Wall Street Insiders Expect BIG Market Movement Soon

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Do Wall Street Insiders Expect Something Really BIG To Happen Very Soon?

 By Michael, on February 6th, 2013 

 

  

Why are corporate insiders dumping huge numbers of shares in their own companies right now?  Why are some very large investors suddenly making gigantic bets that the stock market will crash at some point in the next 60 days?  Do Wall Street insiders expect something really BIG to happen very soon?  Do they know something that we do not know? What you are about to read below is startling.  Every time that the market has fallen in recent years, insiders have been able to get out ahead of time.  David Coleman of the Vickers Weekly Insider report recently notedthat Wall Street insiders have shown "a remarkable ability of late to identify both market peaks and troughs".  That is why it is so alarming that corporate insiders are selling nine times as many shares as they are buying right now.  In addition, some extraordinarily large bets have just been made that will only pay off if the financial markets in the U.S. crash by the end of April.  So what does all of this mean?  Well, it could mean absolutely nothing or it could mean that there are people out there that actually have insider knowledge that a market crash is coming.  Evaluate the evidence below and decide for yourself...

For some reason, corporate insiders have chosen this moment to unload huge amounts of stock.  According to a CNN article, corporate insiders are now selling nine times more of their own shares than they are buying...

Corporate insiders have one word for investors: sell.

Insiders were nine times more likely to sell shares of their companies than buy new ones last week, according to the Vickers Weekly Insider report by Argus Research.

What makes this so alarming is that corporate insiders have been exceedingly good at "timing the market" in recent years.  The following comes from a recent CNBC article entitled "Sucker Alert? Insider Selling Surges After Dow 14,000"...

"In almost perfect coordination with an equity market that was rushing toward new all-time highs, insider sentiment has weakened sharply — falling to its lowest level since late March 2012," wrote David Coleman of the Vickers Weekly Insider report, one of the longest researchers of executive buying and selling on Wall Street. "Insiders are waving the cautionary flag in an increasingly aggressive manner."

There have been more than nine insider sales for every one buy over the past week among NYSE stocks, according to Vickers. The last time executives sold their company's stock this aggressively was in early 2012, just before the S&P 500 went on to correct by 10 percent to its low for the year.

"Insiders know more than the vast majority of market participants," said Enis Taner, global macro editor for RiskReversal.com. "And they're usually right over a long period of time."

There are other indications that the stock market may be headed for a significant tumble in the months ahead.  For example, as a Zero Hedge article recently pointed out, the last time that the financial markets in the U.S. were as "euphoric" as they are now was right before the financial crisis of 2008.

And as I mentioned above, some people out there have recently made some absolutely jaw-dropping bets against stocks which will only pay off if there is a financial crash at some point in the next few months.

According to Business Insider, the recent purchase of 100,000 put options by a mystery investor has a lot of people on Wall Street talking...

According to Barron's columnist Steven Sears,someone made a big bet against the financialsETF yesterday (ticker symbol XLF), and it has everybody buzzing.

The trader bought 100,000 put options on the ETF (a put option increases in value when the price of the underlying asset, in this case, the ETF, goes down).

To put that number in perspective, Sears writes, "Few investors ever trade more than 500 contracts, so a 100,000 order tends to stop traffic and prompt all sorts of speculation about what's motivating the trade." According to Sears, the trade "has sparked conversations across the market."

Reportedly, those put options expire in April.

And as Art Cashin of UBS has noted, there was also another extremely large bet that was placed recently that is banking on a financial crash within the next two months...

A Very Big Bet In A Somewhat Unlikely Instrument – My friend, Jim Brown, the ever-alert consummate professional over at Option Investor pointed us to a rather unusual trade. Here's what he wrote in last night's edition of his valuable newsletter:

In past years I have reported on trades that were so large it appeared someone had inside knowledge of a pending event. Sometimes those were massive put positions on the S&P. A new trade just appeared that suggests there will be a market event in the near future. Last week somebody put on a call spread on the VIX using the April 20 and 25 puts. They bought 150,000 contracts for a net of $75 per contract. That is an $11,250,000 bet that the VIX will move over 20 over the next 60 days. You would have to be VERY confident in your outlook to risk $11 million on a directional position with the VIX at five year lows and the markets trying to break out to new highs.

So does all of this guarantee that the stock market is going to move a certain way?

Of course not.

But when you step back and look at the bigger picture, it does appear that Wall Street insiders are preparing for something.

Meanwhile, the government continues to assure us that happy days are here again for the U.S. economy and that we don't have anything to worry about.

The Congressional Budget Office has just released a report that contains their outlook for the next decade.  The report is entitled "The Budget and Economic Outlook: Fiscal Years 2013 to 2023", and if you want a good laugh you should read it.

Here are some of the things that the CBO believes will happen...

-The CBO believes that government revenues will more than double by 2023.

-The CBO believes that government revenue as a percentage of GDP will rise from 15.8 percent today to 19.1 percent in 2023.

-The CBO believes that the unemployment rate will continually fall over the next decade.

-The CBO believes that the federal budget deficit will fall to just 2.4% of GDP in fiscal year 2015.

-The CBO believes that the federal budget deficit will only be $430 billion in 2015.

-The CBO believes that we will not have a single recession over the next decade.

-The CBO believes that inflation will stay at about 2 percent for the next decade.

-The CBO believes that U.S. GDP will grow by a total of 67 percent by 2023.

Wow, all of that sounds great until you go back and take a look at how CBO projections have fared in the past.

In fact, Bruce Krasting has gone back and looked at the numbers from the Congressional Budget Office’s Budget and Economic Outlook 2003.  I think that you will find the differences between the CBO projections and what really happened to be very humorous...

Estimated 10-year budget surplus = $5.6T.

Reality = $6.6T deficit. A 200+% miss.

Estimate for 2012 Debt Held by Public = $1.2T (5% of GDP).

Reality = Debt Held by Public = $11.6T. A 1000% miss.

Estimated fiscal 2012 GDP = $17.4T.

Reality = $15.8T. A $1.6T (10%) miss.

So should we trust what the CBO is telling us now?

Of course not.

Instead, perhaps we should listen to some of the men that successfully warned us about the last financial crisis...

-"Dr. Doom" Marc Faber recently stated that he "loves the high odds of a ‘big-time’ market crash".

-Economist Nouriel Roubini says that we should "prepare for a perfect storm".

-Pimco's Bill Gross says that we are heading for a "credit supernova".

-Nomura's Bob Janjuah believes that the financial markets will experience one more huge spike before collapsing by up to 50%...

I continue to believe that the S&P500 can trade up towards the 1575/1550 area, where we have, so far, a grand double top. I would not be surprised to see the S&P trade marginally through the 2007 all-time nominal high (the real high was of course seen over a decade ago – so much for equities as a long-term vehicle for wealth creation!). A weekly close at a new all-time high would I think lead to the final parabolic spike up which creates the kind of positioning extreme and leverage extreme needed to create the conditions for a 25% to 50% collapse in equities over the rest of 2013 and 2014, driven by real economy reality hitting home, and by policymaker failure/loss of faith in "their system".

The truth is that no matter how much money printing the Federal Reserve does, it is only a matter of time before the financial markets catch up with economic reality.

The U.S. economy has been in decline for a very long time, and things just continue to get even worse.  Here are just a few numbers...

-The percentage of the civilian labor force that is employed has fallen every single year since 2006.

-According to John Williams of shadowstats.com, truly accurate numbers would show that U.S. GDP growth has actually been continuously negative all the way back to 2005.

-U.S. families that have a head of household that is under the age of 30 have a poverty rate of 37 percent.

-One recent survey found that nearly half of all Americans are living on the edge of financial ruin.

-According to the U.S. Census Bureau, there are more than 146 million Americans that are considered to be either "poor" or "low income" at this point.

For many more statistics that demonstrate that the U.S. economy has continued to decline in recent years, please see this article: "37 Statistics Which Show How Four Years Of Obama Have Wrecked The U.S. Economy".

So where is all of this headed?

Well, after the next major financial crisis in America things are going to get very tough.

We can get a hint for how things are going to be by taking a look at what is going on over in Europe right now.

Can you imagine people trampling each other for food?  That is what is happening in Greece.  Just check out this excerpt from a Reuters article...

Hundreds of people jostled for free vegetables handed out by farmers in a symbolic protest earlier on Wednesday, trampling one man and prompting an outcry over the growing desperation created by economic crisis.

Images of people struggling to seize bags of tomatoes and leeks thrown from a truck dominated television, triggering a bout of soul-searching over the new depths of poverty in the debt-laden country.

The suffering that the Greeks are experiencing right now will come to this country soon enough.

So enjoy this false bubble of debt-fueled prosperity while you can.  It is going to end way too soon, and after that there will be a whole lot of pain.

Is Hemp the Pancea to Energy Ills?

Agenda21 can be defeated if enough of us move out to the countryside and form communities resistant to foreign and domestic terror and tyranny, that are resource and energy self sufficient - to a greater extent than we are now.

By creating hemp businesses, we can improve our health, safety, and psychological well being.

We can exercise our inalienable right to self defense and disobey the corrupt laws of the government that are worthy of revolution.

Support decriminalization of industrial non narcotic hemp. Plant the seed, it will grow like a weed until it is harvested by bio friendly farmers who make environmentally safe and energy net neutral products.

Those products would include clothing, fuels for cars, trains, and planes. It will include plastics as hard as steel and food as safe and natural as god intended.

Stop this nonsense of supporting one puppet or the other.  We are all being played by twisted politics of the new world order and the high canals. Cartels of billionaire gangsters oil the machine of tyranny with money not printed but materialized out of thin air.

The Federal Reserve should be audited ASAP. The S&P ratings lawsuit should be on every channel and we should all be asking lots of questions, filing lawsuits, protesting, boycotting, and pushing back this criminal activity that is destroying the planet.

Forget climate change, we need to stop the invasion of the foreign bankers from beheading our society and enslaving us all.

We have to start with learning about Agenda 21. Figure out if your city or town is on the crosshairs of the UN.

Defund think tanks like the CFR, Rand, public private operations like Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Federal Reserve, IRS.

They have our military by the balls with their lobbyists from Israel and Saudi Arabia, The City of London, and the British Royal Crown.

Do your homework and you will see, the same monopolies have controlled us for centuries.

You will see that the first declaration of independence was written on hemp paper by men who smoked it. If we can't do either in America today, then we are not as free as they were at that moment. 1776.

Get it?

Is the Bay Area Merger and Breakup of California part of United Nations Agenda 21?

Watch this video first, then read the article below written back in February 2013.



From February 9, 2013:

Sitting down for lunch with the family on Saturday the following headline in the San Mateo Daily Journal caught my eye.

Bay Area leaders consider merger
The article begins explaining how business and civic leaders gathered in San Jose to "consider the advantages of merging the nine-county San Francisco Bay Area and Silicon Valley into a single region, sharing everything from city dumps to water treatment plants as communities sprawl across borders."

Most people probably read the article and thought "oh how wonderful, they will be able to achieve certain economic efficiencies by consolidating governments, structuring better public transportation connections, and so forth.

The article goes on to say:

"Leaders attending the State of the Valley conference Friday noted that Bay Area residents, businesses and local governments face the same challenges, from gridlock and earthquakes to steep housing prices and climate change." 

 So apparently there are economic, environmental, and social crises in the area that need to be addressed.  PROBLEM.

Most people would agree that there are a plethora of issues in the Bay Area, but in general it is a pleasant place to live.  It's true we have one of the world's most expensive housing markets in the world, but we also have fairly stable and near maximized employment.  It's true we have horrific public schools despite collecting an enormous amount of money from property taxes, but most who can afford it send their kids to private schools, or rent houses in Cupertino so their kids can go to amazing public schools.  We also have at least 2 separate train systems (Caltrain and BART) that do not coordinate well with each other nor with the bus systems, but apart from Denver, Chicago and New York City no American cities have decent public transportation.  Regardless, the Bay Area is running fairly well.  Many disagree and therein lies the REACTION.

The articles continues with the stated public objective of the proposal.  SOLUTION

...the region, which amounts to the world’s 13th-largest economy, should continue to boom if they coordinate their planning and consider merging transit systems, police and fire services and even city governments.  

Technology forecaster Paul Saffo told conference participants that sharing everything from landfills to police helicopters could make the entire area more efficient, save money and help businesses remain competitive.

 If we just merge our diaspora of cities around the bay, we will continue to achieve economic growth.  I didn't know that was an issue.  I mean we all know that California proper is near bankruptcy following the global economic crisis of 2008, but the Silicon Valley and most of the Bay Area has hardly been disturbed.

Saving money, cutting bureaucratic waste, and achieving economies of scale are all wonderful theoretical objectives.  That is rarely what happens when power centers are created.  Look at Washington DC.  But that doesnt stop the virtuous solicitations of POWER.

“Powerful regions are the new basic unit of governments in the 21st century,” said Saffo, pointing to Singapore and Hong Kong. “City states are the powerful nexus of power, commerce, culture and identity.”

This must be the true objective.  To create powerful city states like Rome, Hong Kong, and Singapore. Perhaps this is to counter the powerless small towns that collectively make up the region at this time.

The whole conference was setup to meet following the release of a 2013 Index of Silicon Valley  which found the region is leading the country out of the recession with 92,000 new jobs last year.   It turns out the index and the conference were both sponsored by Joint Venture Silicon Valley Network and the Silicon Valley Community Foundation, both nonprofits associated with the region’s businesses and governments.

Who is the Joint Venture Silicon Valley Network and what are their goals and objectives?  According to their website it was

Established in 1993, Joint Venture Silicon Valley provides analysis and action on issues affecting our region's economy and quality of life. The organization brings together established and emerging leaders—from business, government, academia, labor and the broader community—to spotlight issues and work toward innovative solutions.

They have an interesting list of private sector sponsors, many who have been bailed out or have nefarious connections with the military industrial complex.  Interestingly enough the public sector sponsors includes the Kingdom of the Netherlands.  Why would they be interested in economic efficiencies and centralized power houses?  Well, the Netherlands and the US are signatories to the United Nations Agenda 21 kicked off in 1992.  Agenda 21 is a very controversial world government initiative that has been protested since its inception.  From the UN USA website, it is defined as:

Agenda 21 encourages, rather than compels, UN Member States to take into consideration the environmental impacts of their land, resources, and transportation development policies. Adopted at the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro, the document reflects a broad international consensus that worsening poverty and growing stresses on the environment require greater integration between environmental and development concerns.

Many have exposed the nefarious hidden goals of the United Nations as an attempt at world government controlled by a royal elite with a collectivist agenda.  Remember the US sponsor of the United Nations was Alger Hiss, a convicted communist spy and since its inception it has been sponsored by powerful tax exempt foundations belonging to the robber barons of the early 20th century, such as the Rockefellers.

It is clear that this article is insufficient in revealing the smoking gun behind a global conspiracy to drive us into slavery but it should be a good start to spark legitimate investigation by those who would be affected.

The questions we should be asking are:

• What are the connections to Agenda 21?
• Who would benefit from the merger of regional cities?
• Who would lead such an regional powerhouse? Would they be elected or technocratic appointees of the elite?
• How will a larger bureaucracy of concentrated power be more efficient and to the benefit of local residents? The larger the governmental unit, the greater the prospects for significant corruption.  Haven't we seen the Federal Government become a corrupt and tyrannical tool of a wealthy elite?Why would a new city state be any different?
• Where will decisions be made about zoning, licensing, and permits?

• Will it negate or make obsolete the local city councils?
• Will there be a regional banking entity and will it be private or public?
• What will it have in common with the Vatican, DC, and the City of London?
• Wouldn't smaller service suppliers be crowded out to larger organizations that supposedly have greater economies of scale? That means local businesses and start up will be squeezed out of the market.  This is what critics of Walmart complain about. 
• Where will our food supply come from? If we continue to build and develop housing and industry at the expense of farming, aren't we increasing our dependence on imported foods and our risk associated? 
• Will GMOs be acceptable food sources for this new City State?
• How will this affect local public schools? 

http://www.futureagenda.org/pg/cx/view#422

Paul Saffo has commented that ‘our world is moving from one of nation-states to one of city-states. Rather than the future being one of the US versus China, it is going to be Silicon Valley vs. Beijing or Chicago vs. Paris. Each dominant city will define its region. With the “flattening” of the world, Chicago is no longer vying with US cities like New York for influence, commerce and jobs, but other major cities in the world.’ The MIT 19.20.21 programme is just one of several research studies underway that are looking at future urban environments. Predicting that there will be nineteen cities with over 20 million populations in the 21st century, this sees that ‘the rise of supercities is the defining megatrend of the 21st century’.

http://www.sanjoseinside.com/news/entries/07_14_10_should_the_city_of_san_jose_merge_with_santa_clara_county/

http://www.i4u.com/2013/02/paul-saffo/consider-area-merging-region-leaders-bay

Who is Paul Saffo?

http://www.saffo.com/about-paul-saffo/

"Powerful regions are the new basic unit of governments in the 21st century ... City states are the powerful nexus of power, commerce, culture and identity."

Read more at http://www.i4u.com/2013/02/paul-saffo/area-merging-leaders-region-bay-consider#S23PrssUQhjk0kem.99

Our democracy is utterly dependent upon an informed and engaged citizenry. We must talk to each other about politics to form thoughtful opinions and maybe learn something that will help us run our communities. We may as well start at home.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/opinion/article/Americans-should-talk-about-politics-more-2336100.php#ixzz2L09wP3BM

• Member WEF Global Agenda Council on Innovation
• Member, WEF Global Agenda Council on Strategic Foresight

The World Economic Forum is a collection of 80 Councils worldwide.  GlobalAgenda Council Members are calling for global governance.

By Paul Saffo - Bay Area act like a city state

http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/The-Bay-Area-needs-to-act-like-a-city-state-3259069.php

Paul Saffo is managing director of foresight at Discern Analytics and nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council.

http://www.economist.com/sites/default/files/WIN_programma_FINAL.pdf

A new Bretton Woods is in our future, a moment when chastened global leaders will commit to building a new institutional order. But it will take another, larger economic crisis before the collective will to do so is found. In the meantime, we must immediately undertake another equally important task: We need to create a global economic observatory, an entity capable of collecting and digesting the data needed to truly understand the global economy in all its shifting complexity.

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/01/03/3_get_better_data?page=0,1

Only time will tell, just remember the old adage:

Power corrupts.  Absolute power corrupts absolutely.

CIA ASSET BLOWS THE WHISTLE ON 911 INSIDE JOB

Susan Lindauer (CIA / 9/11) Susan was a former CIA asset who worked with the Libyan and Iraqi embassies prior to 9/11. Following that day, she began to reveal CIA complicity in Middle East heroin trafficking.

Lindauer also talked candidly about how Israel tried to buy U.S. Intelligence officers and Assets. For the first time on record, she revealed that a known Mossad agent tried to bribe her into handing over Iraq’s collection of banking records on Al Qaeda’s financial pipeline by phoning her home in Maryland while she was traveling in Baghdad, and promising to deliver a suitcase full of cash to any city in the world in exchange for the papers. (Source)

Susan subsequently became the second non-Arab citizen to be arrested under the Patriot Act, which culminated in a five-year indictment and near total prison lockdown for one year.

While in prison Susan was subjected to harsh conditions that would be considered torture in multiple countries. Contrary to what most Americans think, Susan and the other inmates in solitary confinement were only allowed outside once every TEN days and even then the actual amount of time outside was closer to thirty minutes. (Source)

In the video below she discusses her revelations about pre-9/11 warnings and all that followed, which eventually got published in her book Extreme Prejudice: The Terrifying Story of the Patriot Act and the Cover-ups of 9/11 and Iraq.

Nefarious Kroll and AIG Now Warning of Cyberattacks After 9/11 Success

For any of you not familiar with Kroll & Associates and AIG's involvement with 9/11 you should watch this film.  Then read the article below and ask yourself, what type of cyberattacks are Kroll and AIG planning?

Now after watching that, watch this and the additional 12 segments:

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AIG Survey: Execs Say Cyber Attacks A Top Threat

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 Published: Wednesday, 6 Feb 2013 | 1:26 PM ET

By: Mary Thompson

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The threat of a cyber attack tops the threat of losing money as the primary risk business executives are concerned about, according to a new survey sponsored by the insurance giant AIG.

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"It's becoming a C-suite problem," said John Gambale, Head of Professional Liability & Lexington Financial Lines at AIG. "[The executives are] asking what information are we collecting? Who has access to that information? How is it being stored? Where is it being stored? Is that information on a laptop, and is that laptop leaving the building? Is it leaving the country?" (Read More: Businesses Facing Increasing Cyber Threats: Security Experts)

Cyber-attacks have been a growing threat for well over a decade now, impacting victims ranging from the Federal Reserve to the country's largest banks to the discount retailer T.J. Maxx. Companies most likely to be targets are those that collect important personal information like providers of financial services, health care, and higher education as well as e-tailers.

"Any entity with personal, identifiable information — anything that can be converted to money is at risk," said Michael DuBose, Managing Director, Cyber Investigations Practice at the security firm Kroll. He pointed out the top threat to corporate America continues to be from insiders stealing trade secrets and other data, and selling it to rivals or foreign countries, though cyber-attacks cannot be ignored.

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DuBose said the hacker, via malware or malicious software, can now infiltrate a system and stay for months, monitoring data traffic and other information without being detected by the anti-virus scans employed by most corporations. (Read More:Pentagon in Major Expansion of Cybersecurity Force )

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Still, the executives surveyed by AIG are less concerned with the financial cost of an attack, than with the reputational damage an attack might cause, said Gambale. He pointed out keeping their clients information safe is critical to what many corporations do. If a data breach causes a firm to lose the trust of their clients, they lose their clients' business.

Since 1999, AIG's been in the business of insuring against these attacks. Gambale estimated cyber insurance is now a $500 million to $600 million business — one some estimate could reach a billion dollars in a few years. (Read More: How to Protect Your Devices From New Hack Threat )

Like the attacks themselves, the business of insuring against them have changed. In the past AIG provided services after a breach, including a breach coach, forensic assistance in tracing the breach, credit monitoring and notification services to clients. Today, its sells a product called CyberEdge.

CyberEdge provides proactive protection by putting additional software outside a firm's firewall to prevent globally known "bad" IP addresses from getting through that firewall. It is a product Gambale believes is for any firm, large or small.

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Kroll works with AIG in providing forensic services to the insurer's clients after a breach has happened. DuBose said cyber insurance is a good thing for firms, as it provides a remedial infrastructure that they may not develop on their own. (Read More: Former US Spy Warns on Cybersecurity )

The full article in it's original form can be found here....

-By CNBC's Mary Thompson; Follow her on Twitter @MThompsonCNBC

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Mary Thompson is either completely ignoring historical fact related to AIG and their CIA connections and nefarious acts of the past, or she is innocently ignorant.  Well, what do you expect from CNBC, owned by Comcast and GE, who greatly benefited from bailouts and the war on terror launched after 9/11.

But how can you blame CNBC? The propaganda machine is simply parroting what they are told by Leon Panetta (see here) and we know that Obama secretly signs the most aggressive cybersecurity directive ever (see here) and with good reason, right because banks are saying that hackers in Iran (see here) and China (see here)are responsible.   

After all, the cyber security experts say that we should expect another 9/11, another Pearl Harbor.  Kroll is among those experts foretelling the doomsday scenarios (see here).

Just like the WMDs of Iraq, and the Al-Qaeda terrorist network that circumvented the most advanced and most expensive defense network in the history of the world, we should know, because we have the receipts  we are actively waging a cyber war against Iran (see here and here).

But we can always depend on our government to take these threats seriously and use our tax dollars wisely to protect its citizens (well, not always, see here, and here).

Certainly Kroll and AIG have no influence over our foreign policy, right? There is no connection.  They can't create an imaginary threat and then force our government to go to war, just so than can profit from it, right?  No, that kind of thing never happens.  I mean there is no place that Kroll and AIG can bend the ear of government on foreign policy, is there?

Justice is Served. Facebook is ordered to pay $20 Million, I could get $10.

Justice is SERVED!!!!

NOTICE OF PENDING CLASS ACTION AND NOTICE OF PROPOSED SETTLEMENT

ANGEL FRALEY V. FACEBOOK, INC.

You are receiving this e-mail because you may have been featured in a "Sponsored Story" on Facebook prior to December 3, 2012.

A federal court authorized this Notice. This is not a solicitation from a lawyer.

Why did I get this notice? This Notice relates to a proposed settlement ("Settlement") of a class action lawsuit ("Action") filed against Facebook relating to a particular Facebook feature called "Sponsored Stories." According to available records, you may be a "Class Member."

What is the Action about? The Action claims that Facebook unlawfully used the names, profile pictures, photographs, likenesses, and identities of Facebook users in the United States to advertise or sell products and services through Sponsored Stories without obtaining those users' consent. Facebook denies any wrongdoing and any liability whatsoever. No court or other entity has made any judgment or other determination of any liability.

What is a Sponsored Story? Sponsored Stories are a form of advertising that typically contains posts which appeared on facebook.com about or from a Facebook user or entity that a business, organization, or individual has paid to promote so there is a better chance that the posts will be seen by the user or entity's chosen audience. Sponsored Stories may be displayed, for example, when a Facebook user interacts with the Facebook service (including sub-domains, international versions, widgets, plug-ins, platform applications or games, and mobile applications) in certain ways, such as by clicking on the Facebook "Like" button on a business's, organization's, or individual's Facebook page. Sponsored Stories typically include a display of a Facebook user's Facebook name (i.e., the name the user has associated with his or her Facebook account) and/or profile picture (if the user has uploaded one) with a statement describing the user's interaction with the Facebook service, such as "John Smith likes UNICEF," "John Smith played Farmville," or "John Smith shared a link."

What relief does the Settlement provide? Facebook will pay $20 million into a fund that can be used, in part, to pay claims of Class Members (including Minor Class Members) who appeared in a Sponsored Story. Each participating Class Member who submits a valid and timely claim form may be eligible to receive up to $10. The amount, if any, paid to each claimant depends upon the number of claims made and other factors detailed in the Settlement. No one knows in advance how much each claimant will receive, or whether any money will be paid directly to claimants. If the number of claims made renders it economically infeasible to pay money to persons who make a timely and valid claim, payment will be made to the not-for-profit organizations identified on the Settlement website at www.fraleyfacebooksettlement.com(if clicking on the link does not work, copy and paste the website address into a web browser). These organizations are involved in educational outreach that teaches adults and children how to use social media technologies safely, or are involved in research of social media, with a focus on critical thinking around advertising and commercialization, and particularly with protecting the interests of children.

In addition to monetary relief, Facebook will (a) revise its terms of service (known as the "Statement of Rights and Responsibilities" or "SRR") to more fully explain the instances in which users agree to the display of their names and profile pictures in connection with Sponsored Stories; (b) create an easily accessible mechanism that enables users to view, on a going-forward basis, the subset of their interactions and other content on Facebook that have been displayed in Sponsored Stories (if any); (c) develop settings that will allow users to prevent particular items or categories of content or information related to them from being displayed in future Sponsored Stories; (d) revise its SRR to confirm that minors represent that their parent or legal guardian consents to the use of the minor's name and profile picture in connection with commercial, sponsored, or related content; (e) provide parents and legal guardians with additional information about how advertising works on Facebook in its Family Safety Center and provide parents and legal guardians with additional tools to control whether their children's names and profile pictures are displayed in connection with Sponsored Stories; and (f) add a control in minor users' profiles that enables each minor user to indicate that his or her parents are not Facebook users and, where a minor user indicates that his or her parents are not on Facebook, Facebook will make the minor ineligible to appear in Sponsored Stories until he or she reaches the age of 18, until the minor changes his or her setting to indicate that his or her parents are on Facebook, or until a confirmed parental relationship with the minor user is established.

YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS AND OPTIONS IN THIS SETTLEMENT SUBMIT A CLAIM FORM This is the only way to be eligible to receive a payment, if the Court orders payment to Class Members. Deadline: May 2, 2013 EXCLUDE YOURSELF This is the only option that allows you to retain the ability to file your own lawsuit about the legal claims in this case. Deadline: May 2, 2013 OBJECT Write to the Court about why you object to (i.e., don't like) the Settlement and think it shouldn't be approved. Deadline: May 2, 2013 GO TO THE "FAIRNESS HEARING" The Court will hold a "Fairness Hearing" to consider the Settlement, the request for attorneys' fees and expenses of the lawyers who brought the Action ("Class Counsel"), and the class representatives' request for service awards for bringing the Action.   You may, but are not required to, speak at the Fairness Hearing about any Objection you filed. If you intend to speak at the Fairness Hearing, you must follow the procedures stated on the Settlement website to notify the Court and parties of your intent when you serve your Objection. Hearing Date: June 28, 2013 at 10:00 a.m. DO NOTHING You will not receive a payment, even if the Court orders payment to Class Members. You will also be giving up your right to bring your own lawsuit related to the claims in the Action. You may be eligible to receive the non-monetary benefits of the Settlement, if the Settlement is finally approved. No deadline

Your Class Member Number: 221764215

To Parents and Guardians of Children on Facebook: The Settlement also involves the claims of minors featured in Sponsored Stories on Facebook. Please see the Settlement website for more information.

More information? For more information about the Settlement and how to take the actions described above, please visit www.fraleyfacebooksettlement.com (if clicking on the link does not work, copy and paste the website address into a web browser) or write to the Settlement Administrator at Fraley v. Facebook, Inc., Settlement, c/o GCG, P.O. Box 35009, Seattle, WA 98124-1009, or GCG@fraleyfacebooksettlement.com. You may also contact Class Counsel, Robert S. Arns of the Arns Law Firm, by calling 1-888-214-5125 or by emailing fb.settlement@arnslaw.com.

Data Proves USA is an Empire by Force

YOU, the American tax payer, YOU are funding the largest military empire the world has ever known and when you hear a debate about budget cuts to this and that, just remember YOU are paying for the world's largest military and that military is spread out all over the world (see the 2nd image below).

If you followed alternative media and not the New York Times you might actually learn that various parts of the US government, rogue individuals, departments, and siloed squads, are behind most of the conflagrations around the world, which then justifies the additional military spending, and so on.

So where is all the money deployed?