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The United States is Not What You Think It Is

“The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it’s profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way, and you will see a brick wall at the back of the theater.”   ~ Frank Zappa

 

I post the following excellent article by Lisa Guliani in concert with a previous post of mine, “The Corporation of THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA”.

This critical knowledge shows who makes the declared ownership of all the “Crown Lands” as well as all our “Lost Souls at Sea” and what legal means they used to gain this power over all.

The legal right owners of us all are, and have been for centuries, are ultimately the Jesuits of the Vatican, the original 13 families, and the Black Pope.

Our laws are derived of Roman Latin Maritime law and run out of Rome.

We go to Admiralty Court (yellow fringe around American flag) where we enter the DOCKET and a judge rules on our citizen-SHIP where liability is determined for any cargo (us) that was “Lost at Sea”.

So is our means of money exchange.

This is why we have a CURRENT-SEA (currency), with our RIVER banks of LIQUID and ill-LIQUID assets while we make our  deposit SLIPS.

This is also the legal language why goods are “shipped” even if they may go by ground or air.

Then we have our BERTH Certificates (not actual title which is held by our bankster owners) when our Mother, (not the Father) signs us into debt slavery for debt owed from our continued bankruptcy since 1933 as chattel, or collateral.

Also, another name for the Vatican is the “Holy SEE(A).

For a very good summation of the true owners of this country, the three city-states that rule all, see a short version here or read a previous post “Owner’s of the Empire”.

 

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All roads lead to Rome it is said and this has never been more true than today.

To understand, or “stand-under” their centuries long jurisdiction over all is to consent by collective silence to agree to our own enslavement today. The reason we stand-under, or the judge asks us if we “under-stand” is because one would stand under a foundation to see if it was solid and true.

The first  Roman Latin laws, or Papal Bulls, of “trusts” written on the flesh of sacrificed child human skin and are the same laws applied to us today. (here)

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The Owning of “All Souls Lost at Sea”

In 1302 Pope Boniface VIII (1294-1303) issued his infamous Papal Bull Unam Sanctam, being the first Express Trust claiming control over the whole planet and effectively “King of the world”. In celebration, he commissioned a gold plated headdress in the shape of a pinecone, with an elaborate crown at its base.

The pinecone is an ancient symbol of fertility and one traditionally associated with Ba’al as well as the Cult of Cybele.

The next three Papal Bulls, or Canon Law trusts created by the Vatican, were administrative in nature and included the term “in perpetual rememberance” which means forever.

The 1st Crown of Crown Land

The first Testamentary Trust was the “Roman Panifex” in 1455. This Bull had the effect of conveying the right of use of the land as Real Property from the Express Trust Unam Sanctam to the control of the Pontiff and his successors in perpetuity. Hence, all land is claimed as “crown land”.

The 2nd Crown of the Commonwealth

The second Crown was created in 1481 with the papal bull Aeterni Regis meaning “Eternal Crown” by Sixtus IV being only the 2nd of three papal bulls as deeds of testamentary trusts.

This 2nd Crown is represented by the 2nd cestui Que Vie Trust created when a child is born being the sale of the birth certificate as a Bond to the private central bank of the nation, depriving them of ownership of their flesh and condemning them to perpetual servitude as a Roman person, or slave.

The 3rd Crown of the Ecclesiastical See

The third Crown was created in 1537 by Paul III through the papal bull Convocation, being the third an final testamentary deed and will of a testamentary trust, being the trust set up for the claiming of all “lost souls”, lost to the See.

The Venetians assisted in the creation of the 1st cestui Que Vie Act of 1540 to use this papal bull as the basis of Ecclesiastical authority of Henry VIII. This Crown was secretly granted to England in the collection and “reaping” of lost souls.

The Crown was lost in 1815 due to the deliberate bankruptcy of England and granted to the Temple Bar, which became known as the Crown Bar, or simply the Crown.

The Bar Associations have been responsible ever since in administering the “reaping” of the souls of the lost and damned, including the registration and collection of Baptismal certificates representing the souls collected by the Vatican and stored in its vaults.

This 3rd Crown is represented by the 3rd cestui Que Vie Trust created when a child is baptized being the grant of the Baptismal certificate by the parents to the church or Registrar being the gift of title of the soul. Thus, without legal title over one’s own soul, a man or woman may be “legally” denied right to stand as a person, but may be treated as a creature and thing without legally possessing a soul. Hence, why the Bar Association is able to legally enforce Maritime law against men and women- because they can be treated as things, cargo that does not possess a soul.

 

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It is great to see more and more people write about the selling of this country, how the President of the U.S. is just the President of the U.S. Corporation and how the creation of THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA because of the Organic Act by Congress in 1871, began the selling of all to the few to server as slavery of debt for the Master plantation owners.

We are not who they have led us to believe we are. We are slaves to their systems, laws and govern (rule), ment (mind; mental).

Time to awaken. Time for change.

 

‘The Federal Reserve is no more Federal than Federal Express’

Critical dates of how and when we lost our freedoms and became slaves are:

  • The Organic Act of 1871 which is also written about below (Source)
  • The passing of the 13th and 14th Amendments which sold us all into slavery to the NWO so the U.S.A. Corporation could be created (Source)
  • The creation of the private corporation Federal Reserve Bank in 1913, that controls our currency, owned by Int’l banksters and answers to no one. (Source)
  • FDR and the “New Deal” by Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933 when he confiscated personal gold, this ending our legitimate currency, then created the Freemasonic dollar bill, took the U.S. into bankruptcy and pledged our birth certificates as collateral to the banksters for collateral against the bankruptcy we are still in today.  (Source).

 

It should not be a surprise that the name Capitol Hill derives from Capitoline Hill, which was the seat of government for the Roman Empire. If you look at the wall behind the podium in the House of Representatives, you will notice that on either side of the US flag is the depiction of bundles of sticks tied together with an axe.

These are called fasci, the root word of fascism. This was the symbol of fascism in the Roman Empire, under the Nazis and it still is today. It is not a coincidence that these symbols are featured on the floor of Congress.

The United States Isn’t a Country — It’s a Corporation
by Lisa Guliani

Continue reading The United States is Not What You Think It Is

2014 Alt-Media News “Truther” Honors Roll

 

  “It is not enough for journalists to see themselves as mere messengers without understanding the hidden agendas of the message and myths that surround it.”  John Pilger

 

 

Alternative News Media “Truther” Honors Role for 2014

by Jamie Lee

Tabublog.com

Old media was declared officially dead in 2014 as many more truth seekers surged to alternative news media sites, blogs and podcasts, no longer trusting Big Media and their whorporate presstitutes.

CNN fell below the top 20 in TV rankings with their average age viewership of 72 years old this year and the Big Three continue its long descent into irrelevancy.

3 CBS and NBC Ratings Grow

 

Likewise, mainstream newspapers continue to raise costs, increase ads, reduce proprietary content and cut print size because fewer and fewer are willing to pay a buck, or double that on Sundays, to be propagandized, told partial truths as well as being out right lied to.

Meanwhile Alt-news publishers charge little or nothing for their selfless service to humankind and the protection of our Mother Gaia while tirelessly disseminating, writing, researching and broadcasting news that you just won’t find elsewhere.

The Slaveocracy that continues to grow in this country, and globally, is no longer able to control the collective narrative. Though it cannot be viably be proven, this year Alt-Media was instrumental in beating back the war mongering hawks who were hell-bent on invading Syria as well as immediately and continually calling out the “Great Ebola Hoax”, that was quickly put to the b.s. test and proven to be a great hype for unknown reasons.

We also know that Alt-media is winning the war of people’s minds as attested to the “test” take down of alternative websites in California this Fall in possible preparation of a much bigger censorship effort in the near and distant future. (Source)

Though they are assuredly on lists and files of many government alphabet spook agencies, these brave men and women of Alt-media tirelessly dedicate themselves to promoting alternative narratives and truths for the benefit and the well-being of all.

They do this even though the pay is nothing or minimal, thankless, and mostly anonymous. They do it because they care deeply about the well-being of us all and truly wish a better world for our children.

They do it because no one else is doing it.

So here is my honor roll of those who have given so much and asked back so little.

Send them a bone, pass on their articles, podcast’s and videos of interest, and buy from their sites if you care enough to support this most important work.

A heartfelt and grateful thank you to you all.

May Peace prevail.

 

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Dedicated In Memory to Truther Michael Hastings

Alt-INTERNET

 

Honorable Mention

 

Alt-RADIO/PODCAST

 

Alt-Editorial Cartoons

Continue reading 2014 Alt-Media News “Truther” Honors Roll

Will Our U.S. Dictator-in-Chief Abdicate in 2016?

President Obama called 2014 as a “year of action,” and he acknowledged those plans include more executive action…..“ — with Congress, on my own, and with everyone willing to play their part,” Mr. Obama said in his weekly address.  Jan. 10, 2014.

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Given the fact that the presstitutes are not only NOT challenging President/Dictator Obama’s latest and greatest declaration of sole authority over all in this country, the press is bending over backwards to praise his latest dictatorial actions, while helping bury civil rights, or what’s left of our rights in this country.

And Congress’ silence on Obama’s sole authority to decide and make law in this country is also complicit by their willful silence reigning in his totalitarian use of power to do what he wants, when he wants, how he wants. And forget about We the People.

President Obama’s actions need to be reviewed to understand how we got here, so when we have lost all of our rights to speak and protest and act out with our greivances, we can understand very clearly how, during our watch, our country was lost to the International Cabal of Globalists.

On our watch.

While we slept.

and ignored the many, many signs that have led to this most monumental moment in our  history and children’s very questionable future.

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The Facts

1) President Obama has signed more Executive Orders bypassing the U.S. Constitution, Congress and We the People as the Great Dictator, than any other President in history, while simultaneously declaring he has no authority to regulate and control To Big to Jail the people, with names, address’ and phone numbers that committed these crimes against the citizens of the United States.

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/02/04/Ruth-Marcus-Obama-Executive-Order

2) Whatever your opinion on immigration may be, he alone just has decided that they he will allow some 5 million undocumented to get drivers licenses…for five years, yet not legal status.  http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/11/20/365519963/obama-will-announce-relief-for-up-to-5-million-immigrants

3) Yet he has been the greatest deporter of undocumented people in Presidential history.  http://www.thenation.com/article/179099/why-has-president-obama-deported-more-immigrants-any-president-us-history

4) Yet he has allowed thousands and thousands of children to immigrate into the U.S., allegedly against the suddenly porous southern borders, then lost track of them.  http://www.kens5.com/longform/news/features/2014/07/15/the-lost-children/12704695/

5) He has sanctioned wars and committed U.S. soldiers to Afghanistan, Iraq, Ukraine, Syria, Somalia, Pakistan, etc., yet declared he was going to get us “out of the war business”while campaigning for the Presidency.  http://www.politico.com/story/2014/09/barack-obama-syria-airstrikes-111264.html

6) He sits in his office on “Drone Kill Tuesdays” and universally decides that he alone can assassinate anyone he deems necessary against the war on terror, including Americans by drone strikes, many times killing innocent people and further creating enemies against the U.S. http://www.businessinsider.com/obama-when-its-okay-to-kill-americans-drone-strikes-2013-5

7) He has fired more high level admirals and generals than any other President who opposes his unilateral powers.  http://www.rense.com/general96/listof.html

8) He condones torture, as he alone has had the executive power to close the hideous torture practices going on at Guantanamo Bay and secret renditions torture centers set up in other countries to avoid prosecution at home.  http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/view_from_chicago/2013/05/president_obama_can_shut_guantanamo_whenever_he_wants_to.html

Barack Obama is attempting to block the release of up to 2,000 photographs of alleged prisoner abuse

8b)  In 2009, Obama blocked release of more torture pictures of horrible abuse by U.S. Military and private-for-hire U.S. hired contractors, and Congress was complicit. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/barackobama/5320559/Barack-Obama-attempts-to-block-alleged-torture-photos.html

9) He did not protest when citizen rights were demolished when allegedly two kids actions caused Boston to go into a total lock down and we all learned our new police state orders to “shelter in place” while much of Boston was occupied by the militarized police. http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/2013/10/11/the-three-stages-of-us-martial-law/

10) He did not protest when Ferguson, MO declared martial law last week ahead of a grand jury decision.  http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/martial-law-declared-ahead-of-ferguson-verdict-national-guard-activated-to-handle-period-of-unrest_11172014

11) He is secretly fast tracking the TPP, bypassing Congress entirely, to put the United States under International Corporate rule.  http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/obamas-secret-treaty-would-be-the-most-important-step-toward-a-one-world-economic-system

12) He has prosecuted more whistle blowers than any other President in history. http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/06/obamas-whistleblowers-stuxnet-leaks-drones

13) He has allowed more surveillance on innocent U.S. citizens by tapping and recording our emails, our phones and tracking our movements by our not so Secret Police.  http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/20/fisa-court-nsa-without-warrant

14) He has run up more debt, $17 trillion dollars so far, on the We The People’s debt ledger, while Wall Street hits new highs, and jobs are new lows while more people have lost their homes than while under any other President.

U.S. NATIONAL DEBT CLOCK

The Outstanding Public Debt as of 22 Nov 2014 at 05:38:40 PM GMT is:

$ 1 7 , 9 7 0 , 8 1 4 , 4 5 1 , 7 5 2 . 9 3

The estimated population of the United States is 319,461,665
so each citizen’s share of this debt is $56,253.43.

The National Debt has continued to increase an average of
$2.43 billion per day since September 30, 2012!

15) He has taking in more money in from banksters than any other President.  http://www.salon.com/2013/01/29/barack_obama_wall_street_co_conspirator/

Continue reading Will Our U.S. Dictator-in-Chief Abdicate in 2016?

It’s All Fraud and Your Vote Does not Count

“WE must have WAR on WAR so that we can have peace on peace” 

Nobel Prize winning, leader of the Free World, President of the UNITED STATES of AMERICA, and head of UN Security Council, Barrack Insane I’ll O Bomb-ya all,  Sept. 24th, 2014

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Here is just a small fraction of the tacit acknowledgement of absolute power that is absolutely corrupted to its rotten core.

Jack Abramoff, former Super Lobbyist on Capitol Hill on Legalized Corruption in all branches of Congress

http://www.personalgrowthcourses.net/video/g/abramoff_young_turks_legal_corruption

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Rigged USA Elections Exposed

(the only thing that has changed since 2000 is that electronic voting machine company Diebold changed their name and fixed the problem with discovering their back door access’ to rig the vote.)

“Mr. Curtis,” said the questioner at the U.S. House Judiciary Committee proceedings, “are there programs that can be used to secretly fix elections?”

And so begins the story of Clint Curtis – computer programmer, Floridian, Republican – who was asked by the company he worked for to create a vote-rigging software prototype that he assumed would be used to try and “catch” would-be fraudsters. It was a standard “opposition research” assignment – or so he was told. The truth, of course, was something completely different and weaves into a tangled web the 2000 Presidential Election debacle, a now-sitting U.S. Congressman, and the number one threat to our national security – electronic voting.

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Government Officials Voting Fraudulently: Lawmakers Breaking the Law – Texas Legislature

What would happen to you if police caught you on video fraudulently voting? Would cops quickly arrest you and throw you in jail, only to have the District Attorney immediately charge you with fraud?

What would happen to elected government officials if they were caught doing the same? Absolutely nothing?

In fact, our representatives in the U.S. government have become so brazen, that they commit fraud in plain view, on a daily basis, while at the same time trying to pass laws that would further restrict and criminalize the public for doing the same.

This is a clear sign of excessive government, when the government is so large and overwhelmingly powerful that it’s agents can abuse the civilian population without any sense of guilt, remorse, or fear – when government officials deny charges of illegal conduct made against themselves as a matter of semantics, and when agents of the government expect and get immunity from any of their actions; actions that would be criminally prosecuted upon any other citizens.

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FEDGATE: Whistleblower’s Secret Tapes Threaten to Expose Federal Reserve…but nothing will happen because its just BAU (business as ususal)

At a March 2012 meeting, a group of examiners at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York agreed that Goldman Sachs had inadequate procedures to guard against conflicts of interest — guidelines aimed at stopping firms from putting their pursuit of profit ahead of their clients’ best interests.

The examiners voted to downgrade a confidential rating assigned by the New York Fed that could have spurred costly enforcement actions and other regulatory penalties. It is not known whether the vote in fact led to a rating change. The former examiner who pushed for a downgrade, Carmen M. Segarra, now contends in a lawsuit filed on Thursday that just weeks after the vote, her superiors asked her to change her findings on Goldman and fired her after she refused.”

Continue reading It’s All Fraud and Your Vote Does not Count

Cerberus Capital Management; The Big Dog that Hunts and Preys

“You’re either at the Table or On the Table. “

Old Wall St. adage

Dante and Virgil encounter Cerberus at the Gates of Hell”

           by Christopher ´Topher´ Allen Shepard

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Cerberus Capital Management ~ The Big Dog that Hunts and Preys

by Jamie Lee

https://tabublog.com/

Cerberus is named after the mythological three-headed dog that guarded the gates of Hades aka the (Bill?) Gates of Hell.

With a serpent’s tail, a mane of snakes, and a lion’s claws, it guards the entrance of Hell to prevent those who entered from ever escaping. Cerberus is featured in many works of ancient Greek and Roman literature and in works of both ancient and modern art and architecture.

This week, Cerberus Capital Management announced it was buying Safeway Supermarkets for $9 billion, just as California is going into a never before experienced historical water and food crisis. Their timing is incredible in that after this acquisition they will have over doubled control of our major supermarkets in California and beyond.

Last year, a Cerberus-led investor group spent $3.3 billion in cash and debt assumption buying 887 stores from Supervalu Inc., with the names Albertsons, Acme, Jewel-Osco, Shaw’s and StarMarket. Cerberus already owned some Albertsons stores, which it bought in 2006. In the fall, Albertsons said it would buy 50 stores operated by Texan chain United Supermarkets.

In the U.S., More than 19% of market share in the U.S. grocery industry belongs to Kroger, whose chains include Ralphs and Food 4 Less, according to Euromonitor International. Safeway, which has 1,335 stores, follows with 9.1%. Albertsons and its 1,075 stores closing out the top five with a 3.8% share. Kroger and Safeway also have mutual agreements to accept each others “club cards”.  (Source).

On a relevant sidebar, Safeway this week settled a lawsuit brought about by 9 Northern California counties and had to pay out $2.5 million because Safeway charged consumers more than the lowest advertised prices, misrepresented the weights of Safeway brand products and implied that some produce was “locally grown” when it had come from out of the country.

The complaint also alleged that Safeway failed to abide by a 2008 injunction requiring it to minimize price discrepancies by offering customers free items or $5 gift cards when pricing flaws occurred. In its statement, Safeway said it would “take additional steps to make our scan guarantee policy more visible to our customers and well-understood by our employees”. (Source)

Additionally, last weeks news that the Federal water agency that doles out water from the Sierras to 3300 water suppliers throughout California had this to say to all residents and commercial farmers of California: “We cannot give what we don’t have. It’ just not there.”

The Federal government is setting precedent by breaking a 54-year agreement with the state to provide water to all of California from mountain runoff. The critical problem, according to the head of the Federal Water Agency is, “It’s just not there”, meaning the snowpack from the Sierra’s that allows the Feds to allot the water to the state for the coming year ahead.

The state’s worst drought in decades has left its reservoirs half-naked, if not skeletal. Officials say 17 communities could run out of drinking water this summer; some are considering mandatory rationing; and 500,000 acres in the state may be left fallow. For the first time in its 54-year history, the California State Water Project—the world’s biggest plumbing network and the way millions of state residents get hundreds of billions of gallons of water—is essentially shutting down.

In 2012 the project moved 815 billion gallons of fresh water from Northern California’s rivers to 25 million people and a million acres of farmland in the arid central and southern parts of the state. Last year, the driest on record, the system delivered 490 billion gallons, down 40 percent. This year, the planned water distribution is zero. Two-thirds of California’s 38 million people and most of its $45 billion farm products depend on snowmelt from the Sierra Nevada and Rocky Mountain watersheds, imported via thousands of miles of pipelines, canals, and the Colorado River.

Although snowfall is up this winter in the Rockies, precipitation in both mountain watersheds has been going down over the last 14 years, raising scary questions for the nation’s most populous state.

So who is this Cerberus Capital Management with its impeccable timing to acquire critical food distribution sources just as food prices in the U.S. are about to soar due to America’s breadbasket being empty come mid-summertime?

Let’s take a deeper look at the how dots that connect.

Cerberus manages more than $20 billion in capital. Together, the companies it owns generate annual revenue of about $60 billion — more than either Amazon, Cisco, McDonalds or Coca-Cola. With just 200 of its own employees, Cerberus owns or has pieces of over 50 companies with more than 175,000 employees.

Mr. Dan Qualye, former VP of the United States and who served with former President George H. W. Bush Sr., joined Cerberus in 1999 and is chairman of the company’s Global Investments Division. Former Treasury Secretary, John Snow is also on the Cerberus payroll.

Behind the scenes at Cerberus is the secretive Co-Founder CEO, Stephen A. Feinberg. The low profile Feinberg moves in rarefied circles. Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld was an investor in 2001 in his fund, according to government ethics disclosures. Hedge-fund legend Michael Steinhardt is a shareholder and director in Cerberus’ lending arm, Ableco LLC. Michael Dell’s private-investment firm has joined with Cerberus and home-builder Lennar Corp. to develop upscale residential communities. His roster of investors also includes public pension funds such as TIAA-CREF and the largest pension fund in the country, California State Teachers’ Retirement System.

Stephen Feinberg, chief of Cerberus.

Yet Mr. Feinberg hasn’t been interviewed and he hasn’t been photographed. Feinberg has been described as “secretive” in the New York Times. In 2007, Feinberg told Cerberus shareholders, “If anyone at Cerberus has his picture in the paper and a picture of his apartment, we will do more than fire that person. We will kill him. The jail sentence will be worth it.”

Cerebus Capital Management owns Dyncorp, the private data collection agency for the alphabet spy agencies. (CIA, DHS, NSA, FBI, DEA, etc.). Cerberus bought Dynacorp for $1.5 billion in 2006. (Source)

DynCorp is one of the three preeminent private mercenary corporations in the world, and is the dominant entity for training security forces in the Middle East. Herbert “Pug” Winokur a lead investor and creator of DynCorp—he was CEO from 1987 to 1991—and previously chaired the finance committee at Enron, where he somehow escaped the scrutiny of federal prosecutors.

DynCorp is ubiquitous; it manages the congressional telephone system and does the computerized bookkeeping for a dozen federal agencies, including DOD and HUD, and as such has presided over the loss (or theft) of trillions of dollars. DynCorp has a contract to manage the police and court systems in the US-occupied Iraq. Arthur Anderson is the financial auditor of DynCorp, the same auditor which handled Enron’s books. The HUD Inspector General testified before Congress that HUD had lost $17 billion in 1998 and $59 billion in 1999.

In September, 2001 it was disclosed that the Pentagon could not account for $1.1 trillion for the fiscal year 2000. In a separate loss, it later became public that the DOD could not account for $2.3 trillion dollars, amounting to over 25% of its assets. The DOD budget is $480 billion a year, more than all the non-American military spending in the world combined, yet they managed to lose trillions.

The financial data processing for the US government accounting systems is performed by DynCorp and Lockheed-Martin. DynCorp was given a $322 million contract to develop, produce, test, and store FDA licensed vaccines for the DOD. DynCorp owns the former Blackwater renamed Xe, renamed Academi, the company that employs the majority of the tens of thousands of security contractors in Iraq. (Source)

Dynacorp has also been brought up in front of Congress, along with Dick Cheney’s old company, Haliburton, for their alleged roles in international sex slave rings. Continue reading Cerberus Capital Management; The Big Dog that Hunts and Preys

Equity Markets: Nowhere to Go But Down; Way, Way Down

by Jamie Lee

“Bulls make money, Bears make money, but Pigs go to slaughter” 

“Trees don’t grow to the stars and neither do markets”

“Timing isn’t everything, it’s the only thing”

“You’re either at the table or on the table”

“In this game you either Prey or Pray”

Old Wall Street adages.

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For over 30 years, beginning in 1985, I worked on, in and around Wall Street right as the over the counter NASDAQ market was getting started.  I began my career as a clerk at the New York Stock Exchange before computers took over all trading activities. In 1991, I started my own company after working for two investment banks as an institutional sales trader.

Back in the 1990’s it was still a good ol’ boys network where women were not even allowed to go into the 7th floor bar at the NYSE after the markets closed. We knew mostly who the buyers and sellers were since the trading of stocks was done through known institutions. It took several days just to clear and settle trades and brokerage companies were mostly transparent due to strict regulatory oversight. Hedge funds were just getting started thanks to the end of fixed commissions while derivatives and computer generated high frequency trading, etc. were non-existent.

The government and regulators promoted “level playing fields” so that all investors, especially the small time mom-and-pops, had fair and equal access to information to make decisions on where to invest their life savings.

There were many investment boutiques as well as large investment houses along with brokerage firms but no large banks because of the Glass Stegall Act, which kept banks from manipulating the stock market like they had done to crash the markets in 1929. All changed in 1999 when President Clinton gutted Glass Stegall, allowing banks to cross the “Wall of China” and use their own capital as well as manage client capital creating serious conflicts of interest.

Today, all financial markets are owned and controlled by a very, very few.  With nearly everyone’s wealth and 401k’s tied to stocks and bonds, what happens to stocks affects us all.  Through this concentration of wealth and control by a few banks, and complete compliance of the U.S. Treasury and Federal Reserve, they can crash markets in a matter of seconds (2010 flash crash 1,000 pt. drop in minutes).(Source)

Market Fundamentals 101

“You can not reduce debt obligations by creating more debt”

They can, and do this through actions by secret market manipulators like the not-so-secretive “Plunge Protection Team” (Source) or they can pump up markets by creating money out of thin air using completely absurd actions like “Quantitative Easing” that has increased our obligated debt to some $16 TRILLION dollars and our yearly debt to $1 Trillion in this country.

Additionally, all money policy, which directly affects all markets by stimulating or reducing money supplies, is directed by central banks of each country.  In 2007 U.S. General Wesley Clark (Ret.) identified the “rogue states” that were on the U.S. target list.  They included Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Iran and later named North Korea, Cuba and Afghanistan. It is not a coincidence that the countries we are interested in regime changing are the same ones without membership to the globalist banking system. (Source)

What all these countries had in common was that they did, or do not currently, have central banks and were not members fo the World Trade Organization and the criminal Bank of International Settlements, which is used to launder Black Op drug money. (Source)

The introduction of the computers to investing and wealth accumulation has led to ever greater ‘quant’ trading, to the point now over 70% of all trading on major stock exchanges are done by High Frequency Traders who make guaranteed profits, at lightning speeds, running ahead of most stock investing customer orders.

Few understand how greatly this change in how markets move occurs and even the quant geeks themselves don’t really understand either. For a great explanation of how today’s markets are manipulated and can crash on a moments notice, see this excellent video:

Nearly everyone I know in the investment community is astounded and amazed how this charade has continued for so long. Most of us thought 2008 was the final market top yet the Fed massive money creation scheme bought them another few years.

Us old timers in the market like to cite facts like our Treasury has been buying over 70% off all the debt the Federal Reserve issues for years. Think about that for a moment. The Fed’s issue debt, which our government buys, with money it borrows…from itself. WTF?

The past few weeks we have seen natural gas prices rise by 59%, countries like Argentina see a 15% devaluation in its currency and massive unabated civil unrest in Thailand, Ukraine, Mexico, China, Russia, Turkey, Iraq, Greece and Sudan (Source).

These countries are all out of “Hopium” for their citizens and people are voting with their feet to take down the respective regimes and it is only time before all markets fall hard, very hard from their artificial levels, especially in the U.S., since we are the country with the greatest debt the world has ever seen and manufactures very little.

And the biggest elephant in the room, China is dominating the oil, energy, currency, gold and military  markets like never before. Last year, the BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) even have gone so far to start their own banking system. As other countries gain power the U.S. is the direct loser. (Source).

The U.S. dollar is finished as the world’s only reserve currency as the dollar has lost 98% of its value since 1930’s (Source).  Consumer debt, student debt, mortgage debt has increased exponentially while savings by individuals in this country is nil or negative for years. True unemployment in this country is above 20% with little hope of jobs going forward due to business’ continual outsourcing and now the “Robotic Revolution” is replacing jobs everywhere, so now they are calling this a “jobless recovery”!

Getting cash, getting out of debt, greatly reducing your exposure to stocks and real estate investments as well as investing in critical food and water supplies may be critical now.

It’s been a lovely ride since 2008 for those who have believed in cyclic markets, based on fake stimulus using massive debt increases. Heck, it’s been a lovely century for investing in Wall Street but its over. In the past stock market appreciation occurred as our country created its wealth through needed goods and services to others.  Since 2008, the rallies have all been through social engineering stocks, who provide no real wealth creation, only “Ap’s and Add-ons” through ever-increasing borrowing.

Going to cash, getting out of or greatly reducing debt, exposure to stocks, and real estate investments is critical now. Investing in critical life supplies like community, food and water supplies is essential. One always here’s some other in the business say “This time its different” and markets go in cycles yet they fail to realize that A) monetary policy based on debt always throughout history has collapsed and B) there are cycles within cycles within cycles over time.

In December, the Federal Reserve announced it was “tapering” its Quantitative Easing of over a Trillion dollars to date since 2008. They followed this announcement by goosing the markets using the Plunge Protection Teams actions but now that ship has sailed.

Then end of money creation by the Fed’s signals the end of the game of wealth creation by the printing money.

It’s over, get out.

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Ken Jorgustin of Modern Survival Blog writes:

Is there a major financial crash in our near future? You must check out this stunning analogy between the current day Dow Jones Industrial Index compared with the time period 1928-1929 leading up to the memorable stock market crash…

The pattern of stock price movements looks VERY close to the lead-up to the 1929 top.

A lead-up to just any old top is one thing, but the 1929 top was followed by a memorable decline, which makes it all the more worthy of our attention…

For Those Who Believe in Cycles….

“Ken stops short of predicting that stock markets will do the same thing this January as they did in 1929, but take a look at this amazing comparison and decide for yourself if it’s possible that this whole thing will break wide open on or around January 14th of 2014:

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Chart by McClellan Financial Publications via Modern Survival Blog

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The Cashless Society Cometh ~ No Wait it’s Here!

 

“The god of wine looked around at the assembled crowd. “Miss me?”

The satyrs fell over themselves nodding and bowing.“Oh, yes, very much, sire!”

“Well, I did not miss this place!” Dionysus snapped.“I bear bad news, my friends. Evil news. The minor gods are changing sides. Morpheus has gone over to the enemy. Hecate, Janus, and Nemesis, as well. Zeus knows how many more.”

Thunder rumbled in the distance.

“Strike that,” Dionysus said. “Even Zeus doesn’t know.

Give me control of a nations money supply, and I care not who makes it’s laws  ~ Amschel Rothchilds

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(Updated 1/22/14)

5/20/12

Bank runs in Europe have begun in earnest now. Greece is collapsing with over $ 1 Trillion in withdrawls. To see how Europe’s insane lending practices have brought about this by design see this excellent parody. (here)  This is occurring directly after the powerful elite recently installed their high executives through technocracy into Italy and Greece.

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Less than 7% of all transactions are cash. Merchants are now switching to the new Paypal new Iphone swiping technology that attaches to YOUR iphone,  as they undercut the 3% fee charged by credit card companies here

   “PayPal today launched a new device, called PayPal Here, in the US, Canada, Australia and Hong Kong, that consists of a free, triangle shaped card reader and mobile phone application. The gadget connects into the top of iPhones and iPads allowing merchants to take payments on the go from any any of the four major credit cards (including American Express), PayPal accounts and even checks!”

A cashless society awaits much sooner than all expect with biometric ID system access only for all.  Numbers on a computer screen informs you the money in your account. Cash is no longer accepted except for transactions under $20.

Ireland and Spain have just enacted strict cash withdrawls from customer accounts.  MF Global CEO Jon Corzine (former gov. of NJ and former CEO of Government Sachs) misappropriated (lost it trading) $ 1.6 billion of customer money he was not allowed to trade and is still free with no charges being brought against him which means stealing in daylight is not a punishable offense, so the looting will only get more brazen from here.

NATO is in Chicago this weekend with ‘shoot to kill’ orders as protestors rally this weekend on a rare solar eclipse in N. America this weekend.  The London Olympics have announced uber security as missiles are being installed on nearby rooftops preparing for another false flag…er. potential staged…er..I mean those ‘evil doers’ lone squirt gun attack to further lock down the entire populace.

…and no money is safe because it is all about go electronic where keystrokes on an electronic screen vs. perceived value are the only things backing the global economies wealth and what you think you have in your bank account can be erased or stolen without recourse as to who, how or what happened to ‘your’ money.

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TARGET GETS CYBER ATTACK (False Flag?). CUSTOMER ACCOUNTS FROZEN TO $100 ATM WITHDRAWLS

Denial: Target says 'no unencrypted PIN data was accessed' and that there was no evidence that PIN data has been 'compromised' Dec. 27, 2013. Target says PIN data was stolen in the breach but there was no evidence that it has been compromised because it was highly encrypted

Denied: Target says there is no evidence PINs were compromised as part of the retail behemoth embarrassing and worrisome Christmastime security breach

Denied: Target says there is no evidence PINs were compromised as part of the retail behemoth embarrassing and worrisome Christmastime security breach

One major U.S. bank fears that the thieves would be able to crack the encryption code and make fraudulent withdrawals from consumer bank accounts, said the executive, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the data breach is still under investigation.

The hackers who attacked Target Corp and compromised more than 40 million credit cards and debit cards also managed to steal encrypted personal identification numbers, according to a senior payments executive familiar with the situation.

‘We continue to have no reason to believe that PIN data, whether encrypted or unencrypted, was compromised. And we have not been made aware of any such issue in communications with financial institutions to date,’ Snyder said by email.

The No. 3 U.S. retailer said last week that hackers stole data from as many as 40 million cards used at Target stores during the first three weeks of the holiday shopping season, making it the second-largest data breach in U.S. retail history.

On Dec. 21, JPMorgan, the largest U.S. bank, alerted 2 million of its debit cardholders that it was lowering the daily limits on ATM withdrawals to $100 and capping store purchases with their cards at $500.

On Monday, the bank partly eased the limits it had imposed on Saturday, setting them at $250 a day for ATM withdrawals and $1,000 a day for purchases. (The usual debit card daily limits are $200 to $500 for cash withdrawals and $500 for purchases, a bank spokeswoman said last week.)

On Monday, Santander — a unit of Spain’s Banco Santander — followed suit, lowering the daily limits on cash withdrawals and purchases on Santander and Sovereign branded debit and credit cards of customers who used them at Target when the breach occurred. Santander did not disclose the new limits, but said it was monitoring the accounts and issuing new cards to customers who were affected.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2530054/Target-admits-PIN-data-WAS-stolen-40-million-credit-debit-card-numbers-claims-safe-secure.html#ixzz2r9MJCkkB

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The 49ers’ $1.2 billion stadium is set to open for the 2014 season. Associated Press file, 2010

New 49er Football Stadium will be Cashless

“Fans will be able to go cashless, ticketless, order everything from their seats. We’ll have WiFi for all 75,000 people,” said bid committee chairman Daniel Lurie. “It’s the next-generation stadium. So that’s a huge component.”

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…but first a little boogie (2 min.) must see

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March 19, 2013

Over the past week, while the main stream prestitutes were fondling over themselves to keep from reporting the real stories behind the exiting Pope ‘Arnold’ Benedict’s massive global coverup’s of child pedophilia by catholic priests as well as the shameful history of the new Pope Francis of “No See-See’s” dark silence during the bloody torture, rape and murders of Argentina’s ‘Dirty War’ of the late 70′s and early 80′s, another very important global event, that may effect all, is being played out among the Western and Russian secret spook agencies and governing bodies.

Spy vs. Spy

First, it was reported last week in news sites other than in the U.S., that the Russian Drug Task forces had swept into U.S. occupied Afghanistan unexpectedly and destroyed many drug labs as well as confiscating over 21 tons of processed heroin:

MOSCOW, March 12 (RIA Novosti) – Almost 21 tons of heroin have been seized in an operation in eastern Afghanistan , the head of Russia’s Federal Drug Control Service (FSKN) said on Tuesday.  “An operation was carried out yesterday in the province of Nangarhar, during which several drug production labs were destroyed and almost 21 tons of heroin seized,” FSKN head Viktor Ivanov said. He said FSKN officers had taken part in the “unique operation.”

Then just 3 days later In possible response to these attacks, in the small country of Cyprus, the IMF backed European Union raided in apparent retaliation the bank accounts of the wealthy KGB oligarchs:

“The controversial proposed tax on savings in Cyprus looks set to hit Russian pockets hard—with experts estimating that Russian deposits in Cypriot banks amount to at least $20bn. Confidence in Cyprus as a safe place to deposit money is going to be reduced to zero,” Anatoly Aksakov of the Russian association of regional banks told Interfax news agency.

As a condition for a desperately-needed €10bn ($13bn) bailout for Cyprus, fellow Eurozone countries and international creditors on Saturday imposed a levy on all deposits in the island’s banks. Deposits of more than €100,000 will be hit with a 9.9% charge, while under that threshold the levy drops to €6.75%.  Aksakov said the amount of Russian money likely to be affected was $20bn (€15.4bn), while the Russian edition of Forbes magazine gave much higher estimates.

Forbes said on its website that ratings agency Moody’s last year estimated the holdings of Russian businesses in Cyprus at $19bn, with another $12bn held there by Russian banks.”

The President of Cyprus explanation gave some of these reasons for the raiding of customer bank accounts:

5. It saves provident and pension funds and avoids taking other tough measures such as wage and pension cuts that were put on the negotiations table.

6. It avoids further recession and the risk of the vicious circle of a second memorandum.

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NATO forces patrolling poppy fields in Afghanistan 2012

Afghanistan Drug History

To understand the possible connections here we need to understand the current real history of war and drugs in Afghanistan. In 1979 Russia invaded Afghanistan. The U.S. responded by forming a covert CIA support operation funding a pissed off wealthy ex-pat Saudi Arabian named Osama Bin Laden, or Tim Osman, as he was known to the CIA back then. With CIA money he helped form the resistance to the Russians using the Taliban forces to thwart the Russian occupation.

When the Russians finally retreated, the U.S. bugged out as well, leaving Afghanistan in the 90′s to be controlled once again by the ruthless Taliban, where women were delegated back to the dark ages and an eye for eye law ruled the lands once again.

When the U.S. re-invaded Afghanistan in 2001 to allegedly ‘hunt’ for the 6′ 6″ dialysis machine toting former CIA asset, Bin Laden, the amount of opium grown in the Taliban controlled Afghanistan was zero.  Just 10 years later it was estimated that over 3,000 tons of pure heroin was being produced annually, which is said to supply some 85% of the global heroin trade. Additionally, the NY Times reported recently that there has been a 18% annual increase in production since then.

It should be noted that Afghanistan has no air force or independent standing army. The United States has controlled all air space and agriculture lands for over a decade. The United States spook agencies have been a major drug dealing/supplying operation since  the Vietnam war when the dictator Khan Su’s reigned over the Golden Triangle heroin trade.  It is also no secret to those in the know that this is how former Director of the CIA and U.S. President George Walker “Poppy” Bush, got his nickname.

Apparently, the Russians, under former KGB Director and once again President Vladamir Putin, have allowed the opium to be taken out of Eastern Afghanistan into Russia for processing and distribution until the raid last week.

“…estimates that only 15% of the Afghan drug output are trafficked via the northern route traversing Russia, Russian law-enforcement agencies argue that – after a recent sharp increase – the northern route’s share is at least 35%. Drugs are smuggled into Russia using all types of transportation (cars – 70%, rail – 20%, planes – 10%). Much of the smuggling is disguised as agricultural supplies, and, making life a lot easier for smugglers, the Kazakh customs service does not subject cars from Asia to inspection procedures as a general rule. Andrew F. Tully, a US analyst whose interests are centered around Afghanistan, says openly that Iran and Russia are facing “heroin pressure” from Afghanistan, and the Russian statistical data fully support the view. “

So to recap, we have a stealth surprise raid by KGB Russians against U.S. controlled opium supplies.  Just days later, the International bankers responded by raiding the Cyprus bank accounts where large sums of Russian wealth has been parked.

To connect the dots to our homeland of insecurity one needs to understand that similar types of raids on private customer bank accounts are going on in the United States as well.  Cyprus’ bank raid may just be a possible precursor to what happens next to bank accounts across the U.S. as well.

Executive Orders and Rehypothefication

Just last October, President Obama signed yet another unilateral Executive Order title 12957 which:

…claims the power to freeze all bank accounts and stop any related financial transactions that a “sanctioned person” may own or try to perform — all in the name of “Iran Sanctions.”

Titled an “Executive Order from the President regarding Authorizing the Implementation of Certain Sanctions…” the order says that if an individual is declared by the president, the secretary of state, or the secretary of the treasury to be a “sanctioned person,” he (or she) will be unable to obtain access to his accounts, will be unable to process any loans (or make them), or move them to any other financial institution inside or outside the United States. In other words, his financial resources will have successfully been completely frozen. The EO expands its authority by making him unable to use any third party such as “a partnership, association, trust, joint venture, corporation, subgroup or other organization” that might wish to help him or allow him to obtain access to his funds.

And if the individual so “sanctioned” decides that the ruling is unfair, he isn’t allowed to sue. In two words, the individual has successfully been robbed blind.”

Then, just this past week, President Obama announced he was drawing up plans to allow his spook agencies to access all data bases containing customer bank accounts in this country:

The Obama administration is drawing up plans to give all U.S. spy agencies full access to a massive database that contains financial data on American citizens and others who bank in the country, according to a Treasury Department document seen by Reuters. 

The proposed plan represents a major step by U.S. intelligence agencies to spot and track down terrorist networks and crime syndicates by bringing together financial databanks, criminal records and military intelligence. The plan, which legal experts say is permissible under U.S. law, is nonetheless likely to trigger intense criticism from privacy advocates.  

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