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This post originally appeared on Slope of Hope and was written by Bruno de Landevoisin: Today I concentrate my questionable craft on a cunning confidential continental institution situated in Switzerland. Namely; the Bank for International Settlements, otherwise known as the BIS. The above luminous photo is of their luxurious Headquarters.
Ten times a year, once a month except in August and October, a small group of well dressed men arrives in Basel, Switzerland. Carrying elegant overnight bags and stylish brief cases, they discreetly check into the Euler Hotel, across from the railroad station. They come to this quiet city from places as disparate as Tokyo, Paris, Brasilia, London, and Washington, D.C., for the regular meeting of the most exclusive, secretive, and powerful supranational club in the world.
Each visiting member has his own office at the club, with secure telephone lines to his home country. These elite international bankers are fully serviced by a permanent staff of about 300, including chauffeurs, chefs, guards, messengers, translators, stenographers, secretaries, and researchers. Also at their disposal are a brilliant research unit, as well as a secluded country club with tennis courts and a swimming pool, a few kilometers outside of Basel.
Undoubtedly, we have all heard of this all important international organization, but how many of us really know much about it, or even understand its intended purpose. The only thing that I knew about this powerful global entity was that it is often described as the Central Bank of Central Banks. Clearly, BDI should know a lot more about the BIS, and thus I promptly looked into it. Let's constructively begin with some benign elementary historical background transcribed from Investopedia, and also lay out the venerable institution's specific functions & mission statement, directly from the BIS website itself. After which, EP will inflict major medieval mayhem on these malfunctioning maggots and their central bank fiefdom abomination.
Founding and brief History of the BIS:
Founded in 1930, the Bank for International Settlements is the oldest global financial institution and operates under the auspices of international law. But from its inception to the present day, the role of the BIS has been ever-changing, as it adapts to the dynamic global financial community and its needs.
The BIS was created out of the Hague Agreements of 1930 and took over the job of the Agent General for Repatriation in Berlin. When established, the BIS was responsible for the collection, administration and distribution of reparations from Germany - as agreed upon in the Treaty of Versailles.
After World War II, the BIS turned its focus to the defense and implementation of the World Bank's Bretton Woods System. Between the 1970s and 1980s, the BIS monitored cross-border capital flows in the wake of the oil and debt crises, which in turn led to the development of regulatory supervision of internationally active banks. More recently, it has concentrated its efforts on the global financial stability and capital reserve requirement accords.
The BIS has also emerged as an emergency "funder" to nations in trouble, coming to the aid of countries such as Mexico and Brazil during their debt crises in 1982 and 1998, respectively. In cases like these, where the International Monetary Fund is already in the country, emergency funding is provided through the IMF structured program.
The BIS has also functioned as trustee and agent. For example, from 1979 to 1994, the BIS was the agent for the European Monetary System, which is the administration that paved the way for a single European currency.
Today, the BIS has become the central bank of central banks. The Bank now represents the interests of nearly all of the world's central bank institutions, and manages a significant share of their reserves, including gold holdings. The organization now serves and presides over 60 central banks worldwide. Accordingly the BIS requires the capital/asset ratio of central banks to be above a prescribed minimum international standard, for the protection of all central banks involved.
Stated Mission and Function of the BIS:
The mission of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) is to serve central banks in their pursuit of monetary and financial stability, to foster international cooperation in those areas and to act as a bank for central banks.
In broad outline, the BIS pursues its mission by:
- promoting discussion and facilitating collaboration among central banks;
- supporting dialogue with other authorities that are responsible for promoting financial stability;
- conducting research on policy issues confronting central banks and financial supervisory authorities;
- acting as a prime counterparty for central banks in their financial transactions; and
- serving as an agent or trustee in connection with international financial operations.
Monetary and financial stability is one of the key objective of the BIS. Bimonthly meetings of the Governors and other senior officials of the BIS member central banks to discuss monetary and financial matters are instrumental in pursuing this goal. The standing committees located at the BIS support central banks, and authorities in charge of financial stability more generally, by providing background analysis and policy recommendations.
- the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision
- the Committee on the Global Financial System
- the Committee on Payment and Settlement Systems
- the Markets Committee
- the Central Bank Governance Forum
- the Irving Fisher Committee on Central Bank Statistics
The BIS secretariats prepare the meetings of the committees, draw up background papers and reports and publish the work of the groups they serve. In addition, several independent organisations involved in international cooperation in the area of financial stability have their secretariats at the BIS:
- the Financial Stability Board
- the International Association of Insurance Supervisors
- the International Association of Deposit Insurers.
Ok, so now that we are all up to speed on the BIS's baffling bloviated bullshit, and fully indoctrinated in the organization's whitewashed history, publicly claimed mission statement and assumed functions, it's time for The Savant to expose the true nature of this supposedly benign bastion of banking balance. Trust me, they are anything but the modest measured men of monetary moderation and management they portend to be. BDI will now expose this incredible institution and unmask these crooks as a conceited cunning cabal of craven carnivorous cannibals bent on global financial domination, who deftly deploy dreaded dastardly debt disbursements the world over. They will stop at nothing to achieve their ends, absolutely nothing.
To fully comprehend the self-serving nature of the BIS, one has to understand that it is an autocratic institution run by a very select group of the highest ranking bankers on the planet, representing both private banking interests, as well as those of the vast network of major central banks that are ultimately owned by those same private commercial interests. It is important to note that these top international bankers have intentionally organized themselves, so as not to be directed by their own national governments for the crucial decisions and actions they take. In effect, they are a supranational organization, controlled by an elite group of men, who preside over most of the world's financial and monetary systems of exchange which regulate and facilitate most of the globe's commerce.
The supreme inner club is made up of the half dozen or so extremely powerful central bankers who find themselves, for all practical purposes, at the apex of an international privately devised monetary system. Their dubious dastardly dictate, which enshrines the inner club from the rest of the lessor BIS members, is the firm belief that central banks should act independently of their home governments. Their controlling organization is at the epicenter of global finance, and has inherently become increasingly connected and indispensable over time by design.
A glaring early example of their self-serving grandiosity can be found in their despicable double dealings before the outbreak and during the hostilities of the 2nd World War. The following passage, by well respected financial historian Adam LeBor, details the nefarious activities of Thomas McKittrick, a former president of the BIS:
The BIS was founded in Basel in 1930, where it is still headquartered today. Ostensibly set up as part of the Young Plan to administer German reparations payments for WWI, its real purpose was detailed in its statutes: to "promote the cooperation of central banks and provide additional facilities for international financial operations." The establishment of the BIS was the culmination of the central bankers' decades-old dream to have their own bank powerful, independent, and free from interfering politicians and nosy reporters. Under the terms of the founding treaty, the bank's assets could never be seized, even in times of war. Most felicitous of all, the BIS was self-financing and would be in perpetuity. Its clients were its own founders and shareholders, the central banks. The BIS, boasted Gates McGarrah, an American banker who served as its first president, was "completely removed from any government or political control."
McKittrick's involvement with the BIS began in 1931, when he joined the German Credits Arbitration Committee, which adjudicated disputes involving German commercial banks. One of the other two members was Marcus Wallenberg, of Sweden's Enskilda Bank, who taught McKittrick about the intricacies of international finance. Marcus and his brother Jacob were two of the most powerful bankers in the world. During the war, the Wallenberg brothers used Enskilda Bank to play both sides and harvest enormous profits. In May 1939 McKittrick was offered the position of president of the BIS, which he readily accepted.
As head of the BIS, headquartered in Basel, from 1940 to 1946, McKittrick played a crucial role in abetting Hitler's war—and, at the same time, in revealing details about his Nazi colleagues to his friends in Washington, D.C. On McKittrick's watch, the BIS willingly accepted looted Nazi gold, carried out foreign exchange deals for the Reichsbank, and recognized the Nazi invasion and annexation of conquered countries. By doing so, it also legitimized the role of the national banks in the occupied countries in appropriating Jewish-owned assets. Indeed, the BIS was so indispensable to the overall Nazi project that the vice-president of the Reichsbank, Emil Puhl, who was later tried for war crimes, once referred to the BIS as the Reichsbank's only "foreign branch." In the closing months of the war, as American GIs fought their way across Europe, McKittrick was arranging deals with Nazi industrialists to guarantee their profits after the Allied victory.
And additionally from Wikipedia:
As a result of Nazi collaboration allegations, at the Bretton Woods Conference held in July 1944, Norway proposed the "liquidation of the Bank for International Settlements at the earliest possible moment". This resulted in the BIS being the subject of a disagreement between the American and British delegations. The liquidation of the bank was supported by other European delegates, as well as the United States (including Harry Dexter White, Secretary of the Treasury, and Henry Morgenthau),[6] but opposed by John Maynard Keynes, head of the British delegation.
Fearing that the BIS would be dissolved by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Keynes went to Morgenthau hoping to prevent the dissolution, or have it postponed, but the next day the dissolution of the BIS was approved. However, the liquidation of the bank was never actually undertaken.[7] In April 1945, the new U.S. president Harry S. Truman and the British government suspended the dissolution, and the decision to liquidate the BIS was officially reversed in 1948.
Flash forward to Today. Would the very same elite banking interests not be behind the destabilization and financing of multiple military conflicts sprouting up all over the globe? After all, the U.S. just finished squandering over $3 trillion endlessly tussling with a fanatical bunch of burka wearing nomads in the sparse mountains of Afghanistan for well over a decade. In the end, what, and who the hell was all of that money really for? Might it be multinational bank financing concerns funneling their central bank issued easy money government treasury funding directly into the military industrial complex.
MENA, after years of relative calm imposed by despotic regimes often legitimized by Western commercial interests, suddenly, all at once, seemingly out of nowhere, rose up in a spontaneous combustion of political awareness, the so called Arab Spring, which has brought as much disillusionment as promise. What was really behind this? Syria has been in a perpetual state of war due to ISIS insurgents supported by the U.S., Saudi Arabia, and Israel. Iraq is on the verge of complete disintegration as the same western organized ISIS move in on Baghdad. Libya is erupting, with American, British and French embassy's being swiftly evacuated. What gives? Are all of these simultaneous regional conflicts simply a sheer coincidence? More war financing requirements perhaps.
The Hamas / Israel connection has certainly duped many, even though it is historical fact that the creation of Hamas itself was funded and supported by covert elements of the Israel government. Why did Israel put money and arms at the disposal of Muslim extremist groups like Hamas and ISIS, only to enter into brutal conflict with them later? Again, are the international bankers involved here as well? If so, it sure gives a whole new meaning to DeathFlation!
The Ukraine crisis is only further intensifying after the attack on Malaysian flight MH17. In just the past week, the EU has instituted serious economic and financial sanctions, fighting has become even more fierce in the ethnic Russian speaking regions, and Russia itself has been accused of firing heavy artillery into the war zone. Moreover, the U.S. now claims that Russia has demonstrably violated the terms of the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces treaty.
Interestingly, assistant Secretary of State, Victoria Nuland recently indicated that U.S sponsored NGOs (Non-Governmental Organizations) spent over $5 billion fomenting political protest on the ground in Kiev, in order to destabilize and ultimately overthrow the former president of Ukraine, Victor Yanukovych. Again, who or what institution actually facilitated the financing of such an excessive amount of funds, and why?
Is it simply the bane of proxy war profiteering which is underway, or is something more sinister also a foot here. Is the western central bank hegemonic monetary system attempting to further impose itself on the arising and defiant BRICS? Furthermore, since all out military conflict is no longer a viable option, due to assured mutual destruction from imposing nuclear arsenals, another most effective avenue for world domination would be via strategic financial and economic power. Is this what the international banking cabal is now seizing upon?
Such an example of a BIS sponsored strategic global economic initiative, by its self-serving megalomaniac banking power brokers, was its behind the scene's role in devising and pushing forward the concept for a European Union with a single common currency. It established a new role for itself in the postwar world, first as the financial mechanism for American efforts to rebuild Europe, and then for the accelerating project of European unification. Some believe that the trans-national vision of a modern Europe ruled by mandarins in Brussels and Basel was originally hatched and concocted in a secret meetings held at the Bank for International Settlements.
Clearly, the driving force behind the financial engineering ambitions of the elite global bankers at the BIS has always been the same. Namely; to further establish themselves as the indispensable international financial body, whose ultimate authority supersedes any national jurisdiction, thereby interminably dismantling and diminishing the sovereignty of the individual nation states. In other words, they consolidate their subjugation of the local citizenry by championing the benefits of economies of scale which only globalization can achieve, and, of course, that only their financial frameworks can administer.
The UN, EU, NAU, IMF, WBC, CFR, NATO, WTO, OECD, WHO, and a myriad other IGOs (Intergovernmental organizations), all use much the same modus operandi as the BIS, to expand their dominion. In the end, it's mostly about their self-seeking interests, entitled importance and institutional aggrandizement. Throughout history, elite groups of men have always attempted to subjugate the masses, this is no different. The once magnificent self determined Republic of the United States, for the people of the people, must stop these globalists dead in their tracks, before their self-serving hubris and unrelenting drive for hegemony brings unsuspecting Americans down on their knees.
Carroll Quigley, the renown academic historian, in his monumental tome Tragedy and Hope published in 1966, clearly identified the underlying scheme of this scourge. Having studied the rise and fall of civilizations, Quigley found the explanation of disintegration in the gradual transformation of social "instruments" into "institutions", that is, transformation of social arrangements functioning to meet real social needs into social institutions serving their own purposes regardless of real social needs. Many discerning Americans are certainly aware of the prevalence of the false Left/Right paradigm in American politics which is clearly driven by the buying off of politicians via an army of private lobbyists on behalf of avaricious corporate institutions and demanding special interest groups. There is also a solid case to be made that our multinational banking institutions directly serve to promote this debilitating duplicitous demagoguery. The once esteemed news networks have also degenerated into a cronyism cesspool of unabashed corporatism, no longer reporting news, but rather dishing out distilled disinformation and various valueless vicissitudes. Institutional disintegration indeed, Mr. Quigley was flat out dead right back in 66'!
Professor Carroll Quigley directed these poignant prescient words specifically at the Bank for International Settlements:
"The Power of financial capitalism had a far reaching plan, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. This system was to be controlled in a feudalistic fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret agreements arrived at in frequent meetings and conferences.
The apex of the system was to be the Bank for International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland, a private bank owned and controlled by the world's central banks, which were themselves private corporations. Each central bank sought to dominate its government by its ability to control treasury loans, to manipulate foreign exchanges, to influence the level of economic activity in the country, and to influence co-operative politicians by subsequent rewards in the business world."
The ominous premise of this lengthy EP, leads The Savant to precisely why he has become so increasingly alarmed, in what he absolutely believe is staring the United States right in the face. Just as the once proud independent self governing sovereign nation states of Europe have become subservient to an autocratic international banking class which promptly imposed a common currency, and now actively crafting a fiscal union to complete its ascendancy and authority, the United States is also a prime target in the cross hairs of the financial globalists. Make no mistake, the BIS, IMF, IFC, OECD and the World Bank are on a maniacal maraudering mission to subvert the existing U.S. monetary system, via a complicit and cunning central bank in our very own Federal Reserve. In my view, this is the only valid explanation as to why we are systematically being driven off a fiscal and monetary cliff, almost as if we were preforming national financial and economic Hari Kari. At this point, they have mandated a market cataclysm and deliberately determined the dollar's demise. To be sure, the BIS and IMF are waiting in the wings with a new global means of exchange based on an archetype of the presently established SDR mechanism.
Why else is the BIS saying the following today regarding the FED's current monetary measures?
"The temptation to postpone adjustment can prove irresistible, especially when times are good and financial booms sprinkle the fairy dust of illusory riches. The consequence is a growth model that relies too much on debt, both private and public, and which over time sows the seeds of its own demise.
To return to sustainable and balanced growth, policies need to go beyond their traditional focus on the business cycle and take a longer-term perspective – one in which the financial cycle takes centre stage…They need to address head-on the structural deficiencies and resource misallocations masked by strong financial booms and revealed only in the subsequent busts. The only source of lasting prosperity is a stronger supply side. It is essential to move away from debt as the main engine of growth."
Ask yourselves, if Janet Yellen sits on the Board of Directors of the BIS, why have she and her 21st century predecessors been conducting a brazen, unproven, uncharted and surely precarious monetary policy with complete abandon, that totally contradicts the sage and proven advice judiciously laid out above by the very institution which is central to monitoring, regulating and advising on global central bank direction. Something stinks here, it just doesn't add up. Is our Federal Reserve, whose top leadership also happens to be elite members of the BIS banking cabal club, actually double dealing here? Setting us up for a great fall, so the financial globalists can come sweeping in to our rescue, installing themselves as our monetary overlords? Far fetched, you say? Remember, this is well within their past predatory precepts, and typical of their self-serving Modus Operandi!
If the Idiot Savant's take doesn't convince you, perhaps the view of a multi-billionaire hedge-fund legend on the very same issue might. Paul Singer in his own words:
We were astounded to learn that the board of the BIS is comprised of none other than the heads of the major central banks of the developed world! Yes – Yellen, Draghi, et al!
So, these central bankers are simultaneously failing to tell their respective governments that (1) monetary policy has done enough; (2) monetary policy is causing massive risks and distortions; and (3) political leaders must grab the reins and make structural changes, these same central bankers are authorizing BIS reports that will enable them to say, after the coming multifactor crisis, that they told us about the risks.
We wonder who from the Fed authorized the report, and why they haven't shared these harsh views of Fed policy in the FOMC meeting minutes or the endless public speeches by Fed officials. It is duplicitous for the Fed to authorize the views in the BIS report yet keep quiet about them elsewhere. But then, the Fed has never accepted much responsibility for the 2008 crisis, despite its decisions to keep interest rates artificially low for an extended period of time, to do a poor job of regulating the banking system and to abet Fannie and Freddie in their utter irresponsibility. History rhymes. The Fed has created the fuel for another crisis, seems to know it judging by the BIS report, and yet is covering itself with an "I told you so" report from the BIS rather than changing course.
In closing, the following list identifies the current Board of Directors who preside over the Bank of International Settlements today, see if you recognize any of them.
The BIS Board of Directors:
Chairman: Christian Noyer, Paris
Mark Carney, London
Agustín Carstens, Mexico City
Luc Coene, Brussels
Jon Cunliffe, London
Andreas Dombret, Frankfurt am Main
Mario Draghi, Frankfurt am Main
William C Dudley, New York
Stefan Ingves, Stockholm
Thomas Jordan, Zurich
Klaas Knot, Amsterdam
Haruhiko Kuroda, Tokyo
Ann Le Lorier, Paris
Stephen S Poloz, Ottawa
Raghuram Rajan, Mumbai
Jan Smets, Brussels
Alexandre A Tombini, Brasília
Ignazio Visco, Rome
Jens Weidmann, Frankfurt am Main
Janet L Yellen, Washington
Zhou Xiaochuan, Beijing
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Why all of the over-the-top alliteration? Comes off has amatuerish.
A) I am an amateur weekend armchair economist.
B) Check out the 5 silly super star rating above.
C) Alliteration is always apropos Arnold.
D) Acceptable alliteration attacks must be alliterated.
"One vast and ecumenical holding company,
For whom all men will work to serve a common profit,
In which all men will hold a share of stock,
All necessities provided,
All anxieties tranquilized,
All boredom amused"
Network, 1976
Unfortunately, we all know how this ends for Howard Beale, the voice and spirit of the truly free and independent. He gets sacrificed on live TV taking five slugs to the chest in a blaze of gunfire.
They would be doing me a favor, I'm already in pain circling the drain........
Great stuff frenchie! BIS a shorter version for bullshit bankers
LB!!!!!!! How's my British brother doing?
Doing fine...choking down some poor Napa Cabernet....need a nice Chateau Neuf du Pape
You won't find any Cabernet in that.
""After WWI, Germany fell into the hands of the German International Bankers. Those bankers bought her and they now own her, lock, stock and barrel. They purchased her industries, they have mortgages on her soil, they control her production; they control all her public utilities. The International German Bankers have subsidized the present government of Germany and they have also supplied every dollar of the money Adolf Hitler has used in his lavish campaign to build up a threat to the government of Bruening. When Bruening fails to obey the orders of the German International Bankers, Hitler is brought forth to scare the Germans into submission. Through the Federal Reserve Board over thirty billions of dollars was pumped into Germany…You have all heard of the spending that has taken place in Germany…modernistic dwellings, her great planetariums, her gymnasiums, her swimming pools, her fine public highways, her perfect factories….All this was done with our money. All this was given to Germany through the Federal Reserve Board. The Federal Reserve Board has pumped so many billions of dollars into Germany that they dare not name the total." – Rep. Lewis T. McFadden (D PA), Chairman of the House Banking and Currency Committee, 1931, (spoken before Congress eight years before Hitler invaded Poland and duly entered into the Congressional Record.) ((Rep. Louis T. McFadden (R. Pa.) rose from office boy to become cashier and then President of the First National Bank in Canton Ohio. For 12 years he served as Chairman of the Committee on Banking and Currency, making him one of the foremost financial authorities in America. He fought continuously for fiscal integrity and a return to constitutional government.) " from http://prof77.wordpress.com/the-20/the-international-bankers-famous-quot...
Yes, excellent read, and BTW he was quoted in this piece......
the bis is part of the puzzle of the new world order - one among numerous players. they were most instrumental with hitler's ascendancy, who was the brain child of the nazi rockefellers and bush crime syndicate which goes back to the civil war.
The BIS hides in plain sight too. I have known about its sinister past for many years but have always been told that I am a conspiracy theorist. It's good to see more about the BIS in places like zerohedge but do not hold your breath to hear about the shady history of the BIS on Bloomberg TV or CNBC.
"Make no mistake, the BIS, IMF, IFC, OECD and the World Bank are on a maniacal maraudering mission to subvert the existing U.S. monetary system, via a complicit and cunning central bank in our very own Federal Reserve."
hmmm... maniacal maraudering mission to subvert... what?
Judging by the number of Ms there : Marilyn Monroe or Marion Morrison (alias John Wayne).
I think either fit the bill as ideal targets of true American exceptionalism fit for International subversion.
Can you imagine the conspiracy to rob America of its true idols.
On a volé la cuisse du Jupiter et les seins de Venus!
Keep reading brother................
Looks like the BIS did a great job of keeping WWII going by financing the German Reich. This institution has blood on its hand. No wonder Lord Keynes was involved in keeping it alive.
" At this point, they have mandated a market cataclysm and deliberately determined the dollar's demise."
A cycle always comes to an end. There is no preventing it. A boom cannot be created without a bust. A bubble cannot be created without it bursting.
History rhymes. 2014 is compared to 1914. The current credit bubble is compared to 1929.
There are deliberate actions of people occurring, but the phase of a cycle will complete itself, regardless of those specific actions.
Price inflation peaked in 1980 and the trend on interest rates changed to down. The trend continued whether a republican or democrat was in office.
The dollar's demise as a reserve currency is already written by the history of reserve currencies. Something will take its place and be the reserve currency until that cycle ends. Then it will be something else.
I think that gold will be the new reserve...it will not be a reserve currency.
Most writers are not seeing the coming system clearly. They are conflating the old gold standard, the gold exchange standard, Bretton Woods 2 and do not see the huge hint right before their eyes.
The structure of the Euro holds the key....gold held on the balance sheet marked to market.
If gold is at a higher price then gold could be used in currency defense as Treasuries are used now.
Today this does not seem like a big deal because gold trades at $1300 per ounce. A central bank could spend all it's gold and not make a dent. Gold is not at it's right physical price however because players are still accepting gold derivatives as though it was real gold. This supports the dollar.
Now that the world is withdrawing support (no longer buying treasuries with the dollars they receive from trade) the gold derivative market will fail and that will see the price of gold skyrocket.
In 1980 those with excess dollars bid for gold and the price went up 16 fold. The Fed was able to defend the dollar then because they could increase interest rates. They cannot do that now. It would bankrupt the US government.
Rather than a failure of the paper gold market coming first we could also see the ECB bid for gold first. This would be seen as an outright effort to hurt the dollar however and I doubt they will make the first move.
The world needs a better monetary system. It wants a system that does not favor any single country. The USA needs to get out of reserve status too because having the world's strongest currency hurts industry and exporting. The government of the US no doubt likes being able to borrow and spend as it does but the people need to get back to work. We have a good workforce. We have a good legal system. We have educated citizens. We are slowly losing all of this however. The government grows corrupt because it has money to spend and does not even have to use taxation to get it. The people grow weary and frightened as large numbers sit idle , out of work. The future of the young people seems bleak. Law are ignored as the corrupt government ignores the law and tries to govern by decree.
The USA can compete on the world stage. It will be a different world in which labor all over the planet finds it self on almost equal footing. Gone will be the days of cheap imports for the USA. Life will be better (in some ways) though as folks get back to work even if it is at a lower standard than we enjoyed during the years of 'exorbitant privilege'.
A new monetary system is coming. Almost every major country has made agreements now to abandon the dollar and do trade in their individual currencies. Gold will easily act for settlement of trades that do not balance. I am not seeing much that still needs to be done to get this new party started.
Again...GOLD IS NOTHING NEXT TO ENERGY TRADING.
The earnings at Berkshire/Hathawy were STUPENDOUS and the talk on The Street is "let's take Coke Private!"
That's not a sign of impending doom...BUT IN FACT THE EXACT OPPOSITE.
The USA has never been wealthier in her History than she is right now...the problem is that the Banks are simply going to ROLL OVER THE STATE ITSELF as "their debt" is "their existential crisis" (no recovery in taxpayer receipts) and not Wall Street or the Banks' problem.
If he Fed decides now is the time to in fact tighten (something I would argue is clinically insane) you'll see that gold price get hammered yet again.
I would argue the now current collapse in energy prices is more than sufficient to cause an imminent series of Detroits all over the place...with "Portugal" as front and center right now as well.
"All eyes on Hanover, Germany" as the British ready an invasion "without American permission."
or...the Fed is at the end of it's line and the BIS is coordinating transition to a new style of monetary system. Perhaps the world (aside from the main beneficiary of dollar rule) is turning to the 'gold on the balance sheet, marked to market' system employed currently by the ECB/Euro.
This new system will allow currencies to be defended in the Forex arena by using gold rather than US Treasuries. Gold just has to be reset to a higher price (easily done, the ECB just has to offer to buy physical gold at market price) and the dollar is out and gold is in as the new reserve asset of choice.
Imagine the price that would be found if paper gold was no longer accepted and delivery had to be physical. Since we believe that 99% of gold trades are paper it is not far fetched to muliply today's price by 100 to see where an offer to buy gold in unlimited quantities might get us.
This would allow the ECB to expand it's balance sheet by taking on gold rather than debt...I think it is brilliant.
This action would cause all gold on the planet to be reset as well since the price of gold is set at the margins.
While this would be very beneficial to the central banks and countries that hold gold, the few citizens who also possess it would benefit as well.
Many will think this far fetched...but I believe this has been in the works since the introduction of the Euro. The ECB is NOT just a funny German/French version of the Fed. The ECB/Euro is an entirely different beast than the dollar. Those who do not see this difference wil never come close to guessing what will happen next.
The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has said that banks have done their bit to help economic recovery and now it is time for governments to do more. This means that governments must take responsibility for their economic policies and responsibility for how these policies effect the economic prosperity of their nation.
In both the short term and the long haul governments not banks should oil the wheels of the economy by reforming labor markets and undertaking a forceful program of "repair and reform." The BIS said this is the only way to bring about a lasting economic revival. The sooner Janet Yellen and the Fed admits thet are very limited in what thay can do the better off we will be. More on this subject in the article below.
a forceful program of "repair and reform"
a.k.a. serfdom
Sure thing the banks have "done their bit".
If you like your profits form zirp you can keep your profits from zirp!
Now bring on the firesale of fixed capital and distressed enterprises.
"In both the short term and the long haul governments not banks should oil the wheels of the economy by reforming labor markets and undertaking a forceful program of "repair and reform." The BIS said this is the only way to bring about a lasting economic revival."
No one has ever been able to eliminate the business cycle. Nature always manages to take care of itself. Government oiling does nothing more than distort the natural cyclical process of the economy.
In the attempt to prevent a normal recession, the government has prevented normal recoveries. Artificially shallow recessions have resulted in artificially shallow recoveries. The 2008 recession did not eliminate the excesses of the boom era, which is an anchor on the current economy.
" Artificially shallow recessions have resulted in artificially shallow recoveries. "
That is the basis for Keynesian thought, right there.
You do realize that Janet Yellen sits on the BIS's Board of Directors, right????
The Bank for International Settlements cabal is clearly getting ready to say "I told you so", positioning themselves as the great monetary White Knight to swoopng in to save us all from ourselves.
These financial globalists / terrorists are setting up to unleash their SDR on us.
God help us all.................
"setting up to unleash their SDR on us."
Which they must do before they lose control of Gold...
"...This is how bank-runs began. When holders of the notes discovered that their beloved bankers were really criminals then the "bankers" would experience everyone running to them all at once to redeem their notes first so that they could get whatever gold and coin, whatever fraction of wealth, did in fact exist. It was a great con for the criminals while it lasted but they just couldn't seem to make it last. So the thieves' dilemma was how to make the con everlasting. Let's see, why not induce an "Oh-*&%@#-plague-of-black-death-the-world-is-going-to-end run on the criminal banks just like the one in 1907 and then have those virtuous-few-who-know-what's-best-for-us ride in on a white horse to save us all from those evil counterfeiting "bankers?"
What was placed in the stead of those transient counterfeiting "bankers" who just couldn't seem to perfect their craft because those pesky productive workers kept demanding their own money be returned to them and therefore exposing the thieves' con game? Permanent! Counterfeiting! Criminals! ...What a racket.
The only difference between the bankers gone criminal from days of yore and the sweet poison penned in the quoted pamphlet above is the organized tyranny; the usurpation of an honest institution providing a value for the economy of productive work then transmogrified into a criminalized monopoly. Therefore, the criminals no longer had to be clandestine about their counterfeiting when it became federally adopted as somehow-being-constitutional-even-though-it-might-not-be-but-you-better-just-sit-down-shut-up-and-accept-it-as-if-it-is; all they had to do afterwards was teach that counterfeit is money and that stealing is banking and, voilà! "
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Nice building.
I think if they had redefined the International Metric System "meter" to something a bit larger, that building could have been higher, spending the same resources (maybe 2 or 3 more floors).
C'om on, time to architects and physicists for learning something from banksters!!!
Sometimes I wonder how much power the President has. Congress same thing. I mean somebody is probably already in charge of North America, or however they divide up the world. The rest of it is window dressing and squabbling over loose change.
If there is a such thing as heaven and hell, good and evil, i dont know. But if there are such thing- im pretty sure the bankers and MIC do a good job at representing hell and evil.
Swear there ain't no heaven,
And I pray there ain't no hell
But I'll never know by livin',
Only my dyin' will tell
Only my dyin' will tell https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XS-gwb8eSc0
"Here we are, exercising, eating tofu and such- won't we be pissed off if we find out that this was hell?" - Doug Tracht, aka The Greaseman
The Beast is going to be harder to kill than we thought.
Just concern yourself with what you can do to help kill the Beast. The rest of the World will do theirs.
So Bill Dudley is next in line if something happens to Yellen? Good to know.
Being well informed seems to be of little value when surrounded by lazy stupid people. Or are they the smart ones and I the idiot? Correction, "what if" they are the smart ones, and I the idiot? I think everyone reading articles like this must consider either giving up, or doing something about it. It ain't gonna change by itself.
Oh my, the Conca Shill is quoting Obama in terms of "the public must accept our 'science'".
"I'm not a doctor either, but if a bunch of doctors tell me that tobacco can cause lung cancer, then I'll say, OK."
The most glaring examples of this distrust of scientific experts are in climate change, evolution and nuclear energy.
Jeez, if you have taken the bitter red pill, we know most instititions of higher learning are simply two bit whores looking for the next grant. And Conca is using this to promote global warming and nuclear. Please visit and drop a comment.
stock out, help TIPP it.
I would seriously question the security of any phone line.
This is both informative and incredible interesting. This guy's work is a wonderful addition to ZH.
Bravo sir!
Bankers are like the French, Right?
They will SLEEP with Anybody and are IN BED with Everybody.
1) Drug Dealers
2) Weapons Dealers (Illegal ones)
3) Nazis
4) Dictators & Tyrants
5) People looking to Hide Money & Avoid taxes
6) People that seek to Rape Stockholders & Loot their Corporations
7) People that want to bribe Officials to keep & Expand government contracts & subsidies
Without the French you would be still kissing the Queen's hairy ass..................
Well you know it is like Pollock jokes... everyone gets a turn probably.
The woman that laid that on me, was actually talking about me insinuating that I should look at my behavior.
we would never got this shit then
Hey Gmak, how have you been. Miss you at your old stomping grounds...........
Pretty much says it all. This must be the NWO that's all the rage now.
"It is important to note that these top international bankers have intentionally organized themselves, so as not to be directed by their own national governments for the crucial decisions and actions they take. In effect, they are a supranational organization, controlled by an elite group of men, who preside over most of the world's financial and monetary systems of exchange which regulate and facilitate most of the globe's commerce."


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800m - 1:47.52 (School Record)
1500m - 3:52.7
800m - 1:52.88 (7th all-time)
Mile - 4:15.28 (5th all-time)
2015 (Senior): Advanced to the NCAA Championships in the 800m ... Earned All-America honorable mention distinction with a 19th-place finish ... Was an automatic qualifier to nationals as the third-place finisher in his quarterfinal heat at the West Prelims (1:48.28) ... Defended his Big West title by clocking in at 1:48.72 ... Ran a season-best 1:47.56 to claim runner-up honors at the Stanford Invitational ... Competed in two indoor meets ... Notched a lifetime-best 4:15.28 in the mile at the Husky Classic ... That mark ranks fifth in school history.
2014 (Junior): Earned first-team All-America honors with a seventh-place finish in the 800m at the NCAA Championships ... Qualified for nationals with a runner-up showing at the West regional meet ... Bettered his own school record with a time of 1:47.52, making him the first 49er ever to run a sub-1:48 race ... Broke a 31-year old program record earlier in the year at the Stanford Invitational (1:48.3) ... Claimed the Big West 800m title (1:48.71) ... Added individual victories at the Stanford Invite, Anteater 4-Way Meet, and Drake Relays ... Also competed in the 800m and mile during the indoor season ... Ran LBSU's seventh-fastest 800m indoor time at the UW Open (1:52.88) ... Finished ninth at the MPSF Championships in 1:52.96.
2013 (Redshirt): Did not compete.
Junior College: Competed two years in track & field at College of the Canyons ... Earned All-America honors ... Two-time Western State Conference Athlete of the Year ... Also garnered all-state honors in 2011 and 2012 ... Claimed back-to-back titles in the 800m at the California Community College State Championships ... Established a then personal-record 1:49.16 as a sophomore ... Set five school records during his time at COC ... Qualified for the U.S. Junior Outdoor Track & Field Championships.
High School: Won three letters at Canyon High School ... As a senior, advanced to the CIF State Meet in cross country ... Also finished fifth in the 1600m at the CIF-Southern Section Division II Track & Field Finals ... Claimed the 1600m title at the Foothill League Championships ... Earned first-team all-league honors in 2010.
Personal: Father, Stephen, competed in track & field at Sacramento State ... Cousin, Danielle, was also a track athlete at UCLA ... Majoring in criminal justice.
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Alfalfa is a perennial herb that grows in variety of climate throughout the world and is promoted as a dietary supplement for human consumption in recent years. It was first discovered by the Arabs and is considered as a 'Queen of forage plants'. Alfalfa is able to absorb the nutrients from the soil in a better way because of it s deep rooted system. Alfalfa is categorized as legumes containing eight essential amino acids, rich source of certain vitamins, minerals as well as chlorophyll and has a long list of medical and dietary uses. Alfalfa leaves contain sterols, flavones, isoflavones and comarin derivatives.
Alfalfa is generally safe if taken as instructed by a herbalist, however is consumed in large doses can have these side effects - Alfalfa supplements should be taken with a word of caution for pregnant ladies as it contains stachydrine and homostachydrine which promotes menstruation and thus can lead to miscarriages in some cases. Although a source of iron, alfalfa also contains saponins that interfere with dietary iron absorption and thus having adverse effects on iron status of an individual in the body. Large quantities if alfalfa seeds when consumed over a period of time can lead to pancytopenia, a type of blood disorder which causes deterioration of blood platelets that are responsible for blood clotting and white blood cells. Alfalfa should be avoided for a person with some auto immune problem. Alfalfa is also available as a dietary supplement in the form of tablets, capsules and liquid extracts. The dose should be decided by your health care provider in that case. One cannot be deficient as alfalfa is not an essential nutrient, but adding it to our diet would be surely beneficial for many individuals.
Health problems are a part of life that cannot be ignored. However, it is important to remember that the way we live our life plays a huge role in the extent to which certain conditions will affect us. For instance, obesity is a well known and very common condition. However, one cannot complain of the problems he or she faces as a result of the condition if they do not make it a point to take care of their bodies during its development. One of the most common reasons that a large number of us lead very unhealthy loves in terms of the kinds of foods consumed is because of the fact that we have very hectic schedules that prevent us from sitting down and making a healthy and nutritious meal. While this is an understandable set of circumstances, it is important to remember that having the excuse is not going to do anything for the body when it starts to suffer the ill effects of being ignored for so many years. As a result, it helps to identify foods that are beneficial for your health and incorporate them into your diet in order to fight off the ill effects of certain conditions that are likely to develop.
Alfalfa, for instances is one of the best known health foods and is regularly used in the treatment of a number of conditions. But before we get into the details of the various conditions and ailments that alfalfa and alfalfa supplements help deal with, let us explore some of the plants history. Alfalfa is essentially a plant that is rich in vitamin, minerals and other nutrients and hence plays a very important role in the overall maintenance of the body. Alfalfa has been used as a regular and very common natural home remedy in the oldest cultures of the Chinese as well as Arabic world because of its health related properties. Research shows that alfalfa has been cultivated since as far back as the 5th century BC with a significant surge in its popularity coming in around the 17th century. One of the most distinctive properties of alfalfa when compared to any other kind of plant is the fact that it is toxic to itself. As a result, the plant cannot be grown in an area where another one already exists. Farmers need to plow out the crop before relaying another batch for growth. Moreover, the maturity of the crop also plays a huge role in whether it will be beneficial or not to us. The more mature varieties of the plant are likely to contain more fiber than the human body can handle, but will be alright for cattle consumption.
Due to the fact that alfalafa is a very widely known plant, a number of people tend to ask 'what is alfalfa used for?' in truth, there are a number of uses for the plant because of its high composition of essential vitamins and minerals. Some of the most well known alfalfa supplement benefits include the treatment of kidney problems, helping in the nourishment of the digestive, glandular and skeletal systems of the body; preventing the onset of stokes, lowering the cholesterol levels as well as curing most auto immune disorders. Researching information on the various alfalfa supplement benefits will help substantially while it is also important to make sure that you are aware of the various alfalfa supplement side effects, especially while pregnant. Going through a pregnancy is a very delicate time for the body and despite the fact that there is a lowering of the immune system – it is essential that you take care of your body and prevent any serious medical ailments from developing as they are likely to be carried forward to the child. One of the most important alfalfa supplement side effects during pregnancy to be aware of is the fact that alfalfa consumption is thought to induce menstruation and uterine stimulation. Because of these side effects, the chances or miscarriage heighten – thereby making it a very dangerous supplement to consume during this period. In the event that you are pregnant, it is extremely important that you discuss all the various side effects for any kind of medication that you take, with your doctor. Another one of the more serious alfalfa supplement side effects is the fact that diets that are rich in a substance called canavanine – which is a type of amino acid found in alfalfa – tends to aggravate a condition known as lupus.
One of the most widely used medical relationships is between alfalfa and gout; with the anti inflammatory, anti fungal and anti bacterial properties of the plant all playing a major role. Besides the benefits of alfalfa and gout, it is important to be aware of the fact that alfalfa consumption also tends to increase the sensitivity of the skin – making it more likely to increase the risk and possibility of sunburn. As a result, it is imperative that you apply sunblock in order to prevent any excessive damage from taking place. One is likely to notice the skins sensitivity returning to normal after alfalfa consumption has reduced.
Because of the many alfalfa supplement benefits, there are a number of home remedies that have been developed all over the world in the treatment of a number of conditions. For instance, the fact that the substance is very rich in the minerals that are required fir the formation of the strengthening of the bones, brewing a tea tat has a high amount of alfalfa content in it is likely to make the bones significantly stronger while the composition of the foods also helps dissolve kidney stones. Alfalfa supplements are easily available in any medical or health store all over the world, although it is advisable that you check with your doctor if it is advisable to include it in your diet before you do so.
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In an earlier post I described an October visit to the Rocketship Mateo Sheedy charter school in San Jose CA. I related the school's impressive test scores — some of the highest in Santa Clara County — for low-income, mostly Hispanic students led by a faculty of Teach for America graduates. I also stated that the school's budget of about $6,000/pupil supported higher salary levels than for comparable teachers in San Jose public schools.
Last week Rocketship Mateo Sheedy was the subject of a post at the blog of Joanne Jacobs, a freelance education writer. One (of twenty-three) comments asked about teacher salaries at the school. Another doubted that the budget was as low as I had claimed.
In response to a request, the school provided me with extensive spreadsheets detailing its FY 2010 budget. With an enrollment of 452 students, the $3,229,381 budget for all expenses, including capital costs, is $7,145/student. Excluding almost $600,000 in capital costs, the operating budget is about $2.6 million, or $5,842/student.
The average salary for the eleven teachers at Rocketship Mateo Sheedy is $60,660. John Danner, CEO for a group of Rocketship schools, says the salaries are 10%-20% higher than for peers in the San Jose public school system. With benefits, total average compensation is $74,996. The benefit package more closely reflects the real world, rather than the dreamland that is going to bankrupt so many traditional public school districts.
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WASHINGTON — As the government shutdown dragged on, Sen. Susan Collins of Maine was spending another weekend on Capitol Hill, staring at C-SPAN on her Senate office television as one colleague after another came to the floor to rail about the shuttered government.
Frustrated with the lack of progress, Collins, a Republican, two Saturdays ago quickly zipped out a three-point plan that she thought both parties could live with, marched to the Senate floor and dared her colleagues to come up with something better. A few days later, two other Republican female senators eagerly signed on — Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, who overcame the tea party to win re-election in 2010, and Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire, who benefited from the tea-party wave.
Together the three women started a bipartisan group whose negotiating framework formed the centerpiece of a tentative Senate deal nearing completion Monday
to raise the debt ceiling and end the government shutdown, while the rest of the world braced for the possibility of a U.S. default that could set off a global financial disaster.
Negotiators talked into the evening as senators from both parties coalesced around a plan that would lift the debt limit through Feb. 7, adopt a resolution to finance the government through Jan. 15 and conclude formal discussions on a long-term tax and spending plan no later than Dec. 13, according to one Senate aide briefed on the plan.
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But while both Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the Republican leader, and Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada, the Democratic leader, praised the progress that was made in the Senate, it was already clear that the most conservative members of the House were not going to go along quietly with a plan that does not accomplish their goal from the outset of this two-week crisis: dismantling the president's health-care law.
"We've got a name for it in the House: It's called the Senate surrender caucus," said Rep. Tim Huelskamp, R-Kan. "Anybody who would vote for that in the House as Republican would virtually guarantee a primary challenger."
The Senate could vote on an agreement as soon as Wednesday if Reid and McConnell discuss the deal with their members Tuesday. That would leave little time for the House to debate and vote on what will be a contentious measure.
In a Senate still dominated by men, women on both sides of the partisan divide proved to be the driving forces that shaped a negotiated settlement. The three Republican women put aside threats from the right to advance the interests of their shutdown-weary states and asserted their own political independence.
"I probably will have retribution in my state," Murkowski said. "That's fine. That doesn't bother me at all. If there is backlash, hey, that's what goes on in D.C., but in the meantime there is a government that is shut down. There are people who are really hurting."
Two powerful women on the Democratic side of the aisle — Sens. Barbara Mikulski of Maryland and Patty Murray of Washington — took a hard line and pressed their Republican counterparts to temper their demands, but they also offered crucial points of compromise.
Together, the five senators starkly showed off the increasing power of women — even those who are not on the relevant committees — as their numbers grow in the upper chamber. Of the 13 senators on a bipartisan committee who worked on the deal framework, about half were women, even though women make up only 20 percent of the Senate. Sen. John McCain of Arizona joked at several points in their meetings, "The women are taking over."
Sen. Joe Manchin III, Collins' first Democratic collaborator, said: "That gender mix was great. It helped tremendously." He added: "Would it have worked as well if it had been 12 women or 12 men? I can't say for sure, but it worked pretty well with what we had."
The women are hardly in lock step politically. But their practice of meeting regularly and working on smaller bills together, even in a highly polarized Congress, set the stage for more significant legislation. Ayotte and Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., hosted an informal get-together for women in the Senate on Oct. 7.
"I don't think it's a coincidence that women were so heavily involved in trying to end this stalemate," Collins said. "Although we span the ideological spectrum, we are used to working together in a collaborative way."
The Republican women involved in the compromise represented three of their party's four female members. (Sen. Deb Fischer of Nebraska did not participate.) The bipartisan negotiating group included three Democratic senators as well: Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota and Shaheen. The strongest Democratic voices counseling a hard line were also women.
Murray is chairwoman of the Budget Committee and would have primary responsibility for turning any broad agreement into a detailed plan for tax and spending policy over the next decade. Mikulski, who leads the powerful Appropriations Committee, has been the most forceful voice in efforts to blunt the impact of future budget cuts.
"Patty and I were emailing all weekend," Collins said. "I was not off the phone for longer than 20 minutes yesterday."
It was Murray who suggested language ordering an immediate start to budget talks. That language tempered Democratic concerns that the emerging deal would lock in across-the-board spending cuts for next year.
The leader of the Republican trio, Collins, has emerged as the most powerful moderate in the Senate, as the only Republican vote on several high-profile Democratic bills and the must-have Republican.
Murkowski has been nursing wounds since the Republican establishment abandoned her in the wake of her defeat by a tea-party candidate in the 2010 primary. She won as a write-in candidate and has seized the chance to assert her independence.
"Politics be damned," she said Monday.
If a deal is not finalized by the end of the day Thursday, Treasury officials have said, the U.S. government will have exhausted "extraordinary measures" for managing its debt, meaning that its ability to pay its bills will be limited to the uneven flow of cash that comes into the Treasury on a daily basis.
Investors Monday reacted in tandem with the real-time reports of halting progress, with stocks falling in the morning before drifting into positive territory by the end of the day in response to reports of a possible deal in the Senate. At the same time, asset managers and banks began taking steps to be ready if the Treasury Department is unable to pay back its short-term debt on time. And world leaders expressed concern about the impact on their countries.
Chinese leaders called on a "befuddled world to start considering building a de-Americanized world." In a commentary Sunday, the state-run Chinese news agency Xinhua blamed "cyclical stagnation in Washington" for leaving the dollar-based assets of many nations in jeopardy. It said the "international community is highly agonized."


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>I agree with Peter. I've practiced law in Minnesota for 34 years and while
>I don't do criminal law it seems to me that the event described (forcing
>someone off the road) could be 5th degree assault. I will check further
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> From: Minnesota Birds <firstname.lastname@example.com>
> To: firstname.lastname@example.com <email@example.com>
> Sent: Sun Feb 13 20:27:48 2011
> Subject: Re: [mou-net] Stickney Road Warning
> Mr. Hendrickson is right. These incidents should be reported. I
> was a deputy public defender here in California for 31 years, but I now
> spend my summers im Itasca County, MN. These people usually hurt someone
> eventually. If he says he's going to shhot you, or kill you, believe him.
> Get away and notify law enforcement. If he made a specific threat or if
> he hurt or tried to do so, then file a complaint, request prosecution and
> be prepared to go to court if necessary.
> I'm not familiar with Minnesota law, but in California,
> threatening people can be treated as a felony. Pulling a gun on someone
> is illegal in all states.
> This guy needs to be stopped. Sure, helped, but in a secure
> facility. He will hurt or kill someone. Please, report all these
> incidents. You will be saving someone from serious harm.
> Good birding,
> Peter Dullea,
> Senior Deputy Public Defender
> for Santa Barbara County, Retired
> Lompoc, California
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>> Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2011 18:15:06 -0800
>> From: firstname.lastname@example.com
>> Subject: Re: [mou-net] Stickney Road Warning
>> To: email@example.com
>> I talked to a resident who sort of knows this guy because he has property
>> near
>> him. This person must of gotten out of jail recently because he was
>> arrested
>> possibly a year and a half ago for pulling a gun against someone near or
>> on his
>> property. He is very unstable and has been known to chase after cars and
>> doing
>> exactly what Cindy mentioned. I have her stories from witnesses who said
>> they
>> been followed by him for nearly 10-15 miles before the party stopped to
>> confront
>> this man. I am sure the county officers know of him but unfortunately
>> Sax-Zim
>> Bog / Meadowlands area is patrolled very seldom by law officials. So the
>> more
>> reports people share to law officials the more they know of him and the
>> more
>> what he has been up to lately.
>> Thanks
>> Mike Hendrickson
>> Duluth, Minnesota
>> Website: http://www.mikehendricksonbirding.com
>> Blog: http://colderbythelakebirding.blogspot.com/
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>> From: Chris Edwardson <firstname.lastname@example.com>
>> To: email@example.com
>> Sent: Sun, February 13, 2011 7:57:51 PM
>> Subject: [mou-net] Stickney Road Warning
>> Cindy and I were birding the bog on Saturday and made the mistake of
>> stopping (for a possible owl sighting) near a house on the Stickney
>> Road that has a sign that in part says "Trespassers will be violated...."
>> The owner walked out to the road (we were 200 + feet past his driveway)
>> and
>> asked us what we were doing there. I said we were birding, but he acted
>> confused and began confronting us, yelling that he had cameras watching
>> the
>> road. We just got in the car and left. Unknown to us, he was not
>> through
>> "talking" to us and when we were several miles away he pulled up in his
>> car while we were driving and forced our car to stop. I use the word
>> forced, because I felt like I had to stop or he would try to run us off
>> the
>> road. We listened to him rant about being an ex-marine, prior killer of
>> enemies, Christian, etc. Eventually, he let us drive on. He mentioned
>> having problems with birders before so we wanted to be sure to remind
>> everyone not to stop anywhere near his house. I am considering
>> contacting
>> the county Sheriff just to have the incident on record.
>> --
>> Chris Edwardson
>> Wood Technology Consulting Services
>> 31 E. Arrowhead Rd.
>> Duluth, MN 55803
>> 218-724-6357
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Katalin Green is the founder and publisher of Montana Bride magazine. "We promote and focus on destination Montana weddings," she said.
On Friday, she and over 150 others attended a workshop hosted by Senator Jon Tester, to learn how to strengthen the link between Montana businesses and the state's tourism.
"There's opportunities out there to expand their business, create more jobs and be more successful," Sen. Tester said.
Speakers like Roger Dow from the U.S. Travel Association said tourism is Montana's second biggest industry next to agriculture. And if businesses can capitalize on it, he said there's potential to grow exponentially.
"The international market has huge opportunities for Montana," Dow said. "People want to see the authentic, the 'real' America."
After Dow spoke, a Montana business panel, which included Bozeman's Massive Studios Marketing and West Yellowstone's Yellowstone Vacations, shared their success stories and offered tips.
Green said she launched the magazine just over 10 years ago. Since then, has seen interest from brides around the world.
"Montana wedding tourism is growing. It's exciting," Green said. "We receive inquiries everyday. We have a lot of followers on our Facebook page."
On average, she said each destination wedding in Montana brings in 100 guests- which means good revenue for local businesses.
"That includes lodging, restaurant, activities- they're rafting, they're fishing, they're hiking and they're visiting our state parks and national parks," Green said.
It's about marketing Montana, she said, and through a strong social media presence, website and blog- she's been able to grow her business, and bring tourists to Big Sky Country.
She hopes to eventually launch a national and international, "Say 'I Do' in Montana" campaign.
And that's what speakers at Friday's workshop said businesses can do to help themselves, and the Treasure State.


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International Data Corp. on Friday released a report showing smartphone shipments soared 36 percent worldwide in the fourth quarter as the sleek devices supplanted personal computers and other gadgets on holiday shopping lists.
Samsung Electronics Co. retained its bragging rights as the smartphone leader, shipping nearly 64 million devices for a 29 percent share of the global market. Apple ranked second with nearly 48 million iPhones shipped during the fourth quarter, translating into a market share of 22 percent.
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Blizzard Brings Northeast to a Halt
The storm that has pounded the Mid-Atlantic region while halting transportation, knocking out power and collapsing roofs is likely to rank among the most disruptive ever in the U.S.
Wednesday's onslaught, which brought official Washington to a virtual standstill for a third straight day, is the result of two weather systems combining, prompting Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley to term it a "swirling double buzz saw" for his hard-hit state.
"I don't think there's ever been quite a siege of systems like we've had the last week and a half," said Paul Kocin, a government expert on winter storms. "The past two—last weekend and this one—are very different storms, but the impact in this area is just enormous."
He compared it in severity to the "Storm of the Century'' in 1993 and the "Blizzard of 1996," both of which caused numerous fatalities and billions of dollars of damage. Mr. Kocin said the current storms could wind up costing $1 billion, and "maybe a lot more.''
As snow buried Washington and parts of New York, Cypress Mountain in Vancouver, British Columbia, was hit with a surprise snow storm, giving the home of the Olympic freestyle and snowboarding venues a much-needed break days before competition starts Saturday. Due to an earlier dearth of snow, workers had been trucking and flying in snow via helicopter.
On the East Coast, Philadelphia, Wilmington, Del., Baltimore, Washington and Northern Virginia were setting snowfall records. As of late Wednesday, Washington's seasonal total of 55.6"—with snow still falling—broke an 1898-1899 record.
Officials held out hope of reopening airports in the region on Thursday. But it could take days longer for life to return to normal in many other respects.
Northeast companies scrambled to figure out how and where employees would work as the storm snarled commutes. Many businesses in Washington followed the federal government's lead and closed for the day, as did the United Nations in New York. Consumer-goods company Unilever PLC closed its U.S. headquarters in Englewood Cliffs, N.J. Accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers, in the midst of tax-preparation season, "strongly advised" employees to stay home from its New York City offices. And TD Bank booked about 20 hotel rooms for key staffers.
The latest storm, which exploded in intensity early Wednesday morning, produced ferocious winds and heavy snow through much of the day. Many local governments suspended plowing by midday, and some power companies were forced to interrupt their restoration work, at least for a few hours.
Historic aircraft and spacecraft were exposed to freezing temperatures Wednesday after heavy snow collapsed part of a roof and wall at a Smithsonian Institution storage facility in suburban Washington. National Guard units were called in to provide transportation assistance in Maryland as well as Washington. The city of Baltimore ordered all but emergency vehicles off the streets. At one point, more than 20,000 in the Washington-Baltimore area were without power, and Maryland's governor said outages in his state eventually could number in the hundreds of thousands.
The series of recent snowfalls contributed to occasional shortages of road salt. Gasoline trucks faced some problems getting through to some urban areas.
In Pennsylvania, Gov. Edward Rendell closed Interstate 83 and I-78 as well as a long stretch of I-81 from the Maryland border to I-80 shortly after noon. Several main arteries in and around Philadelphia also were shut.
Officials said the federal government would remain closed Thursday. The storm was slowing progress in Congress on a jobs bill, and likely delaying action on several pending regulatory issues, including cancer drugs being considered by the Food and Drug Administration.
A round of pre-printed checks from the Social Security Administration was set to go out Wednesday, but disruptions in mail deliveries meant some East Coast recipients would have to wait. "This is the perfect example of why you should opt for direct deposit," said Mark Lassiter, a Social Security Administration spokesman.
At the White House, essential personnel, including the vice president, reported for work, but some meetings were held by conference call. Three leaders from the African-American community made it in for a nearly hour-long meeting with President Barack Obama in the Oval Office to discuss the economy and jobs in hard-hit communities.
The U.S. Labor Department said it plans to release its weekly jobless-claims report at the usual time Thursday morning whether or not federal offices in Washington "are open or closed due to weather conditions." In New York, the stock exchanges planned to remain open Thursday. But the mergers and acquisitions business was slowed because companies couldn't file paperwork with federal regulators.The advent of electronic trading in recent years has made the traditional NYSE floor less integral to the overall functioning of the stock market, blizzard or not. "We like to think of ourselves as a global exchange, not just a New York exchange," said Doreen Mogavero, a floor broker at the New York Stock Exchange. "There is no snowstorm in India right now, so we have to be open for those customers."
Still, composite trading volume in New York Stock Exchange-listed companies finished at 4.4 billion shares on Wednesday, the seventh weakest tally so far this year and well below the early 2010 average of 5.1 billion shares.
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Rachel Keener
Hello and welcome to my site.
Years ago during a law school class, I gave up taking notes and started writing about a girl named Mercy coming of age in the Appalachian mountains. It was an odd choice at the time, but it helped lead me to where I am now---author of The Killing Tree, and my new novel, The Memory Thief.
In writing my books, I've tried to create more than a stack of pages for you to turn. Instead, I hope you find yourself lost up on Crooktop mountain, fighting alongside Mercy under the shadow of The Killing Tree. I hope you sneak along with Angel, through the tobacco fields of The Memory Thief. Most of all, I hope you enjoy your time with these characters as much as I have.
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Dear Mr. Speaker,
I am not going try and gain your attention to this plee with high minded statements worded to try and make you think my opinion is valid and worth listening to as opposed to discarding. I applaud the people that do it though. I have high minded ideas of my own and could go that way. But I think there is so little time left on the clock for America I am better off coming straight to the point. This country is seething this very moment. If there is anything in you that cares about your fellow man, your country or perhaps even God, anything at all about all that is good in this land and the price paid for our privilege of living in the Land Of The Free and The Home Of The Brave by our forefathers and patriots then please Sir do your job and remove Barack Obama. No one needs to spell out the outcome for any of us if you don't. Rather than your page in history being written on how you let us fall why not let it be written for being the guy that helped save us.
Our country is being actively destroyed. We see it and we know it. No one in this country really wants to fight it out with the government or authorities. We simply want our rights intact and to get the right things done in the right way. Can any of you even do the right thing anymore?
Do the right thing for America while you can We are standing on the edge of a storm so to speak and it is probably not going to go well. I can see your job is really hard and can't say I would do it so I really do understand you are in a bad spot and I make my statements in respect for that fact I assure you, but Sir it is worse down where we are so please do the right thing now.
Respectfully Submitted,
Leah LoneBear
Excellent letter, in my humble opinion. Puts the facts right out on the line. I pray to God this man LISTENS to these truths and finally comes forward as the Patriot we need in his position.
I'm not holding my breath, he's proven to be one hell of a bull RINO so far, but I'll PRAY for this one. Thanks
Well said.
Don't want to be a naysayer, but my experience is, they don't care and won't care until they hear the same message from the critical mass, and then it's questionable. In Washington, the majority are so arrogant and trained not to listen to the people, but more so on party leadership, which keeps their jobs in tact.
I wonder if he will read the letter
TY Laura
Angel, this fits with what I posted on the other thred, we may not have the time to build up new Patriots (some of us) we must search out every Patriot we know. many can smell the rain coming but some can smell the bad storms of weather and of life . We pray every day that we are WRONG ,we cant be smelling this , that we have just been caught up and overwhelmed, our sense of THREAT AND DANGER might be wrong for the first time in our lives but NO its not.
Angel, this fits with what I posted on the other thred, we may not have the time to build up new Patriots (some of us) we must search out every Patriot we know. many can smell the rain coming but some can smell the bad storms of weather and of life . We pray every day that we are WRONG ,we cant be smelling this , that we have just been caught up and overwhelmed, our sense of THREAT AND DANGER might be wrong for the first time in our lives but NO its not. I have read dozens of such letters from better americans than me , pleading and some flat out begging for there elected reps to do their DUTIES to save NOT them but their family and fellow countrymen. It is past time for those elected to do their duty and honor their oaths or STEP DOWN AND STEP ASIDE SMARTLY, WHILE THEY STILL CAN.
Thumbs up Randy
I'm with Laura, my prayers go with it.
Angel, Thank u so much for posting this... I almost cried when I read this...It is so preciously and sincerely written....My deepest respect and admiration for one of our "own" Leah Lonebear...Why don't we collectively make this letter go viral, just a suggestion, send this post to everyone u know, including yr elected officials ...Slam em with it, they would have to have hearts of stone to not pay attention...GO LEAH!!! :)))))
Just forwarded this to some very bright and patriotic folk whom I so respect... Ok guys...VIRAL....THINK VIRAL...
Big Ty to you guys especially Angela You are right. It was sincere. This country is boiling and I have a deep down in ya bones creepy kind of feeling that the sheet is about to hit the fan. Ya'll please make it viral
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Author: Cody C. Lorance
Date: 02.09.2011
Category: Truth and Pluralism, World Faiths, Diasporas
Today I want to respond briefly to something that was posted on Toby Sumpter's blog that purportedly comes from a book by Peter Leithart entitled Against Christianity. Sumpter's post seems to be nothing more than a series of block quotes from Leithart's book which he has grouped together under the provocative title "Contextualization be Damned!"
First, really? Damned?
Keywords: contextualization, diaspora
It is important to note that all of it has been taken out of context and cannot be contextualized because of this. It is interesting how these men are ministers who are taking Scripture out of context and skewing it in such a way as to confuse anyone who reads the book or the blog about the book. It would be much easier just to warn people to not even acknowledge that the book and blog had ever been written.
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"The role of the architect, or the designer, is that of a very good, thoughtful host, all of whose energy goes into trying to anticipate the needs of his guests – those who enter the building and use the objects in it." -Charles Eames, Arts & Architecture, December 1945
The Modernist movement in design was formulated in the late-19th and early-20th centuries by a number of Europeans who surveyed the increasing number of industrially produced goods around them and thought, we need to do better. These pioneers of Modernism generally agreed that the technology for mass manufacturing could be harnessed to raise the standard of living for a vast segment of society. Yet they also believed that this technology needed to be directed by artists, architects and craftsmen (that is, designers) in order to find the most effective ways to marry form and function, quality and cost. Idealistic as it was, this movement generated a great deal of debate on how best to accomplish its goals. In the 1910s, heated, all-out arguments famously arose over which should take greater precedence — standardization, which would enable a higher volume of production and lower prices, or aesthetic expression, which sought to bring art and beauty into everyday life. Even now, a hundred years later, designers continue to wrestle with this tension.
Charles and Ray Eames entered the profession of design during World War II, setting up their own office and workspace in 1941 in California in order to tap into the upsurge of wartime industries situated around Los Angeles at the time. From the outset, the Eames Office espoused a philosophy summed up in one famous phrase: "the best for the most for the least." Like the pioneers of Modernism a generation before, the Eameses wanted to employ and develop new technologies in order to produce high quality, cost-effective goods for modern living; mass production was taken by them as a given objective for any good designer.
Nonetheless, they were uncommonly sensitive to the limitations of standardization, since they also very much valued individuality and warmth as essential factors in making a house into a home. Their own home, Case Study House #8, stands today as an icon of efficient and ingenious Modernist design, fabricated from standardized parts ordered from catalogues. Even so, the Eameses configured these ready-made parts according to their own unique plan, painting the exterior in De Stijl-style color blocks and furnishing the interior with a boisterous collage of modern furniture, ethnic textiles, and tchotchkes and toys collected during their world travels. The relaxed joie de vivre of the Eames House starkly contrasts with other celebrated Modernist designs such as, say, the roughly contemporary Farnsworth House by Mies van der Rohe. For the Eameses, standardization should be tempered in such a way as to leave the consumer with as much opportunity as possible to customize and individualize, allowing the design to adapt to the lives of the users, rather than the other way around.
One of the primary ways in which the Eameses created adaptable designs was through a "kit-o-parts" approach, of which the modular ESU system is a prime example. Like their home, the ESU system was developed from an array of industrially produced, standardized materials, including plastic-coated plywood, wood veneers, lacquered Masonite, and chrome-plated steel framing – all of which would be assembled to order. These parts could be interchanged to create different sized cabinets and desks with varying configurations of drawers, shelves and sliding panels. Such customization allowed the ESU system to adapt not only to different types of interiors – living rooms, bedrooms, offices, etc. – providing both storage and room divisions; it also allowed each ESU purchased to reflect the aesthetic choices of its buyer, particularly through the selection of different finishes and colors. The ESU system was designed to engage the eye, but also to remain visually quiet, so as to act as a neutral backdrop for whatever personal items each consumer chose to display within it. This is a wonderful example of how the Eameses acted as "hosts" through their design work. They provided each consumer with the basic building blocks to create something suited to his or her own needs and tastes, making this consumer feel very at home with the product.
The work produced by the office of Charles and Ray Eames between the 1940s and 1970s remains to this day an uncontested exemplar of excellence in design. Any number of reasons might be cited: the Eameses' egalitarian design philosophy; the office's highly influential innovations in materials and processes, most notably molded plywood; the very fact that many Eames designs have been in continuous production for more than sixty years. But it is the perfection with which they exploited the power of industrialization while preserving a humanistic aesthetic that secures their important position within the history of objects.
Expert midcentury design dealer Mark McDonald will present a pristine 1953 Eames Storage Unit (ESU) at Design Miami/ this December.


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Imprinting Beauty
We took a car to the base of Glacier Martial and then the climb began. Half the group took the ski lift, while the rest of us followed upstream. It was hard to take more than a few steps at a time, not from exhaustion, but from amazement as the view continued to improve. How could I not stop and take a few photos? There was the joyous creek weaving it's way amongst the trees, brush, rocks and usual flowers. In the opposite direction lay the scenic view of the valley with the bay beyond containing waters that led to Antarctica.
Soon the ascent came to a halt as we walked past the snowline. The glacier surrounded us with occasional rocks emerging here and there making paths for the melting ice...mini waterfalls in the mist of ice and snow. The wind was cool, but not unbearable and as I stood there...accomplishment rung out from my heart. I had climbed a glacier! If only time could stand still for a few moments longer.