Saturday, April 30, 2011

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/apr/04/honeybees-entomb-hives
Excerpt:

Honeybees 'entomb' hives to protect against pesticides, say scientists

By sealing up cells full of contaminated pollen, bees appear to be attempting to protect the rest of the hive
Honey and bee : Entombed Pollen
'Entombed' pollen is identified as having sunken, wax-covered cells amid 'normal', uncapped cells. Photograph: Journal of Invertebrate Pathology
Honeybees are taking emergency measures to protect their hives from pesticides, in an extraordinary example of the natural world adapting swiftly to our depredations, according to a prominent bee expert.
Scientists have found numerous examples of a new phenomenon – bees "entombing" or sealing up hive cells full of pollen to put them out of use, and protect the rest of the hive from their contents. The pollen stored in the sealed-up cells has been found to contain dramatically higher levels of pesticides and other potentially harmful chemicals than the pollen stored in neighbouring cells, which is used to feed growing young bees.
"This is a novel finding, and very striking. The implication is that the bees are sensing [pesticides] and actually sealing it off. They are recognising that something is wrong with the pollen and encapsulating it," said Jeff Pettis, an entomologist with the US Department of Agriculture. "Bees would not normally seal off pollen."
But the bees' last-ditch efforts to save themselves appear to be unsuccessful – the entombing behaviour is found in many hives that subsequently die off, according to Pettis. "The presence of entombing is the biggest single predictor of colony loss. It's a defence mechanism that has failed." These colonies were likely to already be in trouble, and their death could be attributed to a mix of factors in addition to pesticides, he added.
Bees are also sealing off pollen that contains substances used by beekeepers to control pests such as the varroa mite, another factor in the widespread decline of bee populations. These substances may also be harmful to bees, Pettis said. "Beekeepers - and I am one – need to look at ourselves in the mirror and ask what we are doing," he said. "Certainly [the products] have effects on bees. It's a balancing act – if you do not control the parasite, bees die. If you control the parasite, bees will live but there are side-effects. This has to be managed."
The decline of bee populations has become an increasing concern in recent years. "Colony collapse disorder", the name given to the unexplained death of bee colonies, is affecting hives around the world. Scientists say there are likely to be numerous reasons for the die-off, ranging from agricultural pesticides to bee pests and diseases, pollution, and intensive farming, which reduces bee habitat and replaces multiple food sources with single, less nutritious, sources. Globalisation may also be a factor, as it spreads bee diseases around the world, and some measures taken to halt the deaths – such as massing bees in huge super-hives – can actually contribute to the problem, according to a recent study by the United Nations.
The loss of pollinators could have severe effects on agriculture, scientists have warned.
Pesticides were not likely to be the biggest single cause of bee deaths, Pettis said: "Pesticide is an issue but it is not the driving issue." Some pesticides could be improving life for bees, he noted: for many years, bees were not to be found near cotton plantations because of the many chemicals used, but in the past five years bees have begun to return because the multiple pesticides of old have been replaced with newer so-called systemic pesticides.
Studies he conducted found that bees in areas of intensive agriculture were suffering from poor nutrition compared with bees with a diverse diet, and this then compounded other problems, such as infection with the gut parasite nosema. "It is about the interaction of different factors, and we need to study these interactions more closely," he said.
The entombing phenomenon was first noted in an obscure scientific paper from 2009, but since then scientists have been finding the behaviour more frequently, with the same results.
Bees naturally collect from plants a substance known as propolis, a sort of sticky resin with natural anti-bacterial and anti-fungal qualities. It is used by bees to line the walls of their hives, and to seal off unwanted or dangerous substances – for instance, mice that find their way into hives and die are often found covered in propolis. This is the substance bees are using to entomb the cells.
The bees that entomb cells of pollen are the hives' housekeepers, different from the bees that go out to collect pollen from plants. Pettis said that it seemed pollen-collecting bees could not detect high levels of pesticides, but that the pollen underwent subtle changes when stored. These changes – a lack of microbial activity compared with pollen that has fewer pesticide residues – seemed to be involved in triggering the entombing effect, he explained.
Pettis was speaking in London, where he was visiting British MPs to talk about the decline of bee populations, and meeting European bee scientists.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/apr/04/honeybees-entomb-hives
http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/News/088917-2011-04-29-globalists-plan-to-starve-libyan-people-to-death.htm
Excerpt:

Globalists Plan to Starve Libyan People to Death


04-29-2011  •  infowars.com 

Libya will soon suffer the fate of Iraq. According to the World Food Program, a United Nations outfit, the north African country will soon experience a food crisis. In a statement, the organization said the engineered armed conflict in the country is seriously undermining the supply and distribution of perishable goods.
In 2003, the same thing happened in Iraq after the United States invaded to save the world from WMDs that did not exist, that were invented by a cabal of neocons ensconced in the Pentagon.
On March 20, 2003, the BBC reported that the country faced “the largest and most costly humanitarian crisis in history” following the U.S. invasion and the collapse of the oil-for-food program and the departure of U.N. personnel.
Iraq was dependent on globalist hand-outs after more than a decade of medieval sanctions. 500,000 children died as a result. Former Clinton Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said the engineered murder of a half million innocents was a price worth paying. Children of nations declared to be “rogue” by banksters are always the first to suffer and die.

http://www.johnpilger.com/articles/sanctions-on-iraq-kill-200-children-every-day-bombing-raids-have-cost-the-taxpayer-60-million-this-is-news
Excerpt:
When Madeleine Albright was asked if the death of half a million Iraqi children was a price worth paying for sanctions, she replied: "We think the price is worth it." She might have said the price of oil.
This is what the face of a murderer looks like.  Madelein Albright.


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http://mandelman.ml-implode.com/2011/04/az-rep-seel-drops-amendment-requiring-pre-foreclosure-chain-of-title-2-days-after-servicer-grants-principal-reduction/
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Remember Arizona’s Senate Bill 1259 that would have required servicers to produce a declaration that they had the proper chain of title prior to foreclosing on someone’s home?  You know… the one that passed the Arizona Senate 28-2 that I wrote about back on February 23rd of this year?
Remember maybe a month ago when I tried to follow up to see how the bill was proceeding in the Arizona House of Representatives… only to find out that on the way to the House… it disappeared… the text replaced by some bill about firefighting with the same number?  And no one was saying a word about it?  If you missed it, I wrote about it here.
Okay, well… it appears that the story is not over yet.

http://mandelman.ml-implode.com/2011/04/az-rep-seel-drops-amendment-requiring-pre-foreclosure-chain-of-title-2-days-after-servicer-grants-principal-reduction/

Sunday, April 24, 2011

http://www.magpictures.com/freakonomics/
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About The Film

FREAKONOMICS is the highly anticipated film version of the phenomenally bestselling book about incentives-based thinking by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner. The film examines human behavior with provocative and sometimes hilarious case studies, bringing together a dream team of filmmakers responsible for some of the most acclaimed and entertaining documentaries in recent years.

http://www.bookrags.com/content/studyguides/?p=guides&u=freakonomics&f=intro
Excerpt:

Freakonomics Introduction

What trait is shared by both Ku Klux Klan members and real-estate agents? In what way do the working worlds of Chicago schoolteachers and Japanese sumo wrestlers intersect? These questions might seem puzzling at first glance, but the answers provided in Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything reveal that fundamental notions of economics can be used to interpret just about everything in modern society.
One of the authors, Steven D. Levitt, is an award-winning economist; the other, Stephen J. Dubner, is a former writer and editor for New York Times Magazine. The two met when Dubner was working on a profile of Levitt for the magazine. The article was a huge success, and the two men guessed that a book-length discussion of Levitt's work would prove equally popular. Indeed, Freakonomics reached number two on the New York Times bestseller list, and it was chosen as...

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Yes, it's being released online before it's released in the theaters. This isn't exactly the first time this has been tried. Magnolia Films, who produced the Freakonomics film is trying something similar right now with the film Centurion, which was released via On Demand cable systems a few weeks back, and is about to come to theaters. Still, this is pretty big news. In mentioning this reversed window, Freakonomics author Stephen Dubner mentions that there's also another "wrinkle to the release schedule," but he's not revealing what it is just yet.

I'm curious about this, because what the Freakonomics duo are famous for is exposing how "the common wisdom" is wrong on a variety of things. I don't always agree with their analysis, but it would be fascinating to see if they're exposing that the common wisdom on movie release windows is -- as we've suggested for years -- totally screwed up. I am curious, however, to see how the theaters handle this. As mentioned, in the past, they've boycotted day-and-date releases, and even boycotted movies that they thought were coming to DVD too soon after the theatrical release (in that case, 12 weeks). So, will theaters be boycotting the Freakonomics film? I really don't know enough about how the film is being positioned, so if it's only in indie/art house-type theaters, perhaps it's not as big an issue. Still, I can't see any of the big theaters too happy about these "wrinkles," even if they actually prove that theaters can get more business with simultaneous releases.

Excerpt:
http://www.freakonomics.com/2010/02/08/how-about-them-wrapped-apples/
Excerpt:

How About Them (Wrapped) Apples?

Food PackagingPhoto: WordRidden
Food packaging seems like a straightforward problem with a straightforward solution: there’s too much of it; it piles up in landfills; we should reduce it. These opinions are standard among environmentalists, many of whom have undertaken impassioned campaigns to shroud consumer goods-including food-in less and less plastic, cardboard, and aluminum.
But the matter is a bit more complex than it might seem. Consider why we use packaging in the first place. In addition to protecting food from its microbial surroundings, packaging significantly prolongs shelf life, which in turn improves the chances of the food actually being eaten.
According to the Cucumber Growers’ Association, just 1.5 grams of plastic wrap extends a cuke’s shelf life from 3 to 14 days, all the while protecting it from “dirty hands.” Another study found that apples packed in a shrink wrapped tray cut down on fruit damage (and discard) by 27 percent. Similar numbers have been found for potatoes and grapes. Again, while it seems too simple a point to reiterate, it’s often forgotten: the longer food lasts the better chances there are of someone consuming it.
True, if we all produced our own food, sourced our diet locally, or tolerated bruised and rotting produce, prolonging shelf life wouldn’t matter much. But the reality is decidedly otherwise. The vast majority of food moves globally, sits in grocery stores for extended periods, and spends days, weeks, or even years in our pantries. Thus, if you accept the fact that packaging is an unavoidable reality of our globalized food system, you must also be prepared to draw a few basic distinctions. (If you don’t accept that fact, well, there’s probably no point in reading further.)
First, when it comes to food waste, not all materials are created equal. Concerned consumers look at wrapped produce and frown upon the packaging, because it’s the packaging that’s most likely destined for a landfill. But if you take the packaging away and focus on the naked food itself, you have to realize that the food will be rotting a lot sooner than if it weren’t packaged and, as a result, will be heading to the same place as the packaging: the landfill. Decaying food emits methane, a greenhouse gas that’s more than 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide. Packaging – unless it’s biodegradable – does not. If the landfill is connected to a methane digester, which in all likelihood it isn’t, you can turn the methane into energy. Otherwise, it makes more sense to send the wrapping (rather than the food) into the environmentally incorrect grave.
Second, when it comes to saving energy and reducing greenhouse gas emissions, our behavior in the kitchen far outweighs the environmental impact of whatever packaging happens to surround the product. Consumers toss out vastly more pounds of food than we do packaging-about six times as much. One study estimates that U.S. consumers throw out about half the food they buy. In Great Britain, the Waste and Resource Action Programme (funny enough, WRAP) claims that the energy saved from not wasting food at home would be the equivalent of removing “1 out of every 5 cars off the road.” The Independent reports that discarding food produces three times the carbon dioxide as discarding food packaging.
All of which is to say: if you’re truly eager to take on the waste inherent in our food systems, you’d be better off reforming your own habits at home-say, by buying more strategically, minimizing waste, and eating less-before taking on the institutional packaging practices of disembodied food distributers.
Finally, we could also have an impact by choosing foods that are packaged in a way that reduces waste at home. This point does not apply so much to produce, but a lot of goods are packaged to ensure that we use the entire product. They contain user-friendly features such as capacious openings (milk), transparent appearance (bagged salad), re-sealers (nuts), the ability to be turned upside down (ketchup), and smooth surfaces rather than grooved ones, where food can hide (yogurt). Seems bizarre, but it’s possible that we waste more energy by not scraping the bottom of the barrel than we do by throwing out the barrel when we’re done. Given the high cost of wasting food, the question of design might be more important than the question of necessity.
Waste is an inevitable outcome of production. As consumers, we should certainly see food packaging as a form of waste and seek increasingly responsible packaging solutions. At the same time, though, we must do so without resorting to pat calls to “reduce packaging.” Doing so, it seems, could do more harm than good.

Help Haiti I Cry  (please listen to the song) ...cal
http://artistexpressway.com/newsupdate-LALewis.htm
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Richard_N._Haass
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Richard N. Haass is President of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), a position he has held since July 2003.
According to his profile, "Until June 2003, Richard Haass was Director of Policy Planning for the Department of State, where he was a principal advisor to Secretary of State Colin Powell on a broad range of foreign policy concerns. Confirmed by the U.S. Senate to hold the rank of ambassador, Haass served as U.S. Coordinator for policy toward the future of Afghanistan and was the lead U.S. Government official in support of the Northern Ireland peace process. For his efforts, he received the State Department’s Distinguished Honor Award.
"Ambassador Haass has extensive additional government experience. From 1989-1993, he was Special Assistant to President George H.W. Bush and Senior Director for Near East and South Asian Affairs on the staff of the National Security Council. In 1991, Haass was awarded the Presidential Citizens Medal for his contributions to the development and articulation of U.S. policy during Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm. Previously, he served in various posts in the Departments of State (1981-85) and Defense (1979-80) and was a legislative aide in the U.S. Senate.
"Haass also has been Vice President and Director of Foreign Policy Studies at The Brookings Institution, the Sol M. Linowitz Visiting Professor of International Studies at Hamilton College, a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a Lecturer in Public Policy at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, and a research associate at the International Institute for Strategic Studies. A Rhodes Scholar, Haass holds a B.A. from Oberlin College [1973] and both the Master and Doctor of Philosophy degrees from Oxford University [1975; 1982].
"Richard Haass was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1951. He lives in New York City with his wife and two children."
http://www.bookrags.com/content/studyguides/?p=guides&u=freakonomics&f=intro
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Richard_N._Haass
Excerpt:
Richard N. Haass is President of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), a position he has held since July 2003.
According to his profile, "Until June 2003, Richard Haass was Director of Policy Planning for the Department of State, where he was a principal advisor to Secretary of State Colin Powell on a broad range of foreign policy concerns. Confirmed by the U.S. Senate to hold the rank of ambassador, Haass served as U.S. Coordinator for policy toward the future of Afghanistan and was the lead U.S. Government official in support of the Northern Ireland peace process. For his efforts, he received the State Department’s Distinguished Honor Award.
"Ambassador Haass has extensive additional government experience. From 1989-1993, he was Special Assistant to President George H.W. Bush and Senior Director for Near East and South Asian Affairs on the staff of the National Security Council. In 1991, Haass was awarded the Presidential Citizens Medal for his contributions to the development and articulation of U.S. policy during Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm. Previously, he served in various posts in the Departments of State (1981-85) and Defense (1979-80) and was a legislative aide in the U.S. Senate.
"Haass also has been Vice President and Director of Foreign Policy Studies at The Brookings Institution, the Sol M. Linowitz Visiting Professor of International Studies at Hamilton College, a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a Lecturer in Public Policy at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, and a research associate at the International Institute for Strategic Studies. A Rhodes Scholar, Haass holds a B.A. from Oberlin College [1973] and both the Master and Doctor of Philosophy degrees from Oxford University [1975; 1982].
"Richard Haass was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1951. He lives in New York City with his wife and two children."
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Richard_N._Haass

Sunday, April 17, 2011

Tanker 979
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k19a-PPrK24

Evergreen 747
http://wn.com/Evergreen_747_Supertanker

Evergreen Aviation Admits to chemtrail contracts with USAF
http://www.forbiddenknowledgetv.com/videos/meteorology/evergreen-aviation-admits-tochemtrail-contracts-with-usaf.html

http://www.sovereignindependent.com/?p=4299  (What in the World Are They Spraying video 1:37)

Evergreen Air: CIA Chemtrail Facility Leaked

Post by NotForSale2NWO , from Intel Hub

Evergreen 747-C Conversion for Depopulation Purposes, 2010 NotForSale interviewed a whistleblower from inside the Evergreen Air Facility. For those who do not know Evergreen Air is a CIA front company for chemtrail operations within the United States, weapons and arms dealing, drug running and rendition tortures. The whistleblower known as KrisH provided the Intel Hub staff with documentation to prove his employment at the facility located in Pinal County Airpark in Arizona.
On Feb 18, 2010 NotForSale from the Intel Hub interviewed a whistleblower employed as a private contractor at an Evergreen Air facility. The information he provided was mind blowing. Never before has a whistleblower came forward about this top secret facility located in the Arizona desert north of Tucson. In the interview KrisH described how the facility is heavily secured by well armed personnel. During his time at the facility he was involved in retro fitting 727 and 747-c aircraft with liquid discharge tanks and aerosol sprayer devices. He has also confirmed reports of triangular black jets at the facility as well during his time there in the early 1990’s. It is also important to note that the facility owns fully functional warbirds that have been fully restored from WWII, where all of the weapon systems and bomb bay doors are operable on the craft. This type of craft is not authorized by civilian, public or private use within the U.S. This would indicate that Evergreen Air is indeed a CIA operation. The Whistleblower has also heard there is an underground base at the facility and confirms there is a possible “Black Helicopter” base on site as well.
Note: Evergreen Air also specializes in unmanned drone aircraft UAV’s.
Post by NotForSale2NWO , from Intel Hub
Short URL: http://www.sovereignindependent.com/?p=4299

http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread437237/pg1

http://www.evergreenaviation.com/p_releases/012810.html


http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/jsp_includes/articlePrint.jsp?storyID=news/DTIMiniUAVs.xml&headLine=Mini-UAVs%20Rack%20Up%20Big%20Gains

 
 
David Eshel/Defense Technology International


Mini-UAVs continue to prove their value as tactical surveillance and reconnaissance craft. The design of this class of unmanned aerial vehicle has been fine-tuned to where versions are lightweight, manpack-portable in battle, readily launched by hand, and capable of carrying sophisticated data-transmission payloads. Their video capabilities help direct bombing runs, and their size and low noise make them virtually undetectable, even at low altitudes.

They are truly the shadow warriors of 21st-century battlefields.
One example of the workhorse role these aircraft now have is the RQ-11 Raven mini-UAV from AeroVironment of Monrovia, Calif. The aircraft notched 150,000 combat hours for U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan in 2007, and is expected to fly twice as many missions this year. With 9,000 on order or delivered, AeroVironment, which produced the first practical hand-launched UAV, the Pointer, in the late 1980s, is the numbers leader in the market.
Ravens have also been ordered by Italy, Denmark and Spain. Two Danish Raven operators, deployed off the Horn of Africa on board the Danish patrol frigate HDMS Thetis during a United Nations World Food Program escort mission, made local headlines when they were sent home after violating rules of engagement by flying their Raven UAV over land north of Mombasa, Kenya, in March.
The Netherlands has also acquired an initial order of 10 Aladin mini-UAVs from a production series destined for the German armed forces. Aladin is produced by EMT in Penzberg, Germany. The Dutch and Germans deploy Aladin in Afghanistan, where the system is in near-continuous use.
U.S. and Israeli companies, however, are the leaders in this segment. One of the surprise lessons of the 2006 war in Lebanon was the value of small UAVs. They made up a tactical surveillance system, supporting the Israel Defense Forces’ brigade-level combat teams. Tactical UAVs, operating as organic assets with brigades, are able to move with the force, keeping up with forward-deployed combat support elements, flying forward from the lead echelon. The UAVs cover a brigade’s combat environment, monitor enemy activities and friendly troop movements, and prevent fratricide by enhancing situational awareness for tactical commanders.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elbit_Skylark
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Elbit Skylark
RoleUnmanned aerial vehicle
National originIsrael
ManufacturerElbit Systems


Skylark 1 close-up

Skylark 2 close-up
Elbit Systems Skylark I and Skylark II are small unmanned aerial vehicles developed by Elbit Systems.

http://exposedpost.blogspot.com/2011/04/future-expansion-of-unmanned-drones.html

April 9, 2011


The Future Expansion of Unmanned Drones Over The U.S. (VIDEO)

Infowars: (Michael Edwards) In a stark admission, two-star General, John Priddy, from the U.S. National Air Security Operations Center, confirmed in the video below that the continued expansion of predator drone surveillance is a stated goal for the coming years. His comments were echoed by Al Palmer, Director of Unmanned Aircraft Training at the world’s largest center at the University of North Dakota, “The world is going to spend $80 billion on unmanned aircraft between now and 2016.”

The idea for predator drone surveillance of Americans was kept under wraps until fairly recently.  Even after a 2007 local news station in Texas captured drone flight tests on video, it was roundly denied as conspiracy theory that unmanned drones would actually take flight over America.  Further investigation revealed that this flight test coincided with a plan already in place to patrol far inland beyond the legal 100-mile security border, also known as the Constitution-free Zone.



Then, early this year, Miami-Dade county openly admitted to ordering a 16-pound T-Hawk micro drone which clearly indicates a move to miniaturize surveillance in order to bring it right into the streets of America, rather than the continued military propaganda stating that unmanned drones will be used only for border control operations.

As Dana Gabriel and others have covered, Canada and the U.S. have formed a clear perimeter security and trade alliance which for all practical purposes removes the border between the two countries, thus allowing for drones to go beyond the previous 16-kilometer buffer zone and continue right to the border of Canada.   This ultimately allows for coast-to-coast surveillance.

Now that we know that “the ultimate goal” is 24-hour eye-in-the-sky surveillance by predator drones within civilian airspace from coast to coast, do we believe General Priddy when he asserts that this technology will be applied to “search and rescue” missions during natural disasters?  Or, rather, should we be asking if the next logical step is for these drones to be weaponized?
http://joepayne.org/outerbank/evergreen.htm

http://wn.com/Evergreen_747_Supertanker
http://joepayne.org/outerbank/evergreen.htm
I watched the 3rd video from the top.  ...cal
http://milkhouse-mouse.blogspot.com/2008/06/western-bankers-threatened-japan-with.html
Excerpt:

Tuesday, June 3

Western Bankers Threatened Japan with HAARP Eco-Destruction a Year Before China Quakes

Constructed by the US Navy and Army in Alaska's bush country during the early 80s, the Pentagon's widely acknowledged high-tech "sky zapper" also can rattle the earth's substructure. But while the Defense Department acknowledges the program's existence, officials are keeping the "pandora's box" that is HAARP--High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program--classified.

Nonetheless, some remarkably eerie circumstantial evidence compiled below from diverse, reputable sources suggest politically flaccid Democrat congressional leaders should investigate if the Bush White House and Pentagon has perpetrated humankind's deadliest terrorist attack last month on China.


In 1996, a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation telecast reported the US Defense Department was then in the initial stages of developing "geophysical warfare"; YouTube.com now hosts the broadcast in two parts, excerpted below.

http://dailycaller.com/2010/11/25/china-russia-quit-dollar/
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China, Russia quit dollar

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http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/04/15/us-morgan-stanley-real-estate-idUSTRE73E63E20110415
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TOKYO | Fri Apr 15, 2011 1:30pm EDT
TOKYO (Reuters) - A Morgan Stanley property fund failed to make $3.3 billion in debt payments by a deadline on Friday, handing over the keys to a central Tokyo office building to Blackstone (BX.N) and other investors, the largest repayment failure of its kind in Japan.It marks the latest fallout from a series of highly leveraged investments by Morgan Stanley (MS.N), one of the most aggressive investors in worldwide property markets before the global financial crisis.
The $4.2 billion MSREF V real estate fund missed its April 15 deadline to repay 278 billion yen($3.3 billion) worth of debt packaged in commercial mortgage-backed securities on the 32-storey Shinagawa Grand Central Tower, a property which has seen its value plunge, two people involved in the transaction said.
They spoke on condition of anonymity due to the sensitive nature of the matter.
A Morgan Stanley spokeswoman in Tokyo declined to comment. A New York based spokesman for Blackstone, which holds the most junior portion of the debt and gains the right to market the building for seven months, was not immediately available for comment.
This is the largest repayment failure of debt packaged in CMBS in Japan, according to analysts and industry experts, bigger than the 112 billion yen that real estate investor K.K. daVinci Holdings failed to pay on the Pacific Century Place office building.
MSREF V bought the Shinagawa property for 140 billion yen in 2004 from Mitsubishi Corp (8058.T) and Mitsubishi Motors (7211.T). The building now houses Microsoft's Japan offices among other tenants.
Morgan Stanley repackaged the loans into 125 billion yen worth of CMBS in 2005, according to a website for Morgan Stanley.
Taking advantage of a run-up in property prices, MSREF V refinanced its debt on the Shinagawa property in 2007 with new debt worth 278 billion yen, twice the value of its purchase and likely yielding a tidy profit for the fund.
The refinanced debt was sold in six different tranches by Morgan Stanley to investors.
(Reporting by Junko Fujita; Editing by Edwina Gibbs and Nathan Layne)

http://www.reuters.com/article/2010/01/25/jrtokai-idUSTOE60O06X20100125
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 Mon Jan 25, 2010 6:14am EST
* Competition fierce for high-speed Florida line-chairman* Las Vegas-LA route could also be candidate for firm's trains
* Shinkansen's strong reputation should be advantage-analyst
* Also keen to sell next generation bullet trains in U.S. (Adds background, comment)
By Nobuhiro Kubo,
TOKYO, Jan 25 (Reuters) - Central Japan Railway Co (JR Tokai) (9022.T) will join rivals in competing to develop a high-speed railway line in the U.S. state of Florida, as the former state-owned firm looks to sell its super-fast train systems overseas.
A consulting firm hired by the company said a railway line connecting Tampa, Orlando and Miami in Florida was one of the most promising targets for its Shinkansen bullet trains as the route would be exclusively used by high-speed trains.
"I expect competition for the contract to be fierce in Florida. We will be the last to join the bidding," JR Tokai's Chairman Yoshiyuki Kasai told a news conference. "But I believe our Japanese system will be the most suitable for the line."
Kasai did not say which other firms were competing for deal, although JR Tokai's global rivals include Canada's Bombardier (BBDb.TO), Germany's Siemens (SIEGn.DE) and France's Alstom (ALSO.PA).
U.S.-Japan High-Speed Rail, the consulting firm working for JR Tokai, also said that lines between Las Vegas and Los Angeles could be candidates for the company's products.

http://articles.nydailynews.com/2011-03-11/news/28699675_1_japan-tsunami-train-service-ship
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Japan tsunami sparks fears that bullet train and cruise ship have disappeared, hundreds missing

The 33-foot tsunami that pounded Japan reportedly swept away a ship carrying 100 people and left one of the country's signature bullet trains missing.
The Kyodo news service reported the missing ship and train, although details were scarce about both. Video showed the black water knocking cars, trains and boats around as if they were toys.
PHOTOS: TSUNAMI LEVELS JAPAN
GRAPHIC: ANATOMY OF A TSUNAMI
AMAZING PIC: WHIRLPOOL ENSNARES BOAT
The train - with hundreds of passengers - disappeared on a line outside the coastal city of Sendai, according to Kyodo. Another train was derailed by the powerful waves.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/aug/12/currencies-japan
Excerpt:

Japan plays down yen's 15-year high against the US dollar

Japan refuses to say whether it will intervene in currency markets as concern grows over impact on exports
yen
The US dollar falls to the 85 yen range on the forex trading floor of a Japanese trading firm in Tokyo on Thursday. Photograph: Everett Kennedy Brown/EPA
Japan talked down its strengthening currency today amid concern that companies reliant on exports could be impacted by the yen's strength against the dollar.
The dollar has hit a 15-year low of ¥84.71, fuelled by the admission by the US earlier in the week that it would have to inject money into the economy because the pace of recovery in output and employment had slowed.
Japanese authorities last intervened in the currency markets in March 2004 and were careful not to respond to questions about whether they intended to intervene directly in the currency market again.
The Bank of Japan, the central bank, carried out a rate check among market dealers today, regarded as a type of verbal intervention that was later followed up by finance minister Yoshihiko Noda, who said he was monitoring the foreign exchange market "with great interest".
Concerned that disorderly movements would hurt the economy, Noda said: "We are exchanging information on a working level with the US and other [governments]."
The rise in value of a currency matters to exporters as it makes the value of their produce more expensive to customers overseas and also reduces any profits made by domestic companies abroad.
John Higgins, economist at Capital Economics, said: "The level of the yen against the dollar obviously matters to Japan's exporters, but a bigger threat to their fortunes probably lies with the slowdown in the US economy."
But he noted that comparing the value of the yen now with when it traded in 1995 – the last time it flirted with these levels – may not be relevant. "In the interim, the cost of living in Japan has fallen very slightly, while it has increased by more than 40% in the US. After adjusting for inflation at home and abroad, the yen has appreciated much less rapidly against the dollar."
He said the Bank of Japan could try to weaken the yen in other ways, such as injecting liquidity. But he doubted whether any such move would be effective because of the current concerns about the US economy.
"We expect investors to become less pessimistic on the outlook for the US economy in time, which is partly why we expect the yen to weaken," he said.

http://www.whatsonsanya.com/news-15736-china-russia-to-seek-more-joint-projects-at-brics-summit-in-sanya.html
Excerpt:

China, Russia to seek more joint projects at BRICS summit in Sanya

Updated: 10 Apr 2011
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Russia and China are planning for more joint projects - including those in energy - over the next few decades, said the Russian ambassador to China.
He said that the "strategic partnership" between Beijing and Moscow, which was established in 1996, is not merely symbolic.
"The bilateral relationship has been updating with new content constantly coming in. It is no exaggeration to say that ongoing projects based on our strategic partnership will continue for the coming few decades and plans for more cooperation are under discussion right now," said Sergei Razov.

China and Russia enjoy a broad range of cooperation in industries including energy, technology and aviation.
The biggest bilateral project is the oil pipeline from eastern Russia to northern China, which will export 15 million tons of oil to China yearly over the next two decades, he said.
China has overtaken Germany as Russia's biggest trade partner, with bilateral trade volume reaching $59.3 billion last year - the highest ever.
Since last year, the two countries have promoted the use of the Chinese yuan and the Russian rouble in bilateral trade settlements. The New York Times called it a "small but symbolic step in their expanding economic relationship".
Razov said that Moscow is starting preparations for Chinese President Hu Jintao's visit to the country. China and Russia have interacted with each other frequently through different levels of bilateral meetings this year. The two sides have already initiated more than 10 dialogue mechanisms on various levels, Razov said.
According to the ambassador, President Hu Jintao and his Russian counterpart President Dmitry Medvedev met six times in multilateral and bilateral occasions last year. From 1949 to 1991, the top leaders of the two countries met only seven times.
This year celebrates 15 years of bilateral strategic partnership and the 10th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Good-Neighborliness and Friendly Cooperation between the two countries.
Razov said that Russia sees the upcoming BRICS summit, which will be held in Sanya, Hainan province, as not only a channel for close cooperation with China, India, Brazil and South Africa, but also a means to reinforce the multilateral structure of world politics and formulate a more balanced global finance system.
The BRICS summits, the ambassador said, have become an efficient medium for coordination within the G20 framework, making it more fair and democratic. "I believe such coordination will help us resolve the world crisis altogether," Razov said.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/04/15/us-morgan-stanley-real-estate-idUSTRE73E63E20110415

Saturday, April 16, 2011

http://www.correntewire.com/who_owns_goldman_sachs
Excerpt:
It gives me a frisson of pleasure to quote People's Daily on the ownership structure of Hank Paulson's old, and no doubt future, firm:
One of the largest events in the firm's history was its own IPO in 1999. Goldman offered a small portion of the company to the public, with some 48 percent still held by the partnership pool.
22 percent of the company is held by non-partner employees, and 18 percent is held by retired Goldman partners and two longtime investors, Sumitomo Bank Ltd. and Hawaii's Kamehameha Activities Assn (the investing arm of Kamehameha Schools). This leaves approximately 12 percent of the company as being held by the public.

http://www.ksbe.edu/article.php?story=2004090315121316
Excerpt:
Sale of Goldman Sachs stock being considered

Aloha Colleagues,

You may see some media coverage soon regarding KS selling another block of its stock in Goldman Sachs & Co., Inc.

Indeed, Kamehameha Activities Association (a wholly-owned KS subsidiary) is considering selling approximately 4 million shares of the company as part of Kamehameha's on-going strategy of diversifying its overall investment portfolio. KAA currently owns about 9.5 million shares of Goldman Sachs, which, given the value of the stock, is considered by our Endowment managers to be an over-concentration of KS resources in a single investment. If the sale is made, proceeds would be used to fund other investment categories that would further broaden Kamehameha's investment base.

We expect to make a recommendation to the Trustees for their final decision on this sale within the next week or so.

http://www2.goldmansachs.com/s/prospectus/FutureSale.html

http://www.nytimes.com/keyword/daiwa-bank
Excerpt:
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  • AP
    As it moves to recoup from a United States trading scandal, Daiwa Bank Ltd. submitted a restructuring plan today to the Finance Ministry that would cut its staff by 25 percent over the next four years. The company plans to cut about 2,400 workers from its work force of 9,400. Daiwa has until Feb. 2 to stop operating in the United States under a Federal order. United States bank regulators had charged that the bank's management tried to conceal a New York branch trader's $1.1 billion in trading losses over 11 years.
    January 13, 1996
  • BY PETER TRUELL
    Daiwa Bank Ltd. of Japan pleaded guilty yesterday to charges that it covered up more than $1 billion in trading losses at its New York branch, and it agreed to pay $340 million in fines as it moved to put the scandal behind it. Federal officials said the criminal fine was a record for a financial institution. By pleading guilty, Daiwa Bank changed its strategy. When Federal criminal charges were brought against the bank in November, Daiwa Bank pleaded not guilty and said it would strongly contest the charges.
    February 29, 1996
http://www.nytimes.com/1999/08/14/business/sumitomo-sues-j-p-morgan-for-role-in-copper-debacle.html
Excerpt:

Sumitomo Sues J. P. Morgan For Role in Copper Debacle

By TIMOTHY L. O'BRIEN
Published: August 14, 1999
Correction Appended




























J. P. Morgan & Company, one of the most prestigious banks in the nation, has been sued by the Sumitomo Corporation, one of Japan's largest banks, over loans to a copper trader whose trading binge ended in heavy losses in the mid-1990's.
Sumitomo's suit said Morgan lent at least $535 million to the trader, whose spree cost Sumitomo $2.6 billion in losses.
The information was disclosed in a lawsuit that was unsealed yesterday evening in Federal District Court in Manhattan. Sumitomo filed the suit earlier in the week, seeking $735 million in compensation from Morgan for its role in the trading scandal, which came to light in 1996.
The Chase Manhattan Corporation and UBS A.G. of Switzerland have also been sued recently by Sumitomo in connection with the scandal. Chase lent the trader, Yasuo Hamanaka, about $500 million, according to that suit, which Chase has contested.
Morgan, which prides itself on being one of the country's most cautious lenders, is the only bank to have been singled out by United States regulators for its role in the scandal. In 1997, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York reprimanded Morgan for lax controls and supervision in its commodities lending business, largely because Morgan was more financially dependent on Sumitomo as a client than other banks.

http://lizditz.typepad.com/i_speak_of_dreams/2004/06/object_lessons_.html
Excerpt:
A few years ago after a scandal that led to a housecleaning on the board of trustees, the name of the school complex was applied to the name of the estate, a mission reminder to the new management.  The value of the Kamehameha Schools is in the billions; the estate’s holdings include a pair of resort hotels, the Royal Hawaiian shopping center, holdings in Las Vegas, two of the largest shopping centers in Wisconsin, and large expanses of timberland in Michigan. The estate’s trustees until recently received a compensation of $1 million per year.
In March, 1999, one of the "new guard" trustees, Gerard Jervis, was discovered having sex with a trust attorney, Rene Ojiri Kitaoka, in a restroom at a hotel in Waikiki.  Kitaoka committed suicide next day. A week later, Jervis took an overdose of sleeping pills; he survived, but resigned in August 1999.


http://www.electrifyingtimes.com/toyota_idea_factory.html
Excerpt:
Since 1950, Toyota has not laid a single employee off, worldwide.
Page 129
Ideally, the suggesters themselves should make as many decisions as possible about their own ideas. At Dana Corporation (another company mentioned in the book - ET), it is corporate policy that every employee is the company's top expert in the twenty-five square feet he or she works in have the authority to spend up to $50 on an improvement without the approval of management. Toyota also emphasize action rather than ideas. They don't expect most ideas to be reported to the formal system until after they are implemented.

Federal Reserve/IRS = Private Corporations
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVzkceT521A


http://kingston.ulsterpublishing.com/view/full_story/11406693/article-Big-Blue--briefly
Excerpt:
What the short play didn't cover was one area of IBM's history that saw the company enter into a relationship with the Third Reich by selling punch card machines to Nazi Germany through IBM subsidiary Dehomag. Watson was given the Eagle with Star medal from Germany, which he reportedly returned after World War II broke out.


Read more: Kingston Times - Big Blue briefly

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dehomag
Excerpt:
Dehomag was a German subsidiary of IBM with monopoly in the German market before and during World War II.[1] The word was an acronym for Deutsche Hollerith-Maschinen Gesellschaft mbH (English: German Hollerith Machines LLC). Hollerith refers to the German-American inventor of the technology of punched cards, Herman Hollerith.
Under Nazi Germany, Dehomag leased and maintained the Nazis' collection of card punch machines. The use of this technology increased the efficiency of the Final Solution. IBM in New York established a special subsidiary, Watson Business Machines, to deal with railway traffic in the General Government during the Holocaust in Poland. The German Transport Ministry used IBM machines under the New York-controlled subsidiary in Warsaw, not the German subsidiary. Dehomag general manager for Germany, Hermann Rottke, reported to Thomas J. Watson in New York. It was legal for IBM to service the Third Reich directly, but only until America entered the war in December 1941.
The technology of punched cards dates back at least to the 18th century when it was used for mass production of woven textiles and later used as a recording and play back system in player pianos. The use of punched cards for recording and tabulating data was first proposed and used by Semen Korsakov in or about 1805. In 1832 Charles Babbage proposed using similar cards to program and store computation by his calculating engine. Punch card technology was further developed for tabulating and data processing purposes by Herman Hollerith, dated back to the 1880s. It was used for the 1890 United States Census and for the census work of several foreign governments. Willy Heidinger, an acquaintance of Hollerith, licensed all of Hollerith’s patents in 1910, and created Dehomag in Germany. In 1911 Hollerith's company merged with several others, forming Computing Tabulating Recording Corporation (CTR). In 1923 CTR acquired 90% ownership of Dehomag, thus acquiring patents developed by them.[2] In 1924 CTR was renamed IBM.
In the following years, Dehomag, obeying the direct orders of IBM and Thomas J. Watson, became the main provider of computing expertise and equipment in Nazi Germany. Dehomag was one of the pillars of the Nazi party's control over German society, giving them the means for a large census of the population and for searching its data, at a scale never seen before. This eventually allowed the Holocaust[citation needed].

RFID Chip - IBM Propaganda - What Will You Do?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMevOTVyU-w&feature=related

Tommy Thompson and the RFID chip
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiLixwNkur8

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust
IBM and the Holocaust is a book by investigative journalist Edwin Black which details the business dealings of the American-based multinational corporation International Business Machines (IBM) and its German and other European subsidiaries with the government of Adolf Hitler during the 1930s and the years of World War II. In the book, Black outlines the way in which IBM's technology helped facilitate Nazi genocide against the Jewish people through generation and tabulation of punch cards based upon national census data.[1]

The following video has been removed so I didn't even put the link here.  hmmmm, don cha wonder why?  ...cal

Law And Order SVU Season Premier Delves Into RFID And The NWO



Aaron Russo Told About 9/11 in Advance, Verichip
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xorR2Yo84Jo&feature=related

http://www.angelfire.com/hi2/hawaiiansovereignty/kamintro.html
Excerpts:
1)
 Bernice Pauahi Bishop was an extremely wealthy ali'i. As the last living member of the Kamehameha dynasty, she inherited large tracts of land from other Kamehameha descendants. At her death in 1884 she owned about 11% of all the land in Hawai'i. Her estate, which included some extremely valuable lands, was valued at about $300,000 during the probate of her will. Her husband, haole banker Charles Reed Bishop, helped her to set up the Bishop Estate, and he was its first chairman of the board of trustees. After a few small bequests, all her wealth was to be used to establish the Kamehameha Schools and maintain them forever.
At first there were two schools: one for boys, which focused on vocational training for shopworkers and farmers; and one for girls, which focused on home-making skills. The will of the princess had required such a focus, so academic preparation for higher education was not an important part of the program. After about 25 years, some of the school's former pupils who had gone on to become successful businessmen or professionals urged a change of focus toward preparation for high school and college; and gradually the emphasis changed. Today the main campus in Honolulu is one single school for both boys and girls, from elementary through high school, and is primarily focused on a college-preparatory curriculum. Another campus was recently built on a neighbor island, and sometimes Kamehameha School has partnerships with public schools in areas where kanaka maoli make up most of the public school students. Some scholarships are also awarded for graduates going to college.

2)
The U.S. Internal Revenue Service began an investigation of the estate's finances. IRS demanded huge back-taxes on the estate's commercial operations, and threatened to take away its tax-exempt status because of the pattern of mismanagement, insider profiteering, and absurdly low expenditures on education. The State of Hawai'i prosecuted some of the trustees and was successful in getting them removed through judicial decisions and resignations. New temporary trustees were appointed, the management style was changed, a new CEO was hired, and things appear to be improving. The official name of the trust was changed to the name of the school, affirming a renewed central focus on education. The hated and scandal-ridden Bishop Estate is no more, and is now known simply as Kamehameha Schools. For the remainder of this webpage, I shall use the name KS/BE to refer to it, recognizing that the entity being served is Kamehameha Schools, which was created and supported for 115 years by the Bishop Estate.
In April 2001 the Honolulu Star-Bulletin ran a series of articles updating the history of corruption in the relations between KS/BE and the political structure of the State of Hawai'i. Although all five Trustees have been replaced and improvements have been made, questionable practices continue. Here are excerpts from three Star-Bulletin articles, including URLs for the complete articles.

http://www.spacewar.com/reports/Raytheon_DeepSiren_Closes_Submarine_Comms_Gap_At_US_Navy_Arctic_Exercise_999.html
Raytheon DeepSiren Closes Submarine Comms Gap At Arctic Exercise
At the start of ICEX, the Raytheon system facilitated the rendezvous of participating submarines with a camp established on the ice surface 150 nautical miles north of Prudhoe Bay, Alaska. DeepSiren transmissions from Ice Camp were received by two submarines at distances comparable to those demonstrated in previous at-sea trials and significantly greater than those achieved by other systems.
by Staff WritersWashington DC (SPX) Apr 15, 2011During a U.S. Navy exercise, Raytheon's DeepSiren underwater acoustic communication system bridged a capability gap for submarines operating beneath the Arctic ice by providing on-demand tactical mission and emergency response information.
The system was successfully operated during the Navy's ICEX 2011 exercise conducted by the Arctic Submarine Laboratory far north of the Arctic Circle.
"Raytheon DeepSiren enables operational commanders anywhere in the world to quickly send tactical messages to a submarine operating at speed and depth - even under Arctic ice," said Steve Moynahan, senior engineer, Raytheon Network Centric Systems (NCS), who deployed with DeepSiren to support the exercise. "This addresses one of the most significant shortfalls in submarine communications to provide mission-critical information while the vessel is submerged."
At one point in the exercise, the use of DeepSiren took a real-world turn when the USS New Hampshire, submerged beneath a thick ice cover, needed to quickly find a suitable location to surface and evacuate a sailor stricken with appendicitis. U.S. Navy Capt. Rhett Jaehn, deputy director of operations, Commander, Submarine Force, said, "DeepSiren played a key role in facilitating the evacuation of the sick sailor and was heavily used during the exercise."
Raytheon DeepSiren operates much like a text messaging system, providing submarines with mission essential and tactical information in a short message format.
"The DeepSiren solution addresses a very significant gap in the broad spectrum of underwater communications capabilities," said Brian McKeon, vice president, Raytheon NCS' Integrated Communications Systems.
McKeon added: "The system has been well designed, tested and demonstrated to work reliably over a vast range of oceanographic conditions. DeepSiren employs mature technology rated at TRL (technology readiness level) eight, and it can easily transition into production to support delivery of qualified hardware within months of a purchase order."
At the start of ICEX, the Raytheon system facilitated the rendezvous of participating submarines with a camp established on the ice surface 150 nautical miles north of Prudhoe Bay, Alaska. DeepSiren transmissions from Ice Camp were received by two submarines at distances comparable to those demonstrated in previous at-sea trials and significantly greater than those achieved by other systems.
"Its acoustic transmissions are very much lower in power than typical sonar signals, making it both environmentally friendly and enabling it to operate without causing harmful interference to other acoustic sensor systems," explained Trevor Barron, program technical director, Raytheon NCS. "We were able to very quickly adapt the DeepSiren software-defined acoustic modem to accommodate the unique requirements of the Arctic Submarine Laboratory."