konane's Blog

Some interesting concepts, still trying to wrap my mind around his proposed solution.  Am in favor of returning to the gold standard and if that's such a bad idea why are other nations in process of doing just that?  Also for me to trust government with implementation of digital dollars, spending for the public good ... there would have to be a whole different bunch in charge than the greedy money grubbing, pork pandering vote buyers in office now.

More commentary about the US being hijacked by bankers.  First video he gets a bit emotional .... keep going for interesting facts and figures analysis.

Post quoted directly from Market-Ticker.org, along with video giving background as to WHY the Fed is balking, back pedalling about being audited.

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"AIG: The Looting Continues

Posted by Karl Denninger  July 17, 2009

Source Market-ticker.org

"No wonder The Fed was threatening Congress when asked about audits - it might expose the underlying realities of something like this:

European banks including Societe Generale SA and BNP Paribas SA hold almost $200 billion in guarantees sold by New York-based AIG allowing the lenders to reduce the capital required for loss reserves. The firms may keep the contracts to hedge against declining assets rather than canceling them as AIG said it expects the banks to do, according to David Havens, managing director at investment bank Hexagon Securities LLC.

$200 billion dollars for foreign banks that we, the taxpayer, have now backstopped through The Fed with zero oversight or approval by Congress?

These aren't even American businesses!

The average weighted length of the European swaps protecting residential loans is more than 25 years, while the span tied to corporate loans is about 6 years, AIG said in a regulatory filing. Contracts covering corporate loans in the Netherlands extend almost 45 years, and the swaps on mortgages in Denmark, France and Germany mature in more than 30 years.

So now we, the American Taxpayer, are backstopping mortgages in Netherlands, Denmark, France and Germany?

Remember this?

Now you know why, and what The Fed and Treasury have done - in black and white.

You have been robbed America, and now they intend to steal $200 billion more - to bail out not Americans but foreigners.

Tell me again why we're doing this, and why people aren't in prison?"

http://market-ticker.org/archives/1230-AIG-The-Looting-Continues.html

Lengthy (one hour) C-Span interview explaining several issues not covered by
maninstream media concerning taxpayer funded bailouts.  Clearly explained, easy
listen, she names names, places blame at feet of those who caused current
financial debacle.

Link provided due to book ad on video.

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"Janet Tavakoli On The Causes Of The Global Financial Meltdown
Submitted by Tyler Durden on Thu, 07/16/2009 - 07:14

Highly informative C-Span interview with Janet Tavakoli to go with the
morning coffee.


http://www.zerohedge.com/article/janet-tavakoli-causes-global-financial-meltdown

Moon landing anniversary: UFOs photographed by Apollo - Telegraph

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/science/space/5832435/Moon-landing-anniversary-UFOs-photographed-by-Apollo.html?image=8

"Nazi Cows Being Bred In Britain

Source Anorak.co.uk

"BEWARE of the cows. Beware of the Nazi cows. Roaring cows are not only attacking Britons, and poisoning our Great British air over our Great British countryside, but now they have a political affiliation. Hail the “Nazi cows”!

Says the BBC:

The Heck calf was born at a farm in Lifton which imported more than a dozen of the animals from Amsterdam as part of a conservation project. The herd is descended from cattle specifically bred by Nazi scientists between the world wars to be used as a symbol of ambitions to rule the world.

The cows. Always the cows. Hail the 1000 year ranch!

Farmer and conservationist Derek Gow has the cattle as part of a wildlife photography business.

Hail the model cow!

He said the animals were bred by the Nazis between World War I and World War II to resemble the extinct ancestors of all cattle, aurochs… Their creation was supported by some quite senior members of the Nazi party for two different reasons. Goering wanted them to hunt, Himmler wanted them to prove that if you could select a wild animal, a wild cow, you could do the same with people.”

Nazi cows are upon us. All together:

Hitler has only got on bull,
The other has his < snip > hailed to wall in a Madrid tapas bar… "

http://www.anorak.co.uk/strange-but-true/214567.html

"BORN IN THE USA?  Bombshell: Orders revoked for soldier challenging prez

Major victory for Army warrior questioning Obama's birthplace

Posted: July 14, 2009
9:53 pm Eastern

Source World Net Daily

"By Chelsea Schilling and Joe Kovacs"A U.S. Army Reserve major from Florida scheduled to report for deployment to Afghanistan within days has had his military orders revoked after arguing he should not be required to serve under a president who has not proven his eligibility for office.

His attorney, Orly Taitz, confirmed to WND the military has rescinded his impending deployment orders.

"We won! We won before we even arrived," she said with excitement. "It means that the military has nothing to show for Obama. It means that the military has directly responded by saying Obama is illegitimate – and they cannot fight it. Therefore, they are revoking the order!"

She continued, "They just said, 'Order revoked.' No explanation. No reasons – just revoked."

A hearing on the questions raised by Maj. Stefan Frederick Cook, an engineer who told WND he wants to serve his country in Afghanistan, was scheduled for July 16 at 9:30 a.m.

"As an officer in the armed forces of the United States, it is [my] duty to gain clarification on any order we may believe illegal. With that said, if President Obama is found not to be a 'natural-born citizen,' he is not eligible to be commander-in-chief," he told WND only hours after the case was filed.

 "[Then] any order coming out of the presidency or his chain of command is illegal. Should I deploy, I would essentially be following an illegal [order]. If I happened to be captured by the enemy in a foreign land, I would not be privy to the Geneva Convention protections," he said.

The order for the hearing in the federal court for the Middle District of Georgia from U.S. District Judge Clay D. Land said the hearing on the request for a temporary restraining order would be held Thursday.

Cook said without a legitimate president as commander-in-chief, members of the U.S. military in overseas actions could be determined to be "war criminals and subject to prosecution."

He said the vast array of information about Obama that is not available to the public confirms to him "something is amiss."

"That and the fact the individual who is occupying the White House has not been entirely truthful with anybody," he said. "Every time anyone has made an inquiry, it has been either cast aside, it has been maligned, it has been laughed at or just dismissed summarily without further investigation.

"You know what. It would be so simple to solve. Just produce the long-form document, certificate of live birth," he said.

Cook said he was scheduled to report for duty tomorrow, on July 15, to deploy to Afghanistan as part of President Obama's plan to increase pressure of insurgent forces there.

He told WND he would be prepared for a backlash against him as a military officer, since members of the military swear to uphold and follow their orders. However, he noted that following an illegal order would be just as bad as failing to follow a legal order.

Before news of the orders being revoked were reported, MSNBC anchor Keith Olbermann tonight called Cook a "jackass" and Taitz a "conwoman," as he labeled both of them the "worst persons in the world." He flayed the soldier as "an embarrassment to all those who have served without cowardice."

Named as defendants in the case are Col. Wanda Good, Col. Thomas Macdonald, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and Obama, described as "de facto president of the United States."

According to the court filing, Cook affirmed when he joined the military, he took the following oath: "I, Stefan Frederick Cook, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the president of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to the regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God."

According to the claim, "Plaintiff submits that it is implicit though not expressly stated that an officer is and should be subject to court-martial, because he will be derelict in the performance of his duties, if he does not inquire as to the lawfulness, the legality, the legitimacy of the orders which he has received, whether those orders are specific or general."

The military courts offer no option for raising the question, so he turned to civilian courts to consider "a question of paramount constitutional and legal importance: the validity of the chain of command under a president whose election, eligibility, and constitutional status appear open to serious question."

"Barack Hussein Obama, in order to prove his constitutional eligibility to serve as president, basically needs only produce a single unique historical document for the Plaintiff’s inspection and authentication: namely, the 'long-form' birth certificate which will confirm whether Barack Hussein Obama was in fact born to parents who were both citizens of the United States in Honolulu, Hawaii, in or about 1961," explains the complaint.

Taitz said she will attend the hearing to amend the temporary restraining order to an injunction because more members of the military have joined the cause.

"We are going to be asking for release of Obama's records because now this completely undermines the military. It revoked this order, but it can come up with another order tomorrow. It can come up with orders for other people," she said. "Am I going to be flying around the country 1,000 times and paying the fees every time they issue an order?"

Taitz said the issue "must be resolved immediately," and she will continue working to ensure Obama proves he is eligible for office.

"We're going to be asking the judge to issue an order for Obama to provide his vital records to show he is legitimately president," she said. "We're going to say, we have orders every day, and we'll have revocations every day. This issue has to be decided."

She said there cannot be any harm to the president if he is legitimately holding office.

"If he is legitimate, then his vital records will prove it," Taitz said. "If he is illegitimate, then he should not have been there in the first place."

Asked what this decision means for every other serviceman who objects to deployment under a president who has not proven he is eligible for office, Taitz responded:

"Now, we can have each and every member of the military – each and every enlistee and officer – file something similar saying 'I will not take orders until Obama is legitimately vetted.'"

Multiple questions have been raised about what that would mean to the 2008 election, to the orders and laws Obama has signed and other issues, including whether he then is a valid commander-in-chief of the military.

The mystery letter

Obama has maintained he was born in Hawaii, and at least one hospital, Honolulu's Kapi'olani Medical Center for Women and Children, claims it received a letter from the president declaring his birth there.

As WND reported, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs refused to confirm that the letter which was used by the hospital to solicit donations is, in fact, a real correspondence.

When WND exposed doubts about the authenticity of the letter because it was created with HTML computer code and had no presidential or White House seal, the hospital which for nearly six months proudly declared Obama was born at its facility commenced an active cover-up, hiding that White House letter from its original webpage and refusing to confirm such a letter actually exists.

WND also reported that just within the last week, at least two reports have cited Obama's birth in Kenya. Wikipedia also was found to have been reporting on Obama's birth in Kenya, before a series of scrubs placed his birth in Honolulu.

And that came on the heels of several online information sites changing the president's supposed birthplace from one hospital in Hawaii to another, after WND broke the news of the letter said to be from the White House.

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=104009

Thanks to Truecritic on my last blog post I found out there was a hit previous to Roy Hamilton for Unchained Melody.  I was also wrong stating when Hamilton hit in 1957 with Unchained Melody. 

According to http://www.royhamilton.net/Bio.htm  "....“Walk”, released in 1954, which went to number one on the R&B chart and was a pop hit, “Unchained Melody”, another number one R&B hit as well as a top ten pop hit the following year (1955) , and the up-tempo hits “Don’t Let Go” in 1958 and “You Can Have Her”, in 1961, both top ten hits.

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Great music from the way-back machine.

Roy Hamilton came from an era where voice and ability stood on their own merits, and he has one of the most extraordinarily beautiful voices of mid 50's to early 60's.  I believe he was the firt singer to hit with "Unchained Melody" in 1957.... someone has posted that video on YouTube. 

Hope you enjoy!!

At about 1:10 "....due to their size and other-worldly strengths ...."

Believe I heard correctly .... your guess is as good as mine.

http://www.javno.com/en-world/swine-flu-created-in-lab-as-bio-weapon_254118

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MSNBC video.

Obama: Unlimited Detention Without Charges 2009

http://www.russiatoday.com/Top_News/2009-07-13/_Obama_has_the_right_to_lock_any_US_citizen_up_forever_without_trial_.html#