Robbing The Poor To Give To the Rich
The NeoCons Rob From The Poor Give To The Rich “Cheap financing advanced to consumers in the middle and working classes, who have had declining real income since the ’70s, has been purposeful public policy that forces consumers to borrow more and more to maintain their lifestyle. Incomes have not kept up with inflation, off shored manufacturing jobs have been replaced with service jobs that pay an average of 20% less, federal and state governments have shifted more cost to local entities, increasing property taxes, and the costs to participate in the legal economy for everything from daycare, to college, to medical insurance have been shifted to the worker. The result is a massive transfer of wealth over time from the general population to a very small percentage of super wealthy.This process began during the Reagan administration and has continued, except during the Clinton years, until the present. It is nearing its inevitable end. As we learned in 1929, great disparity of wealth (which this process has increased tremendously) leads to a disproportionate investment in speculation, driving up prices to unsustainable amounts that then crash back to their real worth. Eventually the transfer of wealth from the working and middle class through increased debt deprives them of both purchasing power and the ability to borrow more, triggering deflation. Of course the devastation occurs mostly to the middle and working class who were already deprived of sharing the wealth of the speculative bubble, but now pay the consequences with layoffs and pension losses.” Hold On to Your Seat: America and Its Debt Based Economy by John Kelley / July 31st, 2007 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2007/07/
The conmen, crooks and shysters of the Bu$h Crime cabal under the guise of Compassionate Conservatism have succeeded in fleecing the flock known as the AmeriKKKan public yet one more time. Using their cronies who operate the corporate mind control apparatus these rogues and sociopaths have surpassed even the predatory bloodsucking antics of their robber baron forefathers by using a cunning campaign of disinformation, fear-mongering and intimidation to distract, dummy down and coerce the populous into believing evil is good, wrong is right, war is peace, larceny is charity and privation is prosperity.
But alas even the most elaborate and finely constructed con game can go on only so long before the inevitable consequences of greed, arrogance and psychopathy reveal themselves to all but the most, brain dead, blind or somnolent. This is what is happening slowly but surely now in AmeriKKKa. After George W. Bu$h was given the 2000 election by his father’s cronies on the US Supreme Court, the hard core fascists among them began to implement their plan to execute an aggressive imperial agenda overseas and escalate their fascist program at home. (You can read the Project For A New American Century’s various manifestos and plans for global domination at http://www.newamericancentury.org/iraqmiddleeast.htm ) Their plans included: reinstating the massive transfer and redistribution of wealth from the working and middle classes to the ruling elites started under the Reagan administration, escalating the Nazification of AmeriKKKa, facilitating the creation of a one world government with themselves at the helm and the total destruction of the social welfare safety nets of the New Deal and Great Society.
Internationally we can see just how far they have come with their plans for global imperial domination with their illegal interventions in Haiti, Afghanistan, Iraq and their failed attempts to depose Chavez in Venezuela. Unfortunately for them the resistance in those countries has been fierce and the NeoCons have proven to be inept emperors. Nevertheless they have moved their agenda along by bringing in the UN to help pacify Haiti and by employing NATO to help colonize Afghanistan as they pursue their plans to balkanize the “Middle East” starting with Iraq.
Things are not always what they seem or as they are depicted by the corporate mind control apparatus. Bu$h and Co may not be the brightest bulbs in the chandelier but they are supremely arrogant to the point of hubris. In addition they are working from a master plan that has been modified and revised over the years so the ruling elites fully expect their plans to bear fruit. (Keep in mind one component of their plan is massive global depopulation which they are accomplishing through perpetual wars, invasions, occupations and predatory and stifling Neo-Colonial globalist economic policies.) On the home front their program for a fascist police state and massive wealth redistribution is moving along quite nicely.
“In the United States, wealth is highly concentrated in a relatively few hands. As of 2001, the top 1% of households (the upper class) owned 33.4% of all privately held wealth, and the next 19% (the managerial, professional, and small business stratum) had 51%, which means that just 20% of the people owned a remarkable 84%, leaving only 16% of the wealth for the bottom 80% (wage and salary workers)... In terms of types of financial wealth, the top one percent of households have 44.1% of all privately held stock, 58.0% of financial securities, and 57.3% of business equity. The top 10% have 85% to 90% of stock, bonds, trust funds, and business equity, and over 75% of non-home real estate. Since financial wealth is what counts as far as the control of income-producing assets, we can say that just 10% of the people own the United States of America... The most recent findings on income inequality come from the New York Times' analysis of a November, 2006, Internal Revenue Service report on income in 2004. Although overall income has grown by 27% since 1979, 33% of the gains went to the top 1%. Meanwhile, the bottom 60% were making less: about 95 cents for each dollar they made in 1979. The next 20% - those between the 60th and 80th rungs of the income ladder -- made $1.02 for each dollar they earned in 1979. Furthermore, the Times author concludes that only the top 5% made significant gains ($1.53 for each 1979 dollar). Most amazing of all, the top 0.1% -- that's one-tenth of one percent -- had more combined pre-tax income than the poorest 120 million people (Johnston, 2006).” Wealth, Income, and Power by G. William Domhoff http://sociology.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html
The policies of the US Central Bank (the privately owned Federal Reserve Banking system, not to be confused with having anything to do with the federal government.) have AmeriKKKa on the brink of fiscal collapse as governmental and consumer debt, stagnant wages and Fed created inflation create an undertow that are dragging working class and “Middle class” AmeriKKKans into insolvency, debt peonage and wage slavery. Things are so bad even the spin masters at the Fed are saying their policies are unsustainable and cannot continue.
Politically 9-11 was the “catastrophic event” the NeoCons needed to pursue their domestic fascist police state agenda and war related fraud/criminal enterprises. Using 9-11 which by now most thinking people realize was totally an inside job or at the very least was deliberately allowed to happen Bu$h and Co have gutted the US Bill of Rights and are fast moving to instill a gulag police state under the guise of national security and an imperial presidency the rich white men who founded this country feared above all else. In addition, their fat cat cronies are making out like bandits as the Iraq war/occupation and scurrilous “Global War on Terrorism” spurs additional expenditures for weapons, “reconstruction” and “national security” at the expense of much needed domestic priorities and programs,
“Congress has already approved four spending bills for Iraq with funds totaling $204.4 billion and is in the process of approving a ‘bridge fund’ for $45.3 billion to cover operations until another supplemental spending package can be passed, most likely slated for Spring 2006. Broken down per person in the United States, the cost so far is $727, making the Iraq War the most expensive military effort in the last 60 years.Long-term Impact on U.S. Economy: In August 2005, the Congressional Budget Office estimated that the cost of continuing the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan at current levels would nearly double the projected federal budget deficit over the next ten years. According to current estimates, during that time the cost of the Iraq War could exceed $700 billion.Economic Impact on Military Families: Since the beginning of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, more than 210,000 of the National Guard’s 330,000 soldiers have been called up, with an average mobilization of 460 days. Government studies show that about half of all reservists and Guard members report a loss of income when they go on active duty—typically more than $4,000 a year. About 30,000 small business owners alone have been called to service and are especially likely to fall victim to the adverse economic effects of military deployment.U.S. Budget and Social Programs: The Administration’s FY 2006 budget, which does not include any funding for the Iraq War, takes a hard line with domestic spending— slashing or eliminating more than 150 federal programs. The $204.4 billion appropriated thus far for the war in Iraq could have purchased any of the following desperately needed services in our country: 46,458,805 uninsured people receiving health care or 3,545,016 elementary school teachers or 27,093,473 Head Start places for children or 1,841,833 affordable housing units or 24,072 new elementary schools or 39,665,748 scholarships for university students or 3,204,265 port container inspectors.” The Iraq Quagmire: The Mounting Costs of War and the Case for Bringing Home the Troops A Study by the Institute for Policy Studies and Foreign Policy In Focus
All in all the Bu$h administration has been good to corporate AmeriKKKa as the unprecedented shift of wealth continues unabated and the corporatist elites move to solidify even more power and control. We have seen how they’ve profited from the mishandling of the Iraq and Afghanistan invasions, Katrina and now the housing lending fiasco! These are merely the tip of the iceberg when it comes to criminality and fraud. Percolating beneath the surface of the sub-prime mortgage debacle (which was created by Federal Reserve Bank interest and credit policies) are fissures in the hedge funds, derivatives and stock market. Like the Savings and Loan scandals where the Bu$h family profited handsomely, these debacles will probably require taxpayer bailouts also. The corporate media will not beat the drums about these issues, but they will divert our attention and keep us distracted with stories about Michael Vick, Paris Hilton and other nonsense.
“Cheap financing advanced to consumers in the middle and working classes, who have had declining real income since the ’70s, has been purposeful public policy that forces consumers to borrow more and more to maintain their lifestyle. Incomes have not kept up with inflation, off shored manufacturing jobs have been replaced with service jobs that pay an average of 20% less, federal and state governments have shifted more cost to local entities, increasing property taxes, and the costs to participate in the legal economy for everything from daycare, to college, to medical insurance have been shifted to the worker. The result is a massive transfer of wealth over time from the general population to a very small percentage of super wealthy.” Hold On to Your Seat: America and Its Debt Based Economy http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2007/07/
Things will only get worse unless there is a massive awakening coupled with a proactive, concerted cohesive effort by the people to regain control of their lives, the economy and the political system. Wage slavery, debt peonage and tax bondage will be our sorry lot unless we act. Even the founders of this nation themselves said,
“ ... whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness... But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.” US Declaration of Independence July 4, 1776
Food for thought.
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The NeoCons Have Totally Lost Their Minds
The NeoCons Have Totally Lost their Minds “Bush has been under pressure from some members of the U.S. Congress to cultivate alternatives to Musharraf. Critics contend the 63-year-old general, installed by a 1999 coup, has resisted democratic changes and failed to combat al-Qaeda's resurgence. Nuclear-armed Pakistan has been governed by the army for more than half the years since the Muslim nation won independence in the 1947 partition of colonial India. The longest period of democratic rule was between 1988, when Benazir Bhutto was elected prime minister, and 1999, when Nawaz Sharif was overthrown by Musharraf.” Pakistan Tells U.S. to Avoid Raids on Its Territory (Update1) By Paul Tighe http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087
Just when you though the NeoCon cabal couldn’t say or do anything more insane, they are now calling on their sock puppet Dubeyah to launch a preemptive attack on Pakistan supposedly to quell the resurgence of the Taliban and “al-Qaeda” (or more correctly al-CIA-MI6-ISI-Mossad-duh) in Pakistan. (al-Qaeda is a creation of the US CIA the Pakistan ISI, Saudi money and a sundry assortment of Muslim stooges and lackeys. See http://www.oilempire.us/qaeda.html for a real eye opening report.) As if the US doesn’t have enough problems. The NeoCon instigated invasion/occupation of Iraq is not going well at all, despite their protestations to the contrary. Violence is pandemic. US forces have been totally unable to pacify the Sunni resistance and anti- US and anti-occupation sentiment is spreading to the South.
Meanwhile in Afghanistan US and NATO forces are attempting to do what they did in Kosovo: conduct an indiscriminate aerial bombardment foolishly thinking they will defeat the Taliban that way. Alas for them Afghanistan is not Kosovo, in logistics, geography or temperament. Now the psychopathic NeoCon warmongers are attempting to inflame Muslims everywhere as they openly call for an attack on another sovereign Muslim nation, this time a nation that sided with them in their bogus War on Terrorism.
“Earlier this month, the boy wonder of the neocons, Bill Kristol, told Fox News the neocons will ‘take military action [against Pakistan] … over the next few weeks or months…. Bush has to disrupt that sanctuary.’ In fact, according to Kristol, ‘we won’t even tell Musharraf…. We’ll do what we have to do in Western Pakistan and Musharraf can say, ‘Hey, they didn’t tell me.’ ’ In other words, Kristol and the neocons will not lose any sleep over the Pakistani military deposing Musharraf or the fact hundreds, possibly thousands of Pakistanis will be slaughtered, the latter just another day in the neocon neighborhood. Kristol’s bright idea ‘would lead to major riots throughout Pakistan and the Arab world, and it would lead to certainly a major insurgency against US forces,’ Seth Jones, a South Asia specialist at the RAND Institute, told Australian Broadcasting Corporation last week, according to Jim Lobe.” http://kurtnimmo.com/?p=935
Keep in mind the Bushites’ plan to exploit the mounting discord in Pakistan to either directly take out Pakistani “President” Pervez Musharraf a Muslim “ally” who sided with them against the Taliban in the invasion of Afghanistan or allow Pakistani Islamic radicals to do the job for them. People like Musharraf, Saddam Hussein and Manuel Noreiga never learn, you can’t trust the New World Order boys. Keep in mind Pakistan unlike Iraq and Iran actually has nuclear weapons. Also remember it was Pakistan that gave North Korea the technology to produce nuclear weapons. That’s right, Pakistan gave the technology to the North Koreans which allowed them to further their nuclear ambitions. Keep this in mind also, and this is key, Uncle Sam did absolutely nothing to Musharraf or Pakistan in any way. We’re being set up for more regional wars or WW III (or IV depending on your geo-political perspective) . That is the total hypocrisy of Bu$h’s invasion of Iraq and the NeoCon war cries to attack Iran, neither country has/had nuclear weapons while Pakistan, Israel, India and North Korea do!?
“In 1985, North Korea signed the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, which led to the opening of most of its nuclear sites to international inspection. By the early nineteen-nineties, it became evident to American intelligence agencies and international inspectors that the North Koreans were reprocessing more spent fuel than they had declared, and might have separated enough plutonium, a reactor by-product, to fabricate one or two nuclear weapons. The resulting diplomatic crisis was resolved when North Korea's leader, Kim Jong Il, entered into an agreement with the Clinton Administration to stop the nuclear-weapons program in return for economic aid and the construction of two light-water nuclear reactors that, under safeguards, would generate electricity. Within three years, however, North Korea had begun using a second method to acquire fissile material. This time, instead of using spent fuel, scientists were trying to produce weapons-grade uranium from natural uranium—with Pakistani technology. One American intelligence official, referring to the C.I.A. report, told me, ‘It points a clear finger at the Pakistanis. The technical stuff is crystal clear—not hedged and not ambivalent.’ Referring to North Korea's plutonium project in the early nineteen-nineties, he said, ‘Before, they were sneaking.’ Now ‘it's off the wall. We know they can do a lot more and a lot more quickly.’North Korea is economically isolated; one of its main sources of export income is arms sales, and its most sought-after products are missiles. And one of its customers has been Pakistan, which has a nuclear arsenal of its own but needs the missiles to more effectively deliver the warheads to the interior of its rival, India. In 1997, according to the C.I.A. report, Pakistan began paying for missile systems from North Korea in part by sharing its nuclear-weapons secrets. According to the report, Pakistan sent prototypes of high-speed centrifuge machines to North Korea. And sometime in 2001 North Korean scientists began to enrich uranium in significant quantities. Pakistan also provided data on how to build and test a uranium-triggered nuclear weapon, the C.I.A. report said.” NUCLEAR NORTH KOREA: NERVOUSNESS IN PAKISTAN http://www.saag.org/%5Cpapers21%5Cpaper2004.html
Now the NeoCrazies want to attack Pakistan. Such a move would cause all hell to break loose in the Islamic world. It would be the catalyst for the fabled Clash of Civilizations the West longs for, or perhaps set off the Armageddon fanatics in Zionism, Christianity and Islam envision. The corporate mind control apparatus is beating the drum now for a strike on Pakistan. An article in the Daily Times a leading Pakistan newspaper dated July 20, 2007 said,
“The Washington Post has urged the United States government to militarily strike Pakistan’s tribal agency areas since the Pakistani government has been ‘unable to flush out terrorist groups from their sanctuaries’. The shock editorial, advocating the unilateral bombing of a sovereign state which is a close Washington ally, proves, according to a political observer who wanted to remain unnamed, that when it comes to perceived US security interests in the world, ‘no holds are barred and no principles of international law apply.’ The lead editorial said, ‘If Pakistani forces cannot – or will not – eliminate the sanctuary, President Bush must order targeted strikes or covert actions by American forces, as he has done several times in recent years. Such actions run the risk of further destabilising Pakistan. Yet those risks must be weighed against the consequences of another large-scale attack on the US soil. ‘Direct intervention against the sanctuary in Afghanistan apparently must have seemed . . . disproportionate to the threat,’ the Sept 11 commission noted. The United States must not repeat that tragic misjudgment.’The editorial captioned ‘Facing al Qaeda’ said with the terrorists growing stronger, their sanctuary in Pakistan must be eliminated. Basing its surprise recommendation on the recent National Intelligence Estimate which claimed that Al Qaeda had found sanctuary in Pakistan’s tribal areas, the newspaper, which was a strong and vociferous supporter of the invasion of Iraq, said ‘If there is one decision that seems most urgent in light of the intelligence reports, it is what to do about the Al Qaeda base in , which is allowing the group’s senior leadership to coordinate with what the NIE calls ‘operational lieutenants’ and to train militants for operations in and the United States.” The newspaper also charged the Bush administration with ‘ducking this critical problem for too long, despite the clear lesson of .’” US media wants strikes against Waziristan Taliban By Khalid Hasan http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007/07/20/
Yesterday the Bu$h administration regrouped and announced it would not unilaterally attack Pakistan because in their words, “Pakistan was a sovereign nation.” Oh really? So are Haiti, Afghanistan and Iraq that didn't stop them from doing their mega-mischief in those countries! The good news is, the crazies have chilled out for a minute and have scurried back to their drawing boards. You cannot put anything past these psychopaths. This is only a small consolation given these savages never sleep.
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Iraq Joins The Drug Network
Iraq Joins The Drug Network “CAIRO — In a scenario similar to what happened in post-Taliban Afghanistan, opium fields are spreading in south Iraq shriving on chaos and uncontrolled violence, The Independent revealed on Wednesday, May 23. Red-colored opium poppies found a fertile ground at the southern city of Diwaniyah and surrounding cities, Iraqi sources familiar with the area told the British daily. Noting that the area is too dangerous for foreign journalists to access, the paper insisted the start of opium cultivation has been confirmed by multiple sources. The Iraqi sources said the farmers are financed by powerful gangs who are ‘well-equipped with good vehicles and weapons and are well-organized.’ The British daily said that though the cultivation of opium poppies is still in its early stages there is little the government can do amid the uncontrolled chaos miring the little-noticed south. Drug smugglers have for long used Iraq as a transit point for heroin, largely produced from Afghanistan. However, opium poppies, the raw ingredient of heroin, have hitherto not been grown in the oil-rich country. The shift of southern areas, long-famous with rice fields, to the poppy cultivation is therefore raising fears that Iraq could become a new major heroin supplier.” After Afghanistan, Opium Invades Iraq Wednesday , 23 May 2007 http://www.turkishweekly.net/news.php?id=45210
People, groups, tribes and nations are creatures of habit. If you watch closely you can discern the behavior and the underlying psychological patterns of people and groups. Once you do that, you can with great accuracy predict their current and future behavior. For example drug addiction is a habit driven by particular psychological issues, emotional underdevelopment and deficiencies. All to often suppliers of illicit as well as “legitimate” drugs have exploited the physical discomfort or the psychological weaknesses of the populous. They cunningly manipulate and corrupt the government so they make money and minimize resistance to their operations. Ideally from the standpoint of major drug dealers/cartels when they are able to control the government they make even more money and exert even more control over the people, product and politics. Drugs are big business and there are major corporations, cartels and organizations that manufacture, grow, traffic and deal in both illicit and “legitimate” drugs on a global level.
It has been alleged that the Bu$h family under the leadership of George H.W. Bu$h is a major player in illegal South American if not global drug trafficking.
“San Jose Mercury News investigative reporter Gary Webb has meticulously documented how the LA street gangs were intimately tied in with Contra liaisons in the U.S. George Bush, Oliver North’s boss, was essentially running the Contra show, or at least the drug angle. As DeCamp writes: ‘So, was Larry King’s buddy George Bush the country’s ‘drug kingpin’ in the 1980s? I don’t know. But what I do know, is that if Bush were running the Contra affair, and drugs were a big part of it, that would certainly jibe 100% with everything known or rumored about Bush, Larry King, and the Franklin Credit Union....’[69] As Lieutenant Colonel Bo Gritz, the most highly decorated Special Forces officer of the Vietnam War and later head of Special Forces in Central America, adds in his book, Called To Serve: ‘George Bush was head of the CIA in 1975-76, appointed by President Gerald Ford; as Vice President under Ronald Reagan, he was our top drug cop for eight years; one of his chief aides, Donald Gregg, was a direct contact in the Contra line of communication to the White House. Ollie North’s personal diary has more than 550 entries citing drug money being used to support contra operations. If George Bush didn’t know about the drug smuggling, he wasn’t doing his job. If he did know about it, then he is clearly culpable. Either way, it doesn’t stand as a credit for a man who would represent the best interests of the United States.’[70] “Like Richard Nixon, Bush publicly claimed to be a strong anti-drug president, escalating the so-called ‘war on drugs’ begun by his mentor Richard Nixon. Nixon had first brought Bush into his ‘war on drugs’ in 1971-77 when Nixon appointed him to the White House Cabinet Committee on International Narcotics Control. In his first formally scheduled prime time television address to the nation as President in September of 1989, Bush again reiterated his plan to rid the nation of its devastating drug scourge. Bush held up a bag of crack cocaine for the camera and announced with mock incredulity that it had been purchased right across the street from the White House, in Lafayette Park. In fact, the drug bust of the dealer had been a set-up.” George Bush: World Class Monster http://www.voxfux.com/features/bush_world_class_criminal.html
The elites cover their schemes and crimes with noble sounding words and phrases like, halting the spread of communism, “War on Drugs” or “Global War on Terrorism”. But under all that righteous sounding rhetoric percolates the cold hard reality of crass criminality. For example drugs were a major component of US involvement in their wars in Southeast Asia although the stated reason was stopping the spread of communism.
“The United States policy in Laos was two pronged: Bill Lair and his CIA colleagues armed and trained the Meo hill tribes and USAID provided agricultural training, built schools and provided simple medical care. Although some of the players in this low key conflict became famous later in other arenas, most of them are forgotten outside of the CIA archives and the pages of Back Fire. On the USAID side, the characters included Edgar Buell, a retired Indiana farmer who had never traveled outside the United States until he accepted a USAID job in Laos, and a married couple, Charles Weldon and Patricia McCreedy, who were both MDs. Drs. Weldon and McCreedy had served as public health officers in American Samoa and were looking for a new post. Making use of political connections to get a USAID post, they ended up in Laos, a country they had not heard of before. The armament provided to the hill tribes in the early 1960s was World War II vintage. The USAID assistance was equally small scale. As the war in Vietnam grew and the U.S. presence increased, Laos moved from being a backwater to war supplied by Bill Lair's ‘country store’ to a ‘supermarket’ that supplied B-52 air strikes in the late 1960s. “The Laotian hill tribes have been growing opium for centuries. Laos borders Burma and Thailand, which have long involvement in the opium and heroin trade. As U.S. involvement in Vietnam grew and as the U.S. military cracked down on marijuana use, the U.S. troops became a huge market for heroin. Many of the Lao and Thai generals were involved in the opium and heroin trade. The CIA, which did business with some of these generals, has been accused by some writers of being involved in the drug trade and some have suggested that money from the drug trade was used to finance covert operations. The CIA did have ties to major players in the Asian drug trade and in some cases seems to have used the same financial institutions. In the book The Crimes of Patriots by Jonathan Kwitny, which documents the fall of the Australian bank, Nugan Hand Ltd., Kwitny claims that Nugan Hand handled accounts for both the CIA and people involved in the Asian drug trade (of course this could be equally true of the British banking institution Barclays Bank as well). Direct CIA involvement in the drug trade may be unlikely during the Vietnam era, when the CIA literally had more money than it knew what to do with. However, CIA and the American government may have looked the other way in return for cooperation.” http://www.bearcave.com/bookrev/backfire.htm
Now we learn that opiumis eing grown inIraq for the first time in recent history. (Opium growth has been documented as far back as 3,400 B.C.) Documenting this modern pattern, is it far fetched to conclude the recent Iraqi venture into opium growth is not connected to the US CIA or the Bu$h crime family since both have an extensive track record of such dealings? Notice the piece I quoted at the top of this commentary stated how well armed and financed the Southern Iraqi operations are. Poverty stricken Iraqis don’t have that kind of start up capital, resources or connections. Do some research and look into the Bu$h family’s and major bank relationships to global drug smuggling and money laundering. For example look at Senator John Kerry’s findings in his investigation of the Iran Contra scandal vis a vis drug dealing and money laundering. Keep in mind George H.W. Bu$h was an intimate part of the whole Iran Contra operation. We can now make the logical connection between the resurgence of opium growth in Afghanistan and its spread into Iraq during the administration of George W Bu$h both under the umbrella of his bogus War on Terrorism. If I were a betting person I would bet big money we will see the same results from the War on Terror that we saw/see from the War on Drugs, we the people lost!
Why should Black people care about any of this? Because opium in the form of heron will eventually find its way into our communities. This rash of Iraq opium/heron will further devastate and decimate our people. It is part of an overarching goal of the ruling elites to not only make mad money off of our weaknesses but to keep our people so zonked out that political awareness/activism or revolt are impossible. If revolt and activism become impossible the elites win and we lose.
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The Bottom Is Falling Out
The Bottom Is Falling Out “July 12 (Bloomberg) -- Mortgage foreclosures in the U.S. jumped to a record in the first half as rising interest rates and falling home prices battered homeowners. Almost 926,000 foreclosure notices were filed, 56 percent more than a year earlier and the most since Irvine, California- based RealtyTrac started tracking the data in 2005. Foreclosures were the highest last month in California and Florida, where some home prices have fallen as much as 25 percent, and Ohio and Michigan, where the automotive industry fired more than 50,000 people in the past 10 years.The jump in 30-year mortgage rates by more than a half a percentage point since May is putting a crimp on borrowers with the best credit just as a crackdown in subprime lending standards limits the pool of qualified buyers. Foreclosures also are increasing as the supply of unsold homes hit a record 4.43 million in May, according to the National Association of Realtors.” http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?
The Negro Press rarely if ever does any serious analysis on the current fiscal situation or current events other than the traditional "Civil Rights" pieces. Most of the space in the print media and time in the electronic media focuses on celebrities, athletes and superficial material as the AmeriKKKan Empire wobbles and collapses all around us. On the home front the housing market is about to tank. Mortgage foreclosures are a record highs, adjustable interest rate loans are set to increase in the next several months putting additional stress and strain on people whose incomes have remained stagnant for the past few years. This wage stagnation is forcing people to abandon their homes as it becomes more difficult to use their homes like an ATM machines or borrow money due to their flat lined incomes.
Black and Latinos have increasingly suffered from the Sub-prime mortgage fiasco. A report from the Center For Responsible Lending entitled, Unfair Lending: The Effect of Race and Ethnicity on the Price of Subprime Mortgages reveals that psychological pain and financial devastation the policies of the Fed and insider lenders has wrought working families of color, part of the racial class war on Black and Brown AmeriKKKans.
“Last year, for the first time, lenders were required to report details on the costs of subprime home loans—mortgages intended to serve borrowers with blemished credit or other high-risk characteristics. Lenders disclosed pricing information related to the most expensive subprime loans (referred to here as “higher-rate” loans), while lower-rate loans in the subprime market and virtually all prime loans were exempt from this reporting requirement. Several analyses of this information, collected under the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA), have shown that African-American and Latino borrowers received a disproportionate share of higher-rate home loans, even when controlling for factors such as borrower income and property location...Our study analyzed subprime home loan prices charged to different racial and ethnic groups while controlling for the effects of credit scores, loan-to-value ratios, and other underwriting factors. To our knowledge, this is the first full research report that examines 2004 HMDA data to assess the effects of race and ethnicity on pricing in the subprime market while controlling for the major risk factors used to determine loan prices. Our findings show that, for most types of subprime home loans, African-American and Latino borrowers are at greater risk of receiving higher-rate loans than white borrowers, even after controlling for legitimate risk factors. The disparities we find are large and statistically significant: For many types of loans, borrowers of color in our database were more than 30 percent more likely to receive a higher-rate loan than white borrowers, even after accounting for differences in risk. This analysis was possible because we supplemented the 2004 HMDA data with information from a large, proprietary subprime loan dataset. Individually, both databases lack certain pieces of data that would be helpful for an in-depth comparison of subprime loan pricing. By combining loan information from both sources, however, we obtain more complete information on a large set of loans. Using a combined dataset of over 177,000 subprime loans, we analyzed whether borrowers of color are at greater risk of receiving higher-rate subprime loans than similarly-situated white borrowers.” http://www.responsiblelending.org/pdfs/rr011-Unfair_Lending-0506.pdf
Tell me something I don’t already know, Black and Brown people being charged more for loans than palefaces is not news in the Black community. What is news but has been suppressed by the corporate media is the fact whites are not exempt from predatory lending schemes and these schemes are causing the unraveling of the whole US economic system.
“The housing slump has been placing some weight on the U.S. economy this past year. Last Friday, the federal government reported that overall economic growth slowed to a sluggish 1.3 percent rate in Q1 of 2007, marking the weakest performance in four years. And so, it seems like a fairly easy and obvious prediction to make: that the housing market slowdown in many parts of the country, coupled with variable-rate mortgages resetting to fully indexed rates for millions of homeowners, will have a negative impact on automobile sales. Late last month, General Motors Vice Chairman Bob Lutz became perhaps the first high-profile car industry executive to make that connection ‘official.’” Can Subprime Mortgage Problems Crash the Car Business? http://www.businessweek.com/autos/content/may2007
With the money supply increasing, interest rates rising and wages stagnant, homeowners have less flexibility and fewer options for ways to make ends meets as the ends get farther and farther apart.
“Housing has accounted, directly and indirectly, for about 30% of employment growth during this expansion, including employment in retail and in manufacturing producing consumer goods, he said. In the past year, consumers spent about $200 billion of the money they pulled out of their home equity, he estimated. Already, sales of consumer durables such as cars and furniture have weakened. ‘As the housing sector slumps, the job and income and wage losses in housing will percolate throughout the economy,’ Roubini said. Consumers also face high energy prices, higher interest rates, stagnant wages, negative savings and high debt levels, he noted. ‘This is the tipping point for the U.S. consumer and the effects will be ugly,’ he said. ‘Expect the great recession of 2007 to be much nastier, deeper and more protracted than the 2001 recession.’” Recession will be nasty and deep, economist says Housing is in free fall, pulling the economy down with it, Roubini argues http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/story
The corporate mind control talking heads rarely speak about the ripple effect of the housing/mortgage meltdown on the broader economy. They never tell us the Fed is printing billions and billions of worthless dollars thereby causing the inflation which we see as our dollars buy less and less and costs keep rising. This is merely the tip of the proverbial iceberg. In the US the mortgage, interest rate and money supply climate are set by the Fed and insider private banks. They have to know what the consequences of their schemes would be/bring. The interest/mortgage/money supply fiasco is sending resonant waves throughout the economy and is impacting other areas of the financial house of cards. Joe and Jane Sixpack have no clue what is about to rain down on them. The government, in addition to obfuscating the real deal about the deficit and the seriousness of the mortgage meltdown is juicing the stats on the Consumer Price Index, Unemployment and a host of other issues.
“Regarding ‘Juiced Numbers,’ John Williams has created an excellent Newsletter ‘Shadow Government Statistics’ at www.shadowstats.com which is a welcome antidote to Federal Reserve and government data manipulation. In late November, 2006, Shadowstats issued its report of the "real" numbers as opposed to the government ones. Williams found that annual money supply growth, calculated as if M3 had been continued (the Federal Reserve discontinued the calculation and release of M3 figures earlier this year), indicates that the annual money supply growth as of 3/4 of the way through 2006 was approaching 10%. A 10% increase in the money supply signals massive monetary inflation! Coupled with the massive credit inflation of recent years, we are truly in a massively inflating economy. Of course, the Fed-led Cartel's manipulation of a variety of markets has temporarily masked this hyperinflationary reality and has, coupled with the juiced CPI numbers, created an illusion of deflation. Late in this year of 2006, the United States government's CPI number was just under 2% but shadowstats.com (which calculates it the old fashioned way) indicated a 9% CPI rate of inflation. As well, shadowstats.com real numbers show the U.S. GDP contracting by nearly 2% a year rather than the government number of plus 2% per year- .Conclusion: while the Fed-led Cartel has created the illusion of deflation, in fact what we have is stagflation. A declining GDP and massive increases in credit and money supply and OTC derivatives are facts. It is only the ‘juiced numbers’ and manipulated markets which disguise this stagflationary reality, albeit only temporarily.” http://news.goldseek.com/GoldSeek/1164992400.php
A bit of advice, formulate a personal and family plan to get out of debt. Avoid getting into deep credit card debt, save and invest even if it’s just a few dollars a month. Don’t believe the hype. Things are not going great, especially for Black folks. For us it’s just the opposite! The ruling oligarchy’s plan is to gut the AmeriKKKan working class, facilitate massive and wholesale redistribution of wealth so the rich get richer and they reduce us to wage slaves and debt peons. To do it they must treat us like mushrooms, keep us in the dark and fed us a steady diet of cow and bull manure. The bottom is falling out economically and politically, the only way to save ourselves is to become informed, united and organized. An ignorant, disarrayed and disorganized populous is weak and easy to oppress.
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The Same Ol Game In The Congo
The Same Ol’ Game In The Congo “Formerly the Belgian Congo, this territory was inhabited by ancient Negrito peoples (Pygmies), who were pushed into the mountains by Bantu and Nilotic invaders. The American correspondent Henry M. Stanley navigated the Congo River in 1877 and opened the interior to exploration. Commissioned by King Leopold II of the Belgians, Stanley made treaties with native chiefs that enabled the king to obtain personal title to the territory at the Berlin Conference of 1885. Leopold accumulated a vast personal fortune from ivory and rubber through Congolese slave labor; 10 million people are estimated to have died from forced labor, starvation, and outright extermination during Leopold's colonial rule. His brutal exploitation of the Congo eventually became an international cause célèbre, prompting Belgium to take over administration of the Congo, which remained a colony until agitation for independence forced Brussels to grant freedom on June 30, 1960. In elections that month, two prominent nationalists won: Patrice Lumumba of the leftist Mouvement National Congolais became prime minister and Joseph Kasavubu of the ABAKO Party became head of state. But within weeks of independence, the Katanga Province, led by Moise Tshombe, seceded from the new republic, and another mining province, South Kasai, followed. Belgium sent paratroopers to quell the civil war, and with Kasavubu and Lumumba of the national government in conflict, the United Nations flew in a peacekeeping force. Kasavubu staged an army coup in 1960 and handed Lumumba over to the Katangan forces. A UN investigating commission found that Lumumba had been killed by a Belgian mercenary in the presence of Tshombe, who was then the president of Katanga. U.S. and Belgian involvement in the assassination have been alleged.” http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0198161.html
The whole African continent is the target of ongoing rape, pillage and plunder by European (those there and the ones here) elites, their NeoLiberal (IMF, World Bank and USAid) surrogates and a Eurocentric minded African elite most who were put in place overtly or surreptitiously by whites. These “leaders” are being supported and propped up by the West or they are like Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe targets of Western animus. We see this in so many African “hot spots” like Zimbabwe, Somalia and Sudan that occasionally make the news. But the same thing is happening in many African “countries” that do not make the nightly newscasts. Countries like the Democratic Republic of the Congo rarely make the nightly news in AmeriKKKa. But it is a major hot spot. The Democratic Republic of the Congo finds itself mired in an ongoing civil war and is being set up for long term destabilization by Western backed forces working on behalf of multi-national corporations that covet the abundant natural and mineral resources (bauxite, cobalt, copper, cadmium, manganese, tantalum, tin, oil, industrial and gem diamonds, gold, silver, uranium, coal. Hydro-power and timber) the nation possesses.
The region has been the victim of massive European rapine, exploitation, depopulation and destabilization since 1885. It’s “post colonization” history has been a continuation of Western intervention, mischief and larceny with the Belgians, US and other European nations playing pivotal roles in keeping the region in debt, disorganized and in a dependent and vassal condition. Currently the Democratic Republic of the Congo is experiencing problems reorganizing after both internal and external strife (Western backed money and corporatist forces prompted Rwanda and Uganda to attack the country and engage in a protracted fight over territory and natural resources) which kept the various governments the country has had in recent years wobbly and on shaky ground.
“U.S., European, and South African military interests have continued to support various factions in Central Africa, arming militias and rebel groups through proxy armies from Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, and the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) in south Sudan. France's presence in Central Africa is based out of Gabon, the major point of French military penetration on the continent... It is important to note that the conflict in Central Africa revolves not around ‘governments’ so much as militarized power blocks and multinational corporate alignments which are transnational. Thus while powerful U.S. government interests may back the Kagame and Museveni regimes in support of destabilization of Central Africa and the annexation of the Kivu and Orientale provinces, other powerful interests-such as the International Rescue Committee -maintain a constant international media presence that appears to be in conflict with that agenda, but which nevertheless exists as a major lobby in support of or defense of certain interests at the expense of certain others. Notable personalities on the IRC's Boards of Directors and Overseers include Morton Abramowitz, Tom Brokaw, and Henry Kissinger.” Rwanda's Secret War U.S. - backed destabilization of Central Africa By Keith Harmon Snow (February 2005) http://www.africaresource.com/content/view/252/68/
When you read about the region most sources cloak direct Western involvement by citing the ethnic and tribal dynamics of the various conflicts. Keep in mind this is the primary strategy of the West: divide, conquer and rule! Where do African “rebels” get the needed arms, food, trucks, air and logistical support to wage their assaults and wars? How do the “rebels” pay their troops many of whom are mere children? We have to look below the surface and peak beyond the spin and Eurocentric propaganda to see the real deal. Is there corruption in Africa ? Certainly, but who is offering the African leaders money, support and illusionary trappings of power? Certainly not the indigenous ethnic or tribal groups most of whom suffered from Western induced poverty and privation. Make no mistake about it, the West primarily US and multinational corporations covet the resources of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. They are working assiduously behind the scenes to gain control via tried and true Neo-Colonial strategies. Wording on the US State Department Website indicates the importance of the region to the US government and its corporate masters.
“The United States remains a partner with the D.R.C. and other central African nations in their quest for stability and growth on the continent, and facilitated the signing of a tripartite agreement on regional security in the Great Lakes region between the D.R.C., Rwanda, and Uganda in October 2004. Burundi formally joined the Tripartite Commission in September 2005, and the Tripartite Commission is now Tripartite Plus. The United States also strongly supported U.N. efforts to create a Joint Verification Mechanism to monitor the border between the D.R.C. and Rwanda. From the start of the Congo crisis, the United States has pursued an active diplomatic strategy in support of these objectives. In the long term, the United States seeks to strengthen the process of internal reconciliation and democratization within all the states of the region to promote stable, developing, and democratic nations with which it can work to address security interests on the continent and with which it can develop mutually beneficial economic relations. The United States appointed its current ambassador to the D.R.C. in 2004. The D.R.C. appointed its current ambassador to the United States in 2000. The Congo has been on the State Department's travel advisory list since 1977.” State Department hypocrisy about partnership and desiring stability aside, the US does lust after the natural resources in the Congo for their corporate puppeteers. Just as we pay for “blood diamonds” we are paying for other blood natural resources that go into making modern Western lifestyles possible.
“ Coltan - which is found in 3 billion-year-old soils, like those in the Rift Valley region of middle Africa, western Australia and central Asia - has become a critical raw material in high-tech manufacturing. The tantalum extracted from the ore is used mainly to make tantalum capacitors, tiny components that manage the flow of current in electronic devices. Many semiconductors also use a thin layer of tantalum as a protective barrier between other metal coatings. The metal, which is also found in other minerals and can be extracted as a byproduct of tin refining, is used in the airline, chemical, pharmaceutical and automotive industries as well. The market for the material is huge. Last year, about 6.6 million pounds of tantalum was used around the world, 60 percent finding its way into the electronics industry, where it can be found in products like mobile phones, computers, game consoles and camcorders. (The United States is the largest consumer of tantalum in the world, accounting for 40 percent of global demand.) In 2000, demand for tantalum capacitors exploded in tandem with the mobile phone and PC markets, causing a severe shortage. Tantalum ore prices shot up, with per-pound charges for refined powder climbing from less than $50 to a peak of over $400 at the end of last year. Today, with demand softening worldwide, prices have fallen to around $100 a pound. In response to the increased demand, coltan miners all over the world increased production. In the Congo region, both legitimate and rogue coltan merchants joined the rush. The boom brought in as much as $20 million a month to rebel groups, as well as independent factions, who were trading coltan mined mostly from northeastern Congo, according to the U.N. report. That money helps fuel the war.” Guns, Money and Cell Phones By Kristi Essick http://www.globalissues.org/Geopolitics/Africa/Articles/TheStandardColtan.asp
Once we scratch below the surface we see things haven’t changed since the Belgians and their Western allies deposed Patrice Lumumba in 1961 because he was an African nationalist looking out for the interests of his people. We have seen on numerous occasions in many different countries around the world, this is a no- no! A secondary benefit for the psychopathic Western elites is, all the death, devastation and displacement caused by their resource wars furthers their aim of non-white global depopulation. The current situation in Congo has been suppressed by the corporate media. So if and when you do see something about it in the media, keep all this in mind and view what you see and hear from this perspective.
The Beat Goes On
The Beat Goes On On the surface George W. Bu$h’s commutation of the three year prison term of Irvin Lewis Libby (Liebowitz) to just a fine and probation appears to be merely another example of the good ol’ boy network at work. It was like when white juries would routinely acquit a white man of murdering a Black man or of raping a Black woman or child back in the day. In many ways Bu$h’s intervention on behalf of one of the prime movers behind the disinformation and lies about Iraqi WMD used as the pretext to launch an illegal and preemptive war against a sovereign nation that posed no threat to the US is part of that same old good ol boy legacy. However on a deeper and more nefarious level, Bu$h’s actions are the continuation of his family’s ongoing crime operation/legacy that stretches back four generations.
Most recently, when Bu$h’s father was Vice President he functioned in the Ronald Reagan White House pretty much as Dick Cheney functions in his administration, the behind the scenes Svengali whose fingerprints were all over every dirty trick, covert op and scandal known and unknown. Take the Iran Contra fiasco for example. The Reagan/ Bu$h administration knowingly plotted to violate US law by arming Nicaraguan insurgents to overthrow the socialist Sandinista government through a series of convoluted arms transactions in which Israel served as the middle man. When Congress found out about it and held sensationalist media hearings several lower level henchmen were targeted for investigation. Lt Col Oliver North and John Poindexter were the two most prominent culprits but culpability went all the way up the political chain. The enlarging scandal (the US sold arms to an avowed enemy at the time, Iran, in violation of US laws with the aid of Israel, there were also widespread allegations of massive drug running and money laundering that were also a major part of Iran Contra) soon enveloped the Reagan/ Bu$h administration. Some of the far reaching machinations and implications of the administration’s illegal operations were exposed for all the world to see. (Ronald Reagan was really out of it mentally by then after having barely survived an assassination attempt by the son of one of George H.W. Bu$h’s friendly Texas neighbors [is this merely a “coincidence”?], a bout with cancer and Alzheimer’s disease, [this is another similarity to the current Bu$h administration except this time, baby Bu$h serves as the brain dead puppet being manipulated by the more criminally astute Dick Cheney]) Much of the criminality was suppressed. What did emerge was the fact George H. W. Bu$h ran the arms and drug smuggling operations out of the National Security Council office where Oliver North worked. Investigative reporter Gary Webb erred when he said it was the CIA that was running drugs and using the money to arm the Contras. Yes the CIA were a part of the overall operation but the CIA was not calling the shots. The drug running, at least the South American portion was being run by North out of the NSC office at the behest of George H.W. Bu$h
Ronald Reagan took the hit public relations wise, but his media manufactured popularity helped him weather the resulting storm. He and George H W Bu$h should have been impeached and prosecuted for knowingly and deliberately violating US and international laws. But as usual they were given a pass. Congress barked but did little else to get at the heart of the scandal, thanks to the good ol boy network and the wheeler dealer influence of George H.W. Bu$h a former Director of the CIA. The Tower Commission Report that investigated Iran Contra was essentially a whitewash. Tower was discredited around Washington by Republican operatives for being a womanizer and lush. The resultant report was soon flushed down the memory hole to be forgotten or ignored.
Another Congressional Committee that could have shed more light on what the Bu$hites were doing was the investigative work of a young US Senator named John Kerry who uncovered the drug link within the Reagan/Bush Iran Contra network. Even more importantly Kerry began documenting the involvement of Democratic Party blue bloods with the criminal operation known as Bank of Credit and Commerce International or BCCI. Some say Kerry’s work was sabotaged by a plethora of bipartisan players. Others say he backed off once he saw where the trail led. Either way, the international crooks were given a pass. Many of those same players remain big on the scene today.
When George H.W. Bu$h was elected president in 1989 following a divisive and racially charged campaign. He quickly pardoned all the insiders involved in Iran Contra criminality: Robert McFarlane, Elliot Abrams, Casper Weinberger, Duane R. Clarridge, Alan Fiers and Clair George. When you take a look, many of the same players in the current Bu$h administration were active players in the Reagan-Bu$h administration too. The criminality continues and the corporate mind control apparatus keeps us distracted with a steady diet of banal fare so we don’t connect the dots and see the whole picture.
The Libby commutation was done by George W Bu$h to prevent Libby from talking and exposing the sordid details of how Cheney, the NeoConmen and the corporate media manipulated the “intelligence” to make Saddam Hussein to be the second coming of Adolph Hitler as a pretext to invade Iraq, overthrow Hussein, save the US dollar and steal Iraqi oil. Iran Contra lives on in 2007. Iran Contra has many implications for current events. Many of the actors in the Iran Contra scandal and the other criminal operations run by the Bu$hites and their cronies on both sides of the aisle are active in the current administration’s push for war, oil, US dollar hegemony and drugs: Elliot Abrams, John Poindexter, John Negroponte, John Bolton, Michael Ledeen, Robert M Gates, David Addington and Dick Cheney. All of these men are staunch advocates of raw and unbridled US military power, circumventing the US Constitution to attain it and US imperialism. These psychopaths plot and plan. They foment wars and polices that send your kids to die in far off places so they can enrich themselves and their cronies using words like freedom, spreading democracy and national security as the ruse to do so. The beat goes on. The Libby commute is just one more sour note in an ongoing cacophony of crime, corruption and warmongering.
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The Hypocrisy of the US Forth of July
The Hypocrisy of A Forth of July Celebration As We Morph into Servitude As AmeriKKKa mindlessly celebrates the Forth of July amidst food and festivities designed to boost nationalistic pride and delusions of liberty and freedom, the world groans under the awesome weight of AmeriKKKan military and economic oppression. But there is justice, AmeriKKKa for her blatant disregard for the Divine Laws of MA’AT (Divine Order, Harmony, Equilibrium, Truth, Justice, Righteousness and Reciprocity) and KARMA (Action-Consequence) is suffering and will experience exponential suffering due to the psychopathic hubris of its leadership and the wholesale ignorance, apathy and cowardice of its’ citizens. Frederick Douglas reminded nineteenth century AmeriKKKans who were steeped in the traditions of genocide and slavery that their shouts and celebrations of liberty rang hollow and hypocritical.
“Fellow-citizens; above your national, tumultous joy, I hear the mournful wail of millions, whose chains, heavy and grievous yesterday, are, to-day, rendered more intolerable by the jubilee shouts that reach them. If I do forget, if I do not faithfully remember those bleeding children of sorrow this day, ‘may my right hand forget her cunning, and may my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth!’ To forget them, to pass lightly over their wrongs, and to chime in with the popular theme, would be treason most scandalous and shocking, and would make me a reproach before God and the world. My subject, then fellow-citizens, is AMERICAN SLAVERY. I shall see, this day, and its popular characteristics, from the slave's point of view. Standing, there, identified with the American bondman, making his wrongs mine, I do not hesitate to declare, with all my soul, that the character and conduct of this nation never looked blacker to me than on this 4th of July! Whether we turn to the declarations of the past, or to the professions of the present, the conduct of the nation seems equally hideous and revolting. America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future. Standing with God and the crushed and bleeding slave on this occasion, I will, in the name of humanity which is outraged, in the name of liberty which is fettered, in the name of the constitution and the Bible, which are disregarded and trampled upon, dare to call in question and to denounce, with all the emphasis I can command, everything that serves to perpetuate slavery-the great sin and shame of America!” Frederick Douglass, ‘What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?’ 5 July 1852
Ironically in the year 2007 most sane and morally astute men and women in AmeriKKKa can honestly still echo the eloquent words of Frederick Douglas. Today AmeriKKKa is just as sinful and wicked as it was in the 1800's. Many can also see the consequences of AmeriKKKa’s evils are consuming her like an aggressive cancer devouring its host. But this time white AmeriKKKa and their progeny are the ones who will experience the negative consequences of Cosmic proportions: massive privation, debt peonage , wage slavery and loss of micro and macroeconomic vitality. AmeriKKKa’s current economic and political conditions: rising unemployment, plummeting standards of living, widespread home foreclosures, overwhelming consumer and governmental debt, fiscal insanity and a fascist police state will be their legacy. Economic and political oppression are the name of the game. The numbers and pictures are not pretty and unfortunately conditions will progressively worsen as the ruling elites pursue their globalist polices of perpetual imperialist resource wars, futile dollar hegemony and domestic fiscal ruin.
The cost per each man woman, child and family in AmeriKKKa are staggering now, but they will get much more egregious as these policies continue.
“Bottom line: Taxpayers are now on the hook for a record $59.1 trillion in liabilities, a 2.3% increase from 2006. That amount is equal to $516,348 for every U.S. household. By comparison, U.S. households owe an average of $112,043 for mortgages, car loans, credit cards and all other debt combined. Unfunded promises made for Medicare, Social Security and federal retirement programs account for 85% of taxpayer liabilities. State and local government retirement plans account for much of the rest. This hidden debt is the amount taxpayers would have to pay immediately to cover government's financial obligations. Like a mortgage, it will cost more to repay the debt over time. Every U.S. household would have to pay about $31,000 a year to do so in 75 years. The Financial Accounting Standards Advisory Board, which sets federal accounting standards, is considering requiring the government to adopt accounting rules similar to those for corporations. The change would move Social Security and Medicare onto the government's income statement and balance sheet, instead of keeping them separate.” http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2007-05-28
Keep in mind this merely represents the liabilities for entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicare. It does not take into consideration or account the cost of imperial wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia and Columbia just to name a few places the US is making mischief. Nor does it take into account AmeriKKKa’s massive trade deficit, the slumping dollar and the insurmountable federal debt (the three billion dollars the US government borrows daily from private banks and foreign governments just to continue operating.) AmeriKKKa finds itself in economic quicksand, simultaneously foundering in a moral quagmire facing the fatal abyss of all evil empires.
“Today, the US economy is a ‘dead man walking”, a term used to describe those condemned to death but still alive. Like in the movies, the scene has now been set, events have transpired that will determine the outcome, and although the exact ending is not yet known, the end itself is unavoidable. The amount of debt owed by the US government and its citizens can never be repaid. In today’s modern banking system, debt-money is constantly fed into the system until debt levels reach such heights debts cannot be serviced or retired. At that point, the system will begin to collapse. This is where we are today. The coming collapse may be triggered by a run on the US dollar, once backed by gold but now an irredeemable piece of paper whose only value is determined by speculators, or it may be triggered by the failure of an over-leveraged hedge fund or the inability of a large money-center bank suddenly unable to meet its obligations. But irregardless of what triggers the coming collapse—the collapse will result from our worldwide modern banking system, a system whereby governments allow private bankers to issue debt as money in order to further the insatiable ambitions of those who govern.” D IS FOR DOMINANCE, DEBT & DEPRESSION Sell Dreams on credit, you'll make a fortune on the interest by Darryl Schoon http://www.financialsense.com/fsu/editorials/schoon/2007/0619.
Domestically, AmeriKKKa is fast moving to a police state similar to the one that existed during slavery only this time it will not just be Africans the state plans to move against,
“WASHINGTON (Map, News) - The U.S. military command in charge of protecting the homeland asked the Pentagon earlier this year for a contingent of special operations officers to help with domestic anti-terrorism missions. Military sources told The Examiner that U.S. Northern Command, established at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado in 2002, requested its own special operations command similar to ones assigned to overseas war-fighting commands, such as U.S. Central Command. A spokeswoman for NorthCom this week issued a statement to The Examiner saying, ‘This capability resides in every other geographical combatant command and would allow the commander of U.S. Northern Command to deploy these unique capabilities for homeland defense and civil support operations.’ The request was approved six months ago by the then-commander of NorthCom, Adm. Timothy Keating, who has since moved to U.S. Pacific Command.” http://www.examiner.com/a-790871%7EMilitary The bogus justification of domestic terrorism aside, the US government is really moving to prepare for social upheavals by the AmeriKKKan people as conditions worsen and they realize the ruling elites and their puppets (like George W Bu$h and Dick Cheney) are the ones who sold them out. These policies are not being put into place to “protect” us from some phony terrorists. They are in preparation for another 9-11 type false flag operation designed to create fear and create a climate for the planned New World Order fascist police state.
“Roman imperial sorrows mounted up over hundreds of years. Ours are likely to arrive with the speed of FedEx. If present trends continue, four sorrows, it seems to me, are certain to be visited on the United States. Their cumulative impact guarantees that the United States will cease to bear any resemblance to the country once outlined in our Constitution. First, there will be a state of perpetual war, leading to more terrorism against Americans wherever they may be and a growing reliance on weapons of mass destruction among smaller nations as they try to ward off the imperial juggernaut. Second, there will be a loss of democracy and constitutional rights as the presidency fully eclipses Congress and is itself transformed from an ‘executive branch’ of government into something more like a Pentagonized presidency. Third, an already well-shredded principle of truthfulness will increasingly be replaced by a system of propaganda, disinformation, and glorification of war, power, and the military legions. Lastly, there will be bankruptcy, as we pour our economic resources into ever more grandiose military projects and shortchange the education, health, and safety of our fellow citizens.” Chalmers Johnson Sorrows of Empire Page 285
If you are foolish enough to celebrate the Forth of July as a holiday commemorating sovereignty, liberty and freedom, think again because sovereignty, liberty and freedom are increasingly slipping through your fingers (if you ever really enjoyed them) as AmeriKKKa devolves into a fascistic (corporatist) has-been global empire. Frederick Douglas denounced the barbaric underpinnings of AmeriKKKa in 1852 when he said,
“At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed. O! had I the ability, and could I reach the nation's ear, I would, to-day, pour out a fiery stream of biting ridicule, blasting reproach, withering sarcasm, and stern rebuke. For it is not light that is needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake. The feeling of the nation must be quickened; the conscience of the nation must be roused; the propriety of the nation must be startled; the hypocrisy of the nation must be exposed; and its crimes against God and man must be proclaimed and denounced. What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelly to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciations of tyrants, brass fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade, and solemnity, are, to him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy - a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages. There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices, more shocking and bloody, than are the people of these United States, at this very hour. Go where you may, search where you will, roam through all the monarchies and despotisms of the old world, travel through South America, search out every abuse, and when you have found the last, lay your facts by the side of the everyday practices of this nation, and you will say with me, that, for revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy, America reigns without a rival.” Frederick Douglass, ‘What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?’ 5 July 1852
Substitute Douglas’ words about slavery with AmeriKKKa’s current war crimes and its culture of global corporate corruption, criminality and neocolonialism and we glean a candid and sobering picture of the real AmeriKKKa, past and present. To his credit, Frederick Douglas was a prime catalyst in destroying the system of slavery in AmeriKKKa. Rather than mindlessly celebrating a “holiday” to honor hypocrisy, and crimes against humanity we, like Frederick Douglas before us, should be actively working to bring this evil system to its knees.
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