From knightjanos at gmail.com  Sun Mar  1 09:40:29 2009
From: knightjanos at gmail.com (Janos Abel)
Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2009 16:40:29 +0000
Subject: [GJM] FW: [globalnetnews-summary] Kicking the factory addiction
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Please do not paste entire articles off the web into your post. Just post
your comments (recommended) and the link to the article, like below

2009/3/1 mary rose <maryrose333 at att.net>

> What I find amazing in articles like this is the complete lack of
> comprehension of the lessening of need for human labor amongst
> technological
> advances, along with the fact that on a finite planet resources are
> limited.
> There seems to be only regard for the human condition and none for the life
> support system upon which the human family depends. Why is this? How can we
> keep on ignoring these things that are so vital to our continued existence?
>
>
> -----{snipped} Original Message-----
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> Kicking the factory addiction
> ...
>
> http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090227.wrcover28/BNStor
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From maryrose333 at att.net  Sun Mar  1 09:55:06 2009
From: maryrose333 at att.net (mary rose)
Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2009 08:55:06 -0800
Subject: [GJM] FW: [globalnetnews-summary] Humpty Dumpty Finance
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The answer on this appears to be for people to move into local community
currencies, 
and conduct banking only with the community banks and Credit Union banks. As
posted in an article sent out last week, these banks are still solvent and
very solidly based. 
So, why bother with the big banks, do we really need them? Let them fall.
Those who hold shares in them will probably lose their money one way or
another. And, for the most part, are these shareholders not members of the
elite banking class?   

mary rose      


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Humpty Dumpty Finance
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-k-richards/humpty-dumpty-finance_b_17066
4.html
February 27, 2009 | 05:12 PM (EST) 

The current financial mess is fixable, and even fixable quickly; but in
order to gather political support for implementation of the right fix it is
important to understand, and explain to the public, why the fixes applied
since Lehman went bankrupt in September have not worked. The essential
point to understand is that the 'modern' securities-based system of Wall
St. finance was fatally wounded when Lehman Brothers went under, although
this demise has not been accepted by many academics or Wall St. bankers.
Like Humpty Dumpty, this system can not be put back together again.
Geithner & Co.'s attempts to resurrect it, the latest misguided effort
being TALF, will fail, and cause further delay in restoration of normally
functioning private credit markets. We need to recapitalize the banks with
massive amounts of new private capital, so they have the capacity to hold
many more of the loans they make on their own balance sheets, and bank
lending can supply the funding gap opened up by the demise of the
securities-based credit system..

Flaws in the System

To begin, it is important to recognize how Wall St. has transformed the
bank-based credit system, which existed in the 1930's and prevailed until
the mid-1990's, into the 'modern' securities-based credit system we have
today. Non-bank sources currently supply more than half the credit needs of
businesses and consumers. This transformation in the way credit is supplied
has made it difficult for the Federal Reserve to reignite credit growth
through massive expansion of the Federal Reserve balance sheet, which was
the supposed 1930's style antidote. The old-style banking system, in which
banks kept the loans they made on their balance sheets, would have
responded quickly to Bernancke's interest rate cuts and aggressive
injections of excess reserves. But banks today no longer keep most of the
credits they underwrite on their own balance sheets, nor do they keep them
in the form of individual loans. Instead, banks gather credits together to
form asset-based or mortgage-based bonds which they then distribute or sell
to pension funds, insurance companies, banks, hedge funds, and other
investors worldwide. (Banks do keep some of these newly created
asset-backed bonds on their own balance sheets.)

It is also important to recognize the critical and pivotal role that credit
rating agencies and the writers of credit default insurance played in the
functioning of this 'modern' credit system. Many of the asset- backed bonds
kept by the banks were rated AAA by Moody's, S&P, and Fitch. Importantly,
the AAA rating was granted by the agencies because it was supported by the
added protection provided by credit default insurance ("credit default
swaps", or "CDS"), the largest provider being American International Group
(AIG), which was the largest insurance company in the world. Based on the
impressive strength of AIG's AAA rated balance sheet and the AAA rating
granted to the bonds by the rating agencies, it was widely believed that
there was almost no risk that the AAA rated bonds would default. Under
Basel II bank regulations, banks were required to set aside little, if any,
capital reserves against holdings of AAA credits. Thus, under the umbrella
of the AAA rating, banks could add earning assets and leverage to their
balance sheets without the added burden of allocating more regulatory
capital. This same dynamic made the AAA asset-backed bonds attractive to
many insurance companies and other regulated entities, including foreign
banks. This ability to hold AAA rated bonds without setting aside
additional capital led to a highly levered global financial system.

This 'modern' model of writing loans and distributing them has a serious,
fatal flaw. It undermines the integrity of promises. It is the classic
'agency problem' identified and studied by countless economists, where the
self-centered motivations of the agents conflict with the security
interests of the principals. When lenders are separated from borrowers,
intermediaries (such as mortgage brokers, home appraisers, loan packagers,
rating agencies, or bond salesmen, as well as the top leadership of major
banks), can be enticed by lucrative commission revenues to pursue sloppy or
even fraudulent lending practices that, in the past, had been constrained
by the old-fashioned model, where banks kept the loans they wrote on their
balance sheets, and where banks were kept in check by close monitoring by
the FDIC.

The Crash

Without confidence in the writers of credit default insurance and the
rating agencies, the model of 'modern finance' can not function. In
September, when Lehman Brothers went under and AIG was back-stopped by the
government, confidence in the rating agencies and their AAA ratings
collapsed. Credit default insurance prices went through the roof and the
prices of the heretofore AAA bonds dropped by a corresponding amount.
Hardly any sizable organizations were willing to continue writing credit
default insurance.

The sharp decline in ABS bond prices and the jump in quotes for CDS
immediately cut the value of bank assets and shrank, by the same amount,
bank capital positions as calculated for regulatory purposes. This happened
despite the fact that the banks had sold the bonds only in rare cases.

Suddenly, many banks become undercapitalized, which froze the credit
markets. Writers of credit default swaps had to post massive additional
amounts of 'good' collateral, i.e. government bonds or cash. In order to
raise this cash, writers of CDS sold anything and everything. The result
was a stock, bond, and commodity market crash.

Under current accounting practices, called 'mark to market', accountants
and bank regulators insist on using the observable prices available in
public and private markets to determine bank capital positions. But these
'marks' are only available in what are now very thinly-traded markets for
asset backed bonds and credit default swaps.

In hindsight, it is clear that writers of credit default insurance on
individual securities under-reserved and under-priced their product. They
failed to take into account systemic risk--that in financial markets, the
risk of default of any one bond or counterparty is increased by the
defaults of others. Simply put, in financial markets risks are correlated,
not uncorrelated. It is also clear that only the government is big enough
to underwrite systemic risk. The government can do this either as the
'lender of last resort', which it fully understands, or, given today's
'modern' securities-based credit system, it must act as the 'credit insurer
of last resort.' This is, in effect, what the government is doing when it
offers 'guarantees' to various capital markets, such as commercial paper
and mortgages.

ABS Pricing and the Debate Over Bank Solvency

There is no doubt that banks have many bad loans and securities on their
balance sheets. But the size of the losses is in dispute because the
structure of the asset backed bonds is complex, and because the value can
reasonably be assessed in more than one way. Markets for the heretofore AAA
bonds and the corresponding credit default swaps are thin, with wide
spreads between bid and asking prices. Nevertheless, transactions occur,
and they occur at levels that banks contend are unrealistically low. Based
on the 'marks' currently extant, many banks are grossly undercapitalized,
and in several cases, if banks were required to sell their bonds at current
prices, they would be insolvent.

The banks claim that reasonable estimates of discounted cash flow make it
ridiculous to sell bonds at such low recent prices or to use these prices
to determine bank capital requirements. They further contend that the
potential returns on these asset-backed bonds are greater than the
potential returns on new loans, so why sell them?

Accountants and many bank regulators insist that the quotes are the best
available and should be used to calculate bank capital levels and solvency.
Others make the valid point that it is in the interest of banks to lie
about the true value of their assets.

But the banks have a valid counter argument when they claim that recent low
price levels reflect a sizable 'uncertainty discount'. Because the bonds
(or the various bond tranches) are comprised of a multitude of individual
credits or mortgages, a potential buyer of the bonds has no way of
assessing value without drilling down into the details. This research is
intensive, expensive and time consuming. Only a few investors do it. And
even then, value must be judged in light of assumed economic conditions, by
region or generally, now and over the next few years. Because of this
extraordinary complexity it is not unreasonable to accept that the banks,
which have been holding these assets for some time and have large staffs,
may have a much better idea of the discounted present value than nearly all
potential bond buyers or CDS writers.

Another factor to consider when attempting to price these bonds is that
some bond 'marks' reflect forced liquidation because of margin calls or
regulatory pressures, or desperate attempts to obtain scarce and
prohibitively costly credit default insurance.
Nobody disputes that banks will suffer large losses. Loss estimates range
from $1 trillion to more than $3 trillion depending on whether one uses
estimates of discounted cash flow or relies on the 'marks' of the thinly
traded markets.

The essential point to come to grips with is that, because of their
complexity, it is virtually impossible to establish an indisputable value
of these asset- backed bonds anytime soon, and possibly not before the
contractual maturity of the instruments in question. It simply cannot be
done.

Nevertheless, it is widely recognized that, if the credit markets are to
regain their normal working condition, the so-called 'toxic', hard-to-value
asset-backed bonds must be removed from bank balance sheets, or 'ring
fenced' by some form of government guarantee. With economic recovery
dependent on the reemergence of normalized credit conditions, there is an
obvious urgency to making this happen.

How Not to Fix the Credit System

Bank nationalization, the Swedish model of the early 1990's, is not the
answer. There are three reasons why nationalization should be avoided.
First, Sweden had only 5 banks and there were few if any derivatives and
credit default swaps outstanding. We have 10,000 banks and lots of credit
default swaps outstanding. Second, because the value of the 'toxic assets'
is disputable, it is not clear that the banks are at present insolvent and
must be taken over by the government. Other ways of dealing with the
problem exist that avoid the well-recognized problems of government
ownership. And third, under a government takeover, many outstanding
derivative contracts--what Warren Buffett has memorably termed "financial
weapons of mass destruction"--might have to be commuted. This would trigger
events similar to those that followed the Lehman bankruptcy and have
catastrophic implications for the financial and industrial entities around
the globe, and could lead to a cascade of bankruptcies.

The public/private scheme, announced February 10th as part of the Capital
Assistance Program, is another less-than-optimal option. It is basically
TARP 1 warmed over and obfuscated. Like TARP 1, it is designed to enable
banks to remove the 'toxic' assets from their balance sheets at prices
above those quoted in the current thin markets. Private investors would buy
asset-backed bonds from the banks, on a leveraged basis, perhaps 10 to 1,
with borrowed money lent to them by the government on a non-recourse basis
at near government rates.

Even though this public/private scheme could help recapitalize the banks by
paying above recently quoted prices, it is misleading (to say the least) to
claim that the elevated values for the 'toxic' assets will be established
by the 'private market.' Let's remember that it is government credit that
will underpin the leveraged transactions. More important, the scheme is
unfair to taxpayers because they would be the ones supplying the credit and
would, therefore, be on the hook for the losses. The government could just
as well buy the assets, or guarantee them, at the same elevated prices that
the leveraged private investors might be comfortably paying. Any
prospective profit that the private investors hope to make would then
accrue to the taxpayers. Why concoct a subterfuge that subsidizes
prospective profits for Wall St. fat cats? Who are the authorities trying
to fool?

Finally, any program that attempts to avoid mortgage defaults, or requires
a re-write of mortgage payment terms has serious problems, both legal and
financial, and is likely to be counterproductive in re-establishing
confidence.

Although re-writing debt contracts is standard practice in bankruptcy, it
creates uncertainties when it is done outside standard bankruptcy
proceedings.. In the case of mortgage-backed bonds, re-writes of payment
terms can trigger rating downgrades and lower mortgage-backed bond prices.
This will negatively impact bank balance sheets and necessitate increased
collateral obligations for writers of credit default swaps, such as AIG. In
other words, an attempt to directly help homeowners by cutting payment
terms may increase the losses recorded by AIG, which the government has
committed to make good, and make it more costly for banks to recapitalize.
It will also make investors more wary of making new mortgages, and
necessitate an expanded role for government owned FNM and FRE.

The recent well-intentioned attempts to prevent foreclosures by reducing
payments are also patently unfair to taxpayer homeowners who keep current
on their own mortgage payments but will be required to pay subsidies to
others who are delinquent on their payments.

The Way Forward

The best way to reestablish confidence in the financial system is the
following:

Part #1. The 'uncertainty discount' in asset backed bond pricing should be
dealt with by fixing a floor under the asset side of bank balance sheets.
But this should be done without buying the toxic assets from the banks (the
TARP plans). Instead, it can be done by a government guarantee, or
re-insurance, that limits the losses any bank can incur from further
decreases in asset backed bond prices. In effect, the government would act
as 'credit default insurer of last resort', or as the re-insurer of
systemic, or aggregate risk. The government, with its unlimited balance
sheet, is uniquely positioned to capture 100% of the market for systemic
credit-default insurance.

Under this scheme, a bank would be required to 'buy' credit default
insurance from the government in exchange for preferred stock which would
be convertible into 10% to 15% of common equity after the recapitalization
outlined in Part #2 below. The basic model is similar to that used for
Citibank last year. In that agreement, CITI takes the first 10% of a $300
billion package of 'toxic' assets, and 10% of any losses below that first
$30 billion. The taxpayers foot the bill for all other losses. This was a
good idea, and it turned around the stock market in mid-November. But the
insurance scheme was not made systemic and it did not incorporate the
growing risk of losses from an extensive, severe economic contraction. In
addition, it was not accompanied by a recapitalization of the bank. In
other words, its scope was too limited, too timid.

Part #2. Once the government underwrites systemic credit default insurance,
the asset position of the bank is stabilized. The upper limit of losses
becomes firmly established. This makes it possible to raise private capital
in large amounts, although it will entail dilution of current common stock
shareholders. Bank stock prices have fallen to levels that already assume
massive dilution, if not nationalization. In any event, concerns about
the extent of the dilution should not stand in the way of recapitalizing
the banks, which is essential to restore confidence. The banks should be
required to recapitalize by raising, in the private markets, enough common
equity capital to satisfy FDIC regulators.

The positions of the bondholders and preferred stock holders should not be
crammed down or diluted, even though, in a strict capitalistic sense, the
bond and preferred holders may deserve a haircut. But given the opaque,
hard-to-value nature of many of the bank assets, it is not clear that the
bond and preferred stock holders deserve it. In any case, cram-downs are
not necessary to perform the recapitalization. They can be disruptive to
the credit-default insurance market, and disruptive to holders of the
preferreds--fiduciaries such as pension funds and insurance companies.

In summary, the Part #1 government systemic reinsurance 'ring fences' the
bad assets, or the bad part of the bank, and the new equity capital raised
in Part #2 creates a 'new bank.' This all takes place within the legal and
physical infrastructure of the legacy bank. There is no need to create and
staff a new government bank or 'RTC' to hold and to manage the bad assets.
There is no need for large up-front government expenditures to buy the
asset-backed bonds from the banks. There is no need to underwrite hedge
funds to buy toxic assets. The convertible preferreds issued to pay for the
government insurance give taxpayers a stake in the recovery of bank
prosperity. Concern about the risk of large losses on the systemic
insurance should be calmed by the fact that pricing of the insurance will
be bench-marked near current quotes. Taxpayers will be on the hook, in any
case, for even greater government expenditures if action to 'ring fence'
the toxic assets is not taken, and normal credit conditions are not
restored.
Changes in top management and directors are probably required in many or
even most cases. The existing leadership mismanaged the banks, and the
common equity holders must pay the price via dilution.

One final and important note: despite support from academics and Wall St.
bankers, it must be accepted that the era of 'modern' securities-based
credit markets is over. (Humpty Dumpty cannot be put back together again.)
Confidence in the rating agencies and the credit default swap
counterparties was shattered by the Lehman bankruptcy. This destroyed the
private market model of 'modern finance', and it cannot be resurrected in
its old form. Buyers of asset-backed bonds have been badly burned, and like
the cat that sat on the hot stove top, they will not return. The recent
attempt by the government to reactivate the asset backed bond market
(TALF), which employs government guarantees and government financing,, and
relies on the discredited opinions of the rating agencies. is an
ill-conceived imitation of the private market model of 'modern finance'.

Normal credit conditions can only be restored by returning to the former,
'old fashion' model where banks keep the loans they make. Bank capital
positions must be built up sufficiently to enable them to keep many more
loans on their own balance sheets. This implies that the size of the bank
recapitalization, outlined above, must be very large.




From dharao4 at yahoo.co.uk  Sun Mar  1 12:43:13 2009
From: dharao4 at yahoo.co.uk (robert searle)
Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2009 19:43:13 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [GJM] NOTIFICATION OF YOUR RECOVERED SCAMMED FUND AS 2008/2009
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???? An interesting little scam!
?
???? R.Searle

--- On Sun, 1/3/09, Federal Bureau of Investigation <federalinvestigation at fbi.gov> wrote:

From: Federal Bureau of Investigation <federalinvestigation at fbi.gov>
Subject: NOTIFICATION OF YOUR RECOVERED SCAMMED FUND AS 2008/2009
To: 
Date: Sunday, 1 March, 2009, 11:00 AM

ROBERT MUELLER III
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FBI 

FROM THE DESKTOP OF THE CHAIRMAN ECONOMIC FINANCIAL OF CRIMES COMMISSION UNDER
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION FBI.WASHINGTON DC.

Pleasant day,

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All you need to do is to contact the head of verification department with this
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	Link Found to One of Key 9-11 Hijackers - A NEW ISRAELI CONNECTION
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Israeli Secret Service Mossad Link Found to One of Key 9-11 Hijackers - A
NEW ISRAELI CONNECTION   	 
Sunday, 01 March 2009 00:49
A NEW ISRAELI CONNECTION to the tragic events of Sept. 11, 2001 has
recently been unveiled. Buried in a New York Times story on Feb. 19 was the
eye-opening revelation that a Lebanese Muslim Arab who has been taken into
custody by the Lebanon-which has accused him of being a spy for some 25
years for Israeli intelligence -just happens to be a cousin of one of the
Muslims alleged to have been one of the 9-11 hijackers.

Although Ali al-Jarrah was-publicly-an outspoken proponent of the
Palestinian cause, it now turns out that he was actually working as a paid
asset of the Mossad for more than two decades, betraying his own nation and
conducting spying operations against Palestinian groups and the
pro-Palestinian party Hezbollah.

The New York Times, reporting on the al-Jarrah affair, revealed this: "It
is not the family's first brush with notoriety. One of Mr. Jarrah's
cousins, Ziad al-Jarrah, was among the 19 hijackers who carried out the
terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001." The Times added that the men were
20 years apart in age and "do not appear to have known each other
well."

The gratuitous Times suggestion that the two cousins "do not appear to
have known each other well" is intriguing, inasmuch as it is an admission
that they did, in fact, know one another. And that could be very telling,
for there are those who are now suggesting that the older cousin may indeed
have recruited his younger cousin as an asset for Israeli intelligence.

The circumspect stance taken by the Times is no surprise, considering the
fact that the Times is quite aware of the fact that there have been many
sources-including American Free Press-which have alleged that the 9-11
conspiracy was infiltrated, if not controlled outright, by Israeli
intelligence from the beginning.

If the younger al-Jarrah was indeed an Israeli asset inside the 9-11
conspiracy, this would not be the first time that a Muslim Arab was
involved, acting as a Mossad agent, in an attack on the World Trade Center.
As far back as August 3, 1993, investigative reporter Robert I. Friedman
revealed in New York's Village Voice that Ahmad Ajaj, a 27-year-old West
Bank Palestinian held in federal custody for conspiracy in the first attack
on the World Trade Center in 1993, may have been a Mossad mole, according
to Friedman's sources.

Ajaj was arrested at Kennedy Airport on Sept. 1, 1992, after he arrived on
a Pakistani International flight from Peshawar carrying a forged Swedish
passport and bombmaking manuals. He was taken into custody, and
subsequently pleaded guilty to entering the country illegally.

Ajaj's traveling companion was Ramzi Ahmed Yousef, an Iraqi who law
enforcement sources say was a "key player" in the first World Trade
Center bombing.

And it should be noted that it was Ajaj who was the source of the famed
"al Qaeda terrorist manual" that was widely touted by the FBI in the
wake of the second World Trade Center attack in 2001. In addition, Ajaj's
colleague-Ramzi Yousef-is the nephew of Khalid Sheikh Mohamad, whom the
U.S. government has said was the "mastermind" of the 9-11 attacks.

In this regard, it is also important to point out that, for many years even
prior to the first attack on the World Trade Center, there were many
figures in Islamic circles who believed that Mohamad and Yousef were
actually undercover assets for Israel.

Although the FBI identified Ajaj as a senior intifada terrorist, with links
to Hamas (the Palestinian Islamic fundamentalist organization), Kol
Ha'ir, a respected Hebrewlanguage weekly published in Jerusalem, said
Ajaj was
never involved in intifada activities or with Hamas or even the Palestine
Liberation Organization.

Instead, according to Kol Ha'ir, Ajaj was actually a petty crook arrested
in 1988 for counterfeiting U.S. dollars out of a base in East Jerusalem.
Ajaj was convicted of the counterfeiting charges and then sentenced to
two-anda- half years in prison.

According to Friedman, writing in The Village Voice: "It was during his
prison stay that Mossad, Israel's CIA, apparently recruited him, say
Israeli intelligence sources. By the time he was released after having
served just one year, he had seemingly undergone a radical
transformation."

Friedman reported that Ajaj had suddenly become a devout Muslim and an
outspoken hard-line nationalist. Then, Ajaj was arrested for smuggling
weapons into the West Bank, supposedly for Fatah al-Islam, a faction of the
PLO.

But Friedman says this was actually a sham. Friedman's sources in Israeli
intelligence say that the arrest and Ajaj's subsequent deportation were
"staged by Mossad to establish his credentials as an intifada activist.
Mossad allegedly 'tasked' Ajaj to infiltrate radical Palestinian groups
operating outside Israel and to report back to Tel Aviv.

Israeli intelligence sources say that it is not unusual for Mossad to
recruit from the ranks of common criminals."

After Ajaj's "deportation" from Israel, he showed up in Pakistan,
where he turned up in the company of the anti-Soviet mujahideen rebels in
Afghanistan. (Incidentally, Andrew Allen, a wealthy San Francisco character
who likes to take on assignments for the CIA to prevent boredom, admitted
under oath "running" supplies into Afghanistan. He was also
instrumental in destroying Librty Lobby and its newspaper, The Spotlight.)

This could indicate that Ajaj was working for the Mossad, for-according
to Covert Action Information Bulletin (September 1987)-the funding and
supply lines for the mujahideen were not only the "the second largest
covert operation" in the CIA's history, but they were also, according
to former Mossad operative Victor Ostrovsky (writing in The Other Side of
Deception), under the direct supervision of the Mossad. Ostrovsky wrote:

It was a complex pipeline, since a large portion of the mujahideen's
weapons were American-made and were supplied to the Muslim Brotherhood
directly from Israel, using as carriers the Bedouin nomads who roamed the
demilitarized zones in the Sinai. After Ajaj's ventures with the
mujahideen, he popped up in New York and purported to befriend members of a
small so-called "radical" clique surrounding the blind Sheikh
Abdel-Rahman, who was accused of being the mastermind of the World Trade
Center bombing.

On Feb. 26, 1993, the actual day of the World Trade Center bombing, Ajaj
was "safe" in federal prison serving a six-month sentence for entering
the country on a forged passport. Later, he was indicted for conspiracy in
the WTC bombing.

According to Robert Friedman, "If Ajaj was recruited by Mossad, it is not
known whether he continued to work for the Israeli spy agency after he was
deported. One possibility, of course, is that upon leaving Israel and
meeting radical Muslims close to the blind Egyptian sheikh, his loyalties
shifted."

However, Friedman also reported another frightening possibility: "Another
scenario is that he had advance knowledge of the World Trade Center
bombing, which he shared with Mossad, and that Mossad, for whatever reason,
kept the secret to itself. If true, U.S. intelligence sources speculate
that Mossad might have decided to keep the information closely guarded so
as not to compromise its undercover agent."






From dharao4 at yahoo.co.uk  Mon Mar  2 04:36:01 2009
From: dharao4 at yahoo.co.uk (robert searle)
Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 11:36:01 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [GJM] Renewable Energy, Wind, and Solar come out on top
Message-ID: <141611.40441.qm@web27405.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>

Renewable Energy: Wind and solar come out on top

A Stanford University study, released in December last year, ranks renewable energy and vehicle options from best to worst. 

The study, headed by Mark Z. Jacobson, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Stanford, helps policy makers determine the best emerging technologies to support. The European Commission, says substantial investment in development of alternative energy sources is needed in order to meet greenhouse gas emissions targets. But policymakers must make tough choices when deciding which energy sources and emerging technologies to support. 

According the Jacobson's study, wind came out on top, along with concentrated solar, while nuclear and carbon capture proved less promising. In terms of vehicles, battery electric vehicles rose above hydrogen fuel cells, with both coming up above biofuel alternatives. 
"The energy alternatives that are good are not the ones that people have been talking about the most," Jacobson said. "We should be spending to promote energy technologies that cause significant reductions in carbon emissions and air-pollution mortality, not technologies that have either marginal benefits or no benefits at all".
Most experts, including Jacobson, would agree that any future investments should be a "package deal" that incorporates investments in a number of technologies including wind, tidal, solar, wave and geothermal power. 
Energy and vehicle options, from best to worst:
Best to worst electric power sources:

1. Wind power
2. concentrated solar power (CSP)
3. geothermal power
4. tidal power
5. solar photovoltaics (PV)
6. wave power
7. hydroelectric power
8. a tie between nuclear power and coal with carbon capture and sequestration (CCS).
Best to worst vehicle options:
1. Wind-BEVs (battery electric vehicles)
2. wind-HFCVs (hydrogen fuel cell vehicles)
3.CSP-BEVs
4. geothermal-BEVs
5. tidal-BEVs
6. solar PV-BEVs
7. Wave-BEVs
8.hydroelectric-BEVs
9. a tie between nuclear-BEVs and coal-CCS-BEVs
11. corn-E85
12.cellulosic-E85

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From dharao4 at yahoo.co.uk  Mon Mar  2 05:33:21 2009
From: dharao4 at yahoo.co.uk (robert searle)
Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 12:33:21 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [GJM] [socialcredit] Social Credit Study Course in Ten Lessons
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From: Arian F. Nevin <afnafn at gmail.com>
Subject: [socialcredit] Social Credit Study Course in Ten Lessons
To: socialcredit at elistas.com
Date: Saturday, 28 February, 2009, 11:05 PM

Martin Hattersley is putting together an excellent Social Credit Study
Course. The first lesson is available here:
http://nationaleconomy.net/resources.html

The other lessons will be released over the next couple weeks.
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From ecotort at gn.apc.org  Sun Mar  1 13:10:38 2009
From: ecotort at gn.apc.org (EcoTort Theatre)
Date: Sun, 01 Mar 2009 20:10:38 +0000
Subject: [GJM] NEW UK CANNABIS LAW is completely unworkable
Message-ID: <49AAEBBE.4030905@gn.apc.org>


*The wide varieties of canabis available today
means that a blanket policy
regarding the seriousness of it's legality or otherwise*
*is repugnant, **against common right and reason,*
*and impossible to perform,


*(for example, raising posession from a  "class C"    to a  "class B"  
crime..)
*http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/may/07/drugspolicy.drugsandalcohol


the Common Universal Law <http://www.ecotort.gn.apc.org> will control 
such an act,
and judge it to be VOID !

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From ecotort at gn.apc.org  Mon Mar  2 06:32:59 2009
From: ecotort at gn.apc.org (EcoTort Theatre)
Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2009 13:32:59 +0000
Subject: [GJM] astroturf marketing, by GOP megabucks elite backers,
 Right-Wing 'Tea Party' Movement Was Planned Months Ago by GOP
 Billionaires...
Message-ID: <49ABE00B.1070807@gn.apc.org>

**
Right-Wing 'Tea Party' Movement Was Planned Months Ago by GOP Billionaires
http://www.alternet.org/workplace/129523/right-wing_%27tea_party%27_movement
_was_planned_months_ago_by_gop_billionaires/?page=entire
By Jeffrey Feldman, Frameshop. 
Posted March 1, 2009.

Bloggers reveal how the latest so-called "populist" revolt against the
federal government was a pre-planned PR stunt. 

Populist revolt against the U.S. government is all the rage in the
Republican Party, these days.  As they tell the story, the public is so
outraged by the recovery and reinvestment efforts of the Obama
administration that Americans everywhere are turning out to overthrow the
tyrannical king of the federal government by re-enacting the Boston Tea
Party. 

    Funny thing, though: it turns out this whole "populist" movement was a
planned PR stunt funded by big-money right-wing backers of the GOP who
specialize in faking grassroots movements to drum up opposition to Barack
Obama. 

Everything about this so called "Tea Party" movement was pre-planned--from
the supposedly "spontaneous rant" of CNBC stock market reporter, Rick
Santelli, to the presumed ground-level organizing of protests all over the
country.  Fake, fake, fake--like a product launch staged covertly to look
like a spontaneous trend. 

Playboy bloggers Mark Ames and Yasha Levine pulled together all the pieces
of this puzzle in an incredible expose (Exposing The Rightwing PR Machine):

 

    What hasn?t been reported until now is evidence linking Santelli?s
?tea party? rant with some very familiar names in the Republican
rightwing machine, from PR operatives who specialize in
imitation-grassroots PR campaigns (called ?astroturfing?) to bigwig
politicians and notorious billionaire funders. As veteran Russia reporters,
both of us spent years watching the Kremlin use fake grassroots movements
to influence and control the political landscape. To us, the uncanny speed
and direction the movement took and the players involved in promoting it
had a strangely forced quality to it. If it seemed scripted, that's because
it was.

    What we discovered is that Santelli?s ?rant? was not at all
spontaneous as his alleged fans claim, but rather it was a
carefully-planned trigger for the anti-Obama campaign. In PR terms, his
February 19th call for a ?Chicago Tea Party? was the launch event of a
carefully organized and sophisticated PR campaign, one in which Santelli
served as a frontman, using the CNBC airwaves for publicity, for the some
of the craziest and sleaziest rightwing oligarch clans this country has
ever produced. Namely, the Koch family, the multibilllionaire owners of the
largest private corporation in America, and funders of scores of rightwing
thinktanks and advocacy groups, from the Cato Institute and Reason Magazine
to FreedomWorks. The scion of the Koch family, Fred Koch, was a co-founder
of the notorious extremist-rightwing John Birch Society.

It helps, in other words, to have field experience ferreting out Soviet
propaganda to understand how Rick Santelli suddenly became the figurehead
of a right-wing "grassroots" revolt against the United States government.
It is worth reading the entire post.  

The next time you hear that the Tea Party Republican revolt is
"grassroots," "spontaneous," and "populist," just swap out those PR
keywords for the more accurate terms:  "planned," "scripted," "billionaire
bigwigs."  

All of this makes sense, of course.  Santelli's philippic had all the
hallmarks of a rehearsed piece of political theater--the pre-planned
message launched of a viral marketing campaign.

Not that any of this comes as a surprise, but...my goodness. 

Even though the curtain has been pulled back  on this astroturf marketing
by GOP megabucks elite backers, it is important to keep in mind what the
larger stakes are and how to respond.

Scripted or not--this Tea Party revolt needs to be treated as politically
real.  People engaged in this agitation will not acknowledge ever that it
is scripted, because these folks sincerely think they are engaged in some
kind of revolution against their own government. They really want the
country to evaluate whether or not an elected President and Congress are
the same as a tyrannical king and whether a tax by fiat from the 18c is the
same as a legislature approved public investment program from the 21c.
Those folks just want to make noise--lots of noise--to throw the debate off
its tracks.

The big story to defend and advance, in other words, is a president
advancing real solutions aimed at helping millions of Americans in serious
economic trouble.  The agitation against it, whether it is scripted or not,
is designed to stop those solutions from being discussed seriously, from
unfolding, and then to weaken the president making them happen.  That is a
basic confrontation between pragmatic action and ideological
politics--between investment in people and inaction in the name of  dogma.

In the end, then, we need to make themselves aware of the massive resources
the right is spending to block any effort by the American people to work
together to repair the damage to our economy and restore our national
confidence.  And after we have made ourselves aware of how far the
opposition is willing to go, we need to get back to work making sure the
debate states focused on the real issue at hand here:  millions and
millions families who need help right now, and the greatness of a nation
that stands together in times of need to overcome seemingly impossible
obstacles.

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From: maryrose333 at att.net (mary rose)
Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 21:00:37 -0800
Subject: [GJM] FW: [globalnetnews-summary] Right-Wing 'Tea Party' Movement
	Was Planned Months Ago by GOP Billionaires
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_was_planned_months_ago_by_gop_billionaires/?page=entire
By Jeffrey Feldman, Frameshop. 
Posted March 1, 2009.

Bloggers reveal how the latest so-called "populist" revolt against the
federal government was a pre-planned PR stunt. 

Populist revolt against the U.S. government is all the rage in the
Republican Party, these days.  As they tell the story, the public is so
outraged by the recovery and reinvestment efforts of the Obama
administration that Americans everywhere are turning out to overthrow the
tyrannical king of the federal government by re-enacting the Boston Tea
Party. 

    Funny thing, though: it turns out this whole "populist" movement was a
planned PR stunt funded by big-money right-wing backers of the GOP who
specialize in faking grassroots movements to drum up opposition to Barack
Obama. 

Everything about this so called "Tea Party" movement was pre-planned--from
the supposedly "spontaneous rant" of CNBC stock market reporter, Rick
Santelli, to the presumed ground-level organizing of protests all over the
country.  Fake, fake, fake--like a product launch staged covertly to look
like a spontaneous trend. 

Playboy bloggers Mark Ames and Yasha Levine pulled together all the pieces
of this puzzle in an incredible expose (Exposing The Rightwing PR Machine):

 

    What hasn't been reported until now is evidence linking Santelli's
"tea party" rant with some very familiar names in the Republican
rightwing machine, from PR operatives who specialize in
imitation-grassroots PR campaigns (called "astroturfing") to bigwig
politicians and notorious billionaire funders. As veteran Russia reporters,
both of us spent years watching the Kremlin use fake grassroots movements
to influence and control the political landscape. To us, the uncanny speed
and direction the movement took and the players involved in promoting it
had a strangely forced quality to it. If it seemed scripted, that's because
it was.

    What we discovered is that Santelli's "rant" was not at all
spontaneous as his alleged fans claim, but rather it was a
carefully-planned trigger for the anti-Obama campaign. In PR terms, his
February 19th call for a "Chicago Tea Party" was the launch event of a
carefully organized and sophisticated PR campaign, one in which Santelli
served as a frontman, using the CNBC airwaves for publicity, for the some
of the craziest and sleaziest rightwing oligarch clans this country has
ever produced. Namely, the Koch family, the multibilllionaire owners of the
largest private corporation in America, and funders of scores of rightwing
thinktanks and advocacy groups, from the Cato Institute and Reason Magazine
to FreedomWorks. The scion of the Koch family, Fred Koch, was a co-founder
of the notorious extremist-rightwing John Birch Society.

It helps, in other words, to have field experience ferreting out Soviet
propaganda to understand how Rick Santelli suddenly became the figurehead
of a right-wing "grassroots" revolt against the United States government.
It is worth reading the entire post.  

The next time you hear that the Tea Party Republican revolt is
"grassroots," "spontaneous," and "populist," just swap out those PR
keywords for the more accurate terms:  "planned," "scripted," "billionaire
bigwigs."  

All of this makes sense, of course.  Santelli's philippic had all the
hallmarks of a rehearsed piece of political theater--the pre-planned
message launched of a viral marketing campaign.

Not that any of this comes as a surprise, but...my goodness. 

Even though the curtain has been pulled back  on this astroturf marketing
by GOP megabucks elite backers, it is important to keep in mind what the
larger stakes are and how to respond.

Scripted or not--this Tea Party revolt needs to be treated as politically
real.  People engaged in this agitation will not acknowledge ever that it
is scripted, because these folks sincerely think they are engaged in some
kind of revolution against their own government. They really want the
country to evaluate whether or not an elected President and Congress are
the same as a tyrannical king and whether a tax by fiat from the 18c is the
same as a legislature approved public investment program from the 21c.
Those folks just want to make noise--lots of noise--to throw the debate off
its tracks.

The big story to defend and advance, in other words, is a president
advancing real solutions aimed at helping millions of Americans in serious
economic trouble.  The agitation against it, whether it is scripted or not,
is designed to stop those solutions from being discussed seriously, from
unfolding, and then to weaken the president making them happen.  That is a
basic confrontation between pragmatic action and ideological
politics--between investment in people and inaction in the name of  dogma.

In the end, then, we need to make themselves aware of the massive resources
the right is spending to block any effort by the American people to work
together to repair the damage to our economy and restore our national
confidence.  And after we have made ourselves aware of how far the
opposition is willing to go, we need to get back to work making sure the
debate states focused on the real issue at hand here:  millions and
millions families who need help right now, and the greatness of a nation
that stands together in times of need to overcome seemingly impossible
obstacles.




From maryrose333 at att.net  Tue Mar  3 10:04:11 2009
From: maryrose333 at att.net (mary rose)
Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2009 09:04:11 -0800
Subject: [GJM] FW: [globalnetnews-summary] Right-Wing 'Tea Party' Movement
	Was Planned Months Ago by GOP Billionaires
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_was_planned_months_ago_by_gop_billionaires/?page=entire
By Jeffrey Feldman, Frameshop. 
Posted March 1, 2009.

Bloggers reveal how the latest so-called "populist" revolt against the
federal government was a pre-planned PR stunt. 

Populist revolt against the U.S. government is all the rage in the
Republican Party, these days.  As they tell the story, the public is so
outraged by the recovery and reinvestment efforts of the Obama
administration that Americans everywhere are turning out to overthrow the
tyrannical king of the federal government by re-enacting the Boston Tea
Party. 

    Funny thing, though: it turns out this whole "populist" movement was a
planned PR stunt funded by big-money right-wing backers of the GOP who
specialize in faking grassroots movements to drum up opposition to Barack
Obama. 

Everything about this so called "Tea Party" movement was pre-planned--from
the supposedly "spontaneous rant" of CNBC stock market reporter, Rick
Santelli, to the presumed ground-level organizing of protests all over the
country.  Fake, fake, fake--like a product launch staged covertly to look
like a spontaneous trend. 

Playboy bloggers Mark Ames and Yasha Levine pulled together all the pieces
of this puzzle in an incredible expose (Exposing The Rightwing PR Machine):

 

    What hasn't been reported until now is evidence linking Santelli's
"tea party" rant with some very familiar names in the Republican
rightwing machine, from PR operatives who specialize in
imitation-grassroots PR campaigns (called "astroturfing") to bigwig
politicians and notorious billionaire funders. As veteran Russia reporters,
both of us spent years watching the Kremlin use fake grassroots movements
to influence and control the political landscape. To us, the uncanny speed
and direction the movement took and the players involved in promoting it
had a strangely forced quality to it. If it seemed scripted, that's because
it was.

    What we discovered is that Santelli's "rant" was not at all
spontaneous as his alleged fans claim, but rather it was a
carefully-planned trigger for the anti-Obama campaign. In PR terms, his
February 19th call for a "Chicago Tea Party" was the launch event of a
carefully organized and sophisticated PR campaign, one in which Santelli
served as a frontman, using the CNBC airwaves for publicity, for the some
of the craziest and sleaziest rightwing oligarch clans this country has
ever produced. Namely, the Koch family, the multibilllionaire owners of the
largest private corporation in America, and funders of scores of rightwing
thinktanks and advocacy groups, from the Cato Institute and Reason Magazine
to FreedomWorks. The scion of the Koch family, Fred Koch, was a co-founder
of the notorious extremist-rightwing John Birch Society.

It helps, in other words, to have field experience ferreting out Soviet
propaganda to understand how Rick Santelli suddenly became the figurehead
of a right-wing "grassroots" revolt against the United States government.
It is worth reading the entire post.  

The next time you hear that the Tea Party Republican revolt is
"grassroots," "spontaneous," and "populist," just swap out those PR
keywords for the more accurate terms:  "planned," "scripted," "billionaire
bigwigs."  

All of this makes sense, of course.  Santelli's philippic had all the
hallmarks of a rehearsed piece of political theater--the pre-planned
message launched of a viral marketing campaign.

Not that any of this comes as a surprise, but...my goodness. 

Even though the curtain has been pulled back  on this astroturf marketing
by GOP megabucks elite backers, it is important to keep in mind what the
larger stakes are and how to respond.

Scripted or not--this Tea Party revolt needs to be treated as politically
real.  People engaged in this agitation will not acknowledge ever that it
is scripted, because these folks sincerely think they are engaged in some
kind of revolution against their own government. They really want the
country to evaluate whether or not an elected President and Congress are
the same as a tyrannical king and whether a tax by fiat from the 18c is the
same as a legislature approved public investment program from the 21c.
Those folks just want to make noise--lots of noise--to throw the debate off
its tracks.

The big story to defend and advance, in other words, is a president
advancing real solutions aimed at helping millions of Americans in serious
economic trouble.  The agitation against it, whether it is scripted or not,
is designed to stop those solutions from being discussed seriously, from
unfolding, and then to weaken the president making them happen.  That is a
basic confrontation between pragmatic action and ideological
politics--between investment in people and inaction in the name of  dogma.

In the end, then, we need to make themselves aware of the massive resources
the right is spending to block any effort by the American people to work
together to repair the damage to our economy and restore our national
confidence.  And after we have made ourselves aware of how far the
opposition is willing to go, we need to get back to work making sure the
debate states focused on the real issue at hand here:  millions and
millions families who need help right now, and the greatness of a nation
that stands together in times of need to overcome seemingly impossible
obstacles.





From maryrose333 at att.net  Tue Mar  3 10:17:41 2009
From: maryrose333 at att.net (mary rose)
Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2009 09:17:41 -0800
Subject: [GJM] FW: [SPAM]Revealing News: Limits on Wall St. Bonuses,
	Army Pushing Electronic Warfare, Corrupt Judges, More
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In addition to taking Fred?s advice on investing in the stock markets, the Credit Unions and Community Banks are still very stable.  One might consider shifting one?s account from a larger bank into one that is properly managed and not in jeopardy.    

 

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Stimulus Plan Places New Limits on Wall St. Bonuses 
February 14, 2009, New York Times 
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/14/business/economy/14pay.html <http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/14/business/economy/14pay.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&pagewanted=all> 

Buried deep inside the ... economic stimulus bill ... is some bitter medicine for companies that have received financial bailout funds. Over staunch objections from the Obama administration, Senate Democrats inserted a provision that would impose restrictions on executive bonuses at financial institutions that are much tougher than those proposed 10 days ago by the Treasury Department. The provisions would prohibit cash bonuses and almost all other incentive compensation for the five most-senior officers and the 20 highest-paid executives at large companies that receive money under TARP. The restriction with the most bite would bar top executives from receiving bonuses that exceed one-third of their annual pay. The provision, written by Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., highlighted the growing wrath ... over the lavish compensation that top Wall Street firms and big banks awarded to senior executives at the same time that many of the companies, teetering on the brink of insolvency, received taxpayer-paid bailouts. "The decisions of certain Wall Street executives to enrich themselves at the expense of taxpayers have seriously undermined public confidence," Dodd said Friday. "These tough new rules will help ensure that taxpayer dollars no longer effectively subsidize lavish Wall Street bonuses." Top economic advisers to President Obama adamantly opposed the pay restrictions, according to congressional officials.

Note: For powerfully revealing reports on the realities of the Wall Street bailout, click here <http://www.wanttoknow.info/bankbailoutnewsarticles> .

The Death of 'Rational Man'
February 8, 2009, Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/06/AR2009020602742.html

What allowed some people to see the financial crash coming while so many others missed its gathering force? I put that question recently to Nouriel Roubini, who has come to be known as "Dr. Doom" because of his insistent warnings starting in 2006 that we were heading into a global firestorm. Roubini gave two kinds of answers. The first involves standard number-crunching of the sort that economists routinely do -- and that Roubini just did better and sooner. It's his second answer that's more interesting, because it goes to the heart of what we should take away from this crisis: Roubini decided to discard the assumption of market rationality that underlies most economics and to embrace the psychological insights of what's known as "behavioral economics." Everyone else had those same numbers. Why did Roubini act? The answer is that he decided to trust his gut, which told him there was trouble ahead, rather than Wall Street's "wisdom of the crowd," which -- as reflected in stock prices -- said everything was rosy. He concluded that the markets were not pricing in the degree of risk that was actually present in housing. "The rational man theory of economics has not worked," Roubini said last month at a session of the World Economic Forum at Davos. That's why he and other prominent economists are paying more attention to behavioral economics, which starts from the premise that economic decisions, like other aspects of human behavior, are influenced by irrational psychological factors.

Note: To visit Nouriel Roubini's highly informative blog, click here <http://www.rgemonitor.com/blog/roubini> . For lots more on the financial crisis and bailout, click here <http://www.wanttoknow.info/bankbailoutnewsarticles> .

Army manual raises emphasis on electronic warfare
February 25, 2009, Washington Post/Associated Press
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/25/AR2009022502250.html

For the first time since the end of the Cold War, the Army is updating its plans for electronic warfare, calling for more use of high-powered microwaves, lasers and infrared beams to attack enemy targets and control angry crowds. The 112-page manual, a copy of which was obtained by The Associated Press ... doesn't offer specifics on new equipment or gadgetry but lays out in broad terms the Army's fear that without new equipment and training, U.S. forces may be at a deadly disadvantage. Army patrols currently rely on specially trained Air Force and Navy members whose electronic expertise helps sniff out improvised explosive devices, which have killed more than 1,700 U.S. troops since the war began. The Army sees the need for a new system more finely tuned to its purposes. The new doctrine directs the Army, which has put a premium on fighting insurgents in Iraq's most populous cities, to use technology that can distinguish enemy threats from common technologies such as radios or cell phones used by civilians or friendly forces. It also calls on the Army to develop and deploy directed-energy weapons, which would produce a concentrated beam of electromagnetic energy or atomic or subatomic particles to blind, disrupt or destroy targets. Such technology could be used in a variety of attack modes against enemy equipment, facilities or personnel.

Note: How can anyone claim that our troops, with all of their already sophisticated weapons, may be "at a deadly disadvantage"? For many key reports on the realities of modern warfare, click here <http://www.wanttoknow.info/warnewsarticles> .

'Real Enemies: Conspiracy Theories and American Democracy, World War I to 9/11' by Kathryn S. Olmsted
February 28, 2009, Chicago Tribune
http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/booksmags/chi-0228-real-enemiesfeb28,0,884402.story

In August 2006, almost five years after the catastrophic attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, a poll by Scripps Howard and Ohio University found that 36 percent of respondents thought it "very likely" or "somewhat likely" that officials of the federal government "either participated in the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon or took no action to stop them." The poll also found that those who regularly use the Internet but do not habitually consult mainstream media "are significantly more likely to believe in 9/11 conspiracies." Kathryn S. Olmsted, in her exquisitely researched and annotated new book  <http://www.amazon.com/Real-Enemies-Conspiracy-Theories-Democracy/dp/0195183533/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1235924345&sr=1-1> Real Enemies: Conspiracy Theories and American Democracy, World War I to 9/11, points out that although such views "may seem to belong to the fringe," they are held by millions of Americans and a majority of those between the ages of 18 and 29. In fact, Olmsted asserts that the tendency to see conspiracies everywhere "long ago spread from the margins into the main body of American political culture," and that the quelling of political dissent is an exacerbating factor. She has set out to track the history and patterning of conspiratorial beliefs as they relate to politics and public policy. Her thesis ? that conspiracy theories thrive in part because the government has misled the public or acted illegally and covertly, and been caught at it frequently enough to make them credible ? is a disconcerting one. But the historical detail she marshals (which demonstrates a tendency for fusion of far-left and far-right political views) is persuasive in its cumulative power.

Note: For more on the important Scripps/Howard poll showing that high percentages of American citizens suspect US government complicity in the 9/11 attacks, click <http://www.scrippsnews.com/node/28533>  here. For a 15-minute clip of a powerfully revealing documentary on this, 9/11: Press for Truth, click here <http://personalgrowthcourses.net/video/9-11_truth_documentary> . 

Pa. judges accused of jailing kids for cash
February 11, 2009, MSNBC/Associated Press
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29142654

For years, the juvenile court system in Wilkes-Barre [PA] operated like a conveyor belt: Youngsters were brought before judges without a lawyer, given hearings that lasted only a minute or two, and then sent off to juvenile prison for months for minor offenses. The explanation, prosecutors say, was corruption on the bench. In one of the most shocking cases of courtroom graft on record, two Pennsylvania judges have been charged with taking millions of dollars in kickbacks to send teenagers to two privately run youth detention centers. ?I?ve never encountered, and I don?t think that we will in our lifetimes, a case where literally thousands of kids? lives were just tossed aside in order for a couple of judges to make some money,? said Marsha Levick, an attorney with the Philadelphia-based Juvenile Law Center <http://www.jlc.org/> , which is representing hundreds of youths sentenced in Wilkes-Barre. Prosecutors say Luzerne County Judges Mark Ciavarella and Michael Conahan took $2.6 million in payoffs to put juvenile offenders in lockups run by PA Child Care LLC and a sister company, Western PA Child Care LLC. The judges were charged on Jan. 26 and removed from the bench by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court shortly afterward. The high court ... is looking into whether hundreds or even thousands of sentences should be overturned. Among the offenders were teenagers who were locked up for months for stealing loose change from cars, writing a prank note and possessing drug paraphernalia. Many had never been in trouble before. Some were imprisoned even after probation officers recommended against it.

Note: For many insights into government corruption from reliable sources, click here <http://www.wanttoknow.info/governmentcorruptionnewsarticles> .

Not so great expectations
February 18, 2009, The Herald-Tribune (Sarasota, Florida's leading newspaper)
http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20090218/BLOG32/902180273

The co-authors of the most extraordinary UFO report ever ignored by the media aren?t expecting much [coverage]. Robert Powell and Glenn Schulze, who produced ?Stephenville Lights: A Comprehensive Radar and Witness Study Regarding the Events of January 8, 2008? last summer for the Mutual UFO Network, continue to troll the bureaucracies for more data. Their analysis of radar returns from five civilian sites in the Stephenville, Tex., vicinity put the military into a jam after eyewitnesses reported a mammoth UFO being chased by F-16s. Responding to FOIA requests, authorities have a) surrendered only redacted flight logs of the 457th Fighter Squadron jets in the air that night, b) claim they have no military radar records of that incident, and c) offer no explanation for why their planes exited their military operating area on what they?ve described as routine training missions. Powell doubts a serious search was made for his request. ?For the trickle-down flow of information to work,? he says, ?you have to have a push on top of that executive order. If there?s no pressure on them to do their jobs, they don?t have to pay attention.? In Littleton, Colo., Schulze has moved on. Sort of. He?s working on radar records for three additional UFO incidents, one of them involving yet another sighting over Stephenville on 10/23/08. Multiple witnesses, nighttime sighting, F-16s nearby, etc. Schulze calls it Stephenville II.

Note: For more on the intriguing Stephenville sightings, click <http://www.stephenvillelights.com/>  here. For many reports from reliable, verifiable sources on UFO sightings, click here <http://www.wanttoknow.info/ufosnewsarticles> .

Electric motor polarizes opinion
February 28, 2009, Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/News/Ontario/article/594471

Thane Heins ... has invented a technology that he says will put out more energy than it consumes. His invention, he boldly claims, offers a way to make electric cars that can travel hundreds of kilometres from the energy in a small, inexpensive battery. The Star first <http://www.thestar.com/Business/article/300042>  profiled Heins and his controversial invention a year ago. In a nutshell, he had figured out a way to eliminate the electromagnetic friction that typically limits the performance of an electrical generator ? an effect known as ?Back EMF.? Not only that, but he also learned how to redirect that magnetic energy so that, instead of causing resistance, it gave an electrical motor connected to the generator a significant boost. The result, as far as Heins was concerned, violated Lenz?s law or what?s often called the law of diminishing returns. For many, that equates to a perpetual motion machine, an impossible claim in the conventional field of physics. Within no time the story spread globally across the Internet, became chatter on blogs, and triggered a flood of email to this reporter?s inbox ? some praising Heins for his determination, others calling the Star irresponsible for giving credibility to his claim. The story, love it or hate it, was the second-most read article on TheStar.com in 2008. Much has happened over the past 12 months. Through his Ottawa-based company Potential Difference Inc., Heins has been in serious talks with a designer of small wind turbines in Montreal, a senior engineer from a large utility in Turkey, and a small manufacturer of electrical equipment in Toronto.

Note: Read how an esteemed MIT professor was baffled by this invention in the original Star article available <http://www.thestar.com/Business/article/300042>  here. For lots more on promising new energy inventions and technologies from major media sources, click here <http://www.wanttoknow.info/newenergyinventionsnewsarticles> .


Key Articles From Years Past 

People 'still willing to torture'
December 19, 2008, BBC News
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7791278.stm

Decades after a notorious experiment, scientists have found test subjects are still willing to inflict pain on others - if told to by an authority figure. US researchers repeated the famous "Milgram test", with volunteers told to deliver electrical shocks to another volunteer - played by an actor. Even after faked screams of pain, 70% were prepared to increase the voltage, the American Psychologist study found. Both may help explain why apparently ordinary people can commit atrocities. Dr Jerry Burger, of Santa Clara University, used a [format similar to Milgram's], although he did not allow the volunteers to carry on beyond 150 volts after they had shown their willingness to do so, suggesting that the distress caused to the original volunteers had been too great. Again, however, the vast majority of the 29 men and 41 women taking part were willing to push the button knowing it would cause pain to another human. Even when another actor entered the room and questioned what was happening, most were still prepared to continue. He told Reuters: "What we found is validation of the same argument - if you put people in certain situations, they will act in surprising and maybe often even disturbing ways." He said that it was not that there was "something wrong" with the volunteers, but that when placed under pressure, people will often do "unsettling" things. Even though it was difficult to translate laboratory work to the real world, he said, it might partly explain why, in times of conflict, people could take part in genocide.

Note: For more on the famous Milgram experiment, click here <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment> . For powerfully inspiring information on how we can change this and build a better world, click here <http://www.insightcourse.net/lessons/20a_beyond_duality> . 

Basic Instincts: The Science of Evil
January 3, 2007, ABC News
http://abcnews.go.com/Primetime/story?id=2765416

"Primetime" wanted to know if ordinary people today would still follow orders, even if they believed their actions were causing someone else pain. Would as many follow the seemingly dangerous and painful orders as in the original experiment [conducted by Stanley Milgram at Yale in 1963]? After contacting respected psychologist Jerry Burger at Santa Clara University in California, ABC News was able to replicate Milgram's study in a modified way. Burger said, "People have often asked the question, 'Would we find these kinds of results today?' and some people try to dismiss the Milgram findings by saying, 'That's something that happened back in the '60s. People aren't like that anymore.'" In ABC News' version of the Milgram experiment, we tested 18 men, and found that 65 percent of them agreed to administer increasingly painful electric shocks when ordered by an authority figure. 22 women signed up for our experiment. Even though most people said that women would be less likely to inflict pain on the learner, a surprising 73 percent yielded to the orders of the experimenter. Out of the 30 people we tested with an additional accomplice acting as a moral guide, 63 percent still inflicted electric shocks, even though the accomplice refused to go on. Our subjects had an unusually high level of education. 22.9 percent had some college, 40 percent had bachelor's degrees and 20 percent had master's degrees.

Note: For more on the famous Milgram experiment, click here <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment> . For powerfully inspiring information on how we can change this and build a better world, click here <http://www.insightcourse.net/lessons/20a_beyond_duality> . 

Tapes Show Enron Arranged Plant Shutdown
February 4, 2005, New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/04/national/04energy.html <http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/04/national/04energy.html?ex=1265259600&en=172f3e7a92ca7617&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&pagewanted=all> 

In the midst of the California energy troubles in early 2001, when power plants were under a federal order to deliver a full output of electricity, the Enron Corporation arranged to take a plant off-line on the same day that California was hit by rolling blackouts, according to audiotapes of company traders. The tapes and memorandums were made public by a small public utility north of Seattle that is fighting Enron over a power contract. They also showed that Enron, as early as 1998, was creating artificial energy shortages and running up prices in Canada in advance of California's larger experiment with deregulation. The tapes provide new details of market manipulation during the California energy crisis that produced blackouts and billions of dollars of surcharges to homes and businesses on the West Coast in 2000 and 2001. In one January 2001 telephone tape of an Enron trader the public utility identified as Bill Williams and a Las Vegas energy official identified only as Rich, an agreement was made to shut down a power plant providing energy to California. The shutdown was set for an afternoon of peak energy demand. The next day, Jan. 17, 2001, as the plant was taken out of service, the State of California called a power emergency, and rolling blackouts hit up to a half-million consumers, according to daily logs of the western power grid. Officials with the Snohomish County Public Utility District in Washington State, which released the tapes, said they believed Enron officials had taken similar measures with other power plants. This tape, they said, was proof of what was going on.

Note: For many key reports from reliable sources on corporate corruption, click here <http://www.wanttoknow.info/corporatecorruptionnewsarticles> .

U.S. Forces Out Head of Chemical Arms Agency
April 23, 2002, New York Times
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F01E0D91E3FF930A15757C0A9649C8B63

The United States succeeded today in ousting the director of the global agency charged with ridding the world of chemical weapons after an intense diplomatic campaign that made a number of countries uncomfortable. Jos? M. Bustani, a Brazilian diplomat who was unanimously re-elected last year as the director general of the 145-nation Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, was voted out of office today after refusing repeated demands by the United States that he step down. ''I clearly made some people in Washington very uncomfortable because I was too independent,'' Mr. Bustani said afterward. ''They want somebody more obedient.'' Diplomats said ... it had opened the door further for other international bodies to come under attack. The United States, which is responsible for 22 percent of the agency's budget, had threatened to cut off funding until Mr. Bustani left. ''I think a lot of people swallowed this because they thought it was better for Bustani to be removed than have the U.S. pull out and see the organization collapse,'' said one European diplomat at the meeting. The firing of Mr. Bustani follows the removal last week of Robert Watson, a British-born climatologist who had been outspoken on the threat of global warming, as the chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. He was removed after pressure from Washington and at least one American oil company.

Note: If Bustani had not been removed, it is very likely that the accusations of WMD in Iraq would never have stood, and the war would not have happened. For a powerful two-page essay by a highly decorated U.S. general alleging that war is a racket orchestrated to line the pockets of the corporations, click here <http://www.wanttoknow.info/warcoverup> . 


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The Price of Tomatoes: Keeping Slavery Alive in Florida
If you have eaten a tomato this winter, chances are very good that it was
picked by a person who lives in virtual slavery.
Published on Monday, March 2, 2009 by Gourmet

http://www.gourmet.com/magazine/2000s/2009/03/politics-of-the-plate-the-pric
e-of-tomatoes
by Barry Estabrook

Driving from Naples, Florida, the nation's second-wealthiest metropolitan
area, to Immokalee takes less than an hour on a straight road. You pass
houses that sell for an average of $1.4 million, shopping malls anchored by
Tiffany's and Saks Fifth Avenue, manicured golf courses. Eventually,
gated communities with names like Monaco Beach Club and Imperial Golf
Estates give way to modest ranches, and the highway shrivels from six lanes
to two. Through the scruffy palmettos, you glimpse flat, sandy tomato
fields shimmering in the broiling sun. Rounding a long curve, you enter
Immokalee. The heart of town is a nine-block grid of dusty, potholed
streets lined by boarded-up bars and bodegas, peeling shacks, and sagging,
mildew-streaked house trailers. Mongrel dogs snooze in the shade, scrawny
chickens peck in yards. Just off the main drag, vultures squabble over
roadkill. Immokalee's population is 70 percent Latino. Per capita income
is only $8,500 a year. One third of the families in this city of nearly
25,000 live below the poverty line. Over one third of the children drop out
before graduating from high school.

Immokalee is the tomato capital of the United States. Between December and
May, as much as 90 percent of the fresh domestic tomatoes we eat come from
south Florida, and Immokalee is home to one of the area's largest
communities of farmworkers. According to Douglas Molloy, the chief
assistant U.S. attorney based in Fort Myers, Immokalee has another claim to
fame: It is "ground zero for modern slavery."

[Working at breakneck speed, you might be able to pick a ton of tomatoes on
a good day, netting about $50 at 45 cents per 32-pound basket. But a lot
can go wrong.]Working at breakneck speed, you might be able to pick a ton
of tomatoes on a good day, netting about $50 at 45 cents per 32-pound
basket. But a lot can go wrong.
The beige stucco house at 209 South Seventh Street is remarkable only
because it is in better repair than most Immokalee dwellings. For two and a
half years, beginning in April 2005, Mariano Lucas Domingo, along with
several other men, was held as a slave at that address. At first, the deal
must have seemed reasonable. Lucas, a Guatemalan in his thirties, had
slipped across the border to make money to send home for the care of an
ailing parent. He expected to earn about $200 a week in the fields. Cesar
Navarrete, then a 23-year-old illegal immigrant from Mexico, agreed to
provide room and board at his family's home on South Seventh Street and
extend credit to cover the periods when there were no tomatoes to pick.

Lucas's "room" turned out to be the back of a box truck in the
junk-strewn yard, shared with two or three other workers. It lacked running
water and a toilet, so occupants urinated and defecated in a corner. For
that, Navarrete docked Lucas's pay by $20 a week. According to court
papers, he also charged Lucas for two meager meals a day: eggs, beans,
rice, tortillas, and, occasionally, some sort of meat. Cold showers from a
garden hose in the backyard were $5 each. Everything had a price. Lucas was
soon $300 in debt. After a month of ten-hour workdays, he figured he should
have paid that debt off.

But when Lucas-slightly built and standing less than five and a half feet
tall-inquired about the balance, Navarrete threatened to beat him should
he ever try to leave. Instead of providing an accounting, Navarrete took
Lucas's paychecks, cashed them, and randomly doled out pocket money, $20
some weeks, other weeks $50. Over the years, Navarrete and members of his
extended family deprived Lucas of $55,000.

Taking a day off was not an option. If Lucas became ill or was too
exhausted to work, he was kicked in the head, beaten, and locked in the
back of the truck. Other members of Navarrete's dozen-man crew were
slashed with knives, tied to posts, and shackled in chains. On November 18,
2007, Lucas was again locked inside the truck. As dawn broke, he noticed a
faint light shining through a hole in the roof. Jumping up, he secured a
hand hold and punched himself through. He was free.

What happened at Navarrete's home would have been horrific enough if it
were an isolated case. Unfortunately, involuntary servitude-slavery-is
alive and well in Florida. Since 1997, law-enforcement officials have freed
more than 1,000 men and women in seven different cases. And those are only
the instances that resulted in convictions. Frightened, undocumented,
mistrustful of the police, and speaking little or no English, most slaves
refuse to testify, which means their captors cannot be tried. "Unlike
victims of other crimes, slaves don't report themselves," said Molloy,
who was one of the prosecutors on the Navarrete case. "They hide from us
in plain sight."

And for what? Supermarket produce sections overflow with bins of perfect
red-orange tomatoes even during the coldest months-never mind that they
are all but tasteless. Large packers, which ship nearly $500 million worth
of tomatoes annually to major restaurants and grocery retailers nationwide,
own or lease the land upon which the workers toil. But the harvesting is
often done by independent contractors called crew bosses, who bear
responsibility for hiring and overseeing pickers. Said Reggie Brown,
executive vice president of the Florida Tomato Growers Exchange, "We abhor
slavery and do everything we can to prevent it. We want to make sure that
we always foster a work environment free from hazard, intimidation,
harassment, and violence." Growers, he said, cooperated with
law-enforcement officers in the Navarette case.

But when asked if it is reasonable to assume that an American who has eaten
a fresh tomato from a grocery store or food-service company during the
winter has eaten fruit picked by the hand of a slave, Molloy said, "It is
not an assumption. It is a fact."

Gerardo Reyes, a former picker who is now an employee of the Coalition of
Immokalee Workers (CIW), a 4,000-member organization that provides the only
voice for the field hands, agrees. Far from being an anomaly, Reyes told
me, slavery is a symptom of a vast system of labor abuses. Involuntary
servitude represents just one rung on a grim ladder of exploitation. Reyes
said that the victims of this system come to Florida for one reason-to
send money to their families back home. "But when they get here, it's
all they can do to keep themselves alive with rent, transportation, food.
Poverty and misery are the perfect recipe for slavery."

Tomato harvesting involves rummaging through staked vines until you have
filled a bushel basket to the brim with hard, green fruits. You hoist the
basket over your shoulder, trot across the field, and heave it overhead to
a worker in an open trailer the size of the bed of a gravel truck. For
every 32-pound basket you pick, you receive a token typically worth about
45 cents-almost the same rate you would have gotten 30 years ago. Working
at breakneck speed, you might be able to pick a ton of tomatoes on a good
day, netting about $50. But a lot can go wrong. If it rains, you can't
pick. If the dew is heavy, you sit and wait until it evaporates. If trucks
aren't available to transport the harvest, you're out of luck. You
receive neither overtime nor benefits. If you are injured (a common
occurrence, given the pace of the job), you have to pay for your own
medical care.

Leaning against the railing of an unpainted wooden stoop in front of a
putty-colored trailer, a tired Juan Dominguez told an all-too-familiar
story. He had left for the fields that morning at six o'clock and
returned at three. But he worked for only two of those nine hours because
the seedlings he was to plant had been delivered late. His total earnings:
$13.76.

I asked him for a look inside his home. He shrugged and gestured for me to
come in. In one ten-foot-square space there were five mattresses, three
directly on the floor, two suspended above on sheets of flimsy plywood. The
room was littered with T-shirts, jeans, running shoes, cheap suitcases. The
kitchen consisted of a table, four plastic chairs, an apartment-size stove,
a sink with a dripping faucet, and a rusty refrigerator whose door
wouldn't close. Bare lightbulbs hung from fixtures, and a couple of fans
put up a noisy, futile effort against the stale heat and humidity. In a
region where temperatures regularly climb into the nineties, there were no
air conditioners. One tiny, dank bathroom served ten men. The rent was
$2,000 a month-as much as you would pay for a clean little condo near
Naples.

Most tomato workers, however, have no choice but to live like Dominguez.
Lacking vehicles, they must reside within walking distance of the
football-field-size parking lot in front of La Fiesta, a combination
grocery store, taqueria, and check-cashing office. During the predawn
hours, the lot hosts a daily hiring fair. I arrived a little before 5 a.m.
The parking lot was filled with more than a dozen former school buses.
Outside each bus stood a silent scrum of 40 or 50 would-be pickers. The
driver, or crew boss, selected one worker at a time, choosing young,
fit-looking men first. Once full, the bus pulled away.

Later that day, I encountered some of the men and women who had not been
picked when I put in a shift at the Guadalupe Center of Immokalee's soup
kitchen. Tricia Yeggy, the director of the kitchen, explained that it runs
on two simple rules: People can eat as much as they want, and no one is
turned away hungry. This means serving between 250 and 300 people a day, 44
per sitting, beginning at eleven o'clock. Cheerful retirees volunteer as
servers, and the "guests" are unabashedly appreciative. The day's
selection-turkey and rice soup with squash, corn, and a vigorous sprinkle
of cumin-was both hearty and tasty. You could almost forget the irony:
Workers who pick the food we eat can't afford to feed themselves.

The CIW has been working to ease the migrants' plight since 1993, when a
few field hands began meeting sporadically in a church hall. Lucas Benitez,
one of the coalition's main spokespeople, came to the group in its early
years. Back then, the challenge was taking small steps, often for
individual workers. To make the point, Benitez unfolded a crumpled shirt
covered in dried blood. "This is Edgar's shirt," he said.

One day in 1996, a 16-year-old Guatemalan boy named Edgar briefly stopped
working in the field for a drink of water. His crew boss bludgeoned him.
Edgar fled and arrived at the coalition's door, bleeding. In response to
the CIW's call for action, over 500 workers assembled and marched to the
boss's house. The next morning, no one would get on his bus. "That was
the last report of a worker being beaten by his boss in the field," said
Benitez. The shirt is kept as a reminder that by banding together, progress
is possible.

Even though the CIW has been responsible for bringing police attention to a
half dozen slavery prosecutions, Benitez feels that slavery will persist
until overall conditions for field workers improve. The group has made
progress on that front by securing better pay. Between the early 1980s and
the mid-1990s, the rate for a basket of tomatoes remained 40
cents-meaning that workers' real wages dropped as inflation rose. Work
stoppages, demonstrations, and a hunger strike helped raise it to 45 cents
on average, but the packers complained that competition for customers
prevented them from paying more. One grower refused to enter a dialogue
with CIW hunger strikers because, in his words, "a tractor doesn't tell
the farmer how to run the farm." The CIW decided to try an end run around
the growers by going directly to the biggest customers and asking them to
pay one cent more per pound directly to the workers. Small change to
supermarket chains and fast-food corporations, but it would add about
twenty dollars to the fifty a picker makes on a good day, the difference
between barely scraping by and earning a livable wage.

The Campaign for Fair Food, as it is called, first took aim at Yum! Brands,
owner of Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, KFC, Long John Silver's, and A&W. After
four years of pressure, Yum! agreed to the one-cent raise in 2005 and,
importantly, pledged to make sure that no worker who picked its tomatoes
was being exploited. McDonald's came aboard in 2007, and in 2008 Burger
King, Whole Foods Market, and Subway followed, with more expected to join
up this year. But the program faces a major obstacle. Claiming that the
farmers are not party to the arrangement, the Florida Tomato Growers
Exchange, an agricultural cooperative that represents some 90 percent of
the state's producers, has refused to be a conduit for the raise, citing
legal concerns.

When the Navarrete case came to light, there were no howls of outrage from
growers. Or from Florida government circles. When Cesar Navarrete, who
pleaded guilty, was sentenced to 12 years in prison this past December,
Terence McElroy of the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer
Services offered his perspective on the crime: "Any legitimate grower
certainly does not engage in that activity. But you're talking about
maybe a case a year."

Charlie Frost, the Collier County Sheriff's Office detective who
investigated and arrested Navarrete, disagrees. With one case wrapped up,
he and prosecutor Molloy turned to several other active slavery cases.
Sitting in his Naples office and pointing his index finger east, toward the
fields of Immokalee, he said, "It's happening out there right now."

Lucas, who received a temporary visa for his testimony, is now back in the
fields, still chasing the dream of making a little money to send back home.
Buying Slave-Free Fruits

In the warm months, the best solution is to follow that old mantra: buy
seasonal, local, and small-scale. But what about in winter? So far, Whole
Foods is the only grocery chain that has signed on to the Coalition of
Immokalee Workers (CIW) Campaign for Fair Food, which means that it has
promised not to deal with growers who tolerate serious worker abuses and,
when buying tomatoes, to a pay a price that supports a living wage. When
shopping elsewhere, you can take advantage of the fact that fruits and
vegetables must be labeled with their country of origin. Most of the fresh
tomatoes in supermarkets during winter months come from Florida, where
labor conditions are dismal for field workers, or from Mexico, where they
are worse, according to a CIW spokesman. One option during these months is
to buy locally produced hydroponic greenhouse tomatoes, including cluster
tomatoes still attached to the vine. Greenhouse tomatoes are also imported
from Mexico, however, so check signage or consult the little stickers often
seen on the fruits themselves to determine their source. You can also visit
the CIW's information-packed website (ciw-online.org) if you are
interested in becoming part of the coalition's efforts. 




From maryrose333 at att.net  Wed Mar  4 03:58:14 2009
From: maryrose333 at att.net (mary rose)
Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 02:58:14 -0800
Subject: [GJM] FW: [globalnetnews-summary] WHAT NEXT? James Howard Kunstler
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WHAT NEXT? James Howard Kunstler  	  
Monday, 02 March 2009
http://carolynbaker.net/site/content/view/1004/1/
[The next collapse? Farming. The decline continues to keep coming back to
the issue of food security.--CB]

The Peak Oil story was never about running out of oil. It was about the
collapse of complex systems in a world economy faced by the prospect of no
further oil-fueled growth. It was something of a shock to many that the
first complex system to fail would be banking, but the process is obvious:
no more growth means no more ability to pay interest on credit... end of
story, as Tony Soprano used to say. 


There was a popular theory among Peak Oilers the last decade that the world
would enter a "bumpy plateau" period when the global economy would get
beaten down by peak oil, would then revive as "demand destruction" drove
down oil prices, and would be beaten down again as oil prices shot up in
response -- with serial repetitions of the cycle, each beat-down taking
economies lower -- the only imaginable outcome being some sort of quiet
homeostasis. This scenario did not play out as expected. It was predicated
on a mistaken assumption that all systems would retain some kind of
operational resilience while ratcheting down. Anyway, the banking system
was mortally wounded in the first go-round and the behemoth is dying hard.

The last desperate act of the banking system in the face of Peak Oil's
no-more-growth equation was to engineer species of tradable securities that
could produce wealth out of thin air rather than productive activity. This
was the alphabet soup of algorithm-derived frauds with vague and
confounding names such as credit default swaps (CDSs), collateralized debt
obligations (CDOs), structured investment vehicles (SIVs), and, of course,
the basic filler, mortgage backed securities. The banking system is now
choking to death on these delicacies.


The trouble is that the EMT squad brought in to rescue the banking system
-- that is, governments -- can't remove these obstructions from the
patient's craw. They don't want to drown in a mighty upchuck of the
alphabet soup.


The collapse of complex systems is actually predicated on the idea that the
systems would mutually reinforce each other's failures. This is now plain
to see as the collapse of banking (that is, of both lending and debt
service), has led to the collapse of commerce and manufacturing. The next
systems to go will probably be farming, transportation, and the oil markets
themselves (which constitute the system for allocating and distributing
world energy resources). As these things seize up, the final system to go
will be governance, at least at the highest levels.


If we're really lucky, human affairs will eventually reorganize at a lower
scale of activity, governance, civility, and economy. Every week, the
failure to recognize the nature of our predicament thrusts us further into
the uncharted territory of hardship. The task of government right now is
not to prop up doomed systems at their current scales of failure, but to
prepare the public to rebuild our systems at smaller scales.


The net effect of the failures in banking is that a lot of people have less
money than they expected they would have a year ago. This is bad enough,
given our habits and practices of modern life. But what happens when
farming collapses? The prospect for that is closer than most of us might
realize. The way we produce our food has been organized at a scale that has
ruinous consequences, not least its addiction to capital. Now that banking
is in collapse, capital will be extremely scarce. Nobody in the cities
reads farm news, or listens to farm reports on the radio. Guess what,
though: we are entering the planting season. It will be interesting to
learn how many farmers "out there" in the Cheez Doodle belt are not able to
secure loans for this year's crop.


My guess is that the disorder in agriculture will be pretty severe this
year, especially since some of the world's most productive places --
California, northern China, Argentina, the Australian grain belt -- are
caught in extremes of drought on top of capital shortages. If the US
government is going to try to make remedial policy for anything, it better
start with agriculture, to promote local, smaller-scaled farming using
methods that are much less dependent on oil byproducts and capital
injections.


This will, of course, require a re-allocation of lands suitable for growing
food. Our real estate market mechanisms could conceivably enable this to
happen, but not without a coherent consensus that it is imperative to do
so. If agri-business as currently practiced doesn't founder on capital
shortages, it will surely collapse on disruptions in the oil markets.
President Obama at least made a start in the right direction by proposing
to eliminate further subsidies to farmers above the $250,000 level. But the
situation is really more acute. Surely the US Department of Agriculture
already knows about it, but the public may not be interested until the
shelves in the Piggly-Wiggly are bare -- and then, of course, they'll go
apeshit.


The recent huge drop in oil prices has left the public once again convinced
that the world is drowning in oil -- if only the scoundrelly oil companies
were forced to deliver it at reasonable prices. The public has been
consistently deluded about this for decades. What's missing so far is for
the president of the US to lay out the reality of the situation in a
dedicated TV address. I know a lot of you think that Jimmy Carter already
tried this and failed to make an impression (and ruined his presidency in
the process). I guarantee you that Mr. Obama will have to do this sometime
in the next few years whether he likes or not, and he'd be well-advised to
get it done sooner rather than later. And by this I don't mean just vague
allusions to "energy independence" or "renewables" in speeches devoted to
many other issues. I mean telling the public the plain truth that we'll
never offset oil depletion and the intelligent response is to do everything
possible to transition to walkable towns and public transit, not to sustain
the unsustainable.


The alternatives -- i.e. what we're trying now -- is to further delude
ourselves into thinking that we can run WalMart and the suburbs by some
other means than oil. Despite all our investments in these things, we won't
be able to run them by other means, and the news about this had better get
out before enormous disappointment turns into titanic rage. If Americans
think they've been grifted by Goldman Sachs and Bernie Madoff, wait until
they find out what a swindle the so-called "American Dream" of suburban
life turns out to be.


On this blizzardy Monday in the power centers of America, attention is
fixed on the never-ending fiasco of AIG -- a company whose main product
turned out to be credit default swaps, and is now choking on them.
Kibitzers on the sidelines of finance are forecasting a king-hell bear
market suckers' rally in the stock markets followed by a belly flop to Dow
4000 or lower. I myself called for Dow 4000 two years ago -- and was
obviously a bit off on my timing. All this is surely trouble enough. But
while your attention is focused on Rick Santelli in the Chicago trader's
pit, or Larry Kudlow desperately seeking "mustard seeds" of new growth in
financials, try to let one eye stray to the horizon where these other
complex systems are working out their next moves. Farming. The oil markets.
These are the coming theaters of alarm and distress. 



From maryrose333 at att.net  Wed Mar  4 04:51:38 2009
From: maryrose333 at att.net (mary rose)
Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 03:51:38 -0800
Subject: [GJM] URGENT READ: FW: [globalnetnews-summary] America's Fiscal
	Collapse
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What I am beginning to clearly understand is how the Fed is directing things
via the media through the continual "good guy" - "bad guy"
Democrat-Republican spat we are witnessing, as the barrage of insults from
one party to the other grabs our attention and obfuscates the facts while
the real dirty work goes on under cover of this deliberate attempt to keep
we-the-people confused about what is really happening.  

Mass media, instead of being the enlightening force we would like it to be,
is very cleverly being used as the cover under which the transfer of funds
from the pockets of we-the-people to the bankers pockets is being carried
out, with Obama doing just enough "good stuff" to keep us distracted and
thus deflected from pulling the covers back and taking a good look. 

Here, however, Michel Chossudovsky gives us a better look as did James
Howard Kuntsler in the previous post. We need to keep reminding ourselves
that the Republican view vs the Democratic view is really only camouflage as
both parties are controlled by The Fed. We must be careful not to get caught
up in the rhetoric of "either/or" when it is both. The agenda of the
Neo-cons and the Religious Right is still in play, but while it was combined
in the Bush regime, it is cleverly separated between the two parties in this
present 4-year go around to make us feel we have a choice when we, in fact,
do not.               

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"The mainstream media suggests that the banks are being nationalized  
as a result of TARP, In fact, it is exactly the opposite: the State  
is being taken over by the banks, the State is being privatized. The  
establishment of a Worldwide unipolar financial system is part of  
the broader project of the Wall Street financial elites to establish  
the contours of a world government.

"They act as creditors of the US State. They evaluate the  
creditworthiness of the US government, they rank the public debt  
through Moody's and Standard and Poor. They control the US Treasury,  
the Federal Reserve Board and the US Congress. They oversee and  
dictate fiscal and monetary policy, ensuring that the state acts in  
their interest.

"People across the land, nationally and internationally  must  
mobilize. This struggle to democratise the financial and fiscal  
apparatus must be broad-based and democratic encompassing all  
sectors of society at all levels, in all countries. What is  
ultimately required is to disarm the financial establishment"


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From ecotort at gn.apc.org  Tue Mar  3 04:23:08 2009
From: ecotort at gn.apc.org (EcoTort Theatre)
Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2009 11:23:08 +0000
Subject: [GJM] Tell the truth about the War on Terror
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Date: 	Mon, 02 Mar 2009 10:03:41 -0800
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These conflicting decisions reveal an Administration still making up its 
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What Amnesty says about a Commission: Investigation, prosecution, remedy
http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/AMR51/151/2008/en

Some options for the Administration
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From ceasig at gmail.com  Wed Mar  4 00:12:54 2009
From: ceasig at gmail.com (Centre For Ecological Audit,
	Social Inclusion & Governance)
Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 12:42:54 +0530
Subject: [GJM] Kicking the factory addiction / Indeed for securing
	ecologically sustainable renewable resource based consumption
Message-ID: <31f677a30903032312g6daa7c87j333e266e026bfd88@mail.gmail.com>

Dear Mary.

Let us discuss practical measure for getting rid of the addictions of
factory goods.Recession generated by  deregulated usurious finance system is
ecologically benevolent . It is a gift of God. People across the world need
to  take lessons for halting the expansion of ecologically hostile
consumption, production and transport, leisure . I am talking to Musical
groups in London for creating carbon-nentral mode of musical renditions of
the appeals for ecological safety. Mohammad Yahya is one of them.

Dr.Muhammad Mukhtar Alam



Dr.Muhammad Mukhtar Alam

On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 8:22 AM, mary rose <maryrose333 at att.net> wrote:

> What I find amazing in articles like this is the complete lack of
> comprehension of the lessening of need for human labor amongst
> technological
> advances, along with the fact that on a finite planet resources are
> limited.
> There seems to be only regard for the human condition and none for the life
> support system upon which the human family depends. Why is this? How can we
> keep on ignoring these things that are so vital to our continued existence?
>
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> Kicking the factory addiction
> February 27, 2009 at 9:11 PM EST
>
> http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090227.wrcover28/BNStor
>
> y/Business
>
> BEIJING - Zhang Lan is the picture of Chinese success. She grew up in the
> countryside, the daughter of university professors sent down to the farm
> during the Cultural Revolution to learn how the peasants lived.
>
> When she grew up, she moved briefly to Canada, washing dishes and waiting
> tables in a Toronto restaurant.
>
> Today she runs a chain of elegant nouvelle-Sichuan restaurants that employs
> 6,000 people. Her office has a big-screen TV, an Apple laptop and suite of
> designer furniture. Sleek assistants drift in and out with messages and
> cups of tea.
>
> Just back from New Zealand, where she took a ride on China's America's Cup
> yacht, Ms. Zhang plans to get a boat of her own. She is learning to fly a
> helicopter, too. And for company, she plans to buy herself a pet crocodile.
> One of those little ones you keep in an aquarium, her visitor asks?
> "No," she replies, "I want a big one," and spreads her arms wide.
>
> The drive and savvy of people like Ms. Zhang have helped carry China to
> giddy heights, transforming it from a land of Mao suits and bicycles to
> billionaires and bullet trains in the space of her adult lifetime.
>
> But as the global crisis starts to hit the world's third-largest economy,
> its economic miracle is suddenly under a cloud.
>
> Demand for made-in-China watches, hammers, Christmas lights and DVD players
> is drying up as Western consumers rein in their spending. Thousands of
> manufacturers have shut their doors, including half the country's toy
> factories. More than 20 million people have already been thrown out of
> work, spurring a mass reverse migration from the coastal export zones to
> the poor countryside.
>
> Putting these people back to work is posing a challenge that goes far
> beyond just getting the factories up and running again.
>
> The global crisis is exposing deep flaws in China's development model. As
> overseas shoppers have closed their wallets, China is learning the downside
> of a dependence on making cheap stuff for the rest of the world. Years of
> pumping up its industrial strength by throwing money into superhighways and
> supersized factories have left it too muscle-bound for its own good.
>
> Now, like an athlete giving up on steroids, China is striving to wean
> itself off the high-octane cocktail of investment and exports and lean more
> on consumption, innovation and services. To thrive in the age of crisis and
> beyond, it needs a new model - one that produces fewer cement plants or
> toy factories and more gung-ho business people like Zhang Lan.
>
> "The financial crisis is an opportunity to change the economic growth
> model," says Chang Xin, an economist at the Chinese Academy of Social
> Sciences. "How to make that opportunity into a reality is a big challenge
> for China."
>
> China's current model springs from the reforms launched by Deng Xiaoping in
> 1978, opening China to the world and unleashing the power of the market.
> Deng consciously copied the success of neighbours such as Hong Kong, Taiwan
> and Singapore. They achieved spectacular growth in the 1960s and 1970s by
> exporting manufactured goods such as toys, clothing and, later, high-end
> electronics to the malls of the developed world. They also used their big
> pool of savings, the product of a famously high Asian savings rate, to
> invest heavily in roads, bridges, ports and strategic industries.
>
> It was called the East Asian model of development and, for three decades,
> it seemed to work as well, if not better, for China than for the "little
> dragons" of Asia. China's gross domestic product per head grew tenfold
> and its overall GDP 12-fold. Hundreds of millions of Chinese rose out of
> absolute poverty. China became the workshop of the world, filling fleets of
> container ships with the products of its teeming coastal factories.
>
> At the same time, capital investment by government and companies soared
> too, reaching more than 40 per cent of GDP, a far higher rate than the
> other East Asian dynamos in their era of maximum growth. Fixed-asset
> investment - in things such as land, building and machinery - has grown
> by a pell-mell annual rate of 20 per cent and more.
>
> One result: China has no less than 80 car makers and thousands of steel
> mills. In the steel town of Fengrun about two hours from Beijing, for
> example, no less than 100 mills belch smoke into the sooty winter sky.
>
> For decades, those car makers and smokestacks served a steadily growing
> overseas clientele. Until they went into reverse last fall, China's exports
> had been growing at a frantic pace for years.
>
> Now, that heavy reliance on trade and investment is proving to be a weak
> spot. There is nothing wrong with investing, especially when companies are
> making fat profits and the economy is growing by double digits, as China's
> has until now. The problem in China is that much of the money is
> misdirected or simply wasted. State-run banks usually lend to state-run
> companies, or those with political connections. Much of the money pours
> into cement or chemicals or big export producers, which are favoured with
> government-subsidized land and energy. By contrast, smaller, more
> innovative companies have a hard time raising money in a country with an
> immature stock market.
>
> Hence, the country's surplus of car makers and steel mills. How will they
> survive now that demand is falling for steel to make appliances for export
> and build new housing at home in China?
>
> "Basically, you could get money for free in China as long as you built a
> factory," said Michael Pettis, a Peking University economist. "The
> Chinese financial system is geared up to create an unsustainable explosion
> of capacity. Just as the U.S. was the world centre of overconsumption,
> China was the world centre of overproduction. Both have to adjust."
>
> In other words, China needs to become more like the rich economies of North
> America and Europe. That may stick in Beijing's throat at a time when those
> economies are suffering through their worst crisis in decades. Their model
> of development is looking pretty flawed too.
>
> Western consumption clearly has its drawbacks. But Beijing's focus on
> government-directed industrial expansion overlooked the need to create a
> consumer class. And there's another problem: Heavy industry employs fewer
> workers than service industries. So in recent years, even as the economy
> boomed, employment growth has slowed and the income of the population has
> grown at only about half the rate of GDP.
>
> "The end result of this pattern is that the Chinese economy has created
> this huge production capacity but has created a very limited consumption
> base," Yasheng Huang, a China watcher at the Massachusetts Institute of
> Technology, said in an e-mail interview. "This means that China is very
> vulnerable to the economic slowdowns in the U.S. and other rich
> countries."
>
> China's consumption level is the lowest for any major economy. Both Chinese
> households and Chinese companies are fanatical savers. That means the
> economy can't rely on domestic demand when exports go soft.
>
> Services, meanwhile, account for just 40 per cent of GDP, compared to 54
> per cent in other middle-income countries and 70 per cent in high-income
> countries. There are more and more entrepreneurial companies like Ms.
> Zhang's restaurant chain group, but still not nearly enough. Only four
> million people work in China's banking and insurance industries, for
> example, a trifling number in a population of 1.3 billion.
>
> Worse, service industries are often dominated by government-backed or
> government-owned firms with a stranglehold on the market. In mobile phones,
> one of China's most dynamic markets over the past decade, the dominant
> player is state-owned China Mobile.
>
> Though Chinese products crowd store shelves around the world, China has
> produced no global brand such as Japan's Sony or South Korea's Samsung. And
> though Chinese firms are trying hard to move up the value chain, their
> record for innovation is poor. China has yet to produce a globe-girdling
> multinational such as India's Tata Group, though computer maker Lenovo is
> trying hard.
>
> Many Chinese companies are still simply assemblers of other people's
> products - bikes from Taiwan or computers from Texas, put together by
> hand on a Chinese factory floor with parts imported from elsewhere. China
> spends 1.5 per cent of GDP on research and development, compared with 3 per
> cent or more in some developed economies.
>
> China's leaders are well aware of the flaws in their economic model. The
> country's No. 2 leader, Premier Wen Jiabao, pronounced in 2007 that
> "there are structural problems in China's economy which cause unsteady,
> unbalanced, unco-ordinated and unsustainable development."
>
> Only this week, the People's Bank of China, the country's central bank,
> remarked that "China has a problem of high savings and low
> consumption."
>
> It noted that the share of investment in GDP has risen to 43.5 per cent in
> 2008 from 36.6 per cent in 1992, and the share of consumption has dropped
> to 48.6 per cent in 2008 from 62.4 per cent in 1992, well below the world
> average. This was "not conducive to the healthy and stable development of
> the economy."
>
> Too true. Yet it remains to be seen whether Beijing will move quickly or
> decisively enough to correct the problem. To make it more tempting for
> Chinese to spend instead of save, Beijing has taken steps to improve its
> astoundingly weak social safety net.
>
> Last month, for example, the government rolled out a new universal health
> care program, reasoning that people who have some insurance against illness
> will not have to save as much to pay for their care. It has also improved
> rural property rights to encourage country people to open their wallets and
> raised minimum factory wages to coax manufacturers to move up the value
> chain.
>
> Still, the World Bank says that, so far, "there has been little
> rebalancing away from industry and investment towards services and
> consumption."
>
> It recommends a series of measures: freeing the yuan - the Chinese
> currency - to rise in value, making Chinese exports less affordable to
> foreigners and shifting the balance away from export-led growth; shifting
> more government spending from investment to social welfare and education;
> liberalizing the banking system and stock markets so that smaller, more
> efficient firms can raise money and get loans more easily; dismantling
> monopolies and oligopolies that prevent competition in the services sector.
>
> Taking these steps will be hard, especially in the midst of global
> recession. Rather than shifting away from exports, the government has quite
> naturally been doing everything in its power to help exporters from going
> under by, for instance, restoring tax rebates they used to enjoy. And far
> from slashing investment, it has promised to spend an impressive four
> trillion yuan ($740-billion) to stimulate the economy, much of it going on
> new roads, bridges and other infrastructure.
>
> But, then, China has managed to reinvent itself before. Ms. Zhang, the
> restaurant chain owner, reminds her visitor that when she was growing up,
> China was "the sick man of the world." Her scholar parents were made to
> feed the pigs on the farm. It was forbidden to do business with foreigners
> or to run even so much as a private tea cart.
>
> Today she is looking at buying six Swiss castles as part of a planned
> international expansion of her chain. Asked if she isn't afraid of the
> global economic storm, she says without bravado, "I don't know what it is
> to be scared."
>
> If China managed to switch from the xenophobic Maoism of her youth to the
> modified capitalism of today, she is certain it can survive the current
> storm and move forward. Who would dare to say she is dreaming?
>
>
>
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From hermann at picknowl.com.au  Wed Mar  4 04:20:40 2009
From: hermann at picknowl.com.au (John Hermann)
Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2009 21:50:40 +1030
Subject: [GJM] FW: [globalnetnews-summary] WHAT NEXT? James Howard
 Kunstler
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>WHAT NEXT? James Howard Kunstler
>Monday, 02 March 2009
>http://carolynbaker.net/site/content/view/1004/1/
>[The next collapse? Farming. The decline continues to keep coming back to
>the issue of food security.--CB]
>
>The Peak Oil story was never about running out of oil. It was about the
>collapse of complex systems in a world economy faced by the prospect of no
>further oil-fueled growth. It was something of a shock to many that the
>first complex system to fail would be banking, but the process is obvious:
>no more growth means no more ability to pay interest on credit... end of
>story, as Tony Soprano used to say.


Unfortunately the story is a fairy tale.  Economic growth and 
interest payments
are largely independent of each other. Almost all interest received as income
by banks is recycled - by spending - back into the money supply.

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Here is a good one. Alberta has its own bank too, ATBFinancial, owned by the people.
Helge



Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 06:56:38 -0500
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Playing the Banking Game
How Cash Starved States can Create their Own Credit 

By Ellen Brown



URL of this article: www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=12522



Global Research, March 3, 2009


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?He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.? Francis Bacon
On February 19, 2009, California narrowly escaped bankruptcy, when Governor Arnold Schwarzenneger put on his Terminator hat and held the state senate in lockdown mode until they signed a very controversial budget.1 If the vote had failed, the state was going to be reduced to paying its employees in I.O.U.s. California avoided bankruptcy for the time being, but 46 of 50 states are insolvent and could be filing Chapter 9 bankruptcy proceedings in the next two years.2
One of the four states that is not insolvent is an unlikely candidate for the distinction ? North Dakota. As Michigan management consultant Charles Fleetham observed last month in an article distributed to his local media:
?North Dakota is a sparsely populated state of less than 700,000, known for cold weather, isolated farmers and a hit movie ? Fargo. Yet, for some reason it defies the real estate clich? of location, location, location. Since 2000, the state's GNP has grown 56%, personal income has grown 43%, and wages have grown 34%. This year the state has a budget surplus of $1.2 billion!?
What does the State of North Dakota have that other states don't? The answer seems to be: its own bank. In fact, North Dakota has the only state-owned bank in the nation. The state legislature established the Bank of North Dakota in 1919. Fleetham writes that the bank was set up to free farmers and small businessmen from the clutches of out-of-state bankers and railroad men. By law, the state must deposit all its funds in the bank, and the state guarantees its deposits. Three elected officials oversee the bank: the governor, the attorney general, and the commissioner of agriculture. The bank's stated mission is to deliver sound financial services that promote agriculture, commerce and industry in North Dakota. The bank operates as a bankers' bank, partnering with private banks to loan money to farmers, real estate developers, schools and small businesses. It loans money to students (over 184,000 outstanding loans), and it purchases municipal bonds from
 public institutions.
Still, you may ask, how does that solve the solvency problem? Isn't the state still limited to spending only the money it has? The answer is no. Certified, card-carrying bankers are allowed to do something nobody else can do: they can create ?credit? with accounting entries on their books.
A License to Create Money
Under the ?fractional reserve? lending system, banks are allowed to extend credit (create money as loans) in a sum equal to many times their deposit base. Congressman Jerry Voorhis, writing in 1973, explained it like this:
?[F]or every $1 or $1.50 which people ? or the government ? deposit in a bank, the banking system can create out of thin air and by the stroke of a pen some $10 of checkbook money or demand deposits. It can lend all that $10 into circulation at interest just so long as it has the $1 or a little more in reserve to back it up.?3
That banks actually create money with accounting entries was confirmed in a revealing booklet published by the Chicago Federal Reserve titled Modern Money Mechanics.2 The booklet was periodically revised until 1992, when it had reached 50 pages long. On page 49 of the 1992 edition, it states:
?With a uniform 10 percent reserve requirement, a $1 increase in reserves would support $10 of additional transaction accounts [loans created as deposits in borrowers' accounts].?4
The 10 percent reserve requirement is now largely obsolete, in part because banks have figured out how to get around it with such devices as ?overnight sweeps.? What chiefly limits bank lending today is the 8 percent capital requirement imposed by the Bank for International Settlements, the head of the private global central banking system in Basel, Switzerland. With an 8 percent capital requirement, a state with its own bank could fan its revenues into 12.5 times their face value in loans (100 ? 8 = 12.5). And since the state would actually own the bank, it would not have to worry about shareholders or profits. It could lend to creditworthy borrowers at very low interest, perhaps limited only to a service charge covering its costs; and it could lend to itself or to its municipal governments at as low as zero percent interest. If these loans were rolled over indefinitely, the effect would be the same as creating new, debt-free money.
Dangerously inflationary? Not if the money were used to create new goods and services. Price inflation results only when ?demand? (money) exceeds ?supply? (goods and services). When they increase together, prices remain stable.
Today we are in a dangerous deflationary spiral, as lending has dried up and asset values have plummeted. The monopoly on the creation of money and credit by a private banking fraternity has resulted in a malfunctioning credit system and monetary collapse. Credit markets have been frozen by the wildly speculative derivatives gambles of a few big Wall Street banks, bets that not only destroyed those banks' balance sheets but are infecting the whole private banking system with toxic debris. To get out of this deflationary debt trap requires an injection of new, debt-free money into the economy, something that can best be done through a system of public banks dedicated to serving the public interest, administering credit as a public utility.
Some experts insist that we must tighten our belts and start saving again, in order to rebuild the ?capital? necessary for functioning markets; but our markets actually functioned quite well so long as the credit system was working. We have the same real assets (raw materials, oil, technical knowledge, productive capacity, labor force, etc.) that we had before the crisis began. Our workers and factories are sitting idle because the private credit system has failed. A system of public credit could put them back to work again. The notion that ?money? is something that has to be ?saved? before it can be ?borrowed? misconstrues the nature of money and credit. Credit is merely a legal agreement, a ?monetization? of future proceeds, a promise to pay later from the fruits of the advance. Banks have created credit on their books for hundreds of years, and this system would have worked quite well had it not been for the enormous tribute
 siphoned off to private coffers in the form of interest. A public banking system could overcome that problem by returning the interest to the public purse. This is the sort of banking system that was pioneered in the colony of Pennsylvania, where it worked brilliantly well.
Restoring Michigan to Solvency
Among other advantages to a state of owning its own bank are the substantial sums it could save in interest. As Fleetham notes of his own ailing state of Michigan:
?According to recent financial reports (available online), the State of Michigan, the City of Detroit, the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department, the Wayne County Airport, the Detroit Public Schools, the University of Michigan, and Michigan State University pay over $800 million a year in interest on long term debt. If you add interest paid by Michigan cities, school districts, and public utilities, the cost to our taxpayers easily tops a billion a year. What does Wall Street do with our billion plus dollars? They decorate their offices like kings.?
Interestingly, the projected state budget deficit for 2009 is also $1 billion. If Michigan did not have to pay over a billion dollars in interest to Wall Street, the budget could be balanced and the state could be restored to solvency. A state-owned bank could not only provide interest-free credit for the state but could actually generate revenues for it. Fleetham notes that in 2007, the Bank of North Dakota earned a net profit of $51 million on a loan volume of $2 billion. He comments:
?Last year, Michigan citizens paid over $5 billion dollars in personal income tax. With a state bank like North Dakota's we could reduce this burden, fund new businesses, and restore our crumbling water and sewer systems. And we don't have to feel sorry about Wall Street losing our business. They didn't ?earn' the money they lent us. They created it in computers and charged us interest to boot. Let's follow North Dakota's lead and get free from Wall Street's web.?
Taking the Initiative in California
California could do this as well. Robert Ellis is a Tucson talk show host who once worked on Wall Street and has been involved in setting up several banks and financial institutions. In January of this year, he proposed in a letter to Governor Schwarzenegger that California could resolve its financial woes by setting up a bank on the model of the Bank of North Dakota. Ellis wrote to the governor:
?I admire your tenacity in dealing with California's financial problems. Your idea of using IOU's was ingenious but there is a better way. The State of California can charter its own bank and issue its own checks to all state employees . . . . It can also pay all its vendors, contracts and contractors through the bank . . . . Additionally, once the bank is operational, you can fund your own state projects and you determine the interest rate paid as opposed to being at the mercy of the banks you currently deal with or the interest rates the investment bankers make you pay to issue bonds. By doing this, you will put the state in control of its own destiny and make it the benefactor of its own money.
?. . . What I am proposing is not new. It has been done by one other state in the nation [North Dakota]. Why should you continue to pay the banks for services and interest on loans when you can receive that interest for the benefit of the state of California? Wouldn't it be better if you could fund your own infrastructure projects without having to get the approval of independent banks or investment bankers? Additionally, you set the interest rate on your own projects. You can even set it at zero if you deem the project worthy enough.?
Ellis offered his services in setting up the bank, which he thought could be chartered in a few short months. The Governor has not replied, but some pressure from constituents might encourage a response.
Failing that, there is the initiative and referendum process pioneered in California. It allows state laws to be proposed directly by the public, and the state's Constitution to be amended either by public petition (the ?initiative?) or by the legislature submitting a proposed constitutional amendment to the electorate (the ?referendum?). The initiative is done by writing a proposed constitutional amendment or statute as a petition, which is submitted to the California Attorney General along with a submission fee, which was a modest $200 in 2004. The petition must be signed by registered voters amounting to 8% (for a constitutional amendment) or 5% (for a statute) of the number of people who voted in the most recent election for governor.5
As Gandhi said, ?When the people lead, the leaders will follow.? We the people can beat the Wall Street bankers at their own game, by moving our legislators to set up publicly-owned banks that create credit using the same banking principles that are accepted as standard and usual in the trade by bankers themselves.
Ellen Brown developed her research skills as an attorney practicing civil litigation in Los Angeles. In Web of Debt, her latest book, she turns those skills to an analysis of the Federal Reserve and ?the money trust.? She shows how this private cartel has usurped the power to create money from the people themselves, and how we the people can get it back. Her earlier books focused on the pharmaceutical cartel that gets its power from ?the money trust.? Her eleven books include Forbidden Medicine, Nature's Pharmacy (co-authored with Dr. Lynne Walker), and The Key to Ultimate Health (co-authored with Dr. Richard Hansen). Her websites are www.webofdebt.com and www.ellenbrown.com.

Notes


Anne Davies, ?Lockdown Vote Saves California from Bankruptcy,? theage.com.au (February 21, 2009).
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John Mitchell, ?46 of 50 States Could File Bankruptcy in 2009-2010,? Freedom Arizona (January 30, 2009).
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Jerry Voorhis, The Strange Case of Richard Milhous Nixon (1973), excerpted at http://www.sonic.net/~doretk/ArchiveARCHIVE/ECONOMICSPOLITICS/FEDERAL%20RESERVE/Jerry%20VoorhisFedReserve.html. 
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Modern Money Mechanics: A Workbook on Bank Reserves and Deposit Expansion (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Public Information Service, 1992, available at http://www.rayservers.com/images/ModernMoneyMechanics.pdf ).
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??California Ballot Proposition,? Wikipedia.



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Fox News hosts falsely asserted that doctors could be jailed for refusing
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Wed, Mar 4, 2009 7:58pm ET
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    Summary: In separate reports, Fox News' Bret Baier and Megyn Kelly
misrepresented the reported plans of the Obama administration to rescind a
December 2008 Bush administration regulation to falsely assert that the
Obama administration's decision could result in doctors' being prosecuted
or discriminated against for refusing to perform abortions. In fact,
federal law -- which the Obama administration cannot "repeal[]" --
prohibits public officials from requiring recipients of public funds to
perform abortions or sterilizations in violation of their religious or
moral beliefs.

On the March 3 edition of Fox News' Special Report and the March 4 edition
of America's Newsroom, hosts Bret Baier and Megyn Kelly, respectively,
misrepresented the reported plans of the Obama administration to rescind a
December 2008 Bush administration regulation to falsely assert that the
Obama administration's decision could result in doctors' being prosecuted
or discriminated against for refusing to perform abortions. In fact,
federal law bans discrimination against doctors for refusing to perform
abortions; proponents and opponents of the Bush regulation reportedly agree
that because of the way it is written, the regulation could allow doctors
and health care workers to refuse to provide other services or medical
treatments that they feel violates their beliefs.

On the March 3 edition of Special Report, Baier reported that a "top
Republican senator [Tom Coburn (OK)] says he and his fellow doctors would
rather go to jail than perform abortions. President Obama is considering
repealing a regulation that kept doctors from having to make that choice in
the past." Similarly, on the March 4 edition America's Newsroom, Kelly
reported: "President Bush made it a lot easier for doctors to refuse
procedures inconsistent with their religious beliefs, like abortion or
sterilization. Now President Obama is set to change that. Our upcoming
guest is a senator, and a doctor, who says he will go to jail before he's
forced to something against his beliefs."

In fact, Obama is not "considering repealing" regulations forbidding
discrimination against medical professionals who refuse to perform
abortions on moral or religious grounds; nor will Obama "force[]" doctors
to make a choice between performing abortions or sterilizations and going
to jail. Federal law -- which the Obama administration cannot "repeal[]" --
prohibits public officials from requiring recipients of public funds to
perform abortions or sterilizations in violation of their religious or
moral beliefs. Similarly, federal law prohibits entities receiving public
funds from discriminating against personnel who refuse to perform those
procedures for those reasons. From Title 42, ? 300a-7 of the U.S. Code:

    (b) Prohibition of public officials and public authorities from
imposition of certain requirements contrary to religious beliefs or moral
convictions

        The receipt of any grant, contract, loan, or loan guarantee under
the Public Health Service Act [42 U.S.C. 201 et seq.], the Community Mental
Health Centers Act [42 U.S.C. 2689 et seq.], or the Developmental
Disabilities Services and Facilities Construction Act [42 U.S.C. 6000 et
seq.] by any individual or entity does not authorize any court or any
public official or other public authority to require --

            (1) such individual to perform or assist in the performance of
any sterilization procedure or abortion if his performance or assistance in
the performance of such procedure or abortion would be contrary to his
religious beliefs or moral convictions; or

            (2) such entity to --

                (A) make its facilities available for the performance of
any sterilization procedure or abortion if the performance of such
procedure or abortion in such facilities is prohibited by the entity on the
basis of religious beliefs or moral convictions, or

                (B) provide any personnel for the performance or assistance
in the performance of any sterilization procedure or abortion if the
performance or assistance in the performance of such procedures or abortion
by such personnel would be contrary to the religious beliefs or moral
convictions of such personnel.

    (c) Discrimination prohibition

        (1) No entity which receives a grant, contract, loan, or loan
guarantee under the Public Health Service Act [42 U.S.C. 201 et seq.], the
Community Mental Health Centers Act [42 U.S.C. 2689 et seq.], or the
Developmental Disabilities Services and Facilities Construction Act [42
U.S.C. 6000 et seq.] after June 18, 1973, may --

            (A) discriminate in the employment, promotion, or termination
of employment of any physician or other health care personnel, or

            (B) discriminate in the extension of staff or other privileges
to any physician or other health care personnel,

        because he performed or assisted in the performance of a lawful
sterilization procedure or abortion, because he refused to perform or
assist in the performance of such a procedure or abortion on the grounds
that his performance or assistance in the performance of the procedure or
abortion would be contrary to his religious beliefs or moral convictions,
or because of his religious beliefs or moral convictions respecting
sterilization procedures or abortions.

A February 27 Scientific American blog post on the Obama administration's
"intention to rescind" the Bush-era regulation reported:

    Federal law bars discriminating against healthcare workers who refuse
to provide abortions or abortion referrals to patients, but the Bush reg
change requires federally funded facilities to certify that they're
complying with it -- and both proponents and critics of the new rule agree
that the way it's worded could be broadly interpreted to allow workers to
also block access to other medical treatments, such as contraception and
artificial insemination.

In addition, a February 27 article on NPR.org reported:

    [O]pponents say the regulation was written so broadly that it could
allow workers to decline to participate in many other types of sensitive
medical procedures -- from blood transfusions to end-of-life care.

    And in parts of the country with few medical providers, those refusals
could put patients at risk, those critics contend.

    "That rule was so broad that even the cashier at Walgreens could refuse
to provide medication for somebody if the cashier decided they have a
religious objection," said Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO).

>From the March 3 edition of Fox News' Special Report with Bret Baier:

    BAIER: One top Republican senator says he and his fellow doctors would
rather go to jail than perform abortions. President Obama is considering
repealing a regulation that kept doctors from having to make that choice in
the past.

    Correspondent Shannon Bream is live with details. Hi, Shannon.

    BREAM: Hi, Bret. Well, over the past 30 years, a number of laws have
been passed that protect the rights of medical workers if they decline to
perform procedures they've got a moral objection to, like abortion. Well,
those protections got an added boost when the Bush administration issued a
federal regulation beefing up the laws and providing for enforcement. This
was shortly before President Bush left office.

    Now, the Obama administration is making moves to have that federal
regulation revoked. Republican Senator Tom Coburn, a pro-life obstetrician,
says he and many of his colleagues would be willing to go to jail rather
than do anything that violates their moral convictions.

    COBURN [video clip]: I will do nothing against my conscience in the
practice of medicine, regardless of what any law is at any time, and I can
tell you there's a lot of physicians that feel exactly that way across the
country.

    BREAM: A senior Obama administration official says the Bush regulation
is too vague and could prevent some medical professionals from offering a
full range of services to their patients, quote: "This policy of
potentially allowing providers to refuse to provide contraception or family
planning runs counter to the Obama administration's goal of reducing
abortions and unwanted pregnancies. It could also lead into other areas of
medical care."

    The regulation in question falls under the Department of Health and
Human Services. Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius, who has a long history
of supporting abortion rights, has been nominated to head up that
department.

    There's been significant outcry from a number of conservative groups
who worry about the governor's record on abortion and about her potentially
having some oversight of the repeal of this regulation. There will be a
30-day public comment period once the administration officially announces
its intention to rescind the regulation before it can actually be revoked
-- Bret.

    BAIER: Shannon, thanks.

>From the March 4 edition of Fox News' America's Newsroom:

    KELLY: While President Bush made it a lot easier for doctors to refuse
procedures inconsistent with their religious beliefs, like abortion or
sterilization, now President Obama is set to change that. Our upcoming
guest is a senator, and a doctor, who says he will go to jail before he's
forced to do something against his beliefs.

>From the February 27 Scientific American blog post:

    Reproductive rights groups are cheering President Obama's intention to
rescind a "midnight regulation" issued in the waning days of the Bush
administration that blocks federal funding of healthcare facilities that
don't allow their employees to bow out of medical procedures, such as
abortion, to which they have moral objections. Advocacy groups last month
sued the government over the so-called "right to conscience" rule, charging
that it's unlawful.

    The administration will publish a notice in the Federal Register next
week announcing that it's planning to change the rule, the Associated Press
reports.

    "We've been concerned that the way the Bush rule is written it could
make it harder for women to get the care they need," an unidentified
Department of Health and Human Services official told the Washington Post.
"It is worded so vaguely that some have argued it could limit family
planning counseling and even potentially blood transfusions and end-of-life
care."

    Federal law bars discriminating against healthcare workers who refuse
to provide abortions or abortion referrals to patients, but the Bush reg
change requires federally funded facilities to certify that they're
complying with it -- and both proponents and critics of the new rule agree
that the way it's worded could be broadly interpreted to allow workers to
also block access to other medical treatments, such as contraception and
artificial insemination.

    The Center for Reproductive Rights praised the move. "Any time, any
worker at a healthcare facility can prevent a woman seeking reproductive
services from getting care, information and even, a referral -- and the
government sanctions such conduct -- it's time for a regulatory 'do-over,'"
said said [sic] Nancy Northup, the group's president. "The Bush
administration claimed that this policy protects healthcare providers
against discrimination, but in truth, it leaves patients unprotected and
seriously violates their rights and medical needs."

    Obama on Jan. 23 reversed Bush's controversial "Global Gag rule," which
cut off federal funding for international-aid groups that perform or
provide information about abortions. The regulation, also known as the
Mexico City Policy, had been in effect on and off since 1984.




From maryrose333 at att.net  Thu Mar  5 13:38:24 2009
From: maryrose333 at att.net (mary rose)
Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 12:38:24 -0800
Subject: [GJM] FW: [globalnetnews-summary] As Car Sales Collapse,
	GM and Chrysler Grow Desperate
Message-ID: <001601c99dd2$583bb210$08b31630$@net>

This is the end of the Industrial Revolution.  We now need an evolution
which brings us in alignment with Earth and Human values instead of those of
bottom line profit-seekers who have continually shifted external costs
forward. We are now the generation that has to foot the bill for this prior
irresponsibility and it's time to pull the plug and begin a new cycle based
in values which create a sustainable living future for all. 

Either we do this or we are out of here as the human family. TINA (there is
no alternative)     


-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2009 10:55 AM
To: globalnetnews-summary at lists.riseup.net
Subject: [globalnetnews-summary] As Car Sales Collapse, GM and Chrysler Grow
Desperate


As Car Sales Collapse, GM and Chrysler Grow Desperate
By Alex Taylor III Tuesday, Mar. 03, 2009

Under pressure to demonstrate their viability in order to qualify for more
government loans, General Motors and Chrysler couldn't produce any
additional evidence on Tuesday. If they were taking physical exams, they
both would have flunked.

As February sales were reported, GM owned up to selling 53% fewer cars and
trucks than a year ago, while Chrysler admitted that its total fell 44%.
Slow sales means slow production, which is where automakers get their
revenue, so the results put a real dent in cash flow. At the beginning of
the month, GM and Chrysler both had more than five months' supply of unsold
cars. (Read about the CEOs behind Detroit's Big Three.)

Both companies are running low on the money they need to operate. GM ended
the year with $14 billion, about what it needs to keep the lights on.
Chrysler was forecasting that it would start March with just $2.4 billion.
Without a boost from the government, GM and Chrysler could each be forced
into bankruptcy or liquidation by the time the crocuses bloom.

Adding injury to insult, Standard and Poor's reiterated its sell opinion on
shares of GM, which are commanding a mere $2.04 a share - about the price
of a subway ride in New York City. Observing that the industry is gripped
by an "automotive depression," S&P's Efraim Levy added, "We do not foresee
an uptick in industry demand before Q4 '09 at the earliest." Chrysler was
spared a similar indignity because it is privately held.

The two companies are seeking $21.6 billion in emergency loans on top of
the $17.4 billion they have already received. But both are missing two
pieces they must have by March 31 to convince the government that they are
viable: approval from bondholders to restructure their debt and approval
from the United Auto Workers to restructure their health-care agreement.
Complicating the problem, the bondholders and the UAW are keeping a close
eye on each other to make sure that neither side gets a better deal.

With the Obama Administration taking heat for enormous deficits in the
budget it is proposing, this automotive impasse can only increase the
pressure on the Treasury Department to forget about further loans, pull the
plug on the two companies and force them into bankruptcy.

In bankruptcy court, a judge could impose terms on both the bondholders and
the autoworkers. In addition, the judge could renegotiate contracts with
suppliers and ignore state franchise laws that protect dealers from
termination.

The automakers complain bitterly that bankruptcy would destroy their
corporate reputations, turn off customers and be ruinously expensive as
well. But as the March deadline gets closer and matters remain unresolved,
it increasingly looks like a straightforward if brutal solution.

It isn't as if the auto companies have a huge reservoir of public affection
from which to draw. Outside of some Congress members from Michigan, Ohio
and Indiana, there haven't been many voices speaking out with any variation
of "Save Detroit." 



From ecotort at gn.apc.org  Thu Mar  5 14:20:32 2009
From: ecotort at gn.apc.org (EcoTort Theatre)
Date: Thu, 05 Mar 2009 21:20:32 +0000
Subject: [GJM] FW: [globalnetnews-summary] As Car Sales Collapse,
 GM and Chrysler Grow Desperate
In-Reply-To: <001601c99dd2$583bb210$08b31630$@net>
References: <001601c99dd2$583bb210$08b31630$@net>
Message-ID: <49B04220.7000302@gn.apc.org>

try looking at http://www.ecotort.gn.apc.org
there is a simple practical way forward,
based on natural law and common sense
which the gjm "moderator" refuses consistently to post


mary rose wrote:
> This is the end of the Industrial Revolution.  We now need an evolution
> which brings us in alignment with Earth and Human values instead of those of
> bottom line profit-seekers who have continually shifted external costs
> forward. We are now the generation that has to foot the bill for this prior
> irresponsibility and it's time to pull the plug and begin a new cycle based
> in values which create a sustainable living future for all. 
>
> Either we do this or we are out of here as the human family. TINA (there is
> no alternative)     
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: globalnetnews-summary-owner at lists.riseup.net
> [mailto:globalnetnews-summary-owner at lists.riseup.net] On Behalf Of
> TradingPostPaul
> Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2009 10:55 AM
> To: globalnetnews-summary at lists.riseup.net
> Subject: [globalnetnews-summary] As Car Sales Collapse, GM and Chrysler Grow
> Desperate
>
>
> As Car Sales Collapse, GM and Chrysler Grow Desperate
> By Alex Taylor III Tuesday, Mar. 03, 2009
>
> Under pressure to demonstrate their viability in order to qualify for more
> government loans, General Motors and Chrysler couldn't produce any
> additional evidence on Tuesday. If they were taking physical exams, they
> both would have flunked.
>
> As February sales were reported, GM owned up to selling 53% fewer cars and
> trucks than a year ago, while Chrysler admitted that its total fell 44%.
> Slow sales means slow production, which is where automakers get their
> revenue, so the results put a real dent in cash flow. At the beginning of
> the month, GM and Chrysler both had more than five months' supply of unsold
> cars. (Read about the CEOs behind Detroit's Big Three.)
>
> Both companies are running low on the money they need to operate. GM ended
> the year with $14 billion, about what it needs to keep the lights on.
> Chrysler was forecasting that it would start March with just $2.4 billion.
> Without a boost from the government, GM and Chrysler could each be forced
> into bankruptcy or liquidation by the time the crocuses bloom.
>
> Adding injury to insult, Standard and Poor's reiterated its sell opinion on
> shares of GM, which are commanding a mere $2.04 a share - about the price
> of a subway ride in New York City. Observing that the industry is gripped
> by an "automotive depression," S&P's Efraim Levy added, "We do not foresee
> an uptick in industry demand before Q4 '09 at the earliest." Chrysler was
> spared a similar indignity because it is privately held.
>
> The two companies are seeking $21.6 billion in emergency loans on top of
> the $17.4 billion they have already received. But both are missing two
> pieces they must have by March 31 to convince the government that they are
> viable: approval from bondholders to restructure their debt and approval
> from the United Auto Workers to restructure their health-care agreement.
> Complicating the problem, the bondholders and the UAW are keeping a close
> eye on each other to make sure that neither side gets a better deal.
>
> With the Obama Administration taking heat for enormous deficits in the
> budget it is proposing, this automotive impasse can only increase the
> pressure on the Treasury Department to forget about further loans, pull the
> plug on the two companies and force them into bankruptcy.
>
> In bankruptcy court, a judge could impose terms on both the bondholders and
> the autoworkers. In addition, the judge could renegotiate contracts with
> suppliers and ignore state franchise laws that protect dealers from
> termination.
>
> The automakers complain bitterly that bankruptcy would destroy their
> corporate reputations, turn off customers and be ruinously expensive as
> well. But as the March deadline gets closer and matters remain unresolved,
> it increasingly looks like a straightforward if brutal solution.
>
> It isn't as if the auto companies have a huge reservoir of public affection
> from which to draw. Outside of some Congress members from Michigan, Ohio
> and Indiana, there haven't been many voices speaking out with any variation
> of "Save Detroit." 
>
>
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From maryrose333 at att.net  Thu Mar  5 16:34:19 2009
From: maryrose333 at att.net (mary rose)
Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 15:34:19 -0800
Subject: [GJM] The severity of the Crisis (was: As Car Sales Collapse,
	GM and Chrysler Grow Desperate)
In-Reply-To: <20B668F74BD84A7CBB0D1633BA6C7941@Aperdat>
References: <001601c99dd2$583bb210$08b31630$@net>
	<20B668F74BD84A7CBB0D1633BA6C7941@Aperdat>
Message-ID: <000001c99dea$eb9ddf70$c2d99e50$@net>

From: Mary Nelson [mailto:m_nelson at aperdat.com] 
Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2009 1:25 PM
To: 'mary rose'
Subject: RE: [globalnetnews-summary] As Car Sales Collapse, GM and Chrysler
Grow Desperate

Isn't it uplifting to realize that those "shifted external costs forward"
are just blips in cyberspace and will just go "poof"! Like the "corporate
reputations".

MaryNelson


Mary it would be, except those "external costs" are environmental costs that
were never taken into consideration as the planet was raped and pillaged by
those who created the global monetocracy system called capitalism. And this
says nothing of the human suffering caused as people in countries like
Mexico and areas further south have been marginalized and driven from their
land, much of which is no longer able to support life, so eroded have large
areas become due to the practice of cattle-raising for profit. 

As the rain- and old growth forests have been cut worldwide to raise either
grain for cattle or to graze them, incalculable damage has been done to our
life support system with topsoil loss and desertification increasing
worldwide. Damage that is perhaps irreparable at least in terms of human
time. The planet will in time repair itself -- what is questionable is
whether or not the human family can manage to make it through the downturn
with enough people surviving this catastrophic situation to seed a new
civilization.

While cattle-raising is not the only act of consequence, it is primary being
number four in world-wide revenue production. Number one is the travel
business, two is oil, and three is the insurance business.   

What I am sensing is that people simply do not comprehend the gravity of the
ecological crisis. The economic crisis pales in comparison, yet it is this
event that is getting the most attention. But then, money has become our
god, and that we must bow down to this system has become our primary belief.


-----Original Message-----
From: mary rose [mailto:maryrose333 at att.net] 
Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2009 12:38 PM
To: 'Discussion Forum for Global Justice'; Fixgov at yahoogroups.com
Subject: FW: [globalnetnews-summary] As Car Sales Collapse, GM and Chrysler
Grow Desperate

This is the end of the Industrial Revolution.  We now need an evolution
which brings us in alignment with Earth and Human values instead of those of
bottom line profit-seekers who have continually shifted external costs
forward. We are now the generation that has to foot the bill for this prior
irresponsibility and it's time to pull the plug and begin a new cycle based
in values which create a sustainable living future for all. 

Either we do this or we are out of here as the human family. TINA (there is
no alternative)     






From maryrose333 at att.net  Thu Mar  5 17:22:36 2009
From: maryrose333 at att.net (mary rose)
Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 16:22:36 -0800
Subject: [GJM] FW: [globalnetnews-summary] Yoo and The Subversion of Liberty
	Narrowly Averted
Message-ID: <002401c99df1$a96a1270$fc3e3750$@net>

If this is indeed true, the question is: "What will Obama do about it?" Or
perhaps more to the point is the real question as to what will those who
control the global monetocracy system -- the real string pullers -- do about
it, as it becomes blatantly obvious that they were the ones who set up the
situation in the first place.  

Obviously there were enough people opposed to what the GMS was doing that
Martial Law was never declared before the Bush regime ended although there
were serious attempts to do so. Remember the nuclear missiles that somehow
got derailed and never made it to their destination in Iran? Yet the game is
not over yet as incidents are continually being instigated which could set
off a conflagration with serious enough consequences to require Martial Law
to be implemented here in the U.S. 

I have long felt that such a situation would be inspired by actions along
the U.S. Mexican Border as those who want Martial Law to take place
continually set the stage for this event by instigating actions which
inflame parties on both sides. This has been done before in countries like
Bosnia - Sergovia where for generations people who had formerly been enemies
lived peacefully with one another, then seemingly for no reason began to
fight, angered by what one might call "small brush fires" popping up all
over the place. These brush fires set, of course, by third parties who had
much to gain as they sent troops into "save the day" and make money by
selling weapons to both sides in the fracas while, also acting as the "peace
force" appointed by God to be the world's Saviour. 
 
This is a very old game and a very sick one, yet there are those who will
buy into it, especially if they are paid enough to do so. I am thankful that
the paid mercenaries of Blackwater failed to gain an encampment here on the
Border; yet, I do know they have a facility closeby in San Diego from which
they continue to operate.

m r       

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To: globalnetnews-summary at lists.riseup.net
Subject: [globalnetnews-summary] Yoo and The Subversion of Liberty Narrowly
Averted

Yoo and The Subversion of Liberty Narrowly Averted
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/03/04-9
by Naomi Wolf
Published on Wednesday, March 4, 2009 by Huffington Post

If history gets this recent era right, future textbooks will have to show
that the US narrowly averted a carefully planned but thorough and
unmistakable conspiracy to subvert the rule of law and the process of
democracy from 2001-2008. For three years, since writing End of America, I
have been arguing that the Bush team sought irretrievably to subvert our
liberty. Fortunately, this appalling and conceivably irrevocable subversion
of the tenets of freedom was narrowly averted by citizens at every level --
from the grassroots to the courts -- resisting in time. But the release
this week by the Justice Department of the "secret memos" sought valiantly
by the ACLU confirms that Bush's legal architects were building up the
framework for something even scarier than our most anguished projections.

You can see the documents themselves online -- but, as usual, there is a
gap between the cautious journalistic interpretation of the event and the
dense legalese in which they are written, and no one yet has really
explained to citizens who are not attorneys what these memos claimed to
give Bush the right to do. This is my initial reading of these documents:

Most dramatically, one memo asserts that Bush can deploy the military
within the United States -- all of the military if he so wishes --
overriding Posse Comitatus, which has kept us safe from military policing
for over a century. As many heard me warn in October and November of last
year, when the first troops were sent to US streets, history shows that
once the military is deployed domestically to "keep order" in a civil
society, it is over. This memo is especially galling, since last fall's red
alert from us was met with alarm by citizens but by ridicule by mainstream
media outlets. Turns out we were right. This `deployment' memo proves that
Bush indeed, as we feared, wanted the power to deploy military for domestic
policing purposes, a mission that Northcom spokesmen denied -- apparently
falsely -- when a few critics from non-mainstream platforms raised the
alarm last November about the deployment of the First Brigade from Iraq to
the US. This memo shows that Bush sought the power to deploy any number of
U.S. military into the U.S. itself for any reason he chose; direct them to
rip through your home without a warrant, even if you have not been charged
with anything; seize material and documents; and even gave Bush the power
to use deadly force against you -- yes, you, innocent US citizen -- "in
self-defense." In your homes and streets -- not on a faraway battlefield.
Major David Antoon confirmed that this power -- to send US military to
control, arrest and even shoot US civilians in self-defense -- was in
Bush's hands last fall when I asked Antoon about it. Turns out this memo
shows Bush indeed wanted to have that power.

Another memo would give the power to Bush -- at his discretion -- to close
down or censor newspapers, radio and the Internet - override the First
Amendment in the interest of "national security." So if he had deployed,
say, ten brigades -- 37,000 warriors -- in key cities (he deployed three
before the election and 20,000 are due to be deployed domestically by 2012
unless we stop it), you would not be able to hear about it through the news
media if he invoked this power to suspend free speech. And if you protested
-- if you dared -- well, his actions would have been -- thanks to John Yoo
and others, who will go down in history along with the criminal Nuremberg
lawyers as one of Satan's willing attorneys -- perfectly legal.

Yet another memo gives Bush not only the right to call any US citizen an
"enemy combatant" and hold him or her indefinitely - a danger we knew
about, and one that we have tried hard to alert citizens to, a warning that
has seemingly penetrated collective consciousness. The newly released memo
demonstrates that was the very surface of the powers over US citizens Bush
claimed. For three years when I have cautioned citizens about this power
Bush invoked to seize US citizens as "enemy combatants" I reassured them
that he did not yet have the power to torture US citizens, "only" drive
them mad through prolonged isolation in a navy brig. Well, this memo
asserts Bush's right to do whatever he wants to innocent US citizens in
this kind of custody, and rejects the notion that Congress would have any
role in how US citizens are held or treated -- say, by the hypothetically
deployed military - on US soil. It seems also to claim the right to hold
innocent US citizens in domestic military custody while Bush has the right
to do anything he wants to them. Anything he wants. Remember this is an
administration in which Bush, Rice, Rumsfeld and Cheney have now been
proven by Jameel Jaffer's revelations in Administration of Torture to have
known about and okay'd not just waterboarding as a policy but ok'd the
discretion for interrogators to use tactics such as electrodes attached to
genitals, sexual assault, threats against family members, suffocation, the
beating of prisoners' legs to "pulp," and in some cases the covering up of
their murders. This memo gives Bush the authority to do those things if he
wants to innocent US citizens.

Still another memo gives Bush the right to ignore any international
treaties -- to take over any country, say, or render and citizen anywhere,
and do whatever he wants to the citizens of any country against any law,
without consent of Congress.

The Washington Post called these memos "legal errors." We need to stare
them in the face and understand them: they are evidence that the groundwork
was laid out that gave the president the legal power effectively subvert
the Republic. We need to understand the full darkness of what we narrowly
escaped -- for now, our work is hardly begun. We need to build these
lessons into our history and to use the terror they represent to dismantle
the last of Bush's evil legacy -- a legacy that could have been activated
by any US president in the future, including Obama or McCain -- and see
these memos for what they are: the revealed architecture of an intended
edifice of what amounts to treason again our republic and against all of
us, regardless of belief, station of life, or political party.




From maryrose333 at att.net  Thu Mar  5 17:27:29 2009
From: maryrose333 at att.net (mary rose)
Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 16:27:29 -0800
Subject: [GJM] FW: [globalnetnews-summary] Scandal at Treasury: Official
	Quits Amidst Fraud Scandal
Message-ID: <002501c99df2$58d60fc0$0a822f40$@net>



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Subject: [globalnetnews-summary] Scandal at Treasury: Official Quits Amidst
Fraud Scandal


Thursday, March 5, 2009 by ABC News
Scandal at Treasury: Official Quits Amidst Fraud Scandal
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/03/05-0
by Brian Ross, Justin Rood, and Joseph Rhee

The man at the center of a fraud scandal at the Treasury Department has
been allowed to quietly quit and retire from his job as a government
regulator, despite allegations that he allowed a bank to falsify financial
records and amidst outcries from investigators who say the case shows how
cozy government regulators have become with the banks and savings and loans
they are supposed to be checking on.

[Former bank regulator Darrel Dochow evades ABC News' questions about the
Treasury Department Inspector General's investigation into allegations he
allowed IndyMac to cook its books when he worked at the Office of Thrift
Supervision. (ABC News)]Former bank regulator Darrel Dochow evades ABC
News' questions about the Treasury Department Inspector General's
investigation into allegations he allowed IndyMac to cook its books when he
worked at the Office of Thrift Supervision. (ABC News)
Darrel Dochow, the West Coast regional director at the Office of Thrift
Supervision who investigators say allowed IndyMac to backdate its deposits
to hide its ill health, quit last Friday. Prior to his leaving, Dochow was
removed from his position but remained on the government payroll while the
Inspector General's Office investigates the allegations against him.

Treasury Department Inspector General Eric Thorson announced in November
his office would probe how Dochow allowed the IndyMac bank to essentially
cook its books, making it appear in government filings that the bank had
more deposits than it really did. But Thorson's aides now say IndyMac
wasn't the only institution to get such cozy assistance from the official
who should have been the cop on the beat.

Investigators say Dochow, who reportedly earned $230,000 a year, allowed
IndyMac to register an $18 million capital injection it received in May in
a report describing the bank's financial condition in the end of March.

"They [IndyMac] were able to maintain their well-capitalized threshold and
continue to use broker deposits to make loans," said Marla Freedman, an
assistant Inspector General at Treasury. "Basically, while the institution
was having financial difficulty, it kept the public from knowing earlier
than it otherwise should have or would have."

In at least one instance, investigators say, banking regulators actually
approached the bank with the suggestion of falsifying deposit dates to
satisfy banking rules  even if it disguised the bank's health to the
public.

The federal government took over IndyMac in July, after the bank's stock
price plummeted to just pennies a share when it was revealed the bank had
financial troubles due to defaulted mortgages and subprime loans, costing
taxpayers over $9 billion.
Critics Point to Cozy Relationship Between Banks and Regulators

In order to backdate the filings, IndyMac sought and received permission
from Dochow, according to Freedman.

"That struck us as very unusual," said Freedman. "Typically transactions
are to be recorded in the period in which they occur, not afterwards. So it
was very unusual."

One former regulator says Dochow's actions illustrate the cozy relationship
between banks and government regulators.

"He did nothing to protect taxpayers in losses," former federal bank
regulator William Black told ABC News. "Instead of correcting it [Dochow]
made it worse by increasing the accounting fraud."

Meanwhile, IndyMac customers who lost their savings are demanding answers
and are further infuriated after learning Dochow was also the regulator in
1989 who oversaw the failed Lincoln Savings and Loan, a scandal that sent
its CEO Charles Keating to prison.

"He's the person that claimed that he looked into Charles Keating's eyes
and knew that Charles Keating was a good guy and therefore ignored all of
the professional staff that told him that Keating was a fraud, and he
produced the worst failure of the Savings and Loan Crisis at $3.4 billion.
Now he's managed more than triple that," said Black, now an economics
professor at the University of Missouri in Kansas City, Missouri.

Following the Lincoln scandal, Dochow was demoted and placed into a
relatively obscure office, but later, inexplicably was brought back into
the Office of Thrift Supervision.

Dochow declined to answer questions from ABC News.
IndyMac Customers Furious

After Ronnie Lopez was killed in Iraq, his mother Elaine invested the life
insurance proceeds at IndyMac. She lost $37,000 of it.

While Dochow could end up losing his job, neither he nor his colleagues are
expected to go to prison.

"This is criminal with the small 'c'," said Black. "No one within the
regulatory ranks may go to jail, but they have done the worst possible
disservice to the taxpayers of America." 




From maryrose333 at att.net  Thu Mar  5 17:54:47 2009
From: maryrose333 at att.net (mary rose)
Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 16:54:47 -0800
Subject: [GJM] FW: News from Peak Moment TV - March 2009
Message-ID: <005401c99df6$2923af90$7b6b0eb0$@net>

FYI.  Thanks to Janaia and Robyn for the incredible work they do in ethical reporting.  

 

From: Janaia & Robyn, Peak Moment TV [mailto:Janaia__Robyn_Peak_Moment_TV at mail.vresp.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, March 04, 2009 9:33 PM
To: maryrose333 at att.net
Subject: News from Peak Moment TV - March 2009

 

  <http://www.peakmoment.tv/newsletter/090301/images/newsletter_header_594w.jpg> 


Hello Mary,


 

An optimistic spirit buoyed America as 2009 dawned with the historic ascendancy of an African-American to the presidency. Beneath that shining light, however, the shadow of energy-driven economic and geopolitical troubles continues deepening. 

This week we were stunnned while listening to an  <http://cts.vresp.com/c/?PeakMomentTelevision/6917834b00/7ae2d7a73e/5de0ff3900> audio interview with Michael Panzner, author of  <http://cts.vresp.com/c/?PeakMomentTelevision/6917834b00/7ae2d7a73e/4ee984e344> When Giants Fall: An Economic Roadmap for the End of the American Era <http://cts.vresp.com/c/?PeakMomentTelevision/6917834b00/7ae2d7a73e/67e8c2d513> . As I wrote in my  <http://cts.vresp.com/c/?PeakMomentTelevision/6917834b00/7ae2d7a73e/ac1c7f662b/p=65> blog, "Panzner sketches a bigger picture colored with a succinct, packed set of wide-ranging observations of what?s swirling around us at this historic moment...My hope is that knowing what?s possible or likely to unfold will help us all prepare and adapt."

  <http://www.peakmoment.tv/newsletter/090301/images/pm138_150.jpg> In <http://cts.vresp.com/c/?PeakMomentTelevision/6917834b00/7ae2d7a73e/76bc9bc806/p=252>  "Twilight of an Age" Peak Moment guest John Michael Greer agrees that decline is here, cycling back around like declines of other civilizations. Author of  <http://cts.vresp.com/c/?PeakMomentTelevision/6917834b00/7ae2d7a73e/7d8272425a> The Long Descent, he puts his finger on our culture's prevailing myths of "Endless Progress" and "Catastrophe", myths cycling around from western religious roots. I appreciate his calm and well-reasoned blog  <http://cts.vresp.com/c/?PeakMomentTelevision/6917834b00/7ae2d7a73e/97de1444d4> The Archdruid Report, where he often weaves in intriguing angles and fresh perspectives. 

We may look back at the Crash of 2008 as a major inflection point in history. Like any revolutionary "Turning," the tiniest actions can ripple into big effects [think of the Boston Tea Party.] Hearteningly, we're seeing an upsurge of people springing into action -- helping family, neighbors and community to weather the downturn. 

  <http://www.peakmoment.tv/newsletter/090301/images/pm139_150.jpg> One movement garnering a lot of enthusiasm is called Transition Towns. In  <http://cts.vresp.com/c/?PeakMomentTelevision/6917834b00/7ae2d7a73e/9f471c20e5/p=254> "The Transition Movement Coming to America", Transition US co-founder Jennifer Gray shares highlights based on  <http://cts.vresp.com/c/?PeakMomentTelevision/6917834b00/7ae2d7a73e/13bd8d2ace> The Transition Handbook by UK founder Rob Hopkins, including a flexible twelve-step process to "bring the Head, Heart and Hands of communities together to make the transition to life beyond oil." 

 <http://cts.vresp.com/c/?PeakMomentTelevision/6917834b00/7ae2d7a73e/2d3840fe23> Post Carbon Institute's  <http://cts.vresp.com/c/?PeakMomentTelevision/6917834b00/7ae2d7a73e/fa80ad8425> Relocalization Network has just been folded into  <http://cts.vresp.com/c/?PeakMomentTelevision/6917834b00/7ae2d7a73e/122d8560b5> Transition US, whose site has links to Trainings in Transition nationwide. To connect with transitioners in your area, also visit their partner site  <http://cts.vresp.com/c/?PeakMomentTelevision/6917834b00/7ae2d7a73e/106012c552> TransitionUS.ning.com, a social networking community that's gathering a lot of enthusiastic members. 

Give some stimulus to Peak Moment in our  <http://cts.vresp.com/c/?PeakMomentTelevision/6917834b00/7ae2d7a73e/b496774c86> Bailout Sale with selected DVDs at half price through April 1 (no fooling!). We're holding the introductory price on  <http://cts.vresp.com/c/?PeakMomentTelevision/6917834b00/7ae2d7a73e/c3f935d6b4> Communities Preparing for Energy and Climate Change whose five presentations were put together with transitioners and relocalizers in mind.

We are grateful for your support, comments, program ideas, and contacts for our travels. In this winter season may you reconnect with what really matters~ 

Janaia and Robyn


Bailout Sale with selected DVDs at Half Price thru April 1 


David Korten's inspiring  <http://cts.vresp.com/c/?PeakMomentTelevision/6917834b00/7ae2d7a73e/65dae8997f> The Great Turning, Richard Heinberg's stunning  <http://cts.vresp.com/c/?PeakMomentTelevision/6917834b00/7ae2d7a73e/bcb5b58bd0> Peak Oil, Van Jones' vibrant vision of Green <http://cts.vresp.com/c/?PeakMomentTelevision/6917834b00/7ae2d7a73e/135074e9ba>  for All, and Guy Dauncey's  <http://cts.vresp.com/c/?PeakMomentTelevision/6917834b00/7ae2d7a73e/786ad62ea0> The Great Energy Revolution. Plus the first-ever  <http://cts.vresp.com/c/?PeakMomentTelevision/6917834b00/7ae2d7a73e/6d19d128ff> Relocalization Networking conference,  <http://cts.vresp.com/c/?PeakMomentTelevision/6917834b00/7ae2d7a73e/b3cfe656da> Come Home to Eat,and  <http://cts.vresp.com/c/?PeakMomentTelevision/6917834b00/7ae2d7a73e/993e6e4a44> Whatcha Gonna Drive.


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 <http://cts.vresp.com/c/?PeakMomentTelevision/6917834b00/7ae2d7a73e/3a566ec9cd>   <http://www.peakmoment.tv/newsletter/090301/images/commprep_170.jpg>  <http://cts.vresp.com/c/?PeakMomentTelevision/6917834b00/7ae2d7a73e/3a566ec9cd> Five presentations about  <http://cts.vresp.com/c/?PeakMomentTelevision/6917834b00/7ae2d7a73e/22c4330cb4> Communities Preparing for Energy and Climate Change summarize the problem of diminishing energy sources, and intelligent responses. Richard Heinberg (Peak Everything), Julian Darley (Communities Preparing), Daniel Lerch (Post Carbon Cities), Michael Brownlee (Relocalization), and Janaia (Peak Moment TV video clips). Perfect to share and discuss with your friends and community.

*	Bill Wilson's heartful big-picture Permaculture <http://cts.vresp.com/c/?PeakMomentTelevision/6917834b00/7ae2d7a73e/e13d547db2>  Perspective: Living in Authenticity During Energy Descent inspires wherever he goes. 

?     <http://cts.vresp.com/c/?PeakMomentTelevision/6917834b00/7ae2d7a73e/37786e652b> Preparing Traditional Nourishment, a 5-dvd cooking class with Shan Kendall, is based on nutrient-dense foods from traditional cultures worldwide, including fermented foods, bone stocks, healthy "sodas" and more.


On the Home Front 


  <http://www.peakmoment.tv/newsletter/090301/images/1799_snow_200.jpg> In this seasonal in-going time, we're reflecting on priorities and personal limits. We've rescheduled our cross-country taping trip to 2010, giving us time to find funding and finish preparing the mobile studio. 

Taping closer to home this coming season, we're aiming for more practical, how-to programs (upcoming: Creating a Home Graywater System). 

On our homestead we're bolstering our infrastructure with an additional water storage system here in wildfire country as we enter our third year of drought.

Like the  <http://cts.vresp.com/c/?PeakMomentTelevision/6917834b00/7ae2d7a73e/046624bc7a/p=60> acorns we gathered last fall, we're looking for a handful of $5-or $10-a-month contributors for our project base. You can contribute  <http://cts.vresp.com/c/?PeakMomentTelevision/6917834b00/7ae2d7a73e/e6ec94a4d9> online or contact us for direct deposits. 


We're grateful 


for comments from viewers -- from our conversation with Jennifer Gray: 

"Janaia, how beautiful it is to experience the power and beauty of womankind in many of your interviews...it is delightful to see how women like you and your guests
bring a special gentle light to the whole range of earth nurturing and life-preserving ideas and practices. It is almost like a flourishing of a holistic feminism, inspiring to all of us humans." 


Thanks for befriending Peak Moment TV ? Janaia and Robyn


Peak Moment TV is produced by Robyn Mallgren and Janaia Donaldson

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From maryrose333 at att.net  Fri Mar  6 12:24:45 2009
From: maryrose333 at att.net (mary rose)
Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 11:24:45 -0800
Subject: [GJM] FW: Mexico condemns US 'corruption'
Message-ID: <008c01c99e91$38e10f90$aaa32eb0$@net>

 

From: Nance ~ [mailto:planetnews8 at gmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2009 11:23 PM
Subject: Mexico condemns US 'corruption'

	

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2009/03/20093519328243356.html


Mexico condemns US 'corruption' 

	
	


 
<http://english.aljazeera.net/mritems/Images/2008/11/26/200811267626477734_5
.jpg> 


Calderon's crackdown on the cartels has 
Sparked a wave of violence [AFP]

The Mexican president has blamed US "corruption" for hampering his nation's
efforts to combat violent drug cartels.

Felipe Calderon also told the AFP news agency that the main cause of
Mexico's drug gang problems was "having the world's biggest consumer [of
drugs] next to us".

"Drug trafficking in the United States is fuelled by the phenomenon of
corruption on the part of the American authorities," he said on Wednesday.

The Mexican president launched a massive assault on drug cartels after
entering office in late 2006 but the cartels have responded with campaigns
of violence and intimidation that left 6,000 dead in 2008 alone and around
1,000 in 2009 so far.

Calderon acknowledged some Mexican officials had helped the cartels but said
the US should ask itself how many of its own officials were implicated.

"It is not an exclusively Mexican problem, it is a common problem between
Mexico and the United States," he said.

"I want to know how many American officials have been prosecuted for this
[corruption]."

Border concerns


  <http://english.aljazeera.net/mritems/Images/2008/4/27/1_246632_1_3.jpg> 


Mexico has deployed thousands of troops in
A bid to quell drugs violence [Reuters] 

Calderon, who has deployed more than 36,000 troops to the troubled Mexico-US
border regions to crack down on violence, also said that the US must halt
the flow of weapons into Mexico, where the police and security services are
often outgunned. 

But he said recent talks with Barack Obama, the US president, had provided
"a clearer, more decisive response, one which matches the magnitude of the
problem which we face," he said.

Mexican border cities, such as Ciudad Juarez have suffered the brunt of the
violence 
Prompting concerns in Washington that the killings and attacks could cross
over into the US.

On Wednesday at least 20 people were killed during a prison riot in the city
sparked by violence between rival gangs.

Mexican authorities have said they plan to have around 7,500 troops deployed
in Ciudad Juarez by the end of this week in a bid to quell the violence,
along with 2,000 in the rest of Chihuahua state.

Calderon's comments come as Admiral Mike Mullen, head of the US military, is
due to visit Mexico this week as the US is to step up military and other
assistance to Mexico in its battle against the cartels.

In February the US department of justice said US and Mexican authorities had
arrested 750 people over 21 months in an anti-drug sweep, including 52
members of Mexico's Sinaloa drug cartel.


		




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From maryrose333 at att.net  Fri Mar  6 12:44:18 2009
From: maryrose333 at att.net (mary rose)
Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 11:44:18 -0800
Subject: [GJM] FW: Incredible Western Paintings - Don't miss this
	outstanding view of the Old West.
Message-ID: <00a501c99e93$f1190660$d34b1320$@net>

 

This is magnificent, don't miss it.  

From: BOB TAFT [mailto:rbtaft at rtconnect.net] 
Sent: Friday, March 06, 2009 9:55 AM
To: Undisclosed-Recipient:;
Subject: Fw: Western Paintings

 

Everyone could use a bit of culture now and then.


Best regards,
Bob Taft
The Taft Ranch
Upton, Wyoming 
(307) 465-2206
http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/archive.cgi?read=74897
" There are three kinds of men: The ones 
that learn by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them
have to 
pee on the electric fence and find out for 
themselves".  Will Rogers

 

 

 

From: MichiMac <mailto:minerva24 at dnet.net>  

Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2009 9:30 PM

To: Undisclosed-Recipient:;

Subject: Western Paintings

 


 


I hope you enjoy this as much as I did.  Close your door, turn off all the
distractions,

like the phone, T. V., radio, or what ever worldly noise that surrounds you
and

let yourself be absorbed into the images and the music.  This is a great
stress reliever. 

 


 Sit back, relax and enjoy!!!! 

A gift from a friend:  

 <http://www.greatdanepro.com/Western%20Paintings/index.htm> Click here:
Western Paintings 

There should be an admission fee just to view these classics.  

 The artist had to live the life in order to paint these.

 

 







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From maryrose333 at att.net  Fri Mar  6 13:04:01 2009
From: maryrose333 at att.net (mary rose)
Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 12:04:01 -0800
Subject: [GJM] FW: [globalnetnews-summary] Billions for AIG to Protect the
	Speculative Profits of Goldman Sachs/Morgan Stanley
Message-ID: <00b801c99e96$b4bb0c10$1e312430$@net>

 

 

From: BOB TAFT [mailto:rbtaft at rtconnect.net] 
Sent: Friday, March 06, 2009 9:20 AM
To: Undisclosed-Recipient:;
Subject: Fw: [globalnetnews-summary] Billions for AIG to Protect the
Speculative Profits of Goldman Sachs/Morgan Stanley

 

This should be considered as treasonous as the fraudulent futures trading of
one's national currency.

 

Every time I see mention of K Street I am reminded of the old whore house
district in Rock Springs, Wyoming.  Must be some similarity.


Best regards,
Bob Taft
The Taft Ranch
Upton, Wyoming 
(307) 465-2206
http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/archive.cgi?read=74897
" There are three kinds of men: The ones 
that learn by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them
have to 
pee on the electric fence and find out for 
themselves".  Will Rogers

 

 

 

From: Phyllis <mailto:phyllis at potc.net>  

Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2009 5:40 PM

To: Undisclosed-Recipient:;

Subject: Fw: [globalnetnews-summary] Billions for AIG to Protect the
Speculative Profits of Goldman Sachs/Morgan Stanley

 

 

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From: TradingPostPaul <mailto:tradingpost at riseup.net>  

To: globalnetnews-summary at lists.riseup.net 

Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2009 2:28 PM

Subject: [globalnetnews-summary] Billions for AIG to Protect the Speculative
Profits of Goldman Sachs/Morgan Stanley

 


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March 5, 2009 | 09:48 AM (EST)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/raymond-j-learsy/billions-for-aig-to-prote_b_1
72102.html
Billions for AIG to Protect the Speculative Profits of Goldman Sachs/Morgan
Stanley


The dysfunction of our financial institutions is almost beyond belief.

In November of 2008 with the nation's economy unraveling, Morgan Stanley
and Goldman Sachs (one of the top five U.S. municipal bond underwriters)
were infuriating politicians and public finance officials by recommending
the purchase of credit-default swaps (CDS) thereby betting against debts of
eleven states, including New Jersey, California, Wisconsin, Florida, and
Ohio among others. Many of these were municipal bonds that they had
originally underwritten. Thereby, through an act of blatant opportunism
they were adding to the destabilization of the financial markets already at
the edge.

CDS are in effect insurance policies. Insurance policies are normally taken
out to cover loss against the occurrence of an event such as fire, or
flood, or accident, and so on. But CDS, rather than being called
"insurance," became, in the parlance of the Street, "derivatives," making
them much more elegant to deal with and for the rest of us much more
difficult to understand. They were, in this case, simply insurance bets on
the bankruptcy or inability of municipalities throughout the country to
meet their debt obligations. A bit like taking out insurance against fire
on the house next door and having a lottery on the proceeds should it burn
down.

Now to buy "insurance" one would naturally go to an insurance company to
cover the risk. And the insurance company would sell you an insurance
policy and would set an amount on their balance sheet that would represent
a reserve against the potential loss/payout. An insurance company likely to
write a policy covering this would be AIG. After all, AIG had become the
king of CDS. In all likelihood this was the case for the likes of Goldman
and Morgan-Stanley.

Except it gets worse. You see, in the mumbo-jumbo of the term
"credit-default swaps," the word "insurance" is not mentioned. And
according to the good souls at AIG, if you don't use the word insurance,
you don't have to set aside any reserves in case of loss. And if you don't
set aside any reserves, you can issue all the CDS the market can bear
(understood to be in the range of $400 billion at AIG), cash in the policy
premiums as a humongous supplement to your usual insurance business,
allowing for zillions in paychecks and bonuses. And of course, if it all
comes crashing down you can put up the "systemic risk" flag and your Wall
Street friends in Washington will charge to the rescue with taxpayer
dollars. (What did Goldman CEO Lloyd Blankfein say to Treasury Secretary
and ex-Goldman CEO Hank Paulson when he was party to the discussions on the
first AIG bailout, or as Bloomberg reported yesterday, is this also part of
the government's refusal "to disclose names of the borrowers and the
loans"?.

During his testimony this week, Fed Chairman Bernanke felt compelled to
say, and I quote:

    "AIG exploited a huge gap in the regulatory system; there was no
oversight of the financial products division. This was a hedge fund
basically that was attached to a large and stable insurance company, made
huge numbers of irresponsible bets, took huge losses"

One knows the folks at Goldman are no fools. Were they going to put good
money down for CDS that their counterparty (AIG) might not be able to honor
because it made no reserve provisions? Or was the temptation of another big
pay day just too tempting not to risk Other People's Money to play the
game?

To date we have poured $160 billion into AIG -- this while others see the
value of their homes cut in half, the better part of their 401(k)s wiped
out, their government services significantly reduced, and other lending
institutions diligently try to work out past due credits, taking
significant mark-downs and extending due dates to keep industries and
corporations alive.

This, as Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley are being covered 100 cents on
the dollar on their speculative positions of intrinsically flawed CDS
derivatives on which they gorged themselves to the bursting point. It is
past time that a distinction be made between that part of AIG's business
that was a "large and stable insurance company," and that part that was a
"hedge fund," or better put, a casino. So the big question becomes, why
should AIG's CDS be paid down 100 cents on the dollar when the rest of the
country is taking at or near 50% haircut on the value of its assets?

But then again the rest of the country doesn't have those well-oiled K
Street lobbyists pursuing their special interests in Washington. They just
vote and pay.

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From: maryrose333 at att.net (mary rose)
Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 12:05:31 -0800
Subject: [GJM] FW: SPEAK OUT FOR CHIMPS! WATCH OUR NEW UNDERCOVER VIDEO,
	THEN TAKE ACTION TODAY.
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out and help chimpanzees in research get
the sanctuary they deserve. Watch our video and take action.
<http://ga3.org/ct/aprffIp1zYp1/> Dear Friend,

Last night, ABC News: Nightline broke the story of more than 300 chimpanzees
languishing at one of the world's largest primate research facilities.

The report featured video footage gathered by The Humane Society of the
United States during a nine-month undercover investigation at the New Iberia
Research Center in Louisiana -- and showed the routine and possibly unlawful
treatment of hundreds of chimpanzees and monkeys.

Each animal's suffering detailed in the report was wrenching, but the story
of 26 elder chimps currently warehoused at the facility was particularly
poignant.

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yourself.

These 26 chimps were taken from their mothers in the wild, and have since
lived a life behind bars. The oldest, Karen, was captured in 1958, when
Dwight D. Eisenhower was still president.

Please help end invasive research on these chimps and give them the
sanctuary they deserve.  <http://ga3.org/ct/aprffIp1zYp1/> Urge your U.S.
Representative to support the Great Ape Protection Act.

The Great Ape Protection Act was re-introduced in the House of
Representatives today, on the heels of our undercover investigation. This
legislation would phase out invasive research on the more than 1,000
chimpanzees remaining in U.S. laboratories, and lay the groundwork for
permanent retirement of the approximately 500 chimpanzees owned by the
federal government, including Karen and other chimps at the New Iberia
Research Center.

TAKE ACTION
Please make a brief phone call to your U.S. Representative.
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number. When you call, you'll likely speak to a staff member who can take
your message. Remember to be polite and professional, and leave your name
and where you live so it's clear that you are a constituent. When you call,
you can say:

"Hello, my name is [your name]. I'm a constituent in [your town]. Last
night, ABC News: Nightline aired a report of chimpanzees at the New Iberia
Research Center in Louisiana. I'm calling to ask [Representative's name] to
please co-sponsor the Towns-Reichert Great Ape Protection Act, to stop this
cruelty and to save taxpayers millions of dollars. Thank you."

We expect that Congress will receive a huge outpour of calls on this issue.
If you aren't able to get through, please keep trying. After you make your
call,  <http://ga3.org/ct/aprffIp1zYp1/> send a follow up message and
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help, too. 

Thank you for speaking out for chimps held in research. They deserve better
than a life of torment and misery. Together, we can make a difference for
these amazing creatures. 

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From maryrose333 at att.net  Fri Mar  6 13:09:23 2009
From: maryrose333 at att.net (mary rose)
Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 12:09:23 -0800
Subject: [GJM] FW: GOOD NEWS!! Citizens Win Huge Supreme Court Victory over
	Big Pharma and the FDA
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Citizens Win Huge Supreme Court Victory over Big Pharma and the FDA


Thursday, March 05, 2009 



Byron Richards, CCN



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In a stunning and unexpected 6-3 ruling the right-leaning Supreme Court went
against the wishes of the last president, took the wind out of the sails of
health care reform of the current president, sent irresponsible Big Pharma a
major wake up call, and bluntly told the arrogant FDA that they are indeed
not above the rule of law.  It is a major victory for every American
citizen. 

Central to the issue is a power a struggle between the federal government
and states, which in this situation meant the federal government authority
to pre-empt your state rights to sue if you are injured by a drug.  The FDA,
acting on behalf of the Bush administration and on the side of Big Pharma,
has helped tie up thousands of drug injury lawsuits across the country.  The
FDA, who is supposed to be protecting consumers from drug injury and
ensuring a correct risk/safety picture for any person taking a drug, was
instead trying to shirk their responsibility and simply claim that Americans
had no right to sue. 

This convoluted attempt by the FDA to undermine consumer safety was one of
the main themes in my 2006 book, Fight for
<http://www.wellnessresources.com/Books/fight_for_your_health.php>  Your
Health: Exposing the FDA's Betrayal of America.  The Bush Administration had
intentionally appointed anti-safety people in high positions within the FDA,
starting with its Chief Counsel, Daniel Troy (and continued as a legal
philosophy after Troy was forced out for his Big Pharma connections).  Troy
set in motion the legal problem the Supreme Court just decided. 

During the final years of the Bush administration cancer industry insider
Andrew von Eschenbach, MD, was appointed to run the FDA, and Wall Street
insider, Scott Gottlieb, MD, was second in command.  These individuals
sought to fully implement the FDA label as senior to any rights of citizens.
Their intention was to make sure that new biotech drugs would be protected
from lawsuits, as the FDA wanted to speed new and even more dangerous drugs
onto the market so as to foster the development of the biotech industry.  In
essence, the FDA management wanted to turn the American public into one
large clinical experiment, with no right of recourse when injured. 

This was occurring against a backdrop wherein the FDA couldn't even name all
the drugs currently on the market, had failed to demand required aftermarket
follow up safety testing on drugs, and had intentionally withheld safety
information on existing drugs from the public.  The current situation with
drugs is that almost no drug, even blockbusters and those in use for
decades, have an accurate risk/benefit profile. 

Americans who use medications are already taking risks of unknown magnitude,
which is a main reason over 100,000 Americans are killed every year and over
3 million are injured so seriously they need hospital care (ironically, over
half those injuries occur while already in the hospital). 

The FDA knows full well that when a drug is approved for the market the full
extent of the side effects won't be known for years.  History shows us time
and again that Big Pharma actively hides risk data from the FDA and pays for
"science" that distorts reality.  This irresponsible behavior goes along
with closed-door negotiations with the FDA, and has resulted in numerous
drug disasters like Vioxx.  FDA managers oftentimes go against the wishes of
their own safety scientists and then move on to six figure salaries in the
industry they regulate.  Doctors are not apprised of the actual risks and
consumers are in the dark.  

Currently, there are 450,000 additional new cases of heart failure every
year in Americans over 65, a fact that parallels the increased use of
heart-weakening statins in this older group.  It is only a matter of time
before the shoe drops on the 20-billion-dollar-a-year statin industry. 

The FDA insistence that a drug label, based on what is known at the time of
approval, should supersede citizen's states rights to sue if they were
injured, has almost nothing to do with consumer safety.  Rather, it is a
federal power grab that is in the best financial interests of Big Pharma and
Big Biotech, industries that do not have consumer safety as their top
priority. 

By the way, don't think President Obama is on the side of the citizens.  In
the health care section of the stimulus bill, there is specific pre-emption
language.  If the federal government is in charge of health care it will be
named in future lawsuits when patients are injured from the care it doles
out or doesn't allow.  

The current Supreme Court ruling will undermine any system of federal health
care wherein the drugs being used are injuring people.  Experts believe this
system is so badly broken, due to gross FDA management incompetence, that it
will take 10 years of studies and many billions of dollars just to
understand the actual risks of the drugs Americans are already taking. 

In writing for the majority, Justice John Paul Stevens put Big Pharma on
notice.  The defendant in this case, Wyeth, had argued that it could not
comply with both federal and state law.  Stevens told them they had a
fundamental misunderstanding of regulation and were trying to hide behind
the FDA, going on to say that it is a central premise of federal drug
regulation that the manufacturer bears responsibility for the content of its
label at all times.  That is not the news Big Pharma wanted to hear. 

Stevens went on to write that there was no merit in the argument that the
FDA's labeling decisions could supersede state law, saying that this
argument was "an untenable interpretation of congressional intent and an
overbroad view of an agency's power to pre-empt state law." He pointed out
that the FDA tried to push this on the public without any opportunity for
comment from the public or from states, all done against a backdrop wherein
the FDA is not able to keep up with safety issues in the first place,
meaning that the FDA position lacked "thoroughness, consistency and
persuasiveness." Stevens stated that under such lacking standards the Bush
position "is entitled to no weight." 

This is a major victory for all Americans and for states.  While the case
itself is on the topic of Big Pharma and the FDA, the ruling is sweeping in
nature and will extend far beyond prescription drugs.  States have just been
handed a major legal ruling against the ever-growing incursion of federal
power. 

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From: maryrose333 at att.net (mary rose)
Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 12:12:23 -0800
Subject: [GJM] FW: Armor-plated vehicles rise as U.S.-Mexico border violence
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Methinks those buying these expensive armored cars are the drug dealers
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Armor-plated vehicles rise as U.S.-Mexico border violence escalates

 

SAN ANTONIO (AP) - The drug violence in Mexico has gotten so bad that
booming numbers of Mexican and American professionals are having their cars
fitted with armor plates, bulletproof glass and James Bond-style gadgets
such as electrified door handles and push-button smokescreens.

Until recently, it was mostly movie stars, business moguls and politicians
who took such precautions. But now, industry officials say, the customers
include factory owners, doctors, newspaper publishers and others who have
business on both sides of the border and fear killings, kidnappings and
carjackings by drug dealers or people in their debt.

MEXICO: Forces bolstered in drug wars
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The customers "don't have to be very big," said Mark Burton, CEO of
International Armoring Corp. Of Ogden, Utah. "This becomes almost a
necessity."

One San Antonio company said it expects a 50% increase in business this
year.

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The modifications typically cost $80,000 to $100,000, and they are being
done not just on limousines, but on Toyotas, Hondas, pickups and SUVs.

"I feel we need to be in a cocoon that is impenetrable," said a businessman
who runs factories in Texas and Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, and has gotten two
Chevrolet Suburbans armored since October 2007. He spoke on condition of
anonymity, saying he fears for his family's safety after one of his sons was
the victim of a kidnapping attempt.

The war between Mexican authorities and the country's cocaine, marijuana and
methamphetamine cartels has killed 1,000 people so far this year. Last year,
Juarez alone had more than 1,100 slayings. The cartels have killed police,
military officers and civilians from Cancun to Tijuana as they battle for
control of drug-trafficking corridors.

Customers get not only armor plating but tires that will run when flat and
bulletproof glass, which bursts into a spider web pattern but won't break,
even when shot with an AR-15 assault rifle, a weapon of choice among drug
smugglers.

Other customers buy a package that will turn a Ford F-150 pickup or SUV into
something out of a Batman movie: A button releases a cloud of white smoke
for escaping a pursuing car. If the assailant makes it through that, the
driver can release spikes to flatten the pursuer's tires. And finally, if
the attacker makes it to the car, electrified door handles can give him a
non-lethal jolt.

Jorge Valencia, who has been working in the security business in Mexico for
most of the past two decades, said his company bought its first armor-plated
car in the mid-1990s, but it was mostly for politicians, and mostly out of
an abundance of caution.

Nowadays, the danger is far greater, he said, noting that many kidnappings
are happening in public places.

"The main streets in Ciudad Juarez have assassinations in the middle of the
day," said Valencia, who did not want his company's name to be used for fear
of putting his clients in jeopardy.

Companies that install bulletproofing - or "blindaje" in Spanish - have been
doing a booming business in Mexico, too. But some businessmen, like the
Juarez factory owner, who lives in the United States, are convinced the
armoring is better in the U.S.

Under a 2004 regulation, U.S. Companies need an export license from the
Commerce Department to ship a car that has been armored out of the country.
The rule is aimed at preventing drug dealers and other criminals from
acquiring such vehicles.

Before the rule, Trent Kimball, CEO of San Antonio-based Texas Armoring
Corp., put armor plating on vehicles for a customer who claimed to be a
rancher. Kimball later found himself testifying at the customer's
drug-trafficking trial.

Texas Armoring, which started in the 1970s armoring limousines and other
vehicles for world leaders, did about 100 cars last year and expects to
complete 150 this year, Kimball said.

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Border Violence Threatens Mexico's Outsourcing Industry 


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Mexico sends troops to border city in bid to control drug violence


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Mexico border violence could disrupt Spring Break plans for UW-Platteville
students.


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Yoo and The Subversion of Liberty Narrowly Averted
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/03/04-9
by Naomi Wolf
Published on Wednesday, March 4, 2009 by Huffington Post

If history gets this recent era right, future textbooks will have to show
that the US narrowly averted a carefully planned but thorough and
unmistakable conspiracy to subvert the rule of law and the process of
democracy from 2001-2008. For three years, since writing End of America, I
have been arguing that the Bush team sought irretrievably to subvert our
liberty. Fortunately, this appalling and conceivably irrevocable subversion
of the tenets of freedom was narrowly averted by citizens at every level --
from the grassroots to the courts -- resisting in time. But the release
this week by the Justice Department of the "secret memos" sought valiantly
by the ACLU confirms that Bush's legal architects were building up the
framework for something even scarier than our most anguished projections.

You can see the documents themselves online -- but, as usual, there is a
gap between the cautious journalistic interpretation of the event and the
dense legalese in which they are written, and no one yet has really
explained to citizens who are not attorneys what these memos claimed to
give Bush the right to do. This is my initial reading of these documents:

Most dramatically, one memo asserts that Bush can deploy the military
within the United States -- all of the military if he so wishes --
overriding Posse Comitatus, which has kept us safe from military policing
for over a century. As many heard me warn in October and November of last
year, when the first troops were sent to US streets, history shows that
once the military is deployed domestically to "keep order" in a civil
society, it is over. This memo is especially galling, since last fall's red
alert from us was met with alarm by citizens but by ridicule by mainstream
media outlets. Turns out we were right. This `deployment' memo proves that
Bush indeed, as we feared, wanted the power to deploy military for domestic
policing purposes, a mission that Northcom spokesmen denied -- apparently
falsely -- when a few critics from non-mainstream platforms raised the
alarm last November about the deployment of the First Brigade from Iraq to
the US. This memo shows that Bush sought the power to deploy any number of
U.S. military into the U.S. itself for any reason he chose; direct them to
rip through your home without a warrant, even if you have not been charged
with anything; seize material and documents; and even gave Bush the power
to use deadly force against you -- yes, you, innocent US citizen -- "in
self-defense." In your homes and streets -- not on a faraway battlefield.
Major David Antoon confirmed that this power -- to send US military to
control, arrest and even shoot US civilians in self-defense -- was in
Bush's hands last fall when I asked Antoon about it. Turns out this memo
shows Bush indeed wanted to have that power.

Another memo would give the power to Bush -- at his discretion -- to close
down or censor newspapers, radio and the Internet - override the First
Amendment in the interest of "national security." So if he had deployed,
say, ten brigades -- 37,000 warriors -- in key cities (he deployed three
before the election and 20,000 are due to be deployed domestically by 2012
unless we stop it), you would not be able to hear about it through the news
media if he invoked this power to suspend free speech. And if you protested
-- if you dared -- well, his actions would have been -- thanks to John Yoo
and others, who will go down in history along with the criminal Nuremberg
lawyers as one of Satan's willing attorneys -- perfectly legal.

Yet another memo gives Bush not only the right to call any US citizen an
"enemy combatant" and hold him or her indefinitely - a danger we knew
about, and one that we have tried hard to alert citizens to, a warning that
has seemingly penetrated collective consciousness. The newly released memo
demonstrates that was the very surface of the powers over US citizens Bush
claimed. For three years when I have cautioned citizens about this power
Bush invoked to seize US citizens as "enemy combatants" I reassured them
that he did not yet have the power to torture US citizens, "only" drive
them mad through prolonged isolation in a navy brig. Well, this memo
asserts Bush's right to do whatever he wants to innocent US citizens in
this kind of custody, and rejects the notion that Congress would have any
role in how US citizens are held or treated -- say, by the hypothetically
deployed military - on US soil. It seems also to claim the right to hold
innocent US citizens in domestic military custody while Bush has the right
to do anything he wants to them. Anything he wants. Remember this is an
administration in which Bush, Rice, Rumsfeld and Cheney have now been
proven by Jameel Jaffer's revelations in Administration of Torture to have
known about and okay'd not just waterboarding as a policy but ok'd the
discretion for interrogators to use tactics such as electrodes attached to
genitals, sexual assault, threats against family members, suffocation, the
beating of prisoners' legs to "pulp," and in some cases the covering up of
their murders. This memo gives Bush the authority to do those things if he
wants to innocent US citizens.

Still another memo gives Bush the right to ignore any international
treaties -- to take over any country, say, or render and citizen anywhere,
and do whatever he wants to the citizens of any country against any law,
without consent of Congress.

The Washington Post called these memos "legal errors." We need to stare
them in the face and understand them: they are evidence that the groundwork
was laid out that gave the president the legal power effectively subvert
the Republic. We need to understand the full darkness of what we narrowly
escaped -- for now, our work is hardly begun. We need to build these
lessons into our history and to use the terror they represent to dismantle
the last of Bush's evil legacy -- a legacy that could have been activated
by any US president in the future, including Obama or McCain -- and see
these memos for what they are: the revealed architecture of an intended
edifice of what amounts to treason again our republic and against all of
us, regardless of belief, station of life, or political party.




From maryrose333 at att.net  Sat Mar  7 11:00:30 2009
From: maryrose333 at att.net (mary rose)
Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2009 10:00:30 -0800
Subject: [GJM] URGENT - URGENT FW: Breaking News! Pandemc Alert! "Accident"
	contaminates vaccines with Avian Flu - please open!
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MMD (media of mass deception) appears to have a blackout placed on this
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World media are reporting that Baxter Pharmaceuticals has admitted that it
"accidentally" contaminated various vaccine batches with Avian Flu viruses.
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From: maryrose333 at att.net (mary rose)
Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2009 10:14:49 -0800
Subject: [GJM] FW: [globalnetnews-summary] 1/3 Of America Is Crazy: They
	Think Their Jobs Are Safe
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http://www.alternet.org/workplace/130154/1_3_of_america_is_crazy%3A_they_thi
nk_their_jobs_are_safe/?page=entire


1/3 Of America Is Crazy: They Think Their Jobs Are Safe
http://www.alternet.org/workplace/130154/1_3_of_america_is_crazy%3A_they_thi
nk_their_jobs_are_safe/?page=entire
By Jill Andresky Fraser, Tomdispatch.com. Posted March 5, 2009.

Thinking about this optimistic third of Americans, it's hard not to reach
one basic conclusion: They're nuts. 

According to a recently released AP-GfK poll, 32% of Americans are crazy.




From maryrose333 at att.net  Sat Mar  7 11:23:24 2009
From: maryrose333 at att.net (mary rose)
Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2009 10:23:24 -0800
Subject: [GJM] FW: [globalnetnews-summary] Employers resorting to bigger
	layoffs to survive recession and there's no relief in sight
Message-ID: <00c601c99f51$d0ca5c60$725f1520$@net>

If this and the last message I forwarded re: the job market don't motivate
you to begin raising your own food whether in pots in your house where it is
winter, or in pots on your patio, in your own yard, in vacant lots or
wherever a seed might be sown, then you are IMHO in complete denial of how
deep this crisis is and where it is going. Maybe you are crazy. 

And, if your community has not set up a local currency then you damn well
better get on the ball NOW! 

We-the-people can weather this storm if we take precautions and organize
effectively. Don't look to the government to take care of you -- it can't --
the magnitude of the problem is too great. m r    

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Employers resorting to bigger layoffs to survive recession and there's no
relief in sight
http://www.startribune.com/business/40775167.html?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUoaEyqy

P4O:DW3ckUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUUX

By JEANNINE AVERSA , Associated Press

Last update: March 6, 2009 - 12:44 AM

WASHINGTON - Cost-cutting employers are resorting to even bigger layoffs as
they scramble to survive the recession, feeding insecurities among those
who still have jobs and those who desperately want them.

The Labor Department on Friday is slated to release a report expected to
show that February was an especially cruel month for America's workers.

Employers likely slashed a net total of 648,000 jobs last month, according
to economists' forecasts. If they are right, it would mark the worst month
of job losses since the recession started in December 2007. It also would
represent the single biggest month of job reductions since October 1949,
when the country was just pulling out of a painful recession, although the
labor force has grown significantly since then.

"The pace of layoffs is fast and furious," said Stuart Hoffman, chief
economist at PNC Financial Services Group. "We're still in the teeth of
this recession and the bite has not let up at all."

With employers slashing payrolls, the nation's unemployment rate is
expected to jump to 7.9 percent, from 7.6 percent in January. If that
happens, it would mark the highest jobless rate since reaching 8 percent in
January 1984, a time when the unemployment rate was still slowly moving
down after having topped 10 percent during the early 1980s recession.

Employers are shrinking their work forces at alarming clip and are turning
to other ways to slash costs - including trimming workers' hours,
freezing wages or cutting pay - because the recession has eaten into
their sales and profits. Customers at home and abroad are cutting back as
other countries cope with their own economic problems.

A new wave of layoffs hit this week.

General Dynamics Corp. said Thursday it will lay off 1,200 workers due
partly to plummeting sales of business and personal jets that forced it to
cut production. Defense contractor Northrop Grumman Corp., and Tyco
Electronics Ltd., which makes electronic components, undersea
telecommunications systems and wireless equipment, also are trimming
payrolls.

"This is basically cleaning house for a lot of firms," said John Silvia,
chief economist at Wachovia. "They are using the first quarter to cut back
employment and figure out what they want."

Disappearing jobs and evaporating wealth from tanking home values, 401(k)s
and other investments have forced consumers to retrench, driving companies
to lay off workers. It's a vicious cycle in which all the economy's
negative problems feed on each other, worsening the downward spiral.

"The economy is in a tailspin. Businesses are jettisoning jobs at an
unprecedented pace," said Richard Yamarone, economist at Argus Research.

Some 3.6 million jobs have disappeared so far in a deepening recession,
which is shaping up as the biggest job killer in the post-World War II
period.

The country is getting bloodied by fallout from the housing, credit and
financial crises_ the worst since the 1930s. And there's no easy fix for a
quick turnaround, economists said.

President Barack Obama is counting on a multipronged assault to lift the
country out of recession: a $787 billion stimulus package of increased
federal spending and tax cuts; a revamped, multibillion-dollar bailout
program for the nation's troubled banks; and a $75 billion effort to stem
home foreclosures.

Even in the best-case scenario that the relief efforts work and the
recession ends later in 2009, the unemployment rate is expected to keep
climbing, hitting 9 percent or higher this year. In fact, the Federal
Reserve thinks the unemployment rate will stay elevated into 2011.
Economists say the job market may not get back to normal - meaning a 5
percent unemployment rate - until 2013.

Businesses won't be inclined to ramp up hiring until they are sure any
economic recovery has staying power.

The economy contracted at a staggering 6.2 percent in the final three
months of 2008, the worst showing in a quarter-century, and it will
probably continue to shrink during the first six months of this year.

Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke told Congress earlier this week that recent
economic barometers "show little sign of improvement" and suggest that
"labor market conditions may have worsened further in recent weeks."
		 




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From: maryrose333 at att.net (mary rose)
Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2009 10:28:07 -0800
Subject: [GJM] FW: [globalnetnews-summary] Habitat for Humanity shops thrive
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http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2008824529_habitatstores07

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Habitat for Humanity shops thrive

By SUSAN GALLAGHER

The Associated Press

HELENA, Mont. - Jim Ferguson shops at Helena's Habitat for Humanity store
to find inexpensive items that will improve the house he rents and hopes to
buy.

On one recent trip, Ferguson paid 50 cents for a secondhand glass
lampshade. He figured a retailer would have sold it, new, for $8.

"There are little goodies here at tremendous prices," he said in the
home-improvement store occupying a 19th-century railroad warehouse with
stone walls.

Donated sinks, countertops, wood trim, ceramic tile, windows and hard hats
are part of the new and used inventory at this store, one of about 550
operated by Habitat for Humanity affiliates throughout the U.S.

Supporting mission

Sales help support the organization's mission of building modest houses
that families in need then buy at favorable terms.

A Habitat for Humanity Home Improvement Outlet opened last year at 21 S.
Nevada St., in the Sodo neighborhood of Seattle. There are 10 others in
Washington state.

People looking to save money during the recession are boosting sales at the
stores. On the flip side, some stores are struggling to keep shelves
stocked as demand rises and donations slip.

Fewer homeowners are doing the kind of improvement projects that generate
donations, and declines in home building have reduced the supply of
materials left over from construction jobs.

"The person who was taking out their $4,500 or $5,000 cherry cabinet set,
(donating it) and replacing it with a $10,000 set is not doing that now,"
said Terry Assad, manager of Habitat stores in Charlotte, N.C. "People are
hanging on to stuff."

"Some softness" in donations

Kevin Campbell, director of building industry relations for Habitat for
Humanity International in Apex, N.C., said there have been reports of "some
softness" in donations, but "I don't think anybody's panicking that they'll
have customers and nothing to sell them."

Sometimes businesses that close send their remaining inventory to Habitat
stores. Then there are businesses that routinely donate merchandise to get
it off their sales floors, items a Habitat store typically will price 50
percent below retail.

"They close something out, they quit selling a certain model," said John
Alexander, Habitat executive in Waco, Texas, where 15 percent of the
Habitat budget comes from a store built on a former used-car lot. Among
other things, shoppers find concrete pavers and blocks that a local
producer provides by the pallet.

An appeal for goods to help stock Helena's ReStore, a name used by many of
the outlets around the country, recently appeared in the Sunday bulletin at
a church here. "Look around your home to see what you might donate,"
parishioners were advised.

"Things are sold as fast as they come in," said Melony Bruhn, executive
director of Helena Area Habitat for Humanity. The ReStore's stock of
interior doors is particularly low, as are supplies of lumber, fasteners
and cabinets.

Voluntary reporting by about 70 percent of the Habitat affiliates in the
United States indicates that store sales rose 25 percent from 2007 to 2008,
and that annual sales exceed $200 million, more than $80 million of it
available for building houses, said Campbell, the Habitat liaison with the
building industry.

Stores' expenses include personnel, often just one paid employee at a small
outlet but larger staffs at stores the size of supermarkets. Retirees who
volunteer, college students engaged in community service and people under
court orders to do community work help the stores operate with skinny
payrolls.

Advertising push

In the Denver area, Habitat has begun advertising for donations "to get the
word out that we need them, that this is a great place to make a donation
and instead of putting material into the landfill you are putting it to
use," said Heather Lafferty, executive director for Habitat for Humanity of
Metro Denver.

Sales are strong, but declining donations are particularly noticeable in
appliances.

"In the past we may have had 100 ovens and now we're down to four or five,"
Lafferty said.

The Habitat affiliate operates a Habitat Home Improvement Outlet in
suburban Wheat Ridge as well as in Denver, and dispatches people to
remodeling projects where they salvage pipes, windows and other things to
sell in the stores.

"We see long-term positive growth in ReStores," Campbell said. "There's a
lot of potential out there that hasn't been tapped," and he believes it's
not just among bargain hunters.

"Green awareness is much stronger," Campbell said. "People are thinking
more of reuse than buying new."

For-profit recyclers of fixtures and building materials have long been
popular with renovators in urban areas and have been featured on "This Old
House," the PBS home-improvement show.

In Helena, Ferguson bought the 50-cent lampshade at a checkout counter with
a house-shaped box for coin donations to Habitat and a wall sign that
warns, "Please measure before you buy!" The retired truck driver said his
purchases have included mirrors, flooring and covers for electrical
outlets.

"I come in here two or three times a month just to see what they've got
new," Ferguson said.




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From: maryrose333 at att.net (mary rose)
Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2009 10:33:58 -0800
Subject: [GJM] FW: [globalnetnews-summary] China crisis as economy crumbles
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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/china-crisis-as-economy-crumble

s-1638516.html
China crisis as economy crumbles

An 8 per cent growth rate sounds impressive, but the Beijing leadership
fears social unrest in the countryside as it struggles to create jobs

By Clifford Coonan in Beijing

Friday, 6 March 2009

With China facing its worst financial crisis in a century, Premier Wen
Jiabao assured comrades that the economy would still grow by 8 per cent
this year, the level that the Communist Party believes is necessary to hold
down the jobless rate and stave off wider social unrest.

"We are facing unprecedented difficulties and challenges," Mr Wen told
nearly 3,000 delegates assembled in the Great Hall of the People. "In
projecting the economic growth target of about 8 per cent, we have taken
into consideration both our need and ability to sustain growth."

Until growth slowed to 9 per cent last year, China had enjoyed double-digit
expansion for the previous five years. The government's prediction for this
year was more optimistic than that of the International Monetary Fund,
which has forecast growth of just 6.7 per cent for China. But Communist
Party officials said 8 per cent growth was the make-or-break threshold for
keeping the population satisfied and making sure that China does not fall
victim to widespread rural unrest.
Related articles

    * Clifford Coonan: Beijing looks close to home for answer to global
meltdown

"Maintaining a certain growth rate for the economy is essential for
expanding employment for both urban and rural residents, increasing
people's incomes and ensuring social stability," Mr Wen said in a two-hour
address.

China's economy is the third-largest after Japan and the US and will play a
pivotal role in helping drag the global economy out of its downturn. But,
to the chagrin of the markets which had been hoping for another shot in the
arm, Mr Wen failed to announce any extension to the four trillion yuan
(?414bn) stimulus package unveiled in November.

He did provide extra details fleshing out that stimulus package ? the
biggest in the world. The central government would increase spending on
healthcare and other social welfare programmes, and bring in measures to
spur domestic demand and get consumers spending, including subsidies for
farmers to buy fridges and cars.

It would also take further steps to offset the rising number of unemployed,
victims of a slump in the export market. Collapsing overseas demand for
Chinese toys, shoes and electronics have caused the closure of 670,000
small and medium-sized companies. Officials estimate about 20 million
migrant workers have already lost their jobs owing to the closure of
export-dependent factories and many are now returning to their rural homes.

In the year that the Communist Party celebrates the 60th anniversary of the
1949 revolution, the fear is that people will start to question its power.

Chinese authorities have been training police forces to deal with potential
labour unrest. President Hu Jintao has called on the army to remain loyal
in the face of growing discontent at the first downturn many Chinese people
have experienced. Last month, a clash between police and about 1,000
protesting workers from a textile factory in Zigong City, Sichuan province,
left six demonstrators injured, according to the rights group Chinese Human
Rights Defenders.

Mr Wen warned that the government would continue to prevent what it calls
"mass incidents", its euphemism for riots, protests and demonstrations. "We
will improve the early warning system for social stability to actively
prevent and properly handle all types of mass incidents," he said.

The manner in which China is keeping a tight lid on social unrest was
highlighted yesterday when a group of about 100 petitioners from Shanghai
went to a Beijing police station to air their grievances but were quickly
detained or dispersed. Petitioning is an ancient system dating from the
imperial age, where Chinese people who felt they were being abused by the
system turned to the Emperor for help, travelling to Beijing to petition
for the assistance of the supreme authority.

It used to be that petitioners were heard during the National People's
Congress, but fear of social unrest means those days are gone. Any
petitioners seen near Tiananmen Square are rounded up and often jailed in
"petitioners' hotels", a euphemism for detention centres.







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From: maryrose333 at att.net (mary rose)
Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2009 11:35:48 -0800
Subject: [GJM] FW: [globalnetnews-summary] The Revolution Has Already
	Occurred
Message-ID: <00f801c99f5b$ee2719b0$ca754d10$@net>

Are you as yet linked in to a social networking group on the Internet? If
not you should be because it is the fastest way to connect with the huge
Blessed Unrest movement taking place that is transforming the world. As the
article below suggests it is more "anarchist" than socialistic as people are
realizing new ways of connecting and doing business via "social networking,"
and doing so without government restraint. People everywhere are discovering
and implementing more effective ways of doing things on a one to one basis
across the artificial "nation-state" borders without the interference of
elite dictatorial powers getting in the way. 

Facebook.com, BTW, is an excellent place in which to connect with
like-minded others and create both new friendships and entities. There are
175 million subscribers since 2004. I am utilizing it to build a base with
which to begin FutureDawning.org. And am launching one holon this week:
INTEGRAL WOMEN which will also have a group within it: Heart-Centered Men in
Partnership with Integral Women, so as to bring us together within a
framework designed to create healthier and more balanced relationships.
INTEGRAL WOMEN and our PARTNERS will then aid in getting the
FutureDawning.org campus up and running with its 11 alternative campuses,
Think Tank and Admin Center. 

Other campuses (called Portals and Pathways) will be: 1) Sustainable Living,
2) Human Consciousness, etc., are designed to unite the sustainable living
movement with the human consciousness movement, and the women's movement
while at the same time addressing social systems transformation so as to
make them more "life-enhancing". Transforming our social systems in order to
form ones that work for us instead of against us plays a major role in
transforming society as a whole in that we create new and healthier
environments for ourselves. This follows up on Dr. Bruce Lipton's research
in the field of Epigenetics that tells us it is our environment that largely
shapes who we are, and consequently defines how we act.     

Please join Facebook and link to mary rose if you want to be part of this
movement. Membership to FutureDawning.org is by invitation only and you can
let me know via Facebook if you would like me to extend you an invitation.
Once a member, you may then invite others with whom you would like to
associate in order to create group with which to create a transformational
project.  

Other Portals and Pathways will focus on new energy creation, monetary
reform, waste remediation, reforestation, transforming the manner in which
we eat, creating new healing modalities, etc. 

FUTUREDAWNING.org is intended as a "self-organizing" virtual campus where no
"teaching" will take place -- this is about becoming "Co-learners" using
hands-on-experiential learning. It is based in quantum physics and in
creating "organic" structures which align with the greater message of the
Universe: Love and Peace.       

Please read the article listed below relative to this, which also suggests a
"need for":                              

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Published on Friday, March 6, 2009 by The Nation
The Revolution Has Already Occurred
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090323/solnit?rel=hp_currently
by Rebecca Solnit

    Note from The Nation editors: Socialism's all the rage. "We Are All
Socialists Now,"Newsweek declares. As the right wing tells it, we're
already living in the U.S.S.A. But what do self-identified socialists (and
their progressive friends) have to say about the global economic crisis? We
hope that Barbara Ehrenreich and Bill Fletcher Jr.'s "Reimagining
Socialism: Rising to the Occasion will kick off a spirited dialogue. Four
replies are featured in this issue, with more to come at TheNation.com. 





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From: maryrose333 at att.net (mary rose)
Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2009 11:41:15 -0800
Subject: [GJM] FW: [globalnetnews-summary] The Second Great Depression
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Well, IMHO, this article asks a very important question: Do we want to
continue on warring in order to keep the economy moving, or do we want to
design a new monetary system that is life-enhancing? 

The choice is ours to make. And, if we don't make the latter choice, then
again, IMHO we are all really crazy. 

m r        

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The Second Great Depression
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090316/howl?rel=hp_currently
By Nicholas von Hoffman

March 3, 2009


The pause morphed into the correction, which got transmogrified into the
drop in business, which shifted into the crash. The crash became the slump,
which changed into the downturn and/or the slide, or the biggest economic
crisis since the Great Depression. Scarier yet, President Barack Obama is
now warning us that unless his rescue plan goes through, "our economic
crisis could become a national catastrophe." 

What say you to that, sports fans? Many are starting to say it looks as
though we are heading into--or are already in--another Great Depression But
what might a depression be? Although the word has been used in connection
with bad economic conditions since the late eighteenth century, there is no
agreed-upon definition comparable to what economists have for the word
"recession."

There is agreement on one thing: a depression is a helluva lot worse then a
recession. It means not just hard times, but very, very hard times lasting
a very, very long time. Two, three, four, eight years. You might say a
depression is an extended national catastrophe.

How will we know if and when we are in one? The usual comparisons to where
the country is economically are with the Reagan recession of 1982, not with
the Hoover Depression of 1929. We will know if we are in a full-blown
depression when people begin using the word matter-of-factly. Or we'll know
it if Warren Buffet tells us we are.

For a genuine, doctor-certified economic depression we have no Prozac or
Wellbutrin or Zoloft or Celexa. At last America has come against a
condition for which there is no pill. We have nothing we can ingest and
then lie back and wait until our 401(k)s return to normal. From the way the
president, the secretary of the treasury and the economists who weigh in on
the topic talk, it seems that medical science knows more about curing
cancer than economic science, if it is one, knows about dealing with the
disaster now on our hands.

Those who believe we have fallen from recession to depression have yet to
settle on a name. It could be the Second Great Depression (SGD) or Great
Depression II (GDII) as per WW II, not that we need a Roman numeral to
convince us that we are in trouble.

If we are in Great Depression II, what phase of it might we be in?
Depending how you count, Great Depression I lasted between nine and twelve
years. The market crashed in 1929 and then with some temporary ups
continued down for the next several years. The banks and the financial
system began falling to pieces in 1931. Things got worse until March 1933,
when President Roosevelt closed all the banks and gave them a stress test
before letting the solvent ones reopen.

Even before the banking system conked out in 1932, business had gone to
hell, taking millions of jobs with it. In the first quarter of 2009
business is way down, dividends are being cut, profits off and expansion is
nonexistent, but things are not as bad as in 1933-34 when the homeless were
all over, World War I vets were peddling apples on the sidewalks and
families truly did not know when they would see their next meal. We are
nowhere near that state.

There was no war going on in the early 1930s, which, depending upon your
analysis, could be a plus or a minus. If government spending is an
effective way to stimulate the economy, President Obama can be grateful he
has not one but two wars to spend money on. He may soon have a third in
Mexico to help stimulate things.

Whether America, which has not been able to defeat the Taliban, Al Qaeda or
the rulers of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan, will
have better luck against the Sinaloa drug cartel is an open question. But
if war really contributes to the economic health of the society--do we
really want to count on a longer war?

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About Nicholas von Hoffman
Nicholas von Hoffman is the author of A Devil's Dictionary of Business, now
in paperback. He is a Pulitzer Prize losing author of thirteen books,
including Citizen Cohn, and a columnist for the New York Observer. 



From maryrose333 at att.net  Sat Mar  7 17:40:44 2009
From: maryrose333 at att.net (mary rose)
Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2009 16:40:44 -0800
Subject: [GJM] URGENT! FW: FDIC warns US bank deposit insurance fund could
	tank
Message-ID: <014a01c99f86$87267b90$957372b0$@net>

Begin raising your own food now.  Get on the Internet and learn how to set
up a root cellar to

store root vegetables, e.g., potatoes, carrots, turnips, beets, as well as
apples.  I've heard that

old refrigerators buried in the ground with the door removed and covered
with netting to keep

critters out is a good idea, but haven't had time to check it out as yet.
Steel drums cut in half,

buried and netted are also said to be good.      

Ensure that your community has a local currency program set up. 

Stockpile necessities especially baby items and medications for anyone who
has to have them.

Make sure you have a first aid kit and take any courses you can that could
save a life. Doctors

may be in short supply especially in wilderness areas.   

Be sure you have batteries, flashlights, lanterns, extra gasoline and
propane on hand.  

Keep lots of canned foods on hand, as well as grains, e.g., rice, cornmeal,
and beans.  

Put grains in the freezer to keep them fresh and the bugs out.   

Get canning supplies if possible. 

Buy or make your own solar cooker.  Eat as many fresh raw foods as possible.


And batten down the hatches, these seas are going to get mighty rough.  

 

From: BOB TAFT [mailto:rbtaft at rtconnect.net] 
Sent: Saturday, March 07, 2009 12:35 PM
To: Undisclosed-Recipient:;
Subject: Fw: FDIC warns US bank deposit insurance fund could tank

 

It cost so much to bail out Wall Street that Main Street must sink or swim
on its own?  

If the FDIC folds there should be massive demonstrations across the country.
Start treating politicians and bankers as they treat us.  As someone in
Treasury or such a level has already promoted the idea of raising the FDIC
coverage to $250k, the idea of cancelling it all is absurd EXCEPT that this
is right out of FDIC itself.  Considering its source, this must be taken
seriously.  Officials at this level are not prone to joking about such
things.


Best regards,
Bob Taft



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Sent: Friday, March 06, 2009 8:35 PM

To: Undisclosed-Recipient:;

Subject: FDIC warns US bank deposit insurance fund could tank

 

 

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FDIC warns US bank deposit insurance fund could tank


Thu Mar 5, 1:20 pm ET 

WASHINGTON (AFP) - The US government is warning banks that its deposit
insurance fund could go broke this year as bank failures mount.

The head of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Sheila Bair, in a
letter to bank chief executives dated March 2, defended the FDIC's plan to
raise fees on banks and assess an emergency fee to shore up the fund and
maintain investor confidence.

Bair acknowledged the new fees, announced Friday, would put additional
pressure on banks at time of financial crisis and a deepening recession, but
insisted they were critical to keep the insurance fund solvent and protect.

"Without these assessments, the deposit insurance fund could become
insolvent this year," Bair wrote.

The FDIC chief said in the letter that the rapidly deteriorating economic
conditions raised the prospects of "a large number" of bank failures through
2010..

"Without substantial amounts of additional assessment revenue in the near
future, current projections indicate that the fund balance will approach
zero or even become negative," she wrote.

The FDIC last Friday announced it would impose a temporary emergency fee on
lenders and raise its regular assessments to shore up the rapidly depleting
deposit insurance fund that insures individual customer deposits up to
250,000 dollars.

A week ago the FDIC reported a sharp depletion of the deposit insurance fund
in the fourth quarter due to actual and anticipated bank failures, to 19
billion dollars from 34.6 billion in the third quarter.

The FDIC said it had set aside an additional 22 billion dollars for
estimated losses on failures anticipated in 2009.

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From: maryrose333 at att.net (mary rose)
Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2009 16:48:50 -0800
Subject: [GJM] FW: Goodbye farmers markets, CSAs, and roadside stands
Message-ID: <014f01c99f87$a8c05c70$fa411550$@net>

WE CANNOT LET THIS HAPPEN.  FOOD SOVEREIGNTY IS THE CORNERSTONE OF FREEDOM.
STOP CODEX NOW! 

 

From: Nance ~ [mailto:planetnews8 at gmail.com] 
Sent: Saturday, March 07, 2009 12:06 PM
Subject: Goodbye farmers markets, CSAs, and roadside stands

 

 

 

Goodbye farmers markets, CSAs, and roadside stands

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Goodbye-farmers-markets-C-by-Linn-Cohen-Col
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From maryrose333 at att.net  Sun Mar  8 01:46:45 2009
From: maryrose333 at att.net (mary rose)
Date: Sun, 8 Mar 2009 00:46:45 -0800
Subject: [GJM] FW: [globalnetnews-summary] Retirement funds in danger for
	millions of Americans
Message-ID: <01a501c99fca$6c0ad830$44208890$@net>

It is imperative that we establish sustainable living communities as soon as
possible to provide lifeboats for those who have now, and others who are, in
continued danger of losing their retirement funds. In a sustainable living
community, everyone is cared for by the community through the use of local
currencies and by raising enough food for everyone in community gardens.
Each community needs to compile a roster of those who have extra rooms
available that can be utilized by those losing their homes. Tent cities may
have to be set up in some areas where rooms are scarce. Sanitary and shower
facilities need to be provided. The city of Santa Barbara in California is
currently housing people in tents and is planning a more permanent type of
facility. Voluntary child care is necessary so that parents can work either
in the gardens or at other tasks in the community.  

When I was homeless in the last recession, I remember there were times when
as many as 300 applicants were applying for one job. Let's all remember that
the next one needing help could be you, and that through no fault of their
own millions are going to be bereft and forced to live on the streets. Don't
think it can't happen to you. Recall that I had a six-figure income, and I
had six months reserves in the bank, but I just couldn't make it through. If
you don't have an extra bedroom, but have a car in your garage, for goodness
sakes, back the car out in the driveway and create a sleeping quarters plus
put up a line on which people can hang their clothes. Help people maintain
their dignity.            

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Retirement funds in danger for millions of Americans
By Mike Bryan
6 March 2009
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2009/mar2009/reti-m06.shtml

For millions of Americans, the deepening recession has meant a  
dramatic drop in funds put aside for their retirement. While many have  
seen the value of these accounts slashed in half, the pensions of  
others have been rendered virtually worthless as their employers file  
for bankruptcy. For others, a layoff in the family spells disaster,  
and saving for retirement is out of the question.

Many older workers have been forced to cash out their 401(k)s to cover  
mortgages and pay credit card debt and other expenses, with the amount  
withdrawn sharply reduced from their original investment. For other,  
particularly young, workers, the prospect of putting aside anything  
out of their weekly paychecks is out of the question.

While there are many 401(k) plan variations, until recently an  
employer has commonly matched 50 percent of an employee's  
contributions up to 6 percent of the employee's income. These funds  
can be set aside tax free, and are most commonly invested in an  
assortment of mutual funds.

Now, more and more companies have stopped making matching  
contributions to these funds. Coming on top of wage cuts, this amounts  
to yet another reduction in real wages for millions of workers.
In an article posted on CFO.com entitled "Stopping 401(k) Matches: The  
New No-brainer," Alan Vorchheimer of Buck Consultants is quoted as  
saying, "this is just so easy.... Almost every company is being forced  
to consider it.... Let's be candid: the CFOs of a lot of these  
companies are going to their benefits people and saying, 'Hey, can we  
get rid of our match?' "

According to a list compiled by the Pension Rights Center, a rapidly  
increasing number of companies are answering "yes" to that question.  
While not comprehensive, from June through December of 2008 the list  
contained the names of 29 companies.

In the first few months of this year the list of those cutting  
matching contributions has grown to more than 110. Among the most  
recognizable names are General Motors, Chrysler, Ford, Motorola,  
FedEx, UPS, Starbucks, NCR, Sears, US Steel, AMD, Reader's Digest,  
Macy's, Diebold, the New York Daily News, Libbey, and Hewlett-Packard.
This corporate assault on 401(k)s, and the dwindling value of these  
accounts with the collapse of the stock market, show how the shift  
over the last few decades from defined benefit plans, often referred  
to as pensions, to 401(k)s now threatens the retirement of millions of  
workers.

In a brief on "The Financial Crisis and Private Defined Benefit  
Plans," the Center for Retirement Research (CRR) at Boston College  
explains why this is the case, and why the majority of companies have  
moved away from defined benefit plans:

"In 401(k)s, individuals bear the risk. If the stock market collapses,  
they take an immediate hit to their retirement assets. And those about  
to retire-who on average held about two thirds of their assets in  
equities-will be forced to retire on less. In defined benefit plans,  
however, participants are promised benefits based on years of service  
and earnings (typically the last five years), and these benefits must  
be paid regardless of what happens to the assets in the employer's  
pension plan. In short, participants in defined benefit plans are  
sheltered from the effect of the financial crisis on retirement assets."
According to a recent study by Fidelity Investments, American workers  
lost an average of 27 percent of their 401(k) retirement savings in  
2008, and they can expect to lose even more this year.

Defined benefit plans, on the other hand, place additional  
responsibility on plan sponsors, and are also much more expensive to  
operate-which is why companies have been moving employees out of  
defined benefit plans into 401(k)s, otherwise known as defined  
contribution plans.

In 1980, of those private sector workers with pension coverage, 60  
percent had defined benefit plans only, 23 percent had both defined  
benefit plans and 401(k)s, and 17 percent had 401(k)s only. By 2006,  
these percentages had dramatically reversed: 8 percent had defined  
benefit plans only, 22 percent had both defined benefit plans and  
401(k)s, and 70 percent had 401(k)s only.

Fewer private sector workers are covered by some type of employer- 
provided retirement plan than are public sector workers. In 2006, of  
workers age 25 to 64, only 45 percent of private sector workers had  
pension coverage while almost 80 percent of state and local workers  
had coverage. Public sector pensions are primarily defined benefit  
plans.

Between October 9, 2007, and October 9, 2008, equity assets in  
retirement plans dropped by about $4 trillion in value, according to  
the CRR study. State and local government defined benefit plans  
dropped by about $1 trillion, private employer defined benefit plans  
dropped by about $900 billion, private employer defined contribution  
plans dropped about $1.1 trillion, Individual Retirement Accounts  
dropped about $800 billion, and federal government thrift plans  
dropped about $100 billion.

These dramatic shortfalls create particular problems for private  
employer defined benefit plans. The Pension Protection Act of 2006  
contains guidelines by which a plan sponsor must eliminate any  
shortfall between promised benefits and assets. The CRR study  
estimates that "firms are going to have to increase contributions by  
about $90 billion in 2009." Mercer, a global consulting firm, places  
the underfunding of corporate pension plans at $409 billion.
"This challenge raises the question of firms laying off workers,  
freezing their pensions, or going bankrupt," states the CRR study.
These shortfalls-amidst the worst economic crisis since the 1930s-make

it a near certainty that the federal Pension Benefit Guaranty  
Corporation (PBGC) will be forced to take over the pension  
responsibilities of an increasing number of bankrupt businesses.
Created in 1974 by Congress, the PBGC is funded through premiums paid  
by the companies whose defined benefit plans it insures and through  
its investments. Since 2001, the PBGC has taken over nine of the ten  
largest terminated pension plans in its history, including those of  
United Airlines, Bethlehem Steel, and Kaiser Aluminum.
With $63 billion in assets and obligations to spend $74 billion on  
pension benefits in the coming years, the PBGC already has an $11  
billion deficit. Taking over the pension plan of General Motors alone  
would more than double that deficit-although the PBGC would also  
receive assets from GM's pension fund.

Workers whose pension plans have been taken over by PBGC are highly  
unlikely to receive the entire benefit they expected. The current  
maximum benefit is $54,000 per year for a person retiring at age 65.  
There is no cost-of-living adjustment. All of these scenarios,  
furthermore, are predicated on the PBGC avoiding outright collapse.
Adding to the precarious future of retirement is the fact that it is a  
rarity for workers to remain at one employer for their entire working  
life. Since the median job tenure is less than four years, most  
workers earn limited amounts in either a defined benefit or a defined  
contribution plan with any one employer.

When workers leave a company and opt to receive single sum  
distributions of their retirement savings from these plans, fewer than  
half of those under age 50 save the entire distribution for  
retirement, as do fewer than half receiving distributions of less than  
$20,000.

According to a recent Bank of America Retirement Savings Survey, 18  
percent of people are pulling retirement assets from their accounts  
prematurely-in spite of the tax consequences. With the deepening  
recession, more and more workers will undoubtedly tap into any such  
funds they have to pay for immediate pressing needs, further  
endangering their retirement future.



From maryrose333 at att.net  Sun Mar  8 12:56:26 2009
From: maryrose333 at att.net (mary rose)
Date: Sun, 8 Mar 2009 11:56:26 -0700
Subject: [GJM] IMPORTANT FW: [globalnetnews-summary] The California Water
	Wars: Not a Conflict Between Fish and People
Message-ID: <004601c9a01f$97ee58a0$c7cb09e0$@net>

This is another example of why we need to create a new monetary system that
is not based on creating jobs for people that are dependent upon the raping
of the environment in order for people to live. And why it's necessary for
us to eat lower on the food chain for the foreseeable future. Almost all of
the world's fisheries are overfished today and the taking of ever younger
and smaller members of the species leaves not enough fish available to
restock the supply as demand continually outstrips the ability to replenish.
This event is also taking place in an environment that is continually
stripped of the natural occurring resources needed to sustain reproduction
at what we might term "peak efficiency". Quite probably one of the major
causes here is attributable to an over carrying-capacity load in an
ecosystem -- a factor little considered in planning and maintaining
habitats. Each ecosystem has a maximum carrying capacity it can handle
before breakdown occurs just as a bus has a maximum number of passengers it
can carry before break down occurs. And whether or not the ecosystem itself
is operating at peak efficiency or not is a major contributing factor in
determining what the carrying-capacity of the system or region is. 

One of the most ignored factors in consideration of ecosystem carrying
capacity is that the human family, for the most part, is a "taker" from what
must be considered our life support system, and our contribution to its
maintenance and restoration can only be described as negligible. Perhaps we
have paid too much attention to developing our spiritual side and getting
into a mythological heaven, and not enough to maintaining our earthling side
through contributing to GAIA's health and well-being. 

Of note is that as this article points out, human habitats should never have
been built in certain areas -- Los Angeles being one of them. For further
information on this, The Cadillac Desert by Marc Reisner is an excellent
source. A PBS summary may be found here:
http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~martins/hydro/case_studies/cadillac_desert.htm


Everything taken into consideration, the way we eat is one of the major
contributing   factors to both economic and ecological collapse. The day of
reckoning is here and now and WE must address it here and now -- not in
terms of jobs, money, banking, and corporate interests, but in terms of
whether or not WE are going to leave a habitable planet for our descendants.


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The California Water Wars: Not a Conflict Between Fish and People
Friday 06 March 2009
by: Dan Bacher, t r u t h o u t | Perspective
http://www.truthout.org/030609EA

     Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, the California Department of Water  
Resources and corporate agribusiness have continually tried to frame  
the battle over restoring the California Delta and Central Valley  
rivers as one of "fish versus people."

     This false dichotomy was exemplified by an article published in  
the Sacramento Bee, "Delta Cutbacks Put Valley Farm Town on Edge," by  
Susan Ferris on Monday, March 2.

     Read rest of article here: http://www.truthout.org/030609EA 




From mukhtaralam2000 at yahoo.com  Mon Mar  9 03:37:47 2009
From: mukhtaralam2000 at yahoo.com (Dr.Muhammad Mukhtar Alam)
Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2009 15:07:47 +0530 (IST)
Subject: [GJM] Islamic Finance System gets backing from Vatican
Message-ID: <54719.35102.qm@web94905.mail.in2.yahoo.com>

http://www.bdafrica.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=13297&Itemid=5812




Islamic finance gets backing from Vatican 
 

 





Written by A Correspondent??
March 9, 2009: A raging global financial crisis has won Islamic finance backing from an unexpected source ? the Vatican.

In
an article in its weekly newspaper, the Vatican says ethical principles
upon which Islamic finance is based offers the best chance of getting
banks closer to their clients and ?to the true spirit that should mark
every financial service.?


The Catholic Church?s mouthpiece said Sukuk (Islamic finance) could
be used to?? fund the ?car industry or the next Olympic Games in
London.? The newspaper had previously criticized the free market model
for having ?grown too much and badly in the past two decades.?


The Vatican?s stand is that ?the great religions have always had a
common attention to the human dimension of the economy?.News of the
Vatican?s came just as the World Islamic Economic Forum wrapped up its
meeting in Indonesia with a call for Islamic finance and banking to be
developed as an alternative to the Wall Street model of doing business.



The gathering of more than 1,550 delegates from 38 countries urged
the Islamic Development Bank to take the lead in promoting Islamic
finance. 

Malaysian prime minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said
the Islamic financial system?s ability to remain largely unscathed by
the difficulties affecting the conventional international financial
system is testament to its integrity and validity, and he expects to
see Islamic finance play a more prominent role in the international
financial system.


This story is available in full in the Business Daily e-paper.


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From: mukhtaralam2000 at yahoo.com (Dr.Muhammad Mukhtar Alam)
Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2009 15:07:48 +0530 (IST)
Subject: [GJM] Islamic Finance System gets backing from Vatican
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http://www.bdafrica.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=13297&Itemid=5812




Islamic finance gets backing from Vatican 
 

 





Written by A Correspondent??
March 9, 2009: A raging global financial crisis has won Islamic finance backing from an unexpected source ? the Vatican.

In
an article in its weekly newspaper, the Vatican says ethical principles
upon which Islamic finance is based offers the best chance of getting
banks closer to their clients and ?to the true spirit that should mark
every financial service.?


The Catholic Church?s mouthpiece said Sukuk (Islamic finance) could
be used to?? fund the ?car industry or the next Olympic Games in
London.? The newspaper had previously criticized the free market model
for having ?grown too much and badly in the past two decades.?


The Vatican?s stand is that ?the great religions have always had a
common attention to the human dimension of the economy?.News of the
Vatican?s came just as the World Islamic Economic Forum wrapped up its
meeting in Indonesia with a call for Islamic finance and banking to be
developed as an alternative to the Wall Street model of doing business.



The gathering of more than 1,550 delegates from 38 countries urged
the Islamic Development Bank to take the lead in promoting Islamic
finance. 

Malaysian prime minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said
the Islamic financial system?s ability to remain largely unscathed by
the difficulties affecting the conventional international financial
system is testament to its integrity and validity, and he expects to
see Islamic finance play a more prominent role in the international
financial system.


This story is available in full in the Business Daily e-paper.


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From maryrose333 at att.net  Mon Mar  9 13:34:26 2009
From: maryrose333 at att.net (mary rose)
Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2009 12:34:26 -0700
Subject: [GJM] OpEdNews > Gorbachev and the Buddha--A Middle Way for Humanity
Message-ID: <001001c9a0ee$25a4aea0$70ee0be0$@net>

Dear Friends, 

What I would like to remind everyone is that Buddhism is based in quantum
physics, thus we have a balanced system which is verifiable in scientific
terms.  The Dalai Lama, himself, is engaged in scientific research on human
consciousness and is associated with the Mind/Body Institute in order to
further understand the connection between science and spirituality.       

What we are talking about is creating an organic or natural path in
alignment with the greater message of the Universe, which is that everything
is integral to everything else.  There are no beginnings or endings -- there
is only the Oneness.  What we do to others we do to ourselves. 

The Middle Way is the balanced - integrated path - it is one in which both
hemispheres of the brain are integrated and one in which the brain and the
heart are integrated - it is the "holographic" configuration of which we
have previously spoken.  It does not pit the right against the left, nor the
Democrats against the Republicans, nor the male against the female, nor the
East against the West.  It seeks to integrate and unite, not divide.    

Buddhism is not a religion per say - it is but a symbol of balance that
points to understanding the way in which the natural universe is configured.
It is the peaceful path.  

Please read the following article from a whole brain perspective.       

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Gorbachev-and-the-Buddha--by-Grant-Lawrence
-090307-23.html 

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From: maryrose333 at att.net (mary rose)
Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2009 13:38:41 -0700
Subject: [GJM] FW: [SPAM]Revealing News: Derivatives a $700 Trillion Danger,
	Pension Funds at Risk, Oil Storage Shortage, More
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March 6, 2009, MarketWatch (Wall Street Journal Digital Network)
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/The-700-trillion-elephant-room/story.asp <http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/The-700-trillion-elephant-room/story.aspx?guid=%7b024DB809-8506-4AA9-83BB-B053FD4E1C11%7d> 

There's a $700 trillion elephant in the room and it's time we found out how much it really weighs on the economy. Derivative contracts total about three-quarters of a quadrillion dollars in "notional" amounts, according to the Bank for International Settlements. These contracts are tallied in notional values because no one really can say how much they are worth. But valuing them correctly is exactly what we should be doing because these comprise the viral disease that has infected the financial markets and the economies of the world. Try as we might to salvage the residential real estate market, it's at best worth $23 trillion in the U.S. We're struggling to save the stock market, but that's valued at less than $15 trillion. And we hope to keep the entire U.S. economy from collapsing, yet gross domestic product stands at $14.2 trillion. Compare any of these to the derivatives market and you can easily see that we are just closing the windows as a tsunami crashes to shore. The total value of all the stock markets in the world amounts to less than $50 trillion, according to the World Federation of Exchanges. To be sure, the derivatives market is international. But much of the trouble we're in began with contracts "derived" from the values associated with U.S. residential real estate market. These contracts were engineered based on the various assumptions tied to those values. Few know what derivatives are worth. I spoke with one derivatives trader who manages billions of dollars and she said she couldn't even value her portfolio because "no one knows anymore who is on the other side of the trade."

Note: Banks and financial firms deemed "too big to fail" are being bailed out worldwide at taxpayers' expense. But what will happen if losses in the derivatives market skyrocket? No government in the world has the resources to save financial corporations from a collapse in their derivatives trading. For lots more on the realities of the Wall Street bailout, click <http://www.wanttoknow.info/bankbailoutnewsarticles>  here.

Wars, Endless Wars
March 3, 2009, New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/03/opinion/03herbert.html <http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/03/opinion/03herbert.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&pagewanted=all> 

The U.S. economy is in free fall, the banking system is in a state of complete collapse and Americans all across the country are downsizing their standards of living. The nation as we?ve known it is fading before our very eyes, but we?re still pouring billions of dollars into wars in Afghanistan and Iraq with missions we are still unable to define. Even as the U.S. begins plans to reduce troop commitments in Iraq, it is sending thousands of additional troops into Afghanistan. The strategic purpose of this escalation, as Defense Secretary Robert Gates acknowledged, is not at all clear. We invaded Afghanistan more than seven years ago. We don?t even have an escalation strategy, much less an exit strategy. An honest assessment of the situation ... would lead inexorably to such terms as fiasco and quagmire. Instead of cutting our losses, we appear to be doubling down. As for Iraq, President Obama announced last week that substantial troop withdrawals will take place over the next year and a half and that U.S. combat operations would cease by the end of August 2010. But, he said, a large contingent of American troops, perhaps as many as 50,000, would still remain in Iraq for a ?period of transition.? That?s a large number of troops, and the cost of keeping them there will be huge. I can easily imagine a scenario in which Afghanistan and Iraq both heat up and the U.S., caught in an extended economic disaster at home, undermines its fragile recovery efforts in the same way that societies have undermined themselves since the dawn of time ? with endless warfare.

Note: The strategic purpose of keeping the wars going is well known by the bankers and power elite. A top U.S. general revealed it all in a powerful book, of which we have a two-page summary available here <http://www.wanttoknow.info/warcoverup> . For revealing reports from reliable sources on the realities of the Iraq and Afghan wars, click here <http://www.wanttoknow.info/warnewsarticles> .

Hidden Pension Fiasco May Foment Another $1 Trillion Bailout
March 3, 2009, Bloomberg News
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive <http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=alwTE0Z5.1EA> &sid=alwTE0Z5.1EA

Public pension funds across the U.S. are hiding the size of a crisis that?s been looming for years. Retirement plans play accounting games with numbers, giving the illusion that the funds are healthy. The paper alchemy gives governors and legislators the easy choice to contribute too little or nothing to the funds, year after year. The misleading numbers posted by retirement fund administrators help mask this reality: Public pensions in the U.S. had total liabilities of $2.9 trillion as of Dec. 16, according to the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College. Their total assets are about 30 percent less than that, at $2 trillion. With stock market losses this year, public pensions in the U.S. are now underfunded by more than $1 trillion. That lack of funds explains why dozens of retirement plans in the U.S. have issued more than $50 billion in pension obligation bonds during the past 25 years -- more than half of them since 1997 -- public records show. The quick fix for pension funds becomes a future albatross for taxpayers. The public gets nothing from pension bonds -- other than a chance to at least temporarily avoid paying for higher pension fund contributions. Pension bonds portend the possibility of steep tax increases. By law, states must guarantee public pension fund debts. ?What appears to be a riskless strategy is actually very risky,? says David Zion, director of accounting research for New York-based Credit Suisse Holdings USA Inc. ?If the returns on the pension bond-financed assets don?t exceed the cost of servicing the debt, the taxpayers bear the brunt.?

Note: For lots more on the realities of the Wall Street bailout, click <http://www.wanttoknow.info/bankbailoutnewsarticles>  here. 

Oil producers running out of storage space
March 3, 2009, MSNBC/Associated Press
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29495753

Supertankers that once raced around the world to satisfy an unquenchable thirst for oil are now parked offshore, fully loaded, anchors down, their crews killing time. In the United States, vast storage farms for oil are almost out of room. As demand for crude has plummeted, the world suddenly finds itself awash in oil that has nowhere to go. It?s been less than a year since oil prices hit record highs. But now producers and traders are struggling with the new reality: The world wants less oil, not more. And turning off the spigot is about as easy as turning around one of those tankers. So oil companies and investors are stashing crude, waiting for demand to rise and the bear market to end so they can turn a profit later. Meanwhile, oil-producing countries such as Iran have pumped millions of barrels of their own crude into idle tankers, effectively taking crude off the market to halt declining prices that are devastating their economies. Traders have always played a game of store and sell, bringing oil to market when it can fetch the best price. They say this time is different because of how fast the bottom fell out of the oil market. ?Nobody expected this,? said Antoine Halff, an analyst with Newedge. ?The majority of people out there thought the market would keep rising to $200, even $250, a barrel. They were tripping over each other to pick a higher forecast.? Now the strategy is storage. Anyone who can buy cheap oil and store it might be able to sell it at a premium later, when the global economy ramps up again.

Prison Spending Outpaces All but Medicaid
March 3, 2009, New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/03/us/03prison.html <http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/03/us/03prison.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&pagewanted=all> 

One in every 31 adults, or 7.3 million Americans, is in prison, on parole or probation, at a cost to the states of $47 billion in 2008, according to a new study. Criminal correction spending is outpacing budget growth in education, transportation and public assistance, based on state and federal data. Only Medicaid spending grew faster than state corrections spending, which quadrupled in the past two decades, according to [a new report] by the Pew Center on the States, the first breakdown of spending in confinement and supervision in the past seven years. The increases in the number of people in some form of correctional control occurred as crime rates declined by about 25 percent in the past two decades. As states face huge budget shortfalls, prisons, which hold 1.5 million adults, are driving the spending increases. Pew researchers say that as states trim services like education and health care, prison budgets are growing. Those priorities are misguided, the study says. ?States are looking to make cuts that will have long-term harmful effects,? said Sue Urahn, managing director of the Pew Center on the States. ?Corrections is one area they can cut and still have good or better outcomes than what they are doing now.? About $9 out of $10 spent on corrections goes to prison financing (that includes money spent to house 780,000 people in local jails). One in 11 African-Americans, or 9.2 percent, are under correctional control, compared with one in 27 Latinos (3.7 percent) and one in 45 whites (2.2 percent).

Note: Crime is down 25%, yet prison spending is 400% of what it was 20 years ago. Is there anything strange here? The prison-industrial complex is mighty big and in many ways mighty corrupt. 

Secret Bush Anti-Terror Memos Revealed
March 2, 2009, CBS News/Associated Press
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/03/02/national/main4839662.shtml

The Obama administration threw open the curtain on years of Bush-era secrets Monday, revealing anti-terror memos that claimed exceptional search-and-seizure powers and divulging that the CIA destroyed nearly 100 videotapes of interrogations and other treatment of terror suspects. The Justice Department released nine legal opinions showing that, following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the Bush administration determined that certain constitutional rights would not apply during the coming fight. Within two weeks, government lawyers were already discussing ways to wiretap U.S. conversations without warrants. An October 2001 memo by the Justice Department's John Yoo authorized the use of the U.S. military within the United States in combating terrorists. Yoo defined the 9/11 attacks as "war" and therefore concluded the President could employ the military domestically in a "military action" rather than a police action. Under Posse Comitatus Act, the American armed forces are forbidden from operating domestically. A March 2003 memo gave the President broad powers to transfer captured al Qaeda and Taliban prisoners to third countries. It also stipulated that the torture provisions of the Geneva Convention did not apply, because these prisoners were "non state" enemy combatants and therefore not entitled to Geneva protections. The Obama administration also acknowledged in court documents Monday that the CIA destroyed 92 videos involving terror suspects, including interrogations - far more than had been known.

Note: For key reports from major media sources on the hidden realities of the war on terror, click here <http://www.wanttoknow.info/terrorismnewsarticles> .

Baxter: Product contained live bird flu virus
February 27, 2009, Toronto Sun (One of Canada's top newspapers)
http://www.torontosun.com/news/canada/2009/02/27/8560781.html

The company that released contaminated flu virus material from a plant in Austria confirmed Friday that the experimental product contained live H5N1 avian flu viruses. And an official of the World Health Organization?s European operation said the body is closely monitoring the investigation into the events that took place at Baxter International?s research facility in Orth-Donau, Austria. The contaminated product, a mix of H3N2 seasonal flu viruses and unlabelled H5N1 viruses, was supplied to an Austrian research company. The Austrian firm, Avir Green Hills Biotechnology, then sent portions of it to sub-contractors in the Czech Republic, Slovenia and Germany. The contamination incident, which is being investigated by the four European countries, came to light when the subcontractor in the Czech Republic inoculated ferrets with the product and they died. Ferrets shouldn?t die from exposure to human H3N2 flu viruses. Public health authorities concerned about what has been described as a ?serious error? on Baxter?s part have assumed the death of the ferrets meant the H5N1 virus in the product was live. But the company, Baxter International Inc., has been parsimonious about the amount of information it has released about the event. On Friday, the company?s director of global bioscience communications confirmed what scientists have suspected. ?It was live,? Christopher Bona said in an email. Accidental release of a mixture of live H5N1 and H3N2 viruses could have resulted in dire consequences.

Note: How on earth did the avian flu virus ever get into vaccines? Could it be that this was planned? For a powerful book by a Harvard-trained dentist suggesting there may be a hidden force behind the spread of deadly infectious diseases, click here <http://www.wanttoknow.info/resources#emerging> . For more revealing reports on bird flu which support this theory, click here <http://www.wanttoknow.info/avianflubirdnewsarticles> .

"Miracle" water a low-cost alternative cleaner to harsh chemicals
February 27, 2009, Seattle Times/Los Angeles Times
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/living/2008791573_magicwater27.html

It's a kitchen degreaser. It's a window cleaner. It kills athlete's foot. Oh, and you can drink it. The elixir is real. U.S. regulators have approved it. And it's starting to replace the toxic chemicals Americans use at home and on the job. The stuff is a simple mixture of table salt and tap water whose ions have been scrambled with an electric current. Researchers have dubbed it electrolyzed water. Some hotel workers are calling it "el liquido milagroso," the miracle liquid. That's as good a name as any for a substance that scientists said is powerful enough to kill anthrax spores without harming people or the environment. Used as a sanitizer for decades in Russia and Japan, it's slowly winning acceptance in the United States. For more than 200 years, scientists have tinkered with electrolysis, the use of an electric current to bring about a chemical reaction. That's how we got metal electroplating and large-scale production of chlorine, used to bleach and sanitize. It turns out that zapping saltwater with low-voltage electricity creates a couple of powerful, nontoxic cleaning agents. Sodium ions are converted into sodium hydroxide, an alkaline liquid that cleans and degreases like detergent, but without the scrubbing bubbles. Chloride ions become hypochlorous acid, a potent disinfectant known as acid water. "It's 10 times more effective than bleach in killing bacteria," said Yen-Con Hung, a professor of food science at the University of Georgia, Griffin, who has been researching electrolyzed water for more than a decade. "And it's safe."

Note: For more on this fascinating product, click here <http://www.soundfeelings.com/micro-skin-care/clinical_studies/functional_water.htm> . 


Key Articles From Years Past 

Gobekli Tepe: The World?s First Temple?
November, 2008, Smithsonian Magazine
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/gobekli-tepe.html

Six miles from Urfa, an ancient city in southeastern Turkey, Klaus Schmidt has made one of the most startling archaeological discoveries of our time: massive carved stones about 11,000 years old, crafted and arranged by prehistoric people who had not yet developed metal tools or even pottery. The megaliths predate Stonehenge by some 6,000 years. The place is called Gobekli Tepe, and Schmidt, a German archaeologist who has been working here more than a decade, is convinced it's the site of the world's oldest temple. In the [excavation] pits, standing stones, or pillars, are arranged in circles. Beyond, on the hillside, are four other rings of partially excavated pillars. Each ring has a roughly similar layout: in the center are two large stone T-shaped pillars encircled by slightly smaller stones facing inward. The tallest pillars tower 16 feet and, Schmidt says, weigh between seven and ten tons. Some are blank, while others are elaborately carved: foxes, lions, scorpions and vultures abound, twisting and crawling on the pillars' broad sides. Schmidt points to the great stone rings, one of them 65 feet across. "This is the first human-built holy place," he says. Prehistoric people would have gazed upon herds of gazelle and other wild animals; gently flowing rivers, which attracted migrating geese and ducks; fruit and nut trees; and rippling fields of wild barley and wild wheat varieties such as emmer and einkorn. "This area was like a paradise," says Schmidt, a member of the German Archaeological Institute. He believes this was a place of worship on an unprecedented scale?humanity's first "cathedral on a hill."

Note: For more on this fascinating find, see the Daily Mail article available <http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1157784/Do-mysterious-stones-mark-site-Garden-Eden.html>  here.

DNA Molecules Display Telepathic Abilities
January 25, 2008, Fox News
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,325349,00.html

DNA molecules can display what almost seems like telepathy, research now reveals. Double helixes of DNA can recognize matching molecules from a distance and then gather together, all seemingly without help from any other molecules, scientists find. Previously, under the classic understanding of DNA, scientists had no reason to suspect that double helixes of the molecule could sort themselves by type, let alone seek each other out. Scientists investigated double-stranded DNA tagged with fluorescent compounds. These molecules were placed in salt water that contained no proteins or other material that could interfere with the experiment or help the DNA molecules communicate. Curiously, DNA with identical sequences of bases were roughly twice as likely to gather together as DNA molecules with different sequences. Although it looks as if spooky action or telepathic recognition is going on, DNA operates under the laws of physics, not the supernatural. The bases that make up a strand of DNA each cause the corkscrew to bend one way or the other. Double-stranded DNA with identical sequences each result in corkscrews "whose ridges and grooves match up," said researcher Sergey Leikin, a physical biochemist. Identical DNA double helixes have matching curves, meaning they repel each other the least, Leikin explained. The scientists conjecture such "telepathy" might help DNA molecules line up properly before they get shuffled around. This could help avoid errors in how DNA combines, errors that underpin cancer, aging and other health problems.

Scientists baffled by speed of Sun 'storm'
May 30, 2005, The Telegraph (One of the U.K.'s leading newspapers)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1491074/Scientists-baffled-by-speed-of-Sun-storm.html

The sun has dazed and confused scientists by triggering the biggest "proton storm" to bombard the Earth for half a century, challenging many ideas about how to forecast space weather to protect astronauts and satellites. Ejections of material that are often linked to solar flares can also damage ground-based communications systems and power grids. Normally, it takes two or more hours for a dangerous shower of positively charged protons to reach maximum intensity at Earth after a solar flare and between one and four days for ejected solar material to arrive. But the particles from one vast flare earlier this year peaked about 15 minutes after the first signs. "The timing is incredibly fast," said Prof Peter Cargill of Imperial College London. The burst of radiation on Jan 20 accompanied a huge solar flare - the biggest explosions in the solar system. The solar flare tripped radiation monitors worldwide and scrambled detectors on spacecraft, marking "the largest solar radiation signal on the ground in nearly 50 years", said Dr Richard Mewaldt of the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, a co-investigator on Nasa's Advanced Composition Explorer spacecraft. "But we were really surprised when we saw how fast the particles reached their peak intensity and arrived at Earth. That's important because it's too fast to respond with much warning to astronauts or spacecraft that might be outside Earth's protective magnetosphere."


Special note: For some fascinating information suggesting that we may be in for serious solar disturbances in the year 2012, click <http://www.alexansary.com/Editorial/Sun%20spots%20and%20a%20weakened%20magnetic%20field.html>  here. And for some good news on Obama's blueprint for America, click <http://pol.moveon.org/budget10/thanks.html?id=15687-302037-DnuVgCx>  here.


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Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2009 13:42:15 -0700
Subject: [GJM] FW: [globalnetnews-summary] Environmental anomalies at the
	World Trade Center: evidence for energetic materials
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http://911reports.wordpress.com/2008/09/17/environmental-anomalies-at-the-wo
rld-trade-center-evidence-for-energetic-materials-by-kevin-r-ryan-james-r-go
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Environmental anomalies at the World Trade Center: evidence for energetic
materials by Kevin R. Ryan, James R. Gourley, and Steven E.  
Jones - Environmentalist

Received: 17 February 2008 Accepted: 14 July 2008 Published online: 4  
August 2008

Abstract Investigators monitoring air quality at the World Trade  
Center, after the September 11th attacks, found extremely high levels  
of volatile organic chemicals as well as unusual species that had  
never been seen before in structure fires. Data collected by the U.S.  
Environmental Protection Agency indicate striking spikes in levels of  
benzene, styrene, and several other products of combustion. These  
spikes occurred on specific dates in October and November 2001, and  
February 2002. Additionally, data collected by researchers at the  
University of California Davis showed similar spikes in the levels of  
sulfur and silicon compounds, and certain metals, in aerosols. To  
better explain these data, as well as the unusual detection of 1,3- 
diphenylpropane, the presence of energetic nanocomposites in the pile  
at Ground Zero is hypothesized.

1 Introduction

For months after the destruction at the World Trade Center (WTC) on  
11th September, 2001, the fires at Ground Zero (GZ) could not be put  
out, despite the following facts.

Several inches of dust covered the entire area after the destruction  
of the WTC buildings.
Millions of gallons of water were sprayed onto the debris pile.
Several rainfall events occurred at GZ, some heavy; and
A chemical fire suppressant called Pyrocool was pumped into the piles  
(Lipton and Revkin 2001).
The characteristics of these un-extinguishable fires have not been  
adequately explained as the results of a normal structure fire, even  
one accelerated by jet fuel. Conversely, such fires are better  
explained given the presence of chemical energetic materials, which  
provide their own fuel and oxidant and are not deterred by water,  
dust, or chemical suppressants.

Apart from the extensive but failed efforts to extinguish the fires,  
there are several other physical indicators of the presence of  
energetic chemical reactions in the rubble at GZ. These include the  
following.

Photographs and witness testimony evidencing molten metal and  
explosions accompanied by white dust clouds (Jones 2006; Meyerowitz  
2006; PBS 2002).
Extremely high temperatures in the fires at the WTC (Jones et al.  
2008a).
Unusual spikes in volatile organic chemical (VOC) emissions,  
suggesting abrupt, violent fires on specific dates.
Unusual species in the environmental monitoring data, also  
corresponding to specific dates.
Explosions followed by white dust clouds, and molten metal at GZ, are  
of particular interest in this analysis. A white dust cloud is one of  
the products of the thermite reaction. The white dust in this case is  
aluminum oxide, released from the extremely exothermic reaction between
aluminum and iron oxide. The other product of the thermite reaction is  
molten iron. These facts, coupled with evidence for extremely high  
temperatures at the WTC, suggest that investigators should examine the  
potential for such pyrotechnic materials at the WTC. The environmental  
data described below give more compelling evidence to support such an  
inquiry.

2 EPA data on VOC emissions from GZ

Through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, access to  
environmental monitoring data from the U.S. Environmental Protection  
Agency's (EPA) WTC response was obtained (EPA 2004). The data set  
shows that spikes in the levels of airborne VOCs occurred on specific  
dates at GZ (Austin Tobin Plaza, WTC 1 or WTC 2), with levels of the  
related contaminants rising sharply and then falling dramatically back  
to baseline levels, usually within 1 day or less. An example is shown  
in Fig. 1, for detections of benzene.

Benzene is a major product of the combustion of plastics and other  
organic materials. In a typical structure fire, when plastics are  
abundant, benzene levels have been seen at levels as high as 26 ppb  
(MOEE 1997). Apart from fires, benzene is seen in high-traffic areas  
of urban settings, with mean levels of *4 ppb (Crebellia et al. 2001).

Serious health consequences are known to occur when breathing benzene  
at 100 ppb, and it is known to cause diseases such as leukemia (HHS  
2007). Note that, for the first few weeks after 9/11, the levels of  
benzene detected at GZ were relatively low, although perhaps higher  
than historical levels from structure fires. But the maximum value  
detected in November 2001 was 180,000 ppb, and the average daily  
detection for October and November 2001 was 18,000 ppb. The five peaks  
in benzene detection occurred on 5th October, 11th October, 3rd  
November, 8th November, and 16th November.

Similarly, the data for styrene are presented in Fig. 2.

[graphs in original]

The spikes in detected levels of styrene are more prominent. Styrene  
is normally seen as a product of the combustion of plastics, notably  
polystyrene. Interestingly, the dates of the five highest levels of  
styrene detection occurred on the same dates as those of highest  
detection of benzene.

A similar pattern in detection was noted in the data for several other  
analytes monitored by EPA in the air above the rubble piles at GZ. For  
example, toluene, ethylbenzene, and propylene follow the same pattern  
of spiked detection levels as seen above. These FOIA-obtained data  
indicate that all five of these VOCs were detected far above the  
levels published by EPA in their reports for the general public (Fig.  
3, EPA 2002).

The occurrence of such extreme, sharp spikes in VOCs in air at GZ  
indicate something other than the behavior of a typical structure  
fire. Oxygen influx as a result of shifting of materials within the  
pile might have created an increase in combustion of material in  
localized areas. But these spikes in VOCs, at levels thousands of  
times higher than seen in other structure fires, suggest extremely  
violent but short-lived fire events.

Probably the most striking spike in toxic air emissions, found in EPA  
monitoring data, occurred on 9th February, 2002. Note (Table 1) that  
this was nearly 5 months after 9/11, and after nearly all the debris  
had been cleared from GZ. In fact, the levels of some species, like  
toluene and styrene, were some of the highest observed at the site.  
But the levels of benzene and propylene detected on that day were far  
above previous measurements, at 610,000 and
990,000 ppb, respectively. Other VOCs were measured at their peak  
levels on this date, including 1,3-butadiene at 400,000 ppb.

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From maryrose333 at att.net  Mon Mar  9 23:49:06 2009
From: maryrose333 at att.net (mary rose)
Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2009 22:49:06 -0700
Subject: [GJM] FW: PLEASE DON'T RIOT ... By David Icke
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This is a very, very good article by David Icke.  Please read it and take it
seriously.   In rioting, they win we lose.  The power of our mind is the
most powerful thing there is, so please join one of the coherence groups and
meditate with them for peace.  Your thoughts are energy waves that go out
through the Universe and are powerful enough to create change especially
when done in large enough groups.  Keeping the peace is the reason I get so
upset about the accusations against immigrants whether legal or illegal.  In
keeping the peace,  I don't mean getting run over by those who seek to do
this.  What keeping the peace means is keeping one's cool and helping others
In the community to keep their cool.  We need to avoid incidents that can
suddenly turn into riots which bring out the police.  It's about acquiring
and using social intelligence.  It's OK to rock the boat, in fact, it's a
necessity,  but just do it in positive ways.  Start raising your own food,
seek out naturapathic doctors whenever possible and opt out of the Big
Pharma run medical institution.  Get a bicycle and keep your car off the
road as much as possible.  Don't travel unless it's absolutely necessary.
Get a sewing machine and learn to make your own clothes, knit sweaters,
gloves, etc.  Stop living to eat and begin eating to live.  Stop being a
consumer.  

 

With love and appreciation for all that we do together.  m r    

From: Nance ~ [mailto:planetnews8 at gmail.com] 
Sent: Sunday, March 08, 2009 12:40 AM
Subject: PLEASE DON'T RIOT ... By David Icke

 

 


PLEASE DON'T RIOT ...

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.... IT'S JUST WHAT 'THEY' WANT 

'What you fight, you become.' - David Icke

By David Icke 

As I travel around America it is clear that this country is on the brink of
an economic catastrophe the like of which it has never seen. And, of course,
it is not alone. A similar story can be told around the world.

The foreclosure figures are fantastic as families and others lose their
homes through no fault of their own on a scale that, according to current
projections, is destined to become a tidal wave.

The credit explosion was orchestrated through Illuminati agents and
Satanists like Alan Greenspan, who represents the interests of the
Illuminati's Bilderberg Group, Council on Foreign Relations, Trilateral
Commission and other far more exclusive and sinister secret societies.  

Greenspan was the long-time head of the privately-owned 'US central bank',
the Federal Reserve. Once his policies had manipulated as much personal and
commercial debt as possible the plug was pulled on the system to trigger
what is designed to be global economic meltdown.

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Greenspan, who led 'the Fed' under Reagan, Father Bush, Clinton and Boy
Bush, operates at a deeper level within the Illuminati network than most of
their public figures, and I was told by a former Satanist, an unofficial
offspring of the Rothschild family, how he remembered Greenspan at sacrifice
rituals he attended:

'I can recall the Rockefellers and the Bushes attending rituals, but never
having the supremacy to lead them. I still regard them as lackeys and not
real brokers of occult power. Except for Alan Greenspan, most of these
fellows were camp followers in the occult, primarily for the economic power
and prestige. Greenspan, I recall, was a person of tremendous spiritual,
occult power and could make the Bushes and the younger Rockefellers cower
with just a glance.'

This, then, is the man who was controlling the United States economy from
1987 to 2006 and who, as planned, oversaw the insane economic policies that
led to the current global collapse. Go to another level of understanding and
you can see that Greenspan and other Illuminati place-men throughout the
world knew exactly what they were doing and what the outcome was planned to
be.

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Zionist Greenspan got out just before the true scale and consequences of his
manipulation came to light. It has been left to others, including his
Zionist successor at the 'Fed', Ben Shalom Bernanke, to offer the
'solutions' to the problems that Greenspan and his like created. All of
these 'solution' people are controlled by the same force that was, and is,
behind Greenspan. This is why Obama has named blatant insiders to his
'economic team' who were fundamentally culpable in the very collapse they
have been appointed to 'address'.

The Zionists Tim Geitner, Larry Summers, Paul Volcker etc., who are all
stalwarts of the same Bilderberg Group-Council on Foreign
Relations-Trilateral Commission network as Greenspan, have no intention of
finding a 'solution' that will benefit the people of America or anywhere
else.

Neither does Obama's Budget Director, the Zionist Peter R. Orszag. It was
Orszag who advised the Russian finance ministry at the time when Zionist
oligarchs were raping the Russian economy and stealing its resources and he
was a financial advisor to the Icelandic central bank just before the
Iceland banking system crashed. Great 'choice', Barack.

During the Clinton administration, Orszag worked with Obama's White House
Chief of Staff, the ultra-Zionist Rahm Emanuel, on imposing the NAFTA 'free
trade' agreement that has cost incredible numbers of American jobs - exactly
as planned. Emanuel served in the Israeli army and is the son of a terrorist
with the notorious Irgun, one the terror groups which bombed Israel into
existence after World War Two. It was Emanuel who said after Obama's
election: 'You never let a serious crisis go to waste'.

Emanuel, a cold and vicious piece of work, is directly controlling Obama and
the White House in league with senior White House advisor, the Zionist David
Axelrod, who ran the puppet 'president's' election campaign and oversees the
writing of the speeches that he reads from the teleprompter screens.

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Emanuel: Obama's puppeteer

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Axelrod: Obama's voice on the teleprompter screens

At least most of 'Obama's' economic place-men are fundamentally connected to
the Zionist Robert E. Rubin, the Treasury Secretary under Bill Clinton, who
oversaw financial deregulation that led ultimately to the current crisis.
Rubin recently resigned from Citigroup after encouraging the policies that
led the company to the brink of collapse. In January 2009, Rubin was named
by Marketwatch as one of the '10 most unethical people in business' and his
proteges and close associates are now running the US economy under Obama.

Another massive blow to economic confidence came when the Zionist hedge fund
crook, Bernard Madoff, revealed that he'd 'lost' $50 billion of his clients'
money. He says he acted alone. No bloody chance. Other financial disasters
which have collapsed the markets include American International Group
(A.I.G.), the insurance giant headed by the Zionist, Maurice Greenberg. It
has just announced losses of $61.7 billion for the final three months of
2008 - the biggest quarterly loss in corporate history.

Greenberg is extremely close to the Zionist Henry Kissinger, one of the
Illuminati's most vociferous global manipulators of the last 50 years.
Kissinger was appointed chairman of A.I.G.'s International Advisory Board in
1987.

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Zionist Kissinger with Zionist Greenberg. Anyone see a common theme building
here?? 

Are all these people just breathtakingly incompetent? No, no, no. Their role
for the cabal is to destroy the economy and America in general by, among
many other things, triggering the financial crisis and then wasting
staggering amounts of borrowed money - trillions of dollars - to ensure that
there is no way back.

A US TV ad apparently said that if you spent a million dollars a day every
day from the alleged birth of 'Christ' to today you would still not spend as
much as Obama is spending in borrowed money in his 'stimulus' package - let
alone the other fantastic sums on top of that to 'bail' the banks.

They have worked super-fast, using fear and the Obama hype as their weapons,
to throw more petrol on the fire in the full knowledge that this will make
matters worse, not better. Bush's 'bail out' of the banks has disappeared
from the radar with nothing to show for it and now Bush Mark 11, Mr Change,
is fronting up the spending of another three trillion.

The biggest recipient of bail-out money has been Maurice Greenberg's A.I.G,
which has been given $180 billion in borrowed money that the American
taxpayers, and their children, are now responsible for repaying. Rubin's
Citigroup is in for $50 billion of borrowed 'government' money.

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The idea is not only to collapse the American economy, but to throw so much
money at the problem (the banks mostly) as quickly as possible so that the
response options of the government are zero by the time the economy really
crashes on the scale that is planned.

The same is being orchestrated around the world, as we see in Britain where
the Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, is also hurling borrowed money at the
banking system only for the situation to go on getting worse. Brown was
Chancellor of the Exchequer, in charge of the country's finances, right
through the Blair years when he pursued policies that mirrored those of
Greenspan. 

Now the man who was a major cause of the banking crisis in the UK is asking
us to believe that he is the 'saviour' of the financial system. That's like
a guy smashing someone around the head with a baseball bat and then claiming
to be a hero for driving the fellah to hospital. But these people have no
shame.

The global economic collapse is designed to trigger a stream of 'benefits'
to the Illuminati agenda. One, as I have said from the start, is to use this
as an excuse to impose a global economic dictatorship controlled by a world
central bank. But there are many other 'solutions' and connected 'benefits'
that are planned to be exploited and we need to be streetwise to them.

The one I want to emphasise here is the need to stay calm and react
peacefully to what is happening. This is not easy when there is so much
stress and fear around with regard to the economic present and 'future', but
we need to do it all the same or we will walk straight into a massive trap
that has been set for us.

Let's get this straight: They want you to riot in response to the unfolding
economic catastrophe and we are already seeing people falling for this.

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Riots in France over economic conditions

Why would the authorities want people to riot? Readers of my books over the
years will see the answer immediately. They want an excuse to bring in a
fully-fledged Police State all over the world and people who riot in their
desperation (instigated invariably by agent-provocateurs) are just the
excuse they are looking for. 

Be very, very aware of anyone who starts rioting, or encourages others to do
so, amid peaceful demonstrations. Who are they and why are they doing this
when it is handing all the aces to the system to impose a Police State? They
are either stupid or agents of that State.

Regular readers of my newsletters will recall the one about the UK traffic
warden who was suddenly given new cards authorising him to do the work of
the police and to enter property without permission. His job was supposed to
be just handing out tickets for illegal parking and so on. His boss would
not discuss why these new cards were being issued, but a police officer
friend explained all to him. 

The officer said the government was preparing well ahead of time for a
coming 'war', during which they were expecting mass protests and rioting in
the streets. The police and the military were going to be so focussed on
dealing with this that other uniformed professions, like traffic wardens,
private security guards, CCTV operators and many others, were going to be
brought forward to do the work normally done by the police. 

Soon after the traffic warden approached me, the government announced that
his profession was being re-designated 'civil enforcement officers', thus
disconnecting them from their sole role of dealing with traffic. A few
months later the government announced plans for a new group called
'accredited persons' - private security guards, CCTV operators and many
others who would be given authority to do some of the work currently
confined to the police.

The officer told the traffic warden about a 'war', and that is planned for
sure at some point. But the excuse of the war could also have been a
cover-story for those people who were needed to work on the preparations,
but were not to know the real reason behind it. That real reason, as we can
now see, could include economic rioting after the financial collapse that
the Shadow People have long known was coming because they were going to
cause it - although, I stress again, a war is also being engineered
involving the 'West', China and Russia.

I have been stressing this point about the plan to stir up civil unrest and
rioting whenever I can and now the insiders are beginning to put that
thought into the public mind. 'There could be riots' is designed to
communicate the theme subliminally of 'go out and riot'. It is the simple
power of suggestion masquerading as 'concern'.

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And who should do just that than Zbigniew Brzezinski, the co-founder of the
Illuminati Trilateral Commission and one of the chief mentors and
controllers of Barack Obama. I won't call him 'President' Obama any longer
until he produces a birth certificate to prove he is eligible for the post.
Brzezinski told MSNBC: 

'... there's going to be growing conflict between the classes and if people
are unemployed and really hurting, hell, there could be even riots!'

No, Mr. Brzezinski, you know there are going to be riots because the network
you represent is going to do everything it can to make them happen. More and
more we are seeing this theme appearing from representatives of the State.
The U.S. Army War College has made the same warnings in a document called
Known Unknowns: Unconventional 'Strategic Shocks' in Defense Strategy
Development.

It said the military must be prepared for a 'violent, strategic dislocation
inside the United States', in the light of 'unforeseen economic collapse'.
Unforeseen?? You must be joking. The document talks of 'purposeful domestic
resistance', 'pervasive public health emergencies' or 'loss of functioning
political and legal order'. It goes on:

'Widespread civil violence ... would force the defense establishment to
reorient priorities in extremis to defend basic domestic order and human
security. An American government and defense establishment lulled into
complacency by a long-secure domestic order would be forced to rapidly
divest some or most external security commitments in order to address
rapidly expanding human insecurity at home.

Under the most extreme circumstances, this might include use of military
force against hostile groups inside the United States.' 

As the traffic warden, now 'civil enforcement officer', found out, this is
precisely what they are planning in the UK and the same will be the case in
every country because they are all controlled by a world-wide web
orchestrating a global agenda. The War College document said that the
Department of Defense would be the 'enabling hub' for the 'continuity of
political authority in a multi-state or nationwide civil conflict or
disturbance'.

Put that through the Orwellian Translation Unit and you get 'the military
will control the country'. This has all been planned for a long, long time
as I and others have been warning all these years, and the 'hostile groups'
the document talks about will be anyone who is challenging the
political/military dictatorship in any way, even verbally. 

In the light of this, you won't be surprised to know that the US military is
currently seeking to spend another $6 million on 'riot equipment'.

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Dennis C. Blair, Obama's Director of National Intelligence and Trilateral
Commission member, has also said that the economic crisis could create civil
unrest in the United States and around the world. He said the crisis was
'regime-threatening' if it continued over one or two years and this
manufactured crisis is designed to be much bigger and longer than that. In
the simple language that he seems to find so hard to summon, Blair says that
there is a greater chance of war during economic turmoil and there's no
doubt they have just that planned in the wake of what is happening now.  

Other establishment figures who have warned of unrest and rioting include
the heads of the World Trade Organisation and the International Monetary
Fund, both Illuminati organisations to their core, and anyone who heads them
will be, by definition, gofers for the cabal. 

In the UK, yet again confirming the validity of the traffic warden story,
the head of the police branch dealing in public order has warned of a
possible 'Summer of Rage' over rising unemployment and the economic crash.
Superintendent David Hartshorn of London's Metropolitan Police said that
'known activists' were planning to exploit the situation to mount mass
protests and he pointed to the G20 Summit in London in April as a likely
target, along with banks.

The London Sunday Express has also reported that UK police and 'security'
services are preparing to deal with rioting and 'the chilling prospect of
soldiers being drafted on to the streets has not been discounted ...'

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Riots in Greece

Mass protests around the world are no longer simply predictions because they
are already happening and, with the global economy yet to collapse on
anything like the scale it is intended to, we have seen nothing yet. Some
120,000 people demonstrated in Dublin over the handling of the economic
crisis in Ireland, a million protestors have been on the streets in France,
UK oil refinery and power station workers launched a series of strikes in
protest at the use of foreign workers, and the riots across Greece late last
year were partly economic in nature.

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Albert Pike

I can encapsulate what is going on here with part of a letter alleged to
have been sent in 1871 by Albert Pike, a Sovereign Grand Commander of the
Scottish Rite of Freemasonry in America, to Giuseppe Mazzini, the Illuminati
'revolutionary' in Italy. In this letter, Pike is said to have detailed the
background to three world wars the Illuminati was planning to bring about
their global dictatorship. The first two happened as he predicted and this
is what he said about the third: 

'The Third World War must be fomented by taking advantage of the differences
caused by the "agentur" of the "Illuminati" between the political Zionists
and the leaders of the Islamic World. The war must be conducted in such a
way that Islam (the Moslem Arabic World) and political Zionism (the State of
Israel) mutually destroy each other. Meanwhile the other nations, once more
divided on this issue will be constrained to fight to the point of complete
physical, moral, spiritual and economical exhaustion ...

.... We shall unleash the Nihilists and the atheists, and we shall provoke a
formidable social cataclysm which in all its horror will show clearly to the
nations the effect of absolute atheism, origin of savagery and of the most
bloody turmoil. 

Then everywhere, the citizens, obliged to defend themselves against the
world minority of revolutionaries, will exterminate those destroyers of
civilization, and the multitude, disillusioned with Christianity, whose
deistic spirits will from that moment be without compass or direction,
anxious for an ideal, but without knowing where to render its adoration,
will receive the true light through the universal manifestation of the pure
doctrine of Lucifer, brought finally out in the public view. This
manifestation will result from the general reactionary movement which will
follow the destruction of Christianity and atheism, both conquered and
exterminated at the same time.'

Click <http://www.threeworldwars.com/albert-pike2.htm>  here for more
background ...

Many dismiss the letter as a myth, but in the context I am using it that
doesn't matter. What it says is what is planned - an economic and social
catastrophe in which the people turn on themselves in their engineered
desperation and all morality is submerged in a mass battle for perceived
survival. 

The term 'nihilism', used in the Pike letter, has this dictionary
definition:

* Rejection of all distinctions in moral or religious value and a
willingness to repudiate all previous theories of morality or religious
belief.

* The belief that destruction of existing political or social institutions
is necessary for future improvement.

That pretty much sums it up, really, and this is why they want people to
riot all over the world to destroy the existing order, which, yes, the
Illuminati created, but they now seek to replace that with the next stage of
their tyranny - total global control. This means that national governments
and nation states must be destroyed to allow a world government to assume
its dictatorship.

Look at that definition of 'nihilism' again in the light of this: 'The
belief that destruction of existing political or social institutions is
necessary for future improvement.'

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'Rioter' and police dealing with the 'rioter' - all wearing the same
police-issue boots.  Just a coincidence, nothing to worry about.

Already waiting in the wings are the agent provocateurs and the useful
idiots primed to start the riots and civil unrest that the idiots believe to
be challenging the existing order. But the existing order was created by the
same network of Illuminati families that are seeking to create the 'new
order', the New World Order, which is planned to emerge from the turmoil and
chaos they are now engineering.

To achieve this, as always, they need our cooperation and let no-one be in
any doubt that those who choose to riot and loot in response to what is
happening, and encourage others to riot and loot, are walking straight into
the trap that has been laid for them. The government and military agent
provocateurs will know that, the useful idiots will not, but it is time they
did.

I have met few more concrete-minded or naive people than those that are
termed the extreme end of the political 'Left'. They have been played like a
violin for hundreds of years to change the world in the image of the
Illuminati blueprint in violent revolutions to bring down the established
order. Now they are being gathered again to complete the journey to global
tyranny and provide the violence and chaos that is designed to open the way
to a world government, world army, world central bank, world electronic
currency and a microchipped population connected to the global positioning
satellite system, or GPS, among many other technologies of surveillance and
control.

The riots and looting they want to see, the chaos, will be met with the
installation of a Police State with curfews, jail without trial, the
military on the streets, and the activation of the concentration camps for
'dissidents' that we have long warned about. They are officially called
'military installations', run by FEMA, the deeply-sinister Federal Emergency
Management Agency, and it is no coincidence, of course, that a bill numbered
H.R. 645 is passing through Washington 'to direct the Secretary of Homeland
Security to establish national emergency centers on military installations'.
No, concentration camps, and other countries will have them prepared also.

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Look at what that War College document said: 'Under the most extreme
circumstances, this might include use of military force against hostile
groups inside the United States.' Might? It's a certainty because that's the
plan and all the laws are in place to allow them to do it. They have been
passed by governments around the world as 'anti-terror' legislation, but
they use the terms 'terror' and 'terrorist' in such a non-specific way that
all these laws can be applied to the entire population of the country that
the 'laws' were supposed to protect according to their advocates.

It was all a gigantic con, as some of us tired of pointing out. It had
nothing to do with terrorists who are alleged to plant bombs and so on. All
these laws have been put into place with the specific goal of controlling
the mass of the people through a Police State when they triggered an
economic collapse, together with new wars.

Add to all this a stream of presidential executive orders signed by
successive presidents without oversight by either the House of
Representatives or the Senate. These are unconstitutional and make the
president a virtual dictator. Click here
<http://www.freedomfiles.org/war/fema.htm>  to see the powers that the State
can activate, thanks to these orders, when martial law is declared.

This is why Obama's Zionist Svengali, the White House Chief of Staff Rahm
Emanuel, is seeking to have gun ownership curtailed - to make the military
takeover easier. Meantime, more people are seeking to be armed and requests
for concealed weapon permits in Florida alone are up 42 per cent in 45 days
with the consequences of the economic turmoil in mind.

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The military on the streets of Iraq. How long before the same is seen on the
streets of America and elsewhere?

The only way to stop all this is not to react as they want us to, with
violence and hostility to both the State and each other. How many violent
revolutions have led to just another tyranny, official or unofficial, to
replace the one that fell? It has to be so because what is destroyed by
violence will be replaced by the same energy. As I have said in my books,
what you fight, you become. 

John Lennon put it perfectly when he sang:

You say you want a revolution 
Well, you know 
We all want to change the world 
You tell me that it's evolution 
Well, you know 
We all want to change the world 
But when you talk about destruction 
Don't you know that you can count me out ...

.... You say you got a real solution 
Well, you know 
We'd all love to see the plan 
You ask me for a contribution 
Well, you know 
We're doing what we can 
But when you want money 
for people with minds that hate 
All I can tell is brother you have to wait 

Revolution (1968) ... click here
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87yq372R4Ts>  to watch ... 

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Martin Luther King also put it brilliantly when he said of rioting:

'The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and
their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but
reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis,
but it must be followed by a sense of futility.'

Those are the words of a revolutionary who succeeded through peaceful
non-cooperation. Yes, they killed him, but what he created through
non-violence and determination went forth to end segregation. Physical life
does not matter when compared with what is right, for we are all eternal
Conciousness having an illusory experience and the greatest illusion is
death.

I would much rather die 'early' doing what I knew to be right than to eek
out a few more illusory years as a slave to a tyranny.

But there is no need even for that to bring an end to this nonsense. There
are billions of people being enslaved and a comparative handful doing the
enslaving. Er, I think I see a way out of this.

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We need to come together in mutual support, love, kindness and empathy. We
need to put aside the manufactured fault-lines that divide us - religion,
politics, race, culture and income bracket. That is not to say people have
to reject their beliefs, just don't let them be weapons of division. 

We are all in this together and we need to meet the challenge together, not
steal from each other, loot or riot, or look the other way because something
happening to someone else is 'not my problem'. They are not seeking to
enslave Muslims, Jews, black people, or white middle class Americans and so
on. They are seeking to do it to all of us and they are picking off
different groups one by one, just like the Nazis did in Germany. Remember
these famous words because they are so applicable now:

First they came for the Jews and I was not a Jew so I did nothing.
Then they came for the communists and I was not a communist so I did
nothing.
Then they came for the trade unionists and I was not a trade unionist so I
did nothing.
Then they came for me and there was no-one left to speak out for me.

Let us unite behind that which affects everyone - the loss of our most basic
freedoms. And if this is being planned now, what kind of world are our
children and grandchildren going to live in? Can you live with that thought
while doing nothing or rioting as the authorities want? I can't. 

We need to start getting organised in communities and groups to support each
other and stop cooperating with the system - not to fight it. The system can
only exist with our cooperation and acquiesce. We are holding it together.
They have their men and women of violence, called the military and 'Swat'
teams, to deal with violent resistance.

But their worst nightmare is our non-cooperation - the refusal to pay taxes;
refusal to leave homes when banks foreclose on them; refusal to 'comply'
with our own enslavement in any form. The system couldn't cope if this was
done on a mass scale. And that's the point: to do this we need to do it
en-masse and those not immediately affected need to support those who are.

Instead of compliance, we need the non-comply-dance of people who beat to a
different drum and will not comply with what is unfair, unjust, or targets
their freedom and the freedom of others. This approach does not refuse to
comply in a spirit of hostility, rage or violence, but with love, joy and
laughter - and an unbreakable determination not to cooperate with their own
enslavement.

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We need a mass refusal join the military, especially if they try to
introduce the Draft; a refusal to do the compulsory 'community service' for
young people that Obama's controllers want to introduce (as does the UK
government); and a refusal to join, or accept the legitimacy of, Obama's
planned civilian security force, which is nothing more than a scam to get
the people to police the people on behalf of the Elite in the midst of the
economic collapse and war.

We need to start getting together local currency schemes that can operate
outside the system and, yes, people should also have mass protests if they
choose, so long as they are peaceful. But they need to be part of the
campaign of non-violent, non-cooperation, not the focus of it.

How many mass protests have there been over the years around the world and
yet everything just goes on as before, be it war or globalisation. We need
to stop posturing and then heading for the bar to feel good about ourselves
and start doing what will actually make a difference.

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Mass protests can ease frustration - steam whistles as I call them - but
what good do most of them do? Mass non-cooperation with the system is far
more effective. 

The protests need to be targeted at non-cooperation, refusing to accept laws
that ban assembly by massive numbers turning up; surrounding the homes of
neighbours when the bank bailiffs come to put them on the street; and so
filling the locations of government and finance with masses of people that
the system cannot function. Workers who provide essential services to
government, police and financial institutions etc., can refuse to do so
until Orwellian laws and financial injustice are removed. In this way the
perpetrators are affected, not the mass of the people, as with all-out
strikes. 

And all of this needs to be good humoured and strictly peaceful.

I would say this also to those in uniform. You may think you have power, but
you are just pawns in the game like anyone else. You don't have the power,
your uniform does, because that is an extension of the State. Those inside
are just there to animate the uniform and do the bidding of those it
represents. When you are useful to the cabal they'll praise you and when you
are surplus to their requirements as part of the bigger agenda they'll show
you the door.

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You have children and grandchildren, too, who will have to live in the world
you are policing into existence by 'following orders' and believing the
manipulative nonsense fed to you by governments and cabal 'training' fronts
like the UK-based Common Purpose. Wake up from the trance and stop building
a Police State for your own children and grandchildren - and everyone else.
Think about the consequences for those you love of what you are doing - and
stop doing it.

More than anything, we all need to free our minds and become conscious. From
that, everything else will come, including the intuition, inspiration and
knowing that will guide us on how most effectively to deal with what we
face.

If there are many things you would like to do in a room, but the room is
dark and you can't see, what is the fundamental first step to anything else
happening? You have to turn on the light and then all the rest becomes
possible. Without that you are thrashing around in the dark and falling over
the furniture.

That is what 'humans' are doing today and have been for so long. They have
been manipulated to believe they are their bodies and their names when those
are just the experiences of who they truly are - eternal Consciousness. As
the great American comedian, Bill Hicks, said:

'... all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, we are all
one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively. There's no such thing as
death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves.'

The divisions between us are illusory to allow a certain kind of experience,
but these illusions have been exploited mercilessly to divide and rule us.

ENOUGH!

When we awaken to the truth of who we are the world looks very different and
so do the challenges that are put before us - or we put before ourselves.
Move your point of observation and everything changes. Try it. Try ceasing
to identify who you are with your body, your name and the reflection in the
mirror. Try seeing those things as experiences and not who you are. Try
observing your life and the world from the perception of the real you -
eternal Conciousness, All That Is, Has Been and Ever Can Be in our illusion
called 'time'.

  <http://www.davidicke.com/oi/extras/09/march/18.jpg> 

Eternal Conscious in awareness of itself doesn't riot; it is not violent and
it doesn't loot. But nor does it ever do, or accept for itself and others,
what is not fair, just, loving and kind. Crucially, Consciousness is without
fear. When we operate on that level then we can truly claim to be Conscious
and not trapped in the illusion called Mind. As Albert Einstein said: 'You
cannot solve problems with the same level of consciousness that created
them.'

John Lennon also made this key point in Revolution about what needs to
happen to really make a difference. We need to free our minds and become
Conscious:

You say you'll change the constitution 
Well, you know 
We all want to change your head 
You tell me it's the institution 
Well, you know 
You better free you mind instead 
But if you go carrying pictures of chairman Mao 
You ain't going to make it with anyone anyhow 

We are now fast heading for the eye of the storm that has been planned for
so long to enslave the global population in a centralised tyranny. But we
don't have to accept it or acquiesce to it, meekly looking on as the walls
of control close in by the day. 

But that is what is happening and it has to stop. For everyone's sake, it
has to stop.

We can come together, we MUST come together, putting aside the fault-lines
of race, religion, culture and income bracket. These are just illusory
labels through which we are divided and therefore ruled. Believe in them if
you wish, and enjoy them if they make you happy, but don't let them divide
us any longer.

We need to come together in mutual support at this time as those with sick
minds and closed hearts are poised to throw everything at us to complete
their agenda for total control. Whether their insanity prevails is not in
their hands, but in ours. It is we who have the power if only we would
choose to use it. 

We are One Consciousness deluded into thinking we are 'little me'. When we
realise that we are all One - and act upon that with courage, love,
kindness, peace and empathy for all who need support - the walls of
oppression must fall.

But sitting on your arse hoping it will all go away is no longer an option. 

It never was.

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From maryrose333 at att.net  Tue Mar 10 10:36:42 2009
From: maryrose333 at att.net (mary rose)
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 09:36:42 -0700
Subject: [GJM] FW: [globalnetnews-summary] Let's not look upon the demise of
	our financial base as a bad thing
Message-ID: <000001c9a19e$6793bd50$36bb37f0$@net>

I completely agree with the sentiments expressed here. 

One of the things we need to understand about the present economy is that
the external costs, that is the costs to the environment, which have been
for many years excluded from the retail price of products sold, are so
extensive that were they included none of us would be able to afford the
product, e.g., our home, our car, the beef we eat along with other meats,
our appliances, etc. The only thing that our work has produced is wages
(which many refer to as slave wages) that enable us to enjoy an artificial
way of life that is completely unnatural. Yet, the very sad part of this is
that we consider what we are doing normal. For a very long time now, but
mainly from the beginning of the Industrial Age, we have taken from the
Earth and let these external costs pile up unabated as we continued our
party. Now these external costs are coming due in the form of ecological
collapse and global climate change. And, we are running on empty. And it may
well be that the only thing that is going to save us, as pointed out in this
article is the economic collapse which will force us into living a
sustainable lifestyle if we want to continue on here on Earth as the Human
Family.         

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TradingPostPaul
Sent: Tuesday, March 03, 2009 8:22 PM
To: globalnetnews-summary at lists.riseup.net
Subject: [globalnetnews-summary] Let's not look upon the demise of our
financial base as a bad thing 

"The survivors will be those who have developed the necessary survival
skills -- those who are able to grow and cook their own food, and educate
their own children, and look after their own health. These people will not
wake up every morning fretting about money, or spending most of their day
being concerned about their coiffure or fashion. They will not spend huge
chunks of their time shopping."


Let's not look upon the demise of our financial base as a bad thing 
03 March 2009

We are now beginning to hear predictions of even less growth, and the
likely length of the depression increasing.

It's a little unfortunate that the only people who can get a word into the
newspapers or onto the television, are in fact prime candidates for being
helped by the men in white coats.

All they succeed in doing is causing confusion amongst those of us who are
in the process of evolving into a more sensible human being.

The old "modern" paradigm has lived its life -- bring on the new paradigm.

The nearest parallel I can think of was when Imperial China was taken over
by Maoist China. Could the people who were around in those times have
predicted such dramatic change? Absolutely no way, but here is one of
hundreds of similar examples -- things do change.

The modern era has been dominated by business, and profit has become the
sole reason for some people to live. They are so locked inside the box that
they are not even aware that they are living inside a paradigm, and as a
result are completely unable to imagine a different one.

These are the people who are eventually destined to be classified as
insane, just as those are today who continue to declare that the earth is
flat.

Sane people would not base the on-going survival of the human species on a
foundation of business having infinite growth. There are many alternative
foundations for life, and the most likely suggestions to succeed are those
alternatives that are aligned with nature.

In the new paradigm, deeper truths will be recognised. Our scientists and
philosophers will be telling us that we are a part of nature, and not
master of it -- we do not own the earth -- it owns us.

Let's not look upon the demise of our financial base as a bad thing. In
fact it can be turned into a very good thing.

It gives us the opportunity to walk away from our present destructive way
of life, and to actually DO something about the earth's environmental
problems.

We are being told that it's already too late, but as the saying goes, it's
never too late. However, certainly now is the time.

We do not own the earth, despite what we are told by various governments
and real estate agents. We have been given an opportunity to manifest a
body which can stay here for a while, but if we abuse that privilege then
we are delaying our own personal and spiritual evolution.

We must wake up to the fact that our lifestyles have become lazy, unhealthy
and pointless, and as we suck the earth's energy instead of using our own,
each one of us is unable to fulfill our true potential.

We will soon start to wonder why we were born -- a question that most
people surprisingly cannot answer. It would seem a childish notion to
consider that we were born to become rich, or to collect amazing quantities
of material things. So we see that most of the people who encourage and
govern us, and manage the earth's resources, and whom we presently elect
and worship are in fact no more than children.

When we mature into an adult, we cease to need all of today's toys, and we
begin to realise that life has much more meaning than adding a couple of
percentage points to a P & L account.

We desperately need new leaders, and as we have tried all forms of
leadership only to discover that they failed, we had better discover a very
different kind of leader. We will begin to lead ourselves. We will draw
back all the responsibilities and power that we have delegated to these
failed leaders.

We will cease to be dependent on the state and big business for our
survival. We will withdraw from the cities, as soon as we realise that they
are the source of all evil and environmental destruction (probably because
they are so far out of line from nature).

City people have become ungrounded -- they have completely lost all
connection with the spirit that manifested them. Their daily activities and
thoughts are unhealthy, and definitely do not show any meaningful reason
for their birth. They are exactly what the CIA calls them -- useless
eaters.

Most of the useless eaters will be unable to find a way of living once
their faces are taken off the TV and out of the newspapers. They contribute
nothing meaningful to society, and in fact are delaying the evolution of
society.

The survivors will be those who have developed the necessary survival
skills -- those who are able to grow and cook their own food, and educate
their own children, and look after their own health. These people will not
wake up every morning fretting about money, or spending most of their day
being concerned about their coiffure or fashion. They will not spend huge
chunks of their time shopping.

All of that is far behind us, if only we could realise it. The earth is
moving on -- its vibration rate is becoming higher -- it is heating up,
along with the rest of the universe, as another step in the evolution of
our solar system. If we can get enough intelligent people to align
themselves and their lives with nature, then we can use our wisdom to help
us to survive -- or else we can continue to talk about the prospects of
limited business growth this year. Doh! 



From maryrose333 at att.net  Tue Mar 10 14:10:54 2009
From: maryrose333 at att.net (mary rose)
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 13:10:54 -0700
Subject: [GJM] FW: Simple Living News - Issue #69
Message-ID: <001001c9a1bc$54677640$fd3662c0$@net>

Please forward this to your lists as it offers many insights into moving
into the simple sustainable lifestyle as the economic system falls apart.
Author Duane Elgin was one of the first to identify the Simple Living
Movement and support its growth through his books and articles.     

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Subject: Simple Living News - Issue #69

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+ TOP DOWN VS. BOTTOM UP
   By Dave Wampler

We are at a turning point. The recession is in full swing.
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Sustainable," provides a great moment that should be
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our collective wisdom with a public looking for answers.
There is hope!

+ LIVING SIMPLY IN A LIVING UNIVERSE: A Personal,
   Civilizational, & Species Choice
   By Duane Elgin

How seeing the universe as living vs. dead drives us to
desire simplicity over materialism -- a discussion of
ephemeralism, the simultaneous refinement of the material
and non-material aspects of life.

+ THE WORLD HAS CHANGED: Alternatives For Simple Living
   By Michael Mortvedt

The change of leadership in the White House bodes well for
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+ THE ART OF LIVING: In Search Of Simplicity
   By John Haines

Excerpt from "In Search Of Simplicity" -- learning to be
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Thoughts on retiring during a time of economic upheaval --
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+ CONSCIOUS FRUGALITY: The Non-Consumer Advocate
   By Katy Wolk-Stanley

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+ DISCOVERING AN ABUNDANT LIFE: The Picket Line
   By David Gross

A real-life story of purposefully living below the tax line:
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Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 15:20:45 -0700
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More and more people are finally "getting it". 

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To Feel Lucky as Collapse Progresses / Tom Friedman's Awakening
http://culturechange.org/cms/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id
=350&Itemid=1
by Jan Lundberg   
09 March 2009

Culture Change Letter #240 - Slow collapse is what we need, if possible. As
bad as this seems, "So far so good." The kind of fast collapse from a
massive interruption in oil supplies is much harder to handle.

The system is teetering on many levels, and there are uncertainties, but
fall it will. Many people around the world are hurting, but not those who
have a secure connection to a fruitful, healthy land base belonging to
their community.

In the U.S., where the Census no longer has a designation for "Farmer" for
lack of numbers, the food charities are stressed from unprecedented demand,
while foreclosures and firings mean homelessness for some. And in a
minimum-community culture, there's nowhere to go -- in the 1930s' Great
Depression a room could be had in a relative's farmhouse out in the
country.

What we need is somewhere to go in our minds: a vision of better living and
liberation. It's time to take John Lennon's advice and "Imagine."

Are we really so unlucky if the cars go away, and we get back to local
community living? That's the direction we're heading in. When we hear
so-called leaders' messages to the contrary, their business-as-usual
programming threatens to delay the people from waking up from passivity.

Somehow, as useless as the dinosaurs of never-ending growth are, it feels
as if patience with their disappearance from dominance is harmless enough.
A nonviolent revolution is the idea, even if people who will be starving by
the hundreds of millions -- if there's valid concern for the effects of
climate disruption and petrocollapse -- will not do so quietly.

Meanwhile, instead of preparing for the real future, faith in employment
and Big Brother means droves of citizens are flocking back to college -- to
compete for jobs on the Titanic rather than get skills that are not
necessarily taught in colleges.

Does clinging to a crumbling structure or sinking ship make sense when it's
more and more clear that getting what we need from the usual paycheck and
latest investment bubble is becoming pass?? When the food supply is
severely threatened by droughts? How many consumers have discovered that
the food supply can dry up in a few days from an oil-market crisis having
to do with the end of oil-powered world trade, now that we've hit peak oil?
The food riots several months ago are destined to return more widely and
magnified, toppling governments and corporations. It will be an
overpopulation in panic -- not a pleasant thought, so it is buried along
with reports like Culture Change's.

The grid will go down. What man has built is idiotic if it can't last. To
assume we need it is to sign up for thousands of years of nuclear waste,
mercury poisoning from burning coal, as "renewable energy" has only a
supplementary role when applied to the grid. The technotopia of renewables
looks like it has been curtailed (f it was ever on track) due to the
financial meltdown. The end of the techno-dream of clean energy for a huge
consumer economy will also be due to the rusting, giant petroleum
infrastructure. Get ready for small scale energy uses that are simply part
of keeping ourselves warm and growing and cooking food, based on proven
traditions without shopping at big box stores.

Dealing with collapse proactively is getting all the more urgent, and that
includes realizing that the talking heads have been hopelessly invested in
a broken system that was painful and wrong from the get-go. Fortunately,
one of them must have had a revelation or had the equivalent of some
psychedelic trip:

Tom Friedman of the New York Times has woken up. In last weekend's column
"The Inflection Is Near?" he has come around to the basic position Culture
Change has maintained for two decades. The column has brilliance, and he's
talking to smarter people now. Unlike his economist colleague Paul Krugman,
Friedman now sees limits to the Earth's capacity to give up resources and
be polluted, and thus a new direction is indicated as of 2008. Several
people have sent the column to me, including a long-time reader of Culture
Change who has differed with me over the technofix: "Friedman?s beginning
to sound like you!" Here it is, with my only quibble afterwards:

    The Inflection Is Near?

    By Thomas L. Friedman
    March 7, 2009

    Sometimes the satirical newspaper The Onion is so right on, I can?t
resist quoting from it. Consider this faux article from June 2005 about
America?s addiction to Chinese exports:

        FENGHUA, China ? Chen Hsien, an employee of Fenghua Ningbo
Plastic Works Ltd., a plastics factory that manufactures lightweight
household items for Western markets, expressed his disbelief Monday over
the ?sheer amount of [garbage] Americans will buy. Often, when we?re
assigned a new order for, say, ?salad shooters,? I will say to myself,
?There?s no way that anyone will ever buy these.? ... One month
later, we will receive an order for the same product, but three times the
quantity. How can anyone have a need for such useless [garbage]? I hear
that Americans can buy anything they want, and I believe it, judging from
the things I?ve made for them,? Chen said. ?And I also hear that,
when they no longer want an item, they simply throw it away. So wasteful
and contemptible.? 

    Let?s today step out of the normal boundaries of analysis of our
economic crisis and ask a radical question: What if the crisis of 2008
represents something much more fundamental than a deep recession? What if
it?s telling us that the whole growth model we created over the last 50
years is simply unsustainable economically and ecologically and that 2008
was when we hit the wall ? when Mother Nature and the market both said:
?No more.?

    We have created a system for growth that depended on our building more
and more stores to sell more and more stuff made in more and more factories
in China, powered by more and more coal that would cause more and more
climate change but earn China more and more dollars to buy more and more
U.S. T-bills so America would have more and more money to build more and
more stores and sell more and more stuff that would employ more and more
Chinese ...

    We can?t do this anymore.

    ?We created a way of raising standards of living that we can?t
possibly pass on to our children,? said Joe Romm, a physicist and climate
expert who writes the indispensable blog climateprogress.org. We have been
getting rich by depleting all our natural stocks ? water, hydrocarbons,
forests, rivers, fish and arable land ? and not by generating renewable
flows.

    ?You can get this burst of wealth that we have created from this
rapacious behavior,? added Romm. ?But it has to collapse, unless adults
stand up and say, ?This is a Ponzi scheme. We have not generated real
wealth, and we are destroying a livable climate ...? Real wealth is
something you can pass on in a way that others can enjoy.?

    Over a billion people today suffer from water scarcity; deforestation
in the tropics destroys an area the size of Greece every year ? more than
25 million acres; more than half of the world?s fisheries are over-fished
or fished at their limit.

    ?Just as a few lonely economists warned us we were living beyond our
financial means and overdrawing our financial assets, scientists are
warning us that we?re living beyond our ecological means and overdrawing
our natural assets,? argues Glenn Prickett, senior vice president at
Conservation International. But, he cautioned, as environmentalists have
pointed out: ?Mother Nature doesn?t do bailouts.?

    One of those who has been warning me of this for a long time is Paul
Gilding, the Australian environmental business expert. He has a name for
this moment ? when both Mother Nature and Father Greed have hit the wall
at once ? ?The Great Disruption.?

    ?We are taking a system operating past its capacity and driving it
faster and harder,? he wrote me. ?No matter how wonderful the system
is, the laws of physics and biology still apply.? We must have growth,
but we must grow in a different way. For starters, economies need to
transition to the concept of net-zero, whereby buildings, cars, factories
and homes are designed not only to generate as much energy as they use but
to be infinitely recyclable in as many parts as possible. Let?s grow by
creating flows rather than plundering more stocks.

    Gilding says he?s actually an optimist. So am I. People are already
using this economic slowdown to retool and reorient economies. Germany,
Britain, China and the U.S. have all used stimulus bills to make huge new
investments in clean power. South Korea?s new national paradigm for
development is called: ?Low carbon, green growth.? Who knew? People are
realizing we need more than incremental changes ? and we?re seeing the
first stirrings of growth in smarter, more efficient, more responsible
ways.

    In the meantime, says Gilding, take notes: ?When we look back, 2008
will be a momentous year in human history. Our children and grandchildren
will ask us, ?What was it like? What were you doing when it started to
fall apart? What did you think? What did you do?? ? Often in the middle
of something momentous, we can?t see its significance. But for me there
is no doubt: 2008 will be the marker ? the year when ?The Great
Disruption? began. 

Friedman sees more than an inflection or deviation from the economy's
course; he is implying a culture change. He is experiencing his own
inflection in awareness, and at this rate he will give up on the growth
paradigm for good. He's on the verge of truly redefining growth, but he may
not understand yet that "clean power" is not the salvation of the consumer
economy. The Great Disruption he speaks of will continue to inflect
Friedman and the rest of us until we see what kind of society(ties) survive
collapse, and we start living -- instead of trying to make a killing or
tolerating others who try (as "Father Greed") to do it. 






From maryrose333 at att.net  Sat Mar  7 13:00:36 2009
From: maryrose333 at att.net (mary rose)
Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2009 12:00:36 -0800
Subject: [GJM] IMPORTANT FW: Cool re CYCLED housing!
Message-ID: <010c01c99f5f$6509f270$2f1dd750$@net>

Robynne, thanks for sending this. Yes, it is cool and we need to think of
more creative ideas re: housing. However, one of the things we absolutely
must do is to STOP USING WOOD taken from our old growth and rainforests in
order to build homes, furnishings, and other buildings including commercial
units.   

 

2009 - Living in Paper (Papercrete) offers one solution.
<http://www.livinginpaper.com/> www.livinginpaper.com/ 

Then we can use hemp to make all kinds of things for our homes, including a
very strong particle board designed for many uses. I understand Lexus is now
using hemp to make the dashboards of their cars.
http://www.ecomall.com/biz/hemp.htm

 

With straw bale used as an insulator in this metal grain storage unit, or
used on the exterior and then stuccoed, it would be much cooler in summer
and warmer in winter than if conventional insulation material was used. Even
better if the insulation was composed of hemp straw.    

 

From: W. Robynne McWayne [mailto:wrmcwayne at hotmail.com] 
Sent: Friday, March 06, 2009 10:41 PM
Subject: Cool re CYCLED housing!

 


 
 
I might cut a few more windows, or would that ruin the "effect"?
Then there's the heat in summer in Texas?
 

  _____  

From: lhbouchard at hotmail.com
Subject: FW: this is incredible!! (UNCLASSIFIED)
Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 14:02:08 -0800


 

 
> KITCHEN:
 
> BEDROOM:

> ENTRY:
 
> BATHROOM:

> This place seems very modern, perhaps like something you'd see in a
> swanky highrise condo or townhome near the city, right? BUT.
> HERE'S THE INCREDIBLE PART!!...
 
> This 1 bedroom loft apartment was built inside a 1940's grain silo.
  
> It was renovated into this upscale unit after it was purchased and
> relocated to the grounds of the Gruene Homestead Inn in New Braunfels,
> TX in 2007.
 
> If that's not creative craftmanship, then I don't know what is! 

> I couldn't help but share this because it is so cool! 



  _____  

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From ecotort at gn.apc.org  Sat Mar  7 15:02:03 2009
From: ecotort at gn.apc.org (EcoTort Theatre)
Date: Sat, 07 Mar 2009 22:02:03 +0000
Subject: [GJM] what is BO doing and why?
Message-ID: <49B2EEDB.90003@gn.apc.org>

*Op-Ed Columnist, New York Times, Miracles Take Time: BOB HERBERT.*
** *Published: March 6, 2009*
Barack Obama has only been president for six weeks, but there is a 
surprising amount of ire, anger, even outrage that he hasn't yet solved 
the problems of the U.S. economy, that he hasn't saved us from the 
increasingly tragic devastation wrought by the clownish ideas of 
right-wing conservatives and the many long years of radical Republican 
misrule.
 
This intense, impatient, often self-righteous, frequently wrongheaded 
and at times willfully destructive criticism has come in waves, and not 
just from the right. Mr. Obama is as legitimate a target for criticism 
as any president. But there is a weird hysterical quality to some of the 
recent attacks that suggests an underlying fear or barely suppressed 
rage. It's a quality that seems not just unhelpful but unhealthy.
 
Mr. Obama is being hammered --- depending on the point of view of the 
critics --- for the continuing collapse of the stock market, for not 
moving fast enough to revive the suicidal financial industry, for trying 
to stem the flood tide of home foreclosures, for trying to bring health 
insurance coverage to some of the millions of Americans who don't have 
any, for running up huge budget deficits as he tries to fend off the 
worst economic emergency since World War II

*From EcoTort:*
...I reckon it might be because he is being seen
as linked with the ashkeNazis
and therefore possibly as part of the crew
who are responsible for the problems
we face in the world today,
(caused by fraudulent, criminal, banking practices?)
it's probably not a conscious thought yet
for most people,
but I think something is brewing...

Whatever can it be?

Could it be a world domination plot??

if so, WHAT ARE THEY LIKELY TO BE PLOTTING???

If we can assume that "they" are not stupid...
(after all, they seem to have most of the rest of us running around in 
circles...!)
then we can assume that they are acting /in their own self interest.../
(as we all tend to do...)
and that they need to be */healthy/*,
and that therefore *it is in their own self interest
to have a healthy environment to live in....*

What I really cannot understand
is WHY for the Love of God/,
for hundreds of years, /
"they" have been consistently financing
wholesale CRIMINAL damage and destruction
of our common environment
WHICH THEY AND THEIR CHILDREN
ALSO HAVE TO LIVE IN... ? !


and,
EVEN NOW,
why are "they"
TOTALLY REFUSING
to finance any
of the many REALLY constructive solutions....
WHICH ARE READILY AVAILABLE IN THE WORLD TODAY...???

maybe:
"they" are waiting for the right moment
when we all actually WANT to care for our Planet and for eachother...

or maybe:
"they" are going to bankrupt the global transportation system next week...
within 1 week people in cities are fighting for food
within 2 weeks there are food stations with FREE CHIPS
(ie, you don't get any foods unless you get CHIPPED>>!)

who knows?

what are the odds??

can "they" be trusted?

can OB be trusted??

one thing is for sure
we need to work together to look after our planet
AND money is IRRELEVANT
it Is virtual !
and of no REAL consequence

*TIE* ALL MONEY TO *REAL *RESOURCES
then it can be trusted as a means of exchange

when it is cheaper to import carrots from another country
than to grow them at home
THERE IS SOMETHING SERIOUSLY WRONG WITH THE "ECO"NOMY ! ! !

*GLOBAL PERMACULTURE RULES OK!* <http://www.ecotort.gn.apc.org>

*WE HAVE THE TECHNOLOGY ! ! ! * <http://www.permaculture.org>

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FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana } Op-Ed Columnist
> *New York Times
> Miracles Take Time
> BOB HERBERT*
> ** 
> *Published: March 6, 2009*
>  
> Barack Obama has only been president for six weeks, but there is a 
> surprising amount of ire, anger, even outrage that he hasn't yet 
> solved the problems of the U.S. economy, that he hasn't saved us from 
> the increasingly tragic devastation wrought by the clownish ideas of 
> right-wing conservatives and the many long years of radical Republican 
> misrule.
>  
> This intense, impatient, often self-righteous, frequently wrongheaded 
> and at times willfully destructive criticism has come in waves, and 
> not just from the right. Mr. Obama is as legitimate a target for 
> criticism as any president. But there is a weird hysterical quality to 
> some of the recent attacks that suggests an underlying fear or barely 
> suppressed rage. It's a quality that seems not just unhelpful but 
> unhealthy.
>  
> Mr. Obama is being hammered --- depending on the point of view of the 
> critics --- for the continuing collapse of the stock market, for not 
> moving fast enough to revive the suicidal financial industry, for 
> trying to stem the flood tide of home foreclosures, for trying to 
> bring health insurance coverage to some of the millions of Americans 
> who don't have any, for running up huge budget deficits as he tries to 
> fend off the worst economic emergency since World War II and for not 
> taking time out from all of the above to deal with --- get this --- 
> earmarks.
>  
> Earmarks.
>  
> More than 4.4 million jobs have been lost since this monster recession 
> officially got under way in December 2007, and we've got people 
> wigging out over earmarks. Folks, get a grip. Some earmarks are good, 
> some are not, but collectively they account for a tiny, tiny portion 
> of the national budget --- less than 1 percent.
>  
> *Freaking out over earmarks is like watching a neighborhood that is 
> being consumed by flames and complaining that there is crabgrass on 
> some of the lawns.*
>  
> In the midst of the craziness, conservatives are busy trying to blame 
> this epic economic catastrophe --- a conflagration of their own making 
> --- on the new president. Forget Ronald Reagan and George Herbert 
> Walker Bush and George Herbert Hoover Bush and the Heritage Foundation 
> and the Club for Growth and Phil Gramm and Newt Gingrich and all the 
> rest. The right-wingers would have you believe this is Obama's downturn.
>  
> The bear market would no doubt have magically turned around by now, 
> and those failing geniuses at the helm of our flat-lined 
> megacorporations would no doubt be busy manufacturing new profits and 
> putting people back to work --- if only Mr. Obama had solved the 
> banking crisis, had lowered taxes on the rich, had refused to consider 
> running up those giant deficits (a difficult thing to do at the same 
> time that you are saving banks and lowering taxes), and had abandoned 
> any inclination that he might have had to reform health care and make 
> it a little easier for ordinary American kids to get a better education.
>  
> As the columnist Charles Krauthammer was kind enough to inform us: 
> "The markets' recent precipitous decline is a reaction not just to the 
> absence of any plausible bank rescue plan, but also to the suspicion 
> that Obama sees the continuing financial crisis as usefully creating 
> the psychological conditions --- the sense of crisis bordering on 
> fear-itself panic --- for enacting his 'big-bang' agenda to federalize 
> and/or socialize health care, education and energy, the commanding 
> heights of post-industrial society."
>  
> That's a more genteel version of the sentiment expressed a couple of 
> weeks ago by the perpetually hysterical Alan Keyes, a Republican who 
> was beaten by Mr. Obama in the Illinois Senate race in 2004. "Obama is 
> a radical communist," said Mr. Keyes, "and I think it is becoming 
> clear. That is what I told people in Illinois, and now everybody 
> realizes it's true."
>  
> I don't know whether President Obama's ultimate rescue plan for the 
> financial industry will work. He is a thoughtful man running a 
> thoughtful administration and the plan, a staggeringly complex and 
> difficult work in progress, hasn't been revealed yet.
>  
> What I know is that the renegade clowns who ruined this economy, the 
> Republican right in alliance with big business and a fair number of 
> feckless Democrats --- all working in opposition to the interests of 
> working families --- have no credible basis for waging war against 
> serious efforts to get us out of their mess.
>  
> Maybe the markets are down because demand has dried up, because many 
> of the nation's biggest firms have imploded and because Americans are 
> losing their jobs and their homes by the millions. Maybe a dose of 
> reality is in order, as opposed to the childish desire for yet another 
> stock market bubble.
>  
> Maybe the nuns in grammar school were right when they counseled that 
> patience is a virtue. The man has been president for six weeks.
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From ecotort at gn.apc.org  Sat Mar  7 17:50:07 2009
From: ecotort at gn.apc.org (EcoTort Theatre)
Date: Sun, 08 Mar 2009 00:50:07 +0000
Subject: [GJM] [Fwd: The AshkeNazis]
Message-ID: <49B3163F.7040500@gn.apc.org>



 > >http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/7926780.stm
 > > The letters editor of the Daily Mail, London, seems to take a perverse
 > > pleasure in occasionally allowing publication of Forbidden Subjects.
 > > It's a drop in the ocean, but it lends plausibility to the notion of a
 > > 'free press.'
 > > On 6 March 2009, the following letter was published:
 > > 
---------------------------------------------------------------------------?????------ 

 > > Promised Land
 > > .....Any serious history book of the region states that the indigenous
 > > people of this land, whom we now call Palestinians, lived there for
 > > hundreds of years before the creation of the state of Israel.
 > > A more interesting fact, which is now coming to light, is that the
 > > Ashkenazi Jews have no historical ties with Palestine - and the Romans
 > > didn't expel the Jews from Palestine, contrary to claims. Rather, as
 > > Israeli historian Shlomo Sand has recently shown, Ashkenazis are
 > > converts to Judaism originally in Central Asia.
 > > If the Romans didn't expel the Jews, what happened to them? According
 > > to Sand, they converted in small numbers to Christianity and in large
 > > numbers to Islam after the Ara conquest of the seventh century. In
 > > other words, the Palestinians of today are the descendants of the
 > > Hebrews of Roman times.....
 > > -Prof. Samer Madanat,
 > > Berkeley University, San Francisco, U.S.
 > > 
---------------------------------------------------------------------------?????------- 


 > So then what exactly IS the so-called Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

 > It's not even a civil war of Jews fighting Jews.

 > It's really a collection of Germans (Ashkenazi = German converts to
 > Judaism) dispossessing and murdering the original Hebrew race who
 > mainly converted to Islam in the days of Mohammed !

 > Human beings are so terribly amusing.

========================================
========================================
It's not an exact science. (They say now that even mathematics is not
an exact science.)

But we need to start thinking about this as being the overall,
general, approximate truth: -

---------------------------------------------------------------------------?---------------- 


The Israelis = a Germanic / Slavic race that converted to Judaism and 
has no
racial or historical ties with Palestine.

The Palestinians = largely the descendants of the original Hebrew
race, descendants of Abraham, Solomon, David, who converted mainly to
Islam in the seventh century AD.

Zionism = a simple ploy by the invisible global ruling group to
maintain control over the entire human population by arranging
permanent inter-tribal wars, on entirely false pretexts.

The bottom line: The Zionist doctrine that the original inhabitants of
Palestine were given that land by God and have the right to reclaim it
now is farcical, because the original Hebrews NEVER LEFT PALESTINE but
converted to Islam and today the original Jews ARE THE PALESTINIANS.

The ONLY purpose of Zionism was and is WAR, permanent war, sucking in
the entire global population, so that we never see the invisible
ruling group pulling all our strings.

---------------------------------------------------------------------------?------------------ 




From ecotort at gn.apc.org  Sun Mar  8 05:00:28 2009
From: ecotort at gn.apc.org (EcoTort Theatre)
Date: Sun, 08 Mar 2009 11:00:28 +0000
Subject: [GJM] Goodbye farmers markets and roadside stands
Message-ID: <49B3A54C.2060908@gn.apc.org>

Goodbye farmers markets, CSAs, and roadside stands 
<http://www.opednews.com/articles/Goodbye-farmers-markets-C-by-Linn-Cohen-Cole-090303-287.html>
The "food safety" bills in Congress were written by Monsanto, Cargill, 
Tysons, ADM, etc.  All are associated with the opposite of food safety. 
 What is this all about then?

In the simplest terms, organic food and a rebirth of farming were 
winning.  Not in absolute numbers but in a deep and growing shift by the 
public toward understanding the connection between their food and their 
health, between good food and true social pleasures, between their own 
involvement in food and the improvement in their lives in general, 
between local food and a burgeoning local economy.

Slow Food was right - limit your food to what comes from your region and 
from real farmers, and slow down to cook it and linger over it with 
friends and family, and the world begins to change for the better.  

And as we face an unprecedented economic crisis, and it is hard to be 
sure what has value, one thing that always does is food.  Which is why 
the corporations are after absolute control over it.  But what obstacles 
to a complete lock on food do they face?  All the people in this country 
who are "banking" on organic farming and urban gardens and most of all, 
everyone's deepening pleasure in and increasing involvement with 
everything about food.

Farmers markets.  Local farmers.  Real milk.  Fresh eggs.  Vegetable 
stands.  

Those are things we not only all want, but things we are actively 
getting involved in, and things we very much need.  And where they are 
truly good, they are growing 
<http://hartkeisonline.com/2009/02/12/fda-response-to-raw-milk-symposium-in-toronto-a-symposium-of-their-own/>.

The international financial corporations which have wreaked havoc around 
the world with astounding nonsensical "solutions" that are destructive 
of everyone but them, are brothers to the international agribusiness 
giants (Monsanto, Cargill, Tysons, ADM, etc.) which are just as 
aggressively after their own form of "taking."  Just seeds, animals, 
water, land.  

And freedom. 

Because human beings are by in large good and by in large incredibly 
resilient and clever, and left to their own devices - that is, free - 
they would handle this gargantuan financial stupidity the corporations 
brought us with NAFTA, CAFTA, GATT and all other globalized schemes 
(which they hope to eventually top off with CODEX).  How?  By being 
productive in real ways and locally.  And farming is the solid ground 
under that.  Farmers produce something of real value (something we used 
to take for granted), and from that base, businesses grow up.  Local 
markets, local food processors, local seed companies, local tool and 
supply companies, local stores ... and an economy based on reality and 
something truly good for us, too, begins to grow.  

So, look again at what has been exciting us - Farmers markets.  Local 
farmers.  Real milk.  Fresh eggs.  Vegetable stands. - and realize that 
they are not only wonderfully healthy but fun and naturally community 
building.  And more, they are a real economy and deeply democratic - and 
just at a time we need something that works economically, that supports 
our democratic rebirth, and that protects food itself and our easy 
access to it.

And it is all those things that threaten the corporations ... which is 
why we now have these massive "fake food safety" bills in Congress. 
 Everything is going under thanks to these fools, and they wish to be 
there like vultures to make sure that every drop of blood that can be 
sucked out of our resources and us, is theirs.  To wit, they must get 
rid of such good and innocent things and yet truly powerful things as:

Farmers markets.  Local farmers.  Real milk.  Fresh eggs.  Vegetable 
stands.  

And how will those who contaminate our country's food with pesticides, 
hormones, antibiotics and more, do that?  Why, by setting standards for 
"food safety" that are so grotesquely and inappropriately and even 
cruelly applied to a local, independent farmers and ranchers that there 
is no way they can manage.  Imagine your being faced with a 100 page IRS 
form and facing a million dollar a day penalty for screwing up.  That 
would be in the ball park of the impossible complexity mixed with threat 
facing our farmers.  Imagine having the government and corporations 
deciding every single thing you can do and must do in your kitchen and 
backing that up with the threat of 10 years in prison for screwing up - 
though you have never made anyone sick, and those corporations have. 
 Imagine being surveilled 24 hours a day by GPS tracking devices that 
feed into ... a corporate data bank, one they have now moved out of the 
country so no one here can have legal access to see what is in it.  

Imagine the devil himself - or a whole boardrooms of them, dressed in 
suits - defining the only safe and healthy food in this country as 
dangerous and burdening hard working farmers with more work then anyone 
could bear, while his own, their own, food is so dangerous at this point 
that in the last 10 years alone, diabetes has gone up 90% 
<http://www.healthfreedom.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=582&Itemid=>.

And how did they get this far with such a scheme to apply insane 
industrial standards to every farm in the country?  Through fear of 
diseases and of outbreaks of food borne illnesses, both of which they 
cause themselves. 

How it works:  Tyson helps Bill Clinton get into office.  Bill Clinton 
immediately and significantly lowers contamination standards for poultry 
as a thank you.  And it is such contaminated waste from transnational 
poultry factories which is now implicated as the source of bird flu 
<http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=ENG20051127&articleId=1333>. 
Then fortunes on made on that fear.  And then poultry industry uses the 
crisis they created to push out small farmers 
<http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/feb2006/2006-02-27-01.asp> and take 
greater control than ever.  Their mantra?  Biodiversity not only be 
damned but be eliminated.  And get rid of those damn farmers who protect 
it while we're at it.

The bills would require such a burdensome complexity of rules, 
inspections, licensing, fees, and penalties for each farmer who wishes 
to sell locally - a fruit stand, at a farmers market -  no one could 
manage it 
<http://www.opednews.com/articles/Farming--Why-Obama-s-gove-by-Linn-Cohen-Cole-090125-421.html>. 
 And THAT is the point.  The whole dirty tricks point.  The whole "be in 
tight control of everything needed for survival because it'll be worth a 
fortune" point.

So, if you like farmers markets, local farmers, fresh milk, fresh eggs, 
vegetables stands, and freedom, let your friends know that it's all on 
the line right now with those "fake food safety" bills brought to us 
with well-planned evil and more of it to come, by Monsanto, Cargill, 
Tysons, ADM, etc.

Slow Food reminds us of just where we need to be (and notice how much 
would help any local economy):


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From ecotort at gn.apc.org  Mon Mar  9 13:20:13 2009
From: ecotort at gn.apc.org (EcoTort Theatre)
Date: Mon, 09 Mar 2009 19:20:13 +0000
Subject: [GJM] "Miracle" water a low-cost alternative cleaner to harsh
	chemicals
Message-ID: <49B56BED.7090907@gn.apc.org>

*"Miracle" water a low-cost alternative cleaner to harsh chemicals*
*February 27, 2009, /Seattle Times/Los Angeles Times/*
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/living/2008791573_magicwater27.html

It's a kitchen degreaser. It's a window cleaner. It kills athlete's 
foot. Oh, and you can drink it. The elixir is real. U.S. regulators have 
approved it. And it's starting to replace the toxic chemicals Americans 
use at home and on the job. The stuff is a simple mixture of table salt 
and tap water whose ions have been scrambled with an electric current. 
Researchers have dubbed it electrolyzed water. *Some hotel workers are 
calling it "el liquido milagroso," the miracle liquid. That's as good a 
name as any for a substance that scientists said is powerful enough to 
kill anthrax spores without harming people or the environment.* Used as 
a sanitizer for decades in Russia and Japan, it's slowly winning 
acceptance in the United States. For more than 200 years, scientists 
have tinkered with electrolysis, the use of an electric current to bring 
about a chemical reaction. That's how we got metal electroplating and 
large-scale production of chlorine, used to bleach and sanitize. It 
turns out that zapping saltwater with low-voltage electricity creates a 
couple of powerful, nontoxic cleaning agents. Sodium ions are converted 
into sodium hydroxide, an alkaline liquid that cleans and degreases like 
detergent, but without the scrubbing bubbles. Chloride ions become 
hypochlorous acid, a potent disinfectant known as acid water. *"It's 10 
times more effective than bleach in killing bacteria,"* said Yen-Con 
Hung, a professor of food science at the University of Georgia, Griffin, 
who has been researching electrolyzed water for more than a decade. "And 
it's safe."

*Note:* For more on this fascinating product, click here 
<http://www.soundfeelings.com/micro-skin-care/clinical_studies/functional_water.htm>. 


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From ecotort at gn.apc.org  Sun Mar  8 05:05:44 2009
From: ecotort at gn.apc.org (EcoTort Theatre)
Date: Sun, 08 Mar 2009 11:05:44 +0000
Subject: [GJM] GOOD NEWS!! Citizens Win Huge Supreme Court Victory over	Big
 Pharma and the FDA
Message-ID: <49B3A688.6080505@gn.apc.org>


  Citizens Win Huge Supreme Court Victory over Big Pharma and the FDA


      Thursday, March 05, 2009


Byron Richards, CCN

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In a stunning and unexpected 6-3 ruling the right-leaning Supreme Court 
went against the wishes of the last president, took the wind out of the 
sails of health care reform of the current president, sent irresponsible 
Big Pharma a major wake up call, and bluntly told the arrogant FDA that 
they are indeed not above the rule of law.  It is a major victory for 
every American citizen.

Central to the issue is a power a struggle between the federal 
government and states, which in this situation meant the federal 
government authority to pre-empt your state rights to sue if you are 
injured by a drug.  The FDA, acting on behalf of the Bush administration 
and on the side of Big Pharma, has helped tie up thousands of drug 
injury lawsuits across the country.  The FDA, who is supposed to be 
protecting consumers from drug injury and ensuring a correct risk/safety 
picture for any person taking a drug, was instead trying to shirk their 
responsibility and simply claim that Americans had no right to sue.

This convoluted attempt by the FDA to undermine consumer safety was one 
of the main themes in my 2006 book, Fight for Your Health: Exposing the 
FDA's Betrayal of America 
<http://www.wellnessresources.com/Books/fight_for_your_health.php>.  The 
Bush Administration had intentionally appointed anti-safety people in 
high positions within the FDA, starting with its Chief Counsel, Daniel 
Troy (and continued as a legal philosophy after Troy was forced out for 
his Big Pharma connections).  Troy set in motion the legal problem the 
Supreme Court just decided.

During the final years of the Bush administration cancer industry 
insider Andrew von Eschenbach, MD, was appointed to run the FDA, and 
Wall Street insider, Scott Gottlieb, MD, was second in command.  These 
individuals sought to fully implement the FDA label as senior to any 
rights of citizens.  Their intention was to make sure that new biotech 
drugs would be protected from lawsuits, as the FDA wanted to speed new 
and even more dangerous drugs onto the market so as to foster the 
development of the biotech industry.  In essence, the FDA management 
wanted to turn the American public into one large clinical experiment, 
with no right of recourse when injured.

This was occurring against a backdrop wherein the FDA couldn't even name 
all the drugs currently on the market, had failed to demand required 
aftermarket follow up safety testing on drugs, and had intentionally 
withheld safety information on existing drugs from the public.  The 
current situation with drugs is that almost no drug, even blockbusters 
and those in use for decades, have an accurate risk/benefit profile.

Americans who use medications are already taking risks of unknown 
magnitude, which is a main reason over 100,000 Americans are killed 
every year and over 3 million are injured so seriously they need 
hospital care (ironically, over half those injuries occur while already 
in the hospital).

The FDA knows full well that when a drug is approved for the market the 
full extent of the side effects won't be known for years.  History shows 
us time and again that Big Pharma actively hides risk data from the FDA 
and pays for "science" that distorts reality.  This irresponsible 
behavior goes along with closed-door negotiations with the FDA, and has 
resulted in numerous drug disasters like Vioxx.  FDA managers oftentimes 
go against the wishes of their own safety scientists and then move on to 
six figure salaries in the industry they regulate.  Doctors are not 
apprised of the actual risks and consumers are in the dark. 

Currently, there are 450,000 additional new cases of heart failure every 
year in Americans over 65, a fact that parallels the increased use of 
heart-weakening statins in this older group.  It is only a matter of 
time before the shoe drops on the 20-billion-dollar-a-year statin industry.

The FDA insistence that a drug label, based on what is known at the time 
of approval, should supersede citizen's states rights to sue if they 
were injured, has almost nothing to do with consumer safety.  Rather, it 
is a federal power grab that is in the best financial interests of Big 
Pharma and Big Biotech, industries that do not have consumer safety as 
their top priority.

By the way, don't think President Obama is on the side of the citizens.  
In the health care section of the stimulus bill, there is specific 
pre-emption language.  If the federal government is in charge of health 
care it will be named in future lawsuits when patients are injured from 
the care it doles out or doesn't allow. 

The current Supreme Court ruling will undermine any system of federal 
health care wherein the drugs being used are injuring people.  Experts 
believe this system is so badly broken, due to gross FDA management 
incompetence, that it will take 10 years of studies and many billions of 
dollars just to understand the actual risks of the drugs Americans are 
already taking.

In writing for the majority, Justice John Paul Stevens put Big Pharma on 
notice.  The defendant in this case, Wyeth, had argued that it could not 
comply with both federal and state law.  Stevens told them they had a 
fundamental misunderstanding of regulation and were trying to hide 
behind the FDA, going on to say that it is a central premise of federal 
drug regulation that the manufacturer bears responsibility for the 
content of its label at all times.  That is not the news Big Pharma 
wanted to hear.

Stevens went on to write that there was no merit in the argument that 
the FDA's labeling decisions could supersede state law, saying that this 
argument was "an untenable interpretation of congressional intent and an 
overbroad view of an agency's power to pre-empt state law." He pointed 
out that the FDA tried to push this on the public without any 
opportunity for comment from the public or from states, all done against 
a backdrop wherein the FDA is not able to keep up with safety issues in 
the first place, meaning that the FDA position lacked "thoroughness, 
consistency and persuasiveness." Stevens stated that under such lacking 
standards the Bush position "is entitled to no weight."

This is a major victory for all Americans and for states.  While the 
case itself is on the topic of Big Pharma and the FDA, the ruling is 
sweeping in nature and will extend far beyond prescription drugs.  
States have just been handed a major legal ruling against the 
ever-growing incursion of federal power.

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From maryrose333 at att.net  Mon Mar  9 22:45:38 2009
From: maryrose333 at att.net (mary rose)
Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2009 21:45:38 -0700
Subject: [GJM] FW: Say hello to the unemployable
Message-ID: <000501c9a13b$11e6a380$35b3ea80$@net>

I rather imagine that most of these people are making mega bucks either as
Tatoo Artists themselves, or else they are in the drug trade doing the same,
not having been able to find a decent paying job in other fields.
Statistics show that 30%  of all men under age 30 are currently living at
home with their parents, unable to find a paying job that will permit them
to live on their own.  Which is quite possibly the reason that the people of
the United States consume 40% of the world's illegal drug production with
only 5% of the world's population.   We have a tremendous pain problem and
are in great need of healing.  And, as Dr. Deepak Chopra was heard to say:
"Religion certainly isn't helping - if it was we would all be well by now."
m r   

From: BOB TAFT [mailto:rbtaft at rtconnect.net] 
Sent: Monday, March 09, 2009 7:35 PM
To: Undisclosed-Recipient:;
Subject: Fw: Say hello to the unemployable

 

Have you ever...?
Best regards,
Bob Taft
The Taft Ranch
Upton, Wyoming 
(307) 465-2206
http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/archive.cgi?read=74897
" There are three kinds of men: The ones 
that learn by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them
have to 
pee on the electric fence and find out for 
themselves".  Will Rogers

 

 

 

From: Jack Peach <mailto:peachjd at persona.ca>  

Sent: Monday, March 09, 2009 7:11 PM

To: Undisclosed-Recipient:;

Subject: Say hello to the unemployable

 

 

 

Does the word "unbelievable" begin to do justice?

Is it any wonder that it gets tougher to think we can get out of the mess
we're in?
 


 








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From ceasig at gmail.com  Tue Mar 10 01:30:18 2009
From: ceasig at gmail.com (Centre For Ecological Audit,
	Social Inclusion & Governance)
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 13:00:18 +0530
Subject: [GJM] Appeal for Jewish brothers,
	elders and youth for eliminating usury
Message-ID: <31f677a30903100030t6cd7a593v6f450849fd146c0e@mail.gmail.com>

Thanks a lot Mary for sharing the info about the Satanic cult that has
dominated the US administration. It is unfortunate that people associated
with Prophet Moses genealogically have forgotten the central command against
usury. It is time that all Jewish and Christians brothers, sisters and
elders get united against usury. Usury is at the core of the problem for the
'recession' that is ecologically benevolent. Halting the pace of expansion
of ecologically hostile habitats fueled by atheistic neo-liberal
globalization of Satanic economic ,political and cultural  thinking
appropriating usury was very much needed . Vatican's approval for Islamic
banking is a historical event.Let us celberate ecologically benvolent
recession with more and more of prayers for guidance to more and more men
and women globally.

Dr.Muhammad Mukhtar Alam

On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 11:19 AM, mary rose <maryrose333 at att.net> wrote:

>  This is a very, very good article by David Icke.  Please read it and take
> it seriously.   In rioting, they win we lose.  The power of our mind is the
> most powerful thing there is, so please join one of the coherence groups and
> meditate with them for peace.  Your thoughts are energy waves that go out
> through the Universe and are powerful enough to create change especially
> when done in large enough groups.  Keeping the peace is the reason I get so
> upset about the accusations against immigrants whether legal or illegal.  In
> keeping the peace,  I don?t mean getting run over by those who seek to do
> this.  What keeping the peace means is keeping one?s cool and helping others
> In the community to keep their cool.  We need to avoid incidents that can
> suddenly turn into riots which bring out the police.  It?s about acquiring
> and using social intelligence.  It?s OK to rock the boat, in fact, it?s a
> necessity,  but just do it in positive ways.  Start raising your own food,
> seek out naturapathic doctors whenever possible and opt out of the Big
> Pharma run medical institution.  Get a bicycle and keep your car off the
> road as much as possible.  Don?t travel unless it?s absolutely necessary.
>  Get a sewing machine and learn to make your own clothes, knit sweaters,
> gloves, etc.  Stop living to eat and begin eating to live.  Stop being a
> consumer.
>
>
>
> With love and appreciation for all that we do together.  m r
>
> *From:* Nance ~ [mailto:planetnews8 at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Sunday, March 08, 2009 12:40 AM
> *Subject:* PLEASE DON'T RIOT ... By David Icke
>
>
>
>
>
> *PLEASE* DON'T RIOT ...
>
> ... IT'S JUST WHAT '*THEY'* WANT
>
> *'What you fight, you become.' - David Icke*
>
> *By David Icke*
>
> As I travel around America it is clear that this country is on the brink of
> an economic catastrophe the like of which it has never seen. And, of course,
> it is not alone. A similar story can be told around the world.
>
> The foreclosure figures are fantastic as families and others lose their
> homes through no fault of their own on a scale that, according to current
> projections, is destined to become a tidal wave.
>
> The credit explosion was orchestrated through Illuminati agents and
> Satanists like Alan Greenspan, who represents the interests of the
> Illuminati's Bilderberg Group, Council on Foreign Relations, Trilateral
> Commission and other far more exclusive and sinister secret societies.
>
> Greenspan was the long-time head of the privately-owned 'US central bank',
> the Federal Reserve. Once his policies had manipulated as much personal and
> commercial debt as possible the plug was pulled on the system to trigger
> what is designed to be global economic meltdown.
>
> Greenspan, who led 'the Fed' under Reagan, Father Bush, Clinton and Boy
> Bush, operates at a deeper level within the Illuminati network than most of
> their public figures, and I was told by a former Satanist, an unofficial
> offspring of the Rothschild family, how he remembered Greenspan at sacrifice
> rituals he attended:
>
> *'I can recall the Rockefellers and the Bushes attending rituals, but
> never having the supremacy to lead them. I still regard them as lackeys and
> not real brokers of occult power. Except for Alan Greenspan, most of these
> fellows were camp followers in the occult, primarily for the economic power
> and prestige. Greenspan, I recall, was a person of tremendous spiritual,
> occult power and could make the Bushes and the younger Rockefellers cower
> with just a glance.'*
>
> This, then, is the man who was controlling the United States economy from
> 1987 to 2006 and who, as planned, oversaw the insane economic policies that
> led to the current global collapse. Go to another level of understanding and
> you can see that Greenspan and other Illuminati place-men throughout the
> world knew exactly what they were doing and what the outcome was planned to
> be.
>
> Zionist Greenspan got out just before the true scale and consequences of
> his manipulation came to light. It has been left to others, including his
> Zionist successor at the 'Fed', Ben Shalom Bernanke, to offer the
> 'solutions' to the problems that Greenspan and his like created. All of
> these 'solution' people are controlled by the same force that was, and is,
> behind Greenspan. This is why Obama has named blatant insiders to his
> 'economic team' who were fundamentally culpable in the very collapse they
> have been appointed to 'address'.
>
> The Zionists Tim Geitner, Larry Summers, Paul Volcker etc., who are all
> stalwarts of the same Bilderberg Group-Council on Foreign
> Relations-Trilateral Commission network as Greenspan, have no intention of
> finding a 'solution' that will benefit the people of America or anywhere
> else.
>
> Neither does Obama's Budget Director, the Zionist Peter R. Orszag. It was
> Orszag who advised the Russian finance ministry at the time when Zionist
> oligarchs were raping the Russian economy and stealing its resources and he
> was a financial advisor to the Icelandic central bank just before the
> Iceland banking system crashed. Great 'choice', Barack.
>
> During the Clinton administration, Orszag worked with Obama's White House
> Chief of Staff, the ultra-Zionist Rahm Emanuel, on imposing the NAFTA 'free
> trade' agreement that has cost incredible numbers of American jobs - exactly
> as planned. Emanuel served in the Israeli army and is the son of a terrorist
> with the notorious Irgun, one the terror groups which bombed Israel into
> existence after World War Two. It was Emanuel who said after Obama's
> election: 'You never let a serious crisis go to waste'.
>
> Emanuel, a cold and vicious piece of work, is directly controlling Obama
> and the White House in league with senior White House advisor, the Zionist
> David Axelrod, who ran the puppet 'president's' election campaign and
> oversees the writing of the speeches that he reads from the teleprompter
> screens.
>
> *Emanuel: Obama's puppeteer*
>
> *Axelrod: Obama's voice on the teleprompter screens*
>
> At least most of 'Obama's' economic place-men are fundamentally connected
> to the Zionist Robert E. Rubin, the Treasury Secretary under Bill Clinton,
> who oversaw financial deregulation that led ultimately to the current
> crisis. Rubin recently resigned from Citigroup after encouraging the
> policies that led the company to the brink of collapse. In January 2009,
> Rubin was named by *Marketwatch* as one of the '10 most *un*ethical people
> in business' and his proteges and close associates are now running the US
> economy under Obama.
>
> Another massive blow to economic confidence came when the Zionist hedge
> fund crook, Bernard Madoff, revealed that he'd 'lost' $50 billion of his
> clients' money. He says he acted alone. No bloody chance. Other financial
> disasters which have collapsed the markets include American International
> Group (A.I.G.), the insurance giant headed by the Zionist, Maurice
> Greenberg. It has just announced losses of $61.7 *billion* for the final *three
> months* of 2008 - the biggest quarterly loss in corporate history.
>
> Greenberg is extremely close to the Zionist Henry Kissinger, one of the
> Illuminati's most vociferous global manipulators of the last 50 years.
> Kissinger was appointed chairman of A.I.G.'s International Advisory Board in
> 1987.
>
> *Zionist Kissinger with Zionist Greenberg. Anyone see a common theme
> building here?? *
>
> Are all these people just breathtakingly incompetent? No, no, no. Their
> role for the cabal is to destroy the economy and America in general by,
> among many other things, triggering the financial crisis and then wasting
> staggering amounts of borrowed money - *trillions* of dollars - to ensure
> that there is no way back.
>
> A US TV ad apparently said that if you spent a million dollars a day *every
> day* from the alleged birth of 'Christ' to today you would still not spend
> as much as Obama is spending in borrowed money in his 'stimulus' package -
> let alone the other fantastic sums on top of that to 'bail' the banks.
>
> They have worked super-fast, using fear and the Obama hype as their
> weapons, to throw more petrol on the fire in the full knowledge that this
> will make matters worse, not better. Bush's 'bail out' of the banks has
> disappeared from the radar with nothing to show for it and now Bush Mark 11,
> Mr Change, is fronting up the spending of another three trillion.
>
> The biggest recipient of bail-out money has been Maurice Greenberg's A.I.G,
> which has been given $180 billion in borrowed money that the American
> taxpayers, and their children, are now responsible for repaying. Rubin's
> Citigroup is in for $50 billion of borrowed 'government' money.
>
> The idea is not only to collapse the American economy, but to throw so much
> money at the problem (the banks mostly) as quickly as possible so that the
> response options of the government are zero by the time the economy really
> crashes on the scale that is planned.
>
> The same is being orchestrated around the world, as we see in Britain where
> the Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, is also hurling borrowed money at the
> banking system only for the situation to go on getting worse. Brown was
> Chancellor of the Exchequer, in charge of the country's finances, right
> through the Blair years when he pursued policies that mirrored those of
> Greenspan.
>
> Now the man who was a major cause of the banking crisis in the UK is asking
> us to believe that he is the 'saviour' of the financial system. That's like
> a guy smashing someone around the head with a baseball bat and then claiming
> to be a hero for driving the fellah to hospital. But these people have no
> shame.
>
> The global economic collapse is designed to trigger a stream of 'benefits'
> to the Illuminati agenda. One, as I have said from the start, is to use this
> as an excuse to impose a global economic dictatorship controlled by a world
> central bank. But there are many other 'solutions' and connected 'benefits'
> that are planned to be exploited and we need to be streetwise to them.
>
> The one I want to emphasise here is the need to stay calm and react
> peacefully to what is happening. This is not easy when there is so much
> stress and fear around with regard to the economic present and 'future', but
> we need to do it all the same or we will walk straight into a massive trap
> that has been set for us.
>
> Let's get this straight: They *want* you to riot in response to the
> unfolding economic catastrophe and we are already seeing people falling for
> this.
>
> *Riots in France over economic conditions*
>
> Why would the authorities want people to riot? Readers of my books over the
> years will see the answer immediately. They want an excuse to bring in a
> fully-fledged Police State all over the world and people who riot in their
> desperation (instigated invariably by agent-provocateurs) are just the
> excuse they are looking for.
>
> *Be very, very aware of anyone who starts rioting, or encourages others to
> do so, amid peaceful demonstrations. Who are they and why are they doing
> this when it is handing all the aces to the system to impose a Police State?
> They are either stupid or agents of that State.*
>
> Regular readers of my newsletters will recall the one about the UK traffic
> warden who was suddenly given new cards authorising him to do the work of
> the police and to enter property without permission. His job was supposed to
> be just handing out tickets for illegal parking and so on. His boss would
> not discuss why these new cards were being issued, but a police officer
> friend explained all to him.
>
> The officer said the government was preparing well ahead of time for a
> coming 'war', during which they were expecting mass protests and rioting in
> the streets. The police and the *military* were going to be so focussed on
> dealing with this that other uniformed professions, like traffic wardens,
> private security guards, CCTV operators and many others, were going to be
> brought forward to do the work normally done by the police.
>
> Soon after the traffic warden approached me, the government announced that
> his profession was being re-designated 'civil enforcement officers', thus
> disconnecting them from their sole role of dealing with traffic. A few
> months later the government announced plans for a new group called
> 'accredited persons' - private security guards, CCTV operators and many
> others who would be given authority to do some of the work currently
> confined to the police.
>
> The officer told the traffic warden about a 'war', and that is planned for
> sure at some point. But the excuse of the war could also have been a
> cover-story for those people who were needed to work on the preparations,
> but were not to know the real reason behind it. That real reason, as we can
> now see, could include economic rioting after the financial collapse that
> the Shadow People have long known was coming because they were going to
> cause it - although, I stress again, a war is also being engineered
> involving the 'West', China and Russia.
>
> I have been stressing this point about the plan to stir up civil unrest and
> rioting whenever I can and now the insiders are beginning to put that
> thought into the public mind. 'There could be riots' is designed to
> communicate the theme subliminally of 'go out and riot'. It is the simple
> power of suggestion masquerading as 'concern'.
>
> And who should do just that than Zbigniew Brzezinski, the co-founder of the
> Illuminati Trilateral Commission and one of the chief mentors and
> controllers of Barack Obama. I won't call him 'President' Obama any longer
> until he produces a birth certificate to prove he is eligible for the post.
> Brzezinski told MSNBC:
>
> *'... there's going to be growing conflict between the classes and if
> people are unemployed and really hurting, hell, there could be even
> riots!'*
>
> No, Mr. Brzezinski, you *know* there are going to be riots because the
> network you represent is going to do everything it can to make them happen.
> More and more we are seeing this theme appearing from representatives of the
> State. The U.S. Army War College has made the same warnings in a document
> called *Known Unknowns: Unconventional 'Strategic Shocks' in Defense
> Strategy Development*.
>
> It said the military must be prepared for a 'violent, strategic dislocation
> inside the United States', in the light of 'unforeseen *economic
> collapse'. *Unforeseen?? You must be joking. The document talks of
> 'purposeful domestic resistance', 'pervasive public health emergencies' or
> 'loss of functioning political and legal order'. It goes on:
>
> *'Widespread civil violence ... would force the defense establishment to
> reorient priorities in extremis to defend basic domestic order and human
> security. An American government and defense establishment lulled into
> complacency by a long-secure domestic order would be forced to rapidly
> divest some or most external security commitments in order to address
> rapidly expanding human insecurity at home.*
>
> *Under the most extreme circumstances, this might include use of military
> force against hostile groups inside the United States.' *
>
> As the traffic warden, now 'civil enforcement officer', found out, this is
> precisely what they are planning in the UK and the same will be the case in
> every country because they are all controlled by a world-wide web
> orchestrating a global agenda. The War College document said that the
> Department of Defense would be the 'enabling hub' for the 'continuity of
> political authority in a multi-state or nationwide civil conflict or
> disturbance'.
>
> Put that through the Orwellian Translation Unit and you get 'the military
> will control the country'. This has all been planned for a long, long time
> as I and others have been warning all these years, and the 'hostile groups'
> the document talks about will be anyone who is challenging the
> political/military dictatorship in any way, even verbally.
>
> In the light of this, you won't be surprised to know that the US military
> is currently seeking to spend another $6 million on 'riot equipment'.
>
> Dennis C. Blair, Obama's Director of National Intelligence and Trilateral
> Commission member, has also said that the economic crisis could create civil
> unrest in the United States and around the world. He said the crisis was
> 'regime-threatening' if it continued over one or two years and this
> manufactured crisis is designed to be much bigger and longer than that. In
> the simple language that he seems to find so hard to summon, Blair says that
> there is a greater chance of war during economic turmoil and there's no
> doubt they have just that planned in the wake of what is happening now.
>
> Other establishment figures who have warned of unrest and rioting include
> the heads of the World Trade Organisation and the International Monetary
> Fund, both Illuminati organisations to their core, and anyone who heads them
> will be, by definition, gofers for the cabal.
>
> In the UK, yet again confirming the validity of the traffic warden story,
> the head of the police branch dealing in public order has warned of a
> possible 'Summer of Rage' over rising unemployment and the economic crash.
> Superintendent David Hartshorn of London's Metropolitan Police said that
> 'known activists' were planning to exploit the situation to mount mass
> protests and he pointed to the G20 Summit in London in April as a likely
> target, along with banks.
>
> The London *Sunday Express *has also reported that UK police and
> 'security' services are preparing to deal with rioting and 'the chilling
> prospect of soldiers being drafted on to the streets has not been discounted
> ....'
>
> *Riots in Greece*
>
> Mass protests around the world are no longer simply predictions because
> they are already happening and, with the global economy yet to collapse on
> anything *like* the scale it is intended to, we have seen nothing yet.
> Some 120,000 people demonstrated in Dublin over the handling of the economic
> crisis in Ireland, a million protestors have been on the streets in France,
> UK oil refinery and power station workers launched a series of strikes in
> protest at the use of foreign workers, and the riots across Greece late last
> year were partly economic in nature.
>
> *Albert Pike*
>
> I can encapsulate what is going on here with part of a letter alleged to
> have been sent in 1871 by Albert Pike, a Sovereign Grand Commander of the
> Scottish Rite of Freemasonry in America, to Giuseppe* *Mazzini, the
> Illuminati 'revolutionary' in Italy. In this letter, Pike is said to have
> detailed the background to three world wars the Illuminati was planning to
> bring about their global dictatorship. The first two happened as he
> predicted and this is what he said about the third:
>
> *'The Third World War must be fomented by taking advantage of the
> differences caused by the "agentur" of the "Illuminati" between the
> political Zionists and the leaders of the Islamic World. The war must be
> conducted in such a way that Islam (the Moslem Arabic World) and political
> Zionism (the State of Israel) mutually destroy each other. Meanwhile the
> other nations, once more divided on this issue will be constrained to fight
> to the point of complete physical, moral, spiritual and economical
> exhaustion ....*
>
> *... We shall unleash the Nihilists and the atheists, and we shall provoke
> a formidable social cataclysm which in all its horror will show clearly to
> the nations the effect of absolute atheism, origin of savagery and of the
> most bloody turmoil. *
>
> *Then everywhere, the citizens, obliged to defend themselves against the
> world minority of revolutionaries, will exterminate those destroyers of
> civilization, and the multitude, disillusioned with Christianity, whose
> deistic spirits will from that moment be without compass or direction,
> anxious for an ideal, but without knowing where to render its adoration,
> will receive the true light through the universal manifestation of the pure
> doctrine of Lucifer, brought finally out in the public view. This
> manifestation will result from the general reactionary movement which will
> follow the destruction of Christianity and atheism, both conquered and
> exterminated at the same time.'*
>
> Click here for more background ...<http://www.threeworldwars.com/albert-pike2.htm>
>
> Many dismiss the letter as a myth, but in the context I am using it that
> doesn't matter. What it says is what is planned - an economic and social
> catastrophe in which the people turn on themselves in their engineered
> desperation and all morality is submerged in a mass battle for perceived
> survival.
>
> The term 'nihilism', used in the Pike letter, has this dictionary
> definition:
>
> * Rejection of all distinctions in moral or religious value and a
> willingness to repudiate all previous theories of morality or religious
> belief.
>
> * The belief that destruction of existing political or social institutions
> is necessary for future improvement.
>
> That pretty much sums it up, really, and this is why they want people to
> riot all over the world to destroy the existing order, which, yes, the
> Illuminati created, but they now seek to replace that with the next stage of
> their tyranny - total global control. This means that national governments
> and nation states must be destroyed to allow a world government to assume
> its dictatorship.
>
> Look at that definition of 'nihilism' again in the light of this: 'The
> belief that destruction of existing political or social institutions is
> necessary for future improvement.'
>
> *'Rioter' and police dealing with the 'rioter' - all wearing the same
> police-issue boots.  Just a coincidence, nothing to worry about.*
>
> Already waiting in the wings are the agent provocateurs and the useful
> idiots primed to start the riots and civil unrest that the idiots believe to
> be challenging the existing order. But the existing order was created by the
> same network of Illuminati families that are seeking to create the 'new
> order', the New World Order, which is planned to emerge from the turmoil and
> chaos they are now engineering.
>
> To achieve this, as always, they need our cooperation and let no-one be in
> any doubt that those who choose to riot and loot in response to what is
> happening, and encourage others to riot and loot, are walking straight into
> the trap that has been laid for them. The government and military agent
> provocateurs will know that, the useful idiots will not, but it is time they
> did.
>
> I have met few more concrete-minded or naive people than those that are
> termed the extreme end of the political 'Left'. They have been played like a
> violin for hundreds of years to change the world in the image of the
> Illuminati blueprint in violent revolutions to bring down the established
> order. Now they are being gathered again to complete the journey to global
> tyranny and provide the violence and chaos that is designed to open the way
> to a world government, world army, world central bank, world electronic
> currency and a microchipped population connected to the global positioning
> * *satellite* *system, or GPS, among many other technologies of
> surveillance and control.
>
> The riots and looting they want to see, the chaos, will be met with the
> installation of a Police State with curfews, jail without trial, the
> military on the streets, and the activation of the concentration camps for
> 'dissidents' that we have long warned about. They are officially called
> 'military installations', run by FEMA, the deeply-sinister Federal Emergency
> Management Agency, and it is no coincidence, of course, that a bill numbered
> H.R. 645 is passing through Washington 'to direct the Secretary of Homeland
> Security to establish national emergency centers on military installations'.
> No, *concentration camps*, and other countries will have them prepared
> also.
>
> Look at what that War College document said: 'Under the most extreme
> circumstances, this might include use of military force against hostile
> groups inside the United States.'* Might*? It's a certainty because that's
> the plan and all the laws are in place to allow them to do it. They have
> been passed by governments around the world as 'anti-terror' legislation,
> but they use the terms 'terror' and 'terrorist' in such a non-specific way
> that all these laws can be applied to the entire population of the country
> that the 'laws' were supposed to protect according to their advocates.
>
> It was all a gigantic con, as some of us tired of pointing out. It had
> nothing to do with terrorists who are alleged to plant bombs and so on. All
> these laws have been put into place with the specific goal of controlling
> the mass of the people through a Police State when they triggered an
> economic collapse, together with new wars.
>
> Add to all this a stream of presidential executive orders signed by
> successive presidents without oversight by either the House of
> Representatives or the Senate. These are unconstitutional and make the
> president a virtual dictator. Click here<http://www.freedomfiles.org/war/fema.htm>to see the powers that the State can activate, thanks to these orders, when
> martial law is declared.
>
> This is why Obama's Zionist Svengali, the White House Chief of Staff Rahm
> Emanuel, is seeking to have gun ownership curtailed - to make the military
> takeover easier. Meantime, more people are seeking to be armed and requests
> for concealed weapon permits in Florida alone are up 42 per cent in 45 days
> with the consequences of the economic turmoil in mind.
>
> *The military on the streets of Iraq. How long before the same is seen on
> the streets of America and elsewhere*?
>
> The only way to stop all this is not to react as they want us to, with
> violence and hostility to both the State and each other. How many violent
> revolutions have led to just another tyranny, official or unofficial, to
> replace the one that fell? It has to be so because what is destroyed by
> violence will be replaced by the same energy. As I have said in my books,
> what you fight, you become.
>
> John Lennon put it perfectly when he sang:
>
> *You say you want a revolution
> Well, you know
> We all want to change the world
> You tell me that it's evolution
> Well, you know
> We all want to change the world
> But when you talk about destruction
> Don't you know that you can count me out ...*
>
> *... You say you got a real solution
> Well, you know
> We'd all love to see the plan
> You ask me for a contribution
> Well, you know
> We're doing what we can
> But when you want money
> for people with minds that hate
> All I can tell is brother you have to wait*
>
> *Revolution* (1968) ... click here to watch ...<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87yq372R4Ts>
>
> Martin Luther King also put it brilliantly when he said of rioting:
>
> *'The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win
> and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but
> reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis,
> but it must be followed by a sense of futility.'*
>
> Those are the words of a revolutionary who succeeded through peaceful
> non-cooperation. Yes, they killed him, but what he created through
> non-violence and determination went forth to end segregation. Physical life
> does not matter when compared with what is *right*, for we are all eternal
> Conciousness having an illusory experience and the greatest illusion is
> death.
>
> I would much rather die 'early' doing what I knew to be right than to eek
> out a few more illusory years as a slave to a tyranny.
>
> But there is no need even for that to bring an end to this nonsense. There
> are billions of people being enslaved and a comparative handful doing the
> enslaving. Er, I think I see a way out of this.
>
> We need to come together in mutual support, love, kindness and empathy. We
> need to put aside the manufactured fault-lines that divide us - religion,
> politics, race, culture and income bracket. That is not to say people have
> to reject their beliefs, just don't let them be weapons of division.
>
> We are all in this together and we need to meet the challenge together, not
> steal from each other, loot or riot, or look the other way because something
> happening to someone else is 'not my problem'. They are not seeking to
> enslave Muslims, Jews, black people, or white middle class Americans and so
> on. They are seeking to do it to *all *of us and they are picking off
> different groups one by one, just like the Nazis did in Germany. Remember
> these famous words because they are so applicable now:
>
> *First they came for the Jews and I was not a Jew so I did nothing.
> Then they came for the communists and I was not a communist so I did
> nothing.
> Then they came for the trade unionists and I was not a trade unionist so I
> did nothing.
> Then they came for me and there was no-one left to speak out for me.*
>
> Let us unite behind that which affects *everyone* - the loss of our most
> basic freedoms. And if this is being planned now, what kind of world are our
> children and grandchildren going to live in? Can you live with that thought
> while doing nothing or rioting as the authorities want? I can't.
>
> We need to start getting organised in communities and groups to support
> each other and stop *cooperating* with the system - not to fight it. The
> system can only exist with our cooperation and acquiesce. We are holding it
> together. They have their men and women of violence, called the military and
> 'Swat' teams, to deal with violent resistance.
>
> But their worst nightmare is our *non-cooperation* - the refusal to pay
> taxes; refusal to leave homes when banks foreclose on them; refusal to
> 'comply' with our own enslavement in any form. The system couldn't cope if
> this was done on a mass scale. And that's the point: to do this we need to
> do it en-masse and those not immediately affected need to support those who
> are.
>
> Instead of compliance, we need the *non*-comply-*dance* of people who beat
> to a different drum and will not comply with what is unfair, unjust, or
> targets their freedom and the freedom of others. This approach does not
> refuse to comply in a spirit of hostility, rage or violence, but with love,
> joy and laughter - and an *unbreakable* determination not to cooperate
> with their own enslavement.
>
> We need a mass refusal join the military, especially if they try to
> introduce the Draft; a refusal to do the *compulsory* 'community service'
> for young people that Obama's controllers want to introduce (as does the UK
> government); and a refusal to join, or accept the legitimacy of, Obama's
> planned civilian security force, which is nothing more than a scam to get
> the people to police the people on behalf of the Elite in the midst of the
> economic collapse and war.
>
> We need to start getting together local currency schemes that can operate
> outside the system and, yes, people should also have mass protests if they
> choose, so long as they are peaceful. But they need to be *part* of the
> campaign of non-violent, non-cooperation, not the focus of it.
>
> How many mass protests have there been over the years around the world and
> yet everything just goes on as before, be it war or globalisation. We need
> to stop posturing and then heading for the bar to feel good about ourselves
> and start doing what will actually make a difference.
>
> *Mass protests can ease frustration - steam whistles as I call them - but
> what good do most of them do? Mass non-cooperation with the system is far
> more effective. *
>
> The protests need to be targeted at non-cooperation, refusing to accept
> laws that ban assembly by massive numbers turning up; surrounding the homes
> of neighbours when the bank bailiffs come to put them on the street; and so
> filling the locations of government and finance with masses of people that
> the system cannot function. Workers who provide essential services to
> government, police and financial institutions etc., can refuse to do so
> until Orwellian laws and financial injustice are removed. In this way the
> perpetrators are affected, not the mass of the people, as with all-out
> strikes.
>
> And all of this needs to be good humoured and strictly *peaceful*.
>
> I would say this also to those in uniform. You may think you have power,
> but you are just pawns in the game like anyone else. *You* don't have the
> power, your *uniform* does, because that is an extension of the State.
> Those inside are just there to animate the uniform and do the bidding of
> those it represents. When you are useful to the cabal they'll praise you and
> when you are surplus to their requirements as part of the bigger agenda
> they'll show you the door.
>
> You have children and grandchildren, too, who will have to live in the
> world you are policing into existence by 'following orders' and believing
> the manipulative nonsense fed to you by governments and cabal 'training'
> fronts like the UK-based Common Purpose. *Wake up* from the trance and
> stop building a Police State for your *own* children and grandchildren -
> and everyone else. Think about the consequences for those you love of what
> you are doing - and *stop doing it*.
>
> More than anything, we all need to free our minds and become conscious.
> >From that, everything else will come, including the intuition, inspiration
> and *knowing* that will guide us on how most effectively to deal with what
> we face.
>
> If there are many things you would like to do in a room, but the room is
> dark and you can't see, what is the fundamental first step to *anything
> else* happening? You have to turn on the light and then all the rest
> becomes possible. Without that you are thrashing around in the dark and
> falling over the furniture.
>
> That is what 'humans' are doing today and have been for so long. They have
> been manipulated to believe they are their bodies and their names when those
> are just the experiences of who they truly are - eternal Consciousness. As
> the great American comedian, Bill Hicks, said:
>
> *'... all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, we are
> all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively. There's no such
> thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of
> ourselves.'*
>
> The divisions between us are illusory to allow a certain kind of
> experience, but these illusions have been exploited mercilessly to divide
> and rule us.
>
> *ENOUGH!*
>
> When we awaken to the truth of who we are the world looks very different
> and so do the challenges that are put before us - or we put before
> ourselves. Move your point of observation and everything changes. Try it.
> Try ceasing to identify who you are with your body, your name and the
> reflection in the mirror. Try seeing those things as experiences and not who
> you are. Try observing your life and the world from the perception of the
> *real* you - eternal Conciousness, All That Is, Has Been and Ever Can Be
> in our illusion called 'time'.
>
> Eternal Conscious in awareness of itself doesn't riot; it is not violent
> and it doesn't loot. But nor does it ever do, or accept for itself and
> others, what is not fair, just, loving and kind. Crucially, Consciousness is
> without fear. When we operate on that level then we can truly claim to be
> Conscious and not trapped in the illusion called Mind. As Albert Einstein
> said: 'You cannot solve problems with the same level of consciousness that
> created them.'
>
> John Lennon also made this key point in *Revolution* about what needs to
> happen to really make a difference. We need to free our minds and become *
> Conscious*:
>
> *You say you'll change the constitution
> Well, you know
> We all want to change your head
> You tell me it's the institution
> Well, you know
> You better free you mind instead
> But if you go carrying pictures of chairman Mao
> You ain't going to make it with anyone anyhow *
>
> We are now fast heading for the eye of the storm that has been planned for
> so long to enslave the global population in a centralised tyranny. But we
> don't have to accept it or acquiesce to it, meekly looking on as the walls
> of control close in by the day.
>
> But that is what is happening and it *has to stop*. For *everyone's sake*,
> it has to stop.
>
> We can come together, we *MUST* come together, putting aside the
> fault-lines of race, religion, culture and income bracket. These are just
> illusory labels through which we are divided and therefore ruled. Believe in
> them if you wish, and enjoy them if they make you happy, but don't let them
> divide us any longer.
>
> We need to come together in mutual support at this time as those with sick
> minds and closed hearts are poised to throw everything at us to complete
> their agenda for total control. Whether their insanity prevails is not in
> *their* hands, but in *ours*. It is *we* who have the power if only we
> would choose to use it.
>
> We are One Consciousness deluded into thinking we are 'little me'. When we
> realise that we are all One - and act upon that with courage, love,
> kindness, peace and empathy for all who need support - the walls of
> oppression must fall.
>
> But sitting on your arse hoping it will all go away is no longer an option.
>
>
> It never was.
>  ------------------------------
>
> *See DavidIcke.com for constantly updated information on the world as it
> really is.*
>
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>
>
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From: ecotort at gn.apc.org (EcoTort Theatre)
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 18:39:05 +0000
Subject: [GJM] Adverse Health Effects from the Operation of Digital
 Broadcast Television Stations
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Adverse Health Effects from the Operation of Digital Broadcast 
Television Stations

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Adverse Health Effects from the Operation of Digital Broadcast 
Television Stations (DVB-T)

By Dr. Cornelia Waldmann-Selsam and Dr. Christine Aschermann and Dr. 
Markus Kern

Global Research <http://www.globalresearch.ca>, March 7, 2009

/The following text written as an open letter to president Obama by 
three prominent German physicians provides details on the adverse health 
effects of digital broadcasting. /


*OPEN LETTER
*Bamberg, February 12, 2009

*To the President of the United States of America

To the Citizens of the United States of America
To the Members of the House of Representatives
To the Members of the Senate

Warning Against Adverse Health Effects from the Operation of Digital 
Broadcast  Television Stations (DVB-T)

*Dear President Obama:

Dear Members of the House of Representatives:
Dear Members of the Senate:
Dear Citizens of the United States of America:

In the US, digital broadcast television is scheduled to start operating 
on February 17, 2009. We  write  to  you  today  because  we  wish  to  
save  you  from  the  significant  negative  health  consequences that 
have occurred here in Germany.     In  Germany,  analog  broadcast  
television  stations  have  gradually  been  switching  to  digital  
broadcast  signals  since  2003.  This  switchover  first  took  place  
in  metropolitan  areas.  In  those  areas, however, the RF exposures in 
public places as well as at home continued to increase at  the same 
time. As a result, the continuing declining health status of children, 
adolescents, and  adults in urban areas could not be attributed to any 
single cause.    On May 20, 2006, two digital broadcast television 
stations went on the air in the Hessian Rhoen  area  (Heidelstein,  
Kreuzberg),  which  until  recently  had  enjoyed  rather  low  mobile  
phone  radiation  exposure  levels.  Within  a  radius  of  more  than  
20  km,  the  following  symptoms  that  occurred abruptly were 
reported:    constant headaches, pressure in the head, drowsiness, sleep 
problems, inability to think clearly,  forgetfulness, nervous tensions, 
irritability, tightness in the chest, rapid heartbeat, shortness of  
breath,  depressive  mood,  total  apathy,  loss  of  empathy,  burning  
skin,  inner  burning,  leg  weakness, pain in the limbs, stabbing pain 
in various organs, weight increase.  

Birds had fled the area. Cats had turned phlegmatic and hardly ever went 
into the garden. One  child committed suicide; a second child tried 
doing it.    Over  time  the  same  unbearable  symptoms  showed  up  
in  other  locations---most  recently  in  Bamberg and Aschaffenburg on 
November 25, 2008. Physicians accompanied affected people to  areas  
where  there  was  no  DVB-T  reception  (valleys,  behind  mountain  
ranges)  and  witnessed  how these people became symptom-free only after 
a short period of time.   

The respective agencies responsible in Germany were approached for help, 
but they declined to  follow  up  on  the  strongly  suggestive  
evidence  in  the  actual  locations.  The  behavior  of  the  
government  agencies  disregards  the  fundamental  rights  of  
affected  people  guaranteed  in  the  German Constitution.   

In  Germany,  DVB-T  (Digital  Video  Broadcasting Terrestrial) uses  
Orthogonal  Frequency  Division  Multiplex Modulation. The fundamental 
principle of this type of modulation works by spreading  the  
information  across  several  thousand  carrier  frequencies  directly  
adjacent  to  each  other.  A  channel is 7.8 MHz wide. The amplitude 
also changes constantly.    The  WHO,  the  German  Radiation  
Protection  Commission,  and  the  German  Federal  Ministry  of  the 
Environment rely on the Guidelines for Limiting Exposure to Time-varying 
Electric, Magnetic,  and Electromagnetic Fields (up to 300 GHz), (Health 
Physics 74 (4): 494-522; 1998) published by  the International 
Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection  (ICNIRP). In this 
document,  it says:  p.  495:    "These  guidelines  will  be  
periodically  revised  and  updated  as  advances  are  made  in  
identifying  the  adverse  health  effects  of  time-varying  electric,  
magnetic,  and  electromagnetic  fields."    p.  507:    
"Interpretation  of  several  observed  biological  effects  of  AM  
electromagnetic  fields  is  further  complicated  by  the  apparent  
existence  of  "windows"  of  response  in  both  the  power  density  
and  frequency  domains. 

There  are  no  accepted  models  that  adequately  explain  this  
phenomenon, which challenges the traditional concept of a monotonic 
relationship between the  field intensity and the severity of the 
resulting biological effects."    Why are the German agencies in charge 
not willing to help identify the adverse health effects?  Since  
immediately,  after  digital  broadcast  television  stations  had  
started  transmitting,  adverse  health  effects  have  occurred,  the  
review  of  the  Guidelines  announced  by  the  ICNIRP  is  imperative. 
Obviously, there are response windows contained within the broad 
frequency bands  with  their  several  thousand  frequencies  that  
change  constantly  and  whose  amplitude  also  changes constantly. The 
ICNIRP had already pointed out this possibility.   

In 1992, Dipl.-Ing. R?diger Matthes, member of ICNIRP and of the Geman 
Radiation Protection  Agency (BfS), emphasized the preliminary status of 
the exposure limits in a hearing on the health  risks of electromagnetic 
radiation: "...They (electromagnetic exposure levels) are several orders 
of  magnitude  higher  than  the  natural  background  radiation  
levels  of  nontechnical  sources...In  parallel to this development, 
findings of scientific studies according to which long-term exposure  
to  such  fields  may  trigger  adverse  health  effects  keep  
accumulating....In  this  context,  it  is  also  important  to  
recognize  that  there  are  large  differences  in  exposure  levels  
within  a  given  population.  A  small  child,  for  example,  absorbs  
much  more  RF  energy  than  an  adult  person...There  are  several  
findings  on  low-level  exposures,  which  are  considered  
scientifically  validated  because  they  have  been  reproduced  often  
but  which  are  rather  difficult  to  interpret.

The  impact  of  mostly  pulsed  or  ELF  modulated  RF  radiation  on  
cell  metabolism,  for  example,  counts among them. It has been 
observed that the efflux of certain ions (e.g. calcium) from a cell  
increases  during  exposure  to  such  fields.  The  occurrence  of  
this  effect  is  described  almost  completely independent of the 
actual field strength. It can be found at extremely low absorption  
levels....With  all  the  currently  available  scientific  findings,  
there  remain  some  crucial  questions  unanswered.  ...There  are  
gaps  in  the  so-called  body  of  evidence.  That  means  that  the  
biological  effects,  for  example, have only been investigated for 
individual frequencies. Data (e.g. effect thresholds) on  the  various  
biological  effects  across  the  entire  frequency  spectrum  are  not  
available. 

The  exposure limits, therefore, are based on an approach that greatly 
simplifies the very complex  reality whose details are unfathomable. It 
should also be noted that concrete data on possible  effects of 
long-term exposures are mostly lacking."     Real life teaches us that 
it was wrong to simplify. In Germany, we see strong evidence of a 
direct  temporal  association  between  the  start-up  of  terrestrial  
digital  broadcast  television  and  the  occurrence of severe health 
symptoms.    Dr.-Ing.  W.  Volkrodt,  former  R&D  engineer  at  
Siemens,  recognized  the  danger  of  electromagnetic  fields  for  
humans,  animals,  and  plants.  He  pinned  his  hopes  on  
policymakers  who  would  listen  to  reason  when  he  wrote  in  
1987:  "Future  historians  will  refer  to  the  RF  dilemma during the 
period from around 1975 to 1990 as a short, time-limited 'technical 
incident.'  Owing to the introduction of fiber optic technology, this 
incident could be remediated quickly and  effectively."    Satellites  
and  cable  provide  the  US  population  with  television  services.  
By  contrast,  the  risk  associated with terrestrial digital broadcast 
television transmitters is unacceptable.

We,  therefore,  ask  you,  dear  Mr.  President,  who  has  the  
wellbeing  of  his  citizens  at  heart, to stop the scheduled 
introduction of this new technology in the United States  of  America  
and  to  save  the  people  from  the negative  health  consequences  
that  have  occurred in our country.

Dr. med. Cornelia Waldmann-Selsam

Dr. med. Christine Aschermann

Dr. med. Markus Kern

http://d.scribd.com/docs/1a34bitqwcergnuko29s.txt

Dr. med. Cornelia Waldmann-Selsam
Founding Member of the Bamberg  Appeal

Dr. med. Christine Aschermann
Neurologist-Psychotherapy
Founding  Member  of  the  Freiburg  Appeal 
Dr. med. Markus Kern

Psychosomatic Medizin
Founding  Member  of  the  Physicians  Appeal Allg?u-Bodensee-Oberschwaben

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From ecotort at gn.apc.org  Wed Mar 11 04:44:16 2009
From: ecotort at gn.apc.org (EcoTort Theatre)
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 10:44:16 +0000
Subject: [GJM] Positive Potential in the demise of our financial base....
Message-ID: <49B79600.1080707@gn.apc.org>

One of the things we need to understand about the present economy is that
the external costs, that is the costs to the environment, which have been
for many years excluded from the retail price of products sold, are so
extensive that were they included none of us would be able to afford the
product, e.g., our home, our car, the beef we eat along with other meats,
our appliances, etc. The only thing that our work has produced is wages
(which many refer to as slave wages) that enable us to enjoy an artificial
way of life that is completely unnatural. Yet, the very sad part of this is
that we consider what we are doing normal. For a very long time now, but
mainly from the beginning of the Industrial Age, we have taken from the
Earth and let these external costs pile up unabated as we continued our
party. Now these external costs are coming due in the form of ecological
collapse and global climate change. And, we are running on empty. And it may
well be that the only thing that is going to save us, as pointed out in this
article is the economic collapse which will force us into living a
sustainable lifestyle if we want to continue on here on Earth as the Human
Family.         

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Subject: [globalnetnews-summary] Let's not look upon the demise of our
financial base as a bad thing 

"The survivors will be those who have developed the necessary survival
skills -- those who are able to grow and cook their own food, and educate
their own children, and look after their own health. These people will not
wake up every morning fretting about money, or spending most of their day
being concerned about their coiffure or fashion. They will not spend huge
chunks of their time shopping."


Let's not look upon the demise of our financial base as a bad thing 
03 March 2009

We are now beginning to hear predictions of even less growth, and the
likely length of the depression increasing.

It's a little unfortunate that the only people who can get a word into the
newspapers or onto the television, are in fact prime candidates for being
helped by the men in white coats.

All they succeed in doing is causing confusion amongst those of us who are
in the process of evolving into a more sensible human being.

The old "modern" paradigm has lived its life -- bring on the new paradigm.

The nearest parallel I can think of was when Imperial China was taken over
by Maoist China. Could the people who were around in those times have
predicted such dramatic change? Absolutely no way, but here is one of
hundreds of similar examples -- things do change.

The modern era has been dominated by business, and profit has become the
sole reason for some people to live. They are so locked inside the box that
they are not even aware that they are living inside a paradigm, and as a
result are completely unable to imagine a different one.

These are the people who are eventually destined to be classified as
insane, just as those are today who continue to declare that the earth is
flat.

Sane people would not base the on-going survival of the human species on a
foundation of business having infinite growth. There are many alternative
foundations for life, and the most likely suggestions to succeed are those
alternatives that are aligned with nature.

In the new paradigm, deeper truths will be recognised. Our scientists and
philosophers will be telling us that we are a part of nature, and not
master of it -- we do not own the earth -- it owns us.

Let's not look upon the demise of our financial base as a bad thing. In
fact it can be turned into a very good thing.

It gives us the opportunity to walk away from our present destructive way
of life, and to actually DO something about the earth's environmental
problems.

We are being told that it's already too late, but as the saying goes, it's
never too late. However, certainly now is the time.

We do not own the earth, despite what we are told by various governments
and real estate agents. We have been given an opportunity to manifest a
body which can stay here for a while, but if we abuse that privilege then
we are delaying our own personal and spiritual evolution.

We must wake up to the fact that our lifestyles have become lazy, unhealthy
and pointless, and as we suck the earth's energy instead of using our own,
each one of us is unable to fulfill our true potential.

We will soon start to wonder why we were born -- a question that most
people surprisingly cannot answer. It would seem a childish notion to
consider that we were born to become rich, or to collect amazing quantities
of material things. So we see that most of the people who encourage and
govern us, and manage the earth's resources, and whom we presently elect
and worship are in fact no more than children.

When we mature into an adult, we cease to need all of today's toys, and we
begin to realise that life has much more meaning than adding a couple of
percentage points to a P & L account.

We desperately need new leaders, and as we have tried all forms of
leadership only to discover that they failed, we had better discover a very
different kind of leader. We will begin to lead ourselves. We will draw
back all the responsibilities and power that we have delegated to these
failed leaders.

We will cease to be dependent on the state and big business for our
survival. We will withdraw from the cities, as soon as we realise that they
are the source of all evil and environmental destruction (probably because
they are so far out of line from nature).

City people have become ungrounded -- they have completely lost all
connection with the spirit that manifested them. Their daily activities and
thoughts are unhealthy, and definitely do not show any meaningful reason
for their birth. They are exactly what the CIA calls them -- useless
eaters.

Most of the useless eaters will be unable to find a way of living once
their faces are taken off the TV and out of the newspapers. They contribute
nothing meaningful to society, and in fact are delaying the evolution of
society.

The survivors will be those who have developed the necessary survival
skills -- those who are able to grow and cook their own food, and educate
their own children, and look after their own health. These people will not
wake up every morning fretting about money, or spending most of their day
being concerned about their coiffure or fashion. They will not spend huge
chunks of their time shopping.

All of that is far behind us, if only we could realise it. The earth is
moving on -- its vibration rate is becoming higher -- it is heating up,
along with the rest of the universe, as another step in the evolution of
our solar system. If we can get enough intelligent people to align
themselves and their lives with nature, then we can use our wisdom to help
us to survive -- or else we can continue to talk about the prospects of
limited business growth this year. Doh! 


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From brock_moore at accountant.com  Wed Mar 11 09:27:44 2009
From: brock_moore at accountant.com (Brock Moore)
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 10:27:44 -0500
Subject: [GJM] Appeal for Jewish brothers,
 elders and youth for eliminating usury
Message-ID: <20090311152744.1E840326778@ws1-8.us4.outblaze.com>

The word "interest" is not synonymous with "usury." They are not
synonymous in modern languages, nor were they synonymous in the ancient
Semitic languages. So the scriptual prohibitions against usury, in both
the Bible and Koran, are not prohibitions against interest. Interest can
be usurious, as can other financial arrangements. But it is not
necessarily usurious.

This is from a scholar at an American Islamic website:

http://www.submission.org/islam/interest-usury.html 

"The Quran forbids usury, not interest. Quite a few states in USA have
laws against usury. Usury is defined as excessive interest. A Dictionary
defines usury as 'an excessive or inordinate premium for the use of money
borrowed', 'extortionate interest', or 'the practice of taking exorbitant
or excessive interest.' The Arabic language also makes distinction
between interest (Fa'eda) and usury (Reba). The Quran forbids Reba or
usury."

Which is perfectly consistent with the modern Jewish and Christian
perspectives on the matter: 

http://eh.net/encyclopedia/article/jones.usury 

"John Calvin's letter on usury of 1545 made it clear that when Christ
said 'lend hoping for nothing in return,' He meant that we should help
the poor freely. Following the rule of equity, we should judge people by
their circumstances, not by legal definitions. Humanist that he was,
Calvin knew there were two Hebrew words translated as 'usury.' One,
neshek, meant 'to bite'; the other, tarbit, meant 'to take legitimate
increase.' Based on these distinctions, Calvin argued that only 'biting'
loans were forbidden. Thus, one could lend at interest to business people
who would make a profit using the money. To the working poor one could
lend without interest, but expect the loan to be repaid. To the
impoverished one should give without expecting repayment."

Brock Moore



  ----- Original Message -----
  From: "Centre For Ecological Audit, Social Inclusion & Governance"
  To: "Discussion Forum for Global Justice"
  Subject: [GJM] Appeal for Jewish brothers, elders and youth for
  eliminating usury
  Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 13:00:18 +0530

  Thanks a lot Mary for sharing the info about the Satanic cult that
  has dominated the US administration. It is unfortunate that people
  associated with Prophet Moses genealogically have forgotten the
  central command against usury. It is time that all Jewish and
  Christians brothers, sisters and elders get united against usury.
  Usury is at the core of the problem for the 'recession' that is
  ecologically benevolent. Halting the pace of expansion of
  ecologically hostile habitats fueled by atheistic neo-liberal
  globalization of Satanic economic ,political and cultural  thinking
  appropriating usury was very much needed . Vatican's approval for
  Islamic banking is a historical event.Let us celberate ecologically
  benvolent recession with more and more of prayers for guidance to
  more and more men and women globally.

  Dr.Muhammad Mukhtar Alam

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From cojock at hotmail.com  Wed Mar 11 15:25:40 2009
From: cojock at hotmail.com (chris cook)
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 21:25:40 +0000
Subject: [GJM] Appeal for Jewish brothers,
 elders and youth for eliminating usury
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Brock

This article in the FT by Tarek el Diwany is relevant.

http://www.islamic-finance.com/item142_f.htm

As he says...

"Overarching
these issues of moral hazard and legal semantics, looms the more
fundamental question of whether Islamic finance can be practised within
an interest-based monetary framework."

My understanding of the prohibition under Islam ie riba is that no payment may be made for the use of money. When money comes into existence as an interest-bearing debt - as is the case in our current system (other than for notes and coin) - then the conflict is obvious, as Tarek infers.

Payment for the use of a productive asset, on the other hand, is perfectly legitimate.

The definitions of usury you quote are, as far as I can see, self serving and suit the convenience of those who propagate them.

The underlying issue is that of sharing of risk and reward. The contract of interest-bearing debt - of a fixed rate of return irrespective of the borrower's ability to pay - is and always has been problematic for all religions  because of the inevitable and deleterious effects on the debtor of interest compounding over time.

Best Regards

Chris Cook




From: brock_moore at accountant.com
To: discussion at globaljusticemovement.net
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 10:27:44 -0500
Subject: Re: [GJM] Appeal for Jewish brothers, elders and youth for eliminating usury


The word "interest" is not synonymous with "usury."  They are not synonymous in modern languages, nor were they synonymous in the ancient Semitic languages.  So the scriptual prohibitions against usury, in both the Bible and Koran, are not prohibitions against interest.  Interest can be usurious, as can other financial arrangements.  But it is not necessarily usurious.

This is from a scholar at an American Islamic website:

http://www.submission.org/islam/interest-usury.html 

"The Quran forbids usury, not interest. Quite a few states in USA have laws against usury. Usury is defined as excessive interest. A Dictionary defines usury as 'an excessive or inordinate premium for the use of money borrowed',  'extortionate interest', or 'the practice of taking exorbitant or excessive interest.' The Arabic language also makes distinction between interest (Fa'eda) and usury (Reba). The Quran forbids Reba or usury."

Which is perfectly consistent with the modern Jewish and Christian perspectives on the matter: 

http://eh.net/encyclopedia/article/jones.usury 

"John Calvin's letter on usury of 1545 made it clear that when Christ said 'lend hoping for nothing in return,' He meant that we should help the poor freely. Following the rule of equity, we should judge people by their circumstances, not by legal definitions. Humanist that he was, Calvin knew there were two Hebrew words translated as 'usury.' One, neshek, meant 'to bite'; the other, tarbit, meant 'to take legitimate increase.' Based on these distinctions, Calvin argued that only 'biting' loans were forbidden. Thus, one could lend at interest to business people who would make a profit using the money. To the working poor one could lend without interest, but expect the loan to be repaid. To the impoverished one should give without expecting repayment."

Brock Moore






----- Original Message -----

From: "Centre For Ecological Audit,	Social Inclusion & Governance" 

To: "Discussion Forum for Global Justice" 

Subject: [GJM] Appeal for Jewish brothers,	elders and youth for eliminating usury

Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 13:00:18 +0530




Thanks a lot Mary for sharing the info about the Satanic cult that has dominated the US administration. It is unfortunate that people associated with Prophet Moses genealogically have forgotten the central command against usury. It is time that all Jewish and Christians brothers, sisters and elders get united against usury. Usury is at the core of the problem for the 'recession' that is ecologically benevolent. Halting the pace of expansion of ecologically hostile habitats fueled by atheistic neo-liberal globalization of Satanic economic ,political and cultural  thinking appropriating usury was very much needed . Vatican's approval for Islamic banking is a historical event.Let us celberate ecologically benvolent recession with more and more of prayers for guidance to more and more men and women globally.


Dr.Muhammad Mukhtar Alam



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