Grandinite

It should be an interesting day.
PressTV.ir: ‘Iran will deliver telling blow to global powers on Feb. 11′
CNSnews.com: Iran’s Leader: Feb. 11 To Be ‘Demise’ of ‘Capitalist System’
Daily Star (Lebanon): Iran’s countdown to February 11
PressTV.ir: US starts large war game in Pacific
The US launches its largest military exercise in the Pacific in cooperation with [...]

I’m not saying these events are necessarily connected, but something big may be happening here.
1. AP: China suspends military exchanges with US
BEIJING (AP) — China suspended military exchanges with the United States, threatened unprecedented sanctions against American defense companies and warned Saturday that cooperation would suffer after Washington announced $6.4 billion in planned arms [...]

A moving picture is worth at least a million words, so I am blogging with videos here.

Man, these missiles make cool fireworks.
China:

Russia:

Norway:

What the heck is this?!?! I have a hunch that this is the EISCAT Ionospheric Heating Facility located in Tromso, Norway.
But why? I wonder if this has something to do with Obama’s travels to Norway to accept the Nobel Peace Prize.

Source: Spaceweather.com
WHAT’S UP OVER NORWAY? This morning in Norway, people saw a [...]

Preston Manning: The next chapter in the Alberta story – Globe & Mail
Colby Cosh responds to Preston Manning’s “Explosive Regime Change Hypothesis” – Maclean’s
Kevin Morrison, Duke University: “Oil, Non-Tax Revenue, and Regime Stability: The Political Resource Curse Reexamined (pdf)” – LINK
Paula Simons: Funny business with Alberta Health Services – Edmonton Journal
Former Goldman Sachs manager [...]

Canada’s military studies which camoflage works best “if” troops were deployed in our own cities. LINK
Bloomberg: Senior Executives at Goldman Sachs are snapping up gun permits to protect themselves from an angry public. LINK Or are they scared of Russian Billionaires?
Related: FBI deputizes businesses through Infraguard. In the event of martial law, armed business owners [...]

What you see in the media:
Only two Alberta projects will meet tougher tailings rules: groups
EDMONTON — Only two oilsands projects – both now owned by Suncor Energy – will be able to meet the new ERCB directive for tailings, say two environmental groups who published their review Tuesday.
All firms submitted their plans on Sept. 30 [...]

A follow-up to my previous post, the following provides one possible explanation for any PIN or network banking weirdness canadian bank customers might be experiencing:
Canadian Banker’s Association:
Canada is moving to more secure technology
Security measures are constantly being enhanced and technology is being upgraded to prevent fraud. Banks, the Interac Association and the major credit card [...]

The following blog post is a respnse to Antonia Zerbisias’ recent column in the Toronto Star, H1N1 Causes Outbreak of Conspiracy Claptrap. I don’t blame anyone for getting the vaccine, because it’s probably the best defense against H1N1. Also, it would absolutely suck to travel somewhere on vacation, get H1N1, and spend days in [...]

The day before his appendix burst, Glenn Beck had this to say:

Glenn Beck Hospitalized With Appendicitis, Has Surgery

These videos contain facts on H1N1, from a former doctor turned nun. Sister Teresa Forcades lays out the facts on swine flu, gleaned from mainstream news articles, academic journals and official government documents. It’s in Spanish, but with English subtitles. I applaud her sincerity in trying to provide an objective evaluation of this much-hyped subject. [...]

Bloomberg: Baxter Sent Bird Flu Virus to European Labs by Error
Feb. 24 (Bloomberg) — Baxter International Inc. in Austria unintentionally contaminated samples with the bird flu virus that were used in laboratories in three neighboring countries, raising concern about the potential spread of the deadly disease.
The contamination was discovered when ferrets at [...]

Here’s a few interesting papers worth reading:
1. Coups, Corporations, and Classifed Information (pdf) As mentioned in Slate recently, this paper examines the impact of CIA coup authorizations on stocks of politically vulnerable companies operating in the coup-prone nation. “The average abnormal return to a coup authorization is 1.5% over 4 days, rising to more than [...]

August 22 has been on my radar for a while. It seems Art Cashin, head of floor operations at UBS has caught wind of it, too:

He is predicting a ‘major geopolitical event’ on that date, which happens to coincide with the beginning of Ramadan. It’s also a major date for tax protesters and related teabaggery:
stlouisteaparty.com
On [...]

Something doesn’t sit right with me in these two news stories about swineflu vaccines for Albertans and Canadians. It’s pesky little words like “entire population” and “all Albertans” that get my attention:
Windsor Star: Vaccinate Canadians under 40 and natives first: experts
Five-to-40-year-olds and Canada’s aboriginal communities should be the first to get vaccinated against human swine [...]

I see a pattern here. But then again, I have been accused of seeing patterns when there are none. Nevertheless, that accusation would hold if the data are completely random, which it’s not. But I have been telling people since last friday that I sense a bad vibe in the air. I can’t put my [...]

I would just like to point out that Stephane Dion (Bilderberg ‘98) is appointing a group of elders to advise him on the economy, and among them are Paul Martin (Bilderberg ‘96) and Frank McKenna (ever year since 2004). I don’t think the Bilderberg crowd ‘controls’ politics; rather they are an old boys club [...]

Hey, I fired up a picture blog of Obama supporters crying.

obamapeoplecrying.tumblr.com

This is not good. Austria’s taking a beating lately. First, someone offs Haider (You know he was offed). Now, the headquarters of Austria’s elite police squad has been turned into an Airplane Flambe’. This is especially convenient timing, considering Austria’s recent ascendance to the UN Security Council.
Canadian Press:
VIENNA, Austria — Law enforcement officials say [...]