Bet You Didn't See THIS One on CNN...

http://en.rian.ru/world/20081124/118512713.html

This guy wrote about the decline and breakup of America 10 years ago! People were probably laughing about it back then, but I bet that nobody's laughing about it now... This is another wake-up call to action for all Americans that don't want this to happen. It will take a lot of work to fix America. I'm not sure if Americans have the 'intestinal fortitude' to do it. We used to, but today, I am not encouraged by what I see these days. I can only hope and pray that Americans can look deep within and find the strength and courage to embody the principles that made America great, and that we can get rid of the things that have caused the country to experience this dire situation. It is a major growth opportunity.

This article just about says it all...

The meltdown seems to be a foregone conclusion. The $64,000 question is whether the people of America will have the intelligence, the guts and the courage to stand up and rebuild America, or whether they will wither under the pressure and allow the oligarchs to obliterate and eradicate the concept of America and what it used to stand for.

Each person will be faced with this question. I guess it could be characterized as 'The Moment of Truth'. It is talked about in Marine bootcamp. It is the moment when the soldier comes eye-to-eye with the enemy. Will he aim true and shoot his weapon to send the enemy to meet his maker; or will he waffle, cower, run and hide, or hesitate and allow the enemy to kill him and/or win the encounter? In like manner, are we going to rise to the occasion and stand up for freedom, or will we continue to bask in the ignorance of irrelevant television programming and other mindless diversions from reality while America burns?

Because of complacency, mental and physical laziness, denial of personal responsibility, apathy, intellectual neglect and a large host of other reasons, now every American will be faced with an oncoming onslaught of life-or-death decisions. And remember that no decision IS a decision! I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but this is a result of the choices that we have made to give up our own power to control our destiny to others. Now these choices are 'coming home to roost', and we're learning (the hard way) that others never have our best interests as their supreme priority. Why do you think that they call government organizations "agencies"? Because they are agents (of a foreign power), and are not working for our benefit, but for the benefit of the people they are agents for!

The bottom line is that YOU are going to have to become responsible IF you want to stay free and have the possibility to be prosperous. The time is now. This is the "Moment of Truth". You and your children's future depend on your choice.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=11118

Gloom Doom Reports

http://www.investmentrarities.com/11-2008early.html

You're going to want to read these tidbits from some financial analysts
that I've found. I've been saying the same thing, as my own research
and thinking has led me to the same conclusions. The stories and
explanations coming from the mass media and MSNBC just don't make any
sense when you stop and think about it. It is now time for all good men
and women to STAND UP for truth, justice and freedom. Stand up now
while you still can. Protect your assets while you still have them.
There is definitely a plan to separate you from them. Now is the time
to get educated about it. If you continue to exclaim, "It's too
complicated." "It's too much work." "I don't want to think about it."
"I don't believe it." "You're a conspiracy theorist." "The government
will handle it." "There's nothing I can do.", or whatever other
rationalization you can think of that I haven't listed, your assets WILL
be destroyed. Kiss your portfolio, your retirement, your pension, your
savings GOODBYE. I'm not giving investment advice here, but I am
putting you on notice that your assets are at risk, and you probably
need to learn and restructure your finances to come out with your
purchasing power intact. As the old saying goes, "A word to the wise is
sufficient." You have been presented with information, now what you do
with it is your responsibility.

The Great Depression of the 21st Century: Collapse of the Real Economy

In short, this is all about the people behind the financial sector of the economy taking the 'bailout' money and using it to buy up all the industries and other tangible assets for pennies on the dollar. So we've basically been fleeced to finance the next stage of the 'rape and pillage' of America and the rest of the world.

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http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=10977

War Of Attrition

http://www.gold-eagle.com/editorials_08/west102908.html

The gold price is going to explode due to the incredibly vast amounts of
liquidity (monetary aggregate) that has been put into the US (and world)
economies by their respective central banks. It's really a simple
concept. The more money placed into circulation (that is not directly
proportional to tangible wealth and economic activity) is vastly
inflationary, and devalues the currency. The world has placed at least
approximately $3 TRILLION of money into the economy over the last few
weeks. This is going to work to destroy the value of any currency, and
will cause a massive price explosion in tangibles, especially precious
metals. This may sound like a bunch of crap to the uneducated, but you
can mark my words, and a year from now, you will see.

The mainstream media is being used to mollify the concerns of the
average viewer who relies for all of his information from the
television. That is the same thing as the sheep asking 2 wolves what's
going to be served for dinner! It will take courage and great
understanding for the average person to stand up for his own interests,
and against the numerous rantings of the 'talking heads' placed on the
television as the financial experts. How have those stock investments
been working out for you lately? Even if you have nominally kept your
same cash values (which you probably haven't), you are also going to
lose big money when the US dollar starts to tank again. None of the
fundamentals that have weakened the USD have changed. In fact, they
have all deteriorated.

You need to start reading and learning something so that you can make
your own investment decisions. Even if you can't get that much
sophistication, you need to be asking your financial planner some very
tough, well-constructed questions about your portfolio, or you're going
to be another victim of the System.

Change, or more of the same?

http://english.pravda.ru/print/opinion/columnists/106616-change_bush-0

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When will it ever change? People keep listening to political drivel and other excuses and rationalities for why the current state of affairs is not what we want it to be. The only way that things are going to change is when the People (or individuals that are in that group) finally get disgusted enough to get up and DO SOMETHING...

From all appearances, most Americans are comatose and totally complacent with the status quo. They have no energy to put down the remote control or get out of the Laz-y-Boy chair while watching Dancing With the Stars. I'm beginning to wonder if Americans have the mental and/or physical capacity to demand freedom. It appears that the desire for it has 'left the building' years ago. Jefferson once said that freedom required eternal vigilance if you want to keep it. This isn't a nation of vigilant people, unless you're talking about watching television or seeking entertainment.

I don't mean to sound like a total pessimist because I know of many Americans who are sick and tired of communist government officials foisting their socialist agendas upon the country, and are working to fight against it. Even if they're just fighting for their own freedom from government intervention, it is bigger fight than just an individual fight. Every battle against tyranny is for all people, especially those who are not yet born. We owe it to our future generations to fight for freedom and against tyranny so that our offspring may experience freedom. It is probably the most precious thing that one could have, because life has little meaning without it.

Does The Bailout Pass The Smell Test?

http://www.rense.com/general83/snlkl.htm

It has been my opinion that this 'bailout' does not pass the 'smell
test' as well. One of the major problems has been the hyperinflation of
the US Dollar. It is creating price inflation simultaneously with wage
deflation, which is a double-whammy for most average working people. It
will only continue to get worse because the financial system will
require a lot more 'bailouts' if it is to survive. What the PTB are
doing (i.e., the 'bailouts') will only make the final denouement that
much worse than if they would have just left it alone. But these people
are going for the maximum profits and are hell-bent on inflicting the
absolute maximum amount of financial pain and destruction that they can
muster upon the heads (and pocketbooks) of the normal people of the US,
and of the world. This event is going to have consequences on most of
the economies of the world.

What Went Wrong - Primer on Derivatives and the Market Meltdown

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/14/AR2008101403343.html

This is an article from the Washington Post that breaks down the events regarding the financial instruments called derivatives, and how they became a part of this present market meltdown. It is basically a primer on how they work and how at least one person tried to get the government to regulate them. Now, they are a bigger part of the world's economy than the world economy itself, with notional (face) value of over $53 TRILLION! Warren Buffett called them 'financial weapons of mass destruction' because they can be used to generate obscene profits, but also (when leveraged extremely high) have the ability to destroy the entire world's economy, as what happened in 1998 with a company called Long Term Capital Management.

LTCM was ran by the researchers that actually won the Nobel Prize for Economics when they came up with what is known as the Black-Scholes formula that is used to calculate prices (technically called premiums) on derivatives. They work fine as long as the assumptions in the model are true. LTCM was highly leveraging their investments in these instruments. They were trading derivatives (i.e., options) on the Russian GKO bond market, which were government bonds. When this market experienced a discontinuity (i.e., when the model's assumptions were not true anymore because the Russian government defaulted on the bonds), this made the company instantly bankrupt, and they did not have the ability to pay any of their counterparties (i.e., the companies on the other side of the investment). The counterparties therefore could not pay the companies with which they had investments. This created a daisy chain of possible company failures that were threatening the entire global banking system.

Then Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan got together a group of around 10 of the largest banks in America to 'pony up' and 'donate' about $5 billion to cover LTCM's losing position in order to save the world's economic system. I bet you didn't remember that story, but it was the day that derivatives almost destroyed the world's financial system. Tom Brokaw didn't tell you about that one. And you thought the evening news really kept you informed. This was before Enron, Tyco, Fannie Mae, etc.

So these people (regulators, financial professionals and Congressmen alike) have known about the dangers of derivatives for a long time, but continued to allow the financiers to make their money. And now, when their shenanigans have caught up with them, they come to average people to bail them out. Even though we didn't want to do it (since the majority of voters and average people didn't back these bailouts), the Congress that is beholden to the big corporations gifted our money to them anyway. Don't you just love democracy?

More Financial Pain Ahead for the Uninformed

Once again, the economy has been trashed more than is being made public.  According to the article below, the US government has given away more than $2 TRILLION in bailouts, all without the knowledge of the average American.  I'm not surprised at this in the least.  As I've been saying all along, this is an orchestrated 'crisis' that is serving a larger purpose. 

This 'crisis' was engineered and purposely created in order to create the appearance of chaos in the markets.  And, of course, the fatcats are getting billions in profit from these events, while giving the bill to average Americans (and those of other countries as well) to pay.  In addition to this, when the markets fail (and they WILL fail), these same fatcats have already moved all of their assets out of the financial markets, and into safer investments.  Unfortunately, those remaining in financial assets will see their investments plummet in value.  This is the theft, but people have to be perceptive to actually identify the 'sleight-of-hand' theft process.  It is subtle in its execution, but the theft is a complete confiscation of the value of the investments that people have made.  In short, your $100,000 may still have a nominal value of $100,000, but the purchasing power will probably be closer to $50 once their process is complete. 

This may sound incredible, but during the last hyperinflation it was not ridiculous.  I will give a brief example.  During the Weimar Germany Deutchemark hyperinflation, there were retirees who were living off of the interest from their retirements before the hyperinflation.  After (or during) the hyperinflation, people had requested that their retirement checks be mailed to them.  The bank said that they could do it, but didn't really wish to do it because--get this--the value of the STAMP that would be required to mail the check to the retiree was more than the value of the check that represented the value of the person's retirement savings!  This is what appears to be the plan for the new financial paradigm.  Of course, the bankers and other insiders who got out of the game while the money still had value are the ones who have stolen the difference in value of the money.  Don't let them steal all of the value you have given over your working years to earn this money!

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http://marketoracle.co.uk/Article6614.html

The Bailout Won't Work, and the System is Definitely Going to Implode

The destruction of the American economy is already a done deal, especially given the fact that the citizens are not willing to endure pain today for better days tomorrow. The irresponsible fiscal policies of the previous 20+ years are all about to 'come home to roost'. Continued deficit spending, bad investments and bad allocation of resources have resulted in gross distortions in prices, demand, and market dynamics. In short, the American economy is terminal. From the look of it, Congress and the Executive branch are both hellbent on continuing the failed, fundamentally flawed approaches that have brought us to this present state of affairs. This misnamed 'bailout' will only magnify the pain that will be felt about 12-18 months from today. The organization we call 'the government' does not have the welfare of Americans as a first priority. This is evident because we know that the bailout won't work, and that the majority of Americans do NOT support this corporate welfare giveaway. So they can't be doing it for us. The system is going to fail, but the question will be whether or not the corporations go down with the country. They are working as hard as they can to avoid it, and to hell with the average American.

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http://theinternationalforecaster.com/International_Forecaster_Weekly/The_Bailout_Wont_Work_and_the_System_Will_Implode

Naomi Klein: "Now Is the Time to Resist Wall Street's Shock Doctrine"

The following article says just about all of it. The bottom line is that this bailout of Wall Street is for the benefit of the 'Fat Cats', and we get the bill for their lavish lifestyles and golden parachutes. The economy is already doomed to have a significant recession-depression. This bailout will only make it that much worse. These people have profited from this real estate bubble and the exorbitant profits they made from investing in financial derivatives. Now they want US to finance the mess THEY created! Don't let them get away with it! Do whatever you can to stop this! Contact your congressman & senators, forward this (and other) e-mails and web sites that tell the truth about this to everybody you know... We have to stop these crooks & criminals in suits from totally wrecking this country. They're trying to protect their own butts from the meat grinder by putting OUR butts in it. Let's not give them the satisfaction. There is a video stream and audio associated with the following link so that you can listen or view the video if you don't want to read it. Now go forth and 'unleash hell' upon the heads of these greedy oligarchs!

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http://www.democracynow.org/2008/9/24/naomi_klein_now_is_the_time

Battle plan for the 50 states

This is a 2-part article written by Devvy Kidd. It is a very timely article, and I agree with most of it. It is time for people to stand up and fight for our freedom, our financial solvency, and against the destruction of our way of life. I don't think that it is necessary to totally destroy America in order to bring prosperity to the rest of the world. This notion comes from a scarcity mentality.

Wealth is created by thought, and can be destroyed by the same. It would appear to me that the financial oligopoly is only focused on inflicting the maximum financial pain and suffering that they can possibly muster upon the average American. And to add insult to injury, they want us to finance it! We must insure that they do not succeed in their sinister goal.

If we don't act now, there will not be any excuse that will save us. Nobody will care to hear about your whining about how bad things have become. It will be much too late for that. And remember that voting is NOT an act that has enough power to change anything substantial, especially in rigged presidential elections where both candidates are hand-picked corporate flunkies. So act now, or sit down and accept whatever crumbs the oligarchs care to leave you.

Talk to others, spread the word about the lies and corruption in government, stage a sit-in, contact your congressman, meet with like-minded people... Be creative. Take action. We know that the only way that we will be saved is by our own efforts. The people in government are the ones who have been paid to create this situation, so they will NOT be the solution, but will only exacerbate the problems. Get inspired. Turn off that television because it engenders the idea that we can't stop these people. They know that we can stop them if we work together, and this is why they want us to continue to tune in to the inane television shows that are designed to pacify and spread ignorance. We owe it to our children and our own futures to fight for freedom.

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Part 1: http://www.newswithviews.com/Devvy/kidd394.htm

Part 2: http://www.newswithviews.com/Devvy/kidd395.htm

Mushroom Cloud over Wall Street as US Constitution Burns :: The Market Oracle :: Financial Markets Analysis & Forecasting Free Website

Mushroom Cloud over Wall Street as US Constitution Burns :: The Market Oracle :: Financial Markets Analysis & Forecasting Free Website

This article tells it like it is in reference to the financial debacle that is upon us. In short, the same people who profited from the 'privatization' and 'deregulation' of the financial industry are the ones who are now begging to be saved from the financial mess that they created themselves, and trying to stick US with the bill! This proposal to give Paulson sweeping power is ludicrous. It would effectively make him the most powerful man in the country--much more powerful than the President or the Supreme Court! How can it possibly be in our best interest to make Paulson the dictator of the country, beyond any legal control??? This is a brazen power grab, and the motivation is to allow Paulson to have the power to saddle the people with any level of debt that he chooses. Of course, this is so that Wall Street can save themselves from the financial quicksand that they have created. Funny how they want to reap all of the profits, and leave the people holding the bag for the liabilities.

Plunder - Investigating Our Economic Calamity

http://www.rense.com/general83/plund.htm

'Rogues' and Humpty Dumpty Judges by Thomas Eddlem

For you all who don't believe that the judicial system is out of control, this article is for you. It's a pitiful state of affairs when the judge who has sworn to uphold the Constitution is actually requesting a juror to forget about the very document that was designed to protect our God-given rights. If this doesn't make you livid, you need a reality check and a reorientation to a freedom mindset...


'Rogues' and Humpty Dumpty Judges by Thomas Eddlem

Trillions Lost in Recent Economic Failures

http://theinternationalforecaster.com/International_Forecaster_Weekly/Trillions_Lost_in_Recent_Economic_Failures

Fluoride

Fluoride

I've been talking about fluoride being poison for many years. It's actually an industrial waste by-product of the phosphate and aluminum industries. It is toxic waste, not pharmaceutical-grade fluoride! In any event, the stuff is NOT good for you. Don't believe me? Look at the writing on the tube of fluoride toothpaste, and it will tell you to call the Poison Center if you expose yourself to more than you usually brush with! Watch these videos...

Dollars, Oil and the Big Wipe Out

This is one of the REAL reasons why Bush & Co. went into Iraq, and are now threatening to go into Iran. They want to maintain American hegemony over world oil production. But it's not going to work. They really needed to raise the interest rate to save the dollar, even though it would be at the risk of severely hampering the American economy. But now, the dollar will continue to plummet in value, and the American economy will still be destroyed in the long-run (which isn't that far away these days). Check out this video below to hear it straight from a media source outside of the mind-numbing American mass media propaganda machine.

Dollars, Oil and the Big Wipe Out

Bloomberg.com: Worldwide

U.S. Stocks Tumble, Sending Dow to Worst June Since Depression

The above article is confirmation that there are tough times ahead for all those who insist on investing in the stock indexes. The American stock markets are all in bear markets. There is too much spendable media (i.e., Federal Reserve Notes and similar monetary aggregate) in the system, along with unserviceable levels of debt. Consumers are in too much debt, all whilst losing their jobs and income levels in ever increasing levels. Investors and anyone else who is exposed to these risks needs to hedge against these financial hazards.

Inverted Totalitarianism

I found an excellent review for what appears to be an intriguing book on the decline of America. I've been speaking on these, and related topics for quite some time now. I think that it is becoming increasingly obvious that America is sick, and getting sicker with each passing day. There doesn't appear to be any will or desire inside the people of America to fight this. They have been lied to, controlled, conditioned, and mentally, spiritually, and physically threatened and attacked by their 'leaders'. Unfortunately, most people do not understand this on an intellectual level. They are the victims of intense mind control techniques, but vehemently deny it. But the proof is in the results.

America has been financially hollowed out. Manufacturing and other means of production, which constitute the foundation of a healthy economy, is decidedly absent. It has been wholly exported to 'Third World' countries where labor is much cheaper. So what we have now is a spoiled population that has been accustomed to a high standard of living that is no longer sustainable, economically speaking. In short, we have all of the finer tastes and desires for filet mignon, but only have the financial ability to pay for Spam (the cheap, substandard meat, not UCE).

The Powers-That-Be have engineered this situation. While the average American has been watching American Idol and listening to Britany Spears on his or her Ipod, the PTB has been employing the highest credentialed experts in psychology, advertising, conditioning, persuasion, marketing, etc., to maximize the mind control effect on everyone who watches TV (which is probably over 90% of people). This is why there is no outcry over the dastardly things that are being done to destroy America. These people have been careful not to make any perceived sudden moves that would cause such a discontinuity in the status quo that it would jarringly wake up the American Sheeple. Slow and steady towards the destination (the destruction of the middle class, destruction of trade unions, eradication of true education, assimilation of individuality, demoralization of the populace, impoverishment of many, the culling of the herd, etc.) wins the race. The race goes not to the swift, but to the persistent and diligent. There are very few persistent, diligent, independent thinking Americans left after 50+ years of acculturation by mass media.

This sounds incredulous to most, but this attitude is merely a symptom of high levels of conditioning. They say that when Columbus arrived at the shores of the Americas, the natives couldn't see the ships that were on the sea on the horizon because it didn't fit into their belief structure. In like manner, most people thought that the 'conspiracy theorists' were crazy when they were not in agreement about the Iraq and Afghanistan wars which have subsequently been proven to have been justified based on outright lies. We could go on and on with numerous examples of this. The point is that everybody knows that politicians lie, but yet the People continue to strongly desire to believe them! This is a textbook case study of chronic cognitive dissonance. It takes no Ph.D. in psychology to understand this, but just an ability to think for self without being spoonfed 'your' opinion by some highly paid media toadie.

With the erosion of the economy looming in the future, Americans will not have to believe what I, and others like me say. They will be living with the results of choosing chronic apathy over concern, ignorance over careful study, entertainment over substance, attacking and villifying "conspiracy theorists" instead of adroitly questioning 'authorities', 'going-along-to-get-along' over standing up against the alleged majority on principle, voting Demopublican over refusing to vote for obviously corrupted candidates, watching television over reading books with real content. I can guarantee you that the fruits of such choices will not be pleasant.

I hope that in some way, a significant number of people will be inspired to work to put an end to this pathetic state of affairs in America. I realize that there are a lot of people in America who do not agree with the cabal that has hijacked the country. Let us hope, for the sake of ourselves, our children, and the rest of the world that we succeed in putting an end to this scourge of humanity that calls itself the leadership of America.