Hearst News Bans Rense!

Yes, it’s true. That towering guardian of the people’s right to know, the legendary Hearst News Media Empire has prohibited its employees from accessing Rense.com because, as Hearst states in the screen capture below, Rense.com is ‘EXTREME’…whatever that means. This raw, unabashed, fascist censorship is indicative of a corporation under Zionist dominance and not serving the will or the interests of the people.

Since the late 1990s, Rense.com has presented news and information from around the world – REAL news – NOT the manipulated, spayed, neutered, sanitized, spun, contrived, Zionized, and ever so PC brainwashing, social engineering and mind control drivel from the Hearst machine and the other owned and controlled main stream media engines of propaganda.

Here’s the actual page that comes up for journalists and employees at Hearst-owned radio and television stations, and newspapers who try to read the REAL news at Rense…

With this kind of growing censorship, and the approaching passage and signing of America’s first Federal ‘Anti-Hate’ Laws, your God-given and Constitutionally-guaranteed RIGHT to Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Thought and your basic Right To Know will be obliterated.

*Go to page to see images*

http://rense.com/general84/hearst.htm

December 9th Layoff News

*This might have to be a daily thing. It is going to be a bad month.*

Yahoo! To Lay Off 1,500 In California on Wednesday; 200 In L.A.

http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlLA/layoffs/exclusive_yahoo_to_lay_off_1500_in_california_on_wednesday_200_in_la_102788.asp

Dow Chemical to slash 5,000 jobs, shut 20 plants

http://apnews.excite.com/article/20081208/D94UR4FG0.html

Sony to Trim 8,000 Jobs and Reduce Investment

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/10/technology/companies/10sony.html?em

State governor seized in US probe

Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich has been arrested by federal agents, following a corruption probe.

He has been charged with conspiring to get financial benefits through his authority to appoint a US senator.

As governor, Mr Blagojevich is responsible for selecting someone to take up Barack Obama’s now vacant Illinois senate seat.

He has also been charged with illegally threatening to block state aid to the company that owns the Chicago Tribune.

Mr Blagojevich allegedly demanded that the company fire members of the newspaper’s editorial board in return for financial assistance in the sale of Wrigley Field, a Chicago sports stadium.

The governor’s chief of staff, John Harris, has also been arrested.

‘Staggering’

The FBI has released a 76-page affidavit detailing the charges against Mr Blagojevich, which includes transcripts of his telephone conversations intercepted by court-authorised wiretaps over the the last month.

In the conversations, Mr Blagojevich discussed offering Mr Obama’s senate seat in return for getting a well-paid position at a non-profit organisation or a group affiliated with trades unions, according to the affidavit.

He also allegedly talked about getting his wife Patti placed on a corporate board.

“The breadth of corruption laid out in these charges is staggering,” US Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald said in a statement.

“They allege that Blagojevich put a for sale sign on the naming of a United States senator,” he added.

Mr Fitzgerald has been involved in a number of high-profile prosecutions in recent years.

He led the case against the former vice-presidential chief of staff, Lewis “Scooter” Libby, as well as heading up the investigation into media tycoon Conrad Black.

The prosecutor was also involved in the corruption trial of Mr Blagojevich’s predecessor as Illinois governor, George Ryan.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7773717.stm

GRAND JURY SUBPOENAS ISSUED ON REZKO/OBAMA LAND DEAL

A former Illinois bank official, now claiming whistleblower status, says bank officials replaced a loan reappraisal that he prepared for a Chicago property that was purchased by the wife of now-convicted felon Tony Rezko, part of which was later sold to next-door neighbor Barack Obama.

In a complaint filed Thursday in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Kenneth J. Connor said that his reappraisal of Rita Rezko’s property was replaced with a higher one and that he was fired when he questioned the document.

Mr. Connor, a real estate and commercial credit analyst at the Mutual Bank Corp. in Chicago, also noted in the complaint that the bank received a grand jury subpoena in October 2006 requiring it to produce information concerning Mrs. Rezko’s purchase, including the bank’s files on the property.

The complaint also said that the grand jury wanted information on Mrs. Rezko’s checking account and loan file and that the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC) had audited the Rezko file – although Mr. Connor’s lower reappraisal had been replaced with a higher amount.

“Connor’s internal whistle-blowing activity at Mutual Bank implicates Mutual Bank and the potentially guilty officers thereof to prosecution under federal and Illinois statutes,” said the complaint, filed by attorney Glenn R. Gaffney.

The complaint said Mutual Bank officials could be guilty of making false statements, willfully overvaluing property, bank fraud, witness retaliation, willful violation of a lawful subpoena, FDIC violations, and state banking regulations.

Mr. Gaffney, contacted at his office, declined to elaborate but confirmed that the complaint had been filed.

“It says what it says,” said Mr. Gaffney of Glendale Heights, Ill.

According to the complaint, Mr. Connor reviewed the appraisal of the Rezko property by another firm, Adams Appraisal, which had set the value at $625,000. Mr. Connor’s complaint said that he told his bosses in a report that the property had been overvalued by at least $125,000 and that a “reasonable and fair evaluation” should have been no greater than $500,000.

Later, the complaint states, Mr. Connor observed that his lower appraisal was not in the Rezko file and that he notified his supervisors that it had been replaced. He said, according to the complaint, the new file had been reviewed by the FBI and “if the FBI were to ask me about such matters, I would tell them the truth. I never rescinded my original findings.”

Critics of Mr. Obama’s dealings with Rezko charge that the senator may have gotten a deal on his property purchase, noting that Mrs. Rezko paid the full asking price for her property on an adjacent lot. Both of which were sold by a single seller. Mr. Obama bought his house for $1.65 million – $300,000 below the asking price.

When the property was sold, Mr. Obama knew Rezko was under investigation on fraud charges.

The complaint said the Rezko loan was approved by Mutual Bank President and CEO Amrish Mahajan and others so that Mrs. Rezko could buy a 9,090-square-foot vacant parcel of real estate. It said that in January 2006, Mrs. Rezko and Mr. Obama, along with his wife Michelle, signed an agreement to sell a 10-foot strip of the property to the Obamas. At that point, according to the complaint, Mr. Connor’s firm asked him to conduct the reappraisal.

The complaint said Mr. Connor is seeking $4.2 million for compensatory damages, plus unspecified punitive damages.

Rezko was a key supporter and donor throughout Mr. Obama’s political career, with the Illinois Democrat estimating that Rezko raised $250,000 for his various political campaigns, though not for his presidential bid. The two were friends who talked frequently about politics and occasionally dined out together with their wives.

Rezko was convicted this summer on federal charges of using his clout with state government to squeeze kickbacks out of firms wanting to do business with the state. The charges did not involve Mr. Obama. Rezko is now cooperating with federal prosecutors in a continuing probe of corruption in Illinois government.

Mr. Obama consulted Rezko, a real estate developer, before buying his home in 2005.

As a state senator, Mr. Obama wrote letters endorsing government support of a Rezko housing project for senior citizens. Obama aides say he was simply supporting a project that would help residents of his district, not doing a favor for a friend.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/oct/18/whistleblower-hits-obama-friends-appraisal/

Webbot Update December 9th

Ringing Ears, Tired George

Yesterday, as I explained in my column, I bounced out of bed, wide-eyed and bushy-tailed – ready for the tussle with Monday’s events. Lots of coffee – high energy, amped, and all those other phrases. Today was the mirror opposite – and that’s bad. You see, I often get a profound sense of tired just before big earthquakes. So, whether it’s my ‘monkey mind’ doing a little extracurricular programming, or whether the major quakes (twin quakes) in the predictive linguistics are about upon us, ought to be known in 4-5 days – or less.

There were no 6.0+ quakes in the world earthquake list today when I looked, but the ‘window’ doesn’t really start until tomorrow and then goes for about five days. Cliff of http://www.halfpasthuman.com hopes we will ‘get it wrong’ but earthquakes is an area where predictive linguistics has shined in the past forecasts including that China quake back in May. Plus, I’m profoundly tired and many readers are reporting their ears ringing and other physical symptoms that may, or may not, accompany big (mega) quakes.

As a major thunderstorm rolled through East Texas about 2 AM, I found myself wondering how I would explain – after the event – how all this ‘rickety time machine’ stuff works? It’s not like the technology directly senses the future. Rather, what it seems to do is ‘tune in’ to the future emotions of people as they see or hear of a major event in their life…like a mega quake will be.

Seems that at some just-below-the-perception-threshold, people know bits and pieces of the future before it arrives. Major events that stand head & shoulders above the background noise (hurricanes/tornados/earthquakes) seem a little more clear because the everyday language shift associated with these kinds of ‘outlier’ events is pronounced (and predictive). It’s also why the technology can’t/doesn’t work with ‘hot issues’. You talk about a movie star or a public policy question like abortion rights, and it’s nigh on to impossible to sort those kinds of things out because people are so emotionally charged over a long period of time – there’s little ‘change’ in the archetypical language once some has adopted one position or another.

Earthquakes (and assorted other ‘natural disasters’) are different down at the mass consciousness level. With these, most folks when the event happens are just going about their day, doing their normal routine, picking up the kids, going to work, going hunting or fishing, night out with the girls…you know…just normal activities when WHAM along comes this big emotional impact.

That’s the kind of thing that ‘bleeds’ or ‘prints through’ into what is then the past, but which is presently in our future. the more ‘print through’ into the past, the more pronounced the language shift among people who are mostly not even aware that they have changed at the kalapas kind of level as if to psycho-socially prepare for the event.

It you have read Carlos Castaneda’s works, it’s perhaps akin to a Nagual showing up and pointing out that your assemblage point (the place where you ‘assemble’ the reality around you) is changing in advance of a major event about to appear in your life. Yet as any hand Nagual (such as Don Juan Matus) might have pointed out, most people are so preoccupied by their first attention that they pay almost no mind to their second attention. That’s the attention that lets people see reality much differently than first attention demands, and yet it’s every bit as real, or more so. Here, have a mushroom.

OK, no point dancing around it. Here is an extract from last week’s HalfPastHuman ALTA report. Please do not repost it, and any use requires a link both to http://www.halfpasthuyman.com and to http://www.urbansurvival.com. OK?

“The data sets associated with [twin earthquakes] continues to grow. The newly supporting sets are within the aspect/attribute sets of [pulsating (motion)], and [rippling (ground)], and [motion (of) sound (in) ground]. This last is supported by aspect/attributes which suggest that it is related to [waves] of [propagation] within the [surface] of the [earth], as well as being a literal/actual reference to [sound (coming up from the) ground] during the [earthquake(s)]. Further support builds under [mountains] where the newly arrived aspect/attributes include [frail crust], and [broken (open) fertile plain]. Other aspect/attribute sets in the supporting chain include [seed(ed) valley] as being the [focus/nexus] of the [most damage], though note that this is not necessarily the epicenter of the earthquake energy.

The data sets in the deep supporting layers include [stripes] as in [tiger stripes] that are forecast to make a [visible appearance] {ed note: most likely after the earthquake}. We also have [vegetable fields] at many different levels of support indicating an agricultural area will be very central to the [visible] aftermath. Deeper into the detail aspect/attribute layers we have descriptors for [images/views] of [humans looking up] and [humans (with) dropped jaws] and [humans with [fixed/glazed stares].

Part of the data sets are now going to the [visible] problems which will result from the [earthquakes]. A very major problem is showing as an [agricultural area] being [so devastated] as to have [problems with production]. Both this last, and the [rebuilding] are indicated to be a [decade, 10/ten years] activity. Other issues include the [immediate needs (of) food] and [shelter] for the [affected humans]. Much of the supporting language is coming in support of the idea of [needing to feed] some large/significant numbers of people post-earthquake. This is shown as being caused by several factors including the [isolation] brought on by the [disruption/destruction] of the [roads]. Some of the detail layers show that many days later, perhaps even [weeks], there will be a [cadre] of [humans] and [animals?] which will [undertake daily walking] to [bring back supplies] to the [affected regions]. The data sets are presenting the idea that even [large amounts] of [helicopter] delivered [food/aid] will still [require/need] to be [hand carried] to get to the [isolated communities]. The local [systems] for everything from [health care] to [fuel delivery] will be [disrupted] for some time in excess of [3/three years] by the [alterations] in the [ground shapes] and [bridges failing]. The data sets are also indicating that [following] the [earthquakes] and the [dancing mountains], the region (and perhaps the whole of the planet) will have a period of [profound rest/quiet] relative to [earthquakes]. This [period of rest/quiescence] is apparently of an emotional significance as the [lack of activity] is indicated to cause its own level of [stress] in the populace of the planet. “

There’s more in other ALTA reports, but since we’re really, really close to the twin quake window, not point being secretive about this. We’re planning to watch quake coverage through most of this weekend – and wondering who will be offering the recovery aid and concert for fund-raising that seems to follow big quakes, but I get we will have those answers next week. Cliff, meantime, is hoping like hell he’s got it wrong. Not bloody likely, but we talked about his fishing trip yesterday.