Saturday, November 26, 2005

xymphora: Some things you might have missed

xymphora: Some things you might have missed

Gruesome Video. Falluja? WP Willy Pete, White Phosphorus
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Declaring Victory and Pretending to Get Out

Eschaton

Fall in Shinjuku


Fall in Shinjuku
Originally uploaded by ciro@tokyo.
The NTT DoCoMo building as seen from the Shinjuku Gyoen garden.
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Once Upon a Time...: The United States of Torture

Once Upon a Time...: The United States of Torture

Too Much W-ne

Hullabaloo

From Atlas Shrugs, centerfold of the Bathrobe Media Empire
G-d bless President Bush, holding himself out there for ridicule and vile hate so that we might be stay free. History will be kind to President Bush and hold him in the highest regard. He sees the future, he sees the realites, he sees the truth s we take so for granted.

Am-n

WHAT LOST IRAQ - Ted Rall

WHAT LOST IRAQ - Yahoo! News

Vineyard Sojourn - 69


Vineyard Sojourn - 69
Originally uploaded by cbonney.
SunRISE at Edgartown, Massachusetts

lies.com � Kinsley v. Cheney

lies.com � Kinsley v. Cheney

Cytations: reform is happening: How to Spot Lying and Misleading in Media & Internet

Cytations: reform is happening: How to Spot Lying and Misleading in Media & Internet

Keld Bach�s Press Cuttings � Blog Archive � US Government Refusing to Examine WTC Collapses

Keld Bach�s Press Cuttings � Blog Archive � US Government Refusing to Examine WTC Collapses

Cannonfire: CIA agent Robert Baer

Cannonfire

Abramoff scandal's tentacles really do reach really deep

AMERICAblog: Because a great nation deserves the truth

Making Of in Itaipu Beach


Making Of in Itaipu Beach
Originally uploaded by *Tatiana.

Landscape


Landscape
Originally uploaded by Fernando Porto.

Don't box the world in!


Don't box the world in!
Originally uploaded by hidden side.

framed


framed
Originally uploaded by -Ant-.

Lawmaker calls for release of Bush-Blair memo - Europe - MSNBC.com

Lawmaker calls for release of Bush-Blair memo - Europe - MSNBC.com

lies.com » Reporter Who Witnessed White Phosphorus Use by Marines in Falluja Weighs in on the Controversy

lies.com » Reporter Who Witnessed White Phosphorus Use by Marines in Falluja Weighs in on the Controversy

THE BRAD BLOG: "VIDEO - White House Pushed UK to Kill al-Jazeera Bombing Story"

THE BRAD BLOG: "VIDEO - White House Pushed UK to Kill al-Jazeera Bombing Story"

BlondeSense: U.S. INVADES SYRIA

BlondeSense: U.S. INVADES SYRIA

WOODTV.com & WOOD TV8 - Grand Rapids news and weather - Trampled shoppers released from the hospital

WOODTV.com & WOOD TV8 - Grand Rapids news and weather - Trampled shoppers released from the hospital: "'They didn't have no security at all,'"

Orange Flowers


Orange Flowers
Originally uploaded by Spy to die 4.
This is a photo from an exhibition in Kew gardens I went to this summer passed. It is a part of a huge lamp that is hanging from the ceiling. I was really amazed by this artist as he works with passion and creates everytime something unique. I watched the video on his work which is highly recommended.

Bico de Lacre Poser


Bico de Lacre Poser
Originally uploaded by Marcos Duarte.

Once Upon a Time...: The Ignorant Liars at the WSJ -- Paving the Path to Dictatorship

Once Upon a Time...: The Ignorant Liars at the WSJ -- Paving the Path to Dictatorship

Of Course, The Govt. story about 9/11 is a Lie too.

The Phony War Against the Critics

Solari Action Network :: View topic - A Note from Catheirne on the Fed's Cancellation of M3

Solari Action Network :: View topic - A Note from Catheirne on the Fed's Cancellation of M3

TO THE SOLARI ACTION NETWORK November 25, 2005 A Note from Catherine on the Fed's Cancellation of M3 I have been asked by several network members to comment on the cancellation by the Federal Reserve of the publication of its broadest series of aggregate monetary statistics, known as "M3." ======================================== http://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/h6/discm3.htm Discontinuance of M3 On March 23, 2006, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System will cease publication of the M3 monetary aggregate. The Board will also cease publishing the following components: large-denomination time deposits, repurchase agreements (RPs), and Eurodollars. The Board will continue to publish institutional money market mutual funds as a memorandum item in this release. Measures of large-denomination time deposits will continue to be published by the Board in the Flow of Funds Accounts (Z.1 release) on a quarterly basis and in the H.8 release on a weekly basis (for commercial banks). Last update: November 10, 2005 ============================================== In a nutshell, here are my thoughts: 1. The twelve federal reserve banks -- that together run the bank clearing and currency system -- are privately owned. If you call them up and write to them -- as I once did-- and ask who owns them, who manages their data and whether or not their owners have access to their data, you will be told that this is private information. Fed bank data is arguably the most valuable databank in the world. 2. The flagship Federal Reserve bank is the NY Fed. The NY Fed is the depository for the US government and manager of a powerful slush fund -- the Exchange Stabilization Fund. 3. Significant efforts have been made to ensure that citizens do not have easy access to data about how all the government revenues and expenditures, credit and regulations work within the areas from which they vote for political representation. In short, you do not get annual financial statements that document the most basic government financial performance within your Congressional District. This means you have no basis for assessing performance or providing for citizen based accountability. 4. What 1-3 in combination mean is that corporate profits and stock, mortgage and bond markets (and other capital markets) can be invisibly rigged using taxpayer funded and backed resources in the form of government contracts, subsidies, asset sales and transers, tax benefits, credit guarantees and market intervention and manipulation -- all in a manner that perpetually increases the wealth of a few insiders and drains the many outsiders. This process steadily lowers overall productivity by switching power and money from the productive to the unproductive. 5. There is over $4 trillion missing from US government agencies that we know about-- this is $14,000 per US resident -- who knows how much is missing in total. This disappearance was financed by presumably trillions in debt securities for which the US government and government agencies are liable. As total debt outstanding explodes, it becomes more and more challenging to refinance outstanding debt let alone issue more. Grossly oversimplified, our financial dependency on other nations channeling greater and greater amounts of their total retirement savings to financing our military expeditions and consumer purchases of their manufacturing output becomes ever more politically sensitive. 6. The way to keep the game going is for the Federal Reserve system to simply buy increasing amounts of debt issued by the US government and for the US Treasury and Congress to use the proceeds to protect "insiders" from the resulting inflation while squeezing everyone else while the NY Fed manages market interventions that help do the same. 7. The cancellation of M3 helps accomplish #6 by cancelling some of the statistics (particularly on "repos") that would help market analysts see what is going on. 8. The Federal Reserve's explanation that this is a cost cutting move does not compute given the nature of the Federal Reserves rich resources and the importance of transparency to the functioning of markets. 9. In short, a small group of people continue to use US government debt to finance a war machine to build and consolidate global empire and to use inside information along with the US government budget and credit machines to ensure that this war machine is richly profitable for them and their global allies while draining and depopulating everyone and everything else. 10. The cancellation of m3 is Tapeworm Economics at its best. For some useful pieces on the M3 cancellation, see: http://www.solariactionnetwork.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=3060&highlight= Please do post links to any additional articles and blog comment you recommend. For more recomended reading on the US banking system and actions you can take to do something about this, see Solari Audio Seminar: Where Would Jesus Bank? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Reserve

75/85 on 5th Street Bridge, facing South

The weather this Thanksgiving evening was so beautiful. I took advantage of the construction going on on this bridge, and crept out on the wood construction platform over the interstate. There was a cool breeze. Beside the cars on the highway, everything else around me was deserted.

Pensito Review � Must Listen: If Bush was Joking, Why is Blair Panicking?

Pensito Review � Must Listen: If Bush was Joking, Why is Blair Panicking?

Most Americans still don't have a Clue!

Replant the American Dream

BBC NEWS | Americas | Brazil's police 'execute thousands'

BBC NEWS | Americas | Brazil's police 'execute thousands'