Report Contents:
———————I: U.S. Societal Breakdown
———————II: Environmental Crisis
———————III: The Obama Myth
———————IV: Economic Coup – Theft of Trillions
———————V: National Emergency
The economic elite have launched an attack on the U.S.
public and society is unraveling at an increased rate.
I: U.S. Societal Breakdown
You may have missed it in the mainstream news media, but statistical societal indicators are reading red across the board. Before exposing the root causes of this breakdown, let’s look at some vital statistics and facts:
* The inequality of wealth in the United States is soaring to an unprecedented level. The US already had the highest inequality of wealth in the industrialized world prior to the financial crisis. Since the crisis, which has hit the middle class and poor much harder than the top one percent, the gap between the top one percent and the remaining 99% of the US population has grown to a record high.
* As the stock market went over the 10,000 mark and just surged to a 13-month high, the three big banks that took taxpayer money and benefit the most from the government bailout have just set a new global economic record by issuing $30 billion in annual bonuses this year, “up 60 percent from last year.” Bloomberg reported: “Goldman Sachs, the most profitable securities firm in Wall Street history, had a record profit in the first nine months of this year and set aside $16.7 billion for compensation expenses.” Goldman Sachs is on pace for the best year in the firm’s history, they are also benefiting by only paying 1% in taxes.
* The profits of the economic elite are “now underwritten by taxpayers with $23.7 trillion worth of national wealth.”
As the looting is occurring at the top, the US middle class is just beginning to collapse.
* Workers between the age of 55 – 60, who have worked for 20 – 29 years, have lost an average of 25 percent off their 401k. During the same time period, the wealth of the 400 richest Americans went up by $30 billion, bringing their total combined wealth to $1.57 trillion.
* Home foreclosure filings “hit a record high in the third quarter [of 2009]… They were the worst three months of all time… 937,840 homes received a foreclosure letter” in this three month period. “3.4 million homes are expected to enter foreclosure by year’s end, with some experts estimating that next year will be even worse.”
President Obama has enacted a $75 billion taxpayer funded program that has been a spectacular failure in stemming the foreclosure crisis and has proven to be another massive waste of billions of taxpayer dollars.
* 25 Million people are unemployed or underemployed.
This means we have 25 million people who urgently need to increase their income, and they’re quickly running out of options. The unemployment rate is expected to rise further and remain high for several years. “The president’s chief economic adviser warned that the nation’s unemployment rate could stay ‘unacceptably high’ for years to come.”
The NY Times reports: “Americans now confront a job market that is bleaker than ever in the current recession, and employment prospects are still getting worse. Job seekers now outnumber openings six to one, the worst ratio since the government began tracking…” As this ratio continues to grow, it will lead to a further reduction in wages – average worker wages have seen a sharp decline over the past year.
Economist Nouriel Roubini, a man who accurately predicted our current crisis, just reported on unemployment stating: “Think the worst is over? Wrong. Conditions in the U.S. labor markets are awful and worsening…. So we can expect that job losses will continue until the end of 2010 at the earliest. In other words, if you are unemployed and looking for work and just waiting for the economy to turn the corner, you had better hunker down. All the economic numbers suggest this will take a while. The jobs just are not coming back.”
* As the few elite banks thrive, there have been 123 US bank failures thus far this year. Recently, three banks that the government declared “healthy” and gave taxpayer money to have folded. The Wall Street Journal reports: “U.S. regulators have seized or threatened at least 27 banks that got capital infusions from the Troubled Asset Relief Program, including some lenders government officials knew were troubled when they awarded the money. The troubles put taxpayers at risk of losing as much as $5.1 billion invested in the banks since TARP was launched in October 2008.”
* As bankruptcies surge across the board, 10 US states are on the verge of bankruptcy, with several ready to declare a financial state of emergency. California, Arizona, Florida, Illinois, Michigan, Nevada, New Jersey, Oregon, Rhode Island and Wisconsin are all “barreling toward economic disaster, raising the likelihood of higher taxes, more government layoffs and deep cuts in services.”
This is occurring at a time when the “federal budget deficit for the fiscal year that just ended was $1.4 trillion, nearly a trillion dollars greater than the year before.” In total, “US public debt topped 12 trillion dollars for the first time in history… The public debt topped 10 trillion dollars in September 2008. The debt is quickly approaching the statutory limit of 12.104 trillion dollars, meaning Congress would have to raise the ceiling to prevent a shutdown of government operations.”
Economist Dean Baker explains the risk of running such a large deficit: “The debt limit must be increased at regular intervals in order to allow the government to function normally because the government is currently operating at a deficit. If the debt limit is not passed, then at some point the government will not be able to pay workers and contractors. It won’t be able to send out Social Security checks or make payments for Medicaid and unemployment insurance to state governments. And, it will not be able to make interest payments on government bonds, effectively defaulting on the national debt.”
Needless to say, all of this will make life drastically more difficult for citizens of the US. As the middle class continues on the path of economic decline, the number of citizens living in poverty has already hit an all time high.
* Although the government’s official figure tries to low-ball the number, 47.4 Million US citizens live in poverty, and the US poverty rate is the highest in the industrialized world.
Predictably, homelessness is rising at an increased rate as well. “The US government does not tally the numbers but interested organisations say that more than 3 million people were homeless at some point over the past year…. The fastest growing segment of the homeless population is families with children.”
Children have been hit especially hard by the economic crisis:
* 50% of US children, one out of every two children, will need to use food stamps to eat.
One out of every two children in the United States of America will need to use a food stamp… to EAT!
If you didn’t think starvation was a serious threat in the US, just read this new Washington Post report: “The nation’s economic crisis has catapulted the number of Americans who lack enough food to the highest level since the government has been keeping track, according to a new federal report, which shows that nearly 50 million people — including almost one child in four — struggled last year to get enough to eat… Several independent advocates and policy experts on hunger said that they had been bracing for the latest report to show deepening shortages, but that they were nevertheless astonished by how much the problem has worsened. ‘This is unthinkable. It’s like we are living in a Third World country,’ said Vicki Escarra, president of Feeding America.”
The United States Department of Agriculture released these findings in a study that was completed in December 2008, which means these numbers don’t take into account the millions more unemployed throughout 2009. The numbers of people living in poverty and struggling to eat has seen a significant increase since then.
This a national tragedy. But it gets much worse.
* In 2008, according to the Census Bureau, the number of US citizens without healthcare grew to a record 46.3 million. “The new figures, however, understate the severity of the economic downturn because a large portion of nation’s job losses and unemployment rate increases occurred after the Census survey data was collected in March as part of the annual Current Population Survey.”
* Lack of health Insurance has caused 45,000 preventable U.S. citizen deaths in the past year. The American Journal of Medicine recently released a study that stated “Nearly two out of three bankruptcies stem from medical bills, and even people with health insurance face financial disaster if they experience a serious illness.”
A Johns Hopkins Children’s Center study reported that 17,000 children have died due to lack of healthcare. You can also add in a recent report that revealed that 2,266 US Veterans have died in 2008 due to lack of insurance.
The 50 million now uninsured and the 45,000 preventable deaths per year statistics are expected to drastically rise over the next few years. As the Senate continues to strip meaningful amendments from a healthcare bill that wouldn’t even take effect until 2013, it has become clear that, despite the media hype, the healthcare bill is going to fall far short of meaningful reform and continue to rig the game in favor of large insurance company profits at the expense of the US population. With the highest cost healthcare in the world, current trends will continue and much needed change is not on the horizon.
Never before has the United States had so many citizens with so little means, little to no income and heavy debt. Debt and costs of living have now shackled US citizens just as it has shackled people throughout the world. The economic hit men have now hit the US as well and millions of US citizens are now effectively sentenced to a slow death.
Economic Imperial blowback has hit the mainland.
And the clock is ticking louder by the day…
Here’s another fact for you:
* The gun and ammunition manufacturing industry in the United States has over 200 companies producing billions of dollars in annual revenues. This huge manufacturing base cannot fulfill demand quickly enough. The demand for guns and ammunition has hit a record high and the gun industry cannot produce enough bullets to keep up with orders.
American’s are arming themselves to the teeth!
* In the past year, 100 new armed militia groups have been formed, as militia members have doubled in numbers. Federal authorities are gravely concerned about the “uptick in militia activities.” One federal authority recently said, “All it’s lacking is a spark. I think it’s only a matter of time before you see threats and violence.”
So let’s breakdown these numbers.
You have a population of 50 million people who are in desperate need of money, they most likely have no health insurance and can’t afford to get healthcare or help of any kind. Part of this population probably also has loved ones who can’t get life sustaining medical treatments, or loved ones that have already died due to lack of costly medical treatment. The clock is ticking loud for these people and they are running out of options fast, and time delayed is time closer to death.
While the richest one percent have never had it so good, a significant percentage of the US population now has firsthand experience in this. Millions upon millions of Americans are poor, broke, struggling, starving, desperate… and armed.
We are sitting on a powder keg!
We are now witnessing the critical unraveling of US society.
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Add to this picture an environmental crisis the likes of which humanity has never faced.
Considering our current economy, what will happen when another extreme weather event like Hurricane Katrina hits a major US city? What will happen when storms, droughts and fires continue to spread with increasing intensity? How many have to die before even modest actions are taken to prevent environmental catastrophe?
Extreme weather events are pounding the globe, it is as if the environment has declared war on us as a species. Humanity has become a polluting cancer in the environmental system, and if we don’t urgently act to stop the bleeding, things are going to get drastically worse in a pace faster than anticipated. And this is not an opinion; it is happening now, there is plenty of empirical evidence that anyone can see before their own eyes, if they care to look.
US public opinion on the climate crisis has been distorted by the mainstream US media in stunning fashion. A recent Pew Research study revealed that only 36 percent of the US population thinks the climate crisis is a result of human activity.
Regardless of your beliefs, due to climate change, we are on the verge of experiencing major water shortages spreading “across the country. Sooner rather than later…” California has already been hit by extreme drought and water is in very short supply. As the Arctic continues to melt, California will continue to experience extreme drought. A new study revealed: “when Arctic sea ice disappears, the jet stream—high-altitude winds with a profound influence on climate—shifts north, moving precipitation away from California.” A recent “sweeping water-reform bill” in California temporarily eased public outcry, but the problem remains. The U.S. is confronted by a serious water crisis.
For a global example, there is currently an extreme drought in East Africa as well, which has 23 million people on the verge of dying from starvation. Due to the drought, crops have been killed in unprecedented fashion. Events of this nature are happening all over the globe.
Of the worldwide record one billion people going hungry, the leading cause is destroyed agriculture due to extreme weather.
As a significant percentage of humanity faces death due to climate change, we are in the midst of our planet’s sixth great extinction. Over 17,000 species are threatened with extinction, “more than one in five of all known mammals, over a quarter of reptiles and 70 percent of plants are under threat.”
For those of you unaware, the earth’s ecosystem is a very delicate balance. Being in the midst of the earth’s sixth great extinction is not a matter to be ignored.
The upcoming climate summit in Copenhagen was considered by leaders throughout the world to be the most critical environmental summit in the history of civilization. International headlines read: “We only have months, not years, to save civilization from climate change.”
However, the United States and the head of the United Nations just announced that no legally binding treaties are expected to come out of the summit. This is devastating news!
The reason why no deal will be reached at the summit: the United States is refusing to take necessary action.
In a PR move to calm criticism in advance of the summit, the US and Japan announced a vague agreement to cut greenhouse gas emissions… in 2012. However, the “agreement on this ambitious reduction target could not be reached during the APEC summit, and so was dropped from the draft statement.”
It would be smart of the public relations department to at least get one photo op with Obama actually at the climate summit. Instead of being at the most important summit, perhaps in the history of civilization, it appears Obama will be blowing it off to give his speech on how it feels to win the Nobel Peace Prize… H E L L O.
We are living in an insane asylum.
The Goldman Sachs PR guy is out giving speeches on how cool it is to cast the illusion of peace and hope, while the earth burns.
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I don’t mean to dismiss the Obama myth, his words, the change we need is real, its just his actions don’t even come close to measuring up. Just read the legal documents he has signed his name to. Read them. His actions are most often the opposite of what he says. I venture to say a 10 year old can recognize that after doing a school day’s worth of research.
Obama is a national tragedy. He is a symbol of the times. He is not a leader, just a symbol. He projects the change we need. He was our shortcut to correcting our diseased political system, a way to rid it of corruption. He symbolized the change millions so desperately need. People came out in the millions for the first time “hoping” if they could work and organize to put him in office, we would have some representation to defend against the economic elite that have put the overwhelming majority of US politicians on the payroll and brought humanity to a breaking point.
People just need to research how the Obama myth was hatched. Goldman Sachs saw Obama early on and said, “He’s our guy!” When Obama became THE MAN in Iowa, he was on the Goldman Sachs pay roll. Goldman financed the psychological operation that is the Obama myth, the Illusion of HOPE – something to keep a suffering nation pacified just a little bit longer. Obama is truly a national tragedy. His failure and inaction has disillusioned millions upon millions of desperate citizens who turned to him as their best chance for justice.
As further evidence of Obama’s duplicity — beyond repeatedly signing his name to documents covering up the Bush Adminstration’s highest crimes and increasing an already bloated military budget — in one of his very first moves as President he put Goldman Sachs’ criminal mastermind Tim Geitner in charge of the treasury.
A new report from the TARP Inspector General further exposes Tim Geithner’s role “in overpayments that put billions of extra tax dollars in the coffers of major Wall Street firms, most notably Goldman Sachs.”
Which brings us to the ultimate theft of wealth in history, and to the root cause of our current crisis.
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IV: Economic Coup – Theft of Trillions
URGENT NATIONAL EMERGENCY: TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN PUBLIC WEALTH HAS BEEN STOLEN
This crime makes Bernie Madoff’s look like an elementary school lunch money stickup. No, I’m not talking about the hundreds of billions in the housing crisis scam cooked up by JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs that left millions homeless and investors suckered the world over, or even the $2.75 trillion oil futures market scam that has siphoned 50% of all our spending on gas and fuel.
These huge scams are just diversions from the ultimate crime.
Trillions of dollars, trillions of our money, of our tax money — the money that comes out of your paycheck every week of your working life, all the thousands upon thousands that have been taken away from you and your family and are supposed to fund our government and keep our society functioning — have been handed over to the economic elite, to the Llyod Blankfeins and Jamie Dimons of the world.
Hank Paulson and his confidant Tim Geitner, the Goldman Sachs wonder twins, have looted the US treasury. There has been an economic coup in the United States!
Trillions of our dollars have vanished! You need to understand this!
We have just witnessed the greatest theft of wealth in history, the greatest transfer of wealth from the working class to the economic elite ever. An organized banking cartel has seized the US treasury and they are making up the “laws” and the rules to this rigged game. The covert economy has grown at a staggering rate due to taxpayer-funded injections. As a result of this, economic shackles are just beginning to fall upon the American public like never before. 99% of our nation is now sentenced to a slow death.
Just as economic hit men have done to governments throughout the globe, they have gained complete control of the US government and have now shackled US citizens as well. The economic elite do not want to deal with “spoiled Americans” anymore, that’s how they see it. To them the middle class was always an annoying nuisance to be tolerated so the economy could keep functioning well enough to allow their scams to perpetuate. But once their scam known as the US stock market came crashing down, and they were threatened with losing their ultimate power, they turned to the US middle class and opened fire. “Enough with you, we are taking over your government and stealing your tax money!”
This is exactly what happened!
The economic elite are operating under the belief that the world is theirs, they own it, and to hell with everyone else. They also take the view that as the environment grows more destructive, they don’t want us around to compete for resources.
This is self-evident after some research into policy actions that have been carried out. Research it for yourself!
Recent investigations into the illegal practices of Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan have revealed the US economy and stock market to be a fraud. As more of the world becomes aware of this, the dollar will continue to plummet and the U.S. public will pay a devastating price – things are just beginning to unravel.
The US economy has been hit by a deathblow, it lay in ruins naked and exposed to “Too Big Too Fail” thieves who have raped and pillaged, who are looting public wealth in unprecedented fashion.
The economic elite are vultures feeding off the carcass that is the US economy. The whole political structure has been gutted by corruption. Democracy was the façade that this house of cards was built on – a pyramid scheme that was built on the illusion of law and freedom.
Historians will look back at this time as a period in which corrupt despots ruled the masses with utter short-sighted greed and casted an illusion over the base population to keep the scam rolling along, until the end of the American empire, until the public driven economy came crashing down in a thunderous economic cloud of greed and corruption.
The smoke is still in our eyes, but the masses are beginning to see, to realize.
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Many middle class US citizens don’t realize all of this yet, I understand their lack of action and confusion because I have also been bred as a middle class American in the propaganda system known as the US mainstream media, but I’m writing this to let you know…
Our survival instinct has to quickly override our conditioned naiveté and passivity that has been bred into us. We are threatened as a country and a species at the same time.
We, as a nation, must overcome heavy doses of propaganda administered by the mainstream media for hours a day, every day of our existence. Shake off your conditioned naiveté and passivity. This is a brutal world we live in, and we are now at war…
The American dream state is over. It’s time to get real, time to sound the alarm.
I am of the sincere hope that we will be able to rise up as a counterweight to the economic elite. In the overall scheme of things, history has placed us in a pivotal position. We are a vital countervailing force to the economic elite and must immediately start exercising our rights of redress.
People throughout the world understand that the US middle class has to serve as a counterweight to an economic cartel that has brought humanity to a breaking point.
The economic elite also understand this, this is why they have launched a war on us.
Now that our existence is directly threatened as well, people are awaking from a propagandized existence and realizing the gravity of our crisis.
We must sound the alarm and discard our illusions.
It is time to evolve from a state of “Hope” to a state of “Action.”
We desperately need intelligent leadership, free from the shackles of the banking cartel.
We, as a nation, cannot continue to settle for the politics of corruption. We must begin by addressing the root cause of our troubles and hold accountable those directly responsible for the greatest theft of wealth in history.
We must flood the halls of Congress; we must engage our House of Representatives and begin to rein in the economic elite.
This Is A… NATIONAL EMERGENCY…
Economic justice is possible, it may be hard to believe here in the US, but a nation of law is still possible. It is possible only if YOU begin to act.
We are 99% of the population, they are only 1%.
The outcome is not assured; we must start organizing on a mass scale.
Take your plight to your representative. SOUND THE ALARM!
We must understand “the fierce urgency of now!”
David DeGraw is the founder and editor of AmpedStatus.com and director of MediaChannel.org. You can reach him at David@AmpedStatus.com.
This report was originally published on AmpedStatus.com.
Soooooo very frightening, soooooooo very true! I hope for the best, i’ll even take nonviolent action, but we need to guard against potential violent outbreaks in the US. I fear people will start shooting before they start working together in mass nonviolent actions.
You are right on the money! Scary as hell, but not beyond hope if we can bring down the plutocrats, oligarchs and corrupt government officials who feed from the same trough as the wealthy elite of this country and, indeed, the world.
Thank you for this excellent piece. I am recommending it to a whole host of friends and family around the world.
Just as the escalating environmental crisis is giving rise to money-making disaster flicks like 2012, so the biggest economic tsunami since 1929 is resulting in the appearance of apocalyptic commentaries in cyberspace like “The Critical Unraveling of US Society.”
The first section is convincing enough, putting forward devastating, if little-known, economic data. DeGraw rounds off his recital of the economic bad news with the worried observation that the demand for guns and ammunition is at a record high and that a hundred new armed militia groups were formed in the last year.
So far, so good (or bad). But the commentary then departs from cold, hard, verifiable statistics and becomes progressively more hysterical in tone.
DeGraw claims that “trillions of dollars” in public funds have been stolen by the fat cats. Many would be prepared to believe this, but a little verification would be the best persuader, and DeGraw provides none.
“The economic elite,” he hyperventilates, “are operating under the belief that the world is theirs, they own it, and to hell with everyone else. They also take the view that as the environment grows more destructive, they don’t want us around to compete for resources.
“This is self evident after some research into policy actions that have been carried out. Research it for yourself!”
One now gets the impression that this guy has not only recently seen 2012, but is basing himself on the Woody Harrelson character who beams out his message of doom and conspiracy from a home-made radio station – and who is, it’s worth pointing out, completely alone.
If DeGraw honestly thinks that the lords of finance mean to let us starve to death so that they can have Earth’s dwindling resources all to themselves once the environmental and economic crises come together in a devastating crescendo, he has no idea how economics really works. The existence of an economic elite has a fundamental prerequisite – the presence of an under-class (or –classes) to perform the basic economic task of creating wealth. Without us, they have nothing. While it might be argued that they need fewer of us during economic crises, even here we perform for them, as our very superfluity drives down wages.
That is why, I like to think, that when, towards the end of the 2012 movie, the world leaders vote to allow previously abandoned survivors aboard their huge “ark” they are, instead of being motivated by humanity, planning to breed ’em, train ’em and put ’em to work!
We must admit the possibility, of course, that the members of the economic elite DeGraw has in mind are, due to their inbred stupidity and shortsightedness, oblivious to this economic fact of life. For them, maybe, the economy is like a car, where the driver is not required to have any knowledge of how the engine works.
One assumes that the aforementioned militia groups, finding neither his pigmentation nor his (largely unearned) aura of “big government” to their taste, are mobilizing against Barrack Obama. DeGraw, on the contrary, views him as the product of a Goldman Sachs psychological operation to give Americans the “Illusion of HOPE – something to keep a suffering nation pacified just a little while longer.”
DeGraw could well be right, but this point, along with the stark figures in his first section, is nullified by the subsequent raft of unsubstantiated assertions and hysterical tone. Readers who reach the final paragraphs will, therefore, probably ignore his urging to “start organizing on a mass scale.”
Rather than inspiring resistance or opposition, unsupported prophesies of doom inspire either hilarity or despair. Verification? Research it for yourself, Mr. DeGraw!
Ken,
It appears you are on a mission to discredit very valid points here. Do you work for Goldman Sachs PR department?
You say that the article starts out with strong facts, then you say that there is no evidence of the theft of taxpayer money. Did the facts/stats that you praise in the beginning fall out of your head by the time you got to the end? THE FACTS ARE IN PLAIN SIGHT – OUR TAX MONEY WAS STOLEN.
You then try to make a comparison to some silly movie in further attempts to undermine the piece. I don’t see how this article has anything to do with your silly movie reference.
You also make some comment about the economic elite needing an underclass, which is correct, but in the global economy they certainly don’t want a US middle class anymore.
You seem to be interested in hard facts, but you ignore them in an attempt to discredit what is being said in this post.
I’ve seen people like you creep up in comments all over the web trying to discredit important information.
I hope Goldman Sachs is paying you well!
Thank God somebody is telling the truth out there.
These malevolent parasites who ARE on a genocidal and ethnic cleansing quest of gargantuan proportions, are the scumbags that fleeced America. They’re also the ones behind the “war on drugs” (their own little trillion dollar black market for financing all kinds of bloody goodies), the “war on terror” boogie man bullshit (everybody in the world knows why the Arabs hate us), the assassination of JFK for not giving them their air cover when they attempted to recover their mafiosi-CIA heroin base at the Bay of Pigs, the framing of Nixon for daring to impose the Price and Pay Commissions to control inflation upon their “free market” (more like raw Darwinism), the constant and with malice aforethought undermining of democracy in order to usher in this dark age where they can get away with anything.
Oh, and here’s the evidence of their genocidal bent:
Population Task Force
Among Bush’s most important contributions to the neo-Malthusian cause while
in Congress was his role in the Republican Task Force on Earth Resources
and Population. The task force, which Bush helped found and then chaired,
churned out a steady stream of propaganda claiming that the world was
already seriously overpopulated; that there was a fixed limit to natural
resources and that this limit was rapidly being reached; and that the
environment and natural species were being sacrificed to human progress.
Bush’s task force sought to accredit the idea that the human race was being
“down bred,” or reduced in genetic qualities by the population growth among
blacks and other non-white and hence allegedly inferior races at a time
when the Anglo-Saxons were hardly able to prevent their numbers from
shrinking.
Comprised of over 20 Republican Congressmen, Bush’s Task Force was a kind
of Malthusian vanguard organization which heard testimony from assorted
“race scientists,” sponsored legislation and otherwise propagandized the
zero-growth outlook. In its 50-odd hearings during these years, the task
force provided a public forum to nearly every well-known zero-growth
fanatic, from Paul Ehrlich, founder of Zero Population Growth (ZPG), to
race scientist William Shockley, to the key zero-growth advocates infesting
the federal bureaucracy.
Giving a prestigious congressional platform to a discredited racist
charlatan like William Shockley in the year after the assassination of Dr.
Martin Luther King, points up the arrogance of Bush’s commitment to
eugenics. Shockley, like his co-thinker Arthur Jensen, had caused a furor
during the 1960s by advancing his thesis, already repeatedly disproven,
that blacks were genetically inferior to whites in cognitive faculties and
intelligence. In the same year in which Bush invited him to appear before
the GOP task force, Shockley had written: “Our nobly intended welfare
programs may be encouraging dysgenics — retrogressive evolution through
disproportionate reproduction of the genetically disadvantaged…. We fear
that ‘fatuous beliefs’ in the power of welfare money, unaided by eugenic
foresight, may contribute to a decline of human quality for all segments of
society.”
Here’s the results of that Nazi’s (pun intended;consider his family’s history) hate filled rhetoric:
http://www.leap.cc/cms/index.php?name=Web_Links&l_op=visit&lid=152
Listen to ex-US MArshall Fogg detail how the “drug abuse issue” always had racial intent and with overtime:
http://www.leap.cc/cms/index.php?name=Web_Links&l_op=visit&lid=144
Do you see why the guillotine was invented?
Will,
So now even I am a part of the conspiracy? Come off it!
My whole point is that DeGraw sabotages his whole argument by becoming hysterical and throwing out unsubstantiated assertions. Those who are alarmed by the stats in the first part of his piece and subscribe to his later call for people to organize need allies. You won’t get them by insulting those who merely criticize a flawed presentation of the case.
A minor point: why do so many Americans use the term “middle class” when what they really mean is “working class?”
Thank you for a very informative commentary. Although I can’t say that I’m surprised in the least that things have evolved to this point. It was in fact, expected. Some foresaw this coming back in the 90s with the repeal of Glass-Stegall, and the creation of laws allowing for the sale of fake wealth in the form of derivatives.
Historically, there has never been any civilization that has analyzed it’s society’s faults in an objective and purposeful manner. And then applied the lessons learned by undertaking the necessary and correcting remedies to overcome its current and future problems in a proactive manner. It is human nature for the masses to allow itself to be led to the brink of the precipice and once it has fallen over (or maybe been pushed), then they will follow the waves of the madding crowd wherever they lead. To start the same process anew and hopefully maybe learning a little something from the experience. But one cannot count upon even this.
We still take baby steps in our thinking and in the deliberation of our actions because the majority of the world’s population is still convinced that a hero or a messiah will appear — and will come here specifically for the purpose of sorting out all these complex issues for us. Saving us from having to make the tough decisions they don’t believe themselves nor anyone else capable of fully understanding. Which is why our saviors are always all-powerful kings so we HAVE to listen to and do what they say. Their judgments are always final. So we do nothing. And we wait. Which is how we got here to begin with — doing nothing. And even the truth (as reflected in what you’ve written above with the facts, figures and graphs) will not change this.
This seems to be “our way.” When viewed historically, we can see this in the way that the various empires and civilizations have risen and then fallen. And it is apparently the only way that our species can evolve given the overall level of intelligence upon the planet, en masse. But all these past empires and civilizations have failed, as they should fail, because they were all first perpetrated based upon LIES. Lies which require a steady continuing flow of more lies to prop up the first ones. And as we should all know by now, nothing will last if its foundation isn’t based in truth. And I’m not talking about any savior’s truth, but the real facts of life as we’ve learned them it up until now.
So until we’re prepared to face the truth, we haven’t a chance…..
Extreme weather events might have something to do with Chem Trails (all those streaks, grids & giant Xs in the sky) along with H.A.A.R.P. (High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program).
The California fires of last year were “Unheard” of according to the Mainstream Falsimedia. True, we get fires in S. CA and in the mountains, but not over the entirety of the CA hill ranges, the mountains (Cascades & Sierras) and S. CA at the same time….Depending on the wind direction and time of year, storms will usually move from W to E or NW to E and occasionally come in from the S and drift N.
This “unheard” of fire storm of last year undoubtely was also helped along with arson as well.
But what’s strange about this, is the “Green,” “Environmental”, Al Gore people will never discuss this. As for the Chem Trails, usually on any given day, those very high-flying white planes will be seen spewing out usually 4 plumes of white substance and anybody can look up and see them.
Yes, for the life of me, I don’t understand why Glass-Steagall is not reinstated.
Our money was stolen. Also, the elite don’t want share resources.
Does anybody know about the GEORGIA GUIDESTONES in Elberton, Georgia, U.S.A.? That says humanity must be maintained at 500 million (I forgot the exact amount), but there’s a few billion people on the planet. Hmm.
I also think this massive ripoff was used as a move to start globalizing the monetary system and other countries are very unhappy with holding near-worthless dollars. So, don’t trade in any gold jewelry for cash if our dollar will be worthless and only good for the fireplace. If somebody doesn’t think it can happen to us, it can happen to us. It happened in a few countries like Zimbabwe and the Weimer Republic in Germany and Argentina, etc.
I have to laugh. This author doesn’t realize that no climate agreements are a blessing. The global elite want to accelerate the demise of our nation with insane limits to technological growth and global taxes. The earth’s weather has always changed and always will. The earth is currently cooling…NOT WARMING! It’s a cycle we don’t affect and can’t control. Furthermore, Millions of us knew Obama was a fraud before the election. We knew he was groomed for the presidency by the global elite in order to fool Americans into believing real change was imminent. It’s amazing how many Americans still haven’t figured this out. It’s so depressing to realize just how brain dead so many of my fellow citizens are.
Overpopulation? Hmm, Paul Erlich of 0 Population Growth didn’t seem to care at all about Kennedy and his runaway immigration or the high rates of these immigrations. He also ignored the illegal aliens with their birth rates to outpopulate the existing U.S. citizenry to reclaim lost Mexican Territory aka Aztlan.
Also, while overpopulation might be in an issues in some places, I would really beware of this “Overpopulation”, especially when this overpopulation is driven by businesspeople like Bill Gates and others insisting on flooding the U.S. with more people to displace us and drive down working wages.
And of course when mentioning Overpopulation and Sustainabiliity, please look to AGENDA 21, the Club of Rome and the Rockefellers.
This is nothing short of the loss of sovereignty for USA
They purposefully sacked the economy So as to bring in the North American Union. If any doubt this look what is happening around the world and in America.
there has been a steady Barrage on the constitution the last few years.
In 3 years time another 35- 50 million Americans will be unemployed
and some Americans will be starving to death.
Now we are going to see if American’s who claim to stand for freedom, will pick up a weapon and stand up to the criminals who have taken control of their government. The major problems in America cannot be solved at the ballot box. They must be solved by executing the traitors who have seized controo of the country. You American’s thought you had the moral right to bomb people in far away lands for reasons you were too lazy to find out the truth about, so now you will get a dose of your own medicine. Good luck to you war-mongers!
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i agree with everything you said, except global warming.
this environmental system is huge, it goes thru cycles, that range from hours to millions of years. i think its prideful to believe we could have such an impact on so vast of a system.
we the people are probably making a negligible impact. it is the corporations only who can possibly cause an effect, how ever small when compared to the vastness of our biosphere.
My life unraveled shortly after 9/11, I took it upon myself to try to figure out the reason.
After 2 years of searching and studying,I have come to the realization that it was no fault of mine,but don’t try to tell these people out here this.1% of the population may possess 99% of the wealth,but nearly all of the 99% of these people think that if you keep your nose to the grindstone,everything will work out.
They live in la-la land,they will die in la-la land,they worship that which is consuming their very life force,those who consider them to be expendable,disposable….
It will be a dark time when more wake up to the truth,I fear the time it comes to a boiling point,these petty,jealous,ignorant people with guns are almost certainly going to point them in the wrong direction when the time comes.
Violence is how governments deal with conflict,they are not accountable for their actions because they are a legal fiction,a story,a myth,propaganda…
Violence is not the answer,but good luck trying to convince these people there are better ways to force change,they don’t know how to deal with things in any other way.
It’s gonna be a wild ride indeed !.
IMHO,nothing has been stolen aside from the masses ability to think clearly.
Like if you need to eat,you need real food….
But all that is on the dinner table are pictures of food,you can’t eat paper,or gold,or silver…you need food.
That’s what has happened,a giant FAKE economy has been created out of thin air.
The writer is concerned about the fact that “this past year there have been over 100 armed militia groups that have formed”…
Well maybe my history lesson was from the wrong source,but it will be these very militia members(and I don’t mean skinheads with rifles) that create the defense againt a seriously desperate federal government that will naturally resort to any and all clampdowns that it can to survive.
So anyone who believes that the federal government is concerned for your welfare,they are not!,they are only concerened for their survival.
As an example,FEMA isn’t for the “safety of the populace”,it’s for the continuity of government.
Let that sink in
I know this well since I was a crew chief/mechanic on the presidential helicopters in the mid eighties and we used to frequent the alphabet sites all over the northeast.
An armed man is a citizen,a disarmed man is a subject of the state.
Insights from David Icke
In five parts…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xs0bODlPRbw
Over half of the population has been affected neurologically and structurally by fluoridated water. If you repeatedly absorb sodium flourides, bye bye brain.
the article started rather well with the big banker gov bail-outs and then went to total crap in short time. The earth is not warming…it’s cooling. There have been less natural disasters in the last 30 years than over the last 100 years prior. Global Warming is euthenics under another name. research that!! Also, Obama isn’t a symbol but rather a distraction. He’s Hollywood President and the vote was not record numbers. Obama is there to draw your attention away from other issues.
You also screwed up the gun and ammo facts. There is an increase in applications for concealed weapons permit and some ammo shortages but that also happened under Clinton. Whenever a politician start talking “gun control” the public goes out and buys more ammo and guns.
Contrary to claims in the media people are buying weapons not because of a depression, not becuase of terrorist and not becuase they fear losing their jobs. people are “stocking up” becuase they fear Obama will make it difficult to purchase ammo and guns later. They fear exorbitant fees and permits for bullets. That is why guns sales are up. Under Bush there was no fear of rising fees and prices or even bans. I know of 2 gun shops operational during Clinton that went belly up under Bush.
BTW…having an armed population has been proven to reduce crime rates, violence and riots. It’s just the opposite of what you claim. There is no “powder keg.” The guns actually prevent violence. Look at the sky rocketing crime rate in nations after guns are banned. BTW…gun control advocates like the screw their numbers and include people up to 25 years old as kids. It’s junk food science again.
You totally fail to even touch the real issues in the article. As to who was behind the bail-outs, why, how and the connections to outside influence to foreign agencies. Nor have you looked at the coming gold scam, salted gold bars and the implications of what became of the WTC gold after it disappeared.
Sorry, but we are not heading towards a 3rd world country and this article is nothing but fear mongering.
Ken, you’re not part of the conspiracy. Just a long-winded ass picking pepper out of the fly shit.
Well this is what happens when you allow the jews to take over as they did with the Bush silver spoon piece that crybaby basketcase daddy rigged into office with his zeocons to get the 911 setup going in order to take out all the enemies of Israel.
Obama the mutt messiah was just the effect of Bush the baptist screwup who caused it all with his pharisee mortgage banker derivative rig allowing 30 million mexicans across the border the build the millions of homes foreclosed on costing 3 quadrillion in toxic assets housing bubble with trillions in other costs for the wars or medical care etc or sending millions of jobs to Asia.
The GOP is truly the party of the original Marxist Lincoln who both buch and Bama worship as their god for obvious reasons and of coruse the DNC is automatically in the zeocon corner since 1964 and the Goldwater revolution that gave both parties to the zeo bosses.
You didn’t say anything about the displacement of culture brought about by all these illeagal and legal immigrants–especially those from Israevil.
Rachel, you are so wrong about the guns honey. The shelves are empty, and Arnold the Republican signed a bill that I cannot buy handgun ammo online. Which is the only place to find it now. In the past it was gun enthusiasts who bought the guns, this time it is everyone.
America is over. Didn’t you see the matrix? Our war on terrror only put the inevitable off until now. Also, We are way too divided as a populace to come together. Too many different values out there in competition, thanks ADL (fuckers).
We are waking up out of dream, and it has to be this way. As a nation we must pay for the sins of our founding fathers, a bunch of elite freemason faggot slave owning freemen. There is the crux. Our founding fathrs were a bunch of terrorist assholes. All things must pass. invest in lead, and stock up on food,
Yeah Obama couldn’t get trillions of (mostly middle class taxpayer) dollars into the rich bankers hands, but I haven’t seen that he built even 1 (one) factory to employ American citizens. He didn’t bring the troops (“you can take that to the bank”) home either. How cool would it be to build factories that employed American citizens to build wind generators, solar cells, wave generators, geothermal plants, and blanket this country with them, and export them. How many birds would that one stone kill? I despise Obama for not stepping up, for catering to the rich, I despise the Congressional Dem’s for getting elected to end the wars and help the middle class… and doing nothing of the sort.
THIS JUST IN……..The elite are all going to go to Antartica while they release plagues and bombs on all the other continents.
For anybody who has NOT watched, “Fall of The Republic: The Presidencey of Barack H. Obama” for FREE on youtube.com, please do so asap. Tell all of your friends, family, neighbors to watch it too!
Raise the black flag. It’s every man for himself.
The only thing not said and can be said is: This so called “Theft” is a jewish conspiracy. Look no further than the evil rag traders and pawnbrokers that live in the house of Rothschilds and finance Goldmans, JPM and all the rest.
Together with the Clinton/Bush/Bush/obama puppet kosher governments that read like a tel aviv phone book, It would not surprise me if the kosher Nostra, had a giant vault full of gold in israHELL somewhere near Dimona nuke site..
No wonder they want to hit the Iranians (along with the oil grab) and I hope the Iranians not only finish their nuclear programme, but that it is for one purpose only and namely to turn a crappy criminal state into a green-glass parking lot.
We were warned about this circa 1930s in Germany and here it is!!
Another doom and gloom article from leftest educated idiot.
We ‘the people’ fund the banks, the goverment, the aggression abroad, the military black ops and the companies that send your jobs and money overseas.
You elected your President and your congress, your lawers and even your employer when you filled out your ‘job application’.
You chose to have a home loan, a car loan, credit cards, and god only knows what other forms of debt, you’ve aquired to enslave yourself with.
You choose every aspect of where you are, and you whine about it.
Unfortunatly, for all of us, your getting what you deserve.
see http://www.WebOfDebt.com for solutions
Shut up Fuller, crawl back into your hole
Fear-mongering.
Shameless and Aggressive Fear-Mongering.
The Climate Change section was the dead give away.
I love how they try to posture themselves as an alternative to the MSM.
Of course we have problems relating to the issues touched on here.
But as usual they are viewed through an enormous magnifying glass logded firmly within the viewing equipment used by these fear-mongerers, and the broadcast in megaphone fashion for the easily frieghtened and the “hard of hearing.”
Reading this reminded me of those ghost stories we used to tell each other as children. The only difference is we did a better job of scaring and entertaining each other. But both have one thing in common, they are mostly fictional.
NOTHING will stop the decline of the united states or its people. HELL is on its way to us. america will fall. the worst hasnt even started and look how bad it is already. look on the back of your one dollar bill. ‘NEW WORLD ORDER’ (written in latin) is here. the EU will rise as the new super power. prepare for total chaos in the streets of the US.the only way out, the only hope ANYONE has is the trust. the hope and the faith in jesus. NO? then prepare for the hell that is coming. they want a world without GOD, their getting it. when you take GOD out of the picture, who or what replaces it? believe what i say because watch what happens.
What a bunch of television junkies. The common denominator here is that you all are addicted to a piece of furniture that is intentionally giving you all a bad trip. What would there be to fear if you didn’t inject a head full of hysteria and bullshit every free second of your lives.
Oprah, Morning shows, alleged news, commerical breaks, commercials, news bulletins, sitcoms, you tube, computers, etc ………..
Now everyone walks around in a state of contrivance, performing for the invisible cameras the very things they learn to fear from the media.
Get off the junk man and spend your time with your family and community.
What some of the commentors here do not understand is that the elite have more than enough underclass to serve them. A reduction in population may be called for in their game plan. This reduction though the current social decline will leave behind those who can serve them best, the educated middle class, while getting rid of the superflous mouths to feed that deplete resouces and take up space. Thats what I think the game plan is.
Meanwhile, you have America’s church leaders , especially the prophets of profit, telling followers that they must invest more in bank accounts then in the soul. Because if the christian community is broke, so will be TVs evangelical salesman
I have to admit, its gonna be sweet watching America fall on its fat stupid ass.
All those lies, all the proof that Dick Cheney & friends 9/11, the legal torture controversy, demand for drugs and porn and smut mdeia, and you maggot shits still smile like the day is gonna be brighter tomorrow.
Curse you to hell, where you and your BS liberty illuminati belong, idots.
There is no doubt that the US is falling apart. It was deliberately destroyed by a cabal of multigenerational wealth and power addicts. This group now owns 90 percent of the world’s wealth in mineral resources, oil, gold, currency and assets like buildings, infrastructure etc. This same group is also trying to use their vast control over the media to drive us over a cliff like lemmings with their constant drumbeats of catastrophe and death.
Now, with respect to global-warming and other myths. Regretfully, I believed these things at first, but then I did some reading and thinking. I found out that the vast majority of people IN THE WORLD aren’t actually polluting. They exist on $1.25 to $3.00 a day and don’t own electrical appliances (coal C02 pollution) or cars (hydrocarbon and volatile organics pollution). They don’t own a lot of clothes so they cannot be blamed with the polluting ships carrying freight from China. Cutting the populations of these people and. now the poverty-stricken in the US, won’t cut the primary source of pollution worldwide. The primary source of pollution worldwide is from rich people’s boats, multiple cars, jet planes and electricity consumption. Those are the branches that need pruning.
Don’t believe me? Read the articles in the New Scientist of September 25, 2009 on population and pollution. Google the Princeton report on global warming, wealth etc.
It is important to say at this juncture that these same uber-wealthy parasites are the same people who kept non-polluting technology off of the market. They are the ones who created wars to take advantage of the new gasoline-fired warships created for WWI and II. They are the same ones who pushed for the test use of nuclear weapons AFTER JAPAN has surrendered. They are the ones who STILL OWN MOST OF THE OIL IN THE WORLD. This same group has carefully corrupted our Congress to assure that they can do the same things to America that they did to most of the countries in the world.
Now they want to kill us all off to stop “global warming” and reduce resource usage. The files that were stolen from a certain group in London prove something that I already found out a number of years ago. HERE ARE THE TRUTHS BEING KEPT FROM PEOPLE EVERYWHERE:
1. Every 25,600 years, the earth’s travel across the galaxy puts it in a very unique position in which a lot of gravitational and other forces are placed upon it. Some say that the earth is travelling between the Sun and its long-lost twin a dark dead star (with all the pull of a black hole); some say that the earth is between the Sun and the black hole at the center of the galaxy.
Since nobody has printed the entire truth, I have no idea which of the two scenarios above is actually occurring..but I have been able to find out what will happen as a consequence. During the first part of the journey, the magnetosphere begins to thin as it is squeezed by the vast forces acting upon the earth. As the magnetosphere thins (it is not dissipating–just changing shape), the earth loses its ability to REPELL in-bound cosmic energy, coronal mass ejections from the Sun and asteroids or other bodies from space.
The in-bound solar rays, cosmic radiation and, when and if they occur, coronal mass ejections INCREASE the heat of the planet, affect electrical devices and melt the ice caps and glaciers. These same forces also affect the MAGNETIC CORE OF THE EARTH to the point that its speed changes. The rotation of the magnetic core is what keeps the earth rotating, creates the magnetic field (the magnetosphere) and determines where the North and South poles are.
Sometimes the impact on the core is so extreme that it causes a geological flipping of the earth. This means that the earth sort of rolls over physically. IT was probably one such event that tore the various land masses apart and set them floating in different directions on the globe. This kind of event is called a “crustal shift.” It is entirely possible and has happened before.
There is also something called a magnetic pole shift and that is where the magnetic locations of north and soft change. This affects compasses ability to point accurately, bird’s abilities to steer correctly and other aspects of life on the earth. Magnetic pole shifts, detectable by the direction of magnetic fields in magnetic rocks, have happened many times in the past.
2. Setting aside the issues of magnetic and crustal shifts and returning to global warming again, the hottest years in recent memory ended in 1994 according to climatologists. Generally, these super hot periods (which are natural and not manmade although man can aggravate them a bit), precede ICE AGES. That is what is coming–an ICE AGE.
3. Now, because the powers that be can’t predict when an Ice Age might occur or how long it will last, they wanted to have all the fuel possible stockpiled, as much food as possible stockpiled and safe places to ride out the entire event. They suspect that the more comfortable places to live will be in places that have traditionally been very hot like Africa, the Middle East, Texas, Arizona, New Mexico and so forth. However, they also know that many of these dramatic changes have also been preceded by rapid ocean water levels rising…so many are looking at higher altitudes to hide out…like Denver (what do you think that the airport is all about? It shows the death of the rightful owners of the US–native Americans and the conquering of the world by Nazis–the same Nazis running things behind the scenes)
3. Now, there are lots of books on DUMBs. These are Deep Undergound Military Bases and were built with taxpayer money and the proceeds of illegal drug and arm sales among other things. There is not enough money for everybody to be accomodated in these bases–so the elite have been keeping these things secret. They want everybody else to be sick or locked in camps while they escape. Their stupid military stooges are going to be left to die along with the rest of us because they aren’t going to be told the truth about the possible CMEs and Ice Age coming.
4. This is the big one. There is a good possibility that the Sun, right before going into an extended hybernation with little activity, will release a grid-busting coronal mass ejection or that the planet will be hit by a “Galactic Superwave,” see Dr. Paul La Violette’s writing. Either event will fry all the electrical-generating facilities that aren’t UNDERGROUND about 6 feet or deeper. Yes, fry, as in the parts will melt together and not work. The same thing might happen to cars, trucks and other vehicles with electric starters.
5. A massive CME or a a galactic superwave will also cause the death of humans and animals with red blood cells within two to three weeks of exposure. Anyone sitting out in a detention camp or guarding one will die a horrible death much like the ones shown in The Day After about nuclear war. Trees, plants etc. won’t die just the living beings that are not shielded.
6. There are more events that have been rumored to be occurring. These events will make the massive deception by the “elites” of this world, but especially the United States, so evident to so many people that there is a real chance that the anger of these groups will pose a danger to the elite. This is another reason that they are looking to hide.
This information has been ferreted out from scientific papers, historical accounts and military bid documents etc.. It took many years to compile. I still am not completely sure about all the details, but I am sure that the Ice Age is coming (try hanging garments on the line and timing them to find out how long it takes them to dry—this is an indirect but very accurate measure of the radiant heat from the sun. I can tell you that in Texas, it has increased from 20 to 30 minutes for a towel to 2 hours.
The flipping is anticipated, but nobody knows when that might occur. The same thing holds true for CMEs and superwaves. The only thing that I know for sure is that these things were expected in 2003/4 and that was why Bush was in office so that he could clamp down on us to permit them to leave. While he was in office, they all figured out that we would all be dead, so why not steal everything? When the catastrophes did not occur as expected, then they all began to believe that these things would occur closer to 2012 as the Native Americans had predicted.
The questions that you have to ask yourselves are simple at this point. Do you want your family and yourself to be outside during an Ice Age or natural disaster? Do you want these monsters to get away with not telling?
If you don’t, then begin to band together with others of like mind. Prepare. Demand change. Make friends with the local police and sheriffs. They will be unemployed pretty soon, too. I don’t have many other suggestions right now, except that there are millions of us for every one of them. All we have to do is band together and say, “No.”
MK
WHERE IS THE RAGE?
Americans should be rioting in the streets and there is nothing, NOTHING.
Where is the rage?
I would like to send a comment to the wonderful “Hello from Hello from the 1%”
This is not a “doom and gloom article” as you so eloquently put it. This is someone doing their research and actually speaking out which many people are NOT doing today and are NOT outraged enough at what is happening. They would rather live in their holes and ignore what is going on in the world around them, Their world and YOUR world. First of all, we didn’t elect our President, numerous people DID NOT vote for Obama and knew what was happening before he was in office. Even though we have the right to vote we have the electoral process which shouldn’t exist if this is a government by and for the people. Everyone has to survive and live somewhere, so yes people have home loans, or car loans to get to their jobs. There are things we choose because we have to to survive! We don’t enslave ourselves, there are certain things we try to change by speaking out but no one listens, we don’t hold the money or the power. We are not “getting what we deserve” and I am sorry to hear another human being say these things about another fellow human being sharing the same earth and its oxygen. I am sorry that you feel this way but you might need to look deeper into what is really going on with peoples lives and the situations at hand that you seem to know nothing about.
looks like you soldiers can deal with the riff raff still at their disinformation misinformation sabotage tactics
excellent article and not hysterical at all
but then who could be witnessing what is surely happening in this country and not get amped up? the sheep
godspeed
give me liberty
VIGILANTI JUSTICE…. if Goldie can bring the mighty UNITED STATES of AMERICA to it’s knees… Why can’t the people try GOLDIE for TREASON against the PEOPLE of USA?
you say there are so many guns out there and people armed to their teeth… Then why have I not read headlines regarding SWIFT VIGILANTI justice delivered to these goons who have brought the mighy USA to it’s knees?
What a bunch of crap! I honestly couldn’t read much past the first few paragraphs. Who gave Chicken Little the microphone? The sky is falling, the sky is falling… get a grip!
People become wealthy by doing smart things: saving more than they spend, investing in growing enterprises, working hard, and having stable families that help each other… This has been true for eons, and remains true today.
Here’s a news flash: many of the so-called ‘wealthy elite’ are rich because they deserve to be. And many of the poor are poor for the same reason. There are hard breaks in life, and life isn’t always fair, but blaming others for your circumstances will never correct the mistakes that you have made.
Buying things you can’t afford on credit and blaming ‘evil’ store owners for selling you something you now have to pay for at 25% interest is more of a psychological problem than a financial one.
Wealth is created through industry and economy – hard work and thrift. These are the American Ideals which built this Great Country, not the Marxist zero-sum-game. There is not a finite amount of wealth in the world that some have and some don’t. The amount of wealth in the world is based on how hard and how smart everyone works.
For example, let’s say two people are marooned on a desert island, an engineer and a politician. The engineer designs and builds shelter, a pond to raise fish, clears and burns a field for agriculture – in short, he creates a livable society to benefit the inhabitants of the island.
The politician on the other hand, complains about the quality of the hut, the location of the pond and meager vegetables that come from the garden. He insists that the engineer work harder to make better accommodations. The politician even has the gall to take most of the fish, most of the vegetables and insists on the best room in the hut, because he ‘deserves it.’
A just civil society will protect the rights of the engineer for the wealth he has created against the intrusions of the politician. Property rights are synonymous with freedom. To the politician the engineer is his minion, his slave to do his bidding. To the engineer, the politician is a parasite, eating what he hasn’t produced and doesn’t deserve.
When the politicians can steal blindly from the engineers without the courts to enforce their just property rights, that is when there will be a “Critical Unraveling of U.S. Society.”
The whiners and complainers need to start earning their daily bread. If you don’t have a job – do something! Re-train in a growing industry, go back to school, find someway to add value to your own life and those around you. Quit complaining and start living!
Now is the time for the emergence of a liberal populist who will whip the people into a frenzy of hate leading to the extermination of the rich capitalists and their cheerleaders, the conservatives and republicans.
That would cure so many of the world’s problems.
i agree with the guy who said that he starts out really well, then just flubs the rest.
i mean, global warming? *practically dies on the floor laughing*
how about the coming agricultural crisis? think that pbs documentary on the dustbowl was about the bad ol’days of the past? think again…
how about the rapid depletion of underground aquifers? coupled with fullscale efforts worldwide to privatize the public water systems. his expose’ on the coming water shortage barely scratches the surface.
toxic agricultural runoff? or, what to do with cow poo?
overpopulation? and i don’t mean those brown people!
mercury in most of the waterways? nutritionists say “if you caught it, don’t eat it!”
declining seafood stocks worldwide (see above?)?
that our best energy option might actually be to ‘go nuclear’?
i could probably go on, but i need to run out and buy that air conditioner as Home Bleepot is sure to run out when that climate change hits.
dimond, paulson, blankfien would all be pulling time in marion if i was running things
Maybe it’s more than mere coincidence that the pieces of a dark puzzle appear to be falling into place toward some sort of dramatic climax around 2012. To now, mankind’s behaviour remains extremely selfish; especially those in the 1% elite group who could do so very much to change the status quo.
But we must take heart and remain hopeful. Whether we realize it or not we are all part of one eternal Great Being. Our lives will continue on in one form or another regardless of what now may be our fate during this uncertain time. Be not fearful, even of death, for it is merely a passage to yet another life. Live nobly and peacefully, being helpful when you can. All things are as they should be. Namaste.
You left out the problem of over immigration and illegal immigration which has taken jobs from Americans and has helped to balkanize our culture. The tried and true method of divide and conquer comes to mind. we need to stop immigration until employment drops under 5% and enforce illegal immigration laws to get Americans those jobs.
Ken Fuller says: “…DeGraw claims that “trillions of dollars” in public funds have been stolen…hysterical…he hyperventilates…unsubstantiated assertions…hysterical…”
Perhaps Mr. Fuller missed the latest tally:
http://www.google.com/webhp?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&btnG=Search#hl=en&source=hp&fkt=2663&fsdt=9320&q=barofsky+23+trillion&aq=f&aqi=g-m1&oq=&fp=6b22d27f49a5e7dd
Keep in mind this money is to make private stockholders whole on losses they incurred loaning mortgage money that was largely not underwritten. I’d say that’s pretty close to outright theft, but the next example certainly hits the mark:
Russ Wetherill says: “…bunch of crap!..Chicken Little…People become wealthy by…saving…investing…working hard…many…rich…deserve to be…There is not a finite amount of wealth in the world…For example, let’s say…”
NO, Sir; let’s not continue down a hypothetical. Besides the whopper just asserted about “infinite” wealth, the enormous REAL LIFE example of Fraudulent Conveyance of Liar-Loan pools as AAA securities is what created this debacle.
It wasn’t shifty, lazy, jealous slackers, but rather CRIMINALS who committed Control Fraud on a biblical scale.
http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=william+k.+black&hl=en&emb=0&aq=f#q=william+k.+black&hl=en&emb=0&aq=f&qvid=william+k.+black&vid=5133360305125831798
On further thought, maybe it was pretty hard work to capture all those Congressmen and the Executive. MILLIONS of mortgage fraud felons stroll the streets; not a cop in sight.
To attempt to assert this disaster happened because of “whiners and complainers” was certainly a good guffaw. One or two might have even bought that line. I will embrace one piece of advice though:
“…Re-train in a growing industry, go back to school, find someway to add value…”
If I publish a much slicker compendium of apologia than these two, would anybody hire me to do so?
Lord knows I’d sell my grandma for a nickel.