How much longer folk`s? What have the banks have done with YOUR money? Or a better question might be, What Have the Banks Done To Your Life? As government`s around the world prepares an emergency budget to help pay for all bank bailouts, We investigates the banks and what they’ve done with our money. We discover that while ordinary taxpayers take the pain, for the banks it’s largely business as usual. Thou Britain is the example here, it`s the same all over the world.
A Bank Criminal – A Top Model Without NO Empathy What So Ever!
Will Hutton analyses the banks accounts and shows how they are using government-guaranteed funds to gamble with derivatives as they did before the crash. He also reveals how the banks are still paying vast salaries and bonuses, and City head hunters tell Dispatches how the banks hide the sums they’re really paying out. With the help of former and current members of the Bank of England’s monetary policy committee, Hutton shows how the banks booming margins come from the free and near-free money the government and taxpayers gave them to save the banking system. He also investigates the banks intense lobbying to resist government plans for reform and highlights recent research from the OECD on how Britain is internationally unusual in the extent to which bankers have key roles in the civil service and government.
Featuring high-powered contributors such as President Obama’s banking advisor Paul Volcker, former Chancellor Alastair Darling, former City minister Lord Myners and current Business Secretary Vince Cable, Hutton shows why without urgent reform we risk the prospect of another crash – this time there won’t be any money left for a bail-out – plus the certainty of British business being starved of vital funding. With the Eurozone crisis fueling fears of another banking crash, this program is an urgent and shocking call to action.
I think we all can agree on one thing, “banks are criminals in suite`s.” just ask someone who had a lot of experience with the ongoing process of buying and selling houses during this “bad” period for ex! The video`s below helps understand a bit of what’s going on, the banks are no longer just trying to keep government out of their business, they are now basically able to control government`s to their own best interests, against the interests of regular home owners and workers.
Here is a very good example that shows how powerful a bank CAN be! Here is what the criminals in this case JP MORGAN Chase Bank did to a young man, who was just trying to purchase a home.
This will never rest, I also have my suspicions about who killed Dag Hammarskjold and conspiracy theories only increased when former UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold’s death was honored. Fifty years after the plane crash which killed UN chief and renowned Swedish statesman Dag Hammarskjold, there is a chorus of demands for a new probe into his death that many claim was the work of mercenaries. Hammarskjold was killed on the night of September 17-18, 1961, when his DC-6 came down near Ndola airport in the British colony Northern Rhodesia (modern-day Zambia) as he flew in to peace talks to end fighting in the mineral-rich Katanga province in neighbour to Congo. The United Nations’ own inquiry shortly after the crash blamed pilot error, effectively endorsing an initial investigation by the colonial authorities. But reports from witnesses and other diplomats have led to widespread accusations of a cover-up and the suspicion that Hammarskjold paid the price for supporting efforts by the newly independent Congolese government to crush an uprising in Katanga being funded by Western mining companies. Goran Bjorkdahl, a Swedish aid worker who has interviewed eyewitnesses to the crash in Ndola, recently proclaimed that there could be “no doubt Dag Hammarskjold’s plane was brought down.”
The wreckage of Dag Hammarskjold’s plane near Ndola, now Zambia. Eyewitnesses claim they saw a second plane fire at the UN chief’s plane.
“My own conclusion, after adding the new witnesses’ statements and the archive information to previously published documents, is that Hammarskjold ‘s DC-6 was brought down and that the motive was to maintain the American and British control over Katanga minerals,” he wrote in Britain’s Guardian newspaper last month. A new book by the author Susan Williams entitled ‘Who Killed Hammarskjold?’ also argues that the plane was brought down, prompting the diplomat’s nephew Knut Hammarskjold to recently call for a new inquiry. Others who believe that the Swedish authorities have been too ready to accept the official cover version of events include Rolf Rembe who is the Swedish author of a book on Hammarskjold ‘s career and legacy.
“What is important is to require all the relevant documents,” Rembe told Sweden’s daily Svenska Dagbladet.
“It seems unlikely, but it could have been an attempted kidnapping of Hammarskjold,” he added.
Was Kennedy killed because his support to Hammarskjold?
In 2007, retired French diplomat Claude de Kemoularia added fresh fuel to the conspiracy theory when he recounted a meeting with a group of mercenaries and a Belgian pilot in Paris in 1967 who claimed to have brought down the plane. He then made contact with the Swedish authorities in the hope that they would open a new inquiry but his efforts were in vain. The foreign ministry later dismissed his version of events as “extremely unlikely.” John F Kennedy, the US president at the time of Hammarskjold ‘s death, eulogized him as “the greatest statesman of our century.”
In an address from the White House, Kennedy paid tribute to Hammarskjold ‘s “dedication to the cause of peace, his untiring labor to achieve it, his courage under attack, (and) willingness to accept all responsibility in trying to strengthen the United Nations to make it a more effective instrument.” But Hammarskjold was far from universally popular and Kennedy’s Soviet counterpart Nikita Khrushchev had called for his resignation over his handling of the Katanga conflict. Hammarskjold responded: “It is very easy to bow to the wish of a big power, it is another matter to resist.”
Hammarskjold, who was 56 at the time of his death, is the only UN secretary-general to have died while in office and also the only person to have been posthumously awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. The current Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt will travel on Sunday to Ndola, near the scene of the crash, to take part in a commemorative ceremony. Sweden’s Crown Princess Victoria will attend a similar event at the University of Uppsala and Swedish public radio’s symphony orchestra will play a concert in his memory in the capital Stockholm.
Dag Hammarskjold A Hero
FIFTY years ago black people were forbidden entry to the perimeter of any airport in British or Belgian Southern Africa. Who Killed Hammarskjold is the story of how the Swedish Secretary General of the United Nations was murdered for having the temerity to challenge this racism of the current preachers on “human rights”, “freedom of expression”, and the “rights of people to have governments of their choice”. Olof Palme was another Swedish hero, who also got murdered.
Fifty years ago there were no China, India, Brazil or the internet to constrain officials of Union Miniere, the CIA, American or European governments from acting as they wished, practicing racism and imperialism, and murdering those who challenged them. Today millions still live in poverty and illiteracy, but China, India and Brazil demonstrate what is possible in the modern world. In Africa perhaps a few countries like Ghana might make the break into a future of prosperity and dignity. I belive and have always believed that American and British interest`s were the main reasons behind both Hammarskjold and Palme death`s. For they both exposed the dark underbelly of the so-called Western democracies.
Things are getting even worse if possible for all Americans as the US senate is expected to vote on a legislation, that will allow U.S. Military to detain any American without charge or trial. Remember that debate between Ron Paul and Newt Gingrich, where Mr. Gingrich suggested we should expand and strengthen the Patriot Act in the name of protecting US citizens from terrorists? Mr. Gingrich indicated that there exists a line between criminal law and the war on terror, and that we need not worry the government will overstep its bounds.
While Americans enjoy the Thanksgiving weekend and join the annual running of the bulls celebration at malls and retail outlets, something sinister is taking place in Congress – and it should scare the hell out of you. If the President and Senate have their way, your front lawn will soon become a battlefield, and you’ll be subjected to military, not criminal, law.
From the ACLU Via The Daily Sheeple:
The Senate is gearing up for a vote on Monday or Tuesday that goes to the very heart of who we are as Americans. The Senate will be voting on a bill that will direct American military resources not at an enemy shooting at our military in a war zone, but at American citizens and other civilians far from any battlefield — even people in the United States itself.
The Senate is going to vote on whether Congress will give this president—and every future president — the power to order the military to pick up and imprison without charge or trial civilians anywhere in the world. Even Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) raised his concerns about the NDAA detention provisions during last night’s Republican debate. The power is so broad that even U.S. citizens could be swept up by the military and the military could be used far from any battlefield, even within the United States itself.
The worldwide indefinite detention without charge or trial provision is in S. 1867, the National Defense Authorization Act bill, which will be on the Senate floor on Monday. The bill was drafted in secret by Sens. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) and John McCain (R-Ariz.) and passed in a closed-door committee meeting, without even a single hearing.
I know it sounds incredible. New powers to use the military worldwide, even within the United States? Hasn’t anyone told the Senate that Osama bin Laden is dead, that the president is pulling all of the combat troops out of Iraq and trying to figure out how to get combat troops out of Afghanistan too? And American citizens and people picked up on American or Canadian or British streets being sent to military prisons indefinitely without even being charged with a crime. Really? Does anyone think this is a good idea? And why now?
This is happening right now – IN AMERICA! A law that is designed to specifically bypass Constitutional protections and one that will undoubtedly be used against the American people to further advance and expand the national police state.
Once signed into law the President (or anyone of his minions within the Justice Department or Homeland Security acting on his behalf) can issue orders to arrest, detain and imprison an American citizen in the United States without due process. Since most terror arrests fall into the realm of national security, and therefore are secret, no evidence would ever need to be presented for the permanent detainment (and who knows what else) of an American imprisoned under this law.
Alex Jones on the controversy over whether or not Americans are exempt from a provision of the National Defense Authorization Act bill, set to be voted on this week by the Senate, which defines the the entirety of the United States as a battleground in the war on terror, has been addressed by Republican Congressman Justin Amash, who warns that the bill does apply to U.S. citizens. As Alex Jones previously reported, under the ‘worldwide indefinite detention without charge or trial’ provision of S.1867, the National Defense Authorization Act bill, which is set to be up for a vote on the Senate floor this week, the legislation will “basically say in law for the first time that the homeland is part of the battlefield,” said Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), who supports the bill.
That provoked concerns that American citizens could be targeted as terrorists and indefinitely detained without trial or charge.
So is this how it`s going to start? Immediately after the US intervention in Syria, Russian will respond? backed by the Chinese. Then US will have no chance at all to prevail. The Syrian crisis assumed a big power dimension this week with the build-up of rival United States and Russia naval air carrier Armada in Syrian waters, debkafile‘s military sources report.
The USS Bush now enters Syrian waters
The USS George H.W. Bush arrived Wednesday, Nov. 23, in the wake of the three Russian warships anchored earlier opposite Tartus which established a command post in the Syrian port. They will be augmented by Russia’s only air carrier the Admiral Kuznetsov, which is due in mid-week. By deploying 70 ship-borne fighter-bombers plus three heavy guided missile cruisers and five guided missile destroyers opposite Syria, Washington has laid down military support for any intervention the Arab League in conjunction with Turkey may decide on.
Bashar Assad can see for himself that Washington has hoisted a nuclear aerial umbrella to protect its allies, Israel, Turkey, and Jordan, against the retaliation his armed forces high command pledged Friday for the deaths of six Syrian air force elite pilots in an ambush Thursday. For some time, Ankara has been weighing the creation of a protected haven for rebels and refugees inside Syria. France has proposed slicing “humanitarian corridors” through Syria for them to flee safely from military tank and gunfire and secure supply of food, medicines and other essential supplies to the cities under army siege. Both plans would depend on being safeguarded by substantial ground and air strength inside Syria which would certainly face fierce resistance from Assad’s military. The Arab League has scheduled weekend meetings to decide how to proceed after Damascus ignored its Friday deadline for accepting hundreds of monitors. Saturday, Nov. 26, AL finance ministers will discuss economic sanctions. In the past 48 hours, at least 70 people were reported killed as the Syrian army continued its crackdown in the face of spreading armed opposition.
The Russian Kuznetzov carrier and its accompanying strike vessels will join the three Russian warships parked opposite Tartus for more than a week. It will enter the same Syrian offshore waters as the USS Bush and the US Sixth Fleet, which is permanently posted in the Mediterranean. The Syrian crisis is therefore building up to a superpower face-off unparalleled since the Cold War between America and the Soviet Union ended in the nineties, debkafile‘s military sources note. While Washington clearly stands ready to back operations against the Assad regime, Moscow is drawing a red line around his presidential palace in Damascus. The Kremlin is warning the US, NATO and the Arab League that they will not be allowed to repeat their feat in Libya of overthrowing Muammar Qaddafi against Assad.
In the face of this escalating big power standoff and the high possibility of the Syrian ruler deciding to lash out against his country’s neighbors, the Israeli, Jordanian and Turkey armies have declared a high state of war preparedness.
Twenty-four hours before the Arab League Sunday, Nov. 27, clamped down sanctions on the Assad regime, the first ever against a member state, the armies of Syria’s seven neighbors were already scrambling into position on standby on its borders for acts of retaliation. Military suspense mounted after the Arab League vote to cut off transactions with Syria’s central bank, withdraw Arab funding from projects and other painful sanctions over Bashar Assad’s refusal to halt his crackdown on protest.
debkafile’s military sources report Israeli armored brigades pushed forward up to the Lebanese and Syrian borders; Ankara placed three armored brigades, its air force and navy in astate of preparedness, likewise Hizballah and the Lebanese and Jordanian armed forces, while the US and Russia are in the midst of a naval buildup opposite Syrian shores.
One important thing we need to remember here, is that Laura Eisenhower, is D. Eisenhower’s granddaughter and she have probably heard a lot of things as she is part of the Eisenhower family, and of course things were discussed inside the family i`m sure of it.
Laura Eisenhower was speaking on the sidelines of a UFO, science and consciousness conference in Johannesburg. She said natural faults in the earth were being manipulated to produce catastrophes like tsunamis and earthquakes using Haarp technology or bio-weapons. According to the website LBN, Haarp technology is a focused and steerable electromagnetic beam used to heat the upper atmosphere and bounce electromagnetic waves back to earth. Eisenhower said this was part of a secret agenda by a number of governments to decrease the earth’s human population in favour of colonies on mars and the moon.
“Extraterrestrials have been working with governments for a while,” she said, adding that treaties with the other-worldly beings were signed every 10 years.
This had remained fairly well hidden through mind-control and manipulation. Contact with extraterrestrials was merely the result of an expanding consciousness that there was life beyond earth, said Eisenhower.
“As consciousness expands, we invoke and become more in contact with our universal family.”
She said she was recruited by an agent in 2006 to take part in a mission to a Mars colony. However, she was able to break free from the mind control techniques. She said people had been teleported to Mars since the 1970s and that the size of the population there was continuing to shift and expand.
THE UFO PRESIDENT – EISENHOWER
President Dwight D. Eisenhower secretly meet with ETs. This detailed research project presents the facts around one of the most enduring “urban legends” of our time and tells the true story of President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s ET contact in the early 1950′s. Below is the Laura Magdalene Eisenhower interview. Laura Eisenhower is an activist in the conscious movement. We talk about UFO’s, extraterrestrials, secret governments and programs, 2012, what people can do to awaken and get out of the game that “they” have created, and so much more! Laura is also a clairvoyant and does private sessions by donation. Interviewed by Q.
NSA is now joining the other agency’s who have been forced to release classified document`s regarding the UFO Phenomena. NSA have released an ultra-secret file regarding effort to decode decades-old alien signals. Scientists determined that mysterious signals received in 1957 were transmitted to Earth from an advanced alien civilization. Decades have passed while security analysts and dedicated cryptographers struggled to decipher the enigmatic messages from a completely unknown, distant alien culture. NSA have researched this before that is a fact. As Open Minds recently documented, in great detail, “Project Aquarius” – the U.S. government’s alleged secret project to research extraterrestrial biological entities and their presence on the earth also told by the highly controversial whistle-blower, Dr. Dan Burisch. Told Explained By: Michael Schratt September 2010 Here
Now, in 2011, the National Security Agency which is one of the United States’ most secret intelligence gathering organizations has released under protest (forced by order of a U.S. Federal Court judge) stunning information about intelligent life in the universe. But as usual, the non-curious, inept, doltish mainstream media completely ignores it. Well we wouldn’t expect anything else now would we? Usually NSA briefings are mostly held in secret, and here they are now forced to reveal about a Twenty-nine lengthy transmissions that were received and verified as being “of extraterrestrial origin.” According to some in the intelligence community, this hot potato was given the highest priority and assigned to “goggle-eyed geeks” tasked to find out exactly what the enigmatic transmissions said. Speculation among some of the NSA spooks about what the mysterious messages said allegedly ran the gambit from sarcastic guesses they were just some garbled alien radio commercials (an inside joke that drew nervous laughter from some of the analysts) to those that were convinced the messages coded in some unknown mathematical progression conveyed the basics of unlimited energy, star travel, or even time travel. Allegedly, those that subscribe to the latter theories have absolutely nothing to support their belief. And according to researchers who have analyzed the document [available for your inspection as a downloadable PDF at the end of this article] an NSA specialist named Dr. Howard Campaigne was given the responsibility of choosing a cryptology team to work on cracking the alien messages. The task was compartmentalized and many who worked at the NSA had no idea that such a project or even the messages the team focused upon existed. The entire project was strictly enforced by secrecy and conducted under the auspices of the Official Secrets Act and all participants took National Security oaths. Only those deemed crucial to the success of the undertaking were allowed access to the secret under the provisions of a well-defined need-to-know hierarchy.
What message did the aliens send? NSA isn’t saying but Private researchers have stumble upon a ‘great secret’. The project allegedly had been in the works for decades when some in the UFO community who were bombarding government agencies and the United States Air Force with Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests about UFO sightings and activities stumbled across a potential bombshell. Although many of the documents they received were heavily redacted with page after page blacked out, several separate documents that were released from the NSA contained snippets of information—clues—that some sort of alien message had been intercepted during the late 1950s.The investigations struck pay dirt when an obscure reference to an internal report (NSA Technical Journal Vol. XIV No. 1) about a cryptology team tasked to decode messages obtained from outer space (meaning from outside the solar system) was discovered.
NSA fights release of super-secret ET documents
After several years of intense effort to dislodge the now identified report from the NSA, the explosive document was reluctantly downgraded from one of the highest secret classifications to an unclassified status and scheduled for an October 21, 2004 release to the public. The date came and went without the document being released. The document concerning the extraterrestrial contact contained only one of an unknown number of other reports/articles written by the team working for Dr. Campaigne. The FOIA document was incomplete: only pages 13 through 23 were released with some slight redaction. All other pages were missing. No other reports were included, although the pages released clearly refer to other articles written by the team describing their efforts to break the alien code. So in my eyes this is also proof. I believe this whole thing will crack down soon, NO MORE SECRETS.
Hold on to your hat`s folk`s, now it`s not only alternative media who speculates that the capitalistic economic system is facing it`s doom. Now these warnings also comes from British authority’s and other Euro leaders. European leaders are now openly admitting they are preparing for an imminent default on Italy and Greek debt causing the bank ran media, who have been warning of “Armageddon Scenarios” and global financial meltdown Italian and Greek defaults, to suddenly develop schizophrenia throwing their propaganda machine in reverse and run stories saying it is “no bid deal” if Italy or Greek defaults. But the Truth should be told, China is scared enough that they are stepped in to offer billions to suck up worthless European sovereign debt and billionaire hedge fund manager George Soros isn’t buying the Wall Street propaganda machine’s attempt to manipulate the market psychology either. He tells reporters that an Italian and Greek debt default will trigger a global economic collapse will begin with the Greek debt default and spread from there.
British embassies in the Euro-zone have been told to draw up plans to help British expats through the collapse of the single currency, amid new fears for Italy and Spain. As the Italian government struggled to borrow and Spain considered seeking an international bail-out, British ministers privately warned that the break-up of the euro, once almost unthinkable, is now increasingly plausible. Diplomats are preparing to help Britons abroad through a banking collapse and even riots arising from the debt crisis. The Treasury confirmed earlier this month that contingency planning for a collapse is now under way. A senior minister has now revealed the extent of the Government’s concern, saying that Britain is now planning on the basis that a euro collapse is now just a matter of time.
“It’s in our interests that they keep playing for time because that gives us more time to prepare,” the minister told the Daily Telegraph.
Recent Foreign and Commonwealth Office instructions to embassies and consulates request contingency planning for extreme scenarios including rioting and social unrest. Greece has seen several outbreaks of civil disorder as its government struggles with its huge debts. British officials think similar scenes cannot be ruled out in other nations if the euro collapses. Diplomats have also been told to prepare to help tens of thousands of British citizens in Euro-zone countries with the consequences of a financial collapse that would leave them unable to access bank accounts or even withdraw cash. Fueling the fears of financial markets for the euro, reports in Madrid yesterday suggested that the new Popular Party government could seek a bail-out from either the European Union rescue fund or the International Monetary Fund.
There are also growing fears for Italy, whose new government was forced to pay record interest rates on new bonds issued yesterday. The yield on new six-month loans was 6.5 per cent, nearly double last month’s rate. And the yield on outstanding two-year loans was 7.8 per cent, well above the level considered unsustainable. Italy’s new government will have to sell more than EURO 30 billion of new bonds by the end of January to refinance its debts. Analysts say there is no guarantee that investors will buy all of those bonds, which could force Italy to default. The Italian government yesterday said that in talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy, Prime Minister Mario Monti had agreed that an Italian collapse “would inevitably be the end of the euro.” The EU treaties that created the euro and set its membership rules contain no provision for members to leave, meaning any break-up would be disorderly and potentially chaotic. If Euro-zone governments defaulted on their debts, the European banks that hold many of their bonds would risk collapse. A leading French economist, Jacques Attali, the former president of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, said there was only a 50-50 chance of the euro surviving until Christmas. So this is very serious now!
Some analysts say the shock waves of such an event would risk the collapse of the entire World financial system, leaving banks unable to return money to retail depositors and destroying companies dependent on bank credit. The Financial Services Authority this week issued a public warning to British banks to bolster their contingency plans for the break-up of the single currency. Some economists believe that at worst, the outright collapse of the euro could reduce GDP in its member-states by up to half and trigger mass unemployment. Analysts at UBS, an investment bank earlier this year warned that the most extreme consequences of a break-up include risks to basic property rights and the threat of civil disorder.
“When the unemployment consequences are factored in, it is virtually impossible to consider a break-up scenario without some serious social consequences,” UBS said.
President Obama, who has been traveling the country urging Congress to pass his jobs bill so Americans can be put to work on infrastructure projects, need only look out a window in the West Wing to see one such project. Under way on his front lawn for the last 17 months, it is highly visible and yet mysterious. For the first time in recent memory, the ground and pipes beneath the Oval Office are exposed, and each day, workers lower massive concrete blocks several stories underground. Cranes, trucks and construction workers file in and out of the hole, usually through a passageway between the White House and the Old Executive Office Building. I believe strongly that they are building a BUNKER for some purpose yet unknown. It has been speculated on other various medias and chat-boards. Do they know something we don`t ? This has been going on for at least 17 month`s in total? It also could be the secret installation of a Thorium-Reactor which has been a rumor earlier.
The cavernous hole has inspired much speculation. Is it an Olympic-size swimming pool for the fitness-conscious first couple? A more spacious bunker? A place, perhaps, to hide the deficit? The General Services Administration says it is an elaborate renovation of the building’s aging air-conditioning and electrical systems. These upgrades take place periodically, a G.S.A. spokeswoman, Sara Merriam, said, adding that Washington’s Big Dig would soon continue on the other side of the White House grounds.
“As part of this project,” Ms. Merriam said in an e-mail, “G.S.A. has been excavating and installing replacement utilities in front of the West Wing and once this phase is complete will sequentially upgrade utilities moving to the North Lawn over to the East Wing.”
The final phase of construction will take place near the Presidential Emergency Operations Center, made famous as the spot where Vice President Dick Cheney took shelter in the hours after the 9/11 attacks while his boss remained on Air Force One, awaiting the all-clear to return to Washington. Although White House officials say they don’t know too much about the construction, some have said they think it is, as one put it, “security related.” Another White House official said that the construction would eventually link whatever is being built underground with the operations center, which was originally built during the administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt — the idea being a general expansion of an emergency base of operations.
“It is security-related construction,” said the official, who was not authorized to speak publicly about the project. “Even we don’t know exactly what.”
A larger operations center would reduce the need for emergency evacuations to shadow government locations like Mount Weather in Bluemont, Va., and would help ensure “continuity of government,” as Mr. Cheney has put it. Despite the size of the hole, the controlled silence of the construction workers and the fact that funds were allocated after Sept. 11, 2001, Ms. Merriam maintains it is all business as usual. “The type, size and complexities of work associated with the replacement of the utility infrastructure systems necessitates that extensive excavation and support structures are erected to effectively and safely conduct this work,” she said. Pebble Beach, the unofficial name for the raised platform where television news correspondents do stand-up shots from the White House lawn, offers a clear view of the hole. Camera crews have watched the construction process and regard it with a wink and a nod.
“It’s all about air-conditioning, right?” said one when asked what he knew about the work being done.
“Yeah, that’s right,” replied another, with a smirk smile. “Air-conditioning.”
MEXICO CITY (AP) Mexico’s archaeology institute earlier downplayed the theories that the ancient Mayas predicted some sort of apocalypse would occur in 2012. But on Thursday it acknowledged that a second reference to the date exists on a carved fragment found at a southern Mexico ruin site. Most experts had cited only one surviving reference to the date in Mayan glyphs, a stone tablet from the Tortuguero site in the Gulf coast state of Tabasco. But the National Institute of Anthropology and History said in a statement that there is in fact another apparent reference to the date at the nearby Comalcalco ruin. The inscription is on the carved or molded face of a brick. Comalcalco is unusual among Mayan temples in that it was constructed of bricks.
Arturo Mendez, a spokesman for the institute, said the fragment of inscription had been discovered years ago and has been subject to thorough study. It is not on display and is being kept in storage at the institute.
The “Comalcalco Brick,” as the second fragment is known, has been discussed by experts in some online forums. Many still doubt that it is a definite reference to Dec. 21, 2012 or Dec. 23, 2012, the dates cited by proponents of the theory as the possible end of the world.
“Some have proposed it as another reference to 2012, but I remain rather unconvinced,” David Stuart, a specialist in Mayan epigraphy at the University of Texas at Austin, said in a message to The Associated Press.
Stuart said the date inscribed on the brick “‘is a Calendar Round,’ a combination of a day and month position that will repeat every 52 years.” The brick date does coincide with the end of the 13th Baktun; Baktuns were roughly 394-year periods and 13 was a significant, sacred number for the Mayas. The Mayan Long Count calendar begins in 3114 B.C., and the 13th Baktun ends around Dec. 21, 2012. But the date on the brick could also correspond to similar dates in the past, Stuart said.
“There’s no reason it couldn’t be also a date in ancient times, describing some important historical event in the Classic period. In fact, the third glyph on the brick seems to read as the verb huli, “he/she/it arrives.”
“There’s no future tense marking (unlike the Tortuguero phrase), which in my mind points more to the Comalcalco date being more historical that prophetic,” Stuart wrote.
Both inscriptions the Tortuguero tablet and the Comalcalco brick were probably carved about 1,300 years ago and both are cryptic in some ways. The Tortuguero inscription describes something that is supposed to occur in 2012 involving Bolon Yokte, a mysterious Mayan god associated with both war and creation. However, erosion and a crack in the stone make the end of the passage almost illegible, though some read the last eroded glyphs as perhaps saying,
“He will descend from the sky.”
The Comalcalco brick is also odd in that the molded or inscribed faces of the bricks were probably laid facing inward or covered with stucco, suggesting they were not meant to be seen. The Institute of Anthropology and History has long said rumors of a world-ending or world-changing event in late December 2012 are a Westernized misinterpretation of Mayan calendars. The institute repeated Thursday that “western messianic thought has twisted the cosmovision of ancient civilizations like the Maya.” The institute’s experts say the Mayas saw time as a series of cycles that began and ended with regularity, but with nothing apocalyptic at the end of a given cycle.
Given the strength of Internet rumors about impending disaster in 2012, the institute is organizing a special round table of 60 Mayan experts next week at the archaeological site of Palenque, in southern Mexico, to “dispel some of the doubts about the end of one era and the beginning of another, in the Mayan Long Count calendar.”
I believe we are on the edge now for the second coming of the real economic crisis which will bring the western capitalistic system DOWN for a long time. Fitch ratings agency on Thursday downgraded its credit rating for Portugal to BB+ from BBB-citing “large fiscal imbalances” and “high indebtedness across all sectors” as well as a gloomy economic outlook as the main reasons for the country’s fall below investment grade rating. The agency has lowered its growth forecasts for Portugal in light of the worsened European outlook, and now expects gross domestic product (GDP) to contract by 3 percent in 2012.
“Over the next two years, the recession makes the government’s deficit reduction plan much more challenging and will negatively impact bank asset quality,” Fitch said in a statement. It added however that it judges the government’s commitment to the program to be strong.
“The 2012 budget contains significant expenditure reductions, mainly on pensions and civil service pay. The budget is well-designed and is based on reasonable GDP assumptions. Fitch therefore expects the 4.5 percent deficit target for 2012 to be met,” it said. But “the risk of slippage either from worse acroeconomicconditions or insufficient expenditure control is large,” Fitch said. Portugal’s finance ministry declined to comment on Fitch’s rating action.
Are We Seeing The End Of The Euro Currency?
Investors began to fear the worst for the euro after unusually weak demand at an auction for bonds from Germany, the region’s largest economy. One analyst went so far as to put the currency on a “death watch.” The euro [EUR=X 1.3334 -0.0175 (-1.3%) ] fell more than 1 percent against the dollar to a 7-week low against the Greenback. The currency threatened to break through the October lows that came amid the height of turmoil in Italy and Greece. Both countries would go on to install new Technocrat leaders, lifting confidence in the currency briefly. It`s NOT looking good!
I’ve seen a lot of discussion—and no small amount of griping—that this season of “Mad Men” is obsessed with the concept of “whores”, both in the real world sense of women who exchange sex for money and in the more abstract sense of people who peddle fantasies of authentic feeling for cash. Advertising is explicitly compared, frequently, to prostitution, inso […]
An elderly woman who thought she lost everything including her dog after a tornado wiped out much of an Oklahoma City suburb found a glimmer of hope on Monday during an interview with CBS News reporter Anna Werner. “I never lost consciousness,” Barbara Garcia recalled, standing atop a pile of rubble that used to be her home. “And I hollered for my little dog […]
Stephen Colbert emerged from a glass case of scandal journalism on Monday to find out there was a perfectly good reason his own super PAC had been “slow-walked” by the Internal Revenue Service. “Why has my application for tax-exempt status never been granted?” he asked his lawyer, Trevor Potter. “Because we never filed it,” Potter replied, to Colbert’s surpr […]
A blast at an explosives plant in China has left 13 people dead and another 20 missing, state media said Tuesday, compounding the country’s poor industrial safety record. Another 19 people were injured in the explosion on Monday at a three-storey workshop owned by Poly Explosives (Jinan), a state-owned company in the eastern province of Shandong, the Xinhua […]
Iran said Tuesday it is willing to attend an upcoming peace conference on Syria, arguing all influential parties must be included in the process for it to be a success. “The condition for success in Geneva is that all countries with influence on events in Syria participate,” foreign ministry spokesman Abbas Araqchi told reporters. “I do not think anyone in t […]
The discovery of ancient coins on an uninhabited Australian island could soon rewrite the history books. Australian soldier Maurie Isenberg first came...
Students at a house in Iowa have reported one of the most bizarre cases of paranormal activity yet. The group of students moved in to the building nea...
A 505 million-year-old fossil has been named after its resemblance to film character Edward Scissorhands. "Kooteninchela deppi" was a distant ancestor...
A chunk of rock nine times the size of the QE2 ocean liner will pass within 3.6 million miles this month. Discovered on August 9th, 1998, the asteroid...
Two different invasive species of ant have been battling for dominance in the Southern United States. Fire ants have proven themselves a menace for ye...
In a world first, an exploration team has proved that it's possible to drive from Russia to Canada. To achieve this feat, the team from Russia used mo...
New DNA evidence has suggested that the ancient Minoans may not have originated in Egypt at all. When Sir Arthur Evans discovered the Palace of Minos ...
Turns out, that old "practice makes perfect" adage may be overblown. New research finds that a copious amount of practice is not enough to explain why people differ in level of skill in two widely studied activities, chess and music.
Video games that pit players against human-looking characters may be more likely to provoke violent thoughts and words than games where monstrous creatures are the enemy, according to a new study.
Salamanders' immune systems are key to their remarkable ability to regrow limbs, and could also underpin their ability to regenerate spinal cords, brain tissue and even parts of their hearts, scientists have found. In new research, scientists have found that when immune cells known as macrophages were systemically removed, salamanders lost their ability […]
Future teams of subterranean search and rescue robots may owe their success to the lowly fire ant, a much-despised insect whose painful bites and extensive networks of underground tunnels are all-too-familiar to people living in the southern United States.
Conspiracy Articles
