Banks for nothing

More malfeasance from the twisted reality of The Banksters. In a story from Reuters, your worst fears about bank practices are confirmed.
I've always wondered where that paperwork went to...

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/06/14/us-bankofamerica-mortgages-idUSBRE95D10O20130614

Love in our Time

Here's a good one.

The Catholic Church is working hard. 

Working hard to keep the laws lenient toward sex offenders.
After all the (misguided) trust they've squandered, all the denials, all the back-peddling, the lawsuits and finally all the reparations, they're still doing their best to slam the cashiers cage shut.
This article is a nice reminder of just how they do that: hire PR firms to lobby against laws that protect children, punish those responsible or in this case, limiting the time that victims can come forward to press charges.
Read this.
Still keepin' the faith?

This article was viewed on Reddit.com

Props to Reddit

That's just the fear talking

Says Gomez, something we hear a lot of around here.

Here is some compelling testimony that's pretty hard to ignore. Do check this out.

From director Chris Smith (American Movie) this 2009 documentary called Collapse is yet another "I told you so" or "the sky is falling" depending on your take on the shit storm that is this modern world.  

If not every purported fact, definitely it's message is closer to reality than the average CNN story.

My kook-o-meter definitely went off during this film, but usually the nuttier the story, the better the chance of it being something real.

Of course by the slim chance anyone reading this is still in the everything-is-fine camp, they might choose another, loopier category.


The film is a focused interview with Michael Ruppert who tells a riveting story of how he apparently predicted our most recent financial crisis in his newsletter 'From the Wilderness'.

Peak oil is the center of his we-are-doomed treatise although he doesn't have much good to say about the intelligence agencies (US or otherwise), the Federal Reserve or the Oligarchs who rule the world either.
Hey, who does?

Ruppert was a police officer in another life has turned independent reporter and talks us through crises after crises in economics, energy, and the environment. Par-tay!

What to take away from his 'knowing' what was going to happen could spawn another series of documentaries. I say bring it. People have had a sense of the rigged game we're in since the
strong wrested power from the weak ages ago.

Right on Michael. Now what?

And now this...

If you're not too distracted by the bombs, you might want to check in on the fight-for-control-of-the- internet. Dah-dan-dan.
Yes, 'legislators' are still working tirelessly toward finding a 'solution' to 'help protect us' from hackers and other unspecified threats.
Here's a story on the continued efforts to pass CISPA with some interesting facts about the busy bees working to make it law.
In case my quote marks didn't make it perfectly clear, the US Congress and all those with a vested interest are using INTERNET SECURITY as cover for a host of schemes. Lots of money to be made and make no mistake, the potential for the free flow of information via the internet is the greatest threat to the ruling powers since people started to read.
Tell a friend.
....and remember, safety never takes a holiday!

Eat your Veggies

Uruguay Government Says Don't Smoke Pot -- Better To Eat It Instead - All News Is Global |

We're not making the progress had hoped, but still some people are trying to do something.
Here's a blurb on where it stands at the moment. I like the idea about eating it. Hmmm?



Peace

Get to Steppin'

It's the time of year here in Uruguay to start all the drumming and marching.
La Llamadas (pronounced JA-MA-DAS ) is the Carnevâl-esq parade, replete with competing groups of drums, dancers and a wide range of colorful performers. I've posted my experience at this event and I'm glad I went. It's a genuine part of life here; understand things of this nature and you have some chance of relating to life here.

However, I have had enough of it. I never liked parades much and it's all just too excited, really.

over heated?

The weather has cooled a lot since Thursday, the first of the two nights of Llamadas. It was soooo hot, I felt bad for anyone trying to get anything done in that weather. I know we suffered plenty at CS.
I feel bad for the dancing girls of that festival anyway. All the shaking, all that smiling, my god. Even with enthusiasm for what your're doing, 4 hours of being all jazzed up in that heat seems too much to ask of anyone.

This past Friday's weather forecast called for a big storm. Seriously, it was code orange or something. The thing did pass, although early that morning and it was intense. It blew in quickly preceded by quick successions of lightening flashes. Then big rain drops, slow at first, turning into a wild driving rainstorm. Then as suddenly as it began, it was over.



As is this post. Thanks for tagging along.

So warm, so wrong

Things are heating up these days.
The wife commented on our warm spell of these past few days, "so warm, so wrong" and it's wrong all over it seems.

Many warnings lately of a big financial adjustment that's about to take place. Devaluing of the US dollar, Quantative Easing or something like that. Sounds too big to happen, but these days you never know.

A contributor to ZeroHedge wrote ominously;
  

"Being a participant in a hopelessly compromised, rigged market makes us marks because we're ultimately providing liquidity and capital for the players to skim. When the officially sanctioned intervention finally fails and the market leaks 40% of its current value, the muppets will finally understand the "outsized returns" were just a con used to entice them into playing digital 3-card monte. The game is rigged, but the greed of the player overrides his skepticism and caution. The same can be said for pension funds and all the other institutional players. Desperate for yield, they've foolishly ponied up hundreds of billions of dollars to play 3-card monte with crooked dealers and a crooked house."

I love that!

I'd welcome some pain if it meant a majority of people would finally start to get it. Instead of the odd cynical blog post, real people taking real action.  The current system isn't working for me.
How about you?