By Greg Roberts, The Age- April 16, 2013

Australian investors were left confused after $7 billion was wiped off the value of the sharemarket, taking the losses in two days to more than $22 billion.

The price of gold, normally considered a save-haven investment, is bucking normal behaviour by tumbling at record levels as sharemarkets also fall.

Events in the world’s two largest economies, the US and China, were cited as being responsible for the ASX’s woes.

US markets plunged by two per cent overnight amid worries about an end to monetary stimulus being discussed, along with the fatal bombing at the Boston Marathon.

Australia’s 0.46 per fall wasn’t as bad but that followed a 0.91 per cent hit on Monday.

Australia’s largest trading partner, China, reported weaker than hoped for economic growth so far this year.

Investors believed the US economy will suffer if it stops pumping money into the economy and are “pricing that future” now, according to CMC Markets chief market strategist Michael McCarthy.

Exopermaculture April 16 2013

Anne writes ~ I wrote my first post on the Boston Marathon Explosions — a series of short comments with links to urls — a few hours afterwards. In a white hot heat, I felt feverishly driven to find and summarize various weird details of this tragic event that echoed others (9/11, Oklahoma City, Sandy Hook, etc.), with the aim of seeing the entire scenario as one more false flag to keep ramping up so-called “homeland security” into a police state.

I was not disappointed in my quest.

What’s so fantastic about what’s happening now is that instantly, we grok that something other than what is being reported is actually going on. Instinctively and automatically, we no longer believe the MSM cover stories.

Here are two more pieces that also view this event with a skeptical eye, pointing out inconsistencies, absurdities and impossibilities, connecting details to other false flag events, and speculating on why this and why now. Both from goldenageofgaia.

Boston: A Potential False Flag?

Take ownership of who you are. What does that mean? Well, we’re here at the greatest time of change imaginable. We’re trying to not freak out about it… and that’s not easy for those of us who have our eyes open. We’re looking outside of ourselves for someone who has the right advice, someone who has the wisdom, someone who can say, “Go to this place, do this, try that.” Or we’re looking for a shoulder to lean on so we can share in their strength and maybe shed a tear or two before we get up and go again.

There’s nothing wrong with looking for strength and wisdom in others. There are lots of people ahead of us on the path. They’re kind and loving, experienced and wise, helpful and invaluable. Hold them in reverence and gratitude. And then do what the wise ones say. Sure enough, what they say is going to be, “Take ownership of who you are. You are spirit within a body. Raise the vibration of your energy and connect.”

If we turn our hearts in the right direction, our answers will come. We have power and talents hidden within as well as skills developed from our experiences that we can pull out and put to use. There is a long history of human beings creating solutions when under pressure. Being a lifelong champion of the underdog I’ve always delighted in that. We are beautiful and ingenious when we are under pressure, self-empowered and connected.

The impetus for change must first be found and acted on from within if we are to properly act in alignment with the new paradigm we wish to build.

I am not suggesting we Create a narrow vision of ourselves and try to push ourselves into acting in alignment with such a vision, but I am suggesting we thoroughly examine every tendency, mechanism and emotional-reaction pattern that creeps up and makes itself known to us, so that we can see if it is in alignment with those of the higher dimensions we are growing toward.

The strong impetus to be a part of the enacting of change across the world is being felt more than ever in plenty of awakening souls who see that the work is simply not going to be done for us, and I would like to present the viewpoint that our actions in every moment and how we go about our existence on this Earth in general are the most prevalent determiners of what is manifested next on the world stage.

We’ve been talking about building the new paradigm for a while now. We’ve channeled information about it; we’ve formed into groups over this subject and the vast majority of us have been working ourselves nearly to the bone (happily, might we add) on anchoring and radiating the new paradigm in every moment we feel we can.