Democide: US gov't killed 10K of us (video)

That time the U.S. government intentionally poisoned and killed over 10,000 U.S. citizens

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Wanderlust: surviving off the grid (video)

Pat Macpherson, Xochitl, Pfc. Sandoval, Wisdom Quarterly

American Nomads: Wanderlust (Gnostic Warrior/GnosticWarrior.com) BBC documentary about Americans in the Southwest who roam around living free from the bonds, dust, and chains of ordinary workaday life. (See the "Buddhist" at 4:45).

Les Stroud, the "Survivor Man," builds a life off the grid where his
family can be less dependent on city living (PrepareUK/facebook)

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Famine-by-Design in Somalia (video)

Wisdom Quarterly, Democracy Now!, Irish Times

(DemocracyNow!)

Extreme weather [drowning and burning] from Texas to Somalia indicates that a new era of climate war has been brought on. In June, massive floods shut down two US nuclear power facilities in Nebraska. In New Mexico, the nation's top nuclear weapons lab in Los Alamos is being threatened by uncontrolled wildfires.

Meanwhile, the United Nations warns that the Horn of Africa is facing its worst drought in 60 years, affecting more than 10 million in Somalia, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, and Uganda. Christian Parenti explains that global warming is leading to [planned] social and environmental catastrophe.

"The weather associated with climate change [climate chaos], extreme weather such as the drought, punctuated by flooding in East Africa, punctuated by flooding in East Africa, is adding to this. Climate change very often doesn't just look bad weather, it looks like ethnic violence or religious violence or banditry or civil war," reports Christian Parenti (author of The Tropic of Chaos).

UN Declares Famine in Somalia, Africa
Irishtimes.com, July 20, 2011

(Oli Scarff/Getty Images)

The United Nations today declared famine in two regions of southern Somalia and warned that this could spread further within two months in the war-ravaged Horn of Africa country unless donors step in.

"If we don't act now, famine will spread to all eight regions of southern Somalia within two months, due to poor harvests and infectious disease outbreaks," Mark Bowden, the humanitarian coordinator for Somalia, told a media briefing in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi.

"Every day of delay in assistance is literally a matter of life or death for children and their families in the famine-affected areas." Some 2.8 million Somalis live in the south.

Years of drought, that have also affected Kenya and Ethiopia, have hit harvests and conflict has made it extremely difficult for agencies to operate and access communities in the south of the country. More

Why is this Happening?
Wisdom Quarterly (ANALYSIS)

"Famine" is a very technical term. There has been hunger for a long time. But famine, like genocide, is rarely used to describe a situation until it rises to a level of severity that is beyond belief.

In fact, famine does not mean mass starvation or foodlessness. By believing this we think the condition is inevitable, hopeless, and a burden to rich countries. Famine means hoarding and as little as 20 percent starvation of the most vulnerable elements of a society.

Famine is not that far from reality in the US. Weather anomalies (brought on by HAARP, the Pentagon, and other movers and shakers). It begins with food scarcity -- even as it is imported in abundance. War, which is not accidental but planned in the Pentagon and launched by CIA infiltration and weapons smuggling, is also a crucial element. Without conflict, a famine is soon soothed.

As we mobilize humanitarian aid, let us not lose sight of why these things happen and what they mean. We are being made a vulnerable population by the destruction of our economy, our joblessness, mass displacement by drought and flooding, and being lied to by our government. We need not pray to the climate sky-gods when climate chaos is being plotted in board rooms.

If we plot state failure in Africa (Libya, Egypt, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Ethiopia), mass displacement, starvation, and violent conflict is completely predictable. It is being done by design. While it is carried out by government agencies and multinational corporations, it is not initiated by our overt government.

There is a covert force behind our government. If we refuse to recognize it or call it out, we can expect more "business as usual." Its plans are not limited to other countries, nor is it interested in protecting us.

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Using "Panic Attacks" for Meditation (video)

(AwareSilence) Clip from the DVD "Joy of Living: A Public Talk"

In this talk, based on his groundbreaking first book, The Joy of Living (Harmony Books), Tibetan Buddhist teacher Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche (Karma Kagyu lineage) invites us to join him in unlocking the secrets behind the practices of meditation.

Working with neuroscientists at the Waisman Laboratory for Brain Imaging and Behavior, he provides clear insights into modern research indicating that systematic training in meditation can enhance activity in areas of the brain associated with happiness and compassion.

Mingyur Rinpoche has also worked with physicists across the country to develop a fresh, scientifically-based interpretation of the Buddhist understanding of the nature of reality.

Mingyur Rinpoche weaves together the principles of Tibetan Buddhism, neuroscience, and quantum physics in a way that is changing the way we understand the human experience.

• mingyur.org

(DrQuickbeam) Mingyur Rinpoche's guided meditation

Armageddon Begins: America to Blame

Asian markets tank CNN

Hong Kong shares tumble on Friday AFP

The world blames America CNN


Fears grip investors as global equities routed
Natsuko Waki

LONDON (Reuters) - Europe joined Asia's panic selling in stocks on Friday, knocking the benchmark world equity index to a 5-year trough, while the low-yielding yen jumped as fears grew that efforts by policymakers are insufficient to contain the global financial crisis.

Equity trading in Russia, Iceland, Romania, Ukraine and Indonesia has been halted while nearly half of Milan stocks are suspended for excessive losses, just hours before finance chiefs from Group of Seven rich nations meet in Washington.

So far, measures from the United States, Britain and other countries to fight the worst financial crisis in 80 years -- even this week's coordinated interest rate cuts -- have failed to calm credit and money markets and quell investor fears. "The stark reality is that markets have judged the coordinated interest rates cut not to have been enough, and we are now left wondering how best to get ourselves out of this downward spiral," said Chris Hossain, senior sales manager at ODL Securities.

"One gets the feeling that this market is now strictly confined to the brave." MSCI world equity index fell more than 4 percent at one point to a five-year low, losing a fifth of its value this month alone. The index has lost 43 percent since January, on track for its worst yearly performance in 20 years.

RELENTLESS SELL-OFF
Japanese stocks fell nearly 10 percent for its biggest one-day percentage loss since 1987. Yamato Life Insurance, an unlisted midsized insurer, became the first Japanese financial institution to collapse. In Japan, investors dumped even domestic government bonds -- considered safer than most other assets -- as fears of counterparty defaults froze the key repurchase market, prompting dealers to sell bonds to secure cash.

"This is panic... There's nothing left for us to trust," said Takashi Ushio, head of investment strategy at Marusan Securities. "Investors are scurrying to convert to cash. A lack of confidence is coupling with panic." On Wall street, stocks tumbled for a seventh straight session on Thursday. In the European credit market, sentiment deteriorated sharply with spreads measured by the Crossover index hitting a fresh high of 720 basis points.

"The market is catching up with the grim reality that this isn't going to be a mild downturn. The mass leverage that people have built up over the past decade or more is catching up, and it's going to be a long and painful process," said James Hamilton, bank analyst at Numis.

Emerging stocks fell 4.2 percent to a fresh three-year low while emerging market spreads widened 10 basis points to trade 556 basis points over U.S. Treasuries.

U.S. crude oil fell 5 percent to a one-year low of $82 a barrel as fears rose over cooling demand for energy. The December bund future rose 50 ticks as investors rushed to buy safer government bonds, with yields in other euro zone countries such as Greece moving as much as 100 basis points above German counterparts -- considered most liquid.

The yen, which benefits from a surge in risk aversion, rose half a percent to 99.07 yen while sterling hit a five-year low of $1.6802 at one point. The dollar was little changed against a basket of major currencies.

(Additional reporting by Steve Slater and Rebekah Curtis)

World markets slide as gov'ts struggle to stem panic

PHOTOS. A Chinese investor at a stock price board at a private security firm in Shanghai on October 6. World stock markets have plummeted, striking four-year lows, as panic-stricken investors doubted whether a Wall Street bailout package would stem the global financial crisis (AFP/Mark Ralston).

TOKYO (AFP) -- World stock markets plunged again Tuesday as the global financial crisis deepened, with governments taking emergency measures to shore up confidence but failing to stem the panic.

Markets in Asia opened sharply down, with shares in Tokyo falling more than five percent at one point, a day after a global rout saw New York's Dow Jones Industrial Average fall below 10,000 points for the first time since 2004.

In Washington, Treasury officials said they would act quickly to implement a massive bailout plan for the financial sector, seeking bids by Wednesday to manage the troubled mortgage-related assets at the root of the crisis.

The Federal Reserve and Treasury said they were studying the possibility of making unsecured loans in an effort to keep much-needed credit flowing.

In Europe, finance ministers were to begin preparing their first joint measure Tuesday to reassure nervous savers by ramping up minimum bank deposit guarantees.

In a joint declaration Monday they pledged to protect the stability of financial institutions by providing "liquidity support through central banks, action to deal with individual banks or enhanced depositor protection schemes."

The Luxembourg meeting could produce the first joint European response to the financial crisis in the form of a plan to lift minimum bank deposit guarantees to as much as 100,000 euros (135,000 dollars).

"We will all take the necessary measures to ensure the stability of the financial system," said Jean-Claude Juncker, who heads the group of finance ministers from the 15 countries that share the euro.

Jean-Claude Trichet, president of the European Central Bank, said the ECB would keep injecting money into the banking system "as long as necessary" to help institutions hit by the current crisis.

The Federal Reserve meanwhile said it would start to pay interest on bank deposits and expand bank loans to up to 900 billion dollars by year-end in a bid to increase liquidity.

President George W. Bush visited a group of small business owners in Texas, saying he understood the difficulties being faced by the car dealer, auto shop repair owner and restaurateurs he had met.

"It's clear they're dealing with the effects of a credit crunch," Bush said. "They're having trouble getting money to be able to continue to expand their business or money to help their consumers be able to buy their products."

The turmoil emerged after the collapse of loans to would-be US homebuyers with shaky credit histories and caused a chaotic chain reaction, revealing how cheap credit throughout the financial system had created a massive bubble.

The US government approved a law Friday to buy up 700 billion dollars of bad mortgages and other assets from banks, which would wipe the debts from their books in hopes they will be able to start lending more freely again.

But approval of the massive bailout plan has failed to calm world markets, which have continued to tumble sharply. Economist Peter Morici at the University of Maryland said the bailout had not worked.

"The bank bailout will provide banks with much-needed liquidity but it does not address the compensation and management practices on Wall Street that drove irresponsible decisions and gave rise to the crisis," he said.

Shares in Tokyo were down 3.10% at the end of the morning session Tuesday, recovering some of the Nikkei's losses earlier in the session.

On Monday, Wall Street came back from the edge, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average closing down 3.58%, off 369 points after losing as much as 800 points.

The partial comeback offered a glimmer of hope on an otherwise horrific day for global markets that saw London's FTSE 100 index fall 7.86% and Paris's CAC 40 shed 9.04%.

Shares in Moscow fell 19.10%, the market's worst-ever tumble.

"When will the slide end? It's anybody's guess," said David Kastner at Charles Schwab & Co.

"But the aggressive actions being taken by the Fed, and increasingly by the central bankers in Europe and Asia, point to an eventual stabilization in confidence -- where the real crisis lies. In the meantime, we expect sharp bouts of bargain hunting and more panic sell-offs."

In Iceland, Prime Minister Geir Haarde said the government was ready to take control of the country's banks, citing "a gargantuan crisis which is part of a broader worldwide crisis."

After a weekend summit of the European Union's big four leaders in Paris, member states' leaders issued a joint statement on Monday vowing to defend banks while remaining divided on a US-style bailout fund.

The turbulence pushed the euro down against the dollar and yen, while oil prices fell below 90 dollars a barrel on fears about slowing demand for energy.