The number of bank failures rises to 78 so far this year as 3 banks in Florida, 1 in Nevada, and 1 in California shut down on Friday, May 28. The number of banks expected to fail this year is more than 140, the number of failed banks in 2009.
The Israel Navy opened fire on an unarmed, six-ship aid flotilla headed for Gaza. The flotilla is carrying 10,000 tons of humanitarian aid and supplies to the Gaza strip. Israel and Egypt have been enforcing a blockade of the seaside area for nearly three years, provoking widespread criticism for the ensuing humanitarian crisis. Various reports put the number killed from the Israeli attack between two and ten. Scores were injured. Israel attacked the flotilla, loaded with medicine, food and supplies, in international waters about 40 miles from the Gaza coast.
The flotilla carried roughly 700 humanitarian activists including several European government officials, an elderly Holocaust survivor and Mairead Corrigan Maguire, the 1976 Nobel Peace Prize winner from North Ireland. By violently attacking the peaceful collection of activists who hailed from many different countries all over the world, Israel risks provoking a major international backlash against them.
Oddly, CNN has still not reported about this extremely important incident, one that could set in motion a major war.
There are a series of photos circulating email groups these days. They source from this excellent website on the illegal alien problem in Arizona. Ironically, this website looks to have not been updated for the past two years. Hmm, think the problem just “went away”.
Heading north to Washington state we find: Illegal alien rapist had been deported nine times.
And, finally a road trip, due east to Boston, Poetic Justice: Massachusetts State Rep. Mike Moran Rear-Ended by Drunk Driving Illegal Alien… is an excellent, concise glimpse as to how the creep above is allowed to break our laws to get into this country and then violate our laws over and over again.
France and Belgium governments already have bans in motion to restrict Muslim women’s attire. Switzerland, the Netherlands and Germany have discussions in their own countries to follow suit.
The burqa and the niqab are muslim coverings for women.
from sdnn.com Women wearing niqabs.
The moves in France and Belgium are estimated to affect 1900 women in France and fewer than 500 in Belgium.
France and Belgium both list security as a concern.
In France the idea of banning the veil has won support from across the political spectrum.
“I’ve always been convinced that we can forbid covering your face in public in general,” said Communist lawmaker Andre Gerin, welcoming a decision he said would help “engage a dialogue with all Muslims”.
It’s not only the veil which is being discussed as a security threat. The full flowing burqa is also in question.
These moves are frightening precedences. Who wears full face masks in those countries, now? The bad guys and then those military police types in France, Belgium, Germany….
Anyone have pictures of those unidentified good guys?
Will trench coats, cowboy hats, baseball hats, back packs, Amish full dresses, long gathered skirts, natty little ladies’ hats with veils, large brimmed straw hats, wedding dresses, evening gowns, wedding veils be next?
The sun produced a magnetic filament that burst Monday, shooting a “billion-ton” coronal mass ejection (CME) racing towards our planet, according to a post on spaceweather.com. NOAA projects a 35% chance of geomagnetic activity on May 27th when the CME is expected to hammer Earth’s magnetic field.
In the animated image below, the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) captured the CME speeding away from the sun. The Pleiades constellation, a star cluster with sinister occult meaning, can be seen drifting overhead.
The May 24th, 2010, coronal mass ejection
It is unproven but probable that CMEs trigger earthquakes. The fluctuations of Earth’s magnetosphere and ionosphere resulting from the impact of a coronal mass ejection induce magnetic and electrostatic forces and even produce massive electrical currents on the surface of our planet. Doubtlessly, these forces are occasionally sufficient to catalyze fault zone slippage, causing earthquakes.
Earlier this year, we reported that the massive 8.8-magnitude earthquake in Chile was predicted several days before it occurred based upon a scheduled CME impact.
In lieu of the today’s stock market dive and reports of heightened tensions between North and South Korea, this May 1st article on North Korea’s involvement in the BP oil spill becomes an extremely interesting read.
The following video is a compilation of various footage suggesting that a bomb was detonated in the World Trade Center just seconds before the first plane impact. In addition to numerous eyewitness accounts, there is an audio record by Ginny Carr at the 6:20 mark that reveals a loud noise about nine seconds before a second, much louder explosion that was presumably the plane crash. However, if the first explosion was the plane impact, the second explosion could be debris falling down the elevator shaft since the time delta is within the range of plausible freefall times.
This is followed by video from a local television station which also appears to record an explosion while sound of the airplane overhead remains audible for several additional seconds. Note that sound travels faster through solid material than in air, so it is possible that the camera, resting on the ground, picked up the explosion from the ground before the sound could travel the same distance in air.
Nevertheless, combined with eyewitness accounts, both recordings deserve further study.
Van will appear on Rob Roselli’s program at 8:pm EST tonight, Tuesday, May 18. This show is available through streaming audio at Geo Media Network. Click on the Listen/Archive button to access the stream. Rob has extensively studied Rosicurcians and has a lot of information to share.
England’s government database for children’s aged five and up has been around since 2002. The government is ramping up pressure on teachers to log “hate” bullying. Hate bullying as defined by the state has grown from racist taunts in 2002 to include disability-related and homophobic taunts in 2007. Incidents are to be recorded so that a child’s behavior can be watched for future signs of “hate” bullying.
Hope? Read the comments to the article.
Congressional investigators will audit the Fed’s use of emergency lending authority since December 2007. The Fed will need to disclose which banks received help.
Here is a list of all banks which have failed since October 1, 2000. It will be interesting to see how this information compares to the Feds listed of bailed out banks.
WorldNetDaily reports “Two private investigators working independently are asking why President Obama is using a Social Security number set aside for applicants in Connecticut while there is no record he ever had a mailing address in the state.”
Wow! Thanks to CJ and Tallulah for a fascinating conversation Thursday about the UN, Barak Obama, the Georgia Guidestones, Kenya and Maurice Strong. CJ and Tallulah are radio hosts for Patriot’s Heart Network.
So how are the UN, Obama, the Guidestones, Maurice Stong and Kenya connected?
Glen Beck’s call to gather information about Maurice Strong on May 12, 2010, led Tallulah on an internet search. She found an unusually high number of hits about Maurice Strong coming from New York, New Jersey, Georgia and Seattle Washington. These hits seem to center around Strong’s push to develop the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). Strong was elected head of the UNEP in December, 1972. This UN agency was the first to be headquartered in a third world, specifically Nairobi, Kenya.
Many, many years later, Raila Odinga, current Prime Minister of Kenya, claims that President Obama’s father was his maternal uncle. President Obama and Prime Minister Odinga first appear together in 2006 when Senator Obama, campaigned with Odinga, who was running for president in Kenya.
So, how does Elberton, Georgia and the Georgia Guidestones fit in? One of the puzzles of the Guidestones for me has been the inclusion of Swahili as a language on the Guidestones: Arabic, Chinese, English, Hebrew, Hindi, Russian, Spanish and Swahili. Swahili is not the most widely spoken language in Africa, but, interestingly, happens to be with English the official languages of Kenya and Tanzania.
Is this the face of R.C. Christian? was posted on March 17 by Van. The unusual monument near the Elberton Civic Center in Elberton, GA is supposed to be FDR. However, after talking with Tallulah and CJ, the resemblance of this bust to pictures of Maurice Strong are remarkable. See CJ’s blurb here for photos.
Maurice Strong moves the UNEP to Kenya in the early 1970’s. Swahili is unveiled as a language of the Guidestones in 1980, a remarkably unflattering bust of FDR appears in Elberton in 1995. Senator Obama tours Kenya in 2006 with Odinga. Odinga beomes prime minister in 2008. Obama takes office in 2009. Glenn Beck asks, “Who is Maurice Strong?” in 2010.
And, mainstream media implies that you are crazy for looking into Mr. Maurice Strong.
To sum things up, an oldie but goodie from the Kingston Trio.
Lyrics – Sheldon Harnick
They’re rioting in Africa. They’re starving in Spain. There’s hurricanes in Florida and Texas needs rain.
The whole world is festering with unhappy souls. The French hate the Germans. The Germans hate the Poles.
Italians hate Yugoslavs. South Africans hate the Dutch and I don’t like anybody very much!
But we can be tranquil and thankful and proud for man’s been endowed with a mushroom shaped cloud.
And we know for certain that some lovely day someone will set the spark off and we will all be blown away.
They’re rioting in Africa. There’s strife in Iran. What nature doesn’t do to us will be done by our fellow man.
CNN published an article, “Undocumented student’s arrest called part of ‘civil rights disaster‘” today blatantly attempting to create a heroine out of an illegal immigrant. CNN had a large picture on the top of the front page linking to this article. Here’s an excerpt:
Staring at the throngs of media representatives who came out to hear and see her Friday, Jessica Colotl took another step into the fight for her future.
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Standing nervously before the crowd, Colotl fought back tears when people cheered for her. The media bombarded her with questions as she tried to give voice to her struggle.
However, the comment section to the article is being bombarded by people overwhelming against illegal immigration and CNN’s bias. Here are a few of many comments.
drod910
drod910
I’m so tired of C N N, they are truly the Communist News Network. Complete BIASED reporting, most people approve of Arizona law. Boo hoo, she was here ILLEGALLY!
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vigilante70
It’s time to make a stand! I feel for the student however, each time I was caught braking the law, I was arrested and either paid a fine and or was incarcerated and I am a legal U.S.citizen. Why are illegals treated as special?They broke the law, they should pay the price. What other course should t …more
It’s time to make a stand! I feel for the student however, each time I was caught braking the law, I was arrested and either paid a fine and or was incarcerated and I am a legal U.S.citizen. Why are illegals treated as special?
They broke the law, they should pay the price. What other course should the
law follow. All I want to see is ridding our country of the gang bangers and thives.
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Seattledude
Criminal illegal immigrant! DEPORT her and let all the others see what the consequence is for breaking the law!
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USAFTop
No excuse for breaking the law! My Son’s inlaws are Mexican Citizens living in AZ. They too wanted to chase the American dream with the hopes of one day becoming citizens. The parents filled out all the forms for them and the two kids, paid the rediculous amount of money to the INS (What does my …more
No excuse for breaking the law! My Son’s inlaws are Mexican Citizens living in AZ. They too wanted to chase the American dream with the hopes of one day becoming citizens. The parents filled out all the forms for them and the two kids, paid the rediculous amount of money to the INS (What does my tax money go to?), and went to classes to learn the language, government, and history. They now have their permanent resident alien cards and are awaiting the majic 5-years to become naturalized citizens. It’s a slap in the face to those who do it right to grant a bypass to those who snub their noses at our laws.
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jpl89
“I’m just trying to live the American dream and finish my education,” Yeah, at whose expense? The American Dream is not a God-Given right! You have to earn it. And part of earning it taking the steps to follow our laws.”There has been no crime committed.”Giving a false address, no drivers license, n …more
“I’m just trying to live the American dream and finish my education,”Yeah, at whose expense? The American Dream is not a God-Given right! You have to earn it. And part of earning it taking the steps to follow our laws.
“There has been no crime committed.”
Giving a false address, no drivers license, no visa, not a citizen.
“The future of Arizona already exists in Cobb County and Gwinnett County [also in Georgia],”
Good!
As we anticipated, the E. coli contaminated romaine lettuce recall has broadened. Some people are worried that the E. coli outbreak might be a terrorist act.
Vaughan Foods of Moore, Oklahoma, has issued a recall of romaine lettuce with “use by” dates of May 9 through May 10. The recall is for lettuce sold to restaraunts and the food service industry.
However, as I mentioned in Saturday’s post here, I became ill from eating romaine lettuce purchased in Arkansas from either Wal-Mart or Sam’s Club, so the recall is still not broad enough.
Note the “use by” dates on the lettuce under recall. It is possible if not likely that the FDA is working with Wal-Mart to contain the recall until the tainted lettuce expires in order to protect the retail giant from taking costly action. Also notice that today’s CNN report makes no mention of the Sysco recall linked to in my last post.
The FDA still claims that only 19 people limited to Ohio, Michigan and New York became ill because of the E. Coli 0145 outbreak. E. coli 0145 is not normally tracked by the FDA and the current, potentially life threatening outbreak is considered novel.
A sickened Ohio State University freshman is suing Freshway Foods and his lawyer disputes the FDA’s information.
Freshman Richard Cardinale filed a lawsuit after his stool sample tested positive for E. coli O145, according to court documents. He suffered from gastrointestinal problems including bloody diarrhea and dehydration and was hospitalized on April 14 for treatment.
Food safety lawyer Bill Marler, who is representing Cardinale, said the E. coli O145 outbreak may have sickened as many as 59 people.
“We have a new form of deadly E. coli to contend with. It is past time for the government and industry to track this bug as it does E. coli O157:H7,” said Marler, referring to the best known form of toxic E. coli.
The contaminated lettuce is believed to have originated from a Yuma, Arizona, farm.
Authorities are investigating a farm near Yuma, Arizona, where the tainted lettuce was harvested, the Food and Drug Administration said. Vaughan Foods received lettuce from that farm, the administration said.
Yuma, Arizona, is located on the Mexican border and the E. coli outbreak has intensified the illegal immigration debate. This controversy is reflected in the comment sections of many articles reporting the E. coli outbreak. Some people are worried that the food contamination is a direct result of illegal immigration itself as described in this CNN comment.
Yuma Arizona is where more illegal Mexicans cross into the country than any other border location. The Colorado River separates Mexico from the U.S. there and daily crossings of hundreds of illegals takes place every day. It is not unusal so see small groups of illegals going potty among the many farms there as they make their way to the U.S. We see groups of alleged illegals carrying AK-47s walking along the railroad tracks. The new food terrorist.
Another angry commenter accuses migrant field workers.
by wyodutch May 7, 2010 5:49 PM EDT
E-coli on lettuce comes from one thing only… fecal material.
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You think the lettuce-picker from Mexico (who never saw an indoor toilet until he jumped the border)… is gonna run to the outhose when nature calls? Of course not…they squat in the lettuce patch and the Gringo dines on the tainted lettuce.
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There you are… good, hardworking people from Mexico… just doing “jobs” that Americans won’t do.
According to Salinas, California, television station KCBA, large numbers of illegal immigrants migrate to Yuma, Arizona, to work as farmhands on winter crops.
A majority of ag workers are illegal immigrants. Most of them migrate to Yuma, Arizona for winter crops.
Yuma is the source for much of the nation’s winter lettuce crop.
The recall only applies to romaine lettuce with “best if used by” date before or on May 12, when Freshway Foods stopped buying its romaine from Yuma, Beer said.
Officials in Arizona also confirmed the investigation. Laura Oxley, a spokeswoman for Arizona’s agriculture and health departments, said federal officials contacted them and told them they suspected the source of the E. coli outbreak was lettuce grown in the state. She said there were no additional shipments to stop because the winter lettuce season has mostly ended for the year.
The Yuma area is the source of much of the nation’s winter lettuce crop, but farmers switch to other crops at the end of winter.
E. coli bacteria occurs in human excrement, so the contaminated lettuce came in contact with fecal matter and the contamination almost certainly occurred at farm level.
“Experience tells us that the point of contamination is likely at the farm level, which can then be spread during the entire processing chain,” Allen said.
The E. coli outbreak occurs in the middle of heated debates regarding a recently passed Arizona law which aims to take action against illegal immigration within that state. Enforcement of that law will begin this summer.
Some people are worried that the E. coli outbreak might be an act of terrorism in direct retaliation against the Arizona legislation.
by myassss May 9, 2010 11:54 PM EDT
Couldn’t possibly be retaliation for the recent law passed in Az?
I agree with desertdwellr, FBI investigate and bring about terrorist charges to those involved!
Last Sunday, I posted that I had been very ill for about a week with E. coli food poisoning. My wife and I had already isolated romaine lettuce as the illness vector at the time of that post.
Four days later, the FDA reported an E. coli outbreak in several states due to tainted romaine lettuce sold by Freshway Foods. Arkansas, where I live, was not among the list of states where shredded romaine lettuce was being recalled, although the recall was broadened significantly yesterday. Also, the romaine lettuce that made me sick was not shredded. It was either organic romaine lettuce from Wal-Mart or part of a six-pack of romaine lettuce obtained from Sam’s Club.
Consequently, it is probable that the scope of E. coli contaminated romaine lettuce is larger than what the FDA is currently reporting.
The predominate symptom that I suffered was significant pain throughout much of my large intestine. I had a bout of diverticulitis several years ago and the abdominal tenderness was very similar. However, the pain from the recent food poisoning was spread over a much larger area.
Lettuce becomes contaminated with E. coli bacteria when brought into contact with fecal matter. This commonly occurs in third world countries like Mexico where human and animal waste is often used as fertilizer. However, there have been reports of E. coli tainted crops originating in the U.S.. This is commonly believed to be the result of inadequate toilet facilities for migrant fieldworkers.
In any case, I can tell you from personal experience that you don’t want to catch this illness. I could barely get out of bed for several days and my wife constantly urged me to go to the hospital. Fortunately, the symptoms eventually abated and I did not have to seek medical treatment.
Is it coming to a time in the United States when we have to treat our food like we live in Cambodia or Somalia, soaking our lettuce in bleach? The FDA does not appear to be useful as demonstrated by the fact that E. coli food-borne illnesses were virtually unheard of in the U.S. when I was a child. And don’t forget that I became sick with E. coli in an area of the country still outside the scope of the FDA’s current recall — and I became sick nearly two weeks before the FDA said anything about an E. coli lettuce outbreak.
Also recall the FDA’s recent tomato ban that cost the American tomato industry millions of dollars only for the FDA to later discover that the outbreak was actually due to Salmonella-tainted, Mexican-grown Jalapeno peppers.
The best remedy is to simply not trust the government’s ability or inclination to provide adequate food safety. Buy locally produced food, or, better yet, raise your own vegetables and farm animals or purchase foods produced by your friends. With the exception of lettuce and a few other items, we buy a large portion of our fresh food locally or raise our own food. Lettuce was the exception. It appears we’ll have to reconsider our lettuce sources now.
Although I did not enjoy being sick, it is good that I became ill rather than our little children where E. coli can be a much graver infection.
This year’s total number of closed banks is now 68, twice as many as this time last year. The banks failures occurred in Arizona, California, Florida and Minnesota. FDIC Chairman, Sheila Bair, said recently that the number of closures will likely peak this year at a slightly higher rate than last year.
Traces of metallic debris and chemical residue point to a German-made torpedo as the culprit of March’s sinking of a South Korean naval vessel.
Shredded romaine lettuce has been recalled in several states due to an E. Coli outbreak. While we do not shop at any of the stores mentioned, E. Coli is often associated with lettuce and alfalfa sprouts products.
The best cleaning technique to minimize E. Coli poisoning in lettuce is to rinse each leaf separately.
Groundbreaking neanderthal DNA analysis shows that modern humans races out of Africa bred with them; modern Europeans, Asians, Melanesians have neanderthal DNA. “The study found no early modern human DNA in the Neanderthal genome,” states the article at Time.com
Van has been saying this for at least 20 years.
Please watch. Brian Williams describes to David Letterman how turmoil in Greece may trigger a free fall of the NYC market.
We received a call on Saturday which informed us that we had purchased Children’s Tylenol products that were now under recall. Although complaints were registered last year about black specs in the medicine, Tylenol as of Monday said that the voluntary recall was not due to “adverse medical events.” Today’s news announced that Johnson & Johnson had discovered Burkholderia cepacia, a bacteria often resistant to common antibiotics, at the plant which produced the recalled products.
Argusoog Radio‘s Désirée Röver interviewed me last Sunday from the Netherlands about my Georgia Guidestones research. I was still a little ill at the time, but Désirée kept me on track.
You can listen to that interview here. Most of it is in English.
For an introduction into the occult roots of Nazism, this is an interesting series of DVDs. Well worth it’s under $20 price tag.
I apologize for making so few updates this past week, but I have been very ill with what appears to be E. coli food poisoning. My large intestine felt like it had been surgically removed, stomped on by a large-intestine-hating elephant and then replaced. Although I was bedridden for several days, I am much better now and will likely be fully recovered in a day or so.