"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!

Financial Tsunami Update

The economic storm clouds are getting darker. More writers are calling this a financial "tsunami," and more are comparing it with the Great Depression of the 1930's. The only voices of optimism are Paulson, Bernanke and Bush, and the lap dog mainstream press. And their credibility is plummeting.

Yet I find a number of people, in the spirit of American optimism, think I'm exaggerating. They believe the rhetoric that the Fed will fix things and we'll "muddle through" to face the next crisis. How I wish it were so this time.

The truth is, the die was cast a long time ago. When the US dollar was on a gold standard, monetary discipline was imposed on the financial system. With the founding of the Federal Reserve System in 1913 and Roosevelt's abandonment of the gold standard in 1933, we went on a debt standard. Nixon threw out the last vestige of monetary restraint in 1971 when he closed the gold window. Now the US dollar was backed by nothing but debt, and the "full faith and credit" of the US Government (i.e., the printing press in the back room).

Given the proclivities of politicians to spend money and wage war without raising taxes, the fate of the dollar was sealed. The only variable was how long would it take? A good date to pick for the death of the dollar is 2013, the hundreth anniversary of the founding of the Fed.

FDR and LBJ, as well as every administration since, ramped up social welfare spending that could not be funded in the long run, i.e, when the Baby Boomers started retiring. The Federal Government grew into a self-sustaining, expensive bureaucracy that outlasts every President and never stops increasing in size and cost. The military-industrial complex Eisenhower warned about turned the US into a welfare-warfare state, with the resulting Demopublican War Party firmly entrenched in power.

The media had its last hurrah as a watchdog after Watergate and Iran-Contra. Now the top media stars are highly paid celebrities beholden to their corporate masters, with interlocking ownership and directorates with the entire military-corporatist-banking-globalist establishment.

The Bush-Cheney-NeoCon "war on terror" has become a war on America, installing the machinery for a full-blown police state. John McCain and Barack Obama are salivating at the thought of wielding all that power to push their own agendas. Both have pledged to carry on the NeoCon program in the Middle East and subservience to Israeli Zionists. Moreover, Obama is pushing a socialist-communitarian-communist ideology that promises fundamental changes in the rights to life, liberty, property and self-defense that most Americans cherish. But more on politics in another post.

If you still believe things aren't too bad economically, you owe it to yourself to challenge your premises. Your financial future depends on it. Start with a trip to John Williams' excellent Shadow Government Statistics. He exposes in great detail the biased and often-manipulated government economic reporting.

For political reasons, important statistical indicators of economic health have been biased to minimize the bad news about inflation, the federal deficit, unemployment, GDP, etc. This started before Bush II. Williams reconstructs and continues measures the government dropped (like M-3 money supply growth), and recalculates others with their original components (like CPI). The results are staggering.

For instance, by applying Generally Accepted Accounting Practices to the US Government, we're adding an average of $4.6 Trillion a year to our indebtedness! The Federal Net Worth was a negative $57.1 Trillion at the end of 2007!! There is no way to tax or grow our way to solvency. And the politicians seem determined to keep printing money out of thin air to bail out the financial system and cover our obligations.

A must read is his comprehensive report "Hyperinflation." If you will take time to study this well-written 27-page report, you will see why he says a "hyperinflationary depression" worse than the Great Depression (Great Depression II, if you will) is unavoidable between 2010 and 2018. Probably it will be sooner than later. The graphs are clear about what has happened to the value of the dollar, and what is its fate.

Please read this report! His economic theory is sound and his statistics impeccable. You will see why you must put yourself on a plan to survive the meltdown of the dollar. Yes, the Weimar Republic can happen here. So can the rise of a messianic dictator who offers hope and "economic security" in the midst of economic catastrophe and the resulting social unrest. [Friends, the federal government is not able to provide economic security for anyone. Remember "I am from the government, and I'm here to help you"?]

At the risk of distracting you from the main report, I provide secondary evidence that the consumer is tapped out. Unemployment is rising, wages are falling, auto sales are crashing, credit cards are maxed, "discretionary" purchases are going instead to buy higher prices energy and food. The US economy, based 70% on consumer spending, is contracting.

Did I mention that banking systems around the world are failing? First Priority Bank in Florida failed Friday, the 8th US bank this year. The National Bank of Australia took a 90% loss on US mortgage debt writedowns. Royal Bank of Scotland is poised for the biggest loss in UK banking history. One observer says the Fed is panicking to hide the truth about the credit crisis so that the wealthy can be bailed out at the expense of the poor.

If Bush-Cheney-McCain-Obama-Israel start a war with Iran, the hyperinflation timetable shortens considerably. And shades of 9/11, what are we to make of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh's shocking revelations "that Bush administration officials held a meeting recently in the Vice President’s office to discuss ways to provoke a war with Iran?"

Says Hersh, "There was a dozen ideas proffered about how to trigger a war. The one that interested me the most was why don’t we build — we in our shipyard — build four or five boats that look like Iranian PT boats. Put Navy seals on them with a lot of arms. And next time one of our boats goes to the Straits of Hormuz, start a shoot-up." Cheney's "false flag operation" sounds like Operation Northwoods reincarnated. (Keith Olbermann gave Cheney his "worst person in the world" award for this idea.)

Take advantage of the last few weeks of the traditional summer doldrums in the precious metals. The base for gold seems established at $910 and silver at $17. Expect gold at near $1200 and silver above $20 by the end of 2008, IF Iran is not attacked. (Big IF). A few graphs (and here) might give you courage. Howard Ruff says "inflation is not rising prices; it's a falling dollar."

I've been begging some of my dear friends to buy gold for the last five years. It was always "too high," at $375, $450, $600, $650. Today it still seems high at $910. Meanwhile, whereas the dollar could buy 1 Euro for $0.85 six years ago, it now takes almost $1.60. As experienced traders say, "Don't fight the trend!" And as Gary North says, "Procrastination kills!"

Grace and Courage and Peace be with you!

Saturday Round Up

There are so many things whizzing past my eyes that need to be shared. Here are a few important ones:

Barack Obama and "Change?" The more things change, the more they stay the same. Obama released the names of his Foreign Policy Advisory Panel. We see the cream of the crop of the globalist Carter-Clinton CFR/Bilderberg/Trilateral gang. Madeline Albright found it "acceptable" that 500,000 Iraqi children and old people died as a result of Clinton's blockade in the 1990's. Tim Roemer and Lee Hamilton participated in the 9/11 Commission Cover-Up. David Boren, ex-head of the Senate Intelligence Commitee, was eating breakfast in Washington, DC with his protege, CIA Director George Tenet, when the 9/11 attacks were announced.

Ralph Nader says "It is quite clear [Obama] is a corporate candidate from A to Z." But who listens to Ralph any more? Indeed, who has the opportunity? The corporate lap dog media has ignored him just like they ignored Ron Paul, except to make an occasional joke at their expense. Guess who the joke is on, folks?
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The FLDS Raid and the NAFTA Super Highway. Devvy Kidd speculates that the real reason for the Texas Child Protective (sic) Services raid on the FLDS compound at their Yearning for Zion Ranch was not about child welfare or polygamy at all. It just so happens that their 1700 acre ranch is on the route of the proposed Trans-Texas Corridor that is an integral part of the new globalist North American Union to merge Mexico and Canada in an EU-like regional government with the US. Oklahoma's Amanda Teegarden of OK-Safe did the research on this. If you wonder what all the hoopla is about, watch this 10-minute video on the Trans-Texas Corridor.
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"Why the Oil Price Is High." The always perceptive Paul Craig Roberts fingers the two major suspects -- weakness in the US Dollar and the Federal Reserve's inflation-creating money pumping. Actually that latter causes the former. Just as the Fed created the money the made the dot.com and real estate bubbles, the Fed's money creation is funneling all that extra cash into commodities as the hedge funds scramble for more profits and ordinary people try to protect their savings. Add a little extra for the uncertainty caused by saber-rattling against Iran (and recent simulated Iranian bombing missions by the Israelis), and you get record high prices. Who remembers that before Bush invaded Iraq five years ago oil was just $27 a barrel? And gold was priced at a mere $330 per ounce? Any realtionship to Bush's war? Nah. Just move on along folks . . . . Nothing to see here.
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And finally, Justin Raimondo discusses the unholy alliance of the Demopublicans in The Welfare-Warfare State: How it works. All those folks who gave the Democrats an electoral mandate in 2006 to end the Iraq war shouldn't be puzzeled by the Democrats' failure to carry out that mandate. They're part of the War Party as I discussed a few days ago in "The Two Party Charade Continues." In exchange for some paltry funding for some social programs, the Dems gave Bush all the funding he wanted AND increased his autonomy to wage war in the Middle East. Listening to my liberal-progressive friends rationalize the betrayals of their party leadership shows how easy it is for the masters who run both the War Party plantations to keep their servile subjects in line.