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Once a Black Panther, now he hopes to warn Republicans of the Left’s evil plans

By Coach Collins, on November 20th, 2011
By Suzanne Eovaldi, staff writer



Former Black Panther and Leftist activist Brandon Darby told a packed East Orlando Tea Party this week that he left the Black Panthers because basically he loves America. He said he just couldn’t take it anymore when he happened upon a video training session by anarchist leaders showing gullible young men how to make Molotov cocktails to shut down the Republican National Convention in Minneapolis in 2008.

”Anarchists were showing videos of throwing Molotov cocktails at corporate systems,” Darby said. The ingredients were bought at a local big box and built using tampons as wicks with oil laced into the gasoline “to better stick to the skin,” like homemade napalm.

Something snapped in Darby’s consciousness when he said these radicals were openly calling for shutting down the convention by any means possible, simply because they didn’t like what the Republicans and Sarah Palin were saying.

“That’s bullying,” he added. Giving a heads up to organizers for the August 27, 2012 GOP convention at the Tampa Convention Center, the now conservative forum speaker is warning what could happen again.

He said a definite structure of planners had set up a three part division of responsibilities in the Leftist camp; namely the Reds, really hard core anarchists dressed in black whose sole aim was to fight the police; the Yellows who were tasked with blocking roads to the Xcel site; and the Greens, a loosely knit collection of about 10,000 routine protestors.

“I want to get those who want to destroy our country,” he told the Conservatives in a big media event totally IGNORED by the resident local print outlet, giving the term liberal bias by omission a whole new definition! The liberal media at the time, in typical progressive media speak, said Darby exhibited a “hyper masculinity” that led astray the gullible youths who had plans to lob gasoline bombs into a parking lot of cop cars. These two young men, however, received jail terms.

Darby is a great example of the American male’s stoicism and understated elegance that authors and writers years ago praised in their explanations of why America was so great. A runaway at a very early age, he wandered through a teen runaway scenario and then got sucked into the Black Panther rhetoric that railed against “the man.”

Darby turned FBI informant after meeting Police Major John Bryson who was in charge of New Orleans’s famed Ninth Ward. After Bryson rescued a former BP stranded by Katrina, he started to realize that police do care and that “not all cops are pigs.”

What really convinced him to follow the right path was the fact that over 20,000 brilliant leftists could not establish order out of the Katrina chaos. When he looked out over his audience, he said, “I knew I did the right thing.” He made a right turn to save his beloved country from the same kind of chaos he sees coming.

[Phil Fiord]

You know things are terribly wrong when a man previously trolled to be ignorant of fact wakes. He sees the reality and tries to make a positive difference. I hope he can help.

[American Patriot]

I hope they don't assassinate him.

[Ryan Ruck]

Staten Island Melee Suspects Include 31-Year-Old Woman

December 7, 2011


Emergency officials spray a hose, after being summoned to control a crowd in front of 83 Harbor Rd. in Mariners Harbor.

It wasn't just unruly kids who police say attacked two officers, giving one a concussion, during a wild mob scene in Mariners Harbor yesterday -- four adults, including a 31-year-old West Brighton woman, were arrested after the out-of-control fracas.

The scene that unfolded at 83 Harbor Rd. became so chaotic yesterday afternoon that an FDNY engine company used a water cannon to fend off a large group that had overrun two responding police officers. The group had gathered to threaten a female Port Richmond High School sophomore living at the address.

Yesterday, authorities released the names of seven of the nine teens and adults arrested in its aftermath.

They include:

-- Marisol Lugo, 31, of Caroline Street in West Brighton; Taniqua Pearson, 20, of Bush Avenue in Mariners Harbor; Anthony Concepcion, 17, of the 100 block of Brabant Street in Mariners Harbor; and Xiomara Reyes, 17, of Lockman Avenue in Mariners Harbor, who all face felony assault and other charges.

-- Sadiq Adama, 19, of Putnam, N.Y.; and Jasmine Davies, 17, of the 200 block of Park Hill Avenue in Clifton who are charged with obstructing governmental administration.

-- Angel Reyes, 19, of Lockman Avenue in Mariners Harbor, who is charged with second-degree menacing and fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon

Police also arrested a 15-year-old girl who authorities say helped hide the BB gun Reyes allegedly used to threaten the Port Richmond High School student and her family, and a 13-year-old boy who is charged with obstructing governmental administration.

Court documents revealed additional details about yesterday's battle, including the two officers' injuries -- one suffered a concussion, while both received bruises.

It started at about 3:30 p.m, when the group showed up at 83 Harbor Rd. to confront the girl and her family.

At one point Angel Reyes, court papers allege, lifted his shirt, revealing what looked like a black firearm, and told one of the girl's relatives, "I'm gonna f--- you up!"

The girl's family and several neighbors, including firefighters at nearby Engine 158, called 911.

Two officers -- a male and female -- arrived on the scene, and when the male cop tried to arrest Concepcion, a melee broke out, according to court papers. Concepcion started resisting, and Xiomara Reyes lunged toward the officer.

Both officers were knocked down during the ensuing struggle with the crowd, and Ms. Reyes repeatedly kicked the female officer in the back of her head, ultimately causing a concussion and other injuries, while Ms. Pearson and Ms. Lugo did the same to the male officer, court papers allege.

By then, firefighters from Engine 158 had rolled their engine truck onto the scene -- a firefighter atop the truck blasted its water cannon at the crowd to disperse them, witnesses said.

Police backup arrived moments later, chasing down the nine suspects.

The seven named suspects are slated to be arraigned in Stapleton Criminal Court this afternoon, according to Peter N. Spencer, a spokesman for District Attorney Daniel Donovan. The 15-year-old girl and 13-year-old boy are expected to appear in Family Court.

YES! They finally bring out the hoses to deal with rioting idiots!

[Ryan Ruck]

2 Cops Hurt Controlling Crowd In Staten Island Incident, Witnesses Say

December 6, 2011

Two police officers were hurt while attempting to control a large group of youths in Mariners Harbor this afternoon, prompting emergency officials to spray the youths with a fire hose to get them away from the cops, multiple witnesses to the incident told the Advance.

Police have yet to release a statement.

The incident unfolded about 3:30 p.m., when officers were summoned to 83 Harbor Rd. to control a large crowd.

The crowd was on hand to confront a girl who lives in one of the homes, witnesses told the Advance.

When a male officer moved in to arrest a crowd member, some other youths in the group rushed him, witnesses said. His female counterpart was also attacked when she tried to help.

Emergency responders used water from a fire hose to get the crowd away from the cops, according to the witness account.

By then, a large number of cops arrived to assist.

The condition of the two officers isn't immediately clear, though a female cop could be seen holding an icepack to her hand at the scene.

It also wasn't clear how many, if any, arrests were made.

[American Patriot]

another "hmmmm"

[Phil Fiord]

Perhaps those are the types that will be detained without warrant?

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In Case You Still Don't Get It, Here's Why A Greek Default Should Put Fear In Your Heart

AP | Jan. 28, 2012, 2:48 AM | 9,912 | 29

Milos Bicanski / Getty

NEW YORK (AP) — Remember Greece? It's been two years since a financial crisis erupted in the birthplace of drama, and the final act is still unfinished. A second week of talks in Athens ended Friday with no deal between the country, the European Union and private holders of Greek bonds.

Remarkably, even after the crisis became such an international worry last year that the leaders of France and Germany were actually referred to as "Merkozy," the European debt bomb could still explode, with Greece as the fuse.

Economists and investors see a Greek default as the biggest test of the world financial system since the crisis that followed the collapse of Lehman Brothers investment house in 2008.

It is also the biggest threat to what has been a successful start to the year in the U.S. stock market. The Standard & Poor's 500 index has gained 4.7 percent, roughly half its average for a full year, in just four weeks.

"If talks break down next week and it looks like they can't reach a deal, it raises all sorts of risks," says Jeffrey Kleintop, chief market strategist at LPL Financial. "The stock market could probably lose half its gains for the year."

On paper, it's hard to see how Greece could take down financial markets in the U.S., the world's biggest economy, with $15.2 trillion in goods and services churned out every year.

Consider:

— Greece's economy weighs in at euro220 billion, according to the International Monetary Fund's estimates. That translates to $285 billion, which puts Greece's economy on par with Maryland's. The U.S. sells about $1.6 billion in weapons, medicine and other products to Greece each year, a minuscule 0.07 percent of exports.

— U.S. banks say Greece on its own poses no danger to them. Unlike European banks, they're not major lenders to Greek businesses and aren't saddled with Greek government debt. In its most recent report, JPMorgan Chase, the largest bank in the U.S., said it had just $4.5 billion at risk in Greece, Ireland and Portugal combined. That's about what the bank makes in revenue in two and a half weeks.

— Many worry that U.S. banks would struggle to cover the insurance contracts they sold on Greece's euro350 billion, or about $460 billion, in government debt. But the amount of insurance taken out on that debt totals $68 billion, according to the clearinghouse for the contracts. That's hardly enough to pull down the banking system. And the banks have offset all but $3.2 billion of those contracts with other contracts. In other words, pocket change.

"The direct impact of a Greek default is almost zero," Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase, told CNBC on Thursday.

So what's everybody — well, everybody but Jamie Dimon — worried about?

A breakdown in talks could trigger steep losses in stock markets in Europe and the U.S. Just as in 2008, banks could stop lending to each other, and the credit freeze could cause a market panic.

More importantly overseas, it could cause borrowing rates for Portugal and Italy to jump, pushing those much larger countries closer to defaults of their own.

That's only the beginning. A Greek default could unleash a host of larger problems. Some are already anticipated while others are likely to blindside even the closest observers, says Nick Colas, chief market strategist at ConvergEx Group. "In any complex system, you're going to have unintended consequences," he says.

He compares it to the collapse of Lehman Brothers: Analysts saw it coming, but the fallout in still caught them by surprise.

A money market mutual fund found that it couldn't redeem its customers' money. Money market funds, which many considered as safe as savings accounts, suddenly looked suspect until the Federal Reserve backed them up.

At a conference on sovereign debt this week in New York, Steve Hanke, professor of economics at Johns Hopkins University, predicted that even commodity prices would plunge in response to a messy Greek default.

If Greece goes under, traders seeking safety would immediately sell euros and buy dollars, Hanke said. The dollar would soar and prices for commodities like oil and wheat, which are bought and sold in dollars around the world, would collapse.

A single dollar would buy much more oil or wheat.

"If the bomb is set off by Greece, commodity prices will collapse," Hanke said.

Hanke, who has advised governments around the world on managing their currencies, argued that Greece appears bound to collapse under its debts as its economy shrinks. "Greece is doomed," he said.

So investors will be watching what happens this week in Athens. At the sovereign debt conference, Hans Humes, president of Greylock Capital Management, said this week could bring "the precedent-setting moment."

He warned that if the banks and investment funds that hold Greek bonds take steep losses, then Portugal, Italy and other countries shouldering heavy debt burdens can be expected to follow Greece's lead.

It's comparable to a messy default. Traders will respond by immediately selling government bonds from those countries, Humes said. Borrowing costs will rise, and Europe's debt crisis will turn much worse.

Humes has been involved in the negotiations on the side of creditors holding Greek bonds so he has a stake in the game. But it's a scenario other money managers often cite.

"There's a fear that other countries won't negotiate at all. They'll just say, 'We'll pay you back at 50 percent or maybe less," Kleintop says.

To Colas, the deepest concern isn't how the S&P 500 reacts or whether the dollar rises if Greece drops the European currency. It's the possibility for panic, especially a run on European banks.

What if people across France and Germany crowd into banks to pull their deposits? Banks, after all, are some of the largest buyers of government debt.

"Human emotions can drive things off the rails," Colas says.

[American Patriot]

I was just watching some stuff about Oakland (CA) and the rioting going on.

The "Occupiers" had shields made of some kind of high impact plastic (it appeared for what I could see).

Some of the shields has the old hippie peace symbol painted on them.

The others had the A for Anarchists symbol on those.

I would suggest strongly my friends the old saying that goes "Those who do not heed history are doomed to repeat it" (paraphrased of course).... should be understood by each and everyone here.

Around us, in all areas of the US and now part of the world, we are being attacked, besieged even by these Anarchists.

In 1759 the French Revolution began. For the most part, the Left Wing of France was behind it all. Eventually a Republic was declared and formed - it took about three years for the complete destruction of the "Right-Wing Monarchy" in France.

I realize we're not a Monarchy (yet) but it's close enough. Think about what we have here and the parallels.

France was run in those days by a Monarchy, the Church and an aristocracy. Most of those folks wound up executed.

In our time, we already HAVE a Republic that is run by and for the people. Yet, there is this underlying attack on Capitalism and our society by these so-called "Occupiers". They are being run by Leftists and they are using the Anarchists to promote violence as evidenced by what I saw today on the news.

This weekend the Occupiers tried to take over some public buildings and were asked a dozen times by the cops to disperse. They didn't. Cops opened fire with tear gas, and rubber bullets when the protesters started throwing rocks and bottles at them.

Now the protesters are whining about "police brutality".

For once... I'd say they need to start breaking arms and legs of these people and send them home.

They won't be back for a few weeks at least.

The parallels though between this and the French Revolution are striking.

I'll leave it to the readers out here to do your own reseach, but remember if we can't remember (or learn) history, we WILL repeat it.

I think we're about to repeat the French Revolution. I knew one would come to the USA some day, but I didn't expect our own government and the current administration to condone it.

[American Patriot]

Occupy D.C. protesters wait as noon deadline passes

By Oren Dorell and Marisol Bello, USA TODAY

Updated 6m ago

WASHINGTON – A noon deadline passed to remove camping equipment from two Occupy Wall Street sites in Washington, D.C., after officials said they planned to enforce a no-camping rule and start moving out protesters.

• By Jewel Samad, AFP/Getty Images
  Protesters say they intend to defend their encampments.

By Jewel Samad, AFP/Getty Images
Protesters say they intend to defend their encampments.







The National Park Service has warned protesters that those who violate the camping rule at Freedom Plaza and McPherson Square will be subject to arrest, but by mid-afternoon nothing had happened.

At Freedom Plaza tents flapped in the wind. A few protesters milled about. A woman knitted by her tent, seated in a wheelchair.

• STORY: Feds to enforce no-camping rules Monday

Protester Bill Miniuti, 62, inspected a tent for Tammy Kareza, 47, who is homeless.
Police may come at nightfall, when people start to go to sleep, Miniuti said. Kareza "shouldn't be sleeping down here, but if she doesn't have anywhere else, what can we do?"
Earlier in the day Barry Knight kept a watchful eye on two U.S. Park Police officers inspecting tents at Freedom Plaza.
"I'm following them so they know they're being observed," Knight said.
Protesters have said they intend to stay at the two sites and defend their encampments.
Republican lawmakers last week questioned why the Park Service has allowed Occupy protesters to camp for months on federal land. National Park Service Director Jonathan Jarvis said protesters have a right to be in the park and won't be evicted, but they will be encouraged to sleep elsewhere.
Monday morning a sign board carried a National Park Service notice that regulations banning camping will be enforced starting at noon. It defined camping as having temporary structures to store personal belongings and "laying down of bedding for the purpose of sleeping."
"It's not an eviction notice," said Knight, 44, of Framingham, Mass., who has been living at Freedom Plaza since Christmas and has been a part of the movement since October. "We have to have our tents open and not have our sleeping bags rolled out to show we're not camping.
"We're here to exercise our freedom of speech, which is our right," he said.
If the Park Service enforces the camping ban, Knight said he plans to sleep on the sidewalk like many homeless people do around downtown Washington.
"If they have a few hundred people sleeping on the sidewalks in this city, I think it'll make quite an impression," he said. "We already have thousands of people living on the streets in this country, a large portion of whom are veterans."
If he's arrested, he said, "I'll be back again tomorrow."
The Occupy protest needs to remain "to keep the conversation open," he said.
At McPherson Square seven blocks away park spokesman David Schlosser said that people are not allowed to camp so the first step of enforcement will be to remove bedding and other belongings. He said police gave protesters pamphlets informing them of the regulations.
Schlosser said police want voluntary compliance. If that doesn't happen he said "incremental measures" will be taken but he wouldn't elaborate on what that meant.
Park Police surveyed the encampment earlier in the day followed by chanting protesters and surrounded by a phalanx of television cameras and photographers. Protesters blew whistles and chanted "from Oakland to D.C. defy the police."
The protesters, many in their 20s, come from across the country. They wore scarves around their faces, large goggles and masks.
Richard Ochs, 73, is a veteran of protests going back to civil rights and Vietnam protests of the 1960s. He lives in Baltimore but came to the McPherson camp to support the protesters.
"I wanted to be here to defend our freedom of speech," he said. Protesters are not camping, he said, "camping is recreational. What we are doing is a 24-7 protest."
Ochs said he plans to stay in Washington, but he's not sure where he'll be Monday night.
"It depends on the police," he said. "I may be spending the night in jail."
Desiree DeLoach, 28, packed up her belongings and put them in a storage area nearby. She was a protester at Occupy's first protest in Zuccotti Park in New York City and lost her belongings in a raid there.
"They gave us ample warning (in Washington)," she said. "I decided not to take any chances.
Matt Canard of Denver walked around the camp encouraging people to sign a handmade petition to give to the park police. The petition asks the police to let the protesters stay.
Canard, 27, has been sleeping in the camp since November. He works during the day and sleeps in the camp at night.
He Monday off from his job as a waiter so he could be at the camp if the police threw them out. He had a carpentry business in Colorado that was struggling so he said he decided instead to join the Occupy movement.
"I didn't see any other way for me to contribute," he said.
The National Occupy Wall Street movement began in New York City in the fall but has been largely dormant lately. Oakland, New York and Los Angeles were among the cities with the largest and most vocal Occupy protests early on.
In Oakland over the weekend demonstrators clashed repeatedly with police. More than 400 people were arrested.
The demonstrations downtown broke a lull that had seen just a smattering of people taking to Oakland's streets in recent weeks for occasional marches that bore little resemblance to the headline-grabbing Occupy demonstrations of last fall.
That all changed Saturday with clashes punctuated by rock and bottle throwing by protesters and volleys of tear gas from police, and a City Hall break-in that left glass cases smashed, graffiti spray-painted on walls and an American flag burned.
At least three officers and one protester were injured. Police spokesman Sgt. Jeff Thomason said there were more than 400 arrests on charges ranging from failure to disperse to vandalism,
Mayor Jean Quan personally inspected damage caused by dozens of people who broke into City Hall. She said she wants a court order to keep Occupy protesters who have been arrested several times out of Oakland, which has been hit repeatedly by demonstrations that have cost the financially troubled city about $5 million.
Quan also called on the loosely organized movement to "stop using Oakland as its playground."
"People in the community and people in the Occupy movement have to stop making excuses for this behavior," she said.
Caitlin Manning, an Occupy Oakland member, believes that Saturday's protest caught the world's attention.
"The Occupy movement is back on the map," Manning said Sunday. "We think those who have been involved in movements elsewhere should be heartened."
Contributing: Carolyn Pesce in McLean, Va.; Associated Press

[American Patriot]

OMG?!?! "Implore"


Send in the cops to break some HEADS. Good God, bunch of wusses.

Quan says she'll call national Occupy leaders
Will Kane,Henry K. Lee, Chronicle Staff Writers
San Francisco Chronicle January 30, 2012 01:06 PM Copyright San Francisco Chronicle. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
Monday, January 30, 2012
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(01-30) 13:06 PST Oakland -- Oakland Mayor Jean Quan said today that she is going to call national leaders of the Occupy Wall Street movement and implore them to disown Oakland's protest movement.
Quan said Saturday's demonstration, where 400 protesters were arrested and City Hall was vandalized, showed that the contingent of protesters who have targeted Oakland were not as non-violent as they claim they are.
"I plan to call some of the national leadership of Occupy this week to say that the Oakland group is not nonviolent and has not agreed to be nonviolent," Quan said in an interview on KCBS. "The national Occupy movement has said they are nonviolent."
Saturday's protest involved protesters throwing objects at police, breaking into buildings and vandalizing property. Some officers were injured in the melee.
According to jail records, many of those arrested were cited for remaining at the scene of a riot. Some were cited and released at the scene and others were taken to jail and booked on the misdemeanor count. Some posted $2,500 bail after being booked.
At least 43 people remained in custody as of this afternoon. Of that figure, 24 protesters who were booked during a mass arrest at the YMCA were being held on suspicion of burglary, obstructing officers and remaining at the scene of a riot, while several were being held for wearing a mask for the purposes of avoiding identification, which is a misdemeanor.
Among those facing the most serious allegations include Robert Ovetz, 45, of Woodacre and Ahimsa Windthunder, 34, who were each arrested on suspicion of misdemeanor battery on an officer and felony assault.
Rachel Lederman, a civil rights lawyer based in San Francisco who is working with the Occupy movement, said police have overreacted and have used excessive force, creating "an increasing level of confrontation with Occupy Oakland over the past several months" and that officers on Saturday had boxed in peaceful protesters.
She said some protesters had carried shields with them because "these young people have felt the need to protect themselves when they're likely to be shot with so-called less-than-lethal projectiles."
Quan said weekly protests by self-proclaimed members of the Occupy movement have cost the city millions of dollars.
"What they are doing against the city economically is not nonviolent either," she continued on KCBS. "Every Saturday they are doing demonstrations and in my city that is my night of highest police need. They are taking away resources from my city and creating a situation that is making it more difficult for me to keep the city safer."
Quan said she feared protesters were baiting Oakland police with violence and vandalism and hoping that they're response would get national headlines.
"One of the problems is that the Occupy demonstrators have decided that Oakland is their one and only playground and target," she said. "It is because of their tactics that this group is getting smaller and smaller, they are trying to get national publicity on this."
In an earlier interview before Saturday's protest, Quan told KQED-TV's "This Week in Northern California" that the movement's anger toward herself and Oakland has been unfairly portrayed by national media outlets in part because she is female and Asian.
"You don't see that kind of anger in San Francisco, where Mayor (Ed) Lee handled it in a different way," KQED-TV reporter Scott Shafer told Quan.
"Well you guys used tear gas and batons too," Quan said, referring to San Francisco. "I think it is a different time, I think it is how the media plays it. There is also probably a little misogyny and a little racism, when I looked at what happened in terms of how the national media portrayed it, and how Occupy's internal media portrayed it."
"You think they are tougher on you because you're a woman, and an Asian woman?" Shafer asked.
"I'm pretty disturbed that I had to stop my Facebook for a while and spend a lot of time putting in new filters and cleaning it up and that Occupy doesn't listen to anybody but its own media," Quan said. "They have their version of what happened. It is not a true version."
See Oakland Mayor Jean Quan's KQED-TV interview, which aired before the Saturday protests, go to: http:// sfg.ly/y7Bqnd
E-mail the writers at wkane@sfchronicle.com and hlee@sfchronicle.com.

[Ryan Ruck]

'Plan For An Economic 9/11': Analysts Warn Americans To Buy Guns And Gold, Predicting Market Crash And Street Riots Within A Year

February 27, 2012

Just when you thought unemployment was dropping and stock markets were surging back, these three analysts today sent out a stark warning to Americans to brace for another financial crash.

Trend forecaster Gerald Celente advises buying a gun to protect your family, stocking up on gold if the dollar crashes and planning a getaway, so it’s no shock he’s preparing for an ‘economic 9/11’.

Share prices and unemployment are posting their best figures in four years since the recession hit, but Mr Celente, along with authors Harry Dent and Robert Prechter, says the rebound won’t last.

All three were profiled in a USA Today feature on Monday. Mr Dent, who had The Great Crash Ahead published last September, believes stocks are simply experiencing an artificial short-term boost.

Mr Prechter, who had a new version of Conquer the Crash published in 2009, is fearful of today’s economic similarities to the Great Depression and says the brief recovery will fail like in the 1930s.

‘The economic recovery has been weak, so the next downturn should generate bad news in a big way,’ he told USA Today, saying the markets look 'very bearish' for the third time in 12 years.

Mr Celente, who works as an analyst at the Trends Research Institute, which he founded in Kingston, New York, has been doom-mongering for years - so his latest concerns are hardly surprising.

But he told USA Today that a potential run on banks by savers could cause the government to invoke a national holiday and temporarily close them all, which happened during the Great Depression.

It comes as billionaire Berkshire Hathaway chairman and CEO Warren Buffett today painted a happier picture of stocks, which he said are relatively cheap compared to other investments as the economy improves.

Meanwhile contracts to buy previously owned U.S. homes neared a two-year high in January in further evidence the housing market was slowly turning the corner, an industry group said today.

However oil prices have been spurred higher by worries over disruptions to Middle East supplies due to sanctions against Iran and expectations for greater demand from an improving U.S. economy.

But on the markets, the S&P 500 has risen nearly nine per cent so far this year and the Dow Jones is trading around the psychologically-important mark of 13,000. But the three experts aren’t happy.

Mr Prechter told USA Today both markets will crash back below their lows hit at the height of the financial crisis in March 2009. Unemployment fell last month to 8.3 per cent, a three-year low, and weekly jobless claims are at a four-year-low.

But Mr Dent believes that people will be left out of work again in 2013 or 2014 and U.S. markets will crash because central banks have been pumping so much money into markets that they are unrealistically strong.

The economy is proving to be the major issue in this autumn’s presidential election, with every Republican candidate berating President Barack Obama for his handling of the recession.

Mitt Romney said on Monday that his major rival Rick Santorum is ill-prepared to deal with the nation's economic woes, calling his GOP rival a nice guy who never held a job in the private sector.

But Mr Santorum has mounted an unexpectedly strong challenge against Mr Romney ahead of the primary in Michigan tomorrow, despite accusations from his rival that he doesn't know how to create jobs.

Mr Celente told USA Today that a higher unemployment rate will cause social unrest and there will be a growing rich-poor divide. This would no doubt help fuel movements such as Occupy Wall Street.

‘When money stops flowing to the man on the street, blood starts flowing in the street,’ he said.

[American Patriot]

Three days of electricity away from Armageddon....

When the power is out for three days across the country, we're going to have about three days before things start unraveling.

In six days there will be blood flowing in the streets of the cities. In 10 days the country side will be rife with murderers looking to kill the country folks.

In two weeks, 30% of the US population will be dead, dying or involved in something they don't want to be in.

in six weeks, 50% will be dead of starvation.

We've been under and "economic 9/11" since Obama was elected.

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See a Fox News Reporter Get Zapped by Military’s Wild New ‘Heat Ray’

• Posted on March 11, 2012 at 5:06pm by Erica Ritz

The U.S. Military unveiled new technology this week, in the form of a futuristic heat-ray.

“You’re not gonna see it, you’re not gonna hear it, you’re not gonna smell it: you’re gonna feel it,” US Marine Colonel Tracy Taffola explained to members of the media.



The operator's view in the Active Denial system (Photo: The Raw Story)

He elaborated, saying that the “Active Denial System” is one of the military’s safest non-lethal capabilities, having been developed over 15 years but never utilized in the field.
It was briefly deployed in Afghanistan in 2010, but never used in an operation.

From some 1000 meters, or .6 miles, a truck can aim this beam at many attackers, making them all feel incredibly hot via an electromagnetic beam. There are no lasting effects, just an irresistible urge to run away from whatever was causing the sensation. “We can shoot first, and ask questions later. Normally you can’t do that,” one uniformed serviceman said.

In order to avoid accidents, the operation’s trigger automatically shuts off after just three seconds. “This provides the safest means and also provides the greatest range,” Taffola explained.



Some still have concerns about the weapon’s safety, particularly surrounding what differentiates this device from a microwave. Are you almost “cooking” these people for three seconds, like what would happen in your kitchen?

According to Stephanie Miller, who measured the system’s radio frequency bioeffects at the Air Force Research Laboratory, this is not at all the case. She said that the system has a frequency of 95 gigahertz, which is absorbed “very superficially,” only touching the top 1/64th of an inch of a person’s skin, not their entire body. The result is that a person’s “pain nerves” are activated, making them want to run, but not causing any real or lasting damage.


She elaborated, saying, “We have done over 11,000 exposures on people. In that time we’ve only had two injuries that required medical attention and in both cases injuries were fully recovered without complications.”

In layman’s terms, while a microwave could cook raw chicken, the Active Denial “heat ray” couldn’t pop a bag of popcorn “because the radio frequency is not penetrating [enough] to internally heat the material…There’s no cancer risk, there’s no risk to a fetus or reproductive capability. It’s just heat.”

The U.S. Military has offered many places where the technology could be utilized, like mob dispersal, checkpoint security, perimeter security, area denial, and infrastructure protection.

Watch Fox News’ Peter Doocy try it out for himself, below:

[American Patriot]

Just unveiling this? Umm... no, I heard about this several years ago. I'm positive.....

[Ryan Ruck]

You know what else works well on pirates?



And it is a lot cheaper than $10 mil!

[Phil Fiord]

I agree Rick. I positively recall this tech being deployed in Iraq and it was an article of that time. It was being decried as inhumane at the time and in a rather vocal way. It was even a short lived talk radio topic.

Now, it may have not been this program, but a program was in use with a tech of same description. That would make the article true, as if it is a different program it is new or never deployed. I suspect it is renamed or moved to another department, so saying it is unused in the field is true only in that it was not used in that name or area of the .mil.

[American Patriot]

Nope, I know it was the same program. Same dish antenna, same millimeter wave system, etc. I know radios. This is a radio wave system. It can injure your eyes for sure, especially the cornea. I know this for a fact.

[vector7]

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Broken Promises: Pensions All Over America Are Being Savagely Cut Or Are Vanishing Completely



How would you feel if you worked for a state or local government for 20 or 30 years only to have your pension slashed dramatically or taken away entirely? Well, this exact scenario is playing out from coast to coast and in the years ahead millions of elderly Americans are going to be affected by broken promises and vanishing pensions. In the old days, things were much different. You would get hired by a big company or a government institution and you knew that the retirement benefits that they were promising you would be there when you retired in a few decades. Unfortunately, we have now arrived at a time when government institutions and big companies have promised far more than they are able to deliver, and "pension reform" has become one of the hot button issues all over the nation. Many Americans that have been basing their financial futures on their pensions are waking up one day and finding that their pensions are either gone or have been cut back dramatically. According to Northwestern University Professor John Rauh, the latest estimate of the total amount of unfunded pension and healthcare obligations for state and local governments across the United States is 4.4 trillion dollars. America is continually becoming a poorer nation and all of that money is simply not going to magically materialize somehow. So where is that 4.4 trillion dollars going to come from? Well, either pension benefits are going to have to be cut a lot more all over America or taxes will need to be raised dramatically. Either way, we are all going to feel the pain of these broken promises.

There simply is not enough money out there to keep all of the pension commitments that have been made. Something has got to give. In the end, millions of elderly Americans will likely be plunged into poverty as pensions disappear.

Some local governments around the nation are already declaring bankruptcy and are either eliminating pensions or are cutting them very deeply. Just check out what just happened in Central Falls, Rhode Island....

For years, city officials promised robust union contracts and pensions without raising revenue to pay for them. Last August, the math caught up with them. Central Falls was broke, its pension fund short $46 million. It declared bankruptcy.

"My daughters grew up here, went to school here. It's all gone," said Mike Geoffroy, a retired firefighter.

He said he could not make the payments on his house after his pension was cut by $1,100 a month.

When will the math catch up with the city where you are living?

For years and years most of our state and local politicians have been ignoring this problem. But eventually a day comes when you simply cannot ignore it any longer.

Check out what Pensacola Mayor Ashton Hayward said about the situation in his city recently....

"When our annual pension liability is more than our yearly property tax revenues, we have to do something"

Keep in mind that taxpayers don't get any new services for money spent on pensions. It is money that goes straight into the pockets of retired workers.

State and local governments are desperately trying to pay retired workers what they are owed and fund ongoing government functions at the same time, but many have reached the breaking point.

All over the country, state and local governments are going broke. The following is from a recent article by Duff McDonald....

Alabama's Jefferson County has actually gone bankrupt. Stockton, California is all but ready to do the same. And all you have to do is look to Detroit—or any of the nearby auto towns named after a Buick model of one sort or another—and you see fiscal crisis playing out right now. Look in your own backyard—or at the potholes on your neighborhood roads—and you will likely find the same.

Things are so bad in Stockton, California that they are actually skipping debt payments....

The city of 290,000 that rode the wave of the housing boom in the late 1990s and early 2000s now finds itself littered with foreclosed homes, saddled with pension, health care and other obligations it can't afford, and unable to pay its bills.

The City Council voted last month to suspend $2 million in bond payments and begin negotiations with bond holders, creditors and unions.

And did you notice what is being blamed for the financial problems in Stockton?

Pension and healthcare benefits.

Sadly, we are seeing pension nightmares erupt all over the nation right now.

For example, check out what is happening to the Public School Employees' Retirement System and State Employees' Retirement System in Pennsylvania....

PSERS had an accrued unfunded liability of nearly $26.5 billion, the amount of money the fund is short to cover existing retirement benefits. That hole is expected to grow to $43 billion by 2019. SERS is $12.5 billion in the red, and that shortfall is expected to climb to nearly $18 billion by 2018.

Unless the stock market makes giant sustained gains, taxpayers will have to refill those funds.

That doesn't sound good at all.

In California, the Orange County Employees Retirement System is estimated to have a 10 billion dollar unfunded pension liability.

How in the world can a single county be facing a 10 billion dollar hole?
This is madness.

The state of Illinois is facing an unfunded pension liability of more than 77 billion dollars. Considering the fact that the state of Illinois is flat broke and on the verge of default, it is inevitable that a lot of those pension obligations will never be paid.

In fact, there are going to be a whole lot of broken promises all over the country.

Pension consultant Girard Miller told California's Little Hoover Commission that state and local government bodies in the state of California have $325 billion in combined unfunded pension liabilities.

That comes to about $22,000 for every single working adult in the state of California.

So where is all of that money going to come from?

But at least most state and local government employees are still covered by pension plans, even if they are failing.

In the private sector, pension plans are vanishing at lightning speed.

According to the Boston College Center for Retirement Research, the percentage of workers in America covered by a traditional pension plan fell from 62 percent in 1983 to 17 percent in 2007.

That isn't just a trend.

That is a tidal wave.

And many of the private pension plans that still exist are massively underfunded. For example, Verizon's pension plan is underfunded by 3.4 billion dollars.

So what should Americans do in light of all this?

Well, the number one thing to realize is that the pension plan you have been counting on could disappear at any time.

We live in an economic environment that is extremely unstable, and about the only thing you can count on in this environment is rapid and dramatic change.

Do not plan your financial future around a pension plan. If you do, you are likely to be bitterly disappointed.

Americans that plan to retire in the coming years should do their best to try to fund their own retirements.

Unfortunately, most Americans are not putting away much of anything for retirement. As I have written about previously, one study found that American workers are $6.6 trillion short of what they need to retire comfortably.

Ouch.

Over the next 20 years approximately 10,000 Baby Boomers will be retiring every single day.

A lot of them are going to be blindsided by empty pension funds and broken promises.

We are facing a retirement crisis of unprecedented magnitude, and there is not much hope in sight.

And if there is a major stock market crash, things are going to be much, much worse.

Most pension funds and retirement plans are heavily invested in the stock market. If we were to see a major financial crisis like we saw back in 2008 it would be absolutely devastating. Millions of Americans could see their retirement plans wiped out in short order.

Once again, please do not place your faith in the system.

If you do, you are likely to end up holding a bag of broken promises.

A gigantic tsunami of unfunded pension obligations is coming. A lot of state and local governments are going to go broke. A lot of promises are going to be broken.

If you hope to retire any time soon, you better plan on being able to take care of yourself.

[Malsua]

This tech has been around for a while, as well as the much more damaging LRAD. The LRAD is deployed all over the place and it can cause instant, permanent deafness.