Ancient Warrior's Ancient Battles

I made one of those amazing, life changing, break through discoveries today

2012-02-03T11:29:00.000-08:00

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I made one of those amazing, life changing, break through discoveries today. I found out that I can write queries against the bible..

I hope you enjoy my first day of it LMAO

;)

Greg

"I'm the only one;
the only one who knows.
When time stops;
and when time goes." -Ancient_Warrior

I'm fishing for souls in the day of the LORD
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Ecclesiastes 1:9-11
King James Version (KJV)

9The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.

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10Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us.
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11There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there be any remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after.
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Ecclesiastes 1:9-11
New International Version (NIV)

9 What has been will be again,
what has been done will be done again;
there is nothing new under the sun.
10 Is there anything of which one can say,
“Look! This is something new”?

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It was here already, long ago;
it was here before our time.
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11 No one remembers the former generations,
and even those yet to come
will not be remembered
by those who follow them.
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Tool

Fuck your short memory.
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The Bible itself provides insight into a great mystery in Earth's natural history at what is known as the Pleistocene - Holocene boundary. Science remains at a loss to definitively explain the Ice Age and the anomaly of the mysterious mega fauna extinctions across the face of the Earth about 12,000 to 10,000 Radio Carbon years ago. Geologic evidence from that period indicates extraordinary global massive volcanism, gigantic tidal waves, seismic activity on a vast scale, and extreme temperature swings on the Earth over a geologically brief period of time. It is no coincidence that the Bible at Genesis 1:2 describes the Earth as flooded, desolate, and in darkness in the timeframe closely corresponding to these catastrophic events in the Earth's natural history. Clearly, these two mysteries are linked.

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Tool
Some say a comet will fall from the sky.
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Isaiah 14:12
How you have fallen from heaven, morning star, son of the dawn! You have been cast down to the earth, you who once laid low the nations!

Matthew 2:2
and asked, “Where is the one who has been born king of the Jews? We saw his star when it rose and have come to worship him.”

Matthew 2:7
Then Herod called the Magi secretly and found out from them the exact time the star had appeared.

Matthew 2:9
After they had heard the king, they went on their way, and the star they had seen when it rose went ahead of them until it stopped over the place where the child was.

Matthew 2:10
When they saw the star, they were overjoyed.

1 Corinthians 15:41
The sun has one kind of splendor, the moon another and the stars another; and star differs from star in splendor.

2 Peter 1:19
We also have the prophetic message as something completely reliable, and you will do well to pay attention to it, as to a light shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts.

Revelation 2:28
I will also give that one the morning star.

Revelation 8:10
The third angel sounded his trumpet, and a great star, blazing like a torch, fell from the sky on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water—

Revelation 8:11
the name of the star is Wormwood. A third of the waters turned bitter, and many people died from the waters that had become bitter.

Revelation 9:1
The fifth angel sounded his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from the sky to the earth. The star was given the key to the shaft of the Abyss.

Revelation 22:16
“I, Jesus, have sent my angel to give you this testimony for the churches. I am the Root and the Offspring of David, and the bright Morning Star.”

Genesis 1:16
God made two great lights—the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars.

Genesis 37:9
Then he had another dream, and he told it to his brothers. “Listen,” he said, “I had another dream, and this time the sun and moon and eleven stars were bowing down to me.”

Judges 5:20
From the heavens the stars fought, from their courses they fought against Sisera.

Job 3:9
May its morning stars become dark; may it wait for daylight in vain and not see the first rays of dawn,

Job 9:7
He speaks to the sun and it does not shine; he seals off the light of the stars.

Job 22:12
“Is not God in the heights of heaven? And see how lofty are the highest stars!

Psalm 8:3
When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,

Psalm 147:4
He determines the number of the stars and calls them each by name.

Psalm 148:3
Praise him, sun and moon; praise him, all you shining stars.

Song of Solomon 6:10
Friends Who is this that appears like the dawn, fair as the moon, bright as the sun, majestic as the stars in procession?

Isaiah 13:10
The stars of heaven and their constellations will not show their light. The rising sun will be darkened and the moon will not give its light.

Isaiah 14:13
You said in your heart, “I will ascend to the heavens; I will raise my throne above the stars of God; I will sit enthroned on the mount of assembly, on the utmost heights of Mount Zaphon.

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Isaiah 34:4
All the stars in the sky will be dissolved and the heavens rolled up like a scroll; all the starry host will fall like withered leaves from the vine, like shriveled figs from the fig tree.
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Jeremiah 8:2
They will be exposed to the sun and the moon and all the stars of the heavens, which they have loved and served and which they have followed and consulted and worshiped. They will not be gathered up or buried, but will be like dung lying on the ground.

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Jeremiah 31:35
This is what the LORD says, he who appoints the sun to shine by day, who decrees the moon and stars to shine by night, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar— the LORD Almighty is his name:
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Ezekiel 32:7
When I snuff you out, I will cover the heavens and darken their stars; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon will not give its light.
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Joel 2:10
Before them the earth shakes, the heavens tremble, the sun and moon are darkened, and the stars no longer shine.

Joel 3:15
The sun and moon will be darkened, and the stars no longer shine.

Obadiah 1:4
Though you soar like the eagle and make your nest among the stars (Space lab?), from there I will bring you down,” declares the LORD.

Nahum 3:16
You have increased the number of your merchants till they are more numerous than the stars in the sky, but like locusts they strip the land and then fly away.

Matthew 24:29
“Immediately after the distress of those days “‘the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from the sky, and the heavenly bodies will be shaken.’

Mark 13:25
the stars will fall from the sky, and the heavenly bodies will be shaken.’

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Luke 21:25
“There will be signs in the sun, moon and stars. On the earth, nations will be in anguish and perplexity at the roaring and tossing of the sea.
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Revelation 1:16
In his right hand he held seven stars, and coming out of his mouth was a sharp, double-edged sword. His face was like the sun shining in all its brilliance.

Revelation 1:20
The mystery of the seven stars that you saw in my right hand and of the seven golden lampstands is this: The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven lampstands are the seven churches.

Revelation 8:12
The fourth angel sounded his trumpet, and a third of the sun was struck, a third of the moon, and a third of the stars, so that a third of them turned dark. A third of the day was without light, and also a third of the night.

Revelation 12:1
[ The Woman and the Dragon ] A great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet and a crown of twelve stars on her head.

Revelation 12:4
Its tail swept a third of the stars out of the sky and flung them to the earth. The dragon stood in front of the woman who was about to give birth, so that it might devour her child the moment he was born.

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Tool
Followed by meteor showers and tidal waves.

Jeremiah 31:35
This is what the LORD says, he who appoints the sun to shine by day, who decrees the moon and stars to shine by night, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar— the LORD Almighty is his name:
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Tool
Followed by fault lines that cannot sit still.

1 Kings 19:11
The LORD said, “Go out and stand on the mountain in the presence of the LORD, for the LORD is about to pass by.” (Nibiru?) Then a great and powerful wind tore the mountains apart and shattered the rocks before the LORD, but the LORD was not in the wind. After the wind there was an earthquake, but the LORD was not in the earthquake.

1 Kings 19:12
After the earthquake came a fire, but the LORD was not in the fire. And after the fire came a gentle whisper.

Isaiah 29:6
the LORD Almighty will come with thunder and earthquake and great noise, with windstorm and tempest and flames of a devouring fire.

Revelation 6:12
I watched as he opened the sixth seal. There was a great earthquake. The sun turned black like sackcloth made of goat hair, the whole moon turned blood red,

Revelation 8:5
Then the angel took the censer, filled it with fire from the altar, and hurled it on the earth; and there came peals of thunder, rumblings, flashes of lightning and an earthquake.

Revelation 11:13
At that very hour there was a severe earthquake and a tenth of the city collapsed. Seven thousand people were killed in the earthquake, and the survivors were terrified and gave glory to the God of heaven.

Revelation 11:19
Then God’s temple in heaven was opened, and within his temple was seen the ark of his covenant. And there came flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder, an earthquake and a severe hailstorm.

Revelation 16:18
Then there came flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder and a severe earthquake. No earthquake like it has ever occurred since mankind has been on earth, so tremendous was the quake.

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Tool
Mom's gonna fix it all soon.
Mom's comin' round to put it back the way it ought to
be.

Genesis 3:20
Adam named his wife Eve, because she would become the mother of all the living.
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Tool
'Cause I'm praying for mayhem;
I'm praying for tidal waves
I wanna see the ground give way.
I wanna watch it all go down.
Mom, please, flush it all away.
I wanna see it go right in and down.
I wanna watch it go right in.
Watch you flush it all away.
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Tool
Time to bring it down again.
Don't just call me pessimist.
Try and read between the lines.
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I can't imagine why you wouldn't
Welcome any change, my friend.

I wanna see it come down.
Bring it down.
Suck it down.
Flush it down.

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The f*cking end, I'm not kidding..
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2 Peter 3:10
But the day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar; the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and everything done in it will be laid bare.
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Zephaniah 1:2
[ Judgment on the Whole Earth in the Day of the LORD ] “I will sweep away everything from the face of the earth,” declares the LORD.

Romans 2:5
But because of your stubbornness and your unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of God’s wrath, when his righteous judgment will be revealed.

2 Peter 2:9
if this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials and to hold the unrighteous for punishment on the day of judgment.

2 Peter 3:7
By the same word the present heavens and earth are reserved for fire, being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly.

1 John 4:17
This is how love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment: In this world we are like Jesus. (Crying..)

Jude 1:6
And the angels who did not keep their positions of authority but abandoned their proper dwelling—these he has kept in darkness, bound with everlasting chains for judgment on the great Day. (Annunaki?)

[Not MY f'ing book.. this guys book]
In my book "The Star that Astonished the World," I give the historical and astronomical evidence that shows God maneuvering the Sun, Moon, Planets and Constellations to come into some extraordinary and spectacular relationships at Christ’s birth that thoroughly amaze our modem scientists. These truths reveal that it is God who controls the motions of the heavens and that he can manipulate them as he pleases to introduce his divine Son into the world at the precise time prophesied by the prophets in the Old Testament.

As a further illustration of this, my article in this month’s Communicator (January, 1993) shows it is predestined that some major events involving stars and extra-terrestrial objects are soon determined by the written Word of God to occur on earth. The things we are talking about are real and they should be taken seriously by all in the world. What we at A.S.K. are doing is indicating to you beforehand what God has shown in His Scriptures will occur. Let us look at some of those prophecies and what respected scientists are also stating as inevitable realities facing all people on earth. The prospects are world-shaking indeed.

Revelation 18:11-17
English Standard Version (ESV)
11 And the merchants of the earth weep and mourn for her, since no one buys their cargo anymore, 12 cargo of gold, silver, jewels, pearls, fine linen, purple cloth, silk, scarlet cloth, all kinds of scented wood, all kinds of articles of ivory, all kinds of articles of costly wood, bronze, iron and marble, 13 cinnamon, spice, incense, myrrh, frankincense, wine, oil, fine flour, wheat, cattle and sheep, horses and chariots, and slaves, that is, human souls.[a]

14 “The fruit for which your soul longed
has gone from you,
and all your delicacies and your splendors
are lost to you,
never to be found again!”

15 The merchants of these wares, who gained wealth from her, will stand far off, in fear of her torment, weeping and mourning aloud,

16 “Alas, alas, for the great city
that was clothed in fine linen,
in purple and scarlet,
adorned with gold,
with jewels, and with pearls!
17 For in a single hour all this wealth has been laid waste.”

And all shipmasters and seafaring men, sailors and all whose trade is on the sea, stood far off

Footnotes:
Revelation 18:13 Or and slaves, and human lives

Please see The Destruction of the World in Prophecy

Greg

You wanted to short financials 3 years ago.. Here's the ETF

2012-02-01T14:22:00.000-08:00

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SKF ProShares UltraShort Financials (ETF)

Sure hope you got in & got some before the Central Bankers took over the world..

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Greg

Want to SHORT #Consumer Goods? There's an #ETF for that

2012-02-01T14:13:00.000-08:00

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Definition of 'Consumer Goods' From INVESTOPEDIA

Products that are purchased for consumption by the average consumer. Alternatively called final goods, consumer goods are the end result of production and manufacturing and are what a consumer will see on the store shelf. Clothing, food, automobiles and jewelry are all examples of consumer goods. Basic materials such as copper are not considered consumer goods because they must be transformed into usable products.

Investopedia explains 'Consumer Goods'
The measurement of consumer goods sales is important in the assessment of gross domestic product and in determining the health of the overall economy. Demand for consumer goods indicates whether consumers are willing to part with cash. Items are only counted as consumer goods once - if they are resold, they will not be included in economic calculations.

So you thought 2008 might be a good time to actually short consumer goods right? Weren't we "on the brink"? The economy & the consumer were both considered dead meat were they not?

Well there's an ETF for that..

SZK ProShares UltraShort Consumer Goods (ETF)

Looks as though the American consumer has never been in better shape!

Are we sick of these financial elite bastard liars stealing our money yet?

Greg

Here's what happened if you thought real estate might be a good short after 2008 $SRS

2012-02-01T13:57:00.000-08:00

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SRS ProShares UltraShort Real Estate (ETF)

This ETF went from a split adjusted high of more than 13,000 dollars per share to 31.65 a share today..

Has the real estate market EVER been stronger than this?!

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BEWARE ETFs! I'm telling you!

United States debt based ponzi scheme economy?

Let it f'ing die!

Greg

The #war on #terror is a covert operation

2012-02-01T12:45:00.000-08:00

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Since 911 our government has gone bonkers to "protect" us from terrorists.. We have the

Click these for information you should have..

Patriot Act

NSA

Foreign wars

NORTHCOM

TSA

DHS

FBI

CIA

NDAA

SOPA/PIPA

FEMA / REX84

Federal Reserve monitoring social networking

The use of drone aircraft within the USA

I have pointed out many times on twitter the fact that over the last 10 years terrorists are responsible for an average of 300 American deaths per year while Americans murder an average of 16,000 fellow Americans every single year..

That 6,000 American DIE annually falling off a ladder..

So where is the outrage and governmental policy to prevent 16,000 deaths PER YEAR at the hands of fellow Americans?

Seems that being killed by a terrorist in the USA is about as likely as being killed by a lightening strike..

And yet we are where we are none-the-less.

It seems clear to me that if the United States government is NOT preparing for martial law but only seeking to protect us from evil terrorists there seems to be very little difference in the two in the end..

So I ask.. Is all this security activity, under the guise of protecting us from bogeymen terrorists, simply a cover for the United States as it prepares the implementation of martial law when the economy collapses?

I looks as if most all the agencies, laws and structures have been put neatly into place..

TIP of the iceberg here.. sorry..

Greg

The Plunge Protection Team - Is it real? Not according to #CNBC #PPT is only a wild #conspiracy #theory

2012-02-01T08:11:00.000-08:00

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Source

Maybe we could get @zerohedge to weigh in on this outrageous conspiracy theory.. Presenting The Exchange Stabilization Fund In 5 Parts: Is This The Real "Plunge Protection Team"?

#Secrets Of The #PPT (Plunge Protection Team)

2012-02-01T07:46:00.000-08:00

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The Four Derivative US Dictators
By Michael Edward
5-13-4

There are just four people who control all of the U.S. markets through their use of dangerous and explosive DERIVATIVES. They are risking the assets and retirement funds of all Americans. Because of their manipulations, especially since 2001, U.S. financial markets are now based on the gambling whims of a special fraternity of Federal Government DERIVATIVE dealers.

This group is known among Wall Street as the Plunge Protection Team (PPT). Their "official" role was to prevent another 1987 "Black Monday". They have the entire U.S. Treasury at their disposal to manipulate the markets through DERIVATIVES (futures options). In other words, they are using the assets behind the U.S. Treasury to rig the prices of commodites (gold, currencies, etc.) and stocks.

This fraternity comprises of Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan, the Secretary of the Treasury, and the heads of the SEC and the Commodity Futures Trading Association. It works closely with all the U.S. exchanges and Wall Street banks, including the largest DERIVATIVE risk holders Citibank and JP Morgan Chase.

Few people are aware of Executive Order 12631 signed by Ronald Reagan on March 18, 1988. In a nut shell, this is the "authority" behind the four dictators and the [sic] "laws" and "regulations" that have backed their casino-style DERIVATIVE gambling spree since 2001. Here are some highlights of this Executive Order to ponder:

Executive Order 12631 - Working Group on Financial Markets - Mar. 18, 1988; 53 FR 9421, 3 CFR, 1988 Comp., p. 559.

"By virtue of the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and laws of the United States of America, and in order to establish a Working Group on Financial Markets, it is hereby ordered as follows:

Section 1. Establishment. (a) There is hereby established a Working Group on Financial Markets (Working Group). The Working Group shall be composed of:

(1) the Secretary of the Treasury, or his designee; (2) the Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, or his designee; (3) the Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, or his designee; and (4) the Chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, or her designee.

Section 2. Purposes and Functions. (a) Recognizing the goals of enhancing the integrity, efficiency, orderliness, and competitiveness of our Nation's financial markets and maintaining investor confidence, the Working Group shall identify and consider:

(2) the actions, including governmental actions under existing laws and regulations (such as policy coordination and contingency planning), that are appropriate to carry out these recommendations.

(b) The Working Group shall consult, as appropriate, with representatives of the various exchanges, clearinghouses, self-regulatory bodies, and with major market participants to determine private sector solutions wherever possible.

Section 3. Administration. (c) To the extent permitted by law and subject to the availability of funds therefore, the Department of the Treasury shall provide the Working Group with such administrative and support services as may be necessary for the performance of its functions."

Get out of the markets before the inflated DERIVATIVE bubble bursts

The pre-911 U.S. markets showed an astounding - yet confounding and puzzling - rise for the 4 months proceeding 911. The U.S. media dubbed it a "patriotic rally". The European Press called it a "PPT [Plunge Protection Team] rally". Obviously, the U.S. markets were manipulated and rigged to an inflated value in advance of the 911 disaster. Was this a coordinated measure in anticipation of what was to come? Only The Powers That Be can answer that question directly.

Since 911, there have been at least three major long-term stock market rallies. In all 3 instances, when the markets opened all the indexes began to quickly plunge. In each incidence, by early afternoon the markets were brought back from the brink of collapse to the surprise of everyone, including historical analysts.

An event that should have sent markets spiraling downward was the Enron, et al, unprecedented corporate accounting scandals. Yet despite this, an unprecedented accross-the-board markets rally began on July 24, 2002. Once again, the European Press called it a "PPT rally".

Outside the U.S., it's no secret who is behind these secretive "no-name" purchases of high risk DERIVATIVE gambling wagers:

On September 16th, 2001, The Guardian reported "that a secretive committee... dubbed 'the plunge protection team'... is ready to coordinate intervention by the Federal Reserve on an unprecedented scale. The Fed, supported by the banks, will buy equities from mutual funds and other institutional sellers... "

On Feb 21, 2002, the Financial Times featured an article about Japan's Stock Buying Body. The article stated that "...government backed equity markets, as Japan has recently become aware, do not work... Plunge protecting the world's markets may be a hazardous pursuit."

In each of these occurances, a large "no-name" buyer in the futures market secretly plunged in and bought up massive quantities of DERIVATIVES through banking groups such as JP Morgan. These were completely reckless gambling bets that the futures index [S&P] would rise even though it was obvious that it was going to fall. Because such a large amount of money was wagered on the S&P's rise, in each instance, it reversed the market's free-fall.

At the Federal Open Market Committee meeting on Jan 29-30, 2002, the Federal Reserve System (Greenspan) openly discussed the use of "unconventional methods" to stimulate the economy. Recently, the Financial Times of London quoted an anonymous U.S. Fed official who stated that one of the extraordinary measures "considered" in January 2004 was "buying U.S. equities".

These gambling interventions by the "Four Financial Dictators" have successfully brought the markets back each time... despite the inflated financial realities that existed. The purchase of these gambling DERIVATIVES at a great loss have transformed each market crisis into a rally. By manipulating the markets in this way, they have further inflated the highly overvalued market indexes.

Perhaps Americans can now understand why the major U.S. banks, such as JP Morgan, are holding TRILLIONS of gambling derivatives on their books as the PPT group of four use them to rig the markets. Sooner or later, these market "fixes" will no longer hold the bubble from bursting.

Thus, we have witnessed the creation and growth of the financial bubble that is on the brink of explosion... and we know who rigs and controls the markets to create this inflated bubble of gambling debt.

Paper Stocks Rise as Metals Loose - PTT Rigging is Obvious

In the same motus opperandi, the PPT group of 4 are currently buying metals futures (DERIVATIVES) in great amounts on the New York and Chicago exchanges. For the past two weeks, they have created a loss in silver and gold indexes by purchasing (at U.S. taxpayer's expense) large gambling bets (derivatives) against the true value of intrinsic metals.

The result is that they have rigged the value of metals to discourage investors from purchasing gold and silver instead of U.S. Federal Reserve Notes. This is a measure by the PPT to plug a large hole in the bursting dam of the financial bubble, but even Hans Brinker cannot stop this leak.

The bottom line? Stick with history and prepare for the financial explosion. When the bubble deflates and pops, economic deflation will control our daily lives. The PPT cannot continue to spend what it doesn't have. The retirement funds they are "borrowing" from are already exhausted. Get yourself some gold and silver... it will buy your bread to survive in the coming future... while paper Federal Reserve Notes will burn in your furnace to heat your homes.

Source

m5 $AUDUSD

2012-01-27T11:42:00.000-08:00

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Stops begin @ 1.0663 & end at 1.0673

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Current status of my long #trade from hell $EURAUD

2012-01-27T11:06:00.000-08:00

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This is the current status of my long trade from hell.. Thought you might like to see it

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Pulled 133.8 pips out of $GBPJPY so far today on 9 closed #trades one still open

2012-01-26T11:49:00.000-08:00

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But talk about a f'ed up looking m1 chart!

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Hope you're getting a lot of pips traders!

Greg

"Den of #thieves" defined!

2012-01-26T11:25:00.000-08:00

Andrew Jackson, quotes about Banking:

Gentlemen, I have had men watching you [FED] for a long time and I am convinced that you have used the funds of the bank to speculate in the breadstuffs of the country.

When you won, you divided the profits amongst you, and when you lost, you charged it to the bank.

You tell me that if I take the deposits from the bank and annul its charter, I shall ruin ten thousand families. That may be true, gentlemen, but that is your sin! Should I let you go on, you will ruin fifty thousand families, and that would be my sin!

You are a den of vipers and thieves.

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You MUST educate yourselves!

Click here for more fantastic quotes about banking

Greg

Here's what i have on $SPX daily

2012-01-26T10:19:00.000-08:00

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SPX daily chart

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#Bernanke is doing a GOOD #job NO #FEAR! $VXX

2012-01-25T13:46:00.000-08:00

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Not to worry.. Everything is perfectly fine.. Bernanke is doing a GOOD job..

Please see $VXX 3 year chart

NO FEAR!

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Greg

Ron Paul Responds to President Obama’s State of the Union Speech

2012-01-25T08:02:00.000-08:00

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Obviously this demonstrates further that Ron Paul is the man for the job! Wake up to freedom & liberty FROM government before it's too late!
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by Ron Paul

Tonight, President Obama once again showed that he does not represent the fundamental change this country needs. Instead of offering solutions to the problems our country faces, the President was intent on delivering a campaign speech, further dealing in the typical Washington political gamesmanship that has gotten us exactly nowhere close to improving the lives of the American people.

In a speech where much of the rhetoric was devoted to job creation, it was strange that President Obama would brag about his job-destroying national health care plan, Obamacare, and the Dodd-Frank bill, which, contrary to the President’s claims, guarantees future taxpayer bailouts of large institutions. Unfortunately, President Obama’s ‘job creation’ policies amount to little more than continuing to allow government bureaucrats to pick winners and losers, which is a recipe for continued economic stagnation.

President Obama claims to want an economy where everyone gets a fair shot, everyone does their fair share, and everyone plays by the same set of rules. Yet he remains committed to the same old system of debt, deficits, bailouts, and cronyism that created our economic problems. The President speaks of giving us energy independence from unstable nations, yet he refuses to allow the type of development needed to achieve this goal, while at the same time his administration hands out favors to the politically connected – those given to the likes of Solyndra, who fail to produce jobs or energy but succeed in ripping off the taxpayers.

Of course, President Obama refuses to even mention the role the Federal Reserve plays in creating an economic system where some are denied a fair shot or even to support my efforts at bringing transparency to the Federal Reserve. Also not mentioned by President Obama is the very crucial need for reining in spending and balancing the federal budget. What is called by some ‘the greatest threat to our national security’ seems not to be of great importance to this President, although I, like many Americans, believe it to be cause for immediate measures, like the $1 trillion in spending cuts that would take place in my first year as President under my Plan to Restore America.

In the area of foreign policy and civil liberties, President Obama’s rhetoric may be different, but the substance of his polices – as shown by his administration’s defense of the TSA’s treatment of my son, Senator Rand Paul, is hardly ‘change we can believe in.’ No wonder more and more Americans, especially young people, are rejecting the phony alternatives of Obama and establishment Republicans and embracing my campaign to Restore America Now.

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Bill Moyers Interviews David Stockman On Crony Capitalism

2012-01-24T13:03:00.000-08:00

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Sounds right on the money to me..
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Bill Moyers Interviews David Stockman On Crony Capitalism

dailycapitalist.com
JANUARY 24, 2012

Moyers & Company Show 102: On Crony Capitalism from BillMoyers.com on Vimeo.

Source

I sneaked around & stole this trading shiite

2012-01-24T07:01:00.000-08:00

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Lets just call it industrial espionage.. ;)

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Category Archives: 3 Tier System
Introducing The PPT 3 Tier System
By RaginCajun – Thu Dec 15, 2011 9:04pm

Over the past few weeks, the good folks at iBC have been busy backtesting different strategies using the overall PPT Hybrid Overbought/Oversold scores. We wanted to build a system that is easy to understand, without too many rules, one that is easy to follow along at home.

Click here to continue reading this.. Some good links & information

Greg

For my #trader friends

2012-01-24T05:37:00.000-08:00

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Do you think this guy has some valid points?

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$hit you should know #ows #TeaParty

2012-01-20T16:31:00.000-08:00

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I have always bought some Queen Anne chocolate cordial cherries.

They kick ass, I love them. And I have always been happy to buy a box for 1.00 USD. 10 of them for the three of us is 3 apiece plus a lucky winner of the additional odd piece.

It has always been one of those silly Christmas traditions with me ;)

Anyway, this year they were 1.28 for a box of 10. To me that looks like about a 30% price increase, inflation run wild!

So when I saw that I said F U Queen Anne. That's just how I deal with it. I don't buy it. Until a few days later when I saw a different brand, Zachary Chocolate cordial cherries, 10 cnt 1.00 ;)

Yes, competition still works..

Queen Anne's is a bastard of economic manipulation. Part of the bastardization of capitalism.

I suggest the (real intended) "economic stimulation" does NOT occur during the "bust cycle" but rather later as I will discuss.

I'm thinking the bust cycle is when government, central bankers and corporations always "crank up" the intensity of their "theft" from citizens. To prop up their cancerous, elite controlled, debt based ponzi scheme of an economy.

They do this through inflation and taxes.

When the elite face certain bankruptcy due to their own stupidity, corruption and greed, they do what we all witnessed in 2008.

It's apparently one of the favorite "tricks" of central bankers.

When everyone is suffering during a severe economic downturn the bankers devalue our currency which causes commodity prices to skyrocket (as we have seen!) which creates inflation throughout the (debt based) ponzi scheme economy.

The prices on the very things humans must have to survive skyrocket.

Food and energy prices soar as the elite use this age old monetary "trick" to rapidly suck fiat out of the pockets of their "serfs".

And because food and energy are NOT counted in the CPI numbers the government and the federal reserve bank can still "claim" to be doing a good job of keeping inflation "low".

I suggest commodities are the mechanism governments and central banks use to force feed massive amounts of fiat currency into an imploding economy. fully funded by people unfortunate enough to require food and energy..

The central banks do this by intentionally lowering the value of our currency right in the teeth of a severe economic downturn.

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Here's how Ben Bernanke (chairman of the federal reserve bank) puts it..
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…the US government has a technology, called a printing press (or, today, its electronic equivalent), that allows it to produce as many US dollars as it wishes at essentially no cost. By increasing the number of US dollars in circulation, or even by credibly threatening to do so, the "US government can also reduce the value of a dollar in terms of goods and services, which is equivalent to raising the prices in dollars of those goods and services". We conclude that, under a paper-money system, "a determined government can always generate higher spending and hence positive inflation".

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Get that?! Any time they NEED / WANT to they can FORCE you to spend more money, whether you want to or not, by intentionally creating inflation / lowering the value of your paper money.
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All it really is is a huge tax increase on the people, on demand, or at the whim of central banks.

Once they have extracted enough wealth from the populous to prop up their lies and hide their miserable failures they then use markets to release the true, hidden, economic stimulus.

Through manipulation of their rigged gulag markets they cause the prices of commodities to plummet.

It's NOT traders who cause it! Not speculators. It's the Primary Dealers and the Too Big To Fail banks who control commodity prices in reality, outside the matrix.

Governments and central bankers have the ability to impose, remove or completely reverse huge tax increases on the unsuspecting public any TIME they want and for any REASON they want.

They control your food and energy costs and because of that virtually the cost of everything else as well.

The things that would most help citizens are loathed by the elite. Deflation of everything, including interest rates, in the real economy. Banks still strive to trap as many Americans as possible into a lifestyle of high interest debt.

Car dealers and payday loan companies still heavily advertise that your "credit score" doesn't matter to them. They assure you they will STILL loan you some worthless imaginary paper fiat.

Nothing has changed at all! Our entire economy continues to be about how many people can you scam..

Expect commodity prices to plummet at some point. And at that precise moment it's game on for central bankers. This huge, manipulated, "tax cut" will flood the populous with fiat dollars and the "animal spirits" of capitalism will seem to magically reappear.

If it works this time..

Greg

This mornings $EURJPY scalping setup

2012-01-20T10:28:00.000-08:00

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EURJPY m5 scalping setup

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Actual scalping done on m1

Talking EURUSD

2012-01-19T20:54:00.001-08:00

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Drawing levels in a non-arbitrary way #FX #trading

2012-01-18T11:55:00.000-08:00

Here is how we begin with a daily EURUSD chart

Click chart(s) to enlarge

In the beginning.. (LMAO)

EURUSD with daily "levels" added

EURUSD with h4 levels added

Now that's as far as I go with level indications here but this same technique can be used on any all time frames.. I do use it to indicate weekly and monthly levels. It can be used on any time frame but of course the overall prevailing trend makes a big difference too so don't get caught depending on a m5 level being support / resistance unless you are concentrating on trading with the current trend direction or scalping.

Finally here is what our h4 EURUSD chart looks like zoomed in and with candles..

Just for grins here is an m30 chart with candles

Comments are more than welcome!

Good luck in all your trading endeavours!

Greg

Holding this 400 EMA on m1 so far.. $EURUSD

2012-01-18T08:26:00.001-08:00

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Does Planet X Exist? Is Nibiru Inhabited and Inbound?

2012-01-18T07:21:00.000-08:00

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A long time ago in the mists of prehistory, events happened on this planet that have come down to us concealed in legend, engraved in stone and written in ancient languages on clay tablets. Highly advanced civilizations have been here before us, just to be destroyed by some great global catastrophy. But for each that has died out another has taken its place with a selected few holding on to the memories and sacred knowledge of the past. Be prepared for a new paradigm, a different look at reality, as pieces of this ancient puzzle are snapped together.

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Source with other cool "stuff"

"Some" of "them" speak to us.. (Are YOU listening?)

46 & 2 - Tool

God knows I'll see you on the other side

Bible Prophecy and Planet X?

Rev 6:12-15

"I watched as he opened the sixth seal. There was a great earthquake. The sun turned black like sackcloth made of goat hair, the whole moon turned blood red, and the stars in the sky fell to earth, as late figs drop from a fig tree when shaken by a strong wind. The sky receded like a scroll, rolling up, and every mountain and island was removed from its place. Then the kings of the earth, the princes, the generals, the rich, the mighty, and every slave and every free man hid in caves and among the rocks of the mountains."

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Think the government would tell you if they knew? Think again!

LMAO

Greg

Here is YOUR mainstream #media #America | via @chsm1th

2012-01-18T07:02:00.000-08:00

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You Can't Fool Mother Nature For Long: Mainstream Media (January 18, 2012)

The Corporate Media in the U.S. is a handmaiden to the Financial and Political Elites, issuing simulacra of "news" and "analysis" in service of the Status Quo.

If there is any America "industry" ripe for widespread discrediting, it is the U.S. Corporate Media--the six corporations that own most of the media outlets the conventional American sees, hears and reads. This week's theme is You Can't Fool Mother Nature For Long, and this is how it plays out in MediaLand: when the disconnect between the actual economy and what the American people are told is factual and true about the U.S. economy and its Financial Elites by their Corporate Media widens to surrealism, then the conventional American who has passively accepted propaganda in place of reality will finally abandon belief in the "fairness and integrity" of the Mainstream Media, and see it for what it is: a corporate house of prostitution, where everything is for sale to the highest bidder.

Continue reading on http://oftwominds.com

Proverbs 2 King James Version (KJV) < #Wisdom & #knowledge are #important

2012-01-17T14:06:00.000-08:00

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Proverbs 2
King James Version (KJV)

Proverbs 2

1My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee;

2So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding;

3Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding;

4If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures;

5Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God.

6For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding.

7He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: he is a buckler to them that walk uprightly.

8He keepeth the paths of judgment, and preserveth the way of his saints.

9Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment, and equity; yea, every good path.

10When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul;

11Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee:

12To deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaketh froward things;

13Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;

14Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of the wicked;

15Whose ways are crooked, and they froward in their paths:

16To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;

17Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God.

18For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead.

19None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life.

20That thou mayest walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.

21For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it.

22But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.

I'm currently short $SPX, $QQQ & also gold

2012-01-17T12:25:00.000-08:00

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Here's what I consider to be a vital area of support / resistance for SPX

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Ron Paul #message to / for #Anonymous #RonPaul #Agenda #Truth #Liberty #Freedom

2012-01-17T10:13:00.000-08:00

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#Anonymous message to the world - WAKE [TF!] UP #ows #TeaParty

2012-01-17T10:06:00.000-08:00

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Anonymous wants YOU to DO YOUR PART: Agenda 21, The Patriot Act, NDAA, SOPA

2012-01-17T09:56:00.001-08:00

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Defense Against the Psychopath (Full length Version) #ows #TeaParty #Anonymous

2012-01-17T08:40:00.000-08:00

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Video:Rising Up Together-Standing Up To Government By Non-Participation #ows

2012-01-16T13:57:00.000-08:00

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Galatians 5:1 #ows

2012-01-14T12:39:00.000-08:00

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Galatians 5:1
New International Version (NIV)

1 It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.

PLEASE I beg you to watch this.. All of you

2012-01-13T11:20:00.000-08:00

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Please, if you are able, donate to the campaign of a REAL statesman, Ron Paul (Ability to do so at the end of this video)

I just sold #gold via $DZZ purchase @ 4.98

2012-01-13T08:00:00.000-08:00

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Here's my 4 hour chart

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Discussing the Golden Ratio

2012-01-12T12:59:00.000-08:00

It's normally possible to explain any price turn with a 161.8 completion move on some time frame.. In this case AUDUSD turned back up strongly on a h4 but if we switch to a m5 we can find the turning point occurred after a bearish 161.8 completion cycle.

23.6 also plays a very important role. Here, in addition to the 161.8 m5 completion, AUDUSD is bouncing off a much larger (h4) TF bearish 23.6 from above. Above this level is potentially bullish, a break & close below it is potentially very bearish.

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Stochastic divergence is a dependable indicator signal

2012-01-12T11:26:00.000-08:00

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Stochastic divergence is a dependable indicator signal

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Central Bank money games.. obama admin: "We Are Going To Kill The Dollar"

2012-01-12T10:56:00.000-08:00

“We Are Going To Kill The Dollar”

By Silver Shield, on January 2nd, 2012

Investor Kyle Bass discloses his discussion with a senior Obama admin about how this economic crisis is going to play out. The answer is to export our way out of this mess by making our exports cheaper by destroying the dollar in a global game of currency devaluation. This simply means that they are going to print more and more dollars until all of your purchasing power is destroyed and you will need more and more dollars to buy the same amount of goods. (ie. Massive Inflation.)

The only way to protect yourself is to get out of ALL paper assets and into real tangible assets, and nothing shines brighter than silver. Read the Ultimate Silver Investor

And..

Ben Bernanke: (Highlights are mine, as in Greg.. not Ben ;)

…the US government has a technology, called a printing press (or, today, its electronic equivalent), that allows it to produce as many US dollars as it wishes at essentially no cost. By increasing the number of US dollars in circulation, or even by credibly threatening to do so, the "US government can also reduce the value of a dollar in terms of goods and services, which is equivalent to raising the prices in dollars of those goods and services". We conclude that, under a paper-money system, "a determined government can always generate higher spending and hence positive inflation".

Weekly $EURUSD price action

2012-01-12T10:39:00.000-08:00

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Draw your own conclusions..

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Dear People: I am Sorry for Spreading the Disease of Consumerism (Do You think Kim Kardashian Wrote this Letter?)

2012-01-12T08:37:00.000-08:00

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Source --> Dear People: I am Sorry for Spreading the Disease of Consumerism (Do You think Kim Kardashian Wrote this Letter?)
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Posted on January 13, 2012

*Yesterday we received this letter signed Kim Kardashian in our submissions section. Vote at the bottom on whether you think it’s authentic or a fake.

“Dear People and Fans:

I am sorry, I am truly sorry for being such a materialistic idiot. I am sorry for spreading the ideology of consumerism. I am sorry for turning your kids into foolish fiends in search of happiness where no happiness lies.

Sometimes, I cry in the middle of the night, because I know that my life is false. I know that everything that I do is fake, I know that my very existence is a reflection of Hollywood fabricated dreams.

I don’t know what to do. I feel stuck, in this persona of the consumer-whore. I feel stuck inside the way people hate me. I am addicted to it all, and the addiction is sickening. I am addicted to the glamour, I am addicted to the attention, I am even sick enough to be addicted to the hate.

I am sorry again, for being such a false human being.

Kim Kardashian”

Nostradamus, James & Ezekiel agree

2012-01-12T08:19:00.000-08:00

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Nostradamus on silver gold inflation & debt

The copies of gold and silver inflated,
which after the theft were thrown into the lake,
at the discovery that all is exhausted and dissipated by the debt.
All scrips and bonds will be wiped out.

century: 8, quatrain: 28

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And when compared to the bible..
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James 5:1-3
New International Version (NIV)
James 5

Warning to Rich Oppressors

1 Now listen, you rich people, weep and wail because of the misery that is coming on you. 2 Your wealth has rotted, and moths have eaten your clothes. 3 Your gold and silver are corroded. Their corrosion will testify against you and eat your flesh like fire. You have hoarded wealth in the last days.

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Ezekiel 7:19
New International Version (NIV)
19 “‘They will throw their silver into the streets,
and their gold will be treated as a thing unclean.
Their silver and gold
will not be able to deliver them
in the day of the LORD’s wrath.
It will not satisfy their hunger
or fill their stomachs,
for it has caused them to stumble into sin.

The disastrous $EURAUD long #trade defined #FX

2012-01-12T07:37:00.000-08:00

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To whom it may concern (sounds like a will huh? LMAO)

I now have 13 lots total tied up in this EURAUD long trade gone bad..

Last 6 lots were purchased at 2x 1.2583, 2x 1.2313 & 2x 1.2303 and average buy now sits at 1.2687 IF I can avoid panicking & shooting for B/E I might even make a few pips on this yet ;)

My theory is, and I do this some with equities, if you trade SMALL enough you can fix anything over time!

However I do NOT recommend this style of trading ;)

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Nostradamus on silver gold inflation & debt

2012-01-11T14:18:00.000-08:00

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The copies of gold and silver inflated,
which after the theft were thrown into the lake,
at the discovery that all is exhausted and dissipated by the debt.
All scrips and bonds will be wiped out.

century: 8, quatrain: 28

#Nostradamus on the sky

2012-01-11T11:53:00.000-08:00

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Nostradamus doesn't seem to discuss the "beauty" of the sky very much does he? Lots of fire from the sky here..

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The word sky is found in the following quatrains

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Very near Auch, Lectoure and Mirande
a great fire will fall from the sky for three nights.
The cause will appear both stupefying and marvellous;
shortly afterwards there will be an earthquake.

century: 1, quatrain: 46

Pestilences extinguished, the world becomes smaller,
for a long time the lands will be inhabited peacefully.
People will travel safely through the sky (over) land and seas:
then wars will start up again.

century: 1, quatrain: 63

The gods will make it appear to mankind
that they are the authors of a great war.
Before the sky was seen to bee free of weapons and rockets:
the greatest damage will be inflicted on the left.

century: 1, quatrain: 91

For a long time a grey bird will be seen in the sky
near Dôle and the lands of Tuscany.
He holds a flowering branch in his beak,
but he dies too soon and the war ends.

century: 1, quatrain: 100

The divine word will be struck from the sky,
One who cannot proceed any further:
The secret closed up with the revelation, +
Such that they will march over and ahead.

century: 2, quatrain: 27

The Easterner will leave his seat,
To pass the Apennine mountains to see Gaul:
He will transpire the sky, the waters and the snow,
And everyone will be struck with his rod.

century: 2, quatrain: 29

During the appearance of the bearded star.
The three great princes will be made enemies:
Struck from the sky, peace earth quaking,
Po, Tiber overflowing, serpent placed upon the shore.

century: 2, quatrain: 43

One whom neither plague nor steel knew how to finish,
Death on the summit of the hills struck from the sky:
The abbot will die when he will see ruined
Those of the wreck wishing to seize the rock.

century: 2, quatrain: 56

The dart from the sky will make its extension,
Deaths speaking: great execution.
The stone in the tree, the proud nation restored,
Noise, human monster, purge expiation.

century: 2, quatrain: 70

Through fire from the sky the city almost burned:
The Urn threatens Deucalion again:
Sardinia vexed by the Punic foist,
After Libra will leave her Phaethon.

century: 2, quatrain: 81

The old full beard under the severe statute
Made at Lyon over the Celtic Eagle:
The little great one perseveres too far:
Noise of arms in the sky: Ligurian sea red.

century: 2, quatrain: 85

Fire colour of gold from the sky seen on earth:
Heir struck from on high, marvelous deed done:
Great human murder: the nephew of the great one taken,
Deaths spectacular the proud one escaped.

century: 2, quatrain: 92

Burning torch will be seen in the sky at night
Near the end and beginning of the Rhone:
Famine, steel: the relief provided late,
Persia turns to invade Macedonia.

century: 2, quatrain: 96

The fugitives, fire from the sky on the pikes:
Conflict near the ravens frolicking,
From land they cry for aid and heavenly relief,
When the combatants will be near the walls.

century: 3, quatrain: 7

The arms to fight in the sky a long time,
The tree in the middle of the city fallen:
Sacred bough clipped, steel, in the face of the firebrand,
Then the monarch of "Adria" fallen.

century: 3, quatrain: 11

Mount Aventine will be seen to burn at night:
The sky very suddenly dark in Flanders:
When the monarch will chase his nephew,
Then Church people will commit scandals.

century: 3, quatrain: 17

After the rather long rain milk,
In several places in Reims the sky touched:
Alas, what a bloody murder is prepared near them,
Fathers and sons Kings will not dare approach.

century: 3, quatrain: 18

The sky ( of Plancus' city ) forebodes to us
Through clear signs and fixed stars,
That the time of its sudden change is approaching,
Neither for its good, nor for its evils.

century: 3, quatrain: 46

The Sun hidden eclipsed by Mercury
Will be placed only second in the sky:
Of Vulcan Hermes will be made into food,
The Sun will be seen pure, glowing red and golden.

century: 4, quatrain: 29

Arms will be heard clashing in the sky:
That very same year the divine ones enemies:
They will want unjustly to discuss the holy laws:
Through lightning and war the complacent one put to death.

century: 4, quatrain: 43

Where all is good, the Sun all beneficial and the Moon
Is abundant, its ruin approaches:
From the sky it advances to change your fortune.
In the same state as the seventh rock.

century: 5, quatrain: 32

At the forty-eigth climacteric degree,
At the end of Cancer very great dryness:
Fish in sea, river, lake boiled hectic,
Béarn, Bigorre in distress through fire from the sky.

century: 5, quatrain: 98

The incendiary trapped in his own fire,
Of fire from the sky at Carcassonne and the Comminges:
Foix, Auch, Mazères, the high old man escaped,
Through those of Hesse and Thuringia, and some Saxons.

century: 5, quatrain: 100

At forty-five degrees the sky will burn,
Fire to approach the great new city:
In an instant a great scattered flame will leap up,
When one will want to demand proof of the Normans.

century: 6, quatrain: 97

Condom and Auch and around Mirande,
I see fire from the sky which encompasses them.
Sun and Mars conjoined in Leo, then at Marmande,
lightning, great hail, a wall falls into the Garonne.

century: 8, quatrain: 2

A great stench will come from Lausanne,
but they will not know its origin,
they will put out all people from distant places,
fire seen in the sky, a foreign nation defeated.

century: 8, quatrain: 10

Leave, leave Geneva every last one of you,
Saturn will be converted from gold to iron,
"Raypoz" will exterminate all who oppose him,
Before the coming the sky will show signs.

century: 9, quatrain: 44

In the place of "Drux" a King will rest,
And will look for a law changing Anathema:
While the sky will thunder so very loudly,
New entry the King will kill himself.

century: 9, quatrain: 57

Sun twentieth of Taurus the earth will tremble very mightily,
It will ruin the great theater filled:
To darken and trouble air, sky and land,
Then the infidel will call upon God and saints.

century: 9, quatrain: 83

The year 1999, seventh month,
From the sky will come a great King of Terror:
To bring back to life the great King of the Mongols,
Before and after Mars to reign by good luck.

century: 10, quatrain: 72

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Extracted, focused, they look like this..

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a great fire will fall from the sky for three nights

People will travel safely through the sky (over) land and seas:
then wars will start up again

Before the sky was seen to be free of weapons and rockets

For a long time a grey bird will be seen in the sky

The divine word will be struck from the sky

He will transpire the sky, the waters and the snow,
And everyone will be struck with his rod

Struck from the sky, peace earth quaking,
Po, Tiber overflowing, serpent placed upon the shore

One whom neither plague nor steel knew how to finish,
Death on the summit of the hills struck from the sky

The dart from the sky will make its extension,
Deaths speaking: great execution

Noise of arms in the sky: Ligurian sea red

Fire colour of gold from the sky seen on earth

Burning torch will be seen in the sky at night

The fugitives, fire from the sky on the pikes

The sky very suddenly dark in Flanders

In several places in Reims the sky touched

The Sun hidden eclipsed by Mercury
Will be placed only second in the sky

Arms will be heard clashing in the sky

Fish in sea, river, lake boiled hectic,
Béarn, Bigorre in distress through fire from the sky

The incendiary trapped in his own fire,
Of fire from the sky at Carcassonne and the Comminges

Condom and Auch and around Mirande,
I see fire from the sky which encompasses them

"Raypoz" will exterminate all who oppose him,
Before the coming the sky will show signs

While the sky will thunder so very loudly

To darken and trouble air, sky and land,
Then the infidel will call upon God and saints

The year 1999, seventh month,
From the sky will come a great King of Terror

What Nostradamus said

2012-01-11T10:48:00.000-08:00

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century: 1, quatrain: 53

Alas, how we will see a great nation sorely troubled
and the holy law in utter ruin.

Christianity (governed) throughout by other laws,
when a new source of gold and silver is discovered.

The Ruling Elite take DMT to contact entites - Alex Jones

2012-01-11T10:05:00.000-08:00

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WTF?

Here's a google search for more information

Romney top contributors @MittRomney Opinion?

2012-01-11T08:09:00.000-08:00

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Some of the other republican candidates have been wrongly accused of attacking capitalism when it comes to Mitt Romney.

These are not attacks against capitalism but attacks against crony capitalism. Attacks against the ruling elite. Attacks against the Federal Reserve and United States government micro-managing the economy.

Romney uses flowery conservative speech like "financial freedom" and unleashing the entrepreneurial spirit. That's all fine and good but he is supported by the very same people / banks / corporations that trashed our economy.

To me Romney sounds as if he's living in a dream world. One in which the United States has the ability to once again create some magical economic bubble with which to reflate the American economy with ever more debt / credit expansion.

He defends the Federal Reserve Bank and seems to think we can all just pretend it's 2005/2006 again and ramp up the predatory lending and usury models once again to reflate the ponzi economy with yet another bubble, boom / bust cycle.

Here are his top campaign contributors according to OpenSecrets

Goldman Sachs $367,200
Credit Suisse Group $203,750
Morgan Stanley $199,800
HIG Capital $186,500
Barclays $157,750
Kirkland & Ellis $132,100
Bank of America $126,500
PriceWaterhouseCoopers $118,250
EMC Corp $117,300
JPMorgan Chase & Co $112,250
The Villages $97,500
Vivint Inc $80,750
Marriott International $79,837
Sullivan & Cromwell $79,250
Bain Capital $74,500
UBS AG $73,750
Wells Fargo $61,500
Blackstone Group $59,800
Citigroup Inc $57,050
Bain & Co $52,500

By comparison, to me anyway, voting for Ron Paul is a no brainer!

Ron Paul is for sound money, not worthless fiat paper.

Ron Paul says sure America will defend herself if messed with but lets end the constant military meddling with country's all over the world.

Greg

Here's what the #economic "recovery" looks like in today's paper..

2012-01-06T16:43:00.000-08:00

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Three stories in today's paper that demonstrate just how dandy this "recovery" is doing.. Jeeze..

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School officials warily await Missouri decisions on state funding levels

With the Missouri state legislative session having opened this week, educators across the state are waiting to see how funding will fare with a roughly $500 million statewide budget gap for fiscal year 2013 and a formula that could shift millions from some school districts to others.

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Court: Prosecutor may defend county in suit filed by sheriff

(It's over what? FIAT of course! Greg)

The Jasper County prosecutor’s office may defend the county against a lawsuit filed by Sheriff Archie Dunn, according to a circuit court ruling handed down Thursday.

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(Hell.. just shift some fiat around from here to there.. That'll fix it.. LMAO)

[Missouri governor] Nixon dumps idea of tapping 5 universities' reserves

Cheers ;)

LMAO

Greg

I've got your real #economic #news right here.. #Mish

2012-01-06T16:27:00.000-08:00

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Nonfarm Payroll +200,000 ; Labor Force Drops Another 50,000 ; Those Not in Labor Force Rises by 194,000 ; Unemployent Rate 8.5%

Quick notes about the "falling" unemployment rate:

In the last year, the civilian population rose by 1,695,000. Yet the labor force only rose by 274,000. Those not in the labor force rose by 1,421,000.

In December, the Civilian Labor Force dropped by 50,000.

In December, those "Not in Labor Force" rose by a whopping 194,000, In November, those "Not in Labor Force" rose by a staggering 290,000. If you are not in the labor force, you are not counted as unemployed.

Were it not for people dropping out of the labor force, the unemployment rate would be well over 11%.

Continue reading on globaleconomicanalysis

Gold daily WTF does it mean?! LMAO

2012-01-06T13:18:00.000-08:00

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In defense of Ron Paul on foreign policy (Plus he can WIN independents!)

2012-01-05T12:05:00.000-08:00

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As I often like to state publicly, those mean, nasty, scary, oh so dangerous, terrorists are responsible for an average of somewhat less than 300 American deaths per year over the last decade..

(2,752 / 10 years = 275.2) < I might add 13 (/ 10) to this for Hasan

This is enough, apparently, to justify more than a decade of warfare as well as more than a trillion dollars in spending (financed by debt).

Come on.. we have lost going on twice that many American lives now in "the war on terror" itself.. And that's not to mention 104,000 to 114,000 innocent Iraqi civilian deaths since the war there began.

So why then do we have so many more things that kill so many more Americans that are completely ignored?

100,000 Americans Die Each Year from Prescription Drugs, While Pharma Companies Get Rich

Alcohol linked to 75,000 U.S. deaths a year

Car Crashes Kill 40,000 in U.S. Every Year

Here are the 2010 numbers for violent crimes - murder and rape in the USA (from United States Crime Rates 1960 - 2010)

Violent crimes = 1,246,248
Murders = 14,748
Rapes = 84,767

Hell.. here are how many people, on average, die from falling off a ladder each year in the USA..

Answer:
At least 30,000 are hurt each year, and 6000 die.

We brag about the safety of flying by commercial airlines, but in reality the difference in your chance of dying while flying, as compared to dying from a terrorist attack, are statistically insignificant..

You are MUCH more likely to be murdered by your neighbor than you are by a Muslim terrorist..

Obviously many more people realize now than ever before that our government frequently uses fear to enable them to do many things that would otherwise not be tolerated in America.

Wake up America.. the war on terror, drugs, poverty are anything but..

The full on assault on our freedom and liberty continues unabated..

Ron Paul "gets it" and that's why I urge you to seriously consider supporting the only serious candidate running for election this year.

Tribute to Liberty - Ron Paul 2012

Greg

We ARE legion #ows

2012-01-05T10:29:00.000-08:00

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One would have to assume that anyone appearing in this video, due to #NDAA bill, may now be legally targeted for a hellfire missile up the ass (with no due process at all)..

Feeling safer yet America?
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Here's what Bernanke says..

2012-01-04T14:18:00.000-08:00

Ben Bernanke: (Highlights are mine, as in Greg.. not Ben ;)

…the US government has a technology, called a printing press (or, today, its electronic equivalent), that allows it to produce as many US dollars as it wishes at essentially no cost. By increasing the number of US dollars in circulation, or even by credibly threatening to do so, the "US government can also reduce the value of a dollar in terms of goods and services, which is equivalent to raising the prices in dollars of those goods and services". We conclude that, under a paper-money system, "a determined government can always generate higher spending and hence positive inflation".

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Get that? The FED is more than willing to make your (so-called) money completely worthless if that's what it takes to save the debt based ponzi scheme economy for the elite..

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Read the article on The Daily Reckoning: When the Public Sector Debt Bubble Blows Up

Armed Chinese Troops in Texas!

2012-01-03T13:38:00.000-08:00

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Jeeze..

Here's the link

Greg

The #government, the #police, the #military are preparing for the #future.. Are you? #PoliceState Martial Law

2011-12-21T11:06:00.000-08:00

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Just one of the lobbyists for the brand new #NDAA bill = SureFire from whom these videos come..

As you recall the newly passed NDAA bill authorizes the government of the United States of America to indefinitely detain, without due process, American citizens..

Obviously the lobbyists were lusting after this bill for the anticipated profits it can provide.

SureFire itself was awarded a 23 million dollar contract by the DoD..

Be sure to check this out..

Company Who Lobbied for the NDAA Indefinite Detention Bill Given 23 Million Dollar Contract for Night Raid Equipment

The government, the police, the military are preparing for the future..

Are you?
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Good luck friends..

Greg

Thanks to the internet all of life's #secrets are at your fingertips

2011-12-21T09:54:00.000-08:00

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Mankind was not solely responsible for his downfall. He had help. According to Zecharia Sitchin, after translating Sumerian tablets, he discovered that aliens came here from the 12th planet (Marduk or Nibiru) 3, about 450,000 years ago. They were the ancestors of Sumeria. Rather than pursuing Sitchin's theories on the importance of these aliens in mankinds history, it's more germaine to take Enoch's lead.

In the Book of Enoch, Enoch warned Atlantis of a group of fallen beings called "Watchers." Now here's the interesting thing. Sumerians literally translates as "Watchers." Enoch was warning the Atlanteans of the influences of these aliens. He was a Messenger for the Great White Brotherhood at the time. Many of his prophecies and dictations given on Atlantis have been lost forever. The only teachings we are left with are in The Book of Jasher and The Book of Enoch. This book was around long before Jesus Christ. Many Christians considered it scripture. Jesus himself considered it a handbook and often quoted from it. Some of the early literature of the Church Fathers refer to it. The "Epistle of Barnabus," Justin Martyr, Irenaeus, Origen and Clement of Alexandria and Tertullian all referred to Enoch's book. It was widely read and used for three centuries but became discredited along with many other books after the Council of Laodicea. It became an anathema because of its controversial teachings on fallen angels. After being wiped all most entriely from the awareness of mankind, It was rediscovered in 1773, three copies having been preserved by an Ethioptic Church. Here is a short introduction to the Book of Enoch from Forbidden Mysteries of Enoch by Elizabeth Clare Prophet pp. 9-14:

The Book of Enoch speaks from that obscure realm where history and mythology overlap. Privy to those unfathomable founts of ancient lore, its author draws for the reader a brimming cup of secret wisdom.

A primordial drama of good and evil, light and dark, unfolds. The book tracks Enoch's footsteps back to antiquity's timelessness—back to the first hint of corruption upon a pristine world: earth.

The trouble began, according to the Book of Enoch, when the heavenly angels and their leader named Samyaza developed an insatiable lust for the `daughters of men' upon earth and an irrepressible desire to beget children by these women. Samyaza feared to descend alone to the daughters of men, and so he convinced two hundred angels called Watchers to accompany him on his mission of pleasure.

Then the angels took oaths and bound themselves to the undertaking by "mutual execrations"—curses. Once such a pact was sealed, betrayal was punishable by unnamed horrors.

In their gang-inspired bravado, the angels descended and took wives from among the daughters of men. They taught the women sorcery, incantations, and divination—twisted versions of the secrets of heaven.

The plot thickens like a science-fiction thriller—easier to take as fantasy than as fact. The women conceive children from these angel— evil giants . The giants devour all the food that the men of earth can produce. Nothing satiates their hunger. They kill and eat birds, beasts, reptiles, and fish. To their gargantuan appetites, nothing is sacrosanct. Soon even Homo sapiens becomes a delicacy. (7:1-15)

As the story goes, one spiteful angel named Azazyel creates unnatural accouterments for their consorts—like eye makeup and fancy bracelets—to enhance their sex appeal. As for the men, Azazyel teaches them "every species of iniquity," including the means for making swords, knives, shields, breastplates—all the instruments of war. (8:1-9)

There, millennia ago, someone explained war not as a man-invented or God-sent plague, but as a vengeful act of a fallen angel barred from the planes of God's power. The implication is that man, through one form of manipulation or another, latched on to the war games of the fallen angels and allowed himself to commit genocide in defense of their archrivalries.

But there is more to Enoch's account of the Watchers. When the men of earth cry out against the atrocities heaped upon them, heaven hears their plea. The mighty archangels—Michael, Gabriel, Raphael, Suryal, and Uriel—appeal on behalf of earth's people before the Most High, the King of kings. (9:1-14)

The Lord orders Raphael to bind Azazyel hand and foot. Gabriel is sent to destroy the "children of fornication," the offspring of the Watchers—by inciting them to their own self-destruction in mutual slaughter. Michael is then authorized to bind Samyaza and his wicked offspring "for seventy generations underneath the earth, even to the day of judgment."9 And God sends the Great Flood to wipe out the evil giants, the children of the Watchers.

But in the succeeding generations (after the sinking of the continent of Atlantis) the giants return once again to haunt mankind. Likewise it seems that the Watchers will hold power over man (in some curiously undefined way) until the final judgment of these angels comes, which, the author implies, is long overdue.

There is also a most significant passage near the end of the book which speaks of the latter days upon earth:

In those days will the angels return and hurl themselves upon the East, ... to stir up the kings and provoke in them a spirit of unrest. . . .
And they will march up to and tread under foot the land of His elect ones. . . .
They will begin to fight amongst themselves. . . till the number of corpses through their slaughter is beyond count, and their punishment be no idle one. ... (Book of Enoch, Charles translation)

This seems a chilling prophecy of our own time— with wars and rumors of wars in "the East" and the countless corpses in a holy land. There is no date stamped on the prediction, but a few word changes in the right places would make it duplicate today's headlines.

The main theme of the Book of Enoch is the final judgment of these fallen angels, the Watchers, and their progeny, the evil spirits. But several other scenarios are also noteworthy.

In chapter 12 of the book, the Lord says to Enoch, scribe of righteousness,

Go tell the Watchers of heaven, who have deserted the lofty sky, and their holy everlasting station, who have been polluted with women, And have done as the sons of men do, by taking to themselves wives, and who have been greatly corrupted on the earth;
That on the earth they shall never obtain peace and remission of sin. For they shall not rejoice in their offspring; they shall behold the slaughter of their beloved; shall lament for the destruction of their sons; and shall petition for ever; but shall not obtain mercy and peace. (12:5-7)

In chapter 13 Enoch declares the Lord's judgment to Azazyel:

Thou shalt not obtain peace. A great sentence is gone forth against thee. He shall bind thee;
Neither shall relief, mercy, and supplication be thine, on account of the oppression which thou hast taught;
And on account of every act of blasphemy, tyranny, and sin, which thou hast discovered to the children of men. (13:1-3)

Chapter 13 also describes how the Watchers became terrified and trembled and besought Enoch to write for them a prayer for forgiveness, that he might cause their prayer to ascend to God, since they themselves could not address him on account of their offense. Enoch then reports to the Watchers:

I have written your petition; and in my vision it has been shown me, that what you request will not be granted you as long as the world endures.
Judgment has been passed upon you: your request will not be granted you.
From this time forward, never shall you ascend into heaven; He has said, that on the earth He will bind you, as long as the world endures.
But before these things you shall behold the destruction of your beloved sons; you shall not possess them, but they shall fall before you by the sword.
Neither shall you entreat for them, nor for yourselves;
But you shall weep and supplicate in silence. (14:2-7)

In chapter 15, the Glorious and the Effulgent, the Lord God, speaks again to righteous Enoch.

Go, say to the Watchers of heaven, who have sent thee to pray for them, You ought to pray for men, and not men for you. . . . You being spiritual, holy, and possessing a life which is eternal, have polluted yourselves with women; have begotten in carnal blood; have lusted in the blood of men; and have done as those who are flesh and blood do. These however die and perish.
Therefore have I given to them wives, that they might cohabit with them; that sons might be born of them; and that this might be transacted upon earth.
But you from the beginning were made spiritual, possessing a life which is eternal, and not subject to death for ever.
Therefore I made not wives for you, because, being spiritual, your dwelling is in heaven. (15:1, 3-7)

The Lord further explains to Enoch the nature of the offspring of the Watchers and the evil that they wreak upon the earth:

Now the giants, who have been born of spirit and of flesh, shall be called upon earth evil spirits, and on earth shall be their habitation. Evil spirits shall proceed from their flesh, because they were created from above; from the holy Watchers was their beginning and primary foundation. Evil spirits shall they be upon earth, and the spirits of the wicked shall they be called. The habitation of the spirits of heaven shall be in heaven; but upon earth shall be the habitation of terrestrial spirits, who are born on earth.
The spirits of the giants shall be like clouds, which shall oppress, corrupt, fall, contend, and bruise upon earth.
They shall cause lamentation. No food shall they eat; and they shall be thirsty; they shall be concealed, and shall not rise up against the sons of men, and against women; for they come forth during the days of slaughter and destruction.
And as to the death of the giants, wheresoever their spirits depart from their bodies, let their flesh, that which is perishable, be without judgment. Thus shall they perish, until the day of the great consummation of the great world. A destruction shall take place of the Watchers and the impious. (15:8-10; 16:1)

Because of so great a sin, the Lord tells the Watchers, "Never therefore shall you obtain peace." According to the text of the Book of Enoch, the Lord's judgement against the Watchers prevails—then and now. ...

Corrobative evidence for this fantastic tale is found in the Dead Sea scrolls:

The Enoch Scroll

The Enoch Scroll, from the Dead Sea Scrolls at Qumran

12. ...But you have changed your works,
13. [and have not done according to his command, and tran]sgressed against him; (and have spoken) haughty and harsh words, with your impure mouths,
14. [against his majesty, for your heart is hard]. You will have no peace. ...

13. [They (the leaders) and all ... of them took for themselves]
14. wives from all that they chose and [they began to cohabit with them and to defile themselves with them];
15. and to teach them sorcery and [spells and the cutting of roots; and to acquaint them with herbs.]
16. And they become pregnant by them and bo[re (great) giants three thousand cubits high ...]

Transcription by J. T. Milik, amended by J. C. Greenfield; translation by J. C. Greenfield found here: Library of Congress

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The fallen #angelic #aliens.. The "fields" in which the aliens / angels hide to this very day

2011-12-21T07:58:00.000-08:00

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Names of 1 Enoch Watchers

In the Book of Enoch, the watchers are angels dispatched to Earth to watch over the humans. They soon begin to lust for human women, and at the prodding of their leader Samyaza, they defect en masse to illicitly instruct and procreate among humanity. The offspring of these unions are the Nephilim, savage giants who pillage the earth and endanger humanity. Samyaza and associates further taught their human charges arts and technologies such as weaponry, cosmetics, mirrors, sorcery, and other techniques that would otherwise be discovered gradually over time by humans, not foisted upon them all at once.

Eventually God allows a Great Flood to rid the earth of the Nephilim, but first sends Uriel to warn Noah so as not to eradicate the human race. While Genesis says that the Nephilim remained "on the earth" even after the Great Flood, Jude says that the Watchers themselves are bound "in the valleys of the Earth" until Judgment Day. (See Genesis 6:4 and Jude 1:6, respectively)

There are 20 leaders in the Book of Enoch also called 1 Enoch the section that mentions them reads:

“ 7. And these are the names of their leaders: Sêmîazâz, their leader, Arâkîba, Râmêêl, Kôkabîêl, Tâmîêl, Râmîêl, Dânêl, Êzêqêêl, Barâqîjâl, Asâêl, Armârôs, Batârêl, Anânêl, Zaqîêl, Samsâpêêl, Satarêl, Tûrêl, Jômjâêl, Sariêl. 8. These are their chiefs of tens." - R. H. Charles translation, The Book of the Watchers, Chapter VI. ”

These are the leaders of 200 angels in 1 Enoch that are turned into fallen Angels because they took wives, mated with human women, and taught forbidden knowledge.

Araqiel (also Arakiel, Araqael, Araciel, Arqael, Sarquael, Arkiel, Arkas) [5] taught humans the signs of the earth. However, in the Sibylline Oracles, Araqiel is referred to not as a fallen angel, or Watcher, but as one of the 5 angels who lead the souls of men to judgement, the other 4 being Ramiel, Uriel, Samiel, and Azazel.

Armaros (also Amaros) in Enoch I taught men the resolving of enchantments.

Azazel[6] taught men to make knives, swords, shields, and how to devise ornaments and cosmetics.

Gadriel taught the art of cosmetics.

Baraqel (Baraqiel) taught men astrology[7]

Bezaliel mentioned in Enoch I, left out of most translations because of damaged manuscripts and problematic transmission of the text.

Chazaqiel (sometimes Ezeqeel) taught men the signs of the clouds (meteorology).[5]

Kokabiel (also Kakabel, Kochbiel, Kokbiel, Kabaiel, and Kochab),[8] is a high-ranking, holy angel but, in general apocryphal lore and also in Enoch I, he is a fallen Watcher, resident of nether realms, and commands 365,000 surrogate spirits to do his bidding. Among other duties, he instructs his fellows in astrology.

Penemue[9] "taught mankind the art of writing with ink and paper," and taught "the children of men the bitter and the sweet and the secrets of wisdom."

Sariel (also Suriel) taught mankind about the courses of the moon (at one time regarded as forbidden knowledge).[10]

Samyaza (also Shemyazaz, Shamazya, Semiaza, Shemhazi, Semyaza and Amezyarak) is one of the leaders of the fall from heaven.[11]

Shamsiel, once a guardian of Eden,[12] served as one of the 2 chief aides to the archangel Uriel (the other aide being Hasdiel) when Uriel bore his standard into battle, and is the head of 365 legions of angels and also crowns prayers, accompanying them to the 5th heaven. He is referred to[13] as one of the Watchers. He is a fallen angel who teaches the signs of the sun.[14]

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Dear Jamie Dimon, | via @ReformedBroker

2011-12-21T06:54:00.000-08:00

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"So, no, we don't hate the rich. What we hate are the predators."
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Joshua M Brown December 20th, 2011

Dear Jamie Dimon,

I hope this note finds you well.

I am writing to profess my utter disbelief at how little you seem to understand the current mood of the nation. In a story at Bloomberg today, you and a handful of fellow banker and billionaire "job creators" were quoted as believing that the horrific sentiment directed toward you from virtually all corners of America had something to do with how much money you had. I'd like to take a moment to disabuse you of this foolishness.

America is different than almost every other place on earth in that its citizenry reveres the wealthy and we are raised to believe that we can all one day join the ranks of the rich. The lack of a caste system or visible rungs of society's ladder is what separates our empire from so many fallen empires throughout history. In a nation bereft of royalty by virtue of its republican birth, the American people have done what any other resourceful people would do - we've created our own royalty and our royalty is the 1%. Not only do we not "hate the rich" as you and other em-bubbled plutocrats have postulated, in point of fact, we love them. We worship our rich to the point of obsession. The highest-rated television shows uniformly feature the unimaginably fabulous families of celebrities not to mention the housewives (real or otherwise) of the rich. We don't care what color they are or what religion they practice or where in the country they live or what channel their show is on - if they're rich, we are watching.

When Derek Jeter was toyed with by the New York Yankees when it came time for him to renew his next hundred million dollar contract, the people empathized with Derek Jeter. Sure, this disagreement essentially took place between one of the wealthiest organizations in the country and one of the wealthiest private citizens - but we rooted for Jeter to get his money. Nobody begrudged him a penny of it or wanted a piece of it or decried the fact that he was luckier than the rest of us. In the American psyche, Jeter was one of the good guys who was deservedly successful. He was one of us and an example of hard work paying off.

Likewise, when Steve Jobs died, he did so with more money than you or any of your "job alliance" buddies - ten times more than most of you, in fact. And upon his death the entire nation went into mourning. We set up makeshift shrines to his brilliance in front of Apple stores from coast to coast. His biography flew off the shelves and people bought Apple products and stock shares in his honor and in his memory. Does that strike you as the action of a populace that hates success?

No, Jamie, it is not that Americans hate successful people or the wealthy. In fact, it is just the opposite. We love the success stories in our midst and it is a distinctly American trait to believe that we can all follow in the footsteps of the elite, even though so few of us ever actually do.

So, no, we don't hate the rich. What we hate are the predators.

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The Book of Enoch - The Reluctant Messenger

2011-12-21T06:28:00.000-08:00

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Genesis 5:18-24 [18] Jared lived one hundred and sixty-two years, and begot Enoch. [19] After he begot Enoch, Jared lived eight hundred years, and had sons and daughters. [20] So all the days of Jared were nine hundred and sixty-two years; and he died. [21] Enoch lived sixty-five years, and begot Methuselah. [22] After he begot Methuselah, Enoch walked with God three hundred years, and had sons and daughters. [23] So all the days of Enoch were three hundred and sixty-five years. [24] And Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him.

Hebrews 11:5 By faith Enoch was taken away so that he did not see death, "and was not found, because God had taken him"; for before he was taken he had this testimony, that he pleased God.

Jude 1:14-15 [14] Now Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied about these men also, saying, "Behold, the Lord comes with ten thousands of His saints, [15] to execute judgment on all, to convict all who are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have committed in an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him."

We first learn of Enoch in Genesis 5 but it leaves us with questions. Hebrews 11 has the answers and Jude quotes Enoch! How did Jude come to know the words of Enoch? They are not in the Bible. The answer of course, is The Book of Enoch. A book which is actually quoted by Jude in the New Testament. What is the Book of Enoch and where did it come from?

Enoch was the great-grandfather of Noah. The Book of Enoch chapter 68:1 "And after that my great-grandfather Enoch gave me all the secrets in the book and in the parables which had been given to him, and he put them together for me in the words of the book of the parables."

The Book of Enoch was extant centuries before the birth of Christ and yet is considered by many to be more Christian in its theology than Jewish. It was considered scripture by many early Christians. The earliest literature of the so-called "Church Fathers" is filled with references to this mysterious book. The early second century "Epistle of Barnabus" makes much use of the Book of Enoch. Second and Third Century "Church Fathers" like Justin Martyr, Irenaeus, Origin and Clement of Alexandria all make use of the Book of Enoch. Tertullian (160-230 C.E) even called the Book of Enoch "Holy Scripture". The Ethiopic Church even added the Book of Enoch to its official canon. It was widely known and read the first three centuries after Christ. This and many other books became discredited after the Council of Laodicea. And being under ban of the authorities, afterwards it gradually passed out of circulation.

At about the time of the Protestant Reformation, there came to be a renewed interest in the Book of Enoch which had long since been lost to the modern world. By the late 1400's rumors began to spread that somewhere a copy of the long lost Book of Enoch might still exist. During this time many books arose claiming to be the long lost book and were later found to be forgeries.

The return of the long lost Book of Enoch to the modern western world is credited to the famous explorer James Bruce, who in 1773 returned from six years in Abyssinia with three Ethiopic copies of the lost book. In 1821 Richard Laurence published the first English translation. The famous R.H. Charles edition was published in 1912. In the following years several portions of the Greek text surfaced. Then with the discovery of cave 4 of the Dead Sea Scrolls, seven fragmentary copies of the Aramaic text were discovered.

There are scholars who believe the Book of Enoch was published before the Christian era by some great unknown of Semetic race, who believing himself to be inspired in a post-prophetic age, borrowed the name of an antediluvian patriarch to authenticate his own enthusiastic forcast of the coming Messiah. The Book of Enoch is divided into five basic parts, but it is the The Book of Parables (37-71) which gives scholars the most trouble for it is primarily concerned with a figure called "the messiah"; "the righteous one"; "the chosen one" and "the son of man."

The Book of Enoch Chapter 46:1-2 [1] There I beheld the Ancient of days whose head was like white wool, and with him another, whose countenance resembled that of a man. His countenance was full of grace, like that of one of the holy angels. Then I inquired of one of the angels, who went with me, and who showed me every secret thing, concerning this Son of man; who he was; whence he was; and why he accompanied the Ancient of days. [2] He answered and said to me, This is the Son of man, to whom righteousness belongs; with whom righteousness has dwealt; and who will reveal all the treasures of that which is concealed: for the Lord of spirits has chosen him; and his portion has surpassed all before the Lord of spirits in everlasting uprightness."

(1) 1 Enoch

Discovery of the "Lost Text"
"The Greek word pseudepigrapha is a Greek word meaning 'falsely superscribed,' or what we moderns might call writing under a pen name. The classification, 'OT Pseudepigrapha,' is a label that scholars have given to these writings."
- Craig A. Evans, Noncanonical Writings and New Testament Interpretation, (1992) p. 22

"The Book of Enoch is a pseudepigraphical work (a work that claims to be by a biblical character). The Book of Enoch was not included in either the Hebrew or most Christian biblical canons, but could have been considered a sacred text by the sectarians."
- Milik, Jazef. T., ed. The Books of Enoch: Aramaic Fragments of Qumran Cave 4

The Book of Enoch is "an ancient composition known from two sets of versions, an Ethiopic one that scholars identify as '1 Enoch', and a Slavonic version that is identified as '2 Enoch', and which is also known as The Book of the Secrets of Enoch. Both versions, of which copied manuscripts have been found mostly in Greek and Latin translations, are based on early sources that enlarged on the short biblical mention that Enoch, the seventh Patriarch after Adam, did not die because, at age 365, 'he walked with God' - taken heavenward to join the deity."
- Zecharia Sitchin, When Time Began

"I Enoch, also known as the Ethiopic Apocalypse of Enoch, is the oldest of the three pseudepigraphal books attributed to Enoch, the man who apparently did not die, but was taken up to heaven (Gen 5:24). The book was originally written in either Hebrew or Aramaic, perhaps both, but it survives in complete form only in Ethiopic (Ge'ez), and in fragmentary form in Aramaic, Greek (1:1-32:6; 6:1-10:14; 15:8-16:1; 89:42-49; 97:6-104), and Latin (106:1-18)."
"The materials in I Enoch range in date from 200 B.C.E. to 50 C.E. I Enoch contributes much to intertestamental views of angels, heaven, judgment, resurrection, and the Messiah. This book has left its stamp upon many of the NT writers, especially the author of Revelation."
- Craig A. Evans, Noncanonical Writings and New Testament Interpretation, (1992) p. 23

"Prior to the eighteenth century, scholars had believed the Book of Enoch to be irretrievably lost: composed long before the birth of Christ, and considered to be one of the most important pieces of Jewish mystical literature, it was only known from fragments and from references to it in other texts. James Bruce changed all this by procuring several copies of the missing work during his stay in Ethiopia. These were the first complete editions of the Book of Enoch ever to be seen in Europe."
- Graham Hancock, The Sign and the Seal

"The Book of Enoch remained in darkness until 1821, when the long years of dedicated work by a professor of Hebrew at the University of Oxford were finally rewarded with the publication of the first ever English translation of the Book of Enoch. The Reverend Richard Laurence, Archbishop of Cashel, had labored for many hundreds of hours over the faded manuscript in the hands of the Bodleian Library, carefully substituting English words and expressions for the original Geez, while comparing the results with known extracts, such as the few brief chapters preserved in Greek by Syncellus during the ninth century."
- Andrew Collins, From the Ashes of Angels - The Forbidden Legacy of a Fallen Race (1996) p. 21

"The original Aramaic version was lost until the Dead Sea fragments were discovered."
"The original language of most of this work was, in all likelihood, Aramaic (an early Semitic language). Although the original version was lost in antiquity, portions of a Greek translation were discovered in Egypt and quotations were known from the Church Fathers. The discovery of the texts from Qumran Cave 4 has finally provided parts of the Aramaic original. ...Humankind is called on to observe how unchanging nature follows God's will."
- Milik, Jazef. T., ed. The Books of Enoch: Aramaic Fragments of Qumran Cave 4

Composition
"1 Enoch, preserved in a full, 108-chapter form in Ethiopic, consists of five parts and one appended chapter. It originated in Aramaic (perhaps Hebrew for chaps. 37-71), was translated into Greek, and from Greek into Ethiopic."
- James C. Vanderkam (Professor of Hebrew Scriptures at the University of Notre Dame)

"The Aramaic Book of Enoch...very considerably influenced the idiom of the New Testament and patristic literature, more so in fact than any other writing of the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha."
- Norman Golb, Who Wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls?, (1995) p. 366

"As it now stands, I Enoch appears to consist of the following five major divisions:
(1) The Book of the Watchers (chaps. 1-36);
(2) The Book of the Similitudes (chaps. 37-7l)-,
(3) The Book of Astronomical Writings (chaps. 72-82);
(4) The Book of Dream Visions (chaps. 83-90); and
(5) The Book of the Epistle of Enoch (chaps. 91-107)."
- Craig A. Evans, Noncanonical Writings and New Testament Interpretation, (1992) p. 23

"Chaps. 1-36 The Book of the Watchers may date from the third century BCE. Parts of its text have been identified on several copies from Qumran cave 4; the earliest fragmentary manuscript (4QEnocha) dates, according to the editor J.T. Milk, to between 200 and 150 BCE. All Qumran copies are in the Aramaic language."
- James C. Vanderkam

"James Vanderkam divides the first part of 1 Enoch into five sections:
1-5 a theophany followed by an eschatological admonition
6-11 the angel story (stories)
12-16 Enoch and the failed petition of the angels who descended,
17-19 Enoch's first journey,
20-36 Enoch's second journey (chap. 20 is a list of angels who are connected with the journeys)."
- Tom Simms (CrossTalk)

"Chaps. 37-71 The Book of Parables (or the Similitudes of Enoch) may have been composed in the late first century BCE; a number of scholars prefer to place it in the first or even the second century CE. Milik assigns it to the late third century CE. No fragments of these chapters have been found at Qumran, and some think their original language was Hebrew, not Aramaic."
- James C. Vanderkam

"Chaps. 72-82 The Astronomical Book, like the Book of Watchers, may date from the third century BCE; the oldest copy of it seems to have been made not long after 200 BCE. Sizable portions of the text are preserved on four copies, written in Aramaic, from Qumran cave 4. The Aramaic original appears to have been much different and much longer than the Ethiopic text, adding far more astronomical details."
- James C. Vanderkam

Authorship
"A world view so encyclopaediac that it embraced the geography of heaven and earth, astronomy, meteorology, medicine was no part of Jewish tradition - but was familiar to educated Greeks, but attempting to emulate and surpass Greek wisdom, by having an integrating divine plan for destiny, elaborated through an angelic host with which Enoch is in communication through his mystical travels."
- Chris King, "The Apocalyptic Tradition"

Although the Book of Enoch is considered as apocryphal, it was clearly known to early Christian writers as the following quote from 1 Enoch 1:9 indicates:

"In the seventh (generation) from Adam Enoch also prophesied these things, saying: 'Behold, the Lord came with his holy myriads, to execute judgment on all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their ungodly deeds which they have committed in such an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things which ungodly sinners spoke against him'."
- Jude 14-15
2 Enoch
"2 Enoch, or the Slavonic Apocalypse of Enoch, was written late first century C.E. in Egypt by a Jew. It survives only in late Old Slavonic manuscripts. It may have been composed originally in Aramaic or Hebrew, later being translated into Greek, and later still being translated into Old Slavonic. It is an amplification of Gen 5:21-32 (from Enoch to the Flood). Major theological themes include:
(1) God created the world out of nothing (24:2);
(2) seven heavens (30:2-3) and angelic hosts;
(3) God created the souls of men before the foundation of the earth (23:5);
(4) abodes of heaven and hell are already prepared for righteous and sinners; and
(5) ethical teachings, which at times parallel those of the NT and Proverbs."
- Craig A. Evans, Noncanonical Writings and New Testament Interpretation, (1992) p. 23

Date: 07/22/2000 Author: David Chariot "beth_marcaboth@hotmail.com" posted in alt.religion.christian.pentecostal
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About the Book of Enoch
(also known as "Ethiopian Enoch" or "1 Enoch")

The Book of Enoch (also known as 1 Enoch) was once cherished by Jews and Christians alike, this book later fell into disfavor with powerful theologians - precisely because of its controversial statements on the nature and deeds of the fallen angels.

The Enochian writings, in addition to many other writings that were excluded (or lost) from the Bible (i.e., the Book of Tobit, Esdras, etc.) were widely recognized by many of the early church fathers as "apocryphal" writings. The term "apocrypha" is derived from the Greek word meaning "hidden" or "secret". Originally, the import of the term may have been complimentary in that the term was applied to sacred books whose contents were too exalted to be made available to the general public.

In Dan. 12:9-10 we hear of words that are shut up until the end of time and, words that the wise shall understand and the wicked shall not. In addition, 4 Ezra 14:44ff. mentions 94 books, of which 24 (the OT) were to be published and 70 were to be delivered only to the wise among the people (= apocrypha). Gradually, the term "apocrypha" took on a pejorative connotation, for the orthodoxy of these hidden books was often questionable. Origen (Comm. in Matt. 10.18; p. 13.881)
distinguished between books that were to be read in public worship and apocryphal books. Because these secret books were often preserved for use within the esoteric circles of the divinely - knit believers, many of the critically - spirited or "unenlightened" Church Fathers found themselves outside the realm of understanding, and therefore came to apply the term "apocryphal" to, what they claimed to be, heretical works which were forbidden to be read.

In Protestant parlance, "the Apocrypha" designate 15 works, all but one of which are Jewish in origin and found in the Septuagint (parts of 2 Esdras are Christian and Latin in origin). Although some of them were composed in Palestine in Aramaic or Hebrew, they were not accepted into the Jewish canon formed late in the 2nd cent. AD (Canonicity, 67:31-35). The Reformers, influenced by the Jewish canon of the OT, did not consider these books on a par with the rest of the Scriptures; thus the custom arose of making the Apocrypha a separate section in the
Protestant Bible, or sometimes even of omitting them entirely
(Canonicity, 67:44-46). The Catholic view, expressed as a doctrine of faith at the Council of Trent, is that 12 of these 15 works (in a different enumeration, however) are canonical Scripture; they are called the Deuterocanonical Books (Canonicity, 67:21, 42-43).

The three books of the Protestant Apocrypha that are not accepted by Catholics are 1-2 Esdras and the Prayer of Manasseh. The theme of the Book of Enoch dealing with the nature and deeds of the fallen angels so infuriated the later Church fathers that one, Filastrius, actually condemned it openly as heresy (Filastrius, Liber de Haeresibus, no. 108). Nor did the rabbis deign to give credence to the book's teaching about angels. Rabbi Simeon ben Jochai in the second century A.D. pronounced a curse upon those who believed it (Delitzsch, p. 223). So the book was denounced, banned, cursed, no doubt burned and
shredded - and last but not least, lost (and conveniently forgotten) for a thousand years. But with an uncanny persistence, the Book of Enoch found its way back into circulation two centuries ago.

In 1773, rumors of a surviving copy of the book drew Scottish explorer James Bruce to distant Ethiopia. True to hearsay, the Book of Enoch had been preserved by the Ethiopic church, which put it right alongside the other books of the Bible. Bruce secured not one, but three Ethiopic copies of the book and brought them back to Europe and Britain. When in 1821 Dr. Richard Laurence, a Hebrew professor at Oxford, produced the first English translation of the work, the modern world gained its first glimpse of the forbidden mysteries of Enoch.

Most scholars say that the present form of the story in the Book of Enoch was penned sometime during the second century B.C. and was popular for at least five hundred years. The earliest Ethiopic text was apparently made from a Greek manuscript of the Book of Enoch, which itself was a copy of an earlier text. The original was apparently written in Semitic language, now thought to be Aramaic.

Though it was once believed to be post-Christian (the similarities to Christian terminology and teaching are striking), recent discoveries of copies of the book among the Dead Sea Scrolls found at Qumran prove that the book was in existence before the time of Jesus Christ. But the date of the original writing upon which the second century B.C. Qumran copies were based is shrouded in obscurity. It is, in a word, old. It has been largely the opinion of historians that the book does not really contain the authentic words of the ancient biblical patriarch Enoch, since he would have lived (based on the chronologies in the Book of Genesis) several thousand years earlier than the first known appearance of the book attributed to him.

Despite its unknown origins, Christians once accepted the words of this Book of Enoch as authentic scripture, especially the part about the fallen angels and their prophesied judgment. In fact, many of the key concepts used by Jesus Christ himself seem directly connected to terms and ideas in the Book of Enoch. Thus, it is hard to avoid the conclusion that Jesus had not only studied the book, but also respected it highly enough to adopt and elaborate on its specific descriptions of the coming kingdom and its theme of inevitable judgment descending upon "the wicked" - the term most often used in the Old Testament to describe the Watchers.

There is abundant proof that Christ approved of the Book of Enoch. Over a hundred phrases in the New Testament find precedents in the Book of Enoch. Another remarkable bit of evidence for the early Christians' acceptance of the Book of Enoch was for many years buried under the King James Bible's mistranslation of Luke 9:35, describing the
transfiguration of Christ: "And there came a voice out of the cloud, saying, 'This is my beloved Son: hear him." Apparently the translator here wished to make this verse agree with a similar verse in Matthew and Mark. But Luke's verse in the original Greek reads: "This is my Son, the Elect One (from the Greek ho eklelegmenos, lit., "the elect one"): hear him." The "Elect One" is a most significant term (found fourteen times) in the Book of Enoch. If the book was indeed known to the apostles of Christ, with its abundant descriptions of the Elect One who should "sit upon the throne of glory" and the Elect One who should "dwell in the midst of them," then the great scriptural authenticity is accorded to the Book of Enoch when the "voice out of the cloud" tells the apostles, "This is my Son, the Elect One" - the one promised in the Book of Enoch.

The Book of Jude tells us in vs. 14 that "Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied..." Jude also, in vs. 15, makes a direct reference to the Book of Enoch (2:1), where he writes, "to execute judgment on all, to convict all who are ungodly..." The time difference between Enoch and Jude is approximately 3400 years. Therefore, Jude's reference to the Enochian prophesies strongly leans toward the conclusion that these written prophesies were available to him at that time.

Fragments of ten Enoch manuscripts were found among the Dead Sea Scrolls. The famous scrolls actually comprise only one part of the total findings at Qumran. Much of the rest was Enochian literature, copies of the Book of Enoch, and other apocryphal works in the Enochian tradition, like the Book of Jubilees. With so many copies around, the Essenes could well have used the Enochian writings as a community prayer book or teacher's manual and study text.

The Book of Enoch was also used by writers of the noncanonical (i.e. apocryphal or "hidden") texts. The author of the apocryphal Epistle of Barnabas quotes the Book of Enoch three times, twice calling it "the Scripture," a term specifically denoting the inspired Word of God (Epis. of Barnabas 4:3, 16:5,6). Other apocryphal works reflect knowledge of the Enoch story of the Watchers, notably the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs and the Book of Jubilees.

Many of the early church fathers also supported the Enochian writings. Justin Martyr ascribed all evil to demons whom he alleged to be the offspring of the angels who fell through lust for women (from the Ibid.)-directly referencing the Enochian writings. Athenagoras, writing in his work called Legatio in about 170 A.D., regards Enoch as a true prophet. He describes the angels which "violated both their own nature and their office." In his writings, he goes into detail about the nature of fallen angels and the cause of their fall, which comes directly from the Enochian writings.

Many other church fathers: Tatian (110-172); Irenaeus, Bishop of Lyons (115-185); Clement of Alexandria (150-220); Tertullian (160-230); Origen (186-255); Lactantius (260-330); in addition to: Methodius of Philippi, Minucius Felix, Commodianus, and Ambrose of Milanalso-also approved of and supported the Enochian writings.

The twentieth-century discovery of several Aramaic Enochian texts among the Dead Sea Scrolls prompted Catholic scholar J.T. Milik to compile a complete history of the Enochian writings, including translations of the Aramaic manuscripts. Milik's 400-page book, published in 1976 by Oxford (J. T. Milik, ed. and trans., The Books of Enoch: Aramaic Fragments of Qumran Cave 4, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1976) is a milestone in Enochian scholarship, and Milik himself is no doubt one of the finest experts on the subject. His opinions, based as they are on years of in-depth research, are highly respected.

One by one the arguments against the Book of Enoch fade away. The day may soon arrive when the final complaints about the Book of Enoch's lack of historicity and "late date" are also silenced by new evidence of the book's real antiquity.

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Four former Mid-Missouri Bank officials banned from banking

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This post was pilfered from The Joplin Globe website

Please note bracketed areas "[...]" are my highlights..

How does this [bullshit] pass for transparency?
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December 19, 2011
Four former Mid-Missouri Bank officials banned from banking
By Wally Kennedy
news@joplinglobe.com

JOPLIN, Mo. — Four former officials with Mid-Missouri Bank have been banned from further participation in the banking and financial industry by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.

Three of them also have been ordered to pay civil penalties.

Agreeing to the consent orders issued in October by the FDIC were Scott Rosenthal, former president and chief executive officer of Mid-Missouri Bank at 2230 E. 32nd St.; Frank B. McReynolds, a former senior vice president at that location; K. Chris Couch, a former executive vice president at that location; and Kayla Muskrat, a former loan officer at that location.

Rosenthal was ordered to pay civil penalties of $62,500; Couch, $50,000; and McReynolds, $13,500.

Rosenthal, formerly employed by the Hunte Corp., [could not be reached for comment] on Monday. Couch, who now works for a Joplin-based electrical supply company, [was unavailable for comment]. McReynolds, who also lives in the Joplin area, [could not be reached for comment] on Monday. Muskrat has an unlisted telephone number.

The bank employees were either fired or suspended in April 2007 when the bank announced it was launching an investigation in cooperation with the FDIC, the Missouri Division of Finance, the FBI and a bonding company.

At the time of the dismissals, Mid-Missouri Bank told its depositors and other customers that none of them were at risk.

A bank spokesman at the time said no credit had been extended to any customer beyond their ability to repay and that the incidents involving the employees had been going on for some time.

In agreeing to the consent orders, the four waived their right to a hearing of allegations that they violated the law, participated in unsafe and unsound banking practices and breached their fiduciary duties.

[Without admitting or denying any violations of the law or banking regulations], the four consented to the issuance of the orders by the FDIC.

LaJuan William-Young, spokeswoman for the FDIC, on Monday said the orders ban the former bank employees from working in the banking and financial industry. She said [she could not comment on or reveal the specific violations each respondent faced].

Travis Ford, spokesman for the Missouri Division of Finance, said the orders were issued by the FDIC. Because of that, [inquiries about the violations must be directed to the FDIC].

Ford said orders issued by the FDIC that relate to individuals “usually involve bad loans that put their bank at risk.’’

Eric McClure, president and chief executive officer of Springfield-based Mid-Missouri Bank, said, “We at Mid-Missouri Bank are absolutely dedicated to the Joplin community. [We are in good financial shape]. The actions by these individuals were more than four years ago. [We have moved on], and we’re thankful that justice does come around sometimes later than we wish.’’

McClure, who was named president of the bank in August 2010, said he is [not familiar with the incidents that were investigated]. As to their gravity, he said, “It has to be pretty serious for them to be banned from banking.’’

The FDIC, in its orders, said it had considered the matter and determined it [had reason to believe that the respondents had engaged or participated in violations of the law that would cause Mid-Missouri bank to suffer financial losses or other damage].

The FDIC said “such violations, practices and breaches of fiduciary duty involve personal dishonesty on the part of the respondent or demonstrate respondent’s [willful and continuing disregard for the safety or soundness of the bank].’’

The FDIC said its investigation showed the respondents’ “unfitness to serve’’ as a director or officer in the affairs of a bank.

Rosenthal, past president of the Joplin Area Chamber of Commerce, was employed from 1979 to 2001 by Southwest Missouri Bank, where he started as a part-time college teller, records show. He managed two locations for the bank in the Joplin market. [He also managed the bank’s investment portfolio] and handled trust department activities.

From September 2001 to April 2007, he was president of Bank of Joplin/Webb City Bank, managing six locations and more than 50 employees. During his tenure, the bank [grew total assets from $66 million to $275 million], moving from tenth in the marketplace to third.

Mid-Missouri Bank

On Aug. 1, 2006, Mid-Missouri Bank became the new name of the three Bank of Joplin locations and two Webb City Bank locations. Mid-Missouri Bank had been the parent bank of those locations since 1977.

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Perhaps the most important thing you will ever read - Seriously

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From oftwominds.com Charles Hugh Smith
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2011: The Last (Debt-Consumerist) Christmas in America

December 20, 2011 (Mobile version)

The end of debt-based affluence: welcome to The Last Christmas in America (TLCIA).
Almost 35 years ago, as unemployment rose toward 10%, the January 1975 cover of Ramparts magazine blared: The End of Affluence: The Last Christmas in America. (TLCIA)

The article wasn't referring to the religious celebration; it was referring to the postwar concept of Christmas as the frenzied, exhausting year-end pinnacle of our one true secular faith, Consumption, a final orgy of buying and binging.

It is instructive to recall how the Federal government responded to unemployment, high inflation and rising budget deficits in the early 1970s: it began fudging numbers, manipulating data to mask the politically inconvenient realities of rising inflation, unemployment and deficits by playing switcheroo with Social Security Trust Funds, inflation data, etc.--games it continues to play in 2011 to cloak reality from the media-numbed public.

The market was not so easily fooled. The Bear market, reflecting the "real" recession, lasted 16 years, from 1967 to 1982. Now statistics are echoing that last great recession: rising prices for essentials, systemically high unemployment and stagnant wages while the corporate media and the organs of statistical manipulation (a.k.a. the sprawling, putrid public-private cesspool of the Ministry of Propaganda) trumpet "the return of growth" and skyrocketing corporate profits.

(Today's propaganda: housing starts blip up due to statistical noise, and though starts are less than half pre-recession levels, this is heralded as "evidence" that "strong growth is back.")

The difference between the postwar boom of 1946 and the boom that followed 1982 is the last boom was based on the explosive expansion of debt. People didn't save and invest in productive assets; they went into debt to consume more and to become a "bigger" persona via the miracle of credit.

I often use this chart to make this point: if credit had expanded along with GDP, then we'd be considerably less indebted. Instead, it required a vast expansion of debt--some $30 trillion more than the rise in GDP--to fuel the 1982-2000 boom.

From oftwominds.com Charles Hugh Smith

Priest Nearly Arrested at Council Meeting for Exercising First Amendment

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Kurt Nimmo

Infowars.com

December 19, 2011

In Florida, if you make an unflattering comparison about the abuse of government authority during an open forum at a city council meeting, you may face the possibly of being “out of order” and subject to removal by police.
Father Nathan Monk of Pensacola, Florida, faced just such a situation on Friday when members of the city council there ruled him out of order.

Monk had not raised his voice or threatened anybody. He merely stated in no uncertain terms that the government violated the civil liberties of several citizens who had spoken in opposition to proposed anti-homeless ordinances earlier in the week.
The council took umbrage and had the citizens removed after they made comparisons between the ordinances and Heinrich Himmler’s Final Solution.
“As Americans, we have the right to redress our government without fear of being arrested,” said Monk. “Whether or not they’re connecting dots from Hitler to George Wallace to Barney … you should be asking, ‘well what are we doing that’s allowing people to connect those dots?’ It was a sick and gross abuse of power.”
Council President Hall interrupted Monk. “Your time is up, sit down,” he said.
“No, I have a minute and 12 seconds left,” Monk said as he glanced at the timer on the speaker’s lectern.
“I’m ruling you out of order,” Hall said.
At that point the council had cops flank Monk.
The priest was not arrested and two council members stormed off in protest of the obvious dictatorial behavior of their fellow members.
The incident is more evidence that government – from the federal government all the way down to state and local government – is increasingly out of control and often flagrantly violates the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. It treats citizens like subjects to be abused, culled for “revenue enhancement,” victimized by militarized police, and taxed relentlessly.

Why I think $EURAUD & $GBPAUD are headed higher still #Trade analysis

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Be sure to read my f'ing disclaimer ;)

This is all just for FUN! Right ;) LMAO

I'm in these EURAUD 1.3130 & 1.3036 & one remaining GBPAUD from 1.5548 after closing initial entry +58.6 pips.

Here are the charts & a brief analysis..

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Thank you and please come back ;)

Greg

The most beautiful chart I've ever drawn.. $GBPAUDm30 #FX #traders #newbies

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I'll let the picture speak a thousand words for itself ;)

However, please be aware that this trade may or may not work out as I anticipate.. You MUST trade and properly manage your own account risk / leverage. I am not a licensed financial adviser so you're f'ing on your own with all this FX trading BS.. ;)

But hey.. IF you're struggling why not try this setup? It's beautiful enough just to sit around and stare at.. Which I do often myself LMAO

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Trying something very simple this morning.. $GBPAUD

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Trying something very simple this morning.. Bought a close above this 13 EMA (dashed line) & using 21 EMA as progress report ;)
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This is likely the first time they actually "spoke to me"

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This is likely the first time they actually "spoke to me". I see that this album was released in March of 1976 which would have made me about 18 years old..

I was living on my own for the first time. It's a very strange story how my attachment to this particular song came about and how it has stayed with me through all these years.

But I'm not going to go into it here ;)

Actually I have had many strange experiences over the course of my 54 years on the planet.. Dreams, visions, encounters.. These seemingly strange occurrences have run like a thread through my entire life. Always there, somehow connected. Telling me something. But not quite what..

They stay in touch with me in a subtle way.. Just outside the realm of conscientiousness.

And compelling me.. compelling me to..

???

Enjoy ;)
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Lyrics

Connolly/Priest/Scott/Tucker

I met the healer in the twilight of my life
He was the purity in my madness side
He take me far beyond the sunshine and the snow
My faith in him ignites a charismatic glow

Cure me, cure me, cure me
Cure me, cure me (Repeat 4 times)

He leads me through the twisted chasms of my mind
He saved me from the fated final sacrifice
He spoke to me with the palm of his hand
I hear you calling
I hear you calling
I hear you calling
I hear you calling

Deliver me, deliver me, deliver me, deliver me
Deliver me, deliver me

I am the healer in the twilight of your life
I am the purity in your madness side
Cure me, cure me, cure me,
Cure me, cure me (Repeat 4 times)

I speak to you with the palm of my hand
I am the healer
I am the healer
I am the healer
I am the healer

Deliver me, deliver me, deliver me, deliver me
Deliver me, deliver me
Healer (Repeat till fade)

Short term gold targets

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Reasons for gold to possibly catch a bounce between 1530 & 1477 areas.. Possible test of the 61.8 [1644] shown here before heading lower?

Or simply head straight for hell?
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What the #government & #FED DON'T want you to realize - Wise up #ows

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Many foreign dictators & hostile states are merely whores for American military aid.. For decades American government, American politicians, have been able to BUY whatever cooperation they seek in the world around us..

In short we create advanced weapons systems and LOAN money (fiat) to foreign tyrants, at interest, who agree to kill the right people with said United States financed weaponry.

U.S. Foreign Military Assistance <-- source

Program Descriptions Program Reports Budget Requests Other Documents USAID Greenbook

Program Descriptions

Listed below are several U.S. programs that provide foreign states with military and related assistance, directly and indirectly supporting U.S. arms transfers.

Foreign Military Financing: Foreign Military Financing refers to congressionally appropriated grants given to foreign governments to finance the purchase of American-made weapons, services and training. Since 1950, the US government has provided over $91 billion in FMF to militaries around the world. The vast majority of these funds goes to Israel and Egypt to reward them for making a cold peace in 1979.

Economic Support Fund: Congress established the economic support fund (ESF) to promote economic and political stability in strategically important regions where the United States has special security interests. The funds are provided on a grant basis and are available for a variety of economic purposes, like infrastructure and development projects. Although not intended for military expenditure, these grants allow the recipient government to free up its own money for military programs.

International Military Education and Training: International Military Education and Training (IMET) grants are given to foreign governments to pay for professional education in military management and technical training on US weapons systems. Over 2,000 courses are offered, including some on human rights and civil-military relations. This program is said by its proponents to promote positive military-to-military contacts, thereby familiarizing foreign officers with "US values and democratic processes," though critics argue there is too much emphasis on military skills and not enough on human rights. The Expanded IMET program offered to certain states only focuses on the latter.

Counter-Narcotics Assistance: Through International Narcotics Control programs, the US government provides funds for military equipment and training to overseas police and armed forces to combat the production and trafficking of illegal drugs. These funds are generally dedicated to the export of firearms and the refurbishment of surveillance aircraft, transport planes and helicopters.Additional counter-narcotics training and equipment is provided by the Department of Defense, the Drug Enforcement Agency and other agencies. In recent years, human rights abuses by military and police units receiving this aid - especially in Colombia - have intensified criticism of the program.

Non-Proliferation, Anti-terrorism, Demining, and Related Programs: This category of funding provides resources in support of a variety of security-related foreign policy objectives. Funds go to nuclear non-proliferation programs, anti-terrorism aid, demining activities, and - a new item in FY 2001 - small arms destruction programs.

"Anti-Terrorism Program of the Department of State," State Department, 1985. Obtained by the National Security Archive.
Peacekeeping Operations: These funds provide voluntary support for international peacekeeping activities (as opposed to the U.S. share of UN-assessed peacekeeping operations, which is financed elsewhere). PKO funds promote increased involvement of regional organizations in conflict resolution and help leverage support for multinational efforts where no formal cost sharing mechanism is available.

Assistance for the Independent States of the Former Soviet Union: The Freedom Support Act (FSA) was passed in Congress on October 24, 1992 with the goal of providing the states of the former Soviet Union funds that support free market and democratic reforms through demilitarization, humanitarian and technical assistance. The bill particularly endorses American investment and trade through enterprise funds, small business programs and access to credits for purchases of U.S. food exports. The FSA also provides funding for nuclear nonproliferation programs and activities, as well as the dismantlement and destruction of biological, chemical and conventional weapons, and humanitarian aid, including health and human services programs. While funds allocated through this program are not used to purchase weapons or military training per se, they are used to enhance law enforcement and border security capabilities. These funds also free up money that the recipient government can then spend in other ways, including on defense.

For more information on these programs, see Chapter 1 of the Arms Trade Revealed

This seems to be changing a bit. Especially as more and more countries begin to realize they have been duped into accepting worthless paper fiat from a dysfunctional and corrupt U.S. political & financial system interested only in the creation of debt slavery around the world.

Fractional Reserve Banking Is the trap for you..

97% of ALL money is now digital.. It does not EXIST outside of cyber space!

I often call what we have in the United Staes a debt based ponzi scheme economy.. It seems everything about America and her economy depends upon debt creation..

Most Americans are participants in this horrific ponzi scheme designed to keep the majority of people poor, working and turning over all of the fiat they "earn", plus a lot of fiat that they do not have, to government and corporations..

This seemingly voluntary participation is commonly called "wage slavery"

The first articulate description of wage slavery was perhaps made by Simon Linguet in 1763

The slave was precious to his master because of the money he had cost him… They were worth at least as much as they could be sold for in the market… It is the impossibility of living by any other means that compels our farm labourers to till the soil whose fruits they will not eat and our masons to construct buildings in which they will not live… It is want that compels them to go down on their knees to the rich man in order to get from him permission to enrich him… what effective gain [has] the suppression of slavery brought [him ?] He is free, you say. Ah! That is his misfortune… These men… [have] the most terrible, the most imperious of masters, that is, need. … They must therefore find someone to hire them, or die of hunger. Is that to be free?

[More here]

And here for a bit more personal look at wage slavery.

It seems clear that most of the wars created by the United States involve one of two things.. A battle over resources, oil, gold and the like, and or the protection of the money game.. The protection of the American dollar's world reserve currency status.

We seem to see again and again those countries who dare refuse to accept American fiat as payment for resources soon find themselves being bombed..

Petro dollar and Iran war

Wow That Was Fast! Libyan Rebels Have Already Established A New Central Bank Of Libya

Petrodollar Theories of the [Iraq] War

Read about The Five [American] “Bank Wars”

We are told that central banks were created to control inflation.. Then why has the United States dollar LOST 96% of it's value to inflation since the creation of the Federal Reserve Bank in 1913?

FEDERAL RESERVE CENTRAL BANK !!! USA DEBT SLAVERY LIES GREED WARS !!! II

Everyone, around the world, seems to be waking up to the fact that everything economic seems to merely be a scam.. A scam to funnel fiat from the bottom to the top.. To the top 1% if you like..

Check out this list of the central banks of the world if you missed it..

Please see more on debt..

For the record, the actual rate of growth of the private US debt to GDP ratio was roughly 2.9% p.a. from 1945 till 2008. That means that the ratio doubled every 25 years, from 45% in 1945 to 90% in 1970, 180% in 1995, and if it had kept going, it would have been 360% in 2020.

Instead it fell over in 2008, and is now going backward at a rate of knots. Here’s an extrapolation of the trend that the WEF says is “nothing unsustainable about”, from the time period they should have started their analysis—not 2000 but 1945—and focusing on the key problem—private debt:

source --> Exponential Credit Petri Dish; Steve Keen Responds to "World Economic Forum Endorses Fraud" Post

Wal-Mart, disequilibria, Greenspan's Fraud and global economic dislocation
(Sept. 4, 2006)

Deleveraging and the Futility of 'Printing Money'

the money masters certainly seem to be firmly in control.. of everything..

Do we even have the ability to fight back at all???

Greg

Central Banks, BIS and Goldman Sachs Coercion $GS

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Sartre
Infowars.com
September 5, 2011

Did you ever wonder why countries allow private central banks to issue their money? Somehow, missing in the self-governing status of governments is the courage to deny the seduction or the threats of the global banking cabal, over the control of a nation’s currency. How did this obvious usurpation of independence become an unquestioned acceptance by the very governments who proclaim to be sovereign nations? The answer reveals that the right of autonomous government is now dependent upon the approval of the banking cartel. The myth that a historic country can exert their populist will and financial self-determination, when it conflicts or opposes the interest and objectives of the moneychangers, is outright fantasy.

Continue reading Central Banks, BIS and Goldman Sachs Coercion on infowars

Check out the #bank for Central Bankers #BIS

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BIS is what they call the Bank for International Settlements. It is located in Basel, Switzerland. Into it pours the cream from the centralized world money whirlpool -- quadrillions of dollars skimmed from the people of the world by the world's Rothschild-owned central banks. Who owns the world? Evidently the Rothschilds do. Picture the nightly "international settlements" ... money coming in from all corners and piling as high as the sky. All those interest payments on all those economic-hit-men-made impossible poor-country loans, all those credit card penalties and skyrocketing late fees, all those foreclosure clean-ups, all those income taxes ... to say nothing of all of that general cleaning out of our piggybanks by non-stop inflating prices for every aspect of our existence. The Big Piggybank it all goes into at the end of the proverbial day is the BIS.

"Central" banks are actually privately owned banks foreign to the country they are in that have managed to strong-arm their way into most nations of the world over the past 300 or so years. Central banking was the brainchild of Mayer Amschel Bauer, born in Germany in 1744, who changed his name to "Rothschild" (red shield) to honor the occultic red hexagram above his father's money-lending enterprise. The first central bank in America was created by the Rothschild family and Alexander Hamilton (and we thought Aaron Burr was the bad guy!) in 1791, only to result in huge nationwide inflation and government debt. America's second central bank was born in 1816, again with disastrous effects on the people, who elected Andrew Jackson to put an end to it. Jackson achieved this in 1836, and two years later actually paid off the national debt. It would be many decades (the next century) before the Rothschild cartel succeeded at forcing in a third central bank, which is with us today -- the Federal Reserve (born in 1913).

The Federal Reserve is not owned by the people of America. American money, marked "Federal Reserve Note," is rife with occultic symbols and meanings unknown to most Americans. The Federal Reserve prints American currency, lends it to the American government and charges interest, which is paid for by Americans giving up large portions of their earnings in the form of "income tax." But Americans are not alone ...

Here's a list of the Rothschild-owned central banks of the world:

Afghanistan: Bank of Afghanistan
Albania: Bank of Albania
Algeria: Bank of Algeria
Argentina: Central Bank of Argentina"
Armenia: Central Bank of Armenia
Aruba: Central Bank of Aruba
Australia: Reserve Bank of Australia
Austria: Austrian National Bank
Azerbaijan: Central Bank of Azerbaijan Republic
Bahamas: Central Bank of The Bahamas
Bahrain: Central Bank of Bahrain
Bangladesh: Bangladesh Bank
Barbados: Central Bank of Barbados

Belarus: National Bank of the Republic of Belarus
Belgium: National Bank of Belgium
Belize: Central Bank of Belize
Benin: Central Bank of West African States (BCEAO)
Bermuda: Bermuda Monetary Authority
Bhutan: Royal Monetary Authority of Bhutan
Bolivia: Central Bank of Bolivia
Bosnia: Central Bank of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Botswana: Bank of Botswana
Brazil: Central Bank of Brazil
Bulgaria: Bulgarian National Bank
Burkina Faso: Central Bank of West African States (BCEAO)
Burundi: Bank of the Republic of Burundi
Cambodia: National Bank of Cambodia
Cameroon: Bank of Central African States
Canada: Bank of Canada - Banque du Canada
Cayman Islands: Cayman Islands Monetary Authority
Central African Republic: Bank of Central African States
Chad: Bank of Central African States
Chile: Central Bank of Chile
China: The People’s Bank of China
Colombia: Bank of the Republic
Comoros: Central Bank of Comoros
Congo: Bank of Central African States
Costa Rica: Central Bank of Costa Rica
Côte d’Ivoire: Central Bank of West African States (BCEAO)
Croatia: Croatian National Bank
Cuba: Central Bank of Cuba
Cyprus: Central Bank of Cyprus
Czech Republic: Czech National Bank
Denmark: National Bank of Denmark
Dominican Republic: Central Bank of the Dominican Republic
East Caribbean area: Eastern Caribbean Central Bank
Ecuador: Central Bank of Ecuador
Egypt: Central Bank of Egypt
El Salvador: Central Reserve Bank of El Salvador
Equatorial Guinea: Bank of Central African States
Estonia: Bank of Estonia
Ethiopia: National Bank of Ethiopia
European Union: European Central Bank
Fiji: Reserve Bank of Fiji
Finland: Bank of Finland
France: Bank of France
Gabon: Bank of Central African States
The Gambia: Central Bank of The Gambia
Georgia: National Bank of Georgia
Germany: Deutsche Bundesbank
Ghana: Bank of Ghana
Greece: Bank of Greece
Guatemala: Bank of Guatemala
Guinea Bissau: Central Bank of West African States (BCEAO)
Guyana: Bank of Guyana
Haiti: Central Bank of Haiti
Honduras: Central Bank of Honduras
Hong Kong: Hong Kong Monetary Authority
Hungary: Magyar Nemzeti Bank
Iceland: Central Bank of Iceland
India: Reserve Bank of India
Indonesia: Bank Indonesia
Iran: The Central Bank of the Islamic Republic of Iran
Iraq: Central Bank of Iraq
Ireland: Central Bank and Financial Services Authority of Ireland
Israel: Bank of Israel
Italy: Bank of Italy
Jamaica: Bank of Jamaica
Japan: Bank of Japan
Jordan: Central Bank of Jordan
Kazakhstan: National Bank of Kazakhstan
Kenya: Central Bank of Kenya
Korea: Bank of Korea
Kuwait: Central Bank of Kuwait
Kyrgyzstan: National Bank of the Kyrgyz Republic
Latvia: Bank of Latvia
Lebanon: Central Bank of Lebanon
Lesotho: Central Bank of Lesotho
Libya: Central Bank of Libya
Lithuania: Bank of Lithuania
Luxembourg: Central Bank of Luxembourg
Macao: Monetary Authority of Macao
Macedonia: National Bank of the Republic of Macedonia
Madagascar: Central Bank of Madagascar
Malawi: Reserve Bank of Malawi
Malaysia: Central Bank of Malaysia
Mali: Central Bank of West African States (BCEAO)
Malta: Central Bank of Malta
Mauritius: Bank of Mauritius
Mexico: Bank of Mexico
Moldova: National Bank of Moldova
Mongolia: Bank of Mongolia
Montenegro: Central Bank of Montenegro
Morocco: Bank of Morocco
Mozambique: Bank of Mozambique
Namibia: Bank of Namibia
Nepal: Central Bank of Nepal
Netherlands: Netherlands Bank
Netherlands Antilles: Bank of the Netherlands Antilles
New Zealand: Reserve Bank of New Zealand
Nicaragua: Central Bank of Nicaragua
Niger: Central Bank of West African States (BCEAO)
Nigeria: Central Bank of Nigeria
Norway: Central Bank of Norway
Oman: Central Bank of Oman
Pakistan: State Bank of Pakistan
Papua New Guinea: Bank of Papua New Guinea
Paraguay: Central Bank of Paraguay
Peru: Central Reserve Bank of Peru
Philippines: Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas
Poland: National Bank of Poland
Portugal: Bank of Portugal
Qatar: Qatar Central Bank
Romania: National Bank of Romania
Russia: Central Bank of Russia
Rwanda: National Bank of Rwanda
San Marino: Central Bank of the Republic of San Marino
Samoa: Central Bank of Samoa
Saudi Arabia: Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency
Senegal: Central Bank of West African States (BCEAO)
Serbia: National Bank of Serbia
Seychelles: Central Bank of Seychelles
Sierra Leone: Bank of Sierra Leone
Singapore: Monetary Authority of Singapore
Slovakia: National Bank of Slovakia
Slovenia: Bank of Slovenia
Solomon Islands: Central Bank of Solomon Islands
South Africa: South African Reserve Bank
Spain: Bank of Spain
Sri Lanka: Central Bank of Sri Lanka
Sudan: Bank of Sudan
Surinam: Central Bank of Suriname
Swaziland: The Central Bank of Swaziland
Sweden: Sveriges Riksbank
Switzerland: Swiss National Bank
Tajikistan: National Bank of Tajikistan
Tanzania: Bank of Tanzania
Thailand: Bank of Thailand
Togo: Central Bank of West African States (BCEAO)
Tonga: National Reserve Bank of Tonga
Trinidad and Tobago: Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago
Tunisia: Central Bank of Tunisia
Turkey: Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey
Uganda: Bank of Uganda
Ukraine: National Bank of Ukraine
United Arab Emirates: Central Bank of United Arab Emirates
United Kingdom: Bank of England
United States: The Dirty Nasty Stinky Fed, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Uruguay: Central Bank of Uruguay
Vanuatu: Reserve Bank of Vanuatu
Venezuela: Central Bank of Venezuela
Vietnam: The State Bank of Vietnam
Yemen: Central Bank of Yemen
Zambia: Bank of Zambia
Zimbabwe: Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe

Want more? Click here for full article by William Garner ... book coming too

From #Liberty to Martial Law - It's easier than you think

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I could string this "stuff", these "warnings" together all day everyday.. It seems obvious to me that our future is grim indeed..

The "time" for warnings is running short.. Listen to what, virtually, everyone is trying to tell you..
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Senate Votes To Let Military Detain Americans Indefinitely, White House Threatens Veto

First Posted: 11/29/11 06:35 PM ET Updated: 11/30/11 12:05 AM ET | Huffington Post

WASHINGTON -- The Senate voted Tuesday to keep a controversial provision to let the military detain terrorism suspects on U.S. soil and hold them indefinitely without trial -- prompting White House officials to reissue a veto threat.

The measure, part of the massive National Defense Authorization Act, was also opposed by civil libertarians on the left and right. But 16 Democrats and an independent joined with Republicans to defeat an amendment by Sen. Mark Udall (D-Colo.) that would have killed the provision, voting it down with 61 against, and 37 for it.

"I'm very, very, concerned about having U.S. citizens sent to Guantanamo Bay for indefinite detention," said Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), one of the Senate's most conservative members.

Paul's top complaint is that a terrorism suspect would get just one hearing where the military could assert that the person is a suspected terrorist -- and then they could be locked up for life, without ever formally being charged. The only safety valve is a waiver from the secretary of defense.

"It's not enough just to be alleged to be a terrorist," Paul said, echoing the views of the American Civil Liberties Union. "That's part of what due process is -- deciding, are you a terrorist? I think it's important that we not allow U.S. citizens to be taken."

Democrats who were also concerned about liberties compared the military policing of Americans to the detention of Americans in internment camps during World War II.

"Congress is essentially authorizing the indefinite imprisonment of American citizens, without charge," said Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), who offered another amendment -- which has not yet gotten a vote -- that she said would correct the problem. "We are not a nation that locks up its citizens without charge."

Backers of military detention of Americans -- a measure crafted by Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) -- came out swinging against Udall's amendment on the Senate floor earlier Tuesday.

"The enemy is all over the world. Here at home. And when people take up arms against the United States and [are] captured within the United States, why should we not be able to use our military and intelligence community to question that person as to what they know about enemy activity?" Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said.

"They should not be read their Miranda Rights. They should not be given a lawyer," Graham said. "They should be held humanely in military custody and interrogated about why they joined al Qaeda and what they were going to do to all of us."

In criticizing the measure, White House officials said that it would cause confusion and interfere with a counterterrorism effort that has been remarkably successful since Sept. 11, 2001 -- across two administrations.

"It is likely that implementing such procedures would inject significant confusion into counterterrorism operations," the White House argued in a Nov. 17 statement.

Further, it contended:
This unnecessary, untested, and legally controversial restriction of the President's authority to defend the Nation from terrorist threats would tie the hands of our intelligence and law enforcement professionals. Moreover, applying this military custody requirement to individuals inside the United States, as some Members of Congress have suggested is their intention, would raise serious and unsettled legal questions and would be inconsistent with the fundamental American principle that our military does not patrol our streets. We have spent ten years since September 11, 2001, breaking down the walls between intelligence, military, and law enforcement professionals; Congress should not now rebuild those walls and unnecessarily make the job of preventing terrorist attacks more difficult.
A White House official said the administration stands by the veto threat. "We take this very, very seriously," the official said.

Both FBI Director Robert Mueller and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper backed up the White House with letters sent to congressional leaders. Clapper echoed the charge that the measure creates uncertainty and added that it could prevent intelligence operatives from getting critical information from suspects.

And although the measure allows the secretary of defense to waive it, both Mueller and Clapper said that could prove unworkable in the real world.

Mueller added that it could even stop the FBI from investigating individuals who fall under the definitions of suspected terrorist in the measure.

The 2012 National Defense Authorization Act would authorize defense spending on military personnel, weapons and war. The first draft of the bill won support from both parties in Congress in October, passing out of the Senate Armed Services Committee with just Udall dissenting. A similar House bill allocating $690 billion for the Pentagon passed in May, without the controversial measure. It could be changed when the differing versions are merged, if Congress desires.

The detention provision whipped up a furor in both parties, with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) having already text delayed the vote over it.

The final vote showed bizarre fractures among Democrats, erasing the usual barriers between conservatives and liberals. The 16 who voted for the harsh detainee rules were Sens. Bob Casey (Pa.), Kent Conrad (N.D.), Kay Hagan (N.C.), Daniel Inouye (Hawaii), Herb Kohl (Wis.), Mary Landrieu (La.), Carl Levin (Mich.), Joe Manchin (W. Va.), Clair McCaskill (Mo.), Robert Menendez (N.J.), Ben Nelson (Neb.), Mark Pryor (Ark.), Jack Reed (R.I.), Jeanne Shaheen (N.H.), Debbie Stabenow (Mich.) and Sheldon Whitehouse (R.I.). National defense hawk and independent Sen. Joe Lieberman (Conn.) also voted in favor of the tougher language.

"It's one of those things where ... it's bipartisan on both sides. Levin's not on the same page as the White House. We've got our own internal differences; Paul and Kirk don't agree with Graham," said a senior GOP aide just before the vote. "Everybody's trying to do the right thing. There's just a difference of opinion."

Even though Paul was joined only by Sen. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) on his side of the aisle, the issue was contentious at the Republicans' weekly caucus lunch.

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) emerged from the meeting -- where former Vice President Dick Cheney was in attendance -- saying his colleagues had "a spirited discussion" about Udall's amendment, and predicted nearly all Republicans would oppose the amendment, as they did.

Update 10:30 p.m.

Sen. Menendez later sought, and was granted, unanimous consent from the Senate to change his vote. He is now recorded as supporting the Udall amendment, with the final tally changed to 38 to 60.

Additional reporting by Hayley Miller.

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Monday, July 25, 2011 Activist Post

Pentagon To Deploy 20,000 Troops In CONUS For Civil Unrest – Possible Threats To Populace

Intel Hub Note: Please get this information out to everyone. It is better to be safe than sorry. — Shepard

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Shepard Ambellas and Alex Thomas
The Intel Hub

In 2008 The Pentagon announced plans to deploy a 20,000 strong internal troop force inside the continental United States (CONUS) that was set to be trained by 2011, thus dovetailing into the current troop and equipment movements around the country reported by truckers, as well as many more troop sightings by everyday citizens.

Interestingly enough, this plan directly correlates with a 2009, Army funded, Rand Corporation study that called for an internal United States police force to combat civil unrest.
This study asks several questions. First, is a Stability Police Force (SPF) necessary? An SPF is a high-end police force that engages in a range of tasks such as crowd and riot control, special weapons and tactics (SWAT), and investigations of organized criminal groups. In its ability to operate in stability operations, it is similar to such European forces as the Italian Carabinieri and French Gendarmerie.
Its focus on high endtasks makes it fundamentally different from UN or other civilian police, who deal with more routine law and order functions. It is also different from most military forces, which are generally not trained and experienced to conduct policing tasks in a civilian environment.
Second, if an SPF is necessary, what should it look like? This includes considering such issues as: its objectives, tasks, and size; its speed of deployment; its institutional capabilities; where it should be headquartered in the U.S. government and how it should be staffed (standing force, reserve force, and hybrid force); and its cost.

It is openly admitted that the internal force will be used to quell civil unrest due to massive large-scale terror attacks and/or economic collapse.

Will the powers-that-be stage a repeat of the martial law threats to Congress that they presented back in 2008 to get the bailouts passed to get the debt ceiling raised now?

Rep. Brad Sherman laid out exactly took place during the bailouts in 2008:

Many people have voiced fears that this will turn our country into a total militarized police state, wondering what will happen in the future once the sheeple are conditioned to the military roaming the streets in America.

Others have speculated that this announcement directly coincides with all of the pre-positioning of troops, equipment, and (NOTAM) No-Fly Zones throughout The United States over the last few months.

Does any of this correlate with the debt ceiling (economy), earth changes, or nuclear threats from reactors in danger within the US?

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I know.. the pieces fit..

Psalm 46

2011-12-13T07:00:00.000-08:00

Psalm 46
New International Version (NIV)
Psalm 46

Psalm 46[a]

For the director of music. Of the Sons of Korah. According to alamoth.[b] A song.

1 God is our refuge and strength,
an ever-present help in trouble.

2 Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way
and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea,

3 though its waters roar and foam
and the mountains quake with their surging.[c]

4 There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God,
the holy place where the Most High dwells.

5 God is within her, she will not fall;
God will help her at break of day.

6 Nations are in uproar, kingdoms fall;
he lifts his voice, the earth melts.

7 The LORD Almighty is with us;
the God of Jacob is our fortress.

8 Come and see what the LORD has done,
the desolations he has brought on the earth.

9 He makes wars cease
to the ends of the earth.
He breaks the bow and shatters the spear;
he burns the shields[d] with fire.

10 He says, “Be still, and know that I am God;
I will be exalted among the nations,
I will be exalted in the earth.”

11 The LORD Almighty is with us;
the God of Jacob is our fortress.

Footnotes:
Psalm 46:1 In Hebrew texts 46:1-11 is numbered 46:2-12.
Psalm 46:1 Title: Probably a musical term
Psalm 46:3 The Hebrew has Selah (a word of uncertain meaning) here and at the end of verses 7 and 11.
Psalm 46:9 Or chariots

Just a pic of one of our more "hawkish" friends ;)

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Greg

Ron Paul: People Are Sick & Tired of Big #Government - Me too! #RonPaul2012

2011-12-12T05:54:00.000-08:00

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QUAD TUNNEL CHARTING part TWO..TRADING the QT - Simple's Green Room #FX

2011-12-10T15:15:00.000-08:00

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Many thanks to Fred for being willing to try to help people trade better for FREE!

The techniques I use, or have used, are very similar in many regards to the trading techniques discussed by Fred in this post. While I cannot promise you will become rich I can promise you that in the very least this is all rock solid trading educational material.

Here is the source post on Simple's Green Room on investor's hub

Thanks again Fred!
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QUAD TUNNEL CHARTING part TWO..TRADING the QT

For those who built my Quad Tunnel trading template this is the followup post on what I look for in trading with it. The Quad Tunnel itself is mainly for finding strong support or resistance areas across any time frame. The QT continues to amaze me as far as S/R are concerned.. there are several things that need to be understood about it and the chart itself coupled with experience teaches itself but I will try to point out things to be watching for.

If built as I described in Part One [Guest Post QUAD TUNNEL CHARTING - Part 1] then the EMAs it uses are color coded.... I prefer purple for the EMA(196).. the longest EMA. When the 196 is at bottom of the QT it is a bullish indication.. if 196 is on top its a bearish indication. The lines of the QT cross over each other as a pair trends so long that it goes from bull to bear and bear to bull. I call this a Tunnel Twist.

The QT also has convergence of the Tunnel lines as a major trend begins to lose momentum as well as having divergence as a pairs momentum increases in a trend. Because the QT is built with EMAs of 121,133,169 and 196 the convergence/divergence is being generated at a snails pace but must be watched for and these expansions/contractions are easily observed on any chart and across any time frame.

If any of you have ever built a simple EMA rainbow chart you will more readily understand what the QT is doing. If never involved with an EMA rainbow then for a better grasp of what the QT does build a basic rainbow.. the QT is sort of like a slow motion version of a rainbow chart. Use EMAs of 6,9,12 and 15... or EMAs of 5,10,15 and 20.. matters not as long as they are short EMAs and also equidistant. Once built you will see trends begin and end as shortest EMAs become support on a new uptrend and theres an apparent divergence as the lines rise in perfect order. A new downtrend begins as the rainbow begins to converge then crossover with a perfect order seperation after the trend begins and shortest EMA will be resistance in this trend down.

My dialogue on the rainbow is not meant to confuse but to demonstrate more easily what the QT does.... but the QT has much greater power even on an M5 time frame since it is built with EMAs of 121 minimum bars and 196 maximum bars!

A Quad Tunnel is an excellent S/R level on all time frames from M1 though monthly. Check any pair as price action comes from below and hits the QT.. unless its a news driven move it will stop & reverse at the 196. Normal action will see candles hit the QT from below.. then retrace.. then test it again.. after the test (if it fails) then the pair usually becomes a nice short yielding a lot of pips. If a pair crosses the QT after testing.. it may soon become a long play yielding pips. The QT should be like any other tech tool in that support becomes resistance and resistance becomes support.

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Riding The Donchie

Will stop on the QT dialogue but I have tried to bring understanding to the fact that the QT is our major S/R magnet or repellent for price action and in this section will give my criteria for trading this chart template which also uses 3 Donchian Channels and they are where the trade decisions are made since the QT does not always come into play. To be sure I will look to short a pair if it hits an H4 QT from below or may go long on a pair if candles hit the H4 QT from above.The candles are often well removed from the QT area but we want to trade with an eye on the QT level for major S/R.

First a tad bit of psychology is in order here.Many traders are victimized not necessarily by the market but victimized by the flaw in human nature that causes us to place trades based on "bargains".. we are bargain seekers!... always wanting to find "bottoms" to go long and "tops" to go short. Thats all well and good for obvious reasons but this same "flaw" in thinking causes most retail traders to trade trends poorly and constantly find themselves trading against a major trend. The fact of the matter is that most have a hard time buying a new high or selling a new low! Many traders are more apt to do the opposite. The Donchian Channels I use can be a possible cure for this problem. When it comes to trend trading (which is where the most money can be made) there is actually a micro genealogy involved... new highs beget new highs and new lows beget new lows til the trend has exhausted itself!

I use 3 Donchian Channels... one is a 9 period.. next a 26 period and third one is a 52 period.Notice that the parameters are the same as a standard Ichimoku Cloud... 9,26,52. I trade this primally on an M5 or M15 chart but can be used on any time frame.

My bread & butter for trading is the Donchian(9)... I watch the Donchian(9) channel as it establishes itself and I have a short term channel to trade in from its top to its bottom or bottom to its top. If candle action hits top of channel I do NOT enter a short yet.. I watch the QT and any factors that might support the bullish move.. if I see cause to believe the price action may continue up then I watch for a sharp one candle rise that breaks above Donchian channel top.. at this point if my gut and my chart lets me I will open a long!Thats right .. a long!.. I just bought a new high! I would NOT place this trade tho if QT is just above because I know it has very little running room but if support on Donchian 26 or 52 is just below and especially if the QT is just below I am well supported to buy the new high.

The opposite of all I just said is also to be seen.A move down to the Donchian(9) lower line is to be watched... if candle action makes a sharp one candle drop that breaks lower channel line downward I will go short.. that's right! .. I just sold a new low! All support/resistance areas need to be watched tho to make sure your trade will produce enough pips to be worthwhile to enter. If major support is close then stay flat and wait for a better setup.

The major components of this template are the Quad Tunnel and the Donchian Channels. Any other MAs or indicators can be used. I gave details on my full template in the first segment.

Will stop now and its my sincere hopes that you find this info useful to bring greater success to your trading.

Chart is M5 AUD/USD and had numerous trade setups.. the second short arrow from left would have been briefly a small loser but as you can see soon went as expected.

Fred Adams @simplegreen67

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Mark 4:19

2011-12-09T14:07:00.001-08:00

Mark 4:19

but the worries of this life, the deceitfulness of wealth and the desires for other things come in and choke the word, making it unfruitful.

A look at the daily $SPX

2011-12-09T13:15:00.000-08:00

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Who TF knows?! LMAO

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Ron Paul to Ben #Bernanke: Price Fixing Doesn't Work, So Why Does The #FED Do It? #RonPaul2012

2011-12-09T13:07:00.000-08:00

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Ron Paul on #inflation #RonPaul2012

2011-12-09T12:52:00.000-08:00

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Complicated issues my ass..

Please watch --> Types of #Government, Explained #ows #99Percent

2011-12-09T12:09:00.000-08:00

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You mean like Ephesians 6:12

2011-12-09T11:49:00.000-08:00

Ephesians 6:12

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
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For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

or stated otherwise..

New International Version (©1984)
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For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.

Interesting #message from #FXCM #FX

2011-12-09T09:52:00.000-08:00

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FXCM Extends Market Hours

FXCM has exciting news. In response to popular demand, we have decided to extend our market hours. In the past FXCM has opened between 5PM and 5:15PM ET on Sundays, and has closed at 4PM ET on Fridays. Starting December 9, FXCM will close at approximately 5PM ET on Fridays, giving you more opportunities to place trades and/or manage your risk. Please note that spreads may be wider between 4PM ET and 5PM ET because there are fewer liquidity providers offering prices during that time.

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A change I kinda like myself.. However, use it wisely..

Greg

Daily not so bullish $AUDUSD @simplegreen67

2011-12-09T08:36:00.000-08:00

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I want to buy #gold too but not just yet - Here's where I'd LOVE to buy!

2011-12-08T13:33:00.000-08:00

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Right there around 1213 would be the gold buy of the century..

;)

Weekly chart, click to enlarge

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Loopholes

2011-12-08T10:46:00.000-08:00

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Did you know that, as a business owner, you can take a small wage while also taking rather large dividends out of the business?

And do you know why so many small business owners do this?

The personal income tax they pay on money withdrawn from the business as dividends is a lower rate than they would have to pay on business profits.

So it's a simple way to convert business profits into business liabilities while paying a lower tax rate on the money..

A dividend is just money an owner takes out of the business it is not subject to payroll taxes. This is considered a business liability.

Dividends reduce taxable business profits.

It's all 100% perfectly legal but it sure helps demonstrate how screwed up our tax laws are.

I'm sure a majority of small business' do it.

It only makes sense to do it!

If you own a business and do not do this I would ask why not?

Do you have an accountant?

If not I might suggest you get one ;)

Greg

Kansan's plan to arrest #Obama goes nowhere

2011-12-08T10:41:00.000-08:00

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LMAO

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SALINA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas man said officials should have helped him arrest President Barack Obama instead of seizing the handcuffs he planned to use to restrain the commander-in-chief.

Neil Jednoralski, 65, of Salina, claims that President Obama has British and Indonesian citizenship and is committing fraud by impersonating a person eligible to be president. Obama has repeatedly refuted such claims.

The Salina Journal reports (http://bit.ly/vkbKKP) that Jednoralski had announced his plan to arrest the president to the Kansas Highway Patrol and to Attorney General Derek Schmidt, whom he hoped would prosecute the president.

Instead of providing help, Schmidt's office confirms it informed the Secret Service. Jednoralski received a visit from a Secret Service agent and law enforcement officials at his home Monday evening in advance of Obama's speech Tuesday in Osawatomie, about 150 miles away. Jednoralski, a business owner, self-proclaimed tea party member and former candidate for state representative, was warned that he would be arrested for trespassing if he showed up for the speech.

Jednoralski said officials confiscated a warrant he created for the arrest of Obama. He said they also took a pair of handcuffs he bought specifically to arrest Obama, along with four guns. Jednoralski remained in Salina during the speech. Sheriff Glen Kochanowski said Jednoralski retrieved the items from the sheriff's office Tuesday afternoon.

Ed Donovan, a spokesman for the Secret Service, declined to discuss the specifics of the Jednoralski case but said each situation is handled individually.

"If we discover someone has made inappropriate comments or has an unusual direction of interest in someone we protect, we have a right and an obligation to determine what their intention is," Donovan said.

Jednoralski said he has planned for a year to arrest Obama under a Kansas law that allows a person to make an arrest.

"The law says if the person has probable cause to believe a person is guilty of a felony," Jednoralski said. "'Cause to believe' is pretty wide."

He wanted to bring Obama to Topeka for the courts to decide if he was eligible to be president.

Jednoralski first posted his intentions online in 2010. Until Monday's visit by the Secret Service, he publicly posted on his Facebook page that he planned to carry out the arrest in Osawatomie.

"I had no thought of endangering the president," said Jednoralski, who believes the Secret Service violated his rights by taking his guns. "I just wanted the courts to decide if he is eligible to be president."

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Information from: The Salina Journal, http://www.salina.com

Paul Craig Roberts Signs Off, Says #American #Truth Has Fallen and Taken #Liberty With It

2011-12-08T10:37:00.001-08:00

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By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS

There was a time when the pen was mightier than the sword. That was a time when people believed in truth and regarded truth as an independent power and not as an auxiliary for government, class, race, ideological, personal, or financial interest.

Today Americans are ruled by propaganda. Americans have little regard for truth, little access to it, and little ability to recognize it.

Truth is an unwelcome entity. It is disturbing. It is off limits. Those who speak it run the risk of being branded “anti-American,” “anti-semite” or “conspiracy theorist.”

Truth is an inconvenience for government and for the interest groups whose campaign contributions control government.

Truth is an inconvenience for prosecutors who want convictions, not the discovery of innocence or guilt.

Truth is inconvenient for ideologues.

Today many whose goal once was the discovery of truth are now paid handsomely to hide it. “Free market economists” are paid to sell offshoring to the American people. High-productivity, high value-added American jobs are denigrated as dirty, old industrial jobs. Relicts from long ago, we are best shed of them. Their place has been taken by “the New Economy,” a mythical economy that allegedly consists of high-tech white collar jobs in which Americans innovate and finance activities that occur offshore. All Americans need in order to participate in this “new economy” are finance degrees from Ivy League universities, and then they will work on Wall Street at million dollar jobs.

Economists who were once respectable took money to contribute to this myth of “the New Economy.”

And not only economists sell their souls for filthy lucre. Recently we have had reports of medical doctors who, for money, have published in peer-reviewed journals concocted “studies” that hype this or that new medicine produced by pharmaceutical companies that paid for the “studies.”

The Council of Europe is investigating the drug companies’ role in hyping a false swine flu pandemic in order to gain billions of dollars in sales of the vaccine.

The media helped the US military hype its recent Marja offensive in Afghanistan, describing Marja as a city of 80,000 under Taliban control. It turns out that Marja is not urban but a collection of village farms.

And there is the global warming scandal, in which NGOs. the UN, and the nuclear industry colluded in concocting a doomsday scenario in order to create profit in pollution.

Wherever one looks, truth has fallen to money.

Wherever money is insufficient to bury the truth, ignorance, propaganda, and short memories finish the job.

I remember when, following CIA director William Colby’s testimony before the Church Committee in the mid-1970s, presidents Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan issued executive orders preventing the CIA and U.S. black-op groups from assassinating foreign leaders. In 2010 the US Congress was told by Dennis Blair, head of national intelligence, that the US now assassinates its own citizens in addition to foreign leaders.

When Blair told the House Intelligence Committee that US citizens no longer needed to be arrested, charged, tried, and convicted of a capital crime, just murdered on suspicion alone of being a “threat,” he wasn’t impeached. No investigation pursued. Nothing happened. There was no Church Committee. In the mid-1970s the CIA got into trouble for plots to kill Castro. Today it is American citizens who are on the hit list. Whatever objections there might be don’t carry any weight. No one in government is in any trouble over the assassination of U.S. citizens by the U.S. government.

As an economist, I am astonished that the American economics profession has no awareness whatsoever that the U.S. economy has been destroyed by the offshoring of U.S. GDP to overseas countries. U.S. corporations, in pursuit of absolute advantage or lowest labor costs and maximum CEO “performance bonuses,” have moved the production of goods and services marketed to Americans to China, India, and elsewhere abroad. When I read economists describe offshoring as free trade based on comparative advantage, I realize that there is no intelligence or integrity in the American economics profession.

Intelligence and integrity have been purchased by money. The transnational or global U.S. corporations pay multi-million dollar compensation packages to top managers, who achieve these “performance awards” by replacing U.S. labor with foreign labor. While Washington worries about “the Muslim threat,” Wall Street, U.S. corporations and “free market” shills destroy the U.S. economy and the prospects of tens of millions of Americans.

Americans, or most of them, have proved to be putty in the hands of the police state.

Americans have bought into the government’s claim that security requires the suspension of civil liberties and accountable government. Astonishingly, Americans, or most of them, believe that civil liberties, such as habeas corpus and due process, protect “terrorists,” and not themselves. Many also believe that the Constitution is a tired old document that prevents government from exercising the kind of police state powers necessary to keep Americans safe and free.

Most Americans are unlikely to hear from anyone who would tell them any different.

I was associate editor and columnist for the Wall Street Journal. I was Business Week’s first outside columnist, a position I held for 15 years. I was columnist for a decade for Scripps Howard News Service, carried in 300 newspapers. I was a columnist for the Washington Times and for newspapers in France and Italy and for a magazine in Germany. I was a contributor to the New York Times and a regular feature in the Los Angeles Times. Today I cannot publish in, or appear on, the American “mainstream media.”

For the last six years I have been banned from the “mainstream media.” My last column in the New York Times appeared in January, 2004, coauthored with Democratic U.S. Senator Charles Schumer representing New York. We addressed the offshoring of U.S. jobs. Our op-ed article produced a conference at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. and live coverage by C-Span. A debate was launched. No such thing could happen today.

For years I was a mainstay at the Washington Times, producing credibility for the Moony newspaper as a Business Week columnist, former Wall Street Journal editor, and former Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Treasury. But when I began criticizing Bush’s wars of aggression, the order came down to Mary Lou Forbes to cancel my column.

The American corporate media does not serve the truth. It serves the government and the interest groups that empower the government.

America’s fate was sealed when the public and the anti-war movement bought the government’s 9/11 conspiracy theory. The government’s account of 9/11 is contradicted by much evidence. Nevertheless, this defining event of our time, which has launched the US on interminable wars of aggression and a domestic police state, is a taboo topic for investigation in the media. It is pointless to complain of war and a police state when one accepts the premise upon which they are based.

These trillion dollar wars have created financing problems for Washington’s deficits and threaten the U.S. dollar’s role as world reserve currency. The wars and the pressure that the budget deficits put on the dollar’s value have put Social Security and Medicare on the chopping block. Former Goldman Sachs chairman and U.S. Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson is after these protections for the elderly. Fed chairman Bernanke is also after them. The Republicans are after them as well. These protections are called “entitlements” as if they are some sort of welfare that people have not paid for in payroll taxes all their working lives.

With over 21 per cent unemployment as measured by the methodology of 1980, with American jobs, GDP, and technology having been given to China and India, with war being Washington’s greatest commitment, with the dollar over-burdened with debt, with civil liberty sacrificed to the “war on terror,” the liberty and prosperity of the American people have been thrown into the trash bin of history.

The militarism of the U.S. and Israeli states, and Wall Street and corporate greed, will now run their course. As the pen is censored and its might extinguished, I am signing off.

Paul Craig Roberts was an editor of the Wall Street Journal and an Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Treasury. His latest book, HOW THE ECONOMY WAS LOST, has just been published by CounterPunch/AK Press. He can be reached at: PaulCraigRoberts@yahoo.com

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WTF? Here's what's going on in a nut shell.. (Cartoons for you #sheeple!)

2011-12-07T13:55:00.000-08:00

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New evidence that confirms Halliburton is activating [#FEMA] detention camps in the United States

2011-12-07T13:20:00.000-08:00

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"Who cares if idiots laugh at you who are uninformed?" -Alex Jones

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Don't EVER say nobody told you!

Greg

Ozzy has a #message for the #politicians & the #FED

2011-12-07T10:43:00.000-08:00

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Five things you can do right now to help stop the economic plundering of our world - Natural News

2011-12-06T11:33:00.001-08:00

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Tuesday, December 06, 2011
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
Editor of NaturalNews.com

(NaturalNews) The economic plundering of our world is well under way, with the Goldman Sachs "white shoe boyz" taking over entire national economies as they confiscate the wealth of the working class. They aren't the only evildoers wreaking havoc across the world, of course: A cabal of powerful and criminally-insane corporations are destroying the future of food, plotting to keep citizens suffering from disease, and even perpetuating war so they can earn obscene profits from selling more bullets, bombs and missiles.

You can help resist this economic imperialism by taking simple actions that protect your wealth and pull it out of the hands of the globalists who are actively destroying our world. Here are five of the most powerful action steps to take that can turn the tables and restore economic sovereignty at every level -- household, community, state, nation and the entire globe.

[Please] Continue reading

1 Timothy 6:17-19 - #God TOLD us everything we need to know #ows

2011-12-06T10:37:00.000-08:00

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1 Timothy 6:17-19

17 Command those who are rich in this present world not to be arrogant nor to put their hope in wealth, which is so uncertain, but to put their hope in God, who richly provides us with everything for our enjoyment. 18 Command them to do good, to be rich in good deeds, and to be generous and willing to share. 19 In this way they will lay up treasure for themselves as a firm foundation for the coming age, so that they may take hold of the life that is truly life.

Greg

To whom it may concern $GBPAUD m1 chart #FX

2011-12-05T11:06:00.000-08:00

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Long from 1.5242 and 1.5233

The #Resistance has begun.. #Anonymous #ows

2011-12-05T10:15:00.000-08:00

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Question for the politicians on capital hill..

Does openly supporting the actions and message of Anonymous expose an American citizen to the newly passed law which authorizes indefinite detention of legitimate American citizens by the military of the United States of America?

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Treasonous Indefinite detention bill passes

2011-12-05T09:45:00.000-08:00

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Reality Report With Danny Panzella: Indefinite Detention, Wall Street's Private Army, and Big Brother Banksters on ActivistPost

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Boy oh boy.. Do you get it yet?

Greg

#God discusses #sex

2011-12-05T07:21:00.000-08:00

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Leviticus 18

Unlawful Sexual Relations

1 The LORD said to Moses, 2 “Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘I am the LORD your God. 3 You must not do as they do in Egypt, where you used to live, and you must not do as they do in the land of Canaan, where I am bringing you. Do not follow their practices. 4 You must obey my laws and be careful to follow my decrees. I am the LORD your God. 5 Keep my decrees and laws, for the person who obeys them will live by them. I am the LORD.
6 “‘No one is to approach any close relative to have sexual relations. I am the LORD.

7 “‘Do not dishonor your father by having sexual relations with your mother. She is your mother; do not have relations with her.

8 “‘Do not have sexual relations with your father’s wife; that would dishonor your father.

9 “‘Do not have sexual relations with your sister, either your father’s daughter or your mother’s daughter, whether she was born in the same home or elsewhere.

10 “‘Do not have sexual relations with your son’s daughter or your daughter’s daughter; that would dishonor you.

11 “‘Do not have sexual relations with the daughter of your father’s wife, born to your father; she is your sister.

12 “‘Do not have sexual relations with your father’s sister; she is your father’s close relative.

13 “‘Do not have sexual relations with your mother’s sister, because she is your mother’s close relative.

14 “‘Do not dishonor your father’s brother by approaching his wife to have sexual relations; she is your aunt.

15 “‘Do not have sexual relations with your daughter-in-law. She is your son’s wife; do not have relations with her.

16 “‘Do not have sexual relations with your brother’s wife; that would dishonor your brother.

17 “‘Do not have sexual relations with both a woman and her daughter. Do not have sexual relations with either her son’s daughter or her daughter’s daughter; they are her close relatives. That is wickedness.

18 “‘Do not take your wife’s sister as a rival wife and have sexual relations with her while your wife is living.

19 “‘Do not approach a woman to have sexual relations during the uncleanness of her monthly period.

20 “‘Do not have sexual relations with your neighbor’s wife and defile yourself with her.

21 “‘Do not give any of your children to be sacrificed to Molek, for you must not profane the name of your God. I am the LORD.

22 “‘Do not have sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman; that is detestable.

23 “‘Do not have sexual relations with an animal and defile yourself with it. A woman must not present herself to an animal to have sexual relations with it; that is a perversion.

24 “‘Do not defile yourselves in any of these ways, because this is how the nations that I am going to drive out before you became defiled. 25 Even the land was defiled; so I punished it for its sin, and the land vomited out its inhabitants. 26 But you must keep my decrees and my laws. The native-born and the foreigners residing among you must not do any of these detestable things, 27 for all these things were done by the people who lived in the land before you, and the land became defiled. 28 And if you defile the land, it will vomit you out as it vomited out the nations that were before you.

29 “‘Everyone who does any of these detestable things—such persons must be cut off from their people. 30 Keep my requirements and do not follow any of the detestable customs that were practiced before you came and do not defile yourselves with them. I am the LORD your God.’”

Guest Post" QUAD TUNNEL CHARTING - Fred Adams @simplegreen67 on twitter #FX #trading

2011-12-05T06:12:00.000-08:00

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I'm excited to have this post from a good trading friend! If you be an FX newbie looking for a place to start or a more experienced trader frustrated with searching for an effective "system" this post might be for you.

I can vouch for much of this system as I use parts of it myself, including the quad tunnel which Fred introduced to me. Thanks Fred!

So if, for whatever reason, you are in search of something to try in forex I can promise you this is definitely worth a look!

Greg

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by Fred Adams @simplegreen67 on twitter

First I should introduce myself...I am moderator of the top FOREX board on Investorshub.com and handle there is simplegreen...on Twitter I am known as @simplegreen67.

Have been training traders and have been a technicals geek for quite a number of years and wanted to share one of my best technical toys.I call it a Quad Tunnel and all of my traders wouldnt trade without it..nor would I!

Years ago I was introduced to what some call a Tunnel.. I was not very impressed with it but believed it had merit and a solid base in Gann theory so I went to work and designed the Quad Tunnel which is absolutely my best work. It still amazes me that is has such power across all time frames. For sake of convenience I will refer to it simply as QT in much of my discussion.

The QT is built easily on any charting program.. its simply 4 color coded EMAs..but this complete template is specific to the MT4 charting program.

EMA(121)...red
EMA(144)...yellow
EMA(169)...green
EMA(196)...purple

Color coding is important! With the color codes I can merely glance at a chart and know instantly if its bearish or bullish simply by the position of EMA(196) ..purple line.

If 196 is at top of QT then 196 is resistance(bearish posture relative to time frame being viewed)... If 196 is on bottom of QT then it shows a bullish posture.

A Tunnel Twist is when the QT twists or turns over and thats important to watch for. Its the transition from bull to bear or bear to bull. As you install and gain experience in the use the QT you will readily see how it functions relative to price action.

This is a very simple yet powerful tool for a traders technical war chest.

I will now move on to the template design or chart setup that I use the Quad Tunnel in along with the other components of this template which is my best chart layout to date.. its VERY effective in making pips!

There are several other moving averages you need to install now.

EMA(625)
EMA(676)

This makes what I call an Extreme Tunnel and doesnt come into play very often but when it does it becomes a very powerful support/resistance area.

Next there are 3 Multi Time frame Movings avgs

MTF EMA(62) set for one min TF
MTF EMA(196)set for one min TF
MTF EMA(196)set for 5 min TF

This allows me to go to any TF chart and see exactly the condition of M1 EMA(62) and both M1 and M5 QT represented by an MTF EMA(196) on both M1 and M5 settings.

Now we move on to last part of main chart panel. I use 3 Dochian Channels..

Donchian(9)..white
Donchian(26)...red
Donchian(52)...yellow

Notice that the parameters for Donchian channels are same parameters used on a standard Ichimoku Cloud.. 9,26,52 and thats the logic behind using these params on the Donchian Channels.

Next I move on to the indicator overlay at bottom of chart.

Stochastics Histogram(24,3,3)
Overlay is a TRIX(7,2)

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That completes the building of the chart template that I use and will post this chart ..its an AUD/USD M30

Below the chart I have links for MT4 custom indicators needed.The MTF MA indie is functional but cant locate the exact source for the one I use so you may or not be pleased with the version I provide a link for.

Be sure to check out Fred's trading room on Investorshub.com

Dear Taxpayer - short film - Occupy the Movie #ows #TeaParty #99Percent

2011-12-04T11:23:00.000-08:00

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I am merely a conduit for information that I find to be interesting.. That I will always share with you.

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PUT ME in your f'ing database you MF'ers!

Greg

Global Rebellion: The Coming Chaos?

2011-12-04T11:09:00.000-08:00

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Published on Friday, December 2, 2011 by Al Jazeera

Global elites are confused, reactive, and sinking into a quagmire of their own making, says author.

by William I. Robinson

SANTA BARBARA, CA - As the crisis of global capitalism spirals out of control, the powers that be in the global system appear to be adrift and unable to proposal viable solutions. From the slaughter of dozens of young protesters by the army in Egypt to the brutal repression of the Occupy movement in the United States, and the water cannons brandished by the militarized police in Chile against students and workers, states and ruling classes are unable are to hold back the tide of worldwide popular rebellion and must resort to ever more generalized repression.

Simply put, the immense structural inequalities of the global political economy can no longer be contained through consensual mechanisms of social control. The ruling classes have lost legitimacy; we are witnessing a breakdown of ruling-class hegemony on a world scale.

To understand what is happening in this second decade of the new century we need to see the big picture in historic and structural context. Global elites had hoped and expected that the "Great Depression" that began with the mortgage crisis and the collapse of the global financial system in 2008 would be a cyclical downturn that could be resolved through state-sponsored bailouts and stimulus packages. But it has become clear that this is a structural crisis. Cyclical crises are on-going episodes in the capitalist system, occurring about once a decade and usually last 18 months to two years. There were world recessions in the early 1980s, the early 1990s, and the early 21st century.

Structural crises are deeper; their resolution requires a fundamental restructuring of the system. Earlier world structural crises of the 1890s, the 1930s and the 1970s were resolved through a reorganization of the system that produced new models of capitalism. "Resolved" does not mean that the problems faced by a majority of humanity under capitalism were resolved but that the reorganization of the capitalist system in each case overcame the constraints to a resumption of capital accumulation on a world scale. The crisis of the 1890s was resolved in the cores of world capitalism through the export of capital and a new round of imperialist expansion. The Great Depression of the 1930s was resolved through the turn to variants of social democracy in both the North and the South - welfare, populist, or developmentalist capitalism that involved redistribution, the creation of public sectors, and state regulation of the market.

Globalization and the current structural crisis

To understand the current conjuncture we need to go back to the 1970s. The globalization stage of world capitalism we are now in itself evolved out the response of distinct agents to these previous episodes of crisis, in particular, to the 1970s crisis of social democracy, or more technically stated, of Fordism-Keynesianism, or of redistributive capitalism. In the wake of that crisis capital went global as a strategy of the emergent Transnational Capitalist Class and its political representatives to reconstitute its class power by breaking free of nation-state constraints to accumulation. These constraints - the so-called "class compromise" - had been imposed on capital through decades of mass struggles around the world by nationally-contained popular and working classes. During the 1980s and 1990s, however, globally-oriented elites captured state power in most countries around the world and utilized that power to push capitalist globalization through the neo-liberal model.

Globalization and neo-liberal policies opened up vast new opportunities for transnational accumulation in the 1980s and 1990s. The revolution in computer and information technology and other technological advances helped emergent transnational capital to achieve major gains in productivity and to restructure, "flexibilize," and shed labor worldwide. This, in turn, undercut wages and the social wage and facilitated a transfer of income to capital and to high consumption sectors around the world that provided new market segments fueling growth. In sum, globalization made possible a major extensive and intensive expansion of the system and unleashed a frenzied new round of accumulation worldwide that offset the 1970s crisis of declining profits and investment opportunities.

However, the neo-liberal model has also resulted in an unprecedented worldwide social polarization. Fierce social and class struggles worldwide were able in the 20th century to impose a measure of social control over capital. Popular classes, to varying degrees, were able to force the system to link what we call social reproduction to capital accumulation. What has taken place through globalization is the severing of the logic of accumulation from that of social reproduction, resulting in an unprecedented growth of social inequality and intensified crises of survival for billions of people around the world.

The pauperizing effects unleashed by globalization have generated social conflicts and political crises that the system is now finding more and more difficult to contain. The slogan "we are the 99 per cent" grows out of the reality that global inequalities and pauperization have intensified enormously since capitalist globalization took off in the 1980s. Broad swaths of humanity have experienced absolute downward mobility in recent decades. Even the IMF was forced to admit in a 2000 report that "in recent decades, nearly one-fifth of the world’s population has regressed. This is arguably one of the greatest economic failures of the 20th century".

Global social polarization intensifies the chronic problem of over-accumulation. This refers to the concentration of wealth in fewer and fewer hands, so that the global market is unable to absorb world output and the system stagnates. Transnational capitalists find it more and more difficult to unload their bloated and expanding mass of surplus - they can’t find outlets to invest their money in order to generate new profits; hence the system enters into recession or worse. In recent years, the Transnational Capitalist Class has turned to militarized accumulation, to wild financial speculation, and to the raiding of sacking of public finance to sustain profit-making in the face of over-accumulation.

While transnational capital’s offensive against the global working and popular classes dates back to the crisis of the 1970s and has grown in intensity ever since, the Great Recession of 2008 was in several respects a major turning point. In particular, as the crisis spread it generated the conditions for new rounds of brutal austerity worldwide, greater flexibilization of labor, steeply rising under and unemployment, and so on. Transnational finance capital and its political agents utilized the global crisis to impose brutal austerity and attempting to dismantle what is left of welfare systems and social states in Europe, North America, and elsewhere, to squeeze more value out of labor, directly through more intensified exploitation and indirectly through state finances. Social and political conflict has escalated around the world in the wake of 2008.

Nonetheless, the system has been unable to recover; it is sinking deeper into chaos. Global elites cannot manage the explosive contradictions. Is the neo-liberal model of capitalism entering a terminal stage? It is crucial to understand that neo-liberalism is but one model of global capitalism; to say that neo-liberalism may be in terminal crisis is not to say that global capitalism is in terminal crisis. Is it possible that the system will respond to crisis and mass rebellion through a new restructuring that leads to some different model of world capitalism - perhaps a global Keynesianism involving transnational redistribution and transnational regulation of finance capital? Will rebellious forces from below be co-opted into some new reformed capitalist order?

Or are we headed towards a systemic crisis? A systemic crisis is one in which the solution involves the end of the system itself, either through its super-session and the creation of an entirely new system, or more ominously the collapse of the system. Whether or not a structural crisis becomes systemic depends on how distinct social and class forces respond - to the political projects they put forward and as well as to factors of contingency that cannot be predicted in advance, and to objective conditions. It is impossible at this time to predict the outcome of the crisis. However, a few things are clear in the current world conjuncture.

The current moment

First, this crisis shares a number of aspects with earlier structural crises of the 1930s and the 1970s, but there are also several features unique to the present:

The system is fast reaching the ecological limits of its reproduction. We face the real specter of resource depletion and environmental catastrophes that threaten a system collapse.

The magnitude of the means of violence and social control is unprecedented. Computerized wars, drones, bunker-buster bombs, star wars, and so forth, have changed the face of warfare. Warfare has become normalized and sanitized for those not directly at the receiving end of armed aggression. Also unprecedented is the concentration of control over the mass media, the production of symbols, images and messages in the hands of transnational capital. We have arrived at the society of panoptical surveillance and Orwellian thought control.

We are reaching the limits to the extensive expansion of capitalism, in the sense that there are no longer any new territories of significance that can be integrated into world capitalism. De-ruralization is now well-advanced, and the commodification of the countryside and of pre- and non-capitalist spaces has intensified, that is, converted in hot-house fashion into spaces of capital, so that intensive expansion is reaching depths never before seen. Like riding a bicycle, the capitalist system needs to continuously expand or else it collapses. Where can the system now expand?

There is the rise of a vast surplus population inhabiting a planet of slums, alienated from the productive economy, thrown into the margins, and subject to sophisticated systems of social control and to crises of survival - to a mortal cycle of dispossession-exploitation-exclusion. This raises in new ways the dangers of a 21st-century fascism and new episodes of genocide to contain the mass of surplus humanity and their real or potential rebellion.

There is a disjuncture between a globalizing economy and a nation-state based system of political authority. Transnational state apparatuses are incipient and have not been able to play the role of what social scientists refer to as a "hegemon", or a leading nation-state that has enough power and authority to organize and stabilize the system. Nation-states cannot control the howling gales of a runaway global economy; states face expanding crises of political legitimacy.
Second, global elites are unable to come up with solutions. They appear to be politically bankrupt and impotent to steer the course of events unfolding before them. They have exhibited bickering and division at the G-8, G-20 and other forums, seemingly paralyzed, and certainly unwilling to challenge the power and prerogative of transnational finance capital, the hegemonic fraction of capital on a world scale, and the most rapacious and destabilizing fraction. While national and transnational state apparatuses fail to intervene to impose regulations on global finance capital, they have intervened to impose the costs of the crisis on labor. The budgetary and fiscal crises that supposedly justify spending cuts and austerity are contrived. They are a consequence of the unwillingness or inability of states to challenge capital and their disposition to transfer the burden of the crisis to working and popular classes.

Third, there will be no quick outcome of the mounting global chaos. We are in for a period of major conflicts and great upheavals. As I mentioned above, one danger is a neo-fascist response to contain the crisis. We are facing a war of capital against all. Three sectors of transnational capital in particular stand out as the most aggressive and prone to seek neo-fascist political arrangements to force forward accumulation as this crisis continues: speculative financial capital, the military-industrial-security complex, and the extractive and energy sector. Capital accumulation in the military-industrial-security complex depends on endless conflicts and war, including the so-called wars on terrorism and on drugs, as well as on the militarization of social control. Transnational finance capital depends on taking control of state finances and imposing debt and austerity on the masses, which in turn can only be achieved through escalating repression. And extractive industries depend on new rounds of violent dispossession and environmental degradation around the world.

Fourth, popular forces worldwide have moved quicker than anyone could imagine from the defensive to the offensive. The initiative clearly passed this year, 2011, from the transnational elite to popular forces from below. The juggernaut of capitalist globalization in the 1980s and 1990s had reverted the correlation of social and class forces worldwide in favor of transnational capital. Although resistance continued around the world, popular forces from below found themselves disoriented and fragmented in those decades, pushed on to the defensive in the heyday of neo-liberalism. Then the events of September 11, 2001, allowed the transnational elite, under the leadership of the US state, to sustain its offensive by militarizing world politics and extending systems of repressive social control in the name of "combating terrorism".

Now all this has changed. The global revolt underway has shifted the whole political landscape and the terms of the discourse. Global elites are confused, reactive, and sinking into the quagmire of their own making. It is noteworthy that those struggling around the world have been shown a strong sense of solidarity and are in communications across whole continents. Just as the Egyptian uprising inspired the US Occupy movement, the latter has been an inspiration for a new round of mass struggle in Egypt. What remains is to extend transnational coordination and move towards transnationally-coordinated programs. On the other hand, the "empire of global capital" is definitely not a "paper tiger". As global elites regroup and assess the new conjuncture and the threat of mass global revolution, they will - and have already begun to - organize coordinated mass repression, new wars and interventions, and mechanisms and projects of co-optation in their efforts to restore hegemony.

In my view, the only viable solution to the crisis of global capitalism is a massive redistribution of wealth and power downward towards the poor majority of humanity along the lines of a 21st-century democratic socialism in which humanity is no longer at war with itself and with nature.

© 2011 William I. Robinson

William I. Robinson is a Professor of Sociology, Global Studies, and Latin American Studies, University of California at Santa Barbara. His latest book is Latin America and Global Capitalism.

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