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The Best Way To Wake Up The World

Hat tip: Prison Planet
March 16, 2009

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March 17th, 2009 | Posted in Web-Only Content | Read More »

Jon Stewart Rips CNBC in Epic Rant

Hat tip: Daniel Kurtzman’s Political Humor BlogThursday March 5, 2009

Jon Stewart vs. CNBC No one is better at holding the media accountable for peddling BS than Jon Stewart, and last night, he subjected CNBC to one of the greatest beat-downs of all time.

Stewart’s guest was supposed to be CNBC’s Rick Santelli, who recently made headlines for delivering an angry on-air tirade against homeowner bailouts. But after he canceled his Daily Show appearance, Stewart used the opportunity to blast CNBC for its unapologetic Wall Street cheerleading, softball interviews with CEOs, and general worthlessness.

In other words, “Santelli bailed out.”

The money quote: “If I had only followed CNBC’s advice, I’d have a million dollars today — provided I started out with $100 million dollars.”

Watch Jon Stewart’s epic rant against CNBC:

See related story: Rick Santelli’s “Mad as hell and he’s not going to take it anymore!”

March 6th, 2009 | Posted in Web-Only Content | Read More »

Playing the Banking Game

How Cash Starved States can Create their Own Credit

by Ellen Brown

Hat tip:Global Research, March 3, 2009

webofdebt.com

“He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.” Francis Bacon

On February 19, 2009, California narrowly escaped bankruptcy, when Governor Arnold Schwarzenneger put on his Terminator hat and held the state senate in lockdown mode until they signed a very controversial budget.1 If the vote had failed, the state was going to be reduced to paying its employees in I.O.U.s. California avoided bankruptcy for the time being, but 46 of 50 states are insolvent and could be filing Chapter 9 bankruptcy proceedings in the next two years.

One of the four states that is not insolvent is an unlikely candidate for the distinction – North Dakota. As Michigan management consultant Charles Fleetham observed last month in an article distributed to his local media:

“North Dakota is a sparsely populated state of less than 700,000, known for cold weather, isolated farmers and a hit movie – Fargo. Yet, for some reason it defies the real estate cliché of location, location, location. Since 2000, the state’s GNP has grown 56%, personal income has grown 43%, and wages have grown 34%. This year the state has a budget surplus of $1.2 billion!”

What does the State of North Dakota have that other states don’t? The answer seems to be: its own bank. In fact, North Dakota has the only state-owned bank in the nation. The state legislature established the Bank of North Dakota in 1919. Fleetham writes that the bank was set up to free farmers and small businessmen from the clutches of out-of-state bankers and railroad men. By law, the state must deposit all its funds in the bank, and the state guarantees its deposits. Three elected officials oversee the bank: the governor, the attorney general, and the commissioner of agriculture. The bank’s stated mission is to deliver sound financial services that promote agriculture, commerce and industry in North Dakota. The bank operates as a bankers’ bank, partnering with private banks to loan money to farmers, real estate developers, schools and small businesses. It loans money to students (over 184,000 outstanding loans), and it purchases municipal bonds from public institutions.

Still, you may ask, how does that solve the solvency problem? Isn’t the state still limited to spending only the money it has? The answer is no. Certified, card-carrying bankers are allowed to do something nobody else can do: they can create “credit” with accounting entries on their books.

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March 4th, 2009 | Posted in Web-Only Content | Read More »

Death of the American Empire — a look at what brought us here

America is self-destructing & bringing the rest of the world down with it

by Tanya Cariina Hsu

Global Research, October 23, 2008

I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. (Thomas Jefferson, US President; 1743 – 1826)

America is dying. It is self-destructing and bringing the rest of the world down with it.

Often referred to as a sub-prime mortgage collapse, this obfuscates the real reason. By associating tangible useless failed mortgages, at least something ‘real’ can be blamed for the carnage. The problem is, this is myth. The magnitude of this fiscal collapse happened because it was all based on hot air.

The banking industry renamed insurance betting guarantees as ‘credit default swaps’ and risky gambling wagers were called ‘derivatives’. Financial managers and banking executives were selling the ultimate con to the entire world, akin to the snake-oil salesmen from the 18th century but this time in suits and ties. And by October 2008 it was a quadrillion-dollar (that’s $1,000 trillion) industry that few could understand.

Propped up by false hope, America is now falling like a house of cards.

It all began in the early part of the 20th century. In 1907 J.P. Morgan, a private New York banker, published a rumour that a competing unnamed large bank was about to fail. It was a false charge but customers nonetheless raced to their banks to withdraw their money, in case it was their bank. As they pulled out their funds the banks lost their cash deposits and were forced to call in their loans. People now therefore had to pay back their mortgages to fill the banks with income, going bankrupt in the process. The 1907 panic resulted in a crash that prompted the creation of the Federal Reserve, a private banking cartel with the veneer of an independent government organisation. Effectively, it was a coup by elite bankers in order to control the industry.

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March 3rd, 2009 | Posted in Web-Only Content | Read More »

Glenn Beck Speaks Out on “The Inconvenient Debt”

THIS is why *I* fear inflation is coming.

*I am not a fortune teller (aka an economist or financial consultant.)

See related story, “If Cash is King then Gold is — forgive me — G*d”

March 3rd, 2009 | Posted in Web-Only Content | Read More »

If Cash is King, Then Gold is — forgive me — G*d

In 2000, Bob Prechter published a book called “Conquering the Crash” in which he accurately predicted the current financial markets meltdown right down to the bank failures and futile “bailout” actions on the part of the Fed.

This past October, Prechter was asked if we could expect to see a “bottom” any time soon. In other words, the end of the declines and the beginning of the rebuilding of share values.

He quite confidently said the equivalent of “no way!”

That was over four months ago and so far he’s right on the money.

Prechter is a highly respected analyst on Wall Street as demonstrated by his frequent appearances on Bloomberg TV.

Unfortunately, his message is not getting to the “average” investor who is being told to “hold steady.”

Holding steady is a period of dramatic deflation is a great formula for going broke.

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March 3rd, 2009 | Posted in Web-Only Content | Read More »

How the Economy Was Lost

Paul Craig Roberts
www.opednews.com

The American economy has gone away. It is not coming back until free trade myths are buried six feet under.

America’s 20th century economic success was based on two things. Free trade was not one of them. America’s economic success was based on protectionism, which was ensured by the union victory in the Civil War, and on British indebtedness, which destroyed the British pound as world reserve currency. Following World War II, the US dollar took the role as reserve currency, a privilege that allows the US to pay its international bills in its own currency.

World War II and socialism together ensured that the US economy dominated the world at the mid 20th century. The economies of the rest of the world had been destroyed by war or were stifled by socialism.

The ascendant position of the US economy caused the US government to be relaxed about giving away American industries, such as textiles, as bribes to other countries for cooperating with America’s cold war and foreign policies. For example, Turkey’s US textile quotas were increased in exchange for over-flight rights in the Gulf War, making lost US textile jobs an off-budget war expense.

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February 24th, 2009 | Posted in Web-Only Content | Read More »

Brzezinski’s Fear: Class Warfare and Destruction of the New World Order

Kurt Nimmo
Infowars
February 18, 2009

Making an appearance on the Morning Joe television show, the Rockefeller globalist Zbigniew Brzezinski said it is high time the rich who have made billions since the days of the Clinton administration help out the poor and struggling masses. Said Brzezinski:

Where is the monied class today? Why aren’t they doing something: the people who made billions, millions. I’m sort of thinking of Paulson, of Rubin. Why don’t they get together, and why don’t they organize a National Solidarity Fund in which they call on all of those who made these extraordinary amounts of money to kick some back in to [a] National Solidarity Fund?

Brzezinski almost looked grandfatherly as he said this (see video). He almost came off as a good-natured humanitarian… almost. It all sounded good, if implausible — that is until Brzezinski reached the end of his carefully crafted diatribe:

And if we don’t get some sort of voluntary National Solidarity Fund, at some point there’ll be such political pressure that Congress will start getting in the act, there’s going to be growing conflict between the classes and if people are unemployed and really hurting, hell, there could be even riots.

In other words, Brzezinski is afraid that if some filthy lucre is not dispensed among the unwashed, they will rise up and burn down the banks, sack the corporations, and destroy the globalist edifice so painfully erected over the last fifty or so years — and maybe even go so far as to string up Brzezinski and his fellow globalists from trees and overpasses, the sort of dirty and regrettable business that invariably occurs in the process of violent revolutions in response to decades of provocation.

It’s not the pain suffered by the unemployed and homeless that concerns Brzezinski and the one-world patricians. It is the prospect of class warfare. It is the horrific prospect of losing it all.

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February 23rd, 2009 | Posted in Web-Only Content | Read More »

Rick Santelli is ‘Mad as Hell and He’s Not Going to Take it Anymore!’

Sounds like some real truth actually got on the CNBC “Network!”

See original rant here…

February 22nd, 2009 | Posted in Web-Only Content | Read More »

Musings on Depressions Past And Future, Protests Hit Banker’s Homes

HISTORY LESSON:

How Popular Anger Grew, 1929 and 2009 By Steve Fraser

Obtuse hardly does justice to the social stupidity of our late, unlamented financial overlords. John Thain of Merrill Lynch and Richard Fuld of Lehman Brothers, along with an astonishing number of their fraternity brothers, continue to behave like so many intoxicated toreadors waving their capes at an enraged bull, oblivious even when gored.

Their greed and self-indulgence in the face of an economic cataclysm for which they bear heavy responsibility is, unsurprisingly, inciting anger and contempt, as daily news headlines indicate. It is undermining the last shreds of their once exalted social status — and, in that regard, they are evidently fated to relive the experience of their predecessors, those Wall Street “lords of creation” who came crashing to Earth during the last Great Depression.

Ever since the bail-out state went into hyper-drive, popular anger has been simmering. In fact, even before the meltdown gained real traction, a sign at a mass protest outside the New York Stock Exchange advised those inside: “Jump, You F-ckers.”

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February 11th, 2009 | Posted in Web-Only Content | Read More »

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