Are You Listening, Vermont? Bank of North Dakota (BND) Outperforms Wall Street, by Ellen Brown (BANKING)

Are You Listening, Vermont? Bank of North Dakota (BND) Outperforms Wall Street, by Ellen Brown (BANKING)

While 49 state treasuries were submerged in red ink after the 2008 financial crash, one state’s bank outperformed all others and actually launched an economy-shifting new industry.  So reports the Wall Street Journal this week, discussing the Bank of North Dakota (BND) and its striking success in the midst of a national financial collapse led by the major banks. Chester Dawson begins his November 16th article:
It is more profitable than Goldman Sachs Group Inc., has a better credit rating than J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. and hasn’t seen profit growth drop since 2003. Meet Bank of North Dakota, the U.S.’s lone state-owned bank, which has one branch, no automated teller machines and not a single investment banker.



He backs this up with comparative data on the BND’s performance:
[I]ts total assets have more than doubled, to $6.9 billion last year from $2.8 billion in 2007. By contrast, assets of the much bigger Bank of America Corp. have grown much more slowly, to $2.1 trillion from $1.7 trillion in that period.
. . . Return on equity, a measure of profitability, is 18.56%, about 70% higher than those at Goldman Sachs and J.P. Morgan. . . .
Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services last month reaffirmed its double-A-minus rating of the bank, whose deposits are guaranteed by the state of North Dakota. That is above the rating for both Goldman Sachs and J.P. Morgan and among U.S. financial institutions, second only to the Federal Home Loan Banks, rated double-A-plus.
Dawson goes on, however, to credit the BND’s remarkable performance to the Bakken oil boom. Giving his article the controversial title, “Shale Boom Helps North Dakota Bank Earn Returns Goldman Would Envy: U.S.’s Lone State-Owned Bank Is Beneficiary of Fracking,” he contends:
The reason for its success? As the sole repository of the state of North Dakota’s revenue, the bank has been one of the biggest beneficiaries of the boom in Bakken shale-oil production from hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. In fact, the bank played a crucial part in kick-starting the oil frenzy in the state in 2008 amid the financial crisis.
That is how the Wall Street-owned media routinely write off the exceptional record of this lone publicly-owned bank, crediting it to the success of the private oil industry. It would be more accurate to say that the bank made the boom.

Excess Deposits Do Not Explain the BND’s Record Profits

Dawson confirms that the BND played a crucial role in kickstarting the boom and the economy, at a time when other states were languishing in recession. It did this by lending for critical infrastructure (roads, housing, hospitals, hotels) when other states’ banks were curtailing local lending.
But while the state itself may have reaped increased taxes and fees from the oil boom, the BND got no more out of the deal than an increase in deposits, as Dawson also confirms. The BND is the sole repository of state revenues by law.
Having excess deposits can hardly be the reason the BND has outdistanced even JPMorganChase and Bank of America, which also have massive excess deposits and have not turned them into loans. Instead, they have invested their excess deposits in securities.
Interestingly, the BND has also followed this practice. According to Standard & Poor’s October 2014 credit report, it had a loan to deposit ratio in 2009 of 91%. This ratio dropped to 57.5% in 2014. The excess deposits have gone primarily into Treasuries, US government agency debt, and mortgage-backed securities. Thus the bank’s extraordinary profitability cannot be explained by an excess of deposits or an expanded loan portfolio.
Further eroding the Dawson explanation is that the oil boom did not actually hit North Dakota until 2010. Yet it was the sole state to have escaped the credit crisis by the spring of 2009, when every other state’s budget had already dipped into negative territory. Montana, the runner-up, was in the black by the end of 2009; but it dropped into the red in March of that year and had to implement a pay freeze on state employees.
According to Standard & Poor’s, the BND’s return on equity was up to 23.4% in 2009 – substantially higher than in any of the years of the oil boom that began in 2010.

The Real Reasons for Its Stellar Success

To what, then, are the remarkable achievements of this lone public bank attributable?
The answer is something the privately-owned major media have tried to sweep under the rug: the public banking model is simply more profitable and efficient than the private model. Profits, rather than being siphoned into offshore tax havens, are recycled back into the bank, the state and the community.
The BND’s costs are extremely low: no exorbitantly-paid executives; no bonuses, fees, or commissions; only only one branch office; very low borrowing costs; and no FDIC premiums (the state rather than the FDIC guarantees its deposits).
These are all features that set publicly-owned banks apart from privately-owned banks. Beyond that, they are safer for depositors, allow public infrastructure costs to be cut in half, and provide a non-criminal alternative to a Wall Street cartel caught in a laundry list of frauds.
Dawson describes some other unique aspects of the BND’s public banking model:
It traditionally extends credit, or invests directly, in areas other lenders shun, such as rural housing loans.
. . . [R]etail banking accounts for just 2%-3% of its business. The bank’s focus is providing loans to students and extending credit to companies in North Dakota, often in partnership with smaller community banks.
Bank of North Dakota also acts as a clearinghouse for interbank transactions in the state by settling checks and distributing coins and currency. . . .
The bank’s mission is promoting economic development, not competing with private banks. “We’re a state agency and profit maximization isn’t what drives us,” President Eric Hardmeyer said.
. . . It recently started offering mortgages to individuals in the most underserved corners of the state. But Mr. Hardmeyer dismisses any notion the bank could run into trouble with deadbeat borrowers. “We know our customers,” he said. “You’ve got to understand the conservative nature of this state. Nobody here is really interested in making subprime loans.”

The Downsides of a Boom

The bank’s mission to promote economic development could help explain why its return on equity has actually fallen since the oil boom hit in 2010. The mass invasion by private oil interests has put a severe strain on the state’s infrastructure, forcing it to muster its resources defensively to keep up; and the BND is in the thick of that battle.
In an August 2011 article titled “North Dakota’s Oil Boom is a Blessing and a Curse”, Ryan Holeywell writes that virtually all major infrastructure in the boom cities and counties is strained or exhausted. To shore up its infrastructure needs, the state has committed hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue. Meanwhile, it is trying to promote industries other than oil and gas, such as companies involved with unmanned aircraft, manufacturing associated with wind energy equipment, and data centers; but the remoteness of the western part of the state, along with the high cost of labor, makes doing business there complicated and expensive.
Hydrofracking, which has been widely attacked as an environmental hazard, is not as bad in North Dakota as in other states, since the process takes place nearly two miles underground; but it still raises significant environmental concerns. In 2011, the state levied $3 million in fines against 20 oil companies for environmental violations. It also undertook a review of industry regulations and was in the process of doubling its oil field inspectors.
The greatest stresses from the oil industry, however, involve the shortage of housing and the damage to the county road system, which in many places consists of two-lane gravel and dirt roads. Drilling a new well requires more than 2,000 truck trips, and the heavy rigs are destroying the roads. Fixing them has been estimated to require an investment of more than $900 million over the next 20 years.
These are external costs imposed by the oil industry that the government has to pick up. All of it requires financing, and the BND is there to provide the credit lines.

Lighting a Fire under Legislators

What the Bank of North Dakota has done to sustain its state’s oil boom, a publicly-owned bank could do for other promising industries in other states. But Dawson observes that no other state has yet voted to take up the challenge, despite a plethora of bills introduced for the purpose. Legislators are slow to move on innovations, unless a fire is lit under them by a crisis or a mass popular movement.
We would be better off sparking a movement than waiting for a crisis. The compelling data in Dawson’s Wall Street Journal article, properly construed, could add fuel to the flames.

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Ellen Brown is an attorney, founder of the Public Banking Institute, and author of twelve books, including the best-selling Web of Debt. In The Public Bank Solution, her latest book, she explores successful public banking models historically and globally. Her 200+ blog articles are at EllenBrown.com.

November 21, 2014

http://2vr.org/2014/11/21/are-you-listening-vermont-bank-of-north-dakota-bnd-outperforms-wall-street-by-ellen-brown-banking/

USA, Turkey and Israel Act As Air Force for ISIS

USA, Turkey and Israel Act As Air Force for ISIS

August 4, 2015 in News by Slad

NATO member Turkey was busted buying huge quantities of oil from ISIS (its main source of funding), and bombing ISIS’ main on-the-ground enemy – Kurdish soldiers – using its air force. Many also say that Turkey has long been directly supporting ISIS.

Turkish Air Force – Air Wolves – 2014 – NATO (YouTube) 

Source: Zero Hedge
Submitted by George Washington on 08/04/2015 13:33 -0400

The Israeli air force has bombed near the Syrian capital of Damascus, and attacked agricultural facilities and warehouses (the Syrian government is the other main opponent of ISIS in Syria besides the Kurds). The Israeli military recently admitted supporting Syrian jihadis. And see this.
Mainstream U.S. writers such as Thomas Friedman have called for America to support ISIS.
Republican Senator Ted Cruz opposed U.S. military intervention in Syria, saying the U.S. military shouldn’t be “Al Qaeda’s air force.”  Similarly, former Democratic Congressman Dennis Kucinich  said that striking Syria would turn the United States military into “al-Qaeda’s air force.” (ISIS is just a re-branded name for Al Qaeda).
Indeed, NBC News, the Wall Street Journal, CNN and others report that the U.S. has already committed to provide air power to support Muslim jihadis in Syria if they feel threatened by Syrian government soldiers..
So Turkey, Israel and the U.S. are all now acting as ISIS’ air force in order to oust the Syrian government … again.
(We’ve always been at war with Eastasia.)

http://republicbroadcasting.org/usa-turkey-and-israel-act-as-air-force-for-isis/ 

'A religious awe seemed to pervade the country'

'A religious awe seemed to pervade the country'

Bill Federer recounts remarkable Great Awakening in America

Published: 13 hours ago

Bill Federer

Great Awakening

In his “Memorandum Book,” Jefferson noted: “I have subscribed to the building of an Episcopalian church, two hundred dollars; a Presbyterian church, sixty dollars, and a Baptist church, twenty-five.”

An unverified story printed in the Boston newspaper Christian Watchman, July 14, 1826, reported that Jefferson dined at Monticello prior to the Revolution with Baptist Pastor Andrew Tribble.
Jefferson had inquired of Pastor Tribble how Baptist church government worked, then commented that he “considered it the only form of pure democracy that exists in the world. … It would be the best plan of government for the American colonies.”
Jefferson then “organized” a church, drafting “Subscriptions to Support a Clergyman in Charlottesville,” February 1777, as recorded by Julian P. Boyd in “The Papers of Thomas Jefferson”: “We the subscribers … desirous of encouraging and supporting the Calvinistical Reformed church, and of deriving to ourselves, through the ministry of its teachers, the benefits of Gospel knowledge and religious improvement … by regular education for explaining the holy scriptures. …
“Approving highly the political conduct of the Revd. Charles Clay, who, early rejecting the tyrant and tyranny of Britain, proved his religion genuine by its harmonies with the liberties of mankind … and, conforming his public prayers to the spirit and the injured rights of his country, ever addressed the God of battles for victory to our arms. …
“We expect that the said Charles Clay shall perform divine service and preach a sermon in the town of Charlottesville on every 4th … Sunday or oftener if a regular rotation with the other churches … will admit a more frequent attendance.
“And we further mutually agree with each other that we will meet at Charlottesville … every year … and there make a choice by ballot of three wardens to collect our said subscriptions … for the use of our church.”
The Calvinistical Reformed Church met in the Albemarle Courthouse for seven years. Jefferson supported the evangelical Rev. Charles Clay, who was a distant older cousin of the statesman and orator Henry Clay.
Jefferson noted in his “Memorandum Book,” August 15, 1779: “Pd. Revd. Charles Clay in consideration of parochial services.”
As Virginia’s Governor, Jefferson wrote in 1779: “The reverend Charles Clay has been many years rector of this parish and has been particularly known to me. … In the earliest stage of the present contest with Great Britain while the clergy of the established church in general took the adverse side, or kept aloof from the cause of their country, he took a decided and active part with his countrymen, and has continued to prove … his attachment to the American cause.”
The Calvinistical Reformed Church ceased meeting when subscribers Philip Mazzei and John Harvie moved away, and when Jefferson, depressed after the death of his wife and several children, sailed off to serve as U.S. ambassador to France in 1783.
The religious revival in Virginia continued as part of the “Second Great Awakening.”
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Methodist evangelist Jesse Lee, who traveled a circle of cities, reported in 1787 the “circuits that had the greatest revival of religion” included Albermarle county.
Virtually all Baptist and Methodist churches were of mixed races. In 1788, Rev. John Leland, a friend of Jefferson’s and pastor of Goldmine Baptist Church of Louisa, Virginia, personally baptized over 400.
In Charlottesville, attorney William Wirt wrote in 1795 of the preaching of Presbyterian Rev. James Waddell: “Every heart in the assembly trembled in unison. His peculiar phrases that force of description that the original scene appeared to be, at that moment, acting before our eyes. … The effect was inconceivable. The whole house resounded with the mingled groans, and sobs, and shrieks of the congregation.”
James Madison, who was a member of St. Thomas Parish where Rev. James Waddell taught, exclaimed of him: “He has spoiled me for all other preaching.”
Madison invited Presbyterian preachers to speak his Montpelier estate, such as Samuel Stanhope Smith and Nathaniel Irwin, of whom he wrote: “Praise is in every man’s mouth here for an excellent discourse he this day preached to us.”
Methodist Rev. Lorenzo Dow, nicknamed “Crazy Dow,” traveled over ten thousand miles preaching to over a million people. His autobiography at one time was the second best selling book in America, exceeded only by the Bible.
Rev. Lorenzo Dow held a preaching camp meeting near Jefferson’s home, writing in his Journal that on April 17, 1804: “I spoke in … Charlottesville near the President’s seat in Albermarle County … to about four thousand people, and one of the President’s daughters (Mary Jefferson Eppes) who was present.”
In the lawless Kentucky frontier, Rev. James McGready and his small church agreed in 1797: “Therefore, we bind ourselves to observe the third Saturday of each month for one year as a day of fasting and prayer for the conversion of sinners in Logan County and throughout the world. We also engage to spend one half hour every Saturday evening, beginning at the setting of the sun, and one half hour every Sabbath morning at the rising of the sun in pleading with God to revive His work.”
In June of 1800, 500 members of James McGready’s three congregations gathered at the Red River for a “camp meeting” lasting several days, similar to Scottish “holy fairs” where teams of open-air preachers rotated in a continuous stream of sermons.
On the final day: “‘A mighty effusion of the Spirit’ came on everyone ‘and the floor was soon covered with the slain; their screams for mercy pierced the heavens.’”
In July of 1800, the congregation planned another camp meeting at the Gaspar River. Surpassing their expectations, 8,000 people arrived, some from over 100 miles away: “The power of God seemed to shake the whole assembly. Towards the close of the sermon, the cries of the distressed arose almost as loud as his voice. After the congregation was dismissed the solemnity increased, till the greater part of the multitude seemed engaged in the most solemn manner.
“No person seemed to wish to go home – hunger and sleep seemed to affect nobody – eternal things were the vast concern. Here awakening and converting work was to be found in every part of the multitude; and even some things strangely and wonderfully new to me.”
On Aug. 7, 1801, though Kentucky’s largest city had less than 2,000 people, 25,000 showed up at revival meetings in Cane Ridge, Kentucky. Arriving from as far away as Ohio, Tennessee and the Indiana Territory, they heard the preaching of Barton W. Stone and other Baptist, Methodist and Presbyterian ministers.
Rev. Moses Hodge described: “Nothing that imagination can paint, can make a stronger impression upon the mind, than one of those scenes. Sinners dropping down on every hand, shrieking, groaning, crying for mercy, convulsed; professors praying, agonizing, fainting, falling down in distress, for sinners or in raptures of joy! … As to the work in general there can be no question but it is of God. The subjects of it, for the most part are deeply wounded for their sins, and can give a clear and rational account of their conversion.”
Prior to the Revolution, there was a first Great Awakening. It was influenced by Count Ludwig von Zinzendorf, Rev. William Tennent, Rev. Jonathan Edwards, Rev. George Whitefield, Rev. Theodore Frelinghuysen, Rev. Gilbert Tennent, Rev. Samuel Finley and other preachers.
The first Great Awakening resulted in the founding of the Universities of Pennsylvania (1740), Princeton (1746), Columbia (1754), Brown (1764), Rutgers (1766) and Dartmouth (1770).
The second Great Awakening led to the conversion of a third of Yale’s student body through the efforts of its eighth President Timothy Dwight IV.
Spreading to other colleges, hundreds of students entered the ministry and pioneered the foreign missions movement. Young men, along with the first women missionaries, were sent to the American West, and as far away as Burma and Hawaii.
The second Great Awakening contributed to the founding of the American Bible Society, the Society for the Promotion of Temperance, the Church of Christ, the Disciples of Christ and the Seventh-Day Adventists.
Christians helped reform prisons, cared for the handicapped and mentally ill, and worked to abolish slavery.
George Addison Baxter, a skeptical professor at Washington Academy in Virginia, published an account of his travels throughout Kentucky, which was printed in the Connecticut Evangelical Magazine, March of 1802: “The power with which this revival has spread, and its influence in moralizing the people, are difficult for you to conceive, and more so for me to describe. … I found Kentucky, to appearance, the most moral place I had ever seen. A profane expression was hardly ever heard. A religious awe seemed to pervade the country. Never in my life have I seen more genuine marks of that humility which … looks to the Lord Jesus Christ as the only way of acceptance with God. …”
Baxter continued: “I was indeed highly pleased to find that Christ was all and in all in their religion … and it was truly affecting to hear with what agonizing anxiety awakened sinners inquired for Christ, as the only physician who could give them any help. Those who call these things ‘enthusiasm,’ ought to tell us what they understand by the Spirit of Christianity. …
“Upon the whole, sir, I think the revival in Kentucky among the most extraordinary that have ever visited the Church of Christ, and all things considered, peculiarly adapted to the circumstances of that country. … Something of an extraordinary nature seemed necessary to arrest the attention of a giddy people, who were ready to conclude that Christianity was a fable, and futurity a dream. This revival has done it; it has confounded infidelity, awed vice to silence, and brought numbers beyond calculation under serious impressions.”
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Private and Public Trust Explained - Creditors in Commerce

Private and Public Trust Explained - Creditors in Commerce

This is some details on how the trust is in dealing with your Strawman and the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, INC. with your Birth Certificate.
In the Public Trust, the Democracy; the Grantor is the Federal Reserve Bank, the Trustee is any and all Public Officials, the Beneficiary is the Corporate Strawman your ALL Capital letter name.
In the Private Trust, the Republic; the Natural Person is the Trustee of the Public Trust yet still not you as this is the name in upper and lower case letters.
This also gets into the UCC filings to remove yourself as a Strawman. 

Published on Sep 13, 2012

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Santos Bonacci Arrested and in Custody

(This was over a year ago, but this is just a reminder of what the Pope's followers will do to shut others up, as the NWO wants no problems for the Pope to come to the UNITED NATIONS, INC. in September 2015 to call for ALL religions as one.)

Santos Bonacci Arrested and in Custody

by Moe | Jan 21, 2014 | Apocalypse, History of the Brotherhood | 54 comments

Breaking news from the Gnostic Warrior. Santos Bonacci was arrested in Australia today.



The spokesperson for Santos, claims he was kidnapped by Queensland Sheriff's deputies without a true warrant and is being held in custody unlawfully. The arrest took place at the home of Sonia and Hiromi Bonacci, who it has been reported that Sonia is his niece, and Hiromi is his wife."

For several years, Santos Bonacci has been an outspoken critic of governments around the world, and he has also spoken out against the Vatican and Pope for various alleged crimes. Lately he has been involved in various freeman and freedom movements, where the legal authority of government is challenged in court via the law and reclaiming of DNA.

Some of his most recent posts may relate to his arrest by law enforcement there in Australia.



On January 8th, 2014 Santos had posted this message:

Private prosecution coming up friends, I had a call by a private corporation today, called Sheriffs office Victoria. Here is the Prima Fascia evidence of their intent to commit fraud by attempting aid and abet one to create joinder to a legal name! I'll keep you posted. Just wait to see the fun our little private prosecution team here in Melbourne are going to have when we prosecute the 'Sheriff's Office of Victoria', private corporation probably owned by some rich pedophiles in Toorak! We are also going to make a documentary and share it with the world for a lesson in freedom! Stay tuned!

Could this arrest be related to his political activities and outspoken condemnation of various governments and the Roman Curia?
Only time will tell, and as soon as I find out more, I will post this information on Gnostic Warrior.

http://gnosticwarrior.com/santos-bonacci-arrested-and-in-custody.html

Video: Cop Draws Sidearm on Man for Filming

Video: Cop Draws Sidearm on Man for Filming

“Are you some kind of a constitutionalist?” cop asks man filming

by Adan Salazar | Infowars.com | August 5, 2015

A California police officer drew his firearm on a man who was merely filming in his own neighborhood, in an intense moment caught on film.

The incident began last Wednesday when Rohnert Park resident Don McComas says he noticed an officer in a patrol vehicle observing him while he latched his boat onto his SUV.
“I stood up and just watched him,” McComas described. “He ever so slowly pulled away, circled the court opposite my house and then just parked facing my house. After an honest couple of minutes I pulled out my camera and pressed record.”
At the start of filming, the officer pulls into and stops in the middle of McComas’ cul-de-sac and appears to call in his license plate number.
The officer then proceeds to draw his cell phone and bizzarely begins to film McComas.
“He thinks he’s being funny now,” McComas comments.
“Go ahead and take your hand out of your pocket,” the unidentified officer upon exiting the cruiser orders McComas, who refuses saying, “No sir I’ve done absolutely nothing. No.”
The incident takes a serious turn when the officer removes his sidearm from his holster and begins approaching McComas menacingly.




“As minor as some would say it was, when I saw his gun gripped in his hand I really thought he was going to shoot me and claim my hand was in my pocket,” McComas says in the Youtube video description.
When McComas demands to know why the officer got out of his car, the officer replies, “You’re taking a picture of me, I’m taking a picture of you.”
The officer then argues he has the right to be on the sidewalk outside of the man’s house, as McComas expresses his family has been persistently harassed by police.
“What’s wrong with you, man?” the officer asks.
“Your station is corrupt,” McComas answers.
“Oh ok,” the officer says, before asking, “Are you some kind of a constitutionalist? Crazy guy or something like that?”
After cooling down, the officer walks back to his vehicle defeated, telling McComas to “go ahead and put it on Youtube.”
The video is sparking outrage, with many police accountability activist groups calling out the flagrant disregard for the rule of law and common decency.
“This is a blatant abuse of power and a disgrace to the man, as well as to the Rohnert Park Police Department if they choose to ignore their officers extreme methods,” Cop Block notes.
Yesterday, the mayor and city manager of the City of Rohnert Park released a statement saying they plan to “conduct an internal review to verify that appropriate protocols were followed.”

Message about video of Rohnert Park Public Safety Officer
Posted Date: 8/4/2015
Regarding video of Rohnert Park Public Safety Officer:
We’ve been made aware of this matter and we are taking it seriously. We understand the concerns that have been raised by our community and others and we want the public to know that your trust in law enforcement in our City is a top priority. As a result, we will conduct an internal review to verify that appropriate protocols were followed. We will also review our protocols because we want to make sure we are using the best practices for the highest level of safety for both our officers and the community.
Mayor Amy Ahanotu and City Manager Darrin Jenkins

The department’s Facebook page was evidently deleted sometime yesterday. A cached version shows users began sharing the McComas confrontation on the page accompanied by comments which the department may have feared would tarnish their reputation.
“Thank you,” a message left by the department early Tuesday morning reads. “This has already been brought to our attention and will be responded to in due course. Take care.”
The Free Thought Project’s Matt Agorist highlights that a section of the California penal code regarding drawing a firearm in a “threatening manner” may have been violated by the officer.
“According to CAL. PEN. CODE § 417 : California Code – Section 417:

(2) Every person who, except in self-defense, in the presence of any other person, draws or exhibits any firearm, whether loaded or unloaded, in a rude, angry, or threatening manner, or who in any manner, unlawfully uses a firearm in any fight or quarrel is punishable as follows:
(A) If the violation occurs in a public place and the firearm is a pistol, revolver, or other firearm capable of being concealed upon the person, by imprisonment in a county jail for not less than three months and not more than one year, by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000), or by both that fine and imprisonment.
(B) In all cases other than that set forth in subparagraph (A), a misdemeanor, punishable by imprisonment in a county jail for not less than three months.

“
http://www.infowars.com/video-cop-draws-sidearm-on-man-for-filming/

Paul Craig Roberts-Economic House of Cards, Demand for Gold and Silver Very Very High

Paul Craig Roberts-Economic House of Cards, Demand for Gold and Silver Very Very High 

 

 

 

Published on Jul 28, 2015

Former Assistant Treasury Secretary Dr. Paul Craig Roberts has repeatedly called the global economy a “house of cards.” Currently, demand for physical gold and silver is spiking even though prices are falling. What does this mean? Dr. Roberts says, “Some people clearly understand it, and that’s why the demand of gold and silver is so high that it often cannot be met. Right now, for example, the U.S. Mint has suspended all sales of Silver Eagles simply because they cannot get enough silver to manufacture the coins to meet the demand. We see that the gold trusts are being depleted. We see extraordinary amounts of withdrawals from the Shanghai Gold Exchange. So, we know the demand for gold and silver is very, very high. Some people know that, but the financial press operates to disguise what’s going on. The financial press says the reason the demand for coins is so high is the price is falling. What made the price fall? Only two things can cause the price of gold to fall. One has to be a great increase in supplies . . . but that’s not what’s happening it’s the opposite. . . . The only other thing that could cause the price to fall is a massive decrease in demand. We are seeing a massive increase in demand. The paper market is driving down the price and it’s fraudulent. All these stories are coming out in the press that gold is not money. It’s a pet rock. . . .”

Join Greg Hunter as he goes One-on-One with former top Treasury Department insider Dr. Paul Craig Roberts.

All links for this story can be found on the USAWatchdog.com site in the "After the Interview" section

In September 2015, Agenda 21 Will Be Transformed Into The 2030 Agenda

In September 2015, Agenda 21 Will Be Transformed Into The 2030 Agenda

If you didn’t like “Agenda 21″, then you really are not going to like “The 2030 Agenda”.  



Next month, the United Nations is going to launch “The 2030 Agenda” at a major conference that will be held from September 25th to September 27th in New York City.  The Pope is actually traveling to New York to deliver an address which will kick off this conference.  Unlike Agenda 21, which primarily focused on the environment, the 2030 Agenda is truly a template for governing the entire planet.  In addition to addressing climate change, it also sets ambitious goals for areas such as economics, health, energy, education, agriculture, gender equality and a whole host of other issues.  As you will see below, this global initiative is being billed as a “new universal Agenda” for humanity.  If you are anything like me, alarm bells are going off in your head right about now.
This new agenda is solidly rooted in a document known as “Agenda 21″ that was originally adopted by the United Nations back in 1992.  The following comes from Wikipedia…

The full text of Agenda 21 was made public at the UN Conference on Environment and Development (Earth Summit), held in Rio de Janeiro on June 13, 1992, where 178 governments voted to adopt the program. The final text was the result of drafting, consultation, and negotiation, beginning in 1989 and culminating at the two-week conference.

Since that time, Agenda 21 has been modified and amended numerous times.  Noteworthy changes occurred in 1997, 2002 and 2012.
But now the UN’s sustainable development program is being given an entirely new name, and the scope of this agenda is being broadened dramatically.  The following is what the official United Nations website has to say about it…

The United Nations is now in the process of defining Sustainable Development Goals as part a new sustainable development agenda that must finish the job and leave no one behind. This agenda, to be launched at the Sustainable Development Summit in September 2015, is currently being discussed at the UN General Assembly, where Member States and civil society are making contributions to the agenda.

Just a few days ago, the core document for the 2030 Agenda was finalized.  When what is in this document starts getting out, it is going to create a huge stir among Americans that are concerned about the ambitions of the globalists.  The following comes from the preamble of this document…

This Agenda is a plan of action for people, planet and prosperity. It also seeks to strengthen universal peace in larger freedom. We recognise that eradicating poverty in all its forms and dimensions, including extreme poverty, is the greatest global challenge and an indispensable requirement for sustainable development.
All countries and all stakeholders, acting in collaborative partnership, will implement this plan. We are resolved to free the human race from the tyranny of poverty and want and to heal and secure our planet. We are determined to take the bold and transformative steps which are urgently needed to shift the world onto a sustainable and resilient path. As we embark on this collective journey, we pledge that no one will be left behind.
The 17 Sustainable Development Goals and 169 targets which we are announcing today demonstrate the scale and ambition of this new universal Agenda. They seek to build on the Millennium Development Goals and complete what these did not achieve. They seek to realize the human rights of all and to achieve gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls. They are integrated and indivisible and balance the three dimensions of sustainable development: the economic, social and environmental.

As you can see, this is not just a plan to fight climate change.
This is literally a blueprint for transforming global society.
The core of the plan is a set of 17 specific goals…
Goal 1 End poverty in all its forms everywhere
Goal 2 End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture
Goal 3 Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages
Goal 4 Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all
Goal 5 Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
Goal 6 Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all
Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all
Goal 8 Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all
Goal 9 Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation
Goal 10 Reduce inequality within and among countries
Goal 11 Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable
Goal 12 Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns
Goal 13 Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts*
Goal 14 Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development
Goal 15 Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss
Goal 16 Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels
Goal 17 Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development
Many of those sound very good.
After all, who wouldn’t want to “end poverty” or “halt biodiversity loss”?
But as you read through that list, ask yourself what forms of human activity would be excluded from it.
Personally, I have a hard time coming up with much of anything.
As I discussed earlier this week, the globalists want to use “sustainable development” as an excuse to micromanage the lives of every man, woman and child on the entire globe.
We are told that individual liberty and freedom are “dangerous” because when everyone just runs around doing whatever they want it is “bad for the planet”.
For example, one of the goals of the sustainable development crowd is to push the human population into giant “megacities” and to allow nature to recapture much of what has already been settled by humanity.
The following map that comes from America 2050 is one example of what they want to do.  A recent piece by Dave Hodges alerted me to this map, and it shows what the United States may look like in a few decades if the globalists have their way…



And of course this is just the tip of the iceberg.
Eventually, the globalists want to fundamentally transform virtually everything about our society.  This includes our economy, our government, our entertainment, our social interactions, our families and even our religious beliefs.
So don’t let all of the nice language fool you.
This “new universal Agenda” is far, far more dangerous than Agenda 21 ever was, and it is a giant step forward into a one world system governed by bureaucratic control freaks.

http://www.infowars.com/in-september-2015-agenda-21-will-be-transformed-into-the-2030-agenda/

 

5 YEARS LATER: BP / Gulf Oil Spill - 68,000 Square Miles of Direct Impact

2010 BP OIL SPILL - GULF OF MEXICO - WHAT HAPPENED and WHAT IS IT LIKE TODAY?

Tuesday, July 27, 2010

 

Fingers crossed: it looks like the cap on BP's Macondo well will hold until the relief well intercepts and permanently plugs it, and no more oil from this blowout will enter the Gulf. (Did NOT turn out that way - quite the opposite.)

So here's a map showing the cumulative oil slick footprint for the BP / Deepwater Horizon oil spill, created by overlaying all of the oil slicks and sheen mapped by SkyTruth on satellite images taken between April 25 and July 16, 2010, blogged here, and published in our gallery.

Cumulatively, the surface oil slicks and sheen observed on these satellite images directly impacted 68,000 square miles of ocean - as big as the state of Oklahoma:

Map showing cumulative oil slick footprint from BP / Deepwater Horizon oil spill, based on satellite images taken between April 25 and July 16, 2010

 

 

Additional information regarding the impact of the spill and toxic poisons used in attempts to deplete the spill:

 

Oil is hydrocarbon. H and C. Every high school chemistry student is taught that hydrocarbons eventually end up as CO2 and H2O, carbon dioxide and water. It is the most basic chemistry there is.  Once it's been oxidized (burned or metabolized), but this is a serious over simplification. There is a long way, chemically speaking, between "now" and "eventually." This transformation of hydrocarbon doesn't happen instantly unless you light it on fire.

Crude oil is also a complex mixture of many different types of hydrocarbon, each with its own set of properties, including toxicity and metabolic pathway.

 

Of course the oil is disappearing. Oil naturally decomposes in about three weeks in seawater. A good part goes into the air. A lot breaks into small heavy droplets and sinks, and some turns into tar balls. However, what few are saying is that oil decomposes into secondary products, many of which are more hazardous than the oil itself. These secondary products can cause long term effects some of which can be uncorrectable. So, yes the oil is gone, but the problem is still there! That is why it is always better to mop up the oil rather than disperse it as BP just did.

 

BUT - in talking to the reporter I emphasized the unknowns and unseens: impact to marshes and beaches from now-buried and embedded oil; impact from plumes of oil still lurking beneath the surface; long-term impacts from this massive spill. The article raises those issues:

"The effect on sea life of the large amounts of oil that dissolved below the surface is still a mystery. Two preliminary government reports on that issue have found concentrations of toxic compounds in the deep sea to be low, but the reports left many questions, especially regarding an apparent decline in oxygen levels in the water.

And understanding the effects of the spill on the shorelines that were hit, including Louisiana’s coastal marshes, is expected to occupy scientists for years. Fishermen along the coast are deeply skeptical of any declarations of success, expressing concern about the long-term effects of the chemical dispersants used to combat the spill and of the submerged oil, particularly on shrimp and crab larvae that are the foundation of future fishing seasons."

 

http://blog.skytruth.org/2010/07/bp-gulf-oil-spill-68000-square-miles-of.html 

Now, for pictures of some of the sea life which have suffered from the BP oil spill in the sick Gulf of Mexico:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Now, for a few pics of what this toxic stuff is continuing to do to humans.  Many have died since the initial use of corexit, and many continue to die even today from various cancers caused - primarily skin and lungs.

  
  

 

 

Rumor has it that this oil spill and the resultant use of highly toxic chemicals was caused on purpose, part of the plan to take down America.  BP and the owners, primarily the fake queen in London, STILL have NOT been held accountable for the eco-damage and the deaths of both humans and sea life.

 

Iran handed $150 billion 'signing bonus' to terrorize

Iran handed $150 billion 'signing bonus' to terrorize

Obama nemesis confronts judge with claim nuclear 'deal' unconstitutional

Published: 2 hours ago

Bob Unruh

 

 

The estimated $150 billion “signing bonus” that Iran will get under Barack Obama’s negotiated “deal” with the rogue Islamic nation will fund “waves of terror,” according to a court filing in a case that alleges the arrangement is simply unconstitutional.

WND reported recently when the lawsuit was filed by activist lawyer Larry Klayman, a veteran of multiple courtroom battles with presidents, including Bill Clinton and George Bush.
He claims, “A president cannot lawfully override or amend a treaty simply by issuing an order, even if he calls it an executive order or some other form of international agreement,” in the complaint, filed in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.
Klayman, founder of Freedom Watch, named as defendants Barack Hussein Obama, Sens. Marco Rubio and Bill Nelson of Florida and his congressman, Rep. Patrick Murphy, D-Fla.
He alleges that the federal officials “acted in disregard of their obligations to uphold the U.S. Constitution” in support of a bill through which the Iranian deal is being ratified.
It explains that the Constitution empowers a president to make a treaty only if two-thirds of the U.S. Senate votes to ratify it.
What’s next? Find out in “Showdown with Nuclear Iran.”
“A president is delegated no other power in the Constitution, outside that procedure, to make any other form of international agreement,” he explained.
However, Klayman asserted, the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act signed May 22, 2015, violates the Constitution by changing the method for ratifying treaties, who ratifies treaties and the minimum vote required.
The process, pushed by Obama and adopted in Congress, instead requires both houses to agree on a “joint resolution of disapproval” instead of having two-thirds of the members of the U.S. Senate approve it. And Obama repeatedly has argued that it’s a “deal,” not really a “treaty.”
The judge, Kenneth A. Marra, took the unusual step of posing his own questions to Klayman in the case, regarding jurisdiction and standing, and Klayman responded with his explanation that he had standing to file the complaint because the agreement offers a threat to him.
He explains he’s seeking a declaration that Obama’s pact with Iran, actually negotiated by Secretary of State John Kerry, is unconstitutional.
Naming his representatives in Congress, Klayman writes that they “have modified and perverted the U.S. Constitution without complying with the amendment process. Defendants are the plaintiff’s representatives who owed a fiduciary duty to uphold his rights and protections under the U.S. Constitution, and protect his rights and security.”
He said they simply changed the “process for ratification” has been changed but that it still will “have a binding legal effect as a treaty.”
Under the constitutional amendment process, he said, “it would fail at being ratified.”
“As a result, plaintiff will face waves of terrorism funded directly (openly) and covertly from an estimated $150 billion ‘signing bonus’ that Iran will receive under the … treaty and the ending of sanctions on Iranian commerce, at home in the United States and while traveling in Israel, in Europe or elsewhere internationally.”
He continued, “Secretary of state John Kerry, Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter, Secretary of the Treasury Jack Lew and other officials openly admit that Iran will be free to use the $150 billion to fund terrorism against Israel and the United States, to topple countries throughout the Middle East, and to expand Iran’s power throughout the Middle East.”
The Constitution is “crystal-clear” on the issue, and “a president has no legal power whatsoever to enter into a treaty without two-thirds votes of U.S. senators present voting for ratification,” he argues.
“Compliance of congressional enactments with the procedures established by the U.S. Constitution and the limitations on powers granted thereunder are well-grounded roles of the federal courts,” he said.
The Supreme Court, he said, has written about such a dispute: “The president cannot make a treaty or appoint an ambassador without the approval of the Senate. The president, furthermore, could not build an American embassy abroad without congressional appropriation of the necessary funds.”
“There are no subjective half-measures involved here,” he wrote. “An agreement with Iran entered into by President Obama concerning Iran’s nuclear weapons development program either has legal effect or it does not, either entirely valid or entirely not valid, and void under the U.S. Constitution.”
He also noted that the “U.S. Supreme Court confirmed that a court may declare an act of Congress void if it is inconsistent with the U.S. Constitution.”
The deal has been delayed many times in recent months. It was announced July 14 after being negotiated by Secretary of State John Kerry.
Obama already has obtained approval from the United Nations and the European Union, but the proposal has only just been given to Congress for its review.
And since the Islamic Republic of Iran on July 2, 1968, signed onto the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, the U.S. and Iran already had a treaty, he said.
Thus, any new one would require that the senior document be overridden.
But that takes more than an executive order, he said.
“The previously existing treaty between Iran and the United States on the same subject, the 1968 Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, having been duly and properly ratified by a two-thirds vote in favor by the U.S. Senate, cannot now be constitutionally modified by the defendants without complying with the treaty ratification process,” his complaint notes.
All Obama got, he said, is “unenforceable and unverifiable promises” from Iran about restricting its nuclear development.
Get this special bundle that includes “Atomic Iran” and “Atomic Jihad.”

http://www.wnd.com/2015/08/iran-handed-150-billion-signing-bonus-to-terrorize/