NEW WORLD RHINOS

Jeffrey Grupp - What is Telementation ?

2011-07-03T06:03:00.000-07:00

Telementation is a variation of what is often called "The Law of Attraction", where telementation focuses more on feeling reality into existence rather than believing or visualizing reality into existence. Telementation is an ancient meditative art form, and it is the true nature of our real deep inner self. It is virtually unknown to contemporary, modernized humans, but it is has been recognized by shamans, mystics, and philosophers as the ultimate power in the universe, which is possessed by all humans. Telementation is true consciousness (and true consciousness is the deepest, innermost part of mental reality, not the surface emanations), and therefore telementation is what humans actually are. This book is a short instruction manual on how to carry out the law of attraction with great ease. Telementation creates a revolution in a person's life that ends nearly all personal problems, and it brings a person back to their innate, inalienable greatness and poetical inner peace. Telementation is particularly productive for those who want a very simple guidebook on how to carry out Eastern meditation or Christian mysticism, for those who have had trouble attaining religious experience despite putting forth great efforts at meditation, and for those having trouble overcoming depression by conventional methods.

Jeff Grupp with George Noory C2C

Jeff Grupp with Dr Bill Deagle

Jeff Grupps Telementation book

Why You Are Fat ?

2010-11-28T11:17:00.000-08:00

Here's the skinny...The Human body does not require carbohydrates to perform any type of biological functions. The body will convert fats into sugars(glucose) to perform necessary brain functions. When you ingest more sugar than it needs it will convert the excess sugar into saturated fat and stores it for later use via the hormone insulin. When you continuously load your body with carbohydrates the insulin network becomes desensitized and will no longer produce insulin which causes your body to produce unhealthy blood sugar resulting in diabetes

When you ingest fat our bodies break it down into lipids which are immediately dispersed into the blood stream for metabolic uses like energy production via the Krebs cycle. Our bodies dump unneeded fats into the large intestine for elimination. When you do not ingest enough fats to perform any necessary function, our bodies use its stored fat from excess carbohydrates.

Gary Taubes about why we get fat

Swedish Physician Dr. Andreas Eenfeldt Treats Patients With A Low-Carb, High-Fat Diet

Jimmy Moore from http://www.livinlavidalowcarb.com/blog interviews Dr. Andreas Eenfeldt, a medical doctor from Sweden who is treating patients with obesity, heart disease, and diabetes with a low-carb, high-fat diet (LCHF). He runs the #1 low-carb blog in the world at http://www.kostdoktorn.se and joined a group of American low-carbers on The 3rd Annual Low-Carb Cruise to the Bahamas in March 2010.

Dr. Eenfeldt talks about how he stumbled upon low-carb diets after reading the work of New York Times science writer Gary Taubes and then finding a physician in his home country of Sweden named Dr. Annika Dahlqvist who uses low-carb nutrition to help her patients. Today he is an avid supporter of the science behind carbohydrate-restriction and believes the "low-fat fad" is coming to an end. He shares encouraging words about the "paradigm shift" happening regarding fat and especially saturated fat and that people will soon realize it is the carbs they need to be most concerned about.

Don't miss Dr. Eenfeldt's new book on LCHF coming in the Fall 2010 and join us on the 2011 Low-Carb Cruise to meet him in person. Sign up now at http://www.lowcarbcruiseinfo.com and you'll hear from this amazing man. Also, be looking for Jimmy Moore's upcoming podcast interview with him coming later in 2010 at http://www.thelivinlowcarbshow.com/sh...

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Gulf Oil Crisis Hoax - What if They Just Made it All Up ?

2010-06-27T10:56:00.000-07:00

The first question we need to ask is "Where is all the oil' ?

Why Would They Do This ?

Massive Social Change and Depopulation Plans ?

Why are you blaming the bankers ?

OIL SPILL - Greatest Mass Distraction - Imagination Capture Event Ever ???

2010-06-20T08:09:00.000-07:00

Bigger than 911 in terms of the scope and magnitude of people it will effect!

Similar to the past events there is a main stream version - that BP, via the poor regulation by both the former and sitting US government, of the oil business inadvertantly caused this disaster to occur through their own incompetence. This theory opens up the basic duality paradigm of right left politics, which is its own blame game dead end imagination killer

"KNOWING" THE TRUTH BEFORE IT HAPPENS ?

There are however emerging alternative theories that suggest that this event was pre planned as an excuse to depopulate the gulf region of the US. This would follow the REX 84 / FEMA camp stories that have been around for the past few years. It would also follow that main stream media and Hollywood would preprogram the masses for such an event

STEVE JACKSON'S 1995 ILLUMINATI/NWO CARD GAME

THE MAINSTREAM POLITICAL EXPLAINATION

RICHARD HOAGLAND'S TOXIC GAS BUBBLE THEORY

DR BILL DEAGLE'S CONCURRENT TOXIC GAS BUBBLE THEORY

ALTERNATIVE EXPLAINATIONS BEHIND THE CAUSE OF THE OIL SPILL

JEFF KRUPP'S 621 FALSE FLAG THEORY

MORE ILLUMINATI PROGRAMMED 621 THEORY

POSSIBLE FAKE CNN LIVE LEAK FOOTAGE

EVIDENCE OF MEDIA BLACKOUT MILITARY INTERVENTION ?

Possible Hoax or Veiled Scientific Truth ?

The Gulf of Mexico Oil Volcano Event ?

2010-06-08T03:53:00.000-07:00

Why This is Not an Oil Spill but an Oil Volcano !

That Was Then This is Now...?

Jay Weidner's Hyperdimensional Theory

Stock Market - Manipulation, Capitulation or Imagination ?

2010-05-09T18:09:00.000-07:00

THE SKY IS FALLING THE SKY IS FALLING !!! - not sure whats melting down faster the market or this guy describing it live during a webinar !

Watch Jim Cramer manipulate the market live !!!...

Tea Parties and the New Paradigm

2010-04-25T10:17:00.000-07:00

Tea parties are a false opposition designed to indoctrinate people who do not support the government into fomented political agendas within the right / left paradigm using the dreams of hope and change

Originally, the right wing was for those people who supported the Roman Empire(the powers that be) and the left wing was for those who opposed the Empire. So, if you support the Obama administration you would be right wing by the original definition of the terms.

The right / left paradigm was recreated in the 1920s when newer social political schools of thought were being developed. (ie Liberalism,libertarianism,Anarchism)

The left / right government scale was :Left to Right, Anarchy, Libertarian, Liberal, Democracy, Communism, Social dictator, Fascist dictator.

After WWI western leadership needed to create a new paradigm, so they shunned the USSR- style communism which became the new left , (anarchy would obviously never be recognized) and libertarians were just considered practical anarchists.
Most of the the western business world supported the fascist governments in the 1930s(Italy,Germany) because fascism is good for big business. Fascism was not placed on the extreme right until Hitler fell out of favor with the banking elite

Liberals were moderates until the 1950s when the red scare needed more enemies, so they were polarized into practical communists, as democracy was set as the center from both fascism and communism

It is the definition of democracy both falsly as the form of US government(the US is a constitutional republic)and as the most fair type of government that causes a lot of confusion

There is a democratic function in the US congress where each representative of the people gets one vote

However this function does not make the US a democracy:

The US as a republic allows each citizen to choose a representative in the government to best represent their interests. The is the function of congress

US citizens are not represented by the US president, the president is the proctor for the constitution. This is another cause of confusion as US citizens do not vote for the president they vote for representation in the electoral college

Although, the president's role has become that of the ceremonial leader of the US and its policies, these are not provided functions of the republic and its governing constitution

Operationally the US works like a democratic republic, not a constitutional republic, which is why we hear people claim so many actions of the government are unconstitutional

This shift from constitution to democracy has been exicuted at the level of the executive branch of the US government starting in the 1930s(Roosevelt)

Democracy is mob rules. Democracy allows for 51% of the people to take away the rights of 49% of the people

Governments do not grant rights they grant privlidges, which can be taken away at any time. Rights are concepts that are self granted and cannot be taken away only surrendered

Meet the new boss...same as the old boss

Each man is a leader !

INVISIBLE EMPIRE - The New World Order Exposed

2010-04-17T06:51:00.000-07:00

Nice job by Jason Bermas and Alex Jones - This is a great refresher if you are new to this type of information

Argentina - Economic Collapse - 2001

2010-03-30T15:10:00.000-07:00

Documentary on the events that led to the economic collapse of Argentina in 2001 which wiped out the middle class and raised the level of poverty to 57.5%. Central to the collapse was the implementation of neo-liberal policies which enabled the swindle of billions of dollars by foreign banks and corporations. Many of Argentina's assets and resources were shamefully plundered. Its financial system was even used for money laundering by Citibank, Credit Suisse, and JP Morgan. The net result was massive wealth transfers and the impoverishment of society which culminated in many deaths due to oppression and malnutrition.

The Power of Nightmares - Adam Curtis

2010-03-16T04:28:00.000-07:00

How America stopped dreaming and became the the great opressor/savior of the world:

The origins of both Neo Conservatism and islamic radicalism can be traced back to a professor named Leo Strauss who's philosophy was based on the TV shows "Gunsmoke" and "Perry Mason" !

AVATAR - Behind The Themes ?

2010-01-24T06:08:00.000-08:00

Transhumanism is an international intellectual and cultural movement supporting the use of science and technology to improve human mental and physical characteristics and capacities.

Finally saw the audio visual thrill ride that is AVATAR 3D, It is the most 5 sense stunning movie I have ever experienced ! The storyline is classic and it is delivered with passion and sincerity. Some people have complained that the story was not original(true, but what is)There is no such thing as originality everything is borrowed from everything. What makes a great movie is a great story told with passion and delivered with integrity. This is AVATAR !

A few plot holes were easily overlooked like why was Unobtanium so valuable ? ...although anti gravity floating crystal metals should be worth something

During the first battle between the humans and the Na'vi, the Na'vis' arrows failed to penetrate any of the human vehicles' windshields. Yet, during the final battle, the Na'vi arrows successfully penetrate the windshields(We could speculate:This is because the Na'vi started the film not knowing what they were fighting and used standard weapons. In the final battle the Na'vi have worked with Jake to modify their weapons - the arrows and spears are thicker and larger)

More of a general technical criticism of the actual avatar concept:

Why did Netiri and eventual all the people accept Jake as one of the Na'vi when his obvious human genetics were notable by smell? She conveniently forgets or ignores this fact until the humans attack the Hometree. Love I guess or it could be that the Na'vi accepted his spirit more rather than his physical being oh wait that is love !

Now the underlying themes of the movie are questionable:

The movie appears to be a greenie anti military imperialism on the surface, but ultimately the winners were the group(Na'vi) who killed the most members of the other group

There was a 3 minute National Guard infomercial shown before movie

Ultimately the movie advances the the concept of transhumanism

The term "transhumanism" is symbolized by H+ or h+ and is often used as a synonym for "human enhancement".[2] Although the first known use of the term dates from 1957, the contemporary meaning is a product of the 1980s when futurists in the United States began to organize what has since grown into the transhumanist movement. Transhumanist thinkers predict that human beings may eventually be able to transform themselves into beings with such greatly expanded abilities as to merit the label "posthuman".[1] Transhumanism is therefore sometimes referred to as "posthumanism" or a form of transformational activism influenced by posthumanist ideals.[3]

The transhumanist vision of a transformed future humanity has attracted many supporters and detractors from a wide range of perspectives. Transhumanism has been described by one critic, Francis Fukuyama, as the world's most dangerous idea,[4]

AVATAR as predictive programming

This is a video analysis of the movies trailer by an author WeThePeopleWillNotBeChipped.com who did not see the movie,but they do an excellent job in connecting the dots of the undelying themes of AVATAR

George Carlin - God Given Rights ?

2009-12-29T19:31:00.000-08:00

"Rights that can be taken away are not rights, they are privlidges"

COP15 - What We Learned From Copenhagen ?

2009-12-24T05:33:00.001-08:00

CLIMATE CHANGE SKEPTICS OR REALISTS ?

MAX IGAN OUTLINES THE REAL MOTIVES OF CLIMATE CHANGE

PLAN TO BLOCK THE SUN - WTF ???

LORD MONCKTON VERSUS GREENPEACE

What is CLIMATE GATE ? - COPENHAGEN 2009

2009-12-05T08:25:00.000-08:00

Climategate: It Wont Go Away, So Report It!

JON STEWART is covering it ! or is he Spinning it ?

ClimateGate Who's Who

Message to the Environmental Movement - Climategate

Ok, ok maybe AL Gore & Company are making a big deal out of the natural climate cycles of the Earth, but so what ? Its really for a good cause right?? The Green Movement was a grass roots community organization to alert the people about the dangers of rampant consumerism and is anti corporatism right ???

Global Warming Hoax, Planned in 1961

Global Warming, Environmentalism, Genocide & Eugenics
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Call Of Duty- Modern Warfare 2- Programming American Youth ?

2009-11-30T04:43:00.000-08:00

This is the most popular video game in the US, but its the tag line at the end of this airport mission that really spins my conspiracy wheels!

How Obama Got Elected ?

2009-11-18T04:53:00.000-08:00

AYN RAND - The Seperation of Economics & State

2009-11-07T13:21:00.000-08:00

Obama's Zombies Invade NYC Halloween Parade !

2009-11-02T04:36:00.000-08:00

Drink the Kool-aid! Join us as we go among the Zombies to find out why America is blindly following our "Dear Leader". The Village Halloween Parade shows its anti Obama side. Live from Greenwhich Village... Halloween, 2009!

ZOMBIES for OBAMA website

Hey its all in the good fun of HAlloween !

OBAMA Continues to BOMB in the POLLS

2009-10-24T05:31:00.000-07:00

PRINCETON, NJ -- In Gallup Daily tracking that spans Barack Obama's third quarter in office (July 20 through Oct. 19), the president averaged a 53% job approval rating. That is down sharply from his prior quarterly averages, which were both above 60%.

In fact, the 9-point drop in the most recent quarter is the largest Gallup has ever measured for an elected president between the second and third quarters of his term, dating back to 1953. One president who was not elected to his first term -- Harry Truman -- had a 13-point drop between his second and third quarters in office in 1945 and 1946.

The dominant political focus for Obama in the third quarter was the push for healthcare reform, including his nationally televised address to Congress in early September. Obama hoped that Congress would vote on healthcare legislation before its August recess, but that goal was missed, and some members of Congress faced angry constituents at town hall meetings to discuss healthcare reform. Meanwhile, unemployment continued to climb near 10%. The high point of Obama's third quarter may have been his winning of the Nobel Peace Prize during the quarter, which led to a noticeable but very brief bump in support.

Hey Whats up with OBAMA ? Check out this video from Alex Jones make your own decision

Watch the full 2 hour documentary here

CONTROVERSIAL ILLEGAL ALIEN HALLOWEEN COSTUME !

2009-10-18T04:52:00.001-07:00

WTF This is thought control at its most basic level. Do not laugh at a halloween cosume because it may offend someone. Sorry folks but when you live in a free society it includes racists too.

"If we don't believe in freedom of expression for
people we despise, we don't believe in it at all."
-- Noam Chomsky

THE AWAKENING - Max Igan

2009-10-14T16:55:00.000-07:00

Wake Up Sheeple ! - Everything is OK ?

2009-09-30T04:08:00.000-07:00

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
~ Henry David Thoreau

A living man can be enslaved and reduced to the historic condition of an object. But if he dies in refusing to be enslaved, he reaffirms the existence of another kind of human nature which refuses to be classified as an object. -Albert Camus

http://www.youtube.com/user/cveitch

Does the Federal Reserve Manipulate the Market ?

2009-09-26T13:57:00.000-07:00

Rep Alan Grayson grills the general council of the Federal Reserve

Obama's Hope & Change is Bush's Rope & Chains

2009-09-20T05:47:00.000-07:00

Obama plans to renew the Bush Administrations Patriot Act, but don't worry not all of it just the 3 most invasive aspects - WTF !

McCurry Fights the Machine & Wins !

2009-09-09T07:18:00.000-07:00

From the Financial TimesMcDonald’s on Tuesday lost an eight-year legal battle to prevent its Mc prefix being used by a Malaysian curry restaurant, potentially opening the way for other food retailers to borrow the celebrated prefix in the region.

The ruling by Malaysia’s highest court allowing a privately owned Kuala Lumpur restaurant to call itself McCurry is the latest in a 70-year battle to protect the trademark of one of the world’s most famous fast food franchises.

The US-based chain known for its Big Mac hamburgers, Golden Arches logo and Ronald McDonald mascot has aggressively sought to stamp out brand likenesses in other countries to varying levels of success.

Failed attempts include one in Canada to prevent the use of the name McBeans for the sale of coffee and another in the UK seeking to bar the use of the trademark McChina Wok Away.

Scots seek to defend culinary identity - Sep-08Fancy coffee helps boost McDonald's global sales - Aug-11In the mid-nineties McDonald’s stopped a Seattle coffee shop from using the name McCoffee, under which it had operated for 17 years.

“We respect the court’s decision,” McDonald’s said in response to the Malaysian court ruling. “Meanwhile, we will continue to vigorously defend our trademarks and brand around the world, as we always have.”

The federal court ruling closed the legal avenue for McDonald’s, which had argued that McCurry was using the prefix in an attempt to pass itself off as being related to the US chain. McCurry argued through a series of court hearings that its name was short for Malaysian Chicken Curry, a staple dish. The restaurant, which is open 24 hours a day, also serves fish head curry, but not the western fast food associated with McDonald’s.

“It is unfortunate that we have to dismiss the application with costs,” chief judge Ariffin Zakaria said. The court awarded McCurry costs of M$10,000 (US$2,850).

“We feel great that this eight-year legal battle is finally over, and we can now go ahead with whatever we plan to do such as opening new branches,” McCurry owner P. Suppiah told Reuters in Malaysia after the decision.

The court ruling means that McDonald’s can no longer claim the unique use of the prefix Mc in Malaysia, although it does not prevent the company from bringing further cases asserting that food providers are trading on its name or image.
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The Wave - What is a Cult ?

2009-08-30T15:41:00.000-07:00

The Wave (1981) - Based on the real experience of a high school class in Palo Alto, CA in April 1967, whose teacher wanted to explain the rise of the Nazi party to his students.

THE OBAMA HEALTHCARE SIDE SHOW ???

2009-08-22T14:44:00.000-07:00

Right,when we last left our heroes they were shouting moot points about the defending the US constitution against/for the Obama Administration's socialist agenda of universal health care, carbon taxes and hate speech legislation...

Which side are you on ? It doesn't matter if you get ALL your information from the CABLE NEWS COMEDY DECEPTION MACHINE

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart

Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c

Fox News: The New Liberals

www.thedailyshow.com

Daily Show
Full Episodes

Political Humor

Healthcare Protests

left right, left right, left right, left right, I had a good job and I left , right !

Obama is a master of distraction, the left / right paradigm veils the complete corporate(central bank) take over of all the nations(worlds)wealth,"Aw man while we were worrying about socialism they snuck fascism in the back door !"(The results are exactly the same:mass oppression)

What if the BANKING ELITE created OBAMA as a"FEEL GOOD" MARKETING TOOL to further the bankers agenda

Why all the fall out from these three bills:HEALTHCARE,CARBON TAXES & HATESPEECH ? Its because the bankers set up both sides of the argument, they financed the national socialist's agenda and the constitutionalist's agenda, then they direct the synthesis of the two extremes as a socially engineered template for the next generation. This practice is derived from the Hegelian Dialectic or problem(they are attacking the constitution),reaction(public outrage), solution(more oppressive legislation is passed to protect our security)

...BUT WHY DO THEY DO THIS ???

Meanwhile...as you are trying to piece it all together, Goldman Sachs & Friends secretly take over the entire wealth of the world from their hidden lair ! woohoohoohooo hahahahahahahahahahah

GOLDMAN SACHS has made $100 MILLION on 71% and $90 MILLION on 90% of the trading days in 2009,...But wait they only LOST MONEY on 2 trading days!...WOW ! HOW DO THEY DO IT ???

Okay, That's a bit gloomy. So lets cheerup with a little political humor from JOHN CLEESE & DOUG STANHOPE

Extremism

Democracy

The United States is a Constitutional Republic, in a republic nobody(individual or state)can take away your rights. A democracy is "mob rules", where 51% of the people can take the rights of 49% of the people, or a better analogy may be - Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on whats for dinner !

REMEMBER YOUR NATURAL HUMAN RIGHTS ARE NOT GRANTED TO YOU BY ANY GOVERNMENT.The US Constitution only provides for what the government cannot legislate against. YOUR RIGHTS ARE NATURALLY BORN WITH YOU, GRANTED BY YOUR CREATOR AND ARE UNALIENABLE FROM YOU(just check the Declaration of Independence).

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed

YOU CAN ONLY VOLUNTEER TO GIVE UP YOUR RIGHTS, SO ITS REALLY UP TO YOU...GOOD LUCK !

OBAMACARE and The TownHall Radical Mobs !

2009-08-12T03:34:00.000-07:00

GUY BRINGS GUN TO MAKE POINT ABOUT CONSTITUTION !

Try as he might CHRIS MATTHEWS cannot break this guy, who is suprizingly articulate and educated for a man on the street

WE DON'T TRUST YOU !

McCASKILL isn't even smart enough to pretend she didn't hear the question

AWAKENING THE SLEEPING GIANTS

Not sure if this woman is the real deal but she seems to express the sentiment of the country right now
WHO IS THIS MOB ?

Now, these people are the real deal !

OBAMA MAKES THE WRONG ARGUMENT WITH POST OFFICE REFERENCE !

Obama undermines his own argument by referencing that the private curriers UPS & FEDEX are more succesful than the US Post Office

How Goldman Sachs Steals Profits in a Recession

2009-07-18T07:21:00.000-07:00

How does a holding company/investment bank turn billion dollar profits during a recession ?

First - get the US government filled with former(vested)employees

Next - Create and take short positions on a 3rd party deriviative market insured by AIG

Then - Use your government influence to deny your competition, Lehman Brothers and Bear Stearn, any bail out money assistance after the AIG credit swaps are delisted by Moodys causing a market plunge

Next - Use your influence to change the SEC accounting rules for reporting profits

Next - Use your influence to purloin a 20 billion dollar no payback backdoor loan through AIG which you forward to your international banker friends (Credit Swisse)

Then - Use a $10 billion bailout to foment market activity, there by creating a futures environmemt which creates profits from transaction fees and margins gained by your position(High Frequency Trading) as the market maker and fleece all those who trade behind you

Finally - payback your $10 billion bailout loan without any interest.

Ps.- if congress questions your transparancy have Paulson & Bernake threaten total market collapse if any accountability occurs !

JULY 4TH - What Are We Remembering ?

2009-07-04T07:46:00.000-07:00

What is the Declaration of Independence ?

Who were the Signees?

What about Today ?

Jon Stewart - Obamas Lack of Transparency

2009-06-27T12:58:00.000-07:00

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart

Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c

Cheney Predacted

thedailyshow.com

Daily Show
Full Episodes

Political Humor

Jason Jones in Iran

Why does Obama have to be ambiguous about having quit smoking ? Just to prove he can ??

What is OPERATION BLACKJACK ???

2009-06-23T05:23:00.000-07:00

Pyschological Operations(PsiOp) wiki

Historical Account of CIA International Interventions

OBAMA Fires INSPECTOR General Who Busted His AMERICOR Friend ?

2009-06-17T05:05:00.000-07:00

So, The OBAMA Administration is almost able to make it to the middle of June without being exposed as the same "Good Ole Boy" network of cronyism that Obama had campaigned against. Obama is the biggest Psi-OP ever ! Obama was actually the cosponsor of the law that prevents presidents from randomly firing US inspectors who make unfavorable disclosures about friends of the president, in this case former NBA all-Star and current Sacramento mayor KEVIN JOHNSON, who was cold busted misappropriating taxpayer funds for personal use! _WTF !

Why Inspector General Walpin was fired ?

PART TWO

JUDGE NAPOLITANO EXAMINES THE LEGALITY OF THE WALPIN FIRING

WHO IS KEVIN JOHNSON & WHAT IS HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH BARACK OBAMA

KEVIN 'KJ' JOHNSON'S WIKI PAGE

OBAMA'S - 174 MPH Speed Budget ???

2009-06-10T05:27:00.000-07:00

OBAMA - INDEFINITE DETENTION - WTF ?

2009-05-23T04:38:00.000-07:00

Dude, is this that change thing you were talking about ? Pre-crime ? YIKES !!!

BONUS - Clever RNC ad using the famous 1964 LBJ campaign's anti Goldwater spot

FKN NWZ - GLOBAL FEAR FLU PANDEMIC !

2009-04-28T04:30:00.000-07:00

Fear Flu pandemic to be followed by scary cure
Say sex magic puppet masters of earth...

The New World Order Goes Mainstream !

2009-04-05T04:02:00.000-07:00

Coordination of Regulation

Daily Conspiracy Checker !

2009-03-18T03:06:00.000-07:00

A conspiracy theory alleges a coordinated group is, or was, secretly working to commit illegal or wrongful actions, including attempting to hide the existence of the group and its activities. In notable cases these theories contrast what is represented by the mainstream explanation for historical or current events, as well as the evidence that supports it.

Alex Jones - The Obama Deception 2009

2009-03-13T20:44:00.000-07:00

The Obama Deception is a hard-hitting film that completely destroys the myth that Barack Obama is working for the best interests of the American people. The Obama phenomenon is a hoax carefully crafted by the captains of the New World Order.

How does PORK lead to COLLECTIVISM ?

2009-03-08T13:43:00.000-07:00

Its a simple plan of creating dependence on government as an entitlement. The dependence becomes centralized control and entitlement becomes obligation

The original bailout was presented as public money to be used to buy out the bad mortgages. The government would have reset the values on the homes and resold them to responsible people who could afford them.

The banks who were over leveraged would be allowed to fail as well as the individual home owners who were over leveraged would have to give up their houses. Losing a house does not mean you have to live in the street, it means you take the money you were paying to a mortgage and pay it toward rent

The bailout plan was later changed by Paulson after it was approved(RED FLAG). Now the bailout is being used to save banks of choice(BOA & AIG, not Lehman?)

The government usurping the authority of contract law by renegotiating private contracts is what happens in a socialist collective(USSR) not a free republic(USA).

Those people who were easily duped into bad investments(mortages) will be duped again except this time, the people who bailed them out the first time(us), will not have any money left to save anyone !

Wealth is neither created or destroyed it just changes hands. A bear market is just a description of what has already happened.

The market makers pull their wealth out of the market and anyone who trades behind them loses wealth, then they(controlled media) call it a crisis and when people get used to it they call it a bear market

Obama, Brown & Emanuel have all stated that, this crisis was an opportunity,

That is text book Heglian " Problem Reaction Solution" or Order out of Chaos theory in action !

PLEASE USE THE FOLLOWING VIDEOs FOR INFORMATION PURPOSES, TAKE YOUR TIME BOOKMARK AND COME BACK AND DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH AND MAKE YOUR OWN CONCLUSION

All The Best !
Niles Lesh

Why Your Money is Fucked ?

2009-02-28T06:26:00.000-08:00

Ron Paul drops the ultimate TRUTH BOMB !

The main stream media will allow arguments about how to fix the system, but if anyone (RON PAUL) should dare to mention that the system itself is the problem, they are immediately censured !

"This is not going as planned" - Wow the two CNBC anchor look like they just got smacked in the face by letting too much truth get out. They are actually squirming !

Jim Cramer describes the mechanics of the THREE CARD MONTY game we call the stock market !

He just comes right an says it " we took your money because we could " !!!

This is MAX KEISER !

Watch a brilliant animated video on what caused the housing crisis bubble here !

Funniest Depression in Years !

2009-02-25T03:34:00.000-08:00

The upside of a global depression is always the boom of political cartoons !

RON PAUL - What If Americans Knew the Truth ?

2009-02-15T10:11:00.000-08:00

...about money, the federal reserve,the war on terror,the war on drugs,religion...

Obama - Bitch slaps Biden with Pimp Hand !

2009-02-11T05:35:00.000-08:00

Biden's 30% failure rate ?

Obama Bitch Slaps Biden over failure comments

Less Money + Unemployment = Lower prices !

2009-02-08T09:10:00.000-08:00

Its brilliant in its simplicity: Less money equals Less production equals less work equals less employment. Unemployment equals less spending which equals lower prices.
Lower prices equal less profit, less profit equals less production... and viola !

OBAMA - Changes His Mind About Change ?

2009-01-28T04:31:00.001-08:00

"From Their Deeds You Shall Know Them"

They are not even trying to hide it anymore

Come on! How about at least waiting until after they got their man in before announcing the resolution.

It still would have been shady, but at least it would have looked like they thought they we wouldn't notice

Also Obama did not post the "Fair Pay" bill on the Whitehouse website for the required 5 days that he had promised for non-emergency acts, are they fucking serious it was the first bill he signed!!!

OBAMA - Defines Irony For A New Generation ?

2009-01-24T10:10:00.001-08:00

Change we can believe ?

Duplicity ?

Transparency ?

What is Dirty Energy ?

2009-01-21T02:48:00.000-08:00

Why are those curly "eco-friendly" compact fluorescent light bulbs making people sick ?

What is up with 2009 ???

2009-01-04T09:05:00.000-08:00

JAY WEIDNER - Predicts the upcoming financial event that will coincide with the Obama presidential inauguration and launch a global revolution !

Cliff High and the Webbots(a spyder program which tracks all trends of the internet)

Cliff High - Webbot - Predictions for 2009

It's A Wonderful Life ... If Your A Banker !

2008-12-22T04:14:00.001-08:00

Always presented as an American "Christmas Carole". Frank Capra's 1946 classic can now be acknowledged as an "outing" of the international bankers scheme to bankrupt and control the masses. This clip of the "bank run" is frighteningly topical

Fun Facts from Neatorama

• When you see the boys sledding near the beginning of the movie, there’s a lot going on here. First of all, all of them are wearing caps with skull and crossbones. That’s because they all belong to a secret club (boys only, I’m sure). And among the boys there are Ernie and Sam Wainwright. Ernie isn’t ever referenced in the movie, but you know it’s Sam because he gives his “hee haw” sign. Also, if you look close, you’ll see that they are trespassing on old man Potter’s territory. In an earlier version of the script, Potter let his attack dogs loose (”Smithers, release the hounds.”) on the boys, and when they started running, Harry fell through the ice.

The FBI investigated Frank Capra as a possible communist infiltrator

How The Bailouts will blow out the US economy ?

2008-12-15T03:09:00.000-08:00

The Bailouts are a transfer of wealth from American tax payers to private industry. This is nationalization. The Fed has declared itself the central planning office of the US economy. The $15 billion Auto Bailouts are just a public diversion from the $8 trillion financial bailouts !

RON PAUL EXPLAINS HOW THE BAILOUT IS UNAMERICAN NATIONALIZATION OF INDUSTRY

JIM RODGERS & PETER SCHIFF ON THE DAMAGE OF BAILOUTS

WHY THE BAILOUTS HELP NO ONE

PEARL HARBOR - The FDR Conspiracy ?

2008-12-07T09:47:00.000-08:00

"...everything that the Japanese were planning to do was known to the United States..." ARMY BOARD, 1944

President Roosevelt (FDR) provoked the attack, knew about it in advance and covered up his failure to warn the Hawaiian commanders. FDR needed the attack to sucker Hitler to declare war, since the public and Congress were overwhelmingly against entering the war in Europe. It was his backdoor to war. Read entire story here

TOP 10 FALSE FLAG OPERATIONS IN HISTORY

America 2009 - WTF is Happening ???

2008-11-29T14:26:00.001-08:00

The Obama Presidency is the ultimate mind control ritual:

The Presidential oath is "to uphold & defend the US Constitution", that is it end of job description!

CURRENT LIST OF OBAMA PROMISES
Full Health Care for All
An Army of Teachers
Free College
Free Broadband
Free Preschool
Government Guaranteed Pensions
Lower Food Costs
Bipartisan Washington
Energy Independence
No Carbon emissions on Coal Plants
World Wide Unity and Peace
Huge Increases in American Jobs
A Richer Middle Class
<>Ocean Levels Lowering
Drivers licenses for illegal Aliens
Civilian National Security Force
Freedom of Choice Act (Partial Birth Abortion)
$9.50 Minimum Wage
Kindergarden Sex Ed

OBAMA has convinced the American voter that he will eliminate special interest lobbying and he will instead help the little guy by running an accountable transparent presidency.

But, he collected $700,000,000 in campaign funds from somebody who wants some favors.

Obama has taken $1,180,103 from the top issuers of subprime loans: Obama received $266,907 from Lehman, $5395 from GMAC, $150,850 from Credit Suisse First Boston, $11,250 from Countrywide, $9052 from Washington Mutual, $161,850 from Citigroup, $4600 from CBASS, $170,050 from Morgan Stanley, $1150 from Centex, and last but certainly NOT LEAST - Obama received $351,900 from Goldman Sachs.

What about special interest groups like ACORN, who are they and why should we care ?

Wait a minute why didn't I hear about any of this before the election ?

How Obama Got Elected Website

The Men Who Are Behind Obama

Part 2

Don't worry OBAMA has a plan - SENATE BILL S. 2433 THE GLOBAL POVERTY ACT

Real Estate Downfall of the Third Reich ?

2008-11-21T04:32:00.000-08:00

Hitler learns a hard lesson about trusting people during the real estate bubble in this awesome spoof !

Gerald Celente - Christmas in the New Economy ?

2008-11-17T04:35:00.000-08:00

All I want for Christmas is the death of the retail markets ? or how this year's retail market collapse could bring the return of the true Christmas Spirit

GERALD CELENTE - ECONOMIC TRENDS ANALYST - Code Red for the US economy ?

Whats bad for Wall Street is good for Main Street. So, the financial sector's failure will open opportunities for local entrepreneurs outside of the retail banking sectors !

PART 2

RON PAUL ON THE NEW WORLD CURRENCY

President Obama to Spread the Wealth ?

2008-11-12T04:02:00.000-08:00

Why taxation(socialism)cannot solve the economic crisis

WHAT NOW FOR OBAMA SUPPORTERS ???

2008-11-08T08:38:00.000-08:00

Welcome to OBAMANATION would you like fries with that ?

Barack Hussein Obama - Yes, He did !

2008-11-05T03:01:00.000-08:00

Be careful what you wish for because you might just get it !

What does Ron Paul think of out 44th president ?

Mayor Rothschilds: I care not what fool sits on the throne, whoever controls the money, controls England.

J-Dobb says :

Well, time to drop out of school and skip Grad school if you are thinking about it.

Now that they are looking to go after anyone making over 120K or 150K - there is no motivation to go into 6 figure debt only to get screwed for actually paying attention in class and over-achieving. I think i will go play guitar hero and get high like everyone else in college.

Watch idiocracy and eat brownies HERE I COME!!!

WHY OBAMA = McCAIN = THE SAME THING ?

2008-11-02T04:48:00.000-08:00

Why the two candidates pretend to argue about moot points like taxes,education & health care,while they project the same agenda on the war on (psuedo)terror & homeland(fatherland?) security

What this way comes ?

Civilian National Security Force ???

JOE BIDEN - Obama & The Coming Event ?

2008-10-25T11:37:00.000-07:00

VP guarantees a generated crisis after the election - WTF!

"And here's the point I want to make. Mark my words. Mark my words. It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. The world is looking. We're about to elect a brilliant 47-year old senator president of the United States of America. Remember I said it standing here if you don't remember anything else I said. Watch, we're gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy. And he's gonna have to make some really tough - I don't know what the decision's gonna be, but I promise you it will occur. As a student of history and having served with seven presidents, I guarantee you it's gonna happen. I can give you at least four or five scenarios from where it might originate. And he's gonna need help. And the kind of help he's gonna need is, he's gonna need you, not financially to help him, we're gonna need you to use your influence, your influence within the community, to stand with him. Because it's not gonna be apparent initially, it's not gonna be apparent that we're right. Because all these decisions, all these decisions, once they're made if they work, then they weren't viewed as a crisis. If they don't work, it's viewed as you didn't make the right decision, a little bit like how we hesitated so long dealing with Bosnia and dealing with Kosovo, and consequently 200,000 people lost their lives that maybe didn't have to lose lives. It's how we made a mistake in Iraq. We made a mistake in Somalia. So there's gonna be some tough decisions. They may emanate from the Middle East. They may emanate from the sub-continent. They may emanate from Russia's newly-emboldened position because they're floating in a sea of oil."

READ THE ENTIRE TRANSCRIPT AT THE CHICAGO SUN TIMES WEBSITE

The US Election Is a Joke - Seriously !

2008-10-19T07:29:00.000-07:00

The Al Smith Memorial Dinner in NYC reveals the US Election Program. These guys just play two different parts from the same script. The Al Smith Memorial Dinner is two weeks before the US Presidential Election in NYC. It features both candidates making light of each other. However under closer scrutiny it is an aggressive disinformation operation which weakens any serious challenges to the character or qualification of either candidate.This event distracts attention from the policies or agendas that the next president may implement. It also brings into question the influence of the Vatican on official US policy.

...of course on the brighter side these guy got off some great jokes !

John McCain - The Al Smith Memorial Dinner Speech

Barack Obama - The Al Smith Memorial Dinner Speech

The Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner is an annual charity fund raiser for Catholic Charities. It is organized by the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation in honor of former New York Governor Al Smith, the first Catholic presidential candidate. The first dinner was in 1945, the year after Al Smith's death. The 2008 dinner raised $3.9 million.[1]In recent years the candidates have traditionally given humorous speeches.

Special bonus - Sarah Palin on SNL The practice of the candidates appearing on a comedy skit show like SNl helps blur the line between what are the policies of the campaigns and what is a twisted joke !

A more Esoteric level here

Bail Out Bill Effectively Ends the US as a Constitutional Republic

2008-10-15T12:15:00.001-07:00

President Bush, in introducing the plan, described the interventions as "limited and temporary."

"These measures are not intended to take over the free market but to preserve it," Bush said.

And in offices around the country, bankers simmered.

Peter Fitzgerald, chairman of Chain Bridge Bank in McLean, said he was "much chagrined that we will be punished for behaving prudently by now having to face reckless competitors who all of a sudden are subsidized by the federal government."

At Evergreen Federal Bank in Grants Pass, Ore., chief executive Brady Adams said he has more than 2,000 loans outstanding and only three borrowers behind on payments. "We don't need a bailout, and if other banks had run their banks like we ran our bank, they wouldn't have needed a bailout, either," Adams said.

The opposition suggested that the government may have to continue to press banks to participate in the plan. The first $125 billion will be divided among nine of the largest U.S. banks, which were forced to accept the investment to help destigmatize the program in the eyes of other institutions.

"I'm not sure we've heard from any that want to participate," said Karen Thomas, vice president for government relations at the community bankers group, which represents about 5,000 banks. "That said, if any community banks do enroll, we anticipate it will be just a small minority."

Federal regulators said they did expect some banks to volunteer, though none stepped forward yesterday. But they added that they would not rely on volunteers. Treasury will set standards for deciding which banks can be helped, and the regulatory agencies will triage the banks they oversee: The institutions faring best and worst will not receive investments. The institutions in the middle, whose fortunes could be improved by putting a little more money in the bank, will be pushed to accept the money from the government.

Also yesterday, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. said it will create, essentially, two new insurance programs.

The basic insurance program still guarantees all bank deposits up to $250,000. A new supplemental program guarantees all deposits above $250,000 in accounts that don't pay interest. The program basically covers accounts used by small businesses.

Separately, the FDIC is creating an insurance program to encourage investment in banks by guaranteeing that investors won't lose money. Participating banks will pay the FDIC a fee of 75 cents on each $100 in debt that they sell to investors. The FDIC will guarantee through June 2012 the debt issued by participating banks before the end of June 2009. If the bank goes bankrupt, or defaults on its debt, the FDIC will pay the investors. from the Washington Post

The All American Coup ?

2008-10-09T05:35:00.000-07:00

Interview with Naomi Wolf author of "Give Me Liberty: A Handbook for American Revolutionaries" given October 4, 2008 on Mind Over Matters, KEXP 90.3 FM Seattle.

Watch the talk by Naomi Wolf on "The End of America"

WHAT IS MARSHALL LAW ?

ARREST THEM ALL AND LET GOD(COURTS) SORT THEM OUT
!

MAX KEISER and the US Economic Future

MAX KEISER on GOLDMAN SACH & HANK PAULSON'S Hi Jack of the US Economy

HAL TURNER on What This Way May Come ?

BAIL OUT SCAM PASSES UNDER THREAT OF MARSHALL LAW ?

2008-10-04T05:36:00.000-07:00

Economics 101- You cannot solve a debt crisis with more debt !

It's like you are with a friend at a casino, your friend loses all his money then threatens you with violence unless you give him your credit card for cash advance !

REP BRAD SHERMAN EXPOSES AGENDA

How much bribe money does it take to transfer $700 Billion taxpayer dollars to Wall Street's elite?

GOLDMAN SACHS CONTRIBUTIONS:
Obama, Barack (D-IL) $691,930
Clinton, Hillary (D-NY) $468,200
Romney, Mitt (R) $229,675
McCain, John (R-AZ) $208,395
Himes, Jim (D-CT) $114,748
Giuliani, Rudolph W (R) $111,750
Dodd, Christopher J (D-CT) $105,400
Edwards, John (D) $66,450
Specter, Arlen (R-PA) $47,600
Emanuel, Rahm (D-IL) $32,950
Reed, Jack (D-RI) $30,100

How much money did your Represenative get from Big Bankers to look the other way and pass a bill that the American people clearly do not want?

SEE THE FULL STORY AT THE MARKET TICKER.COM

WHAT HAS CHANGED BECAUSE OF THE PASSING OF THIS BILL ?

HOW COME RON PAUL IS THE ONLY POLITICIAN THAT "GETS" THIS POINT ?

CSPANJUNKIE.ORG

WHAT DOES JIM ROGERSTHINK ABOUT THE FUTURE OF THE USA /DOLLAR ?

I agree with Jim Rogers on most points other than he suggests trusting the central banks of England and China, who are also in on the deal. He is a partner with George Soros so he's part of the Fabian opposition whether he knows it or not, however his views on the dollar are dead on !

LISTEN TO A GREAT DISCUSSION

Bailout & Financial Turmoil

Investment adviser Catherine Austin Fitts was joined by financial commentators Bill Murphy (2nd hour) and Andy Gause (3rd hour) to discuss the current state of the economy, bailouts, and how fraud and manipulation are at the root of our financial turmoil.

We've been draining value out of the real economy, and the proposed bailout will just funnel investments into propping up the bubble, said Fitts, suggesting that the plan will actually send money from Main St. to Wall St., instead of the reverse. What's going on with the bailout is more than theft, "it's a coup détat" -a "reengineering of government institutions," she declared. Fitts has listed 10 reasons not to bail out Wall Street in her recent blog entry.

Murphy, who's done extensive research to show the price of gold has been suppressed and manipulated, commented that the free market process has been thwarted in the US. Gause metaphorically described the huge amount of debt as "radioactive and toxic." This pool of mortgages has been changed at the atomic level and can't be put back together-- it can only be taken out to a field and covered with a tarp, he opined. In the last hour, Fitts took calls from 'sound off' listeners.

WALL STREET "BAIL OUT" PROTEST !

2008-09-27T07:13:00.000-07:00

The Bailout is a Ponzi "pyramid scheme" designed to give the billionaires who created the bad debt crisis all their money back so they can re-diversify into EUROS and other foreign currencies.

It is could possibly be part of a grander scheme to remove the USA/DOLLAR as the "World Reserve Standard", paving the way for a world currency (ie a New World Order

What does Rep McDermott think ?

What does Rep Kaptur Think?

Why should American taxpayers give US Treasury Secretary "Hank" Paulson a blank check to bail out the shareholders of busted banks? Why should the Treasury turn itself into a toxic waste dump for their bad loans? Why not let other banks join the unlamented Brothers Lehman in bankruptcy court, and start a new bank with taxpayers' money? Or have the Treasury pay interest on delinquent mortgages, and make them whole? Even better, why not let the Chinese, or the Saudis or other foreign investors take control of failed American banks? They've got the money, and they gladly would pay a premium for an inside seat at the American table.

READ THE FULL STORY @ ASIA TIMES.COM

ARNOLD KLING FROM THE ECONBLOG EXPLAINS THE REALITY OF THE BAILOUT

ECONOMIST MICHAEL HUDSON describes the bailout as a "Once in a Century Ripoff"

Great Discussion on REDDIT here

The World Wide Economic game of GO ?

2008-09-21T08:11:00.000-07:00

The current economy is like the Chinese game of GO. The out come has already been decided (we lose) the game continues to the delight of the winner only to recruit more players and extend the game or as the Architect from THE MATRIX movie stated "...to perpetually delay the inevitable"

Ron Paul explains the current derivative market enslaves(forces their play) the children of the future

Speaking of Scams - Lehman Brothers & Derivative Market -$455 Trillion Swindle

2008-09-14T18:37:00.000-07:00

WTF- its legal for the hedge fund houses to reduce their exposure when the rest of the market cannot, so long retirement accounts

Original Article
A rare emergency trading session opened Sunday afternoon to allow Wall Street dealers in the $455 trillion derivatives market reduce their exposure to a potential bankruptcy filing by Lehman Brothers.

U.S. regulators and bankers were making last-ditch efforts on Sunday to prevent toxic assets from ailing Lehman Brothers (LEH.N) spilling into global markets and rupturing investor faith in the international financial system.

"This is an extremely, and I stress extremely, rare event. It also speaks to the more general notion that, in today's highly disrupted financial markets, the unthinkable is thinkable," said Mohamed El-Erian, the chief executive of Pimco, the world's biggest bond fund, based in Newport Beach, California.

The session opened at 2 p.m. and was due to run until 4 p.m. New York time (1800 to 2000 GMT), according to the International Swaps and Derivatives Association. See text . ISDA later extended it for another two hours.

Trading involved credit, equity, rates, foreign exchange and commodity derivatives. ISDA confirmed a "netting trading session" was taking place for over-the-counter derivatives, in which trades that offset each other are settled.

ISDA estimates the OTC derivatives market excluding commodities has a value of $455 trillion.

Market sources said the special session was initiated by the Federal Reserve.

The aim is to reduce risk associated with a potential bankruptcy filing by Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.

"Trades are contingent on a bankruptcy filing at or before 11:59 p.m. New York time Sunday (0359 GMT)," said the statement. "If there is no filing, the trades cease to exist."

Britain's Barclays Plc (BARC.L), which had appeared to be the frontrunner to take over Lehman -- excluding its bad mortgage-related assets -- pulled out of the bidding early in the afternoon, according to a person familiar with the matter.

That raised the risk of a Lehman bankruptcy. Lehman hired law firm Weil Gotshal & Manges to prepare a potential bankruptcy filing, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday in its online edition, citing a person familiar with the matter.

The special session "is a way to offset the risk between the remaining large banks and insurance companies and fund managers prior to the markets opening in Asia," said Mark Grant, managing director of structured finance at Southwest Securities, based in Dallas.

Grant is expecting a turbulent session when the U.S. markets reopen for business on Monday.

"No one has any idea about the credit quality of the assets in Lehman's portfolio and no one has a handle about the size of the CDS contracts," he said.

"The market is going to be spooked. People will be fearful and no one outside a very small group of people knows what Lehman going into liquidation will mean."

If there is a forced sale or liquidation, "this could set off another round of writedowns globally."

Oh boy I can't wait for the new economy after this one crashes. You can only put so much lipstick on this pig !

RON PAUL - The Two Party System is a Scam !

2008-09-12T03:35:00.000-07:00

RON PAUL urges voters to petition the debate commission to include the other candidates in the presidential debates.

RON PAUL DESCRIBES IN DETAIL THE SHAM THAT IS THE TWO PARTY SYSTEM

RON PAUL & RALPH NADER DISSECT THE TWO PARTY SYSTEM & THE PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE BIAS

RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE at the RNC

2008-09-09T04:50:00.000-07:00

After their attempt to take the stage was stopped by police, Rage Against the Machine took to the crowd with an acapella performance. Armed with only a megaphone, and thousands of fans, RATM played a 10min acapella set of Bulls on Parade and Killing in the Name of. Check out www.above-thefold.com for exclusive coverage.

I think that Zack De Lahoya & Tom Morrelo have the right intentions, but this is a really display of the kind of "crowd mentality" that fuels the current system. ALEX JONES does a brilliant job (in the below clip) of describing how the two party system is just a game to further a single agenda

PANOPTICON - The Perfect Prision

2008-09-01T05:10:00.000-07:00

This review of the merits of National ID is from the documentary "TAKING LIBERTIES"

What is a PANOPTICON ?

CASE - SCHILLER Graph Exposes Housing Bubble

2008-08-22T11:14:00.001-07:00

A recent study from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has zero credibility. It pegged likely taxpayer losses in the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac bailouts at $25 billion. For those with a sense of history, it is worth remembering that the S&L bailout had a $160 billion price tag. The numbers diverge so far from reality as to be laugh-out-loud funny. Funny, that is, except that the CBO estimate demonstrates a willful disconnect with the actual consequences of federal government actions.

As demonstrated below, the real cost of the bailouts will easily exceed $1.3 trillion. In fact, the real cost is likely to range between $1.3 trillion to $1.6 trillion, and is not unlikely to reach $2.5 trillion.

Between 2001 and 2007, Fannie and Freddie purchased or guaranteed $700 billion of Alt-A and subprime loans. Given the default rates on these loans — and the fact that the price of the housing that is the ultimate security of the loans will, for reasons demonstrated below, fall by at least thirty percent — this alone implies a loss for Fannie and Freddie on the order of $210 billion.

Fannie and Freddie acknowledge already-impaired loans on the balance sheet of $19 billion, which they have used creative accounting to avoid deleting from the shareholder equity account. This means that Fannie and Freddie have a maximum of $64 billion in capital remaining.

Given the inevitable losses on the Alt-A/subprime portion of their portfolio, it must be the case that if the federal government, as it is doing, guarantees Fannie and Freddie's solvency, the difference between the loss and the capital to be made up by the government (i.e., the taxpayers) must equal, not $25 billion but $147 billion.

That alone would mean that the CBO is blowing smoke with their estimated cost figures, and if you think back to the S&L cost of $160 billion, this is not a surprising result. The real picture is so much worse that it is pretty obvious the CBO is flat out inventing figures just to get the politicians through November.

The real story is simple. We have witnessed the largest asset-price bubble in US history, making the tech-stock bubble seem like an overdone weekly rally.

When you look at the graph of the Case-Shiller residential real-estate index, an index dating from 1890 to the present and an index which measures the cost of housing in comparison to other goods, the first thing you see is that the 2001 to 2006 bubble stands out like a fifty foot saguaro cactus in a patch of daisies. There simply has never been anything like it before.

GET THE FULL STORY FROM GOOD OLE MISES.ORG

Baracky II - The Presidential Race

2008-08-20T05:48:00.000-07:00

glumbert - Baracky II

This is a perfect context for the Hollywood inspired campaigns of McCain and Obama

A WORDIE Profile of the McCain & Obama Blogs

2008-08-15T12:00:00.000-07:00

from John Schwenkler's blog

Click the image to make larger

It is kind of weird that both McCain's and Obama's blogs have OBAMA as the most prominent word featured !

Why is the John Edwards Affair the Top News story ?

2008-08-09T08:43:00.000-07:00

FROM MICHAEL RIVERO OF WHAT REALLY HAPPENED

Okay, now I don't really give a flying foxtrot uniform charlie kilo about John Edwards. But ABCNNBBCBS is running this all over the place like it is the hot story of the year.

Folks, you are being CONDITIZED!

Back in early 2001, when the US Government was already informing other governments of plans to invade Afghanistan in October 2001, the corporate media had turned the sordid tale of Gary Condit and Chandra Levy into the one and only story for the TV sets of America. There were very few reports of the war being planned for Afghanistan, so when the invasion actually happened, right after the convenient events of 9-11 angered America into a war-fever, it was a surprise to nobody bu the American people.

Well, here we are again. The TV sets are tossing John Edwards' love-child right into our faces non-stop, with only the briefest of pauses to shout "RUSSIA INVADES!" so it doesn't look like they are hiding anything from you.

But think. The fact that John Edwards knocked up his mistress is not something that actually affects your life in any material way. It's tabloid scandal at best, yet to ABCNNBBCBS, this is the important news to shove at you. But the outbreak of war gets barely an insert and a screen crawl, and those are actually lies! Russia did NOT invade. The initiating event was the shelling of a Russian installation, presumably by the Georgians, but in fact we really do not know.

But a real war with Russia does affect your life in very material ways. The US is already at economic death's door from the existing wars. Once again we see Israel working to kick off a war they will expect our sons and daughters to clean up.

And the other side actually has nuclear and biological weapons of mass destruction, and faces an enemy they already know has the willingness to use such weapons unless preemptively attacked.
FOX NEWS SPINS THE EDWARDS STORY OVER THE RUSSIAN - GEORGIAN WAR

MAINSTREAM NEWS RELEASE OF EDWARDS STORY

...ALSO MISSING FROM THE NEWS IMPENDING DEMAND FOR IMPEACHMENT

Influencial Presidential Speeches - GW Bush

2008-08-04T04:40:00.001-07:00

Army recruiters threaten high school students

2008-07-30T05:19:00.000-07:00

Watch video on KHUO-TV

HOUSTON -- With a war in Iraq and fighting on the rise in Afghanistan, the struggle to bring in new U.S. Army recruits is heating up again.

And Irving Gonzales, 18, got caught up in it all.

As his family’s oldest male, he feels he has to do whatever it takes to help out his single mom. For him, that means working long hours at his after-school job.

“My mom was left struggling. I would give her more than half my paycheck,” Gonzales said.

That’s why the Aldine High School senior started thinking about the Army – and the tens of thousands of dollars in bonuses that can come with enlistment.

“They were offering me school, they were offering me bonuses,” he said.

So Gonzales signed up – but only to “pre-enlist” in the Delayed Entry Program. DEP allows kids to try out the military without a binding commitment.

But the 11 News Defenders have found there is a problem: Army recruiters aren’t sticking to the program and are bullying and even lying to potential recruits and their families to keep them from dropping out.

After he had a change of heart, Gonzalez became one such victim.

“I’d rather just stay here, go to college,” he said he told his recruiter.

The reaction: Gonzalez said a recruiter told him if he did drop out, they would send him to jail.

Scared, Gonzales called Sgt. Glenn Marquette, a supervisor at the Greenspoint Recruiting Station.

Marquette told Gonzales there was no way out.

“You signed a binding contract,” he said.

But that wasn’t true.

Army recruiting regulations say delayed entry members can leave any time. They specifically mention “under no circumstances will any (recruiter) threaten, coerce, manipulate, or intimidate (future soldiers), nor may they obstruct separation requests.”

Further, they state: “At no time will any (recruiter) tell a (Delayed Entry Program) member he or she must go in the Army or he or she will go to jail.”

But when Gonzales asked Marquette what would happen if he just didn’t show up for service, a phone recording captured this reply:

“Then guess what?” said Marquette. “You’re AWOL. Absent without leave. You want to go to school? You will not get no loans, because all college loans are federal and government loans. So you’ll be black barred from that. As soon as you get pulled over for a speeding ticket, they’re gonna see you’re a deserter, they’re going to apprehend you, take you to jail.”

Marquette continued: “So guess what? All that lovey-dovey 'I wanna go to college' and all that? Guess what? You just threw it out the window, because you just screwed your life.”

Eric Martinez, 17, is another young recruit who changed his mind.

“They make it seem there’s no way out,” his mother said.

Martinez said the nearby National Cemetery constantly reminds him – and his mother – of the risks and horrors of war.

“She tells me about the stories that happen in Iraq. Some people kill themselves or get shot,” Martinez said.

But when Martinez told that to the recruiter the Army assigned to him, he said he too was threatened.

Then his mother decided to intervene. But when she spoke to the Greenspoint Recruiting Station, they told her, too, that Martinez would be AWOL and go to jail if he didn’t show up for service.

This isn’t the first time the 11 News Defenders have found these sorts of problems -- and at the VERY SAME recruiting station location.

Three years ago in May of 2005, we found that another recruiter from that station, a Sgt. Thomas Kelt, had left this phone message to a high school student. This time the issue was simply keeping an appointment to talk:

“By federal law you got an appointment with me at two this afternoon at Greenspoint Mall,” Kelt told him. “OK? You fail to appear and we’ll have a warrant, OK? So give me a call back.”

Our investigation into that call led to the Army announcing a national stand-down so all of its recruiters could re-examine their methods and regulations.

But just two months later, 11 News found that instead of punishing Sgt. Kelt, the Army had promoted him to the role of station commander at a neighboring recruiting station. That meant he would supervise and train other recruiters on how to do the job.

(And today? the Army confirms Sgt. Kelt still holds that supervisory position, but has since been transferred out of Texas.)

So we caught up with Sgt. Marquette to ask about these latest incidents.

11 News: “I just want to know why you’re telling young recruits they’ll go to jail if they want out of the Delayed Entry Program.”

Marquette: “What are you talking about?”

11 News: “We’d just like to know why you’re telling them that.”

Marquette: “I’m on vacation right now. I really don’t want to be bothered!”

Congressman Ted Poe believes there is an ongoing problem with recruiters.

“We don’t want the government, military, the Army, deceiving American citizens,” Poe said.

Poe speaks from the position of a veteran himself who recently visited Iraq with the Army.

SCOTT McCELLAN - White House Fed FoxNews Talkingpoints

2008-07-26T16:42:00.000-07:00

Ex-White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan exposed Fox News as a propaganda tool for the White House on Chris Mathews Hardball.

Fox in the White House: It is one of those things you kind of assume to be true all along... and yet are shocked when hard confirmation actually comes. Our fourth story tonight, from the former White House press secretary himself, word that the Bush White House routinely sent--and as far as we know, still sends-- literal talking points to Fox News for its primetime propagandists, Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity and others... to spout, as if ventriloquist dummies, as if they had thought of it themselves, as if they had come to those opinions independently, as if there had been a process either fair... or balanced.

What is the 4th Amendment ? (HR6304 UPDATE)

2008-07-14T05:27:00.000-07:00

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

On July 9, 2008, 69 members of the U.S. Senate voted to abolish the 4th amendment and protect the President of the United States and his friends from illegal activities perpetrated upon the people of the United States in direct violation of the United States Constitution.

28 Senators voted NO. This is what some of them had to say about HR 6304.

WHY THE CONTROVERSY ?
from Wikipedia

The NSA warrantless surveillance controversy concerns surveillance of persons within the United States incident to the collection of foreign intelligence by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) as part of the war on terror. Under this program, referred to by the Bush administration as the "terrorist surveillance program",[1] the NSA is authorized by executive order to monitor, without warrants, phone calls, e-mails, Internet activity, and text messaging, and other communication involving any party believed by the NSA to be outside the U.S., even if the other end of the communication lies within the U.S. The exact scope of the program is not known, but the NSA is or was provided total, unsupervised access to all fiber-optic communications going between some of the nation's major telecommunication companies' major interconnect locations, including phone conversations, email, web browsing, and corporate "private network" traffic. Shortly before Congress passed a new law in August of 2007 that legalized warrantless surveillance, the Protect America Act of 2007, critics stated that such "domestic" intercepts required FISC authorization under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act,[2]. The Bush administration maintains that the authorized intercepts are not domestic but rather "foreign intelligence" integral to the conduct of war and that the warrant requirements of FISA were implicitly superseded by the subsequent passage of the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Terrorists (AUMF).[3]

Attorney General Alberto Gonzales confirmed the existence of the program, first reported in a December 16, 2005 article in The New York Times[4][5]. The Times had posted the exclusive story on their website the night before, after learning that the Bush administration was considering seeking a Pentagon Papers-style court injunction to block its publication.[6] Gonzales stated that the program authorizes warrantless intercepts where the government "has a reasonable basis to conclude that one party to the communication is a member of al Qaeda, affiliated with al Qaeda, or a member of an organization affiliated with al Qaeda, or working in support of al Qaeda." and that one party to the conversation is "outside of the United States".[7] The revelation raised immediate concern among elected officials, civil right activists, legal scholars and the public at large about the legality and constitutionality of the program and the potential for abuse. Since then, the controversy[8] has expanded to include the press's role in exposing a classified program, the role and responsibility of Congress in its executive oversight function and the scope and extent of Presidential powers under Article II of the Constitution.

Washington your fired website

Daniel Ellsberg"Pentagon Papers" on the FISA bill

HISTORY OF 4TH AMENDMENT CHALLENGES

What does it all mean to me ?

If the NSA under the authority of the President even suspects that you(American citizen) has any association with any person who may have any association with any person who may be considered a national security threat, then you can(will) be subject to a FISA warrant to surveillance via the telecommuniction companies(phone internet,text)

Watch CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS get waterboarded

2008-07-07T06:17:00.000-07:00

WHY IS THE 5TH AMENDMENT IMPORTANT

2008-06-21T20:52:00.000-07:00

EVERYTHING you say to the police will be used against you, but NOTHING you say can be legally used for your defense ???

Part 2 - The Cops side

TOP TEN THINGS NOT TO DO WHEN ARRESTED

NO MORE INTERNET BY 2012 ?

2008-06-15T05:49:00.000-07:00

ISP's have resolved to restrict the Internet to a TV-like subscription model where users will be forced to pay to visit selected corporate websites by 2012, while others will be blocked, according to a leaked report. Despite some people dismissing the story as a hoax, the wider plan to kill the traditional Internet and replace it with a regulated and controlled Internet 2 is manifestly provable.

"Bell Canada and TELUS (formerly owned by Verizon) employees officially confirm that by 2012 ISP's all over the globe will reduce Internet access to a TV-like subscription model, only offering access to a small standard amount of commercial sites and require extra fees for every other site you visit. These 'other' sites would then lose all their exposure and eventually shut down, resulting in what could be seen as the end of the Internet," warns a report that has spread like wildfire across the web over the last few days.

The article, which is accompanied by a You Tube clip, states that Time Magazine writer "Dylan Pattyn" has confirmed the information and is about to release a story - and that the move to effectively shut down the web could come as soon as 2010.

People have raised questions about the report's accuracy because the claims are not backed by another source, only the "promise" that a Time Magazine report is set to confirm the rumor. Until such a report emerges many have reserved judgment or outright dismissed the story as a hoax.

What is documented, as the story underscores, is the fact that TELUS' wireless web package allows only restricted pay-per-view access to a selection of corporate and news websites. This is the model that the post-2012 Internet would be based on.

People have noted that the authors of the video seem to be more concerned about getting people to subscribe to their You Tube account than fighting for net neutrality by prominently featuring an attractive woman who isn't shy about showing her cleavage. The vast majority of the other You Tube videos hosted on the same account consist of bizarre avante-garde satire skits on behalf of the same people featured in the Internet freedom clip. This has prompted many to suspect that the Internet story is merely a stunt to draw attention to the group.

Whether the report is accurate or merely a crude hoax, there is a very real agenda to restrict, regulate and suffocate the free use of the Internet and we have been documenting its progression for years.

The first steps in a move to charge for every e mail sent have already been taken. Under the pretext of eliminating spam, Bill Gates and other industry chieftains have proposed Internet users buy credit stamps which denote how many e mails they will be able to send. This of course is the death knell for political newsletters and mailing lists.

The New York Times reported that "America Online and Yahoo, two of the world's largest providers of e-mail accounts, are about to start using a system that gives preferential treatment to messages from companies that pay from 1/4 of a cent to a penny each to have them delivered. The senders must promise to contact only people who have agreed to receive their messages, or risk being blocked entirely."

The first wave will simply attempt to price people out of using the conventional Internet and force people over to Internet 2, a state regulated hub where permission will need to be obtained directly from an FCC or government bureau to set up a website.

The original Internet will then be turned into a mass surveillance database and marketing tool. The Nation magazine reported in 2006 that, "Verizon, Comcast, Bell South and other communications giants are developing strategies that would track and store information on our every move in cyberspace in a vast data-collection and marketing system, the scope of which could rival the National Security Agency. According to white papers now being circulated in the cable, telephone and telecommunications industries, those with the deepest pockets--corporations, special-interest groups and major advertisers--would get preferred treatment. Content from these providers would have first priority on our computer and television screens, while information seen as undesirable, such as peer-to-peer communications, could be relegated to a slow lane or simply shut out."

Over the past few years, a chorus of propaganda intended to demonize the Internet and further lead it down a path of strict control has spewed forth from numerous establishment organs:

* Time magazine reported last year that researchers funded by the federal government want to shut down the internet and start over, citing the fact that at the moment there are loopholes in the system whereby users cannot be tracked and traced all the time.
The projects echo moves we have previously reported on to clamp down on internet neutrality and even to designate a new form of the internet known as Internet 2.

* In a display of bi-partisanship, there have recently been calls for all out mandatory ISP snooping on all US citizens by both Democrats and Republicans alike.

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The White House's own recently de-classified strategy for "winning the war on terror" targets Internet conspiracy theories as a recruiting ground for terrorists and threatens to "diminish" their influence.

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The Pentagon recently announced its effort to infiltrate the Internet and propagandize for the war on terror.

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In a speech last October, Homeland Security director Michael Chertoff identified the web as a "terror training camp," through which "disaffected people living in the United States" are developing "radical ideologies and potentially violent skills." His solution is "intelligence fusion centers," staffed by Homeland Security personnel which will go into operation next year.

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The U.S. Government wants to force bloggers and online grassroots activists to register and regularly report their activities to Congress. Criminal charges including a possible jail term of up to one year could be the punishment for non-compliance.

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A landmark legal case on behalf of the Recording Industry Association of America and other global trade organizations seeks to criminalize all Internet file sharing of any kind as copyright infringement, effectively shutting down the world wide web - and their argument is supported by the U.S. government.

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A landmark legal ruling in Sydney goes further than ever before in setting the trap door for the destruction of the Internet as we know it and the end of alternative news websites and blogs by creating the precedent that simply linking to other websites is breach of copyright and piracy.

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The European Union, led by former Stalinist and potential future British Prime Minister John Reid, has also vowed to shut down "terrorists" who use the Internet to spread propaganda.

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The EU data retention bill, passed last year after much controversy and with implementation tabled for late 2007, obliges telephone operators and internet service providers to store information on who called who and who emailed who for at least six months. Under this law, investigators in any EU country, and most bizarrely even in the US, can access EU citizens' data on phone calls, SMS messages, emails and instant messaging services.

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The EU also recently proposed legislation that would prevent users from uploading any form of video without a license.

* The US government is also funding research into social networking sites and how to gather and store personal data published on them, according to the New Scientist magazine. "At the same time, US lawmakers are attempting to force the social networking sites themselves to control the amount and kind of information that people, particularly children, can put on the sites."

The development of a new form of internet with new regulations is also designed to create an online caste system whereby the old internet hubs would be allowed to break down and die, forcing people to use the new taxable, censored and regulated world wide web.

Make no mistake, the internet, one of the greatest outposts of free speech ever created is under constant attack by powerful people who cannot operate within a society where information flows freely and unhindered. Both American and European moves mimic stories we hear every week out of state controlled Communist China, where the internet is strictly regulated and virtually exists as its own entity away from the rest of the web.

The Internet is freedom's best friend and the bane of control freaks. Its eradication is one of the short term goals of those that seek to centralize power and subjugate their populations under tyranny by eliminating the right to protest and educate others by the forum of the free world wide web.

WARREN G HARDING - OUR FIRST BLACK PRESIDENT ?

2008-06-10T07:41:00.000-07:00

While others may view the stories about Warren G. Harding's black ancestry as rumor, Marsha Stewart sees it as fact.

Mrs. Stewart, a 60-year-old black woman who teaches at a high school in suburban Detroit, is a fifth cousin to the 29th president, according to her family history.

"When I grew up in the '50s, my grandparents said it's OK to talk about it in the family setting but it's not OK to talk about it outside of the family settings," Mrs. Stewart said.

Her 2005 book, "Warren Harding U.S. President 29: Death By Blackness," details her family connection to Harding.

"He was my great-grandmother's first cousin," Mrs. Stewart said. Adding that her great-grandmother, Mary Harding Norman, and Warren Harding's father, George Tryon Harding, were first cousins.

She traces their common ancestors back to the black settlers of Isabella, Montcalm and Mecosta counties in central Michigan. Warren Harding's immediate family remained in Ohio, but other branches moved to Michigan, according to Mrs. Stewart, who said those are the Hardings from whom she is descended.

"My mother talks about Warren Harding coming to a cousin's funeral in Michigan," Mrs. Stewart said. "When he drove in everybody sort of knew who he was. He attended the funeral, and he left."

She said she has been contacted by Warren Harding's grandchildren and great-grandchildren several times. "They tell me they've heard rumors that they have black blood."

While Warren Harding never really denied he may have had black ancestors, he never declared himself black.

When asked why she believes her cousin never did so, Mrs. Stewart said, "Because we live in America. To be a true American, [you can't be] black even though we've been here for centuries. That's just the truth."

HERE IS A RELATED STORY IN THE NY TIMES

ECONOMIC GRAPHS OF DOOM ???

2008-06-09T09:38:00.001-07:00

Via: Financial Times:

Banks and investment banks whose health is crucial to the global financial system should operate under a unified regulatory framework with “appropriate requirements for capital and liquidity”, according to Timothy Geithner, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

Writing in Monday’s Financial Times, Mr Geithner, a key US policymaker throughout the credit crisis and one of the main architects of the rescue of Bear Stearns, says that the US Federal Reserve should play a “central role” in the new regulatory framework, working closely with supervisors in the US and round the world.

“At present the Fed has broad responsibility for financial stability not matched by direct authority and the consequences of the actions we have taken in this crisis make it more important that we close that gap,” Mr Geithner says, in an excerpt of a speech to be delivered today at the Economic Club of New York.

The credit crisis has heightened pressure on US policymakers to consider sweeping changes to a regulatory system for financial institutions which has commercial banks such as JPMorgan Chase and Citigroup regulated by the Fed and investment banks such as Goldman Sachs and Lehman Brothers more loosely regulated by the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Mr Geithner called the system “a confusing mix of diffused accountability, regulatory competition and a complex web of rules that create perverse incentives and leave huge opportunities for arbitrage and evasion”.

However, legislation to overhaul US financial regulation is unlikely to start advancing through Congress until next year when the new administration takes office.

In his speech, Mr Geithner will also say the Fed is examining whether to make “permanent” some of the new liquidity facilities put in place during the credit crisis, and called for central banks to establish a “standing network of currency swaps, collateral policies and account arrangements” to bolster liquidity during a future crisis.

Meanwhile, Malcolm Knight, the general manager of the Bank of International Settlements, the Basel-based central banking group, told the FT that the financial system now faces a growing risk of exchange-rate volatility as investors and central banks grapple with the impact of rising commodity prices and other inflationary pressures.

“It is not clear if the rest of the world is going to continue to fund the US current account deficit at current levels of exchange rates,” he said. “The pattern of the exchange rates is subject to considerable uncertainty now.”

The comments are likely to be closely watched by investors and policymakers, since they come at a time of renewed market focus on the outlook for the dollar relative to the euro and other currencies. Last week, Ben Bernanke, Fed chairman, broke with the US central bank’s traditional silence on currency matters to make clear that it does not want any further dollar weakness.

While the dollar rallied on Mr Bernanke’s remarks, it retreated later in the week after European Central bank comments suggested an interest rate rise and as the price of crude oil soared, heightening inflation fears.

“There is a perception that after a long period of quiescent inflation, things are changing,” Mr Knight said. “This is quite visible in terms of commodity prices in energy markets but also in terms of what is happening with other commodities too.”

BONUS GRAPH ON GASOLINE PRICES AND INCOME

BILL MOYERS DEBUNKS BILL OREILLY - PWNED !

2008-06-08T11:04:00.000-07:00

ITS REALLY A NO WIN SITUATION - WHEN THE "UPTAKE GUY" STARTS FOXNEWS-ING THE PRODUCER IT BECOMES JUST AS SHAMEFUL, ALMOST IRONIC

SCOTT McCELLAN - "WHAT HAPPENED" ?

2008-06-04T04:55:00.000-07:00

NEW GI BILL MORE CASH LESS FIREMONSTERS ?

2008-06-01T04:46:00.000-07:00

RACHEL RAY AND THE SCARF OF EVIL ???

2008-05-29T03:05:00.000-07:00

ISN'T THAT THE SAME SCARF THAT ALL THE HIPSTERS ARE SPORTING ???

PIRATE ATTACKS ON THE RISE ???

2008-05-25T10:29:00.000-07:00

Mariners are being warned of a growing threat from pirates around the world after attacks on shipping rose by 20 per cent over the last year.

Gone are the cannon and cutlass, to be replaced by rocket propelled grenades and automatic rifles, but according to new figures from the organisation that collates reports of global piracy, the spirit of Johnny Depp’s Captain Jack Sparrow is alive and terrorising the ocean waves.

The International Maritime Bureau’s latest report reveals the first rise in pirate attacks since their previous peak in the mid 1990s. In one particularly savage incident in the Philippines in March, pirates shot dead the captain of a passenger boat and two of his crew before tying them to their anchor and tossing it overboard. They then shot the two remaining crew members and escaped in a motor boat.

The sharp rise in pirate attacks is blamed in large part on the collapse of law and order in Somalia and political unrest in Nigeria. The seas around the two African countries are now regarded as some of the most dangerous in the world.

Cyrus Mody, the IMB’s manager, said the reality of piracy was far removed from the glamorous image portrayed in films. “People have a romantic illusion about pirates, but there is nothing romantic when they stand in front of you with a gun to your head,” he said.

The IMB recorded 49 attacks in the first quarter of this year, up from 41 in the same period last year. The murderous attack in the Philippines was the most serious but there were many other incidents in which ships were attacked by gangs of heavily armed men.

In January, five men armed with guns boarded a French yacht off Venezuela, shot one of the crew and demanded all their property. The same month, four armed men used grappling hooks to try to board a bulk carrier off the Nigerian coast.

The IMB’s records are a litany of brutality. Last year pirates who attacked a Danish tanker off the coast of Nigeria tied up the bosun and threatened to cut off his ears unless he told them the code for the locks on the cargo control room. In another attack off the Nigerian coast, a Panamanian tug boat was boarded by five men who approached in a small fast boat. The pirates rounded up the crew on the bridge, smashed a bottle over the master’s head and forced each crew member to hand over their belongings.

A cargo ship attacked off the coast of Somalia launched parachute flares at the pirates when the captain realised they were about to open fire with a rocket propelled grenade. And a gang of pirates who boarded a Canadian yacht at anchor off Madagascar slashed the skipper’s hand and legs, tried to strangle his wife and made off with everything the couple had.

Not that the pirates always have it their own way. The IMB’s report reveals that in February this year a Maltese tanker successfully fought off a pirate attack off the coast of Somalia by adopting a zig-zag course and turning its fire hoses on the pirate boat until the would be attackers, who were firing at the tanker, eventually gave up and sailed away.

Earlier this month Guy Grieve, who writes the Telegraph’s All at Sea column, reported having to outrun a suspected pirate pirogue off the caost of Trinidad.

Yesterday Adrian Flanagan, the lone round-the-world yachtsman who completed his two and a half year voyage last week, told The Sunday Telegraph how he nearly collided with a pirate ship 400 miles off the coast of Brazil.

Mr Flanagan, 46, the author of a novel about pirates, described how he kept watch for 48 hours with a loaded shotgun in his lap as the pirates tracked him across the ocean in a rusting 200-foot vessel, before finally turning their attention elsewhere.

“I thought, 'I’m in trouble here - these guys have got to be pirates’,” he said. “I broke out my pump action shotgun, loaded it with seven rounds and cocked it.”

For 48 hours, they followed his sloop Barrabas while he kept watch and used his satellite telephone to contact his former wife in Britain and raise the alarm. “I called Louise and told her the situation. She was OK about it but, I think she had an idea in her head of a guy with a wooden leg and eyepatch - I don’t think she really realised the level of threat.

“These people are very, very vicious. I am staggered by the number of attacks on small vessels, and the number of boats that disappear every year is stunning. They take what they want and scuttle the vessel with the bodies on board.”

Last week the IMB identified Nigeria as the world’s most dangerous piracy hotspot, and warned that the country was ill equipped to combat pirates who plied the seas in speed boats, modern machine guns and radios, targeting tankers, trawlers, barges and oil industry support vessels.

India and the Gulf of Aden rank second in the list of most dangerous places, and last week nine countries in the region launched a concerted effort to improve security. In response to the growing threat, the French and American governments have drafted a UN resolution to allow nations to pursue and arrest pirates.

THE CORPORATION - AMERICAN COUP 1933 ???

2008-05-25T05:59:00.000-07:00

Derivatives Market Grows to $596 Trillion ! ! !

2008-05-24T10:25:00.001-07:00

Derivatives Market Grows to $596 Trillion on Hedging (Update1)

By Abigail Moses

May 22 (Bloomberg) -- The market for derivatives expanded at the fastest pace in at least a decade last year as the global credit crisis spurred trading in contracts used to hedge against losses, according to the Bank for International Settlements.

Derivatives, including those based on debt, currencies, commodities, stocks and interest rates, expanded 44 percent from the previous year to $596 trillion, the Basel, Switzerland-based bank said in a report today. The amount of credit-default swaps protecting investors against losses on bonds and loans more than doubled to cover a notional $58 trillion of debt.

``The credit crisis supported growth'' of the market, Naohiko Baba, an analyst at BIS who co-wrote the report, said in an interview. ``Fixed-income markets experienced big turmoil so had more hedging needs.''

Investors turned to derivatives to bet that the $383 billion of credit losses and writedowns at banks and securities firms since the start of 2007 would push the world economy into recession. The cost of protecting corporate debt against default jumped as much as 670 percent last year, according to the Markit ITraxx Europe Crossover index.

The increase in the cost of credit-default swaps quadrupled the amount of money investors have at stake in the contracts to $2 trillion from $470 billion, the BIS said. The amount at risk in the entire derivatives market is $15 trillion, according to the BIS, which was formed in 1930 to monitor financial markets and regulate banks.

Price Increase

Credit-default swaps pay the buyer face value in exchange for the underlying securities or the cash equivalent should a company fail to adhere to its debt agreements. Derivatives are financial instruments derived from stocks, bonds, loans, currencies and commodities, or linked to specific events like changes in interest rates or the weather.

The data on the BIS report are based on contracts traded outside of exchanges in the over-the-counter market.

Interest-rate derivatives remained the largest part of the market, expanding 35 percent to $393 trillion outstanding last year, the report said.

Foreign exchange derivatives grew by 40 percent to $49 trillion as the credit crisis triggered the highest volatility in the seven most-traded currencies in almost eight years, based JPMorgan Chase & Co. data.

The amount of equity derivatives outstanding expanded 14 percent in 2007 to $8.5 trillion.

Commodity derivatives expanded by 26.5 percent as the price of gold and oil reached records. Contracts based on gold rose the most in the second half, by 40 percent to $595 billion. Crude oil rose to a record above $135 a barrel in New York yesterday after U.S. stockpiles unexpectedly dropped.

To contact the reporter on this story: Abigail Moses in London Amoses5@bloomberg.net

JOHN McCAIN - MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE, SENILE OR INSANE ???

2008-05-18T14:46:00.000-07:00

PLEASE DO NOT LET GRANDPA GET HIS HANDS ON THE REMOTE CONTROL !

CHRIS MATTEWS PWNS A PUNDIT ! ! !

2008-05-16T03:26:00.000-07:00

ap·pease (-pz)
tr.v. ap·peased, ap·peas·ing, ap·peas·es
1. To bring peace, quiet, or calm to; soothe.
2. To satisfy or relieve: appease one's thirst.
3. To pacify or attempt to pacify (an enemy) by granting concessions, often at the expense of principle. See Synonyms at pacify.

FRANK ZAPPA ON THE AMERICAN ELECTORAL PROCESS

2008-05-04T18:26:00.000-07:00

FRANK ZAPPA - EXPLAINS THE AMERICAN DREAM

2008-05-03T08:20:00.000-07:00

HOW CAN THEY MAKE OIL PRICES HIGHER ?

2008-04-27T11:22:00.000-07:00

THE FASCIST DOLL COLLECTION ???

2008-04-24T14:47:00.001-07:00

An action-man style doll of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler has gone on sale in the Ukraine, with saleswomen comparing the doll to Barbie.

Supermarkets in the capital Kiev are stocking the 40 centimetre high figure of the fuhrer, complete with jackboots, leather trench-coat and swastika armband.

The £100 figure has a spare head "with a kind expression on it," glasses and several changes of clothes.

Accessories: The Hitler doll comes complete with uniform, cap, boots and belt

It comes in a presentation box with the dates of Hitler's birth and death on it.

The decision to market the figure comes at a time of growing extreme right political sentiment in Ukraine.

There are also reports of increasing xenophobia and racism, and of some extremists supporting racism similar to that of Nazi Germany under Hitler.

Critics believe a cult of Hitler could spring up among disaffected youths, too young to remember the ravages Nazism wreaked on the country.

Around three million people died as a result of the Nazi occupation of the Ukraine, including 1.5 million Jews.

Hitler wanted to turn the country into a buffer zone with Russia peopled by slave workers working for the Third Reich.

Although Ukranian laws prohibit any form of fascism or propaganda, the dolls are already on sale and will be mass marketed this summer.

One saleswoman said: "It is like Barbie. Kids can undress fuhrer, pin on medals and there's a spare head in the kit to give him a kinder expression on his face.

"He has glasses that are round, in the manner of pacifist Jon Lennon".

All weather: The doll is equipped for all conditions

The doll will also come with accessories like a miniature Blondi, Hitler's faithful Alsatian who died alongside the Nazi in his bunker in Berlin in 1945.

The doll is dressed in long light-brown cloak, military uniform and jackboots.

According to the saleswoman, should the demand be high, manufacturers will go further and launch a series of themed Third Reich toys, including interiors of Hitler's chancellery, toy concentration camps with barbed wire, barracks and operating models of gas chambers and crematoriums.

REAL NEWS - REAL PEOPLE - PITTSBURG

2008-04-21T17:16:00.001-07:00

GEN. PATRAEUS & CONGRESS SPIN IRAQ

2008-04-11T18:57:00.000-07:00

HOW THE DERIVATIVE MARKET WORKS ?

2008-03-30T19:19:00.000-07:00

ELIOT SPITZER - A POLITICAL ASSASINATION ?

2008-03-30T06:27:00.000-07:00

ALL LENDING IS PREDATORY !!!

READ ELIOT SPITZERS EDITORIAL FROM 2-14-2008