colossal military misadventure?
They were, and continue to be, expendable in this "sacrifice" ultimately for profit. Just ask any Vet, desperate for treatment of conditions they got from their participation in this gruesome exercise, only to be denied treatment, or have their benefits cut or eliminated by a technicality.
Notice that while the US is on a rampage, militarily, to get resources they want, Russia and China are cutting deals for the energy they need.
The best way of supporting our military is by using our power as citizens of a country with a right to free speech, to let every Congressional representative, every commander of the Pentagon, and White House official that you know this country was lied into the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
We understand this, and there is absolutely no doubt.
And that these people are never, ever to put our military personnel in harm's way unless it is absolutely necessary.
Thursday, November 26, 2009
Unearthed Files Include “Rules” for Mass Mind Control Campaign
First Rule as outlined by Futerra is called “Blowing away Myths”. Pressing the point that any company wishing to sell global warming must be cautious in using the fear-card:
Arrogantly stating to “Forget the climate change detractors”, the document goes on to say that “Those who deny climate change science are irritating, but unimportant.” Futerra also stresses that “There is no ‘rational man’” and “Information can’t work alone.”
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Monday, November 23, 2009
Is America's inmate population being converted into a slave labor force? Just Look at the Slave Labor Graphics
As 1995 drew to a close, one out of every 167 Americans was in prison or jail, compared to one out of 320 in 1985, when the crack cocaine trade began to proliferate. The total number of inmates has more than doubled in the past decade, and we just can't seem to build enough prisons to keep them all in.
Add the trend towards private prison facility management and corporate use of prison labor, and you have an extremely unsettling social situation. Are we witnessing the creation of a slave labor force for the corporate New World Order?
Quite possibly, if the Oakhill Correctional Institute in Dane County, Wisconsin serves as a model. Seventeen inmates crowded in a makeshift basement factory in that facility crank out over a million dollars' worth of office chairs per year, in exchange for wages ranging from twenty cents to $1.50 per hour.
The operation is run by Badger State Industries, the Wisconsin prison industries program, which employs 600 inmates and which raked in a $1.2 million profit in 1995. In the past, to protect manufacturers from unfair competition, Wisconsin allowed sale of prison-made goods only to state and local government agencies. But Governor Tommy Thompson's new state budget allows commercial entities to use prison facilities and labor for manufacturing purposes. The money will be used to pay for the costs of incarcerating the prisoners -- including the ones who work in the factories.
Not A Coffin To Spare in despair that is Destroyed Detroit
The abandoned corpses, in white body bags with number tags tied to each toe, lie one above the other on steel racks inside a giant freezer in Detroit’s central mortuary, like discarded shoes in the back of a wardrobe.
Some have lain here for years, but in recent months the number of unclaimed bodies has reached a record high. For in this city that once symbolised the American Dream many cannot even afford to bury their dead.
“I have not seen this many unclaimed bodies in 13 years on the job,” said Albert Samuels, chief investigator at the mortuary. “It started happening when the economy went south last year. I have never seen this many people struggling to give people their last resting place.”
Unburied bodies piling up in the city mortuary — it reached 70 earlier this year — is the latest and perhaps most appalling indignity to be heaped on the people of Detroit. The motor city that once boasted the highest median income and home ownership rate in the US is today in the midst of a long and agonising death spiral.
Income Tax Hike To Fund Hopless Afghanistan War
American Scofflaw
Go ahead, fools; tax the rich.
Not that I want the rich to suffer any more than any other Americans, of course. I still hold that we are ALL taxed way too much for what little comes back to us from the Federal Government.
But as the poor and middle classes are driven into poverty and the government starts to loot the upper classes to feed its insatiable appetite for other peoples' money, the rich will suddenly discover that their politics are more in line with the blogs and the alternative media than they realized, and that support for the alternative media may yield some very real dividends down the road.
This may be the watershed moment. And no, don't expect that income tax refund, pal.
US Military Weapons: Kids Just Love Them
If you have ever watched this seductive practice at a military base holding some kind of a "community festival" for local civilians and their families, sometimes complete with a performance by the Blue Angels, it is a wonder to behold.
The young men and women recruited for these missions are very carefully chosen. They have a wonderful way with kids, explaining how the various weapons work in such a way as to not really explain that the ultimate purpose of these weapons is to create death, mutilation, and carnage.
Kids love them.
Parents who love their kids should think twice about letting their kids getting anywhere near these "kinder-recruiters".
If these recruiters are being allowed in elementary schools, parents should have the ability to "opt-out" of this kind of presentation for their kids, particularly the very young ones.
But if our military are doing such presentations in elementary schools, it is obvious that the military and civilian government are really hell-bent on a "wars without end" future for you, your kids, and your grand-children.
Saturday, November 21, 2009
Goldman Sachs co no Match forLloyd's Angry Shareholders
Goldman Sachs has had to defend itself from angry taxpayers, regulators, the government – and now its own shareholders.
Some of the US investment bank's largest investors are furious about the New York-based firm paying record bonuses to its staff – bonuses are estimated to be $717,000 (£435,000) each for 2009, the biggest payout in the firm's 140 years.
Investors claim that now profits are back, rewards should go first to shareholders because they suffered the cost of the credit crunch more than anybody else.
"Most of the losses were for equity shareholders," said a fund manager at a large investment firm. "If they had cared about the preservation of equity value, the crisis wouldn't have been nearly as bad as it was. It would be in everybody's interest, the taxpayer and of banks themselves, if management's interests were more aligned with shareholders."
Critics claim that banks' high-paying bonus culture encouraged a short-term vision that pushed institutions into over-lending and taking more risks than they could afford. In October last year, Goldman Sachs received $10bn from the US government to shore up its books – the bank was one of nine recipients of federal aid. Goldman, which repaid the money earlier this year, is still benefiting from government assistance as it can borrow funds direct from the Federal Reserve.
But after the collapse of rivals such as Lehman Brothers and Bear Stearns, Goldman's earnings, as well as those of other banks, have soared to record highs, helped by booming stock, credit and commodity markets.
Goldman has earmarked about $16.7bn so far this year for its staff bonus pool - or 47% of net revenues, along the lines of a 2000-2008 average of 46.7%, according to the firm. That compares with 66% at Merrill Lynch, 47% at Morgan Stanley and 41% at JP Morgan – one of the banks least affected by the crisis.
"Our investors have consistently told us that they expect the firm to set compensation at a level which produces attractive returns to shareholders while maintaining the strength of our franchise, which is the basis for generating returns for the long term," Goldman Sachs said.
Investors, however, complain that bankers' high bonuses did not save Lehman or Bear Stearns. "They were paid a lot and they didn't create value for shareholders," the fund manager said.
Banks often find they are not challenged by their investors when deciding pay structures – if shareholders do not agree with management policies they just sell the stock, instead of instigating change. Only two investors hold more than 5% of Goldman Sachs shares, according to Bloomberg data. "Investors are a dispersed group, the only thing to do to solve this is to get the regulator involved," the fund manager said.
Financial authorities in Britain and Europe are pushing for new regulations to cap bankers' pay.
Some investors, however, say banks should pay its staff as much as possible to retain them. "We want firms to make as much profit as possible, what they have to pay their employees is appropriate," said a fund manager at a hedge fund that holds a stake in Goldman. Another hedge fund manager said that the partially nationalised Royal Bank of Scotland had "lost credibility as an employer" as they cannot pay bonuses following the government's intervention in the bank.
Goldman's chairman, Lloyd Blankfein, publicly apologised this week for the role of his bank in the credit crunch. The bank also said it would donate $500m (or 3% of what it has set aside to pay its employees this year) to help thousands of small businesses recover from the recession.
JFK Conspiracy on Stand Down
Drilling into volcano will not make volcano eruption
After lying dormant for 4,000 years, one of Europe’s most powerful volcanoes, Campi Flegrei near Naples, is showing signs of life.
Instinct would tell you to stay away, but an international team of scientists are doing exactly the opposite. They are preparing to drill a 4km hole into the heart of the volcano to investigate beneath the surface.
Their aim is to pinpoint the source of mounting pressure that has caused the ground at the port of nearby Pozzuoli to rise dramatically over the past 40 years. Identifying the cause would help scientists to predict how close the volcano is to blowing.
“The volcano is breathing and there is a very serious seismic risk,” said Dr Ulrich Harms, a vulcanologist at the German Centre for Geoscience in Potsdam. A powerful eruption would cause widespread devastation and could cover thousands of square kilometres in volcanic ash, he said.
Head Shot City Part of Sad jfk conspiracy
JFK was shot in the head by sniper fire in broad daylight in Texas. Can we all agree on that?
It is the rest of the puzzle that divides us - yes? Lone gunman vs. grassy knoll vs. someone in the storm drain etc... We don't have answers, it seems to me, because the evidence we need using todays technology is absent. By hook or by crook a story made its way to the populace. But conflicting accounts, omitted evidence, magic bullet theories and questions about means, motive and opportunity which accompany any crime naturally left doubt in the mind of the crowd. The mafia, Bay of Pigs, Vietnam military-industrial interests etc... - the question remains: Who HAD to kill JFK?
Please watch the video below - give it some thought - and ask yourself - why did JFK think it was so important to back our money? The man was brave and brilliant. Who stood to lose the most by JFK's actions regarding Executive Order 11110 - perhaps the Federal Reserve?Silver coins and silver-backed U.S. Notes vs. Federal Reserve notes backed by NOTHING. A note that is A legal tender for all debts public and private vs. a note that IS legal tender for all debts public and private. Look (CLICK) HERE for previous post pics so you can see the words for yourself on real bills.
I've often heard there is no intrinsic value in a Federal Reserve Note. I disagree. The intrinsic value of a modern Federal Reserve note is the valuable unique paper. This paper existing as a one dollar Federal Reserve Note can be bleached then re-printed by a counterfeiter with a $100 dollar designation - multiplying its value by 100. Presto - money for nothing! Although this is illegal it doesn't seem to differ much from what the Federal Reserve itself does - stamp paper with a number and call it money!
Interesting pics of historical money here
JFK was for the PEOPLE it seems to me - NOT the entrenched elite powers. Means, motive and opportunity must be considered in any murder - this murder is no different in that regard.
Friday, November 20, 2009
Lion attack video: The lion starts to open the door of the car
With a 300lb lion in the offing, the couple visiting the safari park could at least console themselves that they had the protection of their car.
They watched in glee as the big cat padded up to their white Toyota.
For several seconds the car remained immobile as its occupants sat in stunned disbelief. Then the driver pulled away, with the lion in hot pursuit.
It chased its quarry all the way to the gates, where a game warden threw a stone to shoo it back into the enclosure.
The drama was played out at Lion Safari Park in Johannesburg, South Africa, and captured on camera by British tourist Richard Holden, who was in the car behind.
At the start of the trail, visitors are warned to lock windows and doors and take off all removable items such as aerials.
But Mr Holden, 32, an engineer, who was on holiday with wife Candice, 32, a teacher, and their two-year-old daughter Faye, said the car in front had obviously left the doors unlocked.
Since the lions at the park are fed every day, there is little chance that the Toyota couple would have been eaten.
'But they must have been panicking because they didn't drive off straight away,' said Mr Holden, from Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire. 'If that had been me, I would have hit the gas.'
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Verizion Wireless Isn't Appropriate Spam Judge
1. Verizon uses an unnamed third party who decides what is spam.
2. This unnamed third party also reviews complaints like ours.
3. We were told to send the “offending” email to spamdetector.update@verizon.net.
4. The unnamed third party would make a secret decision within 24 hours.
5. If the unnamed third party decides it is spam, regardless of our complaint we will not hear back.
That’s it. There is no recourse to challenge the decision. There isn’t even a confirmation that the email we sent to this third party was received at all. Of course, after 24 hours we still couldn’t send out an email containing the link
From the Department of Justice
From the Department of Justice:
The Justice Department and IRS announced that over 14,700 taxpayers have come forward to report previously-undisclosed foreign bank accounts under the voluntary disclosure program the IRS implemented following the settlement. This figure represents almost double the initial numbers the IRS announced in October and dwarfs the number of voluntary disclosures received in 2008.
- American Lawyer, Swiss to Reveal Tax Man Tactics
- New York Times, 14,700 Disclosed Offshore Accounts, by Lynnley Browning
- Reuters, Nearly 15,000 Americans Admit Offshore Tax Cheating
- USA Today, IRS Offshore Tax Crackdown Should Produce 'Billions'
- Wall Street Journal, IRS Details Map To Find UBS Tax Fraud
- Wall Street Journal, Swiss Will Give Up Names of U.S. Taxpayers
- Washington Post, Swiss No Longer Shielding Biggest U.S. Tax Dodgers
Obama Focused on Iran Nuclear Threat
The last time Iran sent nuclear materials to France for processing they never got it back.
Everyone is screaming about a deal with Iran but there is already a deal in place called the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty; a deal Iran is abiding by and the United States is not. Why would Iran agree to a deal when history has shown the UNited States cannot be trusted to keep its word?
If Iran removes all of their nuclear materials from their nuclear facilities, those facilities become instant targets for Israeli bombs and missiles.
I am alarmed by the renewed push to propagandize that Iran has secret nuclear facilities and are already building nuclear weapons. The warhawks in Israel are desperate to get the US into war with Iran. I am concerned that Israel may be desperate enough to set off one of their own nuclear devices inside the United States during this upcoming holiday season and blame Iran for it.
Of course, with the exception of Israel, which cannot officially admit they have nuclear weapons without losing the billions of dollars coming from the US taxpayers, the normal process for a nation with nuclear weapons is to announce that they have them and show them off, because after all, what is the point of having a nuclear deterrent if you keep it a secret? If Iran really had a bomb, they would announce it to the world and say, "attack us now and lose a major city." That would make Iran safe, because the US and Israel do not attack and invade nations that actually have nuclear weapons, only those nations who do not, like Irag, Somalia, Afghanistan, etc. etc. etc. etc. etc.
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Here It Comes, Ladies $ Gentlemen
As "9/11 conspiracy theorists" go I'm not much of an alarmist, but I do think that we are in the red zone right now for another potential 9/11 style false-flag event. Here's why.
But the American people aren't on board. Polls show that the war on
To get people to accept this kind of massive escalation, another major false-flag event demonizing Muslims, and thereby legitimizing escalations against the Taliban and the Islamic Republic of Iran, may be in the works.
The
Remember folks, what we're dealing with here is a war on Islam and Muslims launched and sustained by a whole series of false-flag events, not just 9/11-anthrax but also the attacks on Bali, Madrid, London, Mumbai, and now (apparently) Ft. Hood. There is no reason to think these people are going to stop any time soon.
The Dancing Israelis Mysterious Van
This is an actual photograph taken of a moving van that was stopped by NYC police on the evening of September 11, 2001, on King Street.
Sunday, November 15, 2009
Taliban Not A Threat Prior to the US invasion
Prior to the US invasion, the Taliban had all bur eradicated the opium production. So this idea that the Afghani farmers have nothing to do for a living if the drug trade goes away wears a little thin.
I think that the reason this story has appeared is that the blog-o-phere has called too much attention to the US troops guarding and protecting the opium in Afghanistan, paired with the sudden availability of cheap heroin in the US. Those of us old enough to recall the opium smuggling done by CIA/Air America in Vietnam easily recognize the familiar pattern.
Saturday, November 14, 2009
Bear Stearns Perp Jutice? Unlikely
Here’s how the NY Times covered it:
“It was, prosecutors claimed, a clear case of Wall Street crime — and a chance to bring to account two culprits of the subprime age.
But jurors disagreed, and on Tuesday, two former Bear Stearns hedge fund managers were found not guilty of securities fraud in federal court in Brooklyn, in what legal experts called a setback for prosecutors hoping for easy victories in this era of bailouts and foreclosures.
The verdict, the first in a major criminal case stemming from the current financial crisis, brought to an end a two-year ordeal for the managers, Ralph R. Cioffi and Matthew M. Tannin. They had been led away in handcuffs in June 2008 and accused of lying to their investors about the precarious state of the funds they oversaw.
Investors lost $1.6 billion when the funds, heavily invested in mortgage securities, collapsed in the summer of 2007. The fiasco presaged the financial turmoil that would later upend Wall Street and the broader economy.”
The jury deliberated for six hours. The key evidence were emails that said that they considered their own products bogus while encouraging their customers to buy them. A juror said the case had not proven, and that a bad investment was not a crime. The SEC will also be taking civil action.
At issue was what their emails said. Bear Stearns was a big promoter of Sub-crime subprime securities which were NOT an issue in the trial. Explained the report:
“One of the main documents in the case was an e-mail message that Mr. Tannin sent from his private Gmail account to the e-mail account of Mr. Cioffi’s wife. He wrote that the subprime market — the market to which the funds were tied — “looked pretty damn ugly,” and that if a recent report was correct, “then the entire subprime market is toast.” Days later, during a conference call, Mr. Tannin told investors that “we’re very comfortable with exactly where we are.”
They may have been “comfortable” but the families who subsequently faced foreclosure were victimized. Securities laws protect investors, not homeowners or people were talked into buying mortgages that were part of what the FBI later called an “epidemic of mortgage fraud.” So once again, as the late Lenny Bruce once quipped, “in the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.”
This case was also said to be poorly brought by prosecutors. Reported Bloomberg: “Prosecutors missed the mark so widely in the fraud trial of Bear Stearns Cos. hedge fund managers Ralph Cooffi and Matthew Tanin that a juror said after their acquittal she would invest with them if she had the money.” Reuters had reported that the defense lawyers had focused on weakness in the prosecutor’s case.
One legal challenghe was the need to prove criminal intent, hard to show when defendants, as is usually the case, deny they had bad motives. In this case, as throughout the subprime industry, it was all about making money, homeowners be dammed.
Reuters described the defense:
NEW YORK, Nov 6 (Reuters) - The government's allegations of fraud against two former Bear Stearns hedge fund managers were built on "hindsight bias," including emails selected out of context, a defense lawyer told a jury in closing arguments on Friday at their trial in New York.” “hindsight bias” suggest that the Bear Stearns duo did not know the consequences of their actions, something many in the business admit now they did realize.
“Hindsight Bias?”
The FBI has been denouncing an “epidemic” of subprime fraud as far back as 2004. On July 22, President Obama said Wall Street was “pedaling loans they knew could never be paid back.” But this issue was not raised in the trial.
CBC earlier reported that the Government blew its own case. ‘CNBC’s Charlie Gasparino reports that numerous signs, including the court’s refusal to admit some key evidence and the “blow up” of a witness, indicate that the government’s case against Bear Stearns hedge fund managers Cioffi and Tannin may be slipping away
So here you have the biggest crime of our time, massive predatory lending, widespread fraud and abuse. In the first instance the government did not regulate it, and now they can’t get it together to prosecute it.
Widely perceived criminals of all kinds will now walk while the Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee proposes new avenues for civil law suits but not cracking down
WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd's (D., Conn.) broad financial overhaul bill, unveiled Tuesday, includes several investor protection devices, including investors' ability to sue people who help commit securities fraud.
The provision would permit private civil actions for any person who "knowingly or recklessly provides substantial assistance" to securities fraudsters.
The "aiding and abetting provisions" in Dodd's bill could be seen as something of a change for the veteran senator, who also sponsored the controversial 1995 Securities Litigation Reform Act, which limited individual investors' ability to sue securities and accounting firms in class-action stock fraud cases.
Again, the focus mostly is on protecting investors, not other victims like the American people who consume these flawed products. The New American reports though that the real purpose is to protect cobsumers.
Senator Christopher Dodd and fellow Senate Democrats are proposing to scale back the regulatory authority of the Federal Reserve and eliminate the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, among many other provisions in a new 1,136-page bill made public on Tuesday. Dodd, the chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, blamed the Fed for alleged failures in consumer protection and regulatory oversight that contributed to last year’s financial implosion.
Senator Dodd’s bill would create a new Consumer Financial Protection Agency to protect consumers against so-called “predatory lending practices.” It would also create a Financial Institutions Regulatory Administration that would impose tighter regulatory oversight on banks. A new Agency for Financial Stability would have the power not only to enforce new financial regulations but also to break up large financial firms whose activities are deemed a threat to the economy as a whole.
Predictably Republicans and business interests are opposing new rules. As for reform, look at how health care reform has been gutted and you can see what awaits financial reform.
Meanwhile, at least the big banks are being criticized.
“Many senior banking executives failed to accept responsibility for the financial crisis and neglected the need to change their behavior, Hector Sants, the chief executive at Britain’s financial industry regulatory body, said Monday.”
Ooops, sorry, that’s in Britain.
Fort Tungsten Gold Lies in Fort Knox
“Gold Finger - A New Take On Operation Grand Slam With A Tungsten Twist”
I’ve already reported on irregular physical gold settlements which occurred in
1] - irregularities in the publication of the gold ETF - GLD’s bar list from Sept. 25 – Oct.14 where the length of the bar list went from 1,381 pages to under 200 pages and then back up to 800 or so pages.
2] - reports of 400 oz. “good delivery” bricks of gold found gutted and filled with tungsten within the confines of LBMA approved vaults in Hong Kong.
Why Tungsten?
If anyone were contemplating creating “fake” gold bars, tungsten [at roughly $10 per pound] would be the metal of choice since it has the exact same density as gold making a fake bar salted with tungsten indistinguishable from a solid gold bar by simply weighing it.
Unfortunately, there are now more sordid details to report.
When the news of tungsten “salted” gold bars in
who I am acquainted with automatically assumed that these bars were manufactured in
Here’s what I now understand really happened:
The amount of “salted tungsten” gold bars in question was allegedly between 5,600 and 5,700 – 400 oz – good delivery bars [roughly 60 metric tonnes].
This was apparently all highly orchestrated by an extremely well financed criminal operation.
Within mere hours of this scam being identified – Chinese officials had many of the perpetrators in custody.
And here’s what the Chinese allegedly uncovered:
Roughly 15 years ago – during the Clinton Administration [think Robert Rubin, Sir Alan Greenspan and Lawrence Summers] – between 1.3 and 1.5 million 400 oz tungsten blanks were allegedly manufactured by a very high-end, sophisticated refiner in the USA [more than 16 Thousand metric tonnes]. Subsequently, 640,000 of these tungsten blanks received their gold plating and WERE shipped to
The balance of this 1.3 million – 1.5 million 400 oz tungsten cache was also plated and then allegedly “sold” into the international market.
Apparently, the global market is literally “stuffed full of 400 oz salted bars”.
Makes one wonder if the Indians were smart enough to assay their 200 tonne haul from the IMF?
A Slow Motion Train Wreck, Years in the Making
An obscure news item originally published in the N.Y. Post [written by Jennifer Anderson] in late Jan. 04 has always ‘stuck in my craw’:
DA investigating NYMEX executive - Manhattan, New York, district attorney's office, Stuart Smith - Melting Pot - Brief Article – Feb. 2, 2004
A top executive at the New York Mercantile Exchange is being investigated by the
The offices of the Senior Vice President of Operations - NYMEX – is exactly where you would go to find the records [serial number and smelter of origin] for EVERY GOLD BAR ever PHYSICALLY settled on the exchange. They are required to keep these records. These precise records would show the lineage of all the physical gold settled on the exchange and hence "prove" that the amount of gold in question could not have possibly come from the U.S. mining operations – because the amounts in question coming from U.S. smelters would undoubtedly be vastly bigger than domestic mine production.
We never have found out what happened to poor ole Stuart Smith – after his offices were "raided" – he took administrative leave from the NYMEX and he has never been heard from since. Amazingly [or perhaps not], there never was any follow up on in the media on the original story as well as ZERO developments ever stemming from D.A. Morgenthau’s office who executed the search warrant.
Are we to believe that NYMEX offices were raided, the Sr. V.P. of operations then takes leave - all for nothing?
These revelations should provide a “new filter” through which Rothschild exiting the gold market back in 2004 begins to make a little more sense:
“LONDON, April 14, 2004 (Reuters) - NM Rothschild & Sons Ltd., the London-based unit of investment bank Rothschild [ROT.UL], will withdraw from trading commodities, including gold, in London as it reviews its operations, it said on Wednesday.”
Interestingly, GATA’s Bill Murphy speculated about this back in 2004;
“Why is Rothschild leaving the gold business at this time my colleagues and I conjectured today? Just a guess on my part, but suspect:”
*SOMETHING IS AMISS. THEY KNOW A BIG GOLD SCANDAL IS COMING AND THEY WANT NO PART OF IT. …”
“ROTHSCHILD WANTS OUT BEFORE THE PROVERBIAL "S" HITS THE FAN.” BILL MURPHY, LEMETROPOLE, 4-18-2004
Coincidentally [or perhaps, not?], GLD Began Trading 11/12/2004
In light of what has occurred – regarding the Gold ETF, GLD – after reviewing their prospectus yet again, it becomes pretty clear that GLD was established to purposefully deflect investment dollars away from legitimate gold pursuits and to create a stealth, cesspool / catch-all, slush-fund and a likely destination for many of these “salted tungsten bars” where they would never see the light of day – hidden behind the following legalese “shield” from the law:
Excerpt from the GLD prospectus on page 11:
http://www.spdrgoldshares.com/media/GLD/file/SPDRGoldTrustProspectus.pdf
Gold bars allocated to the Trust in connection with the creation of a Basket may not meet the
satisfy its obligation to credit the Trust the amount of any deficiency, the Trust may suffer a loss.
Was Homeland Security Created To Protect Those Who Scammed America?
- Was Fort Hood really the target of a terrorist attack? The first clue to the real culprit emerged when Senator Joe Lieberman sought to blame this mass murder on the U.S. military. As chairman of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security, he promised hearings on how the Pentagon protects its personnel from domestic terrorists.
- Will Lieberman, an avowed Zionist, use this incident to insist that the U.S. do more to protect Jewish nationalists? More importantly, what do his concerns mean for homeland security?
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- Joe Lieberman has an ally in Janet Napolitano, Secretary of Homeland Security. In April, this former Arizona governor warned about potential terrorism from U.S. troops returning from deployment in the Middle East. Though roundly attacked, she defended her position, calling it an "assessment not an accusation."
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- When Army Major Nidal Hasan killed U.S. troops on the nation's largest military base, was this evidence of "militant Islam"? Or did this military psychiatrist snap under pressure while treating returning vets on a base averaging ten suicides a month? Is there an undisclosed agenda behind those seeking to portray this act as the work of "Islamo fascists"?
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- To answer these questions requires a grasp of how "assets" are deployed by those skilled at waging war by way of deception. An asset is someone who has been profiled in sufficient depth that-when placed in a pre-staged time, place and circumstance-the person can be relied on to behave consistent with their profile.
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
I Definately Saw World Trade Center Collapse
A new eyewitness who was working in the WTC on 9/11 has gone on record to describe how he heard multiple grenade-like explosions around the basement levels of the north tower, backing up William Rodriguez' story, the WTC janitor who reported explosions before the first plane hit the tower.
Anthony Saltalamacia was a morning supervisor who managed over a hundred workers in the twin towers. He worked closely with WTC janitor William Rodriguez, eyewitness to sub-level explosions that occurred before the impact of the first plane in the north tower and representative for many 9/11 victim's families.
Saltalamacchia was in sub-basement B1 of the North Tower, approximately 1,100 feet below the airplane's impact point at floors 93 to 98.
In the the following You Tube video, Saltalamacia discusses what he witnessed on 9/11. The account backs up the events previously described by William Rodriguez.
"The explosion....at first we believe it came from the mechanical room and then we heard a series of other explosions that sounded up on the above levels of the building," said Saltalamacia.
Saltalamacia then discusses how a man ran into the office with his skin hanging off. William Rodriguez had previously described the same scenario following basement level explosions and it was also seconded by another eyewitness, Kenneth Johannemann, an employee of ABM janitorial services.
"As we're standing there, more explosions were happening," said Saltalamacia, before he urged Rodriguez and the other workers to leave the building. The group left and initially headed towards the lobby before they realized it too had been partially destroyed.
Despite Saltalamacia's plea to stay out of harm's way, Rodriguez ran back into the burning building in an attempt to save his colleagues.
"The amount of explosions I heard from 8:46 to the time we got out was so many - at least ten - it was just like multiple explosions to where I felt there was different grenades, that's what it sounded like, like different grenades being set off in the building," said Saltalamacia.
"It was one major explosion and then there was different explosions throughout that period of time until we got out," he added.
Numerous other WTC basement workers, including Felipe David and Salvatore Giambanco, have also gone public with eyewitness testimony concerning massive sub-level explosions that took place before Flight 11 hit the north tower.
WTC construction worker Phillip Morelli was headed for level B-4 in Tower One [north tower], four stories below ground, when he was thrown to the floor by a violent explosion that coincided with the plane hitting 100 floors above.
15-year WTC worker Marlene Cruz told Peter Jennings in an interview with ABC News that she was also rocked by an explosion in the basement level of the north tower.
The 9/11 Commission completely ignored the hundreds of survivors, professionals, first responders, firefighters and police who reported numerous secondary explosions at all levels of the twin towers.
In his video interview, Saltalamacia concluded by dismissing the official story of 9/11 as a "cover-up" and urged a proper investigation to find out the truth behind what he and others witnessed that day.
Our Friendly Spy Ring
Back in 2001, the FBI uncovered the largest spy ring ever found inside the United States, being run by our "friend" Israel.
Half-way through arresting the network of spies, 9-11 happened.
Carl Cameron broadcast a four-part series on the Israeli spy ring, which included the following quote.
"Evidence linking these Israelis to 9/11 is classified. I cannot tell you about evidence that has been gathered. It's classified information." -- US official quoted in Carl Cameron's Fox News report on the Israeli spy ring and its connections to 9-11.
AIPAC immediately went into action and ordered FOX News to erase the story from their website. FOX News obeyed, even to the point of contacting websites with copies of the news story and threatening legal action if the video that Israel found offensive was not removed. Okay, if you want to act like you have something to hide, fine; I won't stop you.
However, in the wake of AIPAC's own recent spy scandal, the media's willingness to cover up Israel's crimes may be waning in the face of growing public awareness of the media's culpability, and the four-part news story is back up at YouTube for all the world to see.
Of particular note are the very nervous comments of the other FOX newscasters trying to reassure us all that just because Mossad agents were linked to 9-11 was no reason to suspect Israel had anything to do with 9-11, because gracious me, Israel would never DO that soft of thing to its benefactors in the United States, right? Right? Of course right!
Thought Not
You cannot help but admire Cantor's "big lie" technique here, and I am certain that, with this audience, it went over big.
However, I would like to raise the butt-ugly head of calm fact in response to this rhetoric.
1. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad never said that he wanted to "....kill Israel and the Jews".
2. Iran has a sizable Jewish population which has resisted any attempts by Israel to get them to immigrate to Israel.
3. Iran has not started a war with anyone in over 200 years.
4. Iran is a signatory to the NNPT, and has done everything completely by the book in terms of allowing inspections. There has never been a single report of nuclear material getting diverted, or uranium being enriched to any more than is necessary to fuel a power station.
5. Israel, which does possess nuclear weapons, refuses to become a signatory to the NNPT, or allow inspections of its nuclear weaponry.
6. And finally, all the "caterwauling" regarding Iran cannot obviate the fact that the UN General has voted to accept the findings of the Goldstone Report.
Any questions, Representative Cantor?!?
Thought Not
Sunday, November 8, 2009
Saturday, November 7, 2009
Come and Get Me, Plllllllease
The call came into the 911 dispatcher: "I don't want to hurt anybody.
I'm drunk." And with that, Mary Strey, 49, of Granton, reported herself
as a drunken driver about three miles northeast of Neilsville in central Wisconsin.
Clark County Sheriff's Chief Deputy Jim Backus said Mondaythat Strey's call on Oct. 24 led deputies to cite her for misdemeanor drunken driving with a blood-alcohol level double the legal limit to drive. She makes her first court appearance Dec. 10.
Backus said drunken drivers reporting themselves is rare.
Crap From The Sky
Apparently, neither the pilots nor anyone on the ground immediately noticed the mishap when it happened. The aircraft, a Boeing 777, doesn't need the part to fly and carried on safely to its destination, Tokyo, aviation officials said.
Delta personnel reported the engine part missing following an inspection after the plane landed following its 14-hour flight, Federal Aviation
Friday, November 6, 2009
Money in The Wrong Direction.
Look at where the stimulus money went! It went to Wall Street. And what did Wall Street do with it? They wrote themselves huge bonuses with it!
It is estimated that the sum of all spending related to the bailouts has reached $27 trillion . That's about $180,000 per taxpayer.
Now, had the government simply handed every taxpayer $180,000, people would have paid their mortgages. No housing crash. Had the government simply handed every taxpayer $180,000, people would have paid their credit cards. No credit crash. Had the government simply handed every taxpayer $180,000, Americans would have bought new cars. No big three automotive bailout needed. Had the government simply handed every taxpayer $180,000, we would have continued to buy TV sets and other toys. No retail crisis.
But the government shifted the money in the wrong direction. They transferred the wealth from the poor and middle classes to the already-wealthy. And as a result, our economy has gone totally out of balance and commerce has ground almost to a halt. Offering to loan us more money won't fix the problem if we have no jobs with which to repay those loans. More wealth, rather than more debt, is what the people need and what will get the economy moving again.
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