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Venezuela Is in a Fight With the Clorox Corporation

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By Ben Mathis-Lilley

Clorox workers at the company headquarters at Valles del Tuy, Venezuela, on Sept. 26, 2014.

Photo by Carlos Garcia/Reuters

The Oakland-based Clorox Company has shut down two factories in Venezuelabecause it says the country's price controls are too onerous, among other problems—and Venezuela has responded by seizing the facilities with plans to reopen them.From Reuters:

In the latest sign of dissatisfaction from private businesses with [President Nicolas] Maduro's running of the South American OPEC nation's economy, Clorox announced its exit on Monday, saying its business was not viable and that it would sell its assets. ...

The company said operating restrictions imposed by the government, economic uncertainty and supply disruptions would have led to considerable operating losses.

Other multinationals, including Colgate-Palmolive and Avon, have made similar complaints about the Venezeulan economy. Maduro, a close ally of late socialist strongman Hugo Chavez, was elected president by a narrow margin in April of last year.

The United States and Venezuela have not had ambassadors in each others' countries since a 2010 tiff over one American diplomat's critical comments. (Venezuela still sells the United States a great deal of oil.)

Questions, Answers, Rumors, News Tuesday Afternoon

Questions, Answers, Rumors, News Tuesday Afternoon

9/30/2014

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Stage3Alpha:

QUESTION FOR TODAY......................(FEEDBACK APPRECIATED) Posted by EXOGEN on September 30, 2014 at 1:24pm

BASED ON THE CURRENT STATE OF THE UNITED STATES ECONOMY, HOW & WHY IS THE UNITED STATES DOLLAR INCREASING SO QUICKLY AND BREAKING HISTORIC RECORDS?

•oso_mama Interest Rate reset, Global Reset, USD –TRNs, The Brics,  Separation of the treasury and the Fed Reserve!!!

Mr. Chen because gold and silver are dropping. Maybe the bond sales are going up too? oh and let's not forget that there is a thing called artificial manipulation.
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Gonna retire I thought it was obvious that they are pushing precious metal prices down to raise the USD, those are not real values of the metals.

EXOGEN WHO IS EARNING PROFIT AS THE USD BREAKS ALL OF THESE HISTORIC RECORDS (HINT HINT)

Danny Stein > EXOGEN Anyone short the commodities,

anyone who bought the dollars low a short time ago......

Mr. Chen > EXOGEN  could it be the Federal reserve

E  could it be that the u.s. is artificially helping the value grow as china dumps more and more USD on the open market at bargain basement prices

EXOGEN: WHO IS EARNING PROFIT AS THE USD BREAKS ALL OF THESE HISTORIC RECORDS (HINT HINT)

oso_mama > Fixed for sure

Carden > oso_mama "artificial manipulation" can be managed by large "market makers" and who are these? PEOPLE WITH A LOT OF MONEY.

IP 1. TRN's….2. Perhaps the national debt has been reduced by cashing in the IQD?

OilRat > IP They won't cash-in the TRN's (will be used as oil credits), but they can put the IQN's on the balance sheet as an asset, which would offset the deficit (ultimately shows a reduction in the deficit) JMO

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G T September 30, 2014 at 2:06pm Agreements that the US & The trading Markets are implementing that happened MONTHS AGO behind the Scenes

The US knew once the RV/GCR goes live.....The Dollar would decrease in Value for the Short Term 1% - 3%.

Since ONLY 5-6 Million would benefit from the Revaluation.....What about the REST OF THE USA??? How would THAT Reduction effect our economy??? A LOT.....

ERGO.....Manipulate the Market to have the Dollar Index get as Close to a 1:1 value PRIOR To The Revaluation!!!

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Ken R. If you were preparing to sell any product that you owned, you would do whatever was in your power to increase the value first. The price fixing of metals is artificially inflating the dollar. China will soon revalue gold and the value of the dollar will plummet. There will be a big sell off prior to China's metals move. Said to be triggered when China reaches 5000 tons. They are presently over 4500 tons. Jim Willie, Bix Weir and others are my sources on this thinking.

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Larpin September 30, 2014 at 2:25pm Gold prices are steadily falling.   Rule of thumb ... Gold goes down - Dollar goes up.The PTB are probably pouring gold into the market to drive Gold down (& $ up) to find equality between $ & IQD.   GO RV!

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More Guesses to NEW Picture Intel:

Aloha Leslie September 30, 2014 at 12:21pm . Here's my take:

President Obama is looking, looking to see what gold and silver will do.

The clock is ticking, we are hours, if not minutes away from finally crossing the finish line.

Measurements are in tiny increments. Gold and silver teetering back and forth.

It's a Go!

Mr. Chen September 30, 2014 at 12:22pm  gold is being watched
watching for when time will run out
the finish line is inches away
gold and silver are fluctuating/seesawing high right now

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G T > EXO has confirmed the Voting of the BUDGET is TODAY/TONIGHT!!!

October 1st is the DEADLINE FOR A LOT OF ..... STUFF

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Aloha Leslie National Assembly of Iraq meeting right now.

Ugent, NO MORE TIME, the bills are due RIGHT NOW

They have to git er done RIGHT NOW!!!

RENO READY? Yessss!!

Here we go again...doesn't look like anything going on and nobody there but behind the scenes, they are all busy, busy, busy!!!!!

Gold is moving. Hark! Do I hear the sounds of Pinging? Yes, I do!!!

Connections being made all over and moving in SAME direction!!

All questions out in the open after being hidden, and being or been answered?

Our gifts are coming. Snowing like crazy. Watch for Santa's arrival!!

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G T September 30, 2014 at 2:29pm

Updated Clues.......

Exchange Network is "Testing" Again"....."PINGING SITES"

Break Even Charts & overlapping Calculations are happening Live!!!

LOTs of Questions are being addressed in the last Minutes!!!

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Danny Stein September 30, 2014 at 2:26pm
National assembly emergently meeting to decide if there is any way to forebear their payments of overdue bills....
Reno in a tizzy as the whales frantically leverage their SKRs- buying any and all bullion at firesale prices
Market direction up for grabs as all await the final solution to all economic woes......

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Silver DOWN at 17.00 -0.47 (-2.69%)

Posted by Marc Nelson on September 30, 2014 at 12:18pm

 Silver 17.00   -0.47

Silver 17.00   -0.47

http://www.wscbrc.com/bullion

Silver IN A NOSEDIVE!!!!   Silver $16.91 -0.56(-3.21%)

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KTFA:

donartuesday386 :  85.92 dollar index    High over 86 looking good!   Snoopy dance!

22coconuts22:  This great. Frank is right. The markets must be manipulated. How is the dollar rising still with all that is going on with other countries moving away from the dollar. Something is going on imo.

RichieC : The Fed is stopping QE. Inflation is therefore decreasing because the supply of dollars is less than normal and the dollar is again becoming a safer haven for investors, in spite of other countries moving away from the dollar.

So stopping the QE (printing of money) is (in a way) manipulating the dollar (and gold).

http://www.dinarrecaps.com/our-blog/questions-answers-rumors-news-tuesday-afternoon

IS THIS TRUE IN YOUR STATE?????

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=5JXQW6xmMc0

Please share this with every one you know.

OREGON CORRUPT OFFICIALS EXPOSED

After years of intense investigative research spearheaded by Mr. Richard L Koenig concerning the issues of driving vs traveling and corruption in government, the time has come to share and expose the proof and evidence of the corruption and corrupt officials that have been harming and robbing the people of Oregon for generations. What follows is just the beginning.
Take note that ORS 336.057 was passed and put on the books in 1923 and has not been implemented, enforced or even mentioned to this day. Gee, I wonder why.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=5JXQW6xmMc0
Here is the script in case anyone has trouble following the robo-voices:
male: "This is Dexter."
female: "Who is he?"
male: "You remember in school, they told us the State Constitution created the state government which is divided into three branches, and the legislative branch passes laws that are enforced by the executive branch?"
female: "No, I never had a class like that."
male: "That's odd. Oregon law requires classes in Constitutional studies starting in eighth grade and continuing through college. Anyway, that's the way it's supposed to be."
female: "OK"
male: "But in reality, there are two sets of books: the Acts of the Legislature, and the Oregon Revised Statutes. In between the legislative branch and the executive branch, sits a lawyer. That's Dexter. He takes all the laws passed by the Legislature and revises them. He writes the Oregon Revised Statutes, and that's what the cops enforce."
female: "Wow! You're telling me all the police in Oregon--the Oregon State Police, sheriffs, Portland Police, city cops--they all enforce what this lawyer says, instead of enforcing the laws passed by the Legislature?"
male: "Yes. Actually It's worse. Dexter drafts the bills that the legislature considers. So Dexter is the real author of most of the Acts of the Legislature."
female: "Isn't that a lot of writing for one man to do?"
male: "He has a staff to help him. His title is Legislative Counsel and his staff is called the Office of Legislative Counsel."
female: "Isn't there a saying about how power corrupts? What if these Revised Statutes are misleading?"
male: "That's exactly what's happening."
female: "For instance?"
male: "The cops think the law prohibits us from exercising our right to use our nonbusiness automobiles on the public highways. The cops think everybody has to have a driver license even if they're not using the roads for business purposes."
female: "Wait, doesn't everybody have to have a driver license?"
male: "We've all been told that everybody has to have a driver license, for several decades, and it's all based on Dexter's misleading ORS."
female: " I was told in high school Driver's Ed class that driving is a privilege."
male: "Actually that language is correct, because a 'driver' is someone who's employed in conducting a motor car. But if you're not employed as a driver, and you're not hauling freight for hire, and you're not carrying fare-paying passengers, and you're not using your vehicle for compensation or profit, then the Acts of the Legislature do not require you to have a driver license, or registration."
female: "You're telling me there's no such thing as a license to use a nonbusiness car?"
male: "That's right. Here's a letter from David Eyerly, at the Oregon Department of Transportation, saying that the DMV has no licensing program for private, non-compensated use of an automobile on the public highways. And here's a letter from Dexter himself, saying the session law that expanded the subject class of the Vehicle Code beyond 'operators for hire' probably doesn't exist anywhere."
female: "So the cops have been enforcing the law wrong all these years? I've never used my car for business. But I've gotten traffic tickets. Were those tickets illegal?"
male: "Did the cop have any reason to believe you were using your car for business?"
female: "No."
male: "Then the tickets were illegal."
female: "But the traffic judge agreed with the cop."
male: "The ticket said you were operating a motor vehicle. Operating means for profit. Did you tell the judge you weren't using your car for profit?"
female: "No."
male: "Then the judge didn't have to look beyond Dexter's misleading ORS. Actually, they're not judges. They're Administrative Hearings Officers."
female: "So why did I title and register my car? I thought the cops would pull me over for no plate."
male: "Usually they do, because they are relying on Dexter's misleading ORS, which appears to require a license for everything. However,
some of the cops are getting educated. There was this one car that sat parked on North Vancouver street near Tillamook with no State plates, and was also used for minor errands. It's a busy four-lane street. Cops drive by several times a day. It's a one-way street, so the cops had to look at the plate. That car sat parked there in full view of the cops for two years.
Here's what City of Portland lawyer Harry Auerbach filed in court. He quotes Dexter's misleading ORS, which defines 'operation' as any operation. According to Harry, that means everybody has to have a driver license."
female: "Wow, somebody should fix this. Has Dexter been told that the cops and lawyers misunderstand the law because they are relying on Dexter's misleading ORS?"
male: "Yes. In 2012, a member of our group surveyed all thirty six Oregon Sheriffs. Eighteen of them answered and said they enforce the vehicle code against nonbusiness automobile users. Dexter was served by email with this package."
female: "Service by email, is that official?"
male: "No. That's why two other members of our group went to Salem to serve him in person with a paper copy. One of them was arrested for trespassing while he was standing on the sidewalk."
female: "Is Dexter breaking the law?"
male: "Yes. He's committing Official Misconduct in the First Degree, failure to perform a duty clearly inherent in the nature of the office."
female: "What duty does Dexter have?"
male: "Dexter has a duty not to alter the sense, meaning, effect or substance of any Act of the Legislature, when translating it into the ORS. By implication, Dexter also has a duty to correct existing alterations."
female: "Can Dexter be arrested?"
male: "Yes, here's the private person arrest statute. We can arrest for any crime committed in our presence. And here's a statute that says we must take the arrested person before a magistrate. And here's a statute that says an Oregon Supreme Court judge is a Magistrate."
female: "How are you going to do it?"
male: "First, we're going to officially serve him with this package. It proves the vehicle code is a business regulation. It shows the Sheriffs think the ORS requires a license for nonbusiness automobiles. It demands he revise the ORS to make clear that the vehicle code is a business regulation. Then we're going to ask if he intends to revise the ORS to make it clear that the Vehicle Code is a business regulation. Then we're going to tell him he's under arrest, and ask if he's going to submit to our authority [i.e. come along peacefully] or whether we must put a hand on his shoulder to complete the arrest.
Then we're going to take him across the street before the Oregon Supreme Court.
female: "What is the magistrate going to do?"
male: "We expect the Magistrate to arraign him based on our sworn statements. But to don't have control of that. All we can do is hold up our end as citizens."
female: "Are you going to record this on video?"
male: "Yes, we will record all these events, then we will edit and publish a video."
female: "Will all this cost money?"
male: "Yes, we need a camera with instant upload, and travel expenses, also we expect that we will be arrested on bogus charges like last time, and we need a fund for that."
female: "How much will you need?"
male: "We estimate total expenses at five thousand dollars."
female: "Wow, that's a bargain. Will this be the first time that Oregon citizens have arrested a corrupt public servant [at such a high level] ?"
male: "As far as we know."
female: "Will it be the last?"
male: "We hope not."
Please sign our petition and share with others if you agree. http://www.thepetitionsite.com/244/323/431/stop-policing-for-profit/

Advice from an Israeli Agent

Advice from an Israeli Agent

Juval Aviv was the Israeli Agent upon whom the movie 'Munich' was based.  He was (Prime Minister) Golda Meir's bodyguard, and she appointed him to track down and bring to justice the Palestinian terrorists who took the Israeli athletes hostage and killed them during the Munich Olympic Games. In a lecture in New York City he shared information that EVERY American needs to know -- but that our government has not yet shared with us. He predicted the London subway bombing on the Bill O'Reilly show on Fox News stating publicly that it would happen within a week.  At the time, O'Reilly laughed and mocked him saying that in a week he wanted him back on the show.  Unfortunately, within a week the terrorist attack had occurred.   Juval Aviv gave intelligence (via what he had gathered in Israel and the Middle East) to the Bush Administration about 9/11, a month before it occurred.  His report specifically said they would use planes as bombs and target high profile buildings and monuments. Congress has since hired him as a security consultant.   Now for his future predictions.  He predicts the next terrorist attack on the U.S. will occur within the next few months.   Forget hijacking airplanes, because he says terrorists will NEVER try and hijack a plane again as they know the people onboard will never go down quietly again.  Aviv believes our airport security is a joke -- that we have been reactionary rather than proactive in developing strategies that are truly effective. For example: 1) Our airport technology is outdated. We look for metal, and the new explosives are made of plastic. 2) He talked about how some idiot tried to light his shoe on fire.  Because of that, now everyone has to take off their shoes.  A group of idiots tried to bring aboard liquid explosives.  Now we can't bring liquids on board.  He says he's waiting for some suicidal maniac to pour liquid explosive on his underwear; at which point, security will have us all traveling naked!   Every strategy we have is reactionary. 3) We only focus on security when people are heading to the gates. Aviv says that if a terrorist attack targets airports in the future, they will target busy times on the front end of the airport when/where people are checking in.  It would be easy for someone to take two suitcases of explosives, walk up to a busy check-in line, ask a person next to them to watch their bags for a minute while they run to the restroom or get a drink, and then detonate the bags BEFORE security even gets involved.  In Israel, security checks bags BEFORE people can even ENTER the airport.   Aviv says the next terrorist attack here in America is imminent and will involve suicide bombers and non-suicide bombers in places where large groups of people congregate. (i.e., Disneyland, Las Vegas casinos, big cities (New York, San Francisco, Chicago, etc.) and that it will also include shopping malls, subways in rush hour, train stations, etc., as well as, rural America this time.  The inter-lands (Wyoming, Montana, etc.). The attack will be characterized by simultaneous detonations around the country (terrorists like big impact), involving at least 5-8 cities, including rural areas. Aviv says terrorists won't need to use suicide bombers in many of the larger cities, because at places like the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, they can simply valet park a car loaded with explosives and walk away.   Aviv says all of the above is well known in intelligence circles, but that our U. S. Government does not want to 'alarm American citizens' with the facts. The world is quickly going to become 'a different place', and issues like 'global warming' and political correctness will become totally irrelevant. On an encouraging note, he says that Americans don't have to be concerned about being nuked.  Aviv says the terrorists who want to destroy America will not use sophisticated weapons.  They like to use suicide as a front-line approach.  It's cheap, it's easy, it's effective; and they have an infinite abundance of young militants more than willing to 'meet their destiny'.   He also says the next level of terrorists, over which America should be most concerned, will not be coming from abroad.  But will be, instead, 'homegrown', having attended and been educated in our own schools and universities right here in the U.S. He says to look for 'students' who frequently travel back and forth to the Middle East.  These young terrorists will be most dangerous because they will know our language and will fully understand the habits of Americans; but that we Americans won't know/understand a thing about them. Aviv says that, as a people, Americans are unaware and uneducated about the terrorist threats we will inevitably face.  America still has only a handful of Arabic and Farsi speaking people in our intelligence networks, and Aviv says it is critical that we change that fact SOON.   So, what can America do to protect itself?   From an intelligence perspective, Aviv says the U.S. needs to stop relying on satellites and technology for intelligence.  We need to, instead, follow Israel's, Ireland's and England's hands-on examples of human intelligence, both from an infiltration perspective as well as to pay attention to, and trust 'aware' citizens to help.  We need to engage and educate ourselves as citizens; however, our U. S. government continues to treat us, its citizens, 'like babies'.  Our government thinks we 'can't handle the truth' and are concerned that we'll panic if we understand the realities of terrorism.  Aviv says this is a deadly mistake. Aviv recently created and executed a security test for our Congress, by placing an empty briefcase in five well-traveled spots in five major cities.  The results?  Not one person called 911 or sought a policeman to check the unattended briefcase out.  In fact, in Chicago, someone tried to steal the briefcase!   In comparison, Aviv says that citizens of Israel are so well 'trained' that an unattended bag or package would be reported in seconds by citizen(s) who know to publicly shout, 'Unattended Bag!'  The area would be quickly and calmly cleared by the citizens themselves.   Unfortunately, America  hasn't been yet 'hurt enough' by terrorism for their government to fully understand the need to educate its' citizens or for the government to understand that it's their citizens who are, inevitably, the best first-line of defense against terrorism. (Citizens are NOW the first line of defense on a hijacked airplane!)   Aviv also was concerned about the high number of children here in America who were in preschool and kindergarten after 9/11, who were 'lost' without parents being able to pick them up, and our schools that had no plan in place to best care for the students until parents could get there. (In New York City, this was days, in some cases!)   Aviv says that the U. S. government has in force a plan, that in the event of another terrorist attack, EVERYONE's ability to use cell phones, blackberries, etc., will immediately be cut-off, as this is the preferred communication source used by terrorists and is often the way that their bombs are detonated. (i.e. The government will shut off the cellular network in an attack!) Does your family know what to do if you can't contact one another by phone? Where would you gather in an emergency?  He says we should all have a plan that is easy enough for even our youngest children to remember and follow. How will you communicate with your loved ones in the event you cannot speak to each other?  You need to have a plan.   He stresses the importance of having a plan, that's agreed upon within your family, of how to respond in the event of a terrorist emergency.  He urges parents to contact their children's schools and demand that the schools too, develop plans of actions, just as they do in Israel.   If you understand and believe what you have just read, then you must feel compelled to send this to every concerned parent, guardian, grandparents, uncles, aunts, whomever. Don't stop there.  In addition to sharing this via e-mail, contact and discuss this information with whomever it makes sense to.  Make contingency plans with those you care about. Better that you have plans in place and never have to use them, than to have no plans in place and find you needed them.   If you choose not to share this, or not to have a plan in place, and nothing ever occurs -- good for you!  However, in the event something does happen, and even more so, if it directly affects your loved ones, then this e-mail will haunt you forever.   Telling yourself after the fact, "I should have sent this to so and so, but deleted it as so much trash from old Bill Jones, plus, I just didn't believe it", will not change anything.  You were alerted, had the chance to do something, and instead of erring on the side of caution, you chose to disregard, if nothing else, a sensible, valuable warning.

NASA finds that Earth's fourth-largest lake is almost completely dry

NASA finds that Earth's fourth-largest lake is almost completely dry

Images from NASA's Terra satellite have revealed some alarming results. The Aral Sea in Kazakhstan, which once was the fourth-largest lake in the world, is almost completely dry,The Independent reports.

The lake was once fed by two major rivers, the Syr Darya and the Amu Darya, which flowed through the Kyzylkum Desert, meeting at the basin's end. Scientists attribute the Aral Sea's decline to an irrigation project by the Soviet Union in the 1960s, which took water from the rivers to turn the desert into a farmland for cotton. The desert thrived, but the Aral Sea didn't fare as well.

The images, taken by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer on the Terra satellite, reveal that the Aral Sea's eastern lobe has completely dried up. NASA began collecting the images in 2000, when the effects of the '60s-era project were already evident. The photos show that the Northern Aral Sea separated from the Southern Aral Sea, and the lake has become "a fraction of what it had been before the irrigation project started,"according to The Independent.

After the north and south parts of the lake became divided, the lake's eastern lobe completely dried up in 2014, NASA found. The lake's retreat has caused trouble for the local communities, too — the water that's still in the Aral Sea has been polluted with fertilizer and pesticides, causing a public health hazard, according to the NASA Earth Observatory. And "to compound matters, more water has been taken from the rivers to flush out the cropland affected by the contaminated dust that had blown up from the lakebed," The Independentnotes, leading to colder winters and warmer summers.

"This is the first time the eastern basin has completely dried in modern times," Philip Micklin, an Aral Sea expert at Western Michigan University, said in a statement for NASA's Earth Observatory. "And it is likely the first time it has completely dried in 600 years."

Take a look at the Aral Sea's retreat in the images below.