DHS INSIDER: EVERYONE SEEMS TO BE WAITING.

DHS INSIDER: EVERYONE SEEMS TO BE WAITING FOR SOME BIG, HISTORY MAKING EVENT



“DHS is like a prison environment, complete with prison snitches,” “We’ve all been threatened”, says one DHS insider recently to a writer from Canada Free Press.

“According to every internal document I’ve seen and read, and from the few people I’ve spoken with who understand what’s going on, preparations have been finalized to respond to a crisis of unprecedented magnitude within the United States. The response will include the use of lethal force against U.S. citizens under the instructions of Barack Obama.”

The insider is retiring along with many others inside DHS who don’t like what the agency is, in his words “DHS and other organizations have become the private army of the Oval Office.”


Under the cover and amid the distraction of the Christmas bustle, I had my last “official” contact with a source inside the Department of Homeland Security known as “Rosebud” in my writings. My source is leaving hisposition, retiring along with numerous others choosing to leave this bureaucratic monstrosity.
For this contact, my source took unprecedented measures to be certain that our contact was far off the radar of prying government eyes and ears. I was stunned at the lengths he employed, and even found myself somewhat annoyed by the inconvenience that his cloak-and-dagger approach caused. It was necessary, according to my source, because all department heads under FEMA and DHS are under orders to identify anyone disclosing any information for termination and potential criminal prosecution.

“DHS is like a prison environment, complete with prison snitches,” he said, referring to the search for leaks and leakers. And the warden is obsessed. Ask anyone in DHS. No one trusts anyone else and whatever sources might be left are shutting up. The threats that have been made far exceed anything I’ve ever seen. Good people are afraid for their lives and the lives of their families. We’ve all been threatened. They see the writing on the wall and are leaving. It’s not a joke and not hype.”

The following is a narrative from my source, prefaced with the instructions to “take it or leave it,” and “disregard it at your own peril.” He added that it’s now up to each American to act on the information themselves or suffer the consequences. “I’ve resigned myself to the fact that most [Americans] will never be convinced of the reality that is taking place right in front of them.”



THE PLAN EXPLAINED

“According to every internal document I’ve seen and read, and from the few people I’ve spoken with who understand what’s going on, preparations have been finalized to respond to a crisis of unprecedented magnitude within the United States. The response will include the use of lethal force against U.S. citizens under the instructions of Barack Obama.”  But why?

“‘It’s the economy, stupid,’” he began, paraphrasing a campaign slogan coined by James Carville for Bill Clinton’s 1992 campaign.  “Just as I disclosed in our first meeting, the crisis will be rooted in an economic collapse. I told you last year, at a time when gold and silver were setting record highs, one specific indicator that time is very short. It is the final ‘smack down’ of the metals, gold and silver, that will presage collapse of the U.S. economy with the oversight of the White House and the full knowledge of the Justice Department.  Everyone seems to be waiting for some big, history making event that will signal the start of the collapse. The fact is that the collapse has already started. It’s incremental, like a snowball rolling down a hill. It gets bigger and rolls faster. Well, this snowball is well on its way down the hill.”

(Notice above:  The orchestrated economic collapse that is being planned by the bankers of Wall Street.) Not Government) (Added from above by Ken T.)

“I don’t mean to sound repetitive, but I can’t stress this enough. Contrary to what you hear, we’re already in an economic collapse, except that most people haven’t a clue. The ‘big bang’ comes at the end, when people wake up one morning and can’t log in to their bank accounts, can’t use their ATM cards, and find out that their private pension funds and other assets have been confiscated,” he stated.

“I’ve seen documentation of multiple scenarios created outside of DHS. Different plans and back-up plans. Also, please understand that I deliberately used the word ‘created,’ as this is a completely manufactured event.  In the end it won’t be presented that way, which is extremely important for everyone to understand. What is coming will be blamed on some unforeseen event out of everyone’s control, that few saw coming or thought would actually happen. Then, another event will take place concurrent with this event, or immediately after it, to confuse and compound an already explosive situation.” I asked for specifics.

“As I said, there are several scenarios and I don’t know them all. I know one calls for a cyber-attack by an external threat, which will then be compounded by something far removed from everyone’s own radar. But it’s all a ruse, or a pretext. The threat is from within,” he stated. “Before people can regain their footing, a second event will be triggered.” Again, I asked for specifics.

“I’ve seen one operational plan that refers to the federal government’s response to a significant terrorist attack on U.S. soil. Information at these levels is compartmentalized. I don’t have specifics, just plans for the response. The response will be controls and restrictions on travel, business, and every aspect of our lives, especially gun ownership and speech that incites people against the government. I guess some people would call it Martial Law, and they would not be incorrect. But understand that this will be a process deployed in stages. How quickly of a process remains to be seen.”

THE MECHANICS EXPLAINED

As I said, people continue to look for something big to happen first, followed by a militaristic response by the federal government against U.S. citizens. Based on what I’ve seen, I don’t believe it will happen this way, although there is one unthinkable exception. That exception would involve a ‘decapitation’ of our leadership, but I’ve seen nothing even remotely suggestive of that. But I’ve heard and even read articles where that is mentioned. Frankly, though, that’s always been a threat. I suppose that if the leadership is deemed useless, or becomes a liability to the larger agenda in some manner,  it could happen. The precedent exists. Let’s pray that it’s not the case now.”

“I don’t think anyone except the initiated few know the precise series of events or the exact timing, just a generaloverview and an equally general time period. I think we’re in that period now, as DHS has their planned responses finalized. Also, the metals are important because it’s real money, not Ponzi fiat currency. The U.S. has no inventory ofgold, so the prices are manipulated down to cause a sell-off of the physical assets. China is on a buying spree of gold, and other countries want their inventory back. The very people causing the prices to drop are the ones who are also buying the metals at fire sale prices. They will emerge extremely wealthy when the prices rise after the U.S. currency becomes wallpaper. A little research will identify who these people and organizations are.”

“I’d like to add a bit of perspective that might help explain the events as I described. Do you remember former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld announcing that the Pentagon was unable to account for $2.3 trillion in the defense budget? That was on September 10, 2001, the day before the attacks of 9/11. Some suggest that 9/11 was orchestrated, in part to cover up the missing money, which is ludicrous. The result, however, was that suddenly the accounting issue took a back seat because of the attacks. The result will be the same. That’s a perfect example of the mechanics of what we are about to experience. It’s going to take years to sort out, and when it’s finally sorted out, the damage will have long been done.”

“Please note a few final things. The relationship that exists between DHS today and the executive branch is well beyond alarming.   

("DHS is now run by Muslims." added by Ken T.)      

DHS and other organizations have become the private army of the Oval Office. The NSA, and I’ve got contacts there, is taking orders from the Oval Office. The IRS is under the virtual control of the Oval Office in a manner that would make Nixon cower. Even though all roads appear to lead to the Oval Office, they lead through the Oval Office. It’s not just Obama, but the men behind him, the people who put him there. The people who put him there are the ones who created him.” I asked who created him.

“First, ask yourself why there was such an all out effort to marginalize anyone talking about Obama’s eligibility in 2008. Even so-called conservatives pundits fell for the lie that such questions were nothing more than a diversion. They were following a specific drumbeat. That should tell every rational adult that he is a creation of the globalists who have no allegiance to any political party. He is the product of decades of planning, made for this very time in our history. He was selected to oversee the events I just disclosed. Who has that ability? He’s a product of our own intelligence agencies working with the globalists. He should be exhibit ‘A’ to illustrate the need to enforce the Logan Act. Need I say more?”

As often said by another of my sources, the U.S. is a captured operation. The lie is bigger than most people realize or are willing to confront. That is, until there is no other option. By then, it might be too late.

SOURCE: CANADAFREEPRESS.COM

North Korea threatens war with South over UN sanctions

 

‘Sanctions’ mean a war and a declaration of war against us, says North Korea

 

Jack Kim

First Published: Fri, Jan 25 2013. 04 34 PM IST

 

A file photo of the launching of Unha-3 (Milky Way 3) at the North Korea’s West Sea Satellite Launch Site. Photo: Reuters

 

 

Seoul: North Korea threatened to attack rival South Korea if Seoul joined a new round of tightened UN sanctions, as Washington unveiled more of its own economic restrictions following Pyongyang’s rocket launch last month.

 

In a third straight day of fiery rhetoric, the North directed its verbal onslaught at its neighbour on Friday, saying: “’Sanctions’ mean a war and a declaration of war against us.”

 

The reclusive North has this week declared a boycott of all dialogue aimed at ending its nuclear programme and vowed to conduct more rocket and nuclear tests after the UN Security Council censured it for a December long-range missile launch.

 

“If the puppet group of traitors takes a direct part in the UN ‘sanctions,’ the DPRK will take strong physical counter-measures against it,” the North’s Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea said, referring to the South.

 

The committee is the North’s front for dealings with the South. DPRK is short for the North’s official name, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.

 

The UN Security Council unanimously condemned North Korea’s December rocket launch on Tuesday and expanded existing UN sanctions.

 

On Thursday, the United States slapped economic sanctions on two North Korean bank officials and a Hong Kong trading company that it accused of supporting Pyongyang’s proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.

 

The company, Leader (Hong Kong) International Trading Ltd, was separately blacklisted by the United Nations on Wednesday.

 

Seoul has said it will look at whether there are any further sanctions that it can implement alongside the United States, but said the focus for now is to follow Security Council resolutions.

 

The resolution said the council “deplores the violations” by North Korea of its previous resolutions, which banned Pyongyang from conducting further ballistic missile and nuclear tests and from importing materials and technology for those programmes. It does not impose new sanctions on Pyongyang.

 

The United States had wanted to punish North Korea for the rocket launch with a Security Council resolution that imposed entirely new sanctions against Pyongyang, but Beijing rejected that option. China agreed to UN sanctions against Pyongyang after North Korea’s 2006 and 2009 nuclear tests.

 

Nuclear test worry

 

North Korea’s rhetoric this week amounted to some of the angriest outbursts against the outside world coming under the leadership of Kim Jong-un, who took over after the death of his father Kim Jong-il in late 2011.

 

On Thursday, the North said it would carry out further rocket launches and a nuclear test, directing its ire at the United States, a country it called its “sworn enemy”.

US defense secretary Leon Panetta said the comments were worrying.

 

“We are very concerned with North Korea’s continuing provocative behavior,” he said at a Pentagon news conference.

 

“We are fully prepared ... to deal with any kind of provocation from the North Koreans. But I hope in the end that they determine that it is better to make a choice to become part of the international family.”

 

North Korea is not believed to have the technology to deliver a nuclear warhead capable of hitting the continental United States, although its December launch showed it had the capacity to deliver a rocket that could travel 10,000 km (6,200 miles), potentially putting San Francisco in range, according to an intelligence assessment by South Korea.

 

South Korea and others who have been closely observing activities at the North’s known nuclear test grounds believe Pyongyang is technically ready to go ahead with its third atomic test and awaiting the political decision of its leader.

 

The North’s committee also declared on Friday that a landmark agreement it signed with the South in 1992 on eliminating nuclear weapons from the Korean peninsula was invalid, repeating its long-standing accusation that Seoul was colluding with Washington.

 

The foreign ministry of China, the North’s sole remaining major diplomatic and economic benefactor, repeated its call for calm on the Korean peninsula at its daily briefing on Friday.

 

“The current situation on the Korea peninsula is complicated and sensitive,” spokesman Hong Lei said.

“We hope all relevant parties can see the big picture, maintain calm and restraint, further maintain contact and dialogue, and improve relations, while not taking actions to further complicate and escalate the situation,” Hong said.

 

But unusually prickly comments in Chinese state media on Friday hinted at Beijing’s exasperation.

 

“It seems that North Korea does not appreciate China’s efforts,” said the Global Times in an editorial, a sister publication of the official People’s Daily.

 

“Just let North Korea be ‘angry’ ... China hopes for a stable peninsula, but it’s not the end of the world if there’s trouble there. This should be the baseline of China’s position.” REUTERS

 

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Third of stars in Milky Way have dramatically changed orbit

The discovery brings a new understanding of how stars are formed, and how they travel throughout our galaxy 

 

 

Washington: Researchers have created a new map of the Milky Way which shows that nearly a third of the stars have dramatically changed their orbits.

The discovery, by a team of scientists with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), brings a new understanding of how stars are formed, and how they travel throughout our galaxy.

“In our modern world, many people move far away from their birthplaces, sometimes halfway around the world,” said Michael Hayden, New Mexico State University (NMSU) astronomy graduate student and lead author of the new study.

“Now we’re finding the same is true of stars in our galaxy — about 30% of the stars in our galaxy have travelled a long way from where they were born,” Hayden said.

To build a new map of the Milky Way, scientists used SDSS Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Explorer (APOGEE) spectrograph to observe 100,000 stars during a 4-year period. 

For the last six years, NMSU astronomers in the College of Arts and Sciences, and collaborators, have been using the 2.5-metre SDSS telescope at the Apache Point, located in the Sacramento Mountains to complete experiments that includes studies of Milky Way stars.

The key to creating and interpreting map of the galaxy is measuring the elements in the atmosphere of each star. 

The chemical information comes from spectra, which are detailed measurements of how much light the star gives off at different wavelengths. Spectra show prominent lines that correspond to elements and compounds. Astronomers can tell what a star is made of by reading these spectral lines.

“Stellar spectra show us that the chemical make up of our galaxy is constantly changing,” said Jon Holtzman, NMSU astronomy professor who was involved in the study.  "Stars create heavier elements in their cores, and when the stars die, those heavier elements go back into the gas from which the next stars form,” Holtzman said.

As a result of this process of “chemical enrichment,” each generation of stars has a higher percentage of heavier elements than the previous generation did. In some regions of the galaxy, star formation has proceeded more vigorously — and in these more vigorous regions, more generations of new stars have formed. 

Astronomers can determine what part of the galaxy a star was born in by tracing amount of heavy elements in that star. Hayden and his colleagues used APOGEE data to map the relative amounts of 15 separate elements, including carbon, silicon, and iron for stars all over the galaxy.

They found that up to 30% of stars had compositions indicating that they were formed in parts of the galaxy far from their current positions. When the team looked at the pattern of element abundances in detail, they found that much of the data could be explained by a model in which stars migrate radially, moving closer or farther from the galactic centre with time. 

These random in-and-out motions are referred to as “migration,” and are likely caused by irregularities in the galactic disk, such as the Milky Way’s famous spiral arms, researchers said.

First Published: Tue, Aug 04 2015. 07 27 PM IST 
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NEO – Israel and Congress go to war on the Iran agreement, and the World

NEO – Israel and Congress go to war on the Iran agreement, and the World

By Jim W. Dean, Managing Editor on August 7, 2015

Obama puts his veto squarely on the chessboard

… by  Jim W. Dean, VT Editor ,   with New Eastern Outlook, Moscow

 First published  …  August 6, 2015 

 

It has taken a week to sift through the initial Iran nuclear agreement confusion, but the battle lines are now clearly drawn. Israel has chosen to show that despite its diplomatic loss here it still has its hooks deep inside the American political system and the media.

This includes not only Congress, but almost all of the Republican presidential candidates who are jockeying for AIPAC support in the primaries. They will try to outdo each other as to who can be the most subservient in shilling for an Israel that seems to have shed all concern over isolating itself over its lost Iran bogeyman cause.
Israeli propaganda is a house of cards. They can never admit being wrong about anything, because they have been so wrong over just about everything. The people who claimed Iran was just around the corner from having the bomb for twenty years were preceded by the early atheistic militant communist Zionists, who declared that “God gave us the land”. Even as a young man, I had a little problem swallowing that line.

Israel fears not Iran, but its founding myth crashing down

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Many years later, Israeli geneticist Dr. Eran Elhaik, at Johns Hopkins University at the time, researched the genomes of Eastern and Western European Jews and compared the data with old line Semites in the Holy Land. It was bad news for the European Jews.
They had no more Semite blood than the average European American. From Elhaik’s Haaretz interview:
“The various groups of Jews in the world today do not share a common genetic origin. We are talking here about groups that are very heterogeneous and which are connected solely by religion…[the] genome of European Jews is a mosaic of ancient peoples and its origin is largely Khazar.”
This modern genetic study had confirmed Arthur Koestler’s The Thirteenth Tribe Khazarian mass conversion story. Elhaik’s report got light mass media coverage but it did get play in the genetics community where he was denounced by the usual suspects but without refuting his science… just claiming it was bogus.

He countered by inviting these same Jewish scientific detractors to submit DNA samples for Semitic gene testing, where their pooled results would be made public as to how much Holy Land blood they had. Of course, he had no takers.

I share that story because we have just completed similar “put up or shut up” testing with Israel, who never presented any intelligence to support their long claims of Iran’s nuclear program. They try to pretend that does not matter now, with their latest pitch being that the new agreement leaves Iran a “pathway to the bomb”, a carved in stone admission that they never had one.

One of Israel’s nuclear sites, Dimona — To deflect attention from WMD, Israel employs the strategy of the best defense is a good offense

Left out of this “pathway” charge is, how that can possibly be done when Iran has agreed to the most comprehensive monitoring of any nation on the planet? Netanyahu signaled to all of Israel’s political and media mavens that the new Jihad would now be that the agreement must be stopped to prevent Iran from “getting the bomb” by secretly outsmarting all of the monitors.
What we are seeing is a classic ploy that the best defense is a good offense. While Israel continues to paint Iran as a mortal future nuclear threat, it is avoiding a discussion of its own nuclear threat, the one that was never brought into the nuclear talks despite IRI President Rouhani’s multiple overtures for a nuclear-free Mid East.
What Israel fears most is the World finally awakening as to whom the real threat has been for fifty years. The fight Israel will put up now to stop the agreement will be a form of shadow boxing to save itself from the threat of being openly treated under the law like it wanted Iran to be treated, as a nuclear proliferator.
Besides the usual “we must defend Israel ” blather from Congressional Republicans, their first serious counter attack on the agreement was a little bit like stand – up comedy. The Republican leaders of the House and Senate demanded that Obama not proceed to with the scheduled UN Security Council ratification meeting until they had given their approval, like they were talking to a child.

They huffed and puffed that the US Congress “does not outsource American national security to the UN.” You just can’t make this stuff up, but senior Congressional leaders actually said this.  This ploy was one of the most pitiful political stunts I can remember seeing in a long time.  The White House countered that the countries supporting the agreement represented 99% of the world population.

The UNSC went ahead with its unanimous vote to ratify the agreement, and the Germans especially ran for their planes to fly to Tehran to begin finalizing some of their trade deals. While Israel and its puppets were harping “the bomb, the bomb”, the European business community was cheering “close the deal, close the deal”, which brings us to part of Iran’s strategy in making the concessions it did.

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Trading Partners avoid wars with each other

BRICS signatories and numerous observer countries wrapped up the 2015 BRICS Summit in Ufa, Russia

In a few years, Iran will have a human shield consisting of an army of worldwide trade partners who will be investing half a trillion dollars into Iran’s soon to boom economy.
They will not be timid about fighting back against the little country in the Mid East threatening to wipe out their hard-won financial gains from investments in Iran to help pull the EU out of its economic slump.
Iran knows that the Israeli Lobby influence in many Western legislatures will still remain, but there will be a growing and diverse Iran lobby that it has not had to deal with before.
That lobby might decide that Israel itself needs to be eliminated as a long-term security threat, and what better way than to finally expose Israel to the sanctions regimen — where it must go through what Iran did to climb out of the hole, but with the factor of Israel’s actually having a major WMD program.
The world is never going to be the same for the Israelis again, but self-delusion will prevent them from seeing that… for a while.

Not only Obama, but Iran had its own domestic constituents to satisfy. Dr. Zarif and Dr. Salehi presented themselves to the Iranian parliament. Zarif explained that all Iran had really given up was a nuclear weapons program it neither had nor desired, in exchange for getting the sanctions removed.

And while Iran had to accept the increased inspection and monitoring regime, this was a minor inconvenience, including accepting five more years on the arms embargo in return for the Iranian people to be able to unleash their talent and resources on the world stage. Iran is inviting the world in as a partner. Dr. Salehi took full responsibility before the parliament for the reasonableness of all the technical aspects of the agreement.

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Obama puts his veto squarely on the chessboard

Back on the American side, Obama knows he has the Congressional votes to sustain a veto. The Republicans know it too, but Congressmen always try to extract “enticements” for their districts on major votes like this.
Netanyahu’s fall back plan is to declare victory when the agreement is completed by extracting an increase of $12 to $15 billion in US defense commitments in the next ten-year funding plan that starts in 2018. The American people will have to borrow that money to give to Israel, and Bibi will wear that as a badge of honor that he got the US Congress to sell out its own people.
But Bibi walked back those US funding increase discussions when reminded that ploy undermined his push to have Congress vote down the deal. US media began using the old $3 billion a year number the next day.

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Pentagon military threat to Iran undermines Obama

Ashton Carter waits for his hug from Binyamin Netanyahu

But the US has made its own goof in what had been a flawless performance since the agreement signing. Obama let SecDef Ashton Carter trot out the worn out “military option is still on the table” mantra.
It was obviously a cheap palliative to the Israelis who are only impressed if it comes with a lot of cash.
Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States dominate Iran on military spending by ten to fifteen to one, depending on whose numbers you are using. On top of that, you can add in the US Navy and the US bases in the region. A military option is well-known to be “on the table”.
Any self-respecting country, when faced with such military power on its borders, would do all it could to protect itself, including having a credible retaliatory strike capacity, which in Iran’s case would be a conventional one.
The secret that no one wants to discuss about why the talks dragged out for so long had nothing to do with Iran’s production of “a bomb”.

The West’s concern was that Iran might develop what the West and Israel already have — an arsenal of advanced tactical nukes, which are smaller, easier to assemble and have a triggering mechanism that a college grad student could design with an informed mentor.

The nuclear material needed for this is small, and no high enrichment is needed for a small, versatile 5- to 25-megaton weapon that can easily be carried by a fighter bomber or put on a cruise or medium-range missile. The warhead itself is small and could easily be supplied by an allied government, like the US supplied to the Israelis in the 1980’s with 350 of our old 1950’s-era Davy Crockett football-sized warheads.

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Could Bibi’s tactics trigger a war against the Israeli espionage in America

Real security will come when the businessmen outside of the defense industries wake up. As long as huge sums continue to get sucked into these manufactured threats by the war crime syndicate, they will be left with the scraps, and their college grad kids hoping to find a $15 hourly wage somewhere.
So far they are nowhere to be seen on the American political stage at this point in the Congressional battle because AIPAC is deployed against it. Are they cowards, or practical businessmen?
But, as Israel deploys all of its ideological and espionage American assets to punish Obama for getting his nuclear deal, America might get up off its knees when it comes to beating back the Israel Lobby. No American politician has ever had to pay a political price for taking the side of his own country over a foreign one.
I say this as Israel can get classified information here all day long from people in Congress, including committee chairman who have the highest clearances. The loyal intelligence community is just sick at the scale of Israel’s operations run here, primarily due to a ban on bringing prosecutions which would be so embarrassing, and more than a little blackmail power.
The American people have an opportunity give Congress and the Israeli-American Lobby some payback by relentlessly hounding them for their disloyalty. Someone put General Wesley Clark in play this week with his stunning proposal to open up concentration camps for “disloyal Americans”. He was threatening the Muslim community in regards to the recent Tennessee shootings by the young Muslim man suffering with mental issues and shame over a drunken driving conviction.

I wrote in a column that if we start to fill internment camps with disloyal Americans, then over half the seats in Congress would be emptied out, and at least one former president and his sons would be inmates. It is time for these phonies to get the disloyalty word slapped across their faces, and often. We must treat them with the disrespect they treat us.

Obama came out swinging against the Iran deal killers today, calling them the same people that wanted war with Iraq, versus a diplomatic solution. Ouch! Obama drew a line of blood in the sand, with the world on his side. He has the Israeli shills in Congress now looking like the heels that they are. Hurrah for him.
The president has asked us to get off our behinds to contact our Congressmen and “put the scare on them” as we like to say here in the South. I ask not only all Americans, but people everywhere to flood Congress with demands to stop serving their foreign master.

Obama has waived the green flag.

It is time for us to declare war politically against Israel and its subversive lobbies, and yes, to begin prosecuting those who have been involved in espionage, including the nuclear kind.

Jim W. Dean, managing editor for Veterans Today, producer/host of Heritage TV Atlanta, specially for the online magazine “New Eastern Outlook”.
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THE HARDEST STATES TO FIND FULL-TIME WORK

 

By Thomas C. Frohlich 12 hours ago                             

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The U.S. labor market has improved considerably since the depths of the recession in 2009. However, traditional measures of the labor market may not always tell the full story. Despite the recovery, for example, government efforts to strengthen the job market have remained in place. Last week, the Federal Reserve Board announced it would continue keeping interest rates near zero, citing improving, but still weak, labor underutilization.

The traditional unemployment rate does not include all jobless individuals, nor is it a percentage of all the people available for work. It is a measure of jobless working-age Americans actively seeking work as a percentage of the labor force, which is defined as the total number of employed and unemployed workers. To account for people left out of the calculation, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) provides alternative measures of labor underutilization.

The underemployment rate, also known as U-6, includes the standard unemployed population as well as marginally attached workers and persons employed part-time for economic reasons. Marginally attached workers are neither employed nor looking for work, but those who have indicated their desire for employment. Discouraged workers, a subset of the marginally employed, believe there are no jobs available to them and have given up looking as a result. Finally, the part-time underemployment rate accounts for involuntarily part  employed workers who could only find part-time work but would like a full-time job.

Martin Kohli, chief regional economist at the BLS, explained there are many reasons jobless individuals might give up looking for work. They might be retired, disabled, full-time students, home-makers, or parents who would like a job but have struggled to find adequate child care.

Based on the underemployment rate, 24/7 Wall St. reviewed the 10 states where finding full-time work is most difficult. Nevada had the highest underemployment rate in the nation at 15.2%. By contrast, North Dakota's underemployment rate of 5.5% was the lowest in the country. Over the 12 months through the second quarter of this year, the U.S. underemployment rate was 11.3%, down slightly from 12.9% over the previous period.

While the underemployment rate captures significantly more people than the standard unemployment figure, it is not surprising that states with high rates of one measure almost always have high rates of the other measure as well. Eight of the 10 states with the highest underemployment rates were in the top 15 for unemployment as well. The correlation is not 100%, however. Oregon and Michigan had the fifth and ninth highest underemployment rates but each had the 20th highest unemployment rates.

Gross domestic product (GDP) also provides a picture of the weak economic climate in many of these states. In eight of the 10 states with the highest underemployment, GDP has either contracted or grown slower than the national growth rate over the past eight years. In Nevada, the state with the highest underemployment rate, GDP contracted by 11.7% between 2007 and 2014 -- by far the worst decline over that period.

Weak economic climates often manifest in labor force contractions. This may be because poor job markets are discouraging people from looking for jobs in these states. While the U.S. labor force rose by 1.8% from 2007 through 2014, the labor force shrank by more than 5% in high-underemployment states Mississippi and Michigan.

Many of these states were also among the hardest-hit during the housing crisis. Nationwide, average home prices were 5.5% lower last year than they were in 2007. In seven of the 10 states, home prices fell faster than the national decline over that period. 

In Nevada, California, and Arizona, the drop was significantly larger -- home prices in each of the three states fell by more than 15%. Kohli said, “if your house is underwater you’re less likely to sell your house and move, so you’re not going to have the labor market adjusting to high unemployment the way you would if people could sell their houses.”

To determine the states where it is hardest to find full-time work, 24/7 Wall St. examined average underemployment rates for the 12 months through the second quarter of this year measured by the BLS. We also considered annual U-3, the conventional measure of unemployment, and annual U-6, the underemployment rate, in each year from 2007 through 2014. 

Also from the BLS, we reviewed average weekly wages and the size of the labor force from 2007 through 2014. Socioeconomic indicators including poverty rates and educational attainment rates came from the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2013 American Community Survey (ACS). From the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), we considered the annual purchase-only housing price index. Real GDP figures are from the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA).

These are the states where it is hardest to find full-time work.

10. Rhode Island
> Underemployment rate: 12.4%
> June unemployment rate: 5.9% (12th highest)
> GDP growth 2007-2014: 1.6% (11th largest decline)
> Labor force growth 2007-2014: -3.5% (5th largest decline)
Rhode Island’s 2014 unemployment rate of 7.7% was the third highest nationwide. This does not account for jobless individuals no longer looking for work, and part-time employees who would prefer full-time work. When these marginally attached and involuntarily part-time employed workers are considered, the state had an underemployment rate of 12.4% -- the 10th highest in the nation. Like other states with the highest underemployment rates, Rhode Island’s economy grew at a slower pace compared to national economic growth from 2007 through 2014. The state's labor force, too, shrank by 3.5% even as the labor force nationwide grew by 1.8%. Rhode Island was also among the hardest-hit states during the housing crisis. Home prices fell 16.3% from 2007 through last year, one of the largest declines. According to Kohli, poor home equity often prevents individuals from relocating in search of better job prospects, which in turn can prevent the labor market from adjusting.

9. Georgia
> Underemployment rate: 12.5%
> June unemployment rate: 6.1% (9th highest)
> GDP growth 2007-2014: 1.8% (12th largest decline)
> Labor force growth 2007-2014: -1.2% (12th largest decline)
As in most states, Georgia’s underemployment rate has improved in recent years. Similarly, the state’s unemployment rate has declined each year since 2010, when it peaked at 10.5%. As of June, 6.1% of the workforce was unemployed, still higher than the national unemployment rate of 5.3%. The relatively poor job market in Georgia is tied to relatively poor socioeconomic factors. The state had the fifth highest poverty rate in the nation at 19%. On the other hand, while the average weekly wage of $821.57 was lower than the national average, it grew by 3.9% from the previous year, a faster pace than the nationwide growth rate. Georgia was one of just three states on this list where average wages grew faster than the national pace.

8. Michigan
> Underemployment rate: 12.6%
> June unemployment rate: 5.5% (tied- 28th highest)
> GDP growth 2007-2014: -0.7% (7th largest decline)
> Labor force growth 2007-2014: -5.2% (the largest decline)
While employment conditions in Michigan remain suboptimal, the labor market has improved somewhat over the past five years. From 2007 through 2009, the Great Lakes state had both the highest unemployment rate and underemployment rate in the United States. Michigan's average underemployment rate in 2009 was 21.5% -- a rate that includes the marginally attached workers. While the underemployment rate has since recovered a great deal to 12.6%, it was still one of the worst in the country. Michigan has suffered from stagnant housing and labor markets for decades, and compared to some other high-underemployment states, large numbers of residents have left the workforce. From 2007 through 2014, Michigan’s labor force shrank by 5.2%, the largest contraction of any state.

7. South Carolina
> Underemployment rate: 12.8%
> June unemployment rate: 6.6% (tied-4th highest)
> GDP growth 2007-2014: 3.4% (17th largest decline)
> Labor force growth 2007-2014: 3.4% (16th largest growth)
Underemployment in South Carolina peaked at 19.6% in 2009, higher than the peak rates in all but three other states. While the state’s underemployment has declined significantly since that time, it remains one of the highest rates nationwide. As was the case in many other states where residents had trouble finding full-time employment, the relatively poor labor market may have contributed to similarly poor socioeconomic conditions. South Carolina’s poverty rate of 18.6%, for example, was the eighth highest in the nation. Like the nation as a whole, the state’s underemployment rate has fallen in recent years, which may have contributed to a growing workforce. South Carolina’s labor force grew by 3.4% from 2007 through last year, one of four states with the highest underemployment rates where labor force growth exceeded the national growth rate.

6. Mississippi
> Underemployment rate: 12.8%
> June unemployment rate: 6.6% (tied-4th highest)
> GDP growth 2007-2014: 0.0% (8th largest decline)
> Labor force growth 2007-2014: -5.2% (2nd largest decline)

Mississippi had the 18th highest underemployment rate in 2009, and it jumped up to fifth highest this year. The state's labor force is less skilled than most states and can perhaps be partly behind the high unemployment and underemployment rates. Barely 20% of the state’s adults had a bachelor’s degree, the second lowest rate in the country, ahead only of West Virginia. With such a poor labor market, workers have been giving up looking for a job. While the U.S. labor force grew by 1.8% from 2007 through 2014, Mississippi's labor force shrank by 5.2%, the second largest contraction of any state.

5. Oregon
> Underemployment rate: 12.8%
> June unemployment rate: 5.5% (tied-20th highest)
> GDP growth 2007-2014: 15.3% (3rd largest growth)
> Labor force growth 2007-2014: 1.1% (21st largest decline)
Individuals employed part-time for economic reasons accounted for 5.4 percentage points of Oregon’s underemployment rate of 12.8%, the fourth highest incidence of involuntary part-time employment nationwide. These workers cited seasonal declines in demand, inability to find full-time work, or unfavorable business conditions as reasons for seeking part-time employment. Such high levels of financial stress even among the state’s employed population likely led to greater reliance on government subsidies. Nearly one in five Oregon residents relied on food stamps, the highest proportion nationwide. Many SNAP recipients were likely also part of the underemployed population.

4. West Virginia
> Underemployment rate: 13.0%
> June unemployment rate: 7.4% (the highest)
> GDP growth 2007-2014: 9.0% (10th largest growth)
> Labor force growth 2007-2014: -2.6% (6th largest decline)
Many of these states have had some of the highest underemployment rates for several years. However, West Virginia is a new addition to the list this year. According to Kohli, West Virginia is heavily dependent on its energy industry, and the economy has been vulnerable to falling oil prices. Low educational attainment rates likely contributed to West Virginia’s underemployment rate of 13%, which trailed only three other states. Less than 19% of adults in the state had a bachelor’s degree, the lowest college attainment rate in the nation. Low levels of education may have also contributed to lower incomes. While 7.6% of American households earned less than $10,000 annually, 10.5% of West Virginia households earned such low incomes. The state’s labor force contracted 2.6% from 2007 through 2014, the sixth largest decline, and in contrast with the nationwide labor force expansion of 1.8%. While all of these states have among the least healthy job markets, many have managed some improvement in recent years. West Virginia, however, had the highest unemployment rate in June at 7.4%. It was also one of only five states where the underemployment rate went up in 2014.

3. Arizona
> Underemployment rate: 13.8%
> June unemployment rate: 5.9% (12th highest)
> GDP growth 2007-2014: -4.5% (3rd largest decline)
> Labor force growth 2007-2014: 1.9% (24th largest growth)
Arizona had the12th highest unemployment rate last year, at 5.9% of the labor force. However, many employed residents could likely use more work. Part-time Arizona workers who would prefer full-time jobs accounted for 5.9 percentage points of the state’s underemployment rate of 13.8%. This was the second highest incidence of involuntary part-time employment in the country. As in a few other states with the highest underemployment rates, Arizona’s housing market was slammed during the recession. Home prices in the state sank 22.9% from 2007 through 2014, a larger drop than in all but two other states -- Nevada and Florida. The relatively weak housing market likely hindered job market improvements, because it was harder for residents to relocate.

2. California
> Underemployment rate: 14.0%
> June unemployment rate: 6.3% (8th highest)
> GDP growth 2007-2014: 5.6% (22nd largest growth)
> Labor force growth 2007-2014: 5.1% (9th largest growth)
California’s economy is heavily dependent on agricultural production in its Central Valley, which is one of the nation’s largest food sources. Since the industry's demand for water is high, the state’s ongoing drought has been extremely costly. According to The Atlantic, the agricultural sector lost $2.2 billion in 2014 due to drought. In addition, an estimated 17,000 farmers lost their jobs last year. The state's GDP grew by nearly 6% from 2007 through last year -- just behind the national growth rate -- and the severe drought conditions contributed to California’s poor employment figures.
The state’s unemployment rate of 6.3% in June was eighth highest in the nation. When marginally attached workers and those working part-time for economic reasons were considered over the 12 months through June, 14% of workers were underemployed. Full-time work was even more scarce in Los Angeles County, where the underemployment rate was 16.0%. On the other hand, while the labor force in most states grew slower than the nation's, or even shrank from 2007 through last year, California’s labor force grew 5.1%, the ninth largest growth rate in the country.

1. Nevada
> Underemployment rate: 15.2%
> June unemployment rate: 6.9% (2nd highest)
> GDP growth 2007-2014: -13.2% (the largest decline)
> Labor force growth 2007-2014: 4.8% (10th largest growth)
No state’s job market was worse than Nevada’s. The state’s underemployment rate of 15.2% and current unemployment rate of 6.9% were the highest and second highest compared to all states. Part-time workers in the state who would like full-time work accounted for 6.4 percentage points of the underemployment rate, the highest incidence of involuntary part-time employment nationwide. The state’s industry composition may partly account for the concentration of part-time workers. According to Kohli, the entertainment sector tends to employ more part-time workers than other industries.

The housing crisis hit Nevada harder than arguably any other state in the country. As of last year, home prices were 32.2% lower than they were in 2007, the largest drop nationwide. And while average weekly wages increased each year from 2008 through last year across the nation, in Nevada wages declined in 2008, 2009, and 2010. Since then, wages have increased in the state, but at a much slower pace than the nation. 

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/hardest-states-full-time-132000252.html

Three Million Gallons of Contaminated Water Turns River Orange in Colorado

By KAYLEE HECK 7 hours ago Good Morning America

 

 

The Animas River in Colorado has turned orange as a toxic spill continues to flow downstream and through to other states.

A team of workers with the Environmental Protection Agency accidentally released 3 million gallons of waste water from the Gold King Mine in Silverton, Colorado, on Aug. 5, the agency said.

It was initially estimated to be a third of that size at one million gallons, the EPA said.

 

 

 

 

Three Million Gallons of Contaminated Water Turns River Orange in Colorado (ABC News)

The contaminated water contains heavy metals, including lead and arsenic, turning the river water into a murky orange and yellow color, ABC affiliate KMGH reported.

“We are aware that there are a number of old mines that have water dams like, similar to this, and we’re going to go back through them,” Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper told KMGH. “People think about Colorado for our skies and our landscapes and our rushing rivers. They don’t want those rivers to be orange.”

There is no timetable yet for cleaning up the spill, Hickenlooper said, also adding that it’s also too early to determine who should be held accountable.

The water will continue to flow through the San Juan National Forest, where the San Juan River will carry the contaminated water through Utah and eventually into Lake Powell, experts said.  It’s expected to reach Lake Powell by Wednesday, experts said.

https://gma.yahoo.com/three-million-gallons-contaminated-water-turns-river-orange-145919486--abc-news-topstories.html#

 

The case is over but the fight is not

 

2015 August 10                       from G. Edward Griffin

   The case is over but the fight is not

That's the message from my assistant, Joan Hunter, in her battle against the nuclear power industry

Suffering for the past 16 years from exposure to some of the most deadly toxins
on the planet, Joan has been forced to abandon her personal-injury case against a corporate giant for reckless endangerment of the environment, which included a toxic spill to which she was unknowingly exposed and which caused multiple cancerous growths. This is her report:
 

I was forced by financial limitations to drop my lawsuit against the corporate giant, Boeing, for causing my skin cancers. The incredible cost of pursuing such a case was simply beyond my reach. But that doesn’t mean I’ve given up! Now I’m on a mission to produce a documentary film exposing the nuclear industry’s deadly negligence. This film will reveal the industry’s record of concealing the death and disease it causes through incompetent handling of lethal radioactive contaminants. I hope you will take a moment to view the introductory video below. While the case may be over, the fight is not! If you have been following Unfiltered News, you know I sued the Boeing Company for the negligent release of radioactive contaminants that caused over 130 disfiguring skin cancers on my face and body. Many of these cancers clustered around my right eye, disfiguring my eyelids, causing extreme light-sensitivity, and finally closed the eye completely. Needless to say, that has devastated my art career. During the preparation of my lawsuit, I learned a great deal about the negligent release of radioactive contaminants into the environment at the northwest corner of Los Angeles County, a story that was covered up by the nuclear industry and government regulators alike. While researching this event, I discovered a “culture of concealment” that pervades the entire nuclear industry. Although major nuclear incidents are hard to conceal — because they happen in plain view — the public often is totally unaware of the less dramatic “accidents”. Because of this, and because radiation poisoning is hard to identify, thousands of men, women, and children are suffering debilitating injuries without awareness of their cause. But, it's worse than that. Even when victims are aware of the cause, industry and government are allowed to escape responsibility. My documentary film will bring these hidden facts to light. In 1959, the world’s first nuclear meltdown — and to this day the world’s 4th worst meltdown — occurred at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory (SSFL) just 30 miles northwest of Los Angeles in a hidden plateau between Simi Valley and Chatsworth. After the meltdown, instead of closing down the reactor, the company started it up again — only two hours later. Between 1959 and 1990, the SSFL had numerous accidents and caused many releases of radioactive particles that contaminated much of Los Angeles. The public was not told about it. From 1996 through 2005, Boeing tried cleaning up the radioactive grounds of the SSFL by demolishing contaminated buildings, digging up soil, and shipping radioactive debris in unsealed, tarp-covered dump trucks. According to radiation expert, Dr. Chris Busby, this released massive amounts of contaminants, including enriched uranium, into the environment, up to seven miles from the SSFL. This, too, was kept confidential. The vast majority of people living in the neighborhoods surrounding the SSFL, even to this day, have no idea they were exposed to deadly radioactive toxins. Cancer rates in the area are far above average. Children are sick and dying. In 2005, a class-action lawsuit filed against Boeing for negligently causing death and disease was quietly settled out of court for $30 million. The public was not told. It's not just in Los Angeles. Between the SSFL meltdown in 1959 and today, numerous nuclear incidents around the nation have released deadly radioactive substances into the environment. You may have heard of the meltdown at Three-Mile Island. No big deal, right? The public was assured there was no threat to health. In truth, however, the damage to humans and animals simply was denied. Even now, the public does not know the extent of the real consequences. This, too, will be shown in my documentary. Lesser-known nuclear accidents include Idaho Falls, Idaho; Montpelier, Vermont; Erwin, Tennessee; Buchanan, New York; Hanford, Washington; Rocky Flats, Colorado; and many others. The purpose of my documentary is to put an end to this culture of concealment and, thereby, also stop the death and disease that follow from it. Having served as Associate Producer on many of Mr. Griffin’s productions, I have gained the knowledge and expertise to produce this film. For the technical aspects of production, I’m working with a professional filmmaker who also has worked with Mr. Griffin on numerous video projects. So we are set to roll. I was able to get amazingly far in my lawsuit against Boeing due to the generosity of those who donated to my cause and purchased prints of my art. For those who don’t know me, I am a commercial and traditional artist. During the 1970s, in my native Australia, I was a well-known landscape artist and sold over 1,500 paintings in seven years. During the 1980s, I worked as a fashion artist for Gottschalk’s department stores, based in Fresno, California. In the 1990s, I concentrated on my greatest passion—finely detailed, photorealistic wildlife paintings—many of which sold in galleries in Carmel and La Jolla, California. Below is an example of my wildlife art. Jungle Fever, an example of Joan's art. (Click to enlarge) The rest of my work can be seen on my website but, unfortunately, because of the disfiguration of my eye caused by the radioactive dust from the Boeing facility, I am no longer able to do this finely detailed work. However, the motivation for my documentary is more than just my cancers. I feel a responsibility to inform everyone about this story of negligence and concealment, but I need your help. I do not want charity, but I hope you will want one or more of my prints. That is how the documentary will be funded. Please visit my gallery at www.printsbyjoan.com. Prices have been discounted in hopes of encouraging financial support for the documentary. Donations also are appreciated. I hope you like my work—and thank you for your help.

I urge you to consider giving Joan a helping hand. It's the right thing to do.
 

G. Edward Griffin 

    

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How Congress lied setting up own Obamacare

How Congress lied setting up own Obamacare

Lawsuit argues allegations need review in courtroom

Published: 25 mins ago

Bob Unruh

Did Congress really lie on the forms it used to set up its own Obamacare coverage?

That’s a question that needs to be answered, according to a filing in the District of Columbia Court of Appeals.
The brief, from the Washington watchdog Judicial Watch, asks for an order for further proceedings at the district court level on claims that tens of thousands of congressional staff members are getting coverage through an exchange set up only for small businesses with fewer than 50 employees.
The case challenges the expenditure of municipal funds on the Small Business Exchange to allow Congress, its staff members and their dependents to get health-care coverage.
Judicial Watch claims that a lower court decision – that the plaintiff, Kirby Vining, didn’t have standing to bring the complaint – should be overturned.
“I am doubly disturbed by what members of Congress and their staff have done here,” said Vining in a statement to Judicial Watch, “both because this program was designed to provide benefits for small businesses, businesses that form the spine of our economy and society, but also because Congress has chosen to claim eligibility to participate in this program, claiming to be a ‘small business.’ Congress authored the law, and is going to rather questionable lengths to avoid compliance with the law it drafted.”
Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton called it an “abuse of district taxpayers to use D.C. funds to subsidize illegal health insurance for Congress.”
“It is unlawful and unethical for district officials to use local dollars to participate in Congress’s Obamacare fraud,” he said. “The highest court in the District of Columbia must affirm the right of district taxpayers to protect their monies from being misappropriated by corrupt district officials.”
WND reported in 2014 when the case was filed.
Here are the answers you need right now, in “Surviving the Medical Meltdown: Your Guide to Living Through the Disaster of Obamacare.”
The action alleges congressional staffers and their dependents are getting coverage through the District of Columbia Health Benefit Exchange Authority.
But the claim is that the exchange is limited to small businesses with 50 employees or fewer.
The original complaint charges government officials evaded the restriction by lying on the applications.
The lawsuit cites applications filed with the exchange by the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate.
Copies of the applications were obtained by Judicial Watch through a Freedom of Information Act request. They show the House and Senate claimed to have only 45 employees each.
A box is checked on the forms next to the confirming statement, “I attest that I employ 50 or fewer full time equivalent employees.”
But Judicial Watch notes Congress employs upward of 20,000 people.
“The applications also falsely state that the House and Senate are ‘local/state governments,’” Judicial Watch said when the case developed.
The case charges: “Since November 2013, the Exchange Authority has allowed the U.S. House of Representatives (‘the House’) and the U.S. Senate (‘the Senate’) (collectively ‘Congress’) to use the Small Business Exchange to provide health insurance to members of Congress, certain congressional staffers, and their spouses and dependents.”
It says that when Congress applied to participate in the Small Business Exchange, representatives “falsely asserted that the House and the Senate each employ 50 or fewer full-time employees.”
“Specifically, records provided by the Exchange Authority in response to a Freedom of Information Act request show that both the House and the Senate falsely claimed that they each employ only 45 full-time employees.”
Last winter, the district government “admitted that the law does not allow for Congress to obtain benefits on the exchange, but also argued that the Office of Personnel Management could override the district’s law,” Judicial Watch said.
The new filing explains that district municipal funds continue to be spent on the exchange, which “expressly limits participation to employers with 50 or fewer employees.”
“Defendants have allowed at least 12,359 congressional employees and their spouses and dependents to obtain health insurance” through the plan, it alleges.
The exchange, however, was created by the council in Washington “to help small businesses operating in the District of Columbia provide health insurance to their employees.”
“Allowing Congress to participate in the Small Business Exchange violates the law that created the exchange. In effect, defendants are spending ‘municipal funds’ on Congress’s health insurance,” the complaint continues.
It’s just the latest in a long series of court cases – some of which appear to be destined to continue for years – against Obamacare, which was adopted in 2010 with support only from Democrats in Congress.

http://www.wnd.com/2015/08/how-congress-lied-setting-up-own-obamacare/