2011, Aug 21                            SUMMARY  OF Mother's Call - Aug 18^th, 2011

 

Angelsu:          Opening prayers

 

Rainbird:         Mayan Calendar

• we are starting the 5^th day today

• we started this harmonic module on Christmas Day, ending it on Sept 25^th

• Saturday is an extra powerful day

 

D'yanna: Background on her relationship with T & R

• What is expected of us right now: reading from Prophet Micah- to live in peace with each other

 

Hard News:

R: happy new year – beginning of the year 2014

            • 2004, Aug 8 – first wave of ascension

            • 2008 was second year

            • 2011 and we began 2013 and ended the Mayan calendar

            • We are now a new race

• We are expecting and watching miracles occur; deeply grateful to be here and have needs and obligations met

• Ref to Illumination of Light / Patti Cota Robles - the miracles are occurring at deepest levels

 

• Intense times: the market fell, moved up again

• We have entered in to Night 5 of Galactic Underworld = adjustment; night of destruction

Shiva , the great destroyer, is here: we find our emptiness so our  receptacles can be filled

 

R: at Cyber cafe where the firemen and policemen hang out and discuss 9/11 and listen to the alternative news

• Valerie Plame came with a friend of Gary Johnson, called Fareek Neem; he used to work at Los Alamos and knows about the diff kinds of technology and what is played with; results are wonky due increasing frequencies  of the sun, and of sun behind the sun:  Helios and Vesta

• Valerie: there are 400 indictments at World Court; have to do with nailing the 13 family members

• Fareek: Hillary has said that super heavy sanctions have been put on Syria and, on the other hand,      she is sending out a Black Ops to kill Assaud -

T: Hillary has always been Assaud's handler yet she is doing the opposite

when things are getting wonky like this, focus on origin of violet flame which is the great central sun which goes to Helios and Vesta which goes to our sun SOL which goes to the sun disc at kuscos [there are 14  solar discs , and 12 on the earth's chakra points] – like we have 14 chakra points

 

R: we are witnessing final part of this cycle – Kali Yuga: Murdoch is stepping down; Khaddafy is supposed to be seriously ill; Mubarak is not doing well – these are all attempts to cover up Hillary's work against all of these folks

T: These are attempts to take out their own puppets

R: King Faud's grandson said this is coming to a conclusion: will be the next 18 days

•  Calleman speaks of manufactured debt crisis created by Repubs; they don't know how to ask for love and are acting out so we will pay attention

T: Valerie said about 1M people being deported from US; has to do with members of Congress, not BO; tied in with Homeland Security folks – continuation of their ethnic cleansing which went on during Hurricane Katrina

R Thom Hartman: speculating on Obama's bus tour and our friends showing up, and maybe a shuttle craft landing somewhere for a chat; we have already won this story, need to take it to its conclusion

• Valerie Plame told him the ones who outed her have no more time to dance the freedom dance

• what they have done is usurp the people of earth:400 people on the planet have more than all the rest in the world; ST G has cleaned out Wall Street

Clarification of his meaning: St. G has all their money, and they are playing with phantom money – they have not received their tax rebates from last year

T: Supposedly they ran off with $16T supposedly – why is Hugo Chavez demanding to nationalize all their gold –                                                                                                                                     [SEE BELOW]

Thom Hartman was saying those who have invested in gold –

• NO GOLD  in Fort Knox since 1976;  it took years to create the false gold bars;

• meanwhile, St G has been collecting their gold because he said he'd be back and do that, something  he said as Sir Francis Bacon [there was a William Shakespeare Secret Society; he wrote the plays to show what needs to be changed]

• Bauer is the original name of the Rothschilds and ST G gave them information to be used for benefit of everyone.  Not what happened  – they don't want people to understand the secret of what they learned 400 years ago. It's divine alchemy,  the principle of 7 – they already knew how to make real diamonds so would never have to mine again but they mined anyway.

• Gold was not indigenous to this planet, came from Venus along with bees and honey with Merc and the lady of the sun

• Rick Perry is the lobbyist, a plutocrat, who said social security and medicare is unconstitutional;

plutocracy: government by wealthy or a class that by means of its wealth controls the gov't

 

R: he is being told as we go through the 5^th night it may seem there is major destruction going on, and there is also major construction with the appearance of those from stars who are here to see things done; what we have wanted completed for so long

 

MR: the guest is not going to be here – OPEN MIKE TIME

 

T: from Journal News out of Berlin

(1) In Madrid, capital of Spain,  angry protests of young Catholics from around the world

there is a 4 day event for Catholic youth which culminates today with a visit from the Pope

critics are upset about the cost of the lavish events

• gathering has become an arena of discontent with the church

•  Wed it became violent, thanks to the police; demonstrators shouted that they were unarmed

• Demonstrators furious that world youth day was being held in Spain at a time of huge austerity – • Many of the signs said: “God, yes; church, no” 

• Point of protest: (1) to say No to this lavish event and (2) to have church and state separated!

The police mishandled the protests and the protestors  were upset with this

(2) Syria's leader has called a halt to military ops against the protestors – but no immediate sign that the crackdown has ceased.

R: on CNN,  that Obama told Syrian leader to step down now; US has put serious sanctions on Syria

Assaud got the message that US is after him; if Hillary were president, he'd would be dead by now!

T: (3) Turks bombed the Kurdish guerrillas targets; Kurds were attacked in retaliation for an attack on the ambush on Turkish army convoy

• Another Black Ops attempt against “Al Queda” or a group with a different name; “Al Queda” was made up as a computer program!

 

T: Information from Thom's program: going back to 1819 – Chief Justice John Marshall, cousin of Thomas Jefferson, the guy who arguably initiated the Judiciary Review in a case called Dartmouth vs Woodworth. Justice Marshal said a corporation is an artificial being, a mere creature of the law – 1886, Southern Pacific Railroad SPR vs southern Clara County – SPR was one of 7 which came before the Supreme Court in a 3 year period

Discussion about 14^th amendment - ratified to free the slaves and more

 

Mother:  Greetings, Children of Ra

• We put aside our discontent with the way things are and see things that are changing

• Very soon – immediately – the energies are changing

• the story of the little white dog who walked off the cliff with the fool – we are the fool!

• The man in the big black bus [BO] is doing all he can to get the story out

• It's a fantastic story of incredible love that is unfolding from all of us on the planet,

more than enough air, food, money

• it's about the small number of life forms who have chosen to leave; love them on the way out;

their leaving is occurring by their own  hand with each passing second

 • I AM THATI AM in this moment, and i am saying along with my twin flame that it is time

 

T: ref to program, Ed Schultz spoke about the Wellstone Award

• brings back murder of Paul Wellstone & all of the issues go so far back

• like, 65million years ago, when a so-called asteroid hit the planet, but it was a landing party

 

M: today they take themselves out with their own hand: Murdoch and son, fox news, issues that have nothing to do with the real issues like the tidings of great joy that have to do with story between god and god-man

• As we talk with our higher self, we are called to active duty; we are being moved into place as the energies increase in terms of Sol, Helios and Vesta, and Alcyone,

• Ref to  the story about 3 days of darkness – goes back to Aug 11, 1999  - this did not happen, because the sun went into the photon belt first [not Earth] so it led the way with light and there was no more darkness. Had that not been the case, we would have been frozen out of existence!

 

• The greatest of changes are occurring now, as we walk off the cliff with the dog; we will just do it because we know how, and  it all has to do with the energies moving us into place, as we get our gifts and abilities

• ascension symptoms getting more intense as we are moving up in octaves, each particle which moves up, our temple moves up an  octave

• we are expected to go with the flow, yet we have to move at the same pace as the body can stand – yet all moves are in synchronization with the cycle

• we are the creator gods and the foremost issue on our minds is: why are these things going on that are going on ? It is called RACE and we have to get past it

• This is the only thing between us and you – we are showing up whether you like it or not.

• We are putting this on the table as the one issue that has to be cleared : race

 

T: Before race was the division between men and women, the lack of participation of the feminine in the governing of cultures, the planet

M: to this day, women are in 2^nd place in the workplace

T women of colour suffered the most

M: this is about how we come back into balance with the goddess

• As the Admiral [Sanat Kumara] calls you the little lamb: the lion is already lying down with the lamb

Mother addresses the so-called officials who hear these airwaves:

• We come in peace – this is the biggest story about the Second Coming of the Admiral. It will be front page news; we are this close.

• The Sirian commander is in discussion about the fact that we are here

 

MR: What kind of markers can you give us that we will know when there will be full disclosure to encourage us and keep us up?

M:” tidings of great joy” that have to do with the fact that we are in the 5^th night of the underworld

• This has to do with how we come out the other side, blazing as the rainbow bridge that never went away,

• The rainbow bridge is always there, but sometimes when the light is cast in other dimensions, and you saw a great canyon; as you walk out on the rainbow bridge you can walk all the way to Assgard -

• How close we are in this moment, in the destruction phase of the underworld of the  5^th night,

The Office of the Christ is bubbling up to be served up as the food of the gods

• It is that which is unlike the energy out of its time and space continuum called evil – we removed it

• Watch what occurs with your sun and what happens with Rush, Hannity, and Bill O'Reilly – all of the issues which have to do with the psycho babble, the talking points of the right wing which they want to be  the revelation story of fire and brimstone; they cannot stop what is happening,but only embrace it

•  These are great tidings – no dates, but watch what happens in the 18 days of the calendar

•  Calleman says we can fix this story; it's inside this crystal  skull

 

Cathy: Story of an event 2 nights ago at 2 am, with the note that she and Marietta Robert are not sleeping well at all

• At 2 am, she got off her computer and the phone is ringing; she sees it's MR

• She picks up the phone, there was no answer; this happened twice

• she called MR who picked up the phone and said “What do you want, I'm sleeping”

• Angelsu has experienced the same thing

M: as the energies increase, you are tapping into the inner net – we've all got this running through us like the giant crystal in Giza plateau. We have the same silica and as we move into the silicon crystalline base, we can communicate instantaneously

 

MR: she's had different experiences, too - not alarming, just mystifying

M: just about hooking into the inner net – always communicating like we are now; if we happen to knock at 3 am on your consciousness, don't be alarmed!

Cathy: surprised that it would involve phones

M: “we can easily affect living matter”

 

Cathy: asks about herself, MR and past life times

M: you two have been priestesses as long as we have ears to remember vespers being sung

• we have witnessed you 2 going through different brotherhoods, sisterhoods, about waking consciousness up, becoming conscious about who and what we are

• You have been doing this together as you were in the landing parties that began the seeding process years ago

 

D'yanna: she has been awakened between 2:30 – 4:30 to take the dog out for a walk. When it is a clear night, there is a star ship directly overhead , the biggest thing she has every seen – it twinkles and makes colours. Last night, she asked “Are you really a star ship, if you are, I would like to see some confirmation.” Am I seeing Lord Maitraya's star?

M: YES

• What is it doing here?

M: It represents one of the craft which is part of the circle of 12 mother ships – they are huge – you are seeing them from a distance, yet they are beyond our solar system! Were we to come in, we would affect the gravitational system of your solar system.

•  Are they like a planet?

M: Lord M's ships is 4000 miles in diameter!  It's not Venus – it's closer !

 

Ross: about international hearing on 9/11 in Toronto? Will we see major arrests at the time?

M: arrests have already begun,

• More and more stories coming out – about first responders that were there and now are not being honored by being invited to the 10^th anniversary                                                             [SEE BELOW]

•  Shows the criminality of Mr Bloomberg

T: there are 5 men that control the media

M: 5 male life forms; no, they are not human; they chose to walk in wearing a black hat

• Mike P of Ring of Fire, sitting in for Ed Schultz asking:  why are the first responders of 2001 not being invited back on this 9/11?

• 9/11 is an issue that is off topic by our media concerning the fact that 70, + people – Mike P got close to saying 50+  were murdered

T: Reading: article by Ray McGovern                                                                                    [SEE BELOW]

She lists many of those involved in setting up 9/11, and that Vatican ordered it: Biden is in the middle

M: Valerie Plame asking why am I still fair game in this city of holy faith: because Karl Rove is still here 9/11   Yes, we must deal with issue of accountability and 9/11

T: Elenin is coming in; will be at its closest and most impactful point on morning of 9/11

M: Elenin, Honda - here to take our children home –

• “In loving presence, please forgive me, I love you, I am sorry that I forgot that I love you”. We will speak for our children as they think they can speak with their money and their corporations

 

Rainbird: Calling re an update on www.2013 - 100s of UFOs showing up over California tonight

M: will only increase in magnitude; we are showing to say we are here to be with you to complete this story

• the frequencies in ourselves will increase; as we see the craft, it will bring great joy to our countenances

• Our friends on lunatic fringe on the right are still playing with their ideas

• Let us love them as they leave; they want to meet Ashtar and Sananda, but not in love  - want to do it in mid air: they are pushing for confrontation, they will meet us but their technologies of death will not work

 

MR:so many reference to when the next president is elected; inference that Obama will not be here

T/M: that is about the dark side, they want to remove him as he represent the changes of walking through the keyhole of 2012 and this is the key factor to this very day

• These 18 days of destruction / construction are part of the change

 

T: Ref to Hugo Chavez asking for return of Venezualan gold from Bank of England / Bank of Morgue

Thom Hartman  saying all of them turning their gold back into cash as gold is so high

• They are getting all the money they can, lieu of not getting the dinar revalued - another way to get cash when they are broke

M: gotta go through the doorway to speak to pay master beloved ascended master St. G - They are avoiding that day to the point of taking themselves out.

Mother recommends website www.movetoamend.org

• Moving to where we see LM Nada taking justice in hand and take it to Tribunal

• These people are gods and can create, uncreate universes; they have the level of the consciousness of a sun. When you have this level of consciousness, you'd better have a father's love. What have we

 witnessed over last 65M years??

• We are the clean up crew!

• About Chavez:

M: they would not like to see a situation in Venezuela like in Libya [Khaddafi made Libya independent of the world banking system]

T: Chavez nationalized the gold supply in Venezuela; also demanded that Bank of England return 211 tonnes of Venezuela’s gold currently held abroad in vaults of JP Morgan, Barclays, Bank of Nova Scotia

 • Comax gold market about to be busted and in full default - that's why the bankers are changing gold into cash!

• If Chavez carries through with this threat, watch for him to be treated like Gaddafi

T: Did they give Chavez cancer?

M: It comes from his diet and he has to change his diet.

• even the dolphins are going vegan now and not eating the fish – time to have respect for all life

• Hugo has to bear in mind that this has to do with how we complete this story so everyone gets a fair shake in restoration reformation and every country in the world

 

Mother's final words:

• At the beginning of the 5^th night, we are at the conclusion of all that we have been witnessing since we have been “in form”

• all we have been experiencing in this present time cycle is coming to a rapid conclusion

• Things are very wonky in terms of frequencies  - Be about your father's business

 

• This is not about an ending of anything;  it's one cycle in time and space, we are moving into Sat Yuga; Gaia Vywamaus already there;  we are getting there in our physicality as we integrate the wisdom at an exponential rate as we increase our capacity to learn and access that which is within us

• Nothing is ever new – we have not discovered  it yet, or forgotten it we are waking up to sanity and the man has it under control send him the violet flame and also ourselves.

• The ones who represent our children are way beyond the place where they have any place to negotiate and they are on their way out, and they want to take us with them and they cannot.

 

• We got into this mess by believing things about ourselves that are not true – time for the guru is over; we are all the teachers and the masters asked to show up now to get things done now

• We are witnessing the most frequency change now: all the planets in our solar system are changing too;  each planet has a different tone, they follow the Solfeggio scales

• as you listen to the various tones of the planets, it has to do with the harmony of the spheres and the answer to how we get things done

 

Mother leaves.

 

Rama returns: he was sitting with Sanat Kumara in a place which reminded him of the golden throne that Elrond was sitting on in Rivendell during the Council of the Ring

•  Sanat Kumara was sitting there with documents in his hands, looked like stuff from the International Court; Rama got the feeling that could be sealed indictments from the World Court

T: based on fact that the Fitzgerald trials have gone on since 2003, and the Franklin trial – he may wll have seen those 400 sealed indictments

 

Cathy:             Closing

2011, Aug 18               Chavez to Nationalize Venezuelan Gold Industry

ñ Posted by Ram Arjuna on August 18, 2011 at 10:27am

 

  

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/08/17-2 

  

Published on Wednesday, August 17, 2011 by Reuters

by Louise Egan

 

CARACAS -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on Wednesday he will nationalize the gold industry, including extraction and processing, and use its output to boost the country's international reserves.

Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez, left, and Maria Emma Mejia, secretary-general of South America's UNASUR organization, walk during a meeting at Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas, Venezuela, Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2011. Chavez said he's improving after undergoing a second round of chemotherapy in Cuba to treat his cancer, and boasts that he has never felt healthier. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos) The move follows a dispute between his government and foreign miners who say the rules limiting the amount of gold that can be exported from the South American nation hurt their efforts to secure financing and create jobs.

Toronto-listed Rusoro, owned by Russia's Agapov family, is the only large gold miner operating in Venezuela. It produced 100,000 ounces last year.

The gold industry will be just the latest part of the economy to be put under state control by the socialist leader, who said he would issue the necessary decree in the coming days and called on the military to help control the sector.

"I have here the laws allowing the state to exploit gold and all related activities ... we are going to nationalize the gold and we are going to convert it, among other things, into international reserves because gold continues to increase in value," Chavez said in a phone call to state television.

The announcement came a day after an opposition legislator revealed a report showing the government's top finance officials were recommending the repatriation of 90 percent of Venezuela's gold reserves held abroad.

The government has not commented on the report, which the opposition legislator said Chavez had yet to approve.

"We've managed to increase the international reserves. We have close to 12 or 13 billion dollars in gold reserves. We can't allow it to continue to be taken away," the president said, referring to reserves held in banks overseas.

According to the report revealed by the opposition legislator, Venezuela has total international reserves of $29.1 billion. About 63 percent of that is in gold worth $11 billion held overseas and $7 billion at home, according to the report.

Venezuela has some of Latin America's largest gold deposits, buried below the jungles south of the Orinoco river. According to official figures, formal mining in the country produces 4.3 tons a year.

Chavez agreed last year to let gold miners export up to 50 percent of production, from 30 percent previously. The other 50 percent must be sold to the central bank.

But that did not satisfy foreign companies like Rusoro, which said the limits made it much harder for them to secure financing abroad, develop projects and create local jobs.

One victim of the dispute has been a huge but long-troubled project called Las Cristinas. It has been in limbo since the government canceled a development license with another Canadian miner, Crystallex, in February.

Rusoro had expressed interest in Las Cristinas, which has not been developed since the 1980s but has reserves estimated at 17 million ounces. Locals once found a 1-kilo (2.2-lb) nugget there.

But the company's chief executive told Reuters in an interview in June that it could not take on the project unless the government scrapped its export rules.

Sources at Rusoro said the company planned to make a statement on Wednesday's developments in the coming days.

 

2011, Aug 18               First responders excluded from 9/11 ceremony

ñ Posted by Ram Arjuna on August 18, 2011 at 8:30am

 

  

Photo from http://www.groundzeromuseum.com 

They were the first on the scene and now they’re the last ones on the guest list – and that’s if they even get invited. First responders that risked their lives are being told there is no room for them at next month's 9/11 ceremony.

Around 3,000 first responders that were among the earliest to report to New York City's Twin Towers on September 11, 2001 are being excluded from the tenth anniversary ceremony next month due to space constraints. "We're working to find ways to recognize and honor first responders, and other groups, at different places and times," a representative for New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg tells CNN.

Both President Barack Obama and former President George W Bush are expected to attend next month’s ceremony that will honor those that lost their lives during the attacks. First responders, many suffering grave injuries from the catastrophe a decade later, are wondering why no invites were issued their way, however.

"I'm absolutely disgusted,” retired NYPD cop Anthony Flammina tells Fox News. He says that it would be easy to make space for the first responders but instead says that officials are showing “a total disrespect.”

"The best of the best that this country offered 10 years ago are being neglected and denied their rightful place," harps John Feal to CNN. Feal was a first responder himself and has since founded an advocacy group for those that risked their lives that September morning.

Some first responders say the decision to exclude them from the ceremony is only adding insult to injury as they continue to fight for coverage for illnesses obtained during September 11. Last month the National Institute for Occupation Safety and Health decided that first responders suffering from cancer would not be covered under federal aid for 9/11 victims, citing “insufficient evidence” linking the terror attacks to diseases.

At that time, James Zadroga of the 9/11 Health and Compensation Act responded that he was confident that studies “will ultimately provide the scientific evidence” to link the influx in cancer with first responders on the scene at the World Trade Center.

2011, Aug 17               Did Tenet Hide Key 9/11 Info? By Ray McGovern

ñ Posted by Ram Arjuna on August 18, 2011 at 10:24am

  

August 17, 2011 "Information Clearing House" 

 

With few exceptions, like some salacious rumor about the Kennedy family, the mainstream U.S. news media has shown little interest in stories that throw light on history — even recent, very relevant history. So it comes as no surprise that, when a former White House counter-terrorism czar accuses an ex-CIA director of sitting on information that could have prevented a 9/11 attack, the story gets neither ink nor air.

Bulletin for those of you who get your information only from the New York Times, the Washington Post and other outlets of the Fawning Corporate Media (FCM): Former White House director for counter terrorism Richard Clarke has accused former CIA Director George Tenet of denying him and others access to intelligence that could have thwarted the attack on the Pentagon on 9/11.

Deliberately withholding critical intelligence from those who need it, and can act on it, is — at the least — gross dereliction of duty. The more so if keeping the White House promptly and fully informed is at the top of your job jar, as it was for Director of Central Intelligence Tenet. And yet that is precisely the charge Clarke has leveled at the former DCI.

In an interview aired on Aug. 11 on a local PBS affiliate in Colorado, Clarke charges that Tenet and two other senior CIA officials, Cofer Black and Richard Blee, deliberately withheld information about two of the hijackers of American Airlines Flight 77 — al-Hazmi and al-Mihdhar. The two had entered the United States more than a year before the 9/11 attacks.

Clarke adds that the CIA then covered it all up by keeping relevant information away from Congress and the 9/11 Commission.

Lying by senior officials is bad enough, and there is now plenty of evidence that former CIA Director George Tenet and his closest agency associates are serial offenders. Think for a minute about the falsehoods spread regarding Iraq’s non-existent “weapons of mass destruction” stockpiles.

But withholding intelligence on two of the 9/11 hijackers would have been particularly unconscionable — the epitome of malfeasance, not just misfeasance. That’s why Richard Clarke’s conclusion that he should have received information from CIA about al-Hazmi and al-Mihdhar, “unless somebody intervened to stop the normal automatic distribution” amounts, in my view, to a criminal charge, given the eventual role of the two in the hijacking on 9/11 of AA-77, the plane that struck the Pentagon.

Tenet has denied that the information on the two hijackers was “intentionally withheld” from Clarke, and he has enlisted the other two former CIA operatives, Cofer Black (more recently a senior official of Blackwater) and Richard Blee (an even more shadowy figure), to concur in saying, Not us; we didn’t withhold.

Whom to believe? To me, it’s a no-brainer. One would have to have been born yesterday to regard the “George is right” testimony from Black and Blee as corroborative.

Tenet’s Dubious Credibility

Tenet is the same fellow who provided the “slam dunk” on the existence of “weapons of mass destruction” in Iraq, as well as the “artist renderings” of equally non-existent mobile laboratories for developing biological warfare agents, based on unconfirmed information from the impostor code-named  (appropriately) “Curveball.”

It was Tenet who, under orders from President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney, ordered up and disseminated a fraudulent National Intelligence Estimate on WMD in Iraq, the purpose of which was to deceive our elected representatives out of their constitutional prerogative to authorize war. No small lies.

After a five-year investigation by the Senate Intelligence Committee, Chairman Jay Rockefeller described the intelligence adduced under Tenet to “justify” attacking Iraq as “uncorroborated, contradicted, and non-existent.” Good enough to win Tenet the Presidential Medal of Freedom, though. The corruption of intelligence worked just fine for the purposes of Bush and Cheney, thank you very much.

It is a actually a matter of record that Tenet lies a lot — on occasion, displaying what I would call chutzpah on steroids. Recall, for example, Tenet in April 2007 snarling at Scott Pelley on “60 Minutes” — five times, in five consecutive sentences — “We do not torture people.”

Even Under Oath

Tenet has lied about 9/11, too. The joint statement from Tenet, Black and Blee – orchestrated by former CIA spokesman Bill Harlow – concludes: “We testified under oath about what we did, what we knew and what we didn’t know. We stand by that testimony.”

Almost made me laugh … almost.

In his sworn testimony to the 9/11 Commission on April 14, 2004, Tenet said he had not spoken to Bush — even on the telephone — during the entire month of August 2001.

But Tenet did fly down to see the President in Crawford — not once, but twice during August 2001, and briefed Bush again in Washington on the 31st.

After the TV cameras at the 9/11 Commission hearing were shut off, Bill Harlow phoned the commission staff to say, Oops, sorry, Tenet misspoke. Even then, Harlow admitted only to Tenet’s Aug. 17 visit to Crawford (and to the briefing on the 31st).

How do we know Tenet was again in Crawford, on Aug. 24? From a White House press release quoting President Bush to that effect — information somehow completely missed by our vigilant Fawning Corporate Media.

Funny, too, how Tenet could have forgotten his first visit to Crawford on Aug. 17. In his memoir, At the Center of the Storm, Tenet waxes eloquent about the “president graciously driving me around the spread in his pickup and me trying to make small talk about the flora and the fauna.” But the visit was not limited to small talk.

In his book Tenet writes: “A few weeks after the August 6 PDB was delivered, I followed it to Crawford to make sure the president stayed current on events.” The Aug. 6, 2001, President’s Daily Brief contained the article “Bin Laden Determined to Strike in the US.” According to Ron Suskind’s The One-Percent Doctrine, the president reacted by telling the CIA briefer, “All right, you’ve covered your ass now.”

If, as Tenet says in his memoir, it was the Aug. 6, 2001, PDB that prompted his visit on Aug. 17, what might have brought him back on Aug. 24? I believe the answer can be found in court documents released at the trial of Zacarias Moussaoui, the fledgling pilot in Minnesota interested in learning to steer a plane but indifferent as to how to land it.

Those documents show that on Aug. 23, 2001, Tenet was given an alarming briefing focusing on Moussaoui, titled “Islamic Extremist Learns to Fly.” Tenet was told that Moussaoui was training to fly a 747 and, among other suspicion-arousing data, had paid for the training in cash.

It is an open question — if a key one — whether Tenet told Bush about the two hijackers, al-Hazmi and al-Mihdhar, while keeping that key information from the person who most needed it — White House counter-terrorist czar Richard Clarke. Clarke finds the only plausible explanation in his surmise that Tenet was personally responsible. Clarke says:

“For me to this day, it is inexplicable, when I had every other detail about everything related to terrorism, that the director didn’t tell me, that the director of the counterterrorism center didn’t tell me, that the other 48 people inside CIA that knew about it never mentioned it to me or anyone in my staff in a period of over 12 months.”

Enter Harlow

But Tenet’s aide-de-camp Bill Harlow has branded Clarke’s statements “absurd and patently false.” And the statement Harlow shepherded for Tenet, Black and Blee adds “reckless and profoundly wrong … baseless … belied by the record … unworthy of serious consideration.”

And Harlow never lies? Right. I’m reminded of Harlow’s reaction to Newsweek’s publication on Feb. 24, 2003, of the intelligence information provided by Saddam Hussein’s son-in-law, Hussein Kamel when he defected to Jordan in 1995. Kamel brought with him a treasure trove of documents and unique knowledge of Iraq’s putative “weapons of mass destruction.”

Most significantly, he told his U.S. debriefers there were no WMD in Iraq. He knew. He had been in charge of Iraq’s chemical, biological, nuclear and missile programs for almost a decade, and he ordered what weapons existed destroyed before the U.N. inspectors could discover them after the war in 1991. In his words:

“I ordered the destruction of all chemical weapons. All weapons — biological, chemical, missile, nuclear were destroyed.”

He told the U.S. much more, and the information that could be checked out was confirmed. But Kamel’s information didn’t fit with the Bush administration’s propaganda regarding its certainty that Iraq did have WMD stockpiles and was defying United Nations demands that the WMD be destroyed.

Those pushing the Iraq War juggernaut in early 2003 almost had a conniption when Newsweek acquired a transcript of Kamel’s debriefing and published this potentially explosive story barely three weeks before the invasion.

Newsweek noted gingerly that this information “raises questions about whether the WMD stockpiles attributed to Iraq still exist.” It was, in fact, the kind of impeccably sourced documentary evidence after which intelligence analysts and lawyers lust.

But this was not at all what Bush, Cheney, and — by sycophantic extension — Tenet wanted Newsweek readers, or the rest of us, to learn less than a month before the U.S./U.K. attack on Iraq ostensibly to find and destroy those non-existent weapons.

Bill Harlow to the rescue:  he told the FCM in no uncertain terms that the Newsweek story was, “incorrect, bogus, wrong, untrue.” And the media cheerleaders for war breathed a sigh of relief, saying, Gosh, thanks for telling us, and then dropped the story like a hot potato.

By all indications, Harlow is still able to work his fraudulent magic on the FCM, which have virtually ignored this major Clarke v. Tenet story since it broke six days ago.

If Harlow says it’s not true … and hurls still more pejorative epithets and adjectives, in a crude attempt to discredit the very serious charge Clarke has made … well, I guess we’ll have to leave it there, as the FCM is so fond of saying.

No matter Clarke’s well-deserved reputation for honesty and professionalism — and Tenet’s for the opposite. And so it goes.

Ray McGovern works with Tell the Word, a publishing arm of the ecumenical Church of the Saviour in inner-city Washington. As a CIA analyst, he served under seven presidents and nine CIA directors; he is co-founder of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS).

A version of this column was first published at Consortiumnews.com

2011, Aug 18             Hugo Chavez Demands 99 Tons of Venezuelan Gold Returned From                                     the Bank of England/ JP Morgue

ñ Posted by Ram Arjuna on August 18, 2011 at 9:40am

 

 

We just reported that Hugo Chavez has nationalized the entire Venezuelan gold industry this afternoon.

Well, Hugo didn't stop there, as latest headlines flashing indicate that Chavez has requested that the Bank of England return 99 Tons of Venezuelan gold held on deposit, and a total of 211 Tons of gold held abroad (WSJ).

For those with any knowledge of the cartel, you know where this is heading.

For those who don't....the Bank of England currently stores 211 tons of Venezuela's gold in the vaults of (per Bloomberg) JP Morgan, Barclays, and the Bank of Nova Scotia.

A last check of physical gold inventory in The Morgue's vault showed a whopping 338,303 total ounces of gold...roughly 10.6 tons.

In an absolute shocker to all who follow gold and silver here, are we about to see the COMEX GOLD market busted/default before COMEX SILVER?????

Look for gold to VAULT past $1800 in the access/ Asian markets tonight when this news spreads.

If Chavez carries through with this ultimatum, look for Venezuela to receive the Gaddafi/ Libyan treatment within the week.

Got Phyzz?

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2011, Aug 21                SUMMARY OF FRIDAY NIGHT HARD NEWS, AUGUST 19^th 

 

Opening, Meditation: Angelsu

 

Rainbird: Rama has his new drivers license!  He received $300.03 + enough to put a little gas in!

• Still need food and gas; we can help by eating and gassing up for them when we do it for ourselves.

• They still need $ for food, gas, paying other bills as well as the BBS bill.

• Call Marietta Robert as you can help and as you don't have a computer

• Cynthia says it is not impossible, just highly possible!

 

• his friend Betty Rubble was foreclosed on;  known for taking pictures of the ships right over Santa Fe on her blackberry and selling them on the street corners for money

• She gets to get a house via people in Habitat from Humanity

• Jimmy Carter heard about her, and talked to her – she got an e-mail from them on her phone

            Jimmy Carter saw a craft and wants the world to know, but was ridiculed at the time

            He is the brother of JFK Senior, not talked about; has to do with the bloodlines

 

Hard News:

• KOS and KOE told R that we're in the window of 18 days of Night 5 of Galactic Underworld and the   destruction of what has to go – the lunatic fringe on the right has their freak on

• Rick Perry a distraction, but he is being put in the limelight with the stories bringing up the ancient   feuds that go back to the Orion War which brings up other issues

• Our friends are already here - the Madi, Lord Maitreya , doing the walking and the talkin ; the others are broke, shitting bricks, St. G has their money - won't be touching Hugo Chavez' gold – don't mess with the naqual on that side of the equator – has to do with the energy of the naqual which is unpredictable -

 

• Mr Obama is in Martha's Vineyard and doing all the walkin  & talkin in spite of all the false stories having nothing to do with reality:  dirty tricks that go as far as wanting to pull off Armageddon with the story of revelations -including a fake jesus coming to beam everyone up

• There is truth  on both sides of the story: goal is to find the silver lining – they want to do the great destruction, but the real thing is that they've been trying to keep the knowledge of the galactics from us

• The elitist, the wealthy & powerful were worshipped as false gods – had money, power, everything  but love which cannot be faked; this divine quality is what gets us through

 

• The ones that were here before the gods were here, Creator Source – we are the ones with the Creator Source who helped to co-create the story of this universe

• The screaming in his head is that these folks are about Race – the people who came from so many cultures have an ability to aid our evolvement to divine Creator Source like the miracles we have heard about of the masters and avatars who sit before the throne of the father 

• when you get to the level of Sanat Kumara, Ancient Eternal and Supreme of Days and understand, you know who has contributed what - at that level – it's happening!

• KOE saying this is the time; they are broke, St. G has their money

• They are playing a fake game – they did have $10B to get the ball rolling for themselves;

            they are very dangerous at this last moment. They have nothing except the ancient technologies from Pine Gap and Area 51 which are non-functional as Ashtar and Sananda are already here

• No turning back

 

Reading:          Ben Fulford -  August 15                                                                                [SEE BELOW]

• when Ben talks about removing funding for Israel, he usually means the Khazarian faction, the Asian factions and the dark ones of that faction: Khazarian - Zionist - Bolsheviks

• Both KOS and KOE told Rama: the Sirian Commander has things well in hand, and those who have

            taken us to the edge of Armageddon have nothing but the fear card are taking themselves out with their own hand

•  Ben is talking of, as we go through the 18 days, the destruction period – everything that is unlike what the Sat Yuga is, is being deconstructed & these guys know it – St. G has all their money

 

• The people are rising up; they can only play so long now

• Ed Schultz played on the radio the part of the tape where Perry said if Bernanake went to Texas, things would get very ugly very fast – Ed said that's a direct threat; Perry has also made threats against Obama

• They don't want Obama to do anything to help the people

 

• This is also why no one wanted Aristide because his energy is pure

Biggest sentence in the whole report: Obama and his pentagon backers are hoping to preside over a forgiveness of US debt and a new financial system: REF TO NESARA - pentagon friends are white knight generals, as are some flag officers

• Work that whistle blowers are doing to wake up both sides is welcome right now

• Conflict within cabal: some want to keep stock market going; others no

 

• Re: printing presses – only one left for printing money; it is Washington – no more in other parts of     the world

• T here may well be invasion of Turkish invasion of Syria [KOE says NO] – has to do with warlords in    the roles in the UN. We are going from a UN based in the 13 families to a world congress based on love, truth, wisdom, peace, freedom and justice; this comes from the inter galactic justice league – help for Nada!

• It's about the indigo crystal children  + the prophets showing

 

• Help to Israel is being slowly withdrawn – a slow weaning from US money, help - in spite of Hillary –  this is confirmed

• Air strikes in Palestine yesterday; killed six and nine – rockets have ended up killing people in a tourist town and people get confused and are blaming Hamas – but not so; those pulling this off are playing both ends against the middle – this is pre-meditated.

• results “may be thousands of arrests of prominent financiers:” they have learned that those 400 indictments have resulted in arrests and people are going to the Hague as we speak

• a CIA official promised to put the financiers in the already prepared FEMA camps

 

• Ref to Japanese underground; shows how much is being orchestrated! Obama was ordained to do this

• KOE said Putin is not happy with those wanting to put Assad out – he is saying don't do this

• Must be Hillary that is force feeding the whole thing: Assad is mouthing what he is told by Hillary

 

• Why did KOE tell you that?  What he should be saying is that no one wants the west to have any power anywhere anymore because they have misused it everywhere. But Assad has to go, and so does the west 

• Rama has to keep taking it to the impossible which is the possible: galactic disclosure

 

• Putin was warned not to disconnect with Syria – in the bigger story, there is a delicate balance with   Israel - without saying it, we are seeing the gnashing of teeth to the max!  Galactic disclosure would bring love and balance in a good way – presence would increase the love

• Ref to Khadafi and his African financial system with its own currency, independent of BIS cartel

• What Khadafi is doing is great – Notice who is doing the bombing: England, France, Italy who can't afford to buy Libyan oil now. They also have exploitative neo-colonial interests in Africa

 

• International Criminal Court is criminal; UN is criminal, even in World Court there are judges who are twisted – only thing that is OK is Lady Master Nada and who she has helping her

[Maddow in her orange suit – Debunktion Junction – privatized prison system -WATCH ON MSNBC]

 

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Conference Call - 570-310-0170, 232323#

 

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Back to BBS

 

Song:          Light one candle – Cat Stevens

 

Reading:       Is the SEC covering up Wall Street Crimes?                                   [SEE BELOW]

 

Reading:          Did Tenet Hide Key 9/11 Info? By Ray McGovern                                         [SEE BELOW]

 

Reading:         Hugo Chavez to nationalize gold industry in Venezuela                                 [SEE BELOW]

 

Reading:         Charlie Reece's final column                                                                           [SEE BELOW]

 

Reading:       Evidence of ancient supercontinent found                                                     [SEE BELOW]

2011, Aug 15 Ben Fulford

War/turmoil expected to increase in Fall before old world order collapses

 

The financial cyber-warfare witnessed in US stock markets following S&P’s downgrading of US debt was clear proof deep division remain at the very top of the global financial system. One side was trying to bankrupt Bank of America and cause the market to tank, while the other wanted to keep their stock Wall Street cash cow pumped up with fake money in order to draw more suckers with real money into the market. The result was a bloody draw. It is now certain there will be increasing global turbulence heading into the autumn as this secret war intensifies.

The first new dramatic event in the fall may well be a Turkish invasion of Syria, according to both Japanese Middle-Eastern experts and Turkish media reports. The fall of the Syrian government would remove a major Iranian ally from Israel’s borders but does not mean a pro-Israeli regime would replace it.

The other possible autumn surprise still remains a nuclear terrorist attack within Europe or the US. This would amount to nothing more than blackmail by the old world order thugs as they try to avoid bankruptcy and the loss of power by any means possible. Reports of such a planned attack appearing in both “alternative” and propaganda media outlets are a clear sign of this.

The situation in Israel is also expected to continue to destabilize as the US corporate government hurtles towards bankruptcy. Without US financial aid, Israel would not be able to maintain anything close to the living standards and defense budget it now has. The mass demonstrations by poor Israelis may well be a sign the aid cut-off has already been started by the Obama regime. Obama and his pentagon backers have already overseen a purge of Jewish Whitehouse staff, notably in the economics team, which is bad news for aid dependent Israel.

Obama and his pentagon backers are hoping to preside over a forgiveness of US debt and a new financial system. However, the controllers of the old financial system are doing everything in their power to prevent this from happening. The result may well be thousands of arrests of prominent financiers by a soon to be announced US military government. “We will put them in the Fema camps they prepared for ordinary Americans,” one CIA official promised.

Confirmation of this possibility came from both senior Rothschild and Japanese underground sources who say North Korea has promised shelter for over 1 million refugees expected to be fleeing the US but only if they promise to help reunify Korea on terms that are favorable to the North.

Former Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi has also been hiding in North Korea for the past month to avoid a hit contract rumored to have been taken out on him.

However, this contract may have been rescinded recently. The Japanese yakuza underground, including the Yamaguchi Gumi, the Inagawa Kai and the Sumiyoshi Kai have all united into a single group and are under orders from their top bosses to lay low and take no action. The political right wing activists who want radical action “are poor and have very little influence,” a senior gang source said.

The Japanese underground sources have also confirmed that Columbia University Professor Gerald Curtis is now the senior CIA officer in Japan. Curtis would be wise to contact the White Dragon Society for an exchange of opinions.

The gang source also told this writer he had independently heard of the split in the ranks of the formerly unified cartel that presides over the printing of US dollars. He said Rockefeller and his oil company allies had offered a job in the dollar cartel to a Hong Kong Chinese. If this is true, it would indicate that side of the syndicate no longer has any major allies in either Taiwan or the mainland.

The source, who presides over a large network in Russia, also said that close to 200 Western oil company allies in Russia “vanished,” before the oil majors gave up and abandoned Russia to Putin and his allies. This was a major blow to the former Western oil cartel.

Another Japanese underground figure, meanwhile said he dealt directly with the Israelis who were arming Libya’s Khadafi. He confirmed, as did a Japanese cabinet source, that Khadafi was being attacked because he set up an African financial system independent of the BIS cartel. African countries were now able to buy oil from Libya using this new gold back currency but England, France and Italy could no longer afford to. These countries are also attacking Libya because their exploitative neo-colonial interests in Africa are being harmed by this currency. The Japanese government source said negotiations were now under way to split Libya in half and leave Khadafi in power amongst his own fellow tribesmen.

In Japan, meanwhile, negotiations are taking place to set up a grand coalition government consisting of the Komeito, Liberal Democratic and Democratic parties. This government would be able to have a large influence on the US political situation by declaring which faction has the rights to use Japan’s vast US Treasury holdings. Right now, the bias is towards Obama and his pentagon allies.

Overall, the deadlock will continue into autumn.

2011, Aug 17   Is the SEC Covering Up Wall Street Crimes?

A whistle-blower claims that over the past two decades, the agency has destroyed records of thousands of investigations, whitewashing the files of some of the nation's worst financial criminals.

 

By Matt Taibbi

August 17, 2011 8:00 AM ET

 

Imagine a world in which a man who is repeatedly investigated for a string of serious crimes, but never prosecuted, has his slate wiped clean every time the cops fail to make a case. No more Lifetime channel specials where the murderer is unveiled after police stumble upon past intrigues in some old file – "Hey, chief, didja know this guy had two wives die falling down the stairs?" No more burglary sprees cracked when some sharp cop sees the same name pop up in one too many witness statements. This is a different world, one far friendlier to lawbreakers, where even the suspicion of wrongdoing gets wiped from the record.

That, it now appears, is exactly how the Securities and Exchange Commission has been treating the Wall Street criminals who cratered the global economy a few years back. For the past two decades, according to a whistle-blower at the SEC who recently came forward to Congress, the agency has been systematically destroying records of its preliminary investigations once they are closed. By whitewashing the files of some of the nation's worst financial criminals, the SEC has kept an entire generation of federal investigators in the dark about past inquiries into insider trading, fraud and market manipulation against companies like Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank and AIG. With a few strokes of the keyboard, the evidence gathered during thousands of investigations – "18,000 ... including Madoff," as one high-ranking SEC official put it during a panicked meeting about the destruction – has apparently disappeared forever into the wormhole of history.

Under a deal the SEC worked out with the National Archives and Records Administration, all of the agency's records – "including case files relating to preliminary investigations" – are supposed to be maintained for at least 25 years. But the SEC, using history-altering practices that for once actually deserve the overused and usually hysterical term "Orwellian," devised an elaborate and possibly illegal system under which staffers were directed to dispose of the documents from any preliminary inquiry that did not receive approval from senior staff to become a full-blown, formal investigation. Amazingly, the wholesale destruction of the cases – known as MUIs, or "Matters Under Inquiry" – was not something done on the sly, in secret. The enforcement division of the SEC even spelled out the procedure in writing, on the commission's internal website. "After you have closed a MUI that has not become an investigation," the site advised staffers, "you should dispose of any documents obtained in connection with the MUI."

Many of the destroyed files involved companies and individuals who would later play prominent roles in the economic meltdown of 2008. Two MUIs involving con artist Bernie Madoff vanished. So did a 2002 inquiry into financial fraud at Lehman Brothers, as well as a 2005 case of insider trading at the same soon-to-be-bankrupt bank. A 2009 preliminary investigation of insider trading by Goldman Sachs was deleted, along with records for at least three cases involving the infamous hedge fund SAC Capital.

The widespread destruction of records was brought to the attention of Congress in July, when an SEC attorney named Darcy Flynn decided to blow the whistle. According to Flynn, who was responsible for helping to manage the commission's records, the SEC has been destroying records of preliminary investigations since at least 1993. After he alerted NARA to the problem, Flynn reports, senior staff at the SEC scrambled to hide the commission's improprieties.

As a federally protected whistle-blower, Flynn is not permitted to speak to the press. But in evidence he presented to the SEC's inspector general and three congressional committees earlier this summer, the 13-year veteran of the agency paints a startling picture of a federal police force that has effectively been conquered by the financial criminals it is charged with investigating. In at least one case, according to Flynn, investigators at the SEC found their desire to bring a case against an influential bank thwarted by senior officials in the enforcement division – whose director turned around and accepted a lucrative job from the very same bank they had been prevented from investigating. In another case, the agency farmed out its inquiry to a private law firm – one hired by the company under investigation. The outside firm, unsurprisingly, concluded that no further investigation of its client was necessary. To complete the bureaucratic laundering process, Flynn says, the SEC dropped the case and destroyed the files.

Much has been made in recent months of the government's glaring failure to police Wall Street; to date, federal and state prosecutors have yet to put a single senior Wall Street executive behind bars for any of the many well-documented crimes related to the financial crisis. Indeed, Flynn's accusations dovetail with a recent series of damaging critiques of the SEC made by reporters, watchdog groups and members of Congress, all of which seem to indicate that top federal regulators spend more time lunching, schmoozing and job-interviewing with Wall Street crooks than they do catching them. As one former SEC staffer describes it, the agency is now filled with so many Wall Street hotshots from oft-investigated banks that it has been "infected with the Goldman mindset from within."

The destruction of records by the SEC, as outlined by Flynn, is something far more than an administrative accident or bureaucratic fuck-up. It's a symptom of the agency's terminal brain damage. Somewhere along the line, those at the SEC responsible for policing America's banks fell and hit their head on a big pile of Wall Street's money – a blow from which the agency has never recovered. "From what I've seen, it looks as if the SEC might have sanctioned some level of case-related document destruction," says Sen. Chuck Grassley, the ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, whose staff has interviewed Flynn. "It doesn't make sense that an agency responsible for investigations would want to get rid of potential evidence. If these charges are true, the agency needs to explain why it destroyed documents, how many documents it destroyed over what time frame and to what extent its actions were consistent with the law."

How did officials at the SEC wind up with a faithful veteran employee – a conservative, mid-level attorney described as a highly reluctant whistle-blower – spilling the agency's most sordid secrets to Congress? In a way, they asked for it.

On May 18th of this year, SEC enforcement director Robert Khuzami sent out a mass e-mail to the agency's staff with the subject line "Lawyers Behaving Badly." In it, Khuzami asked his subordinates to report any experiences they might have had where "the behaviour of counsel representing clients in... investigations has been questionable."

Khuzami was asking staffers to recount any stories of outside counsel behaving unethically. But Flynn apparently thought his boss was looking for examples of lawyers "behaving badly" anywhere, including within the SEC. And he had a story to share he'd kept a lid on for years. "Mr. Khuzami may have gotten something more than he expected," Flynn's lawyer, a former SEC whistle-blower named Gary Aguirre, later explained to Congress.

Flynn responded to Khuzami with a letter laying out one such example of misbehaving lawyers within the SEC. It involved a case from very early in Flynn's career, back in 2000, when he was working with a group of investigators who thought they had a "slam-dunk" case against Deutsche Bank, the German financial giant. A few years earlier, Rolf Breuer, the bank's CEO, had given an interview to Der Spiegel in which he denied that Deutsche was involved in übernahmegespräche – takeover talks – to acquire a rival American firm, Bankers Trust. But the statement was apparently untrue – and it sent the stock of Bankers Trust tumbling, potentially lowering the price for the merger. Flynn and his fellow SEC investigators, suspecting that investors of Bankers Trust had been defrauded, opened a MUI on the case.

A Matter Under Inquiry is just a preliminary sort of look-see – a way for the SEC to check out the multitude of tips it gets about suspicious trades, shady stock scams and false disclosures, and to determine which of the accusations merit a formal investigation. At the MUI stage, an SEC investigator can conduct interviews or ask a bank to send in information voluntarily. Bumping a MUI up to a formal investigation is critical, because it enables investigators to pull out the full law-enforcement ass-kicking measures – subpoenas, depositions, everything short of hot pokers and water boarding.  In the Deutsche case, Flynn and other SEC investigators got past the MUI stage and used their powers to collect sworn testimony and documents indicating that plenty of übernahmegespräche indeed had been going on when Breuer spoke to Der Spiegel. Based on the evidence, they sent an "Action Memorandum" to senior SEC staff, formally recommending that the agency press forward and file suit against Deutsche. 

Breuer responded to the threat as big banks like Deutsche often do: He hired a former SEC enforcement director to lobby the agency to back off. The ex-insider, Gary Lynch, launched a creative and inspired defense, producing a linguistic expert who argued that übernahmegespräche only means "advanced stage of discussions." Nevertheless, the request to proceed with the case was approved by several levels of the SEC's staff. All that was needed to move forward was a thumbs-up from the director of enforcement at the time, Richard Walker.

But then a curious thing happened. On July 10th, 2001, Flynn and the other investigators were informed that Walker was mysteriously recusing himself from the Deutsche case. Two weeks later, on July 23rd, the enforcement division sent a letter to Deutsche that read, "Inquiry in the above-captioned matter has been terminated." The bank was in the clear; the SEC was dropping its fraud investigation. In contradiction to the agency's usual practice, it provided no explanation for its decision to close the case.

On October 1st of that year, the mystery was solved: Dick Walker was named general counsel of Deutsche. Less than 10 weeks after the SEC shut down its investigation of the bank, the agency's director of enforcement was handed a cushy, high-priced job at Deutsche.

Deutsche's influence in the case didn't stop there. A few years later, in 2004, Walker hired none other than Robert Khuzami, a young federal prosecutor, to join him at Deutsche. The two would remain at the bank until February 2009, when Khuzami joined the SEC as Flynn's new boss in the enforcement division. When Flynn sent his letter to Khuzami complaining about misbehaviour by Walker, he was calling out Khuzami's own mentor.

The circular nature of the case illustrates the revolving-door dynamic that has become pervasive at the SEC. A recent study by the Project on Government Oversight found that over the past five years, former SEC personnel filed 789 notices disclosing their intent to represent outside companies before the agency – sometimes within days of their having left the SEC. More than half of the disclosures came from the agency's enforcement division, who went to bat for the financial industry four times more often than ex-staffers from other wings of the SEC.

Even a cursory glance at a list of the agency's most recent enforcement directors makes it clear that the SEC's top policemen almost always wind up jumping straight to jobs representing the banks they were supposed to regulate. Lynch, who represented Deutsche in the Flynn case, served as the agency's enforcement chief from 1985 to 1989, before moving to the firm of Davis Polk, which boasts many top Wall Street clients. He was succeeded by William McLucas, who left the SEC in 1998 to work for Wilmer Hale, a Wall Street defense firm so notorious for snatching up top agency veterans that it is sometimes referred to as "SEC West." McLucas was followed by Dick Walker, who defected to Deutsche in 2001, and he was in turn followed by Stephen Cutler, who now serves as general counsel for JP Morgan Chase. Next came Linda Chatman Thomsen, who stepped down to join Davis Polk, only to be succeeded in 2009 by Khuzami, Walker's former protégé at Deutsche Bank.

This merry-go-round of current and former enforcement directors has repeatedly led to accusations of improprieties. In 2008, in a case cited by the SEC inspector general, Thomsen went out of her way to pass along valuable information to Cutler, the former enforcement director who had gone to work for JP Morgan. According to the inspector general, Thomsen signalled Cutler that the SEC was unlikely to take action that would hamper JP Morgan's move to buy up Bear Stearns. In another case, the inspector general found, an assistant director of enforcement was instrumental in slowing down an investigation into the $7 billion Ponzi scheme allegedly run by Texas con artist R. Allen Stanford – and then left the SEC to work for Stanford, despite explicitly being denied permission to do so by the agency's ethics office. "Every lawyer in Texas and beyond is going to get rich on this case, OK?" the official later explained. "I hated being on the sidelines."

Small wonder, then, that SEC staffers often have trouble getting their bosses to approve full-blown investigations against even the most blatant financial criminals. For a fledgling MUI to become a formal investigation, it has to make the treacherous leap from the lower rungs of career-level staffers like Flynn all the way up to the revolving-door level at the top, where senior management is composed largely of high-priced appointees from the private sector who have strong social and professional ties to the very banks they are charged with regulating. And if senior management didn't approve an investigation, the documents often wound up being destroyed – as Flynn would later discover.

After the Deutsche fiasco over Bankers Trust, Flynn continued to work at the SEC for four more years. He briefly left the agency to dabble in real estate, then returned in 2008 to serve as an attorney in the enforcement division. In January 2010, he accepted new responsibilities that included helping to manage the disposition of records for the division – and it was then he first became aware of the agency's possibly unlawful destruction of MUI records.

Flynn discovered a directive on the enforcement division's internal website ordering staff to destroy "any records obtained in connection" with closed MUIs. The directive appeared to violate federal law, which gives responsibility for maintaining and destroying all records to the National Archives and Records Administration. Over a decade earlier, in fact, the SEC had struck a deal with NARA stipulating that investigative records were to be maintained for 25 years – and that if any files were to be destroyed after that, the shredding was to be done by NARA, not the SEC.

But Flynn soon learned that the records for thousands of preliminary investigations no longer existed. In his letter to Congress, Flynn estimates that the practice of destroying MUIs had begun as early as 1993, and has resulted in at least 9,000 case files being destroyed. For all the thousands of tips that had come in to the SEC, and the thousands of interviews that had been conducted by the agency's staff, all that remained were a few perfunctory lines for each case. The mountains of evidence gathered were no longer in existence.

To read through the list of dead and buried cases that Flynn submitted to Congress is like looking through an infrared camera at a haunted house of the financial crisis, with the ghosts of missed prosecutions flashing back and forth across the screen. A snippet of the list:

PARTY	MUI #	OPENED/CLOSED	ISSUE
Goldman Sachs	MLA-01909	6/99 - 4/00	Market Manipulation
Deutsche Bank	MHO-09356	11/01 - 7/02	Insider Trading
Deutsche Bank	MHO-09432	2/02 - 8/02	Market Manipulation
Lehman Brothers	MNY-07013	3/02 - 7/02	Financial Fraud
Goldman Sachs	MNY-08198	11/09 - 12/09	Insider Trading

 

One MUI – case MNY-08145 – involved allegations of insider trading at AIG on September 15th, 2008, right in the middle of the insurance giant's collapse. In that case, an AIG employee named Jacqueline Millan reported irregularities in the trading of AIG stock to her superiors, only to find herself fired. Incredibly, instead of looking into the matter itself, the SEC agreed to accept "an internal investigation by outside counsel or AIG." The last note in the file indicates that "the staff plans to speak with the outside attorneys on Monday, August 24th [2009], when they will share their findings with us." The fact that the SEC trusted AIG's lawyers to investigate the matter shows the basic bassackwardness of the agency's approach to these crash-era investigations. The SEC formally closed the case on October 1st, 2009.

The episode with AIG highlights yet another obstacle that MUIs experience on the road to becoming formal investigations. During the past decade, the SEC routinely began allowing financial firms to investigate themselves. Imagine the LAPD politely asking a gang of Crips and their lawyers to issue a report on whether or not a drive-by shooting by the Crips should be brought before a grand jury – that's basically how the SEC now handles many preliminary investigations against Wall Street targets.

The evolution toward this self-policing model began in 2001, when a shipping and food-service conglomerate called Seaboard aggressively investigated an isolated case of accounting fraud at one of its subsidiaries. Seaboard fired the guilty parties and made sweeping changes to its internal practices – and the SEC was so impressed that it instituted a new policy of giving "credit" to companies that police themselves. In practice, that means the agency simply steps aside and allows companies to slap themselves on the wrists. In the case against Seaboard, for instance, the SEC rewarded the firm by issuing no fines against it.

According to Lynn Turner, a former chief accountant at the SEC, the Seaboard case also prompted the SEC to begin permitting companies to hire their own counsel to conduct their own inquiries. At first, he says, the process worked fairly well. But then President Bush appointed the notoriously industry-friendly Christopher Cox to head up the SEC, and the "outside investigations" turned into whitewash jobs. "The investigations nowadays are probably not worth the money you spend on them," Turner says.

Harry Markopolos, a certified fraud examiner best known for sounding a famously unheeded warning about Bernie Madoff way back in 2000, says the SEC's practice of asking suspects to investigate themselves is absurd. In a serious investigation, he says, "the last person you want to trust is the person being accused or their lawyer." The practice helped Madoff escape for years. "The SEC took Bernie's word for everything," Markopolos says.

At the SEC, having realized that the agency was destroying documents, Flynn became concerned that he was overseeing an illegal policy. So in the summer of last year, he reached out to NARA, asking them for guidance on the issue.

That request sparked a worried response from Paul Wester, NARA's director of modern records. On July 29th, 2010, Wester sent a letter to Barry Walters, who oversees document requests for the SEC. "We recently learned from Darcy Flynn... that for the past 17 years the SEC has been destroying closed Matters Under Inquiry files," Wester wrote. "If you confirm that federal records have been destroyed improperly, please ensure that no further such disposals take place and provide us with a written report within 30 days."

Wester copied the letter to Adam Storch, a former Goldman Sachs executive who less than a year earlier had been appointed as managing executive of the SEC's enforcement division. Storch's appointment was not without controversy. "I'm not sure what's scarier," Daniel Indiviglio of The Atlantic observed, "that this guy worked at an investment bank that many believe has questionable ethics and too cozy a Washington connection, or that he's just 29." In any case, Storch reacted to the NARA letter the way the SEC often does – by circling the wagons and straining to find a way to blow off the problem without admitting anything.

Last August, as the clock wound down on NARA's 30-day deadline, Storch and two top SEC lawyers held a meeting with Flynn to discuss how to respond. Flynn's notes from the meeting, which he passed along to Congress, show the SEC staff wondering aloud if admitting the truth to NARA might be a bad idea, given the fact that there might be criminal liability.

"We could say that we do not believe there has been disposal inconsistent with the schedule," Flynn quotes Ken Hall, an assistant chief counsel for the SEC, as saying.

"There are implications to admit what was destroyed," Storch chimed in. It would be "not wise for me to take on the exposure voluntarily. If this leads to something, what rings in my ear is that Barry [Walters, the SEC documents officer] said: This is serious, could lead to criminal liability."

When the subject of how many files were destroyed came up, Storch answered: "18,000 MUIs destroyed, including Madoff."

Four days later, the SEC responded to NARA with a hilariously convoluted nondenial denial. "The Division is not aware of any specific instances of the destruction of records from any other MUI," the letter states. "But we cannot say with certainty that no such documents have been destroyed over the past 17 years." The letter goes on to add that "the Division has taken steps... to ensure that no MUI records are destroyed while we review this issue."

Translation: Hey, maybe records were destroyed, maybe they weren't. But if we did destroy records, we promise not to do it again – for now.

The SEC's unwillingness to admit the extent of the wrong doing left Flynn in a precarious position. The agency has a remarkably bad record when it comes to dealing with whistle-blowers. Back in 2005, when Flynn's attorney, Gary Aguirre, tried to pursue an insider-trading case against Pequot Capital that involved John Mack, the future CEO of Morgan Stanley, he was fired by phone while on vacation. Two Senate committees later determined that Aguirre, who has since opened a private practice representing whistle-blowers, was dismissed improperly as part of a "process of reprisal" by the SEC. Two whistle-blowers in the Stanford case, Julie Preuitt and Joel Sauer, also experienced retaliation – including reprimands and demotions – after raising concerns about superficial investigations. "There's no mechanism to raise these issues at the SEC," says another former whistle-blower. Contacting the agency's inspector general, he adds, is considered "the nuclear option" – a move "well-known to be a career-killer."

In Flynn's case, both he and Aguirre tried to keep the matter in-house, appealing to SEC chairman Mary Schapiro with a promise not to go outside the agency if she would grant Flynn protection against reprisal. When no such offer was forthcoming, Flynn went to the agency's inspector general before sending a detailed letter about the wrongdoing to three congressional committees.

One of the offices Flynn contacted was that of Sen. Grassley, who was in the midst of his own battle with the SEC. Frustrated with the agency's failure to punish major players on Wall Street, the Iowa Republican had begun an investigation into how the SEC follows up on outside complaints. Specifically, he wrote a letter to FINRA, another regulatory agency, to ask how many complaints it had referred to the SEC about SAC Capital, the hedge fund run by reptilian billionaire short-seller Stevie Cohen.

SAC has long been accused of a variety of improprieties, from insider trading to harassment. But no charge in recent Wall Street history is crazier than an episode involving a SAC executive named Ping Jiang, who was accused in 2006 of enacting a torturous hazing program. According to a civil lawsuit that was later dropped, Jiang allegedly forced a new trader named Andrew Tong to take female hormones, come to work wearing a dress and lipstick, have "foreign objects" inserted in his rectum, and allow Jiang to urinate in his mouth. (I'm not making this up.)

Grassley learned that over the past decade, FINRA had referred 19 complaints about suspicious trades at SAC to federal regulators. Curious to see how many of those referrals had been looked into, Grassley wrote the SEC on May 24th, asking for evidence that the agency had properly investigated the cases.

Two weeks later, on June 9th, Khuzami sent Grassley a surprisingly brusque answer: "We generally do not comment on the status of investigations or related referrals, and, in turn, are not providing information concerning the specific FINRA referrals you identified." Translation: We're not giving you the records, so blow us.

Grassley later found out from FINRA that it had actually referred 65 cases about SAC to the SEC, making the lack of serious investigations even more inexplicable. Angered by Khuzami's response, he sent the SEC another letter on June 15th demanding an explanation, but no answer has been forthcoming.

In the interim, Grassley's office was contacted by Flynn, who explained that among the missing MUIs he had uncovered were at least three involving SAC – one in 2006, one in 2007 and one in 2010, involving charges of insider trading and currency manipulation. All three cases were closed by the SEC, and the records apparently destroyed.

On August 17th, Grassley sent a letter to the SEC about the Flynn allegations, demanding to know if it was indeed true that the SEC had destroyed records. He also asked if the agency's failure to produce evidence of investigations into SAC Capital were related to the missing MUIs.

The SEC's inspector general is investigating the destroyed MUIs and plans to issue a report. NARA is also seeking answers. "We've asked the SEC to look into the matter and we're awaiting their response," says Laurence Brewer, a records officer for NARA. For its part, the SEC is trying to explain away the illegality of its actions through a semantic trick. John Nester, the agency's spokesman, acknowledges that "documents related to MUIs" have been destroyed. "I don't have any reason to believe that it hasn't always been the policy," he says. But Nester suggests that such documents do not "meet the federal definition of a record," and therefore don't have to be preserved under federal law.

But even if SEC officials manage to dodge criminal charges, it won't change what happened: The nation's top financial police destroyed more than a decade's worth of intelligence they had gathered on some of Wall Street's most egregious offenders. "The SEC not keeping the MUIs – you can see why this would be bad," says Markopolos, the fraud examiner famous for breaking the Madoff case. "The reason you would want to keep them is to build a pattern. That way, if you get five MUIs over a period of 20 years on something similar involving the same company, you should be able to connect five dots and say, 'You know, I've had five MUIs – they're probably doing something. Let's go tear the place apart.'" Destroy the MUIs, and Wall Street banks can commit the exact same crime over and over, without anyone ever knowing.

Regulation isn't a panacea. The SEC could have placed federal agents on every corner of lower Manhattan throughout the past decade, and it might not have put a dent in the massive wave of corruption and fraud that left the economy in flames three years ago. And even if SEC staffers from top to bottom had been fully committed to rooting out financial corruption, the agency would still have been seriously hampered by a lack of resources that often forces it to abandon promising cases due to a shortage of manpower. "It's always a triage," is how one SEC veteran puts it. "And it's worse now."

But we're equally in the dark about another hypothetical. Forget about what might have been if the SEC had followed up in earnest on all of those lost MUIs. What if even a handful of them had turned into real cases? How many investors might have been saved from crushing losses if Lehman Brothers had been forced to reveal its shady accounting way back in 2002? Might the need for taxpayer bailouts have been lessened had fraud cases against Citigroup and Bank of America been pursued in 2005 and 2007? And would the U.S. government have doubled down on its bailout of AIG if it had known that some of the firm's executives were suspected of insider trading in September 2008?

It goes without saying that no ordinary law-enforcement agency would willingly destroy its own evidence. In fact, when it comes to  garden-variety crooks, more and more police agencies are catching criminals with the aid of large and well-maintained databases. "Street-level law enforcement is increasingly data-driven," says Bill Laufer, a criminology professor at the University of Pennsylvania. "For a host of reasons, though, we are starved for good data on both white-collar and corporate crime. So the idea that we would take the little data we do have and shred it, without a legal requirement to do so, calls for a very creative explanation."

We'll never know what the impact of those destroyed cases might have been; we'll never know if those cases were closed for good reasons or bad. We'll never know exactly who got away with what, because federal regulators have weighted down a huge sack of Wall Street's dirty laundry and dumped it in a lake, never to be seen again.

Editor’s Note: The online version of this article has been amended from the print version to reflect that the SEC’s case against Deutsche Bank proceeded beyond a Matter of Inquiry to a full-blown investigation.

 

2011, Aug 17               Did Tenet Hide Key 9/11 Info? By Ray McGovern

Posted by Ram Arjuna on August 18, 2011 at 10:24am

 

August 17, 2011 "Information Clearing House" 

 

With few exceptions, like some salacious rumour about the Kennedy family, the mainstream U.S. news media has shown little interest in stories that throw light on history — even recent, very relevant history. So it comes as no surprise that, when a former White House counter-terrorism czar accuses an ex-CIA director of sitting on information that could have prevented a 9/11 attack, the story gets neither ink nor air.

Bulletin for those of you who get your information only from the New York Times, the Washington Post and other outlets of the Fawning Corporate Media (FCM): Former White House director for counter terrorism Richard Clarke has accused former CIA Director George Tenet of denying him and others access to intelligence that could have thwarted the attack on the Pentagon on 9/11.

Deliberately withholding critical intelligence from those who need it, and can act on it, is — at the least — gross dereliction of duty. The more so if keeping the White House promptly and fully informed is at the top of your job jar, as it was for Director of Central Intelligence Tenet. And yet that is precisely the charge Clarke has leveled at the former DCI.

In an interview aired on Aug. 11 on a local PBS affiliate in Colorado, Clarke charges that Tenet and two other senior CIA officials, Cofer Black and Richard Blee, deliberately withheld information about two of the hijackers of American Airlines Flight 77 — al-Hazmi and al-Mihdhar. The two had entered the United States more than a year before the 9/11 attacks.

Clarke adds that the CIA then covered it all up by keeping relevant information away from Congress and the 9/11 Commission.

Lying by senior officials is bad enough, and there is now plenty of evidence that former CIA Director George Tenet and his closest agency associates are serial offenders. Think for a minute about the falsehoods spread regarding Iraq’s non-existent “weapons of mass destruction” stockpiles.

But withholding intelligence on two of the 9/11 hijackers would have been particularly unconscionable — the epitome of malfeasance, not just misfeasance. That’s why Richard Clarke’s conclusion that he should have received information from CIA about al-Hazmi and al-Mihdhar, “unless somebody intervened to stop the normal automatic distribution” amounts, in my view, to a criminal charge, given the eventual role of the two in the hijacking on 9/11 of AA-77, the plane that struck the Pentagon.

Tenet has denied that the information on the two hijackers was “intentionally withheld” from Clarke, and he has enlisted the other two former CIA operatives, Cofer Black (more recently a senior official of Blackwater) and Richard Blee (an even more shadowy figure), to concur in saying, Not us; we didn’t withhold.

Whom to believe? To me, it’s a no-brainer. One would have to have been born yesterday to regard the “George is right” testimony from Black and Blee as corroborative.

Tenet’s Dubious Credibility

Tenet is the same fellow who provided the “slam dunk” on the existence of “weapons of mass destruction” in Iraq, as well as the “artist renderings” of equally non-existent mobile laboratories for developing biological warfare agents, based on unconfirmed information from the impostor code-named  (appropriately) “Curveball.”

It was Tenet who, under orders from President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney, ordered up and disseminated a fraudulent National Intelligence Estimate on WMD in Iraq, the purpose of which was to deceive our elected representatives out of their constitutional prerogative to authorize war. No small lies.

After a five-year investigation by the Senate Intelligence Committee, Chairman Jay Rockefeller described the intelligence adduced under Tenet to “justify” attacking Iraq as “uncorroborated, contradicted, and non-existent.” Good enough to win Tenet the Presidential Medal of Freedom, though. The corruption of intelligence worked just fine for the purposes of Bush and Cheney, thank you very much.

It is a actually a matter of record that Tenet lies a lot — on occasion, displaying what I would call chutzpah on steroids. Recall, for example, Tenet in April 2007 snarling at Scott Pelley on “60 Minutes” — five times, in five consecutive sentences — “We do not torture people.”

Even Under Oath

Tenet has lied about 9/11, too. The joint statement from Tenet, Black and Blee – orchestrated by former CIA spokesman Bill Harlow – concludes: “We testified under oath about what we did, what we knew and what we didn’t know. We stand by that testimony.”

Almost made me laugh … almost.

In his sworn testimony to the 9/11 Commission on April 14, 2004, Tenet said he had not spoken to Bush — even on the telephone — during the entire month of August 2001.

But Tenet did fly down to see the President in Crawford — not once, but twice during August 2001, and briefed Bush again in Washington on the 31st.

After the TV cameras at the 9/11 Commission hearing were shut off, Bill Harlow phoned the commission staff to say, Oops, sorry, Tenet misspoke. Even then, Harlow admitted only to Tenet’s Aug. 17 visit to Crawford (and to the briefing on the 31st).

How do we know Tenet was again in Crawford, on Aug. 24? From a White House press release quoting President Bush to that effect — information somehow completely missed by our vigilant Fawning Corporate Media.

Funny, too, how Tenet could have forgotten his first visit to Crawford on Aug. 17. In his memoir, At the Center of the Storm, Tenet waxes eloquent about the “president graciously driving me around the spread in his pickup and me trying to make small talk about the flora and the fauna.” But the visit was not limited to small talk.

In his book Tenet writes: “A few weeks after the August 6 PDB was delivered, I followed it to Crawford to make sure the president stayed current on events.” The Aug. 6, 2001, President’s Daily Brief contained the article “Bin Laden Determined to Strike in the US.” According to Ron Suskind’s The One-Percent Doctrine, the president reacted by telling the CIA briefer, “All right, you’ve covered your ass now.”

If, as Tenet says in his memoir, it was the Aug. 6, 2001, PDB that prompted his visit on Aug. 17, what might have brought him back on Aug. 24? I believe the answer can be found in court documents released at the trial of Zacarias Moussaoui, the fledgling pilot in Minnesota interested in learning to steer a plane but indifferent as to how to land it.

Those documents show that on Aug. 23, 2001, Tenet was given an alarming briefing focusing on Moussaoui, titled “Islamic Extremist Learns to Fly.” Tenet was told that Moussaoui was training to fly a 747 and, among other suspicion-arousing data, had paid for the training in cash.

It is an open question — if a key one — whether Tenet told Bush about the two hijackers, al-Hazmi and al-Mihdhar, while keeping that key information from the person who most needed it — White House counter-terrorist czar Richard Clarke. Clarke finds the only plausible explanation in his surmise that Tenet was personally responsible. Clarke says:

“For me to this day, it is inexplicable, when I had every other detail about everything related to terrorism, that the director didn’t tell me, that the director of the counterterrorism center didn’t tell me, that the other 48 people inside CIA that knew about it never mentioned it to me or anyone in my staff in a period of over 12 months.”

Enter Harlow

But Tenet’s aide-de-camp Bill Harlow has branded Clarke’s statements “absurd and patently false.” And the statement Harlow shepherded for Tenet, Black and Blee adds “reckless and profoundly wrong … baseless … belied by the record … unworthy of serious consideration.”

And Harlow never lies? Right. I’m reminded of Harlow’s reaction to Newsweek’s publication on Feb. 24, 2003, of the intelligence information provided by Saddam Hussein’s son-in-law, Hussein Kamel when he defected to Jordan in 1995. Kamel brought with him a treasure trove of documents and unique knowledge of Iraq’s putative “weapons of mass destruction.”

Most significantly, he told his U.S. debriefers there were no WMD in Iraq. He knew. He had been in charge of Iraq’s chemical, biological, nuclear and missile programs for almost a decade, and he ordered what weapons existed destroyed before the U.N. inspectors could discover them after the war in 1991. In his words:

“I ordered the destruction of all chemical weapons. All weapons — biological, chemical, missile, nuclear were destroyed.”

He told the U.S. much more, and the information that could be checked out was confirmed. But Kamel’s information didn’t fit with the Bush administration’s propaganda regarding its certainty that Iraq did have WMD stockpiles and was defying United Nations demands that the WMD be destroyed.

Those pushing the Iraq War juggernaut in early 2003 almost had a conniption when Newsweek acquired a transcript of Kamel’s debriefing and published this potentially explosive story barely three weeks before the invasion.

Newsweek noted gingerly that this information “raises questions about whether the WMD stockpiles attributed to Iraq still exist.” It was, in fact, the kind of impeccably sourced documentary evidence after which intelligence analysts and lawyers lust.

But this was not at all what Bush, Cheney, and — by sycophantic extension — Tenet wanted Newsweek readers, or the rest of us, to learn less than a month before the U.S./U.K. attack on Iraq ostensibly to find and destroy those non-existent weapons.

Bill Harlow to the rescue:  he told the FCM in no uncertain terms that the Newsweek story was, “incorrect, bogus, wrong, untrue.” And the media cheerleaders for war breathed a sigh of relief, saying, Gosh, thanks for telling us, and then dropped the story like a hot potato.

By all indications, Harlow is still able to work his fraudulent magic on the FCM, which have virtually ignored this major Clarke v. Tenet story since it broke six days ago.

If Harlow says it’s not true … and hurls still more pejorative epithets and adjectives, in a crude attempt to discredit the very serious charge Clarke has made … well, I guess we’ll have to leave it there, as the FCM is so fond of saying.

No matter Clarke’s well-deserved reputation for honesty and professionalism — and Tenet’s for the opposite. And so it goes.

Ray McGovern works with Tell the Word, a publishing arm of the ecumenical Church of the Saviour in inner-city Washington. As a CIA analyst, he served under seven presidents and nine CIA directors; he is co-founder of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS).

A version of this column was first published at Consortiumnews.com

2011, Aug 18               Chavez to Nationalize Venezuelan Gold Industry

Posted by Ram Arjuna on August 18, 2011 at 10:27am

 

 

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/08/17-2

  

Published on Wednesday, August 17, 2011 by Reuters

by Louise Egan

 

CARACAS -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on Wednesday he will nationalize the gold industry, including extraction and processing, and use its output to boost the country's international reserves.

Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez, left, and Maria Emma Mejia, secretary-general of South America's UNASUR organization, walk during a meeting at Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas, Venezuela, Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2011. Chavez said he's improving after undergoing a second round of chemotherapy in Cuba to treat his cancer, and boasts that he has never felt healthier. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos) The move follows a dispute between his government and foreign miners who say the rules limiting the amount of gold that can be exported from the South American nation hurt their efforts to secure financing and create jobs.

Toronto-listed Rusoro, owned by Russia's Agapov family, is the only large gold miner operating in Venezuela. It produced 100,000 ounces last year.

The gold industry will be just the latest part of the economy to be put under state control by the socialist leader, who said he would issue the necessary decree in the coming days and called on the military to help control the sector.

"I have here the laws allowing the state to exploit gold and all related activities ... we are going to nationalize the gold and we are going to convert it, among other things, into international reserves because gold continues to increase in value," Chavez said in a phone call to state television.

The announcement came a day after an opposition legislator revealed a report showing the government's top finance officials were recommending the repatriation of 90 percent of Venezuela's gold reserves held abroad.

The government has not commented on the report, which the opposition legislator said Chavez had yet to approve.

"We've managed to increase the international reserves. We have close to 12 or 13 billion dollars in gold reserves. We can't allow it to continue to be taken away," the president said, referring to reserves held in banks overseas.

According to the report revealed by the opposition legislator, Venezuela has total international reserves of $29.1 billion. About 63 percent of that is in gold worth $11 billion held overseas and $7 billion at home, according to the report.

Venezuela has some of Latin America's largest gold deposits, buried below the jungles south of the Orinoco river. According to official figures, formal mining in the country produces 4.3 tons a year.

Chavez agreed last year to let gold miners export up to 50 percent of production, from 30 percent previously. The other 50 percent must be sold to the central bank.

But that did not satisfy foreign companies like Rusoro, which said the limits made it much harder for them to secure financing abroad, develop projects and create local jobs.

One victim of the dispute has been a huge but long-troubled project called Las Cristinas. It has been in limbo since the government canceled a development license with another Canadian miner, Crystallex, in February.

Rusoro had expressed interest in Las Cristinas, which has not been developed since the 1980s but has reserves estimated at 17 million ounces. Locals once found a 1-kilo (2.2-lb) nugget there.

But the company's chief executive told Reuters in an interview in June that it could not take on the project unless the government scrapped its export rules.

Sources at Rusoro said the company planned to make a statement on Wednesday's developments in the coming days.

 

2011, Aug 19 Charley Reese's Final column! Info we can all use.

Posted by Ram Arjuna on August 19, 2011 at 2:02pm

 

A very interesting column.. COMPLETELY NEUTRAL
Be sure to Read the Poem at the end. This is so true.

Charley Reese's final column for the Orlando Sentinel...
He has been a journalist for 49 years.
He is retiring and this is HIS LAST COLUMN.

Be sure to read the Tax List at the end.

This is about as clear and easy to understand as it can be. The article below is completely neutral, neither anti-republican or democrat. Charlie Reese, a retired reporter for the Orlando Sentinel, has hit the nail directly on the head, defining clearly who it is that in the final analysis must assume responsibility for the judgments made that impact each one of us every day. It's a short but good read. Worth the time. Worth remembering!

545 vs. 300,000,000 People
-By Charlie Reese

Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them.

Have you ever wondered, if both the Democrats and the Republicans are against deficits, WHY do we have deficits?

Have you ever wondered, if all the politicians are against inflation and high taxes, WHY do we have inflation and high taxes?

You and I don't propose a federal budget. The President does.

You and I don't have the Constitutional authority to vote on appropriations. The House of Representatives does.

You and I don't write the tax code, Congress does.

You and I don't set fiscal policy, Congress does.

You and I don't control monetary policy, the Federal Reserve Bank does.

One hundred senators, 435 congressmen, one President, and nine Supreme Court justices equates to 545 human beings out of the 300 million are directly, legally, morally, and individually responsible for the domestic problems that plague this country.

I excluded the members of the Federal Reserve Board because that problem was created by the Congress. In 1913, Congress delegated its Constitutional duty to provide a sound currency to a federally chartered, but private, central bank.

I excluded all the special interests and lobbyists for a sound reason. They have no legal authority. They have no ability to coerce a senator, a congressman, or a President to do one cotton-picking thing. I don't care if they offer a politician $1 million dollars in cash. The politician has the power to accept or reject it. No matter what the lobbyist promises, it is the legislator's responsibility to determine how he votes.

Those 545 human beings spend much of their energy convincing you that what they did is not their fault. They cooperate in this common con regardless of party.

What separates a politician from a normal human being is an excessive amount of gall. No normal human being would have the gall of a Speaker, who stood up and criticized the President for creating deficits. The President can only propose a budget. He cannot force the Congress to accept it.

The Constitution, which is the supreme law of the land, gives sole responsibility to the House of Representatives for originating and approving appropriations and taxes. Who is the speaker of the House now? He is the leader of the majority party. He and fellow House members, not the President, can approve any budget they want. If the President vetoes it, they can pass it over his veto if they agree to.

It seems inconceivable to me that a nation of 300 million cannot replace 545 people who stand convicted -- by present facts -- of incompetence and irresponsibility. I can't think of a single domestic problem that is not traceable directly to those 545 people. When you fully grasp the plain truth that 545 people exercise the power of the federal government, then it must follow that what exists is what they want to exist.

If the tax code is unfair, it's because they want it unfair.

If the budget is in the red, it's because they want it in the red.

If the Army & Marines are in Iraq and Afghanistan it's because they want them in Iraq and Afghanistan ...

If they do not receive social security but are on an elite retirement plan not available to the people, it's because they want it that way.

There are no insoluble government problems.

Do not let these 545 people shift the blame to bureaucrats, whom they hire and whose jobs they can abolish; to lobbyists, whose gifts and advice they can reject; to regulators, to whom they give the power to regulate and from whom they can take this power. Above all, do not let them con you into the belief that there exists disembodied mystical forces like "the economy," "inflation," or "politics" that prevent them from doing what they take an oath to do.

Those 545 people, and they alone, are responsible.

They, and they alone, have the power.

They, and they alone, should be held accountable by the people who are their bosses.  Provided the voters have the gumption to manage their own employees...

We should vote all of them out of office and clean up their mess!

What you do with this article now that you have read it... is up to you.
This might be funny if it weren't so true.
Be sure to read all the way to the end:

Tax his land,
Tax his bed,
Tax the table,
At which he's fed.

Tax his tractor,
Tax his mule,
Teach him taxes
Are the rule.

Tax his work,
Tax his pay,
He works for
peanuts anyway!

Tax his cow,
Tax his goat,
Tax his pants,
Tax his coat.

Tax his ties,
Tax his shirt,
Tax his work,
Tax his dirt.

Tax his tobacco,
Tax his drink,
Tax him if he
Tries to think.

Tax his cigars,
Tax his beers,
If he cries
Tax his tears.

Tax his car,
Tax his gas,
Find other ways
To tax his ass.

Tax all he has
Then let him know
That you won't be done
Till he has no dough.

When he screams and hollers;
Then tax him some more,
Tax him till
He's good and sore.

Then tax his coffin,
Tax his grave,
Tax the sod in
Which he's laid...

Put these words
Upon his tomb,
'Taxes drove me
to my doom...'

When he's gone,
Do not relax,
Its time to apply
The inheritance tax.

Accounts Receivable Tax
Building Permit Tax
CDL license Tax
Cigarette Tax
Corporate Income Tax
Dog License Tax
Excise Taxes
Federal Income Tax
Federal Unemployment Tax (FUTA)
Fishing License Tax
Food License Tax
Fuel Permit Tax
Gasoline Tax (currently 44.75 cents per gallon)
Gross Receipts Tax
Hunting License Tax
Inheritance Tax
Inventory Tax
IRS Interest Charges IRS Penalties (tax on top of tax)
Liquor Tax
Luxury Taxes
Marriage License Tax
Medicare Tax
Personal Property Tax
Property Tax
Real Estate Tax
Service Charge Tax
Social Security Tax
Road Usage Tax
Recreational Vehicle Tax
Sales Tax
School Tax
State Income Tax
State Unemployment Tax (SUTA)
Telephone Federal Excise Tax
Telephone Federal Universal Service Fee Tax
Telephone Federal, State and Local Surcharge Taxes
Telephone Minimum Usage Surcharge Tax
Telephone Recurring and Nonrecurring Charges Tax
Telephone State and Local Tax
Telephone Usage Charge Tax
Utility Taxes
Vehicle License Registration Tax
Vehicle Sales Tax
Watercraft Registration Tax
Well Permit Tax
Workers Compensation Tax


STILL THINK THIS IS FUNNY?
Not one of these taxes existed 100 years ago, & our nation was the most prosperous in the world.
We had absolutely no national debt, had the largest middle class in the world, and Mom stayed home to raise the kids.

What in the heck happened? Can you spell 'politicians?'

I hope this goes around THE USA at least 545 times!!! YOU can help it get there!!!

GO AHEAD. . . BE AN AMERICAN!!!

  

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2011, Aug 8

Science News

Evidence of ancient supercontinent found

Published: Aug. 8, 2011 at 5:31 PM

 

 

BOULDER, Colo., Aug. 8 (UPI) -- U.S. and international geologists say they've discovered a billion-year-old piece of North America they can trace back to Antarctica.

Researchers say it's the strongest evidence yet found suggesting North America and Antarctica were connected 1.1 billion years ago, long before the supercontinent Pangaea formed, a Geological Society of America release reported Monday.

"I can go to the Franklin Mountains in West Texas and stand next to what was once part of Coats Land in Antarctica," study leader Staci Loewy, a geochemist at California State University, Bakersfield, said. "That's so amazing."

The geologists found rocks collected from both locations have the exact same composition of lead isotopes, are the same age and have the same chemical and geologic properties.

The finding lends credence to the theory that ancestral North America and East Antarctica were once joined in an earlier supercontinent called Rodinia, the researchers say.

The study has been published in the journal Geology.

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2011, Aug 20                                       SUMMARY OF Saturday History Call

 

Cheryl:            meditation

 

Rainbird:         housekeeping

 

Hard News:

• Pleiadians giving us messages – wheels of fortunes

•  Sirian Council of Light giving messages – both are converging

 

• The great destruction is upon us: we are watching the 5^th night of the 9^th wave -

•Jack the alien hunter – R listens when he shows up. He asked Rama:

            • what if Mr Obama at Martha's vineyard is meeting with Carolyn Kennedy, Jack Kennedy and     Ted Kennedy? We talk to dead people anyway! The veil is down

            • What Jack points out is there are things happening which have to do with the story of the      gangster banksters, the criminal congress and the one man standing in the way of this – the           guy to watch as o Haagland says, the one who will take us through the doorway  way of 2012

            • This being generates an energy, as Jack said to Rama

 

Camp Lovewave: Nick Baggege on solar flares

•  he talked of surge protectors that you put on the grid system or surge suppressors;

• he & brother are coming forward with more of the craft info from Alaska

• brings in story about Ted Stevens plane going down, like planes of John Denver, Paul Wellstone. John Kennedy Jr, the plane with the children of the 13 families, the one over eastern US

 

NPR: he heard that Khaddafi and his family had better pack if they want to leave

• T - Al Jazeera: he may be fleeing to Tunisia; they have had their Arab spring already and he will also be telling something that needs to be told: Hillary and the B-C crime family

• Clinton looked Rama in the eye and said “I know who you are”; and Rama said “I know who you are!”

He has to answer to Mother, and is a sliver of AA Michael.

• Sean Penn talking of the FEMA  trailers with bad insulation

 

Matt Taibi: the SCC is shredding documents – there were many about Bernie Madoff

• It's about John McCain and Phil Gram  who got his blessings and used them in the wrong way and will answer to Mother and the WK:

• used the money to create the atmosphere of today in which Obama has to sleep with one eye open – the issue of RACE – as that issue is gone, there are infinite numbers of ways to heal

 

Audio: Keith Olbermann of Countdown interviewing Matt Taibi about SCC

• The immigrants being deported – not about Obama, but members of Congress

• R: in the final seconds of this story, need to love ourselves as much as we love those ones leaving

 

Audio: about Bradley Manning

            • Speaker saying if the Wikileaks have any truth at all, then Bradley is a hero -

            no one should be jailed for pointing out the illegalities of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan

            • Yes, Bradley is gay;  his sexuality has been criminalized by saying he is just a private lashing    out at his oppression -  left out his political motives

            • At demonstration in front of Quanitco: 36 – 40 activists

            300  – 400 people at the protest at Fort Leavenworth

            • He is accused of leaking information on war crimes through a completely legal outlet

            and is being considered for death

            • This flies in front of freedom of speech, freedom of press, ignorance of the public who are    kept out of the loop

            www.freebradleymanning.org 

            chicago bradley

            www.indymedia.org             founder David Barsimion was given parkinsons; having a bad time right       now

            • Tara: this shows how far those ones who will go to harm others who are speaking out

 

Free Speech: about the Farmers market: one program was about dome constructions for growing

 

Thom Hartmann interviews Matt Taibi: 

            • goes back to 1993, the SEC was as a matter of policy to investigate the case a little bit and                then destroy the files  on insider trading cases

            • 18,000 cases have no records – no way to keep track of repeat complaints

            • Upshot is only a line item with the opening and closing date of the case, named the company     and the person -  not like the FBI etc who keep everything for purposes of cross references

            • The destruction of files began as an accident and someone higher up realized the advantage    of having no records

            • SEC formed in 1933; those who run the SCC are high priced political appointees from Wall      Street; the idea of no records of investigation appeals to them; those running the group have     no political will to make changes

            • Is the agency changing this policy? Yes, not longer disposing of records now because     someone spoke to the National Archives and that instituted change

            • But from point of last 10 years, there's a lot missing!

 

Caller:  would KOS bring back those records?

            • Yes, KOS and St. G can;  the magnetic resonance is recorded for all time in the Akashic           records in the 5^th dimension; records are in the Akasha and higher

        There are football fields of evidence in the Akashic

            • The Ashtar command has been taking care of us for a long long while – Tesla

            • Tesla in the 1800s has been going up and down to the ships, like Rama; Rama says he and                                  Tesla crossed path in a pub in London!

           

            • The story coming out of the Vatican [ we are all sinners, unless we are born again] is ending      • As we recognize  things from a different vibration; the 3^rd will still be around, but it     has no power with the return of the One heart, one mind, one body, one love; Law of Unity   Consciousness, the Law of Love, the Law of One

 

            • We have moved out of the duality state  & the time line as we know which has been in linear    state – 2 is duality; we are now moving into unity

 

Caller: experience of a week ago: went with a friend to a therapist's office in Denver - $60 / month   with a Tesla machine- 5 minutes per time - can go every day except Sunday

            • She will go on the new moon, end of August & begin treatment: help her ankle, back etc            • Tara knows the machine works ; caller describes the machine

 

Caller: asking about ways of expressing one's sovereignty

            • Tara, Rama have to keep their noses clean: Rams is the only person here who has a       connection with the KOS and we would not want to have this as a problem now -

            • They watch these fellas behind the scenes, and are protected from those ones who are          ravenous & vengeful: Phasers have a stun setting and a death setting: T&R have seen what the death setting can do!

 

• the realm we are in is being peeled back – the new earth is going to be like a young new baby

• Now we no longer wonder if we're going to make it but use our technologies for taking action

• We now see how low we wanted to go as a people until we would lift ourselves up again as a people.

            This started on March 9^th , has gone through all the days and nights – now on 5^th night – a            change every 18 days

• Look at what the Arab spring has brought: people in India in the streets; R watching the people in      Libya: Quaddafi has to leave& will tell the story of the 13 families who are not of this earth

 

• Aug 17: huge numbers of ships decloaked in the skies around Sacramento – first time this has occurred in this country – astounding!

• Our neighbours in Mexico, Central America, India have been waiting for 6,000 years!  The vinanas are still there and still functional

 

• Night 5 is the eve of destruction:  more people defecting; more leaving; people celebrating in the midst of their sorrow

 

Caller:  what can we do about sovereignty – how free are we? do we challenge the system ?

NO, NEVER, NOT NOW, NOT EVER; they are getting their due process of law; we're watching it

 • You heard what Keith, Thom and Matt Taibbi said – they are part of Faction 3

• We have help that is galactic in nature

 • Help from Ted K, John K, Carolyn K still alive and getting rejuvenated with all of us; meeting right now with the Obama family and the dog – going on with no cameras – another dimension – a star ship that KOS and Barack Obama have been using; they could not be closer at this time – in the physical, as well, with all kinds of protection

 

• Ben F spoke of going under martial law, a military state -  but Ben also said about a tendency to support BO  [see the article from Fri Aug 19] and the Pentagon, Teddy Kennedy, KOS, John Kennedy

• We have galactics of the sovereign militia force –  16 Million are galactic star beings; they can shape shift you can tell the diff by the energy they give off;  there is an aura surrounding this operation ; it would be very lethal to say hit me with your best shot [and expect to survive]

• Power in numbers – we are subtly facing . . .

 

• The subtle worlds of ignorance are more lethal: there are 14 republicans – they look like mickey mouse cartoons in one sense, but they are not, they are lethal! They want the seat of power but it would kill them and that is exactly what is happening; that seat of power is full of a bubble of energy that cannot be destroyed : how many times has Hillary tried to get rid of him? Rama won't go there with a number/no comment – it's that serious

 

• When you commit economic treason on a country, you might as well kill the representative;

• We have to explain this to religious people who are oblivious to this and get them to understand without going into shock; Bush and his uppers promised there would be full out civil war if Bush Jr did not become pres and now we are there, with Murdoch paying for that, paying off the judges and making sure that others did the same and that they could demonstrate they are creating the New World Order

• We said we would overcome the NWO and the diabolical activities  - an example is the memorial to MLK Jr was done through China, through the absolute crime that has been existing of the corporations. They have created an oligarchy functioning as one group for themselves which is absolutely powerful:  this is why we are getting extreme help in the positive from the Ashtar command and the others

 

• We have all heard it: arrests are going on for 400 indictments – not a long drawn out thing; since 2003, going on 8 years, there have been grand jury trials; the records are in the hands of the Ashtar command who have a copy!

• Within 4 months we will see Di and Dodi in the physical, and Henri Paul and a few others!

 

• The sovereignty concept is absolutely real

• So is the Declaration of Insolvency of March 31, 2008 which indicates the IRS is insolvent; Federal Reserve is insolvent; the corporation of the US of A is insolvent – between then and June 16^th 2011, we were truly in the 4^th Reich and they were in the cross hairs:

• After March 31, 2008, 10,000 banksters and were executed by order of BO

• We have a new banking system, new bills, a new declaration of sovereignty

• we have our own wisdom, our dignity, our community

 

Caller: accepts her apologies for keeping him waiting for so long: has words to share on behalf of the Violet Ray - BEAUTIFUL WORDS

 

Caller: lot of hope based on the example of the caller before him

Asks about whether the dinars will be materializing

• T: you know it won't be even though they would like it to happen

• The process of materialization is going quite rapidly – when the Pres of the US is meeting on a shuttle craft it means the  Ashtar command is involved

 

Caller: is the meeting  getting ready for announcements?

• People need to be shown by those who are the whistle-blowers

            • we saw Mr Wikileaks walk in on Hillary, on the subject of torture, Bush Jr, etc etc and            American soldiers being ordered to kill civilians

• Anybody that came into the US volunteered to help everyone in the whole world wake up – and there's no such thing as “I don't know” – Love has no opposite which means there is no such thing as “I don't know”. We know everything even though we have been taught to use the wrong part of the body; we need to use our heart brain –

 

Re weather: In Idaho Falls, it will not quit raining and then it hails! Ruining crops, etc

• It's not global warming, but climate change as earth takes a new orbit around Sol; we will have what we had in Hyperborea and Atlantis – 72 degrees and can go with no clothes if you want

• It's not HAARP, but more advanced weather modification technologies bounced satellite technology

 

Will the galactics stop this?

            • This is what's going on now: Trillions of starships around earth for longer than we have known             - our universe is 450 Billion years old & the galactics have been watching this universe for            that long since the beginning of the whole creation story. We co-created this universe of Nebadon – all of its history has to do with our actions, and now we are applying the her-story to it, the non-linear story that has been held secret -  biggest secret is that they did not    want us to know about the non-linear

 

            • T tell caller and us that every call now is affecting us at a group conscious level; we can see     how the subject matter is determined at a different level by all of us  

            • Thanks to caller for keeping track of the dinar folks over there – it heals them, too

 

Richard:          Another book to buy!

The First and Last freedom by Krishna Murti – forward by Aldous Huxley; copyright 1954

            an easterner who came west to teach many years ago

            • His essays in the first half; Q&A in 2^nd half  

            • J\not a book for sissies – Direct, simple words so audience can get the message

            • Richard reads a short essay to show that the problems they spoke of them are still here

 

• Thursday morning could be an interesting time re; news, events

• Friday is final day of this Mercury retrograde period -

• will continue to see jittery markets around the world;

 

• He chats with “financial advisers” - there appears to be a measured take down the bankers and          their corrupt systems

• St. G in charge of the operation; he's doing stuff behind the scenes that regular people can see, but we can see the effects of what he's doing

• R: Life, Right and Centre: Arianna Huff back +  truthdig.org Robert Sheer + Ira Gordon from NPR

            Ira was saying the only thing that can change that is the reformation act and left it at that

            Arianna said a flat tax needs to laid out – but this is not what NESARA is about

 

• need to sharpen your thinking these days - message from one of his personal advisers : “Develop the dexterity within your mind like the spring mating dance of the squirrels”

• More and more of us living in the present now, futile to hang on to past

• We are also working with the future differently – make a to do list and knock em out one at the time – probably best way to work these days

 

• T: asks does what's happening affect the divine chaos? They signed the debt deal when Mercury was retrograde the 2^nd                 Does this mean when Merc goes direct, it affects the deal??

• July full moon on 15^th very important -first full moon after eclipses of June 1, June 15, July 1^st

• We are 9 weeks away from Sept 9^th when Mercury gets back to 2 degrees of Virgo -

everything is repetitive until we get to Sept 9^th when the matrix will get to a new pattern

 

• We cannot turn back:  when we hit all these astrological points, it's for real a

• R: the 100^th monkey is saying “Push me!”

• Grounding in the Virgo energy is an earth sign, feminine; also a mutable energy – it's hard to get          your footing during mutable signs and times – a period of assimilation

            Tara says we'll have plenty to assimilate!

 

• Virgo is the interface between the earth's mineral systems and the water systems – a bit murky       which means more shenanigans going on

• Robert Sheer said the banksters won't give up until St. G pulls the rug out – they are so wanting to   get their hands on Chavez' gold!

• Nick and Mark Beggage are saying that the increase of the solar flare velocity means things will get more intense – does the astrology say this?                       YES

 

• Remember Uranus position in Aries – only the sun knows what! No one can pre-guess the sun!

• IT guys are watching the sun very closely – talking about shutting off communication satellites            during the flares – won't be the flares, but the guys shutting off the equipment

•Beggages: talking of surge suppressors on the regular power grid for standard electricity;

         as we transfer the grid from current electrical source to the new kind, no more problem

 

Audio:             Howard Zinn – Reflections on .. which have shaped our democracy [YouTube]

                        SOMETHING TO BE LISTENED TO!!!!                                        [ALSO SEE BELOW]            

 

Music:             I am the Medicine Man

            Rama comments on Howard Zinn: we are changing our story about how things are done by the      old regime – we are the changer and the changed

 

Reading:         “The 5^th night of the 9^th Wave”  by Carl Calleman                           [SEE BELOW]

                5^th night is the change point 

            • Rama: there is talk of the break-up of the EU – a good idea! A not nice part of the plan: a        super EU

            • from 4th night to 5th day, July 31:  7 trillion dollars of stock value went up in smoke: a            short time

            • St G has a catcher's mitt and that is what is going on in Martha's Vineyard

            • Calleman is a good partner of Hand Clow, and she does not go for the Nesara concepts

 

Reading:       The Sirian Councils of Light   by Ray Dawn                                 [SEE BELOW]

 

Audio:         Solara An-Ra : Warrior of the Light - Home

                        www.solara.org.uk/ - Cached

 

                www.solarara.org.uk

 

Reading:       Lauren Gorgo “Wheel of fortune: turning point”                             [SEE BELOW]

 

Audio:         Thom Hartman

 

Thursday August 18th, 2011

Conversations with Great Minds - Jeff Shesol, West Wing Writers

 

 

 

2011, Aug 17   Is the SEC Covering Up Wall Street Crimes?

 

A whistle-blower claims that over the past two decades, the agency has destroyed records of thousands of investigations, whitewashing the files of some of the nation's worst financial criminals.

 

 

 

By Matt Taibbi

August 17, 2011 8:00 AM ET

 

 

Pete Gardner/Getty

Imagine a world in which a man who is repeatedly investigated for a string of serious crimes, but never prosecuted, has his slate wiped clean every time the cops fail to make a case. No more Lifetime channel specials where the murderer is unveiled after police stumble upon past intrigues in some old file – "Hey, chief, didja know this guy had two wives die falling down the stairs?" No more burglary sprees cracked when some sharp cop sees the same name pop up in one too many witness statements. This is a different world, one far friendlier to lawbreakers, where even the suspicion of wrongdoing gets wiped from the record.

That, it now appears, is exactly how the Securities and Exchange Commission has been treating the Wall Street criminals who cratered the global economy a few years back. For the past two decades, according to a whistle-blower at the SEC who recently came forward to Congress, the agency has been systematically destroying records of its preliminary investigations once they are closed. By whitewashing the files of some of the nation's worst financial criminals, the SEC has kept an entire generation of federal investigators in the dark about past inquiries into insider trading, fraud and market manipulation against companies like Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank and AIG. With a few strokes of the keyboard, the evidence gathered during thousands of investigations – "18,000 ... including Madoff," as one high-ranking SEC official put it during a panicked meeting about the destruction – has apparently disappeared forever into the wormhole of history.

Under a deal the SEC worked out with the National Archives and Records Administration, all of the agency's records – "including case files relating to preliminary investigations" – are supposed to be maintained for at least 25 years. But the SEC, using history-altering practices that for once actually deserve the overused and usually hysterical term "Orwellian," devised an elaborate and possibly illegal system under which staffers were directed to dispose of the documents from any preliminary inquiry that did not receive approval from senior staff to become a full-blown, formal investigation. Amazingly, the wholesale destruction of the cases – known as MUIs, or "Matters Under Inquiry" – was not something done on the sly, in secret. The enforcement division of the SEC even spelled out the procedure in writing, on the commission's internal website. "After you have closed a MUI that has not become an investigation," the site advised staffers, "you should dispose of any documents obtained in connection with the MUI."

Many of the destroyed files involved companies and individuals who would later play prominent roles in the economic meltdown of 2008. Two MUIs involving con artist Bernie Madoff vanished. So did a 2002 inquiry into financial fraud at Lehman Brothers, as well as a 2005 case of insider trading at the same soon-to-be-bankrupt bank. A 2009 preliminary investigation of insider trading by Goldman Sachs was deleted, along with records for at least three cases involving the infamous hedge fund SAC Capital.

The widespread destruction of records was brought to the attention of Congress in July, when an SEC attorney named Darcy Flynn decided to blow the whistle. According to Flynn, who was responsible for helping to manage the commission's records, the SEC has been destroying records of preliminary investigations since at least 1993. After he alerted NARA to the problem, Flynn reports, senior staff at the SEC scrambled to hide the commission's improprieties.

As a federally protected whistle-blower, Flynn is not permitted to speak to the press. But in evidence he presented to the SEC's inspector general and three congressional committees earlier this summer, the 13-year veteran of the agency paints a startling picture of a federal police force that has effectively been conquered by the financial criminals it is charged with investigating. In at least one case, according to Flynn, investigators at the SEC found their desire to bring a case against an influential bank thwarted by senior officials in the enforcement division – whose director turned around and accepted a lucrative job from the very same bank they had been prevented from investigating. In another case, the agency farmed out its inquiry to a private law firm – one hired by the company under investigation. The outside firm, unsurprisingly, concluded that no further investigation of its client was necessary. To complete the bureaucratic laundering process, Flynn says, the SEC dropped the case and destroyed the files.

Much has been made in recent months of the government's glaring failure to police Wall Street; to date, federal and state prosecutors have yet to put a single senior Wall Street executive behind bars for any of the many well-documented crimes related to the financial crisis. Indeed, Flynn's accusations dovetail with a recent series of damaging critiques of the SEC made by reporters, watchdog groups and members of Congress, all of which seem to indicate that top federal regulators spend more time lunching, schmoozing and job-interviewing with Wall Street crooks than they do catching them. As one former SEC staffer describes it, the agency is now filled with so many Wall Street hotshots from oft-investigated banks that it has been "infected with the Goldman mindset from within."

The destruction of records by the SEC, as outlined by Flynn, is something far more than an administrative accident or bureaucratic fuck-up. It's a symptom of the agency's terminal brain damage. Somewhere along the line, those at the SEC responsible for policing America's banks fell and hit their head on a big pile of Wall Street's money – a blow from which the agency has never recovered. "From what I've seen, it looks as if the SEC might have sanctioned some level of case-related document destruction," says Sen. Chuck Grassley, the ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, whose staff has interviewed Flynn. "It doesn't make sense that an agency responsible for investigations would want to get rid of potential evidence. If these charges are true, the agency needs to explain why it destroyed documents, how many documents it destroyed over what time frame and to what extent its actions were consistent with the law."

How did officials at the SEC wind up with a faithful veteran employee – a conservative, mid-level attorney described as a highly reluctant whistle-blower – spilling the agency's most sordid secrets to Congress? In a way, they asked for it.

On May 18th of this year, SEC enforcement director Robert Khuzami sent out a mass e-mail to the agency's staff with the subject line "Lawyers Behaving Badly." In it, Khuzami asked his subordinates to report any experiences they might have had where "the behaviour of counsel representing clients in... investigations has been questionable."

Khuzami was asking staffers to recount any stories of outside counsel behaving unethically. But Flynn apparently thought his boss was looking for examples of lawyers "behaving badly" anywhere, including within the SEC. And he had a story to share he'd kept a lid on for years. "Mr. Khuzami may have gotten something more than he expected," Flynn's lawyer, a former SEC whistle-blower named Gary Aguirre, later explained to Congress.

Flynn responded to Khuzami with a letter laying out one such example of misbehaving lawyers within the SEC. It involved a case from very early in Flynn's career, back in 2000, when he was working with a group of investigators who thought they had a "slam-dunk" case against Deutsche Bank, the German financial giant. A few years earlier, Rolf Breuer, the bank's CEO, had given an interview to Der Spiegel in which he denied that Deutsche was involved in übernahmegespräche – takeover talks – to acquire a rival American firm, Bankers Trust. But the statement was apparently untrue – and it sent the stock of Bankers Trust tumbling, potentially lowering the price for the merger. Flynn and his fellow SEC investigators, suspecting that investors of Bankers Trust had been defrauded, opened a MUI on the case.

A Matter Under Inquiry is just a preliminary sort of look-see – a way for the SEC to check out the multitude of tips it gets about suspicious trades, shady stock scams and false disclosures, and to determine which of the accusations merit a formal investigation. At the MUI stage, an SEC investigator can conduct interviews or ask a bank to send in information voluntarily. Bumping a MUI up to a formal investigation is critical, because it enables investigators to pull out the full law-enforcement ass-kicking measures – subpoenas, depositions, everything short of hot pokers and water boarding.  In the Deutsche case, Flynn and other SEC investigators got past the MUI stage and used their powers to collect sworn testimony and documents indicating that plenty of übernahmegespräche indeed had been going on when Breuer spoke to Der Spiegel. Based on the evidence, they sent an "Action Memorandum" to senior SEC staff, formally recommending that the agency press forward and file suit against Deutsche. 

Breuer responded to the threat as big banks like Deutsche often do: He hired a former SEC enforcement director to lobby the agency to back off. The ex-insider, Gary Lynch, launched a creative and inspired defense, producing a linguistic expert who argued that übernahmegespräche only means "advanced stage of discussions." Nevertheless, the request to proceed with the case was approved by several levels of the SEC's staff. All that was needed to move forward was a thumbs-up from the director of enforcement at the time, Richard Walker.

But then a curious thing happened. On July 10th, 2001, Flynn and the other investigators were informed that Walker was mysteriously recusing himself from the Deutsche case. Two weeks later, on July 23rd, the enforcement division sent a letter to Deutsche that read, "Inquiry in the above-captioned matter has been terminated." The bank was in the clear; the SEC was dropping its fraud investigation. In contradiction to the agency's usual practice, it provided no explanation for its decision to close the case.

On October 1st of that year, the mystery was solved: Dick Walker was named general counsel of Deutsche. Less than 10 weeks after the SEC shut down its investigation of the bank, the agency's director of enforcement was handed a cushy, high-priced job at Deutsche.

Deutsche's influence in the case didn't stop there. A few years later, in 2004, Walker hired none other than Robert Khuzami, a young federal prosecutor, to join him at Deutsche. The two would remain at the bank until February 2009, when Khuzami joined the SEC as Flynn's new boss in the enforcement division. When Flynn sent his letter to Khuzami complaining about misbehaviour by Walker, he was calling out Khuzami's own mentor.

The circular nature of the case illustrates the revolving-door dynamic that has become pervasive at the SEC. A recent study by the Project on Government Oversight found that over the past five years, former SEC personnel filed 789 notices disclosing their intent to represent outside companies before the agency – sometimes within days of their having left the SEC. More than half of the disclosures came from the agency's enforcement division, who went to bat for the financial industry four times more often than ex-staffers from other wings of the SEC.

Even a cursory glance at a list of the agency's most recent enforcement directors makes it clear that the SEC's top policemen almost always wind up jumping straight to jobs representing the banks they were supposed to regulate. Lynch, who represented Deutsche in the Flynn case, served as the agency's enforcement chief from 1985 to 1989, before moving to the firm of Davis Polk, which boasts many top Wall Street clients. He was succeeded by William McLucas, who left the SEC in 1998 to work for Wilmer Hale, a Wall Street defense firm so notorious for snatching up top agency veterans that it is sometimes referred to as "SEC West." McLucas was followed by Dick Walker, who defected to Deutsche in 2001, and he was in turn followed by Stephen Cutler, who now serves as general counsel for JP Morgan Chase. Next came Linda Chatman Thomsen, who stepped down to join Davis Polk, only to be succeeded in 2009 by Khuzami, Walker's former protégé at Deutsche Bank.

This merry-go-round of current and former enforcement directors has repeatedly led to accusations of improprieties. In 2008, in a case cited by the SEC inspector general, Thomsen went out of her way to pass along valuable information to Cutler, the former enforcement director who had gone to work for JP Morgan. According to the inspector general, Thomsen signalled Cutler that the SEC was unlikely to take action that would hamper JP Morgan's move to buy up Bear Stearns. In another case, the inspector general found, an assistant director of enforcement was instrumental in slowing down an investigation into the $7 billion Ponzi scheme allegedly run by Texas con artist R. Allen Stanford – and then left the SEC to work for Stanford, despite explicitly being denied permission to do so by the agency's ethics office. "Every lawyer in Texas and beyond is going to get rich on this case, OK?" the official later explained. "I hated being on the sidelines."

Small wonder, then, that SEC staffers often have trouble getting their bosses to approve full-blown investigations against even the most blatant financial criminals. For a fledgling MUI to become a formal investigation, it has to make the treacherous leap from the lower rungs of career-level staffers like Flynn all the way up to the revolving-door level at the top, where senior management is composed largely of high-priced appointees from the private sector who have strong social and professional ties to the very banks they are charged with regulating. And if senior management didn't approve an investigation, the documents often wound up being destroyed – as Flynn would later discover.

After the Deutsche fiasco over Bankers Trust, Flynn continued to work at the SEC for four more years. He briefly left the agency to dabble in real estate, and then returned in 2008 to serve as an attorney in the enforcement division. In January 2010, he accepted new responsibilities that included helping to manage the disposition of records for the division – and it was then he first became aware of the agency's possibly unlawful destruction of MUI records.

Flynn discovered a directive on the enforcement division's internal website ordering staff to destroy "any records obtained in connection" with closed MUIs. The directive appeared to violate federal law, which gives responsibility for maintaining and destroying all records to the National Archives and Records Administration. Over a decade earlier, in fact, the SEC had struck a deal with NARA stipulating that investigative records were to be maintained for 25 years – and that if any files were to be destroyed after that, the shredding was to be done by NARA, not the SEC.

But Flynn soon learned that the records for thousands of preliminary investigations no longer existed. In his letter to Congress, Flynn estimates that the practice of destroying MUIs had begun as early as 1993, and has resulted in at least 9,000 case files being destroyed. For all the thousands of tips that had come in to the SEC, and the thousands of interviews that had been conducted by the agency's staff, all that remained were a few perfunctory lines for each case. The mountains of evidence gathered were no longer in existence.

To read through the list of dead and buried cases that Flynn submitted to Congress is like looking through an infrared camera at a haunted house of the financial crisis, with the ghosts of missed prosecutions flashing back and forth across the screen. A snippet of the list:

PARTY	MUI #	OPENED/CLOSED	ISSUE
Goldman Sachs	MLA-01909	6/99 - 4/00	Market Manipulation
Deutsche Bank	MHO-09356	11/01 - 7/02	Insider Trading
Deutsche Bank	MHO-09432	2/02 - 8/02	Market Manipulation
Lehman Brothers	MNY-07013	3/02 - 7/02	Financial Fraud
Goldman Sachs	MNY-08198	11/09 - 12/09	Insider Trading

 

One MUI – case MNY-08145 – involved allegations of insider trading at AIG on September 15th, 2008, right in the middle of the insurance giant's collapse. In that case, an AIG employee named Jacqueline Millan reported irregularities in the trading of AIG stock to her superiors, only to find herself fired. Incredibly, instead of looking into the matter itself, the SEC agreed to accept "an internal investigation by outside counsel or AIG." The last note in the file indicates that "the staff plans to speak with the outside attorneys on Monday, August 24th [2009], when they will share their findings with us." The fact that the SEC trusted AIG's lawyers to investigate the matter shows the basic bassackwardness of the agency's approach to these crash-era investigations. The SEC formally closed the case on October 1st, 2009.

The episode with AIG highlights yet another obstacle that MUIs experience on the road to becoming formal investigations. During the past decade, the SEC routinely began allowing financial firms to investigate themselves. Imagine the LAPD politely asking a gang of Crips and their lawyers to issue a report on whether or not a drive-by shooting by the Crips should be brought before a grand jury – that's basically how the SEC now handles many preliminary investigations against Wall Street targets.

The evolution toward this self-policing model began in 2001, when a shipping and food-service conglomerate called Seaboard aggressively investigated an isolated case of accounting fraud at one of its subsidiaries. Seaboard fired the guilty parties and made sweeping changes to its internal practices – and the SEC was so impressed that it instituted a new policy of giving "credit" to companies that police themselves. In practice, that means the agency simply steps aside and allows companies to slap themselves on the wrists. In the case against Seaboard, for instance, the SEC rewarded the firm by issuing no fines against it.

According to Lynn Turner, a former chief accountant at the SEC, the Seaboard case also prompted the SEC to begin permitting companies to hire their own counsel to conduct their own inquiries. At first, he says, the process worked fairly well. But then President Bush appointed the notoriously industry-friendly Christopher Cox to head up the SEC, and the "outside investigations" turned into whitewash jobs. "The investigations nowadays are probably not worth the money you spend on them," Turner says.

Harry Markopolos, a certified fraud examiner best known for sounding a famously unheeded warning about Bernie Madoff way back in 2000, says the SEC's practice of asking suspects to investigate themselves is absurd. In a serious investigation, he says, "the last person you want to trust is the person being accused or their lawyer." The practice helped Madoff escape for years. "The SEC took Bernie's word for everything," Markopolos says.

At the SEC, having realized that the agency was destroying documents, Flynn became concerned that he was overseeing an illegal policy. So in the summer of last year, he reached out to NARA, asking them for guidance on the issue.

That request sparked a worried response from Paul Wester, NARA's director of modern records. On July 29th, 2010, Wester sent a letter to Barry Walters, who oversees document requests for the SEC. "We recently learned from Darcy Flynn... that for the past 17 years the SEC has been destroying closed Matters Under Inquiry files," Wester wrote. "If you confirm that federal records have been destroyed improperly, please ensure that no further such disposals take place and provide us with a written report within 30 days."

Wester copied the letter to Adam Storch, a former Goldman Sachs executive who less than a year earlier had been appointed as managing executive of the SEC's enforcement division. Storch's appointment was not without controversy. "I'm not sure what's scarier," Daniel Indiviglio of The Atlantic observed, "that this guy worked at an investment bank that many believe has questionable ethics and too cozy a Washington connection, or that he's just 29." In any case, Storch reacted to the NARA letter the way the SEC often does – by circling the wagons and straining to find a way to blow off the problem without admitting anything.

Last August, as the clock wound down on NARA's 30-day deadline, Storch and two top SEC lawyers held a meeting with Flynn to discuss how to respond. Flynn's notes from the meeting, which he passed along to Congress, show the SEC staff wondering aloud if admitting the truth to NARA might be a bad idea, given the fact that there might be criminal liability.

"We could say that we do not believe there has been disposal inconsistent with the schedule," Flynn quotes Ken Hall, an assistant chief counsel for the SEC, as saying.

"There are implications to admit what was destroyed," Storch chimed in. It would be "not wise for me to take on the exposure voluntarily. If this leads to something, what rings in my ear is that Barry [Walters, the SEC documents officer] said: This is serious, could lead to criminal liability."

When the subject of how many files were destroyed came up, Storch answered: "18,000 MUIs destroyed, including Madoff."

Four days later, the SEC responded to NARA with a hilariously convoluted nondenial denial. "The Division is not aware of any specific instances of the destruction of records from any other MUI," the letter states. "But we cannot say with certainty that no such documents have been destroyed over the past 17 years." The letter goes on to add that "the Division has taken steps... to ensure that no MUI records are destroyed while we review this issue."

Translation: Hey, maybe records were destroyed, maybe they weren't. But if we did destroy records, we promise not to do it again – for now.

The SEC's unwillingness to admit the extent of the wrong doing left Flynn in a precarious position. The agency has a remarkably bad record when it comes to dealing with whistle-blowers. Back in 2005, when Flynn's attorney, Gary Aguirre, tried to pursue an insider-trading case against Pequot Capital that involved John Mack, the future CEO of Morgan Stanley, he was fired by phone while on vacation. Two Senate committees later determined that Aguirre, who has since opened a private practice representing whistle-blowers, was dismissed improperly as part of a "process of reprisal" by the SEC. Two whistle-blowers in the Stanford case, Julie Preuitt and Joel Sauer, also experienced retaliation – including reprimands and demotions – after raising concerns about superficial investigations. "There's no mechanism to raise these issues at the SEC," says another former whistle-blower. Contacting the agency's inspector general, he adds, is considered "the nuclear option" – a move "well-known to be a career-killer."

In Flynn's case, both he and Aguirre tried to keep the matter in-house, appealing to SEC chairman Mary Schapiro with a promise not to go outside the agency if she would grant Flynn protection against reprisal. When no such offer was forthcoming, Flynn went to the agency's inspector general before sending a detailed letter about the wrongdoing to three congressional committees.

One of the offices Flynn contacted was that of Sen. Grassley, who was in the midst of his own battle with the SEC. Frustrated with the agency's failure to punish major players on Wall Street, the Iowa Republican had begun an investigation into how the SEC follows up on outside complaints. Specifically, he wrote a letter to FINRA, another regulatory agency, to ask how many complaints it had referred to the SEC about SAC Capital, the hedge fund run by reptilian billionaire short-seller Stevie Cohen.

SAC has long been accused of a variety of improprieties, from insider trading to harassment. But no charge in recent Wall Street history is crazier than an episode involving a SAC executive named Ping Jiang, who was accused in 2006 of enacting a torturous hazing program. According to a civil lawsuit that was later dropped, Jiang allegedly forced a new trader named Andrew Tong to take female hormones, come to work wearing a dress and lipstick, have "foreign objects" inserted in his rectum, and allow Jiang to urinate in his mouth. (I'm not making this up.)

Grassley learned that over the past decade, FINRA had referred 19 complaints about suspicious trades at SAC to federal regulators. Curious to see how many of those referrals had been looked into, Grassley wrote the SEC on May 24th, asking for evidence that the agency had properly investigated the cases.

Two weeks later, on June 9th, Khuzami sent Grassley a surprisingly brusque answer: "We generally do not comment on the status of investigations or related referrals, and, in turn, are not providing information concerning the specific FINRA referrals you identified." Translation: We're not giving you the records, so blow us.

Grassley later found out from FINRA that it had actually referred 65 cases about SAC to the SEC, making the lack of serious investigations even more inexplicable. Angered by Khuzami's response, he sent the SEC another letter on June 15th demanding an explanation, but no answer has been forthcoming.

In the interim, Grassley's office was contacted by Flynn, who explained that among the missing MUIs he had uncovered were at least three involving SAC – one in 2006, one in 2007 and one in 2010, involving charges of insider trading and currency manipulation. All three cases were closed by the SEC, and the records apparently destroyed.

On August 17th, Grassley sent a letter to the SEC about the Flynn allegations, demanding to know if it was indeed true that the SEC had destroyed records. He also asked if the agency's failure to produce evidence of investigations into SAC Capital were related to the missing MUIs.

The SEC's inspector general is investigating the destroyed MUIs and plans to issue a report. NARA is also seeking answers. "We've asked the SEC to look into the matter and we're awaiting their response," says Laurence Brewer, a records officer for NARA. For its part, the SEC is trying to explain away the illegality of its actions through a semantic trick. John Nester, the agency's spokesman, acknowledges that "documents related to MUIs" have been destroyed. "I don't have any reason to believe that it hasn't always been the policy," he says. But Nester suggests that such documents do not "meet the federal definition of a record," and therefore don't have to be preserved under federal law.

But even if SEC officials manage to dodge criminal charges, it won't change what happened: The nation's top financial police destroyed more than a decade's worth of intelligence they had gathered on some of Wall Street's most egregious offenders. "The SEC not keeping the MUIs – you can see why this would be bad," says Markopolos, the fraud examiner famous for breaking the Madoff case. "The reason you would want to keep them is to build a pattern. That way, if you get five MUIs over a period of 20 years on something similar involving the same company, you should be able to connect five dots and say, 'You know, I've had five MUIs – they're probably doing something. Let's go tear the place apart.'" Destroy the MUIs, and Wall Street banks can commit the exact same crime over and over, without anyone ever knowing.

Regulation isn't a panacea. The SEC could have placed federal agents on every corner of lower Manhattan throughout the past decade, and it might not have put a dent in the massive wave of corruption and fraud that left the economy in flames three years ago. And even if SEC staffers from top to bottom had been fully committed to rooting out financial corruption, the agency would still have been seriously hampered by a lack of resources that often forces it to abandon promising cases due to a shortage of manpower. "It's always a triage," is how one SEC veteran puts it. "And it's worse now."

But we're equally in the dark about another hypothetical. Forget about what might have been if the SEC had followed up in earnest on all of those lost MUIs. What if even a handful of them had turned into real cases? How many investors might have been saved from crushing losses if Lehman Brothers had been forced to reveal its shady accounting way back in 2002? Might the need for taxpayer bailouts have been lessened had fraud cases against Citigroup and Bank of America been pursued in 2005 and 2007? And would the U.S. government have doubled down on its bailout of AIG if it had known that some of the firm's executives were suspected of insider trading in September 2008?

It goes without saying that no ordinary law-enforcement agency would willingly destroy its own evidence. In fact, when it comes to  garden-variety crooks, more and more police agencies are catching criminals with the aid of large and well-maintained databases. "Street-level law enforcement is increasingly data-driven," says Bill Laufer, a criminology professor at the University of Pennsylvania. "For a host of reasons, though, we are starved for good data on both white-collar and corporate crime. So the idea that we would take the little data we do have and shred it, without a legal requirement to do so, calls for a very creative explanation."

We'll never know what the impact of those destroyed cases might have been; we'll never know if those cases were closed for good reasons or bad. We'll never know exactly who got away with what, because federal regulators have weighted down a huge sack of Wall Street's dirty laundry and dumped it in a lake, never to be seen again.

Editor’s Note: The online version of this article has been amended from the print version to reflect that the SEC’s case against Deutsche Bank proceeded beyond a Matter of Inquiry to a full-blown investigation.

 

 

 

 

 

 

2011, August 20          Howard Zinn, Historian, dies at 87

 

 

January 28, 2010

Howard Zinn, Historian, Dies at 87

By HOWARD POWELL

 

Howard Zinn, historian and shipyard worker, civil rights activist and World War II bombardier, and author of “A People’s History of the United States,” a best seller that inspired a generation of high school and college students to rethink American history, died Wednesday in Santa Monica, Calif. He was 87 and lived in Auburndale, Mass.

The cause was a heart attack, which he had while swimming, his family said.

Proudly, unabashedly radical, with a mop of white hair and bushy eyebrows and an impish smile, Mr. Zinn, who retired from the history faculty at Boston University two decades ago, delighted in debating ideological foes, not the least his own college president, and in lancing what he considered platitudes, not the least that American history was a heroic march toward democracy.

Almost an oddity at first, with a printing of just 4,000 in 1980, “A People’s History of the United States” has sold nearly two million copies. To describe it as a revisionist account is to risk understatement. A conventional historical account held no allure; he concentrated on what he saw as the genocidal depredations of Christopher Columbus, the blood lust of Theodore Roosevelt and the racial failings of Abraham Lincoln. He also shined an insistent light on the revolutionary struggles of impoverished farmers, feminists, laborers and resisters of slavery and war.

Such stories are more often recounted in textbooks today; they were not at the time.

“Our nation had gone through an awful lot — the Vietnam War, civil rights, Watergate — yet the textbooks offered the same fundamental nationalist glorification of country,” Mr. Zinn recalled in a recent interview with The New York Times. “I got the sense that people were hungry for a different, more honest take.”

In a book review in The Times, the historian Eric Foner wrote of the book that “historians may well view it as a step toward a coherent new version of American history.” But many historians, even those of liberal bent, took a more sceptical view.

“What Zinn did was bring history writing out of the academy, and he undid much of the frankly biased and prejudiced views that came before it,” said Sean Wilentz, a professor of history at Princeton University. “But he’s a populariser, and his view of history is topsy-turvy, turning old villains into heroes, and after a while the glow gets unreal.”

That criticism barely raised a hair on Mr. Zinn’s neck. “It’s not an unbiased account; so what?” he said in the Times interview. “If you look at history from the perspective of the slaughtered and mutilated, it’s a different story.”

Few historians succeeded in passing so completely through the academic membrane into popular culture. He gained admiring mention in the movie “Good Will Hunting”; Matt Damon appeared in a History Channel documentary about him; and Bruce Springsteen said the starkest of his many albums, “Nebraska,” drew inspiration in part from Mr. Zinn’s writings.

Born Aug. 24, 1922, Howard Zinn grew up in New York City. His parents were Jewish immigrants, and his father ran candy stores during the Depression without much success.

“We moved a lot, one step ahead of the landlord,” Mr. Zinn recalled. “I lived in all of Brooklyn’s best slums.”

He graduated from Thomas Jefferson High School and became a pipe fitter in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, where he met his future wife, Roslyn Shechter. Raised on Charles Dickens, he later added Karl Marx to his reading, organized labour rallies and got decked by a billy-club-wielding cop.

He joined the Army Air Corps in 1943, eager to fight the fascists, and became a bombardier in a B-17. He watched his bombs rain down and, when he returned to New York, deposited his medals in an envelope and wrote, “Never Again.”

“I would not deny that war had a certain moral core, but that made it easier for Americans to treat all subsequent wars with a kind of glow,” Mr. Zinn said. “Every enemy becomes Hitler.”

He and his wife lived in a rat-infested basement apartment as he dug ditches and worked in a brewery. Later they moved to public housing and he went to college on the G.I. Bill.

He earned a B.A. at New York University and master’s and doctoral degrees at Columbia University. In 1956, he landed a job at Spelman College, a historically black women’s college, as chairman of the history department. Among his students were Marian Wright Edelman, founder of the Children’s Defense Fund; Alice Walker, the novelist; and the singer and composer Bernice Johnson Reagon.

Mr. Zinn served on the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and marched for civil rights with his students, which angered Spelman’s president.

“I was fired for insubordination,” Mr. Zinn recalled. “Which happened to be true.”

Mr. Zinn moved to Boston University in 1964. He traveled with the Rev. Daniel Berrigan to Hanoi to receive prisoners released by the North Vietnamese, and produced the antiwar books “Vietnam: The Logic of Withdrawal” (1967) and “Disobedience and Democracy” (1968).

He waged a war of attrition with Boston University’s president at the time, John Silber, a political conservative. Mr. Zinn twice organized faculty votes to oust Mr. Silber, and Mr. Silber returned the favour, saying the professor was a sterling example of those who would “poison the well of academe.”

Mr. Zinn’s book “La Guardia in Congress” (1959) won the American Historical Association’s Albert J. Beveridge Award. “A publisher went so far as to publish my quotations, which my wife thought was ridiculous,” Mr. Zinn said. “She said, ‘What are you, the pope or Mao Zedong?’ ”

Mr. Zinn retired in 1988, concluding his last class early so he could join a picket line. He invited his students to join him.

Mr. Zinn wrote three plays: “Daughter of Venus,” “Marx in Soho” and “Emma,” about the life of the anarchist Emma Goldman. All have been produced. His last article was a rather bleak assessment of President Obama for The Nation. “I’ve been searching hard for a highlight,” he wrote.

Rosyln Zinn died in 2008. Mr. Zinn is survived by a daughter, Myla Kabat-Zinn of Lexington, Mass.; a son, Jeff Zinn, of Wellfleet, Mass.; and five grandchildren.

Mr. Zinn spoke recently of more work to come. The title of his memoir, he noted, best described his personal philosophy: “You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train.”

 

 

2011, Aug 16   The Fifth night of the Ninth wave                                                   Carl Calleman

 

The Fifth Night of the Ninth Wave starts as of August 18th of 2011 and many are wondering what this energy will carry. When we look back at history the fifth night usually appears as a very destructive time period and this naturally adds drama to the interest. Typically, the Fifth night means a ¨dark age¨ with some kind of destruction and without exception it has meant a sharp economic decline. It is however never entirely true to talk about an energy in the Mayan calendar as exclusively being destructive or constructive, because similarly to how the god Shiva among the Hindus is both the creator and destroyer all calendrical energies carry both aspects and the destructiveness is there to give room for something new to be created. For us who are living in this momentous end time what is important is to be able to grasp the most relevant information from the Mayan calendar and not get stuck in simplistic labels. It was by recognizing this multifacetedness of the calendrical energies (and, if you like, Revelation 16) that I was able to correctly predict that the economic collapse caused by the Ninth wave would be precipitated by the Fifth day that started July 31 and ends now on August 17. (http://www.calleman.com/content/articles/Third_day_Ninth_Wave.htm, May 22 and http://www.calleman.com/content/articles/Beginning_4thNight_9thWave.htm, July 13). To some this downturn may seem like a destructive event, inconsistent with a day, but from the perspective of the emergence of unity consciousness, which is the chief purpose of the Ninth wave, the economic crisis is actually a constructive event that paves the way for the future. Based on that assumption, it can actually be said that the development of this economic crisis has followed the Mayan calendar with exceptional precision. In the fifth day, the stability of several major European banks has been seriously threatened and government leaders are in constant teleconferences to discuss how to halt the crisis. The US, on its part, has lost its status as AAA and since the midpoint of the fourth night (the seating of the energy of the fifth day) 7 trillion dollars of stock value has gone up in smoke. Yet, a downgrading of the US creditworthiness and the loss of 7 trillion dollars of stock value really does not mean anything except that the numbers associated with certain papers have been depreciated. It is thus essentially correct when commentators say that so far the crisis has not had any effect on the ¨real economy.¨ The unity consciousness of the fifth day simply shocked the mental duality between abstract values and real values. There is however no reason to expect that it will be possible to limit the crisis to the ¨unreal economy¨. Thus, I expect that in the now beginning Fifth night also the real economy will be hit. How quickly this will actually manifest is hard to tell but I expect that events in the fifth night will lay the foundation for massive unemployment in many major Western countries (It is of course high already, but for many it has still been possible to keep on with the previous lifestyle). I also expect that there will be a large runaway from the stock markets and the stability of currencies will be negatively affected to a point where new radical solutions need to be considered. In terms of real changes (in contrast to those merely on paper) the breakthrough energy of the fifth day was most clearly visible in the political arena where the authority of governments of major western nations is beginning to collapse. The looting and riots in the UK is one example. Another is that the political system of the United States could not prevent the Tea Party minority to impose its will on the debt ceiling discussions. something that has very seriously weakened the power of its whole political system. This political situation was also the main reason for the downgrading of the creditworthiness of the US, even it can be said that the US government along with many other western governments in fact are way too indebted for their own health and this is not something that was caused by the Tea Party. Regardless, the US political institutions have taken a major beating and no one is really able to see how its functioning is to be restored. The world is thus entering the Fifth night of the Ninth wave with seriously weakened prospects for its economy and seriously weakened authority of some of its major governments. Such developments were of course what I always have predicted in my books based on the shifts in consciousness that humanity is undergoing with the eighth and the ninth waves: The weakening and downfall of hierarchies of dominance. I have however also often said that there is little reason to expect that the transition to unity consciousness to be smooth and easy, but that it will include very difficult reactions as well. The dramatic changes are coming now with the Ninth wave more rapidly than anyone could have imagined. As part of this, in addition to the crisis beginning to hit the real economy in the fifth night, I think it is realistic that there will be some kind of political reaction to the developing chaos. In the US this could for instance take the form of giving extraordinary powers either to Obama or to the new so called Super Congress possibly under the pretext of some act of terrorism. Given the spread of chaos especially in the economic arena it is not unlikely that such measures also could gain a significant popular support. My own view is that the economic crisis will only deepen as we go throughout the fifth night into the Sixth day and take large proportions onwards until the end of the Mayan calendar on October 28, 2011. Naturally, many will then ask if there is a solution which could stop this, as I believe, ongoing decline of the current political and economic system. My answer would be that a solution simply does not exist within the framework of the world`s current economic system, since this mandates growth for its own functioning and survival. Yet, there is a fairly simple solution out of the collapse of the world`s economy that we now see the beginning of. The solution is the forgiveness of all debts, not only on the government levels, but most importantly debts that regular people have in the form of credit cards, mortgages and rents, etc etc. Such a forgiveness of all debts would have to be combined with the end of the use of money meaning that people just continue to do their jobs without any form of exchange. This would set an end to growth and help save the planet. It would also liberate people from having to make money in order to survive. All that would be required is that people care enough for one another to continue to do the necessary work for everyone`s survival and wellbeing day by day without asking for money in return. Technically this would not be so difficult to implement, but what is blocking such a solution to the problems of the world`s economy are primarily political and legal. It is however difficult to see why a government or any banks would be needed in such a system and so these groups that hold the world's military power would most likely resist it. Moreover, for many regular people at least in our current world it also may seem difficult to simply enjoy being and so constantly need to be doing things rather than being at peace with them. Yet, I do expect that in the sixth day of the Ninth wave, starting September 6th, we will see the first examples pointing in the directions of such solutions carrying the end to debts and money paving the way for the new world to be born after the end of the Mayan calendar on October 28, 2011. Unfortunately, billions of people lack basic knowledge about the Mayan calendar or even when its end date is and without this basic knowledge it is not easy to understand what is happening in the world. We all have to work to correct this. Carl Johan Calleman Paris, 5 Manik, 17th day of the Fifth day (August 16, 2011)

 

2011, Aug 16       The Sirian Councils Of Light -  Open the Corridor in your Heart             Space                                                Ray Dawn

Hello to you,

We are the Sirian Councils of Light speaking to you in this way at this time and in this moment of your beingness!

We have tidings of joy to bring to each of you, to your dear hearts and we tell you to open wide for this transmission!

We, and others of the non-Earthly realms are here to help open the corridors to the return of what is natural to this world. The return of truth and light.
Of course the return is to the ways of love, the ways of the heart and it’s opening fully to the doors of creation.

We are here to bring support in this endeavor and wish all of you to return to your heart and allow the entrance there of upliftment, of remembering the truth of you, for you are eternal, you are ever evolving in this evolution upon the Earthly sphere!

Now is the time to remember, now is the time to act. This moment is bringing you all you need to be in joy, to be in joyful camaraderie with all that is!

Put down your weapons of destruction, the ways of the world that is no longer, put down the struggle to fix what is broken and allow it to fall away..

Allow the remembrance of what is truth to guide you thru this time of emergence, this is the time you have waited for and all is poised to be in fulfillment for all of you…
As is said, “not far now”…

So to be in this state of upliftment all that is needed is a cleansing… so this is what is upon your plate. Your job so to speak is to allow the cleansing within you fully, no resistance, no figuring out, no statistics or worry..

Be in your Heart and allow what is there to see, allow the heart to bring you the truth and return there in each moment; This will bring fulfillment, this will bring joy!

Be not afraid of your own heart and the secrets you have hidden there, for it must be allowed to see the light, to open the corridor in your heart space. This is what you are here for, as easy as that it is!

So we and all others of the non-Earthly realms who are aligned with the plan of reclamation are on stand by- are here to witness your birthing, your coming into being here, once again it is returned to you, the powers of universal consciousness.
Focus on what is of unity and what is of fulfillment for each of your hearts wishes, allow them to come to fruition thru each one of you, quite simply.

Know the power of the mind is in the intention, the holding of what is acquired from the heart, the knowledge there will bring all corridors open and we shall all see each other again as family, as one!

Rejoice in this plan here, that you so wanted to bring to fruition, you each have done your job, your part well! Remember that here; no matter what it looks like in illusion, it is truth that you each have a wonderful part in this grand experiment, this Life!

Be now and forever, open the doors here, it is all that is needed, focus upon your heart spaces, your truth and allow this process to be easy.

You are all coded for this, there is nothing more to learn or gain, but to remember and open to the truth…

Know that each of you has a card that will be dealt, that will be allowed your time to play your hand, to complete this alignment. It does not matter that you do not know what consciously that is in this moment, for all will be revealed to you in your divine timing!

Let go into the beautiful tapestry of life, it is eternal, it is magnificent and it is mind blowing the reality beyond the illusion. Open forth your corridor and allow the hearts entrance into your dear world here it is time…

Be in the heart and allow it to rule your consciousness once more upon the Earth, it will be your guidance system and bring you home to the light, the truth within each of you! It is aligned perfectly with all that is, it fits like a wonderful glove and protects you, keeps you in fulfillment and joy!

We are here to proclaim that this is becoming a galactic human, each of you are coded for this, now is the time to allow the process to be completed!

As each completion is allowed, a new corridor is opened and a whole new playing field is born, here upon this Earth!

We wait patiently behind the curtain for the big reveal and know in truth it is done, it was done from the beginning and now is the time to build the New world!

Begin again in your heart and be present, allow the entrance of your corridor to love eternal, fear not this process and enjoy the journey home!

In truth we love you beyond measure and hold you in safety of your remembrance. We are your star family and bring you tidings of joy…

Begin now….

In Truth,

The Sirian Councils of Light…

Ray Dawn

www.raydawn.com
copyright 2010 Ray Dawn all rights reserved
Feel Free to Re-post as long as credit is given to channel and her website is included, Blessings!

 

 

2011, Aug 14          Wheel of Fortune: The Turning Point

 

To The Light-Bearers

"You are currently undergoing the transition into spiritual-galactic adulthood as you venture beyond the leg of the journey that we refer to as the embodiment phase. This phase is nearing completion and there will be so much to share with you in the coming weeks...

For now, realize that you are the brigade by which all evolutionary change will be based. You to whom we speak are the true light-bearers…for you brought light where there was none…into every corner, every facet of human life…and every industry, every nation, every culture of the world is changing because of your silent triumphs. It is because of each of you that the new paradigm is anchored firmly in place, and it is because of you, the ground & grid-workers, that the new era of human consciousness shall begin and prevail."  - Seven Sisters of Pleiades


Reconnection Completion

According to the Pleiadians, the reconnection completion of our dormant DNA (known by conventional scientists as 'junk' DNA)...which includes 12 strands of the double-helix and 24 light, or acceleration-codes of the matching pairs (12 magnetic/female & 12 electric/male)...commences on the 11:11, the universal gateway they are calling  "the portal to living in full 5th dimensional consciousness."  This is the activation of the full silicate matrix, or divine blueprint, which contains the original 12-Strand DNA code structure of the original spiritual-human prototype.

From what I understand, this completion also marks the beginning of the physical journey into oneness for all those who have activated these codes within…the part where we actually become the living examples of a new-humanity.

"Now, we say this with great care, for we understand that you are tired, and you are prostrate from exertion, and that you may feel as though rest is needed after all the work you've accomplished...but we assure you that the invigoration that you will feel from a fully-fired system (kundalini), an activated sacred template, will replace any feelings of fatigue you are enduring. We also say this so that you are reminded that there is great work to be done in this phase of the global process, and lovingly we add that there will be 'no rest for the weary'."   - Seven Sisters

There is more information on this to come in subsequent updates, but for now we are being urged to continue to nurture ourselves thru the remaining days of the embodiment process, and allow our physical selves to come into complete alignment with the rest of us, in our own perfect timing.


Prophesy Fulfilled?

"There is a significant cosmic event that is soon to take place that will herald the beginning of the new phase.  This, of course, will not be understood by many, but will be regarded as the signal to begin the implementation phase by those with eyes to see…the awakened ones, those of indigenous cultures and self-run systems of governance. We also want to make it clear that this event is not to create a cataclysmic scenario as so many are predicting, but more of a recollection, an impression, an awareness by those who "rule" the world that there is MUCH more than meets the eye."  - Seven Sisters

I am hearing that this one event..and apparently there are few out-of-this-world discoveries on the way…but this one in particular is directly related to the DNA reconnection completion and the "firing" of our new human system.  I imagine that this event is intimately connected to the well-known (and sensationalized) "comets" headed our way this month and next, but what's interesting is that when I ask the Pleiadians about this they say that:

"There is a comet referenced that is actually not a comet at all, but a celestial body that houses a very advanced civilization.  There is also that which many are calling 'the comet of destruction'  but we assure you it is not in the way that most think.  This comet is the prophesied "harbinger of peace", and toward that end it will create changes and upheaval, but not in a way that will destroy the earth."

What's also interesting….besides the fact that no one has any solid idea of how all this will unfold…is that back in February, I received a message from a group of archangels  who talked, in no uncertain terms, of the return of a 12th planet that they refer to as "Nibiru" (another target of sensationalism, so please refrain from hitting the panic-button) and how this directly impacts our 12th dimensional consciousness. They mentioned that:

…"in the coming days, there will be even greater awareness of the implications of Nibiru's presence in your solar system, and those who have fully reconnected and activated their 12th dimensional human-galactic genetics will be brought into alignment with the energies and beings from this celestial body."

They also mentioned that:

"... the yet-to-be-officially-discovered-planet is, in large part, responsible for setting the new consciousness course for humanity, and will enable the 12th dimensional field of perceptual reality to be projected into form…a dimension which they refer to as the field of mind-body connection.

Like all planets, this 'new' planet on its way to our awareness is the macrocosmic expression of our microcosmic experience on earth….the 12th dimensional cosmic interplay required for the full integration of spirit into physical form."


And from their perspective, that all connects thru the understanding that:

…"there are 12 fundamental spiritual energies in our universe which seek a physical expression. This expression (where a planetary energy operates or is released in our lives) is accomplished thru 12 zodiac signs, 12 astrological houses and 12 planets.   And just as each of the 12 astrological houses has its own ruling planet, meaning and associated zodiac sign... each of our chakras have their own ruling planet, meaning and associated zodiac sign. These 12 cosmic/celestial energies…the vital forces of existence... are expressed thru the human body via 12 chakras which connect to the 12 strands of activated DNA in the new-human template, or the original divine-human blueprint...and each of the 12 strands of our DNA correlates to one of the twelve aspects of multi-dimensional consciousness, or perceptual fields of awareness."

In other words, I am told that these (prophesied) events...however they unfold and whatever they are called...herald the beginning of cosmic consciousness, the entrance into spiritual adulthood/galactic citizenship both for the planet and for those who are leading the planet to this destination, and all "happen" to take place right around the end of the 9th wave and the completion of the Mayan Calendar (10/28/11).

And just to stretch you a bit further, this cosmic event that they refer to will supposedly have "a major impact on the magnetic grid, so much so that a reversal of polarity will take place...but not in the way that has been aggrandized."  My feeling is that this is not necessarily an electromagnetic pole shift as some believe, but a shift in the polarity of consciousness.

Again, no one (myself included) has any solid idea of exactly what or how this will come to pass…which is mostly the fun of it all.  The point is to simply remain a witness to the unfolding while maintaining a sense of calm, wonder and awe as many more people awaken and hook into the  global resonance required for this new world to operate.



On Global Changes

"The time has come for great change in your outer world." - Seven Sisters

There is already so much taking place both within us and around the planet that the unseen’s want to harness the opportunity to reinforce the message of joy and hope during the increasingly more dramatic changes that will continue to take place all around us...and to remind us that all is well, regardless of outside appearances. 

The message is as it always is…for us to view change for what it is: the switch from a separation-based societal mindset, to a society based in unity-consciousness and love.  We are being reminded that this is all we need to understand with regard to the dismantling and upheaval that will continue to take place in the outside world...that the details are merely symptoms of this changing process and at the core, all movement is leading to the outcome that we desire, both individually and collectively.

Having said that, they are also making it clear that great transformation is indeed upon us…big changes in the world as we know it…and that this change is ultimately for the good of all, yet may be immediately perceived as a threat to those who carry fear in their hearts and separation in their minds. Whatever unfolds, it will be for those of us who are centered in truth…with the inner-knowing that ALL is perfect and well…. to remain in our hearts, thereby quelling the fears of those around us with our unwavering optimism toward any global restructuring.

"Ignore the fears & protests and stay anchored in your heart-center…neutral to chaos and while maintaining a sense of trust in the overall plan. Switch your focus to the undeniable feelings of optimism rising within you instead.  These feelings that are emerging are a true indication of what’s around the next bend...not what it appears to be, but what it feels to be." -Seven Sisters


Clicking into Place

The sisters are also wanting to point out that those who have consciously been working toward the goal of ascension with the understanding that there is something specific for you to contribute, that there will be a "clicking into position" as a result of these nebulous cosmic events.  Not necessarily because of them, but because of the timing of them…that there is a great plan at play and all is perfectly and divinely orchestrated to the end result of achieving heaven on earth.

Those souls, who the unseen’s refer to as the 'second wave initiates'... the visionaries, new-earth program planners, cosmic correspondents, blueprint architects/builders, musicians, artists and new-paradigm healers,etc.…will in some cases be joining forces with the wisdom keepers, elders, seers, grid-layers activators, etc...all those needed to bring forth the information from the unseen realms for the first phase of planetary ascension... to begin the ground-level phase of implementation that we have been bursting at the seams to create.

Those who are drawn to work within the blueprint of new earth will be brought together in soul clusters, or pods, to begin the community level organizing that is required to bring the bigger (divine) plan into form.  We will be brought into alignment with those who share our particular vision/plan/contribution/

aspect of the new earth to begin the next phase where we unite with our soul-community to share our greater visions with the outside world. These creations will be the proverbial Phoenix, rising from the ashes of the intensive global purification process.

This phase will apparently begin around the equinox and will be brought into greater concentration at the solstice…and this is also the time when many soul partnerships will be brought together for the purposes of reuniting in sacred union and under new earth guardianship.

"These unions are the merging of God-dess, the outward manifestation of the sacred marriage of the divine feminine and masculine energies within.  Some of these couples are sacred counterparts in disguise, not visible under the cloak of separation, but these relationships will reveal their true purpose in the days to come.  Be steadfast on your quest to inner-completion, for the gifts that you seek in the outside world are merely the reflection of your wholeness within." -Seven Sisters

I am told that these sacred partnerships will be the 'new earth keepers'... many of which will be bringing forth new rainbow souls to assist in the unfolding of earths evolutionary plan.  Others will be the caretakers & stewards of the grid, protecting sacred portals with force-fields of (community) unity consciousness. Those stepping into these roles are already well aware of their soul's plan, even if only by desire.  The next few months will be bringing these plans to fruition.


A Message For "The Strays"

Lastly, the unseen’s mention that those who are aligned with the ascension timeline but who are not teachers of new-humanity, or who are still unsure of their participation in the divine plan, that there is much unfolding in your lives that is leading you to your "promised land". They refer to these star-souls as "strays", because they have, as part of their soul's plan, left their birth-families behind in search of their soul-families as part of the "path" to finding their true home within their sacred inner-domicile. 

"We say this not as an indication that you are to simply arrive in paradise, but that you are being guided by your inner-knowing to create it....to the places by which you belong for the next phase of the journey.  You may not, as yet, have a conscious understanding of what that means, but we assure you that you are exactly where you need to be in this and every moment."  -Seven Sisters

when this particular group of souls come together, they will remember each other from long ago and will begin to form an important part of the population of awakened/awakening ones who will work together, grow together, and resolve any inner-healing still required for purification. This group is apparently in great need of support right now and this message is to let you know that you will be reunited with your true family soon.

You will know this to be true if you have recently moved to a new geographic location, joined a new organization…spiritual or otherwise…or simply found a new group of souls to commune with via the Internet.   Either way, these new connections will fulfill you and bring you into rapid inner-alignment with your unique part of the divine plan, and the collective soul plan for your particular group consciousness.


Wheel of Fortune

Things are starting to really speed up (save for our weary bods) and many are diligently preparing their lives take off in unknown directions. This mercury retrograde couldn't have come at a better time as it is enhancing our preparation by serving to pull us back, like a sling-shot, to go over the many details necessary and capture some final, albeit perspective-changing pieces of our personal and creative puzzles…before we are hurled into greater action this autumn. 

This time is serving a very important purpose for any unfinished business/projects/relationships/situations, etc. that we need to bring to completion, and in some cases, this new information may mean some massive restructuring to align ourselves/visions/creations fully with the cosmic pulse...which is beating so loudly now.   On a personal level, anything that we have not faced squarely, dealt with in an honest manner, or put on the back burner will continue to be brought to the surface until resolved.  In most cases, these are the little things that we didn't think mattered, but we are finding that Everything matters here. 

Our long-held desires are beginning to push through the illusion we have been living for so very long, and that means many things that we have been waiting for/working toward are/will be effortlessly falling into place. We are beginning to see all the threads of our long journey weave together into the tapestry of a brand new life, and as a result, a new found confidence is emerging, an assuredness that is so deeply rooted in the calm center of our authentic selves.  We are becoming even more deeply attuned to the inter-connectivity of it all and discovering our new/true roles and divine purpose for being here.

Spirit is showing me the major arcana "Wheel of Fortune" tarot card as an indication that we approaching our "destiny".  We are beginning to feel the tempo of life speed up as we are swept away by new opportunities in a series of developments that will support us in rejoining the world of activity again.

There are moments where this powerful, fast moving wheel of energy can feel chaotic, ungrounded and dizzying…but only if we hang on in an attempt to control the outcome. And if we hold on too tight (to what we know) we may risk repeating the same cycles again.

The purpose of this part of the ride is to gain enough momentum to be thrown off the (karmic) wheel in absolute trust that we will land exactly where we unexpectedly belong. 

And we will.

To the unexpected!
Lauren
ThinkWithYourHeart.net