Showing posts with label World News. Show all posts
Showing posts with label World News. Show all posts

Saturday, December 31, 2011

SEED: Iranian Website: This Is How We'll Close Strait of Hormuz


The article enumerated the forces and weapons that Iran could employ in such a military operation, including fast attack craft carrying anti-ship missiles; submarines; battleships; cruise and ballistic missiles; bombers carrying laser-, radar- and optically-guided missiles; helicopters; armed drones; hovercraft; and artillery.

It stated that despite Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei's statements that Tehran would not initiate a military confrontation but would retaliate harshly if attacked, "there is no guarantee that [Tehran] will not launch a preemptory strike on the civilian level, for instance through cyber-warfare or by means of economic pressure, including by closing the Strait of Hormuz and cutting off [this] energy lifeline for an indefinite period of time." It added, "Should additional sanctions be imposed on Iran, especially in the domain of oil export, Iran might keep [its] oil from leaving its territorial waters."

Wednesday, December 28, 2011

SEED: Not a Parody: Head of Arab League Monitors in Syria Led Darfur Genocide


The notion that the Arab League was going to stand up for human rights in Syria was always somewhat farcical. This is, after all, a group that has numbered among its members some of the worst tyrants in the world and which has supported terrorist groups so long as their targets were Jews and not Arab oligarchs.

Nevertheless the world applauded when the League turned on Bashar Assad’s murderous Syrian regime and viewed its offer of placing monitors to ensure that the violence there ended. But in case anyone in the West is actually paying attention to the slaughter in Syria, the identity of the head of that peace mission ought to pour cold water on the idea that it will do much to help alleviate human rights abuses.

As David Kenner reports in Foreign Policy, the head of the mission is none other than Sudanese General Mohammad Ahmed Mustafa al-Dabi. Al-Dabi just happens to be the man who created the murderous janjaweed militias that were the principal perpetrators in the Darfur genocide. So we should take his claims that the Assad government has so far been “very cooperative” and that all is going well in the country where thousands of have been slaughtered by the regime with a shovelful of South Sudanese salt.

Tuesday, December 20, 2011

SEED: Medical Journal Article: 14,000 U.S. Deaths Tied to Fukushima Reactor Disaster Fallout


Impact Seen As Roughly Comparable to Radiation-Related Deaths After Chernobyl; Infants Are Hardest Hit, With Continuing Research Showing Even Higher Possible Death Count.

An estimated 14,000 excess deaths in the United States are linked to the radioactive fallout from the disaster at the Fukushima nuclear reactors in Japan, according to a major new article in the December 2011 edition of the International Journal of Health Services. This is the first peer-reviewed study published in a medical journal documenting the health hazards of Fukushima.Authors Joseph Mangano and Janette Sherman note that their estimate of 14,000 excess U.S. deaths in the 14 weeks after the Fukushima meltdowns is comparable to the 16,500 excess deaths in the 17 weeks after the Chernobyl meltdown in 1986. The rise in reported deaths after Fukushima was largest among U.S. infants under age one. The 2010-2011 increase for infant deaths in the spring was 1.8 percent, compared to a decrease of 8.37 percent in the preceding 14 weeks.

The IJHS article will be published Tuesday and will be available online as of 11 a.m. EST at http://www.radiation.org . Just six days after the disastrous meltdowns struck four reactors at Fukushima on March 11, scientists detected the plume of toxic fallout had arrived over American shores. Subsequent measurements by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) found levels of radiation in air, water, and milk hundreds of times above normal across the U.S. The highest detected levels of Iodine-131 in precipitation in the U.S. were as follows (normal is about 2 picocuries I-131 per liter of water): Boise, ID (390); Kansas City (200); Salt Lake City (190); Jacksonville, FL (150); Olympia, WA (125); and Boston, MA (92).

Monday, December 19, 2011

SEED: Scientists Say Turin Shroud Is Supernatural


Italian government scientists have claimed to have discovered evidence that a supernatural event formed the image on the Turin Shroud, believed by many to be the burial cloth of Jesus Christ.

After years of work trying to replicate the coloring on the shroud, a similar image has been created by the scientists.

However, they only managed the effect by scorching equivalent linen material with high-intensity ultra violet lasers, undermining the arguments of other research, they say, which claims the Turin Shroud is a medieval hoax.

Such technology, say researchers from the National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development (Enea), was far beyond the capability of medieval forgers, whom most experts have credited with making the famous relic.

"The results show that a short and intense burst of UV directional radiation can colour a linen cloth so as reproduce many of the peculiar characteristics of the body image on the Shroud of Turin," they said.

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SEED: Scientific Community Abuzz Regarding Potential Cancer Breakthrough


US researchers said Monday they have discovered how to keep tumor cells alive in a lab, generating buzz in the scientific community about a potential breakthrough that could transform cancer treatment.

Until now, scientists have been unable to make cancer cells thrive for very long, or in a condition that resembles the way they act in the body. Doctors diagnose and recommend treatment largely based on biopsied tissue that is frozen or set in wax.

The advance has sparked new hope that someday doctors may be able to test a host of cancer-killing drugs on a person’s own tumor cells in the lab, before returning to the patient with a therapy that is a proven to be a good match.

“This would really be the ultimate in personalized medicine,” said lead author Richard Schlegel, chairman of the department of pathology at Georgetown University’s Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center.

“The therapies would be exactly from their tissues. We would get normal tissue and tumor tissue from a particular patient and specifically match up their therapies,” he told AFP.

“We are really excited about the possibilities of testing we can do with this.”

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SEED: Kim Jong Il, a Cold War-era leader in modern times, Dies Of Massive Heart Attack

Even as the world changed around him, North Korean leader Kim Jong Il remained firmly in control, ruling absolutely at home and keeping the rest of the world on edge through a nuclear weapons program.

Inheriting power from his father in 1994, he led his nation through a devastating famine while frustrating the U.S. and other global powers with an on-again, off-again approach to talks on giving up nuclear arms in return for energy and other assistance. Kim was one of the last remnants of a Cold War-era that ended years earlier in most other countries.

His death was announced Monday by state television two days after he died. North Korea's news agency reported that he had died at 8:30 a.m. Saturday after having a heart attack on a train, adding that he had been treated for cardiac and cerebrovascular diseases for a long time. He was 69.

Kim, who reputedly had a taste for cigars, cognac and gourmet cuisine, is believed to have suffered a stroke in 2008 but he had appeared relatively vigorous in photos and video from recent trips to China and Russia and in numerous trips around the country documented by state media.

His longtime pursuit of nuclear weapons and his military's repeated threats to South Korea and the U.S. stoked worries that fighting might break out again on the Korean peninsula or that North Korea might provide weapons of mass destruction to terrorist movements. The Korean War ended more than 50 years ago in a cease-fire, and the two sides remain technically in a state of war.

Friday, December 16, 2011

SEED: 14 Conspiracy Theories That The Media Now Admits Are Conspiracy Facts


How many times have you heard the mainstream media dismiss certain points of view as “conspiracy theories”? It seems as though one of the easiest ways to brush something off is to label it as something that only “conspiracy theorists” would believe. Well, you know what? A whole lot of the time the “conspiracy theorists” are right and the mainstream media is wrong.

In fact, we owe a great debt to “conspiracy theorists” because they will go places and investigate things that the mainstream media would never even touch. The reality is that the mainstream media only tells us what the government and the big corporations want us to hear, and much of the time it is those in the alternative media that are left with the task of trying to figure out what the real truth is. So don’t look down on conspiracy theories or conspiracy theorists. In a world where almost everything we are told is a lie, the truth can be very difficult to find.

Thursday, April 14, 2011

The Global Economy, Especially that of the United States, Can Never Recover From The Current Financial Crisis and Here's Precisely Why

According to international investigative journalist Daniel Estulin, the following quote came directly from a high-placed member of the infamous Bilderberg group during their 2009 annual conference held, that year, in Greece. Accordingly, this sentiment was said to represent a broad consensus of those who attended the conference. Estulin's sources, which have been proven accurate in the past, said the group was divided on whether to put into motion, “Either a prolonged, agonizing depression that dooms the world to decades of stagnation, decline and poverty … or an intense-but-shorter depression that paves the way for a new sustainable economic world order, with less sovereignty but more efficiency."

It's been several years since the global economy was considered to be strong, at least in the minds of an unsuspecting public that trusts their government, and the setbacks and misfortunes suffered by, not only the U.S. economy, but essentially the world's doesn't seem to be getting to much better. Sure, it doesn't seem like we're on the brink of fiscal disaster anymore, but make no mistake that, under the circumstances, the global economy will never be strong again in a fashion that truly benefits the people rather than just the government and corporations. That might be skeptical, but consider the facts.

The world financial system is a total fraud that's been deliberately perpetrated against all the people of the world. It is one huge Ponzi scheme, no better than the one Bernie Madoff used to swindle his friends and neighbors, and thousands of times worse if you add up the total number of victims 'the system' has ripped off over numerous generations. Compared to the international 'banksters', Mr. Madoff is, for all intents and purpose, a people's saint.
The primary difference between the two schemes is that Madoff was acting outside the law while the international banking cartel has persuaded generation after generation of monarchs, presidents and prime ministers to provide legislative protection for their repeated, criminal larceny.
The bank's Ponzi scheme is alarmingly simple, yet immensely effective. They lend the same money to several people or institutions at the same time and collect interest on it from each party. What the banks really lend, however, is their credit, and what they take back in compensation for that privilege is a debt that must be repaid with interest.
The number of times they lend the same money is known as 'leverage'. The practice is as old as religion but for our purposes we can start with when the goldsmiths of Lombard Street in London, England, began accepting deposits for which they issued certificates redeemable on demand. They paid their depositors a nominal interest rate on the understanding that they could lend the money to their customers at much higher interest rates. They soon found that they could lend more than they had in their vaults because only a few depositors came in to redeem their gold or silver at any one time. The scam begins...
Nevertheless they got away with it for a long time and eventually the scam was made legitimate when the Bank of England was chartered to help King William finance his war. The 'wealthy elite' invested £1,200,000 in gold and silver, as seed capital, to found the bank, which then was lent to the government at 8 percent. To show his appreciation, the good King allowed the bank to print £1,200,000 in banknotes and lend them at high interest rates. In essence, the bank was allowed to lend the same money twice – once to the government and once to the people.
Over the years, due to the close-fistedness on the part of the banks and the stark complicity of the willing politicians, their 'leverage' has increased significantly and dramatically. In the early days of the 20th century, federal chartered U.S. banks were required to keep gold reserves of 25 percent. That meant that they were allowed to lend the same money four times. In Canada, there was a time when Canadian banks were required to keep on hand a cash reserve of 8 percent which meant they were allowed to lend the same money a staggering 12 1/2 times.
Today, thanks to Milton Friedman’s drastic change of heart from being a proponent of 100% cash reserves to the opposite extreme of zero reserves, and the adoption of his ideas by the major central banks of the world in 1974, multiples have increased dramatically – in some cases to as much as 20 to 1 or more. Banks only keep enough cash on hand to meet day-today demands for those few customers who go in and request it, and consequently the fraud is virtually total.
Here's an example of how the system actually works nowadays. Consider that you want to borrow $20K to buy a new vehicle. You would proceed to visit your friendly neighborhood banker and request a personal loan. The banker will ask you for collateral, such as stocks, bonds, a second mortgage on your house, or alternatively, if you are unable to put up adequate assurance, a co-signature of a financially stable friend or relative is also a viable option. Once the collateral requirement is met you will then be asked to sign a note for the principal amount with an agreed upon rate of interest. Once the paperwork is completed, and the note signed, your banker will make an entry on the bank’s computer and, out of thin air, a $20K credit will appear in your bank account. The critical point is that just moments earlier the money that was 'loaned' did not exist and was literally created out of thin air with the stroke of a key.
Banking, for all intents and purposes, is a complicated, troubled system of double-entry accounting where your note becomes an asset on the bank’s books, and the new money that was deposited to your account is a liability or instrument of debt. The bank's profit comes from the difference between the lower rate of interest, if any, you would be paid on your deposit if you didn’t spend the borrowed money immediately, and the much higher rate you would be required to pay on your note. Banks call this term 'the spread'.
At some point, however, you have to pay off your loan as well as any interest owing on the debt. Not only you, in fact, but everyone else who has borrowed the same “money” from banks and this roster includes governments which, incidentally, own the exclusive right to print money but that have irresponsibly handed the right over to an elite group of private banksters. Deafult is not an option in this new world of finance. Not even the government is immune to these influences. Accordingly, individuals or entities who default will have their assets pledged as collateral duly seized by the bank. A government that is in danger of defaulting is often forced to borrow from the International Monetary Fund, which will then tell that government how to run its affairs including cutting back on services and selling off public assets to the international vulture capitalists. This is a perfect example of how the saying that 'money controls the world' comes into play.
In reality, then, the banks have turned the world into one giant loan-sharking organization. You pawn your stocks, bonds, house, business, or country, and the banks will give you a loan based on the value of the collateral. A world system where all the money is created as debt is a perpetual catastrophe in the making and can't possibly end on a good note. It is like an protracting balloon that the banks pump full of debt. The balloon gets more and more immense until the debt load becomes too heavy to burden, and the balloon bursts. The financial system crashes and thousands or even millions of innocent people lose their jobs, homes, businesses, and, in some cases, the will to move forward.
The broad damage spurred on from the recent financial calamity has been staggering, relentless, and life-altering to a lot of hard-working people. The U.S. Bureau of Labor estimated that 8.4 million jobs have been lost in the U.S. alone over the past three years. Most countries around the world experienced similar profound losses, some worse and some not quite as bad. The reduction in the value of assets worldwide has been estimated at $25 trillion U.S. dollars or more, yet not one single person has served time, nor has any banks or corporations been held to account. It's astounding that a system so vulnerable to manipulation would ever have come into existence in the first place, but it did. To be sure, the evolution of the global financial crisis did not happen by accident. Many people believe that the entire situation has been engineered by the likes of George Soros and the rarely-visible Rockefeller family. Further, these parties, along with Scottish born Adam Smith, all joined forces in the early 1950s and established the super-secretive, global steering committee that's become known as the Bilderberg group. This is an elitist organization that still meet annually while the mainstream media ignores their existence.
The long term repercussions of the banking cartel is incalculable, but their end game is obvious and exploits every single industrial nation on the planet. The biggest coup perpetrated, to date, by the wealthy elitist banksters was the establishment of the Federal Reserve System in the United States. The existing banking establishment really didn't like the idea of real competition, so a small group held a secret meeting at the private resort of J.P. Morgan on Jekyll Island, off the coast of Georgia, to devise a new deception to shove down the public's throat. Their scheme, subsequently adopted and passed by Congress, amounts to no less than a legal private monopoly of the U.S. money supply operated for the benefit of the few under the guise of protecting and promoting the public interest.
It's even more mind-boggling to consider the skill and tenacity of the international bankers in that they were able to draft a bill, revise it, change its name, and make some final compromises to get it adopted by Congress just before Christmas when many Representatives weren't even in attendance due to the holiday season. At that time, only Charles Lindberg Sr. seemed to understand the essence of what was happening. He said, "To put it frankly, the Congress transferred its sovereign constitutional right to create money to the sole, exclusive custody of a group of private bankers."
Former Democratic whip William Jennings Bryan also once said, after the fact, “In my long political career, the one thing I genuinely regret is my part in getting the banking and currency legislation enacted into law. (Federal Reserve Act of 1913)”
President Woodrow Wilson, just three years after passage of the Federal Reserve Act, also forwarded his opinion and wrote, “A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated (in the Federal Reserve System). The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated governments in the civilized world.”
Despite the high-level protests, the bill was never repealed and almost 100 years later the sell-out legislation is still the law of the land. It's even more strange that anyone who expresses any dissenting views about the federal reserve is quickly shot down and labelled a 'conspiracy nut'. Not only did these nefarious few pull the proverbial wool over everyone's eyes, but they went one step further by indoctrinating the public into thinking the current system is legitimate.
The people in charge of the original deception were very prolific in their planning. They cleverly realized that when future governments had to borrow from them they would need a constant income stream to pay the interest on the bonds. So they persuaded the government to introduce income taxes, first as a temporary measure, but later permanently, so it would be able to meet its obligations to the bondholders. In fiscal year 2005 total individual income taxes in the U.S. totalled $927 billion. Of that staggering amount $352 billion, or 38%, was required just to pay interest on the federal debt.
The banksters, as they were often labelled, then decided that an independent press might eventually catch on to their surreptitiousness nature. Something had to be done and new plan was hatched. Callaway is reported in the Congressional Record of February 9, 1917, making the following statement:
“In March, 1915, the J.P. Morgan interests, the steel, shipbuilding, and powder interests, and their subsidiary organizations, got together 12 men high up in the newspaper world, and employed them to select the most influential newspapers in the United States and sufficient number of them to control generally the policy of the daily press of the United States. They found it was only necessary to purchase the control of 25 of the greatest papers. The 25 papers were agreed upon; emissaries were sent to purchase the policy, national and international, of these papers; an editor was furnished for each paper to properly supervise and edit information regarding the questions of preparedness, militarism, financial policies, and other things of national and international nature considered vital to the interests of the purchasers [and to suppress] everything in opposition to the wishes of the interests served.”
Baron Stamp, a former director of the Bank of England, once gave us a rare snapshot of reality when he said, “Banking was conceived in iniquity and was born in sin. The Bankers own the earth. Take it away from them, but leave them the power to create money, and with a flick of the pen they will create enough money to buy it back again. However, take that power away from them and all the great fortunes like mine will disappear, and they ought to disappear, for this would be a happier and better world to live in. But if you wish to remain the slaves of Bankers, and pay the cost of your own slavery, let them continue to create money.”
In the most recent financial downturn of 2007/2008, the Federal Reserve acted fast, shoring up support from both sides of the political spectrum, to prevent the bankster's Ponzi pyramid from disintegrating completely. Their solution was to literally print trillions of dollars to bail out the banks and a few more critical industries that were highly indebted to banks.
But, what did the Federal Reserve do for the taxpayers, the real people, whose money was so uncontrollably adulterated to save the banks and corporations? To most people, the answer is absolutely nothing. The sad truth is that millions of people lost their jobs, their farms, their houses, their businesses, their hopes and dreams, and their dignity as a result of dire circumstances beyond their control. Taxpayers trusted the Fed and rescued the banks but got absolutely nothing in return. The same is true of governments who came so quickly to the rescue in that as a result of the meltdown, revenues were decreased so they were forced to incur or increase their deficits, as well as to start cutting back on essential services. This is no way to manage the economy, but this is exactly what's happening in the present with no end in sight to the madness.
It’s all part of the boom and bust cycle inherent in our infinitely defective, slanted monetary system set up to benefit the few and damn the rest.

Sunday, July 11, 2010

SEED: Dollar Devaluation and Destruction of America Pick Up Steam

Back in January Lindsey Williams' insider sources told him the dollar will be devalued within a year. In response, oil and food prices will rise significantly and the elite and banksters will move assets into gold and silver.


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Sunday, June 27, 2010

SEED: Toronto police rough up journalists, arrest peaceful protesters at G20

Reporters covering the G20 summit in Toronto say they were the target of police violence overnight, as riots blamed on anarchist groups left four police cars burning in the financial district and resulted in the arrests of some 150 people.


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Wednesday, June 23, 2010

SEED: Israel Vows To Tighten Gaza Blockade – U.S. Media Reports Blockade Eased

While Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to tighten the blockade against Gaza, the castrated corporate media in the U.S. is reporting that Israeli restrictions are being eased.


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SEED: Does The Gulf Of Mexico Oil Spill Mean That The U.S. Is Headed For Gas Lines, Higher Food Prices And A Broken Economy?

As the Gulf of Mexico oil spill crisis enters a third month, the economic impact of this environmental nightmare is starting to become clearer.

The truth is that the "oil volcano" spewing massive amounts of oil into the Gulf has absolutely decimated the seafood, tourism and real estate industries along the Gulf coast. Not only that, but energy industry insiders are now warning that the chilling effect that this crisis will have on offshore drilling could precipitate a new 1970s-style energy crisis. Considering the fact that the U.S. economy was already on incredibly shaky ground even before the oil leak, the last thing we needed was a disaster of this magnitude. But it has happened, and the reality is that the long-term effects of this crisis are potentially going to reverberate for decades.


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Monday, June 21, 2010

SEED: BP Oil Spill Trauma May Lead to Mental Health Issues

On the streets of Grand Isle, La., Maryal Mewherter hands out hope. Louisiana Governor Jindal frustrated over decision-making red tape.

Mewherter, who works with the Catholic Charities Diocese of Houma-Thibodaux, has been giving out $100 food vouchers for use at the local Sureway grocery store. The vouchers are from BP; they are for struggling families whose income was shut off or stunted by the oil spill, which began nearly two months ago with the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil-drilling platform.


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Thursday, June 17, 2010

SEED: BP Aware Of Cracks In Oil Well Two Months Before Explosion

BP was aware of cracks appearing in the Macondo well as far back as February, right around the time Goldman Sachs and BP Chairman Tony Hayward were busy dumping their stocks in the company on the eve of the explosion that led to the oil spill, according to information uncovered by congressional investigators.

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Tuesday, June 8, 2010

SEED: One-shot radiation found effective with breast cancer

A single dose of radiation during breast cancer surgery is as effective as three to six weeks of daily post-operative radiation for many women with early stage breast cancer, according to the first results from an ongoing study of more than 2,000 women.


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Sunday, June 6, 2010

Did you know that the United States has been bankrupt, its government has ceased to exist since 1933?

"The trade of the petty usurer is hated with most reason: it makes a profit from currency itself, instead of making it from the process which currency was meant to serve. Their common characteristic is obviously their sordid avarice." -- Aristotle

While researching documents for a new story [about what may very well be considered the "bigger picture" to this particular report], it occurred to me that most people don't know it but the United States of America has been financially bankrupt and operating under, what's referred to as, the Emergency Banking Act since March 9, 1933.

Let me repeat myself and be absolutely clear. The United States is a bankrupt nation and the constitutional government has ceased to exist since the Emergency Bankruptcy Act was passed and implemented seven decades ago. Further, the nation's bankruptcy has enslaved it and its people to the international bankers primarily through official bodies that include the IMF, World Bank, Federal Reserve (in the United States), and United Nations. Don't feel too bad though because, essentially, every single member nation of the so-called "free world" has fallen into similar financially insolvent circumstances over the past century. The truth is that this has happened deliberately and by design, and the planning has been underway since the dawn of the 20th century.

This isn't the stuff conspiracies are made of folks, but rather cold, hard facts. And, make no mistake that this information is significant, relevant and, in deed, directly impacts the way people might or should think about their individual sovereignty and the federal government itself. However, and more importantly in these times of global economic turbulence and uncertainty, this information might open a lot of eyes and minds with respect to the world's true state of affairs. If you consider the actual precarious nature of our position as a nation (and that of most nations around the world), it becomes evident that regardless of what governments and political parties promise, undertake, maneuver or implement, there's no real solution to the world's current financial woes. At least not one that won't completely upset and destroy the way of life for millions of people around the world including the world's most wealthiest folks.

It's not usually my style to digress so early in a piece, but it wouldn't be fair to mention the "bigger picture" without giving a little bit more detail. What could be bigger than finding out your country is bankrupt and your federal government hasn't been a Constitutional, financially functional government for almost 70 years? How about the fact that, since the implementation of the Emergency Banking Act and then the subsequent suspension of using gold as a monetary standard on June 5, 1933, every single one of us has been sold into economic slavery by our own federal government and, obviously, without our knowledge, individual consent, or complicity in any way, shape or form.

In short, the moment we entered into bankruptcy as a nation and had to begin operating on borrowed time and money from international coffers and lenders, the United States fell under the thumb of the international bankers and, from that point onward, people were considered nothing more than monetized instruments or tradable commodities on the world financial stage. Upon registration at birth, our birth certificate and social security number applications are essentially monetized and used to create two different implied or constructive trusts that are then traded going forward as security interests for international commerce as if they were money or negotiable instruments. Having made the aforesaid assertions with respect to the use of people as commodities connected to tangible international trust fund accounts, it's my intention to provide the evidence, practical information, and due diligence resources necessary for people to thoroughly understand the issues and investigate the prospect of ultimately taking back control of these personal trusts. Obviously and for good reason (from their perspective), the government doesn't want people to know about this history or take steps to better understand the issues. That's why much of this information includes some very new concepts to a lot of people including many of those that hold legal positions such as judges, lawyers, and even many constitutional scholars.

However, and although the latter topic has probably peaked the interest of most people reading, it's important to understand some of the events that led to our economic slavery including the topic at hand being the bankruptcy of the United States, the dissolution of the constitutional government, and what specifically led to the greatest nation on the planet having to declare bankruptcy less than 150 years after becoming a sovereign country.

First and foremost, let's firmly and indisputably establish the fact that the United States entered into bankruptcy and gave up its rights as a sovereign nation in 1933. On March 1, 1993 (Congressional record VOL. 33, page H-1303) Rep. James Traficant, Jr. (Ohio) reported on the Bankruptcy of the United States to the House of Representatives without prejudice the following:

"Mr. Speaker, we are now in chapter 11.. Members of Congress are official trustees presiding over the greatest reorganization of any Bankrupt entity in world history, the U.S. Government. We are setting forth hopefully, a blueprint for our future. There are some who say it is a coroner's report that will lead to our demise.

It is an established fact that the United States Federal Government has been dissolved by the Emergency Banking Act, March 9, 1933, 48 Stat. 1, Public Law 89-719; Declared by President Roosevelt, being bankrupt and insolvent. H. J. R. 192, 73rd Congress in session June 5, 1933, Joint Resolution to Suspend The Gold Standard and Abrogate The Gold Clause dissolved the Sovereign Authority of the United States and the official capacities of all United State Federal Government exists today in name only.

The receivers of the Untied States Bankruptcy are the International Bankers, via the United Nations, the World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund. All United States Offices, Officials, and Departments are now operating within a defacto status in name only under Emergency War Powers. With the Constitutional Republican form of Government now dissolved, the receivers of the Bankruptcy have adopted a new form of government for the United States. This new form of government is known as a Democracy, being an established Socialist/Communist order under a new governor of America. This act was instituted and established by transferring and/or placing the Office of the Secretary of Treasury to that of the Governor for the International Monetary Fund.
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These are some pretty strong words that go against most people's very understanding of government and, just like modern day libertarians like Ron Paul, Rep. Traficant was often shunned by his peers for speaking the truth and putting the nation before the bankers and special interests. Despite the against-the-grain nature of this Representative's remarks on record, everything that he said and asserted is not only absolutely true but can easily be checked, referenced, and verified in today's society of easily available information.

It was a lot easier when everything was based on a nation's tangible holdings of gold and silver, but that system didn't work for the bankers who had, just a few decades earlier, established the Federal Reserve.  Gold and silver were very powerful financial instruments during the founding of the United States of America and, for that reason, the founding fathers declared that only gold and silver coins can be money in America.  However, since gold and silver coinage was heavy and inconvenient for many transactions, they were stored in banks and a claim check was issued as a money substitute.  People traded their coupons as "currency".  Currency is not money, but a money substitute.  Redeemable currency must promise to pay a dollar equivalent in gold or silver.  Since 1933, Federal Reserve Notes (FRN's) make no such promises, and are not "money".  A Federal Reserve Note is a debt obligation of the federal United States government, not currency.  The federal United States government and the U.S. Congress are not and have never been authorized by the Constitution of the United States of America to issue currency of any kind, but only lawful money based on gold and silver.

It's very important and critical to understand the difference between the pre-1933 and post-1933 financial systems, or more accurately the difference between real money and paper money substitutes.  A person can no longer get rich by accumulating money substitutes; one can only get deeper into debt.  Money no longer exists.  Most Americans haven't been paid any real money in almost seven decades and, having said that, it's no mystery why people always feel broke and financially destitute.

Essentially, Federal Reserve Notes are unsigned checks written on a closed account.  FRN's are an inflatable paper system designed to create debt through inflation or the devaluation of currency.  Whenever there's an increase in the supply of money substitute in the economy without a corresponding increase in the gold and silver backing, inflation occurs.  This is why so many people are afraid that, in the long run, the recent stimulus bills will only contribute to a possible collapse of the current financial system, at home and abroad.

Inflation is actually an invisible form of taxation that misguided governments inflict on their people.  The Federal Reserve Bank who controls the supply and movement of FRN's has everybody fooled.  The Federal Reserve has access to an unlimited supply of FRN's, paying only for printing costs.  The FRN's are nothing more than promissory notes for U.S. Treasury securities that promise to pay a given debt to the Federal Reserve Bank.

It's also important to note that there's a significant, fundamental difference between "paying" and "discharging" a debt.  To pay a debt, you must pay with value or substance, but with FRN's you only discharge a debt.  You can't pay a debt with a debt currency system in place and that's exactly what we've had since 1933.

A fair question is to ask simply, why?  Why would our government deliberately force the nation into it's current insolvent position and what's the real implications.  The Federal Reserve Bank, the Emergency Banking Act, and the suspension of the gold standard, were all orchestrated to achieve the greater goal of absolute control of the masses by money.

Now, when you're contemplating the world's state of affairs, keep the real facts in clear sight and mind.  Our leaders have to be honest with us before a real solution can be found.  Ultimately, there's no question that we need to return to a monetary standard that involves tangible assets and commodities, but until that happens our leaders will continue lying to us, implementing band-aid solutions, and destroying the global economy.  The only way to start making a difference is to learn more about these topics and, through better understanding, we can all start demanding better from our government and holding them accountable.

Friday, June 4, 2010

SEED: Castro speculates Obama might strike Iran to win second term

Former Cuban President Fidel Castro believes if United States President Barack Obama orders a nuclear strike of Iran, he will win a second term. He also believes the U.S. could attack North Korea soon.


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Thursday, June 3, 2010

SEED: Al Qaeda Number 3 Killed... Again

The next time you consider voicing opposition to the illegal bombardment of Pakistan with drone delivered U.S. missiles, consider this – the drones are effective. So effective, in fact, that they can kill terrorists who have already previously been killed.


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Friday, January 29, 2010

SEED: Paulson Says Russia Urged China to Dump Fannie, Freddie Bonds

The peace between the U.S. and Russia has been nothing but smoke and mirrors since Vladimir Putin and George W. Bush took over the reigns of their respective countries.

I've written about the coming storm between the two nations and this article really reinforces that hypothesis.

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Wednesday, September 12, 2007

New Facts about Planet X, the Earth's Rotation & Global Warming

Interestingly enough, although I'm quite interested in numerous issues and topics including this particular subject, the idea to write this article came while researching my next major editorial series on Jean Keating's Prison Treatise and certificated monetary birth rights inherent to people all over the world, especially those in North America and Europe. Aside from being touted as one of the greatest legal minds of the past century in broad circles, Jean Keating was also an accomplished, respected researcher and scientist that spent a lot of his scientific career working on scalar weapon technologies.

During a 2004 seminar that I was reviewing, in the middle of the seminar Mr. Keating suddenly digressed from the main point and brought up the controversial topic of Planet X. He went on further to talk about how this elusive, but still officially unrecognized in the eyes of the scientific community as a whole, planetoid or Nemesis star is traveling toward Earth's sun, situated in the core of our solar system, and when this interaction happens, scheduled to occur in 2012, it could cause substantial problems for our little blue planet.

Howbeit his rant was short, his insight intrigued me so much that, recently, I went back through my notes and decided to research all of the topics and issues related to Planet X in more detail. It should also be noted, though, that given all of the evidence, pro and con, on this subject, I personally still haven't formed a definitive opinion. However, the pool of evidence presented, that implies the existence of some type of massive Trans-Neptune object with dangerous potential for humanity, is compelling and worth looking at with a serious, open mind.

According to a fringe, rapidly growing aspect of today's contemporary scientific establishment, the media's been blatantly lying to the public, at the request of major governments around the world, since September 10, 1984 by many accounts, but most certainly since 1992.

Whenever Planet X enters the conversation, one almost always encounters this automatic rejectionist orate, "If Planet X really did exist, our government would tell us about it."

Notwithstanding such denial, experts have come to expect this type of conflicting reaction when it comes to this particular topic, but instead of becoming frustrated those that know the real facts have been advancing their research and spreading the word.

For those that don't know what this is all about yet, Planet X is a large hypothetical planet with an orbit beyond that of Neptune. A hypothetical planetary object is a planet, natural satellite or similar body whose existence is not known, but has been inferred from observational scientific evidence. Folks, in this case to say there's been "observational scientific evidence" would be an out-and-out understatement.

The notion of Planet X was first proposed over a century ago by the scientific community, and accepted as a significant, distinct possibility by the beginning of the 20th century. Originally, speculation came about when astronomers first postulated that there's a defined plausibility of massive objects beyond the charted solar system in a region referred to as the Kuiper belt.

In the early 20th century, astronomer Percival Lowell's observation of apparent irregularities in the orbits of Uranus and Neptune led him to conclude that a distant planet, which he called Planet X, must lie beyond Neptune. The Lowell Observatory's long search for this planet ultimately led to the discovery of Pluto in 1930. However, Pluto's mass was found to be too small to disturb the other planets' orbits significantly. If you compare the size and mass of Pluto to Earth, the math becomes self-evident and, in fact, it is only 60% of the size of Earth's moon.

It should also be noted that astronomers, as early as the late 18th century, developed a fairly accurate, peer accepted mathematical formula that was used, by different parties until after the mid-20th century, to find other notable planets including, but not limited to, Saturn's perturber, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. Since the dawn of the modern space age, new technologies have been employed to assist in the search for astrometric bodies.

Zecharia Sitchin is a respected author, researcher and scientist that, for decades through books, statements and other published documents, has been a staunch proponent of Planet X's existence since his early days. In a 1992 video, Zecharia Sitchin first offered a revealng citation from a 1992 NASA press release.

"Unexplained deviations in the orbits of Uranus and Neptune point to a large outer solar system body of 4 to 8 Earth masses, on a highly tilted orbit, beyond 7 billion miles from the sun.", stated NASA's official release according to Sitchin.

In 2003, the website YOWUSA.com's Steve Russell interviewed Mr. Sitchin, and in that interview it was stated that, "Some ten years ago the US Government itself, through its Naval Observatory, led the search for Planet X and the team's leader, Dr. Harrington, agreed with my ancient evidence. At that time even The New York Times wrote that all that is left regarding the existence of such a post-Plutonian planet is to name it."On January 26, 1983, NASA launched the Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS), a new telescope touted as a modern astrometric breakthrough. Numerous Planet X researchers have long held the idea that the IRAS satellite imaged Planet X during its sky survey.

On September 10, 1984, U.S. News & World Report published a groundbreaking article in its respected magazine called "Planet X - Is It Really Out There?". This particular article is widely considered by many observers to be the last genuine article about the hypothetical planet by a aristocratic publication.

Excertps from the U.S. News & World Report article include:

Shrouded from the sun's light, mysteriously tugging at the orbits of Uranus and Neptune, is an unseen force that astronomers suspect may be Planet X — a 10th resident of the Earth's celestial neighborhood.

Last year, the infrared astronomical satellite (IRAS), circling in a polar orbit 560 miles from the Earth, detected heat from an object about 50 billion miles away that is now the subject of intense speculation.

"All I can say is that we don't know what it is yet," says Gerry Neugenbaur, director of the
Palomar Observatory for the California Institute of Technology. Scientists are hopeful that the one-way journeys of the Pioneer 10 and 11 space probes may help to locate the nameless body.

Some astronomers say the heat-emitting object is an unseen collapsed star or possibly a "brown dwarf" — a proto-star that never got hot enough to become a star. However, a growing number of astronomers insist that the object is a large, gaseous mass that is slowly evolving into a planet.

For decades, astronomers have noted that the orbits of two huge, distant planets — Neptune and Uranus — deviate slightly from what they should be according to the laws of physics. Gravitational pull from Planet X would explain that deviation.

Moreover, says Neugebaur, "if we can show that our own solar system is still creating planets, we'll know that it's happening around other stars, too."
Prior to the publishing of this pertinent article in 1984, numerous additional persuasive articles had also been written on the subject by sources including, but not limited to, Astronomy Magazine, The New York Times and Newsweek, between December 1981 and September 10, 1984. Subsequent to the release of U.S. News & World Report's article in 1984, the mainstream media suddenly and subtlety stopped reporting on this subject altogether — until 1992.

Privately and to be expected, NASA continued its important search, likely fueled by its findings in the early 1980s, for the elusive Planet X. In 1992, the space agency released its landmark statement regarding the object being approximately 7 billion miles from the star system's core.

Since that infamous 1992 press release, there's been absolute silence, dismissal, and public ignorance on the issue, more than after 1984, almost as if a "media blackout" had been imposed by government officials. The space agency itself will no longer publicly comment on issue, including their own previous comments, and no explanation is given for the agency's silence.

Since 1992, although the public has been led to believe that this hypothetical planet or brown dwarf does not exist, the evidence for this possibility has continued increasing and, in recent years, is becoming more and more difficult to dismiss. In terms of the math, the situation is becoming quite alarming in light of how quickly this mysterious object seems to be moving across our solar system toward its core, closer and closer to our own sun. Considering that, according to IRAS and NASA's official statements, this massive object was 50 billion miles away from the system's core in 1983, and only 7 billion miles away from the same point in 1992, it won't be too long before the object actually reaches its predicted destination.

Some scientists and astronomers believe that the object will reach our system's core before, but certainly no later than, 2012. Zecharia Sitchin had slightly more conservative estimates, predicting that the object's slowing down as it approaches its destination and won't arrive at the core until 2085.

According to experts, as this massive celestial object moves closer to its destination at the center of our solar system it will cause more and more astronomical turbulence, and serious problems for Earth in the form of violent solar and electromagnetic storms, mega-tsunamis, relentless heatwaves, and colossal earthquakes. In fact, a large number of astronomers and scientists feel that the Planet X phenomenon is evidently responsible for global warming. In recent years, experts have cited the 2004 Sumatra superquake, Thailand's mega-tsunami as a result of the superquake, farm lands burning all over the world, and severe droughts as evidence of their claims. Furthermore, these same experts also support global warming assertions and say that those who deny it or attempt to debunk the claims are either outright lying or not doing their homework altogether. However, if astronomical influences are indeed contributing to the global warming phenomenon, that means that humanity is only part of the problem.

In reality, the approaching planet or dwarf star could essentially be a key factor not only in global warming, but also in causing major seismic changes world-wide. Numerous events that can't adequately be scientifically explained, that we might even perceive as "freak accidents", such as the recent New York City steam pipe explosion, countless mining disasters on the rapid increase, and the Minnesota bridge collapse that happened on August 1, 2007. Statistically speaking, there's been more natural and freak accidents occurring over the past two decades than at any earlier point in modern times. The increased number of structural failure issues are a result of three major factors including a declining global infrastructure, Earth's interaction with other seen and unseen heavenly objects, and frequent low level seismic activity all world.

Commonly, experts will compare the Earth's declining structural integrity and infrastructure to its weakened, eroding biosphere. Scientists claim that infrastructural disasters related to seismic activity are partly due to humanity itself, but also because the Earth's orbit is being increasingly perturbed by the approaching Planet X.

Historically speaking, many astronomers claim that Planet X has approached and past the core of the system several times previously, over the course of thousands of years, as part of a natural, regular rotation around the solar system. However, in order for this to be true, you would have to accept three assumptions about a potential massive approaching object. First, it would need to have a long elliptical orbit around the sun, exactly like other planets in our solar system. Second, if it's a brown dwarf it must also be an evolving binary star because we live in a binary star system. Third, its now in the process, as it gets closer, of returning and passing through the core of our solar system. Considering these assumptions, it would only be logical to conclude that Planet X is already causing solar violence, global warming, and additional ongoing Earth changes.

Supposedly, this natural phenomenon could actually be responsible for previous global disasters and extinctions, Biblical accounts of the flood that are corroborated by other faiths and historical texts but referred to as The Deluge, the ancient account of Exodus, the Ten Plagues of Egypt, and the massive extinction of dinosaurs. While the Hebrews were writing the about the events of Exodus and the great plagues attributing their victories to God, the Egyptians had other ideas and sought explanations more secular in nature. Egyptians aspired to record their accounts, history, and deliberations in a massive anthology called The Great Book. It was the estimated to be the size of a modern encyclopedia and be more scientific than more faith-based scriptures of the time. Additionally, its common knowledge that the ancient Egyptians were exceptionally proficient in the areas of architecture, astronomy, and mathematics.

Essentially, the ancient Egyptians may have actually postulated the existence of Planet X and further determined that this mysterious heavenly object could possibly be responsible for some of the events that were also attributed to God at the time. Recorded accounts by Egyptians, from that time period, describe many catastrophic events with compelling detail, and these descriptions are reaffirmed by accounts in the Hebrew Torah, the Qur'an, and another ancient Bible-era compilation of texts, also originally written by the Hebrew, called the Kolbrin. In fact, one similarity among all of these ancient texts is that all of them refer to the events, that happen when Planet X passes, as "The Destroyer". In the Book of Jeremiah, it warns that, in chapters 25:32 and 48:8, The Destroyer will come and the entire Earth would suffer its wrath. It further says that, "Disasters will soon spread from nation to nation. They will come like a powerful storm to all the faraway places on earth" and "The Destroyer will come against every town, not one town will escape. The Lord said this will happen."

The Kolbrin Bible, as its commonly referred to by scholars and experts, has even more detailed accounts of this "Destroyer", it reinforces all of Jeremiah's prophecies, and describes everything in much more detail than any other account (almost as if the accounts were eye-witnessed). In fact, a lot of the natural events that the Kolbrin says will occur as
The Destroyer approaches have arguably been happening, especially over the past two decades.

Many scientists and astronomers related to this research believe that, due to the overwhelming evidence, the governments of the world are already quite aware of what's happening concerning the approach of this massive object, preparations are well underway, and the official denials and media blackouts are due to the significant notion of not wanting to cause global panic about what might happen when the event comes to pass. Speculation, on the basis of global trends over the past twenty years and reasoned scientific postulation, is that such an event would, as the object draws closer, increasingly affect the Earth's magnetic field adversely and cause a continuance of seismic, structural and natural disasters across the globe.

According to experts, when Planet X makes its final approach, a violent cosmic duel could begin and last for several months, affecting the Earth in profound ways while the planet will be bombarded with solar flare storms and cosmic lightning.

Furthermore, experts point out that the world governments are already preparing and, through a series of 12 satellites, situated over the North Pole and Europe respectively, have recently detected a huge crack in Earth's electromagnetic field. Further evidence of preparations by the government include a clandestine NASA project to launch numerous new satellites for the purposes of detection and warning, older satellites and even the Hubble telescope have been given project extensions, and a construction of a brand new infrared telescope observatory that's located inside a U.S. installation at the South Pole.

It clear that, whether this massive object arrives by 2012 or it takes another century, when it does happens it could quite possibly mean a major problem for the Earth. It's difficult to discount all of the evidence, and it's certainly not hard to believe that humanity would be kept in the dark by its leaders.

However, many people seem to find it much easier to ignore the issue and dismiss all of the evidence, but if there's not really a problem, how can all of the previous documentation and scientific proof, NASA's previous research and telescope findings, and ancient accounts of similar activities be otherwise explained?