Blipits

[Jason]

Closer

What the Japanese Government Isn’t Saying About Fukushima
http://fairewinds.org/media/fairewinds- ... -fukushima" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;



“Unprecedented activity” near Canada’s West Coast: Whales in record numbers, displaying highly unusual behavior — Expert: Problems in Pacific could be bringing sea life to area; “Something’s amiss out there”
http://enenews.com/unprecedented-activi ... -out-there" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Coincidence???

Obama Allows Great Lakes Water To Be Sold To China As Half The U.S. Faces Extreme Water Crisis
http://endoftheamericandream.com/archiv ... er-crisiss" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;



With Obama’s Blessing, Nation’s Water Supply Disappearing
http://www.westernjournalism.com/obamas ... appearing/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

The Chinese Want To Spend Billions Constructing A 600 Acre “China City” In New York State
http://endoftheamericandream.com/archiv ... york-state" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

BEIJING, Dec. 4 (Xinhua) -- China's quality watchdog announced on Wednesday that China has recently rejected 120,643 tonnes of corn imports from the United States which contain unapproved transgenic content.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china ... 940805.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

BEIJING, Dec. 20 (Xinhua) -- China has rejected 12 batches of U.S. corn shipments tainted with a genetically-modified (GM) strain not approved by the country's agriculture ministry, its leading quality supervisor said on Friday.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china ... 983470.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

H1N1 kills 6 people, leaves 14 critically ill in Greater Houston area
http://www.khou.com/news/local/BREAKING ... 20791.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;











Bloomberg: London Gold Vaults Are Virtually Empty, All Gold Has Been Transferred To Hong Kong
http://www.trunews.com/bloomberg-london ... hong-kong/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

PRECIOUS-Gold up, but on track for biggest annual loss in 32 years
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/12/ ... 2X20131220" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Feds declassify Bush-era surveillance docs
http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valle ... ce-details" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Corporate Espionage: The Séralini Affair and Beyond
http://farmwars.info/?p=12140" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

The FHA already required a lifeline this year since loans were performing poorly in spite of the hot market. The problem with looking at aggregate data is that the 30 percent cash buyers have distorted the typical down payment across the board. For example, the typical down payment for FHA buyers is 4 percent (slightly above the mandated minimum 3.5 percent). Adjustable rate mortgages are already going up in usage as more regular buyers need more leverage as household incomes are not going up.

Folks in the mortgage industry realize this is going to be a big impact and there is already buzz because of this. When mortgage applications hit multi-year lows even before any of these changes hit:

http://www.doctorhousingbubble.com/mort ... -gse-fhfa/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Ice storm: Drizzle, winds could cause more damage as 300,000 across GTA still in the dark
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2013/12 ... storm.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

9/11 Families 'Ecstatic' They Can Finally Sue Saudi Arabia
http://abcnews.go.com/US/911-families-e ... d=21290177" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

No trace of Sandy Hook Elementary School will be left

NEWTOWN -- The public can't see the demolition of Sandy Hook Elementary School. The school is hidden behind a fence. But the sounds of dismantling go on all day. The scene where 20 children and six educators were gunned down nearly a year ago is disappearing. Within two weeks, a vacant lot will be in its place.

http://www.newstimes.com/local/article/ ... 937150.php" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Here’s the progress of the demolition as seen in aerial photographs.
http://blogs.wsj.com/metropolis/2013/11 ... ompletion/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[Jason]

...brief scan across the alternative news media (and some mainstream) this afternoon...typical cheery stuff...

Rare Bilderberg Paper Trail Left Behind by Elite Rhodes Scholar
http://21stcenturywire.com/2013/12/26/r ... s-scholar/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Unusual Bilderberg Documents Uncovered at Georgetown University
http://therundownlive.com/proof-of-the- ... ic-photos/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Why have the highly controversial Bilderberg documents been removed from http://www.911Disclosure.Blogspot.com" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;? To answer that question, I was ordered to remove them.
http://911disclosure.blogspot.com/2013/ ... m-911.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

US Judge Deems NSA Phone Surveillance Lawful
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/12/27-2" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

TEPCO says additional radioactive leaks found at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant
http://www.trunews.com/tepco-says-addit ... ear-plant/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

A Vast Network Of Corruption Is Upending Turkey's Government As Three More Officials Resign
http://www.businessinsider.com/corrupti ... ey-2013-12" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

A cabinet reshuffle of 10 ministers was already traumatic for the political timeline of Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdoğan, but it seems it is not the end of problems started with the big corruption probe in which the names of four of his former ministers were involved.
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/a-new- ... sCatID=409" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Turkey Tensions Escalate As Riot Police, Water Cannon Unleashed
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-12-2 ... -unleashed" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Islamic Banks, Stuffed With Cash, Explore Partnerships in West
http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2013/12/25/ ... west/?_r=0" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

A windfall of Chinese investments in Ohio
http://www.cnbc.com/id/101297375" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

H-6K can strike regional targets without leaving Chinese airspace
http://www.trunews.com/h-6k-can-strike- ... -airspace/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

China intends to become a major player in the Pakistani nuclear power programme
http://indian.ruvr.ru/2013_12_26/China- ... amme-4103/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

John Moore Year End Review Part 1: Dave Hodges, Russian Troops In America, Economic Collapse And More…
http://beforeitsnews.com/economics-and- ... 60056.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Shoppers Stock Up On Rifles, Shotguns Before California Long Gun Registry Begins
http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2013/12/ ... ry-begins/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

People wait in line to register guns before new laws go into effect - MIDDLETOWN, CT (WFSB) - There are only five more days until the new gun laws go into effect for our state, that means a dash to register assault weapons or high capacity magazines.
http://www.wfsb.com/story/24309139/peop ... nto-effect" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

DHS insider gives final warning
http://www.homelandsecurityus.com/archives/10236" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Is DHS Preparing For The Economic Collapse And Martial Law?
http://investmentwatchblog.com/is-dhs-p ... rtial-law/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

2014 Is Going To Be A Financial Train Wreck With Possible World War
http://investmentwatchblog.com/2014-is- ... world-war/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

AMERICA is OVERTHROWN, ABANDON the SYSTEM
http://investmentwatchblog.com/america- ... barnhardt/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Be prepared: Wall Street advisor recommends guns, ammo for protection in collapse
http://washingtonexaminer.com/be-prepar ... le/2541205" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

President Barack Obama signed into law on Thursday the National Defense Authorization Act for the fiscal year 2014 that allots $526.8 billion for the Pentagon's budget and $80 billion for the war in Afghanistan—totaling nearly $607 billion in defense-related spending.

This is nearly $30 billion more than was agreed to in the bipartisan federal budget deal that was also signed by Obama on Thursday.

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/12/27-3" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Passage of Budget Bill Is NOT a Victory for the American People … Only for the Military-Industrial Complex
http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/20 ... ustrial-co" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

The Iraq War is Not Over: US Prepares for Direct Military Intervention, Drone Airstrike Campaign
http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-iraq-w ... gn/5362764" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

U.S. Rushes Weapons to Iraq Amidst Bloody Sectarian Conflict Set Off by 2003 Invasion
http://www.democracynow.org/2013/12/27/ ... raq_amidst" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Problems Faced by USA in Afghanistan
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2013/12/27 ... ghanistan/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Benefits to end Saturday for long-term jobless
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/ ... story.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Because of the weak job market across the U.S., “workers are simply exhausting their benefits before finding a job,” Claire McKenna, policy analyst at the National Employment Law Project, noted in an interview with 24/7 Wall St. According to the most recent 12 month figures from the Employment and Training Administration, 45% of the unemployed had lost their state-provided unemployment insurance benefits. In Florida, where more than a quarter of a million people stand to lose access to EUC benefits in 2014, 73% of unemployed workers had already exhausted their eligibility for state-sponsored programs.

http://247wallst.com/special-report/201 ... ?link=mktw" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Retailers race to clear inventory after lackluster holiday season
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/retailers-r ... ay-season/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Relaxing Oil Export Ban is Bad News for US Consumers
http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/20 ... -consumers" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

The Fed recently reported that US households reached an all-time record high when it comes to their net worth. A record $77.3 trillion net worth figure was reported with $7.65 trillion of this growth occurring over the last 12 months. The only issue here is that most Americans do not own any financial assets. The bulk of the gain has come from the juiced up stock market courtesy of mega Quantitative Easing. Yet at the same time, we have a peak in food stamp usage and the real estate market is largely being driven by Wall Street speculators. The Fed is creating a modern day Gilded Age that is favoring a very small portion of the population. The vast majority of the population is leveraged into debt with high rates while those with premiere access continue to increase their balance sheets.

http://www.mybudget360.com/gilded-age-h ... cord-high/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Ten Economic Questions for 2014
http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2013/ ... -2014.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

The Stock Market Has Officially Entered Crazytown Territory
http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/arch ... -territory" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Bullishness Jumps to Three-Year High
http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2013/12/ ... year-high/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

The rally in the market looked at in contrast with a reported 21% decline in retail shopping traffic for the end of the Christmas season is one of those events that makes you cock your eyebrows all-funny and spit your morning (whiskey-laced) coffee.
http://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?singlepost=3318555" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Enjoy this Christmas because next year Christmas may not be as Merry…
http://angrybearblog.com/2013/12/prelim ... ction.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Recession in 2014: “The Government Will Not Be Able to Save the Economy”
http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/r ... y_12172013" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Facing the Future – Mitigating a Liquidity Crunch

We are facing an acute liquidity crunch, not the warning shot across the bow that was the financial crisis of 2008/2009, but a full-blown implosion of the house of cards that is the global credit pyramid. Not that it’s likely to disappear all at once, but over the next few years, credit will undergo a relentless contraction, punctuated by periods of both rapid collapse and sharp counter-trend rallies, in a period of exceptionally high volatility. The primary impact will stem from the collapse of the money supply, the vast majority of which is credit – a mountain of IOUs constituting the virtual wealth of the world.

This has happened before, albeit not on this scale. Since humanity reached civilizational scale we have lived through cycles of expansion and contraction. We tend to associate these with the rise and fall of empire, but they typically have a monetary component and often involve a credit boom. Bust follows boom as the credit ponzi scheme collapses.

http://www.theautomaticearth.com/facing ... ty-crunch/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

For all the endless talk of a recovery during the past five years, there is a very tangible reason why for most people this is nothing but spin, propaganda and lies: when one strips away the retroactively adjusted GDP, the seasonally adjusted (and politically mandated) counting of temp jobs, the constantly upward revised jobless claims, the Fed's $4+ trillion balance sheet of course, and even the declining (yes, declining) real disposable income per capita, what one is left with is the lowest loan creation out of a recession (or depression) in history, and is at indexed levels last seen during the Lehman collapse over five years ago!

Why is loan creation important? Because in traditional economics (not their "New Normal" equivalent, where central planning decides everything), loans - i.e., money created by commercial banks - ultimately leads to GDP growth. It also has a direct bearing on the steepness of the bond curve and thus, inflation expectations. Conversely, lack of loan creation ultimately means the government is forced to adjusted the definition of GDP to make it seem as if there is growth, or to rely on an inventory stockpiling boost to "growth" and all other recently seen gimmicks to force the conviction of "growth."

But how is it possible that banks continue to function in an environment in which there has been zero loan creation for the past 5 years? Simple: the banks' excess deposits (a liability) has been pumped higher by about $2.5 trillion thanks to the Fed's excess deposits:

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-12-2 ... ation-ever" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Looks can be deceiving, especially when they are financial news headlines. The way the media is reporting this morning’s housing starts news, you would think that housing is booming. The headline number for total starts, seasonally adjusted and annualized (in other words total statistical BS) was reported at 1.09 million units. The consensus expectation was for 950,000. The headline writers went nuts on that. But the chart above provides some perspective. It shows the actual monthly numbers, not seasonally adjusted, along with lines showing the year to year trend for the current month going back to 2000 for perspective.

The “recovery” in total starts is mostly driven by the boom in multifamily. Single family starts are well off the lows, but they are still only half of the levels 2000-2002, when the US was in another recession.

http://wallstreetexaminer.com/2013/12/1 ... ily-booms/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Since the 2009-2010 rebound, it has become abundantly clear that the apparent correlation between QE/ZIRP and economic recovery no longer exists. Stock market gains have not trickled down. Inflation is subsiding, not increasing.
http://wallstreetexaminer.com/2013/12/1 ... e-failure/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

The Only Leverage We Have Is Extreme Frugality
http://wallstreetexaminer.com/2013/12/2 ... ugh-smith/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Some seem to think the Fed is fully omnipotent in controlling rates. People do realize that the 30-year fixed rate mortgage has gone up over 100 basis points in spite of the Fed now having a balance sheet well above $4 trillion and now owning 12 percent of the mortgage market?
http://www.doctorhousingbubble.com/mort ... -gse-fhfa/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

The Next Energy "Game Changer"?
http://geology.com/articles/methane-hydrates/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Coming Soon….ObamaCare Sticker Shock
http://floppingaces.net/2013/12/27/comi ... cker-shock" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

ISU Researcher Quits Amid Allegations Of $19M AIDS Vaccine Fraud: Dr. Dong-Pyou Han Faked HIV-Resistance Test Results
http://www.medicaldaily.com/isu-researc ... resistance" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Eight babies in China have died in the past two months shortly after being injected with the Hepatitis B vaccine, according to an article in the New York Times. The deaths are being investigated and linked to vaccine manufacturer Kangtai Biological Products (BioKangtai). [1]

The Hepatitis B vaccine is now suspended until further notice.

Some of the details have not been released, however from what we do know, the infants died two days or less after being vaccinated. [2]

http://vactruth.com/2013/12/27/vaccine-kills-8-infants/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

As of Thursday, there were 12 confirmed deaths from the H1N1 Flu in the greater Houston area. Katy Barton with the City of Houston Health Houston Health Department confirmed the death on Thursday.
http://www.recombinomics.com/News/12271 ... R_CFR.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

(CBS) – Nearly two dozen cases of the potentially deadly H1N1 flu virus have been confirmed in the Chicago area, CBS 2 has learned.
http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2013/12/26/ ... ctors-say/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

In North Carolina, compensation payments for the surviving victims of eugenic sterilization were finally approved. In Virginia, this provoked calls, as yet unanswered, for something similar.

California has the unfortunate record of sterilizing by far the largest number of people under its eugenic laws. A push for remembrance of this shameful history by a network of scholars and advocates, in which CGS played a key role (see also “California,” below), gained new force after an exposé by the Center for Investigative Reporting about women who were sterilized in questionable circumstances – sometimes without even knowing the procedure had been done – in California jails over the past decade.

http://www.geneticsandsociety.org/article.php?id=7383" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Canadians in three provinces stay in dark five days after ice storm as efforts continue to restore power
http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/12/26 ... ore-power/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Three people died after a car exploded in the city of Pyatigorsk in Russia’s Stavropol region, Itar-Tass reported, citing the Interior Ministry. Russia's National Anti-Terrorism Committee says that a homemade explosive device caused the blast. The victims of the blast were passersby, the ministry said, citing preliminary findings. Pyatigorsk Mayor Lev Travnev has declared a state of emergency in the city.

http://rt.com/news/car-blast-pyatigorsk-russia-879/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

A piranha feeding frenzy in Argentina reportedly has left at least 70 people injured, including seven children who lost parts of their fingers and toes. The attack took place on Christmas morning off a beach in the Parana River, near the city of Rosario.
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/12/26 ... latestnews" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

80mph gales and rain to batter Wales again
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-25518735" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Storm-battered Atlantic Canada to get more snow
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scot ... 29?cmp=rss" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Snow, Wind to Add Stress in Ice Storm-Ravaged Maine, Michigan
http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-n ... d/21390273" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

California faces a catastrophic drought next year
http://qz.com/161935/california-faces-a ... next-year/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Catastrophic wildfires remain the greatest risk the state would likely face next year after a third-straight dry winter.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/weather/2 ... s/4192275/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

California is enduring its driest calendar year on record, with no signs of relief coming anytime soon. In San Francisco, the city is seeing its driest year since records began during the Gold Rush year of 1849.
http://www.rgj.com/article/20131226/NEW ... ater-fears" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

U.S. Drought Monitor
http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/Home/Regi ... .aspx?west" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

http://americanpreppersnetwork.com/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

This year, hundreds of thousands have spent Christmas dealing with extraordinary circumstances: Hundreds of thousands have spent the day without power in Argentina, Canada, USA and UK.

England and Scotland has been hit by hard storms these last few days. The storm has left 75.000 homes across UK without power and many areas such as Surrey and Dorcet are flooded. Evacuated people have spent Christmas in shelters. 25 people have been rescued in Dorset, trapped in their cars by flood water.

The storms and floods also affected Mexico and Brazil, with 50.000 affected in Brazil alone. Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay have been affected by heat waves. Argentina is still struggling with its power problem, many having spent over six days without power by now. Red alert has been declared in Argentina due to feel like temperatures that have reached 111.2 ºF.

Meanwhile, USA and Canada are dealing with climatic struggles of their own. The storms have left nearly 800.000 people without power while dealing with freezing temperatures. Quebec, Toronto and Michigan are some of the most affected cities.

As you can see, a lot of people are struggling this Christmas. Let’s keep them all in our prayers. It is because of situations like these that we do what we do, prepare so as to get by such emergencies as best as possible as well as preparing for life in general.
Merry Christmas everyone.

FerFAL

http://ferfal.blogspot.com/2013/12/even ... world.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

At the beginning of 2013, I told myself: “This year should be interesting”. Well, I was wrong. The word “interesting” was not an appropriate word to describe 2013, even if it was meant sarcastically. Looking back at the events that happened this year, the best word I can think of is “foul”. 2013 started in the aftermath of the Sandy Hook shooting and things only got fouler.

In 2013, the world discovered the mind-boggling extent of government surveillance by the NSA. Mainstream news reported what “alternative” news were reporting for years: The NSA is an ever-expanding, Big Brotherish monster that collects and archives the personal data of all U.S. citizens, and pretty much everyone else too. Although these revelations did not cause much visible outrage, it was a gigantic cold shower that fell on freedom-loving people across the world. Everything that “paranoid conspiracy theorists” were claiming was true – and then some. Faith in freedom and democracy is fading like the ink on the Bill of Rights.

In order to forget these depressing facts, the masses turned to mind-numbing entertainment, the same way a wounded person turns to pain-numbing medication. And who was the most influential figure in the entertainment world this year? Miley Cyrus. Yup. That’s how foul 2013 was. Damn Hannah-Montana-turned-MK-sex-kitten was the most influential person in entertainment. But there were plenty of other events that proved that the elite Agenda is becoming too obvious to ignore.

Throughout the year, I attempted to decode and analyze the various events, videos, movies, and images that were thrown at us by mass media. By analyzing specific bits of media, I try to highlight their inherent manipulation and to help readers paint a much broader picture of what is happening in the world. Mass media is propaganda – but it is not trying to sell you on an ideology or a political view. It goes much deeper than that. It is about affecting the mind, the body, and the soul. It is about turning humanity into a debased, confused, and malleable mass of lost souls. It is about exposing and desensitizing minds to foul aberrations. It is about selling demoralization disguised as empowerment. It is about turning disgusting things such as pedophilia into something normal. It is about making you scared, insecure and unsatisfied. In short, mass media is poison. And that poison is everywhere.

I’m sorry. I really am. But even if my assessment is depressing, I am not depressed. And you shouldn’t be neither. Why? Because, although everything I described is horrible, it is all the result of a fake, artificial creation. The goal of mass media is to amplify things to create the illusion of importance. It is meant to manipulate and it works best when the subjects do not even realize that they are being manipulated. But we do know. Vigilant citizens around the world know that this is all just noise, meaningless noise meant to disrupt our thought process. Thankfully, we can shut that noise off and banish it from our minds.

Just because something is communicated to us doesn’t mean we need to accept it. In fact, we don’t even need to listen to it. The System needs us to exist, but we don’t need it. Furthermore, as we recognize the foulness of the System, we must be wise enough not to “feed” it further with our fear, anger, or hate. For our own sake, we must turn our backs to it completely and head towards what is true and pure. We must devote our lives to the things that make us happy, healthy, and complete. As I try to point out every year, we are made to enjoy nature, the company of our loved ones, and to stimulate our minds.

In a world that wants us to be angry, bitter, selfish and vile, I realized that the truest form of rebellion is uncompromising righteousness. In this day and age, I believe that a true rebel does not run the streets with a weapon yelling stuff. True rebels live the life they believe is right, no matter the consequences. Those in power do not fear some random person with a weapon. They can easily control that. Those in power fear those that are not corruptible, not buy-able, not brainwash-able, and not scare-able. And that is what being a Vigilant Citizen is all about.

http://vigilantcitizen.com/vigilantrepo ... y-message/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[Jason]

UPDATE: Entire City of Casselton Being Evacuated
http://www.valleynewslive.com/story/243 ... -casselton" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;



The emergence of H1N1 as the dominant sub-type in the US has raised concerns that it has effectively escaped from the immunological response generated by its emergence in 2009 as well as subsequent vaccinations. Moreover, reports on severe and fatal cases, which initially appeared in eastern Texas has raised concerns that virulence has also increase.
http://www.recombinomics.com/News/12301 ... pread.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

On Saturday, 1.3 million Americans lost their last lifeline from the federal government: an emergency unemployment insurance program. Although long-term unemployment is still at its highest level since World War II, Congress failed to renew the program in the budget deal it passed just before adjourning for winter recess. The program provided up to 47 weeks of supplemental unemployment insurance payments to jobless people looking for work. Now, just a quarter of unemployed Americans will receive jobless benefits — the smallest proportion in half a century.
http://www.democracynow.org/2013/12/30/ ... 13_million" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Today’s jobless claims report showed an increase to both initial and continued unemployment claims as seasonally adjusted initial claims climbed nearer to the closely watched 400K level. Seasonally adjusted “initial” unemployment claims increased 10,000 to 379,000 claims from 369,000 claims for the prior week while seasonally adjusted “continued” claims increased by 94,000 claims to 2.884 million resulting in an “insured” unemployment rate of 2.2%.
http://paper-money.blogspot.com/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Over 68 million US households live on an AGI of $35,000 or less. This is telling given the rising costs of college education, healthcare, real estate, and food.
http://www.mybudget360.com/great-income ... y-tax-pay/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

An explosion at El Salvador’s San Miguel (also known as Chaparrastique) Volcano lofted ash more than 71 kilometers (44 miles) downwind on December 29, 2013.
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Natura ... &src=nhrss" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Mercury levels rising in expanse around Alberta oilsands
http://www.vancouversun.com/business/Me ... story.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Heat wave breaks power records in Argentina, outages reported
http://www.bnamericas.com/news/electric ... s-reported" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Macri declared an “state of emergency” in the City of Buenos Aires
http://m24digital.com/en/2013/12/29/mac ... nos-aires/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Minister De Vido warns of sanctions snowball if power is not restored
http://www.buenosairesherald.com/articl ... t-restored" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

In the midst of a heat wave, thousands of Argentines living in the capital’s metropolitan area on Sunday are still without power, while demand for electricity keeps growing and reaching peak levels, the Federal Planning Ministry said. The Argentine power grid set a new record for electricity demand on a Saturday when the consumption level reached 20.605 megawatts, the ministry said in a statement.
http://www.hispanicallyspeakingnews.com ... wer/28501/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Soft Killing The American People Using Toxic Food, Toxic Water And Toxic Vaccines
http://endoftheamericandream.com/archiv ... c-vaccines" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

A second bombing in Russia shows security threat ahead of Winter Olympics
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/sec ... story.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Day After Saudi Arabia Gives Record $3 Billion To Lebanese Army, Lebanese Troops Fire At Syrian Warplanes
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-12-3 ... s-fire-syr" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Overthrow the Speculators
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/20927 ... peculators" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[bbrown]

Thanks for the posts!

[Jason]

Russian President Vows To Annihilate Terrorists
http://www.rferl.org/content/putin-vows ... 17571.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Shelling of Bus in Northern Syria Caps a Merciless Year
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/01/world ... syria.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

The large-scale military exercise — dubbed "Mission Action 2013" — involving 40,000 soldiers of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) in October was personally approved by Chinese president Xi Jinping to prepare his troops in the event of war, according to a strongly-worded commentary published Saturday on the website of China's official Xinhua news agency.
http://www.wantchinatimes.com/news-subc ... ainCatID=0" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

China could soon defeat the United States and its allies in a naval conflict in the East Pacific, says Vassily Kashin, a senior research fellow at the Moscow-based Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies.
http://www.wantchinatimes.com/news-subc ... 1230000060" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Photos of the day: J-16 fighter/bomber and H-6K twin-engine jet bomber in hi-res
http://china-defense.blogspot.com/2013/ ... and-h.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

The broad market gauge has gained 29.6% in 2013, its biggest jump since 1997 -- the year before Jordan Belfort, the hard-partying founder of brokerage firm Stratton Oakmont, was indicted for securities fraud and money laundering.
http://buzz.money.cnn.com/2013/12/31/st ... /?iid=Lead" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Given it is the last day of what is being reported as a breath-takingly good year, we thought a gentle reminder of the reality underlying the exuberance was worthwhile. Presented with little comment, we give you 2013... the death cross...
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-12-3 ... -one-chart" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;





The Treasury market is finishing the year with a resounding thud as the 10 year note and the 30 year bond are each closing at multi year high yields. The 10 year note is around 3.015 and the Long Bond is around 3.95. The 10 year is now cheaper than the cheapest close in September (according to Bloomberg) and the Long Bond at 3.95 is at levels last observed in the summer of 2010. It appears to my untrained technical eye that the next stop for the bond is around 4.07. Participants held the Long end up to derision today as the curve steepened in this sell off. The 5s 30s spread was 219 ish earlier today and as I write this it is 221 ish. The 5s 10s 30 butterfly traded counter intuitively as the 10 year is now a tad richer versus the wings at 33.2. The middle piece of that fly generally cheapens in sell off so the behavior is unusual.
http://acrossthecurve.com/?p=11423" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

For the last year China’s credit growth has been going gangbusters, with total social financing up 13.2% in the first 11 months of 2013 from a year earlier. Meanwhile, growth in the real economy slowed to about 7.6%, its slowest pace in years.

That has led analysts to wonder where all that money is going. Has China run out of productive ways to invest?

An audit of government debt published Monday hints at a possible answer. The National Audit Office surveyed not just the central government but thousands of regional and local governments around the country to find out just how much they’re on the hook for. Unlike most countries, China’s localities owe more than the central government.

The results came in below some estimates, but they’re worrying all the same. Local government debt and liabilities came to 17.9 trillion yuan ($2.95 trillion) at end-June, a rise of 67% in two-and-a-half years.

Much of that was channeled through “local government financing vehicles,” corporate entities set up to sidestep restrictions on direct borrowing by governments. These vehicles are a financial black box: Much of the money may have been siphoned off into kickbacks or wasted on pointless construction projects.

http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2013/12/ ... od=WSJBlog" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Do you think the 170% increase in the S&P 500 has been accidently correlated with the quadrupling of the Federal Reserve balance sheet or has Bernanke just done the bidding of his puppet masters? Do you think the 8% decline in real median household income since 2008 was caused by Bernanke’s QE and ZIRP policies?

The Bakken oil miracle will prove to be nothing more than Wall Street shysters selling a storyline. Daily output will stall at 750,000 barrels per day and the dreams of imminent energy independence will be annihilated by reality, again. The price of oil will average $105 per barrel, as global tensions restrict supply.

Bakken production has reached 867,000 barrels per day as more and more wells have been drilled to offset the steep depletion rates of the existing wells. The average price per barrel has been $104, despite the frantic propaganda campaign about imminent American energy independence. Tell that to the average Joe filling their tank and paying the highest December gas price in history. My prediction was too pessimistic, but the Bakken miracle will be revealed as an over-hyped Wall Street scam in 2014.

http://www.theburningplatform.com/2013/ ... oxic-smog/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

...don't know how good the rest of his economics knowledge is....but he's a flipping idiot when it comes to the Bakken predictions. North Dakota is on track to be par in oil production with Saudi Arabia in less than 5 years.

DICKINSON, N.D. -- Marathon Oil has become the first company to try modern horizontal drilling in the Tyler Formation of southwest North Dakota. If successful, Marathon could be the first of many companies to drill that way in the Tyler, a geologically complex formation that is viewed by many as the Bakken’s little brother. The formation has produced oil from vertical drilling in the past, but most of the oil that can be recovered that way has been tapped by now.

http://www.wdaz.com/event/article/id/20028/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

...when the drill bit comes out and you flick it with a bic lighter...and the sucker flames up....that's a real good sign its gonna be very lovely producer with a little frac'n. The Tyler Formation is gooey and tricky (Marathon had their challenges on that 1st drill job with $1 million worth of equipment left underground after the hole collapse)....but round 2 is looking really good (5 days into it). Another 6 days and we'll have good knowledge of how its going to go.

...meanwhile Halliburton is experimenting with 60k-80k ft laterals. The fracking technology is still infantile

On April 30, 2013, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) released an updated oil and gas resource assessment for the Bakken Formation and a new assessment for the Three Forks Formation in North Dakota, South Dakota and Montana. The assessments found that the formations contain an estimated mean of 7.4 billion barrels (BBO) of undiscovered, technically recoverable oil. The updated assessment for the Bakken and Three Forks represents a twofold increase over what has previously been thought.

The USGS assessment found that the Bakken Formation has an estimated mean oil resource of 3.65 BBO and the Three Forks Formation has an estimated mean resource of 3.73 BBO, for a total of 7.38 BBO, with a range of 4.42 (95 percent chance) to 11.43 BBO (5 percent chance). This assessment of both formations represents a significant increase over the estimated mean resource of 3.65 billion barrels of undiscovered oil in the Bakken Formation that was estimated in the 2008 assessment.

“These world-class formations contain even more energy resource potential than previously understood, which is important information as we continue to reduce our nation’s dependence on foreign sources of oil,” said Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell.

http://www.usgs.gov/blogs/features/usgs ... ormations/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Bakken formation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bakken_formation" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Three - Dimensional Geologic Model of Southwestern North Dakota
https://www.dmr.nd.gov/ndgs/Publication ... GI-141.pdf" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;



South Sudan, which contains vast oil reserves, borders Ethopia, Uganda, Kenya, Central African Republic and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Spread of its crisis would further destabilize a significant part of Africa. Clearly, Western-style “democratic elections,” the panacea touted by Western agencies such as National Endowment for Democracy, and related Western NGOs, have not only failed to provide stability and enhanced standards of living for many countries where they have been implemented (or imposed, militarily by US-NATO intervention, such as in Iraq and Libya and Afghanistan), but are beginning to appear to be the precursor of ethnic and social violence and disintegration in many notable instances in Africa, and not only in Africa.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-destab ... ns/5363144" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

10 Largest Hospital Layoffs of 2013
http://www.beckershospitalreview.com/le ... -2013.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

HP Announces Another 5,000 Layoffs, For A Total Of 34,000 (HPQ)
http://www.seattlepi.com/technology/bus ... 102864.php" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

The embattled city of Detroit is an indication of how the US economy as a whole has been “hijacked” by “capitalist bankers,” American author Dean Henderson tells Press TV.

Early in December, a federal judge ruled that Detroit in the state of Michigan was eligible for bankruptcy in what has become the largest municipal bankruptcy in US history.

US Judge Steven Rhodes said that Detroit, once the cradle of auto industry, was eligible for protection under Chapter 9 of the US bankruptcy code as negotiations with its thousands of creditors were unfeasible. The city is $18.5 billion in debt.

Encouraged by the low price of real estate, dozens of Chinese auto companies and suppliers are opening plants and offices in and around Detroit, where they hope to one day sell cars to US buyers.

“I think the situation is symptomatic of the economy that has been hijacked by parasite capitalist bankers,” Henderson said in a phone interview.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/12/30 ... y-bankers/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Boy Scouts Prepare to Accept Gay Scouts Jan. 1
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2 ... uts-jan-1/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Electrical Accumulators
http://www.thunderbolts.info/wp/2013/12 ... ulators-2/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Special Report: Japan's homeless recruited for murky Fukushima clean-up
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/12/ ... 0520131230" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

A SHALLOW 5.1-magnitude earthquake has hit eastern Japan, the US Geological Survey says, but there are no local reports of any damage.
http://www.news.com.au/world/shallow-51 ... 6792556447" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

9 quakes hit same area near Fukushima border in past few hours — New island along ‘Ring of Fire’ south of Tokyo now over 15 times initial size in a month — Professor: “Massive volcanic eruption… We should pay close attention” (VIDEOS)
http://enenews.com/9-quakes-hit-same-ar ... ption-we-s" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

In Indonesia, Mount Sinabung on the western island of Sumatra sent hot rocks and ash 7,000 metres in the air last night and this morning, National Disaster Mitigation Agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho said. Tourists and locals counting more than 19,000 people have been displaced by a volcano in Indonesia that has been erupting for months and shot lava into the air nine times overnight, an official said today.
http://www.eturbonews.com/41253/lava-sh ... -displaced" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;






Ice storm: Toronto’s long road to recovery will stretch well into 2014
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2013/12 ... n_out.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

The U.S. National Security Agency has the ability to snoop on nearly every communication sent from an Apple iPhone, according to leaked documents shared by security researcher Jacob Appelbaum and German news magazine Der Spiegel. An NSA program called DROPOUTJEEP allows the agency to intercept SMS messages, access contact lists, locate a phone using cell tower data, and even activate the device’s microphone and camera.
http://www.dailydot.com/politics/nsa-ba ... appelbaum/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

...reason they have camera on both sides of the phone...

The Complete Guide To How The NSA Hacked Everything
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-12-3 ... everything" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Has the National Security Administration (NSA) been changing the amounts held in the financial accounts of people it targets?

The question would seem absurd if it were not for a 308-page report on the NSA that was released on December 12 by an Official White House Panel. Recommendation 31, “Institutional Measures for Cyberspace,” on page 37 and repeated on page 221 reads:

(1) Governments should not use surveillance to steal industry secrets to advantage their domestic industry;

(2) Governments should not use their offensive cyber capabilities to change the amounts held in financial accounts or otherwise manipulate the financial systems.

http://dollarvigilante.com/node/6161" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

The US National Security Agency (NSA) is building the foundation for a global police state. This is not an exaggeration.

The lynch pin of the NSA system is the continuous gathering of all types of digital data on political leaders, economic institutions, and hundreds of millions of people around the world. Despite the recent revelations, the political leaders of the US government have never stated that such activities will stop.

However, the current massive cyber surveillance of the worlds' people and institutions is only the beginning of the threat from the NSA and its allied US government agencies. Unrestricted information technology (IT) power in the hands of the US government is a future threat which dwarfs anything the NSA has done to date.

http://rt.com/op-edge/nsa-spying-future-total-952/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

...coming from the CIA's eastern counterpart...is priceless

Apple Denies Working With NSA on iPhone Backdoors; NSA Toolbox Catalog; Celebrate the New Year: 1984
http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot. ... phone.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Last month, the Associated Press revealed that the CIA had selected a few dozen men from among the hundreds of terror suspects being held at Guantanamo and trained them to be double agents at a cluster of eight cottages in a program dubbed "Penny Lane." (Yes, indeed, the name was taken from the Beatles song, as was "Strawberry Fields," a Guantanamo program that involved torturing “high-value” detainees.) These men were then returned to what the Bush administration liked to call the “global battlefield,” where their mission was to befriend members of al-Qaeda and supply targeting information for the Agency’s drone assassination program.

Such a secret double-agent program, while colorful and remarkably unsuccessful, should have surprised no one. After all, plea bargaining or persuading criminals to snitch on their associates -- a tactic frowned upon by international legal experts -- is widely used in the U.S. police and legal system. Over the last year or so, however, a trickle of information about the other secret program has come to light and it opens an astonishing new window into the privatization of U.S. intelligence.

http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15905" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Coming in 2014: Scary super-soldier exoskeleton suits from the US military - The US military is accelerating its program to build a Tactical Assault Light Operator Suit (TALOS) – an exoskeleton-mounted computer system for the soldier of tomorrow.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/12/31 ... next_year/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Socom Leads Development of ‘Iron Man’ Suit
http://www.defense.gov/News/NewsArticle.aspx?ID=121419" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

DoD Unmanned Systems Integrated Roadmap FY2013-2038
http://publicintelligence.net/dod-unman ... tems-2013/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

FAA Picks 6 Drone Testing Sites
http://defensetech.org/2013/12/31/faa-p ... ing-sites/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Right now cash sounds like a good low-tech solution to me. Maybe the banks should start hiring more tellers if they're not going to fix this problem.
http://readwrite.com/2013/12/31/atm-car ... 0mhU36dG6J" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Basel III and Capital Adequacy: Are We Paying Enough Attention to Consequence Risks?
http://us1.irabankratings.com/pub/IRAMain.asp" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

RUSSIAN BANKS BOUGHT ALMOST 90% OF RUSSIA 2013 GOLD OUTPUT: RIA
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-12-3 ... -gold-2013" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

One MD, who also is a speaker for Merck, Novartis, Pfizer, and Sanofi-Pasteur – all vaccine makers, says,

Giving influenza vaccine is also good for the financial health of your practice.

That candid remark, made in writing, came from Richard Lander, MD, and was published in the article “Influenza vaccination makes sense for everyone” on Healio Pediatrics webpage about Infectious Diseases in Children.


Readers will note that the article was published in January of 2013, plus there could be added financial rewards a year later due to vaccine price and medical service fees increases.

Guess how much the vaccine administration fee is? According to Dr. Lander, it should range from $14 to $30.

Dr. Lander uses a hypothetical patient base of 2,000 and explains who may or may not receive the flu vaccine. He contends bottom line and revenue results are $14,000 to $30,000 from only 1,000 patients receiving the flu shot. However, Dr. Lander throws in a financial wild card regarding 100 patients, who called to get a flu shot and then end up scheduling a well visit. According to Lander, a doctor “should be generating an additional $10,000. Bottom line: $25,000 to $42,500, which is not bad!” [1]

http://www.naturalblaze.com/2013/12/doc ... -from.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

A revolution has occurred in Appleton, Wisconsin. It’s taken place in the Central Alternative High School. The kids now behave. The hallways aren’t frantic. Even the teachers are happy.

The school used to be out of control. Kids packed weapons. Discipline problems swamped the principal’s office.

But not since 1997.

What happened? Did they line every inch of space with cops? Did they spray Valium gas in the classrooms? Did they install metal detectors in the bathrooms? Did they build holding cells in the gym?

Afraid not. In 1997, a private group called Natural Ovens began installing a healthy lunch program.

Fast-food burgers, fries, and burritos gave way to fresh salads, meats “prepared with old-fashioned recipes,” and whole grain bread. Fresh fruits were added to the menu. Good drinking water arrived.

Vending machines were removed.

As reported in a newsletter called Pure Facts, “Grades are up, truancy is no longer a problem, arguments are rare, and teachers are able to spend their time teaching.”

Principal LuAnn Coenen, who files annual reports with the state of Wisconsin, has turned in some staggering figures since 1997. Drop-outs? Students expelled? Students discovered to be using drugs? Carrying weapons? Committing suicide? Every category has come up ZERO. Every year.

Mary Bruyette, a teacher, states, “I don’t have to deal with daily discipline issues. I don’t have disruptions in class or the difficulties with student behavior I experienced before we started the food program.”

One student asserted, “Now that I can concentrate I think it’s easier to get along with people.” What a concept—eating healthier food increases concentration.

http://farmwars.info/?p=12207&utm_sourc ... edium=feed" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Katherine Harris’ Husband “Commits Suicide”
http://spitfirelist.com/news/katherine- ... s-suicide/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Hillary Clinton Faces Criminal Charges In Egypt
http://www.westernjournalism.com/hillar ... ges-egypt/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

High Prices for Getting High Expected as Colorado Opens Legal Pot Shops
http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/201 ... -pot-shops" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[Jason]

This week's intense Arctic cold blast has brought the highest ice coverage on the Great Lakes in twenty years, according to data from the Canadian Ice Service. Ice coverage over Lakes Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario increased from 12% to 26% over the past week, reaching levels not seen at this time of year since the last Great Lakes cold blast of this intensity, in January 1994. Most notably, Lake Erie is now more than 90% frozen over. This will spell a temproary end to intense lake effect snowstorms for areas downwind of the lake like Buffalo, New York, since Arctic winds blowing over the lake will no longer be able to pull moisture from open water to fuel heavy snows. Buffalo received more than a foot of snow from Tuesday and Wednesday's lake effect blizzard, which tapered off because the lake froze up so significantly. With Saturday temperatures over southern Great Lakes expected to warm to the mid-40s, accompanied by rain, ice formation on the Great Lakes will slow down this weekend, but ice coverage should still be above normal for the remainder of January.

http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMa ... rynum=2607" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

The United States has a message for Europe: If you want to help your ailing economy, consider pledging taxpayer money from across the euro zone to help troubled banks.

Washington dispatched Treasury Secretary Jack Lew this week to Paris, Berlin and Lisbon in part to convey concerns about the euro zone’s need to revitalize banks crippled by a debt crisis.

http://politicaloutcast.com/2014/01/us- ... xSSZwdk.99" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

US Labor Participation Rate Drops To 1978 Levels
http://www.barking-moonbat.com/index.ph ... _news_not/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

The Least Popular Congress of All Time is Also the Wealthiest
http://www.activistpost.com/2014/01/the ... -time.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Congressman Darrell Issa (R-CA), Chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, and Congressman Jim Jordan (R-OH), Chairman of the Economic Growth Subcommittee, sent a harsh letter to Attorney General Holder Wednesday accusing the Department of Justice of abusing its power and intimidating banks through its "Operation Choke Point."
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government ... hoke-Point" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Baltic Dry Index Collapses 35% - Worst Start To Year In 30 Years
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-01-1 ... r-30-years" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Gun ownership hits record levels
http://d25d2506sfb94s.cloudfront.net/cu ... Report.pdf" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;


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Google CEO Larry Page has rapidly positioned Google to become an indispensable U.S. military contractor.

Google recently purchased Boston Dynamics, a robotics pioneer that produces amazing humanoid robots for the U.S. Defense Department.

This development invites attention to Google’s broader military contracting ambitions — especially since Boston Dynamics is the eighth robotics company that Google has bought in the last six months.

Just like drones are the future of air warfare, humanoid robots and self-driving vehicles will be the future of ground warfare according to U.S. defense plans.

There are many other reasons why the U.S. military is on path to become Google’s single largest customer. Likewise these reasons indicate Google has a closer working relationship with the NSA than it acknowledges publicly.

http://dailycaller.com/2014/01/09/googl ... arization/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Top commanders in the U.S. Army have announced publicly that they have a problem: They have too many "toxic leaders" — the kind of bosses who make their employees miserable. Many corporations share a similar problem, but in the Army's case, destructive leadership can potentially have life or death consequences. So, some Army researchers are wondering if toxic officers have contributed to soldiers' mental health problems.

One of those researchers is Dave Matsuda. In 2010, then-Brig. Gen. Pete Bayer, who was supervising the Army's drawdown in Iraq, asked Matsuda to study why almost 30 soldiers in Iraq had committed or attempted suicides in the past year.

"We got to a point where we were exceptionally frustrated by the suicides that were occurring," Bayer says. "And quite honestly feeling — at least I was — helpless to some degree that otherwise good young men and women were taking their lives."

http://www.npr.org/2014/01/06/259422776 ... ic-leaders" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Last month, a former National Security Agency official told the Washington Post that the Agency’s workers are polishing up their résumés and asking that they be cleared – removing any material linked to classified programs – so they can be sent out to potential employers. He noted that one employee who processes the résumés said, “I’ve never seen so many résumés that people want to have cleared in my life.”

Morale is “bad overall”, said another former official. “The news – the Snowden disclosures – it questions the integrity of the NSA workforce,” he said. “It’s become very public and very personal. Literally, neighbors are asking people, ‘Why are you spying on Grandma?’ And we aren’t. People are feeling bad, beaten down.”

http://www.blacklistednews.com/Terroris ... 0/Y/M.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

In 2013 we faced a moral dilemma that I wanted to get some opinions on. The current US administration is sponsoring FMS arms sales to Pakistan forces. In 2013 We had been approached with a multi-million dollar opportunity to legally supply sniper systems to Pakistan. I was never in the armed services but we employ several military veterans. Our greatest fear was that our equipment might be used against US troops. I started this company to protect Americans not endanger them. In consulting with other arms companies the general responses I got was, if they don't buy it from you, then they will get it somewhere else, or money is money. After much internal review we elected not to sell to Pakistan. I wanted to throw this out to our military friends to see if our concern was legitimate and hear your thoughts on it.

http://www.defensereview.com/desert-tec ... -for-opin/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Pleadings in Federal Court Reveal ICE Undercover Operation Marked With CIA Fingerprints

Federal agents this past November raided the offices of an aircraft brokerage and leasing company called World Jet Inc., based in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.

The raid, spearheaded by the US Drug Enforcement Administration, was launched on the heels of a DEA affidavit for a search warrant, which was filed in late October last year in federal court in Colorado as part of a case that is now sealed. The search-warrant affidavit was made available on the Internet after being obtained by a reporter for the Durango Herald newspaper.

The affidavit outlines allegations against several individuals accused by the DEA of participating in a narco-trafficking conspiracy. But that is not the big story here.

Instead, the real news is buried deep in the DEA court pleadings and confirms the existence of a US undercover operation that Narco News reported previously had allowed tons of cocaine to be flown from Latin America into the states absent proper controls or the knowledge of the affected Latin American nations.

http://narcosphere.narconews.com/notebo ... ug-running" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

TEPCO put the ALPS system back online on Friday. But ALPS has been hit by a series of troubles and it remains unknown whether the system can operate reliably.
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/ ... 10_38.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

The president and co-founder of the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility, Gordon Edwards, discussed the extent of the continued contamination during a radio interview with The Green Majority on 89.5 FM in Toronto on December 6, 2013. Edwards holds a Ph.D. in mathematics and has served as a nuclear consultant and testified as a nuclear expert in Canadian courts.

Shockingly, Edwards stated, "There are about 300 tons of contaminated water every day going into the Pacific Ocean underground. That's because the cores of the reactors have melted into the ground, and now the groundwater is flowing underneath the reactors and it's washing that radioactive material out into the Pacific Ocean at the rate of 300 tons per day."

The water pumped in to cool the melted reactor cores then becomes contaminated, pumped out again and washed out into the ocean in volume.

"They have been pumping 400 tons of water from the surface down into the reactor cores and then pumping the contaminated water back up again," Edwards added.

http://www.naturalnews.com/043464_Fukus ... ation.html#" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

(Reuters) - Up to 300,000 West Virginia residents were told not to drink tap water on Friday after a chemical spill called its safety into question, and health officials said water in the affected area should only be used for flushing toilets and fighting fires.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/01/ ... 2T20140110" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

H1N1, H5N1 and seasonal flu: Is it time to panic?
http://news.nationalpost.com/2014/01/09 ... -to-panic/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

A rift has emerged among researchers about how to study the potentially pandemic H5N1 flu virus as it claims its first Western victim
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/technology/ ... 6798091675" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Fresno County woman dies of H1N1 flu complications
http://abclocal.go.com/kfsn/story?secti ... id=9387856" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Flu keeps spreading in Colorado
http://www.9news.com/news/article/37222 ... n-Colorado" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Flu deaths in the Bay Area up to 9
http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?sectio ... id=9387945" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Healthy Texas Mom Dies of Flu at 29, Leaves Three Kids
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/healthy-te ... d=21467701" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Exposure source in Canadian H5N1 case a mystery
http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspect ... se-mystery" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

The influenza strain responsible for the 2009 worldwide pandemic appears to be making a comeback this year in Colorado, health officials say.
http://gazette.com/h1n1-flu-strain-maki ... le/1512356" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

China reports new H7N9 case; study details virus in markets
http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspect ... us-markets" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

The Regional Medical Center in San Jose, Calif., has set up a flu tent near its emergency room to treat patients, as the highly infectious virus has become more widespread throughout the region.

So far, a total of 15 people have died in California, according to ABC’s affiliate KGO. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has reported that more than 20 states have high flu activity with the H1N1 virus being the most prevalent nationwide.

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/health/2014 ... -flu-tent/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Santa Rosa County paramedic dies from H1N1
http://www.pnj.com/article/20140110/NEW ... ck_check=1" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Mother of 19-month-old Kylan Lux urging parents to get flu shots for their children
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/ ... -1.2491213" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;





...interesting take fwiw...

[Jason]

U.S. press freedom plunges under Obama to 46th in world, after Romania
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/201 ... survey-fi/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Russia bans adoptions from countries that allow gay marriage
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne ... riage.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

China plans world's longest underwater tunnel: China Daily
http://english.cntv.cn/20140214/102094.shtml" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

...the east vs. west psywar is in full swing...

TBILISI, Feb. 12 (Xinhua) -- Georgian Defense Minister Irakli Alasania said Wednesday that the country has decided to join the NATO Response Force (NRF) in 2015 with financial support from the United States.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world ... 123565.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Law-abiding Connecticut gun owners may face FELONY CHARGES for failing to register weapons
http://dailycaller.com/2014/02/13/law-a ... r-weapons/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

The Army wants a contractor to conduct detailed social media data mining to “identify violent extremist influences” around the world that could affect the European Command, responsible for operations in Europe as well as Iceland, Israel, Greenland and Russia.
http://www.defenseone.com/technology/20 ... ef=d-river" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Canada’s little-known global monitoring nerve centre, which has moved to share more data with the United States government, turned its formidable surveillance powers on an Idle No More protest where people dressed up as bees, documents show.
http://www.embassynews.ca/news/2014/02/ ... test/45128" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

US drug policy fuels push for legal pot worldwide
http://news.yahoo.com/us-drug-policy-fu ... 21981.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Ryan Crane, JPMorgan Equities Trading Executive, Dies at 37. The cause of death will be determined when a toxicology report is completed in about six weeks, said a spokeswoman for the state’s chief medical examiner.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-02-1 ... at-37.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

The U.S. has run an ever increasing deficit in her trade and current account since the early 1980s. She has thereby provided tremendous stimulus to the rest of the world by allowing other countries to export to an increasing extent. Some have accepted this opportunity with pleasure and have built a powerful export industry due to their competitive labor costs. The U.S. policy of increasing monetary and often also fiscal stimulus has allowed countries like China to build up their economies and become large and competitive economic powers. The U.S. behavior really triggered the rise of the emerging economies to a very large degree.

Like an oil supertanker that turns very slowly when changing direction, the U.S. is improving to smaller deficits in her trade and current account (Chart 1). The main reasons are a domestic energy production boom (and much cheaper energy prices than in other parts of the world), cheap and more competitive labor (due to a weak U.S. dollar over the last 15 years) and the end of a leverage-driven consumption boom. Smaller deficits by the largest economy have unpleasant implications for many other nations. Of course, foreign oil producers will earn less income, but foreign exporters selling to U.S. markets are also being hurt. Simply speaking, what once was ever-increasing economic stimulus provided to the world is now turning into restraining factors for the rest of the world.

For the U.S., it means she is now losing less growth to the rest of the world and keeping more for herself, which is growth positive. That is one of the reasons why the U.S. is performing relatively better than other economies, although still well below an average recovery. While I completely disagree with the consensus about the “normalization” of the world economy and the reacceleration thesis, if one economy can achieve the forecasts, it will be the U.S.

Credit Booms Are Followed by Busts

As Chart 1 shows, China’s surpluses are declining and therefore trade data for many other economies are deteriorating. At the same time, many of the EM economies have gone through a tremendous boom in recent years, driven by their previous success story and large capital inflows. As I outlined in the second quarter of last year in my piece “Butterfly Effect,” we have witnessed many years of a virtuous cycle. The inflow of capital (Chart 2) revalued those currencies, and while many central banks intervened to dampen the revaluation, the liquidity thereby created fueled a domestic investment and consumption boom. It was a great success story leading to a credit and real estate boom of large proportions virtually everywhere. In the last five years, Hong Kong real estate has doubled in price, Singapore’s has increased by 70% and China’s has more than doubled. It was felt throughout the whole Asian region and also in selected EM economies in other parts of the world. Of course, they and many Western commentators interpreted this as “normal” because they all believed clocks tick differently in those economies. While some may have better demographics and less government debt, they have created private sector credit bubbles of historic proportions (Chart 3). Most importantly, they are exposed to cycles as everybody else. And that is exactly the point.

The problem with credit booms is that they always end badly, although they usually go further and last longer than rational minds expect. The weakest links are breaking first, as always. Completely mismanaged economies like Argentina and Venezuela are already in deep crisis, but that was no surprise. Next follow the deep and chronic deficit countries like Turkey or South Africa, which have already seen their currencies declining sharply. Both have little foreign exchange reserves and virtually no tools to defend the currency except for raising interest rates, which will trigger a recession. Whatever these countries do, they will end in a recession because that is the way balance-of-payment crises are resolved. It is Ying and Yang, action and reaction; booms will be followed by busts, particularly when built on quicksand of phony money and credit creation. These are of course also the unintended consequences of many years of quantitative easing (QE) in the major economies spilling over to emerging economies.

Now, markets have become aware of the problem and are attacking the imbalances. Research on private sector credit booms over the last 20 years show that whenever credit to the private sector expanded by 30% or more within a 10-year period, a banking crisis and recession resulted without any exception. The following countries are all far above that danger level today and candidates for a banking crisis: Hong Kong, China, Thailand, Brazil, Turkey and Singapore. And recently even Korea, Romania, Ukraine and even Russia have broken the danger level. This is quite a long list, and the big EM economies are all part of it except India that has other deficiencies.

Now, these economies differ from each other, of course, but they share a common disease, namely a previous economic boom built on excessive credit. Most have chronic deficits in their external accounts that were unimportant as long as foreign capital flowed in at large. The response to current problems – which have been with us since the tapering was announced last summer – also differs as some simply cannot intervene in the currency market due to the lack of enough foreign exchange reserves (Turkey, South Africa) while others do intervene due to large reserves, like Brazil or Russia. Some are struggling due to the compounding effect of political trouble (Turkey) and some like Russia due to spending their foreign exchange reserves on weak political allies, in this case the Ukraine. All of them will end up with higher interest rates, a weaker economy and a weaker currency, eventually.

http://brazilianbubble.com/zulauf-on-gl ... y-episode/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Chinese capital markets are quietly turmoiling as debt issues are delayed and demand for "Trust" products - the shadow-banking-system's wealth management 'investments' - is tumbling. As Nikkei reports, since January, 9 companies have postponed or canceled issuance plans (around $1 billion) and is most pronounced in privately-owned companies (who lack an implicit government guarantee). This, of course, is exactly what the PBOC wanted (to instill some fear into these high-yield investors - demand - and thus slow the supply of credit to the riskiest over-capacity compenies) but as non-performing loans in China surge to post-crisis highs, fear remains prescient that they will be unable to "contain" the problem once real defaults begin (as opposed to 'delays of payment' that we have seen so far).

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-02-1 ... est-crisis" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Factory production in the U.S. unexpectedly declined in January by the most since May 2009, adding to evidence severe winter weather weighed on the economy.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-02-1 ... -2009.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Over the course of the past five years, 1.2 million borrowers received permanent mortgage modifications as a part of the program, most of them seeing their interest rates reduced to approximately 2 percent, well below current average rates.

The program has come under fire for its high default rate. As of Dec. 31, 894,410 borrowers were still in active modifications. More than 306,000 redefaulted on the loans, according to a report last summer from the Special Inspector General of the Troubled Asset Relief Program.

As the program was slow to ramp up, the first modifications were not logged until September 2009, but come this fall, about 30,000 borrowers will see their rates bump up 1 full percentage point. Their rates will then rise each year until they reach the current market rate, which now stands at 4.5 percent but is expected to rise over the next few years as hundreds of thousands more loans start to reset.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/101417785" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Wall Street is using loopholes in financial legislation to seize control of entire industrial chains. Wall Street watchers have been concerned for some time about the monopolizing trend among big banks. One of the most alarming developments in recent years is a buying spree in which megabanks have been gobbling up physical assets.
http://rinf.com/alt-news/latest-news/pr ... -got-clue/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

A huge snow storm is blanketing the densely populated US North-east, after wreaking havoc with ice in the South. Across the typically mild South, about 750,000 homes and businesses lack power, and about 6,500 flights have been cancelled. The weather system has affected people in about 22 states from Texas to Maine and caused at least 18 deaths.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-26165335" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

The latest blow from the Eastern United States' endless winter of 2013 - 2014 is winding down, as Winter Storm Pax scoots northeastward into Canada. Pax was the biggest Nor'easter of the winter so far, and dumped more than two feet of snow in the higher elevations of Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, and New York. Snowfall rates as high as 6" per hour were observed in an intense band that accompanied the storm over portions of New Jersey and New York. As of 9 am EST Friday, over a foot of snow (12.5") had fallen in New York City's Central Park, 12.3" in Baltimore, 11.9" at Newark, 9.8" at Philadelphia, and 6" in Washington D.C. at Reagan Airport. The storm dumped 5.8" on Knoxville, Tennessee--the city's first 5"+ snowfall since Jan. 17, 1996. Columbia SC recorded snow for the third day in a row on Thursday, marking the first time since January 1940 that had occurred.

Twenty-one Deaths, 400,000 Without Power
At least 21 deaths are being blamed on the storm, including three people who died of heart attacks while shoveling heavy snow in Maryland on Thursday. As of 9 am EST on Friday, approximately 400,000 customers were without power, almost entirely in the states that received the worst freezing rain: Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina. At the ice storm's peak on Thursday, about 700,000 customers were without power.

Drought conditions in California in January 2014 were the most severe ever observed in January, dating back to 1895. California had its driest 3rd driest January. It was the state's driest December-January on record, with 0.94 inch of precipitation, 7.35 inches below average. The previous record dry December-January occurred in 1975/76, when the two-month precipitation total was 1.32 inches. The December-February period is typically the wettest three months for California, and is an important time for the state's water resources. Winter precipitation is vital to replenish reservoirs and builds mountain snowpack that melts during the spring and summer. Last week's "Pineapple Express" storm over Northern California helped reduce the area of California in extreme drought from 67% to 61%, but the drought situation remains dire.

http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMa ... rynum=2632" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Devastating storms that have dumped as much as 40 inches of snow on parts of the United States and caused widespread flooding in the UK are combining over the Atlantic, weather experts have revealed.

Incredible satellite imagery from NASA's Worldview shows the monster storms swirling 'arm-in-arm' across the ocean.

The storms in the US have left 21 people dead and caused thousands of flights to be cancelled, bringing the east coast to a standstill.

Meanwhile, in Britain, heavy rain and winds up to 80 mph devastated parts of the south, aggravating areas already flooded after the wettest January since records began in 1776.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... antic.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Indonesian volcano erupts, killing 3 and grounding flights
http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/13/world/asi ... vacuation/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

For the state that produces one-third of the nation's fruits and vegetables, the driest spell in 500 years has prompted President Obama to make $100 million in livestock-disaster aid available within 60 days to help the state rebound from what he describes is " going to be a very challenging situation this year... and potentially some time to come."
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-02-1 ... th-farmers" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

As a survivor of the Icepocalypse that recently gripped much of the South in crippling power outages and freezing temperatures, at least three lessons can be deduced from the experience.

A very small minority of people are equipped to deal with an emergency in a competent fashion.
A slightly larger number of people attempt to be prepared but fall short if the emergency persists.
The vast majority of people are wholly unprepared for even a slight disturbance in their usual routine or living conditions.

http://www.activistpost.com/2014/02/hal ... pping.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[Jason]

When the National Shooting Sports Foundation reported the economic impact of the firearms industry increased from $19 billion in 2008 to $31 billion in 2011, it became a running joke that President Barack Obama was the “gun salesman of the year” for 2012.

And the phenomenon was trending upward, as there were a record 1.5 million background checks requested in December 2011.

It’s hard to say how Obama may have felt about his faux-title, but he’s all but certain to retain it based on a Bloomberg News report Thursday that said U.S. gun makers “churned out a record number of firearms in 2012.”

http://www.bizpacreview.com/2014/02/21/ ... ode-102184" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

U.S. gun makers led by Sturm Ruger & Co. and Smith & Wesson Holding Corp. (SWHC) churned out a record number of firearms in 2012, government data show, continuing a trend of robust production during Democratic presidencies.

More than 8.57 million guns were produced in 2012, up 31 percent from 6.54 million in 2011, according to data released this week by the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, which has been tracking the statistics since 1986.

Almost as many guns -- 26.1 million -- were produced during Democrat Barack Obama’s first term as president as during the entire eight-year presidency of his Republican predecessor, George W. Bush, the ATF data show.

“Barack Obama is the stimulus package for the firearms industry,” said Dave Workman, senior editor of Gun Mag, a print and online publication of the 2nd Amendment Foundation, a gun-ownership rights group. “The greatest irony of the Obama administration is that the one industry that he may not have really liked to see healthy has become the healthiest industry in the United States.”

More than 21 million background checks were conducted last year, up 7 percent from the 19.6 million in 2012, according to the FBI. Those figures are records and represent increases of at least 19 percent over the 16.45 million checks performed in 2011. Not every background check leads to a gun sale, and a single background check may be used for multiple purchases.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-02-2 ... issue.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

A proposed Idaho bill would nullify future federal gun laws by prohibiting state enforcement of any federal act relating to personal firearms, a firearm accessories or ammunition. It passed the state senate on Wednesday by a vote of 34-0, with one member not voting.

Introduced by the State Affairs Committee, the Idaho Federal Firearm, Magazine and Register Ban Enforcement Act, or SB1332, would

“protect Idaho law enforcement officers from being directed, through federal executive orders, agency orders, statutes, laws, rules, or regulations enacted or promulgated on or after the effective date of this act, to violate their oath of office and Idaho citizens’ rights under Section 11, Article I, of the Constitution of the State of Idaho.”

http://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/20 ... welo4UzlUk" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

The Arizona legislature sent a bill to the Gov. Jan Brewer’s desk Thursday that would carve a massive hole into state law allowing business owners to turn away gay and lesbian customers, employers to deny equal pay to women, or individuals to renege on contract obligations–as long as they claim to be doing so in the name of religion.
http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/arizona-pass ... rimination" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

NASA’s IBEX and Voyager 1 missions have shattered all conventional ideas about the heliospheric boundary, the region separating our solar system from interstellar space. In 2009, the IBEX spacecraft created the first all-sky map of the boundary revealing an astonishing ribbon of energetic neutral atoms. According to scientists, it’s still a big mystery.
http://www.thunderbolts.info/wp/2014/02 ... pace-news/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Florida is prone to fire, and so the Florida Forest Service promotes the use of prescribed fire to cut down on wildfire risk. At the end of January 2014, the agency had authorized more than 1,600 prescribed burn managers to burn 2.3 million acres of land annually—one of the most extensive prescribed burning programs in the nation. This means that it is likely that at least some of the fires seen in the image are prescribed burns.
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Natura ... &src=nhrss" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

A low-lying tract of land in southwestern England known as the Somerset Levels stands just a few meters above sea level; some of the lowest parts even dip below sea level. A natural marshland, the Levels were drained and reclaimed for agriculture over the past few hundred years. However, the marshy character of the land still reasserts itself on occasion.

In December 2013 and January 2014, a series of storms dropped 372 millimeters (15 inches) of rain on southern England, making that two-month period the wettest on record since 1910. The storms and rain have continued into February. Since January, both the River Parrett and River Tone spilled over their banks and flooded sections of the Levels. By mid-February, an estimated 17,000 hectares (66 square miles) and 150 homes were swamped.

The Advanced Land Imager (ALI) on NASA’s Earth-Observing-1 satellite acquired this image on February 16, 2014. For comparison, the lower image shows Somerset Levels as seen by Landsat 8 on November 4, 2013.

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Natura ... &src=nhrss" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Extratropical Cyclone over the United Kingdom
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Natura ... me&eoci=nh" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

A major February thaw is underway across the Midwest U.S., where high temperatures are above freezing for a second consecutive day in cities like Chicago, Minneapolis, and Detroit. The welcome thaw is bringing significant melting of the heavy snowpack over the Midwest, raising flooding concerns. Much of Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, Michigan, Minnesota, and Indiana are covered by snows of 10 - 30" that if melted, would be equivalent to 2 - 6" of rain. With temperatures in the 40s and low 50s coming on Thursday, accompanied by up to 1" of rain, flash flooding is expected in many regions of the Midwest. Soils are still frozen, which will limit the infiltration of the rain into the ground, providing faster run-off and greater flooding potential. Also of concern are ice jams on rivers, caused when the ice on top of rising rivers breaks up and jams together, creating blockages that back up river waters. NOAA's Storm Prediction Center has placed much of the Midwest under their "Slight Risk" area for severe weather on Thursday, with portions of Kentucky and Tennessee in their first "Moderate Risk" area of the year. Severe thunderstorms with strong winds, hail, and few tornadoes will make it seem like spring. However, it will be winter on Thursday over Northern Iowa and Southern Minnesota, where blizzard warnings are posted.

Return of the Polar Vortex Next Week
Fortunately (?) for the Midwest, this week's thaw will be short-lived, preventing the kind of major flooding that would result if all of the snowpack were to melt in a week. This morning's runs of the GFS and European models were better able to handle the evolving upper-air pattern over the Pacific Ocean, and it appears that their earlier runs seriously underestimated the strength of a ridge of high pressure forecast to build over the Western U.S. 6 - 10 days from now. This ridge will be accompanied by a return of the cold "Polar Vortex" over the Midwest and Northeast U.S., bringing bitter cold temperatures and strong winds. Temperatures 20°F below normal will likely invade the Upper Midwest on Sunday, and gradually spread southeastwards during the week. The peak cold is predicted to occur late next week, with temperatures 20 - 35° below normal covering much of the eastern 2/3 of the country. As a result of these new model runs, the natural gas market has been soaring ever since early this morning, and is now approaching a five-year high of $6.

http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMa ... rynum=2634" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Farmer’s Almanac nails winter freeze; government climate scientists way off
http://www.bizpacreview.com/2014/02/21/ ... off-102258" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Voices for Vaccines: 11 Facts Show How it’s a Propaganda Ploy for Emory University, CDC, and Big Pharma
http://vactruth.com/2014/02/19/cdc-and- ... niversity/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

A new leak of 100 tonnes of highly radioactive water has been discovered at Fukushima, the plant's operator said after it revealed only one of nine thermometers in a crippled reactor was still working.

The tank, one of hundreds at the site that are used to store water contaminated during the process of cooling broken reactors, sits about 700 metres from the shore.

A spokesman for Tokyo Electric Power says the toxic water is no longer escaping from a storage tank and is likely contained, but the news is a further blow to the company's already-battered reputation for safety.

"As there is no drainage way near the leak, which is in any case far from the ocean, it is unlikely that the water has made its way into the sea," he said.

"However, the water was highly radioactive, with a beta radiation reading at 230 million becquerel per litre."

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-02-20/1 ... ma/5273402" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

A new study from the U.S. Geological Survey, accepted for publication online ahead of print in the journal Enviromental Toxicology and Chemistry, titled, “Pesticides in Mississippi air and rain: A comparison between 1995 and 2007,” reveals that Roundup herbicide (aka glyphosate) and its still-toxic degradation byproduct AMPA were found in over 75% of the air and rain samples tested from Mississippi in 2007.
http://www.thedailysheeple.com/roundup- ... nds_022014" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Russia has suspended another tranche of financial aid for Ukraine because of the current tensions and plans to wait until the situation stabilizes to resume support afterwards, Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov told Bloomberg on Friday commenting on the Irish Stock Exchange’s report on Ukraine’s refusal to sell two-year Eurobonds of $2 billion. Russia was to buy bonds under the already approved $15 billion aid package.

“We planned to allocate another tranche according to that arrangement. Yet in the current situation we have many questions as to how the money will be used and how it will be paid back," said Siluanov.

Conditions for the second tranche were similar to those of the first, namely a two-year loan at a rate of 5 percent per annum, Siluanov added.

He also doubted the feasibility of currency interventions to support the hryvnia amid political instability.

“The national bank of Ukraine can now make efforts to bolster the hryvnia, but demand for foreign currency amid political uncertainty will remain high,” he said. “Therefore, interventions can prove a waste of gold and currency reserves that will lead to nothing and will not prevent the hryvnia's devaluation."

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-02-2 ... government" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

With 328 (of the 450 seats) voting in favor, the Ukraine parliament has agreed to removed President Viktor Yanukovych:

*UKRAINIAN PARLIAMENT VOTES TO REMOVE PRESIDENT YANUKOVYCH
*UKRAINIAN PARLIAMENT VOTES TO HOLD EARLY ELECTIONS ON MAY 25

“Yanukovych, in an illegal manner, removed himself from his constitutional duties,” Turchynov says in chamber before vote. The Russians are not at all happy with Siluanov exclaiming these actions "pose a direct threat to Ukraine's sovereignty and constitutional order."

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-02-2 ... ont-resign" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

“We haven’t been able to connect with anybody from the defense ministry there in the Ukraine,” Pentagon spokesman Rear Adm. John Kirby said Thursday. “He’s been trying now for the past several days, as the violence escalated, to reach Ministry of Defense.” On Wednesday, Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych fired the head of the armed forces Col. Gen. Volodymyr Zamana and replaced him with Ukraine’s navy chief, Adm. Yuriy Ilyin, BBC reported. Following that move, President Barack Obama publicly warned Ukraine’s military to “show restraint,” and Gen. Phil Breedlove, NATO supreme allied commander and head of U.S. Europe Command, began posting Tweets and Facebook messages to try and reach Ukrainian military leaders.
http://www.defenseone.com/politics/2014 ... l-continue" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

The crisis in Ukraine has spiralled rapidly out of control outside of the capital, Kiev, as anti-government protesters stormed buildings, seized weapons and staged demonstrations across the western part of the country. Amid fears that Ukraine is edging closer to a more violent fracture, reports emerged of blocked roads, train services halted from the west and government offices under occupation by protesters, with the most serious confrontations centred on the country's pro-European and Ukrainian speaking regions.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/f ... -from-kiev" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

It has been a busy night in the Ukraine.

First, the newly-installed interior minister declared that the police were now behind the protesters they had fought for days, giving central Kiev the look of a war zone with 77 people killed, while central authority crumbled in western Ukraine. Then despite yesterday's latest anti-crisis "agreement" which we said would last at best hours, the protesters continued their pressure against embattled president Yanukovich, demanding his outright and unconditional resignation, leading to his fleeing Kiev by airplane overnight to the far more pro-Russian city of Kharkiv located in the Eastern Ukraine, even as his arch rival, Yulia Tymoshenko, who is held in prison in the same city, was rumored to have been released on her way to the far more anti-Russian city of Kiev - it turns out those rumors have so far been incorrect.

Then there was a plethora of rumors that he has or is about to either escape the country and/or resign, sparking celebrations in Kiev, only for him to appear on TV subsequently and not only deny a resignation is coming, but that he accused the current leaders in Kiev of staging a coup d'etat and that all parliamentary decisions today have been illegitimate, saying "I did all I could to avoid bloodshed" while comparing recent events in the Ukraine to the "Fascist Revolution" in Germany. This was promptly rebutted by the Polish foreign minister Radoslaw Sikorski who tweeted there is no coup in Kiev and President Viktor Yanukovych has 24 hours to sign re-adopted 2004 constitution into law.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-02-2 ... l-palace-p" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has been hailed by thousands of opposition supporters in central Kiev after being freed from detention.

She has suffered from a back injury and addressed them from her wheelchair.

"You are heroes," she told the crowd on Independence Square, the focus of protests against President Viktor Yanukovych, and broke down in tears.

The speech came at the end of a dramatic day, with the president fleeing Kiev but refusing to quit.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-26306511" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

“I even have information that Soros has allocated certain funds in order to prepare a certain group of young boys here in Ukraine who could launch any existing projects based on the North Africa examples,” said Aleksandr Yefremov, head of the Party of Regions parliamentary faction.

A “certain group of young boys,” namely violent gun-toting hooligans from the Right Sector and associated neofascist groups, are reportedly in control of Kyiv as of Saturday. Members of 31st Hundred, an opposition group from Lviv, were said to be in control of Ukraine’s Parliament building, The New York Times reports, and the president, Viktor Yanukovych, has fled the capitol. Protesters have taken control of his home.

http://www.prisonplanet.com/soros-funde ... raine.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

MOSCOW, February 20 (RIA Novosti) – The combat capability of Russia’s naval task force in the Mediterranean will increase significantly following the first deliveries of Varshavyanka-class submarines to the Black Sea Fleet in 2015, Navy Commander Adm. Viktor Chirkov said Thursday. Russia formed a permanent naval task force in the Mediterranean last year to defend its interests in the region.
http://en.ria.ru/military_news/20140220 ... -Subs.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

In the latest in a series of so-called executive actions promised in his state of the union address, the US president will sign new measures to speed up imports and exports for businesses by reducing bureaucratic barriers. Though more limited than the sweeping free trade agreement with China that Obama plans to discuss later in the day with Mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto and Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper, the White House claims that streamlining trade rules will help businesses further integrate their supply chains and boost jobs.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/f ... r-congress" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

A report by The Blaze indicates that food stamp usage by military families has sharply increased since President Obama came into office. In 2013, roughly $104 million was used at military commissaries in 2013, up from $31 million in 2008.
http://menrec.com/food-stamp-usage-up-2 ... -military/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

What are we going to do about those little monsters called children? They won’t be quiet, won’t sit still and won’t pay attention. They aren’t succeeding in school, and no matter how many drugs we pump into them, they don’t seem to get any better.

To the surprise of no one, a new study has just been released showing that the staggeringly popular prescription drug Adderall is not having any positive effects on children’s grades, and in fact may be causing more kids to drop out of school.

The finding should have been obvious, but don’t expect inattentive parents to stop buying the drug, and don’t expect greedy psychiatrists to stop handing them out like candy – for a hefty price.

The overmedication of our children is an increasingly troubling trend.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-02-2 ... %99s-youth" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

BEIJING, Feb. 22 (UPI) -- Four people in two Chinese provinces have been confirmed as infected with H7N9 bird flu virus, authorities said.
http://www.upi.com/Health_News/2014/02/ ... t=rln&or=4" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

China today reported four new H7N9 infections, one fatal, including the first case from Jilin province, which lies well north of the main outbreak area.
http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspect ... n-province" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

WHO On Guangzhou H7N9 Nosocomial Cluster In Panyu
http://www.recombinomics.com/News/02201 ... u_WHO.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

The flu this season -- mostly the pandemic pH1N1 strain -- has been hard on young and middle-age adults, the CDC is reporting.

People 18 through 64 account for 61% of all hospital admissions for laboratory-confirmed influenza, the agency reported in the Feb. 21 issue of Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR).

The pattern appears to be similar for deaths in which influenza was a contributing factor, the CDC said, with an estimate of 62% occurring among people 25 through 64

http://www.medpagetoday.com/InfectiousD ... eFlu/44406" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

INTERNMENT AND RESETTLEMENT OPERATIONS - February 2010
http://info.publicintelligence.net/USAr ... lement.pdf" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Lawmakers: CIA #2 Lied to Us About Benghazi
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/law ... tml?page=1" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

(CNSNews.com) - The electricity price index soared to a new high in January 2014 with the largest month-to-month increase in almost four years, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Meanwhile, data from the Energy Information Administration, a division of the U.S. Department of Energy, indicates that electricity production in the United States has declined since 2007, when it hit its all-time peak.
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The US Bureau of Reclamation released its first outlook of the year and finds insufficient stock is available in California to release irrigation water for farmers. This is the first time in the 54 year history of the State Water Project. "If it's not there, it's just not there," notes a Water Authority director adding that it's going to be tough to find enough water, but farmers are hit hardest as "they're all on pins and needles trying to figure out how they're going to get through this." Fields will go unplanted (supply lower mean food prices higher), or farmers will pay top dollar for water that's on the market (and those costs can only be passed on via higher food prices).

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-02-2 ... e-54-years" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Fourteen months into a historic drought, with reservoirs running low and the Sierra snowpack 27 percent of normal, a growing number of Californians are wondering: Why isn't everyone being forced to ration?

So far, Gov. Jerry Brown and most major water providers, from the Bay Area to Los Angeles, are calling for voluntary cuts -- not mandatory rationing with fines for excessive use.

"I've been astounded," said Jay Geis, a Cupertino sales executive who said his friends and neighbors also are surprised by the lack of urgency. "Just drive by any reservoir and it's horrifying. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to understand we're in a drought."

While three utilities provide 80 percent of Californians' electricity, there are roughly 3,000 water providers statewide, all with different rules, political realities and needs. Some are cities. Some are corporations. Some are farm districts pumping from wells. Some have significant amounts of water stored up and some don't. But all of their bottom lines depend on selling water, not conserving. And as difficult as the economics of rationing are, the politics may be even more complex.

http://www.mercurynews.com/science/ci_2 ... tory-water" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

San Joaquin Valley organic dairy farmer Tony Azevedo’s business has dried up—literally. Because of the record-breaking California drought, he has nothing to feed his cows except what he has stored, and he expects that will be gone in about 100 days. “It’s a desert out here,” he says.

With their pastures barren, organic cattle and dairy farmers in California are either spending thousands of dollars to truck in supplemental organic feed from states as far away as Arizona, or like Azevedo, looking at bowing out of farming altogether. In some cases, operating costs have tripled. Last weekend’s storm, which dropped as much as 4 inches of rain in the Bay Area, still won’t be enough to alleviate the worst drought since the state started keeping records in 1849.

http://www.cornucopia.org/2014/02/organ ... a-drought/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Water crisis in California to drive up food prices
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Farmers in California’s Central Valley, the world’s most productive agricultural region, will get none of the water they requested this year from a federally controlled system because of the drought gripping the state, the U.S. Interior Department’s Bureau of Reclamation said.

The bureau said in a statement it won’t be able to deliver any of the more than 2.4 million acre-feet of water sought by farmers. A state-controlled system last month said it, too, wouldn’t be able to deliver any of the 4 million acre-feet of water sought by local agencies. An acre-foot is the volume needed to cover an acre of land one foot deep with water.

Governor Jerry Brown declared a state of emergency for the world’s 10th largest economy last month after 2013 turned into the driest year on record, leaving reservoirs at dangerously low levels. The dwindling availability of water means farmers will fallow hundreds of thousands of acres, boosting food prices across the U.S. and leaving farm workers jobless. The state has identified 10 rural towns with less than 100 days of supply remaining.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-02-2 ... rmers.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Feb 21 (Reuters) - The worsening drought in California is expected to force a first-ever complete cutoff of federally supplied farm water to most irrigation districts in the state's Central Valley heartland this year, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation said on Friday.

The projected zero allocation to most agricultural districts supplied by the federally run Central Valley Project comes three weeks after forecasts of similarly drastic cuts were announced by managers of a separate, state-operated water delivery system.

Based on the latest cutbacks projected, Wade's group estimates that more than 500,000 acres (200,000 hectares) of cropland will be idled this year, out of roughly 6 million acres (2.4 million hectares) open to farming in the region.

That tally would rank as the most farmland ever fallowed in California due to drought, a production loss that could cause billions of dollars in economic damage, he said. The coalition has said 15,000 seasonal and full-time farm jobs are currently at risk as a result.

California grows nearly half of all U.S. fruits and vegetables, most of that in the Central Valley, and ranks as the top farm state by annual value of agricultural products.

Large-scale crop losses anticipated this year due to the drought would undoubtedly lead to higher consumer prices, especially for tree and vine produce grown only in California, though experts say it is to soon to quantify that effect.

The Central Valley Project, a sprawling network of dams, reservoirs, canals, tunnels and pumping stations, is the chief source of surface water for a vast, fertile region stretching 450 miles (720 km) north-sound from Redding to Bakersfield.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/02/ ... NY20140222" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

SACRAMENTO — California Governor Jerry Brown announced a $687 million drought-relief package on Feb. 19 to help residents, farmers and local communities cope with a water shortage he called the worst in the state’s modern history.
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Los Angeles (United States) (AFP) - A plan to divide California into six separate US states is closer to making it on to a November ballot, with organizers gaining approval to collect signatures.

The seemingly far-fetched initiative, sponsored by Silicon Valley venture capitalist Tim Draper, claims "political representation of California's diverse population and economies has rendered the state nearly ungovernable."

And on Tuesday, the California Secretary of State's office gave the movement a boost, saying that proponents "may begin collecting petition signatures."

At least 807,615 voters -- representing eight percent of the total ballots cast for governor in the 2010 election -- will need to sign the petition by July 18 to make it on to the ballot.

The proposal aims to split the state -- America's most populous with around 38 million inhabitants -- into "six smaller state governments, while preserving the historical boundaries of the various counties, cities and towns."

http://news.yahoo.com/plan-split-califo ... 39687.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

The weirdness began Tuesday morning when the pond outside his Wichita house took on a pinkish color. Within a few hours, it had turned blood red. Fernandez says the pond is full of fish, and there's no indication any have died because of this. There's also no odor.
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Russia’s U.N. Ambassador Vitaly Churkin came out swinging after Thursday’s Security Council meeting, criticizing the mainstream media for ignoring a Voice of Russia report on a leaked private phone call between EU Representative Catherine Ashton and Estonia’s Foreign Minister Urmas Paet.

During that Feb. 26 call, Churkin says that the Estonian minister told Ashton the snipers who shot protesters and police in Kiev’s Maidan Square were hired by the Ukrainian opposition.

Under the headline: “Behind Ukraine snipers was not Yanukovych, but new coalition,” Voice of Russia reported what it said was the transcript of the conversation, which had clearly been intercepted by hackers or a foreign intelligence service bent on embarrassing the West and its NATO allies.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/03 ... aked-call/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

What has occurred in Ukraine was not a popular revolution, it was a carefully orchestrated coup d’état. The "demonstrators" with the metal barricades, bullet proof vest, army helmets, weapons, shield and masks were very well organized and trained. The whole affair was orchestrated by the West in an attempt to bring Ukraine into NATO and split Russia. Mr. David Shayler a former MI5 officer spoke to the Voice of Russia on the activities of the intelligence services and on what the forces behind the scenes are doing. He says President Putin is merely protecting his country and his people and is in a strong position.

http://voiceofrussia.com/2014_03_04/Ukr ... yler-7088/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

If these democratic and peaceful solutions to the crisis in Ukraine are rejected by the opposition forces that have seized power in Kiev, I am afraid that Russia will have no other choice but to revert to military means. If the junta leaders want to avoid war, they need to adopt Moscow's peaceful and democratic proposals and adhere to them.

Those currently in power in Kiev are carrying out a political strategy that is not so much pro-European as it is anti-Russian, as evidenced by the surprisingly heavy-handed tactics the U.S. and European Union have employed in Ukraine. In the end, a minority executed a violent coup that removed the democratically elected and legitimate president of Ukraine.

http://www.themoscowtimes.com/opinion/a ... 95740.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Obama issues Executive Order on Ukraine sanctions

Washington (CNN) - President Obama signed an Executive Order Thursday allowing the U.S. government to impose a host of sanctions on both individuals and entities deemed to be violating Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity.

In a phone call with reporters, senior administration officials discussed the Executive Order and said it is intended to, "send a strong message that we intend to impose costs on Russia for this intervention." And will give the U.S. government "powerful and flexible tools" to target those who are believed to be violating international law.

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VILNIUS, LITHUANIA—Centuries of Soviet and czarist oppression taught the three Baltic states to bar their doors whenever the Kremlin issued marching orders. Now they also scramble NATO jets.

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s decision to hold snap military drills in the Baltic Sea last week, just as he was pouring troops into Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula, sent shock waves through Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. The countries demanded — and got — military support from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

The United States deployed six warplanes to Lithuania Thursday to bolster defences in the Baltics for the first time since they joined the alliance in 2004. The move expanded the squadron to 10. Another dozen are to arrive in Poland on March 10, that country’s Defence Ministry said.

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A convoy of 60 unmarked military trucks carrying hundreds of soldiers was today spotted snaking its way from eastern Ukraine into Crimea, as the country appeared more divided than ever.

While Moscow has denied the vehicles are Russian, many of them bore Russian markings. Another convoy was seen travelling to a military base flying the Russian flag just north of the regional capital Simferopol, and reports have emerged that 30,000 Russian troops are now in Ukraine.

A spokesman for the Ukrainian military said there were reports that ships had crossed the Straits of Kerch last night, which separate Russia and Crimea, and landed up to 200 armoured vehicles.

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ARMIANSK, Ukraine (AP) — An Associated Press reporter says pro-Russian forces refused to let a foreign military mission enter Crimea on Saturday. After the officers had stopped, the armed men fired warning bursts of automatic weapons fire into the air to make other unidentified vehicles halt. No injuries were reported.
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China Sides With Russia On Sanctions; Ambassador Warns "Western Nations Would Be Hurting Themselves"
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-03-0 ... ting-thems" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

US Guided-Missile Destroyer Truxtun Has Entered The Black Sea
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-03-0 ... -black-sea" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Update 2: ARMED ATTACKERS LEAVE UKRAINE MILITARY BASE IN SEVASTOPOL: TV5
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The United States has beefed up its military presence in Europe amid tensions in the region over the current crisis in Ukraine.

Twelve F-16 fighter jets and 300 American troops are set to arrive in Poland next week in response to the crisis in Ukraine.

Six F-15C Eagles and more than 60 American had also arrived at Siauliai air base, Lithuania.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2014/03/08 ... ne-crisis/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Ukraine's Military Mobilizes, Prepares For Combat: Trucks, APCs, SAMs, Howitzers, Tanks Rolling Out
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-03-0 ... olling-out" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

(Reuters) - Russian officials are pushing for the International Monetary Fund to move ahead with planned reforms without the United States, which could mean the loss of the U.S. veto over major decisions at the global lender, sources said.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/ ... me=topNews" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Money from globalist centers has been flowing into the Ukrainian opposition since at least 2004, when the Carnegie Foundation was caught filtering funds to anti-Russian political candidate Viktor Yushchenko, as well as to the groups who supported him.

The Ukrainian Supreme Court called for a runoff due to massive voter fraud and the rise of the pro-Western Orange Revolution, determining the winner to be Yushchenko over none other than Viktor Yanukovych. Yanukovych went on to win the 2010 elections, and the revolution returned to oust him this year.

It has been discovered that the current revolution has also been receiving funds from NATO and U.S. interests, not just from the State Department, but also from billionaires like Pierre Omidyar, the chairman of eBay and the new boss of journalist Glen Greenwald, the same journalist who is now famous for being the first to expose National Security Agency documents obtained by Edward Snowden.

Much of the monetary support from such financiers was being funneled to men like Oleh Rybachuk, the right-hand man to Yanukovych during the Orange Revolution and a favorite of neoconservatives and the State Department in the U.S.

The International Monetary Fund has also jumped at the chance to throw money at the new Ukrainian regime, which would prevent default of the country and allow the opposition movement to focus their attentions on Russia.

...

Bottom line, if you believe in national sovereignty and decentralization of power, Putin is NOT your buddy. Once again, we have the globalists injecting money into both sides of a conflict which could morph into something nightmarish. Putin wants global economic governance and consolidation under the IMF just as much as the supposedly "American-run" IMF wants consolidation. Global governance of finance and money creation ultimately means global governance of everything else.

Is a war being created through the false paradigm of East versus West in order to pave the road for global government? Are East/West tensions being exploited as a smokescreen for the final destruction of the dollar's world reserve status? It is hard to say if the Ukraine will be the final trigger; however, the evidence suggests that if a conflict occurs, regardless of who “wins” such a scenario, the IMF comes out on top.

Imagine you are playing a game of chess by yourself. Which side wins at the end of that game: black or white? The answer is it doesn’t matter. You always win when you control both sides.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-03-0 ... powder-keg" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Obama, Biden stick to vacation schedules despite Ukraine crisis
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Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zeidan has warned that Tripoli will bomb a North Korean-flagged tanker which is illegally loading crude oil from an eastern port in the country.

“The attorney general has given the order for the ship to be stopped,” the Libyan prime minister told a news conference on Saturday, stressing, “All parties must respect Libyan sovereignty. If the ship does not comply, it will be bombed.”

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Total Chinese banking assets currently stand at some CNY147 trillion, around 2 ½ times GDP. As such, they have doubled in the past four years of increasingly misplaced investment and frantic real estate speculation, adding the equivalent of 140% of average GDP – or, in dollars, $12.5 trillion – to the books. For comparison, over the same period, US banks have added just less than $700 billion, 4.4% of average GDP, 18 times less than their Chinese counterparts – and this in a period when the predominant trend has been for the latter to do whatever it takes to keep commitments off their balance sheets and lurking in the ‘shadows’!

Indeed, the increase in Chinese bank assets during that breakneck quadrennium is equal to no less than seven-eighths of the total outstanding assets of all FDIC-insured institutions! It also compares to 30% of Eurozone bank assets.

You read that right: in the past five years the total assets on US bank books have risen by a paltry $2.1 trillion while over the same period, Chinese bank assets have exploded by an unprecedented $15.4 trillion hitting a gargantuan CNY147 trillion or an epic $24 trillion – some two and a half times the GDP of China!

Putting the rate of change in perspective, while the Fed was actively pumping $85 billion per month into US banks for a total of $1 trillion each year, in just the trailing 12 months ended September 30, Chinese bank assets grew by a mind-blowing $3.6 trillion!

The big picture: the $23 trillion dollar Chinese credit bubble is starting to collapse.

http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/20 ... -predicted" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

China February exports tumble unexpectedly
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/ ... sinessNews" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Chinese Exports Collapse Leading To 2nd Largest Trade Deficit On Record
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-03-0 ... cit-record" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

It may be too soon to write brick-and-mortar's obituary, but it's not looking good.
http://money.cnn.com/2014/03/07/news/co ... index.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

California Firm Recalls Unwholesome Meat Products Produced Without the Benefit of Full Inspection
http://www.fsis.usda.gov/wps/portal/fsi ... 14-release" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

(CNN) - Beef recalled earlier this year from a California meat producer may have reached 35 states and Guam, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said.
http://www.ky3.com/Recalled-beef-may-ha ... 8_24863320" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

By all accounts, March is the make or break month for the California drought. That’s because snowpack peaks on or about April 1. A big storm last week boosted levels to their highest point so far this winter, but that’s not saying much. Snowpack is still 70 percent below normal, near record lows. California’s Sierra range is nearly devoid of snow, supplemental water from the Colorado River has been reduced for the first time, and groundwater levels are “falling at an alarming rate.” Whatever is up in the Sierras at the end of this month will form the basis for the reserve water that will get California through the summer—and what promises to be an epic fire season.
http://www.slate.com/articles/technolog ... uture.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

The scary statistics of California’s drought read like a latter-day version of the 1930s Dust Bowl crisis. Last year was the state’s driest since the start of record-keeping in 1895, and this year is likely to be even drier. The state’s snowpack, the source of roughly one-third of the water used by California cities and farms, is hovering at only about 20 percent of its normal water content. The amount of water in certain crucial reservoirs is lower now than it was in 1977, which was one of the two prior driest years on record. About a month ago, the state announced that 17 rural communities were within 100 days of running out of drinking water, given current patterns of water supply and demand. California Governor Jerry Brown, who’s running for reelection, warned in February that the state is facing a “mega-drought.” Some water experts predict California’s dry spell will last for decades; others say it’s too early to tell.
http://www.newrepublic.com/article/1168 ... w-scary-it" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

U.S. Drought Monitor - California
http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/Home/Stat ... or.aspx?CA" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

According to the report by the Middle East Monitor publication on Saturday, the Israeli water company Gihon made the announcement on Friday.

"About 80,000 Palestinians in four Arab neighborhoods in Jerusalem and its outskirts have been suffering from complete loss of water for three days," the Israeli firm’s statement read.

The company said the reason for the cut in water supplies is the water infrastructure in the neighborhoods.

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The number of households with more than $1 million in assets gained 3.6 percent since the Democrat took office in 2011, compared with 3.5 percent nationally, according to Phoenix Marketing International’s Global Wealth Monitor. Food-stamp use rose 18.2 percent in the period, almost twice the nation’s 9.4 percent, U.S. Agriculture Department data show.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-03-0 ... -food.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Unrelenting drought across large swaths of the Great Plains, Texas and California has led to the smallest U.S. cattle herd since 1951, shrinking the supply of beef. That has sent prices higher for everything from rump roasts to rib-eyes. The U.S. Department of Agriculture said the average retail price per pound for fresh beef in January was $5.04, the highest price ever on records that date back to 1987.
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Going back to data form the 1950s personal income never declined on a year-over-year timeframe. That is until the Great Recession. So this recent reading showing personal income declining year-over-year is notable:

It is rather clear what is going on here. Starting in the late 1990s, we see that personal income was facing some severe constraints on growth. That is, until the debt bubble of the 2000s papered over the reality of growing wealth and income inequality. The public of course mistook access to debt as access to wealth. Of course debt needs to be paid back and paid back with what? Income. This is why income and debt are two sides of the same coin. Eventually reality catches up.

http://www.mybudget360.com/personal-inc ... ending-up/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Household formation started picking up when the recession ended in 2009 and spiked in 2011 and 2012. Yet that all changed in 2013. Sure, some will blame this on higher interest rates even though a 30 year fixed rate mortgage can still be had at historically low levels (rates are in the 4 percent range barely hovering above the rate of inflation). In reality what has occurred is that we have become a nation juiced to the gills on easy debt. Younger Americans are largely shouldering the brunt of the $1.2 trillion in outstanding student debt.

The figures are troubling but also signify some bigger changes in the housing market. First, Americans are not going out and forming households in droves even though the population is growing:

http://www.mybudget360.com/never-leave- ... e-percent/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

In total, 7 million Americans have been served with the bitter taste of foreclosure. On the flipside, since we know that roughly 30 percent of all purchases have gone to investors and Wall Street, we can say that probably over this same period 2,000,000 homes are now in the hands of some sort of investors (i.e., big money, small money, foreign money, and second homes). You also have to wonder how many of these people that lost their homes in foreclosure are itching to get back on the horse and buy again. Credit standards are fairly tough for getting a loan today even though rates are low. And those with the credit and income are battling it out in flippervilles where “all cash” is dominating the scene. There are likely some permanent structural changes that are a result of a stunning 7 million foreclosures.
http://www.doctorhousingbubble.com/hous ... ures-reos/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

This is an important chart. During the last bubble, household debt was increasing at an annualized rate of close to $1 trillion during some quarters. Those days are long gone. Yet for the last quarter of 2013 we see that household debt increased by $180 billion. Good news right?

Well there are some key points in the data:

-For housing, mortgage balances remained flat as investors crowd out the market and existing home sales still remain weak

-Credit card balances grew a bit, but not by much

-Auto loans are showing some improvement but we are also seeing a growth in sub-prime debt here

-Finally, the big jump came from student loans going up $114 billion for the year

In reality what we are seeing is that loans disconnected from income verification like student debt are growing by leaps and bounds and loans connected to income like mortgages and credit cards having a slow time to rebound. Banks are the frontline for mortgages and credit cards. Student debt is all based on the government. So of course, just like what occurred with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac easy government financing is once again fueling a massive bubble in the student loan industry.

http://www.mybudget360.com/household-de ... debt-2014/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Banking assets equaling the U.S. GDP, scary thought. According to Bloomberg, 50% of these assets are off balance-sheet and are compromised of derivatives (bets) and other risky loans. With banking officials not being accountable to the same laws as the U.S. citizenry and this amount of ownership in Dollar assets, will not end well.

The math is starting to paint a bleak picture and we are seeing precedent that is backing up much of the dissenters message on these subjects. Too Big to Fail, Too Big to Jail, what does that mean? It sounds like we have a financial super-structure that is considered untouchable by the people who we elect and or expect to be upholding the rule of law in the name of Justice.

Think about it.

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Silver Spot - recent drop
http://www.kitco.com/charts/livesilver.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Gold Spot - recent drop
http://www.kitco.com/charts/livegold.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Copper Spot - recent drop
http://www.thestreet.com/topic/45621/copper-price.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Aluminum Spot - recent drop
http://newsblogged.com/spot-aluminium-p ... me-updates" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Lead Spot - recent drop
http://www.kitcometals.com/charts/lead.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Nickel Spot - recent drop
http://www.kitcometals.com/charts/nicke ... large.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Zinc Spot - recent drop
http://www.kitcometals.com/charts/zinc_ ... large.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

The U.S. is now a designated military testing ground for real-time biological and entomological warfare applications using Americans as test subjects under public law 105-85
http://intellihub.com/recent-u-s-snowst ... -populace/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;



TSA Orders Over Half-Ton Of High Powered Explosive
http://www.activistpost.com/2014/03/tsa ... -high.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[Jason]

Some updates to the reading list after a period of neglect...currently reading one of the best summaries of the period following WWII conclusion to just over a decade ago called The Medusa File by Craig Roberts. He's also compiled the most extensive investigative work on the JFK assassination that I have had the opportunity to read (Kill Zone & JFK: The Dead Witnesses).
Author's website - http://www.riflewarrior.com/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Anyways prompted me to update the list with some new resources and begin an effort to obtain links to all of them (to the extent available) as well as general clean up work (still in progress).

http://yophat.blogspot.com/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[Jason]

FWIW...The Wood Zone
http://woodyoubelieveit.blogspot.com/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[Jason]

For five long years, we have pursued the fantasy that we could return to "growth" without having to fix or change anything.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-03-1 ... asy-ending" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Martin said new Labor Department rules issued last fall for fast food workers on federal contracts under the Service Contract Act require an increase in the minimum wage for such employees, varying by region. The rules also require payment of new, additional “health and welfare” fringe benefits at a rate of $3.81 per hour to those employees.

Contractor-operated fast food concessions on military installations fall under those regulations.

The new rules “have to be part of any contract we negotiate,” said Martin, adding that many vendor partners “have verbally indicated hesitation” to accept contract changes reflecting the revised wage rules.

http://www.militarytimes.com/article/20 ... tary-bases" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

HHS’ Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services quietly introduced the new rule Friday, which relieves insurance companies of some of the damage about to be levied on them by Obamacare-related administrative costs.
http://dailycaller.com/2014/03/18/congr ... z2wL3l8xaY" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

More than two dozen states joined forces urging Walmart and four other retail giants to stop selling tobacco products at their pharmacy chains.

A group of attorneys general from 28 states and territories sent letters to the CEOs of Rite Aid, Walgreens, Kroger, Safeway and Walmart asking them to follow the lead of CVS Caremark, which recently opted to go smoke-free.

http://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/stat ... ng-tobacco" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Retail food prices may rise as much as 3.5 percent this year, the biggest jump in three years, thanks to long-lasting droughts in Texas and California, The Wall Street Journal notes. For many consumers, this spike in their grocery bills will likely come at a tough time, just as thousands of low-income Americans are facing food-stamp cuts and middle-class workers suffer from stagnating wages.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/get-ready-t ... et-prices/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

The U.S. Department of Agriculture estimated that retail food prices will rise between 2.5% and 3.5% this year, up from 1.4% last year. The inflation comes despite sharp decreases over the past year in grain prices, which includes corn, after a big U.S. harvest.
http://www.fooddive.com/news/higher-foo ... on/240152/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

...a lot of the corn is rotting on the ground...

The California rainy season is close to its end. Rain-bearing low pressure systems typically stop bringing heavy rains to the state by mid-April, as the jet stream shifts to the north in its usual springtime migration. With no rain in the forecast for the next seven days, and the 16-day GFS forecast showing mostly light rains affecting the northern portion of the state 8 - 16 days from now, California has likely seen at least 90% of the precipitation that it’s going to get this anemic rainy season. That’s a huge concern for a state suffering through its worst winter drought conditions in recorded history, and Sierra snow pack and reservoir levels near record lows. This year’s drought could well be a harbinger of the future, as climate change is expected to cause increased water availability problems in California. The state is going to have to find new sources of water in the future to support its growing population. Where can California find more water?
http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMa ... rynum=2648" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Around the West and in the Great Plains, multiple states also experienced warmer temperatures and low rainfall. Arizona had its fourth warmest winter to date and Texas had it lowest reservoir levels in 25 years by March.
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/war ... ght-n55181" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

The British government appears hell bent on ramming the GM biotech sector’s poison done the throats of the British people. Food and Farming Secretary Owen Paterson has been called a puppet of the sector and is either ignorant of or is wholly misrepresenting the efficacy and health impacts of GMOs (1), while Anne Glover, Chief Scientific Advisor of the European Commission, has been accused of presenting lies as facts over the GM issue (2). Now the British government’s Chief Scientist, Mark Walport, has insisted that EU rules banning the commercial cultivation of GM crops have to be changed to feed the world
http://www.globalresearch.ca/bio-tech-p ... ld/5373943" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Fires in Southeast Asia
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Natura ... &src=nhrss" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Well over a week after the disappearance of flight MH370 - which now is the longest official disappearance of a modern jet in aviation history - with no official trace of the missing plane yet revealed, the investigation, which as we reported over the weekend has focused on the pilots and specifically on Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah, earlier today revealed that on his home-made flight simulator had been loaded five Indian Ocean practice runways, among which those of Male in the Maldives, that of the US owned base at Sergio Garcia, as well as other runways in India and Sri Lanka - all notable runways as all are possible landing spots based on the flight's potential trajectories. The Malay Mail Online reported, "The simulation programmes are based on runways at the Male International Airport in Maldives, an airport owned by the United States (Diego Garcia), and three other runways in India and Sri Lanka, all have runway lengths of 1,000 metres."
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-03-1 ... ed-summary" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

While four passengers who boarded amissing Malaysian jet are under special investigation for stolen and other passport-related issues, twenty passengers were involved in cutting edge electronic technology used for defense purposes, including electronic warfare, such as weapons that can “cloak” or make planes invisible, appearing to vanish. If this is the case with the missing jet, the event points to terrorism. The public is told that investigators report the missing Malaysian jet possibly “disintegrated” into thin air. “Officials investigating the disappearance of a Malaysia Airlines jetliner with 239 people on board suspect it may have disintegrated in mid-flight, a senior source said on Sunday, as Vietnam reported a possible sighting of wreckage from the plane,” Reuters reports.
http://govtslaves.info/20-passengers-mi ... invisible/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

US freezes diplomatic, consular relations with Syria; Orders non-US personnel to leave country
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/nat ... story.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

MOSCOW — Invoking the suffering of the Russian people and a narrative of constant betrayals by the West, President Vladimir Putin declared Tuesday that Russia was within its rights to reclaim Crimea, then signed a treaty that did just that.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/rus ... story.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Russia has a minimum of 80,000 troops and 285 tanks poised off of Ukraine’s eastern border ready to cross and seize Ukraine. Meanwhile, Poland has mobilized its forces, but that move is merely defensive. Nearby Belarus is hoping not to get caught in the crossfire and they will stay out of the coming conflict.

Ukraine has called up 40,000 reservists to supplement its 120,000 man army. This is just enough of a military force to increase business for Ukrainian mortuaries.

Russia has the support of another 100,000 troops in Crimea. An estimated 20,000 can participate in the invasion of Ukraine. The Russian naval aircraft coverage, in Crimea, can offer cover for an invasion. Russian paratroopers can be deployed in 30-60 minutes after takeoff from Crimea’s previously seized airports. Ukraine has no defense for the Russian paratrooper forces poised to attack from Crimea.

The Russians are already engaging in a series of probing maneuvers into Ukraine. It looks more like the Russians are trying to provoke a Ukrainian military reaction by a frightened military battlefield commander and then the Russians will have their pretext to invade. Most military analysts that I know state that Russia will carve up Ukraine in a three pronged attack which will take about three days to complete, with isolated pockets of Ukrainian resistant lasting a bit longer if Ukraine has the stomach for the fight, which many analysts question.

The Ukrainians also have private armies totaling an estimated 20-30,000 troops which protect Ukrainian oligarchs. Reportedly, the Russians are already working at bribing these troops to lay down their arms and the oligarchs will be left alone.

http://thecommonsenseshow.com/2014/03/1 ... -to-putin/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

KIEV, March 18 (Reuters) - A Ukrainian serviceman was killed on Tuesday at a Ukrainian base that came under attack in Crimea's main town Simferopol, the first death on the peninsula from a military clash since the region came under Russian control three weeks ago.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/1 ... 86451.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Putin signed an accord yesterday setting in motion Crimea’s accession to Russia, while British Prime Minister David Cameron vowed to push European leaders to agree on additional measures against Russia when they meet tomorrow in Brussels. As tensions rose, Ukraine accused Russian forces of being involved in a shooting that killed a Ukrainian soldier.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-03-1 ... rimea.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Ukrainian Military "Authorized" To Use Live Ammo For Self-Defense
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-03-1 ... lf-defense" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Ukraine despatched tanks into the rolling terrain of the Donbas basin on Monday, putting its biggest guns back on the scene of the biggest armoured clash in history.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne ... ussia.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Ukraine’s deputy national security chief and leader of the nationalist group Right Sector threatened to destroy Russia’s gas pipelines in retaliation for the country’s recent actions in Ukraine.
http://dailycaller.com/2014/03/17/world ... pipelines/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Moscow Accuses Ukraine of Electronic Attack on Satellite
http://freebeacon.com/moscow-accuses-uk ... satellite/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

3/17/2014 – LASK AIR BASE, Poland — At the invitation of the government of Poland, twelve 555th Fighter Squadron F-16 Fighting Falcons and approximately 200 personnel assigned to the 31st Fighter Wing at Aviano Air Base, Italy, arrived at the U.S. Air Force Aviation Detachment here, March 14-15. Over the next several days, U.S. Air Forces in Europe and the Polish Air Force will be conducting an off site bi-lateral training event that demonstrates the U.S.’s commitment to collective defense responsibilities under NATO’s objectives.
http://investmentwatchblog.com/first-do ... o-belarus/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

According to diplomatic sources, Turkey has threatened Russia with a blockade of the Bosphorus Strait - The threat to close the Bosphorus to Russia comes from a report by Hvylya, citing a Turkish diplomatic source. According to the source, Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan yesterday spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin on the phone and warned of the consequences for conflict with Ukraine. The Hvylya source was also reported on by UNIAN.
http://ukrainianpolicy.com/turkey-warns ... bosphorus/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Vice President Joe Biden set the stage for the next phase of the economic war on Russia Tuesday when he announced from Poland the U.S. will impose a new round of sanctions following a vote in Crimea over the weekend declaring secession from Ukraine.
http://www.infowars.com/u-s-moves-to-sq ... rn-europe/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

China's potential in shale gas production is nearly as staggering as its potential growth in demand for natural gas. The U.S. Energy Information Administration estimates that China possesses by far the world's largest reserves of technically recoverable shale gas. Although China's shale gas industry is not as advanced as the United States', it could be the most advanced outside of North America.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-03-1 ... -potential" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

China, having abstained from voting against Russia in the UN, has been relatively quiet during this crisis... until now... As ITAR-TASS reports, spokesperson for China's Ministry of Commerce Shen Danyang said that while "the situation in Ukraine remains tense," and they are watching developments, "we are ready for cooperation with Crimea after the situation there gets back to normal.” This appears to implicitly recognize Crimea as its own region - as opposed to part of Ukraine - even after this morning's "very strict anti-secessio One China policy" comments.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-03-1 ... ate-crimea" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

China’s central bank said it didn’t participate in an “emergency meeting” yesterday on the collapse of a developer with 3.5 billion yuan ($565 million) of debt. The People’s Bank of China, in a statement posted to its official microblog, said it’s not involved in dealing with risks from the collapse of Zhejiang Xingrun Real Estate Co.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-03-1 ... loper.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Chinese banks’ bad loans increased for the ninth straight quarter to the highest level since the 2008 financial crisis
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-02-1 ... risis.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

The $15 trillion shadow over Chinese banks
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/news ... banks.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Marc Faber Warns China's Credit Crisis Unwind 'Will Be a Disaster'
http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article44866.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Looming property default in China raises fears of broader crisis
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/chin ... risis.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

China facing fresh 'ghost town' crisis after developer collapse
http://www.smh.com.au/business/world-bu ... 34yw1.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

...they need a war...and quick

But China isn't just relegating its dirty coal-fired power plants to the outskirts of society; for years, it's been building 16 unprecedentedly massive, brand new "coal bases" in rural parts of the country. There, they won't stifle China's megacities; they'll churn out enough pollution to help smother the entire world.
http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/theres ... size-of-la" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

...strategic militarily too...

Years of excessive investment are catching up with China, and the latest example is coal. Its reserves now contain 220 million tons (200 million tonnes) of coal, as the Hao Hao Report notes. That puts China on track to have as much as 440 million tons by the end of 2013, according to the China National Coal Association (CNCA)—around 40% more than the combined weight of the entire human population.

This excess coal has driven prices down by half, compared with the same period last year. Now 24 of China’s biggest coal companies—nearly one-third—are losing money, says Jiang Zhimin, vice-chairman of the CNCA. ”All the enterprises in the provinces and municipalities of Heilongjiang, Jilin, Yunnan, Chongqing, Anhui and Jiangxi are experiencing losses,” adds Jiang.

http://qz.com/118588/china-will-soon-ha ... opulation/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

...government owned and controlled companies...

China to spend more on farm subsidies
http://www.agweek.com/event/article/id/22897/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

China stockpiles cheap uranium as severe shortage is anticipated
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/busines ... 6828750759#" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

China's copper stockpile; America's metals deficit
http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/ ... ls-deficit" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

One look at the chart below, which shows how much iron ore has been stockpiled at China's 34 major ports (spoiler alert: it just hit an all time high), should explain at which of these two extremes China currently finds itself.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-02-1 ... d-plummets" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

China 'stockpiling rare earths for strategic reserves'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/chin ... erves.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

This would be the third successive year that China’s imports have topped two million tons, and also its third year as the No. 2 importer behind Nigeria. It produced 143 million tons of rice this year, making it the world’s No. 1 producer. Its projected consumption of 142 million tons dwarfs the annual global rice trade of around 37 million tons.
http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2013/09/ ... r-running/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

China’s rice imports may increase to a record 5 million tons in 2013-14 (October to September) due to lower production and high domestic prices, according to the China National Grain and Oils Information Center (CNGOIC). China imported about 3.2 million tons of rice in 2012-13, almost six times the 540,000 tons of rice imported in 2010-11.
http://www.oryza.com/news/rice-news/chi ... llion-tons" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

If there were ever a sign that something is amiss, this may very well be it.

United Nations agricultural experts are reporting confusion, after figures show that China imported 2.6 million tons of rice in 2012, substantially more than a four-fold increase over the 575,000 tons imported in 2011.

The confusion stems from the fact that there is no obvious reason for vastly increased imports, since there has been no rice shortage in China. The speculation is that Chinese importers are taking advantage of low international prices, but all that means is that China’s own vast supplies of domestically grown rice are being stockpiled.

Why would China suddenly be stockpiling millions of tons of rice for no apparent reason?

Perhaps it’s related to China’s aggressive military buildup and war preparations in the Pacific and in central Asia.

https://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/ ... s_01092013" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

China, the world's top buyer of raw cotton and soy, will this year scrap its controversial scheme to stockpile the commodities and will trial direct subsidies for farmers instead, the government said in a policy document.

The document, published late yesterday, is the first official confirmation the policy change will come in 2014, although it does not give more specific details on timing and offers limited information on how subsidies will work.

http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/busi ... ng-in-2014" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

BEIJING, March 14 (Xinhua) -- China on Friday urged Japan to explain its massive stockpile of nuclear material, which has allegedly exceeded the country's demand and might increase as Japan re-launches nuclear power plants.

"It's not only the United States and Western society that have raised doubts and concern about Japan's nuclear stockpile, which has far exceeded its demand," Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china ... 187185.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Japan and China’s Dispute Goes Nuclear
http://thediplomat.com/2014/03/japan-an ... s-nuclear/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Israeli Defense Minister Suggests Military Action against Iran because the US is “Weak”
http://www.globalresearch.ca/israeli-de ... ak/5374041" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Japan’s trade deficit exceeded analysts’ estimates in February, underscoring drags on the nation’s recovery ahead of a sales-tax increase in April that will weigh on domestic demand.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-03-1 ... ruary.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

The financial world has been rattled by a rash of apparent suicides, with some of the best and brightest among the finance workers who have taken their lives since the start of the year. A majority of the eight suicides of 2014 have been very public demonstrations, which has suicide-prevention experts puzzled.
http://nypost.com/2014/03/18/string-of- ... s-experts/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

And so another young life is tragically taken before his time, the 11th financial professional to commit suicide in 2014, and the third in as many weeks. How many more to come?
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-03-1 ... t-suicides" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Something hilarious, and at the same time pathetic, happened earlier today: at precisely 9 am the US Treasury released its delayed Treasury International Capital data (which was supposed to be released yesterday but was delayed because it snowed) which disclosed all the latest foreign Treasury holdings for the month of January. Among the key numbers tracked and disclosed, was that China's official holdings increased from $1.270 trillion to $1.284 trillion, that Japan holdings declined by a tiny $0.2 billion, that UK holdings increased by $7.8 billion to $171 billion, and that holdings of Caribbean Banking Centers, aka hedge funds, declined by $16.7 billion. Here is Reuters with the full data summary (save it before this article is pulled).

So why is it hilarious and pathetic? Because just three short hours later, the Treasury - that organization that has billions of dollars at its budgetary disposal to collate, analyze and disseminate accurate and error-free data - admitted that all the previously reported data was in effect made up!

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-03-1 ... -treasurys" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

CORRECTED-(OFFICIAL)-UPDATE 1-Foreign demand for U.S. Treasuries slides in January
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/ ... KS20140318" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

There is a raging epidemic of sexual assault in the U.S. military. A report released by the U.S. Department of Defense says that an astounding 12,000 women serving in the U.S. military were sexually assaulted in 2012. It has gotten so bad that a female service member serving in Afghanistan is more likely to be raped by a male service member than she is to be killed by the Taliban. But that is only half the story. Sexual assault against males is at an epidemic level in the U.S. military as well. In fact, according to the same report that I just mentioned, there were 14,000 sexual assaults against men serving in the U.S. military during 2012. That means that most of the sexual assaults in the military are actually male on male.
http://endoftheamericandream.com/archiv ... le-on-male" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

The New York Post’s Catherine Curan dropped that bombshell last Wednesday when she was the first to report that bankruptcy attorney Linda Tirelli had unearthed a Wells Fargo “how-to” document that instructs bank attorneys essentially how to commit fraud. Tirelli filed the 150-page manual in New York’s notoriously no-nonsense and hard-charging Southern District court on behalf of a homeowner in bankruptcy. The “step-by-step procedure” document instructs Wells Fargo employees how to create (as in just make up out of thin air) an “endorsement” or an “allonge” to prove Wells Fargo is a homeowner’s creditor and therefore has a right to foreclose on the underlying property.
http://www.wallstreetinsightsandindictm ... ank-going/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

...ain't gonna happen....here's a little piece of history...

Wall Street Is Laundering Drug Money And Getting Away With It
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/zach-cart ... 45885.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

How a big US bank laundered billions from Mexico's murderous drug gangs
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/a ... drug-gangs" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

In 2008, Wells Fargo & Company acquired Wachovia Corporation to create North America’s most extensive distribution system for financial services
https://www.wellsfargo.com/about/corporate/wachovia" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

NY gun owners burn registration forms in protest, vow to register nothing
http://www.guns.com/2014/03/18/ny-gun-o ... r-nothing/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[bobhenstra]

Thanks G, Europe and Asia must be cleansed. I think Putin is the leader of the antichrist movement, and this is the beginning of the cleansing, over there-----

Bob

[Original_Intent]

Thanks G, Europe and Asia must be cleansed. I think Putin is the leader of the antichrist movement, and this is the beginning of the cleansing, over there-----

Bob

Putin is a tool, just like Obama.

A precious Prime Minister of England (Disraeli, I think?) said that most people would be completely shocked that they would not recognize the names of the people that ruled the world. I would guess that George Soros is higher up the food chain than Putin or Obama, and I'd be willing to bet there are people above him that if we heard their names we would say "Who?"

[bobhenstra]

Kevin, Our Savior is in charge of the cleansing! They are his tools!

[Jason]

Goes up to the individual who sits at the head of the table for the Council of 13...the chief gadianton who wants to make all men (and women) miserable like unto himself (completely selfish).

As WWII demonstrated (and everything post like killing the President of the United States in broad daylight in Dallas Texas and getting away with it in this life, Oklahoma City, 9/11, etc etc etc)....they controlled or highly influenced all sides of the conflict then....and now. Its more about destruction of the righteous than it is anything else....well perhaps destruction of just about everything Jehovah and Michael created from the earth itself down to the souls who come down to live upon it....and the bodies that they exist in.

The important thing to remember is that the despicable one doesn't do any creating or building....and the Master of the Vineyard who is the Divine Creator is much wiser....and that this is just a test to see what we as individuals will do - our choices....for better or worse.

Will we be loyal? faithful? obedient? charitable? true?

As a friend of mine has often said...adversity reveals character!

Godspeed in building the kingdom!!!

Satan is making war against...the very foundations upon which society, government, and religion rest...He plans to destroy freedom–economic, political, and religious, and to set up in place thereof the greatest, most widespread, and most complete tyranny that has ever oppressed men. He is working under such perfect disguise that many do not recognize either him or his methods. There is no crime he would not commit, no debauchery he would not set up, no plague he would not send, no heart he would not break, no life he would not take, no soul he would not destroy. He comes as a thief in the night; he is a wolf in sheep's clothing. Without their knowing it, the people are being urged down paths that lead only to destruction...

David O. McKay, Conference Report, p. 13 October 1942

"The way ahead is dark and dreary and dreadful. There will yet be martyrs; the doors in Carthage shall again enclose the innocent. We have not been promised that the trials and evils of the world will entirely pass us by.”

“This is the great day of Satan’s power. Gadianton robbers fill the judgment seats in many nations. For those who finish their journey to Mount Zion, to stand with the Lamb, the way ahead is dark and dreary and dreadful. Our worst persecution is NOT behind us. The doors of Carthage shall again enclose the innocent. We shall yet weep more tears for Zion than we have ever known before.”

- Elder Bruce R. McConkie, October 1980 general conference

For verily I say unto you, my law shall be kept on this land.

Let no man think he is ruler; but let God rule him that judgeth, according to the counsel of his own will, or, in other words, him that counseleth or sitteth upon the judgment seat.

Let no man break the laws of the land, for he that keepeth the laws of God hath no need to break the laws of the land.

Wherefore, be subject to the powers that be, until he reigns whose right it is to reign, and subdues all enemies under his feet.

http://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testam ... ang=eng#21" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

But behold, this land, said God, shall be a land of thine inheritance, and the Gentiles shall be blessed upon the land.
And this land shall be a land of liberty unto the Gentiles, and there shall be no kings upon the land, who shall raise up unto the Gentiles.
And I will fortify this land against all other nations.
And he that fighteth against Zion shall perish, saith God.
For he that raiseth up a king against me shall perish, for I, the Lord, the king of heaven, will be their king, and I will be a light unto them forever, that hear my words.
Wherefore, for this cause, that my covenants may be fulfilled which I have made unto the children of men, that I will do unto them while they are in the flesh, I must needs destroy the secret works of darkness, and of murders, and of abominations.
Wherefore, he that fighteth against Zion, both Jew and Gentile, both bond and free, both male and female, shall perish; for they are they who are the whore of all the earth; for they who are not for me are against me, saith our God.

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"All that you know now can scarcely be called a preface to the sermon that will be preached with fire and sword, tempests, earthquakes, hail, rain and fearful destruction. What matters the destruction of a few railway cars? You will hear of magnificent cities, now idolized by the people, sinking in the earth entombing its inhabitants. The sea will heave itself beyond its bounds, engulfing many cities. Famine will spread over the nation, and nation will rise against nation, kingdom against kingdom, states against states, in our own country and in foreign lands."

Brigham Young - Modin, D.: & Comstock, Tamara: Prophecy 1973-2000; 1972, Hermes House

"What then will be the condition of the people when the great and dreadful war will come? It will be very different from the war between the North and South. It will be neighborhood against neighborhood, city against city, town against town, state against state, and they will go forth destroying and being destroyed. Manufacturing will almost cease, great cities will be left desolate. The time will come when the great city of New York will be left without inhabitants...

"When that day shall come (when the missionaries will be called home) there shall be wars, not such wars as have come in centuries and years that are past and gone, but a dsolating war. When I say desolating, I mean that it will lay these european nations in waste. Cities will be left vacated, without inhabitants. The people will be destroyed by the sword of their own hands. Not only this but many other cities will be burned; for when contending armies are wrought up with the terrible anger, without the Spirit of God upon them, when they have not that spirit of humanity that now characterizes many of the wars amongst nations, when they are left to themselves, there will be no quarter given, no prisoners taken, but a war of destruction, of desolation, of the burning of the cities and villages, until the land is laid desolate."

- Orson Pratt (J. Disc. 20: 150)





1942:

You and I have heard all our lives that the time may come when the Constitution may hang by a thread. I do not know whether it is a thread, or a small rope by which it now hangs, but I do know that whether it shall live or die is now in the balance.

- J. Reuben Clark, Jr., Conference Report, October 1942, p. 58

1960:

“Those who subscribe to this [totalitarian] philosophy stop at nothing to achieve their ends...force, trickery, lies, broken promises, mayhem, and individual and mass murder.”

- Ezra Taft Benson, Conference Report, October 1960.

1968:

“If America is destroyed, it may be by Americans who salute the flag, sing the national anthem, march in patriotic parades, cheer Fourth of July speakers — normally good Americans, but Americans who fail to comprehend what is required to keep our country strong and free — Americans who have been lulled away into a false security.. . . . The facts are clear. Our problem centers in Washington, D.C. And this applies to the administration of both political parties”

- Ezra Taft Benson, Conference Report, April 1968, pp. 50–52.

1976:

“Our great Constitution has been beaten and torn until now it hangs by a single thread, and that thread is our franchise to vote.”

-Ezra Taft Benson, 1976, Freeman Institute, Provo, Utah

1980

For over forty years, in a spirit of love, members of the Church have been counseled to be thrifty and self-reliant; to avoid debt; pay tithes and a generous fast offering; be industrious; and have sufficient food, clothing, and fuel on hand to last at least one year.

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1987:

“Secret combinations flourished because, as Helaman tells us, the Gadianton robbers ‘had seduced the more part of the righteous until they had come down to believe in their works and partake of their spoils’ (Helaman 6:38)... even as today.”

- Ezra Taft Benson, The Savior’s Visit to America, Ensign, p. 4. May 1987

1988:

“I testify that wickedness is rapidly expanding in every segment of our society. It is more highly organized, more cleverly disguised, and more powerfully promoted than ever before. Secret combinations lusting for power, gain, and glory are flourishing. A secret combination that seeks to overthrow the freedom of all lands, nations, and countries is increasing its evil influence and control over America and the entire world.”

I testify that it is time for every man to set in order his own house both temporally and spiritually. It is time for the unbeliever to learn for himself that this work is true, that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is the kingdom which Daniel prophesied God would set up in the latter days, never to be destroyed, a stone that would eventually fill the whole earth and stand forever. (See Dan. 2:34–45; D&C 65:2.) It is time for us, as members of the Church, to walk in all the ways of the Lord, to use our influence to make popular that which is sound and to make unpopular that which is unsound. We have the scriptures, the prophets, and the gift of the Holy Ghost. Now we need eyes that will see, ears that will hear, and hearts that will hearken to God’s direction.

I testify that not many years hence the earth will be cleansed. (See D&C 76:41.) Jesus the Christ will come again, this time in power and great glory to vanquish His foes and to rule and reign on the earth. (See D&C 43:26–33.) In due time all men will gain a resurrection and then will face the Master in a final judgment. (See 2 Ne. 9:15, 41.) God will give rewards to each according to the deeds done in the flesh. (See Alma 5:15.)

- Ezra Taft Benson, I Testify, Ensign, p. 87. November 1988.

April 2004: Boyd K. Packer, General Conference Address:

We live in dangerously troubled times. The values that steadied mankind in earlier times are being tossed away. We must not ignore Moroni 's words when he saw our day and said, ‘Ye [must] awake to a sense of your awful situation’

August 2005: Gordon B. Hinckley, also stated verbatim in his 1981 work Be Thou an Example. First Presidency Message, Ensign:

The Book of Mormon narrative is a chronicle of nations long since gone. But in its descriptions of the problems of today's society, it is as current as the morning newspaper and much more definitive, inspired, and inspiring concerning the solutions of those problems.

Dr. Skousen asked President Hinckley, "What will make the gentiles repent?" And President Hinckley replied, "A plague."
The story behind the story of Dr. Skousen is very interesting and I hope will be of some benefit to others. It goes like this:

Dr. Skousen is an avid reader of the Book of Mormon. He read in 3 Nephi chapter 16 and 21 wherein the Savior says that if the Gentiles of the last days don't repent of their sins, among them being the sin of upholding secret combinations, then the remnant of the land, consisting of the lamanites, will go through the Gentiles as a lion among the beasts of the forest and they will destroy the Gentiles. But if they repent, that won't happen.

Well, Dr. Skousen composed a talk about the subject and began telling that talk about how the Lamanites and their cousins, the Mexicans, would come among the Gentiles and destroy them in the last days. And of course, with the talk among Mexican-Americans going around that they say they are going to reclaim southwest America, and call it "Aztlan," there seems to be a lot of evidence that that could happen.

Dr. Skousen told me that one day he heard that a General Authority had heard his talk and began using that talk himself. Who he was, Dr. Skousen never said. But this GA gave that talk a lot for awhile. Then, according to Dr. Skousen, President Hinckley told the GA not to give that talk anymore because that's not the scenario that will play out. President Hinckley told Dr. Skousen that he should go back and read the part in 3 Nephi 21:22 which says, "But if they will repent and hearken unto my words, and harden not their hearts...." then, to summarize, the scenario about the remnant of Jacob going through and destroying them won't happen.

So Dr. Skousen asked President Hinckley, "What will make the gentiles repent?" And President Hinckley replied, "A plague." He was told to go home and read about the plague in Section 29 of the D&C, verses 18 and 19. Then he said, read D&C 112:24-26 about how the plague shall start. Dr. Skousen firmly believed that A would never be invaded from without. However, many people seem to believe that it will have an invasion of Chinese and Russians. Only the future will tell. But this is the story Dr. Skousen told me. (Gumbo)

D&C 29
Wherefore, I the Lord God will send forth flies upon the face of the earth, which shall take hold of the inhabitants thereof, and shall eat their flesh, and shall cause maggots to come in upon them;

And their tongues shall be stayed that they shall not utter against me; and their flesh shall fall from off their bones, and their eyes from their sockets;

D&C 112
Behold, vengeance cometh speedily upon the inhabitants of the earth, a day of wrath, a day of burning, a day of desolation, of weeping, of mourning, and of lamentation; and as a whirlwind it shall come upon all the face of the earth, saith the Lord.

And upon my house shall it begin, and from my house shall it go forth, saith the Lord;

First among those among you, saith the Lord, who have professed to know my name and have not known me, and have blasphemed against me in the midst of my house, saith the Lord.

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Behold, verily, thus saith the Lord unto you: In consequence of evils and designs which do and will exist in the hearts of conspiring men in the last days, I have warned you, and forewarn you, by giving unto you this word of wisdom by revelation—

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And I, the Lord, give unto them a promise, that the destroying angel shall pass by them, as the children of Israel, and not slay them. Amen.

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And blessed are the Gentiles, they of whom the prophet has written; for behold, if it so be that they shall repent and fight not against Zion, and do not unite themselves to that great and abominable church, they shall be saved; for the Lord God will fulfil his covenants which he has made unto his children; and for this cause the prophet has written these things.

Wherefore, they that fight against Zion and the covenant people of the Lord shall lick up the dust of their feet; and the people of the Lord shall not be ashamed. For the people of the Lord are they who wait for him; for they still wait for the coming of the Messiah.

And behold, according to the words of the prophet, the Messiah will set himself again the second time to recover them; wherefore, he will manifest himself unto them in power and great glory, unto the destruction of their enemies, when that day cometh when they shall believe in him; and none will he destroy that believe in him.

And they that believe not in him shall be destroyed, both by fire, and by tempest, and by earthquakes, and by bloodsheds, and by pestilence, and by famine. And they shall know that the Lord is God, the Holy One of Israel.

For shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the lawful captive delivered?

But thus saith the Lord: Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered; for the Mighty God shall deliver his covenant people. For thus saith the Lord: I will contend with them that contendeth with thee—

And I will feed them that oppress thee, with their own flesh; and they shall be drunken with their own blood as with sweet wine; and all flesh shall know that I the Lord am thy Savior and thy Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.

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Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate; and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.

For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light; the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.

And I will punish the world for evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay down the haughtiness of the terrible.

I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.

Therefore, I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the Lord of Hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.

And it shall be as the chased roe, and as a sheep that no man taketh up; and they shall every man turn to his own people, and flee every one into his own land.

Every one that is proud shall be thrust through; yea, and every one that is joined to the wicked shall fall by the sword.

Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled and their wives ravished.

Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, which shall not regard silver and gold, nor shall they delight in it.

Their bows shall also dash the young men to pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eyes shall not spare children.

And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees’ excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.

It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there.

But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there.

And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces; and her time is near to come, and her day shall not be prolonged. For I will destroy her speedily; yea, for I will be merciful unto my people, but the wicked shall perish.

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And now I am prepared to say by the authority of Jesus Christ, that not many years shall pass away before the United States shall present such a scene of bloodshed as has not a parallel in the history of our nation; pestilence, hail, famine, and earthquake will sweep the wicked of this generation from off the face of the land, to open and prepare the way for the return of the lost tribes of Israel from the north country. The people of the Lord, those who have complied with the requirements of the new covenant, have already commenced gathering together to Zion, which is in the state of Missouri; therefore I declare unto you the warning which the Lord has commanded to declare unto this generation, remembering that the eyes of my Maker are upon me, and that to him I am accountable for every word I say, wishing nothing worse to my fellow-men than their eternal salvation; therefore, "Fear God, and give glory to Him, for the hour of His judgment is come." Repent ye, repent ye, and embrace the everlasting covenant, and flee to Zion, before the overflowing scourge overtake you, for there are those now living upon the earth whose eyes shall not be closed in death until they see all these things, which I have spoken, fulfilled. Remember these things; call upon the Lord while He is near, and seek Him while He may be found, is the exhortation of your unworthy servant.

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"There will be two great political parties in this country. One will be called the Republican, and the other the Democrat party. These two parties will go to war and out of these two parties will spring another party which will be the Independent American Party. The United States will spend her strength and means warring in foreign lands until other nations will say, 'Let's divide up the lands of the United States'; then the people of the US will unite and swear by the blood of their forefathers, that the land shall not be divided. Then the country will go to war, and they will fight until one half of the US Army will give up, and the rest will continue to struggle. They will keep on until they are very ragged and discouraged, and almost ready to give up --- when the boys from the mountains rush forth in time to save the American Army from defeat and ruin. And they will say, 'Brethren, we are glad you have come; give us men, henceforth, who can talk with God'. Then you will have friends, but you will save the country when its liberty hangs by a hair, as it were."

Joseph Smith - Modin, D.: & Comstock, Tamara: Prophecy 1973-2000; 1972, Hermes House

...an excerpt from "The Cleansing of America" by Cleon Skousen -

The prophets not only predicted that there would be a thorough cleansing of America, but they described how it would occur. The Lord's cleansing will include the destabilizing impact of earthquakes, tornadoes, famine, riots, and civil strife. But the primary destruction will come from a massive, cataclysmic plague. The Lord refers to it as an "overflowing" or "desolating scourge." The Bubonic Plague wiped out nearly half of Europe in a very short time, but the plague predicted for the cleansing of America sounds far worse.

Here is the way the Lord speaks of it:

"And when the times of the Gentiles is come in, a light shall break forth amount them that sit in darkness, and it shall be the fullness of my gospel; But they receive it not' for they perceive not the light, and they turn their hearts from me because of the precepts of men.

"And in that generation shall the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled. And there shall be men standing in that generation, that shall not pass til they shall see an OVERFLOWING SCOURGE; for a desolating sickness shall cover the land."

This overflowing scourge is intended to cleanse and scour America of its wickedness. Therefore, the Lord said to the members of the restored Church in modern times:

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"All the wicked shall mourn. For behold, and lo, vengeance cometh speedily upon the ungodly as the whirlwind; and who shall escape it?

"The Lord's SCOURGE shall pass over by night and by day, and the report thereof shall vex all people."

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Cleon then launches into the prophecy of it beginning upon MY HOUSE....then the vision of John Taylor -

I [] went to bed at my usual hour half past nine o'clock. I had been reading the Revelations in the French language. My mind was Calm, more so than usual if possible to be so. I Composed myself for sleep but Could not sleep. I felt a strange stupor Come over me and apparently became partially unconscious. Still I was not asleep, nor awake With stange far away dreamy feelings.

The first I recognized was that I was in the Tabernacle at Ogden sitting on the back seat in the Corner for fear they would Call upon me to Preach, which after singing the second time, they did, by Calling me to the Stand.

I arose to speak and said I did not Know that I had anything special to say Except to bear my Testimony to the Truth of the Latter Day work when all at once it seemed as though I was lifted out of myself, and I said "Yes, I have sumthing to say, it is this--some of my brethren present have been asking me what is Coming to pass, what is the wind blowing up. I will answer you right here what is Coming to pass shortly.

I was imediately in Salt lake City wandering about the streets in all parts of the City and On the door of every house I found a badge of mourning, and I Could not find a house but what was in mourning. I passed by my own house and saw the same sign there, and asked, 'Is that me that is dead?' Sumthing gave me answer, 'No, you [shall] live through it all.'

It seemed strange to me that I saw no person [on] the street in my wandering about through the City. They seemed to be in their houses with their Sick and Dead. I saw no funeral procession, or any thing of that kind, but the City looked very Still and quiet as though the people were praying and had Controll of the disease what ever it was.

I then look in all directions over the Territory, East west North and South, and I found the same mourning in every place throughout the Land. The next I knew I was Just this side of Omaha. It seemed as though I was above the Earth, looking down to it as I passed along on my way East and I saw the roads full of people, principally women, with just what they Could Carry in bundles on their backs traveling to the mountains on foot. And I wondered how they Could get there, with nothing but a small pack upon their backs. It was remarkable to me that there were so few men among them. It did not seem as though the Cars were running. The rails looked rusty, and the road abandoned, And I have no conception how I traveled myself.

As I looked down upon the people I Continued Eastward through Omaha and Council Bluffs which were full of disease, and women every whare. The States of Missouri and Illinois were in turmoil and Strife, Men killing each other, and women joining in the fight, family against family Cutting each other to pieces in the most horrid manner.

The next I was was Washington, and I found the City a desolation. The White House Empty, the Halls of Congress the same Everything in ruins. The people seemed to have fled from the City and left it to take Care of itself.

I was next in the City of Baltimore and in the square where the Monument of 1812 Stands, in front of St. Charles and other Hotels I saw the Dead piled up so high as to fill the square. I saw Mothers Cut the throats of their own Children for the sake of their blood, which they drank from their veins to quench their thirst and then lie down and die. The water of the Chesapeake and of the City were so stagnant and such a stench arose from them on account of the putrefaction of Dead bodies that the very smell Caused Death and that was singular again I saw no men except they were dead, lying in the streets, and vary few women, and they were Crazy mad, and in a dying Condition. Every whare I went I beheld the same all over the City, And it was horrible, beyond description to look at.

I thought this must be the End. But No I was seemingly in Philadelphia, and there every thing was Still. No living soul was to be seen to greet me, and it seemed as though the whole City was without an inhabitant. In arch and Chestnut Street and in fact Every whare I went the putrefaction of the Dead bodies Caused such a stench that it was impossible for any Creature to Exhist alive, nor did I see any living thing in the city.

I next found myself in Broad way New York and here it seemed the people had done their best to overcome the disease. But in wandering down Broadway I saw the bodies of Beautiful women lying stone dead, and others in a dying Condition on the side walk. I saw men Crawl out of the Cellars and rob the dead bodies of the valuables they had on and before they Could return to their coverts in the cellars they themselves would roll over a time or two and die in agony.

On some of the back street I saw Mothers kill their own Children and Eat raw flesh and then in a few minutes die themselves. Wharever I went I saw the same scenes of Horror and Desolation rapine and Death. No Horses or Carriages, No busses or Street Cars, but Death and Destruction every whare.

I then went to the Grand Central Park and looking back I saw a fire Start and just at that moment a mighty East wind sprang up and Carried the flames west over the City, and it burned untill there was not a single building left Standing whole Even down to the wharfs. And the shipping all seemd to be burned and swallowed up in the Common destruction and left Nothing but a Desolation whare the great City was a short time before. The Stench from the bodies that were burning was so great that it Carried a great distance across the Hudson River and bay, and thus spread disease and death wharever the flames penetrated. I Cannot paint in words the Horror that seemed to Encompass me around. It was beyond description or thought of man to Conceive.

I supposed this was the End but I was here given to understand, that the same horror was being enacted all over the Country, North South East and West, that few were left alive. Still there were some.

Immediately after I seemed to be standing on the west bank of the Missouri River opposite the City of Independence but I saw no City. I saw the whole States of Missouri & Illinois and part of Iowa were a Complete wilderness with no living human being in them. I then saw a short distance from the river Twelve men dressed in the robes of the Temple Standing in a square or nearly so. I understood it represented the Twelve gates of the New Jerusalem, and they were with hands uplifted Consecrating the ground and laying the Corner Stones. I saw myriads of Angels hovering over them and around about them and also an immens pillar of a Cloud over them and I heard the singing of the most beautif[ul] music the words 'Now is established the Kingdom of our God and His Christ, and He shall reign forever and Ever, and the Kingdom shall never the Thrown down for the Saints have overcome.' And I saw people Coming from the River and different places along way off to help build the Temple, and it seemed that the Hosts of the angels also helped to get the material to build the Temple. And I saw some Come who wore their Temple...robs to help build the Temple and the City and all the time I saw the great pillar of Cloud hovering over the place.

Instantly I found I was in the Tabernacle at Ogden yet I Could see the building going on and got quite animated in Calling to the people in the Tabernacle to listen to the beautiful music that the Angels were Making. I Called to them to look at the Angels as the House seemed to be full of them and they were saying the same words that I heard Before 'Now is the Kingdom of our God Esstablished forever & Ever.' And then a voice said 'Now shall Come to pass that which was spoken by Isaiah the Prophet 'that seven women shall take hold of one man, saying &c (Isaiah 4:1). ['And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by they name, to take away our reproach.']

At this time I seemed to Stagger back from the pulpit & F D Richards and some one els Caught me and prevented me from falling when I requested Brother Richards to apologize to the audience for me because I stoped so adruptly and tell them I had not feinted but was exhausted. I rolled over in my bed and heard the City Hall Clock Strike Twelve.

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Here's some other sources:

Wilford Woodruff -

You will say: That was in the days when Presidents Benson and Maughan presided over us; that was before New York was destroyed by an earthquake; it was before Boston was swept into the sea, by the sea heaving itself beyond its bounds; it was before Albany was destroyed by fire; yea, at that time you will remember the scenes of this day. Treasure them up and forget them not.”

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Orson Pratt -

This great war is only a small degree of chastisement, just the beginning; nothing compared to that which God has spoken concerning this nation, if they will not repent. For the Lord has said in this book, (the Book of Mormon) which has been published for thirty eight years, that if they will not repent He will throw down all their strongholds and cut off the cities of the land, and will execute vengeance and fury on the nation, even as upon the heathen, such as they have not heard. That He will send a desolating scourge on the land; that He will leave their cities desolate, without inhabitants. For instance the great, powerful and populous city of New York, that may be considered one of the greatest cities of the world, will in a few years become a mass of ruins. The people will wonder while gazing on the ruins that cost hundreds of millions to build, what has become of its inhabitants. Their houses will be there, but they will be left desolate. So saith the Lord God. That will be only a sample of numerous other towns and cities on the face of this continent.

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Patriarch Charles D. Evans -

Charles D. Evans was a church patriarch, in the 1890's, while living in Springville, Utah.

While I lay pondering in deep solitude on the events of the present, my mind was drawn into a reverie such as I had never felt before,--a strong solicitude for my imperiled country utterly excluded every other thought, and raised my feelings to a point of intensity which I did not think it possible to endure.

While in this solemn, profound, and painful reverie of mind, to my infinite surprise, a light appeared in my room, which seemed to be soft and silvery as that diffused from a northern star. At the moment of its appearance, the acute feeling I had experienced instantly yielded to one of calm tranquility.

Although it may have been at the hour of midnight, and the side of the globe whereon I was situated, was excluded from the sunlight, yet all was light and bright and warm as an Italian landscape at noon, but the heat was softer or more subdued.

As I gazed upward, I saw descending through my bedroom roof, with a gently gliding movement, a personage clothed in white apparel, whose countenance was smoothly serene, his features regular, and the flashes of his eye seemed to shoot forth scintillations, to use an earthly comparison, strongly resembling those reflected from a diamond under an intensely illumined electric light, which dazzled but did not bewilder.

Those large, deep, inscrutable eyes were presently fixed upon mine, when instantly placing his hands up on my forehead his touch produced an indescribable serenity and calmness, a calmness not born of earth, but at once peaceful, delightful and heavenly. My whole being was imbued with a joy unspeakable. All feelings of sorrow instantly vanished. Those lines and shadows which care and sorrow impress upon us were dispelled as a deep fog before a blazing sun.

In the eyes of my heavenly visitor, for such he appeared to me, there was a sort of lofty pity and tenderness, infinitely stronger than any such feeling I ever saw manifested in ordinary mortals. His very calm appeared like a vast ocean stillness, at once overpowering to every agitated emotion.

By some intuition, or instinct, I felt he had something to communicate to sooth my sorrows and allay my apprehensions. Thereupon addressing me, he said:

"Son, I perceive thou hast grave anxieties over the perilous state of thy country, that thy soul has felt deep sorrow for its future. I have therefore come to thy relief and to tell thee of the causes that have led to this peril. Hear me attentively.

"Seventy-one years ago [1823], after an awful apostasy of centuries, in which all nations were enshrouded in spiritual darkness, when the angels had withdrawn themselves, the voice of prophets hushed, and the light of Urim and Thummim shown not, and the vision of the seers closed, while heaven itself shed not a ray of gladness to lighten a dark world, when Babel ruled and Satan laughed, and Church and Priesthood had taken their upward flight, and the voice of nations, possessing the books of the Jewish prophets, had ruled against vision and against Urim, against the further visits of angels, and against the doctrine of a church of apostles and prophets, thou knowest that then appeared a mighty angel with the solemn announcement of the hour of judgment, the burden of whose instructions pointed to dire calamities upon the present generation. This, therefore, is the cause of what thou seest and the end of the wicked hasteneth."

My vision now became extended in a marvelous manner, and the import of the past labors of the Elders was made plain to me. I saw multitudes fleeing to the place of safety in our mountain heights. The church was established in the wilderness. Simultaneously the nation had reached an unparalleled prosperity, wealth abounded, new territory was acquired, commerce extended, finance strengthened, confidence was maintained, and peoples abroad pointed to her as the model nation--the ideal of the past realized and perfected--the embodiment of the liberty sung by poets and sought for by sages.

"But," continued the Messenger, "thou beholdest a change. Confidence is lost, wealth is arrayed against labor, labor against wealth, yet the land abounds with plenty of food and raiment, and silver and gold are in abundance. Thou seest also the letters written by a Jew have wrought great confusion in the finances of the nation which, together with the policy of many wealthy ones, has produced distress and do produce further sorrow."

Factions now sprang up as if by magic; capital had entrenched itself against labor throughout the land; labor was organized against capital. The voice of the wise sought to tranquilize these two powerful factors in vain. Excited multitudes ran wildly about; strikes increased; lawlessness sought the place of regular government.

At this juncture I saw a banner floating in air whereupon was written the words, "BANKRUPTCY, FAMINE, FLOODS, FIRE, CYCLONES, BLOOD, PLAGUE." Mad with rage, men and women rushed upon each other. Blood flowed down the streets of cities like water. The demon of bloody hate had enthroned itself on the citadel of reason; the thirst for blood was more intense than that of the parched tongue for water. Thousands of bodies lay untombed in the streets. Men and women fell dead from the terror inspired by fear. Rest was but the precursor of the bloody work of the morrow. All around lay the mournfulness of a past in ruins. Monuments erected to perpetuate the names of the noble and brave were ruthlessly destroyed by combustibles.

A voice now sounded aloud these words, "Yet once again I shake not the earth only, but also heaven. And this word yet once again signifies the removing of things that are shaken, as of things that are made; that those things that cannot be shaken may remain."

Earthquakes rent the earth in vast chasms, which engulfed multitudes; terrible groanings and wailings filled the air; the shrieks of the suffering were indescribably awful. Water wildly rushed in from the tumultuous ocean, whose very roaring under the mad rage of the fierce cyclone, was unendurable to the ear. Cities were swept away in an instant, missiles were hurled through the atmosphere at a terrible velocity, and people were carried upward only to descend an unrecognizable mass. Islands appeared where ocean waves once tossed the gigantic steamer. In other parts, voluminous flames emanating from vast fires, rolled with fearful velocity, destroying life and property in their destructive course.

The seal of the dread menace of despair was stamped on every human visage; men fell exhausted, appalled and trembling. Every element of agitated nature seemed a demon of wrathful fury. Dense clouds, blacker than midnight darkness, whose thunders reverberated with intonations which shook the earth, obscured the sunlight. Darkness reigned unrivaled and supreme.

Again the light shone, revealing an atmosphere tinged with a leaden hue, which was the precursor of an unparalleled plague, whose first symptoms were recognized by a purple spot which appeared on the cheek or on the back of the hand, and which, invariably, enlarged until it spread over the entire surface of the body, producing certain death. Mothers, on sight of it, cast away their children as if they were poisonous reptiles. This plague, in grown persons, rotted the eyes in their sockets and consumed the tongue as would a powerful acid or an intense heat. Wicked men, suffering under its writhing agonies, cursed God and died, as they stood on their feet, and the birds of prey feasted on their carcasses.

I saw in my dream the Messenger again appear with a vial in his right hand, who addressing me, said: "Thou knowest somewhat of the chemistry taught in the schools of human learning, behold now a chemical sufficiently powerful to change the waters of the sea."

He then poured out his vial upon the sea and it became putrid as the blood of a dead man, and every living soul therein died. Other plagues followed which I forbear to record.

A foreign power had inroaded the nation, which, from every human indication, it appeared would seize the government and supplant it with monarchy. I stood trembling at the aspect, when, lo, a power arose in the west which declared itself in favor of the Constitution in its original form; to this suddenly rising power, every lover of constitutional rights and liberties throughout the nation gave hearty support. The struggle was fiercely contested, but the Stars and Stripes floated in the breeze, and bidding defiance to all opposition, waved proudly over the land.

Among the many banners I saw, was one inscribed thus: "The government based on the Constitution, now and forever"; on another, "Liberty of Conscience, Social, Religious, and Political."

The light of the Gospel which had but dimly shone because of abomination, now burst forth with a lustre that filled the earth. Cities appeared in every direction, one of which, in the center of the continent, was an embodiment of architectural science after the pattern of eternal perfections, whose towers glittered with a radiance emanating from the sparkling of emeralds, rubies, diamonds, and other precious stones set in a canopy of gold, and so elaborately and skillfully arranged as to shed forth a brilliancy which dazzled and enchanted the eye, excited admiration and developed a taste for the beautiful, beyond anything man had ever conceived.

Fountains of crystal water shot upwards their transparent jets, which, in the brilliant sunshine, formed ten thousand rainbow tints at once delightful to the eye. Gardens, the perfection of whose arrangement confound all our present attempts at genius, were bedecked with flowers of varied hue to develop and refine the taste and strengthen a love for these nature's chastest adornments.

Schools and universities were erected, to which all had access; in the latter, Urims were placed for the study of the past, present, and future, and for obtaining a knowledge of the heavenly bodies, and of the construction of worlds and universes. The inherent properties of matter, its arrangements, laws, and mutual relations were revealed and taught and made plain as the primer lesson of a child. The conflicting theories of geologists regarding the foundation and age of the earth were settled forever. All learning was based on eternal certainty. Angels brought forth the treasures of knowledge which had laid hid in the womb of the dumb and distant past.

The appliances for making learning easy surpass all conjecture. Chemistry was rendered extremely simple, by the power which the Urims conferred on man of looking into and through the very elements of every kind; a stone furnished no more obstruction to human vision than the air itself. Not only were the elements and all their changes and transformations plainly understood, but the construction, operations and laws of mind were thus rendered equally plain as those which governed the coarser elements.

While looking through the Urim and Thummim, I was amazed at a transformation, which even now is to me marvelous beyond description, clearly showing the manner in which particles composing the inorganic kingdom of nature are conducted upward to become a part of organic forms; another astounding revelation was a view clearly shown me of the entire circulation of the blood, both in man and animals.

After seeing these things and gazing once more upon the beautiful city, the following passage of scripture sounded in my ears: "OUT OF ZION, THE PERFECTION OF BEAUTY, GOD SHINETH."

On this I awoke to find all a dream. I have written the foregoing, which is founded on true principle, under the caption of a dream, partly to instruct and partly to check the folly of reading silly novels now so prevalent.

CHARLES D. EVANS

Springville, Utah

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also printed in The Contributor, Vol. 15, No. 10 August, 1894, pp. 638-641

And now I am prepared to say by the authority of Jesus Christ, that not many years shall pass away before the United States shall present such a scene of bloodshed as has not a parallel in the history of our nation; pestilence, hail, famine, and earthquake will sweep the wicked of this generation from off the face of the land, to open and prepare the way for the return of the lost tribes of Israel from the north country. The people of the Lord, those who have complied with the requirements of the new covenant, have already commenced gathering together to Zion, which is in the state of Missouri; therefore I declare unto you the warning which the Lord has commanded to declare unto this generation, remembering that the eyes of my Maker are upon me, and that to him I am accountable for every word I say, wishing nothing worse to my fellow-men than their eternal salvation; therefore, "Fear God, and give glory to Him, for the hour of His judgment is come." Repent ye, repent ye, and embrace the everlasting covenant, and flee to Zion, before the overflowing scourge overtake you, for there are those now living upon the earth whose eyes shall not be closed in death until they see all these things, which I have spoken, fulfilled. Remember these things; call upon the Lord while He is near, and seek Him while He may be found, is the exhortation of your unworthy servant.

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"Elder Orson Hyde taught:'The scripture says, that in the last days His people will go forth and build up the waste places of Zion. But they must first be made desolate, before they can be called the waste places of Zion. Then the hands of the saints will be required to build them up'

Elder Orson Pratt taught that the saints would go back to MO and posses the properties they had once inhabited in the early days of the church, after Gods judgements have made the cities desolate:'Now that oder of things will continue and will spread from that nucleus in Jackson county and the western counties of MO and the eastern counties of Kansas, were this people will be located, and it will spread abroad for hundreds and hundreds of miles on the right hand and on the left, east west north and south, from the great centrl city, and all the people will be required to execute the law in all their stewardships, and then there will be a oneness and union which will continue and it will spread wider and wider, and become greater and greater, until the desolate cities of the Gentiles will be inhabited by the Saints. Then will be fullfilled the prophecy of Isaiah, in which he says, 'Thy seed shall inherit the Gentiles, and make the desolate cities to be inhabited'Isa54:3, for God will visit them in judgement, and there will be no owners left to occupy the country. Then the land will be filled up with Saints, those who keep the celestial law;and they will recieve their stewardships according to the appointment of heaven'"

- D&C Student Manual

...followed by some scripture -

And there shall be weeping and wailing among the hosts of men;

And there shall be a great hailstorm sent forth to destroy the crops of the earth.

And it shall come to pass, because of the wickedness of the world, that I will take vengeance upon the wicked, for they will not repent; for the cup of mine indignation is full; for behold, my blood shall not cleanse them if they hear me not.

Wherefore, I the Lord God will send forth flies upon the face of the earth, which shall take hold of the inhabitants thereof, and shall eat their flesh, and shall cause maggots to come in upon them;

And their tongues shall be stayed that they shall not utter against me; and their flesh shall fall from off their bones, and their eyes from their sockets;

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And in that generation shall the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.

And there shall be men standing in that generation, that shall not pass until they shall see an overflowing scourge; for a desolating sickness shall cover the land.

But my disciples shall stand in holy places, and shall not be moved; but among the wicked, men shall lift up their voices and curse God and die.

And there shall be earthquakes also in divers places, and many desolations; yet men will harden their hearts against me, and they will take up the sword, one against another, and they will kill one another.

And now, when I the Lord had spoken these words unto my disciples, they were troubled.

And I said unto them: Be not troubled, for, when all these things shall come to pass, ye may know that the promises which have been made unto you shall be fulfilled.

And when the alight shall begin to break forth, it shall be with them like unto a parable which I will show you—

Ye look and behold the fig trees, and ye see them with your eyes, and ye say when they begin to shoot forth, and their leaves are yet tender, that summer is now nigh at hand;

Even so it shall be in that day when they shall see all these things, then shall they know that the hour is nigh.

And it shall come to pass that he that feareth me shall be looking forth for the great day of the Lord to come, even for the signs of the coming of the Son of Man.

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And thus, with the sword and by bloodshed the inhabitants of the earth shall mourn; and with famine, and plague, and earthquake, and the thunder of heaven, and the fierce and vivid lightning also, shall the inhabitants of the earth be made to feel the wrath, and indignation, and chastening hand of an Almighty God, until the consumption decreed hath made a full end of all nations;

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Too often we bask in our comfortable complacency and rationalize that the ravages of war, economic disaster, famine, and earthquake cannot happen here. Those who believe this are either not acquainted with the revelations of the Lord, or they do not believe them. Those who smugly think these calamities will not happen, that they somehow will be set aside because of the righteousness of the Saints, are deceived and will rue the day they harbored such a delusion.

The Lord has warned and forewarned us against a day of great tribulation and given us counsel, through His servants, on how we can be prepared for these difficult times. Have we heeded His counsel?

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Wherefore, a commandment I give unto you, to prepare and organize yourselves by a bond or everlasting covenant that cannot be broken.

And he who breaketh it shall lose his office and standing in the church, and shall be delivered over to the buffetings of Satan until the day of redemption.

Behold, this is the preparation wherewith I prepare you, and the foundation, and the ensample which I give unto you, whereby you may accomplish the commandments which are given you;

That through my providence, notwithstanding the tribulation which shall descend upon you, that the church may stand independent above all other creatures beneath the celestial world;

That you may come up unto the crown prepared for you, and be made rulers over many kingdoms, saith the Lord God, the Holy One of Zion, who hath established the foundations of Adam-ondi-Ahman

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Allegory of Zenos via the Prophet Jacob...Chapter 5

And it came to pass that the Lord of the vineyard sent his servant; and the servant went and did as the Lord had commanded him, and brought other servants; and they were few.

And the Lord of the vineyard said unto them: Go to, and labor in the vineyard, with your might. For behold, this is the last time that I shall nourish my vineyard; for the end is nigh at hand, and the season speedily cometh; and if ye labor with your might with me ye shall have joy in the fruit which I shall lay up unto myself against the time which will soon come.

And it came to pass that the servants did go and labor with their mights; and the Lord of the vineyard labored also with them; and they did obey the commandments of the Lord of the vineyard in all things.

...notice the transition to the millennium...

And there began to be the natural fruit again in the vineyard; and the natural branches began to grow and thrive exceedingly; and the wild branches began to be plucked off and to be cast away; and they did keep the root and the top thereof equal, according to the strength thereof.

And thus they labored, with all diligence, according to the commandments of the Lord of the vineyard, even until the bad had been cast away out of the vineyard, and the Lord had preserved unto himself that the trees had become again the natural fruit; and they became like unto one body; and the fruits were equal; and the Lord of the vineyard had preserved unto himself the natural fruit, which was most precious unto him from the beginning.

And it came to pass that when the Lord of the vineyard saw that his fruit was good, and that his vineyard was no more corrupt, he called up his servants, and said unto them: Behold, for this last time have we nourished my vineyard; and thou beholdest that I have done according to my will; and I have preserved the natural fruit, that it is good, even like as it was in the beginning. And blessed art thou; for because ye have been diligent in laboring with me in my vineyard, and have kept my commandments, and have brought unto me again the natural fruit, that my vineyard is no more corrupted, and the bad is cast away, behold ye shall have joy with me because of the fruit of my vineyard.

For behold, for a long time will I lay up of the fruit of my vineyard unto mine own self against the season, which speedily cometh; and for the last time have I nourished my vineyard, and pruned it, and dug about it, and dunged it; wherefore I will lay up unto mine own self of the fruit, for a long time, according to that which I have spoken.

And when the time cometh that evil fruit shall again come into my vineyard, then will I cause the good and the bad to be gathered; and the good will I preserve unto myself, and the bad will I cast away into its own place. And then cometh the season and the end; and my vineyard will I cause to be burned with fire.

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[bobhenstra]

Goes up to the individual who sits at the head of the table for the Council of 13...the chief gadianton who wants to make all men (and women) miserable like unto himself (completely selfish).

And who are the remaining members of the council of 13? Proof is needed here G. I can't pay attention to those I cannot see, only to those tools who are visible!

Great quotes G!

Thanks
Bob

[Original_Intent]

Goes up to the individual who sits at the head of the table for the Council of 13...the chief gadianton who wants to make all men (and women) miserable like unto himself (completely selfish).

And who are the remaining members of the council of 13? Proof is needed here G. I can't pay attention to those I cannot see, only to those tools who are visible!

Great quotes G!

Thanks
Bob

I don't know about the council of 13 specifically, but I can tell you with a high degree of certainty that there are people much higher up the food chain than Obama or Putin with last names of Clinton, Bush, Rockefeller, Soros. Obama is seriously a disposable figure to these guys, he will serve his purpose and most likely be thrown to the wolves when they are finished with him.

Don't focus on hating the beast to the point that you find yourself cheering for the whore. We in the U.S. have been conditioned to love and serve the whore without knowing what we are doing, don't be so foolish that you let nationalism, false patriotism, or propaganda turn you into someone so focused on the destruction of the beast that you support the harlot who sits on many waters. She loses this round, or I should say she gets "cleansed" before the beast does, me and mine will not serve either. I'll be happy to see both of their demises, while supporting the Constitution and hopefully being one found bearing it up when the dust has settled.

Don't expect to see your Hezekiah there, though, he has made a lifetime out of wining and dining the whore. Someday you will see that Bob, and hopefully have the humility to admit to being wrong. And if it turns out that I am completely wrong (the evidence supports me, though, sad to say) but if I have misjudged I will be the first one in line begging forgiveness from Brother Mitt and you can spend a millennia or two telling me "I told you so!" I know you'll have better things to do though! :ymhug:

[bobhenstra]

In reality Kevin, whoever it is your talking about will not make it through the cleansing, so here in mortality I have little concern of them and their plans, they're gonna lose big time! They'll take none of their ill gotten gains and power with them to Spirit Prison.

Our Lord is in charge, these LDG's you speak of just think they are!

Bob

[Original_Intent]

In reality Kevin, whoever it is your talking about will not make it through the cleansing, so here in mortality I have little concern of them and their plans, they're gonna lose big time! They'll take none of their ill gotten gains and power with them to Spirit Prison.

Our Lord is in charge, these LDG's you speak of just think they are!

Bob

I 100% agree with you there Bob!

[bobhenstra]

WHAT??? Kevin agrees with me??? ;)

[Original_Intent]

WHAT??? Kevin agrees with me??? ;)

I ALWAYS do when you are right!!! =)) :))

I kid, I kid! - please don't shoot me!

[keep the faith]

Goes up to the individual who sits at the head of the table for the Council of 13...the chief gadianton who wants to make all men (and women) miserable like unto himself (completely selfish).

And who are the remaining members of the council of 13? Proof is needed here G. I can't pay attention to those I cannot see, only to those tools who are visible!

Great quotes G!

Thanks
Bob

I don't know about the council of 13 specifically, but I can tell you with a high degree of certainty that there are people much higher up the food chain than Obama or Putin with last names of Clinton, Bush, Rockefeller, Soros. Obama is seriously a disposable figure to these guys, he will serve his purpose and most likely be thrown to the wolves when they are finished with him.

Don't focus on hating the beast to the point that you find yourself cheering for the whore. We in the U.S. have been conditioned to love and serve the whore without knowing what we are doing, don't be so foolish that you let nationalism, false patriotism, or propaganda turn you into someone so focused on the destruction of the beast that you support the harlot who sits on many waters. She loses this round, or I should say she gets "cleansed" before the beast does, me and mine will not serve either. I'll be happy to see both of their demises, while supporting the Constitution and hopefully being one found bearing it up when the dust has settled.

Don't expect to see your Hezekiah there, though, he has made a lifetime out of wining and dining the whore. Someday you will see that Bob, and hopefully have the humility to admit to being wrong. And if it turns out that I am completely wrong (the evidence supports me, though, sad to say) but if I have misjudged I will be the first one in line begging forgiveness from Brother Mitt and you can spend a millennia or two telling me "I told you so!" I know you'll have better things to do though! :ymhug:

There are multiple combinations at work here OI. Don't make the mistake of trying to group them all together except for identifying the one common denominator concerning who leads all these anti-Christs; that being Lucifer the great hellion of the deep. The whoring Babylonian empire will be destroyed in 1 hour. 1 Hour! Those like Putin and Jinping are not beholding to the Bush's and Clintons of the Babylonian empire. These communist tyrants are playing their own role in the cleansing process and will kick butt and take names irregardless of anyones whoring accomplishments. The red beast will flood the earth with such power and destruction that many will curse God and die out of fear. No Sunday school picnic at work in those bloody battles ahead. Only true Priesthood power will thwart this beastly power play for control and domination.