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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18061908.comments2016-06-14T17:49:05.527-05:00Into the Grey ZoneGreyzonehttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-18061908.post-4916684798101239382011-06-28T05:10:25.178-05:002011-06-28T05:10:25.178-05:00Its very interesting blog with very useful informa...Its very interesting blog with very useful information and articles. Keep it up...

Thanks,
Mohd. Ajmal
http://www.ge-mcs.com/Mohd. Ajmalhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-18061908.post-33843373535715107242011-01-07T11:17:18.560-06:002011-01-07T11:17:18.560-06:00While it may be easy to make statements either way...While it may be easy to make statements either way, the fact remains that there are trillions of dollars in outright fraudulent Mortgage Backed Securities that were sold to the public by a financial industry that knew they were fraudulent and toxic.

That factor, by over an order of magnitude, is the primary cause of the recent economic troubles. Could oil prices have been the "pin" that pricked the fraud balloon? Possibly, but eventually that balloon was going to pop one way or another. And, in fact, the balloon began to pop clear back in mid-2007, long before we'd reached the heights of oil prices, as those two Bear Stearns hedge funds that lost 99%+ of their capital were the first casualties of the financial fraud bubble bursting.

I am not saying that peak oil is unimportant. It's very important but it was not the primary cause of the recent financial crisis. Greed and fraud were the cause. Peak oil now simply sets a ceiling under which global civilization is stuck.Greyzonehttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-18061908.post-1484869718986372042011-01-06T10:41:00.686-06:002011-01-06T10:41:00.686-06:00It's easy to make blanket statements either wa...It's easy to make blanket statements either way.

In the Central Valley of California, cheap gasoline prices through the '90s allowed the drive-till-qualified leap-frogging to extend from San Francisco all the way down the valley to Merced county 2 hours away. Each successive community saw their property values skyrocket as the previous boom-town residents decided to commute from a bigger house.

I'd have a hard time believing that gas prices there rising from 98¢ to $4 a gallon had no effect on making that one of the biggest home value black holes in the country.Popshttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-18061908.post-26721984890241397642011-01-06T01:42:23.451-06:002011-01-06T01:42:23.451-06:00I recently saw this documentary: http://current.c...I recently saw this documentary:

http://current.com/news/89990938_the-power-of-community-how-cuba-survived-peak-oil.htm

And this documentary showed me that a society could successfully extract itself from fossil-fuel based industrial agriculture. If I remember correctly, their oil usage was reduced by something like 80-90% practically overnight. They were able to adapt within a few years and reclaim/repair the land and restructure their transportation system.
 I don't know if this was just possible because they are a small island country or that their government is a better mobilizer of their people or that the Cuban society is more socially cohesive; but if they could do it, then their success must stand as an example for the rest of the world to take action now rather than wait as things progressively fall apart.xraymike79http://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-18061908.post-25455158512395354012009-03-07T22:03:00.000-06:002009-03-07T22:03:00.000-06:00Just for the record, my name is NOT Esteban Morale...Just for the record, my name is NOT Esteban Morales. :)

FerFALFerFALhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-18061908.post-46647277288256443122009-02-26T09:49:00.000-06:002009-02-26T09:49:00.000-06:00Zombies continue to move after death, too. That do...Zombies continue to move after death, too. That doesn't mean they're worth listening to. ^_^

I've found a few regular good sources for information, will post them here just in case one strikes your (or other reader's) fancy.

www.itulip.com (Solid and noted financial analysis)

www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net (Matt Savinar's website)

johngaltfla.com/blog2/ (Solid economic analysis from the other end of the political spectrum)

cluborlov.blogspot.com/ (Dmitry Orlov's blog, naturally...there's some real gems in there)

www.bearridgeproject.com/ (The Bear Ridge project, a guy trying to get ready as best he can for what's coming)

www.oftwominds.com/ (Charles Hugh Smith's excellent blog, mostly econ)

community.livejournal.com/so_very_doomed/
(like LATOC, a compilation of news, but not necessarily the same ones)fallout11http://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-18061908.post-52836411581478082282009-02-26T09:40:00.000-06:002009-02-26T09:40:00.000-06:00Orlov predicted that as things fell apart the cent...Orlov predicted that as things fell apart the center (fedgov) would be unable to hold, and that large regions would break off and form their own 'nations', just as occurred with both the Roman Empire and the Soviet Union. Sure looks like we're heading that way.fallout11http://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-18061908.post-52690292314223395492009-02-21T15:40:00.000-06:002009-02-21T15:40:00.000-06:00Thanks for the blog pointer! I'd sent an email to ...Thanks for the blog pointer! I'd sent an email to Nate about that article but felt compelled to write a bit about the erroneous assumptions in it anyway. There's more wrong with the original TOD article but I just don't have the time to play word games with people who refuse to consider worst case scenarios.

TOD's loss of several key players, such as Stuart Staniford, really dented to quality of that blog. Leanan still does a bang-up job of assembling energy related news and I still check Drumbeats for that very reason but much of the posting of late has been of marginal quality, given the stated mission of TOD. I do, however, check every one of Rembrandt's Oil Watch Monthly reports. That is an amazing piece of work and the data therein is still topnotch.

However, some people like it in its current form so on it goes.Greyzonehttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-18061908.post-51662044697383852832009-02-18T13:47:00.000-06:002009-02-18T13:47:00.000-06:00Sadly perhaps, and you may not agree, but TOD has ...Sadly perhaps, and you may not agree, but TOD has definitely slipped in both quality and focus over the last couple of years and has ceased to be visited by many for just this type of poorly thought out, poorly rationalized article. Logical fallacies and strawman arguments? Lets all just hold hands and wait for perpetual motion instead.

Good to have you back posting again, Greyzone. Btw, the author of the Argentinian experience articles (Esteban Morales, aka FerFAL) has his own blog, you can find it here.
http://ferfal.blogspot.com/fallout11http://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-18061908.post-9229115337326316352009-02-04T00:06:00.000-06:002009-02-04T00:06:00.000-06:00Texas is not using its assets in the best manner a...Texas is not using its assets in the best manner at the current time but this state can easily support its current population, even as energy availability dwindles. Texas is the largest wind power producer in the US and has more nuclear power than almost any other state. Despite the problems with nuclear, it is one partial answer to declining energy, at least for a period of time.

As for immigrants, I'm finding both people who harbor racial prejudices and those who don't. Amongst those who don't harbor such prejudices, there's lots of live and let live sentiment and willingness to assist one another.

Another thing that is breaking down old barriers is marriage. My youngest son is married to a wonderful young lady who is a US citizen born of Mexican immigrants who arrived here and became citizens themselves. I think most of the angst that gets displayed is about illegal immigrants but that often gets twisted into accusations of racism. It's not racism, but rather simply wanting to know who is in your country versus allowing any criminal to walk in.

Many people I know are for both strict border control and a guest worker program. Those are not mutually exclusive at all and again it comes down to maintaining control of your own borders.

I think every state in the union is going to face difficult times ahead but Texas is better situated than many though perhaps not as well situated as some. I note that Texas currently has a budget surplus of $11.7 billion the last time I looked and is already cutting expenses in anticipation of further erosion of the tax base. Compare that to places like California that have been basically broke for 19 months, living on loan after loan, and now approaching doomsday when there will be no more loans and zero money in state coffers either. Unless the federal government steps in, I fear California may burn throughout much of its urban areas.

Finally, I suspect if the US actually collapses you won't see Texas go it alone. There's a good chance that a new nation might be comprised of Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Missouri, Arkansas, and Louisiana or some subset of those states. That is an extremely rich resource base from which to draw to attempt stabilization of a civilization.Greyzonehttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-18061908.post-37590704936808957862009-02-01T12:09:00.000-06:002009-02-01T12:09:00.000-06:00Hi, Thanks for the answer and food for thought. I'...Hi, Thanks for the answer and food for thought. I'm equally pessimistic. I've also read that Global Warming will affect Mexico even worse than the US Southwest.

Do you think that as the economic pressure rises, people will be able to resist the urge to "take care of my own" and split along racial lines? I also wonder are recent immigrants and longtime Hispanic citizens fairly unified, or are there divisions between them?

Texas is also the transition zone from temperate forest to desert, and west and central Texas faces periodic droughts. With it's current population levels, I think Texas has a tough row to hoe if it ever were to be independent, despite the oil reserves.

Don't mean to pick on Texas, but I have family there so I'm concerned.

As you can see, I'm very pessimistic and having a tough time watching our civilization slowly chew it's arms and legs off. Sorry to spread the doom, but I would appreciate your thoughts.Speedyhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-18061908.post-64631260126697639472009-01-26T12:40:00.000-06:002009-01-26T12:40:00.000-06:00Welcome back Greyzone, good to see you posting aga...Welcome back Greyzone, good to see you posting again.fallout11http://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-18061908.post-91284037408695177112009-01-12T18:03:00.000-06:002009-01-12T18:03:00.000-06:00Hi,If you don't mind, could you say a few words ab...Hi,

If you don't mind, could you say a few words about how you think Texas will fare in the next 10-20 years with regard to the situation in Mexico? I have relatives there, and I worry that as Mexico's oil exports approach 0, combined with the geopolitical issues in the links below, that life in the states bordering Mexico could be chaotic. Does it strike you this way?

Thanks

The legitimacy of the government is being challenged in Mexico:
http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2009/01/mexicos-bazaar.html
If you don't believe it, look at this article about narcotraffickers using banners to communicate with the public in Monterrey:
http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/mexico/entries/2009/01/07/narcos_target_television_studi.html

Among top U.S. fears: A failed Mexican state
http://www.iht.com/articles/2009/01/09/news/letter.php
"What do Pakistan and Mexico have in common? They figure in the nightmares of U.S. military planners trying to peer into the future and identify the next big threats. The two countries are mentioned in the same breath in a just-published study by the United States Joint Forces Command, whose jobs include providing an annual look into the future to prevent the U.S. military from being caught off guard by unexpected developments."Speedyhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-18061908.post-60572907636675514802008-12-02T14:10:00.000-06:002008-12-02T14:10:00.000-06:00Hello. I thoroughly enjoy reading your posts, desp...Hello. I thoroughly enjoy reading your posts, despite them being of a somewhat nihilistic nature. I realise i am commenting on an old post, but i just wanted to correct something you said - although i am far from a climate denier, the shortfalls in grain produce in Australia is largely due to a depletion of the murray-darling basin, and this depletion is caused by over-irrigating farmers fields, among other things. The rise in temperature in australia has also been linked to bad forestry practises, as it has been found that rises in temperature correlates with formerly forested areas.Davidhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-18061908.post-722029444878406502008-11-14T09:08:00.000-06:002008-11-14T09:08:00.000-06:00This comment has been removed by the author.fallout11http://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-18061908.post-86073083123280281622008-11-14T09:07:00.000-06:002008-11-14T09:07:00.000-06:00Those who would actually rock the boat will never ...Those who would actually rock the boat will never be (s)elected to office.
"The system reinforces the system." - Cardinal Richelieufallout11http://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-18061908.post-7927631687445468872008-10-14T13:09:00.000-05:002008-10-14T13:09:00.000-05:00Wondrous StoriesI sit here at my desk at work---fo...Wondrous Stories

I sit here at my desk at work---for now---and gawk wide-eyed in utter amazement at the depths to which human beings will go in order to satiate their lust for power and their Midasian greed. Paulson, Bush, Bernanke: soucndrels, one and all. Scumbags of the highest order. Liars who would sell their souls to the devil, who would swear on the lives of their families, that they are telling the truth. But no amount of dissembling or obfuscation can change the laws of nature: reality, in the end, always wins out.

Toxic "assets" in the tens of TRILLIONS of dollars fill the casks and vaults and safes and basements of the world's major financial institutions. Worthless pieces of paper that, when exposed to the light of day, will bring the global economy as we know it to its knees. There is no escaping this reality. None. The laws of nature will eventually pull the curtain back on the Oz-like charade that is being played out in Washington and Paris and London and Berlin, and the global economy will shatter.

And so in the intervening days/weeks/months, Paulson and Bush and all of their minions pump trillions of dollars of "money" into these so-called "healthy" institutions in order to loosen the credit market so that, at least for the time being, things regain the appearance of a recovery. And an election takes place next month, and the DOW "rebounds" to about 10,400 give or take, and a few of the largest banks begin easing credit restrictions and reluctance to take on risk, and all seems to be moving in the direction of eventual better times. And yes, recession exists, and the economy is tight, and jobs are lost, but the new President goes on TV and tells the people that, while times are tough, we are a strong people, and we will recover. (Meanwhile Bush and Paulson and their minions have moved to a small island off of the coats of Costa Rica and hired Blackwater to protect them from the rest of the world.)

But soon thereafter, at some unknown moment in time, all of the fake money, the supposed assets and capital that the Bushies have pumped into the system---all of the trillions of dollars in guarantees promised by the countries of the EU to their financial institutions---all of these monies become exposed for what they really are---MORE DEBT. More lies, falsehoods, specters. Trillions of dollars THAT DO NOT IN FACT EXIST, loaned to banks and insurance companies and auto makers in "hopes" that they, somehow, will be able to make some money and build capital that, at this point, is simply a wraith in the night. But of course this plan fails. It must fail. It is just another layer of the grand ponzy scheme of the millennium, perpetrated on the people of the Earth by a handful of greed-mongering bastards and sons-of-bitches.

By way of metaphor, this situation is akin to building a tower on unsteady ground, and instead of deconstructing the tower and starting again, you simply make the tower taller and claim to the people that this truly is the most wonderous tower in the world, a monument to the strength and resolve of the people. But it must fall. The laws of physics demand it. And the same is true of our current economic joke.

And so I sit here and watch economist after economist, legislator after legislator, president after prime minister after finance minister, claim that the plan "will" work. And they are all lying.

But it cannot work. It cannot. The laws of nature will win out…because they always do. Always.Dan Weintraubhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-18061908.post-63507322889773454192008-08-03T18:10:00.000-05:002008-08-03T18:10:00.000-05:00Nope. But on the other hand, barring a total colla...Nope. But on the other hand, barring a total collapse of civilization, we will eventually reach a point where this begins to turn around. So unless you are preparing for a "fall of Rome" sort of event (and some people are), you have to plan for that day when you see the sun begin to shine again.

My personal expectations for this particular financial debacle are another several thousand points of loss and then the herd mentality takes over, driving things even further to the bottom. After that we're going to sit at the bottom for some period. Then and only then might we begin to see the start of a rising economic tide again.Greyzonehttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-18061908.post-29746198636836174532008-08-03T17:53:00.000-05:002008-08-03T17:53:00.000-05:00Grey zone,Off hand, a bull market advance and gutt...Grey zone,

Off hand, a bull market advance and gutted financials don't usually occur together do they?Bigelowhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-18061908.post-4819874916170789162008-07-23T18:22:00.000-05:002008-07-23T18:22:00.000-05:00My own guess mirrors your own. The credit collapse...My own guess mirrors your own. The credit collapse only appears to be about 20%-33% over by my look at things. My base figure for months has been an expected $1.3 trillion in losses, so the roughly $400 billion to date is about a third of that. But lately I am seeing sources I respect suggest total losses to banks will be closer to $2 trillion than $1.3 trillion.

I mark the onset of the credit crunch to the visible Bear Stearns hedge fund collapses in July 2007. There were other events before that but July 2007 was when the world became "aware" of the problem generally, even if they still don't get it specifically.

Given that we took 12 months to write off $400 billion of an estimated $1.3-$2 trillion in losses, that would suggest 2-4 more years of slow motion economic collapse before we even hit the floor.

After we hit the floor how long we stay there depends on many things. And all this assumes that other events don't interfere and speed up the fall.

And I don't really see any long term way out of this but I can imagine a short term attempt to sell war as a way out, depending on who the-powers-that-be choose as their scapegoat.

Oh, and to add to social volatility, I've read reports of a massive US/UK/Fr naval exercise being held in the North Atlantic this month for practicing against a "rogue" Middle Eastern state that has come into possession of nuclear weapons. Countering this and also countering the NATO "missile defense" shield that has Russia all shook up, Russia is proposing to place long range nuclear bombers in Cuba.

So we have big players moving chess men on the board and thinking they can win. Unfortunately, I happen to agree with the old War Games movie" "The only winning move is not to play."Greyzonehttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-18061908.post-14267192979625982502008-07-23T13:04:00.000-05:002008-07-23T13:04:00.000-05:00Grey, great topic, and again, great post. Really g...Grey, great topic, and again, great post. Really got me thinking.
A bit more from me on the economy/banking/mortgage issue you brought up.

The housing crisis is only about thirty percent over. It does not take a rocket scientist to figure out that a nation with a negative savings rate is not about to meet traditional requirements of 20% down for mortgages on homes which are still stuck with a median national price of $206,700 (as of May 2008 per the Ministry of Propaganda) and real inflation running well above 11% (thank you www.shadowstats.com). You see, when a family sees gasoline, heating oil, utilities, medical insurance, property insurance, property taxes, food, clothing and Fluffy the wonder poodle's medication all going up in price while real median net wages (not income, not the government distorted figures) are declining and you are going to have a hard time finding families, singles or people living under bridges saving up enough extra cash or aluminum cans to finance a down payment, much less the annoyance of having a realtor convince you that a home is an "investment" that you can make a profit on in less than a decade.

Despite the popular belief that the US Dollar has "bottomed" it is in the same decisive consolidation phase that the metals and many other commodities have been.
Since April of 2007 where the first rally to the 200 day moving average there have been six such failed rallies. Each time it triggered a new, sharper decline immediately following, and yet still remains below the 200 day moving average. It will soon be worth even less.

The choices for stupidity and Benron are pretty simple: Pour more money on to the fire or watch bank after bank, stock after stock, company after company and consumer after consumer go belly up. Oh and since it is an election year, look for one more huge fiscal stimulus package to be dumped on America all in the name of saving "Santa" and making sure the children have plenty of ChiCom lead laden toys to eat this Christmas so they can get autism or grow a third eye in their foreheads so they can get prescribed and suck down government funded prescriptions to keep the pharmaceutical industry contributing to their campaigns.

Ain't being a debtor nation just great? Welcome to the Banana Republic of the United States.

So as of this point, let's review the ongoing beating we are all taking:

1. There will be no housing bailout by the "investors" as the banksters are demanding some absurd down payments. I mean how dare they return to the "traditional" role of forcing the buyer to have a vested interest in the properties just like the "good old days" most of us grew up with.

2. The housing price decline will not meet the median income of the average American family because the investors who own the paper will not let the banksters nor anyone else mark the prices to market. Incidentally, that is your rumor of renegotiation of mortgages being halted, Greyzone, it is not just the bankers themselves. It also not a rumor, it really is happening (or at least I've heard the same from many).
If the original mortgage was written for $350,000 on Mr. and Mrs. Joe Blow's recently foreclosed home, the banks do not want to take the hit to their assets or capital reserves by marking the price down to the current asking price in the various markets of $250,000. Add in the owners of the paper be they JPM, GS, or Wi-Wi Wi in Beijing demanding to be made whole again on their MBS and the insurance holders of that bond laughing and crying while playing drinking games, and you see we are in a gridlock of death financially.

3. The dollar has found a new resistance level and will have one heck of a hard time getting above the 73 to 74 range any time again in our lifetime unless there is a move to raise interest rates to a level unseen since 1981 and the willingness to reign in the Congressional desire to finance pet projects and their retirements on our backs. Since we know that will not happen, look for option "B" where the dollar proceeds, hopefully orderly, down to the 62ish range to freak out the economic pollyannas and flying monkey spin economists of the world.

4. Market interference will continue at the regulatory level where eventually even commenting on the individual stocks, bonds or derivative creations could result in civil or criminal penalties as the First Amendment is reserved only for those who have a 1% controlling interest in Goldman Sachs or a membership as a shareholder in the Federal Reserve.

5. Stocks are still in a bear market. We shall see rallies, we shall see declines. But the bottom line is until we test the 10,000-10,680 range, we are not anywhere near an intermediate bottom much less a long term one. If you want to see a bottom, well, here:
Despite the desire of every man, woman and child to believe that Indymac was it and we'll never see another one in our lifetime, I present to you a chart. I know, charts suck and do not explain everything but this one does.
See the S&P Bank Index (BIX) chart over the last 5 years for a really scary picture of where they're heading.

Money is leaving our shores. Why would anyone overseas invest in a net asset which is declining in value? Why would anyone who has more functioning brain cells than a cow even fantasize about business in the U.S. growing and more investment being put into the system the banksters control? There is nothing, absolutely NOTHING, that the government or private industry can do to increase credit growth and expansion without the consumer participating.fallout11http://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-18061908.post-59716584264288208502008-07-23T11:46:00.000-05:002008-07-23T11:46:00.000-05:00Good to see you posting again, Greyzone, and a sol...Good to see you posting again, Greyzone, and a solid post at that. Thank you.

As a fellow southerner, I will say that the heat zapped your squash, in the old days it was not uncommon to grow it only during late summer-early fall 2nd planting cycle. Cukes often do well only to die off during June, hope they gave you some beforehand. Your strawberry experiences mirror my own, but at least the plants are spreading for next year.

The blueberry and raspberry bushes I planted this spring died, while the blueberry bushed from years past continue to wither and join them. Guess it's just too hot here now, but others in the area have enormous ones 10-20 years old.

Ammunition is getting ridiculous in terms of cost, 50 cents a round now being common for common calibers (.45, .357, .556 etc), $1/round not uncommon for unusual or old calibers .308, 8mm Mauser, .30-06, 7.5x55, etc).
Consumer price inflation is rampant, a quick trip to Walmart will confirm. I've also started seeing empty shelf space and lots of 'facing' (existing products spread thin to cover wholes) while the clerks talk about fewer trucks arriving and less goods being delivered.
Shipping times for many mail/internet orders are getting longer, and Mountain House cannery has suspended all orders and sales until 2010. They're now 78 weeks behind on shipping.fallout11http://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-18061908.post-10370180397525090112008-06-19T19:41:00.000-05:002008-06-19T19:41:00.000-05:00Well, the US isn't isolationist yet, at least in t...Well, the US isn't isolationist yet, at least in the traditional "let's leave other countries alone" sense. They've gone a baffling new route, which is somehow isolationist and interventionist at the same time.Adamhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-18061908.post-55504062810481818352008-06-19T09:21:00.000-05:002008-06-19T09:21:00.000-05:00Looking inward tendencies are hallmarks of empires...Looking inward tendencies are hallmarks of empires in periods of decline, historically speaking.
They become introspective, isolationist, repressive, pious, and nostalgic (per both Tainter and Diamond), all symbolic of internal decay.

"But no one expected the Spanish inquisition!" - Mel Brooksfallout11http://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-18061908.post-88395577018929461462008-06-17T16:59:00.000-05:002008-06-17T16:59:00.000-05:001. UN - only made useless because so many member c...1. UN - only made useless because so many member countries ensure it is (I'm looking at you, US).
2. NATO - Agreed, NATO isn't so relevant.
3. ICC - again, only useless because countries like the US refuse to allow it to function.
4. FEMA - only useless when run by total incompetents. Countries should be able to respond nationally to emergencies.
-war on drugs - useless - Agreed.
5. Homeland Security - fascist idiots - Agreed
6. Mexican border - military guarding the border is insane...it's a big border.
7. Federal prosecution of obscenity - has accomplished exactly what? - agreed.
8. foreign aid - needs to completely reworked or stopped, so agree on some level.
9. overturn the Patriot Act - Yeah
10. phase out SS - good luck with that one.
11. revoke public services for illegal immigrants - almost unworkable in practice, unless you want MORE government traccking.
12. No Child Left Behind? - Agreed
13. Gold and silver as legal tender? might come to this anyway
14. Eliminating the IRS is crazy as I see it - someone has to be in charge of collecting and enforcing taxes. If the IRS doesn't work as well as it should (I honestly don't know), then fix it.

Oh, and the US isn't paying anyone's defense bill, they are paying our offense bill. Canada only need defending from the US, really. Europe needs protection from each other? The US can stop leading foreign wars, and I'm thrilled. But don't call it defense.

I think my main point of disagreement is that Ron Paul (and you, I think) see government as not working, and want to stop wasting the effort. I see it not working, and retain enough optimism to think it should just be run better.And the looking inward tendency worries me, since it went so poorly in the WWI-WWII era.

As for currency devaluation, well, is there a reasonable way to reverse the process? Again, I'm curious, how could this be done?Adamhttp://email@example.com


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THE TANK is a Hard Rock Power Trio with heavy 60's-70's influences.
Hometown: Bethlehem, PA
Genres: Rock/ Hard Rock
Charlie Madzarac – Bass&vox
Ben Lang – Guitars&vox
Erick Black – Drums
Bryan Quay – Keys
In 2009, two area rock bands disintegrate under the weight of themselves. In October of that year, drummer Erick decided to have a jam at his house. He invited a bunch of his musician friends to join in on the good time. Out of those, only Charlie and Ben showed up. A good time was had by all, and music was made. The trio continued to jam every week until it was suggested by an unnamed source that they "form a band". So that's what they did. They played some slots supporting other local acts and someone said, "Hey, you should make a CD!" So that's what they did.


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MORE than 100 riders will put the pedal to the metal for a charity motorcycle event in aid of a life-saving children's ward.
The ride, from Weymouth to Southampton, has been organised by John Bramble, from Chickerell, and his daughter Anne Allen, from Poole, as a thank you to the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) at Southampton General Hospital.
The unit helped Anne's daughter Sophie Davidge when she was born with a heart problem, which meant that the two main arteries going out of the heart—the pulmonary artery and the aorta—were switched in position.
This condition means that too little oxygen is carried in the blood that goes from the heart to the rest of the body.
At just eight days old, little Sophie had open heart surgery to put the condition right.
While doing the surgery doctors found she has 10 holes in her heart as well and corrected those too. In total Sophie was in the hospital for 19 days, which at the time her mum Anne said felt like a 'lifetime' but looking back she said: "It's amazing how quickly she recovered from it."
During her time in hospital Sophie was on the PICU ward, as well as the Ocean ward and the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) briefly.
Now nearly three years old Sophie may need another operation when she is older, but Anne said: "She's full of energy. We would never know there was anything wrong with her."
The ride will take place on Sunday July 6 leaving Lodmoor Coutry Park at 10am sharp and riding to Itchen Valley Country Park in Southampton. All bikes, scooters, trikes and learners are welcome to join in.
It is £5 to join the ride and John and Anne are hoping to raise £1,000 for the Friends of PICU charity.
Anne said: "It's our thank you to them and keep it up with all the other children."
Sophie's granddad John said they had more than a hundred riders signed up to their Facebook page, from as far as Essex, Somerset and London.
He described his granddaughter as 'absolutely brilliant' and added that if the charity ride was a success, they had plans to do others .
John will be riding his Harley Davidson bike and Anne will be the passenger, and Sophie will be travelling in the convoy in a car with her sister Megan and grandma Wendy Bramble.
To get involved visit Facebook and search for Charity ride for Friends of PICU or visit the Just Giving page- justgiving.com/SouthamptonBikeRide.


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Turkey Lasagna
Recipe by Razzlledazzlle
From the David Kirsch Ultimate NY Body Plan: "I know what you're thinking, pasta on the Plan? That will NEVER do at the Madison Square Club. Try this and you'll never place another penne in your mouth! Either as a snack or for lunch with a nice tossed green salad, this dish is quite a dish!" David Kirsch
Top Review by cookiedog
I doubled this recipe for the two of us, and it made a delicious and filling dinner. I even have a bit left over for lunch tomorrow. Usually with recipes like this, there is a ton of cheese. DBF doesn't like cheese, I love it, but I didn't miss it at all. I used a homemade marinara and loved the chopped fresh basil sprinkled on top. Made for PAC 2011.
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Ingredients Nutrition
- 4.92 ml basil leaves, chopped
- 118.29 ml marinara sauce, sauce*
- 0.25 ml cayenne pepper
- 0.25 ml black pepper, ground
- 1.23 ml ground coriander
- 113.39 g ground turkey breast
- 1 zucchini, cut lengthwise in 1/4 inch slices
- 1 eggplant, cut lengthwise in 1/4 inch slices
Directions See How It's Made
- Preheat oven to 400 Degrees, Farenheit.
- Lightly coat a nonstick cookie sheet with nonfat vegetable cooking spray. Place eggplant and zucchini slices on the sheet and cover with foil and bake for about 15 minutes or until slices are soft. Remove from oven and set aside.
- Heat a skillet over medium-high heat and coat with nonfat vegetable cooking spray. Place ground turkey, coriander, black pepper and cayenne pepper in the skillet and sautee until brown, approximately 3 to 4 minutes.
- Lasagna Assembly:.
- Lightly spray an oven proof baking dish with nonfat vegetable cooking spray. Alternate layers of baked eggplant, ground turkey, baked zucchini. Top with marinara sauce. Repeat the process if necessary.
- Place in oven and bake for 15 minutes or until heated through.
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|Four Seniors Receive All-NESCAC Honors
Four Seniors Receive All-NESCAC Honors
November 16, 2006
AMHERST, MA – Four members of the Amherst College football team ended their careers with the Lord Jeffs by earning All-Conference honors in the New England Small College Athletic Conference. Senior Mark Hannon (Glen Rock, NJ) received First-Team honors for both offense and as a return specialist, while senior Brendan McKee (Hull, MA) earned First-Team defensive honors. Senior quarterback Nick Kehoe (Washington Depot, CT) and senior lineman Matt Mascioli (Morgantown, WV) earned Second-Team offensive honors.
Hannon was named the 2005 NESCAC Offensive Player of the Year along with receiving First-Team All-NESCAC honors as a wide receiver and kick returner. In 2006, Hannon caught 46 passes for 529 yards and six touchdowns, adding a NESCAC-best average of 12.5 yards in 17 punt returns and one return for a touchdown, along with an average of 18.1 yards on 10 kick returns. Hannon led the Jeffs and was second in the NESCAC in all-purpose yards with 949, averaging 118.6 per game.
McKee represents the Amherst defense with his First-Team nod, earning All-Conference honors for the first time in his career with the Jeffs. McKee recorded 46 total tackles (17 solo) in eight games, adding 3.5 sacks and one break-up as the defensive leader and quad-captain for the Jeffs.
Kehoe receives a Second-Team nod after earning First-Team honors in 2005. In 2006, Kehoe completed 136-of-243 passes, averaging a NESCAC-second-best 193.4 passing yards per game and adding nine touchdowns with eight interceptions. Kehoe totaled 1,547 yards on the season with a pass efficiency of 115.08. Rounding out the list of All-Conference Team members is Mascioli, whose presence on the offensive line will be difficult to replace next season.
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Jane burst into tears, but Anthea, though pale and frantic, was dry-eyed.
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Anthea says the stairs were of white marble, but I am not sure.
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Quepasa (QPSA.OB) shares have fallen 30 percent since the beginning of last week, but the company remains badly overvalued. In my last article, I highlighted the fact that Quepasa is not a top-tier social network in Latin America. In fact, it's not among the top five most important social networks in Latin America. Quepasa's troubles don't stop there though. Traffic growth at Quepasa has stopped, and in addition, the valuation for competitors not named Facebook in the social networking space continue to plummet.
The most significant news out of the company last week was Quepasa's membership report which included this:
Quepasa.com, the popular online social network and game platform for the Latino community operated by Quepasa Corporation (AMEX:QPSA - News), added 2.1 million new registered users in February 2011 to reach a record total of 31.7 million. This marks a year-over-year increase of 62%, compared to growth of 1.3 million new users in February 2010.
Quepasa.com also reported significant improvement in user engagement in February; page views per return site visit were 19.4, representing a 21% increase over February 2010. This improvement was realized despite a slight decline in overall page views on a sequential monthly basis, due to the fewer days in February and seasonality related to the summer holiday period in the Southern Hemisphere.
The market initially interpreted this positively, popping the stock up more than 5% on the news. However, the market figured out the problem and the stock sold off again by the end of the day. That problem, of course, is that overall page views were down again. Quepasa added 2 million new registered users and page views per user were up, and yet traffic is down again. That math doesn't add up.
Quepasa tried to shift the blame for the pageview shortfall to the length of February (this excuse won't work so well in March) and seasonality. The seasonality argument is also hard to swallow given the locations of Quepasa's largest markets. Mexico, Spain, and the United States, which are all top-tier Latino markets, reside in the Northern Hemisphere. Long story short, Quepasa's excuses don't carry much water. Next month's page views should be telling.
The real explanation for the page view defiency is that the company is generating low-quality users and then losing them quickly. I have to give a tip of the hat to SA member Shortcited who noted in the comments section of my previous Quepasa article that Quepasa is spamming people to get new members. In addition to driving new memberships through spam, the Quepasa website is set up to force you to register before you can see anything, and I do mean anything, about the workings of the site. There is no way to see if you like Quepasa before joining. Thus, you have to join to see if you like it. However, it seems most people join, take a quick look around, and never come back. That's the more likely explanation for why Quepasa's new registrations aren't leading to more page views.
The always interesting Alexa web-traffic monitoring service confirms that Quepasa's activity is slackening. In just the past week, Quepasa has fallen 12 ranks in Mexico to #86 (and you can't blame that on seasonality of the Southern Hemisphere) and it has fallen out of the global top 1500-ranked sites. Other metrics are also concerning. Below is an Alexa graph showing that Quepasa's bounce rate (the number of users that visit only one page at a website before leaving) is steadily climbing:
In addition, while daily page views per user may have been up a bit last month, in general, the trendline on that metric is still horizontal and fixed at roughly 10 in the long-run:
Worst of all, though, is that Quepasa's traffic rank is no longer rising. Traffic growth at Quepasa is finished. Acabado. Kaput. As this Alexa chart shows, Quepasa's rank has topped out in the around 1200 and is now heading south:
The entire story behind Quepasa is that it could keep growing at the frenetic rate it was achieveing last year. This thesis has been clearly proven wrong. You can only get so far by registering tons of users who then disappear and spamming others to get new sign-ups. Quepasa's site isn't sticky enough, and the site has failed to achieve the critical mass necessary to make it a significant player in the social networking space. It is not one of the five top social networks even in Latin America.
If growth does not resume, Quepasa will end up being worth far less than its current market value. AOL sold social network Bebo.com last summer. Bebo was a top-1000 ranked site globally at the time of the sale, yet it sold for less than $10 million. News Corp's (NASDAQ:NWS) Myspace is on the market and is likely to fetch less than $100 million. Remember, Myspace is still the world's 64th most popular web site (Quepasa is 1521st), and Myspace has more traffic than Quepasa in Brazil, Mexico, the US, Spain, Argentina, and Colombia.
Myspace is far more important than Quepasa, even in Latin America, yet Quepasa has a $107 million market cap. Why should Quepasa be worth more than Myspace when Myspace has far more brand recognition, Myspace matters in many parts of the world beyond Latin America, and both sites are experiencing declines in traffic?
Remember, there's virtually nothing on the Quepasa balance sheet -- that $107 million market cap entirely reflects investors optimism for the future rather than cash or assets. With traffic down, user stickiness still low, and the company relying on spam to try to goose up user stats, skepticism is advised. Quepasa's value is much closer to the $10 million figure AOL (NYSE:AOL) got when it sold Bebo than the $75 million or so Myspace will get on the market.
If you valued Quepasa at Bebo's valuation (a fair comparsion), you'd get a valuation of less than a dollar a share. If you value it at half of Myspace's value, you get roughly $2.50 per QPSA share. If you value Quepasa as equal to Myspace (which would be a little crazy given Myspace's overwhelming traffic advantage) you still get only $5 a share. However you cut it, Quepasa remains way overvalued.
Quepasa investors keep thinking they will prosper because they are the only publicly-traded pure-play social network. What they're missing is that the social networking space trade is over. Facebook has won, it is the monopoly, and valuations are collapsing at all social-networking competitors. Look at Bebo. Look at Myspace. Quepasa is no different.
Disclosure: I have no positions in any stocks mentioned, and no plans to initiate any positions within the next 72 hours.


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If sibyl ran fast she could climb into the apple-tree and look right down on to the common.
I even saw you pass with sibyl in the dogcart, but you didn't see me.
Thither Anchises, talking thus, conducts his son and the sibyl, and dismisses them by the gate of ivory.
Thirdly: Beaugrand, I said, wants as much sibyl as possible, and as much engraving.
sibyl Dudley and Mary Jasper were driving by in the cool bright sunshine of the late afternoon.
It has all the contortions of the sibyl without the inspiration.
How completely he had saturated himself with all the work of the great English sibyl, appears on every page.
It was to tell him that he was engaged to be married to sibyl Vane.
sibyl gave them a keen glance out of those very blue eyes, and in her heart of hearts thought they were a poor lot.
I should like to make some money to take you and sibyl off the stage.
"woman supposed to possess powers of prophecy, female soothsayer," c.1200, from Old French sibile, from Latin Sibylla, from Greek Sibylla, name for any of several prophetesses consulted by ancient Greeks and Romans, of uncertain origin. Said to be from Doric Siobolla, from Attic Theoboule "divine wish."


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Hello friends I got 100 sales… Happy for that.. Thanks to all of my friends in here, the buyers and followers. Thanks for inspiring me and helping me.
[I know it is similar kind of thread, you saw in this forum very much.. if you get bored then SORRY , just sharing my feelings ]
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Red Lion Hotel Columbia Center Kennewick features a fitness center and a seasonal outdoor pool. The hotel offers a restaurant. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. Wireless Internet access is complimentary.
A 24-hour business center is on site at this 3-star property. Event facilities measuring 9660 square feet (897 square meters) include a conference center. This business-friendly hotel also offers multilingual staff, concierge services, and complimentary newspapers in the lobby. An area shuttle within 5.00 mi and a roundtrip airport shuttle (available 24 hours) are complimentary for guests. Onsite self parking is complimentary.
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- Number of floors - 2
- Number of buildings/towers - 2
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- Conference space size (meters) - 897
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Louies Lounge - This restaurant serves lunch, dinner, and light fare. Guests can enjoy drinks at the bar.
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Recreational amenities at the hotel include a fitness center and a seasonal outdoor pool.
If you have requests for specific accessibility needs, please note them at check-out when you book your room.
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Check-in time ends at midnight
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Description: I have searched long and hard for a drawing tutorial on a specific character from the Zelda game series created by Nintendo. Now, there is countless lessons on Princess Zelda, Link, and even some of the minor characters. But when it comes to wanting "how to draw Ganondorf, that's an almost impossibility. The reason why I was looking for a tutorial on Ganon, is because my ten year old brother was doing a project on what he did over the Easter weekend. Since all he did was play Wind Waker, he wanted to draw a picture of his favorite villain from any game out there, Ganondorf. Ganon came or comes in many different forms. At times he is thin, muscular, and very aggressive looking, and other times he looks a bit bloated. I chose to draw him in his Wind Waker form which is kind of beefy as in, chunky looking with a very round belly, long upper body, and short lower body. Ganondorf has been the main antagonist in Zelda. I can remember beating him several times in three different games. In 1986, it wasn't Ganondorf that was the bad guy, it was Ganon. He made his first appearance in "The Legend of Zelda", and since then, he has been written in almost all the Zelda games. He is also known or called "the King of Evil", and he is also what you would call a terrorist of Hyrule. His motives with each game differ, but he almost is always after the Triforce which is a powerful relic that can make him so powerful, it would be practically impossible to stop him. In most of the game she already has a piece of the Trifroce in his procession which enables him to have super human strength. I guess the fact is, Ganon or Ganondorf is one of the most popular character villains of all time. So much so, he was even named as being the fourth best villain in video game existence. I do hope you guys like this lesson that will show you in full detail, "how to draw Ganondorf", step by step. Like always I will be back with some more drawing fun. I will say peace out to my fellow artists, until I return.
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Description: Contrary to how to may perceive this lesson to be, it's quite easy to draw Ganondorf. Start by drawing a head and add the facial lines as you see them here. Next, draw a large torso cavity, and then draw the outlined shape of his long sleeve, and lower frame.
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Description: Draw the sash that he is wearing around his waist, and then draw the other sleeve you see to the right. Once that is done you can sketch out some more of the designing on the left side of his hip.
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Description: Sketch out the amulet that he is wearing around his neck that rests on his chest, and then draw more designing on his sash. Draw some crease and fold lines, and then move to the last drawing step. You want to make sure that Ganon's clothes look form fitting and a bit baggy too.
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Description: You are now done with this tutorial, and because you are you can go ahead and color him in. I hope you had fun with this unique lesson on "how to draw Ganondorf, step by step.
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The Apostle John, who wrote the Book of Revelation, was taken by vision into the very throne room of God Almighty. In Revelation Chapter 4 he relates His experience but in doing so coveys an important lesson for Christians today.
Revelation Chapter 4 is full of rich symbolism and books could be written, and have been, attempting to interpret that symbolism but that is not the central theme of this article. We will here address some of the symbolism but only as it applies to the point of this article and the principle we can take away with us from it.
John begins the chapter as follows: "After these things I looked, and behold, a door standing open in heaven, and the first voice which I had heard, like the sound of a trumpet speaking with me, said, "Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after these things." Immediately I was in the Spirit; and behold, a throne was standing in heaven, and One sitting on the throne. And He who was sitting was like a jasper stone and a sardius in appearance; and there was a rainbow [halo] around the throne, like an emerald in appearance (v. 1-3).
The important things to realize so far is that John was taken out of the physical realm and taken into the spirit realm, which is a very real place. John said earlier in his gospel that: "God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth." (John 4:24).
So John was taken into the spirit, God's realm. He heard the "sound of a trumpet'. Trumpet is symbolic of the word of God i.e. "blow a trumpet in Zion" (Joel 2:1) or speak the word as a warning or heralding of the coming of the Lord (Hosea 5:8. Joel 2:1 says: "Blow a trumpet in Zion, And sound an alarm on My holy mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, for the day of the Lord is coming".
And amidst all this noise he saw one sitting on the throne, God Himself, in all his glory. Also John saw the door to heaven standing open. Scripture says that when Christ died the veil was rent that formerly separated the Holy of Holies from the rest of the tabernacle in the Jewish temple of God (Matthew 27:50-51) giving anyone access to God beyond the veil.
John goes on "Around the throne were twenty-four thrones; and upon the thrones I saw twenty-four elders sitting, clothed in white garments, and golden crowns on their heads (v.4). These elders were glorious creatures themselves. They had white robes which means that they had had their robes washed in the blood of the lamb (Revelations 7:14). They had golden crowns on their heads, symbolic of royalty and of the crown worn by the Son of God (Revelation 14:4).
John continues to describe the entire scene. "Out from the throne come flashes of lightning and sounds and peals of thunder. And there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God; and before the throne there was something like a sea of glass, like crystal" (v. 5-6) and he goes on to further describe the scene in Heaven. He also describes 4 creatures who had faces of a lion, a calf, a man and a flying eagle"(v.7-8). And the creatures had six wings and eyes all around symbolic of the creatures being able to see everything, behind and in front (i.e. nothing escapes the eyes of God, He sees everything). The six wings give the creatures great mobility to respond to do the will of God when commanded.
Verse 8 says: "And the four living creatures, each one of them having six wings, are full of eyes around and within; and day and night they do not cease to say, "HOLY, HOLY, HOLY is THE LORD GOD, THE ALMIGHTY, WHO WAS AND WHO IS AND WHO IS TO COME."
What happens next is the bottom line of this article. "And when the living creatures give glory and honor and thanks to Him who sits on the throne, to Him who lives forever and ever, the twenty-four elders will fall down before Him who sits on the throne, and will worship Him who lives forever and ever, and will cast their crowns before the throne, saying, "Worthy are You, our Lord and our God, to receive glory and honor and power; for You created all things, and because of Your will they existed, and were created." (v. 9-11).
The twenty four elders were glorious in and of themselves, be they angelic beings or perfected Sons of God. They had their own crowns distinct and separate from God who sat in their midst of them. However it is what they did with their crowns that is important. Instead of retaining their own crowns, or their own glory, they threw down their crowns at the feet of the Lord, thereby relinquishing their own glory and giving it all to Him who sat on the throne.
Our Lord did the same thing and likewise should we. It says of our Lord "Have this attitude in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus, who, although He existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped [utilized, asserted], but emptied Himself [laid aside His privileges], taking the form of a bond-servant, and being made in the likeness of men. Being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross" (Philippians 2:5-8).
Even though Christ was God on the earth, He did not assert all the power and glory that was His but he humbled Himself and laid aside all that glory in order to die on a cross for us. Paul says that we too should have that attitude in ourselves. We take nothing for ourselves but give Him all the glory and honor. The twenty four elders, although they had their own crowns, chose instead to throw them at the Lord's feet and give him the glory, not retain it for themselves.
And because Christ did the same thing as the twenty four elders "God highly exalted Him, and bestowed on Him the name which is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus EVERY KNEE WILL BOW, of those who are in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and that every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father" (Philippians 9-11).
In this day God is in the process of bringing many Sons to glory, Sons like unto Christ the head of the Body (Hebrews 2:10) which says: " For it was fitting for Him, for whom are all things, and through whom are all things, in bringing many sons to glory, to perfect the author of their salvation through sufferings".
We true believers are those many Sons God intends to bring to glory. But as we come forth in Christ, in our own glory, in the likeness of Christ, we must retain the same attitude as was in Christ. We take no glory ourselves but give it all to the head, to the Lord, the original author of our salvation in the first place.
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|Atrial Fibrillation
|Procedure: Ablation procedure and/or cardioversion
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|Allocation: Non-Randomized
Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
Masking: Open Label
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|Atrial Fibrillation Ablation Pilot Study- Study Number AFI-20
- The acute/chronic safety endpoint is recording of all Severe Adverse Events (device and procedure related) followed for six months. [ Time Frame: 6 months ]
- Effectiveness [ Time Frame: 6 months ]
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The study shall be conducted according to ISO 14155. Results of this research study will be used to assess the performance and safety of the System and its components. Data may be combined with similar research at additional sites to create a greater understanding of the endpoints. Up to sixty (60) patients (including "roll-in" or training patients) will be enrolled in a non-randomized study to assess the safety and efficacy of the Ablation Frontiers Cardiac Ablation System. Further studies may be performed to gather additional data regarding the safety and efficacy of the system.
Patients with a history of symptomatic permanent AF, willing and able to sign an informed consent, and meeting all inclusion/exclusion criteria, as identified by the clinical investigator, will be enrolled in the study. Comparative and descriptive statistics will be used to summarize patient outcomes for the specified study endpoints.
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- Any prior ablation for atrial fibrillation
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- Any ventricular tachyarrhythmias currently being treated where the arrhythmia or the management may interfere with this study
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- Any history of cerebral vascular disease including stroke or TIAs
- Pregnancy or lactation
- Left atrial thrombus at the time of ablation
- Untreatable allergy to contrast media
- Any diagnosis of AF secondary to electrolyte imbalance, thyroid disease, or any other reversible or non-cardiovascular causes
- History of blood clotting (bleeding or thrombotic) abnormalities
- Known sensitivities to heparin or warfarin
- Severe COPD (identified by an FEV1 < 1)
- Severe comorbidity or poor general physical/mental health that, in the opinion of the investigator, will not allow the patient to be a good study candidate (i.e. other disease processes, mental capacity, substance abuse, shortened life expectance, etc.)
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00744835
|St. Antonius Ziekenhuis
|Nieuwegein, Netherlands
|Klinic im Park
|Zürich, Switzerland
|United Kingdom
|Papworth Hospital
|Cambridge, United Kingdom
|St. George's University of London
|London, United Kingdom
|St. Mary's Hospital
|London, United Kingdom
Additional Information:
|Responsible Party:
|Medtronic Atrial Fibrillation Solutions
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00744835 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|August 28, 2008
|Last Updated:
|June 4, 2012
Keywords provided by Medtronic Atrial Fibrillation Solutions:
atrial fibrillation
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Atrial Fibrillation
Arrhythmias, Cardiac
Heart Diseases
Cardiovascular Diseases
Pathologic Processes
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on July 19, 2017


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From: Steven Bird <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] Who killed the men of England -
Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2009 15:15:19 -0400
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I tried the same thing; no book yet. I am guessing that there will be a followup study (perhaps part of the ongoing northern Wales study from University of Sheffield) on Weale/Capelli/Sykes out soon, concerning Mark G. Thomas' Anglo-Saxon apartheid theory directly. Sounds like they plan to support it.
Steven Bird, DMA
> Article on a study of the peopling of Britannia being conducted by
> Michael McCormick. (Image that looked like a book cover next to the
> article made me think there was a book as well, apparently no such luck)
> http://harvardmagazine.com/2009/07/who-killed-the-men-england
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