INDIAN TRUST SETTLEMENT PAYMENTS RELEASED

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - COBELL SETTLEMENT MONEY ON THE WAY - NATIONAL CONGRESS OF AMERICAN INDIANS

Date: Tuesday, 18-Dec-2012 23:53:58
Cobell Settlement Money on the Way - National Congress of American Indians

For Immediate Release
December 18, 2012

Cobell Settlement Money on the Way;

NCAI Launches Radio Ad Campaign to “Protect Native Money”

First round of Cobell settlement checks scheduled this week.

WASHINGTON, DC - On Monday the Indian Trust Settlement Administrator began issuing checks for the Cobell settlement to an estimated 400,000 American Indians who are Individual Indian Money (IIM) account holders. In an effort to raise awareness about the possibility of fraud and scams targeting these account holders the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) has released a Public Service Announcements (PSA) for radio stations as part of the organization’s Protect Native Money initiative.

“This settlement can benefit you, your family and your communities, but we must all be aware of the potential negative impacts. You or others may be a target for scams,” says NCAI’s Jefferson Keel in the radio PSA being distributed to Native American radio stations throughout the United States (click here to download). “Dishonest people know about the settlement and are figuring ways to take money from you.  Be aware and be watchful.  If you suspect a scam, you can contact your State’s Attorney General Office of Consumer Protection or your tribe.”

Keel and NCAI is also encouraging Native people to become educated and visit the organization’s site full of information on the issue at www.ncai.org/protectnativemoney. NCAI has also developed an “alert” with information for tribes to provide to their members (download here).

Keel closes the PSA by saying, “Remember, it’s your money, it’s Native money. Let’s keep it that way for generations to come.”

NCAI outlines specific ways in which recipients may be targeted. Individuals in these circumstances usually get mail, phone calls, and email with ideas for how to spend the money. For example, individuals or their family might get offers for new or used vehicles, credit card or loan offers, rent-to-own “deals”, or an advance on the money. The organization is encouraging individuals to determine how to save or spend their money, and to be wary of scams that encourage people to “Act Now!”, make big promises, offer no risk, or tell people to “keep it secret” referring to the offer.
NCAI says the best way to protect Native money is to make a plan, “take your time” when deciding how to spend the money”, ask questions, and talk to someone your trust.

The Cobell settlement payments, being made by the Indian Trust Settlement Administrator, will be distributed in two payments with the first being the $1,000 to everyone in the class. These payments are expected to be mailed on Monday December 17, 2012. The remaining payments will go out within six months of the first payment. $1.5 billion is slated for individuals in these initial payouts. $1.9 billion will go to repurchase fractionated interests over the next 10 years. A major number of the recipients are in Montana, North and South Dakota, Idaho, Washington, California, Arizona, Oklahoma, Nebraska, and Minnesota.

NCAI has also learned that the court will issue an order this week appointing a "special master" to oversee the distribution of the funds with a focus on efforts to locate all eligible beneficiaries.  Efforts will be made to reach out to tribes to help locate members who may be eligible but who may need to update their addresses.

NCAI is directing individuals who have questions about payments for class members of the Cobell v. Salazar settlement, to contact the claims administrator, Garden City Group, Inc., directly.

Call: 1-800-961-6109 toll free

Email: info@IndianTrust.com
Mail: Indian Trust Settlement, P.O. Box 9577, Dublin, OH 43017-4877

Trust Beneficiary Call Center -- beneficiaries can contact the Trust Beneficiary Call Center for the Office of Special Trustee, toll-free, at 1-888-678-6836

Source: http://www.ncai.org/news/articles/2012/12/18/cobell-settlement-money-on-the-way-ncai-launches-radio-ad-campaign-to-protect-native-money

Judge Arrested In Court For Treason By UK Citizens

Power to the People!

Not seen it on LL so sharing it here. This was ignored by the mainstream media in the UK. They don't want us realising the difference between common law of the land and maritime law.

"Arrest that judge!"

British Constitution Group chairman Roger Hayes arrests the judge for refusing to produce his oath of office over illegal council tax fraud committed by the local council with the help of citizens from the UK.

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f32_1355777163

BREAKING: Two Former UBS Traders Face Felony Charges, Prosecutors Say

Two former UBS AG (UBSN) traders face felony charges for their alleged roles in the rigging of a key global interest rate, the U.S. Justice Department said. 

By Phil Mattingly - Dec 19, 2012 10:35 AM CT

Tom Alexander William Hayes and Roger Darin were charged with conspiracy in a criminal complaint unsealed today, the Justice Department said. Hayes also was charged with wire fraud and a price-fixing violation for activity with another bank aimed at manipulating the London Interbank Offered Rate, the department said.

“Make no mistake, for UBS traders, the manipulation of Libor was about getting rich,” Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer, the head of the Justice Department’s criminal division, said a news conference in Washington.

UBS was ordered to pay about $1.5 billion to U.S., U.K. and Swiss regulators for trying to rig global interest rates, including Libor, over a six-year period. Regulators found that traders at the Zurich-based bank made more than 2,000 requests to its own rate submitters, traders at other banks and brokers to manipulate rate submissions through 2010.

To contact the reporter on this story: Phil Mattingly in Washington at pmattingly@bloomberg.net
 
To contact the editor responsible for this story: Maura Reynolds at mreynolds34@bloomberg.net

Source: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-12-19/two-former-ubs-traders-face-felony-charges-prosecutors-say-1-.html 

Does Mayan calendar predict start of a new age?

Local astrologer says there will be a ‘global shift in awareness’

Read more here: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2012/12/19/3724271/does-mayan-calendar-predict-start.html#storylink=cp

Astrologer Steve Nelson stands in front of a
constellation chart in his office in Myers 

Park. Nelson says the prediction that the world

will come to an end at the end of the Mayan

calendar on Dec. 21 is a fallacy. Instead, he 

says this time period will mark the shift to a 

transformation | in consciousness and global 

awareness. LISA MOORE

Read more here: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2012/12/19/3724271/does-mayan-calendar-predict-start.html#storylink=cpy

As Dec. 21 approaches, thousands of people around the world will be preparing for the holidays and a new year. There will also be some sitting in stockpiled bunkers or shelters in expectation of the much-hyped Mayan apocalypse.

In the months leading up to this day that has spawned numerous movies and books, NASA says it has received more than 5,000 questions, many dealing with anxiety related to end-of-time fears.

The panic surrounds a 5,125-year calendar developed by the Mayans, an ancient, advanced civilization who resided in the present-day Mexican state of Yucatan and Guatemala, and were known for their astronomical observations and mathematical powers.

Professional astrologer, Steve Nelson, author of “The New World Cycle of Celebrations,” says that no traditional Mayan prophecies or present day Mayan elders predict calamity for the end of this calendar cycle.

Instead, what he says is predicted is a global shift in awareness, a transformation of consciousness such that the world may actually end as we know it on the psychic level.

Nelson, 65, who refers to himself as a cycles counselor, says that several cultural and mystical traditions converge in this time all portending the beginning of a new age. However, we must work to clear through the darkness that precedes this anticipated new era.

“As predicted, shadows crowd the dawn of this new time and these shadows include the fear that the world will end,” says Nelson, a Myers Park area resident who uses Jungian-based mythological astrology with his international clientele.

Nelson refers to the work of Carlos Barrios, a Mayan elder and ceremonial priest, who said anthropologists have misinterpreted Mayan texts and stated, “Other people write about prophecy in the name of the Maya. They say that the world will end in December 2012. The Mayan elders are angry with this. The world will not end. It will be transformed.

“We are no longer in the World of the Fourth Sun, but we are not yet in the World of the Fifth Sun. This is the time in-between, the time of transition. As we pass through transition there is a colossal, global convergence of environmental destruction, social chaos, war, and ongoing earth changes.” According to Nelson, most of these changes have already occurred.

Barrios says that Dec. 21, is the start date of the World of the Fifth Sun. This new era begins as the solar meridian crosses the galactic equator this year, i.e. when earth and sun align with the heart of the galaxy.

Nelson believes Charlotte is designed to play a special role in this new time. He says Charlotte’s founder, Thomas Polk, laid out the city in a 360-acre square that is the core of the “City of Revelation” as described in the book of Revelation.

According to the chart Nelson has prepared for the Queen City (est. 7 November, 1768), Charlotte is favored to be a leader in new forms of art, clean energy, banking and the healing arts. He believes Charlotte will play a significant role in renovating the global economic system during the next few years.

So, is there anything we can do to prepare for this predicted shift in consciousness?

Nelson notes that what happens to us on Dec. 21 and the weeks that follow depends on how we engage with this alignment. He says that from now to Dec. 24 is the time to shed karma to free life force energy.

The best way to hook up with the heart of the cosmos during this time, Nelson says, is go to a natural, geographical power spot at Winter Solstice Dec. 21-24. Local spots include the Grande Disc at the corner of Trade and Tryon (which is the exact center of Charlotte), the giant Indian Rock in The Ballantyne area and the energy vortex at Sacred Grove Retreat in Gold Hill. Once there, do clockwise turns, following the path of the sun to open to the new light.

“We’re being called now to let go the trappings of the old world so we can move into the new,” said Nelson. “The more we shed the old the easier and more rewarding this shift will be.”

Lisa Moore is a freelance writer. Have a story idea for Lisa? Email her at LisaMooreNC@gmail.com.

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Shift of the Ages

http://www.shiftoftheages.com

The Shift of the Ages is a dramatic documentary film that reveals the story of the Mayan culture and its sophisticated prophecies of time, as told for the first time by the Grand Elder of the Mayan people, Alejandro Cirilo Perez Oxlaj. Commissioned on behalf of the Maya nation, the Shift of the Ages is the first official discourse to the world from the Mayan Council of Elders, intended to dispel misconceptions and replace them with the positive story about this incredible period of time for humanity. Known as “Wandering Wolf,” Don Alejandro is the elected Grand Elder of the living Maya, former Ambassador in the Guatemalan Government, and mystical Aj Q’ji, or timekeeper of tradition.

The film, shot over the course of seven years and in more than six countries, follows Wandering Wolf from his early days as a shoeshine boy on the streets of Guatemala through his coming of age and acceptance of his spiritual destiny. The Shift of the Ages follows him on an epic quest to recover the Sacred Staff of Authority, an ancient object at the heart of this global awakening and subject of a 500 year old ancestral conflict that ultimately ends in the downfall of Valentin Mejillones, an Aymaran elder in Bolivia who abused the good will of the Mayan people for his own political gain.

The Mayans were superb mathematicians and astronomers who devised one of the most accurate calendars known to man. They speak of a year “zero,” which was thought by some scholars to be 2012. Wandering Wolf explains, however, how the Mayan calendar is cyclical, not linear like that of Westerners who try to interpret it. He teaches us how this “zero” time period is what the Mayans refer to as the “change of the suns,” and clarifies this as a transition process, not a singular day or event. Indigenous wisdom passed down to Wandering Wolf is shared for the first time in a way that expresses the role human consciousness plays in connecting to the universe. We come away assured this is a time of great opportunity to heal ourselves and our planet from wounds of the past.

Set against the backdrop of the end of the Mayan Long Count calendar, the film is a tightly woven tapestry of human drama and cultural history that takes you on an adventure into the heart of the Maya, their ancient spiritual traditions and sophisticated culture. The Shift of the Ages beautifully illustrates the power of the human spirit.

UBS Said to Face $1.6 Billion Libor Penalty This Week

UBS AG (UBSN) is set to pay as much as $1.6 billion to settle claims of Libor manipulation by the U.S. Justice Department, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the U.K. Financial Services Authority and the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority, said a person familiar with the probes. 

By Lindsay Fortado and Greg Farrell on December 16, 2012

 

The announcement could come by tomorrow, said the person, who asked not to be identified because they aren’t authorized to speak publicly about the matter. The $1.6 billion figure would be more than three times the 290 million pounds ($469 million) that Barclays Plc (BARC) agreed to pay last June to settle allegations that its employees conspired to manipulate the London interbank offered rate, which is used in bank borrowing.

As part of the case, U.S. prosecutors are planning to file charges against multiple bankers associated with UBS’s rigging of Tokyo interbank lending rates, according to another person with knowledge of the matter. The charges would be the first brought by the Department of Justice against individuals alleged to have manipulated Libor and comparable lending rates in Europe and Japan.

The prosecution is slated to begin in tandem with an announcement that UBS Securities Japan Ltd., the Japanese unit of the Zurich-based bank, would plead guilty to manipulating Japanese interest rates starting in 2007, said the person, who asked not to be named because the matter is private.

No Comment

Christoph Meier, a Zurich-based spokesman for UBS, Liam Parker, a spokesman for the FSA, and Tobias Lux, a spokesman for the Swiss financial markets regulator, declined to comment on the settlement amount.

Karina Byrne, a spokeswoman for UBS, said last week in an e-mail: “We continue to work closely with various regulatory authorities to resolve issues relating to the setting of certain global benchmark interest rates. As we are in active discussions with these authorities, we cannot comment further.”
Unlike the pending settlement with UBS, the Justice Department didn’t require Barclays to enter a guilty plea to a specific charge. In deciding against a charge last June, prosecutors praised Barclays’ “timely, voluntary and complete disclosure of facts.”

UBS has been “granted conditional leniency or conditional immunity” by the Justice Department’s antitrust division, in connection with potential antitrust violations related to submissions for interbank lending rates in Tokyo, according to the Swiss bank’s most recent annual report.

U.S. Guidelines

According to Justice Department guidelines, a corporation can secure favorable treatment from prosecutors if it’s the first to pledge full cooperation in an antitrust investigation. In order to win that leniency, however, the corporation has to include an admission that it was part of an antitrust conspiracy, and help identify other participants in the scheme.

One year ago, Japanese regulators sanctioned UBS’s Japanese operations, curtailing the bank’s ability to participate in the Tokyo interbank derivative market for a week, and ordering the bank to improve its regime of compliance and internal controls.

Last week, a former Citigroup Inc. trader was among three people detained in the first U.K. arrests as part of the global Libor probes, according to two people familiar with the matter.

Thomas Hayes, a former trader at UBS and Citigroup, was arrested by the Serious Fraud Office and City of London Police, said the people, who asked not to be identified citing the continuing investigation.

The other two men arrested worked at brokerage firm RP Martin Holdings Ltd., according to one of the people and a third person familiar with the investigation, who also requested anonymity. The employees are Terry Farr and Jim Gilmour, people with knowledge of the investigation said. They were later released on bail.

To contact the reporters on this story: Lindsay Fortado in London at lfortado@bloomberg.net; Greg Farrell in New York at gregfarrell@bloomberg.net.

To contact the editors responsible for this story: Anthony Aarons at aaarons@bloomberg.net; Michael Hytha at mhytha@bloomberg.net.

Benjamin Fulford: The world will not end this Friday, December 21st 2012, but it almost did

The earth is too important to end by the hands of the cabal. They had their time, its now over. Some are still in denial of that and attempt to retrain that control, and lash out at those who with brave courage have exposed them. The energies now present prevent the cabal from reasserting control through their lies, illusions and technologies. It is affecting their very mental abilities, plans, and in many cases causing declining health in those who persist in the old ways. Just look at them. They are not well. How that turns out for the cabal is still in their choice, its the old evolutionary issue, adapt and evolve or become irrelevant. Divine Source loves all, but also allows free will. However the Divine will and plan will not be thwarted. Go with the flow or the flow will make you go away... its your choice cabal. Time is running out. Zero point is almost here. -AK 

http://americankabuki.blogspot.com/2012/12/benjamin-fulford-world-will-not-end.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+AmericanKabuki+%28American+Kabuki%29  

The world will not end this Friday, December 21st 2012, but it almost did

Posted by Benjamin Fulford

December 17, 2012

This Friday will be the long talked-about Mayan etc. December 21st, 2012 end of the world date. When that date comes and goes, it will be time to examine forensically exactly who was behind the various Nibiru, Planet X, photon belt, rapture etc. stories that all predicted the death of 80% or more of all humans. We need to do this because a very real plot to start World War 3 and a fake end-times did exist and, although the plot has been stopped, many extremely dangerous mass murderers behind this satanic scheme still walk the corridors of power in the West.

The purge of the over 26 pentagon generals who [redacted?] and the fall of the Bush family are just a start. We need to deal with the rest of the cabal in order to make sure that humanity will never again be enslaved.

To help carry out this process, this week we will provide detailed forensic intelligence on some of the still-active cabalists and their on-the-ground agents. We would also like to report extremely good, very concrete news on the new financial system, but loose lips sink ships so we cannot give out much detail yet.

Since many of the top cabalists, like the Rockefellers and Rothschilds are well known, we will concentrate on people who were directly involved in fighting against the White Dragon spokesperson. In Japan, the first people who began threatening, trying to drug and trying to kill me were self-described Ninja’s sent to me by former Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi’s Finance Minister Heizo Takenaka. Their names are Shiramine and Tenzan Nakai. Shiramine threatened to kill me and Nakai tried to get me to drink a glass of orange juice spiked with amphetamines so he could ruin my image by filming me stoned.

Later an agent then going by the name of Slasha Zaric but now going by the name Alexander Romanov came to me with 70 kilos of marijuana laced with mind-destroying chemicals. The marijuana was delivered to Romanov by a South African using the name Spencer. Spencer, who is linked to MI6, says MI6 was fooled into sending Zaric to me by the CIA and says the spiked marijuana came from a man named Rodriguez (now dead) who was the former right-hand man of Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar. Steve McLure, the “music journalist” who talked me into taking a line of cocaine while being secretly filmed also got his cocaine from the same ultimate CIA route.

This brings us to Tom Clines of Iran Contra South American drugs-for-weapons fame because his is the name dropped by Neil Keenan when he first contacted me.

MI6 asset Dr. Michael Van de Meer once warned me that former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair had bragged to him that I was going to be jailed on drug charges. Recall that Blair, together with George Bush Jr. both went to the pope to ask for protection and convert to Catholicism after leaving office.

Since that takes us to the Vatican, let us then return to the incident in Chiasso, Italy where two Japanese, Akihiko Yamaguchi and Tsuyoshi Watanabe, had $134.5 billion worth of bonds seized from them by the Italian police. After the bonds were seized, self-described Italian P2 lodge “prince” and heir Leo Zagami introduced Daniel Dal Bosco as a Vatican banker who could cash the bonds.

Neil Keenan was also involved because he was given an additional 1 trillion worth of bonds to hand over to Dal Bosco for cashing. [Didn't Neil Keenan say they were stolen? -AK] Dal Bosco was then closely followed until the trail ended with the UN offering Dal Bosco $100 million to go away. Also, out popped a rival group calling itself the OITC, using David Sale as a spokesperson, claiming that it had the historical rights to the bonds.

At this point Peter Hans Kolvenbach [the retired Jesuit "Black Pope" now living in Syria -AK], the Agnelli Brothers, Giancarlo Bruno, Vincenzo Mazzara, the Orsini family, Baron Thyssen [Prescott Bush was WWII finance man for Fritz Thyssen's holdings in N. America -AK], Carl Rove, David Eisenhower and a whole bunch of characters straight from central casting pop out.

Then, when the money still did not flow from Asia to the cabal, Japan was attacked on March 11, 2011 with nuclear weapons placed on the seabed to cause a tsunami and timed with the destruction of the Fukushima nuclear plant with a micro-nuke planted by the Israeli company Magna BSP. J. Rockefeller, Yasuhiro Nakasone, Ichiro Ozawa, Benjamin Netanyahu, Leo Zagami and Peter Hans Kolvenbach have all been forensically linked with this attack. When this mass murder still did not force the Asians to fork over more money, multiple attempts, all stopped by the Pentagon, were made to start World War 3.

There has also been a rash of murders and murder attempts. Some of the victims have been Japanese finance ministers and ambassadors as well as Dr. Van de Meer. The Van de Meer murder has been linked to David Eisenhower and the Bushes. None of these murders has caused the funds to flow.

There have also been murder attempts. On March 10th, the night before the attack, an attempt to poison me was made by yet another self-described Ninja linked to J. Rockefeller. Alexander Romanov also survived an assassination attempt that day. The next poisoning attack against me, when I was stabbed with a poisoned needle in June of this year, has been traced to a North Korean agent by the name of Mutsuaki Okubo, according to Chinese sources.

My suggestion is to round all these people up and start questioning them if they do not voluntarily come forward to confess.

Meanwhile, the Cabalists now seem to have split into two opposing camps. The Rockefellers and the pope are hoping to arrest the Rothschild family and dethrone the Queen, according to Neil Keenan.

Keenan, who has just returned from Indonesia, meanwhile, succeeded in photographing the, until now, legendary bunkers full of cash and gold that are there. The photos can be seen at this link:

http://www.divinecosmos.com/start-here/davids-blog/1097-russiantv

Nonetheless, Keenan has still not been able to actually start dispersing any of the funds because he is still being blocked at some mysterious level. The man who was supposed to help him remains in jail in Indonesia.

This writer was also shown bunkers full of gold and cash last week but I have not been given permission to publish any photographs of them. However, we believe that the new government in Japan and the soon-to-be new government in Korea will coordinate with the new bosses in China and the re-elected Obama government to release a flood of money to the people of the world soon. We would like to believe it will happen in time for the December 25th solar new year celebration known as Christmas.

However, that depends on all the players giving up selfish thoughts.