“If they can do it, what’s our excuse?”
– Steve Hartman
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In this latest installment of CBS News Assignment America, Steve Hartman visits an animal sanctuary where a dog and an elephant have formed a very lasting, and unusual, friendship.
Related: My entire ONEcanhappen website
From: Prison Planet
Professor Peter Morici, a former chief economist at the U.S. International Trade Commission, has become one of the first senior economists to admit that the U.S. is facing a 1930’s style depression.
Noting that 2.6 million payroll jobs have been lost since December 2007, Morici told financial publication Kiplinger that a 5 per cent contraction in the fourth quarter made the crisis “worse than a recession”.
“The economy will not recover without fundamental changes in banking and trade policy,” said Morici, an economics professor at Maryland University, “A large stimulus package, though necessary, will only give the economy a temporary lift,” he added. “The economy is in a depression, not a recession.”
A trickle of prominent analysts are now saying what people like Alex Jones and Peter Schiff were being called doomsayers for predicting over a year ago, that the U.S. faces a crisis on the scale of the 1930’s if not worse.
Morici’s summation dovetails the analysis of renowned financial publication The Economist, which reported earlier this month that, based on the characteristics of the current financial crisis, the U.S. is in a depression, not a recession.
On December 23rd, the IMF’s top economist, Olivier Blanchard, warned that falling confidence could turn a recession into a depression if market sentiment continued to dwindle.
Look deep
into nature,
and then you will understand everything
better.
– Albert Einstein
From: AP
UNITED NATIONS – Palestinian children are dying at a heavy rate in the Israeli-Hamas fighting — about one of every three persons killed, according to Gaza statistics.
As of Thursday, 257 children were among the approximately 760 reported dead in Gaza. There were another 1,080 children among the 3,100 injured in the conflict, according to statistics from Gaza’s health ministry.
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“The banks have shown that they can’t be trusted with the American economy. That’s generally been the case, but now it’s out in the open, 350 billion dollars later.
In 1913, the money power of the country was taken away from the people — by Constitutional privilege it belongs with the Congress — but it was given up in the Federal Reserve Act.
The Federal Reserve is no more federal than Federal Express, but yet it has the power to determine the direction and use of money in our economy. If we could take that power back and put the Federal Reserve under Treasury, we start to be in a position of being able to control monetary policy on behalf of the United States people.
We also have to address the issue of the fractional reserve system, which is how banks create money out of thin air. And then, as they do that, they’ve created the conditions where we’ve had this kind of ponzi scheme collapsing — banks and the hedge funds working together.
So we have to halt the banks’ privilege to create money by ending the fractional reserve system. Past monetized credit would be converted into U.S. government money, and banks would act as intermediaries, accepting deposits and loaning them out to borrowers.”
Transcribed by Jeff Fenske
Related: Kucinich Rocks! “Instead of nationalizing banks, we should nationalize the money system”
“You measure the size of the accomplishment
by the obstacles you had to overcome
to reach your goals.”
– Booker T. Washington
Related: Goals Stream @ Successories
From: Defy Age Naturally
Chlorella is one of Nature’s perfect foods. NASA has chosen chlorella to be one of the first foods grown on the space station, and chlorella is the number one supplement taken for vibrant health in Japan. It is estimated that 5 million people take chlorella every day. This freshwater green algae has been widely studied more than any other algae, and researchers agree that it is one of the most powerful super foods we can nourish our bodies with.
Chlorella is a rich source of protein and contains all essential amino acids. It is high in the antioxidant beta carotene and has one of the greatest concentrations of the life giving phytonutrient chlorophyll. But one of the most amazing miracles of chlorella is that it binds to toxins but not to nutrients making it a powerful and intelligent detoxifier. No matter how well we eat and how much we exercise, we cannot escape the toxins that pervade our world. …
Chlorophyll boosts the immune system. It promotes T-cell activity, thereby enhancing the immune system to more effectively fight off bacteria and viruses. …
Chlorella is considered one of nature’s beauty foods because it cleanses the liver, the intestines and the blood, which are all vital for gorgeous skin. It also defends against aging and disease causing free radicals.
Chlorophyll is also known to promote optimal blood pressure and to support the growth and repair of your tissues.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Z6vMAoFwf4]There’s too much blowback!
From: the desk of Ron Paul, 1/3/09
[youtube=http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=08gTWqWrI4M]”We are going to have to accept some of the moral responsibility for this.”
Bob Chapman just said on Alex Jones that he agrees with Peter, here, except that he believes that most oversees investments aren’t safe, either—for the whole world will be affected.
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From: CNS News
The total value of the bailouts undertaken by the federal government in 2008 now exceeds the combined cost of every major war the United States has ever engaged in, according to a comparison of war costs calculated by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) and the value of the bailouts as calculated by Bloomberg News or Bianco Research.According to CRS, all major U.S. wars (including such events as the American Revolution, the War of 1812, the Civil War, the Spanish American War, World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan, but not the invasion of Panama or the Kosovo War), cost a total of $7.2 trillion in inflation-adjusted 2008 dollars.
According to Bloomberg, the federal government has made commitments worth a total of $8.5 trillion in the bailouts of 2008. That includes actual expenditures as well as loan and asset guarantees.
Bianco Research puts the total value of the bailouts at $8.7 trillion.
The $296 billion spent on World War II, America’s most expensive war, would be $4.1 trillion adjusted to today’s dollars, according to the CRS report from June.
The adjusted cost of the Civil War would be $60.4 billion for both the Union and the Confederacy combined. The inflation-adjusted cost of the Vietnam War would be $686 billion. The cost of the current Iraq war up to last June was $648 billion, while the adjusted cost for Afghanistan to that point was $171 billion.
“Enjoyment is not a goal,
it is a feeling that accompanies
important ongoing activity.”
Paul Goodman
From: David Icke, Barack Obama: The Naked Emperor
I am writing this in the last days of 2008 as I watch with dismay as vast numbers of people across the world, including many who should know better, have been duped by the mind-game called Operation Obama.
Even people with some understanding of the conspiracy have said things like: ‘Well, at least he’s not Bush’ and ‘Well, at least it’s great to see such a new spirit of hope’. No, he’s not Bush – he’s potentially far more dangerous; and what is the use of a spirit of ‘hope’ if it’s based on a lie? In fact, what use is ‘hope’ at all? […]
Hope is like riding a carousel horse; no matter how fast you go you never get closer to the one in front. The idea, however, is to persuade you to stay on the horse, despite the evitable disappointment, in the ‘hope’ that things will change. But they don’t because the very system is designed to prevent it. […]
See the video How Obama Got Elected to see how easy it is to manipulate the masses. It’s child’s play. Click here …
There is no more powerful way of manipulating people than to tell them what they want to hear and to keep shtum [silent] about anything they wouldn’t like. […]
When I was a journalist 30 years ago, I came across a technique that some tabloid newspaper reporters would use to get someone to speak with them. They would work in pairs with the first one knocking on the door of some distressed family who didn’t want to talk with the media. He would tell them he was from a newspaper he didn’t really work for and treat them with aggression and contempt to make them even more upset.
He would then leave and his colleague would knock on the door, tell them the real newspaper he was from, and act like Mr. Nice Guy. He would say that he understood completely how upsetting the other man must have been, but ‘if you will only speak to me exclusively I will make sure that the other man, nor anyone like him, won’t bother you again’. They usually agreed and the scam was complete.
Much the same thing is happening with regard to Bush and Obama. The Neoconservative ‘Republican’ wing of the Illuminati controlled Bush for eight years and led the country into foreign wars and financial chaos (bad guy/problem); now the ‘Democratic’ wing, led by the infamous Zbigniew Brzezinski, has brought forth the ‘saviour’, Barack Obama, to lead us into the sunshine with ‘hope’ and ‘change’ (good guy/solution). […]
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From: The Independent
The artist Reuben Powell was arrested and imprisoned for photographing an old government building
Reuben Powell is an unlikely terrorist. A white, middle-aged, middle-class artist, he has been photographing and drawing life around the capital’s Elephant & Castle for 25 years.
With a studio near the 1960s shopping centre at the heart of this area in south London, he is a familiar figure and is regularly seen snapping and sketching the people and buildings around his home – currently the site of Europe’s largest regeneration project. But to the police officers who arrested him last week his photographing of the old HMSO print works close to the local police station posed an unacceptable security risk.
“The car skidded to a halt like something out of Starsky & Hutch and this officer jumped out very dramatically and said ‘what are you doing?’ I told him I was photographing the building and he said he was going to search me under the Anti-Terrorism Act,” he recalled.
For Powell, this brush with the law resulted in five hours in a cell after police seized the lock-blade knife he uses to sharpen his pencils. His release only came after the intervention of the local MP, Simon Hughes, but not before he was handcuffed and his genetic material stored permanently on the DNA database.
But Powell’s experience is far from uncommon. Every week photographers wielding their cameras in public find themselves on the receiving end of warnings either by police, who stop them under Section 44 of the Terrorism Act 2000, or from over-eager officials who believe that photography in a public area is somehow against the law.
From: Minnesota Independent
Yesterday, Rep. Dennis Kucinich sent a letter to Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice arguing that Israel is in violation of the Arms Export Control Act of 1976 (AECA), which says U.S. military exports may not be used to escalate violence. In a statement on his Web site, Kucinich says, the “disproportionate and collective punishment nature of the attacks on Gaza assure an escalation of conflict in violation of the AECA.”
The Ohio Democrat took up the issue again in a floor speech this morning….
Rep. Dennis Kucinich, floor speech on Gaza conflict, Jan. 7, 2009, 1:52[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dy-60zSKiGE]
Text of Kucinich floor speech:
“We cannot truly celebrate a New Year, a new Congress and a new administration if all we see is the same old destruction in the Middle East with U.S. weapons being illegally used to kill children.
I oppose Hamas’ rocket attacks on Israel. The rocket attacks, even to try to end the blockade, have no moral justification, are illegal and must stop.
But how can Israel claim self-defense when it bombs Gaza which has no army, no air force, no navy and has been under a constant blockade? How can Israel claim self-defense when its bombs destroy UN schools, killing children?
The children of Palestinians and the children of Israel both deserve life. But the lives of the children of Gaza are cynically discounted as “human shields.” Massacres are being rationalized. Israel’s “moral high ground” in Gaza, a growing pile of small bones in a graveyard.
The Administration knows Israel is using U.S. weapons, paid for by U.S. taxpayers, with disproportionate force creating a collective punishment of Gazans, assuring an escalation of conflict, clear violations of the Arms Export Control Act.
Israel was given U.S. weapons on condition they would not be used for aggression or escalation. The outgoing Administration must finally stand for the rule of law, not the rule of force.”
I have never encountered this, but would probably pray in tongues directly at them — see links, below.
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From: Coast to Coast AM RECAP, Wednesday January 7th, 2009
UFO Contacts
Author L.A. Marzulli discussed his research exploring UFO phenomena and contacts with entities, which he’s chronicled in his new eBook The Alien Interviews. Most skeptics ignore data from alien abduction cases, Dr. David Jacobs told Marzulli, who cited a case where a woman was abducted in front of nine other people, and had signs of radiation sickness upon her return. Joe Jordan of the CE4 Research Group has engendered controversy in the UFO community. He claimed his evidence that abductions can be stopped by reciting the name of Jesus, has been hushed up, said Marzulli.
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From: Marzulli’s October 27, 2008 blog
I see everything through the lens of Biblical scripture and prophecy. I have a Christian world view. I realize that for some, this is unpopular. It is often misunderstood as being religious, or narrow-minded. I would submit that this view has real answers to the UFO enigma. Here’s an example. When Joe Jordan, a Christian, had a dozen or so people come on stage, at this years Roswell UFO convention, he blew much of his audience away. The reason for this is that these people were able to say that they had stopped their abduction experiences by calling out the name of Jesus. Or saying, The blood of Jesus.”
Added to that is the testimony of a retired missionary who went on the record in our news magazine, as he shared about his victory over what was the Mothman apparitions in Point Pleasant, West Virginia. He evoked the name of Jesus and said, “The Blood of Jesus,” and the entity, which he described as the embodiment of, “wickedness,” vanished.
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From: Marzulli’s October 29, 2008 blog
The Bible is actually a manual for dealing with the things of the spirit. In fact, we are told that the natural man – one who is not, ‘born again’, cannot possibly understand the things of the spirit. I know that our weapons are not carnal and we fight unseen principalities and rulers, of darkness. The good news is that we have authority, in the name of Jesus. By His blood we have the victory. I remember when I interviewed Lawrence Gray, he was the Missionary that the ‘Mothman,’ appeared to, one night, in his bedroom. He was paralyzed with fear– and who wouldn’t be – but then he began to say to himself, “The Blood of Jesus.” It’s not that those words are some sort of magical formula. They’re not, but in the hands of a believer, who knows that he, or she, has been saved, by the blood shed on Calvary, those words become lethal weapons! That confession of believing on Him who was sent, opens the doorway to eternal life.
Related:
(video) Chuck Missler: The Return of the Nephilim — UFOs, Aliens & Abuctions
A Gift that Will Set Many Free! (A Death Warrant is Out for Your Souls)
How to speak in other tongues as the Holy Spirit leads you
How to speak in tongues as the Holy Spirit enables you
Nightline: Speaking in tongues medical study PROVES Holy Spirit praying
Jim Feeney: Why Speak in Tongues? (Is Speaking in Tongues of God? Is It for Today?)
From: Natural News
Everyone knows that being angry feels terrible. When we feel angry at someone, we get a tight feeling in our chest and body, and our minds aren’t free. Feeling angry at someone who cuts you off when you are driving is bad enough. Long term, chronic anger can ruin peoples’ lives. Feeling angry for something that happened in childhood can literally make people prisoners of their own emotions.
Dr. Luskin of Stanford University is studying how forgiveness can help people become healthy. The 150 volunteers who have taken part in the Stanford Forgiveness Project say that letting go of the hurt caused by other people or by forces they see as being outside themselves, is not just one of the greatest emotional releases; they feel better physically, as well.
“Getting angry and needing to forgive are universal phenomena, but the skills to forgive are inadequately taught.” …
Physically the body is in a state of stress. Muscles tighten, causing imbalances or pain in the neck, back and limbs. Blood flow to the joints is restricted, making it more difficult for the blood to remove wastes from the tissues and reducing the supply of oxygen and nutrients to the cells. Normal processes of repair and recovery from injury or arthritis are impaired. Clenching of the jaws contributes to problems with teeth and jaw joints. Headaches can become a problem. Chronic pain may get worse.
Blood flow to the heart is constricted. Digestion is impaired. Breathing may become more difficult. Anger can seriously impair the immune system….
Additionally, Dr. Luskin says, when the body releases certain enzymes during anger and stress, cholesterol and blood pressure levels go up, not a good long-term position to put the body in. Forgiveness has been shown to lower blood pressure naturally.
From: Anchorage Daily News
Anchorage residents are burning through record levels of energy to keep their homes and businesses warm and lit during the long cold snap.
Cook Inlet natural gas supplies most of our energy needs, and on Saturday we used more of it than ever before.
Total gas flow to area customers that day totaled 234 million cubic feet, said Curtis Thayer, spokesman for local utility Enstar Natural Gas Co. The previous record was 227 million cubic feet set on Jan. 9, 2007.
All that gas consumption is going to cost local consumers — maybe more than you realize.
Beginning this month, Enstar bills are increasing by about 22 percent. For the average house, it means an extra $27 per month over the coming year, Thayer said.
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Related: No end in sight for bitter cold
“Things are not good between the U.S. and China.
I don’t care how happy-faced they look on the surface.
I think under the table,
they’re kicking each other on the shins like mad.”
– Jim Norman
(my transcription)
From: Coast to Coast AM
…business and energy journalist Jim Norman argued that the United States manipulates the price of oil as a kind of economic weapon against countries such as Russia and China.
In the futures exchange, an unlimited amount of money was used to overwhelm sellers of crude oil, as a way of running up the price, he explained.
China is hurt by high oil prices much more than the United States, and has experienced reduced exports, the closing of factories, and massive unreported unemployment, he noted.
The opposite technique, the lowering of oil prices, is currently wrecking the Russian economy, Norman suggested. Russia has little besides its natural resources, and the softening of the crude market could eventually force regime change there, he said.
The real reason we went to war with Iraq was because of China, Norman asserted. As sanctions were lifting in 2003, Saddam was going to cut a deal with China so they could acquire ownership of underground oil fields, and the US sought to prevent this, he said.
While the US is propping up India as a foil to China, Russia is now moving in a direction of realigning with China, against the US and the West, he added.
Jesse Colin Young’s Ridgetop thrilled me each time I would hear it during my KQRS-listening high school/college days, the 70’s.
Last week, I was greatly blessed to hear spiritual depth in some of his recently recorded Christmas music on Pandora. Then I found this! Jesse is still a peacemaker!!!
Jesse Colin Young plays and talks about Get Together, and his new song, Bring ‘Em Home. His wife, Connie, plays violin.
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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJho6iWhnQ0]Jesse Colin Young – Get Together
Jesse Colin Young performs “Get Together” at WNRN in Charlottesville, Virginia on June 4, 2009 before his show at Bel Rio. Song appears The Youngbloods’ 1967 eponymous album.
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The classic Youngbloods version. Jesse sings lead.
1967: The Youngbloods (RCA) – re-released as Get Together in 1971
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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4GjhuzMNEY]In this short, Get Together interview, Jesse says,
“It’s about love.”
And conversely,
it’s been too much about ‘fear‘:
Love is but a song to sing
Fear‘s the way we die
You can make the mountains ring
Or make the angels cry …
Come on people now
Smile on your brother
Everybody get together
Try to love one another
Right now
You hold the key to love and fear
All in your trembling hand
Just one key unlocks them both
Its there at your command
Loving everyone perfectly is the key to lock out fear, because only “perfect love casts out fear.” We have to turn the key all the way to the right! Then our hands will no longer tremble.
America heard this truth in the ’60s. May we realize it 40 years later. Let’s make the mountains ring!
From: Prison Planet
The increasingly violent riots in Greece could be the curtain raiser for a military coup d’etat and the installation of a new government more friendly to U.S. hegemony as a countermeasure to increasing Russian influence over the Balkan state.
It wouldn’t be the first time the CIA has assisted in such a venture – they aided the 1967 installation of a U.S. friendly military junta known as the Regime of the Colonels ostensibly to prevent Greece from falling under Soviet control, a fascist cabal which was later overthrown in 1973.
The coup was achieved with the active support of such groups as the LOK Special Forces, which was part of Operation Gladio, NATO-controlled black-ops forces that carried out false flag attacks across Europe to eliminate left-wing political organizations.
Gladio tactics are again being employed with the current riots following the revelation that police masquerading as anarchists were committing acts of wanton violence to enflame tensions and provide a pretext for a brutal crackdown on legitimate demonstrators protesting against police brutality and the mishandling of the economic crisis.
The agenda is again likely to be related to fears over increasing Russian influence in the region.
“Henry Kissinger, who former National Security Advisor James Jones said gives daily marching orders to the National Security Council, is still pushing the concept of crises being the vehicle to furthering the New World Order. Henry Kissinger responds to a question in this video by stating that the main task of Barack Obama will be to create a New World Order, suggesting that the chaos unfolding around the world is an opportunity rather than a crisis.”
– Joel Skousen
World Affairs Brief, September 28, 2012
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From: Raw Story
President Nixon’s Secretary of State, the aging Henry Kissinger, recently told CNBC that he believes the current world economic crisis is a “great opportunity” for President-elect Obama to help create a “new world order.”
“What do you think the most important thing is for Barack Obama?” Kissinger was asked. “… If you had to say, this is going to be the country, or the conflict, or the place that will define the Obama administration, what would it be?”
Kissinger replied: “The President-elect is coming into office at a moment when there are upheavals in many part of the world simultaneously. You have India-Pakistan. You have, ah, a jihadist movement.”
“But,” continued Kissinger, “he can give new imputus to American foreign policy, partly because the ascension [reception – ed.] of him is so extraordinary and admirable.
“I think that his task will be to develop an overall strategy for America in this period, when really a “New World Order” can be created. It’s a great opportunity. It isn’t such a crisis.”
In response to a parting question, Kissinger added that Obama’s cabinet is an “extraordinarily able group of people.” (Link)
Kissinger: Obama Will Create A New World Order
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Globalist kingpin Henry Kissinger has stated that the main task of Barack Obama will be to create a New World Order, suggesting that the chaos unfolding around the world is an opportunity rather than a crisis.
From: What’s Up With That?
2008 will be coming to a close with yet another spotless days according to the latest solar image.
This will bring the total number of sunspotless days this month to 28 and for the year to 266, clearly enough to make 2008, the second least active solar year since 1900.
Related:
Global Cooling: Alaskan Glaciers Grow For First Time In 250 Years
State of the Sun for year end 2008: all’s quiet on the solar front – too quiet
The Ice in Greenland is Growing
Anchorage Daily News: Bad weather was good for Alaska glaciers which grew in mass
“People will welcome socialism in order to relieve their pain.”
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Related: Pat Robertson’s NWO God: U.S. Will Embrace Socialism
From: News with Views
Internet publishers such as Paul Walter make my “best” list, too. Paul publishes News With Views. He and people such as Jim Rudd at Covenant News have carried my columns for years. These are men who also know what’s going on and are not afraid to print the truth. Thanks, guys. …
In addition to the mainstream media, and worthless talk show hosts such as Sean Hannity, I must include the majority of so-called leaders within the Religious Right as making my “worst” list for 2008. I include James Dobson, Pat Robertson, and Tony Perkins on this list.
For all intents and purposes, the Religious Right has become nothing more than a gaggle of glorified hacks for the Republican Party. They have sacrificed virtually every principle worth defending. For the sake of sitting at the king’s table, or not losing financial support from brain-dead contributors, these men have sold the cause of freedom and constitutional government down the river. Their mindless support for John McCain was inexcusable and embarrassing! In so doing, they have lost all credibility.
Also making my “worst” list in 2008 are the many pastors and church members around the country who continued to support one of the worst Presidents in American history: George W. Bush. This man has taken America to the precipice of financial ruin; he has created the foundation for a police state; he has trampled the Constitution and Bill of Rights like no President since Abraham Lincoln; he has used our bravest and best for his sinister plans of interventionist adventurism; he has set the wheels of global government and national socialism in motion, as has no other President (I’m sure Barack Obama will do more than his share to augment socialism in the United States, but remember, it is George W. Bush that has laid the foundation for the acceptance of national socialism). I’m not sure that America will ever truly recover from his Presidency. Yet, a majority of conservative pastors and church members continue to idolize George Bush. What an embarrassment!
Both the Democrat and Republican Parties make my “worst” list for 2008. In one year, both major parties nominated two men, neither of whom was constitutionally qualified to be President of the United States. Now, that’s quite a feat!
The Council on Foreign Relations, international bankers, and other global elitists also make my “worst” list for 2008. When will the people of America awaken to the reality that our worst enemies are not “liberals” and “leftists,” as much as they are the global elitists who control the Federal Reserve and other internationalist entities that are committed to dismantling America’s independence and sovereignty?
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