The Matrix of Attention
January 28, 2012 | 
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By Søren Dreier
Our attention is the most powerful instrument we have: That`s why everybody wants it.
Attention as I use it here: is centering the mind in a specific direction and only that direction, without any distracts.
There’s a saying: “ Where attention goes, energy flows “.
I kind of agree, but in this world of distraction, the task can be somehow difficult. If you decide to give it a go, and want to examine the “goes/ flows” doctrine, you might find that it´s not a cliché, it is a metaphysical fact.
Yogis spend their lives getting into the mechanics of attention, so please don´t tell me that this is easy.
Easy equals cliché and does not cut it. If the attention is focused very deeply, the object we focus that kind of attention on will start to change form. And we will too. Not bad shape shifting, good shape shifting.
This process impacts at a very felt and experienced level in our whole body and consciousness, so when it has started to work for us, we will not make that distinction anymore of body and consciousness or the distinction of; being the observer or being the observed.
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Oh Beautiful For Chemtrailed Skies
Don’t ya just love the new paradigm? I mean, it has so much to offer! New skies, integrated circuits into human chemistry, molecularly altered fake food, plants and animals, and remote control war against anyone who challenges it. Wow! We’ve got it all. Glory. We should just lay down and sleep, it’s all under control. Big brother loves us in more ways than we can count and we should just sit back, relax and watch the world go by. As in bye bye
Chemtrail Conditioning Continues
Even though more are aware of the chemtrail program, the PTBs don’t have any intention of letting up. Like fluoride, they think they’ve got the right concoction going on and the perfect delivery system in place for the slow and steady subjugation of mankind.
Their main challenge is to get us to accept it and not wake up to the massive extent of what they are doing to us. So their stage is the world, and more importantly, the media.
The top picture is the new, “improved” Columbia Pictures occult illuminist logo, replete with what looks like an atomic cloud and newly added chemtrails. Predictive programming anyone?
Look around, you’ll see these injected trails and whited out skies everywhere in the media now as if they’ve always been there and it’s just the way it’s gonna be.
RBS boss bonus causes slight increase in taxpayers tutting
After Royal Bank of Scotland boss Stephen Hester was awarded a £963k bonus, taxpayers who funded the banks £45bn bailout took a few moments out to have a bit of a tut before discussing their plans for the weekend.
The levels of dissatisfaction caused by the hefty payout have led to numerous displays of shortlived contempt by taxpayers such as muttering obscenities under their breath, shaking their head and sighing.
Hester, who insists that he is definitely worth the bonus, has claimed that the rebuilding of RBS is entirely down to his expert guidance, and nothing at all to do with the bailout.
“It’s outrageous that RBS are handing out bonuses of this magnitude when they’re making job cuts and people everywhere are suffering,” said one temporarily disgruntled taxpayer.
“Anyway, I’m putting the kettle on. Fancy a brew?” they added.
Hester bonus
There was also some mild huffing after a Conservative Party spokesman revealed that the government is pleased with the size of the bonus.
“It’s bloody typical of this government!” said a another momentarily distraught taxpayer.
“They go on that we’re all in it together, but when it boils down to it………sorry, what was I talking about again?”
Following the announcement of Mr Hester’s bonus, UK Financial Investments said: “As the largest shareholder in RBS, we have worked closely with the board to ensure that bonuses create a certain amount of anger amongst the public, but not enough for them to get off their fucking arses and do anything about it.”
“The worst we expect is for a few people to go a bit red-faced and headbutt their computer keyboards, but Britain’s Got Talent starts soon, so I’m sure it will all blow over soon enough.”
“Go back to sleep Britain,” he advised.
120 people convicted for not filling in census form
By Dan Glaister
Among those who did no participate in 2011 census were ‘conscientious objectors’ to Lockheed Martin UK’s involvement
At least 120 people have been convicted for failing to complete their 2011 census forms, according to figures from the Office for National Statistics.
While some may have simply forgotten, others see themselves as conscientious objectors who are being prosecuted for refusing to fill out the forms because of the involvement of the defence contractor Lockheed Martin UK, which won the £150m contract to run the census.
By this week the ONS had referred 369 cases to the Crown Prosecution Service; of those, 157 prosecutions have been brought to court, with 120 resulting in convictions. Those found guilty face a maximum fine of £1,000 and a criminal record. The remaining 37 cases are classified as “conversions”, where the defendant completed the census form at court.
Bill Bard says:
I would expect there to be a shortfall of about 1 million forms returned. Going to be a busy day in court!!! May see you there.
Bill which would require drug testing welfare recipients pulled after amended to include legislators
By Madison Ruppert / Editor ofEnd the Lie
Right: Indiana State Representative Jud McMillin
In a classic show of political hypocrisy, Indiana State Representative Jud McMillin pulled his bill which would have created a pilot program for the drug testing of applicants for welfare after it was successfully amended to require drug testing for lawmakers as well.
“There was an amendment offered today that required drug testing for legislators as well and it passed, which led me to have to then withdraw the bill,” MicMillin, a Republican from Brookville, and sponsor of the original legislation, said.
McMillin seems to be taking the stance that this legislation with the amendment intact would not survive a constitutional challenge.
This is based on a ruling handed down by the Supreme Court in 1997 which prevented drug testing political candidates.
They ruled in Chandler v. Miller that drug testing for political candidates was unconstitutional and thus struck down a Georgia law.
Bill Bard says:
Fucking HYPOCRISY
Say NO to ACTA
Can you imagine your Internet Service Provider policing everything you do online?
Can you imagine generic drugs that could save lives being banned?
Can you imagine seeds that could feed 1000′s being controlled and withheld in the name of patents?
This will become reality with ACTA.
ACTA is the Anti Counterfeiting Trade Agreement.
Disguised as a Trade Agreement, ACTA goes much, much further than that.
For the past 3 years, ACTA has been negotiated in secret by 39 countries.
But the negotiators are not democratically elected representatives.
They don’t represent us, but they are deciding laws behind our backs.
Bypassing our democratic processes, they impose new criminal sanctions to stop online file sharing.
ACTA aims to make Internet Service & Access Providers legally responsible for what their users do online, turning them into Private Copyright Police & Judge, censoring their networks.
The chilling effects on free speech would be terrible.
In the name of patents, ACTA would give large corporations the power to stop generic drugs before they reach them people who need them, and stop the use of certain seeds for crops.
The European Parliament will soon vote on ACTA.
This vote will be the occasion to say no once and for all to this dangerous treaty.
As citizens, we must urge our representatives to reject ACTA.
NO TO ACTA.
Learn more, Take action www.lqdn.fr/acta
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Grape seed extract kills head and neck cancer cells, leaves healthy cells unharmed
Nearly 12,000 people will die of head and neck cancer in the United States this year and worldwide cases will exceed half a million.
A study published this week in the journal Carcinogenesis shows that in both cell lines and mouse models, grape seed extract (GSE) kills head and neck squamous cell carcinoma cells, while leaving healthy cells unharmed.
“It’s a rather dramatic effect,” says Rajesh Agarwal, PhD, investigator at the University of Colorado Cancer Center and professor at the Skaggs School of Pharmaceutical Sciences.
It depends in large part, says Agarwal, on a healthy cell’s ability to wait out damage.
“Cancer cells are fast-growing cells,” Agarwal says. “Not only that, but they are necessarily fast growing. When conditions exist in which they can’t grow, they die.”
The Silent Anschluss: Germany Formally Requests That Greece Hand Over Its Fiscal Independence
By Zero Hedge
Update 2: the first local headlines are coming in now, from Spiegel: Griechenland soll Kontrolle über Haushalt abgeben (loosely Greece must give up domestic control), and Kathimerini: Germany proposes Greece relinquish some fiscal powers, sources say
Update: Formal Greek annexation order attached.
It was tried previously (several times) under “slightly different” circumstances, and failed. Yet when it comes to taking over a country without spilling even one drop of blood, and converting its citizens into debt slaves, Germany’s Merkel may have just succeeded where so many of her predecessors failed. According to a Reuters exclusive, “Germany is pushing for Greece to relinquish control over its budget policy to European institutions [ZH: read ze Germans] as part of discussions over a second rescue package, a European source told Reuters on Friday.” Reuters add: “There are internal discussions within the Euro group and proposals, one of which comes from Germany, on how to constructively treat country aid programs that are continuously off track, whether this can simply be ignored or whether we say that’s enough,” the source said.’ So while the great distraction that is the Charles Dallara “negotiation” with Hedge Funds continues (as its outcome is irrelevant: a Greece default is assured at this point), the real development once again was behind the scenes where Germany was cleanly and clinically taking over Greece. Because while today it is the fiscal apparatus, tomorrow it is the legislative. As for the executive: who cares. At that point Goldman will merely appoint one of its retired partners as Greek president and Greece will become the first 21st century German, pardon, European colony. But at least it will have its precious euro. We can’t wait until Greek citizens find out about this quiet coup.
Bill Bard says:
German invasion and takeover without tanks and bombs.
US seeking mightier bomb against Iran
By Yitzhak Benhorin
B-2 Stealth Bomber designed to carry heavy bombs (Photo: AP)
Pentagon officials believe their largest ‘bunker buster’ bombs are incapable of destroying Islamic Republic’s fortified nuclear facilities, submit request to Congress for funding to enhance bomb’s penetration ability
WASHINGTON – The US Department of Defense believes the American army’s largest “bunker buster” bombs are incapable of destroying Iran‘s fortified nuclear facilities, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday.
According to the report, Pentagon war planners have reached the conclusion that the conventional 14-ton bombs are insufficient and should be improved.
The main concern is Iran’s Fordow uranium enrichment site near the city of Qom. The facility, which includes a new type of centrifuges, is located under a mountain. According to a former senior US official who is an expert on Iran, a tactical nuclear weapon may be the only military option to destroy the facility.
“Once things go into the mountain, then really you have to have something that takes the mountain off,” the official said. US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta acknowledged in an interview with The Wall Street Journal Thursday the bombs shortcomings against some of Iran’s most deeply fortified bunkers.
Bill Bard says:
Bigger Bomb. US gotta have the biggest everything, what fucking bullshit and bollocks. Why don’t they just FUCK OFF and keep out of other peoples affairs.
Colored Perception and Limited Perspective
Dog Poet Transmitting…….
May your noses always be cold and wet.
Life goes on, after a fashion. Sometimes life limps and sometimes it leans on a cane, which is a metaphor for the divine will. That we don’t know what we are leaning on is a problem in perception. Most difficulties are problems in perception. Perception and perspective; limited perspective, can be a real problem because it places you with a limited amount of information and this can lead to assumption and reaction far more extreme than what is actually called for.
Fear plays a big part in relation to wrong perception and limited perspective. Many times we are in fear of something happening and it doesn’t happen. In the meantime, we take steps in particular directions that we didn’t need to take and that leads to a host of new conditions, based on something that didn’t even happen and which lead to a whole new set of conditions that didn’t have to come into being had we not been motivated by a fear of things that did not come to pass.
All of us have done things to ward off anticipated injuries, only to find that we created all kinds of injuries that never had to happen but, unfortunately did. Getting back to where you were before you began to react to shadows and tilt at windmills can be seriously problematic. Sometimes you are not supposed to and sometimes it’s a good thing because you know things you didn’t know before and this knowledge can spare you a greater and more enduring harm further down the road.
I’ve mentioned the three faces of the human personality before. The first face is the face we all present to each other when we first meet. This is the face we want people to see. The second face emerges over time. It is what interactive experience reveals and only the most disciplined among us can conceal it for any length of time. The third face emerges when you encounter danger together. I should add that this also includes the appearance of danger, which may not materialize and which may not even be danger. It’s a matter of perception and limited perspective.
Only Two Types of People Will Survive Economic Collapse
Living in a world engulfed by economic crisis teetering on collapse requires preparation for worst-case scenarios. Whether it is losing a job to downsizing, a currency crisis, or full-blown economic system failure, being prepared is just plain smart.
Already, nearly 30% of Americans are either unemployed or under-employed, and desperation is surely setting in for the millions whose unemployment benefits have expired with little hope on the job front.
Many have been able to weather short-term storms by prepping for a rainy day with extra food storage and other supplies, and by having some savings. Indeed, everyone should be preparing in this manner, and then some, given the bleak economic climate. However, if an economic meltdown becomes prolonged, there will only be two types of people that will survive: Takers and Producers.
If the majority of the population reaches a level of desperation, and civil unrest erupts as predicted by many experts including the federal government, you can bet that your stockpile of emergency rations will make you an attractive target for the hungry Takers.
During civil unrest it’s unlikely the authorities will have the capacity or the will to enforce petty theft crimes. Some police departments around the country already have stated that they are not responding to a majority of calls about petty theft or vandalism. Some have even turned over duties to private security.
Bill Bard says:
A gloomy prognostication. Also a likely outcome of what’s coming.
What Are You So Afraid Of?
By Mac Slavo / SHTFplan.com
A bit of weekend humor sent over from our friend Ed Thomas, editor of The Daily Sheeple:
Bill Bard says:
Beware “little old ladies” they could be armed.
Navy wants commando ‘mothership’ in Middle East
AP – The United States amphibious assault ship USS Ponce sails through the Suez Canal in March 2011. If retrofitted as “the mothership,” the vessel could accommodate smaller high-speed boats and helicopters commonly used by Navy SEALs
In response to requests from U.S. Central Command, which oversees military operations in the Middle East, the Navy is converting an aging warship it had planned to decommission into a makeshift staging base for the commandos. Unofficially dubbed a “mothership,” the floating base could accommodate smaller high-speed boats and helicopters commonly used by Navy SEALs, procurement documents show.
Special Operations forces are a key part of the Obama administration’s strategy to make the military leaner and more agile as the Pentagon confronts at least $487 billion in spending cuts over the next decade.
Lt. Cmdr. Mike Kafka, a spokesman for the Navy’s Fleet Forces Command, declined to elaborate on the floating base’s purpose or to say where, exactly, it will be deployed in the Middle East. Other Navy officials acknowledged that they were moving with unusual haste to complete the conversion and send the mothership to the region by early summer.
Bill Bard says:
Another ageing warship for Middle East. Wonder if they will attack this one as “false flag”, cheaper than decommissioning in March.
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Paul Craig Roberts – How Ron Paul Could Win
In the Soviet Union common criminals were punished less harshly and received better treatment than political prisoners. A person who had committed a violent crime had more rights than someone who expressed criticism of the government and could be portrayed as having acted against the government. We now have the same situation in the US.
In a recent case the Supreme Court overturned the sentence of a drug dealer who was convicted on the basis of a warrantless 28-day search by having a GPS device affixed to his car. In other words, a common criminal still has privacy rights under the Constitution, but not US citizens who are suspected of vague and nebulous “terrorist support.”
Both Republicans and Democrats have demonstrated disregard for the civil liberty protections guaranteed by the US Constitution. Among the visible candidates for president, only Ron Paul has respect for the Constitution. As it is now possible for the executive branch to take away the life and liberty of a US citizen without due process of law, the Constitution is for all practical purposes lost. Tyranny looms, and Ron Paul is the only candidate who stands against tyranny.
This is why I have written that Ron Paul is our last chance and encouraged his libertarian handlers to be flexible enough for the electorate to elect Ron Paul. I agree that Ron Paul, if elected president, would be hamstrung by the Establishment, but the other candidates offer no hope whatsoever.
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The Olympics theme has been announced as ‘The Isle of Wonder’… apparently based on Shakespeare’s last play.
The Olympics theme has been announced as ‘The Isle of Wonder’… apparently based on Shakespeare’s last play.
Got me thinking about Rik Clay’s ideas so I looked a bit more into it and found there is a game called Kings Quest, which involves a group of islands, called the Green Isles. One of them being The Isle of Wonder. It has some interesting graphics.
Look at the front cover below…heir today gone tomorrow. Possibly one of Riks predictions about William ‘ the heir to the throne’ ?? 
Don’t know a lot about the symbolism stuff but it looks like a beast at war with a human to me! Look at some of the graphics for the game…some sort of sacrifice scene with a wicker cage!!
The music for the opening of the olympics is by the band ‘Underworld’
Another one of the kings quest games was titled ‘the Princeless Bride’
The woman who wrote it sounds like a twat, she said back when she wrote these games they were aimed at more intelligent people than the sort of people that play computer games these days and that back then you had to have money to have a computer. She said something like now ordinary people have them. Twat. She has been called an elitist aswell. Probly a lizard! 
Rik Clay’s interviews on Red Ice Radio – All Four Hours
By Henrik Palmgren | redicecreations.com
Here we make available all the four hours of radio interviews that Red Ice Radio did with Rik Clay back in June of 2008.
Rik Clay took his own life on August the 28th. His ashes are scattered upon Ilkley Moor, overlooking the town above Rocky Valley, at grid ref 126464. Symbolically (and some have said sinisterly) this occured on Thursday the 11th of September, 2008.
We make these interviews available for everyone who haven’t yet been able to hear them as they have had a big impact on many people and the information about the 2012 Zion Olympics in London is essential.
Feel free to spread these programs far and wide. You can also embed the players on your site/blog. Click menu on each player to grab the code.
2012 – A message of hope II
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If we can let go of these these things truly – we may each find the key that unlocks the door into the new world. A world of unity, peace, and abundance for all beings, humans and animals alike. Make the choice now. Love or fear – its is for you to decide
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2012 – TIME TO GO WITHIN & WAKE UP
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Gingrich Big Pharma : NOVO, Gingrich was a lobbyist
The issue is a controversial one because Gingrich portrays himself as a politician who is not involved with what he calls ‘the Washingon elite’.
Novo Nordisk viewed Republican presidential hopeful New Gingrich as a lobbyist in Washington, according to the Danish company’s 2009 annual report in which Novo’s membership of Gingrich’s Center for Health Transformation is listed as “costs for lobbyism”.
Active duty cop: ‘The war on drugs is a war on people’
By Stephen C. Webster
Speaking to Raw Story recently, an active duty police officer who asked not to be named threw down the gauntlet over the part of his job he hates most: the drug war.
“I did not get in law enforcement to destroy a person’s future because that person had marijuana or a pill in their pocket,” the officer explained. “Why would you want to destroy that person’s future and cause them great harm because of that? It’s not worth it.”
Like many Americans, the reality of the drug war was was nothing like what he’d been taught to believe in his youth. But statistics like a citizen being arrested for drugs every 19 seconds in 2010, and 1.6 million people incarcerated over drugs in 2009, were nothing compared to what he actually experienced in the front lines of the drug war on America’s users.
But for those officers who put their lives on the line every day to protect the public from dangerous, violent criminals, the drug war isn’t always just another part of the job. For this officer in particular, it’s much more than that: “The war on drugs is a war on people,” he claimed.
Bill Bard says:
A different perspective from the front line of ‘war on drugs’.
50 Situations That Can Kill Brain Cells
By Drew from - 4Mind4Life
1) Food additives — Food additives contain a group of compounds commonly referred to as “exotoxins,” which slow and destroy cognitive development in the brain. “Exotoxins” are not just present in a few foods; they are present in virtually ALL processed foods. To avoid future health problems and keep a healthy brain, your best bet is to eat healthy, non-processed foods.
2) Exposure to pesticides — It is always important to take the necessary precautions when working with pesticides or being in an area around pesticides. Pesticides kill brain cells quickly and cause abnormal mental and physical development. If you are in an environment where pesticide exposure is common, get out, save yourself, or report the company and people using the pesticides to proper authorities. Pesticides are linked to Parkinson’s disease and many other forms of mental illness!
3) Too much stress — A little bit of stress is healthy for everyone. It keeps you motivated and motivated to achieve goals. When stress gets out of hand to the point where you’re having adrenaline rushes, your body produces an excess of the chemical “cortisol.” Too much of that cortisol is what kills brain cells. Please don’t stress after reading this.
4) Exposure to electricity — Short and long-term exposure to electricity has terrible effects on your brain. Electricity doesn’t just cause you to lose a few brain cells either, it causes you to lose millions! If you or anyone you know works with electricity on a consistent basis, you may want to take special precautions or reconsider!
Nice Work If You Can Get It: EU sent 50 MEPs to Congo for eight days at cost of £850,000 – They Call This ‘Austerity?
The European Parliament spent over £850,000 (£17,000 per person) sending 50 MEPs for an eight-day trip to the Congo in 2010, according to a list of its most expensive foreign delegations.
MEPs were attending a meeting of the African-Caribbean Pacific and EU (ACP-EU) joint parliamentary assembly to discuss with MPs from the developing countries how to tackle poverty in the world’s poorest regions.
At the November 2010 gathering in Kinshasa, MEPs racked up a bill of £17,067 per head – a sum that is 141 times the £121 that is the average annual income in Congo. The figures, revealed by The Daily Telegraph, were described by a Ukip MEP as “an affront to taxpayers”.
The same ACP-EU delegation of MEPs, a group of 64 this time, had previously gathered in Tenerife in January 2010. They ran up travel and hotel bills of £588,404, or £9,193 each, over the course of a week in the Spanish sunshine, according to the list revealed by The Daily Telegraph. A one week stay in a junior suite in London’s elite Ritz Hotel costs £3,928.
In July, 13 of the ACP-EU MEPs travelled to the Seychelles for a five-day trip that cost the taxpayer £4,374 per head in travel, hotel and “logistics” bills.
The costs of the first class flights and five star luxury hotels for the trips, totalling £230 million in 2010, have traditionally been shrouded in secrecy by an EU assembly that is wary of fuelling its “gravy train” image.
Bill Bard says:
Snouts in the trough. I expect they don’t even blush. Greedy Bastards.
The Iranian oil embargo blowback
By Pepe Escobar
If the sorry parade of European poodles – or what analyst Chris Floyd delightfully dubbed Europuppies – had any understanding of Persian culture, they would have known that blowback for their declaration of economic war in the form of an Iranian oil embargo would be nothing short of heavy metal.
Better yet; death metal. The Majlis (Iranian parliament) will discuss this Sunday, in an open section, whether to cancel right away all oil exports to any European country that approved the embargo – according to Emad Hosseini, the rapporteur of the Majlis Energy Committee. And that comes with the requisite apocalyptic warning, relayed via the Fars news agency, courtesy of member of Parliament Nasser Soudani: “Europe will burn in the fire of Iran’s oil wells.”
Soudani expresses the views of the whole Tehran establishment when he says that “the structure of their [Europe's] refineries is compatible with Iran’s oil”, and so Europeans have no alternative as replacement; the embargo “will cause an increase in oil prices, and the Europeans will be compelled to buy oil at higher prices”; that is, Europe “will be compelled to buy Iran’s oil indirectly and through intermediaries”.
Bill Bard says:
EU probably shot themselves in the foot. All part of the plan.
How Iran could beat up on America’s superior military
America’s defense budget is roughly 90 times bigger than Iran’s. But Iran has a well-honed strategy of asymmetric warfare.
In this 2008 file photo, Iranian Revolutionary Guard members march during a parade ceremony marking the 28th anniversary of the onset of the Iran-Iraq war (1980-1988), in front of the mausoleum of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, just outside Tehran, Iran. Vahid Salemi/AP/File
Tehran has stepped up its bellicose warnings of conflict in the Persian Gulf as potentially crippling new European Union and American sanctions have been approved on Iran‘s oil exports and central bank.
The US defied the warning of a top Iranian general this week and sent the USS Abraham Lincoln – flanked by British and French warships – through the Strait of Hormuz at the mouth of the Gulf. A senior Iranian lawmaker scoffed that the US “did not dare” to send its ship alone, because of the danger posed by the Islamic Republic. If Iran were to close the strategic waterway, as it has threatened to do, the American aircraft carriers “will become the war booty of Iran,” he declared.
Bill Bard says:
The US & EU could get a bloody nose if they persist in trying to fuck over Iran.
Why does the military seem to be preparing for urban warfare in the United States?
By Madison Ruppert / Editor of End the Lie
Officers of 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team, “Ready First” 1st Armored Division, participate in an urban combat exercise at a training facility on Fort Bliss, Texas, May 11-12, 2011 (Photo credit: Staff Sgt. Joseph Wilbanks)
Recently I published an article covering the January 22-26 multi-agency exercises being conducted in the Los Angeles area.
As I outlined in the article, this is in fact part of a broader trend of joint military-police drills (which often include other agencies, hence the “multi-agency” label) that have been occurring across the United States.
It seems hard to ignore the fact that the armed forces of the United States are training for urban warfare, not urban warfare in the Middle East, but instead here in our own nation.
This is becoming painfully clear due to the fact that the military trains for what they think they’re going to do.
Obama Accused of Contempt of Court in ‘Birther’ Hearing
Secretary of State warns Obama – miss hearing “at your own peril”
By Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
President Barack Obama was accused by prosecution lawyers of being in contempt of court after failing to show up for a ‘birther’ hearing in Georgia that seeks to establish whether he is eligible to appear on the state ballot in November.
As we reported earlier this month, so-called ‘birthers,’ those who claim there is evidence to suggest Obama was not born in the United States, hailed a judges decision to hear the case as a potential roadblock to Obama even being permitted to run for a second term in the White House.
“Lawyers for area residents mounting “birther” challenges told Deputy Chief Judge Michael Malihi that Obama should be found in contempt of court for not appearing when under subpoena to do so. But Malihi did not indicate he would recommend that and cut off one lawyer when he criticized Obama for not attending the hearing,” reports the Atlanta-Journal Constitution.
“It shows not just a contempt for this court, but contempt for the judicial branch,” lawyer Van Irion told Malihi.
If The Economy Is Improving….
Everywhere you turn these days, someone is proclaiming that the economy is improving. Barack Obama is endlessly touting the “improvement” in the economy, the mainstream media is constantly talking about “the economic recovery” and an increasing number of Americans seem to be buying into this line of thinking. A new NBC/Wall Street Journal poll found that 37 percent of Americans believe that the economy will improve over the next year, while only 17 percent of Americans believe that it will get worse. But is the economy actually improving? Not really. At the moment things are relatively stable. Some economic statistics are improving slightly and some continue to get even worse. However, it is very important to keep in mind that one of the biggest reasons why things have stabilized is because the federal government is pumping more than a trillion dollars a year into the economy that it does not have. The Obama administration is engaging in a debt binge unlike anything America has ever seen before, and yet many economic indicators are still in decline. So what is going to happen when the federal government stops injecting gigantic waves of borrowed money into the economy? That is a frightening thing to think about. The best efforts of our “leaders” in Washington D.C. are not accomplishing a whole lot. The Federal Reserve has pushed interest rates as low as they can go and the federal government is spending unprecedented amounts of money. But even with the federal government and the Federal Reserve pushing the accelerator all the way to the floor, the economy is still not improving much at all. Millions upon millions of Americans out there are anticipating some sort of a “great economic recovery”, and they are going to be bitterly disappointed.But right now there are some “bright spots” in the economy, and you are bound to run into family and friends that will repeat to you the nonsense that they are hearing on the television about how the economy is recovering.
When they try to convince you that the economy is getting better, ask them these questions….
If the economy is getting better, then why did new home sales in the United States hit a brand new all-time record low during 2011?
Bill Bard says:
Wake up US Citizens. Head in the sand won’t make it go away.
FBI plans to monitor social media and local traffic cameras – invites potential contractors
The The US Federal Bureau of Investigation has quietly released details of plans to continuously monitor the global output of Facebook, Twitter and other social networks, offering a rare glimpse into an activity that the FBI and other government agencies are reluctant to discuss publicly. The plans show that the bureau believes it can use information pulled from social media sites to better respond to crises, and maybe even to foresee them.
The information comes from a document released on 19 January looking for companies who might want to build a monitoring system for the FBI. It spells out what the bureau wants from such a system and invites potential contractors to reply by 10 February.
The bureau’s wish list calls for the system to be able to automatically search “publicly available” material from Facebook, Twitter and other social media sites for keywords relating to terrorism, surveillance operations, online crime and other FBI missions. Agents would be alerted if the searches produce evidence of “breaking events, incidents, and emerging threats”.
Agents will have the option of displaying the tweets and other material captured by the system on a map, to which they can add layers of other data, including the locations of US embassies and military installations, details of previous terrorist attacks and the output from local traffic cameras.
http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/onepercent/2012/01/fbi-releases-plans-to-monitor.html
UK to ban Occupy camps as Olympics near
Britain’s Home Office has announced plans to prevent Occupy movement’s protesters from setting up camps ahead of the 2012 London Olympics.
British Home Secretary Theresa May has given the green light to London 2012 organizers and the British police to make use of ‘all available’ powers and remove encampments set up by the Occupy protesters.
Olympic Games has become a blessing for the British government as British officials are to use it as an excuse to further crack down on anti-capitalist protesters.
“We have seen in recent months encampments taking place around London and elsewhere. I think it is right that we said to ourselves ‘do we need to do anything extra in relation to the Olympics to ensure we can strengthen our policy to deal with this?’” said May.
Furthermore, May ensured the organizers of the international sporting events that their actions would be backed by ‘rapid follow-up action by the police … using all available powers to remove encampments and equipment.’
BP: Cleanup, restoration and data-tampering lawsuits…
August who? Nope…never heard of such an incompetent, lying son of a bitch…why do you ask?
When an employee of BP refuses to go along with the corporate narrative that all’s swell with Gulf cleanup, does BP change the narrative to make it more accurate? Does it admit there may be some problems, that they might not have done everything they promised to do?
No, instead they run some feel good commercials enforcing their narrative about Gulf health.
Oh…and that employee?
Fired.
So says a lawsuit for wrongful termination filed by August Walters, a former employee of BP’s Gulf Coast Restoration Organization (GCRO) as State Planning Lead “for the purpose of developing a descriptive plan to accomplish the cleaning of oil caused by the BP spill.”
From the article:
According to the suit, Walter’s job involved creating plans for the clean-up, known as Shoreline Treatment Recommendations (STR), which were prepared and approved with the oversight of the U.S. Coast Guard Federal On-Scene Coordinator (FOSC) “to be in compliance with federal and state environmental rules and regulations.” BP would then be responsible for implementing the plans. But, Walter claims, in May and June of 2011 he “began to convey his concerns that BP Mississippi operations were intentionally not following the plans for clean up delineated by U.S. Government, the Coast Guard and the Department of the Interior.”
[Read more...]Bill Bard says:
BP still being Evil selfish greedy Bastards. Fire anyone who doesn’t toe the line.
Pots, kettles and oil, all black…
In the latest from the MDL litigation, Transocean, the owner of the Deepwater Horizon, alleged that their contract with British Petroleum, the leaseholder of the Macondo Well, had indemnified them against any liabilities for pollution underneath the surface of the Gulf, and also against any civil penalties under the Clean Water Act or punitive damages from being declared grossly negligent. British Petroleum, of course asserted otherwise, as did the US Department of Justice.
Well, yesterday Judge Barbier issued his rulings. He decided the contract did indeed clear Transocean from those damage claims occurring below the surface of the water, it is British Petroleum who will be the responsible party for pollution damages from the 4.9 million barrels that leaked directly from the Macondo Well. Barbier also ruled the contract did not shield Transocean from any liability for punitive damages should their company be declared grossly negligent, nor did it indemnify them from any potential civil penalties under the Clean Water Act.
Transocean, of course, declared this ruling a victory, “This confirms that BP is responsible for all economic damages caused by the oil that leaked from its Macondo well, and discredits BP’s ongoing attempts to evade both its contractual and financial obligations. Transocean is pleased to see its position affirmed, consistent with the law and the long-established model for allocating risks in the offshore oil and gas industry…”
Bill Bard says:
So much Bollocks. Still no one in Jail.
RBS Chief Hester Set to Receive 963,000-Pound Bonus for 2011
By Gavin Finch
(Updates with analyst comment in 4th paragraph.)
Jan. 27 (Bloomberg) — Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc Chief Executive Officer Stephen Hester will receive a bonus of 963,000 pounds ($1.51 million) for last year, less than half his 2010 payout.
The all-stock award of 3.6 million shares, whose value was based on the closing price on Jan. 25, will be deferred until 2014, Edinburgh-based RBS said in a statement yesterday. Hester, 51, took a 2 million-pound bonus for 2010, his first since replacing Fred Goodwin in 2008. He made 1.22 million pounds in salary last year.
Executives at RBS, Britain’s biggest government-controlled lender, have been urged by Prime Minister David Cameron to show restraint on pay at a time when real household incomes are falling and public spending is being squeezed. Cameron this month said Hester’s bonus should not exceed 1 million pounds this year.
“Hester came in to clear up the mess and is steering RBS in the right direction,” said Tom Rayner, an analyst at Exane BNP Paribas in London who rates RBS “neutral.” “Hester is not Fred Goodwin. It’s a dangerous game that is being played here as he could just walk away.”
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