All The Worlds A Stage.

Obama's Budget: Criminally Insane

2009-03-03T17:41:00.000-08:00

This is both true and funny.

Money - A Brief History Of The American Dollar

2009-03-01T19:53:00.000-08:00

Ron Paul on inflation and the hidden transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich

2009-03-01T19:12:00.001-08:00

Ron Paul - "The Fed Is The Culprit"

2009-02-26T14:23:00.000-08:00

"Now is the time. End the Fed"

Ron Paul on Glenn Beck 2/24/09

2009-02-24T19:37:00.000-08:00

Eight States Declaring Sovereignty

2009-02-17T00:10:00.000-08:00

Several states have recently appealed to the 10th and/or the 9th Amendments to assert their state rights over federal government. These amendments state:

Amendment 9 - Construction of Constitution. Ratified 12/15/1791.

The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.

Amendment 10 - Powers of the States and People. Ratified 12/15/1791. Note

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

1. Washington
http://apps.leg.wa.gov/billinfo/summary.aspx?year=2009&bill=4009

2. New Hampshire
http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/legislation/2009/HCR0006.html

3. Arizona
http://www.azleg.gov/FormatDocument.asp?inDoc=/legtext/49leg/1r/bills/hcr2024p.htm

4. Montana
http://data.opi.mt.gov/bills/2009/billhtml/HB0246.htm

5. Michigan
http://www.legislature.mi.gov/(S(sjgu5xbql1n5xf45imuuysrm))/documents/2009-2010/Journal/House/htm/2009-HJ-01-22-002.htm

6. Missouri
http://www.house.mo.gov/content.aspx?info=/bills091/bills/HR212.HTM

7. Oklahoma
http://axiomamuse.wordpress.com/2009/01/07/state-legislator-charles-key-wants-to-limit-federal-power/

8. Hawaii
http://www.hawaii-nation.org/

Jerome Corsi Details PDD51 On C-Span

2009-02-17T00:04:00.001-08:00

The myths of FDR and the New Deal

2009-02-10T09:37:00.000-08:00

Obama's Wealth Destruction

by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.

President Obama is under the impression that history owes him $1 trillion right now to spend on whatever he wants. His language is strident and full of irritation that anyone would question his right to live out his personal dream of being Franklin Roosevelt to George Bush’s Hoover. This, he says, is what the election was all about.

The arrogance reminds me of George Bush after 9-11, who similarly believed that history owed him a gargantuan war in the tradition of FDR. And look how that arrogance led to disgrace and loss, as he unwittingly presided over the destruction of American prosperity while searching for bugbears abroad.

It just goes to show you that the presidency is something like a drug. It makes people lose all connection to reality. Part of the reality that Obama needs to recognize is that the New Deal was a calamity far worse than the initial market downturn that began it. He needs to stop basing his policies on dumbed-down civics texts versions of events and consider the economic logic.

With his rhetoric and policies, he has decided to demonize private enterprise, just as FDR did, as a way to present government as the great savior. Now, think about this. If there is a way out of the recession, it will have to be provided by private enterprise. It will come by new businesses, business expansions, entrepreneurship, new technology, and this will be the source of lasting jobs and prosperity.

You cannot make a country rich by looting taxpayers and paying people to pound nails into siding at public schools! These activities amount to capital consumption. They are not sources of investment. You can say that they are stupid tasks or wonderful tasks, but it is not a matter of ideology as to whether such public projects will make us all wealthier. They will not. They drain the sources of wealth from society. They represent a cost, not a blessing.

That was also true of Bush’s dumb stimulus program. He was only bailing out his friends at our expense. The effect was to give a little longer life to institutions that were failing anyway. It’s pathetic that the Republicans ever went along with it. You will notice that the scheme didn’t actually work.

Well, Obama is doing the same thing, though rewarding a different set of friends. This is not wealth production. This is wealth consumption. Do enough of this nonsense and you can destroy the livelihoods of an entire generation.

Americans are proud of their system of government, but consider what it has given us this time around. We had an outgoing president who thought it was his right to grab as much as he could while leaving. Now we have a new president who thinks that the election entitled him to grab as much as he can, right from the beginning. We get looted by the state coming and going. It all amounts to one massive war on prosperity and freedom.

Particularly culpable here are the official historians who have for generations heralded FDR as the great savior. It is a case study in how a civic lie can appear and fester for decades. The fact is that the New Deal did not work. It prolonged what might have been a troubling two-year downturn into a horrifying blow to world prosperity that ended up in a war that killed countless millions. It was one of the greatest acts of wreckage in world history.

And Obama is inspired by this? He wants to repeat it?

I’m not so cynical about human affairs that I believe that errors must be endlessly repeated. Obama can put a stop to his madness. He needs to know – someone must tell him frankly and openly – that his current path is going to lead not to recovery, but to an extension of suffering, and untold amounts of it.

The biggest threat facing the American economy right now is rarely even discussed. It is the massive buildup of paper bank reserves in the last quarter of 2008. This was Bush’s doing. He ordered the Fed to print like mad. Fortunately for us, the banks are still holding on to these reserves. When they start lending again, the result could be hyperinflation of Confederate dollar proportions.

Hence the priority of the Obama administration should be to first do no evil, and second to find some means for withdrawing those reserves from the banking system before they wash through the economic structure and destroy the dollar. There is still time. He must act. Yes, that will lead to bank failures. That’s good! It will lead to business failures. That’s good and essential too.

There simply is no choice. If he acts now, he could find that recovery will come before his second term. This is precisely what happened with Reagan. He was fortunate to have advisers who insisted that he let the liquidation happen rather than attempt to fix the recession of 1981–82 with huge new government spending programs.

In any case, the hardest work to do here is intellectual. Obama’s head is filled with myths and lies, not only about FDR and the New Deal, but also about the government’s power to repair the existing economic problems. With this model in his head, he can only do evil. This must change.

Nothing is inevitable. He can turn on a dime. The main message: do not repeat the actions of FDR, lest you destroy what is left of American liberty and prosperity.

I.O.U.S.A. The Thirty Minute Version

2009-02-09T20:35:00.000-08:00

What is the little known history of U.S. and Iran relations?

2009-02-08T17:27:00.000-08:00

"It is well known in Iran and throughout the Middle East that the U.S. (at the urging of and with the assistance of the UK) organized a coup against the democratically-elected Iranian government of Mohammed Mossaedgh in 1953, in retaliation for Mossaedgh's stubborn insistence that Iran's oil belonged to Iranians. For the next twenty-five years, the U.S. kept in power a dictatorship in Iran."

FollyOfAttackingIran.org

Iran and the West: A History of Violence
by Eric Margolis

Iran is celebrating the 30th anniversary of its historic Islamic revolution after three decades of siege warfare by the western powers. To understand why relations between Tehran and the West are so bitter, we must understand their historical context.

Iran’s jagged relations with the West began during World War II. In 1941, the British Empire and Soviet Union jointly invaded and occupied the independent kingdom of Persia, as it was then known. This oil-motivated aggression was every bit as criminal as the German-Soviet occupation of Poland in 1939, but has been blanked out of western history texts.

The Allies deposed Iran’s ruler, Reza Shah, and installed his weak, pliant son, Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, on the throne as the latest puppet ruler in the British Empire.

But in 1951, a highly popular Iranian democratic leader, Mohammed Mossadegh, became prime minister and promptly nationalized Iran’s British-owned oil industry, ordering its profits be used to lift Iran from poverty rather than enriching Britain. The Shah and his entourage of western advisors fled.

Two years later, US and British intelligence mounted a coup that overthrew Mossadegh, ending Iran’s first democratic government. The Shah was restored to the Peacock Throne. Iran’s oil wealth returned to British and, now, US control. Washington and London proclaimed they had won an important victory against "Communism."

Washington and London set about turning Shah Pahlavi into the "gendarme of the Gulf" to protect their oil interests. The Shah quickly blossomed into a megalomaniac, styling himself the "Shah of Shahs," and "Imperial Light of the Aryans" (Iranians are an ancient Indo-European people), comparing himself to the ancient Persian emperors, Darius and Xerxes.

The Shah’s relatives and Iran’s tiny ruling, western-oriented elite looted the nation, living like pre-Revolution Russian royalty. Wives of the elite flew to Paris to have their hair done for gala parties. The nation’s oil revenues went to buy large amounts of US and British arms and build gaudy palaces. The rest of Iran remained mired in abject poverty as the nouveau riche royal court flaunted its wealth.

Iran’s elite put on European airs and dismissed Islam as a backwards faith of superstitious peasants. In this sense, they much resembled today’s so-called "secular" Turks who bitterly oppose Islam.

Iranians who objected to the court’s lurid ostentation, Iran’s status as a Western puppet, or the looting of its oil wealth, were branded Communists or Islamic fanatics.

Savak, the vastly powerful security agency, imposed a reign of terror on Iran. American and Israeli experts advised and taught Savak. Real and imagined opponents of the Shah, the Shia clergy, and leftists all fell victim to Savak, whose tortures and brutalities were legendary, even by brutal Mideast standards.

Iran and Israel, both hostile to their Arab neighbors, became very close allies, to the fury of deeply religious Iranians and the Shia clergy, which strongly supported the Palestinians. The Shah even negotiated to buy Israeli missiles with nuclear warheads in exchange for a steady supply of oil. Washington offered to sell Iran 26 nuclear reactors.

By the late 1970’s, the Shah’s imperial pretensions, the arrant corruption of his corrupt family, and the elite’s scorning of Islam brought Iran to a boil. In 1979, an exiled Shia religious leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeni, returned from exile in France and led a popular revolution that quickly overthrew the hated Shah. The US was caught flat-footed by Iran’s revolution. It had relied entirely on Savak for political information.

Popular fury quickly turned against the Shah’s primary supporter, the US. Mobs stormed the US embassy, taking hostages and bringing the two nations close to war. The shredded CIA documents patiently pieced together by Iranian women showed the amazing extent of the CIA’s influence over Iran. All the CIA’s networks were rolled up.

Ayatollah Khomeini proclaimed his nation’s oil wealth would be devoted to social programs. He called on the US-backed Arab oil states to follow the Koran’s teachings and share their wealth with poor Muslims everywhere. He called for the overthrow of other Mideast rulers, whom he damned as illegitimate apostates and western puppets.

Washington and London immediately began planning the overthrow of Iran’s new revolutionary Islamic government which directly threatened the Anglo-American domination of the Mideast – what I call in my new book, American Raj. The CIA sought to mount a number of military coups. Forty percent of Iran’s government leaders were assassinated by the Marxist "People’s Mujahidin."

In 1980, when these efforts failed to overthrow the Islamic regime, the US, Britain and their Arab oil clients got another US "gendarme" – Iraq’s Saddam Hussein – to invade Iran.

The resulting bloody, eight year Iran-Iraq war cost Iran one million casualties, half of them dead. Iran suffered more dead in this war than the US did in World War II. So violent and desperate was the World War I–style trench fighting that 12-year old Iranian boys and old men went forward to clear Iraqi minefields with their bodies.

The US, Britain, and the oil Arabs financed and helped arm Iraq. Israel sold Iraq a reported $5 billion in US arms and spare parts. Europe supplied Iraq with chemical weapons, food and arms.

After the US Navy entered the war on Iraq’s side, Iran was forced to sue for peace. Iran lay in financial and emotional ruins, with an entire generation killed in battle or horribly maimed by Iraq’s western-supplied chemical weapons that included the burning agents mustard gas and Lewisite, chlorine, cyanide, and a variety of modern nerve gases.

Rightly or wrongly, most Iranians blame the West for their historical suffering. They see the Western powers and Israel continuing efforts to overthrow their government, isolate Iran, and seize its oil. Or even launch a long-awaited air blitz against Iran’s so-far civilian nuclear program.

A former commander in the Iran-Iraq War, Mohammed Ahmadinejad, who led many dangerous missions behind Iraqi lines, is today the president of Iran. While Grand Ayatollah Ali Khamenei retains the nation’s real executive power, the bombastic, anti-Western Ahmadinejad speaks for much of Iran’s people.

President Barack Obama, who says he wants to open serious talks with Iran and establish better relations, will have his work cut out for him.

February 17, 2009

Eric Margolis [send him mail], contributing foreign editor for Sun National Media Canada. He is the author of War at the Top of the World and the new book, American Raj: Liberation or Domination?: Resolving the Conflict Between the West and the Muslim World. See his website.

Copyright © 2009 Eric Margolis

Lew Rockwell - Why Should The Federal Reserve Be Abolished

2009-02-05T20:32:00.001-08:00

Ron Paul on ending the Federal Reserve

2009-02-04T22:11:00.000-08:00

Before the US House of Representatives, February 4, 2009, introducing the The Federal Reserve Board Abolition Act, H.R. 833.

Madame Speaker, I rise to introduce legislation to restore financial stability to America's economy by abolishing the Federal Reserve. Since the creation of the Federal Reserve, middle and working-class Americans have been victimized by a boom-and-bust monetary policy. In addition, most Americans have suffered a steadily eroding purchasing power because of the Federal Reserve's inflationary policies. This represents a real, if hidden, tax imposed on the American people.

From the Great Depression, to the stagflation of the seventies, to the current economic crisis caused by the housing bubble, every economic downturn suffered by this country over the past century can be traced to Federal Reserve policy. The Fed has followed a consistent policy of flooding the economy with easy money, leading to a misallocation of resources and an artificial "boom" followed by a recession or depression when the Fed-created bubble bursts.

With a stable currency, American exporters will no longer be held hostage to an erratic monetary policy. Stabilizing the currency will also give Americans new incentives to save as they will no longer have to fear inflation eroding their savings. Those members concerned about increasing America's exports or the low rate of savings should be enthusiastic supporters of this legislation.

Though the Federal Reserve policy harms the average American, it benefits those in a position to take advantage of the cycles in monetary policy. The main beneficiaries are those who receive access to artificially inflated money and/or credit before the inflationary effects of the policy impact the entire economy. Federal Reserve policies also benefit big spending politicians who use the inflated currency created by the Fed to hide the true costs of the welfare-warfare state. It is time for Congress to put the interests of the American people ahead of special interests and their own appetite for big government.

Abolishing the Federal Reserve will allow Congress to reassert its constitutional authority over monetary policy. The United States Constitution grants to Congress the authority to coin money and regulate the value of the currency. The Constitution does not give Congress the authority to delegate control over monetary policy to a central bank. Furthermore, the Constitution certainly does not empower the federal government to erode the American standard of living via an inflationary monetary policy.

In fact, Congress' constitutional mandate regarding monetary policy should only permit currency backed by stable commodities such as silver and gold to be used as legal tender. Therefore, abolishing the Federal Reserve and returning to a constitutional system will enable America to return to the type of monetary system envisioned by our nation's founders: one where the value of money is consistent because it is tied to a commodity such as gold. Such a monetary system is the basis of a true free-market economy.

In conclusion, Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to stand up for working Americans by putting an end to the manipulation of the money supply which erodes Americans' standard of living, enlarges big government, and enriches well-connected elites, by cosponsoring my legislation to abolish the Federal Reserve.

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h111-833

Dr. Paul on German Hyperinflation

2009-02-03T19:28:00.000-08:00

G Edward Griffin tells it like it is.

2009-02-02T16:06:00.000-08:00

Truth & Lies of 9/11 - L.A.P.D. detective goes public about the C.I.A.'s role in narcotics trafficking and its complicity in the 9/11 attacks.

2009-01-31T19:27:00.000-08:00

In 1977, Ruppert discovered an extensive drug trafficking operation run by the Central Intelligence Agency and went on record about this ongoing criminal activity. He resigned from the LAPD in 1978 despite earning the highest rating reports possible, over the tolerance of continued CIA drug dealing activities.[3] Ruppert's personal experience with death threats, 3 shooting attempts on him, aggressive intimidation over his attempted exposure of these illegal drug activities within Los Angeles, and his ethical conflict with tolerance of these activities, was the catalyst for the resignation.[4]

Ruppert filed an official complaint with FBI Special Agent Stan Curry of the L.A. Field Office on December 4, 1978. This was after Ruppert was forced out of LAPD on November 30, 1978.

In 1996 Ruppert achieved some justice through his comments at a televised visit of then Director of Central Intelligence John Deutch to South Central Los Angeles. Deutch had made the trip to Los Angeles to dispel rumors in the black community that followed the publication of Gary Webb's series in the San Jose Mercury News revealing evidence of CIA connections to cocaine dealers in the city, and evidence of CIA and Contra's cocaine trafficking in the US. Webb was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American investigative journalist, best known for his 1996 Dark Alliance investigative report.[5] In Webb's three-part series (later published as a book titled Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion), Webb investigated Nicaraguans linked to the CIA-backed Contras who had allegedly distributed crack cocaine into Los Angeles and funneled profits to the Contras. Webb also proved that this influx of Nicaraguan supplied cocaine sparked and significantly fueled the widespread crack epidemic that swept through urban areas.

On November 15, 1996, Ruppert stood at the town hall meeting at Locke High School in Los Angeles and said to Director of Central Intelligence John Deutch, "I am a former Los Angeles Police narcotics detective. I worked South Central Los Angeles and I can tell you, Director Deutch, emphatically and without equivocation, that the Agency has dealt drugs in this country for a long time."[4] He then referred Deutch to three specific CIA agency operations known as Amadeus, Pegasus and Watchtower. At the meeting, Ruppert publicly confronted Deutch, saying that in his experience as an LAPD narcotics officer he has seen evidence of CIA complicity in drug dealing for a long time.[6]

Michael Ruppert quoted one entry from Oliver North's diary dated July 5, 1985, which said that $14 million to buy weapons for the Contras, "came from drugs." and he wouldn't need to mention the two hundred and fifty other such entries in his diary, which refer to narcotics.[7]

On October 1, 1997, Ruppert submitted documents to the Select Intelligence Committees of both Houses. To date, it remains only a document submitted in advance of testimony and has not been placed in the Congressional Record.[4]

Ruppert went on to become an aggressive investigator and Journalist,[8] as well as establishing the publication From The Wilderness, a watch dog group that exposes governmental corruption, including his experience with CIA drug dealing activities.[9] From The Wilderness, was read, before being shut down,[10] in more than 50 countries around the world. Its subscribers include 60-plus members of the US Congress, professors at more than 40 universities around the world, and major business and economic leaders. Since 9/11 Ruppert has been in demand as a university lecturer and has spoken on Peak Oil and 9/11 in nine countries. Recently, at the request of Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, he served as an official questioner during a Congressional briefing looking into unanswered questions and the unaddressed flaws of the Keane 9/11 Commission report.

Many supporters of Ruppert's take issue with the use of phrases like 'conspiracy theories,' as they instigate immediate connotations and denote falsehoods that portray the 'conspiracy theorist' as a member of a paranoid fringe-dwelling underclass. As Ruppert points out about several of his major documented sources, academics Dr Alfred W. McCoy and Peter Dale Scott; "why is it that these books have never been sued? There is an old saying amongst legal circles: the truth is the perfect defence against libel."

- from Wikipedia

Gerald Celente on the Alex Jones Show Discussing The Economic Collapse and Obama

2009-01-27T17:09:00.000-08:00

Part One

Part Two

Part Three

Part Four

Part Five

Lew Rockwell Speech Regarding Austrian Economics And An Overview Of Our Economic Situation

2009-01-27T12:49:00.000-08:00

Excellent recent Ron Paul videos

2009-01-27T12:35:00.000-08:00

Barrack Obama is George Bush is Bill Clinton

2009-01-24T15:30:00.000-08:00

Read this first:
http://www.campaignforliberty.com/blog.php?view=9066

I see Barrack Obama's rise to power as being interestingly and disturbingly almost messianic and cult-like in the eyes of the world. Setting aside the historical importance, social evolution and pride of having an African-American president, the allegiance and adoration that the vast majority of Americans as well as people from the world over are giving to Obama is something that I actually see as being very dangerous. He is like a "people magazine" president where he is liked because he is seen as being in touch and hip as well as being very well spoken and smooth. He has come into office while this country rests on the cusp of total economic decay and he is promising to fix everything as well as promising impossible ideas such as universal healthcare. Our country is beyond broke and could never afford something like universal healthcare. I truly feel sympathy for anyone who believes in the "change" of Barrack Obama and the idea that he can help restore standards of living and ease the burden for everyday people.

For some reason Obama was even perceived as being the peace candidate who will bring troops home when nothing could be further from the truth. There will be no change with Barrack Obama. In fact, Barrack Obama's stimulus packages and attempts to re-inflate our economy are actually going to prolong the mess that has already begun and turn a very bad unfolding recession into a decade or longer depression. Economically, he is doing the exact opposite of what he should be doing. He couldn't do any better if he was purposefully trying to totally crash the US economy. The fact of the matter is that America has become far too accustomed to living beyond its means by purchasing cheap slave labor imports on credit - buying junk we don't need with money we don't have. In the process the majority of our countries' manufacturing base has disappeared and service sector jobs that revolve around selling ipods, cars, phones, videogames, etc, have sprouted up in their place. It is not normal to be in debt for items that you do not need. The traditional way to have luxuries is to save up your money and then buy them, not to use credit. We have even been conditioned over the years to think it should be necessary to buy a car and a college education with credit. These massive amounts of service sector jobs that have evolved over the years never should have existed in the first place and a massive rearrangement of our entire economy is totally inevitable and needed. Barrack Obama's policies will fight this transition and exacerbate it.

To anyone who does a little homework, it is no secret that Obama's biggest financial supporters are all of the big banks and international corporations and so forth just like the president before him and the president before him. Obama is a puppet to more or less the same basic group of elite men that George Bush was a puppet for and that Bill Clinton was a puppet for. I actually think that Bush should have just stayed in office because all we have had here is a distracting change of masks while the underlying trend of bigger and bigger government with less and less freedom still remains. We have simply had an aesthetic change for the same unfolding big government fascist tyranny. To me, the trends and mass superficial hype and almost trance like love for this man by these great masses of people who are blinded to the inevitable downfall of this country and the big business and banking elites who are making out like bandits and getting closer and closer to having a global government banking structure is really quite something to watch. I'm sure it will sound over the top to you, but I see immense parallels between Barrack Obama's rise to power and the early days of slow moving and sneaking fascist mass movements such as Nazi Germany and the rise of Adolph Hitler and I am in awe and mystified by the possibilities of what is in store for this country as well as the whole world in the months and years ahead. I got over fear a long time ago, lol, so my spirits are quite adventurous, excited and interested to see how this thing unfolds. I just have to say that if you adore and love Barrack Obama and celebrated his victory - you got owned.

These are a few short videos that illustrate some of my points.

http://www.consciousmedianetwork.com/video/010809b.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ez5robAWmu4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_lL_cVViRQ

Read all of the negative reviews on this:
http://www.amazon.com/Pocket-Obama-Editors-History-Company/dp/0978736842/ref=cm_cr_pr_pb_t

Goodbye George W. Bush

2009-01-19T18:34:00.000-08:00

From CampaignForLiberty.com

Tomorrow marks the end of the Bush era. This was the presidency that gave us:

• Two undeclared, unwinnable imperial wars, with hundreds of thousands of dead, including thousands of Americans, and many tens of thousands of Americans wounded, with the violence and occupations continuing to this day;

• Detention without trial or habeas corpus;

• A torture scandal and the institutionalization, from the top down, of "enhanced interrogation techniques" that offend basic standards of human decency;

• New precedents on "extraordinary renditioning," whereby U.S. intelligence and military agencies hand off detainees to foreign countries where they are interrogated in ways that even the U.S. at Guantanamo will not use;

• Warrantless wiretapping of the citizenry conducted by the military wing of the government;

• Spying on peaceful political activists and putting many names on no-fly lists;

• The modification of Posse Comitatus and insurrection law to empower the president to order the military and national guard to impose order on the domestic population;

• More signing statements than any president before;

• Credit expansion that helped bring on the greatest financial crisis in many years;

• The largest expansion of welfare spending since the Great Society, specifically in the area of prescription drugs;

• The biggest bailout ever, so far, with frightening moves toward economic fascism in the financial sector;

• A doubling of the deficit and debt;

• The nationalization of airline security and the introduction of the color-coded terror system;

• The Department of Homeland Security;

• Sarbanes-Oxley and other posturing corporate regulation that hurts small firms while doing nothing to improve the economy;

• Signing McCain-Feingold into law, despite knowing it violating the First Amendment;

• The further nationalization of education;

• The 21st century version of the "unitary executive," which concentrates ever more power into the presidency;

• Massive protectionism, secrecy, duplicity, socialism, corporatism, and growing reliance on police-state tactics;

• Terrible diplomatic blunders with North Korea, the Midle East and elsewhere;

• The failure to catch Osama bin Laden.

Ron Paul - Central Economic and Government Planning Does Not Work

2009-01-14T17:01:00.000-08:00

US Economics Explained

2009-01-07T19:39:00.000-08:00

Click to see full image.

Basic forms of government and what they mean.

2009-01-04T20:02:00.000-08:00

Listen to Gerald Celente!

2008-12-31T18:32:00.000-08:00

On Coast to Coast with George Noory

The Left, The Right, and The State

2008-12-31T15:13:00.000-08:00

by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.

In American political culture, and world political culture too, the divide concerns in what way the state's power should be expanded. The left has a laundry list and the right does too. Both represent a grave threat to the only political position that is truly beneficial to the world and its inhabitants: liberty. What is the state? It is the group within society that claims for itself the exclusive right to rule everyone under a special set of laws that permit it to do to others what everyone else is rightly prohibited from doing, namely aggressing against person and property.

Why would any society permit such a gang to enjoy an unchallenged legal privilege? Here is where ideology comes into play. The reality of the state is that it is a looting and killing machine. So why do so many people cheer for its expansion? Indeed, why do we tolerate its existence at all? The very idea of the state is so implausible on its face that the state must wear an ideological garb as means of compelling popular support. Ancient states had one or two: they would protect you from enemies and/or they were ordained by the gods. To greater and lesser extents, all modern states still employ these rationales, but the democratic state in the developed world is more complex. It uses a huge range of ideological rationales – parsed out between left and right – that reflect social and cultural priorities of niche groups, even when many of these rationales are contradictory.

The left wants the state to distribute wealth, to bring about equality, to rein in businesses, to give workers a boost, to provide for the poor, to protect the environment. I address many of these rationales in this book, with an eye toward particular topics in the news.

The right, on the other hand, wants the state to punish evildoers, to boost the family, to subsidize upright ways of living, to create security against foreign enemies, to make the culture cohere, and to go to war to give ourselves a sense of national identity. I also address these rationales.

So how are these competing interests resolved? They logroll and call it democracy. The left and right agree to let each other have their way, provided nothing is done to injure the interests of one or the other. The trick is to keep the balance. Who is in power is really about which way the log is rolling. And there you have the modern state in a nutshell. Although it has ancestors in such regimes as Lincoln's and Wilson's, the genesis of the modern state is in the interwar period, when the idea of the laissez-faire society fell into disrepute – the result of the mistaken view that the free market brought us economic depression. So we had the New Deal, which was a democratic hybrid of socialism and fascism. The old liberals were nearly extinct.

The US then fought a war against the totalitarian state, allied to a totalitarian state, and the winner was leviathan itself. Our leviathan doesn't always have a chief executive who struts around in a military costume, but he enjoys powers that Caesars of old would have envied. The total state today is more soothing and slick than it was in its interwar infancy, but it is no less opposed to the ideals advanced in these pages. How much further would the state have advanced had Mises and Rothbard and many others not dedicated their lives to freedom? We must become the intellectual dissidents of our time, rejecting the demands for statism that come from the left and right. And we must advance a positive program of liberty, which is as radical, fresh, and true as it ever was.

December 31, 2008

"Money, Banking, and the Federal Reserve"

2008-12-19T19:15:00.000-08:00

One of the few uncorrupted congressmen speaking the truth.

2008-12-11T21:15:00.000-08:00

PETER SCHIFF DEC 02 2008 Economic Collapse

2008-12-09T18:18:00.001-08:00

Peter Schiff on Michael Savage 11/24/08

2008-11-25T17:15:00.000-08:00

Gerald Celente Predicts '08 Panic

2008-11-24T15:03:00.001-08:00

Like Peter Schiff, this is a man who should be listened to.

End The Federal Reserve - Houston Rally with Ron Paul

2008-11-24T14:21:00.000-08:00

You would think that a 39 city protest involving thousands of people might warrant a national wire story, maybe a mention on cable news, but no. Reporters don't understand the issue and therefore they ignore it. Of course this can be said for most of the important issues that affect people's lives. Hence we get wall-to-wall coverage of the Obama daughter's educational preferences. Fiddling while Rome burns seems almost understated. Maybe one day, some reporter might even realize he's sitting on the biggest story of the last hundred years; the looting of the American people to the tune of 95% of our money's value.

Maybe that industrious reporter will open a history book and learn that the dangers of central banking were well understood by such radical fringe players as Thomas Jefferson and John F. Kennedy. He might learn that Woodrow Wilson realized that he had enabled the eventual destruction of America with the signing of the Federal Reserve Act writing, "I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country.”

He might even figure out that this system impoverishes our most vulnerable citizen's by destroying their purchasing power and enslaving them in unnecessary welfare systems that need naught ever to have existed. He might learn that inflation is a means of paying for aggressive wars indirectly and therefore avoiding the direct cost of taxation which would raise opposition among the people.

He might also discover that the Constitution demands that our government control our nation’s money supply and that the Federal Reserve is a private bank that not even members of congress are allowed to oversee.

If he is really sharp, he might also figure out that fractional reserve banking and fiat money systems must necessarily fail over time and we have reached the end of the line. With a little evaluation, he may conclude that central banking has led us to the point of the complete collapse of the international economic order and the end of the dollar and our way of life with it.
- Don Rasmussen from CampaignForLiberty.com

Peter Schiff Schools the Unlearned Media

2008-11-23T18:30:00.001-08:00

Jordan Maxwell - Religion, Big Business and Politics

2008-11-10T21:22:00.000-08:00

Project Censored

2008-11-03T16:02:00.000-08:00

Project Censored is one of the very best sources for important news stories that receive very little or warped coverage inside the U.S. from its supposedly "free" press.

"Project censored is one of the organizations that we should listen to, to be assured that our newspapers and our broadcast outlets are practicing thorough and ethical journalism." — Walter Cronkite

Founded by Carl Jensen in 1976, Project Censored is a media research program working in cooperation with numerous independent media groups in the US. Project Censored’s principle objective is training of SSU students in media research and First Amendment issues and the advocacy for, and protection of, free press rights in the United States. Project Censored has trained over 1,500 students in investigative research in the past three decades.

Through a partnership of faculty, students, and the community, Project Censored conducts research on important national news stories that are underreported, ignored, misrepresented, or censored by the US corporate media. Each year, Project Censored publishes a ranking of the top 25 most censored nationally important news stories in the yearbook, Censored: Media Democracy in Action, which is released in September. Recent Censored books have been published in Spanish, Italian and Arabic.

The Project works in cooperation with SSU academic classes Sociology of Media and Sociology of Censorship, where students earn credit for their research and participate in writing the annual yearbook. Additionally, Project Censored sponsors and supervises over 60 student interns a year who do in depth investigative research, sponsor campus events and speakers, and organize an annual national Media Accountability Conference. Students also participate in writing the Project Censored quarterly newsletter (circulation 9,000) and assist with maintaining the Project Censored website www.projectcensored.org, which receives over a million views a month from all over the world.

Between 700 and 1000 stories are submitted to Project Censored each year from journalists, scholars, librarians, and concerned citizens around the world. With the help of more than 200 Sonoma State University faculty, students, and community members, Project Censored reviews the story submissions for coverage, content, reliability of sources and national significance. The university community selects 25 stories to submit to the Project Censored panel of judges who then rank them in order of importance. Current or previous national judges include: Noam Chomsky, Susan Faludi, George Gerbner, Sut Jhally, Frances Moore Lappe, Michael Parenti, Herbert I. Schiller, Barbara Seaman, Erna Smith, Mike Wallace and Howard Zinn. All 25 stories are featured in the yearbook, Censored: The News That Didn’t Make the News.

Project Censored is administered through the SSU Sociology Department with financial support from the SSU Instructionally Related Activity Fund, School of Social Science, Media Freedom Foundation Inc. and donations from thousands of supporters around the country.

Pepsi or Coke?

2008-11-03T15:52:00.001-08:00

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Excellent Article About America's Phony Modern Prosperity

2008-10-26T19:18:00.000-07:00

The Standard of Living Bubble (And Why It’s About to Go Pop!)
by Karen De Coster on October 22, 2008

Our representatives in Washington, alongside the easy-credit Federal Reserve and its Wise Leader, “Helicopter Ben,” have essentially subsidized a rash of misguided investments and profligate spending-sprees by consumers who’ve bought into the illusion of endless prosperity. Everyone knows about the Housing Bubble. Well, get ready for the even bigger Standard of Living Bubble, whose bursting is now upon us.

Because real wages have not been rising, the growth in consumer spending could only have been financed through borrowed money. Debt, which allows consumers to have cash on hand that hasn’t been earned or saved, has given Boobis Americanus the ability to live beyond his means, at least for a little while. And a great many have taken up this “pay later” lifestyle, accumulating a great many houses, cars, and other things.

A favored form of debt for funding extraneous purchases has been the home equity line. During the housing bubble, homes became virtual ATMs. Whereas home equity was once used for purposes of improving the home for the long-term, it became a source of quick cash for reckless buyers eager to turn their home into an instant showplace. First there’s the actual house, then comes the Martha Stewartization, followed by the furniture, the landscaping, the lighting, the additions, the appliances, and on and on.

The government’s mantra since the days of the New Deal has been the “right to own a home.” In the modern version of “the American Dream,” a starter home is treated as a humiliation, as everyone has the right to own a great, big home in an esteemed neighborhood, and preferably one of new construction and with all the bells and whistles. The term “being house poor” used to be a negative connotation. During the bubble it became a bragging right.

Even worse, home equity has been funding the purchase of everyday consumer durables, especially those items that tend to be discretionary in nature. Home equity has funded the kind of purchases that should be funded from earned, saved monies. A perpetually (and rising) line of credit induces consumers to “bite” at the availability of easy money at low rates, and thus they take the cash and spend their way to a perceived prosperity.

For the average person, “things” have become identical to wealth. They equate the accumulation of “stuff” with “being loaded.” Accordingly, everybody has been well-heeled in these bubble times. The availability of debt at bargain rates and the glory of immediate accumulation due to debt quickly erodes the values and common sense of people.

Some of the more pompous—and truly false—signs of prosperity can be seen within the automobile bubble. With the onset of the have-pulse-will-loan credit market, auto consumers have been bypassing common sense for a bloated sense of reality. Everyone deserves the biggest, the best, and the most custom vehicle they could dream up—and one’s income shouldn’t mater. People with mediocre wages purchased Escalades, Lexus SUVs, and other luxury-type vehicles, with many of these cars costing far more than the purchasers earned in a year. Additionally, the roads are now littered with brand new cars that have expensive aftermarket wheel sets, tires, boom-boom stereo systems, and gaudy-but-costly custom trim. In fact, stock, solid-transportation vehicles are no longer sufficient for the spoiled masses enjoying an overdrawn standard of living. Debt has funded the majority of these extravagant purchases, yet we call it “prosperity.”

Auto consumers have not been compelled to pay market rates for their cars because they lease perpetually at discounted rates or get ultra-incentives from automakers desperate to keep the assembly lines moving with the UAW gang breathing down their necks. Leases have been a financial disaster for the auto companies, but the wild impulses of buyers, fueled by below-market interest rates, propped up that racket long enough so that Lexus and Mercedes dealers were popping up in wholly middle-class neighborhoods. Both Chrysler and General Motors have discontinued or cut back their unworkable lease programs. Additionally, buyers have not been required to put substantial down payments on new vehicle purchases. Cars have come on the cheap, with pushed-down interest rates, no down payments, and terms extending the payment plan to six or seven years.

Accordingly, with the housing market imploding and the entire banking system resting on wilted stilts, Americans are left with a devalued dollar, escalating costs of living, a massive federal bailout of Wall Street’s derelict financial management, and the nationalization of some of the country’s largest banks. The standard-of-living squeeze has made its way to Main Street, slowing down the spend-o-rama of the middle class, as retail sales numbers are starting to hit the skids.

The bursting of this bubble and its unwinding could result in some unpleasant withdrawal symptoms. People—especially younger folks—who have been reared on the splendiferous way of life that debt offers, will be resistant to changes which will require lower time preferences (longer term views) and more careful planning in terms of shuffling around priorities. As Main Street endures a stifling credit crunch; inflation; increasing interest rates; scores of home foreclosures; cut-off of home equity lines; a job market squeeze; soaring federal, state, and local taxes; and the inability to manipulate low-interest credit cards to cover shoddy financial decisions, there will be restlessness amongst the masses, especially from those people who have never had to live within their bona fide financial means.

Some of this anxiety has been witnessed already, as lenders who are taking back homes in foreclosure have been dealt some vile vengeance from bitter homeowners who take to vandalizing their homes before they vacate the premises. This problem is said to be present in almost half of all foreclosure cases nationwide. The response from lenders has been to take the most economical path and actually pay the vacating ex-homeowner to refrain from leaving behind a trail of destruction as leaves his property.

The worst part of the contraction will clobber Main Street with a shortage of the consumer credit that became an addiction for so many individuals. The price we pay will be oodles of socialistic legislation aimed at containing the fallout in order to further sustain the fictitious prosperity a bit longer. Central planners act on the notion that the unhappy reality of hitting bottom can be delayed indefinitely. Thus the cycle of fiction will be lengthened, turning a headache into a migraine, and perhaps even worse.

The central planners in Washington, along with the Federal Reserve, planned and fueled an unsustainable standard of living across the country, from the neighborhoods of McMansions to the ghettos. The impending bust will affect us all, regardless of whether or not we partook in any of those easy-credit orgies sponsored by our leaders in Washington.

In Debt We Trust

2008-10-22T19:48:00.000-07:00

Ron Paul on CNN's American Morning 10/17/2008

2008-10-17T17:02:00.000-07:00

End of the fiat money system.

Don’t Blame Capitalism

2008-10-16T18:13:00.001-07:00

Peter Schiff
Washington Post
Thursday, Oct 16, 2008

Amid the chaos of recent days, as the federal government has taken gargantuan steps to stabilize the financial markets, realigning the U.S. economic system in the process, comes a nearly universal consensus: This crisis resulted from government reluctance to regulate the unbridled greed of Wall Street. Many economists and market participants who were formerly averse to government interference agree that a more robust regulatory framework must be constructed to cage the destructive forces of capitalism.

For the political left, which has long championed the need for such limits, this crisis is the opportunity of a lifetime.

Absent from such conclusions is the central role the government played in creating the crisis. Yes, many Wall Street leaders were irresponsible, and they should pay. But they were playing the distorted hand dealt them by government policies. Our leaders irrationally promoted home-buying, discouraged savings, and recklessly encouraged borrowing and lending, which together undermined our markets.

Just as prices in a free market are set by supply and demand, financial and real estate markets are governed by the opposing tension between greed and fear. Everyone wants to make money, but everyone is also afraid of losing what he has. Although few would ascribe their desire for prosperity to greed, it is simply a rose by another name. Greed is the elemental motivation for the economic risk-taking and hard work that are essential to a vibrant economy.

But over the past generation, government has removed the necessary counterbalance of fear from the equation. Policies enacted by the Federal Reserve, the Federal Housing Administration, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (which were always government entities in disguise), and others created advantages for home-buying and selling and removed disincentives for lending and borrowing. The result was a credit and real estate bubble that could only grow — until it could grow no more.

Prominent among these wrongheaded advantages are the mortgage interest tax deduction and the exemption of real estate capital gains from taxable income. These policies create unnatural demand for home purchases and a (tax-free) incentive to speculate in real estate.

Similarly, the FHA, Fannie and Freddie were created to encourage lending by allowing primary lenders to turn their long-term risk over to the government. Absent this implicit guarantee, lenders would probably have been much more conservative in approving borrowers and setting interest terms, and in requiring documentation of incomes and higher down payments. Market forces would have kept out unqualified buyers and prevented home-price appreciation from exceeding the growth in household income.

Interest rates contributed the most to creating the housing boom. After the dot-com crash and the slowdown following the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the Federal Reserve took extraordinary steps to prevent a shallow recession from deepening. By slashing interest rates to 1 percent and holding them below the rate of inflation for years, the government discouraged savings and practically distributed free money.

Artificially low interest rates invigorated the market for adjustable-rate mortgages and gave birth to the teaser rate, which made overpriced homes appear affordable. Alan Greenspan himself actively encouraged home buyers to avail themselves of these seeming benefits. As monetary policy caused houses to become more expensive, it also temporarily provided buyers with the means to overpay. Cheap money gave rise to subprime mortgages and the resulting securitization wave that made these loans appear safe for investors.

And even today, as market forces deflate the credit bubble, the government is stepping in to re-inflate it. First came the Treasury’s $700 billion plan to purchase mortgage assets that no one in the private sector would buy. Now it has recapitalized banks to the tune of $250 billion, guaranteeing loans between banks and fully insuring non-interest-bearing accounts. Policymakers say that absent these steps, banks would not be able to extend loans. But given our already staggering debt burden, perhaps more loans are not the answer. That’s what the free market is telling us. But the government cannot abide solutions that ask for consumer sacrifice.

Real credit can be supplied only by savings, so artificial steps to stimulate lending will only produce inflation. By refusing to allow market forces to rein in excess spending, liquidate bad investments, replenish depleted savings, fund capital investment and help workers transition from the service sector to the manufacturing sector, government is resisting the cure while exacerbating the disease.

The United States reached its economic preeminence on the strength of its free markets. So far, the economic disaster exacerbated by government policies is creating opportunities for further government interference, which will lead to bigger catastrophes. Binding the country to a tangle of socialist ideals will seal our fate as a second-rate economic power.

Ron Paul on the World Bank and Corporate Capitalism

2008-10-15T12:46:00.001-07:00

Produce or Consume?

2008-10-06T20:41:00.000-07:00

Economics, Globalization and the Comming Economic Collapse

2008-10-05T15:48:00.000-07:00

The Reality Of America's Economy And What It Means For The Near Future.
James I Greene

We live a mysterious existence together on the 3rd rock from the most local fiery ball of light and energy. Our solar system, within our galaxy, hurdles through seemingly infinite space as it revolves around an unknown possible center point of our universe. How incredible. What is going on here?

It is a mistake to think that those who came before you have everything about our reality figured out. It is an even bigger mistake is to assume that what has been figured out and agreed upon by a majority is accurate and unquestionable. Conventional knowledge is oftentimes the pure result of group think based upon previous error. A sane person grounded in truth is therefore often regarded as the insane in a world largely guided in error.

The cutting edge is always ahead of the mainstream. The cutting edge is also always ridiculed by the mainstream for many years before finally receiving acceptance and recognition. This is typically because an entire paradigm of jobs, books, school curriculum, reputations and ways of life are entirely dependent upon the current mainstream paradigm which has been many years in the making. So it becomes clear why a system based upon fallacy can remain intact for such a long time even after a more accurate, truthful and efficient way has been devised.

One of such areas is economics.

The United States represents less than five percent of the world's population and consumes more than 25 percent of the world's resources while running a national debt of almost 11 trillion dollars. At the same time about half of the world's population lives on less than two dollars a day. Why is this so? Can the lifestyle that Americans have become accustomed to during the past 25 or so years carry on indefinitely in the globalizing world? The answer is no, it can't, and because of poor governmental intervention as well as a host of other factors, the falling out of the American economy will be much sooner and much more drastic than most currently believe. If it wasn't for governmental interference in the free-market, the unwise Federal Reserve manipulation of interest rates on loans, rampant printing of money out of thin air, and attempted control over what the Fed's chairmen see as an inevitable "business cycle", the changes to America's way of life would be much more gradual. However, since there has been much manipulation over the years to prop the dying system up, the crash is going to be very sudden and drastic. The trend as of lately has been to resist recession at the cost of creating an even worse recession further down the road.

The American economy is currently so far down the path of recession resistance that a very long and hard recession is completely inevitable and our leaders are currently determined to try and solve the problem of having too much credit in the system by creating more credit. This is evident by the passing of the bailouts (more money created out of thin air) and lowering of Federal Reserve interest rates (trying to get more people to want to take more loans). These choices are very unwise because they are debasing our currency (making all individual dollars worth less) and it is propping up the dying system in order to continue letting people overconsume and live beyond their means with credit while our country goes farther and farther into debt. The incredibly poor central planning and choices of our mis-leaders is currently insuring the demise of America. I will briefly explain why and how this is all happening in this article.

The changes that will take place in our society and economy will be akin to the sudden breaking off of a tree branch once a certain amount of heavy snow has accumulated on its surface. The government's solution has been to foolishly try to keep coasting on the high of an economic boom and has essentially entailed adding more and more snow onto the weakened branch of the tree. The snow on the tree branch represents consumer goods, houses, cars, plasma TVs, ect, and easy credit printed out of thin air that is based upon foreign debt while the tree branch is the foundation of the countries' economy. The Federal Reserve and unlearned politicians are going to do what no foreign power ever could have done. They will bring the U.S. economy to its knees, as sacrifice and underconsumption will ultimately have to define the U.S. economy for generations to come because current generations have squandered their wealth and utterly wrecked their economy through overconsumption and extreme overuse of loaned money while not generating enough wealth or produced goods to offset such conspicuous consumption.

To most modern economists, we are now living in a new era where Americans can consume and borrow indefinitely while the rest of the world saves and produces in their stead. The truth is that this current era will fade as quickly as it appeared. It is unfortunate to have to say that past glory tends to get in the way of accepting present realities as most economists still hold notions of America's economic strength. It is simply foolish to think that the present economic situation can continue without profound change and it is amazing that it has gone on for as long as it has without breaking. But this has not come out of the blue, Austrian economists are a group of thinkers who have been predicting and warning about everything that the American economy is going through for years and years and yet Americans have not listened to them.

The reason for the coming economic collapse is that the fundamental foundation of the American economy is unsound in a shockingly simple way. America has been slowly transformed from a society that saved, produced and exported goods around the world, into a society that has run up record national and person debt, borrows money from abroad and excessively consumes imported goods from the same countries that we borrow money from to buy those goods. Saving and producing have largely ceased while borrowing and consuming have largely increased. To consume, you have to either be productive or borrow, and you can only borrow so much and for so long.

An enormous part of the problem that has kept the blinders over the eyes of most economists is that conspicuous consumption has been confused with legitimate wealth creation. Figures, such as the impressive Gross Domestic Product (GDP), are pointed to as a sign of our prosperous economy but yet our GDP is dominated by over 70 percent consumption. GDP is defined as the total market value of all final goods and services produced within the country in a years time. Every time someone is diagnosed with cancer the GDP goes up and every time a hurricane destroys a town the GDP goes up. These examples illustrate how using a GDP to measure economic progress is flawed, especially when our GDP is overly dominated by consumption of foreign goods with very little domestic production. The GDP is not a measure of how much wealth we have created but rather an indication of how much we have destroyed and consumed. This erroneous way of calculating the success of an economy is a typical symptom of only being concerned with numbers on paper but never checking out the realities of the real world situation.

America was at one time the worlds largest creditor nation and is now the worlds largest debtor nation. Foreign countries, who produce the majority of goods that Americans buy and who loan Americans money to buy those imported goods, are eventually going to smarten up and cut America off when they fully realize that America does not have the ability to repay the trillions of dollars that are owed. America has no way of repaying this debt because it does not produce its own sustainable wealth to make a large enough domestic profit to even prevent the progress of our getting-bigger-by-the-day national debt; let alone repay its loaners. So, essentially, if foreign countries are exporting their goods to America as well as loaning their money to America so that Americans can purchase those goods: foreign countries are virtually giving these products away as the country has no means to repay.

America has not been living within its means or culling its national debt in large part because because transnational corporations have moved the majority of their production facilities outside of America and overseas where labor is cheaper and with less regulation. In the process, good paying middle class American production jobs have been largely replaced by lower paying jobs in the service sector that sell and deal with the products that outsourced production facilities import into the states. So, as our manufacturing base shrank, a service economy expanded in its place. This new service economy has become a gigantic monster because it is based almost solely on consumption and the majority of the workers who were previously working in production are now working in consumption related service jobs. So, there is a great lack of balance and consuming is greatly encouraged to keep our bubble intact. Since America no longer produces a significant amount of wealth, it goes further into debt every year in order to be a land of importers and consumers rather than of exporters and producers. A balance somewhere in between the two would be a healthy range for a country to be. It is really quite common sense to realize that America's superior standard of living is something that simply will not last for very much longer because it has been based upon debt and borrowing rather than saving and production. Consumption related jobs extremely outweigh production while consumers have more or less been conditioned to shop until they drop. Governmental policy has been preventing the natural changes that should be taking place in a naturally globalizing world to counter the unusual setup of America's economy. Their policies are going to ultimately lead to the imminent collapse of the American dollar as our economy and currency become incredibly out of sync with the rest of the world. America sure was the richest and most productive country in the world at one time but has fallen asleep at the wheel and been distracted by shiny things based upon debt. Many are still stuck dreaming about the good old days as they even encourage more of the status quo. There is good reason why the American system is failing.

The mainstream of economic thinking holds that a country like China will continue to finance the U.S.' current deficit indefinitely because American consumption is vital to the survival of the Chinese export-driven economy. I believe that the reality is quite to the contrary as sociological and economic evolution will have it otherwise. As the dollar is losing significant value in comparison to the yuan, China will redirect their vast resources to raising their own standards of living rather than propping up the living standards of Americans. Most of the Chinese ride bicycles and have vastly different lifestyles than Americans. When they fully wake up to the fact that the United States can't pay, they'll stop financing our debt and become their own consumers. Lacking the savings and production capacity for America to support itself, its economy will collapse and take many years of hardship to eventually rebuild. When foreign country creditors finally cut America off, it is going to dramatically increase their standards of living because they will no longer have America leaching off of their wealth and they will be able to focus their resources and wealth inwards rather than export their goods and lend their money so that American's can live like spoiled kings on debt. It will essentially be like voting the weakest link off of the island. America sure looks very impressive on the outside, but it is a house of cards that is just waiting for collapse.

It is this unbalanced trend of borrowing and consumption rather than savings and production that has paved the way for America to have a trade deficit of around $800 billion annually and a national debt of around $11 trillion. This trade deficit simply means that far more goods are being imported into America by foreign countries than are being exported abroad by America. Enormous cargo boats frequently come to American shores full of goods and leave with nothing as they head back to their country of origin. Efficient economies export what they produce and import what they don't produce, so under ideal conditions, trade accounts overall should be close to a balance. Yet we continue to spend like drunken sailors on imports from foreign countries that do save and produce, in the process building massive trade deficits that we finance with money borrowed from our trading partners, money we can't repay because of huge budget deficits, mounting national debt, and no significant production to generate internal wealth. What this all means is that the prosperity of the American consumer lifestyle of the past 25 years or so has been based upon debt and is a vast illusory bubble which will one day, sooner than later, pop. The looming dollar crisis cannot be prevented, only delayed, and only at the cost of exacerbating the collapse. Much of America's apparent wealth is sadly only there because of debt and overconsumption. It is an illusion. There are billions and billions of dollars worth of consumer goods, houses, cars and so forth that foreigners essentially own. Foreigners own about 4 trillion dollars more of America than American's own of them. Think about it, on an individual level, who do you know who is not in debt?

This coming rejection of American dollars from abroad will also likely create hyperinflation within America as billions of accumulated and inflated dollars from overseas are flooded back into the American marketplace as they are used there by foreign countries. Much of our apparent wealth will disappear and an overabundance of dollars will be left in their place. Essentially there will be countries, like China, who will be buying back all of the goods that have accumulated in America which cannot be paid for and the overconsuming lifestyle based on illusion and debt will come to an end. As the American dollar inflates into uselessness, and it certainly will because of incredibly flawed current policy aimed at "saving" the current economy, it will be very cheap for others around the world to engage in the American marketplace and buy the goods that have accumulated there.

Hyperinflation is a situation where a sudden surge of credit is unleashed into a marketplace, debasing the current currency and forcing prices of goods and commodities to skyrocket. However, raising prices are really an illusion because it is actually the value of the dollar which is going down. Adding more currency into a system at a disproportionate rate than the increase in goods and/or services always leads to inflation and means that individual dollars are worth less because they are more abundant in the system without additional places to spend them. Modern economists define inflation as too many dollars pursuing too few goods, which is just a nice way of saying that the purchasing power of the dollar has decreased and prices were forced to go up.

A very important factor in all of this is the Bretton Woods Agreement of 1944. Following World War II, this agreement made the American dollar the world's reserve currency. This status is what has ultimately shielded the United States from the consequences of persistent and growing trade imbalances. The Bretton Woods accords made the U.S. dollar the currency used by other governments and institutions to settle their foreign exchange accounts and to transact trade in certain vital commodities, such as gold and oil. This agreement was originally made because of America's unequaled industrial might, its status as the world's leading exporter of manufactured goods and that at the time it was the greatest creditor as well as the fact that, at the time, its currency was fully backed by, and redeemable in, a fixed amount of gold. None of these factors exist today. This agreement has played a large role in allowing the illusory American bubble economy to exist and it is the breaking of this agreement that will play a large role in popping that bubble.

It is amazing that the American dollar has remained the world's reserve currency for as long as it has. Bureaucratic central bankers around the world have allowed the dollar to remain while America's deficit reaches dangerous levels. There is, however, speculation that reserve currency status could be transferred to the Euro or a combination of foreign currencies. Considering the direction that America is headed in, the dollars status as reserve currency cannot last indefinitely. When it does end, all of those surplus dollars from around the world will come home to roost, creating hyperinflation domestically.

Keep in mind that the gold standard once backed the U.S. dollar as the worlds reserve currency. The flaw of leaving a commodity standard that backs a currency, such as gold, has been inflation. Most of the world now uses what is called a fiat currency. A fiat currency is a currency that has no intrinsic value other than the numerical value that a government prints on its face. The problem with this is that governments (actually the private central banks) always end up printing too much money and lending too much credit and inflation is created. Fiat currencies do not stand the test of time that a commodity such as gold will. Gold and silver have retained their value for thousands of years. If someone has a 25 cent quarter from the 1960's that was made from 90% silver, you could buy a gallon of gasoline with it at that time. Today, if you still have one of those quarters and you melt down the silver and cash it in for federal reserve notes, you would receive about $3.12 and you can still almost buy a gallon of gasoline! The historic vulnerability of oil prices to political tensions in the Middle East makes it easy for the government to blame recent spikes in crude oil on such events, which is unfortunate because recent trends are overwhelmingly the result of inflation.

It is important to understand what the Federal Reserve is and what it is not. The Federal Reserve is not a government agency, despite what many falsely believe. The Federal Reserve was created in 1913 by the Congress of the United States and it is owned by national banks who have come together to form a banking cartel. This is an incredibly large and interesting topic, but is not really the focus of this article. However, a general understanding of the extremely questionable nature of this institution is necessary. I usually point out the two following topics regarding the American Federal Reserve system.

1. What country in its right mind would charge itself interest on its own money when it could create the money itself interest-free? The Constitution clearly states that only congress has the authority to coin money. They have outsourced that job to the private Fed corporation. The fed charges U.S. taxpayers interest on the entire 11 trillion dollar national debt. Does this strike you as strange? Why doesn't congress simply have something very similar to the fed that does not charge interest? (I think you will find that the answer to this question leads you very far down the rabbit hole of that dreaded word "conspiracy".)

2. Where is the money EVER going to come from to pay the interest on our national debt and/or all private loans? There is simply never enough money ever in circulation to repay principle plus interest. The entire fed created money pool that is in circulation is substantially smaller than the final principle plus interest which must theoretically be paid back to the Fed. This literally means that our national debt can never be repaid. It is not possible. Let's look at a very overly simple example to prove my point: If a central bank loans out 1 dollar at 10% interest - and this is the only loan that it ever makes - how will you ever repay the 1 dollar at 10% interest? Where would the money come from to pay that 10%? It cannot come from anywhere, and you are permanently in debt.

Our country's population, and most other countries around the world as well, are enslaved by the world bank and central banks through debt which can never be fully repaid because of our inherently faulty fractional reserve banking and fiat systems that charge interest for loans made to governments and national banks. Because of inflation, the middle class is always shrinking as their wealth is chiseled away by the banks and because there is never enough money in circulation to repay principle plus interest there is always, be design of the banking system, a shifting poor underclass who are perpetually going broke and have their homes and possessions repossessed. It is an extremely faulty system which, over time, gives rise to a small class of extremely wealthy individuals and a large class of extremely poor individuals.

Fractional Reserve banking in and of itself, in addition to government "bailouts" or "stimulus packages" of money printed out of thin air, also gives rise to inflation. Fractional Reserve banking allows banks to only have to keep a small amount of their deposits on hand while they can loan the rest to customers. Banks typically have to have around 10% of their money on hold while the rest can be loaned. Let's say that a customer makes a bank deposit of $100. The bank can now loan $900 of the original $1000 to a new customer. That $900 dollar loan will eventually end up in a bank somewhere (it doesn't matter where because its the overall money pool we are concerned with here). Now, if both customers came to get their $1000 and $900 deposits, they would not be able to because only $1000 actually exists. Essentially $900 has been created out of thin air. If this happened on a wide scale it would be called a "run on the bank". The process continues on to create even more money out of thin air as the new $900 will become a loan of $810 and on and on. A chain reaction of inflation is created through fractional reserve banking as money expands far faster than actual goods, services and population.

So, you see, by inflation, it is not prices that are really going up very much, it has been the value of the dollar consistently going down since America left the gold standard. Inflation is a very large problem as it builds through the decades and becomes further and further debased from the original commodity backing. It is largely because of years and years of accumulating amounts of inflation that families have to work longer hours just to make a living.

The fact of the matter is that foreign countries are simply not going to deal with a reserve currency dollar that has been so incredibly far debased through inflation. The Wal-Street bailouts are making this problem incredibly worse. Ben Bernake, announcing today (oct 7th), that interest rates will be lowered to jump start the economy will make this far worse. All fiat currencies around the world are being debased, but not nearly at the rate that the American dollar is. The U.S. simply will not be allowed to use its increasingly worthless paper fiat money around the world for very much longer.

Inflation has always been a problem and has been a very large problem as of lately as the Federal Reserve is injecting more credit into the system to try to counter the failing economy. The recent Wal-Street bank bailouts essentially entail the Federal Reserve injecting more credit, out of thin air, into the bankrupt banks because the bank's loan customers have been unable to pay. This is obviously completely unconstitutional and it steals from individuals because the rampant printing and injecting of money into the system debases citizen's personal savings and wealth because there is now more money in circulation; i.e. inflation. These bailouts are incredibly foolish and the claims that they will help save the failing economy are incredibly short sighted. The bailouts are actually guaranteeing the collapse of the US dollar. It is really bizarre, its almost as if those in charge are following a manual on how to destroy an economy.

American's are addicted to easy credit and consumption and this has been encouraged by our big government and the Federal Reserve's irresponsibly low interest rates in the early 2000s. The dollar lost 24 percent of its value against other currencies between 2002 and 2004 alone as a result of government policy of inflation. The declining value of the American dollar is a direct result of declining production, inadequate savings, reckless consumption, soaring household debt, ballooning federal budget deficits, and an overly accommodating Federal Reserve that works upon the principles of continuously pumping more artificial credit into the system to keep it from crashing which, of course, only makes that inevitable day of crash much worse. And, as a mentioned, this artificial credit also robs individuals of their dollars purchasing power, this is referred to as the "inflation tax". This inflation tax is a largely invisible tax that robs money holders of their wealth while it looks like nothing is happening because the denominations of money have stayed the same while the purchasing power has declined and prices have risen. The Federal Reserve is now trapped between inflation and extreme recession/depression and it's too late to stop the consequences of either. Our leaders have led us out over a cliff and our propulsion is just about out of steam before we begin our long descent back to reality. Essentially the government and Federal Reserve have two choices. 1 - Stop printing money to inject into the system for the purpose of artificially keeping the failing overconsumption society going and face an extreme recession now. 2 - Keep injecting more money into the failing system (thus debasing the currency and likely to eventually create hyperinflation) to keep on partying and overconsuming for a bit longer and then face an even more extreme depression a bit further down the road which will last many many years.

The current bailouts are comparable to another syringe load of heroin for a drug addict: it will help the economy feel better for a short while but the inevitable recession will be much worse in the end. As the two choices above illustrate, up until the point of the acceptance of the $700 billion dollar bailout, the unspoken question was essentially this: do we want a really bad year long recession or do we want to postpone that recession by passing the bailout and then have several years of an economic depression slightly farther down the road. The choice made is now history. However, America is likely to have many more bailouts proposed in the very near future to try to "save our economy" because I guarantee that the first one will fail. These future bailouts must be protested in order to stop the inevitable recession/depression from being far worse. The fatal flaw that is bringing our economy down is that any attempt to save and under consume, which would surely bring about the badly needed recession, is resisted by government policy, the sole purpose of which has ignorantly been to postpone the inevitable day of reckoning. Economic recessions are actually something to be embraced and ridden through by letting the free market act for itself rather than to try to keep the economic high point rolling high.

The single overarching reason that we are in this current financial crisis is because of an excess of artificially created credit at the hands of the Federal Reserve System. The government's proposed solution is to continually inject more artificial credit into the banks through the Federal Reserve system. It is more of the same. More of the artificial credit that got us into this mess. That is all that the government can do, all they have is the printing press to print more money. They are like a child poking and irritating at a wound and making it far worse. They are either liars in their assertions that this will help, or they are completely incompetent to be running anything. Either way, they are going to destroy the dollar and devastate the American country. The governments method is in all seriousness like trying to put out a fire with gasoline. It is literally that stupid.

America's economy has moved in between periods of booms and busts for a very long time. They are often viewed as a part of a natural business cycles, but in reality the "business cycle" is totally a consequence of Federal Reserve central planning. The Federal Reserve sees its role as trying to tame, speed up, sooth, or slow down the economy by adjusting interesting levels and the amount of credit in the system. The Fed and its actions are completely unneeded in a free market and actually make the market incredibly hard to engage in for small business and is what causes malinvestments, such as what happened with the recent "housing bubble". As explained later, it is the Fed's actions which actually create the very business cycle that they are trying to tame and control. It is always too much control that brings us down. Too much tampering with something that should just be left alone and free is a terrible flaw. This "business cycle" involves inflationary periods of economic stimulation that are then followed by a typical equal period of economic recession. These are called booms and busts, or bull markets and bear markets. The subsequent recessions that follow a boom are how the market stabilizes itself and grows after an economic boom. However, and as discussed further below, the booms are actually a cause of the Fed by trying to control the bust and then once they have tried to control the bust they have created a later boom. It is a cycle of free market tampering that started many decades ago. It is, however, this faulty method of trying to sooth and control the market that we must go by here to explore what is happening.

The history of our current economic problem is many years in the making but a good place to pick it up is in the early 2000s after the bursting of the technology "bubble". After this happened America should have had an economic recession. However, Alan Greenspan kept Federal Reserve interest rates very abnormally low during this time that did not allow the recession to take place. Instead, along with socialistic governmental programs that required banks to give loans to riskier customers, consumers were greatly encouraged to engage in the housing market. Essentially, inflation was being created in the guise of a healthy housing market as vast numbers of people bought houses either to live in or to "flip" or whatever. These people felt that they had gotten great deals on houses and felt that their homes could now be their savings and so many of them engaged heavily in consumption elsewhere as well as purchasing a house with a very low interest rate. However, as we have now seen, it was all based on illusion and inflation. This has been called the "housing bubble".

Current Fed Chairman "Helicopter" Ben Bernake has continued the same poor policy choices that has led to the inflation the housing bubble that are currently destroying the American and world economies. The nickname "helicopter" comes from when the newly appointed Bernake used the metaphor of cash dropping from a helicopter to illustrate the ease with which the economy could be invigorated through government monetary actions. This illustrates the insanity of the people in charge of a monetary system who think that injections of more credit can actually properly propel an economy. What they should actually be doing is nothing at all! America should not even have a Federal Reserve and the free market should be left alone. The syringe load of drugs for a drug addict is always a great analogy to show how misguided simply giving more money to failing banks is in order to propel the economy. It feels good for a bit, but the crash is that much worse.

The reason why these banks are failing is because this massive surge of people, who get caught up in the housing bubble, borrowed trillions of dollars which they now cannot repay to the banks from which they borrowed from. Henceforth these banks are now going broke. However, much of that housing related demand was simply a function of centrally planned low interest rates, lax lending standards to risky customers, and speculation. This has happened amongst the misguided and foolish counteractive measures taken by the government along with former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan and current chairman Ben Bernake to prevent a natural recession from taking place. Think of a recession as a period of sobering up after a long night of drinking, the centrally planned policies have been to simply keep on drinking into the wee hours of the morning as the sun is coming up in order avoid the hangover. And that is all they can do. Again, all they have is the printing press to create more money. All they have is more beer and drugs to continually inject into the failing overconsuming system to keep the entire thing together. Their policies are going to unleash chaos within America when the system finally runs out of steam in the very near future.

One of the reasons why the housing bubble collapse is so destructive (and is going to be much more so in the days to come) to the overall economy is because approximately 43 percent of private sector jobs between 2001 and 2005 were hosing related. Not to mention furniture, landscaping, appliances, municipal governments, and nearly everything else depend in one way or another on real estate. The amount of consumption related to home ownership is almost without limit. So, the popping of this bubble is acting as a domino effect throughout society. The government's policies are akin to trying to reinflate ballon that is full of holes. It is futile.

The paragraph is quoted from Peter Schiff predicting, back in 2006, what would happen with this housing bubble:

"Ironically, the worse-case, and most likely, scenario would not be a bust proportionate to the boom. That would be devastating, but natural and ultimately salutary. The worst case would be politically inspired re-inflation aimed at preventing a crash landing. That would mean winding up Helicopter Ben Bernanke's money printer to keep nominal home prices artificially high." Schiff was right on the money with his prediction, as usually.

Government and Federal Reserve policies have been continuous credit expansion with inflation to desperately try to keep the American economy riding on the high crest of a wave before it drops down into natural recession. Since this recession has already been resisted for about eight years, it is going to be much worse than it would have been had it been allowed to naturally occur within the free market without governmental interference. However, as the quoted section below will explain, the economy should not even have booms and busts in the first place. Now that our government and Federal Reserve have gotten us this far into this mess they insist upon continually expanding credit to avoid the horrible depression that America will now likely have. Their solutions, to a problem of their making, are to continue doing the same old thing which is leading to a spiral effect of economic collapse. Sound too stupid to be true? It really is this simple. There really are hundreds of politicians and economists who think that this is a viable method to try to save the economy. They just do not see the big picture for what it is, they are preoccupied with symptoms of the disease but do not see the disease itself which is the very foundation of our fiat money system, fractional reserve banking, inflation, and misguided Federal Reserve interference in the free market. The government has no business trying to save the economy anyway. In a true free market, government should not be involved. It is not even the disease which will bring down the country. If government and the Fed would stay out of it, the country would slowly recuperate after a hard recession. However, it will be the governments chain reaction of attempts at a cure which will bring the American economy crashing to the ground and prices of everything to go soaring through the roof.

The follow are several paragraphs from Peter Schiff explaining the classical and correct view of the business cycle and how it is actually a product of governmental policy and central planning which leads to a spiral effect of interference which results in booms and busts:

"According to the classical economists, like Ludqig von Mises and Friedrich A. von Hayek of the Austrian school, recessions should not be resisted but embraced. Not that recessions are any fun, but they are necessary to correct conditions caused by the real problem, which is the artificial booms that precede them."

"Such booms, created by inflation, send false signals to the capital markets that there are additional savings in the economy to support higher levels of investment. These higher levels of investment, however, are not authentically funded because there has been no actual increase in savings. Ultimately, when the mistakes are revealed, the malinvestments, as Mises called them, are liquidated, creating the bust. Legitimate economic expansions, financed by actual savings, do not need busts. It is only the inflation-induced varieties that sow the seeds of their own destruction."

"This flies in the face of modern economic thinking that regards the business cycle as the inevitable result of some flaw in the capitalist system and sees the government's role as mitigating or preventing recessions. Nothing could be further from the truth. Boom/bust cycles are not inevitable and would not occur were it not for the inflationary monetary policies that always precede recessions."

"Economists today view the apparent overinvestment occurring during booms as mistakes made by businesses, but they don't examine why those mistakes were made. As Mises saw it, businesses were not recklessly overinvesting, but were simply responding to false economic signals being sent as a result of inflation. For that reason Mises called such mistakes malinvestments rather than overinvestments."

"Absent inflation, it is still possible for individual entrepreneurs to misread economic signals and make bad investments that need subsequently to be liquidated. But it is only with inflation that malinvestments are made on a national scale and result in economy-wide recessions. That is why inflation is such a destructive force in a market economy, even if its effects are not immediately reflected in rising consumer prices."

So, America is currently many years into a phony illusory economy based upon overconsumption, borrowing, a lack or production, and a long history of flawed central banking Federal Reserve inflationary policy that is aimed at trying to correct recessions that are of their own making. The free market and capitalism should not be blamed here, because, in reality, it is interference by big government and central banking which is the problem. Free market capitalism has hardly even had a shot! What we have is poor central planning that undermines republic democracy and capitalism and instead favors monopolist capitalism at the hands of the richest elite who are the most cozy with government.

The 2000s have been, by far, the farthest and most destructive the Fed's policies have ever been as they are doing everything in their power to stop this long overdue recession. The recession just needs the happen, the bailouts should have been rejected and the economy should simply have been allowed to do whatever it is going to naturally do in a free market. It would have been rough for sure and many more people would have lost their jobs and homes, but it will be a lot worse if the American people allow the Federal Reserve to continue printing money to inject into the system to ignorantly try to fix this. The economy is based upon debt and illusion and simply needs to fail. Future bailouts must be rejected if this country stands any sort of a chance in the future.

The fear mongering that is heard from the establishment is that Americans will not be able to get loans to buy homes, or cars, or continue consuming, or send their children to college if this bailout is not passed. That is actually a good thing! College is far too expensive and the prices would be forced to drop if no one could afford to go! At one time very few Americans borrowed to go to college. A couple of generations ago it used to be possible to work your own way through college without even having help from parents. Today, it is virtually impossible to do so. High tuitions, however, are no fluke. They exist as a direct result of government-guaranteed student loans. Without such loans, tuition could not rise beyond students or their families ability to pay. Today, because students have almost unlimited access to credit (that is based upon foreign debt) universities are able to raise tuitions without the limits market discipline would otherwise enforce. It is essentially the undermining of supply and demand and the propping of of high prices that force Americans to go into debt. It is ironic that as a direct result of government0subsidized student loans, students now need those loans to pay tuitions that, in the absence of such programs, they could have afforded to pay in cash. It is a good example of a government "solution" to a problem of its own creation.

If these ridiculous government policies and big bank bailouts would fade away, college tuition, home prices, and consumer good prices would be forced to come down by natural free market forces in order meet with the demand that Americans can afford. That is how supply and demand is really supposed to work. Home prices would have to come down, to meet with the demand that consumers have for shelter. Prices of everything would have to fall dramatically so that consumers could afford these things and live within their means, rather than putting everything on credit. What the policy of injecting more and more unconstitutional taxpayer credit into the failing banks (which should simply be replaced by more competent banks in a true free market system) is doing is propping up prices in a failing system. The days of overconsumption and credit are over, government policy is simply trying to keep the status quo rolling has destroyed our economy and which will lead to a very poor nation of people for many years to come.

Again, it is very important to know that the reason that this crisis has happened is because a recession has been fought off by centrally planned government policy and federal reserve incompetence. It has been done at the expense of your dollars purchasing power and imminently at the expense of the entire US economy unless the coming future bailouts are rejected. It was just announced on October 6th that the federal reserve has already given a several billion dollars to national banks beyond the 700 billion bailout. The big banks at the top of the food chain want to have a form of socialism that helps them remain at the top despite the fact that they have failed. They want to be rewarded with billions of dollars for failing. A typical trait of fascism is socialism for the rich and capitalism also only for the rich. Losses are being socialized while profits are private. In a typical capitalist free market system this would not be allowed to happen, these failed enterprises would be replaced by banks that are more competent. That is how capitalism should work in the true free market. It is important to point out that the capitalistic system that we currently have could more accurately be called monopolist capitalism as opposed to free market capitalism. The differences are enormous.

The coming months and years are going to be incredibly interesting as we will see changes unlike anything seen in many decades. The collapse of the US dollar and soaring prices and the scarcity of goods are completely inevitable and can only be further postponed at the expense of having the crisis be even worse. I recommend transferring as much money into gold and silver as possible. Foreign stocks, bonds, and currencies are also an option that is better than the US dollar, but gold and silver are best. It is important to note that many people who invest in gold believe that they have made money if the price of gold has gone up since their purchase, but this is not true because it is actually the value of the dollar going down. The IRS even wants to tax you on "profits" made on gold, which is completely absurd.

Fiat currencies do not last through the ages while gold and silver have remained of steady worth for thousands of years. Buying gold and silver is never a way to profit, instead it is a way of freezing your assets so that they do not get chiseled away by the forces of inflation which are very likely to be speeding up incredibly in the coming weeks, months, and years. It sounds stereotypically conspiracy minded or fringe to stock up on food, but I also strongly recommend having a couple of months worth of storable food on hand as well because you cannot eat gold and silver. It is much better to be safe than sorry. You should absolutely be fearless and not overly worried about this situation. It has been my intent to have empowered and informed you with these pages rather than instill fear and worry. I am extremely interested and excited to see how this is going to unfold, but you will not be able to enjoy the show if you do not have your own basic needs and assets protected. I wish you all the best.

The best candidates special interest money can buy.

2008-10-05T15:25:00.000-07:00

Thanks to the Center for Responsive Politics for existing, and to Matt Collins for doing the research on it.

Top 10 Corporate PAC Contributors:

Obama:
Goldman Sachs $739,521

UBS AG $419,550

Lehman Brothers $391,774

Citigroup Inc $492,548

Morgan Stanley $341,380

Latham & Watkins $328,879

Google Inc $487,355

JPMorgan Chase & Co $475,112

Sidley Austin LLP $370,916

Skadden, Arps et al $360,409

McCain:
Merrill Lynch $349,170

Citigroup Inc $287,801

Morgan Stanley $249,377

Wachovia Corp $147,456

Goldman Sachs $220,045

Lehman Brothers $115,707

Bear Stearns $108,000

JPMorgan Chase & Co $206,392

Bank of America $133,975

Credit Suisse Group $175,503

2008-10-02T08:14:00.001-07:00

Money As Debt

2008-09-30T15:05:00.000-07:00

This is one of the most important videos on this site.

VotePact.org

2008-09-30T12:43:00.000-07:00

September 30th, 2008 by Jesse Benton

The Problem:

Most voters don’t vote for—often don’t even consider voting for—third parties because they view voting for a third party as helping the establishment party they most dislike. Disenchanted Democrats continue to vote for Democrats because they don’t want Republicans; disenchanted Republicans continue to vote for Republicans because they don’t want Democrats.

VotePact.org—The Solution:

Disenchanted Republicans should pair up with disenchanted Democrats and both vote for third party or independent candidates they more genuinely want. This way they siphon off votes by twos from each of the establishment parties. This liberates the voters to vote their actual preference from among those on the ballot, rather than to just pick the “least bad” of the two majors. They could each vote for different candidates, or they could vote for the same candidate. If the later, it could offer an enterprising candidate a path to actual electoral success.

Massive Protests in DC about the 700 Billion Dollar Wal Street Bailout - What The Mainstream Media Isn't Showing You

2008-09-29T13:33:00.000-07:00

Ron Paul's Remarks for the Congressional Record on the Bailout

2008-09-29T09:41:00.001-07:00

The process of this bailout reminds me of a panic-stricken swimmer thrashing in the water only making his situation worse. Even a “bipartisan deal”—whatever that is supposed to mean— will not stop the Congress from thrashing about.

The beneficiaries of the corrupt monetary system of the last three decades are now desperately looking for victims to stick with the bill after they have reaped decades of profit and privilege.

The difficulties in our economy will continue because the Legislative and the Executive branches have not yet begun to address the real problems. The housing bubble’s collapse, as was the Dot Com bubble’s collapse, was predictable and is merely a symptom of the monetary system that brought us to this point.

Indeed, we do face a major crisis but it is much bigger than the freezing up of Wall Street and dealing with worthless assets on the books of major banks. The true crisis is the pending collapse of the fiat dollar system that emerged after the breakdown of the Bretton Woods agreement in 1971.

For 37 years the world built a financial system based on the dollar as the reserve currency of the world in an attempt to make the dollar serve as the new standard of value. However since 1971, the dollar has had no intrinsic value, as it is not tied to gold. The dollar is simply a fiat currency, which has fluctuated in value on a daily, if not hourly, bias. This worked to some degree until the market realized that too much debt and malinvestment existed and a correction was required.

Because of our economic and military strength, compared to other countries, trust in America’s currency lasted longer than deserved. This resulted in the biggest worldwide economic distortion in all of history. The problem is much bigger than the fears of a temporary decline on Wall Street if the bailout is not agreed to.

Money’s most important function is to serve as a means of exchange—a measurement of value. If this crucial yardstick is not stable, it becomes impossible for investors, entrepreneurs, savers, and consumers to make correct decisions; these mistakes create the bubble that must eventually be corrected.

Just imagine the results if a construction company was forced to use a yardstick whose measures changed daily to construct a skyscraper. The result would be a very unstable and dangerous building. No doubt the construction company would try to cover up their fundamental problem with patchwork repairs, but no amount of patchwork can fix a building with an unstable inner structure. Eventually, the skyscraper will collapse, forcing the construction company to rebuild—hopefully this time with a stable yardstick. This 700 billion package is more patchwork repair and will prove to be money down a rat hole and will only make the dollar crisis that much worse.

But what politicians are willing to say that the financial “skyscraper”—the global financial and monetary system-is a house of cards. It is not going to happen at this juncture. They’re not even talking about this. They talk only of bailouts, more monetary inflation, more special interest spending, more debt, and more regulations. There is almost no talk of the relationship of the Community Reinvestment Act, HUD, and government assisted loans to the housing bubble. And there is no talk of the oversight that is desperately needed for the Federal Reserve, the Exchange Stabilization Fund, and all the activities of the President’s Working Group on financial markets. When these actions are taken we will at last know that Congress is serious about the reforms that are really needed.

In conclusion, there are three good reasons why Congress should reject this legislation:

a. It is immoral—Dumping bad debt on the innocent taxpayers is an act of theft and is wrong.

b. It is unconstitutional—There is no constitutional authority to use government power to serve special interests.

c. It is bad economic policy—By refusing to address the monetary system while continuing to place the burdens of the bailout on the dollar, we can be certain that in time, we will be faced with another, more severe crisis when the market figures out that there is no magic government bailout or regulation that can make a fraudulent monetary system work.

Monetary reform will eventually come, but, unfortunately, Congress’ actions this week make it more likely the reform will come under dire circumstances, such as the midst of a worldwide collapse of the dollar. The question then will be how much of our liberties will be sacrificed in the process. Just remember what we lost in the aftermath of 9-11.

The best result we can hope for is that the economic necessity of getting our fiscal house in order will, at last, force us to give up our world empire. Without the empire we can then concentrate on rebuilding the Republic.

Ron Paul on the Wal Street Bailout

2008-09-29T09:33:00.001-07:00

My Brother, Newphew and Myself

2008-09-28T20:50:00.000-07:00

I think this blog could use a break to showcase the devilishly handsome quality of these three fine men.

US Economic Collapse, US Government, Financial Terrorists

2008-09-28T12:52:00.001-07:00

I Can't Urge You Enough To Listen To Peter Schiff

2008-09-28T12:16:00.000-07:00

This guy gets the whole and full picture about our global economy that the mainstream just doesn't understand.

Ten Reasons to Oppose the Wall Street Bailout

2008-09-26T17:53:00.000-07:00

www.nowallstreetbailout.com

1. It costs $700 billion dollars, which is as much money as the combined annual budgets of the Departments of Defense, Education and Health and Human Services. It amounts to $2,300 for every man, woman, and child in America.

2. This $700 billion will all be borrowed money. The plan raises the national debt ceiling to $11.3 trillion. That is $11,300,000,000,000.

3. It gives Sec. Henry Paulson, formerly the head of Goldman Sachs, the power to buy assets from his former firm with no court or administrative oversight.

4. Goldman Sachs, like many Wall Street firms, gave its CEO a $67.9 million bonus last year. That is more than 1,400 times what the median American earns. Yet the plan has no provision to cap salaries or reduce bonuses at Wall Street banks that take taxpayer money.

5.The bailout has a "reverse dutch auction" format that allows Wall Street firms to set the price taxpayers will pay.

6.The 5 companies managing the bailout auction are also Wall Street firms, and will likely receive billions of tax dollars in fees.

7. The plan buys "troubled assets" from foreign banks.

8. The plan hurts responsible U.S. banks by keeping reckless, insolvent investment banks in business.

9. The idea that taxpayers will make money is a fraud. If a profit was possible, private speculators would readily buy these "troubled assets." Instead, the bailout lets Wall Street push its losses on the taxpayer.

10. The plan violates basic principles of American capitalism by creating a system of "private profits, socialized losses."

John Birch Society presents: The U.N. Deception

2008-09-26T15:18:00.000-07:00

Peter Schiff - Ron Paul Advisor - Collapse of the Dollar

2008-09-26T14:58:00.001-07:00

Bush the Socialist and Destroyer

2008-09-26T13:14:00.000-07:00

by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.

Anyone who has read a good economics book would be quickly reduced to laughter and tears by George Bush's ridiculous economic address to the nation. He put on his 9-11 suit and tried to warn Americans about the impending disaster: that their access to an infinite stream of paper money might be imperiled if they don't cough up hundreds of billions immediately. It is very tempting to go line by line and shout back.

"I'm a strong believer in free enterprise, so my natural instinct is to oppose government intervention. I believe companies that make bad decisions should be allowed to go out of business."

And this is why he nationalized airport security, created huge new bureaucracies, spent more than any president in American history, centralized control of education, put up more protectionist barriers than Clinton and his father combined, bailed out airlines, presided over the Sarbanes-Oxley reign of terror, unleashed anti-trust regulators, intensified health-care controls, and pretty much used every headline as an excuse to demand more money and power?

"The FDIC has been in existence for 75 years, and no one has ever lost a penny on an insured deposit, and this will not change."

But the penny itself has lost 94% of its value in those 75 years precisely because of institutions such as the FDIC and the Fed. Does he really think we are that foolish?

Here is my favorite:

"The problems we're witnessing today developed over a long period of time. For more than a decade, a massive amount of money flowed into the United States from investors abroad because our country is an attractive and secure place to do business."

So those nasty foreigners did it to us, huh? Maybe it was Bin Laden who sneakily tried to create a credit bubble by investing in U.S. stocks!

And here is his description of the grave calamity we face:

"As uncertainty has grown, many banks have restricted lending, credit markets have frozen, and families and businesses have found it harder to borrow money."

Imagine that! We might have to live within our means for a bit. That would actually be a wonderful thing. Maybe a recession would last a year or 18 months, and then we would be back on solid footing again. He very nearly admits that too much credit is what created this mess. So he proposes more credit so that we can continue to live on too much credit. And then what happens next time? Ever more credit? This path ends in Weimer-level inflation and total destruction.

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War and Globalization - Michel Chossudovsky

2008-09-22T20:41:00.001-07:00

9/11 and the "American Inquisition"

2008-09-22T00:27:00.000-07:00

Today's "Global War on Terrorism" is a modern form of inquisition. It has all the essential ingredients of the French and Spanish inquisitions.

Going after " Islamic terrorists", carrying out a Worldwide preemptive war to " protect the Homeland" are used to justify a military agenda.

"The Global War on Terrorism" (GWOT) is presented as a "Clash of Civilizations", a war between competing values and religions, when in reality it is an outright war of conquest, guided by strategic and economic objectives.

The GWOT is the ideological backbone of the American Empire. It defines US military doctrine, including the preemptive use of nuclear weapons against the "state sponsors" of terrorism.

The preemptive "defensive war" doctrine and the "war on terrorism" against Al Qaeda constitute essential building blocks of America's National Security Strategy as formulated in early 2002. The objective is to present "preemptive military action" --meaning war as an act of "self-defense" against two categories of enemies, "rogue States" and "Islamic terrorists", both of which are said to possess weapons of mass destruction.

The logic of the "outside enemy" and the evildoer, allegedly responsible for American civilian deaths, prevails over common sense. In the inner consciousness of Americans, the attacks of September 11, 2001 justify acts of war and conquest:

"As was demonstrated by the losses on September 11, 2001, mass civilian casualties is the specific objective of terrorists and these losses would be exponentially more severe if terrorists acquired and used weapons of mass destruction." (National Security Strategy, White House, Washington, 2002)

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Did you know that George Washington was not the first President ?

2008-09-21T23:34:00.001-07:00

What does this say about America's meat-packing industry?

2008-09-21T23:19:00.001-07:00

1989 USA

1938 Germany

Ron Paul on the New World Order

2008-09-21T21:53:00.000-07:00

Buy Silver and Gold and Buy It Now.

2008-09-21T15:54:00.000-07:00

I never intend to be a fear mongeror. Life is but a dream and we are all literally one. Consciousness, or aether, is the underlying fabric of all things and our bodies and DNA are antennas for consciousness. Our minds are all literally connected and that is why psychic phenomenon are possible. The concepts and goals behind meditation and mysticism is to tap our minds into this infinite reservoir of knowledge so that we may experience cosmic consciousness where you and "god" are one. String theory and quantum physics are beginning to relearn these concepts that the ancients have been telling us for thousands of years. Eventually there will be no division between science and spirituality, this is a very profound concept to grasp. We are all co-creators of our reality with "god". We all originated from the one infinite source of life and all have the destiny of merging back with the infinite one. "God" is the totality of all things and we are all a part of god. We perceive ourselves as being separate from the world around us and have developed egos as a reaction to this perceived separation while in truth our bodies and physical matter are all an illusion and there is no such thing as death. Have fun with life and never be scared, ever, for any reason. Period. I am not a fear mongeror.

However, you will not be able to enjoy the interesting show that accompanies the end of our Age as the old-world order crumbles away if you do not abandon the dying hyper-inflating American dollar and invest in gold and silver before you lose all of your wealth and purchasing power. Precious metals have maintained their worth for thousands of years and you will preserve your assets if you invest in them because a complete economic crash is on its way. Of course you cannot eat gold and silver so as a wise investment I would also recommend stocking a reasonable amount of food as well as making sure that you have your 2nd amendment arms for self defense. But think of your guns as tools rather than weapons. Don't say I didn't warn you! It is a shame that most people who discuss these things are perceived as nuts because you will shortly realize that I am speaking the truth. Good luck to all and most of all have fun! It's going to be a hell of a show.

Watch all of these short videos and you will have a great idea of how governmental interference in the free market has led us into this mess, why it has happened and what is yet to come. The free market and capitalism are being blamed on the world scene for this mess but capitalism and the free market are simply not the problem. We have not even had a free market capitalist system for almost 100 years now. We have had monopolist capitalism with a blend of steadily increasing socialistic programs. The problem has been these socialistic programs, governmental interference and a monopolistic federal reserve that artificially manipulates the market. Blaming the free market and capitalism is only going to lead us towards more socialism and bigger and more centralized government and that is exactly what the power elite want.

It is a shame that dissident and rebel youth and adults who really want to make change are guided towards the far left, communistic ideas, market regulation, Marxism and so forth because, while it seems like it is possibly the right direction, this only helps the monopolistic socialistic elite. If you don't think that this has been by grand design you had better guess again. It is also a shame that the contemporary Republican party has been largely hijacked by neo-conservatives and globalists because the answers to our problems lie within the ranks of the original founding father style republicans such as Ron Paul. The guiding hands of the inner power elite and their organizations and the process that they have used to carry it out is absolutely fascinating. They literally control the majority of both the democrats and republicans and a fascist and totalitarian world government with a single world currency is their aim. America has been systematically and purposefully destroyed and depowered through the destruction of our currencies' purchasing power. The forthcoming economic collapse is completely by design and will probably pave a clear way for a world currency as it is intended to do.

This is a very important video with Peter Schiff.
Part 1

Part 2

Ron Paul on Wolf Blitzer

Listen to Peter Schiff!

Perhaps we should listen to these prominent people who have serious questions about the official story of 9/11

2008-09-21T10:42:00.000-07:00

140+ Senior Military, Intelligence Service, Law Enforcement, and Government Officials
540+ Engineers and Architects
120+ Pilots and Aviation Professionals
300+ Professors Question 9/11
210+ 9/11 Survivors and Family Members
170+ Artists, Entertainers, and Media Professionals

http://www.patriotsquestion911.com/

Media Consolidation

2008-09-16T21:12:00.000-07:00

Peter Schiff on the Potential Dollar Collapse

2008-09-16T20:28:00.000-07:00

Steven More and Peter Schiff on the economy, federal reserve and the chain reaction of banking failures.

2008-09-16T15:42:00.000-07:00

Ralph Nader with Lou Dobbs

2008-09-12T18:58:00.000-07:00

Paul on National Sovereignty, CFR and NAU

2008-09-11T19:37:00.000-07:00

Incredibly Important and Historic Press Conference Held By Ron Paul On 9-10-08

2008-09-11T09:47:00.001-07:00

Illusion of choice in politics.

2008-09-10T16:23:00.000-07:00

From Ron Paul's Campaign for Liberty:

The Republican/Democrat duopoly has, for far too long, ignored the most important issues facing our nation. However, alternate candidates Chuck Baldwin, Cynthia McKinney, and Ralph Nader agree with Ron Paul on four key principles central to the health of our nation. These principles should be key in the considerations of every voter this November and in every election.

We Agree

Foreign Policy: The Iraq War must end as quickly as possible with removal of all our soldiers from the region. We must initiate the return of our soldiers from around the world, including Korea, Japan, Europe and the entire Middle East. We must cease the war propaganda, threats of a blockade and plans for attacks on Iran, nor should we re-ignite the cold war with Russia over Georgia. We must be willing to talk to all countries and offer friendship and trade and travel to all who are willing. We must take off the table the threat of a nuclear first strike against all nations.

Privacy: We must protect the privacy and civil liberties of all persons under US jurisdiction. We must repeal or radically change the Patriot Act, the Military Commissions Act, and the FISA legislation. We must reject the notion and practice of torture, eliminations of habeas corpus, secret tribunals, and secret prisons. We must deny immunity for corporations that spy willingly on the people for the benefit of the government. We must reject the unitary presidency, the illegal use of signing statements and excessive use of executive orders.

The National Debt: We believe that there should be no increase in the national debt. The burden of debt placed on the next generation is unjust and already threatening our economy and the value of our dollar. We must pay our bills as we go along and not unfairly place this burden on a future generation.

The Federal Reserve: We seek a thorough investigation, evaluation and audit of the Federal Reserve System and its cozy relationships with the banking, corporate, and other financial institutions. The arbitrary power to create money and credit out of thin air behind closed doors for the benefit of commercial interests must be ended. There should be no taxpayer bailouts of corporations and no corporate subsidies. Corporations should be aggressively prosecuted for their crimes and frauds.

Ron Paul - War on Drugs a "Complete Failure"

2008-09-10T16:09:00.001-07:00

Jesse Ventura on 9/11 from the Rally for the Republic.

2008-09-10T08:34:00.000-07:00

Two excellent questions about 9/11 proposed by Ventura.

Ron Paul revolution against empire and draft and a return to our old Republic.

2008-09-08T13:31:00.000-07:00

Good coverage about Ron Paul and the Rally for the Republic.

Some very decent mainstream conversation about the largest grassroots movement in American history.

2008-09-05T16:13:00.001-07:00

Maverick Congressman Dr Ron Paul

2008-09-05T15:46:00.001-07:00

Pentagon Cannot Account For 2.3 Trillion Dollars.

2008-09-01T19:13:00.000-07:00

"According to some estimates we cannot track $2.3 trillion in transactions," Rumsfeld admitted.

$2.3 trillion — that's $8,000 for every man, woman and child in America. To understand how the Pentagon can lose track of trillions, consider the case of one military accountant who tried to find out what happened to a mere $300 million.

"We know it's gone. But we don't know what they spent it on," said Jim Minnery, Defense Finance and Accounting Service.

Dennis Kucinich's 35 Articles Of Impeachment.

2008-09-01T00:09:00.000-07:00

The following is the index from Kucinich's impeachment articles against President Bush. These are 35 specific reasons why this administration should be thrown out of office. The full articles can be found here.

Article I
Creating a Secret Propaganda Campaign to Manufacture a False Case for War Against Iraq.

Article II
Falsely, Systematically, and with Criminal Intent Conflating the Attacks of September 11, 2001, With Misrepresentation of Iraq as a Security Threat as Part of Fraudulent Justification for a War of Aggression.

Article III
Misleading the American People and Members of Congress to Believe Iraq Possessed Weapons of Mass Destruction, to Manufacture a False Case for War.

Article IV
Misleading the American People and Members of Congress to Believe Iraq Posed an Imminent Threat to the United States.

Article V
Illegally Misspending Funds to Secretly Begin a War of Aggression.

Article VI
Invading Iraq in Violation of the Requirements of HJRes114.

Article VII
Invading Iraq Absent a Declaration of War.

Article VIII
Invading Iraq, A Sovereign Nation, in Violation of the UN Charter.

Article IX
Failing to Provide Troops With Body Armor and Vehicle Armor

Article X
Falsifying Accounts of US Troop Deaths and Injuries for Political Purposes

Article XI
Establishment of Permanent U.S. Military Bases in Iraq

Article XII
Initiating a War Against Iraq for Control of That Nation's Natural Resources

Article XIIII
Creating a Secret Task Force to Develop Energy and Military Policies With Respect to Iraq and Other
Countries

Article XIV
Misprision of a Felony, Misuse and Exposure of Classified Information And Obstruction of Justice in the Matter of Valerie Plame Wilson, Clandestine Agent of the Central Intelligence Agency

Article XV
Providing Immunity from Prosecution for Criminal Contractors in Iraq

Article XVI
Reckless Misspending and Waste of U.S. Tax Dollars in Connection With Iraq and US Contractors

Article XVII
Illegal Detention: Detaining Indefinitely And Without Charge Persons Both U.S. Citizens and Foreign Captives

Article XVIII
Torture: Secretly Authorizing, and Encouraging the Use of Torture Against Captives in Afghanistan,Iraq, and Other Places, as a Matter of Official Policy

Article XIX
Rendition: Kidnapping People and Taking Them Against Their Will to "Black Sites" Located in Other Nations, Including Nations Known to Practice Torture

Article XX
Imprisoning Children

Article XXI
Misleading Congress and the American People About Threats from Iran, and Supporting Terrorist Organizations Within Iran, With the Goal of Overthrowing the Iranian Government

Article XXII
Creating Secret Laws

Article XXIII
Violation of the Posse Comitatus Act

Article XXIV
Spying on American Citizens, Without a Court-Ordered Warrant, in Violation of the Law and the Fourth Amendment

Article XXV
Directing Telecommunications Companies to Create an Illegal and Unconstitutional Database of the Private Telephone Numbers and Emails of American Citizens

Article XXVI
Announcing the Intent to Violate Laws with Signing Statements

Article XXVII
Failing to Comply with Congressional Subpoenas and Instructing Former Employees Not to Comply

Article XXVIII
Tampering with Free and Fair Elections, Corruption of the Administration of Justice

Article XXIX
Conspiracy to Violate the Voting Rights Act of 1965

Article XXX
Misleading Congress and the American People in an Attempt to Destroy Medicare

Article XXXI
Katrina: Failure to Plan for the Predicted Disaster of Hurricane Katrina, Failure to Respond to a Civil Emergency

Article XXXII
Misleading Congress and the American People, Systematically Undermining Efforts to Address Global Climate Change

Article XXXIII
Repeatedly Ignored and Failed to Respond to High Level Intelligence Warnings of Planned Terrorist Attacks in the US, Prior to 911.

Article XXXIV
Obstruction of the Investigation into the Attacks of September 11, 2001

Article XXXV
Endangering the Health of 911 First Responders

No Hard Evidence Connecting Bin Laden to 9/11

2008-09-01T00:04:00.000-07:00

Osama bin Laden’s role in the events of September 11, 2001 is not mentioned on the FBI’s “Ten Most Wanted” poster.

On June 5, 2006, author Ed Haas contacted the Federal Bureau of Investigation headquarters to ask why, while claiming that bin Laden is wanted in connection with the August 1998 bombings of US Embassies in Tanzania and Kenya, the poster does not indicate that he is wanted in connection with the events of 9/11.

Rex Tomb, Chief of Investigative Publicity for the FBI responded, “The reason why 9/11 is not mentioned on Osama bin Laden’s Most Wanted page is because the FBI has no hard evidence connecting bin Laden to 9/11.” Tomb continued, “Bin Laden has not been formally charged in connection to 9/11.” Asked to explain the process, Tomb responded, “The FBI gathers evidence. Once evidence is gathered, it is turned over to the Department of Justice. The Department of Justice then decides whether it has enough evidence to present to a federal grand jury. In the case of the 1998 United States Embassies being bombed, bin Laden has been formally indicted and charged by a grand jury. He has not been formally indicted and charged in connection with 9/11 because the FBI has no hard evidence connecting bin Laden to 9/11.”

Haas pauses to ask the question, “If the US government does not have enough hard evidence connecting bin Laden to 9/11, how is it possible that it had enough evidence to invade Afghanistan to ‘smoke him out of his cave?’” Through corporate media, the Bush administration told the American people that bin Laden was “Public Enemy Number One,” responsible for the deaths of nearly 3,000 people on September 11, 2001. The federal government claims to have invaded Afghanistan to “root out” bin Laden and the Taliban, yet nearly six years later, the FBI said that it had no hard evidence connecting bin Laden to 9/11.

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Homeland Security Contracts KBR to Build Detention Centers in the US

2008-09-01T00:00:00.000-07:00

Halliburton’s subsidiary KBR (formerly Kellogg, Brown and Root) announced on January 24, 2006 that it had been awarded a $385 million contingency contract by the Department of Homeland Security to build detention camps in the United States.

According to a press release posted on the Halliburton website, “The contract, which is effective immediately, provides for establishing temporary detention and processing capabilities to augment existing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Detention and Removal Operations (DRO) Program facilities in the event of an emergency influx of immigrants into the U.S., or to support the rapid development of new programs. The contingency support contract provides for planning and, if required, initiation of specific engineering, construction and logistics support tasks to establish, operate and maintain one or more expansion facilities.”

What little coverage the announcement received focused on concerns about Halliburton’s reputation for overcharging U.S. taxpayers for substandard services.

Less attention was focused on the phrase “rapid development of new programs” or what type of programs might require a major expansion of detention centers, capable of holding 5,000 people each. Jamie Zuieback, spokeswoman for ICE, declined to elaborate on what these “new programs” might be.

Only a few independent journalists, such as Peter Dale Scott, Maureen Farrell, and Nat Parry have explored what the Bush administration might actually have in mind.

Scott speculates that the “detention centers could be used to detain American citizens if the Bush administration were to declare martial law.” He recalled that during the Reagan administration, National Security Council aide Oliver North organized the Rex-84 “readiness exercise,” which contemplated the Federal Emergency Management Agency rounding up and detaining 400,000 “refugees” in the event of “uncontrolled population movements” over the Mexican border into the U.S.

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"Freedom From War: The United States Program for General and Complete Disarmament in a Peaceful World."

2008-08-31T09:24:00.000-07:00

This little known United States document, publication 7277 released in 1961, is an official declaration of intent. It is a program that calls for the complete disarmament of all nations in order to give way to a one world army in the hands of the United Nations.

The following link contains the complete text of Publication 7277 followed by an excellent brief analysis on this issue that explains the implications of such a program and who is behind it. It is very important to read between the lines and understand the real motives at work because much of this document is worded and pitched as a very good and peaceful idea. In reality it is part of a plan set in place to set up a global collectivist world government that will be dominated by the current global monopolist capitalists/rich socialists. I will show a few prominent quotes from the official document below and let the analysis at the end of the document at the following link do the rest of the talking.

http://www.sweetliberty.org/issues/guns/dos7277.htm

A couple of quotes from the document:

"The over-all goal of the United States is a free, secure, and peaceful world of independent states adhering to common standards of justice and international conduct and subjecting the use of force to the rule of law; a world which has achieved general and complete disarmament under effective international control; and a world in which adjustment to change takes place in accordance with the principles of the United Nations."

"...elimination from national arsenals of all armaments, including all weapons of mass destruction and the means for their delivery, other than those required for a United Nations Peace Force and for maintaining internal order"

"...a halt in the production of chemical, bacteriological and radiological weapons and a reduction of existing stocks of their conversion to peaceful uses"

Peaceful uses for chemical, bacteriological and radiological weapons?

Seven CIA Veterans Challenge 9/11 Commission Report

2008-08-30T20:42:00.000-07:00

September 23, 2007 – Seven CIA veterans have severely criticized the official account of 9/11 and have called for a new investigation. “I think at simplest terms, there’s a cover-up. The 9/11 Report is a joke,” said Raymond McGovern, 27-year veteran of the CIA, who chaired National Intelligence Estimates during the seventies. “There are a whole bunch of unanswered questions. And the reason they’re unanswered is because this administration will not answer the questions,” he said. McGovern, who is also the founder of VIPS (Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity), is one of many signers of a petition to reinvestigate 9/11.

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Kucinich: Wake Up America!

2008-08-30T14:48:00.001-07:00

Henry Kissinger's NSSM 200. Population Control and Natural Resource Exploitation.

2008-08-29T21:10:00.000-07:00

National Security Study Memorandum 200: Implications of Worldwide Population Growth for U.S. Security and Overseas Interests.

NSSM 200 was adopted as official U.S. policy by President Gerald Ford in November of 1975. It was originally classified, but was later declassified and obtained by researchers in the early 1990s.

From Human Life International:

On December 10, 1974, the United States National Security Council promulgated National Security Study Memorandum 200 (NSSM-200), also called The Kissinger Report. This document explicitly laid out a detailed strategy by which the United States would aggressively promote population control in developing nations in order to regulate (or have better access to) the natural resources of these countries.

In order to protect U.S. commercial interests, NSSM-200 cited a number of factors that could interrupt the smooth flow of materials from lesser-developed countries, LDCs as it called them, to the United States, including a large population of anti-imperialist youth, who must, according to NSSM-200, be limited by population control. The document identified 13 nations by name that would be primary targets of U.S.-funded population control efforts.

According to NSSM-200, elements of the implementation of population control programs could include: a) the legalization of abortion; b) financial incentives for countries to increase their abortion, sterilization and contraception-use rates; c) indoctrination of children; and d) mandatory population control, and coercion of other forms, such as withholding disaster and food aid unless an LDC implements population control programs.

NSSM-200 also specifically declared that the United States was to cover up its population control activities and avoid charges of imperialism by inducing the United Nations and various non-governmental organizations to do its dirty work.

While the CIA and Departments of State and Defense have issued hundreds of papers on population control and national security, the U.S. government has never renounced NSSM-200, but has only
amended certain portions of its policy. NSSM-200, therefore, remains the foundational document on population control issued by the United States government.

NSSM-200’s strategies have resulted in regional population growth rates decelerating so fast that they are already causing severe economic and social problems in Europe, the former Soviet Union, Japan, Singapore and Hong Kong. Many developing nations are now aging even more rapidly than the developed world, which foretells of even more severe problems for their relatively underdeveloped economies.

Over the past 40 years there has been much disagreement over whether or not population control programs are necessary for those nations with the most rapidly growing populations. There can be no disagreement now, however, except among those organizations whose incomes depend upon such programs.

From the very beginning, the “population explosion” concept was an ideologically motivated false alarm. The resulting push for population control in LDCs has borne absolutely no positive fruit in its decades of implementation. In fact, population control ideologies and programs make it even more difficult to respond to the impending grave crisis looming in the form of a disastrous worldwide “population implosion.”

Therefore, on the eve of the 30th anniversary of the promulgation of NSSM-200, Human Life International calls on the Bush administration to repudiate this document, which advocates violating the most precious freedoms and autonomy of the individual through coercive family planning programs, and to redirect its foreign policy and funding towards family-friendly programs.

The citizens of the developed nations of the West treasure their right to privacy. It is hypocritical for these countries to routinely violate the right to privacy of the citizens of LDCs by telling families how many children they should or should not have. No nation has the right to invade the bedrooms of the citizens of another nation. NSSM-200 represents the epitome of interference in a family’s most intimate decisions.

KISSINGER REPORT 2004

NSSM-200 does not emphasize the rights or welfare of individuals or of nations, just the “right” of the United States to have unfettered access to the natural resources of developing nations. The United States and the other nations of the developed world, as well as ideologically motivated population control NGOs, should be supporting and guiding authentic economic development that allows the people of each nation to use their resources for their own benefit, thereby leading to an enhancement of human rights worldwide and healthier economies for all.

Click here for complete version of NSSM 200.

Ron Paul on Federal Reserve and Inflation 6/25/2008

2008-08-29T19:56:00.000-07:00

Paul: No Difference Between McCain Or Obama

2008-08-29T19:46:00.001-07:00

Congressman Ron Paul says there is 'no difference' between US presidential candidates, Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain.

"Their foreign policies are identical," the Texas congressman said in an interview with CNN on Thursday. "There's no difference."

"They want more troops in Afghanistan. They want to send more support to Georgia to protect the oil line there. Neither one says bring home the troops from Iraq from the bases -- you know the bases are going to stay there, the embassy as big as the Vatican, that's going to remain. So their foreign policies are exactly the same," he added.

The former Republican presidential candidate said that the two candidates are both threats to the US national interests.

"We create the threats! Why are we on the borders of Russia provoking the Russians? I mean, the Georgians initiated the military attack against these enclaves where there were mostly Russians... It's a fact that we're over there that we create these crises."

When asked if he endorses any of the candidates, Paul replied, "I've endorsed neither one and we will not endorse either the two top candidates."

Human Being?

2008-08-25T16:16:00.000-07:00

I found this interesting.

In Balantine's Self Pronouncing Law and Legal Dictionary, 1948, page 389, Human Being is defined as "See Monster." On page 540 of this same Law Dictionary, Monster is defined as "a human being by birth, but in some part resembling a lower animal."

In Webster's New World Dictionary , Third College Edition, 1988, pages 879-880, a Monster is defined as "a person so cruel, wicked, depraved, etc., as to horrify others."

From the Random House Dictionary of the English Language, 2nd Edition, page 901, Human Being is defined as a "Natural man: unenlightened or unregenerate," and on page 1461, Unregenerate means "not regenerate; unrepentant; an unregenerate sinner; not convinced by or unconverted to a particular religion; wicked, sinful, dissolute."

Dr David Ray Griffin on 9/11

2008-08-24T14:33:00.000-07:00

This video is composed of two powerful speeches given by masterful Philosopher and Theologist Dr. David Ray Griffin at The Commonwealth Club in San Francisco (4/3/06) and at The Grand Lake Theater in Oakland (3/30/06), 9/11: The Myth and The Reality exposes the official story of 9/11 for what it truly is: a sacred myth. Enhanced with images and video segments, Griffin details nine of the most commonly held myths and misconceptions about the events surrounding 9/11 and with logical precision proves the fallacies of each one. Each speech is followed by an in-depth question & answer section featuring hard-hitting questions about 9/11 posed to one of the subject's foremost scholars.

From San Francisco Chronicle:
When David Ray Griffin, noted theologian and professor emeritus at the Claremont School of Theology, first heard someone say that Sept. 11 was an inside job, he scoffed.

"I can remember my exact words. ... I said, 'I don't think that even the Bush administration could perpetrate such a thing,' " said Griffin, who has since written two books, "The New Pearl Harbor: Disturbing Questions About the Bush Administration and 9/11" and "The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions,'' which dispute the official version of events. Specifically, Griffin believes that the U.S. government orchestrated the attacks.

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Bill O'Reily Acting Insane.

2008-08-24T01:39:00.000-07:00

You cannot go a lifetime without seeing this video.

9/11, the "Conspiritorial view of history" vs. "accidental view of history" and the setting of societal norms.

2008-08-23T13:54:00.000-07:00

One only needs to spend the necessary time with an open mind to asses the very solid and credible science and evidence that disproves the official account of the events of September the 11th of 2001 to realize that something else is at play here. I am only spending a brief amount of time on the topic of 9/11 on this blog because it has already been thoroughly proved to have been an "inside job" by qualified scientists, physicists, authors, journalists, architects, scholars, engineers and so forth. One could literally spend a lifetime searching through the wealth of evidence. Even if one is not willing or able to go as far as to call 9/11 an "inside job", it can be shockingly easy to demonstrate that the official story is simply not possible or accurate. This immediately opens up a plethora of questions that need answering.

My main concern on this blog is to explore the bigger picture that has been hidden from the eyes of the vast majority of humanity and that engulfs and explains many historical events including 9/11. So, part of the main concern of this blog is not to exhaustingly prove that 9/11 was an inside job, but rather to explore why 9/11 was an inside job.

The view that the writings of this website endorses of history is what some have termed the "conspiratorial view of history", in which many events throughout history have not happened in random and unconnected ways as they are portrayed to the populace but rather there has been a secretive ruling elite who have guided the path of world history to further their own political and economic agendas. These people are, in part, the international bankers and the monopolistic capitalists/rich socialists that I have been discussing in previous posts.

9/11 being an "inside job" (or more accurately an elite globalist/collectivist job - because the interests behind 9/11 are not bound by any nation and advocate world government) seems patently absurd if one has no awareness of the secretive groups running governments and if one thinks that the events of history are unplanned, random events.

With the proper skeptical attitude and an open mind, one will find that the "conspiratorial view of history" is indeed the correct view as opposed to the traditional "accidental view of history" in which wars, depressions, terrorist attacks and so forth just happen randomly.

When one realizes that a secretive ruling elite have been guiding history for their own benefit, for, in all honesty, possibly thousands of years, it becomes clear that these few have also controlled and set up the majority of the norms of society through their all pervasive and influential institutions and businesses.

Since the norms of society have been, over years of time, decided upon and shaped by the few for the many, these people have controlled each and every person in that society - even to the extent of controlling and regulating consciousness and thought via creating the environment. It is known that most human beings are very often a product of their environment while very few human beings create their environment as a product of themselves.

This control over the mental and physical environment has been done primarily through the ownership of a few very pervasive and consolidated mass media empires, banks, the major commerce industry, international corporations and so forth.

If you want to control a society of people and exploit all of them for your own benefit, you do not have to control every single news paper or radio station. Once the norms of a society are set into place the system keeps itself in line because anyone who steps outside of the accepted cultural norms is viewed as being strange. People think that it is normal for international bankers to print money out of thin air and charge interest on it while constantly inflating the money supply as a result of giving out too many loans, therefore lowering the purchasing power and personal wealth and savings of the populace only to have the real wealth relocated to the banks, for example.

This country courageously marched into World War II and defeated the most powerful, evil and organized army that this world has ever seen. It was done because it was what our country firmly decided to do and what was in the interest of the world to do - both moneyed class and non moneyed alike. Do you really think that they just can't get a grasp on inflation and the troubles of printing too much money? If the powers that be wanted to solve the problem of inflation you had better believe that they could.

The vast majority of people think that it is true or normal to; have credit money to own things that you do not have the wealth to buy or create yourself and that would not otherwise even exist if it wasn't for that "pretend" money; that it is normal to pay for three houses over many years of interest on your loan when you only get one house; that inflation is normal and expected; that it is normal to pay for higher education that is so expensive; that oil is a fossil fuel and in low abundance; that America is a democracy; that CO2 is causing global warming; that soy is healthy and not harmful for a human being; that it is normal to spend 40 hours a week at a job away from family and friends and local community; that groups such as the Council on Foreign Relations, Project for a New American Century, Bilderberg Group, the Trilateral Commission, and various other "think tanks" are normal and nothing to concern yourself with that their members fill governments and that they advocate a world government based on a model of collectivism and/or western cultural and economic hegemony over the rest of the globe.

The above beliefs and mindsets are the result of the norms of society having been set up by the powerful aristocracies of big business, banking and special interests. And we the people have blindly bought into the toys and displays that they convincingly dangle in front of us.

Because our modern day norms have been thousands of years in the making, and they have been very strongly influenced by powerful moneyed interests, it is absolutely not necessary to control all things to keep that system from falling apart or being exposed. "How can you know the dragon that swallowed you?" as Carl Jung would say.

Do you have a hard time believing that such a manipulative and violent secretive group exists and that they seem to consider us as little more than slaves and perhaps even look down upon the general populace almost as if they were a different species altogether? Does it seem far fetched that the worlds very richest international bankers and monopolistic transnational corporatists conspire together and steal from and enslave the rest of the worlds population for their own benefit? Do you really think that since the very beginning of humankind there have not been secret societies that have come down through the ages and preserved fascinating ancient wisdom and knowledge which is not generally known by the majority of the worlds populace? Do you think that no one on this earth knows the true history of the ancient pyramids and the true history of our mysterious ancient past?

Anyway, this draws me to the point of this post. There have clearly been an array of "9/11 truth activists" portrayed in the US mainstream media over the past few years. Four example videos are found below. Notice that the hosts rely on the absurdity factor by repeatedly saying that such a 9/11 conspiracy is far too outlandish and absurd to be true so therefore it could not possibly be true. They also rely heavily upon focusing on personalities, egos, childish name calling and repeatedly asserting that "not a shred of evidence exists". However, after making claims about "no evidence", the hosts always then interrupt their guests whenever they begin to go into detail about evidence. The media plays upon and manipulates peoples emotions, egos and personalities to make people agitated, angry, annoyed, and in utter disbelief of certain things or peoples. They often remain in a very low level of perception by sticking to these very base and lowly mind states, rather than having an open minded and interesting conversation.

The very nature and setup of the norms of the American mass media is too often focused towards an unenlightened, basic and low brain activity culture where complex issues such as the 9/11 attacks cannot be properly addressed in short sound bites and yes or no questions; especially when you have a pompous, condescending and rude host who interrupts and repeatedly asks the same basic questions in a slow, mocking and oftentimes hostile and completely rude manner.

The reason why the 9/11 evidence in question - that proves the blatant fallacy of the official record - has not been showcased on the front page of the New York Times or the Boston Globe or on many other prominent newspapers around the world (as some of the hosts below demand is proof that such a conspiracy does not exist) is possibly because of internal control and gatekeeping over which stories get printed; but MUCH more importantly, the reason why the story has not been stormed into the mainstream media and onto the cover of all papers is because the norms of society have been set and those norms give the very strong implication that believing in or giving credit or time towards "9/11 conspiracy theories" is not what the a normal person does.

Since the notion that 9/11 could be an "inside job" sounds very far fetched, non-skeptics quickly are able to point to a seemingly "scientific" study, such as the one from Popular Mechanics Magazine, to reject any claims of a conspiracy as ridiculous. Or non-skeptics can simply point out how absurd seeming a 9/11 conspiracy is and that "something surely would have leaked if many people were in on such a conspiracy". It is this that leads the non-skeptics, who believe the official story, to feel that they are the ones being objective while the "conspiracy theorists" are being one-sided or non-objective. But in reality nothing could be further from the truth. It is therefore the non-skeptics, who are caught up in the matrix of the non-reality that the various "official" stories of many historical events compose, who will label those who they have called "conspiracy theorists" as being not open-minded or as having pre-conceived and biased notions.

The attitudes of the hosts in the videos below demonstrates the formation of cultural and societal norms in action. This is why 9/11 truth and the dire need for a truly independent and rigorous investigation has not yet hit the mainstream. No matter how much further exhaustive proof is laid out by the intelligent experts diligently at work for what is right and true and decent; there will never be an immediate explosion of mainstream news about the matter. We do not so much live in a land of law and fact and proof - we live in a land of majority consensus where many minds together are experiencing mass group think and a general lack of skeptical and independent thought. 9/11 truth is going to be a slow process of cultural enlightenment which may take many years - but eventually the truth will prevail because the truth is the truth.

Here is the video of John Kerry responding to a question about WTC7 that was briefly referenced in the video interview with Webster Tarpley directly above. This full version has the actual question that was asked and John Kerry clearly seems to be saying that WTC7 was demolished in a controlled demolition. So you can see why this video would stir up some news from those who feel that a cover up is going on around the events of 9/11. The chopped manner that foxed news used in the above interview is misleading because Hannity and Colms say that Kerry was not talking about WTC7 when in fact he was.

Irrefutable proof that no jetliner hit the pentagon on September the 11th 2001.

2008-08-21T17:44:00.000-07:00

This is an issue that needs once and for all to be solved with sound empirical evidence, a little logic and mostly common sense. It does not take qualifications in physics, architecture, or engineering to come to a conclusion regarding the pentagon. I urge readers of this blog to refer to my previous post about September the 11th for more background information if you have not already done so. The prior post and accompanying video by Architect Richard Gage do not discuss the Pentagon, so I will briefly and concisely address the subject here without being exhausting.

Now, before I began anything I would like to state for the record that I have nothing but the utmost compassion and respect for the men and woman who lost their lives and the families of those involved in the tragic events of 9/11. I do not take pleasure in knowing that 9/11 was facilitated by elements within our own government and I realize the serious nature of standing by such claims which are currently beyond the grasp of the majority of the populace and media. It is very quick and easy to refer to any who doubt the official story as being foolish or even dangerous traitors. I have heard that it is very dangerous to be right when your country is wrong.

Having said that, I will first begin with a thesis statement. I will then type through the evidence with accompanying photographs and finally I will showcase the video evidence that comes directly from mainstream news sources. By the end of this post I will have irrefutably proved that no jetliner crashed into the United States Pentagon on September the 11th of 2001.

Thesis: Contrary to what is officially alleged, a 747 Jetliner did not hit the United States Pentagon on 9/11/01; rather, something much smaller hit the Pentagon that caused smaller damages until a later secondary explosion brought the rest of the wall crumbling to the ground.

I will refer to the Pentagon after its initial impact, but prior to complete collapse, as "step A pentagon" and I will refer to the Pentagon after its later full collapse as "step B pentagon". The American mass media has only ever recognized or referred to step B pentagon ever since the initial first day. However, evidence for both steps and what actually took place that day are both found in mainstream and non-mainstream news sources from the very first broadcasts.

Pentagon Step A:

The arrows in the upper left hand corner of this picture point to the area from which the collapse begins as seen in the videos below.

Pentagon Step B:

I think I will quote a short analysis about the pentagon issue from Ph.D. Jeffrey Grupp's excellent book "Corporatism. The Secret Government of the New World Order". Jeff Grupp is a Philosophy professor at Perdue and Indiana University and he specializes in Buddhism, quantum physics and economic and political issues in philosophy. Grupp has published dozens of articles in top philosophy journals on quantum physics, Buddhism and attacks on metaphysics and has also written an array of books on similar subjects.

"Corporatism" page 28 - "For those reading this book who don't take 9/11 skeptics seriously, until you can explain how a 60-ton jetliner traveling at over 400 miles per hour can crash into the Pentagon without even taking the wall down, without even breaking most of the windows in the planes path, and without leaving masses of plane-debris from the over 60 tons of plane material, we who are scientific, empirical researchers have no choice but to reject the idea that a plane hit the pentagon, if we are to obey the empirical prioritizing that a scientific attitude involves.

What choice to 9/11 skeptics have but to reject the non-skeptics, who ask us to believe that a 60-ton, 125-foot-wide jetliner with two 9-foot diameter 10 ton engines (each engine is 10 tons), traveling at over 400 mph:

1. can smack a wall traveling only a few inches above the ground,

2. where upon impact it is claimed to have shrunk down and folded up in order to have fit through a 15 foot-hole (that is what the "official story" involves)

3. without doing much more than leaving smoke damage to the part of the wall surrounding that hole,

4. but then turning into liquid steel (which has a temperature of 4000 to 5000 degrees Fahrenheit - half the temperature of the surface of the sun) after infiltrating the Pentagon, but

5. without scorching in the least much of the Pentagon wall around and inside of the impact area (for example, there is the case of the now-famous opened book that is on a table at the damaged zone that does not even exhibit pages with the slightest bit of heat damage from the supposed monumental steel liquefying temperatures)

6. and then cooling down from its incredible temperatures in just five or so minutes at most (a process which, in reality, can only take weeks.)

7. thus allowing firefighters to walk right up to the damage area without being scorched to the bone in seconds?

Do people really believe this story? How can there be such blatant lack of empirical sensibility, and genuine loss of sight, by the non-skeptics?"

In the center of this photograph you can see the opened and un-charred book sitting on an unburned un-charred stool as well as quite clean and unburned walls considering the purported 4000-5000 degree temperatures.

Here is the video evidence. None of the videos below were aired again on any television stations to my knowledge.

This video is from ABC news demonstrating the Pentagon wall collapsing from step A pentagon to arrive at step B pentagon.

This video is from a local Arlington channel 9 news station and it catches the end moments of the collapse that led to step B pentagon.

This is from CNN. The reporter lucidly describes in some detail what may have actually happened.

This one is very short and is from the documentary "In Plane Site" by Dave VonKleist. The full version of this collapse footage can be found in the last video in this post.

Here are some brief comments by Major General Stubblebine. Stubblebine was in charge of Imagery Interpretation for Scientific and Technical Intelligence — a highly specialized area that certainly qualifies him as an expert in the field of electronic intelligence gathering, especially imaging.

This is an absolute must see 10 minute video segment done by Dave VonKleist about the pentagon. It covers most of the evidence that I have documented here and more.

This analysis has focused to the most relevant factors in order to prove that no 757 jetliner hit the Pentagon on 9/11. Further evidence is available but not necessary, in the interests of being concise, to prove this case.

In conclusion, the simple existence of "step A pentagon" is grounds for dismissing the possibility of the official story being accurate or even possible. The total lack of "step A pentagon" from any mass media coverage after the initial moments of 9/11 and the absence of it from the official 9/11 Commission Report is very suspicious. The official version of events only accounts for "step B pentagon".

The actual collapse and the pre-collapsed Pentagon wall can both clearly be seen from photographic and video evidence and there does not appear to be any 757 jetliner involved. The pre-collapsed pentagon also clearly shows that no commercial jetliner has impacted the area because of the minimal damages. When considered in conjunction with the array of other anomalies and physical impossibilities it becomes clear that a 757 jetliner did not hit the Pentagon on 9/11.

G. Edward Griffin - The Capitalist Conspiracy

2008-08-19T14:14:00.000-07:00

This is a classic video done by G. Edward Griffin in 1972. It is 45 minutes long and is a very important film with a great collection of information and a scholarly style. I think you will be shocked at the things that Griffin speaks about in 1972 that fit perfectly with what we see today.

This video focuses on international banking and monopolist capitalism as it has come down through history and includes families such as the Morgans, Rockefellers and Rothschilds. The film demonstrates their manipulations of world affairs for the purpose of keeping power and leverage over the worlds economy and governments in their private hands. The film also focuses on the supposed rivalry of socialism vs. capitalism and reveals that it has all largely been a carefully orchestrated lie crafted by the financial elite for their own purposes of power and control over the many.

Do you know why so many prominent American businessmen, corporations and international bankers have funded socialism throughout the years when socialism is supposedly the political ideology under which capitalists would have the most to lose? I think you will see that the answer is that these men are not capitalists at all. A better way to refer to these dynasties of power and wealth is as wealthy socialists or monopolist capitalists. They have not earned their wealth and power honestly or through healthy competition. They do not want free enterprise capitalism or healthy competition that a free society involves because then their hoards of wealth would fall. They want more for themselves and less for everybody else and they do whatever it takes to make sure that continues to happen.

These men are above the supposed worldly rival of capitalism vs. socialism. They have, in fact, carefully controlled the conflict of capitalism vs. socialism for a very specific reason and purpose. They have even tried to carefully control revolution movements and thoughts through media so that revolutionary minded individuals fall into the trap of supporting socialism or Marxist communism rather than the philosophy of individualism which is the only ideology under which true freedom is attainable. There is a method behind the madness. As this film will introduce to you, Capitalism vs. Socialism is a sham as the worlds power financial elite have funded all sides of many wars and conflicts. This means that they always win because they are the third hidden side which profits regardless of who the victor of the war is. Then, after the war, they get to rearrange societies more to their liking, which is, of course, an increasingly centralized power structure with bigger government and less individual freedoms.

The United Nations was brought into being through behind-the-scenes manipulation and its intended purpose is to eventually govern the globe and overshadow national governments. War and banking have been the financial elite's primary tools for removing power and wealth from nations and peoples and hoarding it for themselves. Their end goal is to combine capitalism and socialism under one tent to form a high-tech totalitarian neo-feudal world state. But they will fail if enough people simply realize what is happening.

Carroll Quigley. Tragedy and Hope.

2008-08-18T17:51:00.000-07:00

Carroll Quigley (November 9, 1910 – January 3, 1977) was a historian and professor of history at Georgetown University from 1941 to 1976. Quigley was born in Boston, where he attended school and later received both undergraduate degrees and a doctorate from nearby Harvard University. At Georgetown University, Quigley joined the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, where he taught the course, Development of Civilization. In addition to his academic work, Quigley was a consultant to the U.S. Department of Defense, the U.S. Navy, the Smithsonian Institution, and the Select Committee on Astronautics and Space Exploration, which went on to establish NASA. - from wikipedia

Quigley is well known to some for his 1966 book of almost 1400 pages entitled "Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time" In this book, Quigley details and documents in very scholarly terms the aims of the Council on Foreign Relations to undermine American Sovereignty in order to give way to a one world financial and governmental structure. Quigley has said that he generally agreed and supported the aims of the financial elite and that his main area of disagreement was that he thought that their plans should not be held as a secret.

"The powers of financial capitalism had another far reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. This system was to be controlled in a feudalist fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret agreements, arrived at in frequent private meetings and conferences. The apex of the system was the Bank for International Settlements in Basle, Switzerland, a private bank owned and controlled by the worlds' central banks which were themselves private corporations. The growth of financial capitalism made possible a centralization of world economic control and use of this power for the direct benefit of financiers and the indirect injury of all other economic groups."

"For the first time in its history, Western Civilization is in danger of being destroyed internally by a corrupt, criminal ruling cabal which is centered around the Rockefeller interests, which include elements from the Morgan, Brown, Rothschild, Du Pont, Harriman, Kuhn-Loeb, and other groupings as well. This junta took control of the political, financial, and cultural life of America in the first two decades of the twentieth century."

"The history of the last century shows, as we shall see later, that the advice given to governments by bankers, like the advice they gave to industrialists, was consistently good for bankers, but was often disastrous for governments, businessmen, and the people generally."

Tragedy and Hope: A History of The World in Our Time
(Macmillan Company, 1966,)
Professor Carroll Quigley of Georgetown University,

FDR's son-in-law Curtis Dall. "My Exploited Father-in-Law"

2008-08-18T17:45:00.001-07:00

"For a long time I felt that FDR had developed many thoughts and ideas that were his own to benefit this country, the United States. But, he didn't. Most of his thoughts, his political ammunition, as it were, were carefully manufactured for him in advanced by the Council on Foreign Relations-One World Money group. Brilliantly, with great gusto, like a fine piece of artillery, he exploded that prepared "ammunition" in the middle of an unsuspecting target, the American people, and thus paid off and returned his internationalist political support. "The UN is but a long-range, international banking apparatus clearly set up for financial and economic profit by a small group of powerful One-World revolutionaries, hungry for profit and power. "The depression was the calculated 'shearing' of the public by the World Money powers, triggered by the planned sudden shortage of supply of call money in the New York money market....The One World Government leaders and their ever close bankers have now acquired full control of the money and credit machinery of the U.S. via the creation of the privately owned Federal Reserve Bank."

Curtis Dall,
FDR's son-in-law as quoted in his book,
My Exploited Father-in-Law

Excerpts from Jesse Helm's Speech Before The Senate, On 15 December, 1987, Warning Against The "New World Order".

2008-08-18T17:41:00.000-07:00

"This campaign against the American people -against traditional American culture and values - is systematic psychological warfare. It is orchestrated by a vast array of interests comprising not only the Eastern establishment but also the radical left. Among this group we find the Department of State, the Department of Commerce, the money center banks and multinational coporations, the media, the educational establishment, the entertainment industry, and the large tax-exempt foundations.

Mr. President, a careful examination of what is happening behind the scenes reveals that all of these interests are working in concert with the masters of the Kremlin in order to create what some refer to as a New World Order. Private organizations such as the Council on Foreign Relations, the Royal Institute of International Affairs, the Trilateral Commission, the Dartmouth Conference, the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies, the Atlantic Institute, and the Bilderberger Group serve to disseminate and to coordinate the plans for this so-called New World Order in powerful business, financial, academic, and official circles. . . .

The psychological campaign that I am describing, as I have said, is the work of groups within the Eastern establishment, that amorphous amalgam of wealth and social connections whose power resides in its control over our financial system and over a large portion of our industrial sector. The principal instrument of this control over the American economy and money is the Federal Reserve System. The policies of the Industrial sectors, primarily the multinational corporations, are influenced by the money center banks through debt financing and through the large blocks of stock controlled by the trust departments of the money center banks.

Anyone familiar with American history, and particularly American economic history, cannot fail to notice the control over the Department of State and the Central Intelligence Agency which Wall Street seems to exercise.... The influence of establishment insiders over our foreign policy has become a fact of life in our time. This pervasive influence runs contrary to the real long-term national security of our Nation. It is an influence which, if unchecked, could ultimately subvert our constitutional order.

The viewpoint of the establishment today is called globalism. Not so long ago, this viewpoint was called the "one-world" view by its critics. The phrase is no longer fashionable among sophisticates; yet, the phrase "one-world" is still apt because nothing has changed in the minds and actions of those promoting policies consistent with its fundamental tenets.

Mr. President, in the globalist point of view, nation-states and national boundaries do not count for anything. Political philosophies and political principles seem to become simply relative. Indeed, even constitutions are irrelevant to the exercise of power. Liberty and tyranny are viewed as neither necessarily good nor evil, and certainly not a component of policy.

In this point of view, the activities of international financial and industrial forces should be oriented to bringing this one-world design - with a convergence of the Soviet and American systems as its centerpiece - into being. . . . All that matters to this club is the maximization of profits resulting from the practice of what can be described as finance capitalism, a system which rests upon the twin pillars of debt and monopoly. This isn't real capitalism. It is the road to economic concentration and to political slavery."

Monopoly Men (Federal Reserve Fraud) 1999

2008-08-18T17:24:00.001-07:00

The hidden role of International Bankers throughout history and the formation of our Federal Reserve System is probably the number one item to understand in order to unlearn the false version of world history that we have been taught so that it can be replaced with a more accurate version. There is a decent amount of information about this on this website. This documentary is also very decent and will help further connect the dots.

Here are a few interesting quotes from David Rockefeller:

"For more than a century ideological extremists at either end of the political spectrum have seized upon well-publicized incidents to attack the Rockefeller family for the inordinate influence they claim we wield over American political and economic institutions. Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as 'internationalists' and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure - one world, if you will. If that's the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it."
- David Rockefeller, "Memoirs" autobiography (2002, Random House publishers),page 405

"We are grateful to the Washington Post, The New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost forty years. It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries."
- David Rockefeller, founder of the Trilateral Commission, in an address to the Trilateral Commission, in June, 1991

Roman Fasces

2008-08-17T06:37:00.000-07:00

Do you know what the bundle of sticks strapped around the hatchet head symbolizes and why it can be found throughout America and much of the rest of the world? We have not been paying nearly enough attention to symbols which have spanned across thousands of years and which have meanings to those who know. Flags, emblems, coats of arms, corporate logos, insignias and so forth are not chosen just because they look pretty.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Fascist_Party
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Italy_(North_Africa)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fasces
http://home.uchicago.edu/~janie/fasces.htm

If you have read and watched EVERYTHING from this site, especially the information about international banking and the federal reserve, this information should really be tying together.

A brief discourse on international fascist symbolism by Jordan Maxwell.

The Great Gold Robbery of 1933

2008-08-13T17:31:00.000-07:00

This is from the Ludwig Von Mises Institute:

It's been 75 years since the federal government, on the spurious grounds of fighting the Great Depression, ordered the confiscation of all monetary gold from Americans, permitting trivial amounts for ornamental or industrial use. This happens to be one of the episodes Kevin Gutzman and I describe in detail in our new book, Who Killed the Constitution? The Fate of American Liberty from World War I to George W. Bush. From the point of view of the typical American classroom, on the other hand, the incident may as well not have occurred.

A key piece of legislation in this story is the Emergency Banking Act of 1933, which Congress passed on March 9 without having read it and after only the most trivial debate. House Minority Leader Bertrand H. Snell (R-NY) generously conceded that it was "entirely out of the ordinary" to pass legislation that "is not even in print at the time it is offered." He urged his colleagues to pass it all the same: "The house is burning down, and the President of the United States says this is the way to put out the fire. [Applause.] And to me at this time there is only one answer to this question, and that is to give the President what he demands and says is necessary to meet the situation."

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John Francis Hylan

2008-08-13T14:06:00.000-07:00

John Francis Hylan (April 20, 1868 – January 12, 1936) was the Mayor of New York City from 1918 to 1925.

Hylan was often characterized as a "Champion of the People versus the Interests". Hylan and others argued that an "invisible government" exercised control of the US Government through the Federal Reserve system. Hylan's most famous words against "the interests" was the following speech, made in 1922, while he was Mayor of New York City:

"...The real menace of our republic is this invisible government which like a giant octopus sprawls its slimy length over City, State, and nation... It seizes in its long and powerful tentacles our executive officers, our legislative bodies, our schools, our courts, our newspapers, and every agency created for the public protection..."

"To depart from mere generalizations, let me say that at the head of this octopus are the Rockefeller-Standard Oil interest and a small group of powerful banking houses generally referred to as the international bankers. The little coterie of powerful international bankers virtually run the United States government for their own selfish purposes."

"They practically control both parties, write political platforms, make catspaws of party leaders, use the leading men of private organizations, and resort to every device to place in nomination for high public office only such candidates as will be amenable to the dictates of corrupt big business..."

"These international bankers and Rockefeller-Standard Oil interests control the majority of the newspapers and magazines in this country. They use the columns of these papers to club into submission or drive out of office public officials who refuse to do the bidding of the powerful corrupt cliques which compose the invisible government...."

This was over 80 years ago.

The Magnificent Jordan Maxwell

2008-08-12T18:44:00.001-07:00

Jordan Maxwell is a researcher and independent scholar in the fields of astro-theology, religion, secret societies, and the occult, with a focus on the foundations for modern-day religion and government. He began his work in 1959 and has produced numerous video lectures and documentaries on these subjects. He has been described by peers and fans alike as "the preeminent researcher and scholar in the field of occult/religious philosophy", although Maxwell prefers to refer to himself simply as "an ordinary man pursuing extraordinary knowledge". Maxwell had his radio show on an ABC owned station taken off the air by eliminating his sponsor under provisions in the Patriot Act during John Ashcroft's term as US Attorney General.

Maxwell's areas of interest include Secret Societies, Ancient Symbols and Occult Emblems, Secret Meanings of Modern Symbols (from Corporate Logos to Government Emblems), Ancient Sciences and Technologies, and Hidden Bible Teachings and Mysteries. Confusion regarding the actual definition of the word "occult" (Latin word simply meaning "hidden") has led some to misunderstand Maxwell's work. As he states, "Occult doesn't mean evil or bad or corrupt. It just means hidden. Secrets. In the medical field, there are terms that doctors use; certain organs are occult...it means hidden or not in view."

As a child, Maxwell's maternal great-uncle was employed in the Vatican Secretary of State's office as a civilian, and young Jordan was enthralled by the behind-the-scenes tales of religion and politics he would tell when visiting.

He has conducted dozens of intensive seminars, hosted his own radio talk shows, guested on more than 600 radio shows, and written, produced and appeared in numerous television shows and documentaries including three 2-hour specials for the CBS TV network, as well as the internationally acclaimed 5-part Ancient Mystery Series - all devoted to understanding ancient religions and their pervasive influence on world affairs today. He has been affiliated with the Society of Professional Journalists since 1993, and the Greater Los Angeles Press Club since 1994.

- description bits from wikipedia

G Edward Griffin - The Creature From Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve

2008-08-12T16:11:00.000-07:00

This is essentially an expanded version of the G Edward Griffin speech that I posted earlier this month. Griffin has definitely become one of my personal favorite teachers when it comes to seeing through disinformation and understanding our monetary and political system. His website is www.freedomforceinternational.com

Griffin has also been a longtime member and officer of the John Birch Society and a contributing editor to its magazine, The New American. Since the 1960s, Griffin has spoken and written extensively on the Society's theory of history involving "communist and capitalist conspiracies" over banking systems, American foreign policy, the U.S. Supreme Court, and the United Nations.

In this video, Griffin dispels the myths that surround fiat money that we are told in our textbooks and warns that we are headed for modern serfdom if we do not change our criminal Federal Reserve and the endless inflation that it has created. He describes how and why the Federal Reserve was created; what the Federal Reserve is; how money is created and who benefits and who loses from this arrangement.

Ron Paul has very high regards for G Edward Griffin and I have high respect for both of them because they illustrate in scholarly terms how the masses of humanity are leeched upon by a criminal elite who own the banks and big businesses of the world.

We have essentially been swallowed up by an incredibly similar situation to that which our founding fathers faced, only this time it is on a world scale. Interesting and exciting stuff I suggest.

If you want to truly understand what is happening in the world you have to not be afraid to investigate the reality that there have been and still are powerful men conspiring to control and steal from the masses who are not meant to know about it.

These monopoly men are above communism, they are above liberalism, they are above capitalism, they are even above money. The cold war of democracy vs. communism meant little to them other than profit and opportunity for rearranging society more to their liking. They have provably been manipulating wars down through the centuries by funding and arming both sides in military conflicts. The powerful aristocracies of big business and banking institutions are the men behind the curtain. It is this situation and setup of world power that the mass media never touches. You can pretend that they aren't there if you want, that sure is what they want you to do. But I see them bright and clear and I've got a big mouth and I'm not about to shut it anytime soon.

"Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men's views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it."

"A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is privately concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men ... [W]e have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated, governments in the civilized world—no longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and the duress of small groups of dominant men."

- Woodrow Wilson, from "The New Freedom" 1913

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