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Reminds me of "The Contract with America" If you are old enough to remember.... The Contract With America was developed by the U.S. Republican Party during the 1994 Congressional election campaign, the first mid-term election of the Clinton Administration. It was signed by all but two incumbent Republican Representatives and all non-incumbent Republican Congressional candidates. In 2000, Edward H. Crane of the Cato Institute declared it a failure: "the combined budgets of the 95 major programs that the Contract with America promised to eliminate have increased by 13%." Text Of The Contract With America As Republican Members of the House of Representatives and as citizens seeking to join that body we propose not just to change its policies, but even more important, to restore the bonds of trust between the people and their elected representatives. That is why, in this era of official evasion and posturing, we offer instead a detailed agenda for national renewal, a written commitment with no fine print. This year's election offers the chance, after four decades of one-party control, to bring to the House a new majority that will transform the way Congress works. That historic change would be the end of government that is too big, too intrusive, and too easy with the public's money. It can be the beginning of a Congress that respects the values and shares the faith of the American family. Like Lincoln, our first Republican president, we intend to act "with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right." To restore accountability to Congress. To end its cycle of scandal and disgrace. To make us all proud again of the way free people govern themselves. On the first day of the 104th Congress, the new Republican majority will immediately pass the following major reforms, aimed at restoring the faith and trust of the American people in their government: FIRST, require all laws that apply to the rest of the country also apply equally to the Congress; SECOND, select a major, independent auditing firm to conduct a comprehensive audit of Congress for waste, fraud or abuse; THIRD, cut the number of House committees, and cut committee staff by one-third; FOURTH, limit the terms of all committee chairs; FIFTH, ban the casting of proxy votes in committee; SIXTH, require committee meetings to be open to the public; SEVENTH, require a three-fifths majority vote to pass a tax increase; EIGHTH, guarantee an honest accounting of our Federal Budget by implementing zero base-line budgeting. Thereafter, within the first 100 days of the 104th Congress, we shall bring to the House Floor the following bills, each to be given full and open debate, each to be given a clear and fair vote and each to be immediately available this day for public inspection and scrutiny. 1. THE FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY ACT: A balanced budget/tax limitation amendment and a legislative line-item veto to restore fiscal responsibility to an out- of-control Congress, requiring them to live under the same budget constraints as families and businesses. 2. THE TAKING BACK OUR STREETS ACT: An anti-crime package including stronger truth-in- sentencing, "good faith" exclusionary rule exemptions, effective death penalty provisions, and cuts in social spending from this summer's "crime" bill to fund prison construction and additional law enforcement to keep people secure in their neighborhoods and kids safe in their schools. 3. THE PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY ACT: Discourage illegitimacy and teen pregnancy by prohibiting welfare to minor mothers and denying increased AFDC for additional children while on welfare, cut spending for welfare programs, and enact a tough two-years-and-out provision with work requirements to promote individual responsibility. 4. THE FAMILY REINFORCEMENT ACT: Child support enforcement, tax incentives for adoption, strengthening rights of parents in their children's education, stronger child pornography laws, and an elderly dependent care tax credit to reinforce the central role of families in American society. 5. THE AMERICAN DREAM RESTORATION ACT: A S500 per child tax credit, begin repeal of the marriage tax penalty, and creation of American Dream Savings Accounts to provide middle class tax relief. 6. THE NATIONAL SECURITY RESTORATION ACT: No U.S. troops under U.N. command and restoration of the essential parts of our national security funding to strengthen our national defense and maintain our credibility around the world. 7. THE SENIOR CITIZENS FAIRNESS ACT: Raise the Social Security earnings limit which currently forces seniors out of the work force, repeal the 1993 tax hikes on Social Security benefits and provide tax incentives for private long-term care insurance to let Older Americans keep more of what they have earned over the years. 8. THE JOB CREATION AND WAGE ENHANCEMENT ACT: Small business incentives, capital gains cut and indexation, neutral cost recovery, risk assessment/cost-benefit analysis, strengthening the Regulatory Flexibility Act and unfunded mandate reform to create jobs and raise worker wages. 9. THE COMMON SENSE LEGAL REFORM ACT: "Loser pays" laws, reasonable limits on punitive damages and reform of product liability laws to stem the endless tide of litigation. 10. THE CITIZEN LEGISLATURE ACT: A first-ever vote on term limits to replace career politicians with citizen legislators. Further, we will instruct the House Budget Committee to report to the floor and we will work to enact additional budget savings, beyond the budget cuts specifically included in the legislation described above, to ensure that the Federal budget deficit will be less than it would have been without the enactment of these bills. Respecting the judgment of our fellow citizens as we seek their mandate for reform, we hereby pledge our names to this Contract with America. Source: U.S. House of Representatives B/A

Iraqi News October 18, 2016 ISIS evacuates its headquarters and withdraws to east side of Mosul al-Hashed al-Shaabi militia announced on Monday that ISIS militants evacuated their headquarters from the west side of Mosul and retreated to the east side of the city. Al-Hashed al-Shaabi media said in a statement: “ISIS members evacuated their headquarters from mosques, churches and the state directorates on the west side of Mosul and pulled to the east side of the city.” Earlier today, Prime Minister, Haider al-Abadi announced the start of the battle to liberate the city of Mosul from the control of ISIS terrorist gangs, and emphasized that only Iraqi forces will participate in the battle. The ISIS took over the city of Mosul in Nineveh province in the tenth of June 2014, before extending its terrorist activities to other areas in Iraq, and committing many violations, genocides and crimes against humanity. Article Link

5 years ago Trump takes hatchet to Santorum Posted by CNN's Gregory Wallace (CNN) – Donald Trump demonstrated Monday that he has no qualms about going after one of Mitt Romney's chief rivals, Rick Santorum. "There's nothing - there's no gift, no Christmas gift, that could be given better than Rick Santorum to the Democrats," Trump said in a radio interview which aired in Michigan. Democrats, he continued, "are just salivating at that. And, you know, I don't think they believe it's going to happen. But boy, would they like it to happen because that would be an easy election." Michigan votes one week from Tuesday, and Trump is scheduled to take to the state's airwaves daily this week to speak on Romney's behalf. The perception of electability was a major factor in deciding to endorse Romney, Trump said, and Republicans would be foolish to put forward Santorum as their nominee because "he basically has no chance" of winning. "Otherwise, what's the whole purpose, what's the purpose of working, working, working, going out voting, doing your thing if the person has no chance of getting elected," Trump said on WSGW Radio of Saginaw, Michigan. Trump considered a presidential bid himself, then nixed the idea, and in January tossed his endorsement to Mitt Romney. If Santorum were to win the Republican nomination, Trump suggested Monday that he would consider a run. "If he doesn't, and I hope that doesn't happen," Trump said of a Romney loss, "I would say there's a good possibility that I would do something, yes." The two have not appeared in public campaigning together since the event announcing the endorsement, but made fundraising phone calls together last week. Shortly after the endorsement, which took place at a Las Vegas hotel owned by Trump ahead of the Nevada caucuses, Santorum suggested his recommendation carries little weight. "I'm sure he just wanted some publicity for his casino down in Las Vegas," Santorum said. "I think the people of Nevada are smart enough to figure out who they're going to vote for and it's not going to be based on what Donald Trump recommends."

Yes the Creator of everything in the universe is hanging out to make sure our election goes a certain way. Uh.... I would have to think he or she has better things to do than play politics. Of course this is only my opinion. B/A

Is this a self fulfilling prophecy?

As I said only she can take herself out.... Apparently she is going to... Checkout this post http://dinarvets.com/forums/index.php?/topic/226122-believe-it-or-not/

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I think I'll pass! LOL I don't have time with Nibiru coming.

I know Shabs and there were truly millions of people who thought the world was flat... I read recently there is a group who still believe it... What's a brother to do?

This is from FOX NEWS... They hate religion. Oh unless you are a white Puritan.

A funny thing happened in the United States Senate today, as a chorus of cross-party agreement broke out during a Senate Banking Committee hearing on revelations that Wells Fargo employees created hundreds of thousands of fraudulent bank accounts and credit cards in order to meet company targets for cross-selling new products to existing customers. The targets were extremely aggressive — so aggressive that they couldn’t actually be met — so thousands of employees responded by faking it. Wells Fargo is paying $185 million in fines and fired more than 5,000 rank-and-file employees, but so far nothing has been done to personally punish the high-level executives who reap the rewards when the company performs well. Senators today weren’t having it, with banker scourge Elizabeth Warren telling Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf that he ought to resign and face personal investigation. She described his failure to take responsibility as “gutless leadership” and said we may need “tough new laws” to hold executives personally accountable for their misdeeds. Warren, as you might expect, is on the leftward flank of the panel. But it featured a surprising level of bipartisan agreement, with committee chair Richard Shelby, a hard-right Alabama Republican, accusing Stumpf in his opening statement of personally fostering “a corporate culture that drove company ‘team members’ to fraudulently open millions of accounts using their customers’ funds and personal information without their permission.” And yet Shelby, along with his fellow Banking Committee Republicans, is committed to eliminating the entire agency that discovered the wrongdoing in the first place. Bipartisan slams on Wells Fargo Warren’s fellow Democrats got in on the action, naturally. When Stumpf tried to punt on compensation issues and say that he would leave it up to a special committee of the board of directors rather than weigh in personally on whether he and other key leaders should have their pay docked, Ohio’s Sherrod Brown called the decision “unfortunate.” But Tennessee Republican Bob Corker got in on the game, too, arguing that “to not invoke some degree of clawback for yourself and others involved would be committing malpractice from the standpoint of just public relations.” And it was Pennsylvania Republican Pat Toomey who raised what was arguably the most salient legal issue of the hearing, namely whether Wells Fargo’s failure to disclose this matter as a potential risk to investors in Securities and Exchange Commission filings constituted a separate breach of securities law. All of which is to say that while the subject of financial regulation is a sharply partisan and polarized one in Washington — with Republicans routinely charging the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial regulation overhaul of hamstringing the economy with red tape and excessive regulation — when actual wrongdoing comes to light, everyone is inclined to agree that it’s important to get tough. But even while Republicans are outraged by Wells Fargo’s wrongdoing, all the Republican senators who spoke against the bank at today’s hearing have gone on record at various times in calling for the full repeal of President Obama’s financial regulation law — which would mean eliminating the agency that uncovered the wrongdoing and levied the biggest fines. Why the CFPB matters Before she was a senator and before Obama was president, Elizabeth Warren laid out the case for creating what became Dodd-Frank’s Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, making the point that it’s not good enough for consumer abuses to be against the law — there needs to be an agency charged with specifically enforcing those laws. “Each agency, for example, has some power to control certain forms of predatory lending,” she wrote, describing the old status quo, “but their main mission is to protect the financial stability of banks and other financial institutions, not to protect consumers.” Mainstream bank regulators, in other words, are charged with making sure that banks’ balance sheets don’t get too risky. Protecting consumers from rip-offs was always a secondary mission, which in some ways ended up in conflict with the basic safety-and-soundness mission, since tough enforcement of consumer rules can undermine bank profitability. Historically, the needed consumer protection function was carried out at the state and local level (and indeed, in the Wells Fargo case it appears the LA City Attorney’s Office played an important role), but as modern banks are national in the scope of their activities only a national agency can really get a handle on them. With today’s rhetoric, Shelby, Toomey, Corker, and others confirmed that consumer abuses by major national banking conglomerates are a serious problem. Warren, Obama, and other Democrats have a solution to the problem — a national regulatory agency focused on consumer abuses. Banking committee Republicans want to grandstand when banks get caught, while voting to make it much less likely that banks actually do get caught. http://www.vox.com/2016/9/20/12989688/wells-fargo-cfpb

Sorry Whatshername to hear that 2 successful Republican governors who are anti-establishment do not impress you, but rather a loose cannon who has no chance of winning is your idea of a good candidate. As they say "To each his own". And as for RV Me, who seems to think I support Clinton. I do not want Clinton to win. I will leave it with this question... And my answer... Does anyone really believe Trump will win? NO Or let me put it another way. How can Clinton loose? ONLY BY HER OWN ACCORD... SHE IS THE CHOSEN ONE BY THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE. And remember I'm stating for the record.... I'm not a Clinton supporter. B/A

Vote Republican... Vote Gary Johnson... Voting for Clinton or Trump is voting for corruption. Either way you are voting for a loser. Trump can't win and there is no bigger loser than Hillarious.

Black Lives Matter unless you're black. Last I checked the majority of blacks murdered is by blacks.

Gary Johnson Presidential Candidate, Libertarian Party Gary Earl Johnson (born January 1, 1953) is an American businessman, author, politician, and the Libertarian Party nominee for President of the United States in the 2016 election. He served as the 29th Governor of New Mexico Born: January 1, 1953 (age 63), Minot, North Dakota, U.S. Spouse: Dee Simms (m. 1977-2005) Party affiliation: Libertarian (2011–present), Republican (before 2011) Offices held: 29th Governor of New Mexico (Jan 1995-Jan 2003)

I just threw up in my mouth.... What a bunch of punk ass *******. They need a spanking and be grounded to their bedrooms without TV or internet. B/A

DebTarHeelGirl October 13, 2016 You Bank Account is Full – You Are Making Visible Changes – How Do You Explain When Asked Where the $$ For These Changes Came From?” Here is a suggestion: SO many people say “DebTarHeelGirl, what do you suggest we say to people, when the RV is over and to our friends and family who see any visual changes we are making, as to how we obtained the money to make these changes?” Written by a fellow currency holder who also coaches in financial matters, here is his advice: What are you going to say when all of a sudden your bank accounts are full, other see that changes you are making, someone asks you about the new house or houses, a new car/cars or new clothes or you take them out and pay for everything with your “new found wealth…” What are you going to say to them? Did you find gold? Did you strike it rich, you seem to have a lot of money now. You must be rich! I have heard people say “well I’m going to say I have received an inheritance or I made some good investments or I won the lottery”. To me when you say those things, that means that you have a lot of money or you are very wealthy… now they start thinking you could possibility help them or you could become a target for crooks or bad guys to take advantage of you. We all want to help others and share our blessing. But we may be giving up our privacy and losing your personal & family life with all this responsibly of all this wealth & money. There is a way for you to keep both. None of us want people following us around to asking for money or to help them all the time. We want to be in control of that so that we will be good stewards of God’s blessing and help others thru this control and being smart about this. Here’s my thoughts and plans what I have decided to do and say. “For a long time I’ve been trying to get a position with a company. (I don’t say trust, I will say a company) I finally got the position it has great benefits and by the way this house is one of their properties and they allow me live in it and this is their car and they allow me to use it. I have a great income. I help them run the company and they pay me very well and provide me with a place to live my car to drive. The main company is located in Florida.” If I decide to help someone or a family, I or the company (the trust) will donate to a church that I will be working and ask the minister or the pastor to pay for something that person needed or have them give the money to that person. If the person asks the pastor where did the money come from, the pastor will not say from me or the company (our trust) but he will be instructed to tell them, that God gave it to them and that he (God) ask the pastor to tell the person & their family to come to the church to meet him & thank him in person. The idea is not to get into a big conversation with people. This deflects the questions of where did you get all this money. The main reason for doing it that way is to not say or show that you have this new found wealth (the left hand) & you still have your life and you do not become someone’s target. Most families & people’s main job or responsibly is to protect, guard, keep safe, share, give to others and grow this blessing very privately, (right hand, you and God knows) this way it keeps you and your family safe. Matthew 6:2-4 New American Standard Bible (NASB) 2 So when you give to the poor, do not sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, so that they may be honored by men. Truly I say to you, they have their reward in full. 3 But when you give to the poor, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, 4 so that your giving will be in secret; and your Father who sees what is done in secret will reward you. That way we grow the church, we help others, and we keep our lives private and we can have a life with our families and live happy ever after. This is a good article to save as well! 6 Asset Protection Strategies To Shield Your Wealth http://www.forbes.com/sites/robertpagliarini/2013/10/09/6-asset-protection-strategies-to-shield-your-wealth/#194a7da41db9 6 Asset Protection Strategies To Shield Your Wealth Robert Pagliarini , Contributor I focus on the financial and psychological issues of sudden wealth. Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Have you heard of the homeless man who was sued for $5.5 million? Of course you haven’t. Lawsuits aren’t filed against those with few assets; they are filed against those with “deep pockets.” If you have substantial assets or are coming into a windfall from a sudden wealth event such as an inheritance, lawsuit, stock options sale, business sale or from a sports/entertainment contract, there are several money moves you should consider to best protect your new wealth against lawsuits and from others. 1. Increase your liability insurance. Your first line of defense in litigation should be insurance. Call your insurance broker and increase your liability limits. Make sure your personal umbrella liability coverage is for an amount at least equal to your new net-worth. For example, if you are going to receive $3 million from your Aunt Jane’s estate, tell your insurance broker that you want a $3 million umbrella liability policy. Rates are inexpensive – often $200 or $300 per $1 million of coverage. Bruce Givner, a Los Angeles tax attorney, recommends that his clients have a minimum of a $5,000,000 umbrella policy, and most of them opt for $10,000,000. Tip: It’s best to make this five minute phone call before you receive the inheritance or windfall. 2. Consider keeping assets separate. Depending on the state in which you live and the source of your windfall, if you deposit the money into a joint account with your spouse, this money could instantly become half theirs. For some, this isn’t an issue, but for others, this could pose a problem. For example, if you have children from a previous marriage and commingle an inheritance you receive with your new spouse, your children may get less than you expect when you pass away. This problem becomes even more damaging if you are contemplating a divorce. Tip: If you don’t want your spouse to have ownership of your windfall, talk to an attorney and keep the assets in a separate account. 3. Protect yourself from renters. If you have rental property or expect to invest in rental property after receiving your sudden wealth, create a business entity such as an LLC or corporation to shield your other assets from a disgruntled tenant. By doing this, if your renter sues you for $5 million, they can attack the assets in the entity that holds the real estate but the rest of your personal assets are protected. Tip: Create a separate business entity for each rental property or consider a Nevada or Delaware Series LLC, which is designed to protect each property within a single LLC. Recommended by Forbes 4. Review all jointly held accounts. Any money you deposit into a joint account with your children, elderly parents, roommate, or business partner is at risk. If the joint owner files for divorce, incurs a tax lien, or lawsuit judgment, the entire account could be wiped out. Tip: If there is a need for a joint account, keep the balance as low as possible. 5. Formalize informal partnerships. Business partnerships are ticking time bombs. Why? Just like joint accounts, you are responsible for the actions of your partner. But unlike a joint account, a lawsuit against your partner can put all of your assets at risk. For example, suppose you and a friend have an informal agreement to partner and provide consulting services. If your partner is involved in an accident on the way to a client, your personal assets can be in jeopardy. Tip: Avoid partnerships. Form an entity such as an LLC or corporation to provide you with legal protection. 6. Create business entities to shield assets. If you have a small business or do part-time work on the side without having a formal business structure such as an LLC or a corporation, you are operating as a sole proprietorship. The “sole” means it’s just you, so unlike a partnership, you don’t have to worry about a partner’s actions . . . but all of your personal assets are at risk if you are sued. Tip: Create a business entity that shields your personal assets from lawsuits against your company. Sudden wealth can be a life-changing experience that can improve your life and the lives of those around you, but only if you keep it. Those with more assets are bigger targets for lawsuits. Don’t let your sudden wealth suddenly get stripped from you. Protect your assets before you get the windfall and you will sleep a little easier knowing your assets are better shielded. http://www.forbes.com/sites/robertpa

Outstanding! B/A

This is the most informative document I have ever read on the subject of PLANET X. It covers science, religion, NASA and history. Amazing the work put into this. There has been a lot of talk on the Internet about the possibility of Planet X, a tenth planet, and in particular the devastating effects it could have passing close to Earth. Websites have put forward a vast amount of text arguing for and against this scenario, much of it based on bad science. What I've tried to do is accumulate all the reliable facts I can find and put them together in one place, so that you can make up your own mind. What is the Planet X Scenario? The supporters of the theory argue something like this: By 2012-2020 'Planet X' will get close to Earth. The force of it passing will cause the Earth's magnetic poles to shift; it will cause huge earthquakes, volcanoes, Tsunamis and hurricanes all over the planet. Crops will fail, millions will stave. 90% of the planet's population will die. What do they claim Planet X really is? They say Planet X is the tenth planet in our solar system. It is not really a planet, actually a brown dwarf; a small, failed star. They give it a size of 4x that of Earth, but a density of 20x(more likely estimates put it 2-4 times the mass of Jupiter). It orbits our Sun and travels very quickly when it passes close to it, but slowly in between. This acceleration is caused by gravity and is exactly the sort of thing you see with comets - ever wondered why comets orbit our sun but only appear for a few days every few decades? Are there more than 9 planets in our solar system? Planet X is the name given to the 10th in our solar system, if one exists. For nearly a century, astronomers have been searching for it. Now, NASA claims they have no evidence for it existing, but admit it is possible. The Planet X scenario requires a large planet, which we would have seen Planet X if it were anywhere near Earth. Instead, they argue that it is normally traveling slowly, a vast distance away. Dr. John Murray, of the UK's Open University, claims he has found a 10th planet 30,000 times the distance from the sun that Earth is - 3,000 billion miles away. By analyzing the orbits of comets, which can travel much further away from Earth than planets, he claims to have 'pretty conclusive' evidence for another planet. He has calculated that there is a 1/1700 chance of there not being a 10th planet. They also give it a mass of between 1 and 10 times that of Jupiter's, which fits nicely with the Planet X scenario. They say it could be a brown dwarf, which is what many people believe the Planet X is. The normal way in which planets are discovered is by looking at the orbits of other planets. As planets have gravity, they affect the orbits of all the others. For decades, people have claimed that the orbits of the three outermost planets, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto are 'wrong' - that something else is influencing their orbits, another planet. "A Mystery Revolves Around the Sun," an article posted by MSNBC on October 7, 1999 said: "Two teams of researchers have proposed the existence of an unseen planet or a failed star circling the sun at a distance of more than 2 trillion miles, far beyond the orbits of the nine known planets... Planetary scientist at Britain's Open University, speculates that the object could be a planet larger than Jupiter." And in December, 2000, SpaceDaily reported on "Another Candidate For 'Planet X' Spotted." Why is NASA Silent On Planet X? NASA seems to be silent about Planet X. They certainly are not warning anyone to prepare for its passage. If you did not know any better you would conclude from this alone that Planet X is a hoax. However, the fact is that NASA was the first to announce the discovery of Planet X, back in 1980s as reported in the June 19, 1982 edition of the New York Times: Something out there beyond the furthest reaches of the known solar system is tugging at Uranus and Neptune. A gravitational force keeps perturbing the two giant planets, causing irregularities in their orbits. The force suggests a presence far away and unseen, a large object, the long-sought Planet X. Astronomers are so certain of this planet's existence that they have already named it "Planet X - the 10th Planet." Apparently the announcement of the discovery was a slip because within a week they retracted it and have been publicly silent ever since. NASA has denied the existence of the planet and claimed that the orbits of the outer planets are in fact correct. This statement from NASA however, is not true and is proved by the following planetary finding: Sun's Nemesis Pelted Earth with Comets, Study Suggests Astrobiology Magazine, March 11, 2010 A dark object may be lurking near our solar system, occasionally kicking comets in our direction. Nicknamed "Nemesis" or "The Death Star," this undetected object could be a red or brown dwarf star, or an even darker presence several times the mass of Jupiter. Why do scientists think something could be hidden beyond the edge of our solar system? Originally, Nemesis was suggested as a way to explain a cycle of mass extinctions [the biblical flood] on Earth. The Footprint of Nemesis A recently-discovered dwarf planet, named Sedna, has an extra-long and usual elliptical orbit around the Sun. Sedna is one of the most distant objects yet observed, with an orbit ranging between 76 and 975 AU (where 1 AU is the distance between the Earth and the Sun). Sedna's orbit is estimated to last between 10.5 to 12 thousand years. Sedna's discoverer, Mike Brown of Caltech, noted in a Discover magazine article that Sedna's location doesn't make sense. "Sedna shouldn't be there," said Brown. "There's no way to put Sedna where it is. It never comes close enough to be affected by the Sun, but it never goes far enough away from the Sun to be affected by other stars." Perhaps a massive unseen object is responsible for Sedna's mystifying orbit, its gravitational influence keeping Sedna fixed in that far-distant portion of space. "My surveys have always looked for objects closer and thus moving faster," Brown said to Astrobiology Magazine. "I would have easily overlooked something so distant and slow moving as Nemesis." John Matese, Emeritus Professor of Physics at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, suspects Nemesis exists for another reason. The comets in the inner solar system seem to mostly come from the same region of the Oort Cloud, and Matese thinks the gravitational influence of a solar companion is disrupting that part of the cloud, scattering comets in its wake. His calculations suggest Nemesis is between 3 to 5 times the mass of Jupiter, rather than the 13 Jupiter masses or greater that some scientists think is a necessary quality of a brown dwarf. Even at this smaller mass, however, many astronomers would still classify it as a low mass star rather than a planet, since the circumstances of birth for stars and planets differ. Binary star systems are common in the galaxy. It is estimated that one-third of the stars in the Milky Way are either binary or part of a multiple-star system. Red dwarfs are also common — in fact, astronomers say they are the most common type of star in the galaxy. Brown dwarfs are also thought to be common, but there are only a few hundred known at this time because they are so difficult to see. Red and brown dwarfs are smaller and cooler than our Sun, and do not shine brightly. If red dwarfs can be compared to the red embers of a dying fire, then brown dwarfs would be the smoldering ash. Because they are so dim, it is plausible that the Sun could have a secret companion even though we've searched the sky for many years with a variety of instruments. What other then Planet X could have caused the strange orbit of Sedna? The anomalous body was first spotted in 1983 by IRAS (Infrared Astronomical Satellite), according to news stories. The Washington Post reported: "A heavenly body possibly as large as the giant planet Jupiter and possibly so close to Earth that it would be part of this solar system has been found in the direction of the constellation Orion by an orbiting telescope aboard the U.S. infrared astronomical satellite. So mysterious is the object that astronomers do not know if it is a planet, a giant comet, a nearby 'protostar' that never got hot enough to become a star, a distant galaxy so young that it is still in the process of forming its first stars or a galaxy so shrouded in dust that none of the light cast by its stars ever gets through." Nibiru supporters contend that IRAS has, in fact, spotted the wandering planet. Also, there is sufficient evidence that NASA have had an internal project trackingPlanet X as this internal document records: NASA ADS Astronomy Abstract Service · Find Similar Abstracts (with default settings below) · Also-Read Articles · · Translate Abstract Title: Search for planet X Authors: Harrington, Robert S. Affiliation: Naval Observatory, Washington, DC. Journal: In NASA, Washington, Reports of Planetary Astronomy, 1991 p. 53 (SEE N92-12792 03-89) Publication Date: 10/1991 Category: Astronomy Origin: STI NASA/STI Keywords: PERTURBATION, SKY SURVEYS (ASTRONOMY), SOLAR ORBITS, SPACE OBSERVATIONS (FROM EARTH), NEPTUNE (PLANET), URANUS (PLANET) Bibliographic Code: 1991plas.rept...53H Abstract The observation of the region of the sky in which it is believed Planet X should now be, based on perturbations observed in the motions of Uranus and Neptune, was determined, and there was no reason to update that determination. A limited area of that region was photographed, and that will be continued. A given area is photographed with the twin 20 cm astrograph in New Zealand on two successive nights near the time that area is in opposition, and these plates are blinked in Washington to identify anything that has moved. The predicted region is in the south, which requires observations from a southern station, and it is in opposition in the April to June period, which means observations have not yet started for the year. Blinking will be done as soon as the plates are received in Washington. If Planet X is really coming and NASA has been watching it for years, one would naturally want to know why they are not talking about it? James McCanney has dealt closely with NASA during his career and can explain why this is. He claims this is because NASA is under congressional order not to tell anybody if they discover a doomsday scenario coming-the same edict that restrains public officials from telling the public of an impending disaster and causing a panic. It has to go out through some official channel if it goes out at all. If this is true, then in light of NASA's demonstrated knowledge of Planet X, its more frightening that they have been silent about it than if they had continued to update the public since their initial discovery! This indicates to me that they know its passing will not be harmless like Comet Hale Bopp's was thirteen years ago (which follows a similar orbit and is thought by McCanney to have been part of Planet X's entourage at one time.) Why Don't We See It? If we accept that NASA knows about Planet X but will not tell us because of national security issues, what about the amateur astronomers and institutions of other countries who are not restricted in that way? Why are they not reporting Planet X? The problem, according to McCanney, is that Planet X's lack of brightness and position make it hard to see. Its current location makes it visible only in the Spring, rather than all year round. But even then you have to be on the right place on earth because of Planet X's skewed elliptical orbit. McCanney claims that it actually approaches our solar system from below the ecliptic, meaning the best viewing is from the Southern Hemisphere which is mostly water and less densely populated. McCanney comments on this in writing about the above Harrington abstract: In 1991 Robert S. Harrington, head of the Naval Observatory, Washington, D.C. wrote an internal Abstract which culminated over a decade of theoretical and observational astronomy with a team of experts. He was in charge of the NASA directed search for a large planet at the edge of our solar system that had been perturbing the orbits of the outer planets. Many previous attempts had been made, all leading to incorrect results ... but this time Harrington was certain that he had found the location of the large rogue planet. What is interesting is 1) NASA for decades had sponsored a search for this object with the highest level staff members available, 2) it was fully aware that something big was entering our solar system and 3) as you will see ... it seems that anyone associated with the results has been silenced either by death or by fear. A shroud of secrecy and deception surrounds this entire story. Part of the discovery of Planet X was based on the fact the outer large planets Uranus and Neptune were being pulled DOWN in their orbits. No other effect could cause such a change in the orbits of these planets except the existence of a very large previously undiscovered celestial object which had to exist down and in the direction of the unexplainable motions of these outer giant planets. Harrington knew that it had to be BIG and it had to be down below the plane of the planets (the ecliptic). He also knew that since it had not been there before that it must be a new body entering the solar system. Harrington wrote a brief abstract telling of his final trip scheduled to New Zealand in the Spring month of May to perform the blink photographic session with a 20 cm astrograph (approximately 8" aperture high precision camera). This seemed like what should be a routine observation and so sure was Harrington of the location of this object in the sky that he planned only two successive nights for the two required photos. These would be returned to Washington to determine the location and size of the new object. An 8" camera in 1991 to 93 (the date that we believe Harrington made his final expedition ... NASA information is scarce) was not very large so we are not talking about professional grade equipment ... that is, this object was expected to be very large and Harrington knew it would be only visible during the month of May from a very southerly remote location on Earth. He chose New Zealand over the rugged uncharted regions of Patagonia in South America. So a big reason why Planet X is not obvious to the world already is because it is best viewed close to the South Pole-where there are fewer people and fewer observatories to find it. But even now, McCanney reports another problem. There is much haze in the atmosphere that makes viewing a diffuse, dim object like Planet X hard to do unless you are looking directly at it from a 90 degree angle (only possible from the South Pole itself). All this, in conjunction with the science establishment's coverup gives Planet X the conditions needed to sneak up on the majority of earth's inhabitants. Even someone from NASA has admitted the possibility of being blindsided. David Morrison, Director of Space & Astrobiology at NASA's Ames Research Center has spoken before Congress on the threat of cosmic impacts. He writes: It is possible for a comet to 'sneak up' on Earth, escaping detection until it is only a few weeks from impact. A perpetual survey is required to detect long-period comets, and even with such a survey we cannot be sure of success.(Comets and Origin, P.254.) But even if the general population without big telescopes nor accessibility to the South Pole are not able to observe Planet X, Russia appears to have become convinced Planet X is real and a threat: The following story was released on September 13th, 2000 by Andrei Shukshin of Reuters news service. "Russia's Parliamentary leaders and President Vladimir Putin agreed Wednesday to embark on a three-year crash course to thwart what they said was an anticipated chain of disasters due to hit the country in the future. "(These are) issues of extraordinary importance, strategic issues which may degenerate into a serious threat for the existence,...I want to stress this-for the existence of Russia," former Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov told reporters." A group of scientists in Russia in the year 2000 held several meetings to discuss the inbound planet discovered from one of their largest observatories. This led to the infamous "2003 Problem" which the Reuters News Service wire reported on Sept. 13th 2000. The top government officials of Russia called for a commission to study the problem which was said to expect to cause "a string of calamities" and "a massive population shrinkage." They openly wondered whether Russia would still even exist as a country afterwards. Why? Because most of the old Soviet Union is fairly low-lying land, and the polar ice caps will melt during these cataclysmic years causing the new sea level to be around 700 feet above what it is now, and most of the old Soviet Union, including much of Russia, will be under water. Obviously the 2003 timing was inaccurate; a false bait, to distract the public from the real date and danger of Planet X's approach. However, 2003 has always been considered only "the earliest timeframe" that Planet X could arrive, not a date etched in stone. Let's look at it logically. Do you really think the Russian elites would even have given it a thought if Planet X wasn't real and if it didn't pose a threat at all? No, obviously, Planet X is real and poses a real threat and cause for concern. What Evidence Is There? In spite of NASA's coverup and difficulty of an observation, McCanney explains that there is quite a bit of evidence pointing to the existence and near passage of Planet X. Perturbations in the orbits of the planets: As early as the mid-1800s scientists noticed the orbits of Neptune and Uranus not going exactly according to theoretical expectations. These deviations could not be explained by miscalculations in the masses of the planets, as the direction of the deviations was downward according to McCanney. Solar Weather: McCanney says, "We're seeing the Sun at an excited level never before seen. There was a solar maximum in the year 2000 that would be the expected time for the Sun to reach the maximum of activity on its 11-year solar cycle, and after that it would be expected to diminish in energy over that 11-year span of time. We should be well on the way in the year 2003 to the solar minimum, but instead, the Sun is at an explosive state never before seen in the history of our solar system. My theoretical work shows how, in fact, the Sun is interacting with some large object that we have not seen yet -- NASA probably has seen it, but it is not telling us -- causing the dramatic solar flares that we're seeing." The following news reports seems to be backing up the fact that Planet X is in fact approaching Earth: Earth's magnetosphere: NASA scientists on December 16, 2008 announced that “THEMIS spacecraft (a series of satellites monitoring earth's magnetosphere) have discovered a breach in Earth's magnetic field ten times larger than anything previously thought to exist.” NASA’s THEMIS mission comprises 5 probes launched in February 2007 to measure the Earth’s magnetic field. According to Wenhui Li, a University of New Hampshire space physicist analyzing the NASA THEMIS mission: "The opening was huge—four times wider than Earth itself."Jimmy Raeder, another University of New Hampshire scientist analyzing the THEMIS project data said: "We've seen things like this before but never on such a large scale. The entire day-side of the magnetosphere was open to the solar wind." The breach is allowing up to 20 times the normal amount of solar particles to enter the Earth’s atmosphere according to the NASA announcement. The breach in the magnetosphere was not causing any great concern for the moment since solar activity is at a minimum. In fact, the last time the sun was so inactive was in 1913. The lack of solar activity has even caused some scientists to speculate that we are about to enter a mini-Ice Age. Most NASA scientists however agree that by 2012 [or later], when the sun moves into its solar maximum, the current situation will change dramatically. In 2006 a team of solar scientists led by Mausumi Dikpati of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) predicted that the "next sunspot cycle [#24] will be 30% to 50% stronger than the previous one [2003!]." The sun’s heightened sunspot activity will lead to coronal mass ejections (CME) filled with solar particles or plasma that will dramatically spread out through the solar wind. Increased quantities of plasma will be carried to the Earth in giant solar waves passing through the breach in the magnetosphere. This is how one NASA scientist explained the situation: "We're entering Solar Cycle 24. For reasons not fully understood, CMEs in even-numbered solar cycles (like 24) tend to hit Earth with a leading edge that is magnetized north. Such a CME should open a breach and load the magnetosphere with plasma just before the storm gets underway. It's the perfect sequence for a really big event." Massive solar storm to hit Earth in 2012 [or later] with 'force of 100m bombs' Melbourne, Aug 26, 2010 (ANI): Astronomers are predicting that a massive solar storm, much bigger in potential than the one that caused spectacular light shows on Earth earlier this month, is to strike our planet in 2012 [but possibly later] with a force of 100 million hydrogen bombs. [Our sun goes through a solar maximum every 12 years (2000-2012-2024 etc); however, the largest known solar flare ever recorded with modern instruments, the one in 2003, happened after solar maximum--on the downslope toward solar minimum.] Several US media outlets have reported that NASA was warning the massive flare this month was just a precursor to a massive solar storm building that had the potential to wipe out the entire planet's power grid. Despite its rebuttal, NASA's been watching out for this storm since 2006 and reports from the US this week claim the storms could hit on that most Hollywood of disaster dates - 2012. Similar storms back in 1859 and 1921 caused worldwide chaos, wiping out telegraph wires on a massive scale. The 2012[-2024-?] storm has the potential to be even more disruptive. "The general consensus among general astronomers (and certainly solar astronomers) is that this coming Solar maximum (2012 but possibly later into 2013) will be the most violent in 100 years," quoted astronomy lecturer and columnist Dave Reneke as saying. "A bold statement and one taken seriously by those it will affect most, namely airline companies, communications companies and anyone working with modern GPS systems. "They can even trip circuit breakers and knock out orbiting satellites, as has already been done this year," added Reneke. No one really knows what effect the 2012-2013 Solar Max will have on today's digital-reliant society. Dr Richard Fisher, director of NASA's Heliophysics division, told Reneke the super storm would hit like "a bolt of lightning", causing catastrophic consequences for the world's health, emergency services and national security unless precautions are taken. NASA said that a recent report by the National Academy of Sciences found that if a similar storm occurred today, it could cause "1 to 2 trillion dollars in damages to society's high-tech infrastructure and require four to 10 years for complete recovery". The reason for the concern comes as the sun enters a phase known as Solar Cycle 24. Most experts agree, although those who put the date of Solar Max in 2012 are getting the most press. They claim satellites will be aged by 50 years, rendering GPS even more useless than ever, and the blast will have the equivalent energy of 100 million hydrogen bombs. "We know it is coming but we don't know how bad it is going to be," Fisher told Reneke. "Systems will just not work. The flares change the magnetic field on the Earth and it's rapid, just like a lightning bolt. That's the solar effect," he added. The findings are published in the most recent issue of Australasian Science. (ANI) Earth Weather: Earth weather has also been erratic in recent years. McCanney claims that this is directly a result of the increased solar activity which drives earth's weather according to his proven theories. The sun causes all our weather because it heats the earth unevenly. The contrast between the hot parts and the cold parts of the earth turns our atmosphere into a powerful engine. The engine keeps cold and warm air moving and makes changes in air pressure. Those air pressure changes cause wind. The heat of the sun also helps moisture to rise and form clouds, bringing rain, snow, or thunderstorms. So all the changes in our weather come, at least indirectly from the sun. As the sun warms up the earth, the ground absorbs the heat, and reflects some of it back into the air. That's one reason why it's usually warmer near the ground and cooler on the higher hills and mountains. The atmosphere acts like a big blanket over the earth, holding in the warmth and reflecting it back to earth. Sunspots more active than [ever before] NewScientist, 18:00 27 October 2004: “The Sun has been more active in the last 70 years than it has [ever been].” Sunspots reaching 1,000-year high BBC News, Tuesday, 6 July 2004: “A new analysis shows that the Sun is more active now than it has been at anytime in the previous 1,000 years.” More Active Sun Means Nasty Solar Storms Ahead By SPACE News, posted: 09 June 2010: “The sun is about to get a lot more active, which could have ill effects on Earth… Solar storms occur when sunspots on our star erupt and spew out flumes of charged particles that can damage power systems. The sun's activity typically follows an 11-year cycle, and it looks to be coming out of a slump [sleep] and gearing up for an active period. "The sun is waking up from a deep slumber, and in the next few years we expect to see much higher levels of solar activity," said Richard Fisher, head of NASA's Heliophysics Division. "At the same time, our technological society has developed an unprecedented sensitivity to solar storms. The intersection of these two issues is what we're getting together to discuss." A major solar storm could cause twenty times more economic damage than Hurricane Katrina, warned the National Academy of Sciences in a 2008 report, "Severe Space Weather Events—Societal and Economic Impacts." Earth changes: This is the Russian perspective on earth changes by the Academy of Sciences. Volcanic and seismic activity have increased 400-500 percent since 1975. All planets are changing, Earth is not singled out. Basically, everything in the solar system is experiencing unusual phenomena, increased activity and unusual weather. Hard facts are going unreported by western media. Magnetic fields and brightness of the planets are changing. The planets are experiencing sizable increases in their overall luminosity. Venus for example, is showing us marked elevations in its overall brightness. Jupiter has such a high energetic charge now that there is actually a visible tube of ionizing radiation that has formed between it and its moon. You can actually see the luminous energy tube in photographs that have been taken recently. Natural disasters increased 410 percent between 1963 and 1993. This does not take into account the largest increases that have taken place in the last 8-9 years since then! Dr. Dmitriev did a very elaborate calculation of natural disasters, to come up with these figures. Even the Sun's magnetic field increased by 230 percent since 1901. A more recent study shows dramatic rise in natural disasters over past decade: “The number of events have gone up very, very dramatically,” CRED Director Debarati Guha-Sapir said in Geneva. During the 2000 to 2009 period, there were 385 disasters, an increase of 233 percent since 1980 to 1989, and of 67 percent since 1990 to 1999, according to CRED data. Though earthquakes made up 60 percent of natural disasters from 2000 to 2009, climate-related events, such as droughts, storms and floods, have made up the majority of disasters overall, increasing tenfold since data was first collected in 1950. “Have climate-related disasters increased? The answer is yes,” Sapir said, adding, “But it is not clear that climate change itself is an important factor.”Sapir said that CRED lacked sufficient research to determine the role of global warming in the increase in climate-related natural disasters.” Planet X's mass, high-plasma-charged magnetism, and density is such that it disrupts the surface of every planet it passes. In fact, history shows a few years prior to its passage that its far reaching electromagnetic influence changes Earth's core flows, triggering major weather changes. Volcanic and seismic activity start to change 3-4 decades prior to each passage. Since 1996 traditional weather has changed dramatically, breaking all time records regularly. The up-tick of quakes, volcanic incidents and changes in electromagnetics are being kept out of the media as much as possible. Weather alone can falsely be blamed on global warming and sun cycles but not earth's rumblings and solar system wide changes at the same time. 99% of the universe is made up of charged-plasma at the atomic level. Planets are densely charged plasma spheres. The approach of Planet X back into our immediate solar system is sending a tremendous amount of electrically charged plasmatic energy particles in waves to all the planets in our solar system via the filamentary magnetic field lines that criss-cross the universe. The entire Universe is a connected web of electricity and plasma is the conductor. The media would have you believe that the pollution of our industrial civilization is the cause of the weather changes or has caused global warming over the last few years. Since all planets in our solar system are experiencing dramatic changes, how can any of this be blamed on our irresponsible actions? Why do they fail to mention the seismic and volcanic changes occurring simultaneously? Why would ice cores show regular and dramatic changes in Earth's climate from the past? When you understand how our sun and every other planet in our solar system are being effected by Planet X's approach, you'll see how ridiculous the media cover-up becomes. Many have been talking about increased earthquakes since the 1990s. Although I have not heard McCanney talk about this, one must wonder what is causing this change. There is a cause for every effect. Could it be Planet X causing this? We shall see later from Scripture that great earthquakes will be associated with Planet X's passing. Because McCanney had not made an observation of Planet X, he refuses to speculate on the timing of Planet X. But in his own words, due to the scientific and historical evidence for Planet X, its passage is "not a question of if...but when." What Will Happen When It Passes? The odds of Planet X hitting us are remote. Unfortunately, an impact is not necessary to cause major problems. Because of the gravity and magnetism of Planet X it will be able to disrupt things on earth from a distance, just as it is allegedly already doing to the solar system. Here's what McCanney says: The effects on the Earth are very clear, both from my theoretical work and from what the ancients describe. There are episodes of mountain building. There could be a pole shift caused by a gravitational tidal wave that moves through the surface mantle of the Earth. There would be flooding both from tidal waves of the oceans, tremendous atmospheric storms and also from a huge pollution influx of oil and water -- hydrocarbons and water -- from inner planetary space onto Earth. And all of these things have been seen in the past.The Bible talks about, for example, when all the vermin, bugs, insects and snakes came out of the ground and overran the Earth. This was a direct result of the electric fields penetrating the mantle of the Earth and causing these creatures to leave the ground and come out of the ground. The atmospheric conditions include the increase in the number of volcanoes going off.I want to mention that these planetary objects do not have to come necessarily that close to Earth to cause even dramatic Earth changes. Electrical discharges can occur between the planets even a distance apart. These, in fact, have been measured with NASA satellites where, in the 1990s, we saw incredible electrical discharges flow between Jupiter and Earth, taking out a number of our communication satellites. The scientists at that time were totally puzzled that outer space could do this. They still don't understand the very electrical nature of our solar system. The last passage of Planet X is believed to have occurred around 3,500 to 3,600 years ago (1,446 or 1,628 B.C.) . So, what happened 3,600 years ago? We've got the Jewish Exodus (which is found recorded in the Bible), the last mammoths going extinct, the sea level dropping world wide by 18-20 feet, the Sahara drying up. Anything else? Well, 3,600 years ago, Thera, a monstrous volcano in the Mediterranean, erupted, as did Vesuvius. The eruption at Thera was 20 times as massive as Krakatoa in 1883. According to current data, the last two great eruptions of Vesuvius occurred in 1628 BC (3600 years ago) and 79 AD (around 1930 years ago). (the latter being the eruption which buried Pompei and Herculaneum). The Earth is presently effected by the powerful magnetic field and influence of Planet X. Planet X is as large as Jupiter; its electromagnetism is impacting the entire solar system, which is the main cause of all the other planetary bodies either suffering from global warming or increased luminosity. This will be more evident in the near future with an even greater increase in severe global weather patterns, shifting land masses, increased volcanic activity, earthquakes, and celestial anomalies, so that even the mot hardened skeptics must start to believe. Many theorists say that when Nibiru passes Earth this time around on its orbit around the sun, it might bring terrifying consequences. They fear that this will cause earthquakes, tidal waves, severe flooding, food shortages due to climatic conditions, diseases, meteors, fire storms, volcanic eruptions, pole shifts and the like, and it will only grow worse as Nibiru approach closer to Earth. This is happening. The floods this year have been particularly noted with apocalyptic floods all around the globe, with many 'worst floods ever' in recorded history in many parts of the world. Europe, US, Brazil, China, Pakistan, Thailand, Sri Lanka, South Africa, Australia, and the Philippines, have all this year experienced apocalyptic flooding, and were all hard hit. The firestorms that wreaked havoc in Russia this summer, due to abnormal heat with record breaking heatwaves all over the globe, are particularly noted. But it is not just the heat, its also record breaking cold all over the world! For example, these past few winters have been seen humungous cold snaps and great snowstorms affecting large parts of the world. Some of these storms have even got telling names such as "snowmageddon", and "snowcalypse", and such tell us how severe the weather anomalies have become. The increase of earthquakes and earthquake activity globally with colossal loss of life; have this year been particularly noted. The increase of magma/crust movement and volcanic eruptions; are all precursor for the tribulation to come. “More than four times the number of natural disasters are happening now than occurred two decades ago according to the British charity -- Oxfam. The world suffered about 120 natural disasters per year in the early 1980's compared to the current figure of about 500 per year. In 2007, there were floods in South Asia, across the breadth of Africa and Mexico that affected more than 250 million people. It follows a pattern of more frequent, more erratic, more unpredictable and more extreme weather events that are affecting more people. Floods and wind-storms have increased from 60 events in 1980 to 240 events in 2007, with flooding itself up six-fold." The Oxfam study was compiled using data from the Red Cross, the United Nations and specialist researchers at Louvain University in Belgium.” (Note that this report is not taking in to account the last 4 years) Why do people believe Planet X will cause so much devastation? By 2012-2013 or later, they say Planet X will finally start to near Earth after its 3,600 year orbit, passing just 14,000,000 miles from Earth (in space that is not far at all). It would definitely exert a gravitational force on the Earth, but they also say there would be a magnetic force, what they call 'gravitational force'. Are we seeing increased geological activity? If changes this severe were caused by Planet X, and if its approaching, we would expect to see more earthquakes. As for geological activity, the United States Geological Survey provided me with these figures: This graph shows the estimated number of earthquakes recorded annually since 1973 The years 1994-2008 had by far the most tectonic activity of any over the last 30. Then a sudden and dramatic drop occurred after 2008. However, while the total number of recorded earthquakes have decreased over the past years, the overall number of 7+ earthquakes have been increasing dramatically as the following graph reveales. This graph shows the estimated number of magnitude 7+ earthquakes recorded annually since 1973 Is this then the calm before the storm? If these earthquakes strike in waves as with a period of calm that is followed on a period of stress, then naturally we'll see a decline of earthquakes, as the first wave recedes, which could be understood by the period of calm that was noted for 2008 / 2009. In the same way there will be an increase of earthquakes, in the subsequent period of stress, which is to be understood with the second wave crashing ashore, which can be interpreted as being the year 2010. And what if earth was to be hit by a tsunami-like wave of earthquakes, which instead of receding, just keep coming? Doubt nothing less if we're entering the time of tribulation! “For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.” (ref: 1 Thessalonians 5:3) – “and there was a great earthquake, such an earthquake as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great. And the great city was split into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell.” (ref: Revelations / Apocalypse 16:18-19). And the effects of Planet X were meant to be appearing in the years just prior to its passage. This data seems to support the Planet X scenario. Earthquake swarms are occurring along the Pacific Rim, from Baja California to Alaska. There were 600 earthquakes registered in April, 2008 150 miles off the central coast of Oregon, generated from the bottom of the ocean. Two years later, an earthquake measuring 7.2 in magnitude struck Baja California on April 4, 2010. There have been over 1,000 earthquakes around the same location since then (mostly aftershocks). The Big One is due to come at any time now. The many earthquakes occurring along the plates of California reveals that great stress indeed is building up along the faults of California. USGS' lists a total of 67 significant earthquakes worldwide for the year 2010! USGS' also lists a total of 45 earthquakes in total that have been measuring 6.5 or greater in magnitude for the year 2010! For the year 2010, 7+ magnitude earthquakes have been the highest ever in recorded history. Never before has such a large increase of large earthquakes been recorded globally. Statistically, 7+ earthquakes have risen almost 100% in comparison with the last decade, and almost 50% in comparison with 2009. (Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthquakes_in_2010) It would be interesting to see statistics for volcanoes as you would also expect an increase in volcanic activity. Russian volcano activity causes global concern bne – 07.02.2011 Now the world has something else to grip about when it comes to Russia - the weather. A string of volcanoes on Russia's eastern seaboard of Kamchatka have been unusually active for the last six months. The dust they threw up diverted winds in the Arctic, pushing cold air over Europe and North America and causing the unusually cold winter this year, say scientists. The volcanoes (160 in total, of which 29 are active) are still on the go and could create more problems this year, depressing harvests around the world just as global food prices soar and culminating in a second freezing winter next Christmas. The eruptions have come at the worst possible time. The Pacific Ocean has already been cooled by the so-called La Nina - which contributed to the deluge in Australia and Tropical Cyclones - while at the same time the Atlantic Ocean is warmer than usual, say climatologists. Erste Bank says the combination of this means the weather forecast for the first quarter of this year is extreme, which will hit both the agricultural and mining sectors, sending already spiking prices up even faster. "These climatic conditions reduce the outlooks of harvest for agricultural commodities (last year was also bad) and prevent the mining of commodities like coal," says Erste. "The extreme weather will probably culminate in the [first quarter] - this is the reason why the prices of commodities will be influenced by this weather... then an acceleration of consumer inflation... There are also problems for transport due to strong storms." The combination shifts wind patterns around the world, but the spanner in the works has been the Kamchatka volcanoes, which are throwing massive amounts of dust into the air, causing the Arctic to become even colder and Arctic winds to push farther south, resulting in a very drastic change in patterns. "Kamchatka tends to be somewhat active - but recently it has been ridiculous! Since late November, Kizimen, Sheveluch, Karymsky, and Kliuchevskoi have been erupting almost constantly," Evelyn Browning Garriss writes in the Browning Newsletter, a monthly weather publication. Volcanic ash screens out the sun, cooling the air below. This lowers air pressures, which in turn changes wind patterns, especially in the Arctic. The upshot is, Browning Garriss says, "the cold air normally trapped around the North Pole surges south." This has caused some bizarre weather. The UK was colder than Russia on Christmas Day, while New York was buried under heavy snow. The cold weather has already impacted agriculture. Australia's wheat crop was down by 10% in December - the worst fall in 100 years - and Russia's agriculture ministry is forecasting a grain harvest of 80m-85m tonnes; better than last year, but still well down on the bumper 2008 crop of 110m tonnes. Coupled with last season's severe drought in Argentina, floods in Brazil and Venezuela, odd weather in the agricultural parts of China, and food prices have already soared. What happens throughout the rest of this year will depend entirely on the volcanic activity, reckons Browning Garriss, which by its nature is impossible to predict. Source : bne On Aug. 29, 2010, thousands of people were evacuated after a volcano on the Indo-nesian island of Sumatra erupted for the first time in 400 years. Earlier this month, Mount Sinabung spewed hot ash more than a mile into the air along with volcanic earthquakes. Two people died and more than 30,000 were evacuated. Indonesia has the highest density of volcanoes in the world. There are nearly 500 in what is called the 'Belt of Fire,' or the 'Ring of Fire.' Approximately 130 of the volcanoes are active and 68 are currently listed as dangerous. The 'Ring of Fire' was formed from the collision of large tectonic plates that are either slamming into one another or sliding past each other. Along this division, there are major fault lines, like the San Andreas fault in California, and major volcanoes. The 'Ring of Fire' stretches for approximately 25,000 miles in a horseshoe shape from eastern Asia to the western shores of North and South America. It has 452 volcanoes and is home to 75 percent of the world's active and dormant volcanoes. In Iceland, the eruption of Eyjafjallajokull, which caused widespread flight cancellations in Europe because of the giant ash cloud, has produced a lot of speculation concerning the neighboring volcano Katla. In the past, when Eyjafjallajokull has erupted, Katla has often followed within a short period of time. These volcanoes are not located along the "Ring of Fire," but still quite active. On Aug. 25, 2010, Italy's Etna volcano and Columbia's Galeros volcano, both erupted. The explosions were not huge, but new and perhaps bigger eruptions are expected at anytime. If volcanic activity continues to increase, and there is an eruption big enough to send millions of tons of ash and dust into the upper layers of the atmosphere, then the Earth's temperature would likely drop at least a degree or two from present levels. This happened in June of 1991 when Mount Pinatubo exploded in the Philippines. For the following year, the Earth's temperature dropped about 1-2 degrees before recovering several years later. Using the Smithsonian Volcano Research database and sampling every five years the following trend for eruptions is shown for the past 150 years. Year Erruptions 2010 64 2005 68 2000 67 1995 60 1990 53 1985 52 1980 65 1975 50 1970 54 1965 53 1960 57 1955 46 1950 48 1945 36 1940 45 1935 42 1930 37 1925 42 1920 37 1915 34 1910 41 1905 40 1900 34 1895 32 1890 38 1885 39 1880 30 1875 24 1870 24 1865 32 1860 32 Politicians and government agencies aren't telling you about Planet X! Many of them know about it. What are they doing? Nothing! Other than preparing to save their own hide… What do the Sumerians have to do with this? Planet X was first recorded by a civilization called the Sumerians, who were around about 6,000 years ago. They called it 'Nibiru', meaning 'Planet of the Crossing'. It got its name from being an elusive planet. It is suggested that current astronomy points to the possibility that Nibiru is a brown dwarf or dark star rather than a planet. This has the implication that our solar system, like the majority in the known universe, is a binary star system; in other words, Earth has two suns with Nibiru(or nemesis as it has been called) being the second and less bright. The Sumerians suggested it had a 3,600 year orbit. You may be wondering why so many people are putting so much faith in the observations of civilization that lived thousands of years before telescopes and computers. The answer is that the Sumerians were incredibly advanced scientifically, correctly calculating the orbits of many planets in our solar system. At the top, you can see the sun, surrounded by 11 smaller spheres, apparently representing the 9 planets, Planet X and Earth's moon. It is from an ancient Sumerian artifact called the 'Berlin Seal'. You may have heard Planet X referred to as the "12th Planet". This is because the Sumerians counted the Sun and moon as planets. The Sumerians definitely knew about the first 5 planets - Mercury, Venus, Mars, Earth and Jupiter, and this suggests they knew of more. However, it would be virtually impossible for the Sumerians to know about Pluto, as it is smaller than any planet's moon and billions of miles away. It was only discovered during the last century, thanks to accurate telescopes observing the orbits of the other planets. It is completely invisible to the naked eye. It has been suggested that their 'Pluto' is far more likely to be a comet. However, the possibility are there of them having obtained this knowledge “somehow”; maybe supernaturally, through the knowledge of the 'fallen ones', that we can read about in the bible. People have also objected that the relative sizes of the planets appears to be inaccurate. This hardly seems fair, considering that the Sumerians were working without telescopes. The planets they have identified do seem to have approximately the correct size. If you accept that this is a depiction of our solar system, and the number and size of the planets suggest that it is, then you have to wonder why there is another large planet. Such a scientific civilization as the Sumerians would surely not invent a planet. They even gave it a name. It was the Sumerians who gave it an orbit time of 3,600 years. This is one of the most controversial parts of the Sumerian evidence. It was proposed by Zacharia Sitchin, an archaeologist and one of the few people that can read Sumerian. One symbol in particular is what describes Planet X and its orbit. It apparently translates as planet, orbit and 3,600. This seems unlikely to simply be a coincidence. The word is also connected with the dynasty of leaders, suggesting they too are affected by the planet. The problem I have with this is how the Sumerians calculated this orbit time. They may have been advanced mathematically and scientifically but to work out the orbit time of a planet that only passes very briefly through out solar system seems almost implausible. 3,600 years is also not a precise number: the Sumerian's used base 6 instead of base 10 for counting. This means that they would use 3,600 in a similar way to how we would use 1,000 - if we said 1,000 we could be meaning 900 or 1,100 (remember this fact till later). This may not sound like a big difference, but it could take it out of our lifetime. Did ancient tribes record the last passage of Planet X? Reports from many ancient tribes refer to an event that sounds very similar to that of Planet X passing. The Choktaw Indians, Hebrew, Mayas, Hindus, Persians, Sumerians and Egyptians, among others, all refer to events such as 'long days', hurricanes, huge waves and the sun stopping in the sky during the passage of a massive comet. These events are all predicted for the crossing of Planet X. In the Bible Joshua described a long day. The west Coast Indians, apparently, described a long night. Three days of darkness is found recorded in the bible, during Moses visit to Egypt. This could fit with the Planet X scenario. Now, remember the important fact of the Summerians using number 6 in the same way we uses 10. If Nibiru or Planet X passes every 3600 years, there should be evidence of this. If we go after biblical evidence; some 3600 years ago (or to be more exact, around 3,487 years ago), Moses and the Jewish Exodus occurred. This data seems to support the Planet X scenario. Nibiru's passage before that - if we go after biblical evidence - should be around 4,400 B.C. (or to be more exact, around 4,342 years ago) when Noah's flood is believed to have occured. Planet X’s believed orbital time seems thus to be accurate for the for the time of the Jewish Exodus (3400 to 3600 years ago), but inaccurate for the time of the biblical flood (4,342 to 4,550 years ago). Can it be that Planet X’s orbit may be influenced by the gravity of our Sun when it passes near? If Nibiru’s passage was the cause(or a part of the cause) of Noah’s flood, its previous passage before the Exodus, then occurred around 2,450 B.C or 4,550 years ago. This then puts the orbital time of Planet X to only about 850 years prior to the Exodus(which is a little less then a fourth of its believed 3,600 year orbit). Past Cataclysms As we've seen. Nibiru’s last passage was about 3600 years ago during the Jewish Exodus. And before that, some 4400 years ago, Noah and the Great Flood is believed to have occurred, and is described in the book of Genesis in the Bible, and which some ancient sources describe to have been caused by a passing planetary body. Could it be that God is using this passing planet as a punishment for a rebellious mankind? It is without argument that the Egyptian census keepers stopped taking the census around 3600 years ago during the last passage of Nibiru, and the records were strewn about, with no other cause for the wreck than a geological catastrophe, possible a pole shift. The plagues brought by God through Moses on the Egyptians, the hail, the insects, the volcanic eruptions, the earthquakes, and the fact that they were experiencing a very long day and three days of darkness, the Sun quite noticeably slowed in its progression across the sky - all this distracted and greatly imprinted the fear of God on the Egyptians. After the last cataclysms, the very careful Egyptian records which kept census, the grain stores which maintained the rich - all this went lost. And for centuries afterwards, people lost track of just how many years passed until records began to be kept again. This happened all over the world, during each cataclysm. What happened to the great cities of China? Records are disrupted. Historic records History records many names for Planet X. The Sumerian’s called it the "12 Planet" or "Nibiru" (translates into; planet of passing). The Babylonians and Mesopotamians called it "Marduk", The "King of the Heavens" and The "Great Heavenly Body". The ancient Hebrews referred to it as the "Winged Globe" because of it’s long orbit high among the stars. Ancient legend have named it "The Blue Star", "The Red Star", "The Fiery Messenger", and "The Comet of Doom" among others. No matter what the name used, it’s the same object that has the same effects before and during it’s passage of earth. The Sumerians also had a name for it’s approximate 3600 year orbit (A Shar). The ancient Hindu astronomers named Treta Yuga (3600 years) and the destruction it causes Kali Yuga. Look to Discovering Archeology, July/August 1999, on page 72. The date 1628 B.C. is given for a world wide catastrophic event. Approximately 3600 years ago and coinciding with its return at this time. Page 70 shows a medieval picture with a large comet looking object as big as the sun streaking across the sky horizontally with a giant tail. Below is a town that is shaking apart with hysterical people in the streets. And in China, it was written during the reign of Emperor Qin c.1600 B.C. Chieh Dynasty “In the twenty-ninth year of King Chieh [the last ruler of Hsia, the earliest recorded Chinese dynasty], the Sun was dimmed... the Sun was distressed... during the last years of Chieh ice formed in [summer] mornings and frosts in the sixth month [July]. Heavy rainfall toppled [pagan] temples and buildings... Heaven gave severe orders. The Sun and Moon were untimely. Hot and cold weather arrived in disorder. The five cereal crops withered and died.” Nibiru’s inbound approach is said to being closely monitored by our best telescopic equipment on and off earth. This is one of many reasons alleged that the orbiting Hubble telescope live feed is hidden from our view. The most accurate calculation for Planet X’s next passage is now around 2012 and 2020. Each time it approaches it starts a chain of events that culminates with it passing by and causing our earth’s surface to change. These changes are the cause of massive death and destruction. History is rich with these stories. Many people from the past didn’t draw the connection between what looked to be a large comet overhead and what they were experiencing at the time(volcanoes erupting, earthquakes, land masses sinking and rising, tidal waves, severe weather and floods). Some of these writers from the distant past simply noted what they thought was a foreboding sign or a message, instead of the cause for their woes. Summary of the Facts Geologists, not recognizing the periodic cataclysmic nature of our planet, look at ancient fossils and calculate they are “millions” of years old. That is only because they calculate the cataclysmic events as required to take “millions” of years to happen. Once they recognize that these events could have occurred suddenly, in a matter of days, their historical timelines will be drastically altered. After seeing the Comet Shoemaker-Levy crash into the planet Jupiter some years ago, astronomers now realize the possibility of asteroids and comets similarly affecting earth. Their most recent discoveries of planets circling other stars, planets with elliptical orbits, circling two stars, “rogue” planets, methane “brown-dwarf” planets, are all proof that no matter how certain science is one day that something is silly and impossible, they can be proven quite wrong the next. The best scientists are, therefore, not the hardened skeptics, but those who continually keep an open mind. In January 1981 several daily newspapers stated that Pluto’s orbit indicates that Planet X exists. The report stated that an astronomer from the U.S Naval Observatory told a meeting of the American Astronomical Society that irregularities in the orbit of Pluto indicates that the solar system contains a 10th planet. In 1982 NASA themselves officially recognized the possibility of Planet X, with an announcement that an object is really there - far beyond the outermost planets. One year later in 1983 the newly launched IRAS (Infrared Astronomical Satellite) quickly found Planet X (the 10th). The Washington Post summary of an with the chief IRAS scientist from JPL California had these words to say, “A heavenly body as large as Jupiter (The size being in perfect parallel to the ancients knowledge) and possibly part of this solar system has been found in the direction of the constellation of Orion by an orbiting telescope.” The orbiting telescope found it right where it was sent to look. They had known of it’s existence an location for years but wanted to confirm it with our own technological eyes. These are facts I strongly urge you to check out for yourself. There have been attempts to cover-up this event and rewrite history. The most interesting scientific revelations off planet that are discovered are generally kept quite from the public under the guise of military security reasons by the financial controllers of these institutions who are pulling the puppet strings. You've been listening to a myriad of lies. The disinformation will increase in direct proportion to the closeness of Planet X by the ones with the most to lose. The financial controller gangsters with the best information money can buy are at the top of the heap. They are the ones paying for the lies and watching the approach and its effect on earth carefully. Perhaps Nibiru is not a planet at all, but a small system consisting of a Brown Dwarf Star and a small accompanying planet. Brown dwarfs were, until recently, only theoretical planet/star hybrids. Astronomers believe that they have now located some brown dwarfs, whose luminosity is so low as to make their detection extremely difficult. Essentially, they are the product of an accreting gas cloud that is several times more massive than that which eventually made Jupiter. Beyond a certain threshold of mass, reactions within this world lead to the emission of heat and a minute amount of light, but the body is still too small to set off the thermonuclear chain reactions that ignite a conventional star. They appear a dull red, contrary to the color that their name would suggest, and do not increase beyond the spherical dimensions of Jupiter, despite having a greater mass. They are thought to be relatively commonplace in the Universe, and their relative lack of appearances thus far reflect their dark star qualities. If one is in orbit around the Sun, then it is quite plausible that its detection by telescope has not yet occurred, so one can understand the paucity of tangible data from further afield. But as we become more able to detect and observe planets around other stars, so will our ability to observe this maverick in our own system increase. Summary of Events In 1994 Planet X became close enough to us that its magnetism started to effect earth in a big way. USGS notes an increased earthquake activity since then; that increases now daily. The closer it gets to us the faster it moves toward earth and the stronger its magnetic effects become increasing the effects on Earth. There is an ebb and flow to these events that are akin to the calm waves before the next big set. Surfers would be most familiar with this analogy. Expect things to get worse as it approaches nearer but not in a straight line. Our own sun’s gravity is what is pulling it closer and faster. Planet X is not going to hit earth or the sun because of the repulsion force which comes into play as they near each other. There is still reason to be forewarned and concerned. The approaching planet, however, will affect our Sun's magnetic influence on Earth, and be the cause of greater Earthquakes. I don't think it is a coincidence that NASA scientists confirms that our Sun will go through its worst solar maximum since recorded history by 2012-2013! (Add 3 or more years according to the 2003 mega flare which happened 3 years after the 2000 solar maximum and you can add 2016 as well for potential disaster.) Earth now has two strong magnetic influences in the vicinity(our sun being the main one) and Earth's core is heating up because of it. It’s like a car with the accelerator and brake on at the same time. The sun is pushing and pulling on earth one way and Planet X is now upsetting that balance with its own set of influences. This has been the reason for all the strange weather and seismic activity as of late. Despite government denials, a planet known as Nibiru or Planet X is headed toward Earth and will cause increasing disturbances and eventually a cataclysmic pole shift as it comes closer. The orbital period of Planet X or Nibiru may be changed from each passage into our solar system. This happens when it passes close to the sun. The gravitational force of our sun is of such gravity that it can change the orbital paths of objects getting close enough to its vicinity. This same gravitational force in outer space changes paths of comets regularly. Past orbits of Planet X or Nibiru may thus have been of varying durations. The future is fluid, but in the time-line in which Nibiru passes near Earth, and assuming Nibiru' s speed and path are not altered, the following might occur: Earth disturbances will become too obvious to ignore as being out of the ordinary, as Nibiru continues its approach. The disturbances will continue to increase until they reach their cataclysmic peak when Nibiru will be closest to Earth around 2012-2020, or possible later. Nibiru is believed to reach the zenith of its orbit around our Sun in 2019 and then will return in Earth's direction before finally heading away in 2022 or 2023 (the time-line may of course be wrong); Earth disturbances will continue through this period, being strongest once a year when Nibiru approach closer to Earth in its orbit around the Sun. Nibiru will cause even greater earthquakes, more volcanic eruptions, rising sea levels, high winds, dust storms and torrential rains causing great floods. There will be a polar wobbling, a magnetic pole reversal and a pole shift that will place the North and South Poles on what is now the Equator. The pole shift will occur over a period of several months. As Nibiru passes, its tail will rain asteroids onto the Earth and will heat and alter Earth's atmosphere. Dust in the air will completely blot out the Sun for six months, possibly leading to an ice age. The government, which expects Nibiru to arrive, has been preparing underground cities for themselves. They have lists of people they will invite to go with them, the main criterion for such people being that they are compliant. As Nibiru approaches the government will tell the public various lies about what Nibiru is and why it is not a problem. One of their stories is that Nibiru is a hoax and that no Planet X exist. However, earth changes will continue to increase but the government will blame this on the Sun. NASA scientist's now warn that the solar maximum in 2012-2013 might be the worst of its kind! This solar eruption in or around 2012-2013-2016 may cause the loss of all the earth’s electronics. If this sun storm occurs it will be the cause of great earthquakes and super storms raging all around the globe. The Sun’s influence on earth’s weather, and earth's crust movement (crust movement=preliminary caused by the Sun’s magnetic force affecting or influencing earth’s magnetic core and thus triggering earthquakes, (may also be affected by an approaching body or star)), are more profound than scientist’s even want to fathom! This fact will be hard to deny and will be experienced firsthand by the inhabitants of Earth as we now move closer to the dates 2012-2020. Astronomers who have access to evidence about Nibiru may or will be intimidated or otherwise silenced. All who are living in these times must chose to be living on the right path and strive for the spiritual growth that is possible, and in order to gain that growth the challenges must be embraced and not run away from. What's the orbital time of Planet X this time around? When will it approach Earth? As the geological evidence suggests (which we have looked at), Planet X orbital path, if counted from its last passage (the Jewish Exodus 1628-1,446 B.C.) until its estimated approach (by 2012-2020 A.D.), is around 3600 years. Hopefully the reader can see from what little we have covered of the secular side of Planet X that it demands further consideration, if not merely because it is a potential threat to your way of life. However, when we hear about dangers like this, we have to be careful to watch our reaction. Some choose to disbelieve and ignore things that they do not want to accept because they are so horrible. Sometimes we react to bad news not in disbelief of its reality, but in disbelief that we can do anything about it, also resulting in complacency. But if you have read this far, you are one of the lucky few to have heard about Planet X early enough to do something to prepare for it. Do not waste that knowledge. Keep reading and find out where Scripture talks about Planet X and what to do about it. B/A

So he is "on the take"? Everyone surprised please raise your hand... Another great American... I'm so proud of my country's leaders.... B/A

Very interesting look at our possible future by Bill Bonner... SPECIAL REPORT 2015 The Great American Credit Collapse Part Two Today, we have bad news and good news. The good news is that there will be no 25-year recession. Nor will there be a depression that will last the rest of our lifetimes. The bad news: It will be much worse than that. “A long depression” has been much discussed in the financial press. Several economists are predicting many years of sluggish or negative growth. It is the obvious consequence of several overlapping trends and existing conditions. First, people are getting older. Especially in Europe and Japan, but also in China, Russia and the US. As we’ve described many times, as people get older, they change. They stop producing and begin consuming. They are no longer the dynamic innovators and eager early adopters of their youth; they become the old dogs who won’t learn new tricks. Nor are they the green and growing timber of a healthy economy; instead, they become deadwood. There’s nothing wrong with growing old. There’s nothing wrong with dying either, at least from a philosophical point of view. But it’s not going to increase auto sales or boost incomes – except for the undertakers. Second, most large economies are deeply in debt. The increase in debt levels began after World War II and sped up after the money system changed in 1968-71. By 2007, US consumers reached what was probably “peak debt.” That is, they couldn’t continue to borrow and spend as they had for the previous half a century. Most of their debt was mortgage debt, and the price of housing was falling. The feds reacted, as they always do… inappropriately. They tried to cure a debt problem with more debt. But consumers were both unwilling and unable to borrow. Their incomes and their collateral were going down. This left corporations and government to aim only for their own toes. Central banks created more money and credit – trillions of dollars of it. But since the household sector wasn’t borrowing, the money went into financial assets and zombie government spending. Neither provided any significant support for wages or output. So, the real economy went soft, even as the cost of credit fell to its lowest levels in history. Third, the developed economies have been zombified. The U.S., for example, is way down at No. 46 on the World Bank’s list of places where it is easiest to start a new business. And only one G8 country – Canada – even makes the top 10. Paperwork. Expenses. Regulation. High taxes. High labor rates. Entrenched competition with aging, loyal customers. All are endemic from Boston to Berlin to Beijing. Leading industries – heavily controlled and regulated, including defense, education, health, and finance – are practically arms of the government. All are protected with high barriers to entry and low expectations. Competition is barely tolerated. Innovation is discouraged. Mistakes are forgiven and reimbursed. Meanwhile, the masses are encouraged to become zombies too, with generous rewards for those who 1) do nothing, 2) pretend to work, or 3) prevent other people from doing anything. After all the zombies, cronies and connivers get their money, there is little left for the productive economy. The Solution Begins When Markets Crack Typically, these problems – too much debt, too many zombies, and too many old people – lead to financial crises. Then, they are “solved” by either inflation or depression. And the solution begins when markets crack. Markets never go up forever. Instead, they go up, down and even sideways. They breathe in and out. And after sucking in air for the last 30 years, US financial assets are ready to exhale. Legendary asset manager Bill Gross comments: When does our credit-based financial system sputter/break down? When investable assets pose too much risk for too little return. Not immediately, but at the margin, credit and stocks begin to be exchanged for figurative and sometimes literal money in a mattress. When that happens, problems begin to take care of themselves, in one of two ways… A quick, sharp depression wipes out the value of credit claims. Borrowers go broke. Bonds expire worthless. Companies declare bankruptcy. The whole capital structure tends to get marked down as debts are written off and financial assets of all kinds lose their value. Or, under pressure, the feds print money. Debts are diminished as the currency loses its value. The zombies still get money, but it is worth less. Inflation adjustments cannot keep up with high rates of inflation. Pensions, prices and promises fade. Either way, the slate is wiped clean and a new cycle can begin. But what rag will clean the slate now? The Beginning of the End In early May 2015, our proprietary short-term stock market indicator has turned starkly negative, as shown below: The near-term outlook is clearly darkening. Based on simple regression to-the-mean logic, our model now suggests that the “most likely” course for U.S. stocks through the end of the summer is a loss of more than 6%. As to the long-term outlook… The bad news is much worse. The logic of the “long depression”is simple: aging populations, debt, zombification – all of which slow growth. How many old people and zombies do you need before an economy comes to a halt? Nobody knows. But the drag from debt is observable and calculable. Over the last three decades, approximately $33 trillion in excess debt has been contracted – above and beyond the traditional ratio to income – in America alone. And growth rates have fallen in half. That’s because dollars that would otherwise support current spending are instead used to pay for past spending. Our old debts have to be retired with current income. The money doesn’t disappear, of course. Some goes to creditors who spend it. Some comes back as capital investment, which is a form of spending. But as credit shrinks, generally, so does the economy. And that brings us to the impossible situation we’re in now. In order to get back to a healthy ratio – say approximately $1.50 worth of debt for every $1 in income – you’d need to erase all that excess that has already been contracted. In other words, you’d have to take $1 trillion out of the consumer economy every year for the next 33 years. It would be the longest and deepest depression in US history . A Credit Crisis, Complete with Howling, Whining, Finger-Pointing Take a trillion out of the U.S. economy and you have a 4% decline in GDP. Then, as the economy declines, the remaining debt burden becomes even heavier. Try to pay down debt and it becomes harder and harder to pay down. You stop buying in order to save money. Your local merchants lose sales. Then they try to cut expenses, and you lose your job. In other words, no “steady state slump” is possible. When the credit cycle turns, it will not be a gentle slope, but a catastrophic cliff… a credit crisis, complete with howling, whining, finger-pointing… and more clumsy rescue efforts from the feds. As we said yesterday, there are two solutions to a debt crisis. Inflation or deflation. Central banks can cause asset price inflation. But it is not always as easy as it looks. Consumer price inflation requires the willing cooperation of households. With little borrowing and spending from the household sector, credit remains in the banks and the financial sector. Asset prices soar. Consumer prices barely move. U.S. consumer price inflation over the last 12 months, for example, was approximately zero. The assumption behind the “long depression” hypothesis is that central banks cannot or will not be able to cause an acceptable or desirable level of consumer price inflation. As a result, the economy will be stuck with low inflation, low (sometimes negative) growth and low bond yields. But what about deflation? If inflation won’t reduce debt, why not letdeflation do the job? Deflation Works! We’ve been exploring how the credit bubble resolves itself. Inflation? Deflation? Are we locked in to a long, long period of stagnation, slump and economic sclerosis? First, we give you our long-termforecast. “This is the most negative ever,” says our chief number cruncher Stephen Jones. It shows a loss of 9.8% every year for the next 10 years. In other words, our mean-regressing, debt/ demography-adapted model seems to be pointing to a long depression. But an average loss of 9.8% per year over 10 years can happen in a numberof different ways. Little by little. Or in one savage blow. A foreshadow of the long depression crossed the planet like a total eclipse of the sun twice in the last 100 years. The first time was America’s Great Depression. You know that story. Stocks crashed. Businesses went broke. People lost their jobs. Banks failed. Events were following the typical depression script, which probably would have bottomed out and recovered within a couple of years – as happened in the depression of 1921. But then, the federal government stepped in. It froze prices, including the price of labor. It cut off trade. It blocked liquidations. It arrested the progress of the correction. Murray Rothbard analyzed the policies of the Hoover and Roosevelt administrations in his 1963 classic, America’s Great Depression. He showed how government, trying to stop the Depression, actually prevented it from doing its work. The short, quick deflationary shock – which should have slashed bad debt, bad businesses, and bad investments – turned into a long, agonizing slump. The Depression, which should have been over by 1933, continued until the 1940s and was only ended then by the biggest public works spending program in history – World War II. This, by the way, did not actually make people better off economically, but it “put people to work” and largely disguised the drop in living standards which that war and the Depression had caused. The second long depression was in Japan, following the crash of its stock market in 1990. It has now been a quarter of a century since that crash. Japanese GDP has scarcely advanced, as you can see in the following chart: And the Japanese stock market? From a high of nearly 40,000 in 1990, the Nikkei index now trades at around 20,000. It’s taken 25 years to claw itself back to a 50% loss! The blame for the long-ness of the depression can be placed squarely on the government. To this day, it continues to meddle in the economy – essentially forestalling a genuine cleanup of bad debt. Instead of allowing the bad debt to be written off and reduced, policymakers have added more and more debt over the entire 25-year period so that today, Japan’s government is the most indebted in the world. And now Japan is running out of time and money. Its aging population is no longer saving for retirement; now retirees expect to spend those savings. This means that the government can no longer count on financing from Japan’s savers. Now it must return their money. But how? It has no money to give them. Like the U.S., it has been running budget deficits for years. Japan’s economy is in a crisis. It’s been two years since the Shinzo Abe government began its stimulus program. But wages are actually lower today than they were when it began. And this is happening against a backdrop of falling labor supply; the labor pool is expected to shrink by 20% over the next 25 years. The main goal of the stimulus program was to raise Japan’s inflation rate. But you could multiply the last 12 months of price increases by nine and still not reach the government’s 2% target. In the U.S., too, inflation has been disappearing as fast as good manners. In the last 12-month period, consumer prices were approximately flat. And that is despite a 400% increase in the Fed’s assets – the nation’s money foundation – over the last six years. If that kind of money printing doesn’t cause an increase in the CPI, what would? We’ll come back to that question in a minute. Cheap Credit Keeps the Wheels Turning If inflation can’t be counted on to reduce the world’s debts, what about deflation? The feds fear it, loathe it and try to prevent it every way they can. But deflation works. It knocks down sales, prices, and employment, forcing borrowers into bankruptcy. Then, their debts are worthless. Alas, in a zero-rate world, the banana peels disappear from the sidewalks. It is almost impossible to go broke, default, or fall on your face. Grant’s Interest Rate Observer told the story of one company: Radio Shack. The company lost the plot back in 2007, says Grant's. The Onion satirized its chief executive, Julian Day, putting thefollowing words in his mouth: There must be some business model that enables this company to make money, but I’ll be damned if I know what it is. But Radio Shack stayed in business – borrowing ever more money as its credit rating declined from BB- to D (or “junk”) over the following eight years. Finally, it bit the dust in February of this year. There’s nothing like unlimited cheap credit to keep the wheels turning – slowly. In 2009, a grim year for American business, 60,837 firms declared bankruptcy. In 2014, there were 26,983 bankruptcies. What is surprising is not that there were so few, but that there were so many. When you can borrow for nothing… or close to nothing… why does anyone ever default? Of course, not all firms have equal access to the free money. The little guys go broke. The big guys stay in business. The economy stays alive, but on life support. The big limitation of this system is that as the slump worsens, prices fall and real interest rates actually go up. That is, the feds may lend at zero, but if prices are falling, the effective, real borrowing rate may rise. The authorities would be “zero bound,” unable to take nominal rates below zero and unable to keep the real price of money at nothing. Until recently, it had been presumed that rates could not sink below zero. People would not pay for the privilege of holding cash in a bank or a bond; they would just take the cash and hoard it. But all over the world, central governments have begun a “war on cash” designed to force people to use credit, rather than cash. The feds can monitor, tax, and control credit. They can even force you to pay for the privilege of having it. The European Central Bank and the Swiss National Bank already require depositors to pay for storing money. And beginning this week, JPMorgan Chase began charging depositors a “utilization fee” to hold their money. Meanwhile, economists are advocating taxing cash or even, like Harvard economics professor Ken Rogoff, making it illegal. France has already made it illegal to pay bills of more than 1,000 euros with cash. And the U.S. requires financial industry workers – such as bank tellers – to rat out customers by filing “suspicious activity reports” on anyone who comes in with what they consider an inappropriately large amount of cash. Why the “war on cash”? Partly to control you. And partly to control the economy. If they can create a NIRP world – with negative nominal interest rates – they may be able to keep the credit flowing to cronies and zombies, maintaining the economy in a coma for many years. Businesses that should go broke will have access to credit. Speculators will still make money. Governments willcontinue to print money and borrow it from themselves. The zombies will throw rocks and bottles every once in a while, but they will still get their cash and the system will survive. Long, drawn-out depressions are caused by governments. The politicians respond to today’s capital interests, not tomorrow’s. Today’s retirees vote. Today’s stockholders give campaign contributions. Today’s cronies control the power and money of today’s society. And all of them fear one thing more than any other: the future. They all know they will die, and that the process of capitalism is creative destruction – today’s wealth owners must be stripped of their money and power so that tomorrow’s generations can take over. And that’s why government’s essential role is to look into the future and prevent it from happening. This is just another way of saying that governments will always try to stop depressions, because depressions are creative destruction in action. Capitalism chops down today’s trees so that tomorrow’s saplings can get some air and light. But trying to stop creative destruction does not stop the future. It just changes it. Instead of a dynamic, honest and growing economy, we get stagnation, economic gangrene and financial rigor mortis. Long depressions, in other words. Don’t Expect the Fed to Sit Tight As we have seen, Japan has already had a 25-year slump. The U.S. is now in Year 8 of its slump, with fragile growth at only half the rate of the last century. They could get better… or worse. Negative rates could keep the cronies in business. The slump itself – combined with peak debt and 500 million Chinese laborers – could keep inflation in check. But the point comes when investors see that the risk of loss (because something can always go wrong) is greater than the hope of gain. That moment must be approaching in the U.S. stock market. Prices are near record highs, even as the economy flirts with recession. One day, perhaps soon, we will see stocks falling – as much as 1,000 points in 24 hours. Jacking up the stock market has been the Fed’s singular success. Activism has been its creed. Interventionism is its modus operandi. It will not sit tight as the market falls apart and the economy goes into recession. Instead, it will announce QE 4. It will try to enforce negative interest rates. And it will move – as will the Japanese – to “direct monetary funding” of government deficits. That is, it will dispense with the fiction of “borrowing” from its own central bank. It will simply print the money it needs. The U.S. Fed of 1930 was not nearly as ambitious and assertive as the Fed of 2015. In the ‘30s, it watched as the economy chilled into a Great Depression. As Ben Bernanke told Milton Friedman, “We won’t do that again.” It couldn’t if it wanted to. Back in the ‘30s, consumer debt had barely been invented. Most people still lived on or near farms, where they could takecare of themselves even if the economy was in a depression. Few people had credit. Instead, they had savings. There were no food stamps. No disability. No rent assistance. No zombie industries. No student debt. No auto debt. No cash-back mortgages. And cash was real money, backed by gold. Today, a long depression in the U.S. would be unbearable. The public couldn’t stand it. Six out of ten households live paycheck to paycheck. Can you imagine what would happen if those paychecks ceased?Supposedly, the U.S. economy is still growing… with the stock market near record highs. Yet, one out of every five households in America has not a single wage-earner. Among inner-city black men, ages 20-24, only 4 out of 10 have jobs. Half the households in the U.S. count on government money to make ends meet. And 50 million get food stamps. What would happen to the cities and the suburbs – in a real depression? What would Janet Yellen do? Would she repeat the words of Andrew Mellon in 1929 to “liquidate labor, liquidate stocks, liquidate farmers, liquidate real estate... it will purge the rottenness out of the system. High costs of living and high living will come down. People will work harder, live a more moral life. Values will be adjusted, and enterprising people will pick up from less competent people.” Mellon was just suggesting that creative destruction be allowed to do its job. He was the last Treasury secretary to make such a forthright and honest comment. Thenceforth, Treasury secretaries and central bank governors could no longer accept the tough love of a free enterprise economy. They had to offer bogus rehab and claptrap therapy. They had to stop creative destruction. They had to “tell it like it wasn’t” because that’s the way people wanted it. They had to pretend to make a better world by improving the market economy. We Need Another Mellon Today, a central banker or Treasury secretary who let deflation purge the rottenness from the system would be dismissed before sundown. Too much wealth, too many reputations, too much power and status depend on the continuation of the credit expansion. Instead of a Mellon, we will have a Greenspan, a Bernanke, or a Yellen. And we will soon find out whether Mr. Bernanke spoke the truth in 2002 when he said: We conclude that, under a paper-money system, a determined government can always generate higher spending and hence positive inflation. Threatened with deflation, the authorities will want to turn the tide in the worst possible way. What’s the worst way to stop deflation? With hyperinflation. Yes, we may suffer a year or two more of sluggish growth… or even deflation. Stocks will crash and people will be desperate for paper dollars. But sooner or later, the feds will find their feet and lose their heads. Most likely, the credit-drenched world of 2015 will end… not in a whimper of deflation, but in a bang. Hyperinflation will bring the long depression to a dramatic close long before a quarter of a century has passed. B/A

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Are Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump teaming up to tell world about doom of Planet X? RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin is planning to warn the world that a mythical planet heading towards Earth is TRUE if Donald Trump does not make it into the White House. By Jon Austin PUBLISHED: 14:05, Wed, Oct 12, 2016 | UPDATED: 14:22, Wed, Oct 12, 2016 Vladimir Putin will tell world of Nibiru if Donald Trump is not elected That is the shocking claim of a conspiracy theory going viral online. Conspiracists and UFO seekers have been claiming for years that a mysterious huge celestial body called Planet X or Nibiru was hidden away in our solar system, on such an orbit that it passes close to Earth every few thousand years. And the size of the planet and its gravitational pull is so big that it causes havoc on Earth by trigger earthquakes and volcanoes as it passes, the claim states. The theory was bolstered in January when NASA announced the discovery of a Planet Nine hidden in our solar system that is about 10 times bigger than the Earth. The conspiracy theory goes that all major world leaders know about the threat of Nibiru, but are keeping the news secret from the masses due to the fear they would lose control over the populations if we knew what was coming. Claims appear to have begun life on the www.someonesbones.com conspiracy theory website, which claims to print the news the mainstream media dares not to, but also says it uses humour and levity to leak out the truth. In the latest piece, someonesbones.com claims Mr Putin revealed all to mainstream Russian broadsheet Pravda. The someonesbones.com article states: "In a candid interview with Pravda, Russian President Vladimir Putin stated implicitly that he would tell the world about Nibiru if Donald Trump loses the presidential election. "In July and August, we ran a series of articles highlighting a three decade long secret war between the White House and the Kremlin, culminating in a confidential agreement between Putin and Trump. Russian President Vladimir Putin stated implicitly that he would tell the world about Nibiru if Donald Trump loses the presidential election. "Putin promised to remain silent about Nibiru, and in exchange, Trump vowed to dismantle and expose the Nibiru cover-up as his first presidential act. "At the time, Trump’s ascension to the White House seemed certain. In light of recent events, however, Trump’s presidential bid is in serious jeopardy, and Vladimir Putin has strong fears that Trump will lose the election and thus be unable to make good on his promise." The claim goes on to obtain a foreign service report translated by the Russian Ministry of Defense, which detailed Putin’s inner turmoil. This report allegedly said: "In the event of a Trump defeat, Putin plans immediately to disclose Nibiru on all major Russian television networks, including RT news.". UFO blogger Scott C Waring is convinced by the theory. He wrote: "Being the head of Russia, one of the three most powerful countries in the world, Putin would of course know all about Planet X and how its orbit is 10,000 to 20,000 years for each time it passes Earth. "It also looks like he is willing to tell the public about it if he doesn't get his own way if Trump doesn't win the election. I cannot verify the source yet, but still searching for the original." http://www.express.co.uk/news/weird/720359/Vladimir-Putin-Donald-Trump-team-up-tell-world-Planet-X B/A

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