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Hyperinflation – What It Takes To Get There
By Joel Skousen
Editor – World Affairs Brief
8-28-10

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I’m not optimistic about where this country is heading, but to properly confront what’s coming it’s very important to understand the real risks facing us and not get misled by hype. I’m getting increasingly irritated by conservative pundits claiming that hyperinflation is imminent, and just around the corner. It is not, and here’s why: simply put we don’t have the automatic, direct injection structures in place for government to deliver those ever-increasing quantities of money directly into the hands of consumers, as they did in the Weimar Republic in Germany. That doesn’t mean it can’t still happen, but the process currently in place works more slowly. We need to understand the process in order to correctly foresee when this threat is really upon us. This week I will dig into this and other intricacies of hyperinflation.

First, let me set the stage by quoting one of the typical hyperinflation projections. Note that all the basic data is correct, only the leap to hyperinflation is unsupported. Here’s Charles Scaliger of the New American magazine [my comments in brackets]:

“Think you’re scared enough about the economy, the ballooning deficit, and the prospect of ruinous tax rates and runaway inflation to pay for astronomical government debts? If you haven’t read Boston University economist Laurence Kotlikoff’s August 10 article for Bloomberg, ‘U.S. Is Bankrupt and We Don’t Even Know It,’ you probably aren’t.

“Dismissing official federal debt figures out of hand as misleading ‘fiscal labeling,’ Kotlikoff estimates that our true fiscal gap is a staggering $202 trillion — about 15 times the ‘official’ debt level pronounced by government statisticians. The reason for this vast discrepancy is the scurrilous practice — used by the federal government to conceal real levels of indebtedness — of declaring certain liabilities, like Social Security and Medicare payouts, as ‘off budget.’ It’s as though these are not enormous sums of money that the federal government has committed to pay out over the next couple of decades as waves of Baby Boomers and Generation X-ers retire.

“The federal government has behaved like an imprudent householder who, having taken out a mortgage, a car loan, and a student loan, proceeds to run up an enormous credit card debt — then declares the last ‘off budget’ and ignores it. Just as laws, credit ratings, and debt collectors will eventually catch up with such behavior in the private sector, so too the pitiless laws of economics will eventually bring our federal government to heel.

“And the day of reckoning won’t be pleasant. Kotlikoff minces no words in describing an outcome comparable to what Weimar Germany endured in the great hyperinflation of the 1920s: ‘Herb Stein, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under U.S. President Richard Nixon, coined an oft-repeated phrase: ‘Something that can’t go on, will stop.’ True enough. Uncle Sam’s Ponzi scheme will stop. But it will stop too late.’

“And it will stop in a very nasty manner. The first possibility is massive benefit cuts visited on the baby boomers in retirement [won’t happen–politicians have to pander to the voters to get reelected]. The second is astronomical tax increases that leave the young with little incentive to work and save [that too is political suicide, unless you only “tax the rich”]. And the third is the government simply printing vast quantities of money to cover its bills [and they don’t actually have to print money to create more–electronic creation is the modern way]… And bond traders will kick us miles down our road once they wake up and realize the U.S. is in worse fiscal shape than Greece [actually bonds are probably the first to realize when the government starts to inflate it’s way out of debt–it destroys their market, which dwarfs stocks].

“Simply put, the lies our government continues to tell itself and us about the debts run up over the past few decades will soon be laid bare. What Kotlikoff has labeled ‘Enron accounting’ has enabled the federal government to perpetuate the deception whereby older generations are subsidized by younger generations. Few Americans are even aware that the so-called ‘Social Security trust fund’ consists only of IOUs [same with the FDIC guarantee of bank deposits]– the federal government spends Social Security ‘contributions’ before they are even paid, just as it spends every last cent of money extracted from the collective taxpayers’ hide. Government neither saves nor invests; it consumes.

“One unpleasant point that Kotlikoff avoids is that there is a difference between tax rates and tax revenues. Simply put, Americans will be neither able nor willing to pay significantly higher taxes [true]. Demands to pay higher income taxes will most likely be met with non-payment or outright revolt, which will leave the federal government only the option of printing its way out of debt. Once the rest of the world figures out that game, though, the feds will find no takers for their bonds, and the end of America as we know it will come about in a tsunami of hyperinflation.”

For that to be true, it requires a detailed analysis of how hyperinflation happened in Germany, 1923-24. Here are a few interesting historical highlights, an excerpt from “Paper Money” by George J.W. Goodman. “Why did the German government not act to halt the inflation? It was a shaky, fragile government, especially after the assassination [Walter Rathenau, the SPD foreign minister was killed in 1922], … In January 1923, Germany failed to make a payment, and France invaded the Ruhr. The vengeful French sent their army into the Ruhr to enforce their demands for reparations, and the Germans were powerless to resist. More than inflation, the Germans feared unemployment. In 1919 Communists had tried to take over, and severe unemployment might give the Communists another chance. The great German industrial combines — Krupp, Thyssen, Farben, Stinnes — condoned the inflation and survived it well. A cheaper Mark, they reasoned, would make German goods cheap and easy to export, and they needed the export earnings to buy raw materials abroad.

“Inflation kept everyone working as the pace of the economy [and velocity of monetary circulation] kept accelerating. The cost of living index was 41 in June 1922 and 685 in December, an increase of more than 16 times. The occupation of the industrial region of Germany in the Ruhr valley took place to ensure that the reparations were paid in goods, such as coal and steel. The Mark was viewed as practically worthless. [Now here is one key:] Inflation was exacerbated when workers in the Ruhr went on strike, and the German government printed more money in order to continue paying them for ‘passively resisting.'[That was the first structural step that allowed the German government to start injecting currency directly into the hands of citizens–which allows for a rapid expansion of the money supply, in ever-increasing quantities]

“So the printing presses ran, and once they began to run, they were hard to stop. The price increases began to be dizzying. Menus in cafes could not be revised quickly enough. A student at Freiburg University ordered a cup of coffee at a cafe. The price on the menu was 5,000 Marks. He had two cups. When the bill came, it was for 14,000 Marks. ‘If you want to save money,’ he was told, ‘and you want two cups of coffee, you should order them both at the same time.’ …By late 1923, the German government required 1,783 printing presses, running around the clock, to print money.”

The payment of “resistance money” to the workers in the Ruhr was not sufficient in itself to cause hyperinflation. Germany was also forced to pay for war victim pensions and compensation for their families. This broadened the flow to a majority of all Germans. So, with over half the citizens having access to an ever-increasing flow of income, the rest of the country began to respond in kind and demand increased wages. Businessmen started raising prices regularly to pay for their increasing labor and material costs, and the process started to gallop away.

A History of the Modern World pointed out that the only ones destroyed initially were those on fixed income: “Annuities, pensions, proceeds of insurance policies, savings accounts in the banks, income from bonds and mortgages – every form of revenue which had been arranged for at some time in the past, and which often represented the economy, foresight, and personal planning of many years – now turned to nothing. The middle class was pauperized and demoralized.” Eventually, almost everyone was hurt.

Tax revenue was quickly devalued by the government’s own rapid inflation, which further induced the government to rely almost solely on inflation to pay for government expenditures. Tax rates couldn’t be changed except once a year, so that source of revenue quickly became irrelevant. Notice that had the government not been able to directly pay so much money into the hands of a majority of citizens, the inflation spiral would have been limited. Price inflation can’t continue unless a large percentage of people have automatically increasing amounts of cash to pay for the rising prices. If the majority does not, buying (for them) slows down dramatically with rising prices and that forces prices to fall in order to attract more buyers.

This has a bearing today. Except for Congressionally mandated stimulus money, which takes time to debate and pass, there is no automatic way for the government to create money and hand it out to consumers. Ben Bernanke’s famous suggestion that he might hire helicopters to fly around and distribute cash from the air earned him the moniker of “helicopter Ben,” but otherwise was only a figure of speech. With exception of one stimulus check, all the bailout money went to the big bankers and insiders. Even if the government started boosting SS payments and pension and welfare payments, it would only cause a slow rise in inflation, but would also damage those on fixed incomes which would complain–forcing Congress to slow down or stop the increases.

There was another factor–the relative size of the monetary base before the inflation. Germany was a moderate sized nation, and had a large economy compared to most other European countries. Nevertheless, the German Mark was not used around the world as an international currency–the British Pound was the major world currency at that time. So, it was not particularly difficult to double the money supply in Germany in one year, and then quadruple it the next. In a 4 year period, the German Mark went from 14 Marks to the dollar to a Trillion to 1. You can’t do that with the dollar today. The dollar has spread out so much around the world as an international currency that there are at least $200 Trillion printed dollars outstanding, and probably $800 trillion in contracts that have never been monetized. That’s a staggering amount.

As I have pointed out before, a $3 trillion bailout of the banks was less than 1.5% inflation of the money supply. I don’t approve of bailouts like this (and there is a lot more money suspected of being created off the books) but one has to understand how this huge base of dollars allows the US to keep inflating without it showing up dramatically as inflation–let alone hyper-inflation. It was inflationary, but only within the speculative economy that the big banks control: the paper stock, bonds, mutual funds, FOREX, and derivative markets. Most of this money just stays in these speculative bets through roll-overs and only about 25% gets invested in the real economy (and most of that is in the industrial military complex. That’s the reason we haven’t had a lot of price inflation. But stocks and bonds are inflated–because they are on the receiving end of government money creation.

Now the last point I want to make about the claims of imminent hyperinflation has to do with misunderstanding the terminology. In short, some misinformed people are saying hyperinflation is synonymous with a loss of confidence in the currency or a flight from currency. This is a factor but it is distinct from hyperinflation. Here’s a typical example from a self-styled economic commentator, Gonzalo Lira, who is actually an expat American novelist living in Chile.

“Most people dismiss the very notion of hyperinflation occurring in the United States as something only tin-foil hatters, gold-bugs, and Right-wing survivalists drool about… [Other more] amiable souls diligently point out that in a deflationary environment–where commodity prices are more or less stable, there are downward pressures on wages, asset prices are falling, and credit markets are shrinking–inflation is impossible. Therefore, hyperinflation is even more impossible.

“This outlook seems sensible; if we fall for the trap of thinking that hyperinflation is an extension of inflation [It is but he’s going to try and disprove that reality]. If we think that hyperinflation is simply inflation on steroids–inflation-plus–then it would seem that, in our current deflationary economic environment, hyperinflation is not simply a long way off, but flat-out ridiculous. But hyperinflation is not an extension or amplification of inflation. Inflation and hyperinflation are two very distinct animals. They look the same–because in both cases, the currency loses its purchasing power–but they are not the same.

“Inflation is when the economy overheats: It’s when an economy’s consumables (labor and commodities) are so in-demand because of economic growth [always fueled by government pumping too much new money into the hands of consumers by inducing banks to loan at rates too low], coupled with an expansionist credit environment, that the consumables rise in price. This forces all goods and services to rise in price as well, so that producers can keep up with costs. It is essentially a demand-driven phenomenon. Hyperinflation is the loss of faith in the currency.”

His definition of hyperinflation is totally insufficient and improper. It is definitions like this that allow Lira and other to claim that hyperinflation is imminent. But, there are many degrees of loss of faith that precede true hyperinflation. We have it right now, to some degree, but are not experiencing hyperinflation. Even with moderate inflation there is a loss of faith in currency. But it is even more true of hyperinflation.

With moderate inflation of around 10% investors and people start trading dollars for other currencies or gold–anything which appears to hold its value better than the dollar. Nations with bigger hoards of dollars can’t unload them all at once on the FOREX lest the dollar’s declining value collapse halfway through the transaction. So they start buying companies in America or commodities for future stockpiles which they intend to use. China is currently on a dollar spending spree buying up industrial metals and oil.

For it to qualify as hyperinflation the rate of inflation needs to rise above the level where panic buying starting to happen –usually in the 20-50% inflation rate per year. Once it goes about 100% per year (doubling the inflation each year) it starts going exponentially upward until government stops the money creation process. Only at that level do we see the total collapse of confidence where people feel that if they wait any amount of time, the money will be worthless.

But this can’t and won’t happen in the US until government gets Congress to allow it to hand out regular stimulus checks to all Americans. Nothing less than that would allow for unrestrained spending. As I have long predicted, I think the financial PTB will continue to gradually increase inflation sufficient to keep people pacified, but not so much as to create panic buying.

Michael Pento explains where the current inflation is going and why it isn’t showing up as significant price inflation: “Wall Street analysts seem to believe that the Fed’s doubling of the monetary base after the credit crunch has not had an inflationary impact on our economy. Their logic can be summed up like so: ‘The money the Fed created and dropped from helicopters has all been caught in the trees.’ In other words, the Fed is creating money, but it is just being held as excess reserves by the banking system instead of being loaned to the public. Therefore, the money supply hasn’t truly increased, there is no money multiplier effect, and aggregate price levels are behaving themselves. But this is only a half-truth.

“Yes, most of the money created by the Fed has been kept by commercial banks as excess reserves. However, the Fed doesn’t conjure reserves by magic. It first creates an electronic credit by fiat, then purchases an asset held by a financial institution. Those primary dealers then deposit that Federal Reserve check into their reserves. The act of creating money from nothing and buying an asset — be it a Treasury bond or Mortgage Backed Security (MBS) — drives up the price of that asset in the open market. Those price distortions send erroneous signals to private buyers and sellers, eventually creating gross economic imbalances. Therefore, the inflation created by the Fed first gets concentrated in whatever asset it has chosen to purchase — before spreading throughout the economy.” In reality, it doesn’t get spread throughout the economy. Too many of the big boys are keeping their funds in the speculative markets and not spending normally.

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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppBZM88mHvQ]LaRouche supporter assaulted by Alaska State Fair Security

brianstanfill | August 26, 2010

This first day of the 2010 Alaska State Fair starts with sunny skies and a brutal assault by security personnel on a LaRouche supporter.

At about 5pm Alaska Time, Thursday, August 26, 2010, security personnel approach Sidney Hill, a lone man peacefully displaying an impeach Obama sign near Pioneer Plaza on the Alaska State Fairgrounds in Palmer. Minutes later, a crowd assembles, additional security forces arrive, and they physically assault the man holding the sign. He’s taken to the ground with force and detained.

An unidentified Alaska State Trooper arrives to physically disperse the crowd, and at several points during the conflict, crowd members yell in support of the demonstrator’s right to speak his message. The demonstrator’s personal firearm is confiscated by fair security, and he is held captive until Palmer police arrive to escort the man away in cuffs.

Sidney Hill is in jail awaiting a pre-trial at 1:00pm on August 27, 2010 at the Palmer Courthouse. He has been charged with Assault 4-Cause Fear Of Injury,
Disorderly Conduct-Challenge To Fight, and Criminal Trespass 2- Upon Premises.

Assault at 3:30
Gun in security guard’s left hand at 4:41

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JOHN McCAIN “The Maverick’s” ATTACK ON LIBERTY

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JOHN McCAIN’S ATTACK ON LIBERTY

By Chuck Baldwin
August 24, 2010
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Anyone paying attention knows that John McCain has been a Big-Government Globalist Neocon (BGGN) for virtually his entire senatorial career. As with many BGGNs hiding out in the Republican Party, McCain likes to talk about smaller government, but his track record is littered with the promotion of one big government program after another. But, what else would one expect from a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)?

Lately, however, McCain has outdone himself. He has introduced two bills in the US Senate that are about as Machiavellian as they could be. I am referring to S.3081, a bill that would authorize the federal government to detain American citizens indefinitely without trial, and S.3002, a bill that would authorize the federal government to regulate vitamins, minerals, and virtually all health and natural food products.

According to Examiner.com, “John McCain introduced a bill into the U.S. Senate which, if passed, would actually allow U.S. citizens to be arrested and detained indefinitely, all without Miranda rights or ever being charged with a crime.”

The Examiner report continued by saying “This bill, introduced by McCain, who despite overwhelming evidence, claims to be a ‘conservative,’ would not only take away our right to a trial, but would also allow the federal government to arrest and imprison anyone the current administration deems hostile.

“Of course, that would be the same administration whose Homeland Security Secretary has classified veterans, retired law enforcement, Ron Paul [and Chuck Baldwin] supporters, and conservatives as ‘terrorists.'”

The Examiner report concluded by saying “If it was not clear before, it should be now that John McCain has as little respect for the Constitution as he does for our borders.”

Amen!

If McCain gets his way, your constitutional right to a speedy trial by jury is gone, as well as your constitutional right to Habeas Corpus. But, of course, they would attempt to justify this by claiming it is being done in the name of national security and the war on terrorism.

See the Examiner report here.

Regarding McCain’s desire for the federal government to take over the vitamin industry, attorney Jonathan Emord wrote, “If you had any doubt about whether John McCain is a limited government conservative, you may put that doubt to rest–he is not. On February 3, 2010, John McCain introduced to the United States Senate the Dietary Supplement Safety Act of 2010. Reflecting upon this poorly written bill, I am struck by the fact that John McCain apparently sees little difference between fissile material and dietary supplements. He is intent on regulating supplements as if they were radioactive enriched uranium rather than bioactive vitamins, minerals, amino acids, and botanicals that more often than not help people.

“The Dietary Supplement Safety Act of 2010 enjoys support from the most liberal members of Congress. It is an invitation for the FDA to assume broad new powers and replicate here the system now operating in Europe over dietary supplements where dietary ingredients are presumed adulterated and unlawful to sell unless pre-approved by the government. In short, good bye free enterprise, good bye limited government, and hello more heavy handed, arbitrary and punitive FDA bias against the beleaguered dietary supplement industry.”

See Emord’s column here. …

And, yes, this is the same John McCain who was one of the primary movers and shakers (along with Obama, Lindsey Graham, and G.W. Bush) who attempted (and would again) to provide amnesty to illegal aliens and open America’s borders to illegal immigration.

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Alex Jones: Lindsay Lohan Poisoned! Along with 300 Million Other Americans

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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeU6I2qOY3k]Lindsay Lohan Poisoned! Along with 300 Million Other Americans

TheAlexJonesChannel | August 26, 2010

Alex Jones explains why Lindsay Lohan, and by extension millions of Americans are being poisoned with methamphetamine style drugs like Ritalin that cause brain shrinkage, heart problems and a myriad of other disorders. Alex also highlights how SSRI prozac drugs are turning people into psychopaths and leading to a massive increase in suicides and other reckless behavior.

Young girls and even babies are now going into puberty as a result of milk laced with hormones, Bisphenol A and a toxic cocktail of other ingested substances.

Alex also highlights the deadly threat of sodium fluoride and how it causes IQ reduction, bone cancer, and how vaccines are also contributing to a massive and sustained chemical attack on free humanity as the globalists’ eugenics agenda goes into high gear.
http://www.infowars.com/lindsay-lohan…

The health of our country is in grave condition. We poison ourselves with the water and food contaminated by man-made toxins. Then we poison our minds and souls with untold number of prescription drugs. Now 5 of 6 new drugs on the market don’t even treat the conditions for which they are prescribed.

We must wake up and take action. Our bodies and environments must be clean so human race can continue it’s global awakening to the New World Order. Read the ever expanding list of SSRI stories http://www.ssristories.com/ and do an image search for “DU babies” and see photos I could not bring myself to show you in this video.

Ex-FBI Agent Reveals Shocking True Facts On Kennedy Assassination!

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Former FBI Agent Reveals New Angle On Kennedy Assassination

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http://www.infowars.com/
August 25, 2010

It is a story the corporate media, with the notable exception of one lone Fox News affiliate, refuses to report. A former FBI agent, Don Adams, has compelling evidence Lee Harvey Oswald did not assassinate president John F. Kennedy. Adams was assigned to an FBI office in Thomasville, Georgia, on November 22, 1963. Adams was responsible for investigating Joseph Adams Milteer, described as a radical with connections to the States Rights Party and KKK. Milteer, according to Adams, was involved in Kennedy’s assassination.

As revealed by the Church Committee in the mid-70s and according to internal FBI documents the agency controlled the Ku Klux Klan and other white supremacists beginning in the 1960s. More recently, it was revealed that racist radio talk show host Hal Turner operated as a “national security intelligence” asset for the FBI, thus demonstrating the agency still has its hooks in the lunatic fringe movement.

The racist Milteer “was reportedly one of most violent men in the country,” Adams told Fox 8 News. Years later, Adams discovered that Milteer had threatened to kill Kennedy on November 9, 1963, and the FBI had lied about Milteer whereabouts. In order to make his case, Adams played an audio recording of Milteer for Fox News. In the recording, Milteer tells an informant the best way to get the president “is from an office building with a high powered rifle.” Asked if he was sincere about a plot of kill Kennedy, Milteer responded: “Oh yes. It’s in the works.”

Despite the threat and possibility of a conspiracy to assassinate the president, the FBI and Secret Service allowed Kennedy to travel to Dallas. “[They] should have stopped the President from traveling instantly,” said Adams.

“You thought I was kidding when I said he would be killed from a window with a high powered rifle,” a “jubilant” Milteer” told the informant following the murder.

Adams points out that Milteer was in Dallas on the day of the assassination and has a photograph to prove it. In the photo, Milteer stands near the presidential limousine prior to the shooting. Adams notes this fact was not mentioned in the Warren Commission report.

Other, more well-known personages were also photographed in Dealy Plaza on that fateful day, in particular George Bush Senior. The future CIA director and president was photographed standing outside the Texas Book Depository building where it was said Oswald single-handedly shot the president from the sixth floor. Gerald Ford appointed Bush to head-up the agency when the House Select Committee on Assassinations was investigating CIA-FBI links to the murders of John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy.
http://www.infowars.com/former-fbi-ag…

HeartQuotes: Contempt

In Forgiving/Grudgless/No Hate, HeartQuotes, Unite – Come Together, Wishing Each Other Well!

“There is no room in the universe for the least contempt or pride;
but only for a gentle and a reverent heart.”

– James Martineau

Grand Teton Reflection Version Here

Catherine Austin Fitts: We Must be Self-Sufficient Ahead of The Coming Global Disasters

In $Money$ ToBeFree, America's Getting Jacked!, Timing Predictions, Unite – Come Together

“I don’t think we’re looking at a collapse. …
We’ve been in what I call a slow burn.
I think the slow burn is going to continue.

And in the slow burn,
you have insiders and outsiders.
And the insiders protect themselves and financial assets
by basically draining the outsiders.”

•

“What you’ll always hear me say
is don’t worry whether or not there is a conspiracy.
If you’re not in one you need to start one.

Because
we’re watching a planet that’s being managed by conspiracies.”

– Catherine Austin Fitts

Transcribed by Jeff Fenske

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ottk8P6-cKM]Catherine Austin Fitts: We Must be Self-Sufficient Ahead of The Coming Global Disasters 1/3

TheAlexJonesChannel | August 24, 2010

Alex welcomes back to the show Catherine Austin Fitts, president of Solari, Inc., the publisher of The Solari Report, and managing member of Solari Investment Advisory Services. Fitts served as managing director and member of the board of directors of the Wall Street investment bank Dillon, Read & Co. Inc., as Assistant Secretary of Housing and Federal Housing Commissioner at the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development in the first Bush Administration, and was the president of Hamilton Securities Group, Inc.

Catherine Austin Fitts’ understanding of the global financial system and the inner workings of the Wall Street-Washington axis are unparalleled. As the former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Housing/Federal Housing Commissioner, Catherine was one of the first to warn of an approaching housing bubble. Her prediction that a ‘strong dollar policy’ would ultimately lead to a weakened federal credit is currently being proven correct.
http://solari.com

[music video] MoRtiS NoCTu: What If . . . ? — “What if these sheeple didn’t just do what they’re told and when? … What if Dr. Ron Paul had won the election? … What if we didn’t preach PEACE with LOADED GUNS in our hands? … What if America was still respected?”

In 9-11 TRUTH, Music Videos, Ron Paul, The Soul of America

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQ2BvYhlpjM]MoRtiS NoCTu – What If . . . ?

mortisnoctu | August 24, 2010

MoRtiS NoCTu – What If . . . ? LISTEN 0N 480p Lyrics Below

Beat from Dert’s album Westside of the Moon (made from Pink Floyd samples!)

Lyrics/vocals/final mix with quotes and sound effects by MoRtiS NoCTu

Lyrics:

What if America knew the truth?
What if the government wasn’t a spoof?
What if the average citizen knew all about the bankers treachery?
What if they hadn’t ruled from the shadows for the past century?
What if we chose to make our money gold again?
What if these sheeple didn’t just do what they’re told and when?
What if Dr. Ron Paul had won the election?
What if Obama hadn’t won using race-based hype and deception?
What if human rights were really protected?
What if the patriot act had been rejected?
What if America was still respected?
What if we didn’t go to war with our fellow man?
What if we didn’t preach PEACE with LOADED GUNS in our hands?
What if we didn’t ship our children off to die in the sand?
What if our future didn’t include a nuclear waste land?
What if Kennedy hadn’t been shot?
What if the central bankers plans never had a chance to be wrought?
What if The Towers hadn’t collapsed?
What if the New World Order wasn’t given birth out of the aftermath?
What if WE THE PEOPLE took America back?
What if we put her on the right track?
What if we manifest the American vision of Liberty,
and end imperialism and tyranny?
What if?
What if?
What if?

Jeff Rense’s Gulf Oil Catastrophe Updates – 8/25/10

Sea Life Trying to Escape Toxic Gulf

In Catastrophes

From: Rense.com

Oil Catastrophe – Quickest Updates!

Listen FREE MP3 – Chris Landau – Oil Geologist 7.20.10

Oil Still Leaking From ‘Capped’ BP Well – Vid

The Missing 3rd Well That Blew In The Macondo

ROV – Black Blobs Flowing From Cement Plug – Vid

Black Liquid Gushing From Capping Stack – Vid

Underwater ‘River’ Of Oil (Death) Found In Gulf

May Take DECADES For The Oil, Corexit To Surface

Overhead View Of Cloudy Capping Stack, Bop – Vid

Feds Delay BOP Removal – ‘Diagnostics Needed’ – Vid

Clouds Surrounding Capping Stack, BOP – Vid

Feds Now Say 3 Pipes Stuck In Top Of Well – Vid

BP Pulls 3500′ Of Drill Pipe From 5000′ Cement Plug – Vid

Rep Markey Credits ROV Watchers In Pressuring BP – Vid

Oil In Oyster Bayou, La. – Vid

Oil Ravaged Beach In Ocean Springs, Ms – Vid

Fort Pickens, Pensacola Beach, Oil And Tar – Vid

Storms Can Aerosolize Gulf Oil And Spread It Far – Vid

All 8 Tests Find Submerged Oil Off MS Coast – Vid

FDA NOT Testing For Seafood Mercury, Heavy Metals

More Evidence Formation Collapsed Around Well – Vid

MSM Talks About Collapsed Formation Doomsday – Vid

Oil In Gulf ‘VERY Resistant’ To Bio-Degradation – Vid

Feds Admit NOT Testing Seafood From OILED Areas – Vid

Feds Not Including Methane In Gulf Calculations! – Vid

Obama, BP Trying To Stop Claims Of Gulf Residents

Seepage Where Well Head Meets Sea Floor – Vid

Grim News – Invisible Plumes, Bleaker Estimates

Feds Testing Wrong Oil – Not From Well Head – Vid

NOAA Forced To Admit 75% Oil Still In Gulf – Vid

More Mystery Shrouds BP Blown Well

Fishermen Forced To Release BP From Liability – Vid

More…

Most of a movie can now be ‘Photoshopped’

In Fun–or–AMAZING Stuff!, Photography

From: PetaPixel

A Glimpse at the Mind-Boggling Special Effects Behind HBO’s John Adams

HBO posted this interesting behind-the-scenes video that gives a glimpse into the kind of special effects that went into filming the popular miniseries John Adams. It’s pretty crazy how they construct entire realities around the actors using CGI.

And you thought Photoshopping was hard…

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTUs7hDq2PA]John Adams Visual FX (HBO)

HBO | August 11, 2008

Check out the John Adams Visual Effects feature. For more information about John Adams, log onto HBO.com

Our senators traitors? Senate dumps strategy to prevent EMP damage

In America's Getting Jacked!, Bomb Bomb America?, Electromagnetic Pulse – EMP, The End of America?

From: WND

Senate dumps strategy to prevent EMP damage
House planned defense against ‘malicious acts’ using shock wave

Posted: August 07, 2010
12:30 am Eastern

By Bob Unruh

The U.S. Senate has dropped a House-approved plan that would prepare the United States to defend itself from an attack from any electromagnetic pulse source – whether it would be from a natural solar flare or the detonation of a space-located nuclear weapon by enemies intent on destroying America’s infrastructure, according to a representative who has raised alarms over EMP.

U.S. Rep. Roscoe Bartlett, R-Md., said it is “unfortunate.”

“While one part of the federal government was warning us of possible solar electromagnetic-pulse damage to our electric grid, a key Senate commission approved a bill to ignore this threat,” he said.

“It’s particularly ironic since the Senate amended a bill, H.R. 5026, approved unanimously by the House that would specifically protect the grid against solar EMP and other physical threats,” he said.

WND has reported for years on the devastating danger from an EMP attack that could be launched by a second-rate missile system against America.

The concern is that any nuclear detonation that could be launched into the atmosphere anywhere from 25 to 250 miles above the United States could decimate the nation’s electric grid, essentially transporting it instantly back to an era of mechanical machines and agriculture.

One estimate just months ago suggested an effective EMP attack could leave 9 out of 10 Americans dead.

Bartlett explained that the danger also comes from naturally occurring EMP signals from sources such as a solar storm. …

“The National Academies of Sciences predicted in a 2008 report that a solar geomagnetic storm as severe as the Carrington event that occurred in 1859 could inflict $1 trillion to $2 trillion [damage] and take 4-10 years to recover from. That compares with the $300 billion impact of Hurricane Katrina,” Bartlett noted. …

Whether the damage would come from a natural solar event or a nuclear bomb detonated in the atmosphere over America, the results could be the same for power distributors, telecommunications companies, satellite and aviation-sector companies – a virtual shutdown.

The results for Americans would be a collapse in the delivery system for food, fuel, information and communications.

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From: WND

EMP could leave ‘9 out of 10 Americans dead’

…experts forecast if such an attack were a success, it effectively could throw the U.S. back into an age of agriculture.

“Within a year of that attack, nine out of 10 Americans would be dead, because we can’t support a population of the present size in urban centers and the like without electricity,” said Frank Gaffney, president of the Center for Security Policy.

Read Entire Article Here

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From: WND

EMP threatens power shutdown for months
Congressman says $100 million need to avert $2 trillion disaster

Posted: August 20, 2009
1:00 am Eastern

WASHINGTON – There’s been a lot of talk about the potentially devastating impact of an electrical grid shutdown from the effects of an electro-magnetic pulse from the sun or from terrorism, but little action, says a prominent members of Congress.

But it’s worse than a threat on the horizon, says Rep. Roscoe Bartlett, R-Maryland. It’s an inevitability.

Bartlett told NPR that EMP is “an event we will not avoid” – and remediation after the fact will cost between $1 trillion and $2 trillion. Protection of the grid in advance of the disaster will cost $100 million, he said.

The threat of an EMP attack by a terrorist group or foreign enemy has been a major concern for years. But Bartlett said nature, too, represents a potential time bomb.

“The more sophisticated we become, the more vulnerable we are,” said Bartlett. “There’s a huge concern about cyber-attacks on the grid. [Well] a really robust [nuclear] EMP lay-down means microelectronics across the country would be shut down [and] you have no power…there’s one event that we will not avoid, and that is a solar electromagnetic interference, solar storm. If we have a big one like the one that occurred back in 1859, that would shut down the whole grid for quite a long while. … It would cost about $100 million to protect much of the grid, but if the grid went down, it would cost us between $1 trillion and $2 trillion in damages, and the loss of life could be horrendous if in fact you were without electricity for months at a time. There’s a bill in the House, and … it’s got to go through the Energy and Commerce Committee.”

Peacemaker Ron Paul: Demagoguing the Mosque — “The neo-conservatives never miss a chance to use hatred toward Muslims to rally support for the ill-conceived preventative wars.” “This is all about hate and Islamaphobia.”

On August 24, 2010

In Ron Paul

From: LewRockwell.com…

Demagoguing the Mosque

by Ron Paul

Is the controversy over building a mosque near ground zero a grand distraction or a grand opportunity? Or is it, once again, grandiose demagoguery?

It has been said, “Nero fiddled while Rome burned.” Are we not overly preoccupied with this controversy, now being used in various ways by grandstanding politicians? It looks to me like the politicians are “fiddling while the economy burns.

The debate should have provided the conservative defenders of property rights with a perfect example of how the right to own property also protects the 1st Amendment rights of assembly and religion by supporting the building of the mosque.

Instead, we hear lip service given to the property rights position while demanding that the need to be “sensitive” requires an all-out assault on the building of a mosque, several blocks from “ground zero.”

Just think of what might (not) have happened if the whole issue had been ignored and the national debate stuck with war, peace, and prosperity. There certainly would have been a lot less emotionalism on both sides. The fact that so much attention has been given the mosque debate, raises the question of just why and driven by whom?

In my opinion it has come from the neo-conservatives who demand continual war in the Middle East and Central Asia and are compelled to constantly justify it.

They never miss a chance to use hatred toward Muslims to rally support for the ill-conceived preventative wars. A select quote from soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq expressing concern over the mosque is pure propaganda and an affront to their bravery and sacrifice.

The claim is that we are in the Middle East to protect our liberties is misleading. To continue this charade, millions of Muslims are indicted and we are obligated to rescue them from their religious and political leaders. And, we’re supposed to believe that abusing our liberties here at home and pursuing unconstitutional wars overseas will solve our problems.

The nineteen suicide bombers didn’t come from Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan or Iran. Fifteen came from our ally Saudi Arabia, a country that harbors strong American resentment, yet we invade and occupy Iraq where no al Qaeda existed prior to 9/11.

Many fellow conservatives say they understand the property rights and 1st Amendment issues and don’t want a legal ban on building the mosque. They just want everybody to be “sensitive” and force, through public pressure, cancellation of the mosque construction.

This sentiment seems to confirm that Islam itself is to be made the issue, and radical religious Islamic views were the only reasons for 9/11. If it became known that 9/11 resulted in part from a desire to retaliate against what many Muslims saw as American aggression and occupation, the need to demonize Islam would be difficult if not impossible.

There is no doubt that a small portion of radical, angry Islamists do want to kill us but the question remains, what exactly motivates this hatred?

If Islam is further discredited by making the building of the mosque the issue, then the false justification for our wars in the Middle East will continue to be acceptable.

The justification to ban the mosque is no more rational than banning a soccer field in the same place because all the suicide bombers loved to play soccer.

Conservatives are once again, unfortunately, failing to defend private property rights, a policy we claim to cherish. In addition conservatives missed a chance to challenge the hypocrisy of the left which now claims they defend property rights of Muslims, yet rarely if ever, the property rights of American private businesses.

Defending the controversial use of property should be no more difficult than defending the 1st Amendment principle of defending controversial speech. But many conservatives and liberals do not want to diminish the hatred for Islam – the driving emotion that keeps us in the wars in the Middle East and Central Asia.

It is repeatedly said that 64% of the people, after listening to the political demagogues, don’t want the mosque to be built. What would we do if 75% of the people insist that no more Catholic churches be built in New York City? The point being is that majorities can become oppressors of minority rights as well as individual dictators. Statistics of support is irrelevant when it comes to the purpose of government in a free society – protecting liberty.

The outcry over the building of the mosque, near ground zero, implies that Islam alone was responsible for the 9/11 attacks. According to those who are condemning the building of the mosque, the nineteen suicide terrorists on 9/11 spoke for all Muslims. This is like blaming all Christians for the wars of aggression and occupation because some Christians supported the neo-conservative’s aggressive wars.

The House Speaker is now treading on a slippery slope by demanding an investigation to find out just who is funding the mosque – a bold rejection of property rights, 1st Amendment rights, and the Rule of Law – in order to look tough against Islam.

This is all about hate and Islamaphobia.

We now have an epidemic of “sunshine patriots” on both the right and the left who are all for freedom, as long as there’s no controversy and nobody is offended.

Political demagoguery rules when truth and liberty are ignored.

See the Ron Paul File

August 23, 2010

Dr. Ron Paul is a Republican member of Congress from Texas.

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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZ6Hzf0x1vk]Ron Paul Slams WTC Mosque Protesters!

MOXNEWSd0tCOM | August 23, 2010

August 23, 2010 MSNBC Keith Olbermann
http://MOXNews.com/

The News from Prison Planet

On August 24, 2010

In Freedom

From: PrisonPlanet.tv…

We Got One That Can See: Former Obamanoid Reveals Truth on Fox News 23 Aug 2010 | 4:09 pm Infowars Kurt Nimmo | Obama’s task was to sell the globalist snake oil under the misleading label “change.”
Divide and Rule 23 Aug 2010 | 3:18 pm Infowars Mark Daniels | What we are witnessing in America today is a deliberate attempt by the Global Elites to divert attention away from the global economic crises and the criminal activities of the Central Banking Cartel.
Big Brother Facebook 23 Aug 2010 | 3:05 pm Infowars Alex Miller | What’s next, I wonder — the FB Places Chip that goes under the skin?
Tensions Rise in Greece as Austerity Measures Backfire 23 Aug 2010 | 2:45 pm Infowars Der Spiegel | The austerity measures that were supposed to fix Greece’s problems are dragging down the country’s economy.
Childless British couple builds a robot child companion 23 Aug 2010 | 1:58 pm Infowars DVice.com | Meet Aimec, the creation of Tony and Judie Ellis, a robot building couple from South-East England who’ve built a substitute for children.
Babies with breasts shock China 23 Aug 2010 | 1:37 pm Infowars Asia Times | Once again, China’s most vulnerable citizens – its babies – are the central figures in a food-safety scandal. Parents are blaming the company that produces the baby formula they were drinking for the development of breasts.
Good Enough For Hitler….Professors To Debate Sterilizing “Mentally and Morally Unfit” On BBC Radio 23 Aug 2010 | 1:04 pm Infowars BBC | Edward Stourton chairs a live debate in which Professor David Marsland defends his view that the mentally and morally unfit should be sterilised.
Just 2 People Sign Up For Obamacare in NJ 23 Aug 2010 | 1:01 pm Infowars My FOX NY | Just two people in New Jersey will begin receiving coverage Monday under new plans created by federal health care reforms.
Cop harasses videographer, then admits it was solely to “intimidate” him 23 Aug 2010 | 12:57 pm Infowars Carlos Miller | Adam Mueller of Cop Block was videotaping a motorcycle cop from a respectable distance in a New Jersey strip mall parking lot when the cop got off his bike and stormed toward him in an aggressive manner.
Karzai: Private contractors ‘looting and stealing,’ working with terrorists 23 Aug 2010 | 12:52 pm Infowars Raw Story | Afghan President Hamid Karzai defended his decision to ban private security contractors from operating in public in Afghanistan.
Ron Paul: Let the Housing Market Normalize! 23 Aug 2010 | 12:46 pm Infowars Dr. Ron Paul | There seems to be a growing consensus in favor of abolishing Fannie and Freddie. This is the good news.
Mexican Police To Patrol NY? 23 Aug 2010 | 12:41 pm Infowars American Free Press | The government of Mexico, through its consulate in New York in the United Nations, has announced it will begin patrolling the New York City borough of Staten Island to “safeguard” its nationals there.
Muse Urges Its Fans To Take The Red Pill 23 Aug 2010 | 12:30 pm Infowars Paul Joseph Watson | Alternative rock megaband Muse have urged their millions of listeners to take the “red pill” by linking to Alex Jones’ Prison Planet.com and Infowars.com on the band’s official website.
The JFK Case: Oswald and His Twelve Handlers 23 Aug 2010 | 12:15 pm Infowars Bill Simpich | With millions of documents released in the years since the JFK Act was passed in the nineties, the intelligence backgrounds of Oswald’s handlers have come into focus.
Minister Calls for Thorough Examination of Possible Link Between H1N1 and Narcolepsy 23 Aug 2010 | 12:12 pm Infowars YLE.fi | However, the Minister said the swine flu vaccination program would continue.
Get Ready for More Government Flu Hysteria 23 Aug 2010 | 12:10 pm Infowars Mercola | The news for this year is that the flu vaccine you’ll get this fall will be a combination vaccine that contains both the regular flu- and the swine flu vaccines – you will not be given the choice to take them individually.
“Our Lives Post 9/11″ — A Four Day 9/11 Truth Conference and Charity Event in New York City 23 Aug 2010 | 12:09 pm Infowars We Are Change | “Our Lives Post 9/11” will feature a lineup of speakers spanning from government officials, whistle blowers, political scholars, 9/11 family members, and more to discuss the criminal negligence of the American Government leading up to and following 9/11.
City receives citation for not fluoridating water 23 Aug 2010 | 12:04 pm Infowars Register Pajaronian | The City of Watsonville has been cited by the California Department of Public Health for failure to comply with an order by the state to fluoridate the water supply.
Gulf fishermen being held responsible for toxic seafood 23 Aug 2010 | 11:59 am Infowars Daniel Tencer | Federal government admits not testing for arsenic, mercury or other toxic heavy metals in seafood.
Computers that read minds are being developed by Intel 23 Aug 2010 | 11:57 am Infowars Telegraph | New technology could allow people to dictate letters and search the internet simply by thinking, according to researchers at Intel who are behind the project.

Tony Robbins’ Economic Warning: Late Fall or Early 2011 Major Retracement

In $Money$ ToBeFree, Timing Predictions

Transcribed by Jeff Fenske

“Sometime —
[from] most of the people that I know that are the very best —
some times in the late fall or early 2011
we’re likely to see a major retracement —
major —
on a major scale.”

“Get smart and know what season we’re in.”

“God bless.”

– Tony Robbins

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_rShZA_IjE]Tony Robbins Economic Warning 1-2

CHo0ZE | August 16, 2010

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Tony Robbins, renowned success coach and motivational speaker shares an insight from some of the influential people he works with and why he believes a breakdown is underway. 3rd August, 2010.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZuJqrcwrEU]

‘Coast to Coast AM’ 9/11 debate 8/21/10: Ian Punnett spits in the face of 9/11 truth. Is this seminarian a wolf in sheep’s clothing?

* Punnett has a Masters of Divinity degree from Columbia Theological Seminary in Atlanta, and has been ordained a Deacon in the Episcopal Church.

In 9-11 TRUTH, Media Bias Exposed

To me, Saturday night’s 9/11 Debate on Coast to Coast AM was disgusting. It was a stacked deck.

Coast to Coast Am’s Saturday host, Ian Punnett sided with the official-9/11-story physicist, Dave Thomas, ganging up on Richard Gage, Architects and Engineers for 9/11 truth. And this continued throughout the four hour supposed debate.

I should have known better than to think that Ian Punnett would give Richard Gage a fair shot, for it was Ian who previously took Coast to Coast to what I’ve so far considered its lowest low, especially in that he’s a seminary graduate. Ian is proving more and more to be a wolf in sheep’s clothing, and that’s what corporate media wants:

‘Coast to Coast AM’ Plunges to New Low? Callers Talk to ‘Michael Jackson’ Through Medium

‘Theologian’*-host, Ian Punnett leads the world astray

From: Coast to Coast AM

…medium Christian von Lähr channeled the King of Pop, who delivered his final message from beyond and answered callers’ questions.

In this debate, Punnett/Thomas verses Gage, Ian played the Devil’s advocate throughout with Gage, while accepting everything Thomas said, no matter how absurd, including this:

For example, in the second tower that was hit, the WTC tower that collapsed first, most of the jet fuel burned in a mushroom cloud outside of the building. Dave Thomas then admitted that the jet fuel burned in the building for only about 10 minutes. But he said it had ignited paper, filing cabinet and office items which then heated the steel sufficiently to bring the entire tower down; though, this was the first steel building to collapse from fire in history!

Ian just let this go, staying in his Devil’s advocate shoes.

His recap appears more balanced (hopefully, Ian felt badly after the debate, having played his part in betraying America):

Gage believes the WTC towers were brought down by controlled demolition involving thermite. “I think the dust of the World Trade Center reveals the secret of the cause that we’re all looking for,” he said. The dust contained billions of tiny spheres (about the diameter of a human hair) of previously molten iron, Gage revealed. This means the iron in the spheres sustained temperatures exceeding 2800 degrees, twice as high as what a jet fuel fire can produce, but within the range of a thermite reaction, he noted. In addition, Gage said the dust contained hundreds of small red-gray chips, which he identified as highly-refined nano-thermite composite explosive material.

Thomas expressed his support for the gravitational collapse model. As the planes slammed into the twin towers, they cut through steel support structures and ignited immense fires across the floors of the building, he said. Heat from the fires further weakened the floor trusses, causing them to sag and pull in the perimeter walls, he continued.

Since when are police rescue dogs trained to sniff for thermite (what the super-duper guest stated and Ian just let it go)? I can’t find it: http://www.google.com/search?q=%22police+dogs%22+thermite+-termite+-termites. Nano, United-States-Department-of-Defense-grade thermite isn’t probably even on the terrorist watch list.

Ian even brings this up in his recap:

Johnson called attention to the fact that none of the hundreds of dogs used to locate survivors, many of them cross-trained to find explosives, detected any trace of thermite at the 9/11 disaster site.

So I’m disappointed with Ian. This could have been a great moment in US history, considering that fair treatment of the subject is almost entirely missing in mainstream media.

I’m sorry that I steered anyone wrongly in encouraging them to spend their time listening. I had my hopes up because George Noory’s ‘Coast to Coast’ interview was excellent. It’s linked below, and I highly suggest listening to it.

It would be interesting to know what Ian’s agenda is, and even maybe what his marching orders are.

Audio of this debate: Coast to Coast AM 9/11 debate with Richard Gage and Dave Thomas

Top architect explains why 9/11 buildings were brought down by controlled demolition and Al Qaeda didn’t have the technology or access to do it. Who did? Two months before the ELEVATOR MODERNIZATION PROJECT, Nick ROCKEFELLER predicted a 9/11-like event to trigger war!

All 125 of my 9/11 TRUTH posts

Iraq Exit is Merely “Rebranding the Occupation!”

In Lying, War, Why they hate US

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoGvc4fSXcM]‘Iraq Exit: Rebranding the Occupation!’

RussiaToday | August 19, 2010

The last U.S. combat brigade has left Iraq two weeks ahead of their planned withdrawal at the end of the month. But a fifty thousand-strong American military contingent will remain in the country for support and training until the end of 2011. They’ll have the power to use their weapons in self-defense or at the request of the Iraqi government. Over seven years of being in Iraq, more than four thousand U.S. soldiers have died, according to the Pentagon.

“Those Voices Don’t Speak for the Rest of Us”

In America's Getting Jacked!

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wusgcG4rfo]“Those Voices Don’t Speak for the Rest of Us”

RepublicanStudyComm | August 10, 2010

Congressman Tom Price (R-GA) and the Republican Study Committee present to you a new video featuring President Ronald Reagan reminding us that the out-touch voices of the Democrat Party don’t speak for all Americans. price.rsc.house.gov

(video) Nightline: Speaking in tongues medical study PROVES Holy Spirit praying

In Psychology, Revival, Science & Tech, Spiritual

At 4:18: “Pastor Stoltzfoos’ scan showed that his frontal lobe, the part of the brain that controls language was active when he prayed in English, but for the most part, it fell quiet when he prayed in tongues.”

At 6:00: “In earlier studies, Dr. Newberg looked at what happens in the brains of Buddhist monks meditating and Franciscan nuns praying, and it was noticeably different from what happens to tongues speakers.”

DR. NEWBERG: “In those individuals, the frontal lobe actually increased in activity.”

Study: Prayer Actually Heals

In Health

From: Yahoo

Prayer heals when it’s close-up and personal, and there’s a study to prove it.

It’s not just any kind of prayer, but “proximal intercessory prayer,” or PIP — when one or more people pray for someone in that person’s presence and often with physical contact — that was found by a team of doctors, scientists, and religious experts to have remarkable results in healing some patients.

A team of medical doctors and scientists led by Indiana University professor of religion Candy Gunther Brown found in the study, conducted in rural Mozambique, that prayer brought “highly significant” improvements to hearing-impaired participants and significant changes to the visually impaired.

Fourteen hard-of-hearing and 11 visually impaired study participants were recruited at meetings of pentecostal Christian groups in three Mozambican villages and one town.

They were tested with a handheld audiometer or vision charts, depending on their impairment, both before and after they took part in a prayer session.

“There was a highly significant improvement in hearing across 18 ears of 11 subjects” and “significant visual improvements,” says the study, which will be published next month in the peer-reviewed Southern Medical Journal. …

“This study shows that in some instances there are measurable effects that can be demonstrated using clinical studies,” Brown told AFP.

Nightline: Speaking in tongues medical study PROVES Holy Spirit praying

Weather Wars and the Devil’s HAARP

In Climate Change

It’s important to note that there are many ‘HAARPs’ throughout the world.

From: activistpost

The weather forces of Earth are volatile indeed. Even in the human era we have passed through cataclysmic times of both fire and ice, destruction and rebirth; recorded throughout the world in legends and religious texts. Are the current weather events part of that natural wave pattern of upheaval and stability, man-made global warming, a cyclical eruption of the sun, or are there clear manufactured patterns emerging?

The HAARP project has been shrouded in secrecy and speculation since its inception. Despite recent high-profile attempts to access its inner workings, only more questions continue to emerge. Conclusions about its operational capacity are those that have caused a drift toward “conspiracy theory.” Defense operations have quite a history of harebrained boondoggle schemes that never become operational. However, weather modification (and weaponization) has been consistently discussed and researched by the military and the Elite to a level that indicates there is something worth pursuing. Let us look at a few things we know for certain:

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Honoring Nature with Digital Photography

In Ethics, Photography

From: http://www.natureandphotography.com

Honoring Nature with Lightroom???

[by Rob Sheppard]

Nature is important, not just to me, but for all of us. We can’t exist, for example, without plants and their photosynthesis. That produces both oxygen and food.

Sometimes I will hear that someone doesn’t use Photoshop or Lightroom because he or she wants nature to be real, to be as it is. Well, that doesn’t actually happen. The camera does not see the world as we do. We focus in on important details and interpret what we see. Colors, for example, do not exist as absolutes but are heavily influenced by things around them. Green will look different surrounded by red, black or white. This is the basis of some very important optical illusions.

In addition, the camera emphasizes light and contrast, whereas our eyes emphasize subject and context. Plus, all cameras are compromises in image capture. They have to be. The engineers making them have to create a camera that will work well for everyone from photojournalists to wedding photographers to advertising photographers to nature photographers, and that requires strong compromises in the imaging system.

In order to create images that honor and respect nature, sometimes we must use Photoshop or Lightroom to get rid of problems and weaknesses of the technology. If someone says that they only do “real” photos and don’t use Photoshop or Lightroom, they are saying that they think camera technology is more important than both the human experience of nature and nature itself.

“I want to go some place where I can marvel at something”

In FreedomQuotes, Photography

I don’t know if the movie is worthwhile and wholesome,
but I appreciate what Julia said in the trailer for:

EAT PRAY LOVE

I want to go some place where I can marvel at something.

– Julia Roberts (in character)

Focus on what is marvelous!

Set your sights high!

Be at peace.

Philippians 4:4-8

Rejoice in the Lord always! Again I will say, Rejoice! Let your gentleness be known to all men. The Lord is at hand. In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus.

Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report; if there is any virtue, and if there is any praise, think about these things. The things which you learned, received, heard, and saw in me: do these things, and the God of peace will be with you.

[music video] “Target Ain’t People”: The Most Amazingly Creative Protest

On August 22, 2010

In Fun–or–AMAZING Stuff!, Music Videos

…that I’ve ever seen, anyway.

[Update and DISCLAIMER] I put this up merely because it’s fun, not because I support Move On.

I’m more into boycotting Wal-Mart, because they’re the RFID micro-chipping leader, and for other reasons; though, I can see some of the protestors’ points here. Especially, what’s up with the Supreme Court giving personhood rights to corporations, anyway? Corporations ain’t people!

I’m not a big fan of protesting on private property in general, but if someone is to do it, how could they have done any better, with the exception of one of the lyrics and the way she’s dressed? I almost didn’t put it up for those two reasons only. I’m not homophobic.

I am greatly impressed by their creativity, imagination and skillful execution of their plan. This was just flat out fun: strength in numbers, a really catchy tune, the tuba, brass harmonies, percussion, jazziness of the clarinet, umbrellas, using the table as a platform, multiple cameras filming not just the band but the customers’ reactions, often favorable.

They stood up for what they believed in, and then they marched out on cloud 9, having really put on a serious protest that also had this big sense of humor with gargantuan momentum!

I’ve played this about 10 times, and absolutely will again. It’s good to crank it up once in awhile.

Freedom!

Jeff : )

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FhMMmqzbD8]Target Ain’t People

other98 | August 15, 2010

http://targetboycott.org —-Learn more—Take Action—Sign the Petition—-

In January, the Supreme Court ruled that corporations can spend unlimited $$ in our elections.

In July, Target gave $150,000 to the anti-gay, anti-worker candidate for Gov. of MN.

Last week, a quarter million people pledged to boycott Target

Yesterday . . .

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