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Ben Macintyre is a writer-at-large for The Times of London and the bestselling author of Double Cross, Operation Mincemeat, Agent Zigzag, The Napoleon of Crime, and Forgotten Fatherland, among other books. Macintyre has also written and presented BBC documentaries of his work.
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Entertainment Weekly's Best Spy Book of 2014 "Macintyre has produced more than just a spy story. He has written a narrative about that most complex of topics, friendship...When devouring this thriller, I had to keep reminding myself it was not a novel. It reads like a story by Graham Greene, Ian Fleming, or John Le Carre, leavened with a dollop of P.G. Wodehouse...[Macintyre] takes a fresh look at the grandest espionage drama of our era."--Walter Isaacson, New York Times Book Review "Superb... Riveting reading." -Malcolm Gladwell, The New Yorker "Macintyre does here what he does best -- tell a heck of a good story. A Spy Among Friends is hands down the most entertaining book I've reviewed this year." --Boston Globe "Macintyre is a superb writer, with an eye for the telling detail as fine as any novelist's...A Spy Among Friends is as suspenseful as any novel, too, as the clues tighten around Philby's guilt."--Dallas Morning News "By now, the story of British double agent Harold 'Kim' Philby may be the most familiar spy yarn ever, fodder for whole libraries of histories, personal memoirs and novels. But Ben Macintyre manages to retell it in a way that makes Philby's destructive genius fresh and horridly fascinating."--David Ignatius, Washington Post
"A Spy Among Friends is a rollicking book. Mr. Macintyre is full of pep and never falters in the headlong rush of his narrative."--Wall Street Journal "Vivid and fascinating...[Macintyre] succeeds admirably."--Newsday "A crisply written tale of a classic intelligence case that remains relevant more than 50 years later."--USA Today
"Excellent...I was thoroughly engrossed in this book, beginning to end. It has all the suspense of a good spy novel, and its characters are a complex mix of charm, eccentricity, intelligence and wit. And it offers a great--and mostly troubling--insight into the behind-the-scenes workings of those we entrust with the most important of our political and military secrets."--The Huffington Post "Working with colorful characters and an anything-can-happen attitude, Macintyre builds up a picture of an intelligence community chock-full of intrigue and betrayal, in which Philby was the undisputed king of lies...Entertaining and lively, Macintyre's account makes the best fictional thrillers seem tame." --Publishers Weekly [starred] "Gripping and as well-crafted as an episode of Smiley's People, full of cynical inevitability, secrets, lashings of whiskey and corpses." --Kirkus Reviews [starred] "Ben Macintyre (Double Cross) offers a fresh look at master double agent Kim Philby...Fans of James Bond will enjoy this look into the era that inspired Ian Fleming's novels, but any suspense-loving student of human nature will be shocked and thrilled by this true narrative of deceit."--Shelf Awareness [starred] "Ben Macintyre has a knack for finding the most fascinating storylines in history. He has done it again, with this spellbinding tale of espionage, friendship, and betrayal. Written with an historian's fidelity to fact and a novelist's eye for character, A Spy Among Friends is one terrific book." --David Grann, New York Times bestselling author of The Lost City of Z "Ben Macintyre is one of the most gifted espionage writers around. In A Spy Among Friends he weaves an absorbing tale of deceit and duplicity, of treason and betrayal. With exquisite detail and masterful control, Macintyre unveils the dark and treacherous interior worlds in which spies live." --Annie Jacobsen, author of Area 51 and Operation Paperclip
"In this spellbinding account of friendship and betrayal, Ben Macintyre masterfully describes how the Cambridge-educated Kim Philby evaded justice by exploiting the incestuous snobbery of the British old-boy network, which refused to believe that one of its own could be a major Soviet spy. As riveting as Macintyre's earlier books were, this searing portrait of Britain's ruling class is even better." --Lynne Olson, bestselling author of Citizens of London and Those Angry Days "Ben Macintyre has written a truly fabulous book about the "fabulous" Kim Philby--the suave, dedicated, and most intriguing spy of the entire Cold War era. Philby and his colorful Cambridge comrades are endlessly fascinating. But Macintyre tells the devastating story in an entirely new fashion, with new sources and an astonishing intimacy."
--Kai Bird, Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer and author of The Good Spy: The Life and Death of Robert Ames "I have seldom had a better read than A Spy Among Friends. It reads like a thriller, a thriller of a peculiarly intricate and at times frightening sort, but you just can't stop reading it." --Lady Antonia Fraser, author of Marie Antoinette: The Journey "The Philby story has been told many times, but never with such sensitivity. Almost inadvertently, Ben Macintyre, a Times columnist, provides a devastating critique of the British class system and the disasters that result when people assume they know people... A Spy Among Friends is an extraordinary book about a sordid profession in which the most important attribute is the ability to lie.... Macintyre's focus on friendship brings an intimacy to this book that is missing from the cardboard stereotypes that populate spy novels and conventional espionage histories...I'm not a lover of spy novels, yet I adored this book." -The Times of London "Macintyre writes with the diligence and insight of a journalist, and the panache of a born storyteller, concentrating on Philby's friendship with and betrayal of Elliott and of Angleton, his pathetically dedicated admirer at the top of the CIA. Macintyre's account of the verbal duel between Elliott and Philby in their final confrontation in Beirut in 1963 is worthy of John le Carre at his best."-The Guardian "A Spy Among Friends, a classic spookfest, is also a brilliant reconciliation of history and entertainment...An unputdownable postwar thriller whose every incredible detail is fact not fiction...[a] spellbinding narrative...Part of the archetypal grip this story holds for the reader is as a case study in the existential truth that, in human relations, the Other is never really knowable. For both, the mask became indistinguishable from reality...A Spy Among Friends is not just an elegy, it is an unforgettable requiem." -The Observer "Ben Macintyre's bottomlessly fascinating new book is an exploration of Kim Philby's friendships, particularly with Nicholas Elliott... Other books on Philby may have left one with a feeling of grudging respect, but A Spy Among Friends draws out his icy cold heart...This book consists of 300 pages; I would have been happy had it been three times as long." -The Mail on Sunday
"Such a summary does no justice to Macintyre's marvellously shrewd and detailed account of Philby's nefarious career. It is both authoritative and enthralling... The book is all the more intriguing because it carries an afterward by John le Carre." -The New Statesman "No one writes about deceit and subterfuge so dramatically, authoritatively or perceptively [as Ben Macintyre]. To read A Spy Among Friends is a bit like climbing aboard a runaway train in terms of speed and excitement-except that Macintyre knows exactly where he is going and is in total control of his material." -The Daily Mail "Philby's story has been told many times before-both in biography and most notably in John le Carre's fictional masterpiece Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy-but never in such exhaustive detail and with such panache as in Ben MacIntyre's brilliant, compulsive A Spy Among Friends... Reads like fiction, which is testament to the extraordinary power of the story itself but also to the skills of the storyteller...One of the best real-life spy stories one is ever likely to read." -The Express "Ben Macintyre has written an engaging book on a tantalising and ultimately tragic subject. If it starts as a study of friendship, it ends as an indictment." -The Spectator


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Hi, I got diagnosed with colitis in its early stages...just because of one reason. My dad has it and so I grew up having total acceptance of the disease with no embarassment. So when I started to have symptoms I went straight to the doctors. It was confirmed in 1992.
Dad found that stress, diet and smoking had a major effect on colitis. Steroids had little or no beneficial effect as did the low fibre diet. He went to a homeopathic doctor who was also a GP who promptly turned Dads diet upside down. put simply, dad started on a high fibre diet with no cow products at all. After I had suffered colitis in ever worsening degrees over the next few years after my initial diagnosis, I decided to give Dads diet a go. I went to see the homeopathic quack and he suggested that it seemed obvious that what was causing my colitis may well have been the same cause as my fathers and therefore what would improve it could be to follow the same diet. Put simply, it works. Soya milk, no tobacco, alcohol in moderation ( never enough to be tipsy)no cow products at all, lots of fruit and vegetables with a little bit of protein. Heavy on the veg ,light on the meat.
Since then i found that sheep and goats cheese in moderation has no effect, protein in large quantities ( like a barbeque) is lethal but is ok in smaller quantities ( like fish and chips). I also found that a little cows milk is ok ( like when someone gives me a cup of tea with milk in it). I drink coffee just on saturday and sunday mornings and drink tea only when visiting people ( in order to be polite). Daily drinks are instant hot chocolate( yes with cows milk powder in it but it doesnt have any effect)once a day and for the remainder of the day, berry tea (which has no actual "tea" in it) or water.
For years now, I have taken one 400 mg asacol a day every morning and i have to go to the loo 3 times before I am "on an even keel" Once when I get out of bed, once 40 minutes after my morning bowl of cerials and soya milk and then once about 30 minutes after that. Then I am sorted for the rest of the working day until about 6pm. Sometimes I have to go just before bed time which will mean one less visit on the following morning. Asacol has a side effect of making me want to go to the loo but the anti-inflamatory part seems to work ok.
I know that I am very fortunate that my father has the disease because it sort of gave me a running start on dealing with colitis. I very occasionally revert to the odd day where the bowel activity is just once or twice, to be honest its annoying because it reminds me what normal can be but I realise that I am still very fortunate not to have a bag or to continue with 20 to 30 visits of peeing through my bum as someone on this forum so aptly put it.
What works for me and my Dad might not work for anyone else, in which case I am truly sorry but if it works for just one person , it is worth me writing isn't it?
Oh..... by the way. in emergencies during flare ups, we knock the blighters on the head by drinking only water, and eating only baked potatoes and baked apples. absolutely no additives at all, no sugar or salt or vegetable oil. I havent had a flare up in so many years but this diet worked for me if I ate it for every single meal for a week. I used to mix the potato and apple together so that the potato wasn't so dry and unappetizing. I would also save the crispy potato skin till last.
what I found works for me quite well
Use this forum to share your experiences of changes to lifestyle and diet. Have you found anything that helped your colitis ? Have you tried low residue diets or increasing your water intake ?
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I am interested in your asacol dose which works exactly the same for me. My colitis nurse told me that was normal in the morning.
I like your wine dosage 'never enough to be tipsy' - same for me. My mother was a heavy smoker and I think she suffered from colitis (though never said) However she didn't eat much meat, but i do currently and it doesn't seem to affect me too much ; neither does milk or coffee. I drink red bush tea.
I am currently enjoying a remission, helped I think as I mentioned in another post, by cinnamon.
I like your wine dosage 'never enough to be tipsy' - same for me. My mother was a heavy smoker and I think she suffered from colitis (though never said) However she didn't eat much meat, but i do currently and it doesn't seem to affect me too much ; neither does milk or coffee. I drink red bush tea.
I am currently enjoying a remission, helped I think as I mentioned in another post, by cinnamon.
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Wuppertal is a lively, modern city in the middle of the Bergisches Land region. It was formed in 1929 by decree of the Prussian government, made up of the two cities at the Wupper river, Elberfeld and Barmen, the outlying towns of Vohwinkel, Ronsdorf, Cronenberg, and the district of Beyenburg. In 1975, Dönberg, Dornap and Schöller were added too. Today about 350,000 people are living here. Take a stroll on one of the five city tours, of which some parts can be combined, and discover Wuppertal. Look for the blue information boards of the Bergischer Geschichtsverein history society on buildings along the way. And remember that Wuppertal's unique suspension railway is the most comfortable and fastest connection between the stations in the valley. The trip is hugely enjoyable every time!
Elverfelde was mentioned in writing for the first time in 1161, as a property of the Bishop of Cologne, and its first stone church was already there around the year 1000. Barmen was registered as "Barmon" in 1070. The Wupper Valley is one of the oldest industrial conurbations. By 1400, the first bleachers had been established. In 1527, the two Wupper towns were granted a monopoly on the processing and refinement of flax yarn. It was on this basis that the first major textile manufacturing businesses were established around 1750. In the 19th century, the Wupper Valley became an important industrial region. A clear sign of this economic power is the suspension railway, opened in 1901, a masterwork of engineering, and to this day the unmistakable landmark of the city.
Wuppertal is today a city of brands: aspirin, woodchip wallpaper and SympaTex products were developed here. Research and services are also strong mainstays of the economy. With around 4,500 listed buildings, Wuppertal is one of the most monumental cities in Germany. In Elberfeld there are classicist townhouses, the church of St. Laurentius, the Schwimmoper ("swimming opera") swimming pool, and the Historic City Hall. Traffic can be avoided by taking the suspension railway, Wuppertal's landmark feature, for the quick trip to Barmen, where one can find the monumental Town Hall, Bergisch Barock slate houses, and the Opera House. Structures with stucco ornaments from the Gründerzeit (period of promoterism) and Art Nouveau buildings from the beginning of the 20th century characterise the entire image of the city. The villa quarter by the zoo was designed in 1891, and offers an impressive variety of architecture due to the decades it was under construction. Its delightful location close to the Zoological Gardens, and on the doorstep of Elberfeld city centre, many prosperous bourgeois families lived there. The Briller district is one of the largest continuous villa quarters in Germany. Wuppertal's textile magnates built their prestigious houses there with generous gardens, starting at the end of the 19th century. In the northern district of the city, space-saving residential neighbourhoods were created between 1870 and 1914 for the working families of the textile industry. The four-storey structures around narrow backyards offered little in the way of comfort. Petroleum lamps were still being used there long after light bulbs had been installed in the Briller district, gaining part of the northern city the nickname "Ölberg" ("Oilhill"). With its comprehensive restoration, Ölberg and its Gründerzeit façades have since developed into a lively residential district.
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A guest post by the Messy Baker
When the Jam Mistress offers you an opportunity to write a blog on her site, there is only one thing for it – grab your laptop and go! I first met Vivien a couple of years ago when I was muddling my way through batches and batches of bad marmalade – after one lesson from her, my marmalade is nearly perfect, even won three Silvers at Dalemain Marmalade awards! However, when it comes to jam making, I still have a lot to learn, but it doesn't stop me from making jam from any fruit I can lay my hands on.
I am very lucky to live in the South East of London where fruit are plentiful and neighbours are friendly – not something I'd expect people associate with any part of London 🙂 Last year I spotted a number of large wild plum trees and was looking forward to picking some to make it into a jam.
After a bit of googling I've discovered that the yellow plums I picked were actually "golden plum" variety, and were quite a common fruit in jam making. Well, that was a first one for me, and I was all set for making my jams.
I was looking for a "cheat" recipe, one that doesn't require stoning the fruit – both the wild black and the golden plum fruit looked quite tight and would be a bit of a nightmare to stone. I didn't find a recipe that I liked (I discarded anything involving butter or pectin – I am not THAT much of a cheat), so I've decided to make my own. You can tell that I am a baker, as I've decided to apply a baker percentage and turn it into a jam percentage, a formula to compare weight of jam ingredients to the weight of fruit – whether I am right or wrong – judge for yourself
Golden Plum Jam with a hint of Lavender
1.6kg plums (with stones in)
350g of water (22% weight of plums)
1.1kg granulated gold sugar (70% weight of plums)
Replace 110 – 150g of sugar with lavender sugar if you want to add lavender flavour
Juice of ½ lemon
Wild Black Plum Jam
2kg wild black plums
460g water (23% weight of plums)
1.4kg granulated white sugar (70% weight of plums)
Juice of ½ lemon
The recipe is the same for both jams, so I will write it as one :
Wash and sort the plums – throw away anything rotten, and it would taint the flavour of the jam.
Place plums in a large wide pan, add water and bring to the boil, uncovered. Reduce the heat to medium and cook for 20 minutes, until the fruit is very soft and mushy.
Take the pan off the boil, strain all the juice through a sieve in a separate pan. Ladle the fruit pulp (stones and skins and all) into a sieve, rub the flesh through the sieve, pushing out as much of the plum pure as possible. At the end you will have a bowl full of plum juice and pure, with a dry-ish mix of stones and bits of pulp left in the sieve.
Weigh the juice and pulp mixture, and, if required, reduce the weight to 70% of the original fruit weight, same weight as the sugars. My juices were a tab bit over, so I simmered them on a slow heat until I got to the right weight – 1.1kg for golden plum and 1.4kg for wild black plums.
Meanwhile heat the sugars in the oven on a very low temperature – 90C-100C for about 40 minutes or so. I never used to bother with that, but it does make a difference – makes it much easier for sugars to dissolve. Gradually add the sugars to the juice, add lemon juice and crank up the heat. Keep stirring the juice until all the sugars have dissolved.
Now its time for some magic – over the next 10-15 minutes your juice will turn into jam, and this is what you need to look for:
First you will see a good steady boil with lots of bubbles – that's "rolling boil"
Then the bubbles will get really foam-like and will come up right to the top of your pan (that's where you will discover if your pan is big enough – note to self, choose a large enough pan) – that "foaming cola" stage
Then you will see the boil die down a bit, and the colour will start to change, becoming darker and richer. From that point onwards you can start testing for a set.
I went through the usual wrinkle, cold plate, thermometer, and all that tests, but the best one still is the one Vivien showed me – the flake test. Using a large metal spoon, spoon up a some jam, share it around for a second or two – to cool off the jam slightly – and poor the jam back in the pan. Hold the spoon above the pan and watch how the jam drips off the spoon. Once you see a bit of tension – jelly like drops, you are there. Vivien calls it "the flake" test, I gave it slightly less pleasant name – the "snot test". I know it doesn't sound that great, but that's exactly the kind of consistency you are after – once you see these snot like drops, you can be sure your jam is going to set.
Turn off the heat and leave the jam to cool for 5 minutes or so. Skim off any foamy scum that might have formed on the top – I skim it into a separate dish for my kids to lick later – a special treat every time mummy makes jam 🙂
Sterilise your jam jars by boiling them for 10-15 minutes and then drying them off in a cool oven (140C) for another 10 minutes.
Fill the jars right up to the top, and close them tightly with a lid. I got 5 ½ 250ml jars from the golden jam and 4x250ml jars plus 1x500ml jar from the black jam
Well, what can I say?
Golden jam – the colour has remained rich and golden, as I was worried that it might "wash out" a bit. The jam is quite cloudy, with little specks of purple – that's the lavender – which I actually quite like. I judged lavender just right – the jam has a slight hint of lavender, without being soapy. Now, the taste is rather … surprising – it tastes more like apricots rather than plum, very VERY sweet, very honey-like. As for the set – I would say it's a very soft set, but in Vivien's words "its obviously not set" 🙂 I should have done a pectin test as yellow plums are frequently low in pectin, so it can be hard to make a jam that sets! I see it going really well with some wholemeal toast and butter.
Now, the wild black jam – its looks properly good – such a dark purple burgundy colour that its almost black. I did toy with the idea of adding some cinnamon to it, but in the end decided to keep it plain and simple and let the fruit speak for itself. The taste is wonderful – sweet and tangy at the same time, with almost velvety feel to it. It's a better set than the golden plum one, but still not a solid set – I wanted a bit of a "wobble" in it. I am really happy with this jam, definitely adding to my annual jam-making list


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It's just turned 11:30pm on a Monday night. The house is quiet. At least it is now. Only a few minutes earlier my daughter tumbled out of her bed and needed to be soothed back to sleep. She's almost two and though she's been on a toddler bed for a couple of months now, she still finds ways to fall out of it. I think she is trying to get out of bed to go play and tumbles because it's dark.
So, it's quiet. The dog is sleeping on my legs behind the bright laptop screen and an ozone thing my mom has in the living room is humming away, making the air better. It's supposed to filter the air and neutralize stuff like mold and bacteria. It gives the air a tin-like odor. I imagine this means it's doing its job.
Besides the light of the screen the room is virtually black. I just took some time to undo a mistake I made on the website's database last night. You see I know virtually nothing about how to use a website database, so I'm the last person who should be touching mine. But my original version of this website is contained in a database that keeps failing to import so I tried to just import it manually. Nothing seemed to happen and my website started running slower.
Luckily I decided to make this foray into website ownership idiot proof and took advantage of godaddy's cheap WordPress hosting, it backs up the website's files and databases on a daily basis, meaning a couple of clicks undid the 8 hour mistake I made yesterday.
It's all a little frustrating. That database I can't seem to restore has hundreds of hours of work inside it that could save me that time right now in getting this site up to the level of completion that I would be proud to make a big launch once my order from Recess arrives. But as it stands I think I may do a soft launch. Just get the products up in the shop, continue to add tutorials to the site, rebuild the crash course for incoming first timers wanting to learn the hobby, and so much more.
There is a mountain of work to be done and I am excited to do it. My spare time is limited however and getting motivated to actually do the work when I have a moment has been challenging. I think I need to outline the work I feel needs to be completed and then when I have a spare moment pick one of those things off the list and do it. Then I am not wasting spare time thinking about what I'd like to do, I am picking something to do and spending my thinking on how to do it.
That's kind of why I started writing this tonight. On a daily basis for a handful of weeks I have been recording around an hour of yo-yo practice per day, essentially grinding towards my world championship goal. But there is no direction in these practice sessions. I simply turn on music, yo-yo, record and upload the session, and repeat. This is great in that it's better than doing nothing, but it's not very effective.
I am also running into the problem of file size. This videos are a few gigabytes each and I'm on slow "out in the country" internet that can take a day and a half or more to upload a file that size. That causes a problem where I have too much to upload and no time to do it. So that needs to change. I originally started the daily show with the goal of getting myself uploading daily content again. That worked until the content got too long. But I can't just make my practice sessions shorter to compensate, that would make them less effective.
So I need to decide on a focus for my daily practices. I could be learning a trick and sharing progress from that on a daily or weekly basis. I could be making up a trick or perfecting the execution of a trick and documenting and sharing the final results of that. I could be making a short routine. Those are a few things that I could do instead of simply making everything up on the fly for an hour each day and never knowing what I'm going to do with what I just did.
Anyways, I don't want to write too much of a book right now, lets just make a couple bulleted lists of things I want to consider working on or doing and call it a night.
For the website
- I need to add all of my YouTube trick tutorials to the website. (I'm not certain how many there are but I will find out.)
- I need to rebuild my Yo-Yo Crash Course
- I need to add the products to the store (once they arrive)
- Need to build the bio page out a little.
For Yo-Yo Practice
- I need to pick what I will be practicing in the next video at the end of each video.
- I need a list tricks to learn
- I need a few trick elements I want to build off of
- I need to start creating a routine, I would like a few practice sessions to be focused on building 15 second increments of a routing that can be pieced together in future practice sessions.
Something I want to mention is my daily goal is more of a guideline. I want to be posting daily videos, but understand that the rest of my life is quite demanding of my time and so this stuff will be done as I can. I think having edited videos to post will make it easier to upload them faster and I will be happier to share them. So I will, moving forward, focus on polished content as frequently as possible. Daily as soon as I can.


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If you knew the exact answer to the question about the future price of platinum you would be a millionaire, but from past experiences, you can determine how much it will rise. Platinum had its ups and downs in the past, but that happened because people had to discover in which industry they can apply it. Today, it has many purposes, and in the last couple of years it has been stable.
New technologies are also going to make it drop the price like using more electric cars than diesel engines. But, we will never know what new technologies will demand platinum, so the number of investors is rising. People are buying stocks or platinum bars and coins. The most popular coins are the platinum Eagles which can be of great importance if something bad happens to the economy.
Drop in Price Because of Car Industry
The spike in price first happened when the car industry started to use it for their diesel motors and one of the first to implement it was Volkswagen. A bad thing is that we are about to surpass this technology and advance to something more popular, electric cars, so the use of platinum for catalytic converters will drop.
We can already see the drop in usage in Western Europe because the popularity of electric cars is rising. But, even if one of the main usages of it is for diesel motors, it is only about 15{dc131506b0a98376c9b6a0db24b0fb10d7f1e3167e28ab127980718d041a6dde} of all platinum, so it isn't something that will impact the price drastically. Because of this lower demand than usual, the price throughout 2017 and 18 dropped below $900.
The price for other precious metals is going up, even palladium which is among the platinum family of elements. This situation can suggest a lot of things, but we can't expect that the price will continue to drop. That already happened in the past and then increased by 300{dc131506b0a98376c9b6a0db24b0fb10d7f1e3167e28ab127980718d041a6dde}. Technology has a big impact, so we will have to wait to see if there will be a use of it in electric cars. Read more on this page.
According to Charts
There are many charts online about the rise of platinum that you can check out. One of the most interesting is from 1970 to today. It is interesting because you can see the spike that happened in the 90s when the price of platinum was $350. Over the next decade, it rose over 700{dc131506b0a98376c9b6a0db24b0fb10d7f1e3167e28ab127980718d041a6dde}. If the history repeats itself you can expect one more drastic rise from $900 to probably about 300{dc131506b0a98376c9b6a0db24b0fb10d7f1e3167e28ab127980718d041a6dde} more.
You can also check the price compared to gold which is usually around a third lower than gold. But, you should take into consideration that the gold is at the highest price it has been these years and platinum as at the lowest. This means that we are about the see the growth like it happened to gold which just takes time and more demand for the material. Many people speculate that it will be higher than gold.
The goal is to find some new essential use for platinum, a new technology that will be useful to the world. A drastic rising in the price can happen even if there was a really high demand for jewelry made of it. People are spending millions of dollars on jewelry, mostly on gold and diamonds, so a bigger consumption will cause the price to go up.
The Lower Limit
The great run-up platinum had in the 2000s, but the crash happened later in 2008. From 2011 it didn't' change drastically. From the recent years it was at the lowest in 2016 at $809, and when the crash happened in 2008 and 2004 it was at $750. Many traders say that it will never go as low as that even if a new crash happens.
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February 22, 2017 (http://www.president.gov.ua/) Threat of full-scale aggression of Russia still exists, as stated by President Petro Poroshenko at the operational meeting of the administrative board of the Armed Forces. "This threat oozes out not only through the uncontrolled areas of border in Donbas, but along the entire border line with Russia and even wider, which convinces us of hostile intentions of the Russian Federation," the Head of State in his speech.
The evidence of that is the deployment of up to 50 thousand Russian troops in close proximity to our borders. According to Petro Poroshenko, they have about 470 tanks, over 1700 armored combat vehicles, about 390 artillery systems and 220 multiple launch rocket systems, about 490 combat aircrafts, hundreds of helicopters, 24 warships.
"Russians create new and expand and modernize the existing bases, other objects of military infrastructure. By the way, there is no guarantees that this multitude will not come on us someday," the Head of State said adding that rapid militarization of the occupied territories is taking place now."In Donbas, Russia formed two army corps consisting of 6 mechanized brigades, 1 infantry brigade, 3 regiments, 2 artillery brigades and other units. Their management, manning and comprehensive maintenance is ensured by the aggressor – Russia. Regular units of the armed forces of the Russian Federation are additionally involved in these troops. About 3.5 thousand people already," the President informed.


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An interview with Ben and Bob (who turned out to be a fellow college grad of mine) of the excellent Road to Now podcast we discuss all sorts of things about Presidential elections.
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An 18th-century plantation house on the western side of Willemstad, the Landhuis Habaai is home to Curaçao's oldest private art gallery. On the second Saturday of every month, they host a crafts market, where the island's amateur artisans can sell their masterpieces.
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Courgette: Originating from the cucurbit family along with the cucumber, melon and squash, courgettes are often referred to as the Summer squash, commonly found with a dark green or vibrant yellow coloured skin.
Botanically, courgettes are fruits as they are a bi-product of the courgette flower's reproductive system. Also edible, the flower is harvested when the courgettes are still very small, resulting in a deliciously sweet and tender squash and a delicately floral and interestingly textured edible flower that is commonly stuffed or deep-fried.
Courgettes are easy, rapid growers, making it not uncommon to have a glut around this time of year. Incredibly versatile, courgettes can be used in savoury dishes as well as baking, and can be enjoyed delicately cooked or even raw.
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911 in Plane Site | World Trade Center & Pentagon Attack Conspiracy of September 11- 2001
911 In Plane Site : Was it a Conspiracy theory?
This hub is based on a video named 911 In Plane Site. This is basically an analytical gist of the video evidence of all the 911 incidents, related to the plane crash sites.
Pentagon site:
American Airlines Flight 77 is the plane that is commonly believed to have crashed into the west side of the Pentagon on September 11, 2001. It was a Boeing 757-223 on a scheduled flight from Dulles to Los Angeles, with 58 passengers, four flight attendants, and two pilots. As this flight 77 crashed on Pentagon, there must be some kind of photographic evidence like aircraft engines, nose, fuselage etc. needed to prove that actually a Boeing 747 hit the pentagon building. In fact no sign of any components of a Boeing 747 was found near the crash site of Pentagon.
65 feet long damage due to a Boeing of 124 feet width
Height of the Pentagon building is 73 feet and the width of the destructed portion of Pentagon was 65 feet long. The wing to wing length of a Being 747 is 124 feet,10 inches .From nose to tail its length is 155 ft 3 in and height is 44 ft 6 in. When we look at the Pentagon building hole created by the plane we find that it is only 65 feet across .This arises the following questions :
1) How an aircraft having wing to wing dimensions over 124 feet can fit only into a 65 feet hole across.
2) There was no heat damage found on the building site. Aircraft fuel should cause a huge heat damage in the collapse portion of the building .It was evident from the intact wooden desk on the third floor and a wooden stool with paper on it intact. Smoke and heat damage was not consistent as it was supposed to be.
3) Wreaked building has no sign of damage of the failed section of the Boeing.
4) There was a video camera nearby gas station which had the crash scene and after few minutes of the crash FBI confiscated that camera.
5) Before the collapse of the Pentagon building portion there was only a 14-16 feet hole. How does a Boeing 747 (over 124 ft ,wing to wing )can fit into that small hole.
6) Firefighter involved in service before the collapse of the building portion were forced to indefinite leave when they were called for an interview in a live talk show program.
Now , question may arise that what could have caused the 14 to 16 feet hole in Pentagon. The possible answer is missile. Even some eyewitness of that site said that it was not any air linear, could be some kind of missile. Moreover, American society of Civil engineers in their "The Pentagon building performance report" failed to show the damage in the building due to the tail portions and engines.
Question is simple if a Boeing 747 hit the Pentagon building then where was the wreckage of the aircraft.
Video of 9/11 pentagon coverup conspiracy - no 757
No Aircraft damage sign in the collaspe portion of Pentagon
Wrong date showing on the video release of Pentagon
Only this 14-16 feet hole was created by the Boeing
This is the aircraft engine rotor found on Pentagon
This is what Rolls Royce spokeman said about the engine rotor found in Pentagon
World Trade center site:
American Airlines Flight 11 is the plane that hit the WorldTradeCenter's NorthTower. It was a Boeing 767-223ER on a scheduled flight from Boston to Los Angeles, with 81 passengers, nine flight attendants, and two pilots.United Airlines Flight 175 is believed to be the plane that hit the WorldTradeCenter's SouthTower. It was a Boeing 767-222 on a scheduled flight from Boston to Los Angeles, with 56 passengers, 7 flight attendants, and 2 pilots.
NBC reporter Rich Sanchez said on the day of crash from the site that Police found some suspicious device explosive in nature from the site. Police also informed that some explosions might have caused not by the crashed aircraft but by some Van full of explosive device planted in the building and in the adjacent areas.
In the September 24th 2001 edition of the People Magazine on page 34 there was an interesting interview with 51 year old firefighter assigned with engine 47 in Harlem. In that interview he said that "we were the first ones in the second tower after the plane struck. I was taking firefighters up in the elevator to the 24th floor to get in position to evacuate workers. On the last trip up a bomb went off. We think there was bombs set in the building."
Many firefighters and reporters present on the site of 911 claimed that as the building went down it was just like an controlled demolition.
North and south tower of the world trade center was hit by airliners that was supposedly hijacked by the hijackers.The video of the airliners crash was gone under extensive analysis by the webmaster of the website www.letsroll911.org and he raised some interesting questions after his frame by frame analysis of the 911 video. Those questions were
1) what was attached to the bottom of the airplane and what was the brief flash of light before the plane make a clash with the building? Actually there was something attached to the belly of the airliner which is not found in the commercial airplane.
2) Fox News reporter , present in the site of the twin tower crash site, an eye witness as well, said that there was no window in the plane which is unusual for any commercial airliner.
Comment: Only Military plane has no window and has the capacity to attach something big in its belly. The flash of light in the airliner before the crash in the twin tower might have been caused by some kind of incendiary to ignite the massive amount of fuel of the aircraft.
This is what is seen attached to the belly of the airliner hit that world trade center
Left side picture shows the belly of a military aircraft and the right side picture shows the same of a commercial aircraft
This is the flash of light seen before the flight hit the world trade center
Military Aircrafts
Flight 93 crash site: Pennsylvania, Shanksville.
Flight 93 crashed at the edge of a strip-mining quarry in rural Pennsylvania, about two miles due north of Shanksville, PA, in Stony Creek township. At the same day there was another news about flight 93 which was : " A Boeing 747 out of Boston made an emergency landing Tuesday at ClevelandHopkinsAirport due to concerns that it might have a bomb, said Mayor Michael R. White. United identified the plane as Flight 93. The airliner did say how many people were abroad the flight."
If united airliner flight 93 crashed at 10 O'clock local eastern time in Pennsylvania then how could flight 93 also landed at the Cleveland Hopkins International Airport.
After 911,2001 incidents it was decided that it will be too painful for the American people to show all the 911 videos. So , showing the 911 video on TV was stopped.
The biggest challenges for American people is who is the enemy? Why the US Government would be involved to such a horrendous activity like 911? Or what was the motive possibly be?
The report of flight 93 emergency landing
Operation Northwoods
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In the early 1960 there was a classified operation name Northwoods signed by top American military leaders. The plan of this operation was to kill innocent people and commit acts of terrorism in U.S cities to cerate public support for a war against Cuba and to enter the Cold war.
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The motive behind 911
United States is the only remaining super power and now Russians are their best friend ,also china is their biggest trading partner.If there is no other superpower or threat to U.S then what better enemy to have than a nameless , faceless enemy without a country, war on terror .
We all know that war makes money and the defense contract is the largest industry in the country , where billions to trillions of dollars are involved in defense contracts every year. Do you know how a defense contract guarantee job security and profitability .The answer is there will be a guarantee if there is a war. Then, why don't the main stream medias tell anything about it. Yeah, there is something fishy about meidas' roles on supporting wars.For example, NBC is own by General Electric and General Electric itself is the one of the top 10 defense contractors in U.S. Keeping this in mind, it is easy to understand why U.S would create something like Osama Bin Laden , who was a C.I.A asset, once trained and funded by C.I.A . The same is true for Saddam Hussein as well.
Maybe Osama Bin Laden has to do something with 911 events. In Sept. 23, 2001 Condoleeza Rice said that the U.S has evidence of Bin Laden's role in terrorist acts that it would present in due time. That evidence yet to be published. And 911 in fact started two wars, one against Afghanistan and the other against IRAQ and surprisingly both were based on no evidence.
Media and U.S Govt. was trying to pound everyone's mind that terrorists were responsible for the 911 attack on America and after seeing this analysis we can say that it could not be possibly by terrorists alone.
This is just a mere analysis of the video of 911 In Plane site. What do you think about it?
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The true story of Bilderberg group The Bilderberg group is indeed the most powerful organization of the world. This is a group of influential people which includes mostly the top politicians and...
Your article is super, and especially "The motive behind 911 " is more on the truth behind the scenes that people are clueless and accept what their told, unbelievable.
Well, howe about the Pentagon? Surely engines from a 757 should have survived hitting a wooden structure that only partly burned. Recall, a prop engine managed to go through a concrete structure in 1945. A several ton jet engine could conceivably exit out the other side of WTC 1 or 2 as much of the towers were glassed in. In fact, I seem to recall a large jet engine being found outside of one of the towers before they collapsed.
So... you expect to find an in-tact 757 engine or two after a 1300 foot tower collapses on it? The pressure reduced concrete to sub-micron dust. I love that you link to a flight-ready photo, as if that thing should have been lying in the rubble.
FYI; the engine for a Boeing 757 is very large and heavy. Where did all of these go? There were several of them between WTC 1 & 2 and the Pentagon.
It was a military B-25 bomber that hit between the 78th to 80th floor onJuly 28th, 1945 on a foggy morning. One engine penetrated the entire building and flew out the other side and landed 900 feet away. The full account can be found at,
Tell the whole story... what kind of plane,what fuel was it carrying, what is the construction of the ESB? Where did it hit?
I know these facts, perhaps you do as well.
The truth is out there.
Many decades before9-11, a plane crashed into the Empire State Building, yet it did not topple or collapse under its own weight. The Empire Sate building stands to this day, while WTC 1, 2 and 7 are gone.
WTC 1 & 2 collapsed as would be expected, no evidence of foul play except a fully loaded jetliner crashing into them. They should not have toppled. They collapsed under their own weight, which, according to gravity, means falling straight down.
The Marriot Hotel was right next door to WTC 2, the south tower. It was almost physically joined! I wonder what happened to it? Likely completely obliterated under the free fall collapse of WTC 2. Recall, both WTC 1 & 2 collapsed into their own footprint, something that would not have happened if not professionally brought down. If brought down by impact and uneven heating, they should have toppled, which they did not. They all imploded. Isn't that in itself highly unusual?
WTC 7 was 400 feet away and the perimeter columns were 1300 feet high. More than close enough.
I'm sorry no one stopped to SnapChat large beams sticking into WTC 7. They were kind of busy at the time. Lack of pics proves nothing, except to conspiracy theorists.
See a floor plan! WTC is further away from WTC 1 & 2. Besides, I did not see any photos with large beams sticking into WTC 7. Can you perhaps furnish them by posting here? That might be very helpful.
It did indeed absorb substantial impact from the towers. The perimeter columns hit WTC 7. And there were fires in the structure that burned out of control. It was also a different construction than the buildings ' across the street. ' Do your research rather than feeding on the conspiracy sites.
Buildings right across the street from WTC 1 & 2 sustained much more damage from large falling chunks of debris and still stood. WTC 7 which is further away, did not absorb anything substantial from WTC 1 & 2, yet it collapsed. There is some explanation here for you to perform.
syzygyastro , WTC 7 was hit by the permitter columns of the towers then those towers collapsed. WTC 7 didn't implode.
Then there was WTC 7, never hit by a plane, but imploded anyway. This is a thorough article with plenty of good pics and videos. I would recommend it to anyone who is interested in betting to the bottom of this false flag war trigger.
You keep writing it was a 757, then switch to a 747. Back and forth. Big difference in plane sizes. Which one was it?
I find your article very interesting and useful. I will be linking it to one I wrote recently on the WTC towers 1, 2 and 7 and a hypothesis that termite was installed when they were built. For making such a suggestion, I have been the target of nothing but derision. This is tell you that you article is helpful, will be linked to mine and that you may be visited by the same person who is deriding my hypothesis. I voted yours up due to the copious amount of good references.
This is the absolute largest load of nonsensical crap I have ever read on the Internet. No one, no one, not one person has come forward to admit first-hand experience with any of the conspiracies suggested here. No sentient human claims to have a part in wiring the buildings, diverting the passenger airliners, helping to make the passengers vanish, planting bombs, blah blah blah. This desperate circumstantial evidence means completely nothing.
Okay I admit this 9/11 thing is hard to predict. The facts are this. On this day media cooked up hijacked plane theory get people thinking terrorists. When multiple groups not just The Bushes but other parties wanting WTC AND Pentagon hit.
I can't prove dirty weapons. There are enough evidence for bombs used this day. I believe bombs contained something thAt melts steal and powders concrete.
Your plane theory of second plane is true.
Why did this happen? We could specuLATE all day of why. I see the owner of WTC complex got new insurance policy just weeks before.
2) Dick chaney's endings records in WTC 7. This was a multiple group plan for you could make a whole other hub for thAT. THANKS.
Thank you, nicomp.
Yeah, Osama bin Laden doesn't exist and neither does Al Queda, and the person they killed last fall was some sort of fake decoy. Some American high-up government official absolutely figured it would be a really good idea to blow up a couple of their own country's biggest and most important centers of defense. Really smart! After all, the fact that a 20 dollar bill can conceivably be folded so that the letters that form the word "Osama" are lined up absolutely, conclusively proves that obviously, Americans are completely responsible for 9-11. There's no WAY that could be a coincidence.
Why not just accept that there are although there are terrible, stupid people in this world(Osama bin Laden, for example), none of the ones in the US government are stupid enough or evil enough to blow up their own most important centers of defense and commerce and kill thousands of innocent, loyal citizens in the process? I don't support Bush, but it's just not worth it as a thing to do, and I don't think it's possible that he would have done it.
"why would bush do it?"
Bush didn't do it.
"The planes that hit WTC had Thermite in them. To blow the steal and concrete to powder."
No they didn't.
"Bush needed this was to blow up defense spending records blame it on hijacked planes. "
No he didn't.
You asked why it happed?why would bush do it?
If you start a fight then you get in trouble for it. In order for Bush to to go after Saddam, he had to have had an act of war. Reasons Bush needed this was to blow up defense spending records blame it on hijacked planes. The planes that hit WTC had Thermite in them. To blow the steal and concrete to powder.
Maybe not the history of wa
r but enough to kill.That one sentence was nuked down.
Great Hub.
I was like the rest of the world on that day. I watched on Foxnewsike most. In Lubbock tx, I got up at 7:50 am . My Dad ways watched Foxnews in morning. I saw the first plane already hit. Smoke was billowing like a raging fire. About 10 after another plane hits other building. Just like you I thought terrorists. Then one HR or so layer both had collapsed. The biggest buildings ever where brought down like an orchestrated plan. This buildiicngs steal barb must be unable to be picked up by human hands. Barb so thick is melted to the equal to lava. Thermite and nano compounds formed by biological labs.
"Wait! Listen to this, what hit WTCwas military drones unmanned. "
Shaped like passenger airliners.
"This has been proved."
No it hasn't.
"WTC was numeric down."
Can't dispute this because I don't know what it means.
"Radiation was created in nyc right in front of your eyes."
Radiation is everywhere all the time.
"The cloud on 9/11 had more radio active stuff in the history of war"
No it didn't.
Wait! Listen to this, what hit WTCwas military drones unmanned. Full of warhead materials. This has been proved. WTC was numeric down. Check out. Radiation was created in nyc right in front of your eyes. The cloud on 9/11 had more radio active stuff in the history of war.
@RusswRites69: Thank you for allowing my comments.
"Think if Gore had his votes counted in Florida."
Bush would still have won. See www.rci.rutgers.edu/~gpomper/FloridaRecount.doc
Think if all the dead people in Illinois had their votes un-counted.
We all know whY happened its no secret anymore we can't bring the dead back. But we will not sit back and keep the lie. This was bushes wag the dog. Think if Gore had his votes counted in Florida.
"757 would have stuck out of building."
Maybe it would have stuck out if Wile E. Coyote had been flying it.
Dude this was all gwbush. He needed an act of war to get congress to let him go get daddy's oil. He had to sell the terrorists card. Flights 11 and 175 may haVe been blown up and 77 was the famous hero plane in Pennsylvania field. Misssles bit tower one and pentogon. While bush was cracking jokes at a Florida sxhool, a missle hit the first not a plane. 757 would have stuck out of building. News media never saw the first building. We all speculated of a plane in north tower. But wouldn't there be people in the plane and luggage.
I'm not a hater. I'm logical and grounded in reality. No one has come forward for over 10 years with any first-hand knowledge of 'wiring' the buildings to implode. No one. Zero.
Don't hate the messenger.
see my first hub too ,Thanks
Great article! Thanks for speaking out. Ignore the haters. Truth is tyranny in the empire of lies.
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Conspiracy Theory are words that are mentioned more when someone is coming closer to the truth. Thank you so very much for your great investigating and deep insight. You must have rattled some chains on your topics and indepth reporting. Great Articles !!! Thank you again for your articles and your investigating !!!
Thank you for such a fantastic article. One thing of interest that I remember is that I drove all the way from Pittsburgh to Scranton Penn. during that year and my cell phone did NOT work the distance between there. In Pittsburgh's paper it came out about "site R" after this. The other thing that I remember is that Bush was in a plane flying after this and anouncing that Cheney was ok. Why Cheney? Why did he say that Cheney was in an underground bunker safe? I met some people the other day that they took boots to the people at ground zero because their shoes melted on the rubble. That floored me. The massive amount of heat required to melt the steel beams and heat that much concrete would be massive. The heat sink of the Earth would have absorbed the heat, along with all that concrete. Again, thank you for having open eyes and your willingness to share what you see.
"1) How an aircraft having wing to wing dimensions over 124 feet can fit only into a 65 feet hole across."
It crumpled. A passenger airliner is not built of stronger stuff than the Pentagon.
Great job, I was in demo in the service the first thing I saw on 911 was the way the buildings came down it obviously not from the planes, but what are you going to do.most people just shrug there should s and then go on. Larry Silverstien was on a interview discussing his law suite with the insurance company it never even fazed him when the comment that in the policy it referred to terrorist high jacking a commercial plane and flying into the towers, several months before 911. the gov does what ever they want, look at " fast and furious" ATF selling guns to the drug lords in mexico even killing a border guard do hear about that on the news hell no the gov isn't going to let that happen. hopefully the american people are going stop just closing there eyes and stand up and say something before its to late.what blows my mind is the way the politicians can get on tv on 911 and act so sincere with grief, and then a commercial comes on the federal mint selling coins in memory of 911.
you people are really crazy, go live somewhere else,non americans.
that alredy up its 2011 now re
Watch these date very close.
wow very nice and informative hub.. thanks for posting.. i feel it was lax security in american airports which made job for terrorists so easy.
Wow, this has me scratching my head. The idea that a whole Govt could threaten its own people just to get into a total war with two countries is mind-boggling. Sometimes the best defence is a good offence, but to go that far? That is insane. The price of getting caught is the worst possible one imaginable. Who would dare such a thing?
It is suspicious no matter what way one looks at it. But I have found that when it comes to news, someone is always selling you something, even if it doesn't seem like it...
Don't know what to believe. So many different pieces of information floating around. According to news reports they did recover remains of a few of the crew and passengers including 2 hijackers, as well as fuselage in and around Ground Zero from AA Flight 11 and UA Flight 175.
We all have freedom of speech!! Let your voices be heard!! If it was your family or friend that was killed in the 911 scam you would be angry as hell!! Let your voices be heard and I think that it should be broadcasted worldwide that our government is a conspiracy and that they would do just about anything to get their way!!
I think you hit it right on the head!! If all American's would read and watch what you put on here they would think different on our government!! It is a shame that the government would kill all those people just to make an excuse to have a war!! They didn't have to kill our Americans just to go overseas and kill more of our soldiers!! I think it is a damn shame that our freedom is limited to being killed in some damn scam! If they wanted a war then just go over there and fix that shit and leave us defenseless Americans alone!! Those people who died in the 911 masacre gave up their freedom for the government, so they can produce more tragedy as it goes along!! People think that it is over, but its not over! Gaurantee that there will be something else that will happen, so the government can blame it on somebody else! Believe it or not everyone, but the government is not our friends!! Open your eyes America! Is this another Hitler???
i`m just making sure that people who think there is a government plot to kill americans YOU ARE ALLOWED TO LEAVE it is perfectly legal to change your citizenship and no longer be a american so if you think that the government is corrupt please leave the country and got to wherever you think it is safe
My friend, you did a great job! The video the cappucino kid added to the list of highly conclusive evidence is just extra iceing on the cake ....
It's now a wide open fact for the whole world to see, yet Dick Cheney and George Bush, the war criminals are free men and the Obama administration will do nothing about these atrocities against humanity ... the people go back to watching CNN while the fals flag event fades into history .... what a shame!
the thought of this is nauseating. thank you for sharing your information.
Thanks for the comment and for being smart enough to do your own thinking and to tell others to do their own thinking. It is very nice to see that OUR country is NOT full of mindless government controlled robots. Never allow anyone to block your free thinking..It's 1 of the few liberties we have left, and we cannot afford to lose. Without it we might as well find another country and start over.
Brilliant site and Author.
Great work.
Look at Roswell, Vietnam, JFK, RFK, MLK Assassinations...The govt has been doing this for so long, It is 2nd nature for them....
As you said, war is a very profitable business. Every time America wants to entre into a war, it will find a reason, or better yet create one. 9/11 is just as "convincing" as Pearl Harbor.
the real truth is in this podcast...
end of story...rip all the victims of 911
Wonderful Hub, very thorough.
Another great article. I very good read. even when it happened I thought something was weird and I was 11 when it happen.
I'm glad people are starting to see the truth about 911 attack. Your article has provided overwhelming evidence and yet the media can't expose the truth. I usually get my information from PrisonPlanet, or Alex Jones. Keep spreading the word as more planned events are yet to come.
The worst part is that there's more to come! The murderers will go Scot free, as they always do.
The swine flu isn't that dangerous, but the vaccine that will eventually be mandatory will be something to watch out for.
Excellent hub.
Great hub and I agree with you. A lot of things about 9/11 just don't add up. And just lok at the way things are going, the gov. says it's going to get better but I doubt that. I think they are trying to overule us all. Not meaning to throw religion in here but with the way things are going the end seems near.
Great Hub here, detailed and very informative, thanks for sharing andromida...
Great Hub. You have really done your research in this. It is some scary stuff.
andromida~ Good presentation of the information. Now it's up to us to connect the dots and decide what to believe.
It's always hard to believe that those who should be on our side is really working against us. It usually comes down to one or two major things.....money and power..and money equals greed.
this, like so many other situations revolving around our government has not been fully disclosed. I do not buy into the whole government consiracy theory, but there are some inconsistencies and questions left unanswered. thanks.
Interesting Hub Andromida. lot of useful info
I have also researched this for the past 18 months and when I was reviewing tapes of the pentagon,..where the plane supposly hit and disinegrated everything,..well what I saw was a computor still sitting on the desk, right where the hole was,..and not even a burnt mark on it,..it did not melt away,...Hmmmmmm. But the plane did ????? BS
Great Hub,..
Very Very interesting, you are smart indeed, how about helping me figure out where the swine flu is really coming from, heh? Thumbs up~
Interesting Hub Andromida. We will never know the truth but the points you raised makes one raise eyebrows. Thanks for sharing. :)
President Franklin Delanore Roosevelt once said,"If it involves politics, rest assured it's not a coincidence." Think about that...
I don't believe in much of the way of the news on TV as I believe that it's BS. With a bit of investigative work like yourself, I can find the facts myself--it just takes some work.
Great job, andromida. Our war has only just begun.


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January 28, 2008
Sands Shifting in Darfur Genocide
In Darfur, the sound of approaching horses can break a mother's heart. It's the sound of Janjaweed militiamen raiding a village, starting fires, murdering children. It's the sound of imminent rape. It's the sound of impossible decisions—pull a child from a burning hut, or run away while there's still time with the children who have been spared.
For nearly five years, in the western Sudan region of Darfur, Janjaweed militiamen have committed atrocities and genocide that have gone unthwarted and unpunished. If the world does not take action against the Sudanese government, "The evidence of these crimes will be swallowed by the sands of the Sahara," warned John Prendergast, human rights activist and author of Not on Our Watch: The Mission to End Genocide in Darfur and Beyond. In a recent talk given at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Prendergast offered strategies for halting the genocide, as well as reasons to believe that the tide is turning.
In 2003, when climate change and desertification prompted migrations and small-scale insurrections by non-Arabic Darfuri herders, the Sudanese government supported and armed a paramilitary force of Arab-descended militiamen to stop the insurgencies. These militiamen, known as the Janjaweed, are, according to Prendergast, a group of "loosely organized bandits who believe their race superior." Prendergast compared the Janjaweed to the Ku Klux Klan (KKK), but with even more government support in the form of weapons and consent.
The result of the Sudanese government's strategy has been anarchy—"exactly the intended result," said Prendergast. Sudan's sponsorship of Janjaweed attacks on civilian populations is a classic counter-insurgency action, he said, the "oldest military strategy in the book." He referred to it as, "Drain the water to catch the fish," a tactic that involves wiping out rebellious populations so that the rebellion withers on the vine. "It's murderous," he said, "it's megalomaniacal, but it's not irrational, and it's not random."
For the most part, the world community, and especially the U. S., has stayed silent on Darfur. The genocide began at roughly the same time that the U.S. entered into the conflict with Iraq. In addition, as the U.S. military began its search for al Qaeda terrorist Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan, President George W. Bush's administration decided to build positive relationships with the Sudanese government, believing that the Sudanese leaders possessed valuable information about the terrorist operation.
But now, five years later, Prendergast has reason for hope—three reasons, in fact. He cited the beginnings of trans-Atlantic cooperation between the U.S. and Europe, particularly the governments of France and Great Britain. Also, President Bush met this month with U.S. Special Envoy for Sudan Rich Williamson, giving Ambassador Williamson his "full support" on Darfur. And lastly, China, which is the largest investor in the Sudanese oil industry, has become concerned with its own image as the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing draws near. International efforts to tag it the "Genocide Olympics" have compelled China to quietly pressure the Sudanese government for change.
Prendergast recounted the words of a Darfuri mother who'd watched Janjaweed militiamen murder two of her four children—one by fire and the other by gunshots—during a raid of her village: "Now that you've heard this story," she said, "you must do something."
"Stopping Genocide in Darfur" was held at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health on January 22, 2008, and it was sponsored by the J.B. Grant International Health Society, the Health and Human Rights Group and the Student Assembly.
—Christine Grillo


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New Zealand says it stands behind anti-settlement UN motion
A day after Jerusalem forgives Wellington for co-sponsoring Security Council Resolution 2334, PM English denies he apologized to Israel
Raphael Ahren is the diplomatic correspondent at The Times of Israel.
A day after officials in Jerusalem said Israel and New Zealand agreed to end their diplomatic spat surrounding Wellington's co-sponsoring of an anti-settlements resolution at the United Nations, the country's leader rejected any suggestion that patching the rift equaled pulling support for the measure.
In a statement to the media Tuesday, the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said New Zealand Prime Minister Bill English had sent a letter expressing regret over the harm the resolution had caused to ties between the countries.
On Wednesday, English said Wellington did not regret co-sponsoring UN Security Council resolution 2334 and still opposed Israeli settlement building in the West Bank.
"The resolution expressed longstanding and international policy and we stand by those positions," English told reporters, according to the New Zealand Herald. "Whether we agree with a country or don't disagree with them, we certainly prefer to have diplomatic connection and it's good that Israel has seen fit to restore their post in New Zealand."
On Tuesday, the Israeli government announced the bilateral crisis that started in December had ended after English expressed "regret" over the fallout of Wellington's support for the controversial resolution, which was co-sponsored by New Zealand alongside Senegal, Malaysia and Venezuela. Israeli Ambassador to New Zealand Itzhak Gerberg, who had been recalled in December, would return to his post in Wellington, the Prime Minister's Office announced.
After months-long "discreet high-level bilateral discussions" led by Israel's Foreign Ministry, English recently spoke with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the phone and followed the conversation up with a letter, the statement said. According to the PMO, English wrote: "First and most importantly, as I said in our conversation, I regret the damage done to relations between New Zealand and Israel as a result of New Zealand's co-sponsorship of UNSC resolution 2334. We welcome the return of Israel's ambassador to Wellington."
In light of this letter, Netanyahu instructed Foreign Ministry Director-General Yuval Rotem to notify the New Zealand authorities of his decision "to end the diplomatic crisis."
Some observers, including Israeli journalists and opposition politicians in New Zealand, interpreted English's statement as an "apology" from New Zealand for having backed the anti-settlements resolution.
But speaking to reporters in the Cook Islands, English, the leader of the center-right National Party, denied that he had apologized to Israel.
"What we do express regret about was the fact that it disrupted our relationship with Israel," he said.
Speaking to the Herald, New Zealand's Foreign Minister Gerry Brownlee hailed Israel for being a democracy — "which in that part of the world is not all that usual" — but confirmed his prime minister's account that Wellington did not apologize for supporting the Resolution 2334.
"We're not apologising for anything," he told the paper. "We're simply saying that friends who are estranged can't talk about these matters. So being able to discuss them is important."
Opposition leader Andrew Little, from New Zealand's Labor Party, spoke out in support of the government's policy vis-a-vis Israel.
"It's proper to have diplomatic relations with Israel and attempt to restore them, but that doesn't get away from the fact that when that country has committed breaches of international law, we have a right to call them out," he told the Herald. Co-sponsoring the anti-settlements resolution "was the right thing to do then, which is why Labour unambiguously backed the resolution from the start," he said.
Last week, Israel also buried the hatchet with Senegal, which also co-sponsored Resolution 2334, and returned its ambassador, Paul Hirschson, to Dakar.


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Investors raise net longs in gold to 6-month high – CFTC
Spec positions in commodities:
By Arijit Bose
Dec 24 – Gold scaled a six-month peak on Monday as sliding stock markets and concerns about a global economic slowdown sapped risk sentiment, driving investors to seek safety in the precious metal.
Spot gold gained 0.8 percent to $1,265.60 per ounce at 10:56 a.m. EST (1556 GMT) in thin trade ahead of the Christmas holiday. The metal hit its highest since late June at $1,267.13 earlier in the session.
U.S. gold futures were up 0.9 percent at $1,268.90 per ounce.
"Gold has continued to be firm here in the course of equity market weakness and an ongoing bevy of factors that are concerns for the market such as trade wars, interest rate hikes, and others," said David Meger, director of metals trading at High Ridge Futures.
Global stocks continued their downward trend for the seventh straight session as possibilities of a prolonged U.S. government shutdown and a deteriorating global economy unnerved investors.
"Gold prices are moderately higher on safe-haven buying interest heading into the Christmas holiday," Kitco Metals senior analyst Jim Wyckoff wrote in a note.
"A lower U.S. dollar index today is also working in favor of the precious metals market bulls. There is marketplace unease over the U.S. government's partial shutdown that could last a while."
The dollar was pressured amid concerns that the U.S. Federal Reserve will keep raising rates into a weakening economy.
"If the Fed is going to continue its aggressive stance, then our economy will slow down and a recession is a possibility. There is just so much negative news, that I cannot see gold do anything but go up," said Walter Pehowich, executive vice president of investment services at Dillon Gage Metals.
Gold, seen as a safe investment during political and financial uncertainties, has risen about 9 percent from a 19-month low of $1,159.96 in mid-August.
An increase in net long positions among speculators and a rise in the holdings of the SPDR Gold Trust, the world's largest gold-backed exchange-traded fund, indicated bolstered interest in the metal.
Net-long positions in Comex gold increased to a six-month high in the week to Dec. 18, while holdings of the SPDR rose to their highest since mid-August on Friday.
Among other metals, palladium eased 0.4 percent to $1,226.99 per ounce.
Silver rose 1 percent to $14.75 per ounce, while platinum was up 0.1 percent at $787.30 per ounce.
The SPDR Gold Shares (GLD) was trading at $120.02 per share on Monday afternoon, up $1.30 (+1.10%). Year-to-date, GLD has declined -2.94%, versus a -11.83% rise in the benchmark S&P 500 index during the same period.
GLD currently has an ETF Daily News SMART Grade of B (Buy), and is ranked #1 of 35 ETFs in the Precious Metals ETFs category.
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Source: CCTV.com
06-19-2008 14:24Special Report: Mainland tourists visit Taiwan
Taiwan aviation authorities have announced their allocations for the weekly, cross-strait charter flights. Chinese mainland authorities announced their allocations earlier this week. Eva Air, China Airlines and others are getting ready for flights from Taipei Taoyuan International Airport, Taipei Songshan Airport and Kaohsiung Airport to Shanghai, Beijing and Guangzhou.
Taiwan's civil aviation department has come to an agreement with the island's six airlines. According to the agreement, there are 18 round-trip flights a week, which means the six airlines will operate three round-trip flights a week on average.
China Airlines, together with Mandarin Airlines, will fly seven round-trip flights a week. Four to Shanghai, two to Beijing and another one to Guangzhou.
Eva Air will partner with UNI Air to fly from Taoyuan, Taipei Songshan and Kaohsiung to Shanghai, Beijing and Guangzhou.
And TransAsia Airways will fly from Songshan Airport to Shanghai, Guangzhou and Xiamen.
Local travel agencies predict tickets from Taipei to Xiamen and Guangzhou will be the cheapest, as low as 1,750 yuan. Considering there will likely be higher demand for tickets to the island, with more mainland tourists going to Taiwan, ticket prices from Shanghai and Beijing to Taipei are expected to cost at least 3-thousand yuan.
Editor:Yang Jie


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You've graduated: Now start saving for retirement
Welcome to WalletPop's series "You've graduated. Now what?" Our bloggers have a wealth of suggestions to help you find you way through that time of amazing transformation, from student to working stiff.
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Last summer my niece Cindy graduated from college and came to visit. I told her we needed to have A TALK. She may have been bracing for some trite wisdom or an age-inappropriate tirade on birth control. Instead I hit her with something much worse. I told her the grim news: she should already be thinking about saving for retirement.
Since Cindy is a far smarter kid than I ever was, it didn't take much to convince her of the "miracle of compounding" and how much easier it is to save for retirement when you start young.
Here's an example I found just plugging numbers into an online calculator: A 21-year-old making $25,000 a year and putting away 3% of her income would end up (after adjusting for raises and a 8% stock market return) with $3.1 million at age 65--enough to live on 90% of her last salary. If she started a decade later, she'd have less than half that at $1.4.
It's staggering how much better you'll do in retirement if you start when you're young. It's also amazing that we barely teach our young graduates anything about retirement savings even though the weight of the expense falls is falling increasingly on individuals to manage. Will there be any traditional pensions around when the class of 2008 retires? Or even Social Security?
If they are able to put money away, they need to know where to stash it. I didn't start saving for retirement till my late 20s and then it was in some ridiculous load fund from Smith Barney. There's a whole other talk to have on the miracle of low fees on investment returns, but save everyone the trouble I just steer them to Vanguard. Vanguard investors pay no sales charge and they have a razor thin expense ratio, both of which can be huge to retirement investors.
To make everything simple, Vanguard already has a Target Retirement 2050 Fund for those aged 18-25. Like all lifecycle funds, the manager gradually moves the money from stocks to bonds as retirement nears. That way all investors do is put money in and walk away. If it sounds crazy to think about investing for retirement so young, consider this: Already the 2050 fund, which started in 2006, has $356 million in assets.