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Betrayed by the Bailout
William Cox
Global Research
Saturday, Oct 4, 2008
On this date, October 3, 2008, the American people were betrayed by those whom they had elected to represent them. The members of Congress who voted for the Wall Street “bailout” violated their oath of office to “support and defend the Constitution” … “that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same” … “and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter: …”
Without holding any meaningful hearings or public discussions and listening only to those most responsible for the economic disaster, Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke and Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, Congress abdicated its responsibility to the American people.
Locking out most members from all discussions, the congressional “leadership” emerged from their backrooms with legislation that grants Secretary Paulson the ability to spend at least $700 billion to “take such actions as [he] deems necessary” … ” to promote financial market stability.”
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Entrusting tremendous political and financial power (and a ton of borrowed money that taxpayers will have to repay with interest) into Paulson’s sole discretion, members of Congress must have been aware that, prior to his cabinet appointment in 2006, Paulson worked for 32 years at Goldman Sacks, one of the Wall Street firms that stands to benefit greatly from his “actions.”
Paulson, who cashed out his Goldman stock valued at $575 million to become the Secretary of Treasury (without having to pay any taxes on the sale), earned more than $53 million in pocket change during just his last two years at Goldman Sacks for innovations such as a new line of “Mortgage Backed Securities.” Gambling more than a trillion dollars on risky subprime second mortgages, Paulson cleverly converted them into AAA-rated “secure” investments by purchasing guarantees from the American International Group.
AIG, coincidentally, was just “bailed out” two weeks ago by Secretary Paulson for $85 billion (of borrowed money that taxpayers will have to repay with interest), averting a devastating loss by Goldman Sacks, who was holding more than $20 billion in otherwise worthless second mortgages.
Is it surprising that Lloyd Blankfein, Goldman’s current CEO, was present with Paulson when the decision was made to bailout AIG?
The bailout’s $700 billion price tag is only an arbitrary guess by Paulson and is most likely just the first installment of many more to come. Other economists, with more successful track records, believe the total will be much greater, perhaps $5 trillion, as concealed losses are uncovered and foreign companies dump their toxic investment waste into their American offices.
In passing the “Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008,” Congress ignored the “great concern” expressed by almost two hundred of the nation’s leading economists who pleaded with Congress “not to rush, to hold appropriate hearings, and to carefully consider the right course of action,…” In addition to its ambiguity and long-term effects, the economists believed the bailout plan to be “a subsidy to investors at taxpayers’ expense” and to be “desperately short-sighted.” Ultimately, more than 400 top economists, including two Nobel Prize winners, voiced opposition to the bailout.
The economists were not alone in being ignored by the politicians. It is widely reported that calls and emails to Congress from constituents were running as high as 300 to one against the bailout. Mike Whitney reports one analyst saying that “the calls to Congress are 50 percent ‘No’ and 50 percent ‘Hell, No’.” The percentages adjusted as the stock market tumbled, but public opposition to the bailout remains strong.
An AP poll only identified 30 percent of the public in favor of the bailout, and a CNN Money opinion poll found 77 percent of the people believing the bailout would benefit those most responsible for the economic downturn.
Who Benefits?
The Latin adage, Cui bono, asks “to whose death are you going?” Law enforcement investigators quickly learn that the guilty party can usually be found among those who stand to gain from a murder or other crime.
There is no doubt the bailout will most benefit some of the richest and highest paid individuals in the American economy. But, why did the politicians betray the wishes of those who elected them in favor of the criminals who committed the fraud? Perhaps the answer can be found in another Latin phrase, quid pro quo, meaning “what for what; something for something.”
Individuals working for Wall Street finance, insurance and real estate companies and the companies’ political action committees have contributed more than $47 million to the campaigns of Senator Obama (three of top five sources) and Senator McCain (top five sources), both of whom voted for the bailout.
More to the point, Wall Street has contributed more than $1.1 billion dollars to congressional candidates since 2002. Nine of the top ten House recipients of Wall Street largesse, who each received an average of $1.5 million, are on the financial oversight and taxation committees.
Even more telling, the bipartisan Congressional “leaders” most responsible for pushing the bailout through Congress, Senators Dodd and Gregg and Representatives Frank and Blunt have taken almost $20 million from Wall Street sources during the last 20 years. Dodd recently received $6 million in contributions during his presidential primary campaign, and Frank has collected $720,000 this year.
Other key players also have been well compensated this year: Congressman Kanjorski received $755,000 and Congressman Bachus banked $704,000.
Who Loses?
The ordinary, hard-working voters, who were opposed to the bailout, and their children and grandchildren, will be the ones who will ultimately have to repay, with compound interest, the money that will have to be borrowed to give away to Wall Street bankers.
The bailout was “sweetened” in the Senate by another $110 billion in tax relief and renewable energy incentives to get enough House votes for passage; however, only the temporary one-year slowdown of the Alternative Minimum Tax offered any succor to the middle-class workers affected by it.
The bailout raises the debt ceiling to $11.3 trillion, or about $37,524 for each man, woman and child in the United States. How is this burden ever going to be repaid? Workers already know their wages are falling, their jobs are at risk, their health care, food and fuel costs are skyrocketing, and they are being kicked out of their apartments and homes because they can’t pay the rents and mortgages.
Didn’t each member of Congress have a sworn duty to rescue the millions of Americans suffering from the reckless gambling of Wall Street moguls, rather than to reward an obscene excess of greed?
Foreclosure Rescue. At least six million homeowners will probably default on their mortgages this year and next, and millions more will have their equity wiped out by declining property values. More than 770,000 homes have been seized by lenders since 2007, and 91,000 families were just kicked out of their homes in August.
These American homeowners were betrayed by their elected representatives!
The only provision in the bailout legislation to remotely “benefit” homeowners whose homes are being foreclosed upon only “encourages” mortgage service companies to modify mortgages. Paulson is required to “maximize assistance for homeowners … and minimize foreclosures”; however, he also has to ensure that the government doesn’t incur any additional costs. Thus, there’s little or no hope of any meaningful benefit to distressed homeowners resulting from the bailout.
The legislation could have required the government to directly purchase the defaulting mortgages and to adjust them to the reduced value of the property, as was done in the Great Depression. Instead, Paulson is authorized to purchase the complex derivatives (Wall Street’s gambling debts) piled on top of the original mortgages. The difference is whether homeowners or Wall Street receives the benefit of the bailout.
Bankruptcy Rescue. More than 4,476 Americans filed for bankruptcy every day during August, the highest number since changes in the law in 2005 made it much more difficult, and even impossible in many cases, to obtain debt relief. More than a million, increasingly elderly, people will petition for bankruptcy this year.
These destitute Americans were betrayed by their elected representatives!
Under the current law, bankruptcy judges do not have the power to modify mortgages of a petitioner’s primary residence, irrespective of how the mortgages have been sliced, diced and repackaged. The bailout could have provided judges with the authority, in appropriate cases, to adjust the amount secured by the mortgage to the value of the property and to adjust the interest rate to a reasonable percentage.
Unemployment Rescue. New claims for unemployment benefits rose to 493,000 last week, the highest level in seven years. The economy has already lost 605,000 jobs thus far this year, and it dumped 159,000 payroll jobs just during September, the greatest drop in five years.
These unemployed Americans were betrayed by their elected representatives!
Although the House of Representatives passed an economic stimulus bill that would fund job creation and extent jobless benefits for long-term unemployed workers on September 26th, the Senate failed to pass its own stimulus bill on the same day. President Bush has promised to veto the legislation if passed.
The bailout legislation could have provided for an extension of jobless benefits, but it didn’t.
Homeless Rescue. More than 750,000 and as many as a million Americans are homeless today, and the numbers are increasing dramatically. The National Coalition for the Homeless reports that homelessness is growing because of foreclosures, loss of jobs, and the rising price of fuel and food.
These homeless Americans were betrayed by their elected representatives!
Homeless sites are appearing all across the country as people with no place to stay are pitching tents and huddling together for support and protection. Their plight did not receive any consideration by the Congressional leadership that rammed the bailout through Congress.
Hunger Rescue. The most recent report by the Department of Agriculture found that in 2006, 35.5 million Americans lived in households with insecure food supplies and the numbers were increasing. At risk children numbered more than 12.6 million, and African Americans and Hispanic Americans suffered at higher rates than the national average.
In 2006, 9.6 million Americans had to frequently skip meals or eat too little, and often had to go without food for a whole day. Today, as members of Congress voted to reward the richest and most greedy members of our society, they ignored those without the most basic necessity for survival. This morning, they rewarded the most powerful and best-fed members of our society, and gave no thought to the helpless children who will go to bed hungry tonight.
Food banks who serve as the last resort for the hungry are running out of food. They are having to reduce rations and to dip into emergency supplies of staple items. There are reports of a 40 percent increase in requests for food assistance and a 30 percent drop in supplies.
These hungry Americans were betrayed by their elected representatives!
The bailout could have increased the amount of federal assistance for food banks in the Emergency Food Assistance Program, but it didn’t.
The Consequences
The real estate bubble that has been driving the United States economy has now popped, and there is no replacement engine to transport America’s consumer society down the highway to happiness. Americans are facing the mother of all depressions; it will be hard and it will last a long time. What are all of these homeless, hopeless, and hungry people going to do?
Many have already exercised their First Amendment right to petition their government for the redress of grievances. A majority of the members of Congress, the two presidential candidates, and the President paid no attention to the economic experts and the thousands and thousands of voters who protested the bailout and who begged them to rescue the people rather than the rich and powerful.
The people can always take to the streets in protest, and they probably will do so in growing numbers as the economic circumstances become more harsh.
The U.S. government is already planning for the eventuality – not with the helping hand of supplemental legislation to help with mortgages, jobs, shelter or food, but with the mailed fist of military suppression. The Army Times reports the current deployment within the United States “homeland” of an “on-call federal response force for natural or manmade emergencies or disasters, including terrorist attacks.” The Army acknowledges that the Northern Command may call upon the 3rd Infantry Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team to help with “civil unrest and crowd control.”
With almost a trillion dollars picked from their pockets to reimburse reckless Wall Street gamblers, many Americans righteously feel betrayed tonight. A majority will elect a new president one month from tomorrow, and most will wait to see who it will be, and what if anything he can or will do to alleviate their suffering.
There are others, undoubtedly, who agree with the Supreme Court’s recent decision that the Second Amendment right to bear arms is individually held, and who believe that the use of their personal weapons is justified to overthrow a government that betrays them and which destroys their very means of existence. The right of legitimate self defense is recognized by every criminal law in America.
Perhaps democracy in the United States is not dead; if not, it’s on its deathbed. Resuscitation in the form of responsible representation is possible, but time is growing short.
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October 4th, 2008 at 4:43 am
VOTE THE SCUMBAGS OUT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wp-jQ7uTQlk
October 4th, 2008 at 5:26 am
74 yea votes in the Senate…
263 yea votes in the House…
337 Traitor’s – slimey worms –
- invertebrate’s – spinless!
Look: the worms are crawling on the ground…I say:” WE THE PEOPLE, STEP ON THEM!”
October 4th, 2008 at 6:54 am
“They want a fascist planet with the superwealthy ruling it all
Since we’re too independent, America must be led to fall
When our credit’s been exhausted to subdue the Middle East,
They’ll install our debtor nation in the body of The Beast
Traitor…Dare call it treason”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uw5dP5gy2Vs
–CORNBREAD MAFIA
October 4th, 2008 at 7:01 am
Thats nothing new. If we only knew their hidden agenda oh wait I do!!! I’ts been going on for years!! slowly conditoning with fear tactics!!!!! Devil dont run my life! Lord Jesus Christ does and when the Government infringes on my Bible beliefs then I will not agree! I dont care what the stupid natzi patriot act says!!!! They cant take the Holy Spirit from me!!!!!!
October 4th, 2008 at 7:42 am
vote them out…with what? The electronic voting machines that are fixed in their favor? they made sure they got them installed before all this took place, right? REVOLT….while we still can!
That is, while we still are strong enough to do so, before all the food is gone.
They are laughing at us because all the talking, picketing, and political rhetoric will not even make the criminal wall street banker thugs and their buddies in the house, senate and this criminal administration flinch one little bit….but it will bring a smile to their face I’m sure!
REVOLUTION is necessary…now!
October 4th, 2008 at 8:06 am
Income Tax Revised:
The constitutionality of income taxes will be argued untill the end of time. Chances that we will definitively win this argument are slim to none. We could though create a system that would benefit all as well as streamline its efficiency.
Taxes would still be paid but instead of going to the government, to be redistributed to those they feel deserving, they would be paid to those who pay their taxes. Us.
Income taxes would go into an account. A savings account that would hold that money untill retirement at which point that money can be taken at a certain percentage every year.
This money would would fuel the banks and give them money to loan. It would thus take the power from the Federal Reserve. Eliminate the Fed.
This program would eliminate the need for the force of the IRS because people would be willing to pay their taxes freely since the money will be going to themselves. Eliminate the IRS.
These Accounts would acrue interest which would go to the people. Even if the interest was 1% people would be happy.
This program would eliminate Social Security for the most part. People will be able to successfully live off their income tax savings.
I can not imagine how many other subsequent programs could be eliminated with this system.
The government would only be needed to oversee the dealings of the bankers to maintain loaning standards. Take those people who no longer work the IRS.
Banks would thus be forced to devote their efforts to sway people to place their income tax savings programs in their banks in order to make more profit or have more capital to loan. Benefitting the people again with better interest or other perks.
People in times of need could apply to take loans out on their own money set aside in this program and thus pay it back with interest to themselves.
This program would once again make us the dominant world currency.
It would make us substantially stronger as a nation.
It would ease peoples fears about their retirement.
It would give people more incentive to invest their remaining money thus strengthing Wall St.
The trickle down of this would be uncalcuable.
Easy!
October 4th, 2008 at 9:16 am
IT’S OFFICIAL…. REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT IS DEAD!!!
I realize that I shouldn’t write this until I’ve cooled off a bit, but I don’t think I can stop myself….. I am so PISSED OFF right now I could spit nails. A couple of hours ago, our “Representatives” in Washington D.C. proved beyond ANY doubt that they don’t give one good hot damn about what the people they “represent” say or want. I was actually encouraged, briefly, when they voted the 700 billion dollar “bailout” down on Monday, (although a part of me knew that it wasn’t really dead), and for a second there I allowed myself to believe that there was still hope for the voice of the people to be heard.
I, and thousands upon thousands of our fellow Americans had flooded every Congressman and Representative’s office with more e-mails, calls, and faxes than they had recieved on any issue in recent memory, and the message was clear: 93% or so of Americans did NOT want the sellout… uh, I mean BAILOUT package to pass. Not only that, but the prevailing opinion was that any member of the Legislature who voted for stealing 700 Billion dollars from the taxpayers in order to give it to the cheap, lying, no good, rotten, floor-flushing, low-life, snake-licking, dirt-eating, inbred, overstuffed, ignorant, blood-sucking, dog-kissing, brainless, dickless, hopeless, heartless, fat-ass, bug-eyed, stiff-legged, spotty-lipped, worm-headed, reckless, irresponsible, white-collar- criminal, sack of monkey sh*t whores on Wall Street (who got us into this mess in the first place!) should be considered a traitor to the Constitution, thrown out of office immediately, and arrested!
Granted, on the 1st vote, there were already quite a few sellouts who didn’t make any bones about boning the American people, such as this traitor from California, Rep Gary Miller:
“If you just solely rely on the phone calls we’re getting from home, listening to people who don’t understand the complexities of our marketplace and what we’re dealing with here, the easiest vote for you to make would be a no vote today. You have to go beyond that.” – Rep Gary Miller R-CA Dist. 42
Obviously any legislator who would listen to the cries of the American people (the serfs) over Lord Miller’s superior knowledge and commitment to our nation is a fool, huh?
As if that’s not enough, how about this one:
“During this evening’s Senate vote, Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) explains that she received 91,000 calls and emails, with 85,000 of them opposed to the measure. Even armed with the knowledge that 93% of her constituents passionate enough to contact her office pleaded for her to vote “nay”, she votes in favor of the bill, claiming that “there is a great deal of confusion out there” and these people “don’t understand” the situation.”
Democratic Congressman Brad Sherman, who represents the San Fernando Valley, told CNBC that phone calls to his office are running “300 to 2″ against the $700 billion bailout plan.
Interpreting the twisted political ways of Washington, Sherman said the plan is so unpopular that the only way it will pass is “if Congress pushes it through this weekend — before members return to their districts and realize how hated the bailout is.”
It’s interesting to note that soon after Monday’s vote, I (and everyone else I know who was involved in calling, e-mailing, and fax-bombing the Legislature) suddenly found that the phone lines and e-mail servers for contacting your duly elected officials were TURNED OFF. Simple as that. No matter how hard you tried to contact your Congressman or Rep. to beg them to vote ‘no’, you simply could not get through!!! Does THAT send you a message or what? They KNEW what the people wanted, and simply DID NOT CARE.
Well, guess what the F*** happened??? It passed.
Now, of course, it begs the question……. what happened in between Monday’s rejection of the ‘bailout’ by the House, and today’s House vote to change the mind of so many of our “Representatives”?? Hmmmmm, I just wonder. Here’s a theory from a Washington reporter:
“As they studied the vote tally from the surprising defeat of the bill in the House on Monday, strategists said they were identifying lawmakers who they thought could be persuaded to back a revised plan.”
The word “persuaded” in this quote is a euphemism of epic proportions. I can’t help but wonder how many Reps found themselves in the crosshairs of the Patriot Act. As Elliot Spitzer showed us, these domestic spying provisions instituted by the Bush administration have a hell of a lot more to do with blackmailing/destroying political enemies of the ’state’ than preventing “terrorism”.
Most people had the sense that there was something bizarre and surreal about the sudden coordinated FBI and US news media attack on the New York Governor.
After all, unproven allegations about how he may have chosen to spend his own money on his own time hardly seems a worthy subject of front page news for a week straight.
Meanwhile, the US news media remained characteristically clueless about why Spitzer was taken out.
It’s simple.
He had the goods on Bush adminstation colusion with predatory lenders and was preparing a case that would have tied the administration directly to wide spread fraud and criminality in the lending business.
Full details here…exclusive to Brasscheck TV:
http://www.brasschecktv.c...
Anyone with any common sense knows that pretty much everyone in politics has SOME kind of dirt on them (maybe with the exception of Ron Paul), and the Bush regime has shown that it will stop at nothing to achieve its ends. For those of you out there who are still doubting that Bushco had anything to do with the “false flag” operation on 9/11, maybe, just maybe, as the ecomomy collapses, the unemployment rate skyrockets, and they bring in the “Amero” and the “North American Union” as another “solution” to the problems that they themselves intentionally created, some of you will start to realize that we ain’t in Kansas anymore, and our government has been taken over by insane, sociopathic megalomaniacs who want you working as slaves on their global plantation.
Am I pissed…. hell yeah, and it’s about damn time that America wakes up and does what the Founders recommended:
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to 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. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. 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”
I’m done with being nice. F*ck the traitors in D.C…… let the hangings begin.
October 4th, 2008 at 10:08 am
Looks like the greedy are going to inherit the earth.
October 4th, 2008 at 11:10 am
I once had a web site that led a novice truth seeker to the same state of mind and understanding that I’m at. I eventually pulled the site for the same reason I cringe at entering an e-mail address at this site. Talk about volunteering your name to a list! Anyway, I asked, how do I change the nameless THEY to specific people responsible? I made lists, Fortune 500 companies, their Board of Directors by name, their Executives when/where posted on corporate web sites; Forbes 400, names of the richest of the rich, Googled last known addresses; congressmen and senators, “we know where you live”; bankers, from the FED to the 12 prime lenders, and major investment firms, etc. The lists entirely changed the nature of the web site, to the point that my son kidded me about becoming an accomplice simply because I e-mail him. The power of these simple lists even began to scare me – there’s power in data, a power the government must feel and thrive on. Anyway, I encourage a perminent link on the A.J. site that allows people to submit in a structured way, names, roles, addresses, phone numbers, associations. The database or search engine behind it would build over time, become very powerful. People on the list would feel exposed, in the open, no longer nameless and untouchable, unaccountable. We wouldn’t have to wait 50 years for their crimes to become unclassified through some FOI request. Imagine what the chairman of the board of Exxon would think and feel if he knew the addresses of his dozens of mansions were out there in cyberspace for any unstable person to read – or association entries like family and friends. Too scary of a site to host.
October 4th, 2008 at 11:10 am
I once had a web site that led a novice truth seeker to the same state of mind and understanding that I’m at. I eventually pulled the site for the same reason I cringe at entering an e-mail address at this site. Talk about volunteering your name to a list! Anyway, I asked, how do I change the nameless THEY to specific people responsible? I made lists, Fortune 500 companies, their Board of Directors by name, their Executives when/where posted on corporate web sites; Forbes 400, names of the richest of the rich, Googled last known addresses; congressmen and senators, “we know where you live”; bankers, from the FED to the 12 prime lenders, and major investment firms, etc. The lists entirely changed the nature of the web site, to the point that my son kidded me about becoming an accomplice simply because I e-mail him. The power of these simple lists even began to scare me – there’s power in data, a power the government must feel and thrive on. Anyway, I encourage a permanent link on the A.J. site that allows people to submit in a structured way, names, roles, addresses, phone numbers, associations. The database or search engine behind it would build over time, become very powerful. People on the list would feel exposed, in the open, no longer nameless and untouchable, unaccountable. We wouldn’t have to wait 50 years for their crimes to become unclassified through some FOI request. Imagine what the chairman of the board of Exxon would think and feel if he knew the addresses of his dozens of mansions were out there in cyberspace for any unstable person to read – or association entries like family and friends. Too scary of a site to host.
October 4th, 2008 at 12:45 pm
Bailout is financial equivalent of the Patriot Act
By Andrew Ross Sorkin Published: September 23, 2008
“Decisions by the Secretary pursuant to the authority of this Act are non-reviewable and committed to agency discretion, and may not be reviewed by any court of law or any administrative agency,” the original draft of the proposed bill says.
And with those words, the Treasury secretary – whoever that may be in a few months – would be vested with perhaps the most incredible powers ever bestowed on one person over the economic and financial life of the United States. It is the financial equivalent of the Patriot Act, after 9/11.
Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson Jr.’s $700 billion proposal to bail out Wall Street is both the biggest rescue and the most amazing power grab in the history of the American economy….
On Friday last week, Hugo Chávez, the Socialist president of Venezuela, gave a speech in Caracas where, according to Reuters, he said, “The United States has spent $900 billion, four times what Venezuela produces in a year, to try to boost the troubled finance system and housing market.”
Gloating, he added: “They have criticized me, especially in the United States, for nationalizing a great company, Cantv, that didn’t even cost $1.5 billion.”
October 4th, 2008 at 3:01 pm
What happens to an American dream deferred?
Does it dry up, like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester, like a sore, and run?
Does it stink, like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over, like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sags, like a heavy load.
Or does it explode?
October 4th, 2008 at 3:33 pm
‘the words of rhyme..work all the time..”
GREAT POEM from: ‘Paulson is an idiot’ [# 13]
( truth & freedom seekers are very talented! all Together; We make One Strong Unit..)
Thank-you my friend…
October 4th, 2008 at 8:19 pm
I pray the the rest of the country is nothing like most of my friends and coworkers, too blind, lazy, or stupid to know or care what’s coming.
I rage that we have become a nation of cowards; that all that is committed in our name, at home and abroad is done with the full knowledge that we are predominantly scared, ignorant zombies who need only be kept fed and entertained to surrender our precious freedoms to the first predator that comes asking.
They roll their eyes and continue their denial. Their blind faith in the kindness and benevolence of the wolves that circle them as they huddle around the dying embers of our Republic would be laughable were these not such dire times.
I refuse to live in fear, yet what is to come for my dear daughters keeps me awake at night.
October 4th, 2008 at 9:44 pm
The stuff they should have really taught us in “Social Studies”.
http://video.google.com/videop.....&hl=en
The Money Masters – How International Bankers Gained Control of America
October 4th, 2008 at 10:45 pm
This has been brought to you by ‘the Right Wing’ nuts in out country…those who decry ‘liberals’. The root of ‘liberal’ is liberty…they have proven to hate our liberty and have in the last 8 or more years to destroy it…so, the next time you hear someone put down ‘liberals’ ask them… why do you hate ‘liberty’? Remember, ‘they attacked us because ‘they hate our freedom’…the words of the Right Wing. But, in fact it was the rightists who have done this, with their ‘Patriot Act’ and all the other fascist laws to disassemble the Bill of Rights into the Bill of Wrongs. Now you can be arrested for exercising those ‘rights’. Welcome to the ‘beacon on the hill! Except for one problem, you are standing on your head and the beacon on the hill is the fire of hell. Enjoy!
October 5th, 2008 at 3:03 am
Until such time as people understand `the past` – then how can they ever hope to understand the present, or the future?
Benjamin Freedman speaks Part 1 of 4
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=.....re=related
Benjamin Freedman speaks Part 2 of 4
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=.....re=related
Benjamin Freedman speaks Part 3 of 4
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=.....re=related
Benjamin Freedman speaks Part 4 of 4
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=.....re=related
Ex-zionist Benjamin Freedman speaks at the Willard Hotel, Washington D.C., in 1961
He left the Zionist movement, changed his name from the Jewish spelling (Friedman), and exposed some of the diabolical plots that helped set the stage for the wars in Europe and the Mid-East He does not give the complete story, but when we make the same accusations, we are referred to as Anti-Semites so let people hear it from a Jew, and then they will be more receptive to what we say An important speech that should be part of history courses
Quote from his speech -:
“Now, when United States troops appear in the Middle East to fight with the Zionists as their allies to prevent the return of these people who were evicted from their homes in the 1948 armed insurrection by the Zionists who were transplanted there from Eastern Europe… when that happens, the United States will trigger World War III”.
BEING `CONNED` IS NOTHING NEW.
People have been denied knowledge.
October 5th, 2008 at 3:39 am
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=Vv3yuRdD2oE
October 5th, 2008 at 5:07 am
Benjaman Freedman`s warning is becoming more clear by the day.
zionist israel demand usa save world from ahmadinejad
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=…..re=related
(please also see the side panel under the posters name where it says `more info`)
October 5th, 2008 at 12:26 pm
Thank god for alex jones and his team is all i have to say at this point otherwise where would i go for the facts?
October 5th, 2008 at 3:09 pm
I want a list of the names who voted for this bailout. Does anyone have it or know where I can get it?
October 5th, 2008 at 3:14 pm
POND SCUM VARMIT TRAITORS!
I SAW SOME FREEMASON SIGNALING GOING ON BY THE POND SCUM FRIDAY. SOME LITTLE PRICK IN TENNESEE REALLY SHOWED HIS TRUE COLORS.
October 5th, 2008 at 7:39 pm
Thank you Alex Jones-my family is mentally prepared to survive, organize and if needed, fight the NWO down to the local level. Freedom or death!
October 5th, 2008 at 9:12 pm
Looking for who voted for this crap, govetrack.us is a great place to start.
¡Let Them Eat Cake!
October 5th, 2008 at 9:14 pm
govtrack.us … my bad —> H.R. 1424, this bill is identical to H.R. 1367
– Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008
– Energy Improvement and Extension Act of 2008
– Heartland Disaster Tax Relief Act of 2008
– Paul Wellstone and Pete Domenici Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008
– Tax Extenders and Alternative Minimum Tax Relief Act of 2008
October 5th, 2008 at 11:01 pm
I beleive I posted the link to FINAL VOTE RESULTS FOR ROLL CALL 674 on my Best Blogs Page.
Here it is: http://whatreallyhappened.com/.....74.xml.htm
October 6th, 2008 at 3:21 am
Not everyone likes S.Faal – but I do believe there is an element of truth in her articles, and therefore I read and discern accordingly – just as you should.
Latest 4 recent ones below – can be read from here :
http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/
Top Area 51 ‘Stargate Commander’ Given Total Control Of $700 Billion US Bailout
Chinese Police Units Begin Entering US To Protect Assets
US Sends $800 Billion In New Amero Currency To China
US Homeowners Soon To Be Evicted By Chinese Police Under New Law
For alot more info on stargates, Iraq, history of giants, nephilim & a possible `alien` deception – much info can be discerned from these 2 sites :
http://stevequayle.com/Q-Files_2hr.specials.html
http://www.raidersnewsnetwork.com/
and this one :
http://nephilimapocalypse.com/
(NOTE: I am NOT trying to promote anything here)
For interesting `interviews` with Steve Q. and Patrick Heron –
go to : http://www.trunews.com/listen_now.htm
Relevant interviews :
October 2nd 08 – with Patrick `Paddy` Heron
September 30th 08 – with Steve Quayle
Different topics, but you might also be interested in these also :
Sept 19th – Lawyer Judith McGeary – on `mandatory microchips for cattle`
Sept 8th – Dr. Rima Laibow – on `weaponized avian flu`
Sept 5th – Phil Turney – a survivors account about the attack on the USS Liberty
Aug 27th – Paul Craig Roberts – on the Georgia-Russia conflict
Aug 26th – WND`s Joseph Farah – on the US elections
Aug 20th – Joan Veon – on The globalists’ planned destruction of the financial system
Aug 14th – Hon. Judge Roy Moore – America’s Christian heritage
Aug 6th – John Whitehead – on CHINESE totalitarianism, American-style
Listen or download (as MP3s) whilst you`ve still got the chance to be informed.
The interviews go off the list as more are added.
I just wish that Alex Jones would consider getting Rick Wiles (TruNews) on for an interview.
Final comment:
If you think that subjects like `giants of old` – `nephilim` are only wild conspiracy theories, then please consider this Biblical text :-
Matthew 24:37-38
http://tinyurl.com/3ksmhv
The great emphasis there being on the words `AS IN THE DAYS OF NOAH`
(comparing how CURRENT times will be, as it was back then)
When we now see Scientists `crossing the species` and `cloning animals` – and Government is wanting to collect everyone`s DNA…. then go figure… do the maths !!
God`s Word tells us that `each to its own kind`
Genesis 1:11
http://tinyurl.com/4j244o
When they are now crossing the species (animals x humans) and GM crops then that is against God`s Creation. Please discern these things.
October 6th, 2008 at 8:06 am
“They want a fascist planet with the superwealthy ruling it all
Since we’re too independent, America must be led to fall
When our credit’s been exhausted to subdue the Middle East,
They’ll install our debtor nation in the body of The Beast
Traitor…Dare call it treason”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uw5dP5gy2Vs
–The Cornbread Mafia
October 6th, 2008 at 10:02 am
The main reason I’m still a religious man is that I firmly look forward to when those crooks find out that God takes the “so help me God” portion of the oath seriously.