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Guest Post: America Held Hostage On The Edge Of Constant Crisis
Submitted by Brandon Smith of Alt-Market blog,
Torture, or what our government calls “enhanced interrogation”, is not a tactic so much as a darkly artistic process. The subject of this process has something that the torturer wants; it might be information, or a forced confession to a crime the subject did not commit, but most often, torture is designed to gain nothing more than psychological compliance.
The goal is to manipulate the subject into believing that submission is the only possible future, and that such submission is inevitable regardless of the will of the victim. The torturer often builds himself up as a kind of parent figure for the subject – becoming the only entity that can supply shelter, water, food, and comfort. The torturer is taskmaster and abuser, but also caregiver in the twisted relationship dynamic. A schizophrenic balance is struck in which the subject longs for the outside world and a return to the pleasures of the past (making him desperate and malleable), but he also partially accepts his prison walls as home (giving him a false faith that compliance will lead to a safer and more predictable tomorrow).
Until this compliance is achieved, the subject is exposed to endless and erratic crisis events in which his body is damaged, his mind is deprived of sense, perception, and sleep, and his life is overtly threatened. He may receive brief moments of rest, but these are designed only to make the next torture session even more raw and painful. If the subject does not understand how the process works, or if he doesn't have a strong sense of his own identity, then he will quickly lose track of reality. Every moment becomes a waking nightmare, a warped and gruesome carnival, and life becomes nothing more than an absurd and obscure experiment barely worth living.
It is my belief based on substantial evidence that America, as a nation and a culture, is now being held hostage and tortured into submission on a grand scale using economic terror by the elitist establishment which dominates BOTH major political parties. The goal? To push our society to conform completely with the concepts of globalization, bureaucratic micro-management, and greatly reduced living standards. We are being conditioned to accept defeat and failure, and like children, to cry out for a parental authority to save us in our state of helplessness and fear, even if that authority was the cause of our fear from the very beginning.
The Thin Thread Of The American Economic Fantasy
In the past three months the U.S. has flirted with total fiscal collapse three times. The first event came in August with market rumors that the Federal Reserve was nearing a “consensus” on plans to cut QE stimulus measures, causing panic amongst investors who now realize that the ONLY pillar still holding our fiscal edifice together is endless fiat currency creation by the Fed. Markets began a paradigm which is now the “new normal”; plummeting whenever good economic news hits the mainstream on the fear that the central bank will tighten policy, and skyrocketing when bad economic news hits the mainstream on the assumption that the Fed will continue printing. It is official - lackluster employment reports are something to cheer, and overall systemic crisis is good for stocks:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/10/22/us-usa-economy-idUSBRE99L04G20131022
The possibility of a Fed taper has shown us clearly that any action by the private bank to reduce or remove quantitative easing will result in a market panic and implosion. If the globalists within the Fed apparatus decide one day soon that they want to bring the U.S. to its knees, destroy the dollar, and introduce a new world reserve currency, they can do it with little more than a word proclaiming QE over, or unsuccessful. So far, they keep the life support machine running...
The second event came with the drive by the Obama Administration to turn their covert war in Syria into a full blown invasion. Despite presumptions by many naysayers that Russia and China wouldn't lift a finger to aid the Assad regime, both nations staunchly opposed action by the U.S. in the region and tensions neared critical mass. Make no mistake, a WWIII level event could have easily erupted, and some Americans seem to remain oblivious to the danger.
China and Russia maintain vast influence in global markets. The EU, for instance, is utterly dependent on Russian natural gas exports for their energy needs. The U.S. economy could be annihilated within weeks by an announcement by China to dump their treasury holdings or the dollar as the world reserve currency. This is just a taste of the financial risks associated with a new war in the Middle East, and military risks add even more potential calamity. Anyone who believes that Chinese or Russian views on American political or military behavior “do not matter” is living in a deluded cartoon-land.
The third event came with the recent debt ceiling debate and government shutdown. One-third of the U.S. population is disturbingly dependent on scraps from the government's table, and any mention of cuts to entitlement programs (or social security, which government treats exactly like an entitlement program) causes immediate and militant finger pointing. Democrats have been especially vicious in their accusations and rhetoric, consistently referring to Constitutional conservatives and “Tea Party” legislators as “extremists”, “traitors”, and even “domestic enemies”:
I happen to take a slightly different view to a majority of independent analysts in that I believe the establishment is just as likely to push America into deliberate default as it is to push America into infinite debt and inflationary collapse. The end result will be exactly the same regardless of the path taken, and we have yet another opportunity to dance on the edge of oblivion coming in three to four months when the debt debate starts all over again.
The point is, our financial system has become so unbalanced and internally diseased that if ANY event follows through to culmination, whether political, economic, or international, the economy WILL shatter. The past three month are a resounding testament to this fact.
The “De-Americanization' Of The Global Economy
In my article 'How The Dollar Will Be Replaced', published in 2012, I summarized the Catch-22 nature of America's debt problem which I have been warning about since 2006, and how this will eventually end in the abandonment of the dollar as the world reserve currency. To this day, and in the face of overwhelming evidence that the dollar is doomed, some people still refuse to grasp reality.
In the midst of the latest debt debate China has made clear it's intentions through state run media to end its relationship with the greenback, not just to form a Chinese-centric reserve currency system, but a global currency system centered on a “new world order”:
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/indepth/2013-10/13/c_132794246.htm
Last year China surpassed the U.S. as the world's largest importer and exporter, making its currency, the Yuan, more desirable than the greenback as a reserve in the long term. Since 2010, China has been quietly but quickly establishing multiple bilateral trade agreements with numerous countries dropping the dollar as the primary purchasing mechanism. China has accumulated massive gold stores and is set to become the world's largest holder of gold in the next two years. In the past year, China has also surpassed the U.S. as the number one importer of oil, making it a more valued market for the Middle East and causing many to question the dollar's relevance as the petro-currency:
http://oilprice.com/Energy/Crude-Oil/China-is-Now-the-Worlds-Largest-Importer-of-OilWhat-Next.html
Saudi Arabia, America's primary ally and foothold in the global oil market, is now openly calling for an end to traditional agreements and a separation from the U.S. because of the lack of military action in Syria. This too does not bode well for the dollar's petro-status. Like a chess maneuver, it would seem we have been cornered by the globalists on oil. If we invade Syria or Iran we risk losing petro-status. If we do not invade Syria or Iran, we still risk losing petro-status:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/10/22/us-saudi-usa-idUSBRE99L0K12013...
In response to the dismal debt ceiling extension and the uncertainty underlying the new debate coming in the next few months, China's ratings agency, Dagong, has downgraded U.S. treasury bonds yet again:
http://money.cnn.com/2013/10/17/news/economy/debt-ceiling-deal-china/
U.S. Treasuries are now witnessing the lowest foreign demand since 2001:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-10-20/treasuries-losing-cachet-with-weakest-foreign-demand-since-2001.html?cmpid=yhoo
Three near-crisis events in only three months have signaled a severe acceleration in what the Chinese call the “de-Americanization” of the global economy. All of the financial shifts taking place since the derivatives implosion of 2008, as well as those rushing like white-water rapids through the global system in the wake of the debt ceiling debate, are gravitating towards ONE outcome – the destruction of the dollar, and the introduction of a new global currency (the SDR) controlled the the IMF.
Russia's Vladimir Putin has called for a global currency run by the IMF to replace the dollar:
China has called for a global currency run by the IMF to replace the dollar:
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/story?id=7168919
Elitists within the U.S. have called for a global currency run by the IMF to replace the Dollar:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBO34qcnoqM
Hell, even the Vatican has called for a global currency run by a “global public authority” to replace the dollar:
http://www.zenit.org/en/articles/pontifical-council-for-justice-and-peace-on-the-global-economy
There is a world-wide strategy in motion to end the dollar, and with it, America as we know it today. The only question is, how many more near-disasters will we have to experience before the trigger event takes place?
The Torture Continues
With so many near misses culminating so close together, it may be wise to consider what could happen in the the next three months while we wait for debt debate theater part deux. Like a prisoner in Abu Ghraib, America is trapped, waiting for the next humiliation, the next degradation, or the next session of pain. Are we merely being acclimated to the idea of incessant crisis? Are we learning to become apathetic at the edge of the chasm? Or, are we being driven to madness, mass-madness, by a concert of elitist interrogators seeking our acquiescence?
Again, the central purpose of torture is to acquire consent. Not just extorted consent, but voluntary consent. It is not enough for the torturer to force the subject to obey, he wants the subject to EMBRACE his servitude. To gladly abandon all hope. To see his captor as his only salvation.
The globalist establishment wants us to beg them to save us from the tortures they create. If we never give them this, they will never win.
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It's going to have to get worse before "the American people" wake up.
goldman COO Cohn feels bad for JPM .... http://hedge.ly/1h9P4Za
THE BEATINGS WILL CONTINUE UNTIL MORALE IMPROVES
...pretty much sums it up.
"The torturer is taskmaster and abuser, but also caregiver in the twisted relationship dynamic."
So, kinda like the ObamaCare website then?
And already, publications like Slate are eeeeeeeasing the not-yet-brainwashed public into the 'benefits' of death panels. This is like reading 1984, but in real life. Want to know what happens next in the US? Turn the page.
The site is really gimpy tonight.
Has Tyler pissed off the NSA enough to merit some serious attention?
Agree with the op's premise. The things that would heal the econony are too obvious and yet are not done, while opposite things ARE done. The pain is deliberate.
Or until the "useless eaters" a.k.a. the rest of the non competitive labor force has been designated for permanent retirement by those who made them "useless" to be rendered into service as soylent green.
At the rate we're going that may be the definition of improving morale!
Why does everybody hate us?
sniff
After all the children we've saved, the democracy brought, the better life of the consumer goods we've introduced, the freedoms and education. All the millions of tons of better foods that grow under any conditions. Clean water. Jobs, jobs and more jobs in energy extraction and uh... yeah.
We've brought peace to millions, defeated those who would have otherwise enslaved entire countries. Protected entire continents from the ravages of unfair exploitation and and ... and uh...
Entertainment. Yeah, entertainment for people everywhere.
Polyester shirts and pants that never need pressing.
Why?
Why do they hate us?
Biden/Whoever whenever
like it'll make any fucking difference
throwing hands full of all sorts of shit into the air, going to a meeting
I don't think it is that dire, or that complicated. certainly the lens of reality has been distorted for the purpose of distraction and to deeply confuse and disturb the status quo reality of the average american. look at what is coming on immigration. it's only marginally about workers. global warming and taxing and trading energy stiffly and openly was the finance mechanism of choice. the failure to get that enacted led to QE. all that is missing is 50 million more EBT warriors. when we leak roughly a trillion dollars a year overseas, we have to replace it somehow. so we print, since we can't export competively. noone, china or anybody is going to pull the plug on us or europe, they all need the flow, so bennie keeps the printers humming.
And I thought they hated the US because of your freedoms...
Read up on Edward Bernays and his views on propaganda and public relations. His tactics are deployed daily by the media and the government. Why? Because nothing helps control a populace like fear. Fear of this or that. When I was a kid it was the Soviet threat - "Duck and cover!" and all that nonsense. As if hiding under a desk was going to protect school children from the effects of a hydrogen bomb. After the fall of the Soviet empire the government-media complex had to find a new bogeyman and voila - global warming. "The seas will rise and San Francisco will be lost!" Yeah, that would certainly be a great loss wouldn't it? It is the goal of the government to keep people afraid because then they are more pliant. Government shutdowns, the debt ceiling, guns, weather and (oh God!) Al Qaeda. Most of what is going on around us is pure unadulterated nonsense served up by those in power as a means of control.
America has been mentally ill for some time now.
Perhaps it had something to do with 60+ years of the debt narcotic and resulting public and private bling we thought would buy happiness and safety.
The debt narcotic drove us insane.
Yuri Bezmenov Psych Warfare 101
Perhaps not insane; just a more conventional addiction. Rarely does an addict one day just make a rational decision to get off heroin or meth. They get off when they are so strung-down, hung-down and broken that they can't get up to find another fix. So it is with debt.
Just to note that the leading debt pushers who supplied our addiction in the early days when America was still a funcitoning addict have names like Reagan and Cheney -- neocons and MIC loyalists.
That makes obama the dungon master. We need beter magic spells in our voting dungon.
"There is a world-wide strategy in motion to end the dollar, and with it, America as we know it today."
And we've seen in Europe what a trans-national currency does to sovereignty.
Why is it but a very few of us even here are listening and fully comprehend when such is spoken?
So few realize what's already happened to our sovereignty after 100 years of the Fed. Why? A combination of nutured ignorance and dependence. That and cognitive dissonance avoidance--same reasons people can look at 9/11 videos and not see the obvious controlled demolition of even Building 7.
The individual is sovereign, and any pretense to the contrary — the worse the larger the collective — is destructive of humanity, which, on account of the grouping called the state, hangs in the balance.
Either it goes, or we do.
And we should know soon enough.
The battle of the individual sovereign is as old as man.
This country has been coopted just like every good grassroots effort that gains momentum.
The education system is a prime example, go back a 110 years and look at how decentralized schools were and how centralized they are today.
Multinational corporations are another example, most started out as smaller successful family run businesses that grew by acquisition and become huge corporate beasts bent of global domination.
Our governement is no different and uses its authority to continue the onslaught of tyranny.
Keep it up you bastards and see how it ends...
DaddyO
individual sovereign or free citizen of a free country?
the first has only been achieved (yet) in the Holy Roman Empire. it was called "Free Lord", and the prerequisite was feudalism
the second is more doable, judging from history. difficult to hold to, though
Grandpa went to a one room schoolhouse in the country and learned to read Latin and Greek.
Kids today go to multi-million dollar campuses and graduate barely reading English.
Kids are kids. All over the world and across time.
What changed is who controls the Education System and curriculum.
No need to belabor the point.
The book linked below doesn't belabor the point; rather, it puts it in clear and compelling perspective.
I can't recommend it more highly:
http://www.amazon.com/Free-Learn-Unleashing-Instinct-Self-Reliant/dp/046...
We chose to eat the Red Pill, we wanted the truth no matter how painful it may be, and there is no turning back. That is why we know.
We are the Truth Seekers, what the Deluded Masses refer to as "Truthers" as somehow that is to be reviled. It is undeserved scorn. We value Truth over everything else.
That is not a bad quality you know. That is why.
Bastiat, I "vehemently" disagree with your "And we've seen in Europe what a trans-national currency does to sovereignty"
first: the EUR is clearly not trans-national. inter-national, yes. shared between 17 countries, yes. but not trans-national. this label should only stick to corporations that can threat to leave for other shores. the ECB has many faults, but it can't move away
second: sovereigns used gold, before fiat. now that's a truly transnational currency, as witnessed by it's flows out of several countries. the EUR has too many faults, but it can't give sovereigns more headaches than gold, only slightly less
third: sovereign does not mean what it's being used as a word in the current (AngloSphere? American?) debate. plenty of defunct sovereigns attest to this
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Off topic but to preface this 3 questions concerning EBT cards.
1. Are the food stamp expenditures so high they almost collapsed Chase Bank?
2. Were the EBT Card Glitches caused because there were not enough funds?
3. Were key GOP leaders told in secret that the Obama Administration would let JPM collapse if they did not cave during budget negotiations?
http://www.politico.com/blogs/under-the-radar/2013/10/newspaper-presses-...
South Dakota's Argus Leader newspaper urged a federal appeals court Wednesday to reverse a ruling blocking the newspaper from receiving data on how much the federal government pays to stores that redeeem food stamp benefits.
Jon Arneson, an attorney for the newspaper, told a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit that a lower court judge misinterpreted the law by ruling that a confidentiality provision for retailer applications allowed the U.S. Department of Agriculture to withhold all data on payments to those retailers. Under the Freedom of Information Act, the newspaper requested the data on annual payments to each retailer approved to take part in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP.
"The Argus is not asking for the invoices. They’re asking for the payment information. All we’re really doing is asking: how does the government spend its money in this instance?" Arneson told the three-judge panel sitting in St. Paul, Minn. "Because of the way FOIA is intended to be applied, we’re entitled to the benefit of the doubt. If there’s doubt here, the Argus is entitled to that benefit."
However, Assistant U.S. Attorney Stephanie Bengford said the confidentiality provision applies because the cumulative amount of payments to each retailer is based on the series of purchase transactions the stores submit to USDA.
"But for the fact of gathering that information as to each transaction, USDA would not have the total amount of what it paid to the retailers," she told the judges. She also said that a provision in the law protecting information like "income and sales tax filing documents" authorized USDA to withhold data on its own payments to retailers, because they became part of the stores' income.
Arneson called that interpretation of the law "crazy."
"For us to say that that because the program itself requires this sort of payment or swiping of the card that suddenly that transforms all of that information into private information is—is crazy," the Argus's lawyer told the judges. "What we're simply asking for is how are the tax dollars spent. We're not trying to invade the privacy of the recipient households."
In a recording of the half-hour-long session posted on the 8th Circuit's website, the judges sounded skeptical about the government's interpretation of the law. However, a victory for the newspaper wouldn't guarantee release of the data. Instead, it would allow the feds to argue for withholding under other FOIA exemptions, such as one covering confidential business information.
"What is it about this information that should be kept secret?" one judge asked Bengford.
The government lawyer replied that Congress's intent in writing the food stamp legislation wasn't really at issue. However, she went on to say that disclosing the payment data could facilitate fraud.
“The reason that USDA is concerned with disclosing this information is...this redemption information is reviewed by the agency to look for fraud,” Bengford said. “If all the information as to individual retailers who participate in this program were available by store type and the amount of redemptions that they’re bringing in on a yearly basis that would allow individuals who are participating in fraud to use that information to look for outliers—as far as trying to make a determination where the agency might be setting its threshhold as to where there might be a concern that someone could be participating in fraud.”
Considering the appeal are Chief Judge William J. Riley, Judge Steven Colloton and Judge Jane Kelly. Riley and Colloton are appointees of President George W. Bush. Kelly is an appointee of President Barack Obama.
Most importantly word on the street is some presstitutes know the answer to one of those 3 questions and are purposely holding back reporting it to buy time so 'evidence' can be destroyed and/or suppressed.
They're right about the fraud.
I'd love to find the liquor stores that take my .50 on the dollar borrowed benefits to buy Glenlivet.
I doubt those same stores would carry some fine estate bottled Armagnacs though.
It may have been manufactured on purpose to create leverage. JPM came real close to collapsing over EBT overcharge free for all. Best I've been able to piece to together that 'glitch' ran the bill up higher than JPM could afford to cover. Obama threatens to stop payment outright on inflows to pay off new issuance along with payment for those overages with Lew being the bringer of bad news since the Treasury couldn't issue new debt to cover the overage if the debt ceiling wasn't raised. It would have light the fuse on the derivatives time bomb with JPM having to liquidate positions early (while losing too much money in the process) to raise enough collateral to cover those EBT card overcharges. It probably would have caused another Lehman moment once the liquidation started. That was what Obama was jawboning about Wall Street worrying about not raising the ceiling and subsequently Dimon's jawboning afterwards. Obama basically threatening to shiv JPM if he didn't get his way. That is how Black Nero rolls. But remember we are not a banana republic or dead beat nation and pay our bills (until we can't).
Tyler(s) might want to follow my advice about following the money on this one concerning those overages to find out what the magical number is that will cause a collateral crisis for a PD and basically bring the system to it's knees without the perpetual debt printing machine functioning. It will also give you some guidance to about QE policy based on balance sheets for the PD banks.
How big is the Koch brothers cock in your ass?
"You ain't seen nothing yet"
Wait till you've watched this from PBS's Frontline: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/hunting-the-nightmare-bacteria/
SINCE THE INTRUDUCTION OF CREDIT CARDS THE US CITIZEN HAS BECOME A "DEBT SLAVE" TO THE BANKS. NO MORE SAVINGS! WORK - BORROW - SPEND- WORK- BORROW - SPEND. IN DEBT FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE!
ANY QUESTIONS?
Will they let us go for good behavior if we managed to show the appropriate amount of restraint and discipline to stay out of debt by not owing them or anybody else anything?
The answer to that is we will probably get raped even harder!
Same as its ever been. Always a new boogie man. Most people need a leader. Someone to keep them safe. Someone to tell them everything will be alright. Nothing new, its human nature. Of course the Chinese and Russian want to be the next big swinging dicks they have before to a certain extent and probably will in the future. Don't sell the dollar short as every other fiat still blows, and who really want a global currency. Bastiat you are spot on, about the currency.
People do want a leader.
My dog fills that function nicely. That little bastard gets everything he wants and I have to give it to him.
That's right about where my need for a leader ends.
We'll skip the wife part...it's a bit embarrassing.
China just needs to keep its own financial bubble from popping before the US bubble pops.
Ah. The ol' You Don't Have to Outrun the Bear theory.
On the other hand, I've heard it said, here and elsewhere, that he who defaults first defaults best.
So which is it?
He who has the most gold wins.
Absofuckinglutely correct. TSA. In-your-face corruption. Killer cops getting promotions. NSA. Military "urban" exercises. Border harassment. Fed hubris. Media mendacity. Baseballapplepie, and GMOchevrolet. It's torture alright. And all funded through the creature conceived at Jekyll Island in 1913.
Dear Tylers (if indeed that is still your real assumed name):
Anyway, at risk of whatever, the silly little vignettes that accompany more and more ZH articles seem like a poor man's version of that scumsucking site Business Insider. e.g. the above article http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user3303/imageroot/2...
Not sure what the purpose is but it cheapens things.
Love,
Zer0head
Maybe...
what typically happens is that the vast majority who would rather lose money like everyone else than be different get what's coming. A small group see the obvious future and act. If you have wealth going forward, while all else are without anything, you can not only do well you can soar.
We here at ZH sometimes seem to forget, as months pass without resolution, that the current system is higjly unstable and WILL fail.
Hang in there , prepare, stay in shape, I say buy gold bullion...and wait. The time is almost here.
Gotta love this beauty.
Assaulting peaceful protesters with pepper spray can be awfully stressful, and John Pike certainly knows it better than most. Now a judge has awarded $38,000 to the former University of California cop filmed discharging his weapon on Occupy demonstrators.
Pike was placed on eight months of paid administrative leave after the incident until UC Davis spokesman Barry Shiller confirmed to the Sacramento Bee last August that he had left the force.
According to the Enterprise, Pike was making $121,680 annually when he was fired from the department.
Last September, UC Davis agreed to spend roughly $1 million to compensate current and former students who became victims in the Nov. 2011 incident, dishing out $30,000 settlements apiece to 21 plaintiffs, and another $6,666 to 15 others that stepped up later. The deal reached between UC Davis and Pike’s attorneys will award him a larger settlement than any of those targeted in the attack.
http://rt.com/usa/uc-davis-pike-comp-641/
Unbelievable.
This one deserves a frame around it as the poster for what our legal system has come to in protecting us as citizens who pay for the fat bastards like Pike that violate our rights.
$121,680...?
Not bad since 'watering his hippies' was the only sign of real work Pike has ever done on the job.
California really is the land of milk and honey.
Maybe Pike and Chief Kessler can get together and take it in the ass from Ted Nugent and the Koch brothers at the same time, all holes filled. Fuck them.
longterm solution: guillotine.
I used to be in pretty "black" Air Force Recon unit, and part of our training prior to joining the unit was to to go through some "special" training which was above and beyond the normal SERE school that most aircrews go through. This training time included some bonding time with some of DoD's (maybe some other agencies) trained interrogators. In my time flying I was shot at, I was engaged (by bad guys) on numerous occasions, flew through some deadly weather conditions, dealt with airborne fires and other emergencies, but what scared me the most was the absolute mind-fuck these guys could put on you. Even though the entire time you knew it was only training, these guys could fuck with your brains without very little use of physical violence or physical pressure.
Anyway, what I am saying that while some of it is bullshit, the auther of this peice is speaking truth about the weird psychology of torture and the use of fear to mold behavior. What makes it even scarier is that the sheeple are so weak-minded already, that there is very little hope any could make it through even a mildly stressful event.
Also, just reread 1984 (not sure why, but felt I needed to), and the closer it gets to reality, the scarier it gets. We are so close to it already and nobody knows it...
Commending you on your post here.
You realize that you and the rest of your ex-recon buddies who are hopefully committed to NOT "shooting in CONUS" will be the ones that lead us out of this mess?
Because if we don't have the moral equivalent and leadership in uniform that says "no" to the order(s) to start the next one in Syria when Israel and Saudi Arabia tell us to, or for that matter when the market curtain makes it's final close for good -then we will be "truly" fucked.
Tip of the spear but this time getting it right for a change.
The surest way to speed things up and protect yourself is to buy PMs. When gold hits $10K/oz the financial hegemony by Wall Street is ended.
The surest way to speed things up and protect yourself is to buy PMs. When gold hits $10K/oz the financial hegemony by Wall Street is ended.
So start stacking.
All according to script. Second rate turds join the Big Club to compensate for their shortcomings, then they are owned for life.
Tonight, America is good.
After reading the Reuters article about the Saudis wanted to end the Kissinger Treaty, AND READING COMMENTS, I have no hope for the American Public.
They are absolutely clueless to the fact that the United States World Reserve Currency status, that which give them the ELEVATED STANDARD OF LIVING, which is about to be TERMINATED BY THE SAUDIS, is COMING TO A RAPID END.
They are cheering the move. They are fucking idiots. It will be funny when they find out what HYPERINFLATION and FAMINE is all about.
They are so IGNORANT. I believe that it is INTENTIONAL on their part. If I can understand what is about to unfold...SO CAN THEY. If they cannot then they DESERVE IT.
If the Saudi's remove support then we are cooked. I have been writing that, here, for quite awhile.
We are so damned cooked...
But the US is now #1 oil producer, Fux news told me so.
The USA played it's hand as World Reserve Currency, The World's indespensible consumer market and Global Military Empire. Over the last few years all three plays have been falling in on themselves. Increasingly the world is waking up to the nature of American power. Since our real economy picked up stakes and moved to China, the industrial base that made America "THE" world economic power has silently ended. Replaced by money printing, T-Bills, QE and a Bubble Stock Market. In other words, a Wealth Effect economy, or asset inflation if you will. Our Military proved able to conquer 4th rate powers at lighting speed and at minimal casualties. But we have been unable to win the occupations. This did not go unnoticed in the world! Now even our attack on Syria could not get off the ground, our military was all there, dressed up and nowhere to go! You think the world missed that little farce? And the world saw the US nearly implode on just a hint the Fed would taper, and cut back on printing. They watched the Fed run back to the printing presses and promise "No Taper"!!!
The world see the US devoide of a real industrial economy. They see us spending twice what we take in, they see that the economy is now dependent on QE money printing as it's only defense from collapse. And they see the giant military machine standing up against the Obama/Neocon warmongers. I suspect it was the US military that pulled Obama's finger off of the trigger in Syria.
The USA is now seen as a very dangerous and aggressive empire in rapid decline. The Dollar as reserve currency is the only thing keeping the US consumer alive and that is all that feeds government spending. Despite fracking, AMerica still imports oceans of oil to keep going.
Russia have big reserves, is growing it's gold holdings, has an economy producing oil, gas, important metals, and is in a symbiotic relationship with China, the two complementing eachother. China is the world's workshop, enough said there. Brazil is moving away from the Yankee overlords. Iran is a regional power that the US is desperate to exterminate, but so far it has failed, even Iran has a growing atuo manufacturing industry, while America slips into the service economy of bars and brew pubs. I don't need to go on, anyone in the world who looks can see America as a wounded giant lashing out with violence aginst half the world, and seeking enemies to kill everywhere.
The America I remember as a kid is gone. Replaced by a bunch of fascist banking crooks and wall-street inside traders who buy the congress with bribes. Forget it, the world is moving on, and the USA is being left in the dust. One last thing. We did it to ourselves. Those who came selling globalization and NAFTA, who came with the Neocon Imperial dream. These are the fuckers who have screwed this nation. WHere are the jobs? They are either in China, in the US military or in a US government office. That is about it!
America has been usurped and turned into that drunk buddy you used to have that would get out of hand in a crowd. You'd have to grab him and say, "OK, you had your fun. Now it's time to sit the fuck down and shut up."
Bout as simple as that.
Your American education paid off Jack, or is it jack off?
"...It is my belief based on substantial evidence that America, as a nation and a culture, is now being held hostage and tortured into submission on a grand scale using economic terror by the elitist establishment which dominates BOTH major political parties. .."
actually this is correct - and described in detail by naomi klein in her excellent book shock doctrine....it explains how the bush crime syndicate and rockefeller nazis use this technique developed by the cia - operation artichoke, mk-ultra , and others - to subdue nations with all of south america being a test bed for this wickedness....
what this means is that all of america's humiliations are by design....the globalists - the citizens of the world - hate the american constitution, self government, and the absence of feudalism all of which traces back the vile and nazi british aristocracy....
but amerikans are far too stupid to know that they are sheep headed for the slaughter so we return you to dancing with the stars and john boehner's latest thoughts on the budget process.
This is an example of how hopeless it is to talk to people. I went next door to the Liquor Store to allow my Iraqi Friend, the Clerk at the Liquor Store, the News which I learned out of the Reuters article on the Saudi's anger and moves to end the American World Reserve Currency status.
I know that it will not be carried on Tee Vee. Miley's twerking is much more important, right?
A man was buying and scratching off Lottery Tickets. So I began to tell the clerk (as he is more aware than many will believe) and this man rudely interrupts. The conversation went like this.
The man interrupted, "So what?"
I responded, "Well do you want HYPERINFLATION?" That is what will happen if America loses World Reserve Currency status. There are over $12 Trillion sitting in Foreign Vaults. They will come back to our..."
The man interrupts again, "Well there is nothing you can do about it. So what are you going to do about it?"
I replied, "Buy Gold. That is what you can do about it."
The man replied, "I don't have any money to buy Gold."
I replied, while showing the man my hands with Gold Rings on every finger, "I am POOR. If I can afford to buy Gold then certainly you can. That is what you CAN do about it. If you cannot get Gold you can buy Silver."
(I am probably one of the poorest posters amongst you and I owned many ounces before that tragic Boating Accident.)
He said, "I cannot afford it", while scratching off another $5 Lotto Ticket. I am certain that he burned through an ounce of Silver in Lotto Tickets as we were talking.
I said, "Look man. I am just giving you a Heads Up!!! That is all that I am doing."
Then I left.
There is just no hope for America. It is just so frustrating to talk to anybody. They are clueless and want to remain clueless.
Willful ignorace, there will be consequences. Now more than ever it's up to each man to be responsible for his own education. Don't let them school you and don't let them rule you. Stay a self directed individual; that used to be the idea of America before the invasion of the money changers.
"showing the man my hands with Gold Rings on every finger"
That was a rather courageous thing to do, flashing your gold under the nose of an aggressive stranger. You might have convinced him that gold is worth having. Your gold, that is.
Great article, kudos.
ABSOLUTELY!
Also witness the nightly dose of TV interrogations, people tied to chairs, restrained in hospitals: Homeland, Sons of Anarchy, and, dare I say, ALL cop shows. Note how, in spite of the discreditation of torture scientifically, how it is assumed in the TV shows that the torture demonstrably gets results, over and over. How many times must we watch the edgy, get-things-done guy use torture?
It's a meme, a pattern, not coincidentally, PROGRAMMING. Sure! We're being tortured, every day, holographically; small and large.
Why is it so important that this be done?
...This too does not bode well for the dollar's petro-status. Like a chess maneuver, it would seem we have been cornered by the globalists on oil. If we invade Syria or Iran we risk losing petro-status. If we do not invade Syria or Iran, we still risk losing petro-status:...
This reasoning just shows the apparent incoherence of the poster's understanding of Pax Americana's three decade power play that is misconstrued as a mismanaged "greed is good" play leading to current ME conundrum.
I would suggest It is a coherent power play on a sliding scale whose dimensions are mind boggling.
The globalists on oil are the perpetrators of current Pax Americana. They have no allegiance to nation state. That was the whole basis of the Reagan Thatcher revolution which tore down the internal cohesion of the first world welfare state construct and conferred total power to the elites. In its successful aftermath, after Soviet collapse, unchallenged on the MIC front like a towering colossus, the NWO financial order, initiated its outsourced slave labour perpetual motion machine of Squid/TBTF concoction after China ping ponging success under the gun of MIC hegemony, and built the current master plan based on technology supremacy, America's leading edge now harnessed to serve those very elites, firmly anchored in both red/blue camps.
It has now created the face of Big Brother globalisation with Google as its lead general. Echelon and NSA type Internet monopoly have now created the new frontier of globalisation : we control the future the "virtual economy" like a hegemonial empire; and we control the real world : the oil/MIC/reserve currency trilateral matrix which is now being planned to morph into the Internet world virtual empire that controls via algos the real world of "owned insects", who run around doing the hard labour chores. That this move from "real" world hegemony to "virtual" world economic and Stasi type surveillance hegemony will break a few dreams of surrogate princes of "old NWO" cannot be avoided. They are expendable in DC-Blofeld's world. That it will also create a knee jerk by the statist elements of Homeland, as this Obamacare scare has entailed, to protect their own legitimisation in Congress before their voter constituencies, is also part of the incoherences of the Pattonist dash to new power structures. You have to break a few eggs to make your new omelette.
Ruffled feathers that 1 trillion electronic printing/month and continued coordinated CB can kicking will soon cure (it is hoped in DC). The Blofelds of this world think they have all the answers. "We tower over the world with our underwater cables and our satelites that can pinpoint you anywhere to neuter your sting of vengeful whistleblower."
This is an ominous, surreptitiously executed and deeply planned move into an alterworld all organised by the NWO elites of DC/WS nerve centres of power. The blue print already existed in 2001 and 9/11 played its role in setting up 'casus belli'; time honoured psy ops tipping moment like 'gulf of Tonkin' or Sarajevo that allows a hegemony to say to the world "I have carte blanche to carry out my plan in the general interest of GOOD for humanity."
The whole world is their terrified playground, and we are just "useful insects" in it until we become expendable as non cooperative, recalcitrant heretics. They control all the levers of power today except the ire of the people. And all it takes is a handful of people to stir up that ire and to shout the "emperor Blofeld" is naked.
Will such a scheme work ? You bet, until it hits the corruption asymptote of thieves falling out. The decay always come from within and the harder the fall. But like in all world empire plays there will be much pain for the people, as always. Nothing, especially freedom to act and think, comes free.
But the Saudis and Chinese, if they decide its in their longer term interests to stop their past loyalty to this masterplan, could provide the counter ploy of challenging this awesome hegemonial construct based in DC. To allow thus, via this "thieves of old falling out" scenario, that the people of the world, on the backs of the ongoing wave of the heretical exploits of the likes of Wikileaks and Snowden's "Pentagon Papers" awesome divulgation, affirm their total rejection of this evil hubristic concoction. Macbeth has to tumble.
That's history's timeline.
"Like a prisoner in Abu Ghraib, America is trapped, waiting for the next humiliation, the next degradation, or the next session of pain." I'm speechless. I'm quite used to bad taste, but this is a tad too much, for me
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"It is my belief based on substantial evidence that America, as a nation and a culture, is now being held hostage and tortured into submission on a grand scale using economic terror by the elitist establishment which dominates BOTH major political parties. The goal? To push our society to conform completely with the concepts of globalization, bureaucratic micro-management, and greatly reduced living standards."
where was the author, and what was he thinking when the empire that America hosts was doing the same to the rest of the world? probably profiting from this beast that now turned against him
What are you talking about? Who was profiting from what? Your post makes no sense.
I've already told you all that it is called Cloward Piven Strategy
( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloward%E2%80%93Piven_strategy )
It is the planned overwhelming of the system by manufactured crisis. Create the problem in order to "solve" it ("never let a good crisis go to waste"--- the criminals are telling us what they are doing right to our face). (Dreams from My Father--- what would his "dream" have been- a Marxist Revolution?).
At the correct point in time the NWO installed a domestic enemy of the US as POTUS. They installed an ineligible non natural born Citizen for the express purpose of voiding the US Constitution and US Citizens' sovereignty (when there is no legal executor of the laws then there is no law--- get it?). Obama was born, and probably still is, a British subject of a British subject father. Birth as a British subject voids eligibility for POTUS because natural born Citizens are born with singular allegiance to the US, i.e born in the US of 2 US Citizen parents, and that is why Cruz and Rubio, born of 1 or 2 non citizen parents, are not eligible either, which is why they are allowed to be the controlled opposition.
"The Constitution does not in words say who shall be natural-born citizens. Resort must be had elsewhere to ascertain that. At common law, with the nomenclature of which the framers of the Constitution were familiar, it was never doubted that all children born in a country of parents who were its citizens became themselves, upon their birth, citizens also. These were natives or natural-born citizens, as distinguished from aliens or foreigners." Minor v. Happersett, 88 US 162, 167 (1874) (US law in the form of SCOTUS precedent)
Without the constraints of silly law, the criminals have been free to finish the destruction of the US by overwhelming every aspect of it, from our monetary system, to the military, to our borders, to the institution of marriage, to healthcare, to firearms---- all under attack--- and it is all planned to crash the system from within so that the weakest amoung us (75%) pray to our "masters" for help.That is the mission of the domestic enemy that is currently acting as putative POTUS, put in office by a coalition of the young and the stupid, and then by rigging the election of 2012-- to make sure that the job is finished.
GET A CLUE. The way to begin the road back is to depose the puppet of the NWO curently in office. Drag him from the office and expose all of Congress for the treasonous bastards they are (including Rubio and Cruz--- they ALL know). Set the NWO back on its heels (although they will never give up). Untill that happens the beatings will continue. Blood must flow in DC. That is the only way to wrench their hands from our collective necks. Water the tree.
"I happen to take a slightly different view to a majority of independent analysts in that I believe the establishment is just as likely to push America into deliberate default as it is to push America into infinite debt and inflationary collapse."
That would explain why the DHS receives heavy weapons and loads of ammo at very quick pace . It's clearer every passing day that this agency is equipped and trained to become an american equivalent of the nazi Germany's waffen SS .
But in that case, pushing America into infinite debt and inflationary collapse is just the means to set up the new system in which most people will simply become property of other few people who will be feudal lords .
Yeah, we already got a look at 0bozo's Brownshirts-the Nat'l. park service people who had the gall to block elderly WW II vets from visiting the memorial in their honor.
I'm sure they were just "following orders." bastards
What's it like to suck off both of the Koch brothers at one time, you fucks?
What's it like to suck off Obama and George Soros while they whisper bullshit propaganda about the "Tea Party" in your ear? You do know that the Tea Party and the Liberty Movement began long before the Koch Bros ever took interest or invested capital, right?