With the September 15, 2008 “Economic 9/11,” Are We Facing Depression Like 1929?

“This is a classic Titanic situation in the sense that what we saw with the Fannie and Freddie bailouts and the Bear Stearns bailouts and now the AIG request for more than forty billion more dollars from the federal government – it’s just like the Titanic where the rich and affluent were given the lifeboats and the rest of the people went under from steerage. The rich and powerful are too big to fail; the rest of us are too small to save.”

- Gerald Celente, Editor and Publisher, The Trends Journal

“They (Republican Party) had begun to consider the Government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs. We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob.”

- Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1936, quoted in The FDR Years © 1995 by William Leuchtenburg

  Crowd at New York's American Union Bank during a bank run early in the Great Depression that began in 1929. The bank opened in 1917, and went out of business on June 30, 1931. Image source Wikipedia.
Crowd at New York's American Union Bank during a bank run early in the Great Depression that began in 1929. The bank opened in 1917, and went out of business on June 30, 1931. Image source Wikipedia.    
Crowd at IndyMac Bank in Pasadena, California, on Friday, July 11, 2008, after the federal government took control in the second-largest bank failure in U. S. history. Financial experts predicted at least 50 to 100 bank failures in the United States after IndyMac Bank.
Crowd at IndyMac Bank in Pasadena, California, on Friday, July 11, 2008, after the federal government took control in the second-largest bank failure in U. S. history. Financial experts predicted at least 50 to 100 bank failures in the United States after IndyMac Bank.

Updated 11:00 PM EDT September 17, 2008 - Dow closed 450 down today in continuing “Economic 9/11,” after Feds loan AIG $85 billion and oil and metals spiked upward. “Right now, citizens don't trust banks and bankers don't trust other bankers. The financial system is freezing up,” said a CNBC Business Network analyst.

Investors also considered a report on new home construction that showed that housing starts dipped to a 17-year low. Further, the FDIC website lists 11 bank failures in 2008 since April, the latest being Silver State Bank in Henderson, Nevada, on September 5, 2008. The Pasadena, California, IndyMac Bank FDIC takeover on July 11, 2008, was the second largest bank failure in American history.

 

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Part 2: Getting Close to the “Big Bang” Inside Large Hadron Collider?

“The discovery of Higgs boson particles would be the discovery of a new force of Nature and the first one we will have seen in over a century.”

- Joseph Lykken, Ph.D., Fermi Lab Particle Physicist

 

Looking straight down a segment of the 17-mile-long circular  Large Hadron Collider accelerator. Image courtesy CERN LHC.
Looking straight down a segment of the 17-mile-long circular Large Hadron Collider accelerator. Image courtesy CERN LHC.
 This computer-generated image shows the location of the 17-mile-long (27 km)  Large Hadron Collider (LHC) tunnel (in blue) about 300 feet down on the Swiss-France border. The four main experiments (ALICE, ATLAS, CMS, and LHCb) are located in underground caverns  connected to the surface by 50 meter to 150 meter pits. Part of the pre-acceleration  chain is shown in grey. Illustration courtesy CERN LHC.
This computer-generated image shows the location of the 17-mile-long (27 km) Large Hadron Collider (LHC) tunnel (in blue) about 300 feet down on the Swiss-France border. The four main experiments (ALICE, ATLAS, CMS, and LHCb) are located in underground caverns connected to the surface by 50 meter to 150 meter pits. Part of the pre-acceleration chain is shown in grey. Illustration courtesy CERN LHC.

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September 9, 2008  Batavia, Illinois -

Composition of Universe  ­     .4% glowing matter such as stars.­   3.6% “normal” matter as we know it in planets and stars.­ 22.0% cold, invisible “dark matter” detectable only by its gravitational influence on normal matter.­ 74.0% invisible “dark energy.”

 

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Part 3: Army/CIA Unit Studied the Real UFO Blue Book Cases

“The whole craft was like an electronic circuit and the aliens had to be inside the craft with headbands on and their fingertips in control panels in order to complete the electronic circuit to make it fly.”

- “Stein,” Former Army/CIA UFO Analyst

Panels with depressions of six-fingered handprints allegedly found with six-fingered humanoids in May 31 to June 2, 1947, recovery operation at crash site southwest of Socorro, New Mexico. Linda Moulton Howe was given the date of May 31, 1947, between Aragon, New Mexico, and Elk Mountain at the western end of the Plains of San Agustin, as the disc crash site where 6-fingered and 6-toed extraterrestrial biological entities were retrieved and autopsied at either Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, or the Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. Photograph from 16mm film © 1996 by Orbital Media Ltd.
Panels with depressions of six-fingered handprints allegedly found with six-fingered humanoids in May 31 to June 2, 1947, recovery operation at crash site southwest of Socorro, New Mexico. Linda Moulton Howe was given the date of May 31, 1947, between Aragon, New Mexico, and Elk Mountain at the western end of the Plains of San Agustin, as the disc crash site where 6-fingered and 6-toed extraterrestrial biological entities were retrieved and autopsied at either Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, or the Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. Photograph from 16mm film © 1996 by Orbital Media Ltd.

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September 7, 2008  Albuquerque, New Mexico -

Phone Interview # 2 (cont.) May 30, 1998

Area 51 Groom Lake, Nevada - CIA Meeting

But when I went to Area 51 with my boss in 1958, I did see another type of being that had the great big eyes and little, pointed chin, that has since been called a ‘Grey.’

CAN YOU DESCRIBE THAT EXPERIENCE IN DETAIL?

We were out there at Area 51 for a meeting of all the CIA people around this country and from the Far East. The meeting was related to the CIA Project Blue Book and they wanted the meeting at Area 51. There were only five of us involved directly with Project Blue Book who went from our southeastern military base. They had meetings a little base the USAF had there.

 

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Part 1: Growing Concern about Electromagnetic Pollution and Cell Phones

 

“Electromagnetic fields generated by cell phones should be considered a potential human health risk.”

- Ronald Herberman, M. D., Dir., Univ. of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute

Left: microwave cell site tower in the Philippines. Middle: two cell sites on a single mast tower.  Right:  “Camouflaged” monopole microwave tower called a monopalm,  located in Tucson, Arizona. As of September 3, 2008, there are now 1,947,083 microwave towers and antennas in the United States. Images by Wikipedia.
Left: microwave cell site tower in the Philippines. Middle: two cell sites on a single mast tower. Right: “Camouflaged” monopole microwave tower called a monopalm, located in Tucson, Arizona. As of September 3, 2008, there are now 1,947,083 microwave towers and antennas in the United States. Images by Wikipedia.
Cell phone next to right ear is focusing microwaves on man's head. Image © 2006 by AP.
Cell phone next to right ear is focusing microwaves on man's head. Image © 2006 by AP.

September 5, 2008  Tucson, Arizona -  “You cannot see it, taste it or smell it, but it is one of the most pervasive environmental exposures in industrialized countries today. Electromagnetic radiation (EMR) or electromagnetic fields (EMFs) are the terms that broadly describe exposures created by the vast array of wired and wireless technologies that have altered the landscape of our lives in countless beneficial ways. However, these technologies were designed to maximize energy efficiency and convenience – but not with biological effects on people in mind. Based on new studies, there is growing evidence among scientists and the public about possible health risks associated with these technologies.”

 

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Part 2: Army/CIA Unit Studied the Real UFO Blue Book Cases

“At the end of the non-human autopsy film, it said that the brain was different than ours and the internal organs were entirely different.”

- “Stein,” Former Army/CIA UFO Analyst

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September 2, 2008  Albuquerque, New Mexico -

Phone Interview # 2 - May 25, 1998, Stein Received Phone Warning - After Apparent Phone Tap

Stein was retired and living in the southeastern United States. I was living and working in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He and I had talked by phone for the first times on May 2 and May 7, 1998. To his surprise, on Monday, May 25, 1988, he received a phone call from a male voice who did not introduce himself and did not address Stein by name, but who warned Stein not to talk about an “assassination squad” based in the southeastern military base where the CIA Project Blue Book analysis of UFO photographs and film was also carried out. The clear implication was that one or both of our phones were tapped.

 

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Honey Bees Not Healthy in U. S. or U. K.

“We’re very close to the breaking point of what’s enough and what’s not enough. Honey bees are not healthy.”

- Jerry Hayes, President, Apiary Inspectors of America

“Our lawsuit is to uncover critical information that the U. S. government is withholding about the risks posed by nicotine-based pesticides to honey bees. EPA should be evaluating the risks to bees before approving new pesticides, but now refuses to tell the public what it knows.”

- Aaron Colangelo, NRDC Sr. Attorney

 

Western honey bees, or European honey bees (Apis mellifera), are still weak, unhealthy and continue to disappear in massive numbers since Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) was identified in the fall of 2006. At least one-third of all the commercial honey bee colonies in the United States and United Kingdom have collapsed as of 2008. There might not be enough pollinators for the 2009 season, forcing food growers to seek out other pollinators in Australia, Argentina and perhaps even the Africanized bees based in Mexico that have spread north into the southern United States. Honey bee image © 2007 by Matt Cardy/Getty.
Western honey bees, or European honey bees (Apis mellifera), are still weak, unhealthy and continue to disappear in massive numbers since Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) was identified in the fall of 2006. At least one-third of all the commercial honey bee colonies in the United States and United Kingdom have collapsed as of 2008. There might not be enough pollinators for the 2009 season, forcing food growers to seek out other pollinators in Australia, Argentina and perhaps even the Africanized bees based in Mexico that have spread north into the southern United States. Honey bee image © 2007 by Matt Cardy/Getty.

August 31, 2008  Gainesville, Florida - It was 18 months ago in February 2007 at Earthfiles that I reported my first interviews with Penn State and University of Pennsylvania scientists about honey bee disappearances that came to be known as “Colony Collapse Disorder,” or CCD. [ See:  022307 Earthfiles.] I also interviewed David Hackenberg, a beekeeper from Pennsylvania, about his massive disappearance of honey bees. That fall of 2006, Dave Hackenberg lost 60% of his bee colonies; in 2007 he lost 80% of his bees and went into debt to stay in business. He told me, “I am trying to stay as far away from all those nicotine-based chemicals as I can.” He had become convinced that those pesticides (such as Imidicloprid and Clothianidin) were the main problem in the disappearance of his bees.

 

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Still No Sunspot Action on the Sun

“I am surprised that if it’s going to be big solar cycle 24, it’s taking this long for sunspots to get started.”

- David Hathaway, Ph.D., Solar Physics Team Leader, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Alabama

 

No sunspots on sun, August 28, 2008, and the sun has been going spotless for weeks at a time. The minimum of solar cycle 23 was 1996 and NASA says solar cycle 24 began on December 11, 2007 (see images below). Image courtesy SOHO.
No sunspots on sun, August 28, 2008, and the sun has been going spotless for weeks at a time. The minimum of solar cycle 23 was 1996 and NASA says solar cycle 24 began on December 11, 2007 (see images below). Image courtesy SOHO.
On left, is Extreme UV-wavelength image of the sun and on right, a B&W magnetogram showing positive (white) and negative (black)  magnetic polarities. On December 11, 2007, this new high-latitude active solar region was magnetically reversed from sunspot magnetic directions in the previous Solar Cycle 23. So, this new sunspot officially marks the beginning of Solar Cycle 24.  Images courtesy SOHO/NASA/ESA.
On left, is Extreme UV-wavelength image of the sun and on right, a B&W magnetogram showing positive (white) and negative (black)  magnetic polarities. On December 11, 2007, this new high-latitude active solar region was magnetically reversed from sunspot magnetic directions in the previous Solar Cycle 23. So, this new sunspot officially marks the beginning of Solar Cycle 24.  Images courtesy SOHO/NASA/ESA.

August 29, 2008  Huntsville, Alabama - On July 11, 2008, NASA headlined one of its press releases as, “What's Wrong with the Sun? (Nothing).” The featured scientist in the news release was solar physicist David Hathaway, Ph.D., Solar Physics Team Leader, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. Dr. Hathaway received his Ph.D. in Astrophysics from the University of Colorado - Boulder in 1979.

 

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Part 1: Army/CIA Unit Studied the Real UFO Blue Book Cases

“In 1946-1947, the United States had a scientific mission to Antarctica under Admiral Byrd and we had military interaction there with aliens and their saucer craft, like a mini-war. We lost all of our aircraft.”

- “Stein,” Former Army/CIA UFO Analyst

Original Earthfiles 20-part Interview with Former Army/CIA UFO Analyst based on 1998 transcripts first released by Linda Moulton Howe beginning August 27, 2008,  Albuquerque, New Mexico - Ten years ago in April 1998, I received a phone call from a California resident who said he was an acquaintance of a man whose father-in-law had worked for the Central Intelligence Agency in the late 1950s and his work included E. T. and UFO investigations. The caller thought I should talk with the son-in-law to see if  I could speak with the then 62-year-old father-in-law living in the southeastern United States whose health was deteriorating.

 

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