PARIS/BRUSSELS, April 27 (Reuters)

The virus spreading around the world should not be called "swine flu" as it contains avian and human components and no pig has so far been found ill with the disease, the world animal health body said on Monday. It would be more logical to call the virus "North American influenza", a name based on its geographic origin like the Spanish influenza, a human flu pandemic with animal origin that killed more than 50 million people in 1918-1919.

"The virus has not been isolated in animals to date. Therefore it is not justified to name this disease swine influenza," the Paris-based World Organisation for Animal Health, also known as the OIE, said in a statement. The European Commission said that the virus was not linked with pork. Robert Madelin, director-general of the Commission's health and food safety department, said in Brussels that no European Union trade restrictions on imports were planned since swine flu had nothing to do with the food chain.

The EU only imports insignificant numbers of live pigs and pigmeat products are not seen as a disease threat. The World Health Organization has ruled out any risk of infection from consuming pork, saying swine flu has not been shown to be transmissible to people through eating properly handled and prepared pork, or other products derived from pigs. Fears of a global flu pandemic grew after 103 people were killed in Mexico and new infections were found in the United States and Canada and possible cases as far afield as Europe, Israel and New Zealand.

The OIE, an intergovernmental organisation, warned that if the virus was shown to cause disease in animals, this could worsen the regional and global public health situation. Denmark, a major pork producer that exported nearly 2 million tonnes of pigmeat in 2008, said on Monday it was not putting any extra controls in place on pigs or introducing extra measures relating to pork production as a result of the flu threat.

The Danish food and agriculture ministry also said it had not received any information from the industry suggesting pork demand had been hit by concerns arising from the virus. It said it would monitor the situation closely in coming days.

Fears there could be a global flu pandemic which would hurt fragile world economies led to a broad-based decline in stocks, oil and other commodity markets on Monday. Grain and oilseed markets fells sharply on concern that the outbreak could reduce feed demand for pigs.

(Reporting by Sybille de La Hamaide in Paris, additional reporting by Jeremy Smith in Brussels and Anna Ringstrom in Copenhagen, editing by Anthony Barker)

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The convergence of the two threats comes as Britain is already on "severe" alert, meaning security officials believe an attack is highly likely.

Bankers are being warned to dress casually to deflect populist anger and luxury hotels are securing their perimeters.

Concern is particularly high because the last major summit in Britain - the G8 meeting in July 2005 at Gleneagles - was marked by suicide attacks on London's transit network that killed 52 people.

"We will be challenged. We will be stretched," said Simon O'Brien, a police commander responsible for the 7.2 million ($18 million) operation to secure the city.

Tens of thousands of demonstrators plan four days of protests at sites across London, threatening to overwhelm police and potentially leave the capital more vulnerable.

The Home Secretary, Jacqui Smith, said that while no specific plot against the G20 summit had been identified, terrorists could strike "without warning at any time".

Michael Clarke, head of the Royal United Services Institute think-tank, said small terrorist groups might use the cover of protests by environmentalists, antiwar activists and unions to mount an attack.

"The protests will cause uncertainty and chaos, and if they turn violent could complicate the lives of those police and security service staff who are looking for terrorists," said Clarke, who sits on the Government's National Security Forum advisory panel.

Police arrested five people in Plymouth yesterday under terrorism laws and recovered replica weapons, fireworks and activist material. Officers are investigating whether they planned to target the summit.

The investigation was sparked after a 25-year-old man was charged with spraying graffiti on a wall in Plymouth city centre, prompting officers to search his flat. They discovered a replica Kalashnikov assault rifle and several minor explosive devices made from fireworks.

About 5000 police - some armed with Tasers - will guard London, and an extra 35,000 will be on standby for the summit tomorrow night NZT. Some will be at the summit venue in London's Docklands, with others protecting posh hotels and the sleek glass towers of the financial district.

In the light of November's seaborne attack on Mumbai, India's financial centre, extra patrol boats will guard the Thames, and police frogmen will scour the river for floating bombs.

Police will tap London's network of 10,000 CCTV cameras to monitor protests, while an Army special forces unit will be on alert to respond.

Pepe Egger, a senior security analyst at Exclusive Analysis Ltd, said banks and hotels had prepared for attempted raids or sieges.

Unlike previous summits, most protests in London would be away from the actual meeting venue at the ExCel centre, he said.

"The interesting thing is that the protesters are unlikely to target the G20 delegates, their anger is not directed at the G20 itself. They will target the banks and financial district."

Anger at bankers is high in both Britain and the United States, where some of the bailout money for stricken banks was spent on staff bonuses.

Banks have told staff to dress in casual clothes today and tomorrow, to forgo cigarette breaks outside and cancel all but their most critical meetings.

"I'm pretty worried," said Luke Keyser, a 28-year-old at the Royal Bank of Scotland. "We've already been told to dress down. If we want to, we can work from home."

People living near the G20 venue in Canning Town have been advised to carry photo IDs to ensure they can pass through police roadblocks and get home.

- AP, INDEPENDENT

Solomon Star News
Friday, 20 February 2009

HISTORY is littered with commentaries by business, world leaders and academics on how the banking system is set up and what it was designed to do and has been doing ever since its creation.

It is fair to say that the masses may never know the real business of foreign banking. And yet, it is on the back of the masses that banks carry their successes in terms of profitability, year after year after year.

They make their money in a number of ways, including but not limited to charging phenomenal interest rates. In return they pay hardly anything to depositors.

Their practices border on daylight robbery – practices sanctioned by competent authorities and the legal system in every country.

Most, if not all, qualify for insolvency if they were to uphold the same rules imposed on ordinary folks.
But we will never know why they are allowed to continue in business.

And the reason we will never know about what banks do with your money [I don’t have any] is clear. No one in his right mind broadcasts the secrets of his success.

But history has been kind, leaving important indicators on the secrecy under which banks operate.
Many have left the door to banks ajar for those who care to peep in. People like Henry Ford, the man whose family name is synonymous with the United States auto industry.

Or Reginald McKenna, who was Britain’s Chancellor of the Exchequer and Chairman of the Board of the Midland Bank between 1915 – 1916.

Henry Ford, for example, once said of banks in the United States:
“It is well that the people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning”.

Mr. McKenna said:
“I am afraid the ordinary citizen will not like to be told that the banks can, and do, create money … Those who create and issue money and credit direct the policies of government and hold in the hollow of their hands the destiny of the people”.

As indicated in this column last week, these are some of the issues I wish to discuss this week in the hope of enlightening us to the reality.

For example, given the practices by the banks, what do we as a nation need to do?
More work and less talking. Any meaningful intervention in this murky area, however, has to be spearheaded by Government and its monetary policy.

It is in this light that one, Kelvyn Alp, a New Zealander, has provided the Government a “must read” document titled, Solomon Islands Economic Reform – Monetary System and Taxation.

Copies were widely distributed to Members of Parliament, particularly Government Ministers and Members of Government Caucus last year. It was provided as a Parliamentary Discussion Document.
The 36-page document was dated 8th November 2008.

It is a ‘must read’ if one were to understand the banking system here, the monetary system and taxation and what is urgently required to deal with these problematic areas.

In the preamble, Alp says the document “is an urgent reminder of the need to look beyond the established and ultimately flawed economic theories that have caused such devastation to nations the world over”.

“All too often there are those that are ever ready to give advice to developing nations like Solomon Islands, while at the same time, concealing the true nature and intent of that advice. Change will never come from systems that have been proven to fail time and time again.

“In this document, I shall deal with the truth and facts only,” he said.

Alp argued that many have studied and received degrees for subjects covered in the document, “yet have never comprehended the underlying mechanics of those lessons and how they relate to real-world economies”.
He urged readers to be willing to put the interests of the people and nation above their own.

“This must be done despite the constant pressure being applied by some to retain the status-quo and further have you implement disastrous policies that will place you, your family and the nation, in a continuous position of servitude,” the former military man turned businessman said.

An avid reader of a wide range of subjects, I must say I am fascinated by the clarity and indeed the message being conveyed in this document.

The more I read this revolutionary document, the more I want to be out there doing something. The feeling I have experienced will only be felt if one’s passionate about what needs to be done and fast.

For example, how do you feel about phrases such as “today’s money [is] created by private interests for private profit”.

Alp quoted Mayer Amschel Rothschild, a banker who in 1790 said and I quote: “Let me issue and control a nation’s money and I care not who writes its laws”.

Many will probably recall reading somewhere that Rothschild was one of the founding fathers of what we know today as America’s Federal Reserve, the equivalent of our Central Bank.

The US Federal Reserve was never a Government institution. It’s an invention by businessmen who want to control the world’s wealth. And they do today. Only six per cent of the world’s population control today’s wealth.

Commercial banking, including those in Solomon Islands are merely an extension of the greed that has now thrown the global financial economy into tailspin.

Next week, I’ll take you through the banking system, the monetary reform and the many faces of money that banks “sell” us – faces fully disguised in deception and falsehood.


By ALFRED SASAKO

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By Henry A. Kissinger, Jan 12 2009.

As the new U.S. administration prepares to take office amid grave financial and international crises, it may seem counterintuitive to argue that the very unsettled nature of the international system generates a unique opportunity for creative diplomacy.

That opportunity involves a seeming contradiction. On one level, the financial collapse represents a major blow to the standing of the United States. While American political judgments have often proved controversial, the American prescription for a world financial order has generally been unchallenged. Now disillusionment with the United States' management of it is widespread.

At the same time, the magnitude of the debacle makes it impossible for the rest of the world to shelter any longer behind American predominance or American failings.

Every country will have to reassess its own contribution to the prevailing crisis. Each will seek to make itself independent, to the greatest possible degree, of the conditions that produced the collapse; at the same time, each will be obliged to face the reality that its dilemmas can be mastered only by common action.

Even the most affluent countries will confront shrinking resources. Each will have to redefine its national priorities. An international order will emerge if a system of compatible priorities comes into being. It will fragment disastrously if the various priorities cannot be reconciled.

The nadir of the existing international financial system coincides with simultaneous political crises around the globe. Never have so many transformations occurred at the same time in so many different parts of the world and been made globally accessible via instantaneous communication. The alternative to a new international order is chaos.

The financial and political crises are, in fact, closely related partly because, during the period of economic exuberance, a gap had opened up between the economic and the political organization of the world.

The economic world has been globalized. Its institutions have a global reach and have operated by maxims that assumed a self-regulating global market.

The financial collapse exposed the mirage. It made evident the absence of global institutions to cushion the shock and to reverse the trend. Inevitably, when the affected publics turned to their national political institutions, these were driven principally by domestic politics, not considerations of world order.

Every major country has attempted to solve its immediate problems essentially on its own and to defer common action to a later, less crisis-driven point. So-called rescue packages have emerged on a piecemeal national basis, generally by substituting seemingly unlimited governmental credit for the domestic credit that produced the debacle in the first place - so far without more than stemming incipient panic.

International order will not come about either in the political or economic field until there emerge general rules toward which countries can orient themselves.

In the end, the political and economic systems can be harmonized in only one of two ways: by creating an international political regulatory system with the same reach as that of the economic world; or by shrinking the economic units to a size manageable by existing political structures, which is likely to lead to a new mercantilism, perhaps of regional units.

A new Bretton Woods-kind of global agreement is by far the preferable outcome. America's role in this enterprise will be decisive. Paradoxically, American influence will be great in proportion to the modesty in our conduct; we need to modify the righteousness that has characterized too many American attitudes, especially since the collapse of the Soviet Union.

That seminal event and the subsequent period of nearly uninterrupted global growth induced too many to equate world order with the acceptance of American designs, including our domestic preferences.

The result was a certain inherent unilateralism - the standard complaint of European critics - or else an insistent kind of consultation by which nations were invited to prove their fitness to enter the international system by conforming to American prescriptions.

Not since the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy half a century ago has a new administration come into office with such a reservoir of expectations. It is unprecedented that all the principal actors on the world stage are avowing their desire to undertake the transformations imposed on them by the world crisis in collaboration with the United States.

The extraordinary impact of the president-elect on the imagination of humanity is an important element in shaping a new world order. But it defines an opportunity, not a policy.

The ultimate challenge is to shape the common concern of most countries and all major ones regarding the economic crisis, together with a common fear of jihadist terrorism, into a common strategy reinforced by the realization that the new issues like proliferation, energy and climate change permit no national or regional solution.

The new administration could make no worse mistake than to rest on its initial popularity. The cooperative mood of the moment needs to be channeled into a grand strategy going beyond the controversies of the recent past.

The charge of American unilateralism has some basis in fact; it also has become an alibi for a key European difference with America: that the United States still conducts itself as a national state capable of asking its people for sacrifices for the sake of the future, while Europe, suspended between abandoning its national framework and a yet-to-be-reached political substitute, finds it much harder to defer present benefits.

Hence its concentration on soft power. Most Atlantic controversies have been substantive and only marginally procedural; there would have been conflict no matter how intense the consultation. The Atlantic partnership will depend much more on common policies than agreed procedures.

The role of China in a new world order is equally crucial. A relationship that started on both sides as essentially a strategic design to constrain a common adversary has evolved over the decades into a pillar of the international system.

China made possible the American consumption splurge by buying American debt; America helped the modernization and reform of the Chinese economy by opening its markets to Chinese goods.

Both sides overestimated the durability of this arrangement. But while it lasted, it sustained unprecedented global growth. It mitigated as well the concerns over China's role once China emerged in full force as a fellow superpower. A consensus had developed according to which adversarial relations between these pillars of the international system would destroy much that had been achieved and benefit no one. That conviction needs to be preserved and reinforced.

Each side of the Pacific needs the cooperation of the other in addressing the consequences of the financial crisis. Now that the global financial collapse has devastated Chinese export markets, China is emphasizing infrastructure development and domestic consumption.

It will not be easy to shift gears rapidly, and the Chinese growth rate may fall temporarily below the 7.5 percent that Chinese experts have always defined as the line that challenges political stability. America needs Chinese cooperation to address its current account imbalance and to prevent its exploding deficits from sparking a devastating inflation.

What kind of global economic order arises will depend importantly on how China and America deal with each other over the next few years. A frustrated China may take another look at an exclusive regional Asian structure, for which the nucleus already exists in the Asean-plus-three concept.

At the same time, if protectionism grows in America or if China comes to be seen as a long-term adversary, a self-fulfilling prophecy may blight the prospects of global order.

Such a return to mercantilism and 19th-century diplomacy would divide the world into competing regional units with dangerous long-term consequences.

The Sino-American relationship needs to be taken to a new level. The current crisis can be overcome only by developing a sense of common purpose. Such issues as proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, energy and the environment demand strengthened political ties between China and the United States.

This generation of leaders has the opportunity to shape trans-Pacific relations into a design for a common destiny, much as was done with trans-Atlantic relations in the immediate postwar period - except that the challenges now are more political and economic than military.

Such a vision must embrace as well such countries as Japan, Korea, India, Indonesia, Australia and New Zealand, whether as part of trans-Pacific structures or, in regional arrangements, dealing with special subjects as energy, proliferation and the environment.

The complexity of the emerging world requires from America a more historical approach than the insistence that every problem has a final solution expressible in programs with specific time limits not infrequently geared to our political process.

We must learn to operate within the attainable and be prepared to pursue ultimate ends by the accumulation of nuance.

An international order can be permanent only if its participants have a share not only in building but also in securing it. In this manner, America and its potential partners have a unique opportunity to transform a moment of crisis into a vision of hope.

Source: http://www.iht.com/articles/2009/01/12/opinion/edkissinger.php

Infowars.com states in relation to this, Kissinger is a Rockefeller functionary and Trilateral Commission member. He is also a prominent Bilderberg member and long time member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He worked for the Rockefeller Brothers Fund as director of its Special Studies Project.

The CFR, Trilateral Commission, and the Bilderbergers have one objective — to create world government under the guise of a New World Order.

Source: http://www.infowars.com/kissinger-sent-to-russia-to-cut-new-world-order-deal/

Obama, come 6 months test like JFK and Obama Promising an End to War and Weapons, watch the video for more about this...







Colin Powell quote on 19/10/2008 on Meet The Press show,
quote: there's gonna be a crisis come along around the 21st or 22nd of Janurary that we don't even know about right now
Heres the video below, watch about 2:35 onwards for this quote.



Full Story with similar coverage here:
http://www.infowars.net/articles/october2008/211008Powell.htm

Hamas has expressed its political stances and explained its views in a series of documents published since its founding.

According to one translation^[specify], the 1988 Hamas Covenant (or Charter) states that the organization's goal is to "raise the banner of Allah over every inch of Palestine, for under the wing of Islam followers of all religions can coexist in security and safety where their lives, possessions and rights are concerned." It further asserts that "The Islamic Resistance Movement is a humanistic movement. It takes care of human rights and is guided by Islamic tolerance when dealing with the followers of other religions. It does not antagonize anyone of them except if it is antagonized by it or stands in its way to hamper its moves and waste its efforts. Under the wing of Islam, it is possible for the followers of the three religions - Islam, Christianity and Judaism - to coexist in peace and quiet with each other. Peace and quiet would not be possible except under the wing of Islam. Past and present history are the best witness to that."

The thirty-six articles of the Covenant detail the movement's Islamist beliefs regarding the primacy of Islam in all aspects of life. The Covenant identifies Hamas as the Muslim Brotherhood in Palestine and considers its members to be Muslims who "fear God and raise the banner of Jihad in the face of the oppressors." Hamas describes resisting and quelling the enemy as the individual duty of every Muslim and prescribes vigilant roles for all members of society; including men and women, professionals, scientists and students. The enemy is defined primarily in terms of antisemitic conspiracy theories of world Jewish domination.^[66]

In several places, the Charter compares Israeli treatment of Palestinians to the actions of the Nazis. For example Israel is described as "a vicious enemy which acts in a way similar to Nazism, making no differentiation between man and woman, between children and old people" and predicts that the "Zionist Nazi activities against our people will not last for long."

The Charter outlines the organization's position on various issues, including social and economic development and ideological influences, education, as well as its position regarding Israel. Amongst many other things, it reiterates the group's rejection of the principle of coexistence with Zionism, which it defines as a danger not just to Palestinians, but to all Arab states. While primarily focusing on what it calls the "Zionist invasion" of Palestine as the cause of conflict, in places the Charter asserts that Zionism was able to achieve its ends due to the activities of secret organizations such as Freemasons and cites as an example the ability of Zionists to obtain the Balfour Declaration of 1917 (or see the end of this post). The Charter asserts that through shrewd manipulation of imperial countries and secret societies, Zionists were behind a wide range of events and disasters going as far back in history as the French Revolution and that "There is no war going on anywhere, without having their finger in it." The Charter also selectively quotes Islamic religious texts to provide justification for fighting against and killing Jews.

A memorandum prepared by the group's political bureau in the 1990s at the request of western diplomats and published in a book by Azzam Tamimi stated that Hamas is "a Palestinian national liberation movement that struggles for the liberation of the Palestinian occupied territories and for the recognition of Palestinian legitimate rights." Hamas, the document stated, "regards itself as an extension of an old tradition that goes back to the early 20th century struggle against British and Zionist colonialism in Palestine." The memorandum notes that in principle Hamas does not endorse targeting civilians, but argues that attacks which did so represented "an exception necessitated by Israel's insistence on targeting Palestinian civilians and by Israel's refusal to agree to an understanding prohibiting the killing of civilians on both sides comparable to the one reached between Israel and Hezbollah in Southern Lebanon."^[67] Even in the 1990s, according to this memorandum, the organization foresaw the day when "dialogue" between itself and Israel would be possible, but warned that "The prospect of the movement initiating, or accepting dialogue with Israel is nonexistent at present because of the skewed balance of power between the Palestinians and the Israelis. In Sheikh Yassin's words: 'There can be no dialogue between a party that is strong and oppressive and another that is weak and oppressed. There can be no dialogue except after the end of oppression.'"

Meanwhile here's the link for the other Palestinian opposition party against HAMAS, which is the FATAH party, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatah

Foreign Office,
November 2nd, 1917.

Dear Lord Rothschild,
I have much pleasure in conveying to you, on behalf of His Majesty's Government, the following declaration of sympathy with Jewish Zionist aspirations which has been submitted to, and approved by, the Cabinet:
"His Majesty's Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country".
I should be grateful if you would bring this declaration to the knowledge of the Zionist Federation.

Yours sincerely
Arthur James Balfour

The credit crisis has been given many excuses, ranging from too many people spending beyond there means, to investments gone wrong and even failed trade agreements.

Put simply, it's the banks who loaned the credit (not money) and allowed it to that which could be given the exmaple of a drug addict to credit, to tick-up credit with the dodgy dealing bank, to get there next fix so someone could get a plasma, mortgage and car etc which the bank knows most of there applicants could not afford to pay back.

I mean an example is that most university students who make about $150 a week in N.Z from student allowance living costs, getting the bank saying here's a credit card for $5000, then another bank doing the same, then a finance company allowing around $2000 loaned, possibly more, so a total of $12,000 debt from one student. Did the bank assess this thinking the student would become a doctor or lawyer who could repay this? No, because most would take a part time job afterwards in some dodgy fast food place or call centre close to minimum wage in order to survive, and in turn these places hire and fire quicker than they over sales most of the time. They may end up at a WINZ office, and WINZ will push them onto anything other than unemployment to keep the unemployment benefit numbers down, so someone could then be falsifying a mental illness and be drugged up on med's to get by on direction from the government. I have interviewed many people like this or they pass uni and go oversea's only to come back not long after in a worse case and paying back IRD so much money and still the banks on the amount of thin air credit loaned and then interest to kill there wages.

This is the banks faults, its the big companies making a killing literally in some cases like weapons manufacturers, fast food outlets, oil companies and so on who market more and more there products and services which are made by P.R to look essential and con people into debt by credit.

Banks work from other deposits normal people make in good faith thinking 'we trust our bank', banks should be an optional service, not compulsory for your wages to be done as a commercial transaction, they (the banks) gain interest on the money in balance in there banks and loan out credit which is not based of there own books, but these deposits as some do know this harsh truth.

It's much the same with the reserve bank it has no real money but now will based on bonds, credit issued in the form of paper bills printed to the crown then passed to us. The national debt as its called.

To make the elite crash happen quicker everyone could withdraw all there money, buy a safe and store there own money and invest in gold, but remember last time people did this, the U.S government issued prohibition on gold, they did much the same on alcohol and tobacco. The N.Z government would likely follow, hence the guaranteed deposit scheme hoo-haa that most banker controlled states and nations of the western world are doing and have done.

Kiwibank currently is running somewhat anti-aussie-bank ad's, well Kiwibank is in debt if you look at logically, its government owned, which i would support nationalization as opposed to privatization of capitialist foreign powers,but anyway the crown owes the national debt, the citizens and persons who are registered with stock certificates as a security interest (birth certificates) vest debt based on liability to pay such things like compulsory taxes and fee's, foreign examples include insurances.

This in turn gives people less wealth and more wealth in the hands of the banks and governments as these are processed in N.Z prior to clearance, i mean tax is deducted before you can withdraw your pay, as is the case via PAYE, student loans, kiwisaver, ACC levies, other taxes, child support, court fines and possibly more examples. So the individual has alot less than what starts off, it puts wealth again to clarify out of the hands of the worker. Then to note this worker pays his or her bills and is expected to live, at this point they could be able to afford other things but if not a life on credit is led by a large flock of sheep in example. No one ever believed someone cried wolf, oops i mean banks.

The Times of India, India's leading online news website, reports at least seven westerners are among 15 hostages being held captive at Mumbai's top luxury hotel the Taj Hotel.

Details of the hostage situation came from a hostage who managed top escape.

Kiwi David Clemmett and his wife Vinka are trapped in their hotel room in the hotel, but are not thought to be hostages.

The news website says at least 80 people are dead after a series of co-ordinated attacks by terrorist gunmen at seven sites in Mumbai, including two luxury hotels and other popular tourist locations.

At least 250 are reported injured.

A British witness has told Indian TV the attackers wanted anyone with a British or American passport.

Mr Clemmett says they heard pistols, rifles, shot guns and grenades.

He says they have locked themselves in the room, barricaded the TV unit against the doors and pulled the blind down to protect themselves from broken glass.

He says smoke filled their room from fires within the hotel and they had to rip the smoke detector off the wall.

Indian police said gunmen attacked two luxury hotels, the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus station in southern Mumbai and Leopold's restaurant, a Mumbai landmark.

Another luxury hotel, Oberoi Hotel, is on fire following the attacks.

The gunmen, some also armed with grenades, attacked targets including the hotels, a cafe, and a train station, police say.

The Times of India reports the head of India's anti-terrorism unit has been killed.

The news website says the terrorists hijacked a white police jeep near Metro cinema in South Mumbai.

Firing was also reported near Maharashtra state assembly building in South Mumbai.

A.N. Roy, a senior police officer, said police were battling the gunmen.

The targets include businesses frequented by international visitors.

"The terrorists have used automatic weapons and in some places grenades have been lobbed. The encounters are still going on and we are trying to overpower them," Roy said.

"It seems to be a terrorist attack, many places under siege by gunmen," A.K. Sharma, a Mumbai government railway police commissioner, told local television.

The Associated Press reported that police said gunmen had attacked the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus station in southern Mumbai and Leopold's restaurant, a Mumbai landmark. A reporter at the restaurant says it is pitted with bullet holes and blood stains on the floor.

New Zealand's Ministry of Foreign Affairs has not yet issued updated travel advice for India.

- AP, NEWSTALK ZB, NZ HERALD STAFF

Bob Chapman

The International Forecaster
July 27, 2008

Vast unexploited oil reserves? An economic threat from too much oil? Dark pools of liquidity, threats of hyperinflation from unsound economy and Fed practices, remembering the lessons from The Great Depression, reactionary measures to protect the dollar, An examination of a crisis scenario.

Lindsey Williams, who has been an ordained Baptist minister for 28 years, went to Alaska in 1971 as a missionary. The Transalaska oil pipeline began its construction phase in 1974, and because of his concern for the spiritual welfare of the “pipeliners,” Mr. Williams volunteered to serve as Chaplain on the pipeline, with the subsequent full support of the Alyeska Pipeline Company. Because of the executive status accorded to him as Chaplain, he was given access to the information that is documented in his book, “The Energy Non-Crisis,” which shows that peak oil is a scam because our domestic reserves in the North Slope of Alaska alone are at least as large as those in Saudi Arabia and are potentially large enough to power the US with domestic oil for two centuries. Recently this year, due to the sensitive nature of his book, Mr. Willians’ life was threatened and he was forced to shut down his web-site and stop selling his books and CDs. At the urging of Dr. Stanley Monteith of Radio Liberty, he called back the same oil executive who had warned him about the danger he would be in if he continued to disseminate certain information to ask if in fact there was any information that he could in fact convey to the public without upsetting the powers that be. The oil executive, who Mr. Williams had known for years, gave Mr. Williams some startling revelations which he could safely reveal to the general public. As you know, the Illuminati are arrogant enough to reveal some of their plans because they believe there is nothing we can do about it.

Basically, Mr. Williams was told that over the next twelve months, from mid-2008 to mid-2009, (1) news of super giant oil fields, ready to produce, would be announced for two locations, in the Northern Slopes of Russia and in Indonesia, which oil fields would together contain more oil reserves than the entire Middle East; (2) that this news would drive oil prices down to $50/barrel; (3) that OPEC countries, especially in the Middle East, would be bankrupted by this price decrease; (4) that this would cause the financing of our foreign trade and current account deficits through purchases of treasury paper by foreign nations with their surplus oil profits to collapse, leading to the collapse of the dollar; (5) that the collapse of the dollar would cause unprecedented financial strife and turmoil in the US, and that it would take many years for the US to recover from this financial debacle; (6) that they (big oil) support John McCain for President; and (7) that US domestic oil reserves would never be tapped, and that any legislation which might allow domestic reserves to be tapped would not be allowed to pass, leaving the US dependent on foreign oil forever.

News of the Russian oil field has been announced just as predicted, but whether the rest happens as stated above remains to be seen. Nevertheless, many of these revelations seem quite feasible, so we thought we would comment on how these revelations might play out under the current financial scenario.

Certainly, if the world’s oil reserves, ready to produce, are increased by an amount equal to the total oil reserves of the Middle East, oil could easily be brought down to $50 per barrel. It would almost be like starting all over again from an oil reserve perspective. This would destroy the economies of countries that are currently giving us trouble, such as Iran and Venezuela, allowing us to defeat them without ever firing another shot. Russia would get less per barrel, but would be selling an awful lot of oil out of their vastly increased reserves, so they would be weakened, but not bankrupted. Nations in the Middle East, whose reserves are rapidly dwindling, would all be destroyed from an economic perspective at first, but the ensuing civil unrest would also eventually topple all Middle East OPEC regimes, allowing the US to move in and take over control of their governments and their remaining oil reserves. Countries such as China, Japan and India, who import large portions of their oil, would get a huge shot in the arm from reduced oil prices, and this would also be a great help to the free trade-globalization agenda, which is being strained by high oil prices because transportation costs are offsetting the advantages of cheap labor.

What we envision happening under the scenario revealed to Mr. Williams would certainly start with the stated reduction in oil prices well ahead of elections. This would produce great joy and relief for the sheople and ignite a huge, worldwide stock market rally just prior to elections, making George Bush and congressional incumbents look a lot better and lending support to John McCain, the stated preferred presidential candidate of big oil. Much lower oil prices would support the dollar and suppress precious metals by reducing inflation by the amount attributable to recent oil price increases, but only at first. The huge rally would give the elitists the chance they were looking for to bail out of paper assets such as stocks, bonds (which would include treasuries) and derivatives at the top of the markets using the dark pools of liquidity known as Project Turquoise and Baikal. The proceeds from the sale of paper assets would then be plowed into real, tangible assets such as commodities, precious metals, real estate, infrastructure, machines and equipment and corporations whose values are heavily weighted in tangible assets, such as resource stocks. The prices of such real, tangible assets would be bought on the cheap due to their ongoing suppression, or at least that would be the Illuminati’s hope, but we see most of these items skyrocketing long before the elitists get their fill of these goodies. Many nations with large forex reserves, like China, Japan and Germany, and especially nations “friendly” to the US, such as Saudi Arabia, who would be hurt by lower oil prices, would be given free reign to invest in tangible, real assets of the US, and this ties in with the cessation of the FTC’s publication of statistics regarding foreign investment in the US as a cover-up for this huge flood of foreign money. These foreign investment reports allegedly were discontinued because such reports cost too much to produce, but essentially this is the same bologna we got from the Fed when they discontinued the publication of M3 to cover up their profligate issuance of money and credit.

All this money pouring into tangible, real assets from the sale of paper assets through dark pools of liquidity outside the view of the public and outside the view of non-insider institutional investors would then ignite a fresh round of wildly spiraling inflation. Such hyperinflation, compounded by direct monetization of treasuries by the Fed to bail out big commercial banks and other financial institutions, including Fannie and Freddie, and to finance burgeoning foreign trade and current account deficits caused by the cessation of foreign investment in treasury paper, would take us to a historical reenactment of Germany’s former Weimar Republic and today’s Zimbabwe. The dollar would collapse, along with our economy, and stock, bond and derivative markets would be devastated. The public, as usual, would be left holding the bag, precisely as happened in the days leading up to the Stock Market Crash of 1929 and the ensuing Great Depression.

As an aside, all insiders were warned early in 1929 when to get out (i.e. when the Fed was going to turn off the money and credit spigot) while all non-insiders were left like lambs for the ensuing slaughter. Rest assured that the elitists are planning a repeat of that rip-off, but on a much grander scale. During the Great Depression, FDR outlawed ownership of gold in the US, but elitist insiders were warned of this in advance and moved their gold holdings overseas. FDR then raised the redemption rate for an ounce of gold from $20 to $35, giving the elitist insiders an instant 75% profit, showing that crime does pay, and pay well, when you are a part of the group of reprobates and sociopaths who comprise or support the Illuminati. This type of treatment of public gold holdings will most likely not happen under the current scenario, because US citizens hold very little gold, the gold standard has been eliminated, and most of elitist gold holdings are now held overseas in any case, especially in Switzerland. Also, gold bullion holdings of the US treasury have all been stolen, leased, swapped out or otherwise compromised. That is why our so-called gold “reserves” have not been properly audited since 1954, and why they are referred to as “deep storage gold” in the US Mint’s and Treasury Department’s statements of account. Elitists may use their thousands of tons of failsafe gold, which, incidentally, they have acquired over the ensuing decades either by stealing them from national treasuries or by buying them at fire-sale prices such as the bargains made available through Gordon Brown’s sale of the UK’s national gold at the bottom of the market, to back a new regional currency for North America such as the proposed Amero once the dollar has been destroyed.

Getting back once again to Mr. Williams’ scenario, in order to protect scum-bag incumbents who always do whatever the Illuminati tell them to do because they are bought-and-paid-for or compromised, the elitists would attempt to support the dollar and prevent it from collapsing prior to elections. They would do this by temporarily stemming the flood of foreign investment in tangible, real assets located within the US and by getting certain nations like China and Japan to keep buying up treasuries by giving them sweetheart deals on such future investments in tangible, real assets located in the US, especially on real estate, infrastructure and investment in surviving elitist financial institutions and transnational conglomerates. Many Arab nations would break their dollar pegs, but would delay doing so until after elections based on promises of security for what will be their outgoing regimes once their economies collapse from cheap oil prices. This could be why Paulson and Bernanke are flying around the globe meeting with various heads of state, namely, to arrange all of the above.

Once the new round of hyperinflation got started, the dollar would be destroyed and replaced with a new currency such as the Amero which would be the de facto start up of the North American Union which the elitists continue to vehemently deny is a work-in-progress for the US, Canadian and Mexican governments.

During the ensuing financial conflagration, the elitists would attempt to nationalize many industries, and take control over the regulation of the entire financial sector through the Fed or its super-nasty successor which may well be planned by the Illuminati. Civil unrest may ensue in the US, and this would be used to increase police state powers, perhaps through the implementation of martial law, which has all been set up in the Patriot Acts and the Military Commissions Act. Off to the concentration camps will go all the truth-seeking and truth-disseminating troublemakers while the rest of the sheople are led blindly around with a ring in their nose to wherever the elitists decide to take them. The troublemakers have already been identified by the CIA, NSA, Pentagon and FBI using Project Echelon and scads of illegal wire-taps and other nefarious spying techniques which the Bush Administration has rampantly implemented in pursuance of a surveillance society and Nazi-like police state. The end result that is planned is a corporatist, fascist state that would make Mussolini and Hitler green with envy. Next comes the elimination of the “useless eaters” and the creation of Plato’s vision, which is George Orwell’s “1984″ on steroids, the ultimate worldwide feudal system.

The above scenario is not without its problems, however. Lower oil prices reduce elitist profits, and could put a big hit on struggling elitist financial institutions that are exploiting the Enron loophole and cheap credit from the Fed to save their balance sheets. However, once the Illuminati control the world’s oil, they can price oil as high as they like using whatever excuse suits them at the time, just as they have done for decades. But control over oil in Russia and Indonesia may be problematic, since these regimes are not typically friendly to US interests. Further, confrontations may occur with China, India and other big oil importers who may feel that their continuous supply of oil would be under constant threat if the Illuminists controlled most of the world’s reserves, and some of those big oil consumers may try to cut deals with the bankrupted nations in OPEC as a failsafe against Illuminist control assuming that such bankrupted nations are able to shirk off Illuminist attempts to take them over. This may entail much war and conflict, which the financially strapped US is unable to handle with its stretched-to-the-limit military. Also, civil unrest and protests may get out of control in the US and abroad and the Illuminati may get a much bigger backlash than they are planning. People are going to get wise to what has been done to them, and a good number of them are going to do something about it. Many Illuminists may start to disappear without a trace if people start to get their dander up, and the civil unrest may spiral beyond elitist control. Further, the Illuminati are very vulnerable due to the credit-crunch, asset-backed derivative and real estate debacles plus the inevitable addition of a quadrillion dollar, smoldering caldera of interest rate and credit default swaps. Also, what would happen if certain nations did not cooperate, and started to by precious metals and commodities with their sovereign wealth funds or broke their dollar pegs too soon. It’s not as easy as it might first appear, and we can always count on the forces of “Chaos” to show the same acumen as those in the old “Get Smart” series, so the Illuminati really have their work cut out for them. We believe they will ultimately fail, and that world government will once again become a far-in-the-future objective for the would-be lords of the universe.

If you don’t own gold, silver and their related shares under the Williams scenario, you will quite simply be vaporized.

The rollover process for COMEX gold futures got underway this week, which is why gold is showing some weakness, in addition to lower manipulated oil prices and dead-cat PPT dollar rallies that will soon peter out. This process will be complete by the end of July, and then its Katie-bar-the-door against the explosion in precious metals prices. Earnings will continue to disappoint, the credit-crunch will worsen, bank failures will continue to occur, the dollar and assets denominated in dollars will continue to be shunned, ardent de-leveraging will continue unabated keeping pressure on the stock markets, the real estate market will continue to worsen and derivatives will soon implode as inflation spirals out of control, consumer spending drops into nothingness and real interest rates continue to rise, giving rise to a potential bear market in bonds that could bring the whole Illuminist financial house of cards tumbling down as their main source of power explodes and goes down in flames like the Hindenberg. The Fed continues to be irrelevant because their power over real interest rates is greatly diminished. The Fed’s governors are boxed in and cannot get out, as their European counterparts take rates in the opposite direction the Fed governors would really like to go if it would not stoke inflation in the process. The fraudsters will continue to fail, and the sheople will continue to bail, unless we rise up and do something about it. Throwing out all incumbents would be a good start.

TOKYO - She is big-busted, petite, very friendly, and she runs on batteries.

A Japanese firm has produced a 38 cm (15 inch) tall robotic girlfriend that kisses on command, to go on sale in September for around US$175, with a target market of lonely adult men.

Using her infrared sensors and battery power, the diminutive damsel named "EMA" puckers up for nearby human heads, entering what designers call its "love mode".

"Strong, tough and battle-ready are some of the words often associated with robots, but we wanted to break that stereotype and provide a robot that's sweet and interactive," said Minako Sakanoue, a spokeswoman for the maker, Sega Toys.

"She's very lovable and though she's not a human, she can act like a real girlfriend."

EMA, which stands for Eternal Maiden Actualisation, can also hand out business cards, sing and dance, with Sega hoping to sell 10,000 in the first year.

Japan, home to almost half the world's 800,000 industrial robots, envisions a $10-billion market for artificial intelligence in a decade.

- REUTERS