Today's News

Cheney's Top Torture Lawyers Now Work For Obama - Intel Daily
Rizzo served as top lawyer at the CIA for years, without the title, because the Senate wouldn't approve him. Serving as the "Acting So-and-So" is what now counts as compliance with the Constitution. Senators are hereby put on notice: you fail to confirm an appointee, and he or she will get the job without the title.

Rizzo oversaw in detail the use of illegal detention, rendition, and torture at sites around the world. He requested Justice Department memos to cover his actions. He illegally sanctioned the destruction of videotapes demonstrating what he had done. He brazenly testified before Congress that torture was not torture. He authorized torture prior to receiving the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) memos. After receiving the memos, he authorized torture that far exceeded what they pretended to allow. He lied to the Justice Department, claiming that a captive (Abu Zubaydah) was not cooperative in the absence of torture. He ignored warnings that all of this was illegal, but made clear his awareness of guilt by requesting the memos and destroying the tapes.

More on Rizzo here.

Major Military Offensive In Afghanistan - Various
I won't bother to put a link up, every major US government owned/operated and influenced wireservice and newspaper is carrying the story. Just a few days ago stories were posted saying they were going to leave the poppy fields alone. Now this. You can understand why no one should believe the newspapers/wireservices and why their subscriptions and revenue are tanking and many are just plain going out of business. It is not so much about bloggers being evil as Fox would have you believe, but the credibility of mainline publications. More and more people simply do not believe the lies they pass off as news. Folks who come by this site are smarter than to believe something just because it is in the paper. Moreover, they know that if it is in a US newspaper, it should be held with a high degree of suspicion

Most bloggers are more interested in truth that revenue or getting a pat on the head from their government masters, like a good lap dog.

Honduras And The School of The America's - DNow!
Romeo Vasquez, a general who led the military coup in Honduras against President Manuel Zelaya, received training at the US School of the Americas. The SOA has trained more than 60,000 soldiers, many of whom have returned home and committed human rights abuses, torture, extrajudicial execution and massacres. According to School of the Americas Watch, Vasquez attended the SOA in 1976 and 1984. The head of the Air Force, Gen. Luis Javier Prince Suazo, also studied there in 1996. We speak with Father Roy Bourgeois, founder of the School of the Americas Watch.(end excerpt)

Hillary Clinton (the real power in this administration rest with her and her husband) say they are not going to call it a coup.

Raytheon Spyblimp Ready To Watch You - Intel Daily
- As the American republic's long death-spiral continues apace, newer and ever more insidious technologies usher us towards an age of high-tech barbarism.

Once again we were told lies about what this really is and does. Check out the article and remember that it is Raytheon that makes the drones that kill Pakistani's and Afghans by remote control.

Obama Sweet Talks Dictators, Yet Strong Arms Israel - Ha'aretz
Dealing with U.S. President Barack Obama constitutes a major challenge for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. It has been a long time since America last had a president as powerful as Obama, who controls both houses of Congress and is wildly popular among the American public. It is from this advantageous position that Obama has decided to confront Israel, and now the Israeli prime minister has to decide how to respond.

Meanwhile, the world's troublemakers in Tehran, Damascus, and Pyongyang are getting away with murder. As for Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Syrian President Bashar Assad, Obama has decided to sweet-talk them. Meanwhile Kim Jong-il is still waiting to see how the U.S. president will deal with him, as North Korea continues to threaten the world with its nuclear-tipped missiles. The exception to it all is Israel - Obama is telling Jerusalem in no uncertain terms what he expects from it. No doubt about it, the American leader has decided to use strong-arm tactics on America's long-time ally.(end excerpt)

Yes, it is sad to see our President turn out to be so anti-semtic. But truth be told he has some rabid anti-semites surrounding him and advising him. He can go and bow before The dictator of Saudi Arabia, probably one of the most brutally repressive regimes on earth and give them contracts and business deals galore. The difference? Israel is a true democracy and is Jewish. Saudi Arabia is a dictatorship and is Islamic. Who is he cozying up to? His actions speak louder than his well articulated words.

Now you know more about the real Obama that just about every person who voted for him. More and more some things about Obama and his past worry me, very, very much. I will talk about them more as time passes.

No To Sharia Law in Britain - ME Forum/Dennis MacEion
...sharia has already entered the UK through a back door. In October 2008 Bridget Prentice, parliamentary under-secretary of state in the Ministry of Justice, stated that the government does not "accommodate" any religious legal systems, but confirmed two developments. First that sharia courts are operating under the 1996 Arbitration Act, which allows private disputes to be settled by an independent arbitrator. And second that sharia rulings on family matters (that are not covered by arbitration) could be given the authority of a British court by seeking "a consent order embodying the terms" of the sharia court ruling. There is now a Muslim Arbitration Tribunal which claims that the lord chief justice endorses alternative dispute resolution under sharia law.

A very interesting article and one that people should pay attention to. Because as I said before, Islam is coming to America.

Pakistan: Muslim Mob Attacks Christians - Pakistan Christian Post
Over six hundred Muslims attacked Christians in village Bahmani District Kasur on June 30, 2009. Angry Muslims’ mob, after accusing of blasphemy, destroyed Christians’ houses, looted valuables / jewelry and tortured Christian men and women ruthlessly.

Lets see if the US government organs (misnomered newspapers) carry this story. If it was a gay person attacked it would hit all the major papers, since they are Christians, no one will cover it. Just one reason why I don't and won't pay to read a newspaper in the US, I may pay a subscription for one in the UK, Germany or Japan, but not a major US paper. I would sooner give my money to the School of the Americas than to a Major US newspaper. the School of the America's kills with bullets, US newspapers kills with lies and half truths.

Obama's Death Council Takes Shape - EIR
Find your cue from the Nazi past to see America's future.(begin excerpt)

The world economy is teetering ... With trillions of dollars evaporating in this crisis, millions of middle-class Americans face the prospect of losing their homes and jobs, and witnessing a dramatic contraction of their retirement savings. In response, the public will desperately want financial security.... [B]ailing out bankers and other gamblers [and the] huge increase in the federal debt that these bailouts will entail intensifies the pressure to rein in health-care costs....

The dean of health-care economists, Victor Fuchs of Stanford, has long maintained that we will get health-care reform only when there is a war, a depression or some other major civil unrest. It's beginning to look like we might just have all three....—Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, "The Financial Crisis and Health Care," the Chicago Tribune, Oct. 12, 2008

When Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel wrote those words, he was chair of the Department of Bioethics (euthanasia education) at the United States Institutes of Health. Today he is President Obama's leading representative on a Federal "death council" drawing up a list of medical procedures to be used to deny care to elderly, chronically ill, and poor people, whose lives are considered of less value. Ezekiel's brother, Obama's Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, is ramming this Nazi-revival policy through Congress.

The President beat the drums on May 11, after meeting with private insurance companies, saying that because of the financial crisis, $2 trillion must be cut from American health-care spending. The companies promised to help him shut down more "costly" treatments, which typically prolong life.

The Nuremberg Precedent

15 Banks, One Insurance Co. Get Bailed Out - Propublica
As the Wall Street Journal reported earlier this week, smaller banks have continued to line up for TARP funds in past weeks even as some of the biggest banks exit. The trend continues. Last Friday, 15 banks received a total of $226.2 million, and one large insurer, Hartford Financial Services, received $3.4 billion, according to a Treasury Department disclosure.

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China Delays Censorship Software - RTE
China is to delay the launch of a controversial policy to force manufacturers to install mandatory filtering software on new computers.

The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology's climbdown on the compulsory installation of the 'Green Dam Youth Escort' filter comes just a day before the order was due to come into effect.

The state news agency Xinhua, which revealed the decision, did not say why the implementation of the policy had been postponed.

Obama Aide: No New Troops To Afghanistan - WP
After a massive build up (see graph in article) Obama now wants to keep levels the same, stressing economics.

This is a track I have long called for in my writings you will never win in Afghanistan with force. You must win over the people and that would have been easier to do if we had not gone in there 8 years ago with a heavy hand and horrible mindless violence against these poorest of the poor, turning many against us. Now someone (seems to be) taking sense. But I think it is probably too late, the die is cast and what we are doing along the borders with Pakistan will only fuel more anti-American sentiment.

Foreclosure To Homelessness - Blown Mortgage
The Foreclosure to Homelessness: The Forgotten Victims of the Foreclosure Crisis report released last week provides insight into how foreclosures have affected homeless populations around the country. Based on surveys completed by 178 organizations across the U.S. that provide services to individuals and families experiencing homelessness it was determined that the nation’s homeless population has been directly impacted by foreclosure and that the is likely to increase along with the number of foreclosures. Nearly 80 percent of the respondents reported that at least some of their clients became homeless due to foreclosure. The leading self-reported reasons for homelessness, however, remain financial obstacles like job loss, addiction and evictions, according to additional information gathered by the Alliance to End Homelessness. (End Excerpt)

This is th real effect of the policies on the past two years. We have sent trillions to bailout the banks and the people who have in essence destroyed the US economy (don't believe any talk of recovery, it just isn't true) and let taxpayers sink. Yes, a few have been given some help but it is largely contingent on the banks 'good will'.

Wells Fargo, Ms. Jacobson said in an interview, saw the black community as fertile ground for subprime mortgages, as working-class blacks were hungry to be a part of the nation’s home-owning mania. Loan officers, she said, pushed customers who could have qualified for prime loans into subprime mortgages. Another loan officer stated in an affidavit filed last week that employees had referred to blacks as “mud people” and to subprime lending as “ghetto loans.”

“We just went right after them,” said Ms. Jacobson, who is white and said she was once the bank’s top-producing subprime loan officer nationally. “Wells Fargo mortgage had an emerging-markets unit that specifically targeted black churches, because it figured church leaders had a lot of influence and could convince congregants to take out subprime loans.” - The Loop21

Obama Could Send Guard To Border - Examiner.com
President Barack Obama could send up to 1,500 National Guard volunteers to the U.S.-Mexico border in an effort to reinforce an existing counter-drug strategy. Critics have already bashed the plan as they say the levels of violence along the border do not require of unarmed-unpaid volunteers, but of U.S. agencies involved in National Security. (End Excerpt)

Why do we need this? I will tell you up front, point blank though some still are not able to conceptualize it and it is why they attack the plan. This is to prepare for the collapse of Mexico into a total Narco-State with no central government. It's pretty bad when government agencies no longer deal with their counterparts in Mexico because they do not know whom they really are working for. That is where we are at now.

A Robot That Navigates Like A Man - Technology Review
European researchers have developed a robot capable of moving autonomously using humanlike visual processing. The robot is helping the researchers explore how the brain responds to its environment while the body is in motion. What they discover could lead to machines that are better able to navigate through cluttered environments.

California Issues IOU's - Bloomberg
California is poised to issue more than $3 billion in IOUs to pay some bills after lawmakers failed to reach an agreement to close a $24 billion budget deficit facing the most-populous U.S. state.(End Excerpt)

This will only drive the state deeping into the doldrums. Simply put, an employer/contractor cannot pay his or her employees with IOU's. IOU's that MAY NEVER BE REPAID. So what will he or she do? Simple. They will layoff people until the real cash flows in. I say never be repaid because I think that unless the Governor is recalled, California will collapse into bankruptcy and I think bankruptcy that is exactly what he wants. I could be wrong, but his actions of late don't show he really cares about California or its citizens, but rather the Oil and Tech companies who are located in the state. He will mess over the poor so he does not have to raise taxes (even minimally) on the corporations, you know BIG OIL who has seen profits skyrocket in the past eight years.

In California, Democrats are pushing a 9.9% severance tax to help close the state's projected $24 billion deficit. But Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who earlier this year supported adopting a severance tax, is now opposed, saying the state has raised taxes enough already.

The oil industry has already beaten back some proposed tax increases. An effort to raise Montana's severance tax died in the state legislature this year, and in November voters in Colorado voted down an oil-tax increase after a high-profile "vote no" campaign funded by the industry. - WSJ

...And the Jobs Keep Going Away - FT
The big problem is the fact that in many areas, there are no other jobs. Which is why the BLS's doctored up unemployment rate is about useless. To be a discourage worker does not mean that anymore, it means you cannot find a job because there are no jobs. Which is why the unemployment rate is more like 17-20% and not 9-10%

Hamas Denying Palestinians Energy Billions - Global Politician
Gaza on the Mediterranean, with an offshore natural gas resource worth an estimated $4 billion and with Palestinian statehood believed an imminent proposition, should be looking at the brightest possible future. But still abject poverty and hopelessness rack Gaza and the standard explanation by many Arabs and Western media is to depict the Palestinians as in a permanent state of Israeli-inflicted victimhood.

Gaza is the poster case of how radical Islamism, exemplified by Hamas, has such a difficulty to absorb modernity and Gaza’s problems surely must be related to the 2006 Hamas takeover and the ensuing low-level civil war between Hamas and Fatah that controls the West Bank. As such it is hard to avoid the conclusion that the Palestinians are to a large extent responsible for their own misfortunes.

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The Other Drug War On The Other Border - LAT
Drug dealers are gunning down women (one in a car with her 4-year-old son in the back seat), high school students with no gang allegiances and, especially, one another, in broad daylight in and around the city that will host the 2010 Winter Olympics. It got so bad this spring that police erected concrete barriers outside the homes of two gangsters to slow down potential drive-by assassins.

"Let's get serious. There is a gang war, and it's brutal. What we have seen are new rules of engagement for the gangsters," Vancouver's chief police constable, Jim Chu, told reporters in March.Authorities trace the violence to the recent government crackdown on cocaine traffickers in Mexico, which has squeezed profit margins for cocaine north of the U.S. border.

Russian Journalist Dies Of Head Wounds - The Other Russia
An independent Russian journalist, Vyacheslav Yaroshenko, has died from his wounds after he was viciously attacked in late April, Radio Svoboda reports. Yaroshenko, the editor-in-chief of the “Corruption and Crime” (Koruptsiya i Kriminal) newspaper, had written articles investigating corruption in local authorities.(End Excerpt)

You can find more about this at the Committee To Protect Journalists site.

Lukoil Buys 45% Of Dutch Refinery - Sofia Echo
Russian Lukoil Holdings has purchased a major stake in a Dutch refinery Total Raffinaderij Nederland, the latest in a series of strategic deals signalling the Russian energy companies' ambition to strengthen their positions in the European market. The deal is worth $725 million and it is expected to be finalised by the end of the year. France's Total will keep the remaining 55 per cent stake in the refinery.(End Excerpt)

This is a major move and break for Russia directly into the EU refining Business and when one considers that in six years, 35% of Russian Gas supplied to the EU will come from Russia's South Stream, Russia's growing energy dominance can be clearly seen.

Obama Is Choosing To Be Weak - FT
As he promised last year, Barack Obama has brought climate change and healthcare reform to the centre of the nation’s attention. As well as evangelising, he is pressing Congress to act. Last week the House of Representatives passed the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade bill to curb carbon emissions, a measure that, if enacted, would touch every part of the US economy. Both House and Senate have drafted far-reaching healthcare bills, with stunning price tags.

Mr Obama aims to keep his promises, which is admirable. Unfortunately, there is a problem. This is not, as many Republicans argue, that neither issue requires forthright action. Both do. The problem is that the bills emerging from Congress are bad and Mr Obama does not seem to mind.(End Excerpt)

While many may not agree with the articles main points, is thrust should be considered by open-minded and balanced readers.

N. Korea Son And Heir Made Secret Trip To China - Status Of Chinese People
The son and heir apparent to North Korean leader Kim Jong-il joined a delegation of senior military officials for a top-secret, week-long visit to China in mid-June in spite of Beijing’s claims no such trip occurred.

The visit was meant to shore up support for the inexperienced Kim Jong-woon, Mr Kim’s 26-year old son, and to reassure North Korea’s closest ally a smooth leadership transition is under way, military, intelligence and diplomatic sources have told the Financial Times.

Flee The Wrath To Come! - PJ Miller
Dr. Lloyd-Jones went on to underscore the importance of this message when he said, “The condition of the modern world proves that what we must preach more than ever is “Escape from the wrath to come!”

Later in the interview, Lloyd-Jones was asked whether or not Christian influence could produce a Christian culture. To which the preacher replied,

“No. It will never come. All Scripture is against that. It’s impossible. In the present world situation-it has never been more critical-all civilization is rocking, and we are facing collapse, morally, politically, and in every other way. I would have thought that surely at this time our urgent message should be, ‘Flee from the wrath to come!”

House Passes Tax Increase In Form Of Environmental Bill - WSJ
This will seriously impact a lot of people's pocket books.(begin excerpt)

The hit to GDP is the real threat in this bill. The whole point of cap and trade is to hike the price of electricity and gas so that Americans will use less. These higher prices will show up not just in electricity bills or at the gas station but in every manufactured good, from food to cars. Consumers will cut back on spending, which in turn will cut back on production, which results in fewer jobs created or higher unemployment. Some companies will instead move their operations overseas, with the same result. - WSJ

Population Control For Dummies - Infowars
As was reported only last month by the London Times, a “secret billionaire club” meeting in early May which took place in New York and was attended by David Rockefeller, Ted Turner, Bill Gates and others was focused around “how their wealth could be used to slow the growth of the world’s population”.

We questioned establishment media spin which portrayed the attendees as kind-hearted and concerned philanthropists by pointing out that Ted Turner has publicly advocated shocking population reduction programs that would cull the human population by a staggering 95%. He has also called for a Communist-style one child policy to be mandated by governments in the west. In China, the one child policy is enforced by means of taxes on each subsequent child, allied to an intimidation program which includes secret police and “family planning” authorities kidnapping pregnant women from their homes and performing forced abortions.(end excerpt)

It is time for all of those who wish to survive (literally) to sit up and take notice. There are some pretty repropate people who really want to reduce the worlds population and believe me, they will find a way. Why? Because to the masses, American Idol is on TV and that is more important than certain bills that are now being debated.

* HR 2749 would give FDA the power to order a quarantine of a geographic area, including “prohibiting or restricting the movement of food or of any vehicle being used or that has been used to transport or hold such food within the geographic area.”

[This - "that has been used to transport or hold such food" - would mean all cars that have ever brought groceries home or any pickup someone has eaten take-out in, so this means ALL TRANSPORTATION can be shut down under this. This is using food as a cover for martial law.]

Under this provision, farmers markets and local food sources could be shut down, even if they are not the source of the contamination. The agency can halt all movement of all food in a geographic area.

[This is also a means of total control over the population under the cover of food, and at any time.] See this DailyKos entry.

The bill is unusual, too, because slow as it was to appear. The little bugger of bill has made up for it since. It got a number on June 10, went to committee on June 17, passed instantly, and is headed for a vote on the floor of the House.

The first Patriot Act was passed using fear of terrorism. This Patriot Act is more coy, hiding under a cloak of “food safety” and but also using fear – fear of food contamination. Evidently, Americans are supposed to be so frightened by the slightest possibility of a terrorist or of E-coli, they would trade away all their precious, hard fought freedoms for the promise of safety. Or at least, that is what the trade-off has become. “Terrorism” and “contamination” are great bugaboos used to open doors to an end to the US Constitution. That is exactly what we are left with after those who wrote HR 2749 are done. Who did write these bills? It seems Monsanto had not only a hand, but a “defining” influence. http://farmwars.info/?p=594 - From Farm WarsFarm Wars

Five More Banks Bite The Dust - Bloomberg
Five U.S. banks with total assets of about $1.04 billion were seized by regulators, pushing this year’s tally of failures to 45 as a recession drives up unemployment and home foreclosures.

Community Bank of West Georgia, in Villa Rica, Georgia; Neighborhood Community Bank of Newnan, Georgia; Horizon Bank of Pine City, Minnesota; MetroPacific Bank of Irvine, California; and Mirae Bank of Los Angeles were closed yesterday by state regulators, according to statements from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.

Embrace Deflation, Its The Cure, Not the Problem - Mish
Mish lays it out why deflation is not the enemy of a recovery, but its friend. However deflation is a foe to the bankers inflated balance sheets which is why we hear so much negative talk about it.

British Rum Maker Got 2.5 Billion In Tarp - Crooks And Liars
I'm getting so tired of these stories. I mean, what's the point? Americans are perfectly happy to stay home and watch TV while our elected officials rob us blind and we struggle along without needed health care:

June 26 (Bloomberg) -- In June 2008, U.S. Virgin Islands Governor John deJongh Jr. agreed to give London-based Diageo Plc billions of dollars in tax incentives to move its production of Captain Morgan rum from one U.S. island -- Puerto Rico -- to another, namely St. Croix.

DeJongh says he had no idea his deal would help make the world’s largest liquor distiller the most unlikely beneficiary of the emergency Troubled Asset Relief Program approved by Congress just four months later.(end excerpt)

China May Reject Hummer Acquisition - USAT
China's planning agency is likely to reject a Chinese company's bid to acquire General Motors' Hummer unit, in part because its gas-guzzling vehicles conflict with Beijing's conservation goals, state radio reported.

'Pastor' Prays For Obama's Death - Examiner
Now you know why American Christians are so badly looked upon in America and held in such derision as hate-mongers and hypocrites. Her leaders are not doing God's will, if they are even his at all. When I wrote my last Spiritual Warfare article, it was this kind of leader and 'religion' I was talking about. This kind of man is making a mockery of Christ and the Cross of Christ with such and evil prayer, publicly uttered. The scriptures command us to pray for our leaders, not pray against them.

American Christianity is a tragedy in the making and it is because her leaders are not in Christ's service, but in the service of a political party, their own bellies or in satan's very own service. This issue is pivotal today for all of Americans Christians.

Beware, false prophets in sheeps clothing who shall deceive many.

Saudi's Pull Assets Out Of Gulf - Gulf Base
Saudi Arabia is continuing to drain its foreign assets to fund record spending this year and prevent its economy from sliding into contraction although oil prices have exceeded its budget projections, official data showed yesterday.

The Kingdom, which controls nearly 25 per cent of the world's extractable oil deposits, withdrew about SR21 billion (Dh20.5bn) in May to bring the total funds withdrawn from its overseas assets to SR164.1bn, showed the figures by the Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency (Sama) – the central bank.

Fear Of Massacre Grips Christian Village - AINA
Fears of an impending massacre has gripped the Christian Copts in the village of Ezbet Boshra, El Fashn, which was scene to Muslim mob attacks on Copts on Sunday (AINA 6-22-2009).

Egyptian State Security has placed only Coptic villagers under curfew since the Muslim assaults on Sunday. According to correspondent Mary Bassit of Copts United, The terrified villagers fear that being confined to their homes, while Muslims are free, might encourage Muslim fanatics to massacre them, especially with the bias of the security forces.

Business Groups Ask China To Rethink Censorship - Tech Blorge
An interesting development for a number of reasons. But to get to the really interesting part you have to understand something. A great many PC's of your major manufactures are assembled/made in China. Truth be told, some brands are assembled side by side. Now think about this for a moment, if many of these PC's are being made in China, how long will it be for China to say, all PC's assembled in China must contain this software even those for export?

For years the US has used unknown technical means to ship shall we say 'interesting software' to other nations often without the receiving nations knowledge or permission. Now, I think China is about to turn the tables on the US. We should not forget the clout China has in other nations that produce PC's for the US and EU market. Korea, Taiwan... the Chinese probably figure they can brow beat tech firms to follow their rules as the costs associated with moving would be substantial. However some US firms who are fully in bed and in concurrence with the Global spying trend may make a lot of noise for publicity's sake, but in reality agree with China's policies. Let me say this again, this is not about porn.

The requirement by China makes it illegal for a computer manufacturer to ship a PC into China if it does not have the controversial “Green Dam Youth Escort” Internet filter installed, according to an AP story. Many American and Taiwanese companies, such as Dell, HP, and Acer, sell huge numbers of computers into the country. Chinese officials have said that the system is needed to block access to violent and obscene material. However, many analysts who have looked at the software note that it also contains code to filter out Web material that the government considers politically objectionable. - Tech Blorge

Uganda Could Be Total Desert In 40 Years - Daily Monitor
Uganda lost 30 per cent of its forest cover between 1990 and 2005, a new report reveals. The findings are contained in the State of the Environment Report for 2008, which also warns that if no immediate action is taken, Uganda could lose all its forest cover over the next 41 years.

The report, which was released yesterday by the National Environment Management Authority (Nema), largely attributes the decline in forest cover to human activities like agriculture, a fast growing population and rapid urbanisation. The report, titled “The State of Environment Report for Uganda 2008: Sustainable Environment for Prosperity”, says the country’s forest cover was at 5 million hectares in 1990 but reduced to 3.5 million hectares by 2005.

California: Canary In Immigration Coalmine - Borderfire
“Since the 1965 changes in our immigration laws, we have added huge numbers of immigrants and their children to our national population.... In 1970 California's population was 20 million. Today, that population is estimated at about 37 million. Of those, the Center for Immigration Studies estimates about 10 million are legal (7 million) and illegal (3 million) immigrants. Over 8 million Californians were born outside the USA.”

Just on the sheer numbers alone, it is not hard to see why California is now bankrupt.(end excerpt)

Yes, it is the canary in the coalmine and it is now politically incorrect to point out the obvious. California cannot afford to pay all of that money to all of these illegal immigrants many of whom do not pay any taxes and seriously drain the states social and other services. Sadly, the Governor is a major part of the problem and will not acknowledge this serious problem. Thus it will not be solved. I told my readers that California stands a good chance of declaring bankruptcy before long. Barring a recall election, that is what I think will happen. California's problems cannot be solved with the Governors and the Assembly's heads buried in the sand and that is what each is trying to do today. Either recall the Governor and Assembly or watch your state sink into poverty.

More Cheerleading From Bernanke And The Fed - Bloomberg
Bernakne says the recession is easing. You know, the recession he promised was not coming some months ago. Now he has new promises and even some advice for those dumb enough to take it. He says 'relax'. Just get kicked out of your house? Relax. Lost your job? Relax. Hungry? Relax. Took a bath in bonds? Relax. Bernanke has it all under control. He has his banker buddies are still raking in the dough. They created the greatest crisis since the depression and now are set to get record paydays. The Fed's ability greatly exaggerated. The Federal Reserve has made some critical errors in Judgment that ensure that a recovery is impossible, a continued lack of faith in American finance and a real (but not perceived) flight from American investment vehicles (including her treasuries). Do you think I am off? Well, let me tell you something that you don't know. When The Italians were approached about Buying the remains of GM, our Italian friends were presented with a new tariff schedule for certain goods they export to the US. These included things like a 400% mark up for Italian wines, if they did not accept. In short, the Italians had to be bribed to take GM. We made them an offer they couldn't refuse. They didn't want it. Now you know why there was never any doubt about the Supreme Court ruling against decades of established law with regard to secured creditors. This was in because in short, the fix was in.

Part of the main problem is the love affair the Fed has with the large too big to fail/too big to bail financial institutions on Wall Street. The Fed should have let these institutions fail and dealt with the systemic risk by creating or reinforcing existing stopgaps for small investors pension funds and the likes. The real problem with the US financial system are these institutions, they are not the solution. Any lingering problems we will have in the coming months and years (and they will be most significant) will be as a result of these institutions recidivism into lax risk assessments and shell game accounting tricks, re-instituted by Obama's Wall Street centric economic team. It is moving away from mark to market, now it is back to the 'mark to make believe' and other accounting skullduggery that helped bring this crisis in. Many major banks are still at risk of failure, despite all the talk of pulling us away from the brink.

Meanwhile, based on fourth quarter Fed data, we find that, among the nation’s megabanks, six are at risk of failure in our opinion (seven if you count Wachovia and Wells Fargo as separate institutions).

- From Money And Markets

Army Bans Stars And Strips Reporter From Iraq - Army Times
Journalist was reporting to much bad news. The Army did not like it.

Backgrounder On Iran's Elections - CRS
One of the great Congressional Research Service papers on the subject. I haven't read it yet, but will today.

Dell, HP & Acer Join Censorship Bandwagon - Yahoo!
Days before a deadline abruptly imposed by China, computer makers are scrambling to comply with an order to supply Web-filtering software with PCs and worrying what it might do to their reputations.

Dell Inc., Hewlett-Packard Inc. and Taiwan's Acer Inc. — the top three global producers — are asking regulators for details of the order that takes effect July 1 to provide the "Green Dam Youth Escort" software with every laptop and desktop PC sold in China.(end excerpt)

Are you surprised? I am not, China is in the drivers seat now the big 'sold their souls for profit' corporations will fall all over themselves to submit. My next PC will be built at a local PC store or I will assemble the parts myself. I have kept my old legacy XP machines and find they are adequate for my needs (I don't do any gaming). My new ones, well I use them from time to time but I am not wild about a lot of the new drivers and other hidden bloatware that comes on these new systems. While I have been able to disable a lot of Vista's spyware features (like those hidden packets that go out every few minutes from a Vista PC to some very interesting places) and its ability to locate you when you are logged on. Its other features are too processor/hard-drive draining and offsets much the processing gain you get from the newer hardware. I have heard a *rumor* that MS is playing serious hardball with major manufacturers to do some things that well, lets just say no one but MS and those whom they are in bed with and who sit on other internet spying companies will benefit from.

The vice is closing in on secure computing and privacy, and not all that slowly anymore. Enjoy the net while it is there, because unless people wake up, its going away and going fast.

Did you know that in Burma, even connecting to the net is considered an act of subversion? Well, now you have something new to think about.

Gay's Defame Black Churches For Exercising Freedom - Miami Herald
"Where is the tolerance for a church who tried to help a young man who freely asked for help to overcome homosexual temptations?" asked Dr. Gary Cass of the Christian Anti-Defamation Commission. "No church deserves to be maligned for trying to help a troubled teen who asked for prayer."

Manifested Glory Church, a non-denominational black church in Bridgeport, CT, has been under fire ever since a video appeared on the internet of the exorcism of a 16 year old young man who came to the church asking for help. The church holds to the historic, biblical view that homosexual behavior is unnatural and sinful.

"White homosexual activists who demand tolerance for their sexual sin have no right to defame black Christians for practicing their Constitutional religious liberty," said Cass. "As far as we know, this young man went to church on his own prerogative and left the church physically unharmed."(end excerpt)

Any true Christ follower can see the spirit behind the gay movement is antichrist in nature.

SCOTUS: OK To Dump Your Poisons In The Lake - Earth Justice
The Supreme Court ruled Monday that the Clean Water Act does not prevent the Army Corps of Engineers from allowing mining waste to be dumped into rivers, streams and other waters.

Something urgent, most urgent needs to be done about this court. They will only put more innocent people in jail, destroy our environment, allow people to be kept forever in jail, on torture ships and will do nothing to stop any of it, but will help it all along.

There are several things that can be done. The easiest would be to start impeaching some of the justices who are known to have criminal ties and have sat on cases where they had direct interest in the outcome. I am not wild about this option because their replacements would be just as bad as the ones we have now, after the broken process we have not ran its course.

The other option is to amend the Constitution. No, I am not in favor of any constitutional convention, which is what many of the neo-facists want. I would favor just one amendment, removing all of the current justices and bringing in a new way to appoint and remove justices. I would suggest that in order to preserve the balance between the rights of the States and the Federal Government that there be 15 justices, 7 to be appointed by the the State Governments and 7 to be appointed by the Senate, the 15th can be appointed by the President without review and can be removed at any time for any reason during the tenure of the sitting President by the President. However, the 15th Justice cannot vote in cases except when the court is deadlocked.

Justices would serve 10 years and then would have to be reappointed. Any and all cases and views held should be open for debate during confirmation but those views and cases must reflect the ideals of the Constitution as well as a respect for the general welfare of the nation. Aggregious legal opinions and votes by a judge while on the court that do harm to the Constitution and the Republic should be reviewed by the 15th member who can and is able to submit an offending Judge for extraordinary review. In which case the judge would have to the reviewed by the entity that appointed them. This should still give the courts enough independence but also with some adult supervision that is lacking today. I understand the need for judicial independence, but today independence is replaced with not only with arrogance, but a deep and demonstrated contempt for the 'plain meaning of the words' constitution, and more specifically the bill of rights (there are a couple of Justices that this cannot be said about however)

I say this now because the only thing more dangerous to our republic and freedoms than Wall Street and international terrorism is the Supreme Court of the United States. Each seems intent on destroying our republic for their own twisted ends.

Christianity Growing In Nepal, Despite Persecution - CFI
In a nation that was once called the world’s only “Hindu Kingdom,” Christianity has been growing at a remarkable rate. Nepal’s Christian population is estimated to be over 800,000, with approximately 170 churches in Kathmandu, the nation’s capital.

But Christians are still a minority in this isolated region of the world, and persecution is a grave reality for anyone of the Christian faith.

Russia Treads Careful Line On Iran - Moscow News
Russia has trodden carefully with Iran since the country's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei last Friday lashed out at foreign critics and especially at the British government, which he called Iran's "worst enemy". Two UK diplomats were dismissed from the country after Khamenei accused Britain of meddling with Iran's internal affairs.

Unlike Britain, Russia's diplomatic step back and refusal to criticize Iran is symptomatic of its stance toward other countries reprimanded by the international community for human rights violations.

Obama Sells Two More Amassadorships - Open Secrets/CRP
Capital Eye has been covering President Obama's frequent announcements of new ambassadors for several weeks and regularly pointing out which of them have strong financial ties to the president and other politicians. Late Friday night, Obama again announced several new choices, including two individuals who both contributed the maximum amount to his presidential bid and have also bundled hundreds of thousands of dollars for his committees: Kentucky Internet media executive Matthew Barzun for ambassador to Sweden and Minnesota lawyer Samuel L. Kaplan for ambassador to Morocco.

Obama's ambassador nominees to date and their spouses and dependent children, have contributed $2.4 million since 1989, including at least $117,100 to Obama and $38,500 to former Sen. Hillary Clinton (who now heads the State Department). These 21 individuals have also bundled at least $4 million for Obama's 2008 presidential run and another $1.6 million for his inauguration. (Note: You can also download an Excel spreadsheet of the political contributions associated with the ambassadors here: Obama_ambassador_Data_090622.xls. If you do use this data, please be sure to credit CRP.)

Too Arrogant To Admit It - WW
Having been duped by the two party system for decades, few Americans have the intelligence, humility and courage to admit they have made what will almost certainly turn out to be a fatal error. They are, by and large, too filled with arrogance, lust and dope to ever see their error. While George Bush and his administration bankrupted America with its wars... wars that many inside his own administration knew we could not win, Americans went to the polls and put him and his cohorts back into office. They said they wanted change in 2006 when they gave the democrats a new mandate in the House and Senate. The democrats bowed and scraped before Bush and did none of the things they said they were going to do. Along comes a new face with a voice that said change. We got almost none, The wars continue, the corpses pile up and most Americans are not even aware, or frankly even care at the number of people dead because of the way they voted in 2008. To them, ten thousand deaths of innocent people is a small price to pay for having a Black face in the White House or for a chance at health care, or for a new set of government contracts that were denied them under the GOP under the guise of a 'stimulus package'. The spirit that moves the American people is murder and greed. Think Abortion, always a hot button issue. It is about the murder of tens of millions of babies. No one cares and no one wants to care. America is a nation of depraved reprobates, with a veneer of smiley respectability. Think about the million people we murdered in Iraq. Think about the millions being made homeless and thousands dead in Pakistan, in just the few months since Obama became President. Time has run out and now it is time for America to pay the piper.

21st Century America, that is 98% of her voting population is synonymous with the word MURDER. We are a generation of mass murderers who call themselves good. Satan resides and possess the minds and hearts of most Americans and they do not know it and most will never know it. But serious, very serious trouble is on the Horizon. One of the few things I can credit to the good with this President is that he has not minced words on this economic crisis. He has told us all in a nationally televised interview that America is broke. Listen folks WE ARE OUT OF MONEY NOW, not six months from now. Our borrowings and printings are the only things keeping the government open, and the world is having none of it anymore. That is why I have been posting stories on the meetings of the SCO and BRIC nations, they are the ones who buy our debt and they are very concerned about the value of the holdings they already have, let alone buying any more.

Obama to his credit is not going to get trapped by telling people things are on the mend when he knows they are not. The worst part of this crisis has not hit yet, I am telling folks, we have not seen anything yet. Now Let me share something with you that I did not share with you before but that has now broken on the net, so now I can. This is something my sources intimated to me a couple of months ago.

Bob Chapman’s influential International Forecaster is reporting on the possibility of a so-called “bank holiday” planned for late August or early September. According to Chapman’s sources, U.S. embassies around the world are selling dollars and stockpiling money from respective countries where they operate.

FDR imposed a "bank holiday" soon after taking office. It resulted in the government stealing gold from the American people and giving them useless fiat paper money in return.

“Some US embassies worldwide are being advised to purchase massive amounts of local currencies,” writes Harry Schultz, “enough to last them a year.” Schultz publishes the Harry Schultz Letter, an international investment, financial, economic, and geopolitical newsletter named as “Newsletter of the Year” by Peter Brimelow of Market Watch in 2005 and 2008.

Schultz believes the global elite are in the process of engineering an FDR-style “bank holiday” of undetermined length in order to “sort-out the bank mess” and impose new bank rules. - Alex Jones

Federal Judge Impeached - Courthouse News
A federal judge from Texas will be forced to leave the bench after the House unanimously approved four impeachment articles. Samuel B. Kent, a former judge for the Southern District of Texas, is serving a 33-month prison term for trying to cover up sexual assaults on two female employees.

It would not be hard at all of the Justice department to find all the evidence it needs against some of the members of the Supreme Court whose ties to unindicted and indicted criminals is pretty clear. That is one way SCOTUS can be cleaned up. This is something Obama could do, but won't.

SC Governor Office Tells Lies On Whereabouts - MSNBC
"Lies. Lies. Lies. That's all we get from his staff. That's all we get from his people. That's all we get from him," said state Sen. Jake Knotts, R-West Columbia. "Why all the big cover-up?"(End Excerpt)

Good question. I wish I knew the answers, I don't. But I think that sooner rather than later, all 50 governors are going to be getting highly classified and sensitive briefings on how the Feds plan on dealing with America's bankruptcy. Just like this episode, no cell phones will be allowed and black unmarked SUV will take them where the beast wants them to go.

Three Rogue Waves - Leap2020
In the United States and United Kingdom in particular, the colossal public financial effort made in 2008 and at the beginning of 2009 for the sole benefit of large banks became so unpopular that it was impossible to consider injecting more public money into banks in spring 2009, despite the fact that they were still insolvent (11). It then became necessary to invent a “fairy tale” to convince the average saver to inject his/her own money into the financial system. By means of the « green shoots » story, overpriced stock indices based on no real economic grounds and promises of « anticipated public funding repayment », the conditioning was achieved. Hence, while big investors from oil-producing and Asian countries (12) withdrew capital from these banks, large numbers of small individual investors returned, full of hope. Once these small investors discover that public funding repayment is only a drop in the ocean of public aid granted to these banks (to help them dispose of their toxic assets) and that, after three or four months at best (as analyzed in this GEAB N°36), these banks are again on the verge of collapse, they will realize, powerless, that their share is worth nothing once again.br>

Nixon The Racist - Raw Story
A White House audio recording released on Tuesday shows that former President Richard M. Nixon -- arguably the least popular Republican president in U.S. history and the only one to resign due to ongoing criminal scandals -- was a supporter of legal abortion in certain circumstances ... Like rape. Or, interracial babies.

'Tunnel Rats' Patrol Border Storm Drains
Lately, the Tunnel Rats have been busy.

In the past nine months, they have discovered 16 new tunnels dug by smugglers in Nogales to move drugs, migrants, cash and weapons between Mexico and the United States. The number of tunnels sets a new record. A Border Patrol official calls the burst of subterranean activity "startling."

Situation Dire For Pakistan's Refugee's - Antiwar
UN humanitarian envoy Abdul Aziz Arrukban warned today that the millions of Pakistanis displaced during the military’s offensive against the Swat Valley would “die slowly” unless the international community started taking notice of the “unprecedented” scope of the crisis.

The enormous humanitarian crisis appears to have caught everyone by surprised, developing extremely rapidly in the face of the military’s attacks on heavily populated areas. The valley went from a somewhat restive region to an absolute warzone in a matter of days: a million civilians were displaced in the first week of fighting, within another two weeks, over 95% of the valley’s 3 million plus residents had been forced out.(end excerpt)

Government May Have More Trouble Selling Debt - Bloomberg
Two-year Treasuries declined for the first time in three days before the government sells $40 billion of the securities, adding to concern record supply this year will overwhelm demand as the economy recovers.

The losses pushed the yield up from near the lowest level in more than two weeks before a report economists say will show sales of existing homes rose for a second month in May and as Federal Reserve policy makers start a two-day policy meeting. Gains yesterday pushed the 10-year yield down by the most this month after the World Bank said the global recession will be deeper than previously forecast. The Treasury is scheduled to auction a record $104 billion of notes this week. (end excerpt)

The auction of these treasuries is how the US funds its government. It is not primarily through taxes anymore. The US is flooding the debt markets with an avalanche of paper that the markets are having great trouble absorbing. Which one main reason why (despite the reasons the Fed gives) that the Fed must step in and buy our own paper. And as I said before, I strongly suspect that that several foreign front companies have been created to buy this paper to make it appear it is coming from legitimate investors but really is being bought by the US government.

Some say inflation is not going to result, citing the frugal consumer. I am not buying that argument because as long as the majority of goods the US consumes is imported and the dollar is weakened by these massive auctions, inflation will come and is as certain as tomorrow's sunrise. We already are seeing it in our gasoline prices. Now, you could possibly make an argument that if we stopped now, inflation could be controlled. The problem is we have to float $100 Billion in debt paper every month for the foreseeable future.

Don't let a paper written by Bernanke & Co. at the Fed and passed off as an 'independent' news piece fool you. They want to keep the price of commodities down and prevent a flight to real safety in Gold and Silver and need to get investors to believe inflation is not in the cards.

You cannot print up trillions of dollars and not expect inflation to hit any more than you can fill up a one gallon jug of water with ten gallons and not expect a great deal of overflow.

Don't let these guys baffle you with baloney, it isn't possible.

Zoning Out The Church - WND
The recent situation in San Diego in which the city attempted to use zoning regulations to shut down a home Bible study as well as the Texas Supreme Court case involving a ministry for prison parolees started by a Corpus Christi church are snapshots of a problem long overlooked in the battle for property rights and religious liberty.

The effort by a city of San Diego "code enforcement officer" to force Pastor David Jones to acquire a very costly usage permit for conducting the Bible study is reflective of a frequent abuse of regulatory authority by low-level bureaucrats over both religious exercise and church property. The city has backed off and apologized to Pastor Jones, claiming the officer "incorrectly made the finding based in no small measure on unclear language."(end excerpt)

Many examples of persecution in many cities to keep destroy the Church and Christianity in America are in the linked article. This is no coincidence and look for more of this in the future. Satan's ministers want to move America towards Sodom and invite the spirits of Gomorrah, where greed, lust, torture, murder and theft all reign supreme.

Other examples are cities that are either overtly or covertly restricting where churches can build worship facilities in commercially zoned areas for the simple reason that they see it as a "drain" on sales tax revenues collected. - WND

Obama's Pentagon Plans Hybrid Warfare - Common Dreams
In officially embracing hybrid warfare, the Pentagon would be replacing a second pillar of long-term planning. Senior officials disclosed in March that the review was likely to reject a historic premise of American strategy - that the nation need only to prepare to fight two major wars at a time.

Driving both sets of developments are lessons learned from the past six years, when the United States has been fighting two wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, yet is stretched to be ready for potentially significant operations elsewhere, Pentagon officials say, such as against Iran, North Korea or even China and Russia. Conflicts with any of those countries would also be expected to present a hybrid range of challenges.

But powerful constituencies in the military and in Congress continue to argue that the next war will not look like Iraq or Afghanistan, and they say the military is focusing too much on counter-insurgency and losing its ability to defeat a traditional nation-state.

Obama's' Running Scared - Helen Thomas
Obama clearly has no stomach for the political battle that any single-payer plan would ignite. So he's endorsed a step that would allow the government to provide health insurance coverage -- not health care -- to eligible people. Such government-sponsored health insurance is being considered in Congress as it writes health care reform legislation.

While the public plan option gets full consideration in Congress, the single-payer model has been unwelcome at the White House or on Capitol Hill.

Obama said part of the fierce opposition to health care reform has been fueled "by some interest groups and lobbyists -- opposition that has used fear tactics to paint any effort to achieve reform as an attempt to, yes, socialize medicine."

He made it clear that his idea of health care reform would allow patients to choose their own doctors and keep their own health plans.

Somehow government bailouts have been more palatable for Wall Street plutocrats who happen to be needy.(end excerpt)

Any health care plan Obama comes up with will not be in the interest of ordinary Americans but rather, in the interest of the insurance Companies and drug companies who paid for his campaign. I am not in favor of socialized medicine, but I am less in favor of tens of millions of American who have no health care plan because its cost is out of their reach and sends thousands into literal bankruptcy every year. Every one is giving Obama high marks for trying to do something. Well, I can't because what he is doing is simply pandering to the big corporations. They see a way to make more money on the Governments dime. Ordinary Americans are not allowed into the negotiations going on nor can they be privy to the horse trading going on, only the 'stake holders'; the big Pharma-Insurance conglomerates, Obama's key constituents.

The real solutions that would bring down costs are off the table, anything that really shifts the emphasis in American medicine from profits to the sick is off the table. Obama's health care plan is a corporate plan, not a people plan.

Obama/Beltway Bribe Matrix

Courtesy OpenSecrets.org

SCOTUS Backs Cheney - TO
"This case is not just about what top government officials did to Valerie and me," Wilson said following Bates's ruling. "We brought this suit because we strongly believe that politicizing intelligence ultimately serves only to undermine the security of our nation. Today's decision is just the first step in what we have always known would be a long legal battle and we are committed to seeing this case through."

The Wilsons petitioned the Supreme Court after the Republican-dominated US Court of Appeals for DC Circuit, in a 2 to 1 vote last August, turned down their request for a rehearing. The panel said there was no constitutional precedent established to allow the case to move forward and the court declined to set one.

A federal investigation led by special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald later found that numerous White House officials - including Cheney and Libby - had retaliated against and sought to discredit Ambassador Wilson for publicly claiming that the administration had manipulated prewar Iraq intelligence.(end excerpt)

The Neocons and the Neocons on this court seem to have a deep seated contempt for our nation and its traditions and even the rule of law. What this shows is why our nation is so messed up now, because I think if you check deep enough, you will find some ties financial ties between certain members of the conservative wing of the court and Mr. Cheney. Sclaia should have recused himself as he and the Vice President are close friends.

Vice President Dick Cheney and Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia spent part of last week duck hunting together at a private camp in southern Louisiana, just three weeks after the court agreed to take up the vice president's appeal in lawsuits over his handling of the administration's energy task force, the Los Angeles Times says in its Saturday editions.

While Scalia and Cheney are avid hunters and longtime friends, several experts in legal ethics questioned the timing of their trip and said it raised doubts about Scalia's ability to judge the case impartially, the newspaper pointed out. - CBS

Now I am going to link this story to the situation in Iran and a few other places around the world. Today as a result of the NeoCon destruction of our intelligence capabilities and the way they railroaded certain key and highly capable field personnel, we have almost no capability in Iran and other places in our troubled world. The good people who could have got inside and given the young people of Iran some hope and a real shot at removing the Klepto-Islammic regime or at least getting sound information about what is going on are gone. Why? Some left because of the Plame case. Look at it like this. You are an undercover person in a foreign capital doing a long term operation, you depend on your government not to divulge what you are doing and who you really are. If they do, you will almost certainly be killed. In fact to reveal such info, is a very serious crime. If a person knowing betrays the identity of a Clandestine officer of the CIA, that person could be up for treason. That in essence is what the Office of the Vice President engaged in when he revealed the Plame's name, treason. He can get a away with it because Roberts owes his seat to Cheney and Scalia and he are best buddies, Thomas will always follow the other NeoCons and shuffle his feet to the right.

Why do we have to depend on the Chinese to deal with North Korea and her wacked-out leader? I will tell you. Bush-Cheney gutted our intelligence capability and replaced it with bloated 'contracts for services never rendered' system of corruption and payola. I know what I am talking about, believe me as I know some of these people. In short, the Neocons claim to be all for security but are really consciously (key word here) destroying American Intelligence capabilities for a very large profit, they are setting up America by enraging her enemies as well as others who never meant us any harm with acts of barbarity, cruelty and criminality that guarantee more contacts for themselves and a ever decreasing security position for America and Americans abroad. Why?

Profit. They have their homes, villas and mansions in France, Aruba, Peru, Mallorca. They couldn't care less if America sinks, unless of course sinking it can be profitable to themselves in which case they are happy to help it along.

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101 Pages of Barakacracy - ML Implode
An interesting take on Obama's regulations from a person whose views I respect. His site is focused more on the Housing side of the economic mess and should be taken in that light.

I however disagree that insofar as the author seems to think a regulatory overhaul was not needed. I think it was. The question is will these changes make things better or make matters worse. I have had a spitting headache the past few days and simply cannot concentrate trying to read through it, but I will muddle through and will comment further at that time. Sorry...

In Their Shoes: US Contractors In Iraq - ProPublica
A war-zone workers provides a behind-the-scenes look into a kitchen on a U.S. military base in northern Iraq.

Because they will not pay good wages or provide living conditions that most in the west would want, they go to the place other slave labor providers go for labor. The US makes promises to workers and then refuses to keep them.

The war in Iraq has not only witnessed hordes of Indian ex-soldiers looking for non-combat employment opportunities, but has also engendered a rush of workers looking to perform back-end menial jobs for coalition troops stationed in Iraq and Kuwait. Various travel agencies across India have recruited hundreds, perhaps thousands, of military support staff - chefs, kitchen assistants, service assistants, camp supervisors, mess supervisors, accountants, financial supervisors and bus drivers.

Because of the risk as well as the demand for such personnel, the salary packages offered are considerably better, US$1,000-$2,000 a month, than what such professions would offer in India. The assignments are for periods ranging from six months to two years. In addition to the emoluments, the candidates are offered free flight tickets, food and accommodation...

...The four were promised $1,000 per month to work in Kuwait, but ended up in a US military camp living in horrible conditions. They claim they were made to work non-stop for 18 hours, beaten up when they complained and paid only $200 a month instead of the promised amount. Faisal says he counted at least 30 other Indians in the camp living under similar conditions. He and his friends managed to escape by bribing an Iraqi truck driver, as well as getting some help from local citizens who are friendly to Indians. - Asia Times

Trader Joe's Rejects Calls To Obey Neo-Antisemitism - WW
Monrovia, CA - Anti-Israel groups under the umbrella of the "U.S. Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel" recently sent form letters to Retail chain store Trader Joe's headquarters demanding the company stop carrying Israeli products as these products "help fund an economy based on illegal occupation and apartheid."

Traders Joe's has more than 300 stores in the U.S. with locations in NY, CT, MD, and NJ.

The Anti-Defamation League Central Pacific office sent a letter to Trader Joe's and received a response from Jon Basalone, Trader Joe's Senior Vice President of Marketing. He wrote, "We have received a few letters [threatening a boycott] like this via our customer relations email. Our response is that we sell products, and do not use our products as political tools or to make any statements about any political causes. We have no intention of removing any products based on pressure from any group, no matter what they support or don't support. As always, we believe our customers are smart, and they are capable of making decisions about what they purchase."(End Excerpt)

It is sad to see activism go so badly astray. Those on the political left simply do not want to understand the real crux of the matter in Israel and have jumped on a popular bandwagon not even knowing what is really happening there. They jump on the 'bandwagon' of ignorance because all of their friends are on in it.

Let those who like to jump on the Palestinian bandwagon think about some things before they do.

The PLO is an Islamic terrorist organization. It trained most terrorists around the world: Idi Amin's murder gangs who killed about 300,000 black Christians in Uganda; the Italian Red Brigades; German BaaderMeinhof gang; the Iranian Revolutionary Guards; terrorists in Latin America, etc. Arafat committed his first murder at age 20. Under him the PLO became the most vicious and bloodiest terrorist organization ever known. It holds records for the biggest hijacking (4 aircraft at once), the largest number of hostages (300 at one time), the largest ransom extorted (B million from Lufthansa) and the greatest number and variety of targets (40 civilian aircraft, five passenger ships, 30 embassies or diplomatic missions, and massacres of school children), etc. The Palestinian Prize for Culture was recently awarded to Abu Daoud for his book telling how he planned and murdered eleven Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics!

The PLO's terrorism against Jordanian civilians was so vicious that King Hussein chased them into Lebanon. There the PLO wiped out the Christian towns of Damur, Beit Mallat, Tall Abbas and others. Its reign of terror went largely unreported. The international press was cowed into silence by the brutal murder of those who dared to tell the truth: Larry Buchman and Sean Toolan of ABC-TV, Mark Tryon of "Free Belgium Radio," Robert Pfeffer of Der Spiegel and others. About 300,000 Lebanese civilians were murdered in the PLO's rape of that country before the Israelis expelled them. Yet Israel was painted the villain! - Dave Dolan

Want A Job? Hand Over Your E-mail Passwords - CBS
Is it any wonder smart people with real skills and any brains are leaving this nation? If a person is that desperate to get a job and dumb enough to hand over such information, he is not a person I would want working for me. He just demonstrated a critical lack of judgment. He or she will do the company or entity he is working for absolutely no good in the long run. Why not just hand over your ATM card and pin number and be done with it?!

Let's see... you hand over all this personal info to a person you don't know for a job you probably won't get. What is to stop them from raiding your accounts? Don't most of us have the occasional password sent to our e-mail addresses. A few minutes and a person can have all kinds of passwords from you. start loading up illegal stuff and who will get the blame? YOU WILL! Read the terms of service for most of these online services. YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE for all activity for your account. Did somebody buy a new computer using your Gagoo account? Tuff... pay up. RIAA suing you for making that new U2 album available to millions for free right after you handed over your password? Too bad.

This kind of scam would be a criminals delight. Advertise a job (that does not exist) and make people give up all kinds of personal info to get this non-existant job.

The stupidity of my countrymen never ceases to amaze me.

Well, American dumbness aside, the Future is going to be in the so-called BRIC nations. The west will descend into a morass of foolish rules, regulations, invasivness corruption, violence and idiocy all reinforced to 'protect' us from ourselves.

The Approach Of The New Persian Empire - Sublime Oblivion
Most will not agree with the thrust of this article but it is a very interesting read and may challenge some preconceptions of most American readers.

I do agree with one key point the article makes, there will be no substantive change in Iran, no matter how much the US may want it and interfere to make it happen. It will not matter much which of the two gets in. Like Bush and Obama any difference is mostly cosmetic. I think for students of Bible Prophecy we need to keep in mind that Iran and Islam will go hand and hand and probably become more fanatically Islamic, more cohesive and more dangerous as the days pass.

This does not mean that the US and Iran will remain foes. To the contrary, I see the US and Iran becoming more and more friendly as the years pass. Perhaps to the point that it will see Iran as the key to regional stability. Should the US and Saudi Arabia ever fall out, that would seem to be America's natural tendency. Let us not forget that Iran and America had great ties for years before the Revolution of 1979.

Time will tell. What will happen in Iran? No one can say for sure and I have not kept up to date with events as much as I probably should. There frankly has not been a lot of hard analysis done by the better think tanks and writers on the net There has been a lot of hot air, sound, fury and opinion but little useful information. Probably the most interesting development was the arrest and the release of Rasfanjani's daughter. Showing that perhaps (if it wasn't staged) that there are serious fissures in Iran's ruling elite. Now the revolutionary Guard is reportedly threatening protestors. The Guard is run by Momammad Ali Jafari, who was appointed in 2007 by Ayatollah Khamemei, the supreme leader of Iran and known as a symbol of Iran conservative establishment.

Yet it is this establishment that has had numerous economic failures to deal with, which are a source of so much of the discontent we are seeing now. Rising food prices and a a large portion of Youth who have no jobs or any real economic prospects. The Youth want a more moderate government. The old guard are afraid of this because Western influence means the end of the Revolution.The old guard is going to prevent that at all costs.

Thus it appears to this author (who admittedly has not really looked at recent events with great studiousness), that the old guard means business and will rally around the conservative elements for the time being. They may not have full confidence In the Local police forces and this called in the Revolutionary Guard.

In his 1988 last will and testament, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini called on the military forces "to follow the regulation of non-interference of the military in the affairs of political parties" and "keep themselves away from political games." In the years since, the opposite has occurred. Once a theocratic state, the Islamic Republic has evolved into a "garrison state," to use an American political science term, in which the military dominates political, economic, and cultural life, and preserves the regime from domestic rather than external opponents. The Iranian constitution forbids the supreme leader from being fully autocratic, but Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has used his position as commander-in-chief of the armed forces, especially his tight control over the Revolutionary Guards, to expand his power.

Khamenei has appointed many former Revolutionary Guards commanders to top political positions, blurring the line between military and civil authority. Former IRGC senior officers hold significant positions throughout the Iranian government: the president, Mahmoud Ahmadinezhad; the secretary of the Supreme Council of National Security, Ali Larijani; the head of state television and radio services, Ezzatolah Zarghami; the secretary of the Expediency Council (charged with interpreting policy when the president and Majlis disagree), Mohsen Rezai; and the head of the powerful Mostazafan Foundation, Mohammad Farouzandeh; as well as several cabinet ministers and many members of parliament (Majlis). - Policy Watch

The Death Of The Internet - WW
I had one glaring question for one of my best sources of information a week or so ago. "How much longer before they shut guys like me down on the net?" To which came an interesting reply. "That is not the question you need to worry about, the real question is, when are they going to take the internet down. As in 'all the way down'. That is the real question. They have everything in place to do just that, believe me. They have all of the net's critical nodes fixed up so that they can flick a switch and that, as they say, is all she wrote."

I need not tell my more intelligent readers that our establishment and particularly the more reprobate elements in our National Security Establishment view the internet as a primary threat. This is why there is so much money and time being spent on information warfare. You would be surprised at the number of popular sites that bill themselves as being anti-NWO or antiwar are really run by the DOD or the CIA (did I say POPULAR?... oops... I mean extremely popular). More than you know and folks have no idea that they are being had and 'corralled' in an informational sense. It is kind of like having a key leader in a social movement actually working for the other side. They only show their true colors at very critical moments and then most carefully so as not to alert others.

But the death knell of the net may be sooner rather than later. Clearly a decision has been reached in secret by interested parties to try censorship first, if that does not work more drastic measures will be taken. Remember I talked about Xerobank last week? Just because you can't find anything on the net about it does not mean it isn't so. If you can't find anything about it, that should be a cue that I am on the right track. Remember those internet cables being cut 'accidently' in the middle east last year, several of them on different days? Consider that of sign of things to come. Folks let me make this clear. Laws in the minds of the American eleite are viewed with contempt and impunity. None of them ever go to jail no matter how man times they break the law. So the legal ramifications can be talked about and debated from now till doomsday...

...on pen and paper.

If you think I am off about governments trying to censor the net...

Google Ordered To Censor Net In China

In a move that could disrupt Google’s growth in China, which now has more internet users than the US, the Chinese government said it had told Google to suspend foreign searches and a feature that automatically suggests multiple search results once typing commences in the search window.

The action comes amid a storm of outrage among Chinese internet users over Beijing’s order that every new PC sold in the country be equipped with censorship software, ostensibly to block pornography. -FT

Germany is on the verge of censoring its Internet

The government – a grand coalition between the German social democrats and conservative party – seems united in its decision: On Thursday the parliament is to vote on the erection of an internet censorship architecture. - Global Voices

Canadian Bill Forces ISP's to Install Wiretapping

According to a new bill introduced in Canada, Internet service providers will have to dig deep into their own pockets in order to acquire, install and maintain "intercept-capable" equipment. The bill also makes it very clear that subscriber information must be released to law enforcement in a timely manner, without the need of warrants.- Softpedia

Nokia And Siemens Behind Iran's Censorship The Iranian regime has developed, with the assistance of European telecommunications companies, one of the world's most sophisticated mechanisms for controlling and censoring the Internet, allowing it to examine the content of individual online communications on a massive scale.

Interviews with technology experts in Iran and outside the country say Iranian efforts at monitoring Internet information go well beyond blocking access to Web sites or severing Internet connections. -WSJ

Furious that struggling families are supplementing their income by having housewives write blogs about cooking, or individuals posting political opinions and funding their operation by carrying affiliate links to Amazon books, the new FTC regulations would ensure that “Any type of blog could be scrutinized, not just ones that specialize in reviews,” according to the report. The proviso that “any type of blog could be scrutinized” frames this assault on free speech in a wider context that just individuals making claims about products advertised on their websites. - Prison Planet

Folks if you think this is about pornography well... I got some subprime mortgage backed securities I wanna sell you as well as a bridge in Brooklyn. Mao and Hitler would be most proud to see their decedents on the far-right path.

Somewhere recently the decision had been made. The Internet must be destroyed. Bet on it happening, sooner rather than later. The Internet is far too popular and is far too informative and is a threat to the Global slave trade, drug trade, money laundering trade, mass murder trade and more importantly, to the political systems and people which are bought and paid for by the same. People are finding out about this system and that worries them.... very, very much.

Informed people make informed decisions. An ignoramus is tossed to and fro like a mentally challenged child (this is no slam against those with medically diagnosed problems, but against those that don't, but act like it). Real information is very hard to come by, even on the net and the criminal enterprises who run our world are seeing their revenue drop off from Cable and TV to Print newspapers. Fewer and fewer people are listening to the lies that spew from the mainstream press. They are turning to the net. BeastGov has no alternative; censor the net or get rid of it all together. One or the other is going to be the reality. Unless people begin to take action, which they won't except perhaps in Europe. You cannot continue to rob a well informed populace. In order to continue to rob trillions of dollars from central banks and enslave millions, the people must be fed lies... a regular diet of carefully contrived lies to hide their crimes.

Folks the same things are happening here, do not kid yourself. Did you buy your network router at the local Electronics chain store? NSA has a trap door in it. Cell phone? Many of our newer ones cannot be shut off completely, even if you take the battery out. Why? So that you can be tracked at all times. Do you have A GPS in your car. You can be tracked without court order or warrant. Got Comcast or just about any Internet provider? Deep Packet Inspection (now being used in Iran for repression) is already being used on your networks. Yes, in most of your technology from Microsoft Windows To Ubuntu, Nokia to Netgear the NSA has subverted it and can use it against you and does so more than they will tell you. Despite the blind faith of the uinformed or the disinformation of the deceitful, the NSA has and does wiretap Congressmen and Senators without warrant or cause. The information gets passed on to private parties (for a hefty price) to blackmail the same. If your read the NYT story I posted last week, you will see that even Bill Clinton got wiretapped, without warrant or cause. Oh by the way, stay as afar away from Windows 7 as you can if you value your privacy. If you don't care about Privacy, then let me give you my address so you can send me your ATM card and pin numbers, email contacts, porn sites you visit and the days and times you went there as well as the emails of you talking to the lover you are hiding from your spouse. Because if it is on a non-secured computer OS, the info is no longer under your full control anymore.

What will happen? I think there will be a two tiered internet an idea bantered about a few years ago. One for the people heavily censored and controlled and another for the Government and crooked contractors and the ultra-rich and connected. The rallying cry will be "network security". Security being defined not as keeping you secure but keeping the ongoing criminal enterprises secure from legitimate dissent.

Granted what was proposed back then had little to do with actually cutting people (sites) off from the net, but it was something that some wanted to do back then. The truth is we already have a two tiered internet. Inside the government they have access to databases (opensource/nonclassified) that are not available to the average Joe. Now they are available to well-heeled contractors, but not independent researchers like yours truly. Only those in the pay and service of the beast can peer therein.

Uncle Sam will find a way to keep vital information from you and me. Why? Information is power over the uninformed. Those with knowledge rule over the ignorant. The ignorant eventually get taken down to the level of 'heavy burden' laborers if they are of use, if they are not of use they do not last long.

Thus, the internet as we know it must be controlled by the forces that brought us the multi-trillion dollar meltdown, the war in Iraq and Afghanistan, criminal wiretapping, you name it. This is the start of a trend that will pick up steam and I know my countrymen are too politically naive and docile to stop it. How do I know? They were duped into voting for more wars, more weapons exports, more bailouts, more wiretapping, more torture ships, more deficits... all because of a Madison Avenue smoke and mirrors job with the motto of 'change'. You had to have a working brain to see through Obama. That number is less than two percent of the population. Most peoples brains do work, the problem is they refuse to turn that on/off switch to the 'on' position and leave it there.

I know the average duped Obamaite will say, 'well, he's trying...'. Trying to do what? Destroy the nation? Yes, I will grant you that. Because each and every one of the things I said above could be changed with a signature by President Obama. He does not need to go to Congress. But today, he and Dick Cheney are looking more and more like twins. Now Obama is out defending Cheney in a little known legal case.

In another case of protecting Bush administration secrets, Barack Obama’s Justice Department is opposing the release of a transcript of Vice President Dick Cheney explaining his role in blowing the cover of CIA officer Valerie Plame Wilson in 2003 while the White House was seeking to discredit her husband, a critic of the Iraq invasion. - Consortiumnews.com

Openness in Government and Accountability. These were the words he used to describe his administration.

You Americans who vote (past present and future tense) for this two party system and nobody else are going to be to blame for the state this man puts you in before he leaves office. Not only did you fool your own selves by voting for him, you refuse to stand up and call this man out for his numerous lies.

#1: Obama promised to bring fresh, new faces to Washington since "change cannot occur with the same old faces in Washington,D.C."

I think all will agree that this was a key campaign promise of Candidate Obama's, perhaps even his campaign theme and certainly a critical reason why millions of Americans voted for him rather than that stuffy, old and bitter Republican Senator who has been in Washington since the 1970's.

Note too that Obama has pretty much already selected people to his administration SO HE HAS HAD THE TIME TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS CAMPAIGN PROMISE. The "he's been in office only _ months" doesn't work here. How has Obama done? Well, recall that he did not even change the most important position in his government, that of Defense Secretary, KEEPING ON BUSH's hand-picked man, Robert M. Gates for the job. So no change whatsoever there, it's Bush redeaux. What about the military leadership running the ever increasing wars we have in the Middle East that have cost more than $1 trillion dollars according to Joe Stiglitz? Not much change there either. But Obama HAS selected a new general to head US forces in Afghanistan and he's a real doosey. Obama's pick: none other than General Stanley A. McChrystal. This is the same McChrystal who covered up and distorted Pat Tillman's death, even to the point of falsifying official records. From Wikipedia (relying on multiple sources) here is more on McChrystal and Tillman: - Daily Kos

Are you ready to be a literal slave? Are you? Listen folks,Barak Obama is working for the Slave Masters, not the slaves. He is not interested in freeing anyone, except perhaps our money from our wallets... a job he has done remarkably well in just 6 months in office.

But I think people would rather live with their delusions as long as they are comfortable. The problem is that in what is coming, Americas will not be comfortable. Sooner or later, they will be slaves.

No dear readers, I personally would rather have Bush back in office that this man whose every action screams 'Judas' and whose lips are as smooth as a serpents ssssskin and whose bite is as poisonous as a rattlesnake.

If you want to know what I think really happened in the election of 2008, this picture tells it all, it was all a mask to keep the same death's head running the US government. Mask off, Mask on. I maintain that Obama will set Americans, especially Black Americans back 50 years.

No dear readers, Generation 'M' just hired a new mask for its global murder industry. M stands for murder.


The Leader Of Generation 'M' unmaskes and remaskes himself.

Chains you can believe in.

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Weapons For Warlords - Jamestown
Somalia lies at the heart of regional arms trafficking networks that include governments and private traders in East Africa and the Arabian Peninsula. Developed over many years, this market relies on traditional trade routes, military supply lines and corruptible government actors to provide material support to clansmen, warlords, and militants who purchase or barter for small arms, such as Kalashnikov rifles, rocket propelled grenades (RPGs) and larger weapons systems, such as anti-aircraft guns and “technicals” (armored pick-up trucks with weapons mounted in the back). Currently sustained and developed primarily by a mix of opportunistic businessmen and foreign governments who are strengthening local proxies, the arms trade in and around Somalia serves as a reliable, highly adaptable, and readily accessible wellspring of material that feeds regional conflicts.

Skull And Bones Sued Over Grave Robbing - Raw Story
The suit, which names President Barack Obama and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates along with Yale University and the secretive Order of the Skull & Bones fraternity, aims to have Geronimo’s physical remains and personal effects transported from Fort Sill, Oklahoma, to southern New Mexico for a proper tribal burial.

The Justice Department’s brief, filed with the U.S. District Court for Washington, D.C. on June 10, seeks to remove the president and defense secretary from the suit.

US Pledged $14 Trillion To Protect G7 Banking System - Culture Of Life
One of the mysteries of life is, self-deception. All groups of humans are prone to this immense force which exists in our brains. We are hard wired to self-deceive. This is most obvious at the very top of all systems. Rulers tend to be the least attached to reality since they can ignore it the most. We see this clearly in the world’s top empire, the US: unreal thinking about finance, trade and war have reached the level of insanity at the top. Today’s government data, collected by the government’s lower levels where the number crunching occurs, is a typical example of the lower level bureaucrats facing reality while the top levels ignore this important information.

Public Concerned About Obma's Deficits - MSNBC
As the young Obama administration spends trillions of dollars in its effort to turn around the nation’s economy and revive the U.S. auto industry, the American public is growing concerned about the size of the budget deficit and the government’s intervention into the private sector, the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll finds.(end excerpt)

Good article, and shows Obama's numbers are slipping. Not badly but enough that he needs to be concerned.

Somalia: Dotors Without Borders Forced To Vacate Hospital - MSF
After nine years of providing health care for the population in Bakool region, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has reached the regrettable conclusion that it does not have sufficient security to continue its work. This decision was MSF’s alone and the organization was not expelled by the authorities. MSF medical activities elsewhere in Somalia continue.

Somalia is a very difficult place to provide humanitarian assistance as was underlined by the abduction of two MSF medical staff in Bakool in April 2009. MSF is grateful that the incident was resolved positively with the help of the community.

However, following the abduction and other serious incidents over the past year, MSF can no longer safely provide quality medical care to the people living in Bakool.

Supreme Court: Innocence Is No Defense - Innocence Project
SCOTUS, the Supreme protector of amalgamation of state power rules that convicts have no right to have thier DNA tested to prove their innocence. Are you surprised? I am not. If it is evil, you can expect SCOTUS to back it. Since so many of the men who are in jail and have been exonerated because of DNA testing are Black and Hispanic, it is no surprise that this court ruled in this way. There is no justice when the devil sits on the Bench and has shown no love for the rights of minorities..

There is a curse for those who pervert justice and trample of the rights of the poor, and innocent a horrible curse for which there is no cure. God will not hold men like that guiltless. For the curse of Babylon comes, its recompense is nigh at hand. Its sins have reached unto heaven and a heavy burden of guilt lays upon it.

Who can stand? Those who serve Jesus Christ in spirit and in truth, those in whose lips are found no guile or deceit, whose paths follow the ways of the LORD and whose hands are not stained with innocent blood. That is who shall have God's protection in the hour that fast approaches. Justice has departed Babylon's courts, righteousness has departed her leaders and death is her foreign policy. America stands already condemned. Any time remaining, however short, is to save souls, not America and God really wants to save as many souls as truly want to be saved. America has been led into a terrible trap by satan and his emmissaries and now we much pay for. God has allowed this because we refused to listen to him, turned on the one who blessed us so and instead did all manner of evil and called ourselves good.

It is rather strange you know the way God allows me and those who love him to see things others cannot. When watching the festivities of Obama's victory and all of the Rock Bands, Country artists and other celebrations, in my spirit, I saw what a massive deception it all was. I knew in my soul that when all is said and done nothing would really change. I saw men and women literally crying because we had a new President. I was crying too, but not for the same reasons. I knew that Obama was a deceiver. I knew it in my spirit and I knew it because of some things that I am not at liberty to share. But it was clear to me that America was just hoodwinked by a $500 million dollar Madison avenue ad campaign and did not realize it. People often ask me why I don't share some of this kind of information. I will tell you point blank. They are not ready for it and wouldn't understand it nor use if they did. Their minds are still in a state that will not allow them to see the real truth. In a spiritual sense it would be like casing pearls before swine, they only get mad when you point those things out to them. There are some people I know whom I simply will never share such info with. They are smart people in a book sense but do not understand the nature of 'the beast' and deep in their hearts, I know they don't want to, though they will protest most loudly that they do. These are the people in the greatest spiritual danger for when a person no longer wants to hear the truth, they are lost and probably lost forever.

Today America is a lost nation, led by a lost President with a lost Supreme Court and lost men and women who make her laws. America is as lost as they come but is too arrogant to ever admit it and is incapable of the humility it takes to come to a place of repentance. But this too was planned. For I am here to tell you, God is so angry with this nation that he is no longer interested in her repentance as a nation and has, like Pharaoh, hardened the hearts of her leaders, lest she turn from her sins and be healed. Yes, there was a time when the Lord would have healed Babylon and even her enemies may want it as well when the hour arrives.

Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed: howl for her; take balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed. We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed: forsake her, and let us go every one into his own country: for her judgment reacheth unto heaven, and is lifted up even to the skies. The LORD hath brought forth our righteousness: come, and let us declare in Zion the work of the LORD our God. Make bright the arrows; gather the shields: the LORD hath raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes: for his device is against Babylon, to destroy it; because it is the vengeance of the LORD, the vengeance of his temple. Set up the standard upon the walls of Babylon, make the watch strong, set up the watchmen, prepare the ambushes: for the LORD hath both devised and done that which he spake against the inhabitants of Babylon. O thou that dwellest upon many waters, abundant in treasures, thine end is come, and the measure of thy covetousness. (Jer 51:8-13)

Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, sit on the ground: there is no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called tender and delicate. Take the millstones, and grind meal: uncover thy locks, make bare the leg, uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers. Thy nakedness shall be uncovered, yea, thy shame shall be seen: I will take vengeance, and I will not meet thee as a man. As for our redeemer, the LORD of hosts is his name, the Holy One of Israel. Sit thou silent, and get thee into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called, The lady of kingdoms. I was wroth with my people, I have polluted mine inheritance, and given them into thine hand: thou didst shew them no mercy; upon the ancient hast thou very heavily laid thy yoke. And thou saidst, I shall be a lady for ever: so that thou didst not lay these things to thy heart, neither didst remember the latter end of it. Therefore hear now this, thou that art given to pleasures, that dwellest carelessly, that sayest in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me; I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children: But these two things shall come to thee in a moment in one day, the loss of children, and widowhood: they shall come upon thee in their perfection for the multitude of thy sorceries, and for the great abundance of thine enchantments. For thou hast trusted in thy wickedness: thou hast said, None seeth me. Thy wisdom and thy knowledge, it hath perverted thee; and thou hast said in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me. Therefore shall evil come upon thee; thou shalt not know from whence it riseth: and mischief shall fall upon thee; thou shalt not be able to put it off: and desolation shall come upon thee suddenly, which thou shalt not know. Stand now with thine enchantments, and with the multitude of thy sorceries, wherein thou hast laboured from thy youth; if so be thou shalt be able to profit, if so be thou mayest prevail. Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels. Let now the astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up, and save thee from these things that shall come upon thee. Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: there shall not be a coal to warm at, nor fire to sit before it. Thus shall they be unto thee with whom thou hast laboured, even thy merchants, from thy youth: they shall wander every one to his quarter; none shall save thee. (Isa 47:1-15)

If we look carefully at the the passage from Isaiah we see who it is addressed o the Daughter of the Chaldeans. This is the spiritual descended of Ancient Babylon. You can find out more about this in this interesting book that finally is available again. I have had it for many, years, since the time it came out. It shows how the prophecies of Jerimiah and Isaiah mostly apply, not to ancient Babylon but to end time Babylon. God will overthrow Babylon as he overthrew Sodom And Gomorrah. He will use a nation that is very much in the news today.

Set ye up a standard in the land, blow the trumpet among the nations, prepare the nations against her, call together against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashchenaz; appoint a captain against her; cause the horses to come up as the rough caterpillers. Prepare against her the nations with the kings of the Medes, the captains thereof, and all the rulers thereof, and all the land of his dominion. And the land shall tremble and sorrow: for every purpose of the LORD shall be performed against Babylon, to make the land of Babylon a desolation without an inhabitant. The mighty men of Babylon have forborn to fight, they have remained in their holds: their might hath failed; they became as women: they have burned her dwellingplaces; her bars are broken. (Jer 51:27-30)

For, lo, I will raise and cause to come up against Babylon an assembly of great nations from the north country: and they shall set themselves in array against her; from thence she shall be taken: their arrows shall be as of a mighty expert man; none shall return in vain. And Chaldea shall be a spoil: all that spoil her shall be satisfied, saith the LORD. Because ye were glad, because ye rejoiced, O ye destroyers of mine heritage, because ye are grown fat as the heifer at grass, and bellow as bulls; Your mother shall be sore confounded; she that bare you shall be ashamed: behold, the hindermost of the nations shall be a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert. Because of the wrath of the LORD it shall not be inhabited, but it shall be wholly desolate: every one that goeth by Babylon shall be astonished, and hiss at all her plagues. Put yourselves in array against Babylon round about: all ye that bend the bow, shoot at her, spare no arrows: for she hath sinned against the LORD. Shout against her round about: she hath given her hand: her foundations are fallen, her walls are thrown down: for it is the vengeance of the LORD: take vengeance upon her; as she hath done, do unto her. Cut off the sower from Babylon, and him that handleth the sickle in the time of harvest: for fear of the oppressing sword they shall turn every one to his people, and they shall flee every one to his own land. (Jer 50:9-16)

These prophecies are so frightening and if you take the time to really study them explain exactly who will attack America and destroy her. It also tells us that her leaders won't have a clue about the attack until after it happens and then such knowledge will do no good.

I have laid a snare for thee, and thou art also taken, O Babylon, and thou wast not aware: thou art found, and also caught, because thou hast striven against the LORD. The LORD hath opened his armoury, and hath brought forth the weapons of his indignation: for this is the work of the Lord GOD of hosts in the land of the Chaldeans. Come against her from the utmost border, open her storehouses: cast her up as heaps, and destroy her utterly: let nothing of her be left. Slay all her bullocks; let them go down to the slaughter: woe unto them! for their day is come, the time of their visitation. The voice of them that flee and escape out of the land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our God, the vengeance of his temple. Call together the archers against Babylon: all ye that bend the bow, camp against it round about; let none thereof escape: recompense her according to her work; according to all that she hath done, do unto her: for she hath been proud against the LORD, against the Holy One of Israel. Therefore shall her young men fall in the streets, and all her men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD. Behold, I am against thee, O thou most proud, saith the Lord GOD of hosts: for thy day is come, the time that I will visit thee. And the most proud shall stumble and fall, and none shall raise him up: and I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it shall devour all round about him. Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The children of Israel and the children of Judah were oppressed together: and all that took them captives held them fast; they refused to let them go. Their Redeemer is strong; the LORD of hosts is his name: he shall throughly plead their cause, that he may give rest to the land, and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon. (Jer 50:24-34)

All of the verses dealing with Babylon's fall also deal with Israel and seem to indicate that one day America will turn on Israel and assist those who persecute her. Clearly Obama is moving America firmly in that direction and towards Islam and Mecca, the persecutors of Israel.


The President Of The United States Standing(?) before the keeper of Mecca

America is on a collision course with the God of all things and will never change her ways. She is as the scriptures say, 'most proud' and is having no reproof and no rebuke, She is going to march headlong to her destruction.

She does not know it and more importantly, does not want to know it. How long? Not long, but I look for America to continue on her violent course with impunity. Things to watch.

-The turmoil in Iran

-The trouble in Georgia with Russia

-Events in Turkey, Armenia, Azerbaijan

-How America treats Israel

events In Russia with an eye to her growing clout and the western reaction to it.

-American arrogance to create serious schisms with much of the world leading her enemies to embark on a successful military solution.

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Indictment Offers Details of Mexican Mafia's Workings - LAT
An interesting article on a baby's slaying that was a mistake.(begin excerpt)

Members of the Mexican Mafia, the notorious prison-based organization that authorities say controls Latino street gangs, demanded that those responsible be killed, according to an indictment unsealed this week in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles.

The edict, known as a "green light," was aimed at members of the 18th Street gang, who were thought to have killed the baby during a botched attack on a street vendor who'd refused to pay "rent" to conduct business in the gang's territory near MacArthur Park. - LAT

Obama's Killer Drones Murder More Pakistani's - Antiwar
When I see these poor tribesmen, forced to like in refugee camps as a result of America's devilish killing machine I cannot but hang my head in shame that I am an American. And if there was any part of me that once even considered supporting Obama, I do repent of it, from my very soul. America always can find reasons to kill and main the poorest of the poor but cannot even clean up the rot in its own corrupted financial system and its President is little more than a puppet on a string for the forces that are destroying both America and the earth. Lies, propaganda and death is all America has to offer the region. Is it any wonder people are joining the ranks of the disaffected and radial Islamic groups? What have we offered them but a succession of corrupt military dicatorships, rampant corruption and horrible repression and now drone atatcks that kill villagers on the often mistaken assumption that 'militants' might be living there.

How much do these killer drones named 'reaper' cost. Well this should give you an idea. The Electro Optial payloads come courtesty Raytheon.

All aircraft will employ the Multi-Spectral Targeting System (MTS-B) electro-optical payloads, developed by Raytheon. A production contract for five systems was awarded to Raytheon in February, as part of a $70 million MTS order for 65 systems, destined for the MQ-1 Predator (60 systems) and MQ-9 systems (5). - Defense Update

Dis'ing Russia - AFP
Western leaders, with the exception Of Obama refused to recognize Russia's part in WWII in defeating Nazi Germany. Not a good thing as Russia's sacrifices in that war were far greater than any other nation. The contempt the French, British and Canadians have for Russia is not even thinly veiled and I think will one day soon haunt them in ways the cannot even imagine.

China Is Investing In A New Currency - Seeking Alpha
Throughout 2009, China has been buying up natural resources, commodities, and other real assets at a break-taking pace: copper imports hit a record 329,000 tons in February, only to be eclipsed by a new record of 375,000 tons in March.

The copper story is just the latest and most obvious display of China’s new currency binge. The Chinese have been buying up mines, metal ore (57 million tons of iron in April alone), and other resources for years now. The headlines were right under the world’s collective nose, but no one was thinking “diversification away from the dollar.” Instead they were thinking, “purchases needed to fuel economic growth.”

Truly, it wasn’t until the world noticed that China was still buying commodities in record amounts even after its economy took a hit that the media began to connect the dots.

Here’s a few dots to consider…

African Children Speak Up For Right To Survive - Africa Files
Thousands of children are participating in activities across Africa advocating for governments to boost child survival in commemoration of the Day of the African Child. Celebrated on 16 June, this is the same day hundreds of black school children were killed in Soweto, South Africa in 1976 protests for better education. Half of the world�fs under-five deaths occur in sub-Saharan Africa, according to a recent report by UN Children�fs Fund (UNICEF) and Save the Children.

Dis'ing Russia - AFP
Western leaders, with the exception Of Obama refused to recognize Russia's part in WWII in defeating Nazi Germany. Not a good thing as Russia's sacrifices in that war were far greater than any other nation. The contempt the French, British and Canadians have for Russia is not even thinly veiled and I think will one day soon haunt them in ways the cannot even imagine.

America Should Look To Its Fiscal Health - FT
...given the explosion of the federal debt, it is extremely important to craft a plan that will not excessively risk the government's own fiscal health. The risks cannot easily be overstated.

The US government is already entering a prolonged period where it is extremely vulnerable to a loss in investor confidence from the Chinese and other main holders of its Treasury securities. Foreign investors are rightly concerned about the deeply ingrained reluctance of Americans to tax themselves. The last thing the US needs is to be viewed as one giant California, rich but unwilling to pay enough taxes to fund the services its citizens demand.

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Economists Say Recession To End In 3rd Qtr - Housingwire
...and if you believe that, I got some Credit Default Swaps I wanna sell you!

What are these 'economists' basing a recovery on? They will probably come up with some new cockamamie system of metrics to say things aren't as bad as they are with lots of charts and graphs, coupled with those pesky little footnotes that explains how they skewed the data to create a 'computer simulated' recovery.

Industrial production in the U.S. fell in May for the 16th time in the last 17 months, reflecting declines in consumer goods and business equipment that signals the manufacturing slump remains broad-based.

Output at factories, mines and utilities decreased 1.1 percent last month, in line with forecasts, after falling a revised 0.7 percent in April, Federal Reserve data showed today in Washington. The amount of industrial capacity in use dropped to a record-low 68.3 percent. - Bloomberg

Want Your Shark With Or Without Cocaine? - Mail Online
Mexico's navy has seized more than a tonne of cocaine stuffed inside 20 frozen sharks, authorities said.

The bizarre seizure came as drug gangs under military pressure are being forced to go to greater lengths to conceal narcotics bound for the United States.

Armed and masked navy officers cut open more than 20 shark carcasses filled with slabs of cocaine after checking a container ship in a port in the southern Mexico state of Yucatan.

Crooked Cop Stories - Stop The Drug War

Mexican Army Finds Huge Meth Lab - KCCI
The Mexican Navy gave reporters a firsthand look Tuesday at what they described as one of the largest methamphetamine labs ever found in the country, with enough ephedrine to produce more than 40 tons of the drug.

The smell of chemical solvents was overwhelming at the remote mountaintop site in the northern state of Sinaloa, where Navy personnel on patrol last week stumbled across an enormous holding tank they initially thought might be used to water a marijuana plantation.

US Drone Attacks Cloaked In Secrecy - Asia Times
The United States Central Intelligence Agency's (CIA's) refusal to share with other agencies even the most basic data on the bombing attacks by remote-controlled unmanned Predator drones in Pakistan's northwestern tribal region, combined with recent revelations that CIA operatives have been paying Pakistanis to identify the targets, suggests that managers of the drone attack programs have been using the total secrecy surrounding the program to hide abuses and high civilian casualties.(end excerpt)

In defense of the agency here, there is probably a darn good reason for not sharing the info (though I think the whole basis for these attacks is extremely counterproductive). Suffice it to say that there are elements in the DOD and contractors that cannot be trusted. Information such as the identity of sources goes over to the DOD and suddenly the source is found dead. No, the secrecy is necessary and there for a reason.

E-mail Surveillance Renews Concerns In Congress - NYT
The National Security Agency is facing renewed scrutiny over the extent of its domestic surveillance program, with critics in Congress saying its recent intercepts of the private telephone calls and e-mail messages of Americans are broader than previously acknowledged, current and former officials said.

If you think Obama has stopped the these criminal acts (that is what they are) you are mistaken. It seems to me your privacy is in better hands with Bush-Cheney than Obama, who talks a good game but when it comes time to 'play' is just plain useless. (end excerpt)

Do you e-mail people regularly? Your e-mails have been stored, maybe even read. Are you a person of influence, a politician, a corporate CEO, a Judge, or AG? Your sensitive e-mails are probably on the way to some criminal organization for the purposes of blackmail or bolstering their legal position in an ongoing case. Remember Blagojevich? Remember Spitzer? That is what I am talking about. The right person in the 'national security chain' gets a message from a powerful person who can make you disappear if you do not do what you are told. They get the information for that person and they use it for their own nefarious purposes. I am not telling how it might work. Folks I am telling you the way it did work during the Bush years and almost certainly is working now. America's national security apparatus is little more than an ongoing criminal enterprise. This is not about terrorism. This is about power and control. This is the 21st Century Gestapo draped in a US flag that is hiding a swastika underneath it.

Folks thought I was making a mountain out of a molehill when I got so mad at Obama when he lied to us about telecom immunity. Let me say this. It is because of these surveillance programs and other extra-legal activities of our national security establishment that the Banks are getting trillions of unearned paydays and no prosecutor can get to them. As soon as they make a real attempt, the National Security Establishment (and the crooks who are inside of it) go after them. No one is exempt. Not Presidents, not congressmen, not First Lady's not even the kids of same. These guys play for keeps they have absolutely no morality except profit, 'stay out of jail' and destroy your enemies.

This is why the US government is working overtime to destroy privacy services. Those with connections know which ones the NSA cannot get into. I am here to tell you that there are only a very small number that are any good. Word of warning. If the service is based (incorporated) in the US or uses a US based pay system, the NSA (via secret law) has access to either your encryption keys, or has special technology to see all of your traffic and read all of your e-mail. Do you live in the US? Here is how you can tell.

Anonymity Checker

The NSA (and the criminals who are inside it) want to put a stop to all privacy services. They want to destroy them all so that all traffic is essentially routed through Fort Meade,- read, collated, distributed to interested private parties, for purposes of blackmail and fraud. I am not whistling dixie here. Powerful folks know the levers to push in the government and the people to use. They will cite 'terror' or 'pedophile' concerns. It does not matter if the company has invested large amounts of money for the technology to monitor for such activity. This is not about either of these issues. This is about leaving you open to crime facilitated by the US National Security Establishment. It is about bloggers who are inside nations that censor the net to keep secret crimes being committed by their own government. Yes, privacy is really important to millions of people around the world.

We're giving out free anonymizing VPN access at Xerobank to all Iranians and journalists, to help protect their free speech during these times. Please spread the word. They can contact admin@xerobank.com for their free account.

Re: Free Accounts for All Iranians and Journalists

This is sweet. As a citizen who believes in Human Rights I do appreciate this! Thank you. - Xerobank Forum

The Dawning Of Internet Censorship In Germany - Global Voices
Germany is on the verge of censoring its Internet: The government – a grand coalition between the German social democrats and conservative party – seems united in its decision: On Thursday the parliament is to vote on the erection of an internet censorship architecture.

The Minister for Family Affairs Ursula von der Leyen kicked off and lead the discussions within the German Federal Government to block Internet sites in order to fight child pornography. The general idea is to build a censorship architecture enabling the government to block content containing child pornography. The Federal Office of Criminal Investigation (BKA) is to administer the lists of sites to be blocked and the internet providers obliged to erect the secret censorship architecture for the government.

A letter opened by Nazi Censors in the Third Reich.

China Becomes Russia's Largest Trading Partner - Interfax
"as a result of significant reduction in Russia's trade with other foreign trade partners, China has become the leader in terms of the volume of trade with Russia"

Obama's Reform Empowers Unconstitutional Fed - MISH
The Washington Post has released a "near final" draft of Obama's financial reform proposals. As expected, the paper whitewashes the role of the Fed and Fractional Reserve Lending as well as the role of unfunded Congressional spending in creating the mess. Instead, Obama's plan gives more power to those responsible for creating the mess.(end excerpt)

I have not looked at the proposals. I will soon and will comment then.

Dollar Seriously Challenged As Reserve Currency - FT
The dollar remained on the defensive on Wednesday as market focus remained on the sustainability of the dollar as the world’s reserve currency.

The issue was thrust to the top of the markets agenda following a meeting between Brazil, Russia, India and China on Tuesday.

Three State Solution
Obama, in keeping with his bow to the keepers of Mecca has strong armed Israel into accepting yet another Palestinian state in its proximity. Jordan, never talked about by those who claim to be 'experts' is already the Palestinian state in the region. It came into being at the same time as Israel and was created specifically for the Palestinains. So what we have here is not a two state solution but a three state solution. Obama, never wanting to disappoint the keepers of Islam, has really pushed the Isreali's hard. There was no pretense at being an honest broker. Let us not even discuss the fact that the Palestians are effectively in a state of Civil War so that whomever one negotiates with, the other side will not accept and even in the outside chance both do, militants will do the dirty work later to fire rockets into Israel, send suicide bombers and send their soldiers marching through the streets with their 'sieg heil' salutes, chanting 'kill the Jews'.

The Arab press has done nothing but criticize Netanyahu's move to allow for the creation of yet another Palestinian State. Truth be told, such a state is not in the interest of many Arab nations. Certainly not a Palestinian state that is peaceful. The Palestinians have been a useful (forgive my analogy) geo-political condom by which to screw Israel. They have been most convenient to the Islamic world in that role.

None of this is said to belittle the struggle and troubles of ordinary Palestinians. It is only to put that struggle, the rantings of its leaders and fanaticsim of its terror brigades in the proper light. Palestinains are treated very badly in Arab nations. They are not respected. But they are convenient proxy by which to attack the Jews militarily and in the realm of propaganda. YOu have seen the hundreds of well travelld sites on the net whose anti-semtism and anti-Israeli sentiment is so unbalanced that the authors simply cannot be that one-sided without serious financial support that makes them so. It is in this light that we must look at Arab reaction to any peace moves. Some want peace as badly as a drowning man wants a cup of water.

But Barak Obama does not know that he is putting a horrible curse on his administration. He thinks he is doing good by strong-arming the Jews. But instead all he is doing is putting the curse that was promised in the last days upon himself and his administration and by extension all of America.

I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land. And they have cast lots for my people; and have given a boy for an harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink. Yea, and what have ye to do with me, O Tyre, and Zidon, and all the coasts of Palestine? will ye render me a recompence? and if ye recompense me, swiftly and speedily will I return your recompence upon your own head; Because ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly pleasant things: The children also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have ye sold unto the Grecians, that ye might remove them far from their border. Behold, I will raise them out of the place whither ye have sold them, and will return your recompence upon your own head: And I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the children of Judah, and they shall sell them to the Sabeans, to a people far off: for the LORD hath spoken it. Proclaim ye this among the Gentiles; Prepare war, wake up the mighty men, let all the men of war draw near; let them come up: Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong. Assemble yourselves, and come, all ye heathen, and gather yourselves together round about: thither cause thy mighty ones to come down, O LORD. Let the heathen be wakened, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for there will I sit to judge all the heathen round about. Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, get you down; for the press is full, the fats overflow; for their wickedness is great. Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision. The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their shining. The LORD also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but the LORD will be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel. So shall ye know that I am the LORD your God dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no strangers pass through her any more. - (Joe 3:2-17)

God's Come Cheap - War On You
When President George W. Bush was first elected back in 2000, I well remember the way Christian conservatives went gaga over him. They would deny it, of course, but it was more than hero worship: they acted as if he were a god. Life-size posters filled Christian bookstores. Religious broadcasters and televangelists swooned over him like 16-year-old girls used to swoon over Elvis Presley. Pastors invoked his name almost as a prayer. The Religious Right acted like they had died and gone to Heaven. In the minds of Christian conservatives, G.W. Bush could do no wrong. The result of all this sophomoric silliness was that the Religious Right became blind, impotent lackeys to a Big-Government, big-spending, Orwellian, and inept administration–maybe one of the worst in U.S. history.

And all of this was not lost to the political left. They called Christian conservatives “dupes,” “buffoons,” “gullible,” and a whole lot more. But now it is the liberals’ turn to take a voyage in the vehicle of villainous vulnerability.

First, there was the major media’s “anointing” of President Barack Obama. Yes, I use the word “anointing” on purpose. Make no mistake about it: in the minds of the major media, Obama was not inaugurated; he was canonized. No pope, king, or potentate of history received the coronation that Barack Obama received. To the liberals who dominate the news media and entertainment industry in this country, Obama is not a President: he is a god.

Feds Spurn California Aid Request - WP
California's meltdown is very close. Help? It only encourages further political wrangling and delay. California is just going to have to start seriously cutting some services AND much of its sweetheart corporate tax breaks. Will it do both? Not with Schwartzeneggar at the helm. He will cut granny's insulin shots before he does that.

Long ago (at least a couple of years ago) I would have done a top to bottom review of necessary and unecessary state services. I would really go after education. Not in a way that reduces the quality of it, which I want to enhance. Rather I want to tear down the bureaucracy that has arisen in its wake. It has turned so many of California's schools into detention facilities and 'prison preparatory schools', rather than facilities for learning.

Whole industries have sprung up in the wake of the Public Education system nationwide. Whole companies exist to fleece taxpayers. Consultants who rake in hundreds of dollars an hour, textbooks which are horrible, overpriced and often contain so many glaring errors that they are essentially useless. But 'contracting' provisions demand you only purchase from 'certified' dealers (that is those who pay campaign donations and kickbacks).

This is a perfect time to fix the system so that education and not political correctnes and payola is the primary goal of public education.

I do not see that happening though and I am a little worried about my old home state.

Credit Card Defaults Hit New Record - Reuters
Another miraculous sign of our economic recovery. More on Credit Card developments here and it isn't all bad for cardholders..

Jeb Bush In 2012? Don't Laugh - Raw Story
MSNBC host Carlos Watson appears to believe that claims of a “GOP death spiral” have been greatly exaggerated. As Watson sees it, the news media will make sure that recent self-appointed GOP spokesmen like Rush Limbaugh are swept aside in favor of more traditional party leaders — leading up to a return in 2012 to the familiar Bush brand name.(End Excerpt)

If Obama keeps on going the way he is, expect a GOP landslide in 2012 and the next Black President in the year 2525.

CIA Transcripts Reveal More On Torture - ACLU
Kangaroo court transcripts that required a FOIA request just to see. YOu tell me if America is a free and open Society?

Foreigners Abducted And Killed In Yemen - ME Concern
Christians in Yemen have requested our prayers following the kidnapping on Friday of nine foreigners, including three children. Yesterday (i.e. Monday 15th) it was confirmed that three of them have been murdered. There are reports that others have also been killed, though these reports are unconfirmed. Of the nine who were kidnapped, seven are German, one British and one South Korean. The three confirmed as killed are two German ladies, Anita (aged 24) and Rita, (25), and the South Korean lady, Young-Sun (34).

Kidnapping foreigners has been common in parts of Yemen in recent years, though the usual pattern is that the hostages are released unharmed. This latest incident occurred in the northern province of Saada where there has been unrest for several years. The fifth war between the Houthi rebels and the government ended with a signed peace agreement with the government in July 2008. Generally the agreement has been kept by both parties, but violence has continued on a small scale in pockets. The Yemeni Government has accused the Houthi rebels of carrying out the abductions and murders, while other analysts consider that al-Qaeda may have been responsible. No group has yet claimed responsibility and the Houthi rebels have denied involvement.

Musings
I am deeply concerned, empathetic and disappointed in our new President. I feel his frustration. I really do. Some of my readers are probably put off at my criticism of him. Well, that is not going to change. As long as the Treasury is open to crooks, men, women and children are in torture camps, detention facilities and what are becoming death camps, I am going to be critical and shout about this very great evil that is being done in the name of those who supported and voted for this man and refuse to hold him accountable, for your hands too are as stained with blood as the Germans were when they sat back and supported Hitler and his wicked, satanic policies and watched people being taken away by the state to their deaths in the name of 'national security'.

Yet, I know (at least through a glass darkly) what is going on behind the scenes in this administration. Obama in essense is President in name only. And he (it seems to me and my better sources) is frightened. Genuinely frightened for his life and may have decided that it is better to be 'scapegoat in chief' than a man in a box, a pine box.

Let me explain. I think Obama really wants to bring in as much of the 'change' he called for when he ran for President. But was so craven and ambitious to get into the White House, he was willing to make deals with folks who were diametrically opposed to those changes. Because the nature of power in Washington and the way it really works, Obama is isolated and cannot get any of his agenda through. What I mean is this - Power in Washington works on three levels. First is the legitimate way our government is supposed to work, bills being put forward, supported or killed based on debate (and money). Second is the pressure brought to bear within the government using legitimate means (usually) and comes from having a powerbase of ones own to use. In the Bush years, that base came from a multi-decade old network of Media organizations, Think tanks, Illicit funding mechanisms, smear campaigns and mid-level government bureaucrats that can neutralize the opposition and put forward Neocon desires with little real effective opposition. In other words, Bush had Fox, The AEI, Hoover Insititute, Matt Drudge and a host of other people to do their bidding. It was a diabolically effective system of deceit, disinformation, smear and smut that kept that machine in power for eight years. It is a necessary evil in modern American politics, that being your own popular support base with access money and the ability to reach millions of Americans, leaders and other parts of American society. The third method? Read on.

Obama has no independent network like this that he can use to his benefit. There is a network and it is from time to time used but only if it benefits others in his administration who really control it. In this manner the President can be corralled, controlled and isolated from the nation and his own government. This isolation is no small thing and goes beyond the simple day to day soundbites in the media. The Presidents orders are often countermanded by others without the Presidents knowledge and there is little he can do about it. This happened with some of the Tarp money, and it will happen again when Tarp Repayment comes around. Watch this issue carefully. I think somebody smells a rat and that is why you are seeing this at this particular time. It is not just about BofA and Merrill.

From the beginning of this whole episode, Obama has not been in control. But it is in the interest of those who are in control to make it appear that he is. Why? 'Scapegoat in Chief'. Keep that in mind when you see him continue the odious policies he has embarked on. The US government is no longer really run by our elected leaders. Individuals who have a large stake in keeping government money flowing in their direction run this nation and have since the days Ike warned us about the Military Industrial Complex. Their power has only grown over the years, but it is an oversimplification to say the their power is the only one. There are other elements that exert very much control over out government, including criminal elements. Think Murder Inc, with a Federal badge.

What am I saying here in essence is this; when it comes to torture in these far off facilities, I know that Obama is not primarily to blame for what is almost certainly still going on. If Obama were to issue an order stopping certain practices, the Commander at the facility would read the orders, begin to follow instructions, and then about a week later new 'highly classified' orders would come down from the Defense Secretary (or the Secretary of State) via special courier, countermanding those orders. There is little chance that there would ever be a paper trail so that deniability can always be in play. Obama would be none the wiser. Later, in order to 'control' the President, Stories could be leaked to the media to show that torture is still going on, worse than before. Who will get the blame? The 'Scapegoat in Chief'. I hate to burst anybody's bubble, but that is the way Washington really works.

So to my readers I know my criticism is at time scathing, most scathing. But the issues I am talking about are not academic. We are talking abut the literal solvency of our nation, concentration camps with thousands of uncharged (probably innocent) people in them being tortured, billions upon billions still going to the military industrial complex (MIC) and a government that whose credit card has been cancelled. We are living on borrowed money and borrowed time and frankly the time to sit back and do and say nothing with an idiotic smile on our lips is long past. People sitting back, doing and saying nothing is why this nation is in the mess she is in today. Our problems have much less to do about the government that it does with the people who cannot see the freight train heading straight for them, lights flashing, horn blaring, the rumble of 20,000 tons of cold steel heading right for them as they play 'American Idol' on the tracks.

So yes, I think Obama is scared. Really scared for his life. I want to tell you what I mean but I caution you that what follows is pure conjecture. I have no inside information that substantiates this but it seems to fit what few facts are out there.

President Obama not long ago, went out on a limb and cut several major defense contracts some of which are the darlings of the MIC, such as the F-35 and F-22. Do you remember that incident with Air-Force One that scared the pants off of New Yorkers? Well lets look at who was responsible and lost his job. Louis Caldera. Who is he? Here is a snippet.

Before finishing his third term in the Assembly, Caldera resigned to begin serving as managing director and chief operating officer for President Bill Clinton's Corporation for National and Community Service (1997-1998), a domestic volunteer program.

On May 22, 1998, Clinton announced Caldera as his selection for Secretary of the Army.[4] On July 2, 1998, Caldera was sworn in as the 17th Secretary of the Army by Secretary of Defense William Cohen.[5] - Wikipedia

$6000 For A House In Detroit - Mish
Mish sums up the trend like this.

I suppose I could say GM has been the kiss of death anywhere it has been. The reality, however, is anyplace dependent on manufacturing in general and union manufacturing in particular has been the kiss of death.

Times change. Cities that adapt thrive. Cities that can't or won't, don't.

Death Chips! Step Right Up And Get Your Death Chips Here... - Dissident Voice
The Guardian revealed May 31 that over the last 18 months more than 50 CIA drone attacks have been launched against “high-value targets.” The Pentagon claims to have killed nine of al-Qaeda’s top twenty officials in north and south Waziristan. “That success” The Guardian avers, “is reportedly in part thanks to the mysterious electronic devices, dubbed ‘chips’ or ‘pathrai’ (the Pashto word for a metal device), which have become a source of fear, intrigue and fascination.”

According to multiple reports by Western and South Asian journalists, CIA paramilitary officers or Special Operations commandos pay tribesmen to plant the devices adjacent to farmhouses sheltering alleged terrorists. “Hours or days later” The Guardian narrates, “a drone, guided by the signal from the chip, destroys the building with a salvo of missiles. ‘There are body parts everywhere,’ said Wazir, who witnessed the aftermath of a strike.”(end excerpt)

You tax dollars hard at work. Killing the enemies of the beast. You are sadly mistaken if you think this tech will not one day target you.

Sadly and terminally mistaken.

Worst Of The Worst? - Child Detaniee Released - Brad Blog
Mohammed El-Gharani, the youngest prisoner at Gitmo, just 14 when he was captured in 2001, is finally being "freed five months after a U.S. federal judge ordered him released having reviewed the evidence against him and ruled that there was nothing to suggest he was ever an 'enemy combatant.'" El-Gharani has never been charged.(end excerpt)

All these years we heard that only the 'worst of the worst' were in Gitmo. Now it turns out we have kids whom they never had any evidence against. Let us remame our 'War on Terror' to 'War To Ensure Terror'.

Why is the GOP so adamant about letting a person like this have a trial? Why do they jump up and down and scream bloddy murder? I will tell you, though many will not want to hear it. This whole Concentration Camp thing is an experiment. It is an experiment to see how far they can go because the eventual target is American citizens. To have trials defeats the entire purpose. To have justice defeats the purpose. Because they want a regimine that allows them to put people (anyone of their choosing) into these camps to be tortured or worked literally to death without any legal framework to get them out if they are innocent. In short they want slave labor. So next time you hear Newt, Cheney, Rummy, Rice and the hundreds of paid stooges in the media who have no clue what this is really about go on the theatrical rampage for the HDTV camera, keep this in mind. Uncle Sam eventually wants to put you in these camps so that well connected corporations can have a labor pool of people to do slave labor and 'compete' with places like oh, say China who proudly proclaims their use of such labor. They are already doing in in our Prisons so don't look so shocked. Slavery is coming back folks, make no mistake about it. I am as certain that it will hit US shores in all of its wicked splendor as I am certain that the majority of my countrymen are still too far gone mentally to ever see it. That is perhaps until they feel cold steel on their ankles and the final 'click' of the shackle ring closing around it. A sound they will never hear again, for when that shackle is removed from their ankles, they will already be dead. Free at last, or as the Nazi's put it...

Arbeit Macht Frei (work makes you free)

Violence Erupts In Iran Over Election Results -
Thousands of angry protesters have clashed with police after President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was declared the winner of Iran's presidential poll. Secret police have been attacked, while riot police used batons and tear gas against backers of Mir Hossein Mousavi, who called the results a "charade".

Correspondents say the violence is the worst seen in Tehran in a decade. In a televised address to the nation, Mr Ahmadinejad thanked voters for giving him a "great victory". He said the election had been "completely free".(end excerpt)

In short, this is one of those things I was warned about to watch for this summer. Long story short - the results were fixed and this violence was not unexpected but planned for. The fix for this election was in many months ago. Challenger arrested journalists detained... what do you expect? BBC broadcasts disrupted as well as Arab TV shut down. Sound more like a coup than an election controversy.

However Iran's Supreme Leader has called for an investigation into election fraud, a major step forward if he is sincere. More can be found on this pretty good article out of London.

Six Flags Goes Bankrupt - Bloomberg
Revenues aren't bad, its the crushing debt that did them in.

Trouble Finding The Right Killer Genetic Code? - Science Daily
African, American, and European researchers working in collaboration over a 10-year period have released the largest-ever study of African genetic data—more than four million genotypes—providing a library of new information on the continent which is thought to be the source of the oldest settlements of modern humans.

The study demonstrates startling diversity on the continent, shared ancestry among geographically diverse groups and traces the origins of Africans and African Americans. It is published in the April 30 issue of the journal Science Express.(end excerpt)

OK, maybe my title is a little over the top, but I have a very strong suspicion (based on more than a little evidence) that these studies are being conducted for a dual purpose, Academic and Military; as in Genetic Weapons. Laugh if you wish all I can say is this. If you are laughing, then you do not know what has been going on and probably won't until the next strange disease strikes the globe and scientists who can or attempt identify who or how it was genetically created get killed while investigating it. You know, like the swine flu virus. This is not the first time either.

Pay attention!

How Shell Turned Nigerian Military Against Its Own People - Independent On Sunday
Documents, seen by the IoS, support allegations that Shell helped to provide Nigerian police and military with logistical support, and aided security sweeps of the oil-rich Niger Delta. Earlier this month Shell agreed to pay $15.5m (£9.6m) in a "humanitarian settlement" on the eve of a highly embarrassing US lawsuit.

One of the allegations was that Shell was complicit in the regime's execution of civilians. The Anglo-Dutch firm denies any wrongdoing and said it settled to help "reconciliation". But the documents contain detailed allegations of the extent to which Shell is said to have co-opted the Nigerian military to protect its interests. (end excerpt)

The march of corporate power moves forward, never any real restraint of that power, always quietly, secretly that power grows. Now they can kill people and only have to pay a fine which may turn out to be tax deductible. Call it the Activists Neturalization Windfall Tax Deduction.

Has The NYPD Turned Into A Major Criminal Organization? - Huff Post.
This is a story of major drug corruption, the willful railroading of innocent people by the NYPD. We have seen these cops shoot unarmed men (multiple times) going to their weddings, shoot their own cops as well as a host of other acts that are highly questionable and shows that its cops may very well be at the root of a lot of the criminal activity in NY. Cops robbing drug dealers for their money, dealing drugs right out of the precinct, doing contract hits for dope dealers. Now the bar owner who recorded the video exonerating these to Hispanic men is being harrased.

Eduardo Espinoza, 36, of Elmhurst, was hit with more than a dozen violations from the 110th Precinct – including two for failing to have liquid soap and paper towels in his bar bathroom – after handing over a videotape suggesting undercover officers made up a buy-and-bust deal in his club in January.

“I been harassed so much, I’m selling my business,” said Espinoza, owner of Delicias de Mi Tierra on 91st Place in Elmhurst.

“Every two to three weeks, there’s cops in here, searching the bar. If there’s no violation, they’ll make it up. I lost all my clients – everybody’s scared to come in my place right now.” - - NY Daily News

Government Bond Fiasco - Money And Markets
According to Fed figures, Washington borrowing soared at a blistering 37 percent pace in the fourth quarter alone. Nearly $100 billion in bonds, notes, and bills are being offered at each weekly Treasury auction — the most in our nation’s history.

And to make matters even worse, Washington will have to borrow a staggering $2.5 trillion this year just to avoid running out of cash. Without it, they wouldn’t even be able to make payroll.

Now, this tsunami of new Treasury offerings is already having the impact that we have warned you about: Interest rates are surging even as the Fed tries to keep them under wraps....

In their most recent edition of Safe Money, Dr. Weiss and Mike Larson paint a vivid and alarming picture of what happens next — the headlines you’ll be reading in the weeks and months ahead …

- “You have the recipe for a perfect storm in the largest debt market of all: Governments bonds.
- “Investors will attack with a vengeance.
- “They will not only sell bonds (long-term), but also notes (medium-term).
- “They will not only dump notes and bonds issued by the Treasury, but also those issued by government agencies and government-backed entities, such as Ginnie Mae, Sallie Mae, Fannie Mae, and Freddie Mac.” Money And Markets(end excerpt)

99.4% Of African Forest Destroyed - New Times
The United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has released damning satellite images of Gishwati forest indicating a nearly complete 99.4% destruction of the forest.

The report indicates that the destruction is largely a result of subsistence harvesting and cultivation by refugees in the aftermath of the 1994 Genocide against Tutsi.

“Overall only 600 hectares of Gishwati’s original 100,000 hectares of forest remain, a loss of 99.4 percent,” reads the report.

134 Billion In US Bonds Seized - Bloomberg
Japan is investigating reports two of its citizens were detained in Italy after allegedly attempting to take $134 billion worth of U.S. bonds over the border into Switzerland.(end excerpt)

There seems to be some question as to if these bonds are genuine.

30 House Church Leaders Arrested in Sichuan - Voice Of The Martyers
On June 9 more than 30 house church leaders were arrested while gathering in a house church in Langzhong city, Sichuan province. Thirteen leaders were given 15 days of administrative detention, and five of the leaders were placed under criminal detention. The other leaders were released.

The Christian leaders were gathered in Pastor Li Ming’s house church at 5:30 p.m., in Lanzhou city, when several dozen officials in six to seven police vehicles from the local Domestic Security Protection Squad surrounded the site, then arrested all of the Christians and searched the house.

Torture Contractors Hirings, Firings, The CIA and Obama - Raw Story
Weeks after President Barack Obama took office, the Central Intelligence Agency renewed a contract with a firm that helped orchestrate the torture of American-held detainees during the Bush Administration, The New Yorker revealed Sunday.

Two months later, according to the magazine, the agency fired them.

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Schwartzeneggar May Shut California Down - LAT
"Payment deferrals and IOUs -- that's all we would be left with," said Hallye Jordan, a spokeswoman for state Controller John Chiang, who monitors California's cash flow. Chiang reported Wednesday that the state's revenues have fallen $827 million below projections made only weeks ago.(End Excerpt)

So far the Governors plans have been uninspired, to say the least. Robbing the cities to plug the budget state's gap earned him a mild rebuke. Another short term solution for a long term problem. The state spends too much money. Way too much money and it is politically impossible to fix it now. California is going to be real mess for many years to come.

Under Schwarzenegger's budget proposal, the state would borrow $1.9 billion from property tax collections and reduce the local share of the gas tax by $744 million.

The mayors say taking gas tax money would be worse than borrowing from property taxes because the state would not be obligated to repay it. - KSBY

Green Shoots? Nope. Fungus On A Dead Root - Market Ticker
The cold, hard numbers of the Option Arm time bomb set to explode inside the US economy.

Pope Urges 'Deep Examination' In Ireland - Zenit
Benedict XVI is calling for a "deep examination" of the life of the Church in Ireland, according to the archbishop of Dublin who met with the Pope on Friday regarding last month's report of the widespread abuse of children in Ireland's Catholic schools.

Archbishop Diarmuid Martin affirmed that the Holy Father was "visibly upset" when he was presented by the prelates with the details contained in what has come to be called the Ryan report (after the head of the commission that compiled it). The report was released May 20 and informs on decades of abuse.(End Excerpt)

The BBC has a good story here and here.

Shooting At Holocaust Museum - Guardian
Everyone knew this was coming in one form or another. I also know that much more is coming in the months ahead. The FBI has been trying to get more agents assigned to watching Neo-nazi/Aryan Nation-type hate groups but they could not get Bush-Cheney-Gonzales-Ashcroft to get off their duffs. They instead put almost all of their resources in chasing Muslims. In the mean time, the FBI is saying the crisis has exploded. I told my readers last month to look for these kinds of attacks this summer. Well, they are here and baby... we ain't seen nothing yet. What has Federal authorities worried is what little intelligence they have gathered and it is a tale of future killings, shootings, bombings... you name it. What is the catalyst? Two main things, A Black President and millions being thrown out of work.

None of this is news to readers of this site. I warned of this years ago in my Race Wars article (see rss feed for link). How organized are these groups? I do not know, so far it looks more like the most rudimentary coordination based on a common psych profile; poorly educated, white, angry, jobless and a victim (or purveyor) of racist propaganda. No big 'deep pocket' conspiracy.

You can see the recent DHS report here.

Expect more of these kinds of incidents. Perhaps allowing a few shootings, bombings, and suicide attacks is a way the Feds feel than can speed along more Unconstitutional powers here in the US, you know like 'preventative detentions' or 're-education through labor'. Yet when I look at my fellow Americans... well...

I'll say no more.

Coalition Of The Killing: The Death Industry & Obama - Antiwar
Experts and military contractors say that the Obama Administration’s quest to build more and more coalitions across the world is going to mean boom times for the arms export industry, even as the world’s economy faces a crippling recession.

A Boeing executive predicted that the Obama Administration would allow exports of even more advanced US weaponry than his predecessor George W. Bush did. “I think that all bodes well for our allies and the discussions that would take place on things they’d like to have,” the official said.(End Excerpt)

Change you can believe in.

Bad-check Letters Are Misleading - LAT
In a nutshell, a company with a sweetheart deal the the DA is using the government stationary and seal to scare the crap out of people to get them to attend courses 'to avoid' prosecution.

It is pretty sad when the DA is pushing the legal envelope so close like this.

So, District Attorney Cooley? What's in your wallet? Are you getting kickbacks? Is this the settlement of a Campaign donation? Somebody go the goods on you?

Your constituents want to know.

Thousands Flee Burma's Army Offensive - Telegraph
They began fleeing last week when the Burmese army bombarded Ler Per Her refugee camp, the home of families from the Karen ethnic group displaced by decades of civil war.

Many are believed to have sought safety in forests on the Thai side of the border. Others may still be trapped inside Burma, unable to reach even the limited safety of Thailand.

In the past, the Burmese army has shot and raped civilians and conscripted them as military porters and human mine-sweepers.

Many of the Karen people are Christians, which helps explain (at least partly) the offensive. Christian Freedom International says this:

The recent Burmese offensive is aimed at several ethnic Karen IDP camps. The Karen have been displaced by decades of war, resulting in the world’s longest civil war. More than 100,000 mostly ethnic Karen refugees already shelter in camps in Thailand after fleeing military raids by the Burmese army, and more than half a million are displaced inside military-run Burma. CFI has been assisting the persecuted Karen people of Burma for the past 10 years with medicine, backpack medic teams, medical clinics, schools, orphanages, and emergency aid. How you can help: Click Here

Obama's Torture Ships
Everyone is talking about Guantanamo as though that is the only place people are taken after they are kidnapped by Obama's Military. Without trial, hearing and in extreme secrecy, people are picked up and sent to floating torture barges.

"By its own admission, the US government is currently detaining at least 26,000 people without trial in secret prisons, and information suggests up to 80,000 have been 'through the system' since 2001. The US government must show a commitment to rights and basic humanity by immediately revealing who these people are, where they are, and what has been done to them." - Guardian

In all, roughly 65,000 people have been screened for possible detention, and about 30,000 of those were entered into the system, at least briefly, and assigned internment serial numbers. - Maj. Gen. Donald J. Ryder Army Provost Marshal General (February 2005)

26,000 people on prison ships whom are being tortured. First they are disappeared and then sent to a ship to be tortured. What kinds of things are we talking about. Men and women shackled (sometimes naked) in a room where the temprature is well over 100 degrees, then the temperature is taken down to near freezing. Shackling them naked for days on end, lacerating their penis and pouring irritants in the lacerations and yes, starved.


Victims of Hitler Or Obama?


Bagram Or Buchewald?

Other things that are unspeakable are being done by Obama and his Hitler-wannabe henchmen. Like a good magician, he and his smoke and mirrors show wants Americans to focus in on Guantanamo, where only a few detainees are held, not on the tens of thousands that are being held overseas by the President (did you vote for him?). We get the phony sound and fury of the left and right about photographs, new and improved show-trials, but no one is talking about the tens of thousands in Americas global gulag system around the world on prison ships and in concentration camps.

Most important, while President Obama has eagerly announced his intention to close Guantanamo Bay within a year, Bagram, where conditions are generally reported by former detainees to be worse than at Guantanamo, is actually being expanded.

‘They beat me with guns. They broke my head and threw me in the snow...’

Mullah Abdul Zaeef, who was Afghanistan's ambassador to Pakistan from 2000 until 2001, when the Taliban were in power in Kabul, spent a month in Bagram before being transported to detention facilities in Kandahar, in southern Afghanistan, and Guantanamo Bay. Bagram was the worst, he said. "On the first day they beat me with sticks and guns and their feet and they broke my head and my shoulder," he told The First Post. Zaeef also claims that the guards stripped him naked and threw him into the snow until he lost consciousness. At no point was he offered medical attention. - First Post

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Despite these welcome developments, the scrutiny of the past nine months has still failed to produce full answers to many of the most basic questions posed in our original report. How many individuals are held in U.S. custody both by military and intelligence agencies in connection with the 'global war on terror,' and where are they held? Are 'ghost detainees' still being held without access to visits from the Red Cross? Why are family members not promptly notified that their family member is in custody, or given information about their health or whereabouts? And significantly, what is the legal basis for these detentions, what limits exist on U.S. power to seize and detain, and what if any rights do the detainees have as a matter of law? - Human Rights First

Why are we not hearing about this? It is the empire. The empire wants to expand this system and make it legally palatable. That is Obama's job, to make evil acceptable. What people may not realize is that when Obama talks about preventive detentions, he already has and is exercising that power. It is called rendition, a policy he and his CIA directed solemnly promise to continue. No, what Obama is talking about is using that power inside the US against US citizens. In other words, President Obama wants to further undermine constitutional protections for American citizens, even more than Bush was willing to do. He wants the power to put you in jail for the rest of your life and torture you without trial or hearing. That is what Obama is asking for.

Now step back and look at where the dog and pony show is leading in the media theater we have now. Obama wants Preventive detentions and to close Guantanamo. The GOP wants Obama to keep the photo's of the rape of Muslim women and the sodomizing of muslim men by US service members secret. Tradeoff? Guantanamo will close in exchange for keeping the pictures secret. Obama may even get preventative detention provided he remains committed to keeping the pictures secret and the power is extended to the GOP administration that will come in in 2012. The horse trading will go on behind closed doors; a billion dollar contract in a key Senators state here, a coverup of a Justice Department investigation there, and Oula! Americans will be sailing on an extended 'vacation' on a new and improved 'Obama Cruiselines', complete with whips, chains, red hot pokers, rabid foaming at the mouth dogs, and some old pervert who can't wait to rape a shackled naked woman (or man).

Did you buy Brand Obama? I didn't.

What, for all our faith and hope, has the Obama brand given us? His administration has spent, lent or guaranteed $12.8 trillion in taxpayer dollars to Wall Street and insolvent banks in a doomed effort to reinflate the bubble economy, a tactic that at best forestalls catastrophe and will leave us broke in a time of profound crisis. Brand Obama has allocated nearly $1 trillion in defense-related spending and the continuation of our doomed imperial projects in Iraq, where military planners now estimate that 70,000 troops will remain for the next 15 to 20 years. Brand Obama has expanded the war in Afghanistan, including the use of drones sent on cross-border bombing runs into Pakistan that have doubled the number of civilians killed over the past three months.

Brand Obama has refused to ease restrictions so workers can organize and will not consider single-payer, not-for-profit health care for all Americans. And Brand Obama will not prosecute the Bush administration for war crimes, including the use of torture, and has refused to dismantle Bush’s secrecy laws or restore habeas corpus.

Brand Obama offers us an image that appears radically individualistic and new. It inoculates us from seeing that the old engines of corporate power and the vast military-industrial complex continue to plunder the country. Corporations, which control our politics, no longer produce products that are essentially different, but brands that are different. Brand Obama does not threaten the core of the corporate state any more than did Brand George W. Bush. The Bush brand collapsed. We became immune to its studied folksiness. We saw through its artifice. This is a common deflation in the world of advertising. So we have been given a new Obama brand with an exciting and faintly erotic appeal. Benetton and Calvin Klein were the precursors to the Obama brand, using ads to associate themselves with risqué art and progressive politics. It gave their products an edge. But the goal, as with all brands, was to make passive consumers mistake a brand with an experience.

“The abandonment of the radical economic foundations of the women’s and civil-rights movements by the conflation of causes that came to be called political correctness successfully trained a generation of activists in the politics of image, not action,” Naomi Klein wrote in “No Logo.” - Buying Brand Obama

Obama is more of an advertising campaign than a President. To watch this man stand and give a memorial at Buchenwald is an affront to the millions who gave their lives to fight the very fascism and death camps Obama now represents and is imposing on the world and (by proposal), his own countrymen. It is an affront to the millions of victims of that fascism, those who gave thier lives fighting it and those who died in places like Buchenwald.

Where does this lead? Who is really going to be targeted. I will tell you but none of you will believe it, not even our policy makers who are just tools used by those who hold real power behind the scenes. So this is what I see as the plan it is two fold and needs to be considered in light of America's deep economic crisis.

America is going to have some serious domestic problems in the near term. Her deficits will seriously undermine her dollar and that will bring in inflation, real difficult to manage inflation. The power behind Obama knows this and want a legal framework to detain certain 'profiles' of people. Perhaps illegal immigrants, perhaps, black muslims, perhaps, right wing (neo-nazi/aryan nations) extremists, perhaps all of the above. I can tell you this - America's debts are going to be repaid one way or another; Know this too, 'Reeducation through labor' for American citizens was a policy that almost came into being under Bush and it was ONLY Bush that put a stop to it. Certain well connected corporations would have had hundreds of thousands of slave laborers who were convenienetly and falsely identified as 'terrorists'. Folks, I reiterate, this really almost happened, here in the US. Let me say this again.

America's debts will be repaid.

It is 2013 and Molly Middleclass can't pay her bills. She owes tens of thousands on her credit cards and no longer works. Molly is very attractive and a Chinese diplomat likes her blonde hair, blue eyes and shapely legs. She owes the money to Ameribank inc. Ameribank is now partly owned by China. China now invokes a secret clause in their agreement with the US to allow for a certain number of laborers who owe Chinese corporations money to come to China to work off their debt. Molly is kidnapped and is now a high class hooker by night and factory worker by day. She will be 50 when her debts are paid and will have no savings and will look every bit the part of a worn out version of her unchosen profession. This sounds far fetched? It is already happening to women (and men) all over the world. Slavery is real and using it to repay debts is nothing new. I know it does sound surreal, but in every society that employed the kinds of powers Bush-Obama ask for, the real undertone has always been economics. Forced labor without recompense. In Nazi germany it was IG Farben and a host of other well connected companies that enslaved the Jews (and Poles/Slaves/Communists.. the list got longer the more labor that was needed), for profit. In America we had slavery for 200 years. Why? Economics. You do not have to pay the laborers for their work. I submit to you that this is what out elite really want, a labor pool to pay off debts, make a profit and have the ability to detain (or kill) any potential troublemaker to the coming slave empire. MOst of you will think I am off my rocker. The same folks who thought I was off my rocker when I said GM would fail some 5 years ago, and that the US would be facing a dire economic crisis. Yes, I was crazy then. As crazy then as now because today, to tell the truth and to accurately see things as they really are is outside of normal human behavior. Normal human behavior is going to put 'normal people' in a labor camp or torture facility. I suggest you adopt a few abnormal tendencies like removing those mental blinders so you can see where you are going.

Why do you think the Supreme Court (men like Roberts/Thomas/Alito/Scalia) have such a hatred for civil and constitutional rights. Who put him in there and why? The Chief Justice is a guy who seemed to have just too much trouble swearing in America's first Black President, and never did get it right. It appears the Justice Roberts does not think Blacks have a right to vote, let alone be President.

He produced a torrent of memorandums explaining why the Reagan administration was right to oppose new provisions in the Voting Rights Act that had just passed the House with an overwhelming majority.

He drafted op-ed articles for his boss, Attorney General William French Smith, and he circulated talking points warning that Congress - by trying to make it easier to prove voting rights violations - was on the verge of creating "a quota system for electoral politics." He scribbled angry notes on newspaper articles that showed an official from another department was veering off-message.

It was 1981 and John G. Roberts Jr. was 26, two years out of Harvard Law School and an eager combatant in the political wars - including the one over the landmark 1965 Voting Rights Act, which was up for renewal in Congress. In general, he wrote to one of his mentors after three months on the job: "This is an exciting time to be at the Justice Department. So much that has been taken for granted for so long is being seriously reconsidered."

With his position as a special assistant to the attorney general, Mr. Roberts became engaged in one of the most bitterly divisive struggles of the Reagan revolution - the effort to develop a new, more conservative approach to civil rights and voting rights, according to documents released by the National Archives. - NYT

Men like this are part and parcel of the problem, they usually rule against rights for ordinary people (black, white, or hispanic) and usually rule in favor of the further amalgamtion of corporate power, reduced corporate accountability and for exploitative labor practices. That is the underlying philosophy behind their rulings and the thread has so many strands to itself that it is now a rope.. by which to hang the US constitution and the ordinary citizen, without trial.

This, dear readers is the real aim of both parties. To destroy the America that gave us freedom, inventiveness, technology and openness and replace it with a violent, militaristic empire based on one morality.

Profit.

Is it the prison industrial-complex and the floating populations of globalization's labor excess passing the baton in some sort of spatial relay? -- the recycling of old prison architecture for the expansion of labor marketplace exploitation?

If anything, the barges give these corporations the flexibility now to scoop up hundreds or even thousands of desperate workers like these stranded in an Italian warehouse, and provide a bare bones option for shipping and housing them to and from construction sites all over -- like the cargo industry of human labor. They're floating labor camps, seabound slums, theoretically tolerable migrant housing “converted” out of old prison barges. - Floating Labor Camps

War on Terror? No this is a war on the rights of people (all over the earth) to eat the fruit of their own labor. The war on terror is just the excuse they are using to get you to agree to it. It it looks to me that humanity is just dumb enough for them to pull it off. Do we really want to win the War on terror? No. To win would be a major failure in the covert policy. How could we win, if we really wanted to? Well, let me quote my favorite playwright and poet, Mr. Bill Shakespeare.

We give express charge, that in our marches through the country,
there be nothing compelled from the villages, nothing taken but paid for,
none of the French upbraided or abused in disdainful language;
for when lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom,
the gentler gamester is the soonest winner. - Henry V: Act III, Scene VI

Christians did you support this system of death, torture and murder? Then I can assure you that your name is on the top of the devils list when he gets the go ahead to persecute Christians to the death.


And I mean the very top. Why will God allow it? To purge this very great wickedness from your soul, that your spirit *may* be saved.

And I say unto you my friends, Be not afraid of them that kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do. But I will forewarn you whom ye shall fear: Fear him, which after he hath killed hath power to cast into hell; yea, I say unto you, Fear him. - (Luk 12:4-5)

Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets. - (Mat 7:12)

Do you want to be kidnapped, held indefinitely without trial, hearing without anyone knowing where you are in strict secrecy to be tortured till you die? Keep on supporting this evil and you will get your wish.

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Federal Reserve Subpoenaed - USAT
House lawmakers on Tuesday said they have subpoenaed the Federal Reserve to hand over e-mails, notes and other documents related to its role in Bank of America Corp.'s acquisition of Merrill Lynch & Co.

The lawmakers' subpoena comes after claims that top government officials pressured Bank of America Corp. CEO Ken Lewis to complete the bank's purchase of Merrill Lynch, threatening his job security. Lewis has testified that he had been advised by the officials, former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, not to disclose details of Merrill Lynch's difficult financial position, according to New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo. (begin excerpt)

Where will this go? Nowhere. Cuomo I think is the only real person who wants to get to the bottom of it, and thankfully, the President appears to be supportive of it and doesn't seem to trust his own justice Department with this (smart man). Cuomo is also investigating modification companies. Clearly those things Obama can't get Clinton Holder to do, he is getting Cuomo to do. I am well informed that Obama and Cuomo talk regularly. The President's problem? Simple and it and come in both male and female versions and infects his administration like the ebola virus.

China Car Sales Jump - Bloomberg
Beijing drivers, used to leaving showrooms with new cars the same day, now have to wait about three weeks for a Hyundai Motor Co. Yuedong Elantra, China’s bestselling car, or as long as eight weeks for a Honda Motor Co. CR-V sport-utility vehicle. Carmakers failed to predict a 14 percent sales jump caused by an economic rebound, tax cuts and subsidies and are now trying to raise Chinese output even as they cut U.S. and European production on plunging sales.

“We are having headaches and shortages because the automaker can’t make enough Yuedongs,” said Li Minghui, a salesman at dealership Beijing Hyundai Boshishan. “We expected sales to pick up at the beginning of this year, but it’s beyond our imagination that it would be this good.”

Russia To Move Out Of Treasuries, Into IMF Bonds
Russia’s central bank may switch some of its reserves from Treasuries to International Monetary Fund bonds, the bank’s first deputy chairman, Alexei Ulyukayev, said in Moscow today. His comments were confirmed by a bank official who declined to be named, citing bank policy.

Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin said last month that Russia planned to buy $10 billion of IMF bonds using money from its foreign reserves.

Mining And Water Safety Do Not Mix - IRIN
Every day 300 million litres of water laced with sulphuric acid and heavy metals, known as acid mine drainage (AMD), bubbles to the surface around South Africa's biggest city, Johannesburg...

AMD is perhaps one of the most pernicious legacies of South Africa's long mining history. It occurs when rain or groundwater mixes with the chemical sludge found in mine shafts, becoming contaminated with everything from uranium to sulphuric acid and a host of carcinogenic heavy metals.

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Israel Seizes Catholic Churches - JTA
The reports Monday in the Italian media and from a Church news agency did not name the institutions in question, but said the action had been carried out by the Finance Ministry's chief tax collector, Yehezkel Abrahamoff. Israel is pressing for payment of disputed tax demands. (end excerpt)

Later reports deny this.

The Politics of Betrayal - Malcolm Hedding
It is nothing short of astonishing to note the “agenda driven” politics of today. It gives lip service to grand ideals, “papers over” the truth in order to distort the reality, and in the end amounts to betrayal. This is the picture that is unfolding before our eyes concerning Israel and her battle for survival. Even her modern day historical narrative is being denied in order to achieve certain global goals. Caught in this “web of intrigue”, the tiny nation of Israel “twists and turns” in order to somehow appease its allies who have now decided that a “two state solution” is the only way forward for her. This in spite of the following:(end excerpt)

Despite all of the anti-semtic rhetoric coming out of the progressive sites. Israel has done a great deal over the years for peace, giving up land, granting sovereignty and all she gets is grief and terrorist attacks as well as the rants of half(?)-crazed propagandists (aka progressives) whose minds are so blinded with hatred of Jews that their analysis is pitifully unbalanced against the Jewish state.

This is a good piece because if for no other reason it asks, in a place that is at war with itself like the Palestinian occupied territories, with whom do you negotiate for 'peace'?

Zimbabwean Nightmare Of Neglect Continues In South Africa - MSF
Violence, sexual abuse, harassment, appalling living conditions, and a serious lack of access to essential healthcare define the desperate lives of thousands of Zimbabweans in South Africa today, warned the international medical humanitarian aid organization, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF).

Recent developments in Zimbabwe and South Africa have done little to alter the fact that scores of Zimbabweans continue to flee to South Africa as a matter of survival. Once they cross the border, their living conditions hardly improve. MSF is calling on the government of South Africa and United Nations (UN) agencies to urgently address the specific humanitarian needs of vulnerable Zimbabweans falling through the cracks of South African society.

Fellowship Told Not To Use Name Of God Or Jesus - Great Separation
The City of Tulsa and the federal government may shut down summer Bible clubs in poor apartment complexes because someone thinks federal policy prohibits religious activity.

A leader of the Bible group said she was told unless club leaders agree not to say “God” or “Jesus” during their lessons at public community centers, they would be forced to take their Bible classes elsewhere.

For more than 10 years, Child Evangelism Fellowship has conducted Bible lessons for children in federally subsidized housing projects. This summer, an employee of Youth at Heart, a United Way agency formed in 2003, informed CEF that according to federal policy, the Bible clubs could continue in the centers but leaders couldn’t say the names of God or Jesus.

Mexico's Drug Related Violence - FAS/CRS
One of those excellent background papers from the Congressional Research Service in PDF form.

Fed Said To Retreat From Power To Issue Own Paper - Bloomberg
The Federal Reserve has backed off from seeking a new tool to forestall inflation, refraining from asking Congress for the power to issue its own debt, according to a person familiar with the matter.

Putting off the issue may avoid a political clash over whether the Fed should begin winding down its emergency lending programs while unemployment remains elevated. The central bank intends to rely instead on paying interest on banks’ reserve deposits to prevent a flood of cash into the economy. (end excerpt)

Paul Craig Roberts has a good take on some of the moves by the Fed. Mr. Roberts is usually spot on with his analysis, which is why no one in Washington listens to him. You see this debt, may (or may not be) subject to congressional debt limits and this of course would be a problem.



The problem that no one wants to see in Washington is that we spend too much money, not that the Fed doesn't have enough authority. We fight the most lunatic wars known to man. Wars that can never be won that costs hundreds of billions of dollars and this is why America needs to continue to borrow so much money. The bloated, corrupt and inefficient Defense/National Security establishment.

Until the latest of our world conflicts, the United States had no armaments industry. American makers of plowshares could, with time and as required, make swords as well. But now we can no longer risk emergency improvisation of national defense; we have been compelled to create a permanent armaments industry of vast proportions. Added to this, three and a half million men and women are directly engaged in the defense establishment. We annually spend on military security more than the net income of all United States corporations.

This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence -- economic, political, even spiritual -- is felt in every city, every State house, every office of the Federal government. We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. Our toil, resources and livelihood are all involved; so is the very structure of our society.

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the militaryindustrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together. - President Eisenhower, 1961

The Death Of Christianity? Not So Fast... - World Magazine
Sometimes it seems that an atheistic tsunami has hit. Anti-Christian books land high on bestseller lists. Polls purportedly show a decline in belief. Newsweek this spring had one of its traditional Easter cover stories on "The Decline and Fall of Christian America."

Whenever the conventional wisdom points in a particular direction it's good practice to ask: What if the opposite is true? What if nominal Christian affiliation is declining but serious biblical belief is actually on the rise? What if Christianity in America is not dying, but instead getting its second wind—or maybe its sixth wind?

So Who Is Buying Your Congressperson's Seat Next year? Open Secrets
One of those excellent background papers from the Congressional Research Service in PDF form.

The Fall Of Babylon - A Vision (given by Darren Smith)
Last night while praying before I went to bed, The Lord gave me a vision that really rattled me. In the vision I saw this land split into four parts with each one under its own flag. Each region had terrible destruction and many people were dead. As I looked over the destruction I was crying and the Lord asked me, "Why are you crying over the fall of Babylon? As a matter of fact, why have you been praying for the healing of Babylon?"

In this vision I didn't have an answer and the Lord opened a scroll and started reading off the indictments against our country, but before each one he clearly called the USA Babylon.

The list was long and to the point, with such points as the killing of several generations of unborn children. Beside this charge He added that these babies had been sacrificed to the god of self. The list also included greed, idolatry, pride, fornication, and many others, so many I could not even read them all.

As I looked at the list of charges I was overwhelmed and broken by the fact that we live every day in a nation that is so far removed from God and in total opposition to the Kingdom of God, yet we are comfortable here. We have become just like Lot living in Sodom, the prosperity that the nation offers us has blinded us from the evil that rules this land. We complain about how bad it is but still stay attached to it with every ounce of strength we have.

The Lord told me to look at the nation as He sees it, not through my eyes but through His. I could not look too long before I had to agree and repent of loving Babylon. Once I repented the Lord told me to prepare for the fall as time is running out. I must preach the Gospel of The Kingdom not the Gospel of America. America is already judged, the time of shaking is now and will increase rapidly this summer. Water shortages and food shortages will become common this summer, as well as fuel shortages. Civil unrest will become common place in large cities first but will spill over into the rural areas as well... rest of vision here. (end excerpt)

I ask each of you to take heed of this message. I usually do not post visions in this news section (as you know) but this one leaped out at me as I was surfing the net on Saturday. Brother Smith's word seems to line up pretty much as the Lord revealed to me. I too was told many of the things here in but most of them a few years ago. That the Lord was sorely displeased with America, that we were already judged and that the time remaining was for Christians to prepare their hearts, minds and spirits for what was to come, for its arrival in one form or another was (is) a certainty.

For many years I have shown my readers both in the spiritual and in the natural just what is going on in this nation and just how vile and corrupt we as nation are. There is no restraint in this nation.

Leaders and bankers rob our Treasury of trillions of dollars ship them overseas to foreign banks and the people simply do not care.

Millions of babies are slaughtered in the womb and it is a protected right.

The Church is full of men who sell their prophecies and word's from the Lord against he express commandments of the Lord.

The government spies on Americans to a far greater degree than the German Gestapo and no one marks it

We slaughter millions of people in wars make millions more refugees all to defend lies, oil contracts and the 'face' of our leaders

We murder people, leaders, Priests in far off lands in secret to stop the poor from receiving justice, land and peace.

We build secret weapons whose killing power will exceed even the weapons we have now, stealing money from the sick and the old to build them in order to kill yet more people

We have made it illegal to disciple children based on Biblical admonitions.

We have made unrepentant sex sin both a 'right' and a cash cow for the unscrupulous.

Rather than shame for these abominable acts, there is 'pride'.

We dope our children up with anti-dpressents at an age when their brains are still forming

Our leaders are involved in some of the most vile sex-sins imaginable. Truly sick things that would turn a persons stomach.

Many of our leaders are in the pay of foreign governments, in short they are spies and no one goes after them, though the evidence against them reaches as High as Mount Everest.

We torture people, including children, deny them any kind of justice and sometimes murder them in our death camps and bury them in secret.

We have leaders and powerful personages who run their own death and murder squads and run their own personal concentration camps. Federal law enforcement knows about it and does nothing.

Our leaders and media lie so often it is nearly impossible to ascertain the truth

People do not want truth which is why we have the leaders we have today.

Many of my readers get put off when I speak of God's judgment. They want to pretend there is no God. They want to pretend that God will not hold them and our nation accountable. I am here to bear witness that he will hold the nation and individual people fully accountable for their actions. If there is one news story that needs to be told far and wide is the impending fall of Babylon. The destruction of her morality, her economy and soon there after the very fabric of her society.

I am watching the deep mental disintegration of her people with amazement. I am often genuinely struck by the kinds of illogical conclusions that people draw from the obvious facts staring them in their faces. Look at California. Take a hard look at her rapidly changing ethnic makeup. It has become almost totally Hispanic. My old High School used to be a healthy mix of all different races. White, Black Latino (Chicano's as they were called back in the day) and Asians. That is no longer true, it is heavily Hispanic now. Where did all of these people come from? Well I can't tell you were they all came from but I can tell you where some of them did.







More Here.

I don't want to get on the anti-immigrant bandwagon because they are not to blame. If the American people are so mentally disabled that they cannot see where this is leading and what it means then there is no hope for America.

I am here to tell you there is no hope for America.

But there may be hope for you if you open your eyes and begin to see things as God sees them and turn off those mental blinders that keeps your cerebral synapses from sending those vital electro-chemical messages from one cell to the other, a process known as thought.

Look at California. They cannot pay their bills. I expect the State to start seriously talking about bankruptcy by years end (which may be what the Governor's obvious incompetence is designed to bring about there is a 200 billion dollar cash cow he wants to give to his friends). Why is this happening? Part of it, probably most of it is due to the state's inability to provide services for millions of people who are not in America legally. No one wants to touch the political hot potato of illegal immigration so they just keep coming, draining medical facilities so bad that they can no longer afford to stay in business. Draining the states resources so that it too, cannot afford to stay in business. What happens next is the legislators try to steal everything in site, State Parks, State property, Pension funds in order to provide services to illegal immigrants, while Americans who were too dumb or too evil to care and are literally put out on the street.

I also feel led to say this too, never kick a man or woman when they are down, even if they probably deserve it. Assist those in need and that means the homeless. Show love and mercy to those in need and God will show you the same.

America, that once great nation has given itself over to her enemies and she does not even know that her doom is pronounced. But I have to say this as well, anyone with any understanding of what is happening in this nation and how many nations around the world have been working day and night to bring us down, could have seen this coming. We have a massive invasion of people coming from a nation where a bloody and violent civil war is raging, some of the belligerents getting training from Islamic terror organizations and a 10 year old could have figured this out. The problem is our leaders and policy makers have been carefully trained not to see the obvious, unless it means billions of dollars in government contracts. They have also been trained to marginalize or fire anyone who points out the obvious problems that doesn't lead to these contracts. These soon to be marginalized people might actually fix the problem, a potential killer to future contracts. Can't have that now can we?

Does anyone really get it? Yes a few. Those really in the know will privately tell you they know we are 'toast'. So what do I see?

Just what the vision above says the ultimate disintegration of America. I have said it before and I will say it again. I see a breakdown in the the social fabric of the nation. I do not see it so much for other nations who will also be deeply effected by this crisis though political tensions in the EU might force serious changes. But Americans are not going to understand what is happening and going to be quick to fall for any propaganda that comes their way and you will see serious disruptions. You will see racist propaganda, scapegoating of every dimension and people being whipped up into a frenzy of hate, fear and anger. Much of it will come from the real culprits of our crisis, the rulers of the great city, as they try and misdirect popular anger away from their own criminality.

America will change significantly by the time this crisis is all said and done. She will be less affluent, less militaristic and less cohesive when the dust finally settles. I see serious tensions ahead for America and her policy makers ahead. Major political conflict will come to pass in the areas of defense spending and entitlements. Some may turn to 'unconventional means' in order to maintain America's military empire. The same can be said of her banking empires. The pillars of American power have really been under assault since 911 and many of the elements who benefited from those attacks are part of the problem today. They hail from what can only be called the 'imperial' side of America's establishment. Their primary goal is to maintain America's empire as long as possible. They can and have used ruthless methods in the past and will do so again, should they feel it necessary to maintain and even expand that empire. This is not to say that these forces of the Military Industrial Complex (MID) and monolithic or have total control over the government. They do not. But they do have enough influence to see to it that Budgets as well as key National Intelligence assessments reflect their interests first and the nations second.

Also it is important to note that all of the tools of political repression are present in America and have been for several decades. However, they have rarely been openly displayed in a full force method. More clandestine methods of repression have been noted throughout US history, most notably in the 1960's and during the Bush administration. Deadly political repression and Americanism are viewed synonymously by many of the world's poorest. All of this is said to get some perspective on the kinds of things America can expect as 2009 rolls on and 2010 comes in and things are not better, but are worse and and worsening. - Breakdown

I wrote that a few months ago and nothing has changed to make me think what I wrote needs to be altered. This is going to be a massive debt collapse and will usher in big changes.

So how does this figure in with Bible Prophecy. How can Babylon be destroyed and survive? How can you say that hard times are coming when the bible says her fall will be sudden and final?

This is a not so atypical question I get. The key here is in the bible and from it we get the answer, it is in plain simple black and white but like so many verses it is ignored or passed over without folks understanding what it means.

For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled. And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth. (Rev 17:17-18)

This city if you read Chapters 17 and 18 of the above referenced scriptures can only be one city on earth. Let no one try and tell you to ignore the obvious. It is the place where the seat of the beast is, the nacent one world system, that is not quite complete and not quite in its final form. But yes, there is a mystery involved. Why? Because the harlot is most deceptive as is the system she has ruled over. Most Christians cannot see it because they are deeply in love with this harlot. It has been said by poets and songwriters that love is blindness. In this instance, what they say is true. Thankfully some do see it and understand the horrific ramifications of this fact. A system of seven empires (five former), ten nations with the eleventh added later.

The G10 are:

1. Belgium
2. Canada
3. France
4. Germany
5. Italy
6. Japan
7. Netherlands
8. Sweden
9. Switzerland (Number 11)
10. United Kingdom
11. United States

What? There are actually eleven nations listed. How can that be?

And the ten horns out of this kingdom [are] ten kings [that] shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings. (Dan 7:24)

These kings have not come into their final form yet. A new system will come in and a period of transition will come into being, a prophetic 'one hour" during that time the ten kings will be given full authority and will hatch their plot to destroy the harlot once again in one hour.

Also let me make this clear I am not (repeat NOT) saying that the above are definitely the 10 kings prophesied. Perhaps they are and perhaps 10 are waiting in the wings so to speak to be revealed in that final hour (one hour propheticaly) to destroy the harlot. Who these may be has been explored already on this site on numerous places (see links below) and will not be recounted here. Rev 17:16 And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.

(Rev 17:12) And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.

(Rev 18:10) Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas, that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.

(Rev 18:17) For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,

(Rev 18:19) And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas, that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.

And it rules over a system of seven empires, five of which were fallen empires at the time of its formation.

1. France (fallen - Napoleon)
2. Germany (fallen - Hitler)
3. Italy (fallen - Rome)
4. UK (Fallen - Britsh Empire - Now Commonwealth)
5. Japan (Fallen - Japanese Empire)
6. Canada (Never an Empire)
7. US (IS until she falls)

To be followed by another...

Rev 17:10-12 - And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space. (11) And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition. (12) And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.

Who is the eight, even the one that was, is not yet is (was an Empire, is no longer but will rise again). Who Am I talking about? Russia of course! All of these things line up so well it is hard for me to understand why people mock and poo-poo this. The players are (and must be, if the prophecy is correct) be the world's major global players in the last days. So how can they place these entities in ancient past, empires that died long before the iron age?! Go figure.

Yet, what I say here is not by way of prophetic word but as a dedicated student of the bible and the prophetic word thereof. So take what I say here in that light. Many of you will not agree. Do not argue with me, Go and argue with God or with the G8 or with the G7 or with your bible or your newspapers,. Don't argue with me. The evidence is staring us all in the face in our daily headlines but if you are one of those who buys prophecy books off the shelf you are apt to be fooled in these times. God is not going to reveal these mysteries to those who engage in the sale of bible prophecy. That is a strict no-no. For as the prophet linked above wrote, Your Prophets Practice Divination for Pay. There may have been a time when God winked at such behavior, but not anymore. Babylon, her leaders, her idols, her fornications, her greed, her murderous government, her perverted population are going to be judged and judged most harshly and soon.

Do you love Christ? Come out of the system as mush as you can. Stay away from the evils of Modern Americanism and do not love that which is evil, but rather love and 'cleave to that which is good'.

Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good. - (Rom 12:9)

In the meantime, we are still commanded to pray for our leaders and I think our President needs it more than he shows. So do find the time to lift him up in prayer as the spirit leads.

http://www.888c.com/yDD49.htm

http://www.markswatson.com/WebSite/babylon_1.htm

http://www.markswatson.com/BAB.pdf

http://www.markswatson.com/sevenpluseight.pdf

http://www.markswatson.com/acwho.htm  

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Schwarzeneggar Refuses To Admit Cost Of Illegal Immigration - MSNBC
Arnold is out of touch and lacks the political courage to identify some of the states key problems. If he cannot identify the problems he certainly cannot bring in any solutions. While it may be true that illegal immigration re not to blame for all of California's fiscal woes, they are to blame for a great many of them. The governor is just pandering. That kind of pandering has put the state in crisis. It is time for him to start dealing in reality or the states residents to get him out of office before he 'terminates' what is left of the most scenic and populous states in the union.

Temp Work Covers Up Depth Of Unemployment - MSNBC
The AP does a good job of telling us the trends behind the unemployment numbers we see. This is a good read.

Obama To Turn Intel Eye South Of The Border - ONDP
This is just the press release without the spin. On the page is a link with the whole Southwest drug strategy linked in pdf form.

This needs to be done. I can fault the President for a lot of things but securing our borders needs to be one of the top 5 things this President deals with.

UK: Police Arrest Youths Just To Get DNA - Aftermath
A total of 386 under-18s had their DNA taken and stored by police last year in one north London borough – more than one a day.

An experience officer working for the Metropolitan Police admitted the DNA was being stored as part of a ‘long-term crime prevention strategy’.

The officer said: ‘We are often told that we have just one chance to get that DNA sample and if we miss it then that might mean a rape or a murder goes unsolved in the future.’

He added: ‘Have we got targets for young people who have not been arrested yet? The answer is yes.

When I read stories like this, I have to wonder if FDR did the right thing in coming to the aid of Britain during WWII. The Nazi's were bad, but what is happening in the UK today is hardly better than the early years of Nszi Germany.

Odious Obama: Preventative Detention - Slaon
In the wake of Obama's speech yesterday, there are vast numbers of new converts who now support indefinite "preventive detention." It thus seems constructive to have as dispassionate and fact-based discussion as possible of the implications of "preventive detention" and Obama's related detention proposals (military commissions). I'll have a podcast discussion on this topic a little bit later today with the ACLU's Ben Wizner, which I'll add below, but until then, here are some facts and other points worth noting: (end excerpt)

This is some really, really scary stuff. Just put somebody in jail you don't like because you don't have the evidence to convict? Obama is once again, reading from the book of Hitler - chapter 6 verse 66. President Obama can probably find the legal justification for this move by going back and reading the writings of Mao, Hitler, Stalin and Pol Pot. However no such justification is found in the US constitution. Be careful Mr. Obama, your swastika's are showing.

Now he is considering allowing guilty pleas and confessions obtained under torture to be used as admissions of guilt in capital cases.

Much of the evidence against the men accused in the Sept. 11 case, as well as against other detainees, is believed to have come from confessions they gave during intense interrogations at secret C.I.A. prisons. In any proceeding, the reliability of those statements would be challenged, making trials difficult and drawing new political pressure over detainee treatment. - NYT

Accounting Tricks Behind Banks Profits - Bloomberg
Citigroup’s $1.6 billion in first-quarter profit would vanish if accounting were more stringent, says Martin Weiss of Weiss Research Inc. in Jupiter, Florida. “The big banks’ profits were totally bogus,” says Weiss, whose 38-year-old firm rates financial companies. “The new accounting rules, the stress tests: They’re all part of a major effort to put lipstick on a pig.” Further deterioration of loans will eventually force banks to recognize losses that their bookkeeping lets them ignore for now, says David Sherman, an accounting professor at Northeastern University in Boston. Janet Tavakoli, president of Tavakoli Structured Finance Inc. in Chicago, says the government stress scenarios underestimate how bad the economy may get. (end excerpt)

Welcome to the "Smoke and Mirror Accounting System" a new system prevalent among Americans biggest banks. Smoke provided by Obama, mirrors by Mr. Bernanke, Presented in HD by Mr. Timothy Geithner.

Global Panic Inside White House? - Gold Seek
I was watching the NBC special called "Inside the White House" last night and was struck by a meeting with Larry Summers and the President.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30892505/#31073805

It was touted as an "all access" day in the life of the President but at 7:15 minutes into Part 1 Larry Summers and a man who I believe is Austan Goolsbee come into the Oval Office for a call with "the Germans". Summers is obviously on edge and shuts down the cameras when he begins to discuss the problem.

Summers: "Life has changed..ahh..since the briefing…ahh”

Obama: "For the better or for the worse?"

Goolsbee: "Net-net for the better…wouldn’t you say Larry?" (Goolsbee speaks loudly and unconvincingly for the cameras.)

Summers: “(nervous laugh)..there’s elements of both. The Germans...actually we should stop (the cameras) here."

The cameras and staff are quickly “ushered out” of the Oval Office

A Rapid Harsh Turn Against Israel - MEF
If the specifics of who-lives-where have little strategic import, the Obama administration's rapid and harsh turn against Israel has potentially great significance. Not only did the administration end George W. Bush's focus on changes on the Palestinian side but it even disregarded oral understandings Bush had reached with Ariel Sharon and Ehud Olmert. Yasir Arafat smiles as Barack Obama meets Mahmoud Abbas in July 2008. An article by Jackson Diehl of the Washington Post captures this shift most vividly. Diehl notes, based on an interview with Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority, that by publicly and repeatedly stressing the need for a without-exception freeze of Israeli building on the West Bank...(end excerpt)

Couple this with the sudden turn Obama is making towards the Islamic world. As I said some time ago, I think Obama's prophetic role is going to be the catalyst to bring together the Beast Bystem and the False Prophet. That is my increasingly confirmed view as I read the headlines. Many feel that Obama is merely trying to regain the trust of the Muslim world. I have no real qualm with that, but with Obama, what you see is never what you get.

This man is a chameleon who is the smoothest con-man I have ever seen on the American political scene. I have yet to see him actually keep most of his promises, broken most of them and people still love him.

Medical Bills Play A Role In 62% Of Bankruptcies - LAT
LIke the banking establishment in this nation, the Pharma establishment has far too much influence in Washington. If Washington wants to fix America's broken health care system, it must put people before corporate profits and yes that inclused the President, who seems to want to appear to be on the people side but opposes anything that really would help them, like a single payer plan. I think one solution would be to break the monopolies by allowing non-establishment medical practitioners to practice certain kinds of (non-surgical) medicine without harassment from the Government. Allow the old General practitioner to become once again the solution for people by reducing significantly mal-practice liability for very small clinics and single GP doctors, who were run out of business when their Malpratice insurance got to be so high. Reduce the total amount that any malpractice policy can legally cover and pay so that the intention of a malpractice lawsuit is put into force - to punish bad actors, not cause everyone's medical bills and insurance to rise to intolarable levels.

Monetize Or Our System Collapses - International Forecaster
Re-emergence of dollar vulnerability has taken almost all professionals by surprise. That has been prompted by the expansion of the Fed’s balance sheet, the upward movement in interest rates and the massive monetization that has been underway for some time. The Fed like many other central banks has been extending money and credit for the past 5-1/2 years. Those who watch closely were well aware of this. That is why the Fed has not published M3 for three years. Official Fed interest rates may be zero but real market has them higher than 3-1/2% in the long end of the market. Investors have finally fixated on the massive monetization in progress. If the Fed does not monetize the system collapses. In order to save the system the dollar has to be sacrificed. This needless to say is a very distasteful choice for the Fed. They can no longer have it both ways. The perceived result is hyperinflation, which we have forecast for some time.(end excerpt)

A good history lesson on how we got where are are today. Men like Mr. Chapman have warned about this day of reckoning for years. It is now upon us. We are following a patter that is as predictable as the sunrise. It ends in hyperinflation and national bankruptcy.

Russians Get GM's Opel Division - Jamestown
A "friends-of-Putin" consortium is about to acquire the German automobile manufacturer Opel, a subsidiary of the bankrupt U.S. company General Motors. The move is seen as the largest industrial acquisition in Europe by Russian interests since 1991. It marks an advance in the expansion of Russian state-connected capital within Europe, beyond the energy sector into manufacturing. And it illustrates a Russo-German process of economic interlocking with strategic implications, which began during Social-Democrat Gerhard Schroeder's chancellorship and continues on Christian-Democrat Chancellor Angela Merkel's watch.(end excerpt)

Russia and China benefit from the Bankruptcy of America's once mighty industrial powerhouse.

Know Privacy
An interesting site dealing in web privacy issues. Web bugs, affiliate programs are all talked about.

36 Gang Members Busted With 69 Guns - Action3 News
The seized firearms included 14 assault rifles and a sniper rifle. A spokesman for ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) says the firearms were sold to a government informant, who told the gang members he planned to ship the firearms to Mexico's drug cartels.

How Russia Tracks And Represses Dissidents - The Other Russia
As it turns out, the Russian police are creating databases used to the track the movements of law-abiding citizens. The project is overseen by a new department for countering extremism within the Russian police, but often targeted at individuals for no reason other than their political views or activism.

Journalist Irina Borogan documents these “black lists” in the third in a series of articles documenting the government campaign to battle extremism and strengthen control over the public. The series is a joint project between the Yezhednevny Zhurnal online newspaper and the Agentura.ru web portal, which specializes in investigating Russia’s intelligence agencies.

Obama Refuses To Address Christian Persecution In Cairo Speech - Persecution Blog
If you're like me you were waiting to see if President Obama was going to mention the Christian persecution that often takes place at the hands of militant Islam, in his speech in Cairo. Sadly, but not surprising, Obama didn't say one word about Christian persecution.

What Obama did do however, was tout his Muslim heritage by saying, "Now part of this conviction is rooted in my own experience. I'm a Christian, but my father came from a Kenyan family that includes generations of Muslims. As a boy, I spent several years in Indonesia and heard the call of the azaan at the break of dawn and at the fall of dusk. As a young man, I worked in Chicago communities where many found dignity and peace in their Muslim faith."(end excerpt)

You can find hundreds of stories on the net about how Christians are often treaded in Egypt and throughout the Muslim world. Obama talks of tolerance for everyone, everyone it seems EXCEPT Christians.

Little gestures (like bowing before a foreign ruler) and ommissions like the one noted above are very important when a head of state visits another country and this omission was hardly an oversight.

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Enter The Chummer: China Buys Hummer - LAT
Now you know why Geithner went to China and what China wanted. Remember what I said yesterday? China wants something in return for any further support of our dollar. They want real assets to purchase with all of those dollars they accumulated. Need I mention that Hummer is a major defense contractor? The US? Folks we are a dead duck and soon you will know jut what I mean. Major cuts are coming for ordinary Americans and major budgetary increases are coming for major corporations, defense contractors and secret government programs. Obama has already promised them the the money. So what will he do? He will go after granny's retirement check and her medical care.

We are a long way away from any kind of recovery as we have no industrial (tradeable) base for such a recovery. Obama's hope for a biotech-revolution is going to sputter because no one in the US will be able to afford it for themselves. I see a lot of trouble ahead for the US. An awful lot of trouble and until we come to terms with the whole idea of 'free-trade' I can tell you now, there will be no recovery in America. The only reason the US economy did not collapse back in the early 90's was because of the financial fraud and chicanery (ponzi scheme) that kept the financial markets soaring. Today, Obama's advisors are trying to reflate that bubble and that is not going to work. People, investors... no one has any confidence in Wall Street, despite what Bernanke says. How can you swindle a whole nation of trillons of dollars and have only a couple of scapegoats go to jail? I will tell you. You get a Black man who preaches change who is backed by the guys who stole the money to run for President. Get him to make outrageous promises to the befuddled masses, dupe them into voting for him and then let the ways of Washington and Wall Street go on as they did before. How can you get a man like Summers as a key Obama advisor and think the US economy will recover and do anyone, anywhere any good except the banksters and corporatists who are destroying the earth. This is a guy who thinks dumping toxic waste on Africans is good thing! And he is Obama's key advisor!

That bubble (falsely billed as prosperity) from the 1990's onwards was all false and based on fraud and false assumptions. So now the problems that should have been faced by our nation then (we have had nearly 20 years) will now be faced from a significantly weakened position. So let me give it to you in a nutshell.

More free Trade = Continued collapsing of the US economy

Merkel Mauls Central Banks - FT
It is about time somebody spoke out about what Western (G7) central banks are doing. It is mass insanity on a global scale and finally someone is calling out the Central banks.

Yet there is an aspect to all of this that is rather troubling and one that should not be discounted. I am going to pass a link on to you from a site that I have linked to before. The research on this site is excellent and the audio files found on it are quite good. So take some time download the audiofile if you can and listen most carefully. I think you will find it most interesting and may peak your curiosity.

This is a thesis I have long held and that many so called 'conspiracy books' have also elucidated on. Yet there is more than a little evidence than simply the overactive imaginations of a few writers. It is why I post this now.

FTR #671 Update on the Meltdown, Part 4 - Germany, the Underground Reich and the Global Financial Crisis

The program begins with an article noting German foreshadowing of the present global financial crisis more than 60 years ago. In a 1950 Circular Letter, Underground Reich functionaries noted that a U.S. economic collapse would open up great opportunities for a “new world order,” led by a newly ascendant Germany. Developing the thesis that the events foreseen in 1950 may have actually been engineered by the Federal Republic [of Germany], much of the broadcast features analysis attributing the financial collapse of 2008 to deliberate fiscal policy enacted by the German dominated European Central Bank.

Detroit: A Symbol Of A Dying America - Bloomberg
“People have no job, no home, no credit and no reason to stay,” said Bob Daddow, deputy executive of Oakland County in suburban Detroit, which expects to lose one-third of its property-tax revenue from 2007 to 2011. “We’re very much still on a downward spiral and we haven’t hit bottom yet. I don’t see anything that will be good with the bankruptcy of GM.”

One-third of the population of Detroit, GM’s hometown, lives in poverty. That’s the most of any U.S. city with more than 250,000 people and almost triple the national rate. Public schools graduate 32 percent of their students, according to a study by Michigan State University, compared with the national average of 72 percent.

Terrorist To Bio-Attack US? - Washington Times
U.S. counterterrorism officials have authenticated a video by an Al Qaeda recruiter threatening to smuggle a biological weapon into the United States via tunnels under the Mexico border, the latest sign of the terrorist group's determination to stage another mass-casualty attack on the U.S. homeland.

The Emergence Of Obama's Islamic Roots - Infowars
During the election, the Obama spin-machine downplayed – even tried to eradicate entirely – his Muslim roots and made the candidate out to be a devout Christian. He joined the United Church of Christ in an effort to purge any notion that he is a Muslim.

Barack Hussein Obama Sr., of Nyangoma-Kogelo, Kenya, was a Muslim. His parents divorced when Obama was two and his mother, Ann Dunham of Wichita, Kansas, married Lolo Soetoro, another Muslim. They moved to Jakarta, Indonesia, with Obama when he was six years old. Obama spent two years in a Muslim school in Indonesia and two more in a Catholic school.

“Widely distributed reports have noted in January 1968, Obama was registered as a Muslim at Jakarta’s Roman Catholic Franciscus Assisi Primary School under the name Barry Soetoro. He was listed as an Indonesian citizen whose stepfather, listed on school documents as ‘L Soetoro Ma,’ worked for the topography department of the Indonesian Army,” writes Aaron Klein for World Net Daily. “Catholic schools in Indonesia routinely accept non-Catholic students, but exempt them from studying religion.”

Obama’s Muslim studies were of the radical Wahabbi variety, although this is widely disputed. During the election, political opponents within the Democratic Party claimed Obama attended a madrassa in Indonesia. “Sources said the background check, conducted by researchers connected to Senator Clinton, disclosed details of Mr. Obama’s Muslim past. The sources said the Clinton camp concluded the Illinois Democrat concealed his prior Muslim faith and education,” the Washington Times and Times Online reported in January, 2007, citing a report published in Insight magazine.(end excerpt)

Political spin aside I think there is more to this than meets the eye. I am not saying Obama is a Muslim, nor am I saying that he wasn't backed by some powerful and rich people to do Islam's bidding either. I know Obama claims to be a Christian. but that is meaningless, so did Hitler. We Christians should discern by a mans works not his words and when their words are consistently broken their deeds should speak much louder. So while Obama is bowing before the King of Saudi Arabia and receiving honors from the king, the women of America should remember how women in that kingdom are treated -- more like animals and children than people.

Belorussian Church Faces Eviction - Worthy News
More persecution of non-state controlled churches in the Former Soviet Union.

UK Government Goes Into Crisis - FT
The sense of meltdown surrounding the British government worsened on Wednesday as the communities secretary joined the ranks of cabinet resignations and Gordon Brown, prime minister, faced heated challenges to his authority in the House of Commons.

Hazel Blears, communities secretary, announced she would step down on the same day that Jacqui Smith, the embattled home secretary, confirmed she would leave the government in a forthcoming cabinet reshuffle intended to reassert Mr Brown’s authority.

This followed a series of resignations by other cabinet ministers – apparently not co-ordinated – including Tom Watson, one of Mr Brown’s closest allies, and Beverley Hughes, children’s minister. Patricia Hewitt, a former cabinet minister, also made clear her intention to step down.

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Spiritual Warfare Part II
This look at the subject is decidedly different than the last one. This one looks at the effects of the Churches lost battles, why the Church looses them and what the effects will be for all of us. It also looks at some tactics that the Church can use to defeat the wiles of the enemy in the future. This is a long one (69 pages), so those of you wanting a 'five-minute sound bite' so you can go back to watching 'American Idol' will neither understand nor want to take the time to do so. This paper is written only for a few of my readers. Those that really want to understand the subject and win in this most important Spiritual War all the saints are in.

Some have asked why I do not write 'down' to more lay people. I do. I really do. What I have not been called to do is to talk 'baby talk' to those who should be able to stand upright and understand the times. So don't expect this article to change or to attempt to acquire a new audience of carnal Christians who have for years resisted the Holy Spirit, refuse to study their Bibles and would rather get drunk with their unsaved friends than know God. Teaching such people? That is not what this piece is about nor will any of my future writings be dealing with such individuals. I have ceased to explain the basics of our times to those who will not hear. The time for spiritual nursery rhymes is past. It is time to behave like grown men and women, mature in Christ and ready for the fight.

To him who has an ear, let him hear.

EU ASEAN Halt Free Trade Talks - Presna Latina
The most painful insect bite on Earth. OK, this is an offbeat story but hey, you learn something new everyday.

Mandatory Water Rationing is Here - City Watch
All Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) water customers are now subject to mandatory water conservation beginning Monday, as planned measures proposed by the Board of Water and Power Commissioners and approved by Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and the Los Angeles City Council go into effect. The two central aspects of mandatory water conservation include a new water pricing structure and restrictions on watering with sprinklers.

The modified water pricing schedule, known as shortage year rates, effectively reduces all LADWP water customers’ water allocations by 15 percent and raises the rate for any water used over and beyond the allocation. Shortage year rates are designed to send a strong price signal to customers to conserve water or pay a higher price for excessive water use. Customers who conserve and stay within their reduced allocations will not be impacted financially whereas those who exceed their allocations will see their bills rise. Customers already conserving 15% will not be affected.

Geithner Laughed At In China - Option Armageddon
Chinese kids are smarter than the average American.

California Bond Default Abyss - Bloomberg
Imagine, for example, that California returns to credit markets in the coming months simply to roll over some of its expiring debt. Maybe the state borrowed money from China for two years back in 2007 and now has to borrow again to give the Chinese their money back. What happens if, seeing the catastrophic budget situation, lenders decide to shun California altogether?

If that happens, California would have to default on its obligation to give the Chinese their money back. It might do so by extending the terms of the existing debt, but that would be, nonetheless, a default, and a run on California debt surely could ensue.

Murder Capital Of The World - Spirit Daily
We live in a culture of hatefulness, as well as a culture of death. Hate is heard all around. As for Dr. George Tiller: we can not judge him. We don't know what was going through his mind. He thought he was being compassionate -- or so it is portrayed. His father (who was killed with his mother and sister in a plane crash) was an abortionist. There were family issues here. There was at best spiritual blindness. Killed in a church!

There was also something very twisted here. The clinic owned by Dr. Tiller (who originally had wanted to be a dermatologist, but who took over the family practice) performed a reported 60,000 abortions -- many into the ninth month, the "late-term" ones often for reasons of "mental health" (or because a baby was seen as defective) and conducted by putting a drug in a long needle through the woman's abdomen and into the infant's beating heart.

In a fashion that can only be described as macabre, Dr. Tiller's clinic not only killed the unwanted child in chilling fashion, but offered: photographs of the mother with the child (if the parents wanted this, before disposal), "baptism" by a chaplain who regularly dropped by, footprints, handprints, a certificate of miscarriage, cremation, a urn, or burial in Wichita or wherever the mother chose. We had a link Monday showing one mother who terminated her baby for cystic fibrosis and posed cuddling the gruesomely aborted infant on a bed with flowers and a picture of Jesus. We removed the link because it is simply too upsetting. (end excerpt)

America is going under judgment. It is already starting in her economy but it certainly will not stop there. The God of all things cannot and will not let this kind of evil continue forever. America has had ample time to repent. She refuses. Judgment will surely follow. Those who hate the giver of life, love death and America shows her infatuation with death and evil in every part of her society. God cannot let this go on and remain a just God. Our sins cry out for recompense. Americans have shown this hatred for God in the works of their hands, the Presidents they elect, the way they fight their wars and treat the poor within its own borders.

Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not. Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors. For whoso findeth me findeth life, and shall obtain favour of the LORD. But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death. - (Pro 8:33-36)

Dollar Continues Descent - CNN

Shadow Wars - FPIF
The F-16s were Israeli, their target an alleged shipment of arms headed for the Gaza Strip. The Blackhawk soldiers were likely from Task Force 88, an ultra-secret U.S. Special Forces group. The Pakistanis were victims of a Predator drone directed from an airbase in southern Nevada.

Each attack was an act of war and drew angry responses from the country whose sovereignty was violated. But since no one admitted carrying them out, the diplomatic protests had no place to go.

The "privatization" of war, with its use of armed mercenaries, has come under heavy scrutiny, especially since a 2007 incident in Baghdad in which guards from Blackwater USA (now Xe) went on a shooting spree, killing 17 Iraqis and wounding scores of others. But the "covertization" of war has remained largely in the shadows. The attackers in the Sudan, Syria, and Pakistan were not private contractors, but U.S. and Israeli soldiers.(end excerpt)

Obama is only accellerating the trend Bush-Cheny started. So if you liked bush you will love Obama.

According to new statistics released by the Pentagon, with Barack Obama as commander in chief, there has been a 23% increase in the number of “Private Security Contractors” working for the Department of Defense in Iraq in the second quarter of 2009 and a 29% increase in Afghanistan, which “correlates to the build up of forces” in the country. These numbers relate explicitly to DoD security contractors. Companies like Blackwater and its successor Triple Canopy work on State Department contracts and it is unclear if these contractors are included in the over-all statistics. This means, the number of individual “security” contractors could be quite higher, as could the scope of their expansion.

Overall, contractors (armed and unarmed) now make up approximately 50% of the “total force in Centcom AOR [Area of Responsibility].” This means there are a whopping 242,657 contractors working on these two US wars. These statistics come from two reports just released by Gary J. Motsek, the Assistant Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (Program Support): “Contractor Support of U.S. Operations in USCENTCOM AOR, IRAQ, and Afghanistan and “Operational Contract Support, ‘State of the Union.’” - Roger Hollander's Blog

Source: DOD

Do you ever get the impression that Obama is really a highly advanced robot and the one who runs the controls is really Dick Cheney?



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North Korea: A Real Crisis? - WW
North Korea's nuclear test has done much to accentuate a serious problem everyone hopes would just fade away. Namely, North Korea's bellicosity and its nuclear program. These to facts, coupled with North Korea's (NK) desperate economic conditions and (according to many published reports) the questionable sanity, of its leader are deep reasons for concern on the international stage. What North Korea does is not clear. Even those inside Washington's Beltway are at a loss as to how to react as information from inside North Korea is extremely difficult to obtain.

IN short no one really knows what the North Korean government will do. The more desperate things get in North Korea, the more threatening moves she makes. While often these moves were done as diplomatic bluster in order to obtain aid from the World Community, this can no longer be assumed. The mental stability of its leader is being seriously questioned by those in the know. Indeed one person described NK's leader as having totally checked out of this world, mentally. Will North Korea invade the South and launch a crude nuclear device either on the south or on an area where opposing troops are stationed? Its leader is quite crazy enough to do it. Yet it must be noted that the nature of its closed society, begs the question of how reliable these reports are and now much is carefully constructed 'disinformatsiya'. It is not east to say. But the reports of the insanity of Kim, appear to be quite justified and from sources that are reliable enough to be believed.

What is the solution? The US has no palatable policy options. We have no real military force in the region that can effectively deal with an invasion from the North, despite the utterences of our Military leaders. All of our troops are fighting Muslims in Afghanistan, Iraq and Africa. We (the US) cannot stop an invasion of South Korea. However, once an invasion happened (if it did) it is highly doubtful the North could maintain any semblance of discipline in its own troops who are half starved and would be aghast at the wealth those in the South enjoy. Today, many are unaware that North Korea is truly a closed society. People only know what the government tells them and that is exclusively propaganda.

America will have to rely on China who has its own methods of dealing with the North. In fact, China has already let it be known that they will act. How, I know not, but word has reached the US that we are not to overreact when they make their move to deal with the situation.

So expect China to make some moves soon to deal with the situation in an effective manner, very much sooner rather than later. Look for the US to "owm 'em one" because everyone in Washington knows something must be done and soon.

Cybersecurity: A Top Priority For Obama - LAT
Obama promises new Cyber Security measures and then says private communications will not be monitored. This simply is not true, Obama's promises/procimations to the notwithstanding. Today the NSA and the FBI have taken extremely great pains to do exactly what Obama says is not happening, namely reading private communications of American citizens without warrant or cause. Your privacy services? For the most part... don't waste your money. Going by my earlier recommendations? Don't do it anymore. there are only a coup that are any good and who knows how long before Obama goes after them. Trust me, I know what I am talking about. Privacy on the Internet? The US is taking great pains to make it impossible. Utterly and technologically impossible. The kicker? They are making YOU pay for it.

Does Obama know this is going on in his administration? I doubt it, nor do I think anyone of his cabinet picks will ever tell him.

News may break in the near term that may not seem like much and may not even garner more than a couple of local headlines but will have enormous implications for privacy.

All of this is being done in secret so you never know just how vulnerable you really are.

But on another note. This whole Cyber-security thing while necessary, is going to be a failure and looks like just another trough for beltway bandits to get a big fat payday doing substandard work at top pay. Am I talking out of my backside?

No, I am not.

In 2002, Unisys won a deal valued at $1bn to build, secure and manage the IT infrastructure of the DHS headquarters and those of its affiliate, the Transportation Security Administration. The company then won a follow-on contract in early 2006, valued at $750m over three years.

As part of its work on these deals, Unisys was to install network-intrusion detection devices on the unclassified computer systems at the DHS and TSA offices, as well as monitoring these networks. According to data gathered by the House of Representatives Homeland Security Committee, Unisys failed to carry out these tasks successfully, meaning that the DHS was unaware of intrusions, beginning in 2006 and originating from Chinese web sites, for at least three months. - CBR Online

The Government Bond Glut - Prudent Bear
The theory that the People's Bank of China, the Bank of Japan and the various Middle Eastern central banks will buy more of this rubbish in order to protect their existing holdings will at some stage become false, and that refutation will probably happen suddenly. Prices will collapse, and further long-term funding will become impossible. Bonds of OECD governments will have ceased to be a risk-free asset.

Governments in the west UK and US in particular are now have to try and raise money to pay for all of those bailouts. It is not going to be a pretty story and inflation is going to come roaring back. We are already seeing the first signs of it, though it is being spun (rise in commodity prices) as green shoots of recovery. In reality it is inflation... dollar worth less oil costs more.

Look for more of this in the months to come and look for it to hit your grocery bill, heating bill and just about every bill as time passes. As the article states, look for the government to fudge numbers and tell us all is well, when we start to really feel it.

This is just how Obama wants to assist in solving our most serious economic crisis (let no one tell you this is over) - print your way out of debt.

Under President Barack Obama’s budget plan, the federal debt is exploding. To be precise, it is rising – and will continue to rise – much faster than gross domestic product, a measure of America’s ability to service it. The federal debt was equivalent to 41 per cent of GDP at the end of 2008; the Congressional Budget Office projects it will increase to 82 per cent of GDP in 10 years. With no change in policy, it could hit 100 per cent of GDP in just another five years. - FT

White Cop Shoots Black Cop - Times Online
NYPD has its problems and this story shows that they are getting worse, not better. Let us not forget the NY cops who shot an unarmed black man on his wedding day. These seems to be something much deeper here than simple mistakes. Mayor Bloomberg seems to approve of the killings as does the legal system there in NY as the cops got off for shooting the unarmed black man.

Now let me tell you something you probably do not know. The FBI is very, very concerned about some very dangerous well armed racists who plan on starting some serious trouble here in the US in the very near term. From what I can gather they plan on using the fact that Obama is black to blame him for deteriorating economic conditions in America. They plan on taking it out on all Blacks. These groups appear to be fairly well organized and some are armed. From what I can gather, some in the FBI are pushing to use the Patriot Act to go after some of them. How much of this has inflitrated America's police forces? I do not know, but given the recent history and connections of some, there is probably more than just a little. Sadly, America's police forces have some major problems and poor recruitment techniques is one of the biggest. Where I live we have cops serving who have all kinds of criminal convictions and I know that this is merely the norm across America.

Yet cops are often badly abused, see the worst side of America day in and day out and many have serious ethical issues before they join and being a cop just makes those difficulties worse. This is a recipe for disaster and where I think American policing is heading. There is serious racial tension in many major cities and that tension spills over into the police force. This is why I am convinced gangs are becoming and will become a far more important form of protection for poor racial minorities than police forces. This is already happening on a small scale across America. It is just not understood for what it is.

Go back and look at our history, especially around the turn of the Century along the east coast. Look at how the Mafia got going. It was merely a protection agency for those who could not go to the cops or did not trust them. Sure, it was mostly for crooks but sometimes looked out for the interests of the Italian American Community, at least in its earliest days. They did not trust the police which was often dominated by the Irish. The Mafia and the community often solved many of their own problems. In Asian culture, it is often a serious taboo to call the police. It is better to deal with community leaders to solve problems. Sometimes those leaders are hooked into criminal gangs.

Today, that dynamic is slowly being ressurected. People, especially poor minorities do not trust the cops and don't like to call them. Even when they do it takes the FBI to get the cops off of their bureucratic, sometimes racist backsides.

The FBI is investigating a racially motivated vandalism attack that drove a black family from their Duarte home last week, authorities confirmed Thursday.

FBI agents are investigating the May 8 incident as part of a joint Hate Crimes Task Force with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, FBI spokeswoman Laura Eimiller said. - SGV Tribune

Islamic Radicals Backed By Radical US Professors - MEF
A California nonprofit dedicated to "teaching about Islam & Muslims" at U.S. high schools and college campuses features a board of advisors that is stacked with some of the most controversial activist professors in the field of Middle Eastern studies today. The imprimatur of these scholars may signal a troubling shift toward the support of proselytizing efforts and the further unraveling of Middle East Studies in America.



The board of Islamic Networks Group (ING) is a veritable Who's Who of Islamist apologists and activists. Leading the list is John Esposito, the founding director of the Saudi-funded Center for Muslim Christian Understanding at Georgetown University. He famously stated that the suicide-bombing Hamas organization engages in "honey, cheese-making, and home-based clothing manufacture."

This is a very interesting article and to those of you who still think Islam is not going to be very important in America a read of this and clicking on some of the links may change your mind.

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Shadowy Tax Deals Exposed To Sunlight - FT
Aggressive tax deals by investment banks face “the sanitising effect of sunlight” as a result of a new study, a top tax official said on Friday.

At the Paris launch of a report into structured finance, an esoteric area of investment banking that optimises tax, regulatory and accounting aspects of deals, Dave Hartnett, permanent secretary of Revenue & Customs, said the banking study “lays bare complex structured finance transactions in a way we have never been able to lay them bare before”.(End Excerpt)

There have got to be some rich people who are very afraid these days.

Congo: Women Prisoners In Their Own Homes - Releif Web
The terrible details of the Congolese rape epidemic are becoming increasingly well known. Countless numbers of women are sexually assaulted as they go about their daily lives – one of the many consequences of the conflict and impunity that have bedevilled the country in recent years.

Less publicised has been the attacks on women in their own homes, from those closest to them. Many suffer regular physical and mental abuse – not from strangers but by husbands or family members. And they accuse the government of making little effort to protect them, promote their rights and prosecute their attackers.

The Bullet Ant - Environmental Graffiti
The most painful insect bite on Earth. OK, this is an offbeat story but hey, you learn something new everyday.

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LA Cop Harrassed By Collegues - LAT
The LAPD has got some serious problems. It is so bad that some people are turning to gangs for protection because the cops are so crooked. Call a cop and they don't like your accent or the pigmentation of your skin and they will list the complaint you made as 'gang related activity'. Now you are marked as a 'gang member'. Have any kind of run in with the police later and you get arrested as a 'gang member'. Go before the judge and the cops can say the person has had other 'gang related' activity in thier past. So many just bypass the cops and get help elsewhere. An article like this explains why, the LAPD should have been prosecuted years ago under the RICO statutes.

Powerful Quake Hits Belize - Bloomberg
7.3 Magnitude.

Americans Use Rape As Interrogation Weapon - Telegraph
Obama says we don't do this anymore. I am not convinced. This man has lied so many times, broken so many promises and fallen into lockstep with the NeoCon polices of Bush-Cheney that his 'word' that he banned these practices is meaningless, without strong independent corroboration. In short, I am not buying it.

No prosecutions of rape? What did America elect last November?

First he said this was a time for 'reflection' over his decision not to prosecute, now he *says* he wants to protect our troops. Can we believe these lame excuses? Does he really want to protect our troops? That is simple, prosecute the war criminals and let the world know that we do not condone these war crimes. His insistence on not prosecuting is a false argument and invites the very hatred for American forces he *says* he wants to avoid.

Where is your spine, Mr. President. Did you leave in in Chicago or on the Senate floor? While all the world is focused in on Guantanamo, is Obama moving and preparing his squadrons of water boarders and elecrto-shock rapists at Bagram airbaase?

The new US government disappointed human rights activists when it chose to adhere to the Bush administration's position that detainees imprisoned at the Bagram air base in Afghanistan have no right to challenge their confinement in US courts. Critics have now begun referring to Bagram as "Obama's Guantanamo."

An estimated 650 inmates are being held at the prison north of Kabul, but the public rarely receives any details about how they're being treated, says German Green Party politician and Afghanistan expert, Winfried Nachtwei.

"Up until now, I think it's only fair to describe Bagram as a black hole," he said.

Aside from Red Cross officials, no outsiders are allowed to visit the prison, of which there are also no public photos. Only prison personnel and former inmates know for sure exactly what goes on at Bagram. Several thousand prisoners have passed through the compound in recent years, according to Ferdinand Muggenthaler of Amnesty International. - Deutche Welle

North Korea Ends Armistice - Antiwar
Potentially spelling an end to nearly 56 years of relative peace on the Korean Peninsula, North Korea has announced that it considers the South to be in violation of the June 27, 1953 Armistice, and that it will no longer honor the treaty.

Black Workers Should Fear Sotomayor - Salon
White ones appear to be OK with Sotomayor. With Obama, it appears blacks are designated to the back of the American bus. In his bid to not seem too 'Black', he does what most White Presidents have done from the democratic party - ignore black Americans... they'll vote for Democrats no matter what you do to them.

Spiritual Warfare Part II
This look at the subject is decidedly different than the last one. This one looks at the effects of the Churches lost battles, why the Church looses them and what the effects will be for all of us. It also looks at some tactics that the Church can use to defeat the wiles of the enemy in the future. This is a long one (69 pages), so those of you wanting a 'five-minute sound bite' so you can go back to watching 'American Idol' will neither understand nor want to take the time to do so. This paper is written only for a few of my readers. Those that really want to understand the subject and win in this most important Spiritual War all the saints are in.

Some have asked why I do not write 'down' to more lay people. I do. I really do. What I have not been called to do is to talk 'baby talk' to those who should be able to stand upright and understand the times. So don't expect this article to change or to attempt to acquire a new audience of carnal Christians who have for years resisted the Holy Spirit, refuse to study their Bibles and would rather get drunk with their unsaved friends than know God. Teaching such people? That is not what this piece is about nor will any of my future writings be dealing with such individuals. I have ceased to explain the basics of our times to those who will not hear. The time for spiritual nursery rhymes is past. It is time to behave like grown men and women, mature in Christ and ready for the fight.

To him who has an ear, let him hear.

Mexico: 10 Mayors Arrested In Narco War - LAT
No comment needed.

Billions In New Cuts Coming To California - LAT
Faced with a ballooning deficit and a clear signal that voters won't pay more to fix it, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger released a budget plan Tuesday that would eliminate welfare, drop 1 million poor children from health insurance, cut off new grants for college students and shut down 80 percent of state parks.(end excerpt)



Drastic measures for a disasterous situation. Something has got to give, but the poor leadership displayed by the legislature has only compounded the problem. I cannot lay most of the blame on the Governor, as many do. Nor on the Treasurer. The real problem is simple. California, indeed most of the nation was and still is living beyond its means, waaaaaay beyond its means. The days of borrow and spend are over. If leaders had listened to those, as many had been warning for years, that such behavior was a recipe for disaster, and prudent measures had been put in place to reign in state borrowing and make prudent cuts much of the pain could be avoided.

But too many political interests wanted the 'nanny state' and wanted the state to pay for more than it was capable of. Namely...

Illegal immigration - its costs to welfare, social services, infrastructure and the lack of revenue that came into the coffers when many worked under the table.

Draconian Prison Sentencing. 'Three strikes and you're out' was not a good idea. Sounds good in sound bites, not in reality. It put people in jail for life for relatively minor offenses. The state simply cannot afford to do this any longer. Additionally, jailing people for victimless crimes (like pot smoking) is also counterproductive. I am not in favor of pot smoking, but I do not think the states resources should be spent in arresting, prosecuting and jailing those that smoke it.

Getting rid of a giant inefficient and a very, very dangerous education system. In some places schools resemble prisons and not facilities for learning. A complete (top to bottom) review of California's education system is in order. The state cannot afford to pay for schooling of all of the states children and those of millions illegal immigrants many of whom pay no taxes. A serious look at encouraging home-schooling, providing serious tax breaks to private and religions education needs to be seriously considered that does away with the massive state-run/state financed prison-cation bureaucracy in California. In some places kids fear school because the gangs are so prevalent in them and the school officials often part of the problem. Some side with the race of the gangs mermbers that they personally belong to. This makes life very difficult for kids who are not part of that race. Getting rid of the school-police partnership (done in many communities as 'anti-gang' measures) that assists only in identifying kids as potential criminals before they have a chance to grow up. Kids that do not want to be subjected to that kind of organized prison preparation should not be forced to by calling a kids refusal of that kind of compulsory victimization, 'truancy'.

Problem Banks Keep Rising In Number - Bloomberg
The FDIC classified 305 banks with $220 billion in assets as “problem” lenders as of March 31, an increase from 252 with $159 billion in assets in the fourth quarter. Assets at “problem” banks were the highest since 1993, the agency said today, without naming any lenders. The FDIC said its insurance fund slumped 25 percent to the lowest level since 1993.

“The first-quarter results are telling us that the banking industry still faces tremendous challenges,” FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair said today at a briefing in Washington. “Going forward, asset quality remains a major concern.”

Christians Effected By Pakistan Unrest - Voice of the Martyrs
More than 80 Christian families are homeless and living on church grounds following the recent and continuing political unrest in Pakistan, according to The Voice of the Martyrs contacts.

Unlike Muslims, who have been housed and provided for by the government, more than 300 Christians have been displaced and left to fend for themselves. “When we left… [we were not] provided any transportation, whereas Muslims were provided transportation,” a displaced Christian said. Christians walked for two days without water.

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