Disillusioned Rants

I sent "my" Senator an email deploring the bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and about a few days after the vote to pass it I got one of those insulting "automated" emails from Barbara Boxer(nothing from Fienstien), which really set me into a rage. In fact, I even sent an apologetic letter(which I assumed no one would read either of them) because my conscience doesn't allow me to be a crazy jerk without at least feeling bad about it. Then after all that, I received another less impersonal response that threw me for a loop. Apparently, we as citizens cannot imply unethical behavior about members of our government to any member of the Ethics Committee. Which makes no sense, but I am just so flabergasted that I had to share this with someone and get some feedback. These people are nuts!

Let's start with my first email and go from there:

Subject: NO BAILOUT FOR FANNIE/FREDDIE

It’s time to let things play out as they may. The banks and other lenders need to learn a lesson. The taxpayer should not bail these crooks out. Eventually you have to answer to your constituents. I know a lot of democrats and republicans and I have yet to speak to single person who thinks a bailout is what needs to be done. The People are tired of government bailouts. Enough is enough!

Short and too the point right. Since I figure their staffers only scan the subject lines anyways. Then I got this response after Boxer had already voted for the bailout. btw, I despise being talked too like an ignorant red neck(of the Brittany Spears variety) and this is exactly how I took this email response:

Subject: Responding to your message

Dear Friend:

Thank you very much for writing to me about the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac).

As you know, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are government sponsored enterprises (GSEs) that were created to facilitate homeownership by buying mortgages from banks. Founded in 1938 and 1968 respectively, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have come to play a central role in the housing market and now hold or guarantee mortgages valued at more than $5 trillion -- about half the home loans in the United States .

The GSEs' charters limit them to buying single-family and multifamily home mortgages originated by other companies. This makes them more exposed to problems in the housing and mortgage markets than other financial institutions. Because of falling home values and rising foreclosure rates, the value of the GSEs' loan holdings has decreased drastically. Fears that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac might not be able to cover these losses have caused stock market share prices of both companies to plummet, furthering concerns about their ability to remain solvent.

Although Fannie and Freddie are both stockholder-owned corporations and are not explicitly backed or funded by the U.S. government, there has always been a widely held belief that the federal government would step in if either company were threatened with failure.

Congress recently passed the Housing and Economic Recovery Act, which was signed into law on July 30, 2008 as P.L. 110-289. To stabilize the housing finance market, and make sure that affordable home loans continue to be available, the new law grants temporary emergency authority to the Treasury Department to purchase debt securities or stock issued by both Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. This authority is the best way to boost market confidence in the GSEs and reduce the likelihood that the government will need to lend a hand. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have not tapped the assistance offered separately by the Federal Reserve, and regulators have stated that the companies have enough capital to continue their operations.

In addition, the legislation creates an independent regulator with increased authority to set strong capital standards so markets can count on the safety and soundness of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and so that they can continue to provide our nation's families with affordable mortgages.

The future of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is vital to the banks, savings and loans, and credit unions that own $1.3 trillion of securities issued or guaranteed by the two mortgage companies. The two GSEs are equally important to the foreign investors who own an additional $1.3 trillion in securities. Given the importance of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, to both U.S. and foreign concerns, the failure of either company could have far-ranging consequences for the strength of the U.S. economy, faith in American markets, and the value of the dollar.

Again, thank you for writing to me. Please do not hesitate to contact me in the future on this or other issues that concern you.

Barbara Boxer
United States Senator

I was so enraged at this apparent insult to my intelligence that I flew off the handle and responded with this strongly worded response:

Dear Senator Boxer:

As you must know, Fannie and Freddie were not intended to prop up an entire banking industry. The $5 Trillion in home loans is the biggest swindle of the American taxpayer in all of history. Originally, these two enterprises were intended to help lower income families regain home ownership after the Great Depression(Fannie), while Freddie was created to expand the original program instituted by FDR.

The fact of the matter is that these two enterprises had just a couple of hundred billion dollars in mortgages up until George W. Bush’s term in office. Since then, he and Alan Greenspan fueled the biggest bubble in American history, transferring most of the risk from banks like Countrywide and others to GSE’s like Fannie and Freddie. Hence the $5 Trillion in debt that has been run up on the American taxpayer. This bailout will put us(the taxpayer) on the hook for nearly $800 BILLION in bad debt that these banks should have been responsible for. It’s time you politicians start doing your homework before you start throwing mumbo jumbo bullcrap emails at us dumb rednecks.

By the way, this bailout is to protect the foolhardy investment of major government powers like China and Japan. The American people are not as under educated as you think and each day more and more of us are becoming aware of this corruption. The best course of action would have been to let these two insolvent institutions to fail. After all, they were forced by corrupt politicians(political pressure) to buy up all of these sub prime mortgages from the criminal banks that issued them. Instead, the American taxpayer gets punished for wrongdoing done by these banks. The cost of this measure will not be the laughable $25 billion number touted by the media and politicians when this bill was passed. Likely, it will run up to close to a $1 TRILLION in taxpayer money(Thank for giving a blank check to Goldman Sach’s…oh I mean Paulson). You all played a major part in bankrupting this country and there will be hell to pay for all of us.

Already banks have written down close to half a trillion dollars in bad debt, while the Fed Reserve has issues another half a trillion in easy money to save the banking industry and now taxpayers will be forced to foot the rest of the bill. Thank you Democrats. Thank you Republicans. Thank you Wall Street. It has become plain to me that I no longer have representation in Washington, you people are bought and paid for by the special interests in Wall Street.

Good day Senator,
Timothy ******* *****, angry taxpayer

PS Thank you for the impersonal auto generated email on the topic of the bailout bill.

Ok, then I started to feel bad because I am normally a pretty nice guy and even tempered. So in order to placate my conscience, I sent this apologetic email out to her a few minutes after. Note too that I am still not totally polite, truth can hurt sometimes:

Hello,

I must apologize for my previous email. I was harsh and rude, which is not how I like to conduct myself. I just can’t help but be infuriated over how this banking bailout has proceeded. I was angry at the Fed Reserve for handing out money like it was candy in a schoolyard. I was angry over the transferring of bad debt to our GSE’s over the past year and I am angry over this fake housing bailout which really only helps out the foreign investors who got screwed over by the banks who loaded the sub prime crap onto the GSE’s in the first place.

All around this whole process stinks to high heaven. Why can’t we get some politicians in Washington who will stand up for us voters??? Certainly, not in California.

~Timothy *****

Here is the final response that has truly befuddled me. What the hell does she mean? Is this an admission of corruption at the highest levels? In any case, I think I will not waste my time responding to this letter and I am all around disgusted with the way things are in Washington(sounds like a cliche nowadays doesn't it?):

Dear Friend:

Thank you for writing to me regarding ethical standards for members of the U.S. Senate. I believe the Senate should follow a very high ethical standard.

As you may know, I am serving as the Chairman of the Senate Ethics Committee for the 110 th Congress. Senate rules require that I cannot comment on any matter that could come before the Committee. But please know that I take my duties very seriously.

Again, thank you for writing to me.

Barbara Boxer
United States Senator

A special thank you to a new friend for sending me the link to this video.

NOTE: I read a few upsetting articles today. The following is mostly just an angry rant.

The problem with trying to convince people that the situation in America is precarious at best is that people are still largely left alone by their benign leaders. When you tell them that they are electing de facto fascists, they laugh at you and go on to think your a nut job. I've found that I cannot compare our current government to the Nazis, no matter how much evidence I produce. No one wants to believe it, therefore, no one will. And the truth is, I am wrong to even make the comparison.

The Nazi form of government was all about government control. It was a merger of the corporation and the government, except that the government was the power behind the merger. Hitler and his minions forcibly took control of all the corporations in Germany and turned them into state owned organizations. In that way, he was able to exert total control over all aspects of life for the German people. This is decidedly not what is going on in America.

What is going on in our beloved country is a slow yet steady takeover of the American Government by the corporations themselves. It is the corporation that has grown more powerful than the government. This is not new in American history either.

In the years after the Civil War, corporate power was extended far beyond anything that the Founders had ever intended. They owned almost all the politicians and many of the Presidents during the period between 1877-1907. This was the era of the Robber Baron. Students of history would know that America's first mega wealthy aristocratic families came to be. They nearly succeeded in totally transforming America into a corporation. The corporation was even granted personhood by the Supreme Court during this period. The law still remains on the books in spite of its obvious discrepancies.

Aside from the people revolting en masse through unions and demonstrations, the reforms of one President brought the Corporatocracy to a grinding halt. That man was Theodore Roosevelt. Though he was ultimately destroyed by the corporate elite, he was wildly popular when he was first elected President. Our children's text books will refer to him only in passing reference as the President who created our National Park System. They will not tell of how he brought the Corporatocracy to its knees by being the first President in decades to be solidly for The People and unable to be bought by the moneyed class.

In the end, he was destroyed and publicly humiliated. By 1913, he was completely discredited and the moneyed class was back in control. Though the rioting and unionization of the working class continued, which forced these groups to change tactics. This is ultimately why the Federal Reserve Bank, Internal Revenue Service, and the Income Tax was created. The real power behind the Corporatocracy is the international banks and their obsession with wealth and power.

Fast forward to today's world. The moneyed interests are faltering. They are the ones losing wealth. This cannot be allowed. At all costs, this must not happen. The Federal Reserve, via the IRS, via the Income Tax as pulled all the stops to rescue the wealthiest Americans from losing any wealth. From this website: http://biz.yahoo.com/cnbc/080725/25851253.html?ref=patrick.net, I found someone who finally tallied up all of the taxpayer money spent on rescuing these criminals. Keep in mind that these numbers do not reflect the bailout for Fannie and Freddie that was just passed by the Senate. That bailout has the potential to cost taxpayers over $800 Billion.

The Federal Reserve = $446 Billion
Federal Home Loan Banks = $274 Billion
Fannie & Freddie = $621 Billion
Federal Housing Admin = $90 Billion

Total losses so far are astronomical. $1.43 Trillion, which is 1,430 Billion, which is 14,300 Million, which is 1,430,000,000,000 dollars. These are conservative numbers. Going through the list of "conservative" estimations of what will be on the books as early as Q3 of next year and the number jumps from $1.43 Trillion to $3.48 Trillion. Now that number includes the current "bailout" plan. Which, by the way, gives Treasury Secretary a blank check until the end of 2009 to fix any problems he deems needs fixing. A BLANK CHECK to the former CEO of Goldman Sachs!

Which brings me back to my point. This is not fascism in the form of Nazism. This is a new kind of fascism. A fascism that has the Corporatocracy in full control of "elected" representatives. On top of that, over half of the nation votes on computer controlled voting machines sold by one of those corporations. Soon, we as voters will need to send lobbyists to Congress to have our voice heard. Have any of you ever tried to get a hold of your Congressperson? It's not easy to get a response. It's damn near impossible to get a response from your Senator. These people do not give a rats ass about their constituents with few exceptions.

I prefer the term Corporatocracy over Fascism, even though Fascism is a more accurate term for what is happening in our government, it brings up comparisons to Nazism that isn't warranted in today's real world. The true enemies of our liberty isn't some paranoid, racist madman. Rather, it is the profit whoring greed of the Corporatocracy that is eroding the very foundations of our great nation.

Here is how America almost became the greatest nation on the face of the Earth. Unfortunately, the bankers won and we lost. It happened over 100 years ago. It continued with the creation of the Income Tax and Federal Reserve in 1913 and then further taxation in later years and finally the ending of the Gold Standard in the 1970’s.

We now have a banking system wholly bent on wealth transfer through inflation and debt. Debt to them. The American government gave away its control over creating money to the Federal Reserve bank, which is a privately held bank(the biggest and most powerful bank in the world), and it holds nearly $10 trillion in OUR debt. If we don’t pay them the minimum payments, we’re finished as a nation.

Our Income tax was created soley for the purpose of paying the interest on our national debt. So every paycheck, a portion goes directly to the IRS which then transfers that money directly to the Federal Reserve Bank. Which is why the Income Tax, Fed Reserve, and IRS all were created at the same time, and enforced by the government even though the Federal Income Tax never came close to being ratified by the minimum number of states that are typically needed to ratify a Constitutional Amendment.

Ironically, it is also the only amendment that was never ratified that the government pretends is a law. The IRS has imprisoned hundreds, even thousands of citizens over the years who have tried to exercise their constitutional rights in defiance of the illegal mission of the Federal Reserve and IRS, neither of which are government agencies yet they pretend to be such.

The longer we let them oppress us, the more likely we will lose more and more of our liberties. Our nation was a great one, but we lost the war against the bankers sometime between 1860 and 1913. Since then we have seen our standard of living peak, then fall considerably over the past 40 years. Our dollar is worth two pennies compared to a dollar in 1913. Inflation happens to all currencies, but more so when the currency is fiat.

America almost became great, but the banks have won and we are no longer the Republic that our Founding Fathers intended us to be. We are just like the European Nations that we broke away from. Nothing has changed, the conditions are the same as they were when our anscestors revolted against their government back in 1776. Except this time, the oppressive government we are living under is not across some distant ocean, it is right here in our backyard. And the government is powerful and absolutely corrupt, so that any revolt by the people would be met with the harshest of brutality.

I am close to the point now where I may lose all faith in the future of this Republic. International Banking has too much power, too much influence, and too much control. They must be stopped and our politicians must be brought into accountability. They answer to The People, not Corporate lobbyists. The cycle never ends and we lose ground each and every year.

Below is a transcript from the history of our banking in America. How we lost control of our own future to European Bankers like the Rothschild's. Copied from: http://www.sovereignfellowship.com/tos/16.3/

Benjamin Franklin:
While visiting England in 1763, Benjamin Franklin was asked how he accounted for the prosperous condition of the Colonies. His reply was: That is simple. It is only because in the Colonies we issue our own money. It is called “Colonial Scrip” — and we issue it in the proper proportion to the demands of trade and industry. Soon that information was brought to the Rothschild’s bank which coerced the English Parliament to pass a Bill providing that no Colony could issue its own money. Franklin said: Within one year from that date the streets of the Colonies were filled with the unemployed. Franklin later said that this was the original cause of the Revolutionary War. In his own language: The Colonies would gladly have borne the little tax on tea and other matters had it not been that England took away from the Colonies their money, which created unemployment and dissatisfaction. — Lightning Over The Treasury Building, by J.R. Elsom

John Adams 1787:
All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation. — Money - Questions & Answers, by C. Coughlin

In 1790 Mayer Amschel Rothschild said:

Permit me to issue and control the money of a nation and I care not who makes its laws.

Thomas Jefferson said:
I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. Already they have raised up a money aristocracy that has set the overnment at defiance. The issuing power (of money) should be taken from the banks, and restored to the people to whom it belongs. — Lincoln Money Martyred

If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up
around them will deprive the people of all property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of the moneyed corporations, which dare already to challenge our Government to trial of strength and bid defiance to the laws of our country. — Money - Questions & Answers, by C. Couglin

Lord Acton, Lord Chief Justice of England in 1875 stated:
The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the People vs. the Banks. — I Want The Earth—Plus 5 Percent

President Andrew Jackson to the bankers who approached him in the drawing room of the White House:
Gentlemen, I have had men watching you for a long time and I am convinced that you have used the funds of the bank to speculate in the breadstuffs of the country. When you won, you divided the profits amongst you, and when you lost, you charged it to the bank. You tell me that if I take the deposits from the bank and annul its charter I shall ruin ten thousand families. That may be true, gentlemen, but that is your sin! Should I let you go on you will ruin fifty thousand families, and that would be my sin! You are a den of vipers and thieves. I have determined to rout you out, and by the Eternal God, I will rout you out! — Money - Questions & Answers by C. Coughlin

Abraham Lincoln:
The money power preys upon the nation in times of peace and conspires against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic than monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, more selfish than bureaucracy. It denounces, as public enemies, all who question its methods or throw light upon its crimes. - Famous Quotations on Money, by Sheldon Emry

Editorial in the London Times after “Lincoln Greenbacks” were issued:
If this mischievous financial policy, which has its origin in the North American Republic, shall become endurated down to a fixture, then that Government will furnish its own money without cost. It will pay off its debts and be without debt. It will have all the money necessary to carry on its commerce. It will become prosperous without precedent in the history of the world. The brains and the wealth of all countries will go to North America. That government must be destroyed or it will destroy every monarchy on the globe.

The Hazard Circular - published by London bankers, 1863:
The great debt that the Capitalists will see to it is made out of the war must be used to control the value of money. To accomplish this government bonds must be used as a banking basis. We are now waiting for the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States to make that recommendation.It will not do to allow greenbacks, as they are called, to circulate as money for any length of time as we cannot control them. But we can control the bonds and through them the banking issues.

Salmon P. Chase in referring to the National Bank Act of 1862 said:
My agency in promoting the passage of the National Bank Act was the greatest financial mistake of my life. It has built up a monopoly, which affects every interest in the country. It should be repealed, but before that can be accomplished, the people will be arrayed on one side and the banks on the other, in a contest such as we have never before seen in this country. — Famous Quotations on Money, by Sheldon Emry Letter to: Messieurs.

Iklheimer, Morton and Vandergould, No. 3 Wall St., New York, U.S.A.:
Dear Sirs:

A Mr. John Sherman has written us from a town in Ohio, U.S.A., as to the profits that may be made in the National Banking business under a recent act of your Congress
(National Bank Act of 1863), a copy of which act accompanied his letter. Apparently this act has been drawn upon the plan formulated here last summer by the British Bankers Association and by that Association recommended to our American friends as one that if enacted into law, would prove highly profitable to the banking fraternity throughout the world.

Mr. Sherman declares that there has never before been such an opportunity for capitalists to accumulate money, as that presented by this act and that the old plan, of State Banks is so unpopular, that the new scheme will, by contrast, be most favorably regarded, notwithstanding the fact that it gives the National Banks an almost absolute control of the National finance. ’The few who can understand the system,’ he says ’will either be so interested in its profits, or so dependent on its favors, that there will be no opposition from that class, while on the other hand, the great body of people, mentally incapable of comprehending the tremendous advantages that capital derives from the system, will bear its burdens without complaint and perhaps without even suspecting that the system is inimical (adverse) to their interests.’ Please advise us fully as to this matter and also state whether or not you will be of assistance to us, if we conclude to establish a National Bank in the City of New York... Awaiting your reply, we are.

Your respectful servants.

Rothschild Brothers.

London, June 25, 1863
— Lightning Over The Treasury Building, J.R. Elsom

Henry Ford said:
The function of money is not to make money but to move goods. Money is
only one part of our transportation system. It moves goods from man to man. A
dollar bill is like a postage stamp: it is no good unless it will move commodities between persons. If a postage stamp will not carry a letter, or money will not move goods, it is just the same as an engine that will not run. Someone will have to get out and fix it. — Money - Questions & Answers, by C. Coughlin

Hon. Charles A. Lindbergh, Sr., on December 23, 1913 stated:
This Federal Reserve Act establishes the most gigantic trust on earth. When the President (Wilson) signs this bill the invisible government of the Monetary Power will be legalized. — Famous Quotations on Money, by Sheldon Emry

Concerning government bonds issued for a construction project Thomas Edison said:
People who will not turn a shovel full of dirt on the project, nor contribute a pound of material, will collect more money from the United States than will the people who supply all the material and do all the work. This is the terrible thing about interest.
In all great bond issues the interest is always greater than the principal. All the great public works cost more than twice as much on that account. Under the present system of doing business we simply add from 120% to 150% to the stated cost.

But here is the point: If our nation can issue a dollar bond, it is capable of issuing a dollar bill. The element that makes the bond good makes the bill good also. The
difference between the bond and the bill is that the bond lets the money broker
collect twice the amount of the bond and an additional 20%. Whereas the currency, the honest sort provided by the Constitution, pays nobody but those who contribute in some useful way. It is absurd to say our country can issue bonds and cannot issue currency. Both are promises to pay but one fattens the usurer and the other helps the people.If the currency issued by the people were no good, then the bonds would be no good either. It is a terrible situation when the Government, to insure the National wealth, must go in debt and submit to ruinous interest charges at the hands of men who control the fictitious value of gold. Interest is the invention of Satan. — Lightning Over The Treasury Building, by J.R. Elsom

Sir Josiah Stamp, President of the Bank of England, in an informal talk to 150 University of Texas students in the 1920’s said:
Banking was conceived in iniquity and born in sin...Bankers own the world. Take it away from them, but leave them the power to create money...and with the flick of a pen, they will create enough money to buy it back again...Take this great power away from bankers, and all great fortunes like mine will disappear, and they ought to disappear, because this would then be a better and happier world to live in...But if you want to continue to be the slaves of bankers, and pay the cost of your own slavery, let them continue to create (your) money. — “Bankonomics” in One Easy Lesson, by Peter Cook

In 1933 Congressman Louis T. McFadden wrote:
Every effort has been made by the Federal Reserve Board (FED) to conceal its powers, but the truth is-the FED has usurped the government. It controls everything here (in Congress) and it controls all our foreign relations. It makes and breaks governments at will. — Billions for the Bankers, by Sheldon Emry

Robert Hemphill, for 8 years credit manager of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta said:
If all bank loans were paid, no one would have a bank deposit, and there would not be a dollar of currency in circulation. This is a staggering thought. We are completely dependent on the commercial banks. Someone has to borrow every dollar we have in
circulation, cash or credit. If the banks create ample synthetic money, we are prosperous; if not, we starve. We are absolutely without a permanent monetary system. When one gets a complete grasp upon the picture, the tragic absurdity of our hopeless position is almost incredible-but there it is. It (the banking problem) is the most important subject intelligent persons can investigate and reflect upon. It is so important that our present civilization may collapse unless it is widely understood and the defects remedied very soon. — Famous Quotations on Money, by Sheldon Emry

Emanuel Josephson stated in the Rockefeller Internationalist:
They [the Rockefellers] control most of the important newspapers, magazines, and book publishing houses in the country, including the Curtis Publications, the Hearst Publications, Time, the New York Times, the Associated Press and many others. — The Elements of Economics, by J.L. Carmichael

John Moody wrote:
Seven men on Wall Street now control a great share of the fundamental industry and resources of the United States. Three of the seven men, J.P. Morgan, James J. Hill, George F. Baker, head of the First National Bank of New York belong to the so-called Morgan group; four of them, John D. and William Rockefeller, James Stillman, head of the National City Bank, and Jacob H. Schiff on the private banking firm of Kuhn, Loeb Company, to the so-called Standard Oil City Bank group...the central machine of capital extends its control over the United States...The process is not only economically logical; it is now practically automatic. — Secrets of the Federal
Reserve, by Eustace Mullins

The Banker’s Manifest, 1934:
Capital must protect itself in every way, through combination and through legislation. Debts must be collected and loans and mortgages foreclosed as soon as possible. When through a process of law the common people have lost their homes, they will be more tractable and more easily governed by the strong arm of the law, applied by the central power of wealth, under control of leading financiers. People without homes will not quarrel with their leaders. This is well known among our principal men now engaged in forming an imperialism of capital to govern the world. By dividing the people we can get them to expend their energies in fighting over questions of no importance to us except as teachers of the common herd...

Nobel Prize Winner Frederick Soddy:
The whole profit of the issuance of money has provided the capital of the great banking business as it exists today. Starting with nothing whatever of their own, they have got the whole world into their debt irredeemably, by a trick.

This money comes into existence every time the banks “lend” and disappears every time the debt is repaid to them. So that if industry tries to repay, the money of the nation disappears. This is what makes prosperity so “dangerous” as it destroys money just when it is most needed, and precipitates a slump.

There is nothing left now for us but to ever get deeper and deeper into debt to the banking system in order to provide the increasing amounts of money the nation requires for its expansion and growth.An honest money system is the only alternative. — Lightning Over The Treasury Building, by J.R. Elsom

Andrae Nordskog:
In February, 1850, our State of California issued bonds in the sum of $943.40 to pay for a granite slab to be placed at the 120 foot level inside of Washington’s Monument on the grounds of our National Capitol.

Our Golden State issued short term bonds bearing interest at the rate of 36% annually. In 1873 new bonds, in the amount of $2,277,500.00 were issued to retire the original bonds. Since that time the State has paid over $10,000,000 in interest but not one cent on the principal. — We Bankers, by Andrae Nordskog

John R. Elsom, 1941:
Since the people have either lost the heart to borrow from the Banks, or their collateral has already been taken over by the Banks - the latter being primarily the case - and therefore can no longer borrow, in order to get money into circulation the Government must do the borrowing in lieu of the people. — Lightning Over The Treasury Building, by J.R. Elsom

Summer H. Slichter (Professor Business Economics at Harvard):
The principal way in which dollars are created is by borrowing. This means that the number of dollars in existence at any particular time depends upon the ability and willingness of the banks to lend. The volume of purchasing power fluctuates with the state of men’s minds; the growth of pessimism may suddenly throw millions of men out of work (because of the lack of currency), or the growth of confidence may create thousands of job overnight (because of sufficient currency). — Lightning Over The Treasury Building, by J.R. Elsom

If you took the time to read through these snippets of history, you'll see a pattern. That pattern is a gradual takeover in America by European Bankers. The liberty loving, freedom seeking Patriots of the days of the Civil War lost ground to the monied interests of the wealthy global elite. Soon, America would become just another European-like nation with all the same banking practices, corporate practices, and their interlocking vested interests. That was how America almost became the greatest nation on the face of the Earth.

In the end, America settled for being the best Europe had to offer. And now we're faced with economic calamity not seen since the Great Depression. I refuse to believe that we haven't already walked over the edge of a cliff as a nation, we have come to far down this perilous road to turn back. The only thing that can save us now is for the nation to wake up, for the optimisim to vanish, for the People to retake their government from the bankers who have so skillfully pulled the rug out from under us. Most likely, it'll take a miracle. If you have the money to ride the rapids then you'll be fine, the rest of us are SCREWED.

The global economy is best represented by the picture to the left. The boulder hanging perilously above is the shadowy banking market of credit derivatives. The total amount is thought to be somewhere around five hundred trillion(500,000,000,000,000) dollars. In fact, Warren Buffet once called credit derivatives "Financial Weapons of Mass Destruction".

Meanwhile, the Federal Reserve, portrayed in this picture as the twigs holding up the boulder(credit derivatives market), is doing everything it can to forestall a calamity. The problem with the Federal Reserve system is that they have abandoned a sound fiat money policy in favor of a protectionist policy. What I mean by "protectionist" is that the Feds are following a policy that will protect the wealth of as many individuals on Wall Street as it can, which has come to mean siphoning any lost wealth from the American taxpayer.

Take this for an example - A corporate magnate loses billions as various credit markets collapse, so the Fed Reserve "bails" him and his company out by throwing money at them. That money is then siphoned off from the Treasury Department as an "Economic Stimulus". The Fed Reserve has now put the hook on the American taxpayer for nearly the entire derivatives market without any Constitutional authority...but then again the Fed Reserve exists in violation of the Constitution, but that is a different story.

The point is, the Federal Reserve can only do so much before their own financial solvency begins to buckle. At that point the American taxpayer begins to foot the bill, which will only succeed in breaking the twigs and having the boulder come crashing down.

Which brings us to the poor guy shoveling at the bottom of the pit for a meager wage, just wanting to live a comfortable life. When the Fed Reserve collapses, so will the Credit Derivatives Market and those that will ultimately pay the heaviest price will be regular Americans. They will be crushed by any overwhelming burden of debt. In fact, it will not only be Americans suffering, it will be the entire globe. Freedom could very well disappear in most of the world and America will not longer be able to assert any influence on world events. Gone will be the days of policing the world, gone will be the days of propping up puppet dictatorships, gone will be the days of global dominance. The aftermath will be chaos and it could very well lead to another global war. And we will be able to thank the bankers of the world for our misery. So make sure you go deposit that economic stimulus check into your savings account, because that is exactly what the bankers and politicians need you to do.

Welcome to the Future!

Well, the Federal Reserve is doing something its never done before. It’s using taxpayer money to bailout a fiscally irresponsible bank, Bear Sterns. The Fed has declared at the top of its corrupt voice that The People can go to hell, because the wealth of the wealthy must be preserved at all costs.

$236 billion to save a bank who aggressively “enriched” itself with subprime garbage and a bank whose stock has dropped 98% in price from it’s recent high. As it should, any company that makes such poor decisions should suffer the consequences. Instead, Bear Sterns will get a pat on the back and bailed out of it’s troubles. All so their top executives can continue to earn exorbitant sums of money.

The class war has been declared. Not by the masses, by the wealthy themselves. These corrupt individuals are robbing the taxpayers of billions…now trillions of dollars. Add the inflation losses of the bottom 90% and we are looking at several trillions of dollars. All to save the extravagant wealth of those responsible for this credit crisis.

The market needs to be left alone to decide who should pay the consequences for our economic debacle. Instead, the Fed openly declared war on us by forcing taxpayers to foot the bill for Trillions of dollars(or $1,000,000,000,000+) worth of bad decisions made by greedy bankers. It is time to abolish this dastardly institution and replace it with nothing – return to the gold standard and leave banks to fail if they make poor decisions.

I am not big on conspiracies, but this article was quite fascinating.
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NOTE: Elements within the U.S. Government have been threatening web site administrators all over the internet and forcing them to take down the following article because it's exposes the Bush/Cheney cabal's involvement in the coming economic collapse of 2008.

Everyone make copies of this article and send it everywhere so everyone will be fully aware of how the economic collapse was engineered to happen on purpose.
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"Everybody knows that the dice are loaded. Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed. Everybody knows the war is over. Everybody knows the good guys lost. Everybody knows the fight was fixed. The poor stay poor, the rich get rich. That's how it goes, Everybody knows" - Leonard Cohen

PROTOCOLS FOR ECONOMIC COLLAPSE IN AMERICA
by Al Martin

And this is how the U.S. Treasury would handle an economic collapse. It's called the 6900 series of protocols. It would start with declaring a force majeure, which would immediately be interpreted by the marketplaces as a de facto repudiation of debt. Then the SEC and the various regulatory exchanges would anticipate the market's decline, hour by hour -- when Japan's markets opened the next day, what would happen when the European markets, and all the inter-linkages of the global markets. On the second day, US Special Forces would be dropped in by parachute in the cities where the twelve Federal Reserve district banks are located.

The origin of these protocols comes from the Department of Defense. This is contingency planning for a variety of post-collapse scenarios. Those scenarios would include, obviously, military collapse, World War III, in other words, and its aftermath. What we're talking about now is aftermath -- how the aftermath would be handled.

One does not necessarily know how the events would transpire that would cause the collapse, whether it's military collapse or economic collapse. In World War III, it would become obvious -- when the mushroom cloud started to appear over cities.

Economic collapse scenarios were always premised on the basis of a US declaration of force majeure on debt service. It's a very extensive scenario. The scenarios are all together, i.e., military, economic, political and social complete destabilization leading to collapse.

Then they break down individual scenarios. In the economic collapse scenario, the starting point would be the United States Treasury declaring a force majeure on debt service, which is de facto repudiation, and that's how it would be interpreted by the world's capital marketplaces. Then the scenario goes on from there. The US Treasury would obviously declare a force majeure sometime after the European markets had settled down. In other words, they had gone out on the day, which means 11:38 a.m. EDT, our time. They'd wait until the European markets closed, and the US markets had been open for a couple of hours. That's when they'd determine how to begin the process of unwinding or controlling the collapse to the best extent possible, mainly because they know that the greatest hedge pressure would be people seeking to use other markets to hedge their long exposure in the United States and that the US would be the biggest seller in all the rest of the world's markets. Therefore you would want to declare the force majeure when the rest of the world's markets closed. The declaration of force majeure would be precipitated by the declaration that the United States is no longer able to service its debt. That's pretty simple. Who makes that decision? The Treasury Department. The President does not make that decision. The Secretary of the Treasury does. He has that authority.

You might ask -- wouldn't he have his arm twisted not to do that? The answer is that if there isn't any money left to service the debt, it doesn't make any difference what the current regime might want to do.

The day of reckoning is now coming. What has happened in the interim, from 2001 to present, is dynamic, global economic deterioration. The economic deterioration visited upon the United States by Bushonomics is not a localized event. It is, in fact, global. We have a planet now that is sinking into a sea of red ink.

The United States is consuming 80% of the planet's savings rate to finance its debt. The central banks of Germany, Japan and Saudi Arabia are no longer the powerhouses they used to be. Their reserves have now been substantially depleted. They can, therefore, no longer hide the fact that they own a certain number, likely in the trillions of dollars, of U.S. Treasury debt that isn't being serviced, because they can't hide it through bookkeeping tricks anymore because their reserves are so depleted.

Therefore somebody has covertly been putting demands on the Bush-Cheney regime for payment. Why do you think 2900 metric tons of gold is depleted from U.S. inventory since March of `01? Why do you think that $2 billion in currency seized from Iraq last May is now unaccounted for? Someone is putting demands on the Bush-Cheney regime. Someone is saying to the Bushonian Cabal that -- You've got to start servicing this debt because we, foreign central banks, are in nations - European and Asian - whose reserves are now nearly exhausted.

Who could be putting that kind of pressure on them? It has to be coming from whoever is organizing this thing at the very top, which I would tend to think has got to be most likely a cabal of people that would involve Henry Kissinger, James Baker, George Schultz, possibly William Simon. It would be somebody at the very top that is familiar with how to do this. It would have to be someone familiar with finances.

So would this be one faction of a cabal blackmailing or forcing another faction? No, it's not really blackmailing. It's being done out of desperation. The German, Japanese and Saudi central banks are saying to the Bushonian cabal, You've got to start servicing this debt because we don't have the reserves to cover you anymore. We can no longer make it appear that the debt is being serviced because our own reserves are so substantively depleted. Therefore you must begin to cover this debt. If you don't, then, at some point, we will have to publicly admit in order to save our own necks -- that we were the end buyers of a lot of stealth debt, a lot of debt that your Treasury issued illegally and has never serviced. That would then expose the whole cabal.

The Kissinger-Baker faction are at the top of how this was done on the economic side of the equation. They were not the original insiders so much, but the managers of the conspiracy from the U.S. Treasury, to wit, the U.S. Treasury and Federal Reserve role-play the part. Take Henry Kissinger. It may not have occurred to anyone why in the last 3 years Henry Kissinger has been back in Washington more than he has in the last 30 years. And why are all these quiet meetings in Washington with alleged senior Bush-Cheney regime officials, as foreign news services endlessly put it. It's because Kissinger is the point man. He's the one that is telling them the disposition of other foreign central banks.

Kissinger would probably also be involved in transfer or hypothecation of any assets from the cabal. In other words, they're being stolen from the American people by the Bush-Cheney regime and the Bushonian Cabal, and they are being used to hypothecate, transfer, service, or otherwise carry this debt held by certain foreign central banks. The process of unraveling has already begun because of ever-spiraling Bushonian budget deficits. The Bush-Cheney regime, even in its overt policies (now they're overt political, economic, social and military policies) is generating $600-billion-plus deficit per year, which is consuming 80% of the planet's net savings rate.

It doesn't have the slack. In other words, it can't refinance stealth debt by issuing more stealth debt anymore. Nor can they bleed money out of the system like they could in the 1980s by hiding it when the overt policies of the Bush-Cheney regime are already producing a budget deficit of 6% of Gross Domestic Product. There is no other mechanism that they could use anymore to hide expansion of debt that could be used to service said stealth debt, and they are, frankly, running out of assets that they can steal from the American people. So the proverbial day of reckoning is coming. The Bush-Cheney regime (and I give them credit for this) are telling the American people what's coming, knowing the American people are too stupid to understand. They are telling the American people about the re- institution of the Gold Confiscation Act and the sudden scrapping of the Treasury's emergency post-collapse gold note scheme to maintain domestic liquidity.

David Walker, US Comptroller General and chief of the GAO has said that should the Bush-Cheney regime be re-ensconced into power and, hence, the scourge of Bushonomics persist, that the United States could no longer service its debt beyond 2009. They're not hiding it from anybody anymore. They are telling you what's happening. Now, what does that mean? The key is in what Walker is saying when he says the debt can no longer be serviced. I've been asked this on the radio shows. People have noticed what Walker said because he's out in the news more often than he used to be. It's unusual for the Comptroller General of the United States, which is a rather arcane position, to be out in the news so much.

It simply means that when he says the United States will no longer be able to sustain Bushonian budget deficits, he means that by 2009, if Bush-Cheney have a second term in office, the United States will be consuming 100% of the planet's savings rate to finance Bushonian budget deficits. Therefore, if the planet can no longer generate any more liquidity to lend to the United States, one of three things have to happen:

A) There has to be a sudden and dramatic reduction in federal spending. There are only two places that can come from. There would have to be an immediate $100-billion cut in defense spending, which would end any hopes the Republicans had of getting into office for years to come because it would destroy any confidence the NFWCs (Naïve Flag Waving Crowd) had in them. Or you would have to scrap the multi-trillion- dollar Bushonian tax cuts for the Republican rich, something that's equally unpalatable.

The other option, B, as Paul O'Neill mentioned, is a dramatic increase in the rate of federal income taxation from the current nominal rate of 28% to 65%, which is what the Treasury Department estimated would be required post-2009 to provide the U.S. Treasury with sufficient revenues to continue to service debt.

The third option, or C, becomes the declaration of a force majeure on credit service of U.S. Treasury debt by the United States Treasury, which is tantamount and would be accurately construed as de facto debt repudiation by the United States of America.

There are other signs to look for. They're not going to happen now, but if Bush-Cheney is re-elected, you'll begin to see more signs that the end is coming. I know a lot of people may disagree, but you wait and see. If Bush-Cheney has a second term, see if they do not institute some currency expatriation control. See if that doesn't come in the way Nixon tried it in May-June of 1971.

In the second term, there will be some sort of currency expatriation control in the United States, but there will also be loopholes that will allow the large money to escape. The restrictions will apply to the 10- and 20-thousand-dollar people. It ain't going to apply to the 10- and 20-million-dollar people. It would be self-defeating to do that.

When that day comes, in other words, when the U.S. Treasury declares a force majeure on debt, it wouldn't be broad-cast on mainstream media. There's no sense because the American people don't even understand what it means. But the announcement would actually be put on the Federal Reserve wire system, which would, of course, immediately be picked up by all media outlets anyway.

The U.S. Treasury would declare a force majeure on debt after the Asian and European markets closed, probably at 12:30 p.m. EDT. The reason why that hour was always selected is because Asian and European markets close. It's also the lunch hour for the markets. It's when you're going to have the fewest people on the floor of the exchanges. That would be the ideal time to make such an announcement.

A few seconds after that announcement was made, all United States markets, both equities debt and commodities i.e., stock, bonds, commodities, that have trading collars or permissible daily limits would all be limit-offered with pools. Limit-offered means that there are more sellers at the limit i.e., limit down, than there are buyers. So-called 'pools' would immediately begin to form, probably a thousand contracts every few minutes. 'Limit-offered with pools' - this is trader language. Pools to sell 2,000 lots, 3,000 lots. That means, the number of sellers over and above the available buyers at the limit-offered price. That would begin to build.

By 1:00, the news would begin to sink in because it would take awhile before panic selling would arise from the public. This news is being released at lunch hour. A lot of the American people initially would not even understand the temerity of the news. You would see professional selling first, and as that professional selling intensified over the afternoon, the SEC, the CFTC, NASDAQ, and various market regulatory authorities would begin to institute certain emergency market protocols. This would be the installation of the so-called 'declaration of fast market conditions,' for instance; the declaration of 'no more stop orders,' the declaration of 'fill at any price,' etc. in a desperate bid to maintain liquidity.

That first day, the Dow Jones Industrial Average and related indices on a percentage basis would lose about 20% of their value by the close of business that day. The real impact would come overnight when the American people found out what this was all about and when it was explained to them.

At 7:30 a.m. EDT, the Tokyo markets would open, and no price would be affixed for probably three or four hours into the session due to the avalanche of selling. Once prices were established, the government of Japan would close all of its financial markets. Europe would not even open. All European governments would close all capital exchanges the next day.

The United States would, in order to accommodate global electronic trading, attempt to open the market on the second day, which they would do, regardless of price, just to maintain some liquidity. At the end of Day Two, the Dow Jones and related indices, would have lost two thirds of their value, and prices would be set accordingly.

On Day Three, the New York Stock Exchange, the SEC and other related agencies would recommend to the United States Treasury and the Federal Reserve that all markets be closed. That would be on the morning of Day Three. Eleven a.m., the Federal Reserve would then order all domestic banks closed. All of the twelve Federal Reserve district banks would (30 minutes later) have special U.S. forces parachuted in and around them to secure whatever gold bullion reserves they had left.

Day Three, 9:00 p.m., the President of the United States would declare a state of martial law. All financial transactions would come to an end. The Treasury would act to formally de-monetize the U.S. dollar and declare it worthless. This would be totally unprecedented. In the past, collapses have been temporary and have been brought back up. But what we're talking about now is the end.

These protocols that I'm referring to aren't even all that secret. They were publicly available all through the Clinton era. These are Treasury protocols that were instituted mostly in the late 1970s when the Treasury and Federal Reserve began to feel that it was important to have an emergency-collapse protocol in place.

What precipitated the timing of this was the inflationary spiral of the late 1970s. The U.S. Treasury and the Federal Reserve were both concerned that this inflationary spiral, which was occurring not only domestically but globally, might lead to a global, uncontrollable hyper-inflation that the Federal Reserve or major central banks could not stop by traditional means, i.e., by raising interest rates and contracting money supply.

There was also the recognition, of course, that global central reserve bank bullion inventories had been so depleted over the previous 30 years that any re-institution of a species currency, even on a temporary basis, and even within a regional or individual nation-state basis, was no longer possible.

This is an analogy. In a military scenario, it's like the President of the United States pushing the final red button -- the commit button. The Treasury Secretary of the United States has a similar mechanism. It's called the yellow button, the commit button. The Secretary of Defense has the same system. This is what happens. Computer program starts to institute these protocols. Imagine the complexity of trying the manage all this. I think it's going to happen all simultaneously. There are hundreds of different agencies involved, both domestically and internationally. In order to maintain liquidity for as long as possible, it has to be extremely well-coordinated, and there must be existing collapse protocols that can be used.

The reason I was familiar with them was because I used to see the U.S. Treasury 6900 Series Collapse Protocol, 6903, 6904 there'll be A, B, and so on which keyed in to the Department of Defense to be incorporated within the Department of Defense's own World War III scenario and various types of military/ political/ social instability/ war/ pestilence, chaos, etc. scenarios.

All federal agencies had individual collapse protocols that ultimately got coordinated through the Department of Defense. Obviously, the Department of Defense would be the ultimate coordinator because it would need to have special forces available, on a stand-by basis, ready, that could quickly parachute into areas all over the country, into the cities particularly, to secure federal properties and assets. And that's literally how it would begin. By the end of the third day, it would be all over -- a state of martial law. We're not talking about war, now; this is just economic collapse.

There's no military implication here, no political, no social implication or policy directive thereunto. This is strictly economic collapse. By the end of Day Three, effectively, all banks in the world will be shut down, all paper currencies will become valueless. Martial law would be declared. There would be no continuing transactions, at least for a period of time, of commodities. All providers of fuels and foods would be shut down automatically. They have this in great detail too. U.S. Department of Defense Special 117th Assault Unit would parachute in to seize control of the cattle yards in Oklahoma City. This is how well it's planned. In other words, economic collapse would automatically involve expansive military action and control.

By the end of the third day, when you no longer have a domestic medium of exchange, you have to have secured food and fuel stocks. You've got to have troops that have secured distribution points where there is food and fuel stocks, warehouses, tanks, etc. Otherwise people are just going to go get them, and the people have to know that if they try to go break into that store and steal that loaf of bread, they're going to be shot.

Protocols for environmental disasters are called 'scaling-circle scenarios.' 'Scaling circles' is a Department of Defense euphemism. It's also used in FEMA, OEM and other emergency management services. In environmental catastrophes, which are going to become national or global, it's got to start someplace. It's going to start in one very small, specific area. Therefore what happens is that the immediate force containment is the greatest in the first circle, to try to contain the spread of the disaster and keep it within that circle. The environmental problem, to whatever extent it's possible, before it spreads, will be neutralized or mitigated, in order to keep that catastrophe within that circle, or, if it is likely that it is to escape that circle, to attack whatever it is in such a fashion as to mitigate its strength and its ability to contaminate or otherwise affect other areas.

In the case of earthquakes, for instance, affecting the west coast, beginning at Mt. Rainier and moving southward -- that's a different type of scenario. That does not include as much Department of Defense involvement. It includes separate protocols, wherein mostly FEMA and OEM act as the senior coordinating agencies between municipal, county and state disaster and containment, which is called Disaster and Containment Units. Federal troops would only be brought in for the purposes of maintaining control.

In a military or economic collapse situation, National Guard units would provide any spare help they could in combating whatever the problem is. Federal troops would be used in order to have the specific authority simply to shoot anyone. There are plans for all sorts of scenarios. The economic-disaster scenario is the one I always found the most intriguing because it is the one that is least understood by the American people.

Military control would be necessary when lines begin to form at the banks, people trying to access their money. But that wasn't even anticipated as a big problem. Lines would form at the banks, but it was not even envisioned until sometime on Day Three because the American people wouldn't get it. It would be announced that the stock markets are down 2000 or 3000 points, and since we've always been taught they'll come back, the people would still be buying stocks. You could count on everybody remaining in ignorance all the way down because the American people have never been taught Economics 101. The American people wouldn't realize the full extent of it until the markets were closed on the third day, or until the time when they went down to cash a check and the bank was closed with soldiers out in front. Then they would go down and see the gas station's closed. They see the local supermarket has been shuttered, and there's federal troops in front of it. Then they might begin to catch on. And remember -- it's not just federal troops. In emergency-collapse protocols, even before the declaration of a formal state of emergency or a state of martial law, the local military authorities within any given county or jurisdiction have the ability to essentially militarize anyone, that is, any civilian. This would be more than just deputizing civilians. It's federal. In other words, they would have the ability to militarize and give military authority to a civilian force. This would include not only police and the sheriffs and state police, but all local law enforcement that exists below the state level would be immediately militarized. They wouldn't take just anybody like they did in Iraq. It would be like the military when they call for volunteers. Then they'd have everybody and their brother-in-law volunteering, waving around the American flag and so on.

You've got a lot of pickup-driving guys in this country with the gun racks in the back and the Confederate flag flying. So you start waving the American flag in front of their face and say, Hey, you're going to get your chance you always wanted -- to fit your potbelly inside an army uniform and carry a gun and shoot people. How appealing would that be? And besides, if you do this, then you're going to get to eat. In other words, this is how it would unfold over three days, but, in fact, very few Americans would know what to do about it or how to take any precautions. They wouldn't have a clue because they don't understand enough about economics to know what is happening. So that's what it is -- Economic Armageddon. If the Bush-Cheney regime is re- installed into power, that is effectively what Comptroller General David Walker is saying.

In conclusion, since there is very little the people of the United States can do to protect themselves. We're not going to make any suggestions of how to protect yourselves because there's very little you can do.

We could tell you to go out and buy gold coins and bury them in the coffee can in the back yard and go to your nearest survivalist store, but, frankly, that's useless. In the last analysis, it's a lot of hype. There is very little the average US citizen could do. The only thing that can prevent this, as the Comptroller alluded to when he was asked by Barbara Walters, How do we prevent reaching the problem by 2009? He said simply, "A change of regimes." So how do you prevent it? Don't vote for Bush and Cheney -- and hope that Bush does not use his emergency powers to cancel or postpone the election by edict, powers which you, the flag-waving citizens, have given him.

All flag-waving citizens, be warned. If you want to vote for Bush- Cheney again, make sure you got plenty of Spam on hand. Here's an interesting and humorous aside. A couple of days ago, Hormel Foods, which makes Spam, announced that in the last six months there have been record sales of Spam in the United States the survivalists' food of choice. After all, they pride themselves on the fact, as the spokesman for Hormel said, "It is the only food product you can buy with an expiration that's 50 years."

When everything goes to hell, when all that man has created has turned to dust again, the final legacy is going to be Spam. It will be the last surviving item -- when the anthropologists of 20 thousand years from now are digging sites and they see these enormous mountains of unopened cans of Spam They'll have monuments to the past out of Spam. So if Bush-Cheney has a second term in office, there will be some sort of currency restriction, like Nixon did in 1971. On April 13, 2004, Deputy Assistant Treasury Secretary John Boine talked about potential currency restrictions. He used the word that's going to fuel the flames of the survivalist and gloom-and-doom collapse people. It's very, very telling that the U.S. Treasury may institute a restriction on the amount of U.S. dollars that can be converted into gold.

Furthermore, he intimated (and I suspected that this was coming, although this wouldn't actually become law until Bush-Cheney was in office for second term one way or another) that the Bush-Cheney regime determines that the Gold Confiscation Act gives to Treasury the power for so-called forced disclosure of gold holdings.

I'm not quite sure of the language of the Gold Confiscation Act from 1933. It just says, "compelled", as in citizens are lawfully compelled to redeem gold for script. I don't think there was any such provision, which he was inferring that there is. That was FDR's "Raw Deal" of 1934, when people were coerced into giving up their gold. But nowhere in this act does it specifically authorize the Treasury to mandate citizens to report their gold holdings. So if this gets any press at all, particularly within the circles of gold bugs and so on, watch out.

Furthermore, on Washington Journal they were talking about how FEMA has recommended to the Office of Homeland Security to have increased restrictions regarding citizen hoarding of long-term food and fuel supplies. That's pretty sinister too.

What they're talking about is the purchase of long-term so-called stores of survival food. FEMA was talking about some sort of restriction preventing people from accumulating food stores; putting it simply, that's what it means. The second point was to increase restrictions that already exist. FEMA was recommending even tighter restrictions on citizens building their own private property underground storage tanks for the purposes of long-term storage of fuel. The real intent of this is threefold:
a) to restrict citizens' ability to hoard food
b) restrict citizens' ability to hoard long-term storage of fuel
c) the forced identification of citizens to reveal food and fuel stocks they may be hoarding.

And that, in my opinion, is the real essence. The Bush-Cheney regime was scared of having the FEMA angle put into the equation because they knew what it means and how people would interpret it. They have tried to use environmental legislation to restrict people's ability to build fuel storage facilities on their own property -- to get around what the true intent of that was. But the bigger picture is that if you start to limit citizens' ability to hoard fuel and food and shake them up by potential forced identification of gold holdings or forced redemption. In other words, what you don't want is citizens who have the ability to store a lot of food and fuel and to own gold because they would be able to resist state control in the future.

You've got to have every citizen on a rationing card to control the civilian population. You can't have citizens out there hoarding food and fuel because then people can say to government,"I ain't taking a rationing card, baby, with my national ID card. I don't have to. You can't control me through food and fuel and ever-worthless paper currency."

I used to make fun of these people. But now, things have come full circle on this debate. The Bush-Cheney regime is making it increasingly clear through their small changes in policy. Not a lot of people monitor these decisions, but I do. And the pattern is becoming increasingly clear. In fact, I would believe that those of the survivalist mentality (the food, fuel, the gold coins in the coffee can in the back yard) people who think that way will be ultimately vindicated - if George Bush has a second term in office.

People should quit making fun of them because they would be vindicated - even though they were all burned out, twenty-dollared to death, buying books and tapes, and discredited by mainstream media. It may sound like a hollow victory, but it won't be a hollow victory for them - them that's got the Spam...

I have three main topics I wish to discuss.rant about today. They are the NFL’s Stalinist-like control over their brand name, Javon Walker’s future in Denver, and Travis Henry’s future in Denver.

1. Why must the NFL forbid video sharing on the internet? I can understand certain people who post entire games for free viewing, but what is wrong with 3-5 minutes clips being allowed to be free distributed. I’ve come across a few, but those we only come across because the NFL probably hasn’t found them yet. I got to YouTube and fine all sorts of video clips of sporting events, but when it comes to NFL football a vast majority are of the 10-30 second variety rather than the 3-5 minutes variety. In fact, I can’t recall ever seeing a video of NFL game action longer than 5 minutes on YouTube.

The NFL is so obsessed with ownership of all things NFL that they are affecting the popularity of the game. Of course, no one will notice this because NFL Football is the most popular sport in the history of mankind(soccer doesn’t count). I think that if the NFL doesn’t relax on its Nazi like behavior towards its brand name money making machine then people will start to lose interest in the game much like NASCAR has taken a beating over the past few years.

Fans now get kicked out of the stadium for throwing dog bones onto the field…I’m sorry, but “The Drive” would not have been as impressive if the fans DIDN’T throw dog bones on the field. It added a sort of mystic to the game and its things like that which helped the NFL become the most dominant sporting enterprise in America today. It’s getting so bad that before you know it we will be “postponing” games because of bad weather.

Roger Goddell needs to lax the grip of the NFL over its brand name. Let the fans have a little bit more freedom to dispense the grassroots following. Everything is now pre-packaged into little NFL approved boxes. The NFL is peaked, it cannot expand with the level of control it now exerts over everything it produces. Mr. Goddell, bring back the dog bones.

2. Am I the only one who is hoping that Javon Walker comes back next year? On every other forum fans say we need to dump Javon Walker. I love Marshall as much as anyone, but is he just a new flavor of the month to be discarded after one bad season and a slip of the tongue? Every Bronco fan in America was hyped about Javon before last season and through the first 3 games. Now everyone wants to get rid of him.

I want to keep him. We NEED to keep him. Mike Shanahan needs to swallow his pride a little bit, sit down and have a chat with Javon. Tell Javon that he will not seek to restructure his contract, but that he needs to know that Javon will play his guts out in 2008 regardless of his feeling of being a number 1 or 2 guy. The ball will be spread around Mr. Walker…be patient. I for one will not give up on Walker until the day Shanny cuts him. Until then it is my hope that Javon comes back for another season.

3. I am torn about Travis Henry. I think it’s great that he is showing a classy attitude and wants to help the team going into 2008. Reminds me a bit of Elway when he restructured his contract to bring in a few needed FA that helped push us over the top to get into the Super Bowl.

However, I still think Henry is a short term solution to a long term need. And we need to address our long term need in the draft. I do not see a Super Bowl berth while Travis Henry is our primary running back. Mike Shanahan cannot win Super Bowls with a running back by committee, his play calling demands that all-world franchise running back carrying the team to victory each and every week.

Many around the league have written the Denver Broncos off. Even the lowly Raiders think that 2008 will see their perennial loser break .500 for the first time since 2002, while displacing the Chiefs and Broncos. I might be able to see the Raiders overtaking the Chiefs for third place in the division, but to think that the Broncos will continue to erode into obscurity is just plain speculation and not based on reality.

I've decided it's time to give my ten reasons why the Denver Broncos will not falter in 2008 and why they may even take this division from the Chargers.

Reason #10: Rod Smith

Yes, we lost the greatest wide receiver ever to don a Denver Broncos jersey. He never had the flare or ego of the Michael Irvin's or T.O.'s of the league, but he had the class and humility that the Denver Bronco organization has always carried with it. We lost Rod Smith the player, but I believe we will gain Rod Smith the coach and mentor which will impact this team more than playing. Here is a little tribute to Rod.

"In Rod We Trust"

Reason #9: Pat Bowlen

As Bronco fans we are blessed with one of the best owners in the league today. He expects excellence, but doesn't meddle in team affairs like the nefarious Al Davis. He genuinely cares about this football team and is willing to do what it takes to win championships. I believe he and Mike Shanahan cooperatively tried to win a championship through free agency and it failed. I think they changed strategies in 2006 when they were able to draft Jay Cutler. The new goal has been to develop a champion through the draft and I see this strategy working.

We all need to count our lucky stars that we have Pat Bowlen working hard to correct the deficiencies in this team rather than Al Davis being a cancer that kills the team.



Reason #8: AFC West

Our Division has become an AFC version of the NFC West. Pathetically weak. The San Diego Chargers are the class of the division right now, but only because they OWN the Denver Broncos. If the Denver Broncos can find a way to level the playing field with the Chargers and shut that egotistical loud mouthed Rivers up then this Division could be back in the hands of Denver. The problem with the AFC West is not the Chargers, or even the Denver Broncos. The problem is the wretched teams now playing in Kansas City and Oakland.

The AFC West will not be a strong division again for many years. The Chiefs are in complete disarray and will not see a winning record for many years and may very well be at the bottom starting next year. Oakland is getting stronger, but how quickly it can recover really depends on Al Davis and his ability to "Just Die Baby!" Really, the Raiders will be better off when someone else is running things from the top. Ok, that was a little harsh...how about "Just Retire Baby!" There, that is less insensitive of me. ;)



Reason #7: Champ Bailey

We all know Champ had an off year last year. Even great ones have off years. I expect Champ to come back with a focused intensity next season. He will dominate now that he is back to playing Slowik's defense. I loved watching him play in 2005 and 2006. This year will be similar. This year Champ will be back in the groove, in fact, let me post a few video clips to remind you of what Champ can do. Game Changer.


I lost my voice on this play


I can't wait to watch a game at Mile High

Reason #6: Selvin Young

I've been high on this guy since the first time I saw him take a handoff in the Bronco uniform. If he put on some weight he would be a dominate force in this league, but it appears that is not to be. He can still be the number two punch of our new two-headed beast. We need that two-headed beast too, because it is obvious Travis Henry cannot handle the full load. Hopefully we will address the long term future of our running backs in the draft. For now however, enjoy the luxury we have with Travis Henry, Selvin Young, and Andre Hall. Now if we could only keep our offensive line healthy!


Wow, I actually found a tribute to Selvin Young!

Reason #5: Defensive Line

I've seen much discussion on many Bronco forums about us needing to pick up more defensive ends. This has to stop. We have Moss, Crowder, and Doom. Those guys will anchor the outside for many years to come. The reason we should be excited about our defensive line is because of the upcoming draft. I think we all know that a high draft pick will be lining up next to Marcus Thomas next year. That will give us one of the youngest defensive lines in the league and THAT is something to be excited about. No more freaking Browncos or aging veterans who haven't had a good season in five years.


Short Clip of our DLine

Reason #4: Mike "The Mastermind" Shanahan

We can always expect our coach to give each season everything he's got. I think he had an off year last year, but in a way he too is trying to figure out the best way to win with Jay Cutler. Who knows, maybe Jake Plummer ruined Shanny for a few years. He's forgotten how to call plays without worrying about the ability of his quarterback to execute. I believe Shanahan will come around and start utilizing Cutler & Co. more effectively. The Denver Broncos will become one of the highest scoring teams in the league next year(So long as we don't have half the team injured again).

Mike Shanahan has one of the best winning percentages of all-time. He brought us two Super Bowl titles and he suffered only his second losing season in 13 years. I feel he should be the head coach of this football team until he decides to retire. I also see him bringing us at least one more title and I see that happening by the 2010 season. After all, last year was 1995 all over again. ;)



Reason #3: The 2008 Draft

The Broncos sit at #12 overall. Not only that, but they are LOADED with draft picks. The Broncos have the option to sit tight, trade up, trade down...the world is their oyster on draft day. In fact, I would have listed this topic higher, but for reasons you will soon find out, third is as high as this topic can go.

This years draft is the most excited I have been since...well, since I can remember. I was not all the excited last year, nor was I jazzed about 2006...that is until we traded up and nabbed Jay Cutler. Rest assured, this year is going to be filled with more drama than your favorite daytime soap opera. Yeehaw!

The future will look a little like this:


Reason #2: Brandon Marshall

Brandon freaking Marshall. This guy is AMAZING. In just over half a season, this guy has easily become the most exciting player to watch. As a Bronco fan anyway. I cannot even put into words how much I like this guy, so I will just let the eyes do the typing for me.





Reason #1: Jay Cutler

As most Broncomaniacs have, I too have languished since the retirement of John Elway. I even lost interest in football for a year or two in the early part of this century. Not for lack of love of everything Broncos, but for reasons of despair. Watching Griese, then subsequent second rate QBs was more than a little depressing. Keep in mind I was born in 1978 and got into football right around the time Elway came into the league. So for my entire life I had only known Elway and the Broncos and even when they were average at best I could expect excitement when watching Elway. So when he retired I felt like something was missing. The feeling was so prevalent that my interest in football waned during the period immediately after Elway.

That changed when we picked up Jake Plummer. I was excited because he was exciting and I was happy to have him on our football team. In fact, I liked him all the way up until we drafted Cutler. I was content with Plummer, but with Cutler being drafted I realized that the future looked even brighter. I realized too that this kid could bring not only playoff victories, but even championships! I felt sorry for what happened to Jake Plummer in 2006, but I am not sorry for wanting to get the Cutler era started as soon as possible.



Jay Cutler has had two solid seasons, surpassing all expectations. He has had a better start to his career than Elway. Cutler has even had a few heart stopping 4th quarter heroics in his first 20 games, matching Elway stride for stride. The next benchmark for me is a playoff victory by the end of his fourth season. The scary thing is, I think Jay Cutler will get his first playoff victory by the end of this season. One obstacle remains in his path, the San Diego Chargers. He must at least lead the Broncos to one victory over the Chargers this season. If he can do that, we will be playoff bound for sure!


Here is the glimpse we saw in 2006, followed by reality in 2007. Go Cutler!


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Great Video

There you have it. My 10 reasons why all Broncomaniac's should be pumped up about 2008.

Until next season...

It is my view that people in this country do not take the time to learn about politicians. They allow the corporate media decide who is viable and who is not.

Ron Paul supporters are better educated politically that average voters. Most of us know that the other political candidates are lying scoundrels with records to prove it. The problem is, the media does not report this, nor will regular people look into it themselves.

I should know, up until last year I voted along with the rest of 'em. Never again. If Ron Paul can go to Congress and stick to his beliefs in the Constitution and Ethics, then I too can vote according to my beliefs.

And if the primary ends in a McCain nomination then I promise there will be no vote from me in the general election. Clinton, Obama, or McCain...three liberal, big government socialists. No Thanks. Even a Bloomberg Independent run would not be enough to bring me in, because it would be obvious to me that his entering the Presidential race is only to secure a Democratic win.

One day people will wake up and realize they have lost everything. On that day, I will take solace in the fact that I did not contribute to that by voting in the same corrupt people to run this nation. One day, it will all end and the last semblance of the American Republic will vanish into something different and less than appealing.

Since my Mother-in-law was diagnosed with cancer, I've become more concerned about what is put in my body on a daily basis. So this issue has become quite important to me and thus from time to time I will publish information I deem worth sharing.

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1. Every person has cancer cells in the body. These cancer cells do not show up in the standard tests until they have multiplied to a few billion. When doctors tell cancer patients that there are no more cancer cells in their bodies after treatment, it just means the tests are unable to detect the cancer cells because they have not reached the detectable size.

2. Cancer cells occur between 6 to more than 10 times in a person's lifetime.

3. When the person's immune system is strong the cancer cells will be destroyed and prevented from multiplying and forming tumours.

4. When a person has cancer it indicates the person has multiple nutritional deficiencies. These could be due to genetic, environmental, food and lifestyle factors.

5. To overcome the multiple nutritional deficiencies, changing diet and including supplements will strengthen the immune system.

6. Chemotherapy involves poisoning the rapidly-growing cancer cells and also destroys rapidly-growing healthy cells in the bone marrow, gastro-intestinal tract etc, and can cause organ damage, like liver, kidneys, heart, lungs etc.

7. Radiation while destroying cancer cells also burns, scars and damages healthy cells, tissues and organs.

8. Initial treatment with chemotherapy and radiation will often reduce tumor size. However prolonged use of chemotherapy and radiation do not result in more tumor destruction.

9. When the body has too much toxic burden from chemotherapy and radiation the immune system is either compromised or destroyed, hence the person can succumb to various kinds of infections and complications.

10. Chemotherapy and radiation can cause cancer cells to mutate and become resistant and difficult to destroy. Surgery can also cause cancer cells to spread to other sites.

11. An effective way to battle cancer is to starve the cancer cells by not feeding it with the foods it needs to multiply.

WHAT CANCER CELLS FEED ON:

a. Sugar is a cancer-feeder. By cutting off sugar it cuts off one important food supply to the cancer cells . Sugar substitutes like NutraSweet, Equal,Spoonful, etc are made with Aspartame and it is harmful. A better natural substitute would be Manuka honey or molasses but only in very small amounts. Table salt has a chemical added to make it w h i te in colour. Better alternative is Bragg's aminos or sea salt.

b. Milk causes the body to produce mucus, especially in the gastro-intestinal tract. Cancer feeds on mucus. By cutting off milk and substituting with unsweetened soy milk, cancer cells are being starved.

c. Cancer cells thrive in an acid environment. A meat-based diet is acidic and it is best to eat fish, and a little chicken rather than beef or pork. Meat also contains livestock antibiotics, growth hormones and parasites, which are all harmful, especially to people with cancer.

d. A diet made of 80% fresh vegetables and juice, whole grains, seeds, nuts and a little fruits help put the body into an alkaline environment. About 20% can be from cooked food including beans. Fresh vegetable juices provide live enzymes that are easily absorbed and reach down to cellular levels within 15 minutes to nourish and enhance growth of healthy cells. To obtain live enzymes for building healthy cells try and drink fresh vegetable juice (most vegetables including bean sprouts) and eat some raw vegetables 2 or 3 times a day. Enzymes are destroyed at temperatures of 104 degrees F (40 degrees C).

e. Avoid coffee, tea, and chocolate, which have high caffeine. Green tea is a better alternative and has cancer-fighting properties. Water-best to drink purified water, or filtered, to avoid known toxins and heavy metals in tap water. Distilled water is acidic, avoid it.

12. Meat protein is difficult to digest and requires a lot of digestive enzymes. Undigested meat remaining in the intestines become putrified and leads to more toxic buildup.

13. Cancer cell walls have a tough protein covering. By refraining from or eating less meat it frees more enzymes to attack the protein walls of cancer cells and allows the body's killer cells to destroy the cancer cells.

14. Some supplements build up the immune system (IP6, Flor-ssence, Essiac, anti-oxidants, vitamins, minerals, EFAs etc.) to enable the body's own killer cells to destroy cancer cells. Other supplements like vitamin E are known to cause apoptosis, or programmed cell death, the body's normal method of disposing of damaged, unwanted, or unneeded cells.

15. Cancer is a disease of the mind, body, and spirit. A proactive and positive spirit will help the cancer warrior be a survivor. Anger, unforgiveness and bitterness put the body into a stressful and acidic environment. Learn to have a loving and forgiving spirit. Learn to relax and enjoy life.

16. Cancer cells cannot thrive in an oxygenated environment. Exercising daily, and deep breathing help to get more oxygen down to the cellular level. Oxygen therapy is another means employed to destroy cancer cells.