<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7761825</id><updated>2012-01-30T08:16:26.280-07:00</updated><category term='Banking and Economics'/><category term='Environment'/><category term='Traditional Family Values'/><category term='Health and Medicine'/><category term='New World Order'/><category term='Constitutional Government'/><category term='History and Culture'/><category term='Miscellaneous'/><category term='Amateur Radio'/><category term='Conservative Politics'/><category term='Science and Technology'/><category term='Liberal Politics'/><category term='Home and Family'/><category term='Education'/><category term='Nuclear Energy'/><category term='Science and Religion'/><category term='nstitutional Government'/><title type='text'>Brain Bender</title><subtitle type='html'>Random topics related to medicine, nutrition, biochemistry, nanotechnology, fuel cell technology, physics, astronomy, family life, sports, genealogy, mormonism, religion, music, art, and pretty much anything else that may come to mind.</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brainbender.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7761825/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brainbender.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7761825/posts/default?start-index=101&amp;max-results=100'/><author><name>David B</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11266046963020498076</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d102/everyday_something/d1.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>286</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7761825.post-2183688350158594952</id><published>2012-01-28T18:46:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2012-01-30T08:16:26.288-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Safety Society System Banking and Loan</title><content type='html'>With the bursting of the housing bubble in 2007-8, and the continuing economic downturn, the economy has been a popular topic of discussion.  A vocal minority blame the Federal Reserve for our current economic woes.  Many of them would like to "End the FED" and return to a gold-redeemable currency that we had prior to 1913.  However, the US suffered with the business cycle, and numerous market crashes, panics and depressions prior to the FED.  Unfortunately, just ending the FED won't change much.  Gold vs. the FED is a false dichotomy.  There are other much better banking and monetary alternatives.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Understanding how an equitable monetary and banking system would work requires understanding exactly what is right and wrong with our current system. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Problems:&lt;br /&gt;1. Central Banking.  Our current system consolidates economic power into the hands of just a few individuals.  Such absolute power is inherently corrupting.  While we don't want government to exercise absolute economic power either, the challenge is to design a Constitutional system that allows the Federal Government to coin/create the currency and regulate its value, while allowing economic decisions to be made on a local level (Article 1. Section 8 US Constitution).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. Contagion. The rich should be free to invest in and do whatever they want with their money and take all the risks they want.  However, the risk taking of the rich should not adversely affect the poor. Our banks should be immune and insulated from the speculation and risk-taking of a few.  Neither should our banks be "too-big-to-fail" requiring public bailouts.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. Inflation. The continual inflation of prices, and the weakening of our currency is a hidden tax on the people. A gold-redeemable currency served to control prices.  However, since the FED created our current debt-based, fiat currency, the US Dollar has lost over 95% of its purchasing power.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4. Fractional Reserve Banking. The FED creates money by selling bonds.  But bond sales only accounts for a small fraction of all the money supply. After the FED creates money, it lends that money to the mega-banks at a low interest rate.  For every $1 the mega-bank borrows, the mega-bank can lend $10.  Through derivatives trading, and investing "on margin", banks can leverage their reserves up to 50:1 or even 100:1.  This lending ratio is called the "money multiplier".  In reality, the mega-banks "coin" most of the money in our current system at the time they issue a loan. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Even though the mega-bank creates most of the money out of thin air.  The mega-bank must hold onto its small reserves. The bank can't just hold its reserves in cash because of inflation, so bankers invest those reserves in bonds or stocks or risky derivatives.  However, if there is a stock market crash, bank reserves can disappear overnight and the bank is left insolvent and bankrupt.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5. Amortized Loans.  These loans collect all interest up front.  Consequently, the borrower builds almost no equity for the first 20 years on a 30-year loan.  The problem of equity encourages the borrower to charge the next guy a higher price for the same asset.  According to monetarist theory, dM/dt (money supply) + dV/dt (velocity) = inflation + dR/dt (real output).  Therefore, because loans are the point of money creation, by charging the next guy an inflated price for the same asset, the Amortized Loan is a prime generator of inflation.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;6. Unequal Access to Credit:  in our current system certain individuals and groups have a greater access to credit than others.  Using this advantage, they can borrow and buy out other publicly-traded companies in a hostile takeover.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;7. Borrowing to Invest: in both cases of the the Great Depression and the current housing depression, investors including banks were borrowing "on margin".  That means they could by 100 shares of stock for the price of 10. This wild speculation created money that was not backed by anything.  When the FED increased banking reserve requirements (Basil 2 Accords) margin calls went out to individual investors and the markets crashed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;8. Capitalism. Capitalism is justified because we are told we should trust unelected private elite over the elected federal government.  This is a false dichotomy. Capitalism is not free market.  In capitalism, money creates money.  Therefore, those that have money have unelected Machiavellian power to make investment decisions and make the rest of us their debt slaves and economic sharecroppers. Consequently,  a capitalist will rarely support an idea or business that threatens his power and control or which he cannot exploit.  Thus we see a long history of technology suppression in America.  A correct economic system can be free market, equitably regulated, locally administered, without the capitalist. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;9. Gold-Redeemable Currency.  Money is the oil that lubricates the moving parts of any economic engine.  The problem with gold is there is never enough.  And like deBeers and diamonds, gold production and price can be manipulated.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;10. COMPOUND INTEREST: Not all interest is bad. The Catholic Church's miss-interpretation of interest = usury and its prohibition of all interest made it so that banking and money lending was not a sustainable profession. However, in economy where inflation is controlled, compound interest is totally corrupt. Compound interest adds the interest accrued to the initial principal. This results in a hyperbolic curve where initial investments continue to compound at an exponential rate. This means, that initial investments years later can be worth many times their initial value. The problem with this is that it treats money as having intrinsic value which it does not. Additionally, compound interest can result in debt that never can be repaid. Furthermore, elite families have established Joint Stock Trusts which are owned by the family and no one individual. These Joint Stock Trusts (still legal in the City of London), are highly invested in US and other Government Bonds, and have passed down these investments from generation to generation resulting in unimaginable wealth for these elite families and totally unsustainable debt for the G20 nations. We are fooled into thinking in terms of how much our personal investments could make over 1 lifetime, in comparison to the elite who are using their family Joint Stock Trusts to generate incredible wealth from Bonds purchased a hundred or more years ago.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Solutions:&lt;br /&gt;1. SAFETY SOCIETY SYSTEM: Instead of protecting the currency itself by making it redeemable for gold or a warehoused item, the Safety Society System is focused on creating a locally administered banking institution that is immune from the expected economic shocks that historically topple other banks. Full Reserve Banking, makes a bank resistant to banking runs, stock market crashes, and contractions of the money supply. I believe that if a system protects the banking institution, that system will protect the people and the value of their money.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. Scientific/Principle Basis.  When it comes to monetary theory, the Milton Freidman equation is the law:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;dM/dt (money supply) + dV/dt (velocity) = inflation + dR/dt (real output)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This equation explains everything about the operation of money in an economy. Thanks to this equation, Japan was transformed from a feudal society during WW2 to a First World Economy in just 30 years. Think of that miracle. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;During the few years following an evonomic collapse, bartering and Mercantile-money system (take commodity to bank that creates and issues money sufficient to purchase commodity) will be useful. However, when it comes to restoring America, we are going to need a efficient and equitable modern monetary system.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In talking about economic alternatives to the FED, it seems many have become neo-feudalist and seek to self-impose their own austerity measures.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The 30-year Japanese Miracle depended on several factors. What we are talking about is a phenomenal growth in Real Output while controlling inflation. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. Money Supply. The key here is making loans and determining credit worthiness. If an individual or group has an idea, and they can prove feasibility, then money should be created to make it happen. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What I have been saying with my Safety Society System is the patented idea, the land, machinery, proven oil reserves in the ground can serve as the redeemable backing and collateral for the loan and money creation. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Infinite money can be created and infinite loans can be issued which will never cause inflation because money creation will always be perfectly in-line with real output. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4. Velocity. This has to do with how technology can increase the rate of transactions. The more transactions per unit time = more real output.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A. Identity. Need to establish who is who &lt;br /&gt;B. Property Rights. Need to know who owns what.&lt;br /&gt;C. Rule of Law. Need established rules to transfer property from one person to another.&lt;br /&gt;D. Represent real assets by paper, or electronically (increases velocity because if you had to transport asset to sell it, transport costs and time are a drag. Problems arise when paper and electronic entries are not tied to anything of value. This undermines faith and social capital)&lt;br /&gt;E. World-wide electronic markets [EBay]. Helps sellers find buyers. However, this is bad for commodities. If there was a drought in the Midwest. Brazilian corn could outcompete domestic corn. Therefore, domestic prices should reflect the actual cost to produce corn and tarrifs should protect domestic producers in a difficult year.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5. Encourage Saving over Borrowing.  &lt;br /&gt;A. SSS wouldn't lend for everything. Maybe only homes&lt;br /&gt;B. SSS wouldnt necessarily for venture capital, only redeemable relative-non depreciating assets. (money is asset-redeemable and not debt-based)&lt;br /&gt;C. SSS would not approve a loan above its appraised value. The focus would be on retaining value in an inflation-less system (Federal Government regulates value of current coin). However, the saver could pay as much as they wanted and out-bid the borrower.&lt;br /&gt;D. As people save, they won't need to borrow. Thus new money is not created.&lt;br /&gt;E. Simple Interest rates and fees would be high enough to favor saving over borrowing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;6. US Treasury via the Congress Creates all Money in the Money Supply and regulates its value. Sufficient money is created, upon demand, at the time of loan approval.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;7. US Treasury loans money to Local Banks called a Safety Society at a variable prime simple interest rate which gets passed on to the individual borrower.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;8. Local Safety Society determines loan eligibility and credit-worthiness based on previous and projected employment history, income, etc. Loan eligibility criteria would be nationally standardized but locally applied.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;9. Local Safety Society makes loans only on "real" assets or on the projected building of or production of a "real" asset or the mining, farming or production of a "real" commodity.&lt;br /&gt;a. Credit-worthy Individuals could take out a loan on an existing home or new home construction.&lt;br /&gt;b. A community could take out a loan for a museum or community aquatics center based on the projected revenue on an approved ballot initiative for a 1% sales tax.&lt;br /&gt;c. A corporation could take out a loan to purchase land and drill for oil based on the scientifically verifiable oil deposits.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;10. The money created for these Safety Society loans is backed by the "real" assets, real estate and "real" commodities that the loan is being issued to purchase, produce, or mine.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;11. SSS loans are fee-based. Local Banks make their money to cover overhead exactly the same way they do now by charging loan origination fees and monthly service charges.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;12. The borrower builds equity from day 1. If the borrower comes on hard times and misses several payments. These payments are deducted from the borrowers equity.  Thus the Loan becomes an instant reverse-mortgage. Repossession occurs when the borrower has lost all equity in the home, building, farm, mine.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;13. Other credit and banking institutions would handle other speculative "venture-capital" banking ventures. SSS would only issue loans for non-speculate real assets that could be repossessed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;14. SSS Bank deposits are not used to issue loans. SSS operates on Full Reserves, and all deposits are kept at the bank for immediate withdrawal at any time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;15. The Federal Government generates revenue based on the prime simple interest rate. This tax/free constitutes a Constitutional uniform and voluntary tax on the use of money and extension of credit. This prime interest rate would be used to regulate the value of the currency, and control inflation by removing excess liquidity from the economy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;SSS BENIFITS:&lt;br /&gt;1. People want a gold-redeemable, or commodity-redeemable currency so that when the bank goes bust, they don't lose their money. But, really. Why not set up a system that saves the bank? What good is gold when the entire economy just fell apart? You can't eat gold when society just collapsed. Better to prevent the collapse.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. SSS protects the bank from individual bankruptcy, by making sure each loan is backed by real assets and goods and commodities that can be repossessed so that the Bank can repay the US Treasury.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. Again, this is not money "created-out-of-nothing." SSS money is not "debt-based".  Loan approval is the point of money creation, and money is created by the SSS for real assets. The real assets back the money. The focus is on the banks being able to redeem their money in case the borrower defaults.  This is what insulates the bank and other borrowers and depositors from the failure or misfortune of a few individuals.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4. Because money creation is always backed by a real asset, according to the Milton Friedman equation, the Money Supply always keeps pace with Real Output.. Therefore, there would be no inflation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5. Because SSS banks wouldn't lend for Stocks, bonds, derivatives, the banks would never be left holding a bunch of worthless pieces of paper with nothing to repossess.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;6. Because inflation is controlled, the SSS Bank can hold deposits as cash, and never has to invest in paper (stocks, bonds, derivatives) that carries the risk of becoming worthless.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;7. Focus of the SSS bank is the preservation of value. The Laborer is not forced to subjugate themselves and enslaved themselves to the Wealthy to grant them credit. SSS is free market without the capitalist.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;8. Wealthy can still use their wealth in speculative ventures separate from the SSS system.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;9. Because of our inflationary economy instead of an economy focused on the preservation of value, companies must grow to keep up with inflation or die. This requires that companies ruthlessly compete against one another and after dominating the domestic market, are forced to expand overseas to keep pace.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;10. All countries would be economically free to develop their own resources without international exploitation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;11. Wealthy are sill free to speculate all they want. But with SSS, the regular laborer class is protected from the risk-taking. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;12. Both sides debate that neither government nor the unelected government should be controlling the economy and deciding where money goes. SSS is merit-based. That means if an individual, coorperation, or community is credit-worthy, they will have access to the money they need; created on demand.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;11.  Inflation is controlled by the Federal Government increasing interest rates on loans.  The increased interest rate pulls money out of the system.  If prices are falling, the Treasury can decrease interest rates.  This interest rate constitute a Constitutional voluntary fee and excise on the use of credit. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;12.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7761825-2183688350158594952?l=brainbender.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brainbender.blogspot.com/feeds/2183688350158594952/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7761825&amp;postID=2183688350158594952' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7761825/posts/default/2183688350158594952'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7761825/posts/default/2183688350158594952'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brainbender.blogspot.com/2012/01/safety-society-system-banking-and-loan.html' title='Safety Society System Banking and Loan'/><author><name>David B</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11266046963020498076</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d102/everyday_something/d1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7761825.post-1679063354083408938</id><published>2012-01-27T07:11:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2012-01-27T07:41:01.264-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Random Health Issues</title><content type='html'>High fructose corn syrup = 1/2 fructose 1/2 glucose&lt;br /&gt;Sucrose (cane or beet sugar) = 1/2 fructose 1/2 glucose&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you want natural sugar that every cell in your body uses as fuel and does not go to the liver to get detoxified and does not get converted to triglycerides and does not inhibit leptin, and does not contribute to insulin resistance, you should use 100% dextrose = 100% glucose.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Back Pain, Lumber Strain, and Sciatica&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. Acute Medical Management.   Muscle Relaxation, (Valium 5-10mg TID), Anti-inflammatory (Motrin 800mg TID),(Naproxen 500mg BID), (Diclofenac 75mg BID), Opioid (Hydrocodone 5/500mg q6hrs), +/- Steroid (Decadron 16mg x1)(Prednisone 60mg Daily x 5days).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[Avoid Flexeril, Robaxin because they generally don't work well, Valium is best]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. Physical Therapy.  Daily Gentle Stretching as tolerated (hold knee to chest while supine), (twist upper shoulder opposite knees while supine). Massage Therapy: deep massage.  Posture:  use lumber support or firm pillow in lumbar area while seated in the car, or on couch or recliner to maintain proper lumbar curvature and prevent slouching.  Restrict lifting.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[Avoid Chiropractors]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. Weight loss (Weight Watchers or free SparkPeople.com).  Exercise Program.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Concern Over Immunizations&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Immunizations are an excellent idea.  Generally serious side effects from immunizations are much less than documented rates of complications from illnesses such as Tetanus, Pertussis, Measles, Polio, and HFluB.  However, there are concerns about additives in certain vaccines.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. Thermiserol is a mercury-based preservative.  Having worked with organic mercury in the lab I will tell you that it tends to denature protein and coagulate in the bottom of a vial.  If there is a link with Autism, this may explain the 1/100 rate as 1/100 children would get the injection of the denatured mercury per bottle of 100 doses.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. Squalene Adjuvant is an additive to potentate the immune response.  Squalene is sometimes conjugated to a surfactant.  In reality, the surfactant is the adjuvant itself and Squalene is an important precursor for the production of Cholesterol, Vitamin D, Cortisol, and Sex hormones.  If a person were to develop autoimmunity to Squalene, it would leave them sterile, immunocompromised, and demented.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. SV40 is a monkey virus found in the older polio vaccine that was produced in cell cultures using monkey kidney cells.  SV40 is a proto-oncogenic virus that inserts cancer-causing genes into the human genome that manifest much later in life when a person becomes immunosuppressed. in this case the virus inhibited p53 tumor suppressor gene. SV40 can be vertically transmitted from infected parents to offspring.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4. B-HCG linked Tetanus Toxoid. Tetanus Toxoid vaccines were reported conjugated with human pregnancy hormone in Mexico and the Philippines.  This combination resulted in autoimmunity to the pregnancy  hormone and spontaneous miscarriages and sterility in women.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Clinical profile and Toxicology Studies on Four Women Immunized with Pr-B-hCG-TT," Contraception, February, 1976, pp. 253-268.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[the entire issue is dedicated to this http://contraceptionjournal.org/issues]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5. H-ras, bcr-abl, src, and C-myc proto-oncogenes (tumor causing) carried by DNA or RNA viruses or simply DNA plasmids that can contaminate vaccines.  Typically, vaccines use an Vitamin E analog as an additive to prevent immediate tumor formation at the injection site thus concealing the inoculation. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[http://www.soundchoice.org/Images/Biologicals_2008_FDA_demonstrates_the_dangers_of_using_human_cells_for_vaccine_manufacture.pdf]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Preventing Opioid Addiction&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Doctors can be partly to blame for the rise in opioid addiction.  Here is how to best educate patients in the responsible use of opioid analgesic to to prevent addiction.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. Prescribe the correct pain reliever for the specific kind of pain.  Use steroids and NSAID anti-inflammatories for inflammation.  Use muscle relaxers for muscle spasms (Valium is best, avoid Flexeril).  Use Lyrica or Elivil for neuropathic pain.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2.  After a combination of pain relievers are used, add opioids last for breakthrough pain.  Because opioids mask pain and do not work in the site of pain, the patient must rest.  Patients get in trouble when they mask pain, engage in routine activity and feel worse and are worse when the opioid wears off.  Plus, the opioid alone may not work well for different kinds of pain prompting higher and higher doses leading to problems with tolerance and withdrawal.  Then the patient can't tell what was the original pain and what is withdrawal pain.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. Remember exercise, weightless, deep massage, and physical therapy can all be very helpful for pain disorders.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Kidney Stones, Phosphate and Fluoride&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Most Kidney Stones are a combination of calcium and oxalate.  In addition to genetics, there are dietary factors tgat can lead to stone formation.  Calcium is everywhere.  You cannot and should not exclude it from your diet.  It will leach out of your bones if you don't get it in your diet. In reality dietary calcium is protective against stone formation as it binds oxalate in your stomach preventing absorption.  Thus oxalate from nuts and veggies forms a harmless precipitate in your stomach and is excreted in your stool (number 2).  If oxalate is not bound by calcium in the stomach then it will be absorbed and excreted by the kidneys (number 1) and available to meet up with calcium leading to stone formation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While I would never recommend excluding nuts and veggies.  The real dietary concern is eating too much phosphate and fluoride that binds up calcium.  If you take in too much fluoride and phosphate, that will bind up the calcium before the calcium can bind up the oxalate.  High phosphate and phosphoric acid is found in Dark Sodas like Coke.  Coke's phosphoric acid is commonly used to clean battery cables and unclog gastric tubes.  High Fluoride can be found in many instant sweat teas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fluoride and Atherosclerosis and Heart Attacks&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When you look at X-rays and CT scans of old people, everything is calcified.  Calcified plaques in coronary arteries can lead to clot rupture, Thrombosis and acute MI.  Also, calcifications of the arteries leads to high blood pressure.  Furthermore, calcifications in the brain and other organs leads to dysfunction like thyroid disease.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fluoride is one of the most reactive and toxic substances known. Taking Fluoride is not any smarter than ingesting Mercury and Arsenic as they did 1-200 years ago.  Sure, Fluoride might kill bacteria in your mouth, but the issue is what else does it do in your body over a lifetime.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fluoride in toothpaste is NaF or sodium fluoride.  NaF is not absorbed by the body.  However, some of the NaF is aways in equilibrium with water and forms a small amount of HF.  Hydroflouric acid easily absorbs through all tissues all the way to the bone.  HF is called a weak acid, but this is a bit of a misnomer.  The weak part refers to its dissociation constant. As HF is absorbs deep into the body tissues.  Then when the F- ion disassociates, it then is ready to react and do damage to whatever it sees first. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Since Calcium binds so well and so permanently with F- and is used as the antidote for HF exposure, calcifications  tend to show areas of increased fluoride damage in the body.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[http://www.happysmile.se/dokument/Association_of_vascular_fluoride_uptake_with.3.pdf]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7761825-1679063354083408938?l=brainbender.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brainbender.blogspot.com/feeds/1679063354083408938/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7761825&amp;postID=1679063354083408938' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7761825/posts/default/1679063354083408938'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7761825/posts/default/1679063354083408938'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brainbender.blogspot.com/2012/01/random-health-issues.html' title='Random Health Issues'/><author><name>David B</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11266046963020498076</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d102/everyday_something/d1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7761825.post-2755920669242767568</id><published>2012-01-24T23:44:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2012-01-28T07:38:09.604-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Weakening of the Petro-Dollar System, Asian Dollar Exclusion Zone,
Aircraft Carriers Obsolete</title><content type='html'>Most don't realize how our money system works in the world.  Money is no longer based on gold and silver as in the past but now based only on "demand".  So, how does the system create an artificial demand for a base-less fiat currency?  Well, turns out the G20 central banking system has designated the US Dollar as the world's reserve currency.  They have also set up a free-trade system where the US consumer has been encouraged to support large trade deficits.  Therefore, the other G20 economies have excess USD to burn.  And, since oil and all other commodities are priced in dollars, these net importers of raw materials are interested in maintaining a strong dollar so they can purchase more imports of commodities.  Therefore, countries like China and Japan and Germany continue to buy US government bonds and float our record $15 Trillion national debt and continual deficit spending.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However, this whole Petro-Dollar Ponzi scheme falls apart if major oil producing nations decide to sell oil in currencies other than USD.  Iraq began selling oil to Russia in Euros which is believed to be a significant economic motivation for Gulf War 2.  Libya was buying up gold getting ready to create its own African regional gold-backed currency.  This is believed to have been a major motivation for NATO involvement in Libya.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For some time now, Iran has been selling oil to to China in Yuan.  This has been believed to be a major motivator for western aggression against Iran and not just their nuclear program.  Only recently, the US has imposed strict sanctions on Iran freezing all it's western bank accounts and preventing oil from being sold to NATO countries in dollars. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In response to the sanctions, Iran is doing the only thing it possibly can do. Iran has just brokered deals with Russia to sell oil in Ruble, and just in the past few days, the media is reporting a new trading partnership with Russia, China, Japan, India, and Turkey.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Again, this is huge.  ZeroHedge.com is reporting that India (one of the strongest emerging markets) has joined with China, Russia, Japan and Turkey in what is being termed the "Asian Dollar Exclusion Zone".  What this means is that India will now be buying oil from Iran in its own currency (Rupees) and not in USD.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.zerohedge.com/news/india-joins-asian-dollar-exclusion-zone-will-transact-iran-rupees&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm not sure you may remember President Obama visiting India late last year along with a Aircraft Carrier attack group attempting to persuade India in staying with the West and continuing to support the USD.  You also should remember that during that visit China parked one of its stealth subs off the coast of Los Angeles and fired off a ballistic missile.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What points was China making to India with this stunt.  Aircraft Carriers and large surface naval vessels are obsolete.  The Navy has known since 1967, that any radar tracked surface ship is a sitting duck for anti-ship ballistic missiles.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In 1967, the Israeli Navy's destroyer Eilat was the first ship to be sunk by a ship-launched missile.  Following the 6-days war, the Israeli Eilat was easily sunk by a number of Styx missiles launched by Egyptian missile boats off the Sinai Peninsula.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The US has several anti-ship short range ballistic and cruise missiles.  The Harpoon, flies just over the water until it comes into range of its target.  It then performs a "pop up" maneuver where it suddenly gains altitude and then strikes it's target from above where ship defense is weakest.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;China military power has been overlooked because some falsely claim they have no Navy.  In reality, nothing could be further from the truth.  What they lack is a fleet of slow, obsolete aircraft carriers.  Instead, what they have is a huge and ever expanding arsenal of short-range ballistic and mach-10 cruise missile launching stealth cruisers, and stealth submarines.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With GPS, advanced guidance, stealth, ect, you no longer need piloted aircraft coming from a carrier group to fly over to make strategic and  surgical bombing sorties.  With a fleet of stealth missile boats, and missile subs, any target is a sitting duck.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is partly why we are hearing so much about anti-ballistic missile technology.  However, you can't shoot what you can't see or track on radar.  Consequently, while there remains a place for boots on the ground, modern warfare strategy has shifted to the use of remote-control bomb-dropping stealth drones, and ballistic and cruise missiles delivered by stealth cruisers and subs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQBqTqDPqXs&amp;feature=youtube_gdata_player&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The US Navy M80 Stiletto is a M-hull stealth surface boat that can carry a special ops team and manage numerous airborne, surface and subsurface remote vehicles.   The Stiletto's has a top speed of 50 knots.  The future of naval warfare is 1. Stealth Surface or Subsurface mothership 2. Remote arial, surface and subsurface vehicles 3. Cruise and Ballistic missiles.  4. Thermal imaging 5. Laser Anti-ballistic missile systems.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7761825-2755920669242767568?l=brainbender.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brainbender.blogspot.com/feeds/2755920669242767568/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7761825&amp;postID=2755920669242767568' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7761825/posts/default/2755920669242767568'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7761825/posts/default/2755920669242767568'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brainbender.blogspot.com/2012/01/weakening-of-petro-dollar-system.html' title='Weakening of the Petro-Dollar System, Asian Dollar Exclusion Zone,&#xA;Aircraft Carriers Obsolete'/><author><name>David B</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11266046963020498076</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d102/everyday_something/d1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7761825.post-5857358116078751742</id><published>2012-01-15T12:35:00.002-07:00</published><updated>2012-01-15T22:53:55.437-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Whats up with FLDS Warren Jeffs?</title><content type='html'>Warren Jeff's leads a religious sect of polygamist known as the FLDS Church.  One of their major settlements is Hildale on the border of Arizona and Utah.  Being of the border of two states had the advantage that when authorities came from Utah, residents would all run to the AZ side and visa versa.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The FLDS Church has nothing whatever do do with the LDS, Mormon or Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.  You cannot be polygamist and be Mormon. The LDS Church immediately excommunicates anyone for polygamy.  The FEDs have pretty much left the FLDS group alone.  Except more recently, the group started another settlement in Texas.  However, in Texas, the sect had nowhere to run too. When Texas authorities arrived, Warren JeffSSRIs arrested and convicted of multiple counts of sexual assault.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The whole Warren Jeffs affair was big in the news 4 years ago during the Romney campaign.  Now that it is campaign time again, I am not surprised to see Jeffs and the FLDS group in the news again.  The media know very well many Americans mistakenly confuse the FLDS with the LDS Church.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Recently, the FLDS leader Warren Jeffs, who is being held in a Texas prison, has been permitted to pass communications on to his religious sect and the messages have been very unusual and apocalyptic. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;According to media reports, Jeffs has called his FLDS group to repentance. As part of this repentance, Jeffs has made some very unusual requests; among them are: everyone is to be rebaptized, they are to stop polygamy and only live with one wife, they are not to have any sexual relations at all for the next year, and they ate to pay 40% tithing to the church. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Media reports say that many of the FLDS are leaving the religion.  But this doesn't mean that they will become LDS.  You can't be polygamist and LDS.  But, what I assume will happen is that many will join other very small related polygamist groups scattered throughout Idaho, Montana, Utah and Arizona.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However, if the call to celibacy wasn't enough, Warren Jeffs has also been making numerous apocalyptic prophecies.  In reality, none of his prophecies are anything new.  Which is actually the interesting part of whole situation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. Predicts great earthquake that will cause the prison walls to fall.&lt;br /&gt;2. Predicts a great burning of Babylon which he defines as the United States of America.&lt;br /&gt;3. Predicts invasion of foreign armies from 3 fronts; east coast, west coast and from the Southern border.&lt;br /&gt;4. Tsunami along East Coat of US, Seattle, Australia. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here is the link to a google map keeping track of the many Warren Jeffs apocalyptic prophecies. http://bit.ly/stO6Qr&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jeffs is also calling the United States to repentance and says God will pour out these judgements on the US if it doesn't repent.  The specific things the US must do to avoid judgement is:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. Free Warren Jeffs and associates from prison.&lt;br /&gt;2. Cease to persecute FLDS&lt;br /&gt;3. Remove all homosexuals from US Military.&lt;br /&gt;4. Stop all offensive/preemptive wars and aggression against other nations.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now, what do I think about these prophecies?  Well, I agree with the stop of preemptive aggression.  I also think it was a mistake to reverse "don't ask don't tell".  As far as the apocalyptic judgements go; everyone should know that Russia and China are getting ready to execute a massive nuclear firststrike on America and invade with the help of Mexico from the east coast, west coast and from Mexico. The international community is fed up with the bullying of the US and have settled on a plan to divide up the US into 4 republics.  This is nothing new.  If the US goes to war with Iran, that will be the last straw.  I am many others like Joel Skousen have been talking about this for some time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So If I think some of Jeffs predictions are plausible, where is he getting his revelation?  Having read the several letters he has published from jail, these are not inspired of God.  How do I know?  Because even through God does judge the wicked, he is also compassionate, and with the judgement always communicates a message of compassion and sorrow about having to pass judgement on the wicked.  I sense no compassion or godly sorrow in Jeffs letters.  There are other reasons as well but this is number one . &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So where do Jeffs predictions they come from?  1. Satan 2. SSSS technology claims to send a signal to your brain making think you are hearing a voice in your head.  Rumor has it that SSS technology was used at Guantanamo Bay to convince Muslim enemy combatants that Allah was commanding them to confess.  Also, during Gulf War 1, thousands of Iraqi soldiers were convinced to surrender  3. Insanity.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7761825-5857358116078751742?l=brainbender.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brainbender.blogspot.com/feeds/5857358116078751742/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7761825&amp;postID=5857358116078751742' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7761825/posts/default/5857358116078751742'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7761825/posts/default/5857358116078751742'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brainbender.blogspot.com/2012/01/whats-up-with-flds-warren-jeffs.html' title='Whats up with FLDS Warren Jeffs?'/><author><name>David B</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11266046963020498076</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d102/everyday_something/d1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7761825.post-3899701755837763525</id><published>2012-01-14T19:28:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2012-01-14T19:30:38.505-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Constitutional Government'/><title type='text'>J Ruben Clark by W Cleon Skousen</title><content type='html'>[W. Cleon Skousen. "The Life of J. Reuben Clark, Jr."  Grantsville, UT. September 1, 1992. ]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;J. Reuben Clark Practices Law&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As he got to be practically the Secretary of State, it was amazing how all the solicitors, who are the lawyers for the State Department, kept going away, or being gone. This J. Reuben Clark found himself counseling with the President as though he were Secretary of State.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At the end of six years, there was a change in politics. President Wilson was elected, Republicans went out, and J. Reuben Clark went out with them. He then went into private practice, and he was very successful. He had a great reputation by now. But he didn’t know that he was just about to run head on into one of the most monstrous forces of evil that was being gestated or generated in the United States at that time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In order to tell you that story, which is out of this book, The History of the World in Our Time, I just have to quote a few things. In what we call a people’s republic, you do not find tranquility. Everybody has his rights, everybody is free to speak his opinion, and they all do. You just have a turmoil of constant bubbling and burblings — everybody’s got their ideas solving problems. It isn’t an atmosphere of tranquility, it isn’t Shangri-la.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But, when you’ve educated people, as they did in the early part of the history of this country, they loved it that way. They’d come out of Europe where they were under somebody’s thumb and heel all the time, and they loved it here where they could speak their opinions and then vote the way they wanted to, etc.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Those Who Don’t Like the Constitution&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There was one group of people that never liked it. They didn’t like the Constitution, they didn’t like the turmoil, they didn’t like this kind of a republic. You see, this bubbling and burbling and so forth, and everybody putting in their two bits worth, etc. — that produced Washingtons, that produced Jeffersons, John Adams.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I mean, if you’d been at the Constitutional Convention, it wasn’t a nice, sweet, peaceful convention. Those great men with strong opinion hammered and hammered. But when they got through, God says, “I established this Constitution by the hands of wise men that I raised up for this very purpose. Anything that’s more or less that this is evil.” — section 98 and section 101. It all came out of this burbling and gurgling. You got to have fun with it, you’ve got to get used to it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But these people, who are very rich and very powerful, have always hated it. The reason they hate it is because they operate big industries, where they speak and things happen, where there’s a certain amount of order. If there isn’t, they can change it, just like that.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They said, “Now that’s the way our society should be, that’s the way government should be. We’ve got to change this thing so we’ve got the smartest people in charge, and compel these stupid masses to do what’s good for them.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In 1908, there was a congregation of these very wealthy people, they represented the greatest powers in the railroad industry, in the oil industry, in the banking industry, in the commercial industry. They were congregated together in the Carnegie Foundation for International Peace. They tried to decide how you could change the whole American system, peacefully if possible, but, if necessary, do it with war.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Using War for a Collectivization of Power&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They worked on that for a year. In time of war, the people will tolerate a collectivization of control: mandate, and people do what they’re told to do. They said, “That should be set up so that it’s the permanent pattern of our society.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They decided that they’d have to do it through war, “You got to get a war, get them in that mood, where they will tolerate the centralized, dictatorial mandate and authority, and then have another war, if necessary, until it becomes a pattern.” That’s what those men decided to do.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The next question was, “How would we get control of the government under those circumstances, and then maintain it?” The answer was, you’ve got to control the State Department and the Presidency. That’s what they agreed upon.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We have the minutes of those meetings. The man who secured them, almost accidentally, a good friend of mine, was working for one of the Congressional Committees. They got the minutes of 1908, when it was resolved that, “We’re going to use war from now on until we get this nation under control.” So, they’ve got to get their own man for President, and they’ve got to have him appoint a Secretary of State of their vintage or mentality.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Remember this is the Carnegie Foundation for International Peace, plotting war! Any of you heard of this before? Yes, some of you have. I didn’t get it in school. I had to dig it out years later when I found that something had gone wrong.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Woodrow Wilson’s Rise to Power&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The man they picked out to be their president, to run in the other party — the Republicans were in power — was a man by the name of Woodrow Wilson. He was the head of the department of political science at Princeton. He’d been very critical of the Constitution for a variety of reasons. He liked the British system better.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So they thought, “There’s somebody we could probably mold and weave into what we need.” So they started working on him, and they got him to be governor of New Jersey. They elected him, and this is the book that tells how they did it, how they put the money in, and they used money to manipulate and massage the people of New Jersey until this professor was elected the governor of New Jersey.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then they started manipulating Woodrow Wilson to agree to this different approach, “Maybe we can get back closer to the British system. Certainly we’ll change the Constitution.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Right in the middle of that, listen to what Woodrow Wilson says, “Since I’ve entered politics, I’ve chiefly had men’s views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men the United States in the field in commerce and manufacture are afraid of something. They know that there is a power, somewhere, so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they better not speak about their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That’s Woodrow Wilson. He doesn’t know it, but they’re the people that have now taken him in tow. J. P. Morgan and the Rockefellers and the Carnegie money is going in behind him, and getting him set to be President, on condition that he will go for a Federal Reserve system, that will eventually get rid of gold and silver as a money system, establish a credit system with no bottom to it: “Just use the taxing power of the people as a basis for money in the future. It’s necessary that we do get ourselves involved in the affairs of the world, so we can guide the world toward a better structure. It will probably have to be through war.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That’s an interesting phenomenon, that this book tells all about, Tragedy and Hope. This man believed in this group. He apologizes for them over and over again. He said, “Maybe they were a little clumsy, but their ultimate goal was a good one.” Can’t believe it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then he documents all the things that I later put in a book called The Naked Capitalist, that went to a million copies, based on his book, telling people what’s really been going on. For a while it was widely read, but not so much anymore. People have kind of lost touch with who’s running things. It’s the same people.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So we’ve got ourselves a new President, and we got the Federal Reserve. Wasn’t very long before, as you know, we got rid of gold, everybody had to turn it in. All the gold clauses and contracts were wiped out by the Supreme Court. J. Reuben Clark knew all this was unconstitutional — the whole fabric was unconstitutional.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;J. Reuben Clark Was Trapped&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But meanwhile, he had been trapped just like Woodrow Wilson had. It all came about in 1916, when a man — who was one of the wealthiest men, one of the top men in the country, whose name was Willard Strait, he was part of the J. P. Morgan people — came to him and asked if he wouldn’t like to have a junior partner. To have Mr. Strait, you know, as your partner, for a boy from Grantsville, way out in Utah, I mean, he’s gone clear up on the top level.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Well,” he said, “where would we have our office?”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Oh, in New York.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Where in New York?”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Well, we have a skyscraper there, and we’ll be on the lower floor. Everything above you will be our client.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Just one client?”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Yes, just one client.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“What’s it called?”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“The American International Corporation, the first international conglomerate of industrial power that was ever organized in the United States.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“What are we going to do?”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Well, we’re going to use our money that all our people have, and we’re going to start buying up the industries and get things kind of organized together.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What J. Reuben Clark didn’t know, they were going to have a war within about eighteen months, and they wanted to all of the copper and the steel and the boats and the railroads and everything to make the money from it. Clever. American International Corporation, and guess who was its attorney? J. Reuben Clark.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At first it seemed great, because they were buying up these great industries in Central America, the big fruit companies, all the boats they could get their hands on, the wharfs, steel, copper — I have them all listed here.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At the head of this international association, listen to who was on their board: Stone of the Webster Engineering Company, Percy Rockefeller of Standard Oil, J. Ogden of the Armor Company, Charles Kaufman of General Electric, James Hill of the Great Northern Railway, Oliver Kahn of Kunelob and Company, Robert Lovell of the Union Pacific, and so it goes on. I mean, you’re talking with the richest, the most powerful, and the strongest. He’s buying up millions and millions of dollar’s worth in all these companies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So in 1916, Woodrow Wilson was elected on the basis that he would keep us out of the war. After he was inaugurated, we were in the war within six weeks. It’s all in this book. At that time, I was about five years old. I was getting on the scene now, gradually here, so I could watch what J. Reuben was doing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;J. Reuben Clark Awakens To What is Going On&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But anyway, J. Reuben Clark didn’t awake to what was happening until about 1923. He began to fuss at them, and make their lives so miserable, as he saw what they were doing. One time, he considered dishonestly, they fired him. 1923.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Guess what he did? He came back on Constitution Day and spoke in the Tabernacle about the great United States Constitution. “I’ll tell you,” he said, “it is in jeopardy. I see forces rising all around us today that have as their goal and objective, the destruction of the very thing that made the United States the greatest nation in the world!”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well, I’m not sure they paid much attention to him. He quotes from his 1923 speech the rest of his life. I finally got a copy of it. It’s great. He took the whole strength, the golden threads of the Constitution, to stress to the people here in Utah what a great responsibility they had to preserve that institution.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Already the foundations are being very badly eroded. So the State Department called him back as Assistant Secretary of State. He was puzzled about just what he should be doing. In Utah we wanted him to run as Senator. Someone was talking about putting him on the Supreme Court. By this time he had such a tremendous reputation he could almost named what he would have liked to run for. In this state, he would have been supported wholeheartedly, and it didn’t work out.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Instead of that, he became ambassador to Mexico. He did a great job down there. He taught the Mexican people to trust him, and to love him. He did a lot to help our Mormon colonies in Mexico during that difficult period where I went to school a couple of years.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Called to be an Apostle&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then in 1933, right in the midst of his getting all of this thing straightened out for Mexico, here comes a letter from the First Presidency calling him to be a counselor to Heber J. Grant. You’ve got to know a little bit about the background of J. Reuben Clark at that time as far as the church was concerned, to appreciate what a shock this was.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He hadn’t been where he could be active in the church for 20 to 25 years. He’d never been a Bishop, never been a Stake President. He paid his tithing, but there wasn’t any church, very often, to go to. In Washington you could go to a little Sunday evening affair that Senator Smoot held, but J. Reuben didn’t get along with Senator Smoot, so that was kind of an ordeal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And anyway, he worked seven days a week. He was a workaholic. He afterwards said, “I broke the Sabbath for years! The Lord blessed me in spite of it, but certainly not because of it. You people obey the Sabbath day!” My close associate while I was in law school, in fact my mentor, was Ernest Wilkinson. He did the same thing because J. Reuben Clark did it, he worked all day Sunday. He’d take time out for church, but then he was right back at it. He said the same thing, “I broke the Sabbath day trying to become a great lawyer. I paid a price for it. You obey the Sabbath day.” Isn’t that kind of interesting?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So J. Reuben Clark — and I must hurry now just to give you a little final closing scene here. J. Reuben Clark was very disturbed that he would be called to the First Presidency of the Church. He found himself telling Bishops and Stake Presidents how to run their Stakes and their Wards.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Finally he said — and this is an apocryphal story, although it’s hinted at in Michael Quinn’s This is J. Reuben Clark: the Church Years, but I have this apocryphal story in this form, that I picked up from people who claimed they were close to the scene.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why the Calling Came&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;J. Reuben Clark said to President Grant, “Don’t you make these choices by inspiration?”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;President Grant said, “Yes, we do.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;J. Reuben Clark said, “I can understand why a lawyer of international prominence and so forth, like myself, may add to the prestige of the church. But I don’t know what I an doing here. I am doing things that I never was trained to do. I’m instructing people. I feel very inadequate.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well, according to the story that I was told, President Grant said, “That’s not why you were chosen as a counselor.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Well, why was I chosen?”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“You were chosen because the Constitution of the United States is in jeopardy. The church needs to be aroused, the country needs to be aroused, and we’ve got to start training our people to defend that Constitution before it’s shredded and lost.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Oh, really?!”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“You are the best Constitutionalist in the church.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All of the sudden you hear him quoting his 1923 speech in Conference. You see, we were a Democratic state, 62 percent Democrats. They began to call that Republican politics in Conference. Oh, he got the Dickens! By the time I got here to Utah, sometime later, J. Reuben Clark was one of the most unpopular people in this state.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Politics” in Church&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They didn’t mind him talking on the gospel, but any time he’d start talking on the Constitution, “that terrible Republican instrument!” Isn’t that something? All through California schools, I was told the Constitution was obsolete. Here’s this man standing up, which everybody knows he’s a Republican, defending the Constitution, and “that’s politics in church.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;President Grant would try to assure the people that we wanted the Saints to hear this. It was not popular. He never did become a popular speaker. Years later when I was here, he spoke at the University of Utah. Here is a member of the First Presidency, and he was a counselor to three Presidents over a period of 28 years. We’ve never had another human being in this church serve as a counselor to Presidents of the church longer than J. Reuben Clark.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So he was so well known, they decided to have him speak at the University of Utah. He stood up before that audience, and they booed him, a member of the First Presidency. Majority of the audience LDS. They booed him. He stood there, by this time he was pretty heavy-set, you know, and he smiled at them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He said, “Well, I don’t mind you calling me old-fashioned, because I am.” Yeeaahh! “I don’t even mind you calling me antediluvian (which is before the flood!)” Huurraay!! “But,” he said, ” I am a little sensitive about you calling me pre-historic!”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The students all laughed, and immediately they sat back to listen. I’ve got a copy of that speech, and it’s just great. Of course the students had been trained not to believe those things anymore. But he sowed the seeds.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our Constitution Has Been Shredded&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Already the Lord was beginning to build his kingdom preparatory to survive the great destructive forces of Constitutional government. You see, we didn’t realize how badly shredded the Constitution had become. We didn’t realize the whole concept of separation of powers had been shredded. We had Congress delegating to the President the authority to make administrative law.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Most of our laws were not coming out of Congress as required by Article 1 Section 1 of the Constitution, they were coming out of bureau agencies at administrative law. I studied it in school, how it worked. The next thing you knew, if you didn’t like what happened, where’s you appeal? You didn’t really have an appeal, because Congress approved it. They were delegating their legislative authority, and you were having laws that the Congress had never examined, scrutinized or debated. We were covered with them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So that’s how far we had gone. We had lost our money system based on gold and silver, that was gone. We had lost control of the Supreme Court, beginning with the Butler Case, 1936. The Congress could pass anything that they considered for the welfare of the American people. It was no longer general welfare, it was now private welfare: farmers, schools, etc.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;J. Reuben Clark was an educator at heart. He felt the schools were getting a bad deal, and they would be hurt in the process. He tried to defend the importance of maintaining the integrity of our schools. That was interesting. So many things were happening to our society, that from a Constitutional standpoint, we were very seriously at risk.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So this man from Florida that wrote this whole page of newspaper protest the other day, I just went down and checked off the items, “J. Reuben, did you say amen? Yes, he said amen. Amen. Amen. Amen.” You know: going on to four trillion dollars worth of debt, 62 percent of all your income taxes going to pay interest to banks on that debt. We give ourselves a trillion dollar budget, and then we overspend even that much. You know that we are way off balance.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Butler Case, 1936&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I want to say just this little bit about the Butler case. In 1936, the Supreme Court handed down a decision, and while it held against the appellant, it set forth the proposition that Congress can appropriate money and legislate for private welfare. The general welfare clause went right out the window.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The original idea was, if you tax all the people, then you can’t pass a law except for all the people. You can not pass a law that will favor this little group, and that little group. You can’t do that, because these are general taxes. States can handle those problems, the federal government can not. That was all wiped out, 1936, in the Butler case.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our budget in 1936, in spite of World War I, and already numerous, expensive programs for agriculture, etc. that had been coming up; our budget was 8 billion dollars. We had gone to 800 billion dollars by about 1980. Now you know where it is, trillions. There’s no stop, they will not stop. You couldn’t stop that train, no matter who you elected right now. So, there’s a remedy. J. Reuben Clark knew what it was. I’m going to close now by sharing it with you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;J. Reuben Clark was a Great Man&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But I just want to tell you how I learned to love that man, and have him stand up in the face of a very antagonistic, not altogether, but the majority of our people of our state did not like J. Reuben Clark. His biographies all admit that. He wasn’t appreciated until they had a symposium after he was dead, and decided he was great man. Who do I read telling that he was a great man? Some of those who fought him the worst when he was trying to help us.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But in those 28 years, he served three Presidents, and part of the time he was all alone. Brother Grant had a stroke and lived another five years, couldn’t hardly do anything. David O. McKay, the other counselor, he was very sickly and weak, until he became President of the church. Isn’t that interesting? All of the sudden, his health improved tremendously, so he did pretty good, and he just went on and on for a long time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;J. Reuben Clark, of course, died in 1961, but by that time, President McKay had already given us the great announcement of hope. Beginning in 1950, he said, “God is now pouring out into the families of those that he has treasured up from the beginning, the youth that can take it in the days that lie ahead. You’re getting some of the choicest spirits out of heaven.” He announced that about 1950.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We Live in an Exciting New Era&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By 1960, he said, “Now I can tell you the new era has begun for this great kingdom. We’ll began to become an influence for good, much more impressive and much more productive than in the past.” 1960. You see, we had worked thirty years to get ten thousand converts in Latin America. Thirty years to get ten thousand. We got the next ten thousand in two years. We got the next ten thousand in one year. Now we get ten thousand every few months.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is a new era, and you’re in it. All of the buildings that began. During the last ten years of David O. McKay’s life, he felt so helpless. He asked me to do an errand for him one day, and I came in and found that he couldn’t even stand up. He had a couple of strokes. Here were needles and oxygen tanks, and one thing and another. He could see, as I looked around his office, the amazement in my eyes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He said, “Don’t feel sorry for me, Brother Skousen. Nobody expects me to do anything. All I have to do is stay close to the Lord and make the decisions.” Which he did, and we doubled the membership of the church in the next ten years, when he was an invalid. We doubled the number of temples, I tell you, we just went forward. So when these prophets become very elderly, indisposed, the work goes on, magnificently.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In his day, J. Reuben Clark did that. Now President Hinckley and President Monson carry it on. Oh, what great leaders they are. I love them. Great leaders.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So I come to my conclusion, and it’s J. Reuben Clark’s conclusion. He could see that the powers that existed were so well entrenched, so voluminous, had such a grip on the media, both the parties, the money, that that was going to have to run its course, like an express train going hell-bent to destruction.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Track Two&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But the Lord isn’t going to allow this government to be destroyed. Although administrations may destroy themselves, systems may destroy themselves, this country’s going to survive. J. Reuben Clark knew how it would survive: build track two. Don’t get in front of that train on track one, it will just run over you. You quietly build track two.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sometimes people say, “Dr. Skousen, you spent your whole life studying these things that have gone wrong, with the attack on the Constitution and everything. Why are you so optimistic?”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I say to them, “I read the book, and in the end, we win.” Now, it’s on track two that we win. J. Reuben Clark never lost confidence in having a generation finally become alert, and finally doing its homework, and getting into a position where they would do what God and the Founding Fathers intended that we should have been doing all the time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, I bless his memory. I bless his integrity. I bless his tenacity. I’m so grateful for that man. He’s been my inspiration, I’ve learned to love him. I knew him, but not well. I received counsel from him two or three times. One of my books became a national best seller, and he gave me a little bit of counsel about what God was doing, and what to expect, and I was very grateful for that.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;His 1937 Prophecy&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oh, what vision, what insight he had. So I close now. On other occasions, you’ll tell more about him. I’ve only touched the highlights. Because during the 28 years that he served in the kingdom, he filled several volumes with teachings and instructions and insights and warnings. You will have other speakers, I’m sure, come and analyze various phases of that in detail, so that you become authorities on the beliefs of J. Reuben Clark, which are identical with the original Founding Fathers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the beginning, he said he made some mistakes. But he learned from experience. In the end, when he finally became a counselor to the First Presidency, he told the saints what to expect. I should have told you that in 1937 he gave one of his most famous speeches. I consider 1923, 1937, and 1952 among his greatest talks.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In 1937 he said, “The power people are now planning another war for you. They have made this depression last many more years than it would have ordinarily lasted. They got stock down to 14 cents on a dollar. They just bought up everything at 14 cents on a dollar, and they’re now ready to make additional billions as they put you through another world war.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“They’re going to have you pay for it. You’re going to be involved in it. You don’t think you’ll get involved, but they’ll say that for the peace of the world, you must come in, and you’ll feel so soft-hearted about it, you’ll come in. It will be just as big a mistake as World War I,” which I thought was just great when we went in, and I now know, could have been handled differently, and we could have saved ourselves a lot of problems.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, he gave the prophecy. Then in 1941, after we were in the war, he said, “May I quote from my 1923 speech, and my 1937 speech….” That’s what he did the rest of his life, quoting his former speeches, where he predicted what would happen, and it did. He truly was a prophet of God, counseling a prophet of God. I bless his memory in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7761825-3899701755837763525?l=brainbender.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brainbender.blogspot.com/feeds/3899701755837763525/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7761825&amp;postID=3899701755837763525' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7761825/posts/default/3899701755837763525'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7761825/posts/default/3899701755837763525'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brainbender.blogspot.com/2012/01/j-ruben-clark-by-w-cleon-skousen.html' title='J Ruben Clark by W Cleon Skousen'/><author><name>David B</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11266046963020498076</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d102/everyday_something/d1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7761825.post-7270427912930564572</id><published>2012-01-14T11:59:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2012-01-28T17:03:11.701-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Constitutional Government'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Banking and Economics'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Conservative Politics'/><title type='text'>Government of the elite, by the elite, and for the elite</title><content type='html'>Ron Paul supporters espouse many seemingly radical political views together with some other traditional and Constitutional-based political opinions. &amp;nbsp;One may ask, 'where is the radical ideology regarding "no more foreign aid" or "bring all the troops home" coming from?' In addition to the average Libertarian, Ron Paul's political views are attracting the "conspiracy theorists" vote. &amp;nbsp;Ron Paul has been a frequent guest on favorite Conspiracy Theory radio programs like the Alex Jones show which has exploded in listenership in the last year.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What are the Conspiracy Theorists afraid of? &amp;nbsp;Conspiracy Theorists are concerned with the effects and decisions that come out of regular meetings of the world elite. Several times a year, world elite, Past and future US Presidents, cabinet members, royalty, media moguls, Forbes 100 CEOs, Ivy League University Presidents, Defense Contractors, FED chairman, etc meet at places like &amp;nbsp;Bohemian Grove each July, or the Davos Conference, the Bilderberg Conference, or at the United Nations, or at the G20 Economic conference, or the Council on Foreign Relations, or the Tri-Lateral Commission. &amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While at these variously titled meeting, these same powerful and wealthy elite set a world agenda which greatly influences and affects US domestic and foreign policy and our laws. &amp;nbsp;Conspiracy Theorists are concerned that these meetings of the global elite constitute a subversive anti-American government of the elite, by the elite, and for the elite.&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the remaining portion of this post, I would like to illustrate how policies from these international globalist organizations are infiltrating, subverting traditional American values, while also greatly harming our peace and prosperity.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;George Romney worked for Massachusetts Democratic U.S. Senator David I. Walsh during 1929 and 1930, first as a stenographer, then, as a staff aide working on tariffs and other legislative matters. &amp;nbsp;Romney researched aspects of the proposed Hawley-Smoot tariff legislation and sat in on committee meetings for Senator Walsh who apposed Tariffs. While living in the DC area,&amp;nbsp;Romney opened a ice cream shop and attended &amp;nbsp;night classes at George Washington University.&amp;nbsp; The&amp;nbsp;Smoot-Hawley Tariff act was eventually signed into law by Herbert Hoover, yet the Depression continued to worsen.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Unfortunately, because of the worsening depression, Romney's ice cream parlor failed, and he no longer had the income necessary to finish his degree at GW.&amp;nbsp; The cause of the worsening Depression was hotly debated at the time.&amp;nbsp; Like most Democrats, &amp;nbsp;Senator Walsh opposed tariffs and he along with FDR and others blamed the Smoot-Hawley Tariff act for worsening the depression.&amp;nbsp; Consequently,&amp;nbsp;from that moment on, "Free-Trade" became a plank in the Republican platform when prior to this, Republicans like Lincoln, McKinley, and Hoover were stanch protectionists.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For any LDS readers out there. I am not sure everyone knows who the Smoot is, in the Hawley-Smoot Act.&amp;nbsp; The Smoot in the title of this bill just happens to be Senator Reed Smoot of Utah, who was also an Apostle of the Lord Jesus Christ&amp;nbsp;and member of the LDS Church's Quorum of 12 Apostles.&amp;nbsp; Elder Smoot didn't become an Apostle after being a Senator, Elder Smoot was appointed and ordained to the Holy Apostleship while he was also serving as a State Senator.&amp;nbsp; While LDS do not claim our leaders are infallible, Elder Smoot was one of very best men that the LDS Church has ever produced.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thankfully, not everyone agrees that tariffs and protectionism policies caused the Great Depression. Milton Friedman, Father of the Chicago school of economics, monetarist theory of money, and Nobel Laureate always maintained that the FED and not tariffs caused the Great Depression. &amp;nbsp;Milton Friedman said the FED's contraction of the money supply is what triggered the Depression. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The FED initially rejected this analysis, but a recent comment by FED chair Ben Bernanke demonstrates how the FED actually views this issue.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2002: &lt;/strong&gt;Ben Bernanke speaks at Milton Friedman's 90th Birthday and jokes that Milt was correct all along that the FED caused the great depression by contracting the money supply in a fractional reserve system. Later Ben Bernake again supports Milton Friedman's position at a leture :&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;"Let me end my talk by abusing slightly my status as an official representative of the Federal Reserve. I would like to say to Milton and Anna: Regarding the Great Depression. You're right, we did it. We're very sorry. But thanks to you, we won't do it again."&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.federalreserve.gov/BOARDDOCS/SPEECHES/2002/20021108/default.htm"&gt;http://www.federalreserve.gov/BOARDDOCS/SPEECHES/2002/20021108/default.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2004:&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp; Ben Bernanke speaking at the Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia again expresses support for the monitorist theory of money, and the FED's role in exacerbating the Great Depression by increasing interest rates several times,&amp;nbsp;and advocating several&amp;nbsp;banking holidays which exacerbated&amp;nbsp;cash and gold hording.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;"Finally, perhaps the most important lesson of all is that price stability should be a key objective of monetary policy. By allowing persistent declines in the money supply and in the price level, the Federal Reserve of the late 1920s and 1930s greatly destabilized the U.S. economy and, through the workings of the gold standard, the economies of many other nations as well."&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.federalreserve.gov/boarddocs/speeches/2004/200403022/default.htm"&gt;http://www.federalreserve.gov/boarddocs/speeches/2004/200403022/default.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2005:&lt;/strong&gt; Federal Reserve no longer publishing M3 data, which is an important measure that monitors growth of the money supply involving derivatives and other complex investments.  This concealing of M3 will serve to hide the initial effects of the sale of fraudulent mortgage-backed securities which will follow.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/h6/discm3.htm"&gt;http://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/h6/discm3.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2005-2008:&lt;/strong&gt; M3 balloons to record levels which measured the money creation being done in the speculative and fraudulent derivatives market, driven by Goldman Sachs.&lt;a href="http://www.amcalrealestate.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/money-supply-rate-of-change.gif"&gt;http://www.amcalrealestate.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/money-supply-rate-of-change.gif&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2008:&lt;/strong&gt; FED institutes the Bank of International Settlement Basil 2 Accords which restricts/lightens fractional reserve requirements, contracts the money supply, and does to America exactly the same thing that Basil 1 did to Japan resulting in their "Lost Decade."&lt;a href="http://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/press/bcreg/20070720a.htm"&gt;http://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/press/bcreg/20070720a.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;"Economic crises have been produced by us for the GOYIM by no other means than the withdrawal of money from circulation. Huge capitals have stagnated, withdrawing money from States, which were constantly obliged to apply to those same stagnant capitals for loans. These loans burdened the finances of the State with the payment of interest and made them the bond slaves of these capitals .... The concentration of industry in the hands of capitalists out of the hands of small masters has drained away all the juices of the peoples and with them also the States .... " (Protocols of Zion 20:20)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Conclusion: This Current Economic Downturn was engineered just like the Great Depression. Mr. Bernanke confessed to Milton Friedman that he is well aware of how a contraction of the money supply would affect our fractional reserve economy. Mr. Bernanke was well aware of the effects Basil 1 had on Japan, and therefore must have been fully aware of how Basil 2 would effect the American economy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Furthermore, just as massive borrowing to invest overinflated the money supply prior to the Great Depression, we see the FED set up the current system of derivatives trading which created an unstable economic environment requiring a reaction in terms of implementing Basil 2.  This was a perfect example of the FED creating a problem, eliciting a predicted reaction and then providing the pre-conceived solution.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The FED blamed protectionism of the Hawley-Smoot tariff act and regulating trade as the Constitution requires as the cause of the Great Depression. &amp;nbsp;The Civil war was fought over protectionism and tariffs. &amp;nbsp;South wanting to buy cheap slave-produced goods and machinery from the East India Trading Company instead if the North. &amp;nbsp;This blame of the Great Depression on Protectionism turned the Republican party that were once protectionists like Pres McKinley into advocates of free-trade. &amp;nbsp;And now free trade has robbed our county of domestic industrial infrastructure our jobs, and our self-reliance.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So here we see a clear example of how an international organization like the Bank of International Settlement (central bank of central banks) policy has infiltrated and subverted traditional American&amp;nbsp;values and Constitutional principals, while also greatly harming our peace and prosperity.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Overall Analysis:&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp; The elite wanted deflation before WW1 and WW2 because they wanted to buy up all the companies that would profit from the war.&amp;nbsp; This time, the elite already own all the major companies.&amp;nbsp; What the elite are doing currently, is buying up soverign national debt.&amp;nbsp; The goal is to get all the countries in as much debt as possible to them before the end game.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;According to Milton Friedman's monetarist theaory, recent money supply expansion via TARP, and QE2 that prices are holding somewhat and the current depression is not as bad as it could be.&amp;nbsp; However, our dollar is no longer gold-backed as it once was, and if the dollar loses its status as the world reserve currency, because of free-trade, the US is no longer industrially, energy,&amp;nbsp;or even agricultually independent, and and dollar devaluation would sink the US economy. This fact is precisely what is driving the US to enter into wars with Iraq, Libya, and Iran who were circumventing the Petro-Dollar system by selling oil to China in Euros and Yuan. Iran is now doing business with Russia in Rubles.  The fiat, debt-based, Petro-Dollar system cannot tolerate major oil-producing nations selling oil in alternative currencies. &amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This warmongering will evenually lead to the point where the international community led by Russia, China, and Muslim nations will decide to attack the US with a massive nuclear firststrike and invasion; hoping to divide the US up forever.  This is the elite's end game which they hope will end the idea of constitutional government forever.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Unfortunately, because the US is not currently economically self-sufficient, an Act like Hawley-Smoot is not going to fix things at this point.&amp;nbsp; The first thing the US would be wise to do is avoid war with Iran at all costs and reform our monetary system where money creation is "merit-based" and not decided by a ruling class of economic oligarchs who buy and sell US bonds.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7761825-7270427912930564572?l=brainbender.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brainbender.blogspot.com/feeds/7270427912930564572/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7761825&amp;postID=7270427912930564572' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7761825/posts/default/7270427912930564572'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7761825/posts/default/7270427912930564572'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brainbender.blogspot.com/2012/01/government-of-elite-by-elite-and-for.html' title='Government of the elite, by the elite, and for the elite'/><author><name>David B</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11266046963020498076</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d102/everyday_something/d1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7761825.post-7790578080492426535</id><published>2012-01-13T00:23:00.002-07:00</published><updated>2012-01-30T07:41:55.834-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Constitutional Government'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Banking and Economics'/><title type='text'>Safety Society System</title><content type='html'>&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 0.19in; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333;"&gt;Many people want to "End the FED" but most don't know what to replace it with. This paper discusses an alternative. First to understand what to change, we need to understand exactly what about the FED is a problem. If you "End the FED" and do not address the financial instruments the FED and traditional banking has put in place over the last hundred years, then nothing will change much. Some just want to go back to gold like before, but I want to also discuss why this is not a good idea either. FED vs Gold is a false dichotomy.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;FRACTIONAL RESERVE BANKING:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333;"&gt; this started when Templar Houses issued more gold certificates than the gold they had in deposit (reserve). Today, FED-member banks issue loans of $1000 for every $100 they borrow from the FED. And through derivatives, banks can leverage reserves, by lending up to 50x or 100x. The degree of leverage is called the MONEY MULTIPLIER. This is money the FED-member, to-big-to-fail, bank prints out of thin air. Other than being a total fraud, if there is a contraction in the money supply &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;(like when the FED instituted the Bank of International Settlement Basil 2 Accords in 2007 doing the same thing to American that Basil 1 did to Japan resulting in its “Lost Decade”)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333;"&gt;, a stock market crash, or a run on the bank; the bank becomes insolvent , the bank can't make loans or pay depositors and goes bust.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;GOLD REDEEMABLE CURRENCY: &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333;"&gt;money is just a contract that is used as a standardized certificate of exchange. It doesn't necessarily have to have value of its own, but it must be tied to something of value. But you don't want to be able to just pick up money off the ground, or counterfeit it. Gold has historically been used as money because it is rare, inert, shiny and sufficiently difficult to find. However, the drawback to gold is that is rare enough that there is usually not enough of it to provide an economic engine enough liquidity (Protocols of Zion 20:22). Gold can be horded and gold production can be manipulated just like De Beers does with diamonds. Artificial scarcity of resources opens the doors for all kinds of corruption (black markets, bribery). Gold is so rare, countries have gone to war, conquering their neighbors to get more of it to drive their economies.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;INFLATION: &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333;"&gt;inflation and devaluation of the currency is a hidden tax on the people, and slowly robs the laborer of the value of their savings. According to the Milton Friedman's Chicago School, monetarist theory of money; inflation is produced when the money supply exceeds the real output of the economy d&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;M/dt (money supply) + dV/dt (velocity) = inf (inflation) + dRO/dt (real output).&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333;"&gt; Also, inflation means that banks cannot hold reserves/deposits in money, and are forced to invest in financial instruments such as stocks, bonds, and derivatives that will keep pace with inflation. Consequently, stock market crashes usually trigger banking failures.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;AMORTIZATION:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333;"&gt; When an individual takes out a loan to purchase a house. Even though the loan may claim to offer a 5% interest rate, this 5% seems like a very low number, but it is totally deceptive. Over the 20-30 years of the loan, the borrower will end up paying close to 2X the original price of the home. What is more, Amortization means that the bank collects all this 5% compound interest over the 30-years up front. That means the borrower builds close to ZERO equity for the first 10-20 years. Consequently, the borrower is tempted to charge the next home borrower an inflated price. If the initial home borrower can convince the next guy to take out a loan for the exact same house at an inflated price, then that additional money becomes equity or profit that can be applied to the next home mortgage. Because loans are the major moment of money creation, by definition, charging an inflated price for the same house means that the&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; Money Supply &amp;gt; Real Output = Inflation.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;COMPOUND INTEREST: &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333;"&gt;Not all interest is bad. The Catholic Church's miss-interpretation of interest = usury and its prohibition of all interest made it so that banking and money lending was not a sustainable profession. However, in economy where inflation is controlled, compound interest is totally corrupt. Compound interest adds the interest accrued to the initial principal. This results in a hyperbolic curve where initial investments continue to compound at an exponential rate. This means, that initial investments years later can be worth many times their initial value. The problem with this is that it treats money as having intrinsic value which it does not. Additionally, compound interest can result in debt that never can be repaid. Furthermore, elite families have established Joint Stock Trusts which are owned by the family and no one individual. These Joint Stock Trusts (still legal in the City of London), are highly invested in US and other Government Bonds, and have passed down these investments from generation to generation resulting in unimaginable wealth for these elite families and totally unsustainable debt for the G20 nations. We are fooled into thinking in terms of how much our personal investments could make over 1 lifetime, in comparison to the elite who are using their family Joint Stock Trusts to generate incredible wealth from Bonds purchased a hundred or more years ago.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;VALUE OF MONEY: &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333;"&gt;Because money (which should just be a standardized contract), is artificially scarce, money itself has developed its own independent value. This development results in the wealthy having power over the laborer just though the possession of money. Because of scarcity, wealthy can use their money, to lend to others, on their own terms. Wealthy are given unelected economic power to decide to invest in whatever increases or maintains their wealth, position and power. If there is an invention or idea that threatens their position or power, that idea is suppressed.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;DEBT-BASED FIAT CURRENCY:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333;"&gt; Paper currency is not necessarily a bad idea. Money is just a standardized contract of exchange, and shouldn't necessarily have intrinsic value in an of itself. In the FED System, fiat currency is based on its demand for bonds. Every dollar is tied to the sale of a bond. Every Federal Reserve Note is a certificate of debt that is not tied to anything of value, but it is tied to someone else's IOU. If people buy US bonds, the value of our currency increases relative to other countries. If instead, the FED just prints the money, the value of our currency falls. However, the FED only deals with a fraction of the total money supply. Additionally, all these bonds must be paid back with interest. So, even if all the Federal Reserve Notes were turned in that were ever created, the US would still owe interest to the bond owners.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333;"&gt;It seems as we all learn more about the FED, Petro-Dollar, System, we are all waking up to the reality of what a huge Ponzi scheme it all is. The value of our currency is tied to the demand for our US Bonds. The demand for US Bonds is currently tied to countries like China and Japan who we have a trade deficit with, and who are interested in using their excess dollars to get the best price on imported oil, and other commodities that are priced in US Dollars. This Ponzi scheme falls apart when countries like Iraq and Iran decide to sell their oil to China in currency other than the USD. If China can buy oil in Euros (Iraq) or Yuan (Iran), then they no longer need to prop up the USD.&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 0.19in; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 0.19in; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Turns out the most of our economic system is not Constitutional. Even before the FED, how we run our economy is more according to the "wicked traditions of our forefathers". The Constitution of the United States actually holds the secrets of how to fix our economic system. Most people don't like centralized control, but the Constitution is inspired, and there are a few powers God actually saw in his wisdom that the Federal Government should be granted.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 0.19in; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 0.19in; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;US Constitution, Article 1, Section 8:  &lt;/b&gt;The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imports and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defense and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises &lt;u&gt;shall be uniform throughout the United States;&lt;/u&gt; To borrow money on the credit of the United States; &lt;u&gt;To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States&lt;/u&gt;, and with the Indian Tribes. To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States;&lt;u&gt; To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof,&lt;/u&gt; and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures; &lt;u&gt;To provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting the Securities and current Coin of the United States.&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 0.19in; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 0.19in; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;ISSUING THE CURRENCY: &lt;/b&gt;The Constitution clearly says that the Federal Government must "Coin the money". And in case you are tempted to think "this just applies to weights and measures" and to "to make sure gold is pure and of the proper weight", the next part says that the Congress has the power to punish counterfeiting the "current coin" of the US. If there is a "current coin", then that means that the US is the one "coining" it.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 0.19in; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 0.19in; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;I don't believe that the US money needs to be gold. Gold, copper, silver are always in limited supply and are better used as building supplies. However, using technology the US government can print money that is nearly impossible to counter-feit, also, the government using quantum encryption can use digital currency that cannot be hacked.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 0.19in; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;The key here to "coining the currency" is that the US Government via the Congress create all the US Currency in the Money Supply, and not abdicate that duty to the FED, or allow the Banks to create most of the money in the money supply via Fractional Reserve Banking.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 0.19in; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 0.19in; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;SAFETY SOCIETY SYSTEM:  &lt;/b&gt;Instead of protecting the currency itself by making it redeemable for a warehoused item, the Safety Society System is focused on creating a locally administered banking institution that is immune from the expected economic shocks that historically topple other banks.  Full Reserve Banking, makes a bank resistant to banking runs, stock market crashes, and contractions of the money supply. I believe that if a system protects the banking institution, that system will protect the people and the value of their money.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 0.19in; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 0.19in; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;1. US Treasury via the Congress Creates all Money in the Money Supply and regulates its value.  Sufficient money is created, upon demand, at the time of loan approval.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 0.19in; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;2. US Treasury loans money to Local Banks called a Safety Society at a variable prime simple interest rate which gets passed on to the individual borrower.   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 0.19in; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;3. Local Safety Society determines loan eligibility and credit-worthiness based on previous and projected employment history, income, etc. Loan eligibility criteria would be nationally standardized but locally applied.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 0.19in; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;4. Local Safety Society makes loans only on "real" assets or on the projected building of or production of a "real" asset or the mining, farming or production of a "real" commodity.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 0.19in; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt; a. Credit-worthy Individuals could take out a loan on an existing home or new home construction.  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 0.19in; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt; b. A community could take out a loan for a museum or community aquatics center based on the projected revenue on an approved ballot initiative for a 1% sales tax.  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 0.19in; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt; c. A corporation could take out a loan to purchase land and drill for oil based on the scientifically verifiable oil deposits.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 0.19in; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;5. The money created for these Safety Society loans is backed by the "real" assets, real estate and "real" commodities that the loan is being issued to purchase, produce, or mine.  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 0.19in; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;6. SSS loans are fee-based. Local Banks make their money to cover overhead exactly the same way they do now by charging loan origination fees and monthly service charges.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 0.19in; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;7. The borrower builds equity from day 1. If the borrower comes on hard times and misses several payments. These payments are deducted from the borrowers equity. Repossession occurs when the borrower has lost all equity in the home, building, farm, mine.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 0.19in; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;8. Other credit and banking institutions would handle other speculative "venture-capital" banking ventures. SSS would only issue loans for non-speculate real assets that could be repossessed.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 0.19in; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;9. SSS Bank deposits are not used to issue loans. SSS operates on Full Reserves, and all deposits are kept at the bank for immediate withdrawal at any time.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 0.19in; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;10. The Federal Government generates revenue based on the prime simple interest rate. This tax/free constitutes a Constitutional uniform and voluntary tax on the use of money and extension of credit. This prime interest rate would be used to regulate the value of the currency, and control inflation by removing excess liquidity from the economy.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 0.19in; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 0.19in; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;SSS BENIFITS:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 0.19in; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;1. People want a gold-redeemable, or commodity-redeemable currency so that when the bank goes bust, they don't lose their money. But, really. Why not set up a system that saves the bank? What good is gold when the entire economy just fell apart? You can't eat gold when society just collapsed. Better to prevent the collapse.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 0.19in; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;2. SSS protects the bank from individual bankruptcy, by making sure each loan is backed by real assets and goods and commodities that can be repossessed so that the Bank can repay the US Treasury.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 0.19in; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;3. Again, this is not money "created-out-of-nothing." Loan approval is the point of money creation, and money is created by the SSS for real assets. The real assets back the money. The focus is on the banks being able to redeem their money.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 0.19in; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;4. Because money creation is always backed by a real asset, according to the Milton Friedman equation, the Money Supply always keeps pace with Real Output.. Therefore, there would be no inflation.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 0.19in; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;5. Because SSS banks wouldn't lend for Stocks, bonds, derivatives, the banks would never be left holding a bunch of worthless pieces of paper with nothing to repossess.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 0.19in; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;6. Because inflation is controlled, the SSS Bank can hold deposits as cash, and never has to invest in paper (stocks, bonds, derivatives) that carries the risk of becoming worthless.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 0.19in; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;7. Focus of the SSS bank is the preservation of value. The Laborer is not forced to subjugate themselves and enslaved themselves to the Wealthy to grant them credit. SSS is free market without the capitalist.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 0.19in; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;8. Wealthy can still use their wealth in speculative ventures separate from the SSS system.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 0.19in; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;9. Because of our inflationary economy instead of an economy focused on the preservation of value, companies must grow to keep up with inflation or die.  This requires that companies ruthlessly compete against one another and after dominating the domestic market, are forced to expand overseas to keep pace.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 0.19in; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;10.  All countries would be economically free to develop their own resources without international exploitation.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;11. Wealthy are sill free to speculate all they want.  But with SSS, the regular laborer class is protected from the risk-taking. &lt;br /&gt;12. Both sides debate that neither government nor the unelected government should be controlling the economy and deciding where money goes. SSS is merit-based.  That means if an individual, coorperation, or community is credit-worthy, they will have access to the money they need; created on demand.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 0.19in; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 0.19in; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;COMPETING CURRENCIES:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 0.19in; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 0.19in; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Some want competing currencies in the US. But I don't see how the idea of competing currencies is in line with the Constitution's call for the Congress to "coin the currency", the "Commerce Clause", and to prosecute counterfeiting of the "current coin" How can the idea of competing currencies jive with the Constitutional call for there to be a "current coin"? How could the Congress regulate interstate commerce if every state or region had its own currency, resulting in currency wars? How could the Congress regulate the value of currency, if there were competing currencies --- well, competing.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 0.19in; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 0.19in; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7761825-7790578080492426535?l=brainbender.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brainbender.blogspot.com/feeds/7790578080492426535/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7761825&amp;postID=7790578080492426535' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7761825/posts/default/7790578080492426535'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7761825/posts/default/7790578080492426535'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brainbender.blogspot.com/2012/01/safety-society-system.html' title='Safety Society System'/><author><name>David B</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11266046963020498076</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d102/everyday_something/d1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7761825.post-598920190894973209</id><published>2012-01-12T23:08:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2012-01-12T23:16:01.460-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Constitutional Government'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Conservative Politics'/><title type='text'>Media Attack on Mitt Romney</title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;1. flip-flopper. &lt;/b&gt; The media continues to instill mistrust in the pro-life conservative voter by questioning Mitt's allegiance to life.  On a personal level, Mitt has and will always be always be pro-life.  However, when running for Governor, Mitt clearly stated that he personally did not agree with abortion but was running on a neutral policy to not overturn Roe v. Wade. The majority of citizens in Massachusetts were pro-choice and it is not correct to impose our minority values on the majority. We live in a democracy and govern by the will and voice of the people. However, when other pro-life issues came to his desk as governor, such as the emergency contraception bill in 2005, he vetoed it.  I think conservatives can judge Mitt on his voting record.  He has never voted pro-choice. In national politics, the majority of Americans are pro-life, and therefore, if elected Mitt would support the overturning of Roe v Wade with exceptions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;2. Mormon religion and claimed beliefs.&lt;/b&gt;  The media carefully repeats mis-information about what members of the LDS faith believe.  Mormon beliefs is about the importance and sanctity of the traditional family, about following the doctrine of Jesus Christ which is to “do unto others what you would have them do unto you”, and being LDS is about patriotism to our country, its laws, and to the Constitution. LDS are taught that the US Constitution is inspired by God. So, people can spread rumors about what it means to be a Mormon, but family, virtue, and patriotism is what being a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints means to me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;3.  Association with anti-American globalist groups such as the Bohemian Grove,&lt;/b&gt; the Bilderberg Group, Council on Foreign Relations, and the Private Federal Reserve.Every year, the wealthy elite of the world get together during the last 2 week of July to enjoy their “Mid-summer encampment” at the exclusive and secret Bohemian Grove in Sonoma County Northern California.  The Bohemian Club, is a secret elite, all-male association founded in 1872. One of the founding members was Mark Twain.   More current membership includes every Republican US Presidents and many Democratic Presidents since Taft, Supreme Court Justices, presidential cabinet members, Forbes 100 CEO's, defense contractors, media moguls, IV League university presidents, all get together to frolic among the redwoods. In addition to the rumors, of drug use, homosexuality, prostitution, etc, is their disturbing Cremation of Care ceremony where a few members of the group of several thousand dress up like druids and burn the effigy of a child on an alter before a great owl statue.  This is interpreted as the casting out of conscience preparatory to the many unconscionable acts they will do over the next 2 weeks. The Manhattan Project was initially conceived a the Grove (a fact Edward Teller excluded from his autobiography on the history of the H-bomb, he also discusses nuclear fracking at the end of the book as a great idea).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What nearly every Ron Paul supporter knows and is concerned about is the infiltration of American institutions and the subversion of American values by powerful anti-American globalist who get together in meeting like the Bohemian Grove, Bilderberg Conference, CFR, G20, Davos, etc. and set the agenda, craft the laws, and decide the elections for the US.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A majority of Ron Paul supporter fear these meetings constitutes a US government, of the elite, by the elite, and for the elite.You may defeat Ron Paul in the Primary, but if he runs as a 3rd Party Candidate to continue “injecting issues into the debate”, you will loose the general election against President Obama.  Ron Paul does not talk openly about the Bohemian Grove, but nearly all of his politics are reactionary to this issue.  Nearly all Ron Paul supporters are concerned about the un-American influence of these organizations.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;4. Romney Care = Obama Care.&lt;/b&gt;  The elite-controlled media that has been giving you “anything but Romney” coverage, is associating the Massachusetts health care bill you established as the “blue print for Obama Care”.  I am a Emergency Physician, and nothing could be further from the truth.   The Ron Paul/Fox News group tries to paint this as a Constitutional issue because of the individual mandate that is required for everyone to purchase a minimum level of insurance just like drivers are required to purchase car insurance.Despite the media's attempts, I can't really even think of any similarities between Romney Care and Obama Care. &lt;u&gt;1. Romney care is a state program&lt;/u&gt;, and that is the crux of the Constitutional issue.  The states are free to be “the laboratories of democracy.”  &lt;u&gt;2. Romney care does not have a government option.&lt;/u&gt; The State of Massachusetts has not set up its own insurance company to compete against private insurance companies like Obama Care does.  Romney care helps citizens afford to purchase private health care from Aetna, Cigna, Blue Cross, Humana, Wellpoint, or United.  &lt;u&gt;3. Romney care does not set up a quality reimbursement system where doctor's reimbursement will depend on a government defined quality factor.&lt;/u&gt; &lt;u&gt;4. According to FactCheck.org, 59% of Massachusetts citizens are satisfied with Romney Care.&lt;/u&gt;  (Harvard/Boston Globe Survey, 2009)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;5. Anyone else but Romney. &lt;/b&gt; The main stream and alternative media attempting to injure your campaign with their “blah-blah”, un-excitement for you candidacy. The day after your win in New Hampshire, which wasn't really official until the next day, the news commentator said something like , “well since you all have already heard about the significance of Romney's win in New Hampshire yesterday, we don't want to bore you so we will move on to discuss other things today”.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I don't think there is anything you can do about this. The media is generally liberal and even the conservatives don't like you.  Conservative Radio talk show host, Dr. Bill Bennett is very influential among the 60+ crowd and his support for John McCain hurt you 4 years ago.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;6. Ron Paul Independent Run.&lt;/b&gt; If you let Ron Paul run as a 3rd-party candidate against you in the general election you will lose in the General Election to President Obama.  So, either you address the many issues that the “conspiracy theorist” Ron Paul supporters are concerned about and distance your self from the globalists, and big business, or invite Ron Paul to be your running mate in the General Election. He may decline, but it may make him look bad if he runs as an Independent.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;7. Association with Big Business. &lt;/b&gt; The economy has been in decline for the last 4 years.  America is shipping our industry and jobs overseas.  We are are not managing our affairs wisely. We are not “living within our means” as a nation.  Much of the blame for our current economic condition is not being focused on Pres. Obama, but on big globalist investment firms like Goldman Sachs, and private institutions like the Federal Reserve.  You need to distance yourself from the negatives of Big Business while playing up your leadership skills.  You need to show that Bain Capital is not Goldman Sachs, or MF Global.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. When you were with Bain &amp;amp; Company, you didn't like what they were doing, so you distanced yourself from them and formed Bain Capital.  You were so successful doing what you knew to be right, Bain &amp;amp; Company asked you to serve as their CEO to get them back on track to profitability.&lt;br /&gt;2. The 2002 Winter Olympics was mired in scandal.  Corporate advertisers were pulling out left and right.  You came in and operated things honestly and justly and turned things completely around and organized one of the most successful winter Olympics in history. You even directed traffic.&lt;br /&gt;3.  You ran as Governor of Massachusetts and didn't get into office and run things with a “business as usual” attitude. You got in and righted the ship, balanced the budget, and returned the State to efficient operation and continued prosperity.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7761825-598920190894973209?l=brainbender.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brainbender.blogspot.com/feeds/598920190894973209/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7761825&amp;postID=598920190894973209' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7761825/posts/default/598920190894973209'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7761825/posts/default/598920190894973209'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brainbender.blogspot.com/2012/01/media-attack-on-mitt-romney.html' title='Media Attack on Mitt Romney'/><author><name>David B</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11266046963020498076</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d102/everyday_something/d1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7761825.post-3224978913185589282</id><published>2012-01-04T19:21:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2012-01-04T19:23:40.416-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Constitutional Government'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Conservative Politics'/><title type='text'>Problem with Ron Paul</title><content type='html'>In July 2010, Barney Frank and Ron Paul co-authored a Huffington Post article rolling out their Sustainable Defense Task Force . The Task Force "consisting of experts on military expenditures that span the ideological spectrum" would recommend a trillion dollars in defense cuts.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However, as several articles are pointing out, these experts hardly represent the ideological spectrum. The names of the people in this TASK FORCE are huge liberals and have served in other very liberal, George Soros supported think tanks.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.comw.org &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Commonwealth Institute appears to be a think tank, public policy organization whose major project is called "the Project on Defense Alternatives (PDA)"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.comw.org/pda/&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It appears that the goal of PDA is for "Sustainable Growth" of the DOD, which is a misleading way of saying that these policy makers want to cut the US Military Budget by $1 Trillon over the next 10 years. However, everyone knows that just pulling out of Iraq and Afghanistan would achieve this goal without any further cuts to Defense spending. What puzzles me is that this whole PDA/Sustainable Defense Task Force is a group formed by a partnership between Ron Paul and Barney Frank, and it is filled with people connected with George Soros. The people who will decide how best to gut the DOD just at the exact time Russia and China are getting ready to attack the US&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;William D. Hartung (New American Foundation) Soros Funded&lt;br /&gt;Lawrence J. Kolb (the Center for American Progress) Soros Funded, Obama WhiteHouse Think Tank&lt;br /&gt;Miriam Pemberton (Institute for Policy Studies) Soros Funded, Soros Jr on board&lt;br /&gt;Christopher Hellman (National Priorities Project) Soros Funded&lt;br /&gt;Winslow Wheeler (Center for Defense Information) Urging globalism&lt;br /&gt;Charles Knight (Project for Defense Alternatives) &lt;br /&gt;Carl Conetta (Project for Defense Alternatives)&lt;br /&gt;Guy Molyneux (Open Society Institute)&lt;br /&gt;Richard Healey (Institute for Policy Studies, Center for Social Inclusion)&lt;br /&gt;Paul Kawika Martin (Peace Action = Committee for a SANE Nuclear Policy, Physicians for Social Responsibility) Soros Funded&lt;br /&gt;Lacie Olson (Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, Physicians for Social Responsibility)&lt;br /&gt;Heather Hurlburt (National Security Network) Soros funded&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;According to a FrontPageMag.com article 9 out of 14 members of the Paul-Frank Task Force are linked to George Soros supported organizations. 2 are affiliated with the CATO Institute.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Task Force Proposals:&lt;br /&gt;1. cutting nuclear deterrence&lt;br /&gt;2. reduce navy fleet by 57 ships, 2 carriers&lt;br /&gt;3. cancel Joint Strike Fighter&lt;br /&gt;4. curtail missile defense&lt;br /&gt;5. retire four Marine battalions&lt;br /&gt;6. reduce military by 200,000&lt;br /&gt;7. cut DOD research by 50 Billion over 10 years&lt;br /&gt;8. increase healthcare fees for military&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Paul is a globalist fraud. Only most conspiracy nuts are too near-sighted to realize their conspiracy candidate is just another example of controlled opposition.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;#1. A work associate who is a member of an elite family have supported him and the Tea Party from the beginning&lt;br /&gt;#2. He's a Libertarian&lt;br /&gt;#3. He is associated with Alex Jones&lt;br /&gt;#4. He wants to legalize drugs&lt;br /&gt;#5. He voted to end "don't ask don't tell"&lt;br /&gt;#6. His "Sustainable Defence Task Force" wants to gut the heart out of our military.&lt;br /&gt;#7. He spoke yesterday favorably about a return to the gold standard ( it's the amortized loan that inflates not the FED).&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7761825-3224978913185589282?l=brainbender.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brainbender.blogspot.com/feeds/3224978913185589282/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7761825&amp;postID=3224978913185589282' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7761825/posts/default/3224978913185589282'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7761825/posts/default/3224978913185589282'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brainbender.blogspot.com/2012/01/problem-with-ron-paul.html' title='Problem with Ron Paul'/><author><name>David B</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11266046963020498076</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d102/everyday_something/d1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7761825.post-7235247871375049368</id><published>2012-01-01T21:52:00.009-07:00</published><updated>2012-01-28T17:27:44.278-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Constitutional Government'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Banking and Economics'/><title type='text'>Safety Society/Merchantile Exchange/Bank</title><content type='html'>Discussing banking with several friends on the Internet and by email, there is another part of the Full Reserve, Safety Society that is needed to satisfy the demands for money in an economy. On one side, a healthy bank should only create money for loans for the purchase or production of a real bank-redeemable, bank-repossessible assets, goods, or commodities.   On the other side, money can also be created by the Merchantile exchange side and issued  for deposited, wearhoused real assets, goods, materials that can be fully redeemed or repurchased by the people.  In this way, the Safety Society/Merchantile Exchange Bank separates the Loan-side of business from the Deposit-side of business and there isn't multiple parties making a claim on the same asset as would happen if you issue money and issue a loan based on the same wearhoused asset.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. Most money in our money supply is created by a bank when a loan is issued. &lt;br /&gt;2. Milton Feidman's monetarism equation shows how money supply, velocity and real output produce unwanted inflation. dM/dt + dV/dt = infl + dRO/dt. &lt;br /&gt;3. The amortized loan drives inflation by collecting interest up front, the home owner does't build significant equity and then charges the next owner a higher price for an older asset. Thus money creation &gt; real output = inflation.&lt;br /&gt;4. Safety Society Bank is full reserve and separates deposits from loans. All deposits are kept 100% at the bank.&lt;br /&gt;5. Loans are only issued for real assets. Never for other currency or stock or bonds (private currency).&lt;br /&gt;6. Loans are simple interest and fee based. Loan origination fee is how local banks earn revenue and monthly service charge and late fees. &lt;br /&gt;7. Borrowers earn equity from month 1.&lt;br /&gt;8 if they miss a payment, it is deducted from equity.Default happens when all equity is lost and not after first missed payment.&lt;br /&gt;9. State or federal government actually creates the money and the standardized credit worthiness criteria but loans are administered by local banks.&lt;br /&gt;10. If default occurs, bank repos a real asset and can operate, rent and sell asset and repay federal or state treasury. Fed or state earns revenue by simple interest which is a voluntary tax/fee on the use of money . The interest rate would control inflation by withdrawing money from the system as needed.&lt;br /&gt;11. There would always be as much money as needed for any individual, corporation, or community to borrow however much they could repay for real assets only.&lt;br /&gt;12. Safety Sociey System is safe, immune from contractions and downturns in economy and from bank runs. &lt;br /&gt;13. Money is no longer artifically scarce. We no longer need to use scarce gold for money because we have technology to produce hard-to-counterfeit paper currency. But we can produce as much paper as is needed for credit worthy assets.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It makes no sense to have gold-redeemable currency, but not protects the banks from fractional reserve lending and borrowing for derivatives and stock that become worthless in a recession and bankrupt the bank.  What good is redeeming gold when your banking system just collapsed.  Money is created when a loan is issued. So, as long as a bank makes a loan for a "real asset", then the Bank can repossess that insured asset and not lose value if a person defaults on their loan.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With a gold-backed currency, how is value maintained in the system when people default on their loans and there are multiple people making a claim to redeem the same ounce of gold? If enough people fall on hard times, then the Fractional Reserve Bank goes bust and the economic disease spreads like Contagion to the rest of the community.  However, for deposits and such (which should be separate from loans in a full-reserve bank), a Bank/Merchantile Exchange could issue script money in exchange for real products, goods, and commodities. For example, An egg farmer would bring his eggs to the Bank/Merchantile Exchange/Safety Society. The Safety Societ/Mechantile would issue script/money based on those goods which could be used to purchase other goods in the Merchantile Exchange. This way the community is injected with money sufficient to re-purchase the commodities at the Store/Bank.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Safety Society part of the bank would issue loans. Currently Banks issue loans on their reserves, or how much money they have in deposits. When a Bank loses reserved they can't loan or pay out withdrawals and everyone goes bust (like Kirkland).  However, if script/money is always issued and backed up by a real asset, then the Bank and the Community is always protected.  So the Saftey Society Bank would issue loans based on if the loan was going for the purchase or production of a real "credit worthy" redeemable, repossessabke good, commodity, or asset like real estate.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Loans are not made based on how many eggs are in the wearhouse at the Merchantile Exchange. Money has already been created based on the eggs. The price of the eggs, that they would be sold, would be based on supply and demand and based on retaining value. There would not be much markup on the eggs. The money issued would be almost enough to purchase the eggs back.  Loans would be a totally separate mechanism for money creation instead of how the banks do now with fractional reserve lending and create double the money for each egg they have in possession. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Separating the Deposit/Merchantile Exchange-side of banking from the Safety Society/Loan-side of Banking preserves the bank's Full Reserve status and prevents there being multiple money creation on the same asset (egg), and consequently multiple parties making a claim to redeem/repossess the same asset (egg).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It would be best if interest rates and money creation and credit-worthiness criteria were standardized by the US Treasury as the Constitution requires, but the Safety Society/Merchantile Exchange could be totally decentralized and locally regulated.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You don't need to perseverate on the "egg".  Substitute it for whatever non-perishable you like.  The following statement seems to be the core of your economic ideology: "because when you require that others invest their stored value in some new enterprise, they will be more careful and require compensation"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. Your system is fractional reserve. Loans are made based upon deposits. Therefore, both the investors and the loaned money holders have claim on the same wearhoused commodity.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. You claim investment risk is necessary.  I say it is not. I would like to see a decrease in the practice of money making money.  My whole system is about decreasing the practice of the wealthy making money on money.  Venture capital will still be necessary but the laborer will be able have access to safe, appropriately priced credit.  Furthermore, The bank makes fees and interest to cover it's overhead.  The government makes a Constitutional voluntary tax/fee/interest to control inflation and generate revenue.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. When you have some kind of economic shock, history demonstrates again and again that your system's loan defaults will exceed the projected risk and your bank will be insolvent, your wearhoused wealth will disappear, and your economy will be in shambles.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4. Your historical system divides the people into classes of wealth-holders and laborers where the wealthy use their un-elected Machiavellian economic power to "carefully decide" to invest in those things that will maintain or advance their power.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5.  You have never proven that my system would produce unwanted inflation nor "steel" value from the wealthy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;6.  Money is not being created out of nothing.  There are real assets that the bank can redeem and repossess if the loan is defaulted on.  Neither side needs to lose.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;7.  Your wealth vs. laborer  system is neither honest nor wonderful.  Wealth/commodity-holders need not enslave the laborer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;8. We need not excessively put a drag on growth as your system historically does.  My system which is not mine and neither is it my invention would use fees, interest, and have standardized rules by elected leaders that contol and properly regulate money creation and economic growth.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;9.  You are arguing for a historical system based on a local unelected oligarchy, austerity, inequality, and economic slavery.  Tyranny is wrong whether it be local or global.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;10.  Man should earn his bread by the sweat of his brow all the days of his life and not just until he has wearhoused enough to live off the sweat of others.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thinking about the failings of the "egg" analogy it is clear that the Merchantile Exchange would only deal with non-perishable goods and not perishable items.  Therefore there would need to be a separate grocery store.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7761825-7235247871375049368?l=brainbender.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brainbender.blogspot.com/feeds/7235247871375049368/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7761825&amp;postID=7235247871375049368' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7761825/posts/default/7235247871375049368'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7761825/posts/default/7235247871375049368'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brainbender.blogspot.com/2012/01/safety-societymerchantile-exchangebank.html' title='Safety Society/Merchantile Exchange/Bank'/><author><name>David B</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11266046963020498076</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d102/everyday_something/d1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7761825.post-7603255242065482337</id><published>2011-12-26T23:03:00.002-07:00</published><updated>2012-01-28T17:25:28.771-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Constitutional Government'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Banking and Economics'/><title type='text'>Problem with Gold and a Gold-Redeemable Currency</title><content type='html'>Protocol 20:22 "YOU ARE AWARE THAT THE GOLD STANDARD HAS BEEN THE RUIN OF THE STATES WHICH ADOPTED IT, FOR IT HAS NOT BEEN ABLE TO SATISFY THE DEMANDS FOR MONEY, THE MORE SO THAT WE HAVE REMOVED GOLD FROM CIRCULATION AS FAR AS POSSIBLE."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Man has been on a gold and silver standard since money was first mentioned in the Bible in the days of Abraham about 2000 BC and the Silver Shekel of Tyre.  The widespread use of money fits with Revelation's description of money being revealed during the 3rd Seal or 3rd Millennium of man's mortal existence on this Earth (Black Horse).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But the Black Horse of the 3rd Seal isn't primarily about money.  The Black Horse represents famine.  According to the prophecy, artificial scarcity resulted in a days wages barely purchasing enough wheat or barley for one man to survive.  However, luxury items like oil and wine were  unaffected.  The artificial scarcity of a gold-redeemable currency, has driven nations to plunder and subjugate neighboring peoples for gold for thousands of years.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I believe money should be backed by real assets as well as being fully redeemable for those assets without causing unwanted inflation.  But a Constitutional money system should also not need to constrain us to the scarcity of gold, nor cause our banking institutions to be vulnerable to failure due to fractional reserve banking and periodic contractions in the money supply. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Unfortunately, I see an eventual end to the FED and a return to a gold standard.  If this happens,  will the US confiscates gold from the people again like it did in 1933 or will it confiscate half of Germany's gold supply that is currently being held by the New York FED? (Max Keiser)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;SSS is not inflationary.  Loans focus on retaining value and would not be approved for inflationary profiteering.  Constitutional voluntary fee/tax would also control inflation levied for the use of national credit.  Also, the SSS currency is backed by real redeemable assets.  And SSS protects banks from their inherent vulnerability to failure due to commodity price fluctuations and the consequences of fractional reserve banking.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What good is it to have gold-redeemable currency when your bank fails, the curency fails, and the economy falls into a deep depression?  Why not prevent the bank failure?  ****Letting the bank redeem their money following an individual failure is better then letting the people redeem their money following a total banking, currency and total economic failure.*****&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Don't fall for the obvious Gold propaganda that is being overplayed in both the mainstream and alternative media.  Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, Genesis Communication all preaching gold, gold, gold.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&gt; Money is just a medium of exchange.  As long as the parties involved agree upon what the exchange rate.  If individuals are free to make private contracts with one another, then they should be free to exchange money.  Money, as I see it, could be described as a standardized government contract form approved for use by its citizenry.&lt;br /&gt;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&gt; The issues with gold is that while it is innert and lasts a long time, there isn't much of it around. This creates a problem of scarcity.  And when something is made scarce, then it gets a false value associated with it.  On the flip side, you don't want people to be able to counterfeit money either.  That goes for the government also.  However, with modern technology, we can better create paper currencies that cannot easily be counterfeit.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&gt; Today, we really don't need gold at all because we can create a relatively counterfeit-proof currency that is equally accessible.  Thus we can get back to money just being just a contract again and not treated as something of value in and of itself.  &lt;br /&gt;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&gt; I am afraid that just because the FED instituted a fraudulent, inflationary, and destructive fiat currency that we necessarily need to run away from paper back to the inequality and scarcity of gold. That said, money has to be tied to something of value.  I agree that the Goverment shouldn't counterfeit either.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&gt; I am of the opinion that it was the HUD/FHA amortized loan and other amortized loans like it that were the major drivers of inflation in our economy.  Banks create most of the money in our economy and amortized loans are the tool by which banks create that money.  And exactly as the Feidman macroeconomic equation predicts, the amortized mortgage (double death) creates money each time a home is bought and sold for a higher price that does not  match an increase in real output.  It's the same house as before, just older and now costs more but is not worth more.  This is an amazing verification of the Friedman equation. (in fact this point is exactly what woke me up in 2008)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&gt; Despite your opinion that the Freidman Macroeconomic equation doesn't apply to the macroeconomics of inflation, I think I have just shown you a clear example of how a microeconomic mismatch between money creation, velocity, and real output creates  macroeconomic inflation.  The Amortized Mortgage is an inflation generator by doing exactly what the Freidman equation predicts.&lt;br /&gt;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&gt; Freidman Monetarism may be ruining this country, but it's not because the equations don't apply or don't work.  The equations do apply and the system is working just as  the equation predicts.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&gt; I suggest that because the Friedman equation does apply, that it is very possible that the SSS would not produced the unwanted inflation that you are convinced it would produce.  Remember, money would never be created out of nothing.  Money would only br created if there was a durable good it was being created to purchase or produce.  Not unlike your system.  Money supply, money velocity would stay proportional to real output.&lt;br /&gt;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&gt; Again, just like your system.  The real asset and the price has been negotiated before the loan is applied for.  There is no speculation.  if a building is being built, the materials, land, labor etc already exists and has a negotiated price before the money is created.  In this system money ceases to be the rate limiting step.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&gt; Again, I don't remember saying this or thinking this.  If inflation is controlled, simple interest, fee-based loans can compete in a free market.  Anyone is free to charge more and pay more. However in the SSS, local banks make money as they do now by charging a loan origination fee and a monthly service charge.  The Gov makes money by charging a prime interest rate and generating revenue on what is a Constitutionally-sound voluntary tax on the entire money supply and not just a fraction of it (could make the income tax obsolete).  And then we can get rid of the useless "too-big-to-fail" mega banks who were instituted because of our short but persistent history of small bank failures.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&gt; In the Safety Society System we don't need the unelected wealthy capitalist to decide what to invest in. Our capitalist system tells us we need those few rich guys at the top of the pyramid.  In this system we have a free market without a need for the the capitalists (oligarchs).  And we can still have our football stadium and aquarium.&lt;br /&gt;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&gt; In the SSS, If an individual is credit worthy and there is a real asset to purchase, the local bank would extend the loan and the loan would be repaid with interest and fees. And when the owner resold the asset, he would have equity from day 1 such that he wouldn't need to inflate the asking price to his neighbor.&lt;br /&gt;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&gt; Furthermore, if a community wants a museum or an aquarium, they can qualify for a loan to build the aquarium or museum.  And they don't need Billionaire ultra-elite capitalists to fund these building projects.  Other financial institutions would fill the niches for venture capital and other speculative activities. SSS is about being full reserve and staying safe.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7761825-7603255242065482337?l=brainbender.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brainbender.blogspot.com/feeds/7603255242065482337/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7761825&amp;postID=7603255242065482337' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7761825/posts/default/7603255242065482337'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7761825/posts/default/7603255242065482337'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brainbender.blogspot.com/2011/12/problem-with-gold-and-gold-backed.html' title='Problem with Gold and a Gold-Redeemable Currency'/><author><name>David B</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11266046963020498076</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d102/everyday_something/d1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7761825.post-8559021780003883796</id><published>2011-12-20T00:11:00.012-07:00</published><updated>2011-12-20T02:49:35.307-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Banking and Economics'/><title type='text'>Milton Freidman Monetarism and Inflation</title><content type='html'>A friend was arguing that the Community Safety Society Banking and Loan System would generate unwanted inflation.  This friend also said that the macroeconomic inflation equation did not apply or predict inflation on the microeconomic scale.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;#1.  MV = PQ.   (money supply x velocity = price x real value&lt;br /&gt;       g(m) + g(v) = infl + g(y) .   (growth rate of money supply + velocity = inflation + real output)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This equation says that as long as the growth rate of real output matches the growth rate of the money supply the system will not produce inflation. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;#2. Mega FED-member Banks create most of the money in the US money supply through making loans via fractional reserve banking.  The FED creates some money by selling bonds and then loans that money to a FED-member bank.  The Mega Bank then can loan out 10 times that amount as home or business loans.  Thus Banks create over 90% of the money supply out of thin air. This 10:1 ratio is called the money multiplier which was expanded (leveraged) to 50:1-100:1 via derivatives until the Basil 2 Accords (Basil 1 ruined Japan) contracted the money supply in 2007 busting the housing bubble.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;#3. The HUD/FHA amortized mortgage produces inflation because the banks collect interest up front and the creditor doesn't build appreciable equity on the house unless they charge the next home owner a higher price for the same asset that has now depreciated in value or at least not changed in value.  By definition, the amortized loan generates inflation. (increased money supply but not an increase in real output)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;#4.  The Safety Society System is a full reserve banking system.  100% of what is deposited is kept by the bank and not lent out.  Banks become insolvent because they are fractional reserve and not full reserve.  That means they only keep 10% of deposited money in the bank.  And they don't keep the reserves as cash because of inflation but are forced to speculate and invest in bonds, stocks and volitile derivatives.  If the derivatives or stocks crash then the banks lose their reserves and cannot lend and cannot pay depositors.  The bank is then insolvent and goes bankrupt.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;#5. SSS would have a totally separate credit and loan system from the deposits thus the depositors are not subjected to the risk of the borrowers.  The SSS is full reserve and immune from stock market crashes and bank runs.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;#6. The US Constitution Article 1 Section 8 says that Congess via the US Treasury is to "coin " all the money and regulate its value.  Therefore, under SSS, an individual, community, corporation would go to their locally run and owned SSS to be approved for a loan to purchase or build or produce a real asset, real estate, land or commodity.  The price would be negotiated beforehand and then the loan applied for.  The money would then be created via the US Treasury and administered via the Community SSS.  This new money doesn't need to be backed by gold because it is backed by the real asset, land,  real estate, or commodity it is being used to buy, build, and produce.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;#7.  A gold standard is undesirable because gold is too rare, and it makes money scarce.  Thus those with the gold have unelected Machiavellian power over the rest.  Now that we can use technology to create paper currency that is difficult to counterfeit, we don't need to use the scarcity of gold as a medium of exchange.  With paper, money can be produced and made available as much as is needed and is qualified for by credit-worthy individuals, communities, and corporations.  Money would only be created in an "ask-and-ye-shall-receive" basis where value is assessed and price is negotiated and preceeds the money creation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;#8.  In a perfect system, SSS would never create money that did not result in real output.  Thus according to the Friedman equation, no inflation is generated.  But in the inefficiencies of a real-world system there would be a small rate of inflation.  Inflation can be easily controlled by taxation by the Federal Government through simple interest rates.  Increased interest rates would take excess money out of the system.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;#9.  Local SSS would make money the same way local banks do today.  SSS would charge a loan origination fee and a monthly loan service charge.  These banks could operate as non-profits and collect enough fees to cover their overhead.  Loan fees are how local banks make their money today as they immediately resell the loan to a bigger bank almost immediately who created the money out of thin air.  If the SSS were allowed to compete, we wouldn't need the too-big-to-fail mega banks which were only allowed to back up the smaller fractional reserve banks who continually went bankrupt even in the days before the FED when US currency was gold-redeemable.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;#10.  The Federal Government generates revenue on these SSS loans by charging a prime simple interest rate.  This Constitutional voluntary tax could supply the Federal Goverenment with all the money they could ever need because they would collect simple interest on all the money created in the money supply and not just a fraction of it as they do now.  With the collection of prime interest on all money created in the US money supply, the Federal Government could do away with the involuntary income tax.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;#11.  In Capitalism, getting bank loans is such a bad deal, we need wealthy super-elite who amass huge amounts of money who we then turn to for loans for venture capital and for humanitarianism.  We also depend on politicians for favors and pork-barrel money put into bills.  If the Safety Society System were allowed to compete, and inflation were controlled, we wouldn't be as dependent on the ultra-wealthy elite or corrupt politicians to get monies for what we want to do or what we need.    SSS is free-market without the capitalism.  With SSS, we don't need to become financial sharecroppers and debt slaves to an ultra-wealthy elite class.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;#12.  SSS does not speculate or make money on money. Individuals and other financial institutions would do the business of venture capital and speculation.  SSS is about being safe, full reserve, weathering any economic storm, and providing an equitable credit and loan system.  Making money on money shouldn't be illegal but isn't right.  Money shouldn't have any intrinsic value of itselt, it is just a contract, and its value is in the redeemable asset, good, or commodity that is backing it.  In the SSS, all money is backed by something.  But money should not be used to back more money creation.  When money can be leveraged to make more money, it divides the people and pits the wealthy class against labor.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;#13.  SSS loans are simple interest, free-based loans and not compound loans that blow up exponentially.  The borrower begins earning equity from the down payment and first monthly payments.  In this way, with inflation controlled,  the owner of the home loan doesn't need to charge the next home owner a higher price for the same home.  SSS is about preserving value.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;#14.  Many people want to replace the FED and our current corrupt fiat currency system.  But I would be careful not to act too emotionally and reactionary against what the corrupt Federal Reserve has done with paper currency.  Going back to a gold-redeemable currency is not the best idea.  We had this system before and we forget that the gobal elite still own most of the gold and have a De Beers-like monopoly on gold production.  Thus gold prices can easily be inflated and crash just as they did beginning with the 1300's failure of the Gold Florin, up to the creation of the FED.  By returning to a gold standard, the scarcity of gold would result in greatly limited economic growth potential.  In a real way, returning to gold would would be like unwittingly accepting austerity measures.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;#15.  Others have suggested a system which requires that money-redeemable assets be sitting in a wearhouse first before money is created.  However, this zero-sum system is, in the real world, slightly deflationary, and is a form of fractional-reserve lending.  Also, the bank can only lend out enough money for people to re-purchase the goods in the wearhouse.  So, its a kind of Merchantile Exchange and Bank at the same time.  There really isn't enough money left over for other economic activity. Also, there is a problem of price fluctuations, regional price variation, and trading currencies with other banks that could make the bank vulnerable to failure.  Money in this system would be very scarce, which would greatly hinder economic growth.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;#16.  Since the borrower builds equity from day 1, if the borrower misses a payment, the 1 missed payment does not result in the immediate default on the loan.  Usually borrowers have paid faithfully for years and then come upon hard times, lost job, illness, and can't make their mortgage payments.  In our current system, one missed payment means a family can lose their home and forfeit all the equity they have made.  In the SSS, the borrower has equity from day one and a missed payment is just simply deducted from the individual's equity.  Default does not occur until the borrower has lost all equity in the asset.  The bank then would repossess, lease, operate, or resell the asset.  So, the SSS loan becomes an immediate reverse mortgage at any time.  In a way, it is a sort of insurance policy for the borrower and the bank.  Added fees could also be assessed for missed payments if needed.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7761825-8559021780003883796?l=brainbender.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brainbender.blogspot.com/feeds/8559021780003883796/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7761825&amp;postID=8559021780003883796' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7761825/posts/default/8559021780003883796'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7761825/posts/default/8559021780003883796'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brainbender.blogspot.com/2011/12/milton-freidman-monetarism-and.html' title='Milton Freidman Monetarism and Inflation'/><author><name>David B</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11266046963020498076</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d102/everyday_something/d1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7761825.post-3307958859436738452</id><published>2011-12-19T23:09:00.006-07:00</published><updated>2011-12-20T00:06:53.933-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Banking and Economics'/><title type='text'>Community Safety Society Banking and Loan System</title><content type='html'>You indicated in your response that the Community Safety Society would result in unwanted inflation.  I agree that inflation is undesirable. However, I am not yet convinced that the Saftey Society would produce inflation.  And I would like to explore this a bit more with you. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am not opposed to the idea of all US currency being fully backed by gold and silver.  I also recognize that the banking profession needs to cover its overhead.  So, I have no problem with banks issuing fee-based and simple interest loans.  The Catholic Church probiltion against the collection of any interest created a credit black market in the Middle Ages that led to all sorts of abuses. (Lombards, Templar Houses, Florentine and Venetian Banks)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However, I do not believe that it is not right nor necessary for money to make money.  This divides the people and pits wealth against labor.  Furthermore, full-reserve banks shouldn't issue loans based on depositor's gold; even by contract:  1. extending loans based on gold deposits subjects depositors to risk by the creditors. 2. Loaning deposits is another type of inherently risky fractional-reserve system  3. According to the Constitution, only the Federal Government should have the power to coin the money and regulate its value.  In our current system, fractional reserve banks create a large majority of our money.  How is extending loans based on private deposits any different? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Therefore, in my opinion, If we decide to create an inflationless economy, we need a banking system that focuses on preserving the value of our deposits as well as being  immune from banking failure (full reserve).  At the same time, we must create a credit system where credit is so readily and equitably accessible, there is no need to subjugate ourselves to a wealthy class. To do this, It is my opinion that we need a credit system that operates independently from the deposit system. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A locally owned and operated Community Safety Society would be full-reserve.  The bank would hold 100% of its deposits in reserve. Money for new loans would come from the US Treasury.  This money could also be gold-backed.  If an individual, corporation, or community, demonstrates credit-worthiness, then they should be granted a fee-based, low, simple interest loan to go towards the purchase of or production of real estate, real assets, durable goods, and commodities. (money never lent for speculation). &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;According to my very limited economics understanding, "real demand" should not produce inflation.  According to g(m) + g(v) = infl + g(y).  As long as the growth rate of the money supply = growth rate of real output, then inflation = 0.  It's only when the money supply exceeds real output that inflation is produced.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the Safety Society System, money is only ever created and credit extended for the projected production and/or purchase of real assets on an "ask and ye shall receive" basis. Money is never created without real demand and projected real output in some sort of Keynesian injection of liquidity. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our current system produces inflation because the money is created first and the price comes second.  In this system, price precedes money creation. An example of money creation preceeding price is the FHA/HUD amortized loan.  With interest collected up front, the only way to earn equity is to charge the next buyer a higher price. Thus, this loan has money creation built into it which drives an inflating price for a depreciating asset. In the Safety Society System, a borrower earns equity from day 1 and is free to sell the asset for its real price.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In conclusion, have no objections to the Federal Government creating only "gold-backed" currency.  However, we don't change our history of perpetual banking failures unless we establish a full-reserve system, control inflation, and establish an equitable and available credit system.&lt;br /&gt;Furthermore, Constitutional money is more than just gold and silver, but it is about the Federal Government doing one of the few things enumerated in the Constitution; which is to coin "all" of the money and not just a fraction of it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With such an equitable and available credit system, there would be much less need for companies to "go public", sell stock, have their boards infiltrated,  and then risk getting bought out in a hostile takeover. Also, the Safety Society System could mean a great reduction or even an end  to pork barrel politics.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;P.S,  these are a few quotes that are some of the basis for the Safety Society System.  I'm not sure they are even authentic.  But they make the point about the importance of controlling our currency, credit, and inflation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"If that mischievous financial policy which had its origin in the North America Republic during the late war in that country, should become indurated down to a fixture, then that Government will furnish its own money without cost. It will pay off its debts and be without debt.  It will become prosperous beyond precedent in the history of the civilized governments of the world. The brains and wealth of all countries will go to North America. That government must be destroyed or it will destroy every monarchy on the globe."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“That is simple. In the Colonies, we issue our own paper money. It is called ‘Colonial Scrip.’ We issue it in proper proportion to make the goods and pass easily from the producers to the consumers. In this manner, creating ourselves our own paper money, we control its purchasing power and we have no interest to pay to no one.”. -Benjamin Franklin&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"The Colonies would gladly have borne the little tax on tea and other matters had it not been the poverty caused by the bad influence of the English bankers on the Parliament (The Currency Act of 1751), which has caused in the Colonies hatred of England and the Revolutionary War."   -Benjamin Franklin.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hopefully, the last time.  I know we have beat this to death.  Thank you for your responses . I  think I better understand where you are coming from and  I hope you understand where I am coming from. I'm not set on convincing you, I just want to feel like you understand what the concept.  I am keeping an open mind but I'm happy you would take the time to discuss this issue. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I get the gold idea.  Ending the FED and fiat and a return to "gold redeemable" money and a continuation of fractional reserve banking is very popular.  Zeitgeist and many "white hat" are pulling for it.  It seems every other commercial on the radio is selling gold.  When we finally see the end of the FED and the end of the dollar, I'm sure we'll all think we just won some great battle.  We've had gold redeemable currencies before.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I can appreciate your added idea that money creation be completely decentralized.  Its a great idea.  However, this idea could be a bit reactionary (pendulum swinging too far opposite the FED).    But, I guess your bank could also be your store that made loans based on the value of its inventory.  People could take out loans from the Merchantile Exchange and then return that money to the same Merchantile Exchange for whatever goods they wanted.  Interesting idea. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Merchantile Exchange Bank could have a problem I think.  It seems to me that the Exchange would only ever be able to lend out the exact money to purchase the inventory in its wearhouse.  If the bank can only lend out enough money for the people to buy out its inventory, how is there any money left over to do any other economic activity? How do you import anything?  What do you do with price fluctuations?  How would &lt;br /&gt;Hopefully, the last time.  I know we have beat this to death.  Thank you for your responses . I  think I better understand where you are coming from and  I hope you understand where I am coming from. I'm not set on convincing you, I just want to feel like you understand what the concept.  I am keeping an open mind but I'm happy you would take the time to discuss this issue. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I get the gold idea.  Ending the FED and fiat and a return to "gold redeemable" money and a continuation of fractional reserve banking is very popular.  Zeitgeist and many "white hat" are pulling for it.  It seems every other commercial on the radio is selling gold.  When we finally see the end of the FED and the end of the dollar, I'm sure we'll all think we just won some great battle.  We've had gold redeemable currencies before.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I can appreciate your added idea that money creation be completely decentralized.  Its a great idea.  However, this idea could be a bit reactionary (pendulum swinging too far opposite the FED).    But, I guess your bank could also be your store that made loans based on the value of its inventory.  People could take out loans from the Merchantile Exchange and then return that money to the same Merchantile Exchange for whatever goods they wanted.  Interesting idea. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Merchantile Exchange Bank could have a problem I think.  It seems to me that the Exchange would only ever be able to lend out the exact money to purchase the inventory in its wearhouse.  If the bank can only lend out enough money for the people to buy out its inventory, how is there any money left over to do any other economic activity? How do you import anything?  What do you do with price fluctuations?  How would currency exchange from bank to bank? Seems like you would have to get in line for a loan.   I'll have to give this some more thought.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another idea I would love to see is to actually do as the Constitution suggests.  Unfortunately, because of fractional reserve lending, we've always had banks creating a majority of our money in this country and not Congress.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I seriously think it is possible that the FED instituted a corrupt paper currency to drive us away from paper and back to gold. Thinking on the London Times comment, I think there may be something about paper currency that TPTB are hoping we miss as we run away from it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;#####"it can't have gold unless it buys it from those who produce it, or taxes it away from people.  That's not a costless transaction"####&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I suggested gold redeemable currency attempting to be conciliatory.  But you make a good point here.  I agree that the government taxing away the people's gold would add unwanted cost.  So, I will repent on this idea.  Let's forget gold all together.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;####"True money has to be a certificate of value for durable goods in a warehouse, "####&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Money is just a medium of exchange.  As long as the parties involved agree upon what the exchange rate.  If individuals are free to make private contracts with one another, then they should be free to exchange money.  Money, as I see it, could be described as a standardized government contract form approved for use by its citizenry. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The issues with gold is that while it is innert and lasts a long time, there isn't much of it around. This creates a problem of scarcity.  And when something is made scarce, then it gets a false value associated with it.  On the flip side, you don't want people to be able to counterfeit money either.  That goes for the government also.  However, with modern technology, we can better create paper currencies that cannot easily be counterfeit. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today, we really don't need gold at all because we can create a relatively counterfeit-proof currency that is equally accessible.  Thus we can get back to money just being just a contract again and not treated as something of value in and of itself.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am afraid that just because the FED instituted a fraudulent, inflationary, and destructive fiat currency that we necessarily need to run away from paper back to the inequality and scarcity of gold. That said, money has to be tied to something of value.  I agree that the Goverment shouldn't counterfeit either.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am of the opinion that it was the HUD/FHA amortized loan and other amortized loans like it that were the major drivers of inflation in our economy.  Banks create most of the money in our economy and amortized loans are the tool by which banks create that money.  And exactly as the Feidman macroeconomic equation predicts, the amortized mortgage (double death) creates money each time a home is bought and sold for a higher price that does not  match an increase in real output.  It's the same house as before, just older and now costs more but is not worth more.  This is an amazing verification of the Friedman equation. (in fact this point is exactly what woke me up in 2008)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Despite your opinion that the Freidman Macroeconomic equation doesn't apply to the macroeconomics of inflation, I think I have just shown you a clear example of how a microeconomic mismatch between money creation, velocity, and real output creates  macroeconomic inflation.  The Amortized Mortgage is an inflation generator by doing exactly what the Freidman equation predicts.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Freidman Monetarism may be ruining this country, but it's not because the equations don't apply or don't work.  The equations do apply and the system is working just as  the equation predicts.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I suggest that because the Friedman equation does apply, that it is very possible that the SSS would not produced the unwanted inflation that you are convinced it would produce.  Remember, money would never be created out of nothing.  Money would only br created if there was a durable good it was being created to purchase or produce.  Not unlike your system.  Money supply, money velocity would stay proportional to real output. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Again, just like your system.  The real asset and the price has been negotiated before the loan is applied for.  There is no speculation.  if a building is being built, the materials, land, labor etc already exists and has a negotiated price before the money is created.  In this system money ceases to be the rate limiting step.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;####"you can't create anything from nothing ... and not be inflationary"####&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As I said, I agree that currency needs to represent something of value.  I never said that I supported the Federal Government just printing money out of nothing as we do now.  In the Safety Society System, money is backed by the real durrable assets it is being created to purchase, or being created to produce.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;####"Just because the Constitution gave congress the right to coin and regulate money doesn't mean it's right "####&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I say, let's follow our inspired Constitution first before deciding if it's "right" or not. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;####"no cost loans"####&lt;br /&gt;Again, I don't remember saying this or thinking this.  If inflation is controlled, simple interest, fee-based loans can compete in a free market.  Anyone is free to charge more and pay more. However in the SSS, local banks make money as they do now by charging a loan origination fee and a monthly service charge.  The Gov makes money by charging a prime interest rate and generating revenue on what is a Constitutionally-sound voluntary tax on the entire money supply and not just a fraction of it (could make the income tax obsolete).  And then we can get rid of the useless "too-big-to-fail" mega banks who were instituted because of our short but persistent history of small bank failures.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;####"It's also wrong to say compound interest is illegal. "####&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I don't remember saying or even thinking this.  But if we control inflation, and simple interest, fee-based loans are available, I'm sure they would compete very well in a free market. Again, I haven't proposed making anything illegal.  I just would like to see these ideas compete in a free market.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What I did say is that I don't agree that money needs to be used to make more money.  I wouldn't make this illegal, my system would make loan sharks obsolete.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;####"There is no free lunch on loans, much as you persist in trying to make it so."####&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the Safety Society System we don't need the unelected wealthy capitalist to decide what to invest in. Our capitalist system tells us we need those few rich guys at the top of the pyramid. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the SSS, If an individual is credit worthy and there is a real asset to purchase, the local bank would extend the loan and the loan would be repaid with interest and fees. And when the owner resold the asset, he would have equity from day 1 such that he wouldn't need to inflate the asking price to his neighbor. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Furthermore, if a community wants a museum or an aquarium, they can qualify for a loan to build the aquarium or museum.  And they don't need Billionaire ultra-elite capitalists to fund these building projects.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Other financial institutions would fill the niches for venture capital and other speculative activities. SSS is about being full reserve and staying safe.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7761825-3307958859436738452?l=brainbender.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brainbender.blogspot.com/feeds/3307958859436738452/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7761825&amp;postID=3307958859436738452' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7761825/posts/default/3307958859436738452'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7761825/posts/default/3307958859436738452'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brainbender.blogspot.com/2011/12/community-safety-society-banking-and.html' title='Community Safety Society Banking and Loan System'/><author><name>David B</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11266046963020498076</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d102/everyday_something/d1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7761825.post-6492616173395225689</id><published>2011-12-15T01:38:00.003-07:00</published><updated>2011-12-15T02:25:04.853-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Constitutional Government'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Banking and Economics'/><title type='text'>Monetary and Economic Solution for the World</title><content type='html'>Dear Ben,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I was listening to one of your recent interviews, and I was just amazed at your description of a monetary a banking solution.  I have been thinking exactly along the same lines. I especially liked your comments on gold and gold production; how it can be and is manipulated just as easily as fiat currency.  (eg 1300's Florentine banking failure). I have been making these same arguments.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1: Gold and gold production can be and is manipulated just as easily as fiat currency.  (eg 1300's Florentine banking failure). &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2: Money and Credit need to be created by the US Treasury and administered locally based on projected production of commodities and not what is already warehoused.   &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Critics in the media are a dime-a-dozen, but it's rare to hear people talk about solutions.  I wanted you send you my thoughts with regard to a US Constitutional-based banking and Monetary System called the "Safety Society System."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ENUMERATED PRIVILEGE&lt;br /&gt;According to Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution the Congress of the US is charged with the duty, privilege, and responsibility to "coin" or create the money as well as borrow and lend based on the credit of the United States. So, knowing that "coining" money is part of the duty of Congress, I wonder just how much our Senators and Representatives know about how our economy works. With the passage of the Federal Reserve Act in 1913, the Congress has abdicated this sacred responsibility to a privately owned central bank. Now, it's time for Congress to take this privilege back.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;MONEY SUPPLY&lt;br /&gt;The money supply is broken up into constituent parts (m0-m3). Many opponents of the Federal Reserve System advocate a return to a gold standard where circulating money (m0-m2) must be backed by gold and other precious metals. Unfortunately, as you are already well aware, the same "special interests" that own the banks own the domestic gold production with a DeBeer's-like Monopoly. But, in addition to backing circulating money with gold, a large portion of the money supply could be backed with land and and other "real" assets, commodities and durable goods. To protect gold production, Congress may need to regulate domestic gold production by exercizing anti-trust legislation in addition to giving back to the states Federal Lands and the corresponding mineral rights.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;MONEY CREATION&lt;br /&gt;Instead of allowing the mega-banks to create 90% of the money supply via Fractional Reserve Lending, why not allow the US Treasury create/coin all the money in the money supply? Why not cut out the super-mega, too-big-to-fail banks and allow non-profit local and banks direct access to US Treasury capital for the purpose of issuing simple-interest, fee-based loans for credit-worthy borrowers, for non-depreciating assets like land and real-estate, commodities and durrible goods? Under such an equitable, risk-free system; capital is no longer an artificial scarcity and the unelected, ultra-elite, banking corporatocracy who control huge capital pools no longer wield Machiavellian power over the rest of society.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;SAFETY SOCIETY&lt;br /&gt;Therefore, I propose the creation of local and state non-profit "community safety society" banks. These locally controlled and administered institutions would have direct access to US Treasury capital for the purpose of issuing simple-interest or fee-based loans for non-depreciating assets such as land, and real-estate purchases. These "safety societies" would generate revenue for the Federal Government and to cover overhead costs by charging a loan origination fee, as well as modest monthly loan servicing fees (simple interest).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Under the "Safety Society" System, any citizens who can demonstrate regular employment and income can qualify for a loan. Groups, co-ops, and corporations can qualify for business loans to purchase and develop land. Communities can pass referendums for a sales tax increase and qualify for larger loans based on the projected tax revenue.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Many monetary solutions which call for a commodity-backed currency require the commodities to be wearhoused before the money is created and the loan extended.  In the Safety Society System, money is created and loans extended for projected growth and production.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;AMORTIZATION AND INFLATION&lt;br /&gt;The benefits of this system are that home and business owners will be able to build equity immediately unlike the FHA/HUD amortized loans we have now that collect interest up front. Amortized loans are a major driver of inflation because the only way to earn equity in the first 10 years is for the price of the home to go up. So, you have a 10-year-old home that is now $30,000 more expensive. Consequently, the amortized loan has been a major contributer to the devaluation of the dollar since 1934.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;LOW RISK&lt;br /&gt;I claim that such an equitable lending system would protect our "safety society" bank from risk by only issuing simple-interest/fee-based loans for non-depreciating assets. In the event that a borrower (citizen, co-op, corporation, community) were unable to make a payment, that missed payment would be deducted from the equity in the property. In this way, the loan would operate as an instant reverse mortgage at any time. Therefore, missed payments actually become extra revenue for the Federal Government Foreclosure would not occur until the borrower had lost all equity in the asset unlike today when a bank has the right to foreclose after 1-2 missed payment resulting in the borrower forfeiting any and all equity in the property.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;REVENUE&lt;br /&gt;Currently, the Federal Government only collects revenue (prime interest) on a fraction of the money created because the Federal Government only creates a fraction of the money supply in the system. Under the "Safety Society" system, all new money created would generate revenue. Under our current system, the FED generated less than 50 Billion dollars a year. The "Safety Society" collecting 1% fee on all new money creation could generate trillions via an equitable and voluntary taxation of the people.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;INFLATION CONTROL&lt;br /&gt;An important aspect of the "Safety Society" Banking System is its ability to control inflation but immediately respond for the need for liquidity in the economy. When capital is plentiful, and individuals can pay cash and not borrow, new money will not be needed and not created. On the other hand, when capital is in short supply, money can be created and loaned interest free as needed. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;FULL RESERVE BANKING&lt;br /&gt;The non-profit "Safety Society" Banking System would be a type of full reserve banking. The Bank would borrow from the US Treasury 100% of what it would lend. Accordingly, customer deposits would not be used to make new loans, but could be kept at the bank in electronic form until withdrawn making "Safety Societies" immune to failure following a "run" on the bank. Full Reserve "Safety Societies" would also be immune to stock market crashes and economic downturns that cause banking assets to lose value, leading to the loss of fractional reserves, which then leads to the inability of banks to make new loans or reimburse depositors.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;VENTURE CAPITAL&lt;br /&gt;Under our system, our "Safety Societies" would reduce but not eliminate the need for businesses and communities to raise money via the sale of stocks and bonds. Stock and Bond sales would be unnecessary because no-interest loans could be easily obtained. However, despite the cheapness of capital, the "Safety Society" would never be used to loan money for the purchase of stock, bonds, or other speculative financial instruments. "Safety Society" monies cannot be used to generate other money, but only can be used in exchange for "real" assets with non-depreciating value for at least the life of the loan. Stock sales may be brokered by other institutions and private individuals to raise capital for more speculative endeavors such as for the purposes of research and development and business creation. Government programs will also continue to assist with these capital needs as they do currently. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;RETAINING VALUE&lt;br /&gt;The goal in our full reserve "Safety Society" banking system is not to use capital to create capital. In our system, the US Treasury under the direction of the Congress creates money, so there is no need for money to create money. The main goal in our system is to maintain the value of the money that has already been created and implement an equatable economic and monetary system where money is backed by real assets, where the money supply can be expanded as needed; eliminating artificial scarcity, and where economic power is returned to individuals and communities, and not consolidated into the hands of an unelected money masters. Under the "Safety Society" Banking System, the people will no longer be economic sharecroppers to a small minority of elite capital controllers and special interests.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Best Regards,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;David D Brosnahan MD, MS&lt;br /&gt;dbrosnahan@gmail.com&lt;br /&gt;Martinez, GA&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7761825-6492616173395225689?l=brainbender.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brainbender.blogspot.com/feeds/6492616173395225689/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7761825&amp;postID=6492616173395225689' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7761825/posts/default/6492616173395225689'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7761825/posts/default/6492616173395225689'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brainbender.blogspot.com/2011/12/monetary-and-economic-solution-for.html' title='Monetary and Economic Solution for the World'/><author><name>David B</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11266046963020498076</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d102/everyday_something/d1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7761825.post-1312136101917912529</id><published>2011-11-16T23:19:00.004-07:00</published><updated>2011-11-16T23:46:20.880-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='History and Culture'/><title type='text'>Danites, Mormon War, and Illuminati Infiltration</title><content type='html'>I am sure that many here on this forum may be familiar with a little piece of LDS History involving the Danites.  I used to think this fabled group was just folk-lore and myth, but  I am now convinced that this group did exist.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To understand who the Danites were, it is necessary to understand the history of the tribe of Dan.  Dan was one of the 12 sons of Jacob (Israel).  The tribe of Dan was given an inheritance in Israel in the area of the Gaza Strip along the coast.  However,  the issue with Dan is that they did not have the faith sufficent to go against the Phillistines and recieve their inheritance.  Instead, this group split up and settled along the coast just north of their inheritance, and then sent half their people up north to the area of the Golan Heights where they founded the city of Dan.  So, instead of clearing out the Phillistines as God intended they took a bit of land from Ephraim in the South and Manasseh in the North. (Interesting that the Gaza strip and the Golan Heights are the focus of conflict in Israel today).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The consequences of Dan's unfaithfulness were grave.  The Phillistines were a serious thorn in Israel's side that resulted in numerous wars, and the abandonment of their Republican style system of Judges in favor of a Monarchy.  But in addition to that, Dan's unfaithfulness soon turned into apostasy, corruption, and then sedition and treason.  Dan was the first tribe to apostasize from the LORD.  Dan stole Micah's false priest Jonathan and set him and his idols up to be their religion (Judges 18).  After the split of the Kingdom of Israel, King Jeroboam set up golden idols in Dan and Bethel so that the people of Israel would not have to make the pilgraimage to Jerusalem.  Dan who "abode in ships" and were allied with the phoenicians and Damascus.  Some believe that due to their apostasy, John did not mention the tribe of Dan in Revelation as receiving an inheritance in the future City of Zion.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The reason, I us the history of Dan is that I had never learned about the story of Dan until I started reading about the the history of the Illuminati.  The Illuminati are a group who are sworn followers of Satan.  Throughout the centuries, Satan's religion have gone by different names.  After the Babylonian captivity, thier religion went underground and became shrouded in symbols and secrets.  It has infiltrated many other religions and organizations throughout its history.  In Judaism it is known as Kabbalah, In Islam it is know as Sufism.  Early Christianity knew it as Gnosticism.  In Catholicism, it formed 3 groups known as the Knights Templars, the Knights Hospitalers (Order of St. John) and the Teutonic Knights (Order of St. Mary) .  In more modern times, this religion has infiltrated the upper levels of the Masonic Scottish Rite, York Rite, and the Order of the Shrine. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On May 8, 1776 Adam Weishaupt, a Jesuit priest, was assigned to create an organization known as the Bavarian Illuminati which incorperated gnostic practices.  After being thrown out of Bavaria, the Illuminati found safe-haven by the Saxe-Gotha-Allenburg  family.  The group infiltrated freemasonry, and has operated behind the scenes fomenting wars, revolutions, overthrowing governments, and controlling the monetary and banking systems of the nations.  Today, the British Royal Family (Saxe-Coburg-Gothe) and the Belgium Royal Famiy (Saxe-Coburg-Gothe) and the Dutch Royal Family (Orange-Nassau) together with the Rothschilds and other elite families have been infiltrating and consolidating financial, political, and economic power.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the United States, they have founded the Bohemian Grove (Grove like Baal and Molech) where elite such as US Presidents, Supreme Court Justices, Ivy League University presidents, CEOs from major corporations, and media mogules have a 2 week summer encampment in Nothern California.  In addition to a few lectures and things, the meeting starts by dressing up in druid costums and performing a mock human sacrifice to a great stone owl (Cremation of Care [conscience]).  Basically, most of those who show up spend most of the 2 weeks drinking, and engaging in homosexual behavior.  Most US Presidents have been members of Bohemian Grove beginning with President Taft.  Other secret societies in the US and Europe include the Bilderberg Conference and the Skull and Bones Fraternity at Yale.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In light of the extent of Illuminati infiltration in the US, I believe the Dannites were a successful attempt by the Illuminati to infiltrate the LDS Church and foment hostilities from within against antagonistic mobs resulting in the Mormon War in Missouri and the extermination order signed by Govenor Boggs and the eventual expulsion of the LDS from Missouri.  Sampson Avard, Jared Carter, and George W. Robinson are referenced as the leader of the Dannites, but I think there were other  agent provacateurs present encouraging him just as FBI agents do often times do with radical militia groups and muslim extremists.  It is recorded by ex-Mormon, Reed Peck, that Jared Carter and Dimick B. Huntington were encouraging the group to murder ex-LDS neighbors.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When Joseph Smith learned of Danites, he called it a "secret combination" formed contrary to his will and excommunicated Sampson Avard.  Sampson Avard falsely claimed that he had received direction from Joseph Smith.  John D. Lee a member of the Danites in Missouri also falsely claimed Brigham Young had ordered the Mountain Meadows Massacre.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So far, I haven't come across the evidence that certain Danite members were directed to infiltrate the LDS Church and cause problems.  The only circumstantial evidence comes from the symbolism and false morality taught by the Danites.  The philosophy of the Dannites is so absolutely foreign to the LDS.  Even the name Danites has absolutely no meaning to the LDS.  Dannites were totally the apostate tribe of Israel.  Also those who jointed the Dannites, made blood oaths to ccarry out orders from leadership regardless of whether they thought it was right or wrong.  LDS teach we are to always axt according to the dictates of our conscience. Illuminati get people to act against conscience usually by causing calamity and offering the solution.  The Dannites made oaths that the ends justify any means necessary. Dannites also taught that if they consecrated the spoils of looting to the Church they would be protected.  Again, this is totally false morality that has and never been taught in the LDS Church.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7761825-1312136101917912529?l=brainbender.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brainbender.blogspot.com/feeds/1312136101917912529/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7761825&amp;postID=1312136101917912529' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7761825/posts/default/1312136101917912529'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7761825/posts/default/1312136101917912529'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brainbender.blogspot.com/2011/11/danites-mormon-war-and-illuminati.html' title='Danites, Mormon War, and Illuminati Infiltration'/><author><name>David B</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11266046963020498076</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d102/everyday_something/d1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7761825.post-3051608756194614854</id><published>2011-10-11T11:04:00.004-06:00</published><updated>2011-10-11T11:15:34.462-06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Constitutional Government'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='History and Culture'/><title type='text'>Political Science Questions</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;Dear Brother Skousen,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have been following your interviews on Alex Jones, CoasttoCoastAM, and Liberty Radio.  I have really enjoyed your latest commentary on Liberty Radio with Dr. Stanley Monteith.  Dr. Stan's talk on the "Brotherhood of Darkness" is one of the best descriptions of the latter-day conspiracy next to your explanation in the interview entitled "The Tea Party Deception."  Your last commentary where you broke down the power structure in Russia (Berezovsky) was masterful.  I was really quite blown away listening to the latest Liberty Radio podcast.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PRESIDENT GEORGE ALBERT SMITH VISION&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Regarding the timing of WW3; I was wondering if you were aware of the vision of President George Albert Smith which gives very specific details on the timing of WW3.  It turns out that David H. Horne who recorded this vision together with his brother, are close family friends.  I was actually unaware of this vision until about 6 months ago. However, my father told me he had been given a copy of Bro. Horne's experience several decades ago.  According to the story, Bro. Horne happens to be related to President George Albert Smith, and heard President Smith relate the vision during a Family Home Evening when he was about 11 years old.  It turns out that I was 11 years old when I first met Bro. Horne. Bro. Horne came to my house and personally tutored me, helping my brothers and I to become Amateur Radio Certified.  During my childhood, I would regularly attend HAM Radio emergency preparedness seminars with my Father.  During those yearly meetings, topics discussed included designing and managing a nuclear fallout shelter, emergency power, EMP hardened or hardening radio equipment, etc.  Speakers during these conferences included Sharon Packer who, as you know, operates Utah Shelter Systems.  I still own several manuals and Citizen Defense (CD) Geiger counters and dosimeters. It wasn't until I recently read Bro. Horne's record of the President George Albert Smith Vision that I finally understood where all his nuclear paranoia was coming from.  I never considered Bro. Horne mentally unstable. Bro Horne is a humble man, very sincere, and honest.  Yet, like my Dad, he is definitely an Engineer type. His only weakness was that he was quite a army supply pack rat which resulted in an unfortunate house fire a few years ago.   My point in relating my personal connection to this is that I know that Bro. Horne's record is not official doctrine, but I can tell you that this experience greatly impacted his life.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;FRAUD, MARTIAL LAW, OR WAR&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I know that you are convinced that Russia and China are preparing to attack the US. However, I had several questions for you with regard to this vision.  By the way, there is a second version of this vision recorded by a Brother Fuchs? of LaVerkin, UT.  Bro. Horne records that the attack would occur 'during the holidays after the election but before the inauguration of the POTUS.'  The POTUS at the time of the attack would not be of Northern European extraction.  My question is, if it looks like Mitt Romney will win the election in 2012, because the TPTB may not be able to control Romney, do you think that would drive TPTB to push the nuclear button.  I always thought that 2012 is too early for what Elder Benson and Elder McConkie felt would be a nuclear abomination of desolation.  I have been of the opinion that if it looked like Romney was going to win in 2012, TPTB would impose martial law in the US and cancel 2012 elections or steal the election in 2012 using electronic voting fraud.  I am not voting for Obama in 2012, but I could use another 4 years.  So, in a way, I am kinda pulling for him.  There can't be a nuclear attack without a pending inauguration.  So, I guess what I am asking is do you think the attack comes in 2012 or 2016.  I vote for martial law in 2012 and attack later in 2016.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2012 MYTH PARALLEL&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My wife's uncle is Allen Christenson, who is a professor at BYU and leading expert on Mayan Art History.  He maintains that all this 2012 talk is crazy paranoia.  I agree that the ancient Maya has nothing to say about 2012, but I have tried to remind him that TPTB have played this game before.  Just before the Great Depression, TPTB were spreading the rumor that inscriptions in the Egyptian Pyramids were predicting a great depression..  The pyramids rumor is documented in a LDS General Conference talk given by President Anthony Ivins in 1931.  This was the first "get your houses in order" talk.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Well, now, my brethren and sisters, what about it all ? Just be calm and turn to the Lord. It is not the result of any occurrence of the immediate past. We have been gradually drifting toward it for years and years, and personally I have known that it would come, and I bore witness of it from this stand to the people a year ago. I applied it to my own affairs. I pleaded with the people to put their houses in order and get out of debt, for I knew this was coming, because God himself through his Only Begotten Son had declared it.  There is nothing that men can do, nothing that we can do that will avert the fulfilment of those sayings, and it is not the design of our Father in heaven at all either. It is simply the result of our own lack of wisdom, of our own disposition to he selfish, of the accumulation of the wealth of the country in the hands of a few men which prevents its equal distribution among the masses.  Now, my brethren and sisters, if the Church has anything to say to you it will come from them direct and not from the writings of other men. It will come to you in a manner that you will understand it. It will not be speculative. It will come to you philosophically, truthfully and governed by common sense.  God bless you, is my humble prayer, through Jesus Christ, Amen."  -Pres Ivins, General Conference 1931&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;FEMA AND OPERATION MOUNTAIN GUARDIAN&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I just don't get how FEMA fits into all of this.  Since 911, Katrina, and the several Flu Pandemic scares, we have seen a considerable increase in power and activity by FEMA and the Department of Homeland Security.  With Rex84, and the Emergency Centers Act we have seen the creation of an "Archipelago" of FEMA Residential Centers.  A caller last month to Alex Jones mentioned that she worked for HP, and was working on several large FEMA contracts regarding these FEMA Residential Centers which are now being fully staffed.  And now in addition to the FEMA MRE's, body bags, grave liners, morgues, and cemeteries, we have DMORT which is a team of disaster response morticians that exercised in Branson, MO during NLE 2011, and now we have Operation Mountain Guardian in Denver a few weeks ago.  Alex Jones reported that school children were bused from school to staging areas where they were "processed."  I just can't help but think that Federal Employees are being conditioned for some huge event and massive response.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;SCRIPTURAL PATTERNS&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Scripture details a pretty clear pattern when it comes to the destruction of a nation.  I know your business is political and not religious.  However, the first thing that must happen when a nation is destroyed, is that a majority of the covenant people must become guilty of breaking their covenants.  The preserving salt has then lost its savor and then becomes worthless but to be cast out and trodden under foot.  As the LORD's covenant people, I hope the LDS have not reached this dire threshold.  The next step, is for the nation to cast out the covenant people from among them.  If there was a Fukashima-like event in Salt Lake City along the Wasatch Fault, could we see civil unrest, forced relocations, gun confiscation and martial law?  Would such an event which begins "in my house" be the turning point necessary before God allows Russia and China (Beast) to attack the West (Harlot)?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;MEXICO AND NATIVE AMERICANS&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I always thought it significant that the original symbol of the US was the uncoiled rattlesnake, and the symbol of Mexico was the golden eagle (Phoenix) killing the rattle snake.  It is my opinion that when Russia and China invade, Mexico and Native Americans will aide and support the invasion (Reconquista).  The Book of Mormon warns us against the Remnant of Jacob who will be among the Gentiles. There is also a parallel with the Fall of Rome when Odoacer leads the Barbarian Foederati in an insurrection against Romulus Augustus.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;DENVER MURAL&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Do you have any thoughts to this picture of a young Obama standing in front of this ominous mural at the Denver Airport, I do not believe this is photo-shopped because Obama is leaning on the hand rail.   Important aspects of the mural are the Mayan girl with the Quetzal bird over her head holding the Codex which is in the shape of Russia.  The dead jaguar on the alter, the flames swirling around the city.  And then you have the 3 caskets.  In casket 1 you have a dead African woman, and in casket 3 you have a dead judeo-chrisitian girl.  However, in casket 2, the native American has her eyes open.  I believe she is undead, and is being depicted as being reborn..  In occult tradition, lying in a coffin is their ritual manner of becoming born again (like the skull and bones initiation).  Again, this could foretell plans of TPTB to use Native Americans and Latin Americans in WW3 against the US.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I know you are busy and I appreciate your responses in the past to my emails, and would be again appreciative to any comments on these issues.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sincerely,&lt;br /&gt;David D. Brosnahan MD, MS&lt;br /&gt;Augusta, GA.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7761825-3051608756194614854?l=brainbender.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brainbender.blogspot.com/feeds/3051608756194614854/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7761825&amp;postID=3051608756194614854' title='8 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7761825/posts/default/3051608756194614854'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7761825/posts/default/3051608756194614854'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brainbender.blogspot.com/2011/10/political-science-questions.html' title='Political Science Questions'/><author><name>David B</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11266046963020498076</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d102/everyday_something/d1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>8</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7761825.post-8775495155642556554</id><published>2011-10-06T02:17:00.003-06:00</published><updated>2011-10-06T02:55:32.629-06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Constitutional Government'/><title type='text'>CIA to Expand Predator Drone Attacks Again</title><content type='html'>Since 9/11, the US has been at war with Al Qaeda.  Like the war on drugs, this kind of war is very asymmetric.  Al Qaeda is not a country but an organization and a radical ideology.  Before 911, insiders in the CIA told us there were about 2000 individuals in the entire world that were considered radicals, with intentions to strike at the US.  These individuals have been linked to terrorist acts like Bombing of the USS Cole, numerous attacks on US embassy's in Africa, and IED attacks on US Troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.   We have also had several domestic incidents like the Fort Hood shooting, shoe and underwear bombers, and the New York Time Square bomber.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; After invading Afghanistan, we were told that Al Qaeda leadership fled to tribal regions in neighboring Pakistan.  Unfortunately, the US wasn't given authority to operate in Pakistan.  Instead, we have seen the CIA use Predator Drones to fly overhead and target suspected Taliban and Al Qaeda operatives and "bring them to justice" using a well-placed video-guided Hellfire missile.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some from the intelligence community have been critical of this new CIA policy of "one enemy combatant: one missile" strategy instead of the "one bullet: one combatant" policy.  The concern with the expanded use of the predator drone, is the extensive collateral damage.  A hellfire missile can kill and injure dozens of innocent civillians in the area surrounding the target.  The concern by many insiders is if this current strategy is not producing more enemies of the US than it is designed to eliminate.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now we are seeing the CIA expand the use of Predator Drone Attacks from Afghanistan, to Pakistan and Iraq now to Yemen.  With the expansion of power of CIA Black Ops using Predator Drones in Africa, we have seen our first major success with the strike and killing of Anwar Al-awlaki.  Al-awlaki is the radical cleric from New York that was dining at the Pentagon a few months after 911, who is tied  to the shoe bomber, underwear bomber, and Fort Hood shooter.  Now on the eve of the Underwear bomber trial, we are told that Al-awlaki was sucessfully killed in Yemen by a Predator Drone attack.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My question is this?  How far will the use of the Predator Drone go?  Are we going to see indiscriminate use of the Predator Drone across the world and in Africa?  Can we expect to see drone attacks in Mexico to assist with the Drug ars along the US-Mexico border?  And if we start seeing Predator Attacks closer to home, could we begin to see attacks against "domestic terrorists" within the US?  While I am not necessarily a fan of Ron Paul, I have to agree this is looking like a slippery slope.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7761825-8775495155642556554?l=brainbender.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brainbender.blogspot.com/feeds/8775495155642556554/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7761825&amp;postID=8775495155642556554' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7761825/posts/default/8775495155642556554'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7761825/posts/default/8775495155642556554'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brainbender.blogspot.com/2011/10/cia-to-expand-predator-drone-attacks.html' title='CIA to Expand Predator Drone Attacks Again'/><author><name>David B</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11266046963020498076</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d102/everyday_something/d1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7761825.post-7634085886709135579</id><published>2011-09-28T07:42:00.001-06:00</published><updated>2011-09-28T07:42:39.232-06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Health and Medicine'/><title type='text'>Tyramine and Word of Wisdom</title><content type='html'>Tyramine is a breakdown product of the amino acid Tyrosine and is found in aged, dried, processed, and pickled foods such as wine, cheese, lunch meats, sour breads and pickles. Basically, any food that is not fresh and has been sitting in a barrel or cave for long periods can have a large amount of this chemical. Tyramine acts as a monoamine which is a type of adrenergic neurotransmitter. Tyramine can stimulate the release of adrenalin-like chemicals like norephinephrine and serotonin. The realease of adrenaline is related to the bodies fight or flight response and can cause a mild euphoria, anxiety, and elevation in blood pressure. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By themselves, eating processed and aged foods is usually not an immediate health risk unless a person is also talking an MAOI. MAOI stands for mono-amine oxidase inhibitor. This is the medicine you have heard about on drug commercials. Usually when the commerical is listing the sideaffects of the drug at the end, they will mention that the advertised drug should not be taken with an MAOI. MAOI's (Nardil and Parnate) were the first anti-depressants and people on these drugs were warned to never drink wine and eat a lot of aged cheese. If they did, they could run the risk of developing "cheese syndrome" or "serotonin sydrome" which was associated with a dangerous spike in blood pressure and possibly a heart attack or stroke. So, physiologically speaking, we know that the "Tryramine effect" is real.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So most of us aren't on an MAOI. But what about the long term effects of ingesting Tyramine? Well, it turns out that if you are like most Americans, you probably ingest a significant amount of this chemical. And this may be one of several contributing factor to the epidemic of elevated blood pressure. However, when a person has steady continual exposure to tyramine (as most American's do) we don't see the same immediate elevations to blood pressure. Instead, norepinephrine, dopamine, and serotonin can actually become depleated. Consequently, after long exposures, tyramine could be a major contributer to a generalized depressed mood. And it is this generalized depressed mood that could lead to an increased consumption of what we often refer to as "comfort foods" to raise our norepi and serotonin levels. And of course, this compulsive eating can be one of several factors leading to the epidemic of obesity. Others who experience severe depression through a combination of dietary, genetic and psycho-social factors are often prescribed SSRI's and other similar drugs which raise the levels of norephinephrine and serotonin in the body. It is this same norephi and serotonin which Tyramine can deplete after continual exposure.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Spikes in norephi and serotonin can have other effects in the body. Recent research has shown a strong coorelation between tryamine ingestion and migraines. Not surprising, the acute treatment in the ED for migraine involves the direct inhibition of Serotonin and Dopamine [Imitrex, Relpax (blocks seretonin); Reglan, Compazine (blocks dopamine)]. Independent of SSRIs and MAOIs, spikes in adrenergic chemicals can also lead to dangerous elevations of blood pressure and even precipitate heart arrythmias like atrial fribrillation. However, these effects could be expected in the individual who usually eats fresh, and only occasionally heaps on extra parmesan cheese on their spaghetti and has an extra glass of wine at dinner.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;LDS are familiar with the several prohibitions contained in the Word of Wisdom, but could the deleterious effects of Tyramine be part of the reason the Word of Wisdom encourages us to eat food "in the season thereof?"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;D&amp;C 89:11 Every herb in the season thereof, and every fruit in the season thereof; all these to be used with prudence and thanksgiving.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7761825-7634085886709135579?l=brainbender.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brainbender.blogspot.com/feeds/7634085886709135579/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7761825&amp;postID=7634085886709135579' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7761825/posts/default/7634085886709135579'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7761825/posts/default/7634085886709135579'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brainbender.blogspot.com/2011/09/tyramine-and-word-of-wisdom.html' title='Tyramine and Word of Wisdom'/><author><name>David B</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11266046963020498076</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d102/everyday_something/d1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7761825.post-8082393367678906585</id><published>2011-09-24T01:34:00.004-06:00</published><updated>2011-09-24T02:25:32.293-06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Conservative Politics'/><title type='text'>Operation Mountain Guardian</title><content type='html'>For the last few years, many on the Internet have been monitoring FEMA's activities.  Since the events on 911, 10 years ago, and FEMA's seeming failure during Hurricane Katrina, the powers of FEMA and the new Department of Homeland Security has been greatly expanded.  This weekend nearly a hundred state and federal government agencies are staging  a massive drill in Denver, CO entitled Mountain Guardian.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Reports from Alex Jones' Infowars.com are telling us that a major element of Friday's activity involved transporting children from elementary schools to Mile High Stadium for "processing".  It will be interesting to follow the progress of these drills and see what other elements are being put into practice and how federal and state agencies are being conditioned.  It is also interesting that President Obama is also in Denver this weekend.  It is rumored that he is participating in a DEFCON 1 exercize.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Earlier this year, the Federal Goverment produced NLE 2011 in Branson, MO.  During this national exercize, government agencies practiced their response to a New Madrid Earthquake.  A principle element of NLE 2011 was the mobilization of DMORT, which is an organization of mortitions who will be called in to assist with the processing of dead bodies during a mass casulty event.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At some point SLC, UT which lies on the Wasatch Fault will have a devistating earthquake.  Provo, Salt Lake City, and Ogden are build upon a dry lake bed.  Like Mexico City, a shallow earthquake in the valley would be greatly magnified causing significant liquifaction and shaking.  Additionally, numerous mountain dams for Pineview, Deer Creek, Jordanelle, and East Canyon Reservoirs could fail sending torrents of water down mountain canyons into the valley below.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well, so far FEMA is ready for a future event with bodybags, grave liners, cemeteries, a massive morge with expansive freezer space in downtown Sallt Lake, a recent purchase of tens of millions of MRE's, and DMORT.  Add to that the system of FEMA residential centers (FEMA CAMPS) that are currently being staffed across the country (worker from HP).  We have also seen federal agencies during Hurricane Katrina and other tornadoes go door-to-door confiscating guns.  Also, we have NorthCOM assigning the 1st Brigade 3rd Infantry Division Combat Team to be assigned "assist" with domestic disaster response and humanitarian aid.  I just hope the US Millitary  doesn't respond with humanitarian aid the same way NATO responded in Libya.  Now with Denver's Mountain Guardian exercize, we see the processing of children.  It will be interesting to see what other elements will be put in place during this latest exercise.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7761825-8082393367678906585?l=brainbender.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brainbender.blogspot.com/feeds/8082393367678906585/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7761825&amp;postID=8082393367678906585' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7761825/posts/default/8082393367678906585'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7761825/posts/default/8082393367678906585'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brainbender.blogspot.com/2011/09/o.html' title='Operation Mountain Guardian'/><author><name>David B</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11266046963020498076</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d102/everyday_something/d1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7761825.post-1907321056043382408</id><published>2011-09-14T01:46:00.002-06:00</published><updated>2011-09-28T07:57:46.215-06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Constitutional Government'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='History and Culture'/><title type='text'>Future Attack on Religious Freedom?</title><content type='html'>I am of the opinion that maybe before God allows America to be overrun by the Communists (if that is to happen) then the America will have to turn against the LDS.  The LDS are the preserving salt.  Only after the LDS are attacked (religious freedom) in some way will the wickedness of America be enough to bring on what will come to the US later.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;According to the pattern in scripture, for a people to be fully ripe in iniquity, they must attack or cast out the righteous from among them like Able in Sodom and Gommorrah.  Or, a majority of God's covenant people must be guilty of breaking their covenants.  In that case, the covenant people become salt that has lost it's savor and become worthless but to be thrown out.  Scripture warns us that when God's people no longer keep their covenants, then they are delivered up to the buffetings of Satan.  Then when the people as a whole, cast out the righteous from among them, then that society has become ready to be overthrown. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;HISTORY LESSON&lt;br /&gt;In 1833 there was a historic meteor shower (google LEONIDS) that the wicked used as a sign to exterminate the LDS from Missouri.  With this elenin hype, there may be a similar "sign" in 2011.    Back in 1833, the Illuminati infiltrated the LDS Church and fomented war from within (Danites) and from without (Mobs).  This ended the signing of the Extermination order and the expulsion of the LDS from Missouri.  This is how Satan prevented the NEW JERUSALEM from being established.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;UFO DISCLOSURE&lt;br /&gt;There has been a surprising amount of coverage about ET's and UFO's that seems to be gaining in momentum with the main-stream media.  Before, this kind of thing was the kind of lunitik fringe topic relegated to tabloid late-night talk radio shows like CoasttoCoastAM.  However, it seems there have been an increasing level of sightings over that past couple of years.  LDS Scripture is clear that God does not send messengers from other planets to this Earth.  God's pattern for revelation is through HIS prophet and through HIS church.  If there is some future UFO dislosure in the future, I can see how the LDS leadership would need to be more vocal on this issue.  Could the UFO/ET issue be the one that turns the world against the LDS?  I do not deny the existence of UFO's, but they are simply a cleaverly crafted deception involving suppressed magnetoplasmadynamic technology.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;D&amp;C 130:5 I answer, Yes. But there are no angels who minister to this earth but those who do belong or have belonged to it.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;LATTER DAY ATTACK&lt;br /&gt;Could there be another attack being planned.  Will HAARP trigger a wasatch fault EQ?  FEMA is ready with an SLC supermorgue, bodybags, cemeteries, caskets, MRE's, immunization and processing centers and relocation residential centers.  If an EQ doess occur, how will the Wasatch populas react.  Will there be agent provacateurs positioned to start riots and fires.  When martial law is imposed, and guns confiscated, will there be civil unrest?  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How will the people react to the situation?  Will they say "This is God's punishment?" or "serves them right?" or "look at that terrible oppression by our government against a good people?"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;LDS MESSAGE&lt;br /&gt;I just don't think its going to do the LDS any good to get on a conspiracy or 911 crusade.  If there is something that goes down in SLC, then any provocated unrest will be blamed on an anti-government attitude by church leadership.  That may seem like a stretch, but I just don't see what going on a crusade against a shadowy unknown enemy will get us.  We have already been warned of conspiracy enough.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ONLY REPENTANCE CAN SAVE US&lt;br /&gt;Anyways, the most important thing that anyone of us could ever do to preserve freedom in the US is to repent and live the commandments of God.  We are given this land as our inheritance so long as we keep the commandments are promised to be free of oppression or occupation.  The reason we have been IDEOLOGICALLY SUBVERTED in America is becasue we were first DEMORALIZED. Alex Jones and Ron Paul are giving us the bait and switch.  Their answer to restoring the US is to focus on constitutional issues alone like "END THE FED" or "LEGALIZE DRUGS".  The truth is that the key #1 factor in saving our country is repenting.  And its repentance that our Church Leadership are providing and its the only message that can save us.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7761825-1907321056043382408?l=brainbender.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brainbender.blogspot.com/feeds/1907321056043382408/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7761825&amp;postID=1907321056043382408' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7761825/posts/default/1907321056043382408'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7761825/posts/default/1907321056043382408'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brainbender.blogspot.com/2011/09/future-attack-on-religious-freedom.html' title='Future Attack on Religious Freedom?'/><author><name>David B</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11266046963020498076</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d102/everyday_something/d1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7761825.post-3319727831011662025</id><published>2011-09-02T17:03:00.008-06:00</published><updated>2011-09-04T21:05:34.502-06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Constitutional Government'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Banking and Economics'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Conservative Politics'/><title type='text'>Capitalism = Capital Fascism</title><content type='html'>I am an Emergency Physician and not an Economist.  However, the past couple of years I have been studying a bit of economic and banking physiology and pathophysiology.  After some limited study, it is my informed opinion that the patient (US economy) is about to decompensate.  However, it is not too late to save the patient.  Just like the ED, if we were to unite together to institute some agressive banking and political interventions we could prevent a CODE BLUE.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It seems we have all been fed a false dichotomy of communism vs. capitalism. It is like noone can think of another way to do business.  Our textbooks seem to expect us to pick our favorite flavor of tyranny. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nazism= national fascism= ruling class makes the rules &lt;br /&gt;Communism=social fascism=ruling class makes the rules &lt;br /&gt;Capitalism=capital fascism=ruling class make the rules &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With capitalism, we have decided that those with the money (special interests) should make all the rules. This is satan's version of the "golden rule". He who has the gold makes the rules.  Reality is that Capitalism is a usury-based economic system where wealth called capital is made artifically scarce, and then is leveraged to enslave others.  The money elite made up of a class of unelected capital holders use their economic power to make even more money and power. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Money elite in a usury-based capital fascist system influence politics and the economy by deciding what to invest in.  Often, these decisions are made based on what will make them the most money but also on who and what they can best manipulate and control to maintain their power. Consequently, many decisions are often made to maintain their power and control which may be at odds with what is best for others and the nation as a while.  The money elite ofter see themselves as too big and important to fail.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am not saying money is bad. I am not saying simple interest is bad. What I am saying is that WE could fix this nation tomorrow by first individually repenting of our many sins (demoralization) and then applying a few constitution principles (ideological subversion). &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. Congress would create and issue all money which would stop the artificial scarcity of credit and control inflation.&lt;br /&gt;2. Local Safety Society Banks would issue loans based on simple interest (loan origination fee and monthy service charge).  Local banks would extend credit to worthy individuals, institutions, corporations, and governments ( the more people in a government or institution, the larger the loan they would qualify for) &lt;br /&gt;3. Protect and build domestic infrastructure, manufacturing, and resources. &lt;br /&gt;4. The money created by congress and lent by local banks would be backed by the "real" assets the money was lent to create or purchase. Only "real" assets could be deemed credit worthy.&lt;br /&gt;5. Banks would opperate on full reserves and never lend deposited money. All money lent by the Safety Society would be  created and issued by Congress. &lt;br /&gt;6. Other kinds of private finacial institutions could deal in venture capital and other speculative investments. Safety Societies would not deal in speculative investments. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[This gets rid of fractional reserve banking, the business cycle, prevents banking failures, and controls inflation]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Capitalism or Capital Fascism claims an ideological struggle against Big Government making the rules. It claims that instead of big goverment making the rules we should have big business and big capital holders making the rules (special interest). This is part of the false dichotomy. Those involved with this "war on big government" propagate the lie that we should just "let the market work". We all should know how much market manipulation there is and nearly every aspect of the market is artificial. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Letting the markets work would be to allow the buyer and producer to negotiate a price without any intermediary or external interference e.g farmers market. This may not be efficient, but it is free.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;War on Poverty =&gt; Big Gov.&lt;br /&gt;War on Drugs =&gt; Big Gov.&lt;br /&gt;War on Terror =&gt; Big Gov.&lt;br /&gt;Capitalism = War on Big Goverment =&gt; Big Business&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What we need in reality is to tear down the tower of Babel with smaller government and smaller business and smaller banks, etc.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am a supporter of a Free Market Economy. I am not a supporter of Capitalism. Capitalism does not equal Free Market. There is no such thing as "free market capitalism".  Capitalism is an economy based on the aquisition of capital where money aquired by individuals is leveraged to gain more capital and power in the system.  Consequently, the whole basis of capitalism is based on inequality. The whole basis says that we would rather have people with the "capital" make the rules than have government make the rules.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you are wealthy and have capital, then you have considerable unelected machiavellian power in our economy to decide who and what you will invest in. Capitalism is unequal by definition. The system benefits certain few individuals who constitute and unelected olygarchy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Horatio Alger "rags to riches" myths propagate the lie that anyone who works hard enough can become one of the elite, and that those people up there earned the right to rule over us. The system benifits from casino psychology where we support an unfair system because maybe, just maybe our number will come up and we will become one of the ultra-rich elite.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In reality, the system is a good-ol-boys network where inventors and scientists and entrapeuners hardly ever profit from their discoveries. Many discoveries are suppressed, inventions are shelved, and local companies are absorbed by mega-multinationals.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7761825-3319727831011662025?l=brainbender.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brainbender.blogspot.com/feeds/3319727831011662025/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7761825&amp;postID=3319727831011662025' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7761825/posts/default/3319727831011662025'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7761825/posts/default/3319727831011662025'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brainbender.blogspot.com/2011/09/capital-fascism.html' title='Capitalism = Capital Fascism'/><author><name>David B</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11266046963020498076</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d102/everyday_something/d1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7761825.post-2325054278072842284</id><published>2011-08-30T19:01:00.001-06:00</published><updated>2011-08-30T19:01:36.689-06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Constitutional Government'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='History and Culture'/><title type='text'>Losing Faith in America</title><content type='html'>Seems to me that we are deep into a long process designed to get us to lose faith.  When I read in 3Nephi about the failure of the Nephite government and its division into tribes just before the coming of Christ, I can't help but see parallels in our "awful" situation today.  The reason the Nephties abandoned their government is becuase they had lost faith after realizing the level of corruption in their goverment.  The gadiations are purposely disclosing thier infiltration of Western Society.   But this is only a partial disclosure. The truth is that the gads own China, Russia, and everywhere else.  But they are revealing themselves in the West to convince Russia and China that they should nuke Babylon.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Most of this psyop program to get us to lose faith has been in operation for years.  Today we are seeing University Football teams busted for corruption, we are seeing our pop idols and polititions busted for drugs, and immorality and all sorts of other sins.  Post-Modern artists deconstruct art and music to get us to lose faith in the traditional rules of asthetics. IN the 60-8o's the US spent billions trying to get Central and South American countries to be pro-western instead of pro-communist.  So, while its unpopular to be pro-Russian in America, nearly every Central and South American country is Pro-China and allowing China to build and control military bases and ports.  It's like we all forgot that China is still communist.  And now after US Banks were caught laundering mexican drug cartel money and the ATF was caught shipping guns into Mexico, Mexico is more distant from the US and more friendly with China than ever before.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I was listening to NPR today and they were discussing the "Muslim Spring" revolutions in Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, etc.  During the report they have recorded muslims speaking out that they believed the US and Israel and Western Governments were behind all these revolutions.  Whether the US is or isnt doesnt really matter.  What matters is that Mexico thinks the US government is supporting the drug cartels and the american people are buying the drugs. And whatever credibility we think we had with the US by liberating Iraq and Afghanistan, we have lost with our perceived interference eveywhere else.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7761825-2325054278072842284?l=brainbender.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brainbender.blogspot.com/feeds/2325054278072842284/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7761825&amp;postID=2325054278072842284' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7761825/posts/default/2325054278072842284'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7761825/posts/default/2325054278072842284'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brainbender.blogspot.com/2011/08/losing-faith-in-america.html' title='Losing Faith in America'/><author><name>David B</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11266046963020498076</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d102/everyday_something/d1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7761825.post-5313698557396814582</id><published>2011-08-06T21:39:00.010-06:00</published><updated>2011-08-07T21:23:48.084-06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='History and Culture'/><title type='text'>Seal Team 6 Silenced</title><content type='html'>Never make a deal or do anything for the illuminati.  Seal Team 6 failed to learn that lesson.  Seal Team 6 was the US Special Forces unit attributed with the raid and killing of Osama Bin Ladin. Seal Team 6 has already lost half their team during the raid when one of their stealth helicopters was suspiciously blown up just after lifting off from the Abbottabad compound. &lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;While most reliable people believe that the real Bin Ladin has been dead for a while (was on dialysis), we will never know now because the captured Bin Ladin was shot through one eye and then disgracefully dumped into the ocean making his death parallel the Dijjal, or Islamic Anti-Christ (one-eyed man that comes from the ocean).  RT interviewed neighbors of the man who was apprehended and killed by Seal Team 6, who claim Bin Ladin never lived there.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;However, the Seal Team who knew the truth about what actually happened in Abbottabad, will never get to tell the real story because the rest of the team just suffered an unfortunate fatal accident in Afghanistan when their helicopter exploded.  Interestingly enough, the Taliban claimed responsibility immediately.  I actually heard that the Taliban had done it before I knew it was Seal Team 6 that they had done it too.  &lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Of course, you should realize, the original Taliban were against poppy growing and pedophilia (bacha bazi) and outlawed both practices in 1999 according to Sharia Law.  But the Taliban today is run by CIA Black Ops and heroin production is up 300% pre-1999 levels.  But if you were Pat Tilman (former linebacker for the Arizona Cardinals) and you try to be a whistleblower, you get a burst of .223 NATO rounds x3 to the forehead at close range according to the pathologist.  You may not remember the CIA trying to ship nuclear material to the new-Taliban in an attempt to frame Pakistan and seize their nuclear arsenal.  These are the same people giving weapons to the &lt;a href="http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&amp;amp;aid=18877"&gt;Mexican Drug Catel &lt;/a&gt;Sinaloa, and claim their &lt;a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/apr/03/us-bank-mexico-drug-gangs"&gt;support for Sinaloa &lt;/a&gt;is to get information on the other Mexican Drug Cartels.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;What is this really about?  This is about loosing faith in the US from outside and from within. This is about driving a wedge inside our military.  This is about getting other countries to lose faith in a Constitutional Representative Democracy.  In the 70-80's we were fighting the cold war to get developing nations to support the US over the USSR (and put them under Central Banking control and put into a state of economic slavery). Now almost the entirety of Latin America is pro-Chinese.  Now, I love the Chinese people, but its like we all forgot that China is run by the Communist Party. Unfortunately, Communism (social fascism) vs. Capitalism (capital fascism) isn't much of a choice.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7761825-5313698557396814582?l=brainbender.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brainbender.blogspot.com/feeds/5313698557396814582/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7761825&amp;postID=5313698557396814582' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7761825/posts/default/5313698557396814582'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7761825/posts/default/5313698557396814582'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brainbender.blogspot.com/2011/08/seal-team-6-silenced.html' title='Seal Team 6 Silenced'/><author><name>David B</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11266046963020498076</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d102/everyday_something/d1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7761825.post-7192317253433975903</id><published>2011-08-01T22:16:00.008-06:00</published><updated>2011-10-05T06:19:12.186-06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Miscellaneous'/><title type='text'>Psychic Pokemon TCG Deck</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Psychic Pokemon = 28&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Darkrai &amp;amp; Cresselia LEGEND&lt;/b&gt; hp 150 (moon's invite = move opp. damage counters)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Arceus lv. 100&lt;/b&gt; hp 80 (mind bend = 40, confusion)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Jirachi&lt;/b&gt; hp 60 (rescue 3 energy from discard, de-evolve pokemon)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;(DARK) Zorua/Zoroark&lt;/b&gt; hp 100 (foul play = use defending pokemon attack)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Ralts/Kirlia/Gardevoir&lt;/b&gt; hp 120 (move 1 energy, energy burst = 20+ 10x energy)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Eevee/Espeon&lt;/b&gt; x 2 hp 90 (move any 4 damage counters from you to opp in any way)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Grimer/Muk&lt;/b&gt; hp 100 (switch poison and confuse, pester = 50+ 80)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Nidoran/Nidorina/Nidoqueen&lt;/b&gt; hp 130 (prize count = 50+ 80)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Duskull/Dusclops/Dusknoir&lt;/b&gt; hp 120 (shuffle 1 opp bench pokemon, hard feelings = 50+)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Venipede/Whirlipede/Scolipede &lt;/b&gt;hp 150 (poison claws = 80, poison)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Spoink/Grumpig&lt;/b&gt; hp 90 (confuse, grind = 20x energy)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Misdreavus/Mismagius&lt;/b&gt; hp 90 (psybeam = 60, confuse)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Trainers/Supporters/Items/Tools/Statium = 17&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Potion x 2 (heals 30 damage)&lt;br /&gt;Pokemon Communication x 3 (switch any pokemon in your hand for any pokemon in the deck)&lt;br /&gt;Phoebe's Stadium (reduced retreat cost by 2 energies for psychic pokemon only)&lt;br /&gt;Amulet Coin (draw extra card at end of turn)&lt;br /&gt;Flower Shop Lady x 2 (rescue 3 pokemon and 3 energies from discard to deck)&lt;br /&gt;Energy Retrieval (rescue 2 energies from discard to hand)&lt;br /&gt;Team Rocket's Trickery x 2 (draw 2 cards, opponent discards 1)&lt;br /&gt;Cheerleader's Cheer x 2 (draw 3 cards, opponet draws 1)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;Interviewer's Questions x 3 (look at top 8 cards and keep all energies)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Energy Cards = 15&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Basic Psychic Energy x 15 (less energy cards, more supporters and pokemon)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Fire Pokemon TCG Deck&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Fire Pokemon = 24&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Reshiram x 4 hp = 130 (Outrage = 20+ damage, Blue Flare = 120)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Tepig/Pignite/Emboar x 4 hp = 150 (place as many energy cards on 1 pokemon)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Hetran/Hetran LV.X x 4 hp = 120 (burn, return 2 discarded energies to pokemon)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Fire Energy Cards = 20&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Supporter and Trainer Cards = 16&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7761825-7192317253433975903?l=brainbender.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brainbender.blogspot.com/feeds/7192317253433975903/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7761825&amp;postID=7192317253433975903' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7761825/posts/default/7192317253433975903'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7761825/posts/default/7192317253433975903'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brainbender.blogspot.com/2011/08/psychic-pokemon-tcg-deck.html' title='Psychic Pokemon TCG Deck'/><author><name>David B</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11266046963020498076</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d102/everyday_something/d1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7761825.post-2676271601661147039</id><published>2011-08-01T13:57:00.006-06:00</published><updated>2011-08-01T22:14:52.795-06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='History and Culture'/><title type='text'>War and Invasion</title><content type='html'>&lt;object width="640" height="390"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/fj0YTzzM_1k&amp;hl=en_US&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;version=3"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/fj0YTzzM_1k&amp;hl=en_US&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;version=3" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="640" height="390"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This post should not be construed to be interpreted as portraying a anti-china sentiment. The Chinese are great people. War and conflicts are usually the result of manipulation by special interests behind the scenes. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Daniel foretells that after goat (Greece/Alexander the Great) breaks the 2 horns (Medes and Persians/Iraq and Iran), that the horn of the goat will then be broken and the Empire will then be divided into 4 parts.  Daniel then prophesied that the King of the North would fight against the King of the South.  This prophecy was fulfilled by Alexander the Great and the Greek Empire which fell apart after his death.  The King of the North (Selucius the Selucian Dynasty) fighting with Ptolomy of Egypt (Ptolomaic Dynasty).  This fighting continued until the coming of Jesus Christ. Why does the Bible tell us this story?  First, Israel and Jerusalem seemed to always get caught up in the middle of the wars between Selucius and Ptolemy and Second, history will repeat itself.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Except this time, America is the Goat and Russia is the King of the North and China will become the King of the South.  After the conquest of America and after America is divided into 4 parts (google divided states of America), China and Russia will be left to fight it out for King of the Mountain.  What is the plan for Utah after the war?  The UN and UNESCO and Agenda 21 has declared the Rocky Mountains from Glacier National Park to Grand Canyon to be a huge World Wilderness Preserve.  The people living there (mostly LDS) will have already been forcably relocated after Earthquakes and Disease has devistated the area.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pres. George Albert Smith was shown a vision of WW3.  He declared that it made WW2 look like a training exercize and the Great Depression look like a Sunday Picnic in the Park.  Pres. Smith foretold that China and Russia's military stength would exceed that of the US and the at some point, China and Russia would strike the US with a surprise nuclear attack and then invade.  The Burning of Babylon and the Invasion of Heathen Armies was seen and described by Joel and John in Revelation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So far our war with China has been an economic war.  The US has suffered ideological subversion and demoralization.  We have been convinced to squander our birthright for a mess of pottage and have given away to China our industrial infrastructure.  China has used our trade deficit to buy up natural resources in Australia and Africa.   China has built ports, roads, rail-lines all over Africa, and built ports in South America.  Most South American and Central American governments are now Pro-China led by Hugo Chavez. It may not be politically  correct to be pro-Russia, but Pro-Communist China is the height of political fashion.  The only hold out is Columbia who has been supplying the world with cocaine for the last Century.  China has control over the Panama Canal, and has built ports in the Bahamas, Mexico, Canada, and is leasing several US ports.  There is a deal being worked up in Idaho where a Chinese company wants to biuld a 50-square-mile self-sustaining city south of Boise.  Now that Americas ATF has been caught giving weapons to Mexican Drug Cartels and American Banks were caught laundaring drug money, Mexico is now leaning even further away from America than ever.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Tea Party is encouraging us to stand up and fight for freedom and for Constitutional values. Both sides would love the civil war that would result from a repeal of Gov Welfare Services. I am all in support of the Constitution, but these Constitutional issues are not at the heart and foundation of our problem as a nation.  The first step in the enemies plan of ideological subversion was demoralization. Therefore, the only way we can save the Constitution is to preach repentance and regain our morality as a nation. A moral people would have much less need for Gov entitlements. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However, I fear America has traveled too far down this road for it's course to change.  The calamities foretold by ancient and modern prophets will be fulfilled in every detail.  Babylon must fall, so that only Zion should remain.  Gods blessing is being taken from the Gentile nations and is returning to the ancient remnant blood of Israel.  The heathen armies may invade America with the support of Mexico and all of Latin America, but when those armies march against the LDS, the spirit and hearts of the Lamanite people will turn.  I believe we are not to even fight.  Christ taught us that he would fight for Zion. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;D&amp;C105:14 For behold, I do not require at their hands to fight the battles of Zion; for, as I said in a former commandment, even so will I fulfil—I will fight your battles.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7761825-2676271601661147039?l=brainbender.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brainbender.blogspot.com/feeds/2676271601661147039/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7761825&amp;postID=2676271601661147039' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7761825/posts/default/2676271601661147039'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7761825/posts/default/2676271601661147039'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brainbender.blogspot.com/2011/08/war-and-invasion.html' title='War and Invasion'/><author><name>David B</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11266046963020498076</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d102/everyday_something/d1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7761825.post-7137216842835576737</id><published>2011-07-27T17:25:00.001-06:00</published><updated>2011-07-29T07:47:43.502-06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='History and Culture'/><title type='text'>Wasatch Fault EQ</title><content type='html'>Most of us here are familiar with the rumor of technology that can trigger EQ's. If you have a fault with enormous amounts of energy already stored up on the fault. HAARP is a giga-watt powered, 180-antenna, phased-array, HF radio transmitter that can focus that gigawatt of power at any spot on the globe. HF heating of the ionosphere is converted into ELF waves at the resonant frequency of tectonic faults. Satellite imaging over Japan on the day of the Fukushima EQ and Tsunami recorded pinpoint annomylous Ionospheric heating exactly above the epicenter of the EQ. The theory is that the addition of a relatively small amount of resonant ELF energy can cause an overdo fault to slip.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Special Interests, money elite that control Washington DC in our Capital Fascism system of government want to destroy America and our Constitution. Over the last Century, plans have been carried out to erode the moral, social and economic foundation of our country. However, there is one big problem with Satans plan to destroy America. He cannot succeed in this plan until he first attacks and attempts to scatter and destroy the LDS. That is why we are specifically told the Tribulation will begin in "my house". Remember America cannot be destroyed unless it first attempts to cast out and persecute the righteous. We are the preserving salt.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;D&amp;C112:25 And upon my house shall it begin, and from my house shall it go forth, saith the Lord;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I don't know for certain, but it seems FEMA is convinced that one of the next catastrophic American EQ is going to be SLC. The liquefaction and amplification of a shallow EQ along the Wasatch fault will result in widespread devastation. FEMA is all ready. FEMA has purchased millions of body bags, and hundreds of thousands of plastic grave liners/coffins (sitting in a field in Madison GA). FEMA has recently made huge purchases of MREs. Through the REX84 and the National Emergency Centers Act have converted numerous closed military bases into FEMA Emergency Residential Centers. Additionally, an acquaintance of mine was the interior designer of a FEMA super morgue, in-processing, and mass immunization center in Downtown SLC. Also, NLE 2011 focused on drills with DMORT(mass cassulty mortuary response) and NDMS simulating a New Madrid EQ in Branson, MO. Lastly, FEMA has just finished work on several super FEMA cemeteries in Phoenix, Houston and SoCal. News today from a caller into a national radio show reports that FEMA is now staffing these FEMA residential centers. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, what's going to happen? At some point, the Wasatch fault is going to slip. It is long overdo. The Wasatch front and metropolitan areas of SLC-Ogden-Provo will be devastated. FEMA together with NorthCOM military forces will move in. There will be door-to-door gun confiscation. Houses and buildings will be condemned and deemed uninhabitable. There will be forced relocation and forced immunizations. Families will be split up as people are randomly sent to random FEMA residential centers. And there will likely be social unrest exacerbated by agent provocateurs.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7761825-7137216842835576737?l=brainbender.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brainbender.blogspot.com/feeds/7137216842835576737/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7761825&amp;postID=7137216842835576737' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7761825/posts/default/7137216842835576737'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7761825/posts/default/7137216842835576737'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brainbender.blogspot.com/2011/07/wasatch-fault-eq.html' title='Wasatch Fault EQ'/><author><name>David B</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11266046963020498076</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d102/everyday_something/d1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7761825.post-1495582750180331729</id><published>2011-07-16T15:47:00.004-06:00</published><updated>2011-07-16T16:44:53.683-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Android on Asus EeePC</title><content type='html'>I own an ASUS EeePC 900A Netbook.  The netbook has 1 gig ram, 4 gigs flash memory (I think) , and a 1.6 GHz Atom processor.   It was running a version of Linux Xandros.  Asus stopped supporting updates for flashplayer and firefox, soI decided to change the operating system.  Since, I don't specially want to upgrade the memory, I decided to go with a simpler and lighter OS.  My computer geek Bro-in-law suggested Android.  After some pain and frustration, I was eventually successful. I decided to include a post on this for anyone else out there who is looking to do the same.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Step 1:  go to http://www.android-x86.org on a Windows PC. &lt;br /&gt;Step 2: download latest version for the eeepc, like android-x86-2.2-r2-eeepc.iso&lt;br /&gt;Step 3: download UNetBootIn for Windows from http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/&lt;br /&gt;Step 4: install UNetBootIn on Windows PC&lt;br /&gt;Step 5: Insert USB fashdrive into Windows PC&lt;br /&gt;Step 6: open UNetBootIn and select and extract .iso file onto USB flashdrive.&lt;br /&gt;Step 7: Turn on Asus Eeepc and press Esc before Boot to enter Bios. &lt;br /&gt;Step 8: Configure Bios to boot from external drive first before internal harddrive.&lt;br /&gt;(USB fashdrive is considered an external harddrive and not a removable device)&lt;br /&gt;Step 9: Insert USB flashdrive into left USB socket.&lt;br /&gt;Step 10: Reboot Asus Eeepc and select boot from External Device&lt;br /&gt;Step 12: Goto settings/applications and allow download of unknown sources&lt;br /&gt;Step 13: Goto settings/wireless&amp;networks and configure wireless Internet connection&lt;br /&gt;Step 14:  If you like it, reboot and select to permenant install android onto internal harddrive&lt;br /&gt;Step 15: install read-only for an kernel if you don't want to make edits to base OS&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Problems:  typing in webbrowser and blogs is difficult.&lt;br /&gt;                   Android 2.3 Gingerbread does not have flash support&lt;br /&gt;                   Android 2.2 Froyo may.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7761825-1495582750180331729?l=brainbender.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brainbender.blogspot.com/feeds/1495582750180331729/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7761825&amp;postID=1495582750180331729' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7761825/posts/default/1495582750180331729'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7761825/posts/default/1495582750180331729'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brainbender.blogspot.com/2011/07/android-on-asus-eeepc.html' title='Android on Asus EeePC'/><author><name>David B</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11266046963020498076</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d102/everyday_something/d1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7761825.post-6348952508753801831</id><published>2011-06-22T22:37:00.004-06:00</published><updated>2011-06-23T12:57:29.622-06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Health and Medicine'/><title type='text'>NATO Out, Cannabis In?</title><content type='html'>With the unconstitutional attack by US forces of Libya,  Germany and Italy are pulling out of NATO.  The constitution requires that only the Congress can declare war.  However, Pres. Obama approved military action in Libya against Qaddafi, telling the American people that our actions in Libya and now Tunisia are not war, but "Humanitarian Kinetic Actions."  Also, Pres. Obama has told  us that the decision to attack Libya was authorized by NATO and therefore, somehow doesn't need approval from the US Congress.  However, instead of strengthening and legitimizing NATO, we see just the opposite as powerful allies abandon ship.  A weakened NATO alliance could give China and Russia more confidence in launching their eventual strike on America.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In other news, Ron Paul and Barny Frank are co-sponsoring legislation to legalize cannabis.  If the US were to legalize the use  of cannabis, the US would be following the pattern of legalizing alcohol in 1933 before going into the depths of the Great Depression and WW2.  However, the coming new Depression and world war will make the Great Depression and WW2 look like a picnic in the park.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cannabis proponents use the failed War of Drugs to support their side when the reason the war is a failure is because the SPECIAL INTERESTS who control Washington control and profit from both sides of the drug war. They grow it, ship it into the US, sell it, then bust people for using it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Becoming Intoxicated is evil and dives out the Holy Ghost. A person who uses a substance to get an ARTIFICIAL HIGH stole that feeling. The Brain reinforces productive behavior that supports the survival of the species through neurochemical rewards/positive reinforcement.  If a person is taking a drug to artificially stimulate their brain's reward centers, they are stealing that HIGH. They didn't earn it.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7761825-6348952508753801831?l=brainbender.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brainbender.blogspot.com/feeds/6348952508753801831/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7761825&amp;postID=6348952508753801831' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7761825/posts/default/6348952508753801831'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7761825/posts/default/6348952508753801831'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brainbender.blogspot.com/2011/06/germany-and-italy-pull-out-of-nato.html' title='NATO Out, Cannabis In?'/><author><name>David B</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11266046963020498076</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d102/everyday_something/d1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7761825.post-6915309506590149637</id><published>2011-06-14T13:30:00.009-06:00</published><updated>2011-06-23T18:10:11.006-06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='History and Culture'/><title type='text'>Possible Fort Peck Dam Failure?</title><content type='html'>There are 6 &lt;a href="http://maps.unomaha.edu/maher/GEOL1010/lecture6/flowmap.gif"&gt;dams on the Missouri River &lt;/a&gt;  from Montanta to Kansas City, MO.  These dams were originally built for the purposes of flood control. The problem with these dams is that the upper dams are very poorly built and are already holding record water levels with record snow pack about ready to melt and overwhelm them.  What is supposed to happen is that lake levels are supposed to be low in winter ready to receive spring runoff.  If the Fork Peck Dam fails, the resulting wall of water would destroy all other 5 dams like a row of falling dominoes.  If all 6 dams on the Missouri River fail, the resulting flood would destroy cities, and nuclear power plants all along the river including Kansas City and St. Louis.  A dam failure and the resulting flood would be the worst disaster in US History.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The third trumpet in Revelations has to do with the curse of the rivers and wormwood contamination, or nuclear contamination.  Could a dam failure and a flooding of nuclear power stations along the Missouri River constitute a fulfillment of John's 3rd Trumpet?  I was thinking before that the Japan Tsunami and Fukushima nuclear disaster could have fulfilled John's 3rd Trumpet, but a catastrophic dam failure along the Missouri would also fit. (false 3rd Trumpet?)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;D&amp;amp;C 121:33 As well might man stretch forth his puny arm to stop the Missouri river in its decreed course, or to turn it up stream, as to hinder the Almighty from pouring down knowledge from heaven upon the heads of the Latter-day Saints.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Fort Peck Dam is an embankment/hydraulic fill dam and has already failed once during construction.  Teton Dam, Kaloto Dam, South Fork Dam, Lower San Fernando Dam are just a few examples of earth-fill or hydraulic fill dam failures.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7761825-6915309506590149637?l=brainbender.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brainbender.blogspot.com/feeds/6915309506590149637/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7761825&amp;postID=6915309506590149637' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7761825/posts/default/6915309506590149637'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7761825/posts/default/6915309506590149637'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brainbender.blogspot.com/2011/06/possible-fort-peck-dam-failure.html' title='Possible Fort Peck Dam Failure?'/><author><name>David B</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11266046963020498076</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d102/everyday_something/d1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7761825.post-4931560689360740884</id><published>2011-06-02T08:58:00.011-06:00</published><updated>2011-06-23T13:36:24.419-06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Constitutional Government'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='History and Culture'/><title type='text'>Banker Occupation in Greece</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/greek-bailout-will-require-loss-of-sovereignty-2011-5"&gt;Business Insider&lt;/a&gt; Magazine is reporting that the IMF is asking Greece to give up national Sovereignty in exchange for a banker bailout.  Last year Deutsche Bank asked Greece to put up thousands of Greek Islands as collateral on new loans.  However, it turned out that the money from Deutsche Bank to Greece came from the FED via &lt;a href="http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2010/12/totally-busted-truth-about-goldmans.html"&gt;secret TARP loans&lt;/a&gt; at a record low 0.01% interest rate.  This year, the IMF is asking Greece to hand over rights to levy taxes on its own people.  According to many, these requirements look like Greece has being taken hostage and is being expected to pay a ransom to financial terrorist.  The problem for America, is that the IMF is seen as being controlled by Wall Street and other western Special Interests.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Giving up taxation in exchange for a bailout is akin to the Lombard/Florentine Banking failure of the 1340 which was engineered by the Venetian Black Nobility/Order of Malta.  This banking failure was set up by the Mongol Invasion of China and Europe, and executed through a manipulation of the wool/linen and gold/silver markets (gold florin).  The aftermath precipitated the the 100-Years War, the Dark Ages, the Black Death, and culminated in the siege and destruction of Constantinople in 1453.  But at this same time, we  also see the rise of the Medici Family Bank, the fall of feudalism, and the Renaissances.  Many of these multinational banks in Italy were involved in lending to local towns to build grand cathedrals in exchange for control over taxation, mining and resource rights.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;According to the Max Kaiser Report on RT, the Prime Minister of Greece is facing allegations of treason for purchasing billions in credit default swaps which were sold off to friends who stand to make billions more when Greece defaults.  In another note, Max Keiser points out other news stories that &lt;a href="http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2011/05/members-of-congress-are-exempt-from.html"&gt;US Congress&lt;/a&gt; Representative and Senators are &lt;a href="http://www.bepress.com/bap/vol13/iss1/art4/"&gt;caught &lt;/a&gt;investing on&lt;a href="http://www.wgrz.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=71906&amp;amp;provider=gnews"&gt; insider information.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyways, the crux of the matter in Greece will be whether or not they accept the IMF bailout like Ireland or exit the Euro like Iceland.  However, there are several approaches Greece could take: 1. Military coupe and default, pull out of the Euro, and re-institute devalued "new drachma".  2. Privatize national assets, pay debts, and then re-nationalize later al la Argentina.  3.  Accept IMF bailout and stipulations. 4. Renegotiate debts which could hurt French and German banks.  Each of these pathways would have different consequences for Greece, Europe, and the United Sates.  The Greek people are protesting in the streets because they do not trust their government to do what is in the best interest of the Greek people.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Long-story-short, German and French banks took free US TARP/Stimulus money and lent it to Greece in the form of Bonds to bail out Greece and then bought insurance against default from US Banks in the form of Credit Default Swaps (CDSs).  If Greece can pay back these loans, they will have to give up Greek Islands, utilities, natural resources, taxation etc.  If Greece defaults, then US Banks will have to pay the default.  There are no US Bank reserves to cover a Greece default and pay the insurance (AIG).  So, if Greece defaults, that liability will end up being transfered onto the backs of the American taxpayer. And this is on top of the fact that the original money for the loan came directly from the US taxpayer.  So money is stolen from the US taxpayer and given x10 to Greece and the US Taxpayer will then be forced to pay even more if Greece doesn't pay that loan back with utilities, resources, and real estate.  The French and German Banks profit either way Greece goes.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7761825-4931560689360740884?l=brainbender.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brainbender.blogspot.com/feeds/4931560689360740884/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7761825&amp;postID=4931560689360740884' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7761825/posts/default/4931560689360740884'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7761825/posts/default/4931560689360740884'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brainbender.blogspot.com/2011/06/banker-occupation-in-greece.html' title='Banker Occupation in Greece'/><author><name>David B</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11266046963020498076</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d102/everyday_something/d1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7761825.post-7258221377751222959</id><published>2011-06-01T00:27:00.008-06:00</published><updated>2011-06-01T22:58:51.868-06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='History and Culture'/><title type='text'>Nuclear Terrorism Looming?</title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;"WASHINGTON — The United States is running out of a rare gas that is crucial for detecting smuggled nuclear weapons materials because one arm of the Energy Department was selling the gas six times as fast as another arm could accumulate it, and the two sides failed to communicate for years, according to a new Congressional audit.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The gas, helium-3, is a byproduct of the nuclear weapons program, but as the number of nuclear weapons has declined, so has the supply of the gas. Yet, as the supply was shrinking, the government was investing more than $200 million to develop detection technology that required helium-3."   -New York Times&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;We were told by the media that if Osama Bin Laden were to be killed, that Al Qaeda would retaliate by detonating multiple nuclear bombs in major cities.  However, only one destination in a major city would be enough for the US military to try and seize Pakistan's nuclear arsenal and for the US military to remain entrenched in North Africa and the Middle East.  &lt;a href="http://in.news.yahoo.com/cia-spy-davis-giving-nuclear-bomb-material-al-20110219-224833-452.html"&gt;CIA operatives&lt;/a&gt; were found trying to deliver nuclear material to Taliban in Pakistan.  A nuclear incident would have given the US an excuse to seize Pakistan nuclear arsenal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The specific threat is that &lt;a href="http://theintelhub.com/2011/05/29/the-stage-is-set-for-a-nuclear-false-flag/"&gt;Al Qaeda&lt;/a&gt; planted 160 suitcase nukes all over the US.  13o suitcase nukes  were supposed to have turned up missing from Russia.  Now we have the complicating issue with Fukushima spewing out radioactive material which is saturating radiation detectors at our ports.  Saturated radiation detectors or high volume of contaminated cargo will make it nearly impossible to identify nukes being shipped in. (One device was found in San Diego-see youtube)  And now the New York Times is saying we are low on Helium-3 isotope that is used in sensitive nuke detectors.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lastly, Pres. Obama himself told us in his UN nuclear summit in 2010, that terrorist setting of nuclear bombs in America was our number 1 security concern.   I remember being rather stonished when I heard this statement because I never heard the mainstream media talk about these threats in as serious a tone.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And then there is the added details of &lt;a href="http://www.pccts.com/usa_plan_chaos_11_218_49/"&gt;predictive programming&lt;/a&gt;.  #1 TV Series Jericho: dramatizes these exact events and their aftermath. #2 Operation Blackjack: UK Telegraph cartoon series.  The author came on a forum to tell everyone the series was a hoax, but this man expressed such a complete loathing of his fellow man. #3 Alex Jones has been hinting at it. #4 Evony-type games that have been teaching players to make alliances and raid their neighbors resources.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7761825-7258221377751222959?l=brainbender.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brainbender.blogspot.com/feeds/7258221377751222959/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7761825&amp;postID=7258221377751222959' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7761825/posts/default/7258221377751222959'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7761825/posts/default/7258221377751222959'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brainbender.blogspot.com/2011/06/nuclear-attack-looming.html' title='Nuclear Terrorism Looming?'/><author><name>David B</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11266046963020498076</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d102/everyday_something/d1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7761825.post-6418738038212555370</id><published>2011-05-28T02:35:00.009-06:00</published><updated>2011-05-30T11:31:36.764-06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Science and Technology'/><title type='text'>Questionable Overunity Joule Thief Circuit</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d102/everyday_something/indexphpactiondlattachtopic853.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; WIDTH: 405px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 244px" alt="" src="http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d102/everyday_something/indexphpactiondlattachtopic853.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Dr. Steven Jones, Emeritus Physics Professor at &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;BYU&lt;/span&gt;, is playing with a possible &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;overunity&lt;/span&gt; Joule Thief circuit according to Sterling Allan at &lt;a href="http://pesn.com/2011/05/27/9501835_Steven_E_Jones_demonstrates_overunity_circuit/"&gt;Free Energy News and &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;PESWiki&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. Dr. Jones is making this discovery open source. You can see schematics of this circuit at &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"&gt;Overunityresearch&lt;/span&gt;.com. Dr. Jones posts as &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"&gt;username&lt;/span&gt;: &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"&gt;PhysicsProf&lt;/span&gt;. He will also be a featured speaker at this years Conspiracy Conference June 4-5, 2011 at the Santa Clara Marriott. More details about this novel circuit should be forthcoming. While the mechanism for &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6"&gt;overunity&lt;/span&gt; (producing more electrical power than it consumes) is unknown at this time; so far, the circuit is reproducibly producing 8 x the input power according to median power &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7"&gt;measurement&lt;/span&gt; on an &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8"&gt;oscilloscope&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However, power measurements on an oscilloscope for high frequency, non-sinusoidal waveforms can be very misleading and problematic to measure. True heating power or RMS power needs to be measured using a restistive load and calorimeter or charging of a capacitor.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Vin 2.5 V &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9"&gt;AA's&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rb 51K&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10"&gt;MPS&lt;/span&gt;2222&lt;br /&gt;C-B 151 &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11"&gt;pF&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;D red LED&lt;br /&gt;L-B, L-O &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12"&gt;bifilar&lt;/span&gt; 9turns, ferrite toroid 1"OD, ~90&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13"&gt;uH&lt;/span&gt; each&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14"&gt;Ro&lt;/span&gt; 0&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_15"&gt;Rr&lt;/span&gt; 0&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_16"&gt;Cout&lt;/span&gt; 10,000&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_17"&gt;uF&lt;/span&gt; @16V, disconnected normally&lt;br /&gt;I(t) by V over 1ohm &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_18"&gt;CSR's&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rb = 2K&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_19"&gt;Rr&lt;/span&gt; = 0&lt;br /&gt;D = 1n4148 diode&lt;br /&gt;Vin = 2.6 V&lt;br /&gt;10,000 &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_20"&gt;uF&lt;/span&gt; (16V) cap IN PLACE OF Rout, oriented as shown in schematic below.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7761825-6418738038212555370?l=brainbender.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brainbender.blogspot.com/feeds/6418738038212555370/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7761825&amp;postID=6418738038212555370' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7761825/posts/default/6418738038212555370'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7761825/posts/default/6418738038212555370'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brainbender.blogspot.com/2011/05/dr-steven-jones-develops-overunity.html' title='Questionable Overunity Joule Thief Circuit'/><author><name>David B</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11266046963020498076</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d102/everyday_something/d1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7761825.post-6532853879364034836</id><published>2011-05-22T00:42:00.004-06:00</published><updated>2011-05-24T15:51:30.821-06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='History and Culture'/><title type='text'>Stop Provoking China</title><content type='html'>US CIA together with blackops from Canada, Britain, and Israel have been caught doing very questionable things.  In Georgia, CIA were caught training mercenaries in pro-Soviet South Ossetia.  This interference resulted in the  invasion of South Ossetia by the Soviet Army.  There are rumors that Russia threatened nuclear war.  The sad things is that this sort of thing is far from an isolated incident.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Just recently, in addition to the Seal raid and supposed execution of Osama Bin Laden, and the numerous predator drone attacks,  CIA were caught in Pakistan trying to deliver a&lt;a href="http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/02/22/cia-agent-davis-accused-of-delivering-dirty-bomb-to-taliban/"&gt; nuclear dirty bomb&lt;/a&gt; to a US controlled pseudo-Taliban (the original Taliban were demonized).  The original real Taliban took over Afghanistan and prohibited poppy growing in 1999-2001 and pedophilia (bacha bazi). The globalists needed to take Afghanistan back to restore poppy growing which is up 300% from before 1999.  However, the Taliban were vilified in books like the "Kite Runner" which falsely blamed the poppies and pedophilia on the Taliban and not the Pashtun.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, what we are doing in Pakistan is that we have taken over Afghanistan, and defeated the Taliban and replaced them with a pseudo-Taliban that is CIA run.  This new pseudo-Taliban is continuing to terrorize Pakistan, India and Afghanistan (Mumbai attacks, Bhutto assassination), which gives the US continued cause to bomb Pakistani villages by Predator drones, and an excuse to seize all Pakistan nuclear weapons to "protect" them from the Taliban or Al-Qaeda.  But remember, the pseudo-Taliban are now controlled by the US. A false-flag nuclear terrorist attack on US soil would also give NATO cause to seize Pakistani nuclear weapons.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The result of this is that China has issued an ultimatum to the US that if we attack Pakistan again overtly or covertly, China will retaliate.  What many people don't realize, is that the special interests in control of the US government have been trying to create the right crisis for decades now to spawn WW3.  Israel-Turkey, Pakistan-India, North-South Korea.  It doesn't matter to these people whose main objective is to destroy the Constitution of the United States.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7761825-6532853879364034836?l=brainbender.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brainbender.blogspot.com/feeds/6532853879364034836/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7761825&amp;postID=6532853879364034836' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7761825/posts/default/6532853879364034836'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7761825/posts/default/6532853879364034836'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brainbender.blogspot.com/2011/05/stop-provoking-china.html' title='Stop Provoking China'/><author><name>David B</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11266046963020498076</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d102/everyday_something/d1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7761825.post-605112506741976889</id><published>2011-05-21T22:57:00.008-06:00</published><updated>2011-06-28T20:15:57.605-06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Science and Technology'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='History and Culture'/><title type='text'>Comet Elenin C/2010 X1</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2011-135"&gt;Nasa and JPL &lt;/a&gt;are tracking an interesting comet that is coming into our solar system.  Comets come and go all the time.  However, not since Shoemaker-Levi 9 slammed into Jupiter 1994 has there been more interest in a comet.  So, far this obscure comet, which was discovered by Russian astronomer Leonid Elenin, is very difficult to see.  What initially got people interested is that the Earth on about November will pass through the dust tail of this comet.  This event has the potential to produce a lightshow akin to "&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonids"&gt;the Great 1833 Leonids Meteor Shower&lt;/a&gt;" where 100,000 falling stars per hour were recorded.  According to Wiki, this meteor shower was interpreted as a sign to expel Mormons/LDS from Missouri.  LDS are hoping history doesn't repeat itself and people interpret this sign differently.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However, what's got everyone interested now is that the last 3 times this comet has been in alignment with the Earth and Sun, there is been a major Earthquake.  These &lt;a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/1104.2036"&gt;alignment-earthquakes&lt;/a&gt; include Chile, Christchurch, and the most recent Japan Earthquake and Tsunami.  The link above is to a respected peer-reviewed astrophysics journal.  The significance of these alignment-earthquakes, is that some believe it possible that Elenin may not be a comet at all.  If Elenin is causing serious gravitational effects on Earth, then Elenin could be a massive planet or brown dwarf.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The only reason I give this theory any type of attention, is that President Joseph Smith, said that a great sign of the Second Coming would be "The Sign of the Son of Man".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;"There will be wars and rumors of wars, signs in the heavens above and on the earth beneath, the sun turned into darkness and the moon to blood, earthquakes in divers places, the seas heaving themselves beyond their bounds; then will appear one grand sign of the Son of Man in heaven. But what will the world do? &lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;They will say it is a planet, a comet, etc.&lt;/span&gt; But the Son of Man will come as the sign of the coming of the Son of Man, which will be as the light of the morning cometh out of the east [see &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;" href="http://scriptures.lds.org/js_m/1/26#26"&gt;Joseph Smith - Matthew 1:26&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;]."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, could Elenin be this Sign of the Son of Man?  I am not sure.  So, far Elenin doesn't fit the bill because we can't see it and Joseph Smith said that when the real sign appears, all the people of the Earth will be able to see it.  However,this Elenin object is still aways off but approaching quickly.  Key dates are Sept 11, when Elenin will be closest to the Sun, and Sept 27, when there is another Earth-Elenin-Sun alignment.  Then later the Earth will pass through it dust tail about the end of October.  Another alignment similar to what occurred on the day of the Japan Tsunami will occur in mid-November.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What adds to the oddity of this comet Elenin, is that conspiracy theorists have always been taking about some kind of Planet X, or Nibiru, Marduk coming into the solar system causing a magnetic pole shift on Earth and massive Earth-changes and devastation.  I always thought this sort of things was crazy, but maybe not so much.  It was believed that about the time of the Tower of Babel, that planet X passed through the solar system resulting in the scattering of the people of Babylon.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another far-out interpretation of this whole business is that this whole thing with Elenin is contrived or over-hyped.  Conspiracy theorists had been concerned with the possible use of tectonic earthquake weapons.  HAARP is a massive system of phase-array microwave antennas in Alaska that has the ability to focus a billion watts of power on any point on, below, or above the Earth.  The idea is that heating the ionosphere could strengthen and partially steer hurricanes, and nor'easters.  Heating below ground  could trigger EQs on faults which already have energy stored up on them.  And in addition to the eleinin-sun-earth alignment on the day of the Japan EQ, environmental papers have recorded significant, anomalous and pinpoint &lt;a href="http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/26773/?p1=Blogs"&gt;ionospheric heating&lt;/a&gt; the day of the Japan EQ.  So, Elenin could be a distraction from HAARP.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another factor at play is concerning space weapons.  It seems to be well accepted that Russia, China, and the US have weaponized space.  Popular Science has featured article on space weaponization in the past in an article entitled &lt;a href="http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2004-06/rods-god"&gt;"Rods from God"&lt;/a&gt;  If Elenin is some massive brown dwarf star, some believe that this object could be bringing with it a ton of debris and an extensive system of moons.   Real or contrived, the concern is that when Eleinin dust, and meteors begin to fall, some of this material might be very large and cause considerable damage.  If destructive meteors do begin to fall, it may be very difficult to distinguish between legit Elenin (&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;Eleven-Nine, Extinction-Level-Event, Nibiru in November)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt; debris vs. &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic_bombardment"&gt;space/orbital kinetic weapons&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The other concern is, if Elenin is a massive Brown Dwarf and not just a comet, could it cause a complete magnetic pole shift, or could this thing disrupt the orbit of the Earth or even steel the Earth from its orbit around the Sun.  Could there be collisions between Elenin moons and our moon.  A similar such collision is believed to have given rise to our solar system's asteroid belt.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My faith is that God has designed this Earth to survive and be the home of its  righteous inhabitance forever.  Therefore, I don't think it is in the economy of God to destroy the Earth.  However, that doesn't mean there couldn't a whole lot of shaking.  Scripture fortells the day when the Sun will be darkened, the moon will turn red, and the stars will fall from the skies.  Additionally, the Earth will real-to and fro like a drunk man, and the heavens will be drawn together like a scroll.  What all that means, I don't know, but I am sure when it happens, we will know it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The newest thoughts on Elenin are that it is just a normal long-period comet that is not a brown dwarf or massive object at all, but instead will impact the sun due to its charge.  Having spent so much time outside the solar system, it is believed the object could electrically influence the sun and earth via its strong electric charge that it has accumulated.   Then again, we have seen long period comets before without ascribing much significance to them.  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;If Elenin were a massive object, we would already have expected to see alterations in the orbits of the planets.  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;However, the correlation with Comet Elenin-sun-earth alignments and major EQ's is an interesting one.  If there exists EQ technology (HAARP), this correlation could have been engineered to draw attention away from it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7761825-605112506741976889?l=brainbender.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brainbender.blogspot.com/feeds/605112506741976889/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7761825&amp;postID=605112506741976889' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7761825/posts/default/605112506741976889'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7761825/posts/default/605112506741976889'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brainbender.blogspot.com/2011/05/comet-elenin-c2010-x1.html' title='Comet Elenin C/2010 X1'/><author><name>David B</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11266046963020498076</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d102/everyday_something/d1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7761825.post-2121043996951997040</id><published>2011-05-10T21:44:00.009-06:00</published><updated>2011-05-10T23:38:20.457-06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='History and Culture'/><title type='text'>Bin Laden, Antichrist, and the Dijjal</title><content type='html'>The following is very random and comes from some comments I read elsewhere on the web:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I was curious about the assassination of Osama bin Laden, how the news was saying his left hand or arm was injured and that he was shot though his left or right eye and then his body was dumped into the ocean.  Apparently, the &lt;a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2002/jul/16/afghanistan.rorymccarthy"&gt;London Gaurdian&lt;/a&gt; reported that Bin Laden injured his left shoulder at the bombing of Tora Bora.  When it comes to the eye injury, news reports are mixed about which eye was shot through.  Photos which many claim are a hoax show the left eye shot through, but initial reports from FOX News reported that it was the right eye.  Why is this arm and eye injury thing important?  Well, many think Bin Laden was killed in Tora Bora in 2001, or died not long after of complications of Marfan's Syndrome or Kidney disease. However, if Bin Laden were to somehow show up living in the future, then you have Bin Laden fitting the prophecies about the Biblical Anti-Christ and the Muslim Dijjal.  In any event, you can rule out the claim by the Federal Government that Bin Laden was laid to rest with respect to Islamic law. I also don't like the possible reference to the Sixth Seal with the group, Seal Team Six, which was sent in to take Bin Laden out.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Zech 11:17 Woe to the idol shepherd that leaveth the flock! the sword [shall be] upon his arm, and upon his right eye: his arm shall be clean dried up, and his right eye shall be utterly darkened.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;h4&gt;Rev 13: 1,3 And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea,. . . And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.&lt;/h4&gt;  &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Muhammad is reported to have said:  "... Allah is not one eyed while Messiah, Ad-Dajjal is blind in the right eye and his eye looks like a bulging out grape" (see wiki-Dijjal)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;According to this BBC report, many Pakistani's in Abbottabad do not believe Bin Lauden was living in that house, nor that the person in the videos released by the US are Bin Laden.  One man who is a street vendor and has lived in the area for 50 years claims that the owner of the house and the man in the video was &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJduLyB_yO4"&gt; Akhbar Khan&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7761825-2121043996951997040?l=brainbender.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brainbender.blogspot.com/feeds/2121043996951997040/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7761825&amp;postID=2121043996951997040' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7761825/posts/default/2121043996951997040'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7761825/posts/default/2121043996951997040'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brainbender.blogspot.com/2011/05/bin-laden-antichrist-and-dijjal.html' title='Bin Laden, Antichrist, and the Dijjal'/><author><name>David B</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11266046963020498076</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d102/everyday_something/d1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7761825.post-7325642475562353319</id><published>2011-05-06T07:20:00.003-06:00</published><updated>2011-05-06T07:50:14.104-06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='History and Culture'/><title type='text'>Why NATO invaded Lybia</title><content type='html'>RT (Russian Television) reports the real reason NATO went after Gaddafi in Libya.  It wasn't to protect the demonstrators, or for the oil.  What Gaddafi was trying to do was set up his own currency (the gold dinar).  It was Gaddafi's aim to get Africa and the Middle East to accept this new currency and only trade oil and other resources in gold instead of ever depreciating USDollars like they do now.  If Gaddafi had been successful, many countries would have been drained of their gold supplies and forced to purchase oil and many other needed resources from the Middle East and Africa only in gold.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In 1990, Saddam Hussein tried to evade the Petro-Dollar system by trading oil in Euros.  This threat to the World Central Banking system was the major reason for Gulf War 1.  Recently, Iran has made deals with China and Russia to trade oil in Yuan.  Consequently, many experts agree that world banking elite are looking for any excuse to move against Iran.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However, the truth is that the US had plenty of natural resources here at home.  We don't need Middle East oil.  The US has 3 Saudi Arabias of oil under ANWR in Alaska and in the Bakken Formation in Montana.  The largest deposit of rare earth metals is found in Idaho. The National Parks and Forest Acts don't just serve to protect land in America but these Laws prevent us from being self sufficient as a nation and tapping our own rich natural resources.  These lands need to be taken back by the States.  We can balance the US budget by becoming more independent, and self-sufficient economically, then closing overseas bases and bringing our US Military home and deploy them along our borders and ports to inspect all imports and anyone crossing our borders.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. Give national park and forest lands back to states.&lt;br /&gt;2. Mine our own natural resources.&lt;br /&gt;3. US Treasury to create 100% of money supply and end fractional reserve banking.&lt;br /&gt;4. US Treasury to issue simple interest or fee-based credit via local banks.&lt;br /&gt;5. Rebuild domestic manufacturing.&lt;br /&gt;6. Close all overseas US bases and bring home all US Military overseas.&lt;br /&gt;7. Redeploy US Military along US border and ports.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7761825-7325642475562353319?l=brainbender.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brainbender.blogspot.com/feeds/7325642475562353319/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7761825&amp;postID=7325642475562353319' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7761825/posts/default/7325642475562353319'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7761825/posts/default/7325642475562353319'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brainbender.blogspot.com/2011/05/why-nato-invaded-lybia.html' title='Why NATO invaded Lybia'/><author><name>David B</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11266046963020498076</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d102/everyday_something/d1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7761825.post-7431887152279780453</id><published>2011-04-29T01:14:00.002-06:00</published><updated>2011-04-29T01:38:58.921-06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Science and Technology'/><title type='text'>The Secret of the Moray Device</title><content type='html'>http://www.nuenergy.org/disclosures/US-2008-0272680-A1.pdf&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Before, I was relaying info on the  "speed of quantum transition".&lt;br /&gt;ct = c . (alpha) / 2 = 1.094 x 10 ^ 6 m/s or 1.094 Mhz . m&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well, while I was thinking on this, I started to think about famous LDS inventor Dr. T. Henry Moray's and how his radiant energy device might work in terms of this new understanding of quantum physics.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dr. Moray always assumed that he was receiving and converting cosmic rays or neutrinos into electricity.  However, I think Mr. Perreault in the patent application explains very well just how the Moray valve worked (except for one aspect).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;First off, I think that the Moray device did work.  The number of reliable witnesses is convincing.  As best I can tell, the Moray device consisted of 1. 87ft wire antenna 2. tuned LC circuit 3. Moray Valve 4. capacitors 5. ground.  The Moray Valve was the real secret to the device.  As best I can tell, the Moray Valve was a cold cathode, containing germanium, a palladium electrode, and a radioactive alpha emitter.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dr. Moray along with many others believed that the Moray Device was analogous to a crystal radio, and the Moray Valve was the first Germanium Diode.  However, I see the crystal radio concept explaining only part of the functionality of the device.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After reading Mr. Perreault's patent application, I agree that the Moray Valve/cold cathode was very likely a thermionic/beta-voltaic device via alpha-fusion or capture reaction. According to the patent application Germanium could capture a high energy alpha particle and go through several transmutations eventually resulting in the production of a beta particle (high energy electron).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However, Mr. Perreault makes the assumption that the radio antenna and ground only serve the purpose of supplying a voltage difference to the moray valve.  However, with this new understanding of the "speed of quantum transition" and analogous to the Superwave (Heavy Water-Palladium) Fusion; stimulating the palladium cathode with a high frequency electric current stimulates the fusion reaction.  Likewise, in the Moray Device, I believe the tuned LC circuit electrically stimulates the Moray Valve with high frequency current that increased the efficiency of germanium alpha-particle capture, fusion, and beta emission.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;32Ge72 + 2He4 --&gt; 34Se75 + 0n1&lt;br /&gt;34Se75 + e-   --&gt; 33As75&lt;br /&gt;32Ge72 + 0n1  --&gt; 32Ge77&lt;br /&gt;32Ge77 --&gt; 33As77 + e- (beta)&lt;br /&gt;33As77 --&gt; 34Se77 + e- (beta)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7761825-7431887152279780453?l=brainbender.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brainbender.blogspot.com/feeds/7431887152279780453/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7761825&amp;postID=7431887152279780453' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7761825/posts/default/7431887152279780453'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7761825/posts/default/7431887152279780453'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brainbender.blogspot.com/2011/04/secret-of-moray-device.html' title='The Secret of the Moray Device'/><author><name>David B</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11266046963020498076</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d102/everyday_something/d1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7761825.post-7528720763188317976</id><published>2011-04-25T18:51:00.004-06:00</published><updated>2011-04-25T19:48:07.261-06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='History and Culture'/><title type='text'>New Mitt Romney Bashing Strategy</title><content type='html'>You better believe that if there is one candidate that "Special Interests" absolutely do not want to see winning as President of the United States, it is Mitt Romney.  Mitt hasn't sold out, he has not compromised himself, and doesn't owe anyone.  He is not perfect, but I think he has got the best chance of anyone at saving this country.  Last election, Mitt Romney allowed everyone to call him a Flip-flopper.  This times it seems apparent that the propaganda machine to equate his Romney-Care with Obama-Care.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Romney-Care is nothing like Obama-Care, and Romney better get serious about getting this point across.  Romney care assists residents in Mass to purchase private health care.  Romney care supports private insurance.  Obama care is set up to compete with and destroy private insurance by forcing citizens to buy a nationalized plan.  I hope that continued talk about Romney-Care will give Gov. Romney the opportunity to show just how different Romney-care is to Obama-care with it's quality measures, and national ID, and nationalization of insurance.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I couldn't bare to watch Romney so easily get blasted last year.  I couldn't bare the endless "flip-flopper" comments.  I couldn't bare seeing the President of the Southern Baptist Convention all over the media talking about how Mike Huckabee wasn't a real contender but happy that he took votes away from Romney and that Republicans should be happy with McCain.  I couldn't bare listening to Bill Bennett's (Reagan's Drug Czar) tell his audience that he "just wasn't sure about Romney."  And I couldn't stand McCain passing by selecting Romney as VP and then listening to Sarah Palin endless references to "Joe-Six-Pack".  And then there was the back room deals in West Virgina and then in Florida on Super Tuesday which killed Romney's presidential campaign dead.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The only thing that could make me more sick to my stomach this next election would be to see Donald Trump win the GOP nomination.  And so far, I know a few people who say they are going to vote for him.  I can't think of anything more emblematic of how sick America is, than seeing someone like Trump win the Presidential Election.  If Trump were to win as President, I think Russia and China would attack us before his inauguration.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7761825-7528720763188317976?l=brainbender.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brainbender.blogspot.com/feeds/7528720763188317976/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7761825&amp;postID=7528720763188317976' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7761825/posts/default/7528720763188317976'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7761825/posts/default/7528720763188317976'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brainbender.blogspot.com/2011/04/new-mitt-romney-bashing-strategy.html' title='New Mitt Romney Bashing Strategy'/><author><name>David B</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11266046963020498076</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d102/everyday_something/d1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7761825.post-8770224925447922740</id><published>2011-04-22T22:04:00.009-06:00</published><updated>2011-04-23T01:47:50.054-06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Banking and Economics'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='History and Culture'/><title type='text'>1340's Lombard Banking Failure</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="reftext"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Deut 23:19-20 Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother; usury of money, usury of victuals, usury of any thing that is lent upon usury: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;" class="reftext"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Unto a stranger thou mayest lend upon usury; but unto thy brother thou shalt not lend upon usury:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Bible forbids lending anything to a countryman or fellow citizen upon usury.  The Catholic Church interpreted usury as referring to interest.  Therefore, any Christian was forbidden from collecting any interest whatsoever on the loan of money, food or substance to another.  I believe equating usury with simple interest is an unfortunate misinterpretation of scripture.  The reality is that 1. money as a medium of exchange is required for city living. 2. business and agricultural development relies upon credit for liquidity. 3. businesses that specialize in extending credit must be allowed to cover their costs. 4. forbidding simple interest (loan origination fee or monthly service charges)  would  starve an economy of credit and liquidity.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The consequence of the Catholic Church forbidding the collection of simple interest together with usury meant that honest Christians could not afford to involve themselves in the business of banking and credit.  On the other hand, Jews were not under the same constraints.  Jews also observed Deut 23, but because most of their business was with Christians, they interpreted "brother" to mean a fellow Jew.  Christians were "gentiles","heathen" and "strangers."  Therefore, there was no prohibition in the Bible for collecting usury from them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Accordingly, most early bankers were Jewish.  The first midevil banks were called Lombards, which were simply pawn shops.  People would take furniture, plow, land deeds, or whatever they had of value to the Lombard and sell it.  If they later wanted to redeem the pawned item, then they had to repurchase the item from the Lombard at a higher price.  In reality, the pawned item was used as collateral for a loan which was repaid with considerable interest attached.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Because of the need for credit, Lombards became an instant success, and the owners became instantly wealthy.  Before long, Lombards began to engage in more traditional banking.  Citizens would deposit gold, diamonds, and other precious things at their local Lombard.  However, in France, about the time of the First Crusade in 1099, the Jewish Lombards were thrown out.  In their place, the Catholic Church established a system of Templar Houses which were run by the Order of the Knights Templar.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Templars were a monastic order with a duty to redeem Jerusalem from Muslim occupation, as well as protect pilgrims who wished to visit the Holy Land.  Because protecting the pilgrims valuables from robbers was very difficult, Pilgrims would deposit deeds, gold and valuables at their local Templar House, and receive in return a ciphered document recording the value of the deposited items.  The pilgrim could then make withdrawals at any Templar House along the pilgrim routes in Europe and Palestine.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It was at this time that Fractional Reserve Lending begun.  Templar Houses and Lombards began making loans by issuing gold certificates which could be redeemed for actual gold in deposit at the bank.  Bankers learned quickly that they could issue many more gold certificates than the actual gold they had on hand, and collect much more in interest and usury that way.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Templar Houses in France and Lombards in Italy began making sizable loans to local and national governments and began to weld significant political influence and power.   While the local bank operators were often Jewish, the mid-level bookkeepers needed to be literate.  Therefore, in a time when literacy was uncommon, the Jesuit Order of the Catholic Church controlled most of the Lombard and Templar bookkeeping. These midevil banks would broker deals with local and state governments to supply credit in exchange for control over local mining, mineral rights, agricultural and industrial production.  Local banks slowly privatized most government,  industry and agriculture in an area.  Banks would often even privatize the collection of taxes as part of the "conditionalities" associated with the loan repayment instead of collecting usury.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Like the Teutonic Knights establishment of Prussia, the Knights Templar wanted to establish a similar Independent state in France or take over France entirely from King Phillip IV.  To aid this, the Templars came up with the myth that they the order had excavated and discovered a repository of Jewish genealogy under the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.  According to geneological records, the Templars claimed that Jesus of Nazareth was married to Mary Magdalene and had born offspring.  The Order had identified the descendance of this Royal Blood Line or "Sangre Real" and intermarried them into a rival French Dynastic Family, the Merovingians. The Templars hoped that King Phillip's Divine Rite, wouldn't stand up to the  literal blood of Christ Christ.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;King Phillip didn't take this threat to his power lying down. King Phillip initally requested that the Pope disband the order upon which the Pope responded, "I'm the Pope and you can't tell me what to do, and beside, those guys are making me a lot of money."   In response to that, King Phillip kidnapped, imprisoned, murdered several Popes and then had his childhood friend Clement V installed as Pope.  Then on Fri. Oct 13th, 1307, he arrested many Templars, tortured them, and used their confessions to convince Clement V to disband the Order in 1312.  After the Order of Knights Templar was disbanded, King Phillip IV seized all Templar assets in France.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Surviving Templars in France fled to Scotland, Germany, and Italy.  The Pope then transferred Templar assets outside of France to a sister order, the Order of St. John Hospitaller or the Order of Cyprus, Crete, Rhodes, and Malta. Banks in Italy continued to flourish, being directed by what is called the Venetian Black Nobility or "Neri Guelphs".  The Hospitallers controlled shipping in the Mediterranean from ports in Cyprus, Crete, Rhodes, and Malta and maintained a trade monopoly not unlike the Ancient Phoenicians, the East India Trade Company, or Walmart.  In those days, trade monopolies were maintained and enforced by militarism and piracy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Midevil banks traded many commodities, but the most important was wool, and woolen cloth.   Fine and long woolen tunic, robes, and capes were a sign of status in medieval Europe.  England served as a prime location for raising sheep which became increasing controlled by Italian banks. However, King Edward III (Misser Edward) revolted against the Bardi and Peruzzi banks, by  defaulting on their loans in 1342, and boycotting wool in favor of cotton.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However, the real shock to the Florence Banks and the economy came as a result of the operations of the Venetian Banks.  Venetian Banks in league with the Mongol Khans, looted China of all her gold and switched China from a gold to a silver standard.  Venice shipped as much silver over to Europe as possible, while introducing gold into Europe and converting Europe's silver standard to gold.  By shipping in gold from China, and exporting silver, gold value fell, the Florence banks went bust, and the European economy feel into a deep depression being starved of liquidity and credit and beginning the 100-years war between England and France.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Mongol-Khans then swept through Eastern Europe spreading Bubonic and Pneumonic Plague beginning in 1347.  War and disease reduced the population in Europe by half.  During this time in Italy, the Renaissance was supported by the Guelphic deMedici banking family who were also of the Order of Malta. Finally, the 100-years war ended with the Fall of Constantinople 1453.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7761825-8770224925447922740?l=brainbender.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brainbender.blogspot.com/feeds/8770224925447922740/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7761825&amp;postID=8770224925447922740' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7761825/posts/default/8770224925447922740'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7761825/posts/default/8770224925447922740'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brainbender.blogspot.com/2011/04/lombard-banking-failure.html' title='1340&apos;s Lombard Banking Failure'/><author><name>David B</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11266046963020498076</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d102/everyday_something/d1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7761825.post-1812218942964795040</id><published>2011-04-19T20:36:00.001-06:00</published><updated>2011-04-20T20:49:03.824-06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Constitutional Government'/><title type='text'>Politics Letter</title><content type='html'>Dear Bro. Skousen,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;ALEX JONES COMMENT&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I was listening to your latest interview several weeks ago on the Alex Jones show.  I had asked you in a previous email why a good LDS member you would go on shows like Alex Jones and CoasttoCoastAM. Probably a similar reason a good LDS like me keeps up with what these shows are discussing. I can understand that shows like these are likely the only ones that would help you reach your audience.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That said, a comment you made at the end of your interview with Alex Jones really got my attention.  I believe the question was edited out of the YouTube version of the show.  If I wasn't hallucinating at the time, you made the quick but strategic comment  "That is our purpose to get people to rise up against their governments."  and Alex Jones was like "Yeh, that's right."  I am curious if you will ever get invited back after pulling that comment.  My jaw literally dropped after hearing that bombshell of a comment.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;SECOND CIVIL WAR BEFORE NUCLEAR ATTACK AND INVASION&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There is some internet hearsay prophecy attributed to Joseph Smith via Milton Musser and Martin Harris about a second Civil War in America beginning in Chicago and linked to the devaluation of the US Currency.  Reliable or not, Alex Jones was discussing specifically today how Chicago was being set up to stage huge demonstrations, which will lead to riots which will lead to martial law and gun confiscation.  Military, local law enforcement, Home Land Security together with foreign troops have been testing and rehearsing different elements of a future response within the US.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyways, when I first started to listen to Alex Jones because of work acquaintance "James deMedici" (yes related to the popes) whose Father is a major local if not national Tea Party Organizer (goes by the name Tony Powers). Tee-Shirt designs James showed me mocking Obama ended up on CNN.  Anyways, this got me interested in trying to figure out what the purpose of Alex Jones was.  I was curious what his show was designed to get people to think and to do.  I had come to the same conclusion that I think you have.  With all the Dystopian movies out there (especially V for Vendetta), are sure to get many of my generation who are abusing marijuana with now record high THC levels are sure to play their anarchists role in the coming Chicago demonstrations.  A few broken windows and torched cars will give HLS and  SPP (sec and prosp partnership) the excuse they need to jump into action.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;ECONOMIC SQUEEZE PLAY&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Also, it looks like Saudi Arabia has turned.  No more cheap oil I suppose after they took out loans when oil was 140$/barrel and wallstreet speculators dropped it to 40$/barrel when they needed at least 85$/barrel to repay loans for that new university over there.  And after Wikileaks and then all this CIA/Massad/MI6 involvement in Middle Eastern civil unrest, we have just alienated our major supplier of oil.  It looks like Saudi Arabia is fully intent on making up for lost profits over the past 2 years.  Too bad Elder /Senator Reid Smoot's National Parks Act prevents us from drilling in ANWR and Bakken.  Sounds like the plot to "Evan Almighty."  Too bad all LDS in government couldn't be awake like Elder N. Eldon Tanner  who secured mineral rights for Alberta.  Interesting that it is said that Elder Tanner who was also a successful banker, oilman, and politician was the one who supposedly tempered Elder Benson.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt; FARRAKHAN AND UFO'S???&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What is the deal with all this UFO stuff?  Is it just fear.  Is this going to lead to some new new age religion?  CosttoCoastAM has been pushing this forever.  But it seems like AlexJones is on the other side talking about suppressed technology and Project Blue Beam.  It seems there has been a flood of UFO sightings this year and some increasingly good video (Brazil, Japan, Jerusalem, and American Fork). Even Rev. Louis Farrakhan is commenting recently that a disclosure is eminent.  I really enjoyed his radio speech on Libya but was surprised when he indirectly called Obama a "blackface" in the white house.  Additionally, the UN has appointed some kind of ET ambassador M.Othman (=mothman?).  Then there was some crazy UFO referendum in Denver last election.  I can't figure out what this UFO business is all about unless certain people that TPTB really want to control believe it.  I am of the opinion that its all suppressed human technology (magnetoplasmadynamics) and satan convincing people that he is an "ascended" inter-dimentional being and not a "fallen angel" who covets a body, marriage, and family.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;COMET ELENIN???&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;Dr. Carol Rosin, Warner Von Braun's assistant, has been on a crusade telling us that of the many threats that the NWO have cooked up for us the last 2 after international terrorism, include ET's and Asteroids.  Recently NASA has announced the presence of comet Elenin that is entering the solar system.  This object should come between the Sun and Earth about Sept-Nov this year.  However, it turns out that the Chile, Christchurch, and Japan EQ's have occurred when the Elenin object (Eleven-NIne? ELE?) was aligned with the sun and moon.  The next alignment is supposed to occur Sept 27th, 2011. These EQ's have got conspiracy nuts concerned that this object may be some sort of massive Brown Dwarf that has a lot of debris with it and may cause severe earth changes. At the least, the Earth should pass through its tail producing a 1833-like Leonids event. The so-called discoverer of Elenin is some unknown Russian Astronomer "Leonid Elenin."  Hopefully, TPTB do not decide to exterminate the Mormons again, like they did before in 1833 after seeing that sign (see Wiki-Leonids).  I would ignore this Elenin object if Joseph Smith had not made the comment about the "Sign of the Son of Man."  Since there has been a mega-EQ with each of the past 3 alignments, I am looking out for the next alignment on about Sept 27, 2011.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;FEMA MASS MORGUE IN SLC&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;An acquaintance of mine completed a FEMA mass morgue and immunization center in downtown Salt Lake City at the old Union Pacific station.  He was the interior designer for the job.  This is the building next to Gateway Mall.  So, together with the FEMA coffins, bodybags, residential centers, cemeteries, and  MRE's we now have Mass Morgues and Immunization centers.  It looks to me like the Wasatch Fault could be the next mega EQ. And with all the liquefaction (ie Mexico City), I expect significant devastation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;ISOLATION VS. GATHERING&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Brother Skousen, I have not read your "Strategic Relocation".  In general I agree that living in the Rocky Mountains among the LDS has its advantages.  However, I have also read James Wesley Rawles "Patiots" containing a random occult reference to ouroboros and  William R. Forstchen's "One Second After"  with as foreword by Bohemian Grove member Newt Gingrich.  I have heard you praise Rawles several times.  in my opinion these other books are pure predictive programming.  They teach people to isolate themselves instead of band together.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am of the opinion that the Book of Mormon teaches us to band together.  While many people are not LDS.  For the LDS people, one excellent response would be to gather to our church buildings, pool our food supplies, and resources, and gain a defensive advantage through our numbers.  We already agree on leadership structure, so that is a big plus vs banding with neighbors.  If you try and do as Rawles and Forstchen recommend, if the roaming bands of brigands don't get you, the local government will try and seize everything, or the invading Communist Armies will get you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If instead, you turn to the Stakes of Zion and the Priesthood for protection, the church buildings are already RED CROSS shelters, you would already be sharing, so that decision doesn't have to be made every day as people come knocking on your door, and the government will likely not confiscate the resources of a large and orderly group.  And when it comes to invading Communists, we will hope that they like the LDS and will leave us alone.  The LDS church has been disseminating information on how to convert LDS buildings into shelters.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I know you said that you don't have time to respond to every email.  But any thoughts would be appreciated.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;David D. Brosnahan MD MS.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;You are correct that I don't have time for such  extensive questions about subjects that are very subjective.  But I'll try  to give a short reaction&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;I certainly did not say what you claim to  remember---at least in those words about rising up against governemnt.  I  did talk about building a resistance movment, but not those words---that would  have been very uncareful of me. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;I don't think you understand the grip the  globalists have on Saudi Arabia.  They are no more able to turn on the West  than any of the other petty oil tyrants of the Middle East. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;The Musser Harris prophecy is bogus&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;N. Elden Tanner was a socialist like Hugh b. Brown  and did not temper Benson.  Tanner was a good man and great administrator  but clueless on conspiracy.  Benson liked him because of his goodness but  they steered clear of talking politics. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;UFOs are "real" except in the sense that they  violate the natural laws of gravity and inertia, which means they operate in a  spiritual dimension, and that can't happen unless they get limited  permission from God's forces.  I think there is a Satanic dimension there.   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;The only alignment that influences earthquakes is  the Moon, as per Bergland's work.  I'm not buying the comet story.  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;FEMA mass morque.  There are Dozens of these  stories floating around, and very few true. When ever I send someone to go  inside the facility, with few exception, it turns out to be false.   Evidence please.  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;Isolation vs. Gathering.  You have not heard  me "praise Rawles several times", except to say that he has the largest survival  blog in the world and has a lot of influence.  I've never liked his  militaristic redoubt ideas, though I try not to attack others who are doing some  good in getting people prepared.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7761825-1812218942964795040?l=brainbender.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brainbender.blogspot.com/feeds/1812218942964795040/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7761825&amp;postID=1812218942964795040' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7761825/posts/default/1812218942964795040'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7761825/posts/default/1812218942964795040'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brainbender.blogspot.com/2011/04/politics-letter.html' title='Politics Letter'/><author><name>David B</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11266046963020498076</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d102/everyday_something/d1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7761825.post-7083366655038566538</id><published>2011-04-19T20:34:00.002-06:00</published><updated>2011-04-19T21:01:45.997-06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Science and Technology'/><title type='text'>Energy Letter</title><content type='html'>Dear Dr. Jones,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yes, I agree that there is not enough disclosure and peer review. Sadly, the desire for wealth and profit is preventing the technology from getting out. An energy revolution could save us from the our Malthusian adversaries just as the Industrial Revolution did centuries ago. I would hate to learn that a scientist or inventor went to their grave protecting their invention or discovery. If Zion is to be independent, we are going to have to figure this energy problem out. When I was at BYU working on a masters I was playing around in the lab and put together a dextrose-weedkiller (methylviologen, paraquat) fuel cell. My PI later patented it, but my name is not on the patent.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I can only suspect that what Rossi and Focardi have discovered (if anything) is very easy to replicate and why they are being vague about it. From the bits and pieces I have heard about it, they have talked about "molten nickel" and "nano-structure" and "catalyst". They use a water bath, stainless steel reaction vessel, hydrogen gas at 2 atm, and a 300-700watt heater. They also have some sort of electrical detection equipment which may be detecting something but could also be driving something.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Claimed outsiders from the Swedish Skeptic Society have claimed to have measured nickel going in, and 11% iron, nickel, and 10% copper after 2 months of operation (Cu63 and Cu65 are both stable). This may mean that only Ni-62 and Ni-64 are undergoing proton capture while Ni-58 and Ni-60 are not involved. Unless, Ni-58 is undergoing double beta decay to Fe-58 (also stable). There is no mention of the source of the 11% Iron. They do claim that there is gamma radiation that is given off which causes the heating of water. There is no mention of beta-radiation being detected. Maybe the iron is from the reaction vessel? However, 11% is considerable and seems more likely a product of a reaction.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nickel metal has a very high melting temperature, so I was curious how they were able to talk about 50 grams molten nickel using just a 300-700 watt heater. But then I read about Raney Nickel. This is an activated pyrophoric that is made by making a 1:1 nickel:aluminum alloy, grinding it into a powder, then selectively dissolving the aluminum with concentrated sodium hydroxide (5 Molar). Raney Nickel absorbs large amounts of hydrogen (useful, I wonder how much?), and is used in hydrogenation reactions in Organic Chemistry. However, if you expose activated Raney Nickel to oxygen it will spontaneously burst into flames and turn molten.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If I was back at BYU, I'd be interested in making myself some Activated Raney Nickel and pumping in some hydrogen and seeing what happened.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;David D. Brosnahan MD MS.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bro Jones,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One more thing.  You noticed you commented on your interest in HHO technology as an alternate energy source.  Again, it seems that with all these suppressed technologies like HHO, superwave palladium-lithium electrode cold fusion, magnetoplasmadynamics, antigravity, etc etc, they all involve high-frequency electricity and the possible stimulation of a material at iits phononic resonance (speed of quantum transition?).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Reading about the guy who died in Simi Valley who was working on HHO, he was using high frequency electricity to, according to him, store energy in the bonds of water molecule and not necessarily split water.  Skeptics say his device was simply efficiently splitting water by electrolysis.  Regardless, his tragic death is suspicious and unfortunate.  It makes me almost want to stick the output of my ham radio in a water.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Frank Znidarsic is claiming to have derived Plank's constant from Newtonian First Principles by assuming that light is a capacitor and the atom is like a spring. They come up with a more fundamental constant which is they call the "Speed of Quantum Transition." This value supposedly is the speed of light as it travels through an atom. It is the transitional relationship between phonons and photons, and is assocated with the the concept of imedance matching between nuclear energy transfers. He says the the Vt constant of 1.094 Mhz-m or m/s comes from several antigravity, coldfusion, and BEC experiments where high freqency DC electricity was used to stimulate an energy transfer. He likens this "Speed of Quantum Transition" to a tsunami wave that slows as it approaches the show and increases in amplitude.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7761825-7083366655038566538?l=brainbender.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brainbender.blogspot.com/feeds/7083366655038566538/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7761825&amp;postID=7083366655038566538' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7761825/posts/default/7083366655038566538'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7761825/posts/default/7083366655038566538'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brainbender.blogspot.com/2011/04/energy-letter.html' title='Energy Letter'/><author><name>David B</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11266046963020498076</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d102/everyday_something/d1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7761825.post-4836804895679251126</id><published>2011-04-18T20:31:00.008-06:00</published><updated>2011-05-20T05:55:02.056-06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Science and Technology'/><title type='text'>Wasatch Fault/Salt Lake City Earthquake</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d102/everyday_something/Tohoku20earthquake.png"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 353px; height: 275px;" src="http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d102/everyday_something/Tohoku20earthquake.png" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;There has been continual earthquake swarms in Nevada and Yellowstone over the past couple years.  While many are concerned that these may be signs of increasing pressure along these fault zones, I am concerned that pressure may in fact be building along the Wasatch Fault in-between.  The Wasatch Fault in the Salt Lake City valley in Utah, is long overdo for a major 8-9+ magnitude earthquake.  Additionally, because Salt Lake, Provo, and Ogden reside on a dry lake bed, liquefaction during a major earthquake would produce widespread devastation (ie Mexico City).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Over the past year, many on the internet have noticed a correlation between major Earthquakes and alignments between the Earth, Sun, and Comet Elenin.  If you haven't heard about this new comet, named by unknown Russian Astronomer Leonid Elenin (made up person and name?), it will be passing between the Earth and the Sun this coming fall and likely could produce a spectacular light show/meteor shower like the famous 1833 Leonids with up  to 10,000 falling stars per hour.  Since Comet Elenin has entered the solar system, several major earthquakes have occurred when this comet, the sun and the earth have fallen into alignment.  This correlation has led many to speculate that Comet Ele-nine could be something more than just a comet such as a brown dwarf star/hot jupiter/planet X that would bring considerable debris and earthchanges along with it.  I am hoping for just a cool lightshow and no earthchanges.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Alignment Date    Location&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Feb 27, 2010            Chile&lt;br /&gt;Sept 4, 2010            Christchurch&lt;br /&gt;March 11, 2011        Japan&lt;br /&gt;Sept 27, 2011           (Salt Lake?)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another reason why I suspect Salt Lake to be the target of an upcoming supermegaquake if not the next one, is that FEMA has completed a mass morgue and vaccination center in Downtown Salt Lake.  The reason I know this is a friend of mine was the interior designer of the facility.  So, together with FEMA coffins, bodybags, residential centers, MRE purchases, and newly constructed national cemeteries, it looks like FEMA is all ready for something big.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let, me be clear.  I do not necessarily believe that the alignment of this Comet/Brown Dwarf Elenin object is causing Earthquakes.  The key to the tribulation is most of what is happening is human-caused as opposed to the wrath period.  I think that if HAARP technology can trigger EQ's, TPTB could be choosing to trigger EQ's during Elenin alignments to draw attention away from HAARP.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7761825-4836804895679251126?l=brainbender.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brainbender.blogspot.com/feeds/4836804895679251126/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7761825&amp;postID=4836804895679251126' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7761825/posts/default/4836804895679251126'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7761825/posts/default/4836804895679251126'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brainbender.blogspot.com/2011/04/wasatch-faultsalt-lake-city-earthquake.html' title='Wasatch Fault/Salt Lake City Earthquake'/><author><name>David B</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11266046963020498076</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d102/everyday_something/d1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7761825.post-4096014230154675507</id><published>2011-04-18T16:41:00.007-06:00</published><updated>2011-04-18T20:00:25.047-06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='History and Culture'/><title type='text'>Saudi Arabia Double Cross</title><content type='html'>The British Empire's "Lawrence of Arabia" made a deal with the family of Saud after WW1.  While Europe carved up the Middle East, Great Britain made a deal with a ruthless warlord family that the British Empire would recognize the House of Saud as the supreme rulers of Saudi Arabia, and help them develop their oil wealth, if he would support the British Pound as the world reserve currency.  Then following WW2 and later in the 1970's globalist deals were made with Saudi Arabia to prop up the US Dollar as the World Reserve Currency.  The US agreed to buy all the Saudi Arabian oil, and not tap domestic oil reserves in ANWR and Bakken (National Park Act) if Saudi Arabia invested in US TBills and helped to float the enormous US Budget Deficits. Or, at least, they agreed to deposit their wealth in big globalist banks who via fractional reserve lending buy 10x the US TBills. Whenever the US was in trouble economically, Saudi Arabia responded by increasing oil supply and decreasing gasoline prices.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However, for the first time ever, Saudi Arabia has decided to cut oil production claiming that there is an oversupply of oil in the market.  Heading into summer time with gas prices already at 3-4$/gal, and oil at 104$/barrel, I can only suspect gas hitting 5-6$/gal this summer.  So, why has Saudi Arabia turned it's back on America during a time of  critical economic crisis?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It turns out that when oil prices were up at 140$/barrel a few years ago in 2008, many Middle East countries like Saudi Arabia took out big loans which required at least 85$/barrel oil to repay.  When globalist speculators then tanked the price of oil down to 40$/barrel, this left many Middle East countries in a lurch.  Dubai, as you will remember, nearly went bankrupt last year.  As prices have come up, investors have continued to suppress oil prices and keep them under 85$/barrel.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then to top it all off.  True or not, all the Middle East countries are convinced, CIA/MI6/Massad, are behind the recent protests and civil unrest in Egypt, Lybia, Syria, Yemen, Tunisia, Bahrain, etc, etc.  Saudi Arabia had to put down its own protests last March during the so-called "Day of Rage."  Together with the WikiLeaks cables, it seems clear that Saudi Arabia feels that they have been "double crossed".  Consequently, they have turned on the US and have made new deals with China and Russia.  The long and short of it is, that the US has just alienated our #1 source of oil.  Sure, Saudi Arabia will still sell us oil, but from here on out, I don't see Saudi Arabia doing the US any more favors.  Saudia Arabia seems to be wanting to make up for lost profits over the last 2 years.  And, I see no reason why Saudi Arabia doesn't just begin to charge whatever they can squeeze out of the US before we go bankrupt, descend into civil war, and then are attacked and invaded by China and Russia who we have also been provoking (Belarus Bombing, South Osetia Invasion, Poland Leadership Decapitation,  Russian Drought and Fire, Chechnyan Terrorism, Dollar Devaluation, etc.)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7761825-4096014230154675507?l=brainbender.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brainbender.blogspot.com/feeds/4096014230154675507/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7761825&amp;postID=4096014230154675507' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7761825/posts/default/4096014230154675507'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7761825/posts/default/4096014230154675507'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brainbender.blogspot.com/2011/04/saudi-arabia-double-cross.html' title='Saudi Arabia Double Cross'/><author><name>David B</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11266046963020498076</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d102/everyday_something/d1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7761825.post-8126890217112606565</id><published>2011-04-07T22:18:00.001-06:00</published><updated>2011-04-07T22:43:55.440-06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Science and Technology'/><title type='text'>Spring Theory?</title><content type='html'>Turns out that Newtonian physics (F=m.a) does a really good job of describing most of the world around us except when things get really small (quantum mechanics) or get going really really fast (relativity).  On the atomic scale, behavior such as blackbody radiation, the photoelectric effect, and the emission/absorption spectra of gases was believed couldn't be explained in terms of Newtonian physics.  In response, an empirically derived quantum mechanics was born to describe this behavior on the atomic scale.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Quantum mechanics is not referred to as a physics because "physics" assumes we know "why" and "how" something behaves the way it does.  Quantum theory is categorized as a "mechanics" because many aspects of this theory come from experimental measurement without necessarily knowing "why" or "how" or "what" is really happening.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is where plank's constant come in: E = h.v. or E = h.c/f.  h is described at the smallest package or quanta of light that an atom can absorb or emit.  However, planks constant (the basis of quantum mechanics) is a measured constant, and while very useful, it is not derived from for more fundamental laws.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Recently, there are claims that Planks constant (h) can be derived from Newtonian first principles.  h is derived from Newtonian first principles by describing light and the atom in terms of a capacitor and a spring.  If this is true, this means that instead of being rival theories, quantum mechanics would become a subset of Newtonian physics.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;C = e0 . A / D&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;C = capacitance  (charge/voltage or field resistance . volume)&lt;br /&gt;e0 = permittivity of free space (resistance to forming an electric field in a given medium)&lt;br /&gt;A = area&lt;br /&gt;D = distance&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The second assumption is relating the wave behavior of light to a tsunami.  In the same way a tsunami changes behavior when it approaches, land, so do photons change behavior when they interact with an atom.  When a tsunami enters into shallow water its velocity slows.  However, to keep its energy flux constant, the wave increases in amplitude.  therefore, a tsunami that out in sea might by nearly imperceptible may grow to great height when it reaches land.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;C (speed of light in a vacuum) = lambda (wavelength) X f (frequency)&lt;br /&gt;Vt (speed of quantum transition in an atom) = lambda (compressed wavelength ) X f (frequency)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In this theory, a 1/2 wavelength of light becomes a small capacitor which separates a positive and negative charge by half its wavelength.  Therefore, measuring the interaction of a photon inside an atom we would use the velocity of transition and compressed wavelength of the photon inside the atom.  The frequency of the emitter matches the frequency of the wave that is emitted. But the wavelength itself can be contracted depending upon the medium.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;C = e0 . A (area) / D (distance)&lt;br /&gt;C = e0 . (Vt/f)^2  / (1/2 . Vt/f)  &lt;br /&gt;C = 2 . e0 . Vt / f&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;E (energy) = Q^2 (charge) / 2 . C (capacitance)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E = [Q^2 / 4 . e0 . Vt ] . f    or E = h . f&lt;br /&gt;h (plank's constant) = Q^2/4 . e0 . Vt&lt;br /&gt;if Q = e = charge of an electron than&lt;br /&gt;Vt = 1.094 X 10^6 m/s (speed of transition)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;E = [Q^2/(4.pi.e0) ] .[1/x] (Coulombs equation)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;F = -k . x (Hooke's Law)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;F = force&lt;br /&gt;k = spring constant (stiffness or springiness) = Fmax/xmax at Coulombic barrier&lt;br /&gt;x = distance (stretch)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Coulombic Barrier: point at which strong nuclear force overcomes electrostatic force&lt;br /&gt;Fmax = 29.053 Newtons&lt;br /&gt;xmax = rn = 2 x 1.36 fm (fermi or momentum spacing)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If f = w/2.pi  and w = (k/m)^1/2 then f = 1/2.(1/pi) . (k/m)^1/2&lt;br /&gt;If v = fx then v = 1/2.(1/pi).(k/m)^1/2.(x)&lt;br /&gt;If k = Fmax/vmax then v = 1/2.(1/pi).(Fmax/2.rn/mn)^1/2. (2.rn)&lt;br /&gt;If Vt = c.Alpha/2 then v = rn/pi . (Fmax/2.rn.mn)^1/2&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E = hf = hc/lambda = mc^2    lambda = h/mc  Therefore &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Vt = c. alpha /2 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;alpha = fine structure constant = coupling constant = impedance matching&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The idea of the speed of the quantum transition in the atom is that for energy to be transferred there has to be a 100% impedance match. In Ham Radio there is an impedance as the radio signal leaves the radio after which there is an impedance in the coax leading to the antenna.  Finally there is an impedance of the antenna.  For energy emitted by the radio to cause the antenna to resonate and emit energy, that impedance must match or the energy is reflected back into the radio.  In the same way, this understanding of quantum mechanics using newtonian physics explains the impedance matching needed for energy transitions to occur in the atom.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am still trying to grasp the essence of this idea. But the speed of transition is the secret that explains the relationship between phonons and photons.  This explains the behavior of bose-einstein condensates, superconductors, superfluids, antigravity, magnetoplasmadynamics, cold fusion, thermionics, Beta-voltaics and much more.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7761825-8126890217112606565?l=brainbender.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brainbender.blogspot.com/feeds/8126890217112606565/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7761825&amp;postID=8126890217112606565' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7761825/posts/default/8126890217112606565'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7761825/posts/default/8126890217112606565'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brainbender.blogspot.com/2011/04/spring-theory.html' title='Spring Theory?'/><author><name>David B</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11266046963020498076</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d102/everyday_something/d1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7761825.post-5183151190855644107</id><published>2011-03-28T23:32:00.006-06:00</published><updated>2011-04-18T16:33:34.567-06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Science and Technology'/><title type='text'>Cool Science</title><content type='html'>My awakening to the suppression of science and technology by the Illuminati/dark brotherhood/world shadow government/special interests/latter-day gadiantons/synhedron started after reading the autobiography of Edwin Teller the father of the Hydrogen Bomb.  In that book, Dr. Teller goes to great length to label Oppenheimer a Communist for discouraging further work into the H-Bomb.  After learning about the Bohemian Grove as the place where Edward Teller planned the Manhattan Project which he purposefully left out of his autobiography, and realizing that Soviet Union was a creation of the Globalists to terrorize, control, and eventually destroy the United States (read Target Patton: a plot to assassinate General George S. Patton by Robert Wilcox); I realized that Oppenheimer likely had second thoughts after his success with the A-bomb ("I have become death, the destroyer of worlds"), but Teller was still a loyal operative.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The shadow government of this world has suppressed many technologies which they are now allowing to leak out.  Some of these technologies include magnetoplasmadynamics, antigravity, the Lorenz O force, amorphous diamond, zero-point energy, Thermionics, Opto-electric effect, etc.  I recently watched a lecture by Stan-Deyo who claims he was recruited by Edwin Teller in the 1970's to work on anti-gravity for an international shadow government body.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In this lecture, he reviews previous work in these exciting areas by Dr. T. Henry Moray (LDS), and Nicoli Tesla.  Stan Deyo in addition to explaining the UFO phenomenon as advance human engineered, anti-gravity propulsion also talked about Free Energy by Henry Moray who used a heterodyne radio transmitter, an 80 meter antenna, and a telsa coil to create a plasma/electromagnetic field that would absorb the energy from high energy particles from the solar wind and cosmic background radiation.  In a way, as I understand it, it would be like a huge Geiger counter.  In addition there was some sort of thermionic, tribolescent semiconductor material used to make the harmonically tuned circuit or that converted the high-frequency voltage fluctuations into electricity.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tribolescent semiconductors are another exciting technology.  The principle of tribolescence or thermionics, has to do with substances that can convert heat directly into electricity and visa versa.  The most exciting candidate tribolescent/thermionic/negative electron affinity material is amorphous diamond.  Amorphous diamond is made by applying high frequency/high voltage to a graphite electrode creating a plasma in a vacuum which will deposit an amorphous diamond thin film on a surface.  Amorphous diamond is a mixture of sp3 and sp2 hybridized carbons.  Sp3 (diamond) is an insulator, while sp2 carbons (graphite) are a conductor.  Therefore, a mix of sp3 and sp2 makes a semiconductor.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Scientists and engineers believe that thermionic/neg electron affinity materials like amorphous diamond would be the perfect material that could be used as a nearly perfect solar cell, computer screen, heater, and air conditioner.  All these functions could be done with the same surface material in different application.  The added benefit is that amorphous diamond would be very abundant, very easy to produce, and extremely damage resistant.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7761825-5183151190855644107?l=brainbender.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brainbender.blogspot.com/feeds/5183151190855644107/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7761825&amp;postID=5183151190855644107' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7761825/posts/default/5183151190855644107'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7761825/posts/default/5183151190855644107'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brainbender.blogspot.com/2011/03/cool-science.html' title='Cool Science'/><author><name>David B</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11266046963020498076</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d102/everyday_something/d1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7761825.post-2569710791457566450</id><published>2011-03-26T20:10:00.003-06:00</published><updated>2011-03-26T20:17:34.337-06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Constitutional Government'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='History and Culture'/><title type='text'>Preparing For That Which Is To Come</title><content type='html'>After recently waking up to the reality of the great latter-day conspiracy and the awfulness of our situation (Ether 8:24); I have been thinking about what kind of judgments of God our nation will face for allowing this conspiracy "to get above us."  While I wasn't looking for the end of the world, you will remember that I was looking out last summer for a nuclear contamination threat.  Well, it seems nuclear contamination (wormwood) has come to Japan and possibly to the West Coast, but not in the way that Pres. Obama warned about during his UN Nuclear Summit last March.  While not an immediate threat to the Southern States, it does provide an opportunity to think upon how to prepare for nuclear threats. If this "wormwood" event represents the 3rd trumpet in Rev, the 4th trumpet to sound is the sun, moon and stars failing which could be both literal, as well a a figurative representation of a civil unrest, and a collapse of many governments as we are already beginning to see.  After that comes the 5th trumpet which is the invasion of the locusts which is preceded by the nuclear first strike.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While, we have been continually instructed by LDS leadership to be self-reliant and prepare for the Days of Tribulation; not every Prophet of Apostle has described exactly what we are preparing for. On the other hand, some have.  In addition to the unofficial record of the Vision of George Albert Smith, I was surprised to discover that several LDS Apostles have been very specific about an eventual nuclear holocaust. Ancient scripture also seems to support this view. While we shouldn't fear death, we know that God intends for the keys of the priesthood to remain upon the Earth, and intends at least a  remnant of Saints to survive to build up Zion.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With this in mind, we could ask several questions:  #1 are these prophesies even true? #2 do we want to survive to walk to Zion? .#3 Is it wrong to do everything in our power to plan and survive what is coming?  #4 Do we believe that God may inspire individuals to prepare above and beyond the minimum specified by LDS Leadership? #5 is there anything we might do in preparing for a nuclear war and invasion that we might not otherwise do? #6 Should we label people who take such things seriously and act upon them as mentally unstable, or going beyond the mark, or prideful? #7 Should we just bloom where we are planted?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While we are warned to never look beyond the mark, Elder Oaks has instructed us in this last General Conference, &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;"The personal line is of paramount importance in personal decisions and in the governance of the family. Unfortunately, some members of our church underestimate the need for this direct, personal line. Responding to the undoubted importance of prophetic leadership—the priesthood line, which operates principally to govern heavenly communications on Church matters—some seek to have their priesthood leaders make personal decisions for them, decisions they should make for themselves by inspiration through their personal line. Personal decisions and family governance are principally a matter for the personal line."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Joel Skousen, nephew of Cleon Skousen, has been on CoasttoCoastAM and the Alex Jones Radio program talking about future invasion by China and Russia and a preemptive nuclear attack on America. He is selling a book called "Strategic Relocation." Now, I don't know how I think about Bro. Skousen going on these shows which spread a lot of fear and falsehood.  However, I am sure they are the only places in the media that would allow him to get his message out.   According to Bro. Skousen, he has personal contacts in the NSA and CIA as well as having lived around the world.  According to him, many of his CIA, NSA contacts are moving to Colorado ski resort towns and have installed bomb shelter under their homes while the global elite are moving out of the US to South America (see Rev 18:9).  And according to him, the US has purposefully decided not to prepare its people for nuclear war while many other countries like Russia and Switzerland have are are.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bro. Skousen, does not necessarily encourage US citizen's to leave the US  Countries who welcome American's now may feel much differently later.  Furthermore, it is very hard for Americans to blend in and keep a low profile in many countries.  While, Bro. Skousen didn't go over all the information in his book, it seemed to be his opinion that high population centers would be dangerous during social collapse. And he felt the safest places to live long term was among the LDS in Idaho, Utah, and northern Arizona. He gave several reasons why living in among the LDS but not on the Wasatch fault was the safest bet; 1. dry moderate climate, 2. culture of preparedness 3. low population density 4.natural barriers on the West (Great Basin) and East (Rocky Mountains) to prevent mass influx of refugees.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If blooming where we are planted is in order, issues to consider would be: 1. do I live next to any nuclear targets? 2. do I live next to high population centers. 3. Could I really live 100% self-sufficient with a year supply of food, fuel for cooking and eating, clothing and ability to purify nuclear fallout from water?  4. Would banding together at the local church, transforming it into a shelter, and sharing our supply be better because of the safety in numbers this banding provides? 5. how do you get out of the way of invading armies after an EMP has crippled transportation and power?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Joel 1-3&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1:6For a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without number. . . 16 Is not the meat cut off before our eyes .. . . &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;19 for the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame hath burned all the trees of the field.&lt;/span&gt; 2:1 Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain: . . .. the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them. . . 7 like men of war; and they shall march every one on his ways, and they shall not break their ranks: . . . 17spare thy people, O Lord, and give not thine heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them: wherefore should they say among the people, Where is their God?. . . . 20 But I will remove far off from you the northern army, and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, . . . And I will restore to you the years that. . . my great army which I sent among you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Rev. 18: 6-11&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;6 Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she hath filled fill to her double. 7 How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously , so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow. &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;8 Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: &lt;/span&gt;for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her.&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; 9 And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning,&lt;/span&gt; 10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying , Alas, alas, that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come . 11 And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no man buyeth their merchandise any more:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Bruce R. McConkie, "Stand Independent above All Other Creatures", Ensign, May 1979, 92&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There is a common axiom among us which states: A religion that cannot save a man temporally does not have power to save him spiritually. If we cannot care for our temporal needs in this world, how can we ever succeed in spiritual things in the world to come?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is one of the sad heresies of our time that peace will be gained by weary diplomats as they prepare treaties of compromise, or that the Millennium will be ushered in because men will learn to live in peace and to keep the commandments, or that the predicted plagues and promised desolations of latter days can in some way be avoided. We must do all we can to proclaim peace, to avoid war, to heal disease, to prepare for natural disasters—but with it all, that which is to be shall be.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Knowing what we know, and having the light and understanding that has come to us, we must—as individuals and as a Church—use our talents, strengths, energies, abilities, and means to prepare for whatever may befall us and our children. . . As the Saints of the Most High we shall strive to “stand independent above all other creatures beneath the celestial world”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It may be, for instance, that nothing except the power of faith and the authority of the priesthood &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;can save individuals and congregations from the atomic holocausts that surely shall be.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Orson Pratt, Journal of Discourses, vol. 18, p. 339&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“We read that the four beasts, representing the powers of the earth, will exist at the time of the coming of the Ancient of Days. And that the fourth beast, represented by the Roman Empire and the kingdoms that have grown out of it, &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;will be "slain and his body destroyed and given to the burning flame." &lt;/span&gt;Here then we can read the destiny of that portion of the inhabitants of the earth constituting the fourth beast: or, in other words, the destiny of the kingdoms of Europe, who were to arise and grow out of that fourth power… Not only the kingdoms and governments of Europe, and the western portion of Asia are to be thus visited, but also those who have grown out of these kingdoms, and that have emigrated to this western hemisphere, and elsewhere. &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;For instance, this great republic must pass away in the manner indicated unless the people repent”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Elder Ezra Taft Benson, Conference Report, October 1961, Afternoon Meeting, p.69-70&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The great destructive force which was to be turned loose on the earth and which the prophets for centuries have been calling the "abomination of desolation" is vividly described by those who saw it in vision. &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Ours is the first generation to realize how literally these prophecies can be fulfilled now that God, through science, has unlocked the secret to thermonuclear reaction.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7761825-2569710791457566450?l=brainbender.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brainbender.blogspot.com/feeds/2569710791457566450/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7761825&amp;postID=2569710791457566450' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7761825/posts/default/2569710791457566450'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7761825/posts/default/2569710791457566450'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brainbender.blogspot.com/2011/03/preparing-for-that-which-is-to-come.html' title='Preparing For That Which Is To Come'/><author><name>David B</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11266046963020498076</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d102/everyday_something/d1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7761825.post-5276543622245833880</id><published>2011-03-24T21:52:00.012-06:00</published><updated>2011-03-26T00:04:06.812-06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='History and Culture'/><title type='text'>Nuclear First Strike and Invasion</title><content type='html'>Joel Skousen, nephew of Cleon Skousen has been on CoasttoCoastAM and the Alex Jones Radio program talking about future invasion by China and Russia and a preemptive nuclear attack on America.  Studying LDS talks on self-reliance, several LDS prophets and apostles have indicated that a nuclear holocaust in on the horizon.  The most definitive description on the future calamity in America comes from the account  of a vision received by LDS Prophet, President George Albert Smith &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;(google George A Smith Vision). &lt;/span&gt;   But there are several other sources which point to nuclear attack and invasion.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Joel 1-3&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="verse"&gt;1:6&lt;/span&gt;For a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without number. . . &lt;span class="verse"&gt;16&lt;/span&gt; Is not the meat cut off before our eyes .. . . 19&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; for the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame hath burned all the trees of the field. &lt;/span&gt;2:&lt;span class="verse"&gt;1&lt;/span&gt; Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain: . . ..&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;  the land &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;" class="clarityWord"&gt;is&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness&lt;/span&gt;; yea, and nothing shall escape them. . . 7 like men of war; and they shall march every one on his ways, and they shall not break their ranks: . . . 17spare thy people, O &lt;span class="deitySmallCaps"&gt;Lord&lt;/span&gt;, and give not thine heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them: wherefore should they say among the people, Where &lt;span class="clarityWord"&gt;is their God?. . . . &lt;/span&gt;20 But I will remove far off from you the northern &lt;span class="clarityWord"&gt;army,&lt;/span&gt; and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, . . . And I will restore to you the years that. . . my great army which I sent among you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="verse"&gt;1:14&lt;/span&gt;Sanctify ye a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the elders &lt;span class="clarityWord"&gt;and&lt;/span&gt; all the inhabitants of the land &lt;span class="clarityWord"&gt;into&lt;/span&gt; the house of the &lt;span class="deitySmallCaps"&gt;Lord&lt;/span&gt; your God, and cry unto the &lt;span class="deitySmallCaps"&gt;Lord&lt;/span&gt;, . . . &lt;span class="verse"&gt;2:12&lt;/span&gt;Therefore also now, saith the &lt;span class="deitySmallCaps"&gt;Lord&lt;/span&gt;, turn ye &lt;span class="clarityWord"&gt;even&lt;/span&gt; to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning:&lt;a class="bookmark dontHighlight" name="13"&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="verse"&gt;13&lt;/span&gt;And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the &lt;span class="deitySmallCaps"&gt;Lord&lt;/span&gt; your God: for he &lt;span class="clarityWord"&gt;is&lt;/span&gt; gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and  repentheth him of the evil. . . &lt;span class="verse"&gt;15&lt;/span&gt;Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly: . . . &lt;span class="verse"&gt;32&lt;/span&gt;And it shall come to pass, &lt;span class="clarityWord"&gt;that&lt;/span&gt; whosoever shall call on the name of the &lt;span class="deitySmallCaps"&gt;Lord&lt;/span&gt; shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the &lt;span class="deitySmallCaps"&gt;Lord&lt;/span&gt; hath said, and in the remnant whom the &lt;span class="deitySmallCaps"&gt;Lord&lt;/span&gt; shall call.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Rev.  18: 6-11&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="display: inline;" class="versetext" id="re18-6"&gt;&lt;span class="versenum"&gt;6&lt;/span&gt;     &lt;span class="strongs" sn="591"&gt;Reward&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span class="strongs" sn="846"&gt;her&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="strongs" sn="2532"&gt;even&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="strongs" sn="5613"&gt;as&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="strongs" sn="846"&gt;she&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="strongs" sn="3778"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span class="strongs" sn="591"&gt;rewarded&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span class="strongs" sn="5213"&gt;you,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="strongs" sn="2532"&gt;and&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="strongs" sn="1363"&gt;double&lt;/span&gt;  unto &lt;span class="strongs" sn="846"&gt;her&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="strongs" sn="1362"&gt;double&lt;/span&gt; according &lt;span class="strongs" sn="2596"&gt;to&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="strongs" sn="846"&gt;her&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="strongs" sn="2041"&gt;works:&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="strongs" sn="1722"&gt;in&lt;/span&gt; the &lt;span class="strongs" sn="4221"&gt;cup&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="strongs" sn="3739"&gt;which&lt;/span&gt; she hath &lt;span class="strongs" sn="2767"&gt;filled&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span class="strongs" sn="2767"&gt;fill&lt;/span&gt;  to &lt;span class="strongs" sn="846"&gt;her&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="strongs" sn="1362"&gt;double.&lt;/span&gt;    &lt;/span&gt;           &lt;span style="display: inline;" class="versetext" id="re18-7"&gt;&lt;span class="versenum"&gt;7&lt;/span&gt;     How &lt;span class="strongs" sn="3745"&gt;much&lt;/span&gt; she hath &lt;span class="strongs" sn="1392"&gt;glorified&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span class="strongs" sn="1438"&gt;herself,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="strongs" sn="2532"&gt;and&lt;/span&gt; lived &lt;span class="strongs" sn="4763"&gt;deliciously&lt;/span&gt; , so &lt;span class="strongs" sn="5118"&gt;much&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="strongs" sn="929"&gt;torment&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="strongs" sn="2532"&gt;and&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="strongs" sn="3997"&gt;sorrow&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="strongs" sn="1325"&gt;give&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span class="strongs" sn="846"&gt;her:&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="strongs" sn="3754"&gt;for&lt;/span&gt; she &lt;span class="strongs" sn="3004"&gt;saith&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span class="strongs" sn="1722"&gt;in&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="strongs" sn="846"&gt;her&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="strongs" sn="2588"&gt;heart,&lt;/span&gt; I &lt;span class="strongs" sn="2521"&gt;sit&lt;/span&gt;  a &lt;span class="strongs" sn="938"&gt;queen,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="strongs" sn="2532"&gt;and&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="strongs" sn="1510"&gt;am&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span class="strongs" sn="3756"&gt;no&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="strongs" sn="5503"&gt;widow,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="strongs" sn="2532"&gt;and&lt;/span&gt; shall &lt;span class="strongs" sn="1492"&gt;see&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span class="strongs" sn="3364"&gt;no&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="strongs" sn="3997"&gt;sorrow.&lt;/span&gt;    &lt;/span&gt;           &lt;span style="display: inline;" class="versetext" id="re18-8"&gt;&lt;span class="versenum"&gt;8&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;     &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;" class="strongs" sn="1223"&gt;Therefore&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;" class="strongs" sn="2240"&gt;shall&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;" class="strongs" sn="846"&gt;her&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;" class="strongs" sn="4127"&gt;plagues&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;" class="strongs" sn="2240"&gt;come&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;" class="strongs" sn="1722"&gt;in&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;" class="strongs" sn="3391"&gt;one&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;" class="strongs" sn="2250"&gt;day,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;" class="strongs" sn="2288"&gt;death,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;" class="strongs" sn="3997"&gt;and mourning,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;" class="strongs" sn="2532"&gt;and&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;" class="strongs" sn="3042"&gt;famine;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;" class="strongs" sn="2532"&gt;and&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; she shall be utterly &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;" class="strongs" sn="2618"&gt;burned&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;" class="strongs" sn="1722"&gt;with&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;" class="strongs" sn="4442"&gt;fire:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="strongs" sn="3754"&gt;for&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="strongs" sn="2478"&gt;strong&lt;/span&gt; is the &lt;span class="strongs" sn="2962"&gt;Lord&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="strongs" sn="2316"&gt;God&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="strongs" sn="3588"&gt;who&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="strongs" sn="2919"&gt;judgeth&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span class="strongs" sn="846"&gt;her.&lt;/span&gt;    &lt;/span&gt;           &lt;span style="display: inline;" class="versetext" id="re18-9"&gt;&lt;span class="versenum"&gt;9&lt;/span&gt;     &lt;span class="strongs" sn="2532"&gt;And&lt;/span&gt; the &lt;span class="strongs" sn="935"&gt;kings&lt;/span&gt; of the &lt;span class="strongs" sn="1093"&gt;earth,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="strongs" sn="3588"&gt;who&lt;/span&gt; have committed &lt;span class="strongs" sn="4203"&gt;fornication&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span class="strongs" sn="2532"&gt;and&lt;/span&gt; lived &lt;span class="strongs" sn="4763"&gt;deliciously&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span class="strongs" sn="3326"&gt;with&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="strongs" sn="846"&gt;her,&lt;/span&gt; shall &lt;span class="strongs" sn="2799"&gt;bewail&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span class="strongs" sn="846"&gt;her,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="strongs" sn="2532"&gt;and&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="strongs" sn="2875"&gt;lament&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span class="strongs" sn="1909"&gt;for&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="strongs" sn="846"&gt;her,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="strongs" sn="3752"&gt;when&lt;/span&gt; they shall &lt;span class="strongs" sn="991"&gt;see&lt;/span&gt;  the &lt;span class="strongs" sn="2586"&gt;smoke&lt;/span&gt; of &lt;span class="strongs" sn="846"&gt;her&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="strongs" sn="4451"&gt;burning,&lt;/span&gt;    &lt;/span&gt;           &lt;span style="display: inline;" class="versetext" id="re18-10"&gt;&lt;span class="versenum"&gt;10&lt;/span&gt;     &lt;span class="strongs" sn="2476"&gt;Standing&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span class="strongs" sn="3113"&gt;afar&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="strongs" sn="575"&gt;off&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="strongs" sn="1223"&gt;for&lt;/span&gt; the &lt;span class="strongs" sn="5401"&gt;fear&lt;/span&gt; of &lt;span class="strongs" sn="846"&gt;her&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="strongs" sn="929"&gt;torment,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="strongs" sn="3004"&gt;saying&lt;/span&gt; , &lt;span class="strongs" sn="3759"&gt;Alas,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="strongs" sn="3759"&gt;alas,&lt;/span&gt; that &lt;span class="strongs" sn="3173"&gt;great&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="strongs" sn="4172"&gt;city&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="strongs" sn="897"&gt;Babylon,&lt;/span&gt; that &lt;span class="strongs" sn="2478"&gt;mighty&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="strongs" sn="4172"&gt;city!&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="strongs" sn="3754"&gt;for&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="strongs" sn="1722"&gt;in&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="strongs" sn="3391"&gt;one&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="strongs" sn="5610"&gt;hour&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="strongs" sn="2064"&gt;is&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span class="strongs" sn="4675"&gt;thy&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="strongs" sn="2920"&gt;judgment&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="strongs" sn="2064"&gt;come&lt;/span&gt; .    &lt;/span&gt;           &lt;span style="display: inline;" class="versetext" id="re18-11"&gt;&lt;span class="versenum"&gt;11&lt;/span&gt;     &lt;span class="strongs" sn="2532"&gt;And&lt;/span&gt; the &lt;span class="strongs" sn="1713"&gt;merchants&lt;/span&gt; of the &lt;span class="strongs" sn="1093"&gt;earth&lt;/span&gt; shall &lt;span class="strongs" sn="2799"&gt;weep&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span class="strongs" sn="2532"&gt;and&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="strongs" sn="3996"&gt;mourn&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span class="strongs" sn="1909"&gt;over&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="strongs" sn="846"&gt;her;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="strongs" sn="3754"&gt;for&lt;/span&gt; no &lt;span class="strongs" sn="3762"&gt;man&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="strongs" sn="59"&gt;buyeth&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span class="strongs" sn="846"&gt;their&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="strongs" sn="1117"&gt;merchandise&lt;/span&gt; any &lt;span class="strongs" sn="3765"&gt;more:&lt;/span&gt;    &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Bruce R. McConkie, "Stand Independent above All Other Creatures", &lt;em&gt;Ensign&lt;/em&gt;, May 1979, 92&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There is a common axiom among us which states: A religion that cannot save a man temporally does not have power to save him spiritually. If we cannot care for our temporal needs in this world, how can we ever succeed in spiritual things in the world to come?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p uri="/ensign/1979/05/stand-independent-above-all-other-creatures.p21" class=""&gt;It is one of the sad heresies of our time that peace will be gained by weary diplomats as they prepare treaties of compromise, or that the Millennium will be ushered in because men will learn to live in peace and to keep the commandments, or that the predicted plagues and promised desolations of latter days can in some way be avoided.  We must do all we can to proclaim peace, to avoid war, to heal disease, to prepare for natural disasters—but with it all, that which is to be shall be.&lt;/p&gt;Knowing what we know, and having the light and understanding that has come to us, we must—as individuals and as a Church—use our talents, strengths, energies, abilities, and means to prepare for whatever may befall us and our children. . . As the Saints of the Most High we shall strive to “stand independent above all other creatures beneath the celestial world”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;It may be, for instance, that nothing except the power of faith and the authority of the priesthood can save individuals and congregations from the atomic holocausts that surely shall be.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:Trebuchet MS,Arial,Helvetica;" &gt;Orson Pratt, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:Trebuchet MS,Arial,Helvetica;" &gt;Journal of Discourses, vol. 18, p. 339&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS,Arial,Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“We read that the four beasts,      representing the powers of the earth, will exist at the time of the coming      of the Ancient of Days. And that the fourth beast, represented by the Roman      Empire and the kingdoms that have grown out of it, will be &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;"slain and his      body destroyed and &lt;/span&gt;&lt;u style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;given to the burning flame&lt;/u&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;."&lt;/span&gt; Here then we can read      the destiny of that portion of the inhabitants of the earth constituting the      fourth beast: or, in other words, the destiny of the kingdoms of Europe, who      were to arise and grow out of that fourth power… Not only the kingdoms and      governments of Europe, and the western portion of Asia are to be thus      visited, but also those who have grown out of these kingdoms, and that have      emigrated to this western hemisphere, and elsewhere. For instance, &lt;u style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;this      great republic must pass away in the manner indicated&lt;/u&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; unless the people      repent”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Elder Ezra Taft Benson, Conference Report, October 1961, Afternoon Meeting, p.69-70&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The great destructive force which was to be turned loose on the earth and which the prophets for centuries have been calling &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;the "abomination of desolation" &lt;/span&gt;is vividly described by those who saw it in vision. Ours is the first generation to realize how literally these prophecies can be fulfilled now that God, through science, has &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;unlocked the secret to thermonuclear reaction&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Vision of Pres. George Albert Smith&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;David H. Horne recounts &lt;a href="http://http//gods-wr.ath.cx/1/index.php/dreams-and-visions/37-dreams-and-visions/75-the-vision-of-president-george-albert-smith"&gt;Pres. George Albert Smith&lt;/a&gt; say, "Thousands of tanks would be transported in huge trucks so they would be in place where they were needed when the war began." Here is a link from &lt;a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&amp;amp;source=s_q&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;geocode=&amp;amp;q=zuazua,+mexico&amp;amp;aq=&amp;amp;sll=25.890423,-100.118065&amp;amp;sspn=0.105322,0.220757&amp;amp;ie=UTF8&amp;amp;hq=&amp;amp;hnear=Zuazua,+Nuevo+Le%C3%B3n,+Mexico&amp;amp;ll=25.903626,-100.161602&amp;amp;spn=0.006582,0.021973&amp;amp;t=h&amp;amp;z=16"&gt;Google Maps &lt;/a&gt;that shows what looks to be track housing northeast of Monterrey, Mexico. However, many of the units are not much bigger and wider than a small car.  Is this tract housing, or are these rows upon rows of armored vehicles and tanks disguised as tract housing to hide them from satellite surveillance? &lt;a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&amp;amp;source=s_q&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;geocode=&amp;amp;q=tijuana+mexico&amp;amp;aq=&amp;amp;sll=9.340439,-79.891334&amp;amp;sspn=0.001805,0.003449&amp;amp;ie=UTF8&amp;amp;hq=&amp;amp;hnear=Tijuana,+Baja+California,+Mexico&amp;amp;ll=32.405844,-116.966034&amp;amp;spn=0.001544,0.005493&amp;amp;t=h&amp;amp;z=18"&gt;Probably&lt;/a&gt; it is just &lt;a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&amp;amp;source=s_q&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;geocode=&amp;amp;q=tijuana+mexico&amp;amp;aq=&amp;amp;sll=9.340439,-79.891334&amp;amp;sspn=0.001805,0.003449&amp;amp;ie=UTF8&amp;amp;hq=&amp;amp;hnear=Tijuana,+Baja+California,+Mexico&amp;amp;ll=32.405844,-116.966034&amp;amp;spn=0.001544,0.005493&amp;amp;t=h&amp;amp;z=18"&gt;track housing&lt;/a&gt; but something to &lt;a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&amp;amp;source=s_q&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;geocode=&amp;amp;q=tijuana+mexico&amp;amp;aq=&amp;amp;sll=9.340439,-79.891334&amp;amp;sspn=0.001805,0.003449&amp;amp;ie=UTF8&amp;amp;hq=&amp;amp;hnear=Tijuana,+Baja+California,+Mexico&amp;amp;ll=32.424819,-116.968346&amp;amp;spn=0.000772,0.002747&amp;amp;t=h&amp;amp;z=19"&gt;look out&lt;/a&gt; for that someone online pointed out.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7761825-5276543622245833880?l=brainbender.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brainbender.blogspot.com/feeds/5276543622245833880/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7761825&amp;postID=5276543622245833880' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7761825/posts/default/5276543622245833880'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7761825/posts/default/5276543622245833880'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brainbender.blogspot.com/2011/03/nuclear-first-strike-and-invasion.html' title='Nuclear First Strike and Invasion'/><author><name>David B</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11266046963020498076</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d102/everyday_something/d1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7761825.post-2273663566471036240</id><published>2011-03-18T14:04:00.012-06:00</published><updated>2011-03-21T21:59:15.865-06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Health and Medicine'/><title type='text'>Fukushima Nuclear Risk?</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d102/everyday_something/ALitvinenko.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; width: 249px; cursor: pointer; height: 356px;" alt="" src="http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d102/everyday_something/ALitvinenko.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;I had been looking at for some nuclear incident since Pres. Obama's UN Nuclear Summit in March of 2010. He warned us that the threat of terrorists setting off Co-60 dirty bombs in US cities was our number 1 concern. However, this Fukushima nuclear disaster looks like it could turnn out even worse than any any terrorist dirty bomb. While a few kilogram of C0-60 would cause a lot of local problems, experts say that these Fukushima reactor buildings that blew up were storing up to 660,000 spent nuclear fuel rods.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There is a lot of debate by the media about how bad the Fukushima nuclear disaster is compared with Chernobyl and 3 Mile Island. 3 Mile Island had a partial core meltdown, no containment breach, and only a mild release of radiation by off-gassing of radioactive steam to prevent explosion. While Chernobyl exploded with all control rods extracted, still the total amount of radioactive contamination could not exceed the total mass of the one set of fuel rods in the reactor. What sets Fukushima apart is not whether or not there was containment breach of the core or how much of a meltdown there was or wasn't, but the fact that each of the several nuclear reactors was storing 20 years of used nuclear fuel rods right next to the core. These used fuel rods sitting in storage pools were likely destroyed with the hydrogen explosions and fires we have seen. Consequently, we could be looking at thousands of tons of nuclear fuel being injected into the atmosphere.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d102/everyday_something/exposure3.png"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; width: 317px; cursor: pointer; height: 252px;" alt="" src="http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d102/everyday_something/exposure3.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;What do I suggest to do to protect yourself?&lt;br /&gt;1. &lt;a href="http://www.radiationnetwork.com/"&gt;Monitor atmospheric&lt;/a&gt; nuclear activity: alpha, beta, and gamma radiation. Normal background radiation is between 10-100 counts per minute.&lt;br /&gt;2. Monitor food for nuclear contamination.&lt;br /&gt;3. If significant levels of nuclear contamination occur, applying topical iodine to the skin can protect your thyroid from concentrating radioactive iodine and developing thyroid cancer or damaging your parathyroids.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How much is too much?&lt;br /&gt;Activity = Curie = 1 gm of radium:&lt;br /&gt;Am241:I131:Tc99:Sr90:H3:Ir192:Pu239:Co60:Cs139&lt;br /&gt;Exposure = Roentgen or C/kg,&lt;br /&gt;Absorbed = Rad, Gray = 100 Rad and Rem, Sievert = 100 Rem&lt;br /&gt;Conversion: 1 R = 1 Rad = 1 Rem for gamma and x-radiation&lt;br /&gt;Conversion: Counts per minute (cpm) to Roentgen/hr depends on sensitivity&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On this scale an exposure of about 500 R in 5 hours is lethal for humans = 2.5 Gray/Sievert. A typical exposure of normal background radiation for a human is 200 mR per year or 23 μR per hour. Five rem (5000 mrem) is the standard occupational dose limit for one year. The other two accumulated dose limits are for non-lifesaving activities involving critical property protection (10 rem) and lifesaving activities (50 rem). &lt;a href="http://www.crcpd.org/"&gt;Conference of Radiation Control Program Directors:&lt;i&gt; First Responder's Guide&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Average Annual Exposure = 360 mrem/yr&lt;br /&gt;Occupation Annual Exposure Limit = 5000 mrem/yr or 5 R (more for hands)&lt;br /&gt;0.1 mR/hr = 6-33 cpm = background&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d102/everyday_something/radioation-portal-monitor.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 239px; height: 239px;" src="http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d102/everyday_something/radioation-portal-monitor.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;50 mR/hr = 30-165K cpm = limit&lt;br /&gt;1 R/hr = 600K-3.3M cpm = acute illness&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However, there is another risk of all this low level nuclear fallout coming over from Japan.  An addition to health risks,   the west coast ports will no longer be able to scan cargo from China for nuclear devices. &lt;strong&gt; The sensitive plutonium scanners that monitor shipping containers are now saturated with low level Pt from the Fukushima #3 MOX reactor.&lt;/strong&gt;  Pres. George A. Smith of the LDS Church was shown a vision of WW3 and was shown that nuclear devices would be pre-positioned in America before attack and invasion (google: President George A. Smith vision).&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7761825-2273663566471036240?l=brainbender.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brainbender.blogspot.com/feeds/2273663566471036240/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7761825&amp;postID=2273663566471036240' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7761825/posts/default/2273663566471036240'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7761825/posts/default/2273663566471036240'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brainbender.blogspot.com/2011/03/fukushima-nuclear-fallout.html' title='Fukushima Nuclear Risk?'/><author><name>David B</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11266046963020498076</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d102/everyday_something/d1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7761825.post-2664645012853680379</id><published>2011-03-18T11:07:00.007-06:00</published><updated>2011-03-18T13:33:50.943-06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Constitutional Government'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='History and Culture'/><title type='text'>KGB Demoralization</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8z8B4NNkeI"&gt;Yuri Bezmenov&lt;/a&gt; claims he is an ex-KGB agent that defected from the Soviet Union to America.  After "hiding out" among the counter-culture "hippies" in the 60's, he went on a speaking tour in America to warn us about the aims of the Soviet Union to destroy the United States.  Now, I hope that it is plain to the reader that Mr. Bezmenov is a fraud and is still acting as a loyal agent for the NWO.  Switching sides is the oldest trick in the book.  However, while Mr. Bezmenov is not giving us the full truth, much of what he is saying it true.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTkxQQXIWj4"&gt;Pres. Ezra Taft Benson&lt;/a&gt; who was President of LDS Church as well as Secretary of Agriculture during the Eisenhower Administration told of his meet with Khrushchev.  Khrushchev warned then Secretary Benson that his Grandchildren would live under Communism by feeding gullible Americans small doses of Socialism which would slowly bankrupt our economy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mr. Brezmenov begins by telling us that the KGB did not spend much of its time in espionage and James Bond type activities.  The majority of KGB/MI6/Massad/CIA time is spent in carrying out Ideological Subversion.  The truth of what Mr. KGB is saying is that the NWO has waged a patient and well focused attack on the morals of the United States.  They have supported a cultural shift in America against traditional family values.  Instead, the new morality in America involves fornication, homosexuality, drug use, divorce, illegitimacy, and bankruptcy.  They have actively recruited, infiltrated  and subverted civic, business, government, and educational institutions in America and have trained an entire generation of Americans to accept the "counter-culture"  as the new normal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I really like what Mr. Bezmenov says about the power of Demoralization.  In essence, he says, Once you demoralize someone or in other words, once someone has become morally compromised, they can no longer recognize truth.  With a whole generation of Americans who are blind to their cultural, religious, and moral heritage; it is easy for the NWO to spread disinformation and propaganda and prevent American's from coming to a consensus on how best to defend our country against this treat.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, what should we "DO" about the Demoralization, and Subversion of American Freedom?  Well, Mr. Bezmenov tells us exactly the wrong thing to do.  According to him, America should #1 Raise Awareness, #2 Stop Sending Humanitarian Aid to the Soviet Union, #3 Force the Government to make the changes we desire.  I believe this is exactly the wrong thing to do because it foments divisiveness in the US, and then further alienates the US from the rest of the world.  Look, the US has a huge PR problem.  The Ugly American has turned from policeman of the world to bully of the world.  While I support bringing all US military home, US humanitarianism is the only thing that maintains any sort of positive image in the world.  If the US were to become divided at home, while at the same time lose all international support and respect, we would be ripe for attack and invasion.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What we need to do is what the Book of Mormon instructs us to do in response to this great Latter-day threat.  We need to repent.  That's all there is too it.  If Demoralization brought the US to its current state on the verge of collapse, then&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; only Re-moralization can save us&lt;/span&gt;.  Only a moral people who elect moral leaders will be able to see clearly enough and be unified enough to make the changes to save this country.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ex-CIA Robert D. Steele is active on the speaking tour talking about the great globalist conspiracy.  It is interesting that he is of the opinion that the Muslim Extremist threat is a fraud.  He and others say there are only about 6000 people in the world, up from 2000 pre-911, that are a potential danger to America.  Our current Air Force policy of one bombed village per insurgent is  only working to generate more extremists.  Instead he says that one bullet per threat is a much better policy.  He also says that the police state threat and the NSA database "Eschelon" is also a fraud. Having friend's in the FBI, their work requires more gumshoe than electronic surveillance.  Also, a worker who put up the intersection cameras told me that most are fake.   That said, if a foreign invasion does occur, I am sure info is being collected and potential dissenters will be targeted as has been done when Pol Pot's  Communists  Khmer Rouge took over Cambodia.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7761825-2664645012853680379?l=brainbender.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brainbender.blogspot.com/feeds/2664645012853680379/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7761825&amp;postID=2664645012853680379' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7761825/posts/default/2664645012853680379'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7761825/posts/default/2664645012853680379'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brainbender.blogspot.com/2011/03/kgb-demoralization.html' title='KGB Demoralization'/><author><name>David B</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11266046963020498076</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d102/everyday_something/d1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7761825.post-2858879833559535044</id><published>2011-03-11T22:48:00.006-07:00</published><updated>2011-03-11T23:21:56.109-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Science and Technology'/><title type='text'>Earthquakes, Tsunami, and Fukushima Nuclear Reactor in Japan</title><content type='html'>I am not sure, I appreciated the risks associated with Nuclear reactor power generation until now.  I come from the state of Utah which loves to generate its electricity using clean coal technology.  However, nuclear seems like a good option for countries like Japan and France that may not have the coal resources.  However, Japan is a very seismically active country and each one of its 55 nuclear reactors carries a significant risk in the face of any severe Earthquake.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yesterday, Japan was hit by the most severe Earthquake that it has faced in the modern era.  The Japanese build to the most strict seismic code.  Much of their infrastructure and buildings are designed to withstand up to an 8.24 earthquake.  The problem with yesterday's quake was that it measured in at a hefty 8.9. Additionally, a huge section of the northern coast of Honshu Island was inundated with water from a terrible tsunami that was almost as bad as the Boxing Day/Indian Ocean Tsunami in 2004.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If the damage from the Earthquake and Tsunami weren't enough, now government officialls and nuclear engineers are scrambling to prevent a catastrophic nuclear disaster.  Word has it that several reactors in Fukushima, Japan were severely damaged in the quake and tsunami.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If I am understanding things, it seems that shutting down a nuclear reactor in response to an Earthquake is not as easy as just flipping the power switch to off.  Reports are that all reactors in Japan are designed to power down in response to severe seismic activity. However,  it seems once you get one of these reactors going, they require 2-4 days of continually circulating water to cool down even after control rod insertion and shut down.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The problem is that all that circulating water requires functional pumps, intact pipes, and electricity from batteries or on-site generators.  That is too many systems that have to be maintained in the event of a catastrophe to prevent a reactor from going critical.  It seems to me that any damage to any one of these systems and its backups would prevent a reactor from safely shutting down.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As I understand it, the difficult situation with the Fukushima reactors in Japan are that several reactors cooling systems were damaged in the Earthquake and radioactive steam is being released from at least Fukushhima-1 reactor.  Second, the tsunami damaged the generators that supply power to the pumps that pump in coolant water to the other reactors on the site.  Even though the reactors are off, they are still hot, and will continue to heat up if not cooled by continually circulating water.  However, with the pumps damaged, leaking, and generators damaged, water is not circulating.  That means that the water that is there in the undamaged reactors 2-4, is increasing in pressure.  If they don't let radioactive steam off, then Fukushima will blow up like Chernobyl.  If they let too much steam out and the water level drops then they will have a core meltdown worse than 3-Mile Island.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On the other hand, it seems that the cooling system of Fukushima-1 was already damaged and it has already been losing steam.  Water levels may be low enough that some believe the nuclear fuel rods are already partially exposed and melted.  The hope is that this molten fuel in Fukushima-1 doesn't burn its way through its secondary containment.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm not sure why no one has designed a nuclear reactor than can't shut itself off and cool itself down by inserting control rods alone without the need of continually circulating coolant?  Pebble-bed and Thorium reactor designs meet this specification.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7761825-2858879833559535044?l=brainbender.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brainbender.blogspot.com/feeds/2858879833559535044/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7761825&amp;postID=2858879833559535044' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7761825/posts/default/2858879833559535044'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7761825/posts/default/2858879833559535044'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brainbender.blogspot.com/2011/03/earthquakes-tsunami-and-fukushima.html' title='Earthquakes, Tsunami, and Fukushima Nuclear Reactor in Japan'/><author><name>David B</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11266046963020498076</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d102/everyday_something/d1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7761825.post-3978024239195482863</id><published>2011-03-02T22:26:00.004-07:00</published><updated>2011-03-02T22:56:59.781-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Health and Medicine'/><title type='text'>VATS LIMA and PCI: The Best of Both Worlds</title><content type='html'>I have some form of familial hypercholesterolemia which results in low HDL and high triglycerides.  Consequently, I expect that at some point in the next 10-20 years, I may be needing some sort of cardiac intervention.  Having observed and assisted with open heart surgeries while in medical school, I am amazed at the technical expertise involved with open heart surgery.  Splitting the chest open and sowing vein grafts on a beating heart is a miracle of modern medicine.  However, as many open heart patients can attest, recovery from a CABG is a bear, and those vein graphs never seem to last.  On the other side, Interventional Cardiologist are trying to put the Cardiothoracic Surgeons out of business.  I have seen some patients with up to 14 drug eluting stents placed in a single patient with few problems of in-stent re-stenosis.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But it seems that when it comes to a decision between CABG vs. PCI, it is either one or the other.  For extensive 3-vessel disease, a patient is recommended to undergo a CABG.  For more focal disease, PCI is the standard.  But why not get the best of both worlds.  What if it were possible to get all the benefits of a CABG without having to be put on cardio-pulmonary bypass, or getting your chest split open?  That is what I want.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The best part of a CABG (Coronary Artery Bypass Graph) procedure is having the surgeon dissect down the Left Internal Mammary Artery (LIMA) which runs right over your heart on the inner chest wall. It's like God put this big fat artery right that isn't used for anything right in the perfect spot.  When a cardiac surgeon graphs this big fat vessel into your LAD (Left Anterior Descending Artery), patients rarely every have any further problems.  The high flow of the LIMA means it nor the LAD will ever go bad again. The rub is having to get your chest cracked to get this done. But, what if you could skip the chest cracking part?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Turns out that a few Cardiothoracic Surgeons are able to do the LIMA procedure without a thoracotomy.  These CT Surgeons can do the LIMA part with a video camera and a scope (Video Assisted Thorascoscopic Surgery).  The only thing you miss by getting your LIMA via VATS is the months of recovery pain after getting your sternum cut in half and wired back together, getting pump sickness after being on the bypass pump, and getting those pesky Saphenous vein graphs on the back of the heart which never last.  Oh and did I mention that you would also miss out on getting your leg slit open up one side in order to harvest the Saphenous Vein. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Instead of dividing patients, as we do know, between an ALL CT Surgery solution, vs. and ALL Interventional Cardiology solution, why couldn't a patient get the best of both worlds.  If I had my preference, I am hoping for PCI and stents to fix any acute problems together with a VATS LIMA to keep my LAD well perfused.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7761825-3978024239195482863?l=brainbender.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brainbender.blogspot.com/feeds/3978024239195482863/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7761825&amp;postID=3978024239195482863' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7761825/posts/default/3978024239195482863'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7761825/posts/default/3978024239195482863'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brainbender.blogspot.com/2011/03/vats-lima-and-pci-best-of-both-worlds.html' title='VATS LIMA and PCI: The Best of Both Worlds'/><author><name>David B</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11266046963020498076</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d102/everyday_something/d1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7761825.post-5888721652598621885</id><published>2011-02-26T20:00:00.003-07:00</published><updated>2011-03-21T22:06:05.864-06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Constitutional Government'/><title type='text'>Basis of Constitutional Government</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Monarchy (Divine Right):&lt;/span&gt; King or ruling class have all the rights, Citizens are granted certain privileges.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Republic (Rights of Man):&lt;/span&gt; Citizens have all  the rights, elected governments are granted certain specific enumerated privileges.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Self-Evident Law:&lt;/span&gt; Golden Rule: "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you". = Conscience, Light of Christ.  Not: "he who has the gold makes the rules."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Self-Government:&lt;/span&gt; people taught that they will stand before God and be judged according to the Golden Rule.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Life, Liberty, Property:&lt;/span&gt; Laws should protect the right to life, free expression of conscience, self-determination, and ownership and control of property.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Separation of Powers:&lt;/span&gt; Different people make laws, enforce laws, and interpret laws.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Checks and Balances:&lt;/span&gt; law makers, enforcers,and interpreters check each other.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Rule of Law:&lt;/span&gt; Law applies to everyone equally including law makers, enforcers, and interpreters.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Habeas Corpus:&lt;/span&gt; Right to appear in court before a jury of your peers to face your accuser.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Presumption of Innocence:&lt;/span&gt;  Accuser has the burden to provide proof of your guilt.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Ex Post Facto:&lt;/span&gt; Law cannot apply retroactively.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7761825-5888721652598621885?l=brainbender.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brainbender.blogspot.com/feeds/5888721652598621885/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7761825&amp;postID=5888721652598621885' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7761825/posts/default/5888721652598621885'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7761825/posts/default/5888721652598621885'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brainbender.blogspot.com/2011/02/basis-of-constitutional-government.html' title='Basis of Constitutional Government'/><author><name>David B</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11266046963020498076</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d102/everyday_something/d1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7761825.post-836788961834903339</id><published>2011-02-25T21:41:00.004-07:00</published><updated>2011-02-26T16:30:20.219-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Constitutional Government'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Health and Medicine'/><title type='text'>Why Illicit Drugs are Unnatural and Should Remain Illegal</title><content type='html'>Let me explain why pre-marital relations, pornography, drugs and alcohol SHOULD remain illegal. All these vices are done for the "on-demand", "any-time" "high" and "pleasure" they produce in the brain.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The brain is all about reward and consequence, pain and pleasure. That's how the brain works. The brain is designed to reward a person with pleasurable and loving sensations for safe, smart and productive behavior. And on the other hand, the brain is made to punish damaging, unsafe and destructive behavior by producing pain and fear. When we feels these sensations, our axons form new connections that reinforce certain memories, thought processes, emotional responses, and behaviors. However, when a person turns to drugs or other vices and "psychotropics", that person is cheating the brain. Psychotropics bypass the normal reward centers of the brain to feel "high" unnaturally. Or in other words, people who use drugs are feeling "high" without earning it. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Feeling good should be earned, not stolen. Pleasure should be the reward for hard work, achieving goals, reinforcing marital relationships, learning something new, or helping your neighbor. The laws of the land should never promote the practice of people "unnaturally" giving themselves "on-demand highs" and "instant gratification" as a reward for sitting on the couch and smoking something.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;law should reflect our ideals and not the least common denominator. That said, just because something is illegal doesn't mean we punish people like we are doing now. Joseph Smith wanted to reform our Jails.  As far as the argument about those with a "higher understanding" enforcing their morality on those of "lower understanding". One requirement for law is that all people under that law must be educated to understand the law. By being clear about the purposes behind the law, the law itself can educate everyone about the higher reasons for the law.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Remember that fornication and drugs and such have been traditionally illegal. So, I am taking the conservative and traditional position. However, obviously, we have forgotten the basic reasons why drug use is wrong and damaging and unnatural and it is failure of the good people of this country to accurately explain the wisdom of the law, that has opened the door wide for debate.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our laws, be they from a king, or by representative democracy, should reflect the laws of God. It is this point alone which make our laws good or bad in the eyes of God. Having a republic with Bad laws and bad law makers isn't any better than having a corrupt and evil king if the laws are just as corrupt and evil.  All laws involve the enforcement of morality. The question is, whose morality do we enforce?  The Book of Mormon teaches that we are to judge men according to God's law and according to God's understanding.  I don't think it can get any higher than that.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Mosiah 29:13 Therefore, if it were possible that you could have just men to be your kings, who would establish the laws of God, and judge this people according to his commandments, yea, if ye could have men for your kings who would do even as my father Benjamin did for this people—I say unto you, if this could always be the case then it would be expedient that ye should always have kings to rule over you.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7761825-836788961834903339?l=brainbender.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brainbender.blogspot.com/feeds/836788961834903339/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7761825&amp;postID=836788961834903339' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7761825/posts/default/836788961834903339'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7761825/posts/default/836788961834903339'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brainbender.blogspot.com/2011/02/why-illicit-drugs-are-unnatural-and.html' title='Why Illicit Drugs are Unnatural and Should Remain Illegal'/><author><name>David B</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11266046963020498076</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d102/everyday_something/d1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7761825.post-4325228555289290878</id><published>2011-02-22T21:08:00.007-07:00</published><updated>2011-02-22T22:32:17.452-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='History and Culture'/><title type='text'>Biblical Timeline</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;2 Peter 3:8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.&lt;/span&gt; [1 day = 1000 yrs]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Doctrine and Covenants 77:7 Q. What are we to understand by the seven seals with which it was sealed? A. We are to understand that the first seal contains the things of the first thousand years, and the second also of the second thousand years, and so on until the seventh.&lt;/span&gt; [ 1 Seal = 1000 yrs]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="verse"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Doctrine and Covenants 21:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;" class="verse"&gt;3 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Which church was organized and established in the year of your Lord eighteen hundred and thirty, in the fourth month, and on the sixth day of the month which is called April.&lt;/span&gt; [Jesus Christ born 1 BC]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;"Now 2,000 years have come and gone since His birth in Bethlehem. Surely, this is a time for remembrance and recommitment." -April 2, 2000, General Conference, Pres. Gordon B. Hinckley.&lt;/span&gt;  [Christ born 1 BC and 7th Seal Open in 2000]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Rev 8:1 And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour.&lt;/span&gt; [1/2 hour = 20.8 years = 2000 + 20 = 2020]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Gen 6:3 And the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.&lt;/span&gt; [120 Jubilee's or 120 x 50 = 6000 yrs,  Exodus at 50 Jubilee's or a Jubilee of Jubilee's]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Acts 3:21 Whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began.&lt;/span&gt; [Christ will return in the 120th Jubilee = the Lord's Jubilee]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Possible Recent Jubilee Years:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;70 AD &lt;/span&gt;Destruction of the Temple (Another fulfillment of Daniel's 70 weeks)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;1820&lt;/span&gt; First Vision, End of Spanish Inquisition "Time of Restitution of All things"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;1870 &lt;/span&gt;EDICT OF POPE NICHOLAS III, ending of the Roman Ghettos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;1920&lt;/span&gt; Prohibition, League of Nations begins, Protocols of Zion published, Balfour Declaration and the British Mandate for Palestine confirmed by League of Nations.&lt;br /&gt;1950 "Law of Return" or the Commandment or Law set forth that called for the Gathering of Jews to Israel granting any converted or native Jew citizenship. (Beginning of another of Daniel's 70 weeks).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;1970&lt;/span&gt; End of War of Attrition following 6-days war.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;2020&lt;/span&gt; The Lord's Jubilee? "Time of Restitution of All things"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Dan 7:25 And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws:&lt;/span&gt; [Don't bother trying to figure out Jewish Calendar because they didn't keep the Jubilee Consistently (see Bible Dictionary)]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Isaiah 52:8 Thy watchmen shall lift up the voice; with the voice together shall they sing: for they shall see eye to eye, when the Lord shall bring again Zion.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt; [eye-to-eye = 20/20?]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Dan 9:24 Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy. Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.&lt;/span&gt; [Weeks = "Shabua" = 7 or Feast of Weeks.  70 Shabuiym = 70 x 7, or 490 years or 70 Feast of Weeks = 70 years]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Matt 24:32-34 Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh: So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors. Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.&lt;/span&gt; [ISRAEL = FIG TREE NATION, "LAW OF RETURN" 1950 + 70 = 2020]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Denver Airport Murals Pointing to 2012 Tribulation&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;The best vision of the Last Days is the George A. Smith Vision.  i believe this vision is authentic.&lt;br /&gt;We have several sources for it that are consistent. And it goes along with the murals at the Denver Airport and a leaked map from Russia on how the US will be divided after invasion.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- m --&gt;&lt;a class="postlink" href="http://www.mcwetboy.net/maproom/images/russian_divided_states.jpg" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;"&gt;http://www.mcwetboy.net/maproom/images/ ... states.jpg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;!-- m --&gt; (the divided states)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- m --&gt;&lt;a class="postlink" href="http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/imagenes_sociopol/Denver4.jpg" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;"&gt;http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/image ... enver4.jpg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;!-- m --&gt; (the Mayan Codex the mayan girl is holding is in the shape of RUSSIA.  Notice the fire circling the city)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- m --&gt;&lt;a class="postlink" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_yh93vawma_Q/S_k4wVIArTI/AAAAAAAAA5w/5THom7NKel4/s320/tablet.jpg" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;"&gt;http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_yh93vawma_Q/S ... tablet.jpg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;!-- m --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(close-up of Mayan Codex and shape of RUSSIA)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- m --&gt;&lt;a class="postlink" href="http://www.conspiracyarchive.com/images/2010/o/obama.jpg" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;"&gt;http://www.conspiracyarchive.com/images ... /obama.jpg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;!-- m --&gt; (Obama in front of mural depicting the destruction of America) [this is not photoshopped as a young Obama's arm is resting on a railing in front of the mural.]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Cleansing and Dividing of America&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a class="postlink" href="http://www.mcwetboy.net/maproom/images/russian_divided_states.jpg" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;"&gt;http://www.mcwetboy.net/maproom/images/ ... states.jpg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;!-- m --&gt; (the divided states)&lt;br /&gt;                             &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Doctrine and Covenants 112:25&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;                                         And &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;" class="highlight"&gt;upon&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;" class="highlight"&gt;my&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;" class="highlight"&gt;house&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; shall it begin, and from &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;" class="highlight"&gt;my&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;" class="highlight"&gt;house&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; shall it go forth, saith the Lord;&lt;/span&gt; [tribulation begins at home]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3 Nephi 20:16 (3 Nephi 21:12) Then shall ye, who are a remnant of the house of Jacob, go forth among them; and ye shall be in the midst of them who shall be many; and ye shall be among them as a lion among the beasts of the forest, and as a young lion among the flocks of sheep, who, if he goeth through both treadeth down and teareth in pieces, and none can deliver.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt; [Lamanites fight with Russia and China]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.fortliberty.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/dont-tread-on-me.jpg"&gt;http://www.fortliberty.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/dont-tread-on-me.jpg&lt;/a&gt; [Rattlesnake = America]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.traditional-mexican-culture.com/images/mexican-flag-wallpaper.jpg"&gt;http://www.traditional-mexican-culture.com/images/mexican-flag-wallpaper.jpg&lt;/a&gt; [Eagle killing the rattle snake (America)]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;" class="verse"&gt;3 Ne 7:2&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; And the people were divided one against another; and they did separate one from another into tribes, every man according to his family and his kindred and friends; and thus they did destroy the government of the land. &lt;/span&gt;[Nephites separate into tribes]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;" class="verse"&gt;Daniel 7:8 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Therefore the he goat waxed very great: and when he was strong, the great horn was broken; and for it came up four notable ones toward the four winds of heaven. &lt;/span&gt;[After America (goat) defeats Iraq and Iran (ram), America will be broken and divided into 4]&lt;br /&gt;                                                                         &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Revelation 17:16 And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;" class="highlight"&gt;beast&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;" class="highlight"&gt;flesh&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;, and burn her with fire.&lt;/span&gt; [Beast (Red Russia and China) destroy and devour the Harlot (Anglo-American Alliance)]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/pictures-chinese-ghost-cities-2010-12?slop=1"&gt;http://www.businessinsider.com/pictures-chinese-ghost-cities-2010-12?slop=1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[Chinese Vacant "Ghost Cities" readied as Prison Cities]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pres. George A Smith Vision/ Pres. Obama Loses 2012 Election Timeline&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;2011  &lt;/span&gt;Comet Leonid Elenin sign, temple announced (1833 Leonids a sign to clear LDS from MO)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;----- &lt;/span&gt;Collapse of dollar, Chicago riots, martial law, gun confiscation, civil war&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;2012  &lt;/span&gt;false flag event, Iran War&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;----- &lt;/span&gt;Obama loses election, Russian nuke attack (start of tribulation)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;2013&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;====       &lt;/span&gt;WW3 ending in Armageddon, 2 Witnesses&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;2016&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;----- &lt;/span&gt;Many claim Christ delayeth his coming, Christian persecution (abomination), Christ appears in Jerusalem, cleansing of the temple&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;2017&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;====        &lt;/span&gt;Adam-ondi-Ahman, New Jerusalem, 144,000 sent to gather survivors to Zion or Jerusalem&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;2020 Wrath and Second Coming&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/pictures-chinese-ghost-cities-2010-12?slop=1"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7761825-4325228555289290878?l=brainbender.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brainbender.blogspot.com/feeds/4325228555289290878/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7761825&amp;postID=4325228555289290878' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7761825/posts/default/4325228555289290878'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7761825/posts/default/4325228555289290878'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brainbender.blogspot.com/2011/02/biblical-timeline.html' title='Biblical Timeline'/><author><name>David B</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11266046963020498076</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d102/everyday_something/d1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7761825.post-1777640533481862665</id><published>2011-02-17T10:32:00.002-07:00</published><updated>2011-02-17T10:54:22.617-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Constitutional Government'/><title type='text'>Continental Perimeter</title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America&lt;/b&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;(SPP)&lt;br /&gt;North America Competitiveness Council (NACC)&lt;br /&gt;Continental  Perimeter&lt;a href="http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&amp;amp;pageId=261477"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7761825-1777640533481862665?l=brainbender.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brainbender.blogspot.com/feeds/1777640533481862665/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7761825&amp;postID=1777640533481862665' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7761825/posts/default/1777640533481862665'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7761825/posts/default/1777640533481862665'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brainbender.blogspot.com/2011/02/continental-perimeter.html' title='Continental Perimeter'/><author><name>David B</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11266046963020498076</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d102/everyday_something/d1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7761825.post-2465199752978843652</id><published>2011-02-16T03:37:00.004-07:00</published><updated>2011-02-17T23:24:48.789-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Science and Technology'/><title type='text'>Solar and Space Weather Links</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.lmsal.com/nitta/movies/aia/20110215_01/AIA_0211_rdiff/AIA_0211_RDIFF_20110215_0130_X22_j.html"&gt;Lockeed Martin Solar Lab&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://spaceweather.com/"&gt;SpaceWeather.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://137.229.36.30/cgi-bin/scmag/disp-scmag.cgi?date=latest&amp;amp;Bx=on"&gt;HAARP Induction Magnetometer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://maestro.haarp.alaska.edu/data/spectrum2/www/hf.html"&gt;HAARP Spectrum Waterfall&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/SWN/"&gt;NOAA Space Weather Now&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/spaceweather/"&gt;NASA SOHO&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://stereo.gsfc.nasa.gov/"&gt;NASA STEREO&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.spacew.com/www/realtime.php"&gt;Amateur Radio MUF&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/ca/"&gt;NASA Near Earth Objects&lt;/a&gt; :&lt;a href="http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/"&gt; 2nd Link&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/astronomy/auroramax/default.asp"&gt;AuroraMAX&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7761825-2465199752978843652?l=brainbender.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brainbender.blogspot.com/feeds/2465199752978843652/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7761825&amp;postID=2465199752978843652' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7761825/posts/default/2465199752978843652'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7761825/posts/default/2465199752978843652'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brainbender.blogspot.com/2011/02/solar-weather-links.html' title='Solar and Space Weather Links'/><author><name>David B</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11266046963020498076</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d102/everyday_something/d1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7761825.post-8514669667908006722</id><published>2011-02-14T13:27:00.008-07:00</published><updated>2011-02-14T17:48:03.254-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='History and Culture'/><title type='text'>Dollar Devaluation, Protests, Riots, Gun Confescation, Civil War, Nuclear First Strike</title><content type='html'>&lt;object style="height: 390px; width: 640px;"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/jlPEBROvR9w?version=3"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/jlPEBROvR9w?version=3" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" height="390" width="640"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;IMF Calls for New World Reserve Currency&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This week we were informed that the &lt;a href="http://money.cnn.com/2011/02/10/markets/dollar/index.htm"&gt;International Monetary Fund (IMF)&lt;/a&gt; is calling for a&lt;a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&amp;amp;q=IMF+reserve+currency"&gt; new world reserve currency&lt;/a&gt;.  Since WW2, the Dollar (USD) filled that role.  And with the USD as the world currency, the United States has had the luxury of expanding our global military presence and funding large social programs beyond what we could afford.  When the US Congress appropriated money beyond revenues, the US Treasury simply issued bonds to the FED to sell on the world market.  Because countries like Germany, China, and Japan had trade deficits with the US, and had lots of USD laying around, and because many resources like oil can only be purchased with USD (Petro-Dollar System), these countries are interested in maintaining a strong USD.  Therefore, for the last 65 years, they have been induced into financing our yearly national deficits.  However, now that the IMF is calling for a new World Reserve Currency, the &lt;a href="http://www.prisonplanet.com/globalists-push-sdrs-as-world-reserve-currency.html"&gt;Special Drawing Right (SDR)&lt;/a&gt;, the Dollar and the US is doomed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;US Dollar Devaluation&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am not sure most people understand how precarious our economy is right now.  Since the housing collapse in 2007-8 due to the Goldman Sachs fraud and the Bank of International Settlement "Basil II Accords", the only thing that has been propping up our economy thus far has been the TARP bailouts, Quantitative Easing,  and Multinational Companies bringing in 1 Trillion in offshore profits tax-free and buying their own stock on the right hand, and selling off their stock options with the left.  And finally, the fact that the USD is the world reserve currency.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Special Drawing Rights (SDR)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However, the TARP money is spent, Quantitative Easing has already &lt;a href="http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/images/2008/dollar-yaun-june08.png"&gt;devalued the USD&lt;/a&gt; since 2006.  The last leg supporting the US  economy is about to be cut out from under us by the IMF.  The SDR is not new.  Those who are acquainted with the power of the G20/World Bank/IMF/Bank of International Settlement have known about the SDR and have been watching for this move for some time.  The &lt;a href="ttp://pe.usps.com/text/imm/immc3_007.htm"&gt;US Postal Service&lt;/a&gt; has had its clerks converting USD into SDR to determine insurance rates for at least the last year.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Hyperinflation Not Necessary&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some doom and gloomers out there are claiming that the US is poised to experience massive hyperinflation like the Veimar Republic in the 1920's and Zimbabwe in 2000's.  This may occur, I can't say for sure one way of another.  My point, is that hyperinflation is not necessary to greatly damage our country.  All we would need is 6-10$/gal gas.  Since WTO, NAFTA, and GAD, the US has lost much of its manufacturing infrastructure, and we import much of our natural resources, including oil and food.  If oil is priced in SDR in the near future, the demand for, and value of the USD will fall, and the price for oil will increase.  With a higher price of gas, US companies will still be manufacturing and importing, but many in the US will not be able to afford to purchase basic necessities.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;US Government Bankrupt&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;According to Wiki, there are over 50 million Americans receiving some sort of Federal Assistance through Medicare, Social Security, Disability, or Unemployment.  As the dollar is devalued, the higher prices will stretch the poor in America to the breaking point.  There will be more unemployment, more bankruptcies, and more home foreclosures.  However eventually, there just won't be enough money to support all the poor and support our global military goals at the same time.  The US can continue to print USD, but the value of the USD in relation to other currencies will continue to drop.  High oil prices is all it takes to cause high food and energy prices.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Weak USD =&gt; Famine&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If the USD is replaced by the SDR, and no longer accepted by foreign countries in exchange for natural resources or finished goods, I cannot see how the USD will not become even more devalued.  And with the weak, devalued dollar, I just don't see how millions of Americans don't begin to go hungry.  And hungry people, especially if government subsidies are cut, will set the stage for what happens next.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Famine =&gt; Protests =&gt; Riots&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As we have seen on TV in many countries already, hungry people will peacefully take to the streets in demonstration just like Egypt, Great Britain, Greece, and Iran.  With a great many demonstrators on the streets or our large cities like Chicago, it wouldn't take much for a handful of anarchists/agent provocateurs to break a few windows and torch a few cars to turn a peaceful demonstration into a riot.  With a riot, comes police, and possibly military engagement against the citizenry to quell the violence.  However, there is a difference between Egypt vs the US, and that is that while Egyptians had plenty of rocks to through, Americans have guns.  If there are street clashes, I hope and pray that civil unrest does not break out all over the country.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Riots =&gt; Martial Law =&gt; Gun Confiscation =&gt; Civil War&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With riots going in throughout the country, these could easily spill over into suburban areas.  The national guard and US military will be called in to put down these insurrections, and will likely go door-to-door confiscating guns.  If the US Government tries to enforce a policy of widespread gun confiscation, there would be all out civil war.  The Federal Government has been encroaching on our civil liberties such as freedom of speech, press, religion, assembly, and from illegal searches and seizures for too long.  While I am not so passionate on this one issue, I fear any further encroachment on the 2nd Amendment would be the straw that breaks the camel's back.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Soviet Union Staged its Own Death&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Many American's hold the false belief that the Soviet Union fell in 1989.  That would be a grave misconception.  It is true that the Soviet Union was under great economic stress to keep up with the massive US military buildup during the Cold War as well as support millions of impoverished people in the Balkans and Kazakhstan.  However, the Communists pulled off an ingenious ploy by faking their own death.  So, all this time, what they really accomplished was cutting loose many impoverished countries which allowed them to concentrate even more money into the building of their Military Industrial Complex.  However, the Russians still are very sensitive toward wealthier countries like the Ukraine and Georgia with pro-western governments.  If Communist Russia really dies in 1989, then why is the US continuing to surround and provoke them, and why did Russia try to Assassinate the Prime Minister of Ukraine, decapitate the government of Poland, and invade Georgia in 2008.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Provoking the Great Russian Bear&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am sure, many will not forget the great drought and fires that burned all over Russia last summer.  Weather you believe in weather modification/manipulation technology or not, is really not important.  The issue at hand is, "do the Russian's believe that the US can modify the weather?"  And, the feeling is that not only does Russia believe that the US directly caused the drought and fires in their country in 2010, they also believe  the US has been secretly supporting Chechen Terrorism in the same way elements associated  with the US are suspected of supporting Al Qaeda.  The Russians also believe the the US was  &lt;a href="http://www.izvestia.ru/news/news185341"&gt;supporting&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.kommersant.com/p-13081/mercenaries_Georgia_U.S._instructor/"&gt;mercenaries &lt;/a&gt;in &lt;a href="http://en.rian.ru/world/20080811/115956220.html"&gt;Georgia&lt;/a&gt;, which led to conflict in 2008.  Again, it doesn't matter what is true here, what matters is what the Russians believe is true.  If the Russian government has bought into the conspiracy theory, then this suspicion will result in a response; true or false.  The US is being framed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Surprise Nuke Attack&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If the IMF institutes the SDR this next year resulting in the further devaluation of the USD, we can expect demonstrations, riots, and martial law.  If the imposition of martial law brings door-to-door gun confiscation, we will have civil war.   If all this occurs in the next 2 years before the election, the time for Russia to attack, assuming President Obama looses the election, the window of opportunity to attack for the Russians will be before the inauguration of the newly elected president.  The country will be divided, the the Russians and Chinese may feel like there is an opportunity to neutralize this constant annoyance of the US once and for all.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In their mind, the Globalists have convinced them that they could rid themselves of all nuclear weapons once and for all by everyone launching them at the US while we are divided and are not likely to have the capacity, ability, or will to counter attack.  The Chinese have already demonstrated an EMP device, totally paralyzing a &lt;a href="http://www.projectworldawareness.com/2010/11/chinese-emp-attack-prompts-us-missile-strike-after-cruise-ship-crippled/"&gt;Cruise ship&lt;/a&gt; (Carnival Splendor) &lt;span style="color: rgb(146, 108, 76);"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;in the middle of the ocean.  Later last year, we saw another missile launched by a Chinese submarine right off the coast of &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AMdHBgHtNE"&gt;Los Angeles&lt;/a&gt;.  The first action by China was before G20 in Korea in response to the US printing 1 Trillion USD to devalue its currency (QE2) and monetize its debt.  The second action off Los Angeles was in response to Pres. Obama's visit to India.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" &gt;President George A Smith Vision &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 18px;font-size:13;" class="Apple-style-span" &gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Shortly after World War II &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;ended, President George Albert Smith had a vision of another great and terrible war which would yet take place. He said it would be so bad that it would make World War II look like a "training exercise." It would involve many of the countries of the world, including Germany, Hungary, Israel, Turkey, the United States and the Soviet Union. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 18px;font-size:100%;" class="Apple-style-span" &gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Thousands of tanks would be transported in huge trucks so they would be in place where they were needed when the war began.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 18px;font-size:100%;" class="Apple-style-span" &gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;The United States would have missiles in Europe which carried an atomic bomb. However, the United States would be committed to many far-reaching alliances and would withdraw its missiles to satisfy the Soviet Union. Then the war would begin and people would "die like flies". The military power of the Soviet Union at this time would be much greater than the United States. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;He said the United States would take away the weapons of the people. They would have their missiles in big holes in the ground, which he described as being like grain silos. The Soviets would send their own missiles to try to destroy them, as well as U.S. military bases and cities. They would also send in ground troops. President Smith indicated that this attack would take place on a holiday after the Presidential election, but before the official inauguration. He said that the President at this time would be of Greek ancestry.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;President Smith said that the conditions after the war would be "dreadful" and would make the worst times of the depression seem "like a Sunday School picnic" in comparison.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;(See statements by David Hughes Horne dated Oct. 28, 1988)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;. . . &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;At that point, President Smith quite abruptly stopped and turned in the seat so that he was facing my brother and related to him what sounds basically like the same vision that Brother David Horne related. Everything that my brother wrote down in his journal. . . .&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 18px;font-size:100%;" class="Apple-style-span" &gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;However, Pres. Smith did tell him to look specifically for the day when the American Dollar was so worthless that no other country would allow payment in dollars, for that would signal the beginning of such a severe depression that only LDS people who had their food supplies and clothing supplies and whatever they needed for heat and to cook with would be able to survive. Then he stopped for a moment as though he was going inside himself, and then said that there would be other survivors, but they would only survive because they were the honest in heart whom the Lord would miraculously bring to the Saints to teach and nurture, and that their survival would be something truly spiritual to those of us who were prepared for the calamities that would befall the LDS people who were not prepared, and the unprepared LDS would be affected the worst and die the more agonizing deaths because they had been warned, and yet rejected those warnings.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. Weapons would be taken from the populace&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. Russia would appear to fall from it’s mighty position, but that would only be a ruse, because they would continue to only grow stronger &lt;/span&gt;because they would not have to support all of the poor countries they had taken over.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. The US would give up it’s strategic power base, and become the scourge of the world because of the abuse of power they would leverage against all other lesser countries, and the other world powers would force the US to take their bombs out of Europe. (Doesn’t remember anything being said about whether bombs were nuclear or not)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4. Missiles would be hidden in grain silos – didn’t way anything about them being the buried silos we all know.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5. Nations would move huge battle tanks around to where they needed them on trucks that are bigger than any you have ever seen up till now (1949)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;6. Then a terrible war would break out that would pit the powerful nations of the world against the US, and that&lt;span&gt; the US would find out what it was like to have war waged in their backyards, and America would find out that WW2 had merely been a training exercise.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;7. The worst time in the depression would look like a picnic in comparison.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;(Statement Source Unknown)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7761825-8514669667908006722?l=brainbender.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brainbender.blogspot.com/feeds/8514669667908006722/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7761825&amp;postID=8514669667908006722' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7761825/posts/default/8514669667908006722'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7761825/posts/default/8514669667908006722'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brainbender.blogspot.com/2011/02/dollar-devaluation-protests-riots-gun.html' title='Dollar Devaluation, Protests, Riots, Gun Confescation, Civil War, Nuclear First Strike'/><author><name>David B</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11266046963020498076</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d102/everyday_something/d1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7761825.post-1861923251445632169</id><published>2011-02-09T21:14:00.004-07:00</published><updated>2011-02-09T21:35:36.493-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='History and Culture'/><title type='text'>Daniel's 70 Weeks, 120 Jubilees, End Times, Last Days and the Second Coming of Jesus Christ</title><content type='html'>Several factors having me leaning toward the conclusion that the Second Coming may be closer than many may realize:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. Daniel's 70 Weeks (years) is said to have begun with the creation of the Jewish State of Israel in 1947-48. Actually, Daniel says the 70 Weeks starts with the command.  Therefore, some think Daniel's 70 weeks begins in 1947 with the UN Charter. Others think it begins in 1948 with the creation of Israel. And others believe the time line begins with "Law of Return" in 1950 that called all Jews from all over the planet to gather in Israel. [1950 + 70 = 2020]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dan 9:24 Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish thetransgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy. Know therefore and understand, that &lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem&lt;/span&gt; unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. We are told that this generation (the generation alive when Israel becomes a nation) would not pass away until all is fulfilled. The generation spoken of is the Baby Boomer generation. Christ said that when we see the Fig Tree put for leaves, we can know that summer is close. Israel is the "Fig Tree Nation." Therefore, Christ tells us that when we see the nation of Israel re-established, we know the Second Coming is very close. [Israel = Fig Tree]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Matt 24:32-34 Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh: So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors. Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. Also the realization that 1 day = 1000 years, and Adam lived about 4000 BC, so that we now in or very close to the 7th Millennium of Rest (2 Pet 3:8). Thanks to Joseph Smith, we know that each of the 7 Seals = 7 x 1000 years (D&amp;amp;C 77:7). And after the opening of the 7th Seal, there is silence in the heavens for 1/2 hour, then the trumpet announcing the coming of the Lord sounds (Rev 8:1). Not to be confused with the 7 trumpets that sound on earth. [1/2 hour = 20.8 years]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4. Finally, in addition to the 7 1000-day periods of time, the Bible also teaches us about Jubilees. A Jubilee occurs every 50 years. The Jubilee year is where all debts are to be forgiven, and slaves are prisoners are freed, and all people return to the lands of their inheritance. When the Jews observed the Jubilee, great blessings were experienced. But usually, the Jews did not observe the Jubilee and they were cursed. The Bible hints that there would be 120 Jubilees given to man until the coming of Christ. From Adam to the Exodus was exactly 50 Jubilees. Thus the Exodus occurred at a Jubilee of Jubilees.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gen 6:3 And the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years. [120 Jubilees]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Adam ---Abraham---Jesus---Second Coming&lt;br /&gt;40 Jubilees + 40 Jubilees + 40 Jubilees  =  120 Jubilees&lt;br /&gt;Adam -----Moses-------Second Coming&lt;br /&gt;50 Jubilees + 70 Jubilees   =  120 Jubilees&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5. The Key to knowing where you are on Gods calendar is to identify just 1 Jubilee year. If you can positively identify just 1 Jubilee year, then you can know them all. Many try to confuse saying a Jubilee year was only 49 years. But I am convinced that it is exactly 50 years, and the reason why Israel never observed them routinely is because they didn't have the faith to let their land sit without being planted for 2 consecutive years. (Sabbatical Year (49)+ Jubilee Year 50)). You don't need to figure out the Jewish calender to figure this out. All you have to do is figure out Gods calender. Jewish calender /= God's calender because they never kept the Jubilee.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lev 25: 10-11, 20-22 And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubile unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family.A jubile shall that fiftieth year be unto you: ye shall not sow, neither reap that which groweth of itself in it . . . And if ye shall say, What shall we eat the seventh year? behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase: Then I will command my blessing upon you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth fruit for three years.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1820 First Vision, End of the Spanish Inquisition "Restitution of all things" [Restitution = Jubilee]&lt;br /&gt;1870 EDICT OF POPE NICHOLAS III, ending of the Roman Ghettos.&lt;br /&gt;1920 Prohibition, League of Nations begins, Protocols of Zion published, Balfour Declaration and the British Mandate for Palestine confirmed by League of Nations.&lt;br /&gt;1970 End of War of Attrition following 6-days war, massive migration of Russian Jews to Israel&lt;br /&gt;2020 The Lord's Jubilee? "Time of Restitution of All things"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;6. However, just like 3 Nephi 1, I think our enemies will try to jump the gun and tell us th at the time has actually come and gone when these prophecies are to be fulfilled. So, I have been seeing that they are putting out counterfeit Jubilee dates and they are predicting Christ's return in 2017 which is 3 years earlier than 2020.  Will foresight, like hindsight, be 2020?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Isaiah 52:8, Mosiah 12:22, Mosiah 15:29, 3 Nephi 16:18,&lt;br /&gt;Thy watchmen shall lift up the voice; with the voice together shall they sing, &lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;for they shall see eye to eye when the Lord shall bring again Zion.&lt;/span&gt; [seeing eye to eye = 20/20 vision]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7761825-1861923251445632169?l=brainbender.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brainbender.blogspot.com/feeds/1861923251445632169/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7761825&amp;postID=1861923251445632169' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7761825/posts/default/1861923251445632169'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7761825/posts/default/1861923251445632169'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brainbender.blogspot.com/2011/02/daniels-70-weeks-120-jubilees-end-times.html' title='Daniel&apos;s 70 Weeks, 120 Jubilees, End Times, Last Days and the Second Coming of Jesus Christ'/><author><name>David B</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11266046963020498076</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d102/everyday_something/d1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7761825.post-1037646553640926099</id><published>2011-02-08T20:51:00.015-07:00</published><updated>2011-02-09T10:43:21.070-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='History and Culture'/><title type='text'>Possible End-Times Time Line</title><content type='html'>There are several LDS End-Times prophecies out there. The Milton Musser letter recounts a prophecy by Joseph Smith foretelling a Second American Civil War and several letters by David H. Horne recount Pres. George A. Smith's' vision of a Russian Nuclear attack on the US. The fascinating aspects to these prophecies is that unlike others, these examples contain details that help in figuring out timing of these events.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Both the Musser and Horne letters talk about the devaluation of the US Dollar and martial law (gun confiscation) as key signs that will occur just before these events. We can already see the devaluation starting to occur. The FED is using quantitative easing to print money to finance our budget deficits that China is no longer supporting. China has broken away from the British Created Petro-Dollar system and had brokered deals with Russia and Brazil to exchange currency. China has also brokered deals with Iran to import oil in Yuan. These prophecies warn that it is only a matter of time before the world no longer accept the US Dollar in payment for manufactured goods, commodities, and natural resources.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is not a stretch to imagine that further devaluation of the Dollar will lead to its collapse. Economic Collapse and Depression will lead to Starvation. Starvation will lead to demonstrations. Anarchist/Agent Provocateurs will turn demonstrations into Riots. FEMA, US Military, Nation Guard and Federalized Police will fire into the crowds killing thousands (Chicago). Riots then break out all over the country in all major cities. Martial Law is imposed and guns are confiscated. The Second US Civil War breaks out over 2nd Amendment Rights.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thus far, since the Housing Collapse, the Globalists have strung us along through the TARP bailout as well as a policy of printing money which they call Quantitative Easing. Currently, Multinational Corporations have brokered a deal with the US Government that they will move 1 Trillion dollars of offshore profits into the US in exchange for only having to pay 5% tax. These companies are then using this money to purchase their own stock, while the CEO's are cashing out their stock options. After this money dries up and the ultra-elite have cashed out, I am not sure what the Globalists will use to continue to prop up the Dollar and float our record deficits.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However, the biggest clue with regard to the timing of the Russian Nuclear Attack on the US and occupation, is that according to the vision of George A. Smith, this attack will occur during the presidency of a US President who is not of Northern European Extraction. According to Bro. Horne, George A. Smith was very clear that this attack would occur after the election of a new POTUS but before the inauguration of the new POTUS. Thus the "Greek" POTUS is still the president at the time of the attack. Pres. Smith also said that this attack would involve ground troops. Now, invading foreign troops on American soil could only occur if the US did away with the 2nd Amendment and confiscated guns. A well armed citizenry is documented as the major reason Japan did not attack and invade California after Pearl Harbor. So, we see that gun confiscation and a Second American Civil War will likely precede a Russian attack.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another detail of timing has to do with the Globalist Conspirators attempting to stage the Daniel's "Abomination of Desolation". The Globalist have convinced many that the Daniel's "Abomination of Desolation" will have something to do with the Jewish Temple in and around 2013. They use the idea of Jubilee Years, the 6-Day War, and Daniel's 70 weeks beginning with the UN Charter establishing Israel as a State in 1947, as a basis for this. However, I believe these events are manufactured to deceive, and when the real "Abomination of Desolation" occurs in 2016, they will mock Christians for believing that Christ would save them from destruction. However, iust like 70 AD, the real "Abomination of Desolation" has more to do with global genocide and less to do with some Antichrist leader killing a pig on the temple alter.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But, if this time line is correct, then the Russian Attack will not occur immediately after the 2012 election, but following the 2016 election. I think too much has yet to occur. That means that Pres. Obama will need to win the election in 2012. And seeing his popularity numbers right now, I don't anyone thinks that is possible. However, the Globalists have given us clues about what they are going to do. George Soros and other Ultra-Elites have been hinting that what Pres. Obama needs to win in 2012 is another "Oklahoma City Bombing". However, with the advent of electronic voting, it is likely that fraud will be employed to steal the 2012 election. But, the media will use the cover story that it was the excellent FEMA response to some domestic emergency that gave Pres. Obama the "bump" he needed to win.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Many are suspicious that FEMA has been preparing since Katrina for just such an "Oklahoma City-like" event. FEMA has purchased millions of body bags and hundreds of thousands of grave liners. FEMA has built an archipelago of emergency residential centers, and has completed work on a mass immunization center and morgue in Downtown Salt Lake City. FEMA has also completed work of mass cemeteries in Southern California, Phoenix and Houston. Just recently, FEMA has contacted several MRE manufacturing companies and inquired if these companies had the capacity to deliver several million meals if needed. In addition to bankrupting our nation, I can't imagine that all these FEMA expenditures are being made to go to waste. Consequently, I am looking forward to some catastrophic event to occur in America in the Spring or Summer of 2012 prior to the November Elections.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you are LDS or live in Salt Lake City, then you know the Wasatch Fault is long overdue to slip. With the help of HAARP, an Earthquake on the Wasatch Fault could produce in excess of an magnitude 8 earthquake. Because Salt Lake is built on a dry lake bed, just like Mexico City, the earthquake energy will be magnified and together with liquefaction, produce widespread devastation. LDS will remember the Doctrine and Covenants dire warning that the Tribulation would begin "upon my house."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;D&amp;amp;C 112:25 And upon my house shall it begin, and from my house shall it go forth, saith the Lord;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The other possibility is Obama doesn't run or loses the 2012 election. In that case a whole lot of stuff needs to happen in 2011-12 if Russia is to strike in the end of 2012.  In this scenario, I am assuming that the nuke attack on the US is the Abomination of Desolation, and we know that this atrocity occurs in the midst of the final 7 years of Daniel's prophetic timeline, then in this case, Christ's coming could be as soon as 2017.  But there are several reasons above why I think this is too  soon.  That is unless, something else worse than nuclear holocaust happens in 2016-17.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I will assume that because Joseph Smith taught (and this is in the Teaching of the Presidents of the Church Manual) that the LDS Saints would not necessarily be protected from the tribulation.  I will also assume that AOA, New Jerusalem, the Mount of Olives, and 144,000 will occur after Russia nukes America. Pres. George A. Smith also comments in his vision that the Saints would "Die like flies." So, again this suggests that those who are not prepared will suffer during the Tribulation and that the calling to AOA will occur sometime in the midst of the tribulation but before the Wrath.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Russia will only hit key cities and military targets in a majority of the US, but they will carpet bomb Missouri and other states where there are nuclear silos. It takes a direct hit on a silo to take it out and prevent a retaliatory strike.  After, Silos in Missouri have been carpet bombed, (yellow-dog prophecy), then the land will be available for New Jerusalem to be built.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Once New Jerusalem Construction commences, 144,000 High Priests will be sent forth as missionaries to gather all survivors of the tribulation who will come to come to New Jerusalem for safety from the coming wrath.  At the same time Russia strikes the US, I suppose there will be war in Jerusalem. And at the same time missionaries are gathering survivors to Zion, following Armageddon and the conversion of the Jews, they will send out missionaries to those nations to gather survivors of the Tribulation to Jerusalem.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That said, my wife votes for the Obama loses the 2012 election and doesn't see Obama winning a second term, bump or no bump. And with all this 2012 stuff, she thinks that the collapse of dollar, Chicago riots, gun confiscation, etc will happen in the next 2 years. I guess we will see. I hope we have some more time to prepare. I am still leaning toward the 2020 Time line because I believe it will be said "The Lord Delayeth His Coming" Matt 24:48.  But at the same time, the Lord also says that "those days will be shortened." Matt 24:22.   The days can be shortened in two ways:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. We finish the work to build Zion and bring in survivors quickly such that Christ can come.&lt;br /&gt;2. The date of the financial collapse (crunch) that leads to civil war and then WW3 and Armageddon is delayed allowing us as much time as possible to get prepared before the FHTF.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Jubilee Timeline&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;1 BC&lt;/span&gt; Christ Born&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;70 AD&lt;/span&gt; Destruction of Second Temple&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; 1820&lt;/span&gt; First Vision, End of Spanish Inquisition (116th Jubilee)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; 1870 &lt;/span&gt;Edict of Pope Nicholas III, ending of the Roman Ghettos. (117th Jubilee)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; 1920&lt;/span&gt; Prohibition, League of Nations begins, Protocols of Zion published, Balfour Declaration and the British Mandate for Palestine confirmed by League of Nations. (118th Jubilee)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; 1950&lt;/span&gt; "Law of Return" (Beginning of Daniel's 70 Weeks)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; 1970&lt;/span&gt; End of War of Attrition which started with 6-days war, Major Wave of immigrants from Russia to Israel (119th Jubilee)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;2020&lt;/span&gt; Wrath and Second Coming (The Lord's 120th Jubilee)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Pres. Obama Wins 2012 Election Timeline&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;2001   &lt;/span&gt;                    911, War of Terror, Patriot Act, FEMA&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;2010 &lt;/span&gt;                      Gulf Oil Spill, Haiti Earthquake&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;2011 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;-----&lt;/span&gt;            Comet Elenin Sign, Jewish Temple Announced&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;2012&lt;/span&gt;   Wasatch Fault Earthquake and FEMA Response (body bags, grave liners, mass morgues, cemeteries, residential centers),&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;------&lt;/span&gt; Pres Obama fraudulently wins election but media claims bump due to excellent FEMA disaster response.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;2013 &lt;/span&gt;             Fraudulent Abomination of Desolation regarding the Jewish Temple&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;2013-2016 &lt;/span&gt; Dollar Collapse and Second US Civil War starting in Chicago (Tribulation Begins),&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;------ &lt;/span&gt;Russian nuclear attack on US after election but before inauguration (Abomination of Desolation)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;2017-2019 &lt;/span&gt;Persecution of Christians for believing in the Rapture of that Christ would return and save them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;------&lt;/span&gt;Adam-ondi-Ahman, New Jerusalem, 144,000 sent to gather survivors to Zion.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;2020&lt;/span&gt;             Wrath, and Jesus Christ's Second Coming (120th Jubilee, see eye to eye, hindsight?)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Pres. Obama Loses 2012 Election Timeline&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2011&lt;br /&gt;2012 Collapse of dollar, Chicago riots, martial law, gun confiscation, civil war&lt;br /&gt;2013 Obama loses election, Russian nuke attack (start of tribulation)&lt;br /&gt;2014&lt;br /&gt;2015&lt;br /&gt;2016&lt;br /&gt;2017 Many claim Christ delayeth his coming, Christian persecution (abomination)&lt;br /&gt;2018&lt;br /&gt;2019&lt;br /&gt;2020 Wrath and Second Coming&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7761825-1037646553640926099?l=brainbender.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brainbender.blogspot.com/feeds/1037646553640926099/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7761825&amp;postID=1037646553640926099' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7761825/posts/default/1037646553640926099'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7761825/posts/default/1037646553640926099'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brainbender.blogspot.com/2011/02/possible-end-times-time-line.html' title='Possible End-Times Time Line'/><author><name>David B</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11266046963020498076</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d102/everyday_something/d1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7761825.post-3420457081786622083</id><published>2011-02-08T17:21:00.003-07:00</published><updated>2011-02-08T19:28:38.323-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='History and Culture'/><title type='text'>How much time do we have left?</title><content type='html'>I have heard that the only thing that is supporting the Stock Market right now, is that International Cooperations have $1 Trillion in overseas/offshore profits and have brokered a deal with the US government to bring this money back into the US to help the economy in exchange for only 5% tax rate. &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;But instead of helping the economy, what these mega-corps are doing is buying their own stock at the same time the CEO's are cashing out of their stock options.&lt;/span&gt; With the TARP money money is all spent, and when this offshore money is gone, I don't see that there is any other scheme to keep the illusion of stability going. The Petro-Dollar system is dead with China buying oil in Yuan and brokering currency exchange deals with Russia and Brazil.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- m --&gt;&lt;a class="postlink" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/24/AR2010092406183.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;"&gt;http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... 06183.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;!-- m --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;According to Milton Musser and David Horne letters, the devaluation of the US Currency to the point where other nations no longer accept the US Dollar will mark the beginning of the Second Great US Civil War (beginning in Chicago). And then at some point thereafter, after an election and before the inauguration of a new President following the "Greek" President, the Soviets hit when we are weak and poor and divided and before a new POTUS can begin to turn things around.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, the question is, will Obama win another 4 years. Will he even run for another 4 years. If Obama runs again in 2012, with the electronic voting he could conceivably win another 4 years. Or if there was another "Oklahoma City" event or Major Disaster (New Madrid or Wasatch Quake?) and FEMA actually did a good job of dealing with it. Or FEMA was perceived to do a good job in the media, that could be a cover story for fraud that gets Pres. Obama another 4 years.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Pres. Obama Wins 2012 Election Timeline&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;1950&lt;/span&gt; "Law of Return" (Beginning of Daniel's 70 Weeks)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;2001&lt;/span&gt; 911, War of Terror, Patriot Act, FEMA&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;2010 &lt;/span&gt; Gulf Oil Spill&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;2011&lt;/span&gt; Comet Elenin, Jewish Temple Announced (1-Year Construction)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;2012&lt;/span&gt; Wasatch Fault Earthquake and FEMA Response (body bags, grave liners, mass morgues, cemeteries, residential centers), Pres Obama fraudulently wins another term but media claims bump from disaster response.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;2013&lt;/span&gt; Dollar Collapse and Second US Civil War starting in Chicago (Tribulation Begins), Fake Abomination of Desolation regarding the Jewish Temple.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;2014&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;2015&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;2016&lt;/span&gt; Soviet Union nuclear attack after election but before inauguration (Abomination of Desolation)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;2017 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;Mocking of Christians for believing in the Rapture of that Christ would return and save them.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;2018&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;2019&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;2020&lt;/span&gt; Jesus Christ's Second Coming (see eye to eye)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7761825-3420457081786622083?l=brainbender.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brainbender.blogspot.com/feeds/3420457081786622083/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7761825&amp;postID=3420457081786622083' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7761825/posts/default/3420457081786622083'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7761825/posts/default/3420457081786622083'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brainbender.blogspot.com/2011/02/how-much-time-do-we-have-left.html' title='How much time do we have left?'/><author><name>David B</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11266046963020498076</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d102/everyday_something/d1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7761825.post-7593579192762298016</id><published>2011-02-04T11:01:00.004-07:00</published><updated>2011-12-20T13:50:18.839-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Constitutional Government'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Conservative Politics'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='History and Culture'/><title type='text'>Would an LDS President Make a Difference?</title><content type='html'>From Orin Hatch and Mitt Romney to Jon Huntsman Jr in 2012; LDS seek to fully participate in national politics. However, one wonders, if an LDS member were to be elected as POTUS; would anything really change? Looking down the list of high-level LDS politicians, many have been great and inspired servants of God, but less effective politically in changing things for the better.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Elder Reed Smoot (US Senate):&lt;/span&gt; Co-Sponsored the National Parks Act which turned over hundreds of thousands of miles of land and control over mineral rights to the Federal Government. The Federal Government with control of those mineral rights is able to deal them out to certain companies or to prohibit companies from mining these resources all together to limit our ability of our country from being self-sufficient. The National Park Act was a major step in the Federalization of America. (This reminds me of the plot of Evan Almighty).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Co-Sponsored the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act. Now this was a good act. But, Senator Smoot allowed FDR and others blame this act for triggering the Great Depression, resulting in a huge shift in Republican politics. Since this time, "FREE TRADE" became a major plank of the Republican Party when it never had been before. Republicans like Lincoln, McKinley, and Hoover where all staunch Protectionists.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;President J Ruben Clark (Under Secretary of State):&lt;/span&gt; Developed regulations for the Selective Service/Draft during WW1 and amended the Monroe Doctrine to limit US involvement in Latin American politics. However, the US has covertly been responsible for numerous political assassinations, coups, revolutions, and regime changes in Latin and South America.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After working for the State Department, President Clark worked for a New York law firm involved in mergers and acquisitions to buy up any companies that would profit from the US entering into WW1. J Ruben Clark worked to create the first international conglomerate for the ultra elite who were fully intending to drive the US to war all the while Woodrow Wilson was promising the US people otherwise.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;President Ezra Taft Benson (Secretary of Agriculture):&lt;/span&gt; Criticized Farm subsidies and the spread of Communism and Socialism but never realized like General Patton that President Eisenhower was personally and directly responsible for allowing Communist Russia to take Eastern Europe. I am not sure if he ever realized the real threat to our Constitution were the Globalist power-elites like Eisenhower (member of Bohemian Grove) who sponsored the Communist Revolution and created the Soviet Union. In any event, Secretary Benson's 8 years as Agriculture Secretary did little to slow the spread of Socialism in America or slow the spread of Communism abroad. But he did bravely lift up a warning voice in the face of fierce criticism.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;David M Kennedy (Secretary of Treasury):&lt;/span&gt; Appointed by President Richard M Nixon right up to the time when Nixon took the dollar forever off the gold standard. But he was replaced just before this happened. He then served as US Ambassador to NATO.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Michael O Leavitt (Secretary of Health and Human Services):&lt;/span&gt; Spent several years flying all over the country on a government jet campaigning for Obama Care and the idea that Doctor reimbursement should be determined by an arbitrary Quality Factor, which gives Federal Bureaucrats total control over medicine. You do it their way exactly, or you don't get paid. I attended his presentation here where I live.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Harry Reid (US Senate Majority Leader):&lt;/span&gt;  Overseen the greatest expansion of the federal government since FDRs New Deal and LBJs Great Society.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;George W. Romney (Secretary of HUD):&lt;/span&gt;  Worked as CEO of AMC, then served as Michigan Governor after which he served as the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development for Pres Nixon.  Bro. Romney wanted to expand low-income housing projects into suburban areas but was opposed by Nixon. Romney was unsuccessful in seeing the creation of ghettos in US inner-cities and did not recognize the HUD/HFA amortized mortgage as a major driver of inflation in this country.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am sure the only thing the Globalist would like more that to have the US collapse under a Black President would be to have the US collaspe under an LDS President.  I don't see how an LDS member in politics could effectively defend the Constitution unless they were awake to the reality of the Great Global Conspiracy.  It is too easy for the elites to get naive Mormons to follow along because of our ambition, trusting nature, desire to please, tendency to blindly follow orders, befriend mammon, and desire for the mainstream to respect us, etc.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I should put a disclaimer here that I am not saying LDS shouldn't be involved in politics and I am not saying that anyone could have done better.  I appreciate LDS willingness and sacrifice to serve this country.  What I am saying, is that having an LDS member at the top is not going to change the scriptures any more than Mormon's final stand at Cumorrah changed what Nephi had seen in vision a thousand years earlier.  That being said, it was still important to make that final stand.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;President N. Eldon Tanner (Canadian Minister of Lands and Mines):&lt;/span&gt;  There is one LDS politician who I feel did a great job of fighting the New World Order.  President Tanner was in a banker, oilman, and politician in Alberta Canada.  President Tanner served as Speaker of the Legislative Assembly from 1936 to 1937 and as a cabinet minister as the Minister of Lands and Mines in the governments of William Aberhart and Ernest Manning from 1937 to 1952.  President Tanner was able to take back mineral rights from Canada for Alberta and used those mineral and oil rights to benefit the citizens of Alberta.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Of all LDS politicians, I think President Tanner was the most effective against the agenda of the latter-day Gadiantons.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7761825-7593579192762298016?l=brainbender.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brainbender.blogspot.com/feeds/7593579192762298016/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7761825&amp;postID=7593579192762298016' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7761825/posts/default/7593579192762298016'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7761825/posts/default/7593579192762298016'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brainbender.blogspot.com/2011/02/would-lds-president-make-difference.html' title='Would an LDS President Make a Difference?'/><author><name>David B</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11266046963020498076</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d102/everyday_something/d1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7761825.post-1982627778971263559</id><published>2011-02-01T00:55:00.005-07:00</published><updated>2011-02-01T01:26:17.033-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Health and Medicine'/><title type='text'>Metabolic Manipulation: A New Cancer Treatment Paradigm</title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;Aspirin&lt;/b&gt;: inhibits the activation of a transcription factor that leads to cancer cell growth and inflammatory response (via cytokines IL-1 and IL-6).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Cimetidine: &lt;/b&gt;prevents histamine binding and indirectly enhances local anti-tumor response via IL-18 signaling to the immune system's natural killer and T cells.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Dichloracetate (DCA):&lt;/b&gt;  DCA inhibits pyruvate dehydrogenase kinase (PDK), an inhibitor of pyruvate dehydrogenase, a key enzyme in glucose metabolism. DCA preferentially shifts glucose metabolism in cancer cells from glycolysis to glucose oxidation, reversing the unique aerobic glycolysis found in solid tumors and induces apoptosis. [orphan drug used to treat lactic acidosis].&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Metformin: &lt;/b&gt;suppresses the AMPK/mTOR/S6K1 axis and several protein kinases. Metformin may also specifically target the cancer-initiating stem cells, thereby preventing cancer relapse when used in combination with cytotoxic chemotherapy (dandelion root hypothesis).   [Beware Cimetidine and Metformin are secreted by the same cation pump in renal tubules]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Low Fructose Diet:&lt;/b&gt; Pancreatic cancers use the sugar fructose to activate a key cellular pathway that drives cell division&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Black Cumin Seed: &lt;/b&gt;Nigella sativa oil containing thymoquinone has been demonstrated to reduce the growth and size of tumors in rats.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Co-Enzyme Q10:&lt;/b&gt; lipid soluble antioxidant that stimulates the immune system leading to higher antibody levels, greater numbers and/or activities of macrophages and T cells and increased resistance to infection.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Vitamin C and NAC:&lt;/b&gt; both human lymphoma or human liver cancer cells which produce high levels of free radicals were suppressed with these antioxidants in a DNA damage independent mechanism. Researchers believe that the antioxidants destabilizing a tumor's ability to grow under oxygen-starved conditions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt; Desferrioxamine: &lt;/b&gt;iron chelator that binds iron and limits a key limiting metabolite needed for tumor growth.  High iron levels also inhibit the immune system.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Up to now, traditional cancer treatment involves a cocktail of super-expensive cytotoxic chemotherapy drugs that target rapidly dividing cells. The aim of our current treatment strategy is to give the patient just the right dose of poison that will kill the cancer but not the patient.  With only a few exceptions, the focus on most cancer treatments has been to target rapidly dividing cells by directly damaging DNA (cisplatin, doxorubicin, cyclophosphamide), indirectly damaging DNA (MTX, 5-FU), inhibiting DNA repair enzymes (etoposide), or by targeting key enzymes necessary for cellular division (paclitaxel, vincristin).  The problem with this paradigm is that this selective killing isn't selective enough.  However, this strategy is not the only one out there.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another promising paradigm for cancer treatment would be to focus on the manipulation of metabolic pathways of cancer cells. Scientists are discovering that cancer cell metabolic pathways may be unique or at least more limited than normal cells. And it is these metabolic limitations that could be exploited. First off, we know that all cells in the body can generate energy using several anaerobic and aerobic mechanisms.  These metabolic pathways include: anaerobic glycolysis, aerobic respiration (TCA cycle), oxidative phosphorylation, lipolysis (ketogenic), and gluconeogenesis,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One of the first identified biochemical hallmarks of tumor cells was a shift in glucose metabolism from aerobic oxidative phosphorylation to anaerobic glycolysis (the "Warburg effect" or "Warburg hypothesis").  Now, scientists have revealed that cancer cellular functions and growth are primarily dependent upon the anaerobic metabolism of glucose, fructose and lipid (lypolysis).  Aerobic respiration via the TCA-cycle and Oxidative phosphorylation is very complex and requires intact mitochondria.  Because of that complexity, mutated cancer cells can rarely depend on aerobic metabolism for energy.  Instead, they rely primarily on  the much simpler anaerobic glycolysis; using glucose and fructose as fuel. Otto Warburg, 1931 Nobel Laureate, was first to measure and explain the mechanisms behind the large amounts of lactic acid produced by cancer cells.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However, when glucose levels are low, cancer cells are in a pinch.  They can't do aerobic respiration, so lacking glucose, they instead turn to ketogenic lipolysis for energy.  But cancer cells have the complex machinery needed to transport lipids into the cell.  Instead, in a low glucose environment, they use their damaged oxidative phosphorylation pathway and other pathways to generate high levels of reactive oxygen species (ROS).  These ROS are then secreted into the cells microenvironment where they damage nearby cells.  In this way, cancer cells begin to parasitize nearby cells and literally eat their host alive.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;New studies suggest that cancer cells may not generate ROS themselves, but instead, reprogram neighboring stromal fibroblast cells to generate high amounts of ROS for them.  The ROS then damage neighboring cells resulting in lipid peroxidation,  and the production of lactate, and ketones which the cancer cells can use for energy. Through this mechanism, tumors do not need much of a blood supply.  Understanding how cancer cells metabolize energy, we can now develop new strategies to kill them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Together, the medicines, herbs, and vitamins listed above should do two things.  First, a low-fructose diet together with Metformin and DCA will serve to inhibit both gluconeogenesis and anerobic glycolysis and force cancer cells into lipolysis. While we want the force the cancer into a ketogenic state, a ketogenic diet and dehydration are discouraged because scientists believe that cancer cells may thrive on lactic acid and ketones.  That said, this first strategy should force the cancer cells to depend primarily on lipolysis for energy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Next, iron chelation is added to inhibit ROS formation.  Antioxidants like Vitamin C, E, Co-enzyme Q10, and Cumin are added to prevent remaining ROS oxidative damage to surrounding tissues.  Also, anti-inflammatory and immune modulating agents such as aspirin, cimetidine could be added to reduce inflammation and boost cellular and humeral immunity.  All together, cancer cells should not be left with any alternative energy alternatives.  Then, at that point, cancer cells would turn cannibalistic and should undergo autophagy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The hope is that a paradigm focused on metabolic manipulation, will be not only more effective at curing cancer, but will avoid the terrible side effects of traditional cytotoxic chemotherapy.  However, until this new paradigm is proven, it will most likely be necessary to test this new paradigm in between rounds of traditional cytotoxic chemotherapy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.physorg.com/news202553643.html&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7761825-1982627778971263559?l=brainbender.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brainbender.blogspot.com/feeds/1982627778971263559/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7761825&amp;postID=1982627778971263559' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7761825/posts/default/1982627778971263559'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7761825/posts/default/1982627778971263559'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brainbender.blogspot.com/2011/02/metabolic-manipulation-new-paradigm-and.html' title='Metabolic Manipulation: A New Cancer Treatment Paradigm'/><author><name>David B</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11266046963020498076</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d102/everyday_something/d1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7761825.post-5432434016052617834</id><published>2011-01-31T10:51:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-01-31T10:52:07.725-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Health and Medicine'/><title type='text'>Lipids and Heart Heath</title><content type='html'>I consider fasting monthly is a very healthy exercize.  I have noticed that I also have very oily skin at times.  The key to lowering triglycerides is reducing sucrose and fructose.  Fresh fruit is okay because the vitamins and fiber is worth it, whole grain starchy carbs is okay as starch is made from glucose and hopefully you get some more fiber. Otherwise I think eating 3 meals with 3 healthy snacks in-between to be key. Skipping meals and starving your body and then eating one large meal at the end of the day can be harmful long term.  I will try to explain.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The decrease in oily skin you experience is not so much a function of not eating anything, but not eating refined sugars (sucrose, high fructose syrup). The liver turns fructose  directly into triglycerides. Therefore, eating fructose is like eating fat. Fructose also inhibits insulin and leptin (full signal). Consequently, we see the correlation and association with high fructose diet and metabolic syndrome in the US (obesity, diabetes, coronary artery disease (CAD)).&lt;
