The 'Star Wars' phone that lets you talk to holograms

When Princess Leia appeared before Luke Skywalker as a hologram in the 1977 blockbuster Star Wars, it was very much a work of science fiction.

But fast-forward four decades and the hologram telephone call – which will allow callers to see a live 3D image of the other person on the line – is set to become reality.

The technology is being pioneered by Leia Display Systems, a Polish company named after the Star Wars heroine.



Using a camera with two lenses and a tablets, your image is blended into one and beamed onto a screen



Leia Display Systems, a Polish company named after the Star Wars character, aims to have a model by next year

It aims to have a working model of the telephone operating by next year after it successfully built interactive 3D hologram machines.

To make a 3D phone call, a person will sit in front of a specially adapted camera featuring two lenses and a microphone. The two images the lenses create are blended to form a 3D version and streamed via the internet to the person who is being called.

A hologram machine will receive the image and beam it using a laser projector on to a ‘screen’ of water vapour, which gives the image its third dimension.

The hologram image will speak, move and listen in real time. The company also believes its invention will be on the market within five years.


‘Our holograms will take video- phone calls to the next level,’ said Marcin Panek, chief executive of Leia Display Systems.

Star Wars 'Princess Leia' 3D displays becoming reality





The firm claims people will be able to use the devise - not unlike a tablet - in their own homes in five years

‘We are on the frontier of technology that was imagined in movies 40 years ago – it is science fiction becoming science fact.

‘It will be as if loved ones, friends and family are standing right in front of you while you talk with them halfway across the world.

‘At the moment our holograms are made using machines that are more than 6ft high but we are designing smaller versions that can be set up on a coffee table in a living room.

‘It’s incredible. Ten years ago people would have been astounded at the idea of tablet devices but now they are everywhere.


'It will be the same with holograms. It is still early days but we hope to sell hologram telephone devices within the next five years.’



Star Wars was famed for scenes like this where Ki Adi Mundi appears virtually for a Jedi meeting

Mr Panek said the possibilities for the technology range from relatives virtually attending family occasions to specialist surgeons overseeing hospital operations while located on the other side of the world.

He said the company was inspired after noticing the 3D effect created when a nightclub laser is beamed on to dry ice.

He added that the first systems will cost thousands of pounds but, as with any technology breakthrough, the price will come down once they become more commonplace.

Mr Panek also claimed that within ten years we will see the creation of a Star Trek-style fully holographic room, in which 3D objects can be viewed and manipulated from every angle.

He added: ‘It is not impossible, and with the technology moving so fast, it is only a matter of time.

‘Within the next decade we will also be able to watch hologram football matches and have fully interactive walk-in hologram rooms. It’s very exciting.’


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2533850/Coming-soon-Star-Wars-phone-lets-talk-holograms-loved-ones.html#ixzz2pdzmphOY

John Williams-Massive Dollar Selloff in 2014-Game Over

The Beginning of The End?

PROPHETIC TWIST TO SHARON'S IMMINENT DEATH

With the death of former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon expected imminently, the chronicler of the life of Israel’s venerated Rabbi Yitzhak Kaduri’s prophecies is much in demand by the media.

Why?

Because Kaduri, subject of a new book and movie, both titled “The Rabbi Who Found Messiah,” announced to his followers the long-awaited Messiah would not come until after the death of Sharon. He made the prediction two months before Sharon, still acting as prime minister, had a major stroke in 2006 that has left him in a coma ever since.

Sharon’s family is at his bedside, and he may be pulled from life-support systems at any time. His medical condition has deteriorated following kidney surgery that backfired.

Dr. Zeev Rotstein, director of the Sheba Medical Center near Tel Aviv, said Sunday Sharon’s condition is critical and life-threatening, according to an Associated Press report.

Sharon’s condition has been on the decline since being hospitalized for renal failure.

Sharon, 85, served as Israel’s prime minister from 2001 to 2006 when he became incapacitated. During his tenure, he initiated a disengagement plan, during which thousands of Jews were deported from Gaza and northern Samaria turning the once-fertile region over to Hamas-control.

Sharon suffered a serious stroke on January 4, 2006, and has been comatose since.

In January 2013, Israeli specialists reported Sharon had showed “significant brain activity” in an MRI scan, responding to pictures of his family seven years after the stroke.

Sharon’s death is of interest to mystics in Israel as well as prophecy buffs around the world because of the prediction byKaduri. Carl Gallups authored the book “The Rabbi Who Found Messiah” and inspired a movie on the subject of the same name in late 2013.

In 2007, Kaduri, the most famous rabbi in Israel’s modern history, at 108 years old, left a cryptic death note revealing the name of the long-awaited Messiah. Within a year after the rabbi’s death, the note was reported to have been verified as authentic by some of Kaduri’s closest followers and then placed on Kaduri’s own website.

The purported Kaduri message proclaimed that Messiah’s name was Yehoshua, or Jesus.

It shocked the religious world.

Shortly thereafter the furor began. The note immediately disappeared from Kaduri’s website. The media refused to report further on the matter.

The Kaduri family, and several others close to the Kaduri ministry, began to claim that the note was a forgery or a mere fabrication – a cruel joke.

Gallups, an American pastor and former police officer, used his detective skills to piece the mystery together in “The Rabbi Who Found Messiah: The Story of Yitzhak Kaduri and His Prophecies of the Endtime,” a book and movie combination that has reignited the controversy surrounding his prediction about the Messiah and Sharon.

Chuck Missler, founder of Koinonia House ministry, says that in the book, Gallups “explodes one of the biggest bombshells of our lifetime. The implications of these astonishing declarations from the most venerated ultra-orthodox rabbi in Israel impacts every one of us – not just those of the traditional Jewish faith. This is a must-read for anyone who takes God seriously.”

“The only prophetic utterance of Kaduri concerning Ariel Sharon was that Messiah, would not appear until Ariel Sharon had died,” said Gallups. “Within a little over two months after speaking these prophetic words Sharon was in a coma and Kaduri himself died.”

The Kaduri prophecy did not name a specific time or date in which Messiah would be revealed — only that it would not happen until after Sharon had died.

“Many who have examined Kaduri’s prophecy have interpreted the urgent feel of it to mean that Messiah might appear very shortly after Sharon’s death,” said Gallups. “This sense of urgency was strengthened by the fact that for several years prior to his death, Kaduri made several pronouncements of Messiah’s imminent return.”

Both the book and the movie look at Kaduri’s many prophecies objectively – neither affirming or denying their accuracy or authenticity. The book and the movie simply examine his remarkable story about the popular rabbi and his shocking messianic prophecy from a journalistic and biblical point of view.

Since Sharon’s condition took a turn for the worse around the new year, Gallups has been in huge demand by the media – particularly the Christian media.


Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2014/01/prophetic-twist-to-sharons-imminent-death/#XxYFR8OTTDZleEmz.99

2014 - Somber Signs in the New Year

Joseph Herrin

Bill de Blasio Being Sworn in as New York City Mayor by Bill Clinton

A significant spiritual parable was observed on the first day of the new year 2014. Former President Bill Clinton presided at the swearing in of New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio. The Bible on which de Blasio laid his left hand during the swearing in ceremony was previously used by Franklin Delano Roosevelt during his first swearing in as Governor of New York State. After the inaugural ceremony, this “historic” Bible could not be found. Those involved with the ceremony had lost track of it. Fifty New York City policemen were called to frantically search for this missing Bible. The event is reported below.

Former President Bill Clinton performed the ceremony Wednesday as de Blasio laid his hand on the bible.

But around 2:30 pm, the bible was nowhere to be found, a source said, sparking a massive book-hunt at City Hall.

“We were looking in garbage cans outside, in all the bags,” one searcher said.

“It’s the FDR Bible!” said another.

When it was found, just before 5 pm, one of the detectives held it aloft at the top of the stairs in the rotunda, shouting, “We found it!’’ as a crowd broke out in applause.
[Source: http://nypost.com/2014/01/01/historic-bible-goes-missing-after-de-blasio-swearing-in/]

How fitting that the New York City policemen should look for the Bible in the city’s garbage cans. American government has been treating God’s word as trash for many years. Indeed, the only reason this Bible held any value at all in the eyes of those searching was that it bore the signature of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, a New York insider and member of the banking elite.

It is noteworthy that Bill Clinton faced impeachment for lying and committing fornication with a White House Aide, and it was he who administered the oath of office to Bill deBlasio whose wife engaged in a lesbian lifestyle before marrying, and who remains proudly unrepentant of this aspect of her life. Thus America witnessed one unrepentant sinner leading another unrepentant sinner in an oath of office with his hand upon a bible signed by a third godless man. America’s pretense of being “Christian,” and of honoring the divine authority of the Bible, is a gross charade. There was so little regard for the holy Scriptures during this event that many thought to look for the missing book in the trash cans where every other worthless and despised thing ends up.

I have no doubt that Yahweh is providing a parable for the nation in this event. America has become a nation that despises God’s word. This was demonstrably proven the night before this swearing in ceremony as people from all parts of the United States participated in debauched New Year’s Eve celebrations. In Key West, Florida, the tradition for years now has been to lower female impersonator and drag queen Gary “Sushi” Marion in a giant shoe to mark the beginning of the new year.

Drag Queen Drop in Key West, Florida
http://landing.newsinc.com/shared/video.html?freewheel=90046&sitesection=dailycaller_hom_non_fro&VID=25486568

The largest New Year’s Eve celebration in America is held in Times Square in New York City. There, nearly a million people gather annually for the celebration and to await the ball drop to mark the end of one year and the beginning of another. I do not own a television, but I guessed rightly that the event would be broadcast live on the Internet. About 5 minutes before the stroke of midnight I began watching a live stream of the event. I tuned in just in time to observe the lesbian performer Melissa Etheridge introduce a new song to be performed publicly for the first time. The song is titled Uprising of Love. It is a song celebrating homosexuality, and Melissa Etheridge pumped up the crowd by shouting out, “Come on New York, let’s celebrate diversity!” What is truly being celebrated is moral degeneracy and perversity.

Immediately after she concluded this song, and as midnight was fast approaching, she chose to end the year 2013 by singing a portion of John Lennon’s songImagine. Following are a portion of the lyrics she sang.

Imagine there's no heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today...

Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too...

E. W. Bullinger, in his insightful book Number in Scripture, shares the spiritual significance of the number 13.

As to the significance of thirteen, all are aware that it has come down to us as a number of ill-omen. Many superstitions cluster around it, and various explanations are current concerning them.

Unfortunately, those who go backwards to find a reason seldom go back far enough. The popular explanations do not, so far as we are aware, go further back than the Apostles. But we must go back to the first occurrence of the number thirteen in order to discover the key to its significance. It occurs first in Gen 14:4, where we read "Twelve years they served Chedorlaomer, and the thirteenth year they REBELLED."

Hence every occurrence of the number thirteen, and likewise of every multiple of it, stamps that with which it stands in connection with rebellion, apostasy, defection, corruption, disintegration, revolution, or some kindred idea.
[Source: E.W. Bullinger, Number in Scripture]

Millions of Americans tuned in to watch the New Year’s Eve festivities in Times Square. They tuned in to observe the end of 2013, a year of rebellion. The nation was sticking its collective finger in God’s eye, proudly and defiantly asserting that they would pursue their abominations whether or not Yahweh approved.

Having observed these few minutes of what took place in Times Square, I decided to look into the matter further to see what was the overall character of this national celebration. What I discovered was a very deliberate and defiant mocking of God and righteousness, and a proud and rebellious declaration that America will continue to pursue a course of moral decadence. Every major act who was invited to perform was in some way related to the advocacy of homosexuality.

Melissa Etheridge has long been known for her lesbianism. She first came out publicly as a homosexual in 1993. Melissa Etheridge recently initiated, with a number of other pro-homosexual activists, a group called Uprising of Love, the same name as the song that she debuted on stage on New Year’s Eve. The website proclaims the purpose of this group.

Uprising of Love
in support of the safety and dignity of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Intersex (LGBTI) Russians.
[Source: http://uprisingoflove.org/]

I noted that earlier in the evening Melissa Etheridge performed her song Bring Me Some Water. During the song, the following words are repeated.

Baby's got my heart and my baby's got my mind
But tonight the sweet Devil's got my soul

Oh, the Devil's got my soul

These words are blasphemous, but quite accurate in describing the singer’s life, as well as the lives of the millions who share her moral degeneracy and defiance of God. Etheridge refers to Satan as “the sweet Devil,” and she correctly declares that the Devil has her soul.

As the clock struck midnight, Melissa Etheridge kissed her lesbian partner Linda Wallem.



Melissa Etheridge and Linda Wallem

Both women then shared in a group hug with Melissa’s 16 year old daughter Bailey. Bailey actually has no birth relationship to Etheridge, as she was born to Melissa’s lesbian lover Julie Cypher in 1997 who became pregnant with sperm donated by David Crosby. As much as Etheridge speaks of “love,” she has not been able to maintain a committed relationship. She broke up with Cypher in 2000. In 2002 she began dating actress Tammy Lynn Michaels and the two had a commitment ceremony in 2003. Michaels also gave birth via a sperm donor, having twins in 2006. In 2008 Etheridge announced that she would marry Michaels after it became legal to do so in California, but in 2010 the two separated and went through a two year long battle over child support. Ms. Etheridge has been with her current lesbian partner for the past three years.

Another headline performer was Deborah Harry of the group Blondie. It seems to be more than coincidental that Deborah Harry was renowned for her sexual exploits and the flaunting of her body in her peak years as a performer, including appearing in Playboy magazine. In a past interview with Diva magazine Deborah Harry admitted that she has had numerous sexual relationships with women.

Also invited to perform on stage at this New Year’s Eve event was Macklemore and Ryan Lewis who were in the news earlier in the year for performing their pro-homosexual song Same Love at the VMA’s. This song quotes a portion of the Bible where the apostle Paul states that “love is patient, love is kind.” Yet, the song conveniently avoids Paul’s words condemning homosexual behavior.

Romans 1:26-32
For this reason God gave them over to degrading passions; for their women exchanged the natural function for that which is unnatural, and in the same way also the men abandoned the natural function of the woman and burned in their desire toward one another, men with men committing indecent acts and receiving in their own persons the due penalty of their error. And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God any longer, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do those things which are not proper, being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice; they are gossips, slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, without understanding, untrustworthy, unloving, unmerciful; and, although they know the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, they not only do the same, but also give hearty approval to those who practice them.

When Phil Robertson of Duck Dynasty was recently vilified for stating that homosexuality was unnatural, various websites began posting a video of Phil speaking at a church where he quoted the passage above. This became further fodder for the pro-homosexual lobby. GLAAD, the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, stated that Phil Robertson needed to be forced to submit to re-education courses. This reveals how greatly a growing segment of the American population, especially those with control of the media and government, despise and scorn the Bible.

Macklemore’s performance on stage was typical. He sang two songs whose lyrics contain so many obscenities and expletives that I cannot cite them in this post. Both of these songs were number one hits on the Billboard Hot 100 during the past year.

Thrift Shop
http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/macklemore/thriftshop.html

Can’t Hold Us
http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/macklemore/cantholdus.html

The crowd of thousands gathered in Times Square swayed and clapped along with the debauched lyrics of these songs. This is how a darkened culture celebrates the end of one year, and entry into another. Paul’s words are being fulfilled. There is a clear correlation to homosexuality and the manifestation of a depraved mind.

Depravity of mind is certainly seen in the behavior of one of the biggest name performers at this year’s event, Miley Cyrus. Miley rose to fame with Walt Disney Studios and has since become the poster child for every form of sexual deviance. Recently her bi-sexual escapades have been reported widely. Since she had her hair cut in a butch fashion, this aspect of her degenerate character has been more visible.

To complete the pro-homosexual character of this national event, the organizers broke with tradition. Instead of having the Mayor of New York City initiate the ball drop, they chose Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor for this position of honor. Sotomayor was a vocal critic of California’s Proposition 8 where the people of the state voted to not permit homosexuals to obtain marriage licenses. Sotomayor, along with a majority of the U.S. Supreme Court, overturned the vote of the people and declared it legal for homosexuals to marry in California.

When a lawyer representing the people of California was being questioned by the Supreme Court, Sotomayor stated:

Outside of the marriage context, can you think of any other rational basis, reason, for a state using sexual orientation as a factor in denying homosexuals benefits? Or imposing burdens on them? Is there any other decision-making that the government could make - denying them a job, not granting them benefits of some sort, any other decision?

“If they’re a class that makes any other discrimination improper, irrational, then why aren’t we treating them as a class for this one benefit?”

With these words, Sotomayor demonstrated her pro-homosexual bias. President Obama has had the opportunity to make two appointments to the Supreme Court, and in each occasion he has appointed homosexuals.



Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan

Regarding Supreme Court Justice, Elena Kagan, the website Gawker had the following comment to make.

The haircut: Let's just get this out of the way. Kagan has a dykey haircut. Yes, it borders on stereotype, but the easiest way to spot any lesbian is based on her tonsorial choices and Kagan's short 'do says more "Melissa Etheridge concert" than it does "wash-and-go busy professional." That's not good or bad, it just is.
[Source: http://gawker.com/5535425/is-supreme-court-nominee-elena-kagan-really-a-lesbian]

Although the article above is written in a snarky fashion, it does address an important issue. The sexual orientation of the nation’s highest judges does matter. The morality, or immorality, of an individual matters. If an individual despises God’s law, they are unlikely to uphold justice and righteousness in a nation. The writer of the above article posted this in 2010 right after Elena Kagan was appointed. The writer made mention of lesbians being attracted to concerts by Melissa Etheridge. It seems that someone was making a statement by inviting both Melissa Etheridge and Sonia Sotomayor to be active participants in this year’s New Year’s festivities.

That Sonia Sotomayor is a closeted homosexual has long been rumored. In the days prior to Sonia Sotomayor being chosen to replace retiring Supreme court Justice David Souter, there was a strong push among the homosexual community for President Obama to select another sodomite to the nation’s highest court.

"I think the [homosexual] community was hopeful we would see the first openly gay or lesbian Cabinet secretary and that didn't happen, which was a little disappointing," said Denis Dison of the Victory Fund. "The same thing is happening now with the Supreme Court vacancy. ... It's not so much we want to check that box at the Supreme Court level, but that achievement would be breaking the glass ceiling in a huge way."

In March, Obama named an open lesbian, Emily Hewitt, to be the chief judge of the federal Court of Claims, but judges on that special court do not have lifetime tenure. He also nominated another lesbian, Maria Demeo, to serve as a D.C. Superior Court judge.

In all, Obama has made about three dozen appointments of openly gay or lesbian people below the Cabinet level, according to Dison, including Nancy Sutley, head of the White House Council on Environmental Quality, and John Berry, director of the Office of Personnel Management.
[Source: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0509/22106.html]

President Obama has not wasted any opportunity to appoint homosexuals to rule over and guide America. His Supreme Court nominations have reflected this bias toward degeneracy. Sonia Sotomayor, as is the case with many homosexuals in public positions, sought to maintain an image of being straight to avoid being rejected by a large segment of Americans. She was married to a man between 1976 and 1983, but an investigative reporter noted that she never lived with her husband during these years, nor did she have any children.

ContrarianCommentary.com began its investigation with a tip that we should look at her “sham” marriage in 1976. The mainstream media have mentioned her “marriage” but there are great peculiarities about that event.

First, Sotomayor and her husband apparently never lived together despite the fact that Sotomayor was “married” during her entire law school career. They were living in different cities. Second, the “husband” (who is a Chicago lawyer) has never commented on his “wife’s” professional accomplishments.

Third, a decade ago Sotomayor conveniently produced a “fiancé,” Peter White, when she was under review for the Court of Appeals. As soon as she was confirmed, the “fiancé” prop disappeared. White dropped from view. Once again, we see the recurring example of an apparent puzzle: the repeated use of “props” or “shams” to create a misleading appearance during periods of government evaluation. Particularly when these props disappear soon after the critical event, an appearance of concealment or deception is apparent.
[Source: http://contrariancommentary.wordpress.com/2009/06/01/second-circuit-gossip-sotomayor-deeply-closeted-lesbiancougar/]

Sotomayor was also a member of the Belizean Grove, a women-only secret club that, like the all-male Bohemian Grove outside of San Francisco, is reputed to have a homosexual character.

The New York City ball drop is not only a national event, but it is recognized worldwide. It is broadcast on major television networks, as well as being streamed worldwide over the Internet. It is evident that the powers that be intended this year’s event to serve as a platform for global homosexual advocacy. Only the blind could not see what was being foisted upon the people. Perhaps it is significant that the main corporate sponsor for the event was Nivea. The letters in this name can be rearranged to spell the word “naive.”

In the news for the first day of the year 2014 was a controversy on the other side of America. In the Rose Parade in Pasadena, California, an event that has always been billed as family oriented, the organizers allowed a float to be entered into the parade to promote homosexual marriage. Two sodomite men exchanged their wedding vows as the float traversed the parade route. They were married as the parade took place in front of tens of thousands locally, and millions more via broadcast. After exchanging vows, the two men kissed on the parade float.


Two Homosexual Men Kiss After Exchanging Vows

On this same day in California a recently passed law takes effect allowing school age youths to declare what sex they want to be identified with. As 2014 begins, boys will be able to use girls’ bathrooms, locker rooms, and showers, and vice versa.

From New York City, to Key West, Florida, to California, America is ringing in the new year with a clear declaration that they will not be ashamed of their moral perversions. Truly the word of God has been lost to this nation. America itself is becoming a moral trash can. You will find the Bible there, discarded, unwanted, being cast off by men and women who are mockers of God and all that is righteous.

America has become a modern day Sodom and Gomorrah. I can understand well the vexation experienced by that righteous man Lot whose soul was daily tormented by the sensual conduct of unprincipled men (II Peter 2:7-8). May Yahweh grant His people grace to endure, and to save those that can yet be delivered from the growing darkness of this world.

Come quickly, Lord Yahshua!


Credit to Joseph Herrin

Obama’s Gun Confiscation Plans Are a Prelude to Genocide

In the 1970′s, the civilized world criticized the Soviet Union for their designation of a new mental illness called “Political Schizophrenia”. Soviet style political schizophrenia was deemed to be inappropriate by ICD-9 because the Russians were labeling anyone who disagreed with the government as being mentally ill. And in Mother Russia, if you were deemed to be mentally ill, you were subsequently “treated” in the Gulag.

Obama Employs Soviet Style Mental Health Gun Controls
Under Obama’s new proposed gun regulations, anyone who has a diagnosable, or is potentially diagnosable for being mentally ill, can have their gun confiscated. Vice President Biden even feels that they can violate HIPPA privacy regulations in requiring the states to report who has been treated for a mental illness.

What is interesting to me is that the Obama administration is not even trying to distinguish between mental illnesses in terms of who should, or should not own a gun. In the eyes of the Obama administration, all mental illnesses are created equal. A person with a phobia is just as dangerous as a sociopath. One in six Americans have a “diagnosable anxiety disorder”. This is completely understandable given the economic and political times that we live in. However, under the new proposed guidelines, all of these people would be ineligible to have a gun in their possession even though there is not a shred of research which indicates this population would be inclined towards gun violence any more than any other population.

These New Regulations Are Aimed At the Veterans
For months, the Veterans Administration has been sending out letters to veterans for them to report to the nearest VA hospital for psychiatric evaluation due to potential Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). These same letters are demanding that these veterans turn in their gun or risk losing their veteran benefits.

Please allow me to point out the obvious. If you spend one to five tours of duty in Afghanistan, you are going to have some form of PTSD. Again, the Obama administration has not produced any replicable mental health research which suggests that people with PTSD are more likely than any random person to commit acts of violence with a gun. As an aside, what has been proven is that mass murderers are almost always on psychotropic medication. This brings up the notion that the “pharmacological cure” is more dangerous than the condition that is being treated, which is normally depression.

The veterans have already been under attack by being labeled as domestic terrorists by the MIAC report. I always thought that being a veteran of combat would make him or her a hero in the eyes of the government. Instead, they are demonized when they are done with their active duty service. This makes no sense unless this criminal government thinks that they are going to have to fight these veterans as the noose of martial law tightens around the necks of the American people.

There are 1.5 million veterans under the age of 35. They understand military tactics. They understand how to coordinate an attack. They understand guerrilla tactics and how to execute them. These veterans would be at the vanguard of any armed resistance against this criminal enterprise administration. Their numbers would be formidable because they know how to shoot straight. Add in 200+ command level military officers who have been fired by Obama and America could mount quite an insurgency force. These veterans must be disarmed and that is what underlies these ridiculous policies coming out of this present government.

This whole argument about disarming the veterans is based upon a fallacy. Was the Columbine shooting committed by a mentally ill veteran? Was Sandy Hook committed by a mentally ill veteran? Was the Batman shooting committed by a mentally ill veteran? No, they were not! What each of the murderers had in common is that they were on prescribed psychotropic medication. Perhaps the Obama administration should focus on banning dangerous mental health medication rather than guns.

New Psychiatric Guidelines to Judge Mental Illness
The Obama administration has a new partner in crime and it is the American Psychiatric Association (APA). The APA created the new Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (5th Edition) which was recently adopted. DSM 5 is highly controversial and has sparked outrage from the mental health practitioners. As many of these practitioners point out, the new DSM-V makes a pathology out simple and normal behaviors such as the grieving for the loss of a loved one.

Particularly disturbing is that the new manual targets internet users and conspiracy theorists. If someone is judged, by some vague set of criteria, to spend too much time on the internet, they could be judged to be mentally ill and ineligible to own a gun. How are you receiving this information? The chances are that you are, at least according to Obama and Biden, giving in to your internet addiction and reading this article. Under the new Obama guidelines this would be grounds for gun confiscation. The alternative media is predicated on internet readership and listenership. These would be among the first groups to oppose a martial law crackdown. Subsequently, this is just another backdoor method to disarm citizens who would oppose the abject tyranny being imposed upon America. And these facts sum up what is truly behind the Obama administration’s latest attack upon gun ownership because they want to prey upon a defenseless nation by disarming as many of us as possible before the purges can begin in earnest.

This is the new political schizophrenia. We will see confinements among the alternative media and the veterans for things like ADHD, grieving, normal anxiety, bad eating habits, etc. All of these behaviors and more have been categorized as pathologies under the Obama administration and a supportive American Psychiatric Association.

Conclusion
The Obama people are trying to take this country down a very slippery slope. They are seeking to disarm as many Americans as possible. The historical precedent, and subsequent danger, has been well-established. Therefore, I will not belabor a well-established point, that all 19 genocides in the 20th century were preceded by gun confiscation. Why should we consider Obama’s recent actions to be any less threatening?

Credit to The Common Sense Show

Obama To Bring The Hammer Down On Israel?

 

By J.D. Longstreet 

Now that Obama’s amateurish foreign policy efforts have managed to repel most any friend we had left in the Middle East, the one friend America has had, since at least 1948, is in his cross hairs. Israel.

Obama is in deep trouble at home. Indications are that he has led his Democratic Party into a political abattoir as they are looking at a political massacre in November at the polls. Around the world he is seen, more and more, as an amateur, a light weight, a—dare I say it—a flake (as in “an oddball”). He is considered wonderfully gifted as an orator—and not much else. As a campaigner he’s great. As a president, not so much.

It’s called “misdirection.” It’s what magicians do with their left hand while their right hand is actually performing the mechanics of the the illusion, or trick. Politicians use misdirection all the time.

Presidents have been known to misdirect the voters gaze to a fabricated crisis, preferably thousands of miles away, when they find themselves in hot water here at home. Their hope is that the press will latch onto the seeming “big story/crisis” and allow them some time—and some wiggle room—to extricate themselves from the aforementioned hot water.

In my opinion, we are about to see misdirection played out right before our eyes once again by the Obama administration. Misdirection is time honored. It was referred to as “bread and circuses” by the ancient Romans.

So, what’s up?

Israel.

See, Israel is just not doing as it is told by Obama. Benjamin Netanyahu is no fool. He is also no lackey. He’s his own man and he insists on remaining that way.

Sometime in January, Obama will present a framework agreement to the Israelis and the so-called Palestinians. Middle East experts are of the opinion Obama intends to ratchet up the pressure on Netanyahu already under considerable pressure from the world community due to his disagreement with the “deal” the US is endeavoring to make with Iran to bar the Persians from creating their own nuclear arsenal.

Secretary of State, John F. Kerry said recently:

“If we do not resolve the issues between Palestinians and Israelis, if we do not find a way to find peace, there will be an increasing isolation of Israel, there will be an increasing campaign of delegitimization of Israel that’s been taking place on an international basis.”
Already, the threats. Could this be Obama taking the Chicago method of practicing politics international, explicitly to pummel Israel into submitting to the Obama Regime’s demands? Sure seems like it.

Obama does not JUST desire a deal between the Israelis and the so-called Palestinians, he desperately NEEDS it. He COVETS a win to crow about. Something to polish away some of the tarnish applied by his own lies and inability to govern.

“He’s so wounded,” said influential Saudi Prince Alaweed bin Talal, referring to Obama.

“It’s very scary. Look, the 2014 elections are going to begin. Within two months they’re going to start campaigning. Thirty-nine members of his own party in the House have already moved away from him on ObamaCare. That’s scary for him.”

So—why all the fuss? Because the lefties in the mainstream media, as good little lapdogs of the Obama Regime, feel they must circle their wagons around Obama and pull out all the stops to make him look good (AGAIN!)—especially now that it is clear the public has rejected his presidency and will toss his political party out on its ear in a few short months. (And the media wonders why people don’t read their newspapers and magazines, anymore—and don’t watch their TV news channels, anymore! Geez! How DUMB is that?)

Netanyahu has already stated, flat out, that whether or not any talks have a chance at success depends upon the Palestinians accepting that Israel has a right to actually exist. The Palestinians want to discuss which state would get Jerusalem, the removal of Israeli settlements from land the Palestinians already claim as theirs, and the “right of return” of so-called Palestinian refugees.

Consider this: If the Palestinians are granted “right of return” for those so-called refugees, there will be a tsunami of those so-called Palestinian refugees diluting the Israeli population to the point that the Israelis will be choked off, smothered, and neutralized, losing control of their country by losing control of their government at the ballot box as a result of the sheer weight of the numbers of Palestinians who would gain the positions of power within the Israeli government.

Our amateurish President is playing with fire, once again. He has managed to alienate practically all the Middle Eastern nations even those who grudgingly agreed to work with the US in diplomacy over the past forty or fifty years.

So when the question arises in the future as to who lost the Middle East for America, the resounding answer will be Obama.

Strong arming Israel, as a form of misdirection, will not work for Obama. Entirely too many Americans support Israel for that method to have any chance, at all. Using Israel in a wag-the-dog scenario is a nonstarter.

But they’ll continue to throw themselves at a problem that is unsolvable by man. It s pure vanity. As the Preacher of the Old Testament stated ages ago: “... and behold, all is vanity and a striving after wind.” (Ecclesiastes 1: 14)

J. D. Longstreet


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Jim Rogers Warns "Bernanke Has Set The Stage For The Fed's Collapse"

With Bernanke's term due to expire in January, Jim Rogers warnsMineweb that the Fed-head will be remembered as "the guy who set the stage for the demise of the Central Bank in America. We've had three central banks in America. The first two disappeared. This one's going to disappear too in the next decade." With precious metals, bonds, and stock markets obsessing over Fed actions, Rogers says, in the next 10 years or so, "People will realise that these guys have led us down a terrible path," and collapse is "not a possibility," he adds, "it's a probability."

Via Mineweb,

“100 years ago you could not have named the head of most central banks in the world,” Rogers told Mineweb. “Now they're all rockstars.” Gold and equity markets have increasingly been locked in Fed-watch mode in 2013, obsessing over when or whether chairman Ben Bernanke would taper the bank's vast bond buying scheme.

Rogers however, an ardent free-marketeer, says the market's narrow focus on the Fed reflects the bank's rising and now extreme interference in global markets, propelling the likes of Bernanke in the US and Mario Draghi in Europe to near household name status.

“Everybody knows them,” he says, “but that's only a phenomenon of the last 20 years, when central banks have been pumping money into the markets and everybody's singing hallelujah.”

With Bernanke's term due to expire in January, Rogers says he will be remembered as “the guy who set the stage for the demise of the Central Bank in America. We've had three central banks in America. The first two disappeared. This one's going to disappear too in the next decade.”

“It's not a possibility,” he adds, “it's a probability. People will realise that these guys have led us down a terrible path. The Fed balance sheet has increased by 500 per cent in the last 5 years and a lot of it's garbage.”

Unlike the wider market, Rogers does not set great store by the Fed's decision shortly before Christmas to taper its bond buying measures from $85bn per month to $75bn. The announcement put pressure on gold and drove US equities to a new all-time high, in what Rogers views as a relief rally.

“The US went up because people said, 'Now it's done, we don't have to worry anymore.' But somewhere along the line, markets are going to start suffering. They'll taper until the markets start hurting and then they'll panic and loosen up again. They've got themselves in a terrible box.”

“It'll turn into a bubble or a very inflated situation, but eventually the markets will say, we're not going to take your garbage anymore, whether it's treasury bonds or currency.” Inflation, Rogers says, has only been kept in check in the US by the country's shale gas discovery, putting a “dampener” on energy prices.

Whist Rogers views mass money printing as untenable, in the short term, he expects equities to turn parabolic, rather than collapse.

“The Japanese Central Bank has said that it will print unlimited amounts of money,” he says. “That's their word and they're doing it. When people look back 20 years from now they'll say that's what killed Japan, but in the meantime, all the staggering, unlimited amounts of money have got to go somewhere and it's going to go into Japanese shares.”

Rogers prefers gold over gold mining shares and divisible coins over bullion, but says “there's nothing in precious metals that I'm tempted to buy at the moment.” Indian import tariffs he views as the single biggest drag on the gold market currently.

“They've got a huge balance of trade deficit and the three largest parts are oil, gold and cooking oil. They cannot do anything about oil or cooking oil, so they're attacking gold, blaming their problems on gold. Gold has not caused their problems, gold is a symptom of their problems, but politicians are pretty simple-minded people and they look for the easy answer.”

For early 2014, Rogers is therefore long inflatable equities and neutral on gold, but longer term, he expects to short junk and government bonds and is ultra bullish on gold. “Gold will become one of the only refuges around,” he says.

Credit to Zero Hedge

Three warning signs that a financial crash is imminent

 

James Smith
Activist Post

For years, prophets of profit have warned us that the next stock market crash “will be soon”, and that such a crash will be utter catastrophic. Farber, Celente, et al., have told us that such a crash will be epic and that life as we know it will be forever changed. There are some that challenge their assertions because of fondness for the Gold Market. Many take their advice because they are conservative – play-it-safe investors.

But hearing the same wailing for years does no one any good unless you can see the threat.

Seeing a threat makes it personal. It makes it “in your face” where you MUST deal with it.

Our ancestors could see the tracks of a beast, and knew that danger was near. How near?

They couldn’t know unless they saw the creature.

Welcome to our financial beast. It’s right in front of you.

These three warning signs are brand new to the news, but we’ve told you in the past to be ready and how to prepare for it.


1. Billionaires are dumping stocks.
Dumping is different from selling. When a car or blender is shot, we dump it. If it had any value, we would sell the item hoping to make a profit. The car or blending becomes a non-performing asset, and needs to gotten rid of.

Dumping means that the losses are acceptable and they only purpose is that there is no hope of making a profit over the long term.

Warren Buffet of Berkshire Hathaway has a philosophy of buying when everyone else is selling. His recent dumping of 19 million shares of Johnson & Johnson is only one part of his stock shed. He unloaded a whooping 21% of his “consumer product stocks”. B-H has parted ways with Intel, selling 100% of his stake in the company.

And he not the only one doing the massive unload.

John Paulson has sold 14 million shares of JPMorgan Chase, and 100% of his stock in Family Dollar and Sara Lee.

George “Spooky dude” Soros has sold almost 100% of his bank stocks, such as JPMorgan Chase (what are they doing that people are selling their stock?), Goldman Sachs, and Citigroup. In total, over 1 million shares of financial organizations have been sold by Soros.

That alone should tell volumes of the tome of "The Great Crash of 2014".

But wait, there’s more!

2) Stock Market at its lowest new year opening since 2008
The Dow Jones Industrial Average had its worst day since November 7, falling 135 points, and the week ending 3 January, was lower than the week’s opening.




DJIA activity from 30 December 2013 to 3 January 2014.
Green represents week opening, Blue represents 2014 opening, Red represents week’s end.
The S&P 500 had its worst day in almost a month, closing down close to a percent.

While not the best prognostic tool, the last time the new year opening was a stinker was in 2008. And we all know what happened that year.

3) The Bubble Burst that makes 2008 look safe
United-ICAP chief market technician Walter Zimmerman recently sent a note to his clients outlining a small gain in the market, about 4% or around 17,150 before the dam breaks. His words of advice:

Based on our longer-term time cycles the present stock market rally must be considered the bubble to end all bubbles.His examination of the current forecasts shows some serious trouble in 2016, where the DJIA will fall about 65% to 72%, somewhere in the 4650 to 5770 range. This is territory that hasn’t been seen since late-1995 to mid-1996.

Zimmerman’s words aren’t alone in the wilderness. As we reported earlier, Stan Harley, Ed Carlson, and Tom DeMark have forecast massive stock losses in the first half of January 2014.

And there is Peter Boockvar, the managing director and chief market analyst at the Lindsey Group,who on Thursday predicted the S&P 500 could drop 15% to 20% in 2014 and finish the year between 1550 and 1600.

There you have it. The three warning signs that a financial crash is imminent. Taken individually they are meaningless. But taken as PART of the WHOLE picture and you can gain a sense of why the crash happened. It doesn’t matter that China nukes the US, even though we’ve been warned that Russia will do it; it’s the event that has to be prepared for.

Are you prepared? Why not?

Credit to Activist Post

Scientists Levitate Objects with Sound

Russian Navy to Get 40 New Ships in 2014

MOSCOW, January 3 (RIA Novosti) – Russia’s Navy is expected to receive 40 new warships and auxiliary vessels in 2014, a high-ranking official said Friday.

In addition to surface ships of various classes, the navy will also commission the third Borey-class nuclear powered ballistic missile submarine, the Vladimir Monomakh, and a Varshavyanka-class diesel electric submarine, Rear Admiral Viktor Bursuk, a deputy commander of the Russian navy, said.

Bursuk, who oversees weapons procurement for the navy, said that Russia will continue the repair and overhaul of the Admiral Nakhimov nuclear-powered missile cruiser and three nuclear-powered attack submarines this year.

The Kirov-class cruiser, known as the Kalinin until 1992, was commissioned in 1989 and mothballed in 1999. It has since been docked for upgrades at the Sevmash shipyard in the northern Russian city of Severodvinsk, on the White Sea.

The Admiral Nakhimov is expected to rejoin the Russian navy in 2018 with the most advanced weapons systems for its vessel type, the Sevmash shipyard said in June last year.

Auxiliary ships to be commissioned by the end of 2014 include the Igor Belousov, an advanced search-and-rescue ship designed to boost the navy’s ability to rescue submarines and ships in distress, Bursuk said.

Credit to RIA Novosti