The Chinese are playing grandmaster chess against an amateur America that can’t see beyond the second move. In a bipartisan display of geopolitical obtuseness, America continues its historic trade policy: It’s free trade, except occasional lapses into protectionism when a whinging constituent must be placated, with a reliance on the World Trade Organization to settle disputes (and believing it has won something of significance when the WTO sides with it in a dispute over such a key product as cheap tires). Occasional public complaints about China’s persistent undervaluation of the renminbi, but refusal to declare the regime a currency manipulator. And conferences, conferences, conferences. All very 20th century.
Overdrawn American cities could face financial collapse in 2011, defaulting on hundreds of billions of dollars of borrowings and derailing the US economic recovery. Nor are European cities safe – Florence, Barcelona, Madrid, Venice: all are in trouble
Everybody is talking about global warming – but in Germany and also in many other countries around the world people are currently fighting with the adversities of extreme cold. And indeed: “The year 2010 will be the coldest for ten years in Germany,” said Thomas Globig from the weather service Meteo Media talking to wetter.info . And it might even get worse: “It is quite possible that we are at the beginning of a Little Ice Age,” the meteorologist said. Even the Arctic ice could spread further to the south.
Six of the biggest banks in the nation have been told by New Jersey's Supreme Court Chief Justice that unless they can prove otherwise, they will have to stop tens of thousands of foreclosures in the Garden State.
As we have repeatedly stated in the last two weeks, the mainstream media and federal government are essentially promoting the fact that their will be a terror attack in the very near future. This is the country we now find ourselves in, a country whose government stages terror threats to continue their push towards a complete Nazi style police state. A staged attack on our food supply would have horrible consequences. It would enable our government to completely control an already heavily regulated food supply. The good news is the American people are waking up to the existence of false flag terror in mass and hopefully our vigilance will stop any sort of planned attack.
Late Monday, a majority of the FCC's commissioners indicated that they're going to vote with Chairman Julius Genachowski for a toothless Net Neutrality rule . . . Welcome to AT&T's Internet . . .
Our special guest was Bob Chapman of The International Forecaster. Is the economy on the brink of collapse? What can we do as American citizens to prepare our self for the collapse of the dollar? George4Title also dropped in with pointers on how to survive in a down trodden economy. Shepard also covers news including the Christmas time terror rhetoric that is right on schedule. Will their be a terror attack this holiday season?
The constant fall of snow is costing local councils serious money - and in some areas basic materials are running out.
"We have no salt at all right now" says Lars-Göran Danielsson, head of services management at Kalmar municipality.
"Economically speaking, it's a catastrophe", says Jan-Olof Hasselborn, responsible for keeping the streets clear in Uppsala. The central Swedish town has seen its snow-clearing budget shoot from 40 million SEK to an estimated 52 million.
Jan Pettersson, department chief at the Swedish Traffic Authority, says that there could be a European-wide shortage of salt on the way. "In Sweden there is still salt so far, but the incoming supplies are starting to dry up here as well."
washington post: Nine years after the terrorist attacks of 2001, the United States is assembling a vast domestic intelligence apparatus to collect information about Americans, using the FBI, local police, state homeland security offices and military criminal investigators. - Duh!
Bid Sis Homeland Sweet Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano indoctrinates police and firefighters recently stating, "The old view that 'if we fight the terrorists abroad, we won't have to fight them here' is just that - the old view."
Praise for the one-worlder gluts the media. “The international community is praising the legacy of veteran U.S. diplomat Richard Holbrooke, who died Monday at the age of 69 while serving as the Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan,” reports the CIA propaganda outfit, Voice of America. “You’ve got to stop this war in Afghanistan,” he told his Pakistani surgeon before he was sedated for his final surgery, according to the Washsington Post.
Newscast with Deborah Norville about the launch of the controversial book about Nazi-Zionist collaboration. Admission that boycott of jewish stores was for only one day, April 1, 1933.
First hour: Christopher Bolyn author of Solving 9/11 - the most comprehensive book on Israeli involvement in the 9/11 attacks. Christopher Bollyn has just made public new evidence concerning the destruction of 9/11 evidence. He writes:
I look forward to discussing the destruction of the steel from the World Trade Center on Saturday, December 18. I am sending you the following information so that you understand the basics of what I will be talking about. To understand the Mossad role in the destruction of the steel from the WTC is to understand a very crucial part of the 9/11 crime.
"Late last week, with no public announcement, Microsoft quietly retired one cog in its antipiracy machine. Office Genuine Advantage was officially shut down as of Thursday, December 16, and virtually all traces of the once-controversial program have been scrubbed from Microsoft’s web site."
Overdrawn American cities could face financial collapse in 2011, defaulting on hundreds of billions of dollars of borrowings and derailing the US economic recovery. Nor are European cities safe – Florence, Barcelona, Madrid, Venice: all are in trouble Elena Moya Guardian
More than 100 American cities could go bust next year as the debt crisis that has taken down banks and countries threatens next to spark a municipal meltdown, a leading analyst has warned.
Part 1 of 2 In this week's conversations with Great Minds Thom Hartmann talks with Chris Hedges, journalist and author of "The Death of the Liberal Class". Chris Hedges says, "The lunatic fringe of the Republican Party, which looks set to make sweeping gains in the midterm elections, is the direct result of a collapse of liberalism. It is the product of bankrupt liberal institutions, including the press, the church, universities, labor unions, the arts and the Democratic Party."
Once again the israelis/zionists felt threatened by a youtube video that reminds the world of the linkage between Christmas and Palestine, on many different levels.
It seems they made a organized effort to remove this video from youtube by flagging it and voting it down.
So far, they only managed to get it restricted to “adults only” on the grounds that includes “inappropriate material”. That means that only people with a youtube account can see it, thus severely restricting viewership. The same happened last Christmas when our video Christmas video was indeed removed.
Anyway, we need all the help we can get to spread this video, especially since people can see the video if it is embedded on a website or blog. Here it is….
The Municipality of Jerusalem has published ads in every Israeli newspaper offering free Christmas trees to ‘those who celebrate Christmas’. This is done annually.BUT …. this year is different …. this is the year that renting or selling apartments to non Jews has become a hot issue in the ‘Holy Land’. This is the year that rabbinical councils in every major city have signed letters declaring this form of racism to be ‘Law’.
Fascist settlers join the racist rabbinical calls to not rent or sell to Arabs…. The right-wing activist Baruch Marzel and a few local rabbis will participate in the demonstration, and the organizers are expecting hundreds more. Below is what they claim is happening if the call is not heeded….. Israel is becoming the set of the new Jerry Springer Show, a truly dysfunctional country.
Strikingly, it shows how utterly degraded the idea of truth has become. In celebrating Assange as a "truth teller", as a prophet of truth, as a being who has arrived to "deliver humanity the truth", the WikiLeaks worshippers are reverting to a pre-Enlightenment view of truth, to a view of truth as something that is revealed to us by powerful entities rather than as something we discover through political engagement, public debate and critical thinking. All those whose critical faculties are still intact, and who care about real truth and real knowledge, should stand up and loudly blaspheme against the new secular religion of Assange and his apostles.
PLEASE WATCH AND SPREAD THIS VIDEO - THIS WOMAN TOLD CONGRESS HOW IT IS! SAYS AMERICAN DREAM NO MORE AND THE GOVERNMENT IS NOT FOR THE PEOPLE ANYMORE! POWERFUL POWERFUL!
Xe Services, the private military contractor formerly known as Blackwater Worldwide, announced on Friday that it had been sold to a group of private equity investors with ties to company founder Erik Prince. Investigative Journalist Wayne Madsen says the government involvement with Blackwater is a revolving door of former government officials becoming employed by the company.
725 billion dollars was approved by Congress for the military last week, while most of the media coverage was about Don't Ask Don't Tell. This bill is the largest military budget ever approved amid a poor US economy and a deficit that continues to inflate. Author and activist David Swanson says this is an outrage in the face of the deficit and all of the war crimes shed to light by WikiLeaks.
The one main thing missing from the recent escalation in charges against the major banks in regard to the fraudclosure scandal has been an internal whistleblower who can corroborate that all the charges against the various illicit mortgage practices. After all, it is one thing to lay allegations, and totally different for a court of law to find that these are validated.
So far it is precisely the latter that has been missing as no court is willing to escalate an issue that could potentially unwind decades of mortgage securitization. Yet all that may be about to change. Daily Finance’s Abigail Field presents the case of one Linda Almonte, a former employee of JPM, who is not only suing the bank for wrongful termination, but has now also filed a whistleblower complaint with the SEC.
Eighty percent of baby boomers are pessimistic about the current direction of the United States, according to the Pew Research Center's Social & Demographic Trends study released Monday.
Who can blame them, with retirement and pension funds shrinking and with the unemployment rate near 10%? The boomer generation consists of adults between the ages of 45 and 64, according to the The Pew Research Center, a nonpartisan think tank.
Interesting fact: the Chairman of the Met Office board, Robert Napier, is or has been:
Chairman of the Green Fiscal Trust* Chairman of the trustees of the World Centre of Monitoring of Conservation a director of the Carbon Disclosure Project a director of the Carbon Group Chief executive of the World Wildlife Fund UK
He is also a member of the Green Alliance.
If we are supposed to reject the views of scientists, like Richard Lindzen, on the grounds that they have given speeches at thinktanks that have accepted money from oil interests, then I think its fair to say that we can safely discount anything said by the Met Office forthwith.
THE COLD spell Ireland and the rest of northern Europe has been experiencing may, paradoxically, be the result of global warming, rather than evidence it is not happening, according to the most recent scientific research.
The Journal of Geophysical Research suggested a link between diminishing levels of sea ice in the Arctic and an increased probability of harsh winters across Europe, saying these “do not conflict the global warming picture, but rather supplement it”.
And if you believe that I've got a watch to sell you.
Yet another example of the chaos at Heathrow today. Police locking people out by blocking emergency exits. Nobody outside giving guidance or support! Absolute chaos & it took 15 mins to get out of building due to entrances & exits being blocked by police. Health & safety concerns!?! What would have happened in an emergency? People would have been killed! Madness!!!
The one main thing missing from the recent escalation in charges against the major banks in regard to the fraudclosure scandal has been an internal whistleblower who can corroborate that all the charges against the various illicit mortgage practices. After all, it is one thing to lay allegations, and totally different for a court of law to find that these are validated.
So far it is precisely the latter that has been missing as no court is willing to escalate an issue that could potentially unwind decades of mortgage securitization. Yet all that may be about to change. Daily Finance’s Abigail Field presents the case of one Linda Almonte, a former employee of JPM, who is not only suing the bank for wrongful termination, but has now also filed a whistleblower complaint with the SEC.
A teenage boy is among 12 people arrested as part of a major anti-terrorism operation in the UK.
The suspects – five from Cardiff, four from Stoke-on-Trent and three from London – were detained by unarmed officers at around 5am. A 17-year-old boy and 11 men aged up to 28 are being held on suspicion of the commission, preparation or instigation of an act of terrorism in the UK.
A total lunar eclipse will be visible across North America tonight, just in time for the longest night of the year. This will be the first time a lunar eclipse has fallen on the winter solstice since 1638. The Earth’s shadow will begin to blot out the moon at 1:32 am EST (10:32 pm PST). During totality, when the Earth is directly between the moon and the sun, the moon will turn a rusty orange-red for 72 minutes from 2:41 am to 3:53 am EST (11:41 pm to 12:53 am PST).
BREAKING STORY (Bloomberg) - Ernst & Young LLP may be sued for fraud as early as today by New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo for allegedly helping Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. mislead investors, according to a person familiar with the matter.
The federal agency that monitors gun sales wants weapons dealers near the Mexican border to start reporting multiple sales of high-powered rifles, according to a notice published in the Federal Register...
George Soros is said to be one of the people behind Wikileaks. Hungarian-born George Soros reportedly has links to the Rothschilds, Mark Rich and Rafi Eytan. (The Secret Financial Network Behind "Wizard" George Soros) Journalist Julie Lévesque has listed some of the other Wikileaks' connections to the Establishment.
Australia normally experiences temperatures of 86F (30C) at this time of year, but the chances of a rare white Christmas have increased after plunging temperatures and snow swept across the east of the country. Bonnie Malkin Telegraph Freezing winds from Antarctica, blown up to Australia by a low-pressure system in the Southern Ocean, gave the country a taste of the conditions that are causing havoc across Europe...
North Korea says it will not retaliate despite "reckless provocations" from the South, which held live-fire drills on the flashpoint island of Yeonpyeong. The North shelled the island last month after similar drills and had threatened more retaliation this time. But state media quoted the army as saying it was "not worth reacting".
The sun went spotless yesterday, the first time in quite awhile. It seems like a good time to present this analysis from my friend David Archibald. For those not familiar with the Dalton Minimum, here’s some background info from Wiki:
The Dalton Minimum was a period of low solar activity, named after the English meteorologist John Dalton, lasting from about 1790 to 1830.[1] Like the Maunder Minimum and Spörer Minimum, the Dalton Minimum coincided with a period of lower-than-average global temperatures. The Oberlach Station in Germany, for example, experienced a 2.0°C decline over 20 years.[2] The Year Without a Summer, in 1816, also occurred during the Dalton Minimum. Solar cycles 5 and 6, as shown below, were greatly reduced in amplitude.
According to a passenger whose flight to Moscow was canceled, airport staff walked around shouting at travelers, telling them to leave immediately. When passengers refused to go after pointing out that they had no means of transportation because all the taxis and trains had been canceled, Heathrow bosses simply turned off the heating and lights overnight and let hundreds of people, including young children and babies, freeze in temperatures of minus 5 degrees.
Rainfall that began Saturday morning continued relentlessly throughout the day Sunday. It wasn't expected to let up until sometime Monday, then resume again on Tuesday and Wednesday, said Stuart Seto of the National Weather Service. After a brief break at the end of the week, more rain was likely to arrive on Christmas Day, Seto said. A flash-flood warning was in effect for parts of Southern California, particularly mountain areas burned in recent years by wildfires.
Watch This One - Excellent Clip - Runs less Than 2 Minutes I've added a 2nd short clip of Friedman on the legalization of marijuana & other drugs. Who knew Milton Friedman supported legalization.
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