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H1N1 a 'dud' pandemic, Ont. health official says 

Australian researcher: Swine flu created in lab 

Harvard Takes it Back and Says Swine Flu was Oversold

France sells off surplus swine flu vaccine

Swine flu vaccine plentiful in the U.S. Sebelius, who got her shot Wednesday, urged everyone to get vaccinated.  "We have a wonderful window of opportunity to prevent or lessen a third wave,"

Waning H1N1 pandemic may let in new viruses

 

Flight 77 Cockpit Door Never Opened During 9/11 “Hijack" 

9/11: PENTAGON AIRCRAFT HIJACK IMPOSSIBLE FLIGHT DECK DOOR CLOSED FOR ENTIRE FLIGHT 

NZ's cyber spies win new powers  "New cyber-monitoring measures have been quietly introduced giving police and Security Intelligence Service  officers the power to monitor all aspects of someone's online life."

Markets are too dependent on unsustainable government stimulus. Something’s got to give

Stephen Harper is counting on Canadians’ complacency as he rewrites the rules of his country’s politics to weaken legislative scrutiny

17,000 potentially harmful chemicals kept secret under obscure law

Homeowners forced to buy flood insurance after FEMA redraws maps

Forget The Unemployment Rate, The Real Nightmare Is The EMPLOYMENT Rate

Why the government's job figures won't add up

Alternative measures of labor underutilization

U.S. growth prospects deemed bleak in new decade

Americans must prepare themselves for a massive collapse in the dollar as investors around the world dump their US assets, a former Bank of England policymaker has warned.

Eric Schmidt chief executive of Google...why America needs to take its share of the blame for the financial crisis and what 2010 holds for the world economy. 

 

Shiller, Case: Prime Mortgages Are Next Time Bomb

 

Vancouver home prices expected to jump 7.2 per cent in 2010 

"Realty firm Royal LePage has come out of the gate in 2010 with the prediction Metro Vancouver's home prices will inflate another 7.2 per cent this year"

Canada's real estate market too hot, say analysts 

"don't buy it because you think the price is going to go up."

Why we can’t go back to business as usual - Soros

"this crisis involved the entire world, rather than being confined to a single country. And, unlike the Great Depression, this time the financial system was put on artificial life-support, rather than being allowed to collapse."

Some other headlines:

The Economy Continues to Lose Jobs
Jobs Contract 24th Straight Month; Unemployment Rate Stays At 10.0%

Canada Jobs Unexpectedly Fall 2,600, Led by Transport

Consumer Credit Drops Record $17.5 Billion; Steepest Declines Since WWII
Consumer Credit in U.S. Drops Record $17.5 Billion in November 
Biggest monthly drop in consumer credit outstanding ever

Jim Chanos, Kyikos Chairman:
"China's real estate sector...looks like Dubai 1,000 - or worse"

Contrarian Investor Sees Economic Crash in China

IRA's, 401K's, 403b, 457 etc will be used to buy Treasuries ???!!!

"A possible scenario ...

1. BHO gets on the TeeVee and tells everyone to put their retirement funds in Treasuries because it's in the interest of the nation (ala Savings Bonds or War Bonds). Suzie Orman is prominent in ads that promote this move.

2. After a respectible period of time, the market crashes.

3. J6P kicks him/herself and says, "Gee, I should have listened to BHO."

4. From that point on, everyone listens to BHO and does exactly what he tells them to do.

(A replay of March of 2009).

See how easy it is to take over a country?"

"The U.S. Treasury and Labor Departments will ask for public comment as soon as next week on ways to promote the conversion of 401(k) savings and Individual Retirement Accounts into annuities or other steady payment streams, according to Assistant Labor Secretary Phyllis C. Borzi and Deputy Assistant Treasury Secretary Mark Iwry, who are spearheading the effort."

Obama Administration Wants to Annuitize 401k's and IRA's - Mandatory "R Bonds"


"...this looks to me like a raw admission that Treasury knows it will not be able to sell its debt in the open market - so they will effectively tax you by forcing your "retirement" money to buy them!...This 'proposal' can only mean one thing - Treasury smells smoke.  Maybe you should pay attention to what they're huffing!" 

Obama to meddle with your retirement account? Administration considers forcing investors into Treasury debt

Here comes the screw job

Americans Oppose Proposals to Limit 401(k)s, ICI Says


Market Insiders - CNBC Video

Federal Reserve Bought Approximately 80 Percent Of U.S. Treasury Securities Issued In 2009

"According to CNBC, the Federal Reserve bought approximately 80 percent of the U.S. Treasury securities issued in 2009.  In other words, the Federal Reserve has been gobbling up the massive tsunami of U.S. government debt that has been created over the past year.  This is absolutely unprecedented, and it is yet another clear indication that the U.S. financial system is on the verge of a major economic collapse."

theeconomiccollapseblog.com

Federal Reserve Funds 91% Of 2009 U.S. Deficit

Are Federal Reserve and U.S. Government Rigging Stock Market?  We Have No Evidence They Are, but They Could Be.  We Do Not Know Source of Money That Pushed Market Cap Up $6+ Trillion since Mid-March.  (TrimTabs' Charles Biderman)

Entertainment Media hammering its audience

Had to write something about this because it really is getting ridiculous.   The theme for the fall season has been "end of the world as you know it" for sometime now and refuses to let up.  Biggest blockbuster of the year "Avatar," theme: end of the world as you know it.  Saw Pandorum yesterday - "end of the world as you know it."  Just started watching "Up in the Air" with George Clooney - "end of the world as you know it."  Had to stop watching after about 5 minutes when George started in with "all you really need can fit in a backpack."  In a couple of weeks "Book of Eli" opens starring Denzel Washington, take a wild guess what the theme is?  You guessed it: "end of the world as you know it."  As I've said before I don't believe in coincidences and I totally get what Hollywood and the entertainment media are doing, predictive programming, but this level and saturation is astounding.    

I find it stupefying that some people still haven't gotten the message, such as my parents...

This whole week, Jan4th - 8th Glenn Beck is running a special titled "America's Transformation: Beyond a Reasonable Doubt."  He has been spelling and laying it out for his audience, its all there except for where this is all going.  Transformation into what?  So far he hasn't said but it's obvious.  He has spelled out that America has no future on its current path.  That there is no solution, no magic bullet so rescue America in its current form.  The world has an overcapacity of production and labor. Everything in the entire world could all be made in China. 

There is only one solution I have ever seen that makes any sense.  Some form of Transfinancial Economics.  The only question is how to get there.  What is the path TPTB (the powers that be)  are taking and how will it all unfold.  That is the big mystery.  Someone at silverbearcafe has posted one possible blueprint which makes for interesting reading. 

No one knows of course other than TPTB.  But after this onslaught of media hammering home the same theme over and over again ad nauseam  I seriously doubt they are going to miss getting the message across to everyone everywhere at least once one way or the other.  And if the entertainment media doesn't get it across governments will by their actions on the "Swine Flu Pandemic."

Will people pay attention?  I doubt it.  But thats not the point.  The point is no one can ever say they weren't warned "end of the world as you know it" is coming.

Omnious or ?

Michael Ruppert posted an ominous prediction/warning on his blog today.  Having watched "Collapse" as well as every single youtube vid of Micheal I could find, in particular his breakdown of 9-11 timeline, I don't dismiss anything this man has to say or thinks. 

One has to look at what the US government is doing to try and figure out what is going on.  There is no such thing as coincidences when it comes to government.  Everything is done for a reason and timing carefully planned and deliberate.

Some very odd things have happened in the last couple of weeks. Dec 17th Obama signs executive order putting Interpol above the US constitution.  Dec24th Fannie and Freddie both have cap on losses removed.  Dec 25th bomb attempt leads to more stringent security measures.  Dec 30th Obama signs executive order "ESTABLISHING FEDERAL CAPABILITY FOR THE TIMELY PROVISION OF MEDICAL COUNTERMEASURES FOLLOWING A BIOLOGICAL ATTACK"   This all comes after Obama declared a national emergency in late October.

Yesterday zerohedge posted "This Is The Government: Your Legal Right To Redeem Your Money Market Account Has Been Denied"

Micheal has titled his post "Something Evil This Way Comes."

Is he right?