Movie or terror drill? Choppers a mystery over downtown Miami

By LIDIA DINKOVA

ldinkova@MiamiHerald.com

April 20, 2011

If this was a movie, it could be called Sleepless in Brickell.


Several large military-style helicopters were seen and heard conducting what appeared to be a training drill in downtown Miami Tuesday night and early Wednesday morning.


"A lot of times if they are flying at night is because they are filming a movie in different angles," Miami Fire Rescue spokesman Lt. Ignatius "Iggy" Carroll said about 6:30 a.m. Wednesday.



As far as the Miami Fire department is concerned, the reason for the helicopters remains a mystery.
Miami police officers in Brickell said on Tuesday that it was all part of a planned Homeland Security exercise, but confusion about the helicopters was rampant Wednesday. A shift commander at Miami police said about 6:15 a.m. that she had overheard talk in the station about a movie that would be filmed in the area.
Shift commanders at Miami-Dade police and the U.S. Coast Guard were not allowed to comment.


About 9:15 p.m. Tuesday, at least three large choppers landed in a parking lot of the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts on Biscayne Boulevard and 14th Street.


The choppers, which resembled Black Hawks, then took off flying over the Brickell and Miami river area. Men who appeared to be SWAT team members were also seen taking part in the exercise.
Witnesses were tweeting as the event unfolded.


"Three choppers just dropped a group of men on top of the Bank of America building in Brickell," tweeted a man identified as Ianik Drouin, about 9:45 p.m.
Droudin shared the photo on display.


"I just saw one of the #brickellchoppers turn so quickly, it had to go sideways," tweeted Sarah Elles about midnight.


Diana Pedroni also had trouble sleeping.
"Oh not again! #brickellchoppers flying on top of my building," tweeted Pedroni about midnight.
About 1 a.m., Eddie Prieto was surprised to find out he may have to endure more of it for the rest of the month.


"Five more niths? Boo! RT @Brickellinfo #DoD will be conducting drills through April 25th," tweeted Prieto about 1 a.m.


As of 7:20 a.m., public information officers had not issued an official statement about the helicopters.
Miami Herald Staff Laura Figueroa contributed to this report.

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Casino Economics and Tax Myths

MyBudget360.com
April 20, 2011

As tax day passes us by, many in the public are realizing that the extremely wealthy especially in the financial industry know something they don’t.  What they are finding is that the financial industry has access to massive government bailouts and in many cases does not pay their fair share of taxes.  Like Atlas holding the world up some are carrying a heavier burden and it doesn’t appear to be the financial sector.

 Reports out from the secretive Federal Reserve show for example a $220 million loan to the wives of Wall Street executives merely for speculative purposes.  A win-win gift from our central bank as a thank you for leading the nation into this economic ditch.  Do you have access to cheap and plentiful loans?  There is also this absurd notion that people don’t pay taxes and much of the ire has been on the poor.  When you hear this in the media, they mean federal income tax.  People need to take account of their lives and figure that they pay for Social Security tax, Medicare tax, sales tax, property tax, and automotive registration fees so this idea that average Americans don’t pay tax is a complete misnomer.  In fact, it seems like the extremely wealthy in this country have designed a tax system that has shifted the burden to the majority.

 The media narrative revolves around the fact that you should shoulder the brunt of the economic problems caused by the financial industry while bailouts and handouts increase the bottom line at the top.  The income inequality in our nation has never been so high.
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Middle Class Consumption Patterns Being Reduced to Implement Globalist Agenda 21 Plan/New World Order

SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS!!!
Mark Matheny
April 20, 2011

 Wynn Resorts CEO Steve Wynn appeared on Fox Business April 19, 2011 explaining why the government's fiscal policies are hurting the economy. What he didn't say was the fact that these government policies are really policies of the U.N. (backed by globalists like Maurice Strong and others) which mean to destroy the economies of industrialized nations in an effort to force carbon taxes, and global governance.

Maurice Strong - former Un Secretary General once stated in West Magazine:

“Each year the World Economic Forum convenes in Davos, Switzerland. Hundreds of CEO’s, prime ministers, finance ministers, and leading academics gather each February to attend meetings and set the economic agendas for the year ahead.

“What if a small group of these world leaders were to conclude that the principle risk to the earth comes from the actions of the rich countries? And if the world is to survive, those rich countries would have to sign an agreement reducing their impact on the environment? Will they do it? Will the rich countries agree to reduce their impact on the environment? Will they agree to save the earth?

“The group’s conclusions is ‘no.’ The rich countries won’t do it. They won’t change. So, in order to save the planet, the group decides: Isn’t the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilization collapse? Isn’t it our responsibility to bring that about?”

He also spearheaded the Earth Summit, once complaining that "the United States is clearly the greatest risk to the world's ecological health," and wrote in an UNCED report in August 1991 that:

"It is clear that current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle-class...involving high meat intake, consumption of large amounts of frozen and convenience foods, ownership of motor vehicles, small electric appliances, home and work place air-conditioning, and suburban housing are not sustainable... A shift is necessary toward lifestyles less geared to environmental damaging consumption patterns."

It appears that the wars in the middle east, and the latest announcement of S&P's warning that it may downgrade the U.S. credit rating are fear tactics and measures to insure that our puppet regime (known as congress and the president) raise the debt ceiling once again and continue the plunge of our economy into the abyss, and put us into the hands of global governance.

Budget Cuts are Meaningless Without Fed Transparency

Ron Paul
Infowars.com
April 19, 2011



Congress focused on issues surrounding government spending this week as talk of deficits, the national debt, and the debt limit saturated the airwaves. This is a positive development. In years past, there was very little concern over how much was spent here in Washington, how it was spent, or how much of our gross domestic product was being consumed by government. That blissful ignorance naturally resulted in decades of government spending with impunity, bringing us to where we are today: trillions in debt with astronomical entitlement obligations that will be impossible to fulfill in the not too distant future. So it is a good thing that there is so much political pressure now on our leaders to actually put the brakes on runaway spending.

However, even the most generous estimate of the spending cut passed this week – $38.5 billion – is a paltry 3.5% of the $1.05 trillion in spending through the next 5 months. This hardly makes a dent in our government’s mountain of debt. Even worse than that, the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) stripped away the accounting sleights of hand and scored it as only $352 million in cuts, which works out to less than half of one percent of spending. Still, the tiniest cut is better than the massive increases we have become accustomed to in federal budgets.

Of course, our disastrous wars in Afghanistan and Iraq are not even included in this budget as they are considered emergency spending. They constitute $3.3 billion in spending in the same period of time, so they more than cancel out any small cuts the warmongers may crow about.
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U.S. Credit Rating on "Negative Watch" By S&P - Debt Ceiling to be Raised.

WE'RE HIT!!! TELEVISION
http://werehit.blogspot.com
April 19, 2011

The U.S. Credit Rating has been put on "Negative Watch" by the S&P, while the President and congress plot to raise the ever-increasing debt ceiling.

Bretton Woods II — The Final Enslavement of Mankind

Sartre
Infowars.com
April 18, 2011
“The rising powers must be present at the creation of this new system in order to ensure that they will be active supporters.” – George Soros



Charges of a conspiracy theory are a convenient pretext to dismiss criticism when the global financial elites meet to shape the next evolution of centralized control of all economic activity. When Mayer Amschel Rothschild admitted, “Give me the power of the money and it will not matter anymore who is commanding”, he exposed the true nature of international finance. The new front man for the shadow masters of money is George Soros. His visibility is used to deflect attention away from the supra national circle of recluse manipulators, who set the agenda for globalism. The history of world politics is really the chronicle of money, debt and banking. Only by understanding this clash of titans, can one interpret the language of worldwide finance.
It is not often that you get to look into the window of the future before it takes place. The obsession with the political posturing of the torturous grinding process that produces a kosher sausage product causes acute indigestion. Banking is one such example and the INET, The Institute for New Economic Thinking, who sponsored the Bretton Woods II conference is the Neshama gourmet version of ground up animal flesh. Funneling the herd into the corral of a new world currency openly discussed, as the panacea for the coming collapse of international finance, is the height of totalitarian arrogance.
Soros, in The Alchemy of Finance wrote, “To put it bluntly, I fancied myself as some kind of god or an economic reformer like Keynes…. As I made my way in the world, reality came close enough to my fantasy to allow me to admit my secret, at least to myself.”
Some of the attendees and speakers at the INET conference included:

• Gordon Brown, former U.K. Prime Minister.
• Paul Volcker, former Fed Chairman and chairman of President Obama’s Economic Advisory Board.
• Economist Jeffrey Sachs, director of The Earth Institute.
• Joseph E. Stiglitz, former senior vice president and chief economist for the World Bank and Nobel Prize winner in Economics.
• INET Executive Director Rob Johnson, former managing director at Soros Fund Management.

Columbia professor Jeffrey Sachs, who sits on the board of INET is known for his ‘Shock Therapy’. Aaron Klein reports in WND. “Sachs is, a special adviser to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, is founder and co-president of the Soros-funded Millennium Promise Alliance. He has been a World Bank consultant who formerly directed Harvard’s Institute for International Development, which he turned into a major conduit advocating for World Bank and International Monetary Funds use for structural adjustment programs in the Third World and beyond”.
Mr. Klein then cites from the Investor’s Business Daily.

“A Millennium goal called for a “currency transfer tax,” a “tax on the rental value of land and natural resources,” a “royalty on worldwide fossil energy projection — oil, natural gas, coal,” “fees for the commercial use of the oceans, fees for airplane use of the skies, fees for use of the electromagnetic spectrum, fees on foreign exchange transactions, and a tax on the carbon content of fuels.”

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Lou Dobbs: Elites Are Setting up a One World Order

Alex Jones
Infowars
April 16, 2011