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[Original_Intentcaptain of 1,000]

Not wanting to start another Ron Paul discussion either, but he does not support a gold standard, he supports a sound money standard backed by WHATEVER people wnat to back it with. This is very much IN LINE with the Secret of Oz. He says let currencies compete and let the market decide - gold backed, silver backed, oil backed, wheat backed - whatever! He just wants it backed by something and end fiat money creation at interest to the private Fed!

[SempiternalHarbingercaptain of 1,000]

Not wanting to start another Ron Paul discussion either, but he does not support a gold standard, he supports a sound money standard backed by WHATEVER people wnat to back it with. This is very much IN LINE with the Secret of Oz. He says let currencies compete and let the market decide - gold backed, silver backed, oil backed, wheat backed - whatever! He just wants it backed by something and end fiat money creation at interest to the private Fed!

Thanks for clearing that up OI. Did you watch the video? The reason why I ask is because Bill Still is under the distinct impression that is not Ron Paul stance. I didn't figure Bill Still to be one who bears false witness on a brother. Very surprised he would get Ron Paul's stance wrong. He also disagrees that Ron Paul's opinions are very much in line with his. (OZ) But on the other hand, there are few people in the entire world that would benefit as much as Ron Paul if we did go back to the gold standard. And IMO, Ron Paul have been one of the BIGGEST advocates for returning to a gold standard. As Ron Paul says, "gold is money." But that wouldn't solve a thing now would it.

[Original_Intentcaptain of 1,000]

Ron has said multiple times that he does support a gold backed money, but he believes also that currencies backed by anything (or nothing) should be allowed to compete just as goods and services compete with each other. the strongest will survive. His main point is that if people had a choice between backed currency and paper, that paper will lose NOT by government edict, but by market forces (which he believes is the best solution to solving most problems. Remove the subsidies all aorund and the fiat power and people will en masse make better choices than central planners.

I did watch the Secret of Oz - very enlightening.

edit: here is a brief article regarding his legislation for competing currencies: http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/co ... currencies

I also have hear him specifically state that people should be able to use ANY backing they want - including no backing. But he contends unbacked currency will fail in a free market.

[SempiternalHarbingercaptain of 1,000]

I don't care what anyone says OI, you are a good guy! I was referring to the video I posted in my previous post. Not OZ. Don't think I made that clear. No big deal.

[JasonI am a nobody!]

Hungary’s default – the first victim, Erste bank
http://www.golemxiv.co.uk/2011/10/hunga ... rste-bank/

Mario Draghi: Fears of Italian debt spiral
http://www.creditwritedowns.com/2011/10 ... piral.html

Credit Suisse Buries European Banks, Sees Deutsche Bank And 65 Other Bank Failing Latest Stress Test, €400 Billion Capital Shortfall
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/credit-su ... st-stress-

France will Not Use EFSF to Recapitalize Banks; Slovak Government Falls, EFSF to be Approved Anyway; Greek Haircuts of 30-50% Coming; EU Seeks Magic
http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot. ... nalysis%29

EU Bank Risks Are ‘Rapidly’ Growing, Sweden’s Andersson Says
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-1 ... -says.html

The plan seems to center around a 50% haircut on Greek debt, combined with a $200 billion Euro recapitalization of European banks for starters. The scheme is supposed to seek private capital, but the implication is that the Eurozone could end up owning 40% of the sector. I see no mention of actually closing down some banks, or exactly how stockholders and senior bondholders fare in all this. How is the Government stake handled in the pecking order? Do they severely dilute the others or is this some kind of joke. The plan maybe has the hint of some good elements to it, but shrinkage of the banking sector and debt haircuts eaten by banks is the key. If the governments of the Eurozone absorbs much of the loss, then we simply see more core country downgrades (see Is Germany the Savior of Europe?)

Elsewhere on the front of Gumnut interventionism, the China sovereign wealth fund is supposedly buying shares in their sick banks. There are increasing signs that the Chinese are in active Treasury dump mode. FT reports further: “Central Huijin, the domestic arm of China’s sovereign wealth fund, will buy the shares to help stabilise the pillars of the country’s financial system, the official Xinhua news agency said on Monday. Wash, rinse, repeat. The Chinese like the Fed, and the Eurozone like to talk a big story.

FCB activity is in actual liquidation mode, which I would attribute to China and possibly Russia. Lee Adler discusses. There has been a back up in rates from extremely low levels but hardly enough to disrupt the massive US Treasury financing operation. As you can see the 13 week moving average shows no net buying at all, and that is unprecedented. October 17th marks a heavy settlement date of Treasury finance. How the Gumnut keeps financing at these rates is beyond me. Tycoon Asher Edelman who supports OWS explains the whole scam.

http://forums.wallstreetexaminer.com/to ... ary-times/





Stop The EUSSR-Debt-Union Dictatorship – The European Stability Mechanism (ESM) Explained
http://www.infiniteunknown.net/2011/10/ ... Unknown%29

China's Appetite for Commodities Wanes
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142 ... rkets_News

Is a rising yuan inevitable?
http://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2011/10 ... nevitable/

Right now, I’m very much focused on a phrase I call "The Wizard of Oz." The Wizard of Oz is the Federal Reserve, the governments, the U.S. Treasury, and the "Troika." You need to understand these organizations to invest today. You need to hire old apparatchiks from the old Soviet Union, because the basis of the 2009-2011 bull market is massive government intervention.

For instance, the spending of the U.S. Treasury, the U.S. government, right now is 25% of GDP. The norm is 18%. So that means 7% of GDP can be attributed to the government propping up this economy. You have huge transfer payments used for paying off banksters and keeping the system going. A lot of the transfers go to the wealthy "kleptocrats." That’s one of the reasons we had a 400% increase in the price of Tiffany’s, while Wal-Mart is on it’s butt. Is it any mystery that protests against Wall Street and kleptocrats are on the rise?

So that’s the effect. You really have to be an old apparatchik Russian guy; those guys would do really well in an environment like this.

Elliott: One of the things I’m trying to figure out is the Dollar. It ran in a channel between 73 and 76 for the last six months, and then in the last three weeks it broke out in a big way, and now it’s trading in the 78 to 79 range.

Russ: A lot of that is probably technical. Many of these carry trades that have gone on around the world are all in dollars, you remember the cost of borrowing in dollars is nothing, if you do it right. So if you’re a speculator you’re borrowing dollars and jumping into emerging markets, or gold or commodities, or whatever, and then once those trades come undone, it’s a technical factor that causes the dollar to rally.

Elliott: Do you see the Dollar breaking back down to the 73-76 range or below?

Russ: I don’t know. The Dollar could go up, if this carry trade continues to unwind. I have a feeling right now that, for people out there in trouble, they keep running these rumors, to try to help them out.

Ilene: Do you mean the Banksters are running rumors to drive the Dollar down and the stock market up?

Russ: Yes, the people who run the trades, finance the trades, benefit from the fees and commissions, who skim the fractions off the trade, the pump and dumpsters, it all ties together. If you invest or speculate, you better understand the big picture.

There’s also a lot of shorts in the market. People are classically over-trading the market. People have to, there’s no return on their money, so they’re in there playing something. You gotta play something, you gotta be short something, or you gotta be long something, or you gotta be doing a carry trade. That’s because the banking sector is too large. It dominates our economy. The real economy has shrunken while these monkeys play these games.

The most bullish thing that could happen is for this system to come to a final end. Until that happens, I would not be a long term investor.

I could go on and on about moral hazard and the apparatchik Soviet Union Russian type behavior it engenders. Ultimately it comes back to shrinking the banking sector, making them take the hit, starting to forgive the debt – restructuring the debt, and resetting the plate for the whole economy. That means wiping out banksters, taking their equity, closing down their banks, taking their bondholders and wiping them out. That absorbs a lot of the debt out there and properly places it. To take that debt and put it on the back of Germany and France now is insane.

Now, the other aspect that’s going on is that China has been a huge story. China is a disaster waiting to happen. I noted that on September 12 there was a story out of Shanghai where seven of these large operators, businesses, manufacturers just shut down the same day, leaving huge amounts of debt unpaid. Most of these guys fled the country. Now there are more and more of these stories involving hundreds if not thousands of firms. They haven’t paid their workers. It’s a slash and burn economy. There’s totally inefficient development, waste, building unoccupied cities – vanity projects. Yet when you step back and look at China, 35% of their sewage is untreated. So they do everything out of order, everything is "big splash," something that could collect a fee or loot and steal, and put it in the ratlines rather than really solving the problem. I think that’s very much what’s happening in China.

Elliott: Well, we’ve heard a lot about the possibility of "debt contagion" in Europe, if Greece were to default. I think what they’re really afraid of is the idea of a debt forgiveness contagion spreading.

Russ: Well, that’s what’s required.

Elliott: Because once one guy gets forgiven over a giant debt, the next guy standing next to him goes "hey, wait, how come he got his debt forgiven, and I still have to carry this giant burden? Screw that! I want to get forgiven too!"

Russ: Right, well, these countries are trapped, they’re in debt traps, and who loaned them the money? Typically this debt is held by the banking system.

But an indebted country has a moral obligation to default on that loan if paying it would mean starving its people. Extreme austerity is a trap. Defaulting is not that big of a deal. They did it in the 1980′s with the Brady bonds. They did it in Brazil, in Argentina. Those countries got re-established, and here we are 20 years later. It’s not the end of the world. Banks have been going out of business for centuries. Look at the United States, the British were constantly loaning money for railroad construction, canal construction, there were booms and busts. They lost money. And they’d come back two years later and do it all over again. So the idea that because some big banks go under its the end of the world is bullshit. It’s not how banking and economic history has worked.

http://www.philstockworld.com/2011/10/1 ... lden-path/

Dollar, Yen Gain as JPMorgan Profit Falls, Spurring Refuge Bid
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-1 ... e-bid.html

The US will slip into recession within 6 months: Nouriel Roubini
http://www.commodityonline.com/news/The ... 0-3-1.html

...more hype...we never left recession status....depression is more like it...

Unprecedented Drop in Port Traffic: A Sobering Omen for Holiday Sales or Should we Listen to Analysts?
http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot. ... nalysis%29

Weekly Jobless Claims rose from 401,000 in the prior week to 404,000. Of course that 401k was revised higher, and the mainstream then compares apples to oranges only if it puts a positive spin on the headline so they can say the number didn’t rise, it was flat. Whatever, numbers above 350k are job losing propositions, the real economy has been, and continues, to shed jobs.

In fact what’s happening to continuing claims is that people have been unemployed for so long, historically long(!), that they are dropping off the backend of their benefits. And without Congressional action soon, the Emergency Unemployment benefits are set to expire, that will cause more than 4 million people to fall off the roles in the next year. Obama put an extension of those benefits onto his “Jobs Bill” as if unemployment benefits were about jobs. Did you know that his “Jobs Bill” also included a 5.6% tax on income in excess of $1 million? Needless to say, it went nowhere and was voted down yesterday, this morning Obama is talking about splitting the bill in two in order to attempt to pass part.

That “Jobs” bill is nothing but impossible math on top of impossible math – as has been all efforts to date attempting to cure the impossible math. You can’t cure debt saturation with more debt. And because you’re trapped inside of the central banker box where everything benefits them, you can’t raise taxes or you cut off your hand to spite your face. Impossible math just is – you can work to make it possible within the central banker paradigm, but that leads to deflation and thus it is impossible to fix anything as long as you remain inside their box.

http://economicedge.blogspot.com/2011/1 ... -1013.html

Bill Gross, manager of the world's largest bond fund, ramped up buying of mortgage-backed securities in September on the likelihood the Federal Reserve's reinvestment program in those securities will boost prices significantly
http://www.cnbc.com/id/44882118

Sharp rise in foreclosures as banks move in
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44885991/ns ... pcNZ82eqX1

Banks turn to demolition of foreclosed properties to ease housing-market pressures
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/ ... story.html

Pennsylvania State Capital Files for Bankruptcy
http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot. ... nalysis%29

Texas Commissioner Smitherman: EPA Will Turn Off Power to Air Conditioners
http://www.infowars.com/texas-commissio ... ditioners/

FEDS: STATES HAVE NO RIGHTS
http://www.newswithviews.com/baldwin/baldwin670.htm

Joe Biden: There Will Be A Huge Increase In Murders And Rapes If The Federal Government Doesn't Spend More Money To Help The Economy
http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/arch ... he-economy

California shooting: Eight killed at Seal Beach salon
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-15284053

Former CIA agent claims the military poisoned his family at Camp Stanley — and used national security concerns to cover it up
http://sacurrent.com/news/former-cia-ag ... -1.1216784





Homeland Security moves forward with 'pre-crime' detection
http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20117 ... detection/

A New Boogeyman for America

Last month, now-retired Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen testified to a U.S. Senate panel that Pakistan’s Inter-services Intelligence Agency backed the terrorist group Haqqani in its attack on the U.S. embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan. Never heard of Haqqani? Don’t worry, you probably never heard of Al-Qaeda prior to 9/11 either. According to Mullen, “the Haqqani network…acts as a veritable arm of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence Agency.” The Haqqani network was founded and is lead by the newly dubbed public enemy No. 1; Jalaluddin Haqqani.

America, meet your new boogeyman.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/guest-pos ... an-america

NYTimes Sues The Federal Government For Refusing To Reveal Its Secret Interpretation Of The PATRIOT Act
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/201110 ... -act.shtml

U.S. Ties Iran to Assassination Plot Against Saudi Diplomat on U.S. Soil
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/10/11/ir ... lot-in-us/

U.S. aims to "unite the world" against Iran
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/10/ ... 9095.shtml

Analysis: Alleged Assassination Plot Doesn’t Fit Past Iranian Behavior
http://www.propublica.org/article/analy ... n-behavior

No Direct Evidence of Iranian Government Complicity in Plot - The Obama administration continues to claim the Iranian government helped orchestrate the plot, while admitting evidence is lacking
http://news.antiwar.com/2011/10/12/no-d ... siar-plot/

FBI Insider: Obama Administration Likely Manufactured Dubious Terror Plot
http://www.prisonplanet.com/fbi-insider ... -plot.html

Hillary Clinton behind fabricated Iranian plot ahead of major U.S. government false flag attacks
http://presscore.ca/2011/?p=4708

Iran Rejects US Claims of Saudi Plot
http://www.voanews.com/english/news/mid ... 17258.html

U.S. Challenged to Explain Accusations of Iran Plot in the Face of Skepticism
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/13/us/ir ... .html?_r=1

Saudis say Iran must 'pay the price' for alleged plot as US resists retaliation
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/oc ... di-warning

Iran urges Saudi Arabia to avoid ‘pathetic trap’ of alleged plot
http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2 ... 71626.html

Iran summons Swiss envoy
http://en.trend.az/news/politics/1943914.html

Turkey seeks Israeli arrests over flotilla raid
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340 ... 89,00.html

Chinese military mobilises cybermilitias
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/33dc83e4-c800 ... z1agCSuO7o

'China troops in Pak Kashmir a concern'
http://www.hindustantimes.com/China-tro ... 56355.aspx

[India]Our warships will keep going to S China Sea: Antony
http://www.tribuneindia.com/2011/20111013/main5.htm

North Korea has recently moved fighter jets near the Northern Limit Line, the de facto maritime border, and ground-to-air missiles close to Baeknyeong Island. There is speculation that it plans a minor provocation while South Korean president Lee Myung-bak visits the U.S. since any show of unity between the two allies tends to incense the North.
http://english.chosun.com/site/data/htm ... 00560.html





Afghanistan: America's 9/11 War. Selected articles and videos
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php? ... leId=27006

Russian Expert: Bin Laden Death Doubts Continue
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/10/13 ... s-continue

Oct. 13 (Bloomberg) -- Tokyo's Setagaya district officials said an investigation today of a “high” radiation reading in the area indicates it may not have come from the crippled Fukushima reactors.

The reading was more than 30 microsieverts per hour, NHK reported, which equates to a dose of 157.7 millisieverts per year, or more than 150 times the internationally recommended safety level for the general public, according to a Science Ministry formula.

The discovery follows a flurry of reports this week on a rise in radiation readings in Tokyo and Yokohama, indicating fallout from the Fukushima nuclear disaster has formed “hot spots” in the cities.

Setagaya adjoins Ota ward where radiation levels exceeding the ward's own safety standard of 0.25 microsieverts per hour were detected at 13 schools, the Ota ward board of education said today. The tests are continuing at the schools.

http://news.businessweek.com/article.as ... C1CE58U4VB

High radiation dose readings marked in spots in Tokyo, Chiba
http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/201 ... 1000c.html

Radiation hotspots found in Tokyo
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/bre ... ing25.html

Rice Farmers in Japan Set Tougher Radiation Limits for Crops to Spur Sales
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-10-1 ... sales.html

...this problem is not going to go away and will only get worse as time goes by....sad to say....





Government Misses Deadline for Rules Forcing Disclosure of Industry Payments to Doctors
http://www.propublica.org/article/gover ... to-doctors

Vaccine Induced Inflammation Linked to Type 2 Diabetes Epidemic
http://www.activistpost.com/2011/10/vac ... ed-to.html

Bill Gates selling Global Warming hoax as cause for a planned Human Depopulation/Eugenics - Bill Gates pledged $4.3 billion in June 2011 to buy vaccines to kill children in poor countries
http://presscore.ca/2011/?p=4727

WHY in the World are they Spraying?
http://farmwars.info/?p=7062&utm_source ... rm+Wars%29





Vitamin D Better than Fluoride at Cavity Prevention
http://www.activistpost.com/2011/10/vit ... de-at.html

43,381 Viruses Found in Sewage, Many Unknown to Scientists
http://www.activistpost.com/2011/10/433 ... -many.html

The genetic code of the germ that caused the Black Death has been reconstructed by scientists for the first time
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-15278366

...now they can just mix that with Spanish 1918 in a weaponized format....and we are off to the races with The Plague...

Study Says Organic Better in Every Way
http://www.noonehastodietomorrow.com//i ... Itemid=115

This past week the NYTs article, "Hiring Locally for Farm Work Is No Cure-All" described how a Colorado onion and sweet corn farmer couldn't find enough local help to work in his fields. There are well over 400 reader comments under the article. The NYTs followed up the story with a Room for Debate titled, "What happened to the American work ethic?" It, too, was excellent, so I recommend reading both if you haven't.

Few people are willing to do the hard physical labor required to farm under often harsh weather conditions while living in social isolation without many city amenities. This is not just an American problem, as migrant labor issues are present in Europe, the UK, Canada, Australia and elsewhere. In the developing world, young rural countryside residents in large numbers are migrating to cities in China, India, Africa, and other nations to escape farm labor.

Today, farming is all about efficiency. Huge farms. Huge hot houses. Big agribusiness. Copious amounts of chemicals. Huge grocery chains. Cheap labor. Robotics. Huge central distribution centers. Cheap transportation. Cheap food. Spoiled consumers. We are in a global competition to produce goods cheaply, including food. Labor costs get squeezed and might even go underground.

According to the Migrant Workers Journey exhibit, there are almost 4,900,000 migrants in Italy, with 700,000 irregulars. These workers move for miles from East to West and from South to North harvesting melons, tomatoes, grapes, olives and oranges. In Basilicata, there are about 3,000 migrants willing to work 12 hours per day for only 25 euros, living in abandoned rural houses without electricity or running water.

Italy's migrant farm worker problems are quite well-know, and so are Spain's.

Eventually, this migrant farm worker situation has huge ramifications for entire nations. What I couldn't help but note from the above NYTs article was this sentence in the second paragraph, "In the last two decades, Spain, Italy, Portugal and Greece have run at least 15 legalization programs, including a Spanish effort three years ago that was among the Continent’s largest." That would be the PIGS (Portugal, Italy, Greece, and Spain).... the same European nations which were threatening the entire region's stability due to their fiscal insolvency.

This led me to look at the states within the U.S.

The largest migrant worker population state? California. The state with the worst balance sheet? California. Remember that California's GDP would equal the world's eighth largest economy and it is the world's fifth largest supplier of food and agriculture commodities.

Let's look at the top seven states which a 2009 Pew Center study named the most fiscally troubled: California, Arizona, Florida, Illinois, Michigan, Nevada, and New Jersey. Next, I've compared this list to the 2000 U.S. Census Bureau statistics list of the seven states which have the highest Hispanic populations: California, Texas, New York, Florida, Illinois, Arizona, and New Jersey. The strong overlap between the two lists is five out of seven states: California, Arizona, Florida, Illinois, and New Jersey.

Note that immigrant farm laborers are used primary in the temperate climate regions since those are the most productive year round vegetable and fruit producing areas and we all purchase these products, so it doesn't matter where we live, if we want lettuce or tomatoes in January, then we all benefit and we all share in the real true costs.

I do not wish to make any political or prejudicial statements here, I am only noting observations. The current immigrant farm worker model used by our world's developed nations has far reaching ramifications beyond the performance of the actual labor, and I'm not the first to say that. The related social, ethical, political, and humanitarian issues have been described many times by others and goes beyond today's writing. It is a complex subject, and since the developed nations use an economic growth model requiring growing, youthful demographic populations, integrating the farm workers provides that desirable demographic shift providing an ever larger consumer base. When I reviewed three articles on this subject over at VOXEU, economists who wrote articles about Spain and Western Europe viewed the subject favorably.

Just as immigrant labor has been moving into dairy here in the U.S. this past decade, it will very likely advance into the Midwestern corn and soybean growing regions in the not too distant future, too, dictated by demographics. So far, this region has chosen to pay for more advanced and larger equipment over the hiring of labor with hints that robotics may be on the horizon.

Since fruit, vegetable, and all food harvests are seasonal, much of the labor required is temporary, and global markets for these products mean that global wage competition to bring these products to the market races to the bottom, or, perhaps the production itself relocates to regions with cheap labor just as asparagus production has been leaving the U.S. and moving to Peru, Chile, and Mexico in recent years. As long as there are regions of the world wishing to provide the cheap labor required to harvest these crops, agricultural managers willing to hire them, and politics that encourage it, this reality in our agricultural system is here to stay.

http://bigpictureagriculture.blogspot.c ... nd-in.html

Peanut shortage sending peanut butter prices up
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2011 ... ml?cmp=rss

Hurricane Jova has dissipated, but its remnants continues to dump heavy rains over Mexico's coastal mountains near Puerto Vallarta. Jova made landfall on Mexico's Pacific coast at 10 pm PDT Tuesday night as a Category 2 storm with 100 mph winds, and was the strongest hurricane to hit Mexico's Pacific coast since Hurricane Jimena hit Baja as a Category 2 storm with 105 mph winds in 2009. Jova's torrential rains triggered flooding and mudslides that have killed five people so far in Mexico. Jova's highest rainfall amounts on Tuesday occurred in Coquimatlan, located in the state of Colima, about 30 miles northeast of Manzanillo. Coquimatlan recorded 374.4 mm (14.74") of rain on Tuesday, according to the Mexican weather service. This is not far below the all-time record hurricane rainfall for Colima state, which is 15.57", set in 1998 during Hurricane Javier.

Another significant rainfall threat is the remains Tropical Depression 12-E, which moved inland near the Mexico/Guatemala border yesterday afternoon. TD-12E is being blamed for the deaths of thirteen people in Guatemala, due to flooding, mudslides, and electrocutions from downed power lines. Tropical Depression Irwin, which is headed eastwards towards the same stretch of Mexican coast Jova affected, is expected to dissipate before reaching the coast. It is unlikely Irwin will bring significant rains to Mexico.

http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMa ... rynum=1958

Strong earthquake hits off the coast of Oregon, no damage
http://channel6newsonline.com/2011/10/s ... no-damage/

Magnitude 6.1 - SOUTH OF BALI, INDONESIA
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/ ... 0068ee.php

...went 5 days without a 6+.....

USGS Reports Record Number Of Strong Earthquakes In 2011

By analysing data from the US Geological Survey (USGS), IWO was able to determine that earthquake activity (6.0-9.9 magnitude) during the period 01 January to 12 October 2011 reached its highest level in 20 years. The 2011 data was compared with data for the corresponding period in each of the 19 previous years since 1992.

A total of 177 earthquakes in the range 6.0 to 10 magnitude on the Richter Scale have been recorded so far in 2011, compared to 149 for the same period in 2010 and 119 in 2009.

http://www.irishweatheronline.com/news/ ... gle+Reader

Flooding in Thailand and Cambodia - On October 11, 2011, CNN reported that an above-average monsoon season in Thailand and Cambodia had killed more than 450 people, and further flooding threatened to inundate the city of Bangkok
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Natura ... &src=nhrss

Thai flooding halts work at 762 plants
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/13_07.html

Harsh Irish winter en route - ‘little ice age’ predicted; The study undertaken by by Britain's Met Office, shows there has been a fall in the sun’s ultra violet emissions, which could cause winters in Europe to become even harsher
http://www.irishcentral.com/news/Harsh- ... 92803.html

Icy Comet Elenin Closely Approaches Earth Next Week: Is Naked Eye Visibility Possible?
http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/227741/ ... ssible.htm

[Original_Intentcaptain of 1,000]

Not sure of the reliability of this source, but something to keep an eye on - sounds like O'Reilly might be "Uriah the Hittite"d.

Newell, who the sources say was familiar with the tactic of "gun walking" from the previous failed Operation Wide Receiver in Tuscon where Newell had participated in it, probably provided the germ of the idea that "walked" weapons could be used to "boost the statistics" of weapons found at crime scenes in Mexico, in the words of an early whiistleblower in this case.

If this is true, it places Kevin O'Reilly, a State Department employee responsible to Hillary Clinton, as the critical potential witness in the early history of the Gunwalker Scandal. Sources also say that there is a "not unfounded" fear that O'Reilly, who was suddenly transferred to Iraq "to keep him from being interviewed by the committee" according to one, "will not survive the deployment."

full story

http://sipseystreetirregulars.blogspot. ... alker.html

[Robthe Sunbeam]

Rain Pulls 15 Percent of State from Exceptional Drought
http://www.nbcdfw.com/weather/stories/Rain-Pulls-15-Percent-of-State-from-Exceptional-Drought-131803563.html

[JasonI am a nobody!]

Iran and Saudi Arabia Square Off
http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/ ... square-off

Iranian Clerics Call For Attacks And Suicide Bombings On Global Saudi Interests
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/iranian-c ... -interests

Egypt’s air force chief says planes patrolling Sinai without Israel’s consent
http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2 ... 71676.html

Will Israel bomb Iran without notifying the US?
http://gulfnews.com/opinions/columnists ... s-1.891422

The occupy Iran Fast and Furious plot (extended)
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/MJ14Ak02.html

Ex-CIA officer: Israel likely to attack Iran in September
http://www.jpost.com/Defense/Article.aspx?id=229605

...that was July fyi....hasn't happened yet...

[JasonI am a nobody!]

Hard Landing - "Pride Of China" Fighter Jet Nosedives Into Field During Airshow
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/pride-chi ... ng-airshow

Is China drinking its own Kool-Aid?
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/MJ15Ad01.html

China wrestles its slowdown
http://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2011/10 ... -slowdown/

'Management Disaster' - A German Ghost Town in the Heart of China
http://www.spiegel.de/international/wor ... 92,00.html

Chinese Banks Deteriorate; Loan Sharks Come Knocking; Copper Ponzi Financing Revisited; 5 Reasons to Expect Lower Commodity Prices
http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot. ... nalysis%29

German Banks Said to Prepare for Up to 60% Loss on Greek Debt
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-10-1 ... s-60-.html

Bank Deposits Flow Into Germany
http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/10/ ... to-germany

Eurozone Bank Deposits Are Fleeing for Germany
http://blogs.cfr.org/geographics/2011/1 ... 0-20111014

After Goldman, Italian Protestors Besiege, Storm Headquarters Of Berlusconi's Fininvest
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/after-gol ... -fininvest

ECB Tells Belgium Not To Backstop Dexia Interbank Deposits, Says Bailout Plan May Be Against The Euro Charter

If anyone is surprised that things in Europe will get massively surreal before this is all over, we suggest finding another thread. In the meantime, for the latest example of the utter chaos and "make it up as we go along" we go to the ECB which has just, in very polite terms, warned Belgium that its bailout-cum-nationalization plan may not be quite feasible. From Bloomberg: "The European Central Bank advised Belgium not to backstop Dexia SA’s interbank deposits and to avoid providing guarantees on debt maturing within three months because it risks interfering with the central bank’s monetary policy." Reading between the lines here, it means that the ECB is effectively telling national governments to not try and become their own central banks under the ECB's umbrella, which would likely result in not only in various sovereign downgrades (that is guaranteed) but in loss of conviction in the European Central Bank, something which the insolvent European continent and the insolvent hedge fund in its core, aka Jean-Claude Trichet Capital et Cie. which holdings hundreds of billions of Greek bonds at par, can certainly not avoid. It gets better: "The ECB also said the planned debt guarantees for Dexia may last as long as 20 years, which is inconsistent with European Union guidelines for national support measures to be temporary in nature, according to a statement published on the Frankfurt- based central bank’s website and dated Oct. 13. Belgium sought the ECB’s opinion on draft legislation that would grant state guarantees on Dexia loans." Oops: the ECB may have just scuttled the currently envisioned Dexia bailout plan. Oh well, just like with the Greek 50% bond haircut, so here to it is now back to the drawing board.

More from Bloomberg:

Guarantees on interbank deposits “could entail substantial distortion in the various national segments of the euro-area money market by potentially increasing short-term debt issuance activity across member states,” the ECB said in the statement.
“It could also affect the transmission of monetary policy decisions.”

For those who may have already forgotten last weekend's key event, now largley forgotten and priced in, "Dexia obtained a pledge from the governments of France, Belgium and Luxembourg last week to backstop as much as 90 billion euros ($125 billion) of interbank and bond funding with maturities of as much as 10 years until 2021. The French-Belgian municipal lender, which is being broken up after concern over its European sovereign debt holdings caused short-term funding to evaporate, sought state guarantees to finance long-term assets including 95 billion euros of bonds with an average maturity of almost 13 years at the end of June."

And the ECB just said that this whole plan may be against the Eurozon'e charter.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/ecb-tells ... nst-euro-c

S&P downgrades Spain
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/fina ... Spain.html

Spain attacks S&P as debt costs rise after downgrade
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/fina ... grade.html

S&P Downgrades BNP From AA To AA-, Lower Hybrid Capital Instrument Rating On All Top Five French Banks
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/sp-downgr ... ench-banks

UBS Kills Latest European Bailout Proposal: "Why A 50% Haircut On Greek Debt Will Not Work"
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/ubs-kills ... l-not-work

UBS, RBS Ratings Lowered as Fitch Says More Than a Dozen Banks May Follow
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-10-1 ... ollow.html

Foreigners Dump $74 Billion In Treasurys In 6 Consecutive Weeks: Biggest Sequential Outflow In History
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/foreigner ... ow-history

Intense Fighting In Qaddafi's Hometown Of Sirte
http://www.rferl.org/content/intense_fi ... 59843.html

Fighting Breaks Out In Libyan Capital
http://www.rferl.org/content/fighting_i ... 60072.html

'Gaddafi loyalists' and Libya NTC Tripoli battle ends
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-15311520

Suspected U.S. Drone Strike Kills Four In Pakistan
http://www.rferl.org/content/suspected_ ... 59935.html

Clashes in Syria leave 19 dead - rights activists
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-15300602

Syria uprising: UN says protest death toll hits 3,000
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-15304741

Sources: Would-be assassin linked elite Iran military unit to drug trade
http://openchannel.msnbc.msn.com/_news/ ... drug-trade

U.S. official: 'Multiple' sources strengthen case against Iran
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/10/13/world ... gle+Reader

Obama says Iran to face toughest possible sanctions
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/10/14/o ... w+Story%29

Obama Says Facts Support Accusation of Iranian Plot
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/14/us/ob ... .html?_r=1

Obama: No options off the table over Iran assassination plot
http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-d ... bled=false

Ex CIA Michael Scheuer outs McCain, Isreal, and Saudi Arabia as Benefactors of ginned up Iran Plot
http://deadlinelive.info/2011/10/14/ex- ... iran-plot/

Sources: US Gives Israel Green Light For Iran Strike
http://www.infowars.com/sources-us-give ... ran-strike

Report: Saudi officials warned of Iran plot to attack Israel embassy in Argentina
http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-d ... bled=false

King Labels Iran Terror Plot “Act of War”
http://www.infowars.com/king-labels-ira ... ct-of-war/

IAEA to Release “Evidence” Iran Secretly Working on Nuke Program
http://www.infowars.com/iaea-to-release ... e-program/

....maybe we'll see Iran hit before Syria????? Saudi is once and for all going to knock their enemy Iran off the table????





Iran's alleged Mexican hitman was US drugs informant
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/oc ... ant-hitman

Mounting Questions on Iran Terror Plot
http://www.cfr.org/iran/mounting-questi ... 9-20111014

Assassination Plot Was Pushed By DEA Informant
http://www.prisonplanet.com/assassinati ... rmant.html

Patrick Cockburn: This bizarre plot goes against all that is known of Iran's intelligence service
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/co ... 69657.html

The nonsensical alleged Iranian plot and the end of all reason
http://endthelie.com/2011/10/13/the-non ... z1aktaGYv8

The most difficult challenge in writing about the Iranian Terror Plot unveiled yesterday is to take it seriously enough to analyze it. Iranian Muslims in the Quds Force sending marauding bands of Mexican drug cartel assassins onto sacred American soil to commit Terrorism — against Saudi Arabia and possibly Israel — is what Bill Kristol and John Bolton would feverishly dream up while dropping acid and madly cackling at the possibility that they could get someone to believe it. But since the U.S. Government rolled out its Most Serious Officials with Very Serious Faces to make these accusations, many people (therefore) do believe it; after all, U.S. government accusations = Truth. All Serious people know that. And in the ensuing reaction one finds virtually every dynamic typically shaping discussions of Terrorism and U.S. foreign policy.

http://politics.salon.com/2011/10/12/th ... singleton/

Iran and Saudi Arabia Square Off

The two countries, at odds since the 1979 revolution in Iran and ever more so in the wake of the Arab Spring, are competing for dominance in global energy markets and nuclear technology and for political influence in the Persian Gulf and the Levant. Their conflict, with its sectarian overtones, has the potential to weaken pro-democracy forces in the Middle East and North Africa, empower Islamists, and drag the United States into military interventions. To avoid all this, the United States will need strategic imagination to devise ways to mitigate and manage the rivalry between Riyadh and Tehran.

Iran and Saudi Arabia are neither natural allies nor natural enemies but natural rivals who have long competed as major oil producers and self-proclaimed defenders of Shia and Sunni Islam, respectively. Until the Iranian revolution in 1979, their rivalry was managed and controlled by the United States, with whom they were both strategic allies. But after the Shah was overthrown, Saudi Arabia’s leadership became frightened by the Ayatollah Khomenei’s denunciation of the Saudi monarchy as antithetical to Islam and his ambition to export to the revolution to the Arab world. Saudi Arabia remained an ally of the United States; Iran became an implacable foe. Thereafter, the rivalry between Iran and Saudi Arabia became defined by the new U.S. strategy -- ally with Saudi Arabia to offset Iran.

As a result, Iran sees Saudi Arabia as a wealthy, ambitious proxy of the United States and Saudi Arabia views Iran as a major source of instability in the region, believing that it seeks to establish a so-called Shia Crescent to dominate Arab Sunnis. The rivalry has shaped both countries' policies as they have attempted to contain and combat each other’s influence. They have accused each other of blatant interference in their internal affairs, including indirect support for acts of terrorism against each other.

Although the United States and Iran both support the nascent Iraqi government, Saudi Arabia flatly opposes it for being too close to Iran. Indeed, Iran has supported extremist Shia forces in Iraq that have attacked the country’s Sunni community and U.S. soldiers. To weaken the government, Riyadh has declined to send an ambassador to Baghdad and has refused to forgive or reduce the huge loan it gave to Saddam Hussein to wage war against Iran in the 1980s, estimated to be almost $30 billion. And, according to WikiLeaks documents, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has accused Saudi Arabia of “fomenting sectarian conflict” and “funding a Sunni army.” The competition between Iran and Saudi Arabia over Iraq is only likely to escalate after U.S. troops withdraw later this year, threatening to further destabilize an already shaky political situation.

http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/ ... 5-20111014

....I posted this article previously (day or two ago on Blipits) and if you didn't get a chance to read it....gives you some nice insights into some aspects of the current environment in the middle east. Its not the whole story and leaves out a number of significant details though. For example Operation AJAX (OSS/CIA) that deposed Iran's democratically elected government in 1953 and installed the Shah who reigned with blood and horror until the revolution that dethroned him. The US then spirited him away from justice and they retaliated with the hostage crisis which lead to the October surprise that put Reagan/Bush in office. The US (as well as the Saudi's - whom they mention in the article) pushed Iraq (CIA lackey Saddam Insane) into attacking Iran and waging war for nearly a decade. All the WMD's Saddam had could never be exposed because they had "Made in USA" labels....since they were provided as part of the attack on Iran. Anyways this is becoming an epistle....needless to say this battle has been waging for multiple decades now.

The U.S. State Department considers Iran the world's "most active state sponsor of terrorism." U.S. officials say Iran provides funding, weapons, training, and sanctuary to numerous terrorist groups--most notably in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Lebanon--posing a security concern to the international community.
http://www.cfr.org/iran/state-sponsors- ... 7-20111014

Pentagon's accounting shambles may cost an additional $1 billion
http://www.iwatchnews.org/2011/10/13/70 ... -1-billion

...aw just shoot or blow up the accountants....that will solve the problem....

Panetta: Defense “Catastrophe” Would Mean Reduced Military Presence in Latin America and Africa
http://news.firedoglake.com/2011/10/13/ ... nd-africa/

Growing U.S. Role in South China Sea
http://www.cfr.org/china/growing-us-rol ... 6-20111014

Guest Post: Afghanistan - Newly Discovered Mineralogical Treasure House (Again)
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/guest-pos ... ouse-again

....I'd bet a nickel to a dollar somebody had an idea that they were there previously....

Fast and Furious Demonstrates ‘Ruling Class,’ Country Divide
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/fast-and-f ... ry-divide/

Obama Spoke About "Fast & Furious" Before Holder Claimed He Knew
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/ ... _knew.html

Did The Administration Break The The Law On Solyndra? Watch The Latest Hearing To Find Out
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/did-admin ... g-find-out

Military investigators found no wrongdoing in the Aug. 6 crash of a helicopter carrying dozens of elite Navy SEALs that became the deadliest single incident of the Afghan war, according to a report issued this week.
http://www.military.com/news/article/20 ... crash.html

State Revenue Under Forecasts to Produce Cuts From New York to California
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-10-1 ... ornia.html

Oct. 12 (Bloomberg) -- Public schools in California, which already spend less per student than those in 28 states, are bracing for a $1.7 billion cut that may wipe out high-school sports and student busing, and trim the academic calendar by seven days next year.

Automatic cuts built into this year's budget, intended to protect bondholders if revenue falls short of projections, are drawing new attention after California fell $705 million behind estimates in the first quarter.

A shortfall of $1 billion will slash hundreds of millions of dollars from universities and care of the elderly and disabled. A deficit of $2 billion will trigger reductions to public schools, creating "a fiscal emergency" that could leave some districts insolvent, a group of superintendents told Governor Jerry Brown in a Sept. 15 letter.

California earmarked $64.1 billion for kindergarten through 12th grade in the current budget. The cuts would remove $1.5 billion, the equivalent of seven school days, and a $248 million subsidy for bus service.

"Before the trigger cuts are put into effect -- and clearly that seems like where we're heading -- we need to come back to Sacramento to discuss everything," Olsen said in a telephone interview. "Our resources need to go to education and public safety the most."

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.c ... 6S972U.DTL

...clearly....

The twin bubbles of housing and higher education – housing bubble expanded from 1997 to 2007 and imploded. Since 2000 tuition costs have been soaring but graduate pay has been falling. What happens when you price out a generation looking for starter homes?
http://www.doctorhousingbubble.com/twin ... e+SoCal%29

"The Student Loan Racket" - The Complete Infographic
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/student-l ... nfographic

...a must read....

Unintended consequences: Low interest rates aren't spurring companies to grow, as they hoard cash and forsake growth opportunities. Instead, a corporate fear of borrowing into a weak economy overrides any euphoria over "easy money," according to (video) Miller Buckfire's Kenneth Buckfire. He agrees with Philly Fed President Plosser's take on Operation Twist: More risk than reward.
http://seekingalpha.com/currents/post/95880?source=feed

Cash Transactions Banned by Louisiana
http://ackelandassociates.com/cash-tran ... louisiana/

Taxpayers Fuming About State Trip To France
http://www.koco.com/video/29412671/detail.html

Middle class do worse in current economic recovery – median household income falls faster during recovery than during recession. S&P 500 up 77 percent in recovery while home values are neutral or down in many areas
http://www.mybudget360.com/middle-class ... p-rallies/

Growing Trend: Thieves Raid Vegetable Gardens in Indianapolis, New York and Chicago
http://www.shtfplan.com/emergency-prepa ... o_10142011

Merrill: forecasting the export slide
http://blogs.ft.com/beyond-brics/2011/1 ... ort-slide/

The oil industry has an overwhelmingly gloomy economic outlook, expecting recession in the next year, less demand for fuel and lower oil prices, a survey of delegates to a major industry conference showed this week
http://arabnews.com/economy/article517659.ece

October 14, 2008: The Day the Economy as We Knew It Died
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/october-14 ... w-it-died/

Top CDC Official Who Worked In Bio Terrorism And Emergency Response Arrested On Child Molestation and Bestiality Charges
http://theintelhub.com/2011/10/13/top-c ... estiality/

Last year, Prof. Susan Reverby reported on the recent history of human experimention in the US and Guatemala. Prof. Reverby wrote that virologists “knew that secrecy, and even law-breaking was sometimes necessary to further research,” quoting the father of virology who later explained:

(I)t’s against the law to do many things, but the law winks when a reputable man wants to do a scientific experiment. For example, the criminal code of the City of New York holds that is a felony to inject a person with infectious material. Well, I tested out live yellow fever vaccine right on my ward in the Rockefeller Hospital. It was no secret, and I assure you that the people in the New York City Department of Health knew it was being done. Unless the law winks occasionally, you have no progress in medicine.

This week, Irish news reporter Katie Hannon reveals how pharmaceutical companies, universities and governments injured and killed hundreds of babies to test vaccines without consent; how they delivered the babies to universities and medical schools for dissection, and how government agencies continue to stonewall survivors and siblings who seek answers.

http://www.omsj.org/corruption/when-the ... ead-babies

Exposed: Out-of-control Medicare program subsidizing drug habits of tens of thousands of abusers, drug dealers
http://www.naturalnews.com/033869_medic ... abits.html

Toxic Spill In Ukraine Causes Concern
http://www.rferl.org/content/toxic_spil ... 60104.html

(Reuters) - A radiation hotspot has been detected in Tokyo seven months into Japan's nuclear crisis, but local officials said on Thursday high readings appeared to be coming from mystery bottles stored under a house, not the tsunami-crippled Fukushima atomic plant.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/ ... gle+Reader

...seems odd....

Fukushima Rice All Cleared for Shipment, Radioactive or Not because in the "main" test administered by the Fukushima prefectural government, none exceeded the stringent national provisional safety limit of 500 becquerels/kg of radioactive cesium.
http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2011/10/fuku ... pment.html

Fukushima Government to Push Fukushima Rice in Restaurants and Schools

Now that the rice from all districts and cities in Fukushima Prefecture are declared "safe" (i.e. below the provisional safety limit of 500 becquerels/kg of radioactive cesium), the Fukushima prefectural government is gearing up for the PR campaign it plans to mount to promote Fukushima rice in restaurants and school lunches and to consumers in the Tokyo metropolitan area.

http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2011/10/fuku ... shima.html

Geological Time Bomb: Red Alert Issued For El Hierro Volcanic Region in Canary Islands; Possible Tsunami Threat To U.S. East Coast
http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/g ... t_10132011

Experts are warning that an eruption could be imminent at an even more powerful Icelandic volcano than the one that paralysed air traffic last year. Seismologists are nervously watching rumblings beneath Katla which could spew an ash cloud dwarfing the 2010 eruption that cost airlines two billion dollars (£1.27 billion) and drove home how vulnerable modern society is to the whims of nature. Brooding over rugged moss-covered hills on Iceland's southern edge, Katla is a much bigger beast than the nearby Eyjafjallajokul volcano, which blasted ash all over Europe for several weeks in an eruption that local scientist Pall Einarsson describes nonetheless as "small". Named after an evil troll, Katla has a larger magma chamber than Eyjafjallajokul's. Its last major eruption in 1918 continued more than a month, turning day into night, starving crops of sunlight and killing off some livestock. The eruption melted some of the ice-sheet covering Katla, flooding surrounding farmlands with a torrent of water that some accounts have said measured as wide as the Amazon. Now, clusters of small earthquakes are being detected around Katla, which means an eruption could be imminent, seismologists say. The earthquakes have been growing in strength, too.

http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/site/?page ... &uid=11558

Experts warn over Iceland volcano
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world ... 69894.html

Magnitude 6.7 - EASTERN NEW GUINEA REG, PAPUA NEW GUINEA
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/ ... 0069ba.php

Magnitude 6.1 - AMURSKAYA OBLAST', RUSSIA
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/ ... 0069ck.php

...looks like the lull in the 6's is over....

Worst Flooding in Decades Swamps Thailand
http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011 ... nd/100168/

Heavy rains in Thailand during September and October have led to extreme flooding that has killed 283 people and caused that nation's most expensive natural disaster in history. On Tuesday, Thailand's finance minister put the damage from the floods at $3.9 billion. This makes the floods of 2011 the most expensive disaster in Thai history, surpassing the $1.3 billion price tag of the November 27, 1993 flood, according to the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED). Floodwaters have swamped fields and cities in 61 of Thailand's 77 provinces, affected 8.2 million people, and damaged approximately 10% of the nation's rice crop. Thailand is the world's largest exporter of rice, so the disaster may put further upward pressure on world food prices, which are already at the highest levels since the late 1970s. Some of the highest tides of the month occur this weekend in the capital of Bangkok, and the additional pressure that incoming salt water puts on the flood walls protecting the city is a major concern. A moderate monsoon flow continues over Southeast Asia, and the latest GFS model precipitation forecast foresees an additional 2 - 5 inches of rain over most of Thailand during the next three days.

Heavy rains due to an active monsoon and moisture from tropical cyclones
Rainfall in September peaked at 574.3mm (22.61") at Nong Kai in Northeastern Thailand, 501mm (19.72") at Uttardit in Northern Thailand, and 1446.7mm (56.96") in Eastern Thailand. For these regions, precipitation averaged 40 - 46% above normal in September. In the week ending Oct. 13, an additional 4 - 8" fell in Central and Thailand, where the capital of Bangkok lies. On Thursday, 38 mm (1.53") fell in Bangkok, and rainfall amounts of 1 - 3" fell over much of Central Thailand. Heavy monsoon rains are common in Thailand and Southeast Asia during La Niña events, and we currently have a weak La Niña event occurring. Ocean temperatures in the waters surrounding Thailand during September and October have been approximately 0.3°C above average, which has increased rainfall amounts by putting more water vapor into the air. The remains of Tropical Storm Haitang and Typhoon Nesat also brought heavy rains in late September. The flooding has also affected neighboring Cambodia, killing at least 183 people. Floods have also killed 18 in Vietnam and 30 in Laos this fall.

Hurricane Jova kills five in Mexico, but damage limited
Hurricane Jova killed five people in Mexico but damage was less than expected, amounting to less than $52 million, according to AIR-Worldwide. Jova hit the Pacific coast of Mexico Tuesday night as a Category 2 hurricane with 100 mph winds. Wunderblogger Mike Theiss rode out the storm on the coast, and has a a great post on his experience, which I excerpt here: "the winds suddenly picked up fiercely and started pounding the building I took shelter in. The surf ran way up on the beach and the waves were pounding the buildings and spraying up over everything at the pool. The wind was screaming and howling and the glass was flying. The Spanish tiles were getting ripped off the roof and all the glass light fixture were popping like balloons."

http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMa ... rynum=1959

The Colorado River: Running Near Empty
http://e360.yale.edu/feature/video_colo ... 443/#video

Texas drought hampers wildlife reproduction
http://www.northjersey.com/news/nationa ... ction.html

Fires in Russia and China
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Natura ... &src=nhrss

[JasonI am a nobody!]

Yemen: U.S. strike kills al Qaeda media chief
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/10/ ... 0883.shtml

Violence in Yemen’s Capital Escalates as Clashes Enter Third Day
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/18/world ... yemen.html

Air Force Shoots Down Investigation Into Deadly Crash
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/10 ... -cover-up/

CIA drone shot down U.S. Special Forces Chinook helicopter in Afghanistan
http://presscore.ca/2011/?p=4749

Afghan lawmakers OK funds for Kabul Bank bailout
http://gma.yahoo.com/afghan-lawmakers-o ... 28995.html

Tensions Flare as G.I.’s Take Fire Out of Pakistan
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/17/world ... istan.html

Saudi Arabia appeals to UN after Iran charged with plotting to kill ambassador

Many analysts remain skeptical about U.S. charges that Iran plotted to assassinate the Saudi ambassador in Washington, but in Riyadh officials are taking the accusations seriously and have already begun to employ them in a diplomatic assault against Tehran.

On Sunday, Riyadh’s permanent mission to the United Nations formally requested that the secretary-general notify the Security Council of the “heinous conspiracy” against it, Saudi-owned newspapers reported on Sunday. The move that could be used to impose fresh sanctions on Iran.

“Tension is already high and is going to skyrocket in the days and weeks to come,” Abdelkhaleq Abdalla, professor of political science at Emirates University in Dubai, told The Media Line. “How far will the Saudis go? Maybe as far as recalling their ambassador from Tehran. I think this is the limit.”

http://themedialine.org/news/news_detai ... wsID=33485

Iran calls U.S. assassination charges 'Nazi propaganda'
http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-d ... bled=false

Corporate-Fascists Clamor for Iran War
http://theintelhub.com/2011/10/16/corpo ... -iran-war/

US Begins Huge Military Maneuvers Aimed at Iran
http://www.prisonplanet.com/us-begins-h ... -iran.html

The United States launches a large-scale exercise over the Middle East deploying 41 giant transports of the 22nds Airlift Squadron Monday Oct. 17, the day before the Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit is scheduled to be released by Hamas. The US Transportation Command and its Air Forces Transportation will be testing its ability to provide a rapid strategic airlift response to major crises and contingencies.

Tuesday morning, when the Israel and Hamas prisoner exchange is due to be executed, the giant US transports will drill landings in Israel and Saudi Arabia. The aircraft will be packed with command and control elements and fighting units with full equipment.

DEBKAfile’s military sources report that during this critical week, the exercise ending Friday, Oct. 21 will keep an American air fleet in Middle East skies ready to land at any moment for any contingency. The Israeli, Egyptian and Saudi armies are on a high state of preparedness.

In parallel, The USS John C. Stennis aircraft carrier is on its way from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean. Last Tuesday Oct. 11, as the US officials accused the Iranian government of directing a plot to assassination the Saudi ambassador to Washington, the Stennis was nearing the Red Sea.

Aboard was the Chief of US Naval Operations Adm. Jonathan Greenert who was assigned to the operation in this arena shortly after taking up his appointment.

The missions of the Stennis Battle Group, consisting of an additional seven warships, most of them destroyers and frigates, as well as Air Wing CVW-9, are to provide ground troops with combat support and strike land and sea targets. It is also able to sow mines over large areas around coastal regions and on the high sea.

http://revolutionradio.org/?p=21195

Iran warns West of 'strong confrontation' to any 'inappropriate measures'
http://www.haaretz.com/news/internation ... bled=false

Syria, Qatar, Turkey said willing to take prisoners deported in Shalit deal
http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-d ... bled=false

Obama, the king of Africa
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Eco ... 8Dj06.html

John McCain warns Barack Obama of miring US in an African war - President Barack Obama's plan to send 100 military troops to Uganda risks miring the United States in another protracted war, a top Republican politician warned on Sunday
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne ... n-war.html

NEW DELHI: The Indian security establishment is becoming increasingly concerned about the presence of around 4,000 Chinese construction personnel, including combat engineers from the People's Liberation Army (PLA) in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, even as infiltration levels across the Line of Control into J&K have recorded a sharp jump in recent days
http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes ... -baltistan

Competing claims over islands in the South China Sea and the sea area form the centre piece of the ongoing imbroglio. In addition China’s open statements to the US and India are making the security environment untenable.
http://www.idsa.in/idsacomments/TheSout ... mar_141011

US appeals for calm over South China Sea
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/ar ... a939e2.8d1

China heats up stance on South China Sea
http://www.upi.com/Business_News/Energy ... 318872718/

China paper warns India off Vietnam oil deal
http://articles.economictimes.indiatime ... am-con-son

Taiwan plans missile deployment in disputed islands
http://globalnation.inquirer.net/15323/ ... ed-islands

US worries over China's underground nuclear network
http://www.spacewar.com/reports/US_worr ... k_999.html

Adam Werritty 'plotted with Israel' to topple Iran's President Ahmadinejad
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/ ... nejad.html

Israel’s Mossad gets dragged into latest British political scandal

Speculation that defense minister’s aide was “unwitting” agent of Israeli intelligence

British media have speculated that the man behind the fall of their minister of defense was in cahoots with Israel’s famed intelligence agency, Mossad, perhaps unwittingly, as the perfect spy.

Adam Werritty, an unofficial “chief of staff” to Defense Minister Liam Fox - a much respected, staunch conservative who quit in disgrace this weekend - boasted extraordinary access, had no security vetting and plotted to overthrow the Iranian regime.

http://themedialine.org/news/news_detai ... wsID=33494

Syria is heading for full-blown civil war, top UN official warns
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/oc ... ity-forces

'Syria: Anti-Assad protesters use Israeli-made weapons'
http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article ... 41967&R=R1

Syria seizes Israeli weapons
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/204997.html

Fearing Reprisals, Syria’s Alawites Go on Arms Shopping Spree
http://themedialine.org/news/news_detai ... wsID=33486

Libya NTC Rebels in Retreat in Sirte. Renewed NATO Bombing
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php? ... leId=27109

Families of Gaddafi aides flee Sirte as clashes continue
http://rt.com/news/gaddafi-aides-flee-sirte-015/

Rome counts costs of worst street violence in years
http://www.france24.com/en/20111016-rom ... debt-italy

Anti-banking protests continue on the streets of Germany
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,15463572,00.html

Day of 'Global Revolution' comes to London as thousands of demonstrators take over the City
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... -City.html

Occupy Sydney protester arrested in Martin Place
http://www.smh.com.au/national/occupy-s ... 1lqei.html

No backing down in the Windy City: Chicago arrests 175 in crackdown on protesters after day of global demonstrations
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... ution.html

EU Given a Week to Fix Crisis as G-20 Warns of Global Threat
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-10-1 ... tened.html

Yet Another Reason Why the Euro Is Doomed
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/guest-pos ... uro-doomed

A chart of PIIGS bond yields (with Greece, clearly toast, left out) highlights the next default target: Portugal. Past months show a divergence between Portuguese and Irish paper, with yields on the former rising while the latter falls. Portugal has made great reform efforts, but math doesn't care. Total debt is set to top 360% of GDP with a current account deficit of 10% of GDP.
http://seekingalpha.com/currents/post/96073?source=feed

Europe's lost decade as $7 trillion loan crunch looms - Europe’s banks face a $7 trillion lending contraction to bring their balance sheets in line with the US and Japan, threatening to trap the region in a credit crunch and chronic depression for a decade
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comm ... looms.html

EU considering massive cuts to food aid for poor
http://news.yahoo.com/eu-considering-ma ... 55873.html

China makes 'secret eurozone commitment'
http://www.france24.com/en/20111016-chi ... commitment

Property Developers Hurting in China; New Homes Sales Down 50% in Shanghai; Preposterous Prices Won't Last; Commodities to be Hit in Building Slump
http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot. ... nalysis%29

Hong Kong Starts Trading Gold in Yuan to Tap ‘Triple Demand’
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-10-1 ... mand-.html

43,454,601,693,238 Reasons Why The World Is Broke - Presenting The Interactive Global Debt Clock
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/434546016 ... debt-clock

Video: Communist Party U.S.A. Spokesman Gets Overwhelming Applause from Occupy Chicago
http://rebelpundit.com/2011/10/16/video ... y-chicago/

Russian spies using Canadian passports poses ‘troubling threat’: documents
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/nat ... al+News%29





Florida Hotel Fires Employee for Refusing to Remove American Flag Pin
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/10/16/fl ... -flag-pin/

Lowe's Cos. Inc. said on Monday it is closing 20 of its U.S. stores -- including two in Illinois -- eliminating nearly 2,000 jobs, and the home improvement retailer now plans to open far fewer locations in the future, citing the need to improve its profitability.

Lowe's, which operates about 1,700 stores in the United States, said Monday that it had closed 10 on Sunday and would close another 10 within a month. Its two Illinois stores, in Aurora and Oswego, were part of the Sunday closures

http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ ... 0882.story

New report shows state austerity budgets are devastating public schools
http://www.examiner.com/populist-in-lon ... ic-schools

Cook County to union: Take unpaid holidays or risk 1,000 plus layoffs
http://couriernews.suntimes.com/8216773 ... yoffs.html

San Diego home sales post 4-year low for September
http://www.housingwire.com/2011/10/17/s ... ingWire%29

Capital One Sept. credit card delinquencies rise
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/capita ... 2011-10-17

"Internet Killed The Radio Store" - Mall Vacancies Hit All Time Record
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/internet- ... ime-record

More than 6 million Americans are behind on their mortgage payments or facing foreclosure. Housing prices have continued to drop, and many neighborhoods across the U.S. are filled with foreclosed homes.
http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2011/oc ... -has-been/

WASHINGTON -- The top Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee is recommending that a special committee searching for ways to slash the deficit consider some of President Barack Obama's proposed changes to health and retirement benefits for the military.

In a letter to the bipartisan panel, Arizona Sen. John McCain signaled he was open to cost-saving steps in military benefits, a move certain to send shock waves through Congress and among powerful groups of retired officers and veterans resistant to change.

http://www.military.com/news/article/mc ... ement.html

CHARTS: Here's What The Wall Street Protesters Are So Angry About...
http://www.businessinsider.com/what-wal ... 11-10?op=1

10 Essential Fiscal Charts Demonstrating America's Disastrous Condition
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/10-essent ... -condition

Four US banks hold a staggering 95.9% of U.S. derivatives: The $600 Trillion Time Bomb That's Set to Explode
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php? ... &aid=27106

Bank Transfer Day: November 5th
http://dont-tread-on.me/bank-transfer-day-november-5th/

Developing Story: People Arrested for Trying to Close Citibank Accounts
http://politics.gather.com/viewArticle. ... 4980587518

Gulf banks stronger than Western counterparts: Report
http://articles.economictimes.indiatime ... ing-sector

Ilargi: Bit of an unusual post today.

First, a series of short videos in which Stoneleigh aka Nicole Foss talks about finance and energy.

Then, a call from Ashvin Pandurangi to the TAE community to participate in an interactive project he's starting. Ashvin is looking for diamonds in the rough, things that can help us make it (better) through a financial collapse.

He then writes about the first such diamond himself: the banking system of North Dakota.

http://theautomaticearth.blogspot.com/2 ... rough.html

...should post them all here....but they are at the link above if interested.....especially recommend the piece on "North Dakota's Monetary Magic"!!!

Anadarko to pay BP $4 billion in Gulf spill settlement
http://money.cnn.com/2011/10/17/news/in ... ?iid=HP_LN

Facebook accused of violating US wiretap law
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/10/14 ... g_lawsuit/

Verizon Wireless Now Collecting Your Web, Location, App Data
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2394625,00.asp

NYTimes Sues The Federal Government For Refusing To Reveal Its Secret Interpretation Of The PATRIOT Act
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/201110 ... -act.shtml

Meet the Guy Who Snitched on Occupy Wall Street to the FBI and NYPD
http://gawker.com/5850054/

Despite Evidence of FBI Bungling, New Probe Into Anthrax Killings Unlikely
http://www.propublica.org/article/despi ... s-unlikely

The EyeOpener- Morbid Addiction: CIA & the Drug Trade
http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/2011/10 ... rug-trade/

Former Detective Testifies NYPD Routinely Plants Evidence, Frames People to Reach Arrest Quotas
http://publicintelligence.net/former-de ... st-quotas/

What's the CIA doing at NYPD? Depends whom you ask
http://news.yahoo.com/whats-cia-doing-n ... 10053.html

USPS Hires Big Guns to Help Get More Government Protection
http://johnrlott.blogspot.com/2011/10/u ... -more.html

Shocker: Romney Partnered With Obama Climate Adviser And Supported Cap And Trade As Governor
http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/shocke ... nything%29

Obama — America’s Divider-in-Chief
http://floppingaces.net/2011/10/16/obam ... eader-post

300,000 babies stolen from their parents - and sold for adoption: Haunting BBC documentary exposes 50-year scandal of baby trafficking by the Catholic church in Spain
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... Spain.html

An experienced judge in Pennsylvania is charged with trying to exchange sexual favours for positive verdicts.

Ross Cioppa, 70, was released on $10,000 bail Thursday after being charged with two counts of bribery, two counts of indecent assault, and two counts of official oppression.

The judge is said to have made inappropriate sexual advances to two women whose civil housing cases he was hearing in his courtroom

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... gPage=true

The Coming Paradigm Shift Will “Result in Riots, Starvation and Bloodshed”
http://www.shtfplan.com/emergency-prepa ... d_10172011





Citizens’ Testing Finds 20 Hot Spots Around Tokyo
http://www.the-dispatch.com/article/201 ... r-Problems

Citizens’ Testing Finds 20 Hot Spots Around Tokyo
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/15/world ... .html?_r=1

News: Media knew 1.2×10^12 Bq of plutonium was released to the air in the first 100 hours
http://fukushima-diary.com/2011/10/news ... a+Diary%29

Leaked TEPCO report: 120 billion Becquerels of plutonium, 7.6 trillion Becquerels of neptunium released in first 100 hours — Media concealed risk to public
http://fukushimaupdate.com/fukushima-update-day-221/

New Subsea Volcanic Eruption Occurs Near El Hierro (The Canary Islands)
http://www.irishweatheronline.com/news/ ... 41903.html

Restless Katla Volcano Heightens Fears Of Possible Eruption
http://www.irishweatheronline.com/news/ ... 41923.html

[JasonI am a nobody!]

Great posts today Jason! That video on the chain of obedience.....

LOL...he's a pretty hard hitter who's walking his talk (building home in rural Missouri - carving out an existence). I don't agree with him on many of his stances (particularly religion) but he has pretty good logic and most of his points are very solid and well articulated.


Foreign riot police may now be operating in Greece
http://www.golemxiv.co.uk/2011/10/forei ... in-greece/

FBI’s DNA database upgrade plans come under fire
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-15311718

Mapping America's Shadowy Drone Wars
http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175454/ ... wars/#more

U.S. military denies decision to quit Iraq after 2011
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/10/16/u ... fter-2011/

Fighting Erupts in Tripoli
http://www.activistpost.com/2011/10/fig ... ipoli.html

Feds Foil Own Saudi Assassination Plot: Pin it on Iran
http://www.activistpost.com/2011/10/fed ... -plot.html

The Iranian “Plot”
http://www.counterpunch.org/2011/10/14/ ... %E2%80%9D/

To Isolate Iran, U.S. Presses Inspectors on Nuclear Data
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/16/world ... s&emc=tha2

US Policy Toward Iran One-Way Ticket to War
http://www.activistpost.com/2011/10/us- ... et-to.html

Corporate-Funded Policy Makers Clamor for Iran War
http://www.activistpost.com/2011/10/cor ... lamor.html

Nobel Peace Prize-President quietly opens 8th US battlefront, Uganda
http://www.activistpost.com/2011/10/nob ... ietly.html

Obama orders U.S. troops to help chase down African 'army' leader
http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/14/world/afr ... ma-troops/

Part of Alabama Immigrant Law Blocked
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/15/us/2- ... ed.html?hp

First US Permit Issued to Mexican Long-Haul Trucking Company
http://www.mexidata.info/id3165.html

Terror backers should lose US citizenship: lawmakers

WASHINGTON — Americans who support or engage in acts of terror against the United States should have their citizenship revoked, said a group of lawmakers who on Thursday introduced legislation to that effect.

The bill submitted to both chambers of Congress by hawkish independent Senator Joe Lieberman, Republican Senator Scott Brown and Republican congressmen Charlie Dent and Jason Altmire come fresh on the heels of the killing of US-born radical cleric and Al-Qaeda militant Anwar al-Awlaqi in Yemen by a suspected CIA drone.

That killing was authorized by US authorities in a secret document, drawing fire from civil rights advocates who argued it permitted the execution of a US citizen without due legal process.

The so-called "Enemy Expatriation Act" is aimed at US nationals "engaging in or supporting hostilities against the United States."

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/ar ... 7069d5.371

When a legislature undertakes to proscribe the exercise of a citizen’s constitutional rights it acts lawlessly and the citizen can take matters into his own hands and proceed on the basis that such a law is no law at all. — William O. Douglas, Supreme Court Justice
http://www.activistpost.com/2011/10/law ... lapse.html

Frightening 'Drug Threat Assessment' for the USA and Mexico
http://www.mexidata.info/id3162.html

National Drug Threat Assessment 2011
http://www.justice.gov/ndic/pubs44/44849/44849p.pdf

FBI Reports Less Crime Despite More Firearms
http://www.noonehastodietomorrow.com//i ... Itemid=122

Human Services Officials Lie About Number of Children Abused in State Custody
http://www.noonehastodietomorrow.com//i ... Itemid=122

Doctors speak out: healthcare has been reduced to a making money factory
http://www.naturalnews.com/033881_healt ... ofits.html

Flu shots often result in delayed side effects and long-term injury
http://www.naturalnews.com/033891_vacci ... njury.html

Population Control Zealots Tag Halloween as 'The Day of Seven Billion'
http://www.noonehastodietomorrow.com//i ... Itemid=124

FDA Trilateral Cooperation Charter - the end of health freedom as we know it
http://www.naturalnews.com/033892_Trila ... eedom.html

Vitamins are deadly? Media hoax exposed, part two
http://www.naturalnews.com/033893_mains ... amins.html

GMO Basics
http://www.noonehastodietomorrow.com//i ... Itemid=115

Obama Promised GMO Labeling in 2007 (Video)
http://www.activistpost.com/2011/10/oba ... -2007.html

Romney Beating Obama in a Fight for Wall St. Cash
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/16/us/ro ... s&emc=tha2

The 1930s Sure Sound Familiar
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/15/opini ... ef=opinion

Gov't cameras in your car? E-toll patent hints at Big Brotherish future
http://redtape.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011 ... ish-future

Report: Pentagon doesn't know where the money is going
http://openchannel.msnbc.msn.com/_news/ ... y-is-going

Fed pensions underfunded by $673B
http://www.federaltimes.com/article/201 ... 60303/1001

...certainly not going there....

Issa Issues Subpoena to Holder in Fast and Furious Investigation
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/10 ... eedfetcher

Detroit struggles to keep lights on - Copper thieves, aging equipment darken blocks in cash-starved city

City officials estimate 15-20 percent of the 88,000 lights in the Motor City are not working, and they acknowledge that figure could be as high as 50 percent in some neighborhoods.

http://detnews.com/article/20111017/MET ... picks=true

[JasonI am a nobody!]

Global Systemic Crisis: The Decimation of the Western Banks
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php? ... &aid=27119

...or is all as it appears?

What the banks are doing is dumping bad assets not only into shell corporations but they are dumping them into the biggest shell dumping grounds of them all, Freddie and Fannie. The banks are making bad loans with money from nothing, then moving the garbage off their books to appear healthy themselves, while putting the taxpayer on the hook for their mistakes – but we already know that, don’t we?

What many are overlooking is that the banks, meanwhile, have stuffed their coffers full of “Excess Reserves,” to the tune of $1.6 Trillion!

In September, 2008, Hank Paulson, former Goldman Sachs CEO and then Treasurer turned chief criminal of the United States, wanted and then got the “Fed” to begin paying the banks for any “excess” reserves they hold! Where does the money to pay them come from? Why YOU, of course. And just look at “excess reserves” today.

Now let’s get a few things straight about this $1.6 trillion that is just sitting there with you paying the banks interest… The banks have never had any (to mention) real reserves – they have generated so much debt that they have saturated the planet. Because they were so successful at saturating the planet, they have destroyed their own lending model – there are now so few qualified borrows because of saturation that they have a difficult time just taking in deposits and then lending at a profit. Besides, why pay depositors their pittance .25% when they can make money from nothing to lend anyway and then offload their horror show onto Freddie and Fannie and now their other shell corporations?

Talk about broken, the money system and the rule-of-law in the United States are so far gone it’s not even funny. What’s more, just turn on the television and you will see “analysts” proclaim that there’s never been a better time to own bank stocks, “They’re cheap!” Only problem is that they are nothing but giant leverage and fraud baskets that the winds of change are about to sweep clean.

Of course I tell it like it is, if you want to hear the PC version, Meredith Whitney is smoother: [see video at link below]

Many people worry about that $1.6 trillion in “excess reserves.” They worry that it’s going to come flooding into the economy at some point and cause hyperinflation. Well, let’s examine what a bank really can do with all that money – they can’t lend it because they saturated everyone with debt already and the populace can’t service still more debt. Hmmm, that’s a problem. But what they could do is use it to buy up cheap assets and strip the poor saps of America of the rest of their belongings… hmmm. But if they did that then they may not be properly capitalized, so what’s a poor, poor bank to do?

If I had my way, I’d force out the leverage and bad debts during a special bankruptcy procedure, and I’d use a big portion of that money to buy back U.S. treasuries or Fannie, Freddie debts – of course that won’t even scratch the surface, but the purveyors of fraud should not be allowed off the hook that they created, and when the winds of change sweep them from power, they should not be allowed to abscond with their loot, certainly they should not be paid off – that is a part of restoring the natural rule-of-law.

Isn’t it great having a few private individuals control the production of your money? You know they pay you with a certificate of DEBT? And that the money you earn they make you pay them interest on it? LOL, are we gullible or what? Can I offer you gold as money? LOL, of course they control the majority of the gold too, and control is the key word as they use it to control you with it too (this is Ron Paul’s Achilles).

As far as the “markets” go, they are nothing but a rigged and manipulated casino arm of the private banks. Again I encourage people not to feed the animals, move your money into a local bank or credit union and stop playing in their casino.

http://economicedge.blogspot.com/2011/1 ... -1018.html

U.S. bank failures climb to 80 in 2011
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/us-ban ... 2011-10-15

List of US Bank Closures in 2011
http://www.pakalertpress.com/2011/10/18 ... t+Press%29

Bank Of America Forces Depositors To Backstop Its $53 Trillion Derivative Book To Prevent A Few Clients From Departing The Bank

Bank of America, which today reported a big bottom line loss net of one-time beneficial items, did something quite tricky and extremely devious last month: it shifted anywhere up to the total of $53 trillion of the total derivatives it held as of June 30 (as Zero Hedge previously reported) on its books at Q2 from the Holding Company, which was downgraded last by Moody's from A2 to Baa1 (the third-lowest investment grade rating) to its retail bank, which was downgraded to the far more palatable A2 (from Aa3). The reason for the transfer? Bank customers who were uneasy with the fact that suddenly the collateral backstoping the operating entity handling their counterparty risk was downgraded to just above junk, demanded that said counterparty risk be mitigated by the bank's $1 trillon in deposits. In other words, as Bloomberg first reported when it broke this story, anywhere up to the full $53 trillion (we don't know for sure how much so we assume the worst case) is now fully and effectively backstopped explicitly by the bank's $1,041 trillion (as of September 30) deposits. Pardon's we meant the people's deposits: the same deposits which caused the bank's website to be inoperative for several days in a row after it was rumored that there was an electronic run on the bank. Why? Just so Bank of America can appears whatever remaining clients it has so they decide not to take their business to another derivative counterparty. And who is exposed to this latest idiocy? Why you. But that's not all: the FDIC, which is the entity backstopping the deposits in a worst-case scenario, is not happy with this move for obvious reasons. Yet even it is hopeless to override the Fed, which as Bloomberg reports, "has signaled that it favors moving the derivatives to give relief to the bank holding company." And so, once again, we see just how much more important the Federal Reserve are the interest of US taxpayers and savers over those of the banks that effectively run the Fed.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/bank-amer ... lients-dep

The NYC Citibank Arrests, According To the OWS Videographer
http://wonkette.com/454908/the-nyc-citi ... deographer

The Megabanks are trying to prevent bank runs in the United States (Video)

Megabanks around the world are reeling from their customers removing their capital and closing their accounts. People are standing up worldwide in a non-participational form of civil disobedience in order to do anything possible to bring down these corrupt megabanks.

There was an Italian bank run scare in at the beginning of August that really started the gears in motion for the possibilities of future bank runs.

Financial blogs predicted a run on the French banks during the economic turmoil in the EU and Eurozone countries.] Many corporations in France have moved their money out of French banks and into safer short term holdings for the time being.

Similar bank runs in August occurred in the United States, and the megabank Bank Of America had to employ the assistance of the St. Louis SWAT Team to prevent customers from closing their accounts and moving their money to smaller banks.

http://www.activistpost.com/2011/10/meg ... -bank.html

Bank Transfer Day is November 5th
http://www.economicvoice.com/bank-trans ... g/50024760

...I've procrastinated moving my accounts out of Wells Fargo (despite evidence of Drug Cartel money laundering)...but this month I'm done with them....be completely closed out by November 5th and shifting to several credit unions for diversification.

The chastisement of the American saver – Federal Reserve offers a higher interest rate to banking reserves than too big to fail banks offer American savers

Americans are facing a banking system that is largely designed to go against their best economic interest. Even a decade ago people were able to find a savings account or a certificate of deposit that would keep up with the rate of inflation. Today, most typical savings accounts at too big to fail banks offer essentially a zero percent interest rate. Mattress savings. And the true rate of inflation on items like food, education, and fuel is far outpacing in household gains. This is the dilemma. If you put your money into the banking system you will surely lose because of the erosion of money thanks to our central banking policies. The Federal Reserve has purposely created a negative interest environment to get people to spend again and restart the economy. The unfortunate point is that banks have plenty of excess reserves thanks to trillions of dollars in bailouts yet fail to lend it out largely because the public is seeing household incomes shrink. The last decade growth was largely debt based. The banking system essentially is punishing the American saver with whatever little amount they try to sock away.

http://www.mybudget360.com/the-chastise ... near-zero/

...also drives the need to keep commodity prices high and the appearance of inflation or everyone will start saving....

What You Simply MUST Understand
http://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?singlepost=2753128

Debt-Serfdom Is Now The New American Norm
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/guest-pos ... rican-norm

In Debt Up To Our Eyeballs - The entire financial system of the western world is designed to be a debt spiral. Today, we are in debt up to our eyeballs and it seems like nearly everyone is talking about "deleveraging" and reducing government debt.
http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/arch ... r-eyeballs

The Fraud At The Heart Of Student Lending Exposed - The One Sentence Everyone Should Read

A key reason why a preponderance of the population is fascinated with the student loan market is that as USA Today reported in a landmark piece last year, it is now bigger than ever the credit card market. And as the monthly consumer debt update from the Fed reminds us, the primary source of funding is none other than the US government. To many, this market has become the biggest credit bubble in America. Why do we make a big deal out of this? Because as Bloomberg reported last night, we now have prima facie evidence that the student loan market is not only an epic bubble, but it is also the next subprime! To wit: "Vince Sampson, president, Education Finance Council, said during a panel at the IMN ABS East Conference in Miami Monday that lenders are no longer pushing loans to people who can’t afford them." Re-read the last sentence as many times as necessary for it to sink in.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/fraud-hea ... hould-read

The Coming Contraction - The party's over and it's time to pay the bill.
http://patriotpost.us/commentary/2011/1 ... ontraction

...deflation....and those excess reserves slowly trickle in to buy up everything for pennies on the dollar....

Lowes to Close Stores;Gap to Close US Stores, Expand in China; Best Buy to Reduce Square Footage by 10%; Mall Vacancies Record High; Grim Jobs Picture
http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot. ... nalysis%29

Because The Financial Short Ban Was Not Enough, Europe To Proceed With CDS Short Selling Ban Imminently, Accelerate Terminal Unwind
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/because-f ... imminently

European Short Selling Ban Redux - Europe Reaches Deal On Naked CDS Ban As Desperation Sets In
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/european- ... ation-sets

The FSA takes pre-emptive action on liquidity swaps
http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2011/10 ... um=twitter

Banks Ready to Kill Greek Bailout
http://247wallst.com/2011/10/17/banks-r ... k-bailout/

Europe: Time is running out
http://money.cnn.com/2011/10/14/news/in ... ?iid=HP_LN

Clinton pledges more aid in surprise Libya visit

The secretary of state used unusually blunt terms to describe what the United States wants to see happen in Libya. Clinton told students and others in Tripoli that the U.S. wants to see former dictator Muammar Qaddafi killed or captured.

Clinton says the U.S. will keep supporting Libya as it forms a new government. She announced about $11 million in new U.S. aid during Tuesday's visit.

Reporting from Tripoli, CBS News correspondent Allen Pizzey said Secretary Clinton arrived in Tripoli amid heavy security, and security is one of the focuses of her trip here - specifically about 10,000 shoulder-fired surface-to-air missiles that are missing from Muammar Qaddafi's arsenal. Part of the $135 million in aid that the U.S. has pledged to Libya's new leadership will go to search for and dismantle those weapons.

The State Department already has sent 14 weapons experts to Libya and is looking for other countries to contribute to the effort. The new U.S. contribution of some $10 million means Washington will have spent $40 million on the effort alone since the former rebels began making major military progress, according to the officials.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/10/ ... 1822.shtml

US GOVERNMENT GIVING TAXPAYERS' PERSONAL INFO TO FOREIGN NATIONS
http://www.newswithviews.com/NWV-News/news280.htm

‘Fast & Furious’: How a botched operation spawned fatal results
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/201 ... medium=RSS

CIA officer holds mystery assignment at NYPD

(AP) WASHINGTON - Three months ago, one of the CIA's most experienced clandestine operatives started work inside the New York Police Department. His title is special assistant to the deputy commissioner of intelligence. On that much, everyone agrees.

Exactly what he's doing there, however, is much less clear.

Since The Associated Press revealed the assignment in August, federal and city officials have offered differing explanations for why this CIA officer — a seasoned operative who handled foreign agents and ran complex operations in Jordan and Pakistan — was assigned to a municipal police department. The CIA is prohibited from spying domestically, and its unusual partnership with the NYPD has troubled top lawmakers and prompted an internal investigation.

His role is important because the last time a CIA officer worked so closely with the NYPD, beginning in the months after the 9/11 attacks, he became the architect of aggressive police programs that monitored Muslim neighborhoods. With the earlier help from this CIA official, the police put entire communities under the microscope based on ethnicity rather allegations of wrongdoing, according to the AP investigation.

It was an extraordinary collaboration that at times troubled some senior CIA officials and may have stretched the bounds of how the CIA is legally allowed to operate in the United States.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/10/ ... 1387.shtml

Nearly a Third of ‘Occupy’ Protesters Advocate Violence
http://www.infowars.com/nearly-a-third- ... -violence/

Pakistani Intelligence Official Says Mossad Gave Supposed Iranian Terrorist Arbabsiar Fake Papers
http://theintelhub.com/2011/10/17/pakis ... ke-papers/

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad denies Saudi plot claims
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-15344831

(Reuters) - President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Monday U.S. allegations of an Iranian assassination plot resembled its claims of weapons of mass destruction that formed the basis for the 2003 invasion of Iraq, and would prove to be equally untrue
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/ ... nnel=11563

FBI Goes Rogue on Iran - DOES ANYONE CARE ?
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/10/18 ... ue-on-iran

The Alleged Iranian Plot: Turning the U.N. into a Courtroom
http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/2011/10 ... courtroom/

Philippines military defends joint US exercises
http://www.radioaustralianews.net.au/st ... tm?desktop

'Whale war' kicks off as Japan sends strengthened fleet to Antarctica
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2 ... antarctica

Tensions High As NATO Convoy Turned Away At Serb Roadblock
http://www.rferl.org/content/tensions_h ... 62514.html

Putin to ‘consolidate political system’ as Russia’s new president
http://en.rian.ru/russia/20111017/167779235.html

...no surprise there....

U.S. Troops Will Soon Get Tiny Kamikaze Drone
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/10 ... aze-drone/

Darpa Wants to Master the Science of Propaganda

Mark Twain once tried to distinguish between the storyteller’s art and tales that a machine could generate. He observed that stringing “incongruities and absurdities together in a wandering and sometimes purposeless way, and seem innocently unaware that they are absurdities,” was the province of the American storyteller. A machine might imitate simple formulas behind yarns, but never quite master them.

The Pentagon’s freewheeling research arm is hoping to prove Twain wrong. Darpa is asking scientists to “take narratives and make them quantitatively analyzable in a rigorous, transparent and repeatable fashion.” The idea is to detect terrorists who have been indoctrinated by propaganda. Then, the Pentagon can respond with some messages of its own.

The program is called “Narrative Networks.” By understanding how stories have shaped your mind, the Pentagon hopes to sniff out who has fallen prey to dangerous ideas, a neuroscience researcher involved in the project tells Danger Room. With this knowledge, the military can also target groups vulnerable to terrorists’ recruiting tactics with its own counter-messaging.

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/10 ... ropaganda/

FEMA Communication Takeover Test Scheduled for November 9
http://www.prisonplanet.com/fema-commun ... ber-9.html

Sinai gold that could bring Egypt billions
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/busin ... 72144.html

...ironic....kind of like finding the extensive mineral deposits in Afghanistan...

Spain's Stolen Babies - Spain is reeling from an avalanche of allegations of baby theft and baby trafficking. The trade began at the end of the Spanish civil war and continued for 50 years - hundreds of thousands of babies are thought to have been traded by nuns, priests and doctors up to the 1990s.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b016d7hz

Spain's stolen babies and the families who lived a lie
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15335899

Far Reaching Fukushima: Radiation Hotspots Discovered in Tokyo
http://www.noonehastodietomorrow.com//i ... Itemid=128

Over 20 Radioactive Hotspots Found in Tokyo
http://fukushimaupdate.com/over-20-radi ... -in-tokyo/

Fukushima victims: homeless,desperate and angry
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/ ... gle+Reader

The pipeline of 'poison' - The aftermath of a tar sands oil spill in Michigan has left a community with sickness, anger, and loss of livelihood
http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/fe ... 76808.html

Women endangered by high rate of false-positive mammograms
http://www.naturalnews.com/033903_mammo ... tives.html

Recently SANE Vax announced that Dr. Sin Hang Lee, a pathologist at the Milford Hospital pathology laboratory, well-known for using cutting-edge DNA sequencing for molecular diagnoses, was contracted to examine a single sample of Gardasil for possible contamination. According to the Sane Vax team this sample tested POSITIVE for recombinant HPV-11 and HPV-18 residues, both of which were firmly attached to the aluminium adjuvant.

According to the SANE Vax team, Gardasil vials with different lot numbers from New Zealand, Australia, Spain, Poland, France and three states in the U.S.A were also sent to Dr. Lee who found these also to be contaminated.

On 2nd September 2011 SANE Vax wrote a letter to Dr Margaret Hamburg the Commissioner for the FDA informing her of this very disturbing find.

Since then SANE Vax Inc. has received several replies to what they describe to be ‘a worldwide coordinated response’ and as a result put out a press release to inform the public. I have decided to relay their press release to you in full as I feel that it is so important:

http://vactruth.com/2011/10/17/no-scien ... -no-proof/

Vaccination and Renal Patients: A Critical Examination of Assumed Safety and Effectiveness
http://vactruth.com/2011/10/18/vaccinat ... ctiveness/

CDC caught in blatant lies about pandemics and vaccines
http://www.naturalnews.com/033902_CDC_vaccines.html

The Battle Over Genetically Modified Food Continues – FDA Petitioned To Require GM Labels

Current FDA regulations don’t require food companies in the United States to tell consumers when their products contain transgenic crops. Yet the large amount of GM corn and soy grown in the US mean that a high percentage (estimated at upwards of 60%) of processed foods contain GM products, or meat fed with GM grains.

As we’ve discussed before, the US is the largest producer and consumer of genetically engineered foods. Many of these crops are developed so that they are resistant to herbicides, so that farmers can spray copious amounts of weed-killer on their fields and not kill the food. There are other GMOs that produce higher yields, or resist natural pests. There’s even a GM salmon that grows twice as fast as its natural cousin. Corn and soy are heavily dominated by GMOs, and the majority of those crops (in the US) go towards making livestock grain and high fructose corn syrup. Hence, a large portion of the processed food and meat eaten in the US is likely to contain or be affected by GMOs. But corn and soy are just the two largest of many varieties of GM produce the US grows including GM sugar beets, tomatoes, potatoes, papaya, and squash. We have 66.8 million hectares dedicated to growing GMOs, more than twice as much as the next largest source, Brazil. Labeling would impact a huge amount of the food you see in every grocery store (even the organic ones – GM crops are there too).

The reason why the US FDA has eschewed GMO labels is probably as simple as one word: Monsanto. One of the most prolific US developers of GMO intellectual property, Monsanto has over 5000 patents on its products. As we’ve discussed before, they are very aggressive at protecting their IP, going so far as to sue farmers who are accidentally contaminated by strains of their crops which are blown in from neighboring fields. It’s gotten to a point where non-Monsanto affiliated farmers are pre-emptively suing Monsanto just to gain some ground in the ongoing intellectual property lawsuits. In regards to labeling, Monsanto has maintained that their products have passed rigorous FDA safety requirements and that they are otherwise indistinguishable from natural strains of these foods. As true as that may be, decrying the need for labels seems like simply another calculated step by Monsanto and other GM developers to help grow the presence of GMOs in the agricultural industry. That the FDA has agreed with their position either shows that Big Agriculture has an undue influence on the agency, or that the science supports that conclusion. Either way, Monsanto and its cohorts have gotten their way so far and kept GMO labels off their goods.

http://singularityhub.com/2011/10/10/th ... gm-labels/

Obama administration 'bailed out' GM salmon firm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2 ... aquabounty

Organic Farming vs. Conventional Farming: Results of a 30 Year Study

The Farming Systems Trial (FST)® at Rodale Institute is America’s longest running, side-by-side comparison of organic and chemical agriculture. Started in 1981 to study what happens during the transition from chemical to organic agriculture, the FST surprised a food community that still scoffed at organic practices. After an initial decline in yields during the first few years of transition, the organic system soon rebounded to match or surpass the conventional system. Over time, FST became a comparison between the long term potential of the two systems.

http://www.rodaleinstitute.org/fst30years

The Study -
http://www.rodaleinstitute.org/files/FS ... tFINAL.pdf

Burzynski The Movie - Cancer Is Serious Business
http://naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=F5B32D25B ... 9A1DF9CC0D

also here -




...an eye opener that I highly recommend taking the time to watch....

Dust storm magnitude startles even long-time residents
http://lubbockonline.com/local-news/201 ... p0-IrIZl9t

8,000-foot-high dust cloud blankets Lubbock
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/10/ ... 1821.shtml

Like the Dust Bowl days: Dust storm roils through Lubbock, Texas South Plains
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/ ... story.html

Arizona's drought could continue indefinitely
http://ktar.com/6/1458818/Arizonas-drou ... definitely

Arizona drought: No relief in sight with dry winter forecast
http://www.azfamily.com/weather/Arizona ... 67603.html

Underwater Volcano Eruption of El Hierro
http://www.hydro-international.com/news ... ierro.html

Magnitude 6.0 - NEW BRITAIN REGION, PAPUA NEW GUINEA
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/ ... 006azz.php

Heavy rains kill 84 in Central America
A week of torrential rains across Central America have triggered extreme floods and landslides that have killed 84 people, with 9 missing, according to media reports. El Salvador and Guatemala have seen the worst flooding, with 32 and 31 people killed, respectively. Another 13 have died in Honduras, and 8 in Nicaragua. The rains were due to a large area of low pressure that was moistened by the landfall of Tropical Depression 12-E near the Mexico/Guatemala border last week. Since the beginning of October, the region near the coast on the Guatemala/El Salvador border has received over 800 mm (31.50") of rain, according to Norman Avila of climaya.com, a Guatemalan weather web site.

Massive dust storm sweeps through the Texas Panhandle
It was a very bad afternoon rush hour yesterday in the Texas Panhandle. A powerful cold front pushed through the state during the afternoon, and damaging north winds behind the front whipped up a dangerous dust storm that cut visibility to near-zero during the afternoon rush hour. Lubbock recorded sustained winds of 48 mph, gusting to 63 mph, with a visibility of 0.2 miles in heavy dust at 5:36 pm CDT. The dust storm was reminiscent of the great dust storms of the 1930s dust bowl era, and was due to the ongoing exceptional drought. Unfortunately, the front brought no rain to the area, and Lubbock has received just 3.16" of rain so far in 2011--more than 13.50" below average. In his Climate Abyss blog, Texas's state climatologist, John Nielsen-Gammon, gives a 25% that the current drought will last five more years.

http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMa ... rynum=1963

[JasonI am a nobody!]

Debt Panic in China's Wenzhou May Augur Wider Woes
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2011/10 ... .html?_r=3

Moody's cuts Spain by 2 notches, sees funding risks
http://beta.finance.yahoo.com/news/mood ... 25z;_ylv=3

Spain’s Rating Cut for Third Time Since 2010 by Moody’s Amid Debt Crisis
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-10-1 ... -2010.html

Europe Banks Vow $1 Trillion Cuts as Recapitalization Looms
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-1 ... looms.html

Greek Protests Turn Violent
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142 ... atsNewsTop

Violence erupts as 2-day strike shuts down Greece
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Start-of- ... et=&ccode=

Greek Pay-Per-Riot-View Is Back - Live Strikecam From Syntagma Square
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/greek-pay ... gma-square

David Rosenberg On The Insanity Of Fixing Excess Leverage With More Leverage, And The Relentless Euro Rumormill
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/david-ros ... -rumormill

The Scariest Chart Ever? There are many charts out there all of which are to some extent worth of the adjective "scary" although today's Bloomberg chart of the day may just take the prize, if only for a few days until the European hopium daze passes and reality manifests itself in the form of line and bar charts. The chart below is perfectly simple and perfectly self-explanatory...
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/scariest-chart-ever

Eurozone crisis could cause collapse of global banking system, warns Citigroup's Willem Buiter
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/fina ... uiter.html

Bank of America Moves a Merrill Lynch Derivatives Unit to an Insured Deposits Unit (Putting FDIC at Risk); Fed approves Move, FDIC Doesn't
http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot. ... nalysis%29

Federal Reserve and Bank of America Initiate a Coup to Dump Billions of Dollars of Losses on the American Taxpayer
http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/fe ... losses-ame

HOLY BAILOUT - Federal Reserve Now Backstopping $75 Trillion Of Bank Of America's Derivatives Trades
http://dailybail.com/home/holy-bailout- ... on-of.html

(Reuters) - Talks between U.S. states and top banks over mortgage abuses are nearing agreement on a major sticking point that has bogged down settlement negotiations for more than a year
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/ ... P820111018

Citi Joins Goldman And JPMorgan In Settling Fraudulent And Misleading CDO Practices: Wristslap Costs $285 Million
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/citi-join ... nt-1789134

Bank of America, Citigroup, Wells Fargo, JPMorgan Chase Report Billions in Profit
http://publicintelligence.net/banks-rep ... in-profit/

So While Every Bank Is Defending PrimeX, Here Is What Fannie Mae Really Thinks
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/so-while- ... lly-thinks

Wholesale Prices in U.S. Rise More Than Economists Estimated on Food, Fuel
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-10-1 ... ember.html

Student loans outstanding will exceed $1 trillion this year
http://www.usatoday.com/money/perfi/col ... 50818676/1

Budget cuts claim hundreds of thousands of county, city jobs
http://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/s ... nce%202008

Postage prices go up ... again
http://money.cnn.com/2011/10/18/news/ec ... ?iid=HP_LN

Burrowing Into Some Rabbit Holes
http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/2011/10 ... hat-works/

The New Reality For U.S. Cities: No Money For Street Lights, Roving Packs Of Wild Dogs And Open-Air Drug Markets
http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/arch ... ug-markets





....hearty Amen and Thank you from me as well....they are one of my absolute favorite blog sites...not that you can't tell that by how much of their stuff is cut n' paste in here...

90% of the world’s Opium Still comes from Afghanistan (Also: CIA Cocaine History)
http://deadlinelive.info/2011/10/18/90- ... ghanistan/

Wikileaks Expose: Kochs, Neocons and Covert Regime Change Ops
http://exiledonline.com/wikileaks-expos ... hange-ops/

VFW Urges 2 Million to Fight Benefits Changes
http://www.military.com/news/article/vf ... anges.html

Doubts Persist About FBI's Anthrax Investigation 10 Years Later Amid New Bio-Terror Concerns
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/10 ... d-new-bio/

They predict a riot: U.S. intelligence agency to 'foresee the news' before it happens using Twitter
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ ... l?ITO=1490

...plenty of money despite the commentary if you compare the three articles above....just priorities on where the money is spent....hmmm???

Lies Behind the "Humanitarian War" in Libya: There is No Evidence!
http://landdestroyer.blogspot.com/2011/ ... libya.html

Brutal Gaddafi Regime Fights On in Western Libya
http://www.thenewamerican.com/world-mai ... tern-libya

...another one of those giant red flags over changes in the John Birch Society over the years (infiltrated)....

Chile tackles protesters with military draft order
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world ... 72518.html

Pakistan’s Response to the Growing India-U.S. Strategic Relationship
http://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/201 ... ationship/

Report: Pakistan Army Chief Tells U.S. To Focus On Afghanistan
http://www.rferl.org/content/pakistan_a ... 64659.html

Pakistan warns US over unilateral military action
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-15364956

Turkish troops pursue Kurdish rebels into Iraq
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-15369352

Manila apologises to China over South China Sea incident
http://www.sundaytimes.lk/world-news/12 ... ident.html

Manhattan Rally Supports Ending Chinese Communist Party
http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/world/m ... 62904.html

Russia interested in space missile defense system – Kremlin source
http://en.rian.ru/world/20111018/167824942.html

U.S. ready to provide Russia with written missile shield guarantees
http://en.rian.ru/world/20111019/167842312.html

Izhmash subsidiary Molot to manufacturer Russian AR-15 rifle!
http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2011 ... rm+Blog%29

'Israelis, Saudis' behind Iran terror plot
http://www.presstv.ir/usdetail/204773.html

Saudi ambassador assassination plot suspect linked to Hezbollah and Bahrain unrest
http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2 ... 72590.html

WARNING - GRAPHIC....I'm still crying over it. The judgments can't come soon enough!
A "Must See" Heart Wrenching Video of Moral Deterioration in China
http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot. ... nalysis%29

More oil leaks from Rena
http://www.skynews.com.au/topstories/ar ... Id=2784079

Vitamin Studies Spell Confusion for Patients
http://www.medpagetoday.com/PrimaryCare ... g134085d0r

...medical industry is really going to war with the supplement/health industry....ever wonder why the medical side is completely reactionary? No such thing as preventative health....insurance company doesn't pay for that.

CSPI to file lawsuit against General Mills for selling 'fruit' snacks that contain no fruit
http://www.naturalnews.com/033915_gener ... nacks.html

Coin toss immunity: Glaxo’s malaria vaccine
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/ar ... :11:45:17Z

Vaccines & Vaccinations: The Need for Congressional Investigation January 2011
http://www.catherinejfrompovich.com/monograph.pdf














WARNING - GRAPHIC....multiple photos of aborted fetuses - I think in the last 30 minutes or so



























Tokyo Metropolitan Soil Testing Results
http://www.radiationdefense.jp/investig ... an?lang=en

20-25 foot waves forecast for ... Chicago
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44959018/ns ... p7k5nK2iUk

Pakistan's Sindh province remains hostage to flood water
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-15332075

Thai PM Admits Government Overwhelmed By Floods
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/stor ... =141496247

Bangkok districts on flood alert
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-15367943

Flooding near Bangkok has taken about 25 percent of the world's hard disk manufacturing capacity offline
http://www.infoworld.com/t/hard-drives/ ... kes-176453

[rlyman22captain of 10]

That link you warned us about in today's Blipits is the saddest thing I have ever seen and makes me agree that the judgments can't come soon enough.

[Randcaptain of 1,000]

That link you warned us about in today's Blipits is the saddest thing I have ever seen and makes me agree that the judgments can't come soon enough.

Ditto's. When I was in China about a dozen years ago, we passed little children on the street begging, that were absolutely disfigured. Limbs broken, bent backward, etc Our guide insisted we not give them any money. When we persisted he insisted saying it will just make their "pimps" do more of it. He was visibly upset, that he had to explain further, but he said that the Pimps, steal these kids, disfigure them, and then set them out on the street like prostitutes, and they have to make a certain amount of money or he punishes them. But if they make anything, they will just be motivated to do more of it. Please don't give them any money. Based on that, I can believe this video. They, many there, just do not value human life as much as some others hopefully do.

[JasonI am a nobody!]

That link you warned us about in today's Blipits is the saddest thing I have ever seen and makes me agree that the judgments can't come soon enough.

Ditto's. When I was in China about a dozen years ago, we passed little children on the street begging, that were absolutely disfigured. Limbs broken, bent backward, etc Our guide insisted we not give them any money. When we persisted he insisted saying it will just make their "pimps" do more of it. He was visibly upset, that he had to explain further, but he said that the Pimps, steal these kids, disfigure them, and then set them out on the street like prostitutes, and they have to make a certain amount of money or he punishes them. But if they make anything, they will just be motivated to do more of it. Please don't give them any money. Based on that, I can believe this video. They, many there, just do not value human life as much as some others hopefully do.

See it in the slums of Mexico, Thailand, Philippines, Korea, etc. When I was in Thailand in '97 for a couple of weeks I saw multiple people killed in front of me....but that video was over the top. I can't wait for Zion!!!

[JasonI am a nobody!]

Libyan Oil Fully Liberated On News Gaddafi Dead

Just out from Reuters:

LIBYA'S GADDAFI DIES OF WOUNDS SUFFERED IN CAPTURE NEAR SIRTE -- SENIOR NTC MILITARY OFFICIAL

All we can say is be careful who you shake hands with. Next up: burial at sea.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/libyan-oi ... ddafi-dead

Watch Nobel Peace Prize Winner Make Statement On Gaddafi Lynching Live
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/watch-nob ... to+zero%29

Greek Parliamentary Garage On Fire And Other Dramatic Footage From Today's Athens Riots
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/greek-par ... hens-riots

Italian Bonds Plunging: ECB Intervention Imminent
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/italian-b ... n-imminent

Euro Summit Imploding: Merkel Cancels Friday Government Statement On EFSF
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/euro-summ ... ement-efsf

"If there isn't a solution by Sunday, everything is going to collapse," he told his inner circle before an emergency trip on Wednesday night to see German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Frankfurt.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/fina ... -fund.html

Warning by States as Tax Revenues Fail to Rebound
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/20/us/st ... .html?_r=3

Some states adding assets to food stamp qualification
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/sto ... 50831586/1








(Reuters) - China plans to sign an agreement with the 10-member Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) to settle trade in yuan, said two independent sources, another step in China's long campaign to make its currency one widely used beyond its borders
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/ ... JR20111020

Philippines seizes Chinese boats
http://www.philippinenews.com/top-stori ... boats.html

China demands the Philippines return boats promptly, unconditionally
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/c ... 202868.htm

Hezbollah delegation visits Moscow
http://en.ria.ru/russia/20111019/167857317.html

Hezbollah, Israel war imminent, both sides well prepared
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Politi ... z1bKZkgLei

Senior N. Korean naval commander visits Russia
http://en.rian.ru/world/20111020/167878086.html

Vladimir Putin pushes for closer ex-Soviet Union
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne ... Union.html

...something cooking???

Mexican trucks due to begin going deep into U.S.
http://content.usatoday.com/communities ... -in-days/1

FEMA Plans First Nationwide Emergency Test
http://deadlinelive.info/2011/10/20/fem ... ency-test/

Tennessee Becomes First State To Fight Terrorism Statewide - Tuesday's statewide "VIPR" operation isn't in response to any particular threat, according to officials.
http://www.newschannel5.com/story/15725 ... -statewide

Outbursts of violence after huge marches in Chile
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/art ... 236799f891

Iraq's move to revoke immunity for troops adds to US problems
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,15472508,00.html

The US power grab in Africa
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Eco ... 1Dj03.html

US hawks hover over Iran
http://rt.com/news/iran-war-assassination-plot-113/

[Thailand]Evacuation plan readied - City close to losing last line of defence
http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/local/2 ... an-readied

Flood costs Nebraska $189 million in agricultural activity
http://journalstar.com/news/state-and-r ... 4de41.html

...and more coming ....sorry not as organized today and under time crunch on multiple items (one of which is my presentation tonight)...


10 Mind Blowing Facts Which Show How Members Of Congress And Federal Employees Are Living The High Life At Our Expense
http://endoftheamericandream.com/archiv ... ur-expense

Americans’ Income Drops Most in Twenty Years
http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/a ... s_10202011

*JUST IN* Paper: “Now evidence has emerged that the radiation in Canada was worse than Canadian officials ever let on” — Radioactive coverup?
http://enenews.com/just-in-canada-paper ... ve-coverup

Japanese communities record Chernobyl-level radiation
http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/ ... 343819.htm

German satellite the size of a car to crash to Earth 'at the weekend'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/spac ... ekend.html

Series of earthquakes strike Big Island of Hawaii
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/10/ ... gle+Reader

Another Unusual Storm Leads to More Extremes
http://www.myweathertech.com/2011/10/19 ... -extremes/

Areas next to Lake Michigan could see occasional wind gusts up to 55 or 60 miles per hour Thursday, but winds will drop away quickly farther inland, the National Weather Service said this morning.

Large “battering” waves measuring 20 to 25 feet will continue to hammer the lake shore before subsiding to 15 to 20 feet levels Thursday afternoon, according to the weather service.

http://www.suntimes.com/news/8298660-41 ... -path.html

Roundup Ready Alfalfa Damages U.S. Seed Industry
http://www.activistpost.com/2011/10/rou ... -seed.html

REX 84 vs. Globalist Shutdown
http://www.activistpost.com/2011/10/rex ... tdown.html

Exposed: Illinois law financially penalizes public schools when vaccination rates drop below 90 percent
http://www.naturalnews.com/033927_publi ... tions.html

How to avoid being like the 11 percent of Americans who now take antidepressant drugs every day
http://www.naturalnews.com/033928_antid ... tives.html

Massachusetts Supreme Court Blows Whistle on How the Banks Broke the Housing Market
http://news.firedoglake.com/2011/10/19/ ... ng-market/

Citigroup to Pay Millions to Close Fraud Complaint
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/20/busin ... ml?_r=2&hp

California reportedly subpoenas BofA over toxic securities
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-fi ... 7925.story

Supercommittee’s lack of progress on debt reduction raises alarms on Hill
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/ ... s_business

Pentagon lawyer warns of militarized approach to counterterrorism
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/nat ... _headlines

...oh the law still matters??? I thought it was shoot to kill....then pay the bounty???

China’s whacky GDP
http://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2011/10 ... hacky-gdp/

Police Kill Dozens of Animals Freed on Ohio Reserve
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/20/us/po ... ve.html?hp

It's A Boat, It's A Plane, It's The Great Wall Of China: Part Of Symbolic Chinese Landmark Collapses
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/its-boat- ... -collapses

China, U.S. see Guam as militarily central
http://www.guampdn.com/article/20111021 ... ly-central

[Zkulptorcaptain of 100]

That link you warned us about in today's Blipits is the saddest thing I have ever seen and makes me agree that the judgments can't come soon enough.

Why would people not feel a bit of sorrow for the little girl? I can't fathom not running towards her right away....they look at her like she is roadkill.... I am very upset over this.... the more I learn about this world the harder it becomes for me to want to stay here... but I know.... we must endure... this is just too much though.... I still cannot fathom the attitude of these people.... I never will....

[JasonI am a nobody!]

That link you warned us about in today's Blipits is the saddest thing I have ever seen and makes me agree that the judgments can't come soon enough.

Why would people not feel a bit of sorrow for the little girl? I can't fathom not running towards her right away....they look at her like she is roadkill.... I am very upset over this.... the more I learn about this world the harder it becomes for me to want to stay here... but I know.... we must endure... this is just too much though.... I still cannot fathom the attitude of these people.... I never will....

I can't begin to fathom what Gethsemane must have been like....

[JasonI am a nobody!]

US Money Supply Surges Surges 33% in 4 Months – Global Money Supply to Lead to Gold $10,000/oz?

Gold prices are mixed today as markets remain on edge due to increasing divisions amongst European leaders on how to solve the intractable Eurozone debt crisis. There continues to be very strong demand for physical bullion globally and support is strong at the $1,600 level due to this demand.

The sharp fall of copper yesterday, by 6%, is an indication that the US, Chinese and indeed global economy is very fragile and may soon begin to contract.

Physical demand in Asia, mainly India and China, has entered the traditional peak season with Indian festivals and the increasingly important Chinese New Year.

This is reflected in premiums in Asia which remain good. There are reports of massive physical buying out of China on gold’s fall close to $1,600 yesterday. The most active Shanghai gold futures traded at a premium of more than $10 over spot prices earlier today. The contract stood at 335.22 yuan a gram, or $1,634 an ounce, at a premium of $3.

While all the focus has been on the Eurozone debt crisis recently, the US is suffering a stealth debt crisis of its own which is being ignored - for the moment. As is the burgeoning debt crisis in China.

The US fiscal position is appalling with a $1.6 trillion deficit projected for fiscal 2012 alone. For those who have lost count, the US national debt has risen to over $14.8 trillion. The latest updated projections reveal that the US will reach a 100 percent debt to GDP ratio by Halloween – in 10 days time.

Leeb recently said that gold could rise to $12,500/oz. He concluded this based on many of the factors documented by GoldCore in recent years such as gold in terms of financial assets, the monetary base and surging money supply globally.

As the ‘U.S. M2 Money Supply: Accelerating Sharply in 2011’ chart shows, US money supply (M2) has surged in a parabolic manner in the last few months and is up by more than 50% year to date and up 33% in just 4 months - from June 1st to October 1st.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/us-money- ... old-follow

...I've bolded and underlined some key statements (imo) which I think demonstrate some contradiction in logic....also what they fail to mention is that M2 is not the most accurate measurement of our money supply....and its just a little ironic that the Central Banks quit tracking (publicly that is) M3 in 2006 shortly before the global debt bubble popped. They also ignore the falling velocity of money (how fast money changes hands) which also drastically effects the money supply. At the end of the day our money is created by debt and I personally believe the most accurate measurement is total debt in the system (which is currently declining - deflationary) -
http://www.usdebtclock.org/

Dollar Yen Plummets To New Post World War 2 Low
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/dollar-ye ... -war-2-low

Greece crisis: a second day of riots in Athens
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picture ... thens.html

Greece passes new austerity bill amid riots
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/10/ ... 3399.shtml

EU Said to Weigh Use of $1.3 Trillion as Franco-German Discord Mars Talks
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-10-2 ... talks.html

As if:

A. They have $1.3 Trillion to wield.

B. $1.3 Trillion in DEBT can cure a DEBT problem.

C. $1.3 Trillion given to the purveyors of fraud will help anyone but the fraudsters.

And so we have this crazy world where the people who currently run the globe via fraud (hereto forth known as “the 1%,” or bribe givers), create debt money from nothing and demand hard work from the world’s citizens to pay it back, plus interest (aka “austerity”), and so you have violent riots on the streets of Greece occurring the same day that the fraud enabling government (aka bribe takers) pass the central banker demanded austerity measures.

Not that the world cares, because oh my gosh, we got Gaddafi and we’re proud that we “saved the world” from yet another evil doer by illegally targeting yet another head of state (karma will eventually repay that rule-of-law that isn’t being followed).

Are you distracted yet? Did you notice that the “Fed” stepped in to guarantee $75 Trillion worth (!!) of Bank of America’s wild derivatives? We make the Eurofools look good. Have you noticed that the impossible math right here in the good old U.S.A. is far worse than it is in Europe and it’s getting worse by the minute, or did we forget? Take a look at what’s NOT on the books if you want to see reality. No matter, the impossible math will keep coming back to remind us all, again, and again, until the purveyors of fraud are removed from power.

But for now the “markets” are higher on the fantasy, the dollar is lower of course, the Yen is breaking out to new and ridiculous highs, bonds are lower (but still at ridiculous manipulated levels), oil is higher of course despite securing the Libyan oil fields (oops, did I say that?), and food commodities roar higher in response to the thought of more trillions in debt money, thus choking the literal life out of the real, non-fantasy world.

http://economicedge.blogspot.com/2011/1 ... -1021.html

EU Wants Ratings Firms to Relent on Troubled Nations
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142 ... 95600.html

S&P sees downgrade blitz in EMU recession, threatening crisis strategy - The report, due Friday, said a double-dip recession would lead to a downgrade of "one or two notches" for France, Spain, Italy, Ireland and Portugal, both because of tumbling tax revenues and the extra costs of propping up banks
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/fina ... ategy.html

To what extent this matters is about as transparent as a dust storm. Amidst all the contradictory dribble that comes forward from all the - too many- various parties involved in the Euro Kabuki, what has indeed become clear is that the minimum haircut on Greece is 50%, with 60% a lot more likely (or whatever agreement is reached will just be laughed away by those with skin in the game).

So even if Schäuble's inane bond insurance plan gains any traction, private investors will still need to swallow a 30%-40% loss, if not more. Which in turn invalidates the one agreement that does still stand, and is only three months old, which states that the Max Haircut would be 21%.

The arguably most amusing part of all this is that those private investors are to a large extent banks such as the ones Sarkozy is trying to save. Which also face increased tier 1 capital ratio requirements, to the tune of 9%, by EU regulators, and a whole lot faster than anyone predicted. The FT reports that this will only require €80 billion in extra capital, but other voices darkly whisper of €250 billion or more.

And while we're at it, everyone can agree, at least in private, that it will be impossible to raise that kind of money in the financial markets, so it will have to come from either separate countries or some troika member, EU, ECB or IMF. Now, if France bails out its own banks, it is sure to be downgraded. If it doesn't, and the ECB and/or the EFSF must be called upon, it's Germany that - a bit further down the line, perhaps, but still - stares the downgrade risk in the face.

Do any of you remember the good old days of say, oh, last year, when we were told ad nauseam that the bail outs were all meant to achieve one thing more than all, namely that banks would start lending again? Well, those days are over.

.....

Mostly hidden from view by emergency meetings and earnings reports, we live in the days of the incredibly shrinking banks. Tens if not hundreds of thousands of job losses in the banking sector have already been announced, and they'll just keep on coming with a vengeance.

If you can't meet capital ratio requirements by raising cash, you can always sell whatever you can sell, get a whole lot smaller and lower requirements that way. Only thing is, you're going to lend less, not more, money to the consumer and industry.

But there's a problem with that too, wouldn't you know it? That is, you need someone willing to buy what you want to sell. And it won't be the banks in the same predicament as you. At first, there'll be hedge funds willing to snap up penny on the dollar deals, but if everyone wants to, needs to, sell, you get a buyer's market, in which prices keep dropping so much it's not much use to sell at all.

Which is why, while Bloomberg reports that Morgan Stanley predicts that EU (including UK) banks will need to sell assets, reduce lending and overall reduce short-term funding as much as €2 trillion, other voices say they won't be able to achieve that much, because they can't sell enough assets. Ergo: they’ll need to reduce lending even more.

Along the exact same lines, Bank of America is shrinking, and right into oblivion down the line. How any regulatory body, be it the Fed or the FDIC, can possibly comply with BofA moving $53 trillion in derivatives to its consumer deposits book is beyond us. What is it? Despair over desperation? Thinking you can get away with anything? Still, whoever's made to pay (Hello, Occupy Wall Street, protest this! Occupy BofA. Occupy the FDIC.), the effect remains what it is: Incredible Shrinkage.

And that, dear reader, is how you spell deflation.

And debt deflation. And credit crunch. This cannot be prevented. It is written in stone. Not even Occupy Wall Street or Syntagma Square have the power to undo the inevitable. They can, however, have a loud and major voice in seeing to it that the pain is evenly distributed. It is not now.

http://theautomaticearth.blogspot.com/2 ... -dust.html

...Does Illargi's comments ring true??? Let's examine a most recent article from Zero Hedge on it (bold and underline of the respective substantiation as I see it)....

French Regulator Urges Banks To Write Down Greek Debt To Realistic Levels

Slowly even those staunchest critics of reality, namely undercapitalized and insolvent French banks, are coming to grips with the truth that they are going to see massive losses on their tens of billions of French debt exposure. The FT reports that the French stock market regulator has told French banks to apply realistic assumptions to their Greek debt haircuts. Because through today, French banks only used the 21% agreed upon haircut at the July 21 (and even that number is likely greatly overstated). So where are Greek bonds trading now? Oh about 30 cents on the dollar (70% haircut) , which means at the end of the day French banks will see about three time more losses on Greek holdings than provisioned.

The problem, as is well known courtesy of daily fruitless discussions between Sarkozy and Merkel, is that "French banks have more cross-border exposure to Greece than any other country, mainly through subsidiaries owned by Crédit Agricole and Société Générale. BNP Paribas holds the most Greek sovereign bonds among private sector investors, with €4bn of exposure...French banks argued that limiting themselves to 21 per cent was justified because trading in Greek government debt was so subdued, making market prices unreliable." Uh, what? Those billions in Greek bond volumes, where the 1 year yields 184% in dozens of daily trades, are "subdued" and "unreliable?" Why not just buy the bonds then and take advantage of the illiquid arb then? What's that? Crickets? Oh ok. In the meantime, what is certain is that after the ECB, France is the country most exposed to a Greek admission of reality (even truncated, assuming a 60% haircut which is still generous). Which of course confirms, once again, our thesis that the only source of EURUSD stability in the past two weeks have been French banks liquidating assets, and using the feedback loop of rising asset prices from FX EUR repatriation to sell even more to a willing market.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/french-re ... tic-levels

Federal Reserve Board Has Serious Conflicts of Interest
http://publicintelligence.net/federal-r ... -interest/

GAO Report: Federal Reserve Directors and Potential Conflicts of Interest
http://info.publicintelligence.net/GAO-FedDirectors.pdf

A U.S. Predator drone, along with a French fighter jet, fired on the convoy said to be carrying Muammar Qaddafi in the moments before his death, a U.S. defense official told Fox News on Thursday.
http://www.myfoxhouston.com/dpp/news/na ... s_20749921

WARNING - GRAPHIC PHOTOS
Dead Gaddafi Photos
http://publicintelligence.net/dead-gaddafi-photos/





...off by a couple of months....

The slow process of identifying regime assets has continued since the uprising began in spring. The British Government froze assets in the UK worth about £12billion as the rebels launched their attack on Gaddafi’s forces.

The US government froze about £20 billion, but began to release some assets to the Libyan National Transitional Council when it was recognised as the legitimate government last month. Switzerland, Austria and Canada also froze billions of pounds worth of assets.

The main vehicle for the money has been the Libyan Investment Authority, the £60 billion sovereign wealth fund the Gaddafi family is believed to have used as a private bank account. Since the start of the rebellion, the Treasury has set up a unit to trace the family’s UK assets.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne ... es-on.html

Now that the CIA’s proxy army has murdered Gadhafi, what next for Libya?
http://www.prisonplanet.com/the-end-of-history.html

Is U.S. Set to Invade Pakistan?
http://frontpagemag.com/2011/10/20/is-u ... -pakistan/

Next Stop is Pakistan
http://www.federaljack.com/?p=127760





US forces make inroads into Haqqani heartland, kill 115
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/worl ... 435761.cms

Hillary Clinton: US held meeting with Haqqani network
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-15399820

A key senator said Wednesday she is working on a comprehensive overhaul of wartime contracting procedures in response to a report that $60 billion of $206 billion spent on private contracts in Iraq and Afghanistan was lost to waste, fraud and abuse
http://www.federaltimes.com/article/201 ... 00301/1001

Turkish Warplanes Bomb Rebel Bases In Iraq, Ankara Seeks Iranian Support
http://www.rferl.org/content/turkish_re ... 67177.html

Iran Links US-funded Terrorists to Saudi-DEA Bomb Plot
http://landdestroyer.blogspot.com/2011/ ... ts-to.html

Congressional Investigators Target FBI Over Fast and Furious
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/10 ... gle+Reader

Union President Testifies: ICE HQ Ordered Agents Not to Arrest Illegals--Including Fugitives
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/union-p ... -fugitives

Foreigners' Sweetener: Buy House, Get a Visa
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142 ... NewsSecond

The EyeOpener- CIA & the Nuclear Black Market: A Case Study
http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/2011/10 ... ase-study/

Wal-Mart Cuts Some Health Care Benefits - Wal-Mart is substantially rolling back coverage for part-time workers and significantly raising premiums for many full-time staff
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/21/busin ... .html?_r=2

States retool food stamp, benefits systems
http://www.stateline.org/live/details/s ... adlines%29

The $1 Trillion Student Loan Rip-Off: How an Entire Generation Was Tricked into Taking on Crushing Debt That Just Enriches Banks
http://www.alternet.org/story/152809/th ... hes_banks/

Crossing the student debt point of no return – for-profit colleges have default rates now rivaling subprime mortgage debt. $1 trillion in student loan debt on the horizon while college graduate wages fall for the decade
http://www.mybudget360.com/crossing-stu ... s-in-2011/

Move your Mortgage to a Small Bank

...in the spirit of seeking solutions, we were inspired by a conversation with one of our friends in the Valley of South Texas along the Mexican border. "We did not have any conforming loans or borrowers," notes the banker, who ran a $4 billion portfolio for decades. "And we never sold loans to investors or sought government insurance. We kept the paper in portfolio till it prepaid."

Imagine the difference between this small bank's locally serviced portfolio and the credit-scored crap found inside the typical large bank loan book. The small bank's "keep what you kill" policy presents part of the solution. But the embedded losses still on the books of the largest banks - a half trillion or so in bad first and second lien real estate exposures - is a boil that needs to be lanced before the US economy is going to start growing credit and jobs.

This made us begin to think about the prospect of some sort of refinancing effort by the GSEs after the 2012 election. One of the problems we see with most of the refinancing proposals out there is that we are relying on the GSEs and the TBTF banks to carry out the process operationally. Never happen. One of the problems with bank consolidation is that the branches of the average TBTF banks are a credit underwriting, new business wasteland. The larger banks and GSEs use credit scoring to make loan decisions, while a community banker often knows the borrower and the collateral, not to mention the local real estate markets.

There is nobody to talk to at the branch of a Bank of America or other TBTF bank because branch officers cannot make credit decisions. Go into the branch of a smaller regional or community bank and there may actually be somebody on the floor who can underwrite credit and start an approval process whereby the bank will not only make the loan but keep it in portfolio. Indeed, like our friend in the Valley, many smaller banks never sell loans to Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac. Maybe instead of "move your money" we should all move our home finance business to a small community bank.

To us, the beginning of the end of the crisis in US real estate starts with the process of getting good loans refinanced. Second, we must get defaulted or doubtful, underwater loans into the hands of people who have the skills and the authority to manage a restructuring. Whether you talk about a refinance of a good loan or a troubled loans, selling these loans back to smaller banks in the geographic area where the collateral is located is a far better solution, in our view.

http://us1.irabankratings.com/pub/IRAMain.asp

Gorbachev Calls For American Perestroika
http://www.infowars.com/gorbachev-calls ... restroika/

Mikhail Gorbachev Says Uprisings Signal an Emerging New World Order
http://theintelhub.com/2011/10/20/mikha ... rld-order/

Centuries of open justice threatened by secret courts - The proposals, which run counter to a centuries-old British tradition of open justice, were introduced to a sparsely attended House of Commons yesterday by the Justice Secretary, Ken Clarke – and met almost no opposition. The planned changes to the British justice system follow lobbying of the Government by the CIA.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/ho ... 73201.html

Pollutants Linked to 450 Percent Increase in Risk of Birth Defects in Rural China
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20 ... 185134.htm

In response to A "Must See" Heart Wrenching Video of Moral Deterioration in China I received several emails saying I should have posted a warming about graphic content.

Yes, I could have done that.

I also received emails from several people who were upset at this video thinking it does not belong in an economic blog at all. They are mistaken.

The often repeated story regarding China is that the country will grow without end, it will overtake the US, and rule the world.

Instead, I propose the China story is really about rampant credit expansion, malinvestments, unproductive assets, no free capital markets, centralized planning that people mistake for capitalism, no legal system of merit, no freedom of speech, no respect for either property rights or human rights, and that peak-oil will in and of itself kill the story.

In short, all the people who think China is some sort of miracle savior for the world economy are going to find out otherwise.

http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot. ... nalysis%29

Fukushima victims are desperate, angry, homeless
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44947085/ns ... a_pacific/

Fukushima children forced to drink radioactive milk at school
http://fukushimaupdate.com/fukushima-ch ... at-school/

Radiation Affecting Plants in Romania?
http://fukushimaupdate.com/radiation-af ... n-romania/

Patent on Broccoli will not be revoked – Monsanto tightens death grip on food
http://farmwars.info/?p=7073&utm_source ... rm+Wars%29

Lethal virus detected in wild Pacific salmon - Richard Routledge, an environmental scientist at the university who leads the sockeye study, suggested the virus had spread from the province's aquaculture industry, which has imported millions of Atlantic salmon eggs over the past 25 years, primarily from Iceland and Scandinavia.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/n ... mon18.html

Scientists Reconstruct Black Death Pathogen that Killed 50 Million People
http://www.activistpost.com/2011/10/sci ... death.html

EmTech: Get Ready for a New Human Species
http://www.technologyreview.com/biomedi ... Z7s.mailto

Scientists fear new super-volcano may be forming in Bolivia
http://theextinctionprotocol.wordpress. ... n-bolivia/

World Volcanic Activity Report – Katla, El Hierro, Tambora, Shiveluch
http://www.irishweatheronline.com/news/ ... gle+Reader

Magnitude 6.1 - HOKKAIDO, JAPAN REGION
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/ ... 006b09.php

Magnitude 7.6 - KERMADEC ISLANDS REGION
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/ ... 006b6p.php

7.6 earthquake hits South Pacific
http://news.yahoo.com/7-6-earthquake-hi ... 46738.html

La Nina Strikes Again! NOAA: Colder, Wetter North; Drier South; 'Snowmaggeddon' Threat in East
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/la-nina ... hreat-east

The Southern Plains should prepare for continued drier and warmer than average weather, while the Pacific Northwest is likely to be colder and wetter than average from December through February, according to the annual Winter Outlook released October 20 by NOAA. We currently have weak La Niña conditions over the tropical Pacific ocean, which means that a large region of cooler than average waters exists along the Equator from the coast of South America to the Date Line. Cooler than average waters in this location tend to deflect the jet stream such that the Pacific Northwest experiences cooler and wetter winters than average, while the southern U.S. sees warmer and drier winter weather. NOAA's forecast calls for a typical La Niña winter over the U.S.--warm and dry over the Southern Plains, cool and wet over the Pacific Northwest, and wetter than average over the Ohio Valley. According to NOAA's latest La Niña discussion, La Niña is expected to remain solidly entrenched throughout the coming winter and into spring.

Winter and the sunspot cycle
Another major influence on the AO and winter circulation patterns might be the 11-year solar cycle. Recent satellite measurements of ultraviolet light changes due to the 11-year sunspot cycle show that these variations are larger than was previously thought, and may have major impacts on winter circulation patterns. A climate model study published this month in Nature Geosciences by Ineson et al. concluded that during the minimum of the 11-year sunspot cycle, the sharp drop in UV light can drive a strongly negative AO pattern: "low solar activity, as observed during recent years, drives cold winters in northern Europe and the United States, and mild winters over southern Europe and Canada, with little direct change in globally averaged temperature." The winters of 2009 - 2010 and 2010 - 2011 both fit this pattern, with strongly negative AO conditions occurring during solar minimum. The coming winter of 2011 - 2012 will have a much increased level of solar activity (Figure 2), so we may speculate that a strongly negative AO and a cold winter in northern Europe and the United States is less likely.

http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMa ... rynum=1965

......UPDATE.......





Census Bureau Reports Public Pension Assets Decline Over $726 Billion for State and Local Public Employee Retirement Systems in 2009
http://www.census.gov/newsroom/releases ... 1-173.html

Saab owner spurns 'token' takeover offer from Chinese investors
http://www.autonews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/a ... 19946/1497





Bangkok Faces Unstoppable Flooding
http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/world/b ... 63094.html





Foods, cosmetics and vaccines all widely formulated with toxic smoothing agents (emulsifiers)
http://www.naturalnews.com/033939_emuls ... tives.html

....from a friend of mine -
http://xa.yimg.com/kq/groups/8911239/12 ... me/11-243B

Canadian oil firm sues to seize US land for Keystone XL oil headed to China
https://foodfreedom.wordpress.com/2011/ ... -to-china/

CRYING WOLF - MOVIE
http://cryingwolfmovie.com/

[Zkulptorcaptain of 100]

That link you warned us about in today's Blipits is the saddest thing I have ever seen and makes me agree that the judgments can't come soon enough.

Why would people not feel a bit of sorrow for the little girl? I can't fathom not running towards her right away....they look at her like she is roadkill.... I am very upset over this.... the more I learn about this world the harder it becomes for me to want to stay here... but I know.... we must endure... this is just too much though.... I still cannot fathom the attitude of these people.... I never will....

I can't begin to fathom what Gethsemane must have been like....

Exactly...

[JasonI am a nobody!]

Outline of LDS FF Presentation

I. [b]Conspiratorial history vs. Accidental or Catastrophic history[/b] – there are two fundamental ways to view history.

a. Definition of “conspire” –
1. Make secret plans jointly to commit an unlawful or harmful act;
2. (of events or circumstances) Seem to be working together to bring about a particular result, typically to someone's detriment.

b. Franklin D. Roosevelt stated, “In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way."

c. J. Reuban Clark in 1937 – “....the end the revolutionists seek is fairly clear; it is the overturning of the whole existing order, political, financial, economic, social, religious, the complete destruction of our Constitution and the government established under it, and then the setting up of some sort of despotism that shall destroy, in all these fields, the free agency which the Lord gave to man... There seems no doubt that this is their conscious, deliberate, planned end.”

d. Doctrine & Covenants 89:4 – “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.”

e. President Ezra Taft Benson Oct 1988 Conference address “I Testify” – “I testify that wickedness is rapidly expanding in every segment of our society. (See D&C 1:14–16; D&C 84:49–53.) 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. (See Ether 8:18–25.)"

II. Intro to Conspiracy

a. Cincinnati - conspiracy to hide truth

b. Burley ID - conspiracy leading to overthrow of law

c. Amalickiah - conspiracy leading to murder of thousands for power/gain

d. Benjamin Franklin stated – “A nation of well-informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the region of ignorance that tyranny begins.”

III. Disclaimer – Do your own research…these are just some highlights. Also I’m still continuing research and learning (don’t have all the answers). Ask Why??? What is the truth???

a. Doctrine & Covenants 88:118 & 109:7 - “And as all have not faith, seek ye diligently and teach one another words of wisdom; yea, seek ye out of the best books words of wisdom; seek learning, even by study and also by faith.”

b. Doctrine & Covenants 88:79,81 – “Of things both in heaven and in the earth, and under the earth; things which have been, things which are, things which must shortly come to pass; things which are at home, things which are abroad; the wars and the perplexities of the nations, and the judgments which are on the land; and a knowledge also of countries and of kingdoms—Behold, I sent you out to testify and warn the people, and it becometh every man who hath been warned to warn his neighbor.

IV. Food

a. Diabetes Story - High Fructose Corn Syrup, Aspartame, GMOs, etc.

b. Aspartame (Nutrasweet – recently renamed AminoSweet) - Discovered in 1965 by a chemist working for G.D. Searle & Company. Reagan, Donald Rumsfeld (CEO),

c. Aspartame is made up of three chemicals: aspartic acid, phenylalanine, and methanol. Unstable

a. Aspartame (Nutrasweet – recently renamed AminoSweet) - Discovered in 1965 by a chemist working for G.D. Searle & Company when he accidentally discovered its sweet taste by licking his finger, which had become contaminated with aspartame, to lift up a piece of paper. Aspartame is approximately 180 to 200 times sweeter than sugar.

Aspartame is made up of three chemicals: aspartic acid, phenylalanine, and methanol. Methanol bonds the two amino acids together. The combination decomposes (breaks apart) though based on temperature, ph, and moisture conditions. As soon as aspartame is dissolved in liquid is becomes unstable and begins to break down into its individual components as opposed to keeping a single stable chemical structure.

No matter how much aspartame a person consumes, after it is eaten, aspartame absorbs into the body, where it breaks down into methanol, aspartic acid, and phenylalanine.

Methanol (known as methyl alcohol, wood alcohol, wood naphtha or wood spirits) is oxidized to formaldehyde and then to the poisonous formic acid in the liver by enzymes. The accumulation of formic acid can lead to blindness or death. The resulting chronic methanol poisoning affects the dopamine system of the brain causing addiction. Methanol, or wood alcohol, constitutes one third of the aspartame molecule and is classified as a severe metabolic poison and narcotic.

Aspartic acid makes up forty percent of the structure of aspartame. Under excess conditions, the structure of aspartic acid can cause endocrine (hormone) disorders and vision problems. Aspartic acid is a neuroexicter, which means its structure affects the central nervous system.

Phenylalanine, the second isolated amino acid, is fifty percent of aspartame's 3-D structure. Too much phenylalanine causes seizures, elevated blood plasma, is dangerous for pregnancy causing retardation, blockage of serotonin, insomnia, and severe mood swings.

The combination causes headache, memory loss, seizures, vision loss, coma and cancer. It worsens or mimics the symptoms of such diseases and conditions as fibromyalgia, MS, lupus, ADD, diabetes, Alzheimer's, chronic fatigue and depression.

A 12 US fluid ounce (355 ml) can of diet soda contains 180 milligrams (0.0063 oz) of aspartame. The FDA has set a limit of 50 mg/kg of body weight and Europe's governing bodies at 40 mg/kg. Approximately 21 cans of diet soda equals the 3,750 milligrams (0.132 oz) of aspartame required to surpass the FDA's 50 mg/kg for the "average" 170 lb person. Hence they call it same while ignoring the cumulative buildup effects in the body of the derivative products.

Apartame was first approved by the FDA for dry goods in 1974 but rescinded in December of 1975 when research was presented, showing that aspartame ate holes in the brains of the lab animals at Washington University and that improprieties in safety studies were evident. U.S. Attorney Samuel Skinner was requested to "open a grand jury investigation into whether two of Searle's aspartame studies had been falsified or were incomplete". Skinner withdrew from the case when he was considering a job offer from the law firm Sidley & Austin, Searle's Chicago-based law firm, a job he later took. The investigation was delayed and eventually the statute of limitations on the charges against Searle expired and a grand jury was never convened. The FDA refused to approve Aspartame 16 straight times.

In 1979-- The FDA established a Public Board of Inquiry (PBOI) to rule on safety issues surrounding NutraSweet (aspartame) which concluded that NutraSweet should not be approved pending further investigations of brain tumors in animals. The board states it "has not been presented with proof of reasonable certainty that aspartame is safe for use as a food additive."

January 1981-- Donald Rumsfeld, CEO of Searle, states in a sales meeting that he is going to make a big push to get aspartame approved within the year. Rumsfeld says he will use his political pull in Washington, rather than scientific means, to make sure it gets approved.

January 21, 1981-- Ronald Reagan is sworn in as President of the United States. Reagan implements a transition team for the FDA which includes Donald Rumsfeld. The Transition team picks Dr. Arthur Hull Hayes Jr. to be the new FDA Commissioner. Dr. Hayes, a pharmacologist, had no previous experience with food additives before being appointed director of the FDA. The current FDA Commissioner, Jere Goyan is called at 3 AM and fired by member of the transition team (he was about to sign an order banning aspartame). Then Reag writes an Executive Order making the FDA powerless to do anything until the new FDA Commissioner is in place. The Executive Order is expunged from the record (illegal by the way) after the transition occurs.

May 19, 1981-- Three of six in-house FDA scientists who were responsible for reviewing the brain tumor issues, Dr. Robert Condon, Dr. Satya Dubey, and Dr. Douglas Park, advise against approval of NutraSweet, stating on the record that the Searle tests are unreliable and not adequate to determine the safety of aspartame.

July 15, 1981-- In one of his first official acts, Dr. Arthur Hayes Jr., the new FDA commissioner, overrules the Public Board of Inquiry, ignores the recommendations of his own internal FDA team and approves NutraSweet for dry products. In order to accomplish this feat, Hayes had to overlook the scuttled grand jury investigation of Searle (concerning criminal charges against officials in the G. D. Searle Company "for concealing material facts and making false statements" in reports of safety tests on NutraSweet and another drug, Aldactone - a diuretic), overcome the Bressler Report (Jerome Bressler blew the whistle on the fraudulent animal studies and his report was kept under FDA seal for 3 decades until Oct 2009), ignore the Public Board of Inquiry's (PBOI) recommendations and pretend aspartame did not chronically sicken and kill thousands of lab animals. Hayes says that aspartame has been shown to be safe for its' proposed uses and says few compounds have withstood such detailed testing and repeated close scrutiny.

October 15, 1982-- The FDA announces that Searle has filed a petition that aspartame be approved as a sweetener in carbonated beverages and other liquids.

July 1, 1983-- The National Soft Drink Association (NSDA) urges the FDA to delay approval of aspartame for carbonated beverages pending further testing because aspartame is very unstable in liquid form. When liquid aspartame is stored in temperatures above 85 degrees Fahrenheit, it breaks down into DKP (Diketopiperazine) and formaldehyde, both of which are known toxins.

Hayes left his post at the FDA in November, 1983, amid accusations that he was accepting corporate gifts for political favors. Just before leaving office in scandal, Hayes approved the use of aspartame in beverages. After Hayes left the FDA under allegations of impropriety, he served briefly as Provost at New York Medical College, and then took a position as a high-paid senior medical advisor (consultant with 10 yr contract) with Burson-Marsteller, the chief public relations firm for both Monsanto and GD Searle.

In 1985, Monsanto Company bought G.D. Searle, and the aspartame business became a separate Monsanto subsidiary, the NutraSweet Company. Donald Rumsfeld reportedly received a $12 million bonus.

In 1995 the FDA was forced, under the Freedom of Information Act, to release a list of aspartame symptoms reported by thousands of victims. From 10,000 consumer complaints, the FDA compiled a list of 92 symptoms, including death. According to Dr. Martini, aspartame has brought more complaints to the FDA than any other additive and is responsible for 75% of such complaints to that agency.

In 1996, the FDA removed all restrictions from aspartame, allowing it to be used in all foods.

Dr. John Olney, who founded the field of neuroscience called excitotoxicity, attempted to stop the approval of aspartame with Attorney James Turner in 1996. The FDA's own toxicologist, Dr. Adrian Gross told Congress that without a shadow of a doubt, aspartame can cause brain tumors and brain cancer and that it violated the Delaney Amendment, which forbids putting anything in food that is known to cause cancer. The exact statement is as follows - "In view of all these indications that the cancer-causing potential of aspartame is a matter that had been established way beyond any reasonable doubt, one can ask: What is the reason for the apparent refusal by the FDA to invoke for this food additive the so-called Delaney Amendment to the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act? Is it not clear beyond any shadow of a doubt that aspartame has caused brain tumors or brain cancer in animals?

"Given that this is so (and I cannot see any kind of tenable argument opposing the view that aspartame causes cancer) how would the FDA justify its position that it views a certain amount of aspartame (50mgm/kgm body weight) as constituting an ADI (Allowable Daily Intake) or "safe" level of it? Is that position not equivalent to setting a "tolerance" for this food additive and thus a violation of that law? And if the FDA itself elects to violate the law, who is left to protect the health of the public?"

March 2011 - Recently, every major media outlet reported on the "Northern Manhattan Study" which linked diet soda to strokes and vascular disorders. This study consisted of 2,564 individuals over the age of 40 who were followed for ten years. The results of the study showed that those who drank diet soda daily increased their risk of stroke by 48% and vascular disorders by 61% compared to those who did not drink diet soda.

d. Industry revolving door with government – for example, Supreme Justice Clarence Thomas is a former Monsanto attorney, Donald Rumsfeld, etc

e. Requirement of ignorant or willing masses - if the masses didn't want something for nothing (zero calorie sugar substitute)

f. 110 different chemicals to get Florida tomato to market

V. Water

a. Minnesota water research

b. Recent discoveries

c. Fluoride - industrial waste product (fluosilicic acid), "scrubbed" from phosphate fertilizer smokestacks.

i. Most people are unaware their fluoride-laced glass of water is actually spiked with an impure industrial waste product (fluosilicic acid), "scrubbed" from phosphate fertilizer smokestacks. The filtering was forced by successful lawsuits against fluoride-emitting industries for cattle and crop damage back in the 40's. Fluosilicic acid, which is a classified hazardous waste, is the substance used in 90% of the water fluoridation programs in the United States.

"In a sweetheart deal these phosphate companies are spared the expense of disposing of this 'fluosilicic acid' in a toxic waste dump. Instead, the acid is sold to municipalities, shipped in rubber-lined tanker trucks to reservoirs across North America and injected into drinking water for the reduction of cavities in children.

There are no government safety studies currently available on fluosilicic acid because the government is basing their fluoridation policy on the assumption that there is no chemical difference, after dilution into the water supply, between pharmaceutical grade sodium fluoride and the industrial grade hydrofluosilicic acid industry's captured fluoride.

Regarding fluoride's efficacy in reducing dental caries, there has never been an adequately controlled, double-blind study of fluoride as a caries preventative. There have been many small scale, selective publications on this issue that proponents cite to justify fluoridation, but the largest and most comprehensive study, done by dentists trained by the National Institute of Dental Research on over 39,000 school children aged 5-17 years, shows, at best, a saving of less than one tooth surface out of 128 surfaces, in fluoridated communities. This study also shows that two-thirds of the children in fluoridated communities display dental fluorosis on at least one tooth.


d. Dr. William Hirzy, Senior Vice President of the EPA's Professionals Headquarters Union, put it, "if this stuff gets out into the air, it’s a pollutant; if it gets into the river, it’s a pollutant; if it gets into the lake, it’s a pollutant; but if it goes right straight into your drinking water system, it’s not a pollutant. That’s amazing!" Note: he got fired for that statement....went to court and won his case....and was reinstated at the EPA.

e. Three inherent flaws in water fluoridation: 1) Doesn't do its intended function - proven that its not beneficial to the teeth (even damaging - fluorosis...or worse yet skeletal fluorosis); 2) It's not pure fluouride. Its hydrofluosilicic acid. The EPA does not allow it to be dumped in landfills or to be aerated into the air....but somehow we can dump it in our water supply. 3) There's no dosage control. An infant that is fed formula...majority of the diet is water. More water per weight than adult. There's no control over how much you get.

f. Check the warning on the back of your toothpaste - if you swallow more than a pea sized amount recommended for brushing - call poison control. Ironically roughly the same amount in an 8 oz glass of water following CDC's fluoride dosing recommendations.

g. Recommended books – The Case Against Fluoride and The Fluoride Deception

VI. Medical

a. Summer vacation w/Clint's family

b. Ronda's experience with pediatrician -

c. Three natural ways the body protects the blood. (1) Digestive System, (2) Skin, and (3) Respiratory system. Vaccination bypasses all three by introducing a foreign pathogen directly to the blood with the intent of creating an immune response.

d. The immune system has three lines of defense: (1) keep invaders out (through skin, mucus membranes, etc), (2) inflammatory response and fever, (3) Defense of specific pathogens that are causing disease (B cells produce antibodies against bacteria or viruses in the extracellular fluid, while T cells kill cells that have become infected).

e. Vaccine ingredients - Neurotoxic heavy metals like mercury (Thymerisol - i.e. man made mercury with an affinity for brain tissue...the most toxic non-radioactive element known to man), aluminum (destructive on its own but highly enhances the effects of other toxins like mercury, fluoride, etc.), formaldehyde (EPA declared carcinogen). MSG (an excitotoxin that excites brain glial cells so they self-destruct), aborted fetal (diploid) cells (contains DNA/RNA from aborted fetuses), foreign species DNA (pig, chick, monkey, insect) and numerous other ingredients
http://www.immunize.org/thimerosal/
http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/pubs/pinkbo ... able-1.pdf
http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/pubs/pinkbo ... able-2.pdf
http://www.chop.edu/export/download/pdf ... uminum.pdf

f. As a vaccine preservative, thimerosal is used in concentrations of 0.003% to 0.01%. A vaccine containing 0.01% thimerosal as a preservative contains 50 micrograms of thimerosal per 0.5 ml dose or approximately 25 micrograms of mercury per 0.5 mL dose. Note: This is 30 times the amount that EPA considers ‘safe’ for adults. Bioaccumulative and can be transformed into methylmercury,(vi) its most toxic form, which readily passes through both the placenta and blood-brain barriers

http://www.hhs.gov/fda/faq/vaccines/1858.html
http://faculty.virginia.edu/metals/case ... feld2.html
http://www.fda.gov/BiologicsBloodVaccin ... /UCM096228
http://www.fda.gov/BiologicsBloodVaccin ... /UCM070430
http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/c ... /1394.full

Mercury on the Mind
http://www.lewrockwell.com/miller/miller14.html

g. Synergistic toxicity (in lab tests animals are given strict diets to minimize outside effects) – mercury’s enhanced effect when other poisons are present. A small dose of mercury that kills 1 in 100 rats and a dose of aluminum that will kill 1 in 100 rats, when combined have a striking effect: all the rats die. Doses of mercury that have a 1 percent mortality will have a 100 percent mortality rate if some aluminum is there. Low levels of lead will greatly enhance the toxicity of mercury - kills all the rats. Zinc is another.

Report on Mercury Toxicity from Dental Amalgams and Thimerosal Presented to Congressional Hearing - May 8, 2003
http://www.talkinternational.com/haley-congress.html

h. Polysorbate 80 (also known as Tween 80 - necessary for the loading to be delivered to brain, it breaks through the Blood Brain Barrier - also causes sterility in lab rats), Triton X-100, and Nonoxynol-9 (also used as a spermicide).

i. Mixture of ingredients - example mercury alone killed X rats...mixed with aluminum killed all the rats.

j. Blood Brain Barrier (BBB) - created at maturation or adulthood (by that point children will have 68 vaccines if following mandated schedule)

k. Hepatitis B: "Vaccination with Engerix-B is recommended for all adults and children who are at risk of getting hepatitis B. Risk factors include: having more than one sex partner in 6 months; being a homosexual male; having sexual contact with infected people; having cirrhosis or chronic hepatitis C; using intravenous (IV) drugs; being on dialysis or receiving blood transfusions; working in healthcare or public safety and being exposed to infected blood or body fluids; being in the military or traveling to high-risk areas; and living with a person who has chronic hepatitis B infection.

Like any vaccine, the Engerix-B may not provide protection from disease in every person."
http://www.gsk.com/products/vaccines/engerix-b.htm

l. “Jumping from the frying pan into the fire.” Replace Thimerosal (49.6% mercury) with a ‘safer’ and ‘less toxic’ substitute: 2-Phenoxyethanol (2-PE) also is known as antifreeze! 2-PE can induce blood, kidney, liver and central nervous system (CNS) disorders.

m. Introduction of live viral strains into the community, does not create lifetime immunity that one would get from the natural disease (like chickenpox, measles, etc.) - requires booster shots throughout life.

n. 140+ Vaccines in development for intended release over the next three years yet pharma claims that there’s no money to be made???

o. The University of Georgia is working on producing a vaccine that will cause infertility. With taxpayer funding no less...
http://vactruth.com/2011/05/18/is-there ... -vaccines/
http://salempress.com/store/samples/mag ... 6_h1n1.htm

p. Peer review research, charts, and government documents, is documented in the 120-page monograph Vaccines & Vaccinations: The Need for Congressional Investigation February 2011 submission to Congress.
http://www.catherinejfrompovich.com/monograph.pdf

q. Recommended Books – Make an Informed Vaccine Decision and Vaccine Epidemic

r. http://WWW.VACTRUTH.COM
http://vactruth.com/
http://www.thinktwice.com/

VII. War - Machinations of Nations

a. Key issues on World War II

i. Financing of Hitler - George Herbert Walker and Prescott Bush

ii. Lend/Lease

iii. Operation Keelhaul

iv. Project Paperclip

b. Vietnam

i. JFK assassination

ii. Materials supplied by China, N. Korea

iii. Ford building automotive factory at Gorky

iv. Lady Bird Johnson Trust

c. Afghanistan/Iraq/Libya - Syria? Iran? N.Korea?

i. Heroin – 75% of world supply to 95% within two years of invasion

ii. Base building – 100’s of bases at $$$ cost???

iii. Minerals

iv. Security payments to Taliban for convoy protection

v. The Carlyle Group

d. Recommended Books

i. None Dare Call It Conspiracy by Gary Allen
http://www.whale.to/b/allen_b1.html
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/archi ... piracy.pdf
http://www.captaincanadacrusades.ca/art ... 5B1%5D.pdf

ii. The Politician by Robert Welch

iii. Kill Zone by Craig Roberts
http://bousnett.com/rune/webBooks/z-Kil ... derETc.pdf

iv. Called to Serve by James "Bo" Gritz

VIII. Politics

a. Development of the two party system

b. Extensive and most non-transparent lobbying

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobbying_i ... ted_States
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington ... over_x.htm
http://congress.indiana.edu/why-so-much ... t-lobbying

c. Congress – the only legal insider traders

http://endoftheamericandream.com/archiv ... hange-that
http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/arch ... s-congress
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-10-1 ... olner.html
http://insidertrading.procon.org/view.r ... eID=001513
http://finance.yahoo.com/tech-ticker/co ... k-b,gs,xlf
http://www.prisonplanet.com/insider-tra ... -that.html
http://www.dailyfinance.com/2009/07/16/ ... -perfectl/

d. J. Reuban Clark stated in the October conference 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.”

e. Ezra Taft Benson stated at the Freeman Institute in Prove in 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.”

f. Voting machine companies – ES&S and DVS
http://electionadminreports.com/yahoo_s ... 125705.pdf
http://www.prlog.org/10691839-ess-compl ... ssets.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic ... _in_Canada
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequoia_Voting_Systems
http://www.dominionvoting.com/images/pd ... aFinal.pdf

Murder Spies and Voting Lies Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhBtfiRKaVY

i. DVS homepage statement - “We are much more than a systems manufacturer; we are an election solutions company.”
http://www.dominionvoting.com/

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IX. Finance

a. You can buy anything in this world with money - i.e. control the world

b. Money created by debt

c. Deflationary spiral or hyperinflation

i. Thomas Jefferson stated – “I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. Already they have raised up a monied aristocracy that has set the government at defiance. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.”

ii. Thomas Jefferson stated – “If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.”

X. Endpoint

a. The whole point of oppressive government - the control or use of force to decide who gets what. That's why the government is so heavily invested in every major industry in the world....and have created legal control points to dictate where money flows (FDA, USDA, Fanny, Freddie, etc etc etc). Whoever controls the government....controls the flow of money via legal (and illegal) schemes....and can profit accordingly (and escape justice). Another reason the only legal insider trading is via our "representatives" in Congress. Why else would a person spend millions for a $75k per year job??? The reality is....because they can make millions trading with the insider knowledge they will obtain concerning where the money will flow...as well as making some of those decisions directly.

b. Ether 8:22-25

i. 22: And whatsoever nation shall uphold such secret combinations, to get power and gain, until they shall spread over the nation, behold, they shall be destroyed; for the Lord will not suffer that the blood of his saints, which shall be shed by them, shall always cry unto him from the ground for vengeance upon them and yet he avenge them not.
ii. 23: O ye Gentiles, it is wisdom in God that these things should be shown unto you, that thereby ye may repent of your sins, and suffer not that these murderous combinations shall get above you, which are built up to get power and gain—and the work, yea, even the work of destruction come upon you, yea, even the sword of the justice of the Eternal God shall fall upon you, to your overthrow and destruction if ye shall suffer these things to be.
iii. 24: Wherefore, the Lord commandeth you, when ye shall see these things come among you that ye shall awake to a sense of your awful situation, because of this secret combination which shall be among you; or wo be unto it, because of the blood of them who have been slain; for they cry from the dust for vengeance upon it, and also upon those who built it up.
iv. 25: For it cometh to pass that whoso buildeth it up seeketh to overthrow the freedom of all lands, nations, and countries; and it bringeth to pass the destruction of all people, for it is built up by the devil, who is the father of all lies; even that same liar who beguiled our first parents, yea, even that same liar who hath caused man to commit murder from the beginning; who hath hardened the hearts of men that they have murdered the prophets, and stoned them, and cast them out from the beginning.

c. Moral decay had reduced the constraints to self interest

i. John Adams stated – “We have no government armed with the power capable of contending with human passions, unbridled by morality and true religion. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”

ii. Benjamin Franklin stated – “Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious they have more need of masters.”

iii. Samuel Adams stated – “Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt.”

d. “If you really want to change things, you first need to come to terms with just how corrupt and evil the current system is. An incomplete understanding of the situation will lead to half baked solutions that accomplish nothing.”

e. Government will collapse – we are completely saturated with combinations….visions by John Taylor, Patriarch Charles D. Evans, Wilford Woodruff, Orson Pratt, Brigham Young, Bruce R. McConkie, and Joseph Smith of calamities and people being swept off the land.

f. President Ezra Taft Benson Oct 1988 Conference address “I Testify” – “I testify that as the forces of evil increase under Lucifer’s leadership and as the forces of good increase under the leadership of Jesus Christ, there will be growing battles between the two until the final confrontation. As the issues become clearer and more obvious, all mankind will eventually be required to align themselves either for the kingdom of God or for the kingdom of the devil. As these conflicts rage, either secretly or openly, the righteous will be tested. God’s wrath will soon shake the nations of the earth and will be poured out on the wicked without measure. (See JS—H 1:45; D&C 1:9.) But God will provide strength for the righteous and the means of escape; and eventually and finally truth will triumph. (See 1 Ne. 22:15–23.)

I testify that it is time for every man to set in order his own house both temporally and spiritually.”

XI. Preparations

a. Get out of debt

b. Savings for a rainy day

c. Food storage
i. Wheat – best bang for the buck in terms of calories

d. Fuel storage

e. Food production
i. Organic and healthy as it gets if you control production

f. Water
i. Filtration - research
I discovered the following research report from Minnesota -

Overview article -
http://www.watertechonline.com/filtrati ... ochemicals

Testing summary -
http://www.health.state.mn.us/divs/eh/w ... estudy.pdf

Full final report on test -
http://www.health.state.mn.us/divs/eh/w ... ummary.pdf

After reading the test summary I was leaning towards Culligan but having done consulting work for Culligan of Salt Lake I new that option was likely to be pricier than value added. I moved on to the full test report for a deeper analysis and found the Watts Premier MP-V4 had as good or better test results than the Culligan (my read on it anyways) and most of the other systems weren't available at the consumer level (had to purchase from commercial supplier). Found the Watts Premier MP-V4 at CostCo -

Premier WP4-V Reverse Osmosis System with Monitoring Faucet
http://www.costco.com/Browse/Product.as ... opnav=&s=1

g. Neighbors

i. Cleon Skousen’s take in “Cleansing of America”

h. Get all the knowledge that we can - herbs, combinations, etc.

i. Ultimately – righteousness and serving Christ!
Charles W. Nibley, Conference Report, October 1923, p. 62 – “Brethren and sisters, let me say in closing that we have it of record, that the prophet Joseph Smith said the time will come when, through secret organizations taking the law into their own hands, not being governed by law or by due process of law, but becoming a law unto themselves, when, by those disintegrating activities, the Constitution of the United States would be so torn and rent asunder, and life and property and peace and security would be held of so little value, that the Constitution would, as it were, hang by a thread. But he never said, so far as I have heard, that that thread would be cut. I believe, with Elder Richards, that this Constitution will be preserved, but it will be preserved very largely in consequence of what the Lord has revealed and what this people, through listening to the Lord and being obedient, will help to bring about, to stabilize and give permanency and effect to the Constitution itself. That also is our mission. That also is what we are here for. I glory in it. I praise God with all my heart and soul that I am a member of it.”

Ether 2:10,12 - 10: For behold, this is a land which is choice above all other lands; wherefore he that doth possess it shall serve God or shall be swept off; for it is the everlasting decree of God. And it is not until the fulness of iniquity among the children of the land, that they are swept off.
12: Behold, this is a choice land, and whatsoever nation shall possess it shall be free from bondage, and from captivity, and from all other nations under heaven, if they will but serve the God of the land, who is Jesus Christ, who hath been manifested by the things which we have written.

j. We must ultimately on individual basis choose to conduct ourselves through moral constraint and refuse to participate in the secret combinations to get gain and power.

k. When we hear of martial law or dictatorship we need to take remembrance of the following promise in the 2nd chapter of 2nd Nephi –
“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.”


.....OK that's the my outline with some references and supportive material added....though just a starter and not an extensive list of everything I utilized and sources. What I think I may do that will be a better option is start a series of threads on each topic - Food, Water, Medical, War - perplexities and machinations of Nations, Finance/Economics, etc....and build those up over the next couple of weeks with all the supporting evidence. Anyways still thinking this one through.

[JasonI am a nobody!]

Obama Announces End Of Iraq War, Full Troop Withdrawal By Year-End
http://www.rferl.org/content/obama_iraq ... 67490.html

Obama: U.S. Troops Will Exit Iraq This Year
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-10-2 ... -year.html

Left behind in Iraq: thousands of contractors
http://security.blogs.cnn.com/2011/10/2 ... ntractors/

UN Security Council Calls For Power Transfer In Yemen
http://www.rferl.org/content/un_securit ... 67579.html

Libya Before and After Image Shows What a NATO/UN Humanitarian Mission Looks Like
http://www.activistpost.com/2011/10/lib ... -what.html

'Gaddafi death an omen of tribal war & mob rule in Libya'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfiKOD5m ... r_embedded

The FDIC closes three more banks, two in Georgia and one in Florida, bringing the number of failed banks to 83 this year. The total cost of the three failures to its deposit-insurance fund - $133.9M.
http://seekingalpha.com/currents/post/97131?source=feed

Bank Failure #84: Community Banks of Colorado, Greenwood Village, CO - That makes four today.
http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2011/ ... ed+Risk%29

Merrill Lynch moving derivatives to BofA FDIC insured bank unit

Utter garbage. How can we sit back and let a bank move a massive load of liabilities to a banking unit that has deposits and is backed by the U.S. taxpayers via the FDIC? No surprise the Federal Reserve didn’t see a problem because they would not be first in line to make that banking unit whole again if something went wrong and trigger the CDS and whatever, other exotic contracts Merrill Lynch may have. We are just increasing the risk on this massive institution.

http://www.bankreorealestate.com/indust ... -unit.html

For the record, there is no such thing as “real” money. All money is a human construct. It doesn’t matter what is behind the money or what the money itself is made of – that’s all bunk. The supposed self-correcting attributes of gold, for example, are complete bunk, very easy to disprove if one simply and objectively examines history.

The “Roaring Twenties” roared because of a flaming credit bubble – and the country was on a gold standard at the time. All gold standards have failed, as have all money systems to date, as will ours soon. In fact gold as money systems last for shorter durations than do non-gold systems if you look back in time – Talley sticks in England, for example, lasted more than 800 years, during which time gold standards came and went.

Of note is that the stock market bubble that crashed in 1929 was one built upon MARGIN, not just general credit growth. I note this because those who wish to eliminate fractional reserves entirely are barking up the wrong tree. It is easy to create leverage, that is to multiply effective money through many, many schemes. Today there are hundreds of them, they are growing unchecked - $600 Trillion just in known derivatives today in the United States alone. In fact, if you eliminate fractional reserves but do nothing to regulate other forms of leverage, then I will guarantee you that I can multiply the money in the system to infinity through other means that more closely resemble gambling.

Again, all money is a human construct; its purpose is to enact trade. The only way to make money a “store of value” is to keep the total quantity of ALL money(ness) under control. That’s it.

All money that is approved by your government is “fiat.” Again, it doesn’t matter what it is made of or what is behind it, since fiat means “by decree.” If your nation decrees that gold is to be used as money, then it is fiat. Gold is only not fiat when it is allowed to trade freely alongside of whatever else has been decried. Gold is the flip-side of the proverbial control-you coin (the other side is debt). Those who own the gold control those who do not – get over it, or own it – most do not.

The most important attribute about money is WHO controls its production. The natural rule-of-law is that its production benefit/not benefit everyone equally. Once you give a few private individuals the power to produce money, they will use that power to buy rules that favor them, and then the government and their money production become intertwined – as has obviously happened today.

The only solution to this is to restore the power of money production to the people. Since it cannot be private people, it MUST be done through your representatives as the Constitution correctly dictates (it does NOT dictate gold money, by the way, read it).

Once the money power correctly rests in your representative’s hands, then the problem becomes vote buying with that money creation power. This is where the Constitution falls short – they failed to get strong enough checks and balances in place to ensure that your representatives cannot cede this responsibility, THE MOST IMPORTANT RESPONSIBILITY THEY HAVE. Not only should they not cede this responsibility, but they MUST keep the quantity of money under control. This is why I say there is only ONE responsible target for the supply of money, that being ZERO percent price inflation (the quantity of money should change up/down to allow for changes in population, etc.). This can be accomplished as I spelled out in Freedom’s Vision.

The entire economy is now saturated with debt – not just the Federal Government, but state and local governments, corporations, and the people collectively too. Addressing any single problem in this regard will NOT cure the economy, it will take unsaturating all levels to reach a real cure – the exact opposite of what the current money producers are doing or attempting to do. Transitioning to an unsaturated condition DOES NOT have to involve “pain” for the people! The ones who rightly should take the pain are the ones who purveyed the fraud in the first place, again it is possible to make them eat the pain, and to restore a proper rule-of-law, money system, and economy without the “pain” they would like you to believe everyone must take! Solutions are found only when you get outside of the central banker box, and stop being a willing party to their lies.

It’s been awhile since I ran a lot of charts by you, here come a lot, but don’t be intimidated – they all revolve around the same subject, our money supply. Stand back and take a big picture look at the supply of money and you will see that a MONEY EXPLOSION is occurring right now!

Below I am displaying charts in order from the smallest measurement of money, Base, to the largest, MZM. The first series is the basic amount expressed in dollars - here you will see a progression - exponential growth that turns into a parabolic shaped curve. Note that the upwards trend did not stop, in fact is now taking off straight up within the smaller measurements and still parabolic on the larger ones:

[see link for charts]

Wow, I'm nauseous just looking at those wild moves! Those moves are dangerous, they are the exact opposite of stability. Remember, when the quantity of money is allowed to grow beyond that necessary to handle REAL expansion, then the value of the money falls. The worst situation is exactly what we're experiencing where the things you hold fall in value, and the things you need rise in value. This is true for the 99% who don't create the money, while the 1% (or less) who do, take from those who don't.

Here's a little fun with numbers, in the year 1980 (230 million people) there was approximately $4,347 of MZM per person in America. Today (310 million people) that number has grown to $35,516, more than eight times as much!! Are you eight times more wealthy? Didn't think so. Now look at debt. Debt has grown multiples of times more, especially if you count unfunded liabilities - that figure is now way beyond $300,000 per person, but just the National Debt has grown from the exact same (coincidence?) $4,347 per person in 1980, to $46,774 per person today - nearly 11 times as much! Wow, we're only talking 30 years here, not even half a lifetime - how's that "Fed" mandate of low inflation looking?

Now here's a chart that may startle you - here I told the "fed's" own chartmaker to divide the MZM by the Base Money to see the ratio of Base Money compared to the much larger MZM... and what do you think it shows? It shows a CRASHING ratio from the peak of 10 to 1 to today's 4 to 1. That means that today it takes way more base money to create a commensurate move in MZM.

Since our money is backed by debt, what this is really reflecting is the drop off of velocity caused by macroeconomic debt saturation - yet more proof of the impossible math and that debt saturation has occurred.

While I'm not a fan of GDP because I believe it is VASTLY overstated, I had some fun dividing first Base Money, and then MZM, into GDP. This tells us how much "productivity" we are getting per our money creation... are you ready?

Kaboom! Cliff Diving. That, my friends, is called ECONOMIC FAILURE. You are witnessing it in progress. Those charts are VERY telling, and very important to understand, they deserve to go viral.

The root cause of this failure is WHO it is that controls the production of our money. There are solutions, but none can or will be implemented while the same WHO is in charge. Only the people can change the power structure, there is change in progress one way or the other.

To view just how clueless the "Fed" is, below is their latest issue of monetary trends where you find tons of irrelevant charts (except for velocity which is in the gutter), and mundane commentary designed to lack insight - all designed to keep you in the dark.

http://economicedge.blogspot.com/2011/1 ... -bomb.html
http://economicedge.blogspot.com/2011/1 ... -bomb.html
http://economicedge.blogspot.com/2011/1 ... -bomb.html

[linj2flycaptain of 1,000]

I'm very glad to hear that Obama has 'ended' the Iraq War and that the remainder of those troops will be coming home. I hope this will not be a brief rest for our troops (as in...build up in Afghanistan or another new war in the middle east, like Iran). I'm happy my cousins will get their husbands back for awhile...

[Original_Intentcaptain of 1,000]

Yes, and I wonder what miracle milestone we passed in Iraq that suddenly justified the war being over? Oh that's right ELECTION YEAR! If the American people do not see thru this fraud...

But yes, thank heavens the troops are coming home in time to impose martial law.

[DrJonescaptain of 1,000]

Interesting thought, O_I...

Jason -- thank you so much for sharing your outline for the FF dinner! wish I could be there, but I will review your outline. So far, I'm enjoying it! You have done a lot of research -- thanks for all the references!

Could someone video at least part of Jason's talk, so we get a feel for this good brother?

And thank you for the blipits! I know may read without posting replies much -- we just appreciate being kept up-to-date!

Sincerely,
Steven E Jones

[Zkulptorcaptain of 100]

Update: Little Chinese girl ( ran over twice while people negligently passed by).
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne ... e-her.html
I guess they are taught not to help:
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/chinese-girl-d ... 48358.html

[JasonI am a nobody!]

Update: Little Chinese girl ( ran over twice while people negligently passed by).
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne ... e-her.html
I guess they are taught not to help:
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/chinese-girl-d ... 48358.html

When I was in Thailand the military were given strict orders not to intervene - accidents and similar such incidents. Over a couple of weeks I saw many people killed or severely maimed. For example a truck ran a light and hit a boy and girl on moped. Little toytota pickup (red cross on it) showed up (the ambulance) and couple guys gathered them up and tossed them in the back of the pickup with the moped and off they went. Regard for life is literally null and void. Doing service at an orphanage and they found baby in the weeds the day prior due to the swarm of flies over it.

That said its disheartening to view such callous and complete utter disregard for a brother/sister.

[JasonI am a nobody!]

Interesting thought, O_I...

Jason -- thank you so much for sharing your outline for the FF dinner! wish I could be there, but I will review your outline. So far, I'm enjoying it! You have done a lot of research -- thanks for all the references!

Could someone video at least part of Jason's talk, so we get a feel for this good brother?

And thank you for the blipits! I know may read without posting replies much -- we just appreciate being kept up-to-date!

Sincerely,
Steven E Jones

Thank you Steve! I can't express the level of my appreciation for your work and your willingness to make a stand (and you did it)!

The focus of my presentation was to attempt to cover the diverse aspects from which we have been schemed against (how much they've gotten over us).....to point out the realization that the system is not going to be saved (completely infiltrated and saturated in secret combinations as well as supported by the masses)....to point out the relevance of the Prophet's guidance to preparing for the fallout...that the Lord has prepared a way for our escape and my inspiration regarding my personal prayers on it..and that Christ will trample the conspirators as pointed out in the 2nd chapter of 2nd Nephi (last scriptural quote).

[JasonI am a nobody!]

I want to make a point of emphasizing the current banking situation. The big banks are moving their derivative risks to general depositors (us). Again its the same old story - take lots of risks to make a lot of money (investors)....then when it falls apart shift the risks as well as the losses on to someone else (taxpayers, bank depositors, etc - that would be us). Reggie has a pretty extensive rant about it below -

Bank of America Lynch[ing this] CountryWide's Equity Is Likely Worthess and It Will Rape FDIC Insured Accounts Going Bust
http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/ba ... c-insured-

So one has to ask themselves....what's the timing like on this? how soon am I (and you) going to have to foot the bill? We are the ultimate mark.

Also what can we do about it?

Here are a couple of my thoughts on it (fwiw) -

(1) Move our accounts to banks that aren't doing these sorts of things (smaller local banks and credit unions). Personally I'll have completely closed out my business and personal accounts with Wells Fargo by the end of this month and rather than shift to another single bank/credit union.....I'm diversifying into several local and national credit unions. I'll be the first to admit its a real pain in the rump. Despite my anger with the Mexican drug cartel (CIA) money laundering through Wachovia and now Wells Fargo....I've procrastinated this step for multiple months now. But I either have to vote with my dollars or shut up about it.

(2) At some point in the not so distant future (maybe even now) we will need to withdraw our deposits while they are still accessible. If we look at Argentina as an example, you see the sort of controls that are rapidly implemented to limit one's access to cash via withdrawal limits that can easily be imposed. Hence my diversification to possibly circumvent this to some extent (may not be much of a strategy).

(3) Also plan that at some point (not so distant future) that credit may be completely shut off. Personally I utilize plastic much of the time and pay the bill at the end of the month to get points, dollars back, etc. While useful this puts me one month behind - I'm always paying last month's bill with this month's income. If you shift to cash you'll always have cash on hand (besides what should be tucked away for rainy days)....as well as up to date on your expenses. I haven't done this yet and by no means am I preaching....just trying to point out something to consider that hopefully may be useful for your own preparations.

I think Illargi nailed it in his comments a couple days ago (posted in Blipits) which I'll mention the relevant parts again here -

Mostly hidden from view by emergency meetings and earnings reports, we live in the days of the incredibly shrinking banks. Tens if not hundreds of thousands of job losses in the banking sector have already been announced, and they'll just keep on coming with a vengeance.

If you can't meet capital ratio requirements by raising cash, you can always sell whatever you can sell, get a whole lot smaller and lower requirements that way. Only thing is, you're going to lend less, not more, money to the consumer and industry.

But there's a problem with that too, wouldn't you know it? That is, you need someone willing to buy what you want to sell. And it won't be the banks in the same predicament as you. At first, there'll be hedge funds willing to snap up penny on the dollar deals, but if everyone wants to, needs to, sell, you get a buyer's market, in which prices keep dropping so much it's not much use to sell at all.

Which is why, while Bloomberg reports that Morgan Stanley predicts that EU (including UK) banks will need to sell assets, reduce lending and overall reduce short-term funding as much as €2 trillion, other voices say they won't be able to achieve that much, because they can't sell enough assets. Ergo: they’ll need to reduce lending even more.

Along the exact same lines, Bank of America is shrinking, and right into oblivion down the line. How any regulatory body, be it the Fed or the FDIC, can possibly comply with BofA moving $53 trillion in derivatives to its consumer deposits book is beyond us. What is it? Despair over desperation? Thinking you can get away with anything? Still, whoever's made to pay (Hello, Occupy Wall Street, protest this! Occupy BofA. Occupy the FDIC.), the effect remains what it is: Incredible Shrinkage.

And that, dear reader, is how you spell deflation.

And debt deflation. And credit crunch. This cannot be prevented. It is written in stone. Not even Occupy Wall Street or Syntagma Square have the power to undo the inevitable. They can, however, have a loud and major voice in seeing to it that the pain is evenly distributed. It is not now.

http://theautomaticearth.blogspot.com/2 ... -dust.html

...we do know the banks can print themselves money as needed....but we also know they are digging a pit for us (higher costs for us on fuel, food, etc. via their speculation in commodities and less income/credit for us via collapsing asset values and job losses). How long before they completely regulate our banking accounts (withdrawal limits, account closings, etc)?

Food for thought....