It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men. -Samuel Adams  Friday Evening - January 15, 2010 | ||
 Decided I'd use the same excuse as the government for any 'Ineffective News Updates' - it's all my computer's fault. Shame and blame is a behavioral attribute under the heading of a defense mechanism employed by abusers. White House blames outdated computers for ineffective government... FDIC Friday Bank Closing at this time: St. Stephen State Bank, Saint Stephen, MN Town Community Bank & Trust, Antioch, IL THE HAITI NIGHTMARE CONTINUES New York  Miami   China  China's rescue team only one working 24-hours  CHICAGO .. Haiti headlines with football and celebrities   Obama administration to allow Haitians in US illegally to remain because of earthquake... Haiti's Streets Called 'Tinderbox' as Hunger, Thirst and Anger Grows... HAITIAN GOVT SAYS 40,000 BURIED, ANOTHER 100,000 THOUGHT DEAD... UN to launch Haiti emergency appeal for $550M... ANARCHY: WHO'S RUNNING COUNTRY?? Aristide offers to return... U.S. military mobilizes thousands... War Zone: Gangs do battle in streets with machetes over food... Rescuers race against time... WIRE: Angry Haitians block roads with corpses... HORROR: Corpses impede traffic, pyres of burning tires incinerate cadavers... Growing desperation... Survivors Face Diarrhea, Malaria Outbreaks Amid Lack of Clean Water... Looting... Earthquake in pictures... Satellite Photos Before and After... Actor Danny Glover Says Quake 'Response' For Screwing Up Climate Summit In Copenhagen... Broadcast nets to air Clooney's Haiti telethon... Hillary heading to quake zone... U.S. is coming to Haiti's aid as fast as it can, Pentagon officials say | ||
"Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people" - John Adams - Second President (1797 - 1801) | ||
APRIL 1997 - ECO-TYPE TERRORISM "Others [terrorists] are engaging even in an eco-type of terrorism whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves… So there are plenty of ingenious minds out there that are at work finding ways in which they can wreak terror upon other nations…It's real, and that's the reason why we have to intensify our [counterterrorism] efforts." Secretary of Defense William Cohen at an April 1997 counterterrorism conference sponsored by former Senator Sam Nunn. Quoted from DoD News Briefing, Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen, Q&A at the Conference on Terrorism, Weapons of Mass Destruction, and U.S. Strategy, University of Georgia, Athens, Apr. 28, 1997. Scalar Clouds   | ||
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REPORT: Tiger Woods In Sex Rehab Clinic...
| YOU CAN SLEEP BETTER AT NIGHT - THE GOVERNMENT IS PROTECTING YOU NEWS The DRUG was wild ginseng ... no doubt the government will soon send us to prison for our dandelion seed ... North Carolina Drug Dealer Sentenced to PrisonJan 12, 2010 ... Wild ginseng is considered a plant under both the Lacey Act and North Carolina law. It is unlawful under North Carolina law to export or ... |
TYLENOL Recall Broadens; Now Includes TYLENOL EXTRA STRENGTH, ROLAIDS...
FDA scolds maker of Tylenol for foot-dragging in recall
NASA Investigates Cocaine Found In Shuttle Hangar NASA officials have launched an investigation after finding cocaine in a processing hangar for a space shuttle at Kennedy Space Center in Florida — a violation of the zero-tolerance policy on drugs for all NASA employees. |
Study: Raising Kids Lowers Blood Pressure
GOOGLE - CHINA
No report from Google yet: Ministry of Commerce China's Ministry of Commerce (MOC) spokesman Yao Jian told a regular press conference on Friday that the ministry hadn't received any report from Google stating the company would leave China yet.
Google's loss could be Baidu's gain  Domestic search firm Baidu Inc could be the biggest beneficiary of a possible pullout from China by Internet major Google, leading industry experts said yesterday. Microsoft browser flaw exposed Google to hackersRecent sophisticated cyber attacks on Google Inc and other businesses exploited a previously unknown flaw in Microsoft Corp's Internet Explorer browser. Silicon Valley questions GOOGLE stance... |
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Alex Jones' InfoWars.com | Headlines - Friday January 15, 2010
Steve Watson | Regulatory Czar has already been tapped for senior position.
Thank You, Governor
Chuck Baldwin | In the coming Brave New World currently being manufactured by today’s globalists, even believing “conspiracy theories” might soon be illegal.
Al Jazeera Documentary Links Tea Party Movement to White Supremacists
We Are Change San Francisco | It seems that opposing our president and the policies of the big banking cartels means we are racists, or even worse.
Sunstein Attacks Second Amendment
Kurt Nimmo | In order to gain confirmation last year, Cass Sunstein lied about his views on the Second Amendment.
FBI Times Square Billboard Mirrors Running Man Police State
Paul Joseph Watson | 1987 movie portrayed America as a dictatorship after an economic collapse.
Reuters | On a per employee basis, JPMorgan investment bankers, sales staff and traders, on average, are set to make about $379,000 for 2009.
11 Clear Signs That The U.S. Economy Is Headed Into The Toilet
The Economic Collapse | The vast majority of the talking heads on television are still speaking of the current economic collapse as if it is a temporary “recession” that will soon be over.
Liberals Call for Moving Money Out of Large Banks
The Nation | The campaign was launched just before New Year’s Eve by Arianna Huffington of the Huffington Post and Rob Johnson of the Roosevelt Institute.
Kansas police chief charged with child molestation
Hutchinson News | Inman’s police chief is accused of sexually abusing three girls and one boy between the ages of 9 and 14.
Meet Mikey Hicks, 8: U.S. has him on watch list
New York Times | The Transportation Security Administration, under scrutiny after last month’s bombing attempt, has on its Web site a “mythbuster” that tries to reassure the public.
Columbia Missourian | The Mid-Missouri Internet Crimes Task Force will use the device to copy cell phone data — including phone numbers, contacts, pictures, videos, texts, call logs and even information the owner thinks has been deleted.
US drones collecting ‘too much information’
London Telegraph | US remote-controlled spy drones used over Afghanistan and Iraq are producing so much video intelligence that analysts are finding it more and more difficult to keep up with it.
Body scanners can store, send images, group says
NN | A privacy group says the Transportation Security Administration is misleading the public with claims that full-body scanners at airports cannot store or send their graphic images.
NBC News | The Department of Homeland Security is further increasing aviation security in response to intelligence indicating Islamist terrorists were planning another attack on the United States.
FBI Revitalizes Osama Bin Laden Myth
ABC News | Using sophisticated digital enhancement techniques, the FBI today published “aged progressed” mug shots of Osama bin Laden and 17 other top terrorists wanted by the U.S.
New Saudi air raids claim more civilians in Yemen
Press TV | Yemen’s Houthi fighters say Saudi war planes have once again pounded civilian areas in the country’s north, killing three members of a family.
WIBW | The Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) and the Shawnee County Health Agency hosted an H1N1 flu vaccination event featuring several state legislators.
More than half the experts fighting the ‘pandemic’ have ties to drug firms
Mail Online | More than half the scientists on the swine flu taskforce advising the Government have ties to drug companies.
Europeans snub vaccine and states cancel orders
WSJ | European governments are canceling orders and trying to sell or give away extra doses as they sit on a glut of the vaccine.
KWTX | Hutchison’s plan for security along the Texas-Mexico border includes expanding state participation in Homeland Security programs that let local law enforcement officials enforce some federal immigration laws and that verify whether a person can legally work in the country.
Artists Develop Tool To Guide Illegal Border Crossers To Water
KPBS | A group of art and technology activists have decided to develop what they call the Transborder Immigrant Tool.
Immigrants riot in Italy amid racial unrest
Reuters | Thousands of immigrants protested against racism in a southern Italian town on Friday, after a night of rioting sparked by an attack on African farm workers by a gang of white youths.
BBC | An inquiry into the Netherlands’ support for the invasion of Iraq says it was not justified by UN resolutions.
UK troops ‘executed Iraqi grandmother’
Independent | Allegations that a 62-year-old Iraqi grandmother was tortured and executed by British soldiers after her family home was raided three years ago are being investigated by the Royal Military Police.
Army Imprisons Iraq Vet for Hip Hop Song
AllGov.com | The Army threw Hall in jail on December 11, 2009, in Liberty County Jail, Georgia.
Press TV | The Pentagon had seen no indication that Tehran was planning to resume the program allegedly aimed at developing nuclear weapons.
Iran: We had information Israel, U.S. intended to attack us
Haaretz | Iran received information days ago that Israeli and U.S. intelligence intended to carry out terrorist acts in Tehran
The March Towards War
Economic Policy Journal | The United States and five other countries have tentatively agreed to meet this weekend to discuss what to do about Iran’s nuclear defiance of the UN Security Council.
Infowars.com | Iceland may be the first Western democracy to be forced into South-American style debt-slavery.
Turkey warns Lebanon that Israel may be planning attack
Haaretz | Erdogan called on the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council to pressure Israel over its nuclear program in the same way that the international community has been dealing with Iran.
Fake gold bars in Bank of England and Fort Knox
Pakistan Daily | A recent discovery — in October of 2009 — has been suppressed by the main stream media.
Eurasia Review | Hundreds of Afghans took part in the demonstration, which had to be dispersed by police and the military.
Israel Hints at New Invasion of Lebanon
Ynet | “Should the (security) situation deteriorate, we’ll hold the Lebanese government and all those who help Hezbollah responsible,” said Barak at an IDF outpost overlooking south Lebanon’s villages.
Blackwater/Xe mercs arrive in Somalia, Al-Shabab says
Press TV | At least 18 people have been killed in clashes between rival factions in southern and central Somalia, and there are reports that Blackwater/Xe mercenaries have entered the country.
Robert Stevens | Tyranny and abuse always begin with what first seems to be harmless acts of legislation.
Gun Control Advocate Shoots Intruder
Bob Ellis | What would you think if a long-time gun control advocate ended up shooting someone? Might the word “hypocrite” come to mind?
The Constitution Will Never Enforce Itself
Geoff Broughton | It is common sense that the states must have some recourse available to them should the Federal Government overreach its powers.
Fox News | The World Health Organization (WHO) is considering a plan to ask governments to impose a global consumer tax on such things as Internet activity or everyday financial transactions like paying bills online.
Sacked government drugs adviser vows to tell truth
BBC | The government’s sacked former chief drugs adviser Professor David Nutt has vowed to tell the “truth about drugs” as he launched a rival advisory group.
Monsanto’s GMO Corn Linked To Organ Failure, Study Reveals
Huffington Post | Researchers found that agricultural giant Monsanto’s GM corn is linked to organ damage in rats.
CNN | Federal officials say there is no imminent threat of a terrorist attack on U.S. soil, but a source cites a “palpable level of angst” among those in the intelligence community.
Actor Danny Glover Says Haitian Earthquake Caused by Climate Change
Daily Telegraph | “When we see what we did at the climate summit in Copenhagen, this is the response, this is what happens.”
New York Post | Big Labor got some big love from President Obama and congressional Democrats yesterday.
Volcker Says New Taxes Not an “Unreasonable Response” to Federal Banker Bailout CNN | Former Fed boss neglects to mention proposed taxes on banks will be passed on to consumers.
Majority Would Vote Against Obama
Reid Wilson | A year into his tenure, a majority of Americans would already vote against Pres. Obama if the ‘12 elections were held today.
Joe Wäges | A comprehensive list of Sunstein’s writings.
Obama’s “Green Jobs” Go to Prison Slaves
Infowars | The average prisoner makes 23 cents an hour.
Avatar Script Reveals Cameron’s Hatred for Gun Owners
John Nolte | Cameron — “I regret my choice of language in the Avatar screenplay.”
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SteveQuayle.com | Hot Headlines - January 15, 2010
Platinum to Beat Gold, Says Goldman Sachs
Gold Investment Is Top Money-Maker of the Decade
A Global Fiasco is Brewing in Japan
4 Economic Scenarios You'd Better Hope Won't Materialize
Is America's Financial Collapse Inevitable?
Gold Rises as Traders Add Positions after CFTC
Washington Monument's Connection to the Devil
Obama's Secret Vault
U.S. Attorney General's 5,000 DOJ Pending Indictments Targeting Financial Fraud, And National Security
Measuring California’s Earthquake Threat
Slow Volcanic Eruption in Eastern Congo
Gangs Armed with Machetes Loot Port-Au-Prince
Brazil Offers to Build Voodoo Cemetery for Haiti Quake Dead
Cyber Vigilante Prompts Debate on Internet Terror Fight
Pakistan Warns Against 'Massive' Indian Arms Build-Up
China Missile Test Tells U.S. to Back Off over Taiwan
Tourist Killed by 'Dinosaur-Sized' Shark off South African Beach
NASA Photographs 'Trees' on Mars
Proof of Martians 'to Come this Year'
Sheep Gives Birth to Human-Faced Lamb in Turkey
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The Iron Triangle - Who Is The Carlyle Group?WHO IS THE CARLYLE GROUP? (snip) It is hard to imagine an address closer to the heart of American power. The offices of the Carlyle Group are on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington DC, midway between the White House and the Capitol building, and within a stone's throw of the headquarters of the FBI and numerous government departments. The address reflects Carlyle's position at the very center of the Washington establishment, but amid the frenetic politicking that has occupied the higher reaches of that world in recent weeks, few have paid it much attention. Elsewhere, few have even heard of it. This is exactly the way Carlyle likes it. For 14 years now, with almost no publicity, the company has been signing up an impressive list of former politicians - including the first President Bush and his secretary of state, James Baker; John Major; one-time World Bank treasurer Afsaneh Masheyekhi and several south-east Asian powerbrokers - and using their contacts and influence to promote the group. Among the companies Carlyle owns are those which make equipment, vehicles and munitions for the US military, and its celebrity employees have long served an ingenious dual purpose, helping encourage investments from the very wealthy while also smoothing the path for Carlyle's defense firms. But since the start of the "war on terrorism", the firm - unofficially valued at $13.5bn - has taken on an added significance. Carlyle has become the thread which indirectly links American military policy in Afghanistan to the personal financial fortunes of its celebrity employees, not least the current president's father. And, until earlier this month, Carlyle provided another curious link to the Afghan crisis: among the firm's multi-million-dollar investors were members of the family of Osama bin Laden. The closest the Carlyle Group has previously come to public attention was last May, when a Seoul-based employee called Peter Chung was forced to resign from his £100,000-a-year job after sending an email to friends - subsequently forwarded to thousands of others - boasting of his plans to "f*** every hot chick in Korea over the next two years". The more business-oriented activities of Carlyle's staff have been conducted much more quietly : since it was founded in 1987 by David Rubenstein, a policy assistant in Jimmy Carter's administration, and two lawyer friends, the firm has been dispatching an array of former world leaders on a series of strategic networking trips. Last year, George Bush Sr and John Major traveled to Riyadh to talk with senior Saudi businessmen. In September 2000, Carlyle hired speakers including Colin Powell and AOL Time Warner chair Steve Case to address an extravagant party at Washington's Monarch Hotel. Months later, Major joined James Baker for a function at the Lanesborough Hotel in London, to explain the Florida election controversy to the wealthy attendees. We can assume that Carlyle pays well. Neither Major's office nor Carlyle will confirm the details of his salary as European chairman - an appointment announced shortly .... READ MORE ...... RELATED: Carlyle to Form Buyout Fund With Beijing Government (snip) Jan. 12 (Bloomberg) -- Carlyle Group, the world’s second- largest private-equity firm, said it will set up a domestic Chinese private equity fund with the Beijing government. The fund, to be registered in China’s capital, will be established by the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Financial Work and Carlyle Asia Partners, Carlyle said in an e-mailed statement. The yuan-denominated fund will be entitled to “preferential treatment” from the government, it said. Carlyle follows Blackstone Group LP, which became the first global private-equity firm to set up a 5 billion yuan ($731 million) fund with the Shanghai government in August to target investments in the eastern coastal city and neighboring areas. China is stepping up efforts to build its own private equity industry as the government seeks to foster corporate governance and strengthen capital markets. “You’ll see this trend continue with more global private equity titans seeking to raise domestic money in China with government-backed institutions,” said Alfred Lam, research associate at the Asian Venture Capital Journal. “It helps deal sourcing and capital is more readily available than in other parts of the world.” The Carlyle Asia Partners renminbi fund will invest alongside the Asia buyout group of Carlyle, which signed a memorandum of understanding with the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Financial Work, and pursue independent investments, according to the statement. |
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| Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) UFO Database NEW MASS UFO SIGHTINGS SENDS CHINESE MEDIA INTO FRENZY OF PHOTOS 14 January 2010 In China the UFO mega-events are continuing unabated and the last few weeks have been extra-ordinary for that nation's UFO community. A new mass UFO sighting by millions of witnesses that occurred on January 11 has sent the Chinese media into a frenzy. This event occurred in the western Chinese region of Xinjiang and was seen over a very wide area. Photos have come to light (see below) and film footage is expected to surface. Witnesses to the event described the sudden appearance of what at first looked like star which shortly turned red before turning green and morphing into an enormous traditional flying saucer shaped object.The UFO was then described as rotating, turning blue and vanishing. Some witnesses claimed to have seen the UFO land on a mountain before shooting off in an easterly direction. Other witnesses described the UFO initially shrouded in white mist. Many eyewitness reports have already been collected and can be read in the sources below. The local Astronomy station has declared the object to have been space-junk. Many witnesses however believe that what they saw might have been extraterrestrial in origin. Sources: Sina Ten Cent Hi News ifeng china.com |
George Ure's UrbanSurvival.com | Another Linguistic Note - 6 Great Earthquakes to Come
13:15 - Another Linguistic Note
Six Great Quakes to Come
Had a chance to chat with Cliff briefly today about the predictive linguistics and what's ahead for the balance of this year. For one thing, he's had time to look at the data again and nope, although Haiti is a terrible mess, and there's some linguistic fill beginning which could link 'diaspora' to the Haiti quake, a review of the data says no, the diaspora/people moving about due to changing circumstances really is 220-million.
True, there's some linkage of Canada and fast-track immigration for refugees, and the rising use of the term 'diaspora', but there's a lot more to be worried about later this year.
The problem is that as we look at the data, there are at least six great quakes due during calendar 2010 and possibly many more. After six, we stopped looking - not a pretty sight. We assume you know a 'great' quake is one with magnitude 8.0 or larger, but in a social sense, Haiti is a 'great' quake based on extreme loss of life.
From the period (approximately) July 7th onward, the data features six clusters of data that will be larger than the global horror that followed the 2004 tsunami. And - sad to report - the data suggests that 220-million will be moving around just on the [american continent] which means additional quakes can be expected this year of larger magnitude including some hints that one will be on the US West coast.
Among the problems with predictive linguistics technology is that it's not precise. How people use language is drifty on a good day. Although the US quake(s) seems to be California'ish, it could be as far north as Vancouver Island. Such is the imprecision of the data. No, can't narrow it down to the Long Valley caldera, Yellowstone, or something as simple as that.
What is clear is that our 'context shift' is 'terra entity', we can't offer any further insight except to say that the data also suggests that by the end of this year, we may see more than a billion people involved in diaspora else; particularly India/Pakistan/China and there are some indications that dislocated people will stream north toward Siberia/Mongolia as a result.
You might ask "Why wasn't this in the Shape of Things to Come report? Fair question: not trying to hide anything...remember, though, we've been saying for the past 9-months (roughly, could be longer) that looking into the data from late 2009 onward for quake activity was pretty much pointless. Gets to be too much. Our accuracy is occasionally very good with isolated near-great quakes like our call on the May 2008 China event, but even if we had been translated into mandarin prior to the May 'wedding quake', would it have modified anyone's behavior or saved lives? Likely not.
Add to that the problems we had sorting out the 'print through" on the Lacey Peterson trial/Redwood City (Sept. 2004) quake which preceded the Dec. 2004 tsunami? The Peterson trial was interrupted by the Redwood City quake and some linguistics (courthouse emptied) were fulfilled, ;leavings us to scratch our heads and pondering "Damn...where's the land driven back to previous age, 200-thousand dead and all that language?" Showed up - all right - about 120 days later.
All of which is not supposed to make you feel better - or worse- about what's ahead in the second half of this year - our timing sucks when there gets to be overlap, print-through, and multiple images of the same thing. Go look at how clear the Wedding Quake hit was before and after the event. (Scroll down to the May 12, 2008 entry "Oh, THAT Quake...)
So whether we get a half dozen seven-oh's this year with huge loss of life or a series of 8's and larger is really outside the scope of this project. Not much anyone can do about it, except have food, water, seeds and a mindset that will allow you to start over and prosper under the most adverse adverse conditions imaginable which by year-end maybe upwards 1.4-billion people will experience..
Best we hope for is to be wrong and it will be media buzz only - always hard to distinguish from physical/objective reality. Our fishing grounds are internet fora, which oh, by the way, may go down in late summer as a global phenomena. So yeah, in addition to working on his survival pod-boat, Cliff's looking at a satellite-based internet system.
Mine's been in for a couple of years seeing this period coming. Oh, might want to mark down your home/residence's lat/lon by GPS and keep it handy for a couple of years. If it starts changing outside the 2DRMS error of SA(ASM if you're in green), it'll be time to gear up.
Why, I bet hardly any of your friends noticed the proximity of Haiti's quake to the news stories about how the "Earth's magnetic north pole marching toward Siberia at 37 miles per year" did they ....
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