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The coming currency devaluation
Clif Droke
Oct 9, 2003
©2003 Publishing Concepts
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After repeated warnings from currency analysts and market advisors (including yours truly) that the U.S. currency system is on the verge of becoming a blocked, two-tier system we now have confirmation that the country is one step closer to realizing this. When fully implemented, the new U.S. dollar will mean a "banana republic" type currency and across-the-board devaluation.
According to a CNN/Money news wire report of Oct. 7, the new U.S. $20 bills will be released this week at banks across the country. Meanwhile, the Fed and its Bureau of Engraving and Printing (BEP) will hold a nationwide series of publicity events as part of a $33 million campaign to let the world know of the new bills and to acclimate the public to their strange new appearance.
The new $20s are peach-toned with the presence of blue ink, making it the first time in almost 100 years that a mass-circulation U.S. note has prominently contained a color besides green and black. They also contain an embedded vertical plastic strip and color-shifting ink, whose appearance changes from copper to green as the bill is tilted against the light. Below is what the front of the new $20 bill looks like (from the BEP website). [Editor's note, which has a really odd name: the Money Factory click]
So what is the significance of this change of color in the U.S. $20 note? Well according to the Feds it is designed as a deterrent to stop counterfeiters. But accordingly to currency analyst Lawrence Patterson, who authored the 1994 monograph titled "Currency Recall," which accurately forecast the new multi-colored notes, the new colored money is part of a two-tiered currency system that will have drastic implications for investors and non-investors alike here in the U.S.
Patterson calls the new notes "crayola currency" and claims they will circulate domestically while the normal green currency that we've grown accustomed to will circulate offshore all over the globe. According to commentator Terry Savage, "Two-thirds of the U.S. paper currency is circulating in foreign countries." With the coming two-tiered currency system, foreigners will continue to be allowed to use the greenback while U.S. citizens will be stuck with the "crayola currency" which cannot be exchanged.
Patterson forecasts the coming use of foreign exchange controls for the U.S. dollar domestically, which would prohibit Americans from transferring capital to any other world currency. Again, this is discussed in Patterson's now-classic monograph "Currency Recall" (which I've read and highly recommend to students of currency policy and investors seeking to retain the value of their investments). Buy from Amazon.
Patterson states, "I want every one... to think carefully about this... because we are coming very, very close to the end of the freely convertible domestic dollar. The cut in value could be as much as 50%... I believe those holding gold bullion bars offshore and bullion coins domestically will be very surprised to find that special regulations will prohibit them from profiting."
He further maintains that coin dealers are under a strict Treasury regulation and must report your sales of some coins but not others. The rule is as follows: Coins with a premium above 15% do not have to be reported. In addition to the 1099 report, filed by the coin dealer, you have to declare any capital gains as well."
He continues, "The existence of this rule, I believe, indicates an intent to outlaw the ownership of bullion coins altogether! However, the rule will not remain at 15% necessarily and could be changed to a higher percentage, which is unknown at this time. Obviously, you do not want to own any investment coins with a premium of 15% or less and better stay at the 25% or 30% level to be safe." Patterson points out that complications for the government would clearly arise should numismatic collectibles be forcibly confiscated since the bullion coins' value can be determined by the London gold fix, but not so for collectibles. "The price of the collectible coin may or may not be easily determined as numismatic valuables are routinely auctioned off at prices of not only tens of thousands of dollars, but hundreds of thousands of dollars per item," he observes. "It is difficult to imagine just how this would all be sorted out by the bureaucracy to come up with a calculation of compensation that would relate to the market value." He advises staying in the "safe zone" and exchanging bullion coins not needed for emergencies (such as food or gasoline shortages, et al) for numismatic coins with higher premiums.
Obviously, the introduction of the new peach-colored $20 bill is a test on the American public to see how they respond to the drastic new changes. The CNN/Money article states that the BEP has launched a multi-million dollar promotional campaign aimed at gaining public acceptance of the new currency. For example, the twenties are being featured on game shows, including "Wheel of Fortune" and "Jeopardy," sporting events, like ESPN's college football telecasts. The bills are also part of some consumer product tie-ins, according to CNN/Money, and pictures of the bills will be on the side of bags of Pepperidge Farm Goldfish. If the government succeeds in getting the American public to accept the bills, the other remaining denominations will obviously follow and plans will proceed for the blocked domestic dollar.
--Clif Droke
Oct 9, 2003
http://www.321gold.com/editorials/droke/droke100903_currency.html
Bugs In Philadelphia Mayor's Office Came From FBI
Mayor's Aides Suspicious FBI So Quickly Ruled Out Campaign Trickery
POSTED: 12:34 p.m. EDT October 8, 2003
PHILADELPHIA -- The FBI planted hidden listening devices in the offices of Philadelphia Mayor John Street, The Associated Press reported Wednesday, citing federal law enforcement officials speaking on condition of anonymity.
The devices were found Tuesday during a routine police security sweep. Police Commissioner Sylvester Johnson revealed the discovery at a news conference.
Earlier, an FBI spokeswoman said the bureau will take "appropriate action" but declined to answer questions about the devices. She did say almost immediately that the agency had ruled out any connection to Street's re-election campaign. The Democratic mayor is in a hotly contested race with Republican challenger Sam Katz.
The election is a few weeks away.
Street called the discovery of the devices "a huge matter of concern."
Street said he's confident that they had not been planted by law enforcement officials and that he has done nothing wrong that would prompt an investigation.
Street said he doesn't know how the FBI can say so quickly that the hidden devices have no connection to his re-election campaign.
Street's campaign officials suggested the bugging is politically motivated -- and could even have been instigated by the Bush administration.
Campaign spokesman Frank Keel said the Republican Party -- at the state and federal level -- is capable of "dirty tricks." He said he finds it "incredibly curious" the FBI could so quickly leap to the conclusion that the bugging isn't related to the campaign.
The Katz campaign denied any involvement.
When asked if the FBI had placed the devices, the FBI spokeswoman wouldn't answer.
Police say they routinely check the mayor's office every three or four months, and the bugs were found during one of those routine checks.
http://www.wral.com/news/2540371/detail.html
An Over-the-Top Prize That's Better to Give Than to Receive
October 7, 2003
By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Oct. 4 - If irony nowadays is the first
refuge of blasé youth and the ultimate self-deprecatory
gesture of the aged and accomplished, what is it nobler to
win: a Nobel or an Ig Nobel?
And from the paper-airplane-encrusted stage of Harvard's
Memorial Hall, where the 2003 Ig Nobel Prizes were awarded
on Thursday night, can you really tell?
You are a scientist who thought he was doing serious work,
and you are being assaulted by missiles flung by 1,200
howling nerds. Here is a real Nobel laureate in a
moose-antler hat lauding you because your time has come.
And here is Miss Sweetie Poo shushing you because your time
is up.
If your measure is the company you keep, what do you make
of those who have gone vaingloriously before you into
ignominy: Dan Quayle for his grasp of science ("It's time
for the human race to enter the solar system"), Edward
Teller for his contributions to world peace, Ron Popeil,
inventor of the Veg-O-Matic, and tobacco company presidents
for presenting scientific evidence to Congress that
nicotine is not addictive.
This year, the 13th in which the Ig Nobels have been
inflicted on befuddled recipients, the awards were not so
blatantly political, unless one is a displaced
Liechtensteiner or one of India's ungrateful dead.
The economics prize went to Xnet Event Marketing, which
normally arranges the rental of quaint Alpine villages for
corporate events, bar mitzvahs and the like, but recently
contracted with Lichtenstein to offer the entire charming
nanostate.
And the first post-posthumous Ig Nobel Peace Prize went to
Lal Bihari of the village of Amilon, India, who discovered
in 1976 that his uncle, in line to inherit his land, had
paid a $25 bribe to have him declared dead. He was revived
18 years later by a sympathetic court. In the interim, he
founded the Association of Dead People to help hundreds of
similarly dead Indians fight the stench of corruption.
Still beset by bureaucratic red tape - this time American -
Mr. Bihari could not get a visa in time for this year's
ceremony. He sent a speech, which left the impression that
his outlook was still a bit rigid: He felt better, he said,
"but 75 percent of all people are spiritually dead."(Mr.
Bihari has no phone and speaks only Hindi, so the message
may have suffered in transit.)
A truly posthumous award, the engineering prize, went to
Edward A. Murphy Jr. In 1949, when the mark of lesser
genius was the phrase "Well, he's no rocket scientist," Mr.
Murphy was an Air Force rocket-sled scientist. Multiple
failures of test sensors led him to make the remarks later
refined into Murphy's Law, "Anything that can go wrong
will."
His son, Edward III, accepted for him. Flawlessly.
The
year's other prizes went to the sort of research the Ig
Nobels are best-known for: an Australian study of the
forces needed to drag sheep over various surfaces, a
Japanese scientist's attempts to unlock the secret of a
pigeon-repelling statue, a Dutch ornithologist's eyewitness
report of an act of homosexual necrophilia by a duck.
All these scientists were in earnest, and all swore they
had never heard of the Ig Nobels before.
John F. Culvenor, a workplace engineer, showed that sheep
shearers were less likely to suffer back injuries dragging
their victims to the barbering pit if the floor were wood
and gently sloped.
"We Aussies have proved that it's easier to drag sheep
downhill, so Newton was right," he boasted. He was proud to
be in Ig Nobel company, he said. "You have to be prepared
to have the mickey taken out of you."
Dr. Yukio Hirose of Kanazawa University found that the
123-year-old statue was an unusual alloy: copper, lead and
arsenic. He forged sheets of it, and birds shunned them
even if food was scattered on them.
And Dr. Kees W. Moeliker, a curator at the Rotterdam
Natural History Museum, brought the victim, stuffed. It
happened just outside his window, he said, because the
mallard was killed hitting the glass fleeing his pursuer,
another mallard, and he was able to photograph the ensuing
"cruel scene" for an hour before chasing off the offender.
He later wrote it up dryly for the museum's annals.
"Rape is normal with ducks," Dr. Moeliker said in an
interview. "It's a well-known reproductive strategy.
Homosexuality among ducks is common. There's no big
difference between being a human being and a duck. But the
necrophilia thing, that's new. I talked to many
ornithologists about this."
Every year, the awards committee, organized by Marc
Abrahams, publisher of The Annals of Improbable Research, a
science humor magazine, receives more than 5,000
nominations.
It has just published the first collection of winners as
"The Ig Nobel Prizes."
Mr. Abrahams, 47, a Harvard mathematics graduate who once
eked out a living by writing software simulating office
crises, said only one self-nominee had ever won - the
Norwegian authors of "Effect of Ale, Garlic and Soured
Cream on the Appetite of Leeches." (Leeches are used in
microsurgery as clot-busters, but those with sluggish
appetites need stimulating. The study was in the British
Medical Journal. F.Y.I.: leeches detest garlic, and those
dunked in beer became too wobbly and obstreperous to
operate.)
Each year's ceremony is chaos theory in practice and
includes a nano-opera. This year's was "Atom and Eve," a
tale of disproportionate love.
And each year, Miss Sweetie Poo, an 8-year-old on contract
in a party dress, limits speakers to one minute by whining:
"Please stop. I'm bored!" Three slipped her dollars or
lollipops but got the hook anyway.
Real Nobel winners hand out the prizes, and one lucky
audience member wins a date with one. This year's was
Richard Roberts, who took the 1993 Nobel Prize for
Medicine. He is 60, British, married and wore the moose hat
with strobe-light earrings. His Nobel Web site biography
includes the promising phrase: "Three-quarters of the
world's first restriction enzymes were discovered or
characterized in my laboratory. I made a lot of friends in
those days!"
The winner came screaming down to the stage to hug him,
then disappeared. (Only in that element of the ceremony did
it sound as if the fix was in. Dr. Roberts offered his body
to science once before, and said Siamese twins won. Asked
by a skeptic how they were conjoined, he said it was an
artfully designed dress.)
Two days after the ceremony, the winners got a full 10
minutes in a lecture hall at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology to explain their work in all seriousness. But
few in the audience deigned to cooperate. For example, one
scientist who proved that Kansas is flatter than a pancake
was challenged over the validity of his pancake
standardization.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/07/science/07IGNO.html?ex=1066640513&ei=1&en=2d6bc0bbd162ba78
I'm starting to hyper ventilate...e
Doubts about Recovery
by DW Mackenzie
[Posted October 08, 2003]
The popular press has adopted a more optimistic tone regarding economic conditions. The reasons for this are clear. It appears that the current recovery is picking up pace. Recent reports indicate that second quarter GDP for this year increased by 3.3%, instead of the earlier 3.1% estimate. This is more than double the GDP growth rate from the preceding two quarters. Analysts expect 4% or higher growth for the following two quarters, with some predicting 6 to 7% growth. Falling inventories and strong spending, some say, indicate that this recovery will continue.
Those who comprise the current pool of unemployed labor will surely see this as good news. Unemployment rates have not come down with the recent surge in GDP. Falling inventories will no doubt prompt employers to take on more employees. In trying to assess the merits and shortcomings of this recovery we should, however, consider both the changing composition of GDP and the source of its expansion.
However, this fact is crucial: a considerable portion of this increased GDP has come from increased military spending. Military spending rose 45.8% for the second quarter. This is the strongest quarterly increase in military spending since the Korean War.
http://www.mises.org/fullstory.asp?control=1337
Russia may switch oil prices to euros-German source
Wednesday October 8, 12:33 pm ET
[Oh God, Oh God, Oh God...]
(Updates with Russian energy ministry comments)
YEKATERINBURG, Russia, Oct 8 (Reuters) - A German government source said on Wednesday that Russia may switch to pricing oil sales in euros rather than dollars, potentially huge news for financial markets.
However, Russian energy and finance ministry officials said they were unable to confirm any change was planned.
"The question is taking on increasing significance," said a government official travelling with German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder on an official visit to Russia, referring to the possibility of a switch in the traditional energy currency.
Any such change would be a major shift in the balance of currencies behind the world's most traded commodity and the success of a long campaign by Europe to get oil priced in euros.
It could deal a blow to U.S. economic prestige, as well as the strength of the dollar on foreign exchange markets.
Russia is the second biggest oil exporter behind Saudi Arabia with the world's largest natural gas reserves.
Schroeder meets Russian President Vladimir Putin later on Wednesday and they hold a news conference on Thursday morning.
European leaders have long sought to promote the common currency and boost price stability in the European Union (News - Websites) by getting energy contracts priced in euros as well as dollars.
Most energy contracts are settled in dollars, meaning that for European buyers, trade in gas and oil is subject to fluctuations in the U.S. currency as well as in their market prices.
MOSCOW MUTE
Officials in Moscow said that they had no knowledge that anything was going on behind the scenes.
"We cannot confirm this information. No talks are taking place on the issue. The ministry draws up export timetables, but does not deal with financial issues on oil supplies," a source at the Russian Energy Ministry told Reuters.
A Finance Ministry source also said he was unaware of any preparations for a switch.
"We have not heard anything of the sort. All information (about prices) we get is in dollars and roubles...and we do not see any tools to force companies to use the euro," he said.
LUKOIL (LKOH.RTS), Russia's second biggest oil company, said that it was continuing to work in the U.S. currency.
"LUKOIL draws up its accounts based on the dollar. The company has not yet reviewed its position to change its functional currency to prepare reports," said head of investor relations Gennady Krasovsky.
A source in a large Western trading company was downright dismissive of the talk.
"This is a complete nonsense. The market has been trading in dollars for dozens of years. Until companies which buy oil do not want to do this, the Russian Federation will not be able to do anything," he said.
http://biz.yahoo.com/rf/031008/energy_russia_euro_3.html
[Conclusion buy gold on dips, get silver.]
It gets better link from last post:
http://www.libertyforum.org/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=news_international&Number=934107&pag....
Nmaes, dates, pictures....
Quod non legitur, non creditur.
IF YOU BUY THE OFFICIAL STORY ON 9-11...
...the Next Thing you will be Buying will Likely be the Brooklyn Bridge.
One thing's for sure: every theory about 9-11 must be a conspiracy theory. (The events of 9-11 couldn't have happened entirely by chance, without a conspiracy behind them, now could they have?) The only question is, which conspiracy theory you are going to believe?
Please, please, please read the following, written by a person who wishes to remain anonymous, apparently because he fears for his own safety. (Heck, I don't even know if he's actually a she!) But all the material used in his/her argument is so carefully referenced that there is absolutely no question whatsoever that the offical 9-11 story is a crock.
So it doesn't matter who wrote it - the argument speaks for itself!
Ardeshir Mehta, Ottawa, Canada
Easter Monday, April 21, 2003
AN INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATION OF 9-11
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by Anonymous
Due to concerns for his personal safety, the author has chosen to remain anonymous.
Author hereby grants full permission to reproduce and mass distribute this paper for non-commercial use.
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"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed, second it is violently opposed, and third, it is accepted as self-evident."
Arthur Schopenhauer, Philosopher, 1788-1860
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OPENING STATEMENT
Every news story you are about to review in this comprehensive research paper is true and easily verifiable. This investigation represents 10 months of careful study, research, analysis, source verification and logical deduction. Every event and quote presented here is 100% accurate. There are over 100 detailed footnotes which I encourage, no, urge, readers to explore and verify for themselves. This Internet version will allow users to obtain instant verification for each and every footnote by clicking on the links. Due to the fact that well organized efforts are under way to suppress these facts, some of these news links are mysteriously disappearing even as we speak. Fortunately, this information has all been transcribed by many web users and is has therefore been preserved from the censors. These footnote searches will take you directly to the news sites of many well known established media organizations throughout the world as well as opening up doors to a world of knowledge and information that has been concealed from you. With just a little common sense and a few clicks of a mouse, the Internet now enables anyone with an ounce of curiosity to become a Sherlock Holmes.
This is no opinion piece. Rather it is a collection of buried, but undeniable facts, events, and quotes which, when assembled in one place, will state their own conclusions. In putting together this research in a logical and sequential format, great care was taken to confirm and double confirm every piece of information. Any and all questionable data which could not be independently verified to this author’s satisfaction was discarded.
Taken individually, each story, quote and event may not amount to a full case. But when taken collectively, this mountain of facts should hammer home the truth to even the most skeptical reader. I intend to set forth in this paper an overwhelming body of evidence which should forever destroy the notion that a Saudi Arabian caveman and his band of half-trained, nerdy Arab flight school attendees, orchestrated the most sophisticated terror operation in world history. The idea is utterly laughable. And yet, due to the blithering barrage of bullshit dished out by the government/media complex, "patriotic" Americans have accepted this ridiculous fairy tale with a religious conviction. As a public service to my fellow Americans, I have published the results of my research in the hopes of liberating as many people as I can from the oppressive yoke of media brainwashing and state sponsored lies.
THE DANCING ISRAELIS
Reactions from the Israeli side to the September attack:
Ehud Sprinzak, terrorism expert at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, said "From the perspective of Israelis, it is the most important public relations act ever committed in our favor."
The attack "was good for the Israelis," "It is very good", said Netanyahu...before he caught himself and amended his statement.
In an interview with Le Monde, Ami Ayalon, former Head of the Israeli Militia for Israel, stated: "Since September 11, our leaders have been euphoric."not be enraged at witnessing this horrific act of barbarism? To read about some faraway, long-ago genocide in a newspaper or a book is distressing enough. But to actually witness the mass murders of what was, at first, believed to have been tens of thousands of innocent people is truly heart stopping and traumatic. I barely slept for two nights afterwards and suffered nightmares. Polling data would later reveal that 65% of Americans actually shed tears on 9-11. 1
But not all of the eye-witnesses to the 9-11 slaughter were so saddened. On September 11, five Israeli army veterans were arrested by the FBI after several witnesses saw them "dancing", "high-fiving", and "celebrating" as they took pictures of the World Trade Center disaster from across the river in New Jersey. Steven Gordon was the lawyer who volunteered to represent the five Israelis. He was asked by a Hebrew newspaper why the five men were being detained by the FBI. Here’s what Gordon told Yediot America:
"On the day of the disaster, three of the five boys went up on the roof of the building where the company office is located," said Gordon. "I'm not sure if they saw the twin towers collapse, but, in any event, they photographed the ruins right afterwards. One of the neighbors who saw them called the police and claimed they were posing, dancing and laughing, against the background of the burning towers… .
"Anyhow, the three left the roof, took an Urban truck, and drove to a parking lot, located about a five-minute drive from the offices. They parked, stood on the roof of the truck to get a better view of the destroyed towers and took photographs. A woman who was in the building above the lot testified that she saw them smiling and exchanging high-fives. She and another neighbor called the police and reported on Middle-Eastern looking people dancing on the truck. They copied and reported the license plates." 2
When the photos were developed, they revealed that the dancing Israelis were smiling in the foreground of the New York massacre. 3
According to ABC’s 20/20 attempted whitewash of the incident, in addition to their outrageous and highly suspicious behavior, the five also had in their possession the following items; box-cutters, European passports, and $4,700 cash hidden in a sock. 4
Why were these Israeli agents so happy about the horrible massacre that was unfolding right before their very eyes? What evil spirit could possess people who are supposed to be America's "allies", and who receive billions of dollars in financial and military aid from US taxpayers each year, to publicly rejoice as innocent people (including many American Jews) were burning to death and jumping out of 110 story buildings? Could it be that these happy Israeli army veterans were in some way linked to this monstrous attack? That’s what officials close to the investigation initially told The Bergen Record newspaper of New Jersey. 5
ADVANCE WARNINGS
The days and hours leading up to 9-11 were marked by a series of chilling warnings about impending terrorist plots involving hijacked commercial airplanes. It's worth mentioning at this point that months before 9-11, the US had already informed some of its allies of plans to go to war in Afghanistan. On June 26, 2001, News Insight/India Reacts, an Indian public affairs magazine, wrote:
"India and Iran will "facilitate" US and Russian plans for "limited military action" against the Taliban if the contemplated tough new economic sanctions don't bend Afghanistan's fundamentalist regime. Indian officials say that India and Iran will only play the role of "facilitator" while the US and Russia will combat the Taliban from the front with the help of two Central Asian countries, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, to push Taliban lines back to the 1998 position 50 km away from Mazar-e-Sharief city in northern Afghanistan. Military action will be the last option though it now seems scarcely avoidable with the UN banned from Taliban-controlled areas" 6
The story of US military involvement in Afghanistan was reported months before 9-11 in Indian and British 7 publications but it was never reported in the US media. With the military plans already in motion since at least June of 2001, all that was needed was for an "incident" to take place to justify the US going to "war against Terrorism" in Afghanistan.
Here are just a few of the advance warnings which were brought to light in the aftermath of 9-11:
The London Daily Telegraph reported on September 16, 2001:
"The Telegraph has learned that two senior experts with Mossad, the Israeli military intelligence service, were sent to Washington in August to alert the FBI and CIA to the existence of a cell of as many as 200 terrorists said to be preparing a big operation. They had no specific information about what was being planned but linked the plot to Osama Bin Laden and told American officials that there were strong grounds for suspecting Iraqi involvement." 8
Do you smell a "false flag" operation in the works? How is possible that the Mossad knew of the existence of these 200 terrorists but could not name or locate a single one? And how convenient for Israel that Saddam Hussein should be in cahoots with Osama Bin Laden, despite the fact that Bin Laden and Hussein hate each other!
The Franfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ), one of Germany’s most respected newspapers, quoted German intelligence sources who said that the Echelon electronic spy network gave US and Israeli intelligence agencies several warnings that suicidal hijack attacks were being planned against US targets. [url=9 Echelon is capable of monitoring all of the electronic communication in the world. Utilizing 120 satellites, the Echelon system is designed to suck up enormous amounts of data by using keyword search techniques to sift through the data. [url=10
The San Francisco Chronicle reported on September 12 that San Francisco Mayor and former California Assembly Speaker Willie Brown was advised eight hours before the attacks that he should be careful about flying on 9-11. 11
In its September 24, 2001 issue, Newsweek Magazine broke this startling revelation:
"Three weeks ago there was another warning that a terrorist strike might be imminent… On September 10, Newsweek has learned, a group of top Pentagon officials suddenly cancelled travel plans for the next morning, apparently because of security concerns.". 12 (emphasis added.)
Wow! If these Pentagon officials were scared enough not to fly, then why didn’t the Pentagon place the Air Force on full alert? How could they have been so slow to react to 9-11 when they already knew there was a threat?
On September 27, The Washington Post reported that two workers of the Israeli company Odigo (with offices also in New York) received instant message warnings just two hours before the attacks. Here’s an excerpt from the Washington Post:
"Officials at instant-messaging firm Odigo confirmed today that two employees received text messages warning of an attack on the World Trade Center two hours before terrorists crashed planes into the New York landmarks" 13
Soon after the attacks, the Odigo employees informed the management of the electronic message they had received. Israeli security services were contacted and the FBI was informed. Nothing has been heard about this event since. I think it's safe to say that "Islamic terrorists" would not have been considerate enough to send detailed E-mail warnings to some obscure Israeli office workers.
THE SEPTEMBER 11 DANCE PARTY
On the day of the attacks, former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was asked what the attack would mean for US-Israeli relations. His quick reply was "It's very good…….Well, it's not good, but it will generate immediate sympathy (for Israel)". 14
The five Israelis made such a spectacle that everyone who saw them felt compelled to call the police. According to ABC’s 20/20, when the van belonging to the cheering Israelis was stopped by the police, the first words out of the driver's (Sivan Kurzberg) lying mouth were: "We are Israelis. We are not your problem. Your problems are our problems. The Palestinians are your problem." 15 The police and FBI field agents became really suspicious when they found box cutters (the same items that the hijackers supposedly used), $4,700 cash stuffed in a sock, and foreign passports. Police also told the Bergen Record that bomb sniffing dogs were brought to the van and that they reacted as if they had smelled explosives. 16
From there, the story gets becomes even more suspicious. The Israelis worked for a Weehawken moving company known as Urban Moving Systems. An American employee of Urban Moving Systems told the Bergen Record that a majority of his co-workers were Israelis and they were all joking about the attacks. The employee, who declined to give his name said: "I was in tears. These guys were joking and that bothered me." 17
A few days after the attacks, Urban Moving System's Israeli owner, Dominick Suter, dropped his business and fled the country. He was in such a hurry to flee America that some of Urban Moving System's customers were left with their furniture stuck in storage facilities. 18 The five Israeli army veterans (Mossad) were held in custody for several months before being quietly released. Some of the movers had been kept in solitary confinement for 40 days. 19
Immediately following the attacks, the media was filled with stories linking the attacks to Bin Laden. TV talking-heads and scribblers of every stripe spoon-fed a gullible American public a steady diet of the most outrageous propaganda imaginable. We were told that the reason Bin Laden attacked the USA was because he hates our "freedom" and "democracy". The Muslims were "medieval" and they wanted to destroy us because of our wealth. But Bin Laden strongly denied any role in the attacks and suggested that Zionists orchestrated the 9-11 attacks:
"I was not involved in the September 11 attacks in the United States nor did I have knowledge of the attacks. There exists a government within a government within the United States. The United States should try to trace the perpetrators of these attacks within itself; to the people who want to make the present century a century of conflict between Islam and Christianity. That secret government must be asked as to who carried out the attacks....The American system is totally in control of the Jews, whose first priority is Israel, not the United States." 20
To date, the only shred of "evidence" to be uncovered against Bin Laden was a highly suspicious, barely audible amateur video, that Pentagon just happened to find "lying around" in Afghanistan. There is no evidence, be it hard or circumstantial, to link the Al Qaeda "terrorist network" to these acts of terror.
WHO WAS REALLY FLYING THOSE PLANES ON 9-11?
Hours after the 9-11 attacks, authorities began to find clues conveniently left for them to stumble upon. The Boston Globe reported that a copy of the Koran, instructions on how to fly a commercial airplane and a fuel consumption calculator were found in a pair of bags meant for one of the hijacked flights that left from Logan. 21
Authorities also received a "tip" about a suspicious white car left behind at Boston's Logan Airport. An Arabic-language flight training manual was found inside the car. 22
How fortunate for investigators that the hijackers "forgot" to take their Koran and Arab flight manuals with them! Within a few days, all "19 hijackers" were "identified" and their faces were plastered all over our television screens.
Then, like a script from a corny "B" spy movie, the official story gets even more ridiculous. The passport of the supposed "ringleader", Mohammed Atta, somehow managed to survive the explosion, inferno, and smoldering collapse to be oh-so-conveniently "found" just a few blocks away from the World Trade Center! 23
How is it possible that Arab students who had never flown an airplane could take a simulator course and then fly jumbo jets with the skill and precision of "top-gun" pilots? It is not possible and the fact is, the true identities of the 9-11 hijackers remains a mystery. For in the days following the disclosure of the "hijackers" names and faces, no less than 7 of the Arab individuals named came forward to protest their obvious innocence. 24
That's right! Seven of the nineteen "hijackers" are alive and well. They were victims of identity theft, some of whom had had their passports stolen. They were interviewed by several news organizations including the Telegraph of England. Here’s an excerpt from David Harrison’s Telegraph story entitled:
Revealed: The Men With Stolen Identities:
"Their names were flashed around the world as suicide hijackers who carried out the attacks on America. But yesterday four innocent men told how their identities had been stolen.
The men - all from Saudi Arabia - spoke of their shock at being mistakenly named by the FBI as suicide terrorists. None of the four was in the United States on September 11 and all are alive in their home country. The Telegraph obtained the first interviews with the men since they learnt that they were on the FBI's list of hijackers who died in the crashes in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania.
All four said that they were "outraged" to be identified as terrorists. One has never been to America and another is a Saudi Airlines pilot who was on a training course in Tunisia at the time of the attacks. Saudi Airlines said it was considering legal action against the FBI for seriously damaging its reputation and that of its pilots." 25 (emphasis added.)
The story of these identity thefts was also briefly reported by ABC 26 and BBC (England) 27 The FBI does not deny this. Nobody denies this fact because it is easily verifiable. Instead, the US media and government just ignore this inconvenient little fact and keep right on repeating the monstrous lie that the hijacker identities are known and that 15 of them were Saudis.
CNN revealed that FBI director Robert Mueller openly admitted that some of the identities of the 9-11 hijackers are in question due to identity theft. Here’s what CNN reported on September 21:
FBI Director Robert Mueller has acknowledged that some of those behind last week's terror attacks may have stolen the identification of other people, and, according to at least one security expert, it may have been "relatively easy" based on their level of sophistication. 28
This opens up a whole Pandora’s box of unanswered questions, the first and foremost of which is this: Why would Osama Bin laden, the Saudi Arabian caveman, steal identities? To cover his tracks you say? Next question: Why would a Saudi Arabian, attempting to cover his tracks, steal the identities of... fellow Saudi Arabians??? What would be the point? Why go through the trouble of stealing identities that would point back to you? Why not steal Greek identities, or Brazilian identities, or Turkish ones? A much more plausible conclusion is that non-Arabs stole these identities as part of a "false flag" operation designed to point the blame at Arabs, and Saudi Arabs in particular.
What kind of a corrupt character is FBI boss Mueller? He initially admitted that false identities were involved with 9-11, but then he allows the media to keep naming these innocent, and alive, Arabs as the hijackers? Why doesn’t he correct them? More on the slimy Mr. Mueller later on!
Now I'm really going to rock your faith in the false religion of 9-11. In February of 2000, Indian intelligence officials detained 11 members of what they thought was an Al Qaeda hijacking conspiracy. It was then discovered that these 11 "Muslim preachers" were all Israeli nationals! India’s leading weekly magazine, The Week, reported:
On January 12 Indian intelligence officials in Calcutta detained 11 foreign nationals for interrogation before they were to board a Dhaka-bound Bangladesh Biman flight. They were detained on the suspicion of being hijackers. "But we realized that they were tabliqis (Islamic preachers), so we let them go", said an Intelligence official.
The eleven had Israeli passports but were believed to be Afghan nationals who had spent a while in Iran. Indian intelligence officials, too, were surprised by the nationality profile of the eleven. "They say that they have been on tabligh (preaching Islam) in India for two months. But they are Israeli nationals from the West Bank," said a Central Intelligence official. He claimed that Tel Aviv "exerted considerable pressure" on Delhi to secure their release. "It appeared that they could be working for a sensitive organization in Israel and were on a mission to Bangladesh," the official said. 29 (emphasis added.)
What were these 11 Israelis doing trying to impersonate Al Qaeda men? Infiltrating?...perhaps. Framing?...more likely. But the important precedent to understand is this: Israeli agents were once caught red handed impersonating Muslim hijackers!
This event becomes even more mind boggling when we learn that it was Indian Intelligence that helped the US to so quickly identify the "19 hijackers"! On April 3, 2002, Express India, quoting the Press Trust of India, revealed:
Washington, April 3: Indian intelligence agencies helped the US to identify the hijackers who carried out the deadly September 11 terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, a media report said here on Wednesday. 30
Ain't that a kick in the ass?!! Did you catch that? The Indian intelligence officials that were duped into mistaking Israeli agents for Al Qaeda hijackers back in 2000, were the very same clowns telling the FBI who it was that hijacked the 9-11 planes! Keep in mind that Indian intelligence has an extremely close working relationship with Israel’s Mossad because both governments hate the Muslim nation of Pakistan. 31
Now about Mohamed Atta, you know, the so-called "ring leader". There are a number of inconsistencies with that story as well. Like some of the 7 hijackers known to be still alive, Atta also had his passport stolen in 1999 32 (the same passport that miraculously survived the WTC explosion and collapse?), making him an easy mark for an identity theft. Atta was known to all as a shy, timid, and sheltered young man who was uncomfortable with women. 33 The 5 foot 7 inch, 150 pound architecture student was such a "goody two shoes" that some of his university acquaintances in Germany refrained from drinking or cursing in front of him. How this gentle, non-political mamma's boy from a good Egyptian family suddenly transformed himself into the vodka drinking, go-go girl groping terrorist animal described by the media, has to rank as the greatest personality change since another classic work of fiction, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
Atta, or someone using Atta's identity, had enrolled in a Florida flight school in 2001 and then broke off his training, making it a point to tell his instructor he was leaving for Boston. In an October 2001 interview with an ABC affiliate in Florida, flight school president Rudi Dekkers said that his course does not qualify pilots to fly commercial jumbo jets. 34 He also described Atta as "an asshole". 35 Part of the reason for Dekker's dislike for Atta stems from a highly unusual incident that occurred at the beginning of the course. Here’s the exchange between ABC producer Quentin McDermott and Dekkers:
MCDERMOTT: "Why do you say Atta was an asshole?"
DEKKERS: "Well, when Atta was here and I saw his face on several occasions in the building, then I know that they're regular students and then I try to talk to them, it's kind of a PR - where are you from? I tried to communicate with him. I found out from my people that he lived in Hamburg and he spoke German so one of the days that I saw him, I speak German myself, I'm a Dutch citizen, and I started in the morning telling him in German, "Good morning. How are you? How do you like the coffee? Are you happy here?", and he looked at me with cold eyes, didn't react at all and walked away. That was one of my first meetings I had." 36
This is eerily similar to the way in which Zacharias Moussaoui (the so-called "20th hijacker") became "belligerent" when his Minnesota flight instructor tried to speak to him in French (his first language), at the beginning of that course. The Minnessota Star Tribune reported on December 21, 2001:
"Moussaoui first raised eyebrows when, during a simple introductory exchange, he said he was from France, but then didn't seem to understand when the instructor spoke French to him. Moussaoui then became belligerent and evasive about his background, (Congressman) Oberstar and other sources said. In addition, he seemed inept in basic flying procedure, while seeking expensive training on an advanced commercial jet simulator." 37 (emphasis added.)
It truly is an amazing twist of fate that both Atta and Moussaoui both had American flight instructors who spoke German and French respectively. Even the great Mossad could not have foreseen such a coincidence! The real Atta would have been able to respond to his instructor’s German small talk and the real Moussaoui would have been able to respond to his instructor’s French small talk. Atta just walked away and Moussaoui threw a fit! Neither responded because neither could. They were imposters, whose faces were probably disguised by a make up artist. Their mission was to frame the two innocent Arabs who were probably targeted by the Mossad at random.
The imposter was able to create a new Atta by using Atta's stolen passport from 1999 - the same passport that floated safely to the ground with a few burnt edges on 9-11. These strange inconsistencies tend to give support to Mohammed Atta's father's claim that he spoke over the phone with his son on September 12th, the day after the attacks. 38 Could a group of professionals have abducted and killed the real Atta in the days following the 9-11 attacks? Mossad agents, posing as "art students" were arrested after conducting some type of operation in Hollywood, Florida, the same small town that Atta stayed in! 39 So what happened to the real Mohammed Atta? To quote his grief stricken father: "Ask Mossad!".
So who, if not the "19 Arabs" was on those planes? That’s the million dollar question! There are a number of alternative scenarios. Could some Israelis have been fanatical enough to have volunteered for such a suicide mission?
There is one interesting side note here which may or may not be of any significance. One of the two Israelis who died aboard the hijacked planes was Daniel Lewin - who was aboard the first plane to crash into the Twin Towers. The Ha‘aretz News Service of Israel revealed that Lewin, was a one-time officer in the Israeli Defense Forces elite Sayeret Matkal commando unit. 40 Oddly enough, Lewin’s name is missing from CNN’s comprehensive September 11 Memorial website.
Another possibility is that some other group of "patsies" was recruited for the operation. Perhaps some anarchists, or some leftover Marxists who thought they were going to bring down western capitalism. Or perhaps, the hijackers were another group of angry Arabs who weren’t even aware of who their true handlers really were or what the broader strategic aim of the mission actually was. In the dark world of covert operations, agents are often kept ignorant of who it is that orchestrating the show.
Admittedly, these scenarios are speculative, but one thing that is not speculative is this: the hijackers were not the 19 men whose faces were shown on our TV screens!
WHO PROVIDED THE PROTECTIVE COVER FOR THE 9-11 OPERATION?
On October 26, 1999, the famous golfer Payne Stewart boarded a private Learjet in Florida and left for Texas. Shortly after takeoff, Stewart's jet veered sharply off course and began heading northwest. All contact with air controllers was lost. Within 15 minutes of having gone off course, US fighter jets had already intercepted the jet. Everyone on board was likely dead due to depressurization. These fighter jets were dispatched by NORAD, the branch of the US air force whose job it is to monitor and defend US airspace 24 hours a day. NORAD maintains a huge array of land-based radar systems, and has fighter jets on alert 24 hours a day so that they can respond to a crisis. The jets escorted the doomed airplane until another group of Air National Guard jets took over the escort mission. Finally, Stewart's jet ran out of fuel a crashed in South Dakota. The quick reaction time and military precision with which NORAD intercepted and escorted Stewart's jet was impressive, and exactly what one would have expected from the greatest military power in world history. 41
But on 9-11, the same NORAD which had so effortlessly intercepted Stewart's jet in 1999, was nowhere to be found during that two hour period between the first planes going off course and the last one crashing in a Pennsylvania field! How is it possible that the airspace between Boston and Washington DC, an area which contains the political and economic heart of the nation, was left completely defenseless? The second plane to hit the New York had flown off course without communication for 40 minutes. On its way to New York, it actually flew within a few miles of McGuire Air Force base in New Jersey, after the first tower had already been hit!
And how is it possible that Washington DC was left undefended (long after the New York attacks) when Andrews Air Force base is within car driving distance?
The air force jets which did finally arrive were too late. Was this due to NORAD's incompetence, or was the order to scramble the fighter jets deliberately delayed so that the terror attacks could take place. Given NORAD's impressive performance in the 1999 Payne Stewart disaster, this would suggest that someone high up in the Air Force establishment may have issued stand down orders to some of our Air Force bases. Remember, the Pentagon's Defense Policy Board is headed by Zionist Richard Perle and his gang of warmongering lackeys. 42 The civilians on this board wield the power to promote career minded Generals and Admirals. Is it really that hard to believe that a highly placed military leader could have collaborated with the true 9-11 planners?
What makes the Air Force's slow response even more outrageous and suspicious is that previously mentioned Newsweek article which revealed that several Pentagon leaders (Defense Policy Board?) cancelled flight plans for September 11 due to security concerns. 43 There were other warning signals too which we’re reviewed earlier. In light of all these warnings, why wasn’t NORAD and it's armada of fighters placed on an even higher alert than they already are? There is only one logical answer to these questions: Certain Pentagon leaders were "in on it".
General Hamid Gul, a former Director of Pakistani Intelligence, hit the nail on the head with his analysis:
"The attacks against New York and Washington were Israeli engineered."
"The attacks started at 8:45, and four flights are diverted from their assigned air space and no Air Force fighter jets scramble until 10:00. Radars are jammed, transponders fail and no IFF - friend or foe identification - challenge. In Pakistan, if there is no response to an IFF, jets are instantly scrambled. This was clearly an inside job. Will this also be hushed up in the investigation, like the Kennedy assassination?" 44
This raises another troubling set of questions. Surely the masterminds of the 9-11 operation would have taken the time to learn something about US air defense procedures. They would therefore have realized that hitting New York City with jets hijacked from Boston would have been difficult. New York is about 30 minutes away by airplane, and jumbo jets fly very slowly when compared to US fighter jets that can crack the sound barrier. Even with a 15-20 minute head start, NORAD's jets could have easily intercepted them, especially the second plane, which took a longer route to New York and flew way off course for 40 minutes. Why choose Boston's airport and jeopardize the success of the operation? Wouldn't it be safer to just hijack planes from New York's Kennedy or La Guardia Airports? Or even Newark, NJ which is just across the river? Any plane hijacked from either of those three busy airports would have been unstoppable. Even a plane from Philadelphia's Airport would have been much closer to the target than far away Boston.
The planners were no dummies. They must have counted on receiving protective cover and a window of opportunity by someone high up at US Air command. Why else choose Boston?
In addition to the protection that the planners were to receive from certain Air Force elements, there is another plausible theory for choosing Boston's Logan Airport as well as United and American Airlines planes. It should be noted that the firm which provides security at Boston's Logan Airport and also Newark Airport, and also works extensively with United and American Airlines, is a company called Huntleigh USA. 45 Claiming that Huntleigh USA's airport security was grossly negligent on 9-11, family members of some of the victims are suing Huntleigh. 46 Huntleigh USA had been acquired by ICTS International in 1999. ICTS is controlled by two Israelis; Ezra Harel and Menachem Atzmon. 47 In short, security at Boston's Logan airport was handled (or mishandled) by an Israeli controlled company.
Is there a connection here? Could agents have been infiltrated into Logan Airport under Israeli owned Huntleigh's cover? It's quite possible. In the days following the 9-11 attacks, Israeli security professionals began aggressively marketing themselves in order to gain more airport security jobs. 48 Americans should be grateful to have such wonderful allies who care about our airport security so much!
Could some of the failure of our defense systems be attributed to a cyber attack from computer hackers? Our defense and intelligence systems are very dependent upon technology. A well coordinated attack on these systems may also have contributed to our inability to expose and prevent the attacks. There is one group that has the capability to attack our military computer systems.
In July of 1999, Ha’aretz (Israel) ran a story headlined: "Hackers Using Israeli Net Site to Strike at Pentagon": Ha’aretz reported:
"An Israeli Internet site is being used by international computer hackers as a base for electronic attacks on US government and military computer systems, according to Pentagon officials who were quoted in a Washington Times report yesterday."
"According to the Times, the real danger to US national security is the threat posed by foreign intelligence services or governments that could launch electronic warfare against the United States" 49
And look what the US Department of Justice wrote in this 1998 press release:
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- "The Department of Justice, in conjunction with the FBI, the Air Force Office of Special Investigation, the National Aeronautic and Space Administration and the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, announced today that the Israeli National Police arrested Ehud Tenebaum, an Israeli citizen, for illegally accessing computers belonging to the Israeli and United States governments, as well as hundreds of other commercial and educational systems in the United States and elsewhere." 50
Edited by ansar on 10/08/03 02:01 PM.
And of course post 1000 is about GOLD:
The EURO VS DOLLAR CURRENCY WAR MONITOR
Alex Wallenwein
Editor, Publisher
Does the mountain subside under the hiker's climbing feet? Does it rise, when the hiker descends it?
When thinking about gold and its value relative to paper-money, people generally have a difficult time in figuring out how to determine what is moving, and what is standing still. In other words, whether by simple convenience, or habit, or because everyone else is doing it, or because we never thought through the issues ourselves, we all "value" things according to "how many dollars" (or Lira, or Francs, or Drachmas) something is "worth."
The reason is, of course, that we pay for stuff in our home currency. So, by sheer habit, we tend to value things in terms of paper-money.
Ordinarily, with minor exceptions (except in countries with major inflation), that works just fine, and we can get along just fine in the world by doing this - for the most part.
But when it comes to determining the price of gold, we soon forget that what we are implicitly doing is not just "pricing", but actually valuing. We learn, by our societal and other conditioning, to make economic value judgments in terms of the currency we use, not in terms of the stuff it buys.
And the bankers and politicians just love for us to commit that fallacy.
In reality, however, just a little bit of thinking tells us that in a severe price-inflation environment, it is not really the stuff we buy that gets expensive. It's the currency we use to pay for it that gets cheaper and cheaper.
At the height of Germany's hyper-inflation after WWI, you probably would have had no problems at all in bartering a carton of eggs for a loaf of bread, just like you could have before the depression. But in terms of "Reichsmark", you'd better come up with a wheelbarrow full of RM 10,000 notes to buy that loaf!
So what rose? What fell?
Obviously, it wasn't the loaf that got bigger, and thereby increased its value to the buyer.
We would do well to remember that lesson when we complain that "they knocked the gold price down, again!" No, Sir! That is not what's happening. "They" (whoever "they" are) instead used a whole array of tactics to make it appear as if people value paper-money more than they value gold. That is, they artificially jacked up the "price" of currency.
In the past decade (the "anti-gold" decade), that has been quite successful. Paper assets "made money" then, while gold "just sat there" without bringing in any "returns." Well, it is precisely the fact that gold "just sat there" that confirms its ultimate value-determining function. Gold cannot be made less desirable by itself. Even "they" cannot make it uglier by scratching it, or defacing it, or forming it into disgusting shapes, or whatever. The only thing they can do is deceive people by making them believe that paper-assets are more desirable - at the moment.
The value of paper assets depends on many things. The value of gold depends on - nothing.
People value it, no matter what anybody does to it, how it looks, who owns it, who digs it out of the ground, or whether people hide it or throw it out in the street. Gold may temporarily go "out of fashion", but just wait for a while until economic bad times return, and people will remember real fast what the value of gold is.
Even Alan Greenspan, the de facto 'enemy of gold', said in 1999 that "gold remains the ultimate form of payment.." He knows exactly what the value of gold is.
Why don't we, who call ourselves "gold investors"?
So people cry: "Gold is up!" and: "Gold is down!" or: "We are being deceived, defrauded by the money powers!" or whatever - and we sell at the slightest price-dip.
If you own physical gold, it is impossible that you could be defrauded by market action such as that of October 3, 2003 - unless you can be tricked into giving your gold up and "cashing it in" for worth-less paper currency. As long as you keep your gold, you own something of ultimate value. You don't really care whether paper is expensive at the moment, or not.
So it turns out that many of us who are screaming for a higher gold price, a "fair" gold price, are the first ones who are willing to give our gold up to "lock in" illusory paper profits when the powers that (would like to) be are rolling out their smoke machines and their cabinet of mirrors.
Gold is the mountain. Fiat-money is the hiker.
Those of us who are writing about gold should form a "cartel" of our own. We should "conspire" to speak the truth, and no longer refer to a "rising gold price" or a falling gold price" - but only to a rise or fall of paper money. How would that change people's perceptions?
The times have changed. The world is no longer what it used to be. This is true as much in the financial arena as it is in the geo-political arena. Old alliances we all grew up with simply disappear - and new ones rise up. Old valuation standards we all grew up with will likewise disappear - and even older ones will reappear.
The entire world now, minus the US (and a dwindling number of captive dollar "supporters"), is moving toward gold as the ultimate standard of value. The Europeans have created and launched their gold-positive fiat euro. The Chinese are liberalizing the heck out of their gold market and are discretely buying gold wherever they can find it. So do the Arabs and other Muslim countries.
Asian exporters play along with the dollar only for as long as it takes them to create an alternative market for their products. The Chinese got their currency pegged to the dollar, so they don't care how low the dollar goes: their yuan (renminbi) will always remain lower. The other Asian "tigers" do care - for now. But for how much longer?
Who else is left? Russia? They're buying gold whenever they can afford it. Muslims? They are creating their own gold currency. Canada? Canada now has almost as many euro-reserves as it has dollar reserves. Wonder why?
The US now stands alone. What you saw on Friday, October 3, 2003, was a coughing-spasm of a dying currency patient. (A patient who has lost its last physician, I might add.)
No matter how powerful this country is militarily, technologically, productivity-wise, capital-wise, if its political/financial leadership continues to fight gold, it continues to refuse the one medicine that could release it from its tuberculosis. This country cannot fight bed-rock value with military and other might. Gold cannot be created, and it cannot be destroyed. And dominating mid-east oil is proving more difficult than anticipated.
[Wrong but true; you get the idea. ]
In a future world where every other country, and every citizen of every other country, recognizes the value of gold, and is freed to use it to its maximum, even an entire US population that swears by paper dollars will not suffice to keep the illusion up. We will only continue to delude ourselves.
Reality is never messed with for long without the most dire, most immediate consequences. Gold is the ultimate economic reality. And the emergence of the euro has in effect freed the world to once again recognize this reality for what it is. The US government cannot stand against this with its dreams of an "American Century."
Eventually, even the majority of Americans will recognize this reality again, and will look to their government, and ask: why did you not do something about this? Why did you not let us know about this?
Any US administration (of whatever flavor) that wants to stand a chance of staying in, or coming to power, had better come up with a real good answer to this question - and fast!
Or, better yet, if such an administration has any real attachment to the principles of individual liberty and true capitalism left in it, it had better free the dollar from its unnatural $42.222 per ounce gold-shackles (and thus free gold from its dollar-shackles) to give the dollar at least a fighting chance to compete. Otherwise, the dollar will be "toast" - and the other slice in that toaster will be the US economy.
But alas, in a world where communist nations like China are teaching the United States lessons in free-market capitalism (by buying gold and liberalizing their gold markets), what are the chances for that happening?
8 October 2003
Got Gold?
What do you do when all your investments are doing great, when you have a high-paying job or successful business, but the dollars you earn are dropping and dropping in value?
Despite recent FOREX set-backs, the euro continues to advance on the dollar's reserve-currency function (and therefore on your pocketbook) and there is no end in sight. How will this affect your money, your job/business, your retirement, and your kids' education? What can you DO about it?
You owe it to yourself, your family, and your future to find out.
Find out NOW. Free Report: 64735@currencywar.ez-optin.com
www.a1-guide-to-gold-investments.com/euro-vs-dollar.html
http://www.gold-eagle.com/editorials_03/wallenwein100903.html
The Cruel Economic Recovery
http://www.321gold.com/editorials/benson/benson100803.html
[Click for chart. Note how numbers add up to 100.]
Richard Benson
October 8, 2003
Now that Levi Strauss will no longer be making blue jeans in the United States, I can't help but recall the old days when our exports of blue jeans, rock and roll, and Hollywood movies helped American culture to make the world a better place to live.
Now, sadly, blue jeans are an import while music, film, and computer software are copied for free in Asia. In addition, this week the US Auto manufacturers have signed labor contracts permitting them to shut down 10 auto and parts plants (remember when Stalin was afraid of Detroit because of what it could produce). "Joe Six Pack" used to build a car by day and go to a drive-in by night. Now, Americans who want to work worry about "Drive Bys" both day and night. Without jobs to keep people motivated and out of mischief, the US prison population is up to a record 2,000,000.
The US now only produces 45% of the manufactured goods it consumes. In September, manufacturing jobs declined for the 38th month in a row, and weekly earnings dropped for the first time in 14 years. Moreover, The Bureau of Labor Statistics has interesting and startling information, should anyone care to look below:
Potential Workers Over 16 Years Old
Jan 1993 to Jan 2001 Jan 2001 to Sep 2003
Growth % of Total Growth % of Total
(Totals in Millions)
Labor Force: 15.40 77% 2.75 35%
Not In Labor Force: 4.53 23% 5.14 65%
Total: 19.93 100% 7.89 100%
In the years of good economic growth through the peak of the stock market bubble, over 75% of the increase in population over the age of 16 entered the labor force. Since the beginning of 2001, only 35% of the increase in population over the age of 16 is actually entering the labor force. In the January '93 - January '01 period above, the labor force was growing on average by 160,000 people a month. Since January '01, the labor force is only growing 88,000 a month. These numbers are extraordinary!
While the US Government has been vocal about trying to keep the wrong people from entering the country, the increase in population over the age of 16 looks right on trend. However, where the US Government has been "silent but successful" is in making sure that the labor force does not increase. I question whether keeping workers out of the labor force is sound economic policy? The fact remains that if the US continued adding the same percentage of population to the labor force (as was the case at the normal 77% rate above) the labor force would be larger by 3,328,000. Since not one of these workers would be employed, adding them back as unemployed would make the politically sensitive unemployment rate go over 8.2%. That rate would not be good news for consumer confidence, spending, or the stock market. It's much better for economic policy that workers are kept out of the labor force, particularly in an election year!
Other facts also show that this economic recovery is both "cruel and unusual:"
Initial unemployment claims at levels above those needed to create jobs, and long term unemployment benefits, are caped only because workers exhaust their benefits and drop off the unemployment roles forever.
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Personal bankruptcies remain above 30,000 a week, while mortgage and consumer credit delinquency rates remain disturbingly high.
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The poverty rate has been rising significantly, as well as the number of people who can not afford health care coverage.
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Record numbers of high school and college graduates are not finding jobs and are staying home. Careers remain on hold, while workers scramble to find anything that generates income to keep the wolf from the door..
In September, part-time employment increased (for purely economic reasons) to 5 million, a 9 year high. This was an increase of 1.6 million, or a 47% increase over the two years beginning August 2001.
While tax cuts helped push disposable personal income up at annual rates of $125 billion in July and $74 billion in August of this year, September is likely to see a drop because no "child rebate checks" were sent out. Actual wage and salary growth from jobs remains almost non-existent and because of the Federal Reserve's low interest rate policy, the income from interest on savings is down $2 - $3 Billion a month. Personal income is rising, at most, 0.2% a month. Increases in personal consumption will again only be supported by a continuation of growing consumer borrowing and mortgage debt.
To the extent that jobs are created, they are part-time and service oriented jobs that only pay 1/4 to 1/3 as much as the manufacturing jobs they replaced. Job weakness can be expected for auto manufacturing and parts, mortgage banking, and telemarketing.
The one bright spot for job creation is statistical. Since the government knows that the economy is in economic recovery, they add an estimated 30,000 - 50,000 jobs every month, known as a statistical "plug factor," because they realize that people are starting new businesses. Any job growth in the months ahead will most likely be "part- time" and "plug factor," with the "plug factor" leading the way. (What is really cruel is that these imaginary workers are living such wonderful imaginary lives!).
Welcome to the "Un-Reality TV" of job statistics.
That was info for all not info for one...perhaps a few emails JFSAG to let a few more people know about the 9 billion...
If lots of people discover the 9 billion dollar part perhaps Enron Arnie won't be able to get away with it.
Simple: it didn't cost 9 billion to get Arnie elected...fine thinking on their part...fine return on investment too.
Kalifornians make me laff especially in Orange where they're so freaking smug...and guys like me are just CT's...
First Enron litterally puts them in the dark, then they keep them in the dark and now they'll stay in the dark and may not get their 9 billion back...
Keep your eye on the court case and what happens to the $9 bil judgement, nobody (in the media) seems to want to talk about.
Simplest question always:
Cui bono?
Answer: Enron. IF they can get the judgement dropped or reduced due to Arnie being in Sac.
What if Arnie suprises everybody and doesn't play ball he made some interesting comments about hydrogen. And the family he married into ain't exactly without influence and them Kennedy's ain't known for theeir republican tendancies...wonder what Thanksgiving is gonna be like at their house this year...
I think everybody is in for a bit of a suprise.
Including me and you.
Kalifonia, 60% Diebold,
Faux and everyone else said it was gonna be Arnold before the election, with only 10% of the vote in they were already calling it for Arnold and of course anybody that would allege vote fraud would have to be a nut and a CT...since everybody already knew Arnold would win.
Mind control a wonderful thing ain't it?
The nerds shall set us free.
Still, won a 100 bucks off the deal...
Did paper ballot counties behave differently than touch screen ballot counties? I don't know. Is anybody else asking?
Faux ain't.
As Bush Implodes, 30 Ways Desperate Right Wingers Will Respond
by Rob Kall
OpEdNews.Com
Like Bill Clinton, George Bush seems to have some Teflon -like qualities. It is unlikely that the leaker of the info on Joe Wilson's wife's CIA connection will be identified. But as Bush and his bumbling team of lying incompetents continues to thrash, like Godzilla, through the assets and resources of the USA, knocking them down, destroying them, and creating chaos, the right wing is becoming and will become even more desperate. Here's a list of some desperate acts we can expect the far right and their legislative stooges to take:
-more Texas and Colorado style gerrymandering
-Florida and Georgia style vote and voter roll list corruption
-dirt slinging and accusations (like Paula Jones) just as Gray Davis used on Arnold, who clearly, was guilty.
-distraction tactics, including:
Iran or Syria war
Inflammation of N. Korean situation, probably started by heightened polemic
announcements of arrests of terrorists
orange alerts
Roe Vs. Wade abortionb fight
Church vs. State skirmishes like the 10 commandments in the Courthouse
Sexuality and Homosexuality issue conflagrations
-increased partisan acrimony in congress
-3rd party funded attack ads
-Fear, fear, fear and more fear
-Bringing up the Clintons. Beating on Hilary.
-Sanctimonious Morality Attacks
-More attacks on Liberalism and Liberals
-attack and harass vocal critics
-Blame problems Bush and DeLay created on Democrats, on Clinton
-trying to change the rules, break them (like passing a low that allows Arnold to run for president, as Orrin Hatch is talking up.)
-corrupt or convert susceptible democrats like Zell Miller, John Breaux, the Texas Democrat who broke ranks, allowing the gerrymandering to proceed.
-Last Ditch attacks on, and attempts to reduce or eliminate:
taxes
government (agencies, workers,)
regulations
Last Ditch:
give-aways to corporations
privatization of government and commons assetes
pardons of corporate criminals-- Enron, MCI, Tyco, etc.
contracts to Haliburton and other friends
axing of programs
gutting of environmental laws and regulations
-And last but not least, they will try to reverse or fix elections. If they don't win the old fashioned way, they'll take stealing an election, like they did in Florida and elsewhere.
Of course these are the kinds of things far right wing Republicans like to do anyway. But in their desperation, they will be more aggressive, more reckless, less cautious and both more likely to do damage and more likely to get caught. It's up to those on the left to catch them and show the American voters how it was a mistake to let these foxes into the henhouse, and that it's time to clean up the mess and clear out the far right republicans.
Rob Kall rob@opednews.com is editor of OpEdNews.com You can see other Other writings of Rob Kall here This article is copyright by Rob Kall, but permission is granted for reprint in print, email, blog, or web media so long as this entire credit paragraph is attached
http://www.opednews.com/kall1003Bush_Implodes.htm
DIEBOLD VOTING MACHINES TALLIES A NEGATIVE 16,022
Posted By: rumormillnews@yahoogroups
Date: Wednesday, 8 October 2003, 9:58 a.m.
In Response To: DIEBOLD VOTING MACHINES LINK - MUST SEE!! (rumormillnews@yahoogroups)
From: "aa664rstout" <aa664@acorn.net>
Date: Wed Oct 8, 2003 1:50 am
Subject: Diebold voting machines in Volusia County FL
From: risko@csl.sri.com (RISKS List Owner)
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Subject: Risks Digest 22.93
Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2003 22:55:45 +0000 (UTC)
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Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 09:57:44 -0400
From: "Brent M.P. Beleskey" <voterscoalition@rogers.com>
Subject: Diebold voting machines in Volusia County FL
ELECTION THEFT 2000! A NEW BOMBSHELL!: A Diebold Voting Machines in
Volusia County, Florida, Tallied a Vote-Count of -16,022. That's
NEGATIVE 16,022:
When will this all-important story break out in the US mainstream
press? When will the Democrats confront the issue? What is at stake
here is the future of democracy.
Diebold Internal Support Memos
[The original article to which this post refers was originally
published on 29 Nov 2000 in *USA Today* by Philip Meyer. When I did a
search for the article on the www.usatoday.com website I came up with
this page which
clearly provides the details of the article and even offers a link to
a free preview of the article. However, when you click on the link,
it gives you a page void of the article. What happened to it? One can
only speculate. Nevertheless, I have obtained the original article.
BMPB]
[Contact Brent Beleskey <voterscoalition@rogers.com> for the
article, PGN]
A remarkable exchange concerning Diebold's voting machines in Volusia
County, Florida: On January 17, 2001, Lana Hines, a county elections
official sends out an inquiry as to how Al Gore ended up with a vote-
count of -16,022. That's NEGATIVE 16,022 -- which just happens also
to have been the total number of votes cast for various independent
and third-party candidates who also ran. (It was the largest number
of such votes cast in Volusia County's history.)
Pay close attention to the final entry, from "Tab" (Talbot) Iredale,
Vice President of Research & Development at Global/Diebold:
...The error could only occur in one of four ways:
1.Corrupt memory card. This is the most likely explanation
for the problem but since I know nothing about the
'second' memory card I have no ability to confirm the
probability of this.
2.Invalid read from good memory card. This is unlikely
since the candidates['] results for the race are not all
read at the same time and the corruption was limited to a
single race. There is a possib[ili]ty that a section of
the memory card was bad but since I do not know anything
more about the 'second' memory card I cannot validate
this.
3.Corruption of memory, whether on the host or Accu-Vote.
Again this is unlikely due to the localization of the
problem to a single race.
4.Invalid memory card (i.e., one that should not have been
uploaded). There is always the possiblity that the
'second memory card' or 'second upload' came from an
unauthorised source.
And that's only the tip of the iceberg.
http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=37706
FOREX-Dollar slides as sentiment remains bearish
8 October 2003, 10:13am ET
By Gertrude Chavez
NEW YORK, Oct 8 (Reuters) - The dollar slipped against major currencies on Wednesday as market sentiment remained bearish amid growing conviction that a long-awaited U.S. economic rebound may have hit a wall.
In the virtual absence of key economic data, traders continued to be on the lookout for Bank of Japan yen-weakening interventions as Japanese officials continued their jawboning overnight against the yen's rapid movements.
In early U.S. trade, the euro was up 0.33 percent against the dollar at $1.1805, after rising to within one cent of its all-time high earlier in the session. The single European currency's gains kept it slightly supported against the yen as well, buying about 129.36 yen .
Against the Swiss franc , the dollar was once again trading below 1.32 francs, off 0.27 percent on the day. The pound , meanwhile, traded nearly flat on the day against the dollar at $1.6632.
Dealers continue to make reference to the Group of Seven statement on Sept. 20, which called for flexible exchange rates. In addition there is renewed focus in the currency markets on the wide U.S. current account deficit.
"One thing is pretty clear. We're back to talking about the current account deficit," said Philip Capone, a foreign exchange trader at Fortis Bank in New York.
In addition, comments from European officials this week led by outgoing European Central Bank President Wim Duisenberg, that a dollar fall was "unavoidable", have encouraged traders to probe levels for the euro above $1.18.
Traders said the euro seems to be a one-way bet against the dollar and as long as short-term moves above $1.17 hold, the uptrend remains in place.
SNOW APPEARANCE BEFORE SENATE
Markets were also nervously awaiting U.S. Treasury Secretary John Snow's appearance at a Senate hearing on foreign exchange policies next week, and a summit meeting of Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation in Bangkok later this month.
"These key events are making the dollar a little weaker, although nothing has changed much since yesterday," said Larry Brickman, currency strategist at Banc of America Securities in New York.
STILL ON INTERVENTION WATCH
Traders remained alert to any possible intervention by the BoJ after the dollar fell below the key 110 yen level on Tuesday and following more yen-related comments from Japanese officials overnight. The dollar climbed briefly above 110 yen on Tuesday amid suspicions Japan may have intervened to prop up the greenback.
On Wednesday, the dollar fell 0.37 percent to 109.51 yen .
"Markets are still anticipating any BoJ action for as long as we're below that 110 yen level and after statements from Japan overnight," said Brickman.
Fierce yen-weakening rhetoric ensued in Asian trading, with Japanese Finance Minister Sadakazu Tanigaki indicating that Japan would continue intervening on sharp yen moves.
This was followed by Finance Ministry's International affairs chief Zembei Mizoguchi, who continued a verbal battle against post-G7 dollar bearishness, saying that intervention had tacit approval from other G7 nations.
But he declined to comment on suspected Japanese intervention in New York on Tuesday after the dollar plunged to fresh lows.
(Additional reporting by Carolyn Cohn in London)
http://finance.lycos.com/qc/news/story.aspx?story=35978861
All is well: just keep voting for democrats or republicans...
It never ceases to amaze me.
Folks like you, and you are in the majority, go through life with nary a clue as to what is going on around them. It seems that your fellow clueless have gotten themselves skinned again in California.
Ken Lay recruited Arnold to run for Governor when he discovered that funding a recall election was much, much cheaper than paying the negotiated settlement between the Texas gas companies and the people of California. That settlement was in the amount of $9 billion dollars.
Texas gas companies used every trick in the buck, plus many new ones, to defraud the citizens of California our of their money. This is well documented from evidence gathered at the trials of former Enron executives and discovery in the lawsuit filed by Cruz Bustamante against the Texas companies. Damages were estimated in excess of 9 billion dollars and a settlement in that amount had been negotiated when Ken Lay, former CEO of Enron, one of the defendants hit upon the idea to fund a recall of Gov. Davis who was now highly unpopular, specifically because of the problems caused by the fraud. He went to the actor, Arnold Schwartznegger, and convinced him to run with the financial support of the Texas gas industry. The payoff is to be the withdrawal of the State of California from both the settlement and the Bustamante lawsuit, thus saving the Texas companies $9 billion.
Arnold is certainly not going to do anything but continue the rape of the people of California and it is amazing that they are that stupid. That $9 billion would go a long way to helping that state recover. Instead they got a governor that is used to working with a director and that director is Ken Lay.
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=GRENSPAN&read=48030
[I know I know a link to RB on IHUB is sacrilege but still...]
Schwarzenegger: Total Amnesia? Enron E-Mails Show Arnold Met With Ken Lay During Energy Crisis, Says Consumer Group
10/3/03 4:00:00 PM
To: National Desk
Contact: Doug Heller of the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights, 310-392-0522 ext. 309 or 310-480-4170
SANTA MONICA, Calif., Oct. 3 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Internal Enron e-mails confirm that Arnold Schwarzenegger was among a small group of executives who met with Lay at the posh Peninsula Beverly Hills hotel in May of 2001, in the midst of California's energy crisis. The Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights, which obtained the e-mails, is calling on Schwarzenegger to acknowledge the meetings and disclose the information that was presented and discussed. The meeting with Enron occurred ten days after rolling blackouts darkened California for two consecutive days; Schwarzenegger has previously said that he does not remember such a meeting.
"You don't meet with America's most well-known corporate crook in the middle of California's biggest financial disaster and not remember," said FTCR's senior consumer advocate Douglas Heller. "Mr. Schwarzenegger should come clean about what happened at that meeting and if he shares Ken Lay's views on energy regulation."
The documents provide a list of invitees to the hastily arranged meeting and a list of those who actually attended. Only eleven of the 45 invitees attended, including Schwarzenegger. The meeting was meant to be an opportunity to gain business community support for Enron's "comprehensive solution" to the energy crisis. In one e-mail, Enron's VP of Public Relations wrote: "We'd like to position this meeting as an insider's conversation of what's going on with the energy situation. This meeting should be for principals only." (emphasis in original)
FTCR contends that Enron policies were responsible for the severe energy crisis California faced in 2000 and 2001. The group noted that the crisis had dramatic implications on the state economy and state budget and will continue to impact consumers for years to come. FTCR has called for a repeal of the deregulation and supported SB 888 (Dunn) to re-regulate the state's electricity system. FTCR has been critical of Enron's involvement in the California energy crisis, in which the company developed schemes for manipulating the power market that forced massive price spikes in the state.
"Since it was apparently important enough for Schwarzenegger to attend despite the last minute notice, Schwarzenegger should now explain what happened at his meeting with Enron's Ken Lay and whether or not he supports electricity re-regulation," said Heller.
A copy of the documents are available from FTCR.
------
FTCR is a non-partisan, nonprofit organization. FTCR does not support or oppose candidates for office and takes no position on the California recall.
http://www.usnewswire.com/
http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=144-10032003
Arnold Unplugged - It's hasta la vista to $9 billion if the Governator is selected
Friday, October 3, 2003
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It's not what Arnold Schwarzenegger did to the girls a decade back that should raise an eyebrow. According to a series of memoranda our office obtained today, it's his dalliance with the boys in a hotel room just two years ago that's the real scandal.
The wannabe governor has yet to deny that on May 17, 2001, at the Peninsula Hotel in Los Angeles, he had consensual political intercourse with Enron chieftain Kenneth Lay. Also frolicking with Arnold and Ken was convicted stock swindler Mike Milken.
Now, thirty-four pages of internal Enron memoranda have just come through this reporter's fax machine tell all about the tryst between Maria's husband and the corporate con men. It turns out that Schwarzenegger knowingly joined the hush-hush encounter as part of a campaign to sabotage a Davis-Bustamante plan to make Enron and other power pirates then ravaging California pay back the $9 billion in illicit profits they carried off.
Here's the story Arnold doesn't want you to hear. The biggest single threat to Ken Lay and the electricity lords is a private lawsuit filed last year under California's unique Civil Code provision 17200, the "Unfair Business Practices Act." This litigation, heading to trial now in Los Angeles, would make the power companies return the $9 billion they filched from California electricity and gas customers.
It takes real cojones to bring such a suit. Who's the plaintiff taking on the bad guys? Cruz Bustamante, Lieutenant Governor and reluctant leading candidate against Schwarzenegger.
Now follow the action. One month after Cruz brings suit, Enron's Lay calls an emergency secret meeting in L.A. of his political buck-buddies, including Arnold. Their plan, to undercut Davis (according to Enron memos) and "solve" the energy crisis -- that is, make the Bustamante legal threat go away.
How can that be done? Follow the trail with me.
While Bustamante's kicking Enron butt in court, the Davis Administration is simultaneously demanding that George Bush's energy regulators order the $9 billion refund. Don't hold your breath: Bush's Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is headed by a guy proposed by … Ken Lay.
But Bush's boys on the commission have a problem. The evidence against the electricity barons is rock solid: fraudulent reporting of sales transactions, megawatt "laundering," fake power delivery scheduling and straight out conspiracy (including meetings in hotel rooms).
So the Bush commissioners cook up a terrific scheme: charge the companies with conspiracy but offer them, behind closed doors, deals in which they have to pay only two cents on each dollar they filched.
Problem: the slap-on-the-wrist refunds won't sail if the Governor of California won't play along. Solution: Re-call the Governor.
New Problem: the guy most likely to replace Davis is not Mr. Musclehead, but Cruz Bustamante, even a bigger threat to the power companies than Davis. Solution: smear Cruz because -- heaven forbid! -- he took donations from Injuns (instead of Ken Lay).
The pay-off? Once Arnold is Governor, he blesses the sweetheart settlements with the power companies. When that happens, Bustamante's court cases are probably lost. There aren't many judges who will let a case go to trial to protect a state if that a governor has already allowed the matter to be "settled" by a regulatory agency.
So think about this. The state of California is in the hole by $8 billion for the coming year. That's chump change next to the $8 TRILLION in deficits and surplus losses planned and incurred by George Bush. Nevertheless, the $8 billion deficit is the hanging rope California's right wing is using to lynch Governor Davis.
Yet only Davis and Bustamante are taking direct against to get back the $9 billion that was vacuumed out of the state by Enron, Reliant, Dynegy, Williams Company and the other Texas bandits who squeezed the state by the bulbs.
But if Arnold is selected, it's 'hasta la vista' to the $9 billion. When the electricity emperors whistle, Arnold comes -- to the Peninsula Hotel or the Governor's mansion. The he-man turns pussycat and curls up in their lap.
I asked Mr. Muscle's PR people to comment on the new Enron memos -- and his strange silence on Bustamante's suit or Davis' petition. But Arnold was too busy shaving off his Hitlerian mustache to respond.
The Enron memos were discovered by the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights, Los Angeles,
www.ConsumerWatchdog.org
http://gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=283&row=0
Plan worked, media and sheeple failed to notice...media on purpose.
SUPER-EFFICIENT ELECTROLYSIS
Water can be broken into Hydrogen and Oxygen using electricity. Standard chemistry books claim that this process requires more energy than can be recovered when the gases are recombined. This is true only under the worst case scenario. When water is hit with its own molecular resonant frequency, using a system developed by Stan Meyers (USA) and again recently by Xogen Power, Inc., it collapses into Hydrogen and Oxygen gas with very little electrical input. Also, using different electrolytes (additives that make the water conduct electricity better) changes the efficiency of the process dramatically. It is also known that certain geometric structures and surface textures work better than others do. The implication is that unlimited amounts of Hydrogen fuel can be made to drive engines (like in your car) for the cost of water. Even more amazing is the fact that a special metal alloy was patented by Freedman (USA) in 1957 that spontaneously breaks water into Hydrogen and Oxygen with no outside electrical input and without causing any chemical changes in the metal itself. This means that this special metal alloy can make Hydrogen from water for free, forever.
LINKS
Xogen Power Inc. - http://www.xogen.com/ This is the website of a Canadian company who is trying to bring Super-Efficient Electrolysis hydrogen to market.
Genesis World Energy - http://www.genesisworldenergy.org/genesis_world_energy.htm This is the website of a new group that has developed a new method of Super-Efficient Electrolysis and a hydrogen fuel-cell technology combination. If you are interested in Super Electrolysis definately check out this website.
PATENTS - Following are three patents that relate to this technology that you might want to look up.
Chambers -USP #6126794
Freedman - USP #2,927,856
Meyers - USP #4936961
This page is still under construction. Please check back periodically for updates.
Somebody get this INFO to Enron Arnie on the double!
http://www.free-energy.ws/electrolysis.html
The World of Free Energy
By Peter Lindemann, D.Sc.
March 1, 2001
In the late 1880's, trade journals in the electrical sciences were predicting "free electricity" in the near future. Incredible discoveries about the nature of electricity were becoming common place. Nikola Tesla was demonstrating "wireless lighting" and other wonders associated with high frequency currents. There was an excitement about the future like never before.
Within 20 years, there would be automobiles, airplanes, movies, recorded music, telephones, radio, and practical cameras. The Victorian Age was giving way to something totally new. For the first time in history, common people were encouraged to envision a utopian future, filled with abundant modern transportation and communication, as well as jobs, housing and food for everyone. Disease would be conquered, and so would poverty. Life was getting better, and this time, everyone was going to get "a piece of the pie." So, what happened? In the midst of this technological explosion, where did the energy breakthroughs go? Was all of this excitement about "free electricity", which happened just before the beginning of the last century, all just wishful thinking that "real science" eventually disproved?
Current State of Technology
Actually, the answer to that question is NO. In fact, the opposite is true. Spectacular energy technologies were developed right along with the other breakthroughs. Since that time, multiple methods for producing vast amounts of energy at extremely low cost have been developed. None of these technologies have made it to the "open" consumer market as an article of commerce, however. Exactly why this is true will be discussed shortly. But first, I would like to describe to you a short list of "free energy" technologies that I am currently aware of, and that are proven beyond all reasonable doubt. The common feature connecting all of these discoveries, is that they use a small amount of one form of energy to control or release a large amount of a different kind of energy. Many of them tap the underlying Æther field in some way; a source of energy conveniently ignored by "modern" science.
1) Radiant Energy. Nikola Tesla's Magnifying Transmitter, T. Henry Moray's Radiant Energy Device, Edwin Gray's EMA Motor, and Paul Baumann's Testatika Machine all run on Radiant Energy. This natural energy form can be gathered directly from the environment (mistakenly called "static" electricity) or extracted from ordinary electricity by the method called "fractionation." Radiant Energy can perform the same wonders as ordinary electricity, at less than 1% of the cost. It does not behave exactly like electricity, however, which has contributed to the scientific community's misunderstanding of it. The Methernitha Community in Switzerland currently has 5 or 6 working models of fuelless, self-running devices that tap this energy.
2) Permanent Magnets. Dr. Robert Adams (NZ) has developed astounding designs of electric motors, generators and heaters that run on permanent magnets. One such device draws 100 watts of electricity from the source, generates 100 watts to recharge the source, and produces over 140 BTU's of heat in two minutes! Dr. Tom Bearden (USA) has two working models of a permanent magnet powered electrical transformer. It uses a 6-watt electrical input to control the path of a magnetic field coming out of a permanent magnet. By channeling the magnetic field, first to one output coil and then a second output coil, and by doing this repeatedly and rapidly in a "Ping-Pong" fashion, the device can produce a 96-watt electrical output with no moving parts. Bearden calls his device a Motionless Electromagnetic Generator, or MEG. Jean-Louis Naudin has duplicated Bearden's device in France. The principles for this type of device were first disclosed by Frank Richardson (USA) in 1978. Troy Reed (USA) has working models of a special magnetized fan that heats up as it spins. It takes exactly the same amount of energy to spin the fan whether it is generating heat or not. Beyond these developments, multiple inventors have identified working mechanisms that produce motor torque from permanent magnets alone.
3) Mechanical Heaters. There are two classes of machines that transform a small amount of mechanical energy into a large amount of heat. The best of these purely mechanical designs are the rotating cylinder systems designed by Frenette (USA) and Perkins (USA). In these machines, one cylinder is rotated within another cylinder with about an eighth of an inch of clearance between them. The space between the cylinders is filled with a liquid such as water or oil, and it is this "working fluid" that heats up as the inner cylinder spins. Another method uses magnets mounted on a wheel to produce large eddy currents in a plate of aluminum, causing the aluminum to heat up rapidly. These magnetic heaters have been demonstrated by Muller (Canada), Adams (NZ) and Reed (USA). All of these systems can produce ten times more heat than standard methods using the same energy input.
4) Super-Efficient Electrolysis. Water can be broken into Hydrogen and Oxygen using electricity. Standard chemistry books claim that this process requires more energy than can be recovered when the gases are recombined. This is true only under the worst case scenario. When water is hit with its own molecular resonant frequency, using a system developed by Stan Meyers (USA) and again recently by Xogen Power, Inc., it collapses into Hydrogen and Oxygen gas with very little electrical input. Also, using different electrolytes (additives that make the water conduct electricity better) changes the efficiency of the process dramatically. It is also known that certain geometric structures and surface textures work better than others do. The implication is that unlimited amounts of Hydrogen fuel can be made to drive engines (like in your car) for the cost of water. Even more amazing is the fact that a special metal alloy was patented by Freedman (USA) in 1957 that spontaneously breaks water into Hydrogen and Oxygen with no outside electrical input and without causing any chemical changes in the metal itself. This means that this special metal alloy can make Hydrogen from water for free, forever.
5) Implosion/Vortex. All major industrial engines use the release of heat to cause expansion and pressure to produce work, like in your car engine. Nature uses the opposite process of cooling to cause suction and vacuum to produce work, like in a tornado. Viktor Schauberger (Austria) was the first to build working models of Implosion Engines in the 1930's and 1940's. Since that time, Callum Coats has published extensively on Schauberger's work in his book Living Energies and subsequently, a number of researchers have built working models of Implosion Turbine Engines. These are fuelless engines that produce mechanical work from energy accessed from a vacuum. There are also much simpler designs that use vortex motions to tap a combination of gravity and centrifugal force to produce a continuous motion in fluids.
6) Cold Fusion. In March 1989, two Chemists from the University of Utah (USA) announced that they had produced atomic fusion reactions in a simple tabletop device. The claims were "debunked" within 6 months and the public lost interest. Nevertheless, Cold Fusion is very real. Not only has excess heat production been repeatedly documented, but also low energy atomic element transmutation has been catalogued, involving dozens of different reactions! This technology definitely can produce low cost energy and scores of other important industrial processes.
7) Solar Assisted Heat Pumps. The refrigerator in your kitchen is the only "free energy machine" you currently own. It's an electrically operated heat pump. It uses one amount of energy (electricity) to move three amounts of energy (heat). This gives it a "co-efficient of performance" (COP) of about 3. Your refrigerator uses one amount of electricity to pump three amounts of heat from the inside of the refrigerator to the outside of the refrigerator. This is its typical use, but it is the worst possible way to use the technology. Here's why. A heat pump pumps heat from the "source" of heat to the "sink" or place that absorbs the heat. The "source" of heat should obviously be HOT and the "sink" for heat should obviously be COLD for this process to work the best. In your refrigerator, it's exactly the opposite. The "source" of heat is inside the box, which is COLD, and the "sink" for heat is the room temperature air of your kitchen, which is warmer than the source. This is why the COP remains low for your kitchen refrigerator. But this is not true for all heat pumps. COP's of 8 to 10 are easily attained with solar assisted heat pumps. In such a device, a heat pump draws heat from a solar collector and dumps the heat into a large underground absorber, which remains at 55° F, and mechanical energy is extracted in the transfer. This process is equivalent to a steam engine that extracts mechanical energy between the boiler and the condenser, except that it uses a fluid that "boils" at a much lower temperature than water. One such system that was tested in the 1970's produced 350 hp, measured on a Dynamometer, in a specially designed engine from just 100-sq. ft. of solar collector. (This is NOT the system promoted by Dennis Lee.) The amount of energy it took to run the compressor (input) was less than 20 hp, so this system produced more than 17 times more energy than it took to keep it going! It could power a small neighborhood from the roof of a hot tub gazebo, using exactly the same technology that keeps the food cold in your kitchen. Currently, there is an industrial scale heat pump system just north of Kona, Hawaii that generates electricity from temperature differences in ocean water.
There are dozens of other systems that I have not mentioned, many of them are as viable and well tested as the ones I have just recounted. But this short list is sufficient to make my point: free energy technology is here, now. It offers the world pollution-free, energy abundance for everyone, everywhere. It is now possible to stop the production of "greenhouse gases" and shut down all of the nuclear power plants. We can now desalinate unlimited amounts of seawater at an affordable price, and bring adequate fresh water to even the most remote habitats. Transportation costs and the production costs for just about everything can drop dramatically. Food can even be grown in heated greenhouses in the winter, anywhere. All of these wonderful benefits that can make life on this planet so much easier and better for everyone have been postponed for decades. Why? Whose purposes are served by this postponement?
The Invisible Enemy
There are four gigantic forces that have worked together to create this situation. To say that there is and has been a "conspiracy" to suppress this technology only leads to a superficial understanding of the world, and it places the blame for this completely outside of ourselves. Our willingness to remain ignorant and actionless in the face of this situation has always been interpreted by two of these forces as "implied consent." So, besides a "non-demanding public," what are the other three forces that are impeding the availability of free energy technology?
In standard economic theory, there are three classes of Industry. These are Capital, Goods, and Services. Within the first class, Capital, there are also three sub-classes. These are: 1) Natural Capital. This relates to raw materials (such as a gold mine) and sources of energy (such as a hydroelectric dam or an oil well). 2) Currency. This relates to the printing of paper "money" and the minting of coins. These functions are usually the job of Government. And 3) Credit. This relates to the loaning of money for interest and its extension of economic value through deposit loan accounts. From this, it is easy to see, that energy functions in the economy in the same way as gold, the printing of money by the Government, or the issuing of credit by a bank.
In the United States, and in most other countries around the world, there is a "money monopoly" in place. I am "free" to earn as much "money" as I want, but I will only be paid in Federal Reserve Notes. There is nothing I can do to be paid in Gold Certificates, or some other form of "money." This money monopoly is solely in the hands of a small number of private stock banks, and these banks are owned by the Wealthiest Families in the world. Their plan is to eventually control 100% of all of the Capital resources of the world, and thereby control everyone's life through the availability (or non-availability) of all goods and services. An independent source of wealth (free energy device) in the hands of each and every person in the world, ruins their plans for world domination, permanently. Why this is true is easy to see. Currently, a nation's economy can be either slowed down or sped up by the raising or lowering of interest rates. But if an independent source of capital (energy) were present in the economy, and any business or person could raise more capital without borrowing it from a bank, this centralized throttling action on interest rates would simply not have the same effect. Free energy technology changes the value of money. The Wealthiest Families and the Issuers of Credit do not want any competition. It's that simple. They want to maintain their current monopoly control of the money supply. For them, free energy technology is not just something to suppress, it must be PERMANENTLY FORBIDDEN!
So, the Wealthiest Families and their Central Banking institutions are the First Force operating to postpone the public availability of free energy technology. Their motivations are the imagined "divine right to rule", greed, and their insatiable need to control everything except themselves. The weapons they have used to enforce this postponement include intimidation, "expert" debunkers, buying and shelving of technology, murder and attempted murder of the inventors, character assassination, arson, and a wide variety of financial incentives and disincentives to manipulate possible supporters. They have also promoted the general acceptance of a scientific theory that states that free energy is impossible (Laws of Thermodynamics).
The Second Force operating to postpone the public availability of free energy technology is National Governments. The problem here is not so much related to competition in the printing of currency, but in the maintenance of National Security. The fact is, the world out there is a jungle, and humans can be counted upon to be very cruel, dishonest, and sneaky. It is Government's job to "provide for the common defense." For this, "police powers" are delegated by the Executive Branch of Government to enforce "the rule of law." Most of us who consent to the rule of law do so because we believe it is the right thing to do, for our own benefit. There are always a few individuals, however, that believe that their own benefit is best served by behavior that does not voluntarily conform to the generally agreed upon social order. These people choose to operate outside of "the rule of law" and are considered outlaws, criminals, subversives, traitors, revolutionaries, or terrorists.
Most National Governments have discovered, by trial and error, that the only Foreign Policy that really works, over time, is a policy called "Tit for Tat." What this means to you and me is, that governments treat each other the way they are being treated. There is a constant "jockeying" for position and influence in world affairs, and the STRONGEST party wins! In economics, it's the Golden Rule, which states: "The one with the Gold makes the Rules." So it is with politics also, but its appearance is more Darwinian. It's simply "survival of the fittest." In politics, however, the "fittest" has come to mean the strongest party who is also willing to fight the dirtiest. Absolutely every means available is used to maintain an advantage over the "adversary", and everyone else is the "adversary" regardless of whether they are considered friend or foe. This includes outrageous psychological posturing, lying, cheating, spying, stealing, assassination of world leaders, proxy wars, alliances and shifting alliances, treaties, foreign aid, and the presence of military forces wherever possible. Like it or not, this IS the psychological and actual arena National Governments operate in. No National Government will ever do anything that simply gives an adversary an advantage for free. NEVER! It's national suicide. Any activity by any individual, inside or outside the country, that is interpreted as giving an adversary an edge or advantage, in any way, will be deemed a threat to "National Security." ALWAYS!
Free energy technology is a National Government's worst nightmare! Openly acknowledged, free energy technology sparks an unlimited arms race by all governments in a final attempt to gain absolute advantage and domination. Think about it. Do you think Japan will not feel intimidated if China gets free energy? Do you think Israel will sit by quietly as Iraq acquires free energy? Do you think India will allow Pakistan to develop free energy? Do you think the USA would not try to stop Osama bin Laden from getting free energy? Unlimited energy available to the current state of affairs on this planet leads to an inevitable reshuffling of the "balance of power." This could become an all-out war to prevent "the other" from having the advantage of unlimited wealth and power. Everybody will want it, and at the same time, want to prevent everyone else from getting it.
So, National Governments are the Second Force operating to postpone the public availability of free energy technology. Their motivations are "self-preservation." This self-preservation operates on three levels. First, by not giving undue advantage to an external enemy. Second, by preventing individualized action capable of effectively challenging official police powers (anarchy) within the country. And third, by preserving income streams derived from taxing energy sources currently in use. Their weapons include the preventing of the issuance of patents based on National Security grounds, the legal and illegal harassment of inventors with criminal charges, tax audits, threats, phone taps, arrest, arson, theft of property during shipment, and a host of other intimidations which make the business of building and marketing a free energy machine impossible.
The Third Force operating to postpone the public availability of free energy technology consists of the group of deluded inventors and out right charlatans and con men. On the periphery of the extraordinary scientific breakthroughs that constitute the real free energy technologies, lies a shadow world of unexplained anomalies, marginal inventions and unscrupulous promoters. The first two Forces have constantly used the media to promote the worst examples of this group, to distract the public's attention and to discredit the real breakthroughs by associating them with the obvious frauds.
Over the last hundred years, dozens of stories have surfaced about unusual inventions. Some of these ideas have so captivated the public's imagination that a mythology about these systems continues to this day. Names like Keely, Hubbard, Coler, and Henderschott immediately come to mind. There may be real technologies behind these names, but there simply isn't enough technical data available in the public domain to make a determination. These names remain associated with a free energy mythology, however, and are sited by debunkers as examples of fraud.
The idea of free energy taps very deeply into the human subconscious mind. A few inventors with marginal technologies that demonstrate useful anomalies have mistakenly exaggerated the importance of their inventions. Some of these inventors also have mistakenly exaggerated the importance of THEMSELVES for having invented it. A combination of "gold fever" and/or a "messiah complex" appears, wholly distorting any future contribution they may make. While the research thread they are following may hold great promise, they begin to trade enthusiasm for facts, and the value of the scientific work from that point on suffers greatly. There is a powerful, yet subtle seduction that can warp a personality if they believe that "the world rests on their shoulders" or that they are the world's "savior." Strange things also happen to people when they think they are about to become extremely rich. It takes a tremendous spiritual discipline to remain objective and humble in the presence of a working free energy machine. Many inventors' psyches become unstable just BELIEVING they have a free energy machine. As the quality of the science deteriorates, some inventors also develop a "persecution complex" that makes them very defensive and unapproachable. This process precludes them from ever really developing a free energy machine, and fuels the fraud mythologies tremendously.
Then there are the out right con men. In the last 15 years, there is one person in the USA who has raised the free energy con to a professional art. He has raised more than $100,000,000, has been barred from doing business in the State of Washington, has been jailed in California, and he's still at it. He always talks about a variation of one of the real free energy systems, sells people on the idea that they will get one of these systems soon, but ultimately sells them only promotional information which gives no real data about the energy system itself. He has mercilessly preyed upon the Christian Community and the Patriot Community in the USA, and is still going strong. His current scam involves signing up hundreds of thousands of people as locations where he will install a free energy machine. In exchange for letting him put the FE generator in their home, they will get free electricity for life, and his company will sell the excess energy back to the local utility company. After becoming convinced that they will receive free electricity for life, with no out-front expenses, they gladly buy a video that helps draw their friends into the scam as well. Once you understand the power and motivations of the first two Forces I have discussed, its obvious that this person's current "business plan" cannot be implemented. This one person has probably done more harm to the free energy movement in the USA than any other Force, by destroying people's trust in the technology.
So, the Third Force postponing the public availability of free energy technology is delusion and dishonesty within the movement itself. The motivations are self-aggrandizement, greed, want of power over others, and a false sense of self-importance. The weapons used are lying, cheating, the "bait and switch" con, self-delusion and arrogance combined with lousy science.
The Fourth Force operating to postpone the public availability of free energy technology is all of the rest of us. It may be easy to see how narrow and despicable the motivations of the other Forces are, but actually, these motivations are still very much alive in each of us as well. Like the Wealthiest Families, don't we each secretly harbor illusions of false superiority, and the want to control others instead of ourselves? Also, wouldn't you "sell out" if the price were high enough, say, take $1 million dollars, cash, today? Or like the Governments, don't we each want to ensure our own survival? If caught in the middle of a full, burning theater, do you panic and push all of the weaker people out of the way in a mad, scramble for the door? Or like the deluded inventor, don't we trade a comfortable illusion once in a while for an uncomfortable fact? And don't we like to think more of ourselves than others give us credit for? Or don't we still fear the unknown, even if it promises a great reward?
You see, really, all Four Forces are just different aspects of the same process, operating at different levels in the society. There is really only ONE FORCE preventing the public availability of free energy technology, and that is the unspiritually motivated behavior of the human animals. In the last analysis, free energy technology is an outward manifestation of Divine Abundance. It is the engine of the economy of an enlightened society, where people voluntarily behave in a respectful and civil manner toward each other. Where each member of the society has everything they need, and do not covet what their neighbor has. Where war and physical violence has become socially unacceptable behavior and people's differences are at least tolerated, if not enjoyed.
The appearance of free energy technology in the public domain is the dawning of a truly civilized age. It is an epochal event in human history. Nobody can "take credit" for it. Nobody can "get rich" on it. Nobody can "rule the world" with it. It is simply, a Gift from God. It forces us all to take responsibility for our own actions and for our own self-disciplined self-restraint when needed. The world as it is currently ordered, cannot have free energy technology without being totally transformed by it into something else. This "civilization" has reached the pinnacle of its development, because it has birthed the seeds of its own transformation. The unspiritualized human animals cannot be trusted with free energy. They will only do what they have always done, which is take merciless advantage of each other, or kill each other and themselves in the process.
If you go back and read Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged or the Club of Rome Report, it becomes obvious that the Wealthiest Families have understood this for decades. Their plan is to live in The World of Free Energy, but permanently freeze the rest of us out. But this is not new. Royalty has always considered the general population (us) to be their subjects. What is new, is that you and I can communicate with each other now better than at anytime in the past. The Internet offers us, the Fourth Force, an opportunity to overcome the combined efforts of the other Forces preventing free energy technology from spreading.
The Opportunity
What is starting to happen is that inventors are publishing their work, instead of patenting it and keeping it secret. More and more, people are "giving away" information on these technologies in books, videos and websites. While there is still a great deal of useless information about free energy on the Internet, the availability of good information is rising rapidly. Check out the list of websites and other resources at the end of this article.
It is imperative that you begin to gather all of the information you can on real free energy systems. The reason for this is simple. The first two Forces will never allow an inventor or a company to build and sell a free energy machine to you! The only way you will ever get one is if you, or a friend, build it yourself. This is exactly what thousands of people are already quietly starting to do. You may feel wholly inadequate to the task, but start gathering information now. You may be just a link in the chain of events for the benefit of others. Focus on what you can do now, not on how much there still is to be done. Small, private research groups are working out the details as you read this. Many are committed to publishing their results on the Internet.
All of us constitute the Fourth Force. If we stand up and refuse to remain ignorant and action-less, we can change the course of history. It is the aggregate of our combined action that can make a difference. Only the mass action that represents our consensus can create the world we want. The other three Forces WILL NOT help us put a fuelless power plant in our basements. They will not help us be free from their manipulations. Nevertheless, free energy technology is here. It is real, and it will change everything about the way we live, work and relate to each other. In the last analysis, free energy technology obsoletes greed and the fear for survival. But like all exercises of Spiritual Faith, we must first manifest the generosity and trust in our own lives.
The Source of Free Energy is INSIDE of us. It is that excitement of expressing ourselves freely. It is our Spiritually guided intuition expressing itself without distraction, intimidation or manipulation. It is our open-heartedness. Ideally, the free energy technologies underpin a just society where everyone has enough food, clothing, shelter, self-worth, and the leisure time to contemplate the higher Spiritual meanings of Life. Do we not owe it to each other, to face down our fears, and take action to create this future for our children's children? Perhaps I am not the only one waiting for me to act on a greater Truth.
Free energy technology is here. It has been here for decades. Communications technology and the Internet have torn the veil of secrecy off of this remarkable fact. People all over the world are starting to build free energy devices for their own use. The Bankers and the Governments do not want this to happen, but cannot stop it. Tremendous economic instabilities and wars will be used in the near future to distract people from joining the free energy movement. There will be essentially no major media coverage of this aspect of what is going on. It will simply be reported as wars and civil wars erupting everywhere, leading to UN "Peace Keeper" occupation in more and more countries.
Western Society is spiraling down toward self-destruction, due to the accumulated effects of long-term greed and corruption. The general availability of free energy technology cannot stop this trend. It can only reinforce it. If, however, you have a free energy device, you may be better positioned to survive the political/social/economic transition that is underway. No National Government will survive this process. The question is, who will ultimately control the emerging World Government, the First Force, or the Fourth Force?
The last Great War is almost upon us. The seeds are planted. After this will come the beginning of a real Civilization. Some of us who refuse to fight will survive to see the dawn of the World of Free Energy. I challenge you to be among the ones who try.
LIST OF RESOURCES:
Books:
Living Energies by Callum Coats
The Free Energy Secrets of Cold Electricity by Peter Lindemann, D.Sc.
Applied Modern 20th Century Aether Science by Dr. Robert Adams
Physics Without Einstein by Dr. Harold Aspden
Secrets of Cold War Technology by Gerry Vassilatos
The Coming Energy Revolution by Jeane Manning
Websites:
http://www.fortunecity.com/greenfield/bp/16/content1.htm excellent free-energy site run by Geoff Egel based in Australia
http://www.free-energy.cc/ developed by Clear Tech, Inc. and Dr. Peter Lindemann
http://jnaudin.free.fr/ developed by JLN Labs in France
http://www.1dove.com/fe/index.html Jim's Free Energy Page in the USA
http://www.keelynet.com/ developed by Jerry Decker in the USA
http://www.xogen.com site for super electrolysis technology
http://www.rumormillnews.com excellent site for all kinds of alternative news, with many links
For more links to other recommended sites, see the "Links Page" at http://www.free-energy.cc
Patents: (most can be viewed at www.delphion.com/ ) This list is nothing more than a sample of inventions that produce free energy.
Tesla USP #685,957
Freedman USP #2,796,345
Richardson USP #4,077,001
Frenette USP #4,143,639
Perkins USP #4,424,797
Gray USP #4,595,975
Meyer USP #4,936,961
Chambers USP #6,126,794
http://www.free-energy.ws/lindemann-1.html
NRG
[Click all the links! Click all the links! Click all the links!
Build your own in your spare time...]
New Energy
*** Paper – The World of Free Energy – Dr. Peter Lindemann
Rating—Interest 9.5 out of 10, Reliability 9 out of 10
Free
The internal combustion engine should have been obsolete many years ago! A great variety of energy devices which generate power and electricity very cheaply have been invented over the years, only to then be ruthlessly suppressed. We personally know of several genius inventors who have suffered this fate. This brilliantly written nine-page paper describes several types of new energy devices and tells you the hows and whys of this huge cover-up. Incredibly well researched with resources listed, including patent numbers. This is another one to print and share with friends. See also Dr. Lindemann’s website at www.free-energy.ws.
Available free at www.free-energy.ws/lindemann-1.html
For an excellent two-page summary of this paper, www.wanttoknow.info/energycover-ups
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Video – The World of Free Energy – Dr. Peter Lindemann
Rating—Interest 9 out of 10 (for those mechanically inclined), Reliability 9 out of 10
$29.95 + shipping
If you’re interested in building your own free energy device, this is the video to watch. Dr. Lindemann presents an abundance of slides, diagrams, and descriptions of the many inventions which yield free energy. As it’s fairly technical, this is recommended mostly for those knowledgeable in physics and engineering.
Available at www.free-energy.ws/products.html
Website – The Tom Bearden Website – Dr. Tom Bearden
Rating—Interest 9 out of 10, Reliability 8 out of 10
Free
This website provides a wealth of papers, write-ups, and information compiled by one of the most respected researchers in the field of new energy. The website sometimes diverges widely from the topic of new energy and the layout is rather sporadic, but if you are willing to spend some time searching, you will very likely find some fascinating information both on new energy theory, and on many new energy devices which various inventors have made. Dr. Bearden was issued a patent on a new energy device in March of 2002.
Available at www.cheniere.org
Magazine and Website – Infinite Energy
Rating—Interest 8 our of 10 (higher for the technically minded), Reliability 9.5 out of 10
$29.95 for six issues per year includes shipping
Infinite Energy Magazine has been publishing scholarly articles on new energy technologies since March 1995. It is a technical magazine with editorial outreach to the general public as well. To maintain the highest editorial standards, it is written and edited by scientists, engineers, and expert journalists. It is aimed at pioneering scientists, engineers, industrialists, environmentalists, and investors who are concerned about an exciting R&D area that we believe will change the world dramatically. The website also carries a wealth of information on new energy developments. Infinite Energy is circulated around the world to over 40 countries.
Available at www.infinite-energy.com
Canadian dollar hits 7-year high as greenback sags
[Spanking good news for Hawaii...this is where they come when their money is up...or used to anyway...heck they may even start investing in real estate here again...]
7 October 2003, 12:46pm ET
TORONTO, Oct 7 (Reuters) - The Canadian dollar hit its highest level in nearly 8 years on Tuesday as greenback wilted under the pressure of renewed doubts about the U.S. economy.
At 12:40 p.m. (1640 GMT), the Canadian dollar was at C$1.3284 to the U.S. dollar, or 75.28 U.S. cents, up from C$1.3401 to the U.S. dollar, or 74.63 U.S. cents, at the previous close.
The currency hit a high of C$1.3265 to the U.S. dollar, or 75.39 U.S. cents at mid-morning, a level last seen in November 1996.
"Clearly the momentum is to push the U.S. dollar weaker and the Canadian dollar should get stronger over the next weeks and months," said Jack Spitz, director of foreign exchange at National Bank of Canada.
"The U.S. administration is acquiescing to a weaker dollar and the Canadian dollar will benefit."
The greenback was weaker as the market doubted the strength of the U.S. economy and fretted over the size of the U.S. current account deficit, analysts said.
Traders were also on alert about possible yen-weakening intervention by the Bank of Japan. But Canadian market players doubted such a strategy would be able to stem the greenback's retreat.
"If one looks at the Bank of Japan over the course of the past number of months, they've intervened countless times and yet the momentum is still there to take the Japanese yen stronger, so intervention in and of itself doesn't work," Spitz said.
Also helping Canadian dollar sentiment was a strong read on Canadian purchasing activity, as the Ivey Purchasing Managers Index rose to 59.4 in September from 51.1 in August. Markets had expected a small rise to somewhere between 51 and 55.
However, since the Ivey numbers are not seasonally adjusted, traders rarely focus on them.
The market is now waiting for Friday's Canadian employment and trade numbers.
A strong set of numbers could ease growing expectations that the Bank of Canada will cut interest rates on Oct. 15.
Canada's benchmark overnight rate sits at 2.75 percent, versus 1 percent for the comparable U.S. rate. This rate gap has underpinned the domestic currency's meteoric rise this year.
http://finance.lycos.com/qc/news/story.aspx?story=35962971
Remember on the other board when I used to post the value of the loonie every day and for a while there I was joking they'd be giving away toasters everytime you made and exchange...(their currency was so low) I even took a vacation up there and I said might be a good time to buy loonies...well "shoulda woulda coulda" bet they gain yet more over the coming year I have a couple bills still I never exchanged they keep growing in value...
I remember one time we went up there and it was .75 to the dollar we thought it was a great deal cuz stuff is cheap anyway plus the exchange...back to where we were in the early 90's...glad I took that vacation 2 years back...told ya to go...that extra 10 cents makes a diff when you add up hotel room and car...never will be that way again our dollar is sinking for the "fore-see-able future"...
Reminder:
Members of the Federal Reserve Board call themselves "Governors". Governor Eccles was Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board at the time of these hearings.
Congressman Patman: "How did you get the money to buy those two billion dollars worth of Government securities in 1933?"
Governor Eccles: "Out of the right to issue credit money."
Patman: "And there is nothing behind it, is there, except our Government’s credit?"
Eccles: "That is what our money system is. If there were no debts in our money system, there wouldn’t be any money."
Congressman Fletcher: "Chairman Eccles, when do you think there is a possibility of returning to a free and open market, instead of this pegged and artificially controlled financial market we now have?"
Governor Eccles: "Never, not in your lifetime or mine."
Look it up it's in the library of Congress for Pete's sake. Them both dead now...might be time...
"The Beauty Of The Second Amendment Is That It Will Not Be Needed Until They Try To Take It." ~ Thomas Jefferson
"No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms. The strongest reason for the people to retain their right to keep and bear arms is as a last resort to protect themselves against tyranny in government." ~ Thomas Jefferson
More homeowners selling houses for less than they owe
[It begins...first city by city, then state by state. What happenes when they are "forced" to raise rates...? 8 years to boomer retirement...]
By Kristina Shevory
Seattle Times Eastside business reporter
[You must click this link to see bar graph:
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2001760336_shortsales07.html ]
After years of borrowing in a sizzling housing market, more homeowners are finding themselves upside down on mortgages.
They borrowed more to buy or fix up homes than they can now afford, and a growing number are turning to short sales — selling homes for less than they owe — to unload high payments and avoid foreclosure or bankruptcy.
No organization tracks short sales, but real-estate agents, housing counselors and mortgage companies say they have been seeing more of them since the economy tanked and employers began laying off workers.
Most are the end result of delinquent mortgages — those not paid for more than 90 days — which have risen dramatically in the Seattle-Tacoma area the past three years. The number of delinquent mortgages rose 50 percent between June 2000 and July 2003, according to Loan Performance, a San Francisco firm that tracks mortgage data monthly.
For GVE, the increase in mortgage trouble is good news. GVE, in Covington, is one of the few companies in the area that brokers short sales, and business is up 70 percent in the past nine months, founder Joanne Anderson said.
She has been working 16-hour days, six or seven days a week, to keep up with demand, she said, and plans to hire 10 employees in the next year.
In the late 1990s, people were encouraged by rising stock portfolios and a robust economy. They took out large mortgages and tacked on home-equity debt with the help of looser loan-qualifying rules.
But low down payments, subprime loans (high-rate home loans aimed at buyers with terrible credit), and predatory mortgages (loans for people who often shouldn't have one), have gotten more people into homes they can't pay for.
"We're seeing tons of short sales and foreclosures because people are in over their heads," said Debra Snoey, branch manager at Windermere's Federal Way office, who works with Anderson on short sales. "It's refreshing when a buyer has equity now."
Although some lenders say buyers should max themselves out for a mortgage, being more practical is safer.
"(People) are buying more expensive homes because they want one bigger, newer and better," Anderson said. "But they don't realize that if they bought a home for $20,000 less and saved up $5,000 for a down payment, they'd be sitting so much better."
Some homeowners find themselves in trouble when they least expect it.
An Issaquah woman who recently sold her house for $30,000 less than she owed on it never thought she'd be in that position.
The woman, who didn't want her name used because she's embarrassed, said she and her husband earned more than $200,000 a year, lived in a 3,200-square-foot custom-built home on an acre, and bought a new car every year.
Then her husband took a pay cut to save his job, and they couldn't keep up with the bills. The couple divorced, and he filed for bankruptcy, leaving her with three kids and two mortgages.
To make it, she put the family's home on the market, reducing the price four times in six months. In May, it finally sold, but at a loss.
"It's awful and embarrassing to do a short sale and admit you're a deadbeat," she said. "(But) people make mistakes. This can happen to anyone."
Sellers lose a lot in a short sale, but buyers can make out because the homes usually are worth more than they cost.
Hal Bancroft and his partner bought a 3,330-square-foot house in Everett last year from a couple who could no longer make their payments. The former owners had taken out a second mortgage to buy a motor home, but the man lost his job at Boeing and his wife broke her back. They sold the home for $205,000 — $30,000 less than they owed.
The deal had strings, though. Short sales can take several months to close because lenders take longer to approve them.
"It took four months to close what should have been a 30-day transaction," Bancroft said. "The byword with short sales is patience."
For real-estate agents, short sales aren't so good. Adnan Othman, with John L. Scott Real Estate in Lynnwood, said he usually receives a reduced commission of 1 to 1.5 percent and sometimes doesn't get one at all — agents typically get 3 percent on a regular sale — but he keeps handling them. Othman is working on four now.
"There's a lot of sadness when you see this," Othman said. "You want to throw a life preserver to them and see if you can help."
"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered".
-Thomas Jefferson in 1802 in a letter to then Secretary of the Treasury, Albert Gallatin
You were warned and took no heed now you pay with title and deed.
Ibiza it is then...
Ah, I'm over-reacting it's just Seattle right?
Druid's Reduce Traffic Fatalities On Austrian Autobahn
[Uh, NOW have I seen everything?]
AUSTRIA - Inexplicable reoccurring traffic accidents along certain
stretches of highway? When everything else fails, call up your local
Druid. That's what they did in Austria and the fatal accidents dropped
to zero. In a two year secret trial, the Druids used a divining rod to
inspect a 275-metre stretch of the A9 autobahn in Styria, Austria and
determined where to erect a series of huge one ton monoliths of white
quartz along the road to restore the natural flow of "earth energy." The
results? Fatal accidents fell from an average of six a year to zero.
According to Gerald Knobloch, and archdruid who oversaw the experiment,
"I located dangerous elements that had disrupted the energy flow. The
worst was a river which human interference had forced to flow against
its natural direction. By erecting two stones of quartz at the side of
the road the energy lines were restored." Knoblock explains that the
pillars had a similar function to acupuncture.
"Acupuncture needles also restore broken energy lines. What acupuncture
does for the body, the stones do for the environment." Harald
Dirnbacher, an engineer from the motorway authority, admitted that they
turned to Mr Knobloch as a last resort. "We had put up signs to reduce
speed, renewed the road surface and made bends more secure but we still
kept getting accidents," he said. "At that point we couldn't think of
anything else to do and decided we might as well try anything. "I admit
when we first looked at it [energy lines] we were doubtful. We didn't
want people to know in case they laughed at us, so we kept the trial
secret and small-scale. But it was really an amazing turnaround."
(Adapted from an article appearing in the Sydney Morning Herald - August
11, 2003)
Holy Water:
Fill pan with water.
Boil the hell out of it.
Ben's Super Tasty Itallian Style Ramin Noddles.
One Package Ramin noodles per person to be served.
Throw away nasty flavor packets.
Briing water to a boil. Add noodles.
Cook till soft or al dente depending how you like it but UNDER cooking is better for this.. Strain in colinder. Keep noodles. Throw away water.
Put back in warm pan. Add butter: real butter not margerine.
Add a little olive oil.
Toss.
Add Parmaesan Cheese. Kraft will do or grate your own.
Toss.
Add garlic powder. Parsely flakes. Itallian seasoning. Sweet basil. A dash of dill weed (not the seeds).
Toss.
Add more Parmaesan Cheese.
Toss.
Serve as a side dish, or on it's own.
Mind Control
*** Summaries – Mind Control – Summary of three landmark books
Rating—Interest 10 out of 10, Reliability 9.5 out of 10
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Three courageous authors have written top-notch, incredibly revealing books on the massive cover-up of government-funded mind control programs. Bluebird, researched and written by top Canadian psychiatrist Colin A. Ross focuses on the role of physicians in the secret mind control programs. Mind Controllers, by Dr. Armen Victorian, focuses on the wide variety of sophisticated technologies used to control the way people think and act. Recovered mind control victim Carol Rutz’ book, A Nation Betrayed, gives a disturbing inside look at how the mind controllers severely manipulate the lives of their unsuspecting guinea pigs. All three base much of their research on 18,000 pages of declassified CIA mind control documents. At the end of the 10-page summary you will find directions for how to order all of those documents on four CDs for only $30 using the Freedom of Information Act. The summaries of these three books will open your eyes to incredible abuses carried out by the shadow government in the name of national security.
Two-page summary available at www.wanttoknow.info/mindcontrol
Ten-page summary available at www.wanttoknow.info/mindcontrol10pg
*** Video – Mind Control – America’s Secret War – The History Channel
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The astounding story of our government’s top-secret program to develop control over people’s minds. LSD and electroshock therapy in huge doses given to unsuspecting citizens are only a part of this unbelievable program. Interviews with top doctors, psychiatrists, and victims send chills up the spine. Incredibly well researched and broadcast by the History Channel, this is a must see if you want to understand the secret wars going on.
Available at historychannel.com
*** Book – Mind Controllers – Dr. Armen Victorian
Rating—Interest 9.5 out of 10, Reliability 9 out of 10
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This incredible book exposes a wide variety of highly questionable experiments conducted by the CIA and other agencies seeking new forms of “non-lethal weapons.” Thousands of human ‘guinea pigs’ were exploited and harmed both physically and mentally including hospital patients, pregnant women, school children, prisoners, and veterans. Dr. Victorian has documentary proof of all this. He lists hundreds of references for you to prove and further investigate everything he states. The book is a little slow in the first half, but especially the second half will open your eyes to the secret government’s agenda of controlling the world through subtle, unseen manipulation of our minds.
Summary – For a free, information-packed ten-page summary of this revealing book, see www.wanttoknow.info/mindcontrollers10pg. We rate this fascinating summary a 10 out of 10.
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Book – A Nation Betrayed: Secret Cold War Experiments Performed on Our Children and other Innocent People – Carol Rutz
Rating—Interest 9.5 out of 10, Reliability 9 out of 10
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Drawing upon both 18,000 pages of declassified government mind control documents and harrowing personal experience, mind control victim Carol Rutz presents a fascinating, amazingly well researched book. She describes how innocent children, including herself, were taken from their families and subjected to electroshock, hypnosis, sensory deprivation, and mind altering substances in support of the CIA’s attempts to create the perfect spy and clandestine operatives. She backs up her assertions with an abundance of direct quotes from declassified CIA documents that anyone can obtain through the Freedom of Information Act. She even tells you exactly how to order these unbelievable documents. If you are ready for some of the deepest, darkest secrets of the huge cover-ups taking place, this is a very good place to start.
Summary – For a free, information-packed ten-page summary of this amazing book, see www.wanttoknow.info/nationbetrayed10pg. We rate this eye-opening summary a 10 out of 10 on interest. At the end of this summary, Ms. Rutz tells exactly how to order the 18,000 pages of declassified mind control documents from the CIA upon which much of her book is based.
To order this book, see Ms. Rutz’ website, http://my.dmci.net/~casey/
Audio Tape – Sex Addiction in CIA and Military Mind Control Experiments –
Colin A. Ross, MD
Rating—Interest 10 our of 10, Reliability 8.5 out of 10
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This audio tape gives a disturbing, yet amazingly in-depth introduction to the world of mind control in less than 90 minutes. Basing his discussion on 15,000 pages of documents obtained from the CIA under the Freedom of Information Act, Dr. Ross describes how innocent people, often without their own knowledge, were turned into spies and clandestine operatives in secret government programs. This lecture was given at a 2001 conference titled “Exploitation and Sexual Trauma” for health specialists interested in that field. This tape is very highly recommended for a quick overview, and for those who don’t have time to read the other materials on mind control.
Available at www.conferencerecording.com/conflists/cyb21.htm, tape number 014
Book – Bluebird: Deliberate Creation of Multiple Personality by Psychiatrists –
Colin A. Ross MD
Rating—Interest 8.5 out of 10, Reliability 9.5 out of 10
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Dr. Ross provides proof, based on 15,000 pages of documents obtained from the CIA under the Freedom of Information Act, that the Manchurian Candidate is fact, not fiction. He describes experiments conducted by psychiatrists over the past 50 years to create amnesia, new memories, and even new identities in the minds of experimental subjects using hypnotic access codes. Bluebird proves that there has been extensive political abuse of psychiatry perpetrated not by a few renegade doctors, but by leading psychiatrists, psychologists, pharmacologists, neurosurgeons and medical schools in the US. 28 pages of references and dozens of pages of photocopied government documents back up Dr. Ross’ explosive assertion that spies have been deliberately created with multiple personality disorder, at times without their consent, in order to have them carry out the dirtiest of deeds without conscious awareness of what they have done.
Summary – For a free, information-packed ten-page summary of this revealing book, see www.wanttoknow.info/bluebird10pg. We rate this fascinating summary a 10 out of 10.
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Beware of advance fee fraud
By Deborah Adamson
Advertiser Staff Writer
Want to pay off your mortgage faster? Need help in getting a loan? Seeking financial aid for college? Whatever your need, there's an "advance fee" scam waiting for you.
"It's the second most popular scam in Hawai'i," said Anne Deschene, president and chief executive of Better Business Bureau Hawai'i. "It's basically outright theft."
Advance fee fraud involves asking victims to pay up-front for a product or service that doesn't materialize or live up to expectations.
Last year, Hawai'i ranked third nationally in the number of consumer complaints for all types of scams, including advance fee schemes, with almost 92 for every 100,000 people, according to the Federal Trade Commission. The District of Columbia was first, followed by Alaska.
"We're what's known as the victim state," Deschene said. "They're preying on a struggling consumer."
Specific numbers for advance fee schemes were not available, but the state Office of Consumer Protection logged 1,729 fraud complaints in 2002. So far this year, Hawai'i has tracked 1,600 — and looks to exceed 2002 levels.
"The rate of complaints is greater than it was last year," said spokesman Steve Levins.
Federal and state figures may vary because some complaints are reported only on the local level.
Advance fee fraud can take a variety of forms. Companies may charge a fee to help homeowners make semimonthly mortgage payments to pay off a loan faster. Homeowners can do this themselves for free if their lenders don't impose prepayment penalties. Companies charging advance fees may be pulling off a scam if the promised services don't materialize.
Another type of advance fee fraud involves the promise of guaranteed approval for a major credit card carrying a low interest rate and a high credit limit, even if consumers have poor credit.
Instead, what consumers get is information on how to apply for a major credit card or a $300-limit charge card good only for purchases from an obscure catalog with products starting at $200, said FTC spokeswoman Brenda Mack.
Still another type of scam preys on budget-conscious parents who are lured by guarantees of snagging a scholarship through special search techniques.
The FTC has received complaints nationwide from students and parents who did not get the information they expected.
Hawai'i residents lately have been victimized by foreign lotteries and sweepstakes, Deschene said. The solicitors ask for an up-front fee to release the lottery winnings, but victims never see the money.
Sometimes would-be victims are saved before they get fleeced.
In one recent case, a Honolulu bank clerk became concerned when an elderly customer began withdrawing thousands of dollars to send abroad, Deschene said. The senior had been lured into a foreign lottery, and the withdrawal was stopped in time.
It's better to prevent being victimized, Deschene said, because it is rare for consumers to get their money back. Once the money is sent off, "kiss your money goodbye," she said.
Scams pulled on Hawai'i residents have been getting more polished and sophisticated. It's up to the consumer to differentiate between legitimate offers and frauds, she said.
Here are some tips to follow:
Check complaints against the company on the Better Business Bureau Hawaii Web site at www.hawaii.bbb.org. You also can call 536-6956 on O'ahu or (877) 222-6551 from the Neighbor Islands.
If there's no information on the business, that's a red flag, according to the BBB.
Find out how long the company has been in business. Get references.
Be skeptical of deals that guarantee approval of anything from credit cards to student loans or promise a high return on your money in a short period of time.
To report fraud or log a complaint, contact the state at 587-3222.
Reach Deborah Adamson at dadamson@honoluluadvertiser .com or 525-8088.
Click for list of top 10 most gullible states...when you're trusting fraudsters tend to gather round..."Hey Phil, lets try that ol' Scam in New York..."
"New York? Are you crazy they don't trust anybody lets go to Hawaii instead..."
http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2003/Oct/07/bz/bz01a.html
How is it possible to create more jobs than there are jobs? 111%!!!??
I could see 19% to 81% but 111% is IMPOSSIBLE.
Who do the hackers want to be governor?
Posted 10/06/2003 @ 11:03 PM, by Eric Bangeman
[Wouldn't it just be funny as h*ll if the hackers installed Gary Coleman?]
With the California gubernatorial recall election on tap for Tuesday, Wired has a piece on the electronic balloting system in place in some counties. Maryland officials had previously released a report stating that the touch screen machines to be used in Alameda county are "at high risk of compromise." Yet, in no small part due to the fiasco in Florida with hanging chads in the 2000 presidential elections, Alameda County, California is going full steam ahead with with their touch-screen voting machines. County officials are confident that they can secure the machines despite the myriad security risks, saying that proper training of election workers will mitigate against them. Wired paints a different picture:
However, information obtained by Wired News at a training session for Alameda County poll workers indicates that security lapses in the use of the equipment and poor worker training could expose the election to serious tampering. Voting-machine experts say the lapses could allow a poll worker or an outsider to change votes in machines without being detected. And because other problems inherent in the software won't be fixed before the recall, experts say sophisticated intruders can intercept and change vote tallies as officials transmit them electronically.
Beyond that there are a number of security risks involved in using these machines. The machines are left at the polling places for some time before the election, with memory cards loaded with ballots already installed. Poll supervisors are chosen with minimal regard to qualifications and without a background check. They then receive a key which will unlock all the voting machines at a single location. And the list goes on.
When most people think of compromising computerized polling systems, I'm sure the first thing that comes to mind is some nerdy guy sitting at his PC in his parents' basement haX0ring the Gibson. The truth is much simpler -- systems are much easier to compromise when you have physical access to the machines. On top of all of this, the voting machines also have some software issues that were not able to be corrected prior to the election. Between security, training, and software problems, Alameda County could very well make the Dade County, Florida voters look good tomorrow. [Today]
http://arstechnica.com/archive/news/1065499416.html
What the heck do those numbers mean? 19% of what...111% of what?
Total jobs created?
Then 111% makes no sense.
Either way the numbers should add up to 100 not 130...
Who Owns the ''Federal'' Reserve System?: Facts File
http://www.sianews.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1271&mode=&order=0&...
Great site for links and info.
Dollar Sags Broadly as Outlook Falters
Tuesday October 7, 2:32 pm ET
By Kyle Peterson
[Silver rebounds 7¢ to 4.85 last I checked...expect another attack soon...should get it back to around $4.50; are you catching on to what a great deal it is under 5?]
CHICAGO (Reuters) - The dollar sagged against major currencies on Tuesday, reaching a fresh three-year low against the yen on growing market views that the fledgling U.S. economic recovery may be wavering.
In the absence of U.S. economic data, traders were on high alert for possible intervention by the Bank of Japan to weaken the yen as the dollar fell to fresh three-year lows against the Japanese currency, well below the 110 yen mark.
The dollar rebounded above 110 yen briefly in late-morning New York trading before edging lower to around 109.73 yen as traders suspected Japan may have intervened in the currency markets. Traders said Japanese banks were spotted buying dollars for yen at around the 109.58 yen level, but Bank of Japan officials in New York declined to comment.
"I think they're trying to hold the (dollar) near the 110 level," said Michael Malpede, senior currency analyst at Refco in Chicago. "I don't think they want it to get much below there. That's what their goal is."
The dollar's moves against the yen followed comments by Japanese Economics Minister Heizo Takenaka that while intervention is not itself an ideal policy tool, the government must ensure that currency rates do not move too rapidly.
In early afternoon in New York, the euro (EUR=) was up 0.62 percent against at $1.1770 after rising to a three-month high above $1.18. But the single currency fell against a resurgent yen, buying about 129.38 yen (EURJPY=), down 0.42 percent on the day.
Against the Swiss franc (CHF=), the dollar fell below 1.32 francs, off 0.42 percent on the day. The pound (GBP=), meanwhile, fell against the dollar to $1.6616.
The U.S. dollar also fell to new seven-year lows against the Canadian dollar (CAD=) in early trading but recovered slightly and was down 0.80 percent at C$1.3298. The greenback also fell to near a six-year trough against the Australian dollar, with the Australian unit climbing above the US$0.69 level(AUD=).
"The dearth of (economic) data today and tomorrow is not offering any respite for the weaker dollar," said John McCarthy, director of foreign exchange at ING Capital Markets in New York. "If we had U.S. economic data, this would have given the market a pause, such as what happened on Friday. But in the absence of that, the market just sold off (the dollar)," he said.
Tim Mazanec, foreign exchange director at Investors Bank and Trust in Boston, noted that concerns over the overall U.S. macroeconomic picture have once again reemerged, putting the focus on the burgeoning U.S. current account deficit.
In addition, currency markets continued to have lingering doubts over whether Friday's robust U.S. labor numbers were convincing enough to signal a reversal in massive job losses over the last two years.
JAPAN INTERVENTION WATCH
Markets remained cautious about possible BoJ action to weaken the yen against the dollar. The dollar fell to a new three-year low against the Japanese currency at 109.36 yen (JPY=), although it subsequently rallied slightly since then amid BoJ intervention rumors.
"There have been rumors of BoJ, MoF and Federal Reserve, but nothing we can confirm one way or the other," said a trader with a Japanese bank in London.
"We dipped below 110.0 yen and triggered some (options) barriers that were around there," said Marc Chandler, chief currency strategist with HSBC in New York. "It underscores how bearish people are on the U.S. dollar."
http://biz.yahoo.com/rb/031007/markets_forex_8.html
The rich world's disappearing jobs
By John Berthelsen and Indrajit Basu
If the North American Free Trade Act passes, "you will hear a giant sucking sound of jobs going south of the border". - H Ross Perot, 1992
In the developed world and particularly in the United States, the scope of jobs disappearing overseas is widening beyond all imagining, to professions that almost nobody expected to be hit, and with far higher incomes than anybody thought possible as globalization bonds with the law of unintended consequences.
The catalyst is the Internet. As instant communication becomes more ubiquitous, the developed world's white-collar professions, from CAD/CAM (computer-aided design/computer-aided manufacturing) to accounting to medicine to architecture to aircraft design to research and development to engineering to equity research and financial management to knowledge management to revenue-cycle management - a whole panorama of high-income employment - are inexorably going.
The impact on American and European society is inevitably going to be far more profound than almost anyone understands today. It is already responsible for major positive changes in the living standards of the middle class in other parts of the world.
The United States currently accounts for as much as 70 percent of the world's "outsourcing", as it is called, or sometimes offshoring. McKinsey & Co, the international consulting firm, projects that the flight of jobs offshore to developing countries will grow by 30-40 percent a year over the next five years. By the highest estimates, as many as a million jobs have disappeared overseas from the US job market since the current economic slowdown began in 2000 and could represent a major reason for the struggle the US economy is undergoing to right itself.
McKinsey puts the number lost from the United States at a much lower 400,000 today, but expects it to grow to as many as 3.3 million by 2015. The business-consulting firm A T Kearney Inc projects that half a million jobs, or 8 percent of total employment by banks, brokerage houses and insurance companies, will go overseas within five years.
But to show how extensive the phenomenon can be, consider some of the more unlikely developments over the last three months:
India is emerging as the health-care destination of choice for an increasing number of surgery candidates, with more than 60,000 foreign patients from 34 countries treated in its top-flight Apollo Hospitals chain in the past decade. A delegation of Indian doctors was recently invited to London to brief British Prime Minister Tony Blair's medical advisers on flying surgery patients from the United Kingdom to Mumbai and or New Delhi for operative and post-operative care, allowing them to recuperate, and flying them back to the UK far cheaper than treating them at home. Routine cardiac surgery at the best hospitals in India costs about US$35,000, with a success rate of 98.5 percent, compared with about $150,000 in the United States. For more complicated problems that cost far more than that, cost differentials are anywhere from 200 percent to 500 percent to off the chart. And India is not alone; breast implants in Thailand from top-flight cosmetic surgeons cost as little as 50,000 baht ($1,260) compared with a median price of about $5,000 in the United States.
Fifteen global car makers, including General Motors, Ford, DaimlerChrysler, Audi, Isuzu and Nissan, have set up design offices in India with a combined budget of $1.5 billion to outsource auto design. Industry estimates are that the cost of auto design in Europe's exclusive Pininfarina and Bertone design houses run as high as $800 an hour, while low-cost designers in Bangalore can do lower-level design for $60 an hour.
India's government is in the process of liberalizing its accounting rules under continuing World Trade Organization (WTO) negotiations on services. In a move being closely watched by the Big Four accounting firms - PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Ernst and Young, KMPG, and Deloitte Touche and Tomatsu - accounting, bookkeeping and auditing services are to be opened to overseas competition by the end of next year. Indian firms are to be given reciprocal market access abroad. Indian accounting costs are a fraction of those in the United States.
Fashion design is a fast-growing field in Vietnam and India; 350 domestic and international buyers came to Mumbai to look at India's fledgling clothing fashion designs in a glitz-filled week in July. Designer Rophit Bal is working with putative tennis star Anna Kournikova. Ritu Beri is showing in Paris. Tarin Tahiliani has been featured in New York's Fashion Week and is booked for a show in Milan, the heart of Europe's fashion industry.
The US Department of Education estimates that the United States will need an additional 2.2 million teachers over the next decade. The Executive Recruiters Association, the representative body of recruitment agencies in India, is urging the Indian government to appeal to the WTO seeking an end to what they consider to be restrictive trade practices in the teaching professions and allow more Indian teachers into the US. Indian teachers, with excellent English-language skills, would find an annual salary of $35,000 an enormous amount of money. There are already some school districts from Texas said to be recruiting in India.
This article concentrates mainly on India and is only a small specific sample of the developed-world jobs and services that are in the process of disappearing overseas. Canada, Ireland and Israel, with large English-speaking populations, are also particularly attractive to Western firms, primarily because English is widely spoken, and well. But in other countries such as India, the Philippines, South Africa, Ghana and Sri Lanka, English is also widely spoken, and well, and costs are minuscule. Russia, with its well-educated tech professions, is also a destination.
"Anywhere you have social and economic growth, any of the Third World countries are wonderful opportunities to set up services platforms. You can pretty much follow where the British Empire went," Marc Liebman, president of Everest Group, an outsource consulting firm in Dallas, told Asia Times Online. "They left strong business and physical infrastructure behind them."
In a stunningly prophetic article, Frances Cairncross, a senior editor at The Economist, wrote in 1993 that the communications revolution had wrought what she called "the death of distance". In that article, she posited that there had been three profound transport revolutions since the 19th century, the first when the arrival of steam initiated a steep fall in the cost of moving goods. The second came in the 20th century, when the cost of transporting people fell to the point where vast migrations across borders brought tens of millions of immigrants from old Europe to the Americas, and since has resulted in massive movements of economic refugees from the poor countries to the rich ones.
The third revolution, Cairncross wrote, would dominate the first half of the current century. It is the diminishing cost of transporting information. Her vision has come true even faster than she thought. Because of fiber-optic cable, satellites and digital compression, the transport of information can be basically free. The enormous charges for personal calls on telephone lines across the Atlantic or the Pacific are virtually all gravy. Once the satellite or the cable is in place and the capital expenses are paid, there is no expense. Companies with their own transponders on satellites have lowered their costs dramatically.
Thus it is possible, for instance, for Fidelity Investments to put its call centers in Ireland. It is increasingly probable that a call to any repair service or help line will be routed not to the Midwestern United States but overseas to the Philippines, Ireland, India or any one of a half-dozen other locations. Indian schools are training prospective employees to speak in American accents. Back-office processing such as accounts receivable and payable, claims processing, revenue collection and passenger management are not going to be done in the United States anymore.
JP Morgan Chase, the investment-banking firm, said it plans to move some of the work of preparing stock-market research reports to India. The Financial Times of London has more than 100 such analysts in Manila, entering data from company reports all over Asia into computers, so the information can be sold as databases for investment banks at a fraction of the cost the banks would have to pay their own people.
"What we went through 10-15 years ago with manufacturing and blue-collar jobs, we are now about to go through with white-collar jobs," said Michel Jenssen, president of supplier solutions for the Dallas-based Everest offshore consulting group. "It still takes three to six months to ship manufacturing components offshore, less if you can send by air. But with services, with telecommunications technology, movement is now measured in milliseconds. You can move the work around, you can scan images, you can move workflow to India with no more difficulty than you move it from the San Francisco Bay Area to Texas."
It is possible, as Vivek Agrawal, who led a McKinsey team studying the issue of offshoring and wrote a report titled "Offshoring: Is It a Win-Win Game?" said in an interview recently with Asia Times Online, that the departure of these jobs is healthy for American society. It frees up capital and labor for more rewarding, or productive, or effective jobs, Agrawal says. A JP Morgan Chase spokesman told reporters recently that moving market research preparation to India would get rid of number-crunching, freeing its US staff to focus on higher-level financial analysis and spending more time with customers. But it is hard to figure out what jobs are more rewarding or productive or high-end, for instance, than thoracic surgery or architectural design, or what jobs can replace them in the developed world.
Agrawal describes most of the information-technology (IT) jobs headed offshore as relatively low-skilled. If Indians or Pakistanis or other nationalities can do the really high-skilled jobs, he says, it is much more likely that they would obtain visas to move to the United States and do the jobs here - although the US government, on October 1, cut the quota for so-called H1-B visas for skilled workers from 195,000 to 65,000. The effect of that cut is most likely to be that US employers, unable to find people to do the jobs here, will take the jobs to where the workers are - and pay them lots less, thus losing the multiplier effect of their paychecks in the United States (see H1-B visas: US gets it wrong again ).
The loss of these jobs overseas is also probably going to affect developed-world inflation. The investment bank ABN-AMRO, in an October 3 analysis of the US economy, wrote that while a cyclical rebound in economic activity is forecast for late 2003, "this rebound will not produce the typical firming in underlying inflation that influenced monetary-policy decisions and the interest-rate outlook in previous recoveries".
That is at least partly because, while US Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan has been given credit for keeping inflation in check in the United States over the past decade, it is equally likely that it has been due to outsourcing and offshoring. Inflation classically starts to pick up as households increase consumption spending and firms increase investment spending. That tightens the labor market, which in turn means that labor can pick and choose between jobs, and for many jobs there aren't enough workers. Workers had the luxury of going on strike to demand higher pay.
But since manufacturing jobs first began to go offshore with the assembly of consumer products in the 1950s, workers from auto plants to steel mills to the panoply of America's rust-belt industries discovered that going on strike to demand higher pay meant their jobs could disappear, first to Japan, then to South Korea and Taiwan, then to the Southeast Asian countries, and then all over the world.
Now, ominously, that is beginning to happen to the middle class as Cairncross's thesis on the death of distance starts to prove out. What happens if, for instance, US health-insurance providers cotton to the fact that an unwilling Joe Bloggs could be flown to Honduras, say, to have his gall-bladder surgery, and that his airplane fare (charter, of course, to take a planeload of surgery patients at a time) and lodging could cost half or a tenth what it costs at Sinai Mercy Omni-Surgery in Middletown, USA? The insurance company, like the British National Healthcare Service, would contemplate that the out-of-control cost of medical care in the United States is going to stabilize, no matter how much Mr Bloggs would prefer to have his gall bladder incised at home - especially if their pharmaceutical costs descend as well.
And they well could. In August, the multinational pharmaceutical companies struck a deal with the WTO to create a loophole that allows the neediest countries to override patents on expensive drugs and order cheaper copies from generic manufacturers in exchange for a small payment. A combination of AIDS drugs that in the United States costs $14,000 per patient per year can be delivered for a small fraction of that amount.
Indian pharmaceutical companies, for instance, are producing generics for many pharmaceuticals at pennies on the dollar compared with the cost in the United States. Even today, hordes of US consumers go to the Mexican and Canadian borders to buy their prescription drugs.
Americans, and later Europeans, watched with equanimity starting in the 1950s when manufacturing jobs started to disappear into low-cost factories in Asia. Only the workers who had filled these emptying factories and the labor unions who represented them railed against the loss of jobs. Nonetheless, while in 1950 about 35 percent of America's labor force were engaged in manufacturing, that figure has fallen to about 12.5 percent today.
McKinsey analyst Agrawal and the team that wrote the study argue that offshoring is not particularly bad for the United States because at least 70 percent of US jobs are in services that are produced and consumed locally.
"We would argue that not only is the US fully capable of withstanding these changes, as it will be able to create jobs faster than offshoring eliminates them, but that the current debate misses the point entirely." The point is, McKinsey says, that offshoring creates wealth for US companies and consumers and therefore for the US as a whole and is "just one more example of the innovation that keeps US companies at the leading edge of competitiveness across multiple sectors".
Indeed. It's great for companies. McKinsey estimates that management jobs moving offshore will rise from zero in 2000 to 288,281 by 2015. Business jobs will rise from 10,787 to 328,281. Computer jobs going offshore will rise from 27,171 in 2000 to 472,632 in 2015. Office jobs - the back-shop data-entry jobs that consist of keying in data - already projected at nearly 590,000 by 2005, will skyrocket to 1.66 million by 2015.
Ironically, many of the disappearing jobs owe their departure to H Ross Perot, the failed US presidential candidate whose "giant sucking sound" quote started this article and which continues to reverberate across the United States today.
The five biggest outsourcing consulting companies in the US today are in Dallas, Texas. Asked why, Marc Liebman of Everest said, "Because Ross Perot was here." Perot, first with his company EDS and later with Perot Systems Corp, pioneered data transfer and became a worldwide provider of outsourced IT services.
According to BusinessWorld, an Indian publication, Perot Systems in 1999 entered a 50 percent joint venture with HCL Technologies of India to create HCL Perot Systems to handle billing and claims for health care companies in the United States. It is a pioneer in outsourcing data overseas to cheaper labor for major corporations.
(Copyright 2003 Asia Times Online Co, Ltd. All rights reserved. Please contact content@atimes.com for information on our sales and syndication policies.)
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/EJ08Df03.html
Fighting Words
By Carl F. Worden
Thanks largely to Bob Schulz of the We The People Foundation and the Internet, Americans in every walk of life nationwide are becoming increasingly aware of the Internal Revenue Service and Department of Justice's outright refusal to cite federal law that specifically requires American citizens to pay an income tax, or for employers to withhold income taxes from their employees. I know this may sound utterly incredible to those of you just now learning of this, but to date, and after many attempts to get federal authorities to publicly address this question, federal authorities have steadfastly refused to answer this very reasonable request.
To put the matter to rest, it would be such a simple thing to cite the law, if such a law exists, and it logically follows that the deliberate refusal of U.S. authorities to respond accordingly means they cannot. It's as simple as that.
Neil Cavuto on Fox News interviewed Bob Schulz recently, where he told Cavuto, God and everybody else tuned in that he had stopped filing income taxes a year ago. Schulz boasted he could not be successfully prosecuted, but as the lightning rod that he is, a vengeful federal government might very well target Schulz with a corrupt federal judge specifically picked for the job. Remember what happened to the Waco survivors? They are still in prison despite the protests of the jury that intended to acquit them.
One such case is that of Dick Simkanin, who somewhat publicly stopped withholding taxes from his employees because he could find no federal law requiring him to. The judge hearing Simkanin's case, United States District Court Judge McBride, repeatedly denied Simkanin's right to due process, including requiring the government to produce the law Simkanin is alleged to have violated! You can read the story on the We The People Website at http://www.givemeliberty.org/.
Treated like a dangerous criminal, Simkanin was jailed for three months without bail, and he has now reached a plea bargain agreement to accept a felony conviction. He remains incarcerated until January, when he is to be sentenced. Yes, he cracked, but can anyone blame him?
An activist I deeply admire is Devvy Kidd, who wrote a very revealing article at:
http://www.newswithviews.com/Devvy/kidd21.htm
She wrote, "Since 1999, We the People Foundation for Constitutional Education, Inc., based in New York and headed up by Robert Schulz, have petitioned the federal government to answer serious, legitimate questions regarding the legitimacy of the federal income tax and the deliberate misapplication of Title 26 against domestic Americans."
"Since 1999, not one single employee, agent or representative of the IRS or the DOJ have felt the need to answer the questions of the people. As is typical with a tyrannical government, these servants of the people have forgotten something very important: This government was created of, by and for the people of these United States of America and the power still lies with the people."
She also reported that, "During this press conference, a senior IRS official by the name of Terry Lemons made the following proclamation in response to a question by David Cay Johnston of the NY Times: Why won't the IRS answer the questions set forth in the petitions from We the People Foundation?"
"According to Johnston, Lemons said the government is answering our Petitions through "enforcement actions."
Remember what they did to Dick Simkanin? Just wait and see what they have in store for Bob Schulz.
So, Mr. Lemons won't cite a law requiring American citizens to pay income taxes, but he will viciously prosecute anyone who doesn't? Those are fighting words, Mr. Lemons. We are Americans, and those are fighting words, you son of a bitch!
How many times have we citizens been reminded and admonished that this is a nation that operates under the "Rule of Law", Hmm? That's the entire issue here. The people behind the We The People Foundation are not anti-government, nor are they against paying taxes they lawfully owe. They do not want to bankrupt the United States or destroy this nation. They are simply saying this: "If you feds are going to prosecute people for not paying their "fair share" of taxes, then under the "Rule of Law" principle you hold so dear, what federal law specifically requires them to pay income taxes in the first place?" The silence from the federal government to that question is deafening, and remains so.
Consider this: We now have millions of very angry Americans unemployed and under-employed all over this nation due to the Republican-sponsored enactment of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the General Agreement On Trades And Tariffs (GATT), that were signed into law by President Bill Clinton, against his own Democratic Party's wishes.
The unemployed and under-employed in this nation are barely surviving month-to-month, and the average household credit card debt is now $9,000.00 and climbing. Bankruptcies are escalating and home foreclosures are skyrocketing nationwide. There are a lot of very angry and disenfranchised Americans roaming the streets out there who are suffering a substantial reduction to their former standard of living, and thus, their ability to provide adequately for their families.
To make this very real and present scenario even more interesting, American military assets are spread thinly all over the world, unable to respond instantly to a major crisis should it occur right here in the United States, a crisis that could conceivably develop into a massive, lightening-strike counter-revolution, whereby Washington D.C. is overrun, traitors hanged and constitutional authority is restored.
What if a clandestine army of 100,000 angry citizens were formed to retake Washington D.C. in return for the promise of $1,000,000.00 each, guaranteed by contract and paid to them or their survivors upon recapturing the center of the United States Government and it's Treasury? Is that a scary thought or what? Think that's an impossibility? Think again: I'm known for predicting the future quite accurately. Besides, this is a no-brainer because of its simplicity.
The Founding Fathers had no such luxury to offer their conscripts in the American Revolution, other than freedom from King George and his oppressive taxes, but times and circumstances have changed considerably since then, and the United States Treasury is right there for the taking. Only 535 malcontents and their security stand in the way, and not a dime gets paid until the job is done.
We're only talking about 100 billion dollars here, barely more than the 87 billion dollars King George wants to waste on Iraq right now. It's really not that much money when you think about it, and a great many Americans would be willing to do the job for free if they just had assurances that the government of the United States would be brought back into compliance with the Constitution of the United States - a goal shared by every member of the tens of thousands of citizens now comprising the various citizens' militias alone.
I'm contemplating a very dear nation that is in very deep trouble right now. When a high-ranking official of the IRS says he don't need no stinking law, and if you citizens don't pay up he'll utterly destroy you and your families one by one, those are not "chilling words" as Devvy Kidd described them: No, those are fighting words!
Those are the kind of fighting words that bring Americans of almost all reasonable conservative and liberal bents together to fight off a common threat. Every single American was threatened by those words, and everyone in America needs to understand this government no longer respects the Rule of Law unless it suits them.
Pay us tribute, or we'll destroy you. Those were Lemons' words. Those were fighting words!
Carl F. Worden
http://www.sierratimes.com/03/10/07/carlworden.htm
Leading Journalists Expose Major News Cover-ups by Media Corporations
Here are some astounding statements from a summary of the book Into the Buzzsaw on the informative website www.wanttoknow.info. In this eye-opening book, 18 award-winning journalists describe how they were prevented by corporate media ownership from reporting major, incredibly revealing news. These journalists have won numerous awards, including several Emmys and a Pulitzer. This message is sent with the hope of creating a better future for all of us.
Kristina Borjesson—CBS, Emmy award winner. Pierre Salinger announced on Nov. 8, 1996, that he’d received documents proving that a US Navy missile had accidentally downed TWA flight 800. That same day, FBI’s Jim Kallstrom called a press conference. A man raised his hand and asked why the Navy was involved in the investigation while a possible suspect. “Remove him!” Kallstrom yelled. Two men leapt over to the questioner and grabbed him by the arms. There was a momentary chill in the air after the guy had been dragged out of the room. Kallstrom and entourage acted as if nothing had happened. Kallstrom was later hired by CBS.
Jane Akre—Fox News. After our struggle to air an honest report, Fox fired the general manager of our station. The new GM said that if we didn’t agree to changes that the lawyers were insisting upon, we’d be fired for insubordination. We pleaded with him to look at the facts we’d uncovered. His reply: “We paid $3 billion dollars for these TV stations. We’ll tell you what the news is. The news is what we say it is!” After we refused, Fox’s general manager presented us an agreement that would give us a full year of salary, and benefits worth close to $200,000 in “consulting jobs,” but with strings attached: no mention of how Fox covered up the story and no opportunity to ever expose the facts. After declining, we were fired.
Monika Jensen-Stevenson—Emmy-winning producer for 60 minutes. Robert Garwood—14 years a prisoner of the Vietnamese—was found guilty in the longest court-martial in US history. At the end of the court-martial, there seemed no question that he was a monstrous traitor. In 1985, Garwood was speaking publicly about something that had never made the news during his court-martial. He knew of other American prisoners in Vietnam long after the war was over. My sources included outstanding experts like former head of the Defense Intelligence Agency General Tighe and returned POWs like Captain McDaniel, who held the Navy’s top award for bravery. With such advocates, it was hard not to consider the possibility that prisoners (some 3,500) had in fact been kept by the Vietnamese as hostages to make sure the US would pay the more than $3 billion in war reparations. After the war, American POWs had become worthless pawns.
Gary Webb—San Jose Mercury News, Pulitzer Prize winner. In 1996, I wrote a series of stories that began this way: A Bay Area drug ring sold tons of cocaine to the Crips and Bloods gangs of LA and funneled millions in drug profits to a guerilla army run by the CIA. The cocaine that flooded in helped spark a crack explosion in urban America. The story developed a momentum all of its own, despite a virtual news blackout from the major media. Ultimately, it was public pressure that forced the national newspapers into the fray. The Washington Post, the New York Times, and the Los Angeles Times published stories, but spent little time exploring the CIA’s activities. Instead, my reporting and I became the focus of their scrutiny. It was remarkable that the four Washington Post reporters assigned to debunk the series could not find a single significant factual error. A few months later, the Mercury News, under intense CIA pressure, backed away from the story, publishing a long column apologizing for “shortcomings” in the series. The New York Times splashed the apology on their front page, the first time the series had ever been mentioned there. I quit the Mercury News not long after that.
For more on these and the amazing stories of other leading journalists, go to the two-page summary of Into the Buzzsaw at www.wanttoknow.info/mediacover-up. Or even better, go straight to the information-packed 10-page summary at www.wanttoknow.info/massmediacover-ups. This incredibly revealing book, edited by Kristina Borjesson, can be ordered at www.intothebuzzsaw.com. If these stories were reported in headline news where they belong, caring citizens would be astounded and demand to know more. This has not happened, which is why we feel compelled to provide them here.
To understand more about the impact of all this, go to www.wanttoknow.info. The entire website is dedicated both to providing a concise, reliable introduction to incredibly important information that is being hidden from us, and to inspiring us to work together for a better world. You can help create the possibility of a brighter future right now by educating yourself on these vital issues, and by forwarding this message to your friends and colleagues and asking them to do the same. Thank you for caring. Together we can and will create a better world for ourselves and our children.
The wanttoknow.info team is a group of dedicated researchers from around the world who compile and summarize important, verifiable facts and information being hidden from the public. You can reach us at wecare@wanttoknow.info.
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Mostly this hurts the sheepl's ears...actually that's a lie most sheeple won't even hear much less listen.