http://washingtonsblog.com/ The Fed audit provision which passed the Financial Services Committee a few weeks ago is part of the bill. This is a real milestone, as it means that the full House of Representatives has passed a bill that mandates a complete audit of the Fed. Congressman Grayson has confirmed that the bill to audit the Fed passed: The bill includes the Paul-Grayson amendment, which calls for the first independent audit of the Federal Reserve in the 96-year history of the central bank. Congressman Grayson teamed with Rep. Ron Paul to push for the “Audit The Fed” legislation. Congressman Grayson discovered that the Federal Reserve has conducted secret bailouts that range in the hundreds of billions of dollars since 2008. The bill grants authority to the non-partisan General Accountability Office to conduct the audit. “Exposing how the Federal Reserve operates is a crucial component to any meaningful reform. We need to find out what they’ve done and then we can figure out how to respond,” Congressman Grayson said. SEC. 1000A. RESTRICTIONS ON THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM PENDING AUDIT REPORT. (a) In General- Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Comptroller General of the United States shall perform an audit of all actions taken by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and the Federal reserve banks during the current economic crisis pursuant to the authority granted under section 13(c) of the Federal Reserve Act. Such audit shall be completed as expeditiously as possible after the date of the enactment of the Financial Stability Improvement Act of 2009... clip.. -------------- FDIC Shuts Down AmTrust Bank, 5 Others: 130 Failed Banks So Far In 2009 December 6, 2009 http://www.opednews.com/populum/link.php?id=102528 Friday the FDIC took over Ohio's AmTrust Bank, the fourth-largest bank to fail this year, with about $12 billion in assets and $8 billion in deposits. The Cleveland-based bank's failure is expected to cost the federal deposit insurance fund an estimated $2 billion... clip.. Steve's Note: Recall that another recent article was the already huge indebtedness of the FDIC. ------------ What Global Warming? Data From NASA. http://www.viewzone.com/globalwarming1.html The earth today is not the warmest it has ever been. Global temperatures were as much as 2 degrees centigrade warmer more than a few times including the Medieval and Roman Periods. For most of the past 10,000 years the earth was warmer than today's temperatures. 2000 years of global temperature data, note the current global warming starting in the mid 1700s, well before man started producing much CO2. The warmest year ever recorded in the USA was 1934, link. The coldest, in the mid 1970s, a period when some scientists and most of the press said the earth was heading toward global cooling if not a return of glaciation. Five of the ten warmest years since 1900 were before 1940! The warmest decade was the 1930s US temperatures have only risen 0.2 degrees F from 1940! 24 of the 50 US States had their highest ever recorded temperature in the 1930s. Five of the ten warmest years since 1900 were before 1940!... clip.. ------------ US climate agency declares CO2 public danger 7 Dec 2009 http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/dec/07/us-climate-carbon-emissions-danger The Obama administration adopted its climate change plan B today, formally declaring carbon dioxide a public danger so that it can cut greenhouse gas emissions even without the agreement of a reluctant Senate. "Climate change has now become a household issue," said Lisa Jackson, head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), adding that the evidence of climate change was real and increasingly alarming." The announcement gives the EPA a legal basis for capping emissions from major sources such as coal power plants, as well as cars. Jackson said she hoped it would help to spur a deal in Copenhagen.. clip.. Steve's Note: It appears that the Obama Administration is attempting to influence the Copenhagen meeting, through new EPA rules that require lowering carbon emissions, to 'prevent man-made global warming', which has now been exposed as a fraud in the newly released UN IPCC emails. Related: -- -- -- -- Climate change to cost trillions, say economists (Nov 25, 2009) http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jQ_IXP6DZV_pEhouxIuT4oztHM6Q PARIS - Estimates vary widely on the costs of damage from climate change, easing these impacts and taming the carbon gas stoking the problem, but economists agree the bill is likely to be in the trillions of dollars.Figures depend on different forecasts for greenhouse-gas emissions and the timeline for reaching them.. clip.. Related: -- -- -- -- Big Oil Behind Copenhagen Climate Scam Paul Joseph Watson Dec 7, 2009 http://www.infowars.com/big-oil-behind-copenhagen-climate-scam/ Probably one of the most flagrant examples of climate cronyism to emerge from the climategate scandal were emails in which CRU scientists, the body that provides much of the foundational global warming data for the UN IPCC, discuss how they conducted meetings with Shell Oil in order to enlist them as a “strategic partner” while getting them to bankroll pro-man made global warming research... A “Copenhagen Communiqué” put out by leaders of over 500 global corporations in advance of this week’s summit calls for drastic measures on behalf of developed countries to “de-carbonise their economies”. The communiqué also demands that a global carbon tax be implemented via a carbon trading system... James Smith, chairman of UK Shell Oil, Tony Hayward, Group Chief Executive, British Petroleum, along with hundreds of other global corporate giants, many of whom are directly tied in with big oil, and central banks who, far from bankrolling climate change skeptics, are directly invested in the scam of human-induced global warming. A common charge leveled against global warming skeptics is that they are on the payroll of transnational oil companies, when in fact the opposite is true, oil companies are amongst the biggest promoters of climate change propaganda, emphasized recently by Exxon Mobil’s call for a global carbon tax. Exxon Mobil and their ilk are not concerned about a carbon tax eating into their profits because they know they won’t have to pay it – the tab will be picked up by the ignorant taxpayer at the fuel pump at an inflated cost which if anything will hand the transnational oil cartels an even bigger cut... The consequence for the taxpayer under either scenario will be profits going towards filling the coffers of the global government that will enforce the whole scam... in 2007 the Trilateral Commission met in near secrecy to formulate policy on how best they could exploit global warming fearmongering to ratchet up taxes and control over how westerners live their lives. During the 2007 meeting, elitists along with oil industry kingpins called for imposing a $1 dollar per gallon tax at the fuel pump under the justification of fighting pollution and climate change... clip.. Steve's Note: Copenhagen's sought 'global carbon taxes', would give 'global financing' to extra-national structures, for use in creating a global government, under the auspices of saving the planet. -- -- -- -- World's leading climate change expert says summit talks so flawed that deal would be disaster 2 Dec 09 http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/dec/02/copenhagen-climate-change-james-hansen In an interview with the Guardian, James Hansen, the world's pre- eminent climate scientist, said any agreement likely to emerge from the negotiations would be so deeply flawed that it would be better to start again from scratch. Hansen heads the Nasa Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York. Hansen has emerged as a leading campaigner against the coal industry, which produces more greenhouse gas emissions than any other fuel source. He has become a fixture at campus demonstrations and last summer was arrested at a protest against mountaintop mining in West Virginia, where he called the Obama government's policies "half- assed". He has irked some environmentalists by espousing a direct carbon tax on fuel use. Some see that as a distraction from rallying support in Congress for cap-and-trade legislation that is on the table. He is scathing of that approach. "This is analogous to the indulgences that the Catholic church sold in the middle ages. The bishops collected lots of money and the sinners got redemption. Both parties liked that arrangement despite its absurdity. That is exactly what's happening," he said. "We've got the developed countries who want to continue more or less business as usual and then these developing countries who want money, and that is what they can get through offsets [sold through the carbon markets]."... clip.. Steve's Note: Carbon taxes will be used, (not so much to reduce fossil fuel use), but to collect money from users, (that are still forced to use them, for lack of a viable alternative.) These trillions in taxes will go directly to government fixtures, giving them greater power and control, while not greatly reducing carbon use. Related: -- -- -- -- Trading Carbon Derivatives 07 December 2009 http://washingtonsblog.com/ http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=16449 Bloomberg notes that the carbon trading scheme will be largely centered around derivatives: The banks are preparing to do with carbon what they’ve done before: design and market derivatives contracts that will help client companies hedge their price risk over the long term. They’re also ready to sell carbon-related financial products to outside investors. Derivatives are securities whose value is derived from the value of an underlying commodity -- in this case, CO2 and other greenhouse gases... Among the credit derivatives that grew from the bank’s early efforts was the credit-default swap... Maria Cantwell, a Democratic senator from Washington state.“The derivatives market has done so much damage to our economy and is nothing more than a very-high-stakes casino -- except that casinos have to abide by regulations,” she wrote in a press release... Hedge fund manager Michael Masters, founder of Masters Capital Management LLC, based in St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands [and unrelated to Blythe Masters] says speculators will end up controlling U.S. carbon prices, and their participation could trigger the same type of boom-and-bust cycles that have buffeted other commodities...“Wall Street is going to sell it as an investment product to people that have nothing to do with carbon,” he says. “Then suddenly investment managers are dominating the asset class, and nothing is related to actual supply and demand. We have seen this movie before.”... clip.. ------------ US builds up its bases in oil-rich South America (22 November 2009) http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-builds-up-its-bases-in-oilrich-south-a merica-1825398.html From the Caribbean to Brazil, political opposition to US plans for 'full-spectrum operations' is escalating rapidly -- The United States is massively building up its potential for nuclear and non- nuclear strikes in Latin America and the Caribbean by acquiring unprecedented freedom of action in seven new military, naval and air bases in Colombia. The development - and the reaction of Latin American leaders to it - is further exacerbating America's already fractured relationship with much of the continent. The new US push is part of an effort to counter the loss of influence it has suffered recently at the hands of a new generation of Latin American leaders no longer willing to accept Washington's political and economic tutelage. President Rafael Correa, for instance, has refused to prolong the US armed presence in Ecuador, and US forces have to quit their base at the port of Manta by the end of next month. So Washington turned to Colombia, which has not gone down well in the region. The country has received military aid worth $4.6bn (£2.8bn) from the US since 2000, despite its poor human rights record. Colombian forces regularly kill the country's indigenous people and other civilians, and last year raided the territory of its southern neighbour, Ecuador, causing at least 17 deaths. The Colombian forces, for many years notorious for atrocities inflicted on civilians, have cheekily suggested that with US help they could get into the lucrative business of "instructing" other armies about human rights. Civil strife in Colombia meant some 380,000 Colombians were forced from their homes last year, bringing the number of displaced since 1985 to 4.6 million, one in ten of the population. Amnesty International said: "The Colombian government must urgently bring human rights violators to justice, to break the links between the armed forces and illegal paramilitary groups, and dismantle paramilitary organisations in line with repeated UN recommendations." .. clip.. ------------ Winchester to Deliver 200 Million 40-Cal. Rounds to Homeland Security August 22, 2009 http://www.gunreports.com/news/ammo/Winchester-ICE-Homeland-Security-ICE_1460-1.html WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Winchester Ammunition was recently awarded a contract by the Immigration, Customs and Enforcement (ICE) division of the Department of Homeland Security to supply a maximum of 200 million, 40 cal. rounds over the next five years. The load selected for this contract is a 135-grain, hollow point designed for the office of Field Operations of Customs and Border Protection. It will fall under the Winchester Ranger line. ------------------- Israeli Involvement in 9/11: http://pakalert.wordpress.com/2009/12/01/israel-did-911-all-the-proof-in-the-world/ ------------ U.S. President William J. (Rockefeller) Clinton??? December 03, 2005 http://inaaronsopinion.blogspot.com/2005/12/us-president-william-j-rockefeller.html Have you ever wondered how that "poor" boy from Arkansas got to be a multi-term Governor of the State of Arkansas and a two-term President of the United States of America. The Governor of a state that was essentially owned by the former Republican Governor of Arkansas Winthrop Rockefeller. How did Clinton afford Georgetown, Oxford & Yale University Law School, and then jump into politics; it costs a lot of money to run for public office, even back then? There has long been speculation about the real identity of the actual biological father of the former United States President William Jefferson Clinton. According to Bill Clinton's White House biography his real father was Bill Blythe III, who had been killed in an automobile accident before the President was even born; however many in Arkansas claim that Blythe had only been back in the United States for six months prior to Clinton's birth. William Jefferson Clinton ran for the United States House of Representatives (not the Arkansas State house) less than six month after getting his law degree from Yale Law School. He served as Jimmy Carter's Arkansas state campaign manager, while also teaching at the University of Arkansas School of Law, and also manages to get himself elected as the Arkansas State attorney general in 1976, and elected as the governor of the state of Arkansas in 1978 (having only been in public services for less than two (2) years). This means that Bill Clinton began campaigning for the Arkansas U.S. congressional seat while he was still in law school at Yale University. The he ran a statewide campaign for state attorney general, while running another statewide presidential campaign for Jimmy Carter and taught law school when??...all at the same time. Then with less than a year experience as the state's top judicial officer, he begins campaigning as the state's governor and actually wins...just five years out of law school and then the youngest state governor in the United States of America... ...What law school in America hires a student right out of law school to be a professor, with no actual experience inside the courtroom....not impossible; but from law student to law professor, is about as rare an occasion... as having a Catholic priest be elevated to a Cardinal. However, at least when Cardinal Avery Dulles made that leap, had three (3) United States Secretaries of State and a former director of the United States CIA in his family, plus his mother was a Rockefeller.... ------------ Mind Control subject Cisco Wheeler tells of her experience as a mind controlled subject. Dec. 7, 2009 Post at Yahoo groups. (excerpt) Wayne Morris: What state were you located when he was performing mind control on you? Cisco Wheeler: Most of my programming occurred in California and Oregon. In California at China Lake Naval Base; the Presidio north San Francisco; and the Letterman Hospital next to the Presidio military base. In Alcatraz there was programming that went on in the prisons there. And Scotty's Castle in Death Valley in California. Also in Torrence, California. And at the State Mental Hospital in Salem, Oregon and in the big Masonic hospital called Derenbecker here in Portland. Wayne Morris: What time frame would that have been in? Cisco Wheeler: 1948-9 clear up to the middle 60's... clip.. ----------
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