The Blog’s Review of 2013

The year 2013 was certainly a remarkable year of revelations and milestones. Certainly topping the category of revelations were the facts surrounding the extent that our government is collecting intelligence on all of us, not just here is the US, but their intelligence gathering globally. The milestones include the passing of Nelson Mandela and the resignation of the Pope and the ascension of Pope Francis. This was also, however, a year of another do nothing congress and the continued raping of the economy by unchecked banksters. What is amazing is that we have come to accept these thugs and their crimes as normal. No outrage and no demands by society are being made to jail these thugs and or correct the systems they are using to extract wealth from us.

The European Commission has fined a group of major global banks a total of 1.7 billion euros ($2.3 billion) for colluding to profit from the manipulation of key interest rates.  The banks that received fines, which include JPMorgan, Citigroup and Deutsche Bank, are accused of manipulating for years European and Japanese benchmark interest rates that affect hundreds of billions of dollars in contracts globally, from mortgages to credit card bills. Switzerland’s UBS bank escaped a whopping 2.5 billion-euro fine only because it informed the Commission, the EU’s executive arm, of a cartel’s existence and cooperated with the subsequent investigation. JP Morgan Chase – $13bn and $1.12bn in fines was issued in the US and Europe to wrap up a number of investigations into the bank, largely into the bank’s alleged misrepresentation of bundles of toxic mortgages. Rabobank – $1.07bn (the Dutch lender) was fined for its part in the Libor scandal after 30 staff were involved in “inappropriate conduct”.

RBS – $612m- The Royal Bank of Scotland was also implicated in the Libor scandal. The money to pay the fine came out of future bonuses and from clawing back paid bonuses. Goldman Sachs – $330m- Goldman Sachs was forced to pay a large fine after not following proper procedures for foreclosure – the sale of an asset to balance a secured loan. The bank was forced to compensate hundreds of thousands of mortgage customers for foreclosure abuses. JP Morgan – $285m- The firm was accused of manipulating electricity markets in the US. Traders allegedly created a complex set of rules that helped set the cost of electricity in California and the Midwest and the bank was forced to pay a fine and surrender its profits. Wells Fargo & Co. on December 30th reached a $591 million deal with Fannie Mae to settle claims that it sold defective mortgages to the government-controlled home-loan financier.

You can look at this as the cost of avoiding criminal justice because not a single major partner of any of these firms faced any criminal charges. So 2013 was the year we established that justice is served to only those who cannot afford to buy the get out of jail free card. This was followed late in the year with the young man who killed and maimed several people in a drunken stupor being acquitted on the grounds of “affluenza”!  This is supposedly a psychological condition that renders children of affluence as incapable of morals or sense of consequence for their actions and therefore they cannot be held culpable for their crimes.  These realities seemed to have stirred some awakening, but certainly not enough to create the outrage we would expect from the general public. It truly is a mystery to us why not.

Chris Hedges, Truthdig in an Op-Ed writes: “Money, as Karl Marx lamented, plays the largest part in determining the course of history. Once speculators are able to concentrate wealth into their hands they have, throughout history, emasculated government, turned the press into lap dogs and courtiers, corrupted the courts and hollowed out public institutions, including universities, to justify their looting and greed. Today’s speculators have created grotesque financial mechanisms, from usurious interest rates on loans to legalized accounting fraud, to plunge the masses into crippling forms of debt peonage. They steal staggering sums of public funds, such as the $85 billion of mortgage-backed securities and bonds, many of them toxic, that they unload each month on the Federal Reserve in return for cash. And when the public attempts to finance public-works projects they extract billions of dollars through wildly inflated interest rates. Speculators at megabanks or investment firms such as Goldman Sachs are not, in a strict sense, capitalists. They do not make money from the means of production. Rather, they ignore or rewrite the law—ostensibly put in place to protect the vulnerable from the powerful—to steal from everyone, including their shareholders. They are parasites. They feed off the carcass of industrial capitalism. They produce nothing. They make nothing. They just manipulate money. Speculation in the 17th century was a crime. Speculators were hanged. We can wrest back control of our economy, and finally our political system, from corporate speculators only by building local movements that decentralize economic power through the creation of hundreds of publicly owned state, county and city banks.”

This was also a year of significant natural disasters related to typhoons, earthquakes, and record cold temperatures. These events also extended to our solar system with major solar flares, Comet Ison, and related activities in the cosmos, and in the last week of the year, Ole Sol flips its poles. During the year we had extremes that were never before recorded on the planet. Typhoon Wipha was the largest and most deadly typhoon ever recorded with winds exceeding 225 MPH and it’s size was enormous. Antarctica recorded the coldest temperature ever recorded at -140F. Finally, it snowed on the Sphinx for the first time in 112 years! In the US, in the first week in December, 1000 record low temperatures were recorded.

The economy continues to be bogged down with no new recovery in sight. In the meantime our infrastructure crumbles, our education systems continues to implode, and our health on a global basis is deteriorating. Finally, wars and rumors of wars continued both in the Middle East and Africa.

However, it was not all doom and gloom. There is a spiritual awakening that is occurring on a global basis. Remarkable events occurred in Egypt, and elsewhere. Leaders are finding they just can’t continue to ignore the needs of people in deference to their corporate elitist sponsors. The people of England, through their parliament, rejected launching or supporting a war in Syria. In the US, the president was forced to rethink aggressive acts in both Syria and Iran, even though the globalists/NWO folks were screaming warhawks.

By the end of the year, we have witnessed a real and significant reform of the largest religious organization occurring, that of the Roman Catholic Church, being led by Pope Francis, and the rejection of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt.

On the individual basis, people are waking up all over the world and beginning to break the bonds of economic/governmental bondage, and the erosion of their civil liberties. They are beginning to understand when they stand together and stand up, they win the day. This is true in places like Iceland, Ireland, and Spain.

During the year we covered it all with nearly 75 articles. The blog expanded significantly in 2013, readership up significantly and the number of subscribers nearly tripled. We are truly humbled by this support and loyalty. A simple “thank you” seems so insignificant, but sincerely we thank you all for your unbelievable support and encouragement. We also had a number of individuals who contributed a significant amount of information and intelligence, sometimes at their risk, to guide us and point us to the stories that were the most important ones to focus on during the year. To these individuals we can only express our gratitude and sense of awe at their courage and commitments.

The year 2014 promises to be a year of great global change and from our prospective it seems it will be a very great and positive year for all of us globally. In a few words, it seems it is going to be the year of individual sovereignty and liberation. Those who thought they could impose a state of economic slavery and New World Order are instead losing their control and power over us all. That is because we are waking up, albeit slowly, but surely nonetheless.

Especially toward the end of 2013, we sat on some stories that we felt may be too “explosive” to print, but there will be some remarkable “disclosures” in store for 2014. We still live in a world that treats truth sometimes as a psychiatric illness. So in closing out 2013 we thank you all for your support. We wish you all truly a happy and prosperous New Year. We encourage everyone to feel empowered to stand up, speak up, and act up if necessary so that our children and grandchildren can expect to live in a world far better than it is today. We will do our very best to get the information to you to empower you as best we can to fortify our collective efforts.

Welcome to 2014. This is an E-Ticket Ride. Keep your arms and legs inside the vehicle at all times. Here we go!

Yellow Alert – El Heirro is Active

As it is our policy to keep you informed, it seems our old friend El Heirro is threatening to reawake. The concern here is if El Heirro has a significant quake causing a massive landslide, the East Coast of the US could experience a significant tsunami of 10-30M and with only a 6-8 hours notice.

Two years after a new underwater volcano appeared offshore of El Hierro in the Canary Islands, earthquake swarms and a sudden change in height suggest a new eruption is brewing near the island’s villages, officials announced Friday (Dec. 27).

After the announcement, one of the largest temblors ever recorded at the volcanic island, a magnitude-5.1 earthquake, struck offshore of El Hierro at 12:46 p.m. ET (5:46 p.m. local time) Friday,December 27, 2013, the National Geographic Institute reported. Residents on the island reported strong shaking, and the quake was felt throughout the Canary Islands, according to news reports. The earthquake’s epicenter was 9 miles (15 kilometers) deep.

Before the earthquake struck early Friday afternoon, the island’s volcano monitoring agency, Pelvolca, had raised the volcanic eruption risk for El Hierro to “yellow.” This warning means that activity is increasing at the volcano, but no eruption is imminent. A similar burst of activity prompted a yellow warning in June 2012, but the volcano soon quieted down.

Parts of El Hierro have swelled nearly 3 inches (7 centimeters) in the past week, with the growth centered between El Pinar and La Restinga, according to Involcan, the Volcanological Institute of the Canaries.

More than 550 earthquakes rattled the island between Monday and Wednesday, also centered on La Restinga. About 30 of the earthquakes were greater than magnitude 3, Involcan said. The earthquakes are triggered by magma rising underground, fracturing rocks and swelling the surface as the hot rock reaches upward. “The earthquake swarm corresponds to a new magmatic intrusion,” Involcan said Friday morning in a statement.

Friday’s preliminary magnitude-5.1 earthquake was on the opposite side of the island from the ongoing swarm.

Our concern is that MSM is not reporting this and our USGS site has only reported the 5.4 quake that occurred today. So heads up East Coasters and let everyone you know what is going on. Pay close attention for the next few days and be aware of what is going on in La Palma.  You can monitor activity closely at European Seismology Center and monitor for a tsunami at Atlantic Tsunami Warning Center. As always make sure you have your bug-out bag at the ready and your evacuation route well planned. Since there is such a high density population on the East Coast, the sooner you are aware, the more likely you will get to high ground in time.

To be clear here, we are not saying a large quake is eminent or that a tsunami will be generated. What we are saying is earthquakes have been swarming and growing in intensity. It is time to pay close attention as the potential for a large quake with a resultant tsunami has significantly increased in the last 48 hours.

December 23rd, 1913 is a Date Which Will Live in Infamy

That was the date the Federal Reserve Act was passed by our congress after almost half of the representatives had departed for the holidays. What is the result of that act? $32,343,000! Every Minute! What? If we were to pay off the National Debt in one year, that is what it would take to achieve the goal! We hear the numbers on the news X billion here and Y Trillion there, but in all honesty we cannot mentally conceive of these numbers and what they mean. What we also don’t seem to get our head around is that you and I owe this money! However, we do and we are enslaved to it.

We also don’t seem to understand that this debt was not created all by congressional spending which is also a popular myth. No, this debt was created by a private corporation with no government oversight, specifically The FED. All this “quantitative easing” to supposedly stimulate the economy requires this private corporation to print money which is backed by US treasury bonds (our promise to pay). To be exact as of this article being published, you, as a citizen, owe $191,360 of this debt, and yeah that includes every man, woman, and child. So if you are a family of four that tab comes to $758,700!

In addition to all of our debt, the U.S. government has also accumulated more than 200 trillion dollars in unfunded liabilities. This means you need to add another $2,210,000 to the $758,700 you as a family of four are on the hook for as a result of those who govern us. So say a cool $3 Million! This is no game here, that’s what you owe. This is insane, but also it is very real. Given the average household income of $45,000 per year, this means that 100% of what you earn for the next 66 years is required to eliminate this debt! Now ask who do we owe this money too? Bankers and global elite investors.

The greatest damage that quantitative easing has been causing to our economy is the fact that it is destroying worldwide faith in the U.S. dollar and in U.S. debt.  If the rest of the world stops using our dollars and stops buying our debt, we are going to be in a massive amount of trouble. Over the past several years, the Federal Reserve has been monetizing a staggering amount of U.S. government debt even though Ben Bernanke once promised that he would never do this.

To be fair, The Fed is just the modern version of the plan by “Central Bankers”. Long before the Fed our once honest leaders worried about the control these bankers had over our lives. The following is a February 1834 quote by President Andrew Jackson about the evils of central banking….

“I too have been a close observer of the doings of the Bank of the United States. I have had men watching you for a long time, and am convinced that you have used the funds of the bank to speculate in the breadstuffs of the country. When you won, you divided the profits amongst you, and when you lost, you charged it to the Bank. You tell me that if I take the deposits from the Bank and annul its charter I shall ruin ten thousand families. That may be true, gentlemen, but that is your sin! Should I let you go on, you will ruin fifty thousand families, and that would be my sin! You are a den of vipers and thieves. I have determined to rout you out and, by the Eternal, (bringing his fist down on the table) I will rout you out.”

Thomas Jefferson once stated that if he could add just one more amendment to the U.S. Constitution it would be a ban on all government borrowing….

“I wish it were possible to obtain a single amendment to our Constitution. I would be willing to depend on that alone for the reduction of the administration of our government to the genuine principles of its Constitution; I mean an additional article, taking from the federal government the power of borrowing.”

The capstone of the global central banking system is an organization known as the Bank for International Settlements.  An immensely powerful international organization that most people have never even heard of secretly controls the money supply of the entire globe.  It is called the Bank for International Settlements, and it is the central bank of central banks.  It is located in Basel, Switzerland, but it also has branches in Hong Kong and Mexico City.  It is essentially an unelected, unaccountable central bank of the world that has complete immunity from taxation and from national laws.  Even Wikipedia admits that “it is not accountable to any single national government.”  The Bank for International Settlements was used to launder money for the Nazis during World War II, but these days the main purpose of the BIS is to guide and direct the centrally-planned global financial system.  Today, 58 global central banks belong to the BIS, and it has far more power over how the U.S. economy (or any other economy for that matter) will perform over the course of the next year than any politician does.  Every two months, the central bankers of the world gather in Basel for another “Global Economy Meeting”.  During those meetings, decisions are made which affect every man, woman and child on the planet, and yet none of us have any say in what goes on.  The Bank for International Settlements is an organization that was founded by the global elite and it operates for the benefit of the global elite, and it is intended to be one of the key cornerstones of the emerging one world economic system.

It is time that every single person understood these realities in the most fundamental manner. The greatest period of economic growth in U.S. history was when we did not have a central bank. You are intentionally being enslaved by these so-called moguls who believe they truly own you. We have stated several times in many articles that the solution is to rid our lives of these non-productive parasites who simply hoard the labor of us all to glorify their sense of power and entitlement and we do so by declaring a global jubilee. We have a sense that globally we are ready to stand up and reclaim our sovereignty and dignity as human beings and in doing so we can throw these chains of bondage off and begin to expand our civilization in the ways we were meant to evolve. We are the ones who must do this and all it will take is for us to collectively understand that it is us who are being manipulated in this not so velvet slavery. We must break this notion that it is someone else who is poor. Whether you are a poor slave or a well off slave, you are a slave nonetheless.

To Truly Appreciate Full Perspective

The one thing that is constant is that our true perspective of anything can and does infinitely expand. This is an important TRUTH to understand. Imagine if you will you could stand on the top of the world, but see from the perspective of the equator just what this part of the galaxy looks like from a 360 degree perspective. I assure you it changes how you view everything and now you can do just that. Go here and explore the true nature of our neighborhood. http://media.skysurvey.org/interactive360/index.html

 

Here is but a taste.

Be sure to explore the site as it is interactive. But as you do pay attention to what is happening inside of you. I think you might be a bit surprised at what you begin to remember. Hmmmmm.

The Big Six Banks Just Get Bigger and Bigger

Back in 2008 we were held hostage as a people and eventually wound up forking nearly $17 Trillion dollars over to the banks after their casino games failed. We were told if we didn’t the world economy would collapse. These banks were just too big to fail. So now over five years have passed and our miserable congress failed to enact any meaningful legislation to prevent a repeat situation from occurring. Where the money really went will be an upcoming article, but for now let’s just look at those banks to see how big they are today. The numbers will shock you.

First the only banks that did not survive were the community banks serving their local communities. In 1985, there were more than 18,000 banks in the United States.  Today, there are only 6,891 left. The six largest banks in the United States (JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Citigroup, Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley) have collectively gotten 37 percent larger over the past five years.

The U.S. banking system has 14.4 trillion dollars in total assets.  The six largest banks now account for 67 percent of those assets and all of the other banks account for only 33 percent of those assets. JPMorgan Chase, alone, is roughly the size of the entire British economy. The five largest banks now account for 42 percent of all loans in the United States.

Well, since they gotten bigger, they must be in better shape, right? Wrong again. Right now, four of the “too big to fail” banks each have total exposure to derivatives that is well in excess of 40 trillion dollars. That’s $160 Trillion dollars! Their exposure is over TWICE the global GDP and 14 times larger than the US GDP! The total exposure that Goldman Sachs has to derivatives contracts is more than 381 times greater than their total assets.

Just think about from your personal financial perspective. If you were in that situation, it would mean your debt was 381 times your assets. In the US, Americans tend to have a low net worth. According to Social Security numbers those under 25 has a net worth of $1475, 25-34 has $8525, 35-44 has $51575, 45-54 has $98350, 55-64 has $180125. So let’s take the 35-44 number of $51575. This would mean you would have debts that totaled $19,650,075! Until you understand this from that perspective you cannot appreciate how totally insane this whole house of cards really is in truth.

The fact is these guys are totally and criminally out of control and no one is doing a single thing meaningful about it and now it is so nuts anyone who would be contemplating action is absolutely fearful to even speak about this insanity.

According to the Bank for International Settlements, the global financial system has a total of 441 trillion dollars worth of exposure to interest rate derivatives, which is nearly 6 times global GDP. Most governments’ coffers have been drained and most pension plans and investment pools are also tapped out.  The FED’s answer to this mess is just to keep printing money at the rate of about $40-60 Billion every month. This is only delaying the inevitable collapse that must come and folks are starting to get antsy that this is going to happen soon, very soon.

The only sane approach here is to have a global financial reset and the sooner the better. We can demolish this mess with a single global jubilee along with breaking these behemoths back down to a size where if they wish to act in a risky manner, they will live or die on their sword and the world will continue on without them. This would also eliminate these world-wide austerity programs and allow countries to get back to using their tax dollars for infrastructure, health care, education, and basic science research that will benefit all mankind.

It is important that we all understand these facts and are prepared to act when the time comes again when these con artists and habitual gamblers once again come begging with threats to blow up the economy. We should all just say to our representatives no way will we allow you to use one more penny of our money.  We should be willing to look them straight in the eye and say “Blow it up”! It is only then can we begin to construct a global economy based on honesty, transparency, sound fiscal decisions, and truly market driven economic activity. Don’t buy into the fear factor this time around.

All Foreclosures Should Stop Immediately- Judge Rules IN 2011!

In February 2011 United States Bankruptcy Judge Robert Grossman ruled that MERS’s business practices are unlawful. He explicitly acknowledged that this ruling set a precedent that had far-reaching implications for half of the mortgages in this country. MERS is dead. The banks are in big trouble. And all foreclosures should be stopped immediately while the legislative branch comes up with a solution.

MERS — the industry’s creation — stepped up to the plate to facilitate the fraud. The judge had ruled that its practices are illegal. Here’s MERS’s business model in brief. Real estate property sales and mortgages are supposed to be recorded in local recording offices, with fees paid. With the rise of securitization, each mortgage might be sold a dozen times before it came to rest as the collateral behind a mortgage backed security (MBS), and each of those sales would need to be recorded. MERS was created to bypass public recording; it would be listed in the county records as the “mortgagee of record” and the “nominee” of the holder of mortgage. Members of MERS could then transfer the mortgage from one to another without all the trouble of changing the local records, simply by (voluntarily) recording transactions on MERS’s registry. MERS and the banks lose; investors and homeowners win right?

Well this report which was reported by L. Randall Wray here is probably the most suppressed story in the history of journalism.  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/l-randall-wray/new-yorks-us-bankruptcy-c_b_824167.html.

So what happened in 2012? RealtyTrac said 1.8 million U.S. properties received default notices, scheduled auctions and bank repossessions in 2012, down 3 percent from 2011, and down 36 percent from the peak of 2.9 million properties with foreclosure filings in 2010.

Researchers found one in every 72, had at least one foreclosure filing during the year 2012, down 1.45 percent in 2011 and off 2.23 percent in 2010. Foreclosure activity increased in 25 states in 2012, while 25 states saw a decrease in foreclosure activity. But the backlog of foreclosures in some states due to court rulings that slowed lenders from seizing properties could lead to a jump in seized homes this year, RealtyTrac said.

“That could mean that although we are comfortably past the peak of the foreclosure problem nationally, 2013 is likely to be book-ended by two discrete jumps in foreclosure activity,” said Daren Blomquist, vice president at RealtyTrac, in a statement. “We expect to see continued increases in judicial foreclosure states near the beginning of the year as lenders finish catching up with the backlogs in those states, and another set of increases in some non-judicial states near the end of the year as lenders adjust to the new laws and process some deferred foreclosures in those states.”

Foreclosure activity in 2012 increased from 2011 in 25 states, including Massachusetts where foreclosures were up 14 percent, New Jersey (55 percent increase), Florida (53 percent increase), Connecticut (48 percent increase), Indiana (46 percent increase), Illinois 3 percent increase) and New York (31 percent increase).

Foreclosures fell in 25 states including Nevada (57 percent decrease), Utah (40 percent decrease), Oregon (40 percent decrease), Arizona (33 percent decrease), California (25 percent decrease) and Michigan (23 percent decrease).

In other words, even though MERS was determined to be an illegal casino racket, most of the courts seemed to ignore this fact or waited until the courts could find a way to circumvent Judge Grossman’s ruling.

Some things did occur in 2012 that did slow things down a bit. In early 2012 when five big banks settled with state and federal officials over widespread foreclosure abuses, flagrant violations — including the seizure of homes without due process — were supposed to end. But abuses kept coming to light. Despite happy talk about a housing rebound, nearly three million homeowners are in or near foreclosure, and many continued to be victimized by improper and possibly illegal practices.

It starts out innocently enough. The banks hire property management companies to determine whether homeowners who are behind on their mortgage payments have abandoned their homes and, if so, to secure the vacant property.  It doesn’t always go that way. An Illinois suit accuses the largest company in the industry, Safeguard, of breaking into homes despite evidence of occupancy, damaging and removing personal property, changing locks, cutting off utilities, and bullying occupants into leaving their homes when they have the legal right to stay. In several other states, private lawsuits and complaints to legal aid lawyers have alleged similar abuses.

Under the foreclosure settlement, banks are responsible for vetting, supervising and auditing contractors, a category that clearly includes property management companies. Profit and expediency, however, seem to have trumped due process yet again. Property companies and their subcontractors make more money on vacant homes than on occupied ones, because abandoned property requires more work, including changing locks, boarding up doorways and removing trash. And banks get some or all of the proceeds from the sale of vacant homes.

In the past, banks have downplayed foreclosure abuses by noting that affected homeowners were, after all, late on their payments, as if that justifies harassment and worse. The Illinois suit makes clear that eviction is permissible only after a legal process is concluded. In addition, state laws to protect homeowners are consistent with federal policies — weak as they are — to promote loan modifications. Both state and federal laws are intended to ensure fairness in the brutal foreclosure process.

The failure of federal policy to ensure adequate mortgage relief to borrowers, even as the banks were bailed out, remains an injustice and a drag on the economy. Foreclosure abuses add inexcusable insult to injury.

So if you are a homeowner and you are facing the reality of foreclosure, and as we have documented here many times. Make sure that: 1). You fully understand the law and your rights. There is free legal advice out there so get it. 2). Do not leave your home under any circumstance, even if it appears you are being forced out until all proceedings are concluded. If you are being harassed or threatened by a property management company, call the police and file a complaint. If your utilities are cut, approach the utilities and demand proof that whoever ordered the utilities cut had a right to do so. In most cases they cannot provide that proof and will restore service as long as you are not delinquent.

RealtyTrac estimates that 47% of the nation’s foreclosed homes are currently occupied. The percentage actually tops 60% in some hot housing markets, like Miami and Los Angeles.  Those still living in repossessed homes include both former owners and renters. Either way, their time in the homes is mortgage and rent free.

Is This “Event” Everyone is Waiting For Real? What is It?

If you have been trolling the internet and looking at things like UFOs, the Cabal, and the like, no doubt you may have become aware of something called “The Event”. We will look at this concept and see if we can understand the logic behind it. First a brief description.

The Event is a moment in time future, date uncertain when there will be a lot of actions happening on earth, globally, and all at once. There are essentially five elements to the event.

First, there are mass arrests of politicians and cabalists that have corrupted our political and banking systems. There is a certain logic to the fact that there is much corruption and criminal activity in both global politics and banking that does need to be ended. What is not clear is who is really going to carry out the arrests of about 1,000,000 people world-wide?

Secondly, there is going to be a global financial reset that includes a Global Debt Jubilee. This kind of talk has actually made it into mainstream financial publications so there is some real merit to that concept.

Third, technologies, especially those related to free clean unlimited energy that have been suppressed will be openly presented and available to everyone. There is no doubt that such technologies exist and have been suppressed by oil conglomerates and energy companies. The impacts free unlimited energy would have on the economy has been estimated by some global economists as the equivalent of raising the standard of living for everyone 100 fold. Again, there does seem to be some basis in fact for such a reality.

Fourth, we would be exposed to the fact we are not alone and that many off world races will openly disclose themselves for us all to see and begin to interact with all of us on a real and personal basis. This element is one of the two biggest “wows” of the Event. However, on closer examination, you would be hard put to argue that it is not possible. Just from a pure logic point of view, one has to consider the following facts. We know there are at least 100 billion stars in this galaxy, and there are at least 100 billion galaxies. Add to this that recently scientists have discovered that at least 20% of all stars have planets orbiting at distances from them that would support organic life as we know it. This means that the odds of us being alone are about 1 in 200 Trillion! Couple that with the fact that although the universe is about 15 billion years old, earth is only 4.5 billion years old, so the chance of intelligent life being even just 1 million years ahead of us in evolution is a very likely reality. The Disclosure Project headed by Dr. Steven Greer contains a lot of information by very credible people who have already had secret government related exposure to these off worlders.  So again there is a lot of logic behind such a statement.

Lastly, the Event is going to herald the return of many master spiritual leaders to include Jesus, the Madhi, Buddha, and many others. Certainly the scriptures and ancient texts all support such prophecy and the Mayan and Egyptian calendars did point to this time for the world to dramatically change. The Hopi’s and Aboriginal philosophies point to us leaving the fourth world and entering the fifth world at this time.

From what we can understand, it will be a great Celebration. Those ascended masters will be returning, as promised, to lend their mind and their muscle to building New Earth together with us. Our Off World families will be bringing their Fleets of Ships with new technologies and all the help which will be needed to revive Earth very quickly. This has always been the Master Plan. The Masters come back to give Service to Earth for what they received during their lives here. Earth has always been a Galactic Civilization.

From our understanding this “Event” will happen when a majority of people are ready for it to happen. So what do you think? Could such a thing actually take place? What does your “gut” tell you? Would you be ready for such an “event”? If the answer is yes, then just simply mentally yell “I’M READY!”  Hey, it may be just like Grandma’s chicken soup for a cold, it may not help, but it certainly can’t hurt.

While Congress Diddles, Obama mumbles, and Bernake Fiddles-Rome is Burning

We just heard that the economy is going in the right direction and Pinocchio’s nose grew another 12 inches. Thanks to journalists like Michael Synder, we know the truth and the truth is the economy is getting worse month by month. Here are the facts, just the facts.

The only reason that the official unemployment rate has been declining over the past couple of years is that the federal government has been pretending that millions upon millions of unemployed Americans no longer want a job and have “left the labor force”.  As Zero Hedge recently demonstrated, if the labor force participation rate returned to the long-term average of 65.8 percent, the official unemployment rate in the United States would actually be 11.5 percent instead of 7 percent.

The percentage of Americans that are actually working is much lower than it used to be.  In November 2000, 64.3 percent of all working age Americans had a job.  When Barack Obama first entered the White House, 60.6 percent of all working age Americans had a job.  Today, only 58.6 percent of all working age Americans have a job. The “inactivity rate” for men in their prime working years (25 to 54) has just hit a brand new all-time record high.

In November 2007, there were 121.9 million full-time workers in the United States.  Today, there are only 116.9 million full-time workers in the United States. Only about 47 percent of all adults in America have a full-time job at this point.  The ratio of wages to corporate profits in the United States just hit a brand new all-time low.

When Barack Obama took office, the average duration of unemployment in this country was 19.8 weeks.  Today, it is 37.2 weeks. According to the New York Times, long-term unemployment in America is up by 213 percent since 2007.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, median household income in the United States has fallen for five years in a row. The rate of homeownership in the United States has fallen for eight years in a row. The gap between the rich and the poor in the United States is at an all-time record high.

If that is not enough to understand how bad the economy is, then consider these facts. Under Barack Obama, the velocity of money (a very important indicator of economic health) has plunged to a post-World War II low. Back in the year 2000, our trade deficit with China was 83 billion dollars.  In 2008, our trade deficit with China was 268 billion dollars.  Last year, it was 315 billion dollars.  That was the largest trade deficit that one nation has had with another nation in world history.

Fortunately, it appears that most Americans are not buying into the propaganda.  According to a new CNN survey, the percentage of Americans that believe that the economy is getting worse far exceeds the percentage of Americans that believe that the economy is improving. However, we as a people are not doing anything to insure our congress and administration are reacting to correct this problem. We have to realize that WE MUST begin to hold these scoundrels responsible for their lack of action. At this juncture that includes most every member of congress, certainly the office of the President, and absolutely the FED decisions that have been made.

The American economy is being dismantled brick by brick and WE remain silent. The middle class is being eliminated and not only to we remain silent, we allow trade agreements like the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Free Trade Agreement (FTA) to be conducted IN SECRECY!  This compact may significantly limit public protections. The issues being negotiated extend to include “patent and copyright, land use, food and product standards, natural resources, professional licensing, government procurement, financial practices, healthcare, energy, telecommunications, and other service sector regulations.”  The secret process would establish policies binding on future U.S. Congresses and state legislatures on numerous non-trade subjects.

When you begin to marry first the lack of action by the congress to do ANYTHING effective concerning jobs with the outright disastrous monetary policies of the Fed and the SECRET free trade actions of the administration it is hard to deny those whacky conspiracy nuts who are saying the American economy is under attack!

We think every responsible adult should at a minimum pick up the phone and call their Representative or Senator and put them on notice to “GET TO WORK” on the economy or they will join the unemployed that they don’t seem to give a damn about.  So let’s make a New Year’s Resolution that by the second week in January, EVERY voting adult has called their representatives. It is just one phone call! Here is where to find their numbers. http://www.congressmerge.com/onlinedb/ We can do this. We must do this. EVERYONE!

How Indifferent is This Congress- Ask Starving Families

This congress has adopted nearly $5 billion in cuts to SNAP and food stamps when nearly 47 million Americans rely on these programs. Their reasoning is that is what they have determined is the amount that is  fraud and abuse. However, A USDA study contradicts those findings and determined that there is less than 1% in fraud and abuse in these programs. This congress has also failed to act on the farm bill which could lead to milk prices climbing to as high as $7 or $8 per gallon. We can bail out banksters to the excess of $15 trillion dollars, but to hell with whether our people eat? Really is this what we have allowed our government to become. Food insecurity in the US is at its worst levels since the depression, which co-incidently was another crisis caused by greedy banksters. The really scary difference between now and then is that then we still had a congress, while influenced by money, wasn’t OWNED by monied interest.

Even during the recessions of the 60’s and 70s food insecurity was a topic in the US most associated with Africa, India, and China. However, since 2008 food insecurity has become a serious issue for western countries such as the US and Britain. Income inequality has finally reached into our bellies.

In the United States, more than one out of five children lives in a household with food insecurity, which means they do not always know where they will find their next meal. According to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), 16.7 million children under 18 in the United States live in this condition – unable to consistently access nutritious and adequate amounts of food necessary for a healthy life. In 2009, the top five states with the highest rate of food insecure children under 18 are the District of Columbia, Oregon, Arizona, Arkansas, & Texas. 20% or more of the child population in 40 states and D.C. lived in food insecure households in 2009.

Here is a snapshot:

United States                      14.7%

Mississippi                           20.9%

Arkansas                              19.7%

Texas                                    18.4%

Alabama                              17.9%

North Carolina                      17.0%

Georgia                               16.9%

Missouri                              16.7%

Nevada                                16.6%

Ohio                                    16.1%

California                             15.6%

 In 2012, 85.5 percent of U.S. households were food secure throughout the year. The remaining 14.5 percent (17.6 million households) were food insecure. Food-insecure households (those with low and very low food security) had difficulty at some time during the year providing enough food for all their members due to a lack of resources.  In 2012, 5.7 percent of U.S. households (7.0 million households) had very low food security. In this more severe range of food insecurity, the food intake of some household members was reduced and normal eating patterns were disrupted at times during the year due to limited resources. Children were food insecure at times during the year in 10.0 percent of households with children.  That’s 1 in 10 children in the US. These 3.9 million households were unable at times during the year to provide adequate, nutritious food for their children.

Do rises in food prices affect food insecurity? Here are some recent findings:

• Overall, local food prices “significantly” affect food insecurity for those households at 200% or less of the poverty line: “Those in the highest-priced areas are significantly more likely to be food insecure: Households in high-priced areas are 8.6, 8.3, and 10.0 percentage points more likely to experience household, adult and child food insecurity, respectively, compared to those in low-priced areas.”
• The data suggest that “SNAP has large and significant effects on the probability of food insecurity for participants: SNAP reduces the probability of household, adult, and child food insecurity by 17.4, 11.2 and 20.6 percentage points, which amount to reductions of 33.7%, 24.6% and 70.3% of prevalence for these populations.”
• In addition, “SNAP households that live in the places with the highest quartile of food prices are between 8 and 10 percentage points (between 15% and 20%) more likely to be food insecure than those in the lowest quartile of food prices.”

Hunger in Britain has reached the level of a “public health emergency” and the Government may be covering up the extent to which austerity and welfare cuts are adding to the problem, leading experts have said.

In a letter to the British Medical Journal, a group of doctors and senior academics from the Medical Research Council and two leading universities said that the effect of Government policies on vulnerable people’s ability to afford food needed to be “urgently” monitored.

A surge in the number of people requiring emergency food aid, a decrease in the amount of calories consumed by British families, and a doubling of the number of malnutrition cases seen at English hospitals represent “all the signs of a public health emergency that could go unrecognized until it is too late to take preventative action,” they write.

Despite mounting evidence for a growing food poverty crisis in the UK, ministers maintain there is “no robust evidence” of a link between sweeping welfare reforms and a rise in the use of food banks. However, publication of research into the phenomenon, commissioned by the Government itself, has been delayed, amid speculation that the findings may prove embarrassing for ministers.

“Because the Government has delayed the publication of research it commissioned into the rise of emergency food aid in the UK, we can only speculate that the cause is related to the rising cost of living and increasingly austere welfare reforms,” the public health experts write.

The authors of the letter, who include Dr David Taylor-Robinson and Professor Margaret Whitehead of Liverpool University’s Department of Public Health, say that malnutrition can have a long-lasting impact on health, particularly among children.

Chris Mould, chief executive of the Trussell Trust, the largest national food bank provider said that one in three of the 350,000 people who required a food bank hand-out this year were children.  He called the BMJ letter a “timely warning” and criticized the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) for keeping its report into the problem “under wraps”. The report was commissioned by the Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) in February, and was completed by an academic at Warwick University. However, publication has been stalled.

“We’ve sought to engage with the DWP in order to share our data and share our experience, with a view to exploring what practical action could be taken to ease the problem,” Mr Mould told The Independent. “We’ve had refusals, letters saying they do not want to talk to us. We find that deeply disappointing.”

“We want to see that research. It was commissioned by Government, pulled together by a highly reputable academic and we want to see what it says. We understand that the reason it has not been published is that DWP has queried aspects of the data in it and has been preventing its publication for months. That, we think, is not acceptable.”

“Malnutrition in children is particularly worrying because exposures during sensitive periods can have lifelong effects, increasing the risk of cardiovascular diseases and other adult chronic diseases,” they write. “Access to an adequate food supply is the most basic of human needs and rights.”

But Luciana Berger, Labour’s shadow minister for public health, said that it was a “national scandal” that people were suffering from malnutrition in the UK. “This shouldn’t be happening in 21st century Britain,” she said. “With hundreds of thousands having to access emergency food aid, it’s sadly unsurprising that people are both eating less and eating less healthily. David Cameron needs to listen to what the experts are saying and tackle the cost of living crisis driving people into food poverty.”  “I don’t think this is acceptable in the seventh richest country in the world – and I’d really like to know the reasons why it’s happening so we can stop it…” she said. “We need to stop turning a blind eye.”

Well it is even more unacceptable in the richest country in the world. I think our congressmen and women should think long and hard about what they are doing to play favor to the oligarchs at our expense. They would do well to remember the infamous words of Marie Antoinette when she said, “Let them eat cake!” We all know what happened to dear sweet Marie. However, we also need to look into the mirror and ask one simple question: “why am I allowing this to happen and I am staying silent?” Well do you have an answer for yourself?

We Hate It When We Are Right

As far back as April 10, 2010, we began to warn Americans that the banksters were moving on a plan to extract as much wealth as possible from our pockets. Back then we said that eventually these shysters would directly and boldly swipe retirement funds directly. Then as the months past, we saw first people stripped of the equity in their homes through the mortgage fraud, then we saw the truth that the so-called bank bailouts really cost us, the American taxpayers, in excess of $15 trillion. If that were not enough, the banks were then caught laundering drug money, they plead guilty to fixing interest rates through the Libor scandal and were also guilty of manipulating several commodities including oil, silver, gold, and food grains.

All along we said if there are no criminal sanctions, they would continue by going after sovereign funds and they did exactly that in the last 24 months. So many cities are on the verge of bankruptcy because they invested in the “junk” of these so-called big banks and funds. The truth is that our justice department refuses to bring criminal charges and the result has been the so-called “Big 6” that were too big to fail in 2008 have gotten 40% bigger. Now, right on cue, the last big pot of money is now going to be drained leaving hundreds of thousands American retirees without the retirement money they worked their whole lives for to ensure their retirement security.

As lawmakers in Springfield Illinois prepare to vote on a controversial pension reform plan, a federal bankruptcy court judge in Detroit issued a ruling that could have major consequences for government employees throughout the country. Dealing with numerous objections to the nation’s largest municipal bankruptcy, Judge Steven Rhodes ruled that pension debts were not given “extraordinary protection” under Michigan’s Constitution, and that pension plans could be reduced by a bankruptcy court.

The judge also ruled that Michigan’s emergency manager law, and its decision to allow the city to enter bankruptcy, were both proper under state law and the state constitution. The rulings clear the path for Detroit to enter bankruptcy, and also increase the likelihood that city pensions will be sharply cut as part of a restructuring plan for Detroit. You see, the retirees are “unsecured” debtors so they are last in line to be paid.

Like Illinois, Michigan has a provision in its state constitution that makes pensions enforceable contracts. Judge Rhodes ruled, however, that pension contracts, like most other contracts, can be modified in bankruptcy if doing so is needed to put the city on a sound financial footing. Detroit government workers unions had argued that pensions could not be amended. The judge rejected that argument, setting a precedent that is likely to apply in Illinois.

In addition to Illinois, more than 20 major cities are on the verge of bankruptcy. These cities have amassed $118 billion in unfunded healthcare liabilities. These are legal promises to pay healthcare benefits to municipal workers beyond the employee contributions to finance those funds. This is a giant fiscal sink hole — and because of defined benefit plans, the hole keeps getting deeper.

Detroit may be the largest city in American history to go bankrupt, but it is not alone. The city raced to the financial insolvency finish line before anyone else in its class. Keep an eye on “too big to fail” cities like Chicago, Philadelphia, and New York.

According to an analysis by the Manhattan Institute, several Chicago pension funds are in worse financial shape than the worker pensions in Detroit. One is only 25 percent funded, and where the other 75 percent of the money will come from is anyone’s guess. And there are about a dozen major California cities having systemic problems paying their bills.

This decision by Judge Rhodes also weakens the value of any “guarantee” of pension funding, as a bankruptcy court could still reduce benefits in the event of a state or local government bankruptcy.  Using a more conservative method of accounting for financial gains in the marketplace, there is a $4.1 trillion gap between assets and liabilities — known as the “unfunded liability” — of all state-level pension systems in the United States, according to State Budget Solutions, a fiscally conservative think tank that deals with tax and spending issues at the state level. This action by Judge Rhodes is a very important ruling with major implications for any government agency that has unfunded pension liabilities. The effect this will have on Illinois and other states and cities is likely to be profound, but could be complicated. With so much at stake, all parties that have an interest in pension reform – lawmakers, government workers and unions – would be well advised to put a vote on pension reform on hold long enough to work through Judge Rhodes’ ruling to understand how it will apply in each case. They should come back with a better plan that makes retirements more secure.

One thing is clear: Pension “guarantees” are not unbreakable. The need for real pension reform that gives workers more control over their own retirement funds is even greater now.

We have watched this methodically unfold in Greece, Spain, Ireland and now the grand daddy jackpot for the banksters, US municipal and state retirement funds. We are absolutely dumbfounded as to what it is going to take to get people to wake up, clean up our legislators, and jail these mobsters. Really are we that much sheeple that we will go apathetically and quietly to slaughter? These politicians and mobsters are banking on it, no pun intended.