Pandora's Box

Biological Hazard in USA on Monday, 17 June, 2013 at 03:25 (03:25 AM) UTC.

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The Indian River Lagoon on Florida's east coast has long been known as the most diverse ecosystem in North America. Its 156 miles of water boast more than 600 species of fish and more than 300 kinds of birds. The lagoon is not just an ecological treasure. To the towns along its edge — Titusville, Cocoa, Melbourne, Vero Beach and Stuart, among others — it accounts for hundreds of millions in revenue from angling, boating, bird-watching, tourism and other waterfront activities. But these days the Indian River Lagoon has become known as a killing zone. Algae blooms wiped out more than 47,000 acres of its sea grass beds, which one scientist compared to losing an entire rainforest in one fell swoop. Then, beginning last summer, manatees began dying. As of last week, 111 manatees from Indian River Lagoon had died under mysterious circumstances. Soon pelicans and dolphins began showing up dead too — more than 300 pelicans and 46 dolphins so far. How bad is it? In the past week, a dolphin a day has turned up dead in the lagoon, said Megan Stolen, a research scientist at Hubbs-SeaWorld Research Institute.

"When you lose the manatees, pelicans and dolphins, you know something is going on," said Marty Baum of Indian Riverkeeper, a nonprofit environmental group that tries to act as a steward for the lagoon and the Indian River that flows into it. Yet so far nobody can name the killer. Biologists have some suspicions but are baffled about any connection among the species' problems. The diets are different: Manatees are vegetarians, while pelicans and dolphins eat fish. The symptoms are different: The manatees' stomachs are stuffed, while the pelicans and dolphins are emaciated. Baum's family has lived around the lagoon since the 1860s, but he can't remember anything like this ever happening. The lagoon has had algae blooms before. None of them were like the one that hit it in 2011. Experts called the explosion of the greenish Resultor species a "superbloom" because it covered nearly 131,000 acres and lasted from early spring to late fall. Then came the "brown tide" algae bloom last summer, tinting the water a chocolate brown. The algae, Aureoumbra lagunensis, have been a recurring problem in Texas. Why it suddenly showed up in Florida is another mystery. The algae blooms shade out sunlight needed by sea grass. By the time the algae was done, the lagoon had lost more than half its sea grass, essential to nurturing fish and other marine species.

Then came what Pat Rose of the Save the Manatee Club called "a cascade of events." The mysterious manatee die-off began in the northern part of the lagoon last July, hit its peak around March and now produces another dead manatee about every two weeks, said Martine DeWit of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. Biologists at a state laboratory in St. Petersburg examine every dead manatee that's found in Florida for a cause of death. But the Indian River Lagoon manatees have them stumped. The manatees appeared to have abruptly sickened and drowned. Normally manatees eat sea grass. With much of the sea grass gone, the manatees turned to eating a red sea weed called gracilaria. But so far there is no sign that played any role in their deaths, DeWit said. The lab is continuing to test for viruses, pollutants or something else. Similar tests are being run on the dead pelicans and dolphins. Stolen of Hubbs-SeaWorld said the dolphin die-off first became evident in January and has not let up since.

And the lagoon's 700 dolphins are already somewhat beleaguered. They tend to suffer from high levels of mercury. In fact, research by the Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution at Florida Atlantic University has found that there's so much mercury in the lagoon's fish that people who eat them have higher mercury concentrations in their tissues than those who eat imported fish. Scientists caught a break Friday when a kayaker discovered an ailing, sunburned, underweight dolphin stranded in the shallows, Stolen said. Rescuers were able to capture it for rehabilitation, and they hope it offers clues to what killed the others. When it comes to naming the cause, the list of suspects rivals a game of Clue. Stormwater runoff filled with fertilizer and other nutrient pollution has been blamed for fueling the algae blooms. Other theories point to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers dumping polluted water from Lake Okeechobee, changes in water temperature or salt levels, overflow from contaminated mosquito-control ditches, even climate change, which is boosting the acidity of the world's oceans. The Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute had hoped for $2 million in state money this year for a study of the lagoon's water chemistry, but Gov. Rick Scott vetoed the appropriation.

robinsld wrote:
The problem here, agau, is that the people are sheeple. Too many just accept what's going on, and even more are either totally oblivious or think it's all just conspiracy theory stuff. Until the sheeple awake, noone will do anything about this, and this will likely continue until it's too late to do anything about it. At some point it will become irrelevant whether or not some representative can be voted out of office. At that point, it has become too late. One needs to rally the citizens out of their sheep, er.., sleep. Only then can something be done. Trying to do anything without waking the sheeple first is just fighting windmills.


Yes Robinsld; we're facing a learning-curve here in TRAINING the Serfs how to act like Citizens again. EXTREME poverty is a very powerful motivator in encouraging such an education.

So one way or another Citizens will return to our societies, since only Citizens can/will depose the Fascists -- and unless/until they are deposed it is a CERTAINTY that the vast majority will be destroyed financially.

Thus places like BBC and other alternative "beacons of enlightenment" (lol) need to begin that process now; so that when the Motivated Masses are ready to learn there are already places to look to, to speed-up that education...

Pure U.S. blood-sucking off the Canadian economy. So no worries about Stephen Harper saying/doing anything about this.



Thanks for the post Earl!

Earl wrote:
I'd like to ask about one observation-


1) Why did you choose Hong Kong to go to and then tell them about US hacking on their research facilities and universities?
Answer:

1) First, the US Government, just as they did with other whistleblowers, immediately and predictably destroyed any possibility of a fair trial at home, openly declaring me guilty of treason and that the disclosure of secret, criminal, and even unconstitutional acts is an unforgivable crime. That's not justice, and it would be foolish to volunteer yourself to it if you can do more good outside of prison than in it.

For "Booz" I could see this as almost "patent" theft, sold to some oligarch, federally funded. Just kinda hit me that way. Could it be any,"research facilities and universities"???

Two favorite quotes-

All I can say right now is the US Government is not going to be able to cover this up by jailing or murdering me. Truth is coming, and it cannot be stopped.

Further, it's important to bear in mind I'm being called a traitor by men like former Vice President Dick Cheney. This is a man who gave us the warrantless wiretapping scheme as a kind of atrocity warm-up on the way to deceitfully engineering a conflict that has killed over 4,400 and maimed nearly 32,000 Americans, as well as leaving over 100,000 Iraqis dead. Being called a traitor by Dick Cheney is the highest honor you can give an American

Appreciate the feedback

Thank You
Earl


Another thing which can/will make Snowden less "reluctant" as a Hero is defending his integrity.

When you have pond scum like Dick Cheney taking shots at your character; that's pretty powerful incentive to respond.

It's Monday June 17th, and there are two interesting themes to discuss today, based on the most recent propaganda at Basher Central (and around the 'Net).

The first (and rapidly growing) propaganda imperative are attempts to dupe the world's largest gold-producers that "hedging" large quantities of their production (at absurdly low prices) is somehow a "good idea". There isn't enough space in this daily column to explain all the ridiculous ramifications of this propaganda. I got into some of the dynamics in today's commentary.

Note the continuation of a general pattern of desperation. First the Banksters (and their Servants) focused their efforts on trying to sabotage demand -- by attacking the world's largest gold market: India. I've covered that in numerous recent commentaries; so readers should already be familiar with the intensity of desperation on display there.

Now we see a similar level of intense desperation on display with respect to supply: attempting to temporarily boost supply -- by getting the large miners to sell onto the market "gold" which hasn't even been dug out of the ground yet. For those who don't understand hedging (forward-selling) this is all that it amounts to: selling future production at a fixed (low) price.

It was what CAUSED a lot of the damage to the slavish miners back when the Banksters had complete control over bullion markets (because inventories were plentiful). With that complete control gone forever (or until some Bullion Confiscation event); the Banksters are how hoping they can simply bully/jaw-bone the miners into sabotaging themselves with a new wave of hedging.

This brings us to the second, and newer propaganda theme; one with much more ominous undertones.

Gold Ends Weaker; Volatility Collapse Suggests Bigger Daily Price Move Coming
Gold Mixed, Sees Mild Safe-Haven Demand; Collapse In Volatility In Silver Suggests Bigger Move Soon

With the minds of the Sheep having been numbed into a virtual coma by saturation-propaganda; there are no longer even attempts at "subtlety" here.



At this point analysis becomes simple. Would Basher Central ever tip-off bullion investors that a Big Rally was about to hit the market?



So we have only two, possible interpretations of this very obvious message from the propaganda machine: we're about to see one, last ambush on gold/silver markets; OR this is just another propaganda bluff -- intended to keep investors WAITING for some decisive move.

I'm strongly leaning to the former interpretation. Regular readers know that I've suggested all along there could be still be "one last ambush" before the Next Rally begins. While such an ambush would lead to a V-bottom followed by a violent explosion higher in prices; the "violent explosion" is now coming whether the Banksters like it or not.

The VALUE in staging one, last ambush is that then the Revisionists in the propaganda machine can point to how their own Stooges "called the prices" in their absurd warnings about the gold market. Forget about the fact that those low prices would only exist for a matter of days (or possibly a few weeks). Forget about the fact that there would be little (if any) real bullion for sale at those fantasy prices.



The Revisionists would simply point to how they "called the bottom" in the gold market; in order to attempt to rehabilitate these clowns as credible commentators. My expectation would be that the last ambush would be staged with to be launched with the U.S. jobs report at the beginning of July -- which would also coincide with the 4th of July U.S. holiday.

This is a favorable time for an ambush as (next to Christmas) it represents about the LOWEST level of market activituy, and active traders being present in the market. Such times are easy pickings for manipulation operations; as there are literally few bodies around to bid prices higher as they are driven DOWN by the Banksters' brute-force manipulation.

I say again to readers (and the Community here as a whole): don't bet on buying bullion at lower prices. I issue such warnings not to discourage people from buying bullion TODAY; but to prepare them should there be a very short (and totally absurd) further plunge in prices.

Fear of the unknown is a powerful psychological tool. If we're ready for the Banksters' next "shock and awe" nonsense; that alone minimizes its impact. I caution people again that "lower bullion prices" does NOT necessarily mean being able to BUY bullion at those lower prices.

Between exploding premiums and dealers who (at least claim they ) are "out of inventories"; attempting to stock up on bullion at some panic-low is never the "easy money" which naive investors believe it to be. The "best time" for people to buy their bullion remains TODAY.

Live "long", and prosper.

Earl wrote:

Colossus Minerals Inc. Completes C$28.75 Million Bought Deal Financing

finance.yahoo.com/news/colossus-minerals...tes-c-124800738.html

TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwired - June 12, 2013) -

THIS NEWS RELEASE IS NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION TO U.S. NEWSWIRE SERVICES OR FOR DISSEMINATION IN THE UNITED STATES

Colossus Minerals Inc. (CSI.TO)(COLUF) (the "Company" or "Colossus") announced today that it has closed the previously announced offering with GMP Securities L.P. and Dundee Securities Ltd., as co-lead underwriters (the "Co-Lead Underwriters"), on their own behalf and on behalf of a syndicate of underwriters which included Canaccord Genuity Corp., Clarus Securities Inc. and TD Securities Inc. (together with the Co-Lead Underwriters, the "Underwriters"), with PowerOne Capital Markets Limited acting as a selling group member, pursuant to which a total of 17,968,750 common shares of the Company ("the "Offered Shares"), including those issued pursuant to the exercise, in full, of an over-allotment option granted to the Underwriters, were issued and sold at a price of C$1.60 per Offered Share for aggregate gross proceeds of C$28,750,000 (the "Offering"). The Underwriters were paid a cash commission by the Company equal to 5.0% of the gross proceeds of the Offering.

The net proceeds are intended to be used to fund development expenditures on the Serra Pelada gold-PGM mine and general working capital.

The securities being offered have not been, nor will they be, registered under the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and may not be offered or sold in the United States or to, or for the account or benefit of, U.S. persons absent registration or an applicable exemption from the registration requirements. This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy nor shall there be any sale of the securities in any State in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful.



Thanks for the post Earl.

Thought the "news" makes me want to vomit; there's no point in "shooting the messenger" (lol). This is nothing less than an act of corporate rape: banksters STEALING millions of shares from this company -- in return for their own worthless paper.

This financing should be taking place at at least five times the present share price -- or to put this another way; the banksters have stolen FIVE TIMES as many shares as they should have been able to get for their stack of debauched banker-paper.

My only consolation (as a shareholder) is that this is likely the LAST time the Banksters will ever be able to steal from this Company in this manner -- as this should be enough financing to carry it through to when it is cash-flow positive, and no longer requires any additional financing.

For those with some buying-power AND wanting to put at least a portion of that into one or more miners; here is one where the "bottom" now appears to be carved in stone. Once Colossus is producing there will be nothing which the Banksters can do to stop the share price from correcting to a rational valuation.

Auriferous wrote:
Thanks Jeff,

NAN.V raised $4.4m about a month ago, out of a $7.5m PP. VMS.V & The Sentient Group took most if not all of the first tranche of $4.4m.

Drills should be operating this month along with other activities as reported by NAN.V

All the best,

Auriferous


There are a LOT of gold juniors who would drool in envy at those numbers...

Immigration bill would let Canadian snowbirds stay in Florida longer

www.floridatoday.com/article/20130617/NE...ay-in-Florida-longer

WASHINGTON — Florida already is the top destination for Canadian snowbirds, and more could flock to the Sunshine State soon.

Tucked into the massive immigration reform bill being debated in the Senate is a provision that would allow retirees from Canada to stay up to eight months in the United States -- two months longer than current law allows.

Realtors, tourism officials and lawmakers say the change could provide a tremendous boost to the Florida economy still recovering from the Great Recession.

"That's a 30 percent increase in the potential amount that Canadians could spend on everything from accommodations to dining and grocery stores," said Will Seccombe, president and CEO for VISIT FLORIDA, the state's official tourism marketing corporation. "When you get a long length of stay, it has exponential impacts in spending throughout the entire community."

In 2012, Canadians made nearly 4 million visits to Florida and spent about $4.4 billion, according to the Canadian embassy in Washington. Canadian visitors represent about a third of all foreign tourists to Florida, Seccombe said.

The immigration provision, sponsored by New York Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer, would allow retired Canadians 55 or older to get a Canadian Retiree Visa allowing them to stay in the United States up to eight months if they own a second home in the U.S. or they have a rental agreement or hotel reservation.

More than 500,000 Canadians own property in Florida -- more than any other state -- according to the Canadian Snowbird Association. Tens of thousands more rent.

Canadian citizens do not need visas to visit the U.S., but their stay is limited to six months minus one day (generally 182 days) within any 12-month period. That means Canadians who head to popular destinations in Arizona, California, Florida or Texas at the beginning of November need to get back home by late April.

"A lot of people want to stay longer,'' Bob Slack, president of the Canadian Snowbird Association said. "They'd like seven months if they can.''

The Canadian government didn't ask for the measure, according to embassy spokesman Chris Plunkett.

"But we certainly support anything that can improve trade and tourism between Canada and the U.S.,'' he said.

The impetus for the change came from the Canadian Snowbird Association based in Toronto, which estimates snowbirds made 1.08 million trips to the U.S. in 2011. The association defines a snowbird as someone 55 or over who spends 31 or more consecutive days in the U.S.

Steve Romano, a real estate broker in Cocoa Beach with RE/MAX Elite, said poor exchange rates often deter Canadians from buying second homes along the Space Coast.

"But a big part of it (also) was the fact that because they were only allowed here so much time, they couldn't justify the outlay of money," he said. Adding two months, he said, would help the second-home market, "no doubt about it."

Canadians already are the largest group of foreigners who purchase homes in the United States. They accounted for 24 percent of international investors in U.S. real estate in 2012, according to the National Association of Realtors.

But letting Canadians stay longer wouldn't automatically boost sales because of other factors, experts and advocates say.

Snowbirds want Canadian provinces to relax restrictions requiring them to spend at least six months of every year at home in order to qualify for national health insurance.

Only one of Canada's 10 provinces -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- allows eight months abroad without losing health coverage. Three others -- Ontario, British Columbia and Manitoba -- permit a maximum seven months out of the country.

Snowbirds also want a change in U.S. tax laws that would let Canadians who spend up to eight months in the U.S. avoid paying income tax here, but Schumer does not plan to pursue that.

Then there's the pull of family north of the border.

About a quarter of the 417 families living at the Ameri-Cana Resort mobile home park on U.S. 1 just north of Pineda Causeway are Canadian, according to Carol Strader, treasurer for the park's board of directors.

She thinks the Canadian residents would appreciate being able to stay longer. Whether they would is another matter, she said.

"They're only going to come down for a certain amount of time so they can go up and see them grandkids," Strader said.

Jesse "Jay" Parrish III, president of the Space Coast Realtors, said he hopes the extension is granted.

"There's definitely a change in the economy when the Canadians leave," he said. "And it's not a happy change."

Jeff quickly check the live link as long as it stays, CNN takes the photograph of a pro-Erdogan rally and labels it anti-government protests

edition.cnn.com/2013/06/03/opinion/turke...ndex.html?hpt=imi_r1


But just in case CNN decides to take it off because the enough drones have been convinced and now is the time to return to excellent and honest journalistic standards, here is a screen shot for the sake of progeny on BBC

samix wrote:
From twitter.



The 20th century "Marie Antionette"...

Jeff Nielson wrote:
But (Contrarian that I am - lol); the more I see the propaganda machine HYPING "opposition" to Erdogan today, and demonizing him at every opportunity -- despite his support for the West -- then I'm forced to lean toward your own interpretation of the scenario here.



I am not a particular fan of leaders like Erdogan or Mursi because of their half baked foreign polices, but I feel that they are a better option in the middle east and for Muslims than a military regime taking over Turkey or Egypt or a Mubarak clone.

But on the other hand, I realize that they have to face up to a very strong "secular" opposition in their countries political, military and bureaucratic which does not mind directly taking orders from the oligarchs.

I see Ergodan and Mursi or leaders like him as holding the ground, until a fully proper and independent Islamic state can re-emerge.

agau121 wrote:



Restating this in crude terms, you are comparing two phenomena:

1. Shock the sheep syndrome, made possible by concealing crime.

2. Lobster-in-the-pot syndrome, made possible by openly committing crime (fraud).

Is that correct?

Now I will just talk off the top of my head a bit. On the surface at least it appears to me that these two phenomena provide a contrast as opposed to a comparison, yet you used the word "compare" in relation to them. I'm wondering if in some sense you are suggesting that there is basis for both comparing and contrasting these phenomena.


Sorry, I guess I wasn't clear enough in making my previous point. I was comparing the two, different approaches to illustrate the contrast.

My point was that the inevitable (negative) consequence of the U.S. having its SECRET anti-terrorism regime is that any revelations will certainly have shock-value in rousing the Sheep from their waking-comas. Conversely, with the saturation of banker-crime -- and the constant (understated) reporting of that crime -- the Sheep are much more desensitized to financial crime.

agau121 wrote:
I would like to see the Patriot Act repealed altogether. The repeal of this act was one of the few things I thought I could count on when President Obama was inaugurated the first time, but in 2011 he signed the PATRIOT Sunsets Extension Act of 2011, which extended key provisions of the despicable bill for four years.

I believe I understand your point about the importance of exposing dirty deeds rather than dirty rules. I want to see this done too. Nonetheless, members of congress can only act on the rules that are in place, and they can only act on them if they know what they are. Declassification of the dirty rules is only a first and necessary step. I am not suggesting that it is a sufficient step. In fact I believe that it alone would be an insufficient step...




No argument from me at all when it comes to the necessity to totally abolish the (so-called) Patriot Act. In that respect; I want to mention a little-discussed provision of that act which could (does?) have ENORMOUS REPERCUSSIONS.

That provision stipulated that "in times of emergency" U.S. corporations would NOT be required to report their financial results. The supposed reasoning here is that letting people see the TRUTH during some emergency situation would simply create panic.

But consider this. When these Corporations are LEGALLY no longer required to factually report their operating results, will they simply CEASE reporting altogether? Obviously that wouldn't do much to reduce panic.

Given how this Fascist regime has operated since the Patriot Act was brought into existence; isn't it more likely that these corporations would SECRETLY be given permission to "report" fictitious results??? Now consider if the "emergency" itself is also a secret. Wouldn't that be "justification" for secretly letting these mega-corporations say anything they want to about their bottom-line.

And consider this: IF such an "emergency" ever came into existence, then the TRUE operating results of these corporations would become classified information. It would be treasonous for any employee to disclose the TRUTH about their own company -- and undoubtedly employees would (quietly) be made aware of this harsh legal reality.

My question is this: has such an "emergency" already been secretly declared by the U.S. government; and if so, how many years ago...???

Flagpole Sitta' Lyrics

By Harvey Danger

I had visions, I was in them
I was looking into the mirror
To see a little bit clearer
The rottenness and evil in me

Fingertips have memories
Mine can't forget the curves of your body
And when I feel a bit naughty
I run it up the flagpole and see who salutes
But no one ever does

I'm not sick, but I'm not well
And I'm so hot 'cause I'm in hell

Been around the world and found
That only stupid people are breeding
The cretins, cloning and feeding
And I don't even own a TV

Put me in the hospital for nerves
And then they had to commit me
You told them all I was crazy
They cut off my legs now I'm an amputee, goddamn you

I'm not sick, but I'm not well
And I'm so hot,'cause I'm in hell
I'm not sick, but I'm not well
And it's a sin to live so well

I wanna publish 'zines And rage against machines
I wanna pierce my tongue
It doesn't hurt, it feels fine
The trivial sublime I'd like to turn off time
And kill my mind You kill my mind, mind

Paranoia, paranoia Everybody's comin' to get me
Just say you never met me
I'm runnin' underground with the moles
Diggin' in holes

Hear the voices in my head
I swear to God it sounds like they're snoring
But if you're bored then you're boring
The agony and the irony, they're killing me

I'm not sick, but I'm not well
And I'm so hot, 'cause I'm in hell
I'm not sick, but I'm not well
And it's a sin to live this well
(One, two, three, four)

Auriferous, it sounds like NAN is still fully active with their exploration program. How are they doing at staying fully-financed? I know most of the precious metals miners are having a very tough time there right now...

All I know is the word "sheeple" is becoming so common.

Ask "Rush", or better yet my favorite asshole Glenn Beck.

"Herd the sheep people"- over and over

Micheal Savage... Rush.... Beck.....

I hear a echo.... sheeple

A fun thread, again "subjects", I'm sorry-

public0.ordienetworks.com/flash/fodplaye...layer_1752181bff?r=r

Take the BS to the next level, make it all worth it- we are all "terrorist".

Take Care
Earl

agau121 wrote:
Jeff Nielson wrote:
There are TWO "lessons" we can extract from this.

Yes, one of them is the imperative to officially "declassify" some of the NSA spying machinery. Again, this is nothing more than the application of simple logic.

EVERYTHING which has been publicly released by Snowden is already effectively declassified. Pretending that something is still "a secret" when it is common knowledge in the possession of hundreds of millions of people goes beyond absurd. It's like a woman who had been working as a prostitute for several years continuing to use the professional name "Virgin Vicky".

For the sake of making sure this discussion is framed around the correct topic, I think it is important to verify that you understand what I was referencing in my previous remarks when I spoke of declassifying something. I was speaking specifically of the FISA court's secret interpretation of the already despicable "Patriot Act."...


Thanks for the clarification AgAu. Yes, I assumed you were referring to the spying activities themselves.

Here's the problem with attempting to de-classify an "interpretation": such opinions have no permanent official status.

The best way to illustrate this is to move to a different area, for purposes of example: the Income Tax Act. Because income taxation is hopelessly-flawed; like all serious flawed legal systems it is extremely complicated AND requires regular tinkering in order to keep it functioning at all.

How is this done? Through issuing opinions on how various provisions of the Act would be "interpreted." How long are such "interpretations" valid? Until someone writes a new opinion.

Why are the "interpretations" constantly being changed/updated in income tax law? You close one tax-loophole (through issuing an "interpretation" of a particular section); and then the tax-lawyers assigned to ensuring the very-wealthy pay as little taxes as possible immediately seek to exploit the new language to create a new loophole -- and the process goes on eternally.

This brings us to the EQUALLY FLAWED "War on Terror". How do you "conduct" this phony war when much (most?) of what you're doing is in direct conflict with the Constitution? You have TWO sets of laws. You have the one set of laws released to the public; which (supposedly) avoids "crossing the line" in terms of Constitutional violations (and violations of the Geneva Conventions, and other basic crimes-against-humanity stuff).

Then you have your second set of laws: the ones you actually use. They're the same laws -- just "interpreted" differently.



How do you justify have the secret "interpretation"? Because the Boogeymen (i.e. "terrorists") are so tricky and adaptive (lol!!) that the U.S. government "needs to" have its secret interpretation in order to "stay one step ahead of the terrorists" (lol!!!!).

So, tomorrow you get your treasured "full disclosure" of the secret interpretation of the Patriot Act. What happens the day after that? A NEW "secret interpretation" is created. But because it's a secret; who knows how many years will pass by before anyone even knows there is a new "interpretation"???



And how do the Fascists "justify" creating a new, secret "interpretation" -- the day after their old secrets are divulged? They say that "their intelligence" shows that the Boogeymen have begun new tactics -- and so the U.S. government needs a "new interpretation" (i.e. expanded Nazi powers) in order to "meet this new threat."



In other words, all you would "gain" from having the current, secret regime fully-disclosed is that a NEW and even MORE-EXTREME regime would be created (in secret) to replace it. As the old saying goes; "be careful what you wish for..."



When it comes to declassifying nefarious government conduct; there will generally be much more practical utility in getting disclosure of their DIRTY DEEDS rather than their DIRTY RULES -- because those rules can then be changed again tomorrow...in secret.

1:40-mark -- more erroneous/dangerous mythology about gold and the "gold standard".

We get the utterly/amazingly simplistic "logic" that because gold is less (physically) plentiful than silver that it is "easier to manipulate".



Those of us who closely follow the silver market -- and see how the silver market is much more extremely manipulated than the gold market -- will hopefully understand the absurd fallacy of this pseudo-logic.

Why is the silver market today (in fact) so much easier to manipulate than the gold market? Because it is a much smaller market -- by dollar-value. The ease in manipulating any commodity market is not measured by the PHYSICAL SIZE of the market -- but by its dollar-value.

This is because manipulation is a BRUTE-FORCE activity (when conducted by Banksters). Throw $500 billion at a $5 trillion market and you can do unlimited manipulating. But throw that same $500 billion at a $50 trillion market and suddenly you're much more impotent.

Thus all the ridiculous pseudo-logic in the documentary about there "not being enough" gold for a gold standard, and that gold is "too easy to manipulate" is a very disappointing flaw in what is otherwise a fabulous piece of work. All these (supposed) "problems" disappear simply by valuing gold at a proper price.

At $10,000/oz; it would be SEVEN TIMES as hard for the Banksters to manipulate the market -- and there would be SEVEN TIMES "as large" a supply of money for the global monetary system. And if $10,000/oz isn't quite enough; make it $15,000.

As a matter of simple arithmetic; there is obviously a "magic number" for gold at which point there is "plenty" of money -- and dramatically less risk/fear of manipulation.

Obviously the Narrator isn't a math-whiz...

Earl wrote:

Earl wrote:

China censors Winnie the Pooh from online searches after photo emerges of president Xi Jinping that makes him look like the children’s favorite

President Obama and President Xi Jinping pictured on a stroll at a summit in California
Blogger posted two pictures side-by-side on Chinese social media site
China's strict censorship laws kicked in when picture was swiftly deleted

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2341817...ren-s-favourite.html

He is a beloved fictional bear described as having 'very little brain' who lives on a diet of honey and is best friends with a piglet.

But when a trivial comparison was made between China's President Xi Jinping and Winnie the Pooh, the country's strict censorship laws swung into action...

Jeff stated,


There are two very different ways of looking at this anecdote. Obviously the American propaganda machine is pumping one interpretation: an Authoritarian leader giving in to trivial paranoia.

But there is also a different way of looking at things. In China; the government assumes its Citizens DO pay attention to things.

In comparison; we have Earl's previous post about HALF the U.S. senators skipping the briefing on the NSA's out-of-control spying -- because they no longer worry that any of their own Serfs are paying attention at all.

Jeff,

I was thinking (NSA) will this make it to MSM. "Watching", is only half bad.-LOL

Was it the future???

But, you make a damn good point-

There are two very different ways of looking at this anecdote. Obviously the American propaganda machine is pumping one interpretation: an Authoritarian leader giving in to trivial paranoia.

But there is also a different way of looking at things. In China; the government assumes its Citizens DO pay attention to things.

In comparison; we have Earl's previous post about HALF the U.S. senators skipping the briefing on the NSA's out-of-control spying -- because they no longer worry that any of their own Serfs are paying attention at all.

Thank You
Earl


Earl, this once again practically illustrates the value of a forum -- rather than each of us (as individuals) attempting to "make sense" out of what is going on around us.

By ourselves we can only collect a certain amount of information, and reasoning in a vacuum (i.e. alone) is a dubious activity -- at best. However, when you have a group of people collecting information (to provide CONTEXT); and then discussing that information (to provide PERSPECTIVE) we immediately see the "math" here:

The whole is much greater than the sum of the parts.

This must always be true with a creative/communal species like homo sapients; and thus it explains the MASSIVE propaganda campaign to accomplish the following objectives:

1) Keep us from thinking.
2) Keep us from gathering.
3) (Above all) keep us from thinking and gathering at the same time.

agau121 wrote:
Jeff Nielson wrote:
Understand what is also at work here with Feinstein: pure, disgusting, naked self-interest. Being on the Senate Intelligence Committee (now THERE is an oxymoron!!); Feinstein was instrumental in both APPROVING the out-of-control spying and HIDING IT from the American people (and other politicians).

So we have Feinstein gleefully plunging her stiletto into Snowden's back to try to cover her own political ass...




Thanks for bringing this level of the hypocrisy fully into my conscious awareness.

Feinstein gets away with being thought of as something resembling a progressive because she supports policies such as what is being referred to these days with the buzz word "immigration reform." She also supports equal marriage laws. Those are the breadcrumbs the fake progressives such as herself toss out to keep a segment of their constituencies placated and to camouflage the true nature of their service to the Corporatocracy.


Clearly what we are dealing with here is an ACTIVE Conspirator; rather than a mere Hypocrite Drone. So in other words; her reputation as (lol!) "a progressive" is merely another suit of clothes she wears -- in performing her role in the U.S. political theater.

I received this item in my e-mail, and it incensed me to such a degree that I decided to post this mind-pollution on the Forum -- with commentary. Here was part of my response to the e-mail:

...I can conceive of few things more evil than middle-aged men (or women) deciding to order their children and grand-children to join the army, go to war, and go off and die -- in order to satisfy the political agenda of those same middle-aged vermin.

What is the "justification" this disgusting excuse for a human being uses in "reluctantly" embracing a draft? The U.S. needs more fodder for its war machine. This would be immoral even if the War on Terror was legitimate.

In reality however, the fodder is need to continue the serial acts of murder of the U.S. military -- making "calls for a draft" perilously close to a "crime against humanity."

When I noted early in my reply that there were "few things" more evil than people wanting to "draft" their children and grandchildren into the army (so they can send them off to die); I immediately thought of one thing worse than that.

Indeed, the reason why I don't think there will ever be the need for another Draft is because the current policy is GUARANTEED to produce all the fodder which the U.S. war machine needs.

How do most amoral governments ensure an ample supply of soldiers? POVERTY. They don't "draft" their soldiers -- that's bad for morale. Instead; they simply wait until the Serfs are so hungry that they volunteer.

Fascist governments consider this to be a "fringe benefit" of their plundering of their own nations. As theor looting CAUSES so much economic suffering that protests (and then riots) commence; the LINE-UPS to enlist grow longer and longer...and they have plenty of Thugs to crack skulls.

I begin this by saying that I never thought the title of one of my own posts here would begin with "Paris Hilton..."



However, in regularly pointing out how the propaganda machine uses symbols/symbolism as powerful tools to influence our thinking; it suddenly hit me hit me what a perfect symbol/metaphor Paris the Heiress represents.

Totally privileged. Totally detached from reality. Not "evil" per se; but so removed from human beings that she lacks the ability to even comprehend the world in which we live.

As more and more Americans join the ranks of the poor every day, and more and more formerly Middle Class Americans join the ranks of the Working Poor; what is Paris the Heiress' advice for surviving this Greater Depression?

"There's much more to life than all of these possessions and everything. And if you want those things, you’re going to have to work yourself, just like I did.”

So what is this 21st century Marie Antoinette really saying to Americans; as they watch their standard of living plummet by more than half in little more than a generation -- and that collapse is accelerating? You're all lazy.

If you only had the "work ethic" of a Paris Hilton; then you could spend your days jetting from one continent to another like the Queen of Butterflies...


What Paris Hilton Hopes Moviegoers Learn From Watching ‘The Bling Ring’

ca.omg.yahoo.com/blogs/the-juice-celeb-n...-ring-185415033.html

...It doesn't seem that Hilton has changed much over the years. The magazine describes her home as a "shrine of her own making, where photographs of her famous face adorn pillows, oil portraits of her visage cover the walls, and a picture of Hilton hangs across from Hilton's bed." Her name is on everything from a surfboard by the pool to the pillows she rests her well-coiffed platinum mane on at night. There is a pink Bentley in the driveway … and a 6-foot tall "dollhouse" for Paris's five puppies to play in.

When asked what she hopes viewers take away from the movie — which stars Emma Watson, "American Horror Story" star Taissa Farmiga, and newcomer Katie Chang as the bad girl bandits — Hilton says, "There's much more to life than all of these possessions and everything. And if you want those things, you’re going to have to work yourself, just like I did.”

No, Paris the heiress wasn't kidding.

agau121 wrote:


...It's engineered amnesia. In his recent interviews Glenn Greenwald has been
aggressively throwing every piece of hypocrisy right back at them and making it nearly impossible for them to justify. The vociferousness of their attacks against him, Snowden, the ACLU, Libertarians, any anyone objecting to this outrageously abusive spying policy reflects the effectiveness of his tactics. He's not hardly the pansy sterotype of a gay man. He's 100 times the leader that the majority of the cowardly servants of the Corporatocracy in congress are.


Yes, this is a point I stress again and again in pointing out how the Corporate Media ALWAYS presents nothing but short-term, recent information and data. The ONLY time it ever (selectively) dredges-up information more than a few weeks old is when it has a SPECIFIC propaganda-lie for which it needs some additional ammunition.

Otherwise; a major part of the brainwashing campaign is to ALWAYS present the Serfs with only short-term information. Our "memory" is just another one of the muscles in our brains. Use it or lose it.

If people NEVER have the need/opportunity to remember things for more than a few weeks at a time; they will devolve into intellectual Children (i.e. Serfs). They only "remember" what they are TOLD to remember -- that's what our Drone Factories (i.e. schools) pound into us.

Note also how perfect this is for the constant Revisionism taking place in re-writing History. In previous generations; the Revisionists would wait decades and sometimes even generations to re-write particular parts of History -- since the Citizens of that time still had functional memories.

However, with populations now almost entirely composed of Serfs; the Revisionists now go to work on re-writing History in many cases only weeks after events have occurred -- since the Serfs are too brain-dead to even notice.

samix wrote:
Bidding for the patch of asphalt began at $42,000 during an onsite auction in the city's upmarket Back Bay area.

They were sold by the Internal Revenue Service, which had seized them from their original owner over a tax debt.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-22910579


...and articles such as this simply HIGHLIGHT the size of the crimes/betrayals being perpretrated by our corrupt politicians and thieving banksters.


Wall Street's Asset-Grab

A recent Bloomberg article should have filled every American with rage. “Morgan Stanley’s $11 Billion Makes Chicago Taxpayers Cry”, proclaimed Bloomberg. As is often the case when these media outlets (partially) “shine a light” on the activities of the Wall Street Oligarchs, this was a case of gross understatement.

The article discusses how a “Morgan Stanley led partnership” will haul in more than $11 billion in parking revenues – thanks to a long-term lease agreement with the City of Chicago. As is to be expected, Bloomberg attempted to cover-up this taxpayer outrage through its intentional use of deceitful euphemisms.

The deal illustrates how Wall Street banks, recipients of more than $300 billion in taxpayer bail-outs in the worst credit collapse since the Great Depression, are profiting from helping states and cities close record recession-induced deficits [emphasis mine] by selling bonds and leasing public properties [emphasis mine].

Lets examine this collection of half-truths, one by one. Were Wall Street banks recipients of “more than $300 billion” in taxpayer hand-outs? Yes – more than ten times that amount. A precise measurement of the size of the hand-outs is impossible, until (in hindsight) we can measure the precise value of trillions of dollars in tax-breaks, asset-guarantees, and zero-interest “loans”.

Was this the “worst credit collapse since the Great Depression”? Yes, actually it was far worse – and what Bloomberg somehow forgot to include was any mention of how this “collapse” was caused 100% by these same, Wall Street Oligarchs. Regular readers will be familiar with how Wall Street planned and executed its massive Ponzi-schemes, built atop the U.S. housing bubble (which the Oligarchs also created).

Are these Oligarchs “helping cities and states” through “leasing public properties"? Absolutely not, and it is nothing less than a vile deceit to even suggest such a thing. Let’s review the chronology.

As a consequence of the most-extreme greed ever witnessed by our species, Wall Street turned the world’s largest economy into a giant, Ponzi-scheme – with absolutely no concern or consideration as to how this would destroy the U.S. economy, and (individually) destroy the lives of tens of millions of Americans. After causing all this damage, the Oligarchs then commanded their servants in the U.S. government to provide them with more than 90% of all stimulus and bail-outs being created through Ben Bernanke’s “magic” printing-press. By the government’s own admissions, the total value of all hand-outs/loans/guarantees is well over $10 trillion – not counting the literally “infinite” guarantees on all Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac losses (since you can’t put a price-tag on “infinity”).

Let me repeat this: 9 out of every 10 dollars went to the handful of Oligarchs (who caused all these problems). The other dollar was split-up amongst over 300 million American people, 50 states, and tens of thousands of local governments. Most of the Wall Street hand-outs were undertaken with the explicit understanding that Wall Street would use much/most of this money to lend to American businesses and families.

In fact, the Oligarchs reduced their lending, violating the implicit (explicit?) terms of this contract (with the only legally just result being that they should return every penny, with interest). In the process, they have destroyed millions more American families (through denying both they and their employers credit). Yet instead of returning what they fraudulently misappropriated from the U.S. government, they are allowed to keep their ill-gotten hand-outs – and use that money to betray the American people again...

China censors Winnie the Pooh from online searches after photo emerges of president Xi Jinping that makes him look like the children’s favorite

President Obama and President Xi Jinping pictured on a stroll at a summit in California
Blogger posted two pictures side-by-side on Chinese social media site
China's strict censorship laws kicked in when picture was swiftly deleted

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2341817...ren-s-favourite.html

He is a beloved fictional bear described as having 'very little brain' who lives on a diet of honey and is best friends with a piglet.

But when a trivial comparison was made between China's President Xi Jinping and Winnie the Pooh, the country's strict censorship laws swung into action.

A picture of Xi Jinping walking with Barack Obama at a California summit was published on the Chinese social media site Weibo.

It was placed next to an illustrated image of Winnie the Pooh and his pal Tigger, who have been drawn in a similar pose to the politicians.

Comments that were posted on the blog were removed and the picture was deleted by website monitors.

Despite being removed form the site, the images went viral, with critics saying over-zealous censors had misread the frivolous comparison.

Th Daily Telegraph reports that Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post said censors had 'nipped in the bud what could have been a positive PR campaign tailor-made for President Xi Jinping.'

The Communist Party's censors are known for interfering with even the most minor of government criticism on social networking sites.

Perhaps they agreed with Tigger's catchphrase, 'The wonderful thing about Tigger is I'm the only one'.

The blogger, called Nicaragua Rabbit posted the two pictures on the Chinese equivalent of Twitter, on Tuesday.


Relaxed: The Presidents waved to the cameras while on a casual stroll in Sunnylands estate, California
Censors were not happy with the idea that was similar in any way to the fictional bear, who is known for getting his paws stuck as he scoops out pots of honey

Unflattering: Censors were not happy with the idea that China's President is similar in any way to the fictional bear, who is known for getting his paws stuck as he scoops out pots of honey

According to WantChinaTimes, Nicaragua Rabbit posted the censor's message response: 'the post is inappropriate to be published'.

The blogger wrote, 'Little secretary (webmaster) is stingy and lacks of sense of humor'

But, according to the Daily Telegraph, a recent Harvard study showed that posts 'with negative, even vitriolic, criticism of the state, its leaders, and its policies are not more likely to be censored' than other posts.

The Bankers Manifesto of 1892


We (the bankers) must proceed with caution and guard every move made, for the lower order of people are already showing signs of restless commotion [that would be us]. Prudence will therefore show a policy of apparently yielding to the popular will until our plans are so far consummated that we can declare our designs without fear of any organized resistance [that would be SOON]. The Farmers Alliance and Knights of Labor organizations in the United States should be carefully watched by our trusted men, and we must take immediate steps to control these organizations in our interest or disrupt them.

At the coming Omaha Convention to be held July 4th (1892), our men must attend and direct its movement, or else there will be set on foot such antagonism to our designs as may require force to overcome. This at the present time would be premature. We are not yet ready for such a crisis. Capital must protect itself in every possible manner through combination (conspiracy) and legislation.

The courts must be called to our aid, debts must be collected, bonds and mortgages foreclosed as rapidly as possible.

When through the process of the law, the common people have lost their homes, they will be more tractable and easily governed through the influence of the strong arm of the government applied to a central power of imperial wealth under the control of the leading financiers. People without homes will not quarrel with their leaders.

History repeats itself in regular cycles. This truth is well known among our principal men who are engaged in forming an imperialism of the world [that would be SENIOR politicians]. While they are doing this, the people must be kept in a state of political antagonism.

The question of tariff reform must be urged through the organization known as the Democratic Party, and the question of protection with the reciprocity must be forced to view through the Republican Party.

By thus dividing voters, we can get them to expand their energies in fighting over questions of no importance to us, except as teachers to the common herd. Thus, by discrete action, we can secure all that has been so generously planned and successfully accomplished.

Bidding for the patch of asphalt began at $42,000 during an onsite auction in the city's upmarket Back Bay area.

They were sold by the Internal Revenue Service, which had seized them from their original owner over a tax debt.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-22910579

arihalli,

Very nice, "thank you". I had to look up "Stride Piano" this morning. I listen to a few. My coffee became espresso. Here's the link-

www.npr.org/2010/04/12/125689840/stride-piano-bottom-end-jazz

Again, "Thank You" for sharing,
Earl