"Conan Doyle, the brilliant creator of the character Sherlock Holmes, said: "When you have eliminated the impossible whatever remains however implausible must be the truth!"
It is physically impossible for those towers to have collapsed due to fire the way they did on 9/11.
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Indict George W. Bush
by Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy
It is time to insist that a Federal Grand Jury investigate every count of high treason, mass murder and domestic terrorism that was perpetrated upon the people of the US by the Bush administration, his collaborators in the Pentagon, K-Street, the Congress and the leadership of the Republican party, Marvin Bush's 'Securacom', Larry Silverstein who ordered WTC 7 be 'pulled', General Myers, Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney and, of course, George W. Bush who was, at the time, the 'Commander-in-Chief' and ultimately responsible....
I second that motion.
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I leave his arguments and evidence for the viewer to judge for himself.
For my part, I am with him on the Pentagon (very well could have been a Global Hawk) -- although to some that makes me an agent of propaganda and evil. Regarding the planes not being in the air, I am not sure what to make of that. I certainly believe aircraft plowed into those buildings, although I'm open to listening and watching other points of view. I have even noticed some anomalies regarding the television video that day, and combined with the all the other lies one does begin to wonder if all television is not a scripted event.
What is terribly saddening is it turns out that Muslims were not behind 9/11 at all; Israel and its US agents and assets were.
But don't take my word for it. Do your own thinking and own research. The discovery part is "fun" if you can call the elation at learning the truth that. It's when the realization sets in that the whole foundations of the "war against terror" is a deceptive lie brought to you by the same groups that perpetrated the event to advance their agenda that the knowledge becomes a burden.
You will never see the world or the American news media the same ever again.
Well, time to get off the horse....
Friday, April 29, 2011
Sunday, April 10, 2011
When Did World War III Start?
The AmeriKan media is not calling it as such; however, I came to the conclusion we are there now when I saw that the UN and French were bombing the Ivory Coast.
So when WWIII start?
Was it 9/11 when the "new Pearl Harbor" gave impetus to the Zionist/Neo-Con Project for the New American Century?
Or was it the invasion of Iraq, much like Hitler's invasion of Poland (false flag lies and all)?
Or was it the bombing of Libya and the expansion of the war to a second continent?
Or will it be the attack on Iran when the AmeriKan media finally proclaims a new World War (after the false flag nuclear destruction of an American city)?
How many countries must AmeriKa be occupying or attacking before it is called a world war?
So when WWIII start?
Was it 9/11 when the "new Pearl Harbor" gave impetus to the Zionist/Neo-Con Project for the New American Century?
Or was it the invasion of Iraq, much like Hitler's invasion of Poland (false flag lies and all)?
Or was it the bombing of Libya and the expansion of the war to a second continent?
Or will it be the attack on Iran when the AmeriKan media finally proclaims a new World War (after the false flag nuclear destruction of an American city)?
How many countries must AmeriKa be occupying or attacking before it is called a world war?
Friday, April 8, 2011
The Last Days Of Dollar And Empire
"The Last Days Of The Dollar And The Empire
March 26, 2011
You will notice that I avoided the use of the word American in the title. Certainly, the Federal Reserve Note is doomed but I did not want to communicate the idea that America would also die when Ben Bernanke is forced to resign in disgrace.
America is not an Empire. What has happened is that an ethnic minority, the Jews, together with the financial industry and a few allied corporate interests, have hijacked the United States government and created an overseas Empire for their benefit.
Currently, we have troops stationed in 135 nations. We have active wars in three Muslim countries. All of our wars since World War I have been concerned with the creation and expansion of Jewish Communism and Jewish Zionism. If America had only entered wars for our self-interests, then there would have been no WW I. no WW II, no Korean War, no Vietnam war and certainly no wars with the Muslims. And there never would have been an Israel.
The Empire has a media controlled by Jews and their allies. They want America to fight one more war against a Muslim nation. This time against Iran. The US Secretary of Defense has asked the Syrian army to stand down and to allow a peaceful transition of power as Egypt did. What Gates did not say was that Syria is an ally of Iran and he wanted to isolate Syria from Iran so America can attack Iran.
One reason for the end of this Empire is that the wars increasingly do not make sense. Why did we attack Libya? What could they do to us? If we want democracy in Syria and Libya, why aren’t the Arabs of Bahrain and Saudi Arabia good enough for democracy?
There is a great difference between World War I and World War III and by that I do not mean the invention of nuclear weapons. In 1890 America was number one in steel production worldwide and by 1900 we produced more steel than England, France and Germany combined. This is no longer true.
I previously remarked that the American Jewish elite betrayed the common folk of the country with the passage of the North American Free Trade Act (NAFTA) and the World Trade Organization Act (WTO) in 1994. In that same year China devalued their yuan to a fixed rate against the dollar. By design more than 40,000 American manufacturing plants were closed and sent overseas together with tens of millions of jobs.
Americans are now expected to fight World War III without factories and jobs. The war is not to be financed by American taxpayers. It is not even to be funded by borrowing against the future earnings of Americans. Americans have no jobs and no future earnings. The war is to be funded by the printing of dollars.
Suppose you were the President of China and you saw America using an attack on Iran to steal Mideast oil and set up a global dictatorship for the benefit of Israel and international conglomerates. You have only one tactic. You cut off American supply lines. You announce the sale of all US Treasury debt and and the purchase of commodities with all dollars on hand. American dollars go to zero in value. The US can default on its debt. But America would have no means of importing oil and food. America would grind to a halt. And as the economy contracted, the government would have to cut benefits, healthcare and education by 50%. The war would stop the day after America ceased to function.
Let’s go through these events again with more enlightened eyes. If The elite wanted America to win World War III, they would not have sent all of our jobs and factories overseas. If the elite wanted us to win World War III, they would not have our troops stationed in 135 countries simultaneously fighting wars in three nations. If the elite wanted us to win World War III, they would have picked an easier adversary. Iran has sufficient numbers of Russian made ant-ship weapons to sink the Sixth Fleet within minutes. We would also lose all of our Central Command troops in a matter of weeks. The US depends upon Muslims to supply our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. That will not happen after America starts dropping nuclear weapons on their co-religionists.
If what our country is doing makes no sense, then why are we doing it?
This question cannot be answered until we deal with the issue of 911.
I have explained before that 911 was an inside job done by Israel and traitors within the American government.
World Trade Center Tower 7 was 47 stories high and not hit by an airplane. Yet it collapsed in 6.5 seconds. I explained that glass melts at 800 degrees Fahrenheit or 426.66 Celsius. Steel girders melt at 2.200 degrees Fahrenheit or 1.204.44 Celsius. As I have said before, nanothermite was found in the debris of the WTC. Thermite consists of a metal oxide which releases oxygen to make a much bigger flame. Aluminum and manganese can be added to the mix to make a more intense heat.
Nanothermite is finely milled so it has a huge surface area relative to its nano sized volume. This allows nanothermite to burn at over 5,200 degrees Fahrenheit and melt steel girders in two seconds. Nanothermite can be sprayed on a surface in a liquid form and be detonated remotely. Nanothermite is only available from Israeli and American military labs.
On 9-11-2001 Susan Lindauer was on the phone with her CIA handler, Dr Richard Fuisz, when he said he saw a video of the first plane hitting the WTC. This was not shown on network TV until the next day. George Bush said he saw this same footage on a TV monitor before entering that classroom in Florida. Dr Fuisz told Ms Lindauer that Israelis making live videos of the WTC attacks was a brazen admission on their part that they did 911.
Dr Alan Sabrosky was a Director of Studies at the Army War College. He has been telling the public and his military colleagues that Israel did 911. And the Israelis did so with reckless abandon because there is no going back.
That is why I have said all Jewish people must now decide if they are Americans or Israelis. They can no longer be both.
If I am right and Israel did 911, then Americans are being manipulated into World War III with the traitorous elite knowing that America cannot defeat 1.3 billion Muslims and survive. The elite and Israel wants America to lose World War III.
Why? I believe they want Americans to be enslaved and impoverished so they cannot demand the return of the tens of trillions of dollars Wall Street stole from us. America has a huge population and must import both food and energy to survive. The elite and the Jews want to create an American race war when the dollar dies and the majority can no longer buy food. They want us to kill each other so we cannot rebel.
We are on a road to World War III which is a path to certain destruction.
Just prior to the invasion of Iraq, General Wesley Clark was given a list of countries the military was told were to be invaded. Libya was recently invaded so the only nations left off the list are Lebanon, Syria and Iran. Though Israel did invade Lebanon unsuccessfully.
Israel could start another false flag operation like 911 to get Americans to declare war on Iran. I do not think America will believe the Israelis again. There are too many of us who know better.
Israel did 911. Our jobs and factories were sent overseas so we would lose World War III. They sent tens of millions of jobs overseas while bringing tens of millions of immigrants to this country so we would have a high Depression era unemployment rate. They want blacks, Hispanics and whites fighting over jobs, benefits and food.
To avoid World War III we need to hammer home the truth. Israel did 911. They do not want us to win WW III. Your only rational choice is to throw all Zionists and Wall Street criminals out of the government.
Treason is a crime. It is also a crime to steal trillions of dollars.
We must jail all the criminals our government has been protecting.
We must withdraw our forces from overseas. We could begin by disengaging from Libya. Iraq and Afghanistan. We need to cut the number of nations with American troops on their soil from 135 to 35 or even fewer.
Israel did 911. Your government despises you. Get over it. You will not survive until you understand and accept the fact that your government has betrayed you.
Change your government. Get one that cares about you, listens to you and is willing to punish treason and the theft of trillions of dollars.
Israel did 911. Israel wants you to lose World War III. Israel wants to destroy America in a race war. Israel wants to permanently enslave Americans. Hammer this home. Nothing else will save you, your family and your nation from otherwise certain destruction.
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March 26, 2011
You will notice that I avoided the use of the word American in the title. Certainly, the Federal Reserve Note is doomed but I did not want to communicate the idea that America would also die when Ben Bernanke is forced to resign in disgrace.
America is not an Empire. What has happened is that an ethnic minority, the Jews, together with the financial industry and a few allied corporate interests, have hijacked the United States government and created an overseas Empire for their benefit.
Currently, we have troops stationed in 135 nations. We have active wars in three Muslim countries. All of our wars since World War I have been concerned with the creation and expansion of Jewish Communism and Jewish Zionism. If America had only entered wars for our self-interests, then there would have been no WW I. no WW II, no Korean War, no Vietnam war and certainly no wars with the Muslims. And there never would have been an Israel.
The Empire has a media controlled by Jews and their allies. They want America to fight one more war against a Muslim nation. This time against Iran. The US Secretary of Defense has asked the Syrian army to stand down and to allow a peaceful transition of power as Egypt did. What Gates did not say was that Syria is an ally of Iran and he wanted to isolate Syria from Iran so America can attack Iran.
One reason for the end of this Empire is that the wars increasingly do not make sense. Why did we attack Libya? What could they do to us? If we want democracy in Syria and Libya, why aren’t the Arabs of Bahrain and Saudi Arabia good enough for democracy?
There is a great difference between World War I and World War III and by that I do not mean the invention of nuclear weapons. In 1890 America was number one in steel production worldwide and by 1900 we produced more steel than England, France and Germany combined. This is no longer true.
I previously remarked that the American Jewish elite betrayed the common folk of the country with the passage of the North American Free Trade Act (NAFTA) and the World Trade Organization Act (WTO) in 1994. In that same year China devalued their yuan to a fixed rate against the dollar. By design more than 40,000 American manufacturing plants were closed and sent overseas together with tens of millions of jobs.
Americans are now expected to fight World War III without factories and jobs. The war is not to be financed by American taxpayers. It is not even to be funded by borrowing against the future earnings of Americans. Americans have no jobs and no future earnings. The war is to be funded by the printing of dollars.
Suppose you were the President of China and you saw America using an attack on Iran to steal Mideast oil and set up a global dictatorship for the benefit of Israel and international conglomerates. You have only one tactic. You cut off American supply lines. You announce the sale of all US Treasury debt and and the purchase of commodities with all dollars on hand. American dollars go to zero in value. The US can default on its debt. But America would have no means of importing oil and food. America would grind to a halt. And as the economy contracted, the government would have to cut benefits, healthcare and education by 50%. The war would stop the day after America ceased to function.
Let’s go through these events again with more enlightened eyes. If The elite wanted America to win World War III, they would not have sent all of our jobs and factories overseas. If the elite wanted us to win World War III, they would not have our troops stationed in 135 countries simultaneously fighting wars in three nations. If the elite wanted us to win World War III, they would have picked an easier adversary. Iran has sufficient numbers of Russian made ant-ship weapons to sink the Sixth Fleet within minutes. We would also lose all of our Central Command troops in a matter of weeks. The US depends upon Muslims to supply our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. That will not happen after America starts dropping nuclear weapons on their co-religionists.
If what our country is doing makes no sense, then why are we doing it?
This question cannot be answered until we deal with the issue of 911.
I have explained before that 911 was an inside job done by Israel and traitors within the American government.
World Trade Center Tower 7 was 47 stories high and not hit by an airplane. Yet it collapsed in 6.5 seconds. I explained that glass melts at 800 degrees Fahrenheit or 426.66 Celsius. Steel girders melt at 2.200 degrees Fahrenheit or 1.204.44 Celsius. As I have said before, nanothermite was found in the debris of the WTC. Thermite consists of a metal oxide which releases oxygen to make a much bigger flame. Aluminum and manganese can be added to the mix to make a more intense heat.
Nanothermite is finely milled so it has a huge surface area relative to its nano sized volume. This allows nanothermite to burn at over 5,200 degrees Fahrenheit and melt steel girders in two seconds. Nanothermite can be sprayed on a surface in a liquid form and be detonated remotely. Nanothermite is only available from Israeli and American military labs.
On 9-11-2001 Susan Lindauer was on the phone with her CIA handler, Dr Richard Fuisz, when he said he saw a video of the first plane hitting the WTC. This was not shown on network TV until the next day. George Bush said he saw this same footage on a TV monitor before entering that classroom in Florida. Dr Fuisz told Ms Lindauer that Israelis making live videos of the WTC attacks was a brazen admission on their part that they did 911.
Dr Alan Sabrosky was a Director of Studies at the Army War College. He has been telling the public and his military colleagues that Israel did 911. And the Israelis did so with reckless abandon because there is no going back.
That is why I have said all Jewish people must now decide if they are Americans or Israelis. They can no longer be both.
If I am right and Israel did 911, then Americans are being manipulated into World War III with the traitorous elite knowing that America cannot defeat 1.3 billion Muslims and survive. The elite and Israel wants America to lose World War III.
Why? I believe they want Americans to be enslaved and impoverished so they cannot demand the return of the tens of trillions of dollars Wall Street stole from us. America has a huge population and must import both food and energy to survive. The elite and the Jews want to create an American race war when the dollar dies and the majority can no longer buy food. They want us to kill each other so we cannot rebel.
We are on a road to World War III which is a path to certain destruction.
Just prior to the invasion of Iraq, General Wesley Clark was given a list of countries the military was told were to be invaded. Libya was recently invaded so the only nations left off the list are Lebanon, Syria and Iran. Though Israel did invade Lebanon unsuccessfully.
Israel could start another false flag operation like 911 to get Americans to declare war on Iran. I do not think America will believe the Israelis again. There are too many of us who know better.
Israel did 911. Our jobs and factories were sent overseas so we would lose World War III. They sent tens of millions of jobs overseas while bringing tens of millions of immigrants to this country so we would have a high Depression era unemployment rate. They want blacks, Hispanics and whites fighting over jobs, benefits and food.
To avoid World War III we need to hammer home the truth. Israel did 911. They do not want us to win WW III. Your only rational choice is to throw all Zionists and Wall Street criminals out of the government.
Treason is a crime. It is also a crime to steal trillions of dollars.
We must jail all the criminals our government has been protecting.
We must withdraw our forces from overseas. We could begin by disengaging from Libya. Iraq and Afghanistan. We need to cut the number of nations with American troops on their soil from 135 to 35 or even fewer.
Israel did 911. Your government despises you. Get over it. You will not survive until you understand and accept the fact that your government has betrayed you.
Change your government. Get one that cares about you, listens to you and is willing to punish treason and the theft of trillions of dollars.
Israel did 911. Israel wants you to lose World War III. Israel wants to destroy America in a race war. Israel wants to permanently enslave Americans. Hammer this home. Nothing else will save you, your family and your nation from otherwise certain destruction.
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Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Words of Wisdom From Beyond the Grave
"The nation is sick. Trouble is in the land. Confusion all around." -- Martin Luther King Jr., April 3, 1968.
"As I have walked among the desperate, rejected, and angry young men, I have told them that Molotov cocktails and rifles would not solve their problems. I have tried to offer them my deepest compassion while maintaining my conviction that social change comes most meaningfully through nonviolent action. But they ask -- and rightly so -- what about Vietnam? They ask if our own nation wasn't using massive doses of violence to solve its problems, to bring about the changes it wanted. Their questions hit home, and I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today -- my own government. For the sake of those boys, for the sake of this government, for the sake of the hundreds of thousands trembling under our violence, I cannot be silent." -- Martin Luther King, Jr., 4 April 1967, at a meeting of Clergy and Laity Concerned at Riverside Church in New York City
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“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”
“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated”
“A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.”
“Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.”
“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”
“You must be the change that you want to see in the world.”
--source--"
"Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as [Gandhi] ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth"
".... I have, therefore, chosen this time and this place to discuss a topic on which ignorance too often abounds and the truth is too rarely perceived -- yet it is the most important topic on earth: world peace.
What kind of peace do I mean? What kind of peace do we seek? Not a Pax Americana enforced on the world by American weapons of war. Not the peace of the grave or the security of the slave. I am talking about genuine peace, the kind of peace that makes life on earth worth living, the kind that enables men and nations to grow and to hope and to build a better life for their children -- not merely peace for Americans but peace for all men and women -- not merely peace in our time but peace for all time. I speak of peace because of the new face of war. Total war makes no sense in an age when great powers can maintain large and relatively invulnerable nuclear forces and refuse to surrender without resort to those forces. It makes no sense in an age when a single nuclear weapon contains almost ten times the explosive force delivered by 11 of the Allied air forces in the Second World War. It makes no sense in an age when the deadly poisons produced by a nuclear exchange would be carried by wind and water and soil and seed to the far corners of the globe and to generations yet unborn.
Today the expenditure of billions of dollars every year on weapons acquired for the purpose of making sure we never need to use the is essential to keeping the peace. But surely the acquisition of such idle stockpiles -- which can only destroy and never create -- is not the only, much less the most efficient, means of assuring peace.
I speak of peace, therefore, as the necessary rational end of rational men. I realize that the pursuit of peace is not as dramatic as the pursuit of war -- and frequently the words of the pursuer fall on deaf ears. But we have no more urgent task....
Let us reexamine our attitude toward the Soviet Union.... No government or social system is so evil that its people must be considered as lacking in virtue.... For, in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.
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"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
Related: JFK on Secret Societies
"As I have walked among the desperate, rejected, and angry young men, I have told them that Molotov cocktails and rifles would not solve their problems. I have tried to offer them my deepest compassion while maintaining my conviction that social change comes most meaningfully through nonviolent action. But they ask -- and rightly so -- what about Vietnam? They ask if our own nation wasn't using massive doses of violence to solve its problems, to bring about the changes it wanted. Their questions hit home, and I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today -- my own government. For the sake of those boys, for the sake of this government, for the sake of the hundreds of thousands trembling under our violence, I cannot be silent." -- Martin Luther King, Jr., 4 April 1967, at a meeting of Clergy and Laity Concerned at Riverside Church in New York City
--source--"
“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”
“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated”
“A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.”
“Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.”
“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”
“You must be the change that you want to see in the world.”
--source--"
"Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as [Gandhi] ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth"
".... I have, therefore, chosen this time and this place to discuss a topic on which ignorance too often abounds and the truth is too rarely perceived -- yet it is the most important topic on earth: world peace.
What kind of peace do I mean? What kind of peace do we seek? Not a Pax Americana enforced on the world by American weapons of war. Not the peace of the grave or the security of the slave. I am talking about genuine peace, the kind of peace that makes life on earth worth living, the kind that enables men and nations to grow and to hope and to build a better life for their children -- not merely peace for Americans but peace for all men and women -- not merely peace in our time but peace for all time. I speak of peace because of the new face of war. Total war makes no sense in an age when great powers can maintain large and relatively invulnerable nuclear forces and refuse to surrender without resort to those forces. It makes no sense in an age when a single nuclear weapon contains almost ten times the explosive force delivered by 11 of the Allied air forces in the Second World War. It makes no sense in an age when the deadly poisons produced by a nuclear exchange would be carried by wind and water and soil and seed to the far corners of the globe and to generations yet unborn.
Today the expenditure of billions of dollars every year on weapons acquired for the purpose of making sure we never need to use the is essential to keeping the peace. But surely the acquisition of such idle stockpiles -- which can only destroy and never create -- is not the only, much less the most efficient, means of assuring peace.
I speak of peace, therefore, as the necessary rational end of rational men. I realize that the pursuit of peace is not as dramatic as the pursuit of war -- and frequently the words of the pursuer fall on deaf ears. But we have no more urgent task....
Let us reexamine our attitude toward the Soviet Union.... No government or social system is so evil that its people must be considered as lacking in virtue.... For, in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.
--MORE--"
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
Related: JFK on Secret Societies
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
The Lies Reach Critical Mass
"The Lies Reach Critical Mass
March 21, 2011
The Empire that rules over us like all others before it has resorted to lies to keep the society together. In a small community trust is like the mortar that holds separate bricks together to form one cohesive and enduring building. Yet even the dimmest bulb can clearly see that America is failing to function and is near collapse.
We have reached a point where the lies are no longer believed by the majority. In the preceding sentence I left out the word citizens because Empires do not have citizens with rights. Everyone below the rank of Emperor is a slave.
In modern America if you are not a billionaire like Lloyd Blankfein, Blythe Masters, Jamie Dimon or Rupert Murdoch, you might as well be a landless peasant under Ivan the Terrible or a black slave in 1827.
If you are under the illusion that you are a free man or woman, please go to any airport and explain to the TSA that you are a citizen of the American Republic and that the Bill of Rights protects you against all unreasonable searches and seizures without due process of law and probable cause
In keeping with Fukushima I will say that America is at a point where we are reaching critical mass and the lies will on their own ignite into a fireball of sustained reaction bringing down the old regime and freeing the commoners to form a Second Republic.
I will list and briefly explain a few of the more obvious lies. I will then explain how we can tie all of these lies together into one whole that will take the Empire down.
I think the father of lies in America has to be the Federal Reserve. It is a privately owned bank. Yet it issues our currency. Imagine that you were a counterfeiter and had a license to lawfully print all the Federal Reserve Notes you wanted provided you only circulate your bogus dollars by loaning them either to the government , to businesses or to individuals
Since you only printed enough dollars to pay back the principal and not the interest, each year you must print exponentially more money until all nations who tolerate your fraud are burdened with a Debt Bomb that can only be canceled through either a 1923 Wiemar Republic style hyperinflation or a 1933 type of Deflationary Depression.
The Russian demographer Borisov said millions died of starvation in the American Great Depression.
But why would you expect a banker to care about you and your family?
The next lie is the Myth of the Balanced Budget and the two party system. The hicks and boobs are allowed to choose between two parties both of which have candidates approved for them by Wall Street.
Yet we have a banking system written by Wall Street which does not allow us to create money so we can buy and sell unless we have first accepted a loan.
This means if the Right and Left ever agreed to savagely cut benefits and wars and passed a confiscatory tax on all savings and pensions, we would cancel all 20 trillion dollars in US debt and the bonds guaranteed by Fannie Mae and the other agencies.
At that point, we would not have any money because repaying a debt cancels money in circulation under the Federal Reserve system. We would not have a currency until we agreed to borrow more counterfeit money from the bankers.
We are in a very deep hole dug for us by Wall Street who knew there was no way out for us in 1910 when at a private meeting the bankers wrote the legislation that created the Federal Reserve.
The bankers will not allow you to freely discuss any rational solution that will work. They will allow morons to prattle on foolishly to let you think that the First Amendment still applies.
The third lie has to be the Kennedy assassination. The first thing I would say of his murder is that it occurred on November 22nd. Look at every book on the Kennedy assassination and try in vain to find the following point:
The Federal Reserve legislation was written by a private group of bankers at Jekyll Island in November of 1910. But their first meeting was held on November 22nd in the private rail car that took the conspirators from New Jersey to Georgia.
JFK signed Executive Order 11110 which ordered the Treasurer to print US Banknotes to replace Federal Reserve Notes. These debt free notes were taken out of circulation as soon as JFK was dead. If he had lived, we could have a debt free currency and live in a nation without a national debt or a Debt Bomb hanging over us.
If you see anything about the JFK assassination which does not include the fact that the President was murdered on November 22nd as a warning to every American that Wall Street controls your money and is allowed to steal every last dime, then ignore it.
I would however lend some credence to what Mordecai Vanunu said about Israel killing JFK because he opposed a nuclear arms race in the Mideast. He also wanted the predecessor to AIPAC to register a a foreign lobby.
Israel was allowed to acquire nuclear weapons and AIPAC was never forced to register as agents of a foreign power after his death.
The next lie is such a whopper that I doubt even the biggest cretin on network TV would believe it though they know better than to allow us to discuss it on air. The lie would be that there are auditing procedure in place to prevent evil people from systematically looting federal spending.
You have probably seen the September 10th, 2001 interview with Donald Rumsfeld on CBS in which he admits he could not trace 2.3 trillion dollars in Department of Defense spending. He promised us that he would institute some kind of accounting procedures so we could trace the taxpayers money at an undisclosed future date.
Rabbi Dov Zakheim was the Comptroller of the Pentagon on 9-11. He had 600 military and civilian personnel busily trying to trace that money when according to April Gallop, a third generation soldier, Lt Colonel Karen Kwiatowski USAF and Robert Andrews, a former Green Beret who was Acting Assistant Director of the DOD for Special Operations, a bomb exploded killing the men and women attempting to recover the 2.3 trillion dollars that persons unknown had stolen. That was before what was alleged to have been Flight 77 struck the building.
So why no mention of this bomb in the mainstream news? So why were no crime scene photos of the interior of the Pentagon ever released?
I would be remiss in not pointing out the work of Catherine Austin Fitts who has revealed that tens of billions were sucked out of the Department of Housing and Urban Development. She once found one single block in San Diego with ten loans totaling 20 million dollars on buildings that never existed.
Catherine said that Wall Street is systematically looting the taxpayers of trillions of dollars which they are sending overseas and investing in drug money laundering and other schemes so they can buy America for pennies on the dollar and turn you into the slave they obviously think you are.
The next lie is that 19 Arabs with box cutters hijacked four airliners on 911.
I once posted a list of the passengers and crew from the four planes as originally published by CNN.
Surprise. Surprise. There were no Arabs on any of the planes. The list of 19 Arab names was conveniently found in the trunk of a car along with obligatory copies of the Qur’an. As if possession of the Qur’an were proof of a crime.
So how did those 19 men get past the ticket agents without IDs, boarding passes and tickets?
Some have speculated about Rabbi Dov Zakheim. Before he was Comptroller of the DOD in charge of the missing trillions of dollars, he was CEO of SPC International which made the Command Transmitter System. This allowed one operator to remotely control multiple planes. They say this is how three of the four planes reached their targets without qualified pilots on board.
Mike Rivero has speculated that Flight 93 was shot down over Pennsylvania because the pilots and crew had broken free from CTS control and could not be allowed to land and say, “What Arabs? There were no Arabs on board. We had to regain control of the aircraft from Rabbi Zakheim’s remote control system.”
Anyone who would accuse me of being anti-Semitic for mentioning Rabbi Zakheim and thinks I made up those CNN passenger and crew lists can leave a comment and I will publish the list so we can all judge for ourselves who is lying.
I am not anti-Semitic. I did not mention that John Wilkes Booth and Donald Rumsfeld were Jewish.
While we are on the subject of 911, I would like to dispense with the lie that two airliners filled with jet fuel took down World Trade Center Towers 1, 2 and 7. Please note there were 2 planes and 3 towers that fell down that day. Tower 7 was 47 stories high and was never hit by a plane but it did collapse in 6.5 seconds.
The first thing to point out before watching a video of WTC 7 collapsing is that not one window melted. This is amazing considering that windows melt at 800 degrees Fahrenheit or 426.66 Celsius. Steel melts at 2,200 degrees Fahrenheit or 1,204.44 Celsius. This would suggest either an intelligent fire that avoided the windows and consciously chose to melt the steel girders from all 47 stories simultaneously or a controlled demolition.
An intelligent fire is not likely.
You could Google WTC + nanothermite and discover that thermite is a metal oxide invented in the 19th century and used by welders to greatly increase their flame by adding oxygen to cut metals.
Nanothermite has a much greater surface area in relation to its volume. If you spray nanothermite on steel girders and ignite it remotely, then you can collapse an entire building in seconds without melting the glass. Nanothermite burns at over 5,200 degrees Fahrenheit or 2,871.11 Celsius and cuts through steel girders in seconds.
Unfortunately for the TV 911 hucksters, Nanothermite is only available from Above Top Secret military labs in the US and Israel.
Traces of nanothermite were found in the rubble at 911 by many well respected researchers. I should also mention that more than 400,000 cubic yards of concrete were transformed into fine dust in a matter of seconds. That could not be done by anything less than very advanced weapons available only to a few governments.
You can’t buy either nanothermite or advanced military explosives on EBAY from a cave in Afghanistan.
Before leaving the subject of 911, I would like to mention Jane Stanley, the BBC and WTC 7. The BBC presenter in London announced that they had just received word that a third building had collapsed in New York on 911 and switched to Jane Stanley. You can see WTC 7 clearly still standing in the background behind Ms Stanley.
Yet she prattled on for several minuted before BBC cut away from her. She calls WTC 7 the Solomon building. BBC later admitted that they had been informed prematurely by Reuters that WTC 7 had collapsed.
England had just come off Summer Time but America was still on Daylight Savings which could account for the mistake in time differences.
An anti-Semite would point out that the Rothschilds own Reuters and Associated Press. An Anti-Semite would ask why no Rothschild was called before the 911 Commission and asked how he knew WTC 7 was going to collapse half an hour or more before it did fall down?
I would like to discuss the myth of free trade next. In 1994 the Congress and Bill Clinton passed the North American Free Trade Act (NAFTA) and the WTO. China devalued their currency and American jobs have been fleeing ever since.
Since 2000 43,000 American manufacturing plants have been closed. The US has over 3,000 counties and 300 million people so the average county has around 100,000 people and lost 14 manufacturing plants.
I believe this de-industrialization has been deliberate so America can more easily be conquered. The people who think they own you and your government do not like you, the Bill of Rights and your stinking democracy.
They want you to lose WW III.
The next lie has to be the whole Mortgage Backed Securities (MBS) fraud and the banker Bailouts. Depending on how you count it, the Bailout to date has cost us more than 27 trillion dollars. These bailouts were never intended to cure the recession and to create jobs for anyone outside Wall Street.
Of course you have not paid off the whole of the 27 trillion dollar Bailout bill. The remainder will be paid by you when the price of food doubles, triples and quadruples.
Blythe Masters invented Credit Default Swaps (CDS) while she was still working at JP Morgan’s London office. A CDS is a hybrid between insurance and a derivative which is a bet on the future value of a bond or a commodity.
Today there are 1.5 quadrillion dollars worth of CDS out there. The only guarantee for their payment in case of failure is your ability as a taxpayer to increase the amount of taxes you pay by a thousand or two thousand percent.
Blythe and CDS made the MBS fraud possible. It is illegal to sell securities that you know to be worthless. It is illegal to give mortgages to people you know had no ability to pay.
I once knew an Asian woman with a job paying ten dollars an hour. Her husband refused to work more than one month every two years. They were illegal aliens and had three children to support. She told her mortgage brokers she did not earn enough money to make the payments. But they told her they would loan her enough money to make the payments so she signed the loan agreement.
This is fraudulent inducement.
But think of the New York bankers who supported NAFTA and knew more than 15 million jobs were going away. They knew that people were taking out loans they intended to pay from the wages they were earning. And the bankers knew those jobs were leaving the country never to return.
That was fraudulent inducement on a massive scale.
These loans were obviously bad loans and could not be sold except as part of a bond that was guaranteed by one of Blythe’s CDS. AIG could sell a lot of CDS and give an absolutely worthless junk bond a AAA rating. This enabled the sale of fraudulent loans.
Many of these mortgages were split up into several different bonds so the bankers could sell the same home loan several times. This also is a fraud. It is no more legal for a banker to sell one home five times than it is for your neighbor to sell his car to five different people.
In 1999 Brooksley Born was head of the Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). She tried to regulate CDS because they would otherwise bankrupt America.
However, four men came to her office and told her not to worry her pretty little head about hundreds of trillions of dollars in potential liabilities to the taxpayers. In that same year the Congress repealed Glass Steagall so the bankers could maximize their fraud and avoid what little regulation there was.
An anti-Semite would mention that the four men (Alan Greenspan, Larry Summers, Robert Rubin and Arthur Levitt) who told Ms Born she could not protect billions of people around the world from trillions of dollars in fraud were all Jewish.
You must understand that the people who steal money by the trillions are important. All those people who have to wake up in the morning and go to work to pay for the Bailouts are of no consequence even if they die of starvation or in a war defending the banks, the oil companies and Israel.
Last year Ben Bernanke was forced to reveal that he created 12.3 trillion dollars in temporary checking account money so he could buy back 6.3 trillion dollars in MBS from the Europeans to keep a lot of criminal bankers out of jail.
Since there was less than 9 trillion dollars in circulation, all that money created for the Bailouts has been inflationary. Blythe Masters is currently VP for Global Commodities at JP Morgan. She is running up the price of gas and food to a point where half the people in the US will soon have to either stop eating or refuse to pay their bills. Millions will not be able to buy food even if they don’t pay their bills.
But the important point is that Blythe Masters is a billionaire. She is only going to make fifty cents to a dollar for every person who dies of starvation but making money is how Wall Street keeps score.
The next lie is that there is an anti-war Left in America resisting all these wars. There is no such animal. On March 19th the US fired 112 missiles at a Muslim nation.
Even Matt Drudge had a headline saying War Number 3. I did not see anyone on the Left get on TV and mention the fact that March 19th was the 8th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq.
But then Veterans for Peace were all locked up in jail for protesting the Iraq war at the White House so they have an excused absence.
I should mention that Martin Luther King was assassinated on the anniversary of his famous anti-war speech at Riverside church as a warning to us all not to oppose all those wars Wall Street and Israel have arranged to kill you and your children.
While on this topic, I should tell you that the Zionists and Wall Street want America to lose WW III. As I already said, If they wanted you to win the next war, they would not have sent all your jobs and industries overseas.
We cannot fight wars without the permission of China and Russia. We have to borrow money to buy the things we no longer make. If China says, sit then the American dog must sit. But that too was by design.
What bankers and Israel want America to do is to attack Syria and Iran, kill a few hundred million Muslims, steal the oil for Israel and lose the war so Americans cannot demand the return of the tens of trillions of dollars the bankers stole from you.
Do you understand that bankers despise you, your family and any nation to which you pledge your allegiance?
Perhaps I should end my list of lies with a general statement about the environment. The bankers hijacked the environmentalist movement as they did the peaceniks.
I saw an article about a plume of oil more than a hundred miles long on the surface of the Gulf of Mexico just recently. The press corps has not asked Obama anything about this yet.
Where is Helen Thomas when we need her?
There is an oil industry practice known as fracking. The oil well drillers send pressure down a pipe beneath the surface of the earth, fracturing it and releasing oil from the shale deposits underground.
On dry land fracking pollutes drinking water and endangers human health. On the surface of the sea bed this practice can fracture the earth and send a few billion barrels of oil to the surface.
Not to worry. The government and the oil companies can dump a lot of toxic Correxit into the Gulf of wherever and poison millions of people. When it comes to poisons, out of sight is out of mind at least as far as the banks and oil companies are concerned.
Did you know that Joe Stalin was the first man in history to use fluoride to make inmates docile? Hitler copied Stalin and the US government thought so highly of their concentration camps that they put fluoride into our water.
So what if fluoride causes bone cancer. At least the peasants aren’t chasing bankers with pitchforks.
If you want to learn what vaccines are really doing, Google “brain eating vaccines” .
This is not an exhaustive list of the lies you must believe to function as a loyal supporter of the Empire.
If you are thinking a slave’s rebellion will improve your future, please realize it will not work until the unemployment rate hits 30%.
That will happen soon enough so we need to hammer away at the lies. There are the tens of trillions of dollars stolen from us, the inflation and the Debt Bomb designed to steal our money, the wars and the environmental poisons put in place to kill us.
Some people only care about one or more of the above issues. Hammer away at the issues they do care about. Explain the issues they do not understand. Inform them about the money stolen through mortgage fraud and Bailouts.
Explain to them why JFK and MLK were assassinated.
Explain to them that just as all roads led to Rome under the Caesars so all roads laden with corruption, treason betrayal and lies in the modern world lead to Israel.
We will soon reach a critical point where the lies will melt down the foundations of this Empire and free the slaves.
This Empire is dead. All that remains is to write its obituary.
Long live the Second Republic.
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"Lifting the Veil Video
Make sure to listen just a few minutes in to our President's words as he campaigned for the office he now holds.
The applause from the audience demonstrates that the American people want torture to stop, the wars to stop - etc... Hence his election.
If you are not angry after watching this video, that is, if you were one of those who voted for the mystery man - I don't know what can help awaken you.
If you are pro-war and didn't vote for him since he pledged to end the wars and the torture - I wonder why you don't love the man - since he has done nothing but continue the insane war policies of the previous corrupter-in-chief. What's NOT to like about him if you want to keep Gitmo open, continue wars based upon lies based upon torture. Why not like a guy who goes to bat for the banks with your tax-bailout money - while letting your property be taken from you during difficult financial times with no relief for you?
Something is rotten in the District. Everybody is waking up to the alarming reality that we no longer have a functioning government.
If you don't believe me, ask how a UN resolution to bomb Libya can commit U.S. troops anywhere when only Congress has the power to declare war according to the United States Constitution? The only conclusion one can logically reach is that our government is a facade. The Constitution is blatantly ignored. The people are left to fend for themselves as the public treasury is looted and private property is confiscated.
This is an important video that may remind you how we got to where we are right now. No - it's not the fault of the people of the United States for what is going on - after all they voted for the opposite of what they got. It's the fault of the liars and political manipulators that led Americans into a trap. But it will have to be the people that fix this.
Awakening to the phony left vs. right fraud is an important realization that will bring us together to get our common goals accomplished. There is always room for disagreement on certain issues - but it is important not to let the propagandists manipulate us with the divisive issues that are dragged out of the closet every election cycle.
Yes - abortion and gay rights and guns are used as dividers. But we need to see through this smokescreen first to get to the core of our problems. The wars are bankrupting our nation. Yet they are not mentioned much in the mainstream media. Why? As always - who benefits?
The revolution has begun whether you like it or not. If you are a newcomer - you'd better get busy getting caught up on who has been benefitting as you've been losing. That's always a great place to start. Once motive can be seen, one can move on to means and opportunity. All you have to do is look. The information is there.
The decentralized peaceful civil disobedience method is the name of the game today. The more voices the better - hopefully we can get our government back under control before things actually do turn violent.
Use your voice while you still can.
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"Webb: "This isn't the way our system is supposed to work" Videos
It is ironic that the only people who do not yet realize that we are living in a dictatorship are the professional liars in the media and the lemmings in Congress. Poor Webb. I wonder what it's like being him - just kind of bumbling around talking with a paid omitter in the media about this myth that our government has checks and balances. One such mythical check is the "power of the purse" - where Congress can take away the dictator's money - but why do that when the merchants of death that got our "representatives" into office in the first place will be the first to feel the pain?
Our "representatives" are out of excuses - and as the pictures of the death and destruction sown by American arms paid for with my tax money trickle in - it is obvious that we are indeed simply living in a dictatorship.
We can all wake up now to the realization that if Congress cannot stop the Executive on this matter of undeclared and unending and undefinable war chasing ghosts - regardless of which actor presently occupies the Oval Office - regardless of which phony political party/front said dictator has adopted as a cover - we are doomed as a free nation.
The blatancy with which the Executive branch acts and has acted for years demonstrates a true lack of fear of the Congress - and of the people of the United States. The total disregard for the United States Constitution is out in the open - and it is becoming impossible even for the Pentagon lie factory to hide.
If Congress, and that means Webb and the rest of them, don't act now - there will be no more point in the debate regarding what needs to be done. The public will finally realize that they are the final check on the out-of-control U.S. federal government.
Nothing I am saying is news to those of us who have followed our descent into dictatorship. War now in Libya. Undeclared and undebated by Congress - but gee willikers - the UN said it's OK. Talk about stupid.
Once more the bullets fly, the kids die, the missiles flash, the bombs crash, the blood spills, the cash tills... and .........nothing. Just more war. Syria and Iran are likely already in the making. But this is impossible for a Congressperson to grasp. Their mental capacity toggles between catering to the rich, pissing away money, deciding how they want their filet cooked, and which wines they haven't yet tried on the wine list.
Since the dictator-handlers know the American public will eventually awaken from their trance one day - it will necessitate yet a new, new "Pearl Harbor-like Event" - and the cycle of violence can begin again - as Congressional and the American public herds are stampeded off the next crisis-cliff. And naturally and as usual - this crisis will REQUIRE that their unalienable rights be smashed to death upon impact.
Yes - it is interesting indeed to watch Webb and the rest of them dawdle while our new World War dawns with the punctuality of a rising sun. I can only imagine the yet-unwritten list of the dead sure to come on all sides of this conflict. I doubt any of the names will include the international bankers, arms dealers, or other merchants of death standing ready to profit from the sales of everything from bombs, bullets and bodybags. Somehow the grisly nature of the human slaughter business hasn't reached the minds of the masses. It certainly hasn't done much to move Congress.
Thanks to all in government - Congress especially - for your blindness to reality. For your sugar-coating of the war industry, and your never-ending "patriotism" and "support" for our troops.
Oh Congress - just remember how easy things could have been had you only acted when there was still time. If only you'd paid attention to those warning you of the patterns in public affairs - that there really are conspiracies that involve power and control. If only you'd read a history book and something sank in.
Yes, a Rubicon has been crossed as the dictators of today escape those entrusted to keep them on a short leash. Let's all hope they realize the monster is loose before it's too late to put the collar back on.
Some in Congress know how dangerous this situation is - who will team up? Will Webb team up with them?
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March 21, 2011
The Empire that rules over us like all others before it has resorted to lies to keep the society together. In a small community trust is like the mortar that holds separate bricks together to form one cohesive and enduring building. Yet even the dimmest bulb can clearly see that America is failing to function and is near collapse.
We have reached a point where the lies are no longer believed by the majority. In the preceding sentence I left out the word citizens because Empires do not have citizens with rights. Everyone below the rank of Emperor is a slave.
In modern America if you are not a billionaire like Lloyd Blankfein, Blythe Masters, Jamie Dimon or Rupert Murdoch, you might as well be a landless peasant under Ivan the Terrible or a black slave in 1827.
If you are under the illusion that you are a free man or woman, please go to any airport and explain to the TSA that you are a citizen of the American Republic and that the Bill of Rights protects you against all unreasonable searches and seizures without due process of law and probable cause
In keeping with Fukushima I will say that America is at a point where we are reaching critical mass and the lies will on their own ignite into a fireball of sustained reaction bringing down the old regime and freeing the commoners to form a Second Republic.
I will list and briefly explain a few of the more obvious lies. I will then explain how we can tie all of these lies together into one whole that will take the Empire down.
I think the father of lies in America has to be the Federal Reserve. It is a privately owned bank. Yet it issues our currency. Imagine that you were a counterfeiter and had a license to lawfully print all the Federal Reserve Notes you wanted provided you only circulate your bogus dollars by loaning them either to the government , to businesses or to individuals
Since you only printed enough dollars to pay back the principal and not the interest, each year you must print exponentially more money until all nations who tolerate your fraud are burdened with a Debt Bomb that can only be canceled through either a 1923 Wiemar Republic style hyperinflation or a 1933 type of Deflationary Depression.
The Russian demographer Borisov said millions died of starvation in the American Great Depression.
But why would you expect a banker to care about you and your family?
The next lie is the Myth of the Balanced Budget and the two party system. The hicks and boobs are allowed to choose between two parties both of which have candidates approved for them by Wall Street.
Yet we have a banking system written by Wall Street which does not allow us to create money so we can buy and sell unless we have first accepted a loan.
This means if the Right and Left ever agreed to savagely cut benefits and wars and passed a confiscatory tax on all savings and pensions, we would cancel all 20 trillion dollars in US debt and the bonds guaranteed by Fannie Mae and the other agencies.
At that point, we would not have any money because repaying a debt cancels money in circulation under the Federal Reserve system. We would not have a currency until we agreed to borrow more counterfeit money from the bankers.
We are in a very deep hole dug for us by Wall Street who knew there was no way out for us in 1910 when at a private meeting the bankers wrote the legislation that created the Federal Reserve.
The bankers will not allow you to freely discuss any rational solution that will work. They will allow morons to prattle on foolishly to let you think that the First Amendment still applies.
The third lie has to be the Kennedy assassination. The first thing I would say of his murder is that it occurred on November 22nd. Look at every book on the Kennedy assassination and try in vain to find the following point:
The Federal Reserve legislation was written by a private group of bankers at Jekyll Island in November of 1910. But their first meeting was held on November 22nd in the private rail car that took the conspirators from New Jersey to Georgia.
JFK signed Executive Order 11110 which ordered the Treasurer to print US Banknotes to replace Federal Reserve Notes. These debt free notes were taken out of circulation as soon as JFK was dead. If he had lived, we could have a debt free currency and live in a nation without a national debt or a Debt Bomb hanging over us.
If you see anything about the JFK assassination which does not include the fact that the President was murdered on November 22nd as a warning to every American that Wall Street controls your money and is allowed to steal every last dime, then ignore it.
I would however lend some credence to what Mordecai Vanunu said about Israel killing JFK because he opposed a nuclear arms race in the Mideast. He also wanted the predecessor to AIPAC to register a a foreign lobby.
Israel was allowed to acquire nuclear weapons and AIPAC was never forced to register as agents of a foreign power after his death.
The next lie is such a whopper that I doubt even the biggest cretin on network TV would believe it though they know better than to allow us to discuss it on air. The lie would be that there are auditing procedure in place to prevent evil people from systematically looting federal spending.
You have probably seen the September 10th, 2001 interview with Donald Rumsfeld on CBS in which he admits he could not trace 2.3 trillion dollars in Department of Defense spending. He promised us that he would institute some kind of accounting procedures so we could trace the taxpayers money at an undisclosed future date.
Rabbi Dov Zakheim was the Comptroller of the Pentagon on 9-11. He had 600 military and civilian personnel busily trying to trace that money when according to April Gallop, a third generation soldier, Lt Colonel Karen Kwiatowski USAF and Robert Andrews, a former Green Beret who was Acting Assistant Director of the DOD for Special Operations, a bomb exploded killing the men and women attempting to recover the 2.3 trillion dollars that persons unknown had stolen. That was before what was alleged to have been Flight 77 struck the building.
So why no mention of this bomb in the mainstream news? So why were no crime scene photos of the interior of the Pentagon ever released?
I would be remiss in not pointing out the work of Catherine Austin Fitts who has revealed that tens of billions were sucked out of the Department of Housing and Urban Development. She once found one single block in San Diego with ten loans totaling 20 million dollars on buildings that never existed.
Catherine said that Wall Street is systematically looting the taxpayers of trillions of dollars which they are sending overseas and investing in drug money laundering and other schemes so they can buy America for pennies on the dollar and turn you into the slave they obviously think you are.
The next lie is that 19 Arabs with box cutters hijacked four airliners on 911.
I once posted a list of the passengers and crew from the four planes as originally published by CNN.
Surprise. Surprise. There were no Arabs on any of the planes. The list of 19 Arab names was conveniently found in the trunk of a car along with obligatory copies of the Qur’an. As if possession of the Qur’an were proof of a crime.
So how did those 19 men get past the ticket agents without IDs, boarding passes and tickets?
Some have speculated about Rabbi Dov Zakheim. Before he was Comptroller of the DOD in charge of the missing trillions of dollars, he was CEO of SPC International which made the Command Transmitter System. This allowed one operator to remotely control multiple planes. They say this is how three of the four planes reached their targets without qualified pilots on board.
Mike Rivero has speculated that Flight 93 was shot down over Pennsylvania because the pilots and crew had broken free from CTS control and could not be allowed to land and say, “What Arabs? There were no Arabs on board. We had to regain control of the aircraft from Rabbi Zakheim’s remote control system.”
Anyone who would accuse me of being anti-Semitic for mentioning Rabbi Zakheim and thinks I made up those CNN passenger and crew lists can leave a comment and I will publish the list so we can all judge for ourselves who is lying.
I am not anti-Semitic. I did not mention that John Wilkes Booth and Donald Rumsfeld were Jewish.
While we are on the subject of 911, I would like to dispense with the lie that two airliners filled with jet fuel took down World Trade Center Towers 1, 2 and 7. Please note there were 2 planes and 3 towers that fell down that day. Tower 7 was 47 stories high and was never hit by a plane but it did collapse in 6.5 seconds.
The first thing to point out before watching a video of WTC 7 collapsing is that not one window melted. This is amazing considering that windows melt at 800 degrees Fahrenheit or 426.66 Celsius. Steel melts at 2,200 degrees Fahrenheit or 1,204.44 Celsius. This would suggest either an intelligent fire that avoided the windows and consciously chose to melt the steel girders from all 47 stories simultaneously or a controlled demolition.
An intelligent fire is not likely.
You could Google WTC + nanothermite and discover that thermite is a metal oxide invented in the 19th century and used by welders to greatly increase their flame by adding oxygen to cut metals.
Nanothermite has a much greater surface area in relation to its volume. If you spray nanothermite on steel girders and ignite it remotely, then you can collapse an entire building in seconds without melting the glass. Nanothermite burns at over 5,200 degrees Fahrenheit or 2,871.11 Celsius and cuts through steel girders in seconds.
Unfortunately for the TV 911 hucksters, Nanothermite is only available from Above Top Secret military labs in the US and Israel.
Traces of nanothermite were found in the rubble at 911 by many well respected researchers. I should also mention that more than 400,000 cubic yards of concrete were transformed into fine dust in a matter of seconds. That could not be done by anything less than very advanced weapons available only to a few governments.
You can’t buy either nanothermite or advanced military explosives on EBAY from a cave in Afghanistan.
Before leaving the subject of 911, I would like to mention Jane Stanley, the BBC and WTC 7. The BBC presenter in London announced that they had just received word that a third building had collapsed in New York on 911 and switched to Jane Stanley. You can see WTC 7 clearly still standing in the background behind Ms Stanley.
Yet she prattled on for several minuted before BBC cut away from her. She calls WTC 7 the Solomon building. BBC later admitted that they had been informed prematurely by Reuters that WTC 7 had collapsed.
England had just come off Summer Time but America was still on Daylight Savings which could account for the mistake in time differences.
An anti-Semite would point out that the Rothschilds own Reuters and Associated Press. An Anti-Semite would ask why no Rothschild was called before the 911 Commission and asked how he knew WTC 7 was going to collapse half an hour or more before it did fall down?
I would like to discuss the myth of free trade next. In 1994 the Congress and Bill Clinton passed the North American Free Trade Act (NAFTA) and the WTO. China devalued their currency and American jobs have been fleeing ever since.
Since 2000 43,000 American manufacturing plants have been closed. The US has over 3,000 counties and 300 million people so the average county has around 100,000 people and lost 14 manufacturing plants.
I believe this de-industrialization has been deliberate so America can more easily be conquered. The people who think they own you and your government do not like you, the Bill of Rights and your stinking democracy.
They want you to lose WW III.
The next lie has to be the whole Mortgage Backed Securities (MBS) fraud and the banker Bailouts. Depending on how you count it, the Bailout to date has cost us more than 27 trillion dollars. These bailouts were never intended to cure the recession and to create jobs for anyone outside Wall Street.
Of course you have not paid off the whole of the 27 trillion dollar Bailout bill. The remainder will be paid by you when the price of food doubles, triples and quadruples.
Blythe Masters invented Credit Default Swaps (CDS) while she was still working at JP Morgan’s London office. A CDS is a hybrid between insurance and a derivative which is a bet on the future value of a bond or a commodity.
Today there are 1.5 quadrillion dollars worth of CDS out there. The only guarantee for their payment in case of failure is your ability as a taxpayer to increase the amount of taxes you pay by a thousand or two thousand percent.
Blythe and CDS made the MBS fraud possible. It is illegal to sell securities that you know to be worthless. It is illegal to give mortgages to people you know had no ability to pay.
I once knew an Asian woman with a job paying ten dollars an hour. Her husband refused to work more than one month every two years. They were illegal aliens and had three children to support. She told her mortgage brokers she did not earn enough money to make the payments. But they told her they would loan her enough money to make the payments so she signed the loan agreement.
This is fraudulent inducement.
But think of the New York bankers who supported NAFTA and knew more than 15 million jobs were going away. They knew that people were taking out loans they intended to pay from the wages they were earning. And the bankers knew those jobs were leaving the country never to return.
That was fraudulent inducement on a massive scale.
These loans were obviously bad loans and could not be sold except as part of a bond that was guaranteed by one of Blythe’s CDS. AIG could sell a lot of CDS and give an absolutely worthless junk bond a AAA rating. This enabled the sale of fraudulent loans.
Many of these mortgages were split up into several different bonds so the bankers could sell the same home loan several times. This also is a fraud. It is no more legal for a banker to sell one home five times than it is for your neighbor to sell his car to five different people.
In 1999 Brooksley Born was head of the Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). She tried to regulate CDS because they would otherwise bankrupt America.
However, four men came to her office and told her not to worry her pretty little head about hundreds of trillions of dollars in potential liabilities to the taxpayers. In that same year the Congress repealed Glass Steagall so the bankers could maximize their fraud and avoid what little regulation there was.
An anti-Semite would mention that the four men (Alan Greenspan, Larry Summers, Robert Rubin and Arthur Levitt) who told Ms Born she could not protect billions of people around the world from trillions of dollars in fraud were all Jewish.
You must understand that the people who steal money by the trillions are important. All those people who have to wake up in the morning and go to work to pay for the Bailouts are of no consequence even if they die of starvation or in a war defending the banks, the oil companies and Israel.
Last year Ben Bernanke was forced to reveal that he created 12.3 trillion dollars in temporary checking account money so he could buy back 6.3 trillion dollars in MBS from the Europeans to keep a lot of criminal bankers out of jail.
Since there was less than 9 trillion dollars in circulation, all that money created for the Bailouts has been inflationary. Blythe Masters is currently VP for Global Commodities at JP Morgan. She is running up the price of gas and food to a point where half the people in the US will soon have to either stop eating or refuse to pay their bills. Millions will not be able to buy food even if they don’t pay their bills.
But the important point is that Blythe Masters is a billionaire. She is only going to make fifty cents to a dollar for every person who dies of starvation but making money is how Wall Street keeps score.
The next lie is that there is an anti-war Left in America resisting all these wars. There is no such animal. On March 19th the US fired 112 missiles at a Muslim nation.
Even Matt Drudge had a headline saying War Number 3. I did not see anyone on the Left get on TV and mention the fact that March 19th was the 8th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq.
But then Veterans for Peace were all locked up in jail for protesting the Iraq war at the White House so they have an excused absence.
I should mention that Martin Luther King was assassinated on the anniversary of his famous anti-war speech at Riverside church as a warning to us all not to oppose all those wars Wall Street and Israel have arranged to kill you and your children.
While on this topic, I should tell you that the Zionists and Wall Street want America to lose WW III. As I already said, If they wanted you to win the next war, they would not have sent all your jobs and industries overseas.
We cannot fight wars without the permission of China and Russia. We have to borrow money to buy the things we no longer make. If China says, sit then the American dog must sit. But that too was by design.
What bankers and Israel want America to do is to attack Syria and Iran, kill a few hundred million Muslims, steal the oil for Israel and lose the war so Americans cannot demand the return of the tens of trillions of dollars the bankers stole from you.
Do you understand that bankers despise you, your family and any nation to which you pledge your allegiance?
Perhaps I should end my list of lies with a general statement about the environment. The bankers hijacked the environmentalist movement as they did the peaceniks.
I saw an article about a plume of oil more than a hundred miles long on the surface of the Gulf of Mexico just recently. The press corps has not asked Obama anything about this yet.
Where is Helen Thomas when we need her?
There is an oil industry practice known as fracking. The oil well drillers send pressure down a pipe beneath the surface of the earth, fracturing it and releasing oil from the shale deposits underground.
On dry land fracking pollutes drinking water and endangers human health. On the surface of the sea bed this practice can fracture the earth and send a few billion barrels of oil to the surface.
Not to worry. The government and the oil companies can dump a lot of toxic Correxit into the Gulf of wherever and poison millions of people. When it comes to poisons, out of sight is out of mind at least as far as the banks and oil companies are concerned.
Did you know that Joe Stalin was the first man in history to use fluoride to make inmates docile? Hitler copied Stalin and the US government thought so highly of their concentration camps that they put fluoride into our water.
So what if fluoride causes bone cancer. At least the peasants aren’t chasing bankers with pitchforks.
If you want to learn what vaccines are really doing, Google “brain eating vaccines” .
This is not an exhaustive list of the lies you must believe to function as a loyal supporter of the Empire.
If you are thinking a slave’s rebellion will improve your future, please realize it will not work until the unemployment rate hits 30%.
That will happen soon enough so we need to hammer away at the lies. There are the tens of trillions of dollars stolen from us, the inflation and the Debt Bomb designed to steal our money, the wars and the environmental poisons put in place to kill us.
Some people only care about one or more of the above issues. Hammer away at the issues they do care about. Explain the issues they do not understand. Inform them about the money stolen through mortgage fraud and Bailouts.
Explain to them why JFK and MLK were assassinated.
Explain to them that just as all roads led to Rome under the Caesars so all roads laden with corruption, treason betrayal and lies in the modern world lead to Israel.
We will soon reach a critical point where the lies will melt down the foundations of this Empire and free the slaves.
This Empire is dead. All that remains is to write its obituary.
Long live the Second Republic.
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"Lifting the Veil Video
Make sure to listen just a few minutes in to our President's words as he campaigned for the office he now holds.
The applause from the audience demonstrates that the American people want torture to stop, the wars to stop - etc... Hence his election.
If you are not angry after watching this video, that is, if you were one of those who voted for the mystery man - I don't know what can help awaken you.
If you are pro-war and didn't vote for him since he pledged to end the wars and the torture - I wonder why you don't love the man - since he has done nothing but continue the insane war policies of the previous corrupter-in-chief. What's NOT to like about him if you want to keep Gitmo open, continue wars based upon lies based upon torture. Why not like a guy who goes to bat for the banks with your tax-bailout money - while letting your property be taken from you during difficult financial times with no relief for you?
Something is rotten in the District. Everybody is waking up to the alarming reality that we no longer have a functioning government.
If you don't believe me, ask how a UN resolution to bomb Libya can commit U.S. troops anywhere when only Congress has the power to declare war according to the United States Constitution? The only conclusion one can logically reach is that our government is a facade. The Constitution is blatantly ignored. The people are left to fend for themselves as the public treasury is looted and private property is confiscated.
This is an important video that may remind you how we got to where we are right now. No - it's not the fault of the people of the United States for what is going on - after all they voted for the opposite of what they got. It's the fault of the liars and political manipulators that led Americans into a trap. But it will have to be the people that fix this.
Awakening to the phony left vs. right fraud is an important realization that will bring us together to get our common goals accomplished. There is always room for disagreement on certain issues - but it is important not to let the propagandists manipulate us with the divisive issues that are dragged out of the closet every election cycle.
Yes - abortion and gay rights and guns are used as dividers. But we need to see through this smokescreen first to get to the core of our problems. The wars are bankrupting our nation. Yet they are not mentioned much in the mainstream media. Why? As always - who benefits?
The revolution has begun whether you like it or not. If you are a newcomer - you'd better get busy getting caught up on who has been benefitting as you've been losing. That's always a great place to start. Once motive can be seen, one can move on to means and opportunity. All you have to do is look. The information is there.
The decentralized peaceful civil disobedience method is the name of the game today. The more voices the better - hopefully we can get our government back under control before things actually do turn violent.
Use your voice while you still can.
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"Webb: "This isn't the way our system is supposed to work" Videos
It is ironic that the only people who do not yet realize that we are living in a dictatorship are the professional liars in the media and the lemmings in Congress. Poor Webb. I wonder what it's like being him - just kind of bumbling around talking with a paid omitter in the media about this myth that our government has checks and balances. One such mythical check is the "power of the purse" - where Congress can take away the dictator's money - but why do that when the merchants of death that got our "representatives" into office in the first place will be the first to feel the pain?
Our "representatives" are out of excuses - and as the pictures of the death and destruction sown by American arms paid for with my tax money trickle in - it is obvious that we are indeed simply living in a dictatorship.
We can all wake up now to the realization that if Congress cannot stop the Executive on this matter of undeclared and unending and undefinable war chasing ghosts - regardless of which actor presently occupies the Oval Office - regardless of which phony political party/front said dictator has adopted as a cover - we are doomed as a free nation.
The blatancy with which the Executive branch acts and has acted for years demonstrates a true lack of fear of the Congress - and of the people of the United States. The total disregard for the United States Constitution is out in the open - and it is becoming impossible even for the Pentagon lie factory to hide.
If Congress, and that means Webb and the rest of them, don't act now - there will be no more point in the debate regarding what needs to be done. The public will finally realize that they are the final check on the out-of-control U.S. federal government.
Nothing I am saying is news to those of us who have followed our descent into dictatorship. War now in Libya. Undeclared and undebated by Congress - but gee willikers - the UN said it's OK. Talk about stupid.
Once more the bullets fly, the kids die, the missiles flash, the bombs crash, the blood spills, the cash tills... and .........nothing. Just more war. Syria and Iran are likely already in the making. But this is impossible for a Congressperson to grasp. Their mental capacity toggles between catering to the rich, pissing away money, deciding how they want their filet cooked, and which wines they haven't yet tried on the wine list.
Since the dictator-handlers know the American public will eventually awaken from their trance one day - it will necessitate yet a new, new "Pearl Harbor-like Event" - and the cycle of violence can begin again - as Congressional and the American public herds are stampeded off the next crisis-cliff. And naturally and as usual - this crisis will REQUIRE that their unalienable rights be smashed to death upon impact.
Yes - it is interesting indeed to watch Webb and the rest of them dawdle while our new World War dawns with the punctuality of a rising sun. I can only imagine the yet-unwritten list of the dead sure to come on all sides of this conflict. I doubt any of the names will include the international bankers, arms dealers, or other merchants of death standing ready to profit from the sales of everything from bombs, bullets and bodybags. Somehow the grisly nature of the human slaughter business hasn't reached the minds of the masses. It certainly hasn't done much to move Congress.
Thanks to all in government - Congress especially - for your blindness to reality. For your sugar-coating of the war industry, and your never-ending "patriotism" and "support" for our troops.
Oh Congress - just remember how easy things could have been had you only acted when there was still time. If only you'd paid attention to those warning you of the patterns in public affairs - that there really are conspiracies that involve power and control. If only you'd read a history book and something sank in.
Yes, a Rubicon has been crossed as the dictators of today escape those entrusted to keep them on a short leash. Let's all hope they realize the monster is loose before it's too late to put the collar back on.
Some in Congress know how dangerous this situation is - who will team up? Will Webb team up with them?
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Monday, March 7, 2011
American Treason
"Wall Street Journal - U.S. Wavers on 'Regime Change'
After weeks of internal debate on how to respond to uprisings in the Arab world, the Obama administration is settling on a Middle East strategy: help keep longtime allies who are willing to reform in power, even if that means the full democratic demands of their newly emboldened citizens might have to wait.
"I hate being right all the time.
Israel decides they want Qaddafi to stay in power and hires mercenaries (with US taxpayer money) to crush the freedom movement, so President Pussy, as I predicted he would, drops all pretense about Democracy and "Will of the people" and bows to his Israeli masters to keep a tyrant in power.
For over 200 years, young Americans have risked and lost life and limb fighting for the principles of Democracy and freedom this nation was founded on, and to please their Israeli masters the US Government has just lightly cast aside everything those soldiers were crippled and killed to preserve. Obama and Israel's lackeys in Congress just spit in the face of every man and woman in uniform who joined the military to preserve the principles of Democracy, and now may find themselves ordered to protect a dictator.
"We have always been at war with Eastasia" -- 1984
If the US Government is willing to turn their backs on Democracy in other nations when Israel commands it; do you think they will hesitate to turn their backs on Democracy in this country when Israel demands it?
Please share this treason against the founding principles of the United States with everyone you know. I am going to keep this story at the top of the page for a while today." -- What Really Happened
After weeks of internal debate on how to respond to uprisings in the Arab world, the Obama administration is settling on a Middle East strategy: help keep longtime allies who are willing to reform in power, even if that means the full democratic demands of their newly emboldened citizens might have to wait.
"I hate being right all the time.
Israel decides they want Qaddafi to stay in power and hires mercenaries (with US taxpayer money) to crush the freedom movement, so President Pussy, as I predicted he would, drops all pretense about Democracy and "Will of the people" and bows to his Israeli masters to keep a tyrant in power.
For over 200 years, young Americans have risked and lost life and limb fighting for the principles of Democracy and freedom this nation was founded on, and to please their Israeli masters the US Government has just lightly cast aside everything those soldiers were crippled and killed to preserve. Obama and Israel's lackeys in Congress just spit in the face of every man and woman in uniform who joined the military to preserve the principles of Democracy, and now may find themselves ordered to protect a dictator.
"We have always been at war with Eastasia" -- 1984
If the US Government is willing to turn their backs on Democracy in other nations when Israel commands it; do you think they will hesitate to turn their backs on Democracy in this country when Israel demands it?
Please share this treason against the founding principles of the United States with everyone you know. I am going to keep this story at the top of the page for a while today." -- What Really Happened
Thursday, March 3, 2011
Joke of the Day
I heard it has gone viral and just wanted to help it along:
"A unionized public employee, a tea party activist and a CEO are sitting at a table with a plate of a dozen cookies in the middle of it. The CEO takes 11 of the cookies, turns to the tea partier and says, "Watch out for that union guy... he wants a piece of your cookie!"-- Wake the Flock Up
It would really be funny were it not so true.
"The Perfidy of Government: Evidence v. Denial
Paul Craig Roberts
Infowars.com
March 2, 2011
This essay is about three recent books that explain how we lost our economy, the Constitution and our civil liberties, and how peace lost out to war.
Matt Taibbi is the best — certainly the most entertaining — financial/political reporter in the country. There is no better book than Griftopia (2010) to which to turn to understand how stupidity, greed, and criminality, spread evenly among policymakers and Wall Street, created the financial crisis that has left Americans overburdened with both private and public debt. Taibbi walks the reader through the fraudulent financial instruments that littered the American, British, and European financial communities with toxic waste. He has figured it all out, and what in other hands might be an arcane account for MBAs is, in Taibbi’s hands, a highly readable and entertaining story.
For the first 65 pages, Taibbi entertains the reader with the inability of the public and politicians to focus on any reality. The financial story begins on page 65 with Fed chairman Alan Greenspan undermining the Glass-Steagall Act leading to its repeal by three political stooges, Gramm-Leach-Bliley. This set the stage for the banksters to leverage debt upon debt until the house of cards collapsed. When Brooksley Born, head of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, attempted to do her regulatory job and regulate derivatives, the Federal Reserve, Treasury, and Securities and Exchange Commission got her bounced out of office. To make certain that no other regulator could protect the financial system and its participants from what was coming, Congress deregulated the derivatives markets by passing the Commodity Futures Modernization Act.
As an Ayn Randian mentality of a self-regulating private sector crowded out prudence, the media cheered. Taibbi captures the era in a sentence: “In was in the immediate wake of all these historically disastrous moves — printing 1.7 trillion new dollars in the middle of a massive stock bubble, dismantling the Glass-Steagall Act, deregulating the derivatives market, blowing off his regulatory authority in the middle of an era of rampant fraud — that Greenspan was upheld by the mainstream financial and political press as a hero of almost Caesarian nature. In February 1999, Time magazine put him on the cover.”
Mortgage securitization allows lenders such as banks to issue mortgages that can be sold to third parties. Instead of making money from the interest from mortgages in its portfolio, the bank issues mortgages for a fee and sells the mortgages. The mortgages are then combined with mortgages sold by other lenders and resold to investors. This development resulted in lenders being less interested in the credit-worthiness of borrowers.
In order to assure investors about credit-worthiness and to appeal to risk-tolerant hedge funds, the next development was to take a pool of mortgages of varying credit-worthiness and to organize them into three tranches. The mortgages were separated into AAA, B grade, and high-risk stuff. The triple A tranche could be sold to pension funds and institutional investors. Hedge funds would take the high-risk tranche for the high-interest rate that they offered, intending to get rid of the mortgages before they had time to go bad. The middle tranche was the one hard to sell. The interest rate on the B-grade tranche was not high enough to appeal to hedge funds, and pension funds were restricted to investment grade.
So what did the banks do? Well, they lumped together all the B-grade tranches and started the process all over. The best of the lot were turned into — you guessed it — AAA, then came the B grade, and then the worst of the lot became the third tranche. And then the process was repeated.
This was bad enough, but even worse was happening. Many of the triple A and B grade mortgages had that rating only because of fraudulent credit scores and rating agencies assigning investment grade ratings to lower grade mortgages. Everyone was focused on short-term profits, from the lenders who churned out mortgages for fees to hedge funds that had no intention of holding the high-risk tranches beyond the short-run. You can see how toxic waste was spread throughout the financial system.
Then it became possible to “insure” the AAA mortgages (many of which were not AAA). Once this happened, financial institutions that were required to maintain reserves against deposits or to capitalize obligations, such as insurance policies, could now substitute higher-paying mortgage derivatives for U.S. Treasury notes and still meet their reserve requirements for a ready cash reserve. Treasury notes are so liquid that they are considered the equivalent of cash, and insured AAA-securitized mortgages acquired similar status.
AIG became the big provider of “insurance” in an operation run by Joe Cassano. Cassano’s “insurance” product is called a credit default swap. It is not insurance, because AIG did not set aside capital to pay any claims. And claims there would be. Not only were the AAA mortgages that were being insured littered with toxic waste, investment banks and hedge funds could purchase swaps against mortgages that they did not even own. As Taibbi puts it, people were gambling in a casino in which gamblers did not have to cover their bets or own the financial instruments that they were insuring.
While Cassano was collecting fees for bets that he could not cover, Win Neuger on the other side of AIG was lending the insurance giant’s long-term portfolio of sound investments to short-sellers for a fee.
Short-selling works like this: A short-seller thinks a company’s stock price is going to fall in value. He borrows the stock from AIG by putting up collateral equal to its market price the day the stock is borrowed plus a small fee, sells the stock, pockets the money and waits for the stock to fall. If his hunch or inside information is correct, and the stock falls in value, he buys the stock and returns it to AIG, pocketing the difference in the two prices.
Normally, people who lend stock to short-sellers are content with the fee and with the interest on the collateral (cash) invested in safe instruments like Treasury bills. The lender of the stock cannot take any risk with the cash collateral, because the cash must be returned to the short-seller when he returns the borrowed stock.
Once, however, toxic waste got AAA ratings plus insurance from Cassano, higher-paying insured investment grade toxic waste could displace of US Treasuries as a place for Neuger to hold the short-sellers’ collateral. You can see the untenable position into which Cassano and Neuger put AIG.
Enter Goldman Sachs as a buyer of swaps from Cassano and a borrower of stocks from Neuger. Once the real estate bubble that the crazed Federal Reserve had caused popped, all the fraud that had been disguised by rising real estate prices appeared in its naked glory. AIG couldn’t cover Cassano’s swaps, and it could not return the collateral to short-sellers that Neuger had invested, unknowingly, in toxic waste.
This was the origin of the TARP bailout, which was perceived by Goldman Sachs (whose former executives, as Taibbi relates, controlled the U.S. Treasury, financial regulatory agencies, and the Federal Reserve) as an opportunity not merely to have U.S. taxpayers make good on its exploitation of AIG, but also to fund with free capital supplied by hapless taxpayers more money-making opportunities for “banks too big to fail.”
As Taibbi shows, Goldman Sachs had yet more ruin to bring to Americans. Goldman Sachs managed to get the position limits that regulation imposed on speculators in order to prevent speculation from taking over commodity markets (for example, grains, metals, and oil) secretly repealed. This allowed Goldman Sachs to create a new product, index speculation, which brought hundreds of billions into commodities markets and drove up the price of gasoline in 2008 to $4.50 per gallon despite the fact that there was no change in supply or consumer demand. It was entirely a profit rip-off from speculation in oil futures contracts.
From here on Taibbi’s book really rolls. If the U.S. had a media worthy of the name, instead of mere shills for private oligarchs and propagandists for government, Matt Taibbi would be the editor of an independent Wall Street Journal with a regiment of investigative reporters. Then Americans would have a prospect of reclaiming their country and their economy....
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"Divide And Conquer: The Union Protests In Wisconsin And Ohio Are Increasing The Hate Between The Left And The Right
The American Dream
"What is the perfect way to get the eyes of the American people off of the real economic problems that this country is facing? Get them fighting with each other of course. And what is one issue that is sure to get the left and the right screaming at each other like cats and dogs? Unions. The battle over collective bargaining rights in Wisconsin has been making headlines around the world for weeks and there are no signs that it is going to end any time soon. In fact, Mordecai Lee, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, says that it is "a battle to the death".
The Democrats that have gone AWOL appear to be absolutely determined to stay away. The protesters seem equally determined to keep on fighting. Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker does not look like he plans to back down either.
Meanwhile, both sides are calling each other the most horrible names. "Hitler", "Stalin", "Nazi" and "fascist" are just a few of the terms that are being thrown around by both sides. What has been going on in Wisconsin has captured the imagination of the entire nation and it is creating even more hate between the left and the right in this country. Unfortunately, as the economic pie in this nation continues to shrink, economic battles such as the one in Wisconsin are going to become quite common.
In fact, the war over public unions seems to be spreading. The Ohio Senate has just passed a law that bans public employees from ever going on strike and that forbids them from negotiating on issues such as health care, sick time and pension benefits with the state government.
Needless to say, public employees and union workers in Ohio are not amused.
Several other states are now looking at legislation that would restrict the collective bargaining rights of public employees. Battle lines are being drawn all over the nation.
If you only read conservative websites about all of this, you would be tempted to believe that all union activists are Satanic communists that hate everything that is true and good about America.
If you only read liberal websites about these protests, you would be tempted to believe that all conservatives are heartless Nazi-loving bastards that want to give all the money in America to the rich.
But this is what the establishment loves to do - they love to "divide and conquer" and have us fighting with each other like cats and dogs.
In a recent column, Pat Buchanan described some of the vitriol that has been directed towards Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker recently....
Not that our public officials are doing much to help tone down the debate. U.S. Representative Michael Capuano (D-Mass.) certainly took the rhetoric up a notch when he recently told a group of union workers in Boston the following....
Meanwhile, the real sources of our economic problems are never addressed.
Whether the unions win this current battle or the conservatives win this current battle it isn't really going to do much at all to solve the underlying problems that our economy is facing.
For example, most of the people up in Wisconsin probably cannot adequately describe what the Federal Reserve actually is or how it is systematically destroying our national wealth.
The Federal Reserve was designed to get the U.S. government enslaved to a perpetually expanding national debt. This national debt is a massive drain on the wealth of this country and it is literally strangling our economy to death.
In addition, the Federal Reserve is continually destroying the value of our national currency. The U.S. dollar has lost well over 95 percent of its value since the Federal Reserve was created in 1913 and the pace of dollar devaluation is rapidly accelerating.
But do high profile Democrats or high profile Republicans ever talk about doing something about the Federal Reserve?
Of course not.
Another reason why America's "economic pie" is shrinking is because of the deindustrialization of this nation that is being caused by globalism.
Back in 1980, manufacturing represented 21 percent of U.S. GDP. By 2008, that number had dropped to 13 percent.
Back in 1980, 31 percent of all of the manufacturing in the world was done in the United States. By 2008, that number had dropped to 24 percent.
Between December 2000 and December 2010, the U.S. ran a total trade deficit of 6.1 trillion dollars. In order to fund that shortfall we had to borrow massive amounts of money from the rest of the world.
The truth is that the U.S. is running a trade deficit in almost every major industry that you can think of.
For example, do you remember when the United States was the dominant manufacturer of automobiles and trucks on the globe? Well, in 2010 the U.S. ran a trade deficit in automobiles, trucks and parts of $110 billion.
Ouch.
Well, what about high technology? Aren't we supposed to be the innovators of the globe?
Well, in 2002, the United States had a trade deficit in "advanced technology products" of $16 billion with the rest of the world. In 2010, that number skyrocketed to $82 billion.
The truth is that both Democrats and Republicans have been shipping our factories and our jobs overseas for decades.
Neither major party has been standing up for the American worker.
Instead, both the Democrats and the Republicans have been doing the dirty work of the globalists.
But instead of demanding change, American workers keep voting for the exact same politicians over and over and over.
As the federal budget deficit continues to grow and as the U.S. trade deficit continues to grow, America's "economic pie" is going to continue to get smaller.
For even more reasons why America's "economic pie" is shrinking, please see this article.
Sadly, even though the overall economic pie is shrinking, Wall Street and the gigantic corporations that dominate our economy have managed to carve out even bigger pieces of the pie for themselves.
That leaves the rest of us with fewer scraps to fight over than ever.
According to CNN, in 2009 the wealthiest 10% of all Americans controlled half of all the wealth in America.
Not only that, the average CEO now makes approximately 185 times more money than the average American worker.
Remember, the wealthy are thriving even as the overall economic pie is getting smaller.
So what we have today is a very small group that is doing very well while most of America is suffering. As 2007 began, only about 26 million Americans were on food stamps, but today over 43 million Americans are on food stamps.
Frustration and anger are growing from coast to coast as millions upon millions of Americans find themselves unable to pay their mortgages and feed their families.
But instead of the American people coming together and standing up to Wall Street, the Federal Reserve, NAFTA, the WTO, the IMF and the World Bank, we are endlessly fighting with ourselves.
The establishment loves that most Americans are caught in the false left/right paradigm.
The establishment loves that hatred between liberal and conservatives is rising.
The establishment loves that we are fighting with each other over the scraps instead of asking why the pie is shrinking and why most of the pie is being taken by the elite.
The left and the right are fighting tooth and nail to win minor battles against each other even as our national economy slowly swirls down towards the bottom of the toilet bowl.
Hopefully the American people will wake up. Our economic system is being looted and gutted at an astounding pace and most of our politicians appear to be totally indifferent to what is going on.
But instead of getting educated about real issues, most Americans that are interested in politics seem obsessed with finding someone to hate. The mainstream media tells us that if we are Republicans that we are supposed to hate the Democrats and that if we are Democrats that we are supposed to hate the Republicans.
Meanwhile, the real criminals are having a field day and they are getting away with just about whatever they want to do.
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"A unionized public employee, a tea party activist and a CEO are sitting at a table with a plate of a dozen cookies in the middle of it. The CEO takes 11 of the cookies, turns to the tea partier and says, "Watch out for that union guy... he wants a piece of your cookie!"-- Wake the Flock Up
It would really be funny were it not so true.
"The Perfidy of Government: Evidence v. Denial
Paul Craig Roberts
Infowars.com
March 2, 2011
This essay is about three recent books that explain how we lost our economy, the Constitution and our civil liberties, and how peace lost out to war.
Matt Taibbi is the best — certainly the most entertaining — financial/political reporter in the country. There is no better book than Griftopia (2010) to which to turn to understand how stupidity, greed, and criminality, spread evenly among policymakers and Wall Street, created the financial crisis that has left Americans overburdened with both private and public debt. Taibbi walks the reader through the fraudulent financial instruments that littered the American, British, and European financial communities with toxic waste. He has figured it all out, and what in other hands might be an arcane account for MBAs is, in Taibbi’s hands, a highly readable and entertaining story.
For the first 65 pages, Taibbi entertains the reader with the inability of the public and politicians to focus on any reality. The financial story begins on page 65 with Fed chairman Alan Greenspan undermining the Glass-Steagall Act leading to its repeal by three political stooges, Gramm-Leach-Bliley. This set the stage for the banksters to leverage debt upon debt until the house of cards collapsed. When Brooksley Born, head of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, attempted to do her regulatory job and regulate derivatives, the Federal Reserve, Treasury, and Securities and Exchange Commission got her bounced out of office. To make certain that no other regulator could protect the financial system and its participants from what was coming, Congress deregulated the derivatives markets by passing the Commodity Futures Modernization Act.
As an Ayn Randian mentality of a self-regulating private sector crowded out prudence, the media cheered. Taibbi captures the era in a sentence: “In was in the immediate wake of all these historically disastrous moves — printing 1.7 trillion new dollars in the middle of a massive stock bubble, dismantling the Glass-Steagall Act, deregulating the derivatives market, blowing off his regulatory authority in the middle of an era of rampant fraud — that Greenspan was upheld by the mainstream financial and political press as a hero of almost Caesarian nature. In February 1999, Time magazine put him on the cover.”
Mortgage securitization allows lenders such as banks to issue mortgages that can be sold to third parties. Instead of making money from the interest from mortgages in its portfolio, the bank issues mortgages for a fee and sells the mortgages. The mortgages are then combined with mortgages sold by other lenders and resold to investors. This development resulted in lenders being less interested in the credit-worthiness of borrowers.
In order to assure investors about credit-worthiness and to appeal to risk-tolerant hedge funds, the next development was to take a pool of mortgages of varying credit-worthiness and to organize them into three tranches. The mortgages were separated into AAA, B grade, and high-risk stuff. The triple A tranche could be sold to pension funds and institutional investors. Hedge funds would take the high-risk tranche for the high-interest rate that they offered, intending to get rid of the mortgages before they had time to go bad. The middle tranche was the one hard to sell. The interest rate on the B-grade tranche was not high enough to appeal to hedge funds, and pension funds were restricted to investment grade.
So what did the banks do? Well, they lumped together all the B-grade tranches and started the process all over. The best of the lot were turned into — you guessed it — AAA, then came the B grade, and then the worst of the lot became the third tranche. And then the process was repeated.
This was bad enough, but even worse was happening. Many of the triple A and B grade mortgages had that rating only because of fraudulent credit scores and rating agencies assigning investment grade ratings to lower grade mortgages. Everyone was focused on short-term profits, from the lenders who churned out mortgages for fees to hedge funds that had no intention of holding the high-risk tranches beyond the short-run. You can see how toxic waste was spread throughout the financial system.
Then it became possible to “insure” the AAA mortgages (many of which were not AAA). Once this happened, financial institutions that were required to maintain reserves against deposits or to capitalize obligations, such as insurance policies, could now substitute higher-paying mortgage derivatives for U.S. Treasury notes and still meet their reserve requirements for a ready cash reserve. Treasury notes are so liquid that they are considered the equivalent of cash, and insured AAA-securitized mortgages acquired similar status.
AIG became the big provider of “insurance” in an operation run by Joe Cassano. Cassano’s “insurance” product is called a credit default swap. It is not insurance, because AIG did not set aside capital to pay any claims. And claims there would be. Not only were the AAA mortgages that were being insured littered with toxic waste, investment banks and hedge funds could purchase swaps against mortgages that they did not even own. As Taibbi puts it, people were gambling in a casino in which gamblers did not have to cover their bets or own the financial instruments that they were insuring.
While Cassano was collecting fees for bets that he could not cover, Win Neuger on the other side of AIG was lending the insurance giant’s long-term portfolio of sound investments to short-sellers for a fee.
Short-selling works like this: A short-seller thinks a company’s stock price is going to fall in value. He borrows the stock from AIG by putting up collateral equal to its market price the day the stock is borrowed plus a small fee, sells the stock, pockets the money and waits for the stock to fall. If his hunch or inside information is correct, and the stock falls in value, he buys the stock and returns it to AIG, pocketing the difference in the two prices.
Normally, people who lend stock to short-sellers are content with the fee and with the interest on the collateral (cash) invested in safe instruments like Treasury bills. The lender of the stock cannot take any risk with the cash collateral, because the cash must be returned to the short-seller when he returns the borrowed stock.
Once, however, toxic waste got AAA ratings plus insurance from Cassano, higher-paying insured investment grade toxic waste could displace of US Treasuries as a place for Neuger to hold the short-sellers’ collateral. You can see the untenable position into which Cassano and Neuger put AIG.
Enter Goldman Sachs as a buyer of swaps from Cassano and a borrower of stocks from Neuger. Once the real estate bubble that the crazed Federal Reserve had caused popped, all the fraud that had been disguised by rising real estate prices appeared in its naked glory. AIG couldn’t cover Cassano’s swaps, and it could not return the collateral to short-sellers that Neuger had invested, unknowingly, in toxic waste.
This was the origin of the TARP bailout, which was perceived by Goldman Sachs (whose former executives, as Taibbi relates, controlled the U.S. Treasury, financial regulatory agencies, and the Federal Reserve) as an opportunity not merely to have U.S. taxpayers make good on its exploitation of AIG, but also to fund with free capital supplied by hapless taxpayers more money-making opportunities for “banks too big to fail.”
As Taibbi shows, Goldman Sachs had yet more ruin to bring to Americans. Goldman Sachs managed to get the position limits that regulation imposed on speculators in order to prevent speculation from taking over commodity markets (for example, grains, metals, and oil) secretly repealed. This allowed Goldman Sachs to create a new product, index speculation, which brought hundreds of billions into commodities markets and drove up the price of gasoline in 2008 to $4.50 per gallon despite the fact that there was no change in supply or consumer demand. It was entirely a profit rip-off from speculation in oil futures contracts.
From here on Taibbi’s book really rolls. If the U.S. had a media worthy of the name, instead of mere shills for private oligarchs and propagandists for government, Matt Taibbi would be the editor of an independent Wall Street Journal with a regiment of investigative reporters. Then Americans would have a prospect of reclaiming their country and their economy....
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"Divide And Conquer: The Union Protests In Wisconsin And Ohio Are Increasing The Hate Between The Left And The Right
The American Dream
"What is the perfect way to get the eyes of the American people off of the real economic problems that this country is facing? Get them fighting with each other of course. And what is one issue that is sure to get the left and the right screaming at each other like cats and dogs? Unions. The battle over collective bargaining rights in Wisconsin has been making headlines around the world for weeks and there are no signs that it is going to end any time soon. In fact, Mordecai Lee, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, says that it is "a battle to the death".
The Democrats that have gone AWOL appear to be absolutely determined to stay away. The protesters seem equally determined to keep on fighting. Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker does not look like he plans to back down either.
Meanwhile, both sides are calling each other the most horrible names. "Hitler", "Stalin", "Nazi" and "fascist" are just a few of the terms that are being thrown around by both sides. What has been going on in Wisconsin has captured the imagination of the entire nation and it is creating even more hate between the left and the right in this country. Unfortunately, as the economic pie in this nation continues to shrink, economic battles such as the one in Wisconsin are going to become quite common.
In fact, the war over public unions seems to be spreading. The Ohio Senate has just passed a law that bans public employees from ever going on strike and that forbids them from negotiating on issues such as health care, sick time and pension benefits with the state government.
Needless to say, public employees and union workers in Ohio are not amused.
Several other states are now looking at legislation that would restrict the collective bargaining rights of public employees. Battle lines are being drawn all over the nation.
If you only read conservative websites about all of this, you would be tempted to believe that all union activists are Satanic communists that hate everything that is true and good about America.
If you only read liberal websites about these protests, you would be tempted to believe that all conservatives are heartless Nazi-loving bastards that want to give all the money in America to the rich.
But this is what the establishment loves to do - they love to "divide and conquer" and have us fighting with each other like cats and dogs.
In a recent column, Pat Buchanan described some of the vitriol that has been directed towards Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker recently....
Picketers have carried placards with the face of Gov. Scott Walker in the cross hairs of a gun sight. He has been compared to Hitler, Mussolini, Mubarak. Democrats have fled the state to deny the elected Wisconsin Senate a quorum to vote.If you even bring up the name "Scott Walker" with some people they will look at you as if you just mentioned the devil.
Not that our public officials are doing much to help tone down the debate. U.S. Representative Michael Capuano (D-Mass.) certainly took the rhetoric up a notch when he recently told a group of union workers in Boston the following....
"Every once and awhile you need to get out on the streets and get a little bloody when necessary."Sadly, this is what politics is turning into in America. You identify the "enemy" and then you hate them with everything that you have inside of you.
Meanwhile, the real sources of our economic problems are never addressed.
Whether the unions win this current battle or the conservatives win this current battle it isn't really going to do much at all to solve the underlying problems that our economy is facing.
For example, most of the people up in Wisconsin probably cannot adequately describe what the Federal Reserve actually is or how it is systematically destroying our national wealth.
The Federal Reserve was designed to get the U.S. government enslaved to a perpetually expanding national debt. This national debt is a massive drain on the wealth of this country and it is literally strangling our economy to death.
In addition, the Federal Reserve is continually destroying the value of our national currency. The U.S. dollar has lost well over 95 percent of its value since the Federal Reserve was created in 1913 and the pace of dollar devaluation is rapidly accelerating.
But do high profile Democrats or high profile Republicans ever talk about doing something about the Federal Reserve?
Of course not.
Another reason why America's "economic pie" is shrinking is because of the deindustrialization of this nation that is being caused by globalism.
Back in 1980, manufacturing represented 21 percent of U.S. GDP. By 2008, that number had dropped to 13 percent.
Back in 1980, 31 percent of all of the manufacturing in the world was done in the United States. By 2008, that number had dropped to 24 percent.
Between December 2000 and December 2010, the U.S. ran a total trade deficit of 6.1 trillion dollars. In order to fund that shortfall we had to borrow massive amounts of money from the rest of the world.
The truth is that the U.S. is running a trade deficit in almost every major industry that you can think of.
For example, do you remember when the United States was the dominant manufacturer of automobiles and trucks on the globe? Well, in 2010 the U.S. ran a trade deficit in automobiles, trucks and parts of $110 billion.
Ouch.
Well, what about high technology? Aren't we supposed to be the innovators of the globe?
Well, in 2002, the United States had a trade deficit in "advanced technology products" of $16 billion with the rest of the world. In 2010, that number skyrocketed to $82 billion.
The truth is that both Democrats and Republicans have been shipping our factories and our jobs overseas for decades.
Neither major party has been standing up for the American worker.
Instead, both the Democrats and the Republicans have been doing the dirty work of the globalists.
But instead of demanding change, American workers keep voting for the exact same politicians over and over and over.
As the federal budget deficit continues to grow and as the U.S. trade deficit continues to grow, America's "economic pie" is going to continue to get smaller.
For even more reasons why America's "economic pie" is shrinking, please see this article.
Sadly, even though the overall economic pie is shrinking, Wall Street and the gigantic corporations that dominate our economy have managed to carve out even bigger pieces of the pie for themselves.
That leaves the rest of us with fewer scraps to fight over than ever.
According to CNN, in 2009 the wealthiest 10% of all Americans controlled half of all the wealth in America.
Not only that, the average CEO now makes approximately 185 times more money than the average American worker.
Remember, the wealthy are thriving even as the overall economic pie is getting smaller.
So what we have today is a very small group that is doing very well while most of America is suffering. As 2007 began, only about 26 million Americans were on food stamps, but today over 43 million Americans are on food stamps.
Frustration and anger are growing from coast to coast as millions upon millions of Americans find themselves unable to pay their mortgages and feed their families.
But instead of the American people coming together and standing up to Wall Street, the Federal Reserve, NAFTA, the WTO, the IMF and the World Bank, we are endlessly fighting with ourselves.
The establishment loves that most Americans are caught in the false left/right paradigm.
The establishment loves that hatred between liberal and conservatives is rising.
The establishment loves that we are fighting with each other over the scraps instead of asking why the pie is shrinking and why most of the pie is being taken by the elite.
The left and the right are fighting tooth and nail to win minor battles against each other even as our national economy slowly swirls down towards the bottom of the toilet bowl.
Hopefully the American people will wake up. Our economic system is being looted and gutted at an astounding pace and most of our politicians appear to be totally indifferent to what is going on.
But instead of getting educated about real issues, most Americans that are interested in politics seem obsessed with finding someone to hate. The mainstream media tells us that if we are Republicans that we are supposed to hate the Democrats and that if we are Democrats that we are supposed to hate the Republicans.
Meanwhile, the real criminals are having a field day and they are getting away with just about whatever they want to do.
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Tuesday, February 22, 2011
I Heard the News Today, Old Boy
And it said a CIA spy that was arrested in Pakistan was trying to give nuclear bomb and biological weapons material to "Al-Qaeda."
Then I heard that the FBI is saying there is a 100% chance that a NUCLEAR BOMB will EXPLODE in an American city, and that the stuff already came in through San Diego.
Then someone said something akin to this:
"Do you grasp what is going on? The CIA uses a Blackwater contract agent to approach "Al Qaeda" or any convenient dumb-ass patsy and gives them the key ingredient to make a nuclear weapon. Plus they garnish it with some biological weapons as an added bonus. Then the public is fed a story about how nuclear weapons may already be inside the United States via the port in San Diego, to make the subsequent blast explainable.
This is 9-11 all over again. The government of the US and Israel is desperate to kick off WW3 before the global revolution comes to their doorsteps. They are cornered, and nothing is more dangerous than a cornered government willing to use a nuclear weapon on their own people.
This is not science fiction.
This is not a movie fantasy about a man in a Guy Fawkes mask.
This is the real deal!
The United States Government got out of the crash of 1907 by getting into WW1.
The United States Government got out of the crash of 1929 by getting into WW2.
Here we are in the throes of the crash of 2007 (which according to the FCIC did not even have to happen, were it not for Wall Street's criminality and government complacency) and look ... how ... hard ... they ... are ... trying ... to ... start ... world ... war ... three!
and the only one who can stop this insanity is you!" -- Wake the Flock Up
So I guess it something like this, to be blamed on them, huh?
Oh, btw, Muslims didn't do 9/11; Israel did.
I know I WILL NOT BE BELIEVING whatever cover story script is fed to the AmeriKan media this time.
Then I heard that the FBI is saying there is a 100% chance that a NUCLEAR BOMB will EXPLODE in an American city, and that the stuff already came in through San Diego.
Then someone said something akin to this:
"Do you grasp what is going on? The CIA uses a Blackwater contract agent to approach "Al Qaeda" or any convenient dumb-ass patsy and gives them the key ingredient to make a nuclear weapon. Plus they garnish it with some biological weapons as an added bonus. Then the public is fed a story about how nuclear weapons may already be inside the United States via the port in San Diego, to make the subsequent blast explainable.
This is 9-11 all over again. The government of the US and Israel is desperate to kick off WW3 before the global revolution comes to their doorsteps. They are cornered, and nothing is more dangerous than a cornered government willing to use a nuclear weapon on their own people.
This is not science fiction.
This is not a movie fantasy about a man in a Guy Fawkes mask.
This is the real deal!
The United States Government got out of the crash of 1907 by getting into WW1.
The United States Government got out of the crash of 1929 by getting into WW2.
Here we are in the throes of the crash of 2007 (which according to the FCIC did not even have to happen, were it not for Wall Street's criminality and government complacency) and look ... how ... hard ... they ... are ... trying ... to ... start ... world ... war ... three!
and the only one who can stop this insanity is you!" -- Wake the Flock Up
So I guess it something like this, to be blamed on them, huh?
Oh, btw, Muslims didn't do 9/11; Israel did.
I know I WILL NOT BE BELIEVING whatever cover story script is fed to the AmeriKan media this time.
Thursday, February 17, 2011
Rabbit Be Nimble....
"With Friends Like Americans - Who Needs Enemies?
Folks - at a personal, national, and international level - it is hard for me to understand why in the hell anyone would want an "American" - meaning U.S. Citizen (I am one) as a friend. After all - we really suck - right? Actually NO - it seems that way. Give us a chance to come out of our hypnotic trance.
Oh - regarding hypnotic trance - I don't use that term loosely. Consider the following audio - listen from beginning to end - then listen again. Then one more time.
CLICK HERE
Perhaps - "one who should be superannuated" is a good description for this remnant from a past time where there was no information available for the public that allowed them to see through the facade presented by the "Masters of the Universe" that control the media and Biden.
Those "Masters" would be international bankers, corporations, PACS and anyone else with the money to buy United States Senators, Representatives, Presidents, Vice-Presidents, and just about anything else they want....
Getting back to Americans. Who am I talking about at a personal level. I am talking about YOU. Look in the mirror. That is YOU. I make this clear because I know I am dealing with drugged mental patients who are suffering from a mass-hypnosis - the latest stressor starting with the real "shock and awe" of the 911 attacks - the event that placed them into the state of mind necessary when those in charge of the lying corporate fascist media in the United States need to brand their minds with the next orders to follow.
The next enemy to hate. The next religion to despise. The next people to bomb. The next war for their kid to die in. The next reason to surrender unsurrenderable rights. The next reason to pay more taxes and leave their homes while making generous donations to Israel - a country that just got off the hook again after murdering more Americans at sea. (I don't ever forget the USS Liberty)
Yeah - who needs Americans for friends - fair-weather friends we call them. There when you don't really need them - but when the storms rise - time to run away and watch you drown. That's the way it seems - but the wake-up-calls - thanks to those like Barry-O and Biden - are doing their work. The "sleeping giant" that is America - always awakens. It just takes a louder alarm clock than most require.
If you took the time to watch the live Al Jazeera feed - probably blocked from the internet where you work - for unexplained reasons - you would see non-American news - and possibly some propaganda. But you would get another window into the sea of ideas the internet affords us. As a tax-paying adult - don't you think you should have access to all information - on a system you paid for via taxes that was born of DARPA? Or do you have a basketball game to watch?
Let me ask anyone - who doesn't believe it - to hang in there and keep the faith. We Americans are - for the most part - and it may not yet be apparent - the best friends you can ever have. Presently - we have been taken over by a cabal of crooks, cheats, thieves, murderers, liars - and propaganda-well-heeled-marketing specialists of an immoral level the world has not had to face for some time. But once we get some traction - they are toast. They will be gone - and our welcoming nation - coming out of the hypnotic trance - partially drug-induced, partially scientifically-dictatorship-induced - once we come out of this trance - the rats, who are the first to know the ship is sinking, will not find a safe haven in the ocean of liberty they were the last to realize. Justice will come - via natural law - one way or the other.
Americans - the vast majority of us - are unrepresented in our war-monger, torturing, wasteful government. We have all been at work. Sounds a bit simple-minded - but that explains a lot if you think about it. The manipulators are showing their true colors - and we will show ours.
--MORE w/VIDEO--"
Folks - at a personal, national, and international level - it is hard for me to understand why in the hell anyone would want an "American" - meaning U.S. Citizen (I am one) as a friend. After all - we really suck - right? Actually NO - it seems that way. Give us a chance to come out of our hypnotic trance.
Oh - regarding hypnotic trance - I don't use that term loosely. Consider the following audio - listen from beginning to end - then listen again. Then one more time.
CLICK HERE
Perhaps - "one who should be superannuated" is a good description for this remnant from a past time where there was no information available for the public that allowed them to see through the facade presented by the "Masters of the Universe" that control the media and Biden.
Those "Masters" would be international bankers, corporations, PACS and anyone else with the money to buy United States Senators, Representatives, Presidents, Vice-Presidents, and just about anything else they want....
Getting back to Americans. Who am I talking about at a personal level. I am talking about YOU. Look in the mirror. That is YOU. I make this clear because I know I am dealing with drugged mental patients who are suffering from a mass-hypnosis - the latest stressor starting with the real "shock and awe" of the 911 attacks - the event that placed them into the state of mind necessary when those in charge of the lying corporate fascist media in the United States need to brand their minds with the next orders to follow.
The next enemy to hate. The next religion to despise. The next people to bomb. The next war for their kid to die in. The next reason to surrender unsurrenderable rights. The next reason to pay more taxes and leave their homes while making generous donations to Israel - a country that just got off the hook again after murdering more Americans at sea. (I don't ever forget the USS Liberty)
Yeah - who needs Americans for friends - fair-weather friends we call them. There when you don't really need them - but when the storms rise - time to run away and watch you drown. That's the way it seems - but the wake-up-calls - thanks to those like Barry-O and Biden - are doing their work. The "sleeping giant" that is America - always awakens. It just takes a louder alarm clock than most require.
If you took the time to watch the live Al Jazeera feed - probably blocked from the internet where you work - for unexplained reasons - you would see non-American news - and possibly some propaganda. But you would get another window into the sea of ideas the internet affords us. As a tax-paying adult - don't you think you should have access to all information - on a system you paid for via taxes that was born of DARPA? Or do you have a basketball game to watch?
Let me ask anyone - who doesn't believe it - to hang in there and keep the faith. We Americans are - for the most part - and it may not yet be apparent - the best friends you can ever have. Presently - we have been taken over by a cabal of crooks, cheats, thieves, murderers, liars - and propaganda-well-heeled-marketing specialists of an immoral level the world has not had to face for some time. But once we get some traction - they are toast. They will be gone - and our welcoming nation - coming out of the hypnotic trance - partially drug-induced, partially scientifically-dictatorship-induced - once we come out of this trance - the rats, who are the first to know the ship is sinking, will not find a safe haven in the ocean of liberty they were the last to realize. Justice will come - via natural law - one way or the other.
Americans - the vast majority of us - are unrepresented in our war-monger, torturing, wasteful government. We have all been at work. Sounds a bit simple-minded - but that explains a lot if you think about it. The manipulators are showing their true colors - and we will show ours.
Are you with "us" or against us?
Military and police - think about that question. Realize that your families are...well...just like me. Why all the division. Aren't you supposed to be ....."us?"
Read the Bill of Rights - NOW - if you haven't.
If ignoring those "lines in the sand" becomes the "law of the land" we are in for violent civil unrest. The military and police will be called upon by the rats to suppress those of us trying to point out that the captain and officers have been poisoned and are out of their minds.
The Bill of Rights serves as a list of "symptoms" allowing anyone - anyone meaning YOU - to determine who the irrational one is. Who the dictator is. Who the real Patriot is.
Duty to country, citizenship means not only taking a side - but taking the right side.
Get on the right side of this thing now.
Disobey illegal orders like torture now.
JR--MORE w/VIDEO--"
Friday, February 4, 2011
The Day Gandhi Died
Ever notice events like 9/11, Pearl Harbor, and D-Day are always accorded elaborate ceremonies and oratories?
But when it comes to a man of peace....
"Today's Highlight in History:
Highlight? Hardly.
On Jan. 30, 1948, Indian political and spiritual leader Mohandas K. Gandhi, 78, was shot and killed in New Delhi by Nathuram Godse, a Hindu extremist. (Godse and a co-conspirator were later executed.)
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Yeah, I didn't see any memorials in my AmeriKan newspaper.
Related:
Also see: Quotes That Make Me Cry
A Belated Birthday Wish
Btw, Gandhi would be proud of the people of Egypt.
But when it comes to a man of peace....
"Today's Highlight in History:
Highlight? Hardly.
On Jan. 30, 1948, Indian political and spiritual leader Mohandas K. Gandhi, 78, was shot and killed in New Delhi by Nathuram Godse, a Hindu extremist. (Godse and a co-conspirator were later executed.)
--more--"
Yeah, I didn't see any memorials in my AmeriKan newspaper.
Related:
"Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as [Gandhi] ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth"
I must admit, it is hard for me to believe.
“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”
“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated”
“A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.”
“Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.”
“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”
“You must be the change that you want to see in the world.”
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Also see: Quotes That Make Me Cry
A Belated Birthday Wish
Btw, Gandhi would be proud of the people of Egypt.
Monday, December 27, 2010
Bushbama
Obama Year Two: Continued Betrayal and Failure (Part I) - by Stephen Lendman
Last December, a two-part article discussed Obama's year one betrayal and failure, accessed through the following links:
http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2009/12/obama-year-one-betrayal-and-failure.html
http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2009/12/obama-year-one-betrayal-and-failure_23.html
In year two, the pattern continued, revealing domestic and foreign policies that:
-- outdid George Bush by exceeding his harshness, lawlessness, belligerency, and public trust betrayal;
-- maintained a 30 year agenda of shifting public wealth to the rich, as well as supporting capital, not public welfare, including targeting middle class households for destruction;
-- looted the nation's wealth, wrecked the economy, and consigned growing millions to impoverishment without jobs, homes, savings, social services, or futures;
-- let hunger, homelessness, poverty, and those uninsured grow to unacceptable levels;
-- backed Wall Street's financial coup d'etat by greater Fed empowerment, as well as institutionalizing speculation, "too-big-to fail," super-wealth, and big money power;
-- plans new global monetary measures to control the world's money;
-- continued America's permanent war agenda by expanding imperial adventurism, increasing covert and overt aggression on new fronts with out-of-control military spending, exceeding the rest of the world combined at a time America has no enemies;
-- became the latest war criminal Nobel Peace Prize recipient;
-- executed his first successful coup d'etat in Honduras against its democratically elected president, then backed the fascist regime replacing him;
-- failed attempting regime change in Iran;
-- continued providing military, economic and political aid to the world's most ruthless, corrupt despots;
-- maintained a longstanding policy of supplying Israel with annual billions, more on request, other add-ons and extras, interest-free loans, the latest weapons, munitions and technology, unrestricted US market access, free entry of its immigrants, and unbridled support for its illegal belligerence, occupation, and crimes of war and against humanity;
-- presides over a bogus democracy under a homeland police state apparatus, sacrificing due process, judicial fairness, and other civil liberty protections in the name of national security;
-- continued torture as official policy, extraordinary rendition to prison hellholes, and for the first time, targeted US citizens for assassination;
-- invoked the state secrets privilege to prevent lawsuits by victims of rendition, torture, abuse, and those opposing warrantless wiretapping;
-- targets whisleblowers, dissenters, Muslims, environmental and animal rights activists, anyone challenging state power, and civil rights lawyers who defend them too vigorously called terrorists or threats to national security;
-- endorsed preventive detention without charge for those at Guantanamo considered dangerous, but no evidence allows prosecuting them;
-- expanded Bush administration spying and secrecy;
-- refused to prosecute its officials, suppressing proof of their culpability;
-- planned cybersecurity tyranny, threatening a free and open Internet, consumer privacy, and civil liberties; more on how below;
-- waged war on organized labor through fewer jobs, less pay, reduced benefits, and gutted work rules, including health and safety on-the-job protections;
-- tried controlling the media more aggressively than Nixon;
-- denied budget-strapped states financial help, forcing them to slash welfare programs, education, health care for the poor, and other vital services when they're most needed;
-- continued to commodify public education, end government responsibility for it, and make it another business profit center;
-- promoted dangerous vaccines for a non-existent threat;
-- promoted health care legislation that rations care; enriches insurers, drug giants and large hospital chains; places profits above human need; and keeps a dysfunctional system in place; Peter Singer's July 15, 2009 New York Times article endorsed administration policy, headlined: "Why We Must Ration Health Care," saying it's essential to apportion a "scarce resource" to those who can afford it; others will get only what they can pay for;
-- on the pretext of improving food safety, enacted agribusiness-friendly House legislation, harming consumers, small farms and food producers without improving America's industrial food system; on November 30, the Senate passed its own version; more on that below;
-- wants so far not passed legislation to let corporate polluters reap huge windfall profits by raising energy cost, while creating a speculative bonanza through a new carbon trading derivatives scheme;
-- cracks down harder on undocumented immigrants than George Bush, deporting a record number in FY 2010; others are held in over 300 detention facilities in nearly every state in the country, treated like criminals or terrorists; and
-- promoted a national ID card for all citizens and legal residents to be able to monitor them everywhere at all times.
Year two: Obama's destructive agenda continued.
Militarizing and Exploiting Haiti
An earlier article explained that Haiti is no stranger to adversity. Except for a brief time after its successful 1791 - 1803 revolution turning slaves into citizens and during Jean-Bertrand Aristide's tenure, it's experienced over 500 years of severe oppression, slavery, despotism, colonization, occupation, reparations, embargoes, sanctions, deep poverty, starvation, unrepayable debt, and natural calamities from destructive hurricanes to powerful earthquakes, most recently on January 12. It devastated greater Port-au-Prince, killing up to 300,000, leaving around 1.5 million Haitians homeless with little aid and no help to rebuild.
Some countries reacted quickly, mostly a few Latin American ones, including Cuba and Venezuela. Washington did nothing, deploying marines and paratroupers instead, militarizing the country, obstructing, not providing aid, promising $1.1 billion, delivering none, planning only exploitation of Haiti's resources and cheap labor.
Haiti was opened for business, occupied to be plundered, its people on their own, sink or swim under circumstances assuring mass suffering, starvation, disease and for many, death. Only corporate interests mattered at a time of dire need.
Eleven months later, Haiti is still plagued by rubble everywhere, extreme deprivation, promised aid undelivered, none from Washington, 1.5 million without shelter in streets and other open spaces, and now raging cholera, and the aftermath of a sham election, institutionalizing coup d'etat rule.
Washington's imperial hand orchestrated it, denying Haitians any chance for real change. It represents another betrayal by a president showing contempt for essential needs, human rights, and basic freedoms, at home and abroad, even under the most dire conditions.
America's Permanent War Agenda
America glorifies wars in the name of peace, historian Gore Vidal titling his 2002 book, "Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace," saying:
"Our rulers for more than a century have made sure that we are never to be told the truth about anything that our government has done to other people, not to mention our own."
It's persisted mainly since Franklin Roosevelt goaded Japan to attack us. It then continued in Korea, Vietnam, numerous proxy wars, the Cold War until the Soviet Union's 1991 dissolution, and now Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, and new wars to be launched at opportunistic times against unnamed enemies.
Obama is America's latest warrior president, talking peace, waging war, packaged as liberating ones for democracy, freedom, and justice against bogus threats, when, in fact it's an imperial agenda for wealth, power, and unchallengeable global dominance.
He lied calling Afghanistan a "war of necessity, not choice," doubled the force contingent since taking office, yet stays mired in an unwinnable quagmire. He also destabilized Pakistan, plans control over the Caspian Sea's oil and gas riches, as well as energy routes to secured ports for export.
He approved US military bases encircling Russia, China and Iran, obstructing their solidarity and cohesion. He promised change and delivered betrayal, nearing year three of his tenure. Like his predecessor, he aroused global anger, his agenda endangering everyone, including Americans, heading the country for tyranny and ruin.
Enacting Obamacare
An earlier article called March 21 a day of infamy when House and Democrat leaders bullied, bribed, cajoled, muscled, and jerry-rigged Obamacare to pass, despite most Americans opposing it with good reason. Ralph Nader called it a "pay-or-die system that is the disgrace of the Western world," costing double what other Western countries spend and delivering less, rationing care to enrich corporate providers while making a dysfunctional system worse.
Henceforth, junk insurance policies will leave millions underinsured. Costs will remain out-of-control. Insurers can still deny care by delaying, contesting, preventing or over-charging people from accessing it. Everyone must have coverage or be penalized if opt out, a provision many states are contesting. A Virginia federal judge just ruled it unconstitutional, a battle the Supreme Court will decide. Company-provided policies will be taxed as ordinary income, harming working households most of all.
Physicians for a National Health Program denounced it, saying the new law "will enrich and further entrench (private insurers, forcing) millions of Americans to buy" defective coverage leaving most worse off than before at a cost of hundreds of billions of tax dollars given predators to game the system for profit, the public losing out. Moreover, 23 million Americans will remain uninsured, "translate(d) into an estimated 23,000 unnecessary deaths annually and an incalculable toll of suffering."
Obama's centerpiece domestic policy scammed the public with a package of expensive mandates, new taxes, and sweetheart deals, creating a fragmented, dysfunctional, unsustainable system, denying Americans what they urgently need - universal coverage, an expanded, improved Medicare for all, everyone in, no one out, what neither party or Obama delivered.
Capitulating on Financial Reform
Omitting real structural reforms, Democrats, Republicans, and Obama agreed on a patchwork of half-measures. Instead of restraining financial fraud, too-big-to-fail empowerment, an out-of-control Fed, and casino capitalism's ability to game the system with public money, it institutionalized business as usual. The Financial Times (FT) quoted a Wall Street banker saying "We are all breathing a sigh of relief here....we can live with this." Indeed so since Wall Street lawyers wrote it. The FT added: investors believe the "overhaul in financial rules would not have a significant impact on the industry's structure and profitability."
Indeed not by:
-- empowering a financial aristocracy;
-- letting Wall Street run the country;
-- institutionalizing fraud, speculation and bailouts;
-- leaving executive pay, bonuses and perks untouched;
-- letting credit agency scams continue;
-- permitting giant banks, insurers and other financial firms to get bigger; and
-- establishing a toothless Consumer Financial Protection Bureau along with other anti-reform provisions.
Bottom line: the worst of bad practices will continue, besides teams of lawyers devising ways around whatever regulations emerge. According to University of San Diego Law Professor Frank Partnoy, "Wall Street has always been very skilled at getting around rules, and this law will be no different," especially with its loopholes, half-measures, and overall weakness. Bankers got the best deal big money can buy. The public again was scammed.
Part II will conclude Obama Year Two: Continued Betrayal and Failure.
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Last December, a two-part article discussed Obama's year one betrayal and failure, accessed through the following links:
http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2009/12/obama-year-one-betrayal-and-failure.html
http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2009/12/obama-year-one-betrayal-and-failure_23.html
In year two, the pattern continued, revealing domestic and foreign policies that:
-- outdid George Bush by exceeding his harshness, lawlessness, belligerency, and public trust betrayal;
-- maintained a 30 year agenda of shifting public wealth to the rich, as well as supporting capital, not public welfare, including targeting middle class households for destruction;
-- looted the nation's wealth, wrecked the economy, and consigned growing millions to impoverishment without jobs, homes, savings, social services, or futures;
-- let hunger, homelessness, poverty, and those uninsured grow to unacceptable levels;
-- backed Wall Street's financial coup d'etat by greater Fed empowerment, as well as institutionalizing speculation, "too-big-to fail," super-wealth, and big money power;
-- plans new global monetary measures to control the world's money;
-- continued America's permanent war agenda by expanding imperial adventurism, increasing covert and overt aggression on new fronts with out-of-control military spending, exceeding the rest of the world combined at a time America has no enemies;
-- became the latest war criminal Nobel Peace Prize recipient;
-- executed his first successful coup d'etat in Honduras against its democratically elected president, then backed the fascist regime replacing him;
-- failed attempting regime change in Iran;
-- continued providing military, economic and political aid to the world's most ruthless, corrupt despots;
-- maintained a longstanding policy of supplying Israel with annual billions, more on request, other add-ons and extras, interest-free loans, the latest weapons, munitions and technology, unrestricted US market access, free entry of its immigrants, and unbridled support for its illegal belligerence, occupation, and crimes of war and against humanity;
-- presides over a bogus democracy under a homeland police state apparatus, sacrificing due process, judicial fairness, and other civil liberty protections in the name of national security;
-- continued torture as official policy, extraordinary rendition to prison hellholes, and for the first time, targeted US citizens for assassination;
-- invoked the state secrets privilege to prevent lawsuits by victims of rendition, torture, abuse, and those opposing warrantless wiretapping;
-- targets whisleblowers, dissenters, Muslims, environmental and animal rights activists, anyone challenging state power, and civil rights lawyers who defend them too vigorously called terrorists or threats to national security;
-- endorsed preventive detention without charge for those at Guantanamo considered dangerous, but no evidence allows prosecuting them;
-- expanded Bush administration spying and secrecy;
-- refused to prosecute its officials, suppressing proof of their culpability;
-- planned cybersecurity tyranny, threatening a free and open Internet, consumer privacy, and civil liberties; more on how below;
-- waged war on organized labor through fewer jobs, less pay, reduced benefits, and gutted work rules, including health and safety on-the-job protections;
-- tried controlling the media more aggressively than Nixon;
-- denied budget-strapped states financial help, forcing them to slash welfare programs, education, health care for the poor, and other vital services when they're most needed;
-- continued to commodify public education, end government responsibility for it, and make it another business profit center;
-- promoted dangerous vaccines for a non-existent threat;
-- promoted health care legislation that rations care; enriches insurers, drug giants and large hospital chains; places profits above human need; and keeps a dysfunctional system in place; Peter Singer's July 15, 2009 New York Times article endorsed administration policy, headlined: "Why We Must Ration Health Care," saying it's essential to apportion a "scarce resource" to those who can afford it; others will get only what they can pay for;
-- on the pretext of improving food safety, enacted agribusiness-friendly House legislation, harming consumers, small farms and food producers without improving America's industrial food system; on November 30, the Senate passed its own version; more on that below;
-- wants so far not passed legislation to let corporate polluters reap huge windfall profits by raising energy cost, while creating a speculative bonanza through a new carbon trading derivatives scheme;
-- cracks down harder on undocumented immigrants than George Bush, deporting a record number in FY 2010; others are held in over 300 detention facilities in nearly every state in the country, treated like criminals or terrorists; and
-- promoted a national ID card for all citizens and legal residents to be able to monitor them everywhere at all times.
Year two: Obama's destructive agenda continued.
Militarizing and Exploiting Haiti
An earlier article explained that Haiti is no stranger to adversity. Except for a brief time after its successful 1791 - 1803 revolution turning slaves into citizens and during Jean-Bertrand Aristide's tenure, it's experienced over 500 years of severe oppression, slavery, despotism, colonization, occupation, reparations, embargoes, sanctions, deep poverty, starvation, unrepayable debt, and natural calamities from destructive hurricanes to powerful earthquakes, most recently on January 12. It devastated greater Port-au-Prince, killing up to 300,000, leaving around 1.5 million Haitians homeless with little aid and no help to rebuild.
Some countries reacted quickly, mostly a few Latin American ones, including Cuba and Venezuela. Washington did nothing, deploying marines and paratroupers instead, militarizing the country, obstructing, not providing aid, promising $1.1 billion, delivering none, planning only exploitation of Haiti's resources and cheap labor.
Haiti was opened for business, occupied to be plundered, its people on their own, sink or swim under circumstances assuring mass suffering, starvation, disease and for many, death. Only corporate interests mattered at a time of dire need.
Eleven months later, Haiti is still plagued by rubble everywhere, extreme deprivation, promised aid undelivered, none from Washington, 1.5 million without shelter in streets and other open spaces, and now raging cholera, and the aftermath of a sham election, institutionalizing coup d'etat rule.
Washington's imperial hand orchestrated it, denying Haitians any chance for real change. It represents another betrayal by a president showing contempt for essential needs, human rights, and basic freedoms, at home and abroad, even under the most dire conditions.
America's Permanent War Agenda
America glorifies wars in the name of peace, historian Gore Vidal titling his 2002 book, "Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace," saying:
"Our rulers for more than a century have made sure that we are never to be told the truth about anything that our government has done to other people, not to mention our own."
It's persisted mainly since Franklin Roosevelt goaded Japan to attack us. It then continued in Korea, Vietnam, numerous proxy wars, the Cold War until the Soviet Union's 1991 dissolution, and now Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, and new wars to be launched at opportunistic times against unnamed enemies.
Obama is America's latest warrior president, talking peace, waging war, packaged as liberating ones for democracy, freedom, and justice against bogus threats, when, in fact it's an imperial agenda for wealth, power, and unchallengeable global dominance.
He lied calling Afghanistan a "war of necessity, not choice," doubled the force contingent since taking office, yet stays mired in an unwinnable quagmire. He also destabilized Pakistan, plans control over the Caspian Sea's oil and gas riches, as well as energy routes to secured ports for export.
He approved US military bases encircling Russia, China and Iran, obstructing their solidarity and cohesion. He promised change and delivered betrayal, nearing year three of his tenure. Like his predecessor, he aroused global anger, his agenda endangering everyone, including Americans, heading the country for tyranny and ruin.
Enacting Obamacare
An earlier article called March 21 a day of infamy when House and Democrat leaders bullied, bribed, cajoled, muscled, and jerry-rigged Obamacare to pass, despite most Americans opposing it with good reason. Ralph Nader called it a "pay-or-die system that is the disgrace of the Western world," costing double what other Western countries spend and delivering less, rationing care to enrich corporate providers while making a dysfunctional system worse.
Henceforth, junk insurance policies will leave millions underinsured. Costs will remain out-of-control. Insurers can still deny care by delaying, contesting, preventing or over-charging people from accessing it. Everyone must have coverage or be penalized if opt out, a provision many states are contesting. A Virginia federal judge just ruled it unconstitutional, a battle the Supreme Court will decide. Company-provided policies will be taxed as ordinary income, harming working households most of all.
Physicians for a National Health Program denounced it, saying the new law "will enrich and further entrench (private insurers, forcing) millions of Americans to buy" defective coverage leaving most worse off than before at a cost of hundreds of billions of tax dollars given predators to game the system for profit, the public losing out. Moreover, 23 million Americans will remain uninsured, "translate(d) into an estimated 23,000 unnecessary deaths annually and an incalculable toll of suffering."
Obama's centerpiece domestic policy scammed the public with a package of expensive mandates, new taxes, and sweetheart deals, creating a fragmented, dysfunctional, unsustainable system, denying Americans what they urgently need - universal coverage, an expanded, improved Medicare for all, everyone in, no one out, what neither party or Obama delivered.
Capitulating on Financial Reform
Omitting real structural reforms, Democrats, Republicans, and Obama agreed on a patchwork of half-measures. Instead of restraining financial fraud, too-big-to-fail empowerment, an out-of-control Fed, and casino capitalism's ability to game the system with public money, it institutionalized business as usual. The Financial Times (FT) quoted a Wall Street banker saying "We are all breathing a sigh of relief here....we can live with this." Indeed so since Wall Street lawyers wrote it. The FT added: investors believe the "overhaul in financial rules would not have a significant impact on the industry's structure and profitability."
Indeed not by:
-- empowering a financial aristocracy;
-- letting Wall Street run the country;
-- institutionalizing fraud, speculation and bailouts;
-- leaving executive pay, bonuses and perks untouched;
-- letting credit agency scams continue;
-- permitting giant banks, insurers and other financial firms to get bigger; and
-- establishing a toothless Consumer Financial Protection Bureau along with other anti-reform provisions.
Bottom line: the worst of bad practices will continue, besides teams of lawyers devising ways around whatever regulations emerge. According to University of San Diego Law Professor Frank Partnoy, "Wall Street has always been very skilled at getting around rules, and this law will be no different," especially with its loopholes, half-measures, and overall weakness. Bankers got the best deal big money can buy. The public again was scammed.
Part II will conclude Obama Year Two: Continued Betrayal and Failure.
--MORE--"
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