Article 43
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Trump Blasts Obama On China
Obama’s Praise of China ‘Low Point’ in Speech: Trump
CNBC
January 26,010
China is not a friend of the US and should not have been praised during President Obama’s State of the Union speech Tuesday, real estate magnate Donald Trump said.
In a speech that “was mostly talk,” the most disturbing part for the New York-based developer was the president’s decision to praise technological and business advances in China, long an economic nemesis for the US.
“I thought the low point was when he talked about how great China was,” Trump said in a CNBC interview. “To me that was inappropriate to have in this speech, especially in light of what has happened with China.”
The president singled out China for the advances it made in education and held the nation up as an example for what the US should be doing.
“Meanwhile, nations like China and India realized that with some changes of their own, they could compete in this new world,” Obama said. “And so they started educating their children earlier and longer, with greater emphasis on math and science.
“They’re investing in research and new technologies. Just recently, China became home to the world’s largest private solar research facility and the world’s fastest computer.”
The remarks came on the heels of a high-profile visit between Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao in which the leaders pledged to forge closer ties. During the visit, Obama praised China for making progress on human rights and said the two nations should strive for an environment of “cooperation” and “friendly competition.”
For Trump, though, the president’s posture is symptomatic of the raw deal the US is getting with its international trading partners.
“I understand the Chinese, and I understand they are not a friend of this country,” he said.
“We had this tremendous deficit with China last year and we had that with many other countries. We can’t be doing that,” he later added. “We have become a whipping post for many of the smart countries of the world.”
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President Obama’s State Of The Union Address - January 25, 2011
THE PRESIDENT: Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, members of Congress, distinguished guests, and fellow Americans:
Tonight I want to begin by congratulating the men and women of the 112th Congress, as well as your new Speaker, John Boehner. (Applause.) And as we mark this occasion, were also mindful of the empty chair in this chamber, and we pray for the health of our colleague - and our friend - Gabby Giffords. (Applause.)
It’s no secret that those of us here tonight have had our differences over the last two years. The debates have been contentious; we have fought fiercely for our beliefs. And thats a good thing. That’s what a robust democracy demands. Thats what helps set us apart as a nation.
But there’s a reason the tragedy in Tucson gave us pause. Amid all the noise and passion and rancor of our public debate, Tucson reminded us that no matter who we are or where we come from, each of us is a part of something greater - something more consequential than party or political preference.
We are part of the American family. We believe that in a country where every race and faith and point of view can be found, we are still bound together as one people; that we share common hopes and a common creed; that the dreams of a little girl in Tucson are not so different than those of our own children, and that they all deserve the chance to be fulfilled.
That, too, is what sets us apart as a nation. (Applause.)
Now, by itself, this simple recognition won’t usher in a new era of cooperation. What comes of this moment is up to us. What comes of this moment will be determined not by whether we can sit together tonight, but whether we can work together tomorrow. (Applause.)
I believe we can. And I believe we must. Thats what the people who sent us here expect of us. With their votes, they’ve determined that governing will now be a shared responsibility between parties. New laws will only pass with support from Democrats and Republicans. We will move forward together, or not at all - for the challenges we face are bigger than party, and bigger than politics.
At stake right now is not who wins the next election - after all, we just had an election. At stake is whether new jobs and industries take root in this country, or somewhere else. Its whether the hard work and industry of our people is rewarded. It’s whether we sustain the leadership that has made America not just a place on a map, but the light to the world.
We are poised for progress. Two years after the worst recession most of us have ever known, the stock market has come roaring back. Corporate profits are up. The economy is growing again.
But we have never measured progress by these yardsticks alone. We measure progress by the success of our people. By the jobs they can find and the quality of life those jobs offer. By the prospects of a small business owner who dreams of turning a good idea into a thriving enterprise. By the opportunities for a better life that we pass on to our children.
Thats the project the American people want us to work on. Together. (Applause.)
We did that in December. Thanks to the tax cuts we passed, Americans’ paychecks are a little bigger today. Every business can writeoff the full cost of new investments that they make this year. And these steps, taken by Democrats and Republicans, will grow the economy and add to the more than one million private sector jobs created last year.
But we have to do more. These steps weve taken over the last two years may have broken the back of this recession, but to win the future, we’ll need to take on challenges that have been decades in the making.
Many people watching tonight can probably remember a time when finding a good job meant showing up at a nearby factory or a business downtown. You didnt always need a degree, and your competition was pretty much limited to your neighbors. If you worked hard, chances are you’d have a job for life, with a decent paycheck and good benefits and the occasional promotion. Maybe youd even have the pride of seeing your kids work at the same company.
That world has changed. And for many, the change has been painful. IҒve seen it in the shuttered windows of once booming factories, and the vacant storefronts on once busy Main Streets. Ive heard it in the frustrations of Americans whoҒve seen their paychecks dwindle or their jobs disappear - proud men and women who feel like the rules have been changed in the middle of the game.
They’re right. The rules have changed. In a single generation, revolutions in technology have transformed the way we live, work and do business. Steel mills that once needed 1,000 workers can now do the same work with 100. Today, just about any company can set up shop, hire workers, and sell their products wherever theres an Internet connection.
Meanwhile, nations like China and India realized that with some changes of their own, they could compete in this new world. And so they started educating their children earlier and longer, with greater emphasis on math and science. They’re investing in research and new technologies. Just recently, China became the home to the worlds largest private solar research facility, and the world’s fastest computer.
So, yes, the world has changed. The competition for jobs is real. But this shouldn’t discourage us. It should challenge us. Remember -Җ for all the hits weve taken these last few years, for all the naysayers predicting our decline, America still has the largest, most prosperous economy in the world. (Applause.) No workers—no workers are more productive than ours. No country has more successful companies, or grants more patents to inventors and entrepreneurs. We’re the home to the worlds best colleges and universities, where more students come to study than any place on Earth.
WhatҒs more, we are the first nation to be founded for the sake of an idea - the idea that each of us deserves the chance to shape our own destiny. That֒s why centuries of pioneers and immigrants have risked everything to come here. Its why our students don’t just memorize equations, but answer questions like What do you think of that idea? What would you change about the world? What do you want to be when you grow up?
The future is ours to win. But to get there, we cant just stand still. As Robert Kennedy told us, “The future is not a gift. It is an achievement.” Sustaining the American Dream has never been about standing pat. It has required each generation to sacrifice, and struggle, and meet the demands of a new age.
And now it’s our turn. We know what it takes to compete for the jobs and industries of our time. We need to out-innovate, out-educate, and out-build the rest of the world. (Applause.) We have to make America the best place on Earth to do business. We need to take responsibility for our deficit and reform our government. That’s how our people will prosper. That’s how well win the future. (Applause.) And tonight, I’d like to talk about how we get there.
The first step in winning the future is encouraging American innovation. None of us can predict with certainty what the next big industry will be or where the new jobs will come from. Thirty years ago, we couldn’t know that something called the Internet would lead to an economic revolution. What we can do—what America does better than anyone else—is spark the creativity and imagination of our people. We’re the nation that put cars in driveways and computers in offices; the nation of Edison and the Wright brothers; of Google and Facebook. In America, innovation doesnt just change our lives. It is how we make our living. (Applause.)
Our free enterprise system is what drives innovation. But because it’s not always profitable for companies to invest in basic research, throughout our history, our government has provided cutting-edge scientists and inventors with the support that they need. Thats what planted the seeds for the Internet. That’s what helped make possible things like computer chips and GPS. Just think of all the good jobs—from manufacturing to retail—that have come from these breakthroughs.
Half a century ago, when the Soviets beat us into space with the launch of a satellite called Sputnik, we had no idea how we would beat them to the moon. The science wasnt even there yet. NASA didn’t exist. But after investing in better research and education, we didn’t just surpass the Soviets; we unleashed a wave of innovation that created new industries and millions of new jobs.
This is our generation’s Sputnik moment. Two years ago, I said that we needed to reach a level of research and development we havent seen since the height of the Space Race. And in a few weeks, I will be sending a budget to Congress that helps us meet that goal. WeԒll invest in biomedical research, information technology, and especially clean energy technology - (applause)—an investment that will strengthen our security, protect our planet, and create countless new jobs for our people.
Already, we’re seeing the promise of renewable energy. Robert and Gary Allen are brothers who run a small Michigan roofing company. After September 11th, they volunteered their best roofers to help repair the Pentagon. But half of their factory went unused, and the recession hit them hard. Today, with the help of a government loan, that empty space is being used to manufacture solar shingles that are being sold all across the country. In Roberts words, “We reinvented ourselves.”
That’s what Americans have done for over 200 years: reinvented ourselves. And to spur on more success stories like the Allen Brothers, we’ve begun to reinvent our energy policy. We’re not just handing out money. Were issuing a challenge. We’re telling Americas scientists and engineers that if they assemble teams of the best minds in their fields, and focus on the hardest problems in clean energy, we’ll fund the Apollo projects of our time.
At the California Institute of Technology, theyre developing a way to turn sunlight and water into fuel for our cars. At Oak Ridge National Laboratory, they’re using supercomputers to get a lot more power out of our nuclear facilities. With more research and incentives, we can break our dependence on oil with biofuels, and become the first country to have a million electric vehicles on the road by 2015. (Applause.)
We need to get behind this innovation. And to help pay for it, Im asking Congress to eliminate the billions in taxpayer dollars we currently give to oil companies. (Applause.) I don’t know if—I dont know if you’ve noticed, but they’re doing just fine on their own. (Laughter.) So instead of subsidizing yesterday’s energy, lets invest in tomorrow’s.
Now, clean energy breakthroughs will only translate into clean energy jobs if businesses know there will be a market for what theyre selling. So tonight, I challenge you to join me in setting a new goal: By 2035, 80 percent of America’s electricity will come from clean energy sources. (Applause.)
Some folks want wind and solar. Others want nuclear, clean coal and natural gas. To meet this goal, we will need them all—and I urge Democrats and Republicans to work together to make it happen. (Applause.)
Maintaining our leadership in research and technology is crucial to Americas success. But if we want to win the future - if we want innovation to produce jobs in America and not overseas - then we also have to win the race to educate our kids.
Think about it. Over the next 10 years, nearly half of all new jobs will require education that goes beyond a high school education. And yet, as many as a quarter of our students aren’t even finishing high school. The quality of our math and science education lags behind many other nations. America has fallen to ninth in the proportion of young people with a college degree. And so the question is whether all of us - as citizens, and as parents - are willing to do whats necessary to give every child a chance to succeed.
That responsibility begins not in our classrooms, but in our homes and communities. It’s family that first instills the love of learning in a child. Only parents can make sure the TV is turned off and homework gets done. We need to teach our kids that its not just the winner of the Super Bowl who deserves to be celebrated, but the winner of the science fair. (Applause.) We need to teach them that success is not a function of fame or PR, but of hard work and discipline.
Our schools share this responsibility. When a child walks into a classroom, it should be a place of high expectations and high performance. But too many schools don’t meet this test. That’s why instead of just pouring money into a system that’s not working, we launched a competition called Race to the Top. To all 50 states, we said, If you show us the most innovative plans to improve teacher quality and student achievement, we’ll show you the money.
Race to the Top is the most meaningful reform of our public schools in a generation. For less than 1 percent of what we spend on education each year, it has led over 40 states to raise their standards for teaching and learning. And these standards were developed, by the way, not by Washington, but by Republican and Democratic governors throughout the country. And Race to the Top should be the approach we follow this year as we replace No Child Left Behind with a law that’s more flexible and focused on whats best for our kids. (Applause.)
You see, we know what’s possible from our children when reform isnt just a top-down mandate, but the work of local teachers and principals, school boards and communities. Take a school like Bruce Randolph in Denver. Three years ago, it was rated one of the worst schools in Colorado—located on turf between two rival gangs. But last May, 97 percent of the seniors received their diploma. Most will be the first in their families to go to college. And after the first year of the school’s transformation, the principal who made it possible wiped away tears when a student said, Thank you, Ms. Waters, for showing that we are smart and we can make it.ғ (Applause.) Thats what good schools can do, and we want good schools all across the country.
LetԒs also remember that after parents, the biggest impact on a childs success comes from the man or woman at the front of the classroom. In South Korea, teachers are known as Ғnation builders. Here in America, itӔs time we treated the people who educate our children with the same level of respect. (Applause.) We want to reward good teachers and stop making excuses for bad ones. (Applause.) And over the next 10 years, with so many baby boomers retiring from our classrooms, we want to prepare 100,000 new teachers in the fields of science and technology and engineering and math. (Applause.)
In fact, to every young person listening tonight whos contemplating their career choice: If you want to make a difference in the life of our nation; if you want to make a difference in the life of a child—become a teacher. Your country needs you. (Applause.)
Of course, the education race doesnҒt end with a high school diploma. To compete, higher education must be within the reach of every American. (Applause.) Thats why weҒve ended the unwarranted taxpayer subsidies that went to banks, and used the savings to make college affordable for millions of students. (Applause.) And this year, I ask Congress to go further, and make permanent our tuition tax credit - worth $10,000 for four years of college. ItҖs the right thing to do. (Applause.)
Because people need to be able to train for new jobs and careers in todays fast-changing economy, weҒre also revitalizing Americas community colleges. Last month, I saw the promise of these schools at Forsyth Tech in North Carolina. Many of the students there used to work in the surrounding factories that have since left town. One mother of two, a woman named Kathy Proctor, had worked in the furniture industry since she was 18 years old. And she told me sheҒs earning her degree in biotechnology now, at 55 years old, not just because the furniture jobs are gone, but because she wants to inspire her children to pursue their dreams, too. As Kathy said, I hope it tells them to never give up.ғ
If we take these steps - if we raise expectations for every child, and give them the best possible chance at an education, from the day they are born until the last job they take Ԗ- we will reach the goal that I set two years ago: By the end of the decade, America will once again have the highest proportion of college graduates in the world. (Applause.)
One last point about education. Today, there are hundreds of thousands of students excelling in our schools who are not American citizens. Some are the children of undocumented workers, who had nothing to do with the actions of their parents. They grew up as Americans and pledge allegiance to our flag, and yet they live every day with the threat of deportation. Others come here from abroad to study in our colleges and universities. But as soon as they obtain advanced degrees, we send them back home to compete against us. It makes no sense.
Now, I strongly believe that we should take on, once and for all, the issue of illegal immigration. And I am prepared to work with Republicans and Democrats to protect our borders, enforce our laws and address the millions of undocumented workers who are now living in the shadows. (Applause.) I know that debate will be difficult. I know it will take time. But tonight, lets agree to make that effort. And let֒s stop expelling talented, responsible young people who could be staffing our research labs or starting a new business, who could be further enriching this nation. (Applause.)
The third step in winning the future is rebuilding America. To attract new businesses to our shores, we need the fastest, most reliable ways to move people, goods, and information—from high-speed rail to high-speed Internet. (Applause.)
Our infrastructure used to be the best, but our lead has slipped. South Korean homes now have greater Internet access than we do. Countries in Europe and Russia invest more in their roads and railways than we do. China is building faster trains and newer airports. Meanwhile, when our own engineers graded our nations infrastructure, they gave us a ҒD.
We have to do better. America is the nation that built the transcontinental railroad, brought electricity to rural communities, constructed the Interstate Highway System. The jobs created by these projects didnӔt just come from laying down track or pavement. They came from businesses that opened near a towns new train station or the new off-ramp.
So over the last two years, weҒve begun rebuilding for the 21st century, a project that has meant thousands of good jobs for the hard-hit construction industry. And tonight, Im proposing that we redouble those efforts. (Applause.)
WeҒll put more Americans to work repairing crumbling roads and bridges. Well make sure this is fully paid for, attract private investment, and pick projects based [on] whatҒs best for the economy, not politicians.
Within 25 years, our goal is to give 80 percent of Americans access to high-speed rail. (Applause.) This could allow you to go places in half the time it takes to travel by car. For some trips, it will be faster than flying - without the pat-down. (Laughter and applause.) As we speak, routes in California and the Midwest are already underway.
Within the next five years, weҖll make it possible for businesses to deploy the next generation of high-speed wireless coverage to 98 percent of all Americans. This isnt just about—(applause)—this isnҒt about faster Internet or fewer dropped calls. Its about connecting every part of America to the digital age. ItҒs about a rural community in Iowa or Alabama where farmers and small business owners will be able to sell their products all over the world. Its about a firefighter who can download the design of a burning building onto a handheld device; a student who can take classes with a digital textbook; or a patient who can have face-to-face video chats with her doctor.
All these investments -Ғ in innovation, education, and infrastructure - will make America a better place to do business and create jobs. But to help our companies compete, we also have to knock down barriers that stand in the way of their success.
For example, over the years, a parade of lobbyists has rigged the tax code to benefit particular companies and industries. Those with accountants or lawyers to work the system can end up paying no taxes at all. But all the rest are hit with one of the highest corporate tax rates in the world. It makes no sense, and it has to change. (Applause.)
So tonight, I֖m asking Democrats and Republicans to simplify the system. Get rid of the loopholes. Level the playing field. And use the savings to lower the corporate tax rate for the first time in 25 years - without adding to our deficit. It can be done. (Applause.)
To help businesses sell more products abroad, we set a goal of doubling our exports by 2014 -Җ because the more we export, the more jobs we create here at home. Already, our exports are up. Recently, we signed agreements with India and China that will support more than 250,000 jobs here in the United States. And last month, we finalized a trade agreement with South Korea that will support at least 70,000 American jobs. This agreement has unprecedented support from business and labor, Democrats and Republicans—and I ask this Congress to pass it as soon as possible. (Applause.)
Now, before I took office, I made it clear that we would enforce our trade agreements, and that I would only sign deals that keep faith with American workers and promote American jobs. Thats what we did with Korea, and that֒s what I intend to do as we pursue agreements with Panama and Colombia and continue our Asia Pacific and global trade talks. (Applause.)
To reduce barriers to growth and investment, Ive ordered a review of government regulations. When we find rules that put an unnecessary burden on businesses, we will fix them. (Applause.) But I will not hesitate to create or enforce common-sense safeguards to protect the American people. (Applause.) ThatҒs what weve done in this country for more than a century. ItҒs why our food is safe to eat, our water is safe to drink, and our air is safe to breathe. Its why we have speed limits and child labor laws. ItҒs why last year, we put in place consumer protections against hidden fees and penalties by credit card companies and new rules to prevent another financial crisis. (Applause.) And its why we passed reform that finally prevents the health insurance industry from exploiting patients. (Applause.)
Now, I have heard rumors that a few of you still have concerns about our new health care law. (Laughter.) So let me be the first to say that anything can be improved. If you have ideas about how to improve this law by making care better or more affordable, I am eager to work with you. We can start right now by correcting a flaw in the legislation that has placed an unnecessary bookkeeping burden on small businesses. (Applause.)
What IҒm not willing to do—what Im not willing to do is go back to the days when insurance companies could deny someone coverage because of a preexisting condition. (Applause.)
IҒm not willing to tell James Howard, a brain cancer patient from Texas, that his treatment might not be covered. Im not willing to tell Jim Houser, a small business man from Oregon, that he has to go back to paying $5,000 more to cover his employees. As we speak, this law is making prescription drugs cheaper for seniors and giving uninsured students a chance to stay on their patientsҒ—parents coverage. (Applause.)
So I say to this chamber tonight, instead of re-fighting the battles of the last two years, letҒs fix what needs fixing and lets move forward. (Applause.)
Now, the final critical step in winning the future is to make sure we arenҒt buried under a mountain of debt.
We are living with a legacy of deficit spending that began almost a decade ago. And in the wake of the financial crisis, some of that was necessary to keep credit flowing, save jobs, and put money in peoples pockets.
But now that the worst of the recession is over, we have to confront the fact that our government spends more than it takes in. That is not sustainable. Every day, families sacrifice to live within their means. They deserve a government that does the same.
So tonight, I am proposing that starting this year, we freeze annual domestic spending for the next five years. (Applause.) Now, this would reduce the deficit by more than $400 billion over the next decade, and will bring discretionary spending to the lowest share of our economy since Dwight Eisenhower was President.
This freeze will require painful cuts. Already, weҒve frozen the salaries of hardworking federal employees for the next two years. Ive proposed cuts to things I care deeply about, like community action programs. The Secretary of Defense has also agreed to cut tens of billions of dollars in spending that he and his generals believe our military can do without. (Applause.)
I recognize that some in this chamber have already proposed deeper cuts, and IҒm willing to eliminate whatever we can honestly afford to do without. But lets make sure that weҒre not doing it on the backs of our most vulnerable citizens. (Applause.) And lets make sure that what weҒre cutting is really excess weight. Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like youre flying high at first, but it wonҒt take long before you feel the impact. (Laughter.)
Now, most of the cuts and savings Ive proposed only address annual domestic spending, which represents a little more than 12 percent of our budget. To make further progress, we have to stop pretending that cutting this kind of spending alone will be enough. It wonҒt. (Applause.)
The bipartisan fiscal commission I created last year made this crystal clear. I dont agree with all their proposals, but they made important progress. And their conclusion is that the only way to tackle our deficit is to cut excessive spending wherever we find it Ғ- in domestic spending, defense spending, health care spending, and spending through tax breaks and loopholes. (Applause.)
This means further reducing health care costs, including programs like Medicare and Medicaid, which are the single biggest contributor to our long-term deficit. The health insurance law we passed last year will slow these rising costs, which is part of the reason that nonpartisan economists have said that repealing the health care law would add a quarter of a trillion dollars to our deficit. Still, Im willing to look at other ideas to bring down costs, including one that Republicans suggested last year—medical malpractice reform to rein in frivolous lawsuits. (Applause.)
To put us on solid ground, we should also find a bipartisan solution to strengthen Social Security for future generations. (Applause.) We must do it without putting at risk current retirees, the most vulnerable, or people with disabilities; without slashing benefits for future generations; and without subjecting Americans֒ guaranteed retirement income to the whims of the stock market. (Applause.)
And if we truly care about our deficit, we simply cant afford a permanent extension of the tax cuts for the wealthiest 2 percent of Americans. (Applause.) Before we take money away from our schools or scholarships away from our students, we should ask millionaires to give up their tax break. ItҒs not a matter of punishing their success. Its about promoting AmericaҒs success. (Applause.)
In fact, the best thing we could do on taxes for all Americans is to simplify the individual tax code. (Applause.) This will be a tough job, but members of both parties have expressed an interest in doing this, and I am prepared to join them. (Applause.)
So now is the time to act. Now is the time for both sides and both houses of Congress - Democrats and Republicans -Җ to forge a principled compromise that gets the job done. If we make the hard choices now to rein in our deficits, we can make the investments we need to win the future.
Let me take this one step further. We shouldnt just give our people a government that֒s more affordable. We should give them a government thats more competent and more efficient. We canҒt win the future with a government of the past. (Applause.)
We live and do business in the Information Age, but the last major reorganization of the government happened in the age of black-and-white TV. There are 12 different agencies that deal with exports. There are at least five different agencies that deal with housing policy. Then theres my favorite example: The Interior Department is in charge of salmon while theyҒre in fresh water, but the Commerce Department handles them when theyre in saltwater. (Laughter.) I hear it gets even more complicated once theyҒre smoked. (Laughter and applause.)
Now, weve made great strides over the last two years in using technology and getting rid of waste. Veterans can now download their electronic medical records with a click of the mouse. WeҒre selling acres of federal office space that hasnt been used in years, and weҒll cut through red tape to get rid of more. But we need to think bigger. In the coming months, my administration will develop a proposal to merge, consolidate, and reorganize the federal government in a way that best serves the goal of a more competitive America. I will submit that proposal to Congress for a vote - and we will push to get it passed. (Applause.)
In the coming year, weҖll also work to rebuild peoples faith in the institution of government. Because you deserve to know exactly how and where your tax dollars are being spent, youҒll be able to go to a website and get that information for the very first time in history. Because you deserve to know when your elected officials are meeting with lobbyists, I ask Congress to do what the White House has already done—put that information online. And because the American people deserve to know that special interests arent larding up legislation with pet projects, both parties in Congress should know this: If a bill comes to my desk with earmarks inside, I will veto it. I will veto it. (Applause.)
The 21st century government thatҒs open and competent. A government that lives within its means. An economy thats driven by new skills and new ideas. Our success in this new and changing world will require reform, responsibility, and innovation. It will also require us to approach that world with a new level of engagement in our foreign affairs.
Just as jobs and businesses can now race across borders, so can new threats and new challenges. No single wall separates East and West. No one rival superpower is aligned against us.
And so we must defeat determined enemies, wherever they are, and build coalitions that cut across lines of region and race and religion. And AmericaҒs moral example must always shine for all who yearn for freedom and justice and dignity. And because weve begun this work, tonight we can say that American leadership has been renewed and AmericaҒs standing has been restored.
Look to Iraq, where nearly 100,000 of our brave men and women have left with their heads held high. (Applause.) American combat patrols have ended, violence is down, and a new government has been formed. This year, our civilians will forge a lasting partnership with the Iraqi people, while we finish the job of bringing our troops out of Iraq. Americas commitment has been kept. The Iraq war is coming to an end. (Applause.)
Of course, as we speak, al Qaeda and their affiliates continue to plan attacks against us. Thanks to our intelligence and law enforcement professionals, weҒre disrupting plots and securing our cities and skies. And as extremists try to inspire acts of violence within our borders, we are responding with the strength of our communities, with respect for the rule of law, and with the conviction that American Muslims are a part of our American family. (Applause.)
Weve also taken the fight to al Qaeda and their allies abroad. In Afghanistan, our troops have taken Taliban strongholds and trained Afghan security forces. Our purpose is clear: By preventing the Taliban from reestablishing a stranglehold over the Afghan people, we will deny al Qaeda the safe haven that served as a launching pad for 9/11.
Thanks to our heroic troops and civilians, fewer Afghans are under the control of the insurgency. There will be tough fighting ahead, and the Afghan government will need to deliver better governance. But we are strengthening the capacity of the Afghan people and building an enduring partnership with them. This year, we will work with nearly 50 countries to begin a transition to an Afghan lead. And this July, we will begin to bring our troops home. (Applause.)
In Pakistan, al QaedaҒs leadership is under more pressure than at any point since 2001. Their leaders and operatives are being removed from the battlefield. Their safe havens are shrinking. And weve sent a message from the Afghan border to the Arabian Peninsula to all parts of the globe: We will not relent, we will not waver, and we will defeat you. (Applause.)
American leadership can also be seen in the effort to secure the worst weapons of war. Because Republicans and Democrats approved the New START treaty, far fewer nuclear weapons and launchers will be deployed. Because we rallied the world, nuclear materials are being locked down on every continent so they never fall into the hands of terrorists. (Applause.)
Because of a diplomatic effort to insist that Iran meet its obligations, the Iranian government now faces tougher sanctions, tighter sanctions than ever before. And on the Korean Peninsula, we stand with our ally South Korea, and insist that North Korea keeps its commitment to abandon nuclear weapons. (Applause.)
This is just a part of how weҒre shaping a world that favors peace and prosperity. With our European allies, we revitalized NATO and increased our cooperation on everything from counterterrorism to missile defense. Weve reset our relationship with Russia, strengthened Asian alliances, built new partnerships with nations like India.
This March, I will travel to Brazil, Chile, and El Salvador to forge new alliances across the Americas. Around the globe, weҒre standing with those who take responsibility - helping farmers grow more food, supporting doctors who care for the sick, and combating the corruption that can rot a society and rob people of opportunity.
Recent events have shown us that what sets us apart must not just be our power -Җ it must also be the purpose behind it. In south Sudan - with our assistance -֖ the people were finally able to vote for independence after years of war. (Applause.) Thousands lined up before dawn. People danced in the streets. One man who lost four of his brothers at war summed up the scene around him: This was a battlefield for most of my life,֓ he said. Now we want to be free.ԓ (Applause.)
And we saw that same desire to be free in Tunisia, where the will of the people proved more powerful than the writ of a dictator. And tonight, let us be clear: The United States of America stands with the people of Tunisia, and supports the democratic aspirations of all people. (Applause.)
We must never forget that the things weve struggled for, and fought for, live in the hearts of people everywhere. And we must always remember that the Americans who have borne the greatest burden in this struggle are the men and women who serve our country. (Applause.)
Tonight, let us speak with one voice in reaffirming that our nation is united in support of our troops and their families. Let us serve them as well as theyԒve served us—by giving them the equipment they need, by providing them with the care and benefits that they have earned, and by enlisting our veterans in the great task of building our own nation.
Our troops come from every corner of this country - theyҖre black, white, Latino, Asian, Native American. They are Christian and Hindu, Jewish and Muslim. And, yes, we know that some of them are gay. Starting this year, no American will be forbidden from serving the country they love because of who they love. (Applause.) And with that change, I call on all our college campuses to open their doors to our military recruiters and ROTC. It is time to leave behind the divisive battles of the past. It is time to move forward as one nation. (Applause.)
We should have no illusions about the work ahead of us. Reforming our schools, changing the way we use energy, reducing our deficit - none of this will be easy. All of it will take time. And it will be harder because we will argue about everything. The costs. The details. The letter of every law.
Of course, some countries donҖt have this problem. If the central government wants a railroad, they build a railroad, no matter how many homes get bulldozed. If they dont want a bad story in the newspaper, it doesnҒt get written.
And yet, as contentious and frustrating and messy as our democracy can sometimes be, I know there isnt a person here who would trade places with any other nation on Earth. (Applause.)
We may have differences in policy, but we all believe in the rights enshrined in our Constitution. We may have different opinions, but we believe in the same promise that says this is a place where you can make it if you try. We may have different backgrounds, but we believe in the same dream that says this is a country where anything is possible. No matter who you are. No matter where you come from.
That dream is why I can stand here before you tonight. That dream is why a working-class kid from Scranton can sit behind me. (Laughter and applause.) That dream is why someone who began by sweeping the floors of his fatherҒs Cincinnati bar can preside as Speaker of the House in the greatest nation on Earth. (Applause.)
That dream - that American Dream -Җ is what drove the Allen Brothers to reinvent their roofing company for a new era. Its what drove those students at Forsyth Tech to learn a new skill and work towards the future. And that dream is the story of a small business owner named Brandon Fisher.
Brandon started a company in Berlin, Pennsylvania, that specializes in a new kind of drilling technology. And one day last summer, he saw the news that halfway across the world, 33 men were trapped in a Chilean mine, and no one knew how to save them.
But Brandon thought his company could help. And so he designed a rescue that would come to be known as Plan B. His employees worked around the clock to manufacture the necessary drilling equipment. And Brandon left for Chile.
Along with others, he began drilling a 2,000-foot hole into the ground, working three- or four-hour—three or four days at a time without any sleep. Thirty-seven days later, Plan B succeeded, and the miners were rescued. (Applause.) But because he didn֒t want all of the attention, Brandon wasnt there when the miners emerged. HeҒd already gone back home, back to work on his next project.
And later, one of his employees said of the rescue, We proved that Center Rock is a little company, but we do big things.ғ (Applause.)
We do big things.
From the earliest days of our founding, America has been the story of ordinary people who dare to dream. Thats how we win the future.
WeԒre a nation that says, I might not have a lot of money, but I have this great idea for a new company.ғ I might not come from a family of college graduates, but I will be the first to get my degree.ԓ I might not know those people in trouble, but I think I can help them, and I need to try.ԓ Iԓm not sure how well reach that better place beyond the horizon, but I know weҒll get there. I know we will.
We do big things. (Applause.)
The idea of America endures. Our destiny remains our choice. And tonight, more than two centuries later, itҔs because of our people that our future is hopeful, our journey goes forward, and the state of our union is strong.
Thank you. God bless you, and may God bless the United States of America. (Applause.)
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Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Lose Weight Smartly
7 Little-Known Tricks that Shave Pounds
By Maureen Salamon
MyHealthNewsDaily
January 24, 2011
Dangerous crash diets may lead to short-term weight loss, but dropping extra pounds for the long haul can be trickier.
Attaining a new shape does mean adhering to some old advice small, steady changes in eating and exercise habits are still the best predictors of lasting weight loss, experts say. But that doesn’t mean dieting needs to be boring.
A few smart tricks incorporated into a healthier lifestyle can help. Here are some fresh tactics for shaving pounds, including a few that put a new spin on the tried-and-true.
Say no to numbers
When the ingredient list on packaged food includes numbers, put it down. Ingredients that include numbers as part of their names usually identify an item as a “convenience food” thatגs full of fat and preservatives, said Dr. Carson Liu, a Los Angeles-based bariatric surgeon.
“If you’re trying to lose weight, it’s very, very difficult to do so with processed foods,” Liu said, because they have so many carbs, sugars and hidden ingredients.”
For the same reason, Liu recommends shutting the door on meal deliveries, whether they’re a month’s worth of diet food hyped on TV or a triple cheeseburger from a greasy spoon.
“It’s an unsustainable and extremely costly habit,” he said.
Dieting commandment: Lettuce not eat lonely salads
“Eating just a salad for lunch is probably the worst meal for weight management,” said Manuel Villacorta, a San Francisco-based dietician and spokesperson for the American Dietetic Association. “Have the salad, but have a sandwich with it, or a bowl of bean soup.”
As low-calorie as all those salad veggies are, without carbohydrates, they do nothing to knock down levels of the hunger hormone ghrelin, which tells the brain when to eat. Villacorta recommended carb-containing foods such as fruits, grains, pasta and bread.
“If you’re not eating enough, you’re not lowering your ghrelin amounts, and you’ll eat more later,” Villacorta said.
Pick pillow time
Those who sleep less than five hours a night have a 73 percent chance of becoming obese. By getting between five and six hours, those odds plummet to 27 percent, Villacorta said.
“Sleep is a big deal,” Villacorta said, “because ghrelin increases when you sleep less. If you’re lacking sleep because you’re going to the gym instead, I’d rather you go less to the gym. Sleep your seven hours.”
Breathe heavy before breakfast
No, not that way (though having sex can burn 85 calories or more).
The best time for an aerobic workout is before breakfast, said Dr. Kathleen Hickey, a bariatric physician in private practice in Hillsborough, N.J.
“This is when your insulin level should be its lowest, and therefore the energy for the workout has to come from fat,” Hickey said. “Whenever insulin levels are elevated ӗ which is nearly most of the rest of the day given how frequently Americans eat fat stores are protected and cannot be used for energy.”
But don’t overdo it
Exercising for more than 45 minutes or so may stimulate the production of cortisol, a stress hormone, which can lead in turn to fat production, said Dr. Marc Tinsley, a health, fitness, safety and wellness consultant in Monroeville, Pa.
By splitting one 60-minute workout into two 30-minute sessions, you’ll “turn your body into a fat-burning machine,” Tinsley said.
Be N.E.A.T.
The effects of being sedentary throughout the day - say, by sitting in a cubicle for eight hours can’t always be overcome by going to the gym after work, Tinsley said. Instead, fitting in some light physical activity such as a brisk walk or some jumping jacks during the course of a day, termed NEAT (Non-Exercise Activity Thermogenesis), can actually end up burning more overall calories.
“I tell my patients that it’s kind of like stirring the pot when you’re cooking gravy or sauce,” Tinsley told MyHealthNewsDaily. “If you forget to stir it throughout the day, you can stir your heart out at the end of the day but it won’t make up for what you didn’t do.”
Cycle your way to svelte
And not just on your bicycle.
By “cycling” your calorie intake throughout the week, you can expedite weight loss by tricking the body’s own fat-preservation methods, said Brad Schoenfeld, a fitness trainer in Scarsdale, N.Y., and author of “Women’s Home Workout Bible” (Human Kinetics, 2010).
For example, if your target calorie intake is 1,500 calories a day, you would eat 1,200 calories on Monday, 1,500 on Tuesday, and 1,800 on Wednesday, and then repeat.
“This helps to override the body’s natural starvation mechanism, tricking it into greater fat loss,” Schoenfeld said.
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To gain muscle and lose fat, drink milk: study
Part of an ongoing study into the impact of drinking milk after heavy weightlifting has found that milk helps exercisers burn more fat.
PsysOrg
August 8, 2007
The study by researchers at McMaster University and published today in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, was conducted by the Department of Kinesiologys Exercise Metabolism Research Group, lead by Stuart Phillips.
The researchers took three groups of young men 18 to 30 years of age Җ 56 in total and put them through a rigorous, five-day-per-week weightlifting program over a 12-week period. Following their workouts, study participants drank either two cups of skim milk, a soy beverage with equivalent amounts of protein and energy, or a carbohydrate beverage with an equivalent amount of energy, which was roughly the same as drinking 600 to 700 milliliters of a typical sports drink.
Upon the study֒s conclusion, researchers found that the milk drinking group had lost nearly twice as much fat - two pounds - while the carbohydrate beverage group lost one pound of fat. Those drinking soy lost no fat. At the same time, the gain in muscle was much greater among the milk drinkers than either the soy or carbohydrate beverage study participants.
“The loss of fat mass, while expected, was much larger than we thought it would be,” says Phillips, associate professor of kinesiology at McMaster. “I think the practical implications of these results are obvious: if you want to gain muscle and lose fat as a result of working out, drink milk.”
As reported in the first phase of the study, the milk drinking group came out on top in terms of muscle gain with an estimated 40 per cent or 2.5 pounds more muscle mass than the soy beverage drinkers. In addition, this group gained 63 per cent or 3.3 pounds, more muscle mass than the carbohydrate beverage drinkers.
“I think the evidence is beginning to mount,” says Phillips. “Milk may be best known for its calcium content in supporting bone health, but our research, and that of others, continually supports milk’s ability to aid in muscle growth and also promote body fat loss. To my mind with milk being a source of nine essential nutrients ֖ its a no brainer: milk is the ideal post-workout drink for recreational exercisers and athletes alike.”
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Sunday, January 16, 2011
Home Price Drops Exceed Great Depression
I was just over at ZILLOW checking out my homes’s loss of 15% of it’s value the past year and adding it up with the losses the past five years and though to myself “I’m going to be A MEMBER OF the NEGATIVE HOMEOWNER EQUITY CLUB for a long time.”
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Home price drops exceed Great Depression: Zillow
By Al Yoon
Reuters
January 11, 2011
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Home prices fell for the 53rd consecutive month in November, taking the decline past that of the Great Depression for the first time in the prolonged housing slump, according to Zillow.
Home prices have fallen 26 percent since their peak in 2006, exceeding the 25.9 percent drop registered in the five years between 1928 and 1933, the housing data company said in a report on Monday. Prices fell 0.8 percent over the month.
It is a dubious milestone for the U.S. housing market which has failed to gain much traction despite a host of government programs to reduce delinquencies and encourage demand with temporary tax credits and lower interest rates. Many economists expect further price drops, even if there are some anecdotal signs of growing demand, such as in pending home sales data.
“For the next six to nine months, the larger factors affecting the housing market that will produce more home price declines will be the EXCESS INVENTORY of homes, high negative equity and foreclosure rates, and weakened demand due to elevated employment, Stan Humphries, Zillow’s chief economist, said in a blog post.
Declines are accelerating, and it will take a while before falling unemployment and other signs of economic improvement support the market, Zillow said.
Home prices fell at a 0.78 percent pace in November, the fastest since February 2009, the company said.
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The Foreclosure Dump
CNBC
January 13, 2011
It’s coming, no question.
Today’s report from RealtyTrac serves as a warning to big banks, Fannie, Freddie and local communities; The foreclosure glut is coming, and they’d better be ready to get rid of that glut in a big way.
2010 saw a record number of bank repossessions, over a million, even with a big drop in volume toward the end of the year, thanks to the ROBO-SIGNING scandal and ensuing foreclosure freezes.
“Early indications in January were that this robo-signing related delay will be over by the end of first quarter if not sooner,” says RealtyTrac’s Rick Sharga. “I think we’re going to see a significant spike in foreclosure activity early in 2011, and that will contribute in part to 2011 being a record year.”
Sharga estimates as many as a quarter of a million foreclosures that should have happened in 2010 will now be pushed into the 2011 numbers, and added to an already huge supply of bank owned properties. The four biggest banks already have close to $7 billion worth of foreclosed properties (REO) on their books, and Fannie and Freddie have about $24 billion collectively. While REO sales make up about one third of all sales in the current market, there is an estimated 3 year supply.
There are obviously many incentives to buy REO’s, number one being the price discount, as well as some other programs offered by the government; but there are a lot more downsides.
Just today I read an article in the Wall Street Journal of witches in Salem being hired to remove the negative spirits from foreclosed homes.
Other similar burgeoning businesses include Feng Shui experts, etc.
There’s always somebody ready to profit from distress.
HousingWire today reports on a study by Field Asset Services that finds rehabbed REOs spend five fewer months on the market, 69 days compared to 222 days. Many investors buy foreclosures and do the rehab themselves, but for regular home buyers, clearly having the home renovated, with no sign of the preceding trouble, is a huge added value. Through its Neighborhood stabilization Program, the Department of Housing and Urban Development has provided $7 billion in grants to local governments and nonprofits; that money can be used to rehab foreclosed properties, or, to bulldoze them.
I also know there have been many discussions brewing within the government and at the banks with hedge funds looking to buy up bulk foreclosures. So far no big deals we know of, but they’re coming for sure. The government may even be considering incentives to get more investors to buy foreclosures, which I blogged about last month.
As the numbers mount, the GSE’s and the banks will have to put more resources into unloading these properties, especially as new Spring organic housing supply comes on the market. If they choose to slash prices even more, the dip in overall home prices may fall deeper than expected.
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Saturday, January 01, 2011
Closer To Home
When you grow up in middle America you are inculcated from the earliest age with the belief - no, the understanding - that America is the richest and most powerful nation on earth because God likes us best. It has the most perfect form of government, the most exciting sporting events, the tastiest food and amplest portions, the largest cars, the cheapest gasoline, the most abundant natural resources, the most productive farms, the most devastating nuclear arsenal and the friendliest, most decent and most patriotic folks on Earth. Countries just don’t come any better. So why anyone would want to live anywhere else is practically incomprehensible. In a foreigner it is puzzling; in a native it is seditious. I used to feel this way myself.
- Bill Bryson
US Descends Into Total Police State As 2012 Solar Chaos Fears Grow
By Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers
What Does It Mean
December 31, 2010
A new report circulating in the Kremlin today prepared for President Medvedev by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs says that the United States, in 2010, continued its headlong descent into becoming one of the most feared police states our modern World has ever seen.
The term POLICE STATE as used in this report describes a government that exercises rigid and repressive controls over the social, economic and political life of its population. A police state typically exhibits elements of totalitarianism and social control, and there is usually little or no distinction between the law and the exercise of political power by the executive.
The inhabitants of a police state experience restrictions on their mobility, and on their freedom to express or communicate political or other views, which are subject to police monitoring or enforcement. Political control may be exerted by means of a secret police force which operates outside the boundaries normally imposed by a constitutional state.
According to this report, the United States has CREATED SO MANY LAW LAWS they have created a VIRTUAL WEB OF ENTRAPMENT that has turned nearly all of Americas ORDINARY CITIZENS INTO CRIMINALS without them even knowing it.
The United States further announced this past week that they are expanding their already massive armed police presence into their Nations hotels, train stations and shopping malls in a move that rivals the Nazis placement of Gestapo forces into all aspects of German life, and which, according to former CIA Director Michael Hayden, is due to their governments fear of their own citizens who he claims want death and destruction and blood and mayhem.
To the fear among the elite classes ruling the United States of their own citizens wanting death and destruction is made readily apparent when viewed in the light of the shocking statistics of what that once great Nation has truly become, SUCH AS:
3 million American families foreclosed upon; 30 million American people in need of employment; 43 million American people on food stamps; 52 million American people in poverty; 59 million American people without healthcare; 239 million American living paycheck to paycheck; $144 billion in Wall Street bonuses; and $13 Trillion in investible wealth being held by just 1% of US population.
To the vast majority of the American people being allowed to know the true state of their Nation it now appears to be impossible as their mainstream press has been reported to be nothing more than JOURNALISM OF APPEASEMENT, CORRUPTION, SMOKE AND MIRRORS failing on a daily basis to keep their citizens informed of the most important events occurring around them.
Even worse is the shocking news that one of the top reporters of the Washington Post (one of the major mainstream newspapers in the US), named Ezra Klein, stated on the MSNBC television news network this past week that the United States Constitution “HAS NO BINDING LAW ON ANYTHING” and is “CONFUSING BECAUSE IT IS WRITTEN MORE THAN 100 YEARS AGO">.
The views of Klein and the Washington Post that the US Constitution was no longer in effect were further echoed by the Obama regime this week when they announced that JUST A SINGLE COMPLAINT against any American citizen, by anyone, is sufficient to put them on their governments terrorist watch list, a prospect for these innocent people made more frightening by the announcement this month that the Homeland Security Department was PARTNERING with their Nations largest retailer, Wal-Mart, to begin running checkout stand videos encouraging these people to become informers on their friends and neighbors.
Note: One of the first victims of this new US citizen spying programme is reported to be the GRANA FAMILY of Lincoln, Nebraska who after acomplaint was made against them were brutalized by over 20 armed police, a frightening prospect, indeed, as these so called American peace officers are even ALLOW TO SHOOT AND KILL DEAF PEOPLE who do not immediately obey their orders, and as evidenced this past summer in Seattle, Washington.
Equally as worse as their descent into police state tyranny are the American people not being told by their mainstream media that since the great stock market collapse of 2008, their entire financial system (including billions in bonuses to Wall Street bankers) has becoming nothing more than a gigantic con game as new research done by top analyst Charles Biderman shows no one can figure out who has been buying US stocks for the past 2 years, leading to one to conclude the only buyer of recourse is the US government itself.
Not just to the US government throwing Trillions of Dollars into a bankrupt stock market is the American peoples only danger, either, as new reports are showing their Medicare retirement SYSTEM IS IN DANGER of total collapse due to its being under funded by a staggering $23 Trillion, a grim situation sure to grow even worse as beginning tomorrow, January 1, 2011, 10,000 people a day, for the next 19 years, will begin claiming their benefits as the BABY BOOM GENERATION (those born between 1946-1964) begins reaching the retirement age of 65.
Most grim to read in this report, however, is the Ministries stating that the reason behind the American governments massive suppression of their people is due to the growing fears of what the year 2012 holds for them as near total Solar Chaos is set to, perhaps, change our entire World forever and which they want to be prepared for as anarchy will undoubtedly ensue.
To how catastrophic this Solar Chaos event will be was detailed this past year by Dr. Clara Y Yatini, of Indonesiaђs National of Aeronautics and Spaces (LAPAN) Solar and Space Division, who equated the blasts due to hit our Earth in 2012 from the Sun as being equal to 100 million hydrogen bombs.
So concerned have the Americans become of this once in a lifetime event that NASA issued its first warning in 2006 of this apocalyptic solar outburst (but which some scientists believe will begin occurring in 2011) and issued another one earlier this year, and as we can read:
NASA has previously warned in a study that a solar storm on the surface of the sun could hit earth in the coming years causing mass destruction of our power grids. But unlike the coronal mass ejection that provided views of the aurora borealis at lower latitudes than normal earlier this month, this type of solar storm could be so powerful it may wipe out the power grid on the entire planet.
Even more concerning are new reports surfacing from one of our World’s top solar scientists about this event, and as we can further read:
Astrophysicist Alexei Dmitriev says that both Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 satellites reveal that our sun, as well as our entire solar system, is now moving into an interstellar energy cloud. Opher, a NASA Heliophysics Guest Investigator from George Mason University says this interstellar energy cloud is turbulent.
Dmitriev explains that this cloud of energy is exciting the atmospheres of our planets and especially our sun. As this interstellar energy cloud continues to excite/charge the sun, it causes the sun to become more active, resulting in greater output from the sun. IE: Bigger and more frequent solar storms and CME’s resulting in the Carrington effect. This interstellar cloud of electrical energy is also absorbed by the Earth, and scientist have found that it results in more earth quakes, all while dramatically effecting our weather here on earth.
When asked how long will it take our sun to pass through this interstellar energy cloud, Dr. Dmitriev replied, “I don’t know. But If I had to guess, I would say somewhere between two thousand to three thousand years.” This interstellar cloud is a wispy band of charged particles through which our solar system is slowly moving through.
When Dr. Dmitriev was asked what are the implications of all this for earth he replied, “Global catastrophe!” Not in tens of years from now, but in ones of years” ...in that this global catastrophe is basically right around the corner setting the stage for NASA’S LATEST solar storm warning 2012-2013.
To Dr. Dmitrievs assertion that this solar event will cause the disruption of all of our Solar Systems planets weather patterns there seems to be no doubt as aside from the massive weather chaos now occurring all over our Earth, new reports are showing an outbreak of an enormous storm on Saturn [3rd photo left] too.
To our Sun being able to influence planetary weather has been further documented by British Meteorologist Piers Corbyn, and of whom we can read about as reported by the Sydney Morning Herald:
Back in November, when the Met Office was still doing its “mild winter” schtick, Corbyn said it would be the coldest for 100 years. Indeed, it was back in May that he first predicted a snowy December, and he put his own money on a white Christmas about a month before the Met Office made any such forecast. He said that the Met Office would be wrong about last year’s mythical “barbecue summer”, and he was vindicated. He was closer to the truth about last winter, too.
He seems to get it right about 85 per cent of the time and serious business people - notably in farming - are starting to invest in his forecasts. In the eyes of many punters, he puts the taxpayer-funded Met Office to shame. How on earth does he do it? He studies the Sun.
He looks at the flow of particles from the Sun, and how they interact with the upper atmosphere, especially air currents such as the jet stream, and he looks at how the Moon and other factors influence those streaming particles.
Even more frightening is that the Sun has not only been causing massive weather chaos, but is also reported to new be affecting matter too, and as we can further read:
For months mounting fear has driven researchers to wring their hands over the approaching solar storms. Some have predicted devastating solar tsunamis that could wipe away our advanced technology, others voiced dire warnings that violent explosions on the surface of the sun could reach out to Earth, breach our magnetic field, and expose billions to high intensity X-rays and other deadly forms of cancer-causing radiation.
Now evidence has surfaced that something potentially more dangerous is happening deep within the hidden core of our life-giving star: never-before-seen particlesor some mysterious forceӗis being shot out from the sun and it’s hitting Earth.
Whatever it is, the evidence suggests it’s affecting all matter.
Alarmed physicists first became aware of this threat over the past several years. Initially dismissed as an anomaly, now frantic scientists are shooting e-mails back and forth to colleagues across the world attempting to grasp exactly what is happening to the sun.
Something impossible has happened. Yet the “impossible” has been proven to be true. Laboratories around the globe have confirmed that the rate of radioactive decayonce thought to be a constant and a bedrock of science - is no longer a constant. Something being emitted from the sun is interacting with matter in strange and unknown ways with the startling potential to dramatically change the nature of the very Earth itself.
And if you are thinking that our Sun causing massive weather chaos and changing matter are all that is happening you couldnהt be more mistaken as new reports coming from the High Artic are stating that where it should be totally dark it is now light and pointing to our Earths Axis beginning to shift, but which Western scientists, of course, blame on ҒGlobal Warming.
Important to note, also, in this report was the announcement by Israeli scientists this week that a new type of human being over 400,000 years old had been discovered, and which if proven true would upset all accepted theories of evolution and origins of human society.
The importance of this Israeli discovery, and when added to the Solar Chaos soon to be upon us, sheds new light on the theories of the Russian-born American independent scholar Immanuel Velikovsky, who in his seminal 1950 book ђWorlds in Collision detailed our EarthӔs ancient past that surprisingly mirrors what is soon to face us alland overturning of everything.
Though Velikovsky and his theories were thoroughly skewered by the Western scientific establishment, it is important to remember that the great Italian probability-theorist, Bruno de Finetti, speaking in 1964 about Velikovsky’s case, compared the scientific complex to a ҅despotic and irresponsible Mafia.
Velikovsky arrived at a body of radical inter-disciplinary ideas, which might be summarized as:
Planet Earth has suffered natural catastrophes on a global scale, both before and during humankind’s recorded history.
There is evidence for these catastrophes in the geological record (here Velikovsky was advocating Catastrophist ideas as opposed to the prevailing Uniformitarian notions) and archeological record. The extinction of many species had occurred catastrophically, not by gradual Darwinian means.
The catastrophes that occurred within the memory of humankind are recorded in the myths, legends and written history of all ancient cultures and civilizations.
Velikovsky pointed to alleged concordances in the accounts of many cultures, and proposed that they referred to the same real events. For instance, the memory of a flood is recorded in the Hebrew Bible, in the Greek legend of Deucalion, and in the Manu legend of India. Velikovsky put forward the psychoanalytic idea of “Cultural Amnesia” as a mechanism whereby these literal records came to be regarded as mere myths and legends.
The causes of these natural catastrophes were close encounters between the Earth and other bodies within the solar system Ӕ not least what were now the planets Saturn, Jupiter, Venus, and Mars, these bodies having moved upon different orbits within human memory.
To explain the celestial mechanics necessary to permit these changes to the configuration of the solar system, Velikovsky thought that electromagnetic forces might somehow play a greater role to counteract gravity and orbital mechanics.
Some of Velikovsky’s specific postulated catastrophes included:
A tentative suggestion that Earth had once been a satellite of a “proto-Saturn” body, before its current solar orbit.
That the Deluge (Noah’s Flood) had been caused by proto-Saturn’s entering a nova state, and ejecting much of its mass into space.
A suggestion that the planet Mercury was involved in the Tower of Babel catastrophe.
Jupiter had been the culprit for the catastrophe that saw the destruction of the “Cities of the Plain” (Sodom and Gomorrah)
Periodic close contacts with a cometary Venus (which had been ejected from Jupiter) had caused the Exodus events (c.1500 BCE) and Joshua’s subsequent “sun standing still” incident.
Periodic close contacts with Mars had caused havoc in the 8th and 7th centuries BCE.
Now to what will actually occur in the future it is not in our knowing, other than, of course, to mention that as all of the Worlds governments are preparing for a massive something to occur by 2012 (including the once free United States throwing away its Constitution and replacing it with a police state, and the creation of the Doomsday Global Seed Vault in Norway) it might behoove everyone to begin the coming New Year by making plans for survival in World soon to be in total chaos.
[Ed. Note: Western governments and their intelligence services actively campaign against the information found in these reports so as not to alarm their citizens about the many catastrophic Earth changes and events to come, a stance that the Sisters of Sorcha Faal strongly disagrees with in believing that it is every human beings right to know the truth. Due to our missions conflicts with that of those governments, the responses of their agents against us has been a longstanding misinformation/misdirection campaign designed to discredit and which is addressed in the report Who Is Sorcha Faal?.]
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