tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-96221052024-03-07T15:57:56.447-12:00EuroYank NEW WORLD ORDER REPORTSA MULTIMEDIA BLOG over 10,000 VideosEuroYank - Virginia Hogehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06079239479407310692noreply@blogger.comBlogger458125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9622105.post-33866630954086107692009-07-09T00:47:00.054-12:002009-10-20T18:44:21.022-12:00The Failure of Obamanomics<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQD0KVYfOXrqL1JAL8jY46Oe4E67utagn-LcZxWvEwKbRke1uq371RqSInSvo5PzvEc8OP1MY0-rpqdz_HDYCzB3kDJY1Fgg6o_4Z6pH0fix759wA1o1KhA1RI0IZt4n0eStmthw/s1600-h/FeedReserve.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 278px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQD0KVYfOXrqL1JAL8jY46Oe4E67utagn-LcZxWvEwKbRke1uq371RqSInSvo5PzvEc8OP1MY0-rpqdz_HDYCzB3kDJY1Fgg6o_4Z6pH0fix759wA1o1KhA1RI0IZt4n0eStmthw/s320/FeedReserve.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5356449768333384882" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Failure of the<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"> </span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Economic Stimulus Package</span></span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">The data is in. Here’s what happened:</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">1. Household personal income (inflation adjusted) rose but every penny - and then some - went into savings or paying down debts. Consumer spending, on which Obama is betting to stimulate the economy, actually fell. None of the stimulus money was sent. None.</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">2. Meanwhile, to pay for this stimulus spending that didn’t stimulate, Obama had to borrow so much money that long term interest rates have almost doubled since he took office, forcing postponement of abandonment of business expansion and hiring across the board.</span><br /></div><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">What a <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">record!</span></span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheXtXZtuWScsbR3miDd_hT6dKK4Qdn5I8WbtDGvYDFObZYNo3Je7cN7xF6P1Uw4ieSa3qiTsc42Vezd2ptAwmtTrPQe8azkFlu_LV12vFYq5r39-Ii07gsb-zDxvdQSdiaOsz_gA/s1600-h/090212_economic_stimulus.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheXtXZtuWScsbR3miDd_hT6dKK4Qdn5I8WbtDGvYDFObZYNo3Je7cN7xF6P1Uw4ieSa3qiTsc42Vezd2ptAwmtTrPQe8azkFlu_LV12vFYq5r39-Ii07gsb-zDxvdQSdiaOsz_gA/s320/090212_economic_stimulus.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5356450071529333986" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">Here are the details. In April, personal household, inflation-adjusted income rose by $122 billion. Of that increase, one-third or $44 billion came from the government’s stimulus program.</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">But while personal income was rising, household savings (which includes paying down credit card balances, mortgages, student loans, car loans, etc) rose by $132 billion — $10 billion more than the rise in income. So personal consumption dropped 0.1%.</span><br /></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIFFaiUa-_KzLjlFHyPqBzvu_n1inaU7OxyTR8RhlgC1k_ONt8uBC3kM06p9fJ1KY-H5ac09CM3G75Lfal5dBJIHJMkPYwWpHczuI84cwxMW_WX15p9O6FVyb_rjjT90mh9G-BRw/s1600-h/obama_computer.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIFFaiUa-_KzLjlFHyPqBzvu_n1inaU7OxyTR8RhlgC1k_ONt8uBC3kM06p9fJ1KY-H5ac09CM3G75Lfal5dBJIHJMkPYwWpHczuI84cwxMW_WX15p9O6FVyb_rjjT90mh9G-BRw/s320/obama_computer.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5356450484835042498" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"><br />The stimulus package was a total and complete failure. As predicted, as happened with Bush’s 2008 tax cut, as happened with the Japanese stimulus packages of the 90s, fearful consumers sat on their money and wouldn’t spend it. Keynesian economics didn’t work. Again.</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">But the debt sure piled up. The deficit quadrupled and is sending interest rates soaring as the government elbows aside businesses and consumers at the loan window, all in a desperate effort to borrow enough money to spend enough money to stimulate the economy which isn’t happening.<br /><br /></span></div><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">Keynesian economics doesn’t work.<br />Consumers are not idiots. </span><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"><br />They know that when their paycheck is fatter - either because of tax cuts or government spending - that it is not the beginning of nirvana but just a short term, one shot respite from hard times. They know the difference between standing in front on an electric fan and a windy day.</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_ZgQDcatbRCaV1qcSvAbGkw-YsmGmEsRfuIGRhUFEuboq2e8L6VLeCfryzNVPhyphenhyphen1mhlRReVCln64jCMPtt4LxRyPiC9IlEYutdCuv-n-_ax1L6Yq85Hy2V8Er6UpM5jodQsrgcg/s1600-h/Economic+Stimulus.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_ZgQDcatbRCaV1qcSvAbGkw-YsmGmEsRfuIGRhUFEuboq2e8L6VLeCfryzNVPhyphenhyphen1mhlRReVCln64jCMPtt4LxRyPiC9IlEYutdCuv-n-_ax1L6Yq85Hy2V8Er6UpM5jodQsrgcg/s320/Economic+Stimulus.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5356450780635538018" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">Barack Obama has fatally undermined our currency, our solvency, our financial stability, and - ultimately - our economy all to spend money that has had no economic effect!</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">Is Obama a failure? Not by his lights. His goal was never to stimulate the economy. His goal was to expand government spending and he used the recession as an excuse to do so.</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">And, by this standard, he is a raging success. With the stimulus spending, the government proportion of GDP will rise from about 35% to about 40% and with health care “reform” it will go soaring into the mid-forties, bringing us to parity with Germany en route to France!</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">The results are in: <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">None of Obama’s spending</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> is doing anything </span>to help the economy.<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqGu9lSnvdt_PcVIl9ofNn_KDNLzNJv2ttNZIcbj-vcNkLH5JmoIzijHountTtO9w8uZCW5IBA2zy8DCnw_-ebq3hTv6pSxsumijMOuiFL6itSbJG54BRpUlzGPn5Kxr9M0IIr4Q/s1600-h/obama-budget1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 262px; height: 262px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqGu9lSnvdt_PcVIl9ofNn_KDNLzNJv2ttNZIcbj-vcNkLH5JmoIzijHountTtO9w8uZCW5IBA2zy8DCnw_-ebq3hTv6pSxsumijMOuiFL6itSbJG54BRpUlzGPn5Kxr9M0IIr4Q/s320/obama-budget1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5356453296553760050" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">Of course, the process of household savings, designed to pay down debt, is very healthy. Economists call it de-leveraging. By the start of the recession, the debt American households owe had risen from 70% of their annual income in 1995 to 140% (excluding mortgages).</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">Now it is on its way back down again. And, eventually, that will lead to a real recovery — If Obama doesn’t wreck the currency and bring on mega-inflation before then.</span></div><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Reference</span><br /><a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.dickmorris.com/blog/2009/06/03/the-failure-of-obamanomics/">*Failure of Obamanomics</a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguqVDlpl1t13KXMu89tu93VO9ZtUSuU8NMXYAnCM4CtfeeyMnrGMwEIVFnP93gWYC-OLvnk9Q7476VxLfVzHwKNrSzkv1VV6nMrAxw21aHwn0Kb6-wTgN48E0uomoIDkCK_JKTVg/s1600-h/stack-of-money.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 256px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguqVDlpl1t13KXMu89tu93VO9ZtUSuU8NMXYAnCM4CtfeeyMnrGMwEIVFnP93gWYC-OLvnk9Q7476VxLfVzHwKNrSzkv1VV6nMrAxw21aHwn0Kb6-wTgN48E0uomoIDkCK_JKTVg/s320/stack-of-money.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5356455074246388674" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">New money created on the strength of a flood of new debt, is tantamount to pouring gasoline on the fire, making prices fall and the economy contract even more.</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">The Obama administration has missed its historic opportunity to stop the deflation and depression inherited from the Bush administration because it entrusted the same people with the task of damage-control who had caused the disaster in the first place: the Keynesian and Friedmanite money doctors in the Fed and the Treasury.</span><br /></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaQi2Gg2WalagZXajQQtWCVEo4wSXlMQc3fv5OrvHTrICYG90Zy_2JbOHTQkKX1_1pMpX8CGEqAmQ2cQMgeqpFBaOtJ_U-9LayK2i6CmBu0y3UqdlyPf6AUUrHfKZtY4xVhPL3pA/s1600-h/29520567-washington-deficit.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 260px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaQi2Gg2WalagZXajQQtWCVEo4wSXlMQc3fv5OrvHTrICYG90Zy_2JbOHTQkKX1_1pMpX8CGEqAmQ2cQMgeqpFBaOtJ_U-9LayK2i6CmBu0y3UqdlyPf6AUUrHfKZtY4xVhPL3pA/s320/29520567-washington-deficit.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5356456307648284418" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Watching the <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">wrong ratio</span></span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">The key to understanding the problem is the marginal productivity of debt , a concept curiously missing from the vocabulary of mainstream economics. Keynesians take comfort in the fact that total debt as a percentage of total GDP is safely below 100 in the United States while it is 100 and perhaps even more in some other countries.</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">However, the significant ratio to watch is additional debt to additional GDP , or the amount of GDP contributed by the creation of $1 in new debt. It is this ratio that determines the quality of debt .</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">Indeed, the higher the ratio, the more successful entrepreneurs are in increasing productivity, which is the only valid justification for going into debt in the first place.</span><br /></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgA75Fg4-0_gcf4oAvgKqKoLGO8nnugPh6-HLDNmMVVzo-wPtJ2iUcLX1MhXxCkZJ_7a3Xn35h1n_2r72ZzlniYs8cK7HTgEliElNQ3leopH4Y15n4oDUQmCF8qwVDrXQ8UIROGnw/s1600-h/lk0122d5.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 232px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgA75Fg4-0_gcf4oAvgKqKoLGO8nnugPh6-HLDNmMVVzo-wPtJ2iUcLX1MhXxCkZJ_7a3Xn35h1n_2r72ZzlniYs8cK7HTgEliElNQ3leopH4Y15n4oDUQmCF8qwVDrXQ8UIROGnw/s320/lk0122d5.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5356457121319884034" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">Conversely, a serious fall in that ratio is a danger sign that the quality of debt is deteriorating, and contracting additional debt has no economic justification.</span><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">The volume of debt is rising faster than national income, and capital supporting production is eroding fast.</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">If, as in the worst-case scenario, the ratio falls into negative territory, the message is that the economy is on a collision course and crash in imminent.</span><br /></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">Not only does more debt add nothing to the GDP, in fact, it causes economic contraction, including greater unemployment.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">The country is eating the seed corn with the result that accumulated capital may be gone before you know it.</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">Immediate action is absolutely necessary to stop the hemorrhage, or the patient will bleed to death.</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-bP4zuYjExUpBOpy_0DkXlGr_Qt9bKlOZHy9o-EoVEve9uHP34CEkYWThUQOdq9FXK_6UW_65ewiurTiIKNVvUT52KxZvb1vVUq7lWEAmRd1yGFtOKcVfC8_zIYbtU2A3Zaf3/s1600-h/stimulusHANDOUTImage1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-bP4zuYjExUpBOpy_0DkXlGr_Qt9bKlOZHy9o-EoVEve9uHP34CEkYWThUQOdq9FXK_6UW_65ewiurTiIKNVvUT52KxZvb1vVUq7lWEAmRd1yGFtOKcVfC8_zIYbtU2A3Zaf3/s320/stimulusHANDOUTImage1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5357456122937041890" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">Keynesians are watching the wrong ratio, that of debt-to-GDP. No wonder they constantly go astray as they miss one danger signal after another. They are sailing in the dark with the aid of the wrong navigational equipment. They are administering the wrong medicine. Their ambulance is unable to diagnose internal hemorrhage that must be stopped lest the patient be dead upon arrival.</span><br /></div><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Early <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">warning</span></span><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">In the 1950’s when the dollar was still redeemable in the sense that foreign governments and central banks could convert their short-term dollar balances into gold at the fixed statutory rate of $35 per ounce, the marginal productivity of debt was 3 or higher, meaning that the addition of $1 in new debt caused the GDP to increase by at least $3.</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9k-4dQexVLQqGSh4ScfG7ZCicCWpK0CxRNlZEiae-ytq37mSu68-R-XAR9FYQMnhHkMIY2A10Y1BtDSAHuI_zU79nqMuEFxSuVrePN4kQGZjtAWZpkWB9aw3y0ox5X8QQYZ6m3Q/s1600-h/r225423_893080.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 205px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9k-4dQexVLQqGSh4ScfG7ZCicCWpK0CxRNlZEiae-ytq37mSu68-R-XAR9FYQMnhHkMIY2A10Y1BtDSAHuI_zU79nqMuEFxSuVrePN4kQGZjtAWZpkWB9aw3y0ox5X8QQYZ6m3Q/s320/r225423_893080.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5356458414030001650" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">By August, 1971, when Nixon defaulted on the international gold obligations of the United States (following in the footsteps of F.D. Roosevelt who had defaulted on its domestic gold obligations 35 years earlier) the marginal productivity of debt has fallen below the crucial level 1. When marginal productivity fell below $1 but was still positive, it meant that total debt (always ‘net’) was rising faster than GDP.</span><br /></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnm9IfgtgIye298ghsZZBnaWgRDlSJnr73jzIKuGqy_ZZEH0w0mGK9etUbZogs70ClxSunk6ZObOiOvG7Ip4VSfOII7oht5cumE7PmmjTbzILcAWINT83_V4Ob3hBG6mFPXHZY9w/s1600-h/iousa-poster-large.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 219px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnm9IfgtgIye298ghsZZBnaWgRDlSJnr73jzIKuGqy_ZZEH0w0mGK9etUbZogs70ClxSunk6ZObOiOvG7Ip4VSfOII7oht5cumE7PmmjTbzILcAWINT83_V4Ob3hBG6mFPXHZY9w/s320/iousa-poster-large.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5356460666250531122" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">For example, if the marginal productivity of debt was ½, then $2 in debt had to be incurred in order to increase the nation’s output of goods and services by $1. An increase in total debt by $1 could no longer reproduce its cost in the form of an equivalent increase in the GDP. Debt lost whatever economic justification it may have once had.</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">The decline in the marginal productivity of debt has continued without interruption thereafter. Nobody took action, in fact, the Keynesian managers of the monetary system and the economy stone-walled this information, keeping the public in the dark.</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">Nor did Keynesian and Friedmanite economists at the universities pay attention to the danger sign. Cheerleaders kept chanting: “Gimme more credit!”</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMihQlwc-psGCigB_DB-3WcpG0No43i9nogFKm028e1PbxUZlA1XlfngSMby0Y5J2tf9RmcBQ2WzjiC1p5c5yi8i6W3Gk6ZYJ7YOKbREVH20ExMpHncrC_oiy9mw7CXjfKRCGtOg/s1600-h/dollars-hourglass-704636.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 214px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMihQlwc-psGCigB_DB-3WcpG0No43i9nogFKm028e1PbxUZlA1XlfngSMby0Y5J2tf9RmcBQ2WzjiC1p5c5yi8i6W3Gk6ZYJ7YOKbREVH20ExMpHncrC_oiy9mw7CXjfKRCGtOg/s320/dollars-hourglass-704636.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5356461132230706706" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">I learned about the importance of the marginal productivity of debt from the circulated Bulletin of Hungarian-born Chicago economist Melchior Palyi in 1969.</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">(There were altogether 640 issues of the Bulletin; they are available in the University of Chicago Library). Palyi warned that the tendency of this most important indicator was down and something should be done about it before the debt-behemoth devoured the economy. Palyi died a few years later and did not live to see the devastation that he so astutely predicted.</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">Others have come to the same conclusion - Peter Warburton in his book Debt and Delusion: Central Bank Follies That Threaten Economic Disaster (see references below) envisages the same outcome, although without the benefit of the concept of the marginal productivity of debt.</span><br /></div><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMgEJCuJ16DIOLC_5BaXdNTx313Vo3NPUD-9c1hMoGwafqIAb9zOOTv1R9SMonO6XHFa5PcTDQyGwkmteAFRyWvnRuWxTfi2NfCM0BAs_NQFybguj2JOQVC6Ry1KWTED0cHpZ4dA/s1600-h/CartoonEconomicStimulus.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 224px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMgEJCuJ16DIOLC_5BaXdNTx313Vo3NPUD-9c1hMoGwafqIAb9zOOTv1R9SMonO6XHFa5PcTDQyGwkmteAFRyWvnRuWxTfi2NfCM0BAs_NQFybguj2JOQVC6Ry1KWTED0cHpZ4dA/s320/CartoonEconomicStimulus.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5356462005765861426" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">The<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> watershed year</span> of 2006</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">As long debt was constrained by the centripetal force of gold in the system, tenuous though this constraint may have been, deterioration in the quality of debt was relatively slow. </span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">Quality caved in, and quantity took a flight to the stratosphere, when the centripetal force was cut and gold, the only ultimate extinguisher of debt there is, was exiled from the monetary system. </span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">Still, it took 35 years before the capital of society was eroded and consumed through a steadily deteriorating marginal productivity of debt.<br /></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_DvSzGyoGzXLQdJLSYLCp6iA1xfLHZSWeLIQ0ule1fASzcLTumdgjFKfYL4T0hRjJvGVjv6WimOPPNFpP5Uyl_Nje1eEeitOeYNHMbEUPW-0DB8QgPsoneJbgI7Y3mfz-dmhogQ/s1600-h/Obama-Commie-Blogger.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 270px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_DvSzGyoGzXLQdJLSYLCp6iA1xfLHZSWeLIQ0ule1fASzcLTumdgjFKfYL4T0hRjJvGVjv6WimOPPNFpP5Uyl_Nje1eEeitOeYNHMbEUPW-0DB8QgPsoneJbgI7Y3mfz-dmhogQ/s320/Obama-Commie-Blogger.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5356462486982207298" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">The year 2006 was the watershed. Late in that year the marginal productivity of debt dropped to zero and went negative for the first time ever, switching on the red alert sign to warn of an imminent economic catastrophe. Indeed, in February, 2007, the risk of debt default as measured by the skyrocketing cost of CDS (credit default swaps) exploded and, as the saying goes, the rest is history.</span><br /></div><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Negative <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">marginal</span> productivity</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">Why is a negative marginal productivity of debt a sign of an imminent economic catastrophe? Because it indicates that any further increase in indebtedness would necessarily cause economic contraction. Capital is gone; further production is no longer supported by the prerequisite quantity and quality of tools and equipment. The economy is literally devouring itself through debt.</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">The message, namely that unbridled breeding of debt through the serial cutting of the rate of interest to zero was destroying society’s capital, has been ignored. The budding financial crisis was explained away through ad hoc reasoning, such as blaming it on loose credit standards, subprime mortgages, and the like.</span><br /></div></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">Nothing was done to stop the real cause of the disaster, the fast-breeder of debt. On the contrary, debt-breeding was further accelerated through bailouts and stimulus packages.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">In view of the fact that the marginal productivity of debt is now negative we can see that the damage-control measures of the Obama administration, which are financed through creating unprecedented amounts of new debt, are counter-productive. Nay, they are the direct cause of further economic contraction of an already prostrate economy, including unemployment.</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">The head of the European Union and Czech prime minister Mirek Topolanek has publicly characterized president Obama’s plan to spend nearly $2 trillion to push the U.S. economy out of recession as “road to hell”. There is absolutely no reason to castigate Mr. Topolanek for this characterization.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">True, it would have been more polite and diplomatic if he had couched his comments in words to the effect that “the Obama plan was made in blissful ignorance of the marginal productivity of debt which was now negative and falling. In consequence more spending on stimulus packages would only stimulate deflation and economic contraction.”</span><br /></div><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Reference</span><br /><a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://socioecohistory.wordpress.com/2009/03/31/why-obamas-stimulus-package-is-doomed-to-failure-the-marginal-productivity-of-debt/">*Stimulus Package Doomed To Failure</a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">The</span> Videos</span><br /><object height="200" width="230"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/bxpCkhyhOL8&hl=en&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/bxpCkhyhOL8&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="200" width="230"></embed></object><object height="200" width="230"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/UidUpr63c0w&hl=en&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/UidUpr63c0w&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="200" width="230"></embed></object><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:85%;" >#1 Grab all the cash you can & make workers pay.#2 Obama Says Stimulus Vital to Avoid 'Catastrophe'</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:85%;" ><object height="200" width="230"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/yg6mKMd8HXI&hl=en&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></object></span></div><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:85%;" ><object height="200" width="230"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/yg6mKMd8HXI&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="200" width="230"></embed></object><object height="200" width="230"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/w_G2rsUCmNE&hl=en&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/w_G2rsUCmNE&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="200" width="230"></embed></object></span><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">#3 President Obama Signs Economic Stimulus Bill Stimulus Plan; Net Job Loss. None #4 Stimulus Bill is Bad for America; Pork and Earmarks</span></span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><object height="200" width="230"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/fm9RE5joCDs&hl=en&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/fm9RE5joCDs&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="200" width="230"></embed></object><object height="200" width="230"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/0T_QjV4aeV8&hl=en&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/0T_QjV4aeV8&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="200" width="230"></embed></object><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">#5 Why Obama's stimulus plan will not work #6 Failure of Bailouts, Stimulus Packages, and Government Economic Planning</span></span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><object height="200" width="230"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/RfMmulZ3OfU&hl=en&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/RfMmulZ3OfU&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="200" width="230"></embed></object><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">#7 Obama, Inflation, the Stimulus and the Great Depression</span></span></div>EuroYank - Virginia Hogehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06079239479407310692noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9622105.post-27106474841855887052009-05-31T11:17:00.003-12:002009-06-02T07:04:29.171-12:00A Journey Through The Graveyard of American Dreams<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBggQNhDfL-D_8qrVFtN7eGMyQu7dS1sv1Tby1Ud2rzNtbTvj_c7DAaUkojTj_FQj-fdzV5_HcXB18z5HT26H7hef0bLvllmlGocWCcP7zlP0Ci4qwwgDhcaPs0oxZjPTFsfg3-Q/s1600-h/americandream2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 260px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBggQNhDfL-D_8qrVFtN7eGMyQu7dS1sv1Tby1Ud2rzNtbTvj_c7DAaUkojTj_FQj-fdzV5_HcXB18z5HT26H7hef0bLvllmlGocWCcP7zlP0Ci4qwwgDhcaPs0oxZjPTFsfg3-Q/s400/americandream2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305541277667307218" border="0" /></a><object width="445" height="364"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/u8PuLnZFz6Q&hl=en&fs=1&border=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/u8PuLnZFz6Q&hl=en&fs=1&border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="445" height="364"></embed></object><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">America Destroyed: The True State of the Union</span></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">(allow 8 sec lead in time)</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Is the <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">American Dream </span>At An End?</span></span><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:85%;" >Reader please watch the videos at the end of this text to get a complete picture of the info presented here. </span><br /></div></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">This is one of the most complicated posts I have ever researched, </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">and one of the most important. To begin - think about this statement - </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">"In 20 years the USA will have a third world work force </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">engaged</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"> </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">in domestic non-tradable services.</span>"</span></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><br /><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">read this article at the link below ...</span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><br /></span><a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" href="http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts12042007.html"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">*</span>The Lies at the End of the American Dream</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-size:130%;" >What Is <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Happening</span></span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><div style="text-align: left;"><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: normal;">One way to comprehend what is happening is to look at the split between how much of the economy is won by profits and how much by wages.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: normal;">The share allotted to corporate profits increased sharply, from 17.7% in 2000 to 20.9% in 2005, while the share going to wages has reached a record low. </span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGBFIdcvlX1a1-P1Bjat2jJ9U36n0ouY9V_KPqZOX9-xHaTegJGKw3SrU9byNTeIN2GIlL5oX66rr895ZC16HxYc0eE5sqytQf4tUoW7ZWMZ4OYdDrMMuUMf-uJqy-nEn0xPaEtQ/s1600-h/cheapLabor.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 379px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGBFIdcvlX1a1-P1Bjat2jJ9U36n0ouY9V_KPqZOX9-xHaTegJGKw3SrU9byNTeIN2GIlL5oX66rr895ZC16HxYc0eE5sqytQf4tUoW7ZWMZ4OYdDrMMuUMf-uJqy-nEn0xPaEtQ/s400/cheapLabor.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305542094660942850" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: normal;">The incomes of the top 20% have grown much faster than the earnings of those at the middle or bottom of the income distribution. </span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: normal;">The income of the top 1% and top 0.1% have grown particularly rapidly. </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: normal;">From 1992 to 2005, the pay of chief executive officers of major companies rose by 186%.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: normal;">The equivalent figure for median hourly wages was 7.2%, leaving the ratio of CEOs' pay to that of the average worker at 262.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: normal;">In the 1960s, the comparable figure was 24. </span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" >Downward <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);">Pressure</span> On Wages</span><br /></div><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: normal;">The Federal minimum wage has been static for a decade.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: normal;">The "China effect,", the idea that low prices of imported manufactured goods are pushing US industry to cut its workforce in order to increase productivity.</span><br /><br /></div></span></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">Public, private and corporate debt</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"> </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">far exceeds any previously known dimensions. Trusting in a future rosier than the present, millions of households are borrowing so much money that they end up endangering the very future they're looking forward to.</span></span></span></span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFTgg2S4XRvKaFEeNM51YjtQiaxicbAVVFsNioQ1Kd1Ff2cfDCFIa_CpR4gDHv6U5dxxAmnNBOqWaZ-w8j5Ad6bcT5CgIjOi9MI3AlPIP2AuLZO-HV2poTPf1jmIXbTgQCu0_goQ/s1600-h/forcloselogo.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 351px; height: 233px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFTgg2S4XRvKaFEeNM51YjtQiaxicbAVVFsNioQ1Kd1Ff2cfDCFIa_CpR4gDHv6U5dxxAmnNBOqWaZ-w8j5Ad6bcT5CgIjOi9MI3AlPIP2AuLZO-HV2poTPf1jmIXbTgQCu0_goQ/s400/forcloselogo.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305542545933770130" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">The lower and middle classes have practically given up on putting aside any savings.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">They're going into the 21st century like a poverty-stricken, Third World family, living from hand to mouth without any financial reserves whatsoever.</span></span></span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">The production sectors such as the furniture industry, consumer electronics, many</span></span> <span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">automobile part suppliers,</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"> </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">and now computer manufacturers have left the country for good.</span></span></span></div></span></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" >American Declining <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Values</span></span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2cbHNJZfOEzwEUxNtwpYeypy6xDonbnw3PjR7Yv2jsucXFMWq-s2U7CWlaYuOEld-5pH1Ddp5ZqvsI_QRP5iyZQRZD6MuGrDzskzytE7HkVl_TweAeFqyPen8mLqYs3MczvnAlQ/s1600-h/0905_clip_image001.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 262px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2cbHNJZfOEzwEUxNtwpYeypy6xDonbnw3PjR7Yv2jsucXFMWq-s2U7CWlaYuOEld-5pH1Ddp5ZqvsI_QRP5iyZQRZD6MuGrDzskzytE7HkVl_TweAeFqyPen8mLqYs3MczvnAlQ/s400/0905_clip_image001.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305544424431722770" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: normal; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">Actual losses in the US real estate market are much higher than what you have been reading in the newspapers recently.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: normal; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">Using a combination of official government statistics and the most widely used index of housing values, we will demonstrate that the US real estate market has lost a total of $6 trillion in value in the last two years.</span><br /></div></div></span></span></span><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.financialsense.com/fsu/editorials/amerman/2008/0905.html"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">*</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Read more </span></a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">The value of the U.S. dollar falling 28 per cent</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"> </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">against other currencies. World financial markets are already starting to bet against the U.S. dollar. Our creditors, particularly Asian central banks, are losing their appetite for U.S. Treasuries.</span></span></span></span></span></span><br /></div><div style="text-align: left; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">The consequences of a rapidly</span> <span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">declining dollar are not yet fully understood by the American public</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">. <span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">The long-term significance has not sunk in,</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"> </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">but when it does there will be political hell to pay in Washington.</span></span></span></span></span> </div><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><br /></span></span></span></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">Our relative wealth as a nation is measured in dollars, and the steady erosion of the value of those dollars means we will all be poorer in the future.</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"> </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">The artificial stimulation of our economy through cheap money comes with a price. </span><br /></span></span></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><br /></span></span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">When dollars are abundant, they are worth less.</span> <span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">This is the reality facing Americans today, especially older Americans who rely on savings to finance their retirement years.</span></span></span></span></span></span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">The government has pumped its currency into the world economy so vigorously that the dollar can now be brought to the point of collapse, and now large parts of the US workforce is standing with its backs against the wall.</span></span></span></span></span></span><br /></div><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><br /></span></span></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: normal;">References</span><br /></div></span></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://www.analyst-network.com/article.php?art_id=1460"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">*</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">America’s Socio-Economic Conundrum</span></a></span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://gothinkblog.com/?p=245"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">*</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Fed Covers Up Declining Dollar</span></a></span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://nyletterpress.wordpress.com/2007/10/02/dollar-watch-2/"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">*</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Effects of our declining currency</span></a></span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZPXUxNkp1q_czHxHIz9WYJBuhg0i-cVJusqcPJDMJvvprHYOCRfc0T-gw90XfV4_AA0K5ZVbBYoFWHEVKIlvFN-ZFNFRCB6JpwnT6cjapTM5XxpaEaXPyorqycnEWfujB5QwkuA/s1600-h/burndol_dees.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 316px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZPXUxNkp1q_czHxHIz9WYJBuhg0i-cVJusqcPJDMJvvprHYOCRfc0T-gw90XfV4_AA0K5ZVbBYoFWHEVKIlvFN-ZFNFRCB6JpwnT6cjapTM5XxpaEaXPyorqycnEWfujB5QwkuA/s320/burndol_dees.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305545933553367218" border="0" /></a><br /></div></span></span></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">For many blue and white-collar workers, this decline</span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"> </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">is already real, because they have less of everything than they used to.</span><br /></span></span></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><br /></span></span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">They possess less money, they are shown less respect in society, and their chances for climbing up the social ladder have deteriorated dramatically.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">They're the losers in the world war for wealth.</span></span></span></span></span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">When a large part of citizens are cut off from the nation's overall wealth, we have to face an uncomfortable reality.</span></span></span></span></span></span><br /></div><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><br /></span></span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">The Rise </span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">of State Fascism</span></span><br /><br /></div></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><div style="text-align: left; color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-weight: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">Last call</span> <span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">to awaken the slumbering promise of our Constitution - or to watch our freedom slither away forever. </span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-weight: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">Corporate media has enabled tyranny to prevail over the truth, because they value profits above all else.</span></span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-weight: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">This is a wake-up call to save us from the final descent into an Orwellian world from which we will not be able to return.</span></span></span></span></div><br /><object width="305" height="235"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ZHABaK7LXYU"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ZHABaK7LXYU" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="305" height="235"></embed></object><object width="305" height="235"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/75KQCNSEh0M"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/75KQCNSEh0M" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="305" height="235"></embed></object><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: normal;font-size:100%;" ><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">American Fascists Part 1 </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: normal;font-size:85%;" >American Fascists Part 2<br /></span><br /><div style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold; text-align: left;"><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: normal;font-size:100%;" ><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:85%;" >Mainstream media corporations like CNN, Fox, and NBC (General Electric) together with giant telecoms like Comcast, Verizon, and AT&T have become administration pawns in a well-organized effort to hijack America.</span></span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:85%;" >A warning for all Americans the media has become a docile lapdog of government while failing at keeping us informed. Those who stay tuned to Fox News, CNN or any other corporate-owned news source realize that the bottom line is what determines newsworthy without having the public's interest in mind.</span><br /></div></span></span></span></span></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><object width="305" height="235"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/lzMAYR9MXgQ"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/lzMAYR9MXgQ" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="305" height="235"></embed></object><object width="305" height="235"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/RyWAYd9MVis"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/RyWAYd9MVis" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="305" height="235"></embed></object><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: normal;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-size:85%;">End of US Democracy Part 1 </span>End of US Democracy Part 2</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">Mainstream media</span> <span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">have failed us in covering issues crucial to the survival of American democracy</span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">.</span></span></span></span></div><br /><div style="text-align: left; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;">Corporate media have systematically attempted to dumb down and distract us from reality with sex and violence; government has used corporate media to shock and awe Americans into surrendering their constitutional rights in the name of the War on Terrorism; and media personalities have been complicit in the mass deception.</span></div></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" >Now when the mainstream media reports from Afghanistan, Iraq, or anywhere around the world, including here in the United States, it is in cooperation with the government. </span><span style="font-weight: normal; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" >Without a functioning media, there is no stopping government from divesting us of our freedom.</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-family:georgia;" ><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Let us now take</span> a video journey through</span></span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" ><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-family:georgia;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">the</span> "Graveyard of American Dreams"</span></span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"> ....</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><object style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" width="250" height="215"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/5kwA-CwFK5A&rel=1"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/5kwA-CwFK5A&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="250" height="215"></embed></object><object width="250" height="215"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/rh_7y0SDDLQ&rel=1"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/rh_7y0SDDLQ&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="250" height="215"></embed></object><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" >Income Inequality and the Middle Class</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" > - Corporate Profits Up, Wages Down</span><br /><object width="250" height="215"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/kpFPlmvn7Gk&rel=1"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/kpFPlmvn7Gk&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="250" height="215"></embed></object><object style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);" width="250" height="215"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/JTW2GwYDvFQ&rel=1"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/JTW2GwYDvFQ&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="250" height="215"></embed></object><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" >Is the American Family Under Attack?</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" > - Haunted House of Economic Horrors</span><br /><object width="250" height="215"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/kKVe5Rdg9EA&rel=1"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/kKVe5Rdg9EA&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="250" height="215"></embed></object><object width="250" height="215"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/38M9vfg4TPE&rel=1"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/38M9vfg4TPE&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="250" height="215"></embed></object><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" >No Jobs for Middle Class </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" >- Facts about the economy</span><br /><object width="250" height="215"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/X2VSQctjuow&rel=1"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/X2VSQctjuow&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="250" height="215"></embed></object><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" >U.S. Trade Policy and Job - Destroying Treaties, WTO & NAFTA</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-family:georgia;" >References</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: normal;font-size:100%;" ><a href="http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,439766,00.html"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">*</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">The American middle class is becoming the loser of globalization.</span></a></span><br /></div></span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-size:100%;" ><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Also see ...</span></span><br /></div></span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: normal;font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;" >"It’s the biggest untold economic story of our time: </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: normal;font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;" >more of<br />the nation’s bounty held in fewer and fewer </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: normal;font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;" >hands, and Bush’s<br />tax cuts are only making the </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: normal;font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;" >problem worse."</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: normal;font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;" ><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><br />References</span></span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"><br /></span></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: normal;font-size:100%;" ><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"><a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/12699486/paul_krugman_on_the_great_wealth_transfer"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">*</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">The Great Wealth Transfer</span></a></span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"><a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/12699486/paul_krugman_on_the_great_wealth_transfer"><br /></a></span></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: normal;font-size:100%;" ><a href="http://mickarran.com/the-great-wealth-transfer/"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">*</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">The Great Wealth Transfer (continued)</span></a></span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);font-size:85%;" ><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizkqQEOE68mib1MUOyMqclGWJkaIIA4MHpXgmf79RSQt75c3OKdn0opJPtysJmy0LKrR75MubC7a91ncFxI178NKtlwJthyXvmC0i-5iK3utGBtJDbkIeWH0G3QuBj-4JSijpaWQ/s1600-h/626_200.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 299px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizkqQEOE68mib1MUOyMqclGWJkaIIA4MHpXgmf79RSQt75c3OKdn0opJPtysJmy0LKrR75MubC7a91ncFxI178NKtlwJthyXvmC0i-5iK3utGBtJDbkIeWH0G3QuBj-4JSijpaWQ/s400/626_200.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305546524365128770" border="0" /></a></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: normal;font-size:100%;" ><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Also see ...</span></span><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: normal;font-size:100%;" >"(Oil) The holy grail of world trade, the basis of neo-liberal growth and prosperity,</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" > </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: normal;font-size:100%;" >is completely dependent on a resource that is not only finite but moving into</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" > </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: normal;font-size:100%;" >decline. The era of globalisation seems destined to be relatively short-lived."</span><br /></div><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: normal;font-size:100%;" ><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Reference</span><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: normal;font-size:100%;" ><a href="http://www.arena.org.au/ARCHIVES/Mag%20Archive/Issue%2091/features91_hinkson.htm"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">*</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Cultural meaning of the oil crisis and the end of growth</span></a></span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNDXHnd3burrekuU4LDKpPJwpJsNdTTn8aJm6KDc78Cx7bdFJhMdSQ1T1PLjE_KBUTsKy-9K2fl04e8pFB0_yzvL1kEn47Lj8xSJgl4zqSqO5D7OrkqHxIsqQjOJcxZyl_NcTBIw/s1600-h/polyp+%28350+x+444%29.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNDXHnd3burrekuU4LDKpPJwpJsNdTTn8aJm6KDc78Cx7bdFJhMdSQ1T1PLjE_KBUTsKy-9K2fl04e8pFB0_yzvL1kEn47Lj8xSJgl4zqSqO5D7OrkqHxIsqQjOJcxZyl_NcTBIw/s400/polyp+%28350+x+444%29.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5154371186262384626" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Race to the Bottom</span><br /></div></span></div><br /><a href="http://www.digg.com/"><br /><img src="http://digg.com/img/badges/91x17-digg-button-alt.gif" alt="Digg!" width="91" height="17" /><br /></a>EuroYank - Virginia Hogehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06079239479407310692noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9622105.post-48959943615980116352009-05-10T13:08:00.017-12:002009-05-23T22:33:06.419-12:00Proof America Is Turning Fascist<div style="text-align: left;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhV9uyXwfNnQdTaWKDWukRoj5CNsYZJP2PgAcklk6XYYGMzLvZyNkimsPu9ALChsPb0VouQobnY5ACyEVx_rJXnSydEdbkmoBT_ocf1_ZDw0qjmFQYARUP4WG4lapdHCfQGXtR6w/s1600-h/marx_dees.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 358px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhV9uyXwfNnQdTaWKDWukRoj5CNsYZJP2PgAcklk6XYYGMzLvZyNkimsPu9ALChsPb0VouQobnY5ACyEVx_rJXnSydEdbkmoBT_ocf1_ZDw0qjmFQYARUP4WG4lapdHCfQGXtR6w/s400/marx_dees.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5334370828330616514" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-family:arial;">Simply put, the years ahead will prove to be nothing short of a modern Dark Age for many Americans. The United States’ loss of standing – economically, politically, socially, militarily, metaphorically – will be the catalyst for an array of changes. Over time, the effects will be powerful and far-reaching.</span></span><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-family:arial;"># Globalization will shift into reverse.</span></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-family:arial;"># Armed conflicts will increase amid heightened competition for food, water, and energy.</span></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-family:arial;"># Communities, countries, and trading blocs – including the European Monetary Union and NAFTA – will split apart in the wake of heightened social, ethnic, and economic tensions.</span></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-family:arial;"># Political structures will be in flux, as local leaders gain influence at the expense of national authorities.</span></span><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-family:arial;">Many factors account for the coming changes. For one thing, the U.S. is no longer the world’s economic locomotive, but is instead dependent on the kindness of foreigners. More and more nations are competing for a shrinking pool of resources that Americans have long taken for granted. Emerging powers such as China and India are asserting their desire – and their right – to set the global agenda.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-family:arial;">No doubt many Americans will find this hard to accept. But they will have little choice. After five decades of unprecedented peace and prosperity built on the foundation stone of U.S. economic and military might, the winds of change are blowing hard. Foreigners no longer see us as the sole superpower. In Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and elsewhere, America has proven itself vulnerable. Challengers are poised to make their move.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-family:arial;">Although the turbulence that is set to unfold will reverberate around the globe, it is Americans who will face the rudest awakening. They will be forced to rethink livelihoods, lifestyles, and living arrangements. In fact, many individuals and businesses will have to make dramatic adjustments just to survive. Carrying on as before could be the biggest mistake of all.</span></span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-weight: bold;">America Is <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Turning Fascist.</span> Here is <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">the proof for those not awake</span> yet. </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-weight: bold;">Take notice of<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> every video here</span> and spread the word!</span><br /><br /><object width="300" height="250"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/zFz8P1igWHk&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/zFz8P1igWHk&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="300" height="250"></embed></object><object width="300" height="250"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/kBP8e3NCMHs&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/kBP8e3NCMHs&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="300" height="250"></embed></object><object width="300" height="250"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/KHx4poqYYEQ&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/KHx4poqYYEQ&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="300" height="250"></embed></object><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" >- America is turning Fascist Part 1 - America is turning Fascist Part 2 - America is turning Fascist Part 3 - </span><br /><object width="300" height="250"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/dIbTg9YzURg&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/dIbTg9YzURg&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="300" height="250"></embed></object><object width="300" height="250"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/YD3GFe5pIPI&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/YD3GFe5pIPI&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="300" height="250"></embed></object><object width="300" height="250"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/4bez5iAAGd0&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/4bez5iAAGd0&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="300" height="250"></embed></object><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" >America is turning Fascist Part 4 - America is turning Fascist Part 5 - America is turning Fascist Part 6 -</span><br /></div>EuroYank - Virginia Hogehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06079239479407310692noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9622105.post-16159353159592684832009-05-05T01:28:00.006-12:002009-05-06T16:50:31.707-12:00An American War Crime That Has No End<div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Depleted Uranium</span><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">The Biggest</span> <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">American Censored <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">News</span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"> Story</span></span><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXx6YWlpxI9snJstFQfCJBVI5H4aiOpq62vJgZGvR35pt621viqtsLpBN3Z3c_Ja8RCHvdP62_qSz9nZCEicgFzLzJqJfFVy_hx1Jr5xBa80FiDBNKZR3V6MqbWU6OUS_LEFsCZA/s1600-h/CADU_Poster_by_stillshots.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXx6YWlpxI9snJstFQfCJBVI5H4aiOpq62vJgZGvR35pt621viqtsLpBN3Z3c_Ja8RCHvdP62_qSz9nZCEicgFzLzJqJfFVy_hx1Jr5xBa80FiDBNKZR3V6MqbWU6OUS_LEFsCZA/s400/CADU_Poster_by_stillshots.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5186871262504892418" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >The <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Most Ignored & Covered Up</span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >by Mass Media News Story ...</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-size:130%;" ><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Hundreds of Thousands</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">of American Troops</span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-size:130%;" ><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-size:130%;" ><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Contaminated, dying, and disabled <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">from</span></span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> </span></span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Depleted</span></span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-size:130%;" ><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Uranium</span> </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">by </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">American Arms.</span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdEyajcpnLYqzZZJS82uI7dJhiJfJiNP40X6apTSyKpY8TlxdWpSqxPsaEIV0AoiORZ1zdfHTGpMgfnhEBlYldryTbtgYOMMNJuNkeSxsIc7zRGo4O3UQ5m301Ec9GSj9FXqVBPg/s1600-h/depleted-uranium.2005.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdEyajcpnLYqzZZJS82uI7dJhiJfJiNP40X6apTSyKpY8TlxdWpSqxPsaEIV0AoiORZ1zdfHTGpMgfnhEBlYldryTbtgYOMMNJuNkeSxsIc7zRGo4O3UQ5m301Ec9GSj9FXqVBPg/s400/depleted-uranium.2005.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5186520483935893490" border="0" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" >Since 1991, the United States has staged four wars using</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" ><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" >depleted uranium weaponry, illegal under all international</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" ><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" >treaties, conventions and agreements, </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" >as well as under US military law.</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/244/2675/640/image010%20%28215%20x%20140%29.jpg"><img style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 2px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/244/2675/320/image010%20%28215%20x%20140%29.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">America’s <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Big Dirty</span> Secret</span></span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><div style="text-align: left; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: normal; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">Depleted Uranium weapons are called "Dirty" because much of the uranium-235 isotope useful for nuclear power fuel and weapons has been separated. "Depleted" does not mean that its biological hazards have been made less harmful or reduced one iota.</span><br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-weight: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">DU burns on impact, converting the uranium into lots of particles that are easily inhaled and can cause lung cancers.</span> <span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">Uranium-238 has a half-life roughly as long as the Earth has been in existence. DU tipped weapons are the real "dirty bombs" and are a war crime to manufacture and use.</span></span></span></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-4eVE2BNQBPvHjOVed0oX7gGvS7PcLK8cFgMXfGVMn9n_DY_xXpn0PLQAZLbRLjNK45g_XQewKGnmmMDiNYbAykotToX0P-A4bSG5RdweX09SC-CyKJb-xHBb9oPHHChp2_U0gw/s1600-h/DU_shell_1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-4eVE2BNQBPvHjOVed0oX7gGvS7PcLK8cFgMXfGVMn9n_DY_xXpn0PLQAZLbRLjNK45g_XQewKGnmmMDiNYbAykotToX0P-A4bSG5RdweX09SC-CyKJb-xHBb9oPHHChp2_U0gw/s400/DU_shell_1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5244460383356470242" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-weight: normal; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">Radiation emitted by DU (Depleted Uranium) threatens the human body because, once DU dust has been inhaled, it becomes an internal radiation source; international radiation protection standards, the basis of expert claims that DU is harmless, deal only with external radiation sources;</span> </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: normal;font-size:100%;" >Dirty DU Uranium from reactors, recycled for use in munitions, contains additional highly toxic elements, such as plutonium, 1.6 kilogrammes of which could kill 8 (eight) billion people.</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" > </span></div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-size:130%;" ><br /></span><div style="text-align: left; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);font-size:100%;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">In a French TV documentary on Canal+ in January 2001, a team of researchers presented the results of an investigation into a gaseous diffusion recycling plant in Paducah, Kentucky, USA</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">. </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">According to the lawyer for 100,000 plaintiffs, who are past and present plant employees, they were contaminated because of flagrant non-compliance with basic safety standards; the entire plant is irrevocably contaminated, as is everything it produces.</span> <a href="http://mondediplo.com/2002/03/03uranium"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">*</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Read More</span></a></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></div></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">American <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">War Crimes </span></span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Depleted Uranium</span> Videos</span></span><br /><object width="305" height="235"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Np2v1EtQnSk&hl=en"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Np2v1EtQnSk&hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="305" height="235"></embed></object><object width="305" height="235"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/lR4z9ohRxEc&hl=en"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/lR4z9ohRxEc&hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="305" height="235"></embed></object><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: normal;">Iraq conspiracy -</span> <span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: normal;">Illegal DEPLETED URANIUM</span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: normal;font-size:130%;" > </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: normal;font-size:130%;" >Videos</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span></div><br /><div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-size:180%;" ><span style="font-size:130%;">Iraq </span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" >War Crimes Videos </span><br /></span><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-size:130%;" >US Weapons <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Causing Iraqi</span> Birth Defects</span><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /></span></div></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><object width="305" height="235"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/gFLJyrxs1ls&hl=en"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/gFLJyrxs1ls&hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="305" height="235"></embed></object><object width="305" height="235"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/i9kMW2qrxEE&hl=en"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/i9kMW2qrxEE&hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="305" height="235"></embed></object><br /><br /><object width="305" height="235"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/YcIHTO8CaW8&hl=en"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/YcIHTO8CaW8&hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="305" height="235"></embed></object><object width="305" height="235"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/vRIa0_ah8sI&hl=en"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/vRIa0_ah8sI&hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="305" height="235"></embed></object><object width="305" height="235"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/BQhvX6Vbvhc&hl=en"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/BQhvX6Vbvhc&hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="305" height="235"></embed></object><br /></div></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/244/2675/640/500x500_bfa99307c14ec4e87aa10ee1775492fa%20%28215%20x%20141%29.jpg"><img style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 2px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/244/2675/320/500x500_bfa99307c14ec4e87aa10ee1775492fa%20%28215%20x%20141%29.jpg" border="0" /></a></span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-size:130%;" >Depleted Uranium Videos are</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);font-size:130%;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">extremely scarce</span> </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">here are a few more</span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" >See the Videos ...</span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/09/30/1411222"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">*</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Contaminated with Depleted Uranium</span></a></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://www.planetvids.com/html/Depleted-Uranium-Problem.html"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">*</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Depleted Uranium Problem</span></a></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><a href="http://www.winc.tv/cgi-bin/artman/exec/search.cgi?keyword=Coverage%20Differs%20on%20Use%20of%20Depleted%20Uranium%20in%20Warfare&cat=38&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;perpage=10&year=1999&template=search/search_results.html"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">*</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Depleted Uranium Secrecy</span></a></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-size:130%;" ><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><a href="http://d3779995.u30.infinology.com/photos/NM_Dust_Damacio_II.htm"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">*</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Depleted Uranium Study</span></a></span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >Military<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> Secrecy</span></span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-size:100%;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">The vast majority of servicemen and women in the U.S. military, and likely in the armed forces of other countries which are developing or have obtained depleted uranium munitions,</span> <span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">are unaware of the use and dangers of depleted uranium munitions, or of the protective clothing and procedures which can minimize or prevent serious short-term exposures.</span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-size:130%;" ><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">The following</span> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">military DU training videos</span></span></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span>sat on shelves seldom shown</span></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-size:100%;" ><a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3581.htm"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">*</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Depleted Uranium Hazard Awareness</span></a></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-size:100%;" ><a href="http://www.amc.army.mil/amc/sf/DU_Q4.html"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">*</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Standard DU Army Training Video</span></a></span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);font-size:100%;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">The continued use of this illegal radioactive weaponry, which has already contaminated vast regions with low level radiation and will contaminate other parts of the world over time, is indeed a world affair and an international issue.</span></span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/244/2675/640/image044%20%28215%20x%20144%29.jpg"><img style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 2px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/244/2675/320/image044%20%28215%20x%20144%29.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" >Read more ...</span><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://www.mindfully.org/Nucs/2004/DU-Trojan-Horse1jul04.htm"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">*</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Depleted Uranium:The Trojan Horse of Nuclear War</span></a></span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-size:100%;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">The last Iraq war was about Iraq possessing illegal</span> <span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">weapons of mass destruction</span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" > </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" >yet we are using weapons of mass destruction ourselves.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/244/2675/640/image014%20%28215%20x%20143%29.jpg"><img style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 2px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/244/2675/320/image014%20%28215%20x%20143%29.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" >Read more ...</span><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0330-02.htm"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">*</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">US forces use of depleted uranium weapons is illegal</span></a></span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-size:100%;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">In June 2003, the World Health Organization announced in a press release that global cancer rates will increase 50 percent by 2020. What else do they know that they aren’t telling us?</span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" >Read more ..</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >.</span><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://www.truthout.org/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/4/5878"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">*</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Dirty bombs, dirty missiles, dirty bullets</span></a></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://www.abolition2000.org/site/c.cdJIKKNpFqG/b.1316403/k.507D/Depleted_Uranium_Working_Group.htm"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">*</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Depleted Uranium Ammunition:Nuclear Waste as a Weapon</span></a></span><br /></span></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/244/2675/640/Book%20%28255%20x%20180%29%20%28225%20x%20159%29.0.jpg"><img style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 2px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/244/2675/320/Book%20%28255%20x%20180%29%20%28225%20x%20159%29.0.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-size:130%;" >Children <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">of the Gulf War</span> Photo Exhibit</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Warning</span> </span><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">-</span></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"> </span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Extreme Graphic Violence</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://www.savewarchildren.org/exhibitPictures.html"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">*</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Save the War Children</span></a></span><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://www.savewarchildren.org/products.html"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">*</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Children of the Gulf War</span></a></span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/244/2675/640/du_killer.jpg"><img style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 2px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/244/2675/320/du_killer.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" >From Gulf War I, fully 75% of our fighting men who were on the ground are now dead, dying, or sick from Depleted Uranium.</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" > </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" >There are reports that the Pentagon is preventing American soldiers from writing home to complain about the variety of illness afflicting them because of the deadly combination of Depleted Uranium and Toxic Vaccinations.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/244/2675/640/image051%20%28215%20x%2098%29.jpg"><img style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 2px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/244/2675/320/image051%20%28215%20x%2098%29.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-size:100%;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" >The Pentagon is said to be threatening to muster out soldiers who complain, thus cutting off their medical care after they get out. However, when these men do return home and they are very ill from D.U. contamination, the Pentagon is refusing to</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;"> </span> <span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://www.cuttingedge.org/news/n1955.cfm"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">*</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">admit that these men are sick with D.U.!</span> </span></a></span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:100%;">THE <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">PENTAGON IS DENYING MEDICAL CARE</span></span></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:100%;">FOR VETERANS STRICKEN BY</span></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">DEPLETED URANIUM (D.U.)</span> CONTAMINATION!</span></span><br /></div></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/244/2675/640/du-panzer%20%28215%20x%20137%29.jpg"><img style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 2px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/244/2675/320/du-panzer%20%28215%20x%20137%29.jpg" border="0" /></a></span></span></span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >Denial At the Top</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >of the Administration</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" ><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">Former Head Of Pentagon's Depleted Uranium Project Says Thousands Of Troops Are</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"> </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">Sick and Dying</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"> </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">From Illegal DU</span> <span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">Use and the Military's Failure To Admit Responsibility.</span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-size:100%;" ><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">Maj. Rokke said his warnings as well as warnings from many other experts were not only dismissed by the military,</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"> </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">but also by every other bigwig on Capital Hill, including President Clinton, Senator John Kerry and every other member of Congress, all very much aware of his position since he even addressed the 2000 Fall Congressional Coalition Leadership at its quarterly breakfast in Washington D.C.</span></span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" >Read On ...</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-size:100%;" ><a href="http://www.prisonplanet.com/Pages/Aug05/200805DU.htm"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">*</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Military's Failure To Admit Responsibility</span></a></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-size:100%;" ><a href="http://home.clara.net/heureka/gaia/du.htm"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">*</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Behind Depleted Uranium</span></a></span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/244/2675/640/0965691608.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_%20%28215%20x%20335%29.jpg"><img style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 2px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/244/2675/320/0965691608.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_%20%28215%20x%20335%29.jpg" border="0" /></a></span></span></span><br /></div><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-size:100%;" ><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Read parts of the book ...</span></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-size:100%;" ><a href="http://www.iacenter.org/depleted/mettoc.htm"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">*</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">How the Pentagon Radiates Soldiers & Civilians with DU Weapons</span></a></span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" >It is happening again to a new generation of veterans. Some of today's soldiers were in day care centers in 1991 when Dick Cheney first authorized the wholesale use of radioactive munitions. It is happening again despite the fact that 70% of all Gulf War I veterans are on medical disability fifteen years after the end of the first war against Saddam Hussein.</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" ><br /></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" >We are witnessing the same symptoms of radioactive poisoning today as fifteen years ago. We are hearing the same denial of reality from Donald Rumsfeld's Department of Defense (DOD).</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" > </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" >What's worse is that, since 1998, veterans are eligible for free health care for only the first two years after being demobilized.</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" > </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" >After that, an ailing veteran has to prove his or her illness is service-connected. In the next article we'll describe what that burden has meant to ailing Iraq vets.</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/244/2675/640/785035726.jpg"><img style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 2px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/244/2675/320/785035726.jpg" border="0" /></a></span></span></span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-size:100%;" ><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Read On ...</span></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-size:100%;" ><a href="http://www.countercurrents.org/us-hall280406.htm"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">*</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">GI's Beware</span></a></span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-size:100%;" ><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">A special report published by eminent scientist</span> </span><a href="http://www.mindfully.org/Nucs/2003/Leuren-Moret-ICT13dec03.htm"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">*</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Leuren Moret</span></a><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> </span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" ><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">naming</span> </span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" >depleted uranium as the definitive cause of the Gulf War Syndrome has fed </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-size:100%;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">a</span><a href="http://www.axisoflogic.com/cgi-bin/exec/view.pl?archive=137&num=15334&printer=1"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> *</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">growing scanda</span>l</span></a><span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 51);"> </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">about the continued use of uranium munitions by the US Military.</span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></div><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);font-size:100%;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">The Veterans Administration acknowledged a third of all living Gulf War veterans, 181,996 were collecting</span> </span><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://vawatchdog.org/old%20newsflashes%20AUG%2006/newsflash08-11-2006-1.htm"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">*</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">service-related disability pensions.</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"> <span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"> </span></span></a></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" ><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">Now the same thing is happening to veterans of "Operation Iraqi Freedom."</span></span></span></span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/244/2675/640/horror_of_iraqi_invasion_2%20%28225%20x%20135%29.jpg"><img style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 2px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/244/2675/320/horror_of_iraqi_invasion_2%20%28225%20x%20135%29.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" >Civilian populations in Afghanistan and Iraq and occupying troops have been</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/95178_du12.shtml"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">*</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">contaminated</span></a><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"> </span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" >with astounding levels of radioactive depleted and non-depleted uranium as a result of post 9/11 United States’ use of tons of uranium munitions. Researchers say surrounding countries are bound to feel the effects as well.</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" >The Pentagon used its radioactive arsenal mainly in the</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-size:100%;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"> </span><a href="http://www.iacenter.org/depleted/du-warcrime.htm"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">*</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">urban centers</span></a><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">,</span> </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" >rather</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" ><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" >than in desert battlefields as in 1991. Many hundreds of thousands of Iraqi people</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" ><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" >and U.S. soldiers, along with British, Polish, Japanese and Dutch soldiers sent to join the occupation, will suffer the consequences.</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" >The real extent of injuries, chronic illness, long-term disabilities and genetic birth defects won't be apparent for five to 10 years.</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/244/2675/640/uranium-parody.0.jpg"><img style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 2px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/244/2675/320/uranium-parody.0.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(102, 102, 0);"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" >While officially, only 467</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" > </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" >soldiers were wounded during the first Gulf War, according to Terry Jemison at</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" > </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" >the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), of the more than 592,560 discharged</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" > </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" >personnel who served there, at least 179,310 - one third - are receiving disa</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" >bility compensation and over 24,760 additional cases were pending as of September 2004.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" >Cancer, respiratory diseases and horrible birth defects have been widespread in</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-size:100%;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">Iraq even after Gulf War I and are bound to increase.</span></span></div></div><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" >Read more ...</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2004/09/17/uranium_munitions_are_weapons_of_mass_destruction_use_is_a_war_crime_experts.htm"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">*</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Uranium Munitions Are Weapons of Mass Destruction</span></a></span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" >This number of disabled veterans is shockingly high. Most are in their mid-thirties</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" ><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" >and should be in the prime of health. Before sending troops to the Gulf region, the</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" ><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" >military had already sifted out those with disabilities or chronic health problems</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" ><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" >from asthma, diabetes, heart conditions, cancers and birth defects. </span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/244/2675/640/depleted_ur_Lge.jpg"><img style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 2px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/244/2675/320/depleted_ur_Lge.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" >In 2003 scientists from the</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" > </span><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://www.mindfully.org/Nucs/2002/Afghan-Destruction-Effects-UMRCNov02.htm"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">*</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Uranium Medical Research Center (UMRC)</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"> </span></span></a><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">studied urine samples of Afghan civilians and found that 100% of the samples taken had levels of non-depleted uranium (NDU) 400% to 2000% higher than normal levels. The UMRC research team studied six sites, two in Kabul and others in the Jalalabad area.</span><br /></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" ><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">The civilians were tested four months</span> <span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">after the attacks in Afghanistan</span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"> </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">by the</span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" > </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" ><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">United States</span> <span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">and its allies.</span></span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-size:100%;" ><a href="http://www.afghandufund.org/faq.html"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">*</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">NDU</span></a> <span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">is more radioactive than depleted uranium (DU), which itself is charged with causing many cancers and severe birth defects in the Iraqi population, especially children over the past ten years. Four million pounds of radioactive uranium was dropped on Iraq in 2003 alone. Uranium dust will be in the bodies of our returning armed forces.</span></span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/244/2675/640/antiwarsf_0087%20%28225%20x%20300%29.jpg"><img style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 2px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/244/2675/320/antiwarsf_0087%20%28225%20x%20300%29.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" >Conducted at the request of The News, as the U.S. government considers the cost of $1,000 per affected soldier prohibitive, the test found that four of the nine men were contaminated with high levels of DU, likely caused by inhaling dust from depleted uranium shells fired by U.S. troops.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" >Most American weapons (missiles, smart bombs, dumb bombs, bullets, tank shells, cruise missiles, etc.) contain high amounts of radioactive uranium.</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" ><br /></span><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" >Depleted or non-depleted, these types of weapons, on detonation, release a radioactive dust which, when inhaled, goes into the body and stays there.</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" ><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" >It has a half-life of 4.5 billion years.</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" >Basically, it’s a permanently available contaminant, distributed in the environment, where dust storms or any water nearby can disperse it. Once ingested, it releases subatomic particles that slice through DNA.</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/244/2675/640/depleted%20uranium%20is%20nuclear%20war.jpg"><img style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 2px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/244/2675/320/depleted%20uranium%20is%20nuclear%20war.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" >UMRC’s Field Team found several hundred Afghan civilians with acute symptoms of radiation poisoning along with chronic symptoms of internal uranium contamination, including congenital problems in newborns.</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" ><br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" >Local civilians reported large, dense dust clouds and smoke plumes rising from the point of impact, an acrid smell, followed by burning of the nasal passages, throat and upper respiratory tract</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >.</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" ><br /></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" >Subjects in all locations presented identical symptom profiles and chronologies. The victims reported symptoms including pain in the cervical column, upper shoulders and basal area of the skull, lower back/kidney pain, joint and muscle weakness, sleeping difficulties, headaches, memory problems and disorientation.</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/244/2675/640/IraqwarUbom11.jpg"><img style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 2px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/244/2675/320/IraqwarUbom11.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" >At the Uranium Weapons Conference held October 2003 in Hamburg, Germany, independent scientists from around the world testified to a huge increase in birth deformities and cancers wherever NDU and DU had been used.</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" ><br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" >Professor Katsuma Yagasaki, a scientist at the Ryukyus University, Okinawa calculated that the 800 tons of DU used in Afghanistan is the radioactive equivalent of 83,000 Nagasaki bombs. The amount of DU used in Iraq is equivalent to 250,000 Nagasaki bombs.</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" >At the Uranium Weapons Conference, a demonstration by British-trained oncologist Dr. Jawad Al-Ali showed photographs of the kinds of birth deformities and tumors he had observed at the Saddam Teaching Hospital in Basra just before the 2003 war.</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" ><br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" >Cancer rates had increased dramatically over the previous fifteen years.</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" ><br /></span></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/244/2675/640/IraqwarUbom21.jpg"><img style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 2px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/244/2675/320/IraqwarUbom21.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /></div><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" >In 1989 there were 11 abnormalities per 100,000 births; in 2001 there were 116 per 100,000— an increase of over a thousand percent. In 1989 34 people died of cancer; in 2001 there were 603 cancer deaths. The 2003 war has increased these figures exponentially.</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" ><br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" >At a meeting of the International Criminal Tribunal for Afghanistan held December 2003 in Tokyo, the U.S. was indicted for multiple war crimes in Afghanistan, among them the use of DU.</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/244/2675/640/image036.jpg"><img style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 2px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/244/2675/320/image036.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" >Leuren Moret, President of Scientists for Indigenous People and Environmental Commissioner for the City of Berkeley, testified that because radioactive contaminants from uranium weapons travel through air, water, and food sources, the effects of U.S. deployment in Afghanistan will be felt in Iran, Pakistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Russia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, China and India. Countries affected by the use of uranium weapons in Iraq include Saudi Arabia, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Israel, Turkey, and Iran.</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" >Veterans groups blame depleted uranium contamination as a factor in Gulf War syndrome, the term for a host of ailments that afflicted thousands of vets from that war.</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/244/2675/640/01s.jpg"><img style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 2px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/244/2675/320/01s.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" >"Anybody, civilian or soldier, who breathes these particles has a permanent dose, and it's not going to decrease very much over time," said Dietz, who retired in 1983 after 33 years as nuclear physicist. "In the long run ... veterans exposed to ceramic uranium oxide have a major problem."</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" ><br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" >Shocking report reveals local troops to be victims of America's high-tech weapons</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" ><br /></span><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Read more ..</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" ><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">.</span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/180333p-156685c.html"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">*</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Troops victims of America's high-tech weapons</span></a></span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" >Depleted uranium, which does not occur in nature, is created as a waste product of uranium enrichment when some of the highly radioactive isotopes in natural uranium, U-235 and U-234, are extracted.</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/244/2675/640/512.jpg"><img style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 2px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/244/2675/320/512.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" >In the Gulf War, Army brass did not warn soldiers about any risks from exploding DU shells. An unknown number of G.I.s were exposed by shrapnel, inhalation or handling battlefield debris.</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" ><br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" >"A large number of American soldiers [in Iraq] may have had significant exposure to uranium oxide dust," ... "And the health impact is worrisome for the future."</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" ><br /></span><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" >When DU shells explode, they permanently contaminate their target and the area immediately around it with low-level radioactivity.</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" ><br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" >Birth defects may stem from his father's Gulf War service. But like many other families, American Vets face official stonewalling--and a frightening future.</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" ><br /></span></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/244/2675/640/gulf01.jpg"><img style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 2px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/244/2675/320/gulf01.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" >Read more ...</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" ><a href="http://www.life.com/Life/essay/gulfwar/gulf02.html"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">*</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">US Veterans Face Frightening Future</span></a></span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" ><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">The use of depleted uranium weaponry by the United States, defying all international treaties, will slowly annihilate all species on earth including the human species, and yet this country continues to do so with full knowledge of its destructive potential</span>.</span></span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" >Read more ...</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://www.mindfully.org/Nucs/2004/DU-Trojan-Horse1jul04.htm"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">*</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Deadly Illegal American Uranium Weapons</span></a></span><br /></div><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);font-size:100%;" >--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">More Bombs Dropped On Iraq</span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:130%;" ><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:130%;" >than were used in WW II</span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/244/2675/640/rolling02.jpg"><img style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 2px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/244/2675/320/rolling02.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" ><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">At least 300 million grams of depleted uranium were deposited on central and</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"> </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">southern Iraq during the Gulf War and subsequent bombings, over 100 million times</span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"> </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">the 0.023 gram maximum exposure</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"> </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">dose permitted for workers in nuclear industry.</span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" ><br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" ><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">Depleted uranium, because of its unique ratio of U-235 to U-238, can be readily identified and has been</span> <span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">found in the urine of exposed individuals as long as 10 years after exposure.</span></span></span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" ><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">During the brief Gulf War,</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"> </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">thousands of tons of bombs were dropped on Iraq, more than were used throughout World War II.</span> <span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">By systematic intent, all electric power generating facilities, water treatment and pumping plants, sewage treatment facilities, and communication centers were bombed.</span></span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" ><br /></span></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/244/2675/640/Depleted-Uranium-desert-storm.jpg"><img style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); 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color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">- Mayday Part 1 - May Day Part 2 -</span></div><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">See these important sources</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"> </span><a href="http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/03/01/18482849.php"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">*</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">May Day USA News and Events</span></a><br /><a href="http://www.thediaryofananarchist.com/search/label/Anarchism"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">*</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">The Anarchism Videos</span></a><br /></span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">May Day</span> USA</span></span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" ><span>In 1887 four Chicago anarchists were executed. A fifth cheated the hangman by killing himself in prison. Three more were to spend 6 years in prison until pardoned by Governor Altgeld who said the trial that convicted them was characterized by "hysteria, packed juries and a biased judge".</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" ><span>The state had, in the words of the prosecution put "Anarchy .. on trial" and hoped their deaths would also be the death of the anarchist idea.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" ><span>The anarchists were trade union organizers and May Day became an international workers day to remember their sacrifice. They were framed on false charges of throwing a bomb at police breaking up a demonstration in Chicago. This was part of a strike demanding an 8 hour day involving 400,000 workers in Chicago that started May 1st 1886 .</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" ><span>The anarchist idea did not die in Chicago in 1887. Today it inspires a new wave of struggle against global capitalism. Join in this struggle.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" ><span>Not many people know why May Day became International Workers Day and why we should still celebrate it. It all began over a century ago when the American Federation of Labor adopted an historic resolution which asserted that "eight hours shall constitute a legal day's labor from and after May 1st, 1886".</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" ><span>In the months prior to this date workers in there thousands were drawn into the struggle for the shorter day. Skilled and unskilled, black and white, men and women, native and immigrant were all becoming involved.</span></span><br /></div><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);font-size:100%;" ><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Chicago</span></span><br /></div><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);font-size:100%;" ><br /></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" ><span>In Chicago alone 400,000 were out on strike. A newspaper of that city reported that "no smoke curled up from the tall chimneys of the factories and mills, and things had assumed a Sabbath-like appearance". </span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" ><span>This was the main center of the agitation, and here the anarchists were in the forefront of the labor movement. It was to no small extent due to their activities that Chicago became an outstanding trade union center and made the biggest contribution to the eight-hour movement.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" ><span>When on May 1st 1886, the eight hour strikes convulsed that city, one half of the workforce at the McCormick Harvester Co. came out. Two days later a mass meeting was held by 6,000 members of the 'lumber shovers' union who had also come out. The meeting was held only a block from the McCormick plant and was joined by some 500 of the strikers from there.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" ><span>The workers listened to a speech by the anarchist August Spies, who has been asked to address the meeting by the Central Labour Union. While Spies was speaking, urging the workers to stand together and not give in to the bosses, the strikebreakers were beginning to leave the nearby McCormick plant.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" ><span>The strikers, aided by the 'lumber shovers' marched down the street and forced the scabs back into the factory. Suddenly a force of 200 police arrived and, without any warning, attacked the crowd with clubs and revolvers. </span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" ><span>They killed at least one striker, seriously wounded five or six others and injured an indeterminate number.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" ><span>Outraged by the brutal assaults he had witnessed, Spies went to the office of the Arbeiter-Zeitung (a daily anarchist newspaper for German immigrant workers) and composed a circular calling on the workers of Chicago to attend a protest meeting the following night.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" ><span>The protest meeting took place in the Haymarket Square and was addressed by Spies and two other anarchists active in the trade union movement, Albert Parsons and Samuel Fielden.</span></span><br /></div><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);font-size:100%;" ><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">The police attack</span></span><br /></div><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);font-size:100%;" ><br /></span><div style="text-align: left; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" ><span>Throughout the speeches the crowd was orderly. Mayor Carter Harrison, who was present from the beginning of the meeting, concluded that "nothing looked likely to happen to require police interference". He advised police captain John Bonfield of this and suggested that the large force of police reservists waiting at the station house be sent home.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" ><span>It was close to ten in the evening when Fielden was closing the meeting. It was raining heavily and only about 200 people remained in the square. Suddenly a police column of 180 men, headed by Bonfield, moved in and ordered the people to disperse immediately. Fielden protested "we are peaceable".</span></span><br /></div><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);font-size:100%;" ><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Bomb</span></span><br /></div><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);font-size:100%;" ><br /></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" ><span>At this moment a bomb was thrown into the ranks of the police. It killed one, fatally wounded six more and injured about seventy others. The police opened fire on the spectators. How many were wounded or killed by the police bullets was never exactly ascertained.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" ><span>A reign of terror swept over Chicago. The press and the pulpit called for revenge, insisting the bomb was the work of socialists and anarchists. Meeting halls, union offices, printing works and private homes were raided. All known socialists and anarchists were rounded up. </span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" ><span>Even many individuals ignorant of the meaning of socialism and anarchism were arrested and tortured. "Make the raids first and look up the law afterwards" was the public statement of Julius Grinnell, the state's attorney.</span></span><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Trial</span></span><br /></div><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);font-size:100%;" ><br /></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" ><span>Eventually eight men stood trial for being "accessories to murder". They were Spies, Fielden, Parsons, and five other anarchists who were influential in the labour movement, Adolph Fischer, George Engel, Michael Schwab, Louis Lingg and Oscar Neebe.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" ><span>The trial opened on June 21st 1886 in the criminal court of Cooke County. The candidates for the jury were not chosen in the usual manner of drawing names from a box. In this case a special bailiff, nominated by state's attorney Grinnell, was appointed by the court to select the candidates. </span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" ><span>The defense was not allowed to present evidence that the special bailiff had publicly claimed "I am managing this case and I know what I am about. These fellows are going to be hanged as certain as death".</span></span><br /></div><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);font-size:100%;" ><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Rigged jury</span></span><br /></div><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);font-size:100%;" ><br /></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" ><span>The eventual composition of the jury was farcical; being made up of businessmen, their clerks and a relative of one of the dead policemen. No proof was offered by the state that any of the eight men before the court had thrown the bomb, had been connected with its throwing, or had even approved of such acts. In fact, only three of the eight had been in Haymarket Square that evening.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" ><span>No evidence was offered that any of the speakers had incited violence, indeed in his evidence at the trial Mayor Harrison described the speeches as "tame". No proof was offered that any violence had been contemplated. In fact, Parsons had brought his two small children to the meeting.</span></span><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sentenced</span></span><br /></div><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);font-size:100%;" ><br /></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" ><span>That the eight were on trial for their anarchist beliefs and trade union activities was made clear from the outset. The trial closed as it had opened, as was witnessed by the final words of Attorney Grinnell's summation speech to the jury. "Law is on trial. Anarchy is on trial. </span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" ><span>These men have been selected, picked out by the Grand Jury, and indicted because they were leaders. There are no more guilty than the thousands who follow them. Gentlemen of the jury; convict these men, make examples of them, hang them and you save our institutions, our society."</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" ><span>On August 19th seven of the defendants were sentenced to death, and Neebe to 15 years in prison. After a massive international campaign for their release, the state 'compromised' and commuted the sentences of Schwab and Fielden to life imprisonment. Lingg cheated the hangman by committing suicide in his cell the day before the executions. On November 11th 1887 Parsons, Engel, Spies and Fischer were hanged.</span></span><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Pardoned</span></span><br /></div><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);font-size:100%;" ><br /></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" ><span>600,000 working people turned out for their funeral. The campaign to free Neebe, Schwab and Fielden continued.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" ><span>On June 26th 1893 Governor Altgeld set them free. He made it clear he was not granting the pardon because he thought the men had suffered enough, but because they were innocent of the crime for which they had been tried. They and the hanged men had ben the victims of "hysteria, packed juries and a biased judge".</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" ><span>The authorities has believed at the time of the trial that such persecution would break the back of the eight-hour movement. Indeed, evidence later came to light that the bomb may have been thrown by a police agent working for Captain Bonfield, as part of a conspiracy involving certain steel bosses to discredit the labor movement.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" ><span>When Spies addressed the court after he had been sentenced to die, he was confident that this conspiracy would not succeed. "If you think that by hanging us you can stamp out the labour movement... the movement from which the downtrodden millions, the millions who toil in misery and want, expect salvation - if this is your opinion, then hang us! </span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" ><span>Here you will tread on a spark, but there and there, behind you - and in front of you, and everywhere, flames blaze up. It is a subterranean fire. You cannot put it out".</span></span><br /></div><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);font-size:100%;" ><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Revolutionary politics</span></span><br /></div><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);font-size:100%;" ><br /></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" ><span>Over a century after that first May Day demonstration in Chicago, where are we? We stroll though town with our union banners - about the only day of the year we can get them out of head office. Then we stand around listening to boring (and usually pretty meaningless) speeches by equally boring union bureaucrats. </span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" ><span>You have to keep reminding yourself that May Day was once a day when workers all over the world displayed their strength, proclaimed their ideals and celebrated their successes.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" ><span>It is important that "once upon a time" it was like that. We can do it again. We need independent working class politics. No collaboration with government and bosses. Real solidarity with fellow workers in struggle, not a blinkered sectional outlook. We still need a further reduction in working hours, without loss of pay, to make work for the unemployed.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" ><span>We need revolutionary politics. That means politics that can lead us towards a genuine socialism where freedom knows no limit other than not interfering with the freedom of others. A socialism that is based on real democracy - not the present charade where we can choose some of our rulers, but may not choose to do without rulers. </span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" ><span>A real democracy where everyone effected by a decision will have the opportunity to have their say in making that decision. A democracy of efficiently co-ordinated workplace and community councils. A society where production is to satisfy needs, not to make profits for a privileged few. Anarchism.</span></span></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgR3TmW3gE6fTu3f01FUBhbe7VSBjQ9KOQ8Yy5Km90SASPEM75ldThknOtEwZu9mpVbZcclBrVJkgFuPK4MuOF5VoFH2b_vELAfi5nrB3eJd1nfZwWgcoZ8YOYHgfMfdkvrpHrl-Q/s1600-h/abolishchildlabor.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgR3TmW3gE6fTu3f01FUBhbe7VSBjQ9KOQ8Yy5Km90SASPEM75ldThknOtEwZu9mpVbZcclBrVJkgFuPK4MuOF5VoFH2b_vELAfi5nrB3eJd1nfZwWgcoZ8YOYHgfMfdkvrpHrl-Q/s400/abolishchildlabor.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5195571847036314226" border="0" /></a>EuroYank - Virginia Hogehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06079239479407310692noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9622105.post-76284959925471070672009-04-17T06:33:00.027-12:002009-05-04T11:32:47.249-12:00Introduction - Third Reich Modern Rock<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2F4Qp4HgrmToiNuwG2WiJKgjxKiOJjptJC7Vi8Tc97RS2eTZON8aexv5yfFl1LQDzCmYMyVRxsKeTLKBMknLctNUSbno10lZdP7_tC22GUqcfHuwjsuimmDTskuqFDwBdiaZ8hg/s1600-h/pledge_allegiance48.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 273px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2F4Qp4HgrmToiNuwG2WiJKgjxKiOJjptJC7Vi8Tc97RS2eTZON8aexv5yfFl1LQDzCmYMyVRxsKeTLKBMknLctNUSbno10lZdP7_tC22GUqcfHuwjsuimmDTskuqFDwBdiaZ8hg/s400/pledge_allegiance48.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5329320184273707954" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">The <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">American Pledge of Allegiance</span> Origin<br />of the <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">National Socialist Salute </span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Video</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">s</span><br /><object width="250" height="200"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/BpScApJXoyk&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/BpScApJXoyk&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="250" height="200"></embed></object><object width="250" height="200"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/BssWWZ3XEe4&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/BssWWZ3XEe4&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="250" height="200"></embed></object><object width="250" height="200"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/VA0A0ymd0CM&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/VA0A0ymd0CM&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="250" height="200"></embed></object><br />Original American Pledge of Allegiance<br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Third Reich Modern Rock </span><br />English & German Versions</span></span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><object width="350" height="300"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/y_D310ATXCg&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/y_D310ATXCg&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="350" height="300"></embed></object><object width="350" height="300"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ggOioZWxH0k&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ggOioZWxH0k&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="350" height="300"></embed></object><object width="350" height="300"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/d4FYmdbMLzw&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/d4FYmdbMLzw&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="350" height="300"></embed></object><object width="350" height="300"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/x8jzhMp_5Ts&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/x8jzhMp_5Ts&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="350" height="300"></embed></object><object width="350" height="300"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/G6OsZDdtjwg&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/G6OsZDdtjwg&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="350" height="300"></embed></object><object width="350" height="300"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/lFxefvAw6Ow&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/lFxefvAw6Ow&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="350" height="300"></embed></object><object width="350" height="300"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/wIlUbvjVD6E&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/wIlUbvjVD6E&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="350" height="300"></embed></object><br /></div><div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">see more at</span><br /><a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://euroyankwarblog.blogspot.com/2009/04/introduction-third-reich-modern-rock.html">*Third Reich Modern Rock</a></span></div>EuroYank - Virginia Hogehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06079239479407310692noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9622105.post-4950925422947685852009-02-24T04:14:00.013-12:002009-02-25T17:01:50.948-12:00The Truth Behind Terror - The Great Satan & CIA Drug Trafficking<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDcgE6Fw2muT7TuPwYSMuwXSTSqFkXX3C_rkGx9zTFarrxageKGHXgfPkZzA02W9c25nSybdx66oQVWYT5-n60opaSegqCqE78A_OEntcgnT0wU4SbN319EJ166ZrgL7iOmQFm5w/s1600-h/Osama-Bin-Laden.jpeg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDcgE6Fw2muT7TuPwYSMuwXSTSqFkXX3C_rkGx9zTFarrxageKGHXgfPkZzA02W9c25nSybdx66oQVWYT5-n60opaSegqCqE78A_OEntcgnT0wU4SbN319EJ166ZrgL7iOmQFm5w/s400/Osama-Bin-Laden.jpeg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5306963042894070018" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Al-Qaeda <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Doesn't </span>Exist</span></span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">There's no such thing as al-Qaeda.</span> <span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">It's a fraud perpetrated on the British and American people by the governments to scare us into submission. This is a clip from the excellent three-part BBC documentary</span></span> </span></span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=&search_query=The+Power+of+Nightmares+al-Qaeda&aq=f"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">*</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">The Power of Nightmares". </span></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">Watch <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">this video</span> clip ...</span><br /><object style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-weight: bold;" width="445" height="364"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/TTTgpsAs4_c&hl=en&fs=1&border=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/TTTgpsAs4_c&hl=en&fs=1&border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="445" height="364"></embed></object><br /></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixjc55mDrOokgT5cf-yLlrnhz112jaFU2iwC5kzVY7a9U3l9t889OaGrZh6E6cmlJjueY8QXBc0Gac8C6Tk5TKgTYxspTVjqi56qeZCDAx1z41sNXbl9huOmzc3jHtb35gXTZykw/s1600-h/poppiesopium.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; 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color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Behind the<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> Bin Laden</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Hate</span> Of America</span></span><br /></div><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >The story starts over 60 years ago with the CIA, and the secret history is now documented by John Stockwell, (former CIA Station Chief in Angola in 1976, working for then Director of the CIA, George Bush) ...</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">He spent 13 years in the agency.</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"> </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">He is the highest level CIA officer to testify to the Congress about his actions.<br /><br />He estimates that over 6 million people have died in CIA covert actions, and this was in the late 1980's.</span></span></span><br /><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFRJsapCQ84oNZ0CASeP2B7X9KSIc_61K7KuEa5ITg_B1mU0aw3sSFEkHhNg1Bu1DcuXUQfj9sfN_4Dpz0RykWf63QmXZ6pPgqwTQsq2Pkuw_osugv9ESDIOz1I4_bzDINRoq3dw/s1600-h/pakistan-turkey-drugs-copy+%28250+x+143%29.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 250px; height: 143px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFRJsapCQ84oNZ0CASeP2B7X9KSIc_61K7KuEa5ITg_B1mU0aw3sSFEkHhNg1Bu1DcuXUQfj9sfN_4Dpz0RykWf63QmXZ6pPgqwTQsq2Pkuw_osugv9ESDIOz1I4_bzDINRoq3dw/s400/pakistan-turkey-drugs-copy+%28250+x+143%29.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5306364081092197826" border="0" /></a></span></div></div><br /><div style="text-align: left; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-family:georgia;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >The United States CIA is running 50 covert actions (1987), destabilizing further almost one third of the countries in the world today.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);font-size:100%;" > <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"></span></span><br /><div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><br /><br /><br />John Stockwell <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">intelligence gatherer </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">and task force commander</span> goes public ..</span>.</span></div></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><object width="445" height="364"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/enWDthX7SFU&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/enWDthX7SFU&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="445" height="364"></embed></object><object width="305" height="235"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/7pfuYXIIhmU"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/7pfuYXIIhmU" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="445" height="364"></embed></object><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-family:georgia;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Video 1 America's 3rd</span></span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" >World WAR Video 2 Dark Alliance</span></span></span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Former President Bush <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Head</span></span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">of the CIA Drug </span>Import Agency</span></span><br />(<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">see the videos)</span></div><br /><object width="445" height="364"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/5b6kf5PIzX4&hl=en&fs=1&border=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/5b6kf5PIzX4&hl=en&fs=1&border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="445" height="364"></embed></object><object width="445" height="364"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/jQ9fgi7IZSk&hl=en&fs=1&border=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/jQ9fgi7IZSk&hl=en&fs=1&border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="445" height="364"></embed></object><object width="445" height="364"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/iO-_x4x5qIw&hl=en&fs=1&border=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/iO-_x4x5qIw&hl=en&fs=1&border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="445" height="364"></embed></object><br /><div style="text-align: left; color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 51);font-size:85%;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"><span style="font-family:georgia;">Vid</span>eo 1 The CIA's Involvement in Drug Trafficking - Video 2 C.I.A The Drug Affair Part 1 - Video 3 C.I.A: "The Drug Affair Part 2 -</span></span></div></div><br /><div style="text-align: left; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">When the Nicaraguan contras began to covertly fund their war against the Sandanistas by selling drugs and guns to California street gangs, the Central Intelligence Agency turned a blind eye. While black neighborhoods were being ravaged by the crack cocaine plague, CIA operatives actively participated in this devastating drug explosion, protected from prosecution by a secret agreement between the Department of Justice and the CIA.</span><br /></span></div></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaqA450zdmemXPTb1zIyliHNYAahWjllBxsZwZLvSkF4ZcoeyChFxolvX58N0fvMerob2lU07LU7tiI-aZqad0h5E1N7UcKx4DOYpsaoKZ4WCpyVsMQ2PREYQKYLdrnPEBLwE8Ng/s1600-h/contras-2+%28250+x+143%29.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaqA450zdmemXPTb1zIyliHNYAahWjllBxsZwZLvSkF4ZcoeyChFxolvX58N0fvMerob2lU07LU7tiI-aZqad0h5E1N7UcKx4DOYpsaoKZ4WCpyVsMQ2PREYQKYLdrnPEBLwE8Ng/s400/contras-2+%28250+x+143%29.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5065792663699760674" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-size:100%;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">We now know that the CIA was a self-perpetuating agency, and it created the conditions to keep it growing, and to keep it in business</span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" >.</span></div><br /><div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-size:130%;" >Other <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Secret</span> Deals</span><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhl09ladzcB5hP0c_LpURZP_OZzq1Qd8Tu_QLrcETm1icpQQ4cqxr3kyq2joj3hZGmATxEpLC-SX6v9jtBKsvwnl8aoHvWgXCalsuMI8Swhly0BVJn3xGaHbyHhocXQZeW6UencdQ/s1600-h/392210067_a3345884b7_o.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 299px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhl09ladzcB5hP0c_LpURZP_OZzq1Qd8Tu_QLrcETm1icpQQ4cqxr3kyq2joj3hZGmATxEpLC-SX6v9jtBKsvwnl8aoHvWgXCalsuMI8Swhly0BVJn3xGaHbyHhocXQZeW6UencdQ/s400/392210067_a3345884b7_o.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5306368652277503842" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjL8SWvOL4E0cSTtd2F6YiPLX30jM1oV6i5qAd-o4GxderP6eMAbpHPB4nHjWUcOOeU19CFrcnIbT6pHLMlwPQMF02W4K4gLeeiU56dUjIn7hOk2k0lhppo41BB_EVAsgrYLZm_xQ/s1600-h/gen-gehlen-in-wwii+%28250+x+194%29.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 250px; height: 194px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjL8SWvOL4E0cSTtd2F6YiPLX30jM1oV6i5qAd-o4GxderP6eMAbpHPB4nHjWUcOOeU19CFrcnIbT6pHLMlwPQMF02W4K4gLeeiU56dUjIn7hOk2k0lhppo41BB_EVAsgrYLZm_xQ/s400/gen-gehlen-in-wwii+%28250+x+194%29.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5306373824951245906" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: left; color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-size:100%;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">Gen. Gehlen (middle) was imported along with his Gestapo by the Dulles Brothers after WWII to help setup and train the CIA (operation paperclip)</span></span></div><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" >see ...</span><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;" ><a href="http://www.nogw.com/cia.html"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">*</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Secret Deals of the CIA</span></a></span></div></span></div><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: left; color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-weight: normal;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">Under President Ronald Reagan America not only increased its involvement in the Middle East by supplying arms to both Iraq and Iran in their war against each other,</span> <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">but America stepped up its involvement in conflicts around the world, especially South America.</span></span></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >Reference</span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" ><a href="http://rationalrevolution.net/war/cia_drug_connection_under_reagan.htm"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">*</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Secret Wars & Secret Deals</span></a></span><br /></div></div><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-size:130%;" ><br /></span><div style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-size:130%;" >Why <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">does a war</span> begin?</span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><object width="445" height="364"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/nhzWjzWd8mc"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/nhzWjzWd8mc" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="445" height="364"></embed></object><object width="445" height="364"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ABppqVKSkzE"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ABppqVKSkzE" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="445" height="364"></embed></object></div><br /><div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold;">CIA funding by drugs</span></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">This documentary gives quite an overview</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> of what has </span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><br />actually happened in the last 50 years</span> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">regarding the CIA ...</span></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><object width="445" height="364"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/_sstDwKTCpM"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/_sstDwKTCpM" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="445" height="364"></embed></object><object width="445" height="364"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Z9VxnCBD9W4"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Z9VxnCBD9W4" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="445" height="364"></embed></object><br /></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhg_G5FT9TRCx36irM3vdbHOAoVP6jjkgjOjEequoRSdsNMNUpdAp6KIyYX_TLidrTe69ONr5p5VB7OILrPiBJ-ZDt4rmScPxrNeYLwPXFsffe2exrIrofgrFbBtQDXRiv0iGjDRg/s1600-h/BUSHandPALS+%28250+x+130%29.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 250px; height: 130px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhg_G5FT9TRCx36irM3vdbHOAoVP6jjkgjOjEequoRSdsNMNUpdAp6KIyYX_TLidrTe69ONr5p5VB7OILrPiBJ-ZDt4rmScPxrNeYLwPXFsffe2exrIrofgrFbBtQDXRiv0iGjDRg/s400/BUSHandPALS+%28250+x+130%29.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5306375905823714434" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-size:130%;" ><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">The <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Truth Behind </span>Terror</span></span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">When the U.S. government sent more than 500,000 U.S. troops to invade Iraq in 1991, the operation was led by Sec. of Defense Dick Cheney</span>. <span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">The unilateral decision to militarily invade a Muslim nation for the first time in American history was made on October 30, 1990 by George H. Bush.</span><br /></span></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;" >Reference</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;" ><a href="http://www.thetruthaboutterror.com/090706.html"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">*</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">The Truth About Terror</span></a></span><br /></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-YkWQ7ciSiPej3-ZyLvhhDleUCYKMad0CO5eAbSvuju6cM5ZWTBIy3eRI_oJA-07u5FotGYznVGAdrN-nCn-Oci4LprDP3TywEsmFjYmVo0JafyEnmoFgtDZehVtRBdGmiHrVwA/s1600-h/879_bin+laden+%28250+x+220%29.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 250px; height: 220px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-YkWQ7ciSiPej3-ZyLvhhDleUCYKMad0CO5eAbSvuju6cM5ZWTBIy3eRI_oJA-07u5FotGYznVGAdrN-nCn-Oci4LprDP3TywEsmFjYmVo0JafyEnmoFgtDZehVtRBdGmiHrVwA/s400/879_bin+laden+%28250+x+220%29.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5306376596797686034" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;" ><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Bin Laden's Letter</span> to America </span><br /></div><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >Why are we fighting and opposing you? The answer is very simple:</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" ><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >(1) Because you attacked us and continue to attack us.</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" ><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >a) You attacked us in Palestine:</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">(i) Palestine, which has sunk under military occupation for more than 80 years. The British handed over Palestine, with your help and your support, to the Jews, who have occupied it for more than 50 years; years overflowing with oppression, tyranny, crimes, killing, expulsion, destruction and devastation</span>. </span><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" ><br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >The creation and continuation of Israel is one of the greatest crimes, and you are the leaders of its criminals. And of course there is no need to explain and prove the degree of American support for Israel. The creation of Israel is a crime which must be erased. Each and every person whose hands have become polluted in the contribution towards this crime must pay its*price, and pay for it heavily.</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >(ii) It brings us both laughter and tears to see that you have not yet tired of repeating your fabricated lies that the Jews have a historical right to Palestine, as it was promised to them in the Torah. Anyone who disputes with them on this alleged fact is accused of anti-semitism. This is one of the most fallacious, widely-circulated fabrications in history.</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" ><br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >The people of Palestine are pure Arabs and original Semites. It is the Muslims who are the inheritors of Moses (peace be upon him) and the inheritors of the real Torah that has not been changed. Muslims believe in all of the Prophets, including Abraham, Moses, Jesus and Muhammad, peace and blessings of Allah be upon them all. If the followers of Moses have been promised a right to Palestine in the Torah, then the Muslims are the most worthy nation of this.</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >When the Muslims conquered Palestine and drove out the Romans, Palestine and Jerusalem returned to Islam, the religion of all the Prophets peace be upon them. Therefore, the call to a historical right to Palestine cannot be raised against the Islamic Ummah that believes in all the Prophets of Allah (peace and blessings be upon them) - and we make no distinction between them.</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJZ0zDjxnb2sAzjnDnFsaGTpJejPKQQyAH1KRttPR2IVogrpNijIhil1tzqp7sqPXkrg6jkc_oHsJRRfVFEd6Dljagjq8QvhMaimCVYJSFGMHiq55ngXdbWGHbaza-vskd0f9Etw/s1600-h/300OsamaBinLaden-TrainedbytheCIA.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJZ0zDjxnb2sAzjnDnFsaGTpJejPKQQyAH1KRttPR2IVogrpNijIhil1tzqp7sqPXkrg6jkc_oHsJRRfVFEd6Dljagjq8QvhMaimCVYJSFGMHiq55ngXdbWGHbaza-vskd0f9Etw/s400/300OsamaBinLaden-TrainedbytheCIA.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5306377037823240210" border="0" /></a></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >(iii) The blood pouring out of Palestine must be equally revenged. You must know that the Palestinians do not cry alone; their women are not widowed alone; their sons are not orphaned alone.</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" ><br /></span><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >(b) You attacked us in Somalia; you supported the Russian atrocities against us in Chechnya, the Indian oppression against us in Kashmir, and the Jewish aggression against us in Lebanon.</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >(c) Under your supervision, consent and orders, the governments of our countries which act as your agents, attack us on a daily basis;</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >(i) These governments prevent our people from establishing the Islamic Shariah, using violence and lies to do so.</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >(ii) These governments give us a taste of humiliation, and places us in a large prison of fear and subdual.</span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:85%;" ><br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >(iii) These governments steal our Ummah's wealth and sell them to you at a paltry price.</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >(iv) These governments have surrendered to the Jews, and handed them most of Palestine, acknowledging the existence of their state over the dismembered limbs of their own people.</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >(v) The removal of these governments is an obligation upon us, and a necessary step to free the Ummah, to make the Shariah the supreme law and to regain Palestine. And our fight against these governments is not separate from out fight against you.</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >(d) You steal our wealth and oil at paltry prices because of you international influence and military threats. This theft is indeed the biggest theft ever witnessed by mankind in the history of the world.</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >(e) Your forces occupy our countries; you spread your military bases throughout them; you corrupt our lands, and you besiege our sanctities, to protect the security of the Jews and to ensure the continuity of your pillage of our treasures.</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >(f) You have starved the Muslims of Iraq, where children die every day. It is a wonder that more than 1.5 million Iraqi children have died as a result of your sanctions, and you did not show concern. Yet when 3000 of your people died, the entire world rises and has not yet sat down.</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >(g) You have supported the Jews in their idea that Jerusalem is their eternal capital, and agreed to move your embassy there. With your help and under your protection, the Israelis are planning to destroy the Al-Aqsa mosque. Under the protection of your weapons, Sharon entered the Al-Aqsa mosque, to pollute it as a preparation to capture and destroy it.</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >(2) These tragedies and calamities are only a few examples of your oppression and aggression against us. It is commanded by our religion and intellect that the oppressed have a right to return the aggression. Do not await anything from us but Jihad, resistance and revenge. Is it in any way rational to expect that after America has attacked us for more than half a century, that we will then leave her to live in security and peace?!!</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >(3) You may then dispute that all the above does not justify aggression against civilians, for crimes they did not commit and offenses in which they did not partake:</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBJHMNUd999H-y-P3l6r0VGhQIw_PjMLjTDPtxkndTJQO9mEOMjpeGiWTRgowz4GaLeP-_5lKFJQep9MMnzdmnFX1AkgcJyPIqs1og0JBw9_f13fg4EX62dDr4sCgEIS00hH0UNQ/s1600-h/cia+%28250+x+243%29.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 250px; height: 243px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBJHMNUd999H-y-P3l6r0VGhQIw_PjMLjTDPtxkndTJQO9mEOMjpeGiWTRgowz4GaLeP-_5lKFJQep9MMnzdmnFX1AkgcJyPIqs1og0JBw9_f13fg4EX62dDr4sCgEIS00hH0UNQ/s400/cia+%28250+x+243%29.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5306377752484148834" border="0" /></a><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >(a) This argument contradicts your continuous repetition that America is the land of freedom, and its leaders in this world. </span><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" ><br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >Therefore, the American people are the ones who choose their government by way of their own free will; a choice which stems from their agreement to its policies.<br /></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" ><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >Thus the American people have chosen, consented to, and affirmed their support for the Israeli oppression of the Palestinians, the occupation and usurpation of their land, and its continuous killing, torture, punishment and expulsion of the Palestinians. </span><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" ><br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >The American people have the ability and choice to refuse the policies of their Government and even to change it if they want.</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">(b) The American people are the ones who pay the taxes which fund the planes that bomb us in Afghanistan, the tanks that strike and destroy our homes in Palestine, the armies which occupy our lands in the Arabian Gulf, and the fleets which ensure the blockade of Iraq.</span><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" ><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >These tax dollars are given to Israel for it to continue to attack us and penetrate our lands. So the American people are the ones who fund the attacks against us, and they are the ones who oversee the expenditure of these monies in the way they wish, through their elected candidates.</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >(c) Also the American army is part of the American people. It is this very same people who are shamelessly helping the Jews fight against us.</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >(d) The American people are the ones who employ both their men and their women in the American Forces which attack us.</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >(e) This is why the American people cannot be not innocent of all the crimes committed by the Americans and Jews against us.</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >(f) Allah, the Almighty, legislated the permission and the option to take revenge. Thus, if we are attacked, then we have the right to attack back. Whoever has destroyed our villages and towns, then we have the right to destroy their villages and towns. Whoever has stolen our wealth, then we have the right to destroy their economy. And whoever has killed our civilians, then we have the right to kill theirs.</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >The American Government and press still refuses to answer the question:</span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"> </span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >Why did they attack us in New York and Washington?</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >If Sharon is a man of peace in the eyes of Bush, then we are also men of peace!!! America does not understand the language of manners and principles, so we are addressing it using the language it understands.</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >(Q2) As for the second question that we want to answer: What are we calling you to, and what do we want from you?</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >(1) The first thing that we are calling you to is Islam.</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >(a) The religion of the Unification of God; of freedom from associating partners with Him, and rejection of this; of complete love of Him, the Exalted; of complete submission to His Laws; and of the discarding of all the opinions, orders, theories and religions which contradict with the religion He sent down to His Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him). Islam is the religion of all the prophets, and makes no distinction between them - peace be upon them all.</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBNuOIT03xB1Xd9XlIUJ7ryXLJkAIyJy5feCyZPVun72cbx3f5OyJFDZ4dtV1-jn4LU1unp3VyqKyesfAnS1Z1IjxsUUzP1ZbFocOcS_2Eeruov0aSZWduGMAiHYjMatuD0vN9jQ/s1600-h/time-george-hw-bush1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 304px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBNuOIT03xB1Xd9XlIUJ7ryXLJkAIyJy5feCyZPVun72cbx3f5OyJFDZ4dtV1-jn4LU1unp3VyqKyesfAnS1Z1IjxsUUzP1ZbFocOcS_2Eeruov0aSZWduGMAiHYjMatuD0vN9jQ/s400/time-george-hw-bush1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5306378579743435138" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >It is to this religion that we call you; the seal of all the previous religions. It is the religion of Unification of God, sincerity, the best of manners, righteousness, mercy, honour, purity, and piety.<br /></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" ><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >It is the religion of showing kindness to others, establishing justice between them, granting them their rights, and defending the oppressed and the persecuted. </span><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" ><br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">It is the religion of enjoining the good and forbidding the evil with the hand, tongue and heart. It is the religion of Jihad in the way of Allah so that Allah's Word and religion reign Supreme.</span><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" ><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >And it is the religion of unity and agreement on the obedience to Allah, and total equality between all people, without regarding their colour, sex, or language.</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">(b) It is the religion whose book - the Quran - will remained preserved and unchanged, after the other Divine books and messages have been changed.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">The Quran is the miracle until the Day of Judgment. Allah has challenged anyone to bring a book like the Quran or even ten verses like it.</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >(2) The second thing we call you to, is to stop your oppression, lies, immorality and debauchery that has spread among you.</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >(a) We call you to be a people of manners, principles, honour, and purity; to reject the immoral acts of fornication, homosexuality, intoxicants, gambling's, and trading with interest.</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >We call you to all of this that you may be freed from that which you have become caught up in; that you may be freed from the deceptive lies that you are a great nation, that your leaders spread amongst you to conceal from you the despicable state to which you have reached.</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >(b) It is saddening to tell you that you are the worst civilization witnessed by the history of mankind:</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >(i) You are the nation who, rather than ruling by the Shariah of Allah in its Constitution and Laws, choose to invent your own laws as you will and desire. You separate religion from your policies, contradicting the pure nature which affirms Absolute Authority to the Lord and your Creator. You flee from the embarrassing question posed to you: How is it possible for Allah the Almighty to create His creation, grant them power over all the creatures and land, grant them all the amenities of life, and then deny them that which they are most in need of: knowledge of the laws which govern their lives?</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >(ii) You are the nation that permits Usury, which has been forbidden by all the religions. Yet you build your economy and investments on Usury. As a result of this, in all its different forms and guises, the Jews have taken control of your economy, through which they have then taken control of your media, and now control all aspects of your life making you their servants and achieving their aims at your expense; precisely what Benjamin Franklin warned you against.</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" ><br /></span><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >(iii) You are a nation that permits the production, trading and usage of intoxicants. You also permit drugs, and only forbid the trade of them, even though your nation is the largest consumer of them.</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >(iv) You are a nation that permits acts of immorality, and you consider them to be pillars of personal freedom. You have continued to sink down this abyss from level to level until incest has spread amongst you, in the face of which neither your sense of honour nor your laws object.</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHCv_vWIjVJl6-gsrx3suGEKg19isJjZry8YH0PUKIo8MNLmGZA2b8D97vKag0Ha5OCneYMIp9E5DJ4wIlbyU2r0RnBlLdiA0e0oxb9I5K3VvOJGjgi5QjjVC0w6MpHxa7ahRqlw/s1600-h/Comp.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 180px; height: 288px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHCv_vWIjVJl6-gsrx3suGEKg19isJjZry8YH0PUKIo8MNLmGZA2b8D97vKag0Ha5OCneYMIp9E5DJ4wIlbyU2r0RnBlLdiA0e0oxb9I5K3VvOJGjgi5QjjVC0w6MpHxa7ahRqlw/s400/Comp.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5306379971448550338" border="0" /></a></span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >Who can forget your President Clinton's immoral acts committed in the official Oval office? After that you did not even bring him to account, other than that he 'made a mistake', after which everything passed with no punishment. Is there a worse kind of event for which your name will go down in history and remembered by nations?</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >(v) You are a nation that permits gambling in its all forms. The companies practice this as well, resulting in the investments becoming active and the criminals becoming rich.</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >(vi) You are a nation that exploits women like consumer products or advertising tools calling upon customers to purchase them. You use women to serve passengers, visitors, and strangers to increase your profit margins. You then rant that you support the liberation of women.</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >(vii) You are a nation that practices the trade of sex in all its forms, directly and indirectly. Giant corporations and establishments are established on this, under the name of art, entertainment, tourism and freedom, and other deceptive names you attribute to it.</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >(viii) And because of all this, you have been described in history as a nation that spreads diseases that were unknown to man in the past. Go ahead and boast to the nations of man, that you brought them AIDS as a Satanic American Invention.</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >(xi) You have destroyed nature with your industrial waste and gases more than any other nation in history. Despite this, you refuse to sign the Kyoto agreement so that you can secure the profit of your greedy companies and*industries.</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >(x) Your law is the law of the rich and wealthy people, who hold sway in their political parties, and fund their election campaigns with their gifts. Behind them stand the Jews, who control your policies, media and economy.</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >(xi) That which you are singled out for in the history of mankind, is that you have used your force to destroy mankind more than any other nation in history; not to defend principles and values, but to hasten to secure your interests and profits. You who dropped a nuclear bomb on Japan, even though Japan was ready to negotiate an end to the war. How many acts of oppression, tyranny and injustice have you carried out, O callers to freedom?</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >(xii) Let us not forget one of your major characteristics: your duality in both manners and values; your hypocrisy in manners and principles. All*manners, principles and values have two scales: one for you and one for the others.</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" ><br /></span><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >(a)The freedom and democracy that you call to is for yourselves and for white race only; as for the rest of the world, you impose upon them your monstrous, destructive policies and Governments, which you call the 'American friends'. Yet you prevent them from establishing democracies. When the Islamic party in Algeria wanted to practice democracy and they won the election, you unleashed your agents in the Algerian army onto them, and to attack them with tanks and guns, to imprison them and torture them - a new lesson from the 'American book of democracy'!!!</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >(b)Your policy on prohibiting and forcibly removing weapons of mass destruction to ensure world peace: it only applies to those countries which you do not permit to possess such weapons. As for the countries you consent to, such as Israel, then they are allowed to keep and use such weapons to defend their security. Anyone else who you suspect might be manufacturing or keeping these kinds of weapons, you call them criminals and you take military action against them.</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >(c)You are the last ones to respect the resolutions and policies of International Law, yet you claim to want to selectively punish anyone else who does the same. Israel has for more than 50 years been pushing UN resolutions and rules against the wall with the full support of America.</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" ><br /></span><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >(d)As for the war criminals which you censure and form criminal courts for - you shamelessly ask that your own are granted immunity!! However, history will not forget the war crimes that you committed against the Muslims and the rest of the world; those you have killed in Japan, Afghanistan, Somalia, Lebanon and Iraq will remain a shame that you will never be able to escape. It will suffice to remind you of your latest war crimes in Afghanistan, in which densely populated innocent civilian villages were destroyed, bombs were dropped on mosques causing the roof of the mosque to come crashing down on the heads of the Muslims praying inside.<br /></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" ><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >You are the ones who broke the agreement with the Mujahideen when they left Qunduz, bombing them in Jangi fort, and killing more than 1,000 of your prisoners through suffocation and thirst. Allah alone knows how many people have died by torture at the hands of you and your agents. Your planes remain in the Afghan skies, looking for anyone remotely suspicious.</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >(e)You have claimed to be the vanguards of Human Rights, and your Ministry of Foreign affairs issues annual reports containing statistics of those countries that violate any Human Rights. However, all these things vanished when the Mujahideen hit you, and you then implemented the methods of the same documented governments that you used to curse. In America, you captured thousands the Muslims and Arabs, took them into custody with neither reason, court trial, nor even disclosing their names. You issued newer, harsher laws.</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >What happens in Guantanamo is a historical embarrassment to America and its values, and it screams into your faces - you hypocrites, "What is the value of your signature on any agreement or treaty?"</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >(3) What we call you to thirdly is to take an honest stance with yourselves - and I doubt you will do so - to discover that you are a nation without principles or manners, and that the values and principles to you are something which you merely demand from others, not that which you yourself must adhere to.</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >(4) We also advise you to stop supporting Israel, and to end your support of the Indians in Kashmir, the Russians against the Chechens and to also cease supporting the Manila Government against the Muslims in Southern Philippines.</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >(5) We also advise you to pack your luggage and get out of our lands. We desire for your goodness, guidance, and righteousness, so do not force us to send you back as cargo in coffins.</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" ><br /></span><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >(6) Sixthly, we call upon you to end your support of the corrupt leaders in our countries. Do not interfere in our politics and method of education. Leave us alone, or else expect us in New York and Washington.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >(7) We also call you to deal with us and interact with us on the basis of mutual interests and benefits, rather than the policies of sub dual, theft and occupation, and not to continue your policy of supporting the Jews because this will result in more disasters for you.</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgd1qg_a_aII-WGAhwXc6SrlfR-gEell2b52Y-RHZsM0uTEe5yCzFeA-oDtkxii2PVWIRMwMt3RHQYaCq_IKbfPg1H6gZ2i98lis5WYm_evQoU5Nk0JA3VcXdm1YL8y-cgDL4XXdQ/s1600-h/cia1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 230px; height: 261px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgd1qg_a_aII-WGAhwXc6SrlfR-gEell2b52Y-RHZsM0uTEe5yCzFeA-oDtkxii2PVWIRMwMt3RHQYaCq_IKbfPg1H6gZ2i98lis5WYm_evQoU5Nk0JA3VcXdm1YL8y-cgDL4XXdQ/s400/cia1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5306379091005350978" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >If you fail to respond to all these conditions, then prepare for fight with the Islamic Nation. The Nation of Monotheism, that puts complete trust on Allah and fears none other than Him. The Nation which is addressed by its Quran with the words: "Do you fear them? Allah has more right that you should fear Him if you are believers. </span><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" ><br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >Fight against them so that Allah will punish them by your hands and disgrace them and give you victory over them and heal the breasts of believing people. And remove the anger of their (believers') hearts. Allah accepts the repentance of whom He wills. Allah is All-Knowing, All-Wise." [Quran9:13-1]</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >The Nation of honour and respect: </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >"But honour, power and glory belong to Allah, and to His Messenger (Muhammad- peace be upon him) and to the believers." [Quran 63:8]</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >"So do not become weak (against your enemy), nor be sad, and you will be*superior ( in victory) if you are indeed (true) believers" [Quran 3:139]</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >The Nation of Martyrdom; the Nation that desires death more than you desire life:</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >"Think not of those who are killed in the way of Allah as dead. Nay, they are alive with their Lord, and they are being provided for. They rejoice in what Allah has bestowed upon them from His bounty and rejoice for the sake of those who have not yet joined them, but are left behind (not yet martyred) that on them no fear shall come, nor shall they grieve. They rejoice in a grace and a bounty from Allah, and that Allah will not waste the reward of the believers." [Quran 3:169-171]</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >The Nation of victory and success that Allah has promised:</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >"It is He Who has sent His Messenger (Muhammad peace be upon him) with guidance and the religion of truth (Islam), to make it victorious over all other religions even though the Polytheists hate it." [Quran 61:9]</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >"Allah has decreed that 'Verily it is I and My Messengers who shall be victorious.' Verily Allah is All-Powerful, All-Mighty." [Quran 58:21]</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >The Islamic Nation that was able to dismiss and destroy the previous evil Empires like yourself; the Nation that rejects your attacks, wishes to remove your evils, and is prepared to fight you. You are well aware that the Islamic Nation, from the very core of its soul, despises your haughtiness and arrogance.</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >If the Americans refuse to listen to our advice and the goodness, guidance and righteousness that we call them to, then be aware that you will lose this Crusade Bush began, just like the other previous Crusades in which you were humiliated by the hands of the Mujahideen, fleeing to your home in great silence and disgrace. If the Americans do not respond, then their fate will be that of the Soviets who fled from Afghanistan to deal with their military defeat, political breakup, ideological downfall, and economic bankruptcy.</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >This is our message to the Americans, as an answer to theirs. Do they now know why we fight them and over which form of ignorance, by the permission of Allah, we shall be victorious?</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >Reference</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://observer.guardian.co.uk/print/0,,4552895-110490,00.html"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">*</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Full text: bin Laden's letter to America</span></a></span></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-Tz-rFrXdlc8tgu3nmYaij6BaPTC8-073AIgkRjuvG5PyvPXn5lPpGMu98bhzMY9hkqHh5czrb0A451W8tjoTHSyoL3cyF6zWfcqZ7ZLpZMWf2HVfxGpMrlV_LZ9aC354A_p2yQ/s1600-h/BushGulfWar.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-Tz-rFrXdlc8tgu3nmYaij6BaPTC8-073AIgkRjuvG5PyvPXn5lPpGMu98bhzMY9hkqHh5czrb0A451W8tjoTHSyoL3cyF6zWfcqZ7ZLpZMWf2HVfxGpMrlV_LZ9aC354A_p2yQ/s400/BushGulfWar.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5306379442613079314" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://www.digg.com/"><br /><img src="http://digg.com/img/badges/91x17-digg-button-alt.gif" alt="Digg!" width="91" height="17" /><br /></a></div>EuroYank - Virginia Hogehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06079239479407310692noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9622105.post-69249741469577874582009-02-19T10:25:00.001-12:002009-02-19T10:31:11.145-12:00In A World of Lies, the Truth Is a Dream<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4bz3RcmnGp6LHDGQFyB-1EDGKGpxXs6cqg-68YzQ17kyEbtmM43SannyVOuX7lF2eei7R4mXqrbGLHZfebgC5mPini8P3_Sx7l1mlf0tYtNmgygAZmOp01jRTryrI-E6FYvXFTg/s1600-h/1207cover.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 243px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4bz3RcmnGp6LHDGQFyB-1EDGKGpxXs6cqg-68YzQ17kyEbtmM43SannyVOuX7lF2eei7R4mXqrbGLHZfebgC5mPini8P3_Sx7l1mlf0tYtNmgygAZmOp01jRTryrI-E6FYvXFTg/s400/1207cover.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5304164962846557330" border="0" /></a></div><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;" >Lets start things off with one of the old American Propaganda Cartoons ...</span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/qM3gEayupNU&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/qM3gEayupNU&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">USA Propaganda Cartoon 1948</span></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;" >Newspapers, radio, TV and the mudslingers are trying to cover up what is becoming obvious to anyone but the blind: America had become a dictatorship with a strongly entrenched bureaucracy under the control of powerful special interests.</span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;" > </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;" >This is not, in any way, an overstatement of fact.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-family:georgia;" >Trying to disable a dictatorship that has ruled America outside her legislature and Constitutional structure is turning into a nightmare few of us have expected.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-family:georgia;">The War on Terror is turning out to be little more than a front for a massive financial scam stealing billions of dollars from, not only America, but Western Europe, the Middle East, Russia and China. None of this could be done until America herself was brought down and crushed under the heel of a police state.</span></span></span></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbx8nNGoDT0ykRzymP8CHEb4kA9XEkl98NMDQSm8SYTijInDgw4z3i0VFWWnhpnpi4o_V6D7cTZ881Il5SmI7zX5gzJCmXqqidePjXs4bMaGjvzONF2eyuHqpcMk2rGtqrSyNveg/s1600-h/ATD+Cover.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 253px; height: 384px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbx8nNGoDT0ykRzymP8CHEb4kA9XEkl98NMDQSm8SYTijInDgw4z3i0VFWWnhpnpi4o_V6D7cTZ881Il5SmI7zX5gzJCmXqqidePjXs4bMaGjvzONF2eyuHqpcMk2rGtqrSyNveg/s400/ATD+Cover.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5304170409947388738" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia;" >What we have left is a justice system crippled by years of secret arrests, phony trials, torture, election rigging and a huge new bureaucracy answerable to no congressional authority.</span></div><br /><div style="text-align: left; color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Our Patriot Acts, passed by our cowardly congress, removed all Constitutional rights from Americans and allowed uncontrolled corruption at every level, banking, oil, defense, agriculture, pollution, election rigging, literally anything imaginable, to go on with full impunity.<br /></span></div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;" ><br /></span><div style="text-align: left; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;" >The rule of law in America died overnight.</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;" > </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">No authority existed that couldn't be overridden by a phone call from a fat cat to their local party headquarters.</span> <span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">Arrests were ordered, not by government, but by "business" insiders who bought their way into power with their checkbooks.</span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></div><br /><div style="text-align: left; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;" >It turned out that their "business" was phony government contracts, looting banks and selling America to her enemies.</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"> </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;" >We know that millions of people have lost their homes, their jobs and families around America are suffering. We know this must be true, although nothing is ever reported.</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;" >We only see empty highways, closed factories, empty houses and closed stores, not by the dozens but all around us. We hear numbers and suffering, yes, the suffering of the occasional Wall Street thief, now under arrest, or millionaire whose huge estate is sold off.</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinwlwoDD5JdVFwpJIZfyr9CqUte96e6a41IPU1GIrSstFq0K9c12EnrIWBKh3KJindLFAxT5IpBmI_H3SBy0LiEKG3Pj1uBu9dCkSN1hiR0rlqpNd7GVBDByrKqJQoENXvn71zHw/s1600-h/Ewocr0xh8Lk7HTq3AFY0hcs=.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 256px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinwlwoDD5JdVFwpJIZfyr9CqUte96e6a41IPU1GIrSstFq0K9c12EnrIWBKh3KJindLFAxT5IpBmI_H3SBy0LiEKG3Pj1uBu9dCkSN1hiR0rlqpNd7GVBDByrKqJQoENXvn71zHw/s400/Ewocr0xh8Lk7HTq3AFY0hcs=.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5304171785943108834" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia;" >A trillion dollars was already sent to our banks to save America. Those banks are not lending that money to finance homes, cars, new businesses or anything else. Billions were paid out in bonuses, billions were stolen but little really went into our economy.</span> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-family:georgia;" ><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">It seems the idea of people having good paying jobs, driving decent cars, sending their kids to college and owning homes offended people with the will, the influence and the power to take it all away.</span></span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia;" >All they had to do is crush the value of real estate, suck the money out of the banks, bond and stock markets, push up oil prices, food prices and keep the world at war.</span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"> </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-family:georgia;" ><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">What our middle class worked for, saved for and sacrificed for was gone in a flash.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">The same magicians that could take gasoline from a dollar a gallon to four dollars to two dollars on a whim can make your job, your home and your savings disappear in the wink of an eye.</span></span><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia;" >They did it with your civil rights even easier and you said nothing.</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-family:georgia;" >The result, carefully planned, I assure you, was to make certain that every home was worthless, every retirement account was empty. Fear makes us compliant.</span><br /></div><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia;" ><br /></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia;" >Only then could we live as intended, fearful of each other and turning to anyone or anything that promised us safety, our next meal, and a third rate version of the American dream, life half an inch above the poverty level for the lucky and total despair for tens of millions of Americans.</span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"> </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia;" >Real estate prices, unless something drastic is done, have only begun to drop. </span><br /></div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-family:georgia;" ><br /></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia;" >Foreclosures will continue for years until up to 40% of American homes are empty. Industrial jobs will all disappear, even China is closing hundreds of plants a month.</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjifkTcWXmxSfIOB_VHwNlMjrkxxxggikaq4DxlRdIWVBY_EcZmUtHpfeYyOIoDp1b7J6Fdc17Tg4z0RTMkTl0cVW9ocpWdwe48x8FG0tnq3AZQUixulNpGQ9Kyqc3LXcJfjBRF5w/s1600-h/joXELC9Aa3HI1U1N7oFn9mqh5wdoIciubMmeRmx8+mLfB24yjFqlD0=.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 253px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjifkTcWXmxSfIOB_VHwNlMjrkxxxggikaq4DxlRdIWVBY_EcZmUtHpfeYyOIoDp1b7J6Fdc17Tg4z0RTMkTl0cVW9ocpWdwe48x8FG0tnq3AZQUixulNpGQ9Kyqc3LXcJfjBRF5w/s400/joXELC9Aa3HI1U1N7oFn9mqh5wdoIciubMmeRmx8+mLfB24yjFqlD0=.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5304172231409280578" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia;" >Low paying retail jobs are going away by the hundreds of thousands, jobs that kept millions in poverty off welfare and provided second jobs for families skirting poverty.</span><br /></div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-family:georgia;" ><br /></span><div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia;" >When the stock market crashed in 1929, brought on by "not so accidental" manipulation of the money markets by the very illegal Federal Reserve System, the private banking group created unConstitutionally in 1918 to print money and manage our economy, an economy that has been in collapse since 1918 except for times of war, it took years for the real "depression" to kick in.</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia;" >Perhaps you can find a few union leaders, some college professors and an environmental activist or two to arrest and detain in the basement of the local police station. Chances are your local police will be right there with you, patrol cars with lights flashing.</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-family:georgia;" >In 8 years we went from full employment, peace, plenty, economic surplus to massive unemployment, endless war and total economic collapse while America's money, that didn't go overseas, went into the hands of a very few, 95% of whom had ties to the Bush administration.</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia;" >Now we are going to see if that money, those billions, and the vicious stooges left can make Americans turn on each other rather than stop the theft, tax some of the freeloaders and put Americans back to work.</span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/xfJMCswU5tE&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/xfJMCswU5tE&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia;" >Michael Tsarion - Future of Mankind</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;">See the full three hour lecture and more at ...</span><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://floydanderson.gnn.tv/blogs/24604/World_of_Lies"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">*</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">World of Lies</span> </span></a></div>EuroYank - Virginia Hogehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06079239479407310692noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9622105.post-75773688038098041002009-02-10T10:34:00.076-12:002009-02-10T23:38:48.767-12:00Pros & Cons of Kickstarting Capitalism<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjthECe7EmYEyLi3odyOSPjdIn7Jq6bi2yomEJzULP5H6mNOi0g4sLytCEs3c7SjFHPQK9llWUrafG6HN4w8yYFMNRCZbkodKnoFXACeRoQCSJ73gCAzQO1p_BZ3NxOe9uGOfmsaA/s1600-h/time+obama+roosevelt.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 301px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjthECe7EmYEyLi3odyOSPjdIn7Jq6bi2yomEJzULP5H6mNOi0g4sLytCEs3c7SjFHPQK9llWUrafG6HN4w8yYFMNRCZbkodKnoFXACeRoQCSJ73gCAzQO1p_BZ3NxOe9uGOfmsaA/s400/time+obama+roosevelt.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5301462014104108370" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Today's <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Obama</span> "Yes We Can"</span></span> - <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:85%;" >A stranger was seated next to a little black girl on the airplane when the stranger turned to her and said, "Let's talk. I've heard that flights go quicker if you strike up a conversation with your fellow passenger."</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:85%;" ><br /></span><div style="text-align: left; color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:85%;">The little girl, who had just opened her coloring book, closed it slowly and said to the stranger, "What would you like to talk about?"<br /></span></div><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:85%;" ><br /></span><div style="text-align: left; color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:85%;">"Oh, I don't know," said the stranger. "Since you are a Negro, do you think that So-called President Elect Barak Obama is qualified for the job?" and he smiles.<br /></span></div><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:85%;" ><br /></span><div style="text-align: left; color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:85%;">"OK", she said. "That could be an interesting topic. But let me ask you a question first. A horse, a cow, and a deer all eat the same stuff 'grass '.<br /><br />Yet a deer excretes little pellets, while a cow turns out a flat patty, and a horse produces clumps of dried grass. "Why do you suppose that is?"<br /><br />The stranger, visibly surprised by the little girl's intelligence, thinks about it and says, "Hmmm, I have no idea."<br /><br />To which the little girl replies, "Do you really feel qualified to discuss President Barak Obama... when you don't know shit?"<br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" >Provided by</span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:85%;" > </span><span style="font-size:85%;"><a style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);" href="http://smarterthanagrade5.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">*</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Prove Me Wrong </span></a></span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUdMTGI4qM1kseaCAY17-a3-cBtBWJBqpunt9oQUq_lLujvaylfLpmo1udSmyHGyOXHLNuGTT3pGUgMEudyEoUD3Wz0JXqPauXUTiWEFunQv_0hDE9r-3Axa_6E3QupRn14lvNnw/s1600-h/tn96.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 96px; height: 96px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUdMTGI4qM1kseaCAY17-a3-cBtBWJBqpunt9oQUq_lLujvaylfLpmo1udSmyHGyOXHLNuGTT3pGUgMEudyEoUD3Wz0JXqPauXUTiWEFunQv_0hDE9r-3Axa_6E3QupRn14lvNnw/s400/tn96.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5301465073819134002" border="0" /></a><br /></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSFBNXcru_BQPsNk_hO4avzfryJRyZubYmGZ3WhAOh_ywn2fwR2OXIlZ10Dw_3ezcnFaIHU8EM6dQMghouihLjOtKorFjmXnlWZaWzxJ5flUptYCFKtxhdiz2NZyJFnJlnLR798Q/s1600-h/bwi.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 330px; height: 251px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSFBNXcru_BQPsNk_hO4avzfryJRyZubYmGZ3WhAOh_ywn2fwR2OXIlZ10Dw_3ezcnFaIHU8EM6dQMghouihLjOtKorFjmXnlWZaWzxJ5flUptYCFKtxhdiz2NZyJFnJlnLR798Q/s400/bwi.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5301462496277652802" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;">Whenever the economy stumbles, politicians and interest groups commonly argue that government spending should be increased. Based on a theory known as Keynesianism, this increase is supposed to boost economic performance.</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">Yet the notion that bigger government leads to more growth is both theoretically unsound and empirically false.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">This strange theory was first put forth back during the 1930s, when America was suffering from a deep downturn. An economist named John Maynard Keynes argued that the economy could be boosted if the government borrowed money and spent it.</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">According to this Keynesian approach, this new spending would put money in people’s pockets, and the recipients of the funds would then spend the money. This would, according to the theory, prime the pump as the money began circulating through the economy.</span><br /><br /></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Watch This First</span><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/bdfCKDq95yE&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/bdfCKDq95yE&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">See the Complete series ...</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" ><a href="http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=greenmts&view=videos&query=new+world+order"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">*</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">The New World Order Is Not New</span></a></span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">The Keynesians also said that some tax cuts — particularly lump-sum rebates — could have the same impact since the purpose is to have the government borrow and somehow put the money in the hands of people who will spend it.</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvyuEq0pnT2gw1XdNq8UCXo0NrstB-09QjzG3spe28shzNRrwJleK8VIwiWdGxbSSB1gudaIzYl1KEV7jqqt-v7PmgRiUJPc5_j4c0-u7uIOGJ9jXB5aW-k4VNrNDP70Hot87Tgg/s1600-h/WCNLAC4.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvyuEq0pnT2gw1XdNq8UCXo0NrstB-09QjzG3spe28shzNRrwJleK8VIwiWdGxbSSB1gudaIzYl1KEV7jqqt-v7PmgRiUJPc5_j4c0-u7uIOGJ9jXB5aW-k4VNrNDP70Hot87Tgg/s400/WCNLAC4.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5301319104589583090" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">So is this the right recipe to boost a flagging economy? Keynesian theory sounds good, and it would be nice if it made sense, but it has a rather glaring logical fallacy. It overlooks the fact that, in the real world, government can’t inject money into the economy without first taking money out of the economy.</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Money Government Puts <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">I</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">n Economy's Right Pocket </span>Is Money First Removed From Economy's <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Left Pocket ...</span></span><br /></div><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">Put more bluntly, Keynesianism only looks at one-half of the equation. It conveniently ignores the fact that any money that the government puts in the economy’s right pocket is money that is first removed from the economy’s left pocket. As such, there is no increase in what Keynesians refer to as aggregate demand.</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">The bottom line is that Keynesianism doesn’t boost national income, it merely redistributes it.</span><br /></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijccjsV9N-vLiMz4ZYy_pRcVD9JA2WFRVihyvvWvdDSFN7Al8-4U254pUZm-kFb33f1WEBD9-dPmdIPdyPoB3Le-efar3vJ58rme9KNpGVtWLN-CirypBuHMV7YEdGsBNmIoqiCQ/s1600-h/obama.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 265px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijccjsV9N-vLiMz4ZYy_pRcVD9JA2WFRVihyvvWvdDSFN7Al8-4U254pUZm-kFb33f1WEBD9-dPmdIPdyPoB3Le-efar3vJ58rme9KNpGVtWLN-CirypBuHMV7YEdGsBNmIoqiCQ/s400/obama.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5301319948797019090" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">The people who lend the money to government generally are not the same people who get money in their pockets because of the new spending or tax rebates, but that’s not important. The Keynesian theory is based on the notion that there will be an increase in overall spending power, yet that clearly is not the case.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">Some advocates of this theory get a bit more creative and say that Keynesianism works because it increases consumer spending rather than the money sitting idle.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">But money that is unspent by consumers does not sit idle. It winds up in the banking system someplace and is used to finance investment spending.</span><br /></div><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Stimulus Programs <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Increase Consumption </span>No Increase In <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Economic Output ...</span></span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;">So-called stimulus programs, at best, shift how national income is used so that more gets consumed rather than invested, but at noted earlier, there is no increase in overall economic output.</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;">It is worth noting that government could finance new spending through inflation. Thankfully that option doesn’t seem to be on the table since almost all politicians now realize that it would be foolish to mimic the disastrous policies of basket-case economies such as Argentina and Zimbabwe.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">The real-world evidence also confirms that Keynesianism is a failure. Indeed, it was a failure even before Keynes published</span> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_General_Theory_of_Employment,_Interest_and_Money"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">*</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">The General Theory</span></a> <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">in the mid-1930s. More recently, George W. Bush gave out so-called rebate checks in 2001 and 2008, yet there was no positive effect in either case. And Bush certainly was a big spender, yet that didn’t work either.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">Not that this should be a big surprise.</span> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.heritage.org/Research/Budget/bg1831.cfm"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">*</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Surveys of the academic literature</span></a> <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">reveal that even left-wing international bureaucracies are producing research showing that bigger government hurts economic performance by misallocating national resources.</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >The <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">American Recession - Depression </span>Experience</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCOA1dCiz2SGHFlIBAwBvRXJDebyzenk0FGVWnvoC2dC3s3UDDeTOyFGkhdgzvpOst32VRhJrgKRasHA8xy4WcW65IUdGzGUOXFMxihzVdj0dhPSd426X-GZAmYuKH9LAxgq6P4Q/s1600-h/mccain_obama_economy_250_main.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 250px; height: 250px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCOA1dCiz2SGHFlIBAwBvRXJDebyzenk0FGVWnvoC2dC3s3UDDeTOyFGkhdgzvpOst32VRhJrgKRasHA8xy4WcW65IUdGzGUOXFMxihzVdj0dhPSd426X-GZAmYuKH9LAxgq6P4Q/s400/mccain_obama_economy_250_main.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5301320640200967122" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">What is even more interesting is that if you look at the GDP output for the era, the US recovered by 1936-37 (including the pre-1927 growth rate) and was then hit with the price tag for all the New Deal starting in 1938 which caused a recession.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">Combine that with the unemployment figures, however, and you get the result of each person employed being more productive, which is one of the effects of getting rid of inefficient businesses: those that survive or start-up with new manufacturing methods employ fewer people, but produce more goods at a lower cost.</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQFbaCwaWy66s4oU79ZRJ_fg5WhmCbOGzI2iyT6H8Z_1seeEEzgiNTkaTQaAGo6iX1TqSL-Dirmj2YxjfOjpG_DLXywYXdWiI0ymDjSLppEgl9OdHpUtvGugQ0E8ZoYRUV6Ni-WQ/s1600-h/14242.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 284px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQFbaCwaWy66s4oU79ZRJ_fg5WhmCbOGzI2iyT6H8Z_1seeEEzgiNTkaTQaAGo6iX1TqSL-Dirmj2YxjfOjpG_DLXywYXdWiI0ymDjSLppEgl9OdHpUtvGugQ0E8ZoYRUV6Ni-WQ/s400/14242.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5301325316165925890" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">When you get to WWII the New Deal retirement system kicks in just as the economy needs every worker of older age that it can get: from that you get the temporary tax benefit to private firms to offer health insurance, which was previously a ‘perk’ to high paid employees and executives.</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">That temporary relief became a permanent problem, so that we now spend more today, per person and adjuste for inflation, than our grand parents did on health care.<br /><br />It isn’t that procedures are too expensive, it is that health care is subsidized which sets a minimum floor of pricing due to insured payments and government encouraging increases in payments through the government run health benefits plans.</span><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiBN8Ux9IolAk4rQXtSVI-znWCCVwKoILXfKqUd14BIEXNSJozTUfIjOVwdm216posTlCreLIOZVdVZpQCiRDyxRp7k8_ffix0-hoOdPlUoAruKSWbTm45MG0ofu-Rfxh1_hgsRg/s1600-h/time_cap2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 304px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiBN8Ux9IolAk4rQXtSVI-znWCCVwKoILXfKqUd14BIEXNSJozTUfIjOVwdm216posTlCreLIOZVdVZpQCiRDyxRp7k8_ffix0-hoOdPlUoAruKSWbTm45MG0ofu-Rfxh1_hgsRg/s400/time_cap2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5301326175830671730" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"><br />It isn’t that so many people are uninsured (and what an awful way to pay for something) but that so many *are*. Insurance only works if a pay-out happens rarely - and that is not the case with health insurance… but then learning that subsidies cause over-use of whatever is being subsidized is something politicians love to ignore, across the political spectrum.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">In spite of all the circumlocution and commotion by President Roosevelt, the 1930s President never came close to ending the depression economy. The massive deficit spending of World War II did end the depression economy and set it upon the road to postwar prosperity.</span><br /></div><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">Consider World War II from an economic viewpoint. It was a huge public works operation financed by unprecedented deficit spending. It commandeered the productive capacity of this country and then destroyed this production in the battlefield. Why didn’t this bankrupt the country?</span><br /></div><p style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0); text-align: left;">Theoretically, an operation like that should have bankrupted the country like a closed system business operation would have been bankrupted. (Fortunately, free-market capitalism at the macroeconomic level is open system.)</p><div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">One can only imagine the derision and criticism had anyone of stature, in the 1930's, proposed such a program to end the depression economy. But there’s no denying that World War II deficit spending did do it. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">Until one has a theoretical framework that can satisfactorily explain why World War II, not only did not bankrupt the country, but was the key factor in economic recovery — all one can do is bewail the problem without offering any solutions that will work</span> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://economics102.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">*</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Open system perspective.</span></a><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">Its republicans, not democrats you need to convince of the truthfulness of this thesis. Its republicans who have been spending down the treasury for the past decade. That’s the whole reason they got their asses kicked in the past two elections. If we can’t depend on republicans to exercise some fiscal responsibility, then what are they good for?</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">Its the only reason that I tolerate all their incessant moralizing, their over-dependence on religion for their politics and their unending desire to get involved in the affairs of my bedroom. If they can’t control themselves when it comes to the budget, then they’re worthless. Which is exactly why they got their asses kicked. There are 700 billion reasons why they should be fired.</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgt1r2eEwluxy8KipHdUK9pM_DIhnlY9BLSQtUVGDLTm1viIq9a7ZQH1p-Pnn7nyZgJso6ZvKElpcZYbBOtSo5H1O1K9MxLmxWpKOUCapiguBaHCm8MEbpvbMRVz45YVdN_MQiDfA/s1600-h/350px-NewDeal.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 350px; height: 239px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgt1r2eEwluxy8KipHdUK9pM_DIhnlY9BLSQtUVGDLTm1viIq9a7ZQH1p-Pnn7nyZgJso6ZvKElpcZYbBOtSo5H1O1K9MxLmxWpKOUCapiguBaHCm8MEbpvbMRVz45YVdN_MQiDfA/s400/350px-NewDeal.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5301327602658066482" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">The depression didn’t end until 1946 or so. Ask anyone who lived through the war, or read any available history, and you will find that the citize4ns at home still didn’t have much. Rationing and scarcicty were still the order of the day. Aggregate cash flow numbers mean nothing.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">The situation only got fixed when the wartime and other depression-era controls were lifted and after many trade limitations were listed.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">We might also remember that the US could also sell to the rest of the world as many other countries could not because they were lying in ruins after the war.</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">In short, all WWII did was kill many millions of people, ruin the psyches of millions more, destroy untold amounts of wealth, and set economic progress back by a decade or more.</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheWiUseuAyk4dR2gzMlB6ePeoLzC-yXSlwuRUprus_1ToK56IZK1xG29ul09lrXqOwpyOmb0_E4OB8SrHioJDBNEOp5EJ2EkMXWROLsitGa5nVKyahRE4nE2RabK9hwiEhoUEyGw/s1600-h/2008_d3.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 246px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheWiUseuAyk4dR2gzMlB6ePeoLzC-yXSlwuRUprus_1ToK56IZK1xG29ul09lrXqOwpyOmb0_E4OB8SrHioJDBNEOp5EJ2EkMXWROLsitGa5nVKyahRE4nE2RabK9hwiEhoUEyGw/s400/2008_d3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5301328145306938034" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">During WW-II, there was massive increase in destructive consumption, but also a massive increase in capital investments, the net result was a stagnant economy for the individual.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">After the war, the capital investment was already in place, and the destructive consumption ceased. Individual productivity, forced upon the economy by manpower shortages, and amplified by the capital investment, rose to unprecedented heights.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">We were able to sell our production for a profit instead of blowing it up.</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKj7upF5DiPRprG5r5UDFv_0R0z7zCsStP8VUT_XmaJcVsPqQlAdkDo0gLE_Lpu3BTwkvsCSASWFk7BFAgkmTUnP2IwljbwC1moRLGDFp5J3KYUxCZfkuoqjnQKX3XfaLoaFioSA/s1600-h/full400a.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 96px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKj7upF5DiPRprG5r5UDFv_0R0z7zCsStP8VUT_XmaJcVsPqQlAdkDo0gLE_Lpu3BTwkvsCSASWFk7BFAgkmTUnP2IwljbwC1moRLGDFp5J3KYUxCZfkuoqjnQKX3XfaLoaFioSA/s400/full400a.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5301328856242557442" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >The <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Fools Running The</span> Federal Reserve</span><br /></div><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">The half of Mr. Paulson’s 700B TARP funds which he’s already spent shoring up banks, including the one where he used to work, seems to have been vaporized already by short sellers. Too bad Mr. Cox is a fool on the subject of short selling and uptick rules. Maybe we should ask Robert Mugabe to take over at the Treasury, but then they seem to be following his policies anyway…print money.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">After all, my fellow Republicans seem to have vaporized more wealth through ineptitude than Mugabe has by design. For what they’ve lost they might have purchased Uganda lock stock and barrel. Now the Democrats are going to try to outdue the present crop of nitwits. Throw money at the Big Three, now there’s a novel idea. Amtrack only managed to sublimate 13B in a decade. GM and Ford will easily go better in a quarter, or maybe even a month if they really work at it.</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIqU0h9zctnB-bpnJ2vgm7uLglSw954wGcsV8oz4ZFoAXElppKtaH9VaRAG5cmLddzfF4tc2uqa8KrsHV4Rs2iLMZP94WT2NwlXUGTpfZzGp4flbT4I2IFLtFh2GRHhGCZ25C2lQ/s1600-h/globalisation.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 375px; height: 298px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIqU0h9zctnB-bpnJ2vgm7uLglSw954wGcsV8oz4ZFoAXElppKtaH9VaRAG5cmLddzfF4tc2uqa8KrsHV4Rs2iLMZP94WT2NwlXUGTpfZzGp4flbT4I2IFLtFh2GRHhGCZ25C2lQ/s400/globalisation.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5301329252979372562" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">Ultimately, it was the increase in worker productivity, enabled by capital investment that ended the Great Depression.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">Let us see how well worker productivity fares with stimulus checks drawn at the expense of capital investment this time around.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">It has never worked before, but I hear that since the right people are in charge now, it is bound to work this time.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">The only thing that is known to truly work is to lower taxes and help small business create jobs. Reagan had it right.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">The Stock Market approves because capital starts to filter down into the economy, the government approves because they receive more revenue from increased production and consumer spending, and the people approve because they get to go back to work.</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">Government welfare programs don’t kickstart anything, they only seem to prolong a recession; FDR proved that! The prewar economy was characterized by excess supply side capacity versus demand (farmers dumping milk, killing livestock and burning fields).</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">The war economy was precisely opposite: due to war, more demand than supply thus rationing: so it is true the citizens still didn’t have much. But there was full employment with wandering hobos shanghaied off the streets to work in factories. The private economy greatly improved their equity position and when the war was over, with price controls lifted, there was a burst of inflation due to pent-up demand. </span></div><p style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0); text-align: left;">During deflation, when money supply is in a collapsing spiral due to debt deleveraging, the result is currency values soaring relative to other assets — the marketplace is saying that there is a shortage of dollars. This is nothing more than an imbalance in the supply/demand equation.</p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0); text-align: left;">It is so simple to solve this problem that it seems to defy comprehension. Print money and introduce this cash flow into the private economy through tax rebates or cuts.<br /></p><p style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0); text-align: left;">This would be just the same as if the US treasury owned a mine, with a shaft of solid gold, for use in an emergency such as this. If this doesn’t seem like it’s possible that the value ascribed to dollars is real those dollars could be buried and recovered through mining with the purpose of installing real value to the asset.<br /></p><p style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0); text-align: left;">It is just as important to create money for price stability as it is to stop printing money for inflation. </p><div style="text-align: left;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgskXjLetOaAIuyYMPFDLdtlEcHWu7j3RE-P6joM-HDsbOvNnFBwo5VvSYn-kfCIVL_E8v2_xIVPb0NqJOKZFHcy-tX7jOrJyzaCjijqzjFyTOkCXAxixQ5GuIqHIcQrpJnjS_uRg/s1600-h/cabal_chess.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 271px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgskXjLetOaAIuyYMPFDLdtlEcHWu7j3RE-P6joM-HDsbOvNnFBwo5VvSYn-kfCIVL_E8v2_xIVPb0NqJOKZFHcy-tX7jOrJyzaCjijqzjFyTOkCXAxixQ5GuIqHIcQrpJnjS_uRg/s400/cabal_chess.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5301332252688662770" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">The government can indeed create an asset to which the marketplace will ascribe full value. And this would not be a liability to be paying off with future cash flow.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0); text-align: left;">The only thing the conservatives can offer is the inevitability of financial collapse in severe economic downturn from excess credit expansion. Just try selling this load of pessimism to the electorate. This is the conservatives’ Achilles heel in the current crisis.</p><p style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0); text-align: left;"> The political party that allows this to happen will be tossed out of office and wander in the political wilderness for the next 40 years, if it doesn’t destroy the party.</p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">Conservatives should (posthaste) support large rebate like cash flow into the private economy until asset prices stop declining and housing prices start levitating. At this point to crisis will be over because toxic mortgages will be tradeable.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">Otherwise, the big government political class will offer the World War II argument for huge public sector spending that won’t end like it did when World War II was over.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">This could end up to be a permanent entrenchment of liberal/leftist European-style ruling political class which would destroy our dynamic entrepreneurial economy. It’s much better to have this money in the private economy for investment and consumer demand — for much greater multiplier effect. This allows the economy to grow in the direction it ought to.</span><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3eMH79FmB_HTSx_W2FmoZ-0elJir5PaIAuslfQA8mOnId8TeRJw7BU72zCoAScKN-VQ2l7xos3zOe2ZiyrFoaT9SKTi3nzY1suxoVr1MQEoRNskICYVTYFV6o2eqTxGfGEKUDbQ/s1600-h/hillary_hottie.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 262px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3eMH79FmB_HTSx_W2FmoZ-0elJir5PaIAuslfQA8mOnId8TeRJw7BU72zCoAScKN-VQ2l7xos3zOe2ZiyrFoaT9SKTi3nzY1suxoVr1MQEoRNskICYVTYFV6o2eqTxGfGEKUDbQ/s400/hillary_hottie.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5301332979311076786" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">Unemployment remained very high throughout the 1930s and overall output did not get back to the 1929 level until World War II. But why did WWII end the depression? Oh, because government spending increased aggregate demand. That put the unused capacity of the nation to work.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0); text-align: left;">Under serious recession/depression conditions deficit spending is indicated. The problem becomes it is addictive.</p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">Fiat money inflation (temporarily) benefits only those who are first to get the new currency - the politicians and their friends. From there, as the purchasing power of the dollar declines, each successive receiver and holder of dollars gets successively more shortchanged for his past real labor and savings. This is why counterfeiting - whether legalized or not is always morally wrong; it’s theft!</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">Fiat does not create real sustainable, stable, reliable value; only production of real, not fiat, goods and services can create real wealth.</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">The <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Root of the</span> Problem</span></span><br /></div><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">This is the root problem of the mainstream modern economics profession: virtually no economist studies the root of economics - production and trade by individuals and corporations. They’re too busy studying consumption for the statistic folly of concocting ever more impossible schemes to centrally “plan” and manage” the flow of billions of individual trades.</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCwZxNmNqHz3-K7uaE4HK-Cbpwaork9sYCypoiSgOAgu3uBsKNt0K7TZSf457KYeXBYwDdkWmVPgxrzmmnVWWwc0lhhUvVsMdWOzlat3TtbfepiFwrhbjc-nI7u0MbGC5o30uJlg/s1600-h/opinion-graphics-2_1132660a.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 250px; height: 350px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCwZxNmNqHz3-K7uaE4HK-Cbpwaork9sYCypoiSgOAgu3uBsKNt0K7TZSf457KYeXBYwDdkWmVPgxrzmmnVWWwc0lhhUvVsMdWOzlat3TtbfepiFwrhbjc-nI7u0MbGC5o30uJlg/s400/opinion-graphics-2_1132660a.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5301334534376878466" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">When you accept money in payment for your effort, you do so only on the conviction that you will exchange it for the product of the effort of others… Destroyers seize gold and leave its owners a counterfeit pile of paper. This kills all objective standards and delivers men into the arbitrary power of an arbitrary setter of values. [like the FED] Gold was an objective value, an equivalent of wealth produced.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">Paper is a check drawn by legal looters upon an account which is not theirs: upon the virtue of the victims. Watch for the day when it bounces, marked ‘Account overdrawn. We need to return to free banking and privately issued, competing currencies.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">Then the quality of our money would be restored and its value would again be objective - set by millions of individual traders every day instead of by the whims of 12 Fed governors every 6 weeks.</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">Of course, the statistics demand a monopoly on the issue of currency because if they had to compete with REAL money, they be out of business in a week and their giant looting scheme would be over.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">Under a free market, only reckless fools would take Federal Reserve IOU Nothings in payment for their hard work. Abolish the Fed.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">What the government should be doing, is borrowing now, whilst the economy heads to recession, and increase spending in order to bolster consumer spending and investment, but then be taking the money out of the economy in the good times, the boom.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">This way the two extremes of the standard boom and bust economic cycle are softened and the standard of living can still increase over time with recessions being shallower and shorter, and booms not being so dramatic and, increasing inflationary pressure.</span><br /></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkMHTsLaEXVwHFZcODgxLUwHUGAN9fT976d7HL557O16jaAOPejKHW91P2Fs5nYCMnYJUQU7tCmhsnquV32Tn9B8oC6xfoBiUbljZTcAaEBdTu1bz1Ok9swcKHurwbjONIeE4cNg/s1600-h/IMG_0432.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 254px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkMHTsLaEXVwHFZcODgxLUwHUGAN9fT976d7HL557O16jaAOPejKHW91P2Fs5nYCMnYJUQU7tCmhsnquV32Tn9B8oC6xfoBiUbljZTcAaEBdTu1bz1Ok9swcKHurwbjONIeE4cNg/s400/IMG_0432.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5301336953987168530" border="0" /></a>EuroYank - Virginia Hogehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06079239479407310692noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9622105.post-31859833141883029032009-01-25T03:43:00.098-12:002009-02-02T18:20:43.739-12:00Beyond The Age Of Usury - The Great Deleveraging Scam<div style="text-align: left;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqcN7kofPGxbUOQxwwMe8-GuDDA7PoeL2JoWWSgj-9_ge5E7NGOQQNjxX9mk5pfEC6BP7h2hyphenhyphenL9gTXmBohEF-qHSjfxbLOjAFeRsLgn-JitYwdpcwBMr1_xEjdoT1rpedGgTRfzg/s1600-h/rockwell+obama.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 302px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqcN7kofPGxbUOQxwwMe8-GuDDA7PoeL2JoWWSgj-9_ge5E7NGOQQNjxX9mk5pfEC6BP7h2hyphenhyphenL9gTXmBohEF-qHSjfxbLOjAFeRsLgn-JitYwdpcwBMr1_xEjdoT1rpedGgTRfzg/s400/rockwell+obama.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5295498483821479938" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">As you read this, the American bailout is reaching epic and fatal proportions of more than 8 trillion and the worst is not over yet.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">Actually, the current trends are already much worse than depression, though because of some banking toxic tricks and frauds, risks are being constantly shifted down the social ladder deteriorating the consumers purchasing power forever. There's nothing that can rescue the system as the crisis was built into the system itself.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Read </span><a style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.realitysandwich.com/money_and_crisis_civilization">*Money and the Crisis of Civilization</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">Although this has not been aired on any major TV broadcast, when the world Leaders got together to discuss our fate last, they admitted to being incapable of doing anything.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">That we are all screwed. Global wealth destruction amounts to $27 trillion, and that is far from over.</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">Among many other terrifying recent events, discount window borrowing (from the Fed. Reserve) averaged a record $437.5 billion per day, and that is not included in the cumulative</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> <span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">trillion package.</span> Read </span></span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.gata.org/node/6787"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">*trillion package!</span></a><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUAlsyxe6EfrjOyWZs67_Ll2PA16b4Y_pvFLZZn3C-j6fLUTDFJNNOAF4qCPH8vX3Yk_PBExuqnf8yKZOjBJYqcMMIEw2Pamw41u2WuZmoS5rrEeQnyNb-F6brC8iKEZA2eIPccg/s1600-h/usury.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 381px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUAlsyxe6EfrjOyWZs67_Ll2PA16b4Y_pvFLZZn3C-j6fLUTDFJNNOAF4qCPH8vX3Yk_PBExuqnf8yKZOjBJYqcMMIEw2Pamw41u2WuZmoS5rrEeQnyNb-F6brC8iKEZA2eIPccg/s400/usury.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5295266995729391714" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">In a debt-based economy, competition translates into a great crash enhancer. Take this housing bubble, its engineers, which couldn't do anything to stop the infectious exuberance, figuring that market saturation would eventually have the last word.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">This didn't prevent them from firmly believing that prices had some room to run up, and everybody competed to get the very last piece of the pie.<br /><br /><br />What is truly outrageous is that we boarded onto the Titanic because Credit Rating Agencies sold us triple AAA rated JUNK BONDS.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">(Complex securities concocted by math geniuses and PhD types. The only problem is that they didn't have any data to rely on, and they did not go away because the profit stakes were too huge - the more triple AAA debt rated products on the market the more business they would get.)</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">The </span>Federal Reserve <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Usury System</span></span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ZWKlz2Z4Nlo&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ZWKlz2Z4Nlo&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRv8pObRPzXk7iq6EeuuMu9oTX_3hTsdd-j5kvtcPcCJ1xOqWfURmCOayI7LcGVf4_IEwYVt55F5B5MIewzBMWVtdQzM85Q0ul7UYQK81Wd-HZ0n7G2td6wWlnXIbaxwSTeTmSJw/s1600-h/creative-capital-cr.gif"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 263px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRv8pObRPzXk7iq6EeuuMu9oTX_3hTsdd-j5kvtcPcCJ1xOqWfURmCOayI7LcGVf4_IEwYVt55F5B5MIewzBMWVtdQzM85Q0ul7UYQK81Wd-HZ0n7G2td6wWlnXIbaxwSTeTmSJw/s400/creative-capital-cr.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5295269086512453506" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">The global leverage is about $400 TRILLION or so, and the world Gross Domestic Product is less than $70 TRILLION. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">This big picture helps uncover the hidden goal of fractional banking and its ensuing elementary conclusion: that Fiat money, which is backed by confidence only, is designed to eliminate competition, one step at the time.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">Now the new scheme is the global currency, which is going to consolidate the field of banking even further during/after the Great Deleveraging. By the way, deleverage is again one of those convoluted terms invented to mask reality. Deleverage means (partial or complete) destruction of the debt-vortex unfolding with a domino effect.</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Intended <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Massive Bank</span> Failures</span><br /></div><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">These days, capitalism bashing runs high on the agenda of</span> <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">many pundits, and for which they blame in the name of evil - deregulation.</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj17Vyj8EEQgiL8gVf2-bSdx903d0nfNN3LSKjstx_-Dl_QaITv2D8rmlGI6r2Qy9OV4NQk0igsGPBJy9M3mKJaGHuqFyOuLqqHjCm-fb0KxZa-8OEXUJqmVsuGQxf7iXd7tdqwng/s1600-h/Bank+Run+New+York+April+1933.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 272px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj17Vyj8EEQgiL8gVf2-bSdx903d0nfNN3LSKjstx_-Dl_QaITv2D8rmlGI6r2Qy9OV4NQk0igsGPBJy9M3mKJaGHuqFyOuLqqHjCm-fb0KxZa-8OEXUJqmVsuGQxf7iXd7tdqwng/s400/Bank+Run+New+York+April+1933.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5295271095370447154" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">They deliberately neglected to consider - and report - that lobbies have militated restlessly to bypass them one way or another.</span><br /></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">This real estate bubble, now bringing the financial system on its knees, was made possible with the intended failure of regulation. It was regulated to be this way.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">Yes, this was an original intent and it becomes crystal clear </span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">in<br />this Financial Crisis, that </span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">the elites have the habit to design laws for themselves; that is why the people get fooled every time they put faith into a ruling body. Every civilization's collapse precisely occurs because of that; yet people would rather think that what goes up must go down theory is beyond their control.</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDnjiwGagdCc_8KAL9FkPG6vuAWZMoLKeHXb8IviRHW9oJqTbUR8YdRoDzToz-aLX5ZVt8Zdp4_Ll8D3IbAWOK9g75fsCtBuFyQ67BFeFQcMOln5FngjY_4gQr1U9K_yMkOm8VLQ/s1600-h/image007.gif"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 327px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDnjiwGagdCc_8KAL9FkPG6vuAWZMoLKeHXb8IviRHW9oJqTbUR8YdRoDzToz-aLX5ZVt8Zdp4_Ll8D3IbAWOK9g75fsCtBuFyQ67BFeFQcMOln5FngjY_4gQr1U9K_yMkOm8VLQ/s400/image007.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5295274677021325090" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">The delusion consists in persisting that hope is key for a real change. Indeed, did we really have to wait thousands of years to find ourselves confronted to with the current events, and finally admit why hope did absolutely nothing; that We The People neglected throughout the milennia to teach a generation to the next why debts and consumerism' aren't bedfellows.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">Obviously politicians never made it a specific educational platform for high school students.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">Instead they institutionalize blind speculation and spending when times are good and then implement the bailout of their bankrupt thinking.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">It thus becomes greatly ironic to listen to Sir Evelyn de Rothschild calling for action since the latter doesn't provide any solutions but altruistic half-truths and rants. For how long will this cynicism continue . </span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Sir Evelyn de Rothschild talks about the GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS ...</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/v4kZd4Roies&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/v4kZd4Roies&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Important<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> Online</span> Books</span><br /></div></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMHuUibEjNNWD-Ftr8kTQTmr-LNNysFUTyNjOBdKve-N7EEDC_SLoGeYFT6RwE1waf6OC77po0EaNeCJObEO4zS62kQSriq_s9TQTi7mcrceEsu3p-ZyxlRw3a9uA9YLACmXHyCw/s1600-h/b5f4224128a0ea161e093010._AA240_.L.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMHuUibEjNNWD-Ftr8kTQTmr-LNNysFUTyNjOBdKve-N7EEDC_SLoGeYFT6RwE1waf6OC77po0EaNeCJObEO4zS62kQSriq_s9TQTi7mcrceEsu3p-ZyxlRw3a9uA9YLACmXHyCw/s400/b5f4224128a0ea161e093010._AA240_.L.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5295278612154097682" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">Charles Mackay described in his 1841 book, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, that what is happening today is nothing new.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Read it online</span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"> ...</span><br /><a style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://robotics.caltech.edu/%7Emason/Delusions/index.html">*<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds</span></a><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">Read </span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">the views of<br /><a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.economics.harvard.edu/faculty/rogoff/Views"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">*Harvard's Kenneth Rogoff </span></a>who has identified 148 crises since 1870 in which a country experienced a cumulative decline in gross domestic product (G.D.P.) of at least 10 percent.</span></span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOn_XcWgENP39hZpiCaHQ6epYLjbaM0EQbH0KtgnwGVEEM-tr3qdZCCt9c7HoVd5FntcHDMSmbnr8U4G_qX3MrjsrnnAtUdBA78WXT0lQcsP4nKFU-Km4M6h0-fmyixHVrA3qMHQ/s1600-h/094e81b0c8a0eef861359110.L.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 264px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOn_XcWgENP39hZpiCaHQ6epYLjbaM0EQbH0KtgnwGVEEM-tr3qdZCCt9c7HoVd5FntcHDMSmbnr8U4G_qX3MrjsrnnAtUdBA78WXT0lQcsP4nKFU-Km4M6h0-fmyixHVrA3qMHQ/s400/094e81b0c8a0eef861359110.L.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5295389725167377954" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Read Online</span></span> <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">...</span> <a style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://socserv2.socsci.mcmaster.ca/%7Eecon/ugcm/3ll3/keynes/peace.htm">*The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes 1919</a><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;">The Wall Streeters viewed themselves smarter that we are in this giga-mess. They banked on gullibility and it worked out as usual. Exactly, as usual. Charles Mackay described in his 1841 book, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, that what is happening today is nothing new.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;">There have been 148 crises over a 140 year period and people don't still get it? How couldn't this be an incentive to warn populations when bubbles are forming? Should we really believe Greenspan when he says the Fed can only identify a bubble when it has popped and only then intervene to clean up the mess?</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;">The crowds are just too mesmerized by the 'Golden Boys' way of life to see the trap they keep falling into every now and then - confusing debts with assets and otherwise.</span><br /></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjksjJjW3Yqvsd7zoeS1gIXiPofOn5sc_DX3O_n5M8V92VJn-AyEBaAkNDdHmVs-_w4zf6CXH7aqJz6OMAe_-h1OWZgxDAr8IbFKBMeuLNTlbWUe8sbtas3Ln9Vm0JoRheNA0EQ6g/s1600-h/B00005N7P3.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_V58539759_.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjksjJjW3Yqvsd7zoeS1gIXiPofOn5sc_DX3O_n5M8V92VJn-AyEBaAkNDdHmVs-_w4zf6CXH7aqJz6OMAe_-h1OWZgxDAr8IbFKBMeuLNTlbWUe8sbtas3Ln9Vm0JoRheNA0EQ6g/s400/B00005N7P3.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_V58539759_.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5295283087320491410" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">Now that it all becomes clearer, who will give charity WHEN 60% of the population becomes poor overnight and another 30% can barely survive? Meanwhile Businessweek praises the 50 Top American Givers without even asking where did charity lead us since the U.S Government found out that child hunger rose 50%. We are now staring into the abyss?<br /><br />"The most hated sort of wealth getting and with the greatest reason, is usury, which makes a gain out of money itself and not from the natural object of it. For money was intended to be used in exchange but not to increase at interest. And this term interest, which means the birth of money from money is applied to the breeding of money because the offspring resembles the parent. Wherefore of all modes of getting wealth, this is the most unnatural." - Aristotle (1258b Politics)<br /><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Chinese <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Prepare For</span> Unrest</span></span><br /></div><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgm4yb6aXrk9F1guE2Uogfm3RkTKvY2dARbajLeC36zUHkKyhA9Wg57YAZ5Qs6VC1rDk9jhfZGCWm_nHHYCyUmbLcq0Z1Fo64LC9-tsTd8ZCaeXerXw108aCa_OQzyPzXtNDa-icg/s1600-h/China_economy_military.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 253px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgm4yb6aXrk9F1guE2Uogfm3RkTKvY2dARbajLeC36zUHkKyhA9Wg57YAZ5Qs6VC1rDk9jhfZGCWm_nHHYCyUmbLcq0Z1Fo64LC9-tsTd8ZCaeXerXw108aCa_OQzyPzXtNDa-icg/s400/China_economy_military.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5295297629578812994" border="0" /></a>From one extreme to the other: in the sweatshop parallel universe.<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><br /><br />Read</span> ....<br /></span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7766921.stm">*</a></span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"><a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7766921.stm">Chinese ready themselves for mass social unrest.</a><br /><br />In a blunt statement, the chairman of China's largest sovereign wealth said that China won't rescue Western banks. There too, the government has decided to embark on a spending highway with £373 billion bail-out package, and this may also imply the eventual dumping of the nefarious US dollar already affecting the rich city of Dubai where speculators are throwing in the towel as a lending drought bursts the 'Desert Bubble'.<br /><br />The most comedic element in this grand scale drama is the story of Donald Trump who sues the banks for $3 BILLION for having failed to foresee the housing collapse that is now damaging his reputation in order to avoid the $40 Million he owes in banking interests.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzreNnSg1BYKKtL_mX8VRWI4fwDwznmZf05_OiESdfhVawTqERSh2qbDowJMPWY8kz3vbqe5TeKkoZmwihkSvKyN3-_DUxluZwMMIvoGBAxNH85CeLbE_Hh88MiLLSClZNZlXWIw/s1600-h/circle7.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 353px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzreNnSg1BYKKtL_mX8VRWI4fwDwznmZf05_OiESdfhVawTqERSh2qbDowJMPWY8kz3vbqe5TeKkoZmwihkSvKyN3-_DUxluZwMMIvoGBAxNH85CeLbE_Hh88MiLLSClZNZlXWIw/s400/circle7.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5295303571484422146" border="0" /></a>In the Vanity Fair December issue, a columnist wrote an extremely well articulated piece, which also reveals the latest estimate of jobs New York is going to lose, both on and off Wall Street, amounting to 160,000 to start with. Michael Shnayerson's intro reads like a hook scene:<br /><br />... Even many of the wealthiest players are retrenching. Others, like the Lehman Brothers bankers who borrowed against their millions in stock, have lost everything. Hedge fund managers try to sell their luxury homes, while trophy wives are hocking their jewelry. Pain is being felt on St. Barth’s and at Sotheby’s, on benefit gala committees and at the East Hampton Airport, as the world of the Big Rich collapses, its culture in shock and its values in question.<br /><br />Last week Bernanke said that he was not against the possibility to drive interest rates down to near zero if necessary but urged decisive action to protect the economy... the meaning of this can be found in the reason why </span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">Bernanke </span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">contemplates radical plans to inject cash directly into the economy - the nuclear option - to be used only when interest rates approach zero; an action seconded by President of the European Central Bank Jean-Claude Trichet, hinting in the press conference to announce the ECB's 75 basis point rate cut that it may also consider "nuclear options".<br /><br />The term "nuclear" ought to be taken literally in this particular case. If a well known market guru such as Marc Farber didn't let himself be duped, it should scare the hell out of you.<br /><br />In a recent CNBC interview, an outraged Farber calmly explained what the stakes were, as concluding that world central bankers were merely imploding the world economy...<br /><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Marc Faber - 2009 To Be Catastrophic</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">For Global Economy Videos Part1 & Part2</span><br /></div><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"><object width="325" height="244"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/w_UprqluSj0&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/w_UprqluSj0&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="325" height="244"></embed></object><object width="325" height="244"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/B8p-8DMEChg&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/B8p-8DMEChg&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="325" height="244"></embed></object></span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Beyond <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">The Age</span> Of Usury</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">Because the very premise of usury creates endless inflation, which in turn reduces the purchasing power, extreme materialism dismantles the fabric of societies: everybody prioritizes the need for cash to the detriment of communities, neglecting friends and family. This causes the goods and services to multiply endlessly since people are too busy to chase money - but what for in the end?<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Predictions <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Come True</span> (2002-2009)<br /></div><object width="325" height="244"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/VCv32qaINIQ&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></object><div style="text-align: center;"><object width="325" height="244"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/VCv32qaINIQ&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="325" height="244"></embed></object><br /><br /></div>As for the corporations, they do not see any incentives in creating long-term perspectives: when loans are so easily available and knowing that more voracious competitors will borrow to take over whatever natural resources there is no time to lose!<br /><br />Polluting nature, cartelizing the means of production, human exploitation, bribery, collusion to maximize earnings are not diseases but symptoms. This all highlights the gap between people's creativity and their needs.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLqsl18v4ZuaGr59FRp8ul-pO2-8keBnRF4QENbmJoFiriVfXMlVMZFTKRwHvg8TX9XGRJLjAw-dX3I8E-nW-6j4AEyE6Yosqio8Kqv6YmI8dCyIvTYVvJU6LB5-2ZNqB-r1NqxQ/s1600-h/payday_lenders.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 297px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLqsl18v4ZuaGr59FRp8ul-pO2-8keBnRF4QENbmJoFiriVfXMlVMZFTKRwHvg8TX9XGRJLjAw-dX3I8E-nW-6j4AEyE6Yosqio8Kqv6YmI8dCyIvTYVvJU6LB5-2ZNqB-r1NqxQ/s400/payday_lenders.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5295304244173479666" border="0" /></a>We are truly heading toward a terrifying and inevitable crisis of civilization and this is our very last warning before being plunged into an era where money and food will be scarce for many years to come.<br /><br />Wars may well be the only weapons of unethical governments if civil unrest on a large scale threatens their very existence; they will resort to armed conflicts which will have been financed by their taxpayers.<br /><br /><br />Yes, you got it: usury also allows killings and destruction to be a lot more devastating. Contrary to the popular belief, money is not the root of all evil but usury is.<br /></div></div><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">To be continued!</span><br /></span></div>EuroYank - Virginia Hogehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06079239479407310692noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9622105.post-73636769332742792652009-01-05T06:26:00.081-12:002009-02-06T08:51:53.114-12:00The American Pipe Dream & Why Obama Will Fail<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHN1pQ8kquJiuBrnf-WwesRD6EI9JNfHTobKv6hy87RjGTI7xl55y3Cw9z14uJjKx6VeeEGU5hwLVhWb6Vzy2qkuwHRIP9wpxjjI45wYydcNZYHPd1Yu2KhMnTRfgC2eDWbqwRdg/s1600-h/ebony-august-2008-barack-obama.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 310px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHN1pQ8kquJiuBrnf-WwesRD6EI9JNfHTobKv6hy87RjGTI7xl55y3Cw9z14uJjKx6VeeEGU5hwLVhWb6Vzy2qkuwHRIP9wpxjjI45wYydcNZYHPd1Yu2KhMnTRfgC2eDWbqwRdg/s400/ebony-august-2008-barack-obama.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293388551222053858" border="0" /></a><object width="350" height="300"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/oVi4rUzf-0Q&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/oVi4rUzf-0Q&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="350" height="300"></embed></object>
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<br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;">The current crisis is not just a passing storm, but the prelude to a dramatic sea change in economic conditions. That is the new normal.</span>
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<br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;">With the bursting of history’s biggest credit bubble — one that spans the far reaches of the globe — has come a deflationary tsunami that is moving much faster than authorities attempts to fight back through reflationary sandbagging.</span>
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<br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi94NkxaaZtl9fMAE0jvSLUT2-KFevruqXbl74Qcx_QNwSg8a5ACAPgIHJ1iXAD3LOmuEc307JzWOfciWaa91pkAMjH1kJ8fI-JMK79CbIHjbkk6HvE8UtwguRV_nzvS7NhtrkRkA/s1600-h/fdr_obama.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 250px; height: 164px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi94NkxaaZtl9fMAE0jvSLUT2-KFevruqXbl74Qcx_QNwSg8a5ACAPgIHJ1iXAD3LOmuEc307JzWOfciWaa91pkAMjH1kJ8fI-JMK79CbIHjbkk6HvE8UtwguRV_nzvS7NhtrkRkA/s400/fdr_obama.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293388958781926306" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">Moreover, because the surge is hitting so many countries at once, even if the U.S. government (and others) are throwing around cheap credit and taxpayer bailouts like its Halloween candy, it’s still no match for aggregate level of wealth destruction taking place in a globalized world.</span>
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<br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/01/business/economy/01deflation.html"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">*</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Fear of Deflation Lurks as Global Demand Drops</span></a>
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<br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">As dozens of countries slip deeper into financial distress, a new threat may be gathering force within the American economy — the prospect that goods will pile up waiting for buyers and prices will fall, suffocating fresh investment and worsening joblessness for months or even years. The word for this is deflation, or declining prices, a term that gives economists chills.</span></div>
<br /><div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">World Wide<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> </span></span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Deflation</span>
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<br /><div style="text-align: left;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgW_EP2pTEAHeOmvDFrlS5mcrM4ScG_QTUxny833-K6H6HmDCPkswEMEidBesHztB87kroX9JPGguYew49ywAJBvLOmMHp6cNJb8P39mCRugGo8xlWCnlY1L5WCyAkNb9vf2HjC6w/s1600-h/fdr_button_1932.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 220px; height: 220px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgW_EP2pTEAHeOmvDFrlS5mcrM4ScG_QTUxny833-K6H6HmDCPkswEMEidBesHztB87kroX9JPGguYew49ywAJBvLOmMHp6cNJb8P39mCRugGo8xlWCnlY1L5WCyAkNb9vf2HjC6w/s400/fdr_button_1932.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293390464477936898" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">Deflation accompanied the Depression of the 1930s. Persistently falling prices also were at the heart of Japan’s so-called lost decade after the catastrophic collapse of its real estate bubble at the end of the 1980s — a period in which some experts now find parallels to the American predicament.</span>
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<br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">With economies around the globe weakening, demand for oil, copper, grains and other commodities has diminished, bringing down prices of these raw materials. But prices have yet to decline noticeably for most goods and services, with one conspicuous exception — houses. Still, reduced demand is beginning to soften prices for a few products, like furniture and bedding, which are down slightly since the beginning of 2007, according to government data. Prices are also falling for some appliances, tools and hardware.</span>
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<br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">Only a few months ago, American policy makers were worried about the reverse problem — rising prices, or inflation — as then-soaring costs for oil and food filtered through the economy. In July, average prices were 5.6 percent higher than a year earlier — the fastest pace of inflation since 1991. But by the end of September, annual inflation had dipped to 4.9 percent and was widely expected to go lower.</span>
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<br /><div style="text-align: left;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhG5COoGYy1SHsjebbihaLhhDBo8Y4ESUGmeUEBH1ah7lU6YQVwvJ932f6tmQEVchKrZJQWTOjjX3VK8H2dLm3rCB248tg7DKpTiBMB7lkV75itiVxP0SVDFSt_jt8I6dgbOF99Lg/s1600-h/Usa-wpa-graphic.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 250px; height: 250px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhG5COoGYy1SHsjebbihaLhhDBo8Y4ESUGmeUEBH1ah7lU6YQVwvJ932f6tmQEVchKrZJQWTOjjX3VK8H2dLm3rCB248tg7DKpTiBMB7lkV75itiVxP0SVDFSt_jt8I6dgbOF99Lg/s400/Usa-wpa-graphic.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293390831298535058" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">The new worry is that in the worst case, the end of inflation may be the beginning of something malevolent: a long, slow retrenchment in which consumers and businesses worldwide lose the wherewithal to buy, sending prices down for many goods. Though still considered unlikely, that would prompt businesses to slow production and accelerate layoffs, taking more paychecks out of the economy and further weakening demand.</span>
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<br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">The danger of this is the difficulty of a cure. Policy makers can generally choke off inflation by raising interest rates, dampening economic activity and reducing demand for goods. But as Japan discovered, an economy may remain ensnared by deflation for many years, even when interest rates are dropped to zero: falling prices make companies reluctant to invest even when credit is free.</span>
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<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">Through much of the 1990s, prices for property and many goods kept falling in Japan. As layoffs increased and purchasing power declined, prices fell lower still, in a downward spiral of diminishing fortunes. Some fear the American economy could be sinking toward a similar fate, if a recession is deep and prolonged, as consumers lose spending power just as much of Europe, Asia and Latin America succumb to a slowdown.</span>
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<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWTQJm1TwStwYuo4M8zQwJHPHok-kILPVew3thHQCpl5ZhR2MNEqbKBzwrR_4rUHx7jy_UfxiHLFSyZhpIbFkevl2XlFBKthNnV0iFXnG4Il8wPi9OhvbA76KEwvEcDURm8pEJVQ/s1600-h/obama-revolution.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWTQJm1TwStwYuo4M8zQwJHPHok-kILPVew3thHQCpl5ZhR2MNEqbKBzwrR_4rUHx7jy_UfxiHLFSyZhpIbFkevl2XlFBKthNnV0iFXnG4Il8wPi9OhvbA76KEwvEcDURm8pEJVQ/s400/obama-revolution.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293391065881495922" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">American policy makers have tools to avert the sort of deflationary black hole that captured Japan. Deflation fears last broke out in the United States in 2003, but the Federal Reserve defeated the menace with low interest rates that kept the economy growing. This time, the Fed is again being aggressive, dropping its target rate to 1 percent this week. And the government’s various bailout plans have also pumped money into the economy.</span>
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<br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">If you print enough money, you create inflation.</span>
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<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">But even as American authorities unleash credit, the threat has intensified. Not since the Depression have so many countries faced so much trouble at once. The financial crisis has gone global, like a virus mutating in the face of every experimental cure. From South Korea to Iceland to Brazil, the pandemic has spread, bringing with it a tightening of credit that has starved even healthy companies of finance.</span>
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<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">We’re entering a really fierce global recession.</span>
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<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">A significant financial crisis has been allowed to morph into a full-fledged global panic. It’s a very dangerous situation. The danger is that instead of having a few bad years, we’ll have another lost decade.</span>
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<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">Global economic growth has flourished in recent years, much of it fertilized with borrowed investment. This raised kingdoms of houses in Florida and California, steel mills in Ukraine, slaughterhouses in Brazil and shopping malls in Turkey.</span>
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<br /><div style="text-align: left;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5SFQ60M1B1yWejVfD7ID64ioU300pwFhyphenhyphenRPHtryb3hYxb4IjCI_OJDaTA_WKaFhV99ueBL0VvoqxWCca8Zd1DoC2__gzb4vQKQMc8BRwVMn5g4QHR_ZZp2yGPCcpz-ClGUIbklw/s1600-h/wall-street-sign-1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5SFQ60M1B1yWejVfD7ID64ioU300pwFhyphenhyphenRPHtryb3hYxb4IjCI_OJDaTA_WKaFhV99ueBL0VvoqxWCca8Zd1DoC2__gzb4vQKQMc8BRwVMn5g4QHR_ZZp2yGPCcpz-ClGUIbklw/s400/wall-street-sign-1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293391901142005842" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">That tide is now moving in reverse. Banks and other financial institutions are reckoning with hundreds of billions of dollars worth of disastrous investments. As they struggle to rebuild their capital, they are halting loans to many customers, demanding swift repayment from others and dumping assets — homes sold out of foreclosure, investments linked to mortgages and corporate loans. Selling is pushing prices down further, making the assets left on balance sheets worth less, in some cases prompting another round of sales.</span>
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<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">You get this adverse feedback loop where assets keep falling in value. You’re essentially putting big downward pressure on the global economy.</span>
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<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">In past crises, like those that devastated Mexico in 1994 and much of Asia in 1997 and 1998, weak economies managed to recover by exporting aggressively, not least to the United States.</span>
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<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">But American consumers are battered this time. After years of borrowing against homes and tapping credit cards, consumers are pulling back.</span>
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<br /><div style="text-align: left;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDSAaBK2syNdrMLW10ALySYHYzcLgDQV_rYdsBNi6WjVt9l4nHHQpnHgaa65KggjabtPTZOmdaM1_CXh40EmW1CoM92JCg-L8IbFamzerg0Mw1GQr1mW3a3pPDI1VzF0n7X7zIRg/s1600-h/exposure_580x468.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 323px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDSAaBK2syNdrMLW10ALySYHYzcLgDQV_rYdsBNi6WjVt9l4nHHQpnHgaa65KggjabtPTZOmdaM1_CXh40EmW1CoM92JCg-L8IbFamzerg0Mw1GQr1mW3a3pPDI1VzF0n7X7zIRg/s400/exposure_580x468.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293409630797273762" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">From Asia to Latin America, exports are slowing and should continue to do so as the global appetite shrinks. This is spawning fears that major producers like China and India — which vastly expanded production capacity in recent years — will have to dump products on world markets to keep factories running and stave off unemployment, pressing prices lower.</span>
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<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">Earlier this year, some analysts suggested that American businesses might continue to prosper, even as consumers pulled back at home, by selling into foreign markets. Caterpillar, the construction equipment manufacturer, might suffer declining sales in the United States, the argument went, but huge projects from Russia to Dubai required front-end loaders. Australia and Brazil needed earth-movers to expand mining operations as they sent iron ore toward smelters in Northeast Asia.</span>
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<br /><div style="text-align: left;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdrIqaOqT3KOLwlJduBtPrT8YYaxjY9VAlXRZL56l_1sb7tg1aFpx4wVMH0KK4r_wQ9sWAhbrBtM5AxyP5f56AERPHQeJRfRsxfmkqvKJOb7DPtvobur59tk5Iwl1VQ4JO9tzWEA/s1600-h/china+two.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 319px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdrIqaOqT3KOLwlJduBtPrT8YYaxjY9VAlXRZL56l_1sb7tg1aFpx4wVMH0KK4r_wQ9sWAhbrBtM5AxyP5f56AERPHQeJRfRsxfmkqvKJOb7DPtvobur59tk5Iwl1VQ4JO9tzWEA/s400/china+two.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293402676475084146" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">China has long been at the center of claims that the world could keep growing regardless of American troubles. China has been importing cotton from India and the United States; electronics components from South Korea, Malaysia and Taiwan; timber from Russia and Africa; and oil from the Middle East.</span>
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<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">But many of the finished goods China produces with these materials have ultimately landed in the United States, Europe and Japan. When consumers pull back in those countries, Chinese factories feel the impact, along with their suppliers around the globe.</span>
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<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">Fewer laptop computers shipped from China spells less demand for chips. Last week, Toshiba — Japan’s largest chip maker — said it lost $275 million from July to September, blaming its troubles on a world glut.</span>
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<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">Lower demand for flat-screen televisions means less need for flat-panel glass displays. This month, Samsung, the Korean electronics giant, said a global oversupply in that item caused its biggest dip in quarterly profits in three years.</span>
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<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">Now, a glut of products may be building in the United States. Orders for trucks used by business have plummeted. Investments in industrial equipment are declining. Yet inventories have grown.</span>
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<br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">The </span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">Mother</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">of All</span> </span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">Budget</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Deficits</span></span></span>
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<br /><div style="text-align: left;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1R_HlEot92QvBTCjwCyKevbTt3GfuuQX8E7NpIq3rOFxB3NoK2u-tJDaLjkDW3kQhWCpSwTYppxBZbGQcIdn8dQ3genAG-qYmKgYu-ABsTZtsHeitl3DwjhE2xVW2ZPLdlwDMwA/s1600-h/obama_clinton_radicals2_080222_ms.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1R_HlEot92QvBTCjwCyKevbTt3GfuuQX8E7NpIq3rOFxB3NoK2u-tJDaLjkDW3kQhWCpSwTYppxBZbGQcIdn8dQ3genAG-qYmKgYu-ABsTZtsHeitl3DwjhE2xVW2ZPLdlwDMwA/s400/obama_clinton_radicals2_080222_ms.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293392150275460530" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">Obama is betting heavily that massive government spending will create millions of new jobs. Still, it must be asked: Why does Obama prefer a fiscal policy geared toward increased spending rather than the tax cuts he promised ad nauseam during his campaign?</span>
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<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">The answer is painfully simple – and illustrates the Bush-crafted box Obama finds himself in. Beleaguered consumers would probably not spend any new tax cuts but rather pay off debts – or stuff them under the figurative mattress.</span>
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<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">That’s why Obama is taking a cue from Franklin Roosevelt and planning to invest massively in public-works projects, such as repairing the nation’s crumbling roads and bridges, expanding broadband access, and creating “green” jobs.</span>
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<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">Yet even this ambitious plan – a product of the Keynesian belief in government efforts to induce spending and investment – may not achieve its intended result.</span>
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<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">First, and foremost, there is the matter of how Obama’s mother of all budget deficits will be financed; there’s talk now of a Trillion dollars or more in new spending over the next two years. There are only two politically feasible ways: sell bonds or print money (raising taxes is off the table.)</span>
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<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">The government cannot spend the economy into prosperity because all government spending is a burden on the economy. The only thing the government can do is empower individuals to become prosperous on their own.</span>
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<br /><div style="text-align: left;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPJqSx2TEwYtpxj9CMhCg6vm7jvvP9WYRBlV6Wpk18vAJDm8Cq8dQ63wMQl4hsyXuFlGfHnfQIBz7owSRHzpjH6Mco5343msMZVhNMgLBOfDGApYPPfCyFBvS1x63j2DYWSRqnhQ/s1600-h/new_deal_wpa.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 319px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPJqSx2TEwYtpxj9CMhCg6vm7jvvP9WYRBlV6Wpk18vAJDm8Cq8dQ63wMQl4hsyXuFlGfHnfQIBz7owSRHzpjH6Mco5343msMZVhNMgLBOfDGApYPPfCyFBvS1x63j2DYWSRqnhQ/s400/new_deal_wpa.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293392606834304034" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">Obama often points to the public works projects started by FDR and Eisenhower as examples of how his policy could work. In those instances government spending was still a burden on the economy, but it was a burden that resulted in a net gain for the country as a whole. Essentially, new infrastructure that increased mobility and the availability of goods and services. Better roads. More power plants. These things are what stimulated the economy under FDR and Eisenhower (Eisenhower more so than FDR), not the spending itself.</span>
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<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">"... The old metro design was based on a hub-and-spoke system — a series of highways that converged on an urban core. But in an age of multiple downtown nodes and complicated travel routes, it’s better to have a complex web of roads and rail systems.</span>
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<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">It’s also before the spending drought that is bound to follow the spending binge. Because we’re going to be spending $1 trillion now on existing structures and fading industries, there will be less or nothing in 2010 or 2011 for innovative transport systems, innovative social programs or anything else.</span>
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<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">Before the recession hit, we were enjoying a period of urban and suburban innovation. We could have been on the verge of a transportation revolution. It looks as if the Obama infrastructure plan may freeze that change, not fuel it. "</span>
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<br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/09/opinion/09brooks.html?_r=1&emc=eta1"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">*</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">This Old House </span></a>
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<br /><div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">Ultimately, whether we like it or not, we’re just going to have to bite the bullet, and admit that the only thing we can do is let the economy take its</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"> </span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">course. </span>
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<br /></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">Businesses are going to fail. People are going to be out of work. But if during that time government lightens its tax and regulatory burden on the country, the rocky economic times will be a lot more short-lived than they could be.</span>
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<br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">But there is no way to avoid those rocks altogether, however much politicians may wish they could sell Americans on that pipe dream.</span>
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<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">- 01/03/09: President-elect Obama's Weekly Address - Join the Discussion: Economy -</span>
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<br /></div>EuroYank - Virginia Hogehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06079239479407310692noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9622105.post-61734904754104288122008-12-01T17:44:00.046-12:002008-12-21T08:21:30.370-12:00The Federal Reserve Power Game<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRMBE47nwZuiBLlo62jjUh2zgnHVTb76YzM7A_BdXAv_3e0NgEnrHgGqqJ_Fd7Uk4KxQssV_g1sELXN2ySrxgynoP1Ff7JLyR1D62Oj-eWlGgcDT0MatTHHVLuI8VaNIQEM4W2qw/s1600-h/horns_dees.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 355px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRMBE47nwZuiBLlo62jjUh2zgnHVTb76YzM7A_BdXAv_3e0NgEnrHgGqqJ_Fd7Uk4KxQssV_g1sELXN2ySrxgynoP1Ff7JLyR1D62Oj-eWlGgcDT0MatTHHVLuI8VaNIQEM4W2qw/s400/horns_dees.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5282256631403730338" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Who <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Controls</span> the <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Money?</span></span></span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">The <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Federal Reserve</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"> </span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">is neither</span> Federal <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">nor a</span> Reserve.</span></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Owned by a corrupt group of <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">International Bankers.</span></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">It is a <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">privately <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">owned</span> monopoly.</span></span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;">ZIONIST JEWS CONTROL THE MONEY in America. They own & run the Federal Reserve Bank that the US government continually borrows from and is in debt to.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;">“When a government is dependent for money upon the bankers, they and not the government leaders control the nation. This is because the hand that gives is above the hand that takes. Financiers are without patriotism and without decency.” - Napoleon</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPvjN6cWTbzgDd1Zu5Kz6r1oT7YFso6qF1OSpXiz7iUDwaeThoyAT_Nac6vmS5GvytCcWyH0Y9h2NrV5-5z_CGAiEh9dBjQymmXeMi4B1dsS7rMB7pnBoRx6HXOvJrI_GqZvmxbg/s1600-h/hooks_dees.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 355px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPvjN6cWTbzgDd1Zu5Kz6r1oT7YFso6qF1OSpXiz7iUDwaeThoyAT_Nac6vmS5GvytCcWyH0Y9h2NrV5-5z_CGAiEh9dBjQymmXeMi4B1dsS7rMB7pnBoRx6HXOvJrI_GqZvmxbg/s400/hooks_dees.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5282337241075085634" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;">The Federal Reserve Bank is a consortium of 9 Jew-owned & associated banks with the Rothschilds at the head:</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;">$1. Rothschild Banks of London and Berlin</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;">$2. Lazard Brothers Banks of Paris</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;">$3. Israel Moses Seif Banks of Italy</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;">$4. Warburg Bank of Hamburg and Amsterdam</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;">$5. Lehman Brothers of NY</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;">$6. Kuhn, Loeb Bank of NY (Now Shearson American Express)</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;">$7. Goldman, Sachs of NY</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;">$8. National Bank of Commerce NY/Morgan Guaranty Trust (J. P. Morgan Bank - Equitable Life - Levi P. Morton are principal shareholders)</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;">$9. Hanover Trust of NY (William and David Rockefeller & Chase National Bank NY are principal shareholders).</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"> <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">See</span></span> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.save-a-patriot.org/files/view/whofed.html"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">*</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Chart of who "owns" the Federal Reserve</span></a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9kELHB7Gx06BCmRBQ3mPi7_0FXeNT1NzzUsm3I2der3482ksqgcvp0iAoggRHkOlx5Z0zQjN24sMxk-UG470Pnshf2G1xJsSWxxaNqBV08MwMET4lRQU1E15lZQlN9G2qHBD1kA/s1600-h/usa_dees.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 379px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9kELHB7Gx06BCmRBQ3mPi7_0FXeNT1NzzUsm3I2der3482ksqgcvp0iAoggRHkOlx5Z0zQjN24sMxk-UG470Pnshf2G1xJsSWxxaNqBV08MwMET4lRQU1E15lZQlN9G2qHBD1kA/s400/usa_dees.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5282256757297548178" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">The Truth </span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">Behind the Financial Crisis </span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Videos</span></span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><object width="275" height="250"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ZnJlMssUoW4&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ZnJlMssUoW4&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="275" height="250"></embed></object><object width="275" height="250"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/bLCHWhmyn8w&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/bLCHWhmyn8w&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="275" height="250"></embed></object><object width="275" height="250"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/GFxZDTAXEhg&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/GFxZDTAXEhg&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="275" height="250"></embed></object><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:85%;" >- America It's Time To Panic (8.18 min) - Who owns the Federal Reserve? (1.24 min) - The Federal Reserve (2.56 min) - </span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><object width="275" height="250"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ol3mEe8TH7w&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ol3mEe8TH7w&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="275" height="250"></embed></object><object width="275" height="250"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/7tr5BbH6X8s&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/7tr5BbH6X8s&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="275" height="250"></embed></object><object width="275" height="250"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/GubKeiQ6b8A&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/GubKeiQ6b8A&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="275" height="250"></embed></object></span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:85%;" >- Federal Reserve Caused Economic Crisis (9.19 min) - Federal Reserve Notes VS. United States Notes (8.20 min) - Understanding the Financial Crisis (7.53 min) -</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></div><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Despite the apparent swift U.S. military success in Iraq, the U.S. dollar has yet to benefit as safe haven currency. This is an unexpected development, as many currency traders had expected the dollar to strengthen on the news of a U.S. win. Capital is flowing out of the dollar, largely into the Euro.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Many are beginning to ask whether the objective situation of the U.S. economy is far worse than the stock market would suggest. The future of the dollar is far from a minor issue of interest only to banks or currency traders. It stands at the heart of Pax Americana, or as it is called, The American Century, the system of arrangements on which America's role in the world rests.</span><br /></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiN9eNFQDYuUp1sRVMFtZ7YwelCZnb29RGbRBt68cv5Dn5A-JY_OyUcmybsrySl_4T1KWw1kAQXxXXTp9Lbf0iPKXo2LEgwAFEdInfzPNOeJM_5idmCwFszLsC8NORoHvQJIP4atw/s1600-h/260907fedresdeesct9.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 319px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiN9eNFQDYuUp1sRVMFtZ7YwelCZnb29RGbRBt68cv5Dn5A-JY_OyUcmybsrySl_4T1KWw1kAQXxXXTp9Lbf0iPKXo2LEgwAFEdInfzPNOeJM_5idmCwFszLsC8NORoHvQJIP4atw/s400/260907fedresdeesct9.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5275077830429714514" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Yet, even as the dollar is steadily dropping against the Euro after the end of fighting in Iraq, Washington appears to be deliberately worsening the dollar fall in public comments. What is taking place is a power game of the highest geopolitical significance, the most fateful perhaps, since the emergence of the United States in 1945 as the world's leading economic power.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">The coalition of interests which converged on war against Iraq as a strategic necessity for the United States, included not only the vocal and highly visible neo-conservative hawks around Defense Secretary Rumsfeld and his deputy, Paul Wolfowitz.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">It also included powerful permanent interests, on whose global role American economic influence depends, such as the influential energy sector around Halliburton, Exxon Mobil, Chevron Texaco and other giant multinationals. It also included the huge American defense industry interests around Boeing, Lockheed-Martin, Raytheon, Northrup-Grumman and others.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">The issue for these giant defense and energy conglomerates is not a few fat contracts from the Pentagon to rebuild Iraqi oil facilities and line the pockets of Dick Cheney or others. It is a game for the very continuance of American power in the coming decades of the new century. That is not to say that profits are made in the process, but it is purely a byproduct of the global strategic issue.</span><br /></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLL-btJK3oSRTQokpEv7km7MC38DbL8wmP7u_kINiXcHCpb-ANkb7gYw5RSNQIA8pdj2jir9ZxY0I8SM4CHaHvLRBMIi-Mi2cXzSzChCH9jaXJU-6IOBIX_QBiGeFJbbA5vqGqeg/s1600-h/whirl_dees.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 326px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLL-btJK3oSRTQokpEv7km7MC38DbL8wmP7u_kINiXcHCpb-ANkb7gYw5RSNQIA8pdj2jir9ZxY0I8SM4CHaHvLRBMIi-Mi2cXzSzChCH9jaXJU-6IOBIX_QBiGeFJbbA5vqGqeg/s400/whirl_dees.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5282256934899296450" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">In this power game, least understood is the role of preserving the dollar as the world reserve currency, as a major driving factor contributing to Washington's power power play over Iraq.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">American domination in the world ultimately rests on two pillars; its overwhelming military superiority, especially on the seas; and its control of world economic flows through the role of the dollar as the world's reserve currency. More and more it is clear that the Iraq war was more about preserving the second pillar - the dollar role more than the first - the military. In the dollar role, oil is a strategic factor.</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEcb4djTeBZUzICRw4aEwJBuCxSzYQbKeyroSEGZUEOlv08LuXFvjhcYCUdyRhuwU8yXIDXhOB-MacHb-QPYqntrnwleO7u2RlnPYbiLp724KJQfeJ3r2hAkX6g3CRQ8eb4h9-eA/s1600-h/gator_dees.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 366px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEcb4djTeBZUzICRw4aEwJBuCxSzYQbKeyroSEGZUEOlv08LuXFvjhcYCUdyRhuwU8yXIDXhOB-MacHb-QPYqntrnwleO7u2RlnPYbiLp724KJQfeJ3r2hAkX6g3CRQ8eb4h9-eA/s400/gator_dees.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5282256549130408002" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">American</span> Century: The Three Phases</span></span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">If we look back over the period since the end of World War II, we can identify several distinct phases of evolution of the American role in the world. The first phase, which began in the immediate postwar period 1945-1948 and the onset of Cold War, could be called the Bretton Woods Gold Exchange system.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Under the Bretton Woods system in the immediate aftermath of the World War, the order was relatively tranquil. The United States had emerged from the War clearly as the one sole superpower, with a strong industrial base and the largest gold reserves of any nation. The initial task was to rebuild Western Europe and to create a NATO Atlantic alliance against the Soviet Union. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">The role of the dollar was directly tied to that of gold. So long as America enjoyed the largest gold reserves, and the U.S. economy was far the most productive and efficient producer, the entire Bretton Woods currency structure from French Franc to British Pound Sterling and German Mark was stable.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Dollar credits were extended along with Marshall Plan assistance and credits to finance the rebuilding of war-torn Europe. American companies, among them oil multinationals, gained nicely from dominating the trade at the onset of the 1950's.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Washington even encouraged creation of the Treaty of Rome in 1958 in order to boost European economic stability and create larger U.S. export markets in the bargain. For the most part, this initial phase of what Time magazine publisher Henry Luce called The American Century, in terms of economic gains, was relatively profitable for both the U.S. and Europe. The United States still had the economic flexibility to move.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">This was the era of American liberal foreign policy. The United States was the hegemonic power in the Western community of nations. As it commanded overwhelming gold and economic resources compared with Western Europe or Japan and South Korea, the United States could well afford to be open in its trade relations to European and Japanese exports.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">The trade off was European and Japanese support for the role of the United Sates during the Cold War. American leadership was based during the 1950's and early 1960's less on direct coercion and more on arriving at consensus, whether in GATT trade rounds or other issues. Organizations of elites, such as the Bilderberg meetings, were organized to share the evolving consensus between Europe and the United States.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">This first, more benign phase of the American Century came to an end by the early 1970's.</span><br /></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPpFBUx-8-wEC5yzv2s4Q4RN392-tkKxOR4x_e-RYYUREhyphenhyphenxZsgxfcm-0VBIsRaNOvmYMhM_Qy03VhyJ2FIz_i784e1BjCvoxb3nm2xTVTAOAQRFlFz3V0PPbhDtcjWSxBuUFvrQ/s1600-h/webd_dees.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 392px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPpFBUx-8-wEC5yzv2s4Q4RN392-tkKxOR4x_e-RYYUREhyphenhyphenxZsgxfcm-0VBIsRaNOvmYMhM_Qy03VhyJ2FIz_i784e1BjCvoxb3nm2xTVTAOAQRFlFz3V0PPbhDtcjWSxBuUFvrQ/s400/webd_dees.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5282256840511537970" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">The Bretton Woods Gold Exchange began to break down, as Europe got on its feet economically and began to become a strong exporter by the mid-1960's. This growing economic strength in Western Europe coincided with soaring U.S. public deficits as Johnson escalated the tragic war in Vietnam.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">All during the 1960's, France's De Gaulle began to take its dollar export earnings and demand gold from the U.S. Federal Reserve, legal under Bretton Woods at that time. By November 1967 the drain of gold from U.S. and Bank of England vaults had become critical. The weak link in the Bretton Woods Gold Exchange arrangement was Britain, the sick man of Europeí.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">The link broke as Sterling was devalued in 1967. That merely accelerated the pressure on the U.S. dollar, as French and other central banks increased their call for U.S. gold in exchange for their dollar reserves. They calculated with the soaring war deficits from Vietnam, it was only a matter of months before the United States itself would be forced to devalue against gold, so better to get their gold out at a high price.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">By May 1971 the drain of U.S. Federal Reserve gold had become alarming, and even the Bank of England joined the French in demanding U.S. gold for their dollars. That was the point where rather than risk a collapse of the gold reserves of the United States, the Nixon Administration opted to abandon gold entirely, going to a system of floating currencies in August 1971.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">The break with gold opened the door to an entirely new phase of the American Century. In this new phase, control over monetary policy was, in effect, privatized, with large international banks such as Citibank, Chase Manhattan or Barclays Bank assuming the role that central banks had in a gold system, but entirely without gold. Market forces now could determine the dollar. And they did with a vengeance.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">The free floating of the dollar, combined with the 1973 rise in OPEC oil prices by 400% after the Yom Kippur War, created the basis for a second phase of the American Century, the Petrodollar phase.</span><br /></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgr-eXgXQZ7vHIaS1DqvkGkrxMH5qg4wlwxInYCuakPELndqi9npZqJGjvmQzW3DUqp4EX9WJjuyypiXx5Qf4v-zMqs33iAaXZm4f8VByGIlxXD_Ksc3Il2lR7NBihJb4muR2qkKg/s1600-h/fedr1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgr-eXgXQZ7vHIaS1DqvkGkrxMH5qg4wlwxInYCuakPELndqi9npZqJGjvmQzW3DUqp4EX9WJjuyypiXx5Qf4v-zMqs33iAaXZm4f8VByGIlxXD_Ksc3Il2lR7NBihJb4muR2qkKg/s400/fedr1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5275079867547443826" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Recycling</span> petrodollars</span></span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Beginning the mid-1970's the American Century system of global economic dominance underwent a dramatic change. An Anglo-American oil shock suddenly created enormous demand for the floating dollar.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Oil importing countries from Germany to Argentina to Japan, all were faced with how to export in dollars to pay their expensive new oil import bills. OPEC oil countries were flooded with new oil dollars. A major share of these oil dollars came to London and New York banks where a new process was instituted.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Henry Kissinger termed it, recycling petrodollars. The recycling strategy was discussed already in May 1971 at the Bilderberger meeting in Saltsjoebaden, Sweden. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">OPEC suddenly was choking on dollars it could not use. U.S. and UK banks took the OPEC dollars and relent them as Eurodollar bonds or loans, to countries of the Third World desperate to borrow dollars to finance oil imports. The buildup of these petrodollar debts by the late 1970's, laid the basis for the Third World debt crisis in the 1980's. Hundreds of billions of dollars were recycled between OPEC, the London and New York banks and back to Third World borrowing countries.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">By August 1982 the chain finally broke and Mexico announced it would likely default on repaying Eurodollar loans. The Third World debt crisis began when Paul Volcker and the U.S. Federal Reserve had unilaterally hiked U.S. interest rates in late 1979 to try to save the failing dollar.</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhA2EdhyNOkuimybi78ueDr4iVdA34vlPiyDrlviPsdsjP0opqIbcfQ01P3XsHI8TzY91Nx8Cbu9O_9FCK58njZ9wi_CBUFWO3YxXCdKPjMFAkXsaBJLdSfnPGOxTxOfSKNhuKmLA/s1600-h/emin_dees.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 369px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhA2EdhyNOkuimybi78ueDr4iVdA34vlPiyDrlviPsdsjP0opqIbcfQ01P3XsHI8TzY91Nx8Cbu9O_9FCK58njZ9wi_CBUFWO3YxXCdKPjMFAkXsaBJLdSfnPGOxTxOfSKNhuKmLA/s400/emin_dees.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5282256465643465122" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">After three years of record high U.S. interest rates, the dollar was saved, but the entire developing sector was choking economically under usurious U.S. interest rates on their petrodollar loans. To enforce debt repayment to the London and New York banks, the banks brought the IMF in to act as debt policeman. Public spending for health, education, welfare was slashed on IMF orders to ensure the banks got timely debt service on their petrodollars.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">The Petrodollar hegemony phase was an attempt by the United States establishment to slow down its geopolitical decline as the hegemonic center of the postwar system.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">The IMF Washington Consensus was developed to enforce draconian debt collection on Third World countries, to force them to repay dollar debts, prevent any economic independence from the nations of the South, and keep the U.S. banks and the dollar afloat.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">The Trilateral Commission was created by David Rockefeller and others in 1973 in order to take account of the recent emergence of Japan as an industrial giant and try to bring Japan into the system. Japan, as a major industrial nation, was a major importer of oil. Japanese trade surpluses from export of cars and other goods was used to buy oil in dollars.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">The remaining surplus was invested in U.S. Treasury bonds to earn interest. The G-7 was founded to keep Japan and Western Europe inside the U.S. dollar system. From time to time into the 1980's various voices in Japan would call for three currencies the dollar, German mark and yen to share the world reserve role. It never happened. The dollar remained dominant.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">From a narrow standpoint, the Petrodollar phase of hegemony seemed to work. Underneath, it was based on ever-worsening economic decline in living standards across the world, as IMF policies destroyed national economic growth and broke open markets for globalizing multinationals seeking cheap production outsourcing in the 1980's and especially into the 1990's.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Yet, even in the Petrodollar phase, American foreign economic policy and military policy was dominated by the voices of the traditional liberal consensus. American power depended on negotiating periodic new arrangements in trade or other issues with its allies in Europe, Japan and East Asia.</span><br /></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTT21Uta8vEAhdae00BO_aeH8hXnrnFPDGb7Js5r0kSOgVRQcNHAT7VNQsbyuFPaKO7ixN_1T4izKElXFZ0gkKG8a7j8itJ9KRJYiPgCkzAS7LydcR2hRHi-0lNZxFISNNUguD2w/s1600-h/no_fun____by_aleklisefski.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTT21Uta8vEAhdae00BO_aeH8hXnrnFPDGb7Js5r0kSOgVRQcNHAT7VNQsbyuFPaKO7ixN_1T4izKElXFZ0gkKG8a7j8itJ9KRJYiPgCkzAS7LydcR2hRHi-0lNZxFISNNUguD2w/s400/no_fun____by_aleklisefski.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5275080389496134946" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">A <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Petro-euro</span> rival?</span></span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">The end of the Cold War and the emergence of a new Single Europe and the European Monetary Union in the early 1990's, began to present an entirely new challenge to the American Century. It took some years, more than a decade after the 1991 Gulf War, for this new challenge to emerge full-blown. The present Iraq war is only intelligible, as a major battle in the new, third phase of securing American dominance. This phase has already been called, democratic imperialism, a favorite term of Max Boot and other neo-conservatives. As Iraq events suggest, it is not likely to be very democratic, but definitely likely to be imperialist.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Unlike the earlier periods after 1945, in the new era, the U.S. freedom to grant concessions to other members of the G-7 is gone. Now raw power is the only vehicle to maintain American long-term dominance. The best expression of this argument comes from the neo-conservative hawks around Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, William Kristol and others.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">The point to stress, however, is that the neo-conservatives enjoy such influence since September 11 because a majority in the U.S. power establishment finds their views useful to advance a new aggressive U.S. role in the world.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Rather than work out areas of agreement with European partners, Washington increasingly sees Euroland as the major strategic threat to American hegemony, especially Old Europe of Germany and France. Just as Britain in decline after 1870 resorted to increasingly desperate imperial wars in South Africa and elsewhere, so the United States is using its military might to try to advance what it no longer can by economic means. Here the dollar is the achilles heel.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">With creation of the Euro over the past five years, an entirely new element has been added to the global system, one which defines what we can call a third phase of the American Century. This phase, in which the latest Iraq war plays a major role, threatens to bring a new, malignant or imperial phase to replace the earlier phases of American hegemony. The neo-conservatives are open about their imperial agenda, while more traditional U.S. policy voices try to deny it. The economic reality faced by the dollar at the start of the new Century, defines this new phase in an ominous way.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">There is a qualitative difference emerging between the two initial phases of the American Century - that of 1945-1973, and of 1973-1999, and the new emerging phase of continued domination in the wake of the 911 attacks and the Iraq War.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Post-1945 American power before now, was predominately dominant. The USA was the dominant power, with an unequal distribution of power, its power is not generated by coercion alone, but also by consent among its allied powers.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">This is because the USA is compelled to perform certain services to the allies such as military security or regulating world markets for the benefit of the larger group, itself included. An imperial power has no such obligations to allies, and not the freedom for such, only the raw dictates of how to hold on to its declining power; what some call imperial overstretching. This is the world which neo-conservative hawks around Rumsfeld and Cheney are suggesting America has to dominate, with a policy of pre-emptive war.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">A hidden war between the dollar and the new Euro currency for global hegemony is at the heart of this new phase.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">To understand the importance of this unspoken battle for currency hegemony, we first must understand that since the emergence of the United States as the dominant global superpower after 1945, U.S. hegemony has rested on two un-challengeable pillars. First, the overwhelming U.S. military superiority over all other rivals.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">The United States today spends on defense more than three times the total for the entire European Union, some $600 billion versus $118 billion last year, and more than the next 15 largest nations combined. Washington plans an added $2.1 trillion over the coming five years on defense. No nation or group of nations can come close in defense spending. China is at least 30 years away from becoming a serious military threat. No one is serious about taking on U.S. military might.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">The second pillar of American dominance in the world is the dominant role of the U.S. dollar as reserve currency. Until the advent of the Euro in late 1999, there was no potential challenge to this dollar hegemony in world trade. The Petrodollar has been at the heart of the dollar hegemony since the 1970's. The dollar hegemony is strategic to the future of American global pre-dominance, in many respects as important if not more so, than the overwhelming military power.</span><br /></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0XRw0QGGcjKlo0WLlxi0OPVpvJCH0djsg_b32SgQ11yKlUckYurAn7X_nYRTIf6RxNc-nokrysQWOOhWYrCAhnXHHB5Nkbwg5t5sPkEdWSXOBvb5Q5JVUgPrgUOtHgNxdny6CZA/s1600-h/NewWorldOrder.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 339px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0XRw0QGGcjKlo0WLlxi0OPVpvJCH0djsg_b32SgQ11yKlUckYurAn7X_nYRTIf6RxNc-nokrysQWOOhWYrCAhnXHHB5Nkbwg5t5sPkEdWSXOBvb5Q5JVUgPrgUOtHgNxdny6CZA/s400/NewWorldOrder.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5275080958341550290" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Dollar</span> fiat money</span></span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">The crucial shift took place when Nixon took the dollar off a fixed gold reserve to float against other currencies. This removed the restraints on printing new dollars. The limit was only how many dollars the rest of the world would take. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">By their firm agreement with Saudi Arabia, as the largest OPEC oil producer,Washington guaranteed that the worlds largest commodity, oil, the essential for every nation's economy, the basis of all transport and much of the industrial economy, that oil could only be purchased in world markets in dollars. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">The deal had been fixed in June 1974 by Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, establishing the U.S.-Saudi Arabian Joint Commission on Economic Cooperation. The U.S. Treasury and the New York Federal Reserve would allow the Saudi central bank, SAMA, to buy U.S. Treasury bonds with Saudi petrodollars. In 1975 OPEC officially agreed to sell its oil only for dollars. A secret U.S. military agreement to arm Saudi Arabia was the quid pro quo.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Until November 2000, no OPEC country dared violate the dollar price rule. So long as the dollar was the strongest currency, there was little reason to as well. But November was when French and other Euroland members finally convinced Saddam Hussein to defy the United States by selling Iraq's oil-for-food not in dollars, the enemy currency as Iraq named it, but only in euros. The euros were on deposit in a special UN account of the leading French bank, BNP Paribas. Radio Liberty of the U.S. State Department ran a short wire on the news and the story was quickly hushed.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">This little-noted Iraq move to defy the dollar in favor of the euro, in itself, was insignificant. Yet, if it were to spread, especially at a point the dollar was already weakening, it could create a panic selloff of dollars by foreign central banks and OPEC oil producers.<br /><br />In the months before the latest Iraq war, hints in this direction were heard from Russia, Iran, Indonesia and even Venezuela. An Iranian OPEC official, Javad Yarjani, delivered a detailed analysis of how OPEC at some future point might sell its oil to the EU for euros not dollars. He spoke in April, 2002 in Oviedo Spain at the invitation of the EU. All indications are that the Iraq war was seized on as the easiest way to deliver a deadly pre-emptive warning to OPEC and others, not to flirt with abandoning the Petro-dollar system in favor of one based on the euro.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Informed banking circles in the City of London and elsewhere in Europe privately confirm the significance of that little-noted Iraq move from petro-dollar to petro-euro. The Iraq move was a declaration of war against the dollar, one senior London banker told me recently. As soon as it was clear that Britain and the U.S. had taken Iraq, a great sigh of relief was heard in London City banks. They said privately, we don't have to worry about that damn euro threat.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Why would something so small be such a strategic threat to London and New York, or to the United States that an American President would apparently risk fifty years of alliance relations globally, and more to make a military attack whose justification could not even be proved to the world?</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">The answer is the unique role of the petro-dollar to underpin American economic hegemony.</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCMLo2NOLpvOjeWxdpmLt9vhy86FR-EfOqsmMgB0Rkae8f_b8daRhNaRw6V8Lv-ubTFGDumED9hdIuDbkXCBbTGcfofX7RkLPG0EF2V5NcmaDlfhXXBYH-l6WSHCTUShDTaKH2_Q/s1600-h/bank_dees.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCMLo2NOLpvOjeWxdpmLt9vhy86FR-EfOqsmMgB0Rkae8f_b8daRhNaRw6V8Lv-ubTFGDumED9hdIuDbkXCBbTGcfofX7RkLPG0EF2V5NcmaDlfhXXBYH-l6WSHCTUShDTaKH2_Q/s400/bank_dees.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5282256365342814770" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">How <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Does It </span>Work?</span></span><br /></div><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">So long as almost 70% of world trade is done in dollars, the dollar is the currency which central banks accumulate as reserves. But central banks, whether China or Japan or Brazil or Russia, do not simply stack dollars in their vaults. Currencies have one advantage over gold. A central bank can use it to buy the state bonds of the issuer, the United States.<br /><br />Most countries around the world are forced to control trade deficits or face currency collapse. Not the United States. This is because of the dollar reserve currency role. And the underpinning of the reserve role is the petrodollar. Every nation needs to get dollars to import oil, some more than others. This means their trade targets dollar countries, above all the U.S.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Because oil is an essential commodity for every nation, the Petrodollar system, which exists to the present, demands the buildup of huge trade surpluses in order to accumulate dollar surpluses. This is the case for every country but one ó the United States which controls the dollar and prints it at will or fiat.<br /><br />Because today the majority of all international trade is done in dollars, countries must go abroad to get the means of payment they cannot themselves issue. The entire global trade structure today works around this dynamic, from Russia to China, from Brazil to South Korea and Japan. Everyone aims to maximize dollar surpluses from their export trade.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">To keep this process going, the United States has agreed to be importer of last resortí because its entire monetary hegemony depends on this dollar recycling.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">The central banks of Japan, China, South Korea, Russia and the rest all buy U.S. Treasury securities with their dollars. That in turn allows the United States to have a stable dollar, far lower interest rates, and run a $500 billion annual balance of payments deficit with the rest of the world. The Federal Reserve controls the dollar printing presses, and the world needs its dollars. It is as simple as that.</span><br /></div><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Reference</span> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=9622105"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">*</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">William Bowles</span></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9765pJqQNtoPNSOWT5fY3YPqkNbTpGyJ9Z4qOgc_1DFkHnN9VOBr_vtxosWxwXhCN9c5ImkXeJ29kVYKwKZ1fPLT2QY7DfKxX2jSdF_-I-KQLu4VB5BRE_JMufJGxBv0ch0nJEw/s1600-h/Fiat-Empire.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9765pJqQNtoPNSOWT5fY3YPqkNbTpGyJ9Z4qOgc_1DFkHnN9VOBr_vtxosWxwXhCN9c5ImkXeJ29kVYKwKZ1fPLT2QY7DfKxX2jSdF_-I-KQLu4VB5BRE_JMufJGxBv0ch0nJEw/s400/Fiat-Empire.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5275081287444217922" border="0" /></a><script type="text/javascript"><br />digg_url = 'http://euroyank.blogspot.com/2008/12/federal-reserve-power-game.html';<br /></script><br /><div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;"><script type="text/javascript"><br />digg_url = 'http://euroyank.blogspot.com/2008/12/federal-reserve-power-game.html';<br /></script><br /><script src="http://digg.com/tools/diggthis.js" type="text/javascript"></script></div>EuroYank - Virginia Hogehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06079239479407310692noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9622105.post-10706111282549829622008-11-13T02:36:00.061-12:002008-12-10T08:59:13.313-12:00The Predator State - End of the Free Market<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixHfJh8OHWhd30d-GSxsavgyAFNvIGtqSoIUHO45WNgbTZ6kY-hMvJOlG4b8x2cbwBxqjYlxshPFOhZAT-Qe6KKI5jhgW44JX1q9yBZtJUw9vqWGIqfAeOPNGjeVR5ucle2rBwFw/s1600-h/n744489007_590453_1535.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixHfJh8OHWhd30d-GSxsavgyAFNvIGtqSoIUHO45WNgbTZ6kY-hMvJOlG4b8x2cbwBxqjYlxshPFOhZAT-Qe6KKI5jhgW44JX1q9yBZtJUw9vqWGIqfAeOPNGjeVR5ucle2rBwFw/s400/n744489007_590453_1535.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5270611046067541394" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">The</span> </span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >Predator</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">State</span></span></span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">How Conservatives </span>Abandoned the<br />Free Market </span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">and <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Why Liberals </span>Should Too.</span><br /></span></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">The free-market dogmas that have governed the United States over the last generation are increasingly under fire.<br /><br />If private enterprise works so well, what happened to all the good<br />jobs?</span> <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">The New American Predator State refutes just about<br />everything many people thought was true about the virtues<br />of private markets.</span><br /></div></div></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><object width="275" height="250"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ihL8wz4LUp4&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ihL8wz4LUp4&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="275" height="250"></embed></object><object width="300" height="250"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/UAwGhCt-lAU&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/UAwGhCt-lAU&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="300" height="250"></embed></object><object width="275" height="250"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/MKNl1c29uWc&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/MKNl1c29uWc&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="275" height="250"></embed></object><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">James K. Galbraith on the American Corporate Republic (Part 1)</span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"><br />James K. Galbraith on the American Corporate Republic (Part 2)</span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"><br />James K. Galbraith on the American Corporate Republic (Part 3)</span><br /></div></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigaHGWyEjfoBcQtOSIf1vKPO6HwY8J9TdjD3oSBBmnHEpQF7EjcAEuIRrVEK0qNZ7JnaMh0SQawMq82916HN6GFj09PopE55sSxL817UPk3Yyvo7F4IIP7QAkW8CstLdD-RI4ckQ/s1600-h/20050328-reaganomics.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 218px; height: 287px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigaHGWyEjfoBcQtOSIf1vKPO6HwY8J9TdjD3oSBBmnHEpQF7EjcAEuIRrVEK0qNZ7JnaMh0SQawMq82916HN6GFj09PopE55sSxL817UPk3Yyvo7F4IIP7QAkW8CstLdD-RI4ckQ/s400/20050328-reaganomics.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5270994918857733794" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Reaganism was founded on three policies: deregulation, monetarism and low taxes. The first was was so that lobbyists could extract more money from those who can afford to pay - and sometimes from those who cannot.</span><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">It is fair to say that there will never again be any U.S. government for which a truly principled conservative might work.</span> <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">We are still living in an economic ecosystem dominated by industrial giants. You cannot impose a wage standard on China or Vietnam. But you can do it at home.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">You want higher wages? Raise them. You want more and better jobs? Create them.</span> <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Yes, the free market has produced robust growth and central planning has usually failed. If it fails, it's the market's fault. That seemed preposterous when I first read it; but in the wake of the collapse of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, when all of Wall Street could be headed for a bailout, and next in line is General Motors and many other major employers, one wonders.</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Nothing remains of the Reagan Revolution!</span><br /></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">The Reagan Revolution (1981-2008)</span><br /></div><object style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);" width="350" height="300"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/03oRMMAPbGQ&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/03oRMMAPbGQ&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="350" height="300"></embed></object><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Economic freedom is reduced to the freedom to shop, including the freedom to buy elections, and anything that interferes is a threat.</span> <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Market solutions are designed to enrich a favored oligarchy through a spoils system administered through the state’s structure.</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVUXi3mPASFUA5qge0IQJ6Q51j-PMB8te_JLFXl7oMyF07uWSMCLOku6s7BzXr7u8tAEku6W0LF7FHMBrccj1FyIDf1kgOnh3QSf_G82bjp_r3ZlqgMA4-8Nuv1DUCsQrmMwbuLQ/s1600-h/6a00d834515fe569e200e550a3fa848834-640wi.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVUXi3mPASFUA5qge0IQJ6Q51j-PMB8te_JLFXl7oMyF07uWSMCLOku6s7BzXr7u8tAEku6W0LF7FHMBrccj1FyIDf1kgOnh3QSf_G82bjp_r3ZlqgMA4-8Nuv1DUCsQrmMwbuLQ/s400/6a00d834515fe569e200e550a3fa848834-640wi.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5270997165330942466" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">There is a way out, but it is not easy. Historically, regulation and standards have required acceptance by progressive business - those firms that recognized they would lose in races to the bottom. </span><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: left;"><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Today, corporate and public policy alike are run by the most reactionary elements, well-paid rogues that suck capacity.</span><br /></div><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><br />Wherever one finds a sector that still operates reasonably well, one finds remnants of New Deal institutions that support, guarantee, regulate, and leverage private activities, in spheres as diverse as higher education, housing, pensions, healthcare, the military-industrial complex (and the prison-industrial complex).</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">The ideology of free markets is bankrupt, but the US is not. The path is clear: re-regulation, planning, standards (including wage controls), and coming to grips with the nation’s global responsibilities.</span><br /></div><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Monetarism (the tactic used, successfully, by the Federal Reserve in the 1980's to nip inflation) is just a tool to kill off labor unions and elevate the power of Wall Street.<br /><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Low taxe</span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">s failed to achieve their supposed purpose - encouraging saving.</span><br /></div><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><br /></span></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhG1UQ4tNn7R_8nzbFeYWPFFBDNWWfALQznZbxR9BXSW7xdCxGMy4ebUwixoKQSkA6O3BuvIe0D6QqqenvDIqyZ61hlLIChMounoAx-Bcz7mbB-_hnT8-B5TUUFYH32clOOjYk6SQ/s1600-h/51YvzrqY1wL._SL500_AA242_PIkin-dp-500,BottomRight,-21,38_AA280_SH20_OU01_.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 280px; height: 280px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhG1UQ4tNn7R_8nzbFeYWPFFBDNWWfALQznZbxR9BXSW7xdCxGMy4ebUwixoKQSkA6O3BuvIe0D6QqqenvDIqyZ61hlLIChMounoAx-Bcz7mbB-_hnT8-B5TUUFYH32clOOjYk6SQ/s400/51YvzrqY1wL._SL500_AA242_PIkin-dp-500,BottomRight,-21,38_AA280_SH20_OU01_.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5270603669058262962" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">U.S. manufacturing sector has been in decline for 30 years, and that the current crisis requires that the U.S. government take immediate action on prosecuting unfair trade practices and currency manipulation. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">If you look at the collapse of the <a href="http://www.ena.lu/collapse_bretton_woods-020100270.html"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">*</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Bretton Woods system</span></a> in 1971 and 1972, you had Richard Nixon and John Connelly as his Treasury Secretary putting on an emergency import surcharge because our trade deficit was 0.5 percent of GDP. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">They considered that to be unacceptable. Now we're at 5 or 6 percent of GDP and people couldn't care less. They are not looking for increases in tariffs, but he does believe that when the credit crunch eases, capital needs to flow to companies that make products and provide high-end services, not into financial derivatives or phony investment vehicles.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">The economy is a two wheel recession. The banking meltdown and failure of the Treasury bailout to free up credit are choking the housing market and construction industry, and falling retail sales, month after month, are leaving businesses with unsold goods and forcing layoffs in manufacturing and services alike.</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglFFiuxOPTT23v_uN2Kwm9Cphu-UTUV8Ejh6PzetgVDBEEIrTCLrhQXXokn8zoftIgehTkWMUlpEeZaAdoC_NduoOlEut-kFyFJ1AI95rLd8mpeLrMQ7xWsLgL0cmBu6jB4_pEnw/s1600-h/sk_obama_D_BM_Bayer_473918g.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglFFiuxOPTT23v_uN2Kwm9Cphu-UTUV8Ejh6PzetgVDBEEIrTCLrhQXXokn8zoftIgehTkWMUlpEeZaAdoC_NduoOlEut-kFyFJ1AI95rLd8mpeLrMQ7xWsLgL0cmBu6jB4_pEnw/s400/sk_obama_D_BM_Bayer_473918g.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5271723624900224066" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">The huge trade deficit with China with any effort to resurrect the economy is doomed to create massive foreign borrowing, another round of excessive consumer borrowing, and a second banking crisis that the Treasury and Federal Reserve will not be able to reverse.</span><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Going forward, the economy will add some jobs for college graduates with technical specialties in finance, health care, education, and engineering. However, for high school graduates without specialized technical skills or training and for college graduates with only liberal arts diplomas, jobs offering good pay and benefits remain tough to find. For those workers, who compose about half the working population, the quality of jobs continues to spiral downward.</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Historically, manufacturing and construction offered workers with only a high school education the best pay, benefits, and opportunities for skill attainment and advancement. Troubles in these industries push ordinary workers into retailing, hospitality, and other industries where pay often lags.</span><br /></div><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Construction employment fell by 48,000 in October. This is a terrible indicator for future GDP growth. Retailing shed 38,000 thousand jobs, and financial services lost 14,000 jobs. Manufacturing has lost 90,000 jobs, and over the last 103 months, manufacturing has shed more than four million jobs. The trade deficit with China and other Asia exporters is the major culprit.</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Fix the banks, address unfair Chinese trade practices,<br />and formulate new energy policies or be Nero and watch Rome burn!</span></div></div></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5KsHzF2zMyAh9UpLRMwxzaqgyYBBT3TSCppv5nGu6HUBMuBw8CR9QgY3MOtnYUJbKtzQhR-ZrXe-U2CErHz0Bb-k84_hAXDS6OndBoMcmvz-UF_C1CzgkxpsPHOKxbHTJpa1tlQ/s1600-h/EC_title3.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 306px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5KsHzF2zMyAh9UpLRMwxzaqgyYBBT3TSCppv5nGu6HUBMuBw8CR9QgY3MOtnYUJbKtzQhR-ZrXe-U2CErHz0Bb-k84_hAXDS6OndBoMcmvz-UF_C1CzgkxpsPHOKxbHTJpa1tlQ/s400/EC_title3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5271724577144383330" border="0" /></a><br /><script type="text/javascript"><br />digg_url = 'http://euroyank.blogspot.com/2008/10/big-lie-of-federal-reserve-gangsters.html';<br /></script><br /><script src="http://digg.com/tools/diggthis.js" type="text/javascript"></script>EuroYank - Virginia Hogehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06079239479407310692noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9622105.post-61211503637782163482008-10-04T20:28:00.016-12:002009-01-29T17:12:02.405-12:00The Big Lie of the Federal Reserve Gangsters<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://entertainment.webshots.com/photo/2435828140100673241aFntnU"><img src="http://inlinethumb60.webshots.com/29435/2435828140100673241S500x500Q85.jpg" alt="fedr1" /></a><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" >The <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Federal Reserve</span> is neither <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Federal </span>nor a<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"> Reserve.</span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" >Owned by a <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">corrupt </span>group of <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">International Bankers.</span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" >It is <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">a privately owned </span>monopoly.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-size:100%;" >The <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Federal Reserve Bank </span>is a consortium of <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">twelve private banks</span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-size:100%;" >which <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">are not part </span>of the United States Government.</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/bYAmzh5cSuQ&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/bYAmzh5cSuQ&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br />The Federal Reserve Scam (2.00 min)<br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >The <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Federal Reserve Bank</span> Racket</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">The Federal Reserve is neither Federal nor a Reserve. Owned by a corrupt group of International Bankers, it is a privately owned monopoly, largely responsible for creating America's National Debt. It is also a parasitic and unnecessary entity that literally creates American currency out of nothing and then collects interest on the backs of taxpayers for doing so.</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left; color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;">The Federal Reserve Bank is a consortium of twelve private banks which are not part of the United States Government.<br /><br />These private banks purchase paper notes from the U.S. mint for printing cost or simply enter digital money into their computer then lend back the money plus interest to the people through member banks. The profits go into the share holders of the bank's pocket's, the U.S. public receives no benefit.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/bLCHWhmyn8w&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/bLCHWhmyn8w&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">Who owns the Federal Reserve?</span> <span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">(1.24 min)</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">The Primary Owners of the Federal Reserve Bank Are:</span><br />1. Rothschild's of London and Berlin<br />2. Lazard Brothers of Paris<br />3. Israel Moses Seaf of Italy<br />4. Kuhn, Loeb & Co. of Germany and New York<br />5. Warburg & Company of Hamburg, Germany<br />6. Lehman Brothers of New York<br />7. Goldman, Sachs of New York<br />8. Rockefeller Brothers of New York<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://entertainment.webshots.com/photo/2287574020100673241RnUNxH"><img src="http://inlinethumb22.webshots.com/30101/2287574020100673241S600x600Q85.jpg" alt="tbankersdees" /></a><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Private Ownership</span> of the US Dollar</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Greatest Crime</span> of the Century</span><br /></span></div><br />All the primary owners of the Federal Reserve are international bankers that are branches of European establishments. These Foreigners are almost entirely Jewish Zionists, and they control the United States Money supply. They literally own exclusive rights to the dollar and simply enter dollars into their banks books to make money which they then lend back to us at a profit, and use these profits to fund the State of Israel.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">The Zionist <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Political Movement</span><br /></div><br />Zionism is an international political movement that originally supported the re-establishment of a homeland for the Jewish People in Palestine. The aim of Zionism was to set up a secular state in the vicinity of the Biblical Land of Israel. Zionism, or the idea of a restored national homeland and common identity for the Jews, had already started to take shape by the mid-1800s, with Jewish thinkers arguing for the Jews to settle in Palestine as a means of settling the national question.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"><object width="303" height="235"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/6RjnvQHWyLE&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/6RjnvQHWyLE&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="303" height="235"></embed></object><object width="303" height="235"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/0-JtM2QYIk0&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/0-JtM2QYIk0&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="303" height="235"></embed></object><br />The difference Between Zionist Jews and Jewish Judaism<br /></div><br />For them money does not grow on trees, it is simply a data entry into their account. Clearly the private ownership of the U.S. Dollar is by far The Greatest Crime of the Century. The owners of this bank have been responsible for instigating all the major wars and depressions in the last 100 years.<br /><br />They own the bank, they own the dollar and they own all the major media channels, the military industrial complex and most politicians, judges and cops.<br /><br />Sometimes the bank pays an arbitrary 'franchise fee' to the U.S. government to keep the politicians paid off.<br /><br />The Federal Reserve is actually an illegal entity functioning within the Federal Government! The cost of this system to the U.S. public is hundreds of billions of dollars every year while holding the nation and people in a constant state of debt.<br /><br />There have been assassination attempts on every President who attempted to eliminate these private National Banks. The privately held Federal Reserve Bank has not once been audited and never pays any income tax on their astonishing income.<br /><br />The bank is supposed to bring stability to the economy, however, almost every major market crash and war can be attributed to the Federal Reserve Bank, including the Great Depression, WW I, WW II, the Gulf War etc.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Watch These <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Important </span>Videos - The <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Corrupt </span>Federal Reserve<br /></div></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><object width="303" height="235"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/BPU8w7Bxc0A&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/BPU8w7Bxc0A&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="303" height="235"></embed></object><object width="303" height="235"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/2t7x4boGhuo&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/2t7x4boGhuo&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="303" height="235"></embed></object><object width="303" height="235"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/uSvVuaHmY8s&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/uSvVuaHmY8s&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="303" height="235"></embed></object><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><br /></span></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Video 1</span> - Corrupt Federal Reserve - Robbing Americans Since 1913 part 1 (9.26min) </span><br /></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Video 2</span> - Corrupt Federal Reserve - Robbing Americans Since 1913 part 2 (10.0 min)</span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"> </span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Video 3</span> - Corrupt Federal Reserve - Robbing Americans Since 1913 part 3 (10.58 min)</span><br /></div></div><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">Read more</span><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.libertyforlife.com/banking/us-federal_reserve_bank.htm"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">*</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Federal Reserve Bank - Bringing Instability To U.S. Markets</span></a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">In 1913 in exchange for paying for his Presidential campaign, President Woodrow Wilson signed the Federal Reserve Act handing over the U.S. currency to twelve regional private banks.</span><br /></div><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Read more</span><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.libertyforlife.com/banking/us-roosevelt-gold-theft.htm"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">*</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">In 1933 Roosevelt confiscated citizens gold and handed it to these private banks.</span></a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">The question is not WILL the crash come, but what will you do when it does?</span> <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">What will you protect?</span><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">A huge percentage of the debt issued by Freddie and Fannie - about $1.5 trillion worth - is held by foreign central banks. Paulson is proposing to bail out the Chinese and Japanese governments with our tax money!</span> <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Paulson SAYS he will "protect the taxpayer." THE BILL ALLOWS HIM TO SCREW YOU WITH ABSOLUTELY NO RECOURSE.</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/JAzagrai-0M&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/JAzagrai-0M&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">Ron Paul Blasts Secret Government Running Economy</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;"> (7.17 min)</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">The U.S. government treats its financial problems in the same way doctors treat patients with health problems: Mask the symptoms and ignore the cause.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">This $1 trillion rescue plan is like chemotherapy for the U.S. economy. Sure, it might visibly shrink some tumors, but the patient will soon find himself vomiting, losing hair and dropping body weight to dangerous levels.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">The real problem with the U.S. financial system is not that it has too many losses, it's that the entire money supply is run by crooks at the Fed who have stolen control of the money supply from the People.</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/t7O7uDns4b8&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/t7O7uDns4b8&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">US Economy On Chemotherapy!</span> <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">(3.37 min)</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Henry Paulson is about to be given an $800 BILLION dollar blank check in the form of an increased Federal Debt Ceiling which he can spend on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac IN ANY WAY HE CHOOSES, INCLUDING BUYING THE CRAPPIEST LOANS THEY HAVE AND STICKING A ONE HUNDRED PERCENT LOSS, $800 BILLION WORTH, ON YOUR TAX BILL.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">If you look into this bailout clearly you know what is going on. Taxpayers and the strength of our currency are being sold out to save the banking industry</span><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/o6ZHOxJLUGI&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/o6ZHOxJLUGI&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /></div><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">You're Being Lied To!</span> <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">(10.19 min)</span><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/dHALB9vr9P8&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/dHALB9vr9P8&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">Dollar Collapse and Banking Bailout</span> <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">(5.06 min)</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjNlBk4NuojNqmVd8L75gPEAh1uwpoxwdIkxyxbafmOdVRaq-fk9_vmjGgNC73BmgtT-FvobgcU0pM0k2ou1ZLTmh2kHU7zaWIqsT8tg1O2LmWqDghrydoilAJCRwmx_wJz-XLDw/s1600-h/Bernanke_winces.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjNlBk4NuojNqmVd8L75gPEAh1uwpoxwdIkxyxbafmOdVRaq-fk9_vmjGgNC73BmgtT-FvobgcU0pM0k2ou1ZLTmh2kHU7zaWIqsT8tg1O2LmWqDghrydoilAJCRwmx_wJz-XLDw/s400/Bernanke_winces.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5250967509941113266" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Ben Shalom Bernanke, the chairman of the Federal Reserve -</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">He is the dedicated Zionist Jew behind the $85 billion taxpayer-funded </span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">bailout of Maurice Greenberg's criminal enterprise, A.I.G.</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">Read more</span><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/12/business/12insure.html"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">*</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Prosecutors Say Ex-A.I.G. Executives Created a Fraud </span></a><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Watch <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">FIAT EMPIRE - </span>Why the Federal Reserve <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Violates</span> the U.S. Constitution </span><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><embed id="VideoPlayback" src="http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docid=5232639329002339531&hl=de&fs=true" style="width: 400px; height: 326px;" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">FIAT EMPIRE -<br />Why the Federal Reserve Violates the U.S. Constitution </span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">(58.53 min)</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" ><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Prelude </span>to Catastrophe <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Movie</span></span><br /><embed id="VideoPlayback" src="http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docid=-7455325731648062338&hl=en&fs=true" style="width: 425px; height: 344px;" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" >One Nation Under Siege (1 hour 21 min)</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Read more ...</span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.rense.com/general83/bdc.htm"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">*</span>Zionist Wall Street Gangster Bailout</a><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.wakeupfromyourslumber.com/node/8255"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">*</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Zionist Jews Controlling America</span></a><br /></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioNENGsE4MFfhvyTOzEykBUPIW6XUVYQC-0fBfoiKK_VkkTPp7LeIP9YBKzw_bhIJOouIy_E4qocSiu47QzmjLru9zaDTOkXQ8KitKKZexox0_D3qMquOEk42YsXsZpocC4iatng/s1600-h/Fiat-Empire.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; 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display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrOa-uujlX065_jWh1pwxbXMqUl_O4usUal5Sn52KY2gEyVoCziEIiXiHZR6vfoUKgx1MOEpPuEUd9YZHVn0hzbrnYWtnfnCBpGZXdKLlzofTuF5XljBuIBr1B4i19Rw1EEM0kzQ/s400/usa-dees.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5249406302726782274" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Because <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Time Is Running</span> Out For <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">The USA</span><br />Here Is </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">A <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Video Tribute</span> For <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">The Late</span> Great USA</span><br /></span></span></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><object width="350" height="300"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/TcuppSvQ1-Q&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/TcuppSvQ1-Q&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="350" height="300"></embed></object><object width="350" height="300"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/QWMn3n6Qg2E&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/QWMn3n6Qg2E&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="350" height="300"></embed></object><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" ><br />- Congressman Ron Paul discusses 700 Billion Bailout (7.24 min) - Ron Paul Discusses Economic Crisis 2/3/2009</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;">(10.00 min)</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> -</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnMHQs-E6yJr0PoKsgwVB0zJUYcJQQb4iz_nB_oajccq5jwwCvVWyZDZJg3ZOJQ2ZypQCE-c3CoNMjeIAOWI0vflfyK_1nwzgHhyARCXncHGMfP5HeS019CLssaZWzEs3hQvVIGA/s1600-h/260907fedresdeesct9.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnMHQs-E6yJr0PoKsgwVB0zJUYcJQQb4iz_nB_oajccq5jwwCvVWyZDZJg3ZOJQ2ZypQCE-c3CoNMjeIAOWI0vflfyK_1nwzgHhyARCXncHGMfP5HeS019CLssaZWzEs3hQvVIGA/s400/260907fedresdeesct9.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5249057946491491506" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-size:130%;" ><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Killing the Dollar </span>To Save It <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">For Martial Law</span></span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhg4D-EBFot5MuIY0FbTg7uUhMI9yjuQ9UrJ10Uz48-F0U_rkxzEHuTKZLMz9Xd9nLNrTLT2ubbx8VMllHQr-Xk7Zy_VIY19UTBsGSS0Uym-6nYnK2TzakxotX9jCd8BS8UpTvTYw/s1600-h/LS03.gif"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhg4D-EBFot5MuIY0FbTg7uUhMI9yjuQ9UrJ10Uz48-F0U_rkxzEHuTKZLMz9Xd9nLNrTLT2ubbx8VMllHQr-Xk7Zy_VIY19UTBsGSS0Uym-6nYnK2TzakxotX9jCd8BS8UpTvTYw/s200/LS03.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5249341720082987282" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZyki8Js3CBUkz7H6fvxH9vZkiA-zezUONkklJv6GQTYBgQ7Pm7m1RyUTdWFvKd__RwKfiL1lJWxrMbe53S3iikYbvvWpNmf3As6joS5HTJcCG_i79LVgYnIxB3hgRFw2Fd4r6hQ/s1600-h/LS02.gif"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZyki8Js3CBUkz7H6fvxH9vZkiA-zezUONkklJv6GQTYBgQ7Pm7m1RyUTdWFvKd__RwKfiL1lJWxrMbe53S3iikYbvvWpNmf3As6joS5HTJcCG_i79LVgYnIxB3hgRFw2Fd4r6hQ/s200/LS02.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5249343120502683954" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKEge6l4s3A5ehCoJUcXJmtER0F3VY-IGgqn776FGNWCjcfJ02XsMfnkKN1IZRJjd7sy_XCnMgy0ST3gVdAle4DuikRYuwxLLcaed9ZEKGYcQvoqal8oJJN3roRoU0z_1q7FxnXg/s1600-h/LS22.gif"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKEge6l4s3A5ehCoJUcXJmtER0F3VY-IGgqn776FGNWCjcfJ02XsMfnkKN1IZRJjd7sy_XCnMgy0ST3gVdAle4DuikRYuwxLLcaed9ZEKGYcQvoqal8oJJN3roRoU0z_1q7FxnXg/s200/LS22.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5249341806424951314" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhriJ37EESmFKeZoyxWzYFMgUvVms2Jcu5x0vUkP4G5ca-R-CbWvzjo4qMSJwHeIQfyWQSPCEZRsj6C1-ADc0KPfskyRrSKR_7EDehgtr0n6w_Ir9tp2HR9gW2sKyxmWimMd7E6Mw/s1600-h/LS14.gif"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhriJ37EESmFKeZoyxWzYFMgUvVms2Jcu5x0vUkP4G5ca-R-CbWvzjo4qMSJwHeIQfyWQSPCEZRsj6C1-ADc0KPfskyRrSKR_7EDehgtr0n6w_Ir9tp2HR9gW2sKyxmWimMd7E6Mw/s200/LS14.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5249341934935477762" border="0" /></a><br /></div><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Setting </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-weight: bold;">the Stage For</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Martial Law</span></span><br /></span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);font-size:100%;" >It is my belief the country is being set up for martial law.<br />First I am presenting this first series of videos ....</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><object width="350" height="300"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/J2fjxaRLpQo&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/J2fjxaRLpQo&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="350" height="300"></embed></object><object width="350" height="300"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/SKUIHsCwZlw&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/SKUIHsCwZlw&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="350" height="300"></embed></object><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Watch the entire video series at</span> ...<br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=bushiter911"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">*</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Federal Reserve America's Greatest Robbery</span></a><br /></div><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-size:130%;" >We Are <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Now Under Passive </span>Martial Law</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTeSZq_tY3_vLYhncOSRTjZoOr2xQkfCbhyphenhyphen0oNfXD_jIUiPNls2Evi5JZ4fiGLwotnftCnOQj2h_y4BuIDLmtZ7GfKVwq36b4znbmTHpcHQRZCbvEQbMGk9GOhFeqaHK4sSDobOQ/s1600-h/POLICE_STATE_by_TSHansen.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTeSZq_tY3_vLYhncOSRTjZoOr2xQkfCbhyphenhyphen0oNfXD_jIUiPNls2Evi5JZ4fiGLwotnftCnOQj2h_y4BuIDLmtZ7GfKVwq36b4znbmTHpcHQRZCbvEQbMGk9GOhFeqaHK4sSDobOQ/s400/POLICE_STATE_by_TSHansen.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5249352225120483122" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;">1) In 1933, America WAS declared into a state of emergency, which has never been rescinded. We ARE PRESENTLY in a declared state of emergency (and have been for nearly 75 years), 2) multiple paramilitary systems have been raised, readied, operating, and practicing – beginning in 1974, and 3) the President of the United States need only sign a piece of paper to END the constitutional government of the United States.</span> </div><br /><div style="text-align: left; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">On May 9, 2007, our president signed a National Security Presidential Directive – an unconstitutional piece of paper – which gave to himself the powers of total dictatorship over the entire nation (NSPD-51) and CONgress has no say so whatsoever. Can you say “total dictatorship?”<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTDeXY5lCHraIFCiev807_xNtr7Zzm1ZM1T6UC2qEiDAkuUY0LxmoZLVbLL-CJRwbjH5yGWdYnUtKX29yd7US_5oha36nGXeKasTht4ge06UJZ63MncRlmN8TFxNyfCRlFx0o5Gg/s1600-h/260905presidentbush.gif"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTDeXY5lCHraIFCiev807_xNtr7Zzm1ZM1T6UC2qEiDAkuUY0LxmoZLVbLL-CJRwbjH5yGWdYnUtKX29yd7US_5oha36nGXeKasTht4ge06UJZ63MncRlmN8TFxNyfCRlFx0o5Gg/s400/260905presidentbush.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5249352524195030194" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">But more to the point, the question we must ask ourselves is this: are we NOW under Martial Law? We know for a fact that our constitutional rights have been politically and bureaucratically eliminated.</span><br /></div><div style="text-align: left; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><br />We know for a fact that the Civilian Labor Camps are up and readied; we know for a fact that disarmament is sneaking up on us like all global-political veils; we know for a fact that a shadow dictatorship manages our 2-Party system; we know for a fact that the largest global corporations in the world buy all laws into existence, AND we know for a fact that our FEAR is translating into a completely FRACTURED resistance to all-the-above. WE are in DEEP TROUBLE, America! The whole world is in deep trouble.<br /></div><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">It is this writer’s opinion that we ARE in a passive state of Martial Law RIGHT NOW. However, once the “BIG Emergency” is called into play and strategic reality, we WILL see the EXPECTED results of our 2-Party maneuvering, which is the permanent END of OUR FREEDOM AND NATION.</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Think, people think! What happens to the elderly, the infirmed, the “imperfect,” your pets, your infants, your autistic grandchildren, your school children, your homes, your possessions, your bank accounts, your automobiles, your health - when EVERYTHING YOU NOW DO AND KNOW BECOMES ILLEGAL AND MANAGED BY PARAMILITARY GROUPS? All of written history gives you the answer!</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBd6SNHMZs24xIRT2m8niwQJ6FI-8AqiIgq7mbac4DljUbrlbte50fkgylHcAFwmuE-iE0RXwdHmbHvl4ooekPQdDhSEO7egAP_8LVUDpzkl4knbfunO8Lr2qhCrR9KkpA3Z3PyQ/s1600-h/160807martial1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBd6SNHMZs24xIRT2m8niwQJ6FI-8AqiIgq7mbac4DljUbrlbte50fkgylHcAFwmuE-iE0RXwdHmbHvl4ooekPQdDhSEO7egAP_8LVUDpzkl4knbfunO8Lr2qhCrR9KkpA3Z3PyQ/s400/160807martial1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5249353584537127650" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">EVERY SCHOOL has lock-down policies. EVERY PERSON in the united States, according to the same man who created and handed ALL POWER in this nation TO HIMSELF via NSPD-51, says WE ALL have to be EVALUATED FOR MENTAL ILLNESS. You’re a lunatic if you’re a Christian. You’re a lunatic if you’re a patriotic American. </span><br /></div><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-size:130%;" ><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Martial Law</span> Directive 51</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">New legislation signed on May 9, 2007, declares that in the event of a "catastrophic event", the President can take total control over the government and the country, bypassing all other levels of government at the state, federal, local, territorial and tribal levels, and thus ensuring total unprecedented dictatorial power - Martial Law Directive 51.</span></span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;">It is important to understand that, although these powers have been on the books for previous presidents, Bush is the first to openly brag of the fact that he will utilize them and officially become the supreme emperor of the United States in the aftermath of a catastrophe that the government itself has said will happen on innumerable occasions.</span><br /><br /><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><embed id="VideoPlayback" src="http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docid=5792753647750188322&hl=en&fs=true" style="width: 400px; height: 326px;" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >- Terror Storm The Movie (112 min)</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;"> -</span><br /></div><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">The new directive excludes Congress altogether from governance in a state of emergency.</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">While alluding to the "enduring constitutional government", the directive actually ensures the end of constitutional government as each branch, the executive, legislative and judicial, are stripped of equal authority and must answer directly and solely to the President.</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><object width="350" height="300"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/xOIUYdO-0bY&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/xOIUYdO-0bY&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="350" height="300"></embed></object><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">- While No one was Looking, Bush Appoints Himself Dictator -</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">The mainstream media has not reported on the directive and the White House has refused to comment.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">A high-level group of government and military officials has been quietly preparing an emergency survival program named "The Day After," which would effectively end civil liberties and implement a system of martial law in the event of a catastrophic attack on a U.S. city.</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzImrquR-1pnxo6l3gVJoJWDswOF2_9zf9EAskS6A_IjBgBjnWRjWf-TOjD2qxiCZA-2Q7NImjr8pJGGmzzjDez1wCqWxInpqIP-Eh2hgcemEVq_6aNvujZjDtthvwRZU0w58Ryg/s1600-h/notsafeyet.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzImrquR-1pnxo6l3gVJoJWDswOF2_9zf9EAskS6A_IjBgBjnWRjWf-TOjD2qxiCZA-2Q7NImjr8pJGGmzzjDez1wCqWxInpqIP-Eh2hgcemEVq_6aNvujZjDtthvwRZU0w58Ryg/s400/notsafeyet.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5249054771611824466" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">See </span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/05/20070509-12.html"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">*</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">National Security and Homeland Security Presidential Directive </span></a><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">The 26th Expeditionary Unit, an elite group of U.S. Marines is one of many special units that has conducted martial law training exercise at 26 “surrendered” locations in central Indiana.</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">State officials and media did their best to assure the public that this military takeover of civilian property is somehow a good thing, ignoring the <a href="http://www.dojgov.net/posse_comitatus_act.htm"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">*</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Posse Comitatus Act</span></a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"> </span>which fundamentally prohibits these types</span> <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">of exercises. The two weeks of training are also a contradiction of military tradition against deployments among the civilian population dating back to the end of the Civil War. Why then are the citizens of Indianapolis and six other Indiana towns being made to take part in two weeks of patrols and ambushes?</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><object width="303" height="235"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/VOU934hhuEQ&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/VOU934hhuEQ&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="303" height="235"></embed></object><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">Martial Law Exercise In Indiana - June 4-19 2008</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">The real purpose is to condition the civilian population and military personnel to living under martial law.</span><br /></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgG9GDnroGyM6ZrAKj2iYTjmxmLIjNxSF35_GO971LrR-_ZKPd8_dKqqOGcaLJzYlZSDtqP6ZSr1OXRBoF2WnQkt8wEEWykMvBTMVQYUn9CuPj0zM-Qk4cn5xfbRyugP41zXzZ-5Q/s1600-h/americanprisonku0bb5.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgG9GDnroGyM6ZrAKj2iYTjmxmLIjNxSF35_GO971LrR-_ZKPd8_dKqqOGcaLJzYlZSDtqP6ZSr1OXRBoF2WnQkt8wEEWykMvBTMVQYUn9CuPj0zM-Qk4cn5xfbRyugP41zXzZ-5Q/s400/americanprisonku0bb5.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5249055768140427938" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-size:130%;" >Three States <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Subjected To "Martial Law</span> Sweeps"</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Local, state police and sheriff's office joined feds for "terror" sweeps that resulted in hundreds of citations for traffic violations.</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">The operation, which involved police, deputies, the FBI, drug agents, gang units and even the coast guard, is just one example of how law enforcement at the state and local levels is being co-opted and centralized by the Department of Homeland Security via massive federal grants.</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">It also highlights how the distinction between crime and terrorism is becoming irrelevant.</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBA_z1K0sUEb_IRDZnidqj2SBHicgzvgC6Yq8_DShbmZ_4fL4YbGPaeoFgNBJyPoq5dUKb-b5jAm4a2nFbJ-jMC7OQUAxr19Uvl3qgZpF1JAh1zAtyJ8edMKF2Z1NbsXpewDi_5w/s1600-h/hey.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBA_z1K0sUEb_IRDZnidqj2SBHicgzvgC6Yq8_DShbmZ_4fL4YbGPaeoFgNBJyPoq5dUKb-b5jAm4a2nFbJ-jMC7OQUAxr19Uvl3qgZpF1JAh1zAtyJ8edMKF2Z1NbsXpewDi_5w/s400/hey.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5249056629828358050" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-size:130%;" >Bush's <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Martial Law </span>Plan Is So Shocking <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Even Congress</span> Can't See it</span><br /></div><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Even members of Congress who serve on the who serves on the Homeland Security Committee are denied information as to how the government will be conducted after a significant attack.</span><br /></div><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><br /></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">1)Invoke a terrifying internal and external enemy. Attacks on the people also other controlling acts, told we're in a ‘global war, the scare of vague ‘terrorist attacks to knock us off-balance and (run to the government)for protection.</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">2)Create a Gulag. Now that we're all scared so a prison system is made outside the ‘rule of Law. We support it because it's for “Them” but soon it becomes for “us”. Many are secret. Special ‘Court's develop and many of us could be caught without bail, lawyers or even trials)</span><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVbkxf-U5NuWkiwOQ2Ppq-toC8MZNs8bDToyI64SRP7PzKmM0X8opxh7ZdlPVBtNjftpR50w5ffF6pbrJj5j1sHEfKvofNp7vZ2z46C3YWNGyFzmyvBGBELMGTk4QHSt1JmSD8qA/s1600-h/bush_worship_dees_55.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVbkxf-U5NuWkiwOQ2Ppq-toC8MZNs8bDToyI64SRP7PzKmM0X8opxh7ZdlPVBtNjftpR50w5ffF6pbrJj5j1sHEfKvofNp7vZ2z46C3YWNGyFzmyvBGBELMGTk4QHSt1JmSD8qA/s400/bush_worship_dees_55.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5249057019625443906" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">3)Develop scary thugs.(have paramilitary scary men/contractors to intimidate people. Today these are to create fear. It's so-called ‘security to restore public order)</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">4)Set up an internal surveillance system.(spying on regular people. High visibility wiretaps, reading emails,tax intimidation and all for fabricated ‘national security)</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">5)Harass citizens groups.(Infiltrate normal citizens groups.Call them suspicious incidents and accuse them of potential terrorist's events which scares the hell out of regular people)</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: left;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcfkdN8iIT9d35MiKOXeYfPEctNIFHDtj5jDtHyVDSEULDSVWLf-D1M_Z8pQqp-Lq0MlLlOcxWp8L89H0ucI1dleYoUMRlS6AeGRZNik-gFgeitzD92wNcN36j0IBPugO_Q4J1DA/s1600-h/martialrule.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcfkdN8iIT9d35MiKOXeYfPEctNIFHDtj5jDtHyVDSEULDSVWLf-D1M_Z8pQqp-Lq0MlLlOcxWp8L89H0ucI1dleYoUMRlS6AeGRZNik-gFgeitzD92wNcN36j0IBPugO_Q4J1DA/s400/martialrule.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5249057485176015490" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">6)Engage in detention and release.(This is to scare ordinary people. You become a target for security searches without cause. If you support the constitution you're a potential terrorist. You're harassed over and over. Picked up and released. Picked up and released until you break and isolate. They win)</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">7)Target Key individuals (Threaten people with job loss that supports them. Launch attacks on university teachers if they don't support current ideological demands. This paves the way for the brutal ways that will follow soon and they are caught in a trap)</span><br /></div></div><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><br /></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">8)Control the press.(threats against life and limb if you don't toe the line…) often wounded or killed. Real news is supplanted by fake news and you must report what is given you or suffer consequences. It gets so crazy you soon can't sort out the real from unreal. Citizens can't tell either so give up in stages since it reaches a point when nothing is credible.</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">9)Dissent equals treason.(dissent is treason and being critical is espionage. Every "closing" society does this. Charges of treason for simple, and casual remarks. Criticism labels you as an enemy of the people. You can be labeled as an enemy combatant even when you've done nothing at all. Isolation and torture is used to create ‘psychosis where you'll admit to anything)</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">10)Suspend the Rule Of Law.(dictatorial laws are passed at night while we sleep. The laws preventing the military from getting involved in civilian affairs is gone.<br />This had prevented the Military from acting as regular police.</span><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><object width="303" height="235"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/DK2g0TGaAZA&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/DK2g0TGaAZA&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="303" height="235"></embed></object><object width="303" height="235"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/71Jux68F_AQ&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/71Jux68F_AQ&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="303" height="235"></embed></object><object width="303" height="235"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/jatpX6kuxHQ&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/jatpX6kuxHQ&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="303" height="235"></embed></object><br /></div><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">Video 1</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;">How close are we to Martial Law in the US?</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">Video 2 </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;">Military Preparing for Martial Law </span><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">Video 3 </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;">George Bush's Power Grab Is Martial Law Coming? -</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKk248FX7w0IThb0f567Ussf9VBAXGq-L46fgbvzlTOJ5_QeLj18x5UAX-9amGTDaaPUH-NQm0z01EUN-g5ZPk9SrR_XXLcwz6cPcfgZMdkWbnez25ZoNfGLPdWJ63eVOnJEzyhg/s1600-h/free_speech_zone01.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKk248FX7w0IThb0f567Ussf9VBAXGq-L46fgbvzlTOJ5_QeLj18x5UAX-9amGTDaaPUH-NQm0z01EUN-g5ZPk9SrR_XXLcwz6cPcfgZMdkWbnez25ZoNfGLPdWJ63eVOnJEzyhg/s400/free_speech_zone01.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5249070818790955346" border="0" /></a></div></div><br /><script type="text/javascript"><br />digg_url = 'http://euroyank.blogspot.com/2008/09/martial-law-directive-51.html';<br /></script><br /><script src="http://digg.com/tools/diggthis.js" type="text/javascript"></script>EuroYank - Virginia Hogehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06079239479407310692noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9622105.post-85654495496551471962008-09-21T02:04:00.015-12:002008-09-21T09:28:59.302-12:00Today's New World Order Prophecy<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimvoein8vsPhU1zjVQTSA4byg3TO6gvhaiyUwV5d6vgDrfyXZs47zjVY-9wTpAZm3W5P2CSEJnvxiwj-UQE3-8vQIMhcafQzfP95gdd-k3OWRq2U9k8MRgMlOImuMaen6Pg11DrQ/s1600-h/israel.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimvoein8vsPhU1zjVQTSA4byg3TO6gvhaiyUwV5d6vgDrfyXZs47zjVY-9wTpAZm3W5P2CSEJnvxiwj-UQE3-8vQIMhcafQzfP95gdd-k3OWRq2U9k8MRgMlOImuMaen6Pg11DrQ/s400/israel.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5248475590737812434" border="0" /></a><br /></div><div style="text-align: left; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">First video</span> <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">- Nothing <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">in this</span> Current Events</span> </span>News video <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">is being reported </span>in the Press</span>. <span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">Second video</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">- this</span> </span><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">prophecy video</span> (thousands of years old)<span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"> duplicates today's </span>historical events.</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/uflMj7cD3QY&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/uflMj7cD3QY&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/6_LXmq1ir7A&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/6_LXmq1ir7A&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object></div><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">- Russia Gives Nato 21 Days To Leave Black Sea (8.05 min) - Novus Ordo Seclorum:The Final Warning (9.09 Min) -</span>EuroYank - Virginia Hogehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06079239479407310692noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9622105.post-54488942355503335122008-09-20T23:57:00.019-12:002008-09-21T17:16:18.307-12:00First Your Money Then Your Life<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmuYSUURc_CjZlTHaG8Jy9Sd_4chxr7Ao68ww4Dqc-s4FRCHzgkWk4P29pR0wZi77Q3r68tBhfwYpJ2mDezAAsYTeEhZ-hows1ftERF4QmeSGQMDty2dlWLef3Bmhhlpo95BMTzA/s1600-h/electronic-monopoly-3.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmuYSUURc_CjZlTHaG8Jy9Sd_4chxr7Ao68ww4Dqc-s4FRCHzgkWk4P29pR0wZi77Q3r68tBhfwYpJ2mDezAAsYTeEhZ-hows1ftERF4QmeSGQMDty2dlWLef3Bmhhlpo95BMTzA/s400/electronic-monopoly-3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5248453341519276178" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-size:130%;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">The Week the <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Federal Reserve</span> Tried</span><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-size:130%;" >To <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Save the World From</span> Financial Meltdown</span><br /></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpabY6c3WJOxJAJBZkt1li97EaPekKOmKDGir4l_e4qAmBJ2wjh3saqxk30hM5PloSHOPO88g0ep8TvbiPwkegmx7tKp0ee40vigUsCgUTtWLFKhtQpZKk3R2O2fhY-ksJ0Lw6CA/s1600-h/001-0828142000-Economic-Meltdown-2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpabY6c3WJOxJAJBZkt1li97EaPekKOmKDGir4l_e4qAmBJ2wjh3saqxk30hM5PloSHOPO88g0ep8TvbiPwkegmx7tKp0ee40vigUsCgUTtWLFKhtQpZKk3R2O2fhY-ksJ0Lw6CA/s320/001-0828142000-Economic-Meltdown-2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5248454498308289746" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);font-size:100%;" >Europeans expect a complete collapse of the US financial markets within a few days to weeks. Expected bankruptcies include 6000 American banks including also Citigroup, and General Motors.</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">The credit lines in America, which are the lifeblood of the economy, are frozen. That hasn’t happened before. We were literally maybe days away from a complete meltdown of our financial system, with all the implications here at home and globally.</span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjX1nE0Qk_LjTga_20LKgRL8M2y16r-z4A2tW1Xmcl6OkmlxgQzZVfLnfovNHLnkv-cehLwUAuuliXYLuShFI5nLwLApD2Z9UCRhWWAr4YfsFZm_o0sGOhlUZj98vNVyRQ4CA57aA/s1600-h/001-0828142000-Economic-Meltdown-2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjX1nE0Qk_LjTga_20LKgRL8M2y16r-z4A2tW1Xmcl6OkmlxgQzZVfLnfovNHLnkv-cehLwUAuuliXYLuShFI5nLwLApD2Z9UCRhWWAr4YfsFZm_o0sGOhlUZj98vNVyRQ4CA57aA/s320/001-0828142000-Economic-Meltdown-2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5248455221140491650" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: left; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">We are at WAR against four enemies:</span><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">1</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"> <span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">- The national governments controlled and manipulated by the multinational financial empires </span></span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><br />2</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"> <span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">- </span></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">The multinational corporations pursuing profits without concern for workers or environments </span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><br />3</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"> <span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">- The Wall Street scam artists bilking heedless investors of billions of dollars</span></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">4</span> <span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">- The banks and financial institutions funding only those corporations which play hardball globalism.</span><br /></div></div><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">A complete meltdown of our financial system would qualify as a national emergency which would give Bush the authority to declare a national emergency. Which would also give Bush the authority to postpone the elections and declare martial law, effectively turning the US into a dictatorship.</span><br /><div style="text-align: left; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">First they took away all your money and now they will take away all your freedom, all in the name of trying to protect it.</span><br /></div></div><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">(The following videos <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">explain the crisis in detail. </span>Everything you <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">should know and beware of)</span></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" >The Economic Crisis</span><br /><object width="303" height="235"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/nt69AKYlIWA&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/nt69AKYlIWA&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="303" height="235"></embed></object><object width="303" height="235"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/sLppDnZiu4c&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/sLppDnZiu4c&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="303" height="235"></embed></object><object width="303" height="235"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/jXLTm0rQrSM&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/jXLTm0rQrSM&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="303" height="235"></embed></object><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">- Cause of the Crisis (6.42 min) - THE U.S. ECONOMY beyond all recognition (7.29 min) - Solving America's Energy Crisis</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"> </span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">(8.57 min)</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"> </span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">-</span><br /><object width="303" height="235"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Yy2_pLppuCw&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Yy2_pLppuCw&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="303" height="235"></embed></object><object width="303" height="235"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/MQMhDLzrgTU&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/MQMhDLzrgTU&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="303" height="235"></embed></object><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">- The Economic Meltdown Song 08 (2.16 min) - US Economic Meltdown Wake Up Sheeple</span> <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">(10.23 min) -</span><br /><br /><br /></div>EuroYank - Virginia Hogehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06079239479407310692noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9622105.post-66899616246509568862008-09-18T01:06:00.062-12:002009-01-14T21:36:06.746-12:00Because You Are Stupid You Need These Videos<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFURuDSzHYPWzVnOU8wHl_tr-V2bLcVWsT7-LeIi-JwVJyfV-rjLXg32aD4C6VaytClBsX8zzb6mohbaB8E3zEKWhIi1q658ShRmHx91p_x3FSetKWctyBQA_QaWK_3Z-7yJ6QcA/s1600-h/normal.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFURuDSzHYPWzVnOU8wHl_tr-V2bLcVWsT7-LeIi-JwVJyfV-rjLXg32aD4C6VaytClBsX8zzb6mohbaB8E3zEKWhIi1q658ShRmHx91p_x3FSetKWctyBQA_QaWK_3Z-7yJ6QcA/s400/normal.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5247450952107038754" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Is <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">civil revolt in the USA</span> now possible? As the <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">American financial house of cards falls,</span> as unemployment reaches new heights,<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"> as millions lose their homes</span> in the subprime mortgage racket, as corporate bailout after bailout follows, <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">as the US Treasury desperately prints</span> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">more and more money, </span>as the economy comes crashing down, <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">as pension and retirement plans are wiped out,</span> as Wall Street hits depression lows - <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">The </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">FAT CATS always get theirs.</span><br /><br />Those that ripped off the system get bailed out, and the small guy, <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">the American worker pays for it all</span> as he loses it all. </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Its now <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">TWO TRILLION</span> and counting that disappeared from the American financial system because of the subprime mortgage racket, and the Iraq War that was estimated to cost 60 billion <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">is now calculated to cost THREE TRILLION. </span></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><br /><br />When <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">martial law <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">finally comes </span>into play in the <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">American Police State</span><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">,</span> </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">before tomorrow</span> watch BECAUSE YOU ARE STUPID YOU NEED THESE VIDEOS. </span><br /></div><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><br /></span><object height="235" width="303"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/3qBK_NhT-LM&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/3qBK_NhT-LM&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" height="235" width="303"></embed></object><object height="235" width="303"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/IgszRE5wYNg&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/IgszRE5wYNg&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" height="235" width="303"></embed></object><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">video 1 </span> <span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">One World Government? (4.06 min) -</span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"> </span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">video 2</span> <span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">Ron Paul on the Economic Crash 1 (9.13 min)</span></span><br /></div><object height="235" width="303"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/njIPlGezjAM&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></object><div style="text-align: center;"><object height="235" width="303"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/njIPlGezjAM&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" height="235" width="303"></embed></object><br /></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">video 3</span> <span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">Ron Paul on the Economic Crash 2 (9.19 min) -</span></span><br /></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRCKOwG4FSL4J5E29icIuTdnz4jODb9VO6DnydcWTDlEudFFKljCBes9JWhZQB09g3LWKLgoDkmeXnFG0n36Rpjy3V6olMzKpc7aQUcZT9pqiKNXuK7ixGMNVeVAmd0-P2bjKLhA/s1600-h/l_494a674ca340eccded0cf29e2b3d20cb.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRCKOwG4FSL4J5E29icIuTdnz4jODb9VO6DnydcWTDlEudFFKljCBes9JWhZQB09g3LWKLgoDkmeXnFG0n36Rpjy3V6olMzKpc7aQUcZT9pqiKNXuK7ixGMNVeVAmd0-P2bjKLhA/s400/l_494a674ca340eccded0cf29e2b3d20cb.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5247355474301856562" border="0" /></a>EuroYank - Virginia Hogehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06079239479407310692noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9622105.post-89813381441629162732008-09-14T04:37:00.088-12:002008-09-21T17:22:27.011-12:00The American Fourth Reich<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjss1BovIrgTqgxZ20_f2s6GEp_OQucCpRIjLBFlb6c59_Bsx-D0T7KSRbAM2rjNA0TGg86xGw-tLukgGoBmso3SWeL-OUPeCy4BsdYClmV0pyVo3XDa4Uq8lRcXIn0-vNM5MIoJg/s1600-h/IV-dees.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjss1BovIrgTqgxZ20_f2s6GEp_OQucCpRIjLBFlb6c59_Bsx-D0T7KSRbAM2rjNA0TGg86xGw-tLukgGoBmso3SWeL-OUPeCy4BsdYClmV0pyVo3XDa4Uq8lRcXIn0-vNM5MIoJg/s400/IV-dees.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5246078750519621474" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:130%;">Secret <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Handshake </span>Deal </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-size:130%;" >American </span></span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" >Corporate </span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:130%;"> </span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);font-size:130%;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Takeover</span> <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">of USA, Canada & Mexico</span></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKpC-V8yVhCPafjKG7XA26-pRqJN9v7P677jEjYj583XPwxeen6N4k2uCz0r9XeyySije1PZouMUJcGOpmRESua2kAWgrF-wbT3xGajyGHknXBMuwzpQCPogVm_Rz3FCLjMGINww/s1600-h/GTAIV_Censored.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKpC-V8yVhCPafjKG7XA26-pRqJN9v7P677jEjYj583XPwxeen6N4k2uCz0r9XeyySije1PZouMUJcGOpmRESua2kAWgrF-wbT3xGajyGHknXBMuwzpQCPogVm_Rz3FCLjMGINww/s200/GTAIV_Censored.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5247115576834225362" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">American <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Censored News</span> Uncovered</span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">THE ONE THING NOBODY IS TALKING ABOUT</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">The Plan To <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Replace The Dollar With The Amero</span></span><br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/6hiPrsc9g98&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/6hiPrsc9g98&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">This video highlights a very serious concern which none of our media is looking into. The Amero is being looked at as the defacto currency of the North American Community (or Union).<br /><br />The idea to form the North American Union as a super-NAFTA knitting together Canada, the United States and Mexico into a super-regional political and economic entity was a key agreement resulting from the March 2005 meeting held at Baylor University in Waco, Tex., between President Bush, President Fox and Prime Minister Martin.<br /><br />A joint statement published by the three presidents following their Baylor University summit announced the formation of an initial entity called, "The Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America" (SPP). The joint statement termed the SPP a "trilateral partnership" that was aimed at producing a North American security plan as well as providing free market movement of people, capital, and trade across the borders between the three NAFTA partners:<br /><br />We will establish a common approach to security to protect North America from external threats, prevent and respond to threats within North America, and further streamline the secure and efficient movement of legitimate, low-risk traffic across our borders.<br /><br />A working agenda was established: The creation of a Permanent Tribunal on Trade and Investment with the view that "a permanent court would lay the groundwork for North American business law." The intent is that this North American Union Tribunal would have supremacy over the U.S. Supreme Court on issues affecting the North American Union, to prevent U.S. power from "irritating" and retarding the progress of uniting Canada, Mexico, and the U.S. into a new 21st century super-regional governing body.<br /></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhS6Irl5mhwRi6wTTeZPT8IVFKBrwUEe9Uc-I4T_73_Voa0aLSRcLqVwQZ_-pWsxym8XHwTpMNcD_LQjzV_Ds6Uw2nnB2qxRUmj_YI2-Kf1K5K9brwMWs3gGCAxFS_Eb1EBYKAnig/s1600-h/r_eagle_lib_20amero_pl.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhS6Irl5mhwRi6wTTeZPT8IVFKBrwUEe9Uc-I4T_73_Voa0aLSRcLqVwQZ_-pWsxym8XHwTpMNcD_LQjzV_Ds6Uw2nnB2qxRUmj_YI2-Kf1K5K9brwMWs3gGCAxFS_Eb1EBYKAnig/s400/r_eagle_lib_20amero_pl.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5246190428453116770" border="0" /></a><br /><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMYNnT2x3k8P8BY6rdBunrveTA1lG4mLJo_YOORnQwyZVrcnbRK9LxhO2lugo_wLIQTLA-4g1DTv8UxfKdHsz6jfVoQd4Pl8eJ6jH_X6XEvGujPY4UGvFBov-3tJYquxZooJl8Aw/s1600-h/9780061245589.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMYNnT2x3k8P8BY6rdBunrveTA1lG4mLJo_YOORnQwyZVrcnbRK9LxhO2lugo_wLIQTLA-4g1DTv8UxfKdHsz6jfVoQd4Pl8eJ6jH_X6XEvGujPY4UGvFBov-3tJYquxZooJl8Aw/s400/9780061245589.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5245917198004174738" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3PKuAWEO_QpYi_9kP1TYAtq44fTBkWqrpuhnsxirlYQGCOY_D2QcGKTyjWMs4N8k1OTdiTi2l2YtgzcFvHFT8sa1F3hw94KUETocF-2167CvVsEwL4vRH6b7NsOMV6pGkomOTZw/s1600-h/blakk+nazis.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3PKuAWEO_QpYi_9kP1TYAtq44fTBkWqrpuhnsxirlYQGCOY_D2QcGKTyjWMs4N8k1OTdiTi2l2YtgzcFvHFT8sa1F3hw94KUETocF-2167CvVsEwL4vRH6b7NsOMV6pGkomOTZw/s400/blakk+nazis.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5246003190044016482" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);font-size:100%;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Today the United States is becoming the Fourth Reich, the continuation of an ideology thought to have been vanquished more than a half century ago.</span></span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);font-size:100%;" >This concept may seem absurd to those who cannot see past the rose-colored spin, hype, and disinformation poured out daily by the corporate mass media—most of which is owned by the very same families and corporations who supported the Nazis before World War II.</span><br /></div><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);font-size:100%;" ><br /></span><div style="text-align: left; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);font-size:100%;" >But as Marrs precisely explains, National Socialism never died, but rather its insidious philosophy is alive and active in modern America.</span><br /></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVCjtPbWoZAXQBDRTlnFLMZsuoNn3Hg-fCIV2OCOWhSWWjHsQGQFOs9M98UwFJ-4bui7ZgXyg22IHpMK4aat2imENxVemScqa3B4PPenNa72Y7N_jUUNm6vL1X_65JsofBY4ybfw/s1600-h/posternew_eng.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVCjtPbWoZAXQBDRTlnFLMZsuoNn3Hg-fCIV2OCOWhSWWjHsQGQFOs9M98UwFJ-4bui7ZgXyg22IHpMK4aat2imENxVemScqa3B4PPenNa72Y7N_jUUNm6vL1X_65JsofBY4ybfw/s400/posternew_eng.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5245918904330108962" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">The Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP), also known as the North American Union, is the Stealth, Profit, and Power Corporate Takeover of Mexico, the U.S. and Canada.</span><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">The North American Union (SPP) agreement was finalized without approval of the US Congress, the Canadian Parliament or the Mexican Congress. Rather, it was agreed to by President Bush, former President Fox of Mexico, and former Prime Minister Martin of Canada with only a handshake in Waco, Texas, on March 23, 2005.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Bush and these leaders were not clever enough to devise this plan themselves – especially Bush!</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Corporations were behind the scenes.</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">See</span> </span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://commonsense2.com/2008/04/privatization-watch/when-is-corporate-power-a-threat/"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">*</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">The Corporate Takeover Continues</span></a><br /></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTGgrEAQeG071F-BljVXQ7tmk9hyfKwBUBSLq2BjMEMNmjMFNWmW_bnxurLdNLRy3GmQA0apMIvZv5ZyqoSX4gx2mhPqee6EG6_SKp3PgrORJvsrHsO_4gCYJKpjpgwnL_xNWTLQ/s1600-h/SPP.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTGgrEAQeG071F-BljVXQ7tmk9hyfKwBUBSLq2BjMEMNmjMFNWmW_bnxurLdNLRy3GmQA0apMIvZv5ZyqoSX4gx2mhPqee6EG6_SKp3PgrORJvsrHsO_4gCYJKpjpgwnL_xNWTLQ/s400/SPP.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5245919376572467330" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">The SPP, sometimes called NAFTA-Plus, involves superhighways from Canada, through the U.S. to Mexico.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">It involves a “North American Army” and a North American Union like the European Union. Including spy planes and surveillance. It includes the loss of our democracy and our sovereignty, all replaced by corporate dominion over our lives, making a mockery of democracy and elections and local control!</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">This constitutes the new face of the corporate-inspired military-industrial complex Eisenhower warned against.</span><br /></div><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><br /></span><div style="text-align: left; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">The corporate takeover has now advanced to another level, and the American Empire builders are on their way to their vision of supra-national corporate one-worldism. Funny thing, the right-wingers thought the UN was going to take over the world and create one government!</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">We can now be sure progressives were correct all along when they said making the world safe for “democracy”(Wilson) and spreading “democracy” (Bush) was cover for what was really going on.</span></span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-yfn14CI92XyOzBSwMEqN44oqYUMLuvHxK3PczPFefmaIYFAW9f08VtCqkDR0YIJ1nqDCoJ1yOwYo203lcsVDpQptjFRZUTqBmNlyapp3gCFNM6pqrzOL0654cHJTOqo_JEEd9Q/s1600-h/fourth_reich_of_rich_lrg.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-yfn14CI92XyOzBSwMEqN44oqYUMLuvHxK3PczPFefmaIYFAW9f08VtCqkDR0YIJ1nqDCoJ1yOwYo203lcsVDpQptjFRZUTqBmNlyapp3gCFNM6pqrzOL0654cHJTOqo_JEEd9Q/s400/fourth_reich_of_rich_lrg.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5245920202171538882" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">American policy makers define terms by their exact opposites in meaning. As with Orwell, “democracy” means fascism, wherein multi-national corporations, not governments, run the world.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Governments and nations are simply the front for the corporate enterprise. Making the world safe for democracy meant making the world safe for corporate interests–corporatization and privatization at the point of a gun, our guns and our soldiers doing the dirty work and all paid for by our tax dollars– a nifty racket.</span><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"> See</span> <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> </span></span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">*</span><a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-weight: bold;" href="http://commonsense2.com/2008/04/americas-hidden-history/smedley-butler-on-interventionism/">General Smedley Butler </a><br /></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgB2uXCohcfPfcfpcckePoeqc5JN6OyRVzbJrIpfume9dUOe6JN-x8C2HIKf-ELy_W0pJG9CC2RMiEpXqQaSEN6pu3caahaROW6MKMYfylL2Xx4A2GUc20QNQTAOHk2Rk4qPnYwEw/s1600-h/SPP2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgB2uXCohcfPfcfpcckePoeqc5JN6OyRVzbJrIpfume9dUOe6JN-x8C2HIKf-ELy_W0pJG9CC2RMiEpXqQaSEN6pu3caahaROW6MKMYfylL2Xx4A2GUc20QNQTAOHk2Rk4qPnYwEw/s400/SPP2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5245922283740023090" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">America loses one farm every 30 minutes due largely to intensifying corporate takeover of our food supply.</span><br /></div><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><br /></span><div style="text-align: left; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Major agribusiness corporations exercise increasing control over what we eat, how it is made, how much it costs, who produces it, and who profits from it.</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">The increasingly uneven balance of power between individual farmers and global firms, such as Cargill and ConAgra, leave individual farmers without the power to negotiate, accepting almost any contractual term and reduced payments in hopes to insure the survival of their farm.</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">While farmers are losing their bargaining power and working for less, farms are closing at an alarming rate, over 20,000 farms go under each year, taking with them the social fabric of small towns and farming communities.</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZxHxf4cCfWxiRUDp_iWJhyDYRg_y7xUzw8mrK_2eRNQHPMmtCMBaGfm1HlBEQ3CUUrBInLEA8SJvvKd8xQjcmB5Noj8mcdiInZBWxulWdkhRbvjeT3TRJp7S0gTTydaU7uqsptw/s1600-h/BILLY.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZxHxf4cCfWxiRUDp_iWJhyDYRg_y7xUzw8mrK_2eRNQHPMmtCMBaGfm1HlBEQ3CUUrBInLEA8SJvvKd8xQjcmB5Noj8mcdiInZBWxulWdkhRbvjeT3TRJp7S0gTTydaU7uqsptw/s400/BILLY.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5245989049225142642" border="0" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">There are over 300 initiatives in the SPP aimed at harmonizing North American policies on food, drugs, security, immigration, manufacturing, the environment and public health.</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">As well as regular SPP updates, the site is full of reports, interviews and multimedia presentations critical of what's often called the "deep integration" of North America. </span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">See</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">*</span><a style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.canadians.org/integratethis/">SPP WATCH</a><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"> f</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">or the Canadian response</span> </span><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">and see</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">*</span><a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/03/20050323-4.html">Fact Sheet: Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America </a> <span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;">for the official White House version.</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Because no one is above the </span><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">law</span> here is </span><a href="http://www.judicialwatch.org/SPP.shtml"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">*</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Judicial Watch Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America</span></a><br /></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmIT9mZniGOdEXrqGaCMFB68WhSDoU8C9amz2z9k-BipcjgZg8iyj7WoBBurwB-g35Ef4jQE4UnhKn7I97325IKy3YdcCtcQP5kltpDKg6eP4f7HXSxkgrnNdbCDG7bxs9cIt4vw/s1600-h/summitub7.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmIT9mZniGOdEXrqGaCMFB68WhSDoU8C9amz2z9k-BipcjgZg8iyj7WoBBurwB-g35Ef4jQE4UnhKn7I97325IKy3YdcCtcQP5kltpDKg6eP4f7HXSxkgrnNdbCDG7bxs9cIt4vw/s400/summitub7.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5245989608445606498" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><br /></span><div style="text-align: left; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">I<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">n March 2005, as a result of intense lobbying from North America’s richest corporations, the leaders of Canada, Mexico and the United States met in Waco, Texas to shake hands on the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP). The SPP was a pledge to speed up the corporate goal of continental economic integration by linking it to U.S. government security demands.</span></span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">In a post-9/11 world where, for the Bush administration, “security trumps trade,” the Canadian and Mexican governments have agreed to fully integrate their security apparatuses with the U.S. and fully participate in its “war on terror” in return for vague assurances of continued market access for their largest corporations.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">But the SPP goes much further than this. Plans for regulatory convergence, energy sector integration and a potential common external tariff will make independent Canadian policies on agriculture, the environment and energy impossible.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Since March 2005, without public input and with little public awareness, all three North American governments have been moving quickly toward establishing a continental resource pact, a North American security perimeter, and common agricultural and other health, safety and environmental policies.</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Working groups comprised of government officials and corporate leaders are quietly putting this “partnership” into action, and to date only industry “stakeholders” have been consulted, often in private, closed-door meetings. Not even our elected Members of Parliament have been kept in the loop.</span><br /></div><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Read more ...</span> <span style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">*</span><a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.canadians.org/integratethis/backgrounders/guide/ABCs.html">Citizen's Guide to the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) </a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaqJ51fwd6Yv8uo6_lUFdk2tm7pXBQevfsJuYTbpxoqcqINhVL5pqjeVAV8xfFO8CMgmmKShNoeLGY4fTxOsXE5w9cjP3mQ9eUkqGrQd-GsWiYDj9gC5zO47KFQPtvtKTiX28dBw/s1600-h/dr.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaqJ51fwd6Yv8uo6_lUFdk2tm7pXBQevfsJuYTbpxoqcqINhVL5pqjeVAV8xfFO8CMgmmKShNoeLGY4fTxOsXE5w9cjP3mQ9eUkqGrQd-GsWiYDj9gC5zO47KFQPtvtKTiX28dBw/s400/dr.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5246078904587386482" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Watch the Videos</span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">the Truth ....</span><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/zyye2_mEiNs&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/zyye2_mEiNs&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/mvUnErDPHgM&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/mvUnErDPHgM&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">SPP Protest in Ottawa - Feb 16 2008</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">A Big Easy North American Union</span><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/3ZVEzXyNjCo&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/3ZVEzXyNjCo&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/FwNyob3kvaM&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/FwNyob3kvaM&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Pt 1 Lou Dobbs reports on North American Union (SPP) 8.20.07</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Pt 2 Lou Dobbs reports on North American Union (SPP) 8.20.07</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">the background ....</span><br /><object style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);" width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ObHKe0TcFIo&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ObHKe0TcFIo&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Pwo3nNC8B1Y&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Pwo3nNC8B1Y&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Harper, Bush & Calderon on the SPP, Afghanistan,conspiracies</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Bush Family History</span><br /><br /><iframe src="http://edition.cnn.com/video/savp/evp/?loc=int&vid=/video/business/2008/04/22/tucker.nau.nola.cnn" allowtransparency="true" scrolling="no" width="406" frameborder="0" height="393"></iframe><br /></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiw1abi8U95tpHl3LgTLUYW2R1VTzClTcVuWw9unYaLT6jabJJd8Ofj_RC6UzczOLS9b_25IYPjPHWAG4FSNXPCHaE4kLXj7CS8G03NWAnxM4-2Z8pNc2fpo3r80besJnBlpTzM_A/s1600-h/unclesameguillodeescz5.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiw1abi8U95tpHl3LgTLUYW2R1VTzClTcVuWw9unYaLT6jabJJd8Ofj_RC6UzczOLS9b_25IYPjPHWAG4FSNXPCHaE4kLXj7CS8G03NWAnxM4-2Z8pNc2fpo3r80besJnBlpTzM_A/s400/unclesameguillodeescz5.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5245923033853623842" border="0" /></a></div>EuroYank - Virginia Hogehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06079239479407310692noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9622105.post-36918657324562536232008-09-11T15:43:00.014-12:002008-09-12T09:16:22.089-12:00The Corporate Takeover of America<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH6Yx9-n_7kGasONGkIpNUz6bM6tWN9zCQzwY1RKgWf2PgE6Qv36KlxbSbOPkKcgVqIVxoNmHnDn8CkzODrPlHXNIBkXhIb6uPBqXfQnJ1lFYrdMhJSIFHeu_3Ht7Y56oPL3Xtaw/s1600-h/RedStateRevolt2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH6Yx9-n_7kGasONGkIpNUz6bM6tWN9zCQzwY1RKgWf2PgE6Qv36KlxbSbOPkKcgVqIVxoNmHnDn8CkzODrPlHXNIBkXhIb6uPBqXfQnJ1lFYrdMhJSIFHeu_3Ht7Y56oPL3Xtaw/s400/RedStateRevolt2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5245149053116049026" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Time to Rise Up Stand Up!</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYxSFargBLvzhdek6gDoLe_tEuawwWWpnpnb82PpKtYIv6Pa-j-kJ50opxgmb11FlW7xPvB5hGmvnttPPvvI6fdSLF96h1cGbqqa5N5ZOUlwLomaupTqBmAIP1o-S_gTFmoCTqRw/s1600-h/2481290923_19e6b1cf69.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYxSFargBLvzhdek6gDoLe_tEuawwWWpnpnb82PpKtYIv6Pa-j-kJ50opxgmb11FlW7xPvB5hGmvnttPPvvI6fdSLF96h1cGbqqa5N5ZOUlwLomaupTqBmAIP1o-S_gTFmoCTqRw/s400/2481290923_19e6b1cf69.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5244980239975982610" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Still think you're free? Still think all you have to do is vote the incumbent out of office and everything will automatically return to normal. It's too late.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Look at the corporate info I found at the Delaware Secretary of State website:</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">INTERNAL REVENUE TAX AND AUDIT SERVICE (IRS) For Profit General Delaware Corporation Incorporation date 7/12/33 File No. 0325720</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">FEDERAL RESERVE ASSOCIATION (Federal Reserve) Non-profit Delaware Corporation Incorporation date 9/13/14 File No. 0042817</span><br /></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkgPCoWjhnym9U8MabpTAW8GOaVTR_rsPCJpNcW4czjigBmkGxm5V4dJImDj2DES2hpZmhh0nla47j6XZULHcYHjQxB97IVmVYCN5ecSehAS0aF5CtMDHPOH5uDgdYlGlcDvD8Zw/s1600-h/1409216916_4e5433f0dc.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkgPCoWjhnym9U8MabpTAW8GOaVTR_rsPCJpNcW4czjigBmkGxm5V4dJImDj2DES2hpZmhh0nla47j6XZULHcYHjQxB97IVmVYCN5ecSehAS0aF5CtMDHPOH5uDgdYlGlcDvD8Zw/s400/1409216916_4e5433f0dc.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5244981056286163922" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AUTHORITY INC. (CIA) For Profit General Delaware Corporation Incorporation Date 3/9/83 File No. 2004409 background info: Transfers: With the National Security Council to the Executive Office of the President by Reorganization Plan No. 4 of 1949, effective August 20, 1949; to independent agency status by EO 12333, December 4, 1981.</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibwMjDnzhNalkhr8DOE1HkLsIGdfLlUq8Bi8fmNlErLR_L6EJlNFGdieUJZrJV4tc5_LXKudQQvypKkae5pCSFyeQ_bgZnRCUkLBZwWaEbWusRed4M_9x-Vx6UvdLQ9XOBJ2PWZA/s1600-h/america26ff.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibwMjDnzhNalkhr8DOE1HkLsIGdfLlUq8Bi8fmNlErLR_L6EJlNFGdieUJZrJV4tc5_LXKudQQvypKkae5pCSFyeQ_bgZnRCUkLBZwWaEbWusRed4M_9x-Vx6UvdLQ9XOBJ2PWZA/s400/america26ff.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5244981885119502194" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Central Intelligence Group established under the National Intelligence Authority by Presidential directive, January 22, 1946, to plan and coordinate foreign intelligence activities.</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">By National Intelligence Authority Directive 4, April 2, 1946, NIA assumed supervision of the SSU dissolution during spring and summer 1946, assigning some components to Central Intelligence Group at request of Director of Central Intelligence, and effecting incorporation of the remaining units into other War Department organizations. SSU officially abolished by General Order 16, SSU, October 19, 1946. Central Intelligence Group and National Intelligence Authority abolished by National Security Act, which created the CIA, 1947. SEE 263.1.</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">FEDERAL LAND ACQUISITION CORP. For-profit General Delaware Corporation Incorporation Date 8/22/80 File No. 0897960</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVppo8LAQXM01_94xn4yxfn_EBHhpUhAiYjPfliaAjC6-HDQfpLfG61aQ-IHVmALi2mU6olSdFU7mRwo2Ma2_o3rEOZVOHaaeS2Hspl3y1WRD6rvhIYtEkWeioOcufFLqI2jeN1Q/s1600-h/307973828_02405fb769_o.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVppo8LAQXM01_94xn4yxfn_EBHhpUhAiYjPfliaAjC6-HDQfpLfG61aQ-IHVmALi2mU6olSdFU7mRwo2Ma2_o3rEOZVOHaaeS2Hspl3y1WRD6rvhIYtEkWeioOcufFLqI2jeN1Q/s400/307973828_02405fb769_o.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5244982399683567810" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">RTC COMMERCIAL ASSETS TRUST 1995-NP3-2 For-profit Delaware Statutory Trust Incorporation Date 10/24/95 File No. 2554768</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">SOCIAL SECURITY CORP, DEPART. OF HEALTH, EDUCATION AND WELF For-Profit General Delaware Corporation Incorporation date: 11/13/89 File No. 2213135</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, INC. Non-profit Delaware Corporation Incorporation Date 4/19/89 File No. 2193946</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">We as citizens, are assets of the corporation. It doesn't matter who is in office, the board of directors and the shareholders own and run the country - just as in any other corporation.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">The thing to find out, and I'm hoping the corporate records will show, is who are the shareholders? Who profits - for example - from the 'private, for-profit, corporate CIA' or the 'private, for-profit, corporate IRS' or the 'private, for-profit Social Security' - that those in charge are now telling us is 'broke.' Who is on the board of directors of 'UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, INC.'</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Ask anyone you know if they are aware of this. Call your congressman's office and ask them. Why doesn't anyone know? Why isn't this casually mentioned in the news? 'The Board of Directors of the United States of America, Inc., today ruled........ The Board of Directors of the Social Security........ Today, the Central Intelligence Authority filed as a private for-profit corporation. Why do those in charge never mention this? Why, searching on any search engine, doesn't this information come up?</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Because we're being lied to. Ever wonder why those who fight the IRS are not allowed to bring up their Constitutional Rights in tax court? Constitutional Rights do not apply in an equity court. Contract law supersedes individual and Constitutional Rights. Corporate law is a totally different animal from common law. Ask any corporate attorney.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">You've inadvertently signed contracts with this bastard entity posing as the 'free' United States of America - when you registered to vote, when you applied for a checking account (at a Federal Reserve corp bank - look at your signature card, it states you will comply with all rulings from the Secretary of the Treasury), when you applied for a social security card.....</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Ever look at the trust corporations (such as the RESOLUTION TRUST CORP (RTC) associated with the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, INC.? Trust - a fiduciary relationship in which one party holds legal title to another's property for the benefit of a party who holds equitable title to the property. Who holds the equitable title? Ever notice property deeds state 'tenant' when referring to the supposed owner?</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">We are ruled by fictitious entities - corporations are fictions. We have been lied to, our entire lives, that we are free. The United States is owned, lock, stock, and barrel, each of us as citizens of the United States is owned. The question to which I want the answer is: Who owns us?</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">"The few who understand the system, will either be so interested in its profits, or so dependent on its favors that there will be no opposition from that class, while on the other hand, the great body of people, mentally incapable of comprehending the tremendous advantages...will bear its burden without complaint, and perhaps without suspecting that the system is inimical to their best interests." - Rothschild Brothers of London communiqué to associates in New York June 25, 1863</span></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><object width="250" height="225"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ENRWKk6_n1w&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ENRWKk6_n1w&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="250" height="225"></embed></object><object width="250" height="225"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/A6HRt1bH_dw&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/A6HRt1bH_dw&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="250" height="225"></embed></object><object width="250" height="225"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/sp5HOLvKn2I&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/sp5HOLvKn2I&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="250" height="225"></embed></object><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Video 1 - One Of The Real Reasons Why The U.S. Went To War In Iraq</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Video 2 - Globalization and the Media</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Video 3 - Trading Democracy for Corporate Rule Part one</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/a8wOEnBHNl4&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/a8wOEnBHNl4&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">The rise of the Rothchilds</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Also See ...</span><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/history/zionism/news.php?q=1209592767"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">*</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">How The Rothschild Dynasty Operates</span></a><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.realjewnews.com/?p=201"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">*</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Real Jew News</span></a><br /></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjC_jliVJKhJ2fmevuGDPkQcMul7ef4PDF0hP_9J3mmGvZLRDSEU1BY_23pQYPoaGgZ7GzmUPeBlapXIisPQRo8jdd7ikRi4DBGeMo6gEa4Viy1OG-sKgPt7cjuXp7a_FhuBo9M3A/s1600-h/redstate.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; 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font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Depleted Uranium</span><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);font-size:130%;" >The Biggest <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">American Censored <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">News</span></span> Story</span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXx6YWlpxI9snJstFQfCJBVI5H4aiOpq62vJgZGvR35pt621viqtsLpBN3Z3c_Ja8RCHvdP62_qSz9nZCEicgFzLzJqJfFVy_hx1Jr5xBa80FiDBNKZR3V6MqbWU6OUS_LEFsCZA/s1600-h/CADU_Poster_by_stillshots.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXx6YWlpxI9snJstFQfCJBVI5H4aiOpq62vJgZGvR35pt621viqtsLpBN3Z3c_Ja8RCHvdP62_qSz9nZCEicgFzLzJqJfFVy_hx1Jr5xBa80FiDBNKZR3V6MqbWU6OUS_LEFsCZA/s400/CADU_Poster_by_stillshots.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5186871262504892418" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >The <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Most Ignored & Covered Up</span></span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >by Mass Media News Story ...</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" ><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Hundreds of Thousands</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> </span><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">of American Troops</span></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" ><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Contaminated, dying, and disabled from </span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Depleted</span></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" ><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Uranium</span> </span><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">by </span><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">American Arms.</span></span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdEyajcpnLYqzZZJS82uI7dJhiJfJiNP40X6apTSyKpY8TlxdWpSqxPsaEIV0AoiORZ1zdfHTGpMgfnhEBlYldryTbtgYOMMNJuNkeSxsIc7zRGo4O3UQ5m301Ec9GSj9FXqVBPg/s1600-h/depleted-uranium.2005.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdEyajcpnLYqzZZJS82uI7dJhiJfJiNP40X6apTSyKpY8TlxdWpSqxPsaEIV0AoiORZ1zdfHTGpMgfnhEBlYldryTbtgYOMMNJuNkeSxsIc7zRGo4O3UQ5m301Ec9GSj9FXqVBPg/s400/depleted-uranium.2005.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5186520483935893490" border="0" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Since 1991, the United States has staged four wars using</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >depleted uranium weaponry, illegal under all international</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >treaties, conventions and agreements, </span><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >as well as under US military law.</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/244/2675/640/image010%20%28215%20x%20140%29.jpg"><img style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 2px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/244/2675/320/image010%20%28215%20x%20140%29.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">America’s <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Big Dirty</span> Secret</span></span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><div style="text-align: left;">Depleted Uranium weapons are called "Dirty" because much of the uranium-235 isotope useful for nuclear power fuel and weapons has been separated. "Depleted" does not mean that its biological hazards have been made less harmful or reduced one iota.<br /><br />DU burns on impact, converting the uranium into lots of particles that are easily inhaled and can cause lung cancers. Uranium-238 has a half-life roughly as long as the Earth has been in existence. DU tipped weapons are the real "dirty bombs" and are a war crime to manufacture and use.</div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-4eVE2BNQBPvHjOVed0oX7gGvS7PcLK8cFgMXfGVMn9n_DY_xXpn0PLQAZLbRLjNK45g_XQewKGnmmMDiNYbAykotToX0P-A4bSG5RdweX09SC-CyKJb-xHBb9oPHHChp2_U0gw/s1600-h/DU_shell_1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-4eVE2BNQBPvHjOVed0oX7gGvS7PcLK8cFgMXfGVMn9n_DY_xXpn0PLQAZLbRLjNK45g_XQewKGnmmMDiNYbAykotToX0P-A4bSG5RdweX09SC-CyKJb-xHBb9oPHHChp2_U0gw/s400/DU_shell_1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5244460383356470242" border="0" /></a>Radiation emitted by DU (Depleted Uranium) threatens the human body because, once DU dust has been inhaled, it becomes an internal radiation source; international radiation protection standards, the basis of expert claims that DU is harmless, deal only with external radiation sources;<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >Dirty DU Uranium from reactors, recycled for use in munitions, contains additional highly toxic elements, such as plutonium, 1.6 kilogrammes of which could kill 8 (eight) billion people.</span><br /></div><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" ><br /></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >In a French TV documentary on Canal+ in January 2001, a team of researchers presented the results of an investigation into a gaseous diffusion recycling plant in Paducah, Kentucky, USA. According to the lawyer for 100,000 plaintiffs, who are past and present plant employees, they were contaminated because of flagrant non-compliance with basic safety standards; the entire plant is irrevocably contaminated, as is everything it produces. <a href="http://mondediplo.com/2002/03/03uranium"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">*</span>Read More</a></span><br /></div></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">American <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">War Crimes </span></span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Depleted Uranium</span> Videos</span></span><br /><object width="305" height="235"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Np2v1EtQnSk&hl=en"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Np2v1EtQnSk&hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="305" height="235"></embed></object><object width="305" height="235"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/lR4z9ohRxEc&hl=en"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/lR4z9ohRxEc&hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="305" height="235"></embed></object><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Iraq conspiracy - Illegal DEPLETED URANIUM</span> <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Videos</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Iraq War Crimes Videos (Next videos)</span> <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">US weapons causing Iraqi birth defects</span><br /></div></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><object width="305" height="235"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/gFLJyrxs1ls&hl=en"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/gFLJyrxs1ls&hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="305" height="235"></embed></object><object width="305" height="235"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/i9kMW2qrxEE&hl=en"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/i9kMW2qrxEE&hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="305" height="235"></embed></object><br /><br /><object width="305" height="235"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/YcIHTO8CaW8&hl=en"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/YcIHTO8CaW8&hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="305" height="235"></embed></object><object width="305" height="235"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/vRIa0_ah8sI&hl=en"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/vRIa0_ah8sI&hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="305" height="235"></embed></object><object width="305" height="235"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/BQhvX6Vbvhc&hl=en"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/BQhvX6Vbvhc&hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="305" height="235"></embed></object><br /></div></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/244/2675/640/500x500_bfa99307c14ec4e87aa10ee1775492fa%20%28215%20x%20141%29.jpg"><img style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 2px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/244/2675/320/500x500_bfa99307c14ec4e87aa10ee1775492fa%20%28215%20x%20141%29.jpg" border="0" /></a></span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >Depleted Uranium Videos are</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">extremely scarce</span> </span><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">here are a few more</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >See the Videos ...</span><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/09/30/1411222"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">*</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Contaminated with Depleted Uranium</span></a></span><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.planetvids.com/html/Depleted-Uranium-Problem.html"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">*</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Depleted Uranium Problem</span></a></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" ><a href="http://www.winc.tv/cgi-bin/artman/exec/search.cgi?keyword=Coverage%20Differs%20on%20Use%20of%20Depleted%20Uranium%20in%20Warfare&cat=38&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;perpage=10&year=1999&template=search/search_results.html"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">*</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Depleted Uranium Secrecy</span></a></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" ><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><a href="http://d3779995.u30.infinology.com/photos/NM_Dust_Damacio_II.htm"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">*</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Depleted Uranium Study</span></a></span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >Military<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> Secrecy</span></span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >The vast majority of servicemen and women in the U.S. military, and likely in the armed forces of other countries which are developing or have obtained depleted uranium munitions, are unaware of the use and dangers of depleted uranium munitions, or of the protective clothing and procedures which can minimize or prevent serious short-term exposures.</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" ><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;">The following military DU training videos</span></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">sat on shelves seldom shown</span></span></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" ><a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3581.htm"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">*</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Depleted Uranium Hazard Awareness</span></a></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" ><a href="http://www.amc.army.mil/amc/sf/DU_Q4.html"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">*</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Standard DU Army Training Video</span></a></span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >The continued use of this illegal radioactive weaponry, which has already contaminated vast regions with low level radiation and will contaminate other parts of the world over time, is indeed a world affair and an international issue.</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/244/2675/640/image044%20%28215%20x%20144%29.jpg"><img style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 2px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/244/2675/320/image044%20%28215%20x%20144%29.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >Read more ...</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" ><a href="http://www.mindfully.org/Nucs/2004/DU-Trojan-Horse1jul04.htm"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">*</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Depleted Uranium:The Trojan Horse of Nuclear War</span></a></span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >The last Iraq war was about Iraq possessing illegal weapons of mass destruction</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >yet we are using weapons of mass destruction ourselves.</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/244/2675/640/image014%20%28215%20x%20143%29.jpg"><img style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 2px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/244/2675/320/image014%20%28215%20x%20143%29.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >Read more ...</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" ><a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0330-02.htm"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">*</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">US forces use of depleted uranium weapons is illegal</span></a></span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >In June 2003, the World Health Organization announced in a press release that global cancer rates will increase 50 percent by 2020. What else do they know that they aren’t telling us?</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >Read more ...</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" ><a href="http://www.truthout.org/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/4/5878"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">*</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Dirty bombs, dirty missiles, dirty bullets</span></a></span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" ><a href="http://www.abolition2000.org/site/c.cdJIKKNpFqG/b.1316403/k.507D/Depleted_Uranium_Working_Group.htm"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">*</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Depleted Uranium Ammunition:Nuclear Waste as a Weapon</span></a></span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/244/2675/640/Book%20%28255%20x%20180%29%20%28225%20x%20159%29.0.jpg"><img style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 2px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/244/2675/320/Book%20%28255%20x%20180%29%20%28225%20x%20159%29.0.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >Children <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">of the Gulf War</span> Photo Exhibit</span><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Warning</span></span> </span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;">-</span></span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;"> </span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >Extreme Graphic Violence</span></span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" ><a href="http://www.savewarchildren.org/exhibitPictures.html"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">*</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Save the War Children</span></a></span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" ><a href="http://www.savewarchildren.org/products.html"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">*</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Children of the Gulf War</span></a></span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/244/2675/640/du_killer.jpg"><img style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 2px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/244/2675/320/du_killer.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >From Gulf War I, fully 75% of our fighting men who were on the ground are now dead, dying, or sick from Depleted Uranium.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >There are reports that the Pentagon is preventing American soldiers from writing home to complain about the variety of illness afflicting them because of the deadly combination of Depleted Uranium and Toxic Vaccinations.</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/244/2675/640/image051%20%28215%20x%2098%29.jpg"><img style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 2px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/244/2675/320/image051%20%28215%20x%2098%29.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-size:100%;" ><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;">The Pentagon is said to be threatening to muster out soldiers who complain, thus cutting off their medical care after they get out. However, when these men do return home and they are very ill from D.U. contamination, the Pentagon is refusing to </span> <span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.cuttingedge.org/news/n1955.cfm"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">*</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">admit that these men are sick with D.U.! </span></a></span></span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:100%;">THE <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">PENTAGON IS DENYING MEDICAL CARE</span></span></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:100%;">FOR VETERANS STRICKEN BY</span></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">DEPLETED URANIUM (D.U.)</span> CONTAMINATION!</span></span><br /></div></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/244/2675/640/du-panzer%20%28215%20x%20137%29.jpg"><img style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 2px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/244/2675/320/du-panzer%20%28215%20x%20137%29.jpg" border="0" /></a></span></span></span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >Denial At the Top</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >of the Administration</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;">Former Head Of Pentagon's Depleted Uranium Project Says Thousands Of Troops Are Sick and Dying From Illegal DU Use and the Military's Failure To Admit Responsibility.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;">aj. Rokke said his warnings as well as warnings from many other experts were not only dismissed by the military, but also by every other bigwig on Capital Hill, including President Clinton, Senator John Kerry and every other member of Congress, all very much aware of his position since he even addressed the 2000 Fall Congressional Coalition Leadership at its quarterly breakfast in Washington D.C.</span></span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">Read On ...</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" ><a href="http://www.prisonplanet.com/Pages/Aug05/200805DU.htm"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">*</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Military's Failure To Admit Responsibility</span></a></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" ><a href="http://home.clara.net/heureka/gaia/du.htm"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">*</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Behind Depleted Uranium</span></a></span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/244/2675/640/0965691608.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_%20%28215%20x%20335%29.jpg"><img style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 2px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/244/2675/320/0965691608.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_%20%28215%20x%20335%29.jpg" border="0" /></a></span></span></span><br /></div><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" ><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Read parts of the book ...</span></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" ><a href="http://www.iacenter.org/depleted/mettoc.htm"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">*</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">How the Pentagon Radiates Soldiers & Civilians with DU Weapons</span></a></span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >It is happening again to a new generation of veterans. Some of today's soldiers were in day care centers in 1991 when Dick Cheney first authorized the wholesale use of radioactive munitions. It is happening again despite the fact that 70% of all Gulf War I veterans are on medical disability fifteen years after the end of the first war against Saddam Hussein.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >We are witnessing the same symptoms of radioactive poisoning today as fifteen years ago. We are hearing the same denial of reality from Donald Rumsfeld's Department of Defense (DOD).</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >What's worse is that, since 1998, veterans are eligible for free health care for only the first two years after being demobilized.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >After that, an ailing veteran has to prove his or her illness is service-connected. In the next article we'll describe what that burden has meant to ailing Iraq vets.</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/244/2675/640/785035726.jpg"><img style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 2px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/244/2675/320/785035726.jpg" border="0" /></a></span></span></span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" ><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Read On ...</span></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" ><a href="http://www.countercurrents.org/us-hall280406.htm"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">*</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">GI's Beware</span></a></span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" ><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">A special report published by eminent scientist </span><a href="http://www.mindfully.org/Nucs/2003/Leuren-Moret-ICT13dec03.htm"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">*</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Leuren Moret</span></a><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"> </span></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" ><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">naming </span></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >depleted uranium as the definitive cause of the Gulf War Syndrome has fed </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" ><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">a</span><a href="http://www.axisoflogic.com/cgi-bin/exec/view.pl?archive=137&num=15334&printer=1"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> *</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">growing scandal</span></a><span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 51);"> </span><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">about the continued use of uranium munitions by the US Military.</span></span><br /></div><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >The Veterans Administration acknowledged a third of all living Gulf War veterans, 181,996 were collecting </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" ><a href="http://vawatchdog.org/old%20newsflashes%20AUG%2006/newsflash08-11-2006-1.htm"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">*</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">service-related disability pensions.</span> </a></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-size:100%;" ><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;">Now the same thing is happening to veterans of "Operation Iraqi Freedom."</span></span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/244/2675/640/horror_of_iraqi_invasion_2%20%28225%20x%20135%29.jpg"><img style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 2px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/244/2675/320/horror_of_iraqi_invasion_2%20%28225%20x%20135%29.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >Civilian populations in Afghanistan and Iraq and occupying troops have been</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" ><a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/95178_du12.shtml"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">*</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">contaminated</span></a><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"> </span></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >with astounding levels of radioactive depleted and non-depleted uranium as a result of post 9/11 United States’ use of tons of uranium munitions. Researchers say surrounding countries are bound to feel the effects as well.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >The Pentagon used its radioactive arsenal mainly in the</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" ><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"> </span><a href="http://www.iacenter.org/depleted/du-warcrime.htm"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">*</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">urban centers</span></a><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">,</span> </span><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >rather</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >than in desert battlefields as in 1991. Many hundreds of thousands of Iraqi people</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >and U.S. soldiers, along with British, Polish, Japanese and Dutch soldiers sent to join the occupation, will suffer the consequences.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >The real extent of injuries, chronic illness, long-term disabilities and genetic birth defects won't be apparent for five to 10 years.</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/244/2675/640/uranium-parody.0.jpg"><img style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 2px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/244/2675/320/uranium-parody.0.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >Cancer, respiratory diseases and horrible birth defects have been widespread in</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >Iraq even after Gulf War I and are bound to increase. While officially, only 467</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >soldiers were wounded during the first Gulf War, according to Terry Jemison at</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), of the more than 592,560 discharged</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >personnel who served there, at least 179,310 - one third - are receiving disability</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >compensation and over 24,760 additional cases were pending as of September 2004.</span><br /></div><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >Read more ...</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" ><a href="http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2004/09/17/uranium_munitions_are_weapons_of_mass_destruction_use_is_a_war_crime_experts.htm"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">*</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Uranium Munitions Are Weapons of Mass Destruction</span></a></span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >This number of disabled veterans is shockingly high. Most are in their mid-thirties</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >and should be in the prime of health. Before sending troops to the Gulf region, the</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >military had already sifted out those with disabilities or chronic health problems</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >from asthma, diabetes, heart conditions, cancers and birth defects. </span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/244/2675/640/depleted_ur_Lge.jpg"><img style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 2px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/244/2675/320/depleted_ur_Lge.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >In 2003 scientists from the</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" > </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" ><a href="http://www.mindfully.org/Nucs/2002/Afghan-Destruction-Effects-UMRCNov02.htm"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">*</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Uranium Medical Research Center (UMRC)</span> </span></a><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">studied urine samples of Afghan civilians and found that 100% of the samples taken had levels of non-depleted uranium (NDU) 400% to 2000% higher than normal levels. The UMRC research team studied six sites, two in Kabul and others in the Jalalabad area.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" ><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">The civilians were tested four months after the attacks in Afghanistan by the</span></span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" ><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">United States and its allies.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" ><a href="http://www.afghandufund.org/faq.html"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">*</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">NDU</span></a> <span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">is more radioactive than depleted uranium (DU), which itself is charged with causing many cancers and severe birth defects in the Iraqi population, especially children over the past ten years. Four million pounds of radioactive uranium was dropped on Iraq in 2003 alone. Uranium dust will be in the bodies of our returning armed forces.</span></span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/244/2675/640/antiwarsf_0087%20%28225%20x%20300%29.jpg"><img style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 2px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/244/2675/320/antiwarsf_0087%20%28225%20x%20300%29.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >Conducted at the request of The News, as the U.S. government considers the cost of $1,000 per affected soldier prohibitive, the test found that four of the nine men were contaminated with high levels of DU, likely caused by inhaling dust from depleted uranium shells fired by U.S. troops.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >Most American weapons (missiles, smart bombs, dumb bombs, bullets, tank shells, cruise missiles, etc.) contain high amounts of radioactive uranium.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >Depleted or non-depleted, these types of weapons, on detonation, release a radioactive dust which, when inhaled, goes into the body and stays there.</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >It has a half-life of 4.5 billion years.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >Basically, it’s a permanently available contaminant, distributed in the environment, where dust storms or any water nearby can disperse it. Once ingested, it releases subatomic particles that slice through DNA.</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/244/2675/640/depleted%20uranium%20is%20nuclear%20war.jpg"><img style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 2px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/244/2675/320/depleted%20uranium%20is%20nuclear%20war.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >UMRC’s Field Team found several hundred Afghan civilians with acute symptoms of radiation poisoning along with chronic symptoms of internal uranium contamination, including congenital problems in newborns.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >Local civilians reported large, dense dust clouds and smoke plumes rising from the point of impact, an acrid smell, followed by burning of the nasal passages, throat and upper respiratory tract.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >Subjects in all locations presented identical symptom profiles and chronologies. The victims reported symptoms including pain in the cervical column, upper shoulders and basal area of the skull, lower back/kidney pain, joint and muscle weakness, sleeping difficulties, headaches, memory problems and disorientation.</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/244/2675/640/IraqwarUbom11.jpg"><img style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 2px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/244/2675/320/IraqwarUbom11.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >At the Uranium Weapons Conference held October 2003 in Hamburg, Germany, independent scientists from around the world testified to a huge increase in birth deformities and cancers wherever NDU and DU had been used.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >Professor Katsuma Yagasaki, a scientist at the Ryukyus University, Okinawa calculated that the 800 tons of DU used in Afghanistan is the radioactive equivalent of 83,000 Nagasaki bombs. The amount of DU used in Iraq is equivalent to 250,000 Nagasaki bombs.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >At the Uranium Weapons Conference, a demonstration by British-trained oncologist Dr. Jawad Al-Ali showed photographs of the kinds of birth deformities and tumors he had observed at the Saddam Teaching Hospital in Basra just before the 2003 war.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >Cancer rates had increased dramatically over the previous fifteen years.</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/244/2675/640/IraqwarUbom21.jpg"><img style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 2px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/244/2675/320/IraqwarUbom21.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /></div><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >In 1989 there were 11 abnormalities per 100,000 births; in 2001 there were 116 per 100,000— an increase of over a thousand percent. In 1989 34 people died of cancer; in 2001 there were 603 cancer deaths. The 2003 war has increased these figures exponentially.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >At a meeting of the International Criminal Tribunal for Afghanistan held December 2003 in Tokyo, the U.S. was indicted for multiple war crimes in Afghanistan, among them the use of DU.</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/244/2675/640/image036.jpg"><img style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 2px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/244/2675/320/image036.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >Leuren Moret, President of Scientists for Indigenous People and Environmental Commissioner for the City of Berkeley, testified that because radioactive contaminants from uranium weapons travel through air, water, and food sources, the effects of U.S. deployment in Afghanistan will be felt in Iran, Pakistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Russia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, China and India. Countries affected by the use of uranium weapons in Iraq include Saudi Arabia, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Israel, Turkey, and Iran.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >Veterans groups blame depleted uranium contamination as a factor in Gulf War syndrome, the term for a host of ailments that afflicted thousands of vets from that war.</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/244/2675/640/01s.jpg"><img style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 2px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/244/2675/320/01s.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >"Anybody, civilian or soldier, who breathes these particles has a permanent dose, and it's not going to decrease very much over time," said Dietz, who retired in 1983 after 33 years as nuclear physicist. "In the long run ... veterans exposed to ceramic uranium oxide have a major problem."</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >Shocking report reveals local troops to be victims of America's high-tech weapons</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" ><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Read more ...</span></span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" ><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/180333p-156685c.html"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">*</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Troops victims of America's high-tech weapons</span></a></span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >Depleted uranium, which does not occur in nature, is created as a waste product of uranium enrichment when some of the highly radioactive isotopes in natural uranium, U-235 and U-234, are extracted.</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/244/2675/640/512.jpg"><img style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 2px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/244/2675/320/512.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >In the Gulf War, Army brass did not warn soldiers about any risks from exploding DU shells. An unknown number of G.I.s were exposed by shrapnel, inhalation or handling battlefield debris.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >"A large number of American soldiers [in Iraq] may have had significant exposure to uranium oxide dust," ... "And the health impact is worrisome for the future."</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >When DU shells explode, they permanently contaminate their target and the area immediately around it with low-level radioactivity.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >Birth defects may stem from his father's Gulf War service. But like many other families, American Vets face official stonewalling--and a frightening future.</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/244/2675/640/gulf01.jpg"><img style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 2px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/244/2675/320/gulf01.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >Read more ...</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" ><a href="http://www.life.com/Life/essay/gulfwar/gulf02.html"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">*</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">US Veterans Face Frightening Future</span></a></span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;">The use of depleted uranium weaponry by the United States, defying all international treaties, will slowly annihilate all species on earth including the human species, and yet this country continues to do so with full knowledge of its destructive potential.</span></span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" >Read more ...</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" ><a href="http://www.mindfully.org/Nucs/2004/DU-Trojan-Horse1jul04.htm"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">*</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Deadly Illegal American Uranium Weapons</span></a></span><br /></div><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);font-size:100%;" >--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;">More Bombs Dropped On Iraq</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;">than were used in WW II</span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/244/2675/640/rolling02.jpg"><img style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 2px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/244/2675/320/rolling02.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;">At least 300 million grams of depleted uranium were deposited on central and southern Iraq during the Gulf War and subsequent bombings, over 100 million times the 0.023 gram maximum exposure dose permitted for workers in nuclear industry.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;">Depleted uranium, because of its unique ratio of U-235 to U-238, can be readily identified and has been found in the urine of exposed individuals as long as 10 years after exposure.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;">During the brief Gulf War, thousands of tons of bombs were dropped on Iraq, more than were used throughout World War II. By systematic intent, all electric power generating facilities, water treatment and pumping plants, sewage treatment facilities, and communication centers were bombed.</span></span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/244/2675/640/Depleted-Uranium-desert-storm.jpg"><img style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 2px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/244/2675/320/Depleted-Uranium-desert-storm.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >References ...</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" ><a href="http://www.noduhawaii.com/DU_Rolling_Stone.html"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">*</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Is The Pentagon Giving Our Soldiers Cancer?</span></a></span><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.tacomapjh.org/ondepleteduranium.htm"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">*</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Damage in Iraq during the Gulf War</span></a></span><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.wired.com/news/conflict/0,2100,57959,00.html"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">*</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">U.S. Stocking Uranium-Rich Bombs?</span></a></span><br /></div><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">-----------------------------------------------------------------------</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7382/708/1600/LifeDU%20%28225%20x%20287%29.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7382/708/320/LifeDU%20%28225%20x%20287%29.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" >Resources ...</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" ><a href="http://www.stopnato.org.uk/du-watch/"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">*</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Depleted Uranium Watch</span></a></span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" ><a href="http://traprockpeace.org/depleteduranium.html"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">*</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">The Doctor,Depleted Uranium, the Dying Children</span></a></span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" ><a href="http://www.uraniumweaponsconference.de/"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">*</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Depleted Uranium and Other Uranium Weapons</span></a></span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" ><a href="http://johnmccarthy90066.tripod.com/id211.html"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">*</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">War Crimes Committed</span></a></span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" ><a href="http://www.awakenedwoman.com/wbw.htm"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">*</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Women for a Better World</span></a></span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" ><a href="http://www.peaceaware.com/main.shtml"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">*</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Peace Aware</span></a></span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" ><a href="http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=5471"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">*</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">US use of DU in Iraq war causes cancer</span></a></span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" ><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/world/02/military_fact_files/du/html/default.stm"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">*</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Concerns over military use of Depleted Uranium growing</span></a></span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/244/2675/640/19%20month%20old%20Ahiam%20Fazel.jpg"><img style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 2px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/244/2675/320/19%20month%20old%20Ahiam%20Fazel.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:85%;" >Technocrati Tags</span><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Depleted+Uranium%2C" rel="tag"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">Depleted Uranium,</span> </a><a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Contaminated+with+Depleted+Uranium%2C" rel="tag"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">Contaminated with Depleted Uranium, </span></span></a><a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Depleted+Uranium+Secrecy%2C" rel="tag"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">Depleted Uranium Secrecy, </span></span></a><a style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);" href="http://technorati.com/tag/US+forces+use+of+depleted+uranium+weapons+illegal%2C" rel="tag"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">US forces use of depleted uranium weapons illegal, </span></a><a style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);" href="http://technorati.com/tag/Dirty+bombs+dirty+missiles+dirty+bullets%2C" rel="tag"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">Dirty bombs, dirty missiles, dirty bullets, </span></a><a style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);" href="http://technorati.com/tag/Depleted+Uranium+Ammunition+Nuclear+Waste+as+a" 2c="" rel="tag"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">Depleted Uranium Ammunition:Nuclear Waste as a Weapon, </span></a><a style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);" href="http://technorati.com/tag/Leuren+Moret" 2c="" rel="tag"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">Leuren Moret </span></a></span><br /></div>EuroYank - Virginia Hogehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06079239479407310692noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9622105.post-87973948318793494832008-08-16T01:24:00.099-12:002009-12-23T03:29:46.562-12:00The Government 911 Reichstag Connection<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOoe7RWOrqMD0XYa3EKMZjHZmSDmTQAmBrFU723_P_hm21Nx04Hpph7XCUJIKhO9K4oMtbMNHuMMY60yqu1dAwEB2fao1sE6pLKflyA_0pe_opGHbxM4_8sYMFyVwcdOsYtPMb4Q/s1600-h/Illegitimate_Bush_by_azrainman.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOoe7RWOrqMD0XYa3EKMZjHZmSDmTQAmBrFU723_P_hm21Nx04Hpph7XCUJIKhO9K4oMtbMNHuMMY60yqu1dAwEB2fao1sE6pLKflyA_0pe_opGHbxM4_8sYMFyVwcdOsYtPMb4Q/s400/Illegitimate_Bush_by_azrainman.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5235110587497443810" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">(Oil King of Saudi Arabia instructing Skinhead Bush Puppet)</span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></span>
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<br /><div style="text-align: left; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Before we go into the conspiracy videos, let us first examine the Bush Bin Laden connection.</span></span> <span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">There is a long and tangled history between the Bush family and the elite of Saudi Arabia, including the bin Laden family.</span></span>
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<br />First here are three videos that examine this in detail ...</span>
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<br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">It begins in the 1970's in Houston, Texas, when George W. Bush was just starting out in his family's two businesses of politics and oil. The powerful - and very rich - bin Laden family helped fund his first venture into oil. The cozy friendship continued for decades. After a terrorist attack at a barracks in Saudi Arabia which killed 19 Americans, the bin Laden family received a multi-billion dollar contract to re-build. And incredibly, George Bush Sr. was in a business meeting at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Washington on the morning of September 11th with one of Osama bin Laden's brothers.</span>
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<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">While serving as governor of Texas, George W. Bush met with high-level Al Qaeda leaders, hoping to get support to build a pipeline across Afghanistan. Four months into his presidency, he rewarded the Taliban by handing over $43 million in May 2001, only four months before the 9/11 terrorist attacks.</span>
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<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">All airlines in the United States were grounded for two days after 9/11. Yet, on September 13, 2001, the White House authorized six Saudi jets to fly bin Laden family members from America to Saudi Arabia. The members of the bin Laden family were never questioned by United States authorities.</span>
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<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Judicial Watch called for George Herbert Bush to resign from the Carlyle Group, when it became known that Osama bin Laden was a major investor in the firm. (Judicial Watch, March 5, 2001) After the September 11 terrorist attacks, Judicial Watch Chairman and General Counsel Larry Klayman said, "This conflict of interest has now turned into a scandal. The idea of President George W Bush's father, an ex-president himself, doing business with a company under investigation by the FBI in the terror attacks of September 11 is horrible. President Bush should not ask, but demand, that his father pull out of the Carlyle Group." (Judicial Watch, September 28, 2001)</span>
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<br /></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXpJcq4AhURUZ9GB338SukXRganum13XuP6anX16YkZmGSRZ4_8jpDIW21V4OBtPskHTnmVnafT7ykuhEoMOcb7QCaVPp4DFDCIwXvAU75DWMg-PxOEJZdPI1FLQGoC1BV30LrKQ/s1600-h/911-Truth+logo.gif"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXpJcq4AhURUZ9GB338SukXRganum13XuP6anX16YkZmGSRZ4_8jpDIW21V4OBtPskHTnmVnafT7ykuhEoMOcb7QCaVPp4DFDCIwXvAU75DWMg-PxOEJZdPI1FLQGoC1BV30LrKQ/s200/911-Truth+logo.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5239227595999880754" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);font-size:100%;" >Support 911 Truth and see what the experts have to say.</span>
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<br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >Exposing <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">the <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">911</span> Coverup</span></span>
<br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" ><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">One Video</span> at a Time</span>
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<br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">1 in 3 Americans believe the 911 Attacks were an Inside Job.</span>
<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Here is the evidence that proves it, and the questions and secrets that remain.</span>
<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Video Right</span> - 9/11:Total Proof That Bombs Were Planted In The Buildings!</span>
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<br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Prelude</span></span><span style="font-size:100%;">
<br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Video Left</span> - Donald Rumsfeld announced that 2.3 Trillion Dollars
<br />was Missing </span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">from the Pentagon on the date of 09/10/2001</span> <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">one day
<br />before the World Trade</span> <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Center attacks.</span>
<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Video Right </span>- President George Bush senior</span> <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">(Former Head of the CIA,) announcing </span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">the New World Order on September 11, 1991.</span>
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<br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">In February 1933, less than a month after Hitler had been appointed Chancellor of a minority government thanks to his status as leader of the largest party in the German legislature, the building in which the legislature met was burned in an act of arson.</span> <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">The Nazis made immediate arrests in the case - overwhelming evidence implicated a dim-witted Communist - and charged that the leftist parties were conspiring against the state: in the March 1933 elections held in the course of this purge the Nazis won for the first time a parliamentary majority.</span></div>
<br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">The parallel to the Bush Administration's taking of political advantage from the September 2001 attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon is striking. There too is clear evidence of the surprise of the principals, as well as the quick decision to use the event to best advantage.</span></div>
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<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" >When History Repeats Itself - Reichstag 911 promo</span></div>
<br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Both Republican and the Democratic administrations - with the partial exception of Jimmy Carter's -since Nixon have under the rubric of "national security" abandoned the idea that the best hope of United States influence in the world came from our example of liberal democratic policy at peace with everyone. We have instead committed the country to an imperial role in the world. Bill Clinton at least as much as George Bush Senior, whom he replaced.</span>
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<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Bush was aimless before 9/11 and has revealed his cowardly and fearful personality ever since, as has Cheney. Neither of these men have shown the courage under fire that other wartime presidents displayed. Instead they went for the "low hanging fruit" by picking off Saddam rather than slogging it out to capture bin Laden. Both overestimated the strategic value of their military machine, and both have been surprised by the consequences and unable to adapt to new circumstances.</span>
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<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Bush is one of the worst politicians of the modern era. He has no ear for compromise, no sense that he cannot govern if the people have lost faith in his honesty, and no real interest in protecting the careers of his fellow Republicans. His narcissism is such that he doesn't care if he damages his party for generations.</span>
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<br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" >History Repeating Itself</span>
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<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">It has been established "beyond a reasonable doubt" that on Feb. 27, 1933, a team of Hitler's commandos fanned out through the Reichstag building (the German parliament), using incendiary fluids to quickly touch off a massive blaze. Before the fire had died down, Hitler proclaimed that the outrage must have been the responsibility of the Communists.</span>
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<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Apparently, by and large, the German public believed Hitler was telling the truth: the Enabling Act was passed giving Hitler a dictator's powers - and in the general election a few days later, the National Socialists cemented their hold over the German government. Communist leaders stood trial, accused of participating in a vast conspiracy to destroy the Reichstag - and, by extension, the German people themselves.</span>
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<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Finally, a program was commenced against the Communists - which culminated years later, in WWII, with the German war against the Soviet Union which killed 25 million people.</span>
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<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Since 911, we are just starting to accumulate some of that same sense of perspective. We can now see quite clearly that war has been launched, first in Afghanistan and later in Iraq, and the attacks of 911 have been given as the justification.</span>
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<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Speaking about recent American casualties in Iraq, President Bush stated on Nov. 4, 2003: "We are at war, and it is essential that the people of America not forget the lessons of September 11, 2001."</span>
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<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">This in spite of the fact that no credible evidence has emerged linking 911 to Iraq. So here we have the first analogy to the Reichstag Fire: a campaign to scapegoat an entire population (in this case, Middle Eastern Islamics) for the purported actions of a few, and along with that, an aggressive campaign of warfare.</span>
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<br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiya3GzBwUEjGbB4ZHkv52jpMjSYUwOHeP7gh7qRNO6Tl5U-NsccG9G7-W0Toxz4fDZONMiNpzioyDviIU3p0K9XeVgTv5ZS9HRW4dZcHudKS8j3UmQqN6zlrMM9pfgjd_egq4LGQ/s1600-h/towerscard.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiya3GzBwUEjGbB4ZHkv52jpMjSYUwOHeP7gh7qRNO6Tl5U-NsccG9G7-W0Toxz4fDZONMiNpzioyDviIU3p0K9XeVgTv5ZS9HRW4dZcHudKS8j3UmQqN6zlrMM9pfgjd_egq4LGQ/s400/towerscard.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5235112301657774162" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Just Coincidence You Think</span>
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<br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;">To quote 60 Minutes from Sept. 19, "Sources tell CBS News that the afternoon before the attack, alarm bells were sounding over unusual trading in the U.S. stock options market."</span>
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<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;">It is hard to believe that they missed ....</span>
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<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;">- A jump in UAL put options 90 times (not 90 percent) above normal between Sept. 6 and Sept.10, and 285 times higher than average on the Thursday before the attack. [CBS News, Sept. 26]</span>
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<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;">- A jump in American Airlines put options 60 times (not 60 percent) above normal on the day before the attacks. [CBS News, Sept. 26]</span>
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<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;">- No similar trading occurred on any other airlines. [Bloomberg Business Report, the Institute for Counterterrorism (ICT), Herzliyya, Israel citing data from the CBO.]</span>
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<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;">ABC World News reported on Sept. 20, "Jonathan Winer, an ABC News consultant said, 'it's absolutely unprecedented to see cases of insider trading covering the entire world from Japan, to the U.S., to North America, to Europe."</span>
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<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;">How much money was involved? Andreas von Bulow, a former member of the German Parliament responsible for oversight of Germany's intelligence services estimated the worldwide amount at $15 billion, according to Tagesspiegel on January. 13.</span>
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<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;">Not a single U.S. or foreign investigative agency has announced any arrests or developments in the investigation of these trades, the most telling evidence of foreknowledge of the attacks. This, in spite of the fact that former Security and Exchange Commission enforcement chief William McLucas told Bloomberg News that regulators would "certainly be able to track down every trade."</span>
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<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;">The trading in United Airlines stock -- one of the most glaring clues - was placed through the firm Deutsche Bank/Alex Brown, which was headed until 1998 by the man who is now the executive director of the CIA, A.B. "Buzzy" Krongard.</span>
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<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;">Let's start with what is perhaps the only incontrovertible evidence in the case our own observations, as witnesses, of what played out that day on live television.</span>
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<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;">Tens of millions of people across the country witnessed what happened, and had the images of that day seared into their memory. But what we want to focus on here is what we didn't see happen that day, because some of the most compelling evidence lies, strangely enough, in what no one saw happen that day.</span>
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<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;">No one, for example, saw any defensive measures taken during the entire time that the lengthy spectacle played out. None whatsoever.</span>
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<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;">No one saw any jets scrambled to intercept any of the hijacked aircraft, though their locations and flight-paths were known and there was more than ample time for a military response. No one saw any jets scrambled to secure the airspace over Washington, though some of the hijacked flights were known to be headed that way, and interceptors were sitting on the tarmac just minutes away from likely targets.</span>
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<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;">And strangely enough, no one saw or heard any demands by television talking-heads for the military to respond in some capacity, or any questioning of why no response had yet materialized. Not after the first WTC tower was hit. Not after the second WTC tower was hit. Not during the agonizingly long interval before the Pentagon was hit. Not even after the Pentagon was hit.</span>
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<br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">We were all assigned the task of sitting back in fear and watching helplessly as the attack continued and the death toll mounted, encouraged to feel powerless not only as individuals, but as a nation - as if we had no choice but to participate only as passive spectators, watching dumbfounded as the carnage unfolded.</span>
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<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">In the days immediately following 911, at the same time as the Administration was maintaining that it was totally surprised by the attacks - they also maintained with absolute confidence, that the attacks could only have been the work of Bin Laden and Al Qaida. The fact is, the attacks certainly could not have been a surprise, at least in the sense that US intelligence agencies were fully informed of the plot and the main characters, by 1995.</span>
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<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">As the team of hijackers was assembled, we learn still more intriguing facts. The terrorists were largely recruited into the Al Qaida fold by two preachers, Abu Hamza in London and Mohammed Haydar Zammar in Hamburg. Kupferberg says:</span>
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<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">- the reality is this with a population in excess of one billion adherents, and a geographic span that stretches from the West African Straits of Gibraltar to the far east of Asia, the Muslim World apparently was not up to the task of furnishing the most hardcore, sophisticated operative cells of al-Qaida.</span>
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<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Contrary to popular wisdom, the inferno of 9/11 was not conceived in fetid slums like Gaza, where deprivation and bitterness has stoked inter-generational hatred of Westerners and Jews. Rather, the peculiarly sophisticated strain of Muslim terror that has been branded as al-Qaida was largely incubated among an insular network in the U.K. and the E.U., where a conveniently incriminating trail could be tracked and showcased as definitive proof of the authorship for 9/11.</span>
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<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Again we are reminded of the Reichstag fire, where a young Dutchman directly took the rap, while a much broader population of European and Russian Communists were scape-goated.</span>
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<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Once the hijackers were drawn into the Al Qaida fold, they showed a most fascinating habit of holding meetings in swank hotels, within a matter of days of counter-terror meetings in those same hotels attended by the likes of FBI officials Robert Mueller and John O'Neill.</span>
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<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Then they came to the US for flight training. Now, these terrorists were not the sort of young men who normally would have been able to obtain visas to come to the US under any circumstances.</span>
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<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Unemployed, with incomplete educations - without some inside connections as well, these are the sorts of people (and there are millions if not billions like them) who simply cannot gain legal entry into the United States. Yet even with well-known connections to terrorist organizations in some cases, the hijackers sailed cleanly through the system.</span>
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<br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Not only is it difficult to avoid the conclusion that US intelligence was coddling along the terrorists at every step, it is also evident that other major intelligence agencies all over the world were well aware of the plans for Sept. 11, and they notified the US government, sometimes in great detail, as Paul Thompson and Mike Ruppert have documented.</span>
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<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Were the 911 terrorists the actual perpetrators of the crimes of 911 (regardless of how they might have been helped along in their destructive quest, by the US government) or were they in fact nothing but patsies, bit-part actors in a drama where the true perpetrators of the crime were hidden behind the scenes?</span></div>
<br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">There is a growing body of forensic evidence suggesting that the terrorists could not possibly have caused all the damage which occurred on September 11.</span>
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<br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">References</span>
<br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/042202_bushknows.html"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">*</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Case for Bush Administration Advance Knowledge of 9-11 Attacks</span></a>
<br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.davesweb.cnchost.com/nwsltr28.html"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">*</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Special 'Conspiracy Theory' Edition, Part II</span></a>
<br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.historycommons.org/project.jsp?project=911_project"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">*</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Complete 911 Timeline</span></a>
<br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.historycommons.org/essay.jsp?article=essayaninterestingday"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">*</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">President Bush's Movements and Actions on 9/11</span></a>
<br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.maebrussell.com/Articles%20and%20Notes/Rise%20and%20Fall%20of%20the%20Third%20Reich.html"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">*</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">The Nazification of Germany</span></a>
<br /></div>EuroYank - Virginia Hogehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06079239479407310692noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9622105.post-71378408592672294762008-08-15T21:23:00.001-12:002008-10-04T18:51:29.959-12:00When Peak Oil and Peak Population Implode the Earth<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiE3x0o2S6KXpcga4pKtbN9uQ_ZC3RLLMXTuSJL6IStSJWg2iMV-HZ4nDLi3LXeP6pVs3C06HNFgcB_8N4swdw1NSudentH4KeS43e18v-CWVeu9HBv2H4WhGj8st24Oy3gGVLmlA/s1600-h/022604_fg7+%28250+x+242%29.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiE3x0o2S6KXpcga4pKtbN9uQ_ZC3RLLMXTuSJL6IStSJWg2iMV-HZ4nDLi3LXeP6pVs3C06HNFgcB_8N4swdw1NSudentH4KeS43e18v-CWVeu9HBv2H4WhGj8st24Oy3gGVLmlA/s400/022604_fg7+%28250+x+242%29.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5169848870137856674" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">(</span>Note: </span><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">This is a mass media taboo subject)</span></span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-size:85%;" ><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Reader please watch the</span> <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">important videos</span> <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">at the end</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">of this text,</span> to get a </span></span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);font-size:85%;" >complete picture of the info presented here.</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;">As the British historian, Toynbee, wrote ... <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">“The U.S. will set a record in the rate of rise and fall of an empire. Between wide open borders and fall of the dollar and growing population against a declining resource base, <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">the United States will be defeated from within.“<br /><br /></span></span></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><a href="http://entertainment.webshots.com/photo/2928589250100673241gaDZVO"><img src="http://thumb1.webshots.net/t/60/760/5/89/25/2928589250100673241gaDZVO_th.jpg" alt="TV5_studija_4x (250 x 286) (125 x 143)" /></a></span></span></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><a href="http://www.dogwoof.com/crudeawakening/"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">*</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">The Oil Crash Documentary</span></a><br />(See this Trailer first<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"></span>)<br /></span></span></span></div><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"></span></span></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;">Mobs will rule the streets in the nation that is now the third largest in the world right behind China and India, and unable to support its population except by taking resources from other countries.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;">The Olduvai Theory states that the life expectancy of industrial civilization is about 100 years. </span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"></span><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEmumG52Mb9vY56NjKqWl3XvSTYiAkwKateR8kUGoonf0hvjBC8-DmmPK0_GTvEkvdMIg-rNcorMbgcr1BO6RDvMJiAuq9nNzPnFC6AufcnTWKyF3-ZcwCoTCcU1am3sG6llTeIg/s1600-h/022604_fg2+%28250+x+341%29.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEmumG52Mb9vY56NjKqWl3XvSTYiAkwKateR8kUGoonf0hvjBC8-DmmPK0_GTvEkvdMIg-rNcorMbgcr1BO6RDvMJiAuq9nNzPnFC6AufcnTWKyF3-ZcwCoTCcU1am3sG6llTeIg/s400/022604_fg2+%28250+x+341%29.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5169850240232424130" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">The <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Olduvai Theory</span> Timeline</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">(1930) the beginning of Industrial Civilization</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">(1979) all time peak of world energy production per capita</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">(1999) the end of cheap oil</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">(2000) eruption of violence in the Middle East</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">(2006) all-time peak in world oil production</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">(2008) OPEC crossover when more than 50% of oil comes from the OPEC nations</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">(2012) permanent blackouts spread worldwide</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">(2030) world energy production falls to 1930 level</span><br /></div><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Future dates may vary but it is easy to see how, with the knowledge we have of peak oil, the world could slip into a Medieval or even Stone Age scenario. Even a Dark Ages world would be difficult to sustain with no coal and little wood to burn. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">We are so dependent on energy that, unless we find some alternatives to hydrocarbon energy generation pretty quickly, we will find ourselves without the time or energy to switch.</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Read more ...</span><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc1703/index.shtml"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">*</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">The Social Contract</span></a><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKx_D6Vh0JEkohXw8vMc0tvtOB9r4v4h9CjDelICvWbD0-cBAYab4ZYplFHjSLm_RUEOmWqYWgypSsbw0SOs5FMpNGAd8apg78O5qw_CW4jl0gQiUuQjE24luxn8X3cqicYlv-Vg/s1600-h/Speedpaint__Moscow_Winter_by_Prasa+%28250+x+232%29.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKx_D6Vh0JEkohXw8vMc0tvtOB9r4v4h9CjDelICvWbD0-cBAYab4ZYplFHjSLm_RUEOmWqYWgypSsbw0SOs5FMpNGAd8apg78O5qw_CW4jl0gQiUuQjE24luxn8X3cqicYlv-Vg/s400/Speedpaint__Moscow_Winter_by_Prasa+%28250+x+232%29.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5169850678319088338" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">The <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Earth’s Carrying</span> Capacity</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">The cheap oil age created an artificial bubble of plentitude for a period not much longer than a human lifetime, a hundred years.<br /><br />As oil ceases to be cheap and the world reserves are toward depletion, we will indeed suddenly be left with an enormous surplus population that the ecology of the earth will not support. No political program of birth control will avail.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">The people are already here. The journey back to non-oil population homeostasis will not be pretty. We will discover the hard way that population hypergrowth was simply a side effect of the oil age. It was a condition, not a problem with a solution. That is what happened and we are stuck with it.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">The earth’s long-term population carrying capacity is between 0.5 billion and 2.0 billion people This vital but media taboo subject is detailed as follows:</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">-<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"> Professor Howard C. Hayden</span></span> author of The Solar Fraud: Why Solar Energy Won’t Run The World, worked out the details, “The earth’s population has long since exceeded the numbers that could be supported by solar energy sources. The agricultural technology existing a mere century ago could not possibly feed the world’s billions.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8pqmsl-J86M7h2FsE9eSKAOJgKuYoKQSAi1Dg7RnmQ7FSjSplA88oGbjfQHxGmVZbE7r2nqzAfzOpATv8TGwAkbYjykLBKJnyPNnK5boPqZlp-9QHuGSbPGrlZJhKVGlAUwH_7A/s1600-h/022604_fg21+%28250+x+146%29.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8pqmsl-J86M7h2FsE9eSKAOJgKuYoKQSAi1Dg7RnmQ7FSjSplA88oGbjfQHxGmVZbE7r2nqzAfzOpATv8TGwAkbYjykLBKJnyPNnK5boPqZlp-9QHuGSbPGrlZJhKVGlAUwH_7A/s400/022604_fg21+%28250+x+146%29.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5169851550197449458" border="0" /></a><br />For those who long for the good old days of a sub-billion population, it is useful to note that the only path to that end is for many billion people now alive to become dead, even if not one baby were to be born in the next thirty years.”</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">- Dr. Ross McCluney,</span> </span>Principal Research Scientist at the Florida Solar Energy Center, put it bluntly, “My warning of today: We are systematically taking apart the life support system of Planet Earth. We’ve exceeded the sustainable carrying capacity of the planet by a factor of 3. For everyone to live like the average North American it would take three Earths.”</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">- Lindsey Grant,</span> author of The Collapsing Bubble: Growth and Fossil Energy and the former U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Environment and Population Affairs, states, “The population of the less developed world has grown by two-thirds since 1950—and they were poor in 1950. The need for a fundamental shift in the ratio of resources to people in the poor countries may itself justify an optimum world population figure of one billion. Barring a catastrophe, it might take centuries to reach such figures, even with a determined worldwide effort.”</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">- Dale Allen Pfeiffer,</span> </span>author of Eating Fossil Fuels: Oil, Food and the Coming Crisis in Agriculture, writes, “Studies suggest that without fossil fuel based agriculture, the U.S. could only sustain about two thirds of its present population. For the planet as a whole, the sustainable number is estimated to be about two billion.”</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">- Paul Thompson,</span> author of The Twilight of the Modern World: The Four Stages of the Post Oil Breakdown, describes the final stages of collapse, “Sooner or later, all the remains of our existing society will have gone, to become weed-clad ruins to rival those of the Aztecs and Mayans.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgU3ifNBxV_LO7Nj8iQB2U5qjVjNtPenF44TBwjDmVvsy6I8ydhJ3bofnWGjiqhyphenhyphenolefM44-8Rj6udzFUprhgblyUF_qivybpFcmh-zp-TG5apIuFfmA5wEayZwjkH5RCn0zmXOVA/s1600-h/022604_fg17+%28250+x+160%29.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgU3ifNBxV_LO7Nj8iQB2U5qjVjNtPenF44TBwjDmVvsy6I8ydhJ3bofnWGjiqhyphenhyphenolefM44-8Rj6udzFUprhgblyUF_qivybpFcmh-zp-TG5apIuFfmA5wEayZwjkH5RCn0zmXOVA/s400/022604_fg17+%28250+x+160%29.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5169851464298103522" border="0" /></a><br />By now, everybody who is unable to convert to a sustainable, self-sufficient lifestyle would have died off, leaving only those living in independent communities to continue human history.<br /><br />The world population may have fallen to as few as a thousand million, scattered in oases of agricultural land amongst deserts of buildings, rusting vehicles and forests.”</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">- Colin J. Campbell, </span>gently but firmly sums it up: “We will have to change the way we live as oil production declines toward eventual exhaustion. I stress that it is the onset of terminal decline that is more relevant than the end of oil itself. It is not too soon to start thinking about what that may entail.”</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">It took mankind over 200 years to accept the Copernican theory and the species has yet to accommodate the Darwinian theory. There is little chance that it will face the looming decline of industrial civilization in time to change course.</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">References</span><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.hubbertpeak.com/duncan/olduvai2000.htm"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">*</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Peak of Oil Production the Road to Gorge Olduvai</span></a><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/archaeology/sites/africa/olduvai_gorge.html"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">*</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Gorge Olduvai</span></a><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olduvai_theory"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">*</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">The Olduvai theory states ...</span></a><br /><br /><object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/4IwtAQzrfiw&rel=1"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/4IwtAQzrfiw&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Peak Oil Now, Oil Perhaps to $300</span><br /><object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/nBimmyBUI3g&rel=1"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/nBimmyBUI3g&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Peak Oil</span><br /><object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/DHXdS9XYVs8&rel=1"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/DHXdS9XYVs8&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">The Richard Heinberg Interview Part 1</span><br /><object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/osbQ9UHMAvY&rel=1"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/osbQ9UHMAvY&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">The Richard Heinberg Interview Part 2</span><br /><object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/rqdw7yhEpIk&rel=1"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/rqdw7yhEpIk&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Crude Impact: Proof of Peak Oil</span><br /><object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/9mRLGtTzd8E&rel=1"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/9mRLGtTzd8E&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Matt Simmons on Peak Oil (CNBC)</span><br /><object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/1TCbl3bpPvY&rel=1"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/1TCbl3bpPvY&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Peak Oil, Peak Coal, and Beyond</span><br /><object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/38zN8TlSop4&rel=1"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/38zN8TlSop4&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Peak Oil and US-Geopolitics</span><br /><object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/LGEz5J1yueg&rel=1"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/LGEz5J1yueg&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Will peak oil cause a recession or depression?</span><br /><object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/3sPDNR2YS3s&rel=1"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/3sPDNR2YS3s&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Peak Oil - 45min. documentary</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZ4RTfkIoVhzq5Z5Ft_UZrsc6jLnvQbF5J47F9k5thI-k8DcMSBwKc7QLinc2hkqJKJKGksMjsavOA8S-j8nqI1O5P8-M2pUxCacFTYwpotZYR3wRAmtK4ItCKrHggVXVC4zlb5Q/s1600-h/AP_DH4+%28250+x+258%29.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZ4RTfkIoVhzq5Z5Ft_UZrsc6jLnvQbF5J47F9k5thI-k8DcMSBwKc7QLinc2hkqJKJKGksMjsavOA8S-j8nqI1O5P8-M2pUxCacFTYwpotZYR3wRAmtK4ItCKrHggVXVC4zlb5Q/s400/AP_DH4+%28250+x+258%29.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5169851807895487250" border="0" /></a></div>EuroYank - Virginia Hogehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06079239479407310692noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9622105.post-19939764423377893892008-08-05T23:13:00.023-12:002008-08-06T06:08:57.516-12:00War Preparations Against Iran Complete<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFdloUSHmaydBg-sNCsJYcmBNg6VRxriToMxlXPQC7JpL-7cga3bMzLnkKqsL230R_3n2OvLQFc0lufKwPnoTJPohpE5PoKs8QmdJcZuklpEvmKLOFr2GB4Pyqg9jTUpopn6xDUg/s1600-h/IranWarIllustration.bmp"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFdloUSHmaydBg-sNCsJYcmBNg6VRxriToMxlXPQC7JpL-7cga3bMzLnkKqsL230R_3n2OvLQFc0lufKwPnoTJPohpE5PoKs8QmdJcZuklpEvmKLOFr2GB4Pyqg9jTUpopn6xDUg/s400/IranWarIllustration.bmp" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5231363050588651746" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-size:130%;" ><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">The </span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Neocon</span><br /></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" ><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Iraq - Iran</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">War </span><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Agenda</span></span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></div><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left; color: rgb(255, 204, 51); font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);font-size:100%;" >The US military switched its whole focus to Iran as soon as Saddam Hussein was kicked out of Baghdad. It continued this strategy, even though it had American infantry bogged down in fighting the insurgency in Iraq.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></div><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/BRVWpX-Ifu8&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/BRVWpX-Ifu8&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);font-size:130%;" >Secret war against Iran underway</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >The US army, navy, air force and marines have all prepared battle plans and spent four years building bases and training for "Operation Iranian Freedom". Admiral Fallon, the new head of US Central Command, has inherited computerized plans under the name TIRANNT (Theater Iran Near Term).</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></div><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/XD8YrU7QP_M"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/XD8YrU7QP_M" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" ><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);font-size:130%;" >Iran Attack</span></span><br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/43CGnZMVBjM&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/43CGnZMVBjM&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);font-size:130%;" >George Galloway talking about war with Iran</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >Since 9/11, the US Navy can put six carriers into battle at a month's notice. Each carrier force includes hundreds of cruise missiles.<br /></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >These carrier forces can each conduct a version of the D-Day landings. They come with landing craft, tanks, jump-jets, thousands of troops and, yes, hundreds more cruise missiles. Their task is to destroy Iranian forces able to attack oil tankers and to secure oilfields and installations. They have trained for this mission since the Iranian revolution of 1979.</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEib-6AXBTFVNJf8Otuf9XE-3WkIkvKz2Z4ty5fBNnBKUyirujyXSWjNGwzJm4G52ksGHI8jZ2QuChFxNpysvrArmbqkhBO17eEpPyUJazHB7vGbXoh40ZYrLNd3ZtX5hqXohwhthw/s1600-h/Illustra+%28250+x+175%29.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEib-6AXBTFVNJf8Otuf9XE-3WkIkvKz2Z4ty5fBNnBKUyirujyXSWjNGwzJm4G52ksGHI8jZ2QuChFxNpysvrArmbqkhBO17eEpPyUJazHB7vGbXoh40ZYrLNd3ZtX5hqXohwhthw/s400/Illustra+%28250+x+175%29.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5076157835043579602" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >US contingency plans for air strikes on Iran extend beyond nuclear sites and include most of the country's military infrastructure.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >For the past two years, the U.S. has been conducting secret operations inside Iran, employing Special Forces units operating out of Afghanistan, while Pentagon-supported dissidents have been carrying out armed raids into Iran’s predominantly Arab provinces.</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCgL69paGF4s2qj2KIKLMPKKDEK2juFo2TU6gsOyf0USGcCKwT4NwWpKxNAdhyOXJ3omy05MNzuMkYivko4gi8MDDxnAWW_uZwrINUCP25ocJFvh1eP2-hkHe-Ei6c-cjxJkcDKg/s1600-h/recruitingeurope+%28250+x+166%29.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCgL69paGF4s2qj2KIKLMPKKDEK2juFo2TU6gsOyf0USGcCKwT4NwWpKxNAdhyOXJ3omy05MNzuMkYivko4gi8MDDxnAWW_uZwrINUCP25ocJFvh1eP2-hkHe-Ei6c-cjxJkcDKg/s400/recruitingeurope+%28250+x+166%29.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5076158204410767074" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >Nato has already done much to mobilize the armies, bases, and treasuries of Europe in support of the Bush neocon plan for a nuclear sneak attack on Iran.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">The CIA is giving arms-length support, supplying money and weapons, to an Iranian militant group, Jundullah, which has conducted raids into Iran from bases in Pakistan.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Industrial sabotage has been the favored way to combat Iran's nuclear program "without military action, without fingerprints on the operation. One way to sabotage a program is to make minor modifications in some of the components Iran obtains on the black market.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Also Israel is negotiating with the United States for permission to fly over Iraq as part of a plan to attack Iran's nuclear facilities.<br /><br />As Iran continues to defy UN demands to stop producing material which could be used to build a nuclear bomb, Israel's military establishment is moving on to a war footing, with preparations now well under way for the Jewish state to launch air strikes against Teheran if diplomatic efforts fail to resolve the crisis.<br /><br /></span></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Why Bush Will War On Iran</span></span><br /></div><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);font-size:100%;" ><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);font-size:100%;" ><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/QjUZI2dksvQ&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/QjUZI2dksvQ&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >Attack on America Imminent</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);font-size:100%;" ><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/RElc64M-r-8&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/RElc64M-r-8&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >Former UN Weapons Inspector Says Attack on Iran is Imminent</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);font-size:100%;" ><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/i5b8xqZ2z00&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/i5b8xqZ2z00&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >WWIII is Now Authorized: Attack on Iran Imminent!</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" ><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/uaXyT5lNeGU&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/uaXyT5lNeGU&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >Iran: The War of Lies Has Already Begun</span><br /></div><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);font-size:100%;" ><br /><div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;"><div style="text-align: left;">The Bush Administration have however suffered several severe setbacks as well as victories on their road to Teheran.<br /></div></div></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" ><br />They succeeded in destroying the secular nationalist government of Saddam Hussein and totally crippled Iraq’s defensive military and economic potential.<br /><br />However they face an unanticipated long-term, large-scale insurgency that ties down hundreds of thousands of US active military forces and depletes their reserves, imposes enormous financial costs and undermines public support for that war and any new military invasion promoted by the Israeli Lobby.<br /><br />The Israel-Lobby-US backed effort to impose a client regime in Lebanon opposed to Iran and Hezbollah via elections, backfired. As a result Israel re-took the path of outright military assaults and massacres to decimate opposition to its larger Middle East agenda.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiu2GUtnTg6M_sgMQoelzNu3IhyphenhyphenEEUbyPPVEoBsPyOTvzmODN1AP5qCgAmumXY-bIkhOxr9nBZcuuwpgNYBwucuwVSW22lobRRm0Lvk2xFlno77MpDdx2RbygmuC-R5mG1RdXaC7g/s1600-h/Iran_surrounded+%28250+x+227%29.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiu2GUtnTg6M_sgMQoelzNu3IhyphenhyphenEEUbyPPVEoBsPyOTvzmODN1AP5qCgAmumXY-bIkhOxr9nBZcuuwpgNYBwucuwVSW22lobRRm0Lvk2xFlno77MpDdx2RbygmuC-R5mG1RdXaC7g/s400/Iran_surrounded+%28250+x+227%29.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5076158698332006146" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);font-size:100%;" >The role of Putin’s Russia in the unfolding Iran showdown is central. In geopolitical terms, one must not forget that Russia is the ultimate ‘prize’ or endgame in the more than decade long US strategy of controlling Eurasia and preventing any possible rival from emerging to challenge US hegemony.<br /><br />Russian engineers and technical advisers are in Iran constructing the Bushehr nuclear plant.<br /><br />Sanctions and admonitions will not change Russia's relationship with one of the most demonized states in America's axis of evil. Iran has become a major counterweight for Moscow in the geopolitical game for Washington’s total domination over Eurasia, and Putin is shrewdly aware of that potential.<br /><br />Iran is strategically important to Russia as well as for Israel and the USA. Iran controls the strategic Strait of Hormuz, the choke point for oil from the Persian Gulf to Japan and the rest of the world. Iran borders the oil-rich Caspian Sea as it does NATO member Turkey.<br /></span><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.financialsense.com/editorials/engdahl/2006/0129.html"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">*</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Calculating the Risk of War In Iran</span></a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >Iran Iraq Meddling</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >What the Neocons have dubbed as evidence of Iranian meddling, including the presence of Iranian officials, in Iraq, is not troubling to Iraq’s Shia political parties, many of whose senior figures fled Saddam and lived for over twenty years in exile in Iran. Such figures see a powerful Shia neighbour in Iran, a friend in the midst of crisis.</span><br /><pan size="2" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;"></pan></div><pan size="2" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;"><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEio6PamESV5mkmtqecHgNBl8om8auoR11Xi1R65u-c6Uk2Yx_KmlqYK5nTgx-LSfCmK_D8NfdeJwaqQP46ScHpw34zedXMAHI_7xhgEGRJFkBgJlpsv2XBwdr8axPpgJUGlb4y9AA/s1600-h/iran_eye_press_conf_050107_.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEio6PamESV5mkmtqecHgNBl8om8auoR11Xi1R65u-c6Uk2Yx_KmlqYK5nTgx-LSfCmK_D8NfdeJwaqQP46ScHpw34zedXMAHI_7xhgEGRJFkBgJlpsv2XBwdr8axPpgJUGlb4y9AA/s400/iran_eye_press_conf_050107_.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5076242119481796418" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: left; color: rgb(255, 204, 51);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);font-size:100%;" >Alireza Jafarzadeh at the Iran Policy Committee's press conference in Washington DC. January 2005. He was in the past the man who revealed the now infamous, then secret Iranian nuclear sites to the world. He has been the spokesperson for the National Coalition of resistance of Iran<br /><br />He is a long time thorn in the side of the current Clerical Regime in Iran, and he revealed information that shows the Iranians are pouring men and resources into destabilizing Iraq and are supplying the technology and infrastructure for the most powerful IED's; the weapons that kill the largest number of American troops in Iraq.<br /><br />His information appears to completely undermine the Baker Report argument that advocates dialogue with Iran as actually Iranian leaders should have a shared interest with the US of stability in Iraq.<br /><br />Clearly if Alireza is right which looks pretty likely the Baker report is wrong to assume that Iran's leaders will follow secular ideas of their states self interest, and that the Iranian Regime is now, as in the past, driven primarily by their Shite Islamist ideology not by ordinary common sense ideas of self interest.</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);font-size:100%;" ><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><br /><br />I</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">t seems obvious to me that Iran's President would want to see the US suffer and get bogged down in this never ending insurgency in Iraq, and maybe they want chaos and destruction, vile murder and mayhem, the slide into total crisis to create a vacuum for Iran</span></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);font-size:100%;" > to fill.<br /></span><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkec2v9UTxfDcZB9_GaPotgzEKJoHgbA5Yi5T8Aow75fnUAs2LQLeLOLS74rn5KPh9jvohKhTHt1Ib7bKWkZaOrD0xRCK6yLLQ_Hkbm0YCcfTrdC8dl8YzkGSZKFfymhjSnZvVhw/s1600-h/bush_ghengis+%28250+x+226%29.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkec2v9UTxfDcZB9_GaPotgzEKJoHgbA5Yi5T8Aow75fnUAs2LQLeLOLS74rn5KPh9jvohKhTHt1Ib7bKWkZaOrD0xRCK6yLLQ_Hkbm0YCcfTrdC8dl8YzkGSZKFfymhjSnZvVhw/s400/bush_ghengis+%28250+x+226%29.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5076159372641871650" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);font-size:130%;" >NeoCon Goals</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:100%;">The NeoCons want to be able to install another puppet regime and further control the region, plundering it’s wealth and resources, while provoking the Muslim and Arab world to fight amongst themselves and hopefully, in the words of Henry Kissinger, kill each other off.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><br />We have only to remind ourselves that Iran has the world’s third-largest known oil reserves and that Iraq has the fourth largest.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></div><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Reference</span><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/2979/"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">*</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Spoils of War</span></a><br /></pan></div><br /><div style="text-align: left; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Bush’s troop surge makes it completely clear that his real purpose is to start wars with Iran and Syria before failure in Iraq brings an end to the NeoCon - Israeli plan to establish hegemony over the Middle East.</span><br /></span></div></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCrM1ZGX5CXPrsUyZOu5tJdP47EwiWCFy9A8t_4y64uTTKsU9NgoxuRYZ7HQZqI2SHLiiWUK0I498fY00UTPSNVC3AQN0cSD0sVNP3d-HvevFT0e8xRkj8NHPJ0NP-Vtq0UyHK9Q/s1600-h/impeach_cheney+%28250+x+242%29.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCrM1ZGX5CXPrsUyZOu5tJdP47EwiWCFy9A8t_4y64uTTKsU9NgoxuRYZ7HQZqI2SHLiiWUK0I498fY00UTPSNVC3AQN0cSD0sVNP3d-HvevFT0e8xRkj8NHPJ0NP-Vtq0UyHK9Q/s400/impeach_cheney+%28250+x+242%29.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5076159054814291730" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: left; color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);font-size:100%;" >And while the Iraqi government is actually talking to Iran, comfortably resolving security issues and praising Iranian cooperation, the Neocons in the White House are running around foaming at the mouth, refusing to engage in talks and deploying war ships.</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:130%;">War Preparations Against Iran Complete<br /></span></div><br /><span style="font-size:100%;">There is a high degree of irrationality in American politics - but it has a real foundation in declining options for US Capitalism.<br /><br />Bush and company are not just some group of power-crazed nutters who accidentally find themselves in office - they are there at the behest of the American ruling class. That they are there and act as they do is symptomatic of a serious crisis. The stakes are not only high: they are getting higher.<br /><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:130%;">A must read</span><br />The following link leads to a Dutch 10 part article (translated into English) written three years ago in 2005.<br />This is an omen of why war with Iran is inevitable. Read it and be shocked. <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Follow this link ... </span><a href="http://www.daanspeak.com/IranAttack01Eng.html"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">*</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">The coming war against Iran</span></a><br /><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" >References</span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.countercurrents.org/lauria240608.htm"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">*</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">The Coming War with Iran:It's About The Oil, Stupid</span></a><br /><a href="http://antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=10724"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">*</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">The Coming War With Iran </span></a><br /></div></div><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.cpgb.org.uk/worker/616/iran.htm"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">*</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">No to US aggression, no to Iranian regime</span></a><br /><a style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" href="http://www.cpgb.org.uk/worker/617/galloway.htm"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">*</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">My enemy's enemy</span></a><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.the-tribulation-network.com/dougkrieger/gog_magog_scenario.htm"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">*</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">The Gog-Magog Scenario</span></a><br /></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPeJTUXIYEYPFJ6FHsOx3zxyIe_tRFfwVIF-LyQXggsP2PVdaOH-_q2HIs1cVjIjZVWn1ss8LqEZjcEjGkK8MLwOi2ZRSl21AlIIkvBv6unxQPt76sWWKy_Ss3WHXJlANtKrAkfw/s1600-h/001545+%28250+x+180%29.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPeJTUXIYEYPFJ6FHsOx3zxyIe_tRFfwVIF-LyQXggsP2PVdaOH-_q2HIs1cVjIjZVWn1ss8LqEZjcEjGkK8MLwOi2ZRSl21AlIIkvBv6unxQPt76sWWKy_Ss3WHXJlANtKrAkfw/s400/001545+%28250+x+180%29.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5076159995412129586" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://www.digg.com/"><br /><img src="http://digg.com/img/badges/91x17-digg-button-alt.gif" alt="Digg!" width="91" height="17" /><br /></a>EuroYank - Virginia Hogehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06079239479407310692noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9622105.post-2701421400593122462008-07-06T17:23:00.034-12:002008-08-02T21:36:31.564-12:00The Permanent American Go For Broke War Culture<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4_QosaqQ_3AsFPgzRo_oh9GaYwaNekbk0dnZr8zfVnJ-DlH74sezYdN8EMlu74gmSeYRQhj-xkw1yG0iBTEoxfrjlG9EoNNcY067TqyxkLE9wjJrtSkj-BR6KFBqo7WuGqi3lTA/s1600-h/JuntaCover2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4_QosaqQ_3AsFPgzRo_oh9GaYwaNekbk0dnZr8zfVnJ-DlH74sezYdN8EMlu74gmSeYRQhj-xkw1yG0iBTEoxfrjlG9EoNNcY067TqyxkLE9wjJrtSkj-BR6KFBqo7WuGqi3lTA/s400/JuntaCover2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5225631166909146482" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">How <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Presidents and pundits </span></span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">keep <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">"spinning"</span>... War made easy</span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/uhIhOKZDPBM&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/uhIhOKZDPBM&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDcLFSR_r6mCD84dVxzRaXOsRGQ0IMEbrYqArD765MG8xXdV0MKWNwrStANaoFhyphenhyphenjVGto4nh4uFes43j_c-yBEMV049qiOJtL1p2NzLhdnvUK0qbqiD-EMmShQDV3PIrQYhVae_Q/s1600-h/stim2_5.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDcLFSR_r6mCD84dVxzRaXOsRGQ0IMEbrYqArD765MG8xXdV0MKWNwrStANaoFhyphenhyphenjVGto4nh4uFes43j_c-yBEMV049qiOJtL1p2NzLhdnvUK0qbqiD-EMmShQDV3PIrQYhVae_Q/s400/stim2_5.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5222816628259803266" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-size:130%;" >The <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Wall Street Bailout</span> In Progress</span></span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">(Socialism <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">For The Wealthy Rich</span>)</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Shift of <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Spending</span> Priorities?</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://entertainment.webshots.com/photo/2928589250100673241gaDZVO"><img src="http://thumb1.webshots.net/t/60/760/5/89/25/2928589250100673241gaDZVO_th.jpg" alt="TV5_studija_4x (250 x 286) (125 x 143)" /></a><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-size:85%;" ><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Reader please watch the</span> <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">important videos</span> <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">at the end</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">of this text,</span> to get a </span></span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);font-size:85%;" >complete picture of the info presented here.</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">The Permanent American War Culture</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;">For the 2009 fiscal year, the Defense Department is asking for $515 billion and a separate $70 billion to cover war costs into the early months of a new administration. Those amounts combined would represent the highest level of military spending since the end of World War II (adjusted for inflation). Already, defense spending hovers around 4 percent of gross domestic product (GDP)</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;">Britain, France, and Australia spend an average 2.4 percent of their GDP on defense. Germany spends 1.5 percent.</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">Also see ...</span><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/fy2009/index.html"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">*</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Budget of the United States Government Fisca Year 2009</span></a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">U.S. military spending – Dept. of Defense plus nuclear weapons (in $billions) – is equal to the military spending of the next 15 countries combined.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">These numbers show military expenditures for each country. Some say that U.S. military spending will naturally be higher because it has the highest Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of any country. The United States accounts for 47 percent of the world’s total military spending, however the U.S.’s share of the world's GDP is about 21 percent. Also note that of the top 15 countries shown, at least 12 are considered allies of the U.S. The U.S. outspends Iran and North Korea by a ratio of 72 to one.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Our military spending exceeds the rest of the world's spending combined, and we spend almost 10 times what the second-place country, China, spends. "Only" about $150 billion of the total U.S. amount is attributable to the two active wars we're fighting, in Iraq and Afghanistan. Thus, even if one wants to excludes those amounts, the basic picture remains the same. Nor do these amounts include the billions of dollars in military aid we give to fund the armies of other countries, such as Israel and Egypt, which alone comprise substantial portions of those countries' defense budgets.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">And this gap between us and the rest of the world has widened considerably over the last 10 years. That's true because our own military spending, in absolute terms, has increased wildly during that time.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">The budget numbers can be a bit confusing. For example, the Fiscal Year budget requests for US military spending do not include combat figures (which are supplemental requests that Congress approves separately). The budget for nuclear weapons falls under the Department of Energy, and for the 2009 request, was about $29 billion.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">The cost of war (Iraq and Afghanistan) is estimated to be about $170 billion for the 2009 spending alone.</span> <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Note that “Congress has already approved nearly $700 billion in supplemental funding for operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and an additional $126 billion in FY'08 war funding is still pending before the House and Senate.”</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Furthermore, other costs such as care for vetarans, healthcare, military training/aid, secret operations, may fall under other departments or be counted separately.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Also see ...</span><br /><a style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);" href="http://www.globalissues.org/Geopolitics/ArmsTrade/Spending.asp#"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">*</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">USMilitarySpending World Military Spending</span></a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">In American politics and policy, there is no distinction between "peacetime" and "war." We're the most militarized country in the world by far, on permanent war footing, far beyond what anyone could ever remotely argue is necessary for "defense" or a "strong defense," no matter how broad a definition one wants to adopt for those terms.</span><br /></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifRGQ_And4u445aO05mEFuk2_nEMq3bROcDIzP8y9k90RfOiiIZKRZzXZyPVnl7h5jelDQoW2fkQXa4QbypzugKqdw1nW55_Pp2iKc53UL9WpZynESkIv8RCXjH1bzCwIbyGDf6g/s1600-h/country-distribution-2008.png"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifRGQ_And4u445aO05mEFuk2_nEMq3bROcDIzP8y9k90RfOiiIZKRZzXZyPVnl7h5jelDQoW2fkQXa4QbypzugKqdw1nW55_Pp2iKc53UL9WpZynESkIv8RCXjH1bzCwIbyGDf6g/s400/country-distribution-2008.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5220144123441236578" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh99NlSIJSBetL5ZgwPbx-8si5lnqTwLimRLnqwg64Sv522TSlWqEauVOM43TGnhjt6lK0ktv6-So_Bk3l0tpS4tasHZhSiEw20ldIesW-bkMaaw0glvXeXa9LMZU0dR9JxxmkJJw/s1600-h/military.png"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh99NlSIJSBetL5ZgwPbx-8si5lnqTwLimRLnqwg64Sv522TSlWqEauVOM43TGnhjt6lK0ktv6-So_Bk3l0tpS4tasHZhSiEw20ldIesW-bkMaaw0glvXeXa9LMZU0dR9JxxmkJJw/s400/military.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5220144398577656994" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEga1hoMB1zmfZCJCjfLoDdYIHxUeJi5ZP-fHUUnamRvpjQjJTMOioPnviDqKZ2ZY1ZK74dNmyswskPlTQJJTyi804pfsheda02VDqE377KWLvCOpmLJtTBEVJ1Y554VkCvaF_8rxQ/s1600-h/military1.png"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEga1hoMB1zmfZCJCjfLoDdYIHxUeJi5ZP-fHUUnamRvpjQjJTMOioPnviDqKZ2ZY1ZK74dNmyswskPlTQJJTyi804pfsheda02VDqE377KWLvCOpmLJtTBEVJ1Y554VkCvaF_8rxQ/s400/military1.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5220144507605780450" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiHcxWdbr1TE2qWT1dbvxRUp-OPKlSYpBQyDMnFeYs7rjSgjz8VMVZ62bYCUp8lDhRc9y-14ZHEIvsXVERGemsK1ewHVnr2WqaMZCdWEdpbfY9REEkyigSQcPCf0BicmkgfxwW7Q/s1600-h/military2.png"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiHcxWdbr1TE2qWT1dbvxRUp-OPKlSYpBQyDMnFeYs7rjSgjz8VMVZ62bYCUp8lDhRc9y-14ZHEIvsXVERGemsK1ewHVnr2WqaMZCdWEdpbfY9REEkyigSQcPCf0BicmkgfxwW7Q/s400/military2.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5220144626073303314" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Why the USA Has Already Gone Broke</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">The neoconservatives in the White House and the Pentagon outsmarted themselves. They failed even to address the problem of how to finance their schemes of imperialist wars and global domination.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">As a result, going into 2008, the United States finds itself in the anomalous position of being unable to pay for its own elevated living standards or its wasteful, overly large military establishment.</span> <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Its government no longer even attempts to reduce the ruinous expenses of maintaining huge standing armies, replacing the equipment that seven years of wars have destroyed or worn out, or preparing for a war in outer space against unknown adversaries.</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKMRUDXA1fQj31AH3zsrmW4D_TD75sUXEPESipQky_0ep4mFLqJH_X1Q7nOW8F7aIcR4SD4QzRndN-4WFLjREYnGr-LvFamkX7fwUGOTbuEO1wPWEfutfmVP3FEvx2G_dwandCgg/s1600-h/us-spending-2001-2009.png"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKMRUDXA1fQj31AH3zsrmW4D_TD75sUXEPESipQky_0ep4mFLqJH_X1Q7nOW8F7aIcR4SD4QzRndN-4WFLjREYnGr-LvFamkX7fwUGOTbuEO1wPWEfutfmVP3FEvx2G_dwandCgg/s400/us-spending-2001-2009.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5220143919665461186" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Instead, the Bush administration puts off these costs for future generations to pay or repudiate. This fiscal irresponsibility has been disguised through many manipulative financial schemes (causing poorer countries to lend us unprecedented sums of money), but the time of reckoning is fast approaching.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">There are three broad aspects to the US debt crisis. First, in the current fiscal year (2008) we are spending insane amounts of money on defense projects that bear no relation to the national security of the US. We are also keeping the income tax burdens on the richest segment of the population at strikingly low levels.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Second, we continue to believe that we can compensate for the accelerating erosion of our base and our loss of jobs to foreign countries through massive military expenditures. </span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">American politics has the mistaken belief that public policies focused on frequent wars, huge expenditures on weapons and munitions, and large standing armies can indefinitely sustain a wealthy capitalist economy. The opposite is actually true.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Third, in our devotion to militarism (despite our limited resources), we are failing to invest in our social infrastructure and other requirements for the long-term health of the US. These are what economists call opportunity costs, things not done because we spent our money on something else.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Our public education system has deteriorated alarmingly. We have failed to provide health care to all our citizens and neglected our responsibilities as the world’s number one polluter. Most important, we have lost our competitiveness as a manufacturer for civilian needs, an infinitely more efficient use of scarce resources than arms manufacturing.</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Fiscal Disaster</span><br /></div></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivDK0XzBY4dCt5fGyuV2ixn-svwv3fp6SxjknbGrQyfhMUpt0kGYXtP61MlxVEM0MSgZ4Tiq7c_qBWgr3qWh2XyT1LhViRPklLNkSdgW2KOUBR3CceJzoBQFXpzz5A-4GUCobV3w/s1600-h/war-spending-chart-09.gif"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivDK0XzBY4dCt5fGyuV2ixn-svwv3fp6SxjknbGrQyfhMUpt0kGYXtP61MlxVEM0MSgZ4Tiq7c_qBWgr3qWh2XyT1LhViRPklLNkSdgW2KOUBR3CceJzoBQFXpzz5A-4GUCobV3w/s400/war-spending-chart-09.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5220144769389571394" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Liars Figure The Figures Don't Lie</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">It is virtually impossible to overstate what our government spends on the military. The Department of Defense’s planned expenditures for the fiscal year 2008 are larger than all other nations’ military budgets combined.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">The supplementary budget to pay for the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, not part of the official defense budget, is itself larger than the combined military budgets of Russia and China. Defense-related spending for fiscal 2008 will exceed $1 trillion for the first time in history. The US has become the largest single seller of arms and munitions to other nations on Earth.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Before we try to break down and analyze this gargantuan sum, there is one important caveat. Figures on defense spending are notoriously unreliable. The numbers released by the Congressional Reference Service and the Congressional Budget Office do not agree with each other. Robert Higgs, senior fellow for political economy at the Independent Institute, says: “A well-founded rule of thumb is to take the Pentagon’s (always well publicized) basic budget total and double it” (1).</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Even a cursory reading of newspaper articles about the Department of Defense will turn up major differences in statistics about its expenses. Some 30-40% of the defense budget is “black”,” meaning that these sections contain hidden expenditures for classified projects. There is no possible way to know what they include or whether their total amounts are accurate.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">There are many reasons for this budgetary sleight-of-hand — including a desire for secrecy on the part of the president, the secretary of defense, and the military-industrial complex — but the chief one is that members of Congress, who profit enormously from defense jobs and pork-barrel projects in their districts, have a political interest in supporting the Department of Defense.</span><br /></div><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">The Federal Government Exempts Itself From the Law</span></span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"></span></div><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><br /></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">In 1996, in an attempt to bring accounting standards within the executive branch closer to those of the civilian economy, Congress passed the Federal Financial Management Improvement Act.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">It required all federal agencies to hire outside auditors to review their books and release the results to the public. Neither the Department of Defense, nor the Department of Homeland Security, has ever complied. Congress has complained, but not penalized either department for ignoring the law.</span> <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">All numbers released by the Pentagon should be regarded as suspect.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">In discussing the fiscal 2008 defense budget, as released on 7 February 2007, I have been guided by two experienced and reliable analysts: William D Hartung of the New America Foundation’s Arms and Security Initiative (2) and Fred Kaplan, defense correspondent for Slate.org (3). They agree that the Department of Defense requested $481.4bn for salaries, operations (except in Iraq and Afghanistan), and equipment.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">They also agree on a figure of $141.7bn for the “supplemental” budget to fight the global war on terrorism — that is, the two on-going wars that the general public may think are actually covered by the basic Pentagon budget.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">The Department of Defense also asked for an extra $93.4bn to pay for hitherto unmentioned war costs in the remainder of 2007 and, most creatively, an additional “allowance” (a new term in defense budget documents) of $50bn to be charged to fiscal year 2009. This makes a total spending request by the Department of Defense of $766.5 billion.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">But there is much more. In an attempt to disguise the true size of the US military empire, the government has long hidden major military-related expenditures in departments other than Defense.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">For example, $23.4 billion for the Department of Energy goes towards developing and maintaining nuclear warheads; and $25.3bn in the Department of State budget is spent on foreign military assistance (primarily for Israel, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, the United Arab Republic, Egypt and Pakistan).</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Another $1.03bn outside the official Department of Defense budget is now needed for recruitment and re-enlistment incentives for the overstretched US military, up from a mere $174m in 2003, when the war in Iraq began.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">The Department of Veterans Affairs currently gets at least $75.7 billion, 50% of it for the long-term care of the most seriously injured among the 28,870 soldiers so far wounded in Iraq and 1,708 in Afghanistan. The amount is universally derided as inadequate. Another $46.4 billion goes to the Department of Homeland Security.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Missing from this compilation is $1.9 billion to the Department of Justice for the paramilitary activities of the FBI; $38.5 billion to the Department of the Treasury for the Military Retirement Fund; $7.6 billion for the military-related activities of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration; and well over $200bn in interest for past debt-financed defense outlays.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">This brings US spending for its military establishment during the current fiscal year, conservatively calculated, to at least $1.1 trillion.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Such expenditures are not only morally obscene, they are fiscally unsustainable. Many neo-conservatives and poorly informed patriotic Americans believe that, even though our defense budget is huge, we can afford it because we are the richest country on Earth. That statement is no longer true.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">The world’s richest political entity, according to the CIA’s World Factbook, is the European Union. The EU’s 2006 GDP was estimated to be slightly larger than that of the US. Moreover, China’s 2006 GDP was only slightly smaller than that of the US, and Japan was the world’s fourth richest nation.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">A more telling comparison that reveals just how much worse we’re doing can be found among the current accounts of various nations. The current account measures the net trade surplus or deficit of a country plus cross-border payments of interest, royalties, dividends, capital gains, foreign aid, and other income.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">In order for Japan to manufacture anything, it must import all required raw materials. Even after this incredible expense is met, it still has an $88 billion per year trade surplus with the US and enjoys the world’s second highest current account balance (China is number one). The US is number 163 — last on the list, worse than countries such as Australia and the UK that also have large trade deficits. Its 2006 current account deficit was $811.5 billion; second worst was Spain at $106.4bn. This is unsustainable.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">It’s not just that our tastes for foreign goods, including imported oil, vastly exceed our ability to pay for them. 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