Friday, November 30, 2012

Senate: Get forces out, end war in Afghanistan
















By The Associated Press 


WASHINGTON — Reflecting a war-weary nation, the Senate voted overwhelmingly on Thursday for an accelerated withdrawal of forces from Afghanistan after more than a decade of fighting.

The strong bipartisan vote of 62-33 sends a clear message to President Obama and the military as they engage in high-stakes talks about the pace of drawing down the 66,000 troops there, with a White House announcement expected within weeks.

Although the vote was on a nonbinding amendment to a Defense policy bill, its significance could not be discounted amid the current discussions.

Thirteen Republicans, including Sen. Richard Lugar of Indiana, the top GOP lawmaker on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, backed the measure.

Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., its chief sponsor, argued that al-Qaida is stronger in other parts of the world and that nation-building in Afghanistan has gone off track. His measure endorsed Obama’s timetable to withdraw all combat troops by the end of 2014 but pressed for a quicker pace, without specifying how that would be achieved.

“It is time to end this war, end the longest war in United States history,” Merkley said during Senate debate.
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said on Thursday that the United States will need to keep troops in Afghanistan even after the combat mission ends in 2014 because al-Qaida remains in the country and is trying to strengthen its influence.

Panetta would not say how many American troops he thinks will be needed to conduct that mission, nor did he mention a time period.

The overall defense bill authorizes $631 billion for weapons, ships, aircraft and a 1.7 percent pay raise for military personnel.

The White House has threatened to veto the legislation in its current form, citing limits on the president’s authority in handling detainees at the U.S. military facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and restrictions on cuts to the Air National Guard and the Air Force Reserve.


Read more: http://triblive.com/usworld/nation/3048784-74/afghanistan-senate-troops-war-military-defense-obama-vote-2014-bill#ixzz2DkPgSv3T

A Renaissance in Consciousness


Fast growing sunspot AR1620 has a beta-gamma-delta
magnetic field that harbors energy for X-class solar flares.
Credit: SDO/HMI
REMOVINGTHESHACKCLES

I started writing this article yesterday, and then got side tracked by Life the Universe and Everything. 
Our lovely Sol is tossing off solar flares once again after a very short break. Two M Class flares- 1.0 & 1.2 two days ago, and an M 2.2 late last night.  But even during the small break from flares, the sun has been sending a constant stream of CMEs from filaments tearing off.  Not all the CMEs have been Earth facing, but there have been a fair share that have been- we are expecting two directly earth facing CMEs today through to tomorrow and some minor geomagnetic activity.

More M-class flares will probably occur in the coming 48 hours in one or both of these active regions. NOAA/SWPC forecasters estimate 35% chance of M-class and 5% chance of X-class solar flares.
Region 1623 also grew significantly in areal coverage but the magnetic complexity is difficult to determine with its proximity to the limb.

















Active region view, November 28, 2012 (Source: SDO’s HMI Intensitygram

A proton event is possible in case of a strong flare in any of these two sunspot groups due to their position in the western solar hemisphere.

The Earth is currently inside a slow (around 380 km/s) solar wind flow with average (around 4 nT) interplanetary magnetic field magnitude.
The arrival of the interplanetary shock driven by the ICME corresponding to the partial halo CME observed on the Sun yesterday is expected on November 30, 2012. As a result we can expect active to minor storm geomagnetic conditions. Isolated unsettled periods are possible through December 1, 2012 due to coronal hole high-speed stream effects.
"Isolated unsettled periods are possible through December 1, 2012 due to coronal hole high-speed stream effects."   I highlighted that last sentence because I think it's important to note that we have a massive coronal hole now direct earth facing and sending a constant stream of high speed energy our way.







Here is SuspiciousObservers update for today:





Skywatchers88 put together this excellent video outlining the solar activity on the 27th- amazing visuals of our sun dancing the energy our way:


I have always thought that solar energy is one of the greatest factors in our evolution of consciousness- hence my intense interest in Sol's endless dance of light.  Reading Daniel's paper on "Geoengineering, Chemtrails, HAARP, World Orders, Time Lines & Ascension"  really gave me a boost of "Eureka!!" as he directly linked the activity on and in our sun to the energetic changes happening to us, our planet, and our solar system.

This article also gives a simple explanation (although not quite accurate) of these effects:



Institute of Space and Astronautical Science,
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
(ISAS/JAXA) & NASA
http://www.lunarplanner.com/SolarCycles.html 

Solar cycles and their activity play an intimate part in the unfoldment of human consciousness. Solar flares affect the Central Nervous System (stomach lining), all brain activity (including equilibrium), all human and animal behavior and all psychophysiological (mental-emotional-physical) response.

Solar flares can cause some people to be nervous, anxious, worrisome, jittery, irritable, lethargic, to have short term memory loss, to feel nauseous, queasy, and have prolonged head pressure or head aches. They can also cause trouble with the radio, phone, Internet, computers, and all forms of communication--both human and technological.
 
Solar activity can also be stimulating, invigorating, illuminating, and create a heightened sense of awareness, and it can enhance vision and creativity tremendously. It especially stimulates the pineal gland in the brain, which is our center of vision and creativity. The pineal gland is a "neuroendocrine transducer" that converts gravitational-magnetic signals into chemical hormonal responses that control, via the hypothalamus, the pituitary gland. The pituitary is the master control center of the brain that governs the rest of the neurological system. This information expresses into the cellular structure of the individual--essentially into the molecular matrix of the cell in a "DNA Illumination Sequence" that is responsible for our evolutionary awakening. The pituitary is the administrative seat controlling cellular memory, and hence, the remembrance / emergence of our true selves.
 
How a person experiences enhanced solar activity is a function of the resonance of their physical neurology. If a person is crystalized with mental, emotional and physical blockages, then increase solar activity may seem uncomfortable. It is like trying to get something to improve in vibrational resonance that has resistance to do so. It a person has a more refined neurological resonance, that is for people that have done the inner work to clear mental, emotional and physical crystallizations, then enhanced solar activity is enlivening, and gives one a heightened perceptual awareness. In addition, if a person's pineal gland is severely calcified, which is common amongst most humans and generally occurs at age six, partly due to the stifling of extra-sensory awareness and creativity when very young, then the pineal is not able to respond (vibrate) to increase "light" solar activity as it should.

Solar activity, although dramatic, catalyzes, and is essential for our evolutionary process by stimulating radical change and transformation in the organizational foundation of matter, energy and consciousness. Solar activity plays an intimate role along with the dynamic transition in Earth's precessional cycle, and the erect precessional cross which occurred around 1998-2000 A.D. and which began the "time of change" in Earth's ~25,000-year "Evolutionary Cycle of the Soul." Solar flare activity and other stellar explosions (supernovas) are the primary catalysts that stimulate a renaissance in consciousness. They provide cosmic impulses that supports the evolutionary maturation of the incarnate soul--the illumination of consciousness that we all seek.

Remember, solar activity illuminates consciousness, dissolving duality's paradox - the fear and judgment based monsters within are consumed in Light - old patterns of behavior vanish, while true elegance and majesty of self emerges.

Unconditional Love banishes Fear - a choice.
Choose a new octave of participation in harmony and beauty,
above the raging tempest of the old world.

So as I've said before, if you're feeling the physical effects of  all this amazing solar energy, slow down, take it easy and rest as much as possible.  One of my favourite things to do is to go outside and sit back and close my eyes and feel the sun on my face. Imagining it bathing me in positive energy, feeling it flow into me, energizing me.


..... and a little Vitamin D never hurts either!





Source: http://removingtheshackles.blogspot.ca/

http://www.solarham.net/
http://spaceweather.com/
http://thewatchers.adorraeli.com/2012/11/29/sunspot-1620-generated-m2-2-solar-flare/

Solar Revolution








Its here now... http://philosophers-stone.co.uk/wordpress/solar-revolution/

Guests were invited to watch a special sneak preview of the film SOLAR REVOLUTION and also to meet with the filmmakers, for a ‘behind-the-scenes’ discussion about the making of the movie and see Dieter Broers LIVE via web transmission from Vienna, Austria!! 

The movie asks the questions – does the sun have the power to transform humankind? World famous German biophysicist, Dieter Broers, makes a compelling case, pointing to a wealth of scientific evidence including NASA research that shows a remarkable correlation between increases in solar activity and advances in our creative, mental, and spiritual abilities. 

We are in the midst of a dramatic rise in solar disturbances, which have the capability of disrupting the Earth’s geomagnetic field and, as a result, our global ecology. Broers, however, sees this not as an impending apocalypse but as the dawn of a new age! 

Drawing on cutting edge research from a variety of disciplines, he shows how erupting solar activity carries the potential to boost brain capacity and expand the mind in ways humanity has never imagined possible. Abilities now seen as extraordinary or supernatural—telepathy, extrasensory perception, and off-the-charts intelligence quotients—may soon become ordinary and natural and could very well help us solve the mounting global crises we are facing. 




“Humankind is going through an evolutionary leap”, says Broers, and the process has already begun!! Be the first to hear Broers stunning conclusions in this amazing new movie SOLAR REVOLUTION! Secure your seat – Click above to Book Now!! 


Dieter Broers’ film is all the suggestion we need to realize that we have come to the end of our infatuation with the straight line, and are awakening to a virgin appreciation of all it means to be human. I gladly recommend it. ~ Barnet Bain, Producer of What Dreams May Come, and The Celestine Prophecy. ; 


(Featuring: DIETER BROERS, RUPERT SHELDRAKE, MICHAEL PERSINGER, ERNST SENKOWSKI, MICHAEL KONIG, ILLOBRAND VON LUDWIGER, ELIZABETH RAUSCHER, ROLLIN MCCRATY, FRANZ HALBERG, GIULIANA CONFORTO, JJ & DESIREE HURTAK, FRANCINE BLAKE, and RICK STRASSMAN. 


Dieter Broers 

“I’m convinced that a change will come about in 2012. The question is: ‘When is 2012?…’”
Dieter Broers is a renowned bio-physicist and best-selling author, whose worldview is one which fuses spirit and matter, two subjects which are currently viewed by the scientific world as being separate. He uses advanced science to describe a holistic existence. 

Dieter Broers studied physics and electrical engineering in Hamburg and Kiel. Since 1980, he has conducted research in the field of frequency medicine and regulation therapy. Broers holds over 100 patents worldwide in 85 countries. 

The core of his inventions include the effects of geomagnetic and electro-weak fields on biological organisms. His scientific efforts led him to consciousness science and the effects of these EM fields on biological systems and states of consciousness.

With the release of his book, ‘The Matrix Code’, he began his career as a bestselling author. Besides ‘Solar Revolution’, his popular works include ‘Checklist 2012 – Seven Strategies on how to turn the crisis into opportunity’, ‘Thoughts Create Reality’ and ‘(R)Evolution 2012’. His books and films had a significant impact in the German speaking countries and Russia. The author lives and works in Austria and Greece. 


Life on Mercury? Scientists claim discovery of water on 'the Swift Planet'


A mosaic of MESSENGER images of Mercury's north polar region is pictured
in this handout image from NASA. Instruments aboard NASA's MErcury Surface,
Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) spacecraft
studying the planet Mercury have provided compelling support for the long-held
hypothesis the planet harbors abundant water ice and other frozen volatile materials
within its permanently shadowed polar craters. (Reuters/NASA/Johns Hopkins
University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington/National
Astronomy and Ionosphere Center, Arecibo Observatory)
Scientists have confirmed for the first time that the planet Mercury holds “at least 100 billion tons of water ice” and also has “organic material” in the permanently-shadowed craters at its north pole. The alleged findings came from NASA’s Messenger Spacecraft, which has been in orbit around Mercury since 2011.

Theories that Mercury – also known as the Swift Planet – could potentially contain forms of water were already being discussed back in 1992. Back then, Earth-based telescopes had picked up “bright areas” in and around the planet’s polar regions.

Alternative explanations were put forward to account for the bright areas, but Messenger provided enough evidence for water ice to exist on the planet closest to our sun.

The discovery is even more spectacular, taking into account that Mercury’s surface temperatures can sometimes reach 427 degrees Celsius (800 F).

Although the finding of almost 22 cubic miles pales when compared with our planet’s water capacity (an estimated 332,500,000 cubic miles!), Mercury is our solar system’s smallest planet, roughly one tenth the size of Earth.

Image credit: NASA

Even so, as much as 1.1 trillion tons of ice could lie on or just beneath Mercury's surface in the nooks and crannies of craters that never see sunlight, according to scientists working on the Messenger mission. Much of that ice may be protected by a dark layer of carbon-rich organic material several inches thick, they said.

The new research "doesn't mean we have life on Mercury, but it is relevant for the question of life in the solar system in general," UCLA planetary scientist David Paige, lead author of one of three papers published Thursday by the journal Science, said.

The water and organic material probably aren't native to Mercury; one theory suggests they could have been delivered by icy comets as they smashed into the surface.

It's widely believed that this is how organic molecules made their way to Earth as well, meaning Mercury, then, could offer a glimpse of a possible early stage before the development of life as we know it.


Image from www.wired.com
This image of the planet Mercury was taken by NASA's unmanned Messenger spacecraft during its October 6, 2008, fly-by of the planet closest to the sun. (Reuters/NASA-Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington/Handout)
An image of the planet Mercury, made during the January 2008 flyby of the planet by the Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry and Ranging (MESSENGER) spacecraft is seen in this image released by NASA July 3, 2008. (Reuters/NASA/JHUAP/Arizona State University/Handout)

Supreme Court declares right to film police is protected under First Amendment

(NaturalNews) Ever since ordinary Americans have been able to instantly videotape any given situation, there have been powerful forces working to circumvent the Constitution and prohibit use of such technology.
The most recent example involves a California man who was tossed in jail for four days after he attempted to videotape police officers on a public street.

In that case, Daniel J. Saulmon was charged with resisting, delaying and obstructing an officer, even though the video clearly shows him standing well away from a traffic stop, and that he was only arrested after he failed to produce identification for an approaching officer. As an aside, there is no California law that requires a citizen to produce identification (remember, this is a state that welcomes illegal immigrants). And, as others have pointed out, even if there was such a law on the books, officers would be required to have reasonable suspicion that the person being asked for ID was committing a crime.

Unable to defend the indefensible

Now; however, such arrests will hopefully become a thing of the past following a just-announced U.S. Supreme Court ruling which upholds a citizen's right to video police.

Justices decided not to hear a case involving the state of Illinois' authoritarian "eavesdropping" law that has been regularly abused by authorities to prevent citizens from taping cops in action.

The Chicago Tribune reported that in deciding to pass on the issue, justices left standing a ruling by a lower federal appeals court which found that the law violates free-speech rights when it is applied to persons who tape police.

In June, the appeals court issued a temporary injunction, which effectively barred Cook County State's Attorney Anita Alvarez from prosecuting anyone under the current statute. In late November, the American Civil Liberties Union, which sued Alvarez over the statute, asked a federal judge hearing the case to make the injunction permanent, according to Harvey Grossman, the legal director for the ACLU's Illinois chapter.

Grossman went on to tell the paper he believes a permanent injunction would ultimately set a precedent across the state that irreparably hampers enforcement of the law.




This is the way of Chicago politics

Alvarez has a deadline to respond to the ACLU's request, but a spokeswoman for her office, Sally Daly, said a Supreme Court ruling in the case would have been better, providing "prosecutors across Illinois with legal clarification and guidance with respect to the constitutionality and enforcement" of the statute.

And yet, the high court's non-ruling seems to have done just that - provided enough nails in the coffin of this authoritarian statute to bury it, since the lower court already ruled as much, at least in regards to the taping of police officers.

Which is as it should be, if the goal is to reaffirm constitutional liberty. The state's eavesdropping law is one of the most stringent in the country, making audio recording of a law enforcement officer, even while in public and on duty, a felony that is punishable by up to 15 years in prison.

That's not surprising in a state where Chicago politics, and the mob mentality associated with it, rules. We can't have citizens recording corrupt public officials counting the votes of dead people, after all.

Fortunately, the law was so ridiculous and harsh that it sparked a widening public debate that began last year. In August 2011, the Tribune said, a Cook County jury acquitted a woman who was charged with recording Chicago police internal affairs investigators she thought were attempting to dissuade her from filing a sexual harassment complaint against a patrol officer.

Later, judges in Cook and Crawford counties declared the law unconstitutional. The McLean County state's attorney further cited problems in the law when dropping charges in February against a man who was accused of recording a policeman during a traffic stop.

Using what can only be described as twisting legal logic, Alvarez argued that allowing citizens to record police would act as a deterrent, dissuading them from talking candidly to police and thereby causing problems in securing crime scenes or conducting what she called sensitive investigations.

Nothing constitutional about it

The federal appeals court; however, ruled that the law "restricts far more speech than necessary to protect legitimate privacy interests."

Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy says he's in favor of a change in the law that would permit citizens to tape police - and vice versa.

But this law doesn't need to be "revised," it needs to go away. The state of Illinois has a way of abusing its citizens that pales by comparison.

Resident Michael Allison essentially facing life in prison for recording police after authorities and prosecutors considered the maximum sentence possible for five counts of violating the eavesdropping statute.

Following a public outcry, the judge in the case threw it out, recognizing its unconstitutionality.

Sources:

http://www.chicagotribune.com

http://www.infowars.com

http://dmv.ca.gov/pubs/vctop/appndxa/penalco/penco148.htm

Source: http://www.naturalnews.com/038123_filming_police_first_amendment_Supreme_Court.html#ixzz2DindA6G5

Thursday, November 29, 2012

Violent crime takes a rare day off in New York

No one shot, stabbed or subjected to violent attack for the first day in living memory in New York City

No one died: violent crime fails to take place across New York City.
Photograph: Murdo Macleod

 


















New York City achieved a rarity on Monday – for 24 hours there was not a single report of a person being shot, stabbed or subjected to violent crime, police have revealed.

New York police department chief spokesman Paul Browne said it was "first time in memory" that the city's police force had experienced such a peaceful 24 hours.

It comes at the end of year when the city is on target to have its lowest murder rate since 1960.
While crime is up 3% overall, including a 9% surge in grand larceny that police attribute to a rash of smartphone thefts, murder is down 23% year on year, the NYPD said.

Tom Repetto, author of American Police, 1949-2012, said he could not recall such a crime-free day as Monday. "In a city of 8 million people, this is extremely rare," he said.

There have been 366 murders in the city so far this year, compared with 472 at this time last year, according to the NYPD.

By comparison, Chicago, Illinois, a city of 2.7 million people, has been plagued by gang violence and has registered 462 murders in 2012. Philadelphia, with a 1.5 million population, has recorded 301 murders in 2012, the exact same number as this time last year.

Repetto attributed New York's success to proactive police department tactics, including its controversial stop and frisk policy. Critics have argued that the dramatic increase in searches has not led to a similar rise in gun seizures, but the NYPD said the proactive tactics had made criminals think twice about taking their guns out on the street.

Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Audit Says Kabul Bank Began as ‘Ponzi Scheme’

KABUL, Afghanistan — Kabul Bank became Afghanistan’s largest financial institution by offering the promise of modern banking to people who had never had a saving or checking account. What it really dealt in was modern theft: “From its very beginning,” according to a confidential forensic audit of Kabul Bank, “the bank was a well-concealed Ponzi scheme.”

The chief judge in the Kabul Bank case, Shams Rahman Shams, at center behind desk, listened to a defense
lawyer during a hearing this month. The United States has pressed for prosecutions.























Afghan and American officials had for years promoted Kabul Bank as a prime example of how Western-style banking was transforming a war-ravaged economy. But the audit, prepared this year for Afghanistan’s central bank by the Kroll investigative firm, gives new details of how the bank instead was institutionalizing fraud that reached into the hundreds of millions of dollars and obliterated Afghans’ trust after regulators finally seized the bank in August 2010 and the theft was revealed. 

Going further than previous reports, the audit asserts that Kabul Bank had little reason to exist other than to allow a narrow clique tied to President Hamid Karzai’s government to siphon riches from depositors, who were the bank’s only substantial source of revenue. 

At one point, Kroll’s investigators found 114 rubber stamps for fake companies used to give forged documents a more legitimate look. And the auditing firms used by the bank never took issue with loan books that were “almost entirely fraudulent,” Kroll found, recommending that the Afghan government explore suing the last such auditor, A.F. Ferguson & Co., a private Pakistani firm with a franchise under PricewaterhouseCoopers

When Afghan regulators, aided by American officials, first discovered the extent of the fraud at the bank in the summer of 2010, “we never imagined that the criminality was as deep as it was, that it was so widespread and that it included high-ranking officials and their relatives,” said Abdul Qadeer Fitrat, at the time the governor of the Bank of Afghanistan, the country’s central bank. 

“At the beginning, I received information from the U.S. Embassy that maybe $150 million or $200 million is gone in bad loans to powerful people,” he said. The number soon climbed close to $900 million, though “we did not know who took the loans and that they were all tied to a few individuals.” 

What Kroll’s audit found is that on Aug. 31, 2010, the day the Bank of Afghanistan seized Kabul Bank, more than 92 percent of the lender’s loan portfolio — $861 million, or roughly 5 percent of Afghanistan’s annual economic output at the time — had gone to 19 related people and companies, according to the audit. 

Among the largest beneficiaries were a brother of Mr. Karzai and a brother of First Vice President Muhammad Qasim Fahim who each owned stakes in the bank that had been bought with loans from the bank, according to the audit and regulatory officials. For their part, both have insisted that they never took part in any fraud at the lender. 







Reached for comment, Mr. Karzai’s spokesman, Aimal Faizi, stressed that the president considered the audit incomplete: Mr. Karzai still believes Kroll has to find out where all the missing money has gone, to which countries it was sent and to which accounts if the firm wants the report to be seen as credible, Mr. Faizi said. 

The New York Times obtained a copy of the 277-page audit report, which Afghan and Western officials have confirmed was the one Kroll prepared.
The two men that Afghan prosecutors, Western officials and the Kroll audit accuse of profiting most from the fraud were the bank’s principal owners: Sherkhan Farnood, its chairman and a former World Series of Poker Europe winner, and his former bodyguard, Khalil Fruzi, who served as the bank’s chief executive. 

Working with the bank’s executives, they devised simple, yet effective, schemes to fool weak and reluctant regulators, and the Americans who were advising them, the audit says. 

The owners kept two sets of books, and hid loans to themselves and their shareholders by taking them in the names of friends, relatives and even domestic servants, according to the audit and Afghan officials. They grouped related loans together to better keep track of who owed what. Hundreds of millions of dollars in illicit loans were routed to Dubai through a money exchange controlled by Mr. Farnood, who founded the bank. 

Kabul Bank employed people to forge documents for fictitious companies, which were then audited by accounting firms that appear to have been complicit, according to Kroll. That is where the rubber stamps came in: they bore the names of those false companies, like Abdul Mahmood Trading and Ali Jan Abdul Hadi Ltd., to lend an air of respectability to fake documents. 

Toward the end, Mr. Fruzi even expensed foreign shopping sprees at stores like Louis Vuitton and Versace in Dubai and New Delhi. Mr. Farnood was snapping up villas in Dubai with bank money, though he has maintained they were investments gone bad, nothing more. 

Bailing out depositors cost the cash-strapped Afghan government more than $825 million, and Afghan and Western officials say that only between $200 million and $400 million, depending on how assets are valued, has so far been recovered from shareholders. 

For many Afghans, the scandal surrounding Kabul Bank, a linchpin of the economic order established here by Americans and their allies, has cemented the opinion that the United States brought crony capitalism, not free markets, to Afghanistan. The audit is likely to reinforce that view while raising potentially troubling questions about who is being prosecuted here in connection with the scandal, and who is not. 

The United States and its allies have pressed hard for prosecutions, threatening to cut aid if no action was taken. The completion of the forensic audit, which was financed by international donors and delivered in March, was another demand by the international community, as was a separate report, due later this week, by an Afghan government-funded but largely independent corruption watchdog commission composed of Afghan and foreign experts. 

Mr. Farnood and Mr. Fruzi top the list of 22 defendants charged so far, and both are on trial in Kabul. Many others on the list are Kabul Bank executives who are accused of helping to carry out fraud, though it is unclear whether they personally profited.

Few officials have any problem with those prosecutions. But there are questions about the charges brought by Afghan prosecutors against a few officials at Afghanistan’s central bank. Western officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, expressed worries that those cases appeared to be intended to end further investigation into Kabul Bank. Kroll has said it has no evidence that the Bank of Afghanistan’s staff members were complicit in Kabul Bank’s collapse. 

In the most prominent such case, the former chairman of the Bank of Afghanistan, Abdul Qadeer Fitrat, has been indicted primarily for failing to warn the Afghan government about Kabul Bank and concealing the fraud there — an accusation that one Western official called “laughable.” Several Western and Afghan officials insist that Mr. Fitrat had actively pressed inquiries of Kabul Bank, and believed he had been indicted in order to scare him off. He fled the country last year. 

Even Mr. Farnood said Mr. Fitrat had done nothing wrong: “Fitrat was the one person who was not involved in any bribing,” he said in a telephone interview. 

The situation was particularly galling, the officials said, because apart from Mr. Farnood and Mr. Fruzi, the other “high-value beneficiaries” — each of whom still owes at least $5 million to the bank, Kroll estimates — have yet to face any legal action. That group includes Mahmood Karzai, the president’s brother, and Haseen Fahim, the vice president’s brother. 

In an interview, Mahmood Karzai said he had repaid all the money he originally owed, an amount he put at $5.3 million. He insisted that Kroll had miscalculated and included assets he never owned, like a villa in Dubai, when it tallied his liability at $30.5 million. 

He called Kroll “a piece of puke” and said it had relied too heavily on evidence provided by Mr. Farnood, who in the summer of 2010 began cooperating with American officials and, subsequently, Afghan investigators after a dispute with his fellow shareholders. 

Neither Mr. Fahim nor Mr. Fruzi responded to phone messages seeking comment. 

Kabul Bank did serve some legitimate functions — for instance, the United States paid the salaries of hundreds of thousands of soldiers, police and teachers through it. 

But many of the bank’s practices seemed tailor-made to lure depositors by any means available. One popular gimmick detailed by the audit was known as a Bakht account, which offered those who opened them a chance to win houses, cars and jewelry at glitzy prize drawings. 

The only real winners, however, were the bank’s senior managers and their friends, the audit found. The new depositors’ money was used principally “to provide free financing to the other business interests of senior management and a group of connected persons.”

The Lightworkers Objective

by Dr Raven Dolick M.s.D.

We are in the midst of a revolution in consciousness which is affecting everyone. Even the most staunch traditionalists in society are being dragged into a vortex of ever-increasing change.

The 80-20 rule states that 80% of any change is typically caused by 20% of the people. The 20% consists of the leading thinkers of the day.

In spiritual matters, these leading-edge people are sometimes called lightworkers or old souls, indicating that they have learned more from their experiences through many incarnations. This advanced learning is stored as wisdom in their souls and they benefit from it consciously through intuitive inner guidance.
Today’s leading-edge thinkers planned ahead to be incarnate at this time in history to help make the essential positive changes in society possible. Social science has now begun to recognize them as a major group in today’s society.



More than 1 in 5 adults have made a shift.


A survey in the 1990’s by researchers Paul Ray and Sherry Anderson found that 26 percent of American adults had become what they termed Cultural Creatives. Over fifty million Americans now fit the definition of a newly emerging type of humanity that has made a comprehensive upward shift in worldview, values and way of life. In Europe, a 1997 survey conducted in fifteen European countries showed figures that are very similar to the United States.

So, in a social setting the term ‘leading-edge thinker’ actually applies to more than 20% of the people today. Most of them don’t think of themselves as leading edge, nor do they typically realize how many other people are just like them.

The term ‘lightworker’ is synonymous with ‘spiritual seeker.’ You may or may not think of yourself a lightworker but, if you’re reading this, then you fit the definition perfectly.

The two categories of Cultural Creatives identified by Ray and Anderson fit exactly into the consciousness patterns of lower and upper fourth density. While our physical bodies are currently located in upper third density, our minds are free to soar through heart-centered fourth density and into fifth-density soul consciousness.


When a person moves from the third-density function of developing basic intellect into lower fourth density, their worldview expands and they become more aware of the needs of society. They take into account the local and global effects of their own actions and the actions of others that they support. Environmental, organic and peace-making concerns all come under this frequency band of consciousness.

Then, as outlined in my book, Healing Denial A path to Unconditional Love, available in the online store tab, when people move from lower to upper fourth-density consciousness they pass through the gateway of the heart. This brings them into the first level of spiritual awareness and they become more concerned with inner development and enlightenment.

Leading thinkers are simply people whose normal frequency of consciousness is higher than average. The higher your frequency, the greater your awareness and the greater your ability to lead change by showing others how to resolve the challenges in life.

Freedom from control issues!

Two popular issues today are control issues and self-empowerment. People who were raised to feel the need to be in control are now recognizing that this was just another form of fear which has no substance in reality. Reality comes from your soul’s intuitive guidance because, at a soul level, you see everything that you need to succeed and achieve your purpose in life.

The opposite side of the same coin is the issue of self-empowerment, which is learned by people who break free of control by others and establish their own sense of inner strength and self-dependence.
The issue of self-empowerment is being explored at a societal level as well as an individual level. Every person who begins to realize that they are being deliberately disempowered and turns off the fear-inducing news broadcasts leads the world another step towards liberty from the chains that are designed to bind people to a life of servitude. Thanks to the awakening of lightworkers and leading thinkers, the world is waking up to a whole new standard of personal power and dignity.

Lightworkers often choose to experience major challenges in their lives, not because they need the experience, because they have mastered those challenges in previous incarnations. Instead, lightworkers choose to experience challenges because other people need leading thinkers to show them how to resolve these issues. The more the leading-edge people succeed in resolving these issues, the easier it becomes for the rest to follow.

There is a global mind atmosphere or ‘mind belt’ of human consciousness around the planet. You are subconsciously linked with the mind belt 24 hours a day. It affects you and you affect it. Your contribution to the mental and spiritual health of the world is made every second of every day.
The Lightworker Objective is to be a pioneer in the advancement of consciousness, often adopting certain challenges in order to work through them and, by doing so, creating a pattern in the mind belt to make it easier for others to follow.

If you are currently working through a major life challenge and feel as though you’re going round in circles and getting nowhere, STOP and look for the gift in that challenge.

The gift is that, by loving yourself and others more, you can rise above the challenge and become more of who you really are. Then, the experience changes from one of challenge to one of self-empowerment.

Real strength does not lie anywhere in the outside world. It lies within you. Once you find that inner power, you rise above any limitation and stand as a self-realized leading thinker in a world desperate for spiritual freedom.

Hang Tight Folks!

For those with ears that hear and eyes that see... big solar sun spot rolling around... Lunar eclipse on the 28th...
"The Event will be a special kind of light from the Sun that permeates the earth and humanity, it will calm humanity in the light of love energy - its an energy not seen before on earth, the banking system will stop, accounts and currencies reset, and arrests will be made..." Cobra 11/26/2012

I've got approval to post my POOF Interview video 
in two days.

And now this...



Is this it? What does this mean for Keenan and Drake?  Were they weapons of mass distraction?

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In all fairness, here is a link to Neil Keenen's reply:
http://jhaines6.wordpress.com/2012/11/28/whos-on-first-from-neil-keenan/  

Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Crop Circles - Crossover From Another Dimension (2006)


Ehud Barak to step down as Israeli Defense Minister, retire from politics

Israel's Defence Minister Ehud Barak waves as he leaves
after a news conference in Tel Aviv November 26, 2012
(Reuters / Nir Elias)
Hawkish Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak has announced that he will retire from politics after the next election. The news comes as surveys suggested his party was headed for defeat in the upcoming parliamentary polls.

Barak, a former prime minister of Israel, enjoyed a surge in popularity following Operation Pillar of Defense earlier this month. But opinion polls showed that his Independence Party is unlikely to win more than three seats in Israel’s upcoming parliamentary elections. Barak’s faction, which currently holds five seats in the Knesset, splintered from the Labour Party in 2011.

In a surprise press conference on Monday, Barak, 70, said he would not run in the January 22 election. He thanked his supporters and the Israeli government, and pledged to serve the country as an advisor and private citizen next year.

"There are many ways to contribute to the state, politics isn't the only one," Barak said.
He added that he aims to spend more time with family and dedicate time to writing after an exhausting political career.



Barak said that Israel’s major military offensive against Gaza over the last few weeks was difficult, but ultimately a success. He also stressed that Iran, and its nuclear program, will continue to be Israel’s most important security issue.

Current Labour head Shelly Yacimovich expressed regret at Barak's retirement. "[The] world's most decorated soldier, and one of the most highly regarded security officials worldwide, has done more to the IDF and to the state's security than the public will ever know," Haaretz newspaper quoted her as saying.

Public Diplomacy Minister Yuli Edelstein of the Likud Party also responded to the resignation, saying that "today is Likud's independence day. Barak will go down in the history of Israel's government as the worst defense minister the Jewish settlements have ever had."

The resignation announcement came after rumors surfaced that Barak would join Tsipi Livni’s Kadima party, or form a new party with her.

Before pursuing a political career in 1995, Barak served in the IDF for 35 years, eventually rising to the highest ranks and becoming the Chief of General Staff.

He then served as Interior Minister under Yitzhak Rabin, and later as Foreign Minister under Shimon Peres. He became leader of the Labour party in 1996.

Barak was elected Prime Minister of Israel from 1999 to 2001, before losing the next election to Likud party leader Ariel Sharon. He later resigned from the party leadership.

Barak returned to politics in 2005, becoming the leader of the Labour Party and Defense Minister in Ehud Olmert’s government. He led Operation Cast Lead in 2008, the IDF’s biggest assault on Gaza militants in years.

He retained his position as head of the Israeli military following the 2009 election, after which Benjamin Netanyahu became Prime Minister.

Source: http://rt.com/news/barak-israel-defence-retire-594/
JERUSALEM — Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak on Monday abruptly announced he was quitting politics, injecting new turmoil into the Israeli political system weeks ahead of general elections.
Barak, Israel’s most-decorated soldier and one-time prime minister, said he would stay on in his current post until a new government is formed following the Jan. 22 balloting.
His resignation could mean the departure of the most moderating influence on hawkish Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who holds a wide lead in polls and is expected to easily win re-election. Barak, who heads a small centrist faction in parliament, often served as Netanyahu’s unofficial envoy to Washington to smooth over differences with the Obama White House.
His impending departure comes at a key time for Israel, as the nation struggles to find its way in a region where the old order of Arab autocrats has been swept aside by the Arab Spring and the rise of Islamist political parties. Israel also faces a looming decision on whether to attack Iran’s nuclear program, which the Jewish state fears is designed to develop atomic weapons — a charge Tehran denies.
Less than a week ago, Barak led an eight-day military offensive against the Hamas militant group that rules the Gaza Strip. The fighting, aimed at ending rocket fire from the Palestinian territory. ended in a fragile truce.
“I didn’t make this decision (to leave politics) without hesitating, but I made it wholeheartedly,” he told a hastily arranged news conference, saying he had been wrestling with the decision for weeks.
He evaded repeated questions about whether he might agree to serve as a cabinet minister in an upcoming government, leaving open the possibility that he might still retain an impact on Israeli politics. While most Cabinet ministers also hold parliamentary seats, they do not have to be elected lawmakers, and such appointments have been made in the past.
Barak, 70, made the surprise announcement even after polls showed his breakaway Independence Party gaining momentum after the Gaza campaign.
Despite the bump in the polls, Barak still could have found himself fighting for his political survival once election day rolls around. Surveys before the Gaza operation were unkind to his party, at times showing it polling too weakly to even send a single representative to parliament.
“I feel I have exhausted my political activity, which had never been an object of desire for me. There are many ways for me to serve the country, not just through politics,” he said, adding that his decision was spurred in part by his desire to spend more time with his family.
Possible replacements include Vice Premier Moshe Yaalon, a former military chief, and Shaul Mofaz, a former military chief and defence minister, who now serves as chairman of the opposition Kadima Party.
Barak’s political career was as turbulent as his 36-year military career was dazzling.
The former war hero and military chief of staff blazed into politics on the coattails of his mentor, Yitzhak Rabin, and had been viewed by many as his heir apparent. With a resumé that includes commanding some of Israel’s most daring hostage rescue operations and raids, Barak was elected prime minister from the centrist Labor Party in 1999 — just four years after retiring from the military. Many Israelis hoped he would parlay what was seen as his sharp strategic mind and unorthodox methods on the battlefield into long-elusive accords with the Palestinians and Syria.
But the consensus-building so important in the political arena did not mesh well with the go-it-alone style that served him in the military. Political allies and foes alike considered Barak aloof and imperious, and others questioned whether he possessed the interpersonal skills necessary to negotiate elusive accords with Israel’s enemies.
Disappointed with his performance, Israeli voters booted Barak out of the premier’s office in record time — less than two years — after his government unraveled with the outbreak of a Palestinian uprising and the collapse of U.S.-sponsored peace talks.
Hard-liner Ariel Sharon trounced him in a 2001 election. Barak left behind a legacy of failed peacemaking with the Palestinians and Syria, despite unprecedented offers of sweeping territorial concessions, and a contentious decision to end Israel’s 18-year military occupation of south Lebanon overnight, which created a vacuum quickly filled by the anti-Israel Hezbollah guerrilla group.
For six years, the onetime Labor leader kept himself busy with lucrative speaking engagements and business consulting, reportedly amassing millions and cementing his image as a politician out of touch with his constituents.
But Barak returned to politics in 2007, handily recapturing the Labor leadership and replacing civilian Defence Minister Amir Peretz, who led a much-criticized war in Lebanon the previous summer.
But while Israelis liked Barak as defence minister, they didn’t want him as their prime minister, and his party, which had led Israel to independence and governed the nation for its first three decades, lost its public appeal. In the 2009 election that brought Netanyahu to power, Labor won an all-time low of 13 of parliament’s 120 seats.
Barak’s dovish base turned on him after he led Labor into Netanyahu’s conservative government, accusing Barak of betraying the party’s ideals by joining forces with a man who at the time did not even recognize the principle of a Palestinian state.
In January 2011, he bolted Labor to form a new party, Independence, which has largely failed to resonate with the public.
Israeli hard-liners disliked him, too, accusing him of undermining the West Bank settlement movement by holding up building approvals, clearing squatters from West Bank homes and encouraging Netanyahu to support a temporary settlement construction slowdown.
But if Barak was unpopular with the public, he retained his clout with Netanyahu, whom he commanded in an elite special operations unit. As the prime minister’s point man with the United States, Barak was welcomed in Washington as a moderating influence on Netanyahu’s hard line policies toward the Arab world and Iran’s nuclear program.
That alliance saw some rocky times recently with reports the prime minister objected to Barak’s newly moderate tone that Israel should defer to the U.S. in deciding whether to attack Iranian nuclear facilities.
But the two seemed to have patched up things, appearing to work harmoniously on the recent Gaza campaign.
In a statement Monday, Netanyahu said he “respected” Barak’s decision.


Read more: http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/Ehud+Barak+resigns+Israeli+defence+minister/7610497/story.html#ixzz2DRwnw0Qn

Benjamin Fulford 11-27-12…”The purge of the Nazis has begun on three continents”


Benjamin Fulford November 27 2012

There are signs everywhere now that a political logjam has been broken now that the new Chinese government has been installed and that swift changes will be unfolding worldwide in the coming weeks. The signs include a massive purge of the Nazi (Sabbatean) faction in the US, Europe and, coming soon, Japan. In addition, US troops have been placed in Egypt, on Israel’s border, in order to force the Zionist terrorist regime to stop its superstitious, apocalyptic attempts to start WW3. We also have the pope announcing publicly that Jesus was not born on December 25, and that Christmas was based on a pagan solar festival. In Europe six members of the P2 Freemason lodge were arrested by Berlusconi allies in what is expected to be a futile attempt by Berlusconi to place himself back into power, Vatican sources say. In Russia, meanwhile, a purge has begun, starting with a top general, after a recent attempt to assassinate President Putin with Polonium, according to European intelligence sources.

The efforts to kick-start the new financial system have also moved into high gear. The moves to start the new financial system are taking place on several fronts. In Indonesia, Neil Keenan continues to try to finalize his attempt to get approval to mobilize the assets behind the global collateral accounts but seems to be running into interference from a rival faction. In Japan, Shinzo Abe, the man expected to be Prime Minister after December 16th, has talked about changing the Bank of Japan law to access funds. This could mean releasing to the world the 7000 trillion yen in funds sitting in the BOJ’s books. In other parts of Asia, arrangements are being made to use giant imperial gold caches to finance mega-projects. We have detailed, concrete knowledge of these plans but, in order to avoid sabotage, cannot report them at this point.

The new Chinese government, for its part, is pushing ahead with its plans to replace the dollar with a new gold- and asset-backed international trading currency.

In addition to that, a major move is being made by the North American oligarchs to try to get Asian countries to switch from using Middle-Eastern oil to North American oil. This would help reduce the overall North American trade deficit with the region and provide hard cash to continue funding US government international operations. It would also help remove cash flow to the war-mongering factions. The purge of the war-mongering faction in the US has started with the firing of 24 generals, but that is just a beginning, say officials affiliated with the FBI.

The following directive from Obama marked the beginning of a systematic purge of Sabbatean fifth columnists from US government institutions:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/11/21/presidential-memorandum-national-insider-threat-policy-and-minimum-stand 

Obama also showed his allegiance to the Dragon family by flying to Asia immediately after the US election in order to thank them for financing his re-election and preventing vote theft by the Romney/Nazi faction. A photograph of him bowing deeply to a Dragon family boss has been widely circulated among world leaders. In addition to that, he was publicly called the equivalent of a servant by the wife of Cambodia’s leader during his visit there.




Another sign that things have changed is reports the pentagon is thinking of selling a US airbase in the mid-Atlantic Azores Islands to China. Such a move would mark a clear indication the Pentagon does not view China as a threat but rather as a partner. Another visible sign of this change is the fact the Chinese were able to “convince” the makers of the movie “Red Dawn” to make the villains North Koreans instead of Chinese. The Soviets never had such clout when the original “Red Dawn” was made during the cold war.

In Russia, the heart of the former Soviet Union, the purge of remnant high-level Nazi agents begun by Putin got a reboot recently after some top generals were arrested after an attempt to poison Putin with Polonium. It was {a} Cuban agent, who also protected Fidel Castro from many poisoning attempts, who alerted Putin to the plot, according to a European intelligence source. The recent illness of Fidel Castro was also due to a poisoning attempt, this source says.

The Netherlands intelligence services have also joined the intensified hunt to purge Europe of Nazi influence. Sources linked to them published the following document which, though it covers some old ground, also reveals plenty of previously hidden names and connections between various Nazi higher ups: https://sites.google.com/site/bilderberggijzeling/

New leads have also come to light in the hunt for the murderers of Dr. Michael Van de Meer. A lady going by the internet name of Christine N. tried to convince this writer, after Van de Meer died, that she had “confirmed” that he had merely been given a new identity. It turns out Christine N. fronts for David Eisenhower, the grandson of President Eisenhower, according to CIA sources. David Eisenhower needs to be questioned about why he put out this disinformation. Eisenhower has been illegally trading Kennedy for years now. Van de Meer was killed just before he was going try to legally trade some Kennedy bonds. Bush Nazi stooge Mitt Romney, meanwhile, has been linked to the daughter of former KGB head Yuri Andropov and the looted Alpha Omega funds of the former Soviet Union. The Alpha Omega fund was the only route companies in the West could use to finance trade with the Soviet Bloc during the cold war. Yuri Andropov supervised Alpha Omega until his death. After he died, these funds were looted by Bush/Gorbachev et al, leading to the fall of the Soviet Union.

Mike Cottrell, who was part of that operation, was in the room when my colleague Christopher Story was fed the poisoned sandwich that killed him. Cottrell has also been linked to attempts to frame this writer as a drug dealer. This in turn links him with “Ambassador Stevens” and the March 11, 2011 nuclear terror attack on Japan.

The trail of all of these actors of course ultimately leads to the Bush family and other high level Nazis. The Bushes have been eavesdropped as saying that Neil Keenan and Benjamin Fulford were “problems.” The Bushes have been known to assassinate such “problem” people with great frequency. What the Bushes need to realize that their entire family is being followed and listened to 24/7. A lot of people would like to completely eliminate from all levels of existence the entire Bush bloodline. These people have been following this bloodline throughout its name changes from Peci to Pearce to Scherff to Bush. Our suggestion to the Bushes is to lay low.

 All of these cabalists need to realize the FBI and other agencies are after them and will be a lot less forgiving than the White Dragon Society. The WDS is only asking that they testify before a South African style truth and reconciliation committee before the time where that is possible runs out.

Speaking about time running out, the recent statement by the pope that the church does not know the birthday of Jesus Christ and that Christmas was timed to coincide with a pagan solar new year’s festival, could be very significant. The pope also said Christ was probably born a few years earlier than the Christian calendar year 0. This may mean the Vatican has agreed to the idea of starting a new world calendar and turning December 25th, 2012 into January 1st of the year 0. We shall soon find out.

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