The Founding Father's Real Reason for the Second Amendment
And remember the words of Thomas Jefferson "The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government." See Video of Suzanna Gratia-Hupp’s Congressional Testimony: What the Second Amendment is REALLY For, below (u-tube HERE).
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Can You Really Still Believe That None of These People Would Have Done a Better Job???
The International Monetary Fund and World Bank have held their spring meetings at the World Bank building in the US capital, Washington DC.
They discussed the outlook of the global economy, and the challenges that lie ahead.
It’s the fourth year of the global financial crisis, and the world economy is slowly picking up. But there are still great vulnerabilities and uncertainties.
That’s the message world financial leaders are sending out from their spring meeting.
World Bank President Robert Zoellick says the surge in food prices is the biggest threat to the world’s poor, pushing 44 million more people into poverty over the past year.
Robert Zoellick, World Bank President, said, “Of particular concern is food prices. This is the biggest threat today to the world’s poor, where we risk losing a generation. We are one shock away from a full-grown crisis. The financial crisis taught us that prevention is better than cure. We cannot afford to forget that lesson.”
The U.S. and its allies are embarking on another regime change operation. Before they started their attacks on the Libyans, they admitted that there would be civilians casualties in an act of irony. They claim to be acting to save civilians, but they will be killing them.......Another sheeple sleeping situation
Ahmadinejad: Israel, US Plotting Iranian-Arabian Conflict In public speech, Iranian president says he envisions new Middle East without presence of Israel, US and their allies. Hezbollah and Iranian Revolutionary Guard operatives plan to attack Western targets in the coming days, a Lebanese report said on Tuesday.
The report was based on information gathered by Western intelligence agencies monitoring the “recent abnormal movements of cadres suspected of belonging to Hezbollah or the Iranian Revolutionary Guard,” the Beirut Observer website said. Rise of New World Power – Without America
SANYA, China (AP) -- The leaders of the world's largest emerging economies started a one-day summit in southern China on Thursday, looking for a bigger role in global financial institutions and also welcoming a new member.
Thursday's summit comes at a crucial moment for the expanded five-member bloc known as the BRICS, which groups Brazil, Russia, India, China, and, for the first time, South Africa.
With the G-20 group of major economies seeking to remake parts of the global financial architecture, leaders of the five countries -- Chinese President Hu Jintao, Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and South African President Jacob Zuma -- will be tested to see if they can overcome internal differences and act as a bloc with common goals.
"The key priority is for the BRICS to put creative ideas on the table rather than just react defensively to proposals put forward by the advanced economies," said Cornell University economics professor Eswar Prasad, former head of the International Monetary Fund's China Division.
Though largely an ad-hoc grouping at present, the BRICS have the potential to emerge as a new force in world affairs on the back of their massive share of global population and economic growth. With the inclusion of South Africa, the group accounts for 40 percent of the world's people, 18 percent of global trade and about 45 percent of current growth, giving them formidable heft when dealing with the developed economies.
What imported from Australia and Europe - rather than home-grown grain - may fill a hole in American corn supplies, a leading analyst said on Monday, as investors continued to puzzle over controversial US crop data.
The US Department of Agriculture on Friday stunned markets by keeping its estimate for domestic corn supplies at the close of 2010-11 unchanged at 675m bushels, despite stocks at the half-way point falling 170m bushels short of expectations.
The estimate - which implies domestic corn use slumping from a record 7.2bn bushels in the first six months of 2010-11 to 4.4bn bushels in the second half – reflected a forecast that livestock farmers will, in the face of record corn prices, switch to US soft red winter wheat in feed rations.
However, Macquarie analyst Alex Bos, while acknowledging there may be some US substitution of corn ahead, raised doubts over the level to which it was US wheat which would fill the hole.
San Onofre Nuclear Plant Holds Mock Nuclear Disaster Drill The mock disaster unveiled Tuesday involved a broken water pump inside one of San Onofre's two concrete containment domes. In the unfolding drill, the broken pump led to a release of radioactive steam into the surrounding air that forced the evacuation of inland southeast Orange County and northwest Camp Pendleton.
As potential nuclear accidents go, the scenario bore little resemblance to the March 11 earthquake and massive tsunami that knocked out backup generators at Fukushima Dai-ichi, damaging that plant's ability to keep nuclear fuel cool inside the plant. Heat buildup at the Japanese plant eventually resulted in a series of explosions and the release of radioactive steam into the environment.
Drills like the three-day exercise that began Tuesday are held every two years and have attracted little attention in the past.
Harry Sherwood, technological hazards branch chief for the Federal Emergency Management Agency, said Tuesday's scenario had been planned long before the Japan disaster.
A team of about 30 observers from various federal agencies were on hand Tuesday to record and grade the responses of all Edison and emergency personnel who participated. The results will be assembled into a formal report to be released within 90 days.
No End in Sight for Fukushima Disaster (NaturalNews) As the famous physicist Dr. Michio Kaku said on April 4th, "The situation at Fukushima is relatively stable now... in the same way that you are stable if you hang by your fingernails off a cliff, and your fingernails begin to break one by one."
(http://bigthink.com/ideas/37705). That same article also refers to the Fukushima damage assessment by the NRC's Nuclear Safety Team, which concluded that "cooling to the core of Unit 1 might be blocked by melted fuel and also by salt deposits left over from the use of sea water."
That's the same sea water, of course, that has been sprayed onto the fuel rods to prevent them from going Chernobyl. The unfortunate side effect of boiling off tens of thousands of gallons of sea water, however, is that is leaves behind a lot of salt. Japan now appears to have an abundance of radioactive sea salt that's unfortunately caked on top of the spent fuel rods and actually preventing much more water from reaching those rods. In a sense, spraying salt water on spent nuclear fuel rods is sort of like spraying them with a slow-acting insulation. It's only a matter of time, it seems, before that insulation make it impossible for water to keep the rods below meltdown temperatures.
Japan's Nuclear Volcano Erupts "The risks associated with iodine-131 contamination in Europe are no longer "negligible," according to CRIIRAD, a French research body on radioactivity. The NGO is advising pregnant women and infants against "risky behavior," such as consuming fresh milk or vegetables with large leaves."
The group's warning underlines the dangers posed by the out-of-control facility which is causing unprecedented damage to earth, sea and sky. Fukushima is the nuclear death machine of which advocates of green technologies have warned for decades. But while the magnitude of the disaster grows larger by the day, the government's only response has been to expand the evacuation zone and try to shape news to avert a panic.
Tonight: Due to the recent financial crisis, you've probably heard a lot about the Federal Reserve (a.k.a. "The Fed") in the news lately. But how much do you actually know about it? Most Americans don't know much, if anything about it. What exactly is it, where did it come from, who runs it, and more importantly- do we still need it? Tonight, we continue with the "E4" project and restore the true history of the Federal Reserve. Joining Glenn Beck and the studio audience for tonight's program are Mark Calabria of the CATO Institute and G. Edward Griffin, author of the book "Creature From Jekyll Island"
The Federal Reserve will cease to exist within 25 years, along with any other institution that fail to recognize risks tied to their actions, says economist and author Nassim Taleb.
Federal Reserve officials failed to foresee the recent economic crisis and ensuing recession, even thought risks tied to the housing lending policies were apparent prior to the crisis.
In fact, the Fed isn't alone.
"A million people on this planet call themselves economists" these days but they fail to recognize the risks associated with their actions, including excessive borrowing with the aim of near-term economic growth, Taleb tells the Washington Ideas Forum.
"The Romans had a saying: 'The grandchildren should not bear the debt of the grandparents,'" Taleb says.
In the future, institutions that aren't capable of recognizing risks attached to their actions will disappear and be replaced.
"The Fed probably will be gone 25 years from now," Taleb says.
The Federal Reserve is presently buying debt from private banks in order to spur those banks into lending more fuel economic growth.
While critics say such policies weaken the dollar and adds to the country's mounting debt, monetary policy authorities say the program is needed to lower unemployment rates.
"Cutting off an easing program is a step in the direction of tightening," Fed Governor and Gramley senior economic adviser with Potomac Research Group Lyle Gramley tells Bloomberg.
"And you’d be doing it in the context of a financial market that’s pushing up long-term rates already."
Monday, January 17, 2011 9:35:13 PM · by Libloather · 6 replies - Channel News Asia ^ | 1/18/11 - China, US sign US$600m business deals in TexasPosted: 18 January 2011 at 0306 hrs
BEIJING: Chinese and US businesses signed deals worth $600 million in Texas on Monday, state media reported, a day ahead of President Hu Jintao's crucial state visit to Washington. The six agreements were signed during a visit to the oil-rich state by a delegation of Chinese businessmen led by vice commerce minister Wang Chao, Xinhua reported.
"The deals include two cotton import agreements, an agreement on import of CKD kits, an agreement on development of efficient crystalline silicon solar cells and PV generation system, a porcelain product import agreement," the report said.
They come as Hu and US President Barack Obama prepare to meet for talks in Washington at a small dinner on Tuesday and again on Wednesday, in a visit that will touch on a series of contentious issues between the two nations.
Gripes over the value of the yuan, trade disputes, US arms sales to Taiwan, the Dalai Lama's US visit, the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo, Internet freedom and naval rivalries in the Pacific, have dogged recent relations. On Sunday, Hu acknowledged the two countries had "sensitive issues" and differences that needed to be properly managed, in written replies to questions provided by The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post.
President Barack Obama will welcome Hu on Wednesday at the White House with the full pomp of a 21-gun salute and a black-tie state dinner, unlike former president George W. Bush who reserved state visits for leaders of democracies.
thecommunists, I remained silent; I was not a communist.
Then they locked up the social democrats, I remained silent; I was not a social democrat.
Then they came for the trade unionists, I did not protest; I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Catholics, I did not protest; I was a Protestant.
Then they came for the Jews, I did not speak out; I was not a Jew.
When they came for me, there was no one left to speak out for me.
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"...there comes a time, ladies and gentlemen, when ideology can cause death. I am so tired, so tired, of zealots, primarily on the left, putting their insane personal agendas above the safety of fellow Americans. Do you think the brave soldiers and Marines operating in dangerous areas right now want [unreleased photos of alleged abuse of prisoners] all over al-Jazeera and the terror websites? So let's look out for the military, OK? Nancy Pelosi has an obligation to get the loons in her party under control. If the Speaker can't do that, she doesn't deserve her position." ... Bill O'Reilly
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