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They are located in Mecosta, MI. Far inland from the lakes. I do not agree with the massive withdraws from the aquifer that they make and put it in bottles. But to state they are directly pulling it out the the Great Lakes is deceiving. Although it is possible it has influence on the lakes, this is beyond what I know about the Aquifers.
Entire OTC Market Breaks As Finra Halts All Quotes And Trading
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 11/07/2013 12:21 -0500
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-11-07/all-otc-quotes-and-trades-halted
As we noted earlier, today's Twitter IPO, while pricing without the Facebook associated histrionics or crashing the NASDAQ, has had an impact on markets. A rather profound impact it appears, because as the OTC BB site, the host of pink sheet, OTC and Bulletin Board stocks just reported, the entire OTC market has been shut down by Finra.
From OTCBB:
Market Wide Quotation and Trading Halt for All OTC Equity Securities
On Thursday, November 7, 2013, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. (“FINRA”) halted trading in all OTC Equity Securities pursuant to FINRA Rule 6440(a)(3). FINRA determined to impose a temporary halt because of a lack of current quotation information. Therefore, FINRA has determined that halting quoting and trading in all OTC Equity Securities is appropriate to protect investors and ensure a fair and orderly marketplace. The trading and quotation halt began on Thursday, November 7, 2013, at 11:25:00 a.m. E.T. FINRA will notify the market when trading may resume.
Contact Information: Questions regarding this notice can be directed to: FINRA Operations at (866) 776-0800.
So to protect investors, Finra is shutting down the entire market. Let's hope this is not just a test of what is coming to far more liquid exchanges.
As to why the entire OTC BB market just break? Who knows, or cares. As long as the NYSE, and more importantly Twitter, is fine all is well.
NBC: Obama admin. knew millions could not keep their health insurance
Wow, NBC is on the attack,, the sheep are running.
http://investigations.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/10/28/21213547-obama-admin-knew-millions-could-not-keep-their-health-insurance?lite
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U.S. President Barack Obama walks out to deliver remarks alongside Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, October 1, 2013.
By Lisa Myers and Hannah Rappleye
NBC News
President Obama repeatedly assured Americans that after the Affordable Care Act became law, people who liked their health insurance would be able to keep it. But millions of Americans are getting or are about to get cancellation letters for their health insurance under Obamacare, say experts, and the Obama administration has known that for at least three years.
Four sources deeply involved in the Affordable Care Act tell NBC NEWS that 50 to 75 percent of the 14 million consumers who buy their insurance individually can expect to receive a “cancellation” letter or the equivalent over the next year because their existing policies don’t meet the standards mandated by the new health care law. One expert predicts that number could reach as high as 80 percent. And all say that many of those forced to buy pricier new policies will experience “sticker shock.”
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None of this should come as a shock to the Obama administration. The law states that policies in effect as of March 23, 2010 will be “grandfathered,” meaning consumers can keep those policies even though they don’t meet requirements of the new health care law. But the Department of Health and Human Services then wrote regulations that narrowed that provision, by saying that if any part of a policy was significantly changed since that date -- the deductible, co-pay, or benefits, for example -- the policy would not be grandfathered.
Buried in Obamacare regulations from July 2010 is an estimate that because of normal turnover in the individual insurance market, “40 to 67 percent” of customers will not be able to keep their policy. And because many policies will have been changed since the key date, “the percentage of individual market policies losing grandfather status in a given year exceeds the 40 to 67 percent range.”
That means the administration knew that more than 40 to 67 percent of those in the individual market would not be able to keep their plans, even if they liked them.
Yet President Obama, who had promised in 2009, “if you like your health plan, you will be able to keep your health plan,” was still saying in 2012, “If [you] already have health insurance, you will keep your health insurance.”
“This says that when they made the promise, they knew half the people in this market outright couldn’t keep what they had and then they wrote the rules so that others couldn’t make it either,” said Robert Laszewski, of Health Policy and Strategy Associates, a consultant who works for health industry firms. Laszewski estimates that 80 percent of those in the individual market will not be able to keep their current policies and will have to buy insurance that meets requirements of the new law, which generally requires a richer package of benefits than most policies today.
The White House does not dispute that many in the individual market will lose their current coverage, but argues they will be offered better coverage in its place, and that many will get tax subsidies that would offset any increased costs.
“One of the main goals of the law is to ensure that people have insurance they can rely on – that doesn’t discriminate or charge more based on pre-existing conditions. The consumers who are getting notices are in plans that do not provide all these protections – but in the vast majority of cases, those same insurers will automatically shift their enrollees to a plan that provides new consumer protections and, for nearly half of individual market enrollees, discounts through premium tax credits,” said White House spokesperson Jessica Santillo.
“Nothing in the Affordable Care Act forces people out of their health plans: The law allows plans that covered people at the time the law was enacted to continue to offer that same coverage to the same enrollees – nothing has changed and that coverage can continue into 2014,” she said.
Individual insurance plans with low premiums often lack basic benefits, such as prescription drug coverage, or carry high deductibles and out-of-pocket costs. The Affordable Care Act requires all companies to offer more benefits, such as mental health care, and also bars companies from denying coverage for preexisting conditions.
Today, White House spokesman Jay Carney was asked about the president’s promise that consumers would be able to keep their health care. “What the president said and what everybody said all along is that there are going to be changes brought about by the Affordable Care Act to create minimum standards of coverage, minimum services that every insurance plan has to provide,” Carney said. “So it's true that there are existing healthcare plans on the individual market that don't meet those minimum standards and therefore do not qualify for the Affordable Care Act.”
Courtesy of Heather Goldwater
Heather Goldwater, 38, of South Carolina, says that she received a letter from her insurer saying the company would no longer offer her plan, but hasn't yet received a follow-up letter with a comparable option.
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Other experts said that most consumers in the individual market will not be able to keep their policies. Nancy Thompson, senior vice president of CBIZ Benefits, which helps companies manage their employee benefits, says numbers in this market are hard to pin down, but that data from states and carriers suggests “anywhere from 50 to 75 percent” of individual policy holders will get cancellation letters. Kansas Insurance Commissioner Sandy Praeger, who chairs the health committee of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, says that estimate is “probably about right.” She added that a few states are asking insurance companies to cancel and replace policies, rather than just amend them, to avoid confusion.
A spokesman for America's Health Plans says there are no precise numbers on how many will receive cancellations letters or get notices that their current policies don’t meet ACA standards. In both cases, consumers will not be able to keep their current coverage.
Those getting the cancellation letters are often shocked and unhappy.
BREAKING: Obamacare’s Data Center Crashed. Now offline until further notice. (VIDEO)
Breaking News Government Incompetence
Posted by Austin Petersen on 28 Oct 2013 / 4 Comments
Have you tried turning it off and turning it back on again?
WASHINGTON, D.C. - In the ongoing disaster that has been called the rollout of Obamacare, it now appears that the critical data center tied to Healthcare.gov has crashed. All enrollments have been halted to the 50 states.
http://thelibertarianrepublic.com/breaking-obamacares-data-center-crashed-now-offline-notice-video/
Fox News Poll: Voters express disapproval with Congress, ObamaCare
very long list of questions, bottom line bah, bah,,,,
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/interactive/2013/10/23/fox-news-poll-voters-express-disapproval-with-congress-obamacare/
Marshals: Gunman fires at US courthouse in W.Va.
Oct. 9 4:56 PM EDT
WHEELING, W.Va. (AP) — The U.S. Marshals Service says a man with an assault-type rifle fired 15 to 20 shots at the federal courthouse in Wheeling. W.Va., before security officers returned fire, critically wounding the man.
Chief deputy Mike Claxton of the Marshals Service in northern West Virginia says one officer was hurt by shattered glass inside the courthouse during Wednesday's shooting but no other injuries were reported.
Claxton says the gunman was in a parking lot across from the courthouse downtown. He says officials are attempting to determine a motive.
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/marshals-gunman-fires-us-courthouse-wva
Marshals: Gunman fires at US courthouse in W.Va.
Oct. 9 4:56 PM EDT
WHEELING, W.Va. (AP) — The U.S. Marshals Service says a man with an assault-type rifle fired 15 to 20 shots at the federal courthouse in Wheeling. W.Va., before security officers returned fire, critically wounding the man.
Chief deputy Mike Claxton of the Marshals Service in northern West Virginia says one officer was hurt by shattered glass inside the courthouse during Wednesday's shooting but no other injuries were reported.
Claxton says the gunman was in a parking lot across from the courthouse downtown. He says officials are attempting to determine a motive.
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/marshals-gunman-fires-us-courthouse-wva
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Q: How many NICS Firearm Background Checks have been initiated in 2013?
In my state we have reached the historical average already with 4 months to go.
This pulls up a PDF with historical data by state.
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Massive New Gun Taxes Proposed
September 12, 2013
by Woody
Related Topics: Firearms General Gun Rights Industry News Legal Issues News Second Amendment
The bill would also increase the transfer tax on all weapons (except antique guns) covered under the National Firearms Act (which excludes most common guns) from $200 to $500 and index to inflation and increase the transfer tax for any other weapon from $5 to $100.
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The “Gun Violence Prevention and Safe Communities Act,” a bill sponsored by William Pascrell, D-NJ, and Danny Davis, D-IL., would nearly double the current 11 percent tax on handguns, while raising the levy on bullets and cartridges from 11 to 50 percent.
Said Rep. Pascrell, co-Chair of the House Law Enforcement Caucus and member of the Ways and Means Committee, “It has been well over two decades since tax rates were last adjusted on firearms and ammunition, and I believe it is appropriate that we look to these taxes as a way to direct additional resources to law enforcement, background checks and gun violence research.”
The lawmakers say the bill would generate $600 million per year, which they claim would be used to fund law-enforcement and gun violence prevention. The bill would exempt all federal, state and local agencies, including police departments, from paying the tax.
“What the anti-gun interests can’t ban, they want to tax it out of existence,” Alan Gottlieb, chairman for the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, told FoxNews.com. “It’s nothing more than confiscatory taxation.”
The bill includes the following provisions:
Increase in federal excise tax on handguns (both pistols and revolvers) from 11% to 20%
Increase in federal excise tax on ammunition from 11% to 50%
Increase in NFA tax (pre-’86 autos, SBRs, suppressors, etc.) from $200 to $500
Increase in NFA AOW tax from $5 to $100
Increase in special (occupational) tax for importers, manufacturers, and dealers
Adds semiautomatic pistols “chambered for cartridges commonly considered rifle rounds, configured with receivers commonly associated with rifles and capable of accepting detachable magazines” to the list of items taxable as NFA items (26 USC § 5845)
H.R. 3018: Gun Violence Prevention and Safe Communities Act of 2013
John Lott Jr: It must be obvious to everyone now that since Democrats can’t completely ban guns, they want to tax them out of existence.
http://cdn2.cheaperthandirt.com/blog/?p=48891&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=social&utm_content=chronicle0914&utm_campaign=20130914-social-newsletter-massive-new-gun-taxes-blog-post
Sandy Hook School Massacre: Obama DOJ in $2.5 Million Sandy Hook Payout
By James F. Tracy
Global Research, September 11, 2013
Region: USA
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As the nation’s attention turned to potential US military aggression in the Middle East, the Obama administration has made an unusual $2.5 million payout to Connecticut law enforcement and emergency response agencies for their participation in the December 14, 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre event.
Under the plan administered by Attorney General Eric Holder and the Department of Justice, the Connecticut State Police are slated to collect $663,444, the Town of Newtown will take in $602,293, the Town of Monroe will receive $602,293 and more than two dozen other agencies from the surrounding area will get $296,836. The funds originate from the Bureau of Justice Assistance’s Edward Byrne Justice Assistance Grant Program.
Aside from bureaucratic boilerplate there is no immediate explanation as to why the federal government would make such a substantial disbursement to agencies partaking in the incident. “Providing support to the law enforcement agencies that responded to the horrific scene that awaited them at Sandy Hook Elementary School is one small action we can take to bring healing to a community that’s been devastated,” Attorney General Holder remarked in a press release. “Just over eight months after this senseless tragedy, those who lost their lives, and those who continue to grieve, remain in our thoughts and prayers.”[1]
On November 27, less than three weeks before the Sandy Hook massacre, Attorney General Holder appeared at a news conference in New Haven, Connecticut alongside Connecticut Governor Dan Malloy to announce Project Longevity, a joint venture by the Justice Department and State of Connecticut. The endeavor was described by one law enforcement officials as “a statewide approach that targets repeat criminals, creates alternatives for potential gang members and rallies neighborhoods against violence.”[2]
On December 20 Holder made an unannounced visit to Newtown to meet with State and local law enforcement and emergency responders shortly after a meeting in Washington with Vice President Joe Biden, presumably to discuss forthcoming attempts at gun control legislation.[3]
Because there are so many inconsistencies and missing information in the case where the findings have not been made public, the large payout appears especially suspect. In August the Hartford Courant conducted an investigation of overtime pay being generated by Connecticut State police assigned to the Sandy Hook tragedy. Eight State Police detectives have received $139,000 in overtime pay for work on the investigation since January 1, 2013. Almost half has gone to two investigators claim to have put in over 500 hours of work beyond their scheduled duties.[4]
Such extensive federal funding will likely draw out the investigation for many more months— perhaps years—while keeping relevant law enforcement officials very pleased in the interim.
Notes
[1] Department of Justice, “Attorney General Eric Holder Announces $2.5 Million to Connecticut Law Enforcement For Costs Related to Sandy Hook School Shootings” (Press Release) PDF, August 28, 2013.
[2] Dave Ingram, “Project Longevity: Justice Department, Connecticut State Officials Target Gun Violence,” Reuters/Huffington Post, November 27, 2012.
[3] Frederic J. Frommer, “Holder to Meet with First Responders in Newtown,” Associated Press/Hartford Courant, December 20, 2012.
[4] Dave Altimari, “Overtime for Sandy Hook Investigators Nears $140,000 Since Jan. 1,” Hartford Courant, August 16, 2013.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/sandy-hook-school-massacre-obama-doj-in-2-5-million-sandy-hook-payout/5348021?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=sandy-hook-school-massacre-obama-doj-in-2-5-million-sandy-hook-payout
Now what is Obama and Kerry going to do?
Damascus welcomes Russia’s call to hand control over its chemical weapons to the international community, the Syrian Foreign Minister said responding to Sergey Lavrov's statement after the two met in the Russian capital.
“Syria Arab Republic welcomes Russia’s initiative, based on the Syrian’s government care about the lives of our people and security of our country,” Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Muallem said in response to the statement by his Russian counterpart.
“We are calling on the Syrian authorities not only agree on putting chemical weapons storages under international control, but also for its further destruction and then joining the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons,” Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said earlier.
The UN chief has called for measures to provide for the safe storage and destruction of the Syrian chemical weapons arsenal.
“I am sure that the international community will take quick measures to make sure that these chemical weapons reserves are stored in a safe place and are to be destroyed,” Ban Ki-moon said.
Britain has responded to the Russia-Syria dialogue, saying that the chemical weapons handover idea for Syria must not be used as a “distraction tactic”.
"If Syria were to put its chemical weapons beyond use under international supervision clearly that would be a big step forward," Cameron told parliament. "We have to be careful though to make sure this is not a distraction tactic to discuss something else rather than the problem on the table."
David Cameron also stressed that the Syrian conflict can only be solved with “political methods”.
Cameron said that the only way to put an end to the conflict in Syria is to work out a peaceful political decision, adding that through it Syria will come to stability and democracy.
yes I hope so too.
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he will be part of the training video's now. Would not be surprised if it hits MS Media in a few days and of course it will be played as anyone that does not go Bah,, is like this.
???? Would require some investigative work.
I'm sure they are preferred shares. So you would not see volume.
no, does not???
Starts on page 15, maybe it has not fully loaded for you. Yes sold shares, not sure if it was all but that is what the story stated.
Disposal on 4-30-12
Bad apple, not good.
Two sovereign citizens planning to kidnap and kill a Las Vegas Metro Police officer were arrested Tuesday following a three-month undercover investigation into the scheme, police said.
David Allan Brutsche, 42, and Devon Campbell Newman, 67, were arrested by Las Vegas Metro PD counter-terrorism officers and booked Wednesday on charges of attempted murder, conspiracy to commit murder, and other charges.
During 30 meetings with the suspects during the investigation, undercover detectives recorded hours of conversations in which Brutsche and Newman expressed their hatred for law enforcement and described an elaborate plan to start "snatching cops" at traffic stops, imprison them in a makeshift jail at a vacant house, conduct a trial in their own court, and kill the officer.
Brutsche said the plan was necessary because police have violated his constitutional civil rights. He told undercover detectives that even though he physically lives in this country, he is separate or "sovereign" from the United States.
"We have the right to stop the cops by killing them," he said in June, according to the police report. He added, "We have the right to shoot cops because we, as 'the people,' are the kings and the police are the servants."
Brutsche and Newman professed their allegiance to the sovereign movement in which followers believe police have no authority to arrest or detain them. Sovereigns attempt to thwart police action with paper terrorism during the legal process, and can present a violent threat to officers in the field, said Det. Rob Finch, who has investigated numerous sovereign cases with the Greensboro (N.C.) Police Department's Criminal Intelligence Unit.
Finch cautioned officers who encounter sovereigns at vehicle stops to proceed with caution.
"Just because these folks appear to be a mouthy sovereign that violent threat is there," Finch told PoliceMag.com. "Patrol officers are dealing with a segment of society who doesn't believe in our authority."
Brutsche and Newman told undercover detectives they hoped their plan would help recruit others to their cause, including using training and recruitment videos. The video would coach other sovereigns about what to say to officers at traffic stops, including "Don't touch your weapon, don't touch your radio, or I'll blow your head off."
He discussed obtaining firearms training from Front Sight Firearms Training Institute in Pahrump, Nev. Brutsche also said he did extensive research on the internet in planning the scene, according to police records.
In July, Brutsche told an undercover detective he wanted to recruit a team of people and that he had "plans for dealing with the cops when they were 'harassing people.'" He added, "Blood or no blood, it doesn't matter. I will kill anyone that tries to stop the cause of liberty. I have no qualms about it."
After the kidnapping, Brutsche said he would take the officer to a vacant home. On Aug. 12, Brutsche and Newman were brought to a police-controlled residence, where they began attaching boards and eye sockets to a wall in the master bedroom where they planned to restrain the officer. Three days later, they discussed disposing of the dead officer's body by dumping it in the desert.
Brutsche said he would assemble a sovereign jury for a trial accusing the officer of treason. Las Vegas SWAT officers arrested the pair Tuesday, as they planned to move forward with the kidnapping plan.
By Paul Clinton
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Sovereign Citizens: A Clear and Present Danger
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Prison pharmacist wins judgment against firms tied to senator
By Patrick McGreevy
August 22, 2013, 8:54 a.m.
An Orange County pharmacist has won a $20,000 judgment against two companies he said stiffed him on pay for work he did on a state contract while the firms were co-owned by the husband of state Sen. Mimi Walters (R-Irvine).
The state labor commissioner found that pharmacist Larry Drechsler of Orange County had not been paid more than $4,000 that was owed him for services provided to the companies, American Healthcare Recruiting and Drug Consultants Inc. The rest of the award was for interest and penalties.
In 2011, when Drechsler did the work in question, the firms were co-owned by David Walters, the senator’s husband. The couple said they sold their interest in April 2012.
“I hold them 100% accountable for what was done to me,” Drechsler said. “It’s hideous.”
Sen. Walters, who is running for Congress, was out of town and not available for comment, said spokesman Garth Eisenbeis.
The Times reported last year that dozens of medical workers claimed they had not been paid by David Walters’ business for work in state prisons.
The Fair Political Practices Commission investigated the senator after her office made calls to state prison officials about a contract dispute with her husband’s firm. That case was closed without prosecution.
http://www.latimes.com/local/political/la-me-pc-prison-pharmacist-wins-judgment-senator-mimi-walters-20130821,0,1758143.story
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New Jersey Governor Chris Christie signed 10 ?#?guncontrol? bills today, including one to deny fundamental rights without due process of law.
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I downloaded it and flagged the police station, court house,,,,,the app does not function any more. Good work by gun owners flooding it with false info.
I would buy a good small gas generator. These "solar" generators are really a play on words. A couple of panels, an inverter and a couple of deep cycle batteries would be a better bet than these solar things.
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True for the majority, but the ones directly effected by it will. Either by family or the town they run as they watch the tax dollars leave.
Kahr Arms Leaving New York
June 28, 2013 |
Kahr Arms, a New York-based manufacturer of compact handguns and parent company of Auto-Ordnance and Magnum Research, announced it plans to leave the state following the passage of restrictive gun control measures earlier this year.
Kahr is preparing to relocate to Pike County, Pa., where it would build a new manufacturing facility on a 620-acre business park. The new location would also give Kahr the ability to expand and keep up with the current peaking demand, reports Guns.com.
"This land has a lot of woods. We have to clear the land and put in foundations. An operations manager will handle that and hire construction people," Kahr spokesman Frank Harris told the Pocono Record.
"We were ready to sign a deal in rural Orange County, N.Y. But when the governor passed stricter gun control, it made it tough to continue on that path, so we jumped over the river," Harris said.
How times flies,,WWEN: W2 Energy Inc. Signs Financial Engagement Letter With ABB
NEW YORK, Nov. 7, 2005 (PRIMEZONE) -- W2 Energy Inc. (Pink Sheets:WWEN), a developer of Green Energy, is pleased to announce it has signed a financial engagement letter with ABB of Norwalk, CT. Under the terms of the letter, ABB will assist in sourcing funds, either debt or equity, via its world-wide project and trade finance network for W2 Energy Inc.'s 10,000 barrel per/day 100MW combination biomass to GTL/electricity plant to be located in Guelph, Ontario. The terms of the agreement state upon successful financing, ABB will be paid a success fee of one (1) percent of the total project financing. ABB will also assist in the complete turnkey installation and engineering of all electrical generators and electrical systems.
The plant will utilize a state-of-the-art plasma reactor to obtain energy from biomass feedstock, without emitting CO2 into the atmosphere. The energy, in the form of a mixture of hydrocarbons, will then be converted into liquid fuels (ethlene, diesel), hydrogen and natural gas. Excess carbons and ash will be utilized for fertilizers.
W2 Energy is presently working towards supplying letters of request for up to 11,000 Metric tons per month of zero sulphur cetane (diesel) and octane (ethylene) fuels. W2 Energy's first plant, which will be based in Guelph, Ontario will have the capacity of 1,200 Metric tons or 10,000 barrels per day of ethylene blended gasoline. Gross sales of the plant will be in the range of U.S. $240,000,000 for ethlene sales and U.S. $37,862,400 in electricity sales.
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W2 Energy Inc. is a growing, publicly traded company on the OTC (Other OTC:WWEN.PK - News) that develops renewable energy technologies and applies it to new generation electrical power systems. Specifically, W2 Energy Inc. produces Green Power, utilizing its core-patented technologies to produce green power generating and clean transportation fuel plants utilizing biomass to GTL technologies. W2 Energy Inc. has seasoned management and cutting edge technology. W2 Energy Inc. owns a large technology portfolio of patents and know-how that has been extensively validated and ready for commercial production.
Detroit Police Stage Purse Snatching, Almost Get Shot By FBI Agent
A training exercise that went awry on Wednesday almost ended in the death of a Detroit police officer. According to reports, detroit policesomeone approved of a Detroit police officer simulating a purse snatching at a gas station while being filmed by a TV news crew. This silly stunt may’ve gone off without a hitch had not an FBI agent been at the gas station as well.
“The event takes place. The officer takes the purse, runs around the gas station. As he’s running, an off-duty FBI agent is pumping gas. He witnesses the whole thing. He gives chase. He pulls his weapon, and as he turns the corner around the gas station, he’s stopped by another officer, who identifies herself as a police officer and don’t shoot, don’t shoot, this is a scenario,” said Detroit Police Inspector Shawn Gargalino.
Gargalino went on to say that the Detroit cops put people’s lives at risk.
“You had citizens who could’ve been hurt. A lot of people out here have CPLs now and carry weapons. They’re tired of the crime that’s going on in Detroit, and they might want to stand up and help somebody that’s in this type of situation. It just so happened it’s a gas station where the FBI fills up all their vehicles,” Gargalino said.
Sergeant Eren Stephens, the head of Public Information for Detroit Police, provided a statement to clarify what happened.
“WDIV Channel 4's request to have two members of the Detroit Police Department participate in its “How to Be a Better Witness” story was approved by DPD leadership. The simulated crime occurred in front of actual witnesses, in order to demonstrate what the witnesses did or did not see, which is very important during the process of an investigation. WDIV’s goal was to educate the public on safety and crime prevention. The demonstration involved an unarmed suspect (played by a police officer) snatching a woman’s purse as she (WDIV Associate) exited a local gas station located at Michigan and 11th Street. As the unarmed “suspect” fled with the purse, an FBI agent who was coincidentally at the scene of the demonstration initiated a brief enforcement action, taking two steps forward, then was immediately informed by a uniformed police officer that there was no actual crime in progress. Ironically, this demonstration revealed that when a crime occurs in the community, we never know who will be watching.”
But Gargalino says after this fiasco, there won’t be anymore reenactments.
http://www.yourblackworld.net/2013/06/black-news/detroit-police-stage-purse-snatching-almost-get-shot-by-fbi-agent/
how to handle a gun while instructing a classroom of children.
Threat to the Hegemony of the US Dollar? Rigged Gold Bullion Market
By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts
Global Research, May 19, 2013
paulcraigroberts.org
Region: USA
Theme: Global Economy
http://www.globalresearch.ca/threat-to-the-hegemony-of-the-us-dollar-rigged-gold-bullion-market/5335671?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=threat-to-the-hegemony-of-the-us-dollar-rigged-gold-bullion-market
Over the past month there has been a statistically improbable concurrence of events that can only be explained as a conspiracy to protect the dollar from the Federal Reserve’s policy of Quantitative Easing (QE).
Quantitative Easing is the term given to the Federal Reserve’s policy of printing 1,000 billion new dollars annually in order to finance the US budget deficit by purchasing US Treasury bonds and to keep the prices high of debt-related derivatives on the “banks too big to fail” (BTBF) balance sheets by purchasing mortgage-backed derivatives. Without QE, interest rates would be much higher, and values on the banks’ balance sheets would be much lower.
Quantitative Easing has been underway since December 2008. During these 54 months, the Federal Reserve has created several trillion new dollars with which the Fed has monetized the same amount of debt.
One result of this policy is that most real US interest rates are negative. Another result is that the supply of dollars has outstripped the world’s demand for dollars.
These two results are the reason that the Federal Reserve’s policy of printing money with which to purchase Treasury bonds and mortgage backed derivatives threatens the dollar’s exchange value and, thus, the dollar’s role as world reserve currency.
To be the world reserve currency means that the dollar can be used to pay any and every country’s oil bills and trade deficit. The dollar is the medium of international payment.
This is very helpful to the US and is the main source of US power. Because the dollar is the reserve currency, the US can cover its import costs and pay for its cost of operation simply by creating its own paper money.
If the dollar were not the reserve currency, Washington would not be able to finance its wars or continue to run large trade and budget deficits. Therefore, protecting the exchange value of the dollar is Washington’s prime concern if it is to remain a superpower.
The threats to the dollar are alternative monies–currencies that are not being created in enormous quantities, gold and silver, and Bitcoins, a digital currency.
The Bitcoin threat was eliminated on May 17 when the Department of Homeland Security seized Bitcoin’s accounts. The excuse was that Bitcoin had failed to register in keeping with the US Treasury’s anti-money laundering requirements.
Washington has stifled the threat from other currencies by convincing other large currencies to out-print the dollar. Japan has complied, and the European Central Bank, though somewhat constrained by Germany, has entered the printing mode in order to bail out the private banks endangered by the “sovereign debt crisis.”
That leaves gold and silver. The enormous increase in the prices of gold and silver over the last decade convinced Washington that there are a number of miscreants who do not trust the dollar and whose numbers must not be permitted to increase.
The price of gold rose from $272 an ounce in December 2000 to $1,917.50 on August 23, 2011. The financial gangsters who own and run America panicked. With the price of the dollar collapsing in relation to historical real money, how could the dollar’s exchange rate to other currencies be valid? If the dollar’s exchange value came under attack, the Federal Reserve would have to stop printing and would lose control over interest rates.
The bond and stock market bubbles would pop, and the interest payments on the federal debt would explode, leaving Washington even more indebted and unable to finance its wars, police state, and bankster bailouts.
Something had to be done about the rising price of gold and silver.
There are two bullion markets. One is a paper market in New York, Comex, where paper claims to gold are traded. The other is the physical market where personal possession is taken of the metal–coin shops, bullion dealers, jewelry stores.
The way the banksters have it set up, the price of bullion is not set in the markets in which people actually take possession of the metals. The price is set in the paper market where speculators gamble.
This bifurcated market gave the Federal Reserve the ability to protect the dollar from its printing press.
On Friday, April 12, 2013, short sales of gold hit the New York market in an amount estimated to have been somewhere between 124 and 400 tons of gold. This enormous and unprecedented sale implies an illegal conspiracy of sellers intent on rigging the market or action by the Federal Reserve through its agents, the BTBF that are the bullion banks.
The enormous sales of naked shorts drove down the gold price, triggering stop-loss orders and margin calls. The attack continued on Monday, April 15, and has continued since.
Before going further, note that there are position limits imposed on the number of contracts that traders can sell at one time. The 124 tons figure would have required 14 traders with no open interest on the exchange to sell all together in the same few minutes 40,000 futures contracts. The likelihood of so many traders deciding to short at the same moment at the maximum permitted is not believable. This was an attack ordered by the Federal Reserve, which is why there is no investigation of the illegality.
Note also that no seller that wanted out of a position would give himself a low price by dumping an enormous amount all at once unless the goal was not profit but to smash the bullion price.
Since the April 12-15 attack on the gold price, subsequent attacks have occurred at 2pm Hong Kong time and 2 am New York time. At this time activity is light, waiting on London to begin operating. As William S.Kaye has observed, no entity concerned about profits would choose this time to sell 20,000 to 30,000 futures contracts, but this is what has been happening.
Who can be unconcerned with losing money in this way? Only a central bank that can print it.
Now we come to the physical market where people take possession of bullion instead of betting on paper instruments. Look at this chart from ZeroHedge. http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-05-16/gold-demand-one-chart-physical-vs-etf [1] The demand for physical possession is high, despite the assault on gold that began in 2011, but as the price is set in the non-real paper market, orchestrated short sales, as in the current quarter of 2013, can drive down the price regardless of the fact that the actual demand for gold and silver cannot be met.
While the corrupt Western financial press urges people to abandon bullion, everyone is trying to purchase more, and the premiums above the spot price have risen. Around the world there is a shortage of gold and silver in the forms, such as one-ounce coins and ten-ounce bars, that individuals demand.
That the decline in gold and silver prices is an orchestration is apparent from the fact that the demand for bullion in the physical market has increased while naked short sales in the paper market imply a flight from bullion.
What does this illegal manipulation of markets by the Federal Reserve tell us? It tells us that the Federal Reserve sees no way out of printing money in order to support the federal deficit and the insolvent banks. If the dollar came under attack and the Federal Reserve had to stop printing dollars, interest rates would rise. The bond and stock markets would collapse. The dollar would be abandoned as reserve currency. Washington would no longer be able to pay its bills and would lose its hegemony. The world of hubristic Washington would collapse.
It remains to be seen whether Washington can prevail over the world demand for gold and silver. Can the dollar remain supreme when offshoring has deprived the US of the ability to cover its imports with exports? Can the dollar remain supreme when the Federal reserve is creating 1,000 billion new ones each year, while the BRICS, China and Japan, China and Australia, and China and Russia are making deals to settle their trade balances without the use of the dollar?
If the consumption-based US economy deprived of consumer income by jobs offshoring takes a further dip down in the third or fourth quarter–a downturn that cannot be masked by phony statistical releases–the federal deficit will rise. What will be the effect on the dollar if the Federal Reserve has to increase its Quantitative Easing?
A perfect storm has been prepared for America. Real interest rates are negative, but debt and money are being created hand over foot. The dollar’s demise awaits the world’s decision how to get out of it. The Federal Reserve can print dollars with which to keep the bond and stock markets high, but the Federal Reserve cannot print foreign currencies with which to keep the dollar afloat.
When the dollar goes, Washington’s power goes, which is why the bullion market is rigged. Protect the power. That is the agenda. Is it another Washington over-reach?
Bitcoin Note: On May 16, PCWorld reported: “The seizure of funds of the largest bitcoin exchange, Mt. Gox, was triggered by an alleged failure of the company to comply with U.S. financial regulations, according to a federal court document. The U.S. District Court in Maryland on Tuesday ordered the seizure of Mt. Gox’s funds, which were in an account with Dwolla, a payments company that transferred money from U.S. citizens to Mt. Gox for buying and selling the virtual currency bitcoin.”
Reports subsequent to my column suggest that instead of funds being seized, a money transfer mechanism was shut down. Whatever happened, the government has demonstrated that it can disable or destroy Bitcoin at will. Bitcoin might be tolerated unless it becomes widely used. If the government regards Bitcoin as a refuge from the dollar, it can simply have its agents buy up the Bitcoins, driving the price skyhigh, and then dump the purchases all at once, just as tons of gold shorts were dumped on the gold market.
Bitcoin showed its vulnerability in April when, according to news reports, someone gave away $13,627 worth of Bitcoins, and Bitcoin values crashed from $265 to $105. Some people who watch this market concluded that the exercise was a covert central bank stress test.
The fact that I reported on Bitcoin does not mean that I oppose Bitcoin. The point of my article is to demonstrate that the government will take all steps to protect the dollar from Quantitative Easing.
Threat to the Hegemony of the US Dollar? Rigged Gold Bullion Market
By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts
Global Research, May 19, 2013
paulcraigroberts.org
Region: USA
Theme: Global Economy
http://www.globalresearch.ca/threat-to-the-hegemony-of-the-us-dollar-rigged-gold-bullion-market/5335671?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=threat-to-the-hegemony-of-the-us-dollar-rigged-gold-bullion-market
Over the past month there has been a statistically improbable concurrence of events that can only be explained as a conspiracy to protect the dollar from the Federal Reserve’s policy of Quantitative Easing (QE).
Quantitative Easing is the term given to the Federal Reserve’s policy of printing 1,000 billion new dollars annually in order to finance the US budget deficit by purchasing US Treasury bonds and to keep the prices high of debt-related derivatives on the “banks too big to fail” (BTBF) balance sheets by purchasing mortgage-backed derivatives. Without QE, interest rates would be much higher, and values on the banks’ balance sheets would be much lower.
Quantitative Easing has been underway since December 2008. During these 54 months, the Federal Reserve has created several trillion new dollars with which the Fed has monetized the same amount of debt.
One result of this policy is that most real US interest rates are negative. Another result is that the supply of dollars has outstripped the world’s demand for dollars.
These two results are the reason that the Federal Reserve’s policy of printing money with which to purchase Treasury bonds and mortgage backed derivatives threatens the dollar’s exchange value and, thus, the dollar’s role as world reserve currency.
To be the world reserve currency means that the dollar can be used to pay any and every country’s oil bills and trade deficit. The dollar is the medium of international payment.
This is very helpful to the US and is the main source of US power. Because the dollar is the reserve currency, the US can cover its import costs and pay for its cost of operation simply by creating its own paper money.
If the dollar were not the reserve currency, Washington would not be able to finance its wars or continue to run large trade and budget deficits. Therefore, protecting the exchange value of the dollar is Washington’s prime concern if it is to remain a superpower.
The threats to the dollar are alternative monies–currencies that are not being created in enormous quantities, gold and silver, and Bitcoins, a digital currency.
The Bitcoin threat was eliminated on May 17 when the Department of Homeland Security seized Bitcoin’s accounts. The excuse was that Bitcoin had failed to register in keeping with the US Treasury’s anti-money laundering requirements.
Washington has stifled the threat from other currencies by convincing other large currencies to out-print the dollar. Japan has complied, and the European Central Bank, though somewhat constrained by Germany, has entered the printing mode in order to bail out the private banks endangered by the “sovereign debt crisis.”
That leaves gold and silver. The enormous increase in the prices of gold and silver over the last decade convinced Washington that there are a number of miscreants who do not trust the dollar and whose numbers must not be permitted to increase.
The price of gold rose from $272 an ounce in December 2000 to $1,917.50 on August 23, 2011. The financial gangsters who own and run America panicked. With the price of the dollar collapsing in relation to historical real money, how could the dollar’s exchange rate to other currencies be valid? If the dollar’s exchange value came under attack, the Federal Reserve would have to stop printing and would lose control over interest rates.
The bond and stock market bubbles would pop, and the interest payments on the federal debt would explode, leaving Washington even more indebted and unable to finance its wars, police state, and bankster bailouts.
Something had to be done about the rising price of gold and silver.
There are two bullion markets. One is a paper market in New York, Comex, where paper claims to gold are traded. The other is the physical market where personal possession is taken of the metal–coin shops, bullion dealers, jewelry stores.
The way the banksters have it set up, the price of bullion is not set in the markets in which people actually take possession of the metals. The price is set in the paper market where speculators gamble.
This bifurcated market gave the Federal Reserve the ability to protect the dollar from its printing press.
On Friday, April 12, 2013, short sales of gold hit the New York market in an amount estimated to have been somewhere between 124 and 400 tons of gold. This enormous and unprecedented sale implies an illegal conspiracy of sellers intent on rigging the market or action by the Federal Reserve through its agents, the BTBF that are the bullion banks.
The enormous sales of naked shorts drove down the gold price, triggering stop-loss orders and margin calls. The attack continued on Monday, April 15, and has continued since.
Before going further, note that there are position limits imposed on the number of contracts that traders can sell at one time. The 124 tons figure would have required 14 traders with no open interest on the exchange to sell all together in the same few minutes 40,000 futures contracts. The likelihood of so many traders deciding to short at the same moment at the maximum permitted is not believable. This was an attack ordered by the Federal Reserve, which is why there is no investigation of the illegality.
Note also that no seller that wanted out of a position would give himself a low price by dumping an enormous amount all at once unless the goal was not profit but to smash the bullion price.
Since the April 12-15 attack on the gold price, subsequent attacks have occurred at 2pm Hong Kong time and 2 am New York time. At this time activity is light, waiting on London to begin operating. As William S.Kaye has observed, no entity concerned about profits would choose this time to sell 20,000 to 30,000 futures contracts, but this is what has been happening.
Who can be unconcerned with losing money in this way? Only a central bank that can print it.
Now we come to the physical market where people take possession of bullion instead of betting on paper instruments. Look at this chart from ZeroHedge. http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-05-16/gold-demand-one-chart-physical-vs-etf [1] The demand for physical possession is high, despite the assault on gold that began in 2011, but as the price is set in the non-real paper market, orchestrated short sales, as in the current quarter of 2013, can drive down the price regardless of the fact that the actual demand for gold and silver cannot be met.
While the corrupt Western financial press urges people to abandon bullion, everyone is trying to purchase more, and the premiums above the spot price have risen. Around the world there is a shortage of gold and silver in the forms, such as one-ounce coins and ten-ounce bars, that individuals demand.
That the decline in gold and silver prices is an orchestration is apparent from the fact that the demand for bullion in the physical market has increased while naked short sales in the paper market imply a flight from bullion.
What does this illegal manipulation of markets by the Federal Reserve tell us? It tells us that the Federal Reserve sees no way out of printing money in order to support the federal deficit and the insolvent banks. If the dollar came under attack and the Federal Reserve had to stop printing dollars, interest rates would rise. The bond and stock markets would collapse. The dollar would be abandoned as reserve currency. Washington would no longer be able to pay its bills and would lose its hegemony. The world of hubristic Washington would collapse.
It remains to be seen whether Washington can prevail over the world demand for gold and silver. Can the dollar remain supreme when offshoring has deprived the US of the ability to cover its imports with exports? Can the dollar remain supreme when the Federal reserve is creating 1,000 billion new ones each year, while the BRICS, China and Japan, China and Australia, and China and Russia are making deals to settle their trade balances without the use of the dollar?
If the consumption-based US economy deprived of consumer income by jobs offshoring takes a further dip down in the third or fourth quarter–a downturn that cannot be masked by phony statistical releases–the federal deficit will rise. What will be the effect on the dollar if the Federal Reserve has to increase its Quantitative Easing?
A perfect storm has been prepared for America. Real interest rates are negative, but debt and money are being created hand over foot. The dollar’s demise awaits the world’s decision how to get out of it. The Federal Reserve can print dollars with which to keep the bond and stock markets high, but the Federal Reserve cannot print foreign currencies with which to keep the dollar afloat.
When the dollar goes, Washington’s power goes, which is why the bullion market is rigged. Protect the power. That is the agenda. Is it another Washington over-reach?
Bitcoin Note: On May 16, PCWorld reported: “The seizure of funds of the largest bitcoin exchange, Mt. Gox, was triggered by an alleged failure of the company to comply with U.S. financial regulations, according to a federal court document. The U.S. District Court in Maryland on Tuesday ordered the seizure of Mt. Gox’s funds, which were in an account with Dwolla, a payments company that transferred money from U.S. citizens to Mt. Gox for buying and selling the virtual currency bitcoin.”
Reports subsequent to my column suggest that instead of funds being seized, a money transfer mechanism was shut down. Whatever happened, the government has demonstrated that it can disable or destroy Bitcoin at will. Bitcoin might be tolerated unless it becomes widely used. If the government regards Bitcoin as a refuge from the dollar, it can simply have its agents buy up the Bitcoins, driving the price skyhigh, and then dump the purchases all at once, just as tons of gold shorts were dumped on the gold market.
Bitcoin showed its vulnerability in April when, according to news reports, someone gave away $13,627 worth of Bitcoins, and Bitcoin values crashed from $265 to $105. Some people who watch this market concluded that the exercise was a covert central bank stress test.
The fact that I reported on Bitcoin does not mean that I oppose Bitcoin. The point of my article is to demonstrate that the government will take all steps to protect the dollar from Quantitative Easing.
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Mobilicom Introduces Handheld 4G Communications Device
May 17, 2013 |
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Israel-based Mobilicom has introduced the MCU-30, a miniaturized 4G mobile wireless IP communications device designed for public safety and homeland security that creates a secure and private broadband network.
The device supporting 4Mbps instantly without relying on existing wireless 3G/4G carriers. At 11 ounces and approximately 4-by-3-by-1 inch for the fully ruggedized version, these battery-operated units, which are approximately the size of an iPhone, are lightweight and small enough to be embedded into compact security cameras, sensors, control and monitoring device platforms and form an instant broadband network.
Yossi Segal, Mobilicom's vice president of research of development, said the MCU-30 is "a walkie-talkie on steroids."
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Product: 3-Day Forecast
Issued: 2013 May 18 0030 UTC
Prepared by the U.S. Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Weather Prediction
Center
A. NOAA Geomagnetic Activity Observation and Forecast
The greatest observed 3 hr Kp over the past 24 hours was 3 (below NOAA
Scale levels).
The greatest expected 3 hr Kp for May 18-May 20 2013 is 6 (NOAA Scale
G2).
NOAA Kp index breakdown May 18-May 20 2013
May 18 May 19 May 20
00-03UT 3 2 4
03-06UT 3 2 3
06-09UT 2 2 3
09-12UT 2 2 3
12-15UT 2 5 (G1) 3
15-18UT 2 6 (G2) 2
18-21UT 2 6 (G2) 2
21-00UT 2 5 (G1) 4
Rationale: G1 (Minor) to G2 (Moderate) geomagnetic storms are expected
on day 2 (19 May) with the arrival of a coronal mass ejection (CME) from
17 May.
B. NOAA Solar Radiation Activity Observation and Forecast
Solar radiation, as observed by NOAA GOES-13 over the past 24 hours, was
above S-scale storm level thresholds.
Solar Radiation Storm Forecast for May 18-May 20 2013
May 18 May 19 May 20
S1 or greater 99% 95% 90%
Rationale: An S1 (Minor) solar radiation storm is expected to persist
through the forecast period.
C. NOAA Radio Blackout Activity and Forecast
Radio blackouts reaching the R1 levels were observed over the past 24
hours. The largest was at May 17 2013 0857 UTC
Radio Blackout Forecast for May 18-May 20 2013
May 18 May 19 May 20
R1-R2 75% 75% 75%
R3 or greater 50% 50% 50%
Rationale: R1 (Minor) to R2 (Moderate) radio blackouts are expected
through the forecast period with a chance for R3 (Strong) radio
blackouts from Region 1748.
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