Deliberate Coincidences

Dr. Patrick Byrne of Overstock.com and His Crusade Against Naked Short Selling

2010-06-24T09:47:00.018-05:00

Due to the importance of the need to continue to expose the incredible corruption in the financial markets and after having obtained permission from the host of this interview, I believe it is in the public interest that the provided audio be heard far and wide by the investing public (audio embedded below with an MP3 link to listen offline). For the purpose of stating the obvious, I use the term "investing public" to include those who work for and hold paper money as representative of wealth despite their belief that they are "out of the market." No.. far from it. They are invested in the currency market, US dollars, the common stock of the USA, Inc., which is openly and legally sold short and very nakedly so.

This interview caught my attention after having looked into the practice of 'naked short selling' or simply, the counterfeiting of publicly traded shares by large players in the market place. To a great extent, this is just an extension of fractional reserve banking, but by Wall Street. Today, the threat isn't so much that investors and depositors would liquidate individual accounts, a problem in a fractional reserve system of representative paper wealth, but that the value of paper assets, whether they be cash, equities or bonds, are continually diminshed in value by large institutional speculators who sell without ever having to settle. A free lunch. The shocking part of all of this, is that this naked short selling is prevalent even in the US government bond market as exposed by researchers, including Deep Capture, a blog associated with Dr. Byrne.

An example of openly admitted naked short selling is the trading of unallocated precious metals. Recently Jim Puplava of Financial Sense covered the topic of the manipulation of the gold price and also clearly defined the difference between allocated and unallocated precious metals accounts. Allocated accounts are accounts where the metal is numbered and specific bars or coins are assigned to owners and storage fees are charged. Unallocated metals are metals where dealers act as brokers do, purchasing the assets for clients, but often without any specific metal held in segregated accounts and where no delivery of the physicial metal is expected. Unallocated metal is normally a way of trading the swings in price in the short term for cash profits and the more sophisticated speculators buying and selling in this market are aware of the difference. Unless specifically disclosed that a physical pooled account of some sort is maintained, no physical gold is actually taken off of the market and such accounts have no backing whatsoever and delivery of physical metal would require locating the metal on the open market. Either way, the investor of unallocated metal has more exposure to the credit risk of the firm. The problem not addressed by Mr. Puplava, in my opinion, is theoretically, how many tonnes of unallocated gold can be purchased or sold worldwide, for example, until the transactions might exceed any available gold in existence, mined or to be mined, on the planet? Where do you draw the line and is the price of gold (and silver) today reflective of physical reality? Unlike electronic blips or paper certifcates representative of equity stakes, physical assets might eventually be required to somehow manifest in 3-D reality when the 'game over' sign flashes.

The most important term to understand, as financial deleveraging accelerates, or basically as we arrive at the end game in a fractional reserve world, is "counterparty risk (or default risk)." In the broadest sense, this includes "counterparty risk" in the holding of cash which derives its value completely at the whim of the ruling class and ultimately in the confidence that the public might have in these buffoons. The example of the precious metals market above is just for illustration purposes as free and clear ownership of tangible assets will be crucial as we approach and arrive at a tremendous financial event horizon, guaranteed by the the laws of the universe.

As Alan Greenspan once stated, "...the amount of credit that an economy can support is determined by the economy's tangible assets, since every credit instrument is ultimately a claim on some tangible asset."

The audio file above is posted by its original creator at:
http://www.gnosticmedia.com/

File link:

http://www.archive.org/details/PatrickByrneOfOverstockOnNakedShortSelling

Domesticating the Enemies of the State

2010-05-19T07:44:00.026-05:00

In the winter olympic sport of curling, curlers induce the path of the granite stone as it slides across the ice by the act of sweeping the brooms. This is the distinct metaphor I get when I reflect about how culture is likely not a pure product of random evolution (or devolution).

In his debrief, Russian defector and former KGB agent Yuri Bezmenov stated that only 15% of his former employer's budget was directed to espionage or what Hollywood portrays as the majority of national intelligence agencies' chief functions. The other 85% was dedicated toward manipulating reality or social engineering for the sake of making it easier for the ruling class to achieve desired ends. Taking a close look at the modern historical record beyond the tax-exempt foundation edited school text books, the discerning eye eventually discovers that this is pretty much the case for the west as well. This is not just about the surface-level political reality or the obvious Hollywood themes like government officials lying or false flag operations to get the nation-state into war or about assassination. We're talking about getting down into the weeds here. Examples include social engineering down into the details of how the family is structured or how children are reared. Notwithstanding Plato and his recommendations for the ruling elite class to shape society and culture, more recently, Bertrand Russell expressed himself quite cleary on the matter:

"The populace will not be allowed to know how its convictions were generated.”

In other-words the public will not be allowed to know how it’s beliefs and opinions were scientifically manipulated.

"Ordinary men and women will be expected to be docile, industrious, punctual, thoughtless, and contented.'" The Scientific Outlook by author Bertrand Arthur-William Russell, a renowned British philosopher, a supporter of eugenics and World Government. [Link]

Well, how about that? But how exactly to go about it even beyond the classroom? Let's take a look at what Mr. Bezmenov had to say. Then, let's have a look at one historical event in US history which changed society. That event in 1969, basically ended the counter-culture movement.

Charlie Manson: A Funded Change Agent?
Select quotes from the transcript of the 13 October 1971, broadcast on KLRB radio, Carmel, California by researcher Mae Brussell. The MP3 audio file is available for download below:

"He was used. He was a person who had been in jail twenty-two of his thirty-two years of life. He was the product of our penal system. He was not a hippie or a part of the youth culture. They bought him a guitar, let his hair grow, put a leather jacket on him, gave him money, gave him a bus and credit cards, and told him to do his thing."

"A prominent attorney by the name of George Shibley who works with groups in the Middle East—in Beverly Hills he has powerful connections—met with Charles Manson just before he got out of jail in Treasure Island. No one would know how Charles Manson would get such a famous Beverly Hills attorney to visit him before he was paroled. No one will ever know the conversation that transpired between those men. But what we do know is that when Charles Manson got out of Treasure Island in 1967, at the height of the Haight Ashbury scene, he got a large bus. And he did not buy it. He did not have a job, and he had credit cards for gasoline. In the trial some subject was made up that one of the girls stole a credit card from her family to buy Charlie gasoline. I am sure the parents would have had him arrested before long; you can't go for two years on a stolen credit card. Charlie was never arrested. And one of the questions in one of the articles I have is, it simply said: He had a credit card. In order to do a study of a covert operation, or a murder, or a simple murder: Who paid for the gasoline for Charlie Manson?"

"In the summer of 1969 there was a murder in Hollywood, California in which Sharon Tate, Jay Sebring, Mr. Frokowski, Abigail Folger, Steve Parent, and Mr. and Mrs. La Bianca were stabbed forty-four times. The newspaper did not know who did the murders, but it read in my mind like a military ambush. It could be no other way. It was described by people later as a military ambush. And for the reasons as this: These many people were slaughtered; nobody heard a sound; there were dogs on the grounds that didn't say boo; there was a caretaker in a guest cottage who didn't hear one gun go off, and guns went off; they didn't hear any screaming; nobody saw a getaway car; the place was completely destroyed; there was time to put hoods over the people, ropes on their neck, leave signs and symbols that would come down on a particular group of our society—two groups—and split. And no, not a dog was killed or barked. The fellow that lives on the grounds said he slept through it. And they shimmied up the telephone poles, cut the wires, left all this obvious evidence, and split. And the way the wires and the lines were cut I felt that it had to be a military type ambush."

"So I was watching how the hippie scene would be put down and what evidence there was that they had to crack it. I've mentioned on two different programs that in my neighborhood a man moved in from Texas. I think he gets tired of me talking about this, so this is the last time I'll mention him. He was dressed as a hippie, but he wasn't a hippie. He brought his children into this community. He lived a block from my house. He wrote a book for Henry Kaiser called Children of Change. (I'm repeating for somebody who hasn't heard the show.) A non-hippie from Texas, he lived here for about one or two years, walking down the coast, going the music scene. And he wrote, just prior to the Sharon Tate murders, that, "...the hippies would have made it..." —this is what Henry Kaiser published— "...would have made it if, number one: they had a sense of humor. And number two: they weren't so violent.....He is now at the Navy post-graduate school; He's Navy. He had to be Navy Intelligence. How did he get into the Navy post-graduate school if his undergraduate school was being a hippie on Big Sur road, walking back and forth on the highway?

"It's very interesting in my research on the assassinations that the very first man to publish an article on the Sharon Tate murder in my collection of the murders, before they had a suspect—the murders were in August, and they found the suspects in December—was a man named Ed Butler. In October '69 he wrote an article. The man who publishes the newspaper that he writes for is Patrick Frawley of Schick Razor and Technicolor, who is one of the third largest supporters of Richard Nixon—a far right-wing person. And he hires Ed Butler to write articles for him. Ed is an agent provaceteur who worked with Lee Harvey Oswald in New Orleans. When Oswald had the cover story that he was a communist, Ed Butler made a record for him. [This was] when Oswald said he was a member of the Fair Play for Cuba [Committee]. And he was the only member of the New Orleans area, and Ed Butler knew it. Ed Butler worked with Lee Harvey Oswald, so it's interesting that in 1969 the first person who has an opinion on who murdered these seven people would be Ed Butler; In my collection of articles we have Ed Butler. Now, what is this article called? It says Did Hate Kill Tate? And he goes into the fact that the Black Panthers are tied into the communists, and the evidence is that the Panthers killed these people; [they came] into middle class America and spread terror. This is what we call provaceteurs, agent provaceteurs, clandestine governments: where somebody is the first one in, and he's tied with all these other people and links."

"Lawrence Schiller is the man who gave Sue Atkins $150,000 to turn the state's evidence to say that Manson masterminded the murders. She made $150,000. It was described as an unusual legal trick. Joseph Ball, who worked with the Warren Commission, was with parties involved in the Sharon Tate massacre. George Shibley, who worked with Sirhan—and McKissick was in his office—they worked with the Sirhan case. They were in on the Sharon Tate case. The lawyers overlap."

"Lawrence Schiller says:
'...here was Charles Manson, a year out of prison, mingling with Hollywood stars in 1968... The Manson Family was, somehow, making it with the Establishment...And Manson was going to some of Hollywood's plushest parties. Lawrence Schiller is telling you that a year later Charlie is right in there with the biggest people of all. That's pretty interesting considering the lawyer that he saw before he got out of Treasure Island, and the lawyer that Tex Watson is seeing before these crimes are committed. These boys were wined and dined in the music scene, in the art scene, by certain people before the massacres took place."

"The Rand Corporation and other think tanks in America decide what to do for the United States of America."

MP3:
http://www.archive.org/download/CharlesManson-dialogueAssassinationShow16/Maebrussell--charlieManson-changeAgent_48kps.mp3

"Qu'ils mangent de la brioche!"

2010-01-15T21:34:00.045-05:00

Imagine being on an extended unemployment stint and just after having spent another day writing fifty-plus resumes, wondering if you'll be in your house in six-months and then switching on the news and seeing this shit, REUTERS: "JP Morgan Investment Bankers See Record Payday."

Getting By With a Little Help From My Friends

It's one thing to hit the jackpot fair and square, but these investment bankers still have a source of obscene amounts of wealth due to the trillions of dollars handed over to them by the U.S. Congress, the political class complicit with the mega-banks in the destruction of the real US economy over the past decades. Think about it, huge lumps of cash in compensation for creating nothing of tangible value. Now perhaps the smug bankers, especially at the lower levels (the one's who only receive the paltry six-figure hush-money bonuses), haven't figured out that the financial economy cannot exist indefinitely without a real economy (mining, manufacturing and agriculture). Not unlike the US Dollar, their very existence is built/leveraged upon a fraction of perceived worth and as we have witnessed, the inflating and taxing power of the Federal Reserve (the real power) on declining main street revenues. Could Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan be the major shareholders of the Federal Reserve on this side of the Atlantic? Sure seems like it.

You also have to wonder how the asshole politicans gave the Big-Three automaker executives such a hard time for arriving in Washington D.C. in private jets in November 2008 to beg for less than one-thirtieth of what the Wall Street masters of the universe investment bankers received.

Automakers actually build tangible products which add value to the United States economy and yet they were practically told to get on their knees while at the same time the Wall Street bankers were figuratively (or not) offered a free blow-job by the Potomac dirt-bags while they handed over the nation's loot.

Who's running who? These bankers actually devised the financial vehicles which are responsible for the smackdown and are still receiving cash rewards for being so clever as to make money for producing nothing but the noise of computer keystrokes and paper shuffling. If anything, these boys are economic and market vampires using methods of profiting which includes skimming money from the markets using computer programs or "flash trading"

"Bloomberg reports in the SEC filings that Goldman only lost money on 2 days out the entire quarter. So they are now hitting something like .900 for 3 months in baseball terms. Folks, there are 13 weeks a quarter, with generally 5 weekdays. That is 65 days. They made money 63 days. That's a 97% win percentage."

Now..after having traded this market for the past 15 years and being able to call consistent gains a viable second monthly income, 97% winning trades is pretty fucking amazing.

"Doing God's Work" 0r Screwing Their Own Clients?

"A Congressional committee questioned Goldman's CEO, Lloyd Blankenfeld about packaging risky assets and then selling them to clients, even though Goldman was betting against those same assets. Thus, Goldman was making money even as their clients were getting killed. I quote Blankfein. 'I do think the behavior is improper. We regret the consequences that people have lost money in it.' (Source: Dow Theory Letters dated 14 January 2010).

The Reaping

Would it surprise you to hear that a bunch of these investment banker types are gunned downed someday by perhaps a once proud family man who thinks he's got nothing to lose after losing it all? A desperate and tragic criminal act perhaps a year or so after losing his job and having written his last check. Maybe he's been put through a divorce from the woman who not only promised "until death do us part," but had made sure that he signed that option-arm mortgage contract with her for that pretty $750,000 McMansion with a four car garage and walk-in closets bigger than the size of their former home's master bedroom. And you know what? When the public someday hears the news of this human tragedy, I'll bet more than a few will be discreetly sporting a small grin of glee on their faces.

It is said that there was a time when a famous monarch stated, "Let them eat cake!" The difference between those days and today, is that the guillotine has been replaced with 500 million firearms, more or less evenly distributed throughout the country. Come to think of it, maybe the boys at Goldman already know not to bring a knife to a gunfight:
Arming Goldman Sachs With Pistols

Of course I would never advocate any violence whatsoever.....but I would understand.

JPMorgan investment bankers to see record payday

REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton ...
By Steve Eder

NEW YORK (Reuters) - JPMorgan Chase & Co (NYSE:JPM - News) on Friday announced a record $9.3 billion payday for its investment-banking employees, setting the stage for competitors like Goldman Sachs Group Inc (NYSE:GS - News) to also make eye-popping payouts.

On a per employee basis, JPMorgan investment bankers, sales staff and traders, on average, are set to make about $379,000 for 2009, up more than $100,000 from 2008, when the broader financial sector was mired in crisis.

"People looking at it from the outside look at the dollars and say they are high," said Kenneth Raskin, the head of law firm White & Case's executive compensation practice. "There is no question the dollars are high. The question is whether they were deserving."

Median U.S. household income in 2008 was $50,303.

Michael Cavanagh, JPMorgan's chief financial officer, told reporters that even though pay is up overall, its investment bank still reduced the percentage of revenue that it set aside for pay, to 33 percent, from 62 percent for 2008 and historical averages of about 44 percent. Its investment bank had one of its strongest years.

Analysts also expect Goldman Sachs Group Inc (NYSE:GS - News) and Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS - News), which report their results next week, to show an upswing in pay. Citigroup Inc (NYSE:C - News), however, could pay commercial and investment banking bonuses for 2009 that are similar to 2008 levels, sources told Reuters.

Banks across the industry have changed their compensation plans to give managers more of their pay in the form of stock that must be held for multiple years. This sort of deferred compensation is meant to curb traders and others from taking short-term risks that could harm the investment bank several years later.

Changes in compensation plans, however, have done little to bring down overall pay figures and quell public outrage over pay.

The Wall Street Journal on Friday reported that the top 38 U.S. banks and securities firms are on pace to pay their people $145 billion, based the newspaper's analysis.

The public anger over banker pay led the New York Times to call on Congress to pass a one-off windfall tax on banker bonuses. Britain plans a one-time tax of half of banker bonuses above 25,000 pounds ($40,675).

Banks, which now face President Obama's bailout tax, have so far been successful in beating back other reforms, including plans for a consumer protection regulator.

The resistance of the banking industry to roll back pay is infuriating and short-sighted to some, especially with high unemployment and people losing homes to foreclosure.

"These people need some perspective on where we are and what they have done," said Cornelius Hurley, director of the Morin Center for Banking and Financial Law at Boston University.
(Additional reporting by Elinor Comlay, Clare Baldwin, and Dan Wilchins; Editing by Steve Orlofsky)

Don't Just Blame the "Hired Help"

2009-04-13T09:55:00.011-05:00

This is a three part video excerpt which summarizes the history behind the rise of the Khazars (ancestral source of the majority of European Jewry) or more exactly, those who would be the elite segment of this population and their involvement in international banking and politics. The information presented is a good start for those who believe that the buck stops with some Jewish dude, Mayer Amschel Bauer, who somehow crawled out of a medieval Jewish ghetto and started lending money that he made from coin collecting, to the ruling families of Europe. The rise of elite Jewish banking power is a VERY recent event indeed, when compared to the history of the ancient power brokers of western civilization.

For those would characterize this material as Zionist disinformation, please note that it is not intended to redirect all of your hatred. It is presented as a tool for redirecting only some of your hatred or however much of it you wish to allocate elsewhere, if you have extra to spare.

For those who merely desire to point out the suspects in order to disclose political manipulation, a good investigator might, in this case, recognize a red herring and desire to go to a level above the historically and relatively new accounting department or "the help." That bright and colorful piñata presented for the world to beat up on called Zionism or Judaism has served a purpose.

Research in the realm of parapolitics is not an easy exercise in being spoon fed as it is easy to be led down the path of least resistance by information gleaned from the mainstream and even many "supressed" or readily unavailable texts. The process also requires many mid-course corrections, so to speak.

Historically, pogroms against Jews were pogroms against the common classes of Jewry and not the Jewish "fund" managers who held positions below the levels of old-line political and spiritual movers and shakers. For example, the evidence is replete which indicates that certain elite Jewish organizations of the mid 20th century made deals with National Socialist Germany which were far from being in the best interests of the common European Jewish population of the time.

Personally, if forced to point fingers, I blame the child-like herd mentality of humanity for allowing itself to be in the predicament that it finds itself in today (if you are pointing fingers at elected or appointed officials, you should stop reading here because you just don't get it, only for now, hopefully). Nothing will change unless a sizable portion of humanity can one day rise above its own incapacity to be free (freedom includes the freedom to fail). To begin the process, humanity will have to rid itself of its own worst enemies, the engineered dependence upon messiahs (human authority figures or otherwise) and its persistent state of denial regarding the belief in the benevolence of the various authority figures and the political / legal establishment (a condition which might very well be related to a nasty case of Stockholm Syndrome disease).

Recommended reading.....

"How anyone can think that the Rothschilds are the pinnacle of power is beyond me. Very powerful? Yes. The mind behind the all-seeing eye? No way. We have to look much deeper beyond these Kabbalistically-minded businessmen. While not wishing to diminish the truth about their influence, we must keep things in perspective." (Link)

"US financial magnate JP Morgan (who escaped death by not going on the Titanic that he was booked to travel on) died appropriately enough in Rome & was a Knight of the Papal-loyal House of Savoys Order of Sts Maurice & Lazarus." (Link)

"The Jews have historically been used as a hidden order of the Catholic church. They do the things that the Catholic church does not like to be seen doing. Jews are perfect for this job as long as the people rail at the Jews and as long as they rail back at their attackers, no one will look beyond the Jews.." "In the beginning--The Story of the International Trade Cartel" (first chapter: LINK) by Richard Kelly Hoskins, also author of "War Cycles, Peace Cycles," (book review: LINK).

Video source and suggested reading: "The Brotherhood of Death" series on Red Ice Creations

Children and Divorce, "It's Not About You"

2009-04-04T22:06:00.020-05:00

For the past several decades, industrialized society has been witness to the family consisting of two working parents and let's be honest, children who are in large part raised by commercial enterprises or "daycare centers." It would seem that family priorities have been primarily focussed upon material gain and creature comforts over the nurturing of children. Of course, having mothers enter the workplace has indeed increased the outstanding credit of the system as well as the tax base to the benefit of banking and government, but at what cost to the family? Reduced parental contact with children of working mothers and fathers, or simply 'lost time,' is time never to be recovered...gone forever. Consider how preschool aged children today are voluntarily separated from their parents during an age when they are traditionally (and genetically) meant to be with family. The negative behavioural ramifications of this lack of parental contact during this highly developmental stage may lie dormant until the appearance of puberty. Unless home schooled, after the toddler stage, parents will never have the opportunity to bond with their children as much as they can at this very precious and crucial young age. It makes one wonder why the rush to stick'em all into the five day preschool week. If there be parents who need that much of a break from their children, one wonders why they would have children at all.

As an aside, at least for the purpose of providing a little background, ponder for moment the motivation for the broad and supposedly spontaneous/grass roots campaigns to get women to commit to lifelong careers even as mothers (if you took the time to dig deeper, you would find that virtually all ground shaking societal changes of the 20th century have occurred as a result of social engineering think-tanks, from the hippy movement and rock and roll to feminism). What are we to make of the queen of feminism and the women's rights movement, Gloria Steinem, admitting that her endeavours were funded by the Central Intelligence Agency? The classic novel, Brave New World was quite the predictor of things to come. Just a thought: If the feminist movement had really been about empowering women and not the result of elite think-tank social manipulation programs, Steinem's Ms. Magazine would have probably had advertizements for the best purse guns money can buy and courses in the handling of a firearm (the great equalizer) for women across the country. But back to the topic at hand.

So how exactly does placing children second or third on the parental lists of priorities have to do with the divorce in modern times? If children are not highly regarded as important enough to maximize parental contact with them, divorce in such a household, despite the negative impact upon the children as studies have shown, becomes a much easier decision to come by.

Most of us are sick of hearing politicians push their agendas for the sake of "the children," but regarding the preservation of the family....divorce is a most serious consideration when children are involved. There are certainly reasonable grounds for divorce that might vary from habitual gambling, debilitating alcoholism, physical abuse, infidelity etc.. This isn't about that. Then, there are the others like (eye-roll):

"We don't get along."

"We're just roommates now."

"He/she was mentally abusive and/or emotionally distant." or maybe a couple more which are thought about more than they are said,

"I'm bored."

"I want the feeling of lustful newness again."

Again, it's not about you (or your spouse).

All these need to be carefully weighed, considering the documented statistical consequences.

Below are excerpts of Professor David Popenoe's results of The National Marriage Project at Rutgers University:

Divorce Myth 5: Following divorce, the woman's standard of living plummets by 73 percent while that of the man's improves by 42 percent.

Fact: This dramatic inequity, one of the most widely publicized statistics from the social sciences, was later found to be based on a faulty calculation. A reanalysis of the data determined that the woman's loss was 27 percent while the man's gain was 10 percent. Irrespective of the magnitude of the differences, the gender gap is real and seems not to have narrowed much in recent decades.

Divorce Myth 6: When parents don't get along, children are better off if their parents divorce than if they stay together.

Fact: A recent large-scale, long-term study suggests otherwise. While it found that parents' marital unhappiness and discord have a broad negative impact on virtually every dimension of their children's well-being, so does the fact of going through a divorce. In examining the negative impacts on children more closely, the study discovered that it was only the children in very high-conflict homes who benefited from the conflict removal that divorce may bring. In lower-conflict marriages that end in divorce — and the study found that perhaps as many as two thirds of the divorces were of this type — the situation of the children was made much worse following a divorce. Based on the findings of this study, therefore, except in the minority of high-conflict marriages it is better for the children if their parents stay together and work out their problems than if they divorce.

Divorce Myth 7: Because they are more cautious in entering marital relationships and also have a strong determination to avoid the possibility of divorce, children who grow up in a home broken by divorce tend to have as much success in their own marriages as those from intact homes.

Fact: Marriages of the children of divorce actually have a much higher rate of divorce than the marriages of children from intact families. A major reason for this, according to a recent study, is that children learn about marital commitment or permanence by observing their parents. In the children of divorce, the sense of commitment to a lifelong marriage has been undermined.

According to Professor Popenoe as quoted in DISCOVERY HEALTH, most divorces are initiated by women (statistically two-thirds of the time). Would this perhaps be due to what has been said to be a matriarchal legal system which has tended to favor women over men in cases of divorce?

"Two-thirds of all divorces are initiated by women. One recent study found that many of the reasons for this have to do with the nature of our divorce laws. For example, in most states women have a good chance of receiving custody of their children. Because women more strongly want to keep their children with them, in states where there is a presumption of shared custody with the husband the percentage of women who initiate divorces is much lower."

Perhaps the one good thing that might come of the developing economic trouble will be more parental contact due to reduced financial resources and lack of available employment. This will mean less daycare and less nannies as substitutes. It cannot be stressed anymore than to say that the current economic depression will probably be a protracted one. Couples need to be reminded that a one household family is much more economically efficient than a family split into two homes. Primary care givers of children, traditionally mothers, need to be made aware of this (see study results above about your impending decrease in wealth should you divorce). This downturn is not your garden variety recession. Give it a few years and you'll see what I mean. After considering the emotional devastation wrought upon children with a decision to divorce consider your grounds for divorce very, very carefully in light of the financial consequences. Outside of the most serious grounds for divorce those parents who would go ahead with this decision without being cognizant of how serious this economic depression will become, may well begin to see how certain marital dissatisfactions might turn out to be very petty ones. This is a time to take on a fortress mentality as a family unit. You might place your divorce plans on hold for the time being. Who knows you might thank this economy for keeping the family unit intact as you inadvertantly just might place your wants and desires second to the well-being of your children.

Divorce Myth 9: Being very unhappy at certain points in a marriage is a good sign that the marriage will eventually end in divorce.

Fact: All marriages have their ups and downs. Recent research using a large national sample found that 86 percent of people who were unhappily married in the late 1980s, and stayed with the marriage, indicated when interviewed five years later that they were happier. Indeed, three fifths of the formerly unhappily married couples rated their marriages as either "very happy" or "quite happy."

In the scenario depicted in the video below, although played by actors, is a sad illustration of a failed parent who denied her child a two parent household. And for what? She doesn't even know anymore:

Grounds for Divorce?

After having said all of that, it goes without saying....carefully, carefully and wisely choose your partner only after considerable passage of time together.

Acknowledgements:
DISCOVERY HEALTH: Debunking Divorce Myths
Falling Down (1993), Warner Bros. Pictures

Free-Range Humans

2008-12-16T09:03:00.021-05:00

Let's take notice of the gigantic and growing array of mala prohibita statutes and regulations blanketing the entire planet, the increasing difficulty of movement from one "farm" to the other, as well as the taking of half or more of human productivity (or taxation) "for our own good," while contemplating the intellectual angle taken in the video short below.

Are governments of the "free world" of and by the people, or of and by apathetic acquiesence? With tax-exempt foundations editing school text books, mass-media admittedly run by government intelligence agencies, the easy availability of disease causing edible food-like substances and pre-ordained once a week spirituality, it's probably safe to say that as it stands now, efforts are in place to keep elements of the latter in force. The current political paradigm will last as long as the justifications for the current order remain believable. Will the usual justifications remain as the economic order undergoes a massive shift? What will replace it?

As discussed in this video, the advent of the industrial age allowed for greater excess production by more productive "free-range" humans. For a good while now, we human "commoners" have not been maintained on feudal lands or plantations. Most of us are free-range, now.

What isn't discussed in this excellent documentary short, however, is how gunpowder created a need for a less directly coercive system of sophisticated mental corrals (prisons of the mind) and an unaware population for what today seems to be a growing neo-feudalistic state.

"You Do Not Live in a Country;" Welcome to the Farm:

For more of these excellent videos, please visit:
http://www.youtube.com/user/stefbot

Dark Deception; the Negative Health Implications of Institutionalized Heliophobia

2008-11-01T23:33:00.026-05:00

In the old days, you protected your skin from over exposure to the sun with shade and/or clothing. In the process, your skin would at least get some exposure to the sun's rays. Today, perhaps in epidemic proportions, people are getting much less exposure to healthy, unadulterated UV rays of the sun due to the demonization of sun exposure and the near hysterical use of sunblock. Less exposure = less vitamin D....and what myriad problems arise due to a vitamin D deficiency?

While the Wikipedia entry on vitamin D seems to do justice to a summary description of the health problems caused by vitamin D deficiency and the importance of adequate sun exposure, check out how the health authorities try to balance that with the parroting of the old line regarding the avoidance of sun exposure below. Upon reflection, how pathetic a state of affairs do we have when "private" health researchers and medical practitioners rely so much upon the most contradictory recommendations from government ministries?

Wikipedia: Vitamin D

"The use of sunscreen with a sun protection factor (SPF) of 8 inhibits more than 95% of vitamin D production in the skin.[15][36] Recent studies showed that, following the successful "Slip-Slop-Slap" health campaign encouraging Australians to cover up when exposed to sunlight to prevent skin cancer, an increased number of Australians and New Zealanders became vitamin D deficient."[18]

...and now for the kicker.

"Ironically, there are indications that vitamin D deficiency may lead to skin cancer." [37]

(Am I the only one laughing here?)

"To avoid vitamin D deficiency dermatologists recommend supplementation along with sunscreen use."

[37] Grant WB (2002). "An estimate of premature cancer mortality in the U.S. due to inadequate doses of solar ultraviolet-B radiation". Cancer 94 (6): 1867–75. doi:10.1002/cncr.10427. PMID 11920550.

Here's the problem with the recommended supplementation of vitamin D, whether it be from cod liver oil or a vitamin bottle:

"The currently recommended daily dosage of 400 IU of vitamin D daily appears to be unreasonably low when we know that a light skinned individual makes 20,000 units [5] of vitamin D within 15 to 20 minutes of whole body exposure to the summer sun (before redness appears). This 20,000 IU of vitamin D is five times the amount of vitamin D considered capable of initiating toxic reactions by the Institute of Medicine, demonstrating that these guidelines are set far too low. Dark skinned individuals need 5 to 10 times longer in the sun to produce an equivalent amount of vitamin D as Caucasians, depending on the extent of their pigmentation." Source

Notwithstanding a discussion regarding the chemicals used in sunblock or the benefits of less toxic sunscreens, perhaps it might make more sense to get necessary exposure to the sun for the day on unprotected skin, and only after that, use sunblock to perhaps avoid ruining the holiday with a bad burn. PhD or M.D credentials shouldn't be required to apply a little everyday common sense (unfortunately, such credentials often come with the prohibition of independent thought processes outside of the sanctioned "knowledge"). Either way, you can choose to do some research down the less beaten path or continue to rely upon the spoon feeding for health recommendations from the government ministries with the greatest conflicts of interest, the FDA and CDC.

MSNBC:
'Sunshine vitamin' may ward off breast cancer
Higher levels of vitamin D offer range of health benefits, studies suggest
msnbc.com news services
updated 6:48 p.m. ET, Thurs., May. 11, 2006

"Women who get lots of vitamin D are less likely to develop breast cancer, suggests a pair of studies that add to the already strong evidence that the “sunshine vitamin” helps prevent many types of cancer."

"High levels of vitamin D translated to a 50 percent lower risk of breast cancer, one study found. Even modestly higher levels resulted in 10 percent less risk, which would translate to 20,000 fewer cases a year if it were true of all American women."

"A second study, by Canadian researchers, found that women who spent time outdoors or got a lot of vitamin D from their diets or supplements — especially as teens — were 25 percent to 45 percent less likely to develop breast cancer than women with less of the nutrient."

Heliotherary (sun-therapy) for tuberculosis patients:
http://www.ajph.org/cgi/reprint/16/7/687.pdf

VITAMIN D CAN HEAL TUBERCULOSIS?
By Dr. James Howenstine, MD

"Research from UCLA [8] and the Harvard School of Public Health revealed that vitamin D plays a key role in the production of a molecule called cathelicidin, which kills the mycobacterium tuberculosis organism."
More.....

Sunshine Vitamin For Prostate Cancer

"Researchers have known for a long time that vitamin D helps the body absorb calcium to build strong bones and teeth. Vitamin D also helps to strengthen the immune system and seems to protect against some types of cancers and as well as other diseases. Scientists and researchers worldwide are working to understand and capitalize on the process to prevent and/or treat as many as 17 types of cancer. Evidence of vitamin D's protective effect against cancer is compelling. Regular sun exposure is associated with lower mortality rates from certain kinds of cancers. Some studies indicate that vitamin D may help prevent cancer of the breast, colon, ovaries and prostate. A recent report indicated those individuals with higher levels of vitamin D in the blood had as much as a 50% lower cancer risk of many types for cancer. "

More....

The Abuse of Your Fictitious Wealth

2008-10-15T08:32:00.089-05:00

There are peculiar goings on in the world of finance which are continuing to manifest themselves in painful ways directly for those who have stored much of their life-energy in paper investments. I have to ask whether the free reign given to investment banks to create the exotic Frankensteinian financial instruments which triggered the current cascade may have been intentional. Any idiot could have predicted that eventually this idea of highly leveraged derivatives would lead to a disastrous train wreck. This panic would not be the first orchestrated money panic in United States history. Something tells me that we are perhaps witnessing a harvest of sorts...a harvest of the working class' wealth. Most peculiar and less bizarre is how the UNITED STATES Inc., (see USC 28 § 3002 (15)(A)) , federal police agencies and Wall Street and their financial advisor foot soldiers are continuing to do their best to funnel your financial activity into asset classes which can be tapped by insiders when and if it is needed. This includes manipulating the stock market and supressing the gold price by way of the Exchange Stabilization Fund (USC 31) and other means, regulating and requiring sponsorship to operate as a financial advisor, as well as clamping down on certain money alternatives to paper, which might gain too much popularity (more on that below).

The paper representation of productivity used to stand for direct, unleveraged claims on assets in the tangible world. That all began to change beginning with the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 and the subsequent consolidation of financial power with the orchestration of the Great Depression in the 1930s. Used to be that paper notes or money of the day were actually warehouse receipts representing claims upon physical assets, usually gold and silver coin, kept in custodial form at your local bank. This idea was slowly done away on a gradual, inter-generational timeframe as a result of the Great Depression. A convenient fix. The result of this as well as the Nixon Shock of 1971, created lasting shockwave which is being felt right now in the markets. More recently, we are discovering a similar type of fraud perpetuated to the extent that we could call it the theatre of the absurd. How absurd? So absurd that now even the idea that a security, a derivative of wealth representing a claim or interest in a corporate entity, is being done away with through deliberately unenforced criminal activity on the US exchanges. (more on that too, below).

Have a look at these and compare them to the paper in your purse or wallet. Read the print below the dead white guy (click on the image for a slightly larger view):

Notwithstanding the public firestorm that surrounded the $700 billion bailout bill, we can elaborate further on how the Nanny State is not looking out for your best interest.

First we take a look at how physical violence (or threat thereof) by the state operates to contain a political paradigm. Below is a two minute news report video which summarizes what happend in the fall of 2007 to the offices of the LIBERTY DOLLAR. While the alternative currency supplied by the LIBERTY DOLLAR is backed by gold and silver if not actual gold and silver coin minted by this organization, a requirement per the alleged Constitution, keep in mind that the Federal Reserve Note is also a private currency backed by nothing but faith and the horsepower of the federal government corporation. Being that the power of Washington is funded by at-will issuance of paper money or the much more prevalent electronic equivalent, it is obvious that the idea of people storing their energy in something other than the official unbacked paper currency might be seen as a threat. The erroneously monikered US Dollar, is the stock of the USA, Inc., and the board members do not want to see their stock tank, for the moment. The current monetary system is the desired conduit used to tap precious human energy that people willingly provide the leviathan to make endless war (wars and gold backed money cannot co-exist but for very short periods), beat up on free enterprise and threaten violence under an intrusive and oppressive system of taxation. Therefore, it may come as no surprise that this organization was a direct threat to the largest Ponzi scheme ever devised in recorded history. It is also interesting to note that the founder of the LIBERTY DOLLAR and monetary expert Bernard von NotHaus, has not been arrested yet. Imagine this individual, an expert in monetary history, cross examining the government and asking them how the Federal Reserve Note is not a counterfeit piece of paper and how gold and silver as currency, is. Von NotHaus also has in his possession, from the beginning, written replies by law makers and government attorneys, informing him that indeed, the currency he was planning to provide was not in violation of any law. What has changed since then? His organization got way too popular.

Andrew Williams, a spokesman for the Federal Reserve in Washington, D.C.:
"There is no law that says goods and services must be paid for with Federal Reserve notes. Parties entering into a transaction can establish any medium of exchange that is agreed upon."

Now we turn to the real fraud, the stealing of your hard earned wealth on the public exchanges. As this illegal activity is going on out in the open (including the SEC grandfathering previously counterfeited securities circulating on the exchanges!!), where's the FBI and Secret Service when you need'em? Oh, I almost forgot, they're busy raiding issuers of honest money. Please read on.

Is there any wonder how a provider of a stable alternative currency is raided by federal law enforcement and their assets seized when trillions are being illegally pilfered on Wall Street while enforcers of the Department of Justice and the more pathetic Securities and Exchange Commission look the other way? Besides the vaporization of assets with the collapse of exotic financial instruments and detonation of powerhouse banks, some of which had been in existence for over one hundred years, there is the very problematic issue of "naked short selling." This is larger than most people think. This is huge and it also extends to the commodities exchanges (one being the US based COMEX). Basically, investment banking houses and brokerage firms have been creating electronic shares and selling them on the exchanges. They have been selling assets with no title to them as they dilute existing share values. Stories of more shareholder votes cast than issued shares at annual shareholder meetings can only mean that many of the securities on your financial statement might very well be other than issued by the corporation in which you think you own. These perps have taken it upon themselves to act like mini-Federal Reserve Banks by creating assets without regard to the prohibition of this activity by Regulation SHO and other statutes. This regulation requires short sellers to locate the stock that they sold by a certain deadline, which must be accounted for to prevent this very activity. Legitimate short selling, per se, has never been the problem. For those unfamiliar with market trading, forget the term "short selling" and note that what is being addressed here is the counterfeiting of securities, selling them, and taking in a free lunch, courtesy of shareholders.

Regarding the COMEX, some experts estimate that today, 90% of all gold and silver contracts outstanding at anyone time, have no gold and silver backing them should investors demand physical delivery. Recently during the volatile movement of gold and silver prices, it is estimated that one or two of the US mega-investment banks sold enough non-existent paper silver and gold out to an equivalent of one year's future production. So contrived are the current spot prices of the white and yellow metals, that physical bullion has been getting very difficult to come by with physical silver deliveries estimated at six to eight weeks for delivery and gold premiums for bullion coins $80 or so above the 'official' spot price of gold. Even with the higher premiums, inventory has still been depleted almost down to nothing. I know of no bullion dealers from about a dozen, who have any supply on hand as of the day of this writing.

Below is a very impacting interview which explains in good detail the overt criminal activity on Wall Street and the COMEX and how regulators are non-responsive to complaints. The loss of confidence could have an impact lasting decades. Most people alive today don't realize that it took until the mid-1950s until the DOW achieved break even from the market top in 1929 and that's excluding the factor of survivorship bias. If you wish to listen to the unbelievable descriptions of the rampant fraud, play the interview below, or download and save the file (link provided) to listen later on:

File version of the interview. Bud Burrell of http://www.thesanitycheck.com/ is interviewed by Jim Puplava of http://www.financialsense.com/ .

Right click the link/save: Burell interview

So there you have it. Not only is the Federal Reserve and its largest and complicit debtor the United States Treasury throwing money around and diluting the value of the dollar, we now have registered firms diluting another form of holding wealth, equities for a double screw-job.

From a news report on the LIBERTY DOLLAR raid:
"We have no money. We have no products. We have no records to even know what was ordered or what you are owed," von NotHaus wrote in the e-mail, which was sent to Liberty Dollar customers. "We have nothing but the will to push forward and overcome this massive assault on our liberty and our right to have real money as defined by the US Constitution. We should not to be defrauded by the fake government money." Source: LIBERTY DOLLAR Offices Raided

Now, do you suppose that the federal agents who participated in the LIBERTY DOLLAR raid are seeing their retirement account values diminish during this current market chaos? Will their pensions still be available if the government is hit with insolvency? Maybe they should ask pre-USSR collapse KGB officers how it went? If so, they can pat themselves on the back for participating in taking down an organization which offered the American people the opportunity to engage in private agreements using gold and silver money per Article I Section X of the US Constitution. A take down of an organization by order of a government which, by its actions, would regard its subjects as batteries to be tapped or cows to be milked. Now, to which constitution did those participating federal law enforcement agents swear an oath to protect?? Good job guys! Great work in aiding and abetting the financial take down of yourselves, your friends and family, the entire country! Some day and not soon enough when their usefulness has run its course, the help's going to find out that the dude's at the top don't give a shit about them either.

Big changes are on the horizon. Are you ready for the shift?

For what its worth...if just to let them know that we know: SEC Center for Complaints

SEC Complaint Center 100 F Street NE, Washington, D.C. 20549-0213. You can also send a fax to 202-772-9295.

Pretty Clear Cut

2008-09-19T22:43:00.004-05:00

Diagonal cut, that is.....

Controlled Demolitions Inc installing RDX Linear Cutting Charge

World Trade Center aftermath, September 2001.
Diagonal cut by suspected Thermate Linear Cutting Charges at greater than 45-degree angle

The Moral Hazard of Funny Money

2008-09-19T22:16:00.003-05:00

"As far as I could find out, the flu hit only the vaccinated..."

2008-04-26T20:30:00.033-05:00

A friend of mine, who is a pharmacist, just got this letter last week [mid-April 2008]. After he mentioned it and showed it to me, it reminded me of something I had read some time ago regarding an epidemic from the past, the Spanish Flu. Below, is that letter and some reading regarding that period in history. Do take a look.

Dr. James R. Shannon, former director of the National institute of health declared, "the only safe vaccine is one that is never used."

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Maybe it's silly for me to think it, but wouldn't the challenging of the immune system by mass vaccinations of people who might already be unknowingly infected, exacerbate the situation for them? Why do medical doctors sometimes vaccinate patients who come in for having possibly been exposed to the disease for which they are being vaccinated? Is it wise to use vaccination as if it were a treatment such as an antibiotic?

You may have noticed that researchers are now saying they have analyzed the virus that caused the 1918 global pandemic of flu. They are linking it to a bird virus, which stirs the pot on the current flap about avian flu in Asia. The PR goes this way: If this current bird virus mutates just a little bit in the wrong direction, we could see a replay of the 1918 disaster. Here is another analysis, written over 30 years ago by Eleanor McBean. This excerpt, from chapter two of her book, Vaccination Condemned, makes a quite different observation:

Chap. 2: Vaccination Condemned

by Eleanor McBean
"I WAS AN ON-THE-SPOT OBSERVER OF THE 1918 INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC."

All the doctors and people who were living at the time of the 1918 Spanish Influenza epidemic say it was the most terrible disease the world has ever had. Strong men, hale and hearty, one day would be dead the next. The disease had the characteristics of the black death added to typhoid, diphtheria, pneumonia, smallpox, paralysis and all the diseases the people had been vaccinated with immediately following World War 1. Practically the entire population had been injected "seeded" with a dozen or more diseases — or toxic serums. When all those doctor-made diseases started breaking out all at once it was tragic.

That pandemic dragged on for two years, kept alive with the addition of more poison drugs administered by the doctors who tried to suppress the symptoms. As far as I could find out, the flu hit only the vaccinated. Those who had refused the shots escaped the flu. My family had refused all the vaccinations so we remained well all the time. We knew from the health teachings of Graham, Trail, Tilden and others, that people cannot contaminate the body with poisons without causing disease.

When the flu was at its peak, all the stores were closed as well as the schools, businesses — even the hospital, as the doctors and nurses had been vaccinated too and were down with the flu. No one was on the streets. It was like a ghost town. We [who didn’t taken any vaccines] seemed to be the only family which didn’t get the flu; so my parents went from house to house doing what they could to look after the sick, as it was impossible to get a doctor then. If it were possible for germs, bacteria, virus, or bacilli to cause disease, they had plenty of opportunity to attack my parents when they were spending many hours a day in the sick rooms. But they didn’t get the flu and they didn’t bring any germs home to attack us children and cause anything. None of our family had the flu — not even a sniffle— and it was in the winter with deep snow on the ground.

It has been said that the 1918 flu epidemic killed 20,000,000 people throughout the world. But, actually, the doctors killed them with their crude and deadly treatments and drugs. This is a harsh accusation but it is nevertheless true, judging by the success of the drugless doctors in comparison with that of the medical doctors.

While the medical men and medical hospitals were losing 33% of their flu cases, the non-medical hospitals such as BATTLE CREEK, KELLOGG and MACFADDEN’S HEALTH-RESTORIUM were getting almost 100% healings with their water cure, baths, enemas, etc., fasting and certain other simple healing methods, followed by carefully worked out diets of natural foods. One health doctor didn’t lose a patient in eight years. The very successful health treatment of one of those drugless doctors who didn’t lose any patients will be given in the other part of this book, titled VACCINATION CONDEMNED, to be published a little later.

If the medical doctors had been as advanced as the drugless doctors, there would not have been those 20 million deaths from the medical flu treatment.

There was seven times more disease among the vaccinated soldiers than among the unvaccinated civilians, and the diseases were those they had been vaccinated against. One soldier who had returned from overseas in 1912 told me that the army hospitals were filled with cases of infantile paralysis and he wondered why grown men should have an infant disease. Now, we know that paralysis is a common after-effect of vaccine poisoning. Those at home didn’t get the paralysis until after the world-wide vaccination campaign in 1918.
End of excerpt, John Rappoport

An article below from THE IRISH EXAMINER:

Vaccine not virus responsible for Spanish flu

TCM Archives > Irish Examiner > 2003/05/08

Thursday, May 08, 2003 : FRONT IRELAND SPORT WORLD BUSINESS
RYLE DWYER writes on the horror of the 1918-20 pandemic which the propaganda says was caused by Spanish flu (Irish Examiner, May 1).

How did they know it was the virus of Spanish flu that killed millions of civilians and soldiers?

This disaster occurred when viruses were unknown to medical science. It took a British science team to identify the first virus in man in 1933.As regards the origin of the outbreak, he relates that a senior US army officer suggested that the Germans might have been responsible for the bug as part of their war effort, by spreading it in theatres or where large numbers of people assembled.

Did they also spread it among their own people, killing 400,000 as reported?Ryle would have us believe that all those American soldiers who died from non-combatant causes may have died from Spanish flu.

But US Army records show that seven men dropped dead after being vaccinated.A report from US Secretary of War Henry L Stimson not only verified these deaths but also stated that there had been 63 deaths and 28,585 cases of hepatitis as a direct result of yellow fever vaccination during only six months of the war.

That was only one of the 14 to 25 shots given to recruits.Army records also reveal that after vaccination became compulsory in the US Army in 1911, not only did typhoid increase rapidly but all other vaccinal diseases increased at an alarming rate.

After America entered the war in 1917, the death rate from typhoid vaccination rose to the highest point in the history of the US Army.The deaths occurred after the shots were given in sanitary American hospitals and well-supervised army camps in France, where sanitation had been practised for years.The report of the Surgeon-General of the US Army shows that during 1917 there were admitted into the army hospitals 19,608 men suffering from anti-typhoid inoculation and vaccinia.

This takes no account of those whose vaccine diseases were attributed to other causes.The army doctors knew all these cases of disease and death were due to vaccination and were honest enough to admit it in their medical reports.When army doctors tried to suppress the symptoms of typhoid with a stronger vaccine, it caused a worse form of typhoid paratyphoid.

But when they concocted an even stronger vaccine to suppress that one, they created an even worse disease Spanish flu.After the war, this was one of the vaccines used to protect a panic-stricken world from the soldiers returning from WWI battlefronts infected with dangerous diseases.

The rest is history.

Patrick J Carroll, Lady Lane House,Waterford.

The rest of the story:

WHY YOU SHOULD AVOID TAKING VACCINES
By Dr. James Howenstine, MD.

Notes on the Current Banking Crisis and the Elite MBA Diploma Mills

2008-03-16T10:54:00.076-05:00

What are we to make of the current financial crisis and looming insolvencies (& bailouts) of some of the most "respected" investment banking institutions with such cool household names like Bear Stearns and Citibank? How could the three-piece suits not see this coming? Even with the most rudimentary knowledge of technical charting and the behaviour of markets, any fool with an economics or finance degree from any community college should have seen this coming. How sustainable were home price increases exceeding 25 to 30% annually in many areas of the country? The problem with human nature and markets is the belief that what goes up just keeps going up. The "tyranny of the moment." But why were the best and the brightest from the best regarded financial institutions creating incredibly leveraged, toxic financial instruments that were doomed to fail should any unperceived, yet predictably bound to occur, economic downturn? The current problems we are witness to are not solely due to the mortgage mess, but also due to credit swaps and other complex instruments referred to as "derivatives" that even Warren Buffet doesn't understand. These financial instruments had begun to exist more than a decade ago.

I am convinced that the big-boys, maybe at the CEO level and definitely at the central bank level and above, knew where this would all end up. Ultimately, any discerning individual with two brain cells who gives this some thought knows where this all ends up in the long run. Are we near the end of the "long run?" Who really knows, but logically, a debt-based monetary system, whose operation is dependent upon having interest payments service previously issued debt by issuing yet more debt which incurs yet more interest obligation, which is serviced by issuing yet again, more debt (...you get the picture), is mathematically unsustainable. It wouldn't surprise me if these banksters, represented by ethereal institutions like the International Monetary Fund, the Bank of International Settlements in Basil, Switzerland and the Bank of England, have been orchestrating a plan to foster transition to a new system and I can bet that this plan has been in the wings for some time now. What could that be? A Federal Reserve bank of the world which might eventually be paired with a cashless system? Surely the public would never go along with such a system...but what if the public were taken beyond the edge of the economic abyss? Might they beg for any solution, no matter the cost, to relieve them from suffering?"

Slowly, evidence is coming to light of the deliberate financial take-downs of the past, starting with the money panics of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including the Great Depression, which eventually killed state-chartered banking and created political acceptance of central banking in the United States, just as intended. If history doesn't exactly repeat, at least it often seems to rhyme. What to believe other than that the current situation could have only been fostered and encouraged with insane easy money and suspiciously absent regulatory oversight, which included enticing home buyers into committing bank fraud on their "no-doc" mortgage applications? The lack of guidance and enforcement of predatory lending regulations, which are especially required in an environment of easy credit with its concomitant moral hazard, were curiously not in the way of what was obviously all-out predatory lending practices. Basically, the bankers were desperate for more warm bodies to create more debt (money) for the system with promissory note signatures.

Of course, one individual New York Governor was about to take the money-changers to task until his weakness was used to stop that unusually noble endeavour. My, my, my, what a coincidence. Nothing changes in politics now, does it? Even the ignorance of the public regarding the most obvious of machinations. Do you believe that [former] New York Governor, Eliot Spitzer, is the only politico in office now known to have shelled out money on call-girls? Please....how transparent.

Predatory Lenders' Partner in Crime
How the Bush Administration Stopped the States From Stepping In to Help Consumers
by Eliot Spitzer Thursday February 14, 2008

Sustaining the System; Not Only a Matter of Greed, but of Trained Ignorance
Consistently, highly intelligent young men and women are indoctrinated in Keynesian Economic Theory by the elite MBA diploma mills like WHARTON, STANFORD and THE LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS. Many of these young MBA types, who are probably not privy to the "plan," are certainly running around in panic mode right now as this crisis continues to unfold. I believe these graduates, from the most desired post-graduate business schools, are given high starting salaries and key positions based upon their "proper" training from this cream-of-the-crop education pipeline. They are purposefully indoctrinated into the Keynesian economic model and kept deliberately ignorant of the sound monetary systems which have successfully existed for hundreds of years prior. I would not be surprised to learn that the professors, which I suspect are gate-keepers in these institutions, are charged with continuously monitoring and watching for any deviations of any candidate away from the originally selected "yes-men" characteristics and/or knowledge beyond the program text books. Creative thinking and aggressive solutions oriented styles are encouraged and expected, but only within a well defined box of the current economic paradigm. This assists and assures the maintenance of the status quo of the current system so as to avoid any rocking of the boat from the chairs of their consulting firms and investment banking offices and in certain cases, from key leadership positions. You could take an academic superstar who speaks heresy from the likes of the free market advocate, the late Ludwig von Mises of the Austrian School of economic theory, and he would be shunned from such lucrative employ. What's wrong, in my opinion, with our current "Keynesian" monetary situation, a non-free market system which is maintained by government interventionist policies? You can explore for yourself, but what confidence could anyone have in the longevity of a monetary system advocated by a man who, in reply to a question regarding the sustainability of his theories in practice responded with, "In the long run, we'll all be dead."(?)

A couple of years ago, I remember working with a very soon to be grad from one of these hotshot schools. I asked many questions about the program he was going through and commented about an email I had coincidentally sent to what I found out was one of his professors, regarding his flawed criticism of hard money [gold/silver]. I also discussed with this student the economic fundamentals of the US economy and how precious metals were to continue their appreciation to the point of values that would shock the investment world. He had no idea what to make of my predictions for gold and silver and actually could not process the decaying fundamentals of the economy I was trying to relay to him, much less how the economy used to function on sound money. If he had been made knowledgeable of monetary history and in a position of more seniority to inform higher level officers of his employer regarding the irresponsible risks behind the exotic financial instruments precipitating the current crisis, would he have been well received? It was hard for me to believe that in less than a few months, this individual would be working at a major financial firm advising very wealthy clients.

I am convinced that some of the important qualities sought for recruitment or acceptence to "the club" by way of these schools, is BOTH high intelligence coupled with an Orwellian ignorance of economic history and naivete...and these traits CAN co-exist. The professors are also more than likely monitors to judge the "proper" mindset of the future robotic investment bankers and consultants needed for the system to thrive and continue on its current reckless path to oblivion.

POOR PETER!!

"When, through the process of law, the common people lose their homes, they will become more docile and more easily governed through the strong arm of government applied by a central power of wealth under leading financiers. These truths are well known among our principal men who are now engaged in forming imperialism to govern the world. By dividing the voter through the political party system, we can get them to expend their energies in fighting for questions of no importance." The American Bankers Association Digest, 1924

A Post-Terrorism Checklist & Raw News Footage From the Memory Hole Archives

2008-01-02T22:59:00.004-05:00

With the current government assisted climate of fear vis-vis boogeymen-against-the-state, I thought it appropriate that we take a look at a short checklist that the citizenry might adopt and independently execute subsequent to every "lone" gunman assassination or act of terror. The mere question of "qui-bono" should be enough to cause the public to break out this checklist.

Without regard to "who" the actual terrorists are or could be, has there really been much thought regarding how terrorists who committed acts such as the Oklahoma City Bombing or 911 would have materially benefited? Is the intent of an organic act of terror a desire to cause the state to weaken? Subsequent to every emergency, evidence would not bear this out. Military spending, foreign adventurism, as well as the creation of a national security state and increases in surveillance of the citizenry is always the result. Beyond the simplistic notion of motive being revenge and anger by some angry bad guys bent upon "hurting us and hating us for our freedom," how about simply following who stood to gain the most if not profit-wise by the military-industrial complex, but by the disempowerment of the citizenry? Why not follow the money? I have yet to find information on the trail of money leading to 911-- in the 911 Commission Report. Although there is information to be had from other sources.

INDICATORS OF A FALSE FLAG ATTACK OR CONSPIRATORIAL ASSASSINATION
(a sample checklist)

1). The sophistication of the attack and the seeming inability of the surveillance apparatus of the state to follow the money trail to who or what financed the operation.

2). Government release of the names of the suspected perpetrators within hours of the event in order to prevent free and independent speculation from "street-level" law enforcement investigators and the public. This is accompanied by a neatly packaged official story which ignores glaring evidence.

3). The ignoring of concurrent witness statements and/or testimony which contradicts the official version.

4). An official timeline of the paraded suspects (patsies), which includes a well documented, yet very simplistically incriminating path leading directly to the crime. This is the smoke and mirrors which allows the unsophisticated citizenry to be led by the nose in reaching the desired conclusion regardless of contradicting and often irrefutable evidence such as forensic evidence.

5). Destruction of the crime scene and of the evidence (the 911 crime scenes and the Murrah Building), before a thorough forensic investigation.

6). Establishing the motive for state sponsored terrorism, the war against you: Thick legislation which may include gun control measures, restrictions of civil rights accompanied by increased surveillance and monitoring of the public. For terror acts said to originate externally, sabre rattling for aggression toward a foreign state usually for the control of mineral commodities. The level of suspicion should be directly proportional to the speed at which seemingly pre-written and voluminous legislation is presented to law-makers after the event. Time is of the essense before the impact of the event fades and fear is more valuable to the state than the suspicion aroused by the swiftness with which the legislation is brought forth.

7). In some cases the "accidental deaths" of officials and key witnesses to the event. Operatives engaged in such events are often dispatched after they have exhausted their usefulness.

8). In the case of a political assassination, a search for evidence or clues that the murdered politician made promises and/or acted to empower the citizenry at the expense of government, the corporations which run government or the bankers who own government.

If there's one thing Orwell got wrong about the future in his book 1984, it was the sustainability of the state's grip on the distribution of information. Since the state apparatus cannot always control all avenues of information, the Memory Hole has been a valuable tool of information manipulation and propaganda. Such is not the case today, where the public can recall live news coverage on the internet surrounding the event(s) of interest. The extent of the random nature and free flow of information on the internet, the ability for anyone to access certain items of information from the Memory Hole at will, verify it by checking more than a few limited sources and to share it, creates a problem for the current statist paradigm to continue indefintely. Little by little though, we see creeping attempts with legislation disguised as "protection for the children," to filter and control the internet. This, from a bunch of pedophiles. As a hard and fast rule, in order to maintain a grip on power, the ruling elite must maintain a grip on the minds of those they would desire to rule. No exceptions. To keep minds in check, you create a climate of fear, attempt to control information and/or set up disinformation campaigns to limit empowerment of the citizenry and seek to control the avenues of information beginning with the education system.

The most accurate information is information obtained fresh after an event. Unedited and uncut news video often fits the bill. This may include information which might never be reported on or aired again, but nonetheless obtainable due to viewers who know better and switch on their VCRs and digital recorders immediately as things unfold, knowing full well that there is a possibility that the mind control machine may go into a full reality shaping cycle which usually includes never showing raw footage again.

Now, let's take a look at the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City of April 19, 1995. In the raw video news footage on scene subsequent to the event, not only are there countless witnesses sounding off, we also hear from the news desks, reports of official statements confirming what witnesses have stated as well as revealing statements from official sources. Of course, once the ministry of propaganda gets up to speed, the public is eventually told what they saw or are seeing and what happened on the particular day of interest. Keep in mind that the clips you are about to see were buried and witnesses to (disregarded) material facts, were never subpoenaed to appear before the grand jury or the trials. One witness actually wrote to the court offering her testimony which differed greatly than what was officially reported or allowed to be revealed at trial. The response from the court? "No, thank you."

From the Memory Hole video archives:

A lttle addition to the video you just saw. A few official documents below regarding the presence of, and what was also described at the scene as, undetonated high explosives. You may click on the documents to enlarge them:

A FEMA Situation Report:

Portion of US Forces Command Daily Log:

DOD US Atlantic Command

Many questions remain regarding the bombing of the Murrah building. These include questions of a forensic nature and perjury from the FBI crime lab regarding the presence of ammonium nitrate (fertilizer) at the scene which would fit nicely with the given scenario by confirming that a fertlizer bomb may have been involved in causing damage.

Let's hear some of what former FBI crime lab supervisor and whistle blower Dr. Fred Whitehurst had to say about that in this interview:

Entire interview with Dr. Whitehurst (right click, "save as")

BATF Tipped Off?

Now with all the evidence and obvious cover-ups pointing to a most probable source of violence waged against the population; evidence which is replete all over the place, not much thought should be required to make some connections here. This and examples of new evidence from a bit further back in history, should allow for most humans to extricate their craniums out of their rectal orifices in order to engage in some serious thinking. The talent of discernment and awareness as applied toward the critical analysis of the legitimacy of government action is not a function of intelligence, but more a function of the extent to which artificial wombs are constructed by emotionally fragile humans, who would regard the state as a protective nanny once separated from the bosoms of their mothers. Once a critical mass of individuals recognize the fact that the implied social contract between the public and the state is a one way street, (i.e. loyalty to the state obligates no legal reciprocation by the state to protect the public), governments, which operate on the basis of coercion and violence, will begin to lose their power. Should things proceed to that point, don't expect this dying dragon to go out without a violent writhing of its tail. Sometimes paradigm shifts are accompanied by instability. Individual empowerment begins when the manipulative tool of the state, fear, no longer exists. Now the race is between the achievement of critical mass of awareness among the population and the next state sponsored act(s) of terror in order to frighten the naive and gullible mass of people who would insist that their overlords restrict their freedoms in order to merely feel safe. Does living in such a cage make life worth living?

If this look at the OKC Bombing peaked your interest, you may click the source link of the following:

".....blast through air is a very inefficient energy coupling mechanism against heavily reinforced concrete beams and columns. Second, blast damage potential initially falls off more rapidly than an inverse function of the distance cubed. That is why in conventional weapons development, one seeks accuracy over yield for hard targets. That is also why in the World Trade Center bombing (where the only source of blast damage was a truck bomb), the column in the middle of the bombed-out cavity was relatively untouched, although reinforced concrete floors were completely stripped away for several floors above and below the point of the bomb's detonation (see Time Magazine, 3-8-93, p 35). By contrast, heavily reinforced concrete structures can be destroyed effectively through detonation of explosives in contact with the reinforced concrete beams and columns."
"Bomb Damage Analysis Of Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building" by Benton K. Partin, Brigadier Gen. USAF (Ret.)

Acknowledgements:
911 Road to Tyranny
Scott Horton and the Weekend Interview Show
The Shooter (motion picture)

Excerpts: How to be a Successful Tyrant

2007-12-30T21:11:00.000-05:00

"How to be a Successful Tyrant"

The Megalomaniac Manifesto

by Larken Rose

Control the Choices
Rather than trying to squelch all disagreement (which you will find to be impossible), focus instead on controlling the "spectrum" of ideas discussed in public; define the limits of what kinds of beliefs are "civilized" and "reasonable." For example, a public debate on whether you should rule all the peasants is unacceptable, but a public debate on the particular manner or degree of your rule is not only allowable but desirable. If your subjects are arguing over whether you should take 60% of what they produce or 70% of what they produce, you have already won, since both "sides" are implicitly conceding that you should take at least 60% of what they produce.

The reason such a "debate" is desirable is that it keeps the peasants thinking they have some say, and that they are knowledgeable and "involved," without actually providing them with any means to achieve freedom. Without this type of outlet, they may end up openly resisting you. As another tactic, do not vary the amount of oppression, but vary its justification. For example, you can win followers by suggesting that the peasants should be extorted to "help the poor,"instead of being extorted to finance a war (or vice versa). Of course, ideas such as "Don't extort us at all" must be kept out ofthe public debate entirely. Let the peasants find release in arguing over what flavor of oppression they will have, but never over whether they will be oppressed at all.

Comparative Oppression
Remarkably, if you give the peasants a choice between your desired level of control and something even worse (if there is anything worse), they will see you as a pro-freedom hero. Peasants tend to be remarkably unobservant, forgetful, and not at all objective. If you offer only to punch them in the nose rather than shoot them,they will praise you for it. If you promise to kick them in the head twice a day rather than three times a day, they will vote foryou in droves.

A classic example of such "comparative oppression" can be seen inthe so-called "two party" political system now in place in the United States. The party which promises to cut the levels of federal extortion back to 50% of what an individual produced are praised as being for "limited government." Of course, by any objective measure, they are advocates of oppression. Only by comparing themselves to something worse can they dupe the peasants into believing they are in any way pro-freedom.

Influence, Not Censorship
In addition to controlling the "education" (indoctrination) system, one of the best ways to ensure that your subjects are getting a daily dose of your indoctrination is to control the "news" they are exposed to. Of course, just reporting significant facts and occurrences provides no opportunity for thought control, but deciding which facts to mention, which facts to ignore, which"facts" to make up, and how to spin the facts, while throwing in opinion-shaping messages disguised as "reporting," can give enormous control.

The skillful tyrant controls the message, not by blatant censorship and state-owned media, but by more subtle means of "influence." Otherwise, the peasants will openly resist the censorship, will not believe your message, and may even create their own "underground"media to combat it. But if the media appears to them to be a neutral and objective "free press," your ability to control their thoughts and beliefs will be enormous.

Like any other business, "the press" can be controlled and manipulated without the use of open force. If you can get people of like mind (i.e., elitists who think they have every right to rule the "unwashed masses") to hold the highest positions at the newspapers, TV stations, etc., they will push your agenda for you,without the need of a conscious conspiracy. In any hierarchical organization, all you need to do is have an ally at the top, and the underlings will naturally "evolve" to match your agenda. Think of it as "trickle-down tyranny," where those who see eye to eye with the top dog will get promoted, will have job security, etc., while those who see things differently will naturally want to leave, or will get fired, or will at least get muzzled. If the CEO or owner of the "Anytown Daily Newspaper"is an elitist buddy of yours, and supports all of your power-grab plans, it is only natural that his publication will reflect that mindset. The underlings will know that to write something the boss disagrees with is to write their own pink slip.

"If I allowed my honest opinions to appear in one issue of my paper, before twenty-four hours my occupation would be gone. The business of the journalist is to destroy the truth; to lie outright; to pervert; to vilify; to fawn at the feet of mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread. ... We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks; they pull the strings and we dance." [John Swinton (New York Times Chief of Staff)]

Infecting Existing Media
Making your own media from scratch is both difficult and unnecessary. Publications like Pravda, which are well known for being mouth pieces for governments, are not very effective because the people know not to trust them. It is far better to use your influence to take over (not openly, of course) already existing media outlets that already have many viewers, listeners or readers,and that have a certain level of credibility. With a little patience, it is not difficult to transform a relatively "objective"organization into a perpetual advertisement for your agenda. People in the media like attention and like to feel important. It is standard operating procedure for politicians to talk only to the reporters they like, meaning those who don't give them problems, contradict them, make fools of them, etc. Those who kiss up to politicians will hold their positions as "reporters" on government affairs. The others don't get interviews, have nothing to"report," and so have no jobs. Again, there is no need for a conspiracy; human nature will do the work for you.

Having "connections" with the management of media outlets is the best route, since you can easily have any reporter fired (or worse) if he writes something unfavorable about you. As with any industry, if you implement all manner of "regulation" of the media, then you always have some "legal" way to hurt an organization that spreads messages harmful to your agenda.

"The majority of Americans get their news and information about what is going on with their government from entities that are licensed by and subject to punishment at the hands of that very government." [Neal Boortz]

But aside from the occasional uppity reporter who needs to be put in his place (a coffin, perhaps), it is far more effective to avoid confrontation and simply use your ill-gotten wealth and influence to mold the media outlets into what you want them to be. Any company that achieves top status will be afraid of losing it, and so won't want to anger someone with as much power as you have at your disposal. People with something to lose tend to become docile and don't "make waves." (To wit, you can count on one finger all the strongly libertarian "reporters" who can still be seen on the mainstream American "news.")

Spectrum of Discussion
One effective method of propaganda does not deal with what is saidbut with what is not discussed. The range of opinions the peasants are exposed to has an enormous impact on what they will perceive as reasonable. Peasants have few ideas of their own, so if they are exposed to only two "different" views, both of which support your plans for control, they will almost certainly think only about which pro-tyranny viewpoint they like better, rather than being original enough to decide that neither of the presented viewpoints makes sense.

"In the United States, the majority undertakes to supply a multitude of ready-made opinions for the use of individuals, who are thus relieved from the necessity of forming opinions of their own." [Alexis de Tocqueville]

The peasants must feel they have a choice of what to believe, so the message must look like a "debate" instead of a sermon. However, the "debate" should be so limited that anything even approaching an anti-tyranny opinion must be seen as outside the realm of rational debate.

"The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity, but the one that removes awareness of other possibilities." [Alan Bloom]

If the accepted public discourse about some government redistribution scheme is nothing more than petty bickering over details, then someone who comes out and suggests doing away with the scheme entirely can easily be painted as an extremist crackpot.

Source: http://www.tyrantbook.com/

One Bank, One Army, One Center of Power

2007-11-27T08:21:00.000-05:00

Who?
The Council on Foreign Relations. The Driver: Agent Rockefeller

How?

Zeitgeist, the movie

Why? POWER.

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

Just the facts:

The CFR is the U.S. equivalent to the Royal Institute of International Affairs (RIIA) in Great Britain. Professor Carroll Quigley explains:

"At the end of the war of 1914, it became clear that the organization of this system had to be greatly extended... the tasks was entrusted to Lionel Curtis who established, in England and each dominion, a front organization to the existing local Round Table Group. This front organization called the Royal Institute of International Affairs, had as its nucleus in each area the existing submerged Round Table Group. In New York it was known as the Council on Foreign Relations, and was a front for J. P. Morgan and Company.... In fact, the original plans for the Royal Institute of International Affairs and the Council on Foreign Relations were drawn up at Paris." "Tragedy and the Hope", Carroll Quigley, 951-952.

Banks and tax-exempt foundations were essential to this global vision:

"The powers of financial capitalism has another far reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole...."

"The apex of the system was to be the Bank for International Settlements in Bale, Switzerland, a private bank owned and controlled by the world's central banks which were themselves private corporations. Each central bank... sought to dominate its government by its ability to control Treasury loans, to manipulate foreign exchanges, to influence the level of economic activity in the country, and to influence cooperative politicians by subsequent economic rewards...." Carroll Quigley, 324

"In 1924, the chairman of the board of the Midland Bank said, "...banks can and do create money... And they who control the credit of the nation direct the policy of Government and hold in the hollow of their hands the destiny of the people." Carroll Quigley, 325

More Quotes:

"The real rulers in Washington are invisible and exercise power from behind the scenes." Justice Felix Frankfurter (1882-1965) U.S. Supreme Court Justice

"The ruling class has the schools and press under its thumb. This enables it to sway the emotions of the masses." Albert Einstein

"To achieve world government, it is necessary to remove from the minds of men, their individualism, loyalty to family traditions, national patriotism and religious dogmas." G. Brock Chisholm, co-founder of the World Federation for Mental Health, former director of UN World Health Organization

"Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government, to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day. " Theodore Roosevelt, April 19, 1906

"The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country." Edward Bernays, Propaganda (1928)

"The Trilateral Commission doesn't run the world, the Council on Foreign Relations does that!" Winston Lord, Assistant Secretary of State, the U. S. State Department

"In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happened, you can bet it was planned that way." Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), 32nd US President

"The American people should be made aware of the trend toward monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the concentration of more and more power over public opinion in fewer and fewer hands." Spiro Agnew, U. S. Vice-President, 13 November 1969

"In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill ... All these dangers are caused by human intervention and it is only through changed attitudes and behaviour that they can be overcome. The real enemy, then, is humanity itself." Alexander King, Bertrand Schneider - founder and secretary, respectively, of the Club of Rome - The First Global Revolution, pp.104-105

"Electronic communication and rapid transportation make possible a stifling world government. Techniques such as genetic engineering, psychoactive drugs and electronic control of the brain make possible a transformation of the species into docile, fully-obedient, 'safe' organisms." William Sims Bainbridge

"I have the greatest admiration for your propaganda. Propaganda in the West is carried out by experts who have had the best training in the world — in the field of advertizing — and have mastered the techniques with exceptional proficiency ... Yours are subtle and persuasive; ours are crude and obvious ... I think that the fundamental difference between our worlds, with respect to propaganda, is quite simple. You tend to believe yours ... and we tend to disbelieve ours." Soviet correspondent based five years in the U.S.

"The Trilateralist Commission is international... [and] ...is intended to be the vehicle for multinational consolidation of the commercial and banking interests by seizing control of the political government of the United States. The Trilateralist Commission represents a skillful, coordinated effort to seize control and consolidate the four centers of power - political, monetary, intellectual, and ecclesiastical." Barry Goldwater (1909-1998) US Senator (R-Arizona), in his book "With No Apologies"

"The real menace of our Republic is the invisible government which like a giant octopus sprawls its slimy legs over our cities states and nation. At the head is a small group of banking houses generally referred to as 'international bankers.' This little coterie... run our government for their own selfish ends. It operates under cover of a self-created screen...[and] seizes...our executive officers... legislative bodies... schools... courts... newspapers and every agency created for the public protection." John F. Hylan, Mayor of New York (1918-1925), in speech on March 26, 1922

Gold; the Ultimate Currency & a Short Video Course on the Subprime Mortgage Crisis

2007-11-24T07:29:00.001-05:00

Since The Bull Market in Things and Portfolio Check-up were posted to this site earlier this year, I thought perhaps it was time to take another look at the growing elephant in the living room; gold. There is a tiny minority of Americans who recognize what it going on and who have been quietly investing in this asset class or currency. Yes, it is still a currency, after thousands of years and it certainly has been trading like one (copper, the base metal bellwether has been plunging of late while gold stubbornly appreciates in price). Since most investors invest in what's popular, higher prices will have to be realized before they take the plunge. Once they see gold breaking through $1,000 US (and silver in the $20s), things will begin to change.

Keep in mind that currency indices measure paper currencies against each other. The Euro has appreciated in dollar terms, yes, but has been falling in terms of gold. As an analogy, all the ships are taking on water, some just slower than the others due to the tremendous creation of money and credit worldwide, at double digit rates. Even the venerable "Swissy" (Swiss Franc), perhaps the top performing paper currency in the world, is beginning to spring some leaks in the face of gold (see charts below).

Despite the unrelenting appreciation of the metal since 2001, only the populations in the Middle-East and Asia have widely taken notice. As far as the West goes, those populations simply refuse to give up thinking in terms of pieces of paper posing as stores of value. As an example of this myopia, this month we saw media reports of top model Gisele insisting upon payment in Euros and "rapster" Jay-Z in a music video flashing a wad of 500 Euro bills. Central bankers are international. They care not which of their pieces of paper you prefer. What about gold? As far as we know, they have not yet succeeded in turning lead into gold, but what they have done is better as they pass off notes which pose as money. As the scheme began to grow cracks in the late 1990's with the LTCM and Russian debt default etc., astute market observers discovered admissions by the FED, as revealed in their FOMC minutes, of selling (or leasing) gold to suppress its price. In addition, despite gold's appreciation and recent run-up, you won't hear CNBC, the 24-hour Wall Street infomercial, talking much about gold, much less the coming gold investment wave which will dwarf that of the dot.com mania.

Financial professionals and money managers have been ignoring the clear signs of a secular bull trend in gold which has been in play for over the past five years. Now that price action is screaming a long term buy (and maybe a few clients are beginning to ask some questions), they will soon no longer be able to stubbornly adhere to their professional indoctrination. A Keynesian economic indoctrination which has also been enforced by the extremely short timeframe that is a few decades of observation of an economy in motion (gold's slumber lasted for almost half a lifetime). So now the usual recommendations are being touted. Five to ten-percent allocation into precious metals. Now we can all sleep at night as we allocate 90 to 95% of our wealth in currencies which are being multiplied by governments and their central bank paymasters struggle to keep the system from imploding.

Funny money, limited corporate liabilty, the off-loading of risk into the financial system by way of non-transparent exotic financial instuments and the myriad bailouts of the past half-century have increased the moral hazard to the degree of threatening the entire world financial system. In times past, no financial entity lent real money (gold), without carefully considering the capabilities of the borrower. But back then, investment capital was derived from savings and interest rates were determined by the quantity of savings available.

I tend to believe that the behind the scenes planners know very well what they are doing as we stare at more consolidation into currency blocks and an eventual world central bank. It is a replay of the orchestrated bank panics of the early twentieth-century on a worldwide scale. This time, they used hedge fund managers and mortgage bankers, whom I must assume have very short memories or perhaps shave once a week. Did the gray hairs really believe that real estate appreciation (ignited by the FED lowering rates in 2001) was sustainable? That a couple earning $70,000 could afford a $450,000 McMansion making payments dependent upon temporary teaser or adjustable mortgage rates? Why did former Federal Reserve Chairman Sir Alan Greenspan encourage borrowers to buy homes using ARMs (adjustable rate mortgages) in the face of rising interest rates?

The last orchestrated bank panics of the late 19th and early 20th centuries led to the creation of the Federal Reserve (which was devised in secret, since back then, people were extremely suspicious of the "money trust"). Sixteen years later the United States was hit with a major economic disaster, the Great Depression. The Great Depression consolidated even more power for the banking cartel, as state chartered banking was destroyed (as intended) and gold was officially demonetized, domestically. Forty-two years later, gold was demonetized on a worldwide scale and currencies have floated ever since without the discipline which gold created for balanced trade (this was the real reason for the energy crisis of the early 70s). Did the private banking cartel that is the Federal Reserve create the economic stability it promised? Even if you hold on to your wallet, the big boys are going to bail themselves out at your expense without having to pull out a single note from it. They'll just have the value of each adjusted so that you pay your fair share, once again, for their reckless profilgacy.

Below are three month charts of Euros, Canadian Dollars, Swiss Francs and the US dollar in terms of gold.

Confused about the mortgage lending problems and the growing financial panic? This is bigger than you can imagine and it involves more than just mortgage lending. See the video below for a quick explanation of a topic which could use a little humor:

AN "INVESTMENT BANKER" EXPLAINS THE SUBPRIME MORTGAGE MELTDOWN

Why Voting is a Waste of Time

2007-10-03T11:18:00.009-05:00

"The table is tilted folks, the game is rigged..." George Carlin

With the national elections a little more than a year away, there's talk among a growing number of dissatisfied members of the 'body politic' that this time, if they can get their candidate in the Oval Office (Congressman Ron Paul), then somehow we will have effective change and bring back America to its original constitutional political structure. Would it be fair to characterize such hopes of removing bad apples from a hopelessly corrupt system as naive?

There are multiple layers which have been at work for numerous decades in assuring a predetermined outcome in line with the desires of the powers which handle the political process behind the scenes. These layers include "lies of omission" or exclusion of a candidate or candidates which voters may find attractive by the controlled national media, outright voter fraud which has also been irrefutably and recently evidenced, (see also the HBO Special documentary: "HACKING DEMOCRACY") and the historical evidence which suggests that presidents are handled by powers well above their pay grade.

The Republicratic Party?

Georgetown University professor and CFR insider Carroll Quigley, mentor to former President Bill Clinton, had this to say in his book, Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time

"The National parties and their presidential candidates, with the Eastern Establishment assiduously fostering the process behind the scenes, moved closer together and nearly met in the center with almost identical candidates and platforms, although the process was concealed as much as possible, by the revival of obsolescent or meaningless war cries and slogans (often going back to the Civil War). … The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to the doctrinaire and academic thinkers. Instead, the two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can "throw the rascals out" at any election without leading to any profound or extreme shifts in policy. … Either party in office becomes in time corrupt, tired, unenterprising, and vigorless. Then it should be possible to replace it, every four years if necessary, by the other party, which will be none of these things but will still pursue, with new vigor, approximately the same basic policies." Carroll Quigley, Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time (New York: Macmillan, 1966), pp. 1247-1248.

"Fostering the process behind the scenes?" Could it be true that key politicians are heavily compromised and controlled play-actors? Is it deeper than mere lobbying by powerful corporate interests? Judging from the comments of Carroll Quigley above, it would seem doubtful that a random collection of candidates elected to office could have steered policy which have gotten us to the point of a "two-party" system which is in essence, two arms of the same monster. If so, then blaming Bush or whomever is in office for whatever, is an exercise in futility (and perhaps controlled disinformation from various gatekeeper organizations and individuals), as politicans are also expendable punching bags in a system which has done everything in its power to ensure its own survival.

Consenting to be Ruled by the Majority and Politicians Acting on Your Behalf

Public advertizing blitzes to encourage voter participation in elections are simply attempts at continuing the illusion that 'the people' actually have a say beyond a cosmetic influence in directing the future of the country and to factor in mass approval of 'the system' as well as complicity in the actions of political representatives on 'the people's behalf.' What does it mean when an Australian citizen is fined $35 for not casting his or her vote? Is the mere act of voting consenting to be ruled by the majority? Did the citizens of Argentina give their consent for the president of that nation to take on huge loans from the parasitic International Monetary Fund only to be coerced into restucturing and surrendering portions of the nation's assets, devaluing the currency and increasing taxes, by the act of voting? I would tend to agree that the best way for a disenfranchised population to send a message would be to boycott elections. Tumble weeds and the sounds of crickets at all polling places would create the necessary discomfort for the leviathan in Washington D.C., since 'we the people' would refuse to participate in a rigged game. How much longer will will be laughed at by the black limousine crowd on the Potomac? How many people just don't want to "get it?"

Presidential Candidate Paul

Even if candidate for president Ron Paul were to overcome the voting machine fraud and got himself elected would he be able to make a difference? Could he succeed in his stated desire to re-empower the individual; by working to reinstate a constitutional system? The lies of omission or the Orwellian dumping of news or information down the memory hole as with the "CNBC Vanishing Poll" is one example of many which points to one method of ensuring that the fewest know about Congressman Paul's campaign. Just ask co-workers, friends, family and acquaintances, or a passer-by, if he or she knows of presidential candidate Ron Paul. But for Paul to have a snowball's chance in hell, despite evidence of media supression, several miraculous events would have to occur simultaneously. First, we'd have to hope that a very large portion of the American public would actually take a good look at the candidates for office and that they would somehow favor Paul despite their indoctrinated socialist mindset, financial dependence upon the system and lack of understanding of how a sustainable monetary system operates thanks to tax-exempt Foundation edited school textbooks. Then, we'd have to hope that there would be a very large and sizable majority in key states who would cast their vote for Paul and hope that the 'will of the people' would somehow be fully expressed despite evidence of manipulated computerized voting software. Even if he overcomes that hurdle and becomes President, Paul, who has called for the elimination of the IRS and the Federal Reserve, would be up against powers that very few can actually begin to comprehend. These two private entities are one arm of a global octopus which would not go out without a bang. Are Presidents handled by powers in the shadows who also control all significant media outlets?

Out of the Blue 'Lone Gunmen?'

As past is often prologue, Paul's success at being elected would pose a threat to the concentrated pockets of power. Indeed, his well being would be in question. A study of 'lone gunmen' assassins is a very interesting one indeed. There are incredible facts that can be gleaned from the assassination attempts and assassinations of past political figures. There was the attempted assassination of President Andrew Jackson by Richard Lawrence (both his pistols failed to fire), who admitted that he was sent by banking interests to do the job. Then there was John Wilkes Booth, and his co-conspirator John Surrat who was a harbored fugitive in his Vatican employment as a Swiss Guard despite US government protests subsequent to the Lincoln assassination. See also free e-book (published in 1924): The Suppressed Truth about the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Skipping over interesting facts surrounding the Garfield and McKinley assassinations (for the sake of brevity), we fast forward 100 years to the John F. Kennedy assassination. Just recently the son of the late CIA executive officer and covert operative, E. Howard Hunt, is making available the detailed death bed recordings of his father's first hand account regarding the conspiracy surrounding the assassination of JFK. Hmmm....interesting how the establishment media didn't pick that story up. Yes, it seems that this was also most likely a conspiracy, one of the most often used words in the judicial system. Also, please take a look at the association of Neil Bush (brother of President G. W. Bush) to the family of John Hinkley, the would be assassin of President Ronald Reagan---see: The Bush-Hinckley connection.

Damned if You Do, Damned if You Don't

"That a man is free to abandon the benefits and throw off the burdens of citizenship, may indeed be inferred from the admissions of existing authorities and of current opinion. Unprepared as they probably are for so extreme a doctrine as the one here maintained, the radicals of our day yet unwittingly profess their belief in a maxim which obviously embodies this doctrine. Do we not continually hear them quote Blackstone's assertion that "no subject of England can be constrained to pay any aids or taxes even for the defence of the realm or the support of government, but such as are imposed by his own consent, or that of his representative in parliament?" And what does this mean? It means, say they, that every man should have a vote. True: but it means much more. If there is any sense in words it is a distinct enunciation of the very right now contended for. In affirming that a man may not be taxed unless he has directly or indirectly given his consent, it affirms that he may refuse to be so taxed; and to refuse to be taxed, is to cut all connection with the state. Perhaps it will be said that this consent is not a specific, but a general one, and that the citizen is understood to have assented to every thing his representative may do, when he voted for him. But suppose he did not vote for him; and on the contrary did all in his power to get elected some one holding opposite views — what them? The reply will probably be that, by taking part in such an election, he tacitly agreed to abide by the decision of the majority. And how if he did not vote at all? Why then he cannot justly complain of any tax, seeing that he made no protest against its imposition. So, curiously enough, it seems that he gave his consent in whatever way he acted — whether he said yes, whether he said no, or whether he remained neuter! A rather awkward doctrine this. Here stands an unfortunate citizen who is asked if he will pay money for a certain proffered advantage; and whether he employs the only means of expressing his refusal or does not employ it, we are told that he practically agrees; if only the number of others who agree is greater than the number of those who dissent. And thus we are introduced to the novel principle that A's consent to a thing is not determined by what A says, but by what B may happen to say!"
Herbert Spencer, "The Right to Ignore the State"

"When tyrants cannot prevail by craft they burst forth into open rage"

(Note i, Exodus 1:22 from the Geneva Bible)

See what can happen if you confront a 'public servant' with evidence of the election con-game. Take a look at video the national news omitted from its nightly broadcast regarding "the tasing incident" at the University of Florida where student Andrew Meyer was zapped with a stun gun after confronting John Kerry with some information regarding the 2004 election:

Who's Controlling Whom? Commentary From Historical personages and a stand-up comedian:

"Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government, to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day. " Theodore Roosevelt, April 19, 1906

"The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country." Edward Bernays, Propaganda (1928)

Note: You may experience problems viewing the following video if you are using Firefox as your browser. Embedded videos work best with IE.

George Carlin......

"The Trilateral Commission doesn't run the world, the Council on Foreign Relations does that!" Winston Lord, Assistant Secretary of State, the U. S. State Department

"In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happened, you can bet it was planned that way." Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), 32nd US President

"The American people should be made aware of the trend toward monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the concentration of more and more power over public opinion in fewer and fewer hands." Spiro Agnew, U. S. Vice-President, 13 November 1969

"The real rulers in Washington are invisible and exercise power from behind the scenes." Justice Felix Frankfurter (1882-1965) U.S. Supreme Court Justice

"In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill ... All these dangers are caused by human intervention and it is only through changed attitudes and behaviour that they can be overcome. The real enemy, then, is humanity itself."Alexander King, Bertrand Schneider - founder and secretary, respectively, of the Club of Rome - The First Global Revolution, pp.104-105

"Electronic communication and rapid transportation make possible a stifling world government. Techniques such as genetic engineering, psychoactive drugs and electronic control of the brain make possible a transformation of the species into docile, fully-obedient, 'safe' organisms. "William Sims Bainbridge

"I have the greatest admiration for your propaganda. Propaganda in the West is carried out by experts who have had the best training in the world — in the field of advertizing — and have mastered the techniques with exceptional proficiency ... Yours are subtle and persuasive; ours are crude and obvious ... I think that the fundamental difference between our worlds, with respect to propaganda, is quite simple. You tend to believe yours ... and we tend to disbelieve ours." Soviet correspondent based five years in the U.S.

"The Trilateralist Commission is international... [and] ...is intended to be the vehicle for multinational consolidation of the commercial and banking interests by seizing control of the political government of the United States. The Trilateralist Commission represents a skillful, coordinated effort to seize control and consolidate the four centers of power - political, monetary, intellectual, and ecclesiastical."Barry Goldwater (1909-1998) US Senator (R-Arizona), in his book "With No Apologies"

"To achieve world government, it is necessary to remove from the minds of men, their individualism, loyalty to family traditions, national patriotism and religious dogmas."G. Brock Chisholm, co-founder of the World Federation for Mental Health, former director of UN World Health Organization

"The real menace of our Republic is the invisible government which like a giant octopus sprawls its slimy legs over our cities states and nation. At the head is a small group of banking houses generally referred to as 'international bankers.' This little coterie... run our government for their own selfish ends. It operates under cover of a self-created screen...[and] seizes...our executive officers... legislative bodies... schools... courts... newspapers and every agency created for the public protection."John F. Hylan, Mayor of New York (1918-1925), in speech on March 26, 1922

"The ruling class has the schools and press under its thumb. This enables it to sway the emotions of the masses." Albert Einstein

Officially, Is the Evidence Lacking Which Ties Osama bin Laden to the Attacks of 9/11?

2007-09-24T21:10:00.000-05:00

Despite the video of what is purported to be Osama bin Laden admitting his involvement with the 9/11 attacks, it would seem that the Department of Justice either does not believe him, they do could not verify the authenticity of the bin Laden video, or perhaps they just need more evidence to indict.

If that be the case, than why does the national MOCKINGBIRD press keep naming bin-Laden as being a responsible party for the attacks of 9/11?

Here's one local news station which asked the question, "Why does the FBI's most wanted poster of bin-Laden not specifically contain 9/11 as one of the charges?

FBI TEN MOST WANTED FUGITIVE:
http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/topten/fugitives/laden.htm

'Democracy'; From Political Concept to Propaganda Tool

2007-09-24T08:42:00.000-05:00

The word 'democracy,' is today a valuable tool, an idea used to justify foreign ventures and world wars to; "make the world safe for democracy." A word which is often interchangeably used with the word "freedom," when we are told that we are so, especially when legislation or an executive order is introduced to take more of it from a fearful and unquestioning public. More recently, we saw the buzz word being thrown around to justify overthrowing yet another dictator, Saddam Hussein. A dictator originally put in place by the Fortune 500 mercenary organization, the CIA.

"....if you were to ask the average American if he or she finds it possible Saddam Hussein was groomed, financed, and supported by the CIA beginning with president John F. Kennedy -- who signed off on plan to overthrow the government of Iraq in 1963 -- chances are they wouldn't believe it. After all, we're the good guys, we do good in the world -- and that's why we're now attempting to track down Hussein and bring him to justice." Saddam Hussein: Taking Out the CIA's Trash

Once the "other reason" was deemed no longer possible to justify the second Iraqi great adventure, "democracy" became the word of choice, once again. I guess it made more sense than blurting out, "it's for the children."

Countless Americans have been psychologically damaged, maimed, and have died, as well as many more who were (and still are) duped, to achieve this goal, as stated for them. Democracy, which is certainly used in a positive sense in speech, debate or argument, when embedded in propaganda, is often used to obtain certain results such as war, or crowd kill operations of conscripted and voluntary combatants who either believe in their own home grown justifications, or merely fight to repel a foreign invader. Unfortunately, the destruction of civilian populations in the process has been more often than not, deliberate.

Since most Americans alive today have little idea why the United States decided to involve itself in the latter stages of World War I, we can direct our attention to the reasons used to get the United States into World War II. US involvement in this war was made easy by the use of the boogey-man fear tactic propaganda perpetrated upon the population as a means of fear-based mind control.

Who could argue that Hitler didn't need a military take-down to "make the world safe for democracy?" Who knows what a Germany under Hitler would have been capable of over time? But that's not the question. Indeed, but what about Hitler's origins? Are we to assume that Hitler and his gang naturally sprang up from obscurity thanks to early support and donations from the German citizenry and domestic grass roots organizations? The evidence would suggest otherwise as Hitler's climb to power was anything but a domestic affair.

"A clique of U.S. industrialists is hell-bent to bring a fascist state to supplant our democratic government and is working closely with the fascist regime in Germany and Italy. I have had plenty of opportunity in my post in Berlin to witness how close some of our American ruling families are to the Nazi regime. They extended aid to help Fascism occupy the seat of power, and they are helping to keep it there." William E. Dodd U.S. Ambassador to Germany 1937

I'll leave it to you to enter down that rabbit hole, should you wish to do so, with the following:

The Matrix of Manufactured War

WALL STREET AND THE RISE OF HITLER

How Bush's Grandfather Helped Hitler's Rise to Power

IBM and Auschwitz
See also: Osama bin Laden, A.K.A. CIA Asset "Tim Osman"

Taking a look at the last 100 years, it is apparent that the brilliant idea of having a war always originates from the top down. A large part of pre-war preparation efforts is scaring the bejesus out of the population. Notwithstanding the profit motive of the debt creation machine that is war, perpetual states of danger and fear percieved by the public do a fine job of justifying the publics' surrender of their freedom for the sake of security. A surrender of control to the administrators (and their handlers) of so called government.

"The myth that the United States is a democracy is probably a far stronger 'reality' in the minds of Americans than the actual reality that it is a tightly controlled secret oligarchy with a republican front. But in this case, which is the greater real reality? The American believes his myth enough that he dies for it. He fights the "war to end all wars" and then the "war to save the world FOR DEMOCRACY" (to quote some popular world war slogans). In the American mind, he achieves victory even though he has fought and died for a myth. And even when the mythical goals he fought for aren't even achieved, he believes he has achieved a victory." Fritz Springmeier

So, is there ever any justification for aggression against enemies foreign. Personally, I'll take a warrior's advice any day before politicians who make certain to keep their children safe from the wars that he or she sponsors.

Two time Medal of Honor recipient, General Smedly Butler, USMC:

I wouldn't go to war again as I have done to protect some lousy investment of the bankers. There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights. War for any other reason is simply a racket. General Smedly Butler, USMC

'Democracy' and the (non) NGO 'Tools'

As an example of how the term "democracy" is also a propandistic tool often engaged to provide cover for meddling clandestine operations, is the existence of Non-governmental Organizations. Entities Americans do not pay much attention to. A bit of fact checking beyond the MOCKINGBIRD national press reveals how, in one example, the National Endowment for Democracy (Bush's speech at NED, November 2003), a think tank which supposedly has no conflicts of interest and wants nothing better than to empower "the people," is a Non-Government Organization (NGO), which is engaged in doing the exact opposite.

How many Americans could identify the National Endowment for Democracy? An organization which often does exactly the opposite of what its name implies. The NED was set up in the early 1980s under President Reagan in the wake of all the negative revelations about the CIA in the second half of the 1970s. The latter was a remarkable period. Spurred by Watergate-the Church Committee of the Senate, the Pike Committee of the House and the Rockefeller Commission, created by the president, were all busy investigating the CIA. Seemingly every other day there was a new headline about the discovery of some awful thing, even criminal conduct, the CIA had been mixed up in for years. The Agency was getting an exceedingly bad name, and it was causing the powers-that-be much embarrassment.

It was a masterpiece. Of politics, of public relations and of cynicism. Thus it was that in 1983, the National Endowment for Democracy was set up to "support democratic institutions throughout the world through private, nongovernmental efforts". Notice the "nongovernmental"-part of the image, part of the myth. In actuality, virtually every penny of its funding comes from the federal government, as is clearly indicated in the financial statement in each issue of its annual report. NED likes to refer to itself as an NGO (non-governmental organization) because this helps to maintain a certain credibility abroad that an official US government agency might not have. But NGO is the wrong category. NED is a GO.

Allen Weinstein, who helped draft the legislation establishing NED, was quite candid when he said in 1991: "A lot of what we do today was done covertly 25 years ago by the CIA." In effect, the CIA has been laundering money through NED.

Funds contributed by NED even included campaign money to a former CIA contract agent, Panama's Manuel Noriega, for a presidential candidate that he backed:

Because of a controversy in 1984-when NED funds were used to aid a Panamanian presidential candidate backed by Manuel Noriega and the CIA-Congress enacted a law prohibiting the use of NED funds "to finance the campaigns of candidates for public office." But the ways to circumvent the spirit of such a prohibition are not difficult to come up with; as with American elections, there's "hard money" and there's "soft money".

"Empowering" the people:

NED successfully manipulated elections in Nicaragua in 1990 and Mongolia in 1996 and helped to overthrow democratically elected governments in Bulgaria in 1990 and Albania in 1991 and 1992. In Haiti in the late l990s, NED was busy working on behalf of right wing groups who were united in their opposition to former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide and his progressive ideology. NED has made its weight felt in the electoral-political process in numerous other countries. "Trojan Horse: The National Endowment for Democracy" From the book, "Rogue State; A Guide to the World's Only Superpower"

More on NED: "NED Funded Group helped conduct bogus Venezuela Exit Poll"

US AID is another one of these "benevolent NGO" organizations (on the surface) with much information to the contrary, regarding uninvited meddling in the national affairs of foreign nations. Even the online dynamic encyclopaedia, WIKIPEDIA, recently revealed as having been tampered with by intelligence agencies, contract agents, FBI and a variety of other government agencies, confirms these allegations and discusses several other NGOs with alleged involvement in clandestine destabilization activities worldwide. There are also complaints from a Venezuelan perspective of how destabilization and overthrow of the current government of Venezuela has been ongoing. Such an allegation could be dismissed as biased, but the evidence from other sources would suggest otherwise to any critical thinking upright walking biped.

So what is the real purpose and motivation for the genesis and funding of these "nice" organizations with no religious affiliations? Are we to believe that there is no control or profit motive somewhere, less detectable downstream?

I'm done buy'in it.

The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. Professional government propagandist, Edward Bernays in History as a Weapon

Former CIA agent tells: How US infiltrates "civil society" to overthrow governments

"FBI, CIA Scriveners Edit Wikipedia Entries"

The Tragic Epiphany of Pat Tillman

2007-08-04T19:28:00.000-05:00

Pat Daniel Tillman, a rookie NFL player, was destined for great things. Inspired by a self-imposed patriotic duty, Tillman decided to forego a $3.6 million contract with the Arizona Cardinals to enlisted in the US Army less than one year after the September 11 event. The problem for Pat Tillman, was that he was initially a useful political asset who eventually decided to place himself on the liability side of the propaganda balance sheet. His actions broke the cardinal rule of threatening tremendous political damage to high level government officials and their policies before seeking the protections inherent in aggressively going public. It was indeed a very dangerous act, the act of potentially awakening the logic centers of multitudes of made-in-China-flag waving zombies back home.

Tillman was suffering withdrawals due to a loss of his illusions. Maybe we could call it "delusions;"....the naive and unquestioning child-like "patriotism" which, hopefully, a shrinking majority of Americans continue to suffer to this day. It is the reason for the current mess in the middle-east. The reality which dawned on Pat Tillman, is the same reality realized by an unfortunately small minority of Americans who care to do their true patriotic duty of questioning inquiry and research into history and current events beyond the pseudo-reality presented by the MOCKINGBIRD national press. Tillman's epiphany created enough anger within him that he could not control his passion. Tillman didn't have a problem with the situation in Afghanistan, where he was eventually shipped off to after his tour in Iraq, as he believed terrorists there had to be routed...the reason why he enlisted after 9/11. But Iraq was a different story for him.

"He told fellow Rangers fighting in Iraq that the war was so 'fucking illegal.'" Who Killed Pat Tillman?

Pat Tillman was too intelligent to allow full-blown cognitive dissonance and denial to maintain its grip on his mind. The brand of government criminality that we are witness to today, has been business as usual for hundreds of years. Nothing new, just more 'in-your-face' right now made possible by years of dumbing-down. It has, in better days, been kept more in check by healthy distrust of a thinking citizenry, unlike the current contingent of FOX NEWS addicted citizen-automatons. Tillman was a "fiercely independent thinker," and his uncontrolled passion may have been his own undoing. If Tillman had been an unknown enlistee, he might have eventually been disciplined to the point of being brought up on certain UCMJ charges, if he had not choosen his words carefully. But for Pat Tillman, ultimately providing such a legal forum for his grievances would have been unthinkable to the information manipulators.

"Interviews also show a side of Pat Tillman not widely known — a fiercely independent thinker who enlisted, fought and died in service to his country yet was critical of President Bush and opposed the war in Iraq, where he served a tour of duty."

Tillman is alleged to have suffered multiple .223 (5.65mm) rounds to the forehead fired at no more than ten yards. If the allegations of intentional fratricide are true, this would be quite an arrogant hit as the ammunition of choice for the local insurgency is certainly not NATO M-16 ammunition. A hit by mercenary "sheep dipped" soldiers?

"The doctors _ whose names were blacked out _ said that the bullet holes were so close together that it appeared the Army Ranger was cut down by an M-16 fired from a mere 10 yards or so away." New Details on Tillman's Death

Will the soldiers, US military officials, and medical pathologist(s) who may have first hand knowledge of this alleged conspiracy stay quiet?

"One day after his death, someone burned his body armor. Two days later, someone burned his uniform" Who Killed Pat Tillman?

If there's more to this than the official story, they'd better begin to separate themselves from the cover-up pronto, because this kind of shit flies in the face of even the simplest minded "mom and apple pie"-----patriotism, which hopefully may become more difficult to manage much further beyond this point. Equating patriotism with no-questions-asked support of every violent government foreign policy, despite conflict with the national constitution and international law, is a faulty illusion resultant from intellectual laziness of the population. Unfortunately, even as this old playbook has been used many times before, people today seem to require that their generation personally suffer what previous generations have suffered, before becoming convinced themselves (once again) that they've been had. Maybe, if Vietnam were the nation accused of possessing WMDs this time around instead of Iraq, the majority of Americans might have hesitated, at least for a few seconds, before screaming for war at their television screens from the comfort of their arm chairs.

At Pat Tillman's eulogy, his brother Rich stated that Pat....

".....isn't with God... He wasn't religious."

Excuse me for chiming in here Rich, but your brother's intellect was way beyond adherence to any religious (or political) dogma, and for quite a few of us, such adherence has nothing to do with the very personal nature and essense of one's spirituality.

Your brother was a man of vast physical and moral courage. Those two attributes don't often come in pairs.

Running on Fumes: The Supression of Super Carburetor Technology

2007-07-18T13:35:00.000-05:00

"In a court of law, if two or three people stand together and say the same thing, you can be hung. In the real world you can have thirty different books on [high mileage engines] and several thousand testimonials, but it's ignored since it can't be worth anything because it's not on tv!"
Bruce McBurney, HIMAC Research

You heard the story before; a man invents a carburetor and achieves 100 miles per gallon with a V-8 Chevy. Next thing that happens...men in suits show up and purchase the invention and shelve it, or the stubborn inventor goes to jail thanks to a corrupt judiciary or worse, disappears never to be heard from again.

Crazy conspiracy theories? For those who may not have seen this short video from a previous post, take a look at these short testimonials before making up your mind too quickly:

Although you might think that such accounts are just more of those many tales of conspiracy folklore, they seem almost too numerous to dismiss outright. It isn't very difficult to look into these patents, as many shelved patents are available for viewing at the United States Patent and Trademark Office. More on some of these patents.

So why, even as high mileage carburetor claims are found discredited on SNOPES; Nobody's Fuel, do inventor-tinkerers continue to spring forth, by name? Maybe none of it can be substantiated and these accounts persist because people simply like to day dream about beneficial inventions, but these tales simply keep coming. I used to accept such claims as neat camp fire stories in the past, but in more recent times, I can no longer be so sure. Here are a couple of documented examples of many others that I have since stumbled upon from decades ago. These are just two examples of why a reformulation of the reality of such possibilities might be reconsidered. There is this, and this one from a Shell Oil Company booklet; among other documents from the recent past. Surely these dated documents are outright lies, right?

Inventor Bruce McBurney contends that it is possible to crack gasoline further (subsequent to cracking at the refinery) before the combustion process as it makes it's way into the carburetor and engine intake manifold in a process called 'thermocatalytic cracking.' With the aid of certain metals, this catalytic process further breaks the gasoline down into a simple natural gas and methanol to burn super clean --McBurney Cracks the Code for Super-Carburetors. According to McBurney, he built his own retrofitted system in a 1976 Dodge Maxi-Van with a 360 cubic inch V-8 engine running at 70 miles per gallon.

Listen to this for yourself in this hour long interview (right click & save as target): McBurney interview of 16 July 2007 (other listening options here). Part one is also worth saving.

According to McBurney, the process is so efficient, that when a car has been running a retrofitted engine, it is possible to touch the intake manifold of the engine which has been running for a good while without the danger of burns or even to open the radiator cap only to feel luke warm water. Years ago, cars running on the legendary Canadian Pogue Carburetors [patent 2,026,798 filed on January 7, 1936] didn't require water cooled radiators in the winter. Efficiency means less heat radiated into the environment and more converted into kinetic energy.

As technology continues to advance by leaps and bounds, we still accept the current reality of four cylinder subcompact cars which still get well under 40 miles per gallon while being presented with outrageously priced four wheeled Rube Goldberg contraptions which are called 'hybrid vehicles.' The process of the conventional method of burning gasoline is so inefficient and therefore deemed unacceptably polluting, that the catalytic converter (McBurney calls it an "afterburner") was added to exhaust systems to breakdown and burn the fuel even further downstream of the engine thereby achieving red hot temperatures only for the heat to be released into the environment instead of performing work.

It is not easy to imagine the exact impact of the tremendous shift in the world economy and our lives if this alleged technology were advanced and were to flourish into the market place. Initially, the upheaval in the structure of the economy would create massive displacements, but the obvious improvements in all aspects of industrial society would be huge. Certainly, if any of this is true, there would be some powerful vested interests who would be very upset. Millions have died and continue to die to this day to preserve economic paradigms,which is what ALL wars are and have been about. Only continued and pathetic naivete will allow this situation to persist (can you name a war which began from the grass roots?).

"He who controls the spice, controls the universe."

from the science fiction novel DUNE, by Frank Herbert.

"Melange serves as the axis about which the human universe turns, it being required for space travel, and with most "Elites" addicted to (and living much longer because of) the drug. Herbert wrote that he intended for melange in the Dune universe to mimic the role that petroleum plays in current human society, in the way that the "Elites" of the 20th century were dependent upon the flow of petroleum for civilization to survive week after week. Following this line, Herbert wrote CHOAM to be the corporation with a monopoly on melange distribution, as a stronger version of OPEC, which is often perceived as being essentially able to set the price of oil by means of its control over a large amount of the world's oil production."

It is my contention that the centralization and control of energy distribution is just one of the methods that oligarchical rulers (the handlers of your visible politicians) assure the continued harvesting of productivity from the common citizenry. Other vehicles for feeding off this productivity include; the control of the monetary system and its accompanying personal income tax to absorb purchasing power from the working class (keeps us all working), control of the medical establishment, and of course, control of the three branches of government. There are two more that I can think of which is needed to make it all possible, and that is the control of the educational system and mass communications. In the meantime, humans continue to feverishly extract hydrocarbons from the planet at a rate barely able to keep up with the creation of credit required to maintain the deteriorating and artificially centralized economic systems. The sad part about all of it, is the unhealthy situation of the unnecessary release of massive amounts of hydrocarbon emissions, if this developed technology is indeed viable as an incredible alternative. A more overtly disturbing aspect of this which some are trying to bring to the forefront, is the lack of response from government when taken to task (please see: Energy Problem or Political Problem?). If Global Warming and Peak Oil (which somehow are able to exist concurrently), are real problems, this is not the reaction that we would expect. Should we believe that anthropogenic Global Warming is nothing more than a mode of pushing the tired old collectivist ideas to introduce austerity measures as in population control (Chinese style one child per couple), and "carbon taxes" as both of these have been already been spoken about from 'official' channels?

Highly efficient energy systems would indeed be welcome measures especially if these "emergencies" were factually more than fear-based bullshit posturing being executed as tools of control. But it seems that this is not what we are seeing. Remember during the last energy "crisis" (which we all now know was concocted), how the government was asking the public for ideas? Some of these incredible and working ideas somehow just conveniently faded away, didn't they? Some of you may be old enough to remember being told in the 1970s that another ice age was just around the corner, and now we are to believe that the current global warming can only be stopped if we return to the pre-industrial age? How ridiculous can this get? It would seem that pushing the fear agenda is a main tactic which helps entrench a growing and further centralizing government. Nonetheless, if just to maintain hope that we might one day keep the air cleaner and give the working class and our descendants a break, I ask that you please pass this information on.

McBurney offers his books on line for free --minus the diagrams (you can buy the books with a money back guarantee): http://www.himacresearch.com/books/

With thanks to Vyzygoth's Grassy Knoll for the interviews.

Investigating a Natural Cancer Cure; A Documentary, "Dying to Have Known"

2007-07-10T00:13:00.002-05:00

Unlike Academy Award producer Aaron Russo's America: Freedom to Fascism, Michael Moore had little problem distributing his new film SICKO. Interesting. While Moore advocates socialized medicine, which is somehow supposed to make us all healthier, others point to the real problem with the medical industry vis-a-vis degenerative diseases; the lack of knowledge by street level medical practitioners which would otherwise allow them to effectively promote preventative healthcare. A large reason for this problem is not only the existing nutrition myths, for example, that animal fat/red meat causes elevated levels of cholesterol, but also because there is no profit in healthy people. Obviously, the majority of the US population has little clue what the consequences may be to their health, beyond heart disease and/or a weight problem, for lack of knowledge. History shows that an administrative government "war" on something, like the War on Cancer, or the War on Drugs, entails that eradication of the problem is not the desired goal while keeping our eyes averted from seeking a true solution. See: Behind the Drug War--Scratching the Surface.

Those who would invite a further and complete government takeover into healthcare as a solution, are effectively advocating the preservation of the existing healthcare price structure and its inevitable cost increases by having government take over payments. The people are tapped out and this is the provided solution on the horizon. While Moore gives the impression that he is going against the grain (oh my, he went to Cuba), further contemplation about the ramifications of his assertions may lead the more astute to conclude that he is controlled opposition. Is not socialized healthcare what Hillary was pushing for during the Clinton Administration? Moore the democrat, is that not just the other side of the same coin?

The result of a complete government takeover can be compared to the prescription drug bill passed in late 2003, times a factor of 100 or who knows how many zeroes you could add to that. The cost of the Medicare drug bill has been estimated at $1.2 trillion. So how would you like to be in the 45%+ tax bracket even though you take care of your body responsibly and healthy as a horse? Talk to a Canadian resident.

Something is terribly wrong when one of three people will eventually be afflicted with cancer. The ten minute trailer below is an example of the mounting evidence of deliberate supression of natural (and lower cost) solutions for this epidemic. This treatment is an example of many which have been around for many years and thousands upon thousands of people have found themselves cured of cancer following certain natural health protocols. So why do most people march like nut cracker toy soldiers to have themselves injected with toxic chemicals or zapped with cancer inducing radiation to cure what is a nutrition deficiency disease? This is yet another example that is difficult to chalk up to ignorance, at the regulatory agency and medical research level. There is no profit in healthy people or non-patentable natural products. Therefore,under the guise of protecting what the State regards as children of the State (you and me), the heavy hand of the FDA destroys those who makes waves by curing disease and saving lives without the approval of one of the most powerful lobbies on the planet.

Watch this film maker slam the gate keepers in this short video trailer (give it 15 or so seconds to load):

For more information about this DVD, please click: "Dying to Have Known."

Also: THE GERSON INSTITUTE

See also: Healthcare: Their Way or the Highway.

DISCLAIMER: This commentary does not constitute medical advice. Please do your own research.

Healthcare: Their Way or the Highway

2007-05-30T08:19:00.001-05:00

Most people don't give a second thought to questioning conventional wisdom, "group think" or consensus reality. But once an individual makes the decision and gets into the practice of taking a few moments to engage in critical thinking, it can get habit forming.

In the arena of health and nutrition, the application of critical thinking shouldn't require a terminal or debilitating disease to provide the motivation for doing bit of research. While modern medicine has advanced incredibly in the area of surgical procedures and generally sowing people back together, when it comes to serious and chronic disease, could it simply be said that it sucks? It's not too difficult to imagine that there might be little motivation from the higher levels of the medical hiearchy in keeping the population healthy and disease free.

Most people do not have the faintest idea that health researchers, mostly those without corporate affiliations (yes, they include researchers with PhDs and MDs) have concluded that heart disease and cancer are nutritional deficiency diseases. Case in point regarding an international comparative study of lung cancer rates between American and Japanese men;

"Rates of lung cancer in American men have greatly exceeded those in Japanese men for several decades despite the higher smoking prevalence in Japanese men."

By the way, Japanese males smoke much more than American males. OK, so you think that ethnic differences have something to do with it. Think again;

"The rates of lung cancer in Japanese migrants and their offspring in the United States are similar to United States-born whites, which strongly suggests that most of the international variation in lung cancer rates is not attributable to ethnic differences in susceptibility."

Could this be as a result of the differences in diet between the two countries?

Now we take a look at heart disease, a disease which was relatively uncommon in the early 1900s. What has changed? A few things come to mind like for example the substitution of animal lard in cooking for processed vegetable oils. Take a look.

Here we had animal lard, chock full of fat soluble vitamins and this dietary staple, consumed by the public in massive quantities when heart disease was not considered a public health issue, and it has been virtually eradicated from the western diet and cooking practices. Are we so sure that the French, with their traditional diet of fatty cheeses, raw milk and steak tartar are experiencing a lower incidence of heart disease solely because of red wine consumption? Have you ever had a friend on the Atkins Diet tell you that his or her cholesterol plummeted once they got on the diet? Sometimes a little hint which is counter to what we've been told can really get our minds going.

Here's a bit of research regarding heart disease by a medical doctor who gets results with his natural treatment protocols, including reversing patient prognoses for heart transplants with the use of mainly vitamins C and E. Included in the research is a comment about the sizable reduction of rates of heart disease in the 1970s, when Linus Pauling recommended increased dosages of vitamin C to help prevent colds. As you peruse the research, keep in mind that Dr. Rath has endured quite a bit of official harrassment. Dr. Rath's web pages also include very interesting research on cancer and the positive results that can be obtain by giving the body what it needs.

Lastly, below is an excerpt of a quick summary on the evolution of modern medicine in America.

"When Flexner researched his report, allopathic medicine faced vigorous competition from several quarters, including osteopathic medicine, naturopathic medicine, eclectic medicine, physiomedicalism, herbal medicine and homeopathic medicine. Flexner clearly doubted the scientific validity of all forms of medicine other than the allopathic, deeming any approach to medicine that did not employ drugs to help cure the patient as tantamount to quackery and charlatanism. Medical schools that offered courses in bioelectric medicine, eclectic medicine, naturopathy, homeopathy, or "eastern medicine," for example, were told either to drop these courses from their curriculum or lose their accreditation and underwriting support. A few schools resisted for a time, but eventually all complied with the Report or shut their doors."

Indeed, the practice of medicine and medical schooling was an unregulated mish-mash less than 100 years ago. While this situation certainly allowed for what we would consider today an unlimited choice for the type of medical care we might desire, perhaps the solution provided went a bit too far when it has become a situation of 'their way or the highway,' literally. Today, thousands of Americans who have taken the time to do research (and have the money), must leave the country to obtain the type of medical care they desire which is either prohibited or career destroying for healthcare professionals to practice in the United States, the land of liberty. I never did realize that the Carnegie Foundation cared so much about protecting our health...or is it the bottom line? Nevertheless, I am sure that there are those out there who are glad that their choices of treatments have been narrowed down for them. Believe it or not, there was a time in the past when "buyer-beware" was a great way for consumers to establish satisfying commercial relationships.

Video trailer, THE GERSON THERAPY; Amazing testimonials regarding a natural cancer cure.

For more information about this DVD, please click: Dying to Have Known.

See also: THE GERSON INSTITUTE

DISCLAIMER: This commentary does not constitute medical advice. You should consult a licensed health professional for specific advice.

Portfolio Check-up

2007-05-03T15:45:00.000-05:00

So the markets are doing well and you've found yourself able to open your quarterly brokerage statements these past few years and actually look at the figures without cringing. But let's take a look at the yardstick that you are using as you absorb and digest the seemingly successful appreciation of your invested sweat and toil.

Notwithstanding the confiscation of large portions of your income and other gains at the point of a gun (individual income taxes--"home of the free,"---yeah!), you might want to look beyond the massaged Bureau of Labor and Statistics numbers to take a true measure "the other tax;" inflation. Why would the BLS tell you the truth about inflation with their benign-looking CPI index when this entity is an agency of a government which must make provisions for cost of living allowance increases for federal workers, social security and other government retirement program recipients as well as making variable payments to holders of inflation protected (TIPS) U.S. bonds? Not only that, the inflation figures they publish exclude food and energy! Try asking the check out girl at your grocer for the "core rate of inflation" prices the next time you pay for your food. By the way, inflation has never, until recent history, been an out-in-the-open state of affairs and in the past, the "coin clipping" was done so only covertly. As a matter of fact, the devaluation of money at the time of the birth of the United States, was punishable by death! [1] Yet today, participants in this economy, although many are unsure why, have come to accept this state of affairs and frantically chase yields. Let's make one thing perfectly clear, inflation is defined as the increase in the money supply, and rising prices are the result. Interestingly, WIKIPEDIA tells us that this was the old definition. Really?

Today, the debasement of money is in your face and don't think for a minute that the Federal Reserve is charged with "fighting inflation." The Federal Reserve is the sole creator of inflation. If a nation, civilization or world for that matter, expects to continue to function properly without the inevitable major disturbances in the economic state of affairs, stable medium(s) of exchange must preceed such expectations. So much today for "fair weights and measures."

Without having to get blurry-eyed staring at statistics and figures, let's see if we can take a quick glance at a few charts so that we can get an idea of the slow destruction of your livelihood. By the way, don't blame the US government. That visible entity hasn't run the show for quite a good while now and most Americans continue to vote for the controlled political selectees paraded before them, while viable candidates are buried and not allowed the stage for open national debates.[2] Worse, there is little knowledge of the fact that the US Central Bank, the Federal Reserve, IS NOT a public agency of the US Government. The real deal is that the oligarchs run the show, and they'll keep pushing until you push back. When will you have had enough? Ever wonder where the robber-barron families of old have disappeared to? That's just it, they no longer make appearances, but they still very much run the show.

Now, to the point of all of this as we take a look at the DOW Jones Industrial average as a measure of the U.S economy as well as the standard of many investment portfolios, against REAL (tangible) things and not to some floating, imaginary intrinsically worthless medium of exchange which is the U.S. "Dollar." [3]

Let's take a look at the DOW as measured in U.S. "Dollars," then, as measured in items that directly illustrate why the rate of inflation is , in reality, approaching double-digits. Click on the charts, if you wish to expand them.

Sorry to tell you this, but you are not getting richer. If anyone is, it is the corporate bosses and the "made men" in politics who are doing so and doing so quite well. The irony of it all is that the media will try to convince you that capitalism is a failure in attempting to have you beg for a more level playing field. If and when the public demand more regulation and socialism because things are so "unfair," the top dogs WILL NOT take a hit, trust me. Never have, never will, as they are the script writers of the grand "coincidences" that we call history. Who was it who said that those who believe they are free make the best slaves?

By the time most begin to figure out what's going on, gold will be in the four figures. By the time most become convinced, they'll be buying hard assets as those run wild to a blow-off top and soon thereafter seek a lower equilibrium. That is the madness of human nature and thus the markets. Check out, The Bull Market in Things, if you get a chance.

[1] See Section 19 of the COINAGE ACT OF 1792 for the penalty for debasing the coinage.

[2] Have you heard of Congressman Ron Paul? According to the latest MSNBC poll on line, he leads the Republican Party yet barely a peep from the press about him. Why? Perhaps because he happens to believe in liberty and the Constitution.

[3] A silver coin of the United States containing 371.25 grains of silver and 41.25 grains of alloy, that is, having a total weight of 412.5 grains. See: COINAGE ACT OF 1792 .

Behind the Drug War--Scratching the Surface

2007-04-14T23:33:00.000-05:00

Somehow, Nancy Reagan forgot this part when she got her "Just Say No," campaign underway.

A modern day run-down here: "The CIA, Contras, Gangs and Crack."

More: Media Censor CIA Ties With Medellin Drug Cartel
Why? See: OPERATION MOCKINGBIRD

CRACK THE CIA video:

See also: "The Oliver North File"

Drug War: Covert Money, Power & Policy: Propaganda

Prohibition is about economic and military power, not health. It was the geopolitical utility of medical monopoly that saw it come to pass. The Harrison Act was conceived in China, at the 1909 Shanghai Opium Commission, the idea being that America should pass a model "no license" law it could then ask other nations to adopt. President Roosevelt had arbitrated the end of the Russo-Japanese War only to observe Russia and Japan dividing Manchuria, Mongolia and Korea between them. With China beginning to industrialize on a massive scale, all the imperial powers were delighted to have a "pro-Chinese" issue they could sell while competing for China. America, with never more than 2500 troops in China, had the weakest military position, and so led the fight for an "open door" and an end to the opium trade. The Chinese leadership had grown to hate opium because the British controlled the nationwide trade, and had used it as a lever to control China. Industrialization, however, with its mills, mines and railroads, had created different stakes. For America, Chinese cooperation in the industrial competition was essential. The weaker the British position, the stronger the U.S. The Chinese government encouraged groups like the Foochow Anti-opium Society, below, to express their politically correct feelings for the foreign press.

Current History, October, 1924

Wright criminalized "nonmedical" use of "opium or coca leaves or any compound, manufacture, salt, derivative, or preparation thereof." Wiley's unempirical equation of herbs and alkaloids had already achieved the status of legal precedent. Lobbying Congress in 1910 for his new bill, Wright fretted about cocaine's "encouragement among the humbler ranks of the Negro population in the South....it has been authoritatively stated that cocaine is often the direct incentive to the crime of rape by the Negroes of the South and other sections of the country." Here you have the geopolitical, the economic utility of racism. Wright wrote the editor of the Louisville Journal Courier that "a strong editorial from you on the abuse of cocaine in the South would do a great deal of good - do not quote me or the Department of State."

The 1912 Hague Opium Convention, which grew out of the Shanghai Commission, committed the U.S. by treaty to Wright’s law, the 1914 Harrison Act, a domestic law controlling opium and coca products. Below, Hearst’s Magazine revivifies the 1880’s pulp legend of the roué Clendenin, in time to support Harrison. Domestic drug propaganda is still the tool of imperial foreign policy. Today the operative treaties, also engineered by the U.S., are the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances and the 1988 Vienna Antitrafficking Convention.

Hearst’s Magazine, 1/1913

Wright wrote Bishop Brent, his fellow delegate to the Shanghai Opium Commission, that the new Secretary of State Knox was "only now grasping the fact that in this opium business he has the oil to smooth any troubled waters he may meet with at Peking in his aggressive business enterprises there." The other delegate, future President William Howard Taft, the inventor of "dollar diplomacy," likewise worried about "one of the greatest commercial prizes in the world....the trade with the 400,000,000 Chinese."

America's "aggressive business enterprises" were challenged head-on by anti-prohibitionist Eugene Debs, leader of the powerful American Railway Union. Debs' moderate, libertarian Socialist Party was the electoral umbrella for scores of left-wing groups, including the industrial workers in the Northeast; German and Scandinavian enclaves in the upper Midwest; the radical populists of the Great Plains; Big Bill Haywood's tough miners and lumberjacks in the Western Federation of Miners - core group of the IWW; Margaret D. Robins' National Women's Trade Union League, and Alice Paul's direct action National Woman's Party - the radical spearhead that actually forced through woman suffrage.

It was their ideas of the minimum wage, social security and unemployment insurance that helped stabilize capitalism during the Great Depression. And it was Lippmann who warned that "the manufacture of consent" by the corporate owners of the media was a deadly threat to real democracy. As corporate hit-man Edward Bernays, "the father of public relations" put it, in 1928, in Propaganda: "The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country…it is the intelligent minorities which need to make use of propaganda continuously and systemically."

Propaganda during these years meant William Randolph Hearst, who owned the most powerful chain of yellow journals in the country. Hearst built its core circulation, the Chicago Examiner, using Moe Annenberg's gunsels to hijack delivery trucks, bomb newsstands and attack newsboys. Hearst literally fought for circulation city by city.

In 1910 Annenberg branched out for himself in Milwaukee, although the connection to Hearst remained. By the mid-twenties Annenberg owned Racing Form and American Racing Record, the basic betting sheets, and the General News Bureau, the wire service that provided up-to-the-minute race results. Without Annenberg's wire, bookies were an easy target for those who did have the latest results. Annenberg's full partner was Al Capone, who had worked with Luciano in New York before going to Chicago.

As the official mob wire, Annenberg's Nationwide News Service, by the mid-30's, enrolled more than 15,000 clients in 223 cities in 39 states. Hearst tagged along, always able to count on mob goons for "circulation." Hearst, in turn, always peddled the mob's "anti-communist" political line.

Hearst also owned Kimberly Clark-St.Regis, the paper and lumber conglomerate that is still busy gobbling up the competition. A major Kimberly Clark-St. Regis customer was DuPont, which converted Kimberly's wood pulp into explosives and synthetic fiber. Dupont's major competition was the enormopus hemp industry.

Marijuana was one of America's most valuable crops in 1900. Much of the country's textiles, canvas, sails, rope, paper, paints, industrial solvents, lighting oil, machine oil, food oil and medicine was made from it. Marijuana was the raw material for fire hoses, ships rigging, fine linen, work clothes, good paper, candy, bread, bird seed and cheap energy.

The products of a Michigan hemp mill; Scientific American, 6/4/1921

DuPont's major banker, Hoover's Secretary of the Treasury, Andrew Mellon, engineered the legal destruction of the hemp industry. The first DEA, the Narcotics Division of the Prohibition Unit of the Treasury Department, was founded and funded by the Volstead Act of 1919, the ennabling act of the 18th Amendment, Prohibition. The charter of the Narcotics Division, of course, was the State Department's Harrison Act of 1914, an original part of Prohibition's political package. The Harrison Anti-Narcotics Act was originally the responsibility of Treasury's Alcohol Tax Division, but went largely unenforced until the Volstead Act of 1919 funded the Prohibition Unit and its subdivision, the Narcotics Division.

“The Transfer”; Ireland in Columbus Dispatch

The first chief of the Narcotics Division, Levi Nutt, held that job for ten years. But in 1930, Treasury Secretary Mellon appointed an Assistant Commissioner of Prohibition specializing in diplomacy, Harry Anslinger, to head Treasury's reorganized Bureau of Narcotics. Treasury's hopelessly corrupt Prohibition Unit was transferred to Justice. One of the straws that forced this reorganization reveals the actual dynamics of the situation: the indictment of Narcotics Chief Levi Nutt and most of his New York division by a New York Grand Jury, for being on the Rothstein/Lansky/Luciano payroll. Nutt took over the Narcotics Division in 1920 under exactly the same circumstances.

When the legendary gambler Arnold Rothstein was murdered by one of Dutch Schultz' hitters in 1928, his dying body was found with a small fortune in opium, morphine, heroin and cocaine - and all his carefully kept legal books, including the history of his relationship with Nutt. The rabid prohibitionist Nutt started his tenure as head of the Narcotics Division in 1920 with his son listed as Rothstein's attorney of record for tax matters with the Treasury Department, and his son-in-law operating as Rothstein's New York accountant and attorney.

The criminal-governmental symbiosis is a two-way street, of course. If gambling were legal, who'd need Annenberg's gambling wire? If marijuana were legalized, the hood monopoly would be broken and marijuana would lose 95% of its value. The great hoods, geniuses at organizing street muscle, were for Prohibition, and Assistant Commissioner of Prohibition Anslinger was one of their major allies, operating the side of the street they couldn't independently run.

Alcohol and Drug Prohibitionist Anslinger, like his soul-mate J. Edgar Hoover, was in bed with the Mellon-Hearst-Annenberg-Syndicate hoods from the beginning. Anslinger always regarded Drug Prohibition as a tool for "social reorganization," fearing "communist" unions far more than Syndicate heroin gangs, who were, after all, Mellon's, DuPont's, Hearst's and Annenberg's patriotic strike breakers. They were also J. Edgar Hoover's most dangerous COINTELPRO operatives - right from the murderous Palmer raids of 1919, which Hoover organized.

A major target of those raids was Eugene V. Debs. The popular Debs stumped the country in opposition to the war, insisting that if industry supported the war it was only because it was to its tactical advantage to do so. This happens to have been the case. Corporate profits shot up 300% between 1914 and 1919, and leveled off at a spectacular 30% after the war. Inflation, on the other hand, doubled between 1913 and 1920, completely wiping out the modest wartime wage increases. In 1919 a bushel of corn bought five gallons of gas; two years later it bought a half gallon. Family farms went up for sale all across the country, gobbled up by gas companies. Eugene Debs, a farm boy, understood this.

The wartime head of the Committee on Public Information, America's first official Propaganda Minister, was Harper's answer to Good Housekeeping's Harvey Wiley, George Creel, just before the war the most famous anti-patent medicine screamer in the country. Creel's 1915-16 series in Harper's is full of dragons, snakes and dead babies boiled in soothing syrup.

LHJ, 4/1908

Incredibly, on Germany's surrender in 1918, Wilson and the Allies immediately rushed massive amounts of armaments to the Prussian militarists they had just defeated. The Spartacists had risen in Germany, taking Berlin, Munich, Dresden, Essen, Bremen and Dusseldorf, and the Allies knew they couldn't negotiate a reliable contract of reparations with them, so they backed the Prussians.

The revolt took the Prussians months to crush, and it is open to question whether they could have done it without Allied arms. Margaret Sanger's inspiration, Rosa Luxemberg, the birth strike advocate, died leading this revolt. Had we heeded the socialists and taken the opportunity to crush the Prussians once and for all, we would have saved ourselves the last great battle of World War I, World War II, as predicted in writing by Rosa Luxemberg on the eve of her execution by firing squad.

Chortled The New York Times, á la George Creel, December 12, 1918: "...in a few years more Germany would have been irresistable in war, for she would have made drug fiends of all the other nations of the world. Into well-known German brands of tooth paste and patent medicines - naturally for export only - habit-forming drugs were to be introduced; at first a little, then more, as the habit grew on the non-German victim and his system craved ever greater quantities."

NYT, 2/22/1919 and 2/27/1921

"But although the tale of this Teuton-all-too-Teuton scheme is probably a mere invention, Germany did concoct and spread through the world a habit-forming drug, and her leaders in this war have made good use of its ravages in other countries. More than half a century ago socialism was invented in Germany; and the rulers of the empire, forseeing its vast possiblities in breaking down national morale, fostered its propagation abroad while they did their best to stamp out the habit at home....Just as workmen in the tooth paste factories might have surreptitiously sampled the brands made for export only and found attractions not present in the products for the home market, so the Germans took to socialism and neosocialism. It is a rare poison that will not act on the system of its own inventor."

That is almost exactly what Harry Anslinger told a Senate committee and the United Nations Narcotics Commission in 1951 about the Chinese Reds, holding up a bag of "Lions Globe" heroin he said they were shipping to our boys in Korea. This assertion was the basis of a major propaganda campaign that lasted for years. Anslinger handled the press with the finesse of Creel himself. Lions Globe was actually the brand manufactured by our own Kuomintang allies, Chiang's boys, and the more entrepreneurial of the natives, also our allies, in the Golden Triangle, as our boys in Nam discovered, and as our own Bureau of Narcotics confirmed in 1972.

NYT, 7/18/1954

In a famous 1959 case, Anslinger's top international agent, George White, an OSS/CIA operative, made a major heroin bust. It was Burmese Kuomintang heroin funnelled through Hong Kong, bound for distribution by the American Syndicate. But by allowing the ringleader, a well-known member of San Francisco's KMT-organized Chinese Anti-Communist League to escape, White was enabled to claim that it was Red Chinese dope, "most of it from a vast poppy field near Chungking." The Kuomintang is for Prohibition. Today we still arm the KMT, Burmese, Thai and Indonesian warlords, the Sicilian and Chinese gangs still own the docks, and the Lions Globe just keeps on comin', like toothpaste out of a tube.

The War on Pain Doctors

In recent decades, researchers have recognized the inadequacy of this definition. On the one hand, some drugs that don't cause physical withdrawal symptoms (for example, cocaine) clearly can produce a potentially self-destructive desire for more. On the other hand, the vast majority of those who try even the most addictive substances don't develop lasting habits. Researchers therefore redefined addiction to emphasize craving and negative consequences rather than withdrawal symptoms. The diagnostic manual of the American Psychiatric Association now recognizes that physical dependence is neither necessary nor sufficient for addiction, which is characterized by continued use of a substance despite ongoing drug-related problems. For pain patients, of course, the drug produces fewer problems and greater functioning, rather than the reverse.

Some patient advocates say drug warriors can't accept this reality because it undermines the logic of prohibition: If most people don't get hooked when exposed to the "hardest" of all categories of drugs, if patients' lives get dramatically better and they function perfectly well on doses that are supposed to incapacitate, stupefy, and derange, why is it so important for the government to protect us from these substances? From this point of view, the DEA must fight pain control because functional patients on high doses of opioids threaten its authority.

"It completely puts the lie to the whole criminal approach because it shows that these molecules are not evil, that people can and do function well on them," says the Pain Relief Network's Siobhan Reynolds. "It undermines the whole basis for the war on drugs and makes it a strictly scientific/medical issue."

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Excerpts From: "The Matrix of Manufactured War"

2007-04-06T10:09:00.000-05:00

By Henry Makow Ph.D.

Recently a feud between Donald Trump and Rosie O'Donnell gave their ratings a boost. Mel Gibson and Michael Richards also made gratuitous attacks that helped their bottom line.

What if the world's great conflicts were just as phoney? What if Bush and Chavez; Blair and Putin; Olmert and Ahmadinejad were all part of a giant Punch and Judy Show?

I have shown how World War One was made possible by British food subsidies to the Germans, and ended when this trade stopped.

World War Two, which Churchill called the most "unnecessary war in history" was also engineered through loans to the Nazis and the policy of "Appeasement." The Masonic bankers also engineered US entry into WW II.

The war supposedly was fought for the independence of Poland yet at the end, Eastern Europe was under the heel of the Russians, the 1939-1941 allies of the Nazis. Instead of Nazis, Polish nationalists were massacred by Soviets. An improvement? Sounds to me like war for its own sake, or for Communism.

Our War on Terror is the natural successor of the "Cold War"; both as phony as three-dollar bills. The war on Iraq? Lebanon? Afghanistan? Iran? Do any of them make any sense? These wars are unwinnable. How do you win a guerilla war without annihilating everyone? They are not meant to be won.

As Dick Cheney intimated, the Iraq War will last 40 years i.e. as long as the Cold War. Both sides are subsidized and controlled by the world's central bankers and their secret societies/intelligence agencies.

George is not to blame. Every President in the Twentieth Century has been a hand puppet of the Rothschild-Rockefeller cartel of cartels. They wouldn’t let George manage a gas station let alone the "Free World." Luckily, Bush just reads the teleprompter. Henry Kissinger, CEO of the visible NWO, issues the orders.

The most obvious "controlled conflict" is the two party system.

Chavez and Ahmadinejad vilify Bush and the USA, but, like Chavez' mentor Noam Chomsky, cannot pronounce the words "Rothschild" or "central banker."

CONTROLLING DEBATE

I suspect that the bankers set up Nationalist and anti-Globalist spokesmen and groups in order to control both sides. The tip off: are these people getting corporate/government support and coverage in the mass media? Probable Canadian examples are Naomi Klein, Maude Barlow and Mel Hurtig.

On the other hand, you know Connie Fogal, leader of the Canadian Action Party is legit because she talks about the bankers and consequently gets no media. In the US, Aaron Russo is legit for the same reason. It's apparent that political action requires money. The bankers mint it. The rest of us are too busy making a living to be anything but bystanders and victims.

CONCLUSION

These days you can't turn on the media without someone (usually Zionists like Charles Adler or Glenn Beck,) stirring up hostility against Iran and Muslims in general. They keep talking about how war-like Islam is when we are invading them! Any future conflict may destroy Israel, but these highly paid shills don’t care. War for its own sake is the goal.

War is considered "revolutionary" because it advances the Masonic bankers' goal of the New World Order. It "overturns" civilization by destroying nation, race, family and religion. Fabian Harold Laski even referred to the two great wars as "revolutions."

To have a war, the bankers need to create and provision two sides. Thus all wars are waged against humanity by a small satanic criminal network that owns 50% of the world's wealth. The mainspring is the world's private central bankers.

The Hindus have a term for the "Matrix." They say our lives are governed by "Maya" or "illusion."

Who thought anyone would go to so much trouble to create it? Perhaps liberation lies in recognizing that conflicts are artificially created and controlled.

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Doubts? Suggested reading: "The Creature From Jekyll Island"

"Intramural Fun and Games?"

2007-04-06T09:46:00.000-05:00

The Coming Shakedown of the US and Iran

By Henry Makow Ph.D.

If Russian warnings are correct, at this time next week, the US could be at war with Iran. Let us understand that this war is really an assault by the Illuminati on both countries.

The top rung of Freemasonry, the Illuminati Order is an international satanic cult that aims to subdue humanity by pitting nations in war against each other. It represents a conspiracy of international finance and many "leading families" of Europe and America.

The pictures of Bush and Ahmadinejad giving the satanic "goat's head" sign suggest Iranians are as ignorant as Americans of their President's true loyalty. Illuminati defector Leo Zagami recently called Ahmaninejad a "well known Satanist with no real connection to Islam" and the Iraq-Iran-Israel conflict a "foreign intelligence show."

Empowered by the central banking cartel, the Illuminati Order has the resources to infiltrate both sides of every conflict, and steer it according to the New World Order agenda. They call this a "dialectical process." They were on both sides of both world wars, the Cold War, Korea and Vietnam.

Iran's nuclear ambitions are merely a pretext. The real object is to degrade both the US and Iran so citizens will forfeit political, economic and spiritual rights to Illuminati banker "world government."

As early as 1871, Albert Pike, the Grand Commander of US Freemasonry wrote a letter to Giuseppe Mazzini, his European counterpart, foretelling three world wars. He was correct about the first two.

"The Third World War must be fomented by taking advantage of the differences caused by the "agentur" of the "Illuminati" between the political Zionists [i.e. Americans] and the leaders of Islamic World. The war must be conducted in such a way that Islam and political Zionism mutually destroy each other."

I don’t see this conflict as starting WWIII. Like the Spanish Civil War, it is a dress rehearsal. In turn, the Israel attack on Lebanon last July was a dry run for the attack on Iran. It may even have been part of an Israeli-American quid pro quo.

And just as Israel suffered some humiliating setbacks at the hands of the Hezbollah, I wouldn’t be surprised if the US "victory" is also Pyrrhic.

The important thing to understand is that a satanic cult controls all countries and is conducting a covert war against humanity. Thus, people are too busy fighting each other to recognize their real enemies are their own leaders, the mass media, and the bankers who own both.

This is a possible Iran scenario: Like all wars, the conflict will be orchestrated . It will take place in the next month or two and resemble the Lebanon war. Iran and the US will both suffer serious losses; the price of oil will sky rocket and the stock market will take a hit. Israel and Iran may exchange fire but I don't foresee any invasions. If Iran went into Iraq, all bets would be off.

I'd like to be %100 wrong about this, and free to enjoy the Spring weather.

ORCHESTRATIONS

Here are some articles that suggest the Illuminati is orchestrating both sides:

Some observers have noted that the British female sailor was interviewed by the BBC and The Independent just hours before she was taken prisoner. How convenient. At least they didn't broadcast the capture bfore it took place.

Some have suggested the capture is so unlikely that both sides may have staged it, or it was a trap laid by the British. This would explain the lack of resistance. The parallel between the prisoner-takings that started the Lebanon war, and the present situation is obvious.

In a recent article, Seymour Hersh reveals that Dick Cheney has been running an Iran-Contra style operation that includes support for groups linked to al Queda. They are also engaged in clandestine operations in Iran and the kidnapping of hundreds of Iranians.

Isn't it strange that the Iranians have never captured any of the Americans involved in this? Isn’t it strange the Iranians don’t demand a prisoner exchange for their own citizens, particularly the ex-Deputy Minister of Defense kidnapped in Turkey?

Hersh also says the US is trying to repackage the Iraq war (a crude grab for oil and world domination) as a regional Shiite-Sunni conflict in which the US finds itself an innocent bystander. This has put the US in the contradictory position of having installed a pro-Iranian Shiite government in Iraq; and now having to support the Sunni and Al Qaeda insurgents, who are its ostensible enemies. It doesn’t make any sense unless you see the war as an end in itself.

David Icke received the shocking picture of Ahmadinejad from an aghast Iranian. "What's going on? This doesn't have anything to do with Islam!" he exlaimed.

In his exclusive newsletter, Icke recently wrote that Ahmadinehad seems to be playing the Illuminati game: "The propaganda war against Iran really picked up after the election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as President of the Islamic Republic in 2005. After he took office in the August he was soon making speeches that the American propagandists and spinners must have dreamed of. I cannot believe this was a fortuitous coincidence. He defeated the one-time favourite, the former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani whose reputation and record would have made it almost impossible to demonise Iran as a threat to America or anyone else."

Icke continued:

"Mehdi Karroubi, a Reformist candidate seeking to open Iranian society and oppose the extremes of hardline Islam, finished a good third in the first round of voting. He then alleged that a network of mosques, the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps and Basij militia forces had illegally generated support for Ahmadinejad and specifically named Mojtaba Khamenei, a son of the Supreme Leader Ayatolla Khamenei, as being involved in this election fraud. The Ayatollah told Karroubi that the allegations were below his dignity and he would not allow the crisis in Iran that they could cause. Karroubi wrote back, resigning from all his political posts and some Reformist newspapers were stopped from publication for publishing Karroubi's letter."

Finally Icke says: "British and American military intelligence ousted Prime Minister Dr. Mohammed Mossadegh in 1953 in a CIA-planned coup called Operation Ajax; imposed the vicious Shah of Iran as a dictator; and then removed him for the Ayatollah Khomeini in 1979. Why would the same forces not continue to be involved in election manipulation in Iran when they so badly needed Ahmadinejad to defeat Rafsanjani for their 'Axis of Evil' plan to work?"

On the domestic front, an example of the Illuminati "dialectic" at work is Rosie O'Donnell's recent pronouncements on 9-11. The Lesbian poster child sounds like Alex Jones. Her function is to cast the opposition in the mold of the 1960's anti-war movement, focusing blame on Bush and "the government" instead of the long-term international conspiracy ultimately responsible.

You also see Brzezinski saying the war on terror "has undermined democracy" in the banker-owned Washington Post! That's pretty funny coming from one of the architects of this policy. He is trying to distance himself and his Rothschild-Rockefeller sponsors from their handiwork.

Meanwhile Democrats in Congress try to placate an angry electorate with timetables for withdrawal. This is a diversion. Democracy is a charade. The US will never willingly withdraw from Iraq. The US is the Illuminati's goon.

CONCLUSION

If the Illuminati have so much power, why don't they just proclaim their world dictatorship now? It's the process which is both incredibly profitable and necessary. Humanity must be gradually transformed so it sees its slavery as freedom: normal, natural and welcome.

It's best to see war as the Illuminati's cement mixer. They just throw everything in (people, cultures, religions) break and mix and then reset in their own mold. They call it "creating order out of chaos" but first they create chaos.

Their vision for the Middle East including Israel is as conformist and vapid as the EU. Middle East- EU union is already on the drawing board. Wars also kill a lot of innocent people whose souls feed these vampires, as well as pesky idealists ("heroes").

The greatest barrier to understanding world events is our failure to imagine the dimensions of evil, and how readily people will serve Satan.

If we have a war against Iran, it will be instigated by an international satanic cult, to further degrade destroy and demoralize humanity, especially in Iran and the US.

Source: Home of Henry Makow, Ph. D

Control Freaks--A Commentary on the Alternative 'Why'of the Global Warming Agenda and Considering the Sources of Information

2007-04-04T14:23:00.002-05:00

To some people it is a shrill cry. Like a colicky infant, hardly bearable except by a loving mother who instinctively cares for her offspring....and this screaming baby has been adopted by a very caring Al Gore.

Man-made global warming, is the relatively new and hip belief system with some powerful marketing behind it. Notwithstanding the stated reasons behind the global warming campaign (which is accompanied by admitted bias in what should be a neutral scientific inquiry of scientists from every side of the debate), could this renewed cycle of fear-mongering be by an army of scientists and bureaucratic entities interested in increasing job security? The tremendous push behind this agenda seems too large and too forceful to solely be the work of UN bureaucrats seeking job preservation. This goes beyond the silly notion that the United Nations is merely looking out for the world's best interests especially when you consider the length of time and the effort at establishing this body as a catalyst for world government since the days of Cecil Rhodes.

To begin to understand the 'why' of any serious contention, any responsible inquiry must begin with the source of the information, which often times should also include following the money. Who or what is the purveyor of the alleged science that man-made industrialization is causing a warming of the earth due to increased concentrations of carbon dioxide? We are told that it is the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Is the IPCC an objective scientific body, or a political body staffed with a large contingent of approving head-nodding scientists (yes-men)? Interestingly, the head author of the IPCC, John Christy had this to say in the recent documentary, The Great Global Warming Swindle (see video below),

"I often heard it said that there is a consensus of thousands of scientists on the global warming issue, that humans are causing a catastrophic change to the climate system. I am one scientist, and there are many, who simply think that is not true."

How much digging is required to get an idea of what a hidden or alternative incentive could be for stalling or even reversing world industrial development, if it is not to save the planet from impending doom? Just a little. As previously mentioned, the existence of extremely efficient alternatives to hydrocarbon fuels technology do exist and implementation of such systems could progress naturally, (if not for its supression), without the need for an international body pretending to represent the common man to take the world back into the stone age. Surrounding the continuous drum beat of the fear-mongering, is it just me or is it becoming more obvious that moneyed interests are becoming more overt in displaying to the rest of us that those who run the show (and "our" politicans) are a small elite minority? I would argue that this has always been a reality, in varying degrees, throughout history since the beginning of civilization. Why wouldn't you think so? Probably because it has been wisely determined that power can be maintained in more practical fashion by distorting reality (i.e. sophisticated propaganda). This would include the consistent perpetuation of boogeymen and the creation of various dire scenarios. Dictatorial governments have never lasted, especially in the age of gun powder, without the approval of the governed. Besides, are not the best slaves those who believe that they are free? Are we not free to do as we are told? In light of this, I sometimes wonder what portion of the green-haired attendees of global warming protests have used a brain cell or two regarding the validity of this alleged dire emergency that is man-made global warming. I would venture to guess, judging from some of the zombie-like, wild frenzied stares of the rent-a-mobs, not many.

Incredibly, some might argue with the allegation that the United Nations was founded by and is the arm of powerful corporate and banking interests who are interested in maintaining and increasing their control of world economies. Lots of control. My tendency would be to believe this, since history and current events are showing that it has not been very difficult to manipulate the citizenry into slow acceptance of agendas that they would have no interest in seeing implemented to begin with. Since the days of Rhodes, an overriding political agenda has been the tearing down of political sovereignty and national borders. It is a patient effort which crosses human generations. Recent examples include, the establishment of the Euro currency, attempts at establishing the Free Trade of the Americas, deliberate negligence in maintaining the integrity of the US border and current talk of an American Union by the Bush Administration with Mexico and Canada without Congressional oversight (a plan to join Canada, Mexico and the United States--brought forth by a seemingly innocuous entity, the Council on Foreign Relations). Who among you would like to see world government come to pass? Maybe Zogby could get right on this one. After sifting through those poll results, perhaps we could ask who's pushing this? Who's driving this agenda? Are we paying attention? Think about it.

Now, on to the topic of population reduction and control which, judging from recent history, is an expressed concern of the United Nations [1]. Evidence of this is not very difficult to find. You can start by looking here, here, here, and here and . But population control? Why?

Evidence has been pointing to a concern of how growing populations, especially in less developed nations where there is a growing desire to achieve a western lifestyle, is perceived as a threat to certain interests for various reasons, one of which is the competition for raw materials. As discussed in the 1974 National Security Memorandum 200 , its basic thesis was population reduction measures as a key component of national security. A nice way of putting the nation ahead of third nation economic control and profit:

"The report advocates the promotion of contraception and other population reduction measures. It also raises the question of whether the U.S. should consider preferential allocation of surplus food supplies to states that are deemed constructive in use of population control measures. The report advises, 'In these sensitive relations, however, it is important in style as well as substance to avoid the appearance of coercion.'"

I don't know about you, but among other things, this kind of makes me want to take a closer look at the real deal behind the mass slaughter in Rwanda as UN forces stood idly by.

One of those population control measures, which indeed did not have "the appearance of coercion," was the placing of sterilizing agents in tetanus vaccines administered in the Third World by the UN's World Health Organization (WHO). I also find it interesting how the start of the AIDS epidemic in Africa tended to follow WHO vaccination patterns throughout Africa (and incidentally, the Hepatitis B experimental vaccine trials in New York City's male homosexual population).

In the meantime, what other efforts could be pursued to maintain control of the developing world's industrial progress and access to pockets of natural resources while the New World Order and population control agenda works its way toward achieving its goals? By preventing industrialization and the growing independence of select nations by way of clandestine political coups orchestrated by western intelligence agencies, contrived terrorism to foment a unified public consensus which insists upon the occupation of "enemy" regions which are rich in raw materials [2], and last, but definitely not least, creating an atmosphere of a growing crisis which must be stopped especially by preventing or greatly slowing the industrialization of the Third World. Contrive emergencies calling for drastic measures. If this global warming agenda has any legs, besides continued attempts at meddling with less developed nations, it will most likely involve more than doing your part by recycling and changing a few light bulbs. All without the appearance of coercion. The goal is to make you beg for the "needed" change.

In closing, concerned and awake Americans continue to express their frustration at how, in general, Americans seem to have lost the appreciation for what was a more independent press and good investigative reporting, which today, is rarely the case. But there is little excuse for not turning off the television and taking a little time to verify information on a computer from varied sources and motivations, which is the key to formulating a less corrupted perception of reality. In general, people do not question the sources of information upon which they base even their most crucial decisions. Should we not question whether there any conflicts of interest by those disseminating important information to us which is the basis of our perception of reality outside of our immediate surroundings? For example, the national network news is swamped with big pharma ads and yet we are to believe that we're going to get the straight skinny on maintaining our health from that source? What about from your family doctor who was educated by, receives continuing education from and is dictated to by big pharma? You be the judge. In this most important issue of health, there are too few questions regarding the fact that pharmaceutical companies do their own drug testing and that there are major conflicts of interest as FDA and CDC officials routinely migrate back and forth from lucrative pharmaceutical positions to positions in these government agencies charged with maintaining public health safety and approving medications for public consumption. It is not uncommon for some of these regulatory agency officials to own stock in the very companies they are supposed to regulate! Such blind faith can kill you. Even CDC doctors admitted in their own conference minutes that they have little doubt about the nature of the current epidemic of autistic spectrum disorders which tend to manifest immediately subsequent to the MMR vaccine series in young children. What about in the financial arena? Is CNBC telling the average investor about the collapsing US dollar and the explosive bull market in precious metals (and other commodities) which has been underway since 2001? How about an example of how simply turning off Tom Brokaw and doing a little checking on a home computer could save some financial heartache? Where's Mad Money -Cramer when you need him? Doing the bidding of his sponsors of course, the very large New York financial houses who don't want you buying gold. The representative of the masters of the universe, the International Monetary Fund, is telling you point blank. Not on television, but here: "IMF to urge further depreciation in dollar" . Or how about the market manipulation by hedge funds to take the uninformed investor to the cleaners? Again, maybe turning off the tube and doing a little fact checking might help. Perhaps it will be these types of individual screw jobs which might bring a good portion of trusting Americans out of their consensus reality trance.

[1] "We must also step up efforts for family planning, which has a direct impact on maternal health. When couples can choose the number, timing and spacing of their children, they are better able to ensure there are enough resources for each family member to prosper and thrive....UNFPA supports countries in using data for policies and programmes to address the complex linkages between population dynamics, poverty and sustainable development." UNFPA Population Issues

[2] "Moreover, as America becomes an increasingly multi-cultural society, it may find it more difficult to fashion a consensus on foreign policy issues, except in the circumstance of a truly massive and widely perceived direct external threat." The Grand Chessboard, by Zbigniew Brzezinski .
"...Further, the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent a catastrophic and catalyzing event--like a new Pearl Harbor." Project for a New American Century p. 51

Excerpt from: The Great Global Warming Swindle

Not all believers are pessimists!

"The Creeping Fascism of Global Warming Hysteria"

2007-04-04T14:18:00.000-05:00

"The IPCC is a political body, not a scientific organization, therefore its proclamation is purely intended at achieving a political agenda. The document they released on February 2 that was devotedly afforded days of intense coverage by the compliant establishment media was a political manifesto based on a scientific undertaking that has not even been completed. How empirical is a "scientific experiment" whose conclusions are announced before tests have even been completed? The document immediately states that the "scientific" research is being edited to conform to the already released political summary."

“'Changes (other than grammatical or minor editorial changes) made after acceptance by the Working Group or the Panel shall be those necessary to ensure consistency with the Summary for Policymakers or the Overview Chapter,' states the brief.

.....more.

London Bombing Redux--A Mighty Coincidence: 07 July 2005 Anti-Terror Exercise Goes Live

2007-03-30T20:52:00.000-05:00

"I was in tube bomb carriage - and survived"

"When paramedics arrived, they confirmed that the woman on top of him was dead and carefully moved her body. Mr Lait said the middle-aged woman had blonde curly hair, was dressed in black, and could have been a businesswoman."

"He and Crystal were helped out of the carriage. As they made their way out, a policeman pointed out where the bomb had been."

"'The policeman said 'mind that hole, that's where the bomb was'. The metal was pushed upwards as if the bomb was underneath the train. They seem to think the bomb was left in a bag, but I don't remember anybody being where the bomb was, or any bag,' he said."

News video: BBC interview of managing director of Visor Consultants, Peter Power (also a former Scotland Yard official), responsible for conducting the drills of 07 July 2005:

London Underground Bombing 'Exercises' Took Place at Same Time as Real Attack

Culpability cover scenario echoes 9/11 wargames

"We are not suggesting that Mr. Power had any knowledge of the real purpose of the exercise, and the open shock he exclaims in relating the story underlines this.

The exercise fulfils several different goals. It acts as a cover for the small compartamentalized government terrorists to carry out their operation without the larger security services becoming aware of what they're doing, and, more importantly, if they get caught during the attack or after with any incriminating evidence they can just claim that they were just taking part in the exercise.

This is precisely what happened on the morning of 9/11/2001. The CIA was conducting drills of flying hijacked planes into the WTC and Pentagon at 8:30 in the morning."

See: Wargames Were Cover For the Operational Execution of 9/11

Also: Explosive used in bombs 'was of military origin'

False Flag Ops:

*The Anglo-American establishment that controls the military-industrial complex of the West has been caught over a hundred times carrying out bombings and other terrorist attacks around the world to further their corporate aims and to blame their enemies.

*The US government has been caught planning to carry out attacks and carrying out attacks.

*The British government has been caught red-handed as well.

*Members of Vladimir Putin's FSB were caught planting bombs in a Russian apartment building in 1999 by the Moscow police.

*Kermit Roosevelt admited on NPR radio that in 1953 the CIA and British intelligence carried out a wave of bombings and shootings in Iran. He then went on to brag about how they subsequently blamed the bombings on Iran's President, Mossadegh. Do you understand, these people brag about what they do 40 years later?

*The London bombings have the same signature as the Madrid bombings of 3/11. Both of these bombings are almost indistinguishable from the Bolognia bombing in 1980 that killed over 80 people.

*The bombing in Bolognia was part of a CIA operation code named Gladio, where the US government would pay right-wing terrorists to carry out bombings to be blamed on leftists in Europe. All of this was blown wide open when two of the Bolognia bombers were convicted in an Italian court, forcing them to spill their guts admitting that they were neo-fascists contracted by the CIA. Operation Gladio documents have since been declassified.

*The London terror alert level was lowered before the bombings took place. This gave the purpotrators extra cover to plan and execute the attack without having to evade the most stringent security.

*In any crime you look at history and motive, The British government has been caught in multiple examples of carrying out bombings in London which were then blamed on the IRA. They even had one of their own MI5 agents wihin the Omagh bomb squad. Click here for an archive of this evidence.

From Putin blowing up his own apartment buildings to Israel being behind Hamas, the evidence is consistently clear that large scale terrorism is always state sponsored.

The Madrid train bombing is another example. The bombers were found to be police informants with close links to the Spanish security services. They had access to the most secure areas of the Madrid train system. The Spanish government initially tried to blame the Basque group ETA for the blast in the hope that the people would rally behind the government and get them re-elected. After ETA denied involvement and the people started saying the government was involved, the Spanish government had to blame Al-Qaeda and kill some patsies by claiming they blew themselves up during a raid.

The London Underground exercises were used as the fallback cover to carry out the attack. This is the biggest smoking gun yet pointing directly to the most secretive levels of the British establishment itself being behind the attack. More details.

News Video; Stranger Than Fiction:

CNBC's Jim Cramer on the Hedge Fund Manager's "How To" of Market Manipulation; You won't hear this on CNBC

2007-03-23T10:41:00.009-05:00

From Jim Cramer's own experience as a hedge fund manager, this is a must watch video on how investors are taken to the cleaners by market manipulation. Things are said here that he admits would not be said on the network. Listen closely...this borders on the criminal.

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CRAMER REVEALS A BIT TOO MUCH
NEW YORK POST
By RODDY BOYD
March 20, 2007 -- Flamboyant Wall Street trader turned TV host Jim Cramer, not known for being the shy, retiring type, might have said too much in a video interview he did for a financial Web site.

The host of CNBC's daily program "Mad Money" had hedge fund-trading desks buzzing yesterday after he bragged about manipulating stock prices during his days as a trader.

In the video from TheStreet.com's "Wall Street Confidential" Webcast, Cramer boasts about manipulating the price of a high-flying stock down, and even acknowledges that doing so might have been illegal. The video is making the rounds on YouTube.

"A lot of times when I was short, I would create a level of activity beforehand that would drive the futures. . . . It's a fun game," Cramer said in the Webcast, which was moderated by TheStreet.com Executive Editor Aaron Task.

Cramer later said that "no one else in the world would ever admit that, but I don't care."

However, seconds later, he acknowledged, "I'm not going to say that on TV," referring to his show on CNBC.

A remarkably successful money manager when he ran the $450 million Cramer Berkowitz hedge fund, Cramer in the Webcast shared his "tips" on how to drive a stock price down so that a short-position - a bet that a stock price would drop - remains profitable.

He added that the strategy - while illegal - was safe enough because, "the Securities and Exchange Commission never understands this."

A call to Cramer was not returned.

The Myths of Vegetarianism

2007-03-22T20:54:00.000-05:00

by Stephen Byrnes, PhD, RNCP Originally published in the Townsend Letter for Doctors & Patients, July 2000. Revised January 2002.

"Humans have always been meat-eaters. The fact that no human society is entirely vegetarian, and those that are almost entirely vegetarian suffer from debilitated conditions of health, seems unequivocally to prove that a plant diet must be supplemented with at least a minimum amount of animal protein to sustain health. Humans are meat-eaters and always have been. Humans are also vegetable eaters and always have been, but plant foods must be supplemented by an ample amount of animal protein to maintain optimal health."
HL Abrams. The relevance of Paleolithic diet in determining contemporary nutritional needs. J Appl Nutr, 1979, 1,2:43-59.

"An unflinching determination to take the whole evidence into account is the only method of preservation against the fluctuating extremes of fashionable opinion."—Alfred North Whitehead

Bill and Tanya sat before me in my office in a somber mood: they had just lost their first baby in the second month of pregnancy. Tanya was particularly upset. "Why did this happen to me? Why did I miscarry my baby?" The young couple had come to see me mostly because of Tanya's recurrent respiratory infections, but also wanted some advice as to how they could avoid the heartache of another failed pregnancy.

Upon questioning Tanya about her diet, I quickly saw the cause of her infections, as well as her miscarriage: she had virtually no fat in her diet and was also mostly a vegetarian. Because of the plentiful media rhetoric about the supposed dangers of animal product consumption, as opposed to the alleged health benefits of the vegetarian lifestyle, Tanya had deliberately removed such things as cream, butter, meats and fish from her diet. Although she liked liver, she avoided it due to worries over "toxins."

Tanya and Bill left with a bottle of vitamin A, other supplements and a dietary prescription that included plentiful amounts of animal fats and meat. Just before leaving my office, Tanya looked at me and said ruefully: "I just don't know what to believe sometimes. Everywhere I look there is all this low-fat, vegetarian stuff recommended. I followed it, and look what happened." I assured her that if she and her husband changed their diets and allowed sufficient time for her weakened uterus to heal, they would be happy parents in due time. In November 2000, Bill and Tanya happily gave birth to their first child, a girl.

The Evolution of a Myth

Along with the unjustified and unscientific saturated fat and cholesterol scares of the past several decades has come the notion that vegetarianism is a healthier dietary option for people. It seems as if every health expert and government health agency is urging people to eat fewer animal products and consume more vegetables, grains, fruits and legumes. Along with these exhortations have come assertions and studies supposedly proving that vegetarianism is healthier for people and that meat consumption is associated with sickness and death. Several authorities, however, have questioned these data, but their objections have been largely ignored.

As we shall see, many of the vegetarian claims cannot be substantiated and some are simply false and dangerous. There are benefits to vegetarian diets for certain health conditions, and some people function better on less fat and protein, but, as a practitioner who has dealt with several former vegetarians and vegans (total vegetarians), I know full well the dangerous effects of a diet devoid of healthful animal products. It is my hope that all readers will more carefully evaluate their position on vegetarianism after reading this paper.

Myth #1: Meat consumption contributes to famine and depletes the Earth's natural resources.

Myth #2: Vitamin B12 can be obtained from plant sources.

Myth #3: Our needs for vitamin D can be met by sunlight.

Myth #4: The body's needs for vitamin A can be entirely obtained from plant foods.

Myth #5: Meat-eating causes osteoporosis, kidney disease, heart disease, and cancer.

Myth #6: Saturated fats and dietary cholesterol cause heart disease, atherosclerosis, and/or cancer, and low-fat, low-cholesterol diets are healthier for people.

Myth #7: Vegetarians live longer and have more energy and endurance than meat-eaters.

Myth #8: The "cave man" diet was low-fat and/or vegetarian. Humans evolved as vegetarians.

Myth #9: Meat and saturated fat consumption have increased in the 20th century, with a corresponding increase in heart disease and cancer.

Myth #10: Soy products are adequate substitutes for meat and dairy products.

Myth #11: The human body is not designed for meat consumption.

Myth #12: Eating animal flesh causes violent, aggressive behavior in humans.

Myth #13: Animal products contain numerous, harmful toxins.

Myth #14: Eating meat or animal products is less "spiritual" than eating only plant foods.

Myth #15: Eating animal foods is inhumane.

Source: http://www.westonaprice.org/mythstruths/mtvegetarianism.html

See also:
The Importance of Saturated Fats for Biological Functions
http://www.westonaprice.org/knowyourfats/import_sat_fat.html

Cholesterol and Heart Disease--A Phony Issue
http://www.westonaprice.org/knowyourfats/fats_phony.html

The Benefits of High Cholesterol
http://www.westonaprice.org/moderndiseases/benefits_cholest.html

Revealing 9/11 Video and Fire Fighting Magazine Editor Appalled at Destruction of Evidence

2007-03-19T12:26:00.000-05:00

Below are revealing video compilations regarding that fateful day in lower Manhattan. Lou Dobbs wraps it up during the last minute of the first video.

The decision to "pull" World Trade Center 7:

9/11; Solved in Record Time

A close look at the MOCKINGBIRD mainstream media psy-op at work:

"Burning Questions...Need Answers": Fire Engineerings's Bill Manning Calls for Comprehensive Investigation of WTC Collapse

By Bill Manning

Did they throw away the locked doors from the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire? Did they throw away the gas can used at the Happyland Social Club Fire? Did they cast aside the pressure-regulating valves at the Meridian Plaza Fire? Of course not. But essentially, that's what they're doing at the World Trade Center.

For more than three months, structural steel from the World Trade Center has been and continues to be cut up and sold for scrap. Crucial evidence that could answer many questions about high-rise building design practices and performance under fire conditions is on the slow boat to China, perhaps never to be seen again in America until you buy your next car.

Such destruction of evidence shows the astounding ignorance of government officials to the value of a thorough, scientific investigation of the largest fire-induced collapse in world history. I have combed through our national standard for fire investigation, NFPA 921, but nowhere in it does one find an exemption allowing the destruction of evidence for buildings over 10 stories tall.

Hoping beyond hope, I have called experts to ask if the towers were the only high-rise buildings in America of lightweight, center-core construction. No such luck. I made other calls asking if these were the only buildings in America with light-density, sprayed-on fireproofing. Again, no luck-they were two of thousands that fit the description.

Comprehensive disaster investigations mean increased safety. They mean positive change. NASA knows it. The NTSB knows it. Does FEMA know it? No.

Fire Engineering has good reason to believe that the "official investigation" blessed by FEMA and run by the American Society of Civil Engineers is a half-baked farce that may already have been commandeered by political forces whose primary interests, to put it mildly, lie far afield of full disclosure. Except for the marginal benefit obtained from a three-day, visual walk-through of evidence sites conducted by ASCE investigation committee members- described by one close source as a "tourist trip"-no one's checking the evidence for anything.

Maybe we should live and work in planes. That way, if disaster strikes, we will at least be sure that a thorough investigation will help find ways to increase safety for our survivors.

As things now stand and if they continue in such fashion, the investigation into the World Trade Center fire and collapse will amount to paper- and computer-generated hypotheticals.

However, respected members of the fire protection engineering community are beginning to raise red flags, and a resonating theory has emerged: The structural damage from the planes and the explosive ignition of jet fuel in themselves were not enough to bring down the towers. Rather, theory has it, the subsequent contents fires attacking the questionably fireproofed lightweight trusses and load-bearing columns directly caused the collapses in an alarmingly short time. Of course, in light of there being no real evidence thus far produced, this could remain just unexplored theory.

The frequency of published and unpublished reports raising questions about the steel fireproofing and other fire protection elements in the buildings, as well as their design and construction, is on the rise. The builders and owners of the World Trade Center property, the Port Authority of New York-New Jersey, a governmental agency that operates in an accountability vacuum beyond the reach of local fire and building codes, has denied charges that the buildings' fire protection or construction components were substandard but has refused to cooperate with requests for documentation supporting its contentions.

Some citizens are taking to the streets to protest the investigation sellout. Sally Regenhard, for one, wants to know why and how the building fell as it did upon her unfortunate son Christian, an FDNY probationary firefighter. And so do we.

Clearly, there are burning questions that need answers. Based on the incident's magnitude alone, a full-throttle, fully resourced, forensic investigation is imperative. More important, from a moral standpoint, for the safety of present and future generations who live and work in tall buildings-and for firefighters, always first in and last out-the lessons about the buildings' design and behavior in this extraordinary event must be learned and applied in the real world.

To treat the September 11 incident any differently would be the height of stupidity and ignorance.

The destruction and removal of evidence must stop immediately.
The federal government must scrap the current setup and commission a fully resourced blue ribbon panel to conduct a clean and thorough investigation of the fire and collapse, leaving no stones unturned.

Firefighters, this is your call to action. Visit WTC "Investigation"?: A Call to Action, then contact your representatives in Congress and officials in Washington and help us correct this problem immediately.

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Firefighter Mag Raps 9/11 Probe (cached)

by Joe Calderone
New York Daily News
January 4, 2002

A respected firefighting trade magazine with ties to the city Fire Department is calling for a "full-throttle, fully-resourced" investigation into the collapse of the World Trade Center.

A signed editorial in the January issue of Fire Engineering magazine says the current investigation is "a half-baked farce."

The piece by Bill Manning, editor of the 125-year-old monthly that frequently publishes technical studies of major fires, also says the steel from the site should be preserved so investigators can examine what caused the collapse.

"Did they throw away the locked doors from the Triangle Shirtwaist fire? Did they throw away the gas can used at the Happy Land social club fire? ... That's what they're doing at the World Trade Center," the editorial says. "The destruction and removal of evidence must stop immediately."

Fire Engineering counted FDNY Deputy Chief Raymond Downey, the department's chief structural expert, among its senior advisers. Downey was killed in the Sept. 11 attack. John Jay College's fire engineering expert, Prof. Glenn Corbett, serves as the magazine's technical editor.

A group of engineers from the American Society of Civil Engineers, with backing from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, has been studying some aspects of the collapse. But Manning and others say that probe has not looked at all aspects of the disaster and has had limited access to documents and other evidence.

A growing number of fire protection engineers have theorized that "the structural damage from the planes and the explosive ignition of jet fuel in themselves were not enough to bring down the towers," the editorial stated.

A FEMA spokesman, John Czwartacki, said agency officials had not yet seen the editorial and declined to comment.

Norida Torriente, a spokeswoman for the American Society of Civil Engineers, described her group's study as a "beginning" and "not a definitive work."

Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) has joined a group of relatives of firefighters who died in the attack in calling for a blue-ribbon panel to study the collapse.

"We have to learn from incidents through investigation to determine what types of codes should be in place and what are the best practices for high-rise construction," Manning told the Daily News. "The World Trade Center is not the only lightweight, core construction high-rise in the U.S. It's a typical method of construction."

© Copyright 2002

What is "Al Qaeda?"

2007-03-19T00:40:00.000-05:00

"The truth is, there is no Islamic army or terrorist group called Al Qaida. And any informed intelligence officer knows this. But there is a propaganda campaign to make the public believe in the presence of an identified entity representing the 'devil' only in order to drive the 'TV watcher' to accept a unified international leadership for a war against terrorism...." Pierre-Henri Bunel; Former French Military Intelligence Officer

"Shortly before his untimely death, former British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook told the House of Commons that "Al Qaeda" is not really a terrorist group but a database of international mujaheddin and arms smugglers used by the CIA and Saudis to funnel guerrillas, arms, and money into Soviet-occupied Afghanistan. Courtesy of World Affairs, a journal based in New Delhi, WMR can bring you an important excerpt from an Apr.-Jun. 2004 article by Pierre-Henry Bunel, a former agent for French military intelligence. "

"It is noteworthy that that Yugoslav government, the government with whom Bunel was asserted by the French government to have shared information, claimed that Albanian and Bosnian guerrillas in the Balkans were being backed by elements of "Al Qaeda." We now know that these guerrillas were being backed by money provided by the Bosnian Defense Fund, an entity established as a special fund at Bush-influenced Riggs Bank and directed by Richard Perle and Douglas Feith."

(LINK TO THE STORY)

1993 World Trade Center Bombing

2007-03-16T23:00:00.000-05:00

Bombing suspect had been "handled "by the FBI from A to Z.

New York Times articles (here, here and here).

CBS News' Dan Rather on the matter:

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed confession. A closer look.

2007-03-16T22:38:00.000-05:00

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed "confessed" to targeting bank founded after his arrest.

Fallacy of testimony exposed as story blows up in Pentagon's face

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet
Friday, March 16, 2007

Khalid Shaikh Mohammed's alleged confession testimony has been thoroughly discredited after it emerged that one of the targets he identified, the Plaza Bank, was not founded until 2006, four years after the alleged Al-Qaeda mastermind's arrest.

In his confession, KSM claims, "I was responsible for planning, training, surveying, and financing for the New (or Second) Wave of attacks against the following skyscrapers after 9/11: ...Plaza Bank, Washington state."

KSM was arrested in March 2003. According to the Plaza Bank's website, the organization was founded in early 2006, making it impossible for KSM to have even known of the bank's existence before 2003, never mind plotted against it.

Skepticism about the legitimacy of KSM's confession has gushed forth from all quarters, leaving the credibility of the Pentagon and the process of military tribunals in ruins and provoking additional questions about why the alleged Al-Qaeda mastermind admitted to involvement in such a vast range of plots.

After media commentators across the spectrum, from Time Magazine to Matt Lauer and even Rosie O'Donnell were openly cynical of the accuracy of KSM's testimony, officials speaking on condition of anonymity admitted that the claims were exaggerated, but still insist KSM's responsibility for 9/11, "from A to Z" is genuine.

Former CIA field officer Robert Baer also expressed his doubts, questioning "What the Pentagon's objective really is in releasing the transcript of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's confession."

"On the face of it, KSM, as he is known inside the government, comes across as boasting, at times mentally unstable. It's also clear he is making things up. I'm told by people involved in the investigation that KSM was present during Wall Street Journal correspondent Danny Pearl's execution but was in fact not the person who killed him. There exists videotape footage of the execution that minimizes KSM's role. And if KSM did indeed exaggerate his role in the Pearl murder, it raises the question of just what else he has exaggerated, or outright fabricated," writes Baer.

The facet of the Pearl murder and why the establishment would want to shut the lid on the whole affair by pinning the blame on KSM is interesting in the context that in September 2006, Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf fingered Omar Sheikh as Pearl's assassin, adding that he was an MI6 agent working for British Intelligence. In the transcript of his alleged confession, KSM cryptically discusses CIA and Mossad involvement in the Pearl execution but the text is heavily redacted.

KSM's claim that he ran the 1993 World Trade Center bombing is also highly suspect because it also conveniently sweeps under the carpet the fact that it was the FBI who provided the terror cell with the bomb materials through their informant and ordered the bombing to go ahead.

In addition, KSM was a known CIA asset in the eighties and was used as a go between during the CIA-funded Afghan "jihad" against the occupying Soviets.

SEE: New York Times articles (numbered links, 1,2 and 3) describing FBI handling of perps at all stages of the 1993 WTC bombing plot: [1] [2] [3].
SEE also FBI handling of participant of the crime: (click here).

It is well established that before his mysterious arrest as the alleged mastermind behind the September 11 plot, Mohammed was granted a visa to enter the US just six weeks before the terrorist attacks in Washington and New York.

Other questions that have arisen concerning the testimony revolve around KSM's Americanized use of the English language, including the term "A to Z," which many see as a form of slang that befits tabloid headlines more than it does the vernacular of radical Muslim extremists.

A CNN online poll shows that a massive 74% disbelieve all of the claims made by KSM and BBC respondents were equally cynical.

Think Progress makes the point that KSM's comments on torture and any potential reference to the fact that he was tortured himself are redacted in the transcript.

The upshot of all this is that the much vaunted KSM confession, which seems to have been intentionally inflated so the book could be closed on a number of nebulous plots cited by the Bush administration as justification for its policies, has blown up in the establishment's face and only succeeded in detracting credibility from the government's official 9/11 story and the mythical war on terror.

The Power of Nightmares--The Global War on Terror Fantasy

2007-03-16T21:09:00.001-05:00

"In the past politicians promised to make a better world. They had different ways of achieving this, but their power and authority came from the optimistic visions they offered their people. Those dreams failed and today people have lost faith in idealogies. Increaingly, politicians are seen simply as managers of public life. But now, they have discovered a new role that restores their power and authority. Instead of delivering dreams, politicians now promise to protect us from nightmares. They say that they will rescue us from dreadful dangers that we cannot see and do not understand. And the greatest danger of all, is international terrorism. A powerful and sinister network with sleeper cells in countries across the world. A threat that needs to be fought by a war on terror."

"But much of this threat is a fantasy, which has been exaggerated and distorted by politicans. "

"It is a dark illusion that has spread unquestioned through governments around the world, the security services and the international media. This is a series of films about how and why that fantasy was created and who it benefits."

"Those with the darkest nightmares became the most powerful......"

The Power of Nightmares: The Shadows In The Cave

Global Warming and the Politics of Fear -or- The Al Gore Sincerity Test

2007-03-06T15:34:00.001-05:00

"It is quite clear that the evidence for very high mileage vehicles and other relatively amazing motors and other machines which do mechanical work, is becoming more than just anecdotal. Aside from the "inconvenient truth" of Al Gore's power bill for his numerous stately homes, could this be the inconvenient truth that corporate America does not want you to know?"

by Steve Lemelin
Perhaps Al Gore's scientists have it right. But also disturbing are the methods by which this issue is being marketed by today's controlled press. The politics surrounding this issue and the very obvious green light to a scientific contention which directly challenges one of the top most powerful business entities on the planet, the petroleum cartel, is causing suspicion among those who have a talent for smelling that something is fishy. A scientific issue which is propelled into the political spectrum and touted as trendy and backed by targeted government funding, continuous information campaigns (call it propaganda) and excommunication of any researcher who dares to challenge the new fashion in science, should be looked at with a very discerning eye.

The energy business, with its enormous influence in the media, regulatory agencies which purport to govern it(self) and Capitol Hill, seems to be putting up a mere half-hearted resistance to the idea that its primary product is accused of being responsible for making the sky begin its fall. The petroleum industry has also been known to be a funding source for the more popular environmental groups which throw their weight into thwarting new oil drilling projects, thereby preventing new supply from coming on line (thus protecting the price structure). Now to consider the influence and power that the industry wields, it is difficult to imagine that it has no control over policies regarding government funding of the research into the man-made causes of global warming.

"Who funds the environmental movement? The oil cartel (The Four Remaining Sisters), major corporations, foundations, and government agencies. Why has the environmental movement blocked construction of new oil refineries? Because The Four Remaining Sisters don't want competition." [1]

With the proposed changes in the works by those who believe they know what's best for us, as well as the mounting costs of the dependence upon a centralized energy distribution grid, the onus will be upon a larger portion of the public to take the time to rely upon more than just the alphabet network spoon feeding of "reality."

In light of what this blog attempts to expose; that is the mass mind manipulation of the public by way of controlling educational system curricula, the processing and/or withholding of information by the mainstream news media (lies of omission); the way in which the issue of global warming is framed, exhibits all the hallmarks of what it is, propaganda. This debate seems to be transfixed with the practice of crucifying ideas (and scientists) which differ from this relatively new cause celebre. Is it a new religion? No, it is a debate where recognition and government funding is only to be had if, as a scientist, you present an argument in favor of the desired goal. That's propaganda.

'Global Warming Is Lies' Claims Documentary
"The greenhouse effect is seen as a religion and if you don't agree, you are a heretic."

Of course, most of us desire to decrease the world's dependence on hydrocarbons as sources of energy. If not for the possibility that industrial CO2 emissions are the cause of what is thought by believers to be an unnatural warming trend, there are other reasons notwithstanding this seemingly new religion, that we should desire a change. Unless the dependency on petroleum is decreased significantly, the more immediate future could be made very difficult, but for differing reasons. Let's forget 'Peak Oil' for now (and if this theory holds true, than-- problem solved) . That is an issue which is also couched in the politics of fear, an historically effective public manipulation device and that reason alone should cause enough suspicion to leave the issue open to debate. As previously mentioned, there is gathering evidence which suggests that supply is being artificially restricted. Perhaps a very good motivation behind the desire to reduce dependence on hydrocarbons for energy production stems from the goal to empower the common man, stop middle east war mongering (and ergo, funding what is looking more like intelligence agency created terrorism to justify it), and for the planet to move onto the next step of the industrial revolution. Then, there is also this as far as the immediate future goes. At the current growth rate of commodities extraction, we are staring at disaster from a reality of the inability of the extraction rate of commodities to keep up with the rate of monetary expansion required to service debt (the central banking fight against deflation, a monster of its own creation). Even as new supplies of raw materials may come on line and the technology improved to extract them, the current expansion of the monetary supply is proceeding geometrically. China and India are a large part of this equation. Also, regarding crude oil, there is some evidence that there is replenishment which can occur when fields are left dormant. But with the rate of economic growth required under the current debt-based monetary system, there's no provision for slow and gradual growth or natural economic contractions as was the case with a monetary system based upon substance or the discipline of hard assets. With the current situation worldwide, without the ongoing high rate of credit expansion, massive global defaults and eventual deflationary collapse would ensue sooner than later, as it must. To date, there has never been a fiat currency which has enjoyed indefinite reign as a nation's declared medium of exchange in world history. What will likely result, under the current monetary policy, is a hyper-inflationary collapse of the world economic system. As the world's currencies multiply to prevent a deflationary collapse, demand will increase for commodities. Eventually, there will be an end game. Ultimately, the world's intrinsically worthless paper money are claims on services, goods, food etc., and goods are manufactured from commodities. Also requiring mentioning was the safeguard of a discliplined international monetary system tied to gold which made trade deficits an impossibility. This was removed in August of 1971. Currently, even if money were kept at a constant linear rate of growth worldwide, the world economic system would begin to encounter perturbations. We are in a Catch-22 and probably during our lifetimes, we will be staring at global economic catastrophe.

Given the "green" reasons to reduce hydrocarbon emissions and the collectivist tendencies of the constituency of the United Nations, the man made CO2 global warming agenda will most probably present solutions which include the implementation of draconian austerity measures and rationing; a furtherance of collectivist idealogy that the individual is subordinate to the State. "Do your part!" This may go as far as what has been expressed by the highest levels of the moneyed elite. That is population control. Could we be staring at policies like the China one-child-per-couple law? The implementation of Codex Alimentarius to take away the public’s ability to nourish itself properly to prevent disease and promote longer life?

Rationing is never required in a free market based system. Currently we do not have a free enterprise system. What exists today is effectively monopoly capitalism and it is as diseased a concept as communism and most all "isms." Add to that the Marxist inspired worldwide central banking system, including in the United States (see "Plank no. 5). Therefore, with the political controls placed upon the economy, any changes put forward to reduce man's imprint under the current energy infrastructure will probably include measures which will be nothing short of miserable for the common man, while it can be safely assumed that those who would control the transition to whatever plan that is, would not suffer so terribly. A new serfdom. In the extreme example of the former Soviet Union, its multi-year "Plans" for society have proven that government's attempts to plan anything regarding human behaviour as displayed in the economy, can have nothing but disastrous consequences. Disastrous, of course, only to those who are not privileged enough to belong to high level planning committees as was the case in the former USSR. But how could such a system designed to save us from ourselves ever be implemented en mass? The only way the new socialism (on steroids) will ever be implemented will be through the best motivator, fear.

For any solution to be beneficial to all, the world would have to see a return to a free market enterprise system or, at a minimum, for the transnational corporation run governments to step out of the way. For obvious reasons, today, the goal of allowing free markets to achieve solutions as they have in the past would be a difficult one. Control of government entities by the transnationals and the worldwide private central banking cabal stands in the way. Free market enterprise cannot exist in the current environment of central banking. But governments worldwide are beholden to their central banks. They borrow money from them and the income tax system is designed to collect the interest on a nation's debt.* The central bankers are the creditors. Debtors never tell creditors what to do.

Now, does Al Gore really want to solve the problem of global warming as he sees it?

You would think that maybe he would take a serious look at alternative energy research like say, water powered cars which are known to achieve three-digits miles per gallon with zero pollution. Or simply, for now, a gasoline powered Ford Galaxie which ran a 351 cubic inch V-8 engine which achieved over 100 MPG after some back yard "tinkering," (and as the inventor alleges, a subsequent $25 million offer from Shell Oil to shelve the project). It is quite clear that the evidence for very high mileage vehicles and other relatively amazing motors and other machines which do mechanical work, is becoming more than just anecdotal. Aside from the "inconvenient truth" of Al Gore's power bill for his numerous stately homes, could this be the inconvenient truth that corporate America does not want you to know?

Like here, for instance. And here. And here. And here.

The video below is yet more testimonial of the criminal supression of ingenius mechanics and scientists. So where's Al Gore when you need him? Is the solution merely going to be changing your incandescent bulbs for fluorescent ones? Give us a break! Maybe we should all write to Mr. Gore and see to it that he looks at this avenue to solve the problem of hydrocarbon pollution and while he's at it, dependence upon foreign oil. I'm not holding my breath. How much longer we will we tolerate gasoline powered four cylinder 1.6 liter engines in tiny vehicles which can only achieve mileages in the high thirties?

So, is this an energy problem or a political problem? Perhaps there's the long shot that the internet may allow us some hope, even if the public continues to be intellectually lazy, perhaps by way of the pocket book through direct marketing of developing underground technologies to people who can't bear the tax of the centralized power grid.

The politics of fear has proven to be the best method of extracting cooperation from the citizenry. The public need to be skeptical and demand free and open debate on this topic without the impetuous ad-hominems and destruction of careers of those who believe that they have conflicting data and want to have their say. The controlled media's talk of implementing hydrogen powered technologies, ethanol, and the rest of these net energy negative mostly non-sense contraptions will still ultimately result in the benefiting of the energy cartel as these technologies are merely poor batteries. This is why Al Gore can parade his presentation without resistance. Perhaps Gore is right. Again, this is not the issue of this essay. But we must ask ourselves, would Gore be allowed access to the stage if he were to include the current and historical examples of the hundreds if not thousands of extremely efficient automobiles, generators and the like into his presentation and the criminal supression of these endeavours? Solutions which would stand to benefit the planet by leaps and bounds? Probably not. If he did, only then would you know that he is sincere in solving a problem that can be solved now, and the solutions implemented, inside of a decade. So while we witness the global warming church inquisitors crush the credentialed nay-sayers, we can still spread the word and hope that the technologies which have been relegated to garages and small labs due to the purposeful dearth of funding, if not brutal criminal supression, can be exposed at the grass roots. If Al Gore refuses to acknowledge these technologies and achievements which are historically replete, then he will be presenting himself as a charlatan and he should be shoved aside. Any doubt that he is a handled man will continue to fade with time. Al Gore, a man who has been commissioned to do a job which probably has to do more with the psychology of the gullible than the environment.

*With two-thirds of everyone's personal income taxes wasted or not collected, 100 percent of what is collected is absorbed solely by interest on the Federal debt and by Federal Government contributions to transfer payments. In other words, all individual income tax revenues are gone before one nickel is spent on the services which taxpayers expect from their Government. The Grace Commission Report

OPERATION MOCKINGBIRD: “The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media.” former CIA Director Bill Colby

2007-03-05T12:34:00.000-05:00

What information is your reality based upon?
Operation Mockingbird: CIA Media Manipulation
"Personally, I have come to the conclusion that the media is not only influenced by the CIA.....the media is the CIA. Many Americans think of their supposedly free press as a watchdog on government, mainly because the press itself shamelessly promotes that myth. One of the first tenets for the control of a population is to control all sources of information the population receives and mostly because of the pervasive CIA and Operation Mockingbird, the mainstream American Press is a controlled multi-national corporate / government megaphone."
Read the article here

The Cia and the Media---Rolling Stone Magazine
Read the article here

The Subversion Of The Free Press By The CIA
Read the article here

OPERATION MOCKINGBIRD---Wikipedia
Look it up here

"The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers." Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President of the United States.

"The United States of America denies that the Internal Revenue Service is an Agency of the United States Government..." (click here, pg. 3 para. 4).

2007-03-04T22:09:00.000-05:00

..nor is the Federal Reserve an agency of the United States Government. America's been had....
"America:Freedom to Fascism"
A documentary by Academy Award producer Aaron Russo.
An award-winning Hollywood producer sets out on a journey to find answers to questions about the legality of the income tax – but soon discovers that there is much more being hidden from public view than simple tax issues. What he discovers is a quiet conversion of the American political system from a constitutional republic to a democratic dictatorship modeled along the lines of fascism – and it is happening without the public even being aware of it. For Americans, there is nothing more serious or more important in their lives than the issue raised in this film. Even outside the US, this will affect every aspect of your personal existence in the very near future.
Get the DVD version here: http://www.freedomtofascism.com/
Or watch it on line (click) here!

How much of your earnings do you have a right to?? Click on music note below and give it a ponder.

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Rockefeller Predicted 9/11 To Trigger War Eleven Months Prior

2007-03-04T15:21:00.000-05:00

Rockefeller Predicted "Event" To Trigger War Eleven Months Before 9/11Hollywood director Russo recalls remarkable "forecast" of coming attack

Paul Joseph Watson/Prison Planet.com October 28 2006

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Hollywood director, producer and documentary film maker Aaron Russo, currently receiving a wave of plaudits for his latest release, America: From Freedom to Fascism, told The Alex Jones Show that Nicholas Rockefeller had personally assured him there was going to be an "event" that would trigger the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq eleven months before 9/11 took place.

During his career in the entertainment industry, Russo was manager for Bette Midler from 1972 to 1979 [1] and The Manhattan Transfer, and the producer of the films The Rose and Trading Places. He also produced Wise Guys. Russo has stated that he was the first person to book Led Zeppelin in a United States venue, (the "Electric Circus," Chicago,1968, later named the "Kinetic Playground").

Saying he had been approached many times by the Rockefellers and other members of the CFR elite in an attempt to recruit him, Russo recalled a conversation that would come home to roost on September 11, 2001.

"Here's what I do know first hand - I know that about eleven months to a year before 9/11 ever happened I was talking to my Rockefeller friend (Nicholas Rockefeller) and he said to me 'Aaron there's gonna be an event' and he never told me what the event was going to be - I'm not sure he knew what the event was going to be I don't know that he knew that," said Russo. '

Russo related how Rockefeller knew precisely what the event would lead to and which countries would be militarily targeted by the elite.

"He just said there's gonna be an event and out of that event we're gonna invade Afghanistan so we can run pipelines through the Caspian sea, we can go into Iraq to take the oil and establish bases in the middle east and to make the middle east part of the new world order and we're going to go after Venezuela - that's what's going to come out of this event."
"Eleven months to a year later that's what happened....he certainly knew that something was going to happen."

"In my relationships with some of these people I can tell you that it's as evil as it really gets - this is it - this is the game," stated Russo - also relating how members of the elite were routinely obsessed by creating a world identification society where people had to carry ID cards and prove who they were at all times.

Russo was told that if he joined the elite he would be exempted from any of the police state measures inflicted on the general public. He has now chosen to take a bold public stance on everything he knows and stated that the potential consequences no longer concern him and that freedom for future generations is paramount.

Rockefeller also told Russo that the elite families created and financed the women's lib movement so they could tax another half of the population and so that the children would be trained by them in government schools rather than in the context of the family unit.
Russo also sounded off on 9/11, openly airing his view for the first time that it was a complete inside job.

"People know that 9/11 was an inside job," said Russo, "look what they did here in America, look at 9/11, look what they did - they killed thousands of Americans - people jumping out of windows from a hundred floors up - they don't care," said the director.

"There's no way that Building 7 came down without a controlled demolition, it takes weeks to do the controlled demolition, they couldn't have done it in a few hours like Larry Silverstein said - it blows the whole game - concrete doesn't turn to powder unless its exploded."

"We all know that 9/11 was a fraud - an inside job," concluded Russo.

Gloria Steinem: How the CIA Used Feminism to Destabilize Society

2007-03-04T14:10:00.000-05:00

by Dr. Henry Makow
"In the 1960's, the elite media invented second-wave feminism as part of the elite agenda to dismantle civilization and create a New World Order."
Since writing these words last week, I have discovered that before she became a feminist leader, Gloria Steinem worked for the CIA spying on Marxist students in Europe and disrupting their meetings. She became a media darling due to her CIA connections. MS Magazine, which she edited for many years was indirectly funded by the CIA.

Steinem has tried to suppress this information, unearthed in the 1970's by a radical feminist group called "Red Stockings." In 1979, Steinem and her powerful CIA-connected friends, Katharine Graham of the Washington Post and Ford Foundation President Franklin Thomas prevented Random House from publishing it in "Feminist Revolution." Nevertheless the story appeared in the "Village Voice" on May 21, 1979.

Steinem has always pretended that she had been a student radical. "When I was in college, it was the McCarthy era," she told Susan Mitchell in 1997, "and that made me a Marxist." (Icons, Saints and Divas: Intimate Conversations with Women who Changed the World 1997. p 130) Her bio-blurb in June 1973 MS. Magazine states: "Gloria Steinem has been a freelance writer all her professional life. Ms magazine is her first full-time salaried job."

Not true. Raised in an impoverished, dysfunctional family in Toledo Ohio, Steinem somehow managed to attend elite Smith College, Betty Friedan's alma mater. After graduating in 1955, Steinem received a "Chester Bowles Student Fellowship" to study in India. Curiously, an Internet search reveals that this fellowship has no existence apart from Gloria Steinem. No one else has received it.

In 1958, Steinem was recruited by CIA's Cord Meyers to direct an "informal group of activists" called the "Independent Research Service." This was part of Meyer's "Congress for Cultural Freedom," which created magazines like "Encounter" and "Partisan Review" to promote a left-liberal chic to oppose Marxism. Steinem, attended Communist-sponsored youth festivals in Europe, published a newspaper, reported on other participants, and helped to provoke riots.

One of Steinem's CIA colleagues was Clay Felker. In the early 1960's, he became an editor at Esquire and published articles by Steinem which established her as a leading voice for women's lib. In 1968, as publisher of New York Magazine, he hired her as a contributing editor, and then editor of Ms. Magazine in 1971. Warner Communications put up almost all the money although it only took 25% of the stock. Ms. Magazine's first publisher was Elizabeth Forsling Harris, a CIA-connected PR executive who planned John Kennedy's Dallas motorcade route. Despite its anti establishment image, MS magazine attracted advertising from the cream of corporate America. It published ads for ITT at the same time as women political prisoners in Chile were being tortured by Pinochet, after a coup inspired by the US conglomerate and the CIA.

Steinem's personal relationships also belie her anti establishment pretensions. She had a nine-year relationship with Stanley Pottinger, a Nixon-Ford assistant attorney general, credited with stalling FBI investigations into the assassinations of Martin Luther King, and the ex-Chilean Foreign Minister Orlando Latelier. In the 1980's, she dated Henry Kissinger. For more details, see San Francisco researcher Dave Emory.

Our main misconception about the CIA is that it serves US interests. In fact, it has always been the instrument of a dynastic international banking and oil elite (Rothschild, Rockefeller, Morgan) coordinated by the Royal Institute for Internal Affairs in London and their US branch, the Council for Foreign Relations. It was established and peopled by blue bloods from the New York banking establishment and graduates of Yale University's secret pagan "Skull and Bones" society. Our current President, his father and grandfather fit this profile.

The agenda of this international cabal is to degrade the institutions and values of the United States in order to integrate it into a global state that it will direct through the United Nations. In its 1947 Founding Charter, the CIA is prohibited from engaging in domestic activities. However this has never stopped it from waging a psychological war on the American people. The domestic counterpart of the "Congress for Cultural Freedom" was the "American Committee for Cultural Freedom." Using foundations as conduits, the CIA controlled intellectual discourse in the 1950's and 1960's, and I believe continues to do so today. In "The Cultural Cold War," Francis Stonor Saunders estimates that a thousand books were produced under the imprint of a variety of commercial and university presses, with covert subsidies.

The CIA's "Project Mockingbird" involved the direct infiltration of the corporate media, a process that often included direct takeover of major news outlets. "By the early 1950's," writes Deborah Davis, in her book "Katherine the Great," the CIA owned respected members of the New York Times, Newsweek, CBS and other communication vehicles, plus stringers, four to six hundred in all." In 1982 the CIA admitted that reporters on the CIA payroll have acted as case officers to agents in the field. Philip Graham, publisher of the Washington Post, who ran the operation until his "suicide" in 1963, boasted that "you could get a journalist cheaper than a good call girl, for a couple of hundred dollars a month."

I was born in 1949. Idealists in my parent's generation were disillusioned when the Communist dream of universal brotherhood turned out to be a shill for a brutal despotism. My own generation may discover that our best instincts have also been manipulated and exploited. There is evidence that the 60's drug counter culture, the civil rights movement, and anti-war movement, like feminism, were CIA directed. For example, the CIA has admitted setting up the (National Student Association as a front in 1947 http://www.cia-on-campus.org/nsa/nsa2.html). In the early 1950's the NSA opposed the attempts of the House Un American Activities Committee to root out Communist spies. According to Phil Agee Jr., NSA officers participated in the activities of SNCC, the militant civil rights group, and Students for a Democratic Society, a radical peace group.

According to Mark Riebling, the CIA also may have used Timothy Leary. Certainly the agency distributed LSD to Leary and other opinion makers in the 1960s. Leary made a generation of Americans turn away from active participation in society and seek fulfillment "within." In another example of the CIA's use of drugs to interfere in domestic politics, Gary Webb describes how in the 1980's, the CIA flooded Black ghettos with cocaine.

I won't attempt to analyze the CIA's motivation except to suggest what they have in common: They demoralized, alienated and divided Americans. The elite operates by fostering division and conflict in the world. Thus, we don't realize who the real enemy is. For the same reason, the CIA and elite foundations also fund the diversity and multicultural movements.

Feminism has done the most damage. There is no more fundamental yet delicate relationship in society than male and female. On it depends the family, the red blood cell of society. Nobody with the interests of society at heart would try to divide men and women. Yet the lie that men have exploited women has become the official orthodoxy.
Man loves woman. His first instinct is to nurture ("husband") and see her thrive. When a woman is happy, she is beautiful. Sure, some men are abusive. But the vast majority have supported and guided their families for millennium.

Feminists relentlessly advance the idea that our inherent male and female characteristics, crucial to our development as human beings, are mere "stereotypes." This is a vicious calumny on all heterosexuals, 95% of the population. Talk about hate! Yet it is taught to children in elementary schools! It is echoed in the media. Lesbians like Rosie O'Donnell are advanced as role models.

All of this is calculated to create personal confusion and sow chaos among heterosexuals. As a result, millions of American males are emasculated and divorced from their relationship to family (the world and the future.) The American woman has been hoodwinked into investing herself in a mundane career instead of the timeless love of her husband and children. Many women have become temperamentally unfit to be wives and mothers. People, who are isolated and alone, stunted and love-starved, are easy to fool and manipulate. Without the healthy influence of two loving parents, so are their children.

Feminism is a grotesque fraud perpetrated on society by its governing elite. It is designed to weaken the American social and cultural fabric in order to introduce a friendly fascist New World Order. Its advocates are sanctimonious charlatans who have grown rich and powerful from it. They include a whole class of liars and moral cripples who work for the elite in various capacities: government, education and the media. These imposters ought to be exposed and ridiculed.

Women's oppression is a lie. Sex roles were never as rigid as feminists would have us believe. My mother had a successful business in the 1950's importing watchstraps from Switzerland. When my father's income increased, she was content to quit and concentrate on the children. Women were free to pursue careers if they wanted to. The difference was that their role as wife and mother was understood, and socially validated, as it should be.

Until Gloria Steinem and the CIA came along.

The Bull Market in Things

2007-03-04T10:54:00.000-05:00

For those who have expressed an interest in the ongoing and developing bull market in "things" or tangibles, the following information is presented for educational purposes.

Paper represents claims. In the current system, by design, if too many attempt to cash in claims, problems arise as too many head for the exits. This is especially true today as the Federal Reserve Note, private scrip (today erroneously referred to as "the dollar"), is intrinsically worthless as it ultimately represents a claim on nothing.

Not investment advice. Please due your own due diligence!

Interestingly, financial planners and mainstream financial publications rarely address the specter of the falling US dollar for the average American investor. Can investors truly call themselves financially diversified if all their investments are denominated in a currency of a nation which is accumulating staggering debt? This is especially important for those whose retirement is more than a few years away. The enormous trade deficits, war expenditures and unfunded liabilities of the US government (one estimate was over $60 trillion in unfunded liabilities alone), present a dangerous risk that the US dollar may be a museum relic by the time today's middle age investor is ready to retire. Already, the Council on Foreign Relations is discussing a replacement currency, a regional one (to be called the AMERO) and high level G-8 and US Treasury officials have expressed a desire to "allow" the US dollar to fall, (albeit, in a controlled fashion). They are telling us this, point blank. We are witnessing this today as commodities and gold are reacting strongly to the upside as structural deficits will only be worked out by way of a falling dollar. Perhaps it might be prudent to do some personal research about defensive plays to preserve sweat and toil by diversifying in varying degrees suited to each investor, outside of one asset class. Relying solely on an asset which is being multiplied toward infinite quantities is the ultimate in foolishness. A study in the markets is a study in human behaviour and yourself.

*First, if there be any doubt as to past being prologue!
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*"Commodities Bull Portfolio Design," by Adam Hamilton
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Hamilton called it!
"The Great Commodities Bull of the 00's" (April 27, 2001)
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Do yourself a big favor, read this: "The Creature From Jekyll Island."

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