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Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2009 9:34 pm
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a true picture of the current system & State of things: by owning the money, these folks also end-up owning all the businesses and all the technical knowledge too over time. this becomes and is a stranglehold upon individual self-determination, human life and of course the course of humanity as as whole. - non.
Corporate Media Demonizes Defenders of the Constitution
Kurt Nimmo
Prison Planet.com
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
" "Fred Solop, a Northern Arizona University political scientist, told the AP the incidents in New Hampshire and Arizona could signal the beginning of a disturbing trend. "When you start to bring guns to political rallies, it does layer on another level of concern and significance," Solop said. "It actually becomes quite scary for many people. It creates a chilling effect in the ability of our society to carry on honest communication." "
" Paul Helmke, president of the Washington, D.C.-based Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, said Obama's propaganda events should be Constitution free zones. "To me, this is craziness," he declared. "When you bring a loaded gun, particularly a loaded assault rifle, to any political event, but particularly to one where the president is appearing, you're just making the situation dangerous for everyone." "
" In other words, Americans exercising their constitutional rights are a danger to the president and society as a whole.
The corporate media, at the behest of our rulers, is desperate to characterize law-abiding Americans — Arizona, after all, has an open carry law allowing citizens to legally carry their weapons in public — as rightwing extremist lunatics who are a threat to the New World Order's latest front man. "
" The "experts" are from the Southern Poverty Law Center, an organization that is "now become a threat to the freedoms and security of American citizens due to their repeated attacks on all First Amendment rights and their utter debasement of the political process," writes William Gheen, president of Americans for Legal Immigration. "While in the past the SPLC has targeted "hate groups" or groups deemed racist and potentially violent, such as the KKK and Neo Nazi groups, the SPLC has recently used their reputation for righting these groups to go after moderate and mainstream Americans, journalists, and show hosts and anchors in an attempt to suppress free speech."
The American people are waking up to the coercive and tyrannical power of government, Republican politicians notwithstanding. In order to portray millions of Americans as rightwing nut cases, the corporate media — taking its cues from the Department of Homeland Security and the SPLC — has kicked into overdrive to demonize patriotic Americans.
In the days ahead, we can expect more of this anti-Constitution extremist rhetoric from the lapdog corporate media. "
the human on human predators do not stop...their desire to control all of us completely continues to unfold. i still see the trends they create and the masses they have programmed to follow them leading to human extinction in sum...from many different human predator causes/problems/insanities. - non.
Even Top Climate Change Negotiator Admits Cap And Tax "Out Of Control"
Nightmare legislation would obliterate America's first world status, lead to complete takeover of country by private banking interests
Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Former climate change negotiator for Bill Clinton and Democratic Senator Senator Timothy Wirth admits that the cap and trade proposal is "out of control," and makes no sense whatsoever.
Such a scornful rebuke from somebody who would normally be expected to vehemently support climate change legislation goes to show just how nightmarish the plans really are.
"Cap-and-trade legislation to limit U.S. carbon dioxide emissions has "gotten out of control" and needs to be scaled back in Congress, said former Democratic Senator Timothy Wirth," reports Bloomberg News.
"The Republicans are right — it's a cap-and-tax bill," admitted Wirth during an interview.
Wirth is head of the UN Foundation, a Ted Turner-funded globalist body that has ties to dozens of behemoth corporations, banks, pharmaceutical companies and governments. Part of the foundation's work is aimed at "reducing carbon emissions" to combat alleged man-made global warming.
For such a well-connected globalist to attack plans that would fundamentally advance the agenda for world government and a direct tax on CO2, the life-giving gas that humans exhale and plants breathe, really illustrates how bad cap and trade would be.
The fact that the establishment's own middle managers are throwing a spanner in the works means that even they think the Obama administration is overreaching with its agenda to reduce living standards in the name of fighting the imaginary threat of man-made global warming.
Wirth said that cap and trade had to be "used in a targeted and disciplined way, and what has happened is it's gotten out of control."
"Cap and tax" was passed by the House in June but has not yet been approved by the Senate. The legislation is expected to be explored in anticipation of a vote later this year.
As we have documented, the legislation represents a total takeover of the American economy by private banking interests through the carbon trading system.
It is also the entrée for the complete and total subjugation of any freedoms we had left and the beginning of nightmare regulation and suffocating control over every aspect of our personal lives by millions of green stasi tasked with enforcing impossible to attain goals of 80% carbon dioxide reduction – all based on the manufactured threat of global warming.
The bill will also sink the economy and create a new great depression, effectively obliterating America's first world status.
Included below are multiple links that portray exactly how far "cap and tax" goes, and illustrate exactly why even the establishment's own insiders are wary of its scope.
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Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2009 10:07 pm
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a rather good assessment of things (again, we need to go into debt to no one as a nation...and so on)...the money owners network...it's their plan that is being played-out. yes, and it is hidden behind lies, secrecy, slavemoney, tech control and FORCE! - non.
District of Corruption
Lords of War
by Paul Craig Roberts on August 18, 2009
" Is there a government anywhere that less represents its citizens than the U.S. government?
Consider America's wars. As of the moment of writing, the out-of-pocket cost of America's wars in Iraq and Afghanistan is $900 billion. When you add in the already incurred future costs of veterans' benefits, interest on the debt, the forgone use of the resources for productive purposes and such other costs—as computed by Nobel economist Joseph Stiglitz and Harvard University budget expert Linda Bilmes—"our" government has wasted $3,000 billion on two wars, which have no benefit whatsoever for any American whose income does not derive from the military/security complex, about which five-star general President Eisenhower warned us. "
" What about President Obama? "A corporate marketing creation," sums up the distinguished British journalist John Pilger.
Obama is the presidential candidate who promised to end the war in Iraq. He hasn't. But he has escalated the war in Afghanistan, started a new war in Pakistan, intends to repeat the Yugoslav scenario in the Caucasus and appears determined to start a war in South America. In response to the acceptance by U.S. puppet president of Columbia, Alvaro Uribe, of seven U.S. military bases in Columbia, Venezuela warned South American countries that the "winds of war are beginning to blow." "
" Will Americans, smashed and destroyed by "their" government's policy, which always puts Americans last, ever learn more about their real enemies?
Will Americans realize that they are not ruled by elected representatives, but by an oligarchy that owns the Washington whorehouse?
Will Americans ever understand that they are impotent serfs? "
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Posted: Thu Aug 20, 2009 5:37 am
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nonentropic - buddy - there is another way to deal with all that. keeping up on currents events in only part of the picture. but you are right, this is crucial! but you know where the actual battle is being fought?
more on this later..
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Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2009 1:06 am
Post subject: - be very wary of a liar/liars/of inconsistencies -
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Andrew Jackson quotes:
Gentlemen, I have had men watching you for a long time and I am convinced that you have used the funds of the bank to speculate in the breadstuffs of the country. When you won, you divided the profits amongst you, and when you lost, you charged it to the bank. You tell me that if I take the deposits from the bank and annul its charter, I shall ruin ten thousand families. That may be true, gentlemen, but that is your sin! Should I let you go on, you will ruin fifty thousand families, and that would be my sin! You are a den of vipers and thieves.
You are a den of vipers and thieves. I intend to rout you out, and by the grace of the Eternal God, will rout you out.
Fall Of The Republic Exposes How Brand Obama Is Destroying America
Alex Jones' highly anticipated documentary lifts the lid on how seductive tools of propaganda are being used to hypnotize the masses into accepting tyranny
Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Alex Jones' highly anticipated upcoming documentary Fall of the Republic: The Presidency of Barack Obama boldly lifts the lid and unveils the fraud behind Brand Obama and how the globalists are using their newest, and slickest ever puppet to destroy the last vestiges of America's freedom, Constitution and economy, all while helping the bankers loot the country clean.
The film exposes the agenda that Obama was put in place to accomplish, a world government allied with a bank of the world run by globalist eugenicists hell-bent on destroying America's first world status and replacing it with a hollow shell of tyranny.
The mind control, the television programming, and all the media talking points that serve to reinforce the image of Brand Obama are laid bare, unveiling the naked ruth, as legendary author and documentary film maker John Pilger recently discussed, that Obama is nothing more than a corporate marketing creation, a skilled hypnotist using seductive tools of propaganda – race, gender and class – to hoodwink the masses into accepting his rhetoric while ignoring the contradiction of his actions.
The film exposes how Brand Obama says one thing – to make people buy into the brand – and then the real Obama does another.
The burgeoning police state, warrantless wiretapping, secret arrests, indefinite detention of citizens, torture, the war in Afghanistan, the war in Pakistan, have all been expanded under Brand Obama despite his promises to reverse them all.
The real question to ask is not which class Obama claims to represent or fight for, but which class Obama serves. Fall of the Republic leaves no room for doubt that the class Obama serves is the elite and it is their agenda he is diligently following.
In terms of focused research and factual content, Fall of the Republic dominates even The Obama Deception for hardcore evidence and documented material. The film proves how Obama was put in power to cement the gains of tyranny and oppression achieved under Bush while the masses slept, lulled into a deep hypnosis with empty promises of change, hope and progress.
The movie picks up from where The Obama Deception left off, highlighting how Obama has continued and expanded the socialized financial takeover introduced by Bush and how the bankster gangster cronies have made off with trillions in taxpayer's money, bankrupting the future of the country for generations to come.
The hypocrisy and underlying deceit of people like Al Gore, John P. Holdren and Obama himself are displayed in plain view as the cap and trade hoax is demolished and revealed to be nothing less than a total takeover of the American economy, its infrastructure, and a mandate to micromanage every aspect of every citizen's private life.
Obama's role in converting American from a free market, free Republic, to a command and control state-run oligarchy controlled by offshore banking interests is explored at length in the documentary.
In order to make this the most hard-hitting documentary we have ever released, the biggest budget ever allocated to a single movie was made available, primarily for the purpose of traveling all over the country to conduct no less than 19 separate sit down interviews for the film.
Personalities who will appear in the movie include Gerald Celente, Alan Watt, Jesse Ventura, climatologist Tim Ball, economist John Perkins, the Oath Keepers, Dr. Sherry Tenpenny, Webster Tarpley, Bob Bowman, Wayne Madsen and George Humphrey.
Fall of the Republic is an unprecedented two hour romp through the highly concentrated and brazen levels of tyranny and corruption displayed by Obama and his administration in the short period since they took office.
The end of the movie is encapsulated by the idea that the fight to maintain and restore a free Republic is a constant struggle against those who harbor the virus of evil in their souls.
Fall of the Republic will be available first exclusively for Prison Planet.tv members on October 21st. If you are not yet a member, click here to get your subscription and enjoy high quality streaming and download of the movie immediately upon its release. Pre-orders for the DVD will be taken on September 21st at the Infowars shopping cart
Fall of the Republic: The Presidency of Barack Obama
August 24, 2009
Geithner: Auditing the Fed is a "line that we don't want to cross"
James Corbett
The Corbett Report
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
In an interview released today by Digg and the Wall Street Journal, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner was pressured about the growing popular movement to Audit the Fed spearheaded by Texas Congressman Ron Paul. A visibly uncomfortable Geithner attempts to dismiss the question by stating "I'm sure people understand that you want to keep politics out of monetary policy." When Geithner is again pressed on the issue, he makes the stunning assertion that conducting an audit of the Federal Reserve—something never before done in its 96 year history—is a "line that we don't want to cross," proclaiming that such a move would be "problematic for the country." Watch the interview in the player below:
Geithner's response that auditing the Fed would give politicians dangerous control over American monetary policy is mistaken at best and a deliberate lie at worst. Allowing the public to know what happened to their $24 trillion in bailout money does not give undue control of monetary policy to the people's elected representatives. Instead, such an audit would finally allow the public to see how their money has been spent in the midst of the largest spending binge in the history of the world's economy, hardly an unreasonable demand given the well-documented revolving door between the Treasury and Goldman Sachs, the main recipient of bailout funds. Ultimately, the Treasury Secretary is left spewing the absurdity that "I think even the sponsor of that bill recognizes how important it is to us to have the Fed independent of politics," which can only be said to be true insofar as Ron Paul—the sponsor of House Resolution (HR) 1207— wants to abolish the Federal Reserve system altogether.
That the Wall Street Journal would even pressure the Treasury Secretary on serious issues like the Audit the Fed movement may be surprising, given that the Wall Street Journal is a mouthpiece of the financial oligarchy and that editor Paul Gigot, like Geithner himself, is a Bilderberg attendee. Needless to say, this was not a typical inside-the-beltway interview. Instead, questions were submitted and voted on by the Digg community, with the top 10 questions being posed to Mr. Geithner.
As a result, the Secretary was bombarded by pointed questions about his documented tax evasion from 2001-2004, the wisdom of spending trillions of dollars in the light of long-term dollar devaluation and even, in the words of one particularly irate questioner, "Why are you running the Treasury Department?" Despite presumably having had time to prepare responses to each question well in advance, Geithner is still visibly discomfited by the entire exchange, picking at his shirt cuff and coughing nervously throughout the interview.
In one particularly telling moment, Geithner even admits "We have been forced to do just extraordinary things and, frankly, offensive things to help save the economy."
That these questions are only being asked now, almost a year into the bailout and several months after the new administration has taken office, further highlights how the controlled corporate media is doing everything in its power to keep to well-trodden and uncontroversial areas in their interviewing of key administration officials. This interview is testimony to the power of the citizen journalism movement that is attempting to hold those in power accountable for their actions. We can only hope that the Obama Administration lives up to their promise to be the "cyber" administration by allowing more such question-and-answer sessions in the future.
Judge Orders Fed To Disclose Who Received Bailout Trillions
Lawsuit required to force "transparency" and "change" Obama promised as Bernanke is re-appointed as Fed chief
Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
A New York District Judge has ordered the Federal Reserve to disclose the destination of around $2 trillion dollars in bailout funds after the Fed failed to convince the Judge that the records should be exempt from the Freedom of Information Act.
"Manhattan Chief U.S. District Judge Loretta Preska rejected the central bank's argument that the records aren't covered by the law because their disclosure would harm borrowers' competitive positions. The collateral lists "are central to understanding and assessing the government's response to the most cataclysmic financial crisis in America since the Great Depression," according to the lawsuit that led to yesterday's ruling," reports Bloomberg, the news outlet that originally filed the lawsuit.
Citing the fact that the US taxpayer is an "involuntary investor" in the nation's banks, Bloomberg argued that the risks behind the $2 trillion in lending needed to be made public.
"When an unprecedented amount of taxpayer dollars were lent to financial institutions in unprecedented ways and the Federal Reserve refused to make public any of the details of its extraordinary lending, Bloomberg News asked the court why U.S. citizens don't have the right to know," said Matthew Winkler, the editor-in-chief of Bloomberg News. "We're gratified the court is defending the public's right to know what is being done in the public interest."
The Federal Reserve and Ben Bernanke in particular have attempted to hide the destination of the bailout funds at every step of the way since Bloomberg first filed the lawsuit over nine months ago.
During a hearing on Capitol Hill last month, Congressman Alan Grayson confronted Bernanke on which foreign banks had received around half a trillion dollars in credit swaps.
Bernanke responded, "I don't know."
"Half a trillion dollars and you don't know who got the money?" asked Grayson.
It's no surprise that the Fed is reticent to disclose who got the bailout funds, since the man appointed by Henry Paulson to dole out the ill-gotten gains was none other than his fellow ex-Goldman Sachs executive Neel Kashkari. This level of cronyism undoubtedly ensured that Bernanke and Paulson's bankster gangster friends were well looked after.
"President elect Barack Obama, who in a September 22 campaign speech promised to "Make our government open and transparent so that anyone can ensure that our business is the people's business," refused to comment on the story when contacted by Bloomberg, which is no surprise considering the fact that the man who guaranteed "change" has indicated he will not only follow the Bush administration policy of a socialized financial system, but radically expand it," we wrote in our original story on the lawsuit back in November.
That foresight has now manifested itself again today, with Obama set to nominate Ben Bernanke, one of the main architects of the bailout under Bush, as Fed chief for a second term.
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Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2009 3:19 am
Post subject: yes, this is boring ...
... it most certainly is. therefore, i need to focus on other things. like my science interests and so on. i may post some science stuff here off and on...and maybe some stuff here or in my news thread or whatever. but since things are so dead here, even i am losing interest in posting even if it is just for informational purposes (which most of my stuff has always been). it happens. later.
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Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2009 2:38 pm
Post subject: this is very much worth a post
should be out around Feb. 2010. parts of JFK's famous speech are interspersed throughout this short and well done piece.
Invisible Empire
(Official Trailer) (4:24)
August 25, 2009
The official trailer for Invisible Empire, written and directed by Jason Bermas, and produced by Alex Jones.
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August 21, 2009 by admin
Rebel Inc. - 909 Revolution
Payday Monsanto - Sheeple of America
Ampkilla - Beginning of the End
Kritical Kontact - 2nd American Revolution
Brian Fox - 911 Was An Inside Job
Chris Geo - Global Resistance
Heistclick - Watchtower
Tony Sparks Trees - Legion of Doom
Blooded the Brave - Black Snake Moan
Almighty Terribles - Get Upset and Get Involved
King Solomon - 911 Was An Inside Job
Jordan Page - Listen
The Madeleine Haze - Stand Up and Fight
The Issues Spin
The Last Ditch Stand - Useless Eaters
Jun Tzu - Toppa Da Mornin
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Shirts Available in the STORE
(about a 400 meg. page...can take a while to load...a music player is running about 4/5ths of the way down the page...in case ya wanna turn that player off - non.)
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- think 4 yerself - don't just trust AUTHORITY - your life is yours...it's no one else's. it's your choice - non.
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Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 6:17 am
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The Fed's Interesting Week
By: Dr. Ron Paul, U.S. Congressman
Posted Monday, 31 August 2009 Source: GoldSeek.com
It has been an interesting week indeed for the Federal Reserve. Early this week, it was announced that President Obama intends to reappoint Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke to a second term in January, signaling a vote of confidence in him. Bernanke seems to be popular with the administration and with Wall Street, and with good reason. His lending policies have left big banks flush with newly created cash that covers up old mistakes and allows for new ones. By buying up mountains of Treasury debt he has also enabled spending to soar to ridiculous levels that should startle any responsible economist, and scare any American concerned about the value of the dollar. However, these highly sensitive decisions about our money are not made by economists, they are made by politicians. Bernanke, like most of his predecessors, is the politician's best friend. However, there is no reason to believe any other central planner would behave any differently, considering the immense political pressure on the Fed.
Fed policies have been as bad for the economy as they are good for politicians and bankers, as the recently released numbers on the debt and deficit demonstrate. For the first time since World War II the annual budget deficit is projected to be over 11 percent of the nation's gross domestic product. It is also projected that by 2019 the national debt will be 68f GDP. Our path, if unchanged, is completely untenable.
The administration claims that it inherited a dire situation from the last administration, which is absolutely true. However, that hasn't stopped them from accepting all the policies and premises that got us here, and accelerating those policies to rapidly make a bad situation much worse. The bailouts started with the last administration. They have gotten bigger with this one. The last administration gave us expanded government involvement in healthcare with a new prescription drug benefit. This administration gave us a renewal and expansion of SCHIP, and now the current healthcare takeover attempts. In reality, we can afford none of this, but shady monetary policy allows Washington to continue along its merry way, aggravating all our economic problems.
Not everyone in government finds it acceptable that the Fed wields so much power and privilege in secrecy. Last week, a federal judge ruled against Fed secrecy, compelling them to release under the Freedom of Information Act information regarding which banks received emergency loans, and under what terms. The Fed will, of course do everything in its power to fight this ruling and it is certainly not the last word on the issue. Still, it is encouraging to see that the interests of the taxpayers were defended victoriously in court, while the Fed only sees the plight of its big banker friends.
Meanwhile HR 1207 and S604, legislation to open up the Fed's books to a complete audit, continue to gain momentum in Congress as the people continue to insist on real transparency of the Federal Reserve. One way or another, the days of Fed autonomy are coming to an end, as well they should. No one should have the power to debauch the currency and gut the economy as they do. It is time they answered for their actions, so the people can understand that we truly are better off with freedom instead of Fed tyranny.
- this is way too much power for anyone to have (what is said - below - to be in the hands of the Pres. and/or the Gov./the bankster's fiat money monopoly and so on)...the ability to claim they have a right to your gold...worked for assets...life savings...wages...whatever (these bankster debtnote systems create this insanity/these hellish nightmare realities...certain people push this predation regardless...they should be seen for what they actually are). the corruption and powermad plans of some know no limits. be not another's slave nor maketh any such. the article below is not perfect...no thing ever really is. food for thought. - non.
Why Did The U.S. Government Confiscate Gold In 1933 And Can It Happen Again? – Part 3
By: Julian D. W. Phillips, Gold/Silver Forecaster - Global Watch - GoldForecaster.com
(upper section of the article is below - non.)
In this the third part of this series we look at the fall of gold as a medium of exchange and the freeing up of gold ownership from August 15th 1974 onwards.
We previously stated that gold ownership was made illegal on 1st May 1933. What we did not tell you and we correct now, was that U.S. citizens, under Order 6102, were to own up to $100 in gold coin [+5 ounces]. Today that would be worth under $5,000 a mere token gesture to real gold owners. It acted as a tiny 'escape valve' to the general body of citizens and did not detract from the fact that effective gold ownership was abolished. So that we fully understand the attitude of governments to gold [which remains real money in times of crisis] we add this paragraph: -
Congress could easily revoke the privilege again. In fact, at no time during this century has the U.S. government recognized the right of private gold ownership. The Trading with the Enemy Act, which President Roosevelt invoked in 1933 to restrict private gold transactions, remains law. Although private ownership of gold in the United States was legalized on August 15, 1974, the power to confiscate gold remains in the hands of the President. The President still retains the right, under the Emergency Banking Relief Act, to "investigate, regulate or prohibit... the importing, exporting, hoarding, melting or earmarking of gold" in times of a declared national emergency. It is highly unlikely that either the Courts or Congress would successfully argue that confiscatory powers are not implicit in the Emergency Banking Relief Act if a currency crisis or other fiscal emergency prompted the President to, once again, nationalize gold.
The 'privilege' not right, to own gold was restored to U.S. citizens on the 15th August 1974 [not 1971, when Nixon 'floated the $ against gold and stopped foreign central banks from converting U.S. dollars to gold]. It is pertinent to the thinking behind this series, to understand why these moves were made.
The entire exercise was to move gold away from the core of the monetary system for it could not be controlled by governments and particularly the most powerful of them on this earth, the United States. For government to have control of money they had to control its issue away from the measuring line of gold. In the opinion of the U.S., then the I.M.F. and then accepted by all governments money had to be simply an un-backed I.O.U. drawn on governments. Gold had to be discredited and sidelined to make this happen convincingly. It worked!
The entire exercise was to move gold away from the core of the monetary system for it could not be controlled by governments and particularly the most powerful of them on this earth, the United States. For government to have control of money they had to control its issue away from the measuring line of gold. In the opinion of the U.S., then the I.M.F. and then accepted by all governments money had to be simply an un-backed I.O.U. drawn on governments. Gold had to be discredited and sidelined to make this happen convincingly. It worked!
The Fed on the Defensive
By: Gary North
Posted Monday, 31 August 2009
Here is the FED, with a court ruling against it, and with the clock ticking, admitting that it has no date set to file an appeal. Its lawyers apparently had no fall-back position. Is this credible? Of course not.
Will it work? We shall see. If it does work, and if H. R. 1207 remains bottled up in committee, the growing army of people who have finally found out about the FED will have two more pieces of evidence that the U.S. government does not run the FED.
If the bill passes the House and the Senate, Obama will veto it. The FED is not going to be audited by the government. That is not how the world works. The FED is only officially under government authority. Except in wartime, it has never been under government authority. It was set up to provide the illusion of government control. That illusion has worked since 1913.
Always in the past, the Federal Reserve has remained free from serious criticism. The media are obedient lap dogs. So are the academic economists. The textbooks never point out that the FED is the enforcing arm of a huge cartel. The professors refrain from applying to the FED their analyses in their chapters on cartels.
The Big Payback of Nonexistent Money
By: Richard Daughty, The Mogambo Guru - The Daily Reckoning
Posted Monday, 31 August 2009
(a couple parts for example - non.)
Well, the only thing he wanted to talk about was how I was going to get my Fat Mogambo Butt (FMB) up off that stool and get out and not come back, which I did, but not before telling him that another parabolic curve is provided by Darryl Robert Schoon at drschoon.com, who says, "What people do not understand is that bankers loan money which doesn't exist and then receive compounding interest and repayment of previously non-existent funds in return."
I soon found out that bartenders are not very interested in parabolic curves or the crushing, parabolically-rising debt that is going to destroy us all, including his saloon, now that the fun of spending all that borrowed money becomes The Big Problem (TBP), having arrived in bits and pieces over the long run, as "Banker's credit creates constantly compounding debt, and today so much debt has been created that the economy can no longer expand fast enough to service it or pay it back. Homeowners, workers, farmers, business people, corporations and governments are all indebted beyond their means to repay."
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Driving a Fiat Currency into a Tree
By: Richard Daughty, The Mogambo Guru - The Daily Reckoning
Posted Tuesday, 1 September 2009 GoldSeek.com
(one section is below....this is when the banksters first bankrupted the USA through the Fed Bank - non.)
...but back then, the dollar was still gold, and thanks to the loathsome Federal Reserve creating the money to finance the bubbles of The Roaring Twenties that resulted in the Great Depression, the despicable Supreme Court infamously ruled in 1933 (and upheld by every traitorous Supreme Court case since then) that, contrary to what the Constitution said, the dollar did not have to be made of silver or gold, and that
a paper "fiat" currency could be created, without limit, for any reason, even at a mere whim
, anytime, day or night, 24/7, including holidays, not realizing that they were the idiots that REALLY destroyed the dollar! Gaahhh!
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No Compromise on Audit the Fed!
August 31, 2009
Dear Friend of Liberty,
Our grassroots Revolution has set its sights on restoring a
sound monetary policy to our nation, and every day we are
awakening more of our countrymen to the dangers of Federal
Reserve secrecy and its stranglehold on our economy.
A year ago, no one in the political establishment would have
believed that a bill to thoroughly audit the Fed would have
almost two-thirds of the House (including every Republican
representative and nearly one hundred Democrats) and a quarter of
the Senate on board.
Certainly, no one would have bet that three-fourths of the
American people would support such an audit.
As many of you may have heard by now, recent statements from
Representative Barney Frank, chairman of the House Financial
Services Committee, have indicated that the House will vote on
Audit the Fed in the next few months.
However, rather than voting on HR 1207 as a standalone bill,
many in Congress hope to roll it into the comprehensive
regulatory reform package recently proposed by the White House.
This reform package grants new, more comprehensive powers to the
Fed and strengthens the government's control over our economy.
C4L and other friends of liberty stand in opposition to this
proposal, as well as any other attempt to convert this historic
movement for transparency into yet another rubber-stamping of
politics as usual.
It is imperative that Audit the Fed come before the House and
Senate on its own merits.
The American people stand behind a thorough audit of the Fed,
and we should not be adding additional powers when we don't fully
know what is being done with the ones they currently have.
Call Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office today at (202) 225-0100 and
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"Camp FEMA" - New Documentary film released
NEW Documentary Film "Camp FEMA" released
After almost a year and a half in production the
independent feature length documentary from Gary
Franchi and William Lewis titled "Camp FEMA" has
been released.
Taking a hard look at the legislation, mindset and
historical evidence - featuring Alex Jones, John
Statmiller, Michael Badnarik, Chuck Baldwin and
Catherine Bleish with Larry Pratt and introducing
US Internment Camp survivor Sam Ozaki "Camp FEMA"
exposes the case for rounding up patriotic
constitutional Americans and placing them into FEMA
Emergency Relocation Camps.
Watch the sneak peak and RESERVE your DVD today at
Sent from the Freedom Fighters at:
Restore The Republic!, 3149 Dundee Rd #176, Northbrook, Illinois 60062, USA
(from Gary's link above) - non.
Evidence of Internment Camps in America
Recent legislation attempting to legitimize the use of internment camps to detain U.S. citizens in the event of an uprising or civil unrest has many people asking what nation they live in.
In a country born out of political dissent, we watch our leaders in Washington slowly pass bills that label ordinary Americans as thought criminals and potential domestic terrorists for simply questioning the actions of their government. We see third party candidates and their impassioned supporters listed in secret government reports that call their allegiance into question and brand them as fanatics and extremists.
Senate committee hearings and official FBI documents further illustrate the mindset of our elected officials as they classify homeschoolers, gun rights activists and anti-abortionists as threats against the existing social and political order; by default creating an entire nation of radicals and revolutionaries - where everyone is a suspect… equally guilty until proven otherwise.
How has our government shown that they will deal with these people? The same way as every other totalitarian regime throughout history - marginalize their activities then lock them up. Prisons are being built; internment camps constructed and laws passed that deal severely with anyone who dares to step out of line or ask too many questions.
Who are the potential domestic terrorists that will end up in these camps? See what the experts have to say and find out where the true power of the people rests in halting these treasonous activities. View the Camp FEMA guest list (http://campfema.com/catalog.html).
- What legislation is being used to legitimize the use of FEMA camps?
- Will 2010 Census information be used to round up Americans?
- Why are 3rd party candidates being labeled as extremists in official government reports?
- Who are the new terrorists?
- Obama Youth Army? Why are the Boy Scouts being trained by the DHS?
- Can states use the 10th amendment to retake rights usurped by the Feds?
--- is this the kind of world you want to live in??? the nightmare continues. --- non.
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Russian Professor: Collapse Of America Could Begin In Two Months
Doomsday author says Obama is doing nothing to forestall disintegration
Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Russian Professor Igor Panarin says that events are continuing to confirm his doomsday prediction first made over 10 years ago, that the United States will completely collapse like the Soviet Union before the end of 2010, and warns that the chaos could begin to unfold in as little as two months.
Panarin, doctor of political sciences and professor of the Russian Diplomatic Academy Ministry of Foreign Affairs, told journalists during the unveiling of his new book yesterday that President Obama has done nothing to forestall the fast approaching crisis and that it could begin to properly unfold in November.
"Obama is "the president of hope", but in a year there won't be any hope," said Panarin. "He's practically another Gorbachev – he likes to talk but hasn't really managed to do anything. Gorbachev at least had been a secretary of a regional communist party administration, whereas Obama was just a social worker. His mentality is totally different. He's a nice person and talks nicely – but he's not a leader and will take America to a crash. When Americans understand that – it will be like a bomb explosion."
Since 1998, Panarin has been warning of a future disintegration of the United States and the collapse of the dollar. The recent election victory for Japan's Democratic Party is another sign that the economic collapse of the U.S. is imminent, according to Panarin.
"Today I received another confirmation that the collapse of the dollar and the US is inevitable. Japan's Democratic Party won the election, and I'd like to remind you that its leader [Yukio Hatoyama] has the snubbing of the dollar among his economic plans. In plainer words, he plans to transfer Japan's monetary reserves from US dollars into another currency. The move will seriously accelerate the dollar's exchange slump as early as this November. Disintegration will follow shortly," he said, adding that next year China would also begin to massively dump the dollar and that Russia would begin to sell oil and gas for roubles.
Panarin previously stated that the dollar would eventually be replaced with "a common Amero currency as a new monetary unit", referring to the Security and Prosperity Partnership agreement between the U.S., Canada and Mexico.
He foresees the U.S. breaking up into six different parts, roughly along lines similar to those of 1865 during the Civil War, "The Pacific coast, with its growing Chinese population; the South, with its Hispanics; Texas, where independence movements are on the rise; the Atlantic coast, with its distinct and separate mentality; five of the poorer central states with their large Native American populations; and the northern states, where the influence from Canada is strong," according to Panarin.
Longer term, Panarin predicts that the breakaway states will eventually be taken over by the European Union, Canada, China, Mexico, Japan and Russia and America will cease to exist altogether, as depicted in the illustration above.
Panarin blames the collapse on a "political elite that implements an absurd and aggressive policy that aims to create conflicts around the planet" and warns that increasing firearms sales in the U.S. are a sign that people are preparing for "chaos" in the aftermath of a total financial meltdown.
"In my opinion, the probability of the US ceasing to exist by June, 2010 exceeds 50%. At this point, the mission of all major international powers is to prevent chaos in the US," Panarin concluded.
Watch a clip from Russia Today below.
'Obama leads America to breakup' - professor Panarin
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the banking elites have wanted to destroy the US ever since it was first conceived and created. the best example of personal liberty and freedom that has ever existed on Earth (on a large scale) was always a threat to destroy the parasitic/predatory ruling elite human types and their secret societies. for example regarding Lincoln and his "greenbacks":
"If this mischievous financial policy, which has its origin in North America, shall become endurated down to a fixture, then that Government will furnish its own money without cost. It will pay off debts and be without debt. It will have all the money necessary to carry on its commerce. It will become prosperous without precedent in the history of the world. The brains, and wealth of all countries will go to North America. That country must be destroyed or it will destroy every monarchy on the globe." - Hazard Circular - London Times 1865
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two more videos from the same one who posted the video in the my previous post
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**Alarming** Trend in NYC, Bank building are emptying out - Crime Surging
Hyperinflation Nation Part 1/3
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Charlie Sheen Requests Meeting With Obama Over 9/11 Cover-Up
Actor demands investigation be reopened after majority of 9/11 Commission members say government lied about official story
Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
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We have had some important CURFs released in the last few months, with the National Health Survey CURFs released in September and October and the Business Longitudinal Database CURF released in October. The National Health Survey CURFs are some of the most heavily used CURFs, and have had strong interest from users so far. Please see the article below for further information about these CURFs as well as other upcoming CURFs.
The ABS has also been looking at ways to improve access to microdata and has set up a project to look at future needs and possible future services. Further details are below, and we'll also keep you posted in future Newsletters.
We also have a new URL short cut you can use when accessing the microdata pages in the ABS website. You can still navigate to the Microdata home page via the Services link from the ABS home page, but this additional option makes finding out about microdata easier: www.abs.gov.au/about/microdata
Finally, I would like to wish all our CURF users, Contact Officers and Responsible Officers a safe and happy holiday season.
New CURF releases
This part of the Newsletter provides information on recent and forthcoming CURF releases. Clients may also keep up to date with CURF releases by subscribing to our Email Notification Service or the ABS RSS Feed.
National Health Survey, Basic and Expanded CURF, Australia, 2007-08. Released: 14 September 2009 and 9 October 2009
The 2007-08 National Health Survey CURF contains data on persons and households living in private dwellings in all states and territories, excluding very remote areas. Information was collected about the health status of the population, health-related aspects of lifestyle and other health risk factors, and the use of health services and other actions people had recently taken for their health. In addition to demographic characteristics (age, sex, marital status, education, labour force, language, country of birth, income), personal information includes data on the prevalence of long-term conditions, medication use, private health insurance, tobacco use, alcohol consumption, physical activity, diet and both self-reported and measured Body Mass Index. Data previously not collected in the NHS on disability, self-management of health, bodily pain experienced, personal stressors, waist and hip measurements, and physical activity at work and home are also included. Risk factor information was also collected from a more extensive age group. Household information relating to geography (on a broad level), household composition, housing, SEIFA and income data are also included.
Microdata: Business Longitudinal Database, Expanded CURF, Australia, 2004-05, 2005-06 and 2006-07. Released: 30 October 2009
The aim of Business Longitudinal Database (BLD) is to facilitate micro level analysis for a panel (cohort) of small and medium businesses over time, and it includes both characteristics and financial data. A new wave of businesses is added each year and each wave is surveyed for five years. This CURF provides information for the first two panels included in the BLD. Panel One contains three reference periods of data (2004-05, 2005-06 and 2006-07) and Panel Two contains two reference period of data (2005-06 and 2006-07).
The National Survey of Mental Health and Wellbeing was re-issued as an error was identified in the original CURF. Further information about the error was emailed to all current users of these CURFs.
This Basic and Expanded CURF will provide information from both the monthly Labour Force Survey and the related Forms of Employment supplementary survey.
This CURF will provide statistics on four topics: Household Use of Information Technology, Barriers and Incentives to Labour Force Participation, Retirement and Retirement Intentions, and Crime Victimisation.
New directions for microdata access
Access to microdata assists and encourages informed decision making through enabling wider use of ABS data for social and economic research and analysis. The ABS has been making microdata available, under certain conditions, for statistical purposes in the form of Confidentialised Unit Record Files (CURFs) since 1985. The ABS has a well-established program for producing and providing access to CURFs and continues to develop strategies to improve researcher access to, and use of, unit record data for such purposes. The ABS currently releases three types of microdata: Basic CURFs, Expanded CURFs and Specialist CURFs via three modes of access: CD-ROMs, the Remote Access Data Laboratory (RADL) and the on-site ABS Data Laboratory (ABSDL).
Today there exists high user demand for the ABS to provide access to more detailed unit record data in a more flexible way, across a wider array of datasets (such as business data and longitudinal linked datasets). An inability to meet these demands will increasingly become a disadvantage to ABS core business, the relevance of the ABS and ultimately to the coherence of the NSS. This, along with a number of other drivers for change including the growing risk of identification, has led the ABS to propose a new strategy for accessing ABS microdata into the future.
The proposed future strategy is to:
1. continue to produce and release Basic CURFs for use in the user's environment;
2. progressively replace RADL with a remote execution environment for microdata (REEM); and
3. to increase the use of the ABSDL for complex analysis of microdata, including providing access to longitudinal and linked datasets.
The key components of the REEM are the development of a Survey Table Builder (similar to the Census TableBuilder) and an Analysis Service (for statistical analysis). It is proposed that these services will access de-identified detailed microdata, with confidentiality routines built into the outputs generated to ensure that they are confidentialised in line with ABS legislative requirements and can be released as public use outputs (that is, they can be published and shared with others without restrictions).
REEM will use internationally recognised standards for the exchange of data and metadata including the use of the Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) and Statistical Data and Metadata Exchange (SDMX) and machine to machine interfaces.
The first stage of REEM, development of a Survey Table Builder for Household collections, has commenced with a staged development planned to occur over the next few years. Over time it is planned to increase the number and variety of datasets accessible via the survey table builder. In parallel, research has commenced into exploring future directions for the Analysis Service. Through December 2009 the ABS will be undertaking a re-assessment of user requirements and consulting with other producers of microdata in Australia.
If you would like any further information on the proposed developments, or would like to be consulted during the assessment phase please contact Michelle Gifford on (02) 6252 7499 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
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ABS Christmas shutdown - no manual clearance in RADL
The ABS will be closed for the period 25 December to 4 January 2010. Clients will continue to receive RADL automatic output clearance but no manual clearance service will be available.
If the lack of availability for manual clearance will cause serious difficulties during this period please do not hesitate to contact the RADL Administrator at <firstname.lastname@example.com>
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More than 100 courses are offered in Music, ranging from basic keyboard skills and teaching music to preschoolers, to scoring a jazz band arrangement or composing a Renaissance motet. A curriculum of traditional and contemporary courses is offered and the diverse and experienced faculty cover the spectrum of the music field.
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TUCSON – Arizona scored 26 runs on 27 hits in a doubleheader sweep of Arizona Western and Central Arizona on day two of the Arizona Fall Invitational. UA run-ruled Arizona Western, 15-0, before downing Central Arizona 11-3 on Saturday.
Chelsea Goodacre hit three home runs and drove in a staggering 11 total runs in the two games. Against Central Arizona, Goodacre hit a home run on top of Gittings Gym, a three-story structure located about 40 feet beyond the right field fence. The junior joins an exclusive group to do so during game action. Goodacre went 7-for-7 in the two combined games.
The Arizona Fall Invitational wraps up tomorrow, with Arizona competing in games scheduled for 3:00 and 5:00 p.m. PDT.
Game 1 – Arizona 15, Arizona Western 0 (5 innings)
Chelsea Goodacre drove in five runs on a perfect 3-for-3 day at the plate as Arizona cruised to a 15-0, five-inning victory over Arizona Western.
Michelle Floyd and Estela Piñon combined on the two-hit shutout. Floyd tossed the first three innings and struck out four while allowing one hit. Piñon hurled two scoreless innings with two strikeouts.
Arizona's offensive attack plated multiple runs in the first three innings including an eight-run third.
After two walks and a single loaded the bases in the first inning, Kelsey Rodriguez brought in a run with a groundout and Katiyana Mauga sinlged in a pair to give the Cats a 3-0 lead in the first.
Chelsea Suitos and Goodacre added to the Arizona lead in the second with two run singles each.
UA sent 12 batters to the plate in the third and scored eight runs. Courtney .odriguez and Lauren Young had RBI singles in the frame while Hallie Wilson cleared the bases with a two-run triple and Chelsea Goodacre hit a three-run homer.
Game 2 – Arizona 11, Central Arizona 3
A nine-run fifth inning propelled Arizona to victory in its second game of the day in a 11-3 victory over Central Arizona.
Chelsea Goodacre went 4-for-4 with two homers and six RBI, including a two-run homer on top of Gittings Gym.
UA had 16 hits in the game, including multi-hit days from Lauren Young, Goodacre, Katiyana Mauga and Courtney .odriguez.
Shelby Babcock allowed two runs on five hits in the three innings. Babcock struck out two and walked two in the contest.
Kenzie Fowler, pitching in her first game since May of 2012, allowed one run on three hits with six strikeouts in four innings.
Central Arizona plated two runs in the top of the first inning, the first runs surrendered by UA pitching during the tournament.
The Cats responded in the third when Goodacre's two-run homer made it 2-2.
Central Arizona retook the lead with a run in the fifth. Alesia Martinez doubled in Maddie Richard, who singled to start the inning.
Arizona wasted little time to take its first lead of the game. Goodacre's blast on the Gittings Gym scored Lauren Young to give Arizona the lead. Kelsey Rodriguez followed with a home run. Three consecutive singles followed the home run and all scored when Cynthia Pelayo tripled to right center. Alex Lavine singled home a run before Goodacre picked up RBI numbers three and four of the inning with a single up the middle.
Friday, October 11
11:30 a.m. Phoenix College 14, Central Arizona 5
1:30 p.m. Pima 22, Central Arizona 0 (5 innings)
3:30 p.m. Arizona Western 11, Pima 8
6:00 p.m. ARIZONA 11, Phoenix College 0 (5 innings)
8:00 p.m. Cypress College vs. Arizona Western (late)
Saturday, October 12
11:00 a.m. ARIZONA 15, Arizona Western 0 (5 innings)
1:00 p.m. ARIZONA 11, Central Arizona 3
3:00 p.m. Cypress College 11, Central Arizona 1 (5 innings)
5:30 p.m. Cypress College vs. Phoenix College
7:30 p.m. Pima vs. Phoenix College
Sunday, October 13
9:00 a.m. Phoenix College vs. Arizona Western
11:00 a.m. Central Arizona vs. Arizona Western
1:00 p.m. Pima vs. Cypress College
3:00 p.m. ARIZONA vs. Cypress College
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"America's Foremothers" is the first installment in a special series that highlights the evolution of women in music by placing their accomplishments, inspirations and influence in the context of the eras that shaped their sounds and messages.
Between 1920 and 1947, roughly the period covered in the "Foremothers" section of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum's Women Who Rock exhibit, American women made great strides toward gaining equality while championing basic human rights. Female musicians responded to the liberation evolving around them, forming a collection of voices that melodically – and often defiantly – set the tone that inspired generations of women. Leading the charge were the "Foremothers": Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Mahalia Jackson and Mother Maybelle Carter.
Among the suffrage movement's greatest victories was the passing of the nineteenth amendment in 1920. The ensuing decades saw many more developments as women were elected to office, quite literally taking seats of power: state governor (Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming, 1924) and senator (Hattie Wyatt Caraway of Arkansas, 1932); and the first female member of the President's cabinet, Francis Perkins, was appointed Secretary of Labor in 1933. The Women's Amateur Athletic Association was founded in 1923 and women competed for the first time in Olympic field events in 1928. That same year, anthropologist Margaret Mead wrote the first comprehensive study of gender in society, Coming of Age in Samoa. Throughout the 1920s, Ma Rainey (pictured, left) and Bessie Smith took empowerment to the stage, flouting convention and challenging mores by going out on the road, performing in barrelhouses, juke joints, dance halls and speakeasies. On tracks like Rainey's "Prove It on Me Blues" and "Sissy Boy Blues," and Smith's "T'aint Nobody's Biz-ness if I Do" and "Send Me to the 'Lectric Chair," both woman sang frank, liberated songs about their experiences. As the decade drew to a close, Mother Maybelle Carter committed the ultimate act of defiance in 1927, refuting the notion that "a woman's place is in the home" by climbing into her family's Model T and driving for hours to record the very first country music records – all while eight months pregnant with her first child.
In 1931, Margaret Sanger published her first book on reproductive rights, My Fight for Birth Control. One year later, in 1932, Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic, and in doing so, became a torchbearer of female independence. Earnhart's bravery was echoed years later in 1939, when Billie Holiday dared to sing about black lynching in the South with her classic "Strange Fruit."
The US entered WWII in 1941, and women's participation in the workforce increased by nearly 60 percent, while approximately 350,000 women served in the American armed forces. As the war escalated, Mahalia Jackson (pictured, right) and Sister Rosetta Tharpe began singing a new gospel. Jackson has been called the world's greatest gospel singer, and she certainly did more than any other single artist to popularize gospel music. Her performance in the "Spirituals" section of Duke Ellington's masterwork, Black, Brown and Beige at Carnegie Hall on January 23, 1943 brought the sacred into the secular world in a big way. Sister Rosetta Tharpe pushed the envelope and scandalized many of her gospel fans with her flirtations with the profane. Some accused her of an all-out embrace of "the devil's music" when she recorded and performed with Lucky Millinder's jazz orchestra.
The first half of the 20th century was a wide-open opportunity for American women to step away from the strictures and provincialism of the 19th century. The telephone, the radio, the movies, the phonograph and the automobile all helped women – especially female musicians – embrace the modern world outside of the traditional bounds of the home.
Learn more by visiting Women Who Rock: Vision, Passion, Power, the provocative new exhibit now on display at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum.


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These compelling, winningly illustrated true stories, each uniquely moving and inspirational, draw upon the experience of veterinarians, trainers, and volunteers to probe a range of tough, touching cases that evoke both the joy and the occasional but inevitable heartbreak that accompanies this work. Each chapter follows a dog from the first day at Dogtown until he ultimately finds (or doesn't find) a permanent new home, focusing both on the relationship between the dog and the Dogtown staff and on the latest discoveries about animal health and behavior.


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Rare sightings of Artic snowy owls have been reported up and down the state over the last month, including along Del. Route 9 near Port Penn and the Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge near Smyrna.
Snowy owl sightings are not unheard of in Delaware, although it is generally a chance occurrence, according to Anthony Gonzon, a biologist with DNREC's Division of Fish and Wildlife.
"In any given year, one or two owls may show up throughout the course of the entire winter," he said. "This year, however, is quickly shaping up to be extraordinary and unprecedented."
Gonzon said at least six snowy owls were spotted during the week of Thanksgiving.
The presence of the Artic birds is being attributed to the possible presence of food in Delaware.
Snowy owls typically prey on lemmings, however the lemming populations is the Artic are cyclical. During down years, the owls can disperse widely in search of food sources. Similar dispersion also can occur after a large lemming population, which results in subsequently large broods of snowy owls that must then seek out food sources to support themselves.
The white birds, which can have wingspans up to five feet and weigh more than 6 pounds, are most likely to show up near the largest expanses of open habitat along Delaware's shoreline, but could begin moving inland in search of rodents, Gonzon said.
Birdwatchers should keep their distance and refrain from flushing or disturbing the owls, he said.
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I started out with a barrel.
Added three 3/4" nipples with caps and a ball valve for air intake around the bottom of the barrel.....This system has been working great on my smokehouse.
The expanded metal coal grate sits on long bolts...above the air intake.
The cooking rack sits about 2 FT above the hot coal rack...it is supported by long bolts.
I burned the barrel and sanded it down, then added the thermometer.
The exhaust holes.....I drilled 8 holes for the exhaust, the plugs just screw right in.
I painted it with some high heat grill paint. I need to add a few things, but it is usable right now.
I added a simple table by using shelf brackets...
I had a piece of wood on hand and just rounded the edges and cut the curve out with my little hand held jig saw. Then sanded, stained and coated it with a weather protectant. Added hooks for hanging things..
I also made a coal basket that sits on the hot coal grate in the bottom of the cooker... I can fill the basket with about 8lbs of lump charcoal and it lasts for hours. So far I have not had to add more coal during a smoke.
Here is how I made the basket.... Hot Coal Basket
It's final resting place...
Some apple/olive smoked cornish game hens and twice baked potatoes
Ribs and scalloped tatoes on the drum...
Some homegrown bacon wrapped shrimp....
Surf and turf...crab legs, ribeye and corn....
More pictures of the drum.. My Drum in Action
I'm getting a lot of use out of the drum. :)
Wanted to add......
I've had a lot of inquiries as to where to find a food grade drum. One place to check might be Craigslist if you have that in your area.
Orchards are another option....
A friend from Michigan contacted me with info about his source. He has found good food grade barrels at an orchard. They were used for cherry concentrate. (Thanks for the info Mark!:))
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INEOS plans to build a new 350,000 tpy linear alpha olefins plant in the US Gulf Coast region, the company announced on Thursday. The project is targeted for completion by the end of 2016. Beyond then, it could be expanded by an additional 50%, said Bob Learman, CEO of INEOS Oligomers.
INEOS plans to build a new 350,000 tpy linear alpha olefins
plant in the US Gulf Coast region, the company announced on
The project is targeted for completion by the end of 2016.
Beyond then, it could be expanded by an additional 50%, said
Bob Learman, CEO of INEOS Oligomers.
Ultimately, the capacity could reach over 500,000 tpy, he
"INEOS Group already has a significant footprint on the GUlf
so we have ready access to key resources," said Learman. "We
have been working on this project for the past year and it is
now ready to scale up for a new phase of activity."
The companys focus on polyethylene comonomers and
polyalphaolefins and its access to cheaper ethylene makes the
project a very attractive
opportunity, said Joe Walton, business director at INEOS
INEOS is also considering an expansion at its Joffre facility in
Alberta, Canada, where it is working to raise linear alpha
olefins capacity by 10%.
That project is expected to be completed
by the end of the 2014 first quarter.
The global demand for lubricants has been impacted by
the current difficult conditions in both the European and Asian automotive
sectors said Walton. Despite this
backdrop, our [poly alpha olefins] business has been
quite resilient. It will continue to benefit from
lubricant reformulation activity to attain better fuel economy
and to lower carbon emissions.
"INEOS Oligomers is the worlds largest merchant supplier
of PAO and our investment plans will ensure we maintain this
positio," he added.
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Landscaping 101 (page 4 of 5)
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Committing the Plan to Paper
Leave the stakes, sheets, and hoses in place for a couple of days, or weeks, if necessary. See how the arrangement looks at different times of the day and in different weather conditions. Once you're comfortable with the layout, get out the tape measure, pencils, and paper.
Make a rough drawing of the shape of your lot and house--and please note the word rough. Even those who feel that they simply can't draw anything should go ahead and rough in this preliminary drawing, because it has to make sense to only one person--you--at this point. Use this rough plan to note the actual measurements.
Here are the measurements you'll need:
- Measure the outside perimeter of your lot.
- Measure in from the lot lines to the outside walls of your house to establish the house's position on the lot.
- Measure the outlines of your intended deck, patio, play area, pool, sandbox, or whatever it is you're considering. To correctly position everything on the plan, you'll need to measure in from the lot line, just as you did with your house.
And yes, now is the time to indicate the location of the water spigots, electrical outlets, and whatever else you think should be taken into consideration.
Once you have the measurements on the rough plan, transfer them to the graph paper and make a nice, tidy drawing--one that you can show with pride to any landscaper, architect, or contractor. Alternately, if you doubt your ability to draw, ask someone who can draw to do it for you, with you sitting there explaining what all of those strange lines and squiggles mean. If a single sheet of graph paper is too confining, tape several sheets together to make a bigger drawing.
By the time you have the finished plan on paper, you should be confident that you have a design based in reality, rather than an abstract, two-dimensional drawing pulled together on your kitchen table. This, combined with your garden scrapbook, will hold you in good stead as you go about making your plans and dreams come to life.


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Harry Verhaar, Philips: Lighting up the road to sustainable development for all
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- 28 March 2013
Harry Verhaar, Senior Director Energy & Climate Change, Philips Lighting, shares his views on creating the solutions, models and market approaches to benefit a larger part of the global population through collaborative energy access.
When exploring the challenges and the role of access to lighting (through access to energy) it is surprising to note that human nature tends to focus on differences rather than on analogies from which we can take (past) learning, thus accelerating the global transition to a sustainable society.
In the case of 'access to lighting and energy' we see the enormous challenge of bringing sustainable and affordable clean energy lighting mainly to families and communities in rural areas in emerging and developing countries. Quite some discussions focus on the lagging economic development of rural communities in Africa and India, and then label (lack of) energy access as a problem, or at best as a CSR initiative.
Though we as mankind are virtually 100% identical across the world, often we tend to focus on the one percent difference in color, language, geography, religion or prosperity level often followed by the creation of conflicts. Without being naïve, it is my belief that we can learn much more from exploring, celebrating and learning from analogies.
Energy Access is such a challenge, that can turn into an opportunity when exploring the analogies between todays developed world and those in current developing countries.
For those living in developed countries (mostly the current OECD countries), it is only three – at most four – generations ago that these countries were struggling with high population growth, child mortality, lack of education, 'shoddy' healthcare and had no electric light bulb, a technology now being phased-out globally. As soon as our (great-)grandparents acquired access to affordable energy – be it this was coal – they addressed some basic needs, like lighting and cooking, quickly followed by addressing more aspirational needs like communication, healthcare and entertainment (radio, TV, mass-sports).
This is the vision that should support and empower collaborative energy access initiatives. The two differences being that instead of taking three generations, we need to go through this development spiral in one generation, and instead of old analog fossil technologies, we should work together to leapfrog to clean meaningful solutions like renewable energy, solar-LED lighting, smokefree cooking, mobile phones (already happened); and rural – mobile data driven – healthcare.
In short energy access was a vital enabler for socio-economic development for many of us in the past, and is a vital enabler for Sustainable Development for All (SD4All) today.
As solutions leapfrog to new clean technologies, so will we need to switch from selling hardware (with higher initial prices being a hurdle for low-income people) towards selling services, with capital and operational expenses combined in monthly payment mechanisms.
Likewise we are at the verge of [and many of you pioneering] the integration of mobile technologies, not just for communication, but for payments, for marketing, for capacity building and training as well as for enabling the actual service delivery.
A great example of the social benefits of solar-LED lighting are the so-called 'Community Light Centres' an initiative recently launched by Philips.
During the next two years Philips will create more than 100 'Community Light Centers' across Africa and South America. These are areas the size of a small soccer pitch to be lit with a new generation of innovative solar powered LED lighting systems. These provide an astonishing amount of light and the big idea is to enable life in these areas at a communal level after dark with a resulting social and economic impact.
Addressable issues include security, sport, education, rural healthcare, extended commercial activities and social community activities. Philips is partnering with the Dutch Football Association (KNVB) to develop this concept further in Africa & South America. The project also has the backing of the UN SE4ALL initiative. See also this video.
We as Philips recognize we are just at the beginning of the Sustainable Development for All revolution, and hope to co-create this with you (in the GOGLA community and beyond), as one thing is also clear to us, this is a journey none of us can travel alone. We look forward to creating the solutions, models and market approaches with you, for the benefit of a large part of the global population as well as our public and corporate economic future. And I am convinced this will be an engaging and rewarding journey for all involved.


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I washed them in cold water on "delicate" with a black sweater, and hung both to dry. Unfortunately, I hung the jeans upside down! The weight stretched them out so badly, they ended up REALLY skinny, and about 6" too long! :-( I lay them flat to dry now, but wish someone would have told me this earlier.
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LOVE these ponte slacks!!! I'm apple shaped and short waisted. NYDJ are the only pants I can buy without trying them on. I've been told "you look great!" every time I've worn them :-) The butt does stretch out a bit, so they also loosen up through the stomach area after wear. They've pilled slightly where the inner thighs rub. But they are worth wearing out and buying another pair.
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Very nice knit pant. As I always do, order 1 size down in this knit. I normally wear a 4P in NYDJ if it contains cotton (or denim). I have learned that with a NYDJ knit (rayon-nylon-spandex), order 1 size down. So I ordered these in a 2P, and they fit perfectly!The straight leg opening is larger than a skinny, but much smaller than a suit pant.The front pockets are kind of small yet functional; the back "pockets" are not functional. The leather trim on those is just for looks.Overall, a great pant. Highly recommend!
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Two words for the "news" of Urban Meyer's new job coaching Ohio State football. Who cares?
Why in the world are we not talking more about the Bernie Fine Syracuse sex scandal? Specifically, why are we not talking about villain No. 1B and 2 - Laurie Fine, wife of Bernie Fine.
ESPN's Outside the Lines aired a recorded conversation between Laurie Fine and one of the alleged victim of Bernie Fine's sexual abuse, Bobby Davis, now 39-years-old. If we are to believe the voice on the recording is that of Mrs. Fine, then her words are more than damning of husband Bernie Fine, who was recently fired from Syracuse due to the allegations of sexually abusing multiple young boys.
Davis, who also says Laurie Fine initiated a sexual relationship with him when he was 18-years-old, says Fine started abusing him at 12-years-old. ESPN says they obtained the tape in 2002.
Fine: But you never had any oral sex with him?
Davis: No.
Fine: No.
Davis: He, he…I think he would want to, but…
Fine: Oh, of course he would! Why wouldn't he?
Listening to the phone conversation is almost as disturbing as reading the Penn State football grand jury report. Fine's wife had knowledge of her husband's alleged abuse and did nothing to stop it. According to Davis, she sometimes watched the abuse take place and said she wished her husband would find "gay boys." Laurie Fine also alluded to the possibility that her husband abused multiple victims.
But there's another unsettling component to this Syracuse scandal – the media. ESPN had this tape in possession since 2003 as well as the local newspaper, the Syracuse Post-Standard. Syracuse University officials told the New York Times that neither media entity made the school aware of the tape or allegations according to the Washington Post.
ESPN's Mark Schwarz said the company needed to confirm that the voice belonged to Laurie Fine. That's understandable and responsible, but isn't eight years a bit long for the confirmation process?
Something feels very odd about this story. And while this tape should bring some answers, it actually leaves more questions.
So what's your take? Should ESPN and the Post Standard have pushed this story earlier or at, the very least, reported this to Syracuse University officials?


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