signs point to economic rise at end of 2011, but experts see false dawn

from nytimes: As the fourth quarter draws to a close, a spate of unexpectedly good economic data suggests that it will have some of the fastest and strongest economic growth since the recovery started in 2009, causing a surge in the stock market and cheering economists, investors and policy makers.

In recent weeks, a broad range of data - like reports on new residential construction and small business confidence - have beaten analysts’ expectations. Initial claims for jobless benefits, often an early indicator of where the labor market is headed, have dropped to their lowest level since May 2008. And prominent economics groups say the economy is growing three to four times as quickly as it was early in the year, at an annual pace of about 3.7 percent.

But the good news also comes with a significant caveat. Many forecasters say the recent uptick probably does not represent the long-awaited start to a strong, sustainable recovery. Much of the current strength is caused by temporary factors. And economists expect growth to slow in the first half of 2012 to an annual pace of about 1.5 to 2 percent.

Even that estimate could be optimistic if Washington lawmakers fail to extend aid for the long-term unemployed and a payroll tax cut for the United States’ 160 million wage earners.

At stake is about $150 billion, the bulk of which would go to middle-class families and the unemployed. If Congress does not pass the measures, economists say, it would significantly weaken growth from already-damped levels anticipated early in the new year.

related econocrash updates:
getting worse: 40 ways america is in decline*
economy contributes to slowest population growth rate since 1940s*
video: automaker saab files for bankruptcy in sweden*

peace revolution: episode037 - justified sinners

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'terrorist attack' at moscow airport kills 35

from abcnews: An explosion rocked Moscow's busiest airport today in an apparent "terrorist attack", killing 35 and injuring dozens more, according to Russian officials. The blast erupted in the Domodedovo airport at 4:40 p.m. Moscow time. In addition to the 31 dead, another 120 were injured, Evgeny Khorishko of the Russian Embassy in Washington, D.C., told ABC News, citing Russia's Ministry of Health. The attack was carried out by two suicide bombers, witnesses said according to Russia's state news agency RIA. On Twitter, one purported eyewitness, Ilya Likhtenfeld, said the bomb "was not in the luggage," but on a man standing in a crowd near a cafe. Khorishko, said it was "too early to say" who may have been responsible.

video update: tarpley on prime suspects,
chechen networks & nato intel circles*
severed head found at moscow airport thought to be suicide bomber's*

related geopolitikal updates:
the palestine papers -
1,600 docs reveal slow death of middle east peace process*
china to create largest mega city in the world with 42m people*
blair sister-in-law wants him tried for iraq crimes*
copycat effect: facebook immolations*
text message blows up 'black widow' suicide bomber by accident*

related warwhores updates:
spying for profit:
ex-spy, duane r. clarridge, runs his own private cia*
doctors alarmed by military's use of mind drugs on troops*
america's dirty secret: how a psycho-sexual cult holds US prisoner*
video: defazio says pentagon can't be audited*

american cities that are running out of people

from 24/7 wall st.: The population of the United States has increased steadily by roughly 2.5 million people every year since World War II. Throughout prosperity and hard times, Americans continue to have families. Many of the country’s regions have expanded to accommodate this population increase. Some cities have grown faster than others as the result of being at the center of some important new technology or job market. Others have lost residents because of failing industries and migration. Nevertheless, some of these cities have continued to grow slowly, or at least remain relatively stagnant, buoyed by the rising tide of the national population. There are some cities, however, which have experienced such severe hardship and decline that their populations have actually decreased significantly. New Orleans has lost more than a quarter of its population in the past ten years as the result of Hurricane Katrina. The rest of the cities that have lost major parts of their population have seen their flagship industries which include coal, steel, oil, and auto-related manufacturing fall off or completely collapse.

police state updates: terror drills & rehearsal of misfortune

huge number of disaster drills held throughout america*
national guard training for riot control, mass detentions*
drill helps chicago-area responders prepare for real disaster*
video: chicago tests cbrn response teams*
local, state workers to drill disaster in charleston, sc*
seattle-based erti & mariana islands team up for 36hr terror attack drill*
joint users interoperability communications exercise: terror drills keep franklin, pa hospitals sharp*
emergency personnel, military test preparedness in 3 day reno, nv event*

john lennon on the myth of over-population

from youtube: Yesterday was the anniversary of John Lennon’s assassination. He was not killed by a deranged fan who read it in Catcher In The Rye. He was killed for expressing opinions like the one below...

35 years ago, the big media scare was over population - we were all doomed. Then it was the coming ice age that was going to kill everyone. Now we're all going to die of global warming. Kind of typical that Lennon didn't follow the mainstream thought.




related update: dakota building: a place haunted by lennon's murder - and rosemary's baby

econocrash: secret deals, suicides & saturn shutdown

US secretly tried to make deal with goldman during collapse*
35m americans on food stamps: 12% of US, highest since records kept in '69*
smartphones blamed for rash of france telecom suicides*
hedge fund executive's escalator fall ruled accidental*
US census bureau report: 40m living in poverty*
penske deal fails & gm moves to close saturn*
gm to shut down saturn after penske walks away*
gm & ebay end joint online sales experiment
video: does the fed manipulate the stock market?!*

updates from 10/1:
rhode island borrows $90m from US for jobless claims*
fdic discloses deposit insurance fund is now negative -
download proof of failure in pdf format here*
comcast 'is in talks to buy nbc'*

geopolitiks: coup, kim, anti-semitism & subs

in kingdom, saudi prince's coup 'fails'
from presstv: Saudi Prince Bandar bin Sultan, the kingdom's former ambassador to the United States, is reportedly under house arrest over a conspiracy against the monarch. Saad al-Faqih, head of the opposition group Islamic Reform Movement, told Arab-language TV al-Alam that Prince Bandar has been disappeared and the media has published no word from the ex-diplomat's whereabouts since nearly three months ago. According to al-Faqih, the prince first disappeared in Britain but he returned to the kingdom shortly afterwards. He added that after Saudi officials discovered that he had provoked 200 agents working for the Saudi security service to stage a coup against King Abdullah, he was put under house arrest. Al-Faqih said people close to the king had disclosed Bandar's plots and foiled them. He said Saudi sources believe that intelligence provided by some Arab countries help the Saudi monarch foil Prince Bandar's conspiracy. Power struggle between members of the Saudi royal family has been common as power is shared among some 200 princes out of the estimated 7000 family members. Known as Bandar Bush because of his close relations with former US President George W Bush, the prince is son of Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdul Aziz.

video: webster tarpley on bandar bush's coup*

when bill met il:
clinton gets journos released from nkorea
from ap: North Korean leader Kim Jong Il issued a "special pardon" freeing two jailed American journalists after talks with former U.S. President Bill Clinton, North Korea's official news agency announced Wednesday. Clinton, who arrived in North Korea Tuesday on an unannounced visit, met with the reclusive and ailing Kim for talks described by Pyongyang as "exhaustive." It was Kim's first meeting with a prominent Western figure since his reported stroke nearly a year ago. The release of Laura Ling and Euna Lee, who were arrested March 17 near the China-North Korea border, was a sign of North Korea's "humanitarian and peace-loving policy," the Korean Central News Agency reported.

video: laura ling & euna lee reunited with family


larry franklin, aipac spy case convict, alleges US anti-semitism

in actions reminiscent of the cold war,
US monitoring russian subs off east coast
from nytimes: A pair of nuclear-powered Russian attack submarines has been patrolling off the eastern seaboard of the United States in recent days, a rare mission that has raised concerns inside the Pentagon and intelligence agencies about a more assertive stance by the Russian military. The episode has echoes of the cold war era, when the United States and the Soviet Union regularly parked submarines off each other’s coasts to steal military secrets, track the movements of their underwater fleets — and be poised for war.


late-night tv considered as population control tool in india*

envirohealth: arctic goo, bad advisors, strays & weather

huge blob of arctic goo floats past arctic alaska communities*
india to sterilize 8m stray dogs*
nais listening sessions: can a monsanto administration really hear?*
update: national animal identification plan stumbles*
obama's cap & trade carbon emissions bill: a stealth scheme to license pollution & fraud*
just 96 months to save world, says prince charles*
proposed pesticide 5000x more potent greenhouse gas than co2*
bill gates sets his sights on controlling the weather*
parkinsons risk 'from raised pesticide level in blood'*

hayden: rising populations could get 'adversarial'

cia: china's military could get 'adversarial'
from world tribune: China’s rise is posing serious challenges and its military buildup and international behavior could produce an “adversarial” relationship with the world, CIA Director Michael V. Hayden said last week. “After two centuries of perceived Western hegemony, China seems to be determined to flex its muscles,” Hayden said.

cia chief sees unrest rising with population
from washington post: Swelling populations and a global tide of immigration will present new security challenges for the United States by straining resources and stoking extremism and civil unrest in distant corners of the globe, CIA Director Michael V. Hayden said in a speech yesterday.

news on the march

nsa, dod, & fbi seek hackers as allies
from the age: US federal agents are reaching out to computer hackers for help fighting crime and terrorism as a tug-of-war between privacy and public safety continues on the Internet.

The National Security Agency (NSA), the Department of Defense and the FBI were among the spy, military and police agencies represented at DefCon, an international gathering of hackers in Las Vegas.

china bans crude birth control slogans
from ap: China's top family planning agency has cracked down on crude and insensitive slogans used by rural authorities to enforce the country's strict population limits, state media said Sunday.

Slogans such as 'Raise fewer babies but more piggies,' and 'One more baby means one more tomb,' have been forbidden and a list of 190 acceptable slogans issued by the National Population and Family Planning Commission, the official Xinhua News Agency reported.

Such slogans are often found painted on roadside buildings in rural areas.

karzai sees no gains in bin laden hunt
from ap: In the hunt for Osama bin Laden, the United States and its allies have essentially gotten nowhere lately, Karzai said.

"We are not closer, we are not further away from it," Karzai said in an interview with CNN's "Late Edition," which aired Sunday. "We are where we were a few years ago."

Karzai ruled out that bin Laden was in Afghanistan, but otherwise said he didn't know where the leader of the al-Qaida terror network was likely to be hiding.

Bin Laden, the mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, is believed to be living in the tribal border region of Pakistan. His ability to avoid capture remains a major source of frustration for U.S.-led forces and a political sore spot for Bush.


colbert 'hopes to join' illuminati depopulation plan
from jones report: Stephen Colbert made heavy reference to the Illuminati and their plan to depopulate the world, noting that he too can make strange hand signs and wants to be recruited... Colbert brings up the Illuminati in conjunction with Benjamin Fulford, a former Forbes magazine writer, who alleges that the Illuminati network seeks to use race-specific biological weapons to decrease Asian populations to 500,000,000...

Fulford gave an exclusive six hour interview to the Jeff Rense Show on the subject, which can be found here.