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That is another sign of everything or “westernization” in reverse. I heard re Hong Kong, going back to their roots also. The entire Middle East is de-westernizing. If TPTB had a mechanical engineering background, they would have known…

“Haste makes waste” “Measure twice cut once” “Don’t rush the important jobs” TPTB screwed up “rushing” globalization, and rushing a regime change in westernized Iraq. Obviously the master planners wanted to see the total conversion on their watch, and rushed it all.

Everything (westernized world) would have evolved naturally eventually over time, maybe 50-100 years. Now the jerks are losing the gains, and created a reverse evolution of the situation.

Arizona foot coach suspended for praying with team.

And they once called this country a christian nation?

Arizona Football Coach Suspended for Praying with Team

Turkey’s government has banned all school pupils nationwide from having tattoos or body piercings in a new dress code deemed oppressive and unenforceable, according to the law’s critics.

While tattoos are not widespread among older generations, they have seen a surge in popularity amongst the young and secular sectors of society.

The measure, imposed by the government and published in the Official Gazette on Saturday, also prohibited a number of other things such as dyeing hair, wearing makeup and moustaches and beards for boys, according to local media reports.

Students could be punished through reprimands, suspension or expulsion. If a student fails to get a tattoo removed the punishment is not yet clear.

It shortly follows a previous set of measures which permitted the wearing Muslim headscarves in schools which critics has also denounced as corrosive of Turkey’s secular ideals.

Opponents and critics have said that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s recent moves constitute steps towards the Islamisation of the country.

more http://rt.com/news/191340-turkey-tattoo-piercing-ban/

http://www.tfmetalsreport.com/podcast/6169/william-cohan-dr-janda

I’d say “everything in moderation” People need to use some sense and take responsibility for what they put in their mouths. I trust Dr. Mercola much more than the run of the mill doctor.

Ever heard of the ketogenic diet-or others that say eat fats as long as u have no carbs? Funny, that science in the west would “prove” that it’s OK…where the meat, poultry/egg and dairy industry’s dominate….in some cultures whose diets are radically different from the modern diet—or where people haven’t much food and do physical labor all day–consuming fats is necessary and has no ill effect–but in america-with out unspeakably unnatural and dangerous diet–just follow Mercolas advice and u’ll end up at 400 lbs with heart disease and cancer and G*d only knows what else–the healthiest and longest lived micro-cultures–like the Okinawan elders and the Hunzas ate extreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeemly low fat diets with 50-60 % COMPLEX  carbohydrates….that’s the real inside dope palsey-walsey….live and let live is my motto–peace to all worlds!

He wrote some 20 books on trains-his greatest work is listed below-i recently bought 3 copies on Amazon for a penny each–they are hard back

Along with Clegg, Beebe owned two private railcars, the Gold Coast and The Virginia City. The Gold Coast, Georgia Northern / Central of Georgia No. 100, was built in 1905 and is now at the California State Railroad Museum. After Beebe and Clegg purchased The Virginia City they had it refurbished and redecorated by famed Hollywood set designer Robert T. Hanley in a style known as Venetian Renaissance Baroque. Beebe in the Virginia City The Virginia City has been restored and currently operates as an excursion car.[8] Beebe and Clegg wrote about and photographed the Virginia & Truckee Railroad and worked unsuccessfully with other railroad fans to preserve it.[9] Their fame was such that they were caricatured in “Fiddletown & Copperopolis,” by Carl Fallberg.[10]

Beebe, Lucius; Charles Clegg (1965). The Trains We Rode. Volume I. Alton – New York Central. Berkeley, CA: Howell-North.
Beebe, Lucius; Charles Clegg (1966). The Trains We Rode. Volume II. Northern Pacific – Wabash. Berkeley, CA: Howell-North.

Afghanistan swears in new leader amid dispute, violence

(Reuters) – Afghanistan inaugurated its first new president in a decade on Monday, swearing in technocrat Ashraf Ghani to head a power-sharing government just as the withdrawal of most foreign troops presents a crucial test.

The first democratic handover of power in Afghan history has been far from smooth: the deal for a unity government was cobbled together after months of deadlock over a vote in which both Ghani and opponent Abdullah Abdullah claimed victory.

Illustrating the problems facing the new president, a suicide bomber killed seven people at a security checkpoint near Kabul airport just before Ghani was sworn in, a government official said. The Taliban claimed responsibility.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/09/29/us-afghanistan-politics-idUSKCN0HN0XA20140929

It’s not Henry Flagler’s coach, but the modern
Florida East Coast business train has it’s own
“private varnish”. This is the interior of the
“Azalea” observation car.
http://www.railpictures.net/photo/499804

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/open-pit-mining-suspended-four-060802967.html

By Dr. Mercola

Most mainstream dietary advice recommends low-fat or non-fat dairy. But a growing number of experts argue that it’s far healthier to eat and drink whole dairy products, with all the fat left in.

Dairy foods contain roughly 50 to 60 percent saturated fat, and conventional thinking is that saturated fat is bad for your heart. This idea has been thoroughly refuted as false. It’s a mistaken interpretation of the science. In a 2010 analysis,1 scientists said:

“…There is no significant evidence for concluding that dietary saturated fat is associated with an increased risk of [coronary heart disease or cardiovascular disease].”

More recently, research presented at the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) in Vienna, Austria, found that eating full-fat dairy products such as whole milk, cream, cheese, and butter, reduces your risk of developing diabetes.

more Article

Seems we’ve seen this type of action before, volatility, – up, down, up, down, then boom. Down big. The Alibaba SM top.

Another day, another day of

I often get confused which side of the issue Barry is on. Sometimes he speaks for the banks, other times he kills them. I know he has lots of banking connections around the US. please let me know if any tenters are able to get through all the links. snicker. It’s obvious this is a serious rabbit hole to even read about subject matter as such. good morning eeos

Derivatives Are Manipulated

Runaway derivatives – especially credit default swaps (CDS) – were one of the main causes of the 2008 financial crisis. Congress never fixed the problem, and actually made it worse.

The big banks have long manipulated derivatives … a $1,200 Trillion Dollar market.

Indeed, many trillions of dollars of derivatives are being manipulated in the exact same same way that interest rates are fixed (see below) … through gamed self-reporting.

Reuters noted last week:

A Manhattan federal judge said on Thursday that investors may pursue a lawsuit accusing 12 major banks of violating antitrust law by fixing prices and restraining competition in the roughly $21 trillionmarket for credit default swaps.

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“The complaint provides a chronology of behavior that would probably not result from chance, coincidence, independent responses to common stimuli, or mere interdependence,” [Judge] Cote said.

The defendants include Bank of America Corp, Barclays Plc, BNP Paribas SA, Citigroup Inc , Credit Suisse Group AG, Deutsche Bank AG , Goldman Sachs Group Inc, HSBC Holdings Plc , JPMorgan Chase & Co, Morgan Stanley, Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc and UBS AG.

Other defendants are the International Swaps and Derivatives Association and Markit Ltd, which provides credit derivative pricing services.

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U.S. and European regulators have probed potential anticompetitive activity in CDS. In July 2013, the European Commission accused many of the defendants of colluding to block new CDS exchanges from entering the market.

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“The financial crisis hardly explains the alleged secret meetings and coordinated actions,” the judge wrote. “Nor does it explain why ISDA and Markit simultaneously reversed course.”

In other words, the big banks are continuing to fix prices for CDS in secret meetings … and have torpedoed the more open and transparent CDS exchanges that Congress mandated.

As shown below, Wall Street has manipulated virtually every other market as well – both in the financial sector and the real economy – and broken virtually every law on the books.

Interest Rates Are Manipulated

Bloomberg reported in January:

Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc was ordered to pay $50 million by a federal judge in Connecticut over claims that it rigged the London interbank offered rate.

RBS Securities Japan Ltd. in April pleaded guilty to wire frauda s part of a settlement of more than $600 million with U.S and U.K. regulators over Libor manipulation, according to court filings. U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in New Haventoday sentenced the Tokyo-based unit of RBS, Britain’s biggest publicly owned lender, to pay the agreed-upon fine, according to a Justice Department Justice Department.

Global investigations into banks’ attempts to manipulate the benchmarks for profit have led to fines and settlements for lenders including RBS, Barclays Plc, UBS AG and Rabobank Groep.

RBS was among six companies fined a record 1.7 billion euros ($2.3 billion) by the European Union last month for rigging interest rates linked to Libor. The combined fines for manipulating yen Libor and Euribor, the benchmark money-market rate for the euro, are the largest-ever EU cartel penalties.

Global fines for rate-rigging have reached $6 billion since June 2012 as authorities around the world probe whether traders worked together to fix Libor, meant to reflect the interest rate at which banks lend to each other, to benefit their own trading positions.

To put the Libor interest rate scandal in perspective:

• The big banks have conspired for years to rig interest rates … upon which $800 trillion in assets are pegged

• This was the largest insider trading scandal ever … and the largest financial scam in world history

• Local governments got ripped off bigtime by the Libor manipulation

• Even though RBS and a handful of other banks have been fined for interest rate manipulation, Libor is stillbeing manipulated. No wonder … the fines are pocket change – the cost of doing business – for the big banks

Currency Markets Are Rigged

Currency markets are massively rigged. And see this and this.

Energy Prices Manipulated

The U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission says that JP Morgan has massively manipulated energy markets in California and the Midwest, obtaining tens of millions of dollars in overpayments from grid operators between September 2010 and June 2011.

Pulitzer prize-winning reporter David Cay Johnston noted in May that Wall Street is trying to launch Enron 2.0.

Oil Prices Are Manipulated

Oil prices are manipulated as well.

Gold and Silver Are Manipulated

Gold and silver prices are “fixed” in the same way as interest rates and derivatives – in daily conference calls by the powers-that-be.

Bloomberg reports:

It is the participating banks themselves that administer the gold and silver benchmarks. Read more

Rah Rah! Sis Boom Bah! Go gold, go-!  [it’s tough being a bull…but someone’s gotta wave the pom-pons]

Gold , technically, looks like crap….BUY ANOTHER THOUSAND! [Guffaw!]

[dyod—just joshing, folks]

The Gold Low remains at Monday’s sell off day. Fat Lady Day  …with a HUGE  maybe. Silver is a disaster but, $gold was up for the week.  Situation like this I wouldn’t put anymore in but, I wouldn’t fold them either,  not just yet.

This week it is frosty and goldilocks…something from DQ.

Hmmm, Flag and scruffy, maybe bring back the title from Gleneagles, tee hee

BG and wanka, nobody comes within 500 yards of a perfect green lawn

ipso and eeos, smoking the lawn cause it’s legal in their states

winedoc and Mr. Copper, wondering why their car parts were off shored…

Oh the combinations….

My kid told me that one…hmmm he smarter than me for quips.

Stand down BG and ipso

Bernie Madoff was the tip of the ice berg. I told many people, there is a new rule. A new saying, for anyone doing something you are not supposed to be doing….

“What ever you used to get away with before 2008, you will now not be able to get away with”.

Basically after 2008, push is coming to shove, in a lot of situations.

“Insurance Fraud Hall of Shame: Doc’s skin scheme cuts deep”
part:

Sun-drenched Florida retirees who saw Sarasota dermatologist Dr. Michael A. Rosin about suspicious-looking spots on their skin were almost guaranteed to receive the same dreaded diagnosis: skin cancer, whether they had the disease or not.

Rosin performed invasive surgery on hundreds of patients who didn’t need the knife. And he cut deep. The more layers of skin he removed, the more he could fraudulently bill taxpayer-funded Medicare. So Rosin diagnosed cancer even when employees prepared biopsy slides with Styrofoam or chewing gum instead of real human skin.

“More than 90 percent of the patients who came into the doctor’s office had a biopsy and were diagnosed with cancer, had the same size lesions and always had four layers of surgery,” the Sarasota Herald-Tribune wrote.

Rosin ran his dangerous scam on at least 865 patients, averaging a robust 1,000 surgeries per year for four years. He bilked Medicare out of more than $3 million.”

“His “continued possession of a medical license, together with his demonstrated lack of good moral character, warped judgment, and lack of respect for the law raises a serious, immediate concern that he will use his medical license to defraud patients—as he has repeatedly done so in the past—thereby presenting a danger to the public health,” regulators charged.

Rosin received 22 years in federal prison, and must pay $3.7 million to Medicare, Aetna and his patients, plus a $25,000 fine.

“It is an outrage when a doctor knowingly performs invasive surgery that is medically unnecessary,” says U.S. Attorney Paul I. Perez. “We must continue to vigorously investigate and prosecute these types of cases.”

more:
http://www.insurancefraud.org/article.htm?RecID=2793#.VCjHFmMtCUk

Just pay attention to what is going on. What countries are doing well, which ones need help. By the looks of that rocketing Dollar, we have to assume TPTB figured the US economy was strong enough to take a “hit” with a strong dollar. Its not ALL bad because consumers get cheaper gas etc. Obviously other countries like Europe are in trouble and needed weak currency right away. Generally, they choke off an economy (while helping another) until the “eyes bulge out” and then they relieve the grip, and let you breath.

Remember the gov’t looking the other way on illegal immigration? The IRS scandal? Fast and Furious? Creating false evidence of US Dealers selling guns to drug cartels?

You can’t trust ANYBODY these days…Check this out….WATCH OUT. After de-industrialization, off shoring revenue, anything goes if it generates revenue.

Remember those artificially high home appraisals? And the “appraisers” are told, they better give a GOOD appraisal of they will be avoided next time? Same thing possible with medical “appraisals” Doctors need from radiological or testing labs.

Parts:

The fee-for-service nature of U.S. health care, where the hospitals and doctors get more money for every operation they perform, essentially rewards those that put more patients under the knife.

“There’s no financial reason not to do it, so there’s no pressure,” says Leape, the Harvard physician. “There are no regulators breathing down their backs; Medicare and the insurance companies continue to pay for it.”

“Doctors perform thousands of unnecessary surgeries”
A USA TODAY study found that tens of thousands of times each year, patients undergo surgery they don’t need.

Jonathan Stelly was 22, a semi-pro baseball player aiming for the big leagues, when a fainting spell sent him to his cardiologist for tests. The doctor’s office called afterward with shocking news: If Stelly wanted to live to age 30, he was told, he’d need a pacemaker.

Stelly knew it would be the end of his baseball dream, but he made a quick decision. “I did what the doctor said,” he recalls. “I trusted him.”

Months after the surgery, local news outlets reported that the Louisiana cardiologist, Mehmood Patel, was being investigated for performing unnecessary surgeries. Stelly had another doctor review his case. Then another. And another. They all agreed: He needed blood pressure medication, but he never needed the pacemaker.

“It’s a very serious issue, (and) there really hasn’t been a movement to address it,” says Lucian Leape, a former surgeon and professor at the Harvard School of Public Health. Leape, a renowned patient safety expert who began studying unnecessary surgery after a 1974 congressional report estimated that there were 2.4 million cases a year, killing nearly 12,000 patients.

Leape’s take today? “Things haven’t changed very much.”

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/06/18/unnecessary-surgery-usa-today-investigation/2435009/

Criticizing philanthropy doesn’t play well, but . . .

I awaited the first comment after posting…yes they will. They will play each and every digit created result..until you see and comment otherwise. I hope i have not upset you. Your comment is everything …

allow me ..their game plays on..

I will share later..Good night all…I am certain there are those awaiting to explain..that the gamer will play on ..never brave..

Monday and Tuesday mark the end of the quarter. Look for the pump to be working overtime to keep the markets inflated for ‘bragging rights’. But the rest of the week could get a bit interesting….?

And the games play on. Well, at least for two more days anyways. 🙂

the term …the digits are buying all ..look into the depth of my shared comment…the insight my awaken the insightful..

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