California High Speed Rail Funding Approved
By JUDY LIN 07/06/12
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/06/california-high-speed-rail_n_1655437.html
Transportation Secretary praises authoritarian Chinese rule on high speed rail
High Speed Rail
July 7, 2012
"The Chinese are more successful [in building infrastructure] because in their country, only three people make the decision. In our country, 3,000 people do, 3 million," he said.
http://www.examiner.com/article/tra...authoritarian-chinese-rule-on-high-speed-rail
High-speed rail officials rebuffed proposal from French railway
By Dan Weikel and Ralph Vartabedian, Los Angeles Times
July 9, 2012
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-rail-advice-20120709,0,4539140.story
Border Patrol group calls for Holder’s resignation
By Jerry Seper
The Washington Times Monday, June 18, 2012
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/jun/18/border-patrol-group-calls-holders-resignation/
“Jun 2, 2012 – 129 House members now demanding Eric Holder's resignation
dailycaller.com “
James Holmes Wrote And Made Mind Control Programs
James Holmes Wrote And Made Mind Control Programs. After graduating in 2006, Holmes worked as a student intern at the Salk Institute of Biological Studies and Miramar College’s biotechnology summer boot camp, where “cream of the crop” students were given rudimentary laboratory projects.
http://whyamericansaredumb.com/james-holmes-wrote-and-made-mind-control-programs/
MK-Ultra responsible for James Holmes and Aurora shootings Part-I
by Doc Vega | July 25, 2012
PSYOP the practice of modern psychological warfare, propaganda, Political Warfare, PSY OPS, Hearts and Minds, and PSYWAR, all names for a covert form of abhorrent conducted intelligence operations. These operations can be utilized under many forms from selective assassin training, false flag, or black operations. These highly specialized forms of covert and mind control operations, lavishly funded, carefully guarded, are manifestations of the New World Order. Carrying out a strategy of keeping nations at war, the public off balance, and the diplomatic relations between international countries manipulated
http://www.nowpublic.com/world/mk-u...mes-and-aurora-shootings-part-i#ixzz22KQqE1Ss
U.S. Inquiry Tried, but Failed, to Link Iraq to Anthrax Attack
New York Times, December 22, 2001. By WILLIAM J. BROAD with DAVID JOHNSTON
Lost In The Mail – James Holmes Mailed His Murderous Musings To Professor
AURORA, Colo. – James Holmes, mailed a notebook “full of details about how he was going to kill people” to a University of Colorado psychiatrist before the attack, but the parcel sat unopened in a mailroom for as long as a week before its discovery Monday, a law enforcement source told FoxNews.com.
http://wizbangblog.com/2012/07/25/l...es-mailed-his-murderous-musings-to-professor/
Va. Tech gunman sent material to NBC
4/19/2007 By William M. Welch, USA TODAY
Minutes before Cho Seung Hui gunned down 30 people in a Virginia Tech building, he mailed a hate-filled package of video and photos to NBC, sending what amounted to a deranged final message aired after his death.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-04-18-virginia-tech_N.htm
FBI Warned of Theatre Shooting on their Website May 17
Watch this video to see the FBI warning that was taken down within minutes of posting it this past May. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=O9aVMfYR8to
http://2012thebigpicture.wordpress....-of-theatre-shooting-on-their-website-may-17/
TotallyLOL I think the oil speculators are all to blame for all of this.
Don't blame the oil 'speculators'
Chinese fugitive returns to China voluntarily to face bank fraud charges
By Jeremy Nuttall, The Canadian Press August 13, 2012
VANCOUVER - A Vancouver man accused by Chinese authorities of misappropriating more than $150 million while he was a bank manager in China has voluntarily returned to Beijing to face the charges.
Gao is only the most recent Chinese suspect to return to his homeland after years in Canada.
In May, Lai Changxing was sentenced to life in prison after losing an extradition battle to stay in Canada, where he had lived for 12 years.
Known as China's most wanted fugitive, Lai fled to Vancouver in 1999 and was sought by Chinese authorities for raking in millions of dollars illegally through fraud and smuggling.
http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Ch...oluntarily+face+bank+fraud/7084980/story.html
WTF??? Of course I blame the speculators...for many, many things. What's up with the spam??
Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997
In 1997 President Clinton signed into effect the Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997, which included the largest capital gains tax cut in U.S. history. Under the act, the profits on the sale of a personal residence ($500,000 for married couples, $250,000 for singles) were exempted if lived in for at least 2 years over the last 5.t
San Jose Real Estate Market: Trend, Analysis & Statistics
Annual Home Price Appreciation Rates
1989 25.87%
1990 -6.11% --(I knew Mrs. Chen in Galt Flea Market. Apparently she was the Feds’ target already. The Feds started to buy houses.)
1991 -0.99% -- (Mrs. Chen was arrested for Heroin smuggling.)
1992 -1.78%
1993 -2.78%
1994 -1.40% -- (I left for China due to the persecution of the Feds)
1995 2.43% -- (Return to US. Persecution continued)
1996 5.48% -- (Saw “Cash for house”. Attempting to buy a house)
1997 13.22% -- (Taxpayer Relief Act passed)
1998 13.08% -- (dot com babble)
1999 13.74%
2000 29.07% -- (dot com babble broke up)
2001 0.79%
http://www.forecast-chart.com/estate-real-san-jose.html
Reuters – Wed, Sep 26, 2012.. .
(Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Reserve launched a new round of monetary stimulus this month, saying it will buy $40 billion in housing-backed bonds each month until the labor market improves substantially.
The Fed has kept interest rates near zero since December 2008 and now says it expects weak economic conditions will warrant keeping them there through at least mid 2015, half a year longer than it had earlier expected.
http://news.yahoo.com/factbox-fed-officials-comments-economy-policy-200444357--business.html
California Refiners Ration Gasoline as Prices Near Record
By Lynn Doan – Friday, Oct 5, 2012
“We’re really sort of shell-shocked,” said Tom Robinson, president of Santa Clara, California-based Robinson Oil Corp., which operates 34 Rotten Robbie convenience stores. “If you’ve been in California long enough, you know how volatile our market can be. But to see prices go up $1 a gallon since Monday -- I’ve never seen that before.”
http://www.firstenercastfinancial.c...a-refiners-ration-gasoline-prices-near-record
Calif. gas prices equal all-time high
By GILLIAN FLACCUS | Associated Press, 10/6/2012
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Saturday's price, the highest in the nation, equaled the record average high for California set in June 2008 of $4.61.
http://news.yahoo.com/calif-gas-prices-equal-time-high-102715507.html
Draghi helps out Obama campaign
By Robin Harding in Washington September 6, 2012
Barack Obama’s chances of re-election as US president rose on Thursday and the words that did it were not his but Mario Draghi’s.
Long before Mr Obama stood up to accept the Democratic nomination in Charlotte, North Carolina, the head of the European Central Bank had sketched out a new plan to buy the bonds of troubled eurozone countries.
That will not move the polls; it will not move a single vote. But Mr Draghi has lowered the gravest of risks to Mr Obama: a pre-election meltdown in the eurozone that would have blown up banks, pulverised Wall Street, and routed a fragile US economy back into recession.
If that happened, it would not be Mr Obama’s fault, but he would get the blame. Just as the failure of Lehman Brothers doomed his rival John McCain in 2008, a eurozone implosion would create economic odds too great for Mr Obama to surmount.
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/bc1cf132-f831-11e1-bec8-00144feabdc0.html#axzz261Uy9nmA
Fed risks political fallout from QE3
By Robin Harding and James Politi in Washington September 14, 2012
Mitt Romney, the Republican candidate, duly opened fire on Friday after the Fed began an open-ended third round of quantitative easing (QE3), under which it will buy $40bn of mortgage-backed securities a month.
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/b7de9070-fe77-11e1-8028-00144feabdc0.html#axzz26Vualgix
Marc Faber: Fed's QE forever is ludicrous; no country has become rich from consumption
Source: BI-ME , Author: Constantine Gardner Fri September 14, 2012
"Asset prices will go up and the money will flow to the Mayfair Economy," he said, defining the latter as an "economy of the rich people whose assets prices go up and whose net worth increases" without any trickle down benefit to the real economy.
What you have is a small economy that is booming and the majority of the economy is being damaged by QE, Faber explains.
Faber sees the Fed's monetary policies over the last 15 years as mainly responsible for the various asset bubbles (Nasdaq, real estate etc...) leading to the subprime crisis in 2007. "The money printers and the neo-Keynesians interventionists are responsible for the crisis, reckons Faber, and people should know this."
Dr Bernanke's attempt to boost growth and reduce unemployment will end up, according to Dr. Faber, in a fiscal Grand Canyon with never ending deficits, the majority of the economy being damaged, the man in the street facing higher prices and losing his job.
http://www.bi-me.com/main.php?id=59324&t=1&c=62&cg=4&mset=
What Does an 8.3 Percent Unemployment Rate Mean for the Election?
By: Jon King | August 5, 2012
Many pundits (including this one) have made the point that if the unemployment rate is at 8% or higher that the president will have an uphill battle to win the election.
The reason why 8% is such a hurdle is that no modern president has ever won re-election when unemployment was over 8%. Actually, if one wants to take an even more skeptical view, they could say that no president since Roosevelt has won re-election with unemployment over 7.2%.
http://newstalkkgvo.com/what-does-8-3-unemployment-mean-for-the-election/
GOP fears ghost of Katrina at RNC 2012
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0812/80219.html#ixzz2555svXio
Rush Limbaugh Says Obama Manipulated Isaac Storm Track To Delay GOP Convention: ‘The Hurricane Center Is … Obama’
By Stephen Lacey on Aug 27, 2012
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/20...tion-the-hurricane-center-is-obama/?mobile=nc
Conspiracy Theorists Say Obama Engineered Hurricane Sandy
By Elizabeth Flock October 29, 2012
As Hurricane Sandy blasts the eastern seaboard just over a week before Election Day, a number of conspiracy theorists have decided President Barack Obama engineered the mega-storm to secure his re-election.
InfoWars.com, TheIntelHub.com, and ConsfearacyNewz all posted stories over the last several days alleging that the The High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program, or HAARP, helped the president engineer Sandy.
http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/wa...heorists-say-obama-engineered-hurricane-sandy
Tuesday, Oct 30, 2012 05:28 AM PDT
So what does Romney do now?
If the hurricane freezes the presidential race in place, it's not good news for the GOP nominee
By Steve Kornacki
For Romney, the downside is obvious: Sandy has for now frozen the race in place – and where the race is right now isn’t good for him. If the election were held this moment, Barack Obama would probably be returned to office for a second term. The president is at best tied with Romney in the national horserace and at worst behind by a point, but he holds clear advantages in the most important battleground states and is much better-positioned to reach 270 electoral votes.
Romney needs to shore up states like Virginia and Colorado and erase stubborn gaps in Ohio or Wisconsin and Iowa before next Tuesday. Momentum alone doesn’t seem like it will get him there. He surged in the wake of the first debate in Denver, but the race has settled into place since then. For lack of a better term, Romney is in need of some kind of jolt that would fix his swing state problem.
Sandy severely complicates this task. For one thing, it has overtaken the presidential campaign as the top national story and will continue to do so for several days. Obama, as the president, has an obvious place in this story. The actions of the White House and the response of the federal government are integral to the clean-up, and Obama has a platform to showcase his presidential leadership. Romney, though, has no official role, and really can’t force his way into the story. There’s also the matter of unseemliness – it wouldn’t look too good for Romney to keep right on campaigning as the rest of the country takes stock of a natural disaster. Thus did Romney cancel events yesterday and again today.
http://www.salon.com/2012/10/30/so_what_does_romney_do_now/
Boeing Announces Big Layoffs in Defense Division
Published: Wednesday, 7 Nov 2012
http://www.cnbc.com/id/49729998
Record-High Food Stamp Enrollment Data Released After Election
November 10, 2012
Nearly 421,000 new participants were added in just one month from the July 2012 figure of 46,681,917. Almost 2 million more participants were added in the last year when compared to the August 2011 figure of 45,794,474. There were about 32 million Americans on Food Stamps when President Barack Obama took office in January 2009.
The U.S. Monthly Data report is typically issued at the end of the following month, or pushed slightly into next week if there is a weekend or holiday at the end of the month. For example, July 2012's numbers were released on September 28, 2012 (See below). However, the August 2012 report was released unusually late on November 9, 2012, well after the U.S. Presidential Election had taken place.
http://government.brevardtimes.com/2012/11/record-high-food-stamps-data-released.html
Record-High Food Stamp Enrollment Data Released After Election
November 10, 2012
Nearly 421,000 new participants were added in just one month from the July 2012 figure of 46,681,917. Almost 2 million more participants were added in the last year when compared to the August 2011 figure of 45,794,474. There were about 32 million Americans on Food Stamps when President Barack Obama took office in January 2009.
The U.S. Monthly Data report is typically issued at the end of the following month, or pushed slightly into next week if there is a weekend or holiday at the end of the month. For example, July 2012's numbers were released on September 28, 2012 (See below). However, the August 2012 report was released unusually late on November 9, 2012, well after the U.S. Presidential Election had taken place.
http://government.brevardtimes.com/2012/11/record-high-food-stamps-data-released.html
With 60,000 dead, Mexicans wonder why drug war doesn't rate in presidential debate
Much of Latin America was dismayed that they got only a glancing mention in Romney and Obama's final presidential debate.
By Sara Miller Llana | Christian Science Monitor – 10/23/2012
That means no candidate talked about the drug trade, despite historic violence playing out in Mexico, much of it along the 2,000-mile border that the US shares.
http://news.yahoo.com/60-000-dead-mexicans-wonder-why-drug-war-141857504.html
Boehner: 'Obamacare is the law of the land'
By Michael O'Brien, NBC News 11/8/2012
Republicans' efforts to undo President Barack Obama's health care reform law appear to have come to an end, as House Speaker John Boehner described it Thursday as the "law of the land."
http://nbcpolitics.nbcnews.com/_new...boehner-obamacare-is-the-law-of-the-land?lite
Senate bill rewrite lets feds read your e-mail without warrants
by Declan McCullagh
| November 20, 2012
A Senate proposal touted as protecting Americans' e-mail privacy has been quietly rewritten, giving government agencies more surveillance power than they possess under current law.
CNET has learned that Patrick Leahy, the influential Democratic chairman of the Senate Judiciary committee, has dramatically reshaped his legislation in response to law enforcement concerns. A vote on his bill, which now authorizes warrantless access to Americans' e-mail, is scheduled for next week.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-5...ithout-warrants/?part=rss&subj=news&tag=title
In unusual CIA case, FBI detoured from usual path
By RICHARD LARDNER | Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — The way the FBI responded to Jill Kelley's complaint about receiving harassing emails, which ultimately unraveled or scarred the careers of ex-CIA Director David Petraeus and Marine Gen. John Allen, is the exception, not the rule.
The FBI commonly declines to pursue cyberstalking cases without compelling evidence of serious or imminent harm to an individual, victims of online harassment, advocacy groups and computer crime experts told The Associated Press.
Instead, the FBI considered this from the earliest stages to be an exceptional case, and one so sensitive that FBI Director Robert Mueller and Attorney General Eric Holder were kept notified of its progress.
Civil liberties groups have criticized the FBI for pursuing the investigation of the emails to Kelley because there is no indication the messages contained any threatening language or classified information. The episode underscores the need to strengthen the legal protections for electronic communications, according to the American Civil Liberties Union.
http://us.mg5.mail.yahoo.com/neo/launch
New report describes Broadwell emails to Kelley as ‘death threats’
By Rachel Rose Hartman, Yahoo! News | The Ticket – Tue, Nov 20, 2012
Paula Broadwell reportedly vowed in an email to make Jill Kelley "go away" the New York Daily News reported Tuesday in a story offering new details about how the mistress of former CIA Director David Petraeus threatened Kelley.
Media puzzled, asked why? People rarely know it was an attempt to create scandal for CIA. “Operation Fast and Furious” has made D.O.J. notorious already. They now intend to extort CIA to collaborate in their plot in Mexico if I would be forced to be there.Mexico focus on police commanders in CIA shooting
By E. EDUARDO CASTILLO | Associated Press – Mon, Nov 19, 2012.
MEXICO CITY (AP) — In a strange and aggressive attack by Mexican federal police on a U.S. Embassy vehicle that was pumped with 152 bullets, one major question remains: Why?
Mexican investigators are looking for the answer from five police commanders who are accused of ordering 14 officers to lie about what happened on Aug. 24 south of Mexico City, where two CIA officers and a Mexican Navy captain came under heavy fire while travelling in an armored SUV clearly marked by diplomatic plates.
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"Commanders controlled by whom? Whose instructions were they following?" said one Mexican official with knowledge of the case.
http://news.yahoo.com/mexico-focus-police-commanders-cia-shooting-184012908.html
US Court Documents Claim Sinaloa “Cartel” Is Protected by US Government
Posted by Bill Conroy - July 31, 2011 at 5:07 pm
The son of a heavy hitter in a powerful Mexican drug trafficking organization has filed explosive legal pleadings in federal court in Chicago accusing the US government of cutting a deal with the the “Sinaloa Cartel” that gave its leadership “carte blanche to continue to smuggle tons of illicit drugs into Chicago and the rest of the United States.”
http://www.blackvisions.org/Boards/index.php?PHPSESSID=ia22b1p735phu528n2or8orgt2&topic=112.0
Reports Of Mexican Special Forces Serving As 'Death Squads' In The Drug War
Michael Kelley|Oct. 2, 2012
Ciudad Juárez, right across the border from El Paso, Texas, was perhaps the most dangerous place in the world between 2008 and 2011 as a “cartel turf war" led to more than 10,000 murders.
But U.S. and Mexican officials told Stratfor that the surge of killings can be partly attributed to Mexican special forces and hitmen who were acting as U.S. informants.
http://www.businessinsider.com/startfor-death-squads-in-the-drug-war-2012-10#ixzz2DZQF50Yv
Complete, utter nonsense.you don't understand speculation then. speculation actually helps control wild swings in prices.
It is a shame what a lack of financial/economic knowledge there is in this country