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Housing market ‘double dips’ The prices of single-family homes dropped to their lowest level since April 2009. Consumer confidence drops to six-month low (Washington Post) [ Little more much worse than expected very bad news and we’ll see new highs on fraudulent wall street. And, no; the worse than expected news was not ‘already baked into valuations / pricing. Just manipulated fraud as before and as always on fraudulent wall street. Globally, and in fraudulent america particularly, the stock markets / bourses are a total joke as they try to window dress their end of month figures based on b* s* alone. We’ve seen this before as it played out in the prior phase of this ongoing financial crisis. Shiller Home Price Index comes in at 100% worse than expectations … and don’t forget, that includes the dollar debasing realities which makes this report even more dire. Take this ‘me too’ pop on fraudulent wall street as an especially great opportunity to sell, take profits since there is much, much worse to come. Remember: ‘sell in May and go away’ … so … don’t be a lune, loon, sell in June! Another Financial Crisis Is On The Way, Mobius Says STOCKS HAVE BIG RALLY AFTER PILES OF UGLY NEWS: Here's What You need To Know Harry Dent: “Major Crash” Coming for Stocks, Commodities Already Topping Out 24 Signs Of Economic Decline In America ‘The US is in the middle of a devastating long-term economic decline..’ ] States face shortfall for retirees (WP) Public workers’ retirement funds had a gap of $1.26 trillion at the end of fiscal 2009 (The frauds on wall street et als should be criminally prosecuted, jailed, fined, and disgorgement imposed), and have used the mideast turmoil to obfuscate their failure. Dave's Daily 'If you can keep interest rates this low this long, its inevitable cheap financing can allow companies to start cobbling each other up. Further Ben's policies allow companies like IBM to sell bonds at 1% and buy back shares with the proceeds (total paper bubble-scam). POMO is occurring almost daily and Primary Dealers can buy back their shares and pay dividends with what essentially is taxpayer money-- America Is a Failed State Because It Won’t Prosecute Financial Crime Washington’s Blog / the grim economic reality [ http://albertpeia.com/grimreality.htm ]. Selling In May Is Very Good Advice This Year Equity Valuations Are Forming the Second Biggest Bubble in U.S. History Kaspar ... According to Yale University’s Dr. Robert Shiller, the market is now 41% overvalued …only time the markets have been more overvalued .. 1929 & tech bubble. http://static.seekingalpha.com/uploads/2011/4/12/saupload_cape_thumb1.png PRECHTER: We're Still In A Massive Bear Market And Stocks Will Crash To New Lows This is an especially great opportunity to sell / take profits while you still can since there's much worse to come! Remember: ‘Sell in May and go away! ‘ … Stock Market: 4 Current Warning Signs Navin ‘…1) The 5-year high in the level of insider corporate stock sales is telling. At 565 sells for every 1 buy, it’s never been higher. Yes, it’s normal for insiders to be selling some of their stocks so they can buy new yachts and some of this is pre-planned. But that ratio — which has spiked recently — is extraordinarily high, one might even say off-the-chart.]

Report: SEC lawyer exposed FBI informant (Washington Post) [ Clearly, the sec liar (sic – lawyer) is one of those typically with a ‘pre or post’ arrangement, whether implicit or explicit; you know, that ubiquitous ‘bribe thing’ in pervasively corrupt, defacto bankrupt, fallen america. Indeed, the scenario typifies that national drain / sinkhole new york (new york / new jersey metro) where, for example, FBI informants were routinely exposed by ‘italians’ in the new york d.a.’s office over objection of the FBI, and were promptly ‘dispatched’/assassinated / hit by mafia / organized crime [ this was documented with authority in the book Goombata: The Improbable Rise and Fall of John Gotti and His Gang John Cummings (Author), Ernest Volkman (Author) Though having but 5% of the world’s population, u.s. has 76% of the world’s serial killers, http://www.albertpeia.com/realifeamericaserialkillers.mpg bankrupt america also spends more on military than all the nations of the world combined... fed employees / contractors, cia, all 3 branches of u.s. gov’t, etc., are included in this evolved american trait of inherent criminality http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/ricosummarytoFBIunderpenaltyofperjury.pdf http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/PeiavCoanetals.htm ]:

Focus Is on Obama as Tensions Soar Across Mideast (New York Times) [ Adapt? I don’t think so! I do believe that both nations are regressively but nostalgically trying bring the world back to failed geopolitical paradigms that made the 20th century the bloodiest century, not coincidentally the american century (obviously for israel the latter half century). Yet, such a conditioned psychopathic approach to global matters has led them self-destructively, self-defeatingly, and ineluctably to decline, fall, and as with dinosaurs, extinction, at least in a manner of speaking. Global information exchange at lightning speed has made such throwbacks to a lost era, propaganda, and maladaptive traits foolish at best, deadly at worst. Intelligent people worldwide aren’t buying the obsolete, Orwellian approach fostered by the purveyors of global unrest; viz., israel, america, Orwellian england, etc..; more specifically, diversion of the masses from the glaring failures of leadership, economic and otherwise.

CRIME STATISTICS >(america is No. 1)

Rank	Countries	Amount
# 1	United States:	11,877,218
# 2	United Kingdom:	6,523,706
# 3	Germany:	6,507,394

UPDATE: MORE CLAIMS OF RACE BIAS AT JUSTICE... ‘ignore cases that involve black defendants and white victims ' Cases against Wall Street lag despite Holder’s vows to target financial fraud WP | Obama has promised to hold Wall Street accountable for the meltdown.
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Milbank: Congress clocks in to clock out (Washington Post) [ At 10 a.m. Tuesday morning, the Senate came to order. Forty-one seconds later, it adjourned. During this legislative session, there was no bill under consideration, no debate on the floor, not even an opening prayer or a pledge of allegiance. The only senator in the chamber was Mark Warner (D-Va.), the presiding officer. ‘After completing his gavel duties, Warner looked up at the 20 tourists in the public gallery and wondered aloud to the clerk what the spectators must think of the proceedings.“They think, ‘this is our government?’ ” the clerk replied. That’s if they’re being charitable. The Senate is supposed to be in Memorial Day recess this week. But the chamber is so ungovernable that Majority Leader Harry Reid doesn’t even have the votes to declare a recess. So he decided instead to have a few “pro forma” sessions, such as Tuesday’s, allowing senators to take a vacation without voting for it. In a sense, the Senate has been in a pro-forma session all year…’ Now who’s being charitable … I’d say Mr. Milbank in his euphemistic description supra as well as his unflinching defense of wobama the b (for b***s***) despite wobama’s reneging on virtually all his campaign promises / rhetoric to the nation’s unequivocal detriment. Thus, it is indeed Mr. Milbank, journalistically speaking, who as well clocks in to clock out. Simply put, wobama is nothing less than the worst of the democratic platform combined with the worst of the republican platform. At near single digit approval rates for congress, I find it difficult to imagine a realistic approval rate for wobama exceeding same. Davis ‘This is how we pay off our current debts and I think bondholders are simply happy to get anything out of a country that admits it owes $15Tn (1/4 of global GDP) but probably owes closer to $60Tn (entire global GDP) in the form of unfunded liabilities. The funniest thing about this (and you have to laugh) is to see Conservative pundits get on TV and talk about how we need to cut $100Bn worth of discretionary spending to "fix" this (while continuing to spend $1Tn on the military and $1Tn on tax cuts for the top 1% each year). There is no fixing this and even a Republican said you can’t fool all of the people all of the time. THIS HOUSE OF CARDS IS TEETERING FOLKS – PLEASE BE CAREFUL OUT THERE! ‘ Senate Dems find themselves in a tough spot (WP) [ Tough spot? Like Iraq and a hard place called Afghanistan; indeed they are. [Pakistani troops, NATO helicopters engage in firefight 6th soldier charged in plot to kill Afghan civilians (Washington Post) [ Gen. Hamid Gul: U.S. Generals Provoking War with Pakistan Jones | U.S. intelligence is that bin Laden needs dialysis every 3 days/ http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/osama_dead.php 5-1-11, JUST MOMENTS BEFORE PRESIDENT OBAMA ANNOUNCED THAT THE US HAD KILLED OSAMA BIN LADEN, THE WHATREALLYHAPPENED WEBSITE CAME UNDER MASSIVE DISTRIBUTED DENIAL OF SERVICE ATTACK. THIS PAGE, WHICH DOCUMENTS THAT OSAMA BIN LADEN ACTUALLY DIED IN DECEMBER OF 2001, APPEARS TO BE WHAT THE WHITE HOUSE DIDN'T WANT AVAILABLE WHILE THE NEW PROPAGANDA WAS "CATAPULTED FORWARD". IT IS POSSIBLE THAT THIS IS THE OPENING GAMBIT IN A PLAN TO STAGE A "REVENGE" ATTACK FROM "AL QAEDA" ON THE UNITED STATES, WITH WHICH TO JUSTIFY TOTAL WAR ON THE MIDDLE EAST… FLASHBACK: Editorial: US in quagmire War in Afghanistan and Iraq costs America $1trillion Roche 'The worst part of it ...Obama, who vowed change, has done almost nothing to fix any of it and in fact continues most of the policies that helped get us here in the first place’ UPDATE: MORE CLAIMS OF RACE BIAS AT JUSTICE... ‘In emotional and personal testimony, an ex-Justice official who quit over the handling of a voter intimidation case against the New Black Panther Party accused his former employer of instructing attorneys in the civil rights division to ignore cases that involve black defendants and white victims ' Cases against Wall Street lag despite Holder’s vows to target financial fraud WP Obama has promised to hold Wall Street accountable for the meltdown.
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Karzai orders change in U.S. strategy Afghan president’s ultimatum could complicate U.S. drawdown. (Washington Post) [ Karzai’s always been hot-air and antithetical to the true sovereign interests of Afghanistan, acting more as a war criminal nation american shill. Davis ‘This is how we pay off our current debts and I think bondholders are simply happy to get anything out of a country that admits it owes $15Tn (1/4 of global GDP) but probably owes closer to $60Tn (entire global GDP) in the form of unfunded liabilities. The funniest thing about this (and you have to laugh) is to see Conservative pundits get on TV and talk about how we need to cut $100Bn worth of discretionary spending to "fix" this (while continuing to spend $1Tn on the military and $1Tn on tax cuts for the top 1% each year). There is no fixing this and even a Republican said you can’t fool all of the people all of the time. THIS HOUSE OF CARDS IS TEETERING FOLKS – PLEASE BE CAREFUL OUT THERE! ‘ Senate Dems find themselves in a tough spot (WP) [ Tough spot? Like Iraq and a hard place called Afghanistan; indeed they are. [Pakistani troops, NATO helicopters engage in firefight 6th soldier charged in plot to kill Afghan civilians (Washington Post) [ Gen. Hamid Gul: U.S. Generals Provoking War with Pakistan Jones | U.S. intelligence is that bin Laden needs dialysis every 3 days/ http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/osama_dead.php 5-1-11, JUST MOMENTS BEFORE PRESIDENT OBAMA ANNOUNCED THAT THE US HAD KILLED OSAMA BIN LADEN, THE WHATREALLYHAPPENED WEBSITE CAME UNDER MASSIVE DISTRIBUTED DENIAL OF SERVICE ATTACK. THIS PAGE, WHICH DOCUMENTS THAT OSAMA BIN LADEN ACTUALLY DIED IN DECEMBER OF 2001, APPEARS TO BE WHAT THE WHITE HOUSE DIDN'T WANT AVAILABLE WHILE THE NEW PROPAGANDA WAS "CATAPULTED FORWARD". IT IS POSSIBLE THAT THIS IS THE OPENING GAMBIT IN A PLAN TO STAGE A "REVENGE" ATTACK FROM "AL QAEDA" ON THE UNITED STATES, WITH WHICH TO JUSTIFY TOTAL WAR ON THE MIDDLE EAST… FLASHBACK: Editorial: US in quagmire War in Afghanistan and Iraq costs America $1trillion Roche 'The worst part of it ...Obama, who vowed change, has done almost nothing to fix any of it and in fact continues most of the policies that helped get us here in the first place’ UPDATE: MORE CLAIMS OF RACE BIAS AT JUSTICE... ‘In emotional and personal testimony, an ex-Justice official who quit over the handling of a voter intimidation case against the New Black Panther Party accused his former employer of instructing attorneys in the civil rights division to ignore cases that involve black defendants and white victims ' Cases against Wall Street lag despite Holder’s vows to target financial fraud WP Obama has promised to hold Wall Street accountable for the meltdown.
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House rejects debt ceiling increase The 317-to-98 vote was a bipartisan rejection of extending the nation’s current debt limit of $14.3 trillion unless major spending reductions accompany the legislation. (Washington Post) [ Well, perish the thought that increases in liabilities should be commensurate with decreases in liabilities to maintain a … balance … sheet? At this point, who’s counting? After all, are there really degrees of defacto bankruptcy? Or, an either / or absolute state; viz., you are or you’re not defacto bankrupt. Pervasively corrupt, defacto bankrupt america is in fact defacto bankrupt! … Wall Street 'Vastly Underestimating' Risk of Debt Default Forbes / Robert Lenzner StreetTalk ‘ “Meet the Press” climaxed Sunday with a startling market prognostication from David Brooks, conservative columnist for the NY Times. The risk of a debt default over the combustible issue of the Medicare deficit hangs over the course of the stock market. Buyers Beware!“I was up in Wall Street this week,” Brooks said. “They’re vastly underestimating the source of piolitical risk here. We could have a major problem, I think, either this summer or the next couple years. And I’d be worried about investing too much in the market. That’s my financial advice.”I have to admit Brooks woke me up. I had blithely been assuming a deal to raise the debt limit would get resolved at the last minute–the classic American way. But, the showdown between Republican cutters and Democrat defenders of Medicare may a lot more treacherous a path than I anticipated.And the potential deep cuts underscore what I mentioined in my “Market’s Wall of Worry” post yesterday about the prospects of the Income line of the GDP being reduced by necessity. Cut Medicare and lerss money will be spent on health care, less money on medical instruments, less money on drugs, on pills, on doctotrs visits.Less money on healthcare means less money circulating and so less tax revenue. It’s a future scenario few of us want to contemplate. A runup to possible default will not be positive for the stock market. Even if dfefault is avoided then, the notion that Wall Street doesn’t get the crisis measns there’s too much denial of reality in stock prices. I’m with David Brooks.’ … TEMPLETON chairman: Financial Crisis 'Around Corner'... By Kana Nishizawa / Bloomberg - May 30, 2011 ‘ Mark Mobius, executive chairman of Templeton Asset Management’s emerging markets group, said another financial crisis is inevitable because the causes of the previous one haven’t been resolved …’ STOCKS HAVE BIG RALLY AFTER PILES OF UGLY NEWS: Here's What You need To Know Business Insider Joe Weisenthal …

Globally, and in fraudulent america particularly, the stock markets / bourses are a total joke as they try to window dress their end of month figures based on b*** s*** alone. We’ve seen this before as it played out in the prior phase of this ongoing financial crisis. Shiller Home Price Index comes in at 100% worse than expectations … and don’t forget, that includes the dollar debasing realities which makes this report even more dire. Take this ‘me too’ pop on fraudulent wall street as an especially great opportunity to sell, take profits since there is much, much worse to come. Remember: ‘sell in May and go away’ … so … don’t be a lune, loon, sell in June! Another Financial Crisis Is On The Way, Mobius Says STOCKS HAVE BIG RALLY AFTER PILES OF UGLY NEWS: Here's What You need To Know Harry Dent: “Major Crash” Coming for Stocks, Commodities Already Topping Out 24 Signs Of Economic Decline In America ‘The US is in the middle of a devastating long-term economic decline..’ ] States face shortfall for retirees (WP) Public workers’ retirement funds had a gap of $1.26 trillion at the end of fiscal 2009 Study: Affordable rentals scarce (WP) Poll: For Obama, low marks on Afghan war (WP) More Americans disapprove of President Obama’s management of the war in Afghanistan than support it Fuel prices cut into Obama popularity (WP) (The frauds on wall street et als should be criminally prosecuted, jailed, fined, and disgorgement imposed), and have used the mideast turmoil to obfuscate their failure. Dave's Daily 'If you can keep interest rates this low this long, its inevitable cheap financing can allow companies to start cobbling each other up. Further Ben's policies allow companies like IBM to sell bonds at 1% and buy back shares with the proceeds (total paper bubble-scam). POMO is occurring almost daily and Primary Dealers can buy back their shares and pay dividends with what essentially is taxpayer money-- … an especially great opportunity to sell / take profits while you still can since there's much worse to come! America Is a Failed State Because It Won’t Prosecute Financial Crime Washington’s Blog / the grim economic reality [ http://albertpeia.com/grimreality.htm ]. Selling In May Is Very Good Advice This Year Harding / April Is a Good Time to Sell Adler Equity Valuations Are Forming the Second Biggest Bubble in U.S. History Kaspar ... According to Yale University’s Dr. Robert Shiller, the market is now 41% overvalued …only time the markets have been more overvalued .. 1929 & tech bubble. http://static.seekingalpha.com/uploads/2011/4/12/saupload_cape_thumb1.png PRECHTER: We're Still In A Massive Bear Market And Stocks Will Crash To New Lows This is an especially great opportunity to sell / take profits while you still can since there's much worse to come! Remember: ‘Sell in May and go away! ‘ … Stock Market: 4 Current Warning Signs Navin ‘…1) The 5-year high in the level of insider corporate stock sales is telling. At 565 sells for every 1 buy, it’s never been higher. Yes, it’s normal for insiders to be selling some of their stocks so they can buy new yachts and some of this is pre-planned. But that ratio — which has spiked recently — is extraordinarily high, one might even say off-the-chart.]

The Market’s Wall of Worry [ http://blogs.forbes.com/robertlenzner/2011/05/29/the-markets-wall-of-worry ] Robert Lenzner Street Talk ‘

* QE2 will be over in 30 days. That removes a $600 billion injection of money in the financial system.

*The bottom line all talks of cuts is less federal, state and local spending. Removes money from income total for the nation.

*Meanwhile, cost of healthcare, food, transportation continues to rise squeezing middle class.

*The yield on 10 year Treasuries is 3.11% and trending lower in anticipation soifter economy.

*Housing market could continue weak for some years, not months, affecting millions of ordinary Americans.

* Price of crude oil makes gasoline expensive and brings demand destruction.

* Stocks rally now over 2 years old. Commodities have also run up bigtime.

* China trying to slow its economic growth and having difficulty doing so.

*Europe facing costly bailouts troubled nations and weaker financial institutions.

*Showdown over Palestinian state could lead to another outbreak hostilities in the Middle East.

*If US, Europe and China slowing what are the prospects for global economy, corporate profits, market valuations?

*Japan badly hurt by earthquake and tsumami.

*Trade volumes decline more sharply than output during downturns according to The Economist.

*But OECD predicts GDP up 4.2% and trade volumes gain 8%.

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U.S. Home Prices Drop To 2002 Levels, Ho-Hum Says Mr. Market Forbes [ Yeah … they have to say ho-hum so that they’re not caught saying … duh! Shiller Home Price Index comes in at 100% worse than expectations … and don’t forget, that includes the dollar debasing realities which makes this report even more dire. ]

S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices http://www.standardandpoors.com/indices/sp-case-shiller-home-price-indices/en/us/?indexId=spusa-cashpidff--p-us---- The S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices are the leading measures for the US residential housing market, tracking changes in the value of residential real estate both nationally as well as in 20 metropolitan regions. The indices are calculated monthly and published with a two month lag. New index levels are released at 9am Eastern Standard Time on the last Tuesday of every month.

Latest Press Release

National Home Prices Hit New Low in 2011 Q1 According to the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices(PDF)

31-May-2011 09:00

Data through March 2011, released today by Standard & Poor’s for its S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices, the leading measure of U.S. home prices, show that the U.S. National Home Price Index declined by 4.2% in the first quarter of 2011...

* The S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices are calculated monthly using a three-month moving average and published with a two month lag. New index levels are released at 9 am on the last Tuesday of every month.

(data as of 31-May-2011)

Home Price Index Levels

March 2011

Home Price Sales Pair Counts

March 2011

Not Calculated

U.S. National Index Levels

Q1 2011

Home Price Tiered Index Levels

March 2011

Condominium Index Levels

March 2011

Condominium Sales Pair Counts

March 2011

Not Calculated

Key Housing Indicators (Monthly)

March 2011 (as of 31-May)

The Latest Indicators are usually updated by 2 pm on the last Tuesday of every month.

Index Announcements

National Home Prices Hit New Low in 2011 Q1 According to the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices

Home Prices Edge Closer to 2009 Lows According to the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices

Data through February 2011, released today by Standard & Poor’s for its S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices, the leading measure of U.S. home prices, show prices for the 10- and 20-city composites are lower than a year ago but still slightly above...

Home Prices Off to a Dismal Start in 2011 According to the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices

Data through January 2011, released today by Standard & Poor’s for its S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices, the leading measure of U.S. home prices, show further deceleration in the annual growth rates in 13 of the 20 MSAs and the 10- and 20-City...

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S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices: 2010 A Year In Review

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S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices: 2009 A Year In Review

NATIONAL HOME PRICES HIT NEW LOW IN 2011 Q1

According to the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices

New York, May 31, 2011 – Data through March 2011, released today by Standard & Poor’s for its

S&P/Case-Shiller1 Home Price Indices, the leading measure of U.S. home prices, show that the U.S.

National Home Price Index declined by 4.2% in the first quarter of 2011, after having fallen 3.6% in the

fourth quarter of 2010. The National Index hit a new recession low with the first quarter’s data and

posted an annual decline of 5.1% versus the first quarter of 2010. Nationally, home prices are back to

their mid-2002 levels.

As of March 2011, 19 of the 20 MSAs covered by S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices and both

monthly composites were down compared to March 2010. Twelve of the 20 MSAs and the 20-City

Composite also posted new index lows in March. With an index value of 138.16, the 20-City Composite

fell below its earlier reported April 2009 low of 139.26. Minneapolis posted a double-digit 10.0% annual

decline, the first market to be back in this territory since March 2010 when Las Vegas was down 12.0%

on an annual basis. In the midst of all these falling prices and record lows, Washington DC was the only

city where home prices increased on both a monthly (+1.1%) and annual (+4.3%) basis. Seattle was up a

modest 0.1% for the month, but still down 7.5% versus March 2010.

1 Case-Shiller® and Case-Shiller Indexes® are registered trademarks of Fiserv, Inc.

The chart on the previous page depicts the annual returns of the U.S. National, the 10-City Composite

and the 20-City Composite Home Price Indices. The S&P/Case-Shiller U.S. National Home Price Index,

which covers all nine U.S. census divisions, recorded a 5.1% decline in the first quarter of 2011 over the

first quarter of 2010. In March, the 10- and 20-City Composites posted annual rates of decline of 2.9%

and 3.6%, respectively. Thirteen of the 20 MSAs and both monthly Composites saw their annual growth

rates fall deeper into negative territory in March. While they did not worsen, Chicago, Phoenix and

Seattle saw no improvement in their respective annual rates.

“This month’s report is marked by the confirmation of a double-dip in home prices across much of the

nation. The National Index, the 20-City Composite and 12 MSAs all hit new lows with data reported

through March 2011. The National Index fell 4.2% over the first quarter alone, and is down 5.1%

compared to its year-ago level. Home prices continue on their downward spiral with no relief in sight.”

says David M. Blitzer, Chairman of the Index Committee at S&P Indices. “Since December 2010, we

have found an increasing number of markets posting new lows. In March 2011, 12 cities - Atlanta,

Charlotte, Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Las Vegas, Miami, Minneapolis, New York, Phoenix, Portland

(OR) and Tampa - fell to their lowest levels as measured by the current housing cycle. Washington D.C.

was the only MSA displaying positive trends with an annual growth rate of +4.3% and a 1.1% increase

from its February level.

“The rebound in prices seen in 2009 and 2010 was largely due to the first-time home buyers tax credit.

Excluding the results of that policy, there has been no recovery or even stabilization in home prices

during or after the recent recession. Further, while last year saw signs of an economic recovery, the most

recent data do not point to renewed gains.

“Looking deeper into the monthly data, 18 MSAs and both Composites were down in March over

February. The only two which weren’t, are Washington DC, up 1.1%, and Seattle, up 0.1%. Atlanta,

Cleveland, Detroit and Las Vegas are the markets where average home prices are now below their

January 2000 levels. With a March index level of 100.27, Phoenix is not far off.”

S&P/Case-Shiller U.S. National Home Price Index

[chart]

US National, index level (left)

US National, %chya (right)

Nationally, home prices are back

to their mid-2002 levels

Record low decline of 18.9% in

2009Q1 (solid line)

National

index hits

new low in

2011Q1

(dotted line)

Source: Standard & Poor's and Fiserv

2011 Q1 2011 Q1/2010 Q4 2010 Q4/2010 Q3

Level Change (%) Change (%) 1-Year Change (%)

U.S. National Index 125.41 -4.2% -3.6% -5.1%

March 2011 March/February February/January

METROPOLITAN AREA LEVEL CHANGE (%) CHANGE (%) 1-YEAR CHANGE (%)

ATLANTA 98.36 -1.9% -0.1% -5.2%

BOSTON 147.36 -1.7% -1.5% -2.7%

CHARLOTTE 106.96 -2.4% -1.3% -6.8%

CHICAGO 110.57 -2.4% -2.2% -7.6%

CLEVELAND 96.80 -1.8% -0.7% -6.3%

DALLAS 112.89 -0.8% -0.2% -2.5%

DENVER 120.55 -0.6% -1.2% -3.8%

DETROIT 67.07 -2.0% 0.8% -0.9%

LAS VEGAS 97.18 -1.1% -1.0% -5.3%

LOS ANGELES 167.77 -0.3% -1.0% -1.7%

MIAMI 137.28 -0.8% -2.0% -6.1%

MINNEAPOLIS 105.57 -3.7% -3.3% -10.0%

NEW YORK 163.50 -0.9% -0.6% -3.4%

PHOENIX 100.27 -0.5% -0.7% -8.4%

PORTLAND 132.67 -0.7% -1.6% -7.6%

SAN DIEGO 153.88 -0.8% -1.3% -4.0%

SAN FRANCISCO 129.82 -0.1% -2.6% -5.1%

SEATTLE 132.97 0.1% -1.9% -7.5%

TAMPA 127.08 -0.7% -0.8% -6.9%

WASHINGTON 182.98 1.1% -0.3% 4.3%

COMPOSITE-10 151.66 -0.6% -1.2% -2.9%

COMPOSITE-20 138.16 -0.8% -1.1% -3.6%

Source: Standard & Poor's and Fiserv

Data through March 2011

The chart on the previous page shows the index levels for the U.S. National Home Price Index, as well as

its annual returns. As of the first quarter of 2011, average home prices across the United States are back

at their mid-2002 levels. The National Index level hit a new low in the first quarter of 2011; it fell by

4.2% in the first quarter of 2011 and is 5.1% below its 2010Q1 level.

Eleven cities and both Composites have posted at least eight consecutive months of negative month-overmonth

returns. Of these, eight cities are down 1% or more. The only cities to post positive improvements

in March versus their February levels are Seattle and Washington D.C. with monthly returns of +0.1%

and +1.1% respectively.

The table below summarizes the results for March 2011. The S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices are

revised for the 24 prior months, based on the receipt of additional source data. More than 23 years of

history for these data series is available, and can be accessed in full by going to

www.homeprice.standardandpoors.com

Since its launch in early 2006, the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices have published, and the markets

have followed and reported on, the non-seasonally adjusted data set used in the headline indices. For

analytical purposes, Standard & Poor’s does publish a seasonally adjusted data set covered in the

headline indices, as well as for the 17 of 20 markets with tiered price indices and the five condo markets

that are tracked.

A summary of the monthly changes using the seasonally adjusted (SA) and non-seasonally adjusted

(NSA) data can be found in the table below.

NSA SA NSA SA

US National -4.2% -1.9% -3.6% -1.8%

Metropolitan Area NSA SA NSA SA

Atlanta -1.9% -1.2% -0.1% 0.6%

Boston -1.7% -0.9% -1.5% -0.7%

Charlotte -2.4% -2.6% -1.3% -0.8%

Chicago -2.4% -0.8% -2.2% -0.7%

Cleveland -1.8% -1.3% -0.7% 0.6%

Dallas -0.8% -0.8% -0.2% 0.3%

Denver -0.6% -0.3% -1.2% -0.5%

Detroit -2.0% -0.7% 0.8% 1.8%

Las Vegas -1.1% -0.6% -1.0% -0.4%

Los Angeles -0.3% 0.1% -1.0% -0.1%

Miami -0.8% 0.3% -2.0% -1.5%

Minneapolis -3.7% -2.5% -3.3% -1.5%

New York -0.9% -0.1% -0.6% -0.2%

Phoenix -0.5% 0.1% -0.7% 0.1%

Portland -0.7% -0.4% -1.6% -0.8%

San Diego -0.8% -0.9% -1.3% -0.8%

San Francisco -0.1% 0.5% -2.6% -1.6%

Seattle 0.1% 0.2% -1.9% -1.7%

Tampa -0.7% 0.0% -0.8% -0.1%

Washington 1.1% 1.2% -0.3% 0.5%

Composite-10 -0.6% -0.1% -1.2% -0.3%

Composite-20 -0.8% -0.2% -1.1% -0.2%

Source: Standard & Poor's and Fiserv

Data through March 2011

March/February Change (%) February/January Change (%)

2011 Q1/2010 Q4 2010 Q4/2010 Q3

S&P Indices has introduced a new blog called HousingViews.com. This interactive blog delivers realtime

commentary and analysis from across the Standard & Poor’s organization on a wide-range of topics

impacting residential home prices, homebuilding and mortgage financing in the United States. Readers

and viewers can visit the blog at www.housingviews.com, where feedback and commentary is certainly

welcomed and encouraged.

The S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices are published on the last Tuesday of each month at 9:00 am

ET. They are constructed to accurately track the price path of typical single-family homes located in each

metropolitan area provided. Each index combines matched price pairs for thousands of individual houses

from the available universe of arms-length sales data. The S&P/Case-Shiller National U.S. Home Price

Index tracks the value of single-family housing within the United States. The index is a composite of

single-family home price indices for the nine U.S. Census divisions and is calculated quarterly. The

S&P/Case-Shiller Composite of 10 Home Price Index is a value-weighted average of the 10 original

metro area indices. The S&P/Case-Shiller Composite of 20 Home Price Index is a value-weighted

average of the 20 metro area indices. The indices have a base value of 100 in January 2000; thus, for

example, a current index value of 150 translates to a 50% appreciation rate since January 2000 for a

typical home located within the subject market.

These indices are generated and published under agreements between Standard & Poor’s and Fiserv, Inc.

The S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices are produced by Fiserv, Inc. In addition to the S&P/Case-

Shiller Home Price Indices, Fiserv also offers home price index sets covering thousands of zip codes,

counties, metro areas, and state markets. The indices, published by Standard & Poor's, represent just a

small subset of the broader data available through Fiserv.

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Wall Street 'Vastly Underestimating' Risk of Debt Default Forbes / Robert Lenzner StreetTalk ‘ “Meet the Press” climaxed Sunday with a startling market prognostication from David Brooks, conservative columnist for the NY Times. The risk of a debt default over the combustible issue of the Medicare deficit hangs over the course of the stock market. Buyers Beware!“I was up in Wall Street this week,” Brooks said. “They’re vastly underestimating the source of piolitical risk here. We could have a major problem, I think, either this summer or the next couple years. And I’d be worried about investing too much in the market. That’s my financial advice.”I have to admit Brooks woke me up. I had blithely been assuming a deal to raise the debt limit would get resolved at the last minute–the classic American way. But, the showdown between Republican cutters and Democrat defenders of Medicare may a lot more treacherous a path than I anticipated.And the potential deep cuts underscore what I mentioined in my “Market’s Wall of Worry” post yesterday about the prospects of the Income line of the GDP being reduced by necessity. Cut Medicare and lerss money will be spent on health care, less money on medical instruments, less money on drugs, on pills, on doctotrs visits.Less money on healthcare means less money circulating and so less tax revenue. It’s a future scenario few of us want to contemplate. A runup to possible default will not be positive for the stock market. Even if dfefault is avoided then, the notion that Wall Street doesn’t get the crisis measns there’s too much denial of reality in stock prices. I’m with David Brooks.’

TEMPLETON chairman: Financial Crisis 'Around Corner'... By Kana Nishizawa / Bloomberg - May 30, 2011 ‘ Mark Mobius, executive chairman of Templeton Asset Management’s emerging markets group, said another financial crisis is inevitable because the causes of the previous one haven’t been resolved. “There is definitely going to be another financial crisis around the corner because we haven’t solved any of the things that caused the previous crisis,” Mobius said at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan in Tokyo today in response to a question about price swings. “Are the derivatives regulated? No. Are you still getting growth in derivatives? Yes.” The total value of derivatives in the world exceeds total global gross domestic product by a factor of 10, said Mobius, who oversees more than $50 billion. With that volume of bets in different directions, volatility and equity market crises will occur, he said. The global financial crisis three years ago was caused in part by the proliferation of derivative products tied to U.S. home loans that ceased performing, triggering hundreds of billions of dollars in writedowns and leading to the collapse of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. in September 2008. The MSCI AC World Index of developed and emerging market stocks tumbled 46 percent between Lehman’s downfall and the market bottom on March 9, 2009. “With every crisis comes great opportunity,” said Mobius. When markets are crashing, “that’s when we’re going to be able to invest and do a good job,” he said. The freezing of global credit markets caused governments from Washington to Beijing to London to pump more than $3 trillion into the financial system to shore up the global economy. The MSCI AC World gauge surged 99 percent from its March 2009 low through May 27.

‘Too Big to Fail’

The largest U.S. banks have grown larger since the financial crisis, and the number of “too-big-to-fail” banks will increase by 40 percent over the next 15 years, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Separately, higher capital requirements and greater supervision should be imposed on institutions deemed “too important to fail” to reduce the chances of large-scale failures, staff at the International Monetary Fund warned in a report on May 27. “Are the banks bigger than they were before? They’re bigger,” Mobius said. “Too big to fail.” The money manager had earlier said at the same event that Africa has an “incredible” investment potential and that he has stakes in Nigerian banks.

“These banks are doing very well and are much better regulated than they were in the past,” Mobius said, without disclosing which lenders he holds. Banks account for five of the eight stocks in the MSCI Nigeria (MXNI) Index. Guaranty Trust Bank Plc, the country’s No. 2 lender by market value, surged 31 percent in the six months through May 27, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Shares of Access Bank Nigeria Plc recorded the second-biggest decline on the gauge in the period, the data show.

To contact the reporter on this story: Kana Nishizawa in Tokyo at [email protected]

To contact the editor responsible for this story: Nick Gentle at [email protected] ‘

U.S. Home Prices Drop To 2002 Levels, Ho-Hum Says Mr. Market Forbes Steve Schaefer ‘Wall Street appears to have already priced in the latest batch of feeble data from the housing market, with the major indexes opening sharply higher despite a weak reading from the March S&P/Case-Shiller index.

The 20-city index was down 3.6% from a year ago in March, marking “the confirmation of a double-dip in home prices across much of the nation,” said David Blitzer, chairman of the index committee at S&P Indices. “Home prices continue on their downward spiral with no relief in sight.”

For the first quarter, average prices were down 4.2%, after dropping 3.6% over the last three months of 2010. The drop back into a double-dip, which has been anticipated for months, comes as the housing market continues to give back the gains built up during a debt-fueled bubble that saw an unprecedented surge in prices until the subprime meltdown signaled the first cracks in the dam a few years ago.

While the housing market is contributing little, if anything, to the sluggish U.S. economic recovery, the stock market appears reconciled to that fact, mostly because it has been telegraphed for months. Despite the soft reading from the S&P/Case-Shiller index Tuesday, major equity indexes returned from the Memorial Day break with a vengeance.

In the first five minutes of trading the Dow Jones industrial average was up 121 points at 12,563. All 30 blue-chip components were in the green including Home Depot, up 0.5%, which has faced challenges in recent years as its core business operates at the intersection of housing and consumer spending.

The S&P 500 gained 13 points to 1,344, while the Nasdaq added 29 points to 2,826. Among the few big losers in early trading was Nokia, down 13% after cutting its earnings outlook for the second quarter and full fiscal year. (See “Nokia Sees Q2 Worse Than Expected.”)’

Another Financial Crisis Is On The Way, Mobius Says at Forbes Halah Touryalai Working Capital ‘ ‘Warren Buffett called them weapons of mass destruction. Now those same products, known as derivatives, are pushing the world closer to another financial crisis. That’s according to Mark Mobius, executive chairman of Templeton Asset Management’s emerging markets group. Mobius, who over sees more than $50 billion in assets, says another financial crisis is “around the corner” because little has changed since recent collapse of the markets.

“There is definitely going to be another financial crisis around the corner because we haven’t solved any of the things that caused the previous crisis. Are the derivatives regulated? No. Are you still getting growth in derivatives? Yes.”

That was his response to a question about price swings at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan in Tokyo today, according to Bloomberg.

Derivatives are financial instruments whose value is based on some underlying asset, like a mortgage for instance, and and can be used to either hedge risk or for completely speculative positions. There are all kinds of derivatives investors can invest in or against including something called the death derivative where, you guessed it, investors bet on people’s deaths.

The most infamous derivatives are the ones tied to residential mortgages and which led to the demise of the financial system back in 2008. When homeowners began defaulting on their mortgages the affect was nearly detrimental to all the financial institutions that shared the risk through these exotic derivatives.

An IMF report from 2010 puts it this way:

Over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives markets have grown considerably in recent years, with total notional outstanding amounts exceeding $600 trillion at the end of June 2009 (Figure 3.1). During the financial crisis, the credit default swap (CDS) market, a part of the OTC derivatives market, took center stage as difficulties in financial markets began to intensify and the counterparty risk involved in a largely bilaterally cleared market became apparent. Authorities had to make expensive decisions regarding Lehman Brothers and AIG based on only partially informed views.

In fact, the derivatives battle at Lehman Brothers is still waging on with the counter-parties in Lehman Brothers derivatives trades still looking to get paid for their bets. Bankrupt Lehman has been in talks for over a year with about a dozen big-bank counter-parties about the value of the their claims.

Meanwhile, Mobius says the derivatives market today is still so rife with bets made in different directions that major volatility is inevitable and the equity markets will suffer. He said the total value of derivatives in the world exceeds total global gross domestic product by a factor of 10, according to the Bloomberg report.

The derivatives market is one that regulators are attempting to reform right now with new rules scheduled to be implemented this year. The new rules would require more disclosure and transparency.

But like in other attempts at regulating lucrative lines of business regulators are facing resistance from Wall Street friendly lawmakers looking to extend the deadline.

Last week, U.S. Rep. Spencer Bachus co-sponsored a bill that would approve a measure to delay the implementation of to September 2012. The legislation to delay the implementation of rules was passed last week with Bachus saying the move was neccessary to “restore order to the Dodd-Frank Act derivatives rulemaking process.” ‘

STOCKS HAVE BIG RALLY AFTER PILES OF UGLY NEWS: Here's What You need To Know Business Insider Joe Weisenthal, Tuesday May 31, 2011 ‘Anyone of the bearish persuasion is pulling their hair out right now.

But first, the scoreboard:

Dow: +123.59
NASDAQ: +36.20
S&P 500: +13.12

And now, the top stories:

Without a doubt, the #1 story of the moment is the situation in Greece, a story that's now more than a year old. Over the weekend, it emerged that the "Troika" (ECB, IMF, EU) were close to a deal, though nothing is signed yet. Nonetheless, the euro surged, and European markets wen nuts.

(Asian markets also had a really big day, despite Moody's warning about Japanese debt, and ongoing concerns about China.)

By the time the US morning came around, it was all risk-on all the time.

But then lots of bad news came. At 9:00 AM Case-Shiller showed a sharper than expected fall in home prices in March. Then Chicago PMI came in bad. Then Consumer Sentiment was ugly. Then the Dallas Fed Index dipped into negative territory. The slowdown in the economy is clearly confirmed.

And although this did cause the marke to pull back, it was obvious that nothing was ever in doubt in terms of the rally, which ended up being huge. There are all kinds explanations, though the simplest is that for now earnings are now holding up, and that's what counts.

There really wasn't too much on the corporate front with earnings season now officially in the big. Apple shares rose on confirmation that Steve Jobs will appear at the WWDC. Nokia shares got KILLED after the handset maker lowered its outlook. Generally, energy was extremely strong all day, as well. Oh, and bonds had a nice day, continuing to pulverize the shorts.

For a big list of signs the economy is slowing down, see here > ‘

Greece: Behold the Default Spiral at The Wall Street Journal Matt Phillips ‘Guy LeBas, chief fixed income strategist at Janney Capital Markets, tossed this chart into a research note he published today on the possibilities that the Greece situation could develop into a full-blown European contagion. He writes:

Greece is in the midst of a classic default spiral, one of the great paradoxes of the financial markets. In its simplest form, a debt spiral begins when an issuer, be it a corporation, municipality, or country faces an upcoming obligation which it needs to refinance. If the markets deem that issuer to be a poor credit risk, that issuer’s cost of selling new debt to pay off its upcoming obligation rises, increasing expenses and further impairing credit quality.

If this cycle raises financing costs to unsustainable levels, say 24 – 25%, it becomes wholly impossible for the issuer to pay off upcoming obligations by issuing new ones, hence ensuring a default and earning the name debt or default spiral. As a default spiral is a self-sustaining game, the only way for an issuer to solve a default spiral is by breaking the rules of the game, namely via obtaining external assistance (being acquired, or, in our example, obtaining low cost loans from other governments) or by defaulting. The only way that the first option, obtaining support, can work is if that support somehow restores confidence in the spiraling issuer. [chart http://s.wsj.net/public/resources/images/OB-OC823_Greece_F_20110531145045.jpg ]

Shanghai stocks slide for eighth straight session 30 May 2011 V. Phani Kumar and Michael Kitchen, HONG KONG (MarketWatch) — Mainland Chinese stocks finished lower for an eighth successive session Monday, unable to shake off concerns high inflation will force Beijing to introduce more policies that could result in an economic slowdown. Japanese stocks were pressured by a stronger yen against the U.S. dollar.

Faith In U.S. Dollars And U.S. Debt Is Dead The Game Is Over Michael Snyder | A day is coming when the rest of the world will decide that it no longer has faith in U.S. dollars or in U.S. debt.

Eleven million low and middle-income workers’ pay will ‘flatline’ Mail Online | The average wage taken home by 11 million British workers will remain ‘roughly the same’ until at least 2015.

Memorial Day BBQ will cost you 29% more this year thanks to inflation Mail Online | Those thinking of hosting a BBQ – even a modest one – can expect to fork out an extra $45 on food to serve a dozen guests.

Uranium Stocks Under Siege as Fukushima Continues Spewing Radiation James West | There will be a persistent chorus of uranium investors who have an audience in the media proclaiming uranium to be the ‘contrarian trade of the decade’.

What Would Fractional Silver Mean? Jimm Motyka | I believe that fractional silver is not going to be a trend, but will be the rule in the coming year.

When Faith In U.S. Dollars And U.S. Debt Is Dead The Game Is Over Michael Snyder | A day is coming when the rest of the world will decide that it no longer has faith in U.S. dollars or in U.S. debt.

Save Us From The Tyranny Of Bankers We hope all of our appearances on Greek TV, radio and in the press have helped the educational process and to allow the Greeks to identify who the real culprits are, and what to do about it.

More Political Capture: Goldman Hires Top Republican Fed Transparency Foe; Spends More Time With SEC Than Any Other Bank So for all those hoping for change to Wall Street’s criminal practices, the focus should first be on changing those in both the legislative and regulatory bodies who not only allow, but actively encourage this kind of behavior.

A 62% Top Tax Rate? Democrats have said they only intend to restore the tax rates that existed during the Clinton years. In reality they’re proposing rates like those under President Carter.

The Economic Death Spiral Has Been Triggered For nearly 30 years we have had two Global Strategies working in a symbiotic fashion that has created a virtuous economic growth spiral. Unfortunately, the economic underpinnings were flawed and as a consequence, the virtuous cycle has ended. It is now in the process of reversing and becoming a vicious downward economic spiral.

Utah Law Makes Coins Worth Their Weight in Gold (or Silver) Utah has passed a law intended to encourage residents to use gold or silver coins made by the Mint as cash, but with their value based on the weight of the precious metals in them, not the face value — if, that is, they can find a merchant willing to accept the coins on that basis.

Markets Fret About Euro ‘Slow-Motion Car Crash’ Reports that Greece has not met any of the fiscal targets set by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the European Union (EU) as part of its 110 billion euros ($157 billion) bailout knocked down the euro Monday, as other countries in the euro zone are threatened with being dragged into the Greek morass.

Inflation 2011: Honey – They Shrunk Our Paychecks Do you ever have the feeling that there are holes in your pockets? These days our money seems to slip through our hands faster than ever.

The Greek “Ultimatum”: Bailout (For The Bankers) And (Loss Of) Sovereignty So after one year of beating around the bush, it is finally made clear that, as many were expecting all along, the ultimate goal of the Greek “bailouts” is nothing short of the state’s (partial for now) annexation by Europe.

`GOLDMAN SACHS: $5 gas this summer...`

U.S. home price index falls to double-dip in March Chicago Tribune | National home prices hit a new low in March, giving credence to long-simmering worries about a double dip in the housing market.

What Would Fractional Silver Mean? Jimm Motyka | I believe that fractional silver is not going to be a trend, but will be the rule in the coming year.

Debt Ceiling Tragicomedy Resumes: On Today’s Symbolic, And Doomed, $2.4 Trillion Debt Ceiling Vote Today at 7:00 pm the House will hold a very symbolic vote on a $2.4 trillion debt ceiling increase. Symbolic because it is doomed from the beginning as every single republican will vote no.

Despite Preemptive Gold Margin Hike In Shanghai, Gold Is Poised To Close May Near Record On Sovereign Risk Worries After a near epic margin driven collapse in silver, which appears to have been largely forgotten as the metal has resumed it upward climb, it is gold which has once again regained the crown in the fiat substitute race.

No cash to pay your debts? We’ll take your gold, Greece! This week Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, report on the oil traders puking on markets and the gold confiscators eyeing Greece, Portugal, Spain and Italy. In the second half of the show, Max talks to former chief forex trader for VISA, Jon Matonis of TheMonetaryFuture.blogspot.com, about Bitcoin, the new peer-to-peer crypto-currency.

Extreme Couponing: Desperate Economic Times Call For Desperate Measures Even in the midst of a horrific economic decline, there are tools that all of us can use to make the most of our limited resources.

(5-31-11) Dow 12,569 +128 Nasdaq 2,835 +38 S&P 500 1,345 +14 [CLOSE- OIL $103.11 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.90 (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS $4.20 REG./ $4.27 MID-GRADE/$4.38 PREM./ $4.53 DIESELL) / GOLD $1,535 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $38.42 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,825 (+56% for year 2009) Metal News for the Day / DOLLAR= .69 EURO, 80 YEN, .60 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go - LOWER)/ Interest Rates: http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield 10 YR NOTE YIELD 3.05% AP Business Highlights Yahoo Market Update T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies - Domestic / International This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope The bull market that never was/were beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’ Must Read Economic / Financial Data This Depression is just beginning The coming depression… thecomingdepression.net The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think Sliding Back Into the Great Depression ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME!

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WHO Lists Cell Phones as Cancer Hazard The United Nations’ health agency, the World Health Organization, now lists mobile phone use in the same “carcinogenic hazard” category as lead, engine exhaust and chloroform.

Texas Lt. Gov. Dewhurst Calls for Special Session Texas Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, who played a pivotal role in sabotaging a bill that would have criminalized TSA groping in the state’s airports, has written a letter to Gov. Rick Perry asking for a special session.

Nanny State Betrays Decline and Fall of America Two more ridiculous examples of the nanny state kicking into high gear add to the overwhelming weight of evidence indicating that America is in a state of terminal decline, with an overtly authoritarian big government enforcing a command and control system at every level of society.

Ron Paul: We Are Enabling A Future American Dictatorship 2012 Presidential candidate Ron Paul has warned that a lack of oversight from Congress, the media and the American people is enabling the rise of a dictatorship in the US.

Pentagon Declares War On Cyber Enemies The Pentagon has announced that computer intrusions from abroad are to be considered acts of war against the United States and will be answered with conventional military force.

Cyber warfare: Britain developing ‘virtual weapons’ to combat hacker threat A cyber-weapons programme to counter growing threats to national security from cyberspace is being developed by the Government, it emerged today.

Gaddafi appears on Libyan state television with South Africa leader Zuma South African President Jacob Zuma has appeared on television in Libya to say Muammar Gaddafi’s is open to a truce.

Afghan leader warns NATO not to become ‘occupying force’ President Hamid Karzai warned NATO-led forces in Afghanistan on Tuesday they were at risk of being seen as an occupying force rather than an ally after a spate of civilian casualties, and said he would take unspecified “action” if they continue.

Footage of Western Troops Confirms Criminality of War on Libya Proof that armed western forces are on the ground in Libya advising rebels confirms that the entire legal premise behind the NATO-led intervention has been shattered and the campaign is now a criminal act of warfare that has nothing whatsoever to do with the original justification of protecting civilians.

40 Signs The Chinese Economy Is Beating The Living Daylights Out Of The U.S. Economy It is time to face the truth. The Chinese economy is simply beating the living daylights out of the U.S. economy. Whether you want to call it a rout, a slaughter or a thrashing, the reality is that the Chinese are absolutely embarrassing America on the global economic stage.

Western Troops Disguised as Arabs Witnessed on the Ground In Libya Armed westerners have been filmed on the front line with rebels near Misrata in the first apparent confirmation that foreign special forces are playing an active role in the Libyan conflict.

Former Head Of CIA Bin Laden Unit: “Main Recruitment Sergeant For Al Qaida Is Barack Obama” Ex CIA intelligence officer turned whistleblower and activist, Michael Scheuer, has launched a blistering attack on the political establishment, over its handing of the so called war on terror, asserting that the entire rationale behind it is based on outright lies and deception.

Texas Lt. Gov. Dewhurst Does About Face, Calls for Special Session Kurt Nimmo | Dewhurst worked with the feds to get a bill defeated that would have prevented TSA groping.

WHO Lists Cell Phones as Cancer Hazard Kurt Nimmo | Studies into cell phones established link between long term use and brain tumors.

Nanny State Betrays Decline and Fall of America Paul Joseph Watson | Firework ban, tree ordinance latest examples of rampant authoritarian assault on all levels of society

New Mexico Supreme Court Lets Cops Grab Guns During Stops theNewspaper.com | Police officers in New Mexico can take guns away from drivers who pose no threat.

Pentagon Declares War On Cyber Enemies Kurt Nimmo | Pentagon rolls out public relations effort as it prepares to attack official cyber enemies.

U.S. Military Personnel, Veterans Give Obama Lower Marks U.S. military veterans and those currently on active military duty are less likely to approve of President Obama’s job performance than are Americans of comparable ages who are not in the military.

Stop Obama’s Unconstitutional Power Grab! The Congressman sounds off on the blatant violation of war powers by the Obama administration.

Downgraded Typhoon Poised to Spread Fukushima Radiation Once again, TEPCO, the utility company responsible for the Fukushima disaster, is ill-prepared to protect the people of Japan.

High radioactivity found in Japan nuclear workers Two workers from Japan’s stricken Fukushima nuclear plant have been contaminated by high levels of radioactive iodine, the operator said Monday, prompting fears over their long-term health.

Britain steps up mind games against Muammar Gaddafi Britain has stepped up the psychological and military pressure on Muammar Gaddafi by claiming his departure is inevitable as it prepares to deploy bunker busting bombs, helicopters and to introduce regular daytime air raids on Tripoli.

Big Sis Pre-Crime System to Scan Americans For “Malintent” Chilling technology straight out of Minority Report that would subject Americans to pre-crime interrogations and physiological scans to detect “malintent” at sports stadiums, malls, airports and other public places has moved closer to being implemented after Homeland Security’s FAST program passed its first round of testing.

Corporate Media Attacks Alex Jones, Defends TSA Perverts Following a successful rally on the capitol in Austin last week to protest a decision by lawmakers to back down on a bill to stop TSA molestation, apologists for a tyrannical state are coming out of the woodwork in defense of goons sticking their hands down the pants of six year old kids.

Afghanistan’s Karzai gives U.S. final warning: stop killing civilians Afghan President Hamid Karzai called on the US military on Sunday to avoid operations that kill civilians, saying it was his “last warning” to Washington after 14 people allegedly died in an air strike.

Corporate Media Attacks Alex Jones, Defends TSA Perverts Kurt Nimmo | Fort Worth op-ed writer supports the state and its pathological insistence it must grab the testicles of children.

On Memorial Day: Remember Roger Young | An alternative view of Memorial Day.

Anatomy of a Murder: How NATO Killed Qaddafi Family Members Cynthia McKinney | Please don’t allow special interest press and war mongering gatekeepers of the left to blot out the tragedy unfolding in Libya.

Silent Dancing Protesters Arrested at Jefferson Memorial DCist | Tackled and roughed up by cops for daring to practice the First Amendment.

Save Us From The Tyranny Of Bankers Bob Chapman | There has been no recovery under either QE1 or QE2.

From Bush to Obama, the snooping goes on Two Democratic senators, Ron Wyden of Oregon and Mark Udall of Colorado, have accused the Obama administration of using Section 215 for purposes not intended by Congress.

Obama Pledges to Continue War Against Libya During Globalist Confab Appearing at the globalist confab in the French resort of Deauville, Obama said on Friday the U.S. and NATO will not rest until they “finish the job’ in Libya.

RAF to use ‘bunker busting’ bombs on Gaddafi as Nato airstrikes rock Libyan capital for fifth night in a row RAF pilots are to use 2,000 lb ‘bunker-busting’ bombs to destroy Libyan leader Colonel Gaddafi’s key command centres.

The Fake ICC & the Globalist Strategy of Tension Russia’s President Medvedev, according to the Australian, has “endorsed calls for Colonel Gaddafi to leave office and offered to help to negotiate his exit. ” It is a move that has “surprised and delighted” both London and Washington after Russia’s initial protest against the extralegal military action that was executed upon an Iraq War-style pack of lies.

Cooling system stops at No.5 reactor in Fukushima Cooling system at a reactor of the crippled Fukushima No.1 nuclear power plant stopped from Saturday, the plant’s operator said Sunday.

Radioactive materials found off Miyagi and Ibaraki Japan’s science ministry has detected extraordinarily high levels of radioactive cesium in seafloor samples collected off Miyagi and Ibaraki Prefectures.

Texans Revolt Against TSA Tyranny, Storm Capitol Exclusive footage of the Texas Capitol takeover Wednesday, when angry demonstrators led by radio host Alex Jones descended upon the Senate to rebuke threats used to quash a TSA bill that passed the House unanimously and was poised to clear the Senate with 30 of 31 senators supporting.

Rep. Graves questions Obama’s autopen signing of Patriot Act extension Rep. Tom Graves (R-Ga.) is questioning President Obama’s use of an autopen in signing an extension of the Patriot Act.

Tripoli Blast May Signal New Nato Tactic A blast in central Tripoli has been attributed to a Nato strike – signalling a possible switch in tactics by the forces trying to unseat Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.

Why Is The Economy So Bad? Millions of Americans have lost their homes, tens of millions of Americans can’t find a decent job and 44 million Americans are on food stamps.

Video: Illegal Dancing at the Jefferson Memorial Infowars.com | Appeals court ruled national monuments are places for reflection and contemplation and dancing is not permitted.

Downgraded Typhoon Poised to Spread Fukushima Radiation Kurt Nimmo | Synthetic resins poured on damaged reactors will not stop radiation from entering the sea and air.

Big Sis Pre-Crime System to Scan Americans For “Malintent” Paul Joseph Watson | Guilty until proven innocent – physiological sensors and DHS interrogations to control behavior at sports stadiums, malls, train stations, airports and other public places.

CDC admits flu vaccines don’t work Mike Adams | That’s why you need one every year.

NOVO ORDO SECLORUM – NeoCon Hell on Earth Sartre | Your own dignity requires active resistance.

US sorry for deadly Afghan air strike ABC Online Afghan officials say up to 14 people, mostly children, were killed in the air strike. (Reuters) Foreign forces in Afghanistan have offered their "heartfelt apologies" for an air strike that killed up to 14 ... NATO apologizes for Afghan civilian deathsThe top U.S. generals in Afghanistan are apologizing for an airstrike that killed civilians in southwestern Afghanistan. ISAF apologises for Afghan civilian deaths KABUL (AFP) – Foreign forces in Afghanistan apologised Monday for the deaths of nine Afghan civilians after President Hamid Karzai criticised an air ... http://news.yahoo.com Civilian casualties caused by ISAF and US Forces in the War ... The War in Afghanistan has caused the deaths of thousands of Afghan civilians directly from NATO and ISAF military action.

Loughner ruling creates trial obstacles Treatment to restore mentally unfit defendants to competence can take years or fail altogether. (Washington Post) [ Obstacles? I’d say so! In a nation as america which sports a population of inherently mentally ill realistically, if not reported, in excess of 90% by my estimation based upon realities (criminally insane, inherently criminal included), I’d say that’s problematic indeed. I personally am with Utah on this which does not allow the insanity defense (Montana, Idaho, joined by a fourth, Kansas, in 1995). You do the crime (which still must be proven beyond a reasonable doubt and intense scrutiny of scapegoating / set-ups, etc. – hence, the clearest and undisputable scenarios as Loughner, Hinckley, etc.), you’ll at least do the time. Though having but 5% of the world’s population, u.s. has 76% of the world’s serial killers, http://www.albertpeia.com/realifeamericaserialkillers.mpg bankrupt america also spends more on military than all the nations of the world combined... fed employees / contractors, cia, all 3 branches of u.s. gov’t, etc., are included in this evolved american trait of inherent criminality http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/ricosummarytoFBIunderpenaltyofperjury.pdf http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/PeiavCoanetals.htm ]:

Focus Is on Obama as Tensions Soar Across Mideast (New York Times) [ Adapt? I don’t think so! I do believe that both nations are regressively but nostalgically trying bring the world back to failed geopolitical paradigms that made the 20th century the bloodiest century, not coincidentally the american century (obviously for israel the latter half century). Yet, such a conditioned psychopathic approach to global matters has led them self-destructively, self-defeatingly, and ineluctably to decline, fall, and as with dinosaurs, extinction, at least in a manner of speaking. Global information exchange at lightning speed has made such throwbacks to a lost era, propaganda, and maladaptive traits foolish at best, deadly at worst. Intelligent people worldwide aren’t buying the obsolete, Orwellian approach fostered by the purveyors of global unrest; viz., israel, america, Orwellian england, etc..; more specifically, diversion of the masses from the glaring failures of leadership, economic and otherwise.

CRIME STATISTICS >(america is No. 1)

Rank	Countries	Amount
# 1	United States:	11,877,218
# 2	United Kingdom:	6,523,706
# 3	Germany:	6,507,394

UPDATE: MORE CLAIMS OF RACE BIAS AT JUSTICE... ‘ignore cases that involve black defendants and white victims ' Cases against Wall Street lag despite Holder’s vows to target financial fraud WP | Obama has promised to hold Wall Street accountable for the meltdown.
THE OBAMA DECEPTION’ http://albertpeia.com/obamadeceptionhighqualityversion.flv

Court nixes campaign-donation ban Federal judge rules law prohibiting direct corporate contributions to candidates is unconstitutional. (Washington Post) [ This oligarchy / plutocracy of ours … no surprise there … one way or another, they’re all getting’ bribed … worked well for the biggest frauds on wall street, goldman et als … Roche 'The worst part of it ...Obama, who vowed change, has done almost nothing to fix any of it and in fact continues most of the policies that helped get us here in the first place’ ‘INSIDE JOB’ Ferguson wins Oscar for Documentary on the unprosecuted massive extant fraud in the (many) TRILLIONS by the frauds on wall street ( and declares with oscar in hand that not one high level wall street exec has been prosecuted … despite ‘earning’ billions from the fraud ). Choose Your Hathaway: Berkshire or Anne Sizemore 5-26-11 ‘When the actress' name is in the headlines, Berkshire Hathaway share prices rise, proof that "robotrading" puts many investors at risk.’ ‘Given that algorithmic trading now accounts for 70% of all trading, it’s not implausible. Sadly, this is what the investment management profession has degenerated into.’ [ As to his ‘blood in the streets reference’ … sadly … coming to a theater near you. .., ‘mnemonics’, loosely speaking, are kind of like in a clichéd sort of way, that ‘double edged sword that cuts both ways’ … you know, ‘Tom Sizemore’ … are you related? ] Stock Market: 4 Current Warning Signs Navin ‘…1) The 5-year high in the level of insider corporate stock sales is telling. At 565 sells for every 1 buy, it’s never been higher. Dave's Daily 'If you can keep interest rates this low this long, its inevitable cheap financing can allow companies to start cobbling each other up. Further Ben's policies allow companies like IBM to sell bonds at 1% and buy back shares with the proceeds (total paper bubble-scam). POMO is occurring almost daily and Primary Dealers can buy back their shares and pay dividends with what essentially is taxpayer money-- America Is a Failed State Because It Won’t Prosecute Financial Crime Washington’s Blog / the grim economic reality [ http://albertpeia.com/grimreality.htm ]. Selling In May Is Very Good Advice This Year Harding Equity Valuations Are Forming the Second Biggest Bubble in U.S. History Kaspar ... According to Yale University’s Dr. Robert Shiller, the market is now 41% overvalued …only time the markets have been more overvalued .. 1929 & tech bubble. http://static.seekingalpha.com/uploads/2011/4/12/saupload_cape_thumb1.png PRECHTER: We're Still In A Massive Bear Market And Stocks Will Crash To New Lows This is an especially great opportunity to sell / take profits while you still can since there's much worse to come! Remember: ‘Sell in May and go away!

http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/ricosummarytoFBIunderpenaltyofperjury.pdf http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/PeiavCoanetals.htm

A seismic shift in the defense industry Gone are the days of “no-questions-asked funding requests.” Pentagon must now make do with less. (Washington Post) [ I think there are many who’ll say they’ll believe it when they really see it; and, beyond the off-budget-item chicanery. I’m certainly one, and so is Davis: Davis ‘This is how we pay off our current debts and I think bondholders are simply happy to get anything out of a country that admits it owes $15Tn (1/4 of global GDP) but probably owes closer to $60Tn (entire global GDP) in the form of unfunded liabilities. The funniest thing about this (and you have to laugh) is to see Conservative pundits get on TV and talk about how we need to cut $100Bn worth of discretionary spending to "fix" this (while continuing to spend $1Tn on the military and $1Tn on tax cuts for the top 1% each year). There is no fixing this and even a Republican said you can’t fool all of the people all of the time. THIS HOUSE OF CARDS IS TEETERING FOLKS – PLEASE BE CAREFUL OUT THERE! ‘ Senate Dems find themselves in a tough spot (WP) [ Tough spot? Like Iraq and a hard place called Afghanistan; indeed they are. [Pakistani troops, NATO helicopters engage in firefight 6th soldier charged in plot to kill Afghan civilians (Washington Post) [ Gen. Hamid Gul: U.S. Generals Provoking War with Pakistan Jones | U.S. intelligence is that bin Laden needs dialysis every 3 days/ http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/osama_dead.php 5-1-11, JUST MOMENTS BEFORE PRESIDENT OBAMA ANNOUNCED THAT THE US HAD KILLED OSAMA BIN LADEN, THE WHATREALLYHAPPENED WEBSITE CAME UNDER MASSIVE DISTRIBUTED DENIAL OF SERVICE ATTACK. THIS PAGE, WHICH DOCUMENTS THAT OSAMA BIN LADEN ACTUALLY DIED IN DECEMBER OF 2001, APPEARS TO BE WHAT THE WHITE HOUSE DIDN'T WANT AVAILABLE WHILE THE NEW PROPAGANDA WAS "CATAPULTED FORWARD". IT IS POSSIBLE THAT THIS IS THE OPENING GAMBIT IN A PLAN TO STAGE A "REVENGE" ATTACK FROM "AL QAEDA" ON THE UNITED STATES, WITH WHICH TO JUSTIFY TOTAL WAR ON THE MIDDLE EAST… FLASHBACK: Editorial: US in quagmire War in Afghanistan and Iraq costs America $1trillion Roche 'The worst part of it ...Obama, who vowed change, has done almost nothing to fix any of it and in fact continues most of the policies that helped get us here in the first place’ UPDATE: MORE CLAIMS OF RACE BIAS AT JUSTICE... ‘In emotional and personal testimony, an ex-Justice official who quit over the handling of a voter intimidation case against the New Black Panther Party accused his former employer of instructing attorneys in the civil rights division to ignore cases that involve black defendants and white victims ' Cases against Wall Street lag despite Holder’s vows to target financial fraud WP Obama has promised to hold Wall Street accountable for the meltdown.
THE OBAMA DECEPTION’ http://albertpeia.com/obamadeceptionhighqualityversion.flv ]

Israeli central banker to bid for IMF? (Washington Post) [ Dumb as they are by most measures of same including the IMF’s mission and purpose, I doubt even they’d be that self-destructively dumb in light of their destructive, nation-bankrupting follies / adventurism in the Mideast for which they’re already suspect in terms of foolishly, self-defeatingly pro-israeli policy. Krauthammer: What Obama did to Israel (Washington Post) [ The fundamental problem with Mr. Krauthammer’s non-sequitor illogic is the manner in which war crimes nation israel came by those land (war) and the numerous violations of u.n. resolutions (ie., 242, 338, etc., and oslo accords, etc.), international, war crimes (flotilla raid, etc.) since then. He thus becomes the journalistic equivalent of what Pat Buchanan refers to as the ‘israeli amen corner’ in congress. If only one could realistically ignore the detriment the world and america have suffered as a direct consequence of this foreign policy bent … Top Democrats criticize Obama’s Israel policy (WP) [ What policy … to him, just words … more b***s*** . I’ve thus far refrained from commenting on what I’ve anticipated to be ‘just more of the same’; empty rhetoric. Pervasively corrupt, defacto bankrupt america makes the wrong choice at every turn, ensuring in every way, decline and fall; self-destructive, self-defeating. Make no mistake, and let me reiterate, that substantially underrated President General Eisenhower would have put American interests first and the current debacle would never have occurred in the first instance … see, ie., http://albertpeia.com , historical documentation, from website: http://www.ameu.org ‘Lest We Forget The Israeli lobby in Washington has successfully influenced the U.S. Congress to give billions of non-repayable dollars each year to Israel on the premise that Israel's loyalty and strategic importance to the United States make it an ally worthy of such unprecedented consideration. Is it ? In his Farewell Address, George Washington warned Americans to avoid a passionate attachment to any one nation because it promotes "the illusion of an imaginary common interest in cases where no real common interest exists." In 1948, U.S. Secretary of Defense James Forrestal, an opponent of the creation of a Jewish state in Palestine, warned that, even though failure to go along with the Zionists might cost President Truman the states of New York, Pennsylvania, and California, it was about time that somebody should pay some consideration to whether we might not lose the United States. Israeli actions over the past 53 years involving U.S. interests in the Middle East seriously challenge the "strategic asset" premise of the Israeli lobby. Some of these actions are compiled in the list that follows: ’ ] Netanyahu lays out vision for Mideast peace (WP) [ Vision? Don’t make me laugh! The guy’s blind; and a ward and provocateur at america’s substantial cost and detriment. ]

Pakistani military worried about infiltrators (Washington Post) [ Yeah! In Pakistan and the rest of the Middle East they’re realistically called americans / cia, etc.. After all, death and destruction doesn’t play well in any nation, particularly when those doing the raping, pillaging, and plundering can’t even manage their own national affairs. 63 percent of people killed in Iraq war were civilians: report Xinhua | U.S.-led wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have been causing huge civilian casualties Pakistani troops, NATO helicopters engage in firefight 6th soldier charged in plot to kill Afghan civilians (WP) [ Gen. Hamid Gul: U.S. Generals Provoking War with Pakistan Jones | U.S. intelligence is that bin Laden needs dialysis every 3 days / http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/osama_dead.php 5-1-11, JUST MOMENTS BEFORE PRESIDENT OBAMA ANNOUNCED THAT THE US HAD KILLED OSAMA BIN LADEN, THE WHATREALLYHAPPENED WEBSITE CAME UNDER MASSIVE DISTRIBUTED DENIAL OF SERVICE ATTACK. THIS PAGE, WHICH DOCUMENTS THAT OSAMA BIN LADEN ACTUALLY DIED IN DECEMBER OF 2001, APPEARS TO BE WHAT THE WHITE HOUSE DIDN'T WANT AVAILABLE WHILE THE NEW PROPAGANDA WAS "CATAPULTED FORWARD". IT IS POSSIBLE THAT THIS IS THE OPENING GAMBIT IN A PLAN TO STAGE A "REVENGE" ATTACK FROM "AL QAEDA" ON THE UNITED STATES, WITH WHICH TO JUSTIFY TOTAL WAR ON THE MIDDLE EAST… Editorial: US in quagmire War in Afghanistan and Iraq costs America $1trillion Though having but 5% of the world’s population, u.s. has 76% of the world’s serial killers, http://www.albertpeia.com/realifeamericaserialkillers.mpg bankrupt america also spends more on military than all the nations of the world combined... fed employees / contractors, cia, all 3 branches of u.s. gov’t, etc., are included in this evolved american trait of inherent criminality http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/ricosummarytoFBIunderpenaltyofperjury.pdf http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/PeiavCoanetals.htm ]:

Focus Is on Obama as Tensions Soar Across Mideast (NYT) [ Adapt? I don’t think so! I do believe that both nations are regressively but nostalgically trying bring the world back to failed geopolitical paradigms that made the 20th century the bloodiest century, not coincidentally the american century (obviously for israel the latter half century). Yet, such a conditioned psychopathic approach to global matters has led them self-destructively, self-defeatingly, and ineluctably to decline, fall. .. Orwellian approach fostered by the purveyors of global unrest; viz., israel, america, Orwellian england, etc.;more specifically, diversion of the masses from the glaring failures, economic and otherwise.

CRIME STATISTICS >(america is No. 1)

Rank	Countries	Amount
# 1	United States:	11,877,218
# 2	United Kingdom:	6,523,706
# 3	Germany:	6,507,394

THE OBAMA DECEPTION’ http://albertpeia.com/obamadeceptionhighqualityversion.flv ]

Drudgereport: TEMPLETON chairman: Financial Crisis 'Around Corner'... AP: Consumer confidence falls 'unexpectedly' in May...
BARONE: Pro-Obama media always shocked by bad economic news...
Home-price index at lowest point since 2006 bust...
'Double-Dip' Even Worse Than Expected...
GOLDMAN SACHS: $5 gas this summer... Number of federal-owned limousines has soared under Obama...
REPORT: Senate's 100 members spend $40M for 700 offices nationwide... 7 'NATO troops' killed Thursday were American... Netanyahu: Israel cannot prevent UN recognition of Palestinian state...
First ID'ed as 'Int'l Security Assistance Force service members'...
Deadliest day this year... WARS RAGE ON...
U.S. Dead in Afghanistan Tops 1,500...
OBAMA HITS GOLF COURSE FOR ROUND NO. 70...ON THE GROUND IN LIBYAAnti-Christian Violence Continues in Pakistan... UPDATE: MIAMI 'WAR ZONE' DURING URBAN WEEKEND...
'I was scared for my life'...
Poet 'Da Real One' Gunned Down In Front Of Miami Poetry Cafe...
Violent crime explodes in Myrtle during Black Bike Week; 8-hour hell...
Rib Fest At Rochester beach turns rowdy...
Riot On Long Island...
Urban Melee In Charlotte...
Chaos causes DNC concern for convention...
Unruly urban crowd shuts down Nashville water park...
Emanuel shuts down packed Chicago beach; 'heat-related illnesses'...
REPORT: 'Dozens of gang bangers'...TEEN GANGS UNLEASHED ON BOSTON BEACH
WHO: Radiation From Cell Phones Can Cause Cancer... In same category as lead, engine exhaust, chloroform...

Russians park billions abroad (Washington Post) [ If only Americans were that smart in diversifying / hedging their investment risks:

7 Market Hazard Signs Traders Have Been Ignoringat Minyanville / Erik Swarts May 27, 2011 ‘…

1. I have repeatedly heard and read to the same effect, "the market is hanging in there, considering...(x y z)." While that is certainly the case broadly speaking, the market has a way of distracting your attention from where it should be focused most. .. however, the market's technical structure typically trumps sentiment (unless it is at a statistical extreme such as in March 2009) over time. If anything, the fact that the market is "hanging in there" on a relative basis could actually portend a more serious underlying condition indicative of distribution. Distribution by institutional participants can create broadening top formations in the indices and erratic sentiment surveys by the swinging price action.

2. A major momentum darling has crashed and burned with silver. Silver's historic decline, coupled with a very shallow bounce, is bearish toward risk returning to the same degree of indiscrimination it represented before it broke down. You could even speculate that the tepid action in stocks like Apple (AAPL) over the past six months was a precursor to the diminishing influence on the risk/momentum continuum.

3. The indices all broke their respective 50-day moving averages this week. ..

4. Ignoring the symmetry and historical context in the two charts below would be Pollyannish at best, irresponsible to risk at worst. Furthermore, knowing what we now know about the developments in Europe and the risks they have going forward -- specifically over the next few weeks in Spain and Greece -- their respective influences to the commodity and equity markets could be strongly reinforcing…

http://image.minyanville.com/assets/FCK_Jan2011/Image/LisaCatchMAY2011/ignition1.jpg

5. The government bond market continues to confuse even the King's wishes. The chart below shows the relative disconnect ..should not be ignored or passed off as insignificant. ..

http://image.minyanville.com/assets/FCK_Jan2011/Image/LisaCatchMAY2011/ignition2.jpg

6. Weekly economic data surveys have taken a turn negative. ..

http://image.minyanville.com/assets/FCK_Jan2011/Image/LisaCatchMAY2011/ignition3.jpg

7. The market has respected my monthly meridian chart to the tick. If May continues to follow course away from the meridian at 1363, the summer months could see an acceleration to the downside.

http://image.minyanville.com/assets/FCK_Jan2011/Image/LisaCatchMAY2011/ignition4.jpg

Overall, I'm skeptical to hanging onto long positions for anything more than a bounce here and feel more comfortable on the short side of the market…’

YAHOO [BRIEFING.COM] ‘…Pending home sales for April plummeted a much sharper-than-expected 11.6%…’ Debased dollar, hyperinflationary realities and expectations rallies stocks on the bad news. Jobless Claims Rise 10,000 First Quarter GDP Stalls Nothing New In GDP Update, U.S. Grew At 1.8% In Q1 [ Economic data bad and worse than expected … stocks rally on the worse than expected news as suckers’ rally to keep the old suckers and get new suckers sucked in. 24 Signs Of Economic Decline In America ‘The US is in the middle of a devastating long-term economic decline..’ ] States face shortfall for retirees (WP) Public workers’ retirement funds had a gap of $1.26 trillion at the end of fiscal 2009 Study: Affordable rentals scarce (WP) Poll: For Obama, low marks on Afghan war (WP) More Americans disapprove of President Obama’s management of the war in Afghanistan than support it Fuel prices cut into Obama popularity (WP) (The frauds on wall street et als should be criminally prosecuted, jailed, fined, and disgorgement imposed), and have used the mideast turmoil to obfuscate their failure. Dave's Daily 'If you can keep interest rates this low this long, its inevitable cheap financing can allow companies to start cobbling each other up. Further Ben's policies allow companies like IBM to sell bonds at 1% and buy back shares with the proceeds (total paper bubble-scam). POMO is occurring almost daily and Primary Dealers can buy back their shares and pay dividends with what essentially is taxpayer money-- … an especially great opportunity to sell / take profits while you still can since there's much worse to come! America Is a Failed State Because It Won’t Prosecute Financial Crime Washington’s Blog / the grim economic reality [ http://albertpeia.com/grimreality.htm ]. Selling In May Is Very Good Advice This Year Harding / April Is a Good Time to Sell Adler Equity Valuations Are Forming the Second Biggest Bubble in U.S. History Kaspar ... According to Yale University’s Dr. Robert Shiller, the market is now 41% overvalued …only time the markets have been more overvalued .. 1929 & tech bubble. http://static.seekingalpha.com/uploads/2011/4/12/saupload_cape_thumb1.png PRECHTER: We're Still In A Massive Bear Market And Stocks Will Crash To New Lows This is an especially great opportunity to sell / take profits while you still can since there's much worse to come! Remember: ‘Sell in May and go away! ‘ … Stock Market: 4 Current Warning Signs Navin ‘…1) The 5-year high in the level of insider corporate stock sales is telling. At 565 sells for every 1 buy, it’s never been higher. Yes, it’s normal for insiders to be selling some of their stocks so they can buy new yachts and some of this is pre-planned. But that ratio — which has spiked recently — is extraordinarily high, one might even say off-the-chart. ]

7 Market Hazard Signs Traders Have Been Ignoringat Minyanville / Erik Swarts May 27, 2011 ‘It's been said that the market is hanging in there, but the market has a way of distracting your attention from where it should be focused most. As a trader who relies on the qualitative art form that is appraising market psychology, I have been collecting some interesting anecdotes and observations from the field. Specifically, traders seem to be ignoring some of the more readily apparent hazard signals the market has been throwing off in the past month.

1. I have repeatedly heard and read to the same effect, "the market is hanging in there, considering...(x y z)." While that is certainly the case broadly speaking, the market has a way of distracting your attention from where it should be focused most. The rampant attention and bipolar swings in investor sentiment surveys appear to be the illusion of choice in declaring the waters safe for the return of risk. I believe there is some utility in knowing where the sentiment vane is pointing over the very short term, however, the market's technical structure typically trumps sentiment (unless it is at a statistical extreme such as in March 2009) over time. If anything, the fact that the market is "hanging in there" on a relative basis could actually portend a more serious underlying condition indicative of distribution. Distribution by institutional participants can create broadening top formations in the indices and erratic sentiment surveys by the swinging price action.

2. A major momentum darling has crashed and burned with silver. Silver's historic decline, coupled with a very shallow bounce, is bearish toward risk returning to the same degree of indiscrimination it represented before it broke down. You could even speculate that the tepid action in stocks like Apple (AAPL) over the past six months was a precursor to the diminishing influence on the risk/momentum continuum.

3. The indices all broke their respective 50-day moving averages this week. Today's action should be interesting, considering they are all siting directly beneath them after retracing the break.

4. Ignoring the symmetry and historical context in the two charts below would be Pollyannish at best, irresponsible to risk at worst. Furthermore, knowing what we now know about the developments in Europe and the risks they have going forward -- specifically over the next few weeks in Spain and Greece -- their respective influences to the commodity and equity markets could be strongly reinforcing.

http://image.minyanville.com/assets/FCK_Jan2011/Image/LisaCatchMAY2011/ignition1.jpg

5. The government bond market continues to confuse even the King's wishes. The chart below shows the relative disconnect over the past year. This chart should be qualified, in that yields have been in a downtrend relative to the SPX for almost three decades. With that said, the degree of yield erosion relative to the SPX over the past two months should not be ignored or passed off as insignificant.

http://image.minyanville.com/assets/FCK_Jan2011/Image/LisaCatchMAY2011/ignition2.jpg

6. Weekly economic data surveys have taken a turn negative. Whether revealed in the most recent weekly unemployment trends or decelerating GDP, the market is facing an ever more hostile headline risk environment. I typically shy away from incorporating economic data surveys into my short-term calculus because their correlations are erratic at best. But considering the backdrop, it can pay off with timing. Next week will provide the important ISM manufacturing index. Below is a chart of the Empire, Philly & Richmond surveys overlaid on the ISM survey. As the correlations have shown, the already received EPR surveys indicate the ISM will likely be quite weak. The degree of which could be a catalyst (both positive or negative) in the market.

http://image.minyanville.com/assets/FCK_Jan2011/Image/LisaCatchMAY2011/ignition3.jpg

7. The market has respected my monthly meridian chart to the tick. If May continues to follow course away from the meridian at 1363, the summer months could see an acceleration to the downside.

http://image.minyanville.com/assets/FCK_Jan2011/Image/LisaCatchMAY2011/ignition4.jpg

Overall, I'm skeptical to hanging onto long positions for anything more than a bounce here and feel more comfortable on the short side of the market. That could all change in an instant, and I try to never limit myself from trading the flip side as revealed by my agnostic trading approach.

Remember, these are just my notes -- I trade what I see in the tape.

Editor's Note: This article was originally posted on Market Anthropology.’

Global Stock Seasonality: Tout Le Monde Vendez en Mai Forbes / Sy Harding ‘When investors think of the stock market’s annual seasonality, as expressed by the adage ‘Sell in May and Go Away,’ they usually relate it to the U.S. market.In fact, the historical pattern of stock markets making most of their gains in the winter months, and experiencing most of their bear market declines and corrections in the unfavorable summer months, is also common in global markets.Since investors have become much more comfortable with investing in global markets in recent years, in fact have poured money into emerging markets at a record pace, recognition that the seasonal pattern is global is potentially of considerable importance, especially this year.A 27-page academic study conducted at the Rotterdam School of Management in the Netherlands and published in the American Economic Review in 2002, concluded, “Surprisingly we found this inherited wisdom of Sell in May to be true in 36 of 37 developed and emerging markets. Evidence shows that in the United Kingdom the seasonal effect has been noticeable since 1694. . . . A trading strategy based on this anomaly would be highly profitable in many countries. The average annual risk-adjusted outperformance ranges between 1.5% and 8.9%, depending on the country being considered. The effect is robust over time, economically significant, unlikely to be caused by data-mining, and not related to taking excess risk.”Stock markets outside of the U.S. seem to be significantly in the lead on the downside in this unfavorable season. For instance, the S&P 500 is only 2% below its recent top on April 29, the last trading day of April (potentially in keeping with the ‘Sell in May and Go Away’ rule to sell on May 1).However, in the rest of the world quite serious stock market corrections are underway. The important markets of China (the world’s 2^nd largest economy), Japan (the world’s 3^rd largest economy), Hong Kong, India, Brazil, and Russia are already down an average of 12% from their recent peaks, and have broken down through key support levels, including their long-term 200-day moving averages. Other important markets, including Mexico, Canada, Britain, France, and South Korea have already broken down through key intermediate-term support levels, including their 20-week moving averages.That global markets are so far ahead of the U.S. market on the downside leads me to believe they will become oversold first and perhaps be the first to bottom and turn back up when the time to buy arrives again.Meanwhile, the studies of seasonality point out that a seasonal investor outperforms the market over the long-term (occasional years when it does not work notwithstanding), while being at risk in the market only six months each year, and moving to cash for the other six months.They do not take into consideration the additional gains the seasonal investor can make in the unfavorable season in areas other than cash.To name a few; bonds, gold, and currencies often move independent of the direction of the stock market, and can rally when the stock market is in a decline. And all are easy enough for investors to take advantage of via mutual funds, and even more efficiently via ETFs (exchange-traded-funds).If seasonal investors are fluent in market analysis, particularly technical analysis, which can help define when an unfavorable season will not just be a ‘dead zone’ but will probably see a substantial correction, significant gains can be made from the downside even faster than from the previous rally period. That’s because when the market goes down it tends to go down much faster than it went up, often losing a year of previous gains in a matter of a few months.And holdings are available to harness the power of such market declines, including ‘inverse’ mutual funds and ‘inverse’ ETFs, which are designed to move opposite to a particular market or market sector.In my opinion then, the U.S. market has some catching up to do on the downside, while selected global markets, considerably ahead of the U.S. market on the downside, are liable to bottom first and provide the earliest buying opportunities.In the interest of full disclosure, I and my subscribers have some recent new positions in a bond ETF, a currency ETF, and selected inverse ETFs against the U.S. market.’

End-of-Month Window Dressing: Dave's Daily at TheStreet.com ‘The U of Michigan Consumer Sentiment Index was cherry-picked by bulls as the indicator upon which to rally stocks Friday. But, frankly is it really a valid measure of current consumer attitudes? I don't think so given it's weighted heavily by stock prices and curiously by gasoline prices. With the latter, a one week ten cent drop in prices hardly makes a trend. Some had the nerve to say consumers were now getting accustomed to higher gas prices. How about you? Consumer Metrics Institute's opinion and conclusion is as follows:

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"The levitation effect provided by the Federal fiscal stimulus packages will begin to wilt soon, as will Mr. Bernanke's monetary magic when QE-2 lapses in June. At some point in time the GDP will revert to tracking the 70% of the economy provided by consumer spending. When that happens, the glaring gap in the above graph will close, and most likely with the upper line converging towards the lower, rather than the other way around. We have said before that our consumers seem to know that the headline recovery in the S&P 500 has not yet been fully shared with the them, their neighbors or their local merchants. Until unemployment materially decreases and the residential housing market returns to at least pre-2005 levels of activity, the "Great Recession" isn't over, despite what the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) would have us believe." Other data this week was just awful. And, Pending Home Sales on Friday dropped by 11% which was much worse than expected. If higher stock prices buoy consumer sentiment, what about poor housing data? The disconnect is extraordinary. Most major equity index related ETF were able to claw out of most negative readings to close the week either unchanged or plus/minus a small amount. Most of this was accomplished on very weak volume but with a heavy assist of QE2 ($30 billion over the last 5-7 trading days). This is the magic dust for bulls. The tape's action is reality but the action behind the curtain is hollow and comprised of free money from on high. Nevertheless, most indexes may close the month down with only one day left to trade. Our DeMark monthly sequential 9 counts may have already made their impact as QE2 has another month to run and will compete with it …’

S&P Stuck in a Rut - Why and Where Will it Break? Simon Maierhofer, On Thursday May 26, 2011 ‘This entire week the S&P has been stuck in a rut. Aside from a few brief spikes outside its trading range, the S&P has been sluggish and moved with the velocity of molasses.

The Memorial Day Lull

Part of the reason is the upcoming Memorial Day weekend. Trading before the Memorial Day weekend tends to be lackluster and uninspired, but come Tuesday (markets are closed on Monday) volatility (Chicago Options: ^VIX) is likely to increase.The holiday weekend is just part of the story though. There are other compelling reasons why trade is so frustratingly sluggish.

Compelling Reason to be Dull

The ETF Profit Strategy Newsletter's technical forecast for the week ahead stated that: 'The initial downside from the May 2 high may not be finished yet, but it appears to be limited. If the lower trend line at 1,325 is broken, we are looking for lower prices but are mindful that various support levels should keep downside action contained.'The S&P dropped below the 9-month trend line support first thing Monday morning, but didn't really go anywhere thereafter. Such a trend line breach is usually significant, but it wasn't, at least not thus far.The chart below shows why downside momentum didn't increase. The ETF Profit Strategy Newsletter pointed out this month's and week's pivot support (s1 to be precise) at 1,319 and 1,317. As you can see, the S&P has stuck to s1 like gum to shoe.What are pivots, you may ask? Pivot points are determined as the average of the previous sessions trading range combined with the closing price. The numbers for support and resistance that are calculated indicate the potential ranges for the next time frame based on the past weight of the market's strength or weakness.Pivots are fractal and can be calculated for various time frames. I usually pay attention to weekly and monthly pivots.

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The blue lines in the chart illustrate the 20 and 50-hour simple moving averages (SMAs). Since Wednesday, the S&P has been sandwiched between the two. As you can see, there is plenty of technical reason for the current trading range.

Where Will it Break?

Every trading range ends eventually. Often such range bound churning and indecision precedes significant moves and serves as a springboard. There is certainly a distinct seasonal post-Memorial Day bias that supports this notion.Once this trading range is broken, the focus moves on to the next support or resistance. Next resistance to the up side is 1,325, a Fibonacci projection level. Look at the chart and you will see how attempts to move beyond 1,325 were thwarted on Wednesday and earlier today. A break above 1,325 would open the door to higher prices.Fibonacci levels are powerful trading tools and should not be dismissed. One important Fibonacci level the ETF Profit Strategy Newsletter isolated as target and resistance in April was 1,369.The importance of this level was confirmed on May 1, when the newsletter recommended shorting the S&P against 1,369. The S&P topped the very next day at 1,370 and declined as much as 50 points thereafter.The ETF Profit Strategy Newsletter provides the most important short and long-term support/resistance levels and seasonal tendencies every Sunday and Wednesday, along with directional advice and the corresponding trading strategies.ETFs that track the S&P 500 include: S&P 500 SPDR (NYSEArca: SPY - News), iShares S&P 500 (NYSEArca: IVV - News), Vanguard S&P 500 (NYSEArca: VOO - News).Value and Growth S&P ETFs include: iShares S&P 500 Value (NYSEArca: IVE - News), iShares S&P 500 Growth (NYSEArca: IVW - News), Vanguard S&P 500 Value ETF (NYSEArca: VOOV - News), Vanguard S&P 500 Growth ETF (NYSEArca: VOOG - News).Leveraged S&P ETFs include: Ultrashort S&P ProShares (NYSEArca: SDS - News), Ultra ProShares (NYSEArca: SSO - News), UltraPro S&P ProShares (NYSEArca: UPRO - News), UltraPro Short S&P ProShares (NYSEArca: SPXU - News).’

The Week Ahead: Can Stocks Climb the Wall of Worry? Forbes / Tom Aspray ‘Last week’s financial headlines may have caused many stock investors to run for the exits, as there was very little to make one think that stocks could move higher. Here is a sampling:

Demand For Durable Goods Falls the Most in 6 Months
Countries Urged To Raise Rates
Goldman Says Brent Will Hit $130
Revenue Slide Dents Banks’ Recovery
Draghi Warns on Global Recovery
Fears of Debt Contagion Return to Eurozone
UK Lenders Face Rating Downgrade
Steep Quarterly Drop For Home Prices

Despite the concerns over debt contagion, a double dip in the economy, and slower growth in China, the US stock market was surprisingly strong. The early-morning declines on Wednesday and Thursday were met with good demand.

Therefore, even though the major averages made new correction lows, the market had plenty of reasons to drop more sharply. For most of the week, Tuesday’s headline from the Financial Times, “Investors swept up in wave of bearishness,” said it all.

So even though the stock market was not as strong as I had forecast last week, I am sure most were surprised that it closed higher. Sentiment measures continue to get more negative, with only 25% bullish in a recent AAII survey. This is the lowest reading since last summer.

Last week’s pending home sales dropped 11%—but new home sales were stronger than expected, giving some home builders a boost. On Tuesday, we get more housing data, as the S&P Case-Shiller price index will be released along with consumer-confidence numbers.

Of course, this is another jobs week, with a preliminary reading Wednesday from the ADP Employment Report, followed by jobless claims Thursday and the monthly employment report on Friday. Also out Wednesday is the ISM Manufacturing Index, with the ISM Non-Manufacturing following on Friday.

As the headlines show, there are still plenty of problems facing the Eurozone, and the Strauss-Kahn scandal has not helped—the BRIC countries, among others, are not in favor of a new IMF head from the Eurozone. Also, as my colleague Jim Jubak suggests, “Another Quick Fix For Greece” is likely.

Euro investors have also been moving away from risk, as the yields on German debt have dropped 3%, matching similar yield declines in both the UK and the US. Nevertheless, the DJ STOXX Europe 600 was able to close the week well above the lows, as it tested strong support in the 272 to 274 area early in the week.

Commodity prices have bounced nicely from the mid-month lows, and the strength in copper may be a sign that the economy is really stronger than most expect. Crude oil has bounced from the recent lows, but is now hitting first strong resistance. Technically, this rally looks as though it will be followed by a further decline.

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WHAT TO WATCH
As I noted in more detail before Friday’s opening, the technical and sentiment picture for the stock market had improved. The positive action Friday supports this view, even though the major averages closed below their best levels.

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S&P 500
The Spyder Trust (SPY) tested its downtrend (line a) on Friday, and still has strong resistance at $135.36. A daily close above this level should confirm that the correction is over. A test of the May 2 highs at $137.18, if not a move to the $138.50 area, is still a distinct possibility.

The low for SPY at $131.38 is now the critical level, with the daily uptrend (line c) now at $130.50. If this level is violated, the April lows are at $129.51 (line b).

The S&P 500 A/D line has turned up, and is very close to breaking its downtrend. It did make new highs in May, and is still well above long term support (line d).

Dow Industrials
The Diamonds Trust (DIA) also appears to have completed a short-term bottom, but is slightly lagging the SPY. DIA has just filled the gap from last Monday’s opening. There is still a strong band of resistance in the $126.50 to $127.50 area.

The support level to watch now for DIA is $122.80, while the April low and major support follows at $120.65.

Dow Transportations
The Dow Transportation Index held above the prior week’s low at 5,311, and did close last week higher.

A close above 5,500 is needed to complete the correction and signal a rally to new highs in the 5,650 to 5,700 area.

If one of the other major averages is able to exceed the May highs, and the Transports fail to make a new high, it would be a warning sign.

Nasdaq-100
I have been looking for the PowerShares QQQ Trust (QQQ) to lead the market on the next rally, but it has continued to lag. It will now take a much stronger rally for QQQ to take over leadership.

The first hurdle is the resistance in the $58.50 area with major at $59.34 area.

The down gap last Monday violated the support in the $57 area as QQQ hit a low of $56.47 which weakened the short term outlook. There is now important support below $56.

Russell 2000
The iShares Russell 2000 Trust (IWM) has concerned me for several months, and last week it dropped below the April lows. This is a further sign of weakness, and as I noted several weeks ago the A/D line on the Russell 2000 failed to make a new high with prices in April.

The rebound in IWM is likely to fail in the $85 to $85.50 area, even if the SPY makes new highs. Therefore, the current rally should be used as an opportunity to move out of both small and mid-cap stocks.

Once below the recent lows at $80.76, the next major support is in the $77.50 to $78 area.

NEXT: Sector Focus ‘

Here’s Why Pending Home Sales Plummeted in April Wall St. Cheat Sheet May 27, 2011 ‘According to the National Association of Realtors , The Pending Home Sales Index (PHSI) , a forward-looking indicator, dropped 11.6 percent to 81.9 in April, down from 92.6 in March. The number is down 26.5 percent from a peak 111.5 in April 2010 when buyers were rushing to meet the deadline for the home buyer tax credit.This data reflects contracts, but not closings, which usually don’t occur until a month or two after contracts are signed.The news hasn’t done much for real estate stocks (NYSE:IYR), down 0.06% today, but might be responsible for the 0.86% hike in home builders stocks (NYSE:XHB).While the PHSI in the Northeast actually rose 1.7% to 64.5 in April, it is still 33.4% below its figure for this time last year. PHSI in the Midwest is down 10.4% to 74.1, down 30.2% from April 2010. Pending home sales in the South dropped the most at a decline of 17.2% in April, 27% below a year ago. Still, the PHSI for the South is 91.3, significantly higher than that of other regions. In the West the index declined 8.9% to 89.1 and is 16.9% below April 2010 figures…’

Investing in Precious Metals: Is Gold Worth Dying For? Wall St. Cheat Sheet May 27, 2011 ‘Thursday, gold (NYSE:GLD) and silver (NYSE:SLV) took a breather as the Dow (NYSE:DIA) and S&P 500 (NYSE:SPY) closed slightly higher. The markets seem somewhat confused as the Greek debt crisis lingers on. In times of uncertainty, investors often turn to gold as a place of refuge. However, just how expensive is it to really obtain gold? Some gold miners (GLDX) may find out the hard way.The medical condition known as silicosis could be a potential problem for some gold miners. Silicosis is the scarring of the lungs caused by extended exposure to the dust found in South African mines. These mines are now run by companies such as Harmony Gold Mining (NYSE:HMY), Gold Fields Ltd. (NYSE:GFI), and AngloGold Ashanti Ltd. (NYSE:AU). These miners are now facing coming lawsuits. HMY fell the hardest on the day, closing 3.57% lower.While the total number of claims and size of judgements are nearly impossible to estimate at this time, RBC Capital Markets claims the liability of mining companies could reach as high as $100 billion. RBC reached this estimate by assuming there are 300k claimants, each suing for at least 2 million rand. The Constitutional Court said workers who qualified for state benefits for occupational related disease, could also receive additional compensation from their former mining employers.Gold Fields Ltd (NYSE:GFI) CEO Nicholas Holland said, “It’s speculative at this stage to assume that there’s going to be a huge number of suits or whether in fact those suits will even be successful.” Another miner, Anglo American , is already involved in a silicosis suit that dates back to 2004, and involves 18 miners (4 of the 18 have already died). The mines today employ about 160k people, according to the Chamber of Mines.Investors willing to overlook the lawsuits may want to consider the following ETFs and stocks: iShares Silver Trust (NYSE:SLV), PowerShares DB Silver Fund (NYSE:DBS), ProShares Ultra Silver (NYSE:AGQ), First Majestic Silver Corp. (NYSE:AG), SPDR Gold Trust (NYSE:GLD), Market Vectors Etf Trust (NYSE:GDX), or Barrick Gold Corporation (NYSE:ABX).Investors who are bearish in precious metals, or simply looking for a hedge, may find the following stocks, ETFs, and ETNs interesting: ProShares UltraShort Silver (NYSE:ZSL), PowerShares DB Gold Short ETN (NYSE:DGZ), or PowerShares DB Gold Double Short ETN (NYSE:DZZ).For more analysis and guidance in the white hot precious metals sector, consider a free 14-day trial to our acclaimed Gold & Silver Investment Newsletter.’

Entitlements: 4 Things You Must Know Now – with Gerri Willis Wall St. Cheat Sheet May 27, 2011 ‘Entitlements have become a big issue now that the US has a major debt problem and a record number of boomers are expected to retire in the coming years. I caught up with Fox Business anchor Gerri Willis to get a Cheat Sheet for the hot button entitlement issue:

Damien Hoffman: Gerri, what are entitlements?

Gerri Willis: Simply put, entitlements are government payouts. Normally we think of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid when we say entitlement. Most Americans feel that getting benefits from these programs is a right because they’ve paid into them. Corporate America is on the federal dole, too, at times, most recently when banks (NYSE:XLF) and auto companies such as General Motors (NYSE:GM) were bailed out during the financial crisis.

Currently, Congress is debating how to fix the overspending in Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. The problem with these programs is that they’ve morphed from temporary or short-term safety nets into permanent floors that people rely on. As a result, the costs of these programs is swamping the federal budget.

Damien: How much are we spending on entitlements?

Gerri: Entitlement spending is the vast majority of our federal budget and growing every year. This year alone spending on Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid will account for 57 percent of all federal outlays, and the spending level is 5.4 percent higher than last year.

Damien: Can we continue to support those three programs at this level?

Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid are in big trouble. Social Security will run out of money in 2036; Medicare in 2024. Already both programs are running a deficit right now. Social Security has a deficit of $46 billion and Medicare has $80 billion in red ink.

Damien: Gerri, in your opinion, what do you think future legislation dealing with this issue will look like?

Gerri: I believe we’re going to have to wait awhile for reform. Congress has always been wary of the third rail of politics and with elections approaching in 2012, they are wary of tackling anything as controversial as entitlement reform right now. However, there does seem to be some consensus building for change. Many folks seem to agree that the age that Social Security recipients receive benefits should be moved higher, others say that Medicare shouldn’t be available to the very wealthy or that their benefits should be scaled back in some way. Even implementing both of those ideas won’t fix the problems we are facing; however, a more dramatic change is needed to avoid pushing our country into a more desperate financial crisis.

FOX Business Network wraps up “Entitlement Nation: Makers vs. Takers” on Friday, May 27th, 2010.

Don’t Miss: CHART OF THE DAY: Watch the US Debt Set a 60 Year Record. ‘

EVERYTHING RISES AND THE DIP IS BEING BOUGHT: Here's What You Need To Know Business Insider Joe Weisenthal May 27, 2011 ‘The week has clearly ended on a positive note, although we've now seen four straight weeks of declines.

But first, the scoreboard:

Dow: +37.20
NASDAQ: +5.26
S&P 500: +5.26

And now, the top stories:

Really, it was super quiet and nothing happened. Probably the most notable thing was that China declined hard again, and has now fallen 11% from its recent high.

In the very early going, there was a little bit of excitement when Belgian lender Dexia was halted, but ultimately it didn't turn out to be much.

In the US, spending data came in a little light, but it didn't matter. The dip is being bought, and stocks are higher again. Big day for everything that wasn't the dollar.

For some interesting visual tantalization, here's a satellite look at Spain's housing disaster. ‘

Global Economic Rebound Weakens on Quake, Oil Price, European Debt Crisis Bloomberg | World economy has entered a softer patch with the incoming growth data mostly disappointing.

Marc Faber: Prepare for Another War Jonathan Chen | From 2002-2008, Greenspan and Bernanke have created massive bubbles.

20 Questions To Ask Anyone Foolish Enough To Believe The Economic Crisis Is Over The Economic Collapse | We are still in the middle of a full-blown economic crisis and things are about to get even worse.

Second Biggest Weekly Drop Ever In Treasurys Held In The Fed’s Custodial Account As Foreigners Dump There was one truly interesting observation in this week’s Fed balance sheet update: not that the actual balance sheet hit a new all time record (which it did at $2.779 trillion), or that the Fed added another $24 billion in Treasurys to its balance sheet, or that total reserves hit a new all time record, increasing by $53 billion to $1.59 trillion.

China Gold Imports to Surge: Report Chinese demand for gold bars and coins as private investments could push bullion imports above 400 tonnes in 2011, leading global consultancy GFMS said on Friday.

U.S. dollar could ‘collapse’: UN The United Nations warned on Wednesday of a possible crisis of confidence in, and even a “collapse” of, the U.S. dollar if its value against other currencies continued to decline.

The Shocking DRINK And Incredible History Of COKE Subliminal Advertising Looking for a new way to publicize your product? Have you considered implanting suggestions in your current advertising that link your product to sex and power? [ Come on! In updating my skills / knowledge base, included were my psychology studies which currently all but dismiss as but ‘folklore’ the effectiveness, if even existent, of such subliminal advertising (you might even wonder about the Rorshach factor in interpreters of same); though blatent propaganda in its various forms still remains marginally effective (unless you think about it … rugged athletes, the guy with the babe, parties, etc… Riiiiight! The cola did it!). I drink coca cola, pepsi cola, royal crown cola, generic cola, etc., and in no way attach a ‘sexual / power advantage’ to drinking same. After all, there are healthier things to drink ( … Amid health fears, Diet Coke sweetener in safety spotlight An artificial sweetener used in Diet Coke is to undergo an urgent EU safety review…) For me, it’s all about the fizz, the caffeine, and then the taste. ]

Competing plans on job growth Obama and Congressional Republicans hope to cut the cost of doing business for U.S. firms. White House wants to simplify rules (Washington Post) [ Plans? Is that it? Costs? For the foreseeable future that counts, the logical conclusion will invariably be, based on costs and prior misguided decisions (you still remember Perot), ship them overseas, outsource, outsource, outsource … even Apple does that in a big way while still getting premium prices (as if made is usa). No … you can’t unring the bell on their ill-fated, but collectively culpable missteps. But, this plan of theirs, my recollection is that’s what they’ve been purportedly doing for the last several election cycles spanning well over a decade. Oh, riiiiight! It’s that time of the season again … election time. Despite the rhetoric and spin, the scenario remains dismal … the grim economic reality [ http://albertpeia.com/grimreality.htm Jobless Claims Rise 10,000 First Quarter GDP Stalls Nothing New In GDP Update, U.S. Grew At 1.8% In Q1 [ Economic data bad and worse than expected … stocks rally on the worse than expected news 24 Signs Of Economic Decline In America ‘The US is in the middle of a devastating long-term economic decline..’ ] States face shortfall for retirees (WP) Public workers’ retirement funds had a gap of $1.26 trillion at the end of fiscal 2009 Poll: For Obama, low marks on Afghan war (WP) Fuel prices cut into Obama popularity (WP) (The frauds on wall street et als should be criminally prosecuted, jailed, fined, and disgorgement imposed), and have used the mideast turmoil to obfuscate their failure. … an especially great opportunity to sell / take profits while you still can since there's much worse to come! America Is a Failed State Because It Won’t Prosecute Financial Crime Washington’s Blog/ Selling In May Is Very Good Advice This Year Harding / Equity Valuations Are Forming the Second Biggest Bubble in U.S. History Kaspar ... According to Yale University’s Dr. Robert Shiller, the market is now 41% overvalued …only time the markets have been more overvalued .. 1929 & tech bubble. http://static.seekingalpha.com/uploads/2011/4/12/saupload_cape_thumb1.png PRECHTER: We're Still In A Massive Bear Market And Stocks Will Crash To New Lows This is an especially great opportunity to sell / take profits while you still can since there's much worse to come! Remember: ‘Sell in May and go away! ‘ … Stock Market: 4 Current Warning Signs Navin ‘…1) The 5-year high in the level of insider corporate stock sales is telling. At 565 sells for every 1 buy, it’s never been higher. Yes, it’s normal for insiders to be selling some of their stocks so they can buy new yachts and some of this is pre-planned. But that ratio — which has spiked recently — is extraordinarily high, one might even say off-the-chart. ]

Ex-Nasdaq exec pleads guilty to fraud (Washington Post) [ Roche 'The worst part of it ...Obama, who vowed change, has done almost nothing to fix any of it and in fact continues most of the policies that helped get us here in the first place’ ‘INSIDE JOB’ Ferguson wins Oscar for Documentary on the unprosecuted massive extant fraud in the (many) TRILLIONS by the frauds on wall street ( and declares with oscar in hand that not one high level wall street exec has been prosecuted … despite ‘earning’ billions from the fraud ). Choose Your Hathaway: Berkshire or Anne Sizemore 5-26-11 ‘When the actress' name is in the headlines, Berkshire Hathaway share prices rise, proof that "robotrading" puts many investors at risk.’ ‘Given that algorithmic trading now accounts for 70% of all trading, it’s not implausible. Sadly, this is what the investment management profession has degenerated into.’ [ As to his ‘blood in the streets reference’ … sadly … coming to a theater near you. ] [ I just had to include this article, emphasizing the folly / fraud of wall street. Well done! But butt buffet? Wall street shill, he ultimately goes out a buffoon and fraud friend of wall street; a further sign of pervasively corrupt, defacto bankrupt american decline. But, ‘puppy-dog-eyes’? I don’t think so. How ‘bout ‘cat’s eyes’, as in Catwoman. Don’t forget Chuck, ‘mnemonics’, loosely speaking, are kind of like in a clichéd sort of way, that ‘double edged sword that cuts both ways’ … you know, ‘Tom Sizemore’ … are you related? ] Stock Market: 4 Current Warning Signs Navin ‘…1) The 5-year high in the level of insider corporate stock sales is telling. At 565 sells for every 1 buy, it’s never been higher. Dave's Daily 'If you can keep interest rates this low this long, its inevitable cheap financing can allow companies to start cobbling each other up. Further Ben's policies allow companies like IBM to sell bonds at 1% and buy back shares with the proceeds (total paper bubble-scam). POMO is occurring almost daily and Primary Dealers can buy back their shares and pay dividends with what essentially is taxpayer money-- America Is a Failed State Because It Won’t Prosecute Financial Crime Washington’s Blog / the grim economic reality [ http://albertpeia.com/grimreality.htm ]. Selling In May Is Very Good Advice This Year Harding Equity Valuations Are Forming the Second Biggest Bubble in U.S. History Kaspar ... According to Yale University’s Dr. Robert Shiller, the market is now 41% overvalued …only time the markets have been more overvalued .. 1929 & tech bubble. http://static.seekingalpha.com/uploads/2011/4/12/saupload_cape_thumb1.png PRECHTER: We're Still In A Massive Bear Market And Stocks Will Crash To New Lows This is an especially great opportunity to sell / take profits while you still can since there's much worse to come! Remember: ‘Sell in May and go away!

20 Questions To Ask Anyone Foolish Enough To Believe The Economic Crisis Is Over The Economic CollapseMay 26, 2011 | We are still in the middle of a full-blown economic crisis and things are about to get even worse.

If you listen to Ben Bernanke, Barack Obama and the mainstream media long enough, and if you didn’t know any better, you might be tempted to think that the economic crisis is long gone and that we are in the midst of a burgeoning economic recovery. Unfortunately, the truth is that the economic crisis is far from over. In 2010, more homes were repossessed than ever before, more Americans were on food stamps than ever before and a smaller percentage of American men had jobs than ever before. The reality is that the United States is an economic basket case and all of these natural disasters certainly are not helping things. The Federal Reserve has been printing gigantic piles of money and the U.S. government has been borrowing and spending cash at a dizzying pace in an all-out effort to stabilize things. They have succeeded for the moment, but our long-term economic problems are worse then ever. We are still in the middle of a full-blown economic crisis and things are about to get even worse.

If you know someone that is foolish enough to believe that the economic crisis is over and that our economic problems are behind us, just ask that person the following questions….

#1 During the 23 months of the “Obama recovery”, an average of about 23,000 jobs a month have been created. It takes somewhere in the neighborhood of 150,000 jobs a month just to keep up with population growth. So shouldn’t we hold off a bit before we declare the economic crisis to be over?

#2 During the “recession”, somewhere between 6.3 million and 7.5 million jobs were lost. During the “Obama recovery”, approximately 535,000 jobs have been added. When will the rest of the jobs finally come back?

#3 Of the 535,000 jobs that have been created during the “Obama recovery”, only about 35,000 of them are permanent full-time jobs. Today, “low income jobs” account for 41 percent of all jobs in the United States. If our economy is recovering, then why can’t it produce large numbers of good jobs that will enable people to provide for their families?

#4 Agricultural commodities have been absolutely soaring this decade. The combined price of cotton, wheat, gasoline and hogs is now more than 3 times higher than it was back in 2002. So how in the world can the Federal Reserve claim that inflation has been at minimal levels all this time?

#5 Back in 2008, banks had a total of 27 billion dollars in excess reserves at the Fed. Today, banks have a total of approximately 1.5 trillion dollars in excess reserves at the Fed. So what is going to happen when all of this money eventually hits the economy?….

#6 If the U.S. economy is recovering, then why are shipments by U.S. factories still substantially below 2008 levels?

#7 Why are imports of goods from overseas growing much more rapidly than shipments of goods from U.S. factories?

#8 According to Zillow, the average price of a home in the U.S. is about 8 percent lower than it was a year ago and that it continues to fall about 1 percent a month. During the first quarter of 2011, home values declined at the fastest rate since late 2008. So can we really talk about a “recovery” when the real estate crisis continues to get worse?

#9 According to a shocking new survey, 54 percent of Americans believe that a housing recovery is “unlikely” until at least 2014. So how is the housing industry supposed to improve if so many people are convinced that it will not?

#10 The latest GDP numbers out of Japan are a complete and total disaster. During the first quarter GDP declined by a stunning 3.7 percent. Of course I have been saying for months that the Japanese economy is collapsing, but most mainstream economists were absolutely stunned by the latest figures. So will the rest of the world be able to avoid slipping into a recession as well?

#11 Next week, Republicans in the House of Representatives are going to allow a vote on raising the debt ceiling. Everyone knows that this is an opportunity for Republican lawmakers to “look tough” to their constituents (the vast majority of which do not want the debt ceiling raised). Everyone also knows that eventually the Republicans are almost certainly going to cave on the debt ceiling after minimal concessions by the Democrats. The truth is that neither “establishment Republicans” nor “establishment Democrats” are actually serious about significantly cutting government debt. So why do we need all of this political theater?

#12 Why are so many of our once great manufacturing cities being transformed into hellholes? In the city of Detroit today, there are over 33,000 abandoned houses, 70 schools are being permanently closed down, the mayor wants to bulldoze one-fourth of the city and you can literally buy a house for one dollar in the worst areas.

#13 According to one new survey, about half of all Baby Boomers fear that when they retire they are going to end up living in poverty. So who is going to take care of them all when the money runs out?

#14 According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, an average of about 5 million Americans were being hired every single month during 2006. Today, an average of about 3.5 million Americans are being hired every single month. So why are our politicians talking about “economic recovery” instead of “the collapse of the economy” when hiring remains about 50 percent below normal?

#15 Since August, 2 million more Americans have left the labor force. But the entire period from August to today was supposed to have been a time of economic growth and recovery. So why are so many Americans giving up on looking for a job?

#16 According to Gallup, 41 percent of Americans believed that the economy was “getting better” at this time last year. Today, that number is at just 27 percent. Are Americans losing faith in the U.S. economy?

#17 According to the U.S. Census, the number of children living in poverty has gone up by about 2 million in just the past 2 years, and one out of every four American children is currently on food stamps. During this same time period, Barack Obama and Ben Bernanke have told us over and over that the U.S. economy has been getting better. So what is the truth?

#18 America has become absolutely addicted to government money. 59 percent of all Americans now receive money from the federal government in one form or another. U.S. households are now receiving more income from the U.S. government than they are paying to the government in taxes. Americans hate having their taxes raised and they hate having their government benefits cut. So is there any hope that this will ever be turned around before disaster strikes?

#19 The combined debt of the major GSEs (Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and Sallie Mae) has increased from 3.2 trillion in 2008 to 6.4 trillion in 2011. How in the world is the U.S. government going to be able to afford to guarantee all of that debt on top of everything else?

#20 If the U.S. national debt (more than 14 trillion dollars) was reduced to a stack of 5 dollar bills, it would reach three quarters of the way to the moon. The U.S. government borrows about 168 million dollars every single hour. If Bill Gates gave every penny of his fortune to the U.S. government, it would only cover the U.S. budget deficit for 15 days. So how in the world can our politicians tell us that everything is going to be okay?

CIA team to scrub bin Laden compound EXCLUSIVE | Pakistan has agreed to let a forensics team in to use sophisticated equipment to look for clues related to al-Qaeda in walls or underground, a sign of cooperation between the two spy services. (Washington Post) [ ‘To look for clues?’ Don’t make me laugh! How ‘bout to ‘plant clues’ consistent with their alternate ‘reality’(catapulting the propaganda, again and now again, and really soaking the story) ; which of course is propagandized fiction: | U.S. intelligence is that bin Laden needs dialysis every 3 days / http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/osama_dead.php 5-1-11, JUST MOMENTS BEFORE PRESIDENT OBAMA ANNOUNCED THAT THE US HAD KILLED OSAMA BIN LADEN, THE WHATREALLYHAPPENED WEBSITE CAME UNDER MASSIVE DISTRIBUTED DENIAL OF SERVICE ATTACK. THIS PAGE, WHICH DOCUMENTS THAT OSAMA BIN LADEN ACTUALLY DIED IN DECEMBER OF 2001, APPEARS TO BE WHAT THE WHITE HOUSE DIDN'T WANT AVAILABLE WHILE THE NEW PROPAGANDA WAS "CATAPULTED FORWARD". IT IS POSSIBLE THAT THIS IS THE OPENING GAMBIT IN A PLAN TO STAGE A "REVENGE" ATTACK FROM "AL QAEDA" ON THE UNITED STATES, WITH WHICH TO JUSTIFY TOTAL WAR ON THE MIDDLE EAST… Davis ‘This is how we pay off our current debts and I think bondholders are simply happy to get anything out of a country that admits it owes $15Tn (1/4 of global GDP) but probably owes closer to $60Tn (entire global GDP) in the form of unfunded liabilities. The funniest thing about this (and you have to laugh) is to see Conservative pundits get on TV and talk about how we need to cut $100Bn worth of discretionary spending to "fix" this (while continuing to spend $1Tn on the military and $1Tn on tax cuts for the top 1% each year). There is no fixing this and even a Republican said you can’t fool all of the people all of the time.‘ Senate Dems find themselves in a tough spot (WP) [ Tough spot? Like Iraq and a hard place called Afghanistan [Pakistani troops, NATO helicopters engage in firefight 6th soldier charged in plot to kill Afghan civilians (WP) [ Gen. Hamid Gul: U.S. Generals Provoking War with Pakistan Jones FLASHBACK: Editorial: US in quagmire War in Afghanistan and Iraq costs America $1trillion Roche 'The worst part of it ...Obama, who vowed change, has done almost nothing to fix any of it and in fact continues most of the policies that helped get us here in the first place’ UPDATE: MORE CLAIMS OF RACE BIAS AT JUSTICE... ‘ex-Justice official .. accused his former employer of instructing attorneys in the civil rights division to ignore cases that involve black defendants and white victims ' Cases against Wall Street lag despite Holder’s vows to target financial fraud WP Obama has promised to hold Wall Street accountable for the meltdown.
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Krauthammer: What Obama did to Israel (Washington Post) [ The fundamental problem with Mr. Krauthammer’s non-sequitor illogic is the manner in which war crimes nation israel came by those lands (war) and the numerous violations of u.n. resolutions (ie., 242, 338, etc., and oslo accords, etc.), international law, illegal nukes, war crimes (flotilla raid, etc.) since then. He thus becomes the journalistic equivalent of what Pat Buchanan refers to as the ‘israeli amen corner’ in congress. If only one could realistically ignore the detriment the world and america have suffered as a direct consequence of this foreign policy bent … Top Democrats criticize Obama’s Israel policy Now the president — whom critics often accuse of employing a play-it-safe governing style in which he waits for others to take the lead — is largely isolated politically in raising the issue of 1967 boundaries. (Washington Post) [ What policy … to him, just words … more b***s*** . I’ve thus far refrained from commenting on what I’ve anticipated to be ‘just more of the same’; empty rhetoric. Pervasively corrupt, defacto bankrupt america makes the wrong choice at every turn, ensuring in every way, decline and fall; self-destructive, self-defeating. Make no mistake, and let me reiterate, that substantially underrated President General Eisenhower would have put American interests first and the current debacle would never have occurred in the first instance … see, ie., http://albertpeia.com , historical documentation, from website: http://www.ameu.org ‘Lest We Forget The Israeli lobby in Washington has successfully influenced the U.S. Congress to give billions of non-repayable dollars each year to Israel on the premise that Israel's loyalty and strategic importance to the United States make it an ally worthy of such unprecedented consideration. Is it ? In his Farewell Address, George Washington warned Americans to avoid a passionate attachment to any one nation because it promotes "the illusion of an imaginary common interest in cases where no real common interest exists." In 1948, U.S. Secretary of Defense James Forrestal, an opponent of the creation of a Jewish state in Palestine, warned that, even though failure to go along with the Zionists might cost President Truman the states of New York, Pennsylvania, and California, it was about time that somebody should pay some consideration to whether we might not lose the United States. Israeli actions over the past 53 years involving U.S. interests in the Middle East seriously challenge the "strategic asset" premise of the Israeli lobby. Some of these actions are compiled in the list that follows: …’ ] Netanyahu lays out vision for Mideast peace (Washington Post) [ Vision? Don’t make me laugh! The guy’s blind; and a ward and provocateur at america’s substantial cost and detriment. ]

Harold Camping reaffirms October date for the end of the world, says May 21 date was 'invisible judgment day' (The Washington Post) [ I comment here not owing to the importance of the latest ‘prediction’ by camping who’s probably ‘been camping’ too long in the nether reaches of the atmosphere (affects the brain, ‘neural firing’ in a negative fashion); but to allay public concerns, and particularly for those suffering from generalized anxiety disorder, to subtract one life circumstance from their unrealistic worry; and, because I had previously commented as set forth infra. No! The world will not be ending on October 21, 2011 or any other date as set forth by camping. Indeed, God needs no mathematics, formulae, or codes to surreptitiously convey the end; his hand ultimately unmistakably known to all. You’ll know it when you see it. As for camping, let’s play umpires and predict the future; strike three, he’s out. Harold Camping: the heart of the doomsday frenzy (Los Angeles Times) The last-minute rapture reading list (Los Angeles Times) [Drudgereport: `Preacher made same prediction in 1994...` `Doomsday church thriving, worth $72 million...` [Previous: ‘End of Days’ message rolls into D.C. (Washington Post) The potentially rotten news that the world will end on May 21 arrived plastered on a caravan of RVs. [ Gee … little premature … you know, that 2012, end of Mayan calendar, Nostradamus thing … I previously weighed in / wrote: Why do Americans still dislike atheists? (Washington Post) [ And not just americans … Why? First and foremost because there is a God. Second, it is intellectually dishonest to be an atheist. Specifically, there is absolutely no evidence to dispute the existence of God. While one might similarly argue that there is no evidence to suggest there is a God (which I would dispute), which for most is a fair statement, the same would yield at best, if intellectually honest, the position of ‘agnostic’. I can totally understand and even empathize with the view of the agnostic. After all, at this point, there seems to be ‘no rhyme nor reason’ at all. But, think binary, positives / negatives. Just too many negatives. Think ‘capital punishment’. No, the world’s not going to end in 2012 as some fear. Rather, think slow burn; decades at best; then ‘poof’. In the scheme of things, this world’s just not that important (apes, notochordates, and initially single celled organisms). ]

`Drudgereport: USA HITS DEBT CEILING...`
`TREASURY RAIDS PENSIONS...RECESSIONISTA: MICHELLE OUTDOES ROYAL -- WEARS $2,000 DRESS... Military operation against Gadhafi in 'new phase'...`
`FLASHBACK: Obama: U.S. Involvement Would Last 'Days, Not Weeks'... PAPER: Inflation bumps cost of Memorial Day weekend BBQ by 29%!`
`Families spending $168 more per month on gas than a year ago...PUTIN DECIDES TO RETAKE PRESIDENCYSTATE OF THE UNION`: `Metal Scrappers Swipe Teen's Wheelchair...`
`Copper strippers possibly posing as road crews darken DC...`
`Iron Thieves Caught Dismantling 100 Yards Of Railroad Tracks...`
`ATM Serviceman Cleans Out Machines, Refills With Photocopies Of Cash...Perry 'going to think about' run...`
`Ron Paul places second in NH...`
`Iowa GOP to Christie: Drop by...GALLUP: Romney, Palin Lead GOP Field for 2012... [`Rep. Ron Paul takes second in New Hampshire CNN poll `]`
`In Obama's Hometown, Romney Criticizes Econ Policies...`
`Sends Left-Over Pizza to Obama HQ...`
`Will formally announce run on June 2... 'PATRIOT ACT' CLEARS CONGRESS -- WILL BE SIGNED INTO LAW BY A MACHINE...`
`60 DAYS: GOP senators press Obama on war powers... Pile of American debt -- would stretch beyond stratosphere! House members' stock market success suspect...`
`Congressional bonuses handed out during budget crisis... Loughner removed from courtroom after outburst... Found too american to stand trial... Gold, silver coins to be legal currency in Utah... DAY 3: MORE TWISTERS...`
`At least 14 more killed...`
`VIDEO... Fresh Twisters Touch Down...`
`At least 7 more killed...`
`Death toll reaches 124 in Joplin; Deadliest in half century..`
`1,500 Reported Missing...TORNADO SWARMS DEADLIEST IN MORE THAN HALF CENTURYHEARTLAND DEVASTATION...`
`116 dead, nearly 500 twister deaths this year...`
`VIDEO... PHOTOS...`
`AUDIO TERROR: 'I LOVE YOU ALL'...`
`'I'm alive!' text message saves man's life...`
`1,500 rescuers work through pouring rain...`
`Threats of more to come...`
`Looting in Minneapolis... State Treasurer Warns Bond Houses Against Further Loans to Illinois... NYT: 'Is Anti-White Bias a Problem?' [ …`In what some have called the new post-racial era, what constitutes discrimination is shifting. The landmark Supreme Court case, Ricci v. DeStefano, for example, ruled that white firefighters suffered discrimination when their employer threw out a promotional exam because none of the African-American firefighters who took the test qualified for promotion …’ UPDATE: MORE CLAIMS OF RACE BIAS AT JUSTICE... `‘`In emotional and personal testimony, an ex-Justice official who quit over the handling of a voter intimidation case against the New Black Panther Party accused his former employer of instructing attorneys in the civil rights division to ignore cases that involve black defendants and white victims 'Cases against Wall Street lag despite Holder’s vows to target financial fraud WP | Obama has promised to hold Wall Street accountable for the meltdown.
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`UPDATE: $24B in bailout paid to contractors who owe millions in taxes...`
`Palestinians: netanayahu Speech is 'declaration of war'...`
`SUPREME COURT ORDERS CA TO RELEASE UP TO 46,000 PRISONERS... 'Terrible things are sure to happen'...`
`JERRY BROWN: 'Let's raise taxes!!!' FEDS SPEND MILLIONS STUDYING SHRIMP ON TREADMILLS?? 'GELATIN WRESTLING' IN ANTARCTICA?? Melon-sized hail fell before OK tornadoes hit... Number 'missing' lowered to 156...`
`Death toll reaches 132... Zuckerberg Shock: 'Only meat I'm eating is from animals I've killed myself'... ‘`"The only meat I'm eating is from animals I've killed myself," says the Facebook founder and CEO. It's an odd dietary direction for the 27-year-old Internet billionaire, but since he has taken to killing goats, pigs and chickens, "I'm eating a lot healthier foods. And I've learned a lot about sustainable farming and raising of animals," he says. "It's easy to take the food we eat for granted when we can eat good things every day." Zuckerberg's new goal came to light, not surprisingly, on Facebook. On May 4, Zuckerberg posted a note to the 847 friends on his private page: "I just killed a pig and a goat."’ [ See 'Mark Zuckerberg' knife a pig ]

Choose Your Hathaway: Berkshire or Anne Sizemore May 26, 2011 ‘When the actress' name is in the headlines, Berkshire Hathaway share prices rise, proof that "robotrading" puts many investors at risk.’ ‘Given that algorithmic trading now accounts for 70% of all trading, it’s not implausible. Sadly, this is what the investment management profession has degenerated into.’ [ As to his ‘blood in the streets refeerence’ … sadly … coming to a theater ner you. ] [ I just had to include this article, emphasizing the folly / fraud of wall street. Well done! But butt buffet? Wall street shill, he ultimately goes out a buffoon and fraud friend of wall street; a further sign of pervasively corrupt, defacto bankrupt american decline. But, ‘puppy-dog-eyes’? How ‘bout ‘cat’s eyes’, as in Catwoman. Don’t forget Chuck, ‘mnemonics’, loosely speaking, are kind of like in a clichéd sort of way, that ‘double edged sword that cuts both ways’ … you know, ‘Tom Sizemore’ … are you related? ] We’ve always admired Berkshire Hathaway (BRK-A) Chairman Warren Buffett. He is, after all, the most successful investor in history and a legend in his own time. Mr. Buffett’s annual reports are fountains of investment wisdom that should be required reading in business schools and for everyone in the money management profession.We’ve also had an admiration for the Hollywood actress Anne Hathaway for many years, though we know nothing of her investment acumen. Some readers of the Sizemore Investment Letter might be interested to know that the 28-year-old Ms. Hathaway will be starring in next year’s Batman movie, The Dark Knight Rises, as the Catwoman. Berkshire Hathaway shareholders had better hope that her performance generates its share of press. Their investment returns might depend on it.Yes, dear readers, you read that correctly. As ridiculous as it might sound, the price of Berkshire Hathaway’s (BRK-B) shares move in tandem with Ms. Hathway’s film career. Consider what the Financial Times had to say on the matter:

Anne Hathaway is young, beautiful and excels in soppy romantic comedies. But while her puppy-dog-eyes bring tears to multiplexes worldwide, her performances are now being watched in a less familiar quarter: Wall Street.

Traders barely noticed that the star of The Devil Wears Prada had hosted last month’s Oscars, until blogger Dan Mirvish spotted an odd pattern: if Ms. Hathaway is in the news, Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway stock jumps too.

Berkshire shares rose 2.02% the night before Ms. Hathaway hosted the Oscars,and a whopping 2.94% the day after. The opening day of her 2009 comedy Bride Wars was also a good day for Berkshire stock -- up 2.60%. And why might Anne Hathaway be having this effect on Berkshire Hathaway’s price? Mirvish suggests that “robotraders” are scanning the headlines looking for trends, and upon seeing multiple mentions of “Hathaway,” are automatically buying Berkshire Hathaway stock. Given that algorithmic trading now accounts for 70% of all trading, it’s not implausible. Sadly, this is what the investment management profession has degenerated into. Real “roll up your sleeves” research is too much work. Who has time to read the notes to a balance sheet, after all? Even technical analysis, which has always had its share of the mentally lazy who prefer cheap shortcuts they rarely understand, is now too much work. Yes, instead we now have computers reading the newspapers for us and buying Berkshire Hathaway stock every time Anne Hathaway gets photographed by the paparazzi. Brilliant. The bad news is that this kind of nonsensical noise trading adds to the volatility of the markets. Remember last year’s “Flash Crash” in which the Dow dropped 1,000 points for no discernible reason only to gain most of it back almost instantly? Though there has yet to be a satisfactory answer as to what happened that day, most blame the crash on algorithmic trading run amok. The timing of the Flash Crash, just a year after the worst bear market in a generation, added to the sense of alienation that many retail investors feel towards Wall Street. The man on the street can be forgiven for concluding that it is a rigged game. The truth is, Wall Street really is a rigged game and it always has been. And even with the massive regulatory apparatus ostensibly put in place to protect the “little guy,” the reality is that Wall Street will most likely always be a rigged game.
The good news is that it really doesn’t matter. Level-headed investors can still do quite well, so long as they play to their strengths. Remember, robotraders have time horizons measured in seconds. You can’t compete with that if you are attempting to trade on speed. But if you choose your investments well -- like Mr. Buffett -- you can do very well with time horizons measured in months, years, or even decades.
Those investors willing and able to make bold bets against the herd can also do quite well. Again returning to Buffett, “You have to be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful.”
Or as Baron Rothschild more bluntly put it, “The time to buy is when there is blood in the streets.” Investors who were able to buy during the pits of the Flash Crash made a fortune in a matter of minutes. Those who bought during the post-Lehman meltdown of late 2008 had to wait a bit longer but still enjoyed fantastic returns in the two years that followed. At my firm, this is how we approach investing. We focus on themes with staying power -- demographic trends, the rise of the emerging market middle class, and long-term dividend growth, to name a few. We look for opportunities where a given stock -- or the stock market as a whole -- have been mispriced due to investor fear, greed or lack of understanding. And then we invest accordingly. And as for the lovely Ms. Hathaway, we enjoy our starlets on the silver screen, but we don’t let them affect our investment decisions.’

‘Dancing With the Stars’: Season 12 ‘Idol’ names winner in record vote Goodbye Oprah (Washington Post) [ I must admit, never having seen even one of the foregoing shows, the ‘dry heaves / nausea’ factor at even the thought of same may seem, in light of their popularity, less than fair or objective. The truth is that more probable is the ‘deamericanization factor’ that I and I believe the rest of the world is experiencing. I usually don’t comment on entertainment matters; but, a sign of the times is noteworthy. 24 Signs Of Economic Decline In America ‘The US is in the middle of a devastating long-term economic decline..’ ] States face shortfall for retirees (WP) Public workers’ retirement funds had a gap of $1.26 trillion at the end of fiscal 2009 Study: Affordable rentals scarce (WP) Poll: For Obama, low marks on Afghan war (WP) More Americans disapprove of President Obama’s management of the war in Afghanistan than support it Fuel prices cut into Obama popularity (WP) (The frauds on wall street et als should be criminally prosecuted, jailed, fined, and disgorgement imposed), and have used the mideast turmoil to obfuscate their failure. Dave's Daily 'If you can keep interest rates this low this long, its inevitable cheap financing can allow companies to start cobbling each other up. Further Ben's policies allow companies like IBM to sell bonds at 1% and buy back shares with the proceeds (total paper bubble-scam). POMO is occurring almost daily and Primary Dealers can buy back their shares and pay dividends with what essentially is taxpayer money-- … an especially great opportunity to sell / take profits while you still can since there's much worse to come! America Is a Failed State Because It Won’t Prosecute Financial Crime Washington’s Blog / the grim economic reality [ http://albertpeia.com/grimreality.htm ]. Selling In May Is Very Good Advice This Year Harding / April Is a Good Time to Sell Adler Equity Valuations Are Forming the Second Biggest Bubble in U.S. History Kaspar ... According to Yale University’s Dr. Robert Shiller, the market is now 41% overvalued …only time the markets have been more overvalued .. 1929 & tech bubble. http://static.seekingalpha.com/uploads/2011/4/12/saupload_cape_thumb1.png PRECHTER: We're Still In A Massive Bear Market And Stocks Will Crash To New Lows This is an especially great opportunity to sell / take profits while you still can since there's much worse to come! Remember: ‘Sell in May and go away! ‘ … Stock Market: 4 Current Warning Signs Navin ‘…1) The 5-year high in the level of insider corporate stock sales is telling. At 565 sells for every 1 buy, it’s never been higher. Yes, it’s normal for insiders to be selling some of their stocks so they can buy new yachts and some of this is pre-planned. But that ratio — which has spiked recently — is extraordinarily high, one might even say off-the-chart.]

Washington area’s Asian population booms (Washington Post) [ This seems to foreshadow that almost mythical, legendary, prospective ‘long march’ so heralded in Chinese lore (at least the military’s) regarding the final conquest of pervasively corrupt, defacto bankrupt, and rapidly declining america. I’d say they’re watching ever more closely the ever more worthless american paper they’re holding. Davis ‘This is how we pay off our current debts and I think bondholders are simply happy to get anything out of a country that admits it owes $15Tn (1/4 of global GDP) but probably owes closer to $60Tn (entire global GDP) in the form of unfunded liabilities. The funniest thing about this (and you have to laugh) is to see Conservative pundits get on TV and talk about how we need to cut $100Bn worth of discretionary spending to "fix" this (while continuing to spend $1Tn on the military and $1Tn on tax cuts for the top 1% each year). There is no fixing this and even a Republican said you can’t fool all of the people all of the time. THIS HOUSE OF CARDS IS TEETERING FOLKS – PLEASE BE CAREFUL OUT THERE! ‘ Senate Dems find themselves in a tough spot (WP) [ Tough spot? Like Iraq and a hard place called Afghanistan; indeed they are. [Pakistani troops, NATO helicopters engage in firefight 6th soldier charged in plot to kill Afghan civilians (Washington Post) [ Gen. Hamid Gul: U.S. Generals Provoking War with Pakistan Jones | U.S. intelligence is that bin Laden needs dialysis every 3 days/ http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/osama_dead.php 5-1-11, JUST MOMENTS BEFORE PRESIDENT OBAMA ANNOUNCED THAT THE US HAD KILLED OSAMA BIN LADEN, THE WHATREALLYHAPPENED WEBSITE CAME UNDER MASSIVE DISTRIBUTED DENIAL OF SERVICE ATTACK. THIS PAGE, WHICH DOCUMENTS THAT OSAMA BIN LADEN ACTUALLY DIED IN DECEMBER OF 2001, APPEARS TO BE WHAT THE WHITE HOUSE DIDN'T WANT AVAILABLE WHILE THE NEW PROPAGANDA WAS "CATAPULTED FORWARD". IT IS POSSIBLE THAT THIS IS THE OPENING GAMBIT IN A PLAN TO STAGE A "REVENGE" ATTACK FROM "AL QAEDA" ON THE UNITED STATES, WITH WHICH TO JUSTIFY TOTAL WAR ON THE MIDDLE EAST… FLASHBACK: Editorial: US in quagmire War in Afghanistan and Iraq costs America $1trillion Roche 'The worst part of it ...Obama, who vowed change, has done almost nothing to fix any of it and in fact continues most of the policies that helped get us here in the first place’ UPDATE: MORE CLAIMS OF RACE BIAS AT JUSTICE... ‘In emotional and personal testimony, an ex-Justice official who quit over the handling of a voter intimidation case against the New Black Panther Party accused his former employer of instructing attorneys in the civil rights division to ignore cases that involve black defendants and white victims ' Cases against Wall Street lag despite Holder’s vows to target financial fraud WP Obama has promised to hold Wall Street accountable for the meltdown.
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Why we read Palin’s tell-all The underlying interest says something more primal than simply our fascination with Mama Grizzly. (Washington Post) [ I’d say it’s more of a curious fascination with the ‘new american dumb’. After all, who can deny the boost she got from SNL’s Tina Fey’s impresarios highlighting same. Yet, in comparison with and juxtaposed to the rest of the Washington field (mccain, bush, wobama, et als), she’s got plenty of cover / camouflage. Send to a friendSarah Palin: Don't pick on Donald Trump Politico - ‎Even though Donald Trump has wholeheartedly embraced the wall-to-wall media coverage that's come with his promotion of the widely discredited “birther” issue, Sarah Palin argued Tuesday that the press is treating him ... Trump's business success claims questioned CBS News ‘…Trump hotels and casinos in Atlantic City have filed for bankruptcy protection three times. While Trump blamed market forces, he has long been chairman of the board for the casino businesses.In his defense, Trump said he "didn't run the company." Isikoff then asked why he was paid $2 million per year to chair the board of that business. Trump replied: "Excuse me. Because I'm a genius, okay."Trump said many different businesses license the use of his name, but he's not directly involved in their operations.Casinos have not been the only weakness in the Trump empire. There have been many high profile bankruptcy filings, bad real estate deals, and a trail of ongoing lawsuits accusing him of bad business practices.Another questionable move was "Trump University," an online, for-profit business education firm. The attorney general in Texas ordered him to stop using the word "university" in its title. Trump said his company was unaware of restrictions on the use of that word.Isikoff also said he asked Trump if he thought the state of Hawaii was lying in regards to Obama being born there, and he did not answer the question. In summation of his experiences that qualify him to be President of the United States, Trump told Isikoff: "My successes...have been vast. I don't even view myself as having failures, and I certainly learned from things that don't work out as well." ‘ As Trump rants, TV ratings slide Tampabay.com Parker: The GOP plays a crazy Trump card (Washington Post) [ I don't know what polls Ms. Parker's referring to; but unless she's referring to mobster trump apprentice news (trump was fired from his own casino company), that certainly doesn't comport with polls I've read. Moreover, like palin, trump's the joke that keeps on giving (for SNL, late-night talk hosts, etc.) ...’ ]

Allan Sloan A Wall Street money maven suggests buying stocks of some large-capitalization U.S. multinational firms. (Washington Post) [ Sorry Mr. Sloan. Your usual right-on perspicuity is a bit off here; certainly in terms of time. That was the strategy in light of the dollar debasement which, along with continued fraud among other manipulations, has created a stock-price bubble almost of unprecedented magnitude (infra). The best advice now comports with that old adage: ‘Sell in May and go away’. This is an especially great opportunity to sell / take profits while you still can since there's much worse to come! Remember: ‘Sell in May and go away! ‘ … Stock Market: 4 Current Warning Signs Navin ‘…1) The 5-year high in the level of insider corporate stock sales is telling. At 565 sells for every 1 buy, it’s never been higher. Yes, it’s normal for insiders to be selling some of their stocks so they can buy new yachts and some of this is pre-planned. But that ratio — which has spiked recently — is extraordinarily high, one might even say off-the-chart. 2) Professor Shiller at Yale figures that the present price-to-earnings ratio for the Standard & Poor’s 500 is in the area of 26. The historical average is about 16. 3) The failure of the financial sector to keep up is a significant negative divergence for the entire market. 4) Key market leaders are rolling over in price... ‘

Global Economy Dying on the Vine Nyaradi ‘The global economy seems to be dying on the vine as more news of economic slowdown pours in every day. The U.S. stock market and ETFs continue to react negatively to deteriorating economic news even as the Federal Reserve bought $6 Billion in their POMO operations yesterday.The DJIA, S&P 500 and NASDAQ are all below their 50 Day Moving Averages while the NASDAQ has also dropped below its 100 Day Moving Average.The NASDAQ and DJIA are now on Point and Figure “Sell” signals, having experienced a Bearish Catapult Breakdown at Tuesday’s close and now has a price target of 12,050.

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… Richmond Federal Reserve reported a severe drop in activity in the region as the report actually contracted to -6 from a +10 in April. China’s Purchasing Manager’s Index declined, Japan is back in recession and Belgium, one of the core countries in the eurozone was issued a credit downgrade warning by the Fitch ratings agency. Spain’s bond premium to the benchmark German Bund is back to January’s levels and Greek 10 Year Bonds are a whopping 17% which is clearly unsustainable. Closer to home, Vice President Biden continues to work with Congress towards what they’re labeling a $1 Trillion down payment to avert a government shutdown in August and the Illinois State Treasurer says his state is on the “verge of financial disaster.” …’ ]

Geithner: ‘Dark forces’ working against overhaul (Washington Post) [ Yeah! And, this was so from the date of ‘tiny tim geithner’s’ appointment, along with other insiders. . Barack Obama: The Naked Emperor Shocking but true revelations from David Icke (a must read) | ‘…He has been covertly funded and supported ever since by the Trilateral Commission and its network of foundations connecting into the Ford Foundation, for whom Obama's mother worked... Does anyone really believe that someone, a 'man of the people', would simply appear from apparently nowhere to run the slickest and best-funded presidential campaign in American history? He was chosen long ago by those who wish to enslave the very people that Obama says he wants to 'set free'. The sources of Obama funding .. - Goldman, UBS, Citi, Credit Suisse, Deutsche, J.P. Morgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, etc. No wonder he went back on his pledge to accept the limitations of public funding … Obama is just more of the same, a big smile with strings attached, and controlled completely by those that chose him, trained him, sold him and provided his record funding, kept his many skeletons under wraps, like the gay sex and crack cocaine .. Larry Sinclair (from affidavit: 1. Who is Ron Allen that claims to be with your Presidential camp, who is alleged to claim that someone claiming to represent me called asking for $100,000, to keep me from coming forward about our (Obama and I) November 1999 encounter of sex and cocaine use?), ... Obama is just another Banksters' moll prostituting himself .., and that's why he supported the grotesque bail-out of the banking system and why he will always put their interests before the people. His financial advisors are straight from the Wall Street 'A' list, … Zionist Tim Geithner (Bilderberg Group, Trilateral Commission, Council on Foreign Relations), was appointed Treasury Secretary, a former employee of both the Council on Foreign Relations and the appalling Kissinger Associates. Obama's Treasury team locks into the inner circle around the Zionist Robert Rubin, Citi, Council on Foreign Relations, and economic advisor to Obama. Rubin, ..Illuminati Bilderberg Group, the man behind Citi's debacle.. rescued by taxpayers' money. The very people who caused the financial crisis .. appointed by Obama .. `CIVIL RIGHTS PANEL TO PURSUE FED PROBE IN BLACK PANTHER CASE... ‘`In emotional and personal testimony, an ex-Justice official who quit over the handling of a voter intimidation case against the New Black Panther Party accused his former employer of instructing attorneys in the civil rights division to ignore cases that involve black defendants and white victims ...’ Cases against Wall Street lag despite Holder’s vows to target financial fraud Obama has promised to hold Wall Street accountable for the meltdown. ):

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Drudgereport: USA HITS DEBT CEILING...
TREASURY RAIDS PENSIONS...PUTIN DECIDES TO RETAKE PRESIDENCYGALLUP: Romney, Palin Lead GOP Field for 2012...
In Obama's Hometown, Romney Criticizes Econ Policies...
Sends Left-Over Pizza to Obama HQ...
Will formally announce run on June 2... 'PATRIOT ACT' CLEARS CONGRESS -- WILL BE SIGNED INTO LAW BY A MACHINE...
60 DAYS: GOP senators press Obama on war powers... Pile of American debt -- would stretch beyond stratosphere! House members' stock market success suspect...
Congressional bonuses handed out during budget crisis... Loughner removed from courtroom after outburst... Found too american to stand trial... Gold, silver coins to be legal currency in Utah... DAY 3: MORE TWISTERS...
At least 14 more killed...
VIDEO... Fresh Twisters Touch Down...
At least 7 more killed...
Death toll reaches 124 in Joplin; Deadliest in half century..
1,500 Reported Missing...TORNADO SWARMS DEADLIEST IN MORE THAN HALF CENTURYHEARTLAND DEVASTATION...
116 dead, nearly 500 twister deaths this year...
VIDEO... PHOTOS...
AUDIO TERROR: 'I LOVE YOU ALL'...
'I'm alive!' text message saves man's life...
1,500 rescuers work through pouring rain...
Threats of more to come...
Looting in Minneapolis... State Treasurer Warns Bond Houses Against Further Loans to Illinois... NYT: 'Is Anti-White Bias a Problem?' [ …In what some have called the new post-racial era, what constitutes discrimination is shifting. The landmark Supreme Court case, Ricci v. DeStefano, for example, ruled that white firefighters suffered discrimination when their employer threw out a promotional exam because none of the African-American firefighters who took the test qualified for promotion …’ UPDATE: MORE CLAIMS OF RACE BIAS AT JUSTICE... ‘In emotional and personal testimony, an ex-Justice official who quit over the handling of a voter intimidation case against the New Black Panther Party accused his former employer of instructing attorneys in the civil rights division to ignore cases that involve black defendants and white victims ' Cases against Wall Street lag despite Holder’s vows to target financial fraud WP | Obama has promised to hold Wall Street accountable for the meltdown.
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UPDATE: $24B in bailout paid to contractors who owe millions in taxes...
Palestinians: netanayahu Speech is 'declaration of war'...
SUPREME COURT ORDERS CA TO RELEASE UP TO 46,000 PRISONERS... 'Terrible things are sure to happen'...
JERRY BROWN: 'Let's raise taxes!!!' FEDS SPEND MILLIONS STUDYING SHRIMP ON TREADMILLS?? 'GELATIN WRESTLING' IN ANTARCTICA?? Zuckerberg Shock: 'Only meat I'm eating is from animals I've killed myself'... ‘"The only meat I'm eating is from animals I've killed myself," says the Facebook founder and CEO. It's an odd dietary direction for the 27-year-old Internet billionaire, but since he has taken to killing goats, pigs and chickens, "I'm eating a lot healthier foods. And I've learned a lot about sustainable farming and raising of animals," he says. "It's easy to take the food we eat for granted when we can eat good things every day." Zuckerberg's new goal came to light, not surprisingly, on Facebook. On May 4, Zuckerberg posted a note to the 847 friends on his private page: "I just killed a pig and a goat."’

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Yesterday’s economic reports gave the stock market a quick boost at the open when new home sales came in at +7.3% and an annualized rate of 323,000/year which still is at severely depressed levels. But then, the Richmond Federal Reserve reported a severe drop in activity in the region as the report actually contracted to -6 from a +10 in April. China’s Purchasing Manager’s Index declined, Japan is back in recession and Belgium, one of the core countries in the eurozone was issued a credit downgrade warning by the Fitch ratings agency. Spain’s bond premium to the benchmark German Bund is back to January’s levels and Greek 10 Year Bonds are a whopping 17% which is clearly unsustainable. Closer to home, Vice President Biden continues to work with Congress towards what they’re labeling a $1 Trillion down payment to avert a government shutdown in August and the Illinois State Treasurer says his state is on the “verge of financial disaster.” …’

Is the U.S. Worse Off Than Europe? Maierhofer ‘… Deception and naive reporting are as intertwined with the evolution of European dept woes as Feta cheese is to Greek culinary culture. Rarely has this become more obvious than now. Luxembourg's Prime Minister didn't beat around the bush: 'When it becomes serious, you have to lie.' You be the judge whether it is more 'honorable' to omit, deceive, obstruct, misconstrue, or lie (purposely or unintentionally). There are plenty of examples so we can make an educated decision.You shouldn't throw stones if you are sitting in a glass house. This is the case with the United States. The administration has engaged in all kinds of maneuvers and financial alchemy to obstruct the truth and prevent free market forces from expressing themselves. QE2 is the most famous example. Mr. Bernanke is caught in his very own web of financial engineering side effects. Preaching on one hand that QE2 was supposed to inflate assets and create a wealth effect but denying that QE2 has caused wide spread food and energy inflation. Another example is the 'adjustment' of accounting rule 157, demanded and sanctioned by Congress. The 'new and improved' rule 157 allows banks (NYSEArca: KBE) and financial institutions (NYSEArca: XLF) to omit hundreds of billions of toxic assets in an off balance sheet bucket that doesn't affect earnings results …’

[video] Growing Bear Signs for trader

The S&P 500's Lost Decade Short ‘Here is a new update of a chart that illustrates the total return performance of the S&P 500 since the Tech Bubble closing high on March 24, 2000. The chart shows the value of $1000 invested in the index, including dividends, but excluding any taxes or fees, as of May 20th. I've also included the real value using the Consumer Price Index for the inflation adjustment. http://static.seekingalpha.com/uploads/2011/5/25/saupload_sp500_total_20return_on_1000_invested_in_2000_thumb1.png
Click for a larger image I calculated on the returns based on the daily price and daily dividends interpolated from the quarterly dividends as reported by Standard & Poor's. Thus the $1,070 nominal and $809 real values are the hypothetical returns excluding any taxes or fees. For the sake of comparison and to validate the calculation method, we can compare the nominal return in the chart above to Vanguard's 500 Index Investor Fund (VFINX), which has had a return of $1,057. Over the same timeframe The SPY ETF has returned $1,044.We're now over eleven years beyond the S&P 500 2000 high. This little charting exercise gives credence to the frequent reference to a "lost decade" for investors. It also offers support for the wisdom of diversification across asset classes.’

[$$] Another Late-Day Slide for the S&P

This is an especially great opportunity to sell / take profits while you still can since there's much worse to come! Remember: ‘Sell in May and go away! ‘ … El-Erian: “Financial Repression” In the Form of a Negative Real Rate of Return for Savers Is Coming to America Pimco co-chair El-Erian is saying that the major flaws in the financial system will not be addressed, the government will keep on printing money, and that the inflation-adjusted return on investments for most Americans will be negative. Stock Market: 4 Current Warning Signs Navin ‘…1) The 5-year high in the level of insider corporate stock sales is telling. At 565 sells for every 1 buy, it’s never been higher. Yes, it’s normal for insiders to be selling some of their stocks so they can buy new yachts and some of this is pre-planned. But that ratio — which has spiked recently — is extraordinarily high, one might even say off-the-chart. 2) Professor Shiller at Yale figures that the present price-to-earnings ratio for the Standard & Poor’s 500 is in the area of 26. The historical average is about 16. 3) The failure of the financial sector to keep up is a significant negative divergence for the entire market. 4) Key market leaders are rolling over in price... ‘

Top Democrats criticize Obama’s Israel policy Now the president — whom critics often accuse of employing a play-it-safe governing style in which he waits for others to take the lead — is largely isolated politically in raising the issue of 1967 boundaries. (Washington Post) [ What policy … to him, just words … more b***s*** . I’ve thus far refrained from commenting on what I’ve anticipated to be ‘just more of the same’; empty rhetoric. Pervasively corrupt, defacto bankrupt america makes the wrong choice at every turn, ensuring in every way, decline and fall; self-destructive, self-defeating. Make no mistake, and let me reiterate, that substantially underrated President General Eisenhower would have put American interests first and the current debacle would never have occurred in the first instance … see, ie., http://albertpeia.com , historical documentation, from website: http://www.ameu.org ‘Lest We Forget The Israeli lobby in Washington has successfully influenced the U.S. Congress to give billions of non-repayable dollars each year to Israel on the premise that Israel's loyalty and strategic importance to the United States make it an ally worthy of such unprecedented consideration. Is it ? In his Farewell Address, George Washington warned Americans to avoid a passionate attachment to any one nation because it promotes "the illusion of an imaginary common interest in cases where no real common interest exists." In 1948, U.S. Secretary of Defense James Forrestal, an opponent of the creation of a Jewish state in Palestine, warned that, even though failure to go along with the Zionists might cost President Truman the states of New York, Pennsylvania, and California, it was about time that somebody should pay some consideration to whether we might not lose the United States. Israeli actions over the past 53 years involving U.S. interests in the Middle East seriously challenge the "strategic asset" premise of the Israeli lobby. Some of these actions are compiled in the list that follows: …’ ] Netanyahu lays out vision for Mideast peace (Washington Post) [ Vision? Don’t make me laugh! The guy’s blind; and a ward and provocateur at america’s substantial cost and detriment. ]

Poll: More fear U.S. debt than default Whether or not Congress raises the debt limit, majority of Americans are worried about the consequences. (Washington Post) [ How ‘bout all of the above! “Both Parties And The White House Are Advocating A US Default” Zero Hedge | David Stockman, one of the few voices of fiscal prudence, debated US insolvency.

David Stockman: “Both Parties And The White House Are Advocating A US Default” Last week David Stockman was on Tom Keene, making the usual media rounds (sometimes we marvel at his patience and endurance), as one of the few voices of fiscal prudence available to TV producers who seek to hold a balanced debate on the topic of US insolvency.

Stop Raising the Debt Ceiling Ron Paul | When our creditors finally wise up and cut us off, we will be forced to face economic realities whether we want to or not. Harry Dent: “Major Crash” Coming for Stocks, Commodities Already Topping Out Market Downturn Approaching; Go Long the Ultra Shorts? White ‘.. consistently bad economic .. Following is a brief list (mostly from Yahoo Finance‘s Economic Calendar) of troubling news: …1-20…’ This is an especially great opportunity to sell / take profits while you still can since there's much worse to come! Remember: ‘Sell in May and go away! …

America Is a Failed State Because It Won’t Prosecute Financial Crime Washington’s Blog | It’s now mainstream news that none of the big financial criminals have been prosecuted. This is the grim economic reality [ http://albertpeia.com/grimreality.htm ]. Selling In May Is Very Good Advice This Year Harding Equity Valuations Are Forming the Second Biggest Bubble in U.S. History Kaspar ... According to Yale University’s Dr. Robert Shiller, the market is now 41% overvalued …only time the markets have been more overvalued .. 1929 & tech bubble. http://static.seekingalpha.com/uploads/2011/4/12/saupload_cape_thumb1.png PRECHTER: We're Still In A Massive Bear Market And Stocks Will Crash To New Lows Equity Valuations Are Forming the Second Biggest Bubble in U.S. History Kaspar 'Despite the terrible economic performance of the past ten years, equity valuations are the 2nd largest bubble in U.S. history... According to Yale University’s Dr. Robert Shiller, the market is now 41% overvalued according to this valuation metric. The only time the markets have been more overvalued was a few brief months in 1929 and the tech bubble

... growth in earnings have been artificially manufactured...

· The change in accounting rules for the financial sector by FASB has generated massive “false” account profits beginning in 2009…’

Treasury to tap pensions to fund government (WP) 24 Signs Of Economic Decline In America States face shortfall for retirees (WP) (The frauds on wall street et als should be criminally prosecuted, jailed, fined, and disgorgement imposed. ]

Market Downturn Approaching; Go Long the Ultra Shorts? White ‘It is time to worry about a market downturn. There has been almost consistently bad economic news reported in the U.S. in the last week. Following is a brief list (mostly from Yahoo Finance‘s Economic Calendar) of troubling news:

The Trade Balance for March was worse than expected at -$48.20B vs. an expected -$47.00B (the previous month’s was -$45.40B). Pundits are speculating that this will result in a lowering of the Q1 GDP estimate, which is due out May 26.
The Mississippi Flood is the worst in a century-- this alone will depress the Q2 GDP. Shipping down the Mississippi has slowed (or sometimes stopped). Huge numbers of casinos have closed. Farms and towns have been flooded.
The PPI missed at 0.80% vs. an expected 0.60%. The Core PPI missed at 0.30% vs. an expected 0.20%. Also, the continued large spread between the CPI and PPI numbers means that many companies are eating a good part of the quickly increasing input costs. This should hurt margins going forward.
Retail Sales (MoM) missed at +0.50% vs. an expected +0.60%.
Some good news Friday had the Michigan Consumer Sentiment Index beat at 72.40 vs. an expected 70.00.
The NY Empire State Manufacturing Index missed at 11.90 vs. an expected 19.60.
The TIC Net Long-Term Transactions missed at $24.00B vs. an expected $57.70B.
The NAHB Housing Market Index missed at 16 vs. an expected 17.
Housing Starts missed at 0.52M vs. an expected 0.57M.
Building Permits missed at 0.55M vs. an expected 0.59M.
The Capacity Utilization Rate missed at 76.90% vs. an expected 77.70%.
Industrial Production (MoM) missed at 0.00% vs. an expected +0.50%.
Several blue chip companies such as Cisco (CSCO) and Hewlett Packard (HPQ) gave very weak guidance going forward, as though they are expecting a soft spot in the economy.
The Fed Minutes indicated that they had considered ending QE2 before its stated end, but decided to proceed since it was so close to the end. The Fed also talked about how to withdraw stimulus. There seemed to be no serious consideration of a QE3. There are only a few crumbs left of the manna of the market hypers (QE2).
Congress has allowed the debt ceiling to be exceeded. Geithner is now borrowing from Peter to pay Paul, and August 2nd is the day that he says this must stop. The Republicans are using the threat of a default as leverage to get concessions on many of the spending cuts they want. They will get spending cuts, which means tightening! Tightening tends to push the equities markets down. Hopefully the U.S. will not default.
The USD has been rallying. The above mentioned tightening should help the USD rally. If the USD continues to strengthen, that could cause an unwind of the USD carry trade. This would translate into selling of equities and commodities. A stronger USD would mean commodity prices would likely fall.
The Initial Jobless Claims were 409K vs. an expected 420K, but the previous week‘s number was revised upward to 438K. While it was pleasant to see a beat for a change, the overall trend is still bad. The 409K means the total increase in Initial Jobless Claims in the four weeks since the end of the last Nonfarm Payrolls surveys’ data period has been 159K. Additionally, the 68K jobs from the one-time McDonald’s (MCD) hiring spree that padded the last Nonfarm Payrolls report will not be there to prop up the next report on the first Friday of June. This means that the next report will be shy a total of 227K jobs. The Nonfarm Payrolls number is likely to be a big disappointment.
Existing Home Sales dipped in April to 5.05M vs. an expected 5.22M and a previous 5.10M.
The Philadelphia Fed Manufacturing Index missed terribly at 3.90 vs. an expected 20.00 and a previous 18.50. This is truly ominous when combined with the terrible NY Empire State Manufacturing Index miss (see above).
The Leading Indicators for April missed at -0.3% vs. an expected 0.0%…’

In Libya, robbery funds the revolution Cash-strapped rebels resort to an unorthodox tactic — a bank robbery — to help fund fight against Gaddafi (Washington Post) [ Ah! Right! The americanization of the revolution … robbery in any form is something that america knows a lot about … Some have already talked about this theft as being a prime reason for this conflict: NATO in Libya: Besides the Oil, Is It Also a Gold Robbery? The IMF data show Libya’s reserves to be 4.6 million ounces, a figure of nearly 144 tons. At current market prices the value is over $6bn. Financial Heist of the Century: Confiscating Libya’s Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWF) The objective of the war against Libya is not just its oil reserves (now estimated at 60 billion barrels), which are the greatest in Africa and whose extraction costs are among the lowest in the world, nor the natural gas reserves of which are estimated at about 1,500 billion cubic meters. Libya: All About Oil, or All About Banking? I have never before heard of a central bank being created in just a matter of weeks out of a popular uprising. This suggests we have a bit more than a rag tag bunch of rebels running around and that there are some pretty sophisticated influences. Libyan War Gets Weird: Defending the Indefensible Even those who have studied for years the criminal consolidation of this planet under the global corporate-financier oligarchy may be noticing that the war in Libya is turning into something new and unprecedented. French, British leaders meet about Libya (Washington Post) [ Wow! Talk about sounding like a plan ... and all this time we thought they already had done that. After all, they must conserve their resources; you know, that war-prone nato alliance comprised of members almost to a nation defacto bankrupt, striving to emulate 'lead war nation' america's defacto bankrupt status. ] The countries struggled Wednesday to come up with new tactics to topple Moammar Gaddafi without resorting to further Western military intervention.

Libya: Increased Airstrikes, Ground Troops, Contractors, Civilians Killed, Deadly DU Munitions – Can We Call This A War Yet? The globalist coalition refers to it as ‘kinetic military action’, yet as more civilians are killed in NATO bombings, and with experts adamant that deadly Depleted Uranium weapons are being used by Western forces, the conflict in Libya looks a hell of a lot like the occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq all over again.

‘Depleted uranium’s toxic legacy to poison Libya for 40 years’ Military experts are accusing coalition forces in Libya of using depleted uranium in their air strikes. The deadly substance can cause cancer and physical mutations in those who come into close contact with it.

63 percent of people killed in Iraq war were civilians: report Xinhua | U.S.-led wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have been causing huge civilian casualties. ]

GOP rejecting ‘root-canal economics’ The debate about the impact of immediate budget cuts on a fragile economy is at the core of a showdown over how and when to trim the deficit. While Republicans say a swift spending cut doesn’t have to be painful, many economists warn it comes at a cost. (Washington Post) [ Economists? You mean the ones who helped get us here in the first place, including ‘no-recession-helicopter-ben-b.s.-bernanke’? Root canals? So what! That’s what novacaine’s for … This is an especially great opportunity to sell / take profits while you still can since there's much worse to come! Remember: ‘Sell in May and go away! ‘ … El-Erian: “Financial Repression” In the Form of a Negative Real Rate of Return for Savers Is Coming to America Pimco co-chair El-Erian is saying that the major flaws in the financial system will not be addressed, the government will keep on printing money, and that the inflation-adjusted return on investments for most Americans will be negative. Stock Market: 4 Current Warning Signs Navin ‘…1) The 5-year high in the level of insider corporate stock sales is telling. At 565 sells for every 1 buy, it’s never been higher. Yes, it’s normal for insiders to be selling some of their stocks so they can buy new yachts and some of this is pre-planned. But that ratio — which has spiked recently — is extraordinarily high, one might even say off-the-chart. 2) Professor Shiller at Yale figures that the present price-to-earnings ratio for the Standard & Poor’s 500 is in the area of 26. The historical average is about 16. 3) The failure of the financial sector to keep up is a significant negative divergence for the entire market. 4) Key market leaders are rolling over in price... ‘

Market's Risk/Reward Ratio Remains Poor McCurdy ‘The S&P 500 index has been in a secular bear market since 2000 and our Secular Trend Score (STS) indicates that we remain in the middle stage of its development (click to enlarge images):

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This is an especially great opportunity to sell / take profits while you still can since there's much worse to come! Remember: ‘Sell in May and go away! …

1Q bank profits up, revenue down Profits in the first quarter were the best in four years, but the industry isn’t back on its feet yet. (Washington Post) [ ‘Simple trick’ that you’re paying for whether you like it or not … ie., Dave's Daily 'If you can keep interest rates this low this long, its inevitable cheap financing can allow companies to start cobbling each other up. Further Ben's policies allow companies like IBM to sell bonds at 1% and buy back shares with the proceeds (total paper bubble-scam). POMO is occurring almost daily and Primary Dealers can buy back their shares and pay dividends with what essentially is taxpayer money—‘ … America Is a Failed State Because It Won’t Prosecute Financial Crime Washington’s Blog | It’s now mainstream news that none of the big financial criminals have been prosecuted. This is the grim economic reality [ http://albertpeia.com/grimreality.htm ]. Selling In May Is Very Good Advice This Year Harding / April Is a Good Time to Sell Adler Equity Valuations Are Forming the Second Biggest Bubble in U.S. History Kaspar ... According to Yale University’s Dr. Robert Shiller, the market is now 41% overvalued …only time the markets have been more overvalued .. 1929 & tech bubble. http://static.seekingalpha.com/uploads/2011/4/12/saupload_cape_thumb1.png PRECHTER: We're Still In A Massive Bear Market And Stocks Will Crash To New Lows Equity Valuations Are Forming the Second Biggest Bubble in U.S. History Kaspar 'Despite the terrible economic performance of the past ten years, equity valuations are the 2nd largest bubble in U.S. history... According to Yale University’s Dr. Robert Shiller, the market is now 41% overvalued according to this valuation metric. The only time the markets have been more overvalued was a few brief months in 1929 and the tech bubble

... growth in earnings have been artificially manufactured...

· The change in accounting rules for the financial sector by FASB has generated massive “false” account profits beginning in 2009…’

Treasury to tap pensions to fund government (WP) 24 Signs Of Economic Decline In America ‘The US is in the middle of a devastating long-term economic decline’ ] States face shortfall for retirees (WP) (The frauds on wall street et als should be criminally prosecuted, jailed, fined, and disgorgement imposed.

Focus Is on Obama as Tensions Soar Across Mideast (New York Times) [ Adapt? I don’t think so! I do believe that both nations are regressively but nostalgically trying bring the world back to failed geopolitical paradigms that made the 20th century the bloodiest century, not coincidentally the american century (obviously for israel the latter half century). Yet, such a conditioned psychopathic approach to global matters has led them self-destructively, self-defeatingly, and ineluctably to decline, fall, and as with dinosaurs, extinction, at least in a manner of speaking. Global information exchange at lightning speed has made such throwbacks to a lost era, propaganda, and maladaptive traits foolish at best, deadly at worst. Intelligent people worldwide aren’t buying the obsolete, Orwellian approach fostered by the purveyors of global unrest; viz., israel, america, Orwellian england, etc..; more specifically, diversion of the masses from the glaring failures of leadership, economic and otherwise.

CRIME STATISTICS >(america is No. 1)

Rank	Countries	Amount
# 1	United States:	11,877,218
# 2	United Kingdom:	6,523,706
# 3	Germany:	6,507,394

UPDATE: MORE CLAIMS OF RACE BIAS AT JUSTICE... ‘In emotional and personal testimony, an ex-Justice official who quit over the handling of a voter intimidation case against the New Black Panther Party accused his former employer of instructing attorneys in the civil rights division to ignore cases that involve black defendants and white victims ' Cases against Wall Street lag despite Holder’s vows to target financial fraud WP | Obama has promised to hold Wall Street accountable for the meltdown.
THE OBAMA DECEPTION’ http://albertpeia.com/obamadeceptionhighqualityversion.flv ]

Agents irked by plan to keep Mueller (Washington Post) [ ‘abide by .. tenure limits’ ? I’m more concerned with, and it’s fundamentally more important from the perspective of the FBI’s ‘mission and purpose’, that meaningful law be abided by regarding the following:
October 15, 2010 (*see infra)

Steven M. Martinez, Assistant Director In Charge
Federal Bureau of Investigation, USDOJ
11000 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 1700

Los Angeles, CA 90024

Dear Sir:

I enclose herewith 3 copies of the within DVD rom autorun disk (which will open in your computer’s browser) as per your office’s request as made this day (the disk and contents have been scanned by Avast, McAfee, and Norton which I’ve installed on my computer to prevent viral attacks / infection and are without threat). I also include 1 copy of the DVD as filed with the subject court as referenced therein (which files are also included on the aforesaid 3 disks in a separate folder named ‘112208opocoan’). The (civil) RICO action (as you’re aware, the RICO Act is a criminal statute which provides a civil remedy, including treble damages and attorney fees, as an incentive for private prosecution of said claims probably owing to the fact that the USDOJ seems somewhat overwhelmed and in need of such assistance given the seriousness and prevalence of said violations of law which have a corrupting influence on the process, and which corruption is pervasive). A grievance complaint against Coan was also filed concurrently with the subject action and held in abeyance pending resolution of the action which was illegally dismissed without any supporting law and in contravention of the Order of The Honorable Robert N. Chatigny, Chief Judge, USDC, District Connecticut. The files below the horizontal rule are the referenced documents as filed. (Owing to the damage to the financial interests of both the U.S. and the District of Congresswoman Roybal-Allard, viz., Los Angeles, the Qui Tam provisions of the Federal False Claims Act probably would apply and I would absent resolution seek to refer the within to a firm with expertise in that area of the law with which I am not familiar).

The document in 5 pages under penalty of perjury I was asked to forward to the FBI office in New Haven is probably the best and most concise summary of the case RICO Summary to FBI Under Penalty of Perjury at Their Request (5 pages) [ ricosummarytoFBIunderpenaltyofperjury.pdf http://albertpeia.com/ricosummarytoFBIunderpenaltyofperjury.pdf ].

The correspondence I received from the Congresswoman by way of email attachment (apparent but typical problem with my mail) along with my response thereto is included on the 3 disks as fbicorrespondencereyes.htm . With regard to the calls to the FBI’s LA and New Haven, CT offices: There was one call to the LA office and I was referred to the Long Beach, CA office where I personally met with FBI Agent Jeff Hayes to whom I gave probative evidentiary documents of the money laundering which he confirmed as indicative of same (he was transferred from said office within approximately a month of said meeting and his location was not disclosed to me upon inquiry). The matter was assigned to FBI Agent Ron Barndollar and we remained in touch for in excess of a decade until he abruptly retired (our last conversation prior to his retirement related to the case and parenthetically, Rudy Giuliani whose father I stated had been an enforcer for the mob to which he registered disbelief and requested I prove it, which I did – he served 12 years in prison, aggravated assault/manslaughter? – and no, there is no Chinese wall of separation – Andrew Maloney’s the one that prosecuted gotti).

In contradistinction to the statement in said correspondence, there is a plethora of information including evidence supporting the claims set forth in the RICO VERIFIED COMPLAINT (see infra). Such includes and as set forth in the case, inter alia,

· A judgment had been entered in my favor in the case, United States District Court Case #3:93cv02065(AWT)(USDCJ Alvin Thompson), worth approximately now in excess of $300,000 remains unaccounted for and which could be used for payment to creditors, Los Angeles, etc..

· Counsel Robert Sullivan on my behalf documented by way of certification upon investigation that Alan Shiff, USBCJ, had falsely stated a dismissal upon which false statement he predicated a retaliatory and spurious contempt proceeding against me causing substantial damage, and for which he sought Judicial Notice of those and related proceedings as did I in some of my filings.

· The Order of Dismissal With Prejudice by Alan Shiff, USBCJ, owing to Defendant Coan’s failure to file anything whatsoever by the court’s deadline causing creditors and me substantial damages: [ Shiff Order of Dismissal With Prejudice on Coan’s Failure to File Page 1 Page 2 ]

· Defendant Coan had filed an action against me to prevent me from suing him which necessitated me to fly to Connecticut for a hearing before The Honorable Robert N. Chatigny, Chief Judge, USDC, District of Connecticut, who denied Coan’s requested relief as to Coan but precluded my action against Shiff (although there is no immunity, judicial or otherwise, for criminal acts, ie., fraud connected with a case under Title 11, USC, etc.) . [ http://albertpeia.com/crossexamofcoanbypeia.pdf ]

· Newly appointed judge, Maryanne Trump Barry, Donald Trump’s sister, was assigned the RICO case despite the conflict of interest in light of hundreds of thousands of dollars of illegal (drug) money being laundered through the Trump casinos by the RICO defendants, and despite my motion to recuse her which motion she heard herself and denied, and U.S. Trustee Hugh Leonard with whom I met personally refused to join or file a separate motion to recuse and not long thereafter left said office for private practice at Cole, Shotz, et als on retainer with the RICO defendants as his primary client.

· Probative and evidentiary documents, affidavits, exhibits, including those turned over to FBI Agent Jeff Hayes in Long Beach, CA, had been given to Assistant U.S. Attorney Jonathan Lacey with whom I met personally at the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Newark, N.J., at which time Samuel Alito was U.S. Attorney, and went over said documents and their probative value with him. Within approximately a month thereafter upon inquiry I was told that Jonathon Lacey was no longer with the office, that the file/documents could not be located, and that there was no further information available concerning contacting him or his location. I thereupon delivered by hand, copies of said documents to the office of then U.S. Attorney Alito, addressed to him, with assurance they would go directly to him. In addition to being inept [ I looked in on the one mob case he had brought, bungled, lost (accidently on purpose?) since I was suing some mob-connected under RICO and the court (I had known / previously met outside of court the judge Ackerman through a client) was absolute bedlam and a total joke since incompetent corrupt Alito brought in all 20 mob defendants (rather than prosecute one or a few to flip them first) who feigning illness had beds/cots in the courtroom along with their moans during testimony and had the jury in stitches. As much as I hate the mob, it truly was funny, if not so tragic.], Alito is also corrupt (and maybe corrupt because he is inept). After a reasonable (but still rather short) time I called to determine the status and was told that Alito was no longer with the Office of the U.S. Attorney, that he was (appointed) a federal judge, and that neither the documents nor any file or record of same could be located. Alito did parley the same / cover-up into quid pro quo direct lifetime appointment to the Court of Appeals, 3^rd circuit, despite the absence of judicial experience or successful tenure as U.S. Attorney (Maryanne Trump Barry as well). This is the same Sam Alito that now sits on the purported highest court in the land. The real application of the illegal rule ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’.

There is applicable insurance / surety coverage and neither LA, nor creditors, nor I should continue to have been damaged by this brazened corrupt and illegal scenario, which should be resolved in accordance with the meaningful rules of law apposite thereto.

Sincerely,

Albert L. Peia

611 E. 5^th Street, #404

Los Angeles, CA 90013

(213) 219-**** (cell phone)

(213) 622-3745 (listed land line but there are unresolved problems with the line, computer connection may be the reason but I hesitate to chance greater non-performance / worsening by their ‘fix’ so cell phone best for contact).

Fight over feral alley cats divides feline lovers (Washington Post) [ My love of cats, big and small, is no mystery; but indeed is beyond the scope of this comment. I’ve had and loved neutered (not by my decision / action) as well as my most recent ‘macho’ (non-neutered) cat ( I just couldn’t bring myself to ‘cutting his b***s off’ as advised by a girl I was seeing at the time … kind of a ‘golden rule’ thing … and knowing ‘he’d never forgive me’ … his loss to me, part of the RICO scenario, though not part of my damages, is among the forever unforgivable parts of what occurred therein). As for ‘taking a position’, as a noumenon, I question the premise of any life at all in a meaningful sense in Washington d.c.; and hence, not the best comparison for setting policy. Unlike dogs, you will not see cats attacking and killing babies, etc.. So, I conclude that in such dire circumstances (d.c.) where a trade-up is beneficial, such seems, though rightfully exceptional, a sometimes favorable course, if the only choice; which assumes procreation and continued growth of the species is not impinged upon. Therefore, this argues for un-neutered moves to better environs. ]

This is an especially great opportunity to sell / take profits while you still can since there's much worse to come! Remember: ‘Sell in May and go away! ‘ … El-Erian: “Financial Repression” In the Form of a Negative Real Rate of Return for Savers Is Coming to America Pimco co-chair El-Erian is saying that the major flaws in the financial system will not be addressed, the government will keep on printing money, and that the inflation-adjusted return on investments for most Americans will be negative. Stock Market: 4 Current Warning Signs Navin ‘…1) The 5-year high in the level of insider corporate stock sales is telling. At 565 sells for every 1 buy, it’s never been higher. Yes, it’s normal for insiders to be selling some of their stocks so they can buy new yachts and some of this is pre-planned. But that ratio — which has spiked recently — is extraordinarily high, one might even say off-the-chart. 2) Professor Shiller at Yale figures that the present price-to-earnings ratio for the Standard & Poor’s 500 is in the area of 26. The historical average is about 16. 3) The failure of the financial sector to keep up is a significant negative divergence for the entire market. 4) Key market leaders are rolling over in price... ‘

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This is an especially great opportunity to sell / take profits while you still can since there's much worse to come! Remember: ‘Sell in May and go away! …

America Is a Failed State Because It Won’t Prosecute Financial Crime Washington’s Blog | It’s now mainstream news that none of the big financial criminals have been prosecuted. This is the grim economic reality [ http://albertpeia.com/grimreality.htm ]. Selling In May Is Very Good Advice This Year Harding / April Is a Good Time to Sell Adler Equity Valuations Are Forming the Second Biggest Bubble in U.S. History Kaspar ... According to Yale University’s Dr. Robert Shiller, the market is now 41% overvalued …only time the markets have been more overvalued .. 1929 & tech bubble. http://static.seekingalpha.com/uploads/2011/4/12/saupload_cape_thumb1.png PRECHTER: We're Still In A Massive Bear Market And Stocks Will Crash To New Lows Equity Valuations Are Forming the Second Biggest Bubble in U.S. History Kaspar 'Despite the terrible economic performance of the past ten years, equity valuations are the 2nd largest bubble in U.S. history... According to Yale University’s Dr. Robert Shiller, the market is now 41% overvalued according to this valuation metric. The only time the markets have been more overvalued was a few brief months in 1929 and the tech bubble

... growth in earnings have been artificially manufactured...

· The change in accounting rules for the financial sector by FASB has generated massive “false” account profits beginning in 2009…’

Treasury to tap pensions to fund government (WP) 24 Signs Of Economic Decline In America ‘The US is in the middle of a devastating long-term economic decline’ ] States face shortfall for retirees (WP) (The frauds on wall street et als should be criminally prosecuted, jailed, fined, and disgorgement imposed. Dave's Daily 'If you can keep interest rates this low this long, its inevitable cheap financing can allow companies to start cobbling each other up. Further Ben's policies allow companies like IBM to sell bonds at 1% and buy back shares with the proceeds (total paper bubble-scam). POMO is occurring almost daily and Primary Dealers can buy back their shares and pay dividends with what essentially is taxpayer money-- … an especially great opportunity to sell / take profits while you still can since there's much worse to come!

ECONOMIC CRISIS ARCHIVE

Reconciliation (Washington Post) Recap: Budget graphs and budget tables; our fiscal future basically depends on whether this works; and why did Republicans support a budget they knew was politically toxic? [ Budget graphs and budget tables? Don’t ‘bet the ranch’ on them … oh, wait … everybody already did … the ranch is indeed upside down (worth less than what’s owed) … the ‘new american dream / nightmare / fantasy’ … Market Downturn Approaching; Go Long the Ultra Shorts? White ‘It is time to worry about a market downturn. There has been almost consistently bad economic news ..:

1. The Trade Balance for March was worse than expected ..will result in a lowering of the Q1 GDP estimate, which is due out May 26.

2. The Mississippi Flood is the worst in a century-- this alone will depress the Q2 GDP..

3. The PPI missed at 0.80% vs. an expected 0.60%. The Core PPI missed at 0.30% vs. an expected 0.20%. .. This should hurt margins going forward.

4. Retail Sales (MoM) missed at +0.50% vs. an expected +0.60%.

5. .. Michigan Consumer Sentiment Index beat at 72.40 vs. an expected 70.00.

6. The NY Empire State Manufacturing Index missed at 11.90 vs. an expected 19.60.

7. The TIC Net Long-Term Transactions missed at $24.00B vs. an expected $57.70B.

8. The NAHB Housing Market Index missed at 16 vs. an expected 17.

9. Housing Starts missed at 0.52M vs. an expected 0.57M.

10. Building Permits missed at 0.55M vs. an expected 0.59M.

11. The Capacity Utilization Rate missed at 76.90% vs. an expected 77.70%.

12. Industrial Production (MoM) missed at 0.00% vs. an expected +0.50%.

13. Several blue chip companies such as Cisco (CSCO) and Hewlett Packard (HPQ) gave very weak guidance going forward, as though they are expecting a soft spot in the economy.

14. The Fed Minutes indicated that they had considered ending QE2 before its stated end, but decided to proceed since it was so close to the end..

15. Congress has allowed the debt ceiling to be exceeded. Geithner is now borrowing from Peter to pay Paul, ..

16. The USD has been rallying. The above mentioned tightening should help the USD rally. If the USD continues to strengthen, that could cause an unwind of the USD carry trade. This would translate into selling of equities and commodities. A stronger USD would mean commodity prices would likely fall.

17. The Initial Jobless Claims were 409K vs. an expected 420K, but the previous week‘s number was revised upward to 438K..

18. Existing Home Sales dipped in April to 5.05M vs. an expected 5.22M and a previous 5.10M.

19. The Philadelphia Fed Manufacturing Index missed terribly at 3.90 vs. an expected 20.00 ..

20. The Leading Indicators for April missed at -0.3% vs. an expected 0.0%…’ ]

Businesses criticize whistleblower plan (Washington Post) Groups are alarmed about a federal plan to reward company insiders and other tipsters for blowing the whistle on corporate fraud. The SEC is scheduled to vote Wednesday on the far-reaching proposal. [ They would … criticize and be alarmed at such plan which would increase the cost of their bribes from current levels … U.S. probes rely on companies' own inquiries (Washington Post) [ Tried that … doesn’t work in pervasively corrupt, defacto bankrupt america … the last few and ongoing crises are a testament to the failure of that approach … ] PostLeadership: Should money buy information? (Washington Post) [ It should, particularly since we know the converse is only too true in pervasively corrupt, defacto bankrupt america … Obama adopts the Bush Doctrine The May 19 Middle East speech, annotated. (Washington Post) [ Yeah! Two nut cases; two failed presidents. The latest case of U.S. paranoia (Los Angeles Times) [ Yeah! This really needs to be said; particularly when you take into account the reality, that while plentiful, american laws are all but meaningless, arbitrarily enforced at best, and ‘federales’ and their supporters (more commonly called bribes, one way or form or another) invariably the worst offenders. Though having but 5% of the world’s population, u.s. has 76% of the world’s serial killers, http://www.albertpeia.com/realifeamericaserialkillers.mpg bankrupt america also spends more on military than all the nations of the world combined... fed employees / contractors, cia, all 3 branches of u.s. gov’t, etc., are included in this evolved american trait of inherent criminality http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/ricosummarytoFBIunderpenaltyofperjury.pdf http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/PeiavCoanetals.htm ]:

NATO launches massive Libya strike (Washington Post)Tripoli is rocked by at least 15 huge explosions, many concentrated near Moammar Gaddafi’s compound. Senators introduce measure supporting force [ ‘The Empire Strikes Back’ (saw that film – the empire’s the bad guys) at … ] A storm season on a deadly path As the death toll hits 116, the latest tornado in Missouri has experts asking why 2011 has spawned so many deadly storms, with many blasting heavily populated areas. (Washington Post) [ … God’s Wrath … as good an explanation as any, especially when taking into account the innocent blood on former empire, pervasively corrupt, defacto bankrupt america’s hands … Market Downturn Approaching; Go Long the Ultra Shorts? White ‘It is time to worry about a market downturn. There has been almost consistently bad economic news ..: