The Mumbai Tragedy and Unanswered Questions

There are now nearly 200 estimated Mumbai 'coordinated terror attack' deaths and many hundreds more injured. The event has raised tensions between two atomic powers: India and Pakistan. There are many reports that it has Al Quaeda earmarks. Pakistan itself was the victim of Al Quaeda attacks in recent history. Probably if there have been any winners in this whole sorry scenario, it has been the "Progressive Governance" cum "Global Governance" forces. It will also help sharpen the arsenal of the Alliance of Civilizations who will undoubtedly blame "religious fundamentalism" for the melee.

There were New Agers who died in Mumbai along with other westerners. Two, from the "Synchronicity Foundation" were from the metropolitan Detroit area. They had gone to India to receive training for their New Age ventures. They were among many people who had made pilgrimages to Mumbai (formerly known as 'Bombay), India to sharpen and deepen their respective 'meditation' practices. There were Hasidic Jews killed. There were "Synchronicity" meditators killed. Synchronicity Meditation is a New Age meditation cult employing the methods of "Swami Muktananda." Muktananda was also a primary inspiration for portions of Werner Erhard's work. (Erhard also heavily borrowed from Scientology and 'psycho-cybernetics' of plastic surgeon Matthew Maltz.)

At any rate, the Scriptures clearly prophesied that "perilous times were coming." Most clearly: they are here. Stay strong!


Constance

Does the Zimbawean Crisis = "The Elders" Opportunity?

I was just looking at the Yahoo slide show pictures of the Zimbabwean cholera epidemic amidst the health system breakdown. It was tugging at my heartstrings when I noticed:

1) The World Food Programme inputs (headed by Moonie Josette Sheeran, a political appointee to the UN position by the Bush Administration -- an obvious payoff to Rev. Moon for financial and other favors granted)

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2) THE ELDERS!!

I cannot now help but wonder if this is a "three-fer" (3 for the price of one):

1 Something to help the UN gain extra control
2. Something to advance the New Age agenda as embodied in "The Elders"
3. Something to cause additional global population reduction!

CRISIS = OPPORTUNITY

God help this crew if this was in any way a politically maneuvered crisis to give the global governance folk this great opportunity!

Happy Thanksgiving for the freedoms we have left!

Constance

Discovering Javier Solana: Thirteen years ago today -- November 22, 1995

Thirteen years ago, early Wednesday morning, November 22, 1995, I made my first on line acquaintance of Javier Solana. I had retired for the night, needing to be in Wayne County Circuit Court at 8:30 a.m. before an on-time judge. At 3 a.m. I suddenly awoke -- finding myself completely awake. I needed every second of sleep I could get. I'm not above a sleeping pill, if that's what it takes to sleep; however, I knew that if I took a sleeping pill at that hour of the morning, I would not be in shape to rise at 6:30 a.m. and drive safely to court and argue coherently on behalf of my client for that day. I tried my back up remedy of going to my husband's reclining chair with the most boring book I could find. Five to ten minutes of such reading would usually enable me to go back to bed with very heavy eyes and sleep soundly until morning. I read for an hour and found myself wider awake than ever. I finally thought that if I could not sleep and reading didn't help, I might as well go check my email. I literally stormed to the basement computers and logged on to the 1995 dial up America On Line (AOL) connection. Up popped breaking news about a huge Israel epicentered earthquake -- Eilat. The quake it was reported was 7.2 and had caused massive damage. Clicking for the main story, I saw a side headline:

"ISRAEL - EUROPEAN UNION ENTER INTO TREATY"

Of course that interested me -- particularly given the recent popularity of the "Left Behind" books. I linked to that story and would read that a man named Javier Solana had negotiated and signed on November 20, 1995 (only two days before the earthquake) acting under "a full power of attorney" from the European Union "and the 10 nation 'Western European Union' (a military federation)." Recalling the prophecy that someday some 10 kings would hand one man their power, I went to myself on seeing the name "Javier Solana," "WHO IS THIS GUY?"

When I started my research on the New Age Movement in 1981, I was to read that one of the New Age boasts was that one day they would have all books, etc. on Compact Disks that would be computer searchable and readable without having to read word for word to find what one was searching for. I quipped to husband, Barry, "Ha! That's one of their better ideas. I'll get the first collection -- that way I can keep up with them and clean house at the same time." I must confess that come 1995 I had a serious collection -- some of which included news archives. Grabbing one such disk, I read that Javier Solana had sent Spanish warships against Canada in what had been a near shooting war at sea only six months earlier, March 1995. While I was looking at that, AOL flashed up a new story at me -- this one about the upcoming Barcelona Conference -- "a political earthquake coming in the wake of the physical one." I was to read in the summary that there were three major items on the Barcelona agenda: "battle religious fundamentalism -- worldwide; favorable trading terms for the region leading to a Mediterranean Free Trade Zone by the year 2010; and get the USA out of the Mediterranean and/or greatly reduce their presence there.

I would further read in those unwanted wee waking hours that the USA had requested participant status and "had been granted observer status only" by Dr. Solana. Thanks to knowing how to use the internet with relative proficiency, I too had observer status -- the poor man's way -- pulling down available online documents, press releases, and press coverage.

That was thirteen years ago to this very day! The rest is history. Thirteen years to the day after Solana signed the Treaty with Israel, two days before I discovered him, he played a major, if not "the major" role in unveiling the "Managing Global Insecurity Plan of Action."

Interestingly, Solana was introduced at Thursday's event by Carlos Pascual who described Solana this way:

"And then Javier Solana, the European Union's High Representative for Common, Foreign and Security Policy. Javier is, I think a personal incarnation of the world's most effective institution of global governance, namely himself."

It's been a most fascinating 13 years. Stay tuned!

Constance.

TUNE IN TO MY PERSPECTIVE TONIGHT TO HEAR CARYL MATRISCIANA DISCUSS HER NEWEST BOOK AND WORK!

I am delighted to once again host gifted and talented documentary film producer, Caryl Matrisciana, on my internet radio program this evening.   You can view some of Caryl's important works on line at by clicking here.  We will be live at the following time and encourage chatroom participation as well as calling in live by dialing 888-747-1968.  Caryl will be telling us of her new book OUT OF INDIA.  Tune in and stay tuned!

Constance

Solana's November Presents - Vintage 2008?

Click on the picture to see it full page -- it is from the plan presented Thursday, Nov. 20th at the Brookings Institution event.

This just in from Javier Solana's website as posted by his spokeswoman, Cristina Gallach.

Javier SOLANA, European Union High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP), will visit the US from Wednesday, 19 November to Saturday, 22 November 2008 to meet US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and to take part in the event at the Brookings Institution "Managing Global Insecurity".

"Mr SOLANA will meet US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in Washington on Thursday afternoon. On Thursday morning, in Washington, " Mr Solana will take part in the launch of "A Plan for Action: A New Era of International Cooperation for a Changed World, Managing Global Insecurity" at theBrookings Institution. Mr SOLANA will meet UN Secretary-General BanKi-Moon in New York on Friday afternoon. Further details of the programme for the High Representative's visit will be published at http://www.europa.eu/solana..

The site will be updated on a daily basis."

Notice particularly that Javier Solana is participating "in the launch of 'A Plan for Action: A New Era of International Cooperation for a Changed World . . ."

Stay tuned!

Constance

SARAH LESLIE, OWNER OF THE HERESCOPE BLOGSPOT WILL HOST MY PERSPECTIVE RADIO TUESDAY NIGHT

I have a mandatory meeting out of the office Tuesday night from 7 to 9 pm which will make it difficult, if not impossible to personally do my themicroeffect show.  Sarah Leslie, owner of the popular and well read blogspot Herescope, and editor of Conscience Magazine has agreed to guest host the program for me tomorrow night.  She has been a popular, well-received guest in the past.  Sarah informs me she will probably do the program on an obscure but growing in popularity New Age subject of "Fractals."  I will be picking up the mp3 version on line later.  Sarah is very talented and it should be a greatly entertaining as well as educational program.

Stay tuned!

Constance

EU - WEU PRESIDENCIES THROUGH 2012

Recalling the New Age books, THE ARMAGEDDON SCRIPT by Peter LeMesurier and WORLD'S END 2009 by Peter Lorie, not to mention the old "Church Lady" (Dana Carvey) lines from Saturday Night Live, "Isn't that convenient?", I have watched with increasing consternation the Group of Twenty meeting with President Bush in Washington to reshape global economics. Spokesmen commented live on the news that now the world was really ready to enter the 21st Century where there would be "peace and prosperity for all." Javier Solana will be in Washington this Thursday, November 20, 2008, back at the Brookings Institution to discuss their Global Action Plan for Global Governance. Javier Solana has repeatedly said it was imperative it be in place by 2009. My educated guess is that all are counting on President Elect Barack Obama to help put it in place. I thought I would look at the WEU/EU presidencies to see which would be at the helm in the next three years. The very first dual coinciding presidency was Spain's in 1995 which went to Javier Solana just in time for him to launch the Barcelona Process. Spain has both again in 2010, the year Solana projected for the Mediterranean Free Trade Union and so many other global initiatives including the Alliance of Civilizations are also projected. I found this handy chart at the WEU site of the coinciding WEU/EU presidencies and thought you might find it useful.

Stay tuned!
Constance

LANSING CHURCH TERRORIZED BY NEW AGE/ANARCHIST/LGBTA ("LESBIAN/GAY/BISEXUAL/TRANSGENDER/ANARCHIST") OPERATION

This will be an expanding story as I attempt to get more information. I have sent an email invitation for a church representative to be with us on this evening's internet radio edition of My Perspective to be broadcast live at http://www.themicroeffect.com at 8 p.m. this evening.

Lansing is Michigan's state capital. I worked there in the late 1960s, early 1970s before becoming an attorney in 1975. Over the years a fair share of my law practice has taken me there. I still have many friends who have served in the Legislature.

Since I started tracking the New Age Movement in 1981, I read pronouncements that this was one way the New Age would be "ushered in." Churches have been destined for targeting. The attacks were by termites from within and wrecking balls from without. After the New Age Movement received unexpected and unwanted exposure in the early 1980s, marginalization and ridicule of those pointing to clear New Age pronouncements was the order of the day. Reading H. B. Blavatsky, Gina Cerminara (called for burning of the churches), Alice Ann Bailey, Barbara Marx Hubbard, Peter Russell, etc., it is clear we are regarded as "cancerous cells in the global brain." It is equally clear that nothing nice was projected for Christians for the so-called "New Age."

Sunday there was a rainbow motifed anarchist operation against a Lansing, Michigan church, Mt. Hope Church. The Church biblically condemns homosexuality but offers hope for salvation and redemption from that sin as well as all other sins. They ran head on into an interior infiltration and outward picketing, bashing, and religious service disruption. It was clearly organized and it appears to be but the opening day of a prolonged "Kristallnacht" action against conservative Christians and Jews.

Here is what an unrepentant "Gay community" press had to say about Sunday's events:

Bash Back! Raises Hell at Anti-Queer Mega-Church

Monday, November 10 2008 @ 03:40 PM CST
Contributed by: Anonymous
Views: 1,889
The Mount Hope Church is a deplorable, anti-queer mega-church in Lansing, Michigan. The church works to institutionalize transphobia and homophobia through several repulsive projects including organized "ex-gay" conferences and so-called "hell houses", which depict queers, trannies and womyn who seek abortions in hell. Mt. Hope is complicit in the repression of queers in Michigan and beyond.



Bash Back! ain't down with that. And so on Sunday November 9th, about thirty radical queers from Lansing, Chicago, Memphis and Milwaukee disrupted the church's most well-attended sermon.

At noon, a small group of folks dressed in pink and black, equipped with a megaphone, black flags, picket signs and an upside-down pink cross began demonstrating outside the church. The group was extremely loud and wildly offensive.

The demonstration drew a majority of Mount Hope's security staff outside to watch them.

Meanwhile, with the guards pre-occupied by the distraction, over a dozen queers had put on their Sunday-best and infiltrated the church's congregation. At the signal that the guards had been lured outside, the infiltrators sprung into action.

A group stood up, declared themselves fags, and began screaming loudly. Upon hearing the loud interruption, other affinity groups went into action. A team that had been hiding under the pews in the closed-off balcony dropped a banner and pulled back the curtains to reveal "IT'S OKAY TO BE GAY! BASH BACK!". Another group threw over a thousand fliers to the entirety of the congregation. The fire alarm was pulled. Queers began making out in front of the pastor. And within a matter of minutes, everyone had evaded the guards and made their escapes.

Bash Back! operatives, still hidden among the congregation observed a person screaming that Satan had come to Mount Hope, that the end was here, that the queers were everywhere. She then began speaking tongues. The dumbfounded pastor, after regaining his composure, went on to speak of the of decadent, depraved wolves that menace his flock of sheep.

Let it be known: So long as bigots kill us in the streets, this pack of wolves will continue to BASH BACK!

We are everywhere.
bashbacknews.wordpress.com

Googling "Bash Back!" I found more than 23,000 hits with this Wikipedia entry:

Bash Back! is a network of radical, anti-authoritarian queer projects within the United States. Bash Back! seeks to critique the ideology of mainstream GLBTQ movement, which the group sees as dedicated to obtaining straight privilege by assimilation into the dominant institutions of a heteronormative society. Bash Back! chapters employ direct action to confront capitalism and all interrelated forms of oppression, especially focusing on exposing the gay mainstream and the dangers of gay assimilationism and homonormativity. Bash Back! is noticeably influenced by the anarchist movement and other radical queer groups, such as ACT UP and Gay Shame. Many within the group also draw significant inspiration from events like the Stonewall Riots and the White Night Riots.^[1]

The national media has been remarkably quiet about this development. What does it mean? Last week my car was totaled by the actions of a young man attempting suicide by running and leaping directly before me. The next day a Lansing Church was under assault. This all sounds remarkably what Fr. Seraphim Rose, the Russian Orthodox priest sounding early alarms wrote of in his book, ORTHODOXY AND THE RELIGION OF THE FUTURE. Spirits of suicide and chaos are out and about!

The scriptures clearly warned us that perilous times were coming for Christians in the last days. It appears that they are now here.

Stay strong, stay tuned. I will be updating and refining this article, so refresh often!

Constance

I TOLD YOU SO DEPARTMENT - EU TO ADVANCE MILITARY CAPABILITIES

According to this article in the Middle East Times, Europe is beginning a very real and substantial military buildup.  Remembering Jacques Santer's old words as well as "John Boyd, Secretary" of the late 1990's, it may well be that the real purpose of this is to help dislodge the USA as a competing global superpower in the "coming 21st century struggle for control of scarce global resources.  Javier Solana is still very much in charge and my educated guess is that it will remain this way.  Looks like they are getting read to test the mettle of one who still naively believes in "our European Allies."  Both present and future administrations are well plagued by this apparent lack of global vision.

Constance

Executive Orders planned for incoming Obama presidency

A breaking news story on Yahoo! quotes Obama transition team members as saying the Obama administration will be making extensive use of Executive Orders in its first few months into the new presidency. While they can and sometimes are used for good, there is also potential for mischief. They should be viewed cautiously and carefully. Executive Orders do have the force of law.

Constance

"Men's hearts failing them for fear" -- brought home in a very real way

I am in shock as I write this. I just hung up from sharing my thoughts with Dorothy Margraf. A relatively young man attempted suicide by jumping in front of my car too late for me to stop. I was enroute first to a wedding reception and thereafter to a Mothers and Unborn Baby Care fundraiser. I had just stopped for a red light and then was proceeding in the far right lane when the man suddenly jumped immediately in front of my car. The passenger side windshield of my 1998 Toyota Corolla was shattered in concave fashion. Glass shards are over my car interior. I had slight cuts to the hand but fortunately because my own seat belt and harness were securely fashioned, my own side of the windshield was not affected. The man was attempting suicide, but only suffered a broken leg. The investigating detective who gave me a ride home and then later returned with office keys left in my vehicle informed me that it was a confirmed suicide attempt. The young man also had substance/drug abuse issues.

Pray for me. Pray for the young man. Obviously the Lord spared his life for a purpose. Immediately after the impact, I swerved my car so as not to run over the body of the young man. This may have saved his life.

What type of hopelessness and despair would lead one to attempt to take his life in such a gruesome fashion? The investigating officers told me they had seen many such suicide attempts recently. Fr. Seraphim Rose, the Russian Orthodox author of ORTHODOXY AND THE RELIGION OF THE FUTURE had written that mass suicide was one of the ways in which Satan would "enter naked" into the last days.

I have now seen it and been far too close to it personally for comfort. Pray for me. Pray for those afflicted with a spirit of suicide that could well take others with them as could have been the case tonight. Had I been traveling faster, had the traffic been much heavier, it could have been a chain collision tragedy.

Constance

Barack Obama's Youth Movement - Ominous Parallels?

There is much internet chatter these days about proposed compulsory service programs. Barack Obama proposes one plan with 50 compulsory hours as a condition of high school graduation. His to be Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel proposes a somewhat longer period for adults between 18 and 26 with boot camp, civil defense training, etc. While I do not think such things, IF VOLUNTARY (or even with college tuition reductions) are necessarily bad in and of themselves, there are historical precedents which reveal OMINOUS PARALLELS. I wrote of such in my 1983 released book, The Hidden Dangers of the Rainbow. Today, I found a lively discussion of same over at the RaptureReady website. Here is a telling quote which speaks of Hitler's planned youth programs. I did not find the Rapture Ready participant's source for this, but my own research over the years has shown this to be the case:

My program for educating youth is hard. Weakness must be hammered away. In my castles of the Teutonic Order a youth will grow up before which the world will tremble. I want a brutal, domineering, fearless, cruel youth. Youth must be all that. It must bear pain. There must be nothing weak and gentle about it. The free, splendid beast of prey must once again flash from its eyes . . . That is how I will eradicate thousands of years of human domestication . . . That is how I will create the New Order." -- Adolf Hitler, 1933.

Before the Nazi Party was founded, a strong youth movement already existed in Germany. It began in the 1890s and was known as the Wandervögel, a male-only movement featuring a back-to-nature theme. Wandervögel members had an idealistic, romantic notion of the past, yearning for simpler days when people lived off the land. They rejected the modern, big city era and took a dim view of its predecessor, the industrial revolution, which had been started by their fathers and grandfathers. They scorned greed and materialism, and the new emerging corporate mentality. They found strict German schooling oppressive and rejected parental authority. They saw hypocrisy in politics and the social class system of Kaiser Wilhelm's Germany, which was based entirely on birth and accumulated wealth. Instead, they longed for a Jugendkultur, a culture of youth led by youth, in which they would be truly valued. They wanted something greater to believe in than the values of their parents. Wandervögel members distinguished themselves by wearing shorts and hiking boots rather than the starched shirts and creased trousers of the middle class. They delighted in rediscovering nature without any modern conveniences, traveling on hikes and sleeping out under the stars. They sang old German folk songs around the campfire and also developed a custom of greeting each other by saying "Heil." The Catholic Youth Organization, the Boy Scouts, along with a variety of political, religious, para-military, and sports groups
sprang up, organized so that youth was indeed led by youth, with the leader being just a few years older than the boys he led." http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar...beginnings.htm

This is like the beginning of the Nazi's!!!

1) Target the children!

2) Convince the children and the parents, this is for za Fazerland! (phonetic)

3) Forced labor children resent children that aren’t forced or unable to participate

4) Children, full of resentment, start to see disabled children as a useless burden to society. "Why should I do this work, and they don’t have to?"

The slaughter of human beings in Germany, did not begin in the camps, but in what they called then "asylums". Where the neat tidy German people, put others that were disabled in any way or form. The Nazi's began their testing of the most efficient way to kill people, in these asylums. They killed them. When family members showed up to visit, and their loved ones were gone, they would explain that they had "eased their loved ones of their suffering", and eased them of "their burden". Little Nazi’s grow into big Nazi’s….

The Nazi horror is a lesson that must never be forgotten. Too many of our young people know little or nothing about that era.

Stay tuned.

Constance

Obama and EU's Solana -- hand in hand through the New Age?

Yesterday I posted Javier Solana's effusive congratulatory congratulations to Javier Solana. The message enumerated some of the projects Solana hopefully planned to work with the USA's new presidential elect: Barack Obama. "The Projects"? Middle East, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, climate change, non-proliferation . . ."

According to an article appearing today in EUOBERVER.COM, "[T]he Obama administration will play a big role in 'reinventing the international system, especially on the financial side, in strong partnership with the EU.'"

The speaker was David J. Rothkopf, a former trade official for the Clinton administration and claimed "expert on foreign affairs and emerging markets." The sponsor of the event was a long time internationalist operation known commonly as the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace."

The speech sounded so very much like Javier Solana's suggestions to the Brookings Institution in his Washington, D.C. "Managing Global Insecurity" speech of March 21, 2007.

It's all getting so very cozy out there. If Richard Lugar and Senator Charles Hagel are put up front, I expect even tighter relations with Javier Solana and the Obama administration. I also bear in mind that Joe Biden was quoted in the past as saying he wished he could vote for Javier Solana for President.

Maybe he did!

Constance

SOLANA CONGRATULATORY MESSAGE TO OBAMA

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For what it is worth, and I suspect PLENTY, this is Javier Solana's congratulatory message to the only person I know who came as suddenly on the scene out of nowhere as did Javier Solana. You can read it in the original by clicking here and there is also a video link at Solana's website:

"Javier SOLANA, EU High Representative for the CFSP, congratulates Barack Obama on his election as President of the United States of America

Javier SOLANA, EU High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP), made the following statement today following the Presidential elections in the United States of America :

"I want to congratulate Barack Obama on his impressive election victory. Elections are about political renewal. The campaign has been exciting and uplifting and the turnout impressive. The sense of renewal also applies to the transatlantic relations. Europeans and Americans are keen to open a new chapter in their relations.

"President-elect Obama ran on a ticket of change. This is most welcome since many things in the world today need changing. Let us do that together.

"Europe is willing and able to help. There is a high number of very complex global problems: from the Middle-East to Iran and Afghanistan and Pakistan, from climate change to nonproliferation.

"We need to address those problems together with determination and creativity. President-elect Obama personifies what is good and impressive about America. He also personifies today's complex and globalized world where change is a constant. As we grapple with these problems, it is good to have someone who put change, empathy and good judgement at the heart of his campaign.

"I am looking forward to working with President Obama and his administration."

If Javier Solana is who I suspect he might be and we are at the point in prophecy I further suspect we are, I would well expect those two would be working together -- closely!

May the Lord help us all!

Constance

WILL.I.AM VIA HOLOGRAM -- BARACK OBAMA IS PRESIDENT-ELECT

I am nearly speechless. It was one thing to report about New Age boasts that they would employ holographic technology to project images. It is quite another to view it via television in action as I just witnessed on CNN tonight. Anderson Cooper promised there would be "many more"!

As I write this, Barack Obama was just projected President-Elect of the USA. I heard one of the commentators proclaim him not just "president-elect" but a "Planetary Leader."

Do I believe Barack Obama to be the antichrist? No. He does not fit the prophetic specification of "a vile person shall arise to whom they SHALL NOT GIVE THE HONOR OF THE KINGDOM." Clearly Barack Obama has been given the honor of the Kingdom. The prophecy clearly refers to another. But is it possible that Barack Obama could help usher in whoever the actual antichrist is. The Jews were biblically instructed to pray for the peace of Jerusalem. Likewise, we should pray for the peace of our country.

May the Lord help us all through these obviously perilous times.
Stay tuned!

CONSTANCE

CRITICAL STORY RE ATTEMPT TO END INTERNET FREEDOM ON OLDTHINKERNEWS.COM

THIS IS CRITICAL -- AND DISTURBING

Saturday, November 01, 2008


EU Set to Move 'Internet of Things' Closer to Reality
An Orwellian future in store for the internet

Old-Thinker News | October 31, 2008
Reprinted from Old Thinker News


By Daniel Taylor

If the world-wide trend continues, 'Web 3.0' will be tightly monitored, and will become an unprecedented tool for surveillance. The "Internet of Things", a digital representation of real world objects and people tagged with RFID chips, and increased censorship are two main themes for the future of the web.

The future of the internet, according to author and "web critic" Andrew Keen, will be monitored by "gatekeepers" to verify the accuracy of information posted on the web. The "Outlook 2009" report from the November-December issue of The Futurist reports that,

"Internet entrepreneur Andrew Keen believes that the anonymity of today's internet 2.0 will give way to a more open internet 3.0 in which third party gatekeepers monitor the information posted on Web sites to verify its accuracy."

Keen stated during his early 2008 interview with The Futurist that the internet, in its current form, has undermined mainline media and empowered untrustworthy "amateurs", two trends that he wants reversed. "Rather than the empowerment of the amateur, Web 3.0 will show the resurgence of the professional," states Keen.

Australia has now joined China in implementing mandatory internet censorship, furthering the trend towards a locked down and monitored web.

The Internet of Things

Now, the European Union has announced that it will pursue the main component of Web 3.0, the Internet of Things (IoT).

According to Viviane Reding, Commissioner for Information Society and Media for the EU, "The Internet of the future will radically change our society." Ultimately, the EU is aiming to "lead the way" in the transformation to Web 3.0.

Reporting on the European Union's pursuit of the IoT, IBLS reports,

"New technology applications will need ubiquitous Internet coverage. The Internet of Things means that wireless interaction between machines, vehicles, appliances, sensors and many other devices will take place using the Internet. It already makes electronic travel cards possible, and will allow mobile devices to exchange information to pay for things or get information from billboards."

The Internet of Things consists of objects that are 'tagged' with Radio Frequency Identification Chips (RFID) that communicate their position, history, and other information to an RFID reader or wireless network. Most, if not all major computer companies and technology developers (HP, Cisco, Intel, Microsoft, etc.) are putting large amounts of time and money into the Internet of Things.

Cisco and Sun Microsystems have founded an alliance to promote the Internet of Things and further its implementation.

South Korea is at the forefront in implementing ubiquitous technology and the Internet of Things. An entire city, New Songdo, is being built in South Korea that fully utilizes the technology. Ubiquitous computing proponents in the United States admit that while a large portion of the technology is being developed in the U.S., it is being tested in South Korea where there are less traditional, ethical and social blockades to prevent its acceptance and use. As the New York Times reports,

"Much of this technology was developed in U.S. research labs, but there are fewer social and regulatory obstacles to implementing them in Korea," said Mr. Townsend [a research director at the Institute for the Future in Palo Alto, California], who consulted on Seoul's own U-city plan, known as Digital Media City. 'There is an historical expectation of less privacy. Korea is willing to put off the hard questions to take the early lead and set standards.'"

An April 2008 report from the National Intelligence Council discussed the Internet of Things and its possible implications.


A timeline shown in the April 2008 NIC report

The report outlines uses for the technology:

"Sensor networks need not be connected to the Internet and indeed often reside in remote sites, vehicles, and buildings having no Internet connection. Smart dust is a term that some have used to express a vision of tiny, wireless-connected sensors; more recently, others use the term to describe any of several technologies that range from the size of a pack of gum to a pack of cigarettes, and that are widely available to system developers.

Ubiquitous positioning describes technologies for locating objects that may reside anywhere, including indoors and underground locations where satellite signals may be unavailable or otherwise inadequate.

Biometrics enables technology to recognize people and other living things, rather than inanimate objects. Connected everyday objects could recognize authorized users by means of fingerprint, voiceprint, iris scan, or other biometric technology."

These trends towards internet censorship and the internet of things are undoubtedly going to continue, but restricting your free speech and violating your privacy will be harder with your outspoken resistance.

Watch Ubiquitous Computing: Big Brother's All-Seeing Eye, a video report from Old-Thinker News regarding the Internet of Things.

The original story by Mr. Taylor has links. I suggest you go there and view them. Things are moving very fast now! 

Constance

"THE ELDERS" -- SELF-ANOINTED COUNCIL OF TWELVE?

EUROPE IS GROWING -- SIMILAR ITEM ON TABLE FOR ISRAEL:  "ADVANCED STATUS"

"Rudi" (Ruth Pappas) a frequent contributor to the discussion forum on this blogspot has frequently with deep concern mentioned "The Elders."  I am still endeavoring to finish that Part VI of "The Hi Jacking" of Evangelicalism and discover the layers are getting deeper and deeper with Frank Buchman appearing to have nourished Theosophical roots in India as early as 1905.  Faith at Work was started by Buchman's disciple, Sam Shoemaker who then worked with Abram Vereide to establish "International Christian Leadership."  Core group member, Paul N. Temple, hooked up with Vereide in 1944, immediately upon graduation from Harvard Law School, it appears and went on to later co-found the Institute of Noetic Sciences.  It is certainly deeper and even more intertwined than I suspected, making it more difficult to finish as succinctly as I would have liked.  In the mean time, I found this fascinating piece about "The Elders" and thought in view of Ruth's frequent citings of this particular New Age thrust, might be helpful background for all of us.  If Ruth has already put it in the comments section and I have missed it, I apologize.  It appears that Frank Buchman's legacy is Caux, Switzerland based Initiatives of Change and MRA (Moral Rearmament) and further that both are linked heavily to even Lucis Trust itself.

I was led down this particular rabbit hole looking at MRA and seeing Scilla Elworthy's name on a conference participated in by both "Initiatives of Change" and Javier Solana.  Even more interesting:  I found an article by Scilla Elworthy opening by quoting Javier Solana in a Gaian education publication which, if you hurry fast before they bury it, you can still read on line.  It is on page 166 of that cumbersome document.  (In case they bury it, I have already archived it, so in any event, you should still be able to read it!)  Interestingly enough, she spelled his name "Xavier Solana" in that article -- is that their new trick to slow down our searches or is that how Scilla likes to spell things?

Stay tuned!

Constance

While we are occupied with elections, ominous signs elsewhere

Herb Peters (1947-2007), founder of Fulfilledprophecy.com kept a close prophetic eye on the unfulfilled prophecy "Damascus shall be a heap." There are ominous signs out there of growing tensions between Syria and the USA. The USA bombed Syrian villages this past weekend and predictably Syrians are very angry about it. The news today is that Syria closed two USA institutions yesterday. At the left is a clip that you may read full page by clicking on the pictured news story about the mounting Syrian anger. Somebody is figuratively (if not literally) playing with matches somewhere and let's pray that the fireburns are kept to a bare minimum! Javier Solana was in Syria last week meeting with its president, and I rather suspect Europe is smelling like roses and the USA somewhat akin to a skunk in Syria this week, given the loss of life and property in the bombed villages. The villages bombed, I understand, were close to the Iraqi border and it is my present understanding that suspected Al Quaeda activists were the targets.

Stay close to God as your only refuge and stay tuned!

Constance

Errors in Sorry You Missed the Rapture Youtube and God Tube

There are some detracting errors in the "Sorry You Missed the Rapture" Youtube and Godtube video presentations. As the message is imporant, the facts need to be "spot-on" to maintain credibility. These are the errors:

1. Section 666 creating Solana's CFSP and Secretary General of the Council of the European Union (Council of Ministers) was a EUROPEAN UNION "Europa" document -- not a Western European Union one.

2. Recommendation 666 was drafted by Solana (or his staff at his direction) but it did not become law for Europe itself until the Nice, France Council of December 2000.

The message is important and the 7 year Treaty which could well be the prophesied one is well in place since January 1, 2007 and is up for midterm review in mid 2010. The message should not be easily disregarded.

Constance

Syria charges USA bombs Syrian village

While we in the USA are occupied with 24/7 news of our soon coming Presidential elections, the rest of the world is not standing still. Very GRAVE news out of the Middle East today. Syria is protesting alleged USA bombing within its territory. Javier Solana spent extensive time within the past week with Syria's president -- it will not harm his global leadership aspirations, in my opinion.

I will update as I learn more. You can read the press account by clicking here. Stay tuned!

My new internet radio time will hopefully be easier for many of you. It will be Tuesdays at 8 p.m. Eastern time, 5 p.m. Pacific time at www.themicroeffect.com. I am going to prevail upon Dorothy Margraf to guest host for me this coming Thursday as I am schedule to be at a wedding and reception at that time. As it will be the last program before the election and she has stronger feelings and documentation than yours truly, it should be lively, should she accept.

Constance

Pastor Jeff Whittaker will be my radio guest at 5 p.m. Eastern, 2 p.m. Pacific Today

I received a lovely and encouraging telephone call from Pastor Jeff Whittaker a few minutes ago. I have been in court today and was still praying about my program today when he called. I had a very well received radio program with him several weeks ago about "The Emergent Church" and made him promise he would come back then. Since he called today, I drafted him for today's show, which will be the last Friday program for awhile. Joe McNeil has graciously granted my request for a later program which will catch the evening winter crowds -- at 5 p.m. Pacific time and 8 p.m. Eastern time TUESDAY AND FRIDAY. The new schedule will start next Tuesday.

Please tune in at www.themicroeffect.com and stay tuned!

Constance

BRILLIANT YOUTUBE VIDEO ON OPRAH WINFREY'S THEOLOGY

Just found another very worthy video warning about the Hidden Dangers of the Oprah Winfrey theology and her militant campaigning against and adulterating of orthodox Christianity. Please watch this and encourage the producer.

Thanks!

Constance

P.S. My Perspective will air Friday night at 5 p.m. Eastern Time. But, I have persuaded Joe McNeil of the MicroEffect.com to give me what I believe will be a far better time slot where more can listen (it might be harder, however, for Farmer) for 8 p.m. Eastern time, 5 p.m. Pacific time, TUESDAY and THURSDAY -- that will start, God willing, next Tuesday. Tune into www.themicroeffect.com and STAY TUNED!

TRY AGAIN - DR. JEROME CORSI WILL BE MY RADIO GUEST TUESDAY AFTERNOON

As my regular listeners know, Dr. Jerome Corsi was scheduled to be my radio guest last Friday, only to discover after he had personally scheduled it with John W. Spring (who was booking him for me) that he was double booked. His scheduling is usually handled through his publicist, Tim Bueler who has assured me Dr. Corsi will be joining us tomorrow afternoon to discuss his book OBAMANATION and the Kenya trip. Obama opponents and proponents are cordially invited to join us!

Constance

GUEST STORY BY DETROIT REPORTER RON SEIGEL -- THE COLLIDER PROJECT FOLLIES

BREAKING NEWS - BREAKING NEWS - BREAKING NEWS: READ WEU RECOMMENDATION 816-- THIS SHOULD RESOLVE ANY AND ALL DOUBTS ABOUT WHERE JAVIER SOLANA IS HEADED AND THE IMMENSE MILITARY MACHINE HE IS BUILDING!

To my readers: Ron Seigel is a Detroit reporter whose articles from time to time have been featured in many national publications. He expressed his deep misgivings about the Collider Project with me and I invited him to do a guest editorial for my blog. We are privileged to have his contribution.

The Collider Project as a new "Tower of Babel": Is Our Government Gambling With Our Lives?
By: Ron Seigel

The most immediate danger to our environment and the greatest threat to our national security might possibly be something that is receiving little attention and something most people know nothing about. At the present time our government is using our tax dollars to help fund an international scientific project which might threaten our safety and the safety of people across the world.

The project does not involve our national defense. It seems to involve nothing more than the satisfaction of scientific curiosity and perhaps the exhilaration of playing God.

The project involves an attempt to replicate the "Big Bang," which according to some scientific theories was the way our entire universe came to be. William Akbar of the Citizens Against Corrupted Politicians and I did research into this matter and discovered this is supposed to be accomplished by a $9 billion international project to build a special machine called the Long Hadron Collider (LLC). The Reuters news service was quoted on the internet as saying this miniature duplication of the Big Bang can "unlock secrets about the universe and its origins" and it might, if we live long enough afterwards.

However, according to some scientists, such a process may create black holes that could conceivably swallow up the whole earth. One of the main scientists involved in the project was quoted as saying, "We have been shown to meet all safety standards."

Without questioning the personal honesty and good intentions of anyone in this projects, one has to wonder if there may be some psychological denial there or at least an all too human hubris in brilliant people that makes them unable to admit the limits of their knowledge.

Since the Big Bang, if it ever occurred, took place long before this planet or anyone on it ever existed, it is hard to see what human standards can be developed to assure we are safe when it is being reduplicated.

One internet writer, Lila M, noted even if this were true about the immediate effects (which seem to me far from a certainty) “The answer does not signify a solid answer as to whether we are going to be safe or not from what might happen months or years after this collider button is pressed.”

Medicines often have side effects that don’t show up for years. It has been written that scientists involved in creating the atomic bomb did not understand the lingering effects of radioactive fallout. William Akbar declared, “We know of many government experiments, which were callous about people’s safety. Nobody knew about them till years later. How many experiments have been conducted which were never disclosed? In what ways have people been affected by them? If the government conducts the Big Bang experiment (and if we survive it) will the general public know about the side effects or will we have to wait 20 years to find out?”

It seems safe to say that those conducting the experiment are dealing with forced they know nothing about.. This experiment is equivalent to a group of babies satisfying their curiosity by planning with matches. Indeed it is equivalent to a group of babies playing with hydrogen bombs. This experiment is a gamble with our lives and the lives of everyone on this planet.

Even if there were a remote chance of having the earth swallowed up by a black hole, I for one, would find the risks too great. I must add that as an occasional lottery player, I never once gambled with other people’s tax money and certainly never gambled with other people’s lives. This experiment is nothing less than reckless endangerment.

The only winnings in this gamble with the the collider seem to be satisfaction of curiosity. Without personally criticizing the character of the scientists involved, one might suggest that they ask themselves whether they are unconsciously influenced bya desire for personal glory and the enhancement of their egos.

The Bible said that “Pride goeth before destruction,” and this might be the destruction of us all. Cannot the nations of the world find something better to spend nine billion dollars on?

In looking at this project, one is reminded of the Biblical story of the Tower of Babel. According to Genesis, the descendants of Noah tried to build a tower all the way up to Heaven, but God quashed their project, saying, “This is the beginning of what they will do. Hereafter they will not be restrained from anything they are determined to do.” Did this indicate a recognition that His children might get into areas that were too much for them to handle?

Jewish scholars commenting on the Bible suggested the problem was not building the tower, but the spirit in which it was built, and discussed this in very modern terms that we can recognize in our technological society.

“When a brick slipped [from the construction site slowing down production], people wept,” a commentary noted, “but when a man fell and died no one paid attention.” One does not have to be religious to see the danger in this spirit. A secular psychologist named Alice Miller described how parents become obsessed with driving children to achievement so they will reflect well on them. She might have written about the pressures of our materialistic and hostile modern culture, where people in general are not cherished for their own sake, but for what they accomplish or possesess and arelabeled either as a “success” or a “loser.”

With such pressures, Dr. Miller noted that many talented and successful people grow up feeling with some emptiness, that “Without these superior qualities, a person is completely worthless and can never be loved.”

Perhaps those involved in the experiment may want to consider whether this might have made them insensitive about the risks to human lives, including their own.

Ironically, if the collider gamble goes badly, all human achievements may disappear in one fell swoop: all scientific accomplishments, all ideas, all love and friendships and even moments of warmth, all poetry and plays and literature. Those who do not believe in something beyond our material sphere, will have to concede that there will be nothing left of all we did and all we thought, which can well be a greater reason for despair and an even greater motivation to end this dangerous gamble.

It does seem time for us to get the public officials who are supposed to represent us to call the bet off.. In this urgent situation, I urge people to write or call or e-mail some or all of these officials and tell them to stop all U.S. government funding for the project and to use the power of the U.S. government to stop other countries from doing it.

(1) President George Bush, The White House, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, D.C. 20500 (202) 456-1111, E-mail: comments@whitehouse..gov
(2) Senator Barack Obama, 713 Hart Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C. 20510
(202 224-4854. The E-mail for all Senators can be sent by seeking an on-line form at www.senate.gov. Once you’re on it, write search box and put the senator’s last name and click gov.
(3) Senator John McCain, 241 Russell Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C. 20510 (202) 224-2235.
(4) Senator Joseph Biden, 201 Russell Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C. 20510 (202) 224-5042.
(5) Governor Sarah Palin, P.O. Box 1101 Juneau, Alaska 99811 (907) 465-3500
E-mail: google stateofalaska homepage . Click on governor, then e-mail governor.
(6) Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, 235 Cannon HOB, Washington, D.C 20515 (202) 225-4965 E-Mail: ss.nancy@mail.house.
(7) Senator Henry Reid, Senate Majority Leader, 528 Hart Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C. 20520 (202) 224-3542. See senate e-mail under item 1.
(8) Senator Mitch McConnell, Senate Minority Leader, 361 Russell Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C. 20510 (202) 224-2541. See senate e-mail under item 1.
You may also want to write, phone or e-mail your own Senator or Congressional Representative. I also urge you to write letters on this issue to different newspapers and magazines, T.V. and Radio stations asking that this issue be covered.
As an old song on gambling noted, “You’ve got to know when to hold up –Know when to fold up, -- Know when to walk away, -- Know when to run.” My view is it’s time to run from this project. Fast!

WAR ON BELIEVERS IN GENERAL AND CHRISTIANS IN PARTICULAR

I'm sitting in Border's Books with my notebook computer and looking at a very terrible book called TERRIBLE LOVE OF WAR by James Hillman. Hillman is one of the Jungian psychologists who have recommended in the past the acting out of religious archetypes a la THE ARMAGEDDON SCRIPT of Peter LeMesurier for the purpose of convincing everybody that it's all overand now we can get on with "The New Age" and their New Age "messiah." On sale is the trade paperback edition. I am somewhat encouraged because it is on the remainder shelf at Border's, meaning it must not have done that well. HOWEVER, Hillman is influential among the psychological and New Age communities and so needs to be watched. This book was worse than most.

Chapter 4, "Religion is War" contains his thesis that Christian religion is deadly and the only way to wean folks from it is to force worship of other deities is one of the most audacious statements I have yet to read which is fostering the culture clearly prophesied in Daniel and Revelation. Of course, beliefs in these very events LeMesurier and Hillman are clearly working -- consciously or otherwise -- to fulfill -- is itself defined as mental illness.

If you can find it on a remainder table, as I did for $3.99, pick it up and read it. I hate for him to get full royalties for this abominable act of incitement!

Stay tuned!

CONSTANCE

DR. JEROME CORSI WILL BE MY GUEST FIRST HALF HOUR OF MY PERSPECTIVE 5:00 EASTERN TIME, 2 P.M. PACIFIC TIME

Update: John W. Spring called me urging me to contact Eric Buehler, Jerome Corsi's scheduler. I had a frantic day taking care of other business and emergencies for clients. Half an hour before I was scheduled to go on, I returned John Spring's call and asked if he would see if Dr. Corsi was available. If so, I would put him on. John called back and said he had spoken to Jerome Corsi personally and he could come on the first half hour. Thereafter, I hastily posted the banner. Usually Joe McNeill calls me and the guest and lets me know that all are connected and we are ready to go. One of Joe's wonderful children called and I gave them the guest's number. John W. Spring was frantically trying to reach me on the other line as I thought I was introducing my guest. When I heard nothing in response to the introduction, I suspected John W. Spring was trying to reach me for an emergency. I asked Joe via chatroom window to play some music and let me reach John Spring. John gave me the information that Eric had previously scheduled another interview for the same time frame, which Dr. Corsi had evidently forgotten until reminded. This frequently happened to me when I was scheduled by others in the past, so I understand! Dr. Corsi, I understand will be available for one of my programs next week. Sorry for the confusion.

Please, stay tuned!

Speaking of the Year 2010 and Evangelical Hi-Jacking -- CHECK THIS!!!

"Unify,Energize,Focus" -- an er, uh "global event" "Evangelical doing for the year 2010? Lausanne and the World Evangelical Alliance harmonically converge. WEA was, as I recall, headed by Abraham Vereide ally and friend, Norman Grubb. Norman Grubb's main group of online followers have a websitei called "Christasus." Check their Jacob Boehme and William Law "links" for direct leads into the very bowels of the Theosophical Society itself! The usual buzzwords are sure there -- sure it wasn't intentional, just as they claimed for so many years that the New Agers were not consciously or politically networked when all the time they were working busily with Paul N. Temple and Rev. Moon who were doing just exactly that -- and in leadership roles at that!

Well, 2010 is shaping up to be quite a year. Hold onto your seatbelts as we ride through these prophesied events which New Ager Shirley Maclaine gleefully calls "Karmageddon." I pray that God will give those innocently or out of their best motives caught up in this apparent apostasy called "revival" strength and discernment.

I wonder what Paul N. Temple and Doug Coe might be doing for that event? Paul Temple frequently preaches the Alice Bailey gospel that in the New Age the only sin is the sin of separation . . .

This also looks remarkably like all the other "Emergence" ministries -- not to mention global mega events that Rick Warren might bless.

Stay tuned and continue doing your own research and sharing on line. I have invited Dorothy Margraf to take my internet radio program tomorrow as I will be unavailable to do it live. Dorothy will most likely be calling on one of the regulars (Rudi?, Young Grasshopper?, Dawn?) to assist with the hour.

Comments please and STAY TUNED!

Who's helping to finance global governance?

Try "googling" "global governance." Probably your first hit (remember how google prioritizes) will be a website called "glogov.org." The following list was culled by clicking their link for "funders." I could not help but notice how many German organizations were on the list, together with a few EU ones. Hmmmmm! Love to hear Farmer comment on what he knows about some of these.

Stay tuned!

Constance

• Dresdner Bank
  Indo-German Forum(2002)
• European Commission - 6th Framework Programme - ADAM (work package p3a)
• Federal Ministry for Education and Research, Germany
  Berlin Conference (2002)
• Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, Germany
  2001 Berlin Conference (2001); trade study MOSAIC group with German Institute for Economic Research (2002)
• German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
  Carlo Schmid Scholarship for Robert Marschinski (2004)
• German Federal Environment Foundation
  PhD Scholarship Philipp Pattberg (June 2002 - September 2004)
• German Political Science Association (DVPW)
  2001 Berlin Conference (2001)
• German Research Foundation (DFG)
  various travel grants
• Hans Böckler Foundation
  PhD Scholarship Uta Schuchmann
• Heinrich Böll Foundation
  2001 Berlin Conference (2001); Indo-German Forum (2002); PhD Scholarship Kirsten Selbmann
• Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (KfW)
  Indo-German Forum (2002)
• La Caixa Foundation and German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
  PhD Scholarship Mireia Tarradell
• NWO (Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research)
  MecGlo-group Shifts in Governance project on public-private partnerships
• Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes
  PhD Scholarship Klaus Dingwerth
  PhD Scholarship Kirsten Selbmann
• Volkswagen Foundation
  core grant, MANUS research group

Funders

BREAKING NEWS - EUROPLEAN LEADERS SEEK ONE STRONG VOICE TO COUNTER FINANCIAL CRISIS!

Here is a partial excerpt from the Bloomberg news story. You can read the rest by clicking here:

European Leaders Seek `One Voice' to Counter Crisis (Update2)
By Simon Kennedy and Sandrine Rastello
Oct. 12 (Bloomberg) -- European leaders met to forge a new set of measures to combat the credit freeze after their failure to act a week ago contributed to the worst sell-off in the region's stocks in two decades.
``I want Europe to speak with one voice for Europe and for the world because this is a global crisis,'' French President Nicolas Sarkozy told reporters as he greeted European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso at the Elysee Palace in Paris. Sarkozy said he's seeking ``an ambitious, coordinated plan.'' http://tinyurl.com/49f5co

REAL STORY BEHIND COLLAPSE: HIGH LEVEL "SWAPS AND DERIVATIVES" GAMBLING -- ICELAND SUFFERS TOTAL FINANCIAL COLLAPSE!

The financial picture is much murkier and dangerous than mere bad mortgages, bad as they were. High stakes "swaps" and derivatives were popular gambling forms in trillion dollar unregulated "gold rush." I learned of this ungodly market years ago -- in fact, that's what forced me to learn Excel -- to keep up with a disbarred attorney who applied for work for me under federal parole supervision. Tim Mucciante was a high flying attorney who had impeccable table manners, handled himself with elegance and defrauded sophisticated New Yorkers out of millions. While he was still in prison, at the referral of Jewel VanderMerwe, I handled a small legal matter for him. Later he made telephone contact with my office manager and sold himself for employment to her as a penitent with legal skills. She told me he was willing to work for $14 per hour and begged me to hire him to keep up with my then very large caseload. I was startled to find evidence that he was structuring deals with debt swaps with clients I was counseling for possible bankruptcy relief. He left my office, going to the office of another attorney he convinced he could enrich. I was convinced then that this was a scheme that could bankrupt companies and even nations. It appears I was right.

The last I read of Mr. Mucciante, he was in prison in Utah for another defrauding crime connected with swaps.

I became familiar with the literature and theories of the swap industry and was dismayed but not surprised to learn this was the real factor behind the collapse. Naturally, that unregulated industry comprised of some of the greediest folk on the face of this earth would like to see all the blame go to the bad mortgages where clearly SOME of the blame goes, but it is a much bigger issue.

I will have much more to say about this later, but the 60 minute series which is linked under the headline above will give you an excellent introduction. It was speculation in derivatives that brought much of England's economy to its knees years ago. George Soros has made much of his fortune in the swaps and derivatives market, although I understand he has testified recently to Congress that this is what may have caused the collapse.

Stay tuned!

Constance