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Unemployment:  WTF? Unchanged???
OK, here's the deal - hot of the Labor Dept. website:

"Total nonfarm payroll employment declined by 131,000 in July, and the unem- ployment rate was unchanged at 9.5 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Federal government employment fell, as 143,000 temporary workers hired for the decennial census completed their work. Private-sector payroll employment edged up by 71,000.
Household Survey Data
Both the number of unemployed persons, at 14.6 million, and the unemployment rate, at 9.5 percent, were unchanged in July. (See table A-1.)
Among the major worker groups, the unemployment rate for adult men (9.7 per- cent), adult women (7.9 percent), teenagers (26.1 percent), whites (8.6 per- cent), blacks (15.6 percent), and Hispanics (12.1 percent) showed little or no change in July. The jobless rate for Asians was 8.2 percent, not seasonally adjusted. (See tables A-1, A-2, and A-3.)
In July, the number of long-term unemployed (those jobless for 27 weeks and over) was little changed at 6.6 million. These individuals made up 44.9 per- cent of unemployed persons. (See table A-12.)
The civilian labor force participation rate (64.6 percent) and the employment- population ratio (58.4 percent) were essentially unchanged in July; however, these measures have declined by 0.6 percentage point and 0.4 point, respectively, since April. (See table A-1.)
The number of persons employed part time for economic reasons (sometimes re- ferred to as involuntary part-time workers) was essentially unchanged over the month at 8.5 million but has declined by 623,000 since April. These in- dividuals were working part time because their hours had been cut back or because they were unable to find a full-time job. (See table A-8.)
About 2.6 million persons were marginally attached to the labor force in July, an increase of 340,000 from a year earlier. (The data are not seasonally adjusted.) These individuals were not in the labor force, wanted and were avail- able for work, and had looked for a job sometime in the prior 12 months. They were not counted as unemployed because they had not searched for work in the 4 weeks preceding the survey. (See table A-16.)
Among the marginally attached, there were 1.2 million discouraged workers in July, up by 389,000 from a year earlier. (The data are not seasonally ad- justed.) Discouraged workers are persons not currently looking for work because they believe no jobs are available for them. The remaining 1.4 million persons marginally attached to the labor force had not searched for work in the 4 weeks preceding the survey for reasons such as school attendance or family responsibilities.

As long as the workforce number is being reduced, it keeps the unemployment figures in check.  However, the real number to look at is the labor participation rate.  In April it was 65.2% and now its down to 64.6%.
That's how you lose 131,000 jobs and hold the rate steady...only change the participation rate a tenth for the month...
The CES Birth/Death Model also shows declines in new/small business/estimated job creation. Last month 147,000 new jobs were estimated into existence.  This month:  Just 6,000 with another 12,000 lost in manufacturing and 9-thousand each in Financial activities and the Trade Transportation and utilities group.
On a Not Seasonally Adjusted basis,  the Alternative Measures of Labor Underutilization figure was up another tenth to 16.8% of the workforce.  Same place we were a year ago.
Feedback: "George, did you mention that the June Jobs report was revised majorly downward to -221K, from -125K? eom"  No, wouldn't want to complete f/u the weekend.
Predictably, the futures point down.  But it gets worse...
How Gov't Screws Job-Seekers
As long as we're talking about the job collapse, reading InformationWeek may not be on your list of sites to scan for economic news, but a fine case of screwing up the recovery is being presented by the federal government and what the article refers to as a 'hand-picked Obama appointee" as the (got a blood pressure pill handy?) "U.S. to Train 3,000 Offshore IT Workers".
What's worse?  On Thursday InformationWeek did a follow-on story about how "USAID Funds IT in Eurasia".
If you're an unemployed American IT wizard, and you're asking "WTF is wrong with these people in Washington?  Don't they know we have a serious unemployment problem right here in America?", I'd have to point out that America isn't what it used to be.
Seems to me that when Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner said this week...

"The President has proposed to terminate or reduce government programs we do not need and cannot afford. He has proposed to freeze non-security, discretionary spending, which will by 2014 bring such spending to its lowest share of the economy since the 1960s.... "

...he could have mentioned that cutting government spending by outsourcing was in the plan somewhere.
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No, I'm not picking on Obama; the reason all presidents have been acting the same, regardless of party, is that corporate strings pull both parties.  Obama is just the latest marionette; Bush the preceding puppet. Campaign promises to withdraw from Iraq?  Create new jobs and industries?  And what about that surveillance promise?  Bush was of the same ilk, same wars, same.....well,  you get the idea.
Ever since the Kennedy days (at least that's a good point of transition to consider, since he was killed with a move to begin taking back direct government control of money from the Federal Reserve pending under Executive Order 11110)) we have done a smooth transition from government "by, of, and for the people" to a government "by, for, and of corporation interests in general and their bankers in particular.  Need a few more zeroes on your bailout?"
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But what's the use?  We're probably past the point of no return, although I'll still vote against every incumbent I can in November.  The hard part isn't the voting, it's the remembering that the corporate agenda is to keep voters believing in left-right divisions so the up/down manipulation and exploitation can profitably (to the few) continue.
Besides, we really do need more IT outsourcing to South Asia, and Armenia, don't we?  I mean, how else could American corporate interests keep cutting jobs, right?  And what better way to cut federal costs than to outsource them to South Asia and Armenia?
Hell, I'm so old I can remember when my job competitor was the human standing next to me...not a piece of software or some faceless corpslave in an Asian prison sweat shop.  Now that's old.
ViceGrips (to pinch yourself) and a Bic lighter (for your vaporizer) only go so far.
With America facing massive unemployment - and by my reckoning, more to come - how is it we need foreign aid programs, in the first place?
Bad Idea On Housing
Word this week that fixed-rate mortgages hit record lows prompted an ugly trial-balloon to be launched by the Obamanistas:  Idea tossed around Washington was "What about forgiving $800 billion in Freddie and Fannie home loans?"
So visceral was my reaction that I called my lawyer/consigliore and asked him "What's it gonna cost to file a class action lawsuit on behalf of people who have a) no mortgage, b) renters, and c) people who didn't cross the moral hazard line and lived within their means?  It's a crock of crap and a clear violation of equal protection to give one class of citizens a loan forgiveness windfall at the expense of the rest of us, right?"
His answer was instructive:

"You can't afford it, George.  It will cost at least $2-million dollars to challenge an idea as bad as this, even though it's an easy call and load of crap on the surface.  I'd need to hire researchers, spend hundreds - maybe thousands - of hours in research, hire expert opinions - and that's expensive, I've done it before - and frankly, you're pockets aren't that deep..."

Crap.  So I tried to tempt him in other way: "Could you do it on a contingent basis for part of the settlement, triple damages, and such?

"Nope.  Not interested."

In end, someone in Treasury apparently had the good sense to announce there won't be any change of Treasury policy about Freddie and Fannie.
But is that the end of it?  Hell no:  The Democorps are facing disaster at the polls in November which is probably why the week after elections is when the Middle East will blow up.  Lame ducks can do anything they want - or so they think.
Global Food Crisis, Commodities, War
Did the linguistics, or did the linguistics not tell you that food was going to go ballistic late this year.  And is not word that Russian Prime Minister and his marionette president what's-his-name have banned export of grains from Russia because of severe drought and failing crops.
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Which brings us to a couple of commodities to watch:  Wheat prices are rising and so is copper.  Copper's a worry because it usually goes up ahead of major wars.
March To War Dept.
Shortly after Elaine was wandered around the house yesterday muttering about how stupid killing people over tree trimming along the Lebanese-Israel border was when this popped in: "Chinese missile could shift Pacific power balance."
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While the rumor mill buzzes that Wikileaks may have a follow-on posting around August 10th only dealing with Iran War plans, the recent Ugly Truth article "assembling the evidence for high likelihood of coming third world war" is worth some study.
Or, you might want to chat with Shane over at http://www.ki4u.com/ about radiation detectors and potassium iodide pills....
Speaking of which, Shane sent me his review of the new documentary "Countdown to Zero" which also builds the case that some kind of nuke use is increasingly likely...

No surprise the new 'Countdown to Zero' disarmament movie omits any life-saving strategies from their agenda of banning nukes, like advocating public Civil Defense, to try and better survive nukes in the meantime.
The disarmament movement has for decades espoused that with nukes; all will die or it will be so bad you'll wish you had. They've largely succeeded, as most now think it futile, bordering on lunacy, to ever try to learn how to survive a nuclear blast and radioactive fallout.
Ironically, these disarmament activists have rendered millions more American families more vulnerable to perishing from nukes in the future.
For instance, most now ridicule 'duck & cover', but for the vast majority, not right at 'ground zero' and already gone, the blast wave will be delayed in arriving after the flash, like lightening & thunder, anywhere from a fraction of a second up to 20 seconds, or more.
Today, without 'duck & cover' training, everyone at work, home, and your children at school, will impulsively rush to the nearest windows to see what that 'bright flash' was, just-in-time to be shredded by the glass imploding inward from that delayed blast wave. They'd never been taught that even in the open, just laying flat, reduces by eight-fold the chances of being hit by debris from that brief, 3-second, tornado strength blast.
Then, later, before the radioactive fallout can hurt them, most won't know to move perpendicular away from the downwind drift of the fallout to get out from under it before it even arrives. And, for those who can't evacuate in time, few know how quick & easy it is to throw together an expedient fallout shelter, to safely wait out the radioactive fallout as it loses 99% of its lethal intensity in the first 48 hours.
The greatest tragedy of that horrific loss of life, when nukes come to America, will be that most families had needlessly perished, out of ignorance of how easily they might have avoided becoming additional casualties, all because they were sold it was futile to ever try to learn how to beforehand.

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The Web and You: Is the Key behind Understanding the WWW and The Internet

I have been online since 1995 and had to learn the hard way about what to do online and what not to do online! I love to help other learn this information without the pains I went through to learn the WWW and the Internet because without this knowledge the Internet can be a mean and dangers place to work and play. This Internet Tutorial will help you understand Net Culture and the why of what the Information Super Highway is all about and why the New Information Age is part of human evolution.

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The Web and You: A Guide to Participation

In 2006, Time magazine named You as the Person of the Year with the comment: "Yes, you. You control the Information Age. Welcome to your world."

This tutorial will explain how you - yes, you - can participate in and therefore control your experience of the Web. The Web allows anyone with an Internet connection to join in. (Unfortunately, some of this capability is blocked in certain countries.) With the proper tools, you can create content either alone or collaboratively, share your content, and comment on the content of others. There are various terms used to describe this phenomenon, including web 2.0, the social web, the read-write web. The topic is huge. This tutorial is intended as a brief introduction to the lay of the land.

It's interesting to watch as the content of the social Web is entering the mainstream of the Web experience. For example, blog posts can be found in search engine results. The search engine Bing indexes Twitter content in order to provide up-to-the-minute results, and Facebook status updates are in the works. This brings up the importance of the social Web to the real-time web. It is becoming increasingly important to the development of the Web to present real-time, or near real-time, content.

A large factor in interacting with the Web is having access to the Web at any time and any place. The Web and its functionalities are becoming increasingly mobile. While laptop computers have been around for years, the focus now is on cell phones and other portable devices connected to the Web. The iPhone is just one example of a device that allows people to take the Web with them wherever they go to access Web sites, social networks, search engines, and location-based information. Mobile devices can keep us connected to the networked world with ever-expanding capabilities.

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First, a word about security and safet

The Web has sometimes been referred to as the Wild Wild Web. As the Web becomes more open to user interaction, dangers can be lurking. Computer viruses of various types, identity theft, bogus e-mail messages and Web sites, and predators, are just a few of the dangers you might encounter.

When you interact with strangers on the Web, proceed with caution. Don't automatically trust what you see or who you encounter. There are many sites on the Web that can help you become aware of potential dangers and provide guidelines for dealing with them. For an example, check out the useful Internet Safety Project.

Social networking sites

social networking sites are online communities in which members interact. In fact, everything covered in this tutorial involves social networking of some sort. A site that specializes in social networking is focused on making connections among its users. The activities may be limited to one activity or interest, such as sharing videos, to multiple activities such as creating a personal profile, posting your current activity or state of mind, making "friends", engaging in discussions, joining groups, sending messages, sharing photos, and so on. Social networking can involve individuals or institutions, and can be used for recreational, informational, academic, and professional purposes.

Examples: Facebook, MySpace, FriendFeed, LibraryThing, LinkedIn, Digg

Interactivity among social networking sites is evolving. This means that you can share content, friends, and activities among many sites. Streamy is an example of a site that gathers the activities and shared items of you and your friends from numerous social networking sites.

It is becoming easier to share content from around the Web. Let's say you have read an article that you want to share on your Facebook account. Web sites, especially blog and news sites, sometimes offer an easy way to post this content to the social networking site of which you are a member. Here is an example of the many sharing options featured on a technology blog. If you have an account on any of these services, you can share the posting there with just a few clicks. The ShareThis application is shown in the example below.

A blog is a journal entry system organized around postings about which readers can comment. Entries are usually organized with the most recent postings first. The word "blog" comes from "Weblog" because a blog consists of a Web-based signed and dated log of individual postings. Blogs often focus on personal narratives or opinion and are usually maintained by single individuals. However, there are also plenty of blogs maintained by groups of people who share the same interests or expertise.

Examples: TechCrunch, The New Old Age, Climate411

The social nature of blogs comes from reader responses to the blog author's postings. These are known as comments. Readers can respond not only to postings, but also to their comments, resulting in a lively conversation. Most comments are written in text. However, video comments are also possible. For example, the TechCrunch blog uses Seesmic for this purpose.

Anyone can start a blog for free. Take a look at Wordpress and Blogger for a couple of examples. If you rent space on a Web server, you can download blog software and run your own customized blog. Some excellent blog software is available at no cost, including WordPress and MovableType.

Technorati and Google Blog Search are two useful search engines for locating content posted to blogs.

microblogging is also popular. This is exemplified by Twitter. With Twitter, you can create an account and blog in spurts of up to 140 characters. Also, excerpted postings or headlines from "regular" blogs can be sent automatically to your Twitter account. For an example, visit the TechCrunch page on Twitter. With a Twitter account, you can choose to "follow" other members and receive their "tweets" on your own page. Twitter is used by the famous and non-famous alike for recreational, professional, commercial, and informational purposes. Twitter's trending topics provide a real-time look at comments on subjects of current interest. Below is an example of a few tweets.

As with many other social networking sites, a universe of creative tools have been built by the Web community to enhance the Twitter experience. For example, check out 99 Essential Twitter Tools and Applications from Smashing Magazine.

The phenomenon of blogs has helped to advance the practice of commenting across the Web. In fact, one hallmark of the social Web is the option for public comment. For example, you can comment on YouTube videos and Flickr photos. Many news sites offer their readers the option to comment on stories. Commenting is showing up in all kinds of Web sites and in all kinds of contexts, so be on the lookout for opportunities.

The nature of any comment you make is up to you. Comments can range from polite to insulting and anything in between. Below is an example of comments from the news sharing site iReport.

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Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
How the U.S. Uses Globalization to Cheat Poor Countries Out of Trillions
We speak with John Perkins, a former respected member of the international banking community. In his book Confessions of an Economic Hit Man he describes how as a highly paid professional, he helped the U.S. cheat poor countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars by lending them more money than they could possibly repay and then take over their economies.
John Perkins describes himself as a former economic hit man - a highly paid professional who cheated countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars.
20 years ago Perkins began writing a book with the working title, "Conscience of an Economic Hit Men."
Perkins writes, "The book was to be dedicated to the presidents of two countries, men who had been his clients whom I respected and thought of as kindred spirits - Jaime Roldós, president of Ecuador, and Omar Torrijos, president of Panama. Both had just died in fiery crashes. Their deaths were not accidental. They were assassinated because they opposed that fraternity of corporate, government, and banking heads whose goal is global empire. We Economic Hit Men failed to bring Roldós and Torrijos around, and the other type of hit men, the CIA-sanctioned jackals who were always right behind us, stepped in.
John Perkins goes on to write: "I was persuaded to stop writing that book. I started it four more times during the next twenty years. On each occasion, my decision to begin again was influenced by current world events: the U.S. invasion of Panama in 1980, the first Gulf War, Somalia, and the rise of Osama bin Laden. However, threats or bribes always convinced me to stop."
But now Perkins has finally published his story. The book is titled Confessions of an Economic Hit Man. John Perkins joins us now in our Firehouse studios.

• John Perkins, from 1971 to 1981 he worked for the international consulting firm of Chas T. Main where he was a self-described "economic hit man." He is the author of the new book Confessions of an Economic Hit Man.

RUSH TRANSCRIPT
AMY GOODMAN: John Perkins joins us now in our firehouse studio. Welcome to Democracy Now!
JOHN PERKINS: Thank you, Amy. It’s great to be here.
AMY GOODMAN: It’s good to have you with us. Okay, explain this term, “economic hit man,” e.h.m., as you call it.
JOHN PERKINS: Basically what we were trained to do and what our job is to do is to build up the American empire. To bring -- to create situations where as many resources as possible flow into this country, to our corporations, and our government, and in fact we’ve been very successful. We’ve built the largest empire in the history of the world. It's been done over the last 50 years since World War II with very little military might, actually. It's only in rare instances like Iraq where the military comes in as a last resort. This empire, unlike any other in the history of the world, has been built primarily through economic manipulation, through cheating, through fraud, through seducing people into our way of life, through the economic hit men. I was very much a part of that.
AMY GOODMAN: How did you become one? Who did you work for?
JOHN PERKINS: Well, I was initially recruited while I was in business school back in the late sixties by the National Security Agency, the nation's largest and least understood spy organization; but ultimately I worked for private corporations. The first real economic hit man was back in the early 1950's, Kermit Roosevelt, the grandson of Teddy, who overthrew of government of Iran, a democratically elected government, Mossadegh’s government who was Time's magazine person of the year; and he was so successful at doing this without any bloodshed -- well, there was a little bloodshed, but no military intervention, just spending millions of dollars and replaced Mossadegh with the Shah of Iran. At that point, we understood that this idea of economic hit man was an extremely good one. We didn't have to worry about the threat of war with Russia when we did it this way. The problem with that was that Roosevelt was a C.I.A. agent. He was a government employee. Had he been caught, we would have been in a lot of trouble. It would have been very embarrassing. So, at that point, the decision was made to use organizations like the C.I.A. and the N.S.A. to recruit potential economic hit men like me and then send us to work for private consulting companies, engineering firms, construction companies, so that if we were caught, there would be no connection with the government.
AMY GOODMAN: Okay. Explain the company you worked for.
JOHN PERKINS: Well, the company I worked for was a company named Chas. T. Main in Boston, Massachusetts. We were about 2,000 employees, and I became its chief economist. I ended up having fifty people working for me. But my real job was deal-making. It was giving loans to other countries, huge loans, much bigger than they could possibly repay. One of the conditions of the loan–let's say a $1 billion to a country like Indonesia or Ecuador–and this country would then have to give ninety percent of that loan back to a U.S. company, or U.S. companies, to build the infrastructure–a Halliburton or a Bechtel. These were big ones. Those companies would then go in and build an electrical system or ports or highways, and these would basically serve just a few of the very wealthiest families in those countries. The poor people in those countries would be stuck ultimately with this amazing debt that they couldn’t possibly repay. A country today like Ecuador owes over fifty percent of its national budget just to pay down its debt. And it really can’t do it. So, we literally have them over a barrel. So, when we want more oil, we go to Ecuador and say, “Look, you're not able to repay your debts, therefore give our oil companies your Amazon rain forest, which are filled with oil.” And today we're going in and destroying Amazonian rain forests, forcing Ecuador to give them to us because they’ve accumulated all this debt. So we make this big loan, most of it comes back to the United States, the country is left with the debt plus lots of interest, and they basically become our servants, our slaves. It's an empire. There's no two ways about it. It’s a huge empire. It's been extremely successful.
AMY GOODMAN: We're talking to John Perkins, author of Confessions of an Economic Hit Man. You say because of bribes and other reason you didn't write this book for a long time. What do you mean? Who tried to bribe you, or who -- what are the bribes you accepted?
JOHN PERKINS: Well, I accepted a half a million dollar bribe in the nineties not to write the book.
AMY GOODMAN: From?
JOHN PERKINS: From a major construction engineering company.
AMY GOODMAN: Which one?
JOHN PERKINS: Legally speaking, it wasn't -- Stoner-Webster. Legally speaking it wasn't a bribe, it was -- I was being paid as a consultant. This is all very legal. But I essentially did nothing. It was a very understood, as I explained in Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, that it was -- I was -- it was understood when I accepted this money as a consultant to them I wouldn't have to do much work, but I mustn't write any books about the subject, which they were aware that I was in the process of writing this book, which at the time I called “Conscience of an Economic Hit Man.” And I have to tell you, Amy, that, you know, it’s an extraordinary story from the standpoint of -- It's almost James Bondish, truly, and I mean--
AMY GOODMAN: Well that's certainly how the book reads.
JOHN PERKINS: Yeah, and it was, you know? And when the National Security Agency recruited me, they put me through a day of lie detector tests. They found out all my weaknesses and immediately seduced me. They used the strongest drugs in our culture, sex, power and money, to win me over. I come from a very old New England family, Calvinist, steeped in amazingly strong moral values. I think I, you know, I’m a good person overall, and I think my story really shows how this system and these powerful drugs of sex, money and power can seduce people, because I certainly was seduced. And if I hadn't lived this life as an economic hit man, I think I’d have a hard time believing that anybody does these things. And that's why I wrote the book, because our country really needs to understand, if people in this nation understood what our foreign policy is really about, what foreign aid is about, how our corporations work, where our tax money goes, I know we will demand change.
AMY GOODMAN: We're talking to John Perkins. In your book, you talk about how you helped to implement a secret scheme that funneled billions of dollars of Saudi Arabian petrol dollars back into the U.S. economy, and that further cemented the intimate relationship between the House of Saud and successive U.S. administrations. Explain.
JOHN PERKINS: Yes, it was a fascinating time. I remember well, you're probably too young to remember, but I remember well in the early seventies how OPEC exercised this power it had, and cut back on oil supplies. We had cars lined up at gas stations. The country was afraid that it was facing another 1929-type of crash–depression; and this was unacceptable. So, they -- the Treasury Department hired me and a few other economic hit men. We went to Saudi Arabia. We --
AMY GOODMAN: You're actually called economic hit men --e.h.m.’s?
JOHN PERKINS: Yeah, it was a tongue-in-cheek term that we called ourselves. Officially, I was a chief economist. We called ourselves e.h.m.'s. It was tongue-in-cheek. It was like, nobody will believe us if we say this, you know? And, so, we went to Saudi Arabia in the early seventies. We knew Saudi Arabia was the key to dropping our dependency, or to controlling the situation. And we worked out this deal whereby the Royal House of Saud agreed to send most of their petro-dollars back to the United States and invest them in U.S. government securities. The Treasury Department would use the interest from these securities to hire U.S. companies to build Saudi Arabia–new cities, new infrastructure–which we’ve done. And the House of Saud would agree to maintain the price of oil within acceptable limits to us, which they’ve done all of these years, and we would agree to keep the House of Saud in power as long as they did this, which we’ve done, which is one of the reasons we went to war with Iraq in the first place. And in Iraq we tried to implement the same policy that was so successful in Saudi Arabia, but Saddam Hussein didn't buy. When the economic hit men fail in this scenario, the next step is what we call the jackals. Jackals are C.I.A.-sanctioned people that come in and try to foment a coup or revolution. If that doesn't work, they perform assassinations. or try to. In the case of Iraq, they weren't able to get through to Saddam Hussein. He had -- His bodyguards were too good. He had doubles. They couldn’t get through to him. So the third line of defense, if the economic hit men and the jackals fail, the next line of defense is our young men and women, who are sent in to die and kill, which is what we’ve obviously done in Iraq.
AMY GOODMAN: Can you explain how Torrijos died?
JOHN PERKINS: Omar Torrijos, the President of Panama. Omar Torrijos had signed the Canal Treaty with Carter much -- and, you know, it passed our congress by only one vote. It was a highly contended issue. And Torrijos then also went ahead and negotiated with the Japanese to build a sea-level canal. The Japanese wanted to finance and construct a sea-level canal in Panama. Torrijos talked to them about this which very much upset Bechtel Corporation, whose president was George Schultz and senior council was Casper Weinberger. When Carter was thrown out (and that’s an interesting story–how that actually happened), when he lost the election, and Reagan came in and Schultz came in as Secretary of State from Bechtel, and Weinberger came from Bechtel to be Secretary of Defense, they were extremely angry at Torrijos -- tried to get him to renegotiate the Canal Treaty and not to talk to the Japanese. He adamantly refused. He was a very principled man. He had his problem, but he was a very principled man. He was an amazing man, Torrijos. And so, he died in a fiery airplane crash, which was connected to a tape recorder with explosives in it, which -- I was there. I had been working with him. I knew that we economic hit men had failed. I knew the jackals were closing in on him, and the next thing, his plane exploded with a tape recorder with a bomb in it. There's no question in my mind that it was C.I.A. sanctioned, and most -- many Latin American investigators have come to the same conclusion. Of course, we never heard about that in our country.
AMY GOODMAN: So, where -- when did your change your heart happen?
JOHN PERKINS: I felt guilty throughout the whole time, but I was seduced. The power of these drugs, sex, power, and money, was extremely strong for me. And, of course, I was doing things I was being patted on the back for. I was chief economist. I was doing things that Robert McNamara liked and so on.
AMY GOODMAN: How closely did you work with the World Bank?
JOHN PERKINS: Very, very closely with the World Bank. The World Bank provides most of the money that’s used by economic hit men, it and the I.M.F. But when 9/11 struck, I had a change of heart. I knew the story had to be told because what happened at 9/11 is a direct result of what the economic hit men are doing. And the only way that we're going to feel secure in this country again and that we're going to feel good about ourselves is if we use these systems we’ve put into place to create positive change around the world. I really believe we can do that. I believe the World Bank and other institutions can be turned around and do what they were originally intended to do, which is help reconstruct devastated parts of the world. Help -- genuinely help poor people. There are twenty-four thousand people starving to death every day. We can change that.
AMY GOODMAN: John Perkins, I want to thank you very much for being with us. John Perkins' book is called, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man.
Darkbird18 have been reading the Information Clearing House News and information for many years to get the other side of all major news story that come out in the Major News Media, because there is always two sides too a coin and two sides two any news story. This Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, will make you think and some of what has been going on in the world will make some cents. There is more to this Economic Crisis then what they’re telling us and this article will help fill in the blind spots; so read on to get the rest of this interview………………………….
A Mutant ,Viral Form of Capitalism : ICH - Information Clearing House

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Global Control Matrix Revealed (Who Really Runs the World? Part II)

 

 

 

Global Control Matrix Revealed (Who Really Runs the World? Part II)

May 10th, 2012

By Cosmic Convergence Research Group

Isn't it amazing that in 2012 the Illuminati, the New World Order, the Rothchilds have literally become household words?! Virtually any website that is not considered mainstream media (MSM) may have at least one reference to one of these mysterious entities which comprise the Global Control Matrix.
Truly, the internet has encouraged the widespread and rapid dissemination of what was once considered either secret or highly privileged information. Even the US Federal Government is now known to be completely subservient to and under the command of an international crime syndicate and ultra-secret cabal which functions as a Shadow Government.
Let's revisit Law #7 from Part I of this series:
Law #7 At its very core, life on planet Earth is nothing more than a test. The Global Control Matrix, which is directed by those at the peak of worldly power, assists in maintaining a system of planetary control whereby no one can ever get away with anything. This highly controlled system has its own rules and regulations, some of which seem to be totally unreasonable, irrational, and downright crazy. Others seem purposefully destructive, divisive and self-defeating. Still others appear to be completely unjust, discriminatory and unfair.
Welcome to the Global Control Matrix!
In our lifelong quest to identify just who-it-is (TPTB) that is running the show down here, many do seem to lose sight of the most important laws of all. True worldly power never reveals itself, and it always acts in absolute secrecy. In light of these two inviolable laws, let's consider the following.
Secret Societies, Secret Orders and Rich & Powerful Controllers
Since most of us have seen the many references on the internet, in books, on TV and radio, etc. to the many royal families and banking families, powerbrokers and controllers, political leaders and government authorities, secret societies, national power structures, rich business magnates, global oligarchs, religious institutions, the all-powerful military industrial complex ... ... ...
Many have also seen references to the Illuminati, the Incanabula, the Cahilla, the Shadow Government, the New World Order, the Club of Rome, the Group of Thirty, The Committee of Three Hundred, etc. Then, of course, there are all the creations of the control matrix of the last century, which include the Bilderbergers, Trilateral Commission, and Council on Foreign Relations (RIIA in UK). We also have the many foundations and think tanks, which seem to wield so much power in our neck of the woods (Anglo-American society) such as the Ford Foundation, Rhodes Foundation, Rand Corporation, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Tavistock Institute and J. Paul Getty Trust.
Then there are those unique concentrations of planetary power which for centuries have resided in the hands of the British Crown, the City of London, the Jesuits, the Priory of Scion, the Templars, the Rosicrucians, the Freemasons, the Zionists, the Jews, the Vatican, Opus Dei, the Mafia, the Black Nobility ....
Who has not heard of the many orders and variations of Freemasonry?

There are also those countless secret societies which have been operating for various causes for centuries. Some working ostensibly within a single nation and for a single cause; others working trans-nationally for every reason under the sun including world domination. Skull and Bones, Scroll and Key, and Wolf's Head are three examples of college-based societies that are all found at Yale University. Dartmouth College has their Dragon Society, Fire and Skoal, and Casque and Gauntlet.

Darkbird18 here and I maybe homeless but I'm still on point about, "The Good The Bad and The Ugly Internet Information!" The Bad is still up to control of the world and the minds within that wold! The People Voice.org  is a website that keep up with his information and keep us inform about them, this article have very detail information on the real 1%'er who control and run the world from behind the goverments of the world. This is not the whole article so to read the whole article click on this link..............................

Global Control Matrix Revealed (Who Really Runs the World? Part II)

2012 is what to you??? Is the End Near?? Or a new beginning?

Do scientists really believe Earth is headed for disaster in 2012? Is our government secretly planning to save and protect the elite - while leaving the rest of us to fend for ourselves?

Time is of the essence as Jesse Ventura chases down the 2012 conspiracy. It began as an ancient Mayan prediction that the world would come to an end. Now, experts reveal solar storms may lead to catastrophe in the very same year.

Jesse searches for evidence that our government is scrambling to prepare for a major disaster. He discovers signs of secret underground bunkers being built in places ranging from the Nevada desert to the White House, including a massive project under construction beneath a major metropolitan airport. Get a look inside those bunkers and decide for yourself if the government is preparing for some to survive while the rest of us are left to fry in an earthly hell.

                                

Everything 2012 Earth Changes Part 1 of 3

                   Beyond 2012 - Evolving Perspectives On the Next Age -

Uploaded by UFOTVstudios on Sep 25, 2010

Never before has a time in history been so significant to so many cultures, religions, scientists and governments. Beyond 2012 looks past the apocalyptic worldview of 2012 and presents a wide variety of evolving perspectives on the next age of global consciousness and techniques for social and ecological transformation. Topics include Shamanism, Sustainability, Ecological Design, Green Technologies, Alternative Energy Systems, the Mayan Calendar, Psychic Evolution, Synchronicity, and a host of other subjects that deal with the mysteries, wonders, and challenges facing all of humankind during this unprecedented age of transformation.

Darkbirk18

2012 is not too far away what do you think will happen on this date?? I think something has happened before but we have forgotten because we have changed somehow and can't bring up the deep past. Watch these videos and let me know what you think? Everything 2012 is what I have laying around that I thought others would want to see. I actually have more so a sequel may be in the works. Hope you enjoy it.

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Web-bot project; makes prophecy of 2012 apocalypse – Telegraph :The Bad Internet Information

“Web-bot” technology has moved apocalyptic prophecy into the internet age, predicting that the world will end on 21 December 2012.

By Tom Chivers
Published: 3:54PM BST 24 Sep 2009
195 Comments

The crystal ball: outmoded technology? Photo: GETTY
Conspiracy theorists on the web have claimed that the bots accurately predicted the September 11 attacks and the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami and that they say a cataclysm of some sort will devastate the planet on 21 December 2012.
The software, similar to the “spiders” that search engines use to index web pages, was originally developed in the 1990s to predict stock market movements.

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The bots crawl through relevant web pages, noting keywords and examining the text around them. The theory is that this gives an insight into the “wisdom of crowds”, as the thoughts of thousands of people are aggregated.
However, the technology was later appropriated for another, more controversial – some say nonsensical – use: predicting the future.
Its study of “web chatter” is said to give advance warnings of terrorist attacks, and proponents claim that it successfully did so ahead of 11 September 2001. George Ure, one of two men behind the project, says that his system predicted a “world-changing event” in the 60 to 90 days after June 2001.
Despite the vagueness of this prediction, many believed it to be genuine. Now its makers claim that the technology can predict natural disasters and that it foresaw the earthquake that triggered the 2004 tsunami, as well as Hurricane Katrina and the devastation that followed.
Its latest and most sweeping prediction is that 21 December 2012 signals the end of the world, possibly through a “polar shift” – when the polarity of the Earth’s magnetic field is reversed. Believers claim that as well as the bots, the 2012 apocalypse is predicted by the ancient Mayan calendar, the Book of Revelations, and the Chinese text I Ching.
Skeptics have pointed out several major flaws in the theory. First, the internet might plausibly reveal group knowledge about the stock market or, conceivably, terror attacks, as these are human-caused events. But, say, critics, it would be no more capable of predicting a natural disaster than would a Google search.
Second, the predictions are so vague as to be meaningless, allowing believers to fit facts to predictions after the event: a blogger at dailycommonsense.com compares them to Nostradamus’s quatrains. They give the September 11 prediction as a case in point.
Third, the prophecies become self-distorting. “The more people publish about 2012 and the end of the world,” says the same blogger, “the more data web bots get pointing towards 2012.”
The polar shift theory is based on a genuine scientific theory, “geomagnetic reversal”, which suggests the Earth’s polarity shifts every few hundred thousand years. However, the theory in its current form is not reconcilable with the web-bot predictions of it taking place on a particular day in 2012: best estimates suggest each shift takes around 5,000 years to complete.
A film based on the predicted apocalypse, by The Day After Tomorrow director Roland Emmerich and starring John Cusack and Danny Glover, is due to come out in November, called 2012.

Darkbird18 has done lots of online Internet Information research on the “2012 Theme” and has come across Good and Bad Information on this topic. But this article made me look twice and look real close to this article to see what in the world they were talking about that these “Web Bots” are doing online is indexing websites and information but they’re also bringing back information on the past, present and future events; now that means there is more to these webots and the Internet is taking on a life of it own! Read this information on the Web-Bot projects Prophecy for 2012 Apocalypse”, with an open mind because this is just the tip of the Ice Burg, so read on………………………….
'Web-bot project' makes prophecy of 2012 apocalypse – Telegraph

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William Cooper lecture 'Behold a pale horse' (full)

William Cooper lecture 'Behold a pale horse' (full)

 

Uploaded by SolidwasteEGO3 on Feb 13, 2011

Amazing lecture by William Cooper

A detailed research into government corruption, secret societies, conspiracies, and the UFO phenomenon.

book: 'Behold a pale horse'

Bill Cooper is also my hero! Bill was a great asset to what us TRUE Americans fight for! I believe every word that comes from his mouth and does not doubt him for a second! People need to wake up and realize that this man died for YOU!!!! HE GAVE HIS LIFE to give you the answers and us as a whole an answer to actually being free!!!!! RIP Mr.Bill Cooper! I will see you in the heavens! GOD IS GOOD!! WE NEED TO PRAY FOR THIS WORLD!!!!!!!

Behold a Pale Horse

Cooper produced and published Behold a Pale Horse in 1991.^[5] The book has been influential among "UFO and militia circles".^[9] Just prior to the trial of Terry Nichols in 1997, The Guardian described it as "the manifesto of the militia movement".^[10]

According to sociologist Paul Gilroy, Cooper claimed "an elaborate conspiracy theory that encompasses the Kennedy assassination, the doings of the secret world government, the coming ice age, and a variety of other covert activities associated with the Illuminati's declaration of war upon the people of America".^[5] Political scientist Michael Barkuncharacterized it as "among the most complex super conspiracy theories", and also among the most influential due to its popularity in militia circles as well as mainstream bookstores.^[6] Historian Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke described the book as a "chaotic farrago of conspiracy myths interspersed with reprints of executive laws, official papers, reports and other extraneous materials designed to show the looming prospect of a world government imposed on the American people against their wishes and in flagrant contempt of the Constitution."^[11]

HIV/AIDS

In Behold a Pale Horse Cooper proposed that AIDS was the result of a conspiracy to decrease the populations of blacks, Hispanics, and homosexuals.^[8] In 2000 South Africa's Minister of Health Manto Tshabalala-Msimang received criticism for distributing the chapter discussing this theory to senior South African government officials.^[12] Nicoli Nattrass, a longtime critic of AIDS denialists, criticized Tshabalala-Msimang for lending legitimacy to Cooper's theories and disseminating them in Africa.^[9]

UFOs, aliens and the Illuminati

Cooper caused a sensation in UFOlogy circles in 1988 when he claimed to have seen secret documents while in the Navy describing governmental dealings with extraterrestrial aliens, a topic on which he expanded in Behold a Pale Horse.^[6] (By one account he served as a "low level clerk" in the Navy, and as such would not have had the security clearance needed to access classified documents.^[13]) UFOlogists later asserted that some of the material that Cooper claimed to have seen in Naval Intelligence documents was actually plagiarized verbatim from their research, including several items that the UFOlogists had fabricated as pranks.^[14] Don Ecker of UFO Magazine ran a series of exposés on Cooper in 1990.^[15]

Cooper linked the Illuminati with his beliefs that extraterrestrials were secretly involved with the United States government, but later retracted these claims. He accused Dwight D. Eisenhower of negotiating a treaty with extraterrestrials in 1954, then establishing an inner circle of Illuminati to manage relations with them and keep their presence a secret from the general public. Cooper believed that aliens "manipulated and/or ruled the human race through various secret societies, religions, magic, witchcraft, and the occult", and that even the Illuminati were unknowingly being manipulated by them.^[6]

Cooper described the Illuminati as a secret international organization, controlled by the Bilderberg Group, that conspired with the Knights of Columbus, Masons, Skull and Bones, and other organizations. Its ultimate goal, he said, was the establishment of a New World Order. According to Cooper the Illuminati conspirators not only invented alien threats for their own gain, but actively conspired with extraterrestrials to take over the world.^[6] Cooper believed that James Forrestal's fatal fall from a window on the sixteenth floor of Bethesda Hospital was connected to the alleged secret committee Majestic 12, and that JASON advisory group scientists reported to an elite group of Trilateral Commission and Council on Foreign Relations executive committee members who were high-ranking members of the Illuminati.^[2][3]

Cooper also claimed that The Protocols of the Elders of Zion was actually an Illuminati work, and instructed readers to substitute "Sion" for "Zion", "Illuminati" for "Jews", and "cattle" for "Goyim".^[3][16][17]

Kennedy assassination

In Behold a Pale Horse, Cooper asserted that President John F. Kennedy was assassinated because he was about to reveal that extraterrestrials were in the process of taking over the Earth. According to a "top secret" video of the assassination that Cooper claimed to have discovered, the driver of the presidential limousine, William Greer, used “a gas pressure device developed by aliens from the Trilateral Commission” to shoot the president from the driver's seat.^[13] The Zapruder film shows Greer twice turning to look into the back seat of the car; Cooper theorized that Greer first turned to assess Kennedy's status after the external attack, and then to fire the fatal shot. Conspiracy theories implicating Greer reportedly "snowballed" after publication of Behold a Pale Horse.^[18] Cooper's video purporting to prove his theory was analyzed by several television stations, according to one source, and was found to be "... a poor-quality fake using chunks of the ... Zapruder film."^[13]

This is one of Darkbird18 best research topics because of the Pale Horse, my online research is still kicking to bring the truth to the people.

This first Youtube I saw that made me start looking at the world in a different way.

Charles Wharry (Darkbird18),
William Cooper is a very fascinating and unusual person with information about something that couldn't possibly be happening in our world; that we didn't control our own lifes and that the true power that is in control, is unseen and hidden in plain sight and that they have a plan to take over the world after a 2000-year-old agenda called the NWO or the New World Order. Can this be true? But what is this all about and why do they want to do this very dark agenda? Mr, Cooper shed a lot of light on this agenda to help us understand why things in our world don't feel RIGHT! Watch the YouTube and the read the text to understand this plan and why you must have faith in something Great then ourselves to fight and win against this very dark, satanic agenda! Keep your eyes, heart, and minds open!!!