Sunday, August 25, 2013

Hungary Sheds Bankers’ Shackles

International Monetary Fund told to vacate the country; nation now issuing debt-free money
By Ronald L. Ray

Hungary is making history of the first order.

Not since the 1930s in Germany has a major European country dared to escape from the clutches of the Rothschild-controlled international banking cartels. This is stupendous news that should encourage nationalist patriots worldwide to increase the fight for freedom from financial tyranny.

Already in 2011, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán promised to serve justice on his socialist predecessors, who sold the nation’s people into unending debt slavery under the lash of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the terrorist state of Israel. Those earlier administrations were riddled with Israelis in high places, to the fury of the masses, who finally elected Orbán’s Fidesz party in response.

According to a report on the German-language website “National Journal,” Orbán has now moved to unseat the usurers from their throne. The popular, nationalistic prime minister told the IMF that Hungary neither wants nor needs further “assistance” from that proxy of the Rothschild-owned Federal Reserve Bank. No longer will Hungarians be forced to pay usurious interest to private, unaccountable central bankers.

Instead, the Hungarian government has assumed sovereignty over its own currency and now issues money debt free, as it is needed. The results have been nothing short of remarkable. The nation’s economy, formerly staggering under deep indebtedness, has recovered rapidly and by means not seen since National Socialist Germany.

The Hungarian Economic Ministry announced that it has, thanks to a “disciplined budget policy,” repaid on August 12, 2013, the remaining €2.2B owed to the IMF—well before the March 2014 due date. Orbán declared: “Hungary enjoys the trust of investors,” by which is not meant the IMF, the Fed or any other tentacle of the Rothschild financial empire. Rather, he was referring to investors who produce something in Hungary for Hungarians and cause true economic growth. This is not the “paper prosperity” of plutocratic pirates, but the sort of production that actually employs people and improves their lives.

With Hungary now free from the shackles of servitude to debt slavers, it is no wonder that the president of the Hungarian central bank, operated by the government for the public welfare and not private enrichment, has demanded that the IMF close its offices in that ancient European land. In addition, the state attorney general, echoing Iceland’s efforts, has brought charges against the last three previous prime ministers because of the criminal amount of debt into which they plunged the nation.

The only step remaining, which would completely destroy the power of the banksters in Hungary, is for that country to implement a barter system for foreign exchange, as existed in Germany under the National Socialists and exists today in the Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, or BRICS, international economic coalition. And if the United States would follow the lead of Hungary, Americans could be freed from the usurers’ tyranny and likewise hope for a return to peaceful prosperity.

Source: http://americanfreepress.net/?p=12418

Saturday, August 24, 2013

4MIN News August 24 2013: ISON Update, Planetary Alignments, NOAA EVL



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Thursday, August 22, 2013

Pope steps up financial controls at Vatican


Pope Francis intensified the fight against corruption in the Vatican on Thursday, strengthening the law to counter "money laundering, the financing of terrorism and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction."

The short "Motu Proprio", a decree of Francis's own initiative, strengthens the supervision of financial transactions "in response to a recommendation of the Moneyval Committee," the European watchdog which carried out a review of the Vatican bank last year.

It includes the creation of a new Financial Security Committee to help increase vigilance and coordinate efforts in countering corruption.

It also extends laws which previously only applied to the tiny state to the "institutes and entities dependent on the Holy See, as well as to nonprofit organisations" -- such as the Caritas International humanitarian organisation.

The decree is just the latest in a series of bold moves on the part of the pontiff to clean up the institution's murky financial image.

"It is a means of ensuring the road (towards transparency) continues," Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi said in a press conference.

"In today's world, it is all about resisting increasingly insidious forms of financial criminality. We have to be equal to the challenges in order to protect legality, and not be left behind," he said.
The Vatican is attempting to reform its finances to get onto a "white list" of states that respect international fraud rules.


What has been hailed as a potential revolution by many religious watchers began with the appointment mid-June of one of the pope's trusted allies to oversee management of the Institute for Religious Works (IOR) -- as the bank is known.

The 76-year-old pontiff followed this by installing a special five-member commission tasked with investigating the bank and reporting their findings directly back to him personally.

The commission's first report is expected in October, and may spark wider reforms of the murky institute.

A US consultancy firm, Promontory Financial Group, has also been tasked with conducting an external review of the bank's rules on money laundering.

The IOR, which does not lend money, handles funds for Vatican departments, Catholic charities and congregations as well as priests and nuns living and working around the world, and has a troubled history.

It was the main shareholder of the Banco Ambrosiano, which collapsed in 1982 amid accusations of laundering money for the Sicilian mafia.

The chairman of Banco Ambrosiano, Roberto Calvi -- dubbed "God's Banker" in the press -- was found hanging from Blackfriars Bridge in London that year in a suspected murder by mobsters.
Francis, and Benedict XVI before him, moved to act after a string of scandals and reports in Italian media about anonymous accounts at the bank being used by organised crime figures and fraudsters.

Source: http://ph.news.yahoo.com/pope-steps-financial-controls-vatican-115202768.html

Tuesday, August 20, 2013

Can group meditation bring World Peace? Quantum Physicist, John Hagelin explains.



Can group meditation bring World Peace? World renowned Quantum Physicist, John Hagelin Ph.D explains.

Dr John Hagelin: I am going to show you very quickly some of the early research, this is the first study and I won't go into great detail except to say that this experiment was performed in the Middle East during the peak of the Lebanon War in the early 1980's.

It was hypothesized, based on many different smaller experiments that if enough people were collectively experiencing and stimulating this fundamental powerful field of peace within that there would be radiated influence of peace that would effect the behavior of people throughout society, people would wake up in the morning a decide "hey I don't think I'll kill anybody today." What a novel thought, that you know with some expanded comprehension and less narrowly cramped, narrowly self centered, acutely stressed vision that the desperate acts of terrorism simply don't really have a fertile field to fall on.

A thousand people on average practiced Transcendental Meditation in Jerusalem to see whether they could influence neighboring Lebanon in reducing war and terrorism and eventually World Peace.

John Hagelin is a world renowned quantum physicist who has been involved in the research on group meditation for improving the quality of life in society.

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What Should We Think About the Arrests at JPMorgan Chase?


 
Four years after Wall Street's malfeasance dealt a telling blow the economy, and long after tens of billions of dollars have been paid out for banker fraud, reports say that we're about to see the first arrests of Wall Street bank employees. What's more, the suspects work at JPMorgan Chase -- a bank which, ironically enough, politicians and pundits insisted was the "good bank" after the financial crisis hit in 2008.

In fact, Chase CEO Jamie Dimon spent years speaking out forcefully against additional bank regulation. (Lately, not so much...)

Financial cases can seem complicated. What should we think about these recent announcements in the "London Whale" case?

It's good that they're finally making arrests.

Despite the overwhelming evidence of criminal behavior in a large number of cases, this will have been the first time since the financial crisis that a banker's been arrested on criminal charges (assuming the arrests take place as planned, of course).

Let's be clear: These arrests are a good thing. Justice demands that anyone, no matter who they are, be made to answer for their deeds. What's more, bankers at "too big to fail" institutions have the power to shatter, and even bring down, the global economy. The lack of arrests up to this point means there's been no deterrent effect -- no reason for them not to keep committing fraud.

But unless these arrests lead to further action -- action that's decisive and effective -- they won't nearly be enough.

This case doesn't involve the events that led up to the crisis of 2008.

The "London Whale" case involves potential fraud in the London office of JPMorgan Chase in 2012.  It doesn't involve the large-scale fraud which contributed to the 2008 financial crisis, which until now has been the subject of settlements involving the SEC, the Justice Department, and (in the case of foreclosure fraud) most of the states as well.


Many of these settlements freed bank employees from the threat of criminal prosecution. The foreclosure fraud settlement left open the possibility of criminal indictments, but the president's Mortgage Fraud Task Force has shown no sign of pursuing them -- and time is running out.

These announced arrests involve low-level employees.

It's reasonable to ask the question: Where are the "Big Fish" in the London Whale case? The "Whale" himself was a London employee of JPM named Bruno Iksil, who has been turned and is now working with authorities. The arrests involve someone who worked with him, and his immediate superior.
There is no word of any further investigation of the bank's Chief Investment Officer, Ina Drew, who was forced to resign when the scandal broke. Nor has there been any discussion of CEO Jamie Dimon, who told investors on a conference call that the Whale case was a "tempest in a teapot" even while reportedly knowing that losses ran into the billions.

Smart and aggressive prosecutors typically arrest low-level figures in order to "turn" them and lead their investigation further up the organizational chain. While it would be reasonable for the Justice Department to remain silent on plans like these -- if it has them -- it will need to take that approach if these arrests are to produce any serious results or restore its credibility regarding Wall Street crime.

This was an outrageous and massive case involving the entire organization, from the top down.

The question of "turning" low-level employees is important in this case, since there is evidence pointing to the senior levels of the organization. The Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations issued a report on this case which found damning up and down the Chase organization, all the way to the top.

(Some highlights of that report are in an addendum below.)

Chase was gambling with taxpayers' money.

We no longer have the Glass/Steagall rule. And while the Dodd/Frank law places some restrictions on banks like JPMorgan Chase, they're insufficient. JPM's 'too big to fail' status also means that taxpayers are still implicitly on the hook for its bad bets -- which could be much worse next time.

The bank will reportedly be required to admit wrongdoing in its settlement.

One of the ongoing outrages of previous bank settlements is the fact that lawbreaking institutions have been able to pay their fines and enter their settlements while "neither admitting nor denying wrongdoing" -- despite what in many cases were massive amounts of incriminating evidence.
Reports say the SEC will demand that the bank admit wrongdoing in this case. As with the arrests, this is a good step in the right direction. But, as with the arrests, it calls for the right follow-up:
  • If wrongdoing took place, the individuals who committed the wrongs must be identified.
  • In addition to facing potential criminal penalties, they should be forced to disgorge the bonuses which they received as a result of their wrongdoing.
  • They should face any other appropriate civil and/or criminal penalties.
  • The bank must face severe penalties if these wrongs are committed again. (Banks have repeatedly agreed to cease certain forms of fraud in SEC settlements, only to keep committing them again and again.)

The public must remain vigilant.
 
There's no doubt that the public outcry over a lack of bank prosecutions had a powerful influence on the government, although we may never know how directly that led to these actions. While the administration deserves praise for taking these steps, the public must also ask that they be properly followed up .

These moves are a genuine move in the right direction. Now, additional action is needed to protect the public and restore the balance of justice. They can either be the first step toward real law enforcement, or an attempt to inoculate the public against real change on Wall Street. We're hoping it's the former, and that the public will insist on nothing less.

HIGHLIGHTS OF SENATE REPORT:

The bank deceived and stonewalled regulators.

JPMorgan Chase stonewalled their regulator, the OCC, providing it with almost no information on activities in Iksil's unit.

When the OCC finally complained about lax risk management in that unit, Ina Drew harangued its staff for 45 minutes about their "intrusive" questions.

As losses grew, Chase provided less and less information to the OCC.

As the investment site The Motley Fool puts it, "Dimon ordered the bank to omit critical CIO performance data from its standard reports to the OCC." Then Dimon "raised his voice in anger" when the CFO Douglas agreed to resume sending data to the OCC. When the OCC later found out about the Whale trade -- by reading the newspapers -- the bank responded to its request for information by giving them incomplete tables the OCC called "useless" and "absolutely unhelpful."
Then, for 10 days, the bank repeatedly assured the OCC that these trades were nothing to worry about." After that it "did not call, email, or otherwise update the OCC" as losses mounted to $1.6 billion.

The bank violated its own risk management procedures -- which it had assured investors were in place.

The bank's own risk management rules and guidelines were violated 330 times.

The bank's Chief Risk Officer was never told of these actions, and first learned about them when he read about them in the newspaper.

As the Motley Fool notes: "Even though the CIO was a $350 billion unit, bank managers kept giving different answers when the Subcommittee asked who its Chief Risk Officer was in late 2011. It turned out that the position was vacant in late 2011."

The JPMorgan Task Force Report noted that "There was no official membership or charter for the CIO Risk Committee."

(Since Dimon had publicly bragged about the quality the bank's risk management, claiming it made JPM safer than other banks, weren't investors being deceived?)

Senior management was either complicit or asleep at the switch.

Iksil (the "Whale") gave a presentation to Drew's senior investment committee that seems to have pretty much explained what he was doing.

Drew later claimed she didn't understand it (and apparently didn't ask for an explanation).
They raised their risk limits to nearly three times the standard levels, with Drew's permission (which she later said she didn't remember giving).

Drew and her unit, unlike others, reported directly to CEO Dimon.

Bloomberg News, like other news outlets, ascribes the decision to exempt this unit from standard risk management controls to Dimon himself.

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Electric roads to the Hyperloop: Our Jetsons future starts now

As we geek out over the Hyperloop, a South Korean city launches something amazing: A road that can charge vehicles 
























This was the rare week when an innovative transportation scheme captivated America’s imagination. After months of expectation, on Monday Tesla CEO Elon Musk unveiled the Hyperloop, a giant vacuum tube designed to whisk passengers between Los Angeles and San Francisco at nearly 800 miles per hour, completing a 520-mile journey in a mere 40 minutes. By now, attentive readers have experienced all the dizzying spins of the Hyperloop news cycle: anticipation, excitement, backlash, rebound.

Love it, hate it or just forget about it: the Hyperloop isn’t even the most exciting transit technology of the month. (New York City had a pneumatic train back in 1870, after all.)

No, that distinction goes to a road in the South Korean city of Gumi. While Musk and company were dotting their i’s and crossing their t’s in the 57-page Hyperloop proposal, Gumi (population 375,000) transformed a common section of road into something extraordinary: a wireless charging strip for electric vehicles. They may have reinvented the road.

On the 15-mile round-trip to and from the train station, Gumi’s electric buses are charged by electromagnetic fields generated by cables in the roadway. It’s a groundbreaking step for what engineers at nearby Korea Advanced Institute for Science and Technology (KAIST) call Online Electric Vehicles (OLEV), automobiles that recharge on the go.


This may sound as far-fetched as Musk’s science fair project, but it has been a long time coming: engineers from Utah to Utrecht have been closing in on efficient inductive charging for vehicles for more than a decade. Since 2010, KAIST has installed electric roads on the university’s two campuses and in the Seoul Grand Park. The Canadian company Bombardier developed a similar system, called Primove, which has been tested on an 800-yard stretch of tram line in Augsburg. For more than a decade, Turin and Genoa have run electric buses that charge overnight and then “top off” at coils along their routes.

But Gumi’s bus line is the first to charge while operating. Equally important, it is neither theory nor test. It’s real city infrastructure.

As such, it marks a turning point for the concept. Few mayors want to make their city the guinea pig for an electric transit project straight out of science fiction. Once proven road-ready, though, wireless vehicle charging could unlock the potential of electric buses, replace clumsy streetcar power sources, and maybe even change our notion of what a road does.

The technology underlying the KAIST project is similar to what you’ll find in your electric toothbrush. It’s called Shaped Magnetic Field in Resonance  (SMFIR; last acronym, I promise), a type of inductive charging that is both unusually efficient and works even while the charging object is on the move. Cables installed in the roadway create an electromagnetic field; pick-ups installed under the floor of the bus, some 7 inches away, convert that energy into electricity at a transmission efficiency of 85 percent. Like a streetcar, the 136-horsepower bus does not contain an internal combustion engine, guaranteeing a quiet ride for passengers and clean air for passersby.

From a management perspective, the OLEV system has several advantages over electric vehicle charging stations. Because electric public buses run more or less constantly, they require frequent and prolonged access to power. (To give you an idea of the time constraints, it currently takes 5 hours to charge a Tesla Model S just halfway.) The electric road eliminates the downtime required for charging, allowing electric buses even more street activity than their gas-guzzling counterparts. OLEV also allows buses to carry a smaller, cheaper electric battery, since long-term power storage is no longer necessary.

The electrical plates can be designed and placed to suit the particularities of a bus’s journey. Shorter charge zones suffice at stops or termini, where the bus is stationary. On other stretches of road, engineers have installed strips over 150 feet long, which resemble London’s blue-painted bike lanes. Sensors inside the buses activate surface power as they approach, cutting down on energy waste. All in all, the electrically charged portions of the road comprise 5 to 15 percent of the route.

Gumi, which has roughly the population of New Orleans, plans to add 10 more OLEV buses to its fleet by the end of 2015. It’s easy to see the value of this concept to busy bus systems. Bus rapid transit networks like Bogota’s TransMilenio and Istanbul’s Metrobus, with their exclusive lanes and densely packed traffic, could make optimal use of roadway charging. Streetcar companies searching for a reliable, unobtrusive source of power will also be interested.

Electric roads have emerged more or less simultaneously in a handful of different places. Utah State University designed a wirelessly charging bus last year with 90 percent electric transfer efficiency, slated to debut sometime this summer with a federal grant of $2.7 million. Bombardier’s Primove technology will be installed on a bus line in Mannheim next year with a $4.4 million grant from Germany’s Federal Ministry of Transport. Both of those projects, while they lack the mobile charging of Gumi’s buses, will distribute sufficient power at stop points along the route to maintain constant service.

Those price tags look large compared to the cost of a few gallons of gasoline, but in Turin and Genoa, where the system is slightly less sophisticated, the trade-off from diesel to electric power had a payback period of less than four years, according to German energy company Conductix-Wampfler, which provides those cities’ inductive charging equipment.

The idea of charging vehicles on the road, as they drive or while they’re stopped, is a huge innovation for electric cars. But it also indicates a long-overdue shift in the way we think about roads. In the U.S., and indeed in most of the world, pure asphalt has been considered the road’s undisputed final form. Why stop there?
KAIST, Bombardier and the rest aren’t the only ones challenging the tyranny of simplistic road design. Dutch designer Daan Roosegaarde wants to paint lane markers in photoluminescent paint so that highways glow in the dark, with light-up snowflake signs activated by cold temperatures to warn drivers of ice. In Madrid, a company called Vía Inteligente has developed sidewalks that carry a wi-fi signal. The couple behind Solar Roadways unveiled their first prototype this spring, a parking lot built of solar panels in Sandpoint, Idaho.

You don’t even need an engineering degree to revise the road. According to a 2008 paper by researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the California Energy Commission, one of the most effective ways to cool the planet would be to make roads brighter. The idea is simple: dark colors retain heat, light colors reflect it. Older asphalt highways – the ones that have turned gray-white – are two to three times more reflective than their fresher, inky-black counterparts.

In “Global Cooling: increasing world-wide urban albedos to offset CO2,” the authors calculate that roofs and pavements make up about 60 percent of urban surfaces (roofs 20-25 percent, pavements 40 percent). With a moderate increase in the reflectivity, or albedos, of roads and roofs in the world’s urban areas, we could induce “negative radiative forcing on the earth equivalent to offsetting about 44 Gt [gigatons] of CO2 emissions.” For comparison, the entire world’s CO2 emissions from fossil fuels in 2011 totaled 31.6 gigatons. Driving with sunglasses would be a small price to pay for more reflective cities.

In a century of rapid technological change, roads are the same as ever. It’s time we started asking: Why?

Embracing Our Darkness: We Don’t Always Have to Be Happy

It is better to be whole than to be good.” ~John Middleton Murray

Discouragement is usually an unwelcome guest. Every time it comes knocking on my door, I try to shoo it away or sweep it under the rug.

In fact, many of us want nothing more than for happiness to be our constant state of being, and have a hard time forgiving ourselves when we falter. 

It happens: We can get immersed in the thick of discouragement for days, feeling mopey, downtrodden, physically, mentally, and emotionally “burnt out” and all in all “not ourselves.”

When I am in this state, I avoid the page, others, and even my own feelings, not wanting to face the dark and shadowy sides of my own being.

Though it doesn’t always coincide with the external weather, I can feel rainy inside my own experience and mind from time to time, and I usually struggle against this feeling, only making it worse. 


I am so adamant about being a positive person and believe that shining brightly is far preferable to feeling crummy. I think many of us share this tendency toward wanting to hold onto the light—but then, what do we do with our inner storms?

Where do we get this notion that to be our truest and most beautiful selves we have to always be happy, elated, content, and sure of ourselves?

Why do we believe that we must feel confident and inspired, have all the answers, and be buoyant in order to be our best, or at least to “be okay”? 

We are only human after all, and nothing in our instruction manuals or in our description before we were born promises that we will always be perfect and shiny. Yet, we carry this unrealistic pressure on ourselves to be so and often berate ourselves for falling short any time a bad mood strikes.

It’s tempting to only put our best foot forward. For example, on Facebook, we can often share our sunshine-y moments proudly but may be less apt to proclaim as boldly when we are feeling negative.
If not for wanting to hide our own seemingly fruitless negativity from others and even ourselves, we might also fear spreading the bad mood to others.



We often forget that it actually gives others joy to be able to help, and it is often necessary to reach out, since “joy shared is doubled and grief shared is halved.”

So today, how can you begin to admit or even embrace times when you may feel discouraged?

In my life, I am beginning to acknowledge that it is just as natural to feel insecure, scared, and to want to curl up in bed in the fetal position as it is natural to sometimes feel peaceful, excited, or happy.

I am even on my way to embracing all these states equally, and not trying to change my sadness or force it to be something it’s not.

Sadness needs to be accepted. It needs to be loved, and cuddled, and caressed, and crooned: “It’s okay, sadness, I see you, I love you, I respect and honor you, and I will let you be.”

It almost always feels a bit better just by being given the space to be allowed and received. Sometimes, as soon as I get on the phone with someone who cares, all the tears I didn’t let myself cry start spilling out of me, because in simply being witnessed, it is like the person actually reached out to give me the warmest hug.

It’s important to appreciate ourselves similarly for all our aspects and to forgive ourselves for even the lowest facets of our self.

Guilt, shame, and self-flagellation—these don’t actually correct the wrongs or make you a better person, they just reinforce the dark emotions even more strongly.

So, instead of beating yourself up, negating or denying your sadness and grief, or trying to “fix” it, simply repeat to yourself the best words anyone ever told me “Be gentle with yourself.” 

Give yourself a big strong hug, maybe even a kiss, and tell yourself how much you appreciate you—all of you, now in this moment and forever.

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Monday, August 19, 2013

Is the government trying to break up JPMorgan?

Published: Monday, 19 Aug 2013 | 1:29 PM ET
By: | Senior Writer 
http://www.cnbc.com/id/100972097

Any doubt that the rules have changed for the way megabanks do business around the world should be removed now. 

News over the weekend that regulators had launched a probe into JPMorgan Chase's hiring practices in China provide further evidence that too-big-to-fail banks are in the firing line.

The bank is suspected of hiring the children of a prominent Chinese officials in an effort to curry favor among officials there, according to reports first filed by The New York Times's DealBook blog. Peddling influence in China is hardly a new business trend.
 
Prosecuting big-league Wall Street banks for doing so is.
(Read more: A bad day for Jamie Dimon just got a lot worse
"The old argument that, gee, this is just business as usual—that's not a legitimate excuse for JPMorgan," said Chicago-based securities attorney Andrew Stoltmann. "Even if other companies are doing the same thing, JPMorgan still potentially may be liable."

Liable for exactly what, though, is the question.

After all, while it may be unethical, it's hardly illegal for financial institutions or funds to hire based on political or family connections. Doing so is practically standard operating procedure in China, and the entire global business community for that matter. (Chelsea Clinton, who was hired at $12 billion hedge fund Avenue Capital when she was 26, comes to mind.)

"It is not at all unusual for investment banks to hire well-connected people, including children of management of existing or potential clients, whether in China or in other countries," David Webb, a former investment banker and now an investor and analyst in Hong Kong, told the South China Morning Post.


The problem comes with intent.


(Read more: Fitch rings warningbell on Canadian banks
"If there is an indirect kickback going on, for example, by paying a large bonus linked to the winning of business from the employee's father's company or the government, or even putting the child on the payroll without actually requiring him to work, then that could be corruption and should be investigated by the relevant authorities, including Hong Kong's ICAC if the offense took place here," Webb said.


The Post cited a handful of examples where well-heeled progeny landed plum spots with Chinese companies.

The specific cases the Securities and Exchange Commission is examining involve the daughter of a former railway official and the son of Tang Shuangning, a former regulator and now chairman of China Everbright Group. JPMorgan was one of a handful of banks looking to underwrite a planned capital rise by China Everbright.

While the case is potentially serious, it is still in the early stages; the SEC hasn't subpoenaed any actual documents but has only sent a request to JPMorgan to turn over information potentially relevant to the case.

But on a larger scale, this is only the most recent case of regulators training their sights on the top U.S. holding company by deposits, so suspicions of a witch hunt or fishing expedition are only natural.

The firm recently had two of its traders indicted in the "London Whale" case, in which the bank lost $6 billion on a bet that went awry.
(Read more: Two JPM workers charged in 'London whale' saga
"The United States government has made it a priority to break this company," said Dick Bove, vice president of equity research at Rafferty Capital Markets. "In my view, it wants the firm broken up and it wants the management changed. Every action that it has taken in the past few years is oriented toward this goal."


Bove alleged that there are "eight U.S. government agencies seeking ways to harm" JPMorgan and purposely leaked confidential documents to the Times as part of the effort, in which he believes the press also has been complicit.

"The government and the press are out to break up JPMorgan Chase," he said. "Its shareholders have a stake in this attack. They need to be careful."


Thus far, investors have taken a cautious view on the assault against JPM. Shares were down about 2 percent as of midday Monday and are down about 7 percent over the past 30 days, a period that has been rough on all the big banks.
(Read more: Buffett thanks BofA's CEO for $5.3 billion profit
With all of the coming actions, JPMorgan faces a $6.8 billion bill from future legal costs, above the level it has in reserves.

"It's the latest shot across the bow. Prosecutors are coming hard, regulators are coming hard," said Stoltmann, the securities lawyer.

"The SEC and regulators have come under blistering criticism for the lack of enforcement actions and criminal actions against bank and brokerage firm executives," he said. "So this seems to be the next best thing for regulators to do, which is look under every rock and see whether anything sticks."

By CNBC's Jeff Cox. Follow him @JeffCoxCNBCcom on Twitter.


Benjamin Fulford - August 19, 2013: Why the “just following orders” mentality allowed the fascists to take over the West

Notice to readers: This week we return to pre-written material as I finish my holiday outside of the digital information matrix. Next week I will be back in Tokyo and will report the latest news about the upcoming autumn offensive against the cabal.

Canada, on the surface, seems to be the same as it always was, liberal, laid back and tolerant. However, despite having an open minded, free thinking population, it is clear the Stephen Harper government still in power has a fascist agenda and needs to be removed. It has been engaged in a stealth move to slowly, slowly impose a totalitarian agenda. The signs of this, and they are no doubt repeated in other Western countries, are easy to spot if you have been living outside their information matrix.

For those who wish to do their own fact checking there is a way to show the West is ruled by a secret totalitarian regime. Take a look at the ownership control of the Fortune 500 companies that dominate the economy. It can all be traced, as can the ownership of the Federal Reserve Board and the 12 largest banking corporations to four entities: BlackRock, State Street, Vanguard and Fidelity. The ownership by a few families (the usual suspects like Rockefeller, Rothschild, Warburg, Morgan etc.) of most economic activity of course includes ownership of the media, text-book publishing and educational institutions of import. This control matrix will be systematically dismantled over the coming months and years.

To understand how the control matrix set up by these families works let us look at the mild version they run in Canada. The official Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and other corporate propaganda media outlets (remember fascism is the dictatorship of corporations) are the most obvious examples.

Reading their “newspapers” and watching or listening to their broadcasts you begin to enter a surreal world in which Russia’s Vladimir Putin is not a democratically elected leader but rather a tyrant, where Barak Obama does not represent a government that tortures and murders with impunity and where Al Qaeda is either an ally or an enemy depending on which country they are talking about.

Many of my otherwise well-educated and intelligent family and friends here seem to think, for example, that homosexuals (or whatever the latest politically correct label is) are jailed and persecuted in Russia. This is because of relentless and increasingly crude propaganda about a law that makes it illegal to promote homosexuality to minors. In the West, of course, there are severe jail terms and persecution in place for people who promote heterosexuality to minors (it is labeled pedophilia). In any case, the people who rely on corporate and government media (including much of my family) for information in Canada have been left with the untrue impression that homosexuals were being imprisoned and tortured in Russia. This is fascist propaganda at its most blatant.

The must surreal example I saw was an Ottawa, Canada reality show that follows police as they go about their work. In the show I saw police were seizing “unregistered weapons” from a “purse thief.”

The police in the report were saying the suspect was arrested for stealing a woman’s purse and that the firearms were found in a subsequent search of his house. The police said the man stole the purse and fled alone in a taxi. However, in the show the Taxi driver, speaking in accented English, unmistakably repeated that the woman who supposedly had her purse stolen from her house was with the suspect e entire time. The weapons were old ones the “suspect” had inherited. It was an obvious case of trumped up charges being used as a pretext to seize weapons. The propaganda was so crude the shows’ producers apparently did not realize the policeman was lying on air and that the taxi driver’s testimony proved it. If I try to talk to my family about such things or events like 911, they become extremely agitated and refuse to listen.

It is the sort of -you cannot believe it is happening in Canada- event that is becoming all to frequent. The media are lying, the government is falling into the hands of thugs and, people with a vested interest in the system are in denial.

Fortunately the control matrix set up by these families has a fatal flaw. Western civilization is extremely militarized in its organization. Military power structures are characterized by highly centralized control and command. People are trained to follow orders, obey rules and go along with the public agenda. While the “I was just following orders,” excuse was supposed to have been debunked at the Nuremberg trials, a more insidious system has now replaced it. People involved in the military and the agencies or in the corporate government repeatedly use the phrase “that is above my pay grade,” to shut their minds and concentrate on their immediate orders.

The implication is that the more money somebody gets paid, the more they are allowed to know. What happens though is that if you seize the tiny group of people who control the money distribution process then suddenly you are above the pay grade of all these order obeying aparatchiks.

Seen from outside of the West, what is happening now is that the European Union and the United States are bankrupt vis a vis the rest of the world. Or, more accurately speaking, the families that own the rights to print dollars and Euros are also bankrupt.

So, if the creditors to these people are willing (and they say they are) then the financial control mechanisms are about to change hands. The implications are historical. Whoever controls the money controls, first of all, the wages of all the military and agency personnel in Europe and the US. Secondly they will get control of the corporations and the corporate propaganda matrix. Thirdly they will get control of all the scientific and educational funding as well as the scientific and educational publishing (publish or perish and all that).

Needless to say replacing one secret group with another is not going to make any long term difference. Instead, we need to make the power transfer as public and transparent as possible without endangering innocent lives.

Finding a new way for our species to chart its future is what we will work on this autumn.

Source:
http://benjaminfulford.net/2013/08/20/why-the-%E2%80%9Cjust-following-orders%E2%80%9D-mentality-allowed-the-fascists-to-take-over-the-west/

Thursday, August 15, 2013

The Dark Side Of The Moon: What Is It? What’s On It?




What did Gary find? He found a list on “non-terrestrial off world officers” that had a rank. He was unable to tell if they represent the Air Force, Navy, Army, or neither. He also found multiple pictures of UFOs and lists of “fleet to fleet” transfers of materials from “ship to ship.” To watch a full interview with Gary McKinnon and Kerry Cassidy from Project Camelot, right before he started making headlines, you can click here. This interview became extremely popular and it led to Gary’s appearance on major mainstream news networks. Could they have been trying to divert attention away from this interview? I am glad to report that Gary has been recently cleared of all charges.

Not many people know that the United States Air Force has a space command(4), they are responsible for conducting “cyber operations” that the general public knows nothing about. Could Gary McKinnon have shed some light on these operations? How are we to ever know about these operations? All of them remain classified for the sake of “national security.”
The dangers of excessive and unwarranted concealment of pertinent facts, far outweigh the dangers that are cited to justify them. There is a very grave danger, that an announced need for an increased need for security, will be seized upon by those anxious to expand its meaning to the very limits of censorship and official secrecy. This is not what I intend to permit, to the extent that it is in my control – JFK
Given that the above information is highly credible and verifiable, meaning that there actually was a remote viewing experiment conducted by Stanford University (and many others) involving Ingo Swann (2), and that Gary McKinnon did indeed perform one of the greatest military computer hacks of all time, it made sense to continuing exploring this topic.

Here is testimony given in 2001 at the National Press Club. As part of the disclosure project created by Dr. Steven Greer, hundreds of high ranking military personnel came forward to share their stories. Below are a couple of whistle-blowers that speak about the Moon. I urge you to check out  Dr Greer’s and Amardeep Kaleka’s recent film, the The Sirius Documentary. It touches upon some very important information.



So what do you think rests on the dark side of the Moon? For some to say that we never went to the Moon is ridiculous. Sure, some of the Moon landings that were televised could have been faked, but the fact remains, we have been to the Moon and the real thing probably wasn’t televised.
Thanks for reading, hopefully I’ve presented enough information for you to further your interest if interested. It’s a very fascinating subject with a lot more information on it than what is presented in this article.

I don’t know if this is real, but it fits in perfectly with the article. Regardless, it engages the imagination, especially for skeptics, which isn’t a bad thing.




Sources:

Vid from Fulford: 8- 2013 : OPPT and Keenan mentioned in Big world Shakedown this Fall:End World Poverty


Video from Benjamin Fulford: August 2013 : OPPT and Keenan mentioned in Big world Shakedown this Fall:End World poverty

Very very interesting and informative 26:48 minute VIDEO by FULFORD before he goes on a one month vacation "into the wilderness". 


Tuesday, August 13, 2013

Not All Channels Connect With Higher Divine Realms













Time for a little cleanup.
Whether it is being done knowingly or not this needs to be said.
As it is known we are in a world of duality and that extends into every nook and cranny.  Generally it’s not considered that this would include channeled sources.  But the truth is, it does.  Some sources are connecting with the higher realms and some are connecting with the archons.  The archons wish to disempower us and make us think we need them to save us.  By following this thought process of needing someone external to save us we freely give away our power to them.  There are a few easy ways to spot this type of channeling.
- You will have an odd feeling that doesn’t feel good.
- They will say we are coming to save you soon.
- They will not mention that you have a higherself.
- Parts of the message will praise you and other parts will make you think you need them to save you.
- These sources will also list dates many times that never happen and always give some excuse all to make you feel helpless and in fear.
True clear channels of higher sources would not include the above and always work to prop you up and show you your inner strength and abilities.
We claim we are system busters and that includes shining the light on all areas even our channels among us.

Your mortgage documents are fake!


Prepare to be outraged. Newly obtained filings from this Florida woman's lawsuit uncover horrifying scheme (Update)