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9/16/2012 4:47:06 PM

Western embassies on alert as Muslim anger simmers over film


DUBAI (Reuters) - Western embassies across the Muslim world remained on high alert on Sunday and the United States urged vigilance after days of anti-American violence provoked by a video mocking the Prophet Mohammad.

Germany followed the U.S. lead and withdrew some staff from its embassy in Sudan, which was stormed on Friday.

Washington ordered non-essential staff and family members to leave its embassy there on Saturday. But the Khartoum government turned down a U.S. request to send Marines to bolster security after the mission was attacked.

Non-essential U.S. personnel have also been withdrawn from Tunisia, and Washington urged U.S. citizens to leave the capital Tunis after the embassy there was targeted on Friday.

Although protests that peaked on Friday largely subsided over the weekend, a small group of protesters burned a U.S. flag outside the U.S. Embassy in the Turkish capital Anakara on Sunday.

Riot police blocked the road, keeping them about 100 meters (yards) from the building.

In the Paksitani city of Lahore, about 5,000 people gathered for a protest, chanting anti-U.S. slogans, while in Karachi, police blocked off roads to the U.S. consulate with shipping containers.

In Hyderabad, one person was killed and one wounded when unidentified gunmen opened fire at a protest against the film and in the capital of Pakistani Kashmir, Muzaffarabad, about 300 protestors burnt an effigy of U.S. President Barack Obama.

The Pakistan demonstrations were however generally small compared to previous bouts of unrest.

The violence is the most serious wave of anti-American protests in the Muslim world since the start of the Arab Spring revolts last year.

It was fanned by public anger over a video, posted on the Internet under several titles including "Innocence of Muslims", which mocked the Prophet Mohammad and portrayed him as a womanizer and a fool.

The U.S. ambassador to Libya, Christopher Stevens, and three other Americans were killed in Benghazi, Libya, last Tuesday. At least nine people were killed in protests in several countries on Friday.

Some U.S. officials have suggested the Benghazi attack was planned by Islamist militants using the video as a pretext.

The crisis also presents Obama with a foreign policy headache as the campaign for the presidential election in November heats up.

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U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said he hoped the worst of the violence was over but that U.S. missions must remain on guard against any flare-ups.

"There continue to be some demonstrations but it would appear that there is some leveling off on the violence that we thought might take place," Panetta told reporters on his plane en route to Asia on Saturday.

"Having said that these demonstrations are likely to continue over the next few days if not longer.

The United States had deployed a significant force in the Middle East to deal with any contingencies and rapid deployment teams were ready to respond to incidents, he said.

The foreign minister of Egypt, where hundreds of people were arrested after four days of clashes, assured U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that U.S. diplomatic missions would be protected.

Mohamed Kamel Amr also told Clinton in a telephone call that the film was designed to incite racial hatred and was therefore "contradictory with laws aimed at developing relationships of peace and mutual understanding between nations and states".

In Los Angeles on Saturday, a California man convicted of bank fraud was taken in for questioning by officers investigating possible probation violations stemming from the making of the film. He has denied reports he was involved in the film's production,

In Lebanon, where one protester was killed in violence on Friday, Pope Benedict urged Arab leaders to work for peace.

"In a world where violence constantly leaves behind its grim trail of death and destruction, to serve justice and peace is urgently necessary," Benedict said at a mass on Beirut's Mediterranean seafront attended by 350,000 worshippers and leaders of Lebanon's Christian and Muslim communities.

(Writing by Robin Pomeroy; Editing by Angus MacSwan)

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9/16/2012 4:48:11 PM

Iran Guard commander: 'Nothing will remain' of Israel if it attacks


The top commander in Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guard has warned that "nothing will remain" ofIsrael if it takes military action against Tehran over its controversial nuclear program.

Gen. Mohammad Ali Jafari said Iran's response to any attack will begin near the Israeli border.

The Islamic Republic has close ties with militants in Gaza and Lebanon, both of which border Israel.

He also told a news conference in Tehran Sunday that if it is attacked, Iran will no longer be committed to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, under whose terms U.N. inspectors visit Iranian nuclear sites.

Israel has left open the possibility of a strike on Iran if diplomacy fails to stop what it says is a push for a nuclear weapon.

Tehran claims its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes.

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9/16/2012 4:58:59 PM

Arctic Warming is Altering Weather Patterns, Study Shows


EDITOR'S NOTE: This story was originally published April 3. Given recent news that Arctic sea ice set a record low, it's a reminder that changes in the Arctic can affect the U.S. and Europe.

By showing that Arctic climate change is no longer just a problem for the polar bear, a new study may finally dispel the view that what happens in the Arctic, stays in the Arctic.

The study, by Jennifer Francis of Rutgers University and Stephen Vavrus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, ties rapid Arctic climate change to high-impact, extreme weather events in the U.S. and Europe.

The study shows that by changing the temperature balance between the Arctic and mid-latitudes, rapid Arctic warming is altering the course of the jet stream, which steers weather systems from west to east around the hemisphere. The Arctic has been warming about twice as fast as the rest of the Northern Hemisphere, due to a combination of human emissions of greenhouse gases and unique feedbacks built into the Arctic climate system.

The jet stream, the study says, is becoming “wavier,” with steeper troughs and higher ridges. Weather systems are progressing more slowly, raising the chances for long-duration extreme events, like droughts, floods, and heat waves.

“[The] tendency for weather to hang around longer is going to favor extreme weather conditions that are related to persistent weather patterns,” said Francis, the study’s lead author.

One does not have to look hard to find an example of an extreme event that resulted from a huge, slow-moving swing in the jet stream. It was a stuck or “blocking weather pattern” – with a massive dome of high pressure parked across the eastern U.S. for more than a week – that led to the remarkable March heat wave that sent temperatures in the Midwest and Northeast soaring into the 80s. In some locations, temperatures spiked to more than 40 degrees above average for that time of year.

The strong area of high pressure shunted the jet stream far north into Canada. At one point during the heat wave, a jetliner flying at 30,000 feet could’ve hitched a ride on the jet stream from Texas straight north to Hudson Bay, Canada. In the U.S., more than 14,000 warm-weather records (record-warm daytime highs and record-warm overnight lows) were set or tied during the month of March, compared to about 700 cold records.

According to the study, Arctic climate change may increase the odds that such high-impact, blocking weather patterns will occur. The study cites examples of other patterns that led to extreme events that also may bear Arctic fingerprints, including the 2011 Texas drought and heat wave, which cost the state’s agricultural sector a staggering $7.62 billion – making it the most expensive one-year drought in that state’s history.

In addition, the study also mentions jet stream configurations that led to heavy snows in the Northeast and Europe during recent winters. Such events are also “consistent” with the study’s findings, according to the paper.

The reasons why the Arctic is heating up so quickly, a phenomenon known as “Arctic amplification,” has to do with factors that are unique to the Arctic environment, involving feedbacks between sea ice, snow, water vapor, and clouds. As the area warms in response to manmade greenhouse gases, melting ice and snow allow exposed land and water to absorb more of the Sun’s heat, which melts more ice and snow, and so on. A relatively small amount of initial warming can be greatly magnified in the Far North.

The temperature contrast between the frigid Arctic and the milder mid-latitudes is what drives the powerful jet stream winds, which are so important for determining day-to-day weather conditions.

In addition to making the jet stream have more pronounced north/south swings, the reduced temperature gradient between northern and southern areas is causing the westerly component of upper-level winds to slow, especially during the fall when extra heating in the Arctic is exceptionally strong.

Path of the jet stream on March 21, 2012. Credit: weatherunderground.

The westerly component of upper-level winds during the fall has weakened by about 14 percent since 1979, the study found.

A slight slowdown in the jet stream may not sound like a big deal. After all, jet stream winds have been clocked at upwards of 200 mph. But it turns out that slowing of the jet stream influences its shape and the motion of individual storm systems.

Weaker westerly winds causes the big north/south swings in the jet stream to move more slowly from west to east, making weather conditions in a given location more persistent than they used to be. “That means that whatever weather you’re experiencing now is going to tend to hang around longer because the passage of those waves is really what causes the weather to change,” Francis said.

The study contains a stark warning about future weather patterns, given projections showing that Arctic climate change is likely to accelerate in coming years. “As the Arctic sea ice cover continues to disappear and the snow cover melts ever earlier over vast regions of Eurasia and North America, it is expected that large-scale circulation patterns throughout the northern hemisphere will become increasingly influenced by Arctic amplification,” the study reports.

In other words, rapid Arctic warming is expected to exert a growing influence on the weather far beyond the Arctic Circle, for many years to come.

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9/16/2012 5:32:08 PM
Dear friends, if true, this is exactly what it claims to be: a bombshell!

BOMBSHELL! BOMBSHELL! BOMBSHELL!- FDIC SUES THE BIG BANKS FOR MASSIVE SECURITIES FRAUD!

September 10th, 2012
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It’s been a while since I’ve dropped a BOMBSHELL….I’ve frankly been a bit per-occupied with several more important things.

But the documentation of the biggest crime spree ever perpetrated on a nation continues to be rolled out….and it continues to be ignored by EVERYONE IN THIS ENTIRE NATION!

I can only pound on the indictment of insurance fraud documented in the 49 State Attorney General Sellout. The press refuses to report on how we’ve all been sold out by the government that serves the banks…but I digress. No one cares about that anymore.

Let’s talk about the THREE SEPARATE NUCLEAR BOMBSHELLS OF FINANCIAL MASS DESTRUCTION.

The FDIC, (that’s the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation) just filed suit against the big banks alleging in very specific terms A MASSIVE SCHEME TO LIE, CHEAT, STEAL AND DEFRAUD. You’d think this kind of thing might warrant a story or two in the national press…but then again, they’ve got far more important things to report on. Well, don’t count on The Press to actually report on anything meaningful anymore.

A big hat tip to my friend April Charney who pointed this out to me and much thanks to the Sarasota Council of Neighborhood Associations for inviting me to speak tonight…..anywhoo, just read the allegations in the complaints: (and then ask yourself why no mainstream media will report on any of this):

This is an action for damages caused by violation of the Texas Securities Act
(TSA) and the Securities Act of 1933 (1933 Act) by the defendants. As alleged in detail below, defendants issued, underwrote, or sold eight securities known as “certificates,” which were backed by collateral pools of residential mortgage loans. Guaranty Bank (Guaranty) paid approximately $1.5 billion for the eight certificates. When they issued, underwrote, or sold the certificates, the defendants made numerous statements of material fact about the certificates and, in particular, about the credit quality of the mortgage loans that backed them. Many of those statements were untrue. Moreover, the defendants omitted to state many material facts that were necessary in order to make their statements not misleading. For example, the defendants made untrue statements or omitted important information about such material facts as the loan-to-value ratios of the mortgage loans, the extent to which appraisals of the properties that secured the
loans were performed in compliance with professional appraisal standards, the number of borrowers who did not live in the houses that secured their loans (that is, the number of properties that were not primary residences), and the extent to which the entities that made the loans disregarded their own standards in doing so.

This is an action for damages caused by violation of the Texas Securities Act (TSA) and the Securities Act of 1933 (1933 Act) by the defendants. As alleged in detail below,
defendants issued, underwrote, or sold eight securities known as “certificates,” which were backed by collateral pools of residential mortgage loans. Guaranty Bank (Guaranty) paid approximately $1.5 billion for the eight certificates. When they issued, underwrote, or sold the certificates, the defendants made numerous statements of material fact about the certificates and, in particular, about the credit quality of the mortgage loans that backed them. Many of those statements were untrue. Moreover, the defendants omitted to state many material facts that were necessary in order to make their statements not misleading. For example, the defendants made untrue statements or omitted important information about such material facts as the loan-to-value ratios of the mortgage loans, the extent to which appraisals of the properties that secured the loans were performed in compliance with professional appraisal standards, the number of borrowers who did not live in the houses that secured their loans (that is, the number of properties that were not primary residences), and the extent to which the entities that made the loans disregarded their own standards in doing so.

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9/16/2012 5:53:49 PM
I can't speak to the validity of this, but you can't deny it makes sense

A general Comment and overview from SaS concerning the downward spiral of the cabal, September 16, 2012

There are two aspects of this controversy that many, in the Lame Stream Media, have overlooked. As this issue is “revealed” to us, there are two classical poles of contention, on the one hand you have “The West” with all of its many alliances and undisclosed, private compacts engaged in “business as usual.” From this perspective, we observe that political elements of each regime continue to fascinate us with their abject stupidity and amoral depravity. Banks continue to rape and pillage their own people as well as those of their client states. War is ruthlessly raged against a defenseless and undescribable body politic with little in the way of tools and tactics that can be deployed against the machinery of conquest other than their own fragile bodies. Disinformation is spread like a fetid salve upon the wounds of public awareness.

On the other hand, a tsunami of opposition and courageous resistance is building against these interlopers. There are 196 countries in the world today. Of those 196, we read that some 140 nations have begun to follow the “Non-aligned” movement. Of the 56 remaining countries, some 30 nations seek neutrality, leaving the infamous “G20″ to argue the fate of the world amongst themselves. Of that group, the countries aligning themselves in opposition to the NWO such as Russia and China are gathering a host of worried subordinates to their influence. This leaves roughly the “G5″ (The United States, the U.K., France, Germany, and Italy) to do most of the dirty work of the Cabal. These countries have been cut off from the currency exchanges and are now being isolated from the commercial trade markets. Granted, my observations are crudely categorized and I’ve little in the way of verifiable references to underwrite my assertions but, I am certain that most of you can see the same thing that I’m seeing in the way of “patterns of development.”

The United Nations is wholly owned by the Global Crime Consortium and represents their interests in securing hegemony and world domination. Most of you, I think, will agree to the veracity of this assertion. Given this obvious fact, what do you suppose was the effect the meeting of the non-aligned nations had upon this Global Crime Consortium? Why abject terror, of course. The meeting did far more damage to the NWO folks than meets the eye. It went even farther in its scope and purpose than just moving Iran into the light as a victim of contrived circumstances. It not only offers some protection to Iran as a major player on the International stage, but that meeting of the non-aligned nations signaled the beginning of the end of the influence and efficacy (if indeed it ever had these aspects) of the United Nations–BLOW NUMBER ONE. It also endorsed a common commercial trade strategy that would permit its participating nations to employ to circumnavigate all these idiotic “free trade” agreements negotiated by cabalistas over the years. These agreements are not free in that they ultimately award control of the signatory’s national gross domestic product to … yes, the same G5 bullies that have been consuming vast quantities of the world’s limited resources (for free) for the last several decades now.

The Non-aligned movement is a “shot across the bow” of the cabal’s one remaining dreadnaught of coercive influence: International Trade. Let me give you an example of how it works. You’ve all read Ben’s columns wherein he would often explain how Japan shipped all that product to the U.S. in exchange for U.S. dollars. Saudi Arabia was coerced into agreeing to a similar “trade agreement.” So were many South American nations, African nations and many of the nations of Indochina, Australia, and New Zealand.

Given the fact that the Federal Reserve has held the interest rate for banks borrowing money from it (the Prime Rate) at Zero (0) percent, what does that make the U.S. Dollar worth on currency exchanges throughout the world? That right! You guessed it! Zero. China took the first bold move to permit non-aligned nations to engage a completely different financial exchange paradigm that is based on real value instead of “perceived” value. There will be other programs in the near future that drive more nails into the coffin of the NWO. So, you see, the meeting of the Non-aligned Nations in Iran was something very much bigger than a “breadbox.” It was the beginning of the end of “This System of Things.” From there on out, everything that the NWO attempts will be frustrated because the balance of all the illegitimately accumulated wealth that they now have in their possession will be jeopardized by any insane, outrageous, or contentious action on their part. Their wealth exists primarily as electronic figures in a system of automated management unique to just the countries that they control. As their influence continues to evaporate, the resources required for them to maintain their dominance and hegemony will dissipate as well.

They’re all in trouble now and they know it. They can threaten and flex their rotting hulk of a military machine all they want. Their resources cannot be replenished so they would have to fight any war that they wanted to start with only those resources that they have in their inventory. Without the ability to replenish those resources (for free through the currency exchanges) they’re toast… or, to put it the way I think Poofness would put it: “They’re the grass and the Non-aligned movement is the damned lawn mower!

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SaS :o

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