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US MARKETS As Emperor Obama (Romulus the Usurper) fires GM's CEO, steals money from

Chrysler's bondholders, puts together Public-Private Investment Partnerships (PPIP's)that will privatize gains and socialize losses in an attempt to stabilize derivative pricesby having banks buy their toxic waste from one another in the usual "smoke andmirror" tradition of Wall Street, and creates what currently is an annualized 1.8 trilliondollar federal budget deficit that will grow exponentially over time to finance zombiebanker bailouts, to fascistically nationalize the financial, insurance and automanufacturing industries, and to provide inane, flash-in-the-pan, socialistic spendingprograms (euphemistically called "stimulus packages" that will do little or nothing tostimulate production or to create permanent jobs), while simultaneously supporting theFed's actions, which amount to little more than using chewing gum and bailing wire tokeep the money and credit markets from collapsing as it creates and distributes, inarrogant, secretive, crony-capitalist fashion, a gargantuan pile of counterfeit monopolymoney in an amount on par with total US GDP for an entire year, you can just senseand feel that there is now a runaway, hyperinflationary freight train rumbling down thetracks at ever greater speed that is soon going to derail and create a train wreck out ofour economy.

Since hyperinflation is clearly in our future, let's talk about what inflation reallyis, what causes it, what the different degrees or levels of inflation are, and what it takesto put a stop to inflation?

By modern definitions, inflation is basically an overall increase in the pricescharged for goods and services in a particular economy over time. This is a prettysimple concept, but there is some real confusion as to what the root cause of inflationis. It does not come from people willy-nilly charging more for their goods and services.

People can raise prices all they like, but if there is not enough money andcredit available to purchase their goods and services at the prices they are charging,they will eventually have to either lower their prices, or expect to make far fewer sales.

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What you have witnessed for the past two years is the above concept inoverdrive, especially in the real estate and automobile markets, as the supply ofmoney and credit has greatly contracted for all but the anointed Illuminist institutionsthat are parking their profits and bailout money at interest with the Fed for fear thatthey might lend it out to a zombie financial institution or business corporation andnever get it back. As their money is sidelined with the Fed to sterilize it (i.e. to keep it

from stoking inflation) the smaller fry who depend on them for their supply of financialcapital are being allowed to die of money and credit starvation so the anointed canpurchase the most valuable parts of their financial carcasses at pennies on the dollarvia bankruptcy auctions and fire-sales in a blatant attempt to eliminate theircompetition and consolidate their power. This deflationary contraction in the supply ofmoney and credit due to the exposed loan, mortgage and derivative fraud is a strongundertow to our economy which threatens to drag it out to sea until it runs out of airand drowns. The Fed must therefore inflate and swim for shore, or die. And inflatethey will. We can absolutely guarantee it. Obama will go down in history as the Kingof Stagflation, as he joins forces with the inimitable Gordon Brown, the King of Fire-Sale Gold.

On a microeconomic scale, prices for specific goods and services are usually

set by supply and demand (that, of course, would be in a free economy which we nolonger have, so manipulation becomes an input for pricing specific goods and servicesin our economy, and is sometimes even the main input, as with gold and silver prices).

However, the microeconomic factors which determine prices for goods andservices are by far trumped by the macroeconomic factors of supply and demand. Thesupply side on a macroeconomic scale is determined by the amount of goods andservices that are produced for sale in the overall economy. The demand side on amacroeconomic scale is the amount of money and credit available to the overalleconomy with which those goods and services can be purchased, or expressedanother way, the amount of money and credit that is available to chase after thosegoods and services.

This is why the price of gold and silver must eventually skyrocket. The

microeconomic supply, demand and manipulation factors which currently have swayover gold and silver prices will eventually be trumped by the macroeconomic factors,namely, a profligate increase in the supply of money and credit to unheard of levelswhich will drive prices up across the board. The Fed cannot suppress the price of allgoods and services as it rampantly expands the supply of money and credit, and canonly influence a chosen few, such as gold and silver, which are suppressed becausethey are the canaries in the coal mine. When everything else gets more expensive,and as fiat currencies are shown to be the "worthless paper" they really are, gold andsilver will become the only real safe-havens from the resulting inflation and financialdeterioration. That will then generate a demand for precious metals that is so great, itwill drive the price of gold and silver up until they catch up with the overall supply ofmoney and credit, and there is nothing the Fed can do to stop it, short of pulling the

plug on money and credit and destroying our economy, along with the privately ownedFed itself and its Illuminist cronies with it. This eventual destruction is planned to besure, in order to pave the way for a one world Orwellian police state. The trick for theIlluminists is how to get out of their paper assets and convert them to real assets on the cheap before pulling the plug on money and credit. The problem is that as theybail out of paper, and into tangible assets, along with other foreign creditor nationsanxious to trade their "worthless paper" in for things of real value, their bailing activitieswill drive inflation, and the price of gold, silver and other tangible assets, to unheard oflevels, thereby dramatically decreasing the amount of tangible assets that they can

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absorb with their dollar reserves and their sales proceeds from the dumping of paperassets. The US and its creditors will be competing with one another in the race todump dollar-denominated paper assets in exchange for precious metals, commodities,real estate, factories and equipment and other tangible assets, as well as shares incompanies which own such assets, including shares in gold and silver producers.

The obvious answer is, of course, that they can't pull this off on the cheap, and

they will use the resulting hyperinflation to wreck the rest of the economy while theyare desperately attempting to bail out of dollar-denominated paper assets behindeveryone's backs, as part of their Big Sting Two criminal enterprise. They will attemptto accomplish this insider trading scam in secret through unregulated dark pools ofliquidity such as Project Turquoise and Baikal, as well as through the unregulatedgambling casino which some dare to call the OTC derivatives market. They will usetheir sales proceeds to buy all the real, tangible assets they can get their hands on andleave everyone else holding a bag full of "worthless paper," aka Federal Reservenotes, US Treasury bonds and GSE bonds. But the amount of "worthless paper" is sogreat, and there are so many substantial players who will be trying to do the samething, that market chaos will result, and the paper assets will deteriorate, and the priceof tangible assets will simultaneously appreciate, at a rate that leaves everyone

breathless. Truly, this will be a situation where he who loses the least, and he whobuys gold and silver and their related shares early on, are the ultimate winners. Thebiggest losers will be those who fail to take physical delivery of their precious metals,such as gold and silver ETF shareholders and holders of mint certificates, who will bethoroughly Madoff'd, as well as holders of any leveraged gold and silver futurespositions who will be wiped out by manipulations before the final run-up, thus losing alltheir investment capital.

The elitist oligarchs who run America, Canada and Western Europe and theirprivately owned central banks own tens of thousands of tons of gold already, and willseek to take the proceeds from the sale of their paper assets and use them to increasetheir gold holdings in an attempt to maintain monetary dominance over major playerslike China and Russia, who will also attempt to add to their holdings by many

thousands of tons. There is only so much gold to go around, and when all the bigplayers become gold bugs themselves, gold, and also silver, will go ballistic. Theywant the gold mine (literally), while you get the shaft. That is, has been, and alwayswill be, "The Plan." Bernanke and Geithner are now Obama's twin Tattoo's, with ourapologies to the producers of "Fantasy Island," a show which has become a perfectmetaphor for what the US economy with its so-called "Green Shoots" has become. Deplan, boss, de plan. De plan indeed.

On a technical macroeconomic basis, an economy suffers from inflation whenthe amount of its total money and credit available over a period of time (the demand)grows at a rate in excess of the rate of growth in its total value of goods and servicesproduced over that period of time (the supply), which valuation is based on price levelsin effect at the beginning of that period of time. In more simple terms, inflation occurs

when the rate of expansion of the supply of money and credit exceeds the rate ofexpansion in the production of goods and services. In fact, in the past when we stillhad a modicum of integrity in measuring economic statistics, inflation was defined asan increase in the supply of money and credit, period. Higher prices were simply asymptom of inflation, not a definition of inflation. The supply of money and credit waswhat was inflated, not the prices of goods and services, which simply rose as a directoutcome of the inflated supply of money and credit.

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Since central banks are currently in control of the supply of money and credit inmost modern economies, it is the bankster-gangsters who are, ergo, solely responsiblefor any overall increases in inflation, and that goes double for any large increases.

In the US, the privately owned Fed plays the role of our central bank, and itpresides over our nefarious banking system, which is a fiat-money, debt-based,European form of fractional reserve banking that once powered the British mercantilist

system. All major US inflationary issues and debacles can therefore be squarelyplaced at the doorsteps of the Fed, and of our Treasury Department, which is littlemore than a doormat for the Fed, which together with Wall Street, runs a revolvingdoor with the Treasury. In fact, our current Treasury Secretary is the former Presidentof the New York branch of the Federal Reserve Bank. So much for checks andbalances and avoidance of conflicts of interest.

We now have the Fed increasing total money and credit (M3) at a rate of 18%while our GDP is contracting at a rate of minus 6%. That is a 24% differential, andthat means that the amount of goods and services being produced has an ever-growing supply of money chasing after it, money and credit that is growing at a pacethat is 24% more than the pace at which goods and services are growing. Based onall the foregoing, we'll give you three guesses as to what the outcome will be

somewhere down the road when the Fed's ever-burgeoning money blob starts chasingafter a shrinking supply of goods and services.

Inflation comes in basically three varieties. Normal inflation, which is basicallyharmless, is a temporary increase in prices caused by an increase in the supply ofmoney and credit by the central bank which is intended to precisely anticipate the rateof growth in the production of goods and services. You have more money and credit,but you also have more goods and services being produced. The temporary bout ofminimal inflation caused by the anticipatory increase in the supply of money and creditis offset or absorbed by the greater pile of goods and services that is accumulating, soprices remain stable over time. This is obviously not an exact science, so there aresome up-ticks if the money supply grows a little too fast, but over time this can becorrected. It is best to overshoot a little so as not to start an economic contraction,

which, if left unchecked, could lead to a recession or depression.The next type of inflation we would characterize as elevated inflation. This is

what we have currently at a rate of about 10% and growing. This type of inflationresults where the central bank consistently grows money and credit at a rate far inexcess of the rate of growth in the production of goods and services, measured interms of GDP growth, over an extended period of time. What the Illuminati have donefor over 20 years now, was to have the Fed, which they privately own, raise the level ofgrowth in the supply of money and credit to ludicrous levels, while they simultaneouslyordered their lackeys at the BLS to lie about the rate of the resulting inflation by usinghedonics (statistical manipulations) that were intended to greatly understate inflation.

As a result, when real GDP was calculated, the GDP deflator, which is basedsubstantially on the official (and falsely low) rate of inflation, and which is used to

calculate real GDP, was obviously far too low. This farce resulted in higher levels ofreal GDP than were warranted by the data, because inflation was not being properlytaken into account.

This is how they covered up the destruction of our economy via free trade,globalization, off-shoring and outsourcing, along with both legal and illegal immigration(slave labor). If the true figures were used, our real GDP would show that the rate ofgrowth in our economy has been virtually flat to negative since 1990. That means allthe growth in our stock markets since the early 1990's has been nothing but falsepuffery, which resulted from profligate growth in the supply of money and credit, and

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not from growth in production. For this reason, when the Dow finally bottoms, weexpect it to track back to its levels during the early 1990's, which means roughly 2,500to 3,500. That level will destroy everything, especially the wealth of our middle class,but the elitists themselves are going to take it on the chin. They are afraid the systemwill implode before they can bail, and that they will go down with the ship also. Wewholeheartedly confirm their fears.

The Illuminati are about to learn a hard lesson: Hell hath no fury like anAmerican deceitfully parted from his money!!! These unfortunate souls now risk beingtorn to shreds by rabid mobs using their bare hands. They have gone way beyond tarand feathers this time, or a humane execution. A large portion of the American peoplewill not go into their internment camps, but will instead expend their last breath andbullets tracking these miscreants down like dogs. They will be chased relentlessly tothe utter ends of the earth until they are systematically and utterly destroyed. You canrun, but you can't hide, from angry Americans robbed of their health and their wealth. Ifthey try to hide in their bunkers, Americans will get small nukes from our nucleararsenal and our patriotic soldiers, or from the Russians or Chinese, drill a hole downinto their lair, drop the warhead down, and detonate it in their rabbit hole. They'll goout in a blaze of glory! Have you really thought this thing through, morons?

The final type of inflation is what we would call hyperinflation. This is thenightmarish stuff which destroyed Germany's Weimar Republic and Zimbabwe. Butyou don't get to hyperinflation by having the government simply increase spending.You cannot attain million percent and billion percent inflation through government

spending alone, as they could never spend money at such levels under normalcircumstances to fight a run-of-the-mill recession or depression. No, to get this type ofrunaway inflation, or hyperinflation, requires two ingredients. The first ingredient iscurrency speculators. And the second ingredient is a central bank that is corruptenough, or moronic enough, to print as much money as those speculators demand,creating a carry trade in that currency that destroys it in hyperbolic fashion. This iswhat really destroyed the German and Zimbabwean currencies utterly. Thespeculators are loaned currency from the central bank, which they sell short into the

international currency market for stronger currencies in anticipation of further declines.They keep borrowing money as long as the central bank cooperates and prints

it, thus driving down the value of the currency ad nauseam. It's like being able to haveyour own self-fulfilling prophecy.

In the case of Germany's Weimar Republic, and the rise of Hitler to power, wesee the shadowy hands of the US and European Illuminists all over this situation.Hitler was more of a madman than a genius. The genius part came from the US and

European Illuminists who sponsored, supported and aided Hitler in resurrectingGermany as a militaristic police state so we could have a second world war to take usout of the Illuminist-created Great Depression. They told Hitler that they would destroythe German mark to break Germany out of the clutches of the admittedly onerous anddisgusting Treaty of Versailles, which required Germany to make reparations to Allied

nations in amounts that were impossible for a country destroyed in a world war tomanage. Germany would pay their reparations with increasingly debauched Germanmarks. (Does this not sound familiar with what the Fed and US Treasury are up to asthey debauch the dollar in a stealth default on their debts to international creditors?

Looks like they are taking another page out of Hitler's Nazi playbook, whichthey originally wrote for Hitler). The Illuminists, on their part, had their currencyspeculators keep borrowing from Germany's recently privatized central bank, whichwas more than happy to print the German mark out of existence as the currencyspeculators did their dirty work. This then created the financial and social chaos,

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which brought Hitler to power, and was the perfect excuse to set up the Jews, withtheir many banking connections, as scapegoats.

But the Illuminists also did something very, very interesting. Once Hitler cameto power, they told Hitler to have his fledgling Nazi government issue a new Germancurrency that was only good inside Germany so it could not be manipulated by outsidespeculation, and told him to print only as much currency as would be needed to cover

the anticipated production that would occur as Germany underwent reconstruction andremilitarization. This was their idea as Hitler was hardly that well versed in economicsto come up with it on his own. Hitler of course had his own German advisors, but wecan assure you that they got most of their ideas from the Illuminist Puppet Masters,who were experts on currency manipulations and on monetary history. In fact, it wasthe Puppet Masters and their predecessors who in fact made much of monetaryhistory. This move, of course, worked, as the Illuminists knew it would, and soon NaziGermany, with all kinds of financial and political support from the Illuminists, was readyto start its conquest, thus generating trillions in profits for the US military-industrialcomplex, and providing an escape from a terrible depression.

We can assure you that the war-to-escape-depression idea will be used againshortly. We wonder who the next Hitler will be who will take us into World War III to

put an end to the Much Greater Depression that is currently underway and gettingworse by the minute. Stay tuned. You haven't seen anything yet.

The second part of the above dissertation will appear in the next issue.*****

From Harry Schultz:Dear Bob:Bob Chapman’s Int’l Forecaster newsletter revealed (5/20) this startling intelligence(from within US State Dept & embassies): ”Some US embassies worldwide are being advised to purchase massive amounts of local currencies; enough to last them a year .Some embassies are being sent enormous amounts of US cash to purchase currencies from those govts, quietly. But not £’s. Inside the State Dept there is a sense of sadness & foreboding that ‘something’ is about to happen, unknown re a date—just

that within 180 days, but could be 120-150 days.” Bob quotes another source that“Panasonic has told their people to be back in Japan by Sept 09.” ([email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> )

Harry Schultz, dean of newsletter writers, has quoted the Chapman letter of May 30regarding US embassies being sent large amounts of cash with which to buy localcurrencies, to last them a year. Here is Harry’s remarkable take on the situation:

“My HSL suspicion is that the elite plan another FDR style “bank holiday” of indefinitelength, perhaps very soon, to let the insiders sort-out the bank mess which is gettingmore out of their control every day. Insiders want/need to impose new bank rules.Widespread nationalization could result, already under way. It could also lead to aformal US$ devaluation, as FDR did by revaluing gold (& then confiscating it). But

devalue against what? The euro? Doubtful. Gold? Maybe. Or vs. the IMF basket ofcurrencies (which seems more likely)—& much in the news recently. Any kind of bankholiday will push the US$ lower, which may be a bonus benefit to their ongoingscenario of letting the $ fall. Such a fall would get the devaluation they want withouthaving to declare it. In sum, the insiders want more bank & system control, fewerbanks & a lower US$. A bank holiday would suit all their needs. Obviously, U can’topen safeboxes if the banks are closed, so plan accordingly. All this is speculation, butwe have to go with what we’ve got, scraps of info that point to certain possibilities. In any case such a closure will, IMO, come sooner or later , as the worst of the embedded

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derivatives are still to be faced. We are years away from solving them because thecontrollers don’t want to; their fingerprints are all over them. PS: during the FDRbank holiday, thousands of banks never reopened; it was a face-saving way of shuttingthem down. I would guess the same would occur today; thousands have little or no netvalue, loaded with debt, bad mortgages. ••• PPS: A Bob Chapman subscriber reportedoverhearing 2 FEMA jacketed men talking to a police chief in Calif. They wanted to

federalize the police across the US. They (govt) would be closing banks in late Aug,early Sept & that it will get ugly.” Prepare for worst case, as any good Boy or Girl Scoutwould do. J”If U want to get Harry’s invaluable interpretation of everything-that-matters, send anorder for the Int’l Harry Schultz Letter to: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> or write FERC, PO Box 622, CH-1001 Lausanne,Switzerland. Or via website: www.hsletter.com <http://www.hsletter.com> . 8-monthtrial $279 (€231), But for Chapman subscribers, Harry offers a $59 discount, offer goodfor til end July 09. - Toll free phone US only: (1) (866) 725 3724

*****Whether people realize it or not we started an inflationary depression in

February. You wouldn’t know that reading the mainstream media, or by listening tocriminal enterprises known as Wall Street and government. The US dollar is on itsirreversible path to losing its status as world reserve currency, as we enter the worstdepression in our nation’s history. Americans may be unaware of it, but we know as domany foreigners that America is bankrupt. This knowledge is going to continue toinhibit the purchase of US government debt and will induce dollar holders to sellcurrent dollar holdings. These countries have their own problems and they do not thinkit is their responsibility to fund US deficits.

The BRIC nations led by China and Russia are going to use each other’scurrency in trade as much as possible and they want a new international trading unit orcurrency. The Russians said they want gold to be weighted in SDR’s, Special DrawingRights, to gain more balance within the unit.

We are seeing the beginnings finally of foreigners hesitating to continue toaccumulate dollars and to fund the profligate lifestyle of Americans and America’simperial outreach. They obviously are serious because the US asked to attend themeeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and were refused. A rebuttal,something US elitists have not experienced in some time. This was a very importantmeeting for the six nation participants and refusing entry to the US was certainly apolitical and diplomatic slap in the face, something that was completely ignored by thecontrolled media.

The problem America has is that the conclusions of the BRIC nations will putmajor continual downward pressure on the dollar and short of world war there is littlethey can do about it. These nations are now determined to replace the dollar as theworld’s reserve currency. That means the dollar is headed lower and that means

inflation will rise as the cost of imported goods rises. It also means all things traded ordenominated in dollars will be more expensive – inflated. Over the last ten years we’vehad just the opposite, cheap foreign goods keeping down US inflation. It is going toprove very expensive for Americans.

The wild creation of money and credit will most certainly bring on hyperinflation.It will be far too copious and strong over the next few years for deflation to take over,but ultimately deflation will win out.

The world banking system, as we know it is about to slide into history, as didthe Oracle at Delphi, which so long ago played central bank and eventually brought

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tragedy to Greece. The days of our current elitists are numbered. We are not childrento be simply dealt with. We may think our republic is democratically free, but it isn’t. Itis controlled by a privately owned Federal Reserve just as England is with the Bank ofEngland.

The next move by BRIC nations will be to extend their influence throughoutAsia and bring an end to American and British meddling in the region. This will be

done in part by not recycling dollars – or in fact refusing to use them. No more dollarlosses and no more funding for America’s military machine. It means the end ofAmerican dominance. There now will be a race to dump dollars.

Special Drawing Rights, SDRs, are not the answer. They are simply anotherfiat currency. The Russians in part have it right, there must be a gold component andthere will be if the SDRs are to be used. A better idea for an international trade unit is agold backed basket of the ten top currencies, which would include the dollar. Until thishappens dollar owners will continue to dump dollars by buying commodities, factories,land, etc., worldwide. America’s refusal to allow investment into certain areas, such asindustries they consider to be off limits, due to security concerns will lead to an evergreater flow of dollars back to the US bringing inflation and eventually currencycontrols. Dollars will be allowed to leave but not enter the US. This will as well tighten

government control over the wealth and finances of American citizens. If you hadplanned on leaving the US you had best do it now. The opportunity may not be therefor you in the future.

The fall of the dollar will mean a whole new way of life for Americans. Wecompare it to living during the 1940s and 1950s. That will last for a few years and thenwe’ll graduate into living as we did in the 1930s. If we are lucky there will not be arevolution. All markets will eventually collapse taking all investments down 60% to 95%from their 2006 highs. The only exception will be gold and silver assets, which will holdtheir value and appreciate.

Military spending will fade and with that the end of US military dominance. Itsimply won’t be able to be financed. The days of printing money and issuing credit withabandon are coming to a close. The cycle is being ended.

This will create distrust and confusion with higher unemployment, which couldlead to social instability. The very rich elitists will control 80% of the country’s wealth,while the nation suffers 35% or more unemployment. Such a situation harbors theseeds of rebellion.

We cannot spend our way out of our current dilemma. It is impossible. Thosewho deliberately created this situation know that. It was the price they were willing topay to bring America and Europe to their knees economically and financially to forcetheir populations to accept one-world government. This is not going to work and it willbring disaster on many levels to our planet.Saving Wall Street and banking isn’t going to work. They are insolvent. The losseshave to be absorbed sooner or later. The later it is the worse it will be. If you look athistory you will find this has happened over and over again. The result is fascist

dictatorial government, accompanied by a big war or a number of smaller wars. This ishow the elites hope to again extricate themselves and still hold power. We have newsfor them. This time it is going to be different. A police state won’t work on Americans.They will die rather than to submit, and the Illuminists are about to find that out.

General Motors Corp. said it has reversed decisions to end franchiseagreements with 60 dealers, as the largest US automaker scales back its retailnetwork under bankruptcy reorganization.

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Some franchise owners were able to show that GM used inaccurate financialinformation in placing them on the list for closing, Susan Garontakos, a companyspokeswoman, said yesterday.

The revisions mean fewer shutdowns after Detroit-based GM began notifyingabout 1,330 dealers on May 15 that it didn’t intend to renew their franchises when theyexpire next year.

Consumer prices have dropped 1.3% year in May, the largest drop in the last60 years. Month on month, consumer prices have edged up 0.1%, the marketconsensus had advanced a 0.3% month on month increase and a 0.9% decline yearon year. The Dollar remains steady.

The deficit in the broadest measure of trade has plunged sharply in the firstthree months of the year as the country's deep recession depressed imports of oil andother goods.

The Commerce Department said Wednesday the current account trade deficitdropped to $101.5 billion in the first quarter, a 34.5 percent decline from the deficit inthe fourth quarter. It was the lowest current account deficit since the final three monthsof 2001 when the country was mired in the last recession. U.S. overall consumerconfidence fell last week, according to an ABC News poll released Tuesday.

The consumer comfort index fell two points to -49 in the week ended June 14,from -47 a week earlier.

Federal Reserve officials are considering whether to use next week’s policystatement to suppress any speculation they’re prepared to raise interest rates as soonas this year.

While policy makers have signaled they accept an increase in longer-termTreasury yields as the economy improves, some are concerned at any prematureanticipation of rate rises. Fed staff have examined the Bank of Canada’s publicintention of foregoing an increase until 2010, according to a person familiar with thematter, without concluding the statement has proven effective.

JPMorgan Chase & Co. and four of the nation’s largest banks repaid $54.7billion to the U.S. Treasury’s bailout fund in a step toward ridding themselves of

government restrictions on lending and pay.JPMorgan repaid $25 billion, and New York-based Morgan Stanley and GoldmanSachs Group Inc. each gave back $10 billion. U.S. Bancorp, with its headquarters inMinneapolis, refunded $6.6 billion and Winston-Salem, North Carolina-based BB&TCorp. paid $3.1 billion, the banks said today in separate statements.

The lenders are among 10 companies that last week said they would repay atotal of $68 billion to the Troubled Asset Relief Program after Treasury approved thepayments. Banks have unveiled plans to raise more than $100 billion in capital, andfinancial stocks have climbed in the past three months on signs the global creditcontraction is easing.

The largest expansion of U.S. health care since the creation of Medicare in1965 may emerge from legislation designed to reshape the medical industry and

change how Americans receive and pay for care.Congress today began crafting legislation that Democratic leaders plan to push

through both chambers by their August recess. The measure may require allAmericans to get medical insurance, force insurers to accept all patients and end thetax break for employer-paid health benefits. These changes may be hammered outwith unprecedented speed at the urging of President Barack Obama, who four daysago said “this is the moment.”

Obama has made a health-care overhaul his top domestic priority, using hisFebruary budget proposal to call it a “moral” imperative to extend coverage to the

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country’s 46 million uninsured. Obama also tied the long-term fiscal soundness of theU.S. to controlling medical costs. Health care consumes 18 percent of the U.S.economy and may rise to 34 percent by 2040, the White House Council of EconomicAdvisers reported June 2.

“I don’t think we’ve ever had anything this large in American history aimed to gothis quickly that touches everybody’s lives,” said Robert J. Blendon, a professor of

health policy and political analysis at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts,in a telephone interview. “They’re moving at a pace we’ve never seen before.”

California Treasurer Bill Lockyer has insisted all through Sacramento's latestbudget crisis that he would never allow the state to renege on what it owesbondholders.

Yet when credit-rating firm Standard & Poor’s on Tuesday warned that it mightcut California’s credit grade -- which already is the lowest of the 50 states -- S&Pflagged at least the possibility of default.In the first paragraph of its statement, S&P says that "although we continue to believethe state retains a fundamental capacity to meet its debt service, insufficient oruntimely adoption of budget reforms serve to increase the risk of missed payments inour view."

S&P’s language incensed Lockyer’s spokesman, Tom Dresslar."S&P raises undue alarm about the potential for missed bond payments," he

said. "There is zero chance of that happening."Worries about the state’s fiscal fate, combined with an early-June jump in U.S.

Treasury bond yields, have driven market prices of the state’s bonds sharply lowersince mid-May, sending yields soaring.

Tax-free yields on 10-year California general obligation bonds were between5% and 5.1% on Tuesday, according to several traders. The yield was under 4.4% inmid-May. From his lips to God’s ears.

Struggling mall retailer Eddie Bauer Holdings Inc. filed for Chapter 11bankruptcy protection on Wednesday but said a bidder already has agreed to keep themajority of its 371 stores open, honor gift cards and hold onto most employees.

Drunken Arizona drivers with the late-night munchies may soon be gettingmore than chicken strips at drive-through windows.

The Pima County Sheriff's Department has a new campaign targeting drunkendriving. Operation Would U Like Fries, or Operation WULF, will put undercoverdeputies inside 24-hour fast-food restaurants to spot impaired drivers placing theirorders.

Sgt. Doug Hanna, a DUI unit supervisor, says if deputies notice someone withclassic symptoms of impairment — slurred speech, red or watery eyes or beer breath

— they will have a uniformed deputy stationed outside pull the driver over.Hanna says money for the intermittent program is coming from a $128,000

grant from the Governor's Office of Highway Safety.Retail gas prices climbed for the 50th straight day Wednesday, the longest

streak in records dating to 1996, even as benchmark crude fell for the fourth day in arow.

Historically, filling station prices tend to rise during the summer as millions ofvacationing Americans pour onto the highways. But a surge in crude prices during thepast few months and less production from the refiners that make gasoline has addedeven more pressure on prices.

"Refiners slowed production and did a lot of maintenance on the expectationthat this was going to be a lousy year for demand," said Fred Rozell, retail pricingdirector at Oil Price Information Service. "It turns out it wasn't so bad."

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Yet it's still pretty bad. Before the most recent government report on demand,gasoline supplied to the market was down 3 percent, and prices were still cheaperthan they were three years ago at this point in June.

Pump prices added a half cent overnight to a new national average of $2.679 agallon, according to auto club AAA, Wright Express and Oil Price Information Service.A gallon of regular gas has jumped nearly 37 cents in a month.

Mid-Atlantic factory activity booked its smallest retreat since last September inJune, raising hopes for the economic recovery.

The Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia reported Thursday that its index ofgeneral business activity for the manufacturing sector came in at -2.2 in June,compared with -22.6 in May.

That reading was the least bad since the fall, when it tilted very near the zeromark that represents the break even point between contraction and expansion.

June's reading was well above the -18.0 expected by economists. ThePhiladelphia Fed report bears particular importance for financial markets andeconomists, who see it as a proxy and leading indicator for national economic activity.

As such, the report helps raise hopes that the manufacturing sector isemerging from the recession, and increases chances that a recovery will take place

later this year, as many policy makers and analysts expect.Michael Trebing, an economist with the bank, offered a note of caution, saying

the report "showed continued weakening in manufacturing." But he added, "thedeclines were much less in evidence this month."

Meanwhile, the report noted "most of the survey's broad indicators of futureactivity showed continued improvement, suggesting that the region's manufacturingexecutives are becoming more optimistic that a recovery in business will occur overthe next six months."

The report's components were a bit of a mixed bag. On the positive side, theJune shipments index stood at 2.1, compared with -19.0, while the new orders indexwas -4.8, after May's -25.9.

The report also showed inflation pressures as waning, which is a sign of

improved activity and higher energy costs. The prices paid index hit -13.0, comparedwith -22.8, while the price received index was -16.6, versus -33.8 in May.

But hiring continued to contract, with the employment index at -21.8. It stood at-26.8 in May.

The May index of leading indicators offered more signs that the U.S. economyhas moved closer to recovery.

The leading index jumped 1.2% last month, after April's index increase wasrevised to 1.1%, the Conference Board reported Thursday. April's rise was originallyreported as 1.0%.

Economists surveyed by Dow Jones Newswires had expected an increase of1.0% in the May index.

"The recession is losing steam. Confidence is rebuilding and financial market

volatility is abating," said Ken Goldstein, economist at the Board. But he warned that"employment will take longer to turn around."

Vendor performance, interest-rate spread, real money supply, stock prices,consumer expectations and building permits made positive contributions to the Mayindex. Weekly hours worked and new jobless claims were negative contributors.

The coincident index fell 0.2% in May, after a revised drop of 0.3% in April.April's decline was first reported as 0.2%.

The lagging index dropped 0.2% in May, after a revised 0.8% decline in theprior month. The April drop was originally reported as 0.5%.

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The number of U.S. workers filing new claims for jobless benefits rose slightlyas expected last week, suggesting that while job losses have moderated since thebeginning of the year, a rapid turnaround in labor market conditions is unlikely.

Meanwhile, total claims lasting more than one week plunged by their largestamount since November 2001, breaking a streak of 21-straight increases in a rarereprieve for the unemployed in this recession.

Initial claims for jobless benefits rose 3,000 to 608,000 in the week ended June13, the Labor Department said in its weekly report Thursday. Economists surveyed byDow Jones Newswires had expected a 2,000 rise. The previous week's level wasrevised up.

The four-week average of new claims, which aims to smooth volatility in thedata, fell 7,000 to 615,750, the lowest level since mid-February.

The latest initial-claims data include the survey week for the June payrollreport. When employers are surveyed for the monthly employment report, they areasked about staffing levels for the pay period that includes the 12th day of the month.For that reason, many economists pay close attention to the jobless-claims data forthat week.

Nonfarm payrolls fell 345,000 in May, the smallest decline since September,

though the unemployment rate jumped 0.5 percentage point to a quarter-century highof 9.4%.

Meanwhile, according to Thursday's report the tally of continuing claims - thosedrawn by workers for more than one week in the week ended June 6 - fell 148,000 to6,687,000, the first weekly decline since the Jan. 3 week and largest since Nov. 24,2001.

Including extended benefit and other federal programs, the total number ofpeople collecting jobless benefits was almost 8.8 million in the May 30 week, up fromabout 8.5 million the previous week. That number, which lags the initial and continuingclaims figures, isn't adjusted for seasonal fluctuations.

The unemployment rate for workers with unemployment insurance was 5% inthe June 6 week, down 0.1 percentage point from the previous week.

Credit ratings agency Standard & Poor's lowered its ratings and revised itsoutlooks on 22 U.S. banks on Wednesday, citing concerns that operating conditionswill be less favorable than they were in the past due to volatile financial markets duringcredit cycles and tighter regulatory supervision.

Standard & Poor's also said the changes reflect its ongoing broad-rangingreassessment of industry risk for U.S. financial institutions. The agency indicated thatthe banking industry is now in a transition period and will likely undergo materialstructural changes.

Further, the agency said its overall assessment of the industry includesexpectations that loan losses are likely to continue to increase and could rise beyondcurrent expectations.

Standard & Poor's credit analyst Rodrigo Quintanilla said, "We believe the

banking industry is undergoing a structural transformation that may include radicalchanges with permanent repercussions."

"Financial institutions are now shedding balance-sheet risk and altering fundingprofiles and strategies for the marketplace's new reality," Quintanilla added. "Such atransition period justifies lower ratings as industry players implement changes."

BB&T Corp.(BBT: News ), Capital One Financial Corp.(COF: News ), KeyCorp. (KEY: News ) U.S. Bancorp (USB: News ), and Wells Fargo & Co.(WFC: News )were among the larger banks on the list that saw their ratings cut by S&P.

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Additionally, Standard & Poor's reassessed the relative creditworthiness of manyinstitutions based on their ability to deal with the increased risks during this transitionperiod and inferred that some firms may be better able to weather the risks ahead thanothers.

However, the agency stated that it could foresee raising ratings in the long termif lower earnings and reduced risk go along with stronger risk-adjusted capital and

effective governance.The other banks on the list include Associated Banc Corp. (ASBC), Astoria

Financial Corp. (AF), Comerica Inc. (CMA), Fifth Third Bancorp (FITB), M&T BankCorp. (MTB), PNC Financial Services Group (PNC), Regions Financial Corp. (RF),Susquehanna Bancshares Inc. (SUSQ), Valley National Bancorp (VLY), WebsterFinancial Corp.(WBS), Wilmington Trust Corp (WL), and First National Bank ofOmaha.

Regional banks cut to junk status included Carolina First Bank, CitizensRepublic Bancorp Inc. (CRBC), Huntington Bancshares Inc. (HBAN), SynovusFinancial Corp. (SNV), and Whitney Holding Corp. (WTNY).

The Senate today overwhelmingly passed a bill that would fund militaryoperations in Iraq and Afghanistan through Sept. 30, giving congressional backing to

President Obama's plan to increase troops and resources for the war in Afghanistan.The 91-5 vote sends the bill to President Obama for signing.

The $105.9 billion bill also includes $7.7 billion to prepare for a potentialoutbreak of a pandemic flu, an increased U.S. contribution to the InternationalMonetary Fund and $1 billion to start the "cash for clunkers" program that will giveAmericans vouchers of up to $4,500 to turn in their old cars and purchase more fuel-efficient vehicles.

Payrolls fell in most of the U.S. during May as companies squeezed by therecession kept unloading workers, but fewer states lost jobs than in April.

Non-farm payroll employment decreased in 39 states and increased in 11states and the District of Columbia last month, the Labor Department said Friday. In itsstate unemployment breakdown for April, Labor said non-farm payrolls fell in 44 states

and the District of Columbia, rising in six states.The moderation in the drop echoes other data showing the economy is not as

bad as it had been - but it still isn't good.Two weeks ago the Labor Department said non-farm payrolls shrank by

345,000 jobs in the U.S. during May - about half the average monthly decline for theprior six months. In April, payrolls shed 504,000 jobs. Since the recession began inDecember 2007, 6 million jobs have vanished.

The jobless rate rose in May to 9.4% from 8.9% in April.California lost the most jobs of all states in May, at 68,900. Florida dropped

61,000, with Texas losing 24,700 and Michigan down 23,900, Labor said.Michigan, the heart of the automobile industry, had the highest jobless rate in

May, at 14.1%. Oregon had a jobless rate of 12.4% and Rhode Island and South

Carolina each had 12.1%.The Federal Reserve's latest weekly money supply report Thursday shows

seasonally adjusted M1 rose by $34.3 billion to $1.631 trillion, while M2 rose $4.4billion to $8.354 trillion.

The figures are preliminary estimates for the week extending through June 8and are subject to revisions.

The Fed expanded its balance sheet by $29.406B in the latest week. The Fedmonetized $42.766B of securities. $15.5B of swaps were disgorged. If Congressintends to investigate Sammy Sosa for lying about steroids, Bernanke should be

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investigated for lying about monetizing debt and threatening Lewis.The real reason for Thursday’s collapse in bonds is the Treasury announced

that it would auction $104B of debt next week - $40B of 2s, $ 37B of 5s and $ 27B of7s. Plus $61B of T-Bills totals $165B!

President Obama's plan to revamp financial regulations triggered immediatecriticism Wednesday from both the political left and right over the expanded policing

authorities given to the Federal Reserve while business groups grumbled about apowerful new agency charged with protecting consumers against abusive lending.

Lawmakers picked apart virtually every element of the Obama administration'sregulatory reform plan during a hearing Thursday, but there was one question thatdominated: Would it really prevent another financial crisis?

Senators were astounded that there were no reforms for Fannie and Freddie.That’s because Congress intends for GSEs to provide unwarranted benefits to certainconstituents.

President Obama signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act(ARRA) into law, thus launching a bold new initiative to modernize stateunemployment insurance programs with the help of $7 billion in federal incentivefunds. That is because the ARRA covered 100 percent of the costs associated with the

13- to 20-week program of Extended Benefits, which is normally paid for 50 percent bythe states.

Government figures, in fact, show the proportion of recipients who used up their jobless benefits averaged 49 percent in May, a record.

A market manipulation vehicle will be investigated. The FT: SEC to turnspotlight on ‘dark pools’:

The increasingly popular trading venues known as “dark pools’’ are to comeunder fresh scrutiny from regulators concerned about the emerging risks they pose tothe wider markets, the head of the US Securities and Exchange Commission said onThursday.

Mary Schapiro, SEC chairwoman, has asked her staff to investigate the impactof automated “dark pools”, off-exchange trading venues that do not display quotes to

the public. Investorscan anonymously trade large blocks of shares on dark pools,leading to concerns about their impact on public prices and markets.

New York Fed President William Dudley set expectations low, saying in a June4 speech that he didn’t foresee any activity because the securitization process “takesquite a while to ramp up.” He asked his audience not to “take that as a mark of thesuccess of the CMBS effort, please.”

The stakes of TALF aid for CMBS extend beyond the markets for office and retailspace. Worsening problems in the commercial mortgage market may accelerate thedrop in property values, increase defaults and weaken banks’ finances, Dudley said inthe speech.

Among asset classes targeted by the Fed through the TALF, “commercial realestate is going to be the toughest to crack as its financing is very long-term in nature,”

Rupkey said.Personal Income Tax Revenues Portend Deepening Trouble for Many States

Preliminary data show deep declines in overall personal income tax revenues in nearlyevery reporting state. These declines signal continued difficult fiscal challenges ahead,particularly for the states that rely most heavily on personal income taxes…

Looking at the most recent recession years, personal income tax revenuedeclined by only 1.4 percent in April-June 1993 and by a dramatic 22.3 percent inApril-June 2002. Given the severe declines in April 2009 personal income taxcollections, we expect that the April-June 2009 quarter will be even more dramatically

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negative than the April-June 2002 quarter.Total personal income tax collections in January-April 2009 were 26 percent, or

about $28.8 billion below the level of a year ago in states for which we have data. InApril 2009 alone (April being the month when many states receive the bulk of theirbalance due or final payments), personal income tax receiptsfell by 36.5 percent, or $18.2 billion.

They are all fraudulent, it’s obvious. We don’t even have paper securitiesoutstanding for that value,’’ said Mckayla Braden, senior adviser for public affairs at theBureau of Public Debt at the US Treasury department. “This type of scam has beengoing on for years.

From a fundamental and technical viewpoint the stock market and bondmarkets are under pressure. They both should not be able to launch any kind of asustainable rally from present levels. From here on out markets will tend to be boringand cautious.

The Fed on Wednesday bought $7 billion of bills and notes and monetized$6.45 billion of 3 and 4-year bills.

There is gloom and doom at the highest levels of the banking industry becausecollateral values keep deteriorating and there is no end in sight. Few banks have as

yet writing off their holdings of HELOC paper. They are faced with the next leg downas prime mortgage defaults hit the market.

Commercial paper outstanding fell $27.7 billion in the week ended 6/17 versus$14.8 billion the previous week.

Asset backed CP outstanding fell $22.2 billion versus a $32.5 billion.CP outstanding was $1.202 trillion versus $1.230 trillion. ABCP outstanding

was $502.7 billion versus $524.9 billion.Unsecured CP issuance fell $100 million to $15.9 billion.This is the lowest level of CP in 8-12/ years.The preliminary take on the sweeping new Obama rules for the nation’s

financial system to be are an insult to the American people - as they say the bestdefense is a strong offense. A preeminent move in psychological warfare is to heap

more responsibility on the shoulders of the Fed. This is so Congress won’t passlegislation to investigate and audit the Fed. It is also to prevent the real culprits fromgoing to jail. The excuse is the system failed and needs to be overhauled. It was thosewho created the conditions for unbridled lending, which launched the housing bubbleand the securitization that followed. All the rules were broken and the Fed led thepack. No new rules or regulations are needed. All those who broke the rules have tobe tried, sentenced and jailed and their wealth taken from them. All those who aidedthem at the SEC and CFTC should be jailed as well. The overhaul is pure misdirection.The Fed orchestrated all this and they want to put them in charge. These changes putthe fed in charge of the country. They are leading a financial dictatorship unless wecan make HR 1207 and S 604 the law. Once even Congress understands whatthey are doing, even they will dump the Fed.

California’s unemployment rate jumped from 11.0% to 11.4% in May.In the bond market, the Treasuries are close to the trend line that began from

the bear market lows in 1981. Further weakness will break that line and we believethat will happen.

As HR 1207 appears to be ready to pass – 258 co-sponsors – to investigatethe Fed. The pros on Wall Street are quaking in their boots. If HR 1207 is passed andnot vetoed the issue of unconstitionaility will surface.

The Fed could soon be exposed as the fraud it really is. As we said earlier thenew responsibilities of the Fed is a psy-op cover, an offensivecover.

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This is a private company owned by US and European bankers, which hasbeen responsible for the debauching of our currency by 95%.

The Dow fell 2.9%; S&P fell 2.6%; the Russell small cap lost 2.7% and Nasdaqfell 1.3%. Banks lost 3.4%; broker/dealers lost 5%; cyclicals lost 6.2%; transports fell4.2%; consumers fell 1.4%; utilities fell 1.4%; high tech fell 2.4%; semis fell 3.8%;Internets fell 3.5% and biotechs were off 0.6%. Gold bullion fell $4.00 and the HUI fell

2.8%.Two-year T-bills fell 7 bps to 1.19% and the 10’s fell 2 bps to 3.78%. The 10-

year German bunds fell 13 bps to 3.50%.Freddie Mac’s 30-year fixed rate mortgage fell 21 bps to 5.38%; the 15’s fell 17

bps to 4.89% and the one-year ARMs fell 9 bps to 4.95%.Fed credit jumped $29.4 billion. Holdings of Treasuries for foreigners and

Agency debt increased $2.1 billion to a record $2.752 trillion. Custody holdings forforeign central banks have risen 20.3% ytd.

Bank credit fell $59 billion. It is up $317 billion yoy. Securities credit sank $32.6billion; loans and leases fell $26.4 billion; C&I loans declined $5.9 billion; real estateloans fell $7.4 billion; consumer loans fell $4.3 billion and securities loans fell $5.5billion. Other loans fell $3.2 billion.

M2 – narrow money supply gained $4.4 billion. Total money market fund assetsfell $72.9 to $3.675 trillion.

The USDX, the dollar index gained 0.2%.Almost two years into the worst financial calamity since the 1930s, companies

are doing everything they can to reduce their indebtedness, selling record amounts ofequity to pay back bonds and loans. ‘Stock buybacks are a thing of the past: It’sreducing debt and bond buybacks that are in vogue,’ said Kathleen Gaffney, co-manager of the Loomis Sayles Bond Fund. ‘Stocks aren’t going to move and earningsaren’t going to move without a healthier balance sheet,’ said Gaffney. More than 165companies raised a record $87 billion in U.S. secondary share sales this quarter, and77% of them used the proceeds to slash leverage, according to Bloomberg.

Irish retail sales fell 17% during April from the same month last year, the

country’s Central Statistics Office said… When car sales are excluded, sales fell 7.1%.National Income declined a modest $48bn (annualized) during the first quarter

to a $12.255 TN pace. This was a slower contraction than Q4’s $189bn (annualized),with National Income declining 1.6% y-o-y. Total Compensation was up 0.2% y-o-y to$8.024 TN. From my analytical perspective, the massive - almost $2.2 TN - “federal”Credit boom has for now stabilized system-wide Compensation and Income. Yet thesustainability and consequences of the Government Finance Bubble create – at best -great uncertainty. I’ll stick with the analysis that two Trillion-plus of government Creditcreation is necessary to hold Bubble Economy implosion at bay – and that this amountof Washington-based finance comes with its own set of serious issues (includingexacerbating global financial and economic distortions).

Household Balance Sheet data make for dreadful analysis. Despite incredible

government stimulus, Household sector Assets declined a further $1.444 Trillionduring the quarter. This brought the one-year drop to an unrivaled $10.075 Trillion(13.5%). At $64.517 TN, Household Assets have returned to year-end 2005 levels.Over the past year, Financial Assets declined $7.869 TN (16.3%) to $40.296 TN andReal Estate dropped $2.279 TN (10.3%) to $19.819 TN. Household Liabilitiescontracted at a 3.2% rate during the quarter to $14.141 TN, with a one-year drop of2.1% ($301bn). As such, Household Net Worth contracted $1.330 TN, or at a 10.3%rate, during Q1 to $50.376 TN. Household Net Worth dropped $9.774 TN over thepast four quarters, or 16.2%, deflating back to about the Q3 2005 level.

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*****AIG’s ex-CEO had private jet fly stock to Bermuda: As you can see, there are twosets of rules for offshore banking. One for the Illuminists and one for the rest of thecitizens.http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/4669572.cms?prtpage=1

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China Commodities Undercut USDollarhttp://news.goldseek.com/GoldenJackass/1245341616.php

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Obama Lays Out ‘Sweeping Overhaul’ of Financial Ruleshttp://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=aUfFlXRCsp9U

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6/18/09 Fed Reserve Racketeers DIVE FOR COVER - HR 1207 Ron Paul’s Auditthe Fed bill is now up to 258 cosponsors

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Rep. Alan Grayson's (D-FL) letter to support HR 1207 "Audit the Fed" http://action.firedoglake.com/page/content/graysonletter/

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From a Fellow subscriber:Adam Kokesh speechhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbOp_9VfR6o http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_gcwVcqCcc&NR=1 <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_gcwVcqCcc&NR=1>

THIS DUDE GETS IT!!! WHEN ARE WE GOING TO BE AWAKENED TO OUR DUTYFOR COUNTRY...??? HOW MUCH TYRANNY MUST WE ENDURE??? HOWMANY FREEDOMS MUST BE LOST BEFORE WE STAND UP AND 'ENGAGE INPEACEFUL REVOLUTION'???

AWAKE O' SLEEPING GIANT!!! STOP BEING COMPLACENT...STAND FORLIBERTY...GIVE ME LIBERTY, OR GIVE ME DEATH!

*****N.S.A.'s Pinwale Examines Large Volumes of US E-mail Messages Without CourtWarrants <http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/17/us/17nsa.html> --E-MailSurveillance Renews Concerns in Congress 17 Jun 2009 The National Security

Agency is facing renewed scrutiny over the extent of its domestic surveillanceprogram, with critics in Congress saying its recent intercepts of the private telephonecalls and e-mail messages of Americans are broader than previously acknowledged,current and former officials said. A former N.S.A. analyst who, in a series of interviews,described being trained in 2005 for a program [Pinwale<http://www.globalsecurity.org/intell/systems/pinwale.htm> ] in which the agencyroutinely examined large volumes of Americans’ e-mail messages without courtwarrants. Two intelligence officials confirmed that the program was still in

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operation.

Audit Finds U.S. Overpaid Blackwater By $55 Million<http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124511068419617063.html> 17 Jun 2009 Agovernment audit found that the State Department overpaid the contract-security firmonce known as Blackwater Worldwide by tens of millions of dollars because the

company failed to properly staff its teams in Iraq. The report said the State Departmentshould have withheld at least $55 million in payments to the company because of theshortfalls.

*****Washington is unable to call all the shotsBy Michael Hudsonhttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/16e9f3e8-5944-11de-80b3-00144feabdc0.html

*****Witness says one guard shot another at Holo. Museum,von Brunnhttp://www.newsnet14.com/2009/06/witness-says-one-guard-shot-another-at-holo-museumvon-brunn/

***** US military teaches 'protesters' are 'low-level terrorists'http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=101473

*****US planning Velvet Revolution in Iran?http://www.prisonplanet.com/us-planning-velvet-revolution-in-iran.html

*****The McCollum Memo: The Smoking Gun of Pearl Harborhttp://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/McCollum/index.html?q=McCollum/index.html

*****THE TOWER OF BASEL: DO WE REALLY WANT THE BANK FORINTERNATIONAL SETTLEMENTS ISSUING OUR GLOBAL CURRENCY?

Ellen Brown, April 20th, 2009http://www.webofdebt.com/articles/basel.php

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No More Murderous Rip-Offsby Ron Paulhttp://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul540.html

*****Ron Paul Discusses HR1207 and the $ on Gold Seek Radio (6/10/09)June 17, 2009 – 8:28 amhttp://revolutionarypolitics.com/?p=1226

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Obama's AmeriCrooks and Cronies Scandal—The Chicago Way Comes ToWashingtonhttp://www.vdare.com/asp/printPage.asp?url=http://www.vdare.com/malkin/090616_americrooks.htm

*****Obama's Blueprint for Reform Concentrates Still More Power in Hands of the Fedhttp://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article11376.html

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Hyperinflation: The Story of 9 Failed Currencieshttp://www.mint.com/blog/finance-core/hyperinflation-the-story-of-9-failed-currencies/

*****A Tale of Two Depressionshttp://www.voxeu.org/index.php?q=node/3421

*****It Comes Down to This!Jim Kirwan6-18-9http://www.rense.com/general86/dwnto.htm

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Obama Regulatory Reform Plan Officially Establishes Banking Dictatorship InUnited Stateshttp://www.prisonplanet.com/obama-regulatory-reform-plan-officially-establishes-banking-dictatorship-in-united-states.html/print/

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Iran's Election and US - Iranian Relationsby Stephen Lendmanhttp://sjlendman.blogspot.com/

*****Arizona officers fight concealed gun proposalhttp://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2009/06/19/20090619guns0619.html?source=nletter-news

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The Waning Power of Truthhttp://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Waning-Power-of-Truth-by-Paul-Craig-

Roberts-090618-235.html *****

Retailers Head for Exits in Detroithttp://investment-blog.net/retailers-head-for-exits-in-detroit-by-andrew-grossman/

*****JOURNALIST THREATENED FOR EXPOSING COVER-UP

By Cliff KincaidJune 18, 2009 NewsWithViews.comhttp://www.newswithviews.com/Kincaid/cliff321.htm

*****

From a Fellow Subscriber:Good Morning Judy & Bob,Here is something I did unexpectedly this morning.

My husband sent me an article from the WSJ - The White House Fires a Watchdog -http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124511811033017539.html

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referring to the incident with Gerald Walpin and Obama firing him. I was so ticked-off Isent him a letter. Which by the way all I was going to do is check my email for anyclients letters and that was it. These people are getting away with fraud along with ourtax dollars. Sorry I know I am preaching to the choir. It seems to me if there is anyoneleft in Washington to defend the rights of the Citizenry of this great nation, they arebeing axed. The letter below was sent off to Obama within the last half hour. Have a

great & Blessed day.As Always With Loving & Caring & Healing Hands,

Dear Mr Obama,How dare you fire a person who is looking out for the taxpayers money. Gerald Walpin,Inspector General of the Corporation For National and Community Service was tryingto save us taxpayers $850,000.00 and Mr. Walpin gets axed because your friends didnot like it very much. Don't you think it is about time you step up to the plate andacknowledge the errors of your ways and let Mr. Gerald Walpin do his job. Now,because Mr. Gerald Walpin was left out of the settlement proceedings, Mr. Brownhimself settled with St. HOPE, Mr. Johnson and his assistant, an agreement thatrequired St. HOPE (with a financial assist from Mr. Johnson) to repay approximately

half of the grant, and also required Mr. Johnson to take an online course aboutbookkeeping. How pathetic is that I may add. The taxpayer gets shafted once again.Mr Brown (U.S. Attorney General) should be the one to be fired not Mr. Walpin.Apparently Mr. Walpin was doing his job and Mr. Brown was not and according to our

Constitution, Mr. Brown should be arrested for TREASON. Mr. Obama it is about timeyou started doing the right things & giving people (the taxpayers) back their moniesand not what you think "We The People" deserve.

Sincerely,*****

AKTI Opposes U.S. Customs' attempt to classify assisted-openingknives and all one-hand opening knives as switchblades.http://www.akti.org/legislation/uscustoms.html

*****

From a Fellow Subscriber:Hi Bob,I kind of feel like you are the wise uncle I should have had in my life. I would even goout and play golf with you.I just thought I would give you some news from home, so to speak. The inflation hasheated up here in Northern Ohio - the rust belt. My county has 22.5% unemploymentin the summer when employment usually picks up due to tourism. I have not had afull-time job in 2 years. I worked for 2 colleges in 2001. Then Governor Taft cut

funding to higher education and eliminated my positions at 2 colleges. After that I tooka position with an (third party) auto parts inspection company.So the inflation has been hitting here since last summer with the increase in gas pricesand a bit slower before that. On many items the price has increased or the quantityhas decreased. Or the price has increased and the quantity has decreased. Someexamples: real wholegrain bread $1.89 a loaf in Spring 2008, now $1.99 + on sale or$2.69 to $3.29 in June of 2009; cauliflower $.99 a head in Spring 2008, now $2.49;pasta per 2# box $.89, now $1.79; Old Milwaukee Beer $2.59 a 6 pack of pints inSummer 2007, $1.99 on sale, $3.79 through Summer of 2008 and now $4.29 Summer

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of 2009 - no more sales; Piasano wine per gallon $9.99 Spring 2008, now 13.99Summer 2009; Amish Chicken per pound of breasts with bones $3.49 Spring 2008,now $5.49; 2# can of peanuts $3.49, now $4.79;Botan Rice $8.79 per 20# bag Spring 2008, now $18.84 (Walmart); Chicken Soup(Kroger 26 oz. concentrate) $1.00 a can on Sale Spring 2008 / (Walmart brand) $1.00normal price

Spring 2008, now (Kroger) $1.79 and (Walmart) $1.39 (average). It is really going upfaster this summer. Potatoes used to be like $2.00 for 10# and now are $2.49 per 5#or higher depending on the store you buy them in. Even our local farm markets haveincreased prices quite a lot this summer.Then there are the strange things with the weather radar on NOAA and WeatherUnderground. Last night I looked at the radar to see if we had any rain coming (I havea large veggie garden) and it showed rain over my area, but there was no rain despitethe big area on the map. Tonight it is pouring out there and nothing shows up onradar. I have never seen anything like this. I have looked at weather radar on theInternet for 10 + years and if it was raining it showed up on radar. The strangeweather anomaly like this has happened through this Spring / Summer especially. Itmakes me wonder what is being done with this weather radar. It is like everything is a

lie.Well, thanks for your ear for a while and the I.F. and everything you are doing toawaken the masses to the Evil on the planet.Take care!!!I can keep you informed about this area in Ohio.I forgot to also add that the third-party auto inspection job ended in June of 2007, withthe declining auto industry. All I can find is a very part-time, short-term position ofabout 20 hours a week and it is for a non-profit organization, which I just found outdoes not pay into unemployment. This position will end Sept. 7. So much for almost 7years of college, because all I can find is part-time minimum wage work.Thanks for all you are doing. I have been pushing at my Reps for HR 1207. MarcyKaptur is our Congresswoman and seems to be in the right mindset. So she is in there

with Dennis Kucinich and Ron Paul trying to get something done for the people itseems.

*****From a Fellow Subscriber:Hello Bob,

Disturbing inside info about the FDIC few are aware of. I pass it along to you. Whilepeople have a right to know, this is sure upsetting info if the public knew. FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation)

One of the most troubling things I have ever found took place a few years ago when I

had a chance to speak with FDIC officials. I had known for a long time that the FDIC isnot what they say it is and could be quite a mess someday. Unfortunately, nobodyelse mentions this.

The FDIC tells citizens that “their money is insured.” They are right their money isinsured, but THEY are not! Quite a play on words. When I began to realize that thereis no way that I as a depositor could ever be insured I began to look into this further.What is going on here? Why would I think that I would be covered with such

insurance? I pay the FDIC no premiums, how would I have any beneficial interest? I

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could not. So while it is true that my “money is insured” none of us depositors are!Who is then? The bank is the beneficial interest. The problems gets worse from hereas I will explain.

I began too look into the Federal regulations and enabling legislation which createdthis deception. Unbelievable what I found out. First of all, much of this is not

published anywhere. We have laws which apply to us which we cannot find out about.Furthermore, when we ask about it, the FDIC people got very upset, as I will explain.

The FDIC regulations (shown below) state that in the event of any type of bank failureit is the bank who determines ownership of accounts and how much is in individualaccounts (http://www.fdic.gov/regulations/laws/rules/2000-5400.html#2000part330.5)and this is a huge problem, as I'll explain.

330.5 Recognition of deposit ownership and fiduciary relationships.

(a) Recognition of deposit ownership --(1) Evidence of deposit ownership . Except asindicated in this paragraph (a)(1) or as provided in § 330.3(j), in determining the amount of

insurance available to each depositor, the FDIC shall presume that deposited funds areactually owned in the manner indicated on the deposit account records of the insureddepository institution. If the FDIC, in its sole discretion, determines that the deposit accountrecords of the insured depository institution are clear and unambiguous, those recordsshall be considered binding on the depositor, and the FDIC shall consider no other recordson the manner in which the funds are owned. If the deposit account records are ambiguousor unclear on the manner in which the funds are owned, then the FDIC may, in its solediscretion, consider evidence other than the deposit account records of the insureddepository institution for the purpose of establishing the manner in which the funds areowned. Despite the general requirements of this paragraph (a)(1), if the FDIC has reasonto believe that the insured depository institution's deposit account records misrepresent theactual ownership of deposited funds and such misrepresentation would increase depositinsurance coverage, the FDIC may consider all available evidence and pay claims for

insured deposits on the basis of the actual rather than the misrepresented ownership.

Note: Notice that it says “insured depository institution” as it is the bank, not the depositor,who is insured. Sure your money is insured but you as a depositor are not! The Americanpeople would be outraged if they knew this.

The depositor may think that in the event of any trouble all he has to do is bring hisbank statements and deposit slips. He is wrong as they are specifically excluded! Itook quite a bit of research to get the internal procedures of the FDIC (which I havecopies of).

Read this carefully as it is a procedural document for FDIC employees from their

internal handbook in which clearly says that “The FDIC uses deposit account recordsof the institution to determine both the identity of the owner(s) and the right andcapacity in which the funds are held.”

Further down it specifically excludes the records of the depositor as is seen in the nextsection of this attachment! A depositor has no say in his account or his money!

What would happen if the American people knew this? Now I know why Miss Tanouewas so upset when I asked her about this. She demanded to know my source of this

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coverage that the military was putting out. And I saw and heard that April Fool Daymissile.

*****

From a Fellow Subscriber:As you can see, banks, which have plenty of money, are trying to expedite the

depression.Bob: A company I own has assets double the debt, great cash flow, 6 figuresprofitable ytd. Got a letter from bank Thursday saying they were calling my note! noreason why.

*****

From a Fellow Subscriber: This is a ten minute clip from an Alex Jones interview of Aaron Russo. America:Freedom to Fascism Filmmaker Aaron Russo has exposed first-hand knowledge of theelite global agenda during this video interview. He exposes that Rockefeller told himthe War On Terror is a fraud that will go on forever because you can never define awinner or loser. Money will be in an RFID chip implanted in your body.

Rockefeller Reveals 9/11 FRAUD to Aaron Russo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nD7dbkkBIA

*****

From a Fellow Subscriber: Hi Bob—Rumor has it that Russian and Italian law enforcement are getting very closeto busting the 9-11 perps—and that the 9-11-job was cocooned in a daisy chain ofPRIVATE security firms that were MI-6-CIA-MOSSAD bucket shops—with Wall Street-mafia links—all these links are now being exposed by patriots in EU lawenforcement—and all the “REAL” return addresses on the 9-11 perps are now comingout into the open—and as per your constant reporting in the IF and on the radio—countless times—it is the exact same illuminist criminal bankster gangs over and overagain—the Enron rip-off—the DOT-COM rip-off---the 9-11 ritual murder atrocity---theGM take down-rip-off—all have a single return address— Wall Street—link is below—http://www.european911citizensjury.com/07b.htm PS—rumor has it that another NK missile test is imminent—and that china has orderedit’s fishing fleets out of any potential NK launch zones—all the above is well known tothe US gov’t via US’s signals intelligence—rumor has it that US intelligence hasintelligence advisors on the ground in Iran—but that the Obama-Sotero regime is socrassly stupid about the Iran operation that they are screwing it up from A-Z.

—in your recent reporting in your latest Wednesday edition of the IF in regard to thewhistle blowing of Dr. Charles Krauthammer MD—Dr. Krauthammer—who justhappens to be Jewish and is also a Zionist and strong supporter of Israel—so for himto break ranks from his elite co-religionist cronies—to—“out”—Obama-Sotero as the2nd coming of Trotsky who intends to lay waste to America with his crack pot IlluministCFR-CLUB OF ROME—social engineering scams disguised as “cost cutting” Dr.Krauthammer is telling us all that Obama-Sotero hates America and absolutely hatesAmericans—and that this hatred is a core belief of his illuminist-Lucifarian religiousbelief system—this is why we ALL MUST BE DISARMED so that we can all be MASSMURDERED AT THE WALL ST ILLUMANIST CRIMMINALS CONVENIENCE.

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You have long exposed how incredibly corrupt the judges are in the US court system—this will make the subscribers eyes glaze over—rumor has it that Zionist Judge LarrySeidlin and his wife, like a couple of grifters, ripped of and 83 year old woman BarbaraKasler who also happens to be a co-religionist—and that they did some or all to the 83year old Jewish lady—first they convinced her to sell them her $600K condo for$300K—then Judge Seidlin and Mrs. Seidlin suckered the 83 yr old Jewish lady to sell

them a $50K piece of land for only $10-TEN DOLLARS-NOT A TYPO—the Seidlin’salso suckered the 83 year old Jewish lady to write them $500K in checks made out tothem—that the Seidlin’s disbursed in the following manner—$130K to pay down theirmortgage—$100K to buy a house in Pennsylvania—$54k for their daughters schooltuition—NOW THAT’S “REAL CHUTZPAH” —pun intended—the old lady is suing torecover her losses—Judge Seidlin categorically denies all the above allegations—there is a pattern of co-religionists ripping of other co-religionists—the TMZ websitethat exposed Judge Seidlin is owned by a co-religionist of Judge Seidlin’s—just as Iam a co-religionist of Judge Seidlin’s—Judge Seidlin also happens to be the judgewho heard the Anne Nicole Smith paternity case—during the trial Judge Seidlin was so“moved” he dabbed a tear from his eye—now he is on trial himself—as per—IN THECIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, IN AND FOR BROWARD

COUNTY, FLORIDABARBARA MUMFORD KASLER,Plaintiff,Vs.LARRY S. SEIDLIN, BELINDA RAYSEIDLIN, BARBARA A. RAY, andOREN A. RAY,JUDGE:Defendant(s).links below -

http://www.tmz.com/tag/Barbara+Kasler/ http://blogs.browardpalmbeach.com/pulp/2009/06/judge_larry_seidlin_civil_lawsuit.php

*****From a Fellow Subscriber: Hi Bob—rumor has it that Al-Qaeda’ spokesman Adam Gadahn (a.k.a. Pearlman) is ascion of Jewish ADL—you can’t make stuff like that up—link is below.

http://800poundgorilla.100webspace.net/geeklog//article.php?story=20090616152607567

*****

From a Fellow Subscriber:Kennedy Health Bill couldn’t help but remember Mary Jo Kopechne... That\'s my

perception of Teddy\'s knowledge of healthcare. Maybe it should be renamed theChappaquiddick Health Care Bill as we will all die in the back of a Kennedy vehicle if itis passed.

*****From a Fellow Subscriber:

The United States has entered the third and final stage in the life anddeath of a great country.

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America's history can be divided into three broad stages. The firststage was industrialization. This is what took the United States from a marginal nationof settlers, explorers, farmers, entrepreneurs and religious refugees to become theworld's richest and most powerful country. The source of its wealth and power was itsfactories...and its people. The factories were the best in the world. And the people howlabored in them were accustomed to hard work, saving, and self- discipline. There

were no free lunches in America during this period.The fastest growing cities of the time were manufacturing centers - Chicago,

Gary, Detroit, Pittsburg, and Birmingham. Thanks to its smokestacks and assemblylines, the US could make things better, cheaper and faster than any other country, withthe possible exception of Germany before WWI and Japan after WWII. That is how theUS became the world's largest creditor - by selling US-made goods to foreigners. Andit's how the United States won WWI and WWII too. American factories could turn outmore tanks, more planes, more guns and more butter than any other nation. And theUnited States had an abundant source of fuel too; "Texas Tea" they called it.

After WWII America enjoyed its glory days. It was on top of the world...inpractically every sense. The United States was #1.

The New Deal had fundamentally changed Americans' relationship to the state.

Federal meddlers began playing a larger and larger role in the economic life of thecountry. Soon, American attitudes evolved to fit the circumstances. With the world'sreserve currency...a huge lead over its competitors...and a government that promisetotake care of its wants and needs, the US workforce relaxed. Gradually, it shifted frommaking things to buying them...while industry turned its focus from production tosales...and then, financing. Then, the United States entered the second stage:financialization.

In this second stage, the center of gravity shifted from the wealth- producingfactories to the financial centers - mainly Manhattan. Prices of real estate in New Yorksoared. Wall Street came to be seen not merely as a place to invest the proceeds ofhonest toil...but a way to create wealth. The most ambitious college graduates turnedfrom engineering and manufacturing first to sales and marketing and later to finance;

because that's where the money was. At the peak, in the Bubble Epoch, 2003-2007,Wall Street was drawing in the world's leading scholars in mathematics and statistics...

These people were creating the biggest debt bombs in history...exotic,complicated financial concoctions...that eventually blew up in their faces. Detroit wentinto a decline as early as the late '60s. GM continued to make cars, but it looked tofinancing as a way of make money. GMAC became the major source of GM's profits.Still mills along the Monongahela River began to rust in the '70s. Ships began to cometo the US laden with goods in the '80s and '90s...and to go back empty. The US Fedtried to stimulate the US economy on several occasions, but it had a strange effect. Itput more credit in the hands of US consumers - who used the money to buy goodsfrom overseas. In effect, the US Fed was stimulating manufacturing in China!

But in 2007-2008 the bubble in consumer debt blew up. GM went broke in May

of '09. The financialization stage ended. In its place comes a new stage: politicization,the third and fatal phase of a great nation. Where is the money now? It took the trainfrom Grand Central Station in Manhattan down to Union Station in Washington, DC.Want money? Ask Washington. It's pledged an amount equal to three times what itspent in WWII to the fight against deflation. Where is the power now? Just askChrysler bondholders; in the end it didn't matter what their contracts said...when theUS government turned against them, their goose was cooked. The ObamaAdministration, owner of GM, now sets top salaries and determines what kind of carsthe company will make. Washington also determines which businesses will be kept

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alive - AIG - and which will die - Lehman Bros. Now it's the politicians, not Wall Street,nor investors, who decide the allocation of big capital...

And when ambitious young people buy a ticket to begin their careers, are theygoing to Milwaukee...to Manhattan...or to the lobbyists' mecca in Northern Virginia???

*****

G. Edward Griffin latest interview 1of9 federal reserve

Part 1 youtube video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ubSjHtX4zc&feature=channel_page <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ubSjHtX4zc&feature=channel_page>

Part 2 youtube video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWqmJ4uK3FI&feature=channel_page <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWqmJ4uK3FI&feature=channel_page>

Part 3 youtube video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XM5937nMowA&feature=channel_page

<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XM5937nMowA&feature=channel_page>

Part 4 youtube video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gS2V4yLX3ig&feature=channel_page <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gS2V4yLX3ig&feature=channel_page>

Part 5 youtube video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tn3HN1zzfAE&feature=channel_page <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tn3HN1zzfAE&feature=channel_page>

Part 6 youtube video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ot6Q5czAN6U&feature=channel_page

<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ot6Q5czAN6U&feature=channel_page>

Part 7 youtube video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9nFjL7LIUw&feature=channel_page <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9nFjL7LIUw&feature=channel_page>

Part 8 youtube video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epDYOok9kqI&feature=channel_page <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epDYOok9kqI&feature=channel_page>

Part 9 youtube video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOnUcmOJszk&feature=channel_page

<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOnUcmOJszk&feature=channel_page>*****

COMMODITIESThe DOE reports crude oil inventories down 3.87 m/b, gas rose 3.38 m/b and

distillates rose 308,000 barrels.EIA reports natural gas inventories were up 114 bcf.Gold ended the week down 0.4% to $935 (up 6.0% y-t-d). Silver fell 4.5% to

$14.20 (up 25.7% y-t-d). July Crude slipped $2.45 (5-wk gain of $12.59) to $69.59 (up

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56% y-t-d). July Gasoline dropped 5.3% (up 82% y-t-d), while July Natural Gas rose5.0% (down 28% y-t-d). September Copper fell 5.7% (up 59% y-t-d). July Wheatdeclined 5.0% (down 9% y-t-d), and July Corn sank 6.2% (down 1.9% y-t-d). The CRBindex fell 3.6% (up 10.1% y-t-d). The Goldman Sachs Commodities Index (GSCI)declined 3.2% (up 31% y-t-d).

*****Iraqi Oil Minister accused of mother of all sell-outshttp://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/iraqi-oil-minister-accused-of-mother-of-all-sellouts-1707906.html

*****GOLD, SILVER, PLATINUM AND PALLIDUM

Wednesday was a good day for gold and silver, but the shares were trying tofind themselves. Spot gold rose $4.10 to $935 and the August contract was $3.20higher and the access market was an additional $6.60 higher. Spot silver rose $0.15 to$14.27. July was $0.03 higher and the access market was $0.10 higher. Rumors reachus that our government had gold taken down late last week when it was at $960. OnFriday, they dropped gold $21.40 for good measure. We believe Goldman has been in

and out of the market for months via trading through other firms. The practice is knownas jitney trades. We believe they were acting for the government. Gold open interestfell 2,588 contracts to 371,997, as silver OI fell 2,370 to 103,981. The HUI fell .65 to337.49 and the XAU lost .79 to 139.77.

The yen rose .0088 to $.9569; the euro rose .0121 to $1.3964; the pound fell.0012 to $1.6424; the Swiss franc rose .0084 to $1.0781; the Canadian dollar rose.0033 to $.8847 and the USDX fell .44 to 80.27.

Oil rose $0.38 to $70.85; gas fell $0.01 to $2.02 and natural gas rose $0.13 to$4.26. Copper fell $0.01 to $2.26; platinum fell $16.70 to $1,205 and palladium rose$1.95 to $244.75. The CRB rose .97 to 256.82.

The Dow fell 7 to 8435, the S&P fell 13 and Nasdaq rose 70. The 2-year was1.15%, the 10’s were 3.69%, one-month Libor was 0.31% and 3-month was 0.61%.

Early Thursday the Dow was up 9 at 8446; the S&P rose 11, Nasdaq fell 23and the FTSE fell 16 Dow points. The Nikkei fell 137; the CAC fell 8 and the DAX fell8. The yen fell .0012; the euro fell .0029 and the pound fell .0175. The 2-year was1.16%; the 10‘s were 3.69%. Oil was up $0.27; gas rose $.0001 and natural gas rose$0.04. Gold rose $1.50 to $937.50, silver fell $0.02 to $14.26 and copper fell $0.01.

On Thursday, spot gold fell $1.60 to $933.40 as August traded $1.30 lower.Silver was off $0.05 at $14.22 as July was $0.03. Gold open interest rose 3,839contracts to 375,836, as silver OI rose 4,177 to 108,158. The HUI lost 8.65 to 328.84and the XAU lost 2.23 to 137.54.

The yen fell .0091 to $.9582; the euro fell .0051 to $1.3904; the pound fell.0070 to $1.6349; the Swiss franc fell .0066 to $1.0768; the Canadian dollar fell .0047to $.8064 and the USDX rose .47 to 80.64.

Oil rose $0.19 to $71.22; gas fell $0.01 to $2.02 and natural gas fell $0.18 to$4.07. Copper fell $0.01 to $2.25; platinum rose $2.40 to $1,207 and palladium fell$2.55 to $240.40. The CRB Index rose .03 to 256.85.

The Dow rose 58 to 8,555; S&P rose 69 and Nasdaq fell 4 Dow points. The 2-year T-bills were 1.25% and the 10’s were 3.82%.

On Friday, we had a decent day, but nothing to write home about. Spot goldrose $2.20, spot silver fell $0.3 to $14.19 and July was off $0.01 more. The HUI rose11.04 to 339.88. AEM rose $1.43 to $52.73, up 2.79%; GG rose 3.67%, or $1.23 to$37.73; SSRI rose 4.36%, or $0.79 to $18.92 and MFN rose 5.73%, up $0.39 to $7.20.

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The second London physical fixing was $935.25. During the day silver traded $0.20higher but could not hold the gain. Gold open interest rose 1,177 contracts to 377,013,as silver OI fell 48 to 107,740. The COT report for this past Tuesday showed a netreduction in commercial short interest of 17.569 contracts, which is good for those whoare long. The followers of our President passed the security bill and with it theexpanded credit facility for the IMF, which means 404 tons of gold can be sold. We

believe it has already been sold and this is the short cover.The yen fell .0054 to $.9619; the euro fell .0008 to $1.3956; the pound rose

.0080 to $1.6504; the Swiss franc fell .0011 to $1.0794; the Canadian dollar fell .0030to $.8817 and the USDX fell .34 to 80.24.

Oil fell $1.82 to $69.55; gas fell $0.10 to $1.93 and natural gas fell $0.04 to$4.05. Copper fell $0.03 to $2.24; platinum rose $1.90 to $1,209 and palladium rose$8.30 to $2.48. The CRB fell 4.06 to 252.79.

From a Fellow subscriber:

Hello Mr. Chapman, Below are some comments I received from a friend regarding the

Japanese men and the U.S. bonds going over to Switzerland. My friend is of Japaneseheritage and grew up in Okinawa as an army brat.

The seized bonds have been determined to be counterfeit and the two men are prior-convicts in Japan who have strong ties with the local criminal ring (yakuza). Theseized bonds have been linked to some cooperative on-going operation the Japanesemafia had with the Italian mafia. Probably less a N. Korea this or that issue but moreof a mafia / money laundering issue. Japan has been purchasing over 800 billiondollars in US bonds over the past decade (aside from their official purchases / holdingnearly a trillion dollar in auctioned US bonds, bringing the total to nearly 2 trillion indollars based reserves) that has not been accounted for in the official US deficit recordas the bonds were not auctioned through official channels but acquired as a result of

like-kind exchanges or in forms of “payment” of gratuity by Japan for the militaryprotection and facility allocations within Japan. You know how the system works. afterall, It’s mutually beneficial for the two governments (though not necessarily for itscitizens).

Thanks for your great work on the IF and radio.

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*****Italy has asked US authorities to check the authenticity of what appear to be

US government bonds worth $134 billion seized near the Swiss border, a senior Italiantax police officer said on yesterday.

Early in June, Italy's Guardia di Finanza, or tax police, said they had seized theUS bonds from two Japanese nationals at the Chiasso rail station in the north of Italy

close to the frontier with Switzerland."We have already established contact with American colleagues who should

give an expert opinion on the bonds to establish their authenticity or falseness," saidRodolfo Mecarelli, head of the financial police in the Como province, which includesChiasso.

Mecarelli said the tax police and the magistrate investigating the case havestrong doubts about the authenticity of both types of bonds found in the baggage of thetwo individuals.

The bonds comprised 249 "Federal Reserve" bonds of $500 million nominalvalue each and 10 "Bond Kennedy" with a $1 billion nominal value, the tax police saidon June 4 in a statement on the seizure of the bonds.

CANADA

April Wholesale Sales fall 0.6%.May Leading Indicators down 0.1%.May CPI rises 0.7% MoM, 0.1% YoY.April retail sales down 0.8%, -0.5% ex Autos.

*****From a Fellow Subscriber:Hi Bob,We Canadians are in trouble. Canada just started operating this computer monster.They say it is for research. I say the research will be done on Canadian citizens.

Spying and gathering every bit of data conceivable on Canadians. They will likely knoweverything you say, to whom it is said, everywhere your money is, everywhere you go,your medical records and among much more 24 hour electronic surveillance.

Notes on the size and power of the new computer: Almost everything about the system sounds improbable. It uses the same amount ofenergy, at peak consumption, as 4,000 homes. It is about 30 times more powerful thanthe next-fastest research computer in Canada. It can whirl data through its digital veinsat the rate equal to about two DVD movies a second. It is among the 15 fastestcomputers in the world, and the fastest outside the United States.Or think of it this way: If you've purchased a decent home computer lately, it may havecome with a relatively fast 2.53 gigahertz processor. Or maybe you shelled out more

for a fast, top-of-the-line “quad core” system, which runs on four such processors.

U of T's new toy runs on 30,240 of them.Canada's monster computer roars to lifeOmar El AkkadFrom Thursday's Globe and Mail, Thursday, Jun. 18, 2009 03:51AM EDT http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/technology/canadas-monster-computer-roars-to-life/article1186431/

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LATIN AMERICAThere seems to be no stopping Brazilian car sales, as they rose yet again in

the first two weeks of June, the National Automotive Dealership Association,Fenabrave, said Wednesday.

Thanks to a continued tax break for auto makers, new car prices have declined

by as much as 7.5% from where they were last year. That's helped boost salescontinuously and the first weeks of June have been no exception.

So far, car sales rose 13.01% to 106,119 units, up from 93,902 units sold in thefirst two weeks of May. Sales are also up 11.2% from the 95,387 units sold last yearwhen Brazil was on the cusp of a record breaking year for car sales.

When light trucks are thrown in the mix, auto vehicle sales rose 11.2% on themonth and 10.3% on the year to 128,103 cars, pick up trucks and sport utility vehicles.

Fiat (FIATY) was the market leader with a 26.3% market share so far thismonth, followed by Volkswagen (VLKAY) with a 24.8% market share and GeneralMotors (GM) with 20%.

The Volkswagen Gol remained the number one car sold again over the last twoweeks.

The pace of consumer inflation in Brazil's largest city, Sao Paulo, slowed in thefour weeks ended June 15, as housing and transport prices decelerated, the Fiperesearch foundation said Wednesday.

Fipe, which is affiliated with the University of Sao Paulo, said its consumerprice index rose 0.19% in the period, compared with a rise of 0.23% in the four weeksended June 7.

The figure was in line with market forecasts for an increase of between 0.14%and 0.23%.

Housing prices picked up 0.27% in the four weeks ended June 15, comparedwith an increase of 0.29% in the four weeks ended June 7.

Transports prices dropped 0.24% in the period, compared with a fall of 0.17%in the previous period.

With recent figures indicating inflation is under control and signs of aneconomic slowdown, Brazil's central bank cut the Selic base interest rate to 9.25%from 10.25% earlier this month.

Chile’s peso is poised to be the world’s best performing currency this weekafter the government announced plans to extend its dollar sales in the foreign-exchange market to fund an additional $4 billion in stimulus. The peso jumped 4.9%this week.

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EUROPEThe euro zone's balance in trade in goods with the rest of the world increased

in April to the largest surplus since October 2007, boosted by trade in manufacturedgoods, data from the European Union's statistics agency showed Wednesday.

The 16 countries that use the euro had a combined surplus in their trade ingoods of EUR2.7 billion, compared with a surplus of EUR1.8 billion in March, a figurethat was revised from a smaller surplus of EUR0.4 billion.

Economists surveyed by Dow Jones Newswires last week had forecast a trade

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deficit of EUR1.5 billion.Exports from the euro zone declined to EUR102.1 billion from EUR109.6 billion

in March, while imports decreased to EUR99.4 billion in April from EUR132.0 billion amonth earlier.

The total trade balance for the euro zone between January and April, however,was a deficit of EUR8.1 billion although it was a lower deficit than the EUR9.5 billion a

year earlier.Trade in manufactured goods, which include chemicals and machinery, totaled

a surplus of EUR41.4 billion between January and March -the most up-to-date monthsthe data cover. While that was down from the EUR67.3 billion surplus this time in 2008it compared with a deficit of EUR53.7 billion in the trade of primary products whichinclude food, drink and energy products.

The deficit for this sector was largely due to a smaller surplus in the trade offood and drinks rather than the EUR49.0 billion deficit in trade of energy productsbetween January and March, which was smaller than the EUR75.3 billion deficit overthe same period a year earlier, Eurostat data show.

The breakdown of the energy trade balance shows that imports of energy - theeuro zone imports much of its oil and natural gas - declined 36% in the first three

months of 2009 from the same period a year earlier while exports fell 39% betweenJanuary and March this year from a year ago.

Among the largest euro-zone economies Germany reported the largest surplusin the first three months of 2009 of EUR27.4 billion. While that was down from asurplus of EUR50.4 billion a year earlier it compared with trade deficits from bothFrance and Italy.

Swiss Adjusted Real Retail Sales rise 1.2% on April, same than last month.Some 1.9 million jobs disappeared across the European Union in the first three monthsof this year -- the sharpest drop in payroll numbers on record, the EU statistical agencyEurostat said Monday.

Falling demand for goods and services both in Europe and in export markets isforcing companies to shed workers, sending jobless numbers to the highest level in a

decade.Eurostat said the number of people employed in the EU fell 0.8 percent in the

first quarter compared to the fourth quarter of 2008, the worst drop since it startedcollecting figures in 1995.

The number of workers in the 16 nations that use the euro also fell 0.8 percentfrom the previous quarter as the region shed 1.2 million jobs.

Just under 223.8 million people were employed in the EU in the first quarter,146 million of them in euro-zone nations, Eurostat said.

EU business federation Business Europe forecasts that some 4.5 millionworkers may lose their jobs this year as company profits plunge. It represents morethan 20 million European companies.Sweden's unemployment rate soared higher in May, substantially above expectations,

throwing into question just how much the country's labor market will deteriorate in thecoming years from financial chaos.

The Swedish jobless rate in May surged to 9% from 8.3% in April and 5.9% inMay of 2008, Statistics Sweden said Thursday.

Russian gold and foreign-exchange reserves fell by $2.9 billion to $406.6 billionin the week to June 12, the central bank said Thursday.

This follows an increase of $8.4 billion in the previous week.

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After reaching a record high of $597.5 billion in early August, reserves felldramatically when the central bank spent more than $200 billion of them on proppingup the struggling ruble.

Poland's industrial output fell at a slower pace in May, a calendar-inducedeffect that will likely have no influence on the central bank's decision to resume ratecuts next week.

Industrial output in May fell by an annual rate of 5.2%, which is slower than arevised 12.2% year-on-year decline in April, according to production figures issuedFriday by the Central Statistical Office, or GUS.

Polish producer prices rose at an annual rate of 3.7% in May, belowexpectations and down from April's revised 4.8% rise, the Central Statistical Office, orGUS, said Friday.

Month on month, May producer prices fell 0.3%, from April's revised 0.9%decrease. The figures are preliminary.

The country's seasonally-adjusted unemployment rose to its highest level inthree years in the first quarter of 2009, as the economic slowdown continued to hit thereal economy, statistics office Istat said Friday.

In the first quarter, unemployment rose to 7.3% from an upwardly revised 7.0%

in the fourth quarter of 2008, as an increasing number of Italians in the under-34-yearscategory lost their temporary and freelance work contracts.

Istat said the unadjusted unemployment rate was 7.9% compared with 7.1% inthe first quarter of 2008.

The level of unadjusted unemployment was the highest in the southern regionof the country, where it rose to 13.2% on the quarter, more than double that of thenorth.

Dutch consumers became slightly more pessimistic in June compared with amonth earlier, the National Bureau for Statistics, or CBS, said Friday.

The consumer confidence index stood at -24 in June, a change for the worsefrom May's reading of -23.

Consumer confidence fell slightly in June as Dutch gross domestic product,

exports and investments decreased in the first quarter of 2009, CBS said.German producer prices were unchanged in May and fell 3.6% from a year

earlier, the Federal Statistics Office, Destatis, reported Friday.That is almost exactly in line with an advance survey of economists by Dow

Jones Newswires.The data broke a six-month sequence of price declines, due largely to a 0.7%

rebound in energy prices. Stripping out the energy component, the index continued todecline, by 0.3% from April, and by 2.5% from a year earlier.

In April, prices had fallen 1.4% from March and were down 2.7% year-on-year.Destatis said that prices for intermediate goods such as metals continued to

show pronounced weakness. Prices for various categories of steel products weredown by anything between 32.3% for sheet and 52.7% for construction steel. It also

noted sharp year-on-year declines for non-ferrous metals, and for cereals and animalfeed. Fertilizer prices were a rare exception to the trend, rising 10.5% on the year,despite a 7.1% fall from April.

Prices for consumer goods on average fell 0.2% from April and were down1.3% from a year ago, while food prices were down 0.3% on the month and 3.4% onthe year. Destatis singled out milk prices as being particularly weak, falling by 1.9%.They have now fallen for nine months in a row.

Within the energy component of the index, electricity prices rose 2.0% fromApril, but were still down 2.0% from a year earlier. Natural gas prices fell 0.7% from

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Although recent signs from the house market have been encouraging, the CMLdoesn't expect a significant recovery in sales in the coming months, CML economistPaul Samter said in a statement.

"Lending volumes appear to have stabilized at extremely low levels, but theweak labor market and lenders' limited access to funding will constrain activity forsome time yet," he said.

May CBI Industrial Trends Survey rises to -51 from -56.The UK public sector borrowed a net GBP19.9 billion in May, the highest level

for any month since records began in 1993, as the recession continued to bite into taxrevenue, the Office for National Statistics reported Thursday.

May's borrowing was very close to economists' expectations of GBP20.0billion. In May 2008, the public sector borrowed a net GBP12.2 billion.

In the first two months of the financial year, which started in April, the publicsector borrowed a net GBP30.5 billion, compared with GBP14.1 billion in the year-earlier period.

The UK government is targeting a full-year PSNB of GBP175.0 billion.Central government current receipts fell by 10.8% on the year earlier, with

revenues declining across the board. Value-added tax receipts for central government

were down 23.3% on the year, while taxes on income and wealth fell 11.4%.Meanwhile, central government current expenditure expanded 7.4% on the

year. That included a 13.2% increase in interest payments and 7.9% increase in netsocial benefits on the year.

The public sector net cash requirement was GBP18.8 billion in May, comparedwith GBP9.6 billion in May 2008. A Dow Jones Newswires survey of economists hadforecast a PSNCR of GBP17.5 billion.

In the financial year to date, the net cash requirement was GBP23.5 billion,compared with a year earlier PSNCR of GBP6.7 billion. That is a record cashrequirement.

The government target for its net cash requirement for the current fiscal year isGBP188.6 billion.

"Underneath the headline gross lending figure, it's likely that a moderateimprovement in house purchase lending in May has been offset by very low re-mortgaging volumes as borrowers stay with existing deals," he added.

M4 Money Supply (MoM) rises 0.2% in May.The British Bankers’ Association may expand the pool of banks that set the

London interbank offered rate in a bid to bolster confidence in the benchmark for morethan $360 trillion of financial products around the world.

Banks without a physical presence in London may apply to join the panel ofmembers that contribute to the Libor-setting process, the BBA said on its Web sitetoday. Banks will have to be “material participants” in the London market, the BBA saidyesterday in an e-mail. A year ago, the organization said it would look to expand thepanel of contributors and possibly add a second daily survey.

What they fail to tell you is that the Federal Reserve and the US governmentprovided funding and guaranteed the Libor rate, which they deliberately took from4.625% to 0.61% in the three month setting. The entire market is bogus.

UK-owned banks cut their overseas lending for the second straight quarter inthe three months to the end of March, although much less sharply than at the end of2008.

The Bank of England Friday said U.K. banks reduced their lending to borrowersoutside the country by $108.1 billion to stand at $3.6 trillion. In the final quarter of lastyear, U.K. banks cut their overseas lending by a massive $723.6 billion.

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***** JAPANMay Machine Tool Orders decrease 79.2%.

AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALANDEconomists surveyed by Dow Jones Newswires had forecast a fall of 3.0% in

first quarter housing starts from the fourth quarter.The Australian Bureau of Statistics also reported Wednesday that the number

of private-sector houses started in the first quarter fell 4.1% from the previous quarterto 21,428.

The trend estimate for the total number of housing starts, which further

smoothes the seasonally adjusted numbers, fell 8.5% to 30,388 from the fourthquarter. Economists surveyed by Dow Jones Newswires had forecast a fall of 3.0% infirst quarter housing starts from the fourth quarter.

The Australian Bureau of Statistics also reported Wednesday that the numberof private-sector houses started in the first quarter fell 4.1% from the previous quarterto 21,428.

The trend estimate for the total number of housing starts, which furthersmoothes the seasonally adjusted numbers, fell 8.5% to 30,388 from the fourthquarter.

Australian merchandise imports fell 5% to A$16.40 billion in May from A$17.20billion in April in seasonally adjusted terms, the Australian Bureau of Statistics saidThursday.

The bureau said machinery and transport equipment accounted for the largestproportion of imports in original terms and were valued at A$5.54 billion.Monthly trade figures for May, which will include seasonally adjusted import

and export figures, will be issued on July 2.Australian business confidence improved markedly in the second quarter of

2009, a private sector survey showed Thursday, although export and employmentindicators remain subdued.

The Westpac Banking Corp.-Australian Chamber of Commerce & Industryexpected composite index - a gauge of business confidence - bounced to 47.6, from35.3 in the first quarter.

The industrial trends actual composite index - a measure of actual businessconditions - rose to 38.3 in the June quarter from 34.4 in the first quarter.

Still, the index remains at levels not consistently seen since the early 1990srecession.

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AFRICA*****

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HEALTHFOOD CHOICES AFFECT BRAIN CHEMISTRYMost of us think we select food based on taste or because we know it is good for us.The unconscious food choices we make affect our brain chemistry and overall mood.Foods can act like antidepressants or speed. When you think about it, we self-medicate ourselves with food everyday. Long-term use of some foods can deplete oursystem of vital nutrients, which can create the building blocks for disease.

SUBTANCES THAT MANIPULATE FOODSome combinations of foods can make all the difference when considering nutrition.The obvious add-ons you are probably thinking about are the food additives, dyes andpreservatives. However, we are so used to sugar and caffeine we rarely stop and

consider how these substances modifies the food we eat and how this affects ourbrain. Certain food substances affect the neurotransmitters of the brain and changehow the brain cells communicate. People use caffeine for more than just to stayawake. Without caffeine half of America would be constipated. Many people dependon their morning coffee to move their bowels each day. There have been many studieson sugar and caffeine. Although caffeine is known to suddenly lift mood, one studysuggested that caffeine affects certain neurotransmitters (such as serotonin) that arelinked to depression, violence and moodiness.

COFFEE RICHTER GRAPHMany people complain about being addicted to caffeine but the science behind thecoffee studies indicate that no matter how addicted you are, just one cup of coffee

does the trick. Dr. Andrew Baum of the medical psychology department at UniformedServices University says that you don’t need more than one cup of regular coffee toget the same result. However, coffee drinkers know their caffeine. Under blind tastetests they know which coffee is the decaf and which has the caffeine. Also, the studyconcluded that more people medicate themselves with regular coffee to counter theirdepression. It should also be noted that coffee has thousands of years of safe usecompared to the antidepressant drugs. Of course anything in excess can wreck thebody. More than 2 to 4 cups of regular coffee per day can contribute to anxiety,nervousness, mood swings and insomnia. NOTE: beware there is more caffeine insome over-the-counter products such as Midol and Extra Strength Bayer, which havemore caffeine than in a cup of brewed coffee, espresso or a Mountain Dew soft drink.

KEEPING IT STRAIGHTWho knew that a little cup a java could upset the body’s chemistry to the point ofpsychiatry? Dr. Simon Young, Department of Psychiatry at McGill University inMontreal warns that when our brain has low serotonin we are susceptible to psychiatricsymptoms. This would explain why air traffic controllers struggle with depression livingon caffeine during their stressful shift in the control tower. Between 80 to 90% ofAmericans are addicted to caffeine and at least 15% are so concerned they are cuttingback or have stopped eating foods with caffeine. Adding more serotonin to the brain

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can relieve depression and violent tendencies. We will examine how we can achievethis with natural foods.

WHY SUGAR?When people get depressed they often turn to sugar to relieve the blues. Americanseat more sugar during the winter than any other season. You may recognize fall/winter

depression known as SAD (seasonal affective disorder). Some people are moresensitive to light and when the days become shorter their mood shifts and depressioncan creep in. People who have SAD usually crave sweets and starches, which helpthem to fight the winter blues. Dr. Norman Rosenthal, a SAD researcher at theNational Institute of Mental Health, says that the normal person after they eat carbs orsugar feel less alert and less energetic but the SAD individual has the oppositereaction. Carbohydrates and sugar have become an antidepressant to the personsuffering from SAD. No wonder the WHO wants to regulate foods like drugs under theCodex Food Harmonization Code. Does science know why the SAD individuals havethe opposite reaction to sugar and carbs? One explanation is that the depressedpeople already have abnormal brain chemistry stemming from metabolism andserotonin levels. Eating these foods boosts their serotonin levels. Should people who

suffer from SAD avoid sugar and carbohydrates especially during the winter months?No. Avoiding these foods only promotes a deeper depression. The body is sending astrong biological signal to eat these foods the point of addiction. Going on a high-protein, low carb diet would probably be fatal. You can cut back on the sugar and eatmore carbs like dried beans, pasta, vegetables, cereal, whole grain bread andcrackers. These foods will work just as well but at a little slower rate helping to balanceout the metabolism. It is advisable to avoid excessive alcohol or caffeine as medicationfor the winter blues. These foods tend to increase anxiety and adverse mood swings.

SOME FOOD SUBSTITUTESStudies have shown that eating more green vegetables lightens your mood and canhelp fight SAD or depression. Why do greens help? They contain folic acid (folate) and

many who have SAD or depression have a folate deficiency. Folic Acid is a B vitaminand the central nervous system depends on B vitamins. You will find highconcentrations of folate in legumes. Dr. Young at McGill University found that byeliminating the folate deficiency it cures depression. His research revealed that thosewith depression and other psychiatric disorders had a much lower folate level thanhealthy, sound-minded individuals. When you have low folate it causes the serotoninlevel in the brain to severely decline. With as little as ¾ cup of spinach you can relievedepression. It is best to get your folate from foods rather than getting too much frompills. Other foods that contain vitamins known to lift mood are; Brazil nuts, tuna,swordfish, sunflower seeds, oat bran and whole wheat.

THE MOOD ELEVATOR

One study surprised me because we know garlic helps to lower cholesterol and thinthe blood. However researchers say that it also has a positive effect on mood. Thestudy by German researchers at the University of Hannover stated that the test groupthat had garlic had a greater feeling of well being and a better mood. They also statedthat the garlic group reported feeling less fatigued, anxious, agitated and irritable. Nowonder garlic is the most popular over-the-counter product in Germany.

GETTING HOT UNDER THE COLLAR

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Dr. Paul Rozin of the University of Pennsylvania psychology department researchedthe effects of capsaicin in hot peppers and how it affected depression in people. Thehot pepper induces a rush of endorphins to the brain, which can produce a temporaryhigh. How does this work? According to Dr. Rozin the hot taste in the mouth stimulatesnerve endings to send a chemical signal to the brain that you ate something very hot.The brain releases natural painkillers (endorphins) that work similar to a shot of

morphine to stop the pain. If you keep eating the hot peppers the brain continues torelease endorphins and you can get a buildup of endorphins creating a “pleasurerush.” According to this research, it is hard to stay depressed when eating hot peppers.

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*****Swine Flu Vaccination Poses Serious Threat to Your Healthhttp://euro-med.dk/?p=9152

*****The Tattoo Vaccinehttp://health.msn.com/health-topics/vaccinations/articlepage.aspx?cp-documentid=100240311&gt1=31049

***** Just to update you on some upcoming vaccine events:I will be traveling with Dr. Andrew Moulden across the nation beginning with a talk inMichigan June 26. For those who may not know, Dr. Moulden is a MD, PhD brainspecialist who is able to PROVE that ALL vaccines can cause micro-vascularstrokes in ALL major organs of the body. This is the first time that a medical doctor isable to show the mechanism of injury and how it happens within an hour aftervaccination.Dr. Moulden is proving what I have been SCREAMING for years and if you know

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anyone who is on the fence about this vaccine issue...this will eliminate and doubtsabout the dangers of vaccines. We are trying to save babies lives! This is the mostincriminating evidence ever brought out against vaccines. You will see it for yourself-with your own eyes. PLEASE, refer your friends and families to my website for all ofour scheduled talks. Get to one yourself and witness the historical fall of the vaccineindustry.

We are out to "shut them down" with public out-cry! When enough people stopgetting the toxic injections, they will have to pay attention! The pediatricians do notknow what they are doing! Pastors are not aware that vaccines are made on abortedbaby organs!YES, the vaccine researchers pay a fee to the abortionists to give them whole,live babies to harvest vaccines on!See the attached flyers and please try to come and also encourage your friends toattend. Forward this Email to all who you know!! This will be life-changing for all.See Moulden's bio and you will understand the power in this event.

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*****VACCINE NATIONhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdF4AEYHRvY

*****Health insurers refuse to limit rescission of coveragehttp://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-rescind17-2009jun17,0,3508020,full.story

*****9,200 potentially deadly Fort Detrick pathogens possibly missing <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-

dyn/content/article/2009/06/17/AR2009061703271.html> --FBIinvestigators concluded that Fort Detrick probably was the source of the anthrax spores used in the deadly mailings of 2001. --Ebola virus,

anthrax bacteria, botulinum toxin, hemorrhagic fever and others 'notaccounted for' 18 Jun 2009 An inventory of potentially deadly pathogens atFort Detrick's infectious disease laboratory found more than 9,000 vials thathad not been accounted for, Army officials said yesterday, raising concernsthat officials wouldn't know whether dangerous toxins were missing. After fourmonths of searching about 335 freezers and refrigerators at the U.S. ArmyMedical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases in Frederick, Maryland,investigators found 9,220 samples that hadn't been included in a database of about 66,000 items listed as of February, said Col. Mark Kortepeter, theinstitute's deputy commander.

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Bird Flu Criminal charges filed in Austriahttp://birdflu666.wordpress.com/2009/04/13/case-about-bird-flu/

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