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Argentina's President Nationalizes YPF Oil

By RD Bentley on May 4, 2012 in

President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner has signed a bill that will nationalize oil in Argentina. This will align oil interests with the interests of the country of Argentina.

From Reuters: The Chamber of Deputies voted 207-32 in favor of expropriating YPF, clearing the way for President Cristina Fernandez to sign the bill into law. The Senate last week approved the measure by a similarly overwhelming margin.

Citing Brazilian oil giant Petrobras as an example, the president ultimately announced the introduction of a bill on April 16, 2012, for the partial renationalisation of YPF: the state would purchase a 51% share, with the national government controlling 51% of this package and ten provincial governments receiving the remaining 49%.

The company remained the largest in its sector in Argentina despite declining production, operating 52% of the nation’s refinery capacity in three facilities and 1,600 filling stations. Its sales of gasoline and other motor fuels totaled 12.15 billion liters (3.21 billion gallons) in 2011, 57% of the national market in these.

Are citizens from Argentina in favor the bill that passed for nationalization of oil? According to The New York Times report, they are very much in favor. In fact, they want to see 100% nationalization of oil, instead of the 51%.

“They should expropriate 100 percent, not just a part of it,” said Fernando Solanas, a congressman and filmmaker who belongs to an opposition party. “Oil is a public interest.”

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Vote Results For CISPA

By RD Bentley on May 3, 2012 in

VOTED NO ON CENSORSHIP FROM GOVERNMENT (CISPA)

Ackerman, Akin, Amash, Andrews, Baca, Baldwin, Barton (TX), Bass (CA), Becerra, Berkley, Berman, Bishop (UT), Bonamici, Brady (PA), Braley (IA), Brooks, Brown (FL), Capps, Capuano, Carnahan, Carson (IN), Chu, Cicilline, Clarke (MI), Clarke (NY), Clay, Cleaver, Cohen, Conyers, Costello, Courtney, Crowley, Cummings, Davis (CA), Davis(IL), , DeFazio, DeGette, DeLauro, Deutch, Dingell, Doggett, Doyle, Edwards, Ellison, Emerson, Engel, Eshoo, Farenthold, Farr, Fattah, Fleming, Frank (MA), Fudge, Gibson, Gohmert, Gosar, Green, Al, Green, Gene, Grijalva, Gutierrez, Hahn, Hall, Hastings (FL), Heinrich, Higgins, Himes, Hinchey, Hinojosa, Holt, Honda, Hoyer, Jackson (IL),, Jackson Lee (TX), Johnson (GA), Johnson (IL), Johnson, E. B., Jones, Kaptur, Keating, Kildee, Kind, Kucinich, Landry, Larson (CT), Lee (CA), Levin, Lewis (GA), Loebsack, Lofgren, Zoe, Lowey, Luján, Lynch, Mack, Marchant, Markey, Matsui, McClintock, McCollum, McCotter, McDermott, McGovern, McNerney, Meeks, Michaud, Miller (NC), Miller, George, , Moore, Murphy (CT), Nadler, Napolitano, Neal, Olver, Pallone, Pascrell, Pastor (AZ), Pearce, Pelosi, Perlmutter, Peters, Pingree (ME), Polis, Posey, Price (NC), Quigley, Rahall, Rehberg, Reyes, Richardson, Richmond, Rigell, Rohrabacher, Rothman (NJ), Roybal-Allard, Rush, Ryan (OH), Sánchez, Linda T., Sanchez, Loretta, Sarbanes, Schakowsky, Schiff, Schwartz, Schweikert, Scott (VA), Sensenbrenner, Serrano, Sewell, Sherman, Simpson, Speier, Stark, Sutton, Thompson (MS), Tierney, Tonko, Tsongas, Van Hollen, Velázquez, Visclosky, Walsh (IL), Walz (MN), Wasserman Schultz, Waters, Watt, Waxman, Welch, Wilson (FL), Woolsey, Yarmuth

VOTED YES ON CENSORSHIP FROM GOVERNMENT (CISPA)

Adams, Aderholt, Alexander, Altmire, Amodei, Austria, Bachmann, Bachus, Barletta, Barrow, Bartlett, Bass (NH), Benishek, Berg, Biggert, Bilbray, Bilirakis, Bishop (GA), Bishop (NY), Black, Blackburn, Bonner, Bono Mack, Boren, Boswell, Boustany, Brady (TX), Broun (GA), Buchanan, Buerkle, Burgess, Burton (IN), Butterfield, Calvert, Camp, Campbell, Cantor, Capito, Cardoza, Carney, Carter, Cassidy, Castor (FL), Chabot, Chaffetz, Chandler, Clyburn, Coble, Coffman (CO), Cole, Conaway, Connolly (VA), Cooper, Costa, Cravaack, Crawford, Crenshaw, Critz, Cuellar, Culberson, Denham, Dent, DesJarlais, Diaz-Balart, Dicks, Dold, Donnelly (IN), Dreier, Duffy, Duncan (SC), Duncan, (TN), Ellmers, Fincher, Fitzpatrick, Flake, Fleischmann, Flores, Forbes, Fortenberry, Foxx, Franks (AZ), Frelinghuysen, Gallegly, Garamendi, Gardner, Garrett, Gerlach, Gibbs, Gingrey (GA), Gonzalez, Goodlatte, Gowdy, Granger, Graves (GA), Graves (MO), Griffin (AR), Griffith (VA), Grimm, Guinta, Guthrie, Hanabusa, Hanna, Harper, Harris, Hartzler, Hastings (WA), Hayworth, Heck, Hensarling, Herger, Herrera Beutler, Hochul, Huelskamp, Huizenga (MI), Hultgren, Hunter, Hurt, Israel, Issa, Jenkins, Johnson (OH), Johnson, Sam, Jordan, Kelly, King (IA), King (NY), Kingston, Kinzinger (IL), Kissell, Kline, Labrador, Lamborn, Lance, Langevin, Lankford, Larsen (WA), Latham, LaTourette, Latta, Lewis (CA), Lipinski, LoBiondo, Long, Lucas, Luetkemeyer, Lummis, Lungren, Daniel E., Manzullo, Matheson, McCarthy (CA), McCarthy (NY), McCaul, McIntyre, McKeon, McKinley, McMorris Rodgers, Meehan, Mica, Miller (FL), Miller (MI), Miller, Gary, Moran, Mulvaney, Murphy (PA), Myrick, Neugebauer, Noem, Nugent, Nunes, Nunnelee, Olson, Owens, Palazzo, Paulsen, Peterson, Petri, Pitts, Platts, Poe (TX), Pompeo, Price (GA), Quayle, Reed, Reichert, Renacci, Ribble, Rivera, Roby, Roe (TN), Rogers (AL), Rogers (KY), Rogers (MI), Rokita, Rooney, Ros-Lehtinen, Roskam, Ross (AR), Ross (FL), Royce, Runyan, Ruppersberger, Ryan (WI), Scalise, Schilling, Schmidt, Schock, Schrader, Scott (SC), Scott, Austin, Scott, David, , Sessions, Shimkus, Shuler, Shuster, Smith (NE), Smith (NJ), Smith (TX), Smith (WA), Southerland, Stearns, Stivers, Stutzman, Sullivan, Terry, Thompson (CA), Thompson (PA), Thornberry, TiberiTipton, Towns, Turner (NY), Turner (OH), Upton, Walberg, Walden, Webster, West, Westmoreland, Whitfield, Wilson (SC), Wittman, Wolf, Womack, Woodall, Yoder, Young (AK), Young (FL), Young (IN)

DIDN’T VOTE

Blumenauer, Bucshon, Canseco, Davis (KY), Filner, Hirono, Holden, Maloney, Marino, McHenry, Paul, Pence, Rangel, Sires, Slaughter

BILL TITLE: To provide for the sharing of certain cyber threat intelligence and cyber threat information between the intelligence community and cybersecurity entities, and for other purposes.

H R 3523 RECORDED VOTE 26-Apr-2012 6:31 PM

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America’s Secret Establishment: New Haven

By RD Bentley on May 1, 2012 in

Skull and Bones, 64 High Street, New Haven, Connecticut

Antony C. Sutton was a British-born economist, historian, and writer of facts. Professor Sutton had this to say about America’s Secret Establishment: An Introduction to the Order of Skull & Bones: “If I have a magnum opus, this is it.”

Sutton gives warning to other writers that deal with controversial subject matter — that they will be labeled in the conspiracy category. He implies that an author must be 100% accurate 100% of the time, if he or she wants to be taken seriously at all.

Most modern societies have elite, ruling members that often control top-priority business. One such secret society that is connected to the establishment is called Skull and Bones.

Skull and Bones, founded in 1833,  is a secret organization at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. Every year in the month of April, fifteen members are chosen during their junior year at Yale.

The number 322 can be seen in the emblem of the society.

Deer Island lies between mainland Canada and United States, within the Saint Lawrence River, in the Town of Alexandria, close to Alexandria Bay, New York. It is owned by the Russell Trust Association and is used as a Skull and Bones retreat.

The Russell Trust Association is the business name for the Skull and Bones society. It was named for William Huntington Russell, who co-founded Skull and Bones with classmate Alphonso Taft. The Russell Trust was founded by Russell and Daniel Coit Gilman, member of Skull and Bones and later president of the University of California, first president of Johns Hopkins University, and the founding president of the Carnegie Institution.

From 1978 until his death in 1988, business of the Russell Trust Association was handled by its single trustee, Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. partner John B. Madden. Madden started with Brown Brothers Harriman in 1946, under senior partner Prescott Bush. Madden graduated from Yale University in 1941.

The primary tenant of the Marine Midland Building (or HSBC Bank Building) as of 2010 is Brown Brothers Harriman, leasing some 430,000 ft² (40,000 m²) in 2003. Brown Brothers Harriman moved to the site at 140 Broadway from their trademark location at 59 Wall Street, filling a vacancy left after HSBC moved their primary New York offices out of the building, to the HSBC building at 452 5th Ave.

What does Sutton have to say about this power elite group, which he refers to as “The Order”? Sutton claims that this secret society permeates government, media, education, finance, military, and so on. He claims that even our history books do not include the real truths; real truths that are “conveniently” omitted on purpose.

Sutton believed that we live in a dumbed-down society that refuses to believe the not-so-obvious — that certain members want total control of citizens. Whether it be through mind control, propaganda, or financial means, the establishment craves power. The establishment thrives on fear and submission.

Antony C. Sutton had written 16 books in 25 years and thought that he’d heard it all. He said that the world was a confused mess, and probably beyond understanding. Then, in the 1980′s, he received eight inches worth of documents from an anonymous source, and this would change everything. The documents were about Skull and Bones.

Linking the puzzling ties that The Order had left behind could not have been an easy task. Sutton does an unbelievable job of it, and he explains in great detail what The Order is really about.

Any book written by Antony Sutton is worth reading and his videos are very educational. America’s Secret Establishment: An Introduction to the Order of Skull & Bones is one of his finest works.

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Rubbing Alcohol Is Fantastic Hand Sanitizer

By RD Bentley on April 26, 2012 in

Rubbing alcohol is relatively cheap, readily available, and has many household uses. A couple of useful tips for rubbing alcohol — as a hand sanitizer and as a glass cleaner. This is a very efficient way to solve both of these everyday chores.

First, as a hand sanitizer, rubbing alcohol is extremely practical and effective. It is widely used for cleansing surgeons’ hands and instruments and for the disinfection of skin prior to penetration by a hypodermic needle. As an antiseptic, it is good against vegetative bacteria and fair against fungi and viruses.

So, if it is used by surgeons then it must undoubtedly work for ordinary folks at home.

Secondly, rubbing alcohol works great as an eyeglass cleaner. Here’s what I did to make it work for me. I bought a small, glass bottle of eyeglass spray — something like Purosol All Natural Lens Cleaner 2oz.

By the way, the Purosol cleaner works well on photography equipment as well. Those that have expensive eyeglasses may consider using this cleaner. Many swear by it.

I used the commercial spray on my eyeglasses. After I used all of the commercial spray, I then started to fill up the tiny bottle with rubbing alcohol. This worked well for me, because rubbing alcohol is cheap and is quite convenient.

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Anonymous Masks Growing In Popularity

By RD Bentley on April 22, 2012 in

The Anonymous masks (aka V For Vendetta Mask) are favorites with the crowd, and the masks seem to be growing in popularity. The Anonymous masks are donned around the world.

If you’ve been glancing at the headline news for the past several months, you are probably aware of the group called Anonymous (plural). They are best known for their association with international computer hacktivism. Their protests are sometimes against anti-digital piracy campaigns by motion picture and recording industry trade associations. (Hint.)

Who would have ever guessed that this group would have been on the cover of Time magazine in 2012? Anonymous hacktivists are “The 100 Most Influential People in the World”. Impressive.

And the story of Anonymous is filled with irony, as life often is.

The masks worn by the world’s most famous group of hacker-anarchists have become best sellers in America, and even some countries in Europe. What is the irony? The masks are copyrighted, and the profits go to a company that the group is in opposition with — Time -Warner — a major motion picture association. In other words, their enemy is getting profits from the masks.

It all started with a comic book series (Vertigo, DC Comics) in the 1980′s, which was titled V for Vendetta. In this series, a mysterious masked revolutionary who calls himself “V” works to destroy the totalitarian government, profoundly affecting the people he encounters.

A film adaptation of V for Vendetta (Widescreen Edition) was released in 2006 by Warner Bros.

This movie is considered to be a classic with movie viewers.

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Oldest Man Turns 115

By RD Bentley on April 20, 2012 in

Video Courtesy of IBTimesTV

Jiroemon Kimura was born on April 19, 1897. He resides in Kyōtango, Kyoto, Japan. Kimura has 7 children (5 surviving), 15 grandchildren (14 surviving), 25 great-grandchildren, and 13 great-great-grandchildren.

Kimura worked for the post office for 40 years and after retiring he turned to farming until age 90. He wakes up early in the morning and reads newspapers with a magnifying glass.

On his 114th birthday on 19 April 2011, Kimura mentioned his survival of the 7.6 magnitude earthquake that hit Kyoto in 1927 and killed over 3,000 people

According to Kimura, small portions of food are the key to a long and healthy life.

Kimura says he’s learning how to speak English. What an amazing gentleman.

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CISPA Will Kill The Internet

By RD Bentley on April 19, 2012 in

You may have had an inclination that the CIA was monitoring your activity on Facebook, your emails, and practically everything you do online. Your Google searches can be monitored by government. This we pretty much knew. Congress has finally gathered enough approval to pass a bill that will make it legal for them to do so. CISPA will kill the internet.

This will lead to complete censorship in all freedoms of the last phase of democracy — the internet. The individual rights of Americans are at stake here.

Goodbye to privacy literally means goodbye to freedom. CISPA is a red flag to the people of America.

HR 3523 was introduced on November 30, 2011 by U.S. Representative Michael Rogers (R-MI). and 111 co-sponsors.

Should you be worried about this latest bill? You had better, because this Cybersecurity Bill will be the same thing that airports are doing to citizens that travel. The NSA will check and scan your online baggage without you knowing it. This is a greater invasion of privacy than the airports.

There are over 800 companies that are supporting CISCA. This almost makes it certain that the bill will get passed with ease.

This means that government will waste millions of dollars policing the internet, only to appease powerful corporations, and in return, those same companies gain immunity from government scrutiny. Selling data to government is more revenue to tech companies. But it won’t be if the internet is totally abandoned.

The United States Congress has sent a clear message to the people — your data online is no longer private and secure. CISPA will be the final death blow to the internet if it is passed.

Many have signed a petition against this bill.

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Grayson Questions Bernanke About Loans

By RD Bentley on April 17, 2012 in ,

“Which Foreigners Got the Fed’s $500,000,000,000?” Bernanke: “I Don’t Know.”

No, I don’t consider myself to be an economist. Being an avid reader, I stumbled across something that was very interesting, to say the least. I was reading a book entitled End The Fed, authored by Ron Paul, and then I ran into an intriguing concept. The subject was Exchange Stabilization Fund, an idea that I’m trying to grasp.

The Exchange Stabilization Fund (ESF) is an emergency reserve fund of the United States Treasury Department, normally used for foreign exchange intervention. This arrangement (as opposed to having the central bank intervene directly) allows the US government to influence currency exchange rates without affecting domestic money supply.

The U.S. Exchange Stabilization Fund was established at the Treasury Department by a provision in the Gold Reserve Act of January 31, 1934.

As of October 2009, the fund held assets worth $105 billion, including $58.1 billion in special drawing rights (SDR) from the International Monetary Fund. Okay, enough of that.

Then I ran across an amusing video. Alan Grayson, A former U.S. Representative for Florida’s 8th congressional district, popped a serious question to Ben Bernanke, the Fed Chair. “Which Foreigners Got the Fed’s $500,000,000,000?” Bernanke: “I Don’t Know.”

Grayson Questions Bernanke About Federal Reserve Loans

Grayson: There’s a table on page 26 which consists of your balance sheet, and one of the entries on the balance sheet is under Assets Central Bank Liquidity Swaps, which shows an increase from the end of 2007; from $24 billion to $533 billion in change, at the end of 2008. What’s that?

Bernanke: Those are swaps that were done with foreign central banks. Many foreign banks are short dollars and slip into our markets looking for dollars and drive up interest rates and create volatility in our markets. What we have done is with a number of major central banks, like European Central Bank for example, we swap our currency dollars for their currency Euros. They take the dollars and lend it out to the banks in their jurisdiction. That helps bring down interest rates in the global market for dollars, and meanwhile we’re not lending to those banks; we’re lending to the central bank. The central bank is responsible for repaying us.

Grayson: So, who got the money?

Bernanke: [It went] To financial institutions in Europe and other countries.

Grayson: Which ones?

Bernanke: I don’t know.

Grayson: Half a trillion dollars and you don’t know who got the money?

Bernanke: The loans go to the central banks and they put them out to their institutions to try to bring down short-term interest rates.

Grayson: Well, let’s start out with which central banks got the money.

Bernanke: There are fourteen of them, I’m sure they’re listed in here somewhere.

Grayson: So, who actually made that decision to hand out a half a trillion dollars that way? Who made that decision?

Bernanke: The Federal Open Market Committee.

Grayson: Was it done at one time or in a series of meetings?

Bernanke: A series of meetings.

Grayson: And under what legal authority?

Bernanke: We have a longstanding authority to do swaps with other central banks. It’s not an emergency authority of any kind.

Grayson: Anything specific about it?

Bernanke: My counsel says Section 14 of the Federal Reserve Act.

Grayson: We actually looked at one of the arrangements, and one of the arrangements is $9 billion for New Zealand. That works out to $3,000 for every single person for who lives in New Zealand. Seriously, wouldn’t it be better to extend that kind of credit to Americans, rather than New Zealanders?

Bernanke: It’s not costing Americans anything. We’re getting interest back and it’s not at the cost of any American credit. We are extending credit to Americans.

Grayson: Wouldn’t it necessarily affect the credit markets if you extend a half a trillion dollars credit to anybody?

Bernanke: We are lending to all U.S. financial institutions in exactly the same.

Grayson: Look at the next page. The very next page has the US dollar nominal exchange rate, which shows a 20% increase in the US dollar nominal exchange rate at exactly the same time that you’re handing out a half a trillion dollars to foreigners. Do you think that’s a coincidence?

Bernanke: Yes.

Grayson: The Constitution (art. I. § 9) says “no money shall be drawn from the treasury but in consequence appropriations made by law”. Do you think it’s consistent with the spirit of that provision of constitution for a group like the FMOC (Federal Open Market Committee) to hand out a half a trillion dollars to foreigners, without any action by this congress?

Bernanke: Congress approved it in the Federal Reserve Act.

Grayson: When was that?

Bernanke: Quite a long time ago. I don’t know the exact date. The Federal Reserve Act was in 1913.

Grayson: At that time the entire gross national product of this country was well under a half a trillion dollars, wasn’t it?

Bernanke: I don’t know.

Grayson: It is safe to say that nobody in 1913 contemplated that your small little group of people would decide to hand out a half a trillion dollars to foreigners?

Bernanke: This particular authority has been used numerous times over the years.

Grayson: Actually, according to the chart on page 28, virtually the entire amount that’s reflect on your entire balance sheet went out starting in the last quarter of 2007. And before that, going back to the beginning of this chart, the amount of lending was zero, to foreigners.

Bernanke: It was zero before the crisis. This was part of the process working with other central banks to try to get dollar money markets working normally in a global economy.

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Why Women Use Facebook So Much

By RD Bentley on April 15, 2012 in

Women Using Facebook To Boost Self-Esteem

The social networking website Facebook has attained popularity status that most web developers only dream about. Facebook is incredibly popular with women. What are the reasons for this?

A new study published in a journal (Cyberpsychology, Behavior and Social Networking) from the University at Buffalo, by researcher Michael A. Stefanone, examined the issue further. Stefone and his associates studied the behavior of men, and especially women using social networks.

What Dr. Stefone claims is that men and women base their self worth for different reasons. While men base theirs on self achievement, women base theirs on physical appearance particularly. What do you base your self worth on?

The study at UB found out that were gender differences in terms of attention seeking found online, as well as other factors. One thing that is probably no surprise is that women are much more sociable than men and seek attention more often. Here are a few things discovered in the study:

Study Finds
1. Women spend more time online.
2. Women have larger social networks.
3. Women share photos 5 times more than men.
4. Women put much more emphasis of self worth on physical appearance.
5. Women are more prone to compete for attention.
6. Women use Facebook as way of boosting the self ego.
7. Women identify with their self image more than men.

So it stands to reason that Facebook is dominated by the female gender. Females use networks to make social connections and men use networks to increase their status and seek information.

Women use Facebook to make themselves look their best. Everyone wants to exhibit a positive view to the public. Public image is very important to most of us. Face it.

Here are some more interesting stats regarding women and Facebook if you’re interested.

Image Credit:

Image: adamr / FreeDigitalPhotos.net

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Fracking Chemicals Found In Drinking Water

By RD Bentley on April 14, 2012 in

While the business of hydraulic fracturing is booming, fracking chemicals found in the drinking water is a major concern for citizens across America. To add to the frustration for Pennsylvania residents, there is now a law that could prevent doctors from sharing information about the chemicals that are being used in the drilling process. Doctors can access this information, but they can’t share it with patients.

In 2010, there was an award winning film known as Gasland, that aired on HBO. The director of the film, Josh Fox, was arrested earlier this year, while trying to film at a House hearing. Why was there an attempt to suppress media at the hearing?

Fracking is a very controversial procedure that is also being marketed in Europe, and shale gas production could begin in Poland in the year 2014. The people of Europe and Asia should be concerned about the dangers of fracking.

Shale drilling is largely unregulated and ecologists have spoken with families that have endured the effects. Increased levels of methane gas in water supplies have been reported in areas of intensive drilling. The water is undrinkable.

The wastewater that eventually winds up in the rivers of Pennsylvania may not be as safe as federal regulators are proposing. There are confidential reports that have exposed the dangers of waste contaminants.

There can be no guarantee that the drinking water is safe where production of shale drilling is active.

The chemicals that are pumped into the ground are not potable. The enormous quantities of fracking waste cannot be disposed of in a safe manner. Many times the contaminated water is dumped on or near private lands. The cumulative impact of contamination is not being properly addressed.

The long-lasting effect of radium 226 is considered lethal. Even government studies claim that levels of radium over a long period can lead to death and other severe health problems. “Based upon our current knowledge, it is assumed that any radiation exposure (from radium) carries some degree of risk.”

It is estimated that 95% of the shale drilling is not being regulated adequately. “The estimate of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Preservation is 1 serious environmental concern for every 150 wells drilled to date.”

A study that will be published this month in Science of the Total Environment reveals: “Benzene, a carcinogen, and chemicals that can irritate eyes and cause headaches, sore throats or difficulty breathing, were found in air close to the wells.”

Another 2011 study identified 632 chemicals used in natural gas operations. Only 353 of these are well-described in the scientific literature; and of these, more than 75% could affect skin, eyes, respiratory and gastrointestinal systems; roughly 40-50% could affect the brain and nervous, immune and cardiovascular systems and the kidneys; 37% could affect the endocrine system; and 25% were carcinogens and mutagens. The study indicated possible long-term health effects that might not appear immediately.

Out of eight major drilling companies that the EPA made a voluntary request, only Halliburton was subpoenaed for information on the chemicals it uses for hydraulic fracturing.

There is intense pressure from corporations to drill for gas. The crushing force of economically challenged cities may compel them to be lured into even more drilling. However, there is no price on safe drinking water.

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