October 13, there are protests planned for at least 90 college campuses across the United States today.
Also today, hundreds of janitors and security guards have joined the Wall Street protests in New York City.
Across the world, there have been anti-government, anti-corruption and anti-corporation protests in about 1,400 cities, so far.
The latest Reuters/Ipsos poll shows that 82% of U.S. citizens are aware of the Occupy movement, and 38% support it. 35% are unsure, with only 24% opposed.
October 13, Reports out of New York City say that the mayor has ordered protestors out, so that city workers can clean Zucotti park.
Protestors will hold a meeting soon, to decide how they will respond.
Several War on Terror veterans were arrested, one a former U.S. Army interrogator in Iraq. At least eleven protestors in San Francisco, California, were arrested on Wednesday. They had blocked access to the Wells Fargo headquarters.
On Tuesday, about 200 protestors were arrested in Boston, Massachusetts, and about 27 in Chicago, Illinois.
A former equities broker says James Dimon, CEO of JP Morgan Chase & Company, gave the New York City police millions of dollars to fight the protestors: “…$4.6 million to the New York Police Department to beef up police presence on the streets and to crack heads and to violently oppress protesters.”-Max Keiser, former equities broker
In the past Keiser called JP Morgan “…the biggest financial terrorist on Wall Street.”
“Buk-M1 surface to air missile systems, modern communications systems and heavy armor, including a battalion of T-80 tanks, have already been delivered to the Kurils. The provision of modern weapons and hardware for the troops in the Kurils will continue.”-Russian Defense Ministry statement
On islands just north of Hokkaido, Russia is modernizing and increasing its military presence. Recently, the new Japanese government had made several statements about taking the islands back from Russia.
Russia is taking Japan’s threats seriously and has been upgrading weapon systems on the Southern Kuril Islands, as well as increasing troop numbers.
New bases are also being built, which includes family housing. Russian officials say the buildup was actually ordered by President Dmitry Medvedev back in February.
The number of Japanese leaving their country, in one year, has hit a record 1.1 million. That’s according to the Japanese Foreign Ministry, which counted the number of Japanese who’ve officially become permanent residents of foreign countries.
The country of choice for most Japanese expatriates is the United States, with more than 388,000 becoming residents as of the end of 2010.
China is next with about 131,000, and Australia with about 70,800. The top three countries have remained unchanged since 2008.
Within the U.S., Los Angeles is the number one destination followed by New York City.
Blaming the March 11 disasters, credit research firm Teikoku Databank says at least 373 companies have collapsed since then.
Construction firms topped the list with 63 bankruptcies (despite reconstruction opportunities), followed by hotels and inns with 32 (despite people who’ve lost their homes and need a place to stay) and clothing companies with 23 (despite people who’ve lost all their clothes in the tsunami).
Even companies far away from the disaster areas have failed. More business failures are expected, because there are 2,500 companies who say they are still unable to resume operations!
October 12, Sony announced that over the weekend their computer files were hacked, again.
This time as many as 93,000 customer data files could have been stolen. Sony officials do not think credit card data was stolen.
Once again, Sony is asking their customers to change their passwords.
Yokohama City officials are testing their soil for strontium, after a private testing firm said they found high levels of strontium on some roof tops.
The company said they detected 195 becquerels of strontium per kilogram, more than six times the government safety limit. Yokohama has already suffered cesium levels at 80 times the government limits.
Yokohama is about 250 kilometers (155 miles) from the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.
The following is a brief on research I did on how Revolutions actually work, because they don’t follow the predictions of Karl Marx; that revolutions are led by the lower classes. Three authors were read: Crane Brinton, James C. Davies and Ted Gurr.
James C. Davies (creator of the J-curve theory of revolutions) compared the theories of Karl Marx and A. de Tocqueville, with the Dorr Rebellion, 1917 Russian Revolution and 1952 Egyptian Revolution.
Davies found that economically motivated revolutions come after a relatively long time of decline for the middle and upper classes (the poor are too destitute to do anything about their situation). In other words, it’s like a frog in a boiling pot of water; it takes awhile before the middle and upper classes realize they’re being screwed over.
Davies also discovered that if economic times are bad enough no revolution will take place, because everyone is too busy fending for themselves. In other words if the middle and upper classes wait too long, they won’t have the strength to fight the elites.
Ted Gurr (Why Men Rebel) found that civil strife is affected by many factors, including economic deprivation and how the society views its leaders/government.
Gurr found that societies with a history of recurring civil strife are most likely to continue with such problems in the future. Here in the United States the main problem is that too many citizens put too much faith in their ‘authorities’; from organized religion, to Corporate America and their government (at all levels/local/state/federal). The irony is that the United States was founded on rebellion against authority (something that has been forgotten by many U.S. citizens).
Gurr also found that the success, or failure, of a revolution depends on how much support (from the general population and from outside the country) it gets.
One way the government/Corporate America can snuff out domestic support is to control the media coverage of such revolutions. In fact our government (along with the British) has also used the media to create false revolutions (false flag ops) in other countries: The 1953 coup in Iran is a prime example.
Another proof of support for revolutions comes from the 1776 U.S. Revolution. If it wasn’t for the occasional raids into the southern Colonies by the Spanish, and the blockade of the British navy by the French navy, there would be no United States.
Crane Brinton (The Anatomy of Revolution) applied the scientific method in studying the 1641 English Revolution, 1776 U.S. Revolution (American War of Independence), the 1789 French Revolution and the 1917 Russian Revolution.
Brinton found that those revolutions were actually started by middle and upper class leaders. The poor had little to do with it. The motivation of the middle and upper classes were economic: They were living in circumstances that were threatening to take away the economic gains they, and their predecessors had made, for the benefit of the elites.
Some beginning signs of Revolution: Austerity acts; tax increases/cuts to social programs. Tax revolts. Mobilization of Revolutionaries. Ineffectual government reforms/accommodations. Government repression.
Revolutionaries tend to be better leaders, organizers and motivators, than the establishment, but Brinton has warnings for Revolutionaries: Usually what happens is moderates take control of government but end up running things the same as before. Then extremists take over, and things can get nasty, like a “reign of terror”. Extremists can take advantage of “mob mentality” resulting in social terror that is presented as being democratic. Eventually extremists turn on each other, leading to dictatorships. (Also, read Orwell’s Animal Farm. There’s also a cartoon version, but it’s not really for the kids ’cause it follows the book closely.)
So, these three researchers discovered that it’s not the poor who lead revolutions, it is the middle and upper classes. The middle and upper classes revolt because their economically unstable governments (and now unstable Corporate America as well) put pressure on the more stable public, which causes the public to feel threatened and creates, at the very least, the perception that their economic prosperity (or even the chance of ever achieving prosperity) is finished.
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“The standard planet formation theory assumes that Uranus, Neptune and the cores of Jupiter and Saturn formed by accreting only small objects in the proto-planetary disk. They should have suffered no giant collisions. The fact that Uranus was hit at least twice suggests that significant impacts were typical in the formation of giant planets. So, the standard theory has to be revised.”-Alessandro Morbidelli, Observatoire de la Cote d’Azur in Nice, France
Growing evidence of how the planets in our outer solar system formed, might bring some legitimacy to an ancient Sumerian ‘myth’.
Past ideas about how the outer planets were formed suggested that nothing major happened, no big impacts with other celestial bodies, things like that.
But remember when Jupiter got hit by that big comet (Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9)? Now scientists think they’ve figured out why Uranus spins on its side, with its axis almost horizontal to the rest of the planets: It suffered major impacts, at least twice.
There is an ancient Sumerian myth which predates Hebrew writings by thousands of years. It talks of what I call a Ronin (masterless) Planet, named Nibiru. While Nibiru might be the cause of the cyclic catastrophes on Earth, the myth indicates that most of its orbits take it through what we call the outer solar system.
The sixth dynastic king of a unified Nibiru, EnShar (Master of the Shar), focused on trying to find out why their planet’s atmosphere was thinning, causing terrible climate change.
EnShar realized that Nibiru’s orbit takes it into the path of the inner and outer planets circling the Sun, but mainly the outer planets: “To remedy the afflictions ways he sought; of Nibiru heavenly circuit [orbit] he made much study. In its loop, of the Sun’s family five members it embraced [outer solar system], planets of dazzling beauty. For cures to the afflictions, their atmospheres he caused to be examined. To each he gave a name, ancestral forefathers he honored; as heavenly couples he them considered. An and Antu [Uranus & Neptune], the twin like planets, he called the first two to be encountered. Beyond in Nibiru’s circuit were Anshar and Kishar [Saturn & Jupiter], in their size the largest. As a messenger Gaga [Pluto] among the others coursed, sometimes first Nibiru to meet.”
It’s clear in the myth that Nibiru came close enough to the outer planets, often enough, that it was possible for their scientists to get good data about those planets. The myth explains that at the time of EnShar it was rare for Nibiru to pass through the inner solar system, and even more difficult to study the inner planets: “Beyond, like a boundary, the Hammered Bracelet [asteroid belt, which might have been more spread out back then] the Sun encircled: As a guardian of the heaven’s forbidden region [inner solar system] with havoc it protected. Other children of the Sun, four in number [Mercury, Venus, Earth & Mars], from intrusion the bracelet shielded.”
The ancient myth does suggest that when Nibiru passes through the outer solar system it occasionally knocks into the big gas planets. But more clearly, when Nibiru passes through the inner solar system it almost always wreaks havoc.
The asteroid belt, and the Earth were the result of Nibiru smashing into a much larger planet and its eleven moons/smaller planets: “Face to face they came, Tiamat [proto-earth] and Nibiru; against each other they were advancing. They for battle approached, they pressed on for single combat. The Lord [Nibiru] spread his net [gravitational field], to encompass her he cast it. With fury Tiamat cried out, like one possessed she lost her senses. The Evil Wind [electromagnetic radiation?], which had been behind him, Nibiru drove forward, in her face he let it loose. She opened her mouth [giant breach in Tiamat’s magnetic field, Earth suffered one in 2007] the Evil Wind to swallow, but could not close her lips. The Evil Wind charged her belly, into her innards it made its way. Her innards were howling, her body was distended, her mouth was open wide. Through the opening Nibiru shot a brilliant arrow a lightning most divine. It pierced her innards, her belly it tore apart, it tore into her womb, it split apart her heart.”
Nibiru finishes the job on its return orbit: “To Tiamat, whom he had subdued, the Lord Nibiru then returned. He made his way to her, paused to view her lifeless body. To artfully divide the monster in his heart lie was planning.
Then, as a mussel, into two parts he split her, her chest from her lower parts he separated. Her inner channels he cut apart, her golden veins he beheld with wonder.” Also: “With his mace the hinder part he smashed to bits and pieces,
Then strung them together as a band to form a Hammered Bracelet. Locking them together, as watchmen he stationed them, a Firmament to divide the waters [upper water/outer solar system] from the waters [water below/inner solar system].” Also: “He gazed upon Tiamat’s wounded half, to her Upper Part he gave attention: The waters of life, her bounty, from the wounds were still pouring….By Firm Land let her be called Ki, henceforth her name to be!
Apsu [celestial water(dark matter/dark energy/space)/god/sun] to the words of Nibiru gave heed: Let the Earth join my family, Ki, Firm Land of the Below [meaning terrestrial planet of the water below/inner solar system], let Earth her name henceforth be! By her turning let there day and night be; in the days my healing rays to her I shall provide. Let Kingu [a proto-planet/moon of Tiamat] be a creature of the night, to shine at night I shall appoint him Earth’s companion, the Moon forever to be!”
This myth is supposedly older than any other found so far. Sumerian clay cylinder seals clearly show all the planets of our solar system, plus Nibiru. How did they know? The ancient Sumerian writings were translated in the 1960s & 1970s, now astronomers are finding more evidence that suggests these ancient myths might not be myths at all, almost like gettin’ knocked on Uranus.
Here’s a link to an OK (some grammatical & spelling errors) pdf posting of The Lost Book of Enki.
Iran intends to boost the volume of its oil swaps to 200,000 barrels per day by March 20, 2012.
Iranian officials say that by using newly devised mechanisms, the demand for trading oil through barter deals, rather than using cash, is climbing.
The barters involve swapping oil related products, such as crude oil for refined fuel.
Iran is the second largest oil exporter within the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC).