TED : The Wisdom of Design

Check out this video on the Wisdom of Design and the 'canary in the mine'. I will post the link on the left.

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/104

Robert Kiyosaki's Predictions for 2008

Kiyosaki 2008 EconomicPredictions

1. http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=8CQ5gJNxsdk&feature=related

(10 mins)

Highlights: Rental real estate is where the money is. Oil going up. Dollar down. However, US viewed as a bargain. Canadians and Asians going in to buy and the market corrects. Housing is going crazy in OTHER countries driving up commodity prices. Value going down but replacemnt costs going up. So, hold. Property flippers will take a bath in this market. Replacement costs going up. So, if good cash flow is there you will do well.

2. http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=EgSrFkbCw6U&feature=related

(9 mins)

Highlights: Rentals will be hot. Rens going up, house prices going down. Buy and hold with good cash flow rentals. People have to have a house. Fundamentals are strong in that sense. Decline of the dollar causing problems but buying real estate still good. Lots of supply in some areas and dropping demand. These areas will come out of the slump but there will be bargains in the meantime.

3. http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=4wTmiAPfUEk&feature=related

(6 mins)

Highlights: Australia is booming. Canadians and Australians heading to the USA for the bargains.

4. http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=FOKn7tiUMyc

(26 mins)

Highlights: Interesting discussion of money, gold, and silver...says savers and spenders (middle class) will be wiped out in the coming market. Those without cashflow will see major crash. His Mantra 'cash is trash' and will be able to buy a home for 8k in silver! Cash will get you very little. Smart money is in apartment blocks and rentals.


Consider buying some SILVER! :)
http://www.silversnowball.com/303

Oil Crisis or Non Crisis

Here is another viewpoint on the 'Oil Crisis' from an insider that has seen and heard things in board rooms that we will likely never see access to.

'Peak Oil' is a phenomenon that is driving the war machines of the world. We have to have something to fight about, right?

Watch all 8 of these YouTube videos for an alternative perspective on what may just be another manufactured 'problem, reaction, solution' scenario.

Lindsey Williams - The Energy Non-Crisis - Part 1 of 8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbakN7SLdbk

E-gold Wins a Round

Press Release

Source: e-gold Ltd

e-gold Wins Appeal in D.C. Circuit for Hearing on Asset Seizure
Sunday April 20, 8:38 pm ET

MELBOURNE, Fla., April 20 /PRNewswire/ -- e-gold Ltd is pleased to announce a favorable ruling from The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in the matter of whether it, Gold & Silver Reserve, Inc., and Directors of both corporations are entitled to a hearing in the Federal district court regarding whether there was sufficient probable cause to justify seizures of assets from the corporations in December 2005 and April 2007.

The higher court concluded, "In short, we hold that where the government has obtained a seizure warrant depriving defendants of assets pending a trial upon the merits, the constitutional right to due process of law entitles defendants to an opportunity to be heard at least where access to the assets is necessary for an effective exercise of the Sixth Amendment right to counsel."

Read MORE....CLICK HERE

Join the Movement and Protect Your Health Freedoms

New link on the blog.

http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/

There are 250,000 on their mailing list sending out to 10s of millions of people.

Get involved!

What is going on in the US is happening worldwide in one degree or another.

Do your part or it won't be a pretty situation. There is two year window on this.

Especially educate yourself on Codex Alimentaris and don't let it happen.

SubPrime Fraud?

"GOOD INVESTIGATION" worth the Read...

The $200 billion bail-out for predator banks and Spitzer charges are intimately linked

By Greg Palast
March 14th, 2008

While New York Governor Eliot Spitzer was paying an 'escort' $4,300 in a hotel room in Washington,

just down the road, George Bush's new Federal Reserve Board Chairman, Ben Bernanke, was secretly

handing over $200 billion in a tryst with mortgage bank industry speculators.

Both acts were wanton, wicked and lewd.

But there's a BIG difference.

The Governor was using his own checkbook.

Bush's man Bernanke was using ours.

This week, Bernanke's Fed, for the first time in its history, loaned a selected coterie of banks one-fifth of a trillion dollars to guarantee these banks' mortgage-backed junk bonds. The deluge of public loot was an eye-popping windfall to the very banking predators who have brought two million families to the brink of foreclosure.

Up until Wednesday, there was one single, lonely politician who stood in the way of this creepy little assignation at the bankers' bordello: Eliot Spitzer.

Who are they kidding? Spitzer's lynching and the bankers' enriching are intimately tied.

How? Follow the money.

The press has swallowed Wall Street's line that millions of US families are about to lose their homes because they bought homes they

couldn't afford or took loans too big for their wallets. Ba-LON-ey. That's blaming the victim.

Here's what happened. Since the Bush regime came to power, a new species of loan became the norm, the 'sub-prime' mortgage and its variants

including loans with teeny "introductory" interest rates. From out of nowhere, a company called 'Countrywide' became America's top mortgage

lender, accounting for one in five home loans, a large chunk of these 'sub-prime.'

Here's how it worked: The Grinning Family, with US average household income, gets a $200,000 mortgage at 4% for two years. Their $955 monthly payment is 25% of their income. No problem. Their banker promises them a new mortgage, again at the cheap rate, in two years. But in two years, the promise ain't worth a can of spam and the Grinnings are told to scram - because their house is now worth less than the mortgage. Now, the mortgage hits 9% or $1,609 plus fees to recover the "discount" they had for two years. Suddenly, payments equal 42% to 50% of pre-tax income. The Grinnings move into their Toyota.

Now, what kind of American is 'sub-prime.' Guess. No peeking. Here's a hint: 73% of HIGH INCOME Black and Hispanic borrowers were given sub-prime loans versus 17% of similar-income Whites. Dark-skinned borrowers aren't stupid – they had no choice. They were 'steered' as it's called in the mortgage sharking business.

'Steering,' sub-prime loans with usurious kickers, fake inducements to over-borrow, called 'fraudulent conveyance' or 'predatory lending' under US law, were almost completely forbidden in the olden days (Clinton Administration and earlier) by federal regulators and state laws as nothing more than fancy loan-sharking.

But when the Bush regime took over, Countrywide and its banking brethren were told to party hearty – it was OK now to steer'm, fake'm, charge'm and take'm.

But there was this annoying party-pooper. The Attorney General of New York, Eliot Spitzer, who sued these guys to a fare-thee-well. Or tried to.

Instead of regulating the banks that had run amok, Bush's regulators went on the warpath against Spitzer and states attempting to stop predatory practices. Making an unprecedented use of the legal power of "federal pre-emption," Bush-bots ordered the states to NOT enforce their consumer protection laws.

Indeed, the feds actually filed a lawsuit to block Spitzer's investigation of ugly racial mortgage steering. Bush's banking buddies were especially steamed that Spitzer hammered bank practices across the nation using New York State laws.

Spitzer not only took on Countrywide, he took on their predatory enablers in the investment banking community. Behind Countrywide was the Mother Shark, its funder and now owner, Bank of America. Others joined the sharkfest: Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch and Citigroup's Citibank made mortgage usury their major profit centers. They did this through a bit of financial legerdemain called "securitization."

What that means is that they took a bunch of junk mortgages, like the Grinning's, loans about to go down the toilet and re-packaged them into "tranches" of bonds which were stamped "AAA" - top grade - by bond rating agencies. These gold-painted turds were sold as sparkling safe investments to US school district pension funds and town governments in Finland (really).

When the housing bubble burst and the paint flaked off, investors were left with the poop and the bankers were left with bonuses. Countrywide's top man, Angelo Mozilo, will 'earn' a $77 million buy-out bonus this year on top of the $656 million - over half a billion dollars – he pulled in from 1998 through 2007.

But there were rumblings that the party would soon be over. Angry regulators, burned investors and the weight of millions of homes about to be boarded up were causing the sharks to sink. Countrywide's stock was down 50%, and Citigroup was off 38%, not pleasing to the Gulf sheiks who now control its biggest share blocks.

Then, on Wednesday of this week, the unthinkable happened. Carlyle Capital went bankrupt. Who? That's Carlyle as in Carlyle Group.

James Baker, Senior Counsel. Notable partners, former and past: George Bush, the Bin Laden family and more dictators, potentates, pirates

and presidents than you can count.

The Fed had to act. Bernanke opened the vault and dumped $200 billion on the poor little suffering bankers. They got the public treasure – and got to keep the Grinning's house.

There was no 'quid' of a foreclosure moratorium for the 'pro quo' of public bailout. Not one family was saved – but not one banker was left behind.

Every mortgage sharking operation shot up in value. Mozilo's Countrywide stock rose 17% in one day. The Citi sheiks saw their company's stock rise $10 billion in an afternoon.

And that very same day the bail-out was decided – what a coinkydink! – the man called, 'The Sheriff of Wall Street' was cuffed. Spitzer was silenced.

Do I believe the banks called Justice and said, "Take him down today!" Naw, that's not how the system works. But the big players knew that unless Spitzer was taken out, he would create enough ruckus to spoil the party. Headlines in the financial press – one was "Wall Street Declares War on Spitzer" - made clear to Bush's enforcers at Justice who their number one target should be. And it wasn't Bin Laden.

It was the night of February 13 when Spitzer made the bone-headed choice to order take-out in his Washington Hotel room.

He had just finished signing these words for the Washington Post about predatory loans:

"Not only did the Bush administration do nothing to protect consumers, it embarked on an aggressive and unprecedented

campaign to prevent states from protecting their residents from the very problems to which the federal government was turning a blind eye."

Bush, Spitzer said right in the headline, was the "Predator Lenders' Partner in Crime." The President, said Spitzer, was a fugitive from justice.

And Spitzer was in Washington to launch a campaign to take on the Bush regime and the biggest financial powers on the planet.

Spitzer wrote, "When history tells the story of the subprime lending crisis and recounts its devastating effects on the lives of so many

innocent homeowners the Bush administration will not be judged favorably."

But now, the Administration can rest assured that this love story – of Bush and his bankers - will not be told by history at all – now that the

Sheriff of Wall Street has fallen on his own gun.

A note on "Prosecutorial Indiscretion."

Back in the day when I was an investigator of racketeers for government, the federal prosecutor I was assisting was deciding whether to

launch a case based on his negotiations for airtime with 60 Minutes. I'm not allowed to tell you the prosecutor's name, but I want to mention

he was recently seen shouting, "Florida is Rudi country! Florida is Rudi country!"

Not all crimes lead to federal bust or even public exposure. It's up to something called "prosecutorial discretion."

Funny thing, this 'discretion.' For example, Senator David Vitter, Republican of Louisiana, paid Washington DC prostitutes to put him in diapers (ewww!),

yet the Senator was not exposed by the US prosecutors busting the pimp-ring that pampered him.

Naming and shaming and ruining Spitzer – rarely done in these cases - was made at the 'discretion' of Bush's Justice Department.

Or maybe we should say, 'indiscretion.'

************
Greg Palast, former investigator of financial fraud, is the author of the New York Times bestsellers

[1] Armed Madhouse and [2] The Best Democracy Money Can Buy.

Monsanto Exposed

Monsanto Exposed

Here is a documentary worth looking at. It is not for the faint of heart. But, it will show you what Monsanto is up to as you ingest your evening meal.

Click HERE or place the following link in your browser:

http://video. google.com/ videoplay? docid=-842180934 463681887& q=the+world+ according+ to+monsanto& total=5&start= 0&num=10& so=0&type= search&plindex= 0

DX Synergy Updates

After a long period of silence, DXSynergy have today put out 2 news items. You can join in the conversations on these articles here:

http://www.4allaccounts.com/dxsynergy-news-updates-and-support-messages/40936-news-article-201-a.html

and

http://www.4allaccounts.com/dxsynergy-news-updates-and-support-messages/40937-news-article-202-a.html

To keep in the loop on DX matters I suggest you register in the above forum and you will receive news on DX Synergy as it unfolds.

David Bennett is no longer educating people on DX as he could not keep up with the changes!

DX is still worth watching especially if you have money in there.

Winston Shrout

I don't know much about Winston Shrout and have not attended his seminars. But, after talking to someone who has studied him in detail I felt this had to be added to the blog links as a resource.

If you are interested in upcoming seminars on 'commerce' and what this means in your life click on the link below:

http://www.winstonshroutsolutionsincommerce.com/

I have put a link in the left menu under Beyond the Matrix, formerly Natural Person Theory.

The reason I changed the category title is that Winston goes beyond the idea of a natural person to such an extent that the term would no longer be appropriate.

What I learned is that the term 'natural person' idea is kind of misnomer.

Since a 'person' is a legal fiction created for the world of commerce how can you be a 'natural artifical creation'? Interesting thought.

When you were born did your mother say "Wow, I just made a 'person'?"

Your mother sees you as baby, daughter, son. Becoming is a 'person' is a function of participating in commerce. Interesting!

Expect Winston to stretch your thinking even if you don't buy their whole view on life and how to function in society.

You will at least be fascinated about how our society and its conventions is largely based on rules of commerce and much less on law.