IMF Network Hit By Cyber Attack

Fox News

June 11, 2011

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) was Saturday investigating a recent cyber attack that hit its network, the latest in a series of high-profile hacking incidents against major corporations and institutions.

The fund declined to disclose the nature of the attack, whether its systems were infiltrated or whether any confidential information had been compromised. The extent of any infiltration remains unclear.

"We had an incident," said IMF spokesman David Hawley. "We're investigating it and the fund is completely functional." He said IMF staff received a "routine notification" about the incident by email Wednesday asking them to contact their tech department "if they saw anything suspicious."

The threat against the institution is the latest in a recent series as it responds to economic turmoil in several European nations. Earlier this month, the IMF said it had taken precautions after a group called Anonymous indicated its hackers would target the IMF website in response to the strict austerity measures in its rescue package for Greece.

The IMF has faced repeated cyber attacks in recent years. It routinely collects sensitive information about the financial conditions of its 187 member nations. Some data in its computer systems could conceivably be used to influence or trade currencies, bonds and other financial instruments in markets around the world.

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Foreclosuregate - Gerald Celente on Economics 101 'Americans need to hear this

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Soros Effect: The Market's Clear Rejection of Authority

Kitco.com

June 11, 2011

George Soros has broken central banks, built a billion dollar fortune, and awarded himself fans around the world who adore his no-nonsense speculative approach. While he was once a kingpin of the financial markets, he took a backseat years ago to step away from his Quantum fund, only to return to an audience that has long gone.

Ordinarily, a man of his influence would have the power to sculpt the financial markets as he saw fit. Empowered with billions of dollars, he could find an emerging trade, announce his stake, and allow the financial followers to make his vision a reality. This had been the case with many of his investments; they were necessarily part of the playground that is social proof.

But this time the markets are different – Soros doesn’t matter.

If it were the year 2000, Soros sale of his paper gold positions would have sent the market into a tailspin. Gold would have dropped precipitously as investors, in for the long haul, began to question whether or not he had a leg-up on their investment thesis. However, when Soros exited his gold position just weeks ago, no one listened.

Instead, gold is off only 2% in the wake of his exit. In culling back his exposure, the market dipped, only to find enough buyers and believers who are in it for the long haul. We questioned whether or not Soros had been playing the hand of the manipulators, who should value his influence in shaping market dynamics. He may have played their hand, but individual investors are calling his bluff.

The Biggest Bubble: Optimism

While it may be hard to find an optimist in a world filled with uncertainty, they do certainly exist all around us. In the mainstream press, politicians voice solutions to the United States’ debt woes with grand plans so great they will take a decade to conquer. Talking heads eat up the plans, as if they had already been executed.

But in government, there is no execution. There are only idealists. There are those who forecast changes in government so large that it should only be months before the American economy experiences a great rebound. These idealists are the only optimists left.

On the other hand, the realists—the pessimists to traditional thought—are the only traders willing to stake their bets in the future. They’re doing the executing as the idealists throw up grand plan after grand plan.

In the metals markets, it is he who puts his money where his mouth is that has real influence in the markets. Soros had no money where his mouth was—he had only paper bets in a fictitious market and the certainty that he could make a minor profit in a short-term bull run.

It should be come as no surprise that while the stock, bond, and currency markets may bow down to Soros’ wagers, metal investors aren’t so willing. The widespread rejection of Soros’ brand should be social proof to the rest of us that the metals markets dominated by Wall Street bankers are still financed by every day, average investors who are in metals to own metals, not to own more dollars and cents.

This is only the beginning of a revolution in modern finance—the individuals still call the shots.

Dr. Jeff Lewis

Elite at Bilderberg Confab: War is Solution for Over-population

Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com
June 10, 2011

Jim Tucker’s anonymous steering level Bilderberg inside source told him war in the Middle East is at the top of the elite’s agenda.


Speaking with Alex Jones today, the long time Bilderberg sleuth said the elite believe the world is over-populated and war represents a partial solution.
“They are unified on their war project,” said Tucker, citing his Trilateralist-Bilderberg source, “their rationalization the world is too crowded anyway, they have to limit the population growth, the one way to do it is with our wars. They have been emphasizing that all day.”
The elite are outraged at the presence of activists outside the gates of the exclusive resort where they are cloistered in St. Moritz, Switzerland, Tucker said.
Following a call by Alex Jones to protest the globalists, activists are beginning to arrive in the village for a demonstration to be held tomorrow, Saturday, June 11.

Beware of Newt Gingrich: His Party May be Republican, but His Loyalty is to the New World Order

SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS!!!
Mark Matheny
June 11, 2011

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich is running for the presidency in 2012 but has apparently run into some problems as several of his campaign staffers have resigned. Newt has assured the public that he won't be swayed from running however, saying "I am committed to running the substantive, solutions-oriented campaign I set out to run earlier this spring," and  "The campaign begins anew Sunday in Los Angeles."

Although many in the media are now saying Newt is now in danger of losing any prospect of being a contender in the next election, we should not underestimate him or those behind the scenes who may tap him as the next President to carry out their global agendas.

Newt claims he will run for President in 2012

There are some who think Newt is staying in the game to promote his own little mini-empire, and that he is using the limelight of campaigning also to promote documentaries that he and his wife have made.

"If he's running as provocateur in chief, this could actually help him," said Dan Schnur, a former Republican strategist who heads a political think tank at the University of Southern California.

In a recent email I recieved from a friend, he posed the question,

"Do you suppose that the folks at the Council on Foreign Relations, of which Gingrich is a member, suggested to him that they want Obama to stay another term, and he loyally complied?"

I certainly believe that this could be a possibility, as I am starting to feel more and more that the loyal puppet Obama, who has currently taken over the plan to destroy our economy and freedoms, is just what the "doctor ordered" to bring in global government.

Yet, with that said, I also believe that the elites are smart enough to keep an ace in the hole, so to speak, and set the deck so that regardless of who wins, there will be a puppet to continue the policies which are destroying our nation.

Many Americans see Newt Gingrich as a conservative Republican, and the mainstream news network Fox seems always happy to paint him with such Patriotic hues, however, before you make your decision to vote for him in 2012, you may want to consider his background in the area of his voting record.

In 1979, Newt was elected as a Republican congressman of Georgia. In The Review of the News, September 19, 1979 edition, Congressman Gingrich  recieved deficient marks from the conservative based index, partly because he voted for the creation of the Department of Education, and for designating 68 million acres of mineral-rich land in alaska as a federally-protected wilderness.

Of course there is no wording in the constitution for federal involvement in education. However, there is the call for public education or 'state-run' education in the Communist Manifesto By Karl Marx.

There was also another man by the name of  William Z. Foster, a former leader of  the communist party, who once published a book titled Toward Soviet America, where he called for a federally controlled department of education:

"Among the elementary measures the American Soviet government will adopt to further the cultural revolution are... [a] National Department of Education... The studies will be revolutionized, being cleansed of  religious, patriotic, and other features of the bourgeois ideology. The students will be taught on the basis of Marxian dialectical materialism, internationalism and the general ethics of the new Socialist Society."

In regards to federally-protected wildernesses, Gingrich is just calling for another global policy under the Agenda 21 program, which is a United Nations program. One of the policies in the book called Our Global Neighborhood refers to Land Use Control. This is also promoted In Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto where it calls for:

"Abolition of property and land, and application of all rents of land to public purposes."

In 1980, Congressman Gingrich supported the grant of most-favoured Nation status to China. Only 7 years earlier self admitted Globalist David Rockefeller said about China these chilling words:

"Whatever the price of the Chinese Revolution, it has obviously succeeded, not only in producing more efficient and dedicated administration, but also in fostering a high morale and cummunity propose. The social experiment in China under Chairman Mao ’s leadership is one of the most important and successful in human history."
-New York Times 1973

The reason these words are so chilling is because of the bloody history of Mao's rule.
According to an article in the Washington Post, Mao may have been responsible for as many as 80 million deaths:


  Washington Post (7/14/94):

While most scholars are reluctant to estimate a total number of “unnatural deaths” in China under Mao, evidence shows he was in some way responsible for at least 40 million deaths and perhaps 80 million or more. This includes deaths he was directly responsible for and deaths resulting from disastrous policies he refused to change.

One government document that has been internally circulated and seen by a former Communist Party official now at Princeton University says that 80 million died unnatural deaths – most of them in the famine following the Great Leap Forward. This figure comes from the Tigaisuo, or the System Reform Institute, which was led by Zhao Ziyang, the deposed Communist Party chief, in the 1980s to study how to reform Chinese society.

You can see why I would ask you to not to consider this man for President in 2012! Gingrich and Rockefeller both praise a bloody tyrannical regime, and both of them are selling our country out!

Here is a brief list of some of the other policies Newt has pushed in order to further enslave our country to globalism and poverty:

• Subsidized Trade to the Soviets
• The transfer of 2.2 million acres in Idaho - under the protected wilderness status
• Federally funded loan guarantees
• Tax payer funds available to foreign governments
• Amnesty for illegal immigrants
• Foreign Aid

Source:The Real Newt Gingrich- JBS.org

Gingrich is a globalist wrapped in the Red-White and Blue, and posing as a conservative evangelical Republican patriot! Do not fall for his smooth talk, and vain promises, nor be decieved by Fox News's praise of this RINO!!!

Dow, S&P end sixth losing week - is seventh on tap?

Yahoo News
June 10, 2011

NEW YORK (Reuters) – The Dow and S&P 500 closed out their sixth week of losses on Friday as further signs of a global economic slowdown set the stage for more losses ahead.

The deepening gloom raised the prospect for the S&P, which suffered its worst week since August 2010, to break below the year's low of 1,250 next week.

The Nasdaq wiped out its yearly gains on Friday and also posted its biggest weekly decline since August 2010, as the latest deterioration in sentiment came on fear of flagging Chinese growth and fresh worries about Greece's debt crisis.

The Dow closed below 12,000 for the first time since mid-March.

Reflecting the bearish sentiment, options traders eyed calls on the CBOE Volatility Index (.VIX), Wall Street's so-called fear gauge, which moves inversely to the S&P 500's performance. The VIX rose 6.1 percent to end at 18.86.

"We broke below the April low, which was about 1,295 (on the S&P 500) pretty much at the open today. We are probably going to test the March lows if data next week remain weak," said Stephen Massocca, managing director at Wedbush Morgan in San Francisco.

"But investors are very susceptible to any kind of news and since we are very oversold here, we could see the market instantly bounce back if we get anything remotely good."

The Dow Jones industrial average (.DJI) fell 172.45 points, or 1.42 percent, to 11,951.91. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index (.SPX) slid 18.02 points, or 1.40 percent, to 1,270.98. The Nasdaq Composite Index (.IXIC) tumbled 41.14 points, or 1.53 percent, to 2,643.73 at the close.

For the week, the Dow was down 1.6 percent, the S&P 500 was off 2.2 percent and the Nasdaq was down 3.3 percent.

The S&P 500 has fallen about 6.6 percent from its intraday peak early last month. Many see the benchmark index sliding back down to around 1,250, its March low, where valuations could bring investors back into equities.

At 1,250, the S&P 500 would be roughly 1.7 percent below current levels and approaching a 10 percent decline commonly referred to as a correction.

FINANCIALS DECLINE
Bank stocks, already under pressure, finished lower, with the KBW Banks Index (.BKX) dropping 0.4 percent after sliding more than 2 percent earlier in the day. The Federal Reserve said it will subject more banks to annual stress tests to determine whether they have enough capital and can raise their dividends.

Some of the biggest decliners were regional bank stocks that are now going to face annual tests.
Northern Trust Corp (NTRS.O) fell 1.2 percent to $46.77 and M&T Bank Corp (MTB.N) lost 1.2 percent to $84.41.

But large banks, including JPMorgan Chase (JPM.N) and Bank of America (BAC.N), rose in a late rebound, on a news report that the extra capital charge on big banks will likely be 2 percent to 2.5 percent, compared with the widely predicted 3 percent, traders said.

Bank of America shares rose 1.4 percent to $10.80 and JPMorgan added 0.2 percent to $41.05.
The S&P energy index (.GSPE) declined 1.9 percent while the S&P index of industrial stocks (.GSPI) lost 1.6 percent.

China's sales to the United States and the European Union slumped to their weakest since late 2009, excluding Lunar New Year holidays, underlining the view that the world economy is stumbling.
In another negative for stocks, the euro tumbled more than 1 percent against the U.S. dollar as fears about Greece's debt returned to the forefront and investors curbed expectations about the European Central Bank's interest-rate hikes. Investors have been recently trading the correlation between stocks and the dollar.

The PHLX semiconductor index (.SOX) slid 1.7 percent, sinking to its lowest since early December. The SOX fell below its 200-day moving average for the first time since last October.

About 7.47 billion shares traded on the New York Stock Exchange, NYSE Amex and Nasdaq, compared with the daily average of 7.59 billion.

Declining stocks beat advancing ones by 2,419 to 587 on the NYSE while on the Nasdaq, decliners beat advancers by 1,987 to 593.
(Reporting by Angela Moon; Editing by Jan Paschal)

Appeals Court Critically Questions ObamaCare, Individual Mandate

The New American

Written by Raven Clabough

Thursday, 09 June 2011 20:00

The 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals began hearing arguments yesterday for the next legal battle over ObamaCare. The court's three presiding judges are reviewing the previous decision of Florida Judge Roger Vinson, who found the entire 2,700-page healthcare legislation to be unconstitutional. The Blaze reported that the three judges not only critically questioned "the contents of the health care law" when they began the proceedings but that their questions collectively"seemed to indicate that they may be ready to declare all, or at least parts, of the law unconstitutional" — very much including the individual mandate requiring Americans to have healthcare coverage by 2014. "Perhaps most damning," The Blaze observed, "the judges explained that they could not recall one instance in history in which a court had agreed with the government forcing citizens to purchase a product or service." Chief Judge Joel Dubina of the 11th Circuit Court commented, “I can’t find any case like this. If we uphold this, are there any limits [on the federal government]?” In agreement with Judge Dubina, Judge Stanley Marcus asserted that there is no precedent that allows the government to “[tell] a private person they are compelled to purchase a product in the open market … Is there anything that suggest Congress can do this?” According to Fox News: Judge Frank Hull [a woman] later asked whether Congress could pass a similar law which could require Americans to buy certain types of cars or solar panels to comply with federal energy policy. Her question encapsulated the fear shared by many: that if the law is upheld it will open the door to unprecedented federal intervention in people’s lives. The judges seem to be articulating concerns already proposed by a number of critics of the healthcare law. Twenty-six states, along with the National Federation of Independent Businesses, have urged the judges to overturn the controversial law. The parties are represented by Bush-era Solicitor General Paul Clement. The appeals court is expected to rule on the case at the end of the summer, and the case is expected to move on to the Supreme Court. Judge Dubina acknowledged this when he observed, “I doubt this is the last time we’ll be arguing this case.” Appearing on Fox News’ Neil Cavuto show, Judge Andrew Napolitano explained: The core issue is simply this: Does the Constitution empower the Congress to force us to buy healthcare. Judge Vinson said "no." And then he said because this clause is unconstitutional, so is the rest of the bill … That is the case in which 26 states, state Attorneys General are the plaintiffs. Napolitano predicts that the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals will overturn Vinson’s ruling, thereby prompting the 26 states to appeal to the Supreme Court. He contends that the Supreme Court will hear the case in 2012, and believes if the high court decides before November that the healthcare law is in fact unconstitutional, President Obama may find himself in a difficult position on Election Day. When asked how the decision of judges and perhaps Justices may be influenced by news reports that companies plan to drop healthcare coverage if ObamaCare remains, Napolitano responded: I can tell you, having been a life-tenured judge, that you really are isolated and insulated from the political ramifications of what you’re doing, and that’s the way that law was written — the law that describes what judges do — so that you rule just on the law.... You are not supposed to look at things that are not in evidence before you. Read the entire article