"Resentment Toward Government" Makes You a Suspect

Following up on "It's 1984 in Amerika" theme, we've just found out about "a symposium in held Hamburg, New York, that was attended by federal agencies, police departments and others and where a system that trawls phone conversations, emails and instant messages to detect 'resentment toward government' was demonstrated." The total surveillance state is going deeper into Orwell's "face crime" mode by profiling us. This symposium is not about foreign terrorists, but about irate Americans. Still think Homeland Security is not for us?

With fewer than 25% of Americans approving of government, that makes most of us suspect. By definition, all supporters of the US Constitution and the "tea party movement" qualify to be on the list of possible domestic terrorists. Of course, this runs contrary to America's roots where our Founders resented the English Crown and drew us a Constitution whose purpose was to severely limit the reach and cost of government. Using the same old bogus "war on terror" rationale, the 4th Amendment continues to be trashed as Americans become further enslaved.

Now the Feds are proposing new regulations to keep track of all personal monetary transfers across our borders. Generously, they only want to know about those above $1,000 for businesses! What business it of theirs? Oh, I forgot. Fighting that old bogeyman "terrorism." And "drug dealers" (in competition with the CIA). How long will Americans put up with this bull***t?

And did you know "Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) agents can seize and copy the contents of any electronic device you carry across a U.S. border. That includes your laptop, your cell phone, your USB flash drives, your digital camera, etc. Agents don't need probable cause or even reasonable suspicion to conduct a search of your electronic data – just "gimme." They can copy the data for investigative purposes and then use that information against you in a subsequent criminal case." To see how you can protect yourself from these un-American searches and seizures, read the whole article.
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Rahm "Rhambo" Emmanuel has resigned as Obama's chief of staff in his bid to become the king of Chicago as Mayor Daley is stepping down next year. He's being replaced by a low key 64-year old "cat-loving bachelor," Pete Rouse. He is a "fixer" who is "single and famously fond of the Maine Coon cats." Not much change here, in a way.

Obama's press conference for the transition was interesting. First, note the long ovation given by the lapdog MindControlMedia at the beginning. Disgusting! Then he credits ALL his administration's accomplishments (sic!) to Rahmbo. Then he gives him credit for helping avert a Second Great Depression (delusional). Later, Rhambo gives Obama credit for "putting America back on track" (to Third World status) and "restoring our national standing in the world." (Yes, they love Imperial Amerika spewing tons of depleted  uranium to contaminate the planet's earth, wind and water while the the Depleted Dollar (FedNotes) contaminates the world economy.)

After he compliments Obama for being a great leader, the lapdog MCM gives O another ovation! So much for having an "objective" press corps(e), much less an adversarial one. Rhambo finishes up by telling how he and Obama are both "products of the American dream," but fails to mention that they used Obama's CIA roots and Emanuel's Wall Street-Zionist and political connections to take advantage of golden rings not available to the average laborer or entrepreneur.
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On cue for the final harrah of the depletion of America's wealth as the derivatives bomb implodes the economy, Gorden Gekko makes his return to the box office to do it to the little guys one more time in "Wall Street." The first movie came out in 1987, just in time for what was then a large crash. That was a bookend for the the current micro boom-bust in this cycle that began with the start of the fiat money inflation with the founding of the Federal Reserve in 1914. (Yes, I know, it is not "federal" and there are no "reserves.") This is a little like the skyscrapers built at the end of a boom that struggle for many years go make it through the depression. They're both ironic ends to an era of excess. Say, have you seen that 50 story skyscraper being built in downtown Oklahoma City?
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Patrick Buchanan has an outstanding essay on the coming conflict between the Tea Party and the War Party. Since the Tea Party movement is really an outgrowth of what began as the Ron Paul Revolution (only to be hijacked and sidetracked by establishment Republicans), this will really turn out to be a conflict between those wanting to slash government spending by terminating Amerika's 60-year attempt at empire, and the NeoCons who want it to continue. Let's hope the people have enough sense to choose Liberty over Empire. You can't have both.

It is time for Conservatives who say they revere the Constitution and "original intent," to put their money where their mouth is and vote to terminate the empire. The Founders intended a Constitutional Republic, not an empire. We can't afford it! We're broke. Our nation is a walking zombie. Like that fictional man who had his heart cut out while he was still alive, and didn't realize it yet.

Pat asks: "After Iraq and Afghanistan, the American people are not going to give the establishment and War Party a free hand in foreign policy. Every patriot will do what is necessary and pay what is needed to defend his country. But national security is one thing, empire security another.

Why should Americans, 65 years after World War II, be defending rich Europeans from a Soviet Union that has been dead for 20 years, so those same Europeans can cut their defense budgets to protect their social safety nets? Almost $14 trillion in debt today, we borrow from Europe to defend Europe, borrow from Japan to defend Japan, borrow from the Gulf Arabs to defend the Gulf Arabs. And we borrow from Beijing to send foreign aid to African regimes . . .National security, yes. Empire security we can no longer afford."
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Even if you ignore the safety presentations by the flight attendants when you fly, I'll bet you'd watch this one!  Heck, just a younger age group like these might get more men watching!!
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Are you hearing the chatter around about UFO's making nuclear weapons inoperable; or about an imminent "disclosure" of alien contact; or a long-predicted event by Werner von Braun to use a fake alien invasion as an event to facilitate joining together a One World Government? Yep, I see lots of references around the alternative media about all these and much more. Real aliens and hi-tech space travel with matching gadgetry with benign/malevolent intentions; or disinformation campaigns to hide advanced Nazi-initiated technology and intentions, or just the latest versions of the stuff coming out of Area 51? (After all, we didn't close down all that top secret R&D after the B-2 rolled out.) Wish I knew.

This is worth watching to see a convincing presentation that there might be civilized life forms on Mars. If true, what are the implications of that? And why are THEY covering it up?
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I had the opportunity to live for five years on the Columbia River in northeast Washington just south of the Canadian border. The winters were significantly harsher in the high desert. The majority of people who lived in and around the small towns there heated primarily with wood stoves -- a very different proposition for an Okie raised hooked up to natural gas!

Everything had to be winterized. You didn't mess with these conditions. You adapted to them. You had to plan ahead to either bring in your firewood or buy it. Fill the fuel tanks, lay in extra food, get the oil lamps in shape in case the power went out, maintain the generator, get out the snow tires, put in feed for livestock, etc. Even before August ended, people were devoting off time to preparations. Prepare for the future was the theme of life at that time.

By contrast, in Oklahoma City, we did very little of that. We have mild winters generally, and if there's a power outage, blizzard, or whatever, you always know things will return to normal in a day or two. We come to enjoy the benefits of civilization, and therefore operate largely by a just-in-time inventory system for our personal items. We just naturally assume that "normal" is normal.

But history shows that most of the time, "normal" is filled with much more struggle and uncertainty than the sunshine period we are finishing. We're entering the Fourth Turning. This will be a time of great crises, and of heroes of every sort responding with creativity and bravery to set us back on track. 

In the cycles of history it is like success goes to our heads, and we forget what is necessary for it. We become prideful, greedy and arrogant. When that happens, we experience the reason for that old proverb: "pride goes before a fall." We have to lose everything so we can realize what is important. We need to strip back to the basics if we want to get back to the garden. We literally need to snap out of it, even get the stuffing knocked out of us like a good whuppin', and get back to doing what we were put here for.

The great reckoning is at hand. It appears that far too many Americans will be blindsided by it. They still see through normal-colored glasses. They forget that things can still change as quickly as they do when tornadic skies chase away bright sunshine.

For those who are aware, we best make sure we are prepared with the basics. Maybe some family member is finally ready to listen to you. Either way, those who know something big is coming should put extra away for those who didn't.

We're five weeks away from the November 8 period of emotional release predicted by Clif at Half Past Human. Their predictions have been uncanny, tapping into the planetary psyche to some extent with their webots. The data indicated that the impact, the "shock and awe" factor, will be on a magnitude at least 10 times greater than the 9-11 terrorist event. They just don't know what it will be.

So I suggest that you informed ants get busy with your preparations. If you're an awakening grasshopper, welcome aboard. We ants need all the help we can get!

Zombie Banks and Fiat Currencies

Important: Watch The Obama Deception and pass it on to your friends. Quit thinking about politics in terms of Left-Right. We have a one-party system, the Demopublicans, controlled by the same owners. Start developing the Big Picture. Time is short!
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The Federal Reserve has chosen to try to save the economy and the Big Banks at the cost of destroying the value of the dollar. On March 18 the Fed announced it would monetize $300 billion of Treasury Bonds by printing up the money to purchase them. Hyperinflation is on the way. With buyers of soon to be worth-less dollar-denominated debt dwindling, the Fed has chosen the "Weimar Solution" to deal with our sky-rocketing debt load.

Germany's decision to debauch its currency to pay its World War I reparations wiped out the middle class and led to the rise of Hitler. History repeats itself. "The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency," said Lord Keynes, the guiding light the politicians in the District of Corruption. We have our charismatic leader and are moving rapidly into Moussolini-style fascism.

As Gary North put it, we are now on the road to a never-ending series of bailouts until the dollar evaporates, like the German Mark of the 1920's, or more recently, the Zimbabwe dollar. Whatever debt remains, our grandchildren get to pay.

"The response of the FED and the Treasury has been to increase the national debt, increase the issuing of fiat money, and swapping toxic assets for AAA-rated T-bills at face value. All of this has put at risk the solvency of the government, the stability of the dollar, and the economic futures of most Americans. . . . Bailouts always come at the expense of the majority of taxpaying citizens. The FED and the Treasury can and do subsidize big banks. The biggest banks will be protected from bankruptcy by the existing political structure. But these narrow subsidies must be paid for. They will be paid for by four groups: those who buy and hold Treasury debt; those who buy and hold dollar-denominated assets; those who are dependent on fixed dollar income; and taxpayers in the higher brackets.

If you are a member of one or more of these groups, your future is at risk. Your dreams are being sacrificed by the money managers who enjoy operating in a nice cartel. They have gained the support of the senior decision-makers in the U.S. Treasury, which is staffed by representatives of the cartel."

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George Soros, who made billions on international currency devaluations, recently predicted a 30% drop in the value of commercial real estate along with hyper inflation. The LA Times calls the collapse of retail stores in New York City a "second, silent 9-11." We're headed for systemic failure. Gerald Celente predicts unemployment of at least 25%, food riots, and economic Armageddon by 2012. Along the same lines, another writer predicts "the end of America." He moved to Ecuador to experience "stability."

The Federal Reserve, and its money-creation scam, is at the heart of the problem. It is the source of our boom-bust cycle and monetary inflation that has a $20 gold piece selling for almost $1,000 Federal Reserve Notes (FRNs) today. It is imperative that you understand the system. We must all understand it, and work to abolish the Fed and return to sound money. Freedom to Fascism and Money as Debt help explain the system. This article article also explains how the Fed operates, and how its actions today are like trying to put out a house fire by pouring gasoline on it.

Yet, SecTreas Timothy Geithner is moving ahead to implement the Treasury reorganization plan proposed by Hank Paulson last October which would put almost all non-bank financial institutions directly under the Fed. This is absolute madness. Yet, most Americans are largely silent while our nation is being destroyed! They squawk about the about the AIG bonuses, but that's small potatoes to the biggest heist in history occurring before our very eyes. Leave it to Rolling Stone to point out how "Wall Street insiders are using the bailouts to stage a revolution." "It's over — we're officially, royally f****d," says the author.

Rep. Dennis Kucinich recommends nationalizing the Fed. Ron Paul says abolish it.

The "end game is approaching." Even as the Fed is now creating FRNs out of thin air to buy US Bonds to store them in their vaults, market action this week indicates that strong (i.e, foreign holders) are selling their T-bonds into the market. This can't keep up. I've reported predictions by reputable sources of US debt default by summer or fall.

Yet I talk to people daily with blind faith, really blind faith, that everything will somehow work out. One of them even bought stocks last week on "inside information." I know people who have their money in dollar-denominated assets, so they can get dividends or interest. Never mind that the purchasing power of the dollar will be dropping by double-digits annually very soon. They would rather have a 3% return in depreciating dollars than preserve the purchasing power of their life savings!

Yet, market old-time Richard Russell says the BIG money will be made in gold. (Actually, the amount of gold will stay the same. It will just make more and more depreciating dollars to buy the same amount.)

Our generation is moving into a crisis like we've never experienced. Our character will be tested as never before. Yet, as a nation, our character is not what it used to be. Just as fiat currency has debased the value of money with price inflation, so has the chasing of materialism and the flaunting of Judeo-Christian values debased our character. So we have to start making repairs to our ethics along with fixing our money.

I don't like writing about this stuff. But folks, we've got to wake up, not just individually, but as a whole. It is time to realize that we're being screwed, to put it mildly. The politicians will not fix it. Wall Street and the Global Elite own them, just like they own the media that should be holding them accountable and shouting warnings from the house tops.

I know everyone is busy trying just to keep a roof over our heads and food on the tables. It has been planned that way. But if you think times are hard now, just wait until we travel farther down this path. What the Global Elite have in store for us is not pretty. So even as I take the time to post this instead of working on my business, I'm asking you to take the time to bring yourself up to speed and help awaken your friends and neighbors. And make preparations for hard times.

There is much more happening than I can hardly keep up with and relate in special reports. You've got to start digging out the news for yourself. Visit the links on the right side of my site regularly to help you stay up with what's important, and not just what the controlled Mainstream Media wants you to know.

The Global Elite and their political representatives are gearing up for social breakdown all over the globe, including here in the US. Total surveillance measures, FEMA concentration camps, militarization of the police and martial law are all in preparation. This summer still promises to be the "summer from hell."

Joel Skousen, in his excellent weekly newsletter (subscribe here) , included a good analysis of the irreparable damage already inflicted on the economy. Notice that the corruption of the Obama administration runs just as deep as in the Bush administration. I offer it as further proof below.

IT'S TOO LATE NOW--THE DAMAGE IS DONE
Despite the wishful thinking of investors and manipulators pushing up stock indices, the Geithner-Bernanke duo is scrambling to avert a complete meltdown of public confidence in their saving powers. Treasury Secretary Geithner is looking more and more like a youthful amateur in his pronouncements and Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke can no longer give a straight or honest answer. New proposals, all without details, are emerging faster than the pundits can praise and absorb them--acting more like cheer leaders than honest analysts, so anxious are they to join with government in turning this pig's ear of a bailout into a recovery purse. Timothy Geithner sought wide regulatory powers to control hedge funds and derivatives, but it's a bit late now that all the cows are out of the barn and aren't coming back. You can't regulate lost trillions back into existence, and badly needed reserve requirements-huge reserves-would take the profitability out of these dangerous derivative hedges.

Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner wants the feds to have power not only to seize banks but also private businesses and insurance companies like AIG. William Branigin and Binyamin Appelbaum of the Washington Post write in typical socialist fashion, "Time is running out on the Obama administration to take control of the banks - and the crisis. 'If this plan fails - as it almost surely will - it's unlikely that he'll be able to persuade Congress to come up with more funds to do what he should have done in the first place." Geithner knows the public is losing patience.

"Mr. Geithner asked Congress today for new regulatory authority for non-bank financial institutions such as insurance giant American International Group in order to 'eliminate gaps in supervision' and avoid potentially catastrophic threats to the nation's financial system. Geithner said such authority would have allowed the government to bail out AIG last year at a far lower cost to taxpayers, a position backed by Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke. The government currently has the authority to seize only banks." The "we need more authority to supervise" is a false excuse. No amount of supervision is going to alter the fact that the derivative markets are never going to be able to pay out what they owe. The money collected in premiums is gone and no reserves were required or kept. This was a ponzi scheme and should be prosecuted as such. The call for the power to seize private firms is the real meat of this proposal and it smacks of nationalization powers.

Geithner has good reason to worry about how all this is going down with the public. After the AIG bonuses, Congress and the public has soured on more bailouts. David Lightman of McClatchy Newspapers said, "Forget about any more bailouts anytime soon. Any Obama administration bid to seek more taxpayer money for failing banks will face stiff resistance in Congress, where Treasury Department credibility is ebbing fast and lawmakers are bowing before a constituent revolt. Its credibility has been badly damaged, with Geithner under withering scrutiny in Congress even as lawmakers' constituents are boiling mad and Republicans are increasingly united in opposing more bailouts."

Despite their ongoing efforts on several different fronts, the PTB weren't able to silence the outcry about AIG bonuses, and worse bonuses were revealed at Merrill Lynch and many other insider institutions getting bailout funds. As Bloomberg News noted, bonuses are just the tip of the iceberg. "The U.S. Treasury Departmentpreserved a payday for five banks that was worth almost 200 times the bonuses handed out at American International Group Inc. through a government rescue." That is right. The largest portion of these bailout funds are not going to increase loanable funds, but are simply preserving administrative load and salaries at institutions that will eventually have to be liquidated.

The most understated bonus horror story of the week was the secret bonuses awarded by Merrill Lynch just before year end. Why the secrecy? Because Merrill Lynch misled Congress in understating its compensation packages for 2008 so as to get Congress to not include 2008 compensation bonuses in the new executive pay restrictions for companies receiving taxpayer bailouts. The defunct investment brokerage turned around and awarded $3.6B in bonuses just days before Bank of America completed acquisition and days before the Jan 1 cutoff allowed by Congress--courtesy of pressure applied by Obama Chief of Staff Rahm Emmanuel on an all-too-willing accomplice in the Senate, Chris Dodd (D-Connecticut). Goldman Sachs has now been forced to reveal that its under-the-deadline bonus and salary payments exceeded $10B ($5B in bonuses!).

With all the talk about bonuses, the public is continually fed the excuse that "we need these bright people to stay so that the taxpayers can get their money back." The money is never coming back and these people know it. On 60 MINUTES on Sunday March 15th, during questioning on the bonus issue, AIG Chairman Edward Liddy stated, under oath, that the bonuses were needed to retain key personnel to "dismantle the company." I think it is obvious they have no intention of paying taxpayers back. Worse, when the company is dissolved, who is going to still have to pay for all the city and county pension funds invested with AIG--that is gone? If you think the government is going to be able to turn them away, you don't know political outrage. So, the taxpayers will pay once again.

INSIDER LOANS SCANDAL
Then there is the issue of the insider loans, just emerging, that makes this banking scandal take on aspects of the Savings and Loan scandals of the 1980 and early 1990s. During those times S&L executives went to jail for giving themselves big loans which contributed to the insolvency of the institutions they ran. Stella M. Hopkins of the Charlotte Observer broke the story. "Banks nationwide hold $41 billion in loans to directors, top executives and other insiders, a portfolio that experts say should be stripped of secrecy [another regulatory loophole put into place years ago].

"Insider lending to directors is particularly troublesome because it could cloud the judgment of people charged with protecting shareholders and overseeing bank management, the experts say. At Charlotte-based Bank of America, those loans more than doubled last year, to $624.2 million -- the biggest dollar jump in the country. The largest of them likely went to three directors of their companies. The surge came during the third quarter as credit markets froze, the government prepared to infuse banks with billions in tax dollars and the board approved the purchase of troubled Merrill Lynch.

"Bank of America ranked fourth on the list of biggest insider lenders. At the top was JPMorgan of New York, which held $1.48 billion in insider loans, mostly by directors or their companies. At No. 2, Charlotte-based Wachovia, which was sold to Wells Fargo of San Francisco at the end of 2008, finished the year with $747 million in insider loans. All of the loans were held by the bank's directors or their companies, with just five holding the largest.

"Insider loans, ranging from home mortgages to multimillion-dollar lines of credit for big companies, are legal but are largely shrouded from public scrutiny. Bank of America's insider loans zoomed in 2008, but no one will say why. Bank of America [one of the most corrupt of the insider banks] vaulted into the top 10 banks for insider lending last year with an increase of more than $358 million, much of it coming as credit markets froze and mounting financial calamity threatened the industry's survival. The bulk of the gain came in the third quarter, when the financial sector entered its meltdown." This means that the big shots where siphoning off available funds, knowing that the coming bailout would replenish them.

Then there is the incestuous relationship between Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and several of the Congressional banking and finance leaders in both the House and Senate. Rep. Barney Frank claims to be outraged about the financial shenanigans of both AIG and Fannie and Freddie and yet the openly gay Congressman had a multiple year relationship with Herb Moses, an executive for the now-government controlled Fannie Mae. During the same time that Frank had regulatory oversight over Fannie and Freddie, he received over $40,000 in campaign contributions from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CT) of the Senate Finance committee received the most at $134,000. Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) received $111,000, and Sen. Barack Obama received about $106,000. Then Senator Hillary Clinton received $75,500 in campaign contributions from the two semi-government agencies.

Obama's Chief of Staff, Rahm Emmanuel was made a wealthy man by being placed on the Board of Directors of Fannie Mae by his boss, Bill Clinton. According to the Chicago Tribune, "He was named to the Freddie Mac board in February 2000 by Clinton, whom Emanuel had served as White House political director and vocal defender during the Whitewater and Monica Lewinsky scandals.

"The board met no more than six times a year. Unlike most fellow directors, Emanuel was not assigned to any of the board's working committees, according to company proxy statements. Immediately upon joining the board, Emanuel and other new directors qualified for $380,000 in stock and options plus a $20,000 annual fee, records indicate.

"On Emanuel's watch, the board was told by executives of a plan to use accounting tricks to mislead shareholders about outside profits the government-chartered firm was then reaping from risky investments. The goal was to push earnings onto the books in future years, ensuring that Freddie Mac would appear profitable on paper for years to come and help maximize annual bonuses for company brass.

"The accounting scandal wasn't the only one that brewed during Emanuel's tenure. During his brief time on the board, the company hatched a plan to enhance its political muscle. That scheme, also reviewed by the board, led to a record $3.8 million fine from the Federal Election Commission for illegally using corporate resources to host fundraisers for politicians. Emanuel was the beneficiary of one of those parties after he left the board and ran in 2002 for a seat in Congress from the North Side of Chicago [where he continued to receive political contributions from Fannie and Freddie]."

The fascist response to a crumbling economy

I've been busy with my day job the last two weeks. In the meantime the main news has been the banking and business failures we've become accustomed to, as well as the continued Israeli genocide in Gaza. Other than that, we haven't seen too much as we await Obama's first 100 days of political "shock and awe" and the "test" predicted by Biden and Colin Powell last fall. George, at Urban Survival also predicts a looming "test" that "seems destined to impact energy and food supplies here in the USA." I suspect that the country will feel very different a month from now, and not for the better. Fate favors those who prepare.

Steve Quayle reported on Alex Jones a few weeks ago from a good source that we were five minutes from having martial law declared on October 5 as part of the threat to pass the Bailout Bill One (more to follow). (The bailout was a fraudulent "bait and switch" operation.) His sources say that martial law plans are "truly draconian," and "worse than we can imagine." Previously Sen. Jim Inhofe and Rep. Brad Sherman disclosed these threats. We've seen an ominous, continuing preparation for martial law and the use of military forces in the US for many years, and especially the last three.

Paul Craig Roberts continues to speak the truth about our economic situation. It's not pretty. "What we are witnessing is a once great power engaging in fantasy to disguise from itself that it is a failed state." America is moving into uncharted territory. Is this the end? Are we witnessing the largest financial train wreck in history?

If for some reason you still have significant holdings in the dollar or dollar-denominated assets, you need to think through the implications of Ten Major Threats Facing the Dollar in 2009. Note this graph of the dramatice increase in the monetary base. We've reached the point of diminished returns for each new dollar printed, which will most likely end in hyperinflation of the dollar. An ex-policy maker for the Bank of England predicts a massive dollar collapse. These graphs are startling. Since the dollar is still the world's reserve currency, we'll see something unique in history -- worldwide hyperinflation along with global insolvency and depression. Similar conditions produced World War II as a "solution."

Major financial forecasters, as well as Merrill Lynch, recommend moving from the dollar into real assets. This history of paper currencies shows why. The British Pound has lost 98.8% of its value since it was introduced, and the Dollar has lost 97.8%. Government fiscal panic could speed up the dollar's demise. If you think the dollar is immune to being blown away by hyperinflation, Hank Paulson has some zero-interest T-Bills he'd like to sell you. Opening the mint to the unlimited production of gold coins may easily lay the foundation for economic recovery.

"Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value - zero." (Voltaire, 1694-1778)

We have been bankrupted by twin pincers of the the Military-Industrial-Media complex that President Eisenhower warned us about on one hand, and the Ponzi-scheme welfare state on the other. Social Security, Medicare and Federal Treasury debt are nothing but Ponzi-schemes with current obligations being paid out of current payments. Those owed the remaining liabilities will get the empty bag full of promises.

Obama's stimulus plan will push the bailout over $8 Trillion, and may be marching the US economy to the gallows. "The upcoming Financial Stimulus package courtesy of the new Economic dream team has left numerous economists and analysts quaking in their boots. We are seeing predictions of hyperinflation, the destruction of the dollar, the flight of U.S. creditors, the prospect of widespread civil unrest and a descent in to a Greater Depression. . . . Judging by his actions so far, Obama has done absolutely nothing but continue the transfer of wealth from the American taxpayer to his Wall St. campaign contributors. There has been absolutely zero positive impact on the real economy as the increasingly horrific indicators continue to mount and the prospect of an unprecedented Depression continues to rise over the horizon."

The problem is not just at the federal level. Forty-four states project combined budget shortfalls of $350 billion for the next two years! You can count on this assessment being overly optimistic, because most conventional forecasters will be projecting economic recovery to begin during this time period. That is magical thinking.

As the 21st century progresses, a bankrupt America, bereft of a meaningful manufacturing base, could easily be surpassed by China as the preeminent world power. 2009 is likely to be the year the world recognizes significant decline in of the US. A new world order is emerging, and it won't be good for America. Henry Kissinger, perennial dark-side agent, even calls this a great opportunity for Obama to help create a new world order. See the video. European leaders seem to concur. Obamas has several long-time Trilateral Commission, New World Order advocates prominantly placed in his administration.

As I write, we're in the last hours of George Bush's disastrous presidency. I'm astounded that this despicable excuse for a human being still retains a 20% approval rating. My prediction five years ago that Bill Clinton's tenure would seem successful, and relatively benign in comparison, has proven true. The vicious, vindictive Clinton's would have loved to have at their disposal the police state erected by Dick Cheney and his sock-puppet Bush. Now, an even more dangerous Obama, gifted in hypnotic rhetorical skills and surrounded by an aura of hope, promises to be Bush-Clinton-Bush on steroids.

Always remember, Obama is totally beholden to the Powers That Be for his presidency. He was not given the keynote speech at the DNC four years ago when he was still a member of the Illinois state legislature for no reason. He had already been picked. Obama's chief advisor, Zbigniev Brzensinski, served the same role for Jimmy Carter. His Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel, is likely a Mossad agent. Obama's staff is like a Clinton administratin reunion, with dangerous Bush holdovers like SecDef Gates. The thieves on Wall Street gave three times the money to Obama as McCain. Truly, the more things "change," the more they will stay the same.

What we will be getting more of is fascism. I don't use this term lightly or carelessly. It refers to state control of the economy with nominal private ownership. Fascism was the univeral response to the Great Depression of the 1930's by western nations, including the US. Its economic ideology and justification is Keynesianism. John Maynard Keynes disdained markets and glorified state action is the means for dealing with the business cycles. So politicians love it.

Both parties have brought us fascism. With Bush ramping up the police state, and most people thinking he and the Republicans are "capitalists," capitalism and the free market get the undeserved blame for our economic crisis and our imperialistic wars. Ayn Rand warned of this 50 years ago in her seminal novel, Atlas Shrugged. What we see unfolding in Washington is fiction becoming fact. If you want to understand the difference between freedom and economic slavery, read or re-read Atlas Shrugged. You'll see why the politician's constant bailouts and restrictions will not cure, but kill the economy.

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If you've every wondered about why we have so few clear blue skies any more, and why you often see jet contrails that last all day, read this full page newspaper ad about "chemtrails." And you might be interested to know 24 Things About to Go Extinct in America.

Closer to the financial cliff

Trends forecaster Gerald Celente on Alex Jones' radio show Thursday continues to paint a bleak forecast for the US and world economy. Washington has been taken over in a coup d'etat by Wall Street. The problem has gotten beyond their control. His list of Top Ten Trends for 2009 is not encouraging.

"When people lose everything, they lose it." He is expecting riots for food and housing starting as early as this winter.

Revolution will happen by 2012. In the forefront will be college students and recent graduates with massive loans, no jobs, youthful energy, and lots of time on their hands. The United States will come to look more like the Soviet Union after its break up, with a number of secessionist states and a weak, ineffective central government. The Powerz often instigate a false flag operation to start a war and institute a draft to sop up excessive manpower.

Survival is going to be a big business. Growing food in victory gardens, bartering basic skills, training and supplying training and products for self-defense will be growth areas. Another big business will be a form of private banking with gold-backed deposits.

Government will try to control and censor free speech on the internet. Obama has already announced plans to provide a "new, improved" internet that will be "free." Rumors of Internet II have picked up a lot lately, with Canada and Australia floating trial balloons in this direction. The NWO folks know that the biggest threat they face is freedom of information. Look also for Obama to push through a new "fairness doctrine," that will censor free speech in the name of free speech. Note to self: time to re-read "1984" and "Brave New World."

LEAP/E2020 predicts a global tipping point in March "when the world becomes aware that this crisis is worse than the 1930s crisis." They believe, along with Celente, that the crisis is out of the control of every public authority. Public pensions will fail, and widespread social chaos is likely. Pension funds (and I would assume, IRA's and 401-Ks) will be nationalized. The report continues:

". . . we anticipate that the minimum duration of the decanting phase of the crisis is 3 years . . . only towards the end of 2010 that the situation will start stabilizing again and improving a little in some regions of the world, i.e. Asia and the Eurozone, as well as in countries producing energy, mineral and food commodities. Elsewhere, it will continue; in particular in the US and UK, and in all the countries depending on their economy, were the duration could approximate a decade. In fact these countries should not expect any real return to growth before 2018.


Their combination and the public becoming aware of the consequences they could entail, will result in the great collective psychological trauma of Spring 2009, when everyone will realize that we are all trapped into a crisis worse than in the 1930s and that there is no possible way out in the short-term. The impact on the world’s collective mentalities of people and policy-makers will be decisive and modify significantly the course of the crisis in its next stage. Based on greater disillusion and fewer beliefs, social and political instability will settle down worldwide."

This prediction fits well with their earlier predictions that the US will default on its bond obligations in the summer of 2009 and the time monk's at Half Past Human predicting it to be the "summer from Hell." Mark Farber says that the last bubble to crash in the US will be long-term treasury bonds, and the US will go bankrupt.

Here's a great explanation of the recent bubbles in oil and commodities. He thinks we'll be lucky if the current Depression is only as bad as the Great Depression of the 1930's. His fear is that it will be worse, like the panic of 1873! Read about it and see what you think.

Perhaps the real bubble popping now is the empire bubble. "For sixty-some years we've been high on the delusion of our God-given omnipotence and inherent goodness, convinced we can and should right every wrong, police every border (but our own), and fulfill our alleged destiny as the Promethean light-bearer of the world. This is mental and moral inflation, which was certainly encouraged by the monetary phenomenon: these absurdly inflated goals were financed by imaginary wealth, a good proportion of which has already disappeared."

Peter Schiff, who predicted today's financial turmoil years ago only to be ridiculed by the establishment financial media, explains clearly why the USG's own Ponzi scheme makes the Madoff scandal look like gnat in comparison. When belief in the "full faith and credit of the US Government" fails, the seeds of revolution will sprout.

It may well be that the Fed's recent lowering of interest rates to zero was prompted by the Madoff fraud revelations. Expect an increase in swindles as the Depression moves along. The Madoff story gets even weirder, as it appears that many of his investors probably thought he was doing something illegal to get the spectacular returns reported. They say its easier to con a dishonest man.

In related news, Obama's choice for new SEC Chairman, Mary Schapiro, seems to be an industry-friendly fox to guard the hen house. Another analyst observes: "Without exception, his team assures business as usual, a near-seamless transition from George Bush, and not 'change to believe in.' His latest choices raise more cause for concern and with good reason." Wake up Obama supporters!

Obama seems fatally committed to continuing and expanding Bush's war on Afghanistan. It seems that the CIA and its cohorts on the darkside still use illegal drug trade to fund a big portion of their off-budget operations. (Presidents cross the CIA at their own peril, as JFK found out.) This happened big time during the Viet Nam war. Drugs were run often through Mena, Arkansas during the reigns of Presidet Bush I (former CIA director) and then-Governor Clinton. The hated Taliban killed all the drug trade when they controlled Afghanistan. Since we toppled them, the heroin traffic flourishes again.

Blagogate: Indicted Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich was a bookie paying protection money to the mob in the 1980's, according to a government informant. Blago looks like a character actor from central casting for this part, doesn't he? (Reportedly, pundit Dick Morris said that Obama and Rahm Emanuel recruited Blago to run for Governor.) Emanuel reportedly talked directly with Blago about Obama's Senate replacement, despite denials by the TeamObama.

Here's one to file for future reference. If we see a "Maitreya" coming on the scene, things will really get interesting.

Sign of the times: Swat team raids a family-run food coop in rural Ohio. "This incident has raised the ominous specter of a restrictive new era in State regulation and enforcement over the nation's private food supply."

As the Worm Turns

Blogogate: More evidence appears that shows Rahm Emanuel was involved in discussions about the replacement for Obama's senate seat. Tony Rezko, who gave the Obama's sweetheart deal on land for their home, is tied up in the scandal. The Chicago Tribune prematurely (on purpose?) released the story before Blago's entire scheme could unfold on tape. Obama continues to insist that he was unaware of any discussions, despite clear implication that he was. Politics, scandal is thy name. Thomas DiLorenzo wonders why the outrage over political "pay-to-play?" That's the norm!

Breaking news: an internal investigation by the Obama team has cleared itself of any wrong doing with Blago. Well, I'm glad that's taken care of!

"Frighteningly accurate trends forecaster Gerald Celente says that America will see riots similar to those currently ongoing in Greece and that the cause will be a hyper-inflationary depression, leading to the inevitable use of troops and mercenaries to deal with the crisis as Americans are incarcerated in internment camps." Fears of riots spread across Europe or, as the head of the IMF fears, worldwide. Anarchy may be our planet's future. This sets the stage for martial law, of course. As a sign of the times, we see more domestic militarization of American law enforcement.
The dollar rally may be over. If you're planning on getting some gold or silver protection for your financial assets, your time is almost up. Using the prices at Goldmasters, the premium for 1 oz. gold eagles is today up to 16%, one-percent higher than last week. If you're still putting off buying gold and silver insurance positions because of deflation, then you'll want to understand how deflation creates hyperinflation.

As I've warned before on this blog, do not purchase gold and silver ETF's in the belief that you are protecting your assets by holding gold and silver. As substitutes or surrogates for the real thing, they are deficient. They may be convenient, but when the time comes that you want to own gold and silver, you may be left holding the bag instead.

A new study indicates that the Paulsen-Bernanke takeover of the financial services industry was based on unsubstantiated claims that we had a credit crisis. The likely result is hyperinflation as in the Weimar Republic of 1922.

Jim Willie observes that "The USFed has begun to take on some curious similarities to a crime syndicate central clearinghouse. It refuses to disclose which banks received bond swaps, and refuses to reveal what assets it accepted as collateral. Before long, RICO Laws against racketeering might be invoked."

Grassroots activists helped derail the Republican-led effort in Ohio to pass legislation calling for a Constitional Convention. These aren't Goldwater-Reagan Republicans.

A "tax holiday" on payroll taxes would be a great way to preserve jobs and stimulate spending at the grassroots, where the people are. With no graft to spread around, such a fair, sensible idea probably has no chance of passing. Instead, we'll get New Deal II, which will fail to pull us out of the Depression, just as its predecessor failed. Only FDR's entering the war with Japan and Germany after his provocation of Japan did that trick.

ObamaWatch: Scotus again refuses to hear Obama citizenship case. Obama could totally defuse the issue by producing a valid Certificate of Live Birth. Tellingly, he has not. With the fix in to seat a Constitutionally unqualified man, Obama will be putty in the hands of his Establishment controllers (as if there was ever any question about it.) Blackmail can accomplish wonders.

The Crisis Continues - More

The cost of the Bailout is up to $8.5 trillion and rising weekly. An "informed" friend of mine yesterday still thinks it's a mere $700 billion. Just goes to show: 1. how effective the mainstream media propaganda is, and 2. how wicked the banksters are. Meanwhile, Jim Rogers declares most large US banks "totally bankrupt." Bob Chapman updates his warning Hyperinflation and then the Second Great Depression. Pension funds are but one of the next shoes to drop.

Meanwhile, the Fed refuses to reveal the recipients of $2 trillion in bailout loans. They've also refused to allow an audit of their books, or the gold supposedly in Ft. Knox for years. Ron Paul continues to warn that the Fed's printing of money is the root of the problem. When will the American people wake up to the criminality of the Republicrats and stop playing their two-party game?

QuagmireWatch: Nato is paying protection money to the Taliban to stay in Afghanistan! The West is indirectly funding the insurgency in Afghanistan thanks to a system of payoffs to Taleban commanders who charge protection money to allow convoys of military supplies to reach Nato bases in the south of the country."

ObamaWatch: Is Rahm Emanuel the Obama advisor involved in the reported negotiations to fill the vacated Illinois Senate seat? Why won't he answer questions about whether he had a role? And the facts recorded at the time show that Obama did, in fact, meet with Blagojevich about his replacement. So now do we have Blogogate? It's always the cover-up that gets them.

Joel Skousen, in his latest newsletter, writes that the "fix is in" as the Supreme Court refuses to deal with the issue of Obama's eligibility.

". . . the matter will never be officially resolved. The extent of the collusion to mask Obama's birth place has been widespread. Obama has refused to allow any review of his college and university records. This is surely because his applications for entrance or his applications for financial aid contain statements that either he was foreign born or that he applied for aid as a foreign student. If there wasn't something incriminating there, he would have opened them for review. The State Department refuses to document how Obama got a US passport. Obama never held a US passport until his visit to Kenya, though he traveled to and from the US on several occasions. That means he was traveling under another nation's passport -most likely Indonesia where he was a citizen.

Hawaii continues to collude in this conspiracy by refusing to reveal the source of his mother's Certification of Birth in Hawaii--which is surely falsified since researchers have checked with every single hospital in Hawaii and found no record of his mother giving birth there.

Lastly, the media was in total collusion with this conspiracy. There was a virtual and total blackout . . . . Only this Monday, after the Supreme Court ruled to not hear the case, did all the major media report on it. This indicates they were, indeed, following the story, but deliberately refused to warn the American people of its facts and impact.

The best evidence all points to Obama's birth in Kenya as confirmed by his grandmother, and certified by her translator. Officials in Kenya have also been a party to this conspiracy to deceive. Several officials have stated to Jerome Corsi and others that his birth place is widely known in Kenya--which is proud to have a favorite son occupying the White House. Even the Kenyan Ambassador to the US let it slip in a radio interview that the government was planning an official monument to that fact until he was forced to retract all statements about Obama's birth in Kenya to ensure Obama wouldn't be disqualified."

I highly recommend Joel's excellent weekly World Affairs Brief, which deals with wide-ranging geopolitical stories, with a unique perspective that looks behind the scenes to the way the world really works. A subscription is a bargain for the wealth of information and analysis he provides.

The Fourth Turning is a thought-provoking book I read ten years ago. It identifies a recurring, predictable generational cycle over 500 years of Anglo-American history. This essay gives good reason we're moving into the "Fourth Turning," a generational crisis, as serious as we've ever faced. "America will enter a new era that will culminate with a crisis comparable to the American Revolution, the Civil War, the Great Depression, and World War II. The survival of the nation will almost certainly be at stake."

I highly suggest you read the essay, and the book. We will need all the wisdom and leadership we can muster to come through this crisis with our freedom intact.

And just when we don't need yet another crisis, it seems that the US needs just two more states to ratify a call for a Constitutional Convention (ConCon) to rewrite the Constitution. The issue is currently pending in Ohio.

The golden drama heats up

Strong evidence exists that the gold market (and derivatively, silver) has been manipulated as a matter of economic policy for many years. This new white paper is the best summary I've seen. If you're at all interested in understanding this market, as well as the urgency to make any planned purchases soon, this is convincing reading. The report concludes:

"the trap is snapping shut on who will own the gold in 2009. Free-market supplies of gold are drying up, but the price is being kept low as global institutions sop up whatever crumbs are left.

Several very serious implications can be drawn:

• The massive amounts of gold leased to bullion banks will ultimately be seized by these same banks as collateral against worthless paper loans made to the Central Banks.
• Central Banks (including the Federal Reserve) could well be left to disintegrate in order to give way to a single global central bank controlled and fueled by the bullion banks who have monopoly control over the world's gold.
• These superbanks are all closely tied to the goals and membership of the Trilateral Commission, whose members have methodically carried out a monetary policy designed to bring about this eventuality.
• For all practical intent, individuals will be frozen out of the gold market at any price.

Indeed, a global totalitarian state may be closer than we think; as the globalist's golden rule states, 'He who has the gold, makes the rules.'"

As a chaser, we have a disturbing follow up from Antal Fekete who wrote about the "backwardation" in gold that I wrote about in "the dollar is doomed." If he is correct, the Comex gold exchange may well be unable to deliver the gold being demanded by options holders when their options expire. Not only would this be de facto bankruptcy, but it could pull the last legs out from under the dollar.

The mirage of dollar strength has been kept up mainly by the manipulation of the gold price. But the gold bulls are calling their bluff and taking delivery. We will likely see this drama played out by the end of December or the end of next February. This is powerful, folks, and you won't be hearing about it on CNN or Faux News. You've got to read this so you can appreciate the history unfolding before our eyes. And buy some gold coins if you can find them.

Speaking of globalism, Justin Raimondo discusses the push to global government/governance/New World Order and how the Obama administration is likely to push for surrendering more American sovereignty (i.e., freedom) to international governing bodies. Obama's appointments indicate he will follow the Bush-Clinton-Bush practice of going "over the heads of voters and add on new commitments to existing international structures, such as the UN and NATO [and the North American Union]. This is the motivating factor behind the new multilateralism that will energize the foreign policy of the Obama administration, the sort of internationalism that is routinely described by its advocates as 'robust.'" Why bother with consulting Congress or obeying the confines of the Constitution?

The push to globalism could easily be the purpose behind the financial crisis. " The purpose of the current financial catastrophe was to infect the entire world financial system with toxic waste and other unregulated derivatives, also known as financial weapons of mass destruction, to bring it crashing down so that a single world financial system with a single medium of exchange could be set forth as the suggested solution and then crammed down our throats in yet another nauseating and tiresome iteration of the Hegelian Dialectic."

In spite of all this, it is quite likely that we'll see a big bounce back in the stock market concurrent with Obama's inauguration. It happened several times during the depression of the 30's. Bear market rallies are built on pessimism and climb a wall of worrry. With forecasts of the the world economy shrinking for the first time since 1945, the end of the Chinese manufacturing boom, plummeting oil demand, zero-or-lower interest on T-Bills, Forbes magazine calling Wall Street "banksters," the US economy in a rapidly-accelterating freefall, and these eight scary predictions by market experts, we have a sufficiently pessimistic base for a bounce. If it does, sell and recoup some of your losses.

Obama's massive fiscal stimulus is going to pour lots of money into the economy and create some big winners. Wouldn't you like to have insider knowledge like Obama-Rahmbo's friends on Wall Street and in Chicago will be getting? Buy low, sell high they say. The net result, though, will still be hyperinflation.

It seems that Central American nations will be instituting a new continental currency in response to the financial crisis.

I've written numerous times lately about the real Constitutional problem questioning Obama's eligibility to be President. Constitution Party candidate Chuck Baldwin observes the hypocrisy of many "conservatives" on this issue. It seems they only care about the Constitution when it suits their partisan purposes. "Most of them really could not care less about adherence to the Constitution. If they did, they would have been up in arms for the last eight years as President George W. Bush repeatedly ignored--and even trampled--the U.S. Constitution."

Daily hyperinflation reminder: in Oldsmoblie Nation Dr. Gary North writes "The world we grew up in has been lost since August 2007. The man who saw this coming and warned about it, Dr. Kurt Richebächer, died that month. He had predicted the worst capital crisis in our era. This is what it is becoming. . . . Inflation is coming. Then controls. Then rationing." Time to prepare, folks.

Here's a nice story about how precocious Obama controller Rahm Emanuel learned investment banking so well that he earned $16 million in 3 years so he could buy a Congressional seat in the corrupt state of Illinois. His Bankster pals on Wall Street should have continued success with their continuing begging for taxpayer bailouts in the Obama administration.

From the same nest of Chicago corruption, the story about Governor Blagojevich continues to unfold. "What did Obama know, and when did he know it" is a pertinent question. With so many Clintonistas in the Obama administration, will we see a bizarre marriage of rural Arkansas corruption with the pros from Chicago? Speaking of, I'm not the only one wondering "What Do the Clintons Have on Obama?"

Panama Legal, a Panamanian law firm, seems to agree a lot with me: Some Things to Look for in 2009. I wish they'd prove me wrong, instead.

These photos of the destructive wildfires in California last month are dramatic.

And finally, enjoy a trip to the edge of the universe. This is truly mind-boggling and seems to put everything in perspective.

A trillion here, a trillion there . . .

Be thankful today. It's Thanksgiving.

Illinois Senator Everett Dirkson was famous for his famous quote, “A million here, a million there, sooner or later it adds up to real money.” That's when a 12-ounce bottle of Coke cost 5-cents. In recent years, he was paraphrased using "billion" instead of "million." After the $700 bailout has morphed into $8.5 trillion and counting, we can't even comprehend the numbers any more. The amounts are so staggering as to be beyond shock.

A Citigroup analyst recently joined the Chicken-Littles with his prediction that gold would rise to at least $2,000 as soon as next year (6 weeks?) in response to the unprecedented fiat money created by central banks to deal with the worldwide financial collapse. "The world is not going back to normal after the magnitude of what they have done. When the dust settles this will either work, and the money they have pushed into the system will feed though into an inflation shock. Or it will not work because too much damage has already been done, and we will see continued financial deterioration, causing further economic deterioration, with the risk of a feedback loop." China, Saudi Arabia and others are making, or talking about, massive gold purchases to preserve their wealth.

I'm sure the terrorist actions in Mumbai will be blamed on the ever-present "Data Base," better known to most of us as Al Qaeda or Al CIAda. Or Pakistan. Or maybe not. Hmm. So will we now have official reasons to attack Pakistan? Seems like most high-profile "terrorist" attacks lately turn out to be false flag operations designed for other purposes. As this story unfolds, remember the real action is the reaction. Ask "who benefits?" from the response to the Mumbai attacks.

ObamaWatch: The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Obama's retention of Robert Gates as Secretary of Defense promises the continued support and development of a military regime in the US. As reported earlier, the appointment of Rahm Emanuel means continued domination by Israel in foreign policy.

Obama's Dick Cheney

When Jimmy Carter took office, his Trilateral B team replaced the Gerald Ford’s Trilateral A team. The Powers That Be (PTB) were still in control, despite outward appearances. With Obama, we see the PTB B team (“muscular liberals") again supplanting the PTB A team (NeoCons). “It’s deja vu all over again,” as Yogi Berra would say.

Another helpful way to look at the US political process is to compare it to professional wrestling. You pay your money to watch the wrestlers go through the motions of a real match as entertainment. When it’s over, the owners of the WWE pocket the money, pay the wrestlers for their services and retain control. (At least the World Wresting Entertainment organization has had the integrity to replace “Federation” with “Entertainment” in their name. And the spectators are in on the game, unlike most political partisans.)

With Obama, nothing substantial will change. As Lew Rockwell said: "under Obama, taxes and government spending will increase, government regulation and control over our lives will increase, economic disorder will increase, state police powers will increase, and imperialistic wars will continue unimpeded (and likely increase). In short, the political establishment will continue to pursue its agenda - without a break in meter - regardless of who it places on the throne. In the words of Emma Goldman: 'If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.'"

Confirming our understanding of the nature of the political game, Obama appointed Rahm Emanuel as his Chief Of Staff. The COS is usually the most powerful person on the President’s staff. The COS is the chief gatekeeper for news, analysis, access, as well as the President’s CEO. He has the power to shape POTUS’ view of the world, his thinking and actions. (Cheney’s VP office served this function for Bush, as his immediate puppet master.)

Who is Rahm Emanuel, (known as “Rahmbo” for his tough, abrasive style) and what conclusions can we draw about his appointment as Obama’s COS?

With “Rahmbo” Israeli Zionists cut out the middleman. He is a likely Mossad collaborator, if not outright agent. As the Jerusalem Post says: Emanuel is “a fiercely principled Jew and supporter of Israel, where his pediatrician father, Benjamin, was born and volunteered for the [Zionist terrorist] Irgun before moving to America. Emanuel, whose family name comes from the first name of an uncle killed in a 1933 skirmish with Arabs in Jerusalem, went to summer camp in Israel as a boy and grew up speaking Hebrew with his father. ‘He is unabashed about his own connection to Israel,’ said Michael Kotzin, executive vice president of the Jewish United Fund-Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago. ‘If he goes to the White House . . . Israel will have a friend [as POTUS’s right hand man].’"

Deceased Chicago journalist Sherman Skolnick’s reports on Rahmbo are chilling, and well worth your time. You’ll find out about: his influence and fund-raising with the Clintons, Mossad connections, White House sex scandals, nuclear secret sales to China, Chinese secret police, money laundering, Monica Lewinsky, and more. Mossad controls elections, politicians and media in the US and Britain.

The Palestinians are alarmed, and see Rahmbo’s appointment as a signal of no change in American policy in the Middle East. If Obama names Dennis Ross “Special Envoy to the Middle East,” their fears will only increase. If he picks Jane Harman has CIA head, we may have a pro-war trifecta in charge of Obama’s foreign policy.

In a revealing article, John Walsh details much about Rahmbo as a hawk on Iraq, advocating increasing the size of the military and setting up a new domestic spying operation to fight “terror.” After volunteering for Israel during the 1991 Gulf War to “rust-proof brakes” on an “army base,” he returned to the US to join the Clinton campaign “opening a spigot on needed campaign funds.” [From where, and why?] After leaving the Clinton administration, he spent 2 1/2 years for Wall Street financier Bruce Wasserman, hauling in a nice $18 million for his efforts. Makes you wonder what the story behind the story is. I can’t help but wonder if Rahmbo helped “open the spigot” for Obama’s reported $200 million in funds from “unknown sources.”

With Rahmbo as COS, no longer will the Israelis have to engage in ordinary spying (Jonathan Pollard, Aldrich Ames, Richard Perle, Larry Franklin, “art students,” et al.) to get access to US secrets. One of their own is deep on the inside, and will have access to any and all the information Israel wants.

Progressive are already figuring out that Rahmbo’s appointment as COS means they’ve been conned into thinking that Obama was anti-war. He supported Bush’s 2003 Iraq invasion and recently fought against restricting Bush’s ability to wage war on Iran. As head of the DNC Congressional campaigns in 2006, he successfully filtered out anti-war Dems in favor of their pro-war opponents. Samantha Power, often referred to as “the other half of Obama’s brain,” is a strong supporter of “humanitarian imperialism” by advocating military intervention in oil-rich Darfur. Such crusades for “human dignity” could result in a foreign policy worse than Bush’s. Many are beginning to see that we really have a One-Party system. Rahmbo will help continue the expansion of American empire.

Paul Craig Roberts gives a comprehensive run-down of Rahmbo’s top picks so far. Roberts says “Obama’s selection of Rahm Israel Emanuel as White House chief of staff is a signal that change ended with Obama’s election. The only thing different about the new administration will be the faces.”

Dick Eastman has long fought the abuses of the Bush-Clinton-Bush administration. He sees Obama as a fresh face that will allow the PTB to finish the destruction of America. I disagree with very little of his assessment. We’ve got to wake people up, especially those entranced by Obama.