Is It Too Late To Save America… Or Were We Doomed From The Very Beginning?

It appears too late for me and my family to go back to what I work towards for over 30 years. Its virtually all gone now. In response to a direct question about what I do for a living, after discussing with the author about his post here, I sent this reply in an email:

You asked what I do for a living. After preparing myself for and then chasing the American Dream (TM) since I was 13 (that is how long I worked), I lost my career as a high tech systems integrator in automation and robotics. I worked my way thru college, paid all my student loans, then went from one industry to the next as each was off-shored (textiles, pc boards, heavy machining, furniture, boating, automotive, etc) reinventing and reinvesting in myself (to date, I have spent over $100K in education and hold three college degrees and multiple extra training courses in a variety of curriculum related to automated manufacturing and robotics). I realized early on that Ross Perot was correct and lived the sucking sound trying my best to stay ahead of the game and find an industry that would stay.

I eventually created my own business in 2003 that catered to virtually any type of automation and human assist in production. I advised customers of how to automate certain processes, designed systems to do it, then sold the system to the customer. This lasted until 2009, where I had to file bankruptcy due to credit cards which were used to pay extreme medical expenses (our BCBS premium at the time was over $1200/month) and with several surgeries that my wife had to have for her scoliosis (which is worse now than ever before).

In 2009, a systems integrator hired me to work for them, basically selling their automation systems. Almost one year later, they assembled the three salesmen and project managers and laid us all off, while holding us to the non-compete. It took over a year in court for me to get paid the money and commissions I brought them in less than a year.

Most of the competition has closed their doors, as well, and there are none hiring me. I have a proven track record and have made myself and others a great deal of money.

The problem is being self-employed, taxes and insurance will break you. One small health issue and it is a down hill slide from that point on. Then, as 2008′s crash hit us, everything began to fall apart and from every indication, it won’t be coming back any time soon.

I realized long ago that the old two party meme was a sham and that the corporations have indeed taken over politicians.

Socialism would be a dream compared to what we are experiencing, which is Fascism 101.

Sorry this is so long, but thanks for your inquiry. Maybe this can help explain why I am so pissed off.

I have never been lazy. I have always worked my butt off, pursuing the American Dream Lie. But now, I am doing what I can to make ends meet and feed my family. I believe that Fascism has already hit America. It may very well be too late to stop it, but what if we could?

Some ( like Charlie McGrath below) will say that it is all over and that the hammer falls soon just like it is already falling in Greece (I tend to agree with this sentiment):

If you still believe that the economy is turning around and getting better, read this and check yourself.

So, is there something anything that we, as American citizens can do? Would it make any difference if we do what I suggest and NEVER VOTE FOR AN R OR D AGAIN? What if we actually vetted politicians in the way Kenny suggests by asking all the right questions:

Are you going to call for an end to the illegal wars and to bring all of our troops home now?

Gonna take any money from AIPAC? Take a trip to Israel? Got the courage to stand up to the Israeli lobby? Wanna fight another war for Israel? Got a kid of your own to sacrifice for the cause? Have an opinion on the phrase “We’re all Palestinians now?”

Iran? Syria? Please don’t give me the same old lines.

What about the Federal Reserve and Wall Street? Trillions stolen? The usury scam? Debt slavery? You’re either with us or against us .It really is the 0.001% vs all the rest.

War on Drugs? Medical marijuana and full legalization? Afghan heroin, CIA smuggling, cartel enabling, big bank drug money laundering?

GMO’s, vaccines, FDA corruption, aspartame, fluoride water, factory farms, food freedom? The crimes of Monsanto and their ilk?

War on Terror, TSA, FBI setups, Homeland Security, Patriot Act, NDAA, NSA, internet censorshp, etc. etc. etc.?

The UN, globalism, neocons, neolibs, sociopaths, psychopaths, social engineering, mind control, nefarious agendas, world banks, world government, world order?

Media lies, media whores, media crimes?

Blackmail of and bribes to politicians for control? How would you handle threats against you and yours for not going along with the big money flow?

Heck, the bill of rights? Seems like every one of them is under assault. Got a problem with rational, logical, common sense interpretations of our basic freedoms?

There’s this little litmus test that I must always bring up.  9/11.  It’s a make or break vote here Park. Step up … OK? Look into false flags if you haven’t. There’s a lot to learn.

I would say that if they fail any of the litmus test, they should receive ZERO votes. On the other hand, is there enough thinking people around to understand these pertinent questions?

Webster Tarpley also lays out a plan to help correct what has happened. You can listen to the interview for a run down at “To Cut Gas Price in Half Now, Ban Commodity Index Swaps and Synthetic Exchange-Traded Funds as Toxic Derivatives; Make CFTC Impose 100% Margin and 5% Position Limits; Collect 1% Wall Street Sales Tax“. He also points out the fraud that is Ron Paul along with the other “reactionary hyenas”.

And btw: Paulsterity comes, whether or not it is Ron Paul, Paul Ryan or any of the criminals who have you brainwashed. Stephen Lendman lays it out perfectly:

According to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, 62% of Ryan’s cuts come from “programs for lower-income Americans.” Over 10 years, it slashes $5.3 trillion from non-defense areas. At the same time, he allocates an additional $200 billion for defense and imperial wars with automatic add-ons annually plus unknown tens of billions in black budgets.

Specific proposed cuts include:

(1) $2.4 trillion from Medicaid and other low or moderate household income healthcare programs. Medicaid loses $810 billion. By repealing Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion and subsidies for those most in need to buy health insurance, he gets another $1.6 trillion.

(2) $1.2 trillion from programs other than Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and other healthcare programs.

(3) $134 billion from Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) food stamp aid. If enacted, up to 10 million recipients would be entirely shut out.

(4) At least $463 billion from other programs serving America’s most needy, other than Medicaid and SNAP.

(5) At least another $291 billion in low-income discretionary programs, including Pell Grant tuition aid for needy students.

Ryan directs his cuts at vulnerable households unable to get by on what he wants reduced or eliminated. Millions will lose healthcare. Millions more won’t have enough to eat and will be dependent on what food banks provide. Education will suffer more than already. Poor students will have to forego it altogether.

He also explains that the Dems are virtually lock-step, but you wouldn’t know that from listening to the ObamaManiacs:

 

What Democrats endorse isn’t much better. Timing mostly differs to get past November elections.

For starters, Obama and Democrats agreed to the following cuts over the next decade:

 

• $4 trillion overall:

• $770 billion from education, environmental, transportation, and other infrastructure cuts, as well as lower wages and benefits for federal workers when they need more, not less;

• $480 billion from Medicare and Medicaid, besides another $1 trillion from Obamacare;

• $360 billion from mandated domestic programs, including food stamps, home heating assistance, income for the poor and disabled, federal pension insurance, and farm subsidies; and

• $400 billion from military-related spending from unneeded weapons, as well as healthcare and other benefits for active service members and veterans.

Is the answer bailing out of here? Some have told me to leave this country before its too late. Don Lucas wrote me and told me his story:

Mr. Buelahman,

I enjoy reading your site. My bio in a nutshell. Christian 45 years, lived in Christian commune in early 70′s 3 years, 9 years military, 18 prison guard, now semi-retired ( I work at painting and repairs when I can). In the 90′s I was a far right Christian patriot. I wrote tracts about the Founding Fathers and Constitutional liberties. During Bushes second term (in my ignorance and single issue ‘pro-life’, I voted for the lessor of two evils thinking erroneously that I was doing Gods will.

I have had a life long love of history, politics, and religion etc. I firmly believe that to vote for a candidate who by his words and/or actions will start and/or continue the US Wars of Aggression against poor people in order to steal their resources is morally wrong and refuse to participate.

Enough of the bio. IMO, the US can’t be fixed. There is not enough will or enough patriots to overthrow the government etc. We will follow the example of all know empires and fall, except because of our shrinking world ie communications, our monster size military and all of it controlled by the bankers and corporate Amerika the fall will be more rapid.

OK to the point. I encourage you and those you love to leave the US. I have lived in Colombia SA for a year. My wife is Colombian, which is of course a big help. My Spanish is coming along well. We plan to return to the US during 2012 and then return to Ecuador and Peru looking for a country in which to put down roots. I encourage you to do the same. My friend you can’t believe how free you feel living in South or Central America. You can do it on the cheap. You can live well on $1200 a month. Medical care is first rate and the climate, depending on your location is fantastic, the people are friendly and if you chose a country like Belize (English speaking, a big plus), Costa Rica, Ecuador, Peru, etc you will find many expats to converse with.

Just a little something for you to think about. As for me, I’ve made my choice and do not miss living in a police state one bit.

If you would like further info on leaving or have any questions, feel free to email.

God bless you

I explained all the issues that make leaving America impossible for me and my family. But don’t think for a second that the thought hasn’t crossed my mind numerous times.

But the sad fact is that even if you wanted leave, they are making it as difficult as possible for you to do so.

I feel as if I must ride it out and tell others about what I know and understand. Its all probably just a waste of time (I know several folks who have given up on educating others), but I have two main reasons for doing so: I don’t want my fellow Americans to starve and come to a horrible end AND I have a child that I want to know that I did what I could to stop it. For some day, she will ask me what I did to try and correct what has occurred. I will be able to show her and explain to her the effort I put into this blog and to local folks.

I asked in the Header, “Were We Doomed From The Very Beginning”? If you want a really wild explanation for why I am beginning to think so, read this excellent post, entitled, “The Constitution Con“. Many of the points I already knew, but it brings a new understanding to the Founding Fathers and their motivations.

I also recently listened to this interview that Charlie McGrath did with Stephan Molyneux and it is enlightening, especially in its discussion of minarchism and anarchism. They also hit on the subject linked above.

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Rednecks: You Are What You Eat

I’ve been called slimy before. If you haven’t seen the latest ABC clip, watch it at the link (Washington’s Blog).

The problem is that they are feeding this to us unknowingly, which should be criminal, but it isn’t:

I have been in contact with local producers of meat. I plan to make contact with any grocery stores we have done business with and ask them directly if they add slime to their beef, or use meat glue, or if they knowingly purchase products tainted for resale. If they do, they will quickly understand that they will lose any future business. Remember, too, that fast food chains make claims that their hamburgers are 100% beef. But that does NOT mean what you think it means.

I will not buy meat at Wally World due to the factory farm method, which can mix ground meats from many different animals into one package, which means that a sick cow can taint MANY packages of product. I’m sure those other Big Brand stores do it, as well. Also understand that grocers have been known to repackage old meat, in with new (ever open a pack of ground beat and see brown in the center and red on the outside)? Even if they haven’t done this, they have also been known to spray ammonia on the outside, which keeps the meat red (until you open the package and see what’s on the inside).

So, is ammonia “100% beef”?

 

Mmm... Mmm... Mmm

And our government is worried about raw milk.

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Everything Happening Now Was Planned Before 9/11

From Washington’s Blog:

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Special preface to my friends in the military, law enforcement and intelligence and other government servants: You are sworn to defend and uphold the Constitution, and the facts below may help you do so.

We’ve been told that “9/11 changed everything” and that we’re living in “a post-911 world”.

We’ve been told that what our government is doing now has been rendered necessary by the urgent post-9/11 threat from terrorists.

In reality, however, virtually everything happening now was planned before 9/11. Please see for yourself:

• The government’s spying on Americans began before 9/11 (confirmed here and here. And see this)

• The Patriot Act was planned before 9/11 (and see this). Indeed, former Counter Terrorism Czar Richard Clarke told Stanford law professor Lawrence Lessig:

After 9/11 the government drew up the Patriot Act within 20 days and it was passed.

The Patriot Act is huge and I remember someone asking a Justice Department official how did they write such a large statute so quickly, and of course the answer was that it has been sitting in the drawers of the Justice Department for the last 20 years waiting for the event where they would pull it out.

(4:30 into this video).

• Government plans, exercises or drills to detain American citizens who opposed war were also drawn up before 9/11, as was a bill allowing the permanent detention by the Attorney General of aliens convicted of no crimes, with no judicial review

• The Afghanistan war was planned before 9/11 (see this and this)

• The decision to launch the Iraq war was made before 9/11. Indeed, former CIA director George Tenet said that the White House wanted to invade Iraq long before 9/11, and inserted “crap” in its justifications for invading Iraq. Former Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill – who sat on the National Security Council – also says that Bush planned the Iraq war before 9/11. Top British officials say that the U.S. discussed Iraq regime change even before Bush took office. And in 2000, Cheney said a Bush administration might “have to take military action to forcibly remove Saddam from power.” And see this.

• Cheney made Iraqi’s oil fields a national security priority before 9/11. And the Sunday Herald reported: “Five months before September 11, the US advocated using force against Iraq … to secure control of its oil.” (remember that Alan Greenspan, John McCain, George W. Bush, Sarah Palin, a high-level National Security Council officer and others all say that the Iraq war was really about oil.)

• The decision to threaten to bomb Iran was made before 9/11, and the Christian Science Monitor notes that the U.S. has been claiming for more than 30 years that Iran was on the verge of nuclear capability

BuelahWorld: Lets Roll To Our Stinking New Homes

My goodness, BuelahWorld is a raving crazy house. Who knows what the new Senate bill will end up doing to everyday Americans (you know, the ones who care and haven’t sucked the tainted koolaid bottle dry). It is suggested that no one has anything to worry about, *as long as* you don’t associate with Al Qaeda.

Give me a break. I know two Muslims and I am 50 years old. I have asked many people, “how many Muslims do you know”? Most times, the answer is none. (Same with Jews, btw)

Maybe they are all around me, living peacefully (likely scared to death that some crazy redneck will decide to start “defending the homeland” against their peaceful lifestyle). But I can assure you, that the last thing that this old redneck wants to do is “associate” with Al Qaeda (or any “terrorist” organization). If there is something in reality called Al Qaeda that isn’t CIA fostered and supported, I sure as hell don’t want anything to do with them.

But, Al Qaeda isn’t really an everyday American’s problem, and most of you know that. Most of you that I talk to admit something is very wrong with the whole storyline. Just like the latest interaction with my floor guy and his recently returned from battle son (Dr Doug wrote about it), the old man admitted that he didn’t believe the 911 story (at least, suggesting that our own people were involved). This is common thought, even with us “dumb ole” rednecks.

And it is obvious that the storyline has constantly been falling apart right before our eyes. Eventually people begin to understand when they have been hoodwinked and the questions are beginning to get louder and more vigorous.

So, S. 1867 has a little provision that incorporates all Americans, even those living in the “land of the free”. And if you have a problem with that, they have a new home for you.

 

FEMA Camps In America?

Follow the link (or click the pic) to get a list of the supposed camp locations (how accurate this list is is subject to review… I have found a couple of erroneous examples). However, I do not doubt that there is some network of facilities ready, willing and available. h/t Dprogram

Of course, it has nothing, whatsoever, to do with Al Qaeda sympathizers. It has everything to do with housing dissenters and those who will freak totally out when they lower the final hammer after the holiday money grab. Of course, even those who believe this is a possibility will likely yawn at that statement. To be honest, I have no idea what these facilities are, but I don’t doubt that many (800? I dunno) exist.

It is obvious to me that this is all orchestrated. Just realize that things like the Patriot Act were written BEFORE 911. You DO understand the significance of that statement, don’t you, my fellow rednecks? That plans were being made for invasions of Afghanistan, Iraq and the rest of the middle east BEFORE 911 (up to 20 years before)? Do you still doubt that all of this is planned?

But here is the whole deal, in a nutshell. There is nothing that these overlords do that can be trusted any more. There is an agenda, maybe I don’t have it nailed down perfectly, but there is something afoot. And one would be better off prepared for some breakdown that leads to a crackdown. If the SHTF, then you will be staying off the streets, unless you want to entertain the military detention that the bill offers.

If you don’t believe me and you still trust those who have hijacked our Republic, just look to the fact that CNN is scrubbing 911 data after it was found that Mark Bingham (the Flight 93 “Let’s Roll” dude) was supposedly dead 13 days before 911 tells me that the story continues to deteriorate. aangirfan has the details and links for you to do your own investigation). Even more detail is found at the original link.

I admit that this is bad and all, but is it as bad as poking a bear and tiger in their eye?

A worrying bulletin of the Ministry of Defence turned to Prime Minister Putin and President Medvedev today said that President Hu has “agreed in principle” that the only way to stop the aggression of the West led by the United States is through of “direct and immediate military action” and that the Chinese leader has ordered its naval forces “prepare for war.”

Or is it all an orchestrated deal? Meaning, are we intentionally making the last stand against the other world powers? And why would we? I have warned over and over about where our hegemony was leading us and I have said it leads us to war with Russia and China (and the rest of the BRIC nations and the others who want our Empire to end).

My dearest America,

You obviously have a problem that is stinking up the entire world. And our enemies have a solution that is far more intrusive than this:

h/t Boing Boing

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Don’t Be Afraid

After watching the following video presented at Washington’s Blog, it proves to me that many of us are afraid to say anything. Yes, many of us are just too busy with the hardships of life to be able to “do anything” about what we know is going on. And, to be truthful, I think of that simply as an excuse. I believe that many of us are too afraid to even say anything.

Afraid that our friends will think we are crazy or just trouble makers. Afraid that we will be labeled any number of terrible names like “terrorist” or “anti-American” or “unpatriotic”, etc.

Afraid, even, that the government will come down on us for speaking our peace. Afraid to address powerful people for a myriad of reasons.

But, once we start speaking up… writing… sharing in song… letting the powerful people know (when we even get the chance at addressing them, for most of us never do), we start to feel energized. We begin feeling as if we CAN make some difference.

The following young man (Makana) got that chance and was scared at first. But then, he let loose and gave them a full 45 minutes of his metaphysical thumb in their eye:

Please visit the link to see the entire protest song.

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Never Forget This Day

I call it the nut-cuttin’ issue of our lives. Virtually every foreign escapade and illegal bombing is derived from the illusions of that day. Les Visible calls it The Litmus test:

Heretic Productions present; Les Visible’s, 9/11 Is the LitmusTest
Video Sequence by: Arbogast99; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMAFvKJvwMc

Smoking Mirrors at: http://smokingmirrors.blogspot.com/2008/02/911-is-litmus-…

There is one thing that defines everyone over the course of these early years of this new century. That thing is the 9/11 attack. Everyone in government and every field of endeavor the world over is defined by their position on this event. It is not necessary to know the truth. It is only necessary to know the extent of the lies in order to define any leader in any position anywhere in the world. By what they have said and by what they have not said, one can accurately judge who is an enemy of the people’s of the world. One can accurately determine who is a tool of the psychopaths or one of them.

They will pull every stunt to keep us ignorant to the truth of this day, ten years ago. They will enact legislation that congeals the lies told into a nice, heroic story. You will have POTUS candidates who, like most every other POTUS candidates, will attempt to manipulate the emotions that this day brings. Some will go so far as to sing about it and use the horrific images of that day to garner support for his dying campaign:

Just read thru the comments to get a feel for how the majority think about such a display and this character, Cain.

B’Man’s comment: Just what this country needs: another narcissistic bastard totally devoid of empathy and decency, set upon nothing more than exploiting Americans at this time in our dark history.

You, sir, are a disgrace and I hope this video is the final straw that sends you packing.

Now, I know that there are still plenty of people who believe the lies… as hard as I find that to swallow in face of all the evidence presented since that day (altho it has been totally ignored by anyone of power or the media). Maybe its easier for people to just believe the story no matter what your own eyes (or thousands of experts have to say on the subject). Just view these snapshot videos from various engineering, architectural and demolitions experts about the impossibility of the buildings simply falling down from the plane impacts.

That is, “IF” there were planes or humans piloting them:

I have to point out that there have been a lot of “solutions” provided from the “reactions” to the “problems” of “terrorism” (all of this manufactured whole cloth from the criminality of that day).

33 of 50 states are actively spying on Americans because of this.

Several changes to the laws were made after this fateful day. All under the guise of protecting Americans, when their actual purpose has been to erode our rights and liberties in this country.

The National Archives still will keep the majority of the 911 Commission report sealed, so America (and the rest of the world) are kept ignorant to even the fullness of that coverup commission.

As a matter of fact, High-Level Officials Eager to Spill the Beans About What REALLY Happened on 9/11 … But No One In Washington or the Media Wants to Hear. And you shouldn’t be surprised. It took them decades to plan and implement this new “Pearl Harbor Event” that has broken the will of the American people from ever speaking up AGAINST the oppressors (and NONE of these oppressors wear turbans, btw). And remember that the media is controlled by the state sponsor of terror that actually controls America and its politicians: Zionist Israel.

Why Israel? Because they have the most to gain from all of this. For as we never forget 911, we must also never forget that the long sought agenda of “Greater Israel” never dies.

That couldn’t be, you say? That our “ally” would never harm us, nor would they ever have a goal of expansion throughout the middle east, but globally, as well. Naw. Nothing to see there.

And maybe we are waking up a bit:

Polls Show Widespread Doubt About Official Explanations

The results of polls on peoples’ beliefs about 9/11 around the world might surprise you:

• In its January 2011 issue, the popular German magazine “Welt der Wunder” published the results of a poll conducted by the Emnid institute on 1005 respondents. The poll indicated that nearly 90% percent of Germans are convinced that the government of the United States is not telling the whole truth about the September 11 attacks

• A new poll conducted in England by ICM shows that more UK residents agree than disagree that the official account of what happened on 9/11 might turn out to be wrong in important respects. Only 8% strongly agree that they have been told the full story of the 9/11 attacks

• A new poll conducted in France by HEC Paris shows that 58% of French people doubt the official version of 9/11, and 49% believe the U.S. government might have intentionally allowed the attacks to happen

• A Zogby poll conducted in August 2007 found that 51% of Americans want Congress to probe Bush/Cheney regarding the 9/11 attacks, two-thirds (67%) of Americans say the 9/11 Commission should have investigated the collapse of World Trade Center Building 7

• A poll conducted by CNN-IBN in August 2007 found that only 2 out of 5 of those polled in India – the world’s second most populous country – believe that al-Qaeda is responsible for the 9/11 attacks

• Indeed, a poll taken by World Public Opinion, a collaborative project of research centers in various countries managed by the Program on International Policy Attitudes at the University of Maryland, College Park, polled 16,063 people in 17 nations outside of the United States during the summer of 2008. They found that majorities in only 9 of the 17 countries believe Al Qaeda carried out the attacks. The poll showed that in the world’s most populous country – China – only 32% believed that Al Qaeda carried out the attacks.

Yep. There are more and more people getting pissed like my buddy Ed. Some people are coming out and getting to express their anger, too:

Yes, people are pissed. Some know where to get info on this subject and many others are too busy with life or simply cannot find the time to care (as crazy a notion that is to me, I understand). So, I have my favorite places to go for info on 911. I recommend Greg’s place: The Goon Squad. I recommend Mr Friend’s blog. I like Reflections In A Petri Dish (you should really go hear 911 Was An Inside Job).

Deek has a wonderful take on it (yet with harsh language, beware):

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A Southern Neighbor Is About To Be Muammar’d

Gaddafi wanted to take Africa to a gold standard currency. Look what happened to him when he thumbed his nose at the world banksters, trying to dismantle the petro-dollar’s stronghold. Realize what this man did for the citizens of Libya: water, standard of living, guaranteed education, lifted them from one of the poorest African nations into one of the richest.

And, maybe I shouldn’t mention aaingirfan’s post, but apparently Gaddafi was not afraid to call out one of the most monstrous of the entities ruling the Earth, Israel:

A. Gaddafi’s Libya seeks a ONE state solution for Israel-Palestine

Gaddafi wants to:

1. Have ONE state which will include both the Palestinians and the Israelis.

2. Return ALL Palestinian refugees to this state.

3. Remove all weapons of mass destruction, such as nuclear weapons, from this state.

4. Have 5 administrative regions within the state.

B. In a UN speech, Gaddafi suggested that Israel was behind the JFK assassination.

Gaddafi asked why Jack Ruby, ‘an Israeli,’ killed Lee Harvey Oswald.

Gaddafi suggested that Kennedy may have been killed because of his interest in ‘investigating’ an Israeli nuclear program.

“Why did this Israeli kill the killer of Jack Kennedy? The whole world should know that Kennedy wanted to investigate the nuclear reactor of the Israeli demon,” Gaddafi said.

C. Gaddafi has said that Israel ‘is behind Africa’s wars’ – (Al Jazeera English)

In 2009, Gaddafi told African leaders that Israel is “behind all of Africa’s conflicts”.

Gaddafi demanded the closure of all Israeli embassies across Africa, describing Israel as a “gang” and saying it uses “the protection of minorities as an excuse to launch conflicts”.

Face it, you can’t do stuff for the citizen and expect that the Corporations will allow it. One cannot express the obviousness of Israel’s criminality without recompense.

Same will go for Chavez and Venzuela.

Chavez wants Venezuelan gold returned. The Bank of England, JP Morgan, Barclays, and Bank Of Nova Scotia are all on the hook for ponying up this booty. This will not bode well and I suspect that the recent cancer that Chavez has endured may be the catalyst to make the move. Maybe he is sick and wants to quickly implement what needs to be done to protect his country from the scavenger banks and American politicians who are owned by the same banks before his demise.

But here is the rub. He wants it ALL (approximately 99 tons) returned. And ‘if’ JP Morgan only has 10.6 tons shelved, how do you suppose they will get the remainder in order to pay the debt? There is about a 100:1 leverage level of paper gold derivatives to physical gold. This means that those who were supposedly ‘storing’ the gold, really aren’t and they simply have paper. Even if they wanted to return the gold, they can’t.

Oh, and the fact that Venezuela has the world’s largest oil reserves means NOTHING, correct? That little ditty won’t play into America’s plans, at all, correct?

So, what to do?

Expect, very soon, to start hearing that harlot, sHrillary Clinton, start her manly, aggressive stance against what some might argue as one of the best political leaders in all of the Americas (he certainly outshines Barry S). It won’t be long until we hear the same calls of justice and regime change for Venezuela that we hear elsewhere (Syria has been the latest).

But isn’t that the meme set for our activity in this world. I relish the moment that it all goes down and those criminals who have done this pay.

(I can dream, can’t I?)

Now, for an opinion worthy of note:

Maybe Venezuela is protecting their own interests while telling America/EU to bite one. And, if I were them, I’d make sure I check to see if the gold is real or counterfeit. h/t DProgram

 

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Damn, Dylan

My hero for a day…

… only problem is that the president is in on the “extraction”. He has no plans, whatsoever, to come out and tell the American citizenry that they are being robbed. He is one of the robbers.

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Fanatical and Obsessed? Now Little Timmy Agrees With Me

Speaking about Americans, Lil Tim says:

“…it’s going to feel very hard, harder than anything they’ve experienced in their lifetime now, for a long time to come.”

Isn’t it funny how this little person can say something like this and most of America just yawns. I seriously don’t know what it will take for many Americans to understand just how severe the economic problem is. It is as if most simply cannot see it, or have no inkling of the potential crash situation we are in. I suppose that if you can’t see it yet, you never will (and I hate it for you, for it will likely be the cause of your death). Yes, I believe things are THAT serious now.

Maybe its because of where I am from and the fact that most of the people I know already struggle just to make ends meet, and THAT in a good economic condition. Us southern folk, by and large, are used to being poor and doing without many things that others seem to experience daily. I know our life is radically different than it was 5 or 10 years ago. And, as an honest person, I have to tell you that I do not expect things to get better any time soon. If you DO believe it, then let me in on the little secret you know, for any evidential view shows that it is falling apart.

As was noted at Washington’s Blog, Howard Davidowitz (a retail analyst) told Los Angeles’ KNX1070:

“I think what’s going on in those stores is that we are in a depression for 80 percent of Americans,”

You think? I wonder if I can get one of those jobs regurgitating the obvious?

BuelahLady and I have been having more and more conversations about the economy, the lying and deceitful government, and preparing for potential (or assured) survival scenarios. She immediately recognized that being 100% prepared for EVERYTHING is impossible, especially if one doesn’t have beau-koodles of dough. One has to focus on the most important needs (water, food, housing, protection and energy). Essential medicines can also mean life and death. I could go on…

As one who has pondered these questions for a few years now (as opposed to her, who is just now really digging in), the signs have been clear and glaring all along. Unless one is totally clueless (and many Americans are, sorry) or simply cannot find the time to investigate for themselves (without the aid of the propagandized TV channels and other sources), people can see that our economy has not only gone thru a hard time, but has, in fact, been hijacked by thieves. The whole shebang is being systematically dismantled and every drop of wealth is being stolen. A police state apparatus has been introduced and flourished. The entire government system is corrupted by corporate control with NWO agendas being forced upon us.

I, personally, have come to the conclusion that it is here and it is real. That before it gets “better”, life will get much worse than anything we have ever experienced collectively as a nation in many decades (long enough to have caused us to forget). I have been on top of this and told my wife all along what was happening. Each and every day I would wonder when the Big Fall would occur, but I simply didn’t understand the nature of the Fall. It is slow motion as it builds up momentum before it finally breaks free with hellacious abandon. And who can argue that this is what is happening?

Every month we are told some new lie about improvement, only to have them “adjust” the numbers to reality (yet never tell us about that change). In virtually EVERY aspect you can consider (except for amount of wealth obtained by Big Money), this nation is falling apart. The lie cannot hold up for much longer, which causes me to fear that we need to truly get as much of the preparations handled as soon as possible. For here is the problem, when the The Fall drops, it will be too late to do much more for preparation.

One immediate measurement that can be taken is what I have been saying is coming for a long time: austerity measures such as cutting social security. Yes, even your hero, Barry Sotoero, the guy who was not going to touch SSI, is now, himself, the champion of such cuts… asking for even more than his Republican counterparts in the cabal would have ever pursued.

Do you understand the significance of this? Do you understand the priorities when the military budget (AGAIN) is INCREASED?

BuelahLady and I will work out which needs are most important as a team and push towards those. But what I can never forget (and it is very easy to do) is that I also need to keep a fun-loving spirit. Maybe sometimes I do verge on “obsessed” or even “fanatical” (altho, I would think if either were true, I would already be “ready” and have all the essentials on hand when it happens). I haven’t gone too hog wild (which I may regret some day). We can eat and drink water, we have sources of shelter and I can protect us, at least to a certain extent from the Golden Horde. Energy is the biggy we are discussing right now.

But, again, having fun is paramount to enjoying life, no matter how difficult it becomes. Even if we were to get truly serious about the prepper lifestyle, one can never overlook fun (and I have had a tendency to do this for a few years now). So, when I saw this post, it struck a chord with me, especially this part:

Fanatical and obsessed? I think not. The preparedness lifestyle that I have adopted has been embraced part and parcel with normal, daily life. What does that mean? Some extra food here, some alternate fuel sources there. Learning self-defense and learning to live with less stuff. And perhaps most important, putting a high value on recreation, having fun and sharing a meaningful relationship. These are the basic tenants of my life as a prepper. In my view, this is not much different than the life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness described by our founding fathers in the Declaration of Independence oh so many years ago.

Found at:

http://www.activistpost.com/2011/07/preppers-view-of-independence-and-4th.html

A Prepper’s View of Independence and the 4th of July

Gaye Levy, Contributing Writer
Activist Post

 

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Broccoli, Oil or Saving Humanity?

Broccoli

While President Obama didn’t touch on it in his speech tonight, the U.S. is really militarily involved in Libya to protect our strategic interests in broccoli.

Specifically, Gaddafi has been threatening to nationalize Libya’s broccoli resources for years, as Reuters and the Financial Times have previously documented.

(I like Washington Blog’s take on this)

But what is the truth?

Oil

The Coalition of Globalists are not interested in sheltering the Libyan people from Muammar al- Gaddafi. The no-fly zone and attacks on the Libyan military by NATO and U.S. have nothing to do with democracy and free elections.

It’s about oil – and who owns it.

In case you are unaware Libya has the largest oil and natural gas reserves in Africa

Saving Humanity

What a laugh: Bahrain, Yemen and Saudi Arabia prove that this is a damned lie, not to mention all the other places in the world that have tyrants killing them left and right, but have nothing of perceived value to the US hegemony.

Does it matter that the “resistance fighters” are Al Qaeda

“We are examining very closely the content, composition, the personalities, who are the leaders of these opposition forces,” Admiral James Stavridis, NATO’s supreme allied commander for Europe and also commander of U.S. European Command, said during testimony at the U.S. Senate.

Gaddafi’s troops on Tuesday reversed the westward charge of rebel forces as world powers met in London more than a week after the United States and other nations launched a military campaign aimed at protecting Libyan civilians.

While Stavridis said the opposition’s leadership appeared to be “responsible men and women” fighting Gaddafi, he said that “we have seen flickers in the intelligence of potential al Qaeda, Hezbollah. We’ve seen different things.”

“But at this point I don’t have detail sufficient to say there is a significant al Qaeda presence or any other terrorist presence,” he said.

Some claim that there are over 1,000 jihadists in the “resistance”.

But hell, they will cut a deal…

West willing to strike immunity deal with Gaddafi to end conflict (willing to write off cited war crimes if he surrenders Libya to the Globalists)

Besides, the west sold Libya all the weapons we are now funding the resistance to fight against:

George Galloway interviewed on Sky News with journalist Nabila Ramdani on the Libya, Gaddafi, UN resolution, the bombing, arms, oil and gas.

RawDawg points out that we have no interest, as Americans and that what we are doing is the height of hypocrisy:

First, the US has no strategic or security interest neither in Libya nor in seeing Quaddifi removed from power. Although the premise of protecting civilians is promulgated as being of utmost importance, they do not say if rebels start to kill ruthlessly once they reach the immediate areas around Tripoli, that the US will protect pro government supports equally as vehement. This throws a wrench in what is apparently illogic US logic.

Second, the hypocrisy displayed by the current administration causes additional consternation. Looking at Yemen for example, where in theory we have a strategic interest, we are taking no action. Yemen is a country in which we have evidence that al Qaida is holding training for terrorist attacks against the US. There is also a division between the military between defectors from the monarchy and those loyal to the US confederate President Ali Abdullah Saleh. We are not involved at all yet a split in the military is likely the US worse fear seeing that it may lead to isolation for us not openly and aggressively supporting the youth revolt. They already are more anti-US than most other Arab nations and this may push them closer to Al Qaeda.

And whatever happened to the BFF’s?

He said, “Now, ruling America is a black man from our continent, an African from Arab descent, from Muslim descent, and this is something we never imagined – that from Reagan we would get to Barakeh Obama.”

Gaddafi stressed that Obama’s presidency is “a major historical gain” and said, “He is someone I consider a friend. He knows he is a son of Africa. Regardless of his African belonging, he is of Arab Sudanese descent, or of Muslim descent. He is a man whose policy should be supported, and he should be assisted in implementing it in any way possible, since he is now leaning towards peace.”

h/t Zero Hedge

Barry sets the friendship record straight here (I won’t bother putting the video up here and as DS explains:)

Propaganda Alert!

Warning: please don’t eat or drink anything while watching this video, wouldn’t want to hear of anyone choking.  Thank you.  ~ DS

But there are those that will explain the difference in truth and what emanates from Hopester’s mouth (and the fact that he lied to get elected and does totally different once the Sheople voted for him and the Empire):

Of course there is nothing new about shifting positions coming from the mouths of government officials. Take into consideration the March 7 press release by PJ Crowley:

QUESTION: P.J., before getting to a call with Juppé and the implications of that, I just wanted you to get a chance – Mark said on the conference call earlier that the – this story that appeared in the British newspaper over the weekend about the U.S. asking the Saudis to give arms to the Libyan rebels, he said that that was inaccurate and said that you might have something more to say about that.

MR. CROWLEY: I will just reiterate what he said.

QUESTION: Well, the reason I’m even asking this, first, is because at the White House, the spokesman there, when he was asked, gave the response, “I have nothing for you on that,” which, to my mind, was either the refuge of the – is the refuge of the inept or scoundrel. Is there anything to this? It’s less than a non-denial denial.

MR. CROWLEY: No, no. Well –

QUESTION: Can you put a stake through the heart of this story or –

MR. CROWLEY: Yes. Well, it’s very simple. In the UN Security Council resolution passed on Libya, there is an arms embargo that affects Libya, which means it’s a violation for any country to provide arms to anyone in Libya. So it’s not true.

QUESTION: Okay, all right.

QUESTION: And you’re not – so then you’re not going to ever consider arming the rebels?

MR. CROWLEY: Well, I can repeat if you want.

QUESTION: Yeah.

MR. CROWLEY: It would be illegal for the United States to do that.

QUESTION: So that you’re eliminating that as an option?

MR. CROWLEY: Well, it’s not a legal option.

QUESTION: Well, but the –

QUESTION: So you’re not going to do it?

QUESTION: Your counterpart at the White House said that arming the rebels – he said all options are on the table.

MR. CROWLEY: Yes.

QUESTION: And that that is one of them.

MR. CROWLEY: Okay. I haven’t seen a transcript.

Oops! Not on the same page, but Crowley knows the law (supposedly). So, who will override the man’s understanding of the law?

Sec Clinton has other ideas.

Let me finish by quoting some of Paul Craig Roberts latest piece found at Information Clearing House, where you will get a taste of the exact position I take: Obama is a lying hypocrite and I cannot understand how anyone could take him serious again:

In his war against Libya, Obama has taken America one step further into Caesarism. Obama did Bush one step better and did not even bother to get congressional authorization for his attack on Libya. Obama claimed that his moral authority trumped the US Constitution. The hypocrisy reeks. How the public stands it, I do not know:
“To brush aside America’s responsibility as a leader and–more profoundly–our responsibilities to our fellow human beings under such circumstances would have been a betrayal of who we are. Some nations may be able to turn a blind eye to atrocities in other countries. The United States of America is different. And as president, I refused to wait for the images of slaughter and mass graves before taking action.”

Doesn’t seem to make any difference to the man when it comes to Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan and every other place we control by killing or money or or torture threats.

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Nuclear Containment Breaches and The Plutonium That Is Good For Your Health

Plutonium is one of nature’s nastiest substances. As I offered before, “IF” these reactors were to go into meltdown and the clump of fuel melds together, the temperature will go high enough to cause problems (it is already suggested that a partial or full meltdown is occurring right now). Also note that the reactor #3 had a crane fall into it, which could have physically damaged the containment or spent rod pools, which, in either case, would release radioactive materials (including three forms of plutonium) into the area surrounding the reactor site. But there is nothing to worry about, is there?

Now, in spite of the Richard Noggins’ and their lack of rational thought, have you thought about what happens if this is NOT contained (or it takes months or years to contain)? Do you still believe that Americans have nothing to worry about? And you think this because you believe the government or the company (TEPCO) that is in charge of the media releases? Does it not cause you to wonder “why” all the sudden, that this disaster is hardly even being covered any more on MSM TV. Some Noggins suggest that the Japanese disaster was the sleight of hand to keep us from considering the Wisconsin issues or the Libyan invasion, but where are those people now that the entire focus is on Libya and OFF of Japan? You think that maybe it is because this is WORSE than Chernobyl, already?

Well, they lie, and maybe you should read the data provided by Jorge Stolfi of the State University of Campinas in Brazil (found at Zero Hedge) in which an excellent chronological breakdown of the disaster at reactors 1, 2 and 3 has been recorded.

I tend to consider the experts in the field like Michio Kaku in the video above or like Olivier Isnard from the French Institute for Radiological Protection and Nuclear Safety, when he says that a partial meltdown has occurred.

But to be specific about how bad the plutonium is, read Washington Blog‘s latest post:

MSNBC reports that plutonium has been found in soil around the Fukushima plant:

The Tokyo Electric Power Co., which operates the plant, said it found three radioactive isotopes of plutonium — plutonium 238, 239 and 240 — in five locations outside the plant in soil tests on March 21-22.

NHK tv notes that a giant crane fell over and probably crushed spent fuel rods at in Fukushima reactor number 3, which contain a plutonium-uranium mix.

CNN points out:

Plutonium can be a serious health hazard if inhaled or ingested, but external exposure poses little health risk, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

As the Argonne National Laboratory notes:

Essentially all the plutonium on earth has been created within the past six decades by human activities involving fissionable materials.

***

Atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons, which ceased worldwide by 1980, generated most environmental plutonium. About 10,000 kg were released to the atmosphere during these tests.

Average plutonium levels in surface soil from fallout range from about 0.01 to 0.1 picocurie per gram (pCi/g).

Accidents and other releases from weapons production facilities have caused greater localized contamination.

So like radioactive cesium and iodide – which I discussed yesterday – plutonium doesn’t exist in nature in any significant quantity, and so “background radiation” is a meaningless concept.
Plutonium stays radioactive for a long time. Pu-238 has an 88-year half-life, Pu-239 has a 24,000-year half-life, and Pu-240 has a 6,500-year half life.

This stuff is nasty and using a comparison to “background” levels is foolish. Three really is NO such comparison:

There are, of course, naturally occurring radioactive materials.

But lumping all types of radiation together is misleading … and is comparing apples to oranges.

As the National Research Council’s Committee to Assess the Scientific Information for the Radiation Exposure Screening and Education Program explains:

Radioactivity generates radiation by emitting particles. Radioactive materials outside the the body are called external emitters, and radioactive materials located within the body are called internal emitters.

Internal emitters are much more dangerous than external emitters. Specifically, one is only exposed to radiation as long as he or she is near the external emitter.

For example, when you get an x-ray, an external emitter is turned on for an instant, and then switched back off.

But internal emitters steadily and continuously emit radiation for as long as the particle remains radioactive, or until the person dies – whichever occurs first. As such, they are much more dangerous.

We aren’t talking about “background” levels, anymore. We are talking about particles that float into air, water and food and can be ingested. This ain’t the sun or a brief XRay. This is stuff that gets in your body, then kills you. Once you consume this stuff, you are almost promised some sort of cancer.

And its not like you can see the stuff or have any idea that you are about to consume it. As TwelfthBough points out, this stuff is “minuscule“, “tiny” and “invisible“,  so we have absolutely NOTHING to worry about, right?

The problem with handling radiation is its invisibility. You really can’t tell you are being killed until it is years too late! You can’t run from it easily, hide from it unless you wear lead suits and you can’t smell it, either….Experts warned us that the #3 reactor was the most dangerous. The black smoking ruin here is what little is left of this reactor. This is the MOX one which was being refitted with plutonium. Wow. Isn’t this hideous? It looks like…Chernobyl! And it is. Totally Chernobyl. Each day, each reactor looks more and more ruined, more and more desolate. They look like a fast forward film of slow organic destruction over centuries only this is over days. With water being pumped in as fast as possible, they continue to devolve and collapse, the plutonium one, rather thoroughly and fastest of all. Just three days ago, it had this stream of steam coming out of just one small hole. Now, it is twisted wreckage. This was no ‘explosion’ but rather, the natural evolution of plutonium as it has a meltdown. …

Not exploding but simply pouring out that invisible force that acts so energetically on our genes.

BTW: those last few links show that this fallout is reaching Europe and Iceland and, of course, we are experiencing it here in America, as well.

Now how do we know that fission is occurring (meaning that the nuclear materials are interacting with each other in an uncontrolled way)? Besides the article above pointing out that the reactor #3 never had an explosion, but is simply melting down, you might want to read what the Japan Times tells us:

Radiation readings Saturday surpassed 1,000 millisieverts per hour on the surface of a puddle in the basement of the turbine building in reactor No. 2, according to data released Sunday by the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency.

The 2.9 billion becquerels of iodine-134 per cu. cm in the puddle indicates a reaction is occurring because it is 10 million times what you would see at a normal nuclear reactor, the agency said.

“The level of radiation is greater than 1,000 millisieverts. It is certain that it comes from atomic fission,” NISA’s Hidehiko Nishiyama told a news conference in the morning. “But we are not sure how it came from the reactor.”

If you believe that this is over or a non-newsworthy item, keep in mind that these types of disasters are never over. Just read and view the videos at Activist Post to see how the Chernobyl disaster is hardly over, then compare the Japanese fiasco to that (as some Richard Noggins did early on and insisted that this was nothing like it).

And, NO, there is zero amount of radiation that is good for you like this harlot suggests. As a matter of fact, this is far worse than any MSM TV sycophantic mouthpiece is allowed to say on air. Stephen Lendman has done an excellent job finding unbiases sources and offers the following in his post entitled, “Japan’s Leaking Water Radiation 100,000 Times Above Normal” (please visit and read the entire piece, but for a primer, see this):

On March 27, New York Times writers Hiroko Tabuchi and Keith Bradsher headlined, “Higher Levels of Radiation Found at Japan Reactor Plant,” saying:

“Japan’s troubled effort to contain the nuclear contamination crisis at its stricken (plant) suffered a setback on Sunday when alarmingly high radiation levels were discovered….raising new questions about how and when recovery workers could resume their tasks,” besides whether anything, in fact, can work.

In fact, high radiation readings mean fission likely restarted, “present(ing) the alarming possibility of an out-of-control reactor.”

On March 28, Reuters headlined, “Japan finds plutonium at stricken nuclear plant,” saying:

On March 11, after the earthquake/tsunami struck, traces of plutonium 238, 239 and 240 were found “in soil at five locations at the complex….”

According to TEPCO vice president Sakae Muto:

“It’s not at the level that’s harmful to human health.”

He lied.

NISA reported samples ranging from 0.18 – 0.54 becquerels per kg. Agency official Hidehiko Nishiyama said:

“While it’s not the level harmful to human health, I am not optimistic. This means the containment mechanism is being breached so I think the situation is worrisome.”

In fact, it’s catastrophic and extremely hazardous to human health at any level, environmental scientist Dr. Ilya Sandra Perlingieri explaining in her article headlined, “Fukushima Catastrophe: Radiation Exposure, Lies and Cover-up, saying:”

“The half-life of many radioactive elements is thousands of years. There is no safe level of exposure! (Claiming otherwise is) media hype and corporate lies. The plutonium fuel used at Fukushima Unit 3 reactor uses MOX (mixed oxide), a plutonium-uranium fuel mixture. A single milligram of MOX is 2-million times more deadly than enriched uranium….Plutonium-239 has a half-life of 24,000 years; and (for) Uranium-235 (it’s) 700-million years.”

Last week Hirose Takashi, a researcher at the Aomori Prefectural Industrial Research Institute and a man who has written extensively on nuclear power went on Japanese TV to point out the lies that are being told about the supposed safety of this radiation.

“They are saying stupid things like, why, we are exposed to radiation all the time in our daily life, we get radiation from outer space. But that’s one millisievert per year. A year has 365 days, a day has 24 hours; multiply 365 by 24, you get 8760. Multiply the 400 millisieverts by that, you get 3,500,000 the normal dose. You call that safe?”

Many are now expressing concern that the Japanese government’s moves to quietly raise legal radiation limits in a number of areas indicates a tacit acknowledgement that increased radiation exposure will continue to be a daily reality for residents of Japan for the foreseeable future.

On March 17th, the government raised the radiation exposure limits for emergency workers at the Fukushima plant from 100 millisieverts to 250 millisieverts.

h/t Corbettreport (James actually lives in Japan and has been following this quite closely, as you can imagine)

In Episode 179, James is also not afraid to examine the possible reasons for this happening, including looking into the Earth’s movements, the Sun’s influence, HAARP and other phenomena (there are several links provided above to help you investigate this for yourself):

Japan is just tallying up the damage from the devastating earthquake that struck off the northeast coast on March 11th, but it is clear that this was one of the most powerful earthquakes in modern Japanese history. Now, some are asking whether this was a natural earthquake or if it was precipitated by human activities. Join us this week as we go in search of a man-made fingerprint on the 3/11 earthquake.

I found the above examination into HAARP being the cause of this earthquake very informative. James points out the failures of his listeners to show how HAARP could be used to create earthquakes, but offered other interviews that suggest that the Def Dept may be using such a system to create weather phenomena, destruction of missiles, and other potential possibilities.

I am still not sure about any “tectonic warfare” or any military attack (or the feasibility of such), but I am open to learning more.

I am not convinced to whether or not HAARP caused this or other earthquakes of note (Chile, Haiti, China, New Zealand, etc). But if we have one sometime in the very near future in the New Madrid fault, after the government seems to be planning for such an event, then I may become a believer.

No matter what caused this situation, I hope that more people will understand the danger. As was recently added to a post here by Kaptinemo, this WILL cause problems:

With all the half-lives of the various elements (cesium, plutonium, etc.) being the sort that last anywhere from weeks to hundreds of years, and this stuff getting into the food chain in the open ocean, nations that are already highly dependent upon seafood for their daily protein staples are going to find this cataclysmic in more than just the immediate sense. Expect to see cancerous tumors on all manner of fish within a year or two, making them inedible. The ‘poop’ will wind up on the entire region’s dinner plates.

Essentially, with this catastrophe, Japan has placed the oceanic bread-basket at risk. The socio-economic (and therefore, political) ramifications for the entire Western North Pacific are dire, indeed. And given the ocean currents, we won’t be unaffected either.

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Optimists, Realists and Richard Noggins

I haven’t written much about the current situation in Japan. There is plenty of coverage on the many aspects of this disaster. But, being someone who tries to be educated and then prepared about certain situations, I have been following the various foreign news outlets, especially Japan‘s.

A nuclear crisis at the quake-hit Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant deepened Tuesday as fresh explosions occurred at the site and its operator said water in a pool storing spent nuclear fuel rods may be boiling, an ominous sign for the release of high-level radioactive materials from the fuel.

There is no doubt that those people are experiencing something dreadful and the outcome is far from over. Thousands are dead or missing from the earthquake and Tsunami. There are food shortages and fuel shortages. There are people desperately trying to get out of country.

And then there is the one issue that causes me some concern, which is the 4 nuclear reactors that have had explosions. Various sources, early on, quoted people saying that there is nothing to worry about (even to the Japanese people). I call these the “Optimists“. In most cases, these people have been shown to be wrong: plain and simple. Read the link and especially the comments to see what I mean.

To suggest that there is no reason for concern causes me to question a person’s thinking abilities or connection to the industry.

We also have “Realists” (someone like me), that sees the evident danger for the Japanese. I am also the type that thinks about the worst case scenario and how might I prepare my family for such. Being that I live relatively close to a few nuclear plants, I consider having some Potassium Iodide (in case something were to happen to one of these plants) as a preventative measure, a smart idea. It is cheap and could aid in survival, should the worst-case scenario happen.

I tune in to some American TV coverage, and when I hear from meteorologists that having your own is unnecessary and that the government will provide it should I need it, well, let me just say that I don’t trust a damn thing that the TV says, when it comes to my family’s health and welfare. If they do let someone on that speaks about the concern, that person is quickly shut off and not invited back. That, in and of itself, is more than curious.

Now, I don’t know what you think, but if four reactors have had explosions and various sources say that radiation is leaking (and reports now say that 2 more reactors are heating up), AND fires keep breaking out in reactors, AND the Japanese government is ever-expanding the zone around the site, AND the US Navy is moving its ships out of the radiation cloud, AND when a France news source suggests that the category is now a 6 out of 7 (instead of the first touted 4), AND the Japanese ministers are telling their people to stay indoors and protect themselves… it gives me reason to pause with concern for them.

But beyond the Japanese (of which I have many friends that I used to work with), I must think about the potential for great harm and the spread of radiation here to this country. As a realist, it is only prudent to consider the potential and if I think there is a possibility that the containment chambers do breach and/or the hokey way the keep the spent rods become a problem that could potentially cause massive amounts of radio-iodine to spew into the air, what the hell does it hurt to spend the $20 for a small amount of emotional well-being, not to mention perhaps saving my daughter’s life?

To some this is some sort of idiotic response. I call those that think that, Richard Noggin.

Now you might consider me a conspiracy nut and maybe even an alarmist, but I challenge anyone to buy some of the KI online. I am not the only person with this concern and I would hope that you have at least considered the possibility instead of sticking your head in the sand like Richard Noggins (dick heads) do. I am not suggesting that there aren’t other concerns, but to belittle people with this concern makes some people look quite callous, idiotic or evil.

This is an ongoing disaster and it is not any where near over or contained. Every day it gets worse. Why should I believe the Richard Noggins, when the progression proves them to be the fools they are?

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The US Dollar’s Reign Is Nearing Its End And Oil Is A Major Player In Its Destruction

So, as my buddy Ed, at Not Another Conspiracy wrote today (and coincidentally as I told my wife early this morning, as well):

Better Fill That Gas Tank

But I believe this is just part and parcel of an even more encompassing plan for total world control by a very wealthy cabal of banksters and other elitists. To wit, there are many reports about other countries that have or will soon stop trading in US Dollars. As usual Washington’s Blog covers this issue very well. And I have been making the claim, as in yesterday’s post, that when this happens, the US Dollar is near its death knell (for, at some point, we will lose our power of being the world’s reserve currency… which is the only real thing keeping us as the world’s sole super power and Imperialistic Controller). This time is drawing very near.

You will find in the Washington’s Blog linked article above a 3 or 4 year timeline of events and the various countries that have taken steps to begin their refusal of using US Dollars (please go read the entire thing).

• Japan

• Syria

• Iran

• Libya

• Russia

• Argentina

• Brazil

• Venezuela and 12 other Latin American countries as well as Cuba

• Many other countries

Dr Doug addressed this a bit this morning in a comment to today’s post here at B’mans and I wanted to point out that Japan (one country Doug points out) and many others are already on that list as you can see.

The world is pissed (how could anyone blame them, for they now know that there is absolutely no way they will ever get their money back, nor be able to recoup the loses as the dollar dies). This simply goes to show that this part of the plan is plainly underway and near fruition.

There is another “conspiracy theory” involved that says that the latest Middle East eruptions are being purposely driven and is, in fact, an instrumentally planned attack against foreign oil providers by “The Elite” (as Lindsey Williams describes in the following videos from an interview on Alex Jones show) that will culminate in a back stab of their deal made long ago to not drill our own oil here and to continue to purchase theirs.

I have written about “Pastor Williams” before and have admitted that his presentation bugs the piss out of me, but I cannot negate his statements, since he has been correct in virtually everything he says was told him by some of Big Oil’s elite (Ken Frum of ARCO being one). I also am somewhat suspicious of Alex Jones, but I do not focus on him, but those he interviews, then try to find associated evidence.

He suggests that this has been planned and working for decades and that the end game is the demise of the dollar. He suggests that when the oil reaches $200 per barrel, the oil companies will come in as America’s “saviors” and begin drilling oil that is said to be plentiful on American soil, but will keep the pricing around $150 – $200 per barrel (and we will thank them for that). However, he also tells us that this oil can be obtained for around $60/barrel, which means we will be paying ungodly profits to thieves (which is hardly something new).

In this case, tho, it will continue the downward spiral that is planned to culminate in a new world government, run with a new world currency. Whether or not you like AJ (or Lindsey), I advise you to watch the following two videos in their fullest to hear his story. Again, he has been correct thus far, so it isn’t easy for me to simply sweep away his opinion.

Alex welcomes back to the show Lindsey Williams, the pastor with an inside track to the elite who correctly predicted a significant rise in global oil prices and the collapse of the american currency.

h/t DProgram

On a side note, many of my friends on Facebook have been complaining about gas prices, electricity prices and food prices, but most can’t seem to connect the dots that the Federal Reserve’s money pumping scheme is a common denominator. But using oil pricing as a catalyst to speed the agenda’s ultimate goal of US Dollar destruction is also a factor I am trying to grasp and understand.

Adrian Salbuchi does connect some of the dots (and confirms some of Lindsey Williams claims). But I am open to dialogue from anyone here in this whole issue.

“From the point of view of the long term planning, of a power elite, a global power elite that is wrapping up globalization after 20 years because it has served most of its purpose and it’s ushering in a coming world government, in a coming world government you would need to, in a controlled manner, erode the relative power of nation-states. That is what I believe is happening now in America and also in North Africa.”

I want to know what you think about my theories. Am I off my rocker? Should we, as Americans, be pitching a fit about this?

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They Put Their Money Where Their Mouths Are

Or maybe in similar places that Monica put hers:

The point is that the theater we call government shows priority for protecting certain crimes over pursuing crimes. I have complained about the 911 Commission’s lack of real investigation and the small amount of money used for those “investigations” cover-ups here before.

But this isn’t an isolated notion. It happens in every facet of what they do. Washington’s Blog brought up a post from May of last year where they listed the amounts of money spent on various “investigations” coverupscitizen appeasement strategies and it is worth noting here:

The government spent $175 million investigating the Challenger space shuttle disaster.

It spent $152 million on the the Columbia disaster investigation.

It spent $30 million investigating the Monica Lewinsky scandal.

The government only authorized $15 million for the 9/11 Commission.

And how much has the government authorized for the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission? You know, the commission charged with getting to the bottom of what caused the financial crisis?

Just $8 million.

These figures don’t account for inflation. For example, the Challenger investigation cost over $300 million in today’s dollars.

You can tell alot about the questions which the government is truly interested in finding answers to by the amount of money it authorizes for the various investigations.

As I often say, “Follow the money”, or in this case, the lack thereof.

h/t BrassCheckTV

Jobs (What Was and What Isn’t)

I keep hearing that things are better. There is supposedly an uptick in the number of jobs (strangely, I can’t seem to find them, unless you mean the used car sales position or the short order cook or the attendant at the nursing home…). I am not saying that any of these positions are unworthy of me or are only for the “lesser than I”. For I have cleaned many a toilet and floor, I have stocked shelves, shoveled shit, worked the swamp (fry cook at Sonic), DJ, forklift operator, fence builder, roofer, potato peeler, dish washer, sewing machine operator (should I go on)?

I worked all thru high school (three jobs, actually). I paid for everything, even the gas I used to take all the younger siblings to school. I have known responsibility (and thwarted it as often as possible early on) my entire life. I KNOW what money is and its value in our society.

I have explained several times here before how I “played their game”… believed them (at first) when they said that NAFTA would bring even better jobs to the US at the loss of repetitive manual labor types. I figured the net outcome would be improvement and people would have to “pull up their boot straps” (as I did) to improve their lives and “become” someone. After a while, tho, I had this nagging that even those good jobs would be gone just as a little pipsqueak from Texas told us so.

Don’t get me wrong, there were several things that I disagreed with Perot on, but a certain form of protectionism (keeping business and manufacturing jobs here) is required. You can get there a variety of ways, but MAKING stuff HERE is essential for America’s survival (and I believe that they know this, which means they are intentionally bringing us to our knees).

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It’s no secret (except to the normal American public) that they (the Globalists that have hijacked America) don’t want manufacturing jobs here. Obama’s main economic adviser, Lawrence Summers, said it outright in his farewell address to the Economic Policy Institute in Washington, DC:

“”We are moving towards a knowledge and service economy.”

…

“You don’t succeed by producing exactly the same thing that other people are producing in the same way just at a lower cost.”

In a recent Manufacturing and Technology News article called, “Obama’s Top Economist Discloses Why The Administration Refused To Support U.S. Manufacturing“, the real philosophy is illuminated (albeit a sham and outright lie):

“There is no going back to the past. Technology is accelerating productivity in mass production to the point where even China has seen manufacturing employment decline by more than ten million jobs over the most recent decade for which data is available.”

The fact is that China is, too, losing jobs (and the article linked explains how it is so). Nevertheless, our caretaker Government has the solution for us… take a lesser paying “service-sector” job:

“The flatness of the world notwithstanding, by far the largest part of the activities Americans engage in and the goods they buy remain quite local,” he said. “It is health care and retail services, recreation and education, haircuts and insurance policies, hotels and houses, and I could go on.”

Thank you, you silver spoon-tongue lined, Zionist bastard who has never been correct about economic principles before (the following “quotables” come from the above Manufacturing and Technology News link):

Quotable:“I am not one who sees financial collapse on the imminent horizon.”
– Lawrence Summers, December 13, 2010.

“This financial crisis [in 2008] is unlike anything, frankly, I ever expected to see.”
– Lawrence Summers, December 2008, before the National Academies of Sciences’ Board on Science, Technology and Economic Policy.

CNN’s Wolf Blitzer interviewed Larry Summers, head of the Obama Administration’s Council of Economic Advisors, on February 9, 2009. He was asked how the $787-billion Stimulus Bill would impact employment. Here is Summers’s answer:

Summers: “You’ll see the effects begin almost immediately. Layoffs that otherwise would have happened in cities in towns to cops and teachers won’t happen. You’ll see withholding schedules adjusted so that people have more money in their paychecks. You’ll see orders go out to new roads, new bridges, new computers for hospitals. You’ll start to see better maintenance of schools. So things will happen very, very quickly. The effect will build. The effect will build over time. And Wolf, this is one thing people do have to recognize — the president inherited a very, very difficult situation, a $1-trillion deficit, an economy that, frankly, was in freefall. And so while there will be clear impacts of this package that one will see almost immediately, we’ve inherited an economy that was programmed for substantial decline before the president got here.”
Blitzer: “So if the president gets what he wants and it looks like he will, at least right now, when do you see economic growth returning as opposed to economic loss? And when do you see job increases per month as opposed to huge job losses in January, almost 600,000 jobs were lost? In other words, when — what month of this year would you tell us things are going to start to turn around?”
Summers: “There’s one thing I’m certain of — that day will come much sooner with the president’s program than it will come without the president’s program. But I’m not going to hold out for you the prospect that it is imminent. Perhaps it will be towards the end of the year. Perhaps it will be early next year. Perhaps, if confidence takes hold quickly, it will be somewhat sooner.”

Liar. I see you are now leaving the administration since your damage is done. Is there a castle in Israel awaiting? And, Dude, don’t think for a second that the incoming replacement is any better. Stephen Lendman shows us the inside truth about these scalawags:

Like his Geithner/Summers/Emanuel-led team, they’re, in fact, hard-line pro-Wall Street, pro-business, anti-regulation, anti-populist conservatives, appointed to shift further right, embracing core neocon/Democratic Leadership Council (DLC) tenets.

They’re pro-business, pro-working class austerity, anti-populist, anti-civil/human rights, anti-rule of law, anti-government of, by and for people, anti-labor, anti-welfare, militaristic, repressive, and pro-imperial for unchallengeable global dominance.

They’re hardline against Blacks, Hispanics, Latino immigrants, Muslims, workers, the poor, consumer protection, progressivism, environmental protection, peace and its supporters, prosecuting corporate and government criminals, honest elections, and democratic governance.

…

William M. Daley heads it as Obama’s White House chief of staff. A top JPMorgan Chase executive, New York Times writer Eric Lipton headlined on January 6, “Business Background Defines Chief of Staff,” saying:

A longtime corporate/government insider, he was paid “$5 million a year” to supervise “Washington lobbying efforts of the nation’s second-largest bank. He also serves on the board of directors at Boeing, Abbott Laboratories,” and Merck & Co.

He a player, a key cog in Wall Street dominated America, recycled to another top White House position, his most important so far as coordinator of Obama’s domestic team besides influencing his entire agenda.

…

Gene B. Sperling will replace Larry Summers as Director of the National Economic Council (NEC), a job he held in the Clinton administration where he and Summers were principle negotiators for passing the 1999 Financial Modernization Act (also called Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act), repealing Glass-Steagal (the Banking Act of 1933) that prevented banks, securities firms and insurance companies from merging.

Together with Trade Representative Charlene Barshefesky, he also successfully negotiated the 1999 China-WTO agreement, admitting Beijing in 2001. According to the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), it cost 2.4 million US jobs, a figure that keeps rising.

In 2008, Goldman Sachs paid him nearly $1 million for consulting services. He’s also an advisor to Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner. Sperling is known for his neoliberal, pro-business agenda, and played a key role in arranging Obama’s December tax cut deal with Republicans, a measure shifting more massive wealth to America’s aristocracy already with too much.

The rest suck, too. Read the article, you Obama Maniacs without clue.

And its not just that they want more profits by using slave labor, they make it extremely difficult and costly for manufacturers to build new plants here.

So, there are some factories still working, but they are slowly dying and moving away. They can’t compete. Chris Hedges explains in “2011: A Brave New Dystopia“:

Our manufacturing base has been dismantled. Speculators and swindlers have looted the U.S. Treasury and stolen billions from small shareholders who had set aside money for retirement or college. Civil liberties, including habeas corpus and protection from warrantless wiretapping, have been taken away. Basic services, including public education and health care, have been handed over to the corporations to exploit for profit. The few who raise voices of dissent, who refuse to engage in the corporate happy talk, are derided by the corporate establishment as freaks.

Well call me a freak, then. Wouldn’t be the first one.

And what does this mean for me (or you)? It means that I, a guy who has “pulled his boot straps” up COUNTLESS times and thought he found the answer by going back to college at 26, working hard (making the President’s List… 4.0… almost every semester, the Dean’s List… 3.9 the only other semester) to obtain THREE degrees, one specifically sought due to its expected long-term, high technology field (robotics and Automated Manufacturing Technology), worked for decades to build my engineering and sales skills, become successful, own the big home and fine cars and do anything and everything I so desired…

… just to have it all sucked away for some world order scheme.

It means that others who did less or accomplished less have even LESS of a chance to do more than “get by”. It means that me and my family are being forced into poverty and those who have/had less are going to hurt even worse.

What I am saying is that it doesn’t matter how much you plan, how hard you work, if you are in or out of debt, if you go to college or not… what matters is “are you Big Money”? Are you one that will sell your soul for gain, knowing that you will profit while others will suffer?

Or are you one of the “middle class”, now bordering the poverty line?

Stephen Lendman lays it out (and it is going to get even worse):

Working Americans, especially middle class ones, are being downsized toward extinction through loss of high pay/good benefit jobs, labor rights, political empowerment, standard of living gains, personal freedoms, and retirement futures.

Replacing private pensions with 401(ks), IRAs and similar schemes failed. Public pensions now face a similar fate, states wanting liability shifted from them to workers, leaving them vulnerable on their own. It’s consistent with destructive neoliberal “reforms,” wanting all public benefits eroded and eliminated. The scheme is venal and underhanded – to create a ruler – serf society, America reduced to third world status super-wealth and growing poverty extremes. Bipartisan political support endorses it.

If you are new here and reading this (and not one of the choir) it may seem hard to believe that our own government officials would do such a thing. But willingly or not, they are. Accept it and start saying something to your friends and family.

And don’t let the government officials who always get it wrong, suggest that things are getting better. They are not. These lying liars will be “Spinning Unemployment in a Collapsing Empire” just to keep you misled and hopeful as it falls apart even further… just buying time. Dr Paul Craig Roberts lays out the misdirection by word usage:

The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported Friday that the economy gained only 103,000 new jobs in December—not enough to keep up with population growth—but the rate of unemployment (U.3) fell from 9.8% to 9.4%. If you are confused by the report, you are among the many.

In truth, what fell was not the number of unemployed people but the number of unemployed people who are actively looking for work. Those who have become discouraged and have ceased looking for work are not considered to be in the work force and are not counted as unemployed in the U.3 measure. The unemployment rate fell because discouraged workers increased, not because employment rose.

The BLS counts short-term discouraged workers (less than one year) in its U.6 measure of unemployment. That unemployment rate is 16.7%.  When statistician John Williams (shadowstats.com) adds the long-term discouraged, the US unemployment rate as of December 2010 was 22.4%.

The question to ask yourself is: why does the media focus on the unemployment measure that does not count any discouraged workers?  The answer is that the U.3 measurement only counts 42% of the unemployed and makes the situation appear to be a lot better than it is.

Where are the 103,000 new jobs?  As I have reported for years, the jobs are in non-tradable domestic services: waitresses and bar tenders, health care and social assistance (primarily ambulatory health care services), and retail and wholesale trade.

Today the United States has only 11,670,000 manufacturing jobs, less than 9% of total jobs. Yet, despite America’s heavy dependence on foreign manufactures and foreign creditors, the idiots in Washington think that they are a superpower standing astride the world like a colossus.

What? The government lies to us? Tell me its not so. Tell me that they don’t manipulate the numbers to FORM your reality in the way THEY want it formed. Then, remember that last line, where Dr Roberts points out that we have less than 9% of our jobs in manufacturing, leaving us vulnerable to the obvious dollar fall that is coming. If we don’t make shit, we won’t be able to buy it from the foreigners, leaving many of us dead (or wanting to be).

There are solutions, of course, but none that will make the profits soar for the scoundrels in Government or their Big Money coffers. I mean, seriously, they are RAISING the military budget, while discussing taking away many social benefits. And they won’t stop until they have taken every thing they can take and control. That is what Empires do to sustain, when they cannot sustain any further from taxing their citizens. The truth is that the Empire is over financially, but they are still holding on. But holding on for what? Washington’s Blog has a link to Raw Story’s interview with David Stockman. The answer is revealing:

We are now at a historical inflection point at which the time has arrived for a classic post-war demobilization of the entire military establishment,” David Stockman said in an exclusive interview.

“The Cold War is long over,” he continued. “The wars of occupation are almost over and were complete failures — Afghanistan and Iraq. The American empire is done. There are no real seriously armed enemies left in the world that can possibly justify an $800 billion national defense and security establishment, including Homeland Security.”

Short of that, he suggested, the United States has “reached the point of no return” with its artificial creation of wealth, and will eventually face a sharp economic decline.

***

This is a profound disappointment that there’s not even a debate — a serious debate about dramatic change in our imperialist foreign policy and war-making establishment in this administration — allegedly the most left-wing administration that we’ve had in modern time.”

“I don’t have much hope that what needs to be done will be done until it’s finally forced on us by a world bond market crisis, which will happen sooner or later,” Stockman added.

Not very assuring, is it? Going to take a bond market crash to stop funding the Empire, yet the Federal Reserve is printing money to buy these bonds with, and doing so. And YOU and I are paying for it. Hooray?

And guess what, at the very same time that the Empire gets its financial backing from us, via untold profits via the Goldman Sachs middle man, wages for you and I are falling at rates greater than ANY time in several decades. There are a few stories in that Wall Street Journal link, but let me focus on my story.

After school, I obtained a field service engineering job for a very high technology Japanese company (making equipment to place electronic components on PC Boards). This was coming in as Textiles were going out, but early on the writing was on the wall for that particular manufacturing sector, as well. The Asians were competing for the business almost immediately and then NAFTA started taking affect, sending many companies south of the border (I spent far too much time in the arm pit of the world, Juarez).

Needless to say, eventually, that business did go elsewhere and it is virtually dead in America. I was forced to change job types at 34 and became a Systems Engineer and Engineering Manager at a company in Mississippi that made office furniture (focusing on robotic arms and automation systems). It was strange, in retrospect, because this plant was originally built because wages were cheaper than the headquarters in Wisconsin. Early on, competing companies were moving off shore and competing with us until we lost the Staples and Office Depot orders to them (over cost) and I could see that I would not have a job within a few years (the plants in Mississippi have subsequently shut down or downsized to virtually nothing) and decided to “pull up my boot straps” and make another change in my career and thought, “Well, if I just worked for an automation systems provider, then I wouldn’t be forced into a particular type of industry, and I could be “light on my feet”.

I have been catering in that fashion ever since, even starting my own factory automation component sales company, selling to manufacturers and those who supply systems to the manufacturers. I was getting it from both sides, at some points “double dipping”, as it were, (getting a sale to the end-user and the integrator).

Light on my feet worked for a while, that is until the economy tanked and the remnants of manufacturing STOPPED buying anything, much less more automation. Coupled with medical costs that a small business owner can’t afford UNLESS times are good, I was forced into bankruptcy.

I landed on my feet, because an old customer was purchased by a Big Corporation and they wanted to expand the automation integration business and convinced me to shut my business down and work for them at $50,000/year + commissions, insurance, car allownace and all travel and entertainment expenses. This lasted a year and kept me out of any further debt.

But that business was poorly run and even with over a million dollars of work I brought in to them, they fired all sales people and project managers at one time. They are barely hanging on as I write this.

I write all of this to show a progression. I started at $42,000/year with EXCELLENT benefits, worked my way up to over $100,00/year and have seen it decline to nothing (and the only real interview I have had is for a major beverage company sales position that will MAX at $39,000/year, if you are lucky). I have seen several used car sales jobs. A job selling cellphones. A short order cook. A job in Lowes.

But nothing in my area of expertise and NOTHING that will pay what I once made or even made last year.

See what I mean? They are FORCING us out of middle class to pay for their folly of corporate benevolence, Empire building and thievery in banking.

I don’t know about you (and many people I know and care about have been living in poverty for a long time, so this is nothing new to them), but this pisses me off. I have dreamed, planned, worked, evolved, modified and lived trying to better my life and my family’s life, ONLY to have it all jerked out from under me and those that profit are doing even better than ever.

You better get pissed, yourself. Before it is too late.

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