text:
No Exits on this Super-Highway!
Zahir Ebrahim
September 30, 2008 | Revised October 01, 2008
Addendum Why Bluff Martial Law? October 03, 2008 | Footnotes December 04, 2008
© Project HumanbeingsfirstTM. Permission granted to use freely as per copyright notice.
Document ID: PHBFZE20080930 URL: http://humanbeingsfirst.org. | Print | PDF | Comment.
As the grotesque raping and disillusionment of America by "The Creation of the Second Great Depression" proceeds with an expert chess-player's grace, a bigger scale invasion of Pakistan by the oligarchs running the United States appears imminent in order to save the world from those other 'terrorists'.
And the oligarchs have copious help from insiders.
In the case of the United States, it's her own Congress.
The accurately predicted initial defeat of the bailout package by a mere loss of 12 votes (228 to 205) is to be rectified shortly, as the Wall Street has fully implemented the President's scare-mongering dire warning with real teeth! The Congress folks will now be getting frantic calls and emails to reverse their previous vote! At least some of the 228 courageous souls had surely only voted NO in fear of a re-election loss due to their electorates voting with their own feet. That is, to the consternation of the oligarchs, the Representatives whom they largely fund and finance to get elected, had dared to listen to their own constituencies for a change on matters of national significance!
That fear has now been astutely mitigated with this calculated assault by Wall Street on the meager savings in 401K and pension plans of whatever remains of middle America! That is surely worth at least 12 new votes in this thin margin of lame-victory. This trap ought to make all of Congress bow their collective heads in abject shame. They have themselves enabled the raping of their own American peoples, with all their enthusiastic trillion-dollar budget approvals and cheerleading for the 'war on terror' upon those 'lesser' peoples far far away!
The oppressive domestic climate of 'United we Stand' and 'no debate' due to the pernicious police-state laws, unquestioned 'orange alerts', and atrocious Executive Orders which they cheered their President for while handing him carte blanche to wage "imperial mobilization", has now come home to roost. It enabled the enaction of "Martial Law" in Congress under which this bailout Bill, secretly formulated by "insiders" in the inner sanctums of power, was brought to immediate vote without debate. So what's the really new 'news' here?
It's the belated discovery that oligarchs are now pulling the strings from behind the scenes – because this string-pulling by the puppetmasters has finally become so egregiously visible and so audacious, that at least some can safely point to it (without being labeled "tin-hatted conspiracy theorists").
And the admission of the blatant fact that these oligarchs are such powerful globalists investing through a web of global institutional fronts such that they can trivially subvert any national boundary to conduct their financial transactions, and easily prevail upon even the mighty sole superpower's Congress to instrument their private bailout after ruining the national economy, remarkably, making it on CNBC as breaking news!
This slothful recognition is unsurprising, since Congress didn't seem to have done its due diligence to the testimony of Maj. General Smedley Butler more than seventy years ago regarding the mighty oligarchs' fascist plot to visibly take over America. Nor has anyone in Congress, apparently, read the highly decorated soldier's famous exposé, "War is a Racket"!
Then again, perhaps they have, and it isn't fashionable to publicly rehearse these facts, or to be specific about the names, as the same oligarchs are behind the very necessary financing of their election campaigns. The contest is between allegiances, between the idealism that shows up in speeches on the House Floor, and pragmatism when it comes to voting. These Faustian pacts is what ails the American Congress – dual allegiances.
Their first "NO" vote followed by this Wall Street ploy, has also afforded these Representatives the opportunity to safely say they are merely following the public's revised wish when they next vote "YES", and retain the blessing of the oligarchs. Only a handful need change their vote to swing the decision, and many veneers will be enacted as if it was a great compromise! The new talk is some tax-break for the public – but not to the tune of that received by the oligarchs!
The counter to this remarkable Wall Street move today is not possible, because as both Sigmund Freud and his nephew Edward Bernays had proved, the irrational and emotional response of the mind among the public can be trivially made to prevail over their rational self. There appears to be many a proficient successor to Edward Bernays and his 'Council on Public Relations', consulting for the oligarchs today!
The rational thing for Congress to do here would be to allow these banksters to swallow the loss, to allow Wall Street to dip, to put a moratorium on all ordinary public's default on payments, to instead, award the ordinary American homeowner a bailout, to re-regulate the financial sector and its speculative instruments, to re-think the nation's debt-trap of money creation, and to create laws and federal statues by which plunderers, looters, and robber barons, instead of being lauded, are hung by the scruff of their neck and their wealth confiscated! The stocks will bounce back to their proper logical levels soon enough. But that rational act, of sanity and courage, requires another more primal, and far more truthful, enabling act to precede it.
In the case of Pakistan, it's her own 'Uncle Toms'. That is, all of Pakistan's leaders!
While many in the United States Congress may entertain genuine dual allegiances, Pakistani leaders, politicians, and military Generals, are rumored to have only one. This is amply demonstrated by the straightforward act of their paying homage to their own puppetmasters with an entire entourage of wannabes the moment they come to power. And this was repeated once again last week where they all took their real oath of office before the President of the United States to solemnly prosecute the 'war on terror'.
Are these 'can't get enough at home' paleolith white-skin worshipers merely mental midgets that they refuse to fathom the 'al qaeeda' fiction?
Or are they only the fully 'bought and paid for' black-ops assets of the harbingers of world-government?
Is there no un co-opted elite left in all of Pakistan and the world who can publicly assert: war on terror is a fiction?
Just that one simple affirmation by statesmen, congressmen, politicians, and serving military Generals, worldwide, at least in Pakistan, is all that is needed. All else will naturally follow.
Yes – the unholy transgression of uttering just this one blasphemous pronouncement by those who matter, by those who command constituencies, is the key Revolutionary Act to unlock all others!
Indeed – a bold and repeated utterance of the only fact of the matter that is also copiously written in America's own 'Mein Kampfs', will enable a genuine, lasting, and the least expensive bailout for all Americans!
Can Congressman Ron Paul lead the way with all his old talk of 'The Revolution'?
Can Congressman Dennis Kucinich show the way with all his talk of 'Impeachment'?
Can President Putin come right out and say it in plain English?
Can President Ahmadinijad utter those un-sanctimonious words in the UN instead of all the in-efficacious ones?
Can Presidents, former or not, Mandela and Chavez?
Can Priests, Christians or not, the Pope and the Ayatollah?
Can Fatima Bhutto, the Daughter of Revolutionaries, put some teeth behind her young grit?
Can Imran Khan, the Flag-Bearer of 'Insaf', put some plain justice in his fair speak?
It's truly now or never – with the American public finally listening and less 'United We Stand' – and before another shocking terrorist act, or catastrophic event, in America or elsewhere, is blamed upon Pakistan, upon someone else's fascism, upon Islamofascism, upon negligence, upon patsies, or just on 'oops'!
What is still practicably possible today, albeit with a bit of effort and a small price, will be well nigh impossible soon.
There will finally be, on planet earth, a real "no exit"!
Addendum : Why Bluff Martial Law?
The bailout Bill passed the House in its second vote, as predicted by Project Humanbeingsfirst that it would, just a few moments ago, 263 to 171. President Bush immediately signed it into law on Friday afternoon, asserting:
"By coming together on this legislation, we have acted boldly to prevent the crisis on Wall Street from becoming a crisis in communities across our country,"
CNN Money reported that Rep. Sue Myrick, R-N.C., stated in a statement before the vote:
"We're on the cusp of a complete catastrophic credit meltdown. There is no liquidity in the market. We are out of time. Either you believe that fact, or you don't. I do."
I suppose I do too. This is indeed a genuine crisis. The ordinary American stands to not only lose his shirt and her skirt, but also their comfortable lifestyles, and their meager lifesavings.
But it is also a manufactured crisis. And those pushing this particular bailout solution are the same peoples who deliberately manufactured the crisis. And subsequently, deliberately manipulated and shrunk the money and credit available to the public to substantiate the scare-mongering pressure that was being applied by their "insiders" in Congress.
Thus the same constituencies who had earlier called in to urge a NO vote on the Bill, may very well have called in to urge a YES revised vote. Only data available later will reveal the success of this Edward Bernays style public psyop – whether a majority of Congress persons changed their votes only due to the "insiders'" gun to their head, or whether they also had a face-saving rescue from their constituencies getting scared off by Wall Street action. The banks have sufficient liquidity to lend to each other, but not to the Main Street public in the guise of being wary of bad debt, as noted by CNN Money:
"For the past two weeks, lending between banks and between banks and businesses has gotten considerably more expensive. Small businesses are having trouble getting loans. As of midday Friday, one key measure showed that banks were hoarding cash rather than loaning it. Meanwhile, an indicator showing how willing banks are to lend each other was at an all-time high."
It wasn't just happenstance, or simply the capitalist greed gone wild, that precipitated this crisis as many rational contrarians have asserted. It was a creed entirely of a different sort. This addendum to the report "No Exits on this Super-Highway!" explains it.
The fear-mongering that many Congressmen in their House Floor-Speeches had alluded to, including the explicit threat of Martial Law in America noted by Representative Brad Sherman, D-CA, and Martial Law already instituted in Congress to squelch debate and due process as alluded to by Representative Michael Burgess, R-Texas, really cemented the signing of this Bill today.
Under these circumstance, Grand Theft America has been initiated.
Project Humanbeingsfirst wrote a letter to the United States Congress yesterday, on October 02, 2008, suggesting to open a second more powerful front to disarm them. The letter stated:
If at least one of you in your House speeches being televised on C-Span, will assert the falsity of the very basis upon which Martial Law in Congress has been enacted, and due to which, you are being compelled to vote and pass this audacious graft upon the nation in the closing hours of this Presidency, you may have a fighting chance to really be fair to your oath of office.
Assert the plain truth that the "war on terror" is a fiction! That the enemy is fabricated.
And therefore, the emergency and war-footings basis upon which the Martial Law has been declared in the House, is fictitious.
And therefore, you, as the Representative of the People, revolt against this fiction being forced upon you as it is preventing you from upholding your own oath of office to protect and serve the nation against all enemies, both foreign, and domestic!
By astutely challenging, as fraudulent and malfeasant, the very first principle upon which the Congress has been continually co-opted by this Administration in its Constitutional due processes and deliberations, you have the fighting chance of preventing a second vote on this banksters' bailout Bill in the House.
If this bill is voted upon now in the House, you can take it to the vaults that the bill will pass!
If that second front had been opened by any Congress persons, it would have been tantamount to slaughtering the most sacred holy cow of America in its own highest temple. With media paying rapt attention, it would have surely postponed the voting.
It is Project Humanbeingsfirst's thesis that the threat to impose Martial Law was merely a bluff, and the uncourageous Congress blinked. It matters not what the tyrants do – for they shall do whatever they will – the good guys are supposed to follow their principles in guiding their own actions regardless, especially when they are even sworn to uphold a national obligation.
Besides, if it was the right time to impose Martial Law in the country, it would have surely been enacted without issuing blackmailing threats. All the preparations for such military policing of America have been in the works for a very long time, with a battle hardened military Brigade even getting ready to patrol the main streets USA starting October 01, 2008, as already reported by the Army Times. The threat of Martial Law has existed since 911 when the US government declared itself on war footings. But it hasn't been declared yet.
Therefore, the following question logically surfaces. If the eventual goal of the oligarchs is world government (see "The Enduring Capitalist Conspiracy For World Government"), and if the baby-step in that direction is to cement the North American Union and the creation of a new currency called Amero, and the way to reach that stage is through manufactured crises which would demand Martial Law as the only bailout solution, why was it not done during this present crisis when Martial Law was only threatened for passing this bailout Bill? Why not simply enact it in America – the 3rd Infantry Division's 1st Brigade Combat Team is already at hand.
The answer is really simple – one cannot take the cake out of the oven before it is fully baked.
Or, to whip another cliché into frenzy, one cannot expect the soufflé to rise without beating it to death first!
That is the point – the NAU cannot be cemented so long as the United States, as a powerful entity, still retains scope for independence of action, and its peoples, still feeling empowered, and not fully shackled in the state of hopelessness. For no American, no matter how indoctrinated, will willingly agree to give up their beloved America and form a weird union with Mexico and Canada. Good natured and peaceable people in this country really love their nation like no other peoples on earth. For them, both country and nation mean only one thing, America. And they will fight back in normal times. Therefore, their will to fight has to be eliminated first. The independence, of the peoples, and the state, has to be whittled down, baby-steps at a time, towards complete disillusionment. A condition not dissimilar to the nation's state in the aftermath of the 1929 crash. Indeed, on the eve of Roosevelt's inauguration, the banking oligarchs had shut down all the banks in the country to paralyze the new President. Had the New Deal not existed, a fascist state in America – as was transpiring all over Europe – en-route to world government surely might have.
Thus notice, the consolidations that have occurred during the present crisis towards the creation of even greater financial combines than those previously existing, while saddling the nation and its peoples in a new debt-trap that actually has no upper bound. But that is still not sufficient to initiate Martial Law today. The soufflé hasn't risen sufficiently!
The approval of the $700 Billion bailout package is really the first down payment. This bailout Act, the new law of the land, has deliberate wording which is quite interesting when viewed in the light of an open commitment on the part of Congress to keep adding additional monies to the rescue plan. The bailout expense can rise to trillions of dollars – and that would be the time when the cake is fully baked!
Columnist Ben Stein describes the magnitude of the depths one can potentially fall, in his September 22, 2008 article calling it "the pit of loss is bottomless." And we haven't quite reached that pit yet.
Investigative journalist and author Webster Tarpley, in his long missive on "Main Street Lending Facilitys" earlier today, October 03, 2008, called it "a black hole of hundreds of trillions of dollars of poisonous derivatives."
Tarpley suggests that the total world derivatives are now between:
"$1 QUADRILLION (i.e., one thousand trillion) and $1.5 quadrillion, and Wall Street represents the lion's share of this … A year ago, JP Morgan Chase alone officially had $93 TRILLION in derivatives of certain types more than six times the total Gross Domestic Product of the United States, and this is a very low-ball estimate indeed."
I don't know where these numbers are from, apart from his own admitted guesstimates, but they seem oddly consistent with the notion of "bottomless". Tarpley goes on to make the qualitative statement based on what had transpired during similar bailout attempts between 1929-1933, before the onset of the New Deal:
"No money that is put into Wall Street [for bailout] will ever pass through it to benefit anyone else. The Wall Street derivatives black hole is so powerful that it could easily eat the whole earth and the entire solar system, and still be just as bankrupt as it was to start with."
The previous "WMD" mantra was manufactured to decimate the lesser humanity outside the shores of the United States in its external quest for "imperial mobilization". Yes, they did feel the pain. The other side of the game, the domestic front, also needed a manufactured WMD – and this is what Warren Buffet called it: "Weapons of financial Mass Destruction".
Yes, Americans shall also feel the pain. Not quite as excruciating, mercifully, as the Iraqis, the Palestinians, the Lebanese, the Afghanis, or as the Pakistanis are beginning to feel now – all for the pleasure of inducing the "Birth-pangs of a New Middle East". This pain has meant very little to the "United we stand" clueless up until now. And the key question to ask is, why make these clueless suffer? Didn't they dutifully salute the flag?
And if America is out to dominate the world in its quest for "full spectrum dominance", why destroy its own infrastructures such that its own civil engineers would give its state of disrepair a D grade? Doesn't Brzezinski's "The Grand Chessboard" explain it all as:
"perpetuat[ing] America's own dominant position for at least a generation and preferably longer" such that "no Eurasian challenger emerges, capable of dominating Eurasia and thus also challenging America"?
I suppose serious peoples would also have to read Brzezinski's 1970 classic "Between Two Ages" in order to comprehend the real hidden agenda driving America's "imperial mobilization" which remains un-articulated in 'the Grand Chessboard' and in PNAC's policy advocacy for American militarism. These are not end-goals, these are camouflaged baby-steps.
The real principle is that which led bankster David Rockefeller – the self-avowed globalist whose family funded the founding of the United Nations building in New York, and who supports and finances the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) which is now advocating the North American Union – to create the Trilateral Commission, and install Zbigniew Brzezinski as its first Executive Director, after supposedly reading Brzezinski's book!
The sole superpower's might is being harnessed to usher in the systematic baby-steps to world government by America's blood-sucking hijackers: the financial oligarchs who have ruled America from behind the scenes for the past hundred years. Indeed, some argue that their brethren across the Atlantic rule all the European democracies, and especially the G-7 nations (Russia mercifully finally escaped from their clutches under Vladimir Putin).
The hand of Rockefeller and other globalist banksters is not only behind the CFR – the private foreign policy planning arm of the United States Government – but also his banks largely dominate the New York Fed. The Federal Reserve System, also simply called the Fed, is the privatized money supply arm of the United States Government, controlled by 12 of the largest private banks in the United States. There is as much federal about the Fed as Fedx.
Thus, note that both United States policy, and United States money, have the same oligarchs controlling them! What a remarkable realization of Rothschild's statement:
"give me control of a nation's money supply, and I care not who makes its laws"
And what an ominously prescient statement of both James Madison and Thomas Jefferson:
"History records that the Money Changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit and violent means possible to maintain their control over governments by controlling money and its issuance." (Madison)
"I sincerely believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. Already they have raised up a money aristocracy that has set the government at defiance. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs." (Jefferson)
The creation of the Fed was the most brilliant success of the oligarchs in their hijacking of America. They orchestrated the approval for its creation by Congress in 1913 under dubious circumstances at best. In reality, it was an outright subversion of due process. That one single Act of Congress in 1913, enabled the subsequent conquest of America by these bankster oligarchs. G. Edward Griffin's book "The Creature from Jekyll Island" details it all most thoroughly. And Professor Carroll Quigley's book "Tragedy and Hope" describes the rest of America's hijacking based on his full access to insider documents. The interested reader is directed to these seminal works for more in depth study. Those un-attuned to scholarly readings may find Paul Grignon's "Money as Debt", a fast-paced 47-minute animated video tutorial, of invaluable assistance in learning about money and the Fed in less time than watching two episodes of Friends. This remarkable tutorial for all ages, is also available on google but please purchase the dvd to support its incredible creator. And for those still skeptical of CFR's grooming role in America's statesmen who subsequently enact its policies, see the confessional 1958 article in Harper magazine for an introduction to CFR written by one of its own members, titled: "School for Statesmen".
Suffice it to assert here in conclusion of this summary background on the role of common oligarchic threads behind America's present financial as well as its foreign policy crises which has deliberately orchestrated its spiraling debt, that the behind the scenes control and manipulation of State destinies is not mere theory, philosophy, or false bravados. It is neither mere happenstance, nor vacuous greed for more money, nor blowback. It is the pursuit of the singular common vision already explained in "The Enduring Capitalist Conspiracy For World Government". Even the famous and much revered British historian, Arnold Toynbee, who along with Lord Alfred Milner had founded the "Round Tables" in the early years of the twentieth century which had subsequently led to the founding of the CFR in the United States, and the RIIA in the UK, asserted it. In a speech before the Institute for the Study of International Affairs at Copenhagen, he stated:
"We are at present working discreetly with all our might to wrest this mysterious force called sovereignty out of the clutches of the local nation states of the world. All the time we are denying with our lips what we are doing with our hands, because to impugn the sovereignty of the local nation states of the world is still a heresy for which a statesman or publicist can perhaps not quite be burned at the stake but certainly be ostracized or discredited." [Arnold Toynbee, "The Trend of International Affairs Since the War", International Affairs, November 1931, p. 809.]
And today, his equally earnest legatees influencing both the CFR and the Fed, state the same thing:
"We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis and the nations will accept the New World Order." [David Rockefeller – cited in "Quotation on Terrorism", page 298]
And this friendly Fed is the same private entity that is now working in cahoots with the U.S. Government's Treasury Department to manage this crisis. Between the two, they orchestrated this bailout by forcibly prevailing upon Congress once again.
Well, one might ask, isn't the Treasury Secretary independent? How can the Fed influence them? Yes, the Treasury Secretary is indeed very powerful, and quite independent. But only in so far as his role within the United State's Government is concerned. The Secretary works for the same oligarchic interests in an incredible revolving door between the finance sector and the U.S. Government. Even a passing glance at Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson's resume, i.e., work history, makes that obvious.
The NAU is inevitable. It is the CFR's orchestration, and the globalist oligarchs wet dreams. The conditions for it are being rapidly created. And this bailout which further puts the United States in a position to default on its currency, to default on its trillions of dollars in debt servicing to other nations, is the set up.
This crisis, a baby-step in that direction, has been deliberately manufactured by the Bush Administration in collusion with Wall Street, for precisely the outcome which transpired today.
Here is some evidence for it.
Former NY Governor Eliot Sptizer revealed it in his Washington Post article of February 14, 2008, titled "Predatory Lenders' Partner in Crime – How the Bush Administration Stopped the States From Stepping In to Help Consumers", and because of which, he was dethroned with a scandal. He had warned of almost 8 months ago:
"When history tells the story of the subprime lending crisis and recounts its devastating effects on the lives of so many innocent homeowners, the Bush administration will not be judged favorably. The tale is still unfolding, but when the dust settles, it will be judged as a willing accomplice to the lenders who went to any lengths in their quest for profits. So willing, in fact, that it used the power of the federal government in an unprecedented assault on state legislatures, as well as on state attorneys general and anyone else on the side of consumers."
Greg Palast followed up a month later in his article of March 14, 2008, titled "Eliot's Mess The $200 billion bail-out for predator banks and Spitzer charges are intimately linked", adding an epilogue to Eliot's afore-stated comment. After observing how Spitzer hath fallen in a $4300 a night 'escort' sting operation, Palast prematurely wrote how history had been spared in its judgment of Bush Administration:
"But now, the Administration can rest assured that this love story – of Bush and his bankers – will not be told by history at all – now that the Sheriff of Wall Street has fallen on his own gun."
Author of Grand Theft America, Steve Lendman, summed it up to this author in an email communication "absolutely this crisis was manufactured. Problem is they created a monster that may end up devouring its creator".
This is where I might mildly disagree with Lendman. The monster is in "fuzzy" chains, and only allowed measured extension on its probabilistic forays. At the right moment, it will be killed off to create the Amero, setting the stage for further financial upheaval in resource rich Asia left holding America's debt in "confederate currency". This will create conditions quite congenial with just the right sprinkling of militarism and nuclear warfare, for eventually bringing about the third union in the world government agenda. Globalism does not deal in certainties, only in probabilities, loading the dice as needed to favor the outcomes of interest. These are calculated shenanigans. The size of the problem, deliberately a mushroom cloud, like any hydrogen bomb's.
I hope Lendman is wrong. I further hope that the oligarchs have miscalculated. That humanity is far greater in its resilience to fight back tyranny than what they give us credit for. Even George Orwell could not but help allow a faint smile to appear on the weathered face of the last common man on earth in "1984". Surely a Patrick Henry is just around the corner!
While unbridled hope is perhaps the wishful thinking that leads to voluntary servitude, critical analysis is not.
All that is analyzed by Project Humanbeingsfirst, isn't peering into the Cassandra's crystal ball, or into the vibrant but immanent space of an armchair philosopher's fertile imagination.
It is political science writ large in the masterminds' own hand-writings and empirical deeds, and in the connection between disparate past events and the new emerging ones piece-meal.
And all paths rationally lead to the stated goal of world government. Some might however, still prefer to label the obvious, 'tin-hatted conspiracy theories'.
Project Humanbeingsfirst prefers to call the detective process of uncovering the secrets of "hegemony", forensic science. And what is uncovered, political science – an art which is "as old as mankind." It was succinctly described by James Jesus Angleton, the head of CIA Counter Intelligence operations from 1954 to 1974, as: "Deception is the state of mind, and the mind of the State."
This Machiavellian rendition of political science as applied to state-craft, was so timelessly captured by G. Edward Griffin four decades ago, that it behooves upon an honest analyst to rehearse it repeatedly in order to remind the dumb-ass spectating world unable to recognize it while all of us sink deeper and deeper into the clutches of its enslavement, that, that's just the way unchecked power behaves!
"Create conditions so frightful at home and abroad, that the abandonment of personal liberties and national sovereignty, will appear as a reasonable price for a return to domestic tranquility and world peace.
… If those who seek world dominion can stimulate [terror threats, 911, new 911], and also provide exhaustive news coverage, so that the entire nation can see and tremble, then the peaceful and freedom loving majority can be programmed to accept a vast expansion of government powers, and even a national police force, offered supposedly to end the violence.
… If those who seek world dominion can raise the spectre of an enemy, [or economic condition], armed to the teeth with superior atomic weapons on the verge of launching a nuclear holocaust [radical Islamists], and also offer world-government as the prevention, then millions of Americans can be programmed to accept the loss of national sovereignty, as our last best hope for peace." ( Words of G. Edward Griffin circa 1971-72 )
In conclusion, if FDR's New Deal had worked then, it is not entirely obvious why it should not work again. [1]
It is even less obvious why the courageous members of the United States Congress did not unite along bipartisan lines in the best interest of their beloved nation, to construct a New Deal as their counter group proposal. And instead, willingly chose to show their cowardice before the tyranny of the few. If the tyrants threaten Martial Law – let them follow through, for it would be forcing their hand prematurely towards something they plan on doing anyway. A soufflé before it has risen is worthless!
Thanks for reading. If this essay was useful, please write your Congress person to not fear tyranny – that you are with them. Six feet under, the maggots can't tell the difference anyway!
[1] After that sentence was written, which was based on the populist understanding of what FDR had supposedly accomplished in the New Deal, through actual research into the facts of the matter however, it has now become blatantly apparent why it would not work again. FDR at the time had capitulated to the banksters – some say he was in fact the banksters own very clever pointman – and changed America's money which was previously redeemable in gold, into fiat paper money, with the passing of The Emergency Banking Act, March 9, 1933. All the gold of the American peoples was confiscated, and in effect, handed over to the Federal Reserve System in lieu of an infinite supply of paper money constructed as a national debt. The principal of this national debt was never intended to be ever paid back – it was setup as an infinite inflationary supply source. However, the interest on it was to accrue exponentially – compound-interest – and this interest was payable by the American peoples, the consumers, the corporations, and all economic activity in the United States. In addition, making the US dollar world's reserve currency at Bretton-Woods by the victor of World War II, made increasing that principal a global impetus from the entire world's economic activity. Every US Treasury Security held by the oil producing nations courtesy of Henry Kissinger, every dollar held in foreign exchange reserves by the world's nations, indeed every dollar in circulation, contributed to this principal! Every dollar added to the principal that was beyond the growth of the American nation's real GDP – based on real production and not financial wizardry – was inflationary. Thus all economic activity due to debt financing, as opposed to balanced budget financing, was by design, made inflationary. The word "inflationary" means when a dollar purchases less than it did before, or the same thing costs more than it did before. However it's official measurement also has become a con-game, and therefore, that word here is used to mean the real empirical experience of real wage-earning consumers who are the most susceptible to inflation (and who, incidentally, also pay the bulk of the interest on the national debt through their federal income tax), and not official reportage based on some artificial basket of goods. More the American worker made, more he paid out in taxes and in rising cost of living, so that he and she ended up with less and less in working families with even both parents working! Thus American public took on more and more debt, sometimes to make ends meet, and sometimes to enjoy the good times that were easily handed them on the platter of inextricable debt. And so the monster of debt fed itself. This wasn't just a side-effect as almost all the economists and politicians would have the ill-informed public believe, but by the very design of the monetary system under the Federal Reserve System. That was quite a brilliant coup d'état under the guise of solving the problem of the Great Depression by the banksters! The same banksters funded the causes, and all participants, of World War II, just as they precipitated the Great Depression itself. It was a banksters' World War, and a banksters' Great Depression! And a banksters' currency that kept creating more and more debt by design. Their 'small' calculated baby-step to create world government led to more millions dead and disillusioned than all wars of all history added together. Just as it is re-playing out the same game today, but much closer to endgame. Since the year 1933 was only the beginning of the paper money scam – this incarnation of the central bankers' perpetual scam since time immemorial, actually began in 1910 at Jekyll Island, and got cemented with the passage of the Federal Reserve Act on December 23, 1913 – the cumulative national debt then was low, the interest payments were low, and the Frankenstein was just a cute baby boy. Therefore, President Roosevelt could trivially embark on his debt-financed spending spree which became known as the New Deal. See the debt-chart from 1900 to 2006 in the book by Van K Tharp here, and current national debt numbers proudly reported by the U.S. Treasury here. Today, such a spending spree is not possible in the existing monetary system because the Frankenstein of debt has now matured into an ugly monster about to devour its feeders. And yet, such a spending spree is still generously being granted to the banksters to the tune of $7.7 Trillion for bailout, as reported by Bloomberg on November 24, 2008! The New York Times further broke this number down in its report of November 25, 2008 – loans $1.7 trillion, Investments $3.0 trillion, Guarantees $3.1 trillion – noting "they would print as much money as needed to revive the nation's crippled banking system … some investments may prove profitable … The Treasury secretary, Henry M. Paulson Jr., made it clear that the new lending facility was just a "starting point" and could be expanded to many other kinds of debt," To appreciate how the sheep are craftily being primed for the slaughter, see George J. W. Goodman's essay 'The German Hyperinflation, 1923' for historical context. Apart from the astronomical unpayable debt deliberately being run up, the hyper-inflationary direction where the Treasury secretary is steering the nation and the world with this 'solution' to the manufactured financial crisis, is in plain sight. This was a brilliantly orchestrated design, because the cure for this now fully grown grotesque Frankenstein – in order that it not devour its own creators – is being presented as a common global monetary system run by private central banks, owned by the very same banksters! And by making the dollar worthless – when a wheelbarrow full of dollars will barely purchase a loaf of bread – the 'United We Stand' from 'sea to shinning sea' patriotic masses will willingly accept a new currency, a new union, a new world order! A crafty and audacious planning of a hundred years expertly being brought to fruition! Please see the Monetary Reform Bibliography, and Monetary Conspiracy for World Government. The unfortunate populist version of FDR's New Deal is deeply entrenched in American society – like all its other indoctrinations – and it is even more exacerbated by polished disinformation documentaries like "1932" (see LaRouche: A nuanced and expert Disinformationist or merely Uber Alles? ). And the whole shebang of the Federal Reserve System is very cleverly camouflaged, and confounded, by its learned exponents and detractors alike (see Monetary Reform: Who will bell the cat? and also Chapter 6 of Ron Paul's book: Revolution; caveat lector on Ron Paul here!).
The author, an ordinary researcher and writer on contemporary geopolitics, a minor justice activist, grew up in Pakistan, studied EECS at MIT, engineered for a while in high-tech Silicon Valley (patents here), and retired early to pursue other responsible interests. His maiden 2003 book was rejected by six publishers and can be read on the web at http://PrisonersoftheCave.org. He may be reached at http://Humanbeingsfirst.org. Verbatim reproduction license at http://www.humanbeingsfirst.org#Copyright.
Copyright Notice:
All material copyright (c) Project HumanbeingsfirstTM, with full permission to copy, repost, and reprint, in its entirety, unmodified and unedited, for any purpose, granted, provided the URL sentence and this copyright notice are also reproduced verbatim as part of this license, and not doing so may be subject to copyright license violation infringement claims pursuant to remedies noted at http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap5.html. The rights of the author to express these views are based on inalienable rights noted at http://www.hrweb.org/legal/undocs.html, and to do so freely without suffering intimidation and duress. All quotations and excerpts are based on non-profit "fair use" in the greater public interest consistent with the understanding of laws noted at http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.html. Full copyright notice and Exclusions at http://www.humanbeingsfirst.org.
No Exits on this Super-Highway! Update December 04, 2008


text:
share:Remind Me
TCMDb Archive MaterialsView all archives (2)
DVDs from TCM Shop
A Guy Named Joe A downed World War II pilot... MORE > $17.56 Regularly $21.99 Buy Now
powered by AFI
Brief Synopsis
A downed World War II pilot becomes the guardian angel for his successor in love and war.
During World War II, Pete Sandridge, an American pilot stationed in England, is as well known for his skill as his reckless disregard for his own safety, much to the chagrin of his commanding officer and friend, "Nails" Kilpatrick, and his girl friend, cargo flyer Dorinda Durston. After one particularly dangerous mission, Nails decides to transfer Pete and his best friend, pilot Al Yackey, to a relatively safe reconnaisance base in Scotland. The independent Dorinda is angry over the transfer and playfully asks Pete to marry her. Some weeks later, Pete and Al are bored with their staid assignment and delighted when Dorinda flies in for a brief leave. Her joy at being reunited with Pete is cut short, though, when she is enveloped by a sense that Pete's "number is up." Although Al warns her that such things can never be changed, she begs Pete to accept Nails's offer to accompany him to the States and become a flying instructor. When Pete initially rejects the idea, she promises that she will give up flying, something that he has always wanted, if he goes home, otherwise she will get a transfer to Australia. Finally realizing how much Dorinda loves him, and how much he loves her, he agrees to go back home. A moment later, Al informs Pete that they must leave immediately for a flight to reconnoiter a large German aircraft carrier. On the flight, Pete goes by the book and does not take unnecessary chances, but is attacked by a German plane. After being wounded, he orders his crew to bail out, then dives onto the carrier. When Al returns to the base, a shattered Dorinda has already sensed what happened. Meanwhile, in the clouds, Pete walks toward another flyer and recognizes an old friend, Dick Rumney. Suddenly becoming ill-at-ease after remembering that Dick went down with his plane in a fiery crash, Pete says "either I'm dead or I'm crazy," and Dick answers, "You're not crazy." Soon Pete is introduced to The General, a long-dead pioneering flyer, who gives him the assignment to return to earth and share his knowledge to help young flyers become better pilots. Pete and Dick then go to a military flying school in Arizona, where Pete becomes a subconscious tutor to Ted Randall, a young millionaire. At first Pete is not impressed with Ted, but as he guides him through training, becomes fond and proud of him. When the flyers under Dick and Pete's care are sent to the South Pacific, their heavenly guardians go along, hoping to keep the men safe through combat. When they arrive, Ted goes to the local officers' club, with Pete as his unseen companion. Sensing Dorinda's presence, Pete turns around and sees her sitting at a table. He goes to talk with her, but Ted soon follows and starts to flirt. She at first turns down Ted's invitation to dinner, but encouraged by Al, who is worried that even a year after Pete's death, Dorinda is still deeply grieving, she accepts. A few weeks later, Dorinda is enjoying her deepening relationship with Ted but finds odd similarities between Ted and Pete unsettling, as does Al, who dismisses them as mere coincidence. When Ted is promoted to captain, he proposes to Dorinda and she accepts, much to Pete's aggravation. A short time later, Ted is asked to take a very dangerous assignment to destroy the largest Japanese ammunition dump in the South Pacific. Just before he goes to see Dorinda that night, she is visited by Pete, who knows that she must no longer grieve and advises her, through her subconscious, to marry Ted. When Ted arrives, though, she suddenly tells him that she cannot marry him. When she later learns from Al that Ted will be on an extremely dangerous mission, she guesses the target, based on her own experience flying in the area, and rushes to the airbase. As Ted is being briefed, Dorinda sneaks into his plane and takes off for the munitions dump. Realizing what she is planning, Pete sits behind her during the mission and helps her decide to fight off the enemy and fly safely home. Before returning to the base, Pete tells Dorinda that he is leaving her heart and setting her free. When she lands, she and Ted rush to each other and embrace, as Pete walks off toward his next assignment.
Cast & Crew
Additional Details
|MPAA Ratings:
|Premiere Info:
|New York opening: 24 Dec 1943
|Release Date:
|Production Date:
Victor Fleming's production
|Black and White
|Distributions Co:
|Loew's Inc.
|Mono (Western Electric Sound System)
|Production Co:
|Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corp.
|118 or 120-121
|United States
|not available
Leonard Maltin Ratings & Review
User Ratings & Review
This title has not been reviewed. Be the FIRST to write a review by CLICKING HERE >
User Ratings & Review
User Reviews:
Cinema History:
Lead Performers:
Supporting Cast:
Screen Play:
Music Score:
Title Sequence:
User Ratings:
the venture depends on you.
a.morris 2018-02-16
if you can not accept the idea of the story you will not enjoy it. MORE>
Children's accents are not 'fake'
Leslie 2014-05-24
A reviewer here (name 'with held'), who says she was an Air Force 'brat' refers to the 'fake' British accents of the children... MORE>
P-38 Strike by Female Contractor
Tommy 2013-03-17
A Guy Named Joe is indeed a romantic fantasy, but set aside 'Joe' and the story is all about the female contractor and the awesome performance of... MORE>

subset: commoncrawl


text:
Consider some positive charge that is distributed uniformly over a very long line along the z-axis.
If I am stationary with respect to the line then there is only static electric field which has cylindrical symmetry.
Assume now that I am moving with some constant velocity which has only a (positive) component along the z axis. With respect to me there is now current running down the (negative) z-axis, hence I expect to find a static magnetic field in my moving inertial frame.
My question is, do I still find (a static) electric field as well in this case? [Because on one hand I find the answer to be NO, since static electric fields should come only from static charges, and the charges here will not be static. On the other hand, although the line carries current, the line is still charged (which is different from currents running in conducting wires where the wires are neutral at all times). That means the answer is YES and one expects to see static electric field because the line is continuously charged.]
So is the answer yes or no (and why)?


text:
Listed By: Douglas Elliman of California, Inc.
Based on information from CARETS as of 02/26/2020. The information being provided by CARETS is for the visitor's personal, noncommercial use and may not be used for any purpose other than to identify prospective properties visitor may be interested in purchasing. The data contained herein is copyrighted by CARETS, CLAW, CRISNet MLS, i-Tech MLS, PSRMLS and/or VCRDS and is protected by all applicable copyright laws. Any dissemination of this information is in violation of copyright laws and is strictly prohibited.
Any property information referenced on this website comes from the Internet Data Exchange (IDX) program of CRISNet MLS and/or CARETS. All data, including all measurements and calculations of area, is obtained from various sources and has not been, and will not be, verified by broker or MLS. All information should be independently reviewed and verified for accuracy. Properties may or may not be listed by the office/agent presenting the information.
©2018 CRMLS. IDX information on this website is provided exclusively for consumers' personal, non-commercial use and may not be used for any purpose other than to identify prospective properties consumers may be interested in purchasing. All listings held by brokerage firms other than the owner of this website are identified in the listing details. The listing data on this website is deemed reliable but is not guaranteed accurate by the MLS. The MLS and its affiliates provide the MLS content "AS IS" and without any warranty expressed or implied.
Your use of the site is subject to the site's Terms & Conditions. We protect your information, and use it to communicate directly with you from our team or our partners only. You can un-subscribe at any time.


text: Home Origami Floral Lilac and Blue Silk Pocket Square Origami Floral Lilac and Blue Silk Pocket Square Exclusive Origami Floral Lilac and Blue Silk Pocket Square €35.00 was €85.00 Out of Stock Notify me when my size is back in stock Product details Delivery & returns Product details Style Notes This suitably eccentric pocket square is part of our AW16 'Artist and Architect' collection and adds a creative finish to workaday tailoring. Whether your design alliances lay with the painterly or the precise, this decorative accessory is a stylish start to the season ahead. Position it to peek proudly out of your jacket pocket to ensure your ensemble achieves conversation-starter status. Construction Details Our fine silk pocket squares are hand-printed in Cheshire, England, using an age-old process which sources water from the factory's own reservoir. Once the pocket squares have dried following screen-printing, they are given hand-rolled edges for a refined finish. Fine Details Product Code: MPSQ001-Y46705 Base Colour: Purple Pattern: Floral Weave: Twill Fabric: Silk Country Of Origin: England Delivery & returns Delivery Orders placed on a normal business day before 14:00hrs GMT will be processed the same day. EUROPEAN DELIVERY UPS Standard (€14.00 - Free when you spend over €100) : Delivery within 2-3 working days, from the date of despatch. UPS Express Saver (€20.00) : Next Day delivery on orders placed before 2pm GMT the previous day, this service does not include weekend delivery. Our next day service is only available to certain EU countries, please see our delivery page for more information. Returns European Returns : Unworn goods may be returned or exchanged within 30 days of purchase. Please note that original postage will not be reimbursed and international return costs are not pre-paid. Please note that all Monogrammed / Made-to-Measure products are non-returnable. Read more about returns here.


text:
#Domain #names
For Domainers – Expert tools
to manage domain registration,
sales and monetization.
Discount Pricing
Registrations | Transfers | Renewals
.com domain names
priced from $8.49 Learn More
New TLDs
Don't Miss Out on this Historic Opportunity
Privacy Control
Fabulous.com WHOIS Privacy Services
Protect your public
WHOIS information Learn More
Complete Solution
Registrar | Sales | Parking
Domain management Learn More
Fabulous API
FabulouS.com API Solution
A powerful solution for
domain management Learn More
Domain Search
Access great aftermarket domain names at FabulousDomains.com
Premium Services
Leading Registrar
Fabulous.com combines industry leading domain management and monetization tools with some of the best value domain registration, renewal and transfer prices in the market.
Domain name registration includes Whois privacy, domain monetization, parking management and integrated sales channels as standard.
When you register with Fabulous.com you are buying more than a domain, you are obtaining access to one of world's best domain management systems for the professional domain market.
Sales Network
Built into the core of Fabulous.com is an integrated domain sales management platform that provides access to the industry's largest instant transfer sales network, the Domain Distribution Network.
Domains registered through or transferred into Fabulous.com, can be listed for sale at a growing list of registrars, portals and resellers for instant settlement upon sale.
Price management, sales channel assignment and offer handling can all be set and monitored directly within the Fabulous.com interface.
Parking Program
Wanting to park some or all of your domains? With Fabulous.com gain access to our proven, established, high revenue parking program.
With world class click tracking and statistics reporting you have complete, real time performance metrics for all your parked domains.
Choose from a variety of performance optimized parking landers, customize color, layout and images, save templates and apply configurations in bulk across groups of domains.
Full Reporting
In conjunction with world class click tracking and statistics reporting, Fabulous.com provides complete statistical analysis of domain and portfolio performance.
Gain a birds eye view of your overall portfolio earnings, lander performance and traffic statistics via the analytics dashboard. Create and save custom reports for easy viewing, or schedule automatic email updates of common reports.
Bulk Tools
Managing a large domain portfolio is challenging, we should know – as the owner of one of the world's largest .com portfolios, we have designed and built Fabulous.com with bulk management at it's core.
Whether you are registering, importing, renewing, selling or parking domains, Fabulous.com makes bulk domain management easy with it's seamless integration of bulk tools.
Industry Expertise
Fabulous.com is the professional domain management system built by domainers for domainers. Long before opening to the public, Fabulous.com designed and developed tools for managing our own large portfolio of domain names.
As a customer of Fabulous.com, you gain access to a proven set of features which have been thoroughly tested to help you maximize performance and financial return.
- About Fabulous
- Contact Us
- Registration Agreement
- Registrant Educational


text:
BURBANK, Calif., Feb. 24, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- "The Life of Pi," the story of a young man adrift in a life raft with a Bengal tiger, was no simple cinematic endeavor. Logistical hurdles, among other challenges, led many to conclude that "Pi," based on the 2001 novel by Yann Martel, might never make it to the screen. Even director Ang Lee struggled with what he called an "impossible" film. But Lee eventually concluded that the richness and dimensionality of 3D would deepen the story and advance his unique vision.
(Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130131/LA52533LOGO)
Lee tapped Chilean-born Claudio Miranda as his cinematographer, in large part because of his work with 3D on "Tron: Legacy" and digital on "Benjamin Button." "Impossible" "Pi" has gone on to become a critical and financial triumph worldwide. The film is nominated for 11 Academy Awards, including a nod to Miranda for best cinematography.
CAMERON | PACE Group was integral to "Pi's" 3D artistry from pre-production to screen, lending both expertise and patented technology to the project. Miranda collaborated closely with CAMERON | PACE Group (CPG) Co-Founder and Co-Chairman Vince Pace on both "Tron" and "Pi." The CPG team was on location in India and Taiwan, where a 1.7-million gallon tank was constructed for water scenes. "Pi" earned CPG Certification, a seal of approval that ensures the highest quality of stereoscopic production and 3D media experience possible.
In the first of its "3D Showcase" series of interviews with leading creative and technical talent around the world, CPG spoke with Miranda at his home in Los Angeles three days before the Academy Awards.
CPG: So have you rented your tux?
Claudio Miranda: Actually, I own one (laughs). I have to.
CPG: Tell us how you got the job on "Life of Pi"
CM: Probably because of "Tron." And a little bit of "Benjamin Button." Ang (Director Ang Lee) had seen both films. "Button" is a good-looking movie full of digital effects, and "Tron" is a good-looking 3D movie. I really didn't imagine Ang being a 3D guy, since his other movies had been shot on film and in scope (the same aspect ratio as CinemaScope). But he knew he had to shoot digital for 3D, so I think that's why I got picked for the job.
CPG: Was "Tron: Legacy" your first experience with 3D?
CM: Yes. There's always talk about doing the 3D in post-production using conversion. There were so many real sets on the film that we felt we should just do it in the camera.
CPG: You worked closely with CAMERON | PACE Group (CPG) on that film. How was that experience?
CM: Just great. Vince (Pace) was there for me in the beginning in Vancouver, along with some other guys from CPG. Vince gave me the basics. Once he saw that I had the hang of it, I carried on.
CPG: We heard that before "Pi" you and Ang Lee educated yourselves about good 3D by studying bad 3D.
CM: Ang and I learned some important lessons from one particularly bad movie that I won't mention. For example, they used a really tight shutter angle that caused strobing (a staccato effect in the motion of the film). It's not a great feeling when you're watching it in the theater. The tighter the shutter, the more crisp each frame. It's like when you're taking a still photograph and you want to capture your kid in mid-air without any blur so you use a very fast shutter speed. But with 3D, in-camera blur can be your friend because the blur between frames makes for a more fluid motion. It eliminates that kind of stutter on the screen and makes the 3D experience less hyperactive. With "Pi" we definitely preferred a faster frame rate and a longer shutter.
CPG: Clearly, the 3D in "Pi" is visually amazing. But it also plays an integral part in the storytelling.
CM: Ang was very sensitive to not overdoing it. Any time characters or objects started to look miniaturized as a result of the 3D, we veered away from that. But there are some cases where it can help with the storytelling. There was one scene where we wanted the lifeboat to look really small so we did spread the eyes (the distance between the two lens centers) to cause a miniaturizing effect. It made the boat look almost like a little toy. This was in service of the storytelling, to reinforce the idea that Pi was alone, a speck on the ocean. We wanted to play with the 3D to reinforce plot and character. When a character is being aggressive, you can get his head out in front, so it feels like he's in your space. Ang loved the idea, too, that in the scene of the sinking ship, Pi is on the viewer's side of the screen. He's watching the ship as it sinks on the inside of the screen. So there's a big visual separation between this new world that's all to be his, and his past, represented by the sinking ship. The 3D really reinforced that part of the story.
CPG: Did you learn anything on "Pi" about 3D that you didn't know before?
CM: For me, "Tron" was really about making good 3D. I didn't really connect it to the way the audience would respond to the story. So doing it from point of view of a story was really something new. I had to think about how to set the 3D up and to stage it. Not just as far as people walking in and out of a room, but also how their placement would affect the emotions of the audience. We also experimented quite a lot with how different lenses might make the audience feel: Is it personal? Is it more intimate? Is it aggressive or passive? Those were new ideas that we played around with.
CPG: James Cameron (co-founder and co-chairman of CPG) said that "Pi" has shown that 3D can be used for smaller, more intimate films. Do you agree?
CM: Ang feels like "Pi" was the first art house movie to be shot in 3D. We felt like we had to explore this new medium. We had to try to figure it out.
CPG: Did shooting "Pi" in 3D affect the decision of cameras you used?
CM: No. We used the Arri Alexa'. We tested with a bunch of cameras. At the time, it held water highlights the best. Cameras are always improving. There will always be a new test to see which one is best for what you need, every time you do a movie.
CPG: Why did you pick CPG for "Pi?"
CM: They get me everything I need. I knew I needed a really good underwater 3D rig. They know the Alexa that would be housed in the rig. I couldn't think of anyone else who could do that, so I didn't even test with anyone else. I talked to Vince and said "I really need this camera rig; we need this thing built." So they did it and it was great. It was my first opportunity to shoot underwater in 3D.
CPG: You also had CPG experts on the set in Taiwan?
CM: We had a number of guys there from CPG, including stereographers who offered advice on the 3D.
CPG: Did you notice any big changes in 3D technology between the time you shot "Tron" and "Pi?"
CM: Vince has shown me some of the newer rigs (smARTrigs ') and there's a huge improvement in those. They're simpler and easier to use. So even in the short time since we shot "Life of Pi," this equipment has come a long way.
CPG: Did you consider post-production conversion for "Pi?"
CM: No. We had high hopes of keeping a lot of the ocean in the film. I just didn't see how you could cut up and convert water moving away from the camera or rolling toward you or sideways or capping. How do you chop that up and separate that for the conversion process? It just wouldn't have been the same. What I had seen of conversion didn't convince me. I didn't see it happening for either "Pi" or "Tron."
CPG: Do you have a favorite 3D scene in "Pi?"
CM: I think the ship sinking was a good 3D moment. I loved the water in general, how it looked. I did quite a lot of 3D testing for the water scenes-- how it felt when the surface of the water is at the top third of the screen versus the bottom third. It's very interesting. If the water level is halfway up the screen, audiences might have an emotional reaction to that, almost like you're drowning. It's unsettling.
CPG: Do you think "Pi" would have been made without 3D?
CM: Ang really felt that the movie had to be made in 3D. For him it seemed like it was the only choice. Obviously, I've seen this movie in both 3D and 2D. You know, you really do miss some things. The water has this flatter look to it in the 2D. It feels a lot different. With 3D you just have a lot more texture, which was very important in "Pi."
Ang loves 3D. So do I. He will always try to shoot in 3D. He was very excited about the results. He's always talking about creating another language for film, another way to tell the story. So in this impossible story to tell, he felt like 3D would give it another dimension. We still feel like there's so much more to learn from 3D, that there are so many places we can go where we haven't gone.
CAMERON | PACE Group (CPG) is the industry leader in 3D technologies and production services from SLATE2SCREEN'. Led by founders and Co-Chairmen James Cameron and Vince Pace, CPG delivers the highest quality 3D through its technology products, solutions, and creative tools engineered for use across all media channels. Supporting filmmakers, broadcasters, studios, networks and creative teams globally, the company has unparalleled expertise in helping content producers realize the full potential of 3D as a powerful and immersive medium. CPG's easy, efficient, and cost-effective 3D solutions have supported productions generating more than $8 billion in box office, supported 31 3D feature films, close to 300 3D broadcasts, and multiple 3D media experiences in all formats. CPG-supported films and broadcasts have won numerous Oscars® and Emmys® for both technical and creative achievements. For more information about the company, please visit: http://www.cameronpace.com/.
In August 2012, CPG launched CAMERON | PACE Group China in the northeastern port city of Tianjin, just outside Beijing. CPG China is uniquely positioned to support a market that has seen exponential growth in 3D entertainment in the last five years, in large part due to the enormous popularity of CPG co-founder James Cameron's "Avatar" and his recent "Titanic 3D," which scored the biggest box office opening in China's history when it premiered last April. China's pursuit of 3D technology is unparalleled and CPG's Total Solutions technologies will be an integral part of that growth.
SOURCE CAMERON | PACE Group


text:
The ZS24-W Quad Rocker Faceplate is used in conjunction with the US240 UPB Dimming Transceiver Switch to provide the same ultra-reliable control as a Standard Dimming Transceiver Switch, while offering greater flexibility. Each unit has one switch that controls a single load of up to 900W, and can be field-configured with other face plates (sold separately) to accept single, double, triple, and quad rockers, as well as 4 and 8-button face plates. All face plates are interchangeable in the field without ever having to untwist a single wire nut!
Downloads Available for this item:
Download the ZS24-W Single Rocker Faceplate Manual


text:
This weekend, we reported on Michael Bay's quotes from Nickelodeon's Upfront about his company Platinum Dunes' upcoming live-action adaptation of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
He said: "When you see this movie, kids are going to believe, one day, that these turtles actually do exist when we are done with this movie. These turtles are from an alien race and they are going to be tough, edgy, funny and completely lovable."
Naturally, fans weren't too happy to hear that the turtles were now going to be 'an alien race' and there was a lot of negative feedback.
Michael Bay has now responded to the feedback on his official site with the following:
"Fans need to take a breath, and chill. They have not read the script. Our team is working closely with one of the original creators of Ninja Turtles to help expand and give a more complex back story. Relax, we are including everything that made you become fans in the first place. We are just building a richer world."
Paramount Pictures is planning a December 25, 2013 release date for the film.


text:
Welcome back to The Beat-Off, our crowd-sourced effort to determine the very best and the very worst reporters in Major League Baseball. Last week, we covered the National League. Today, we turn our attention to the American League. We'll start with the AL West.
We've organized the threads by team. Check out some model threads like these ones on the Nats, Mets and Giants. Jump in the discussion down below and tell us why your favorite/least-favorite reporter is the best/worst. If you can, try to reply in your team's thread (it keeps things organized!). And don't just give us the name of a reporter. Explain your answer, ideally without saying something stupid about "bias."
The lists below are not exhaustive; the names are there to get the conversation started. Last week, we missed Giants blogger Grant Brisbee. Though not a beat reporter by trade, we were quick to learn that he is probably the most popular team-oriented baseball blogger on Earth. If we missed someone, do let us know.
AL West: [Rangers] [Angels] [A's] [Mariners] [Astros]
NL West: [Dodgers] [Giants] [Diamondbacks] [Rockies] [Padres]
NL Central: [Cubs] [Cards] [Reds] [Pirates] [Brewers]


text:
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Under Secretary of the Army Joseph W. Westphal visited Soldiers and their families, Sept. 8, 2012, at an Army Reserve Yellow Ribbon Program event in Kansas City, Mo.
During his stay, Westphal met with some of the 700 participants and their children and stressed the Army's commitment to helping with transitional issues surrounding deployment.
The Soldiers are assigned to Army Reserve units from across the United States and attended the event because they recently returned from a deployment or are preparing to deploy overseas. The Yellow Ribbon Program is family focused and designed to strengthen and reconnect servicemembers and their families.
The event was hosted by the Army Reserve's 88th Regional Support Command based at Fort McCoy, Wis. The 88th RSC has been hosting these monthly events since 2009 for Army Reserve Soldiers and other reserve-component service members. The 88th RSC, one of the four RSCs in the Army Reserve, provides base operations support for a 19-state region from Ohio to the Pacific coast, and from Kansas to the Canadian border.
The reintegration training phase focused on combat stress, marriage and parental counseling, and employment assistance. In addition, community service partners were on site to educate Soldiers and families on the benefits and resources available to them in order to overcome the challenges that lay ahead.
Westphal listened to the concerns of families struggling with post-deployment issues and pledged the Army's continuing support for the program.
"Soldiers and families make incredible sacrifices to protect our nation and the Army has an enduring commitment to giving you the resources and tools you deserve to successfully reintegrate back into your personal and professional lives," he said. "The Yellow Ribbon Program is testament to this never-ending commitment to our Soldiers and their families. I applaud the contributions of the U.S. Army Reserve and thank you for your critical role as we reshape the Army of 2020."
The Yellow Ribbon Program began more than five years ago through the National Defense Authorization Act and it has benefited tens of thousands of service members from all branches of the military. This program assists in dealing with prevention of suicide, domestic violence, alcohol and drug abuse and other interruptive areas that impact the health of the force.
Brig. Gen. Alton G. Berry, commander of the 88th RSC, also attended the event and highlighted the unique nature of the program.
"We want to provide structure to this event but do it in a relaxed, approachable way," Berry said. "Participants don't wear uniforms. There is social programming, and it takes place at a hotel away from any military installation. We want these families to have introspection but also an opportunity to relax and reconnect with one another. The focus is on the family under the Army's umbrella for control and support."
Sgt. Daniel C. Olsen, a paralegal noncommissioned officer with the 530th Military Police Battalion from Omaha, Neb., deployed on his second overseas tour to Afghanistan last year. Olsen attended the event with his girlfriend, Jade Bruns.
"This program helped me understand the problems and issues he was dealing with," said Bruns, "that he just could not seem to explain."
Olsen echoed that sentiment, "The resources offered, from the content of the sessions to the booths outside the sessions, were very valuable. I think it helped both of us to understand some of the difficulties families face after going through a deployment."


text: The HSG Freshers' Week One week before the academic year officially starts, the new students of the Assessment Year meet for the first time on campus of the University of St.Gallen (HSG) to become familiar with the university environment. The Freshers' Week is an integral part of the Assessment Year at the HSG. The overall objective of the Freshers' Week is to prepare the new students well for student life and their new role at the university, both regarding content and organisation. Each Freshers' Week is dedicated to a specific topic in the form of a case study that the students work on during the week. The case study The Freshers' Week is scheduled for calendar week 37 and offers more than 1,500 students an opportunityto deal with an interdisciplinary and challenging topic.The work on the case study is supplemented by keynote presentations. Induction sessions and a new setting Besides the case study, students will be introduced to the course structure and administrative processes of the university, the IT infrastructure and the library. In addition, there is opportunity of meeting and establishing first contacts with fellow students that may well last for a long time. Closing Event Highlight of the Freshers' Week is the Closing Event on Friday morning, which takes place in the Olma Exhibition Hall in St.Gallen.


text:
This is a giclee print of my original pen, ink and watercolour illustration of the curious & playful Beagle.
This portrait was originally created for the 'Top Dogs' illustration, but is available as an individual print. Custom prints featuring any combination of dogs are also available as well as specially commissioned portraits of canine friends. Get in touch for more information.
Printed onto beautifully textured 225gsm Somerset enhanced 100% cotton paper using professional pigment inks, this print is available as A4 or A3, mounted or framed.
All unframed and mounted prints come in protective stay-flat sleeves and are packaged in stiffened envelopes. Framed prints are bubble-wrapped and sent via courier. Please allow up to 2 weeks for production and delivery and see framing options for full details
From: £14.00
There are no reviews yet.


text:
Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Alex Jones' Police State 4: The Rise of FEMA and Jason Bermas' Invisible Empire are now available to watch on You Tube in full length for free, and we are calling on all Infowarriors to help us make the videos go viral in an effort to reach millions of new people, just as we did with The Obama Deception.
It is imperative that people circulate the You Tube links in order to send the videos to the top of the You Tube charts so that those who wouldn't normally come into contact with this sort of information are exposed to it for the first time.
The viral success of The Obama Deception shortly after it hit You Tube last year has been widely cited as one of the influencing factors behind Obama's plummeting approval rating, particularly amongst young people who voted for him yet have since woken up to the fact that he is nothing more than a puppet for Wall Street and the global elite.
The film even landed Alex Jones the dubious honor of appearing on a White House enemies list.
The Obama Deception has received a staggering 5.8 million views on just one You Tube version in little over 12 months. With your help in spreading the word, we can attempt to have the same viral impact with both Police State 4 and Invisible Empire.
Watch the two videos below via the embedded players. Direct links to You Tube are also provided. Invisible Empire has already received over 220,000 views in under two weeks without us even promoting the You Tube version until now.
Thanks to all the Prison Planet.tv members who subscribed and were able to exclusively watch both films in super high quality on the release dates. Without your support, we wouldn't be able to promote where people can see the films for free. We hope we can rely on your future support for subsequent films.
We also thank those who bought the DVD's and are making copies to reach hundreds of thousands more people in the information war.
As the global banking elite increase their stranglehold over the United States and the police state grows, the people are peacefully resisting in numerous ways. One of those ways is a wholesale rejection of establishment media propaganda that has dominated the country for decades.
By turning these two documentaries into mass viral transmissions we can help to crumble another edifice of the corporate media structure and in the process recruit millions more Infowarriors to the cause.
By the way, people who know what's coming are taking advantage of our healthy & delicious storable food!


text:
Alice Stewart (1906-2002)
Alice Stewart was a British epidemiologist. In the 1950s she demonstrated the link between fetal X‑rays and childhood cancer.
Stewart studied medicine at Cambridge University. During the Second World War she investigated health risks of factory workers, and her research saw her elected as the youngest ever Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians.
Between 1953 and 1955, Stewart launched a landmark study to investigate causes of childhood cancer. She analysed questionnaires completed by women whose children had died from cancer. Her results showed X‑rays during pregnancy doubled the risk of childhood cancer.
Stewart's findings were not welcomed in the medical community. She said X‑rays 'were the favourite toy of the medical profession', but medical authorities were unwilling to recognise that radiation was as dangerous as Stewart claimed. Ian Donald's invention of the ultrasound machine in the 1970s provided an alternative. Overwhelming evidence convinced major medical bodies to stop X‑raying pregnant women.
Stewart later became an antinuclear and radiation activist. She co-published a study with Thomas Mancuso that showed workers at nuclear weapons plants had a greater cancer risk than previously thought. Their statistical methods were criticised by Oxford epidemiologist Richard Doll, but their findings attracted public attention and prompted government investigations in the late 1970s.
Related Themes and Topics
Related links
Techniques and Technologies:
G Greene, The Woman Who Knew Too Much: Alice Stewart and the Secrets of Radiation (Ann Arbour: University of Michigan Press, 1999)
A M Stewart et al, 'Preliminary Communication: Malignant Disease in Childhood and Diagnostic Irradiation In-Utero', Lancet, 2 (1956), pp 447
A M Stewart et al, 'Radiation exposures of Hanford workers dying from cancer and other causes', Health Physics, 33 (1977), pp 369-385
The study of epidemic disease, including its spread, causes and methods of control.
The condition of having a developing unborn embryo or foetus in the body. A human pregnancy is usually of 40 weeks gestation.
Transmission of any type of energy by means of rays, waves or as mobile sub-atomic particles (electrons, neutrons and protons).


text:
When Jaime Siman left his beloved El Salvador, he didn't know God would bring him back to his people one day with a new way of presenting the gospel.
How does cowboy life intersect with creation? Dinosaurs.
Even unbelievers know that the Bible's a dangerous text because its internal purpose is to redeem—to change the very nature of humanity.
For more than a hundred years, every Supreme Court justice has signed his or her name in a Bible that is maintained by the Court's curator.
The passion that drives this magazine and its parent ministry, Answers in Genesis, is to spread the Creator's message about the gospel.
No results found in Impact.
Learn what the Bible really teaches about caring for the environment and read the shocking results of a survey showing what the twentysomethings in your church believe.Browse Issue Subscribe
Answers in Genesis is an apologetics ministry, dedicated to helping Christians defend their faith and proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ.


text:
Wednesday – February 19, 2020
The calendar below reflects the current and future MATC committee and board meeting dates. Click on the PDF links to view the meeting agenda. PDF viewing requires Adobe Acrobat reader.
FPO = Finance, Personnel and Operations, ESIR = Education, Services and Institutional Relations, PTV=Public Television


text:
Welcome to Earth Energy US
There are 0 items in your cart.
Email to a Friend
Be the first to review this product
Protect your RV, boat, off-grid cabin, or tiny house batteries from poorly adjusted generators, and unreliable public power outages/brown-outs. Iota's DLS series converter-chargers provide high quality DC power wherever a source of 110 volt AC power is available. Whether you are using a generator or want a reliable power conditioner. DLS Power Converters protect your batteries and DC appliances from power spikes and fluctuations. The internal IQ4 Smart Controller provides intelligent automatic charging control for your DLS Battery Charger, keeping batteries fully charged and operating for long life. The IQ4 Charge Controller allows the DLS Series battery charger to operate as an automatic "smart charger", delivering the charge your battery needs at the time it needs it. The IQ4 uses four different charging modes to keep your battery in peak condition.
NOTE FOR GENERATOR SYSTEMS: Iota DLS chargers are not power factor correcting. Because of this, the generator powering your charger must supply at least 30–35% more power to the charger than the maximum rated wattage of the DLS unit. We recommend using a generator with double the output of the DLS charger, to ensure your generator is never overloaded. For the DLS15: Minimum generator size: 350 watts. Recommended generator size: 400 watts.
Use spaces to separate tags. Use single quotes (') for phrases.
Only registered users can write reviews. Please, log in or register
There are no product questions yet.
Ask a question and Give an answer. Help your fellow customer.
* Required Fields
Back to top


text:
Posts tagged with "toy"
More Flash Halloween Webcam Toys
Welcome to this time of the year again when people scoop out pumpkin seeds and costume shops make their year's worth of sales during one weekend. Halloween! So nice to be kids again. And now you can be one too, without even leaving your computer desk – just hit the images below and have some fun.
We've teamed up with Leipzig Flash studio Tastenkunst and made these two apps. Marcel Klammer and his team had developed Beyond Reality Face technology which allows using human faces as markers for augmented reality. PhotoBoo substitutes the face so you can experience how does it feel to be a (dead) celebrity.
GooTube is based on my last year's experiment – Black Hole Sun and similarly uses face.com API technology to find feature points in a face, but then BRF's Point Tracker is used to track these points and finally HiSlope helps to apply the distortions to the live webcam feed.
Both apps utilise FaceBook connect so it's even easier to socially share your alter ego (and even set your FB profile pic!) Now go and make goofies out of yourselves. And don't forget to spread the word - boooooooooo!
Many thanks to PtitJean for his initial face.com API for AS3.01:40 PM | posts | 0 Comments | Tags: as3, brf, webcam, toy, fun, halloween, experimental, fx, flash, hislope


text:
Santino Quaranta had a hunch D.C. United wouldn't exercise the option on his contract, but he did think the club for which he had played 10 of his 11 Major League Soccer seasons would try to retain him with a reduced salary.
Instead, he said, he didn't hear anything from United officials until midday Tuesday when coach Ben Olsen called him from a scouting trip in Europe. Quaranta wouldn't return to the club, Olsen told him.
"I figured all along we'd get it done, regardless of whether they picked up the option," said Quaranta, a 27-year-old Archbishop Curley alumnus who earned about $120,000 this season. "It's disappointing. Done deal, see you later. It's puzzling. It hurts. You put so much into your organization. 'D.C. United' were the first words my [21/2-year-old] son learned."
Quaranta, a forward, joined United in 2001 at age 16 and, after a promising rookie season, struggled with injuries for years. Substance abuse derailed his career, and after brief stays with New York and Los Angeles, he was given a second chance by United. Quaranta regained his form in 2008, earning a place on the U.S. national team, and started 68 league matches over three seasons. This year, however, he made just 10 starts (21 appearances) and contributed one goal and four assists.
Quaranta will gauge interest from other MLS clubs ahead of the two-stage re-entry drafts, but with deep family roots in the Washington-Baltimore area, he said he would have to think long and hard about resuming his MLS career elsewhere.
"This place means a lot to me. I'm going to miss all of the supporters, all of the people. It's hard, but that's business. I don't know what's going to happen next."
United also announced that it has declined the contract options on eight other players: Clyde Simms, Marc Burch, Devon McTavish, Kurt Morsink and Brandon Barklage, Steve Cronin, Jed Zayner and Joseph Ngwenya.
"We need to have some flexibility with the players we're targeting to bring in," general manager Dave Kasper told MLSsoccer.com. "The unfortunate part of dealing in a salary cap environment is you always have difficult choices every year with your rosters."


text:
By at July 09 2019 10:24:16
In paper forms the specific sub-questions cannot be hidden from the user when they are not relevant to them - but in interactive forms this is relatively easy to do. Use progressive revealing as much as possible in your form design to shield your users from questions they do not need to see.
Provide examples and guidance and notes at the point of need. Have you ever got half-way through a form and suddenly come to a question that asks you about something you do not understand or have no idea about where to find the answer? Its even more infuriating if the question says something like.


text:
Garden of Life® RAW Resveratrol™ is a powerful, whole food
resveratrol formula, combining RAW fermented resveratrol, 23 RAW
organically grown fruits and vegetables, including Cabernet Sauvignon
Grapes, plus live probiotics and digestive enzymes. A synergistic blend
of bioactive phytonutrients with a wide array of beneficial cofactors,
RAW Resveratrol™ supports antioxidant activity, heart health and healthy
RAW Resveratrol™ is a highly potent source of polyphenols,
providing 350mg of trans-resveratrol per serving—as much trans-resveratrol
as in 200 bottles of red wine—supporting numerous systems, including the
circulatory, respiratory, reproductive and digestive systems.*
RAW Resveratrol™ is a RAW, fermented, whole food formula designed to
provide you with powerful antioxidant support for a healthy heart.*
RAW • Vegan • Gluten Free • Dairy Free • Live Probiotics & Enzymes •
No Binders, Fillers or Carriers
Garden of Life is committed to bringing you the highest quality, whole
food nutrition to empower you to experience extraordinary health. RAW Resveratrol™ is a product that exemplifies three of the most fundamental
and foundational principles in Garden of Life's philosophy on human
Whole Food Nutrition - When it comes to supplementation, Garden of Life
offers nutrient-dense, whole food ingredients rather than synthetic
The Power of Fermentation – Fermentation is an ancient tradition lost to
most of us since the advent of refrigeration and the industrial food
chain. Fermentation not only utilizes probiotic microorganisms to
preserve food, but also creates novel, beneficial compounds while
pre-digesting the food and liberating its valuable nutrients.*
RAW Living Nutrients – Raw foods and botanicals are teeming with
digestive enzymes that help the body break down and assimilate
nutrients. Garden of Life is leading the raw nutrition movement and has
developed an extensive offering of RAW supplements.
Try RAW Resveratrol™ from Garden of Life, providing the benefits of red
wine, in a convenient, reliable and affordable form, without the alcohol
or associated side effects.


text:
In November a gathering of 150 GPS engineers convened in Stanford at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center to discuss the $110 billion GPS market for military and commercial aviation systems, consumer mapping services in cars and automated agricultural machines, among other related industries at the fifth annual Stanford University symposium on Position, Navigation and Time.
A big topic on the table is that GPS is no longer the only navigation and tracking system on the planet any more. According to a November article in Wired, there are four things threatening the future of GPS:
- Next-generation mobile broadband services angling for a piece of the electromagnetic spectrum relied upon by GPS
- Cheap GPS jammers flooding the highways, thanks to consumers worried about invasive police and employers surveillance;
- Cosmic events, like solar storms
- Future location technology that will ultimately push those services to places where GPS hasn't been able to go.
What's on the horizon is the new mobile broadband company, Lightsquared, that has been said to threaten GPS signals with interference from a neighboring spectrum. Lightsquared appears at first like it will solve a lot of problems to broadband, by offering cable – like bandwidth to mobile customers through LTE, a next generation wireless service. What's more, the Obama administration has endorsed Lightsquared – which resides in the same spectrum that runs GPS, which is lower power and gets interference easily.


text:
In case you haven't noticed, the military test craze these days is amazing.
Last week it was Boeing's Airborne Laser first full trial, then the anti-missile rocket launched at Vanderberg Airforce Base, and now it is the—quite amazing, I have to admit—Multiple Kill Vehicle hovering test, a system designed to neutralise Inter-Continental Ballistic Missiles, flying into falling warheads and decoys to eliminate them, one by one, with mini-vehicles. As President-elect Obama gets ready to cut unnecessary military programs, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, and the Pentagon are hurrying to demonstrate their ongoing projects. The question is: Would cutting such programs—which generate highly-skilled employment and advance technology—actually help the economy? Would military cuts make the US irrelevant in the long run or could we transition to a more peaceful aerospace industry?


text:
Rudolf the red nose reindeer is a classic character that has been around for so many years. I can remember being a kid, and watching the Christmas specials that aired on t.v for a week straight. Christmas specials usually start airing a week before the December holiday, and almost all day on Christmas Eve. Today, I thought I would upload a newer version of the red nosed reindeer since the old one I have isn't quite colored properly to resemble the TV version character. So, having spewed all that I've said, I think you should know that you will be taught to "draw Rudolf", step by step once again. I'm not going to lie, it is almost a nonstop urge to draw duplicates on tutorials I already have just because the old stuff is stale, and the new stuff is new and, well...better. I really wanted to capture Rudolf's essence with this drawing lesson because when you're young, he is a figure that a lot of kids look up to and enjoy. The whole story of how Rudolf became the head slay puller is somewhat enlightening to young kids that know what it's like to be different, and made fun of. I have always loved watching this bright and cheery reindeer as he goes on his many adventures with his friends from across the north pole. Santa knew that the other reindeer where a bit mean to Rudolf, and that's why he took great pride in asking him if he would do the honor and pull his slay to deliver all the toys and goodies to the boys and girls of the world. I hope you have fun when you draw Rudolf, even if it's no where near December 25th. Happy early x-mas folks, and have fun.
DragoArt members upload artwork and drawing tutorials! They are also allowed to leave comments on tutorials, profiles, etc. Many more features, as well; it's way better than just being a boring guest! Register Now!


text:
Monday, August 1, 2011
Backstory and Debt
It's a real pleasure to serve as a guest blogger this month. Although I initially planned to write about either Law and History Review or the U.S. Supreme Court's recent decisions about juveniles for my first post, I wanted to share some thoughts (not mine) on debt and American history. Over the weekend, I listened to the American History Guys on BackStory. Here's the link: http://backstoryradio.org/a-history-of-our-national-debt/
Posted by David Tanenhaus at 4:30 PM
1 comment:
- Mai-Linh Hong said...
Thanks for this. I look forward to your future posts, David!
- August 1, 2011 at 5:20:00 PM EDT
Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)