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Insider Trading on 9/11: Profiting From Anticipated Attack And Tragedy Using "Put Options," And The Massive Cover-up That Followed

Lars Schall
Asia Times
Wed, 21 Mar 2012 00:00 UTC
firefighter ground zero

Comment: While the Gamestop story and its implications have caught the attention of the world in the last several days, there is a far larger story which suggests how Wall Street, the banking industry and US intelligence agencies have worked towards the organized fleecing of the general public; including the investigative agencies that are meant to bring arch criminality to justice - but don't...


There can be no dispute that speculative trade in put options - where a party bets that a stock will drop abruptly in value - spiked in the days around September 11, 2001 - even if the US Securities and Exchange Commission and the 9/11 Commission will not say so. More than a few people must have had advance warning of the terror attacks, and they cashed in to the tune of millions of dollars.

Is there any truth in the allegations that informed circles made substantial profits in the financial markets in connection to the terror attacks of September 11, 2001, on the United States?

Arguably, the best place to start is by examining put options, which occurred around Tuesday, September 11, 2001, to an abnormal extent, and at the beginning via software that played a key role: the Prosecutor's Management Information System, abbreviated as PROMIS. [i]

PROMIS is a software program that seems to be fitted with almost "magical" abilities. Furthermore, it is the subject of a decades-long dispute between its inventor, Bill Hamilton, and various people/institutions associated with intelligence agencies, military and security consultancy firms. [1]

One of the "magical" capabilities of PROMIS, one has to assume, is that it is equipped with artificial intelligence and was apparently from the outset "able to simultaneously read and integrate any number of different computer programs or databases, regardless of the language in which the original programs had been written or the operating systems and platforms on which that database was then currently installed." [2]

Comment: The sick levels of greed and the unquenchable thirst for power exist at levels that are almost unimaginable to most relatively healthy and normally adjusted individuals. But until many more people truly understand how this is true - and are willing to address this problem of all problems, - psychopaths in positions of power - many millions of people will continue to be subjected to the injury and violence of pathologically motivated high crime.

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Cloud Precipitation

Rivers across France burst banks as Storm Justine dumps half a month's worth of rain in 24 hours

Richard Davies
Floodlist
Tue, 02 Feb 2021 14:26 UTC
floods
A period of heavy rainfall in France has caused rivers to rise and prompted authorities to issue flood warnings for 18 departments in the north and south west of the country.

More than half a month's worth of rain fell in parts of France in 24 hours from 31 January to 01 February, according to Meteo France. River levels are high and as of 02 February, 18 departments were under Orange level (3 of 4) warnings for flooding, including 3 departments in the north and 15 in the south west.

On 01 February a Red level warning was issued for the Maronne river in Argentat, Corrèze department. On 02 February the Maronne river at Basteyroux, Argentat-sur-Dordogne, reached 3.31 metres. Around 150 people were evacuated. The warning has since been downgraded.

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Bad Guys

Election Fraud and the Creeping Coup of American Communo-Fascist Authoritarianism

Gordon M. Hahn
gordonhahn.com
Mon, 01 Feb 2021 22:03 UTC
ronald reagan
It is quite clear that there was massive, brazen fraud in the 2020 US presidential election. Anyone who watches the various hearings held in Arizona, Michigan, Pennsylvania can come to no other conclusion. There appears to have been little to no attempt to even hide the fraud. Republican observers were brazenly intimidated, harassed, and kicked out of counting centers for challenging questionable ballots, which is their right under law. There were multiple methods of fraud: running ballots through the counting machines several times, counting mail-in ballots that arrived after the polls closed, suspicious and indeed impossible jumps in the number of votes for Biden, the number of votes in precincts and counties exceeding the number of registered voters, large number of deceased and out-of-state voters, among other methods. The process was so blatant that it is very likely that the ultimate goal was not just to deny US President Donald Trump a second term but to undermine Americans' faith in the electoral system and polarize society such that the American democratic covenant is broken forever.

Who among us became so spoiled that they sought to undermine our electoral system and irrevocably split an already divided society fraying at the edges? It was operatives in the network of liberal American and globalist Big Tech operatives and philanthropists such as Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, 'philanthropist' George Soros, and Twitter's Jack Dorsey, among many, many more acting through the Obamas, Clintons, Bidens, the Democratic Party, and its supporters and allies. It was an attempt to once and for all rid the new global oligarch-leftist order from annoying and quaint Americans, who dare remain constitutionalists and free market conservatives and their allies such as former President Donald Trump. This is clear from the campaign against 'white supremacism' and 'domestic terrorism' by those who supported BLM and Antifa terrorism last summer and have been financing them for years. That so many Americans are willing to support or tolerate this electoral fraud and all that has begun with it (the deployment of violent racist street thugs of BLM and Antifa, Big tech censorship, employment repression, and soon much more of the same) for the sake of an election victory speaks volumes about the decay and decline of America's constitutionalist political culture. The U.S. now faces the very serious prospect of a long, dark night under censorship, state repression, and state terrorism led by the 'Democratic' Party carried out in alliance with and on behalf of the global Big Tech elite.
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Yellow Vest

Despite bans on protesting The Covid, anti-lockdown protests take place in multiple European countries: Belgium, Denmark, Austria


rfi.fr
Sun, 31 Jan 2021 17:06 UTC
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© AP - Francisco Seco
Anti-riot police block protesters during an unauthorised demonstration against COVID-19 restrictive measures in Brussels, Sunday, 31 January 2021.
Austria and Germany have said they will provide help to Portugal, which is grappling with skyrocketing coronavirus cases, as some EU states banned demonstrations over Covid-19 restrictions amid unrest in Vienna, Brussels and Budapest.

Austria is to take patients from Portugal who need intensive care, Chancellor Sebastian Kurz said on Sunday, saying "swift, unbureaucratic help" was needed to save sick people, according to AP news agency.

The German army will also send medical assistance and staff to Portugal to help deal with the country's coronavirus outbreak, said military spokesperson Christoph Czwielung, adding that details were being finalised.

Portugal has suffered more than 12,000 deaths from Covid-19, according to statistics from Johns Hopkins University, and is suffering from one of the world's worst infection rates per capita.


Comment: Why is it that every time some form of dissent around this appears, wherever in the world it is, the media can cite The Science 'proving' that said country 'is for sure one of THE worst-hit by The Covid'?

It seems mighty coincidental. Maybe this coronavirus has some sort of psychological effect that makes people go out to protest more?


Comment: There was also another protest against lockdown measures in Denmark over the weekend:





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Health

A miracle! Only 23 Americans tested positive for flu last week compared to 14,657 cases reported last year at same time

Jim Hoft
Gateway Pundit
Sun, 31 Jan 2021 08:53 UTC
flu cases mysteriously disappear
Do you ever get the feeling you're being lied to?

450,390 people have now died WITH the coronavirus in the US this year.

That number includes poisonings, shootings, homicides and hospice deaths.

The Gateway Pundit reported news from the CDC in August that only 6% of all deaths in the US classified as Coronavirus deaths actually died from the China Coronavirus exclusively.

Comment: Yeah right! Flu shots and social distancing has made the flu all but disappear? For the first time in known history? Not bloody likely!

The 'disappearance' of 'the flu' is of course down to the fact that 'the science' is solely focused on finding Covid cases. Nothing more. What they don't track, 'doesn't exist'.

See also:

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NPC

The Navalny protests charade: More Western interference & disinfo on Russia

Eva K Bartlett
In Gaza
Sat, 30 Jan 2021 20:36 UTC
navalny protests Moscow

Scenes from the January, 2021 Nalvany protests in Moscow
Western mass media and hypocritically-indignant Western representatives are again busily claiming Russian peaceful protesters have been brutalized by police in demonstrations across Russia on January 23.

The sloganeers demand the release of the unpopular petty criminal and Western flunkey, Alexei Navalny, arrested upon returning to Russia for having broken Russian law.

The CBC recently glorified him as, "a 44-year-old lawyer turned anti-corruption crusader," while the BBC laughably referred to the felon as "President Putin's most high-profile critic."
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Beaker

New analysis claims to prove COVID is lab-made virus with 99.8% probability


The National Pulse
Sat, 30 Jan 2021 21:40 UTC
dna lab
A new COVID-19 study concludes there is a "99.8% probability SARS-CoV-2 came from a laboratory."

The 193-page paper published January 29th is titled "A Bayesian analysis concludes beyond a reasonable doubt that SARS-CoV-2 is not a natural zoonosis but instead is laboratory derived."

"The purpose of the analysis was to determine the origin of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. Beginning with a likelihood of 98.2% that it was a zoonotic jump from nature with only a 1.2% probability it was a laboratory escape, twenty-six different, independent facts and evidence were examined systematically. The final conclusion is that it is a 99.8% probability SARS-CoV-2 came from a laboratory and only a 0.2% likelihood it came from nature," a summary notes.

The author, Dr. Steven Quay, has 360+ published medical studies and has been cited over 10,000 times, placing him in the top one percent of scientists worldwide.

What's more, he holds nearly 90 US patents and has invented seven FDA-approved pharmaceuticals.

"By taking only publicly available, scientific evidence about SARS-CoV-2 and using highly conservative estimates in my analysis, I nonetheless conclude that it is beyond a reasonable doubt that SARS-CoV-2 escaped from a laboratory. The additional evidence of what appears to be adenovirus vaccine genetic sequences in specimens from five patients from December 2019 and sequenced by the Wuhan Institute of Virology requires an explanation. You would see this kind of data in a vaccine challenge trial, for example. Hopefully the WHO team can get answers to these questions," he adds.

Comment: Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying appeared on Bill Maher's show last night to argue the same thing.



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Bad Guys

Lockdown tyranny: Calgary police take travelling woman into mandatory isolation, but refuse to tell family where she is

Dave Naylor
Western Standard
Fri, 29 Jan 2021 20:43 UTC
chris mathis
An Edmonton pastor may have found out the hard way Thursday night about Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's new travel restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Trudeau announced Friday morning all returning travellers into the country must go to a government isolation centre where another COVID-19 test will be taken. If a passenger tests negative, they will be allowed to return home for a strictly-enforced another 11 days. Those testing positive will be taken to another government facility for the rest of their 14-day quarantine.

Trudeau said it will cost each traveller about $2,000 for the cost of the test, accommodations and food.

The new rules weren't even announced yet Thursday night, but it appears officials at YYC were ready.

"(My wife Nikki) arrived in Calgary tonight and when she got there she was greeted by a Police Officer and an AHS official," wrote Pastor Chris Mathis on his Facebook page.

"They rejected her results and told her she needed to go immediately to an isolation facility. She was told if she resisted she would be arrested. She called me, and I immediately asked to talk with the officer. I talked with both a police officer and the AHS official, they reiterated what she had said to me. I asked for the address of where she would be, they said they could not give me the location address as it was confidential.

"I asked for their names, again they would not give me any information or their names. I pushed, I questioned, I tried to fight but they said they would arrest her if she resisted. They would not give me any information on where they were taking my wife.
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Putin

Another Navalny flop: 'Putin's palace' turns out to be an empty shell - owner comes public: Business man and ex-judo partner of Putin Rotenberg


RT
Fri, 29 Jan 2021 20:11 UTC
putin palace
© Mash
With its supposedly lavish furnishings, long swimming pool and digital dance studio, an opulent manor said to belong to Russian President Vladimir Putin shocked viewers of a documentary made by Kremlin critic Alexey Navalny.

Now, however, the very existence of its gilded corridors and plush carpets has been called into question, after a film crew from the Moscow-based Mash news channel paid a visit to the property in Gelendzhik. On Friday, the reporters released their footage on the Telegram messaging service.


Having gained unprecedented access to the site, the journalists weren't greeted by butlers or security guards, but by "an entrance without a gate," they said. Instead of a luxurious coastal home, the channel's editor-in-chief, Maxim Iksanov, described it as "a big pile of concrete."

Surrounded by scaffolding, the building has been only partly completed from the outside, while the interior is effectively a shell, with wires hanging from un-plastered walls. Across 16 identical rooms, bags of concrete are stacked up, with the swimming pool and much of the garden still unfinished.

Comment: Compare that to Navalny's fantasy:

Thierry Meyssan points out the obvious:
The film begins with the biography of the president, drawing on the archives of the East German political police kindly opened by the BKA [Federal Crime Police Office]. The problem is that there is no connection between the documents exhibited and Alexei Navalny's discourse. They only contain illustrations (wish the exception of the KGB card of one of President Putin's companions).

Then the film takes us back to the palace using new images captured by a drone. Here again, these images fall short of illustrating Alexeï Navalny's point. They simply show a palace built by Italian architect Lanfranco Cirillo.

Finally, Alexeï Navalny displays blueprints, cost estimates and invoices for the Palace. The only thing they prove is that this residence is luxurious. But these facts have been known for a long time. The Russian opposition figure then claims that the property deeds are forgeries. After convoluted explanations, he purports that the building does not belong to billionaire Alexander Ponomarenko, but to President Putin, whom he calls "the richest man in the world".

Let us recall that the CIA had already accused Fidel Castro and Yasser Arafat of being secret billionaires. Forbes magazine had even confirmed such accounts which, after their death, turned out to be malevolent fabrications. Thus, the CIA attributed to Yasser Arafat ownership of the PLO funds that he managed in his own name, no bank being willing to receive funds from the Palestinian resistance. Everyone who knew Castro, Arafat and their families have never had any doubts about them.

The slipshod approach of the documentary does not argue in favor of Navalny.
UPDATE: Arkady Rotenberg has come forward publicly as the owner of the property.
Rotenberg, Putin's former judo sparring partner who sold his stake in gas pipeline construction firm Stroygazmontazh in 2019 for a sum which RBC business daily put at some 75 billion roubles ($990 million), said he bought the palace two years ago.

"Now it will no longer be a secret, I am the beneficiary," Rotenberg said in a video published by Mash channel in Telegram. "There was a rather complicated facility, there were a lot of creditors, and I managed to become the beneficiary."

He gave no further financial details of the purchase or how it had been funded.
It won't be a personal palace for Putin, Rotenberg, or anybody else, but a hotel:
He added that he intends to use the location as an apartment hotel, once it is finished.

"I like the hotel business...and have been involved in it for several years now," Rotenberg said, adding that he owns several 'objects' throughout Russia. He explained that the site in question has a troubled financial history, but he nevertheless acquired it a few years ago, putting faith in its "gorgeous" coastal location, near the resort town of Gelendzhik.

"This project is somewhat scandalous and difficult. But mark my words, in 12 or 18 months I'll invite you to witness for yourself what beauty it will be," he told Mash editor-in-chief, Maksim Iksanov, joking that the journalist may get a discount since he already visited the property.
Which should have been an obvious guess given the details of the floor-plan revealed by Navalny. But you've got to give it to Navalny. He's good at propaganda. Even when the hotel is ready for business, many of Navalny's dupes in the West will still believe it is Putin's palace. Because good luck getting Western media to retract their breathless reports once the truth is made clear.

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People 2

What humans can learn from the mice utopia experiment

Mark
Return of Kings
Tue, 08 Jul 2014 08:02 UTC
Mouse
In 1950, an American ethologist named John Calhoun created a series of experiments to test the effects of overpopulation on the behaviour of social animals. The animals which Calhoun chose for his experiments where mice (and later on rats). He chose rodents as these reproduce rapidly thus allowing him to observe the development of several generations of mice in a relatively short space of time.

Calhoun and his researchers found that in a space-limited/resource unlimited environment, the population of mice would explode; peak-out and then collapse to extinction. This test was replicated several times and it was found that these led to the same outcome each time. The reason for this phenomenon was found to derived from social decay which worsened with each generation. The social decay led to unrest in the environment, which in turn led to sub replacement fertility. It was concluded that nature has a limit in which social animals can interact.

John Calhoun's experiments gained world-wide recognition and his expertise was sought after by government bodies such as NASA. They present a useful yet grim insight into what could be our own future, for no matter how many times Calhoun repeated the experiment, the results led to the same inevitable conclusion: extinction.


Comment: See also: The myth of overpopulation

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