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From England:
Anyone see any parallels?
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Subject: Silent Majority....
TAKE 5 MINUTES AND READ THIS.... PLEASE PASS IT ON to everyone you can, its time BOTH parties stood up and listened, This is our country and its being destroyed. Come on UKIP !!!!! Subject: Silent Majority.... PLEASE TAKE 5 MINUTES AND READ THIS Its one of the best letters I have read for a long time, it puts it ALL into perspective. PLEASE PASS IT ON to everyone you can, its time BOTH parties stood up and listened, This is our country and its being destroyed.
Subject: The silent majority
To David Cameron (Prime Minister) & Ed Milliband (Leader of the Opposition) ...
You BOTH Worry me ! ( In fact both of your Political parties worry the hell out of me !!!) Over the last three years, I find myself becoming more and more fearful of the pair of you, and between you, you are turning this country into a place that I no longer feel at home in, or feel a part of! I watch you in parliament, and no, not just the two of you, but every politician that I see, stand up in parliament sneering at each other, and acting like children !!! (..and if you were my children, I would be ashamed of you all ... What an example to set!)
Although you would like us all to believe that you are putting the needs of this country at the forefront, NEITHER of you are doing that, you seem more interested in "one-up-manship ", in scoring off each other, & denigrating each other, to the detriment of this country & its people !!! It seems to be all about YOU as individuals, and not about what you can DO for this country ! It is fast becoming a place that I do not recognize, as the place I always thought, was the best place in the world to be !!!
But no longer !!! You are not listening to the people of this country !!! And here in Great Britain , your counterparts are afflicted with the same disease - is it endemic in all politicians ? I am watching the deterioration of living standards in this country, (and according to you, on a world stage we are doing better than most countries ... REALLY ???) ... And yet the gap is widening between the "haves" and the "have-nots" . I see our homeless on the streets, our hospitals under-funded, and understaffed, our health system is an absolute mess and a disgrace ...
And yet I see multi-millions of dollars being sent off shore, in aid to other countries, before attending to this country's needs ! I see the "selling off of water rights to foreign interests, WHY...? Especially when you go to great lengths to tell us that water is a finite resource, & supposedly, we must ALL be careful with how we use it, so that we ensure we have it for the future ?
A Carbon Tax,( which you KNOW is just another tax ) which will make NO appreciable difference, to carbon emissions, AT ALL! A tax, which in spite of all your arguments FOR it, you are doing alone, when other major countries will NOT & DO NOT embrace it, or believe in it ! All that it will do for this country is put working families and small businesses behind the eight ball, .....what planet are you on, if you think that your few hundred pounds a year, will make even a scrap of difference to the effect of the carbon tax on people ?Anyone can see the holes in that argument !!! Do you really think we are that dumb ???
Let's talk about Multiculturalism ......People have come here from other countries, for a better life, for more years than I have been alive ( I am 72 years old !) ...... Pre & Post war immigrants came for a better life, and settled in and became wonderful contributors to this country, ... all have contributed to the rich diversity of this country, and some descendants have even fought FOR this country, and they have become U.K.citizens and were glad to be ..and they had NO handouts from our Government either, ...they worked hard for everything! I have never before had a problem with all, or any, race of immigrants coming here ... ......However , I DO NOW !!!
Please tell me why we have areas in towns and on large estates all over the country , where police do NOT, & will NOT go, for fear of their life ?
Please tell me why we can no longer have religion in schools, for fear of "OFFENDING" someone ? (The latest little gem is that they are not having, or being funded, for "chaplains " any more , but "Counsellors "?) Please tell me why religious Christmas observances are no longer allowed in some schools for fear of OFFENDING someone ? Please tell me HOW Christmas decorations in some stores might OFFEND someone ?
Please tell me why we have to have segregated days in some swimming centres, for fear of "OFFENDING" someone ?
Please tell me why we have some RADICAL clerics demanding Sharia Law in this country ... when if we were in THEIR country, this would NEVER be allowed ? Please tell me why our laws need to be changed, so as not to OFFEND someone ? Please tell me why we are fast becoming a MINORITY voice, in our own country, because of POLITICAL CORRECTNESS ?
Please tell me WHY Britains cannot legally wear a face covering bike helmet into a bank ..and yet it is ok to wear a Burqa which covers the whole face ? And please tell me WHY, when those people who want asylum here, can wreck our detention centres, and STILL be accepted here ? What does that say, about just who and what are this government's priorities ?
The British people that I speak to have genuine concerns about becoming a second class minority in our own country, and the reasons for it, are some of the above, ..... Are you so blind that you cannot see this ?
And no , I am NOT racist !!!..(if I did not like Catholics or Protestants would I be considered racist ?) Of course not ! Why is it, that if we object to what is happening in our country ... we are immediately labelled RACIST, in an attempt to shut us up ? We are fighting Radical Muslims, in Afghanistan & Iraq , are we not ?I hear you say, yes but the Muslims we have here are "Not like that " .. well how would we know ? ...do we hear ANY of them coming out & speaking AGAINST radicals ?? I haven't ...have you ??? Islam is not compatible with ANY of the values that we hold here in Britain ! .....Are not the experiences of France , and the Netherlands an example of that? Why do you think it would be any different here ?
We even have a British born "radical ", whose message is that Britain WILL become a Muslim country, under Sharia Law, & that we had "better get used to it ". Will both of you grow some "Balls ", and start sticking up for this country and its people ??? We are the people who put you where you are, and PAY you to look after our interests ! ... And you are NOT doing that, by any stretch of the imagination !!!
I would appreciate an answer, from both of you, if only to convince me that once again, I am not talking to a brick wall !!!!! In case it has escaped both of you ...I would like to remind you that, in the U.K. Government ... is FOR THE PEOPLE, OF THE PEOPLE, & BY THE PEOPLE ... never forget that......because you sure have up till now !!!
Let us get this out to all – please keep forwarding and if you have people in the press or if you know Politicians – let them know we are dis-satisfied with their behaviour !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! PLEASE SEND THIS GREAT LETTER TO AS MANY PEOPLE IN THE U.K. AS YOU CAN, AND IF U HAVE CONTACTS OVERSEAS DO THE SAME?
JP Morgan Silver Manipulation
(And why you need to know why silver is headed up beyond $500/oz.)
Silver Stock Report
by Jason Hommel, April 11, 2012
Allow me to bring you up to date on what you need to know about JP Morgan's manipulation of the silver market.
It is being exposed, and JP Morgan is failing, and losing money on their scheme.
On April 5th, we were given the gift of JP Morgan's Blythe Masters giving a TV interview on CNBC where she was trying to claim that JP Morgan does not hold any position in the silver market, but rather, is hedging client long positions in silver.
Blythe says, "We store significant amounts of commodities, for instance silver, on behalf of customers. We operate vaults in New York City, in Singapore and in London. Often when customers have that metal stored in our facilities they hedge it on a forward basis through JPMorgan, which in turn hedges in the commodities market," she said.
"If you see only the hedges and our activity in the futures market but you aren't aware of the underlying client position that we're hedging, then it would suggest inaccurately that we're running a large directional position," she added. "In fact that's not the case at all. We have offsetting positions. We have no stake in whether prices rise or decline."
The article and TV interview are here:
JPMorgan Not Speculating on Commodities: Blythe Masters
http://www.cnbc.com/id/46969993
Note the phrase: "the underlying client position that we're hedging."
Excuse me, my instinct tells me that clients don't want their long silver positions hedged, or sold short. Why would a client with a long silver position want the bank to create an offsetting short position for the client? If you buy stock or shares in a company, do you want your brokerage firm to short the company you just bought to "protect" you from upside gains? This explanation makes no sense. A client with such a long and short position would also have to pay storage fees on the long silver position, and then lose all of any upside gains due to the short position. It makes no sense, in the way that Blythe is trying to get us to understand the words she is using.
As I understand things, JP Morgan (and many other banks, but mostly JP Morgan) has many clients who want to be long silver, in the OTC or "Over The Counter" market and LBMA market, up to perhaps $100 billion to $200 billion worth of "silver" in "accounts". But JP Morgan (and other western banks) never went out and bought this silver in the first place, because there does not exist $100 billion to $200 billion worth of silver to buy in a world that produces and mines only about $6 billion (at $10/oz.) to $21 billion (at $30/oz) worth of silver per year. This puts JP Morgan (and other banks) in a natural short position, as they owe their clients 10-20 times more silver than the world produces annually. JP Morgan thus has this massive natural silver short exposure. To protect the bank from the silver short position, JP Morgan must cap silver prices, by shorting silver on the COMEX, where prices are set. Otherwise, as silver prices rise, the bank loses more and more on the silver they are supposedly holding for their clients. Only in that sense, does JP Morgan have "offsetting positions"; in other words, shorts on COMEX to back up or shore up JP Morgan's other losing short positions (client long positions)!
JP Morgan cannot offset such OTC positions in the OTC market. Except, in the sense I just explained, every single additional "sale" of silver in the OTC market protects and hedges every other sale, as all sales of "silver" in "accounts" to customers have the cumulative effect of preventing people from buying and taking delivery of real physical silver which would drive the silver price up.
The key reason why the London LBMA and OTC silver selling is so successful is that nobody ever asks for delivery of the silver, because there is a 20% tax on silver delivery in London. See here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_as_an_investment#Taxation
There were two good commentaries on JP Morgan's Blythe Masters TV appearance, here:
Mike Maloney breaks down Price Manipulation in the Gold and Silver Market
http://rt.com/programs/capital-account/maloney-manipulation-gold-silver/
The Russia Today TV show is 27 minutes long, and begins with Jeff Christians shocking admission at the CFTC hearings that the silver market trades 100 times as much silver as really exists to back up all the positions and trades.
JPM’s TV Appearance
http://www.silverseek.com/commentary/jpm%E2%80%99s-tv-appearance
JP Morgan first admitted having (or trying or wanting to cover) a short position in silver back in December 2010, about a year and 5 months ago. This was reported by the Financial times, and by Barron's, and others.
JPMorgan cuts back on US silver futures
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/7d699ca4-06ea-11e0-8c29-00144feabdc0.html#axzz182HTfhCl
Report: J.P. Morgan Cutting Back Big Bets Against Silver
http://blogs.barrons.com/focusonfunds/2010/12/14/report-jp-morgan-cutting-back-big-bets-against-silver/?mod=rss_BOLBlog
What's excellent today is the comparison of today's explanation to JP Morgan's lie from a year and 5 months ago. Back then, JP Morgan was trying to claim they were closing out, or had closed out, their short positions in silver. Today, a year and 5 months later, they supposedly have this rational excuse that their firm's short positions in silver exist to offset other client long positions. Both explanations are lies, obviously. What I like about the lie of "offsetting client long positions" is that it is a lie disguised by the truth. The truth is that they do have client long positions that would likely bankrupt the bank if they filled those positions and tried to buy silver that does not exist, and to hedge that exposure, they must manipulate the silver market's prices lower. Thus, the current lie is sort of like an admission of the truth, but they are being very deceptive and tricky about how they present it. The best kind of lie is simply a distorted version of the truth, of course.
The New York Post exposed JP Morgan's manipulation of the silver market back in May, 2010, when they exposed an ongoing investigation by the CFTC AND the US Department of Justice into JP Morgan's silver trading.
Feds probing JP Morgan trades in silver pit
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/feds_probing_jpmorgan_trades_in_gZzMvWBqOJpB55M7Rh9vwM
That article came out a month after my complaint to the US Justice Department in April, 2010, a month earlier.
http://silverstockreport.com/2010/doj.html
My readers told me they wrote to the US Department of Justice about silver manipulation, without mentioning any company names, and the US Department of Justice sent back form letters saying they were looking into JP Morgan's activities in silver, mentioning JP Morgan by name!
So, what about my claim of the size of those OTC silver positions being in the range of $100 billion to $200 billion, which are far larger than the silver that trades on the COMEX?
Well, those are not my claims, but rather, those are numbers produced by the BIS, the Bank of International Settlements. I have repeatedly reported on these figures here:
BIS Changed Silver Data
(From $203 to $93 Billion in Silver Liabilities?)
by Jason Hommel, July 6th, 2011
http://silverstockreport.com/2011/BIS-DATA.html
Silver News Explodes; JP Morgan Admits Guilt!
(JP Morgan admits they are short silver!)
by Jason Hommel, December 15th, 2010
http://silverstockreport.com/2010/jp-morgan-silver-short.html
BIS Admits $190 Billion Silver Fraud
(Almost, if you know where to look!)
by Jason Hommel, April 6th, 2009
http://silverstockreport.com/2009/OTC-silver-fraud.html
The discrepancy or change in the BIS data from $203 Billion of "Other Precious Metals" (in other words, silver) down to $93 billion is still being reported at the BIS website.
From the 2010, June report: $203 billion for the June, 2009 period.
http://www.bis.org/publ/qtrpdf/r_qa1006.pdf
From the 2010, December report: $93 billion for the June, 2009 period.
http://www.bis.org/publ/qtrpdf/r_qa1012.pdf
See Table 22a, Amounts outstanding of OTC equity-linked and commodity derivatives, in the category of "Other Precious Metals". Scroll down about 90% into the pdf documents.
This BIS data is the smoking gun of manipulation in the silver market.
There is no way that the big banks can increase OTC shorts by $100 billion in silver in 6 months, when the world barely produces $15 billion of silver per year, without the silver price going bananas to the upside, unless this kind of silver derivatives exposure is silver that is owed to clients, which is essentially a naked short position, or silver that was "bought" by the customers, but never purchased by the banks in the open market, purposefully and maliciously and with the specific intent to prevent the silver price from running away to the upside, and to keep the fraud of the paper dollar going as long as possible. This is really revealing the fraud of the multi trillion dollar paper money scam that the world has going.
There is no reason to disbelieve the BIS numbers when the banks accidentally reveal data that condemns them, and exposes the silver short selling fraud; and every reason to suspect bad faith and nefarious intent when they later edit the data at a key time, Dec. 2010, when JP Morgan is being investigated by two arms of the US Government.
JP Morgan first took on this silver short position when silver was about $20/oz. Later, the silver price was manipulated down to $9/oz. Today, with silver at about $32, we can see that the manipulation game is failing.
All frauds eventually fail completely. This one will, too. In the end, holding silver in accounts with large banks will not help you. You need real silver in your own real vault that you have personally lifted and stored away. Any other kind of silver that others hold for you is likely fraud, and will not protect you in the event of the collapse of the dollar or the collapse of the financial system or the collapse of your brokerage company.
By the time this fraud is exposed fully, and by the time a mere 1% of people or money in America starts buying silver, such as only about $180 billion in the banking system, the silver price will exceed $500/oz. and large firms such as JP Morgan will either be bankrupt, or they will be bailed out to the tune of trillions to keep the financial system together, which will create further inflation that will drive 2% of people into silver, and create the very runaway metals market that will just not stop until all paper money and paper accounts are destroyed for generations.
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I strongly advise you to take possession of real gold and silver, at anywhere near today's prices, while you still can. The fundamentals indicate rising prices for decades to come, and a major price spike can happen at any time.
Historic Western town fights feds over very existence
http://www.wnd.com/2012/04/historic-western-town-fights-feds-over-very-existence/
by Bob UnruhEmail |
Bob Unruh joined WND in 2006 after spending nearly three decades writing on a wide range of issues for several Upper Midwest newspapers and the Associated Press. Sports, tornadoes, homicidal survivalists, and legislative battles all fell within his bailiwick. His scenic photography has been used commercially, and he sometimes plays in a church worship band.
A new fight has developed in the American West over water, where strategies to use the liquid gold routinely are litigated and challenged. But in one case, according to a legal team, the result literally could kill the historic town of Tombstone, Ariz.
The Goldwater Institute today told WND it has filed a motion for a preliminary injunction that would allow town officials to go into the Huachuca Mountains to repair the collection system – pools, pipes and related equipment – that provide the town with much-needed water in the desert climate.
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The federal government has said no.
Nick Dranias, head of the Joseph and Dorothy Donnelly Moller Center for Constitutional Government at the institute, said the issue is far larger than just a dispute over whether trucks and tractors can be used to repair city-owned property inside a federal land preserve.
“This is a case of egregious federal overreach,” an institute report on the conflict said. “If the Forest Service can effectively seize Tombstone’s 130-year-old water rights during a state of emergency – rights that the service recognized as valid in 1916 – no state or local government will be safe from the feds.”
In the arid West, most cities and towns, including Cheyenne, Wyo., and the Denver metropolitan area, draw at least some of their water from collection systems on federal lands. In other parts of the nation, municipalities have their wells and other critical infrastructure sometimes on federal properties.
“By denying Tombstone access to its water, the Forest Service is threatening to directly regulate Tombstone to death,” the institute said.
The shortage developed because of the Monument Fire in 2011, which denuded the hillsides of vegetation. After the fire, record-breaking monsoon rains hit the region, triggering huge mudslides that left boulders the size of cars tumbling down hillsides.
The slides crushed Tombstone’s mountain spring waterlines and destroyed reservoirs for the town’s main water supply network.
“In some areas, Tombstone’s pipeline is under 12 feet of mud, rocks and other debris, while in other places, it is hanging in mid-air due to the ground being washed out from under it,” the institute reported.
However, instead of allowing repairs as has happened in the past, “federal bureaucrats are refusing to allow Tombstone to unearth its springs and restore its waterlines unless [city officials] jump through a lengthy permitting process that will require the city to use horses and hand tools to remove boulders the size of Volkswagens.”
Dranias told WND the organization expects to hear a decision on its request for a preliminary injunction by the end of next month.
He called the skirmish just the “tip of the iceberg.”
He said there is evidence that the Forest Service under Barack Obama’s leadership is adopting a comprehensive plan “to clear federal lands of any private or non-federal uses.”
Ranchers in the West, according to Dranias, have been told to give up their various access and water rights, ski resorts have faced problems with access to federal lands and Indian tribes have been dealt the same blow.
In another Arizona location, he said, a longstanding RV establishment, basically a permanent retirement community, has been denied a renewed lease on the land it has improved.
“The way I look at it is if they can break Tombstone, take Tombstone’s mountain water rights, then nobody is safe,” he said.
History, he noted, is on the side of the town and its people.
A brief submitted to the court notes that in 1916, Tombstone’s predecessor in interest to the rights at issue, Huachuca Water Company, obtained a letter from the Forest Service admitting that it had full right and title to the Huachuca Mountain water infrastructure.
“What was abundantly obvious to defendants in 1916 is now being completely disregarded,” the brief said. “In fact, the chain of title to Tombstone’s water rights, infrastructure and rights of way in the Huachuca Mountains is clear. Tombstone actually holds previously adjudicated water rights, as well as appurtenant and independent land use, pipeline and access rights of way.”
The brief continued, “Defendants’ conduct in this case can only be explained as an arbitrary and capricious effort to enforce fealty to a clearly erroneous interpretation of federal law.”
It’s a key 10th Amendment fight, according to the institute, because, “Just as the federal government cannot regulate the states, it cannot regulate political subdivisions of the states, like the city of Tombstone. And despite what power it may claim, the Forest Service certainly has no power to regulate Tombstone to death.”
Forest Service officials declined to answer questions about the court fight.
The institute noted that Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer already has declared a state of emergency for Tombstone, gathering together “all police powers of the state,” to address Tombstone’s need.
The town has some wells, but they are subject to contamination in the desert region, and its water for generations has come from the clear springs of the nearby mountains.
“Gov. Brewer’s declaration of a state of emergency underscores the threat to public health and safety faced by Tombstone,” the court brief explains.
“The loss of Tombstone’s municipal water supply has caused a shortage of water for both consumption and fire suppression during peak demand. The resulting fire hazard is readily apparent from the fact that in December 2010 a devastating fire broke out in Tombstone’s 19th century wooden structure historic downtown district. The entire business district could easily have been lost.”
It seems every time there is a take down in the POG by the paper pushers, strong demand runs right in and buys as much as it can without rocking the boat too much. Most commentaries I read point the finger right at Asia, while not naming China in particular. If I were China I'd be taking those worth less each day US treasuries and converting as much as I could to gold, without causing the price to rise too much. Fiat currencies come and go but gold and silver have always had value recognized worldwide.
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I guess the only thing we can all agree on is that we are all in the dark with the Waterloo connection; details, motives, disposition, who's running and/or going to run the company when the smoke clears.
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I'm certainly no legal scholar, but if Waterloo took control of the company, ousted current management, filed bankruptcy to clear the debts, all that would be left are the licenses. Could that possibly be a goal? I don't know and only offer it up as a possibility. The big question would be, how would current shareholders be treated in any kind of bankruptcy proceeding.
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Was this really a loan? It looks like it at first glance. Yet Waterloo now owns half of the preferred stock, which has the super voting rights. I'm not the only one that would like to know the intricate details of this whole transaction. Looking for enlightenment--
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On Becoming Illegal.
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Becoming Illegal (Actual letter from an Iowa resident sent to his senator,)
The Honorable Tom Harkin
731 Hart Senate Office Building
Phone (202) 224 3254
Washington DC , 20510
Dear Senator Harkin,
As a native Iowan and excellent customer of the Internal Revenue Service, I am writing to ask for your assistance. I have contacted the Department of Homeland Security in an effort to determine the process for becoming an illegal alien and they referred me to you.
My primary reason for wishing to change my status from U.S. Citizen to illegal alien stems from the bill which was recently passed by the Senate and for which you voted. If my understanding of this bill is accurate, as an illegal alien who has been in the United States for five years, all I need to do to become a citizen is to pay a $2,000 fine and income taxes for only three of the last five years. I know a good deal when I see one and I am anxious to get the process started before everyone figures it out.
Simply put, those of us who have been here legally have had to pay taxes every year so I'm excited about the prospect of avoiding two years of taxes in return for paying a $2,000 fine. Is there any way that I can apply to be illegal retroactively? This would yield an excellent result for me and my family because we paid heavy taxes in 2004 and 2005.
Additionally, as an illegal alien I could begin using the local emergency room as my primary health care provider. Once I have stopped paying premiums for medical insurance, my accountant figures I could save almost $10,000 a year.
Another benefit in gaining illegal status would be that my daughter would receive preferential treatment relative to her law school applications, as well as 'in-state' tuition rates for many colleges throughout the United States for my son.
Lastly, I understand that illegal status would relieve me of the burden of renewing my driver's license and making those burdensome car insurance premiums. This is very important to me, given that I still have college age children driving my car.
If you would provide me with an outline of the process to become illegal (retroactively if possible) and copies of the necessary forms, I would be most appreciative. Thank you for your assistance
Your Loyal Constituent, (hoping to reach 'illegal alien' status rather than just a bonafide citizen of the USA )
Donald Ruppert
Burlington , IA
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The Top Short-Term Threat to Humanity: The Fuel Pools of Fukushima
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/04/the-largest-short-term-threat-to-humanity-the-fuel-pools-of-fukushima.html
Interesting to note that Waterloo now controls half of the preferred stock. Which in case anyone forgot the preferred has super voting rights. Very interesting indeed. Makes one think of what will happen next. Could a proxy be in the cards for control of the BOD? OS structure is very friendly for a takeover. Clint no longer has total control. Lawrenzo, thanks for posting that bit of news.
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State to feds: We won't cooperate
Legislation defying Obama on track to become law
State to feds: We won't cooperate
Legislation defying Obama on track to become law
by Bob Unruh
A Virginia proposal that declares state workers and resources will be unavailable should Barack Obama decide to exercise provisions in the newest National Defense Authorization Act regarding the detention of U.S. citizens has begun moving forward again.
House Bill 1160 was adopted by lawmakers last month, and the deadline for Gov. Bob McDonnell to address the controversy arrived last night. A spokesman in his office told WND today the governor recommended some adjustments to the proposal, and its chief sponsor in the statehouse says those will be made, and it then is expected to become law.
The bill addresses several obscure sections of the NDAA of 2012, which was signed into law by Obama in December. Those sections appear to allow unlimited detentions by U.S. military forces and federal law enforcement agencies of even U.S. citizens without charges or a court hearing.
The federal plan targets citizens who are classified as belligerents, or who are suspected of involvement in terrorist activities, and the chief sponsor of the Virginia plan, Delegate Bob Marshall, told WND that he was alarmed to find out that Obama specifically had wanted that section included in the law.
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Marshall contends the federal law deprives citizens of the rights they are guaranteed under the U.S. and Virginia constitutions. Virginia’s detention prevention bill was adopted by wide margins, 37-1 and 96-4, in both houses of the general assembly.
Jeff Caldwell, a spokesman for McDonnell, today release a statement that explained what is going on.
“Over the past few weeks, Governor McDonnell has heard from a number of Virginians regarding House Bill 1160, sponsored by Delegate Bob Marshall. During the consideration of this legislation and since its passage, he has expressed both the shared concern that Virginia does not participate in the unconstitutional detention of U.S. citizens and the desire that this legislation does not impact legitimate law enforcement activities.
“Preserving public safety is the foremost priority of any government. Every day, state and local law enforcement personnel work together and work with the federal government to keep Virginians safe by fighting crime, responding to emergencies, and combating terrorism. The governor believes we must encourage and promote these collaborative efforts while ensuring that core constitutional principles enjoyed by all U.S. citizens are respected. He believes these standards are expected by all Virginians and want to take appropriate steps to reaffirm that position. In the governor’s view, this legislation now accomplishes that goal.
“Since the legislation’s passage, staff has worked with the patron to come up with amendments that will achieve the goal of not supporting unconstitutional detentions while preserving the ability of law enforcement and our state defense forces to carry out their responsibilities. The amendments Governor McDonnell sent down achieve those goals, and Delegate Marshall has expressed his support for them. The governor hopes the General Assembly will support them, as well.”
Marshall told WND that the governor had a couple of minor technical amendments, and then also wanted to address the need on occasion for a joint operation with the federal government on any of a number of possible issues.
When a U.S. senator noted that the federal plan originally included a provision preventing the president from detaining people, the “White House asked that that be removed. Obama then says ‘I won’t use this ability.’ … That’s odd. That’s troubling,” Marshall said.
But he said the governor’s concerns about not creating a stumbling block for operations the state chooses to pursue is reasonable.
He said the legislature right now is in recess, but he expects the governor’s recommendations will be adopted when the session resumes, in a week or two.
Marshall recently forwarded an 11-page legal analysis of the issue to McDonnell regarding HB 1160. It was prepared by Herbert W. Titus, a former law school professor and recognized expert on constitutional issues.
He currently is of counsel at the Vienna, Va., law firm of William J. Olson, who is former chairman of the Fairfax County Republican Party.
He said in adopting the law, the governor “would fulfill the historic role of the states as being guardians of the people from usurpations of authority from the central government.”
The analysis explains the governor “certainly has the authority to make his own assessment off the federal statute’s constitutionality now, without having to wait for a judicial decision after some person is denied the very rights that the constitution is designed to protect.”
Titus concludes, “Thus, it would appear that the only reason why the governor reasonably would veto HB 1160 would be that he believes that NDAA is constitutional – and we certainly trust that is not the case.”
Among the federal law’s section is 1021, “which purports to authorize the president of the United States to use the armed forces of the United States to detain American citizens who the president suspects are or have been substantial supports of al-Qaida, the Taliban, or associated forces, and to hold such citizens indefinitely,” according to an analysis of the federal law.
“In short, Section 1021 authorizes the president to dispose of American citizens suspected of supporting ‘terrorism’ according to the laws of war, as if the United States soil was a battlefield and her citizens enemy combatants, not entitled to the protections of the Bill of Rights, including the rights to trial by jury, representation by counsel, confrontation of witnesses, and due process of law administered by impartial judges,” the analysis said.
The state law specifically addresses itself to the goal of preventing “any agency, political subdivision, employee, or member of the military of Virginia from assisting an agency of the armed forces of the United States in the conduct of the investigation, prosecution, or detention of a United States citizen in violation of the United States Constitution, Constitution of Virginia, or any Virginia law or regulation.”
“The writ of Habeas Corpus in our Constitution (Article 1, Section 9) is what separates America from dictatorships around the world. Giving anyone the unfettered power to ‘detain’ American citizens without trial, counsel, specific charges, or a public record of such proceedings is unwise, imprudent and at fundamental odds with the assumptions of our government and legal traditions,” Marshall explained earlier.
“In refusing to cooperate with NDAA, the Virginia General Assembly is performing its historic role as explained by Alexander Hamilton in Federalist 26 as ‘not only vigilant but suspicious and jealous guardians of the rights of the citizens, against encroachments from the federal government [who] will constantly have their attention awake to the conduct of the national rules and will be ready enough, if anything improper appears, to sound the alarm to the people and not only to be the VOICE but, if necessary, the ARM of their discontent,’” he said.
The bill was passed by lawmakers after a large contingent of Japanese-Americans weighed in on the controversial federal plan. Floyd Mori, chief of the Japanese American Citizens League, sent a letter to legislators.
“As many of you know, during World War II the Japanese American community was targeted as ‘suspected enemy aliens’ and by authority of Presidential Executive Order 9066, over 110,000 people were rounded up and put into concentration camps at 10 desolate locations under the notion that they could be suspect,” he told lawmakers in Virginia.
“This period of indefinite detention lasted until the war ended, and there was no due process as guaranteed by the Constitution. A congressional commission later, through a number of public hearings, found that this was an unjustified act of the government due to war hysteria, racism, and poor government leadership at the time. The government was ordered by an act of Congress to apologize and provide redress in order to learn a lesson that this should never again happen. If there were more who stood up to this injustice, much heartache and economic loss could have been avoided and this apology would not have been needed,” he said.
“Today we face a similar situation. The so-called ‘War on Terror’ has led to the same kind of hysteria and racist actions by government. I can also say that we have lacked the political leadership to identify that this kind of forced indefinite detention is a repeat of what happened during WWII,” he said.
“The state of Virginia has the opportunity to stand up to an unjust application of congressional authority. The American people need somebody to stand up against this injustice. HB 1160 is a tool that does just that; it stands up for the American people by respecting the basic principles of the Constitution.”
The Tenth Amendment Center, which is monitoring developments on the issue, reported, “Even President Obama had questions about the bill, when he promised the American people that he would not use the unrestrained powers it granted him – but why should we trust any president with such powers?”
Outside opinions on exactly what the law allows vary widely.
Commentator Chuck Baldwin, who himself has been the target of smears by the Department of Homeland Security-related apparatus, explained the law “for all intents and purposes, completely nullifies a good portion of the Bill of Rights, turns the United States into a war zone, and places U.S. citizens under military rule.”
“When signing the NDAA into law, Obama issued a signing statement that in essence said, ‘I have the power to detain Americans … but I won’t,” Baldwin wrote.
Baldwin was vilified by an anti-terror campaign in Missouri several years ago when authorities there described suspicious characters as those who might have supported him or other third-party candidates during a presidential election.
A state agency, and later the Department of Homeland Security, offered warnings that returning veterans, those who oppose abortion and others who advocate conservative issues could pose a danger to the nation.
Others have pooh-poohed the concerns about the apprehension of Americans. Wayne Bowen, a professor at Southeast Missouri State University not far from where state officials had issued that warning about Baldwin, said, “The NDAA not only does not empower the U.S. military to detain American citizens indefinitely, it specifically prohibits this.
The Bill of Rights Defense Committee noted that during the first few weeks of 2012, at least six local jurisdictions have enacted local resolutions opposing the military detention provisions of the NDAA, and a number of states began considering legislation similar to Virginia’s.
The Bill of Rights Defense Committee is working with the Tenth Amendment Center as well as Demand Progress on a campaign to make people aware of the situation.
Among the states that have begun addressing the issue, along with Virginia, are Arizona, Rhode Island, Maryland, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Washington.
Local jurisdictions include Macomb, N.Y.; Fairfax, Calif.; New Shoreham, R.I.; and several in Colorado.
JNSH News...
JNS Holdings Corporation Announces Substantial Contract with Men’s Wearhouse
Apr 9, 2012 12:33:00 PM
Copyright Business Wire 2012
CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- JNS Holdings Corporation (OTC Markets Group: JNSH) announced today that JNS Power & Control Systems, Inc. has received a contract to upgrade the Men’s Wearhouse Addison distribution center building’s electrical service. The new 2000 amp service will supply power to the existing building loads and the 16 new rooftop air conditioning units. We will install a new NEMA 3R 2000 amp switchgear and two new 400 amp distribution panels to supply power to the new rooftop equipment. The contractual price is $287,800.
Jean Howe, President and Chief Executive Officer stated, “The challenge of this type of upgrade is to insure the customer’s facility remains operational during the construction. We are responsible for all site preparation, to coordinate with Commonwealth Edison to schedule the installation of the new 750 KVA transformer and have the new rooftop equipment operational before the summer heat arrives.”
This press release does not constitute an offer of any securities for sale. This press release contains certain forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. These forward-looking statements involve certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ. All forward-looking statements in this press release are based on information available to the company as of the date hereof, and the company undertakes no obligation to update forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances occurring after the date of this press release.
I was just checking my local weather for today at weather underground and there was an ad at the top of the page from Amazon with this link:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B007GJV9TY/ref=dra_a_rv_lb_on_it_P1400_1000?tag=dradis-20
Fair and balanced, that's all, nothing more.
I just told my wife that I'm thinking of starting a facebook account. It surprised her as I have mild disdain for those kind of sites and haven't as yet participated. I have limited my flames to my elected officials that are supposed to represent us and the interests of the country. (My, how those have diverged in the past few decades). My wife keeps peeking out the front windows awaiting the arrival of the black SUVs as I pull no punches writing to those people as to how they are running the show leading this country to ruin. Democrats and republicans alike get an earful. I just think it may be time to wake the sleeping giant of the average American citizen to what they are doing to us. There are many useful words and phrases to quote from our most famous documents, the Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution. Our founding fathers held in such high esteem by our history have also provided many good words and sayings to quote. I just think it's time.
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It would be nice if both companies would put out the same info on why the agreement went south. We don't need a "he said" "she said". Just facts would do.
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The next 50 bagger. eom
A reverse split? Gee I can remember how dumb I was according to some when I exited my position with a small loss last year. TYTN principles added to my file.
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As we are being inundated once again by the paid pumpers. Does it never end? LOL. If your company is doing fine, why pay for pumping? If you haven't released millions of shares from treasury for loans, there wouldn't be third party paid pumping. Just a suggestion. Create a file on your desktop, call it whatever you want. In it store the names of anyone involved with this company and any other company that you feel has been unkind to your investment for whatever reason. You don't have to answer about your reasons to anyone but yourself- it's your private file! When doing DD on any other company you are considering investing in, check who is involved with it and cross reference it with your private file. It could possibly amaze you how some of the same names keep popping up in the microcap arena. Protect yourself as no one else will be looking out for you. IMHO
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'Smart Meters' don't believe in privacy
http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/offensive-technology/smart-meters-dont-believe-in-privacy.html
No More Privacy: Smart Meters Are Surveillance Devices That Monitor The Behavior In Your Home Every Single Minute Of Every Single Day
The American Dream
Have you heard about the new "smart meters" that are being installed in homes all across America? Under the guise of "reducing greenhouse gas emissions" and "reducing energy bills", utility companies all over the United States are forcing tens of millions of American families to accept sophisticated surveillance devices in their homes. Currently, approximately 9 percent of all electric meters in the U.S. have been converted over to smart meters. It is being projected that by 2012, the number of smart meters in use will rise to 52 million, and the federal government is spending a lot of money to help get these installed everywhere. Eventually the goal is to have these smart meters in all of our homes and if that ever happened there would essentially be no more privacy. Once installed, a smart meter monitors your home every single minute of every single day and it transmits very sophisticated data about your personal behavior back to the utility company.
So can't we just tell the utility companies that we don't want these stupid things?
Unfortunately, in many areas of the country you can't. For example, one outraged resident of California contacted the utility company and was told that if he did not consent to taking a smart meter he would receive no service.
So unless you want to live "off the grid", what are you going to do? Can any of us really survive without electricity these days?
The sad truth is that these things are being forced upon us.
It is happening in Europe too. The European Parliament has set a goal of having smart meters in the homes of 80 percent of all electricity consumers by the year 2020.
Sadly, as these smart meters have gone in there have been reports all over the country of electricity bills increasing dramatically. There have been mountains of complaints about these things and yet their use keeps spreading.
But of course the biggest issue with smart meters is how they will strip us of our privacy.
The concern is that the incredibly detailed data that these surveillance devices collect will be given or sold to a vast array of third parties.
For example, smart meters are already being used by police to bust marijuana growers.
It is also feared that insurance companies, credit agencies, lawyers, marketing firms and even criminals will be able to get their hands on this data as well.
A recent article posted on the website of the Electronic Frontier Foundation summarized some of the concerns....
"Without strong protections, this information can and will be repurposed by interested parties. It's not hard to imagine a divorce lawyer subpoenaing this information, an insurance company interpreting the data in a way that allows it to penalize customers, or criminals intercepting the information to plan a burglary. Marketing companies will also desperately want to access this data"
For law enforcement officials, these surveillance devices are a dream come true. According to the Columbus Dispatch, police in central Ohio have been filing at least 60 subpoenas every single month for the energy-use records of those that they suspect are growing pot in their homes.
Well, it turns out that sometimes police are raiding homes that are using a lot of energy and they don't find any marijuana at all. Instead, sometimes these raids reveal others kinds of activities....
Sometimes, high electricity use doesn't lead investigators to drugs. A federal investigation in the Powell area turned into a surprise for detectives.
"We thought it was a major grow operation ... but this guy had some kind of business involving computers," Marotta said. "I don't know how many computer servers we found in his home."
So do you want police raiding your home if you start using a little bit too much electricity?
Should Americans be looking towards the Emerald Isle for guidance?
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/20f5be3c-7c03-11e1-9100-00144feab49a.html#axzz1qvLJJMBr
pril 1, 2012 4:10 pm
Dublin faces revolt over household charge
By Jamie Smyth in Dublin
Almost half of Irish households have failed to meet a deadline to pay a new tax, raising fears that growing public opposition to austerity could undermine Dublin’s ability to implement further reforms.
Just 805,500 of Ireland’s 1.6m households registered to pay the €100 household charge by midnight on Saturday in the face of a protest campaign urging a boycott of the tax. Several hundred thousand people face fines and could be taken to court if they refuse to pay.
Ireland has earned praise as the “posterboy for austerity” for implementing €24bn in tax rises and spending cuts without undermining social cohesion during a four-year financial crisis.
But as its export-led recovery stalls, opposition to the tax is raising questions about Dublin’s ability to implement a further €9bn in promised austerity measures over the next four years.
“The danger is that the moral authority of the government to bring in new taxes is being weakened by the boycott and its legitimacy is under attack,” said Elaine Byrne, a political science lecturer at Trinity College Dublin.
Dublin agreed to introduce a property tax in 2012 under its European Union and International Monetary Fund bailout programme to help it cut its €18bn annual budget deficit. It is implementing the household charge as an interim measure while it establishes a nationwide property valuation system, which will enable it to levy a more progressive property tax.
But an anti-tax campaign led by nine members of parliament, urging a boycott, has struck a chord with a public growing weary of austerity.
“This is a regressive tax and many people just can’t afford it,” said Thomas Pringle, one of the MPs pledging to go to jail rather than pay up.
“I believe if a law is unfair and unjust you have a right to oppose it. People paid huge amounts of stamp duty when they were conned into buying houses during the boom and now they are being hit with property taxes.”
Maria Ward, a protester at a recent Dublin rally opposing the tax, told the FT at the demonstration: “The household charge is a totally unfair tax. The richest people in the land pay the same as the poor.”
The Fine Gael/Labour coalition has admitted mistakes in implementing the charge. Publicity leaflets were delayed when a publishing company went out of business, and the government failed to agree a deal with local post offices, who cannot accept over-the-counter payments.
But it has refused to extend the deadline, insisting the charge is low and enough warning has been given.
“The law is there, I expect that people will obey that law,” said Enda Kenny, Ireland’s prime minister.
He said the €160m raised by the charge would pay for local services.
But the protests have worried the government, which faces a tricky referendum on the eurozone fiscal treaty on May 31 and a slowing economy that will put pressure on its ability to meet its EU-IMF targets.
In depth
Ireland fiscal crisis
Irish fiscal crisis
Dublin pushes ahead with austerity after a multibillion-euro emergency rescue
Last week Ireland’s national statistics’ office confirmed the country had slipped back into recession in the third and fourth quarters of 2011 when gross domestic product fell 1.1 per cent and 2 per cent respectively.
Dublin has committed to implementing a further €9bn in austerity measures over the next four years under its EU-IMF programme. These will include the proposed property tax, water charges and the possibility of further income tax increases.
Joe Higgins, the Socialist party MP and anti-household charge campaigner, told demonstrators at the Dublin rally that they had the government on the run.
“Not since Davitt and the land league has there been such a disciplined grassroots campaign,” he said in reference to Michael Davitt – a socialist revolutionary who led mass protests in Ireland against high rents and evictions by landlords in the late 19th century.
Grassroots campaigns have been successful in Ireland in the past. In the mid-1990s a campaign led by Mr Higgins against water charges forced the last Fine Gael/Labour coalition to abolish the levy in 1996. Months of protests by rural campaigners forced the government into a climbdown last month over a proposed charge for a new inspection regime for septic tanks. Dublin cut the proposed charge from €50 to €5.
Diarmaid Ferriter, professor of history at University College Dublin, said Ireland’s history of being colonised meant land and property matters were always a serious political, social and emotional issue. Other taxes had been levied at source, he said, so “this is the first chance the public has had to engage in non-compliance”.
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Have had this one on the back burner for a while. Biggest volume day I've seen yet. Heard some rumors over a year ago but haven't seen anything or heard anything since. Maybe it just took longer.
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I think maybe you may be a little misinformed on gov't health insurance, federal anyway. Most states have far better plans than the fed offers to employees. Other than my military time, I have always paid for health insurance. It takes up over 10% of my retirement gross income. The checks I have received from the gov't over the years I have worked for and earned. Never had an overt handout and don't want one. Let me clarify that last sentence a little. I have had covert gov't handouts in the form of tax credits and itemized deductions on my income taxes, not every year but a few. Back to the medical for a bit. I had spinal surgery last spring. Even with my so called wonderful federal retiree medical insurance, my out of pocket costs were almost $7000. Members of congress get free medical but the worker drones have to pay for insurance which every year see premiums and co-pays go up.
I've got a wine cellar loaded, mostly whites. Every year we make about 50 gallons of wine. The NY finger lakes are to my north and that is prime grape country. The best whites come from NY grapes , but can't beat California for reds, domestics that is, IMHO. Drop in any time and we'd be happy to open a few bottles with you.
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Peg- you are certainly entitled to your views on gun ownership. Many have fought using guns and many have died to give you and everyone else in this country the right and freedom to have and to voice an opinion. Just a question, do you have a local police dept where you live? There isn't one here where I reside. And there is no need for one. Everyone here has guns and everyone knows everyone has guns. If you get caught messing around where you shouldn't be messing around, you just may get shot. I fear none of my neighbors as we all have a respect for each other. I am not afraid to travel anywhere in this whole township day or night, armed or not. And just recently PA passed the Castle Law. And btw there is no crime here either.
After Japan knocked out Pearl Harbor they could have sailed unopposed right into San Francisco Bay and invaded our west coast. They knew it, too. However that was not part of the plan. The war planners knew about Americans' penchant to own guns. I don't remember the exact phrase but it was said at their planning meeting that if they invaded America by land they would be facing a gun behind every blade of grass.
You and I and probably several million more could argue about guns all day and night. I'm sure there are pro's and con's for both sides of the argument. I'm not going to change anyone's opinions and they aren't going to change my own. Better to just sit down peaceably and have a beer and tell jokes or something.
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JNSH news:
Governor Pat Quinn Rolls Out Nation’s Largest Electric Vehicle Fast-Charging Network
350Green and 7-Eleven help drivers re-charge vehicles in under 30 minutes at Illinois Tollway Oases
SCHILLER PARK, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Governor Pat Quinn and representatives from the Illinois Tollway, 350Green LLC and 7-Eleven, Inc. announced yesterday the availability of the nation’s largest network of fast-charging electric vehicle (EV) stations. As part of Governor Quinn’s commitment to increasing sustainability across Illinois, the initiative will support the use of electric vehicles and create jobs in sustainable transportation. Motorists can charge an electric vehicle in under 30 minutes using the current fast-chargers at 7-Eleven sites at four Tollway Oasis locations, and will soon be able to charge vehicles at all seven Tollway Oases.
“We want Illinois to be the greenest state in America”
.“We want Illinois to be the greenest state in America,” Governor Quinn said. “By installing the largest network of cutting edge fast-chargers, Illinois will continue to support green jobs and provide people with environmentally-friendly and affordable travel options.”
Through the Chicago-Area EV Infrastructure Project, 26 fast-chargers have been installed, with 73 total fast-chargers planned. Eight of these are currently in place at Tollway Oases along the Jane Addams Memorial Tollway (I-90) at the Des Plaines Oasis and on the Tri-State Tollway (I-94/I-294/I-80) at the Lake Forest Oasis, O’Hare Oasis and Chicago Southland Lincoln Oasis. The installations, managed by 350Green, were performed by Chicago-based JNS Power & Control Systems.
Jean Howe President & Chief Executive Officer stated, “It was nice to be invited to the event at the O’Hare Oasis and to be recognized for a job well done. I am excited to live and work in a state committed to be the greenest state in America. At the time of this press release we have completed (90) electric vehicle chargers. We look forward to new opportunities to continue to install level III chargers for the Illinois Tollway.”
This press release does not constitute an offer of any securities for sale. This press release contains certain forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. These forward-looking statements involve certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ. All forward-looking statements in this press release are based on information available to the company as of the date hereof, and the company undertakes no obligation to update forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances occurring after the date of this press release.
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The Obama Administration: All Your Privacy And All Your Stuff Belong To Us
http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/the-obama-administration-all-your-privacy-and-all-your-stuff-belong-to-us
Did you know that the federal government claims that it can take away your constitutional rights any time that it wants to? Over the past several decades, there have been an endless parade of laws and executive orders that have been slowly and methodically carving up our rights under the U.S. Constitution. Most Americans are not even aware of the "creeping totalitarianism" that is happening. Most Americans just trust the "authorities" when they tell us that certain things "must be done" in order to keep us all safe. But even if we gave up all of our privacy, even if we gave up all of our liberties and our freedoms, and even if we gave the government all of our stuff they still would not be able to keep us safe. It is inevitable that evil people are going to do evil things, and if you are counting on the Obama administration to keep you safe then you are being delusional. Obama is not going to save us from anything. But Obama will gladly take away our rights and our freedoms if the American people allow him to. The Obama administration seems to have an endless lust for more power. Sadly, if we do give away our rights it will have some very serious consequences. If we freely give away all of the rights that we have been given under the U.S. Constitution it will be incredibly difficult to ever get them back. Giving up liberty for security never works, and if we want to be worthy of being called Americans then we need to start standing up for the republic that our forefathers worked so hard to build.
An executive order that Barack Obama signed the other day is making headlines all over the nation. The title of the executive order is "National Defense Resources Preparedness" and it is actually an update of a series of previous executive orders.
The original "National Defense Resources Preparedness" executive order (EO 8248) was issued back in 1939. This latest version is very similar to EO 12919 that was signed by Bill Clinton in June 1994. However, several very important changes have been made in this new version.
For example, in Section 201(b) the words "under both emergency and non-emergency conditions" have been added.
So now the federal government can take control of all food, all energy, all health resources, all transportation resources and "all other materials, services, and facilities" in the country even if the United States is not experiencing emergency conditions.
Not that the Obama administration really needed to put that in there. After all, the U.S. government has been operating under a constant state of national emergency since September 14, 2001.
So the Obama administration did not really need to include a new excuse for taking control of everything. The existing "state of emergency" would probably work just fine.
If Barack Obama woke up one day and decided to exercise the powers in this executive order, he would be able to do pretty much anything that he wanted. This executive order would essentially allow Obama to declare a state of martial law in the United States even during a time when no emergency was happening.
Just check out what Section 201 of the executive order allows the federal government to take control of....
Sec. 201. Priorities and Allocations Authorities. (a) The authority of the President conferred by section 101 of the Act, 50 U.S.C. App. 2071, to require acceptance and priority performance of contracts or orders (other than contracts of employment) to promote the national defense over performance of any other contracts or orders, and to allocate materials, services, and facilities as deemed necessary or appropriate to promote the national defense, is delegated to the following agency heads:
(1) the Secretary of Agriculture with respect to food resources, food resource facilities, livestock resources, veterinary resources, plant health resources, and the domestic distribution of farm equipment and commercial fertilizer;
(2) the Secretary of Energy with respect to all forms of energy;
(3) the Secretary of Health and Human Services with respect to health resources;
(4) the Secretary of Transportation with respect to all forms of civil transportation;
(5) the Secretary of Defense with respect to water resources; and
(6) the Secretary of Commerce with respect to all other materials, services, and facilities, including construction materials.
So should we be worried?
Bush and Clinton did not exercise these powers.
Perhaps Obama will not either.
Yes, perhaps he will not.
But they are there.
And someday they will be used.
The Obama administration also continues to make shocking claims regarding our privacy.
According to the 4th Amendment, our homes are not supposed to be searched unless there is probable cause....
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
But according to CIA director David Petraeus, the American people are willingly bugging their own homes by choosing to use modern gadgets, and the CIA plans to use these technologies to spy on you. Petraeus recently said the following about the "transformational" impact these new technologies will have on the ability of the CIA to spy on the American people...
"Items of interest will be located, identified, monitored, and remotely controlled through technologies such as radio-frequency identification, sensor networks, tiny embedded servers, and energy harvesters — all connected to the next-generation internet using abundant, low-cost, and high-power computing"
The kind of chips that Petraeus was referring to will soon be in nearly all new appliances. As a recent Daily Mail article noted, we will soon see an "Internet of things" emerge where virtually every electronic device is connected to the Internet....
This week, one of the world's biggest chip companies, ARM, has unveiled a new processor built to work inside 'connected' white goods.
The ARM chips are smaller, lower-powered and far cheaper than previous processors - and designed to add the internet to almost every kind of electrical appliance.
It's a concept described as the 'internet of things'.
Futurists think that one day 'connected' devices will tell the internet where they are and what they are doing at all times - and will be mapped by computers as precisely as Google Maps charts the physical landscape now.
But we are not going to have to wait for the future for the federal government to use the Internet to spy on us all.
As I have written about previously, the FBI, the CIA, the Department of Homeland Security, the U.S. military and the Federal Reserve are all using Facebook and Twitter to monitor the American people.
If you post this article to Facebook and Twitter, multiple agencies of the federal government will have a record of it.
In fact, the truth is that every single phone call, every single email, every single Facebook post and pretty much every other kind of electronic communication that you can imagine is monitored by intelligence agencies. Don't ever assume that anything you say on your phone or on the Internet is private.
And now, even your ISP will be spying on you to make sure that you are not downloading any copyrighted material.
Yes, that is right.
A clandestine deal coordinated by the Obama administration will go into effect on July 12th. The following is from a recent Raw Story article....
If you download potentially copyrighted software, videos or music, your Internet service provider (ISP) has been watching, and they’re coming for you.
Specifically, they’re coming for you on Thursday, July 12.
That’s the date when the nation’s largest ISPs will all voluntarily implement a new anti-piracy plan that will engage network operators in the largest digital spying scheme in history, and see some users’ bandwidth completely cut off until they sign an agreement saying they will not download copyrighted materials.
Word of the start date has been largely kept secret since ISPs announced their plans last June. The deal was brokered by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), and coordinated by the Obama Administration.
So be careful what you are doing on the Internet.
Your ISP will be watching it all.
Even local police departments are "pushing the envelope" when it comes to surveillance technology. For example, the NYPD is working on technology that will be able to see a gun inside your clothes from a distance of 80 feet away....
The reason that the NYPD is so interested terahertz waves is that they pass through nonconductive materials like clothes, but can’t penetrate metal — like, say, the steel in a semi-automatic pistol. That means if you scan someone, you can look for spots where a person’s natural terahertz radiation is blocked, most likely by a metal object.
The benefits for police officers are obvious. They can essentially sit back in a specially-equipped van and scan anyone they suspect of carrying a gun from a safe distance. Right now it only works from three or four feet away, but department spokesman Paul J. Browne told the New York Times that the NYPD — in coordination with the Department of Defense — hopes to increase its range to 25 meters, or 82 feet.
Unfortunately, there are dozens of other new technologies like this. For 14 more examples of how the government is watching us, just check out this article.
Most Americans assume that these technologies will only be used against "terrorists", but that simply is not the case.
For example, a man living in Burnsville, Minnesota was recently subjected to "electronic home monitoring" for not having the proper siding on his home....
A Burnsville man on his way to work was arrested and thrown in jail without bond, and then subjected to electronic home monitoring.
But it wasn’t for drugs or a DWI or some other major crime.
Burnsville city leaders say Mitch Faber’s dealings with the law all stem from his failure to properly put up siding on his house.
Yep, siding.
Sadly, the truth is that the United States is rapidly being turned into a high-tech Big Brother prison grid dominated by control freak bureaucrats who do not care about our liberties and freedoms.
This is not the way that America is supposed to work.
We are supposed to be the land of the free and the home of the brave.
Has that dream been lost forever, or will we get it back someday?
Electric rates will soar now that Obama's EPA has crushed coal-fired power plants
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/03/29/electric-rates-will-soar-now-that-obamas-epa-has-crushed-coal-fired-power/
By Phil Kerpen
Published March 29, 2012
With the country focused on this week’s high drama at the Supreme Court, President Obama’s EPA quietly released long-delayed regulations to apply global warming rules never authorized by Congress to new coal-fired power plants.
That Obama’s EPA would release a rule to destroy coal-fired electricity while the president gives stump speeches about an “all of the above” energy policy is an insult to the American people.
EPA proposes first-ever limits on new power plants' carbon pollution
This rule will effectively block any new coal-fired power plants from being built in America, and a second round of related rules – expected after the election, of course – will shut down existing coal-fired power plants.
The result will be steeply higher electricity prices, lost jobs, and lower standards of living. Remarkably, this is all done in the name of global warming, but even EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson admits it will have no discernible impact on global temperatures. Obama’s EPA is crippling the U.S. economy not to accomplish anything, but just to enjoy a nice, warm, green feeling of self-satisfaction.
Four years ago, then-candidate Barack Obama explained his anti-coal energy policy in an editorial board meeting with the San Francisco Chronicle. Obama said: “Under my plan of a cap-and-trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket. Even regardless of what I say about whether coal is good or bad.” He went on to explain: “So, if somebody wants to build a coal plant, they can — it’s just that it will bankrupt them.”
Indeed Obama attempted to make good on his campaign promise to bankrupt the coal industry and make electricity prices skyrocket the legitimate way – by proposing cap-and-trade legislation in Congress. It was jammed through the House but crashed and burned in the Senate, where many Democrats understood such an energy rationing plan to be political suicide.
They were right.
The American people decisively rejected energy taxes and rationing in the 2010 election, with dozens of Democrats losing because of their support for cap-and-trade. West Virginia Democrat Joe Manchin survived and won his Senate seat by literally shooting a bullet through in the bill in a television ad.
But the day after the 2010 election President Obama said: “Cap-and-trade was just one way of skinning the cat; it was not the only way. It was a means, not an end. And I’m going to be looking for other means to address this problem.”
With Tuesday’s EPA action to bankrupt coal, he found his “other means” to address the “problem” of affordable electricity.
As I demonstrated in my book “Democracy Denied”, under Article I, Section 1 of the U.S. Constitution, the power to make these decisions resides in Congress, not the EPA.
The House has already acted to fix the structural problem that allows bureaucrats to implement economy-changing rules without congressional approval when they passed the REINS Act last year, a bill that would require prior-approval from Congress for major new regulations.
The Senate has refused to act on the legislation.
Fortunately, Senator Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) has already promised to introduce a resolution of disapproval that will put every senator on the record on this global warming power grab. Because the resolution is privileged under the Congressional Review Act, Harry Reid cannot prevent it from coming to the floor and it cannot be filibustered.
Whatever the result of that Senate vote is, it will ultimately be up to the American people to hold Congress and the president accountable for the actions taken by rogue EPA bureaucrats this week.
Nothing less than America's economic future is at stake.
More gov't intrusion:
From a Vietnam Vet and retired Police Officer:
I had a doctors appointment at the local VA clinic yesterday and found out something that I would like to pass along.
While going through triage before seeing the doctor, I was asked at the end of the exam, three questions:
1. Did I feel stressed?
2. Did I feel threatened?
3. Did I feel like doing harm to someone?
The nurse then informed me that if I had answered yes to any of the questions, I would have lost my concealed carry permit as it would have gone into my medical records and the VA would have reported it to Homeland Security.
Looks like they are going after the vets first. Other gun people like retired law enforcement will probably be next. Then when they go after the civilians, what argument will they have?
Be forewarned and be aware. The Obama administration has gone on record as considering veterans and gun owners potential terrorists. Whether you are a gun owner veteran or not, YOU'VE BEEN WARNED !
If you know veterans and gun owners, please pass this on to them. Be very cautious about what you say and to whom.
I am passing this along with comments from two other people. I have also been asked if we keep guns in the house. The nurse just slipped it in along with all the other regular questions. I told her I refused to answer because it was against the law to ask. Everyone, whether you have guns or not, should give a neutral answer so they have no idea who does and who doesn't.
My doctor asked me if I had guns in my house, and also if any were loaded. I, of course, answered yes to both questions. Then he asked why I kept a loaded gun close to my bed. I answered that my son, who is a certified gun instructor and also works for Homeland Security, advised me that an unloaded, locked up gun is no protection against criminal attack. The Government now requires these questions be asked of people on Medicare, and probably everyone else.
I had to visit a doctor other than my regular doctor when my doctor was on vacation. One of the questions on the form I had to fill out was: Do you have any guns in your house? My answer was None of your damn business! So it is out there.
It is either an insurance issue or government intervention. Either way, it is out there and the second the government gets into your medical records (as they want to under Obamacare) it will become a major issue and will ultimately result in lock and load!
Constitutionally guaranteed free speech?
NO MORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Watch this video only 3 1/2 minutes, then read my previous post on this board. Be scared, be very scared!!!!!!
Yale’s Shiller: US Could Have Japanese-Style Housing Slump
Thursday, 29 Mar 2012 06:58 AM
By Julie Crawshaw
Yale economist Robert Shiller says the United States could experience a Japanese-style housing slump that lasts for “years and years.”
“I’m worried that home prices have been declining now for about five years,” Shiller told Yahoo Finance. “There’s a lot of downward momentum,” with year-on-year and even month-on-month declines.
“On a seasonally-adjusted basis, it’s just flat.”
Editor's Note: Wall Street Insider Exposes Death of Main Street America
The big question now, says Shiller, is if the market is poised to recover. “I give it a chance that it is,” he says, citing optimistic reports on consumer confidence and positive news on the employment front.
Shiller noted that many young people who might have been first time homebuyers are living with their parents instead of purchasing their own homes, and many others are opting to live in apartments and other rental housing.
Shiller says the shift toward renting and city living could mean “that we will never in our lifetime see a rebound in these prices in the suburbs.”
“If you’re young and you don’t need to buy, just think what kind of nice, new modern high rise apartment building, with all the exciting things built in you might get in the city. Maybe some people are thinking that way.”
“The big thing is that we haven’t resolved Fannie (Mae) and Freddie (Mac), says Shiller. “This inadequate demand you see is only there because of the government.”
Shiller says people sense that the market is becoming more and more political and are holding back. Technology plays a role as well: As we get better and better at making houses, prices go down. “People won’t want the old ones, so prices will decline,” Shiller says.
Investors, Shilling says, will do better to buying shares in a complex of some sort because “dispersed single family homes are a hard business model.”
Reuters reports there’s a growing list of big and small investors who see fat profits to be made in renting out foreclosed homes, especially now the U.S. government is moving ahead with a trial project to sell big pools of single-family homes that Fannie Mae currently owns in some of the hardest-hit housing markets.
A perpetually sluggish housing market, which Shiller believes has become “more and more political,” might push the country in a “Japan-like slump that will go on for years and years.”
http://www.moneynews.com/Headline/Shiller-US-japan-Housing/2012/03/29/id/434175?s=al&promo_code=E8BE-1
Fractal Analysis: 2012 Silver to $70++
http://www.silverseek.com/article/fractal-analysis-2012-silver-70
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Around this point in the fractal cycle in the late 70’s, Gold busted out of its channel to rise sharply higher, along with Silver. Silver’s channel top will lie up around $68 to $70 over the coming months which we believe will be reached in 2012. The next higher angled resistance bands for Silver run from $112 to $115, and then up at the $123 area. By the end of the Silver Bull, we expect to see Silver reach $500+.
Dollar Devaluation Drives The Fractal Relationships
The fractal relationships to the late 70’s are driven by the aggressive Dollar Devaluation in both periods, with the current period one Elliott Wave Degree higher.Both periods present as pure 5th wave parabolas in Dollar Devaluation, and thus, in the Gold and Silver Charts.We are seeing a price expansion in the current Vth wave versus the 5th wave of III in the late 70’s for Gold and for Silver.
We have noted for years that the Fed “owns” the psychology of the markets.The Fed is in the process of converting the Deflationary K-Winter into a period of Stagflation.“Stag” refers to the very sluggish economy, and “flation” refers to rising inflation created by the aggressive Dollar Devaluation.
The Fed and its banks blew out the loan multiplier system for providing new Dollars directly into the economy in 2007 and 2008.The 2nd round of Dollar Inflation is via the Fed printing new Dollars to buy US Government debt- pure debt monetization and default on debt.Thus, they are devaluing the huge load of debt by devaluing the US Dollar.
The Fed “shows inflation when it wants” and it “shows deflation when it wants.”It does so by suggesting that it will, or will not be printing Dollars, the liquidity that drives the markets.All of this jawboning is a joke since the Fed has no choice but to print Dollars at an accelerating rate yet, the markets and investors run a constant bi-polar gauntlet by taking the Fed at their “word.”
The big trading banks dominate the markets.They do the “bidding of the Fed at key junctures.”This is a process of rotating liquidity into the different asset classes that must be supported in the process of changing the cycle during the 2nd leg of debt monetization.
It is the devaluation of the US Dollar that ultimately creates the price rise in Gold, in Silver, and in the PM Stocks.The only true read on the Dollar Devaluation is through the rise of $Gold so the true devaluation of the Dollar can be hidden from the market at key times.In reality, it is the market that creates the devaluation of the Dollar against Gold creating the Gold Parabola so the psychological whims of the Fed can muddle the psychology of the markets.The Gold parabola rises in fits and momentum runs as the market devaluation of the US Dollar ebbs and flows around the psychological effects of what the Fed says; accompanied by the help the Fed receives from entities trading with the Fed’s words.
The spastic Gold market is also affected by a focus on the Dollar Index that has little to do with Dollar Value once Global Competitive Currency Devaluations start in earnest.
We Can Expect QE to Infinity
As Jim Sinclair says, this is complicated stuff.Per Mr. Sinclair we already have approximately $1.3 trillion that were printed and sent to Europe.The markets have not factored this into the price of Gold, yet.Once it does, we should see Gold rise sharply.Remember that it only took $600 Billion of new QE printing to drive Gold up to $1920 in 2011 as per my forecast back in January and April, 2011 in my article entitled Goldrunner: Gold on track to Reach $1860 to $1,920 by Mid-year(gold reached $1,917.20 in late August, 2011 and $1,923.70 in early September, 2011).
All of the US Debts must be on the US balance sheet before Gold goes completely parabolic, for full devaluation of the Dollar and the debts.This is the essence of the question that a Congressman asked Tim Geithner.Tim delayed until the Congressman tossed out the $20 Trillion and then $50 Trillion numbers.Mr. Geithner responded that the number would make the Congressman “uncomfortable.”GEITHNER IMPEACHED BERNANKE’S COMMENT ON “MAYBE NO MORE QE” WHEN HE BASICALLY ADMITTED WE NEED QE IN SPADES GOING FORWARD.Mr. Geithner confirmed that the number of Dollars that must be printed to cover off-balance sheet items is huge.This covers items like unfunded Social Security, unfunded Federal Pensions, future unemployment claims, and the losses of Fannie and Freddie through the end of 2012.
Unfortunately, investors generally keep looking at the trees on a short-term basis, rather than seeing the forest of Dollar Devaluation.As Jim Sinclair constantly notes, we will see QE to infinity.This means that Gold will go vastly higher than most expect in order to devalue the debt and to balance the US budget.
The current markets are completely managed by the Fed and its henchmen.The complete management is a complicated issue as Jim Sinclair has noted. For instance: the Fed and its helpers recently inhibited Gold and Silver at a time when the Greek debt issues were being worked out.It was the Fed’s helpers who had sold the OTC Derivative “insurance” on all of the failed Greek debt.It appears that they hammered inflation expectations to help the deal from go smoothly; and there were cycle timing issues that were already stretched a bit.In reality, most of the Greek Debt holders were forced to take on a different debt series before “default” was declared for a final few.This gives us “insight” that the time in the cycle is short, due to the necessary quick fix deal.
Mr. Sinclair has discussing how the US Dollar’s days as the World Reserve Currency are numbered.This begs the question of what effect this will have in terms of the Dollar’s “value.”Personally, I think that new Dollar Supply is most important, but freeing up huge numbers of Dollars with its loss of reserve status could be a reason for a sharp rise in US inflation if all of those Dollars head home - and a large number of those Dollars coming home to roost might find themselves “chasing Gold and Silver” which could add to the process of the markets re-valuing Gold and Silver much higher.
We are seeing a “price expansion” in the charts of Gold and Silver in the current period with little evidence of a “cycle time expansion” to go with it, other than the general increase in fractal time warranted at one higher Elliott Wave Degree.
In the late 70’s the top in the Gold Chart came as a momentum high into early 1980 with a lower final high coming later.It is possible that we will not see the momentum high before the final high this time, yet it is probable since the continuing deterioration in the economy demands a fairly quick devaluation of the debt before the economy completely rolls over.
THE SILVER CHARTS
The first chart of Silver is the current log chart where Silver is trading inside the black trend channel.We can see the exaggerated decline into the deflation scare bottom in late 2012.Silver appears to be correcting in a flag formation at this time.The measured target of a flag break-out to the upside would target the $65 to $70 area at the top of the black channel.We have break-outs on the RSI and the MACD with the RSI trying to hold the Bullish 50 mark.The Fed has already printed $1.3 Trillion to go to Europe, with more QE necessary to buy US Debt.As the markets factor the Dollar Devaluation in, we’d expect to see Silver explode upward on a fundamental basis.It only took $600 Billion in 2011 to drive Silver from around $20 up to around $50.Additional QE to buy US debt would suggest about 3 times the 2011 Dollar Devaluation from Dec. of 2011 to the end of 2012.The timing appears to be supported with this being a Presidential election year.
If you would like to have access to my detailed proprietary fractal analyses of what is likely to unfold for Silver, Gold, Copper, the HUI and a large number of specific mining company stocks in the months and years to come, the link to our subscription service at the bottom of the article (only $30/mo.). If you do not want specific information but would just like to keep abreast of my general views on the markets, you can send an email requesting to receive my coming free newsletter Goldrunner’s Fractal Corner. See the bottom of the article for further subscription and newsletter contact information.
The Current Silver Bull Chart
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The Late 70’s Fractal Silver Chart
The next chart of Silver is an arithmetic 70’s chart.There was no “deflationary bent” in the late 70’s that caused the steeper retracements we have seen in the current period to create increased volatility in the ever expanding environment of Dollar Devaluation, yet it is obvious that we have not seen the first wave of sharp price expansion in Silver that occurred in the late 70’s.Fractal Cycle timing suggests that it should be directly in front of us, and it appears that the next round of aggressive Dollar Inflation is already underway to fuel that type of move as soon as the market factors the aggressive round of Dollar Devaluation into Gold and Silver.
http://67.19.64.18/news/2012/3-29gr/image004.jpg
The Silver Parabola is not a smooth flowing form like the Gold Parabola is (as can be seen in a previous article here).We can see that the huge price rise in Silver came almost completely toward the tail end of the 70’s Bull.
We are still in a short-term period of potential cycle weakness until options expire for Silver and Gold futures into the end of this week – but the Fractal Cycle suggests that things will heat up soon to see Silver on its way to $70+ in the next up-leg. We have previously laid out our fractal expectations for Gold in 2012 via our article,Goldrunner: Fractal Gold Analysis Says Gold On Way to $3,500 Mid-year.
For the moment,
Goldrunner, THURSDAY, 03-29-12
Organic Plant Health Enters into Exclusive Product Distribution Agreement for the State of Florida
Date : 03/29/2012 @ 11:04AM
Source : PR Newswire
Stock : Organic Plant Health (QB) (OPHI)
Quote : 0.19 0.01 (5.56%) @ 11:04AM
Organic Plant Health Enters into Exclusive Product Distribution Agreement for the State of Florida
Today : Thursday 29 March 2012
Organic Plant Health, Inc. (OTCQB: OPHI), a manufacturer and distributor of organic-based, natural and environmentally responsible fertilizers, soil conditioners, herbicides, insecticides and fungicides, is pleased to announce that the company has chosen and formally appointed an exclusive distributor of Organic Plant Health branded products for the state of Florida.
Billy Styles, President and CEO of Organic Plant Health, states, "We're very excited to begin distribution of Organic Plant Health branded products in the state of Florida through this new distribution channel. When you combine the beautiful weather and extended growing seasons that Florida is known for with the diverse population, retirement communities, and resort properties, we believe there are significant market opportunities for the use of our products for the care and maintenance of residential and commercial gardens and landscapes."
This new distribution partner is expected to begin delivering products into Florida retail and commercial channels by late April of 2012. Styles goes on to say, "Our distribution partner in Florida has accounts placing orders already and anticipates that he may reach additional agreements with dozens more by the end of the year, including several hardware chain stores and garden centers. In fact, we've already established a following with some ACE Hardware customers because of ACE's commitment to customer service - it matches our own commitment to educating the customer about the true nature of soil health and its role in supporting healthy plant growth."
Company Vice President and COO, Alan Talbert, added, "We expect Florida to be a great market for our products. Organic Plant Health will be offering residential homeowners, landscaping companies and commercial property owners something they haven't enjoyed for a very long time...OPTIONS. We'll provide options for them to improve plant health during times of the year when they normally wouldn't be able to fertilize, because of state and local restrictions related to chemical or synthetic fertilizer use."
About Organic Plant HealthBased in Charlotte, NC, Organic Plant Health, Inc. (OTCQB:OPHI) provides organic-based, natural and environmentally responsible fertilizers, soil conditioners, herbicides, insecticides and fungicides for the continual care of residential and commercial landscapes.
Organic Plant Health brand products are currently sold in more than 25 Independent Retailers across the Carolinas from Raleigh, NC, to Greenville, SC. Key customers using Organic Plant Health products include environmentally conscious do-it-yourself homeowners and commercial landscape companies; secondary markets served include real estate development companies, vineyards and agriculture.
This press release contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended and such forward-looking statements are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. You are cautioned that such statements are subject to a multitude of risks and uncertainties that could cause future circumstances, events, or results to differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements as a result of various factors, and other risks. You should consider these factors in evaluating the forward-looking statements included herein, and not place undue reliance on such statements. The forward-looking statements in this release are made as of the date hereof and Organic Plant Health takes no obligation to update such statements.
CONTACT:Investor Relations: Ph. (704) 745-OPHI (6744) E-mail: investorrelations@organicplanthealth.comFacebook: www.facebook.com/organicplanthealthYouTube: www.youtube.com/organicplanthealth
SOURCE Organic Plant Health, Inc.
basserdan- and whom do we blame for this intrusion into our lives? Let's see, the house of representatives with it's republican majority could eliminate all funding for this; nope, didn't happen. The senate controlled by democrats could have rejected the bill funding this behemoth; nope, didn't happen either. The white house under occupation by a democrat could have vetoed the bill creating this; guess what-didn't happen. The only conclusion we can make is both political parties that are currently in control of governance support this Orwellian project. So let's keep arguing about abortion and birth control, gun control, spending priorities, welfare, medicare/medicaid spending, food stamps, etc, etc, etc while the real masters that control both political parties keep up their assaults on our freedoms and liberties as they push our once great nation towards fascism. When will we wake up!!
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Dan- not directed at you personally.
MFer Global: Clawbacks AND Handcuffs NOW!
http://market-ticker.org/
This ought to be over about now.
Jon S. Corzine, MF Global Holding Ltd. (MFGLQ)’s chief executive officer, gave “direct instructions” to transfer $200 million from a customer fund account to meet an overdraft in one of the brokerage’s JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM)accounts in London, according to an e-mail sent by a firm executive.
Edith O’Brien, a treasurer for the firm, said in an e-mail sent the afternoon of Oct. 28, three days before the company collapsed, that the transfer of the funds was “Per JC’s direct instructions,” according to a copy of a memo drafted by congressional investigators and obtained by Bloomberg News.
Where's the indictment?
Corzine is entitled to the presumption of innocence but the victims of this apparent scheme are entitled to justice. Where is it? Four+ months into this we now have prima-facie evidence that Corzine ordered a transfer from customer segregated funds to meet a margin call against the firm's proprietary trading.
If there's an argument that this sort of transfer would be lawful I'd love to see it.
More to the point, if this sort of transfer is lawful then no person in this country can ever trade anything in a brokerage again until it is rendered unlawful and assurances are available that this conduct will result in long prison sentences and personal liability.
If you do then you are a rube, as your funds are simply there for the purpose of (legally) stealing them when, not if your brokerage finds itself underwater.
There's a further problem:
Barry Zubrow, JPMorgan’s chief risk officer, called Corzine to seek assurances that the funds belonged to MF Global and not customers. JPMorgan drafted a letter to be signed by O’Brien to ensure that MF Global was complying with rules requiring customers’ collateral to be segregated. The letter was never returned to JPMorgan, the memo said.
So JP Morgan suspected the funds were stolen and drafted a letter demanding a written assurance they were not. They never got that assurance, which means they knew the funds were impaired.
This in turn means they effectively received stolen property and thus have destroyed any argument they might have in "good faith" reception of the funds, which in turn means that all of those funds must be immediately clawed back.
We're six months into this folks, and the customers of MFer Global still don't have their money. But now we have not just the belief that the company knowingly took customer funds to satisfy a margin call on their proprietary positions, we have evidence they did so.
And we further have hard evidence that JP Morgan knew the funds were taken from customer segregated accounts and were not MF Global's to disburse.
If we do not see indictments and the clawback of those funds in the immediate future every American will have no choice but to consider the federal government to be nothing more than a bunch of felonious thugs -- from the Office of the President on down.
How Housing Affordability Can Falter Even as House Prices Decline
http://www.zerohedge.com/
Those snapping up housing for cash are either buying to rent the homes or to speculate that a resurgent housing market will arise and they can "flip" for big profits. This segment simply isn't large enough to soak up all the millions of homes languishing in the "shadow inventory" of homes being held off the market in the vain hope prices will bubble higher. The general idea of lower home prices is that once prices fall to some magic threshold, buyers will jump in and liquidate the inventory. That notion makes two enormous assumptions: 1) Interest rates will stay near-zero when inflation is factored in. 2) Household income will stop declining. In other words, there are three inputs to housing affordability, and price is only one of them. Interest rates and disposable income are equally important.
SRPX .101 X .11. When the paid promoters come on board I do believe it's time to take a close look at your investment. A legit company with a good business plan has no need to hire paid promoters to tout it's stock. And if it's being done by a 3rd party, you have to wonder why. And where did the 3rd party get all those shares they want to dump on unsuspecting investors. Just food for thought.
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Adding the totals according to your link, these promoters have been compensated up to $150,000 for their promotions of SRPX. Then you remember "Paid awareness is nearly always a means to sell shares to the public in the open market, so you should always assume if there is an awareness campaign then someone is selling shares of the company in question." Someone wants to make a killing selling shares. This was a $2 stock right after the R/S. Been a lot of dilution since then. There was an IRP rep on board last year. He seemed to have a lot of trouble answering pointed questions about financing and dilution. Then he just up and left.
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Ok, we have 2 different stock promoters from the same company just happen to show up promoting this stock. I think that warrants raising a few red flags. JMHO
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with no retrace, eom.