Ο ΧΡΥΣΟΔΑΚΤΥΛΟΣ ΓΚΟΡΝΤΟΝ ΜΠΡΑΟΥΝ & Co

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Στο καινούργιο ρεπορτάζ του Ρώσικου τηλεοπτικού σταθμού Russia Today, ο Μάξ Κάιζερ υπενθυμίζει το μυστηριώδες ξεπούλημα του μισού Βρεττανικού αποθεματικού χρυσού -400 τόνους- την εποχή που ήταν υπεύθυνος υπουργός των Οικονομικών ο σημερινός πρωθυπουργός Γκόρντον Μπράουν στα 290 δολλάρια/ουγγιά!!!
( Σημερινή - φυσικά μοχλευμένη - τιμή +>1100 δολλάρια/ουγγιά, αληθινή γύρω στα 2500).
Η Αγγλική οικονομία, ενα ακόμα θύμα του δικού της City και της Wall Street, έτοιμη να σκάσει με τρομερές δανειακές ανάγκες στο χείλος του οικονομικού γκρεμού βαδίζει προς "εκλογές". Οποια κυβέρνηση και να προκύψει, τα οικονομικά προβλήματα της Αγγλίας είναι τεράστια...
....επίσης την νέα παγκόσμια υπερ-φούσκα που βρίσκεται καθ'οδόν, το κύριο ομολογιακό "χάρτινο" νέο προιόν της "πράσινης" οικονομικής "ανάπτυξης" που στηρίζεται απο τους οικολόγους υπέρμαχους της μεγαλύτερης απάτης, της "τρομοβλακείας του θερμοκηπίου" και του "φόρου με ομόλογα του ...διοξειδίου του άνθρακα"...
Κύριοι πωλητές και αγοραστές της νέας φούσκας, όπως πάντα, ποιοι άλλοι παρά οι gold fingers και τα golden boys της Goldman Sachs...

Η ΝΕΑ ΠΑΓΚΟΣΜΙΑ (ΟΙΚΟΝΟΜΙΚΗ) ΤΑΞΗ

Προχωράει η εφαρμογή του νέου παγκόσμιου γεωστρατηγικού status quo.
Η ολοκλήρωση της πρώτης φάσης βρίσκεται κοντά, καθώς με πρό-σχημα την "κρίση" στην Ελλάδα, η συνένωση δολλαρίου (Amero) , ευρώ, και Βρεττανικής λίρας προχωράει και θα ολοκληρωθεί με τις ευλογίες, την "καθοδήγηση," και την επιτήρηση του ΔΝΤ και της Παγκόσμιας τράπεζας.
Διαβάσαμε και αναδημοσιεύουμε απο εδώ

Έρχεται η νομισματική μεταρρύθμιση

του Εμμανουήλ Σαρίδη

Τα σχέδια για μια νομισματική μεταρρύθμιση υπήρχαν απο χρόνια στα συρτάρια της Λέσχης Bilderberg, χρειάζονταν όμως ένα έναυσμα για την κατάρευση του ευρώ, την κρίση στην Ευρωζώνη, που το έδωσε ο Geoffrey χρεοκοπώντας την Ελλάδα

Στο τελευταίο μου άρθρο „Καημένη Ψωροκώσταινα, τι σούμελλε να πάθεις! ...(ΙΙ)“ έθετα την ερώτηση για τον ρόλο που τελικά παίζει ο Geoffrey Παπανδρέου στον χορό που έστησαν οι διεθνείς χρηματοπιστωτικοί σπεκουλαδόροι γύρω απο το ευρώ και την Ευρωζώνη: Είναι μέσα στο κόλπο της σχεδιασμένης κατάρρευσης του ευρώ και της επικείμενης νομισματικής μεταρρύθμισης ή είναι ο nützliche Idiot, που χρησιμοποιείται για την εκπόρθωση του φρουρίου; Μια ερώτηση, που γίνεται όλο και πιό επίκαιρη, καθώς τα σημάδια για την προγραμματισμένη νομισματική μεταρρυθμιση δείχνουν όλο και πιο καθαρά, ότι η διεθνής συμμορία των χρηματοπιστωτικών απατεώνων είναι ήδη έτοιμη για το τελικό χτύπημα. Που θα σημάνει την ολοκληρωτική καθυπόταξη των κρατών της Ευρωζώνης στο σύστημα των εβραίικων τραπεζικών δανείων, αυτό που άλλοι ονομάζουν μεταβιομηχανική επανάσταση (!) ή εποχή, και θα κάνει τους Ευρωπαίους να χάσουν περίπου τα μισά απο τα λεφτα που έχουν σε καταθέσεις και ταμιευτήρια.

Ο Geoffrey Παπανδρέου είναι λοιπόν εκείνος, που από τότε που οι διεθνείς σπεκουλαδόροι τον έκαναν μέ τα μέσα πού μόνο αυτοί διαθέτουν πρωθυπουργό, έφερε πρώτα την Ελλάδα σε πτώχευση και μετα, με τα ήξεις και αφίξεις του στην Ευρώπη, τα λεφτα που θέλει και δεν θέλει να δανειστεί, τίς απειλες του, ότι θα καταφύγει στο Διεθνές Νομισματικό Ταμείο (ΔΝΤ) και άλλες διάφορες ασυναρτησίες (“Η Ελλάδα θέλει μια ευρωπαϊκή λύση για το δανεισμό” ή «Δεν ζητάμε λεφτά, δανεισμό θέλουμε!», βλέπε και http://exomatiakaivlepo.blogspot.com/2010/03/blog-post_3848.html) έχει φέρει ιδιαίτερα την Γερμανία και την καγκελάριο Angela Merkel στα πρόθυρα νευρικής κρίσεως. Γιατι η Merkel έχει αντιληφθεί το παιχνίδι που παίζεται με τον αλλοπρόσαλο Geoffrey, ξέρει, ότι αν εγγυηθέι ένα δάνειο για την Ελλάδα, αυτό θα ανοίξει τους ασκούς του Αιόλου, που θα φορτώσουν στην Γερμανία το μεγαλύτερο μέρος των 680 τρισεκατομμυρίων ευρώ που αντιπροσωπεύουν τα κλούβια CDS (από τα αρχικά των αγγλικών λέξεων creditdefaultswaps) που υπάρχουν στις τράπεζες. Γι΄ αυτο και συνιστά στον Geoffrey και τους διεθνείς υποστηρικτές του την προσφυγή της Ελλάδος στο Διεθνές Νομισματικό Ταμείο. Άπαγε Σατανά.

Το σχέδιο για μια νομισματική μεταρρύθμιση όχι μόνο στην Ευρωζώνη, αλλά παγκόσμια, με έναυσμα της την υπερχρέωση της Ελλαδος που ξεκίνησε ο πατήρ Παπανδρέου και αποτελείωσε ο υιός Geoffrey, είναι απο καιρό τώρα στα συρτάρια της Λέσχης Bilderberg. Έτσι η χρεοκοπία της Ελλάδος που συντελεσθηκε με την βοήθειά των χρηματοπιστωτικών κόλπων της Goldman Sachs, του George Soros, του Mario Draghi και άλλων υποτακτικών του Οίκου Rothschild, είναι σήμερα η αναμμένη δάδα που περιφέρει ο Geoffrey στις ευρωπαικές πρωτεύουσες, έχοντας αναστατώσει κυβερνήτες και κυβερνήσεις που βλέπουν ότι, έτσι ή αλλιώς, θα τινάξει στον αέρα το οικοδόμημα του Ευρώ. Η μεταρρυθμιση, κατα τους μεταρρυθμιστές, θα αντικαταστήσει ευρώ και δολλάριο στίς διεθνείς συναλλαγές με ένα νέο νόμισμα που θα λέγεται „Amero“. Και κατα μια απόψη μετά το ευρώ θα έχουμε πάλι στην Γερμανία και την Ελλάδα το Μάρκο και την Δραχμή, με μια υποτίμηση του σημερινού νομίσματος κατα το ήμιση. Σε πολλές ευρωπαικές χώρες οι προετοιμασίες για την εκτύπωση των νέων χαρτονομισμάτων βρίσκονται σε προχωρημένη φάση. Ας δούμε λοιπόν τί γίνεται στην Γερμανία και στην Ελλάδα.

• Το καλοκαίρι του 2009 έγινε γνωστό, ότι το Ομοσπονδιακό Νομισματοκοπείο της Λειψίας επεκτάθηκε σημαντικά. Δεδομένου, ότι τα κυκλοφορούντα χαρτονομίσματα είναι σε πολύ καλη κατάσταση, είναι αυτό μια ενδειξη, ότι σύντομα θα αρχίσει η παραγωγή μεγάλων ποσοτήτων χαρτονομισμάτων


• Τον Δεκέμβριο του 2009 ένα ειδικό εργοστάσιο κατασκευής μηχανών για εκτύπωση χαρτονομισμάτων στην Θουριγγία έλαβε απο την Ομοσπονδιακή Κύβερνηση την εντολή κατασκευής τέτοιων μηχανων. Ένα μέρος των μηχανών αυτών που προορίζονται για την παραγωγή των τσιπ για τα χαρτονομίσματα, έχουν ήδη παραδοθεί.


• Ένα εργοστάσιο παραγωγής λωρίδων ασφαλείας μετάλλου παρήξε τους τελευταίους μήνες έναν ασυνήθιστα μεγάλο αριθμό ταινιών, οι διαστάσεις των οποίων δεν ανταποκρίνονται στα κυκλοφορούντα χαρτονομίσματα του ευρώ.


• Μια βιομηχανία παραγωγής ειδικού χαρτιού στην Σαξονία επέκτεινε τις εγκαταστάσεις της, ώστε να παραγεται το ειδικό χαρτί σε τρείς βάρδιες


• Τέλος το Amero τυπώνεται απο το 2009 στη Γερμανία και μεταφέρεται στις ΗΠΑ μέσω Πολωνίας με μαζικές μεταφορές απο τουλάχιστον 12 φορτηγά 40 τόνων (οι πληροφορίες απο το politikglobal.org. Για το Amero βλέπε μεταξύ άλλων και στο
  http://www.wallstreet-online.de/diskussion/1145369-1-10/amero-das-dramatische-aus-fuer-den-dollar).

Στην Ελλάδα τώρα. «Δεν τυπώνονται δραχμές στο Χολαργό», έγραφε το Reporter.gr στις 19.03.2010, αναφέροντας, ότι ο υφυπουργός Οικονομικών, Φ. Σαχινίδης είπε: «Δεν τιμά ούτε την Ελλάδα, ούτε τους Έλληνες η έντονη φημολογία ότι αυτή τη στιγμή στο Χολαργό τυπώνονται δραχμές». Νά πιστέψει κανείς τους Πασόκους; Οι αμφιβολίες είναι δικαολογημένες. Κυτάξτε το γράφει το sofokleous10.gr της 24.03.2010: „Έρχεται η ευρωδραχμή“; Παραθέτω μερικά αποσπάσματα του κειμένου, που όμως όσοι τα διαβάσουν, θα πρέπει να τα περάσουν απο τα σχετικά φίλτρα. Ο λόγος είναι, ότι στο άρθρο δεν γίνεται κανένας συσχετισμός μεταξύ μιας υποβάθμισης της αξίας της Ευρωδραχμής και της επικείμενης νομισματικής μεταρρύθμισης των Bilderberger.

„Αλλαγή νομίσματος από ευρώ σε ευρωδραχμή. Θέσπιση ισοτιμίας 2 ευρωδραχμές προς 1 ευρώ, με υποχρεωτική αναγραφή σε αγαθά και αξίες και των δυο τιμών. Εν συνεχεία υποτίμηση του νομίσματος για να αυξηθεί η ανταγωνιστικότητα της ελληνικής οικονομίας. Λειτουργία της αγοράς με τους παραπάνω όρους για ένα χρονικό διάστημα 2 έως 3 ετών και έπειτα, εάν οι συνθήκες είναι τέτοιες και οι Ευρωπαίοι εταίροι μας το επιτρέψουν, επιστροφή της χώρας μας στην Ευρωζώνη και υιοθέτηση εκ νέου του ευρώ ως εθνικού νομίσματος.

Μερικούς μήνες νωρίτερα το παραπάνω ενδεχόμενο θα μπορούσε να χαρακτηριστεί ως σενάριο επιστημονικής φαντασίας, σήμερα όμως συγκεντρώνει εξαιρετικά καλές πιθανότητες για να γίνει πραγματικότητα. Τo S10 αποκαλύπτει την ύπαρξη μιας σχετικής αναφοράς αμερικανικού think tank, το οποίο συνδέεται στενά με το Eurogroup και οι εισηγήσεις του γίνονται στην πλειονότητά τους δεκτές από διεθνούς οικονομικούς οργανισμούς και μεγάλους χρηματοπιστωτικούς οίκους. Πρόκειται για το International Political Economy, το οποίο σε αναφορά του, που υπογράφεται από τον καθηγητή Οικονομικών και Χρηματοοικονομικών στο Πανεπιστήμιο του Σικάγο Ρόμπερτ Άλιμπερ και φέρει τον εύγλωττο τίτλο «Η υποτίμηση του ελληνικού ευρώ», περιγράφει με ζοφερά χρώματα το νομισματικό μέλλον όχι μόνο της χώρας μας, αλλά και των υπόλοιπων μεσογειακών κρατών της Ζώνης του Ευρώ...

…Όπως χαρακτηριστικά επισημάνεται, «η ελληνική κυβέρνηση πρέπει να χρηματοδοτήσει ένα έλλειμμα σχεδόν 15% του ΑΕΠ, διαφορετικά οι δημόσιοι υπάλληλοι δεν θα μπορέσουν να πληρωθούν. Για λίγο καιρό η ελληνική οικονομία μπορεί να δανειστεί από τις ελληνικές τράπεζες. Όμως οι πλούσιοι Έλληνες είναι αρκετά έξυπνοι για να κρατήσουν το μεγαλύτερο μέρος του ρευστού τους πλούτου στις τράπεζες στην Ελλάδα. Το επόμενο βήμα θα είναι ένας γύρος στις καταθέσεις των τραπεζών της Αθήνας, συμπεριλαμβανομένων και των υποκαταστημάτων των ξένων τραπεζών στην Ελλάδα. Οι ιδιοκτήτες αυτών των καταθέσεων θα μεταφέρουν τα χρήματά τους σε τράπεζες της Γερμανίας, της Γαλλίας ή της Ιταλίας»….

…. Ιδιαίτερο ενδιαφέρον έχουν όμως τα όσα αναφέρει το έγγραφο για τον τρόπο με τον οποίο θα μεθοδευθεί τόσο η εναλλαγή του νομίσματος από ευρώ σε ευρωδραχμή, όσο και η εν συνεχεία υποτίμησή του. Πρόκειται για κάτι που τεχνικά εμφανίζεται ως απλό και σχετικά εύκολο να γίνει. Όπως τονίζει η αναφορά, « τα τεχνικά χαρακτηριστικά που σχετίζονται με μια υποτίμηση από την Αθήνα είναι ασήμαντα. Η κυβέρνηση κλείνει τις τράπεζες για αρκετές ημέρες και τους δίνει οδηγίες για να ονομάσουν όλες τις καταθέσεις και δάνεια, καθώς και κάθε άλλο συμβόλαιο, σε ευρωδραχμές. Οι τράπεζες ξανανοίγουν και μια νέα αγορά συναλλάγματος αναπτύσσεται καθώς οι άνθρωποι αγοράζουν και πωλούν το ευρώ με όρους ευρωδραχμής. Τότε πολλά αγαθά και αξίες θα έχουν δυο τιμές. Μία σε όρους ευρώ και μια άλλη σε όρους δραχμής».

…Στο πλαίσιο της έκθεσης σημειώνεται ότι εάν τελικά ληφθούν όλα τα παραπάνω, τότε θα δημιουργηθούν μια σειρά από προϋποθέσεις στο τρίγωνο Φρανκφούρτης – Βρυξελλών – Αθήνας, οι οποίες θα βοηθήσουν την Ελλάδα να ξεπεράσει το πρόβλημα της χρηματοδότησης του χρέους της. Πως θα γίνει αυτό; Η αναφορά είναι ξεκάθαρη: «Μηνιαία τσεκ από Βερολίνο και Παρίσι θα διευκολύνουν την ελληνική κυβέρνηση να χρηματοδοτήσει τα ελλείμματά της. Μείωση στα κόστη και στις τιμές στην Ελλάδα που θα οδηγήσει σε μείωση του τρέχοντος ελλείμματος και σε αύξηση των δημοσίων εισοδημάτων. Υποτίμηση της ευρωδραχμής. Στο τέλος και τα τρία θα περάσουν», καταλήγει η αναφορά.

Ένα επιπλέον στοιχείο είναι ότι το συγκεκριμένο σενάριο τρόμου, σύμφωνα με την αναφορά, είναι πολύ πιθανό να λάβει χαρακτήρα ντόμινο το οποίο θα συμπαρασύρει και τις υπόλοιπες μεσογειακές χώρες του ευρώ. οι χώρες αυτές θα ακολουθήσουν το ελληνικό παράδειγμα προκειμένου να αντεπεξέλθουν και αυτές στο δικό τους, ανάλογο, οικονομικό πρόβλημα. Πρόκειται για τις χώρες του Νότου της Ε.Ε., Πορτογαλία, Ιταλία και Ισπανία, στις οποίες, μαζί με την Ελλάδα, τα βρετανικά ΜΜΕ έχουν δώσει την επαίσχυντη συντομογραφία PIGS(«γουρούνια»), από το πρώτο γράμμα των ονομασιών των χωρών στη λατινική γραφή τους. Σύμφωνα με την αναφορά, κάτι ανάλογο θα πρέπει να ισχύσει και για το νόμισμα αυτών των κρατών, το οποίο θα μετονομαστεί σε ευρωεσκούδο, ευρωλιρέτα και ευρωπεσέτα, αντίστοιχα. Ενδεικτικά να επισημάνουμε ότι τα spreads τόσο για τα πορτογαλικά, όσο και τα ισπανικά 5ετή ομόλογα έχουν εκτοξευθεί σε ιστορικό υψηλό (http://www.sofokleous10.gr/portal2/toprotothema/toprotothema/2010-03-23-22-42-30-2010032321399/).

Για σκέψου! Ο Geoffrey σε πρωταγωνιστικό ρόλο νά φέρνει τα πάνω κάτω. Όχι μόνο στην Ελλάδα αλλά παγκοσμίως. Και είς ανώτερα!

Η συνάντηση των Bilderberger στην Αθήνα - reloaded

Υπάρχει μια άμεση σχέση ανάμεσα στην εκλογή του Geoffrey σε πρωθυπουργό, στην συνάντηση των Bilderberger στην Αθήνα το 2009 και στην επικείμενη νομισματική μεταρρύθμιση. Η Ελλάδα είναι απο καιρό τώρα το πεδίο πειραματισμών των Bilderberger και ο GΑΠ ο άνθρωπος, που του δώσανε στο χέρι το φιτίλι για να βάλει μπουρλότο στην Ευρωζώνη

του Freeman

Η επόμενη ετήσια συνεδρίαση των μελών της Λεσχης Bilderberg είναι πρότων θυρών, θα γίνει κατά πάσα πιθανότητα τον Μάιο ή τον Ιούνιο, και είμαστε περίεργοι να μάθουμε, που θα συναντηθούν αυτή τη φορά. Ο τόπος συνάντησης είναι πολύ σημαντικός, γιατί έχει συμβολική σημασία. Το 2008, το "έτος των εκλογών" στις ΗΠΑ, ήταν η Ουάσιγκτον, όπου η σκοτεινή Δύναμη επέλεξε σαν νέο Πρόεδρο τον Obama που βρήκε πιθανότατα προτιμότερο από την Hillary. Το 2009, ήταν η Ελλάδα και το τι συνέβη εκεί, το βλέπουμε επι των ημερών μας. Προφανώς υπάρχει κάποια σχέση μεταξύ τους. Και οι νέοι ηγέτες της ΕΕ, Herman Van Rompuy και Catherine Ashton εξελέγησαν επίσης από τους Bilderberger.

Οι συνεδριάσεις των Bilderberger είναι ερμητικά κλειστές για τον υπόλοιπο κόσμο, κανείς δεν πρέπει να γνωρίζει, ποιος συναντάει ποιόν και τι εκεί συζητείται. Αυτό που γνωρίζουμε είναι, ότι είναι ο τόπος συγκέντρωσης των μυστικών συνωμοτών (απο το Kabale, Intrige), αυτών που πραγματικά έχουν το λέγειν στον κόσμο και αποφασίζουν τι μας περιμένει.

Χρειάζεται λοιπόν κάποιους, που θα μπορούσαν να μας δώσουν κάποιες πληροφορίες για το τι συνέβη στην στη Βουλιαγμένη, κοντά στην Αθήνα, το περασμένο έτος. Τελικά βρέθηκε ο πρώην Ελβετικός Ομοσπονδιακός Σύμβουλος Christoph Blocher, ο οποίος παραδέχθηκε, ότι έλαβε μέρος (βλέπε και "Ο Christoph Blocher επιβεβαίωσε ότι ήταν στην διάσκεψη Bilderberg"), αλλά δεν μας είπε τίποτε, γιατί κάτι τέτοιο δεν επιτρέπεται.

Τελικά ένας Έλληνας αναγνώστης της ιστοσελίδας μου είπε, ότι βρήκε κάποιον, που τα είδε όλα απο κοντά, γιατί βρέθηκε τυχαία για ένα δείπνο με την γυναίκα του και ένα άλλο φιλικό ζευγάρι στο ξενοδοχείο Astir Palace. Σαν απόδειξη μας έδειξε τον ταμειακό λογαριασμό του ξενοδοχείου όπου δειπνήσανε και είναι όντως την περίοδο μεταξύ 14. και 17. Μαΐου 2009 που έγινε το συνέδριο. Είδε λιπόν πολλές από τις "προσωπικότητες" έλαβαν μέρος στο συνέδριο (βλέπε την λίστα). Ανάμεσά τους και οι εξής:

Georgios Papandreou - Ministerpräsident Griechenlands, Chef der PASOK

Joseph Ackerman - Vorstandsvorsitzende der Deutschen Bank

Sofia - Königin von Spanien
Konstantin - ehemaliger König von Griechenland

Georgios Alogoskoufis - ehemaliger Wirtschafts- und Finanzminister Griechenland
Efstratios-Georgios A. Arapoglou - Zentralbankchef Griechenland
Dora Bakoyannis - Aussenminister Griechenland
Anna Diamantopoulou - Parlamentsmitglied der PASOK Griechenland
Odysseas Kyriakopoulos - Präsident des Verbandes Griechischer Industrien
Alexis Papahelas - Journalist Kathimerini
Dimitris Papalexopoulos - Chef Titan Cement Company S.A. Griechenland
Jannos Papathanasiou - Wirtschafts- und Finanzminister Griechenland
Yannis Stournaras - Direktor bei der Foundation for Economic & Industrial Research (IOBE)
Loukas Tsoukalis - Sonderberater von Kommissionspräsident Barroso, Chef der ELIAMEP

Το εστιατόριο ήταν γεμάτο κατά το ήμισυ με παγκοσμίου φήμης προσωπικότητες, αυτές που αναφέρονται και στη λίστα. Στίς 22:30 η ώρα εμφανίστηκε, για παράδειγμα, ο Josef Ackermann με μία Ελληνίδα περίπου 55 ετών. Αναγνώρισε επίσης τον Γιώργο Παπανδρέου (τότε ηγέτη της αντιπολίτευσης, σήμερα Πρωθυπουργός) που παραβρίσκονταν εκεί όλη την ώρα.

Τι σύμπτωση, που εννέα μήνες αργότερα, ο Ackerman ανέλαβε την Deutsche Bank και ο Παπανδρέου έγινε πρωθυπουργός, οι δύο βασικές φιγούρες που "διαχειρίζονται" την ελληνική "οικονομική κρίση, κατα την οποία επιβάλλονται στην χώρα αυτή δραστικά μέτρα και περιορισμοί ακριβώς σύμφωνα με το σχέδιο Bilderberg (βλέπε και το άρθρο «Η Ελλάδα μετατρέπεται σε μια κοινωνία που δεν θα χρησιμοποιεί πλέον μετρητά»).

Και μια πρόσφατη πληροφορία για την Ελλάδα και την Ευρωπαική Ένωση:

Η κρίση στην Ελλάδα είναι μόνο "η κορυφή του παγόβουνου», διότι προφανώς θα την ακολουθήσουν και άλλες χρηματοδοτικές καταρρεύσεις σ' ολόκληρη την Ευρώπη, προειδοποίησε την Πέμπτη ο αντιπρόεδρος της κεντρικής τράπεζας της Κίνας, Choo Min, σε ένα φόρουμ που έγινε στο Χονγκ Κονγκ. "Πιστεύουμε ότι η Ελλάδα οδηγείται σε χρεοκοπία", είπε ο Choo Min, "επειδή είναι μια μικρή χώρα, όπου δεν λαμβάνονται καθόλου αποφασιστικά μέτρα, που θα μπορούσαν να στείλουν ένα μήνυμα στις αγορές για να αντιμετωπίσθεί η κρίση και να πάρει ένα τέλος. Γι' αυτό και οι αγορές παραμένουν ευμετάβλητες ».

Πρόσθεσε δε, ότι «το κύριο μέλημα σήμερα είναι η Ισπανία και η Ιταλία». Ασφαλώς ως ένας από τους επικεφαλής της κινεζικής κεντρικής τράπεζας θα ξέρει περί τίνος πρόκειται.

Ολόκληρο το κείμενο, στα γερμανικά, και πηγή των αποσπασμάτων απο το http://alles-schallundrauch.blogspot.com/2010/03/bilderberg-treffen-in-griechenland.html

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ANIMAL EUROFARM

ANIMAL FARM

Animal Farm is a dystopian allegorical novella by George Orwell. Published in England on 17 August 1945, the book reflects events leading up to and during the Stalin era before World War II. Orwell, a democratic socialist and a member of the Independent Labour Party for many years, was a critic of Joseph Stalin and was suspicious of Moscow-directed Stalinism after his experiences with the NKVD during the Spanish Civil War. In a letter to Yvonne Davet, Orwell described Animal Farm as his novel "contre Stalin".
The original title was Animal Farm: A Fairy Story, but A Fairy Story was dropped by the US publishers for its 1946 publication. Of all the translations during Orwell's lifetime, only Telugu kept the original title. Other variations in the title include: A Satire and A Contemporary Satire. Orwell suggested for the French translation the title Union des républiques socialistes animales, recalling the French name of the Soviet Union, Union des républiques socialistes soviétiques, and which abbreviates URSA, which means "bear", a symbol of Russia, in Latin.

Time Magazine chose the book as one of the 100 best English-language novels (1923 to 2005); it also places at number 31 on the Modern Library List of Best 20th-Century Novels. It won a Retrospective Hugo Award in 1996 and is also included in the Great Books of the Western World.
The novel addresses not only the corruption of the revolution by its leaders but also how wickedness, indifference, ignorance, greed and myopia destroy any possibility of a Utopia. While this novel portrays corrupt leadership as the flaw in revolution (and not the act of revolution itself), it also shows how potential ignorance and indifference to problems within a revolution could allow horrors to happen if smooth transition to a people's government isn't satisfied.

Plot summary

Old Major, the old boar on the Manor Farm, calls the animals on the farm for a meeting, where he compares the humans to parasites and teaches the animals a revolutionary song, "Beasts of England."

When Major dies three days later, two young pigs, Snowball and Napoleon, assume command and turn his dream into a philosophy.

The animals revolt and drive the drunken and irresponsible Mr. Jones from the farm, renaming it "Animal Farm."

The Seven Commandments of Animalism are written on the wall of a barn. The most important is the seventh, "All animals are equal." All the animals work, but the workhorse, Boxer, does more than others and adopts the maxim — "I will work harder."...

It has been proven historically that the arbeit macht frei german concept has worked for the millions of exterminated Europeans who were "liberated through hard work" and the german implementation of "european solidarity" during the WW2 era .

Today, 60 years after, Frau Merkel, is unrolling a new german destructive plan for the" european solidarity" by whole-selling the PIIGS Animal Farm and surrendering the ECB keys to her friends in Wall Street, the FED, the IMF and the World Bank...

Coming to a PIIGS country near you.

Anyday now...

AERAS KOPANISTOS

Συνεχίζεται η ύποπτη αποσάρθρωση και η σκοτεινή υπονόμευση της Ευρωπαικής πολιτικής και οικονομικής Ενωσης, καθώς σαν αποτέλεσμα των μυωπικών «Γερμανικών» χειρισμών του προβλήματος «PIIGS» τίθεται σε αμφισβήτηση η ανεξαρτησία της ευρωζώνης και έμμεσα περνάει σε παγκόσμια κηδεμονία.

Με δεδομένη την είσοδο των Αμερικανών στην όποια λύση - με όχημα το ΔΝΤ και μέσω της Τράπεζας της Ελλάδας- στα ενδότερα της Ευρωπαικής Κεντρικής Τράπεζας στην Φρανκφούρτη, ολοκληρώνεται πολιτικά και διοικητικά η προσχεδιασμένη οικονομοπολιτική προσάρτησή της σαν ενα ακόμα βαγόνι στο παγκόσμιο τραίνο της Τραπεζοκρατίας. Αν το μοντέλο της ενοποιημένης Τραπεζοκρατίας θα λειτουργήσει με βάση τις ίδιες τραπεζικές αρχές που οδήγησαν τον κόσμο στην «Κρίση», μάλλον δεν θα πρέπει να περιμένουμε μία άμεση βελτίωση στο οικονομικό και κοινωνικό τοπίο του Δυτικού κόσμου.

Το –δήθεν- σκληρό ευρώ, ακόμα ενα fiat χαρτονόμισμα του Δυτικού κόσμου¨ κατ’εικόνα και ομοίωση του δολλαρίου, στηρίζεται σε... φρέσκο αέρα. Διαβάσαμε εδω το παρακάτω σχετικό άρθρο που επιβεβαιώνει αυτές τις απόψεις και στηρίζεται σε εκδόσεις της γερμανικής ομοσπονδιακής FED, της περίφημης Μπούντεσμπανκ. Αναδημοσιεύουμε και τα σχόλια ως έχουν...

...ΑΕΡΑ αεριτζήδες. ( Και παριστάνει και την δύσκολη η κα Μέρκελ!!! )

Friday, March 19, 2010

German Central Bank Admits that Credit is Created Out of Thin Air

Most people think that banks lend solely from their base of deposits. Some also know that with fractional reserve banking, they can loan out many times more than they actually have in reserves.

But very few people - with the exception of those in the banking industry and financial experts - know where credit really comes from.

Germany's central bank - the Deutsche Bundesbank (German for German Federal Bank) - has admitted in writing that banks create credit out of thin air.

As the Bundesbank states in a publication entitled "Money and Monetary Policy" pages 88-93

4.4 Creation of the banks money

Money is created by "money creation". Both [central banks] and private commercial banks can create money. In the euro monetary system [money creation] arises mainly through the granting of loans, as well as the fact that central banks or commercial banks to buy assets such as gold, foreign currencies, real estate or securities. If the central bank granted a loan from a commercial bank and crediting the amount in the account of the bank at the central bank, created “central bank money.”

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Money creation by commercial banks

The commercial banks can create money itself, the so-called bank money. The money creation process through which commercial banks can be explained by the related postings: If a commercial bank to a customer a loan, they booked in its balance sheet as an asset against a loan receivable the client - for example, 100,000. At the same time, the bank writes down the customer's checking account, which is run on the liabilities of the bank's balance sheet, 100,000 euros good. This credit increases the deposits of customers on its current account - it creates deposit money, which increases the money supply.

In other words, money is created as book-entry by purchasing assets or entering credits on the left side of the balance-sheet and corresponding deposits on the right side. In other words, credit is created out of thin air.

Frontiers of money creation

The above description might leave the impression that the commercial banks are able to draw an infinite amount of money in bank accounts. If this were really so, this could be inflationary. The central bank therefore takes effect on the extent of lending and money creation. It requires commercial banks to hold the reserve.

As I've previously pointed out, the Federal Reserve is taking the same tack, creating conditions that guarantee that American banks will have huge excess reserves so as to prevent inflation. Back to the publication:

Central banks, commercial banks can typically obtain only by the fact that the central bank granted them credit. For these loans, commercial banks have to pay the central bank interest rate. Increase this rate, the central bank, the "prime rate", the commercial banks usually raise their part, the rates at which they lend themselves. There will be a general rise in interest rates. This, however, dampens the tendency of businesses and households, the demand for loans. By raising or lowering the key interest rate the central bank can thus influence the business sector demand for credit - and thus on Lending and bank money creation.

The commercial banks need central bank money to cover not only for the reserve, but also to the cash needs of its customers. Each bank customer may be credit in the bank account into cash to pay off. If the stocks of the banks in cash to be in short supply, the central bank can create only remedy. Because only they are permitted to bring additional notes in circulation. To meet the cash needs of its clients, the commercial bank must therefore include, where appropriate, with the central bank for a loan. This leads to the creation of central bank money. The so-purchased assets for central bank money can pay off the commercial bank in cash let. Thus, the cash is in circulation: from the central bank to commercial banks and from these to the bank customers.

Central Bank money is also to cover the non-cash payments are required: a customer transfers money from its credit to a customer at another bank, this results in many cases led to the sending bank central bank needs to transfer money to the receiving bank. The central banks then moves from one bank to another.

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The commercial banks can use the surplus of central bank money and to award additional credits to businesses and households. As previously described, arises from the award of additional credits additional demand for central bank money - which can be covered in this special situation of great uncertainty among banks by the existing excess liquidity. The abundant supply of liquidity relief, a bank that wants to provide a loan, from the traditional consideration of how much money they need after the award of credit is, how it is constituted, and at what cost. Using the so-called money creation multiplier can be estimated how large the potential for additional Credit limit is.

Do you get it now?

Private banks don't make loans because they have extra deposits lying around. The process is the exact opposite:

(1) Each private bank "creates" loans out of thin air by entering into binding loan commitments with borrowers (of course, corresponding liabilities are created on their books at the same time. But see below); then

(2) If the bank doesn't have the required level of reserves, it simply borrows them after the fact from the central bank (or from another bank);

(3) The central bank, in turn, creates the money which it lends to the private banks out of thin air.

It's not just Bernanke ... the central banks and their owners - the private commercial banks - have been running the printing presses for hundreds of years.

Of course, as I pointed out Tuesday, Bernanke is pushing to eliminate all reserve requirements in the U.S. If Bernanke has his way, American banks won't even have to borrow from the Fed or other banks after the fact to have reserves. Instead, they can just enter into as many loans as they want and create endless money out of thin air (within Basel I and Basel II's capital requirements - but since governments are backstopping their giant banks by overtly and covertly throwing bailout money, guarantees and various insider opportunities at them, capital requirements are somewhat meaningless).

The system is no longer based on assets (and remember that the giant banks have repeatedly become insolvent) It is based on creating new debts, and then backfilling from there.

It is - in fact - a monopoly system. Specifically, only private banks and their wholly-owned central banks can run printing presses. Governments and people do not have access to the printing presses (with some limited exceptions, like North Dakota), and thus have to pay the monopolists to run them (in the form of interest on the loans).

See this and this.

At the very least, the system must be changed so that it is not - by definition - perched atop a mountain of debt, and the monetary base must be maintained by an authority that is accountable to the people.

Note: When I receive a better translation I will post it.



10 comments:



Bill Bergman said...

With all very due respect, I'm just reacting to the headline here, and perhaps to some of the fundamentals of the hypothesis.

Why is it that the fact that credit is created out of thin air all that earthshaking?

Consider a community store in the early 1700s in the US. Assume no bank. A person who grows tomatoes comes in, and wants to buy a loaf of bread a week before the harvest. The retailer says sure, I know you are good for it.

Poof. Money/credit is created. Or not?

March 19, 2010 6:24 PM



George Washington said...

I greatly respect your opinions. You say:

"Why is it that the fact that credit is created out of thin air all that earthshaking?"

It is obvious to a savvy financial expert such as you (100% sincerely). But it is the exact opposite of what most Americans believe. They believe that excess reserves - coming from deposits into the bank - are the basis for loans.

I added the following preface to this essay when I posted it to a financial site read by savvy financial experts:

"While this concept might be obvious to the financial experts who read [this site], it is a startling revelation for most people."

March 19, 2010 6:32 PM

Anonymous said...

"While this concept might be obvious to the financial experts who read [this site], it is a startling revelation for most people."

This all seems -an- innocuous enough estimation of perceptions here there and everywhere else...

The delusion concerning common mistaken perceptions about competence in these matters would come more clearly into view -however-, were any one of the many fine financial experts here -or anywhere- give the milling crowd of economic-blind-men an estimation concerning the proportional relationship between size of the real economy of goods and services -and- the size of the extended credit-innovation-economy that so tenuously supports our modern economic-idiocy most seem so utterly incompetent in comprehending.

In other words, the world can easily suffer the guy with the tomato crop being wiped out by an unusually heavy hail storm in a single afternoon. (The shopkeeper is left a little short.)

BUT -this is not our case today in the credit economy built-up so incredibly disproportionate to the real economy.

Computers are absolutely necessary for this teetering debacle.

And Clever Ben's innovation to remove all necessary reserve requirements, might seem like a good idea for a while, and even to some boing-boing Austrian economists here...

But not to anyone who is capable of assessing the overall trend in these matters.

Wylie E. Coyote is funny in part because he seems forever to get dropped from ever higher heights. He also seems funny because the bombs given to him also seem to grow exponentially larger.

The humor though -is less convincing with these endless credit bombs being dropped on our modernly bloated populations so utterly dependent upon everything working smoothly.

People are dying, kids.

World War III seems to have already begun, or so the relatives of the one million war dead in and around Mesopotamia would have us believe, -could we hear their cries of anguish and despair from here -on this board.

You can thank the credit economy for all of it beginning with those first tentative steps by the first lenders and the first borrowers.

Pull out your mirror, Monkey-face.

Humans are primates, and primates are thieves, -YES THIEVES.

And humans are warlike too. Humans are even more warlike than other primates.

We make both economic depressions -and- war with computers now -thanks to the cult of genius surrounding every new innovation.

All our recent history's quick fixes are toppling over like dominoes now.

Stimulus was economic and social poison.

And now -none of these many geniuses has a permanent solution or even a quick fix for what is coming our way next.

What I find so amazing is, some of these people still think there's like-maybe a rabbit in the hat?

It's sort of like, we all know Bernanke and Geithner are faking it, total-bungling-frauds -without a clue, -but- maybe they got lucky, right?

Pinch yourself -again. Did that hurt?

Bingo. This is no joke.

March 19, 2010 8:20 PM

Anonymous said...

The rabbit hole gets deeper, however. As each loan is made, interest is charged out of 'real' money. That interest is not created out of whole cloth, and goes into the bank's central assets. Eventually, the 'real' money all goes to the bank, followed by real property. As time wears on, all money, and all property belongs to the bank in the fiat system.

At which point you either work for the bank, or the bankers, or you receive what they choose to give you.

The banks own your homes, your transportation, control your goods and services you create, determine which businesses grow and fail, and then invest in the 'stock market', to make a profit from that growth or failure.

They are uniquely positioned to create panics, and boom times, to fail a bank, sell short their options, and still profit, because they are the ones that determine the future, by setting the rate of interest, who receives loans.. or strategically denying them.

And all poised with the ultimate of insider knowledge, unlimited fiat money creating unlimited debt, and then making it near impossible to live without that credit.

If you want to see the cause of consumerism, look no farther than the banks and credit.

March 19, 2010 9:37 PM

Anonymous said...

In essence banks don't have to create money out of thin air. They should grant a loan against pledged goods or hard assets (which can't be created as fast as the printing-press is able to run). In this way they bring into circulation not the present value of some goods and services as they ever did, but the present value of land and capital-goods which is rising through the emission of the newly printed money. Thus inflation is the very business of banks and central banks.

FESTANvonGELDERN@freenet.de

March 20, 2010 5:13 AM



Josh said...

@Bill Bergman

Bill, if two people trade tomatoes for bread, there are actual assets being exchanged.

In the banking system, there are no assets being exchanged (ok, maybe 1/10th what the borrower thinks being exchanged is exchanged), because the banks, due to fractional reserve lending, actually only have AT THE MOST 1/10th of what most people would think they have.

The real number is more like 1/100th because banks redeposit fractional reserve loans that borrowers get from other banks.

March 20, 2010 7:50 AM



Josh said...

@Bill Bergman

Woops. I misread that. I thought there was an actual trade going on in your example.

Part of the problem is that people have to accept bank debt as legal tender. It wasn't always like that. A bank is a private institution whose ability to repay varies from bank to bank. But because of government fiat, there can be no rejection of a bank's notes due to its credit-worthiness. If a bank issues debt, it must be accepted into the general economy as "good as gold," so to speak.

So, in the tomato/bread example, let's say the tomato guy writes the bread guy an IOU for 50 tomatoes. That's all well and good. But then if the bread guy tries to pay let's a say a third person who sells fish with that IOU. The fish guy doesn't have to accept it, because the fish guy might not think that the tomato guy is good for it. That is precisely the option that we don't have with bank credit.

March 20, 2010 7:58 AM



jomama said...

For 2000 years everyone believed that Earth was the center of the Universe also.

March 20, 2010 8:54 AM

Anonymous said...

Excellent post and reactions...don't have a lot to add, maybe some bitting humor will do. Why are central bankers like the planet of the apes? Because the gorillas have all the weapons, nets, horses and ride around all day shooting the people.

March 20, 2010 2:42 PM

Anonymous said...

I'd like to know who was the ass hole who first let a private bank to come in and take the power away from the government to coin money? The idea of private individuals being able to creat money out of nother is crazy as well as dangerous as we all can see now!

March 20, 2010 7:14 PM

ORDO AB CHAO 4

By David DeGraw, AmpedStatus Report

This is the third-part of a six-part report. Click on the links below to read other parts.

——-I: Casualties of Economic Terrorism, Surveying the Damage
——-II: The Rise of the Economic Elite
——-III: Exposing Our Enemy - Meet the Economic Elite
——-IV: The Financial Coup d’Etat
——-V: Overcoming the Divide and Conquer Strategy
——-VI: How to Fight Back and Win: Common Ground Issues That Must Be Won

III: Exposing Our Enemy - Meet the Economic Elite



“The money powers prey upon the nation in times of peace and conspire against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic than a monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, and more selfish than bureaucracy. It denounces as public enemies, all who question its methods or throw light upon its crimes… As a result of the war, corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money powers of the country will endeavor to prolong it’s reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.” – Abraham Lincoln

U.S. Elite
Institutions:
Federal Reserve
Business Council
Bilderberg Group
Conference Board
Brookings Institute
Advertising Council
Heritage Foundation
Trilateral Commission
Business Round Table
Chamber of Commerce
Federal Trade Commission
Council on Foreign Relations
American Petroleum Institute
American Enterprise Institute
American Bankers Association
Pharm Research & Manufacturers
Public Relations Society of America
American Psychological Association
Project for a New American Century
Securities and Exchange Commission
Committee for Economic Development
National Association of Manufacturers
Carnegie / Ford / Rockefeller foundations
Military / Media / Prison Industrial Complex

I don’t view the Economic Elite as a small group of men who meet in secrecy to control the world. They do feature elements of conspiracy and are clearly composed of secretive organizations like the Bilderberg Group - this is not a conspiracy theory, this is a conspiracy fact - but as a whole the Economic Elite are primarily united by ideology. They’re made up of thousands of individuals who subscribe to an ideology of exploitation and the belief that wealth and resources need to be concentrated into the fewest hands possible (theirs), at the expense of the many.

That being said, there are some definite lead players in this group and it is important that we are not too vague and expose the individuals who publicly lead them. Focusing on the fundamental structure of the US economy, we have people like Hank Paulson, Tim Geithner, Ben Bernanke, Robert Rubin, Larry Summers, Alan Greenspan, Lloyd Blankfein, Jamie Dimon, John Mack, Vikram Pandit, John Thain, Hank Greenberg, Ken Lewis, John J. Castellani, Edward Yingling and Tom Donohue.

In total, the Economic Elite are made up of about 0.5% of the US population. At the center of this group is the Business Roundtable, an organization representing Fortune 500 CEOs that is also interlocked with several lead elite organizations. Most Americans have never heard of the Business Roundtable. However, in my analysis, it is the most influential and powerful Economic Elite organization.

“The Business Roundtable joined the Business Council at the heart of both the corporate community and the policy-formation network and now has the most powerful role…. The Roundtable’s interlocks with other policy groups and with think tanks are presented [below].” -– G. William Domhoff, Who Rules America?

The Roundtable’s first year of operation was 1972, which coincided with the beginning of the CEO salary explosion, and has been the driving force behind the unprecedented concentration of wealth since their inception. Their dominance over the US economy and government is unparalleled. Their members are a Who’s Who of everything that is wrong with our economy. Here is a partial list of some of their lead members:

——-Lloyd C. Blankfein, Goldman Sachs
——-James Dimon, JPMorgan Chase & Co.
——-James P. Gorman, Morgan Stanley
——-Vikram S. Pandit, Citigroup, Inc.
——-Brian T. Moynihan, Bank of America
——-Brendan McDonagh, HSBC
——-Robert W. Selander, MasterCard Incorporated
——-Kenneth I. Chenault, American Express Company
——-Rupert Murdoch, News Corporation
——-Glenn A. Britt, Time Warner Cable Inc.
——-Philippe Dauman, Viacom, Inc.
——-Jeffrey R. Immelt, General Electric Company
——-Brian L. Roberts, Comcast Corporation
——-Steven A. Ballmer, Microsoft Corporation
——-John T. Chambers, Cisco Systems, Inc.
——-Randall L. Stephenson, AT&T Inc.
——-Ivan G. Seidenberg, Verizon Communications
——-David G. DeWalt, McAfee, Inc.
——-Steven R. Loranger, ITT Corporation
——-Paul T. Hanrahan, AES Corporation, The
——-Riley P. Bechtel, Bechtel Group, Inc.
——-W. James McNerney , Boeing Company, The
——-Rex W. Tillerson, Exxon Mobil Corporation
——-Marvin E. Odum, Shell Oil Company
——-John S. Watson, Chevron Corporation
——-James J. Mulva, ConocoPhillips
——-John B. Hess, Hess Corporation
——-James E. Rogers Duke Energy Corporation
——-J. Larry Nichols, Devon Energy Corporation
——-Ronald A. Williams, Aetna Inc.
——-David Cordani, CIGNA
——-Jeffrey B. Kindler , Pfizer Inc.
——-Angela F. Braly, WellPoint, Inc.
——-John C. Lechleiter, Eli Lilly and Company
——-Edward B. Rust, Jr., State Farm
——-Andrew N. Liveris, Dow Chemical
——-James W. Owens, Caterpillar Inc.
——-Ellen J. Kullman, DuPont
——-Edward E. Whitacre Jr., General Motors Company
——-Michael T. Duke, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

The Business Roundtable is the most powerful activist organization in the United States. Their leaders regularly lobby members of Congress behind closed doors and often meet privately with the President and his administration. Any legislation that affects Roundtable members has almost zero possibility of passing without their support.

For three major examples, look at healthcare and financial reform, along with the military budget. The healthcare reform bill devolved into what amounts to an insurance industry bailout and was drastically altered by Roundtable lobbyists representing interests like WellPoint, Aetna, Cigna, Pfizer, Eli Lilly and Johnson & Johnson. Obama and Congress are trying to please the Roundtable with a bill that supports their interests. This led to the dropping of the public-option put forth in the House bill. However, when it came to finishing the bill, Roundtable members began to walk away from the process. That’s the real reason why the reform bill has stalled. Obama will be meeting with the Roundtable on February 24th, in hopes of getting healthcare reform back on track. After that meeting, he will then hold a bipartisan healthcare meeting with members of congress.

Also being addressed in Obama’s upcoming meeting with the Roundtable are issues concerning financial reform. Almost every aspect of financial reform has been D.O.A. thanks to Roundtable lobbyists representing the interests of Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley, Citigroup, Bank of America, HSBC, Master Card and American Express. They even pushed to make sure Ben Bernanke was reconfirmed as the head of the Federal Reserve and they have also guided Obama into focusing on deficit reduction, now that their member companies are healthy again and making record profits after receiving trillions in government subsidies. The Roundtable played a pivotal role in the appointment of Hank Paulson, formerly the CEO of Roundtable member Goldman Sachs, who replaced Roundtable member John Snow as US Treasury Secretary. The Roundtable also strongly lobbied on behalf of current Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and White House National Economic Council Director Larry Summers. Although there has been recent talk of Geithner being replaced at the Treasury, the lead choice to replace him is Jamie Dimon, Roundtable member and CEO of JP Morgan Chase.

The drastic rise in military spending is also a result of Roundtable lobbyists pushing the interests of large military companies like Boeing and Bechtel, along with the largest oil companies like ExxonMobil, Shell, Hess and Chevron.

The Roundtable tells politicians what they want done, and the politicians do it. At times, Roundtable members even write the laws themselves. On financial reform alone, those representing Wall Street firms gave “$42 million to lawmakers, mostly to members of the House and Senate banking committees and House and Senate leaders.” During the 2008 election cycle, they gave $155 million: $88 million to Democrats and $67 million to Republicans. Keep in mind, this is the spending on just their financial reform initiative. When it came to health reform, they gave even more.

When it comes to getting elected, over 90% of the time the candidate who simply spends more money on their campaign wins the election. The Roundtable and politicians recognize this fact, so the overwhelming majority of current elected officials relied heavily on campaign funding from Roundtable members, including President Obama.

Shortly after Obama’s inauguration he held a meeting with Roundtable members at the St. Regis Hotel. The president of the Business Roundtable is John J. Castellani. Throughout the first nine months of Obama’s presidency, Castellani met with him at the White House more than any other person, with the exception of Chamber of Commerce CEO Tom Donohue. If you look at the records of people who have spent the most time with Obama in the White House, other than these two, another frequent visitor is Edward Yingling, the president of the American Bankers Association.

These organizations - the Business Roundtable, Chamber of Commerce and the American Bankers Association - along with the Federal Reserve, a secretive quasi-government private institution, form the center of the Economic Elite’s power structure. Since the bailout, the Federal Reserve has been working closely with private firm BlackRock. Due to this relationship, BlackRock has emerged as the world’s largest money manager and now manages more assets than the Federal Reserve. They also “manage many of the Treasury Department’s big investments.”

On a global level, you have economic institutions like the World Trade Organization (WTO), the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank, and international treaties like NAFTA. These organizations already form a de facto world government that has rights beyond our constitutional rights and national sovereignty. If the WTO makes a ruling that goes against US law, the WTO ruling supersedes US law and wins out.

Here is how Global Exchange explains these global institutions:

“The World Trade Organization is the most powerful legislative and judicial body in the world. By promoting the ‘free trade’ agenda of multinational corporations above the interests of local communities, working families, and the environment, the WTO has systematically undermined democracy around the world…. Unlike United Nations treaties, the International Labor Organization conventions, or multilateral environmental agreements, WTO rules can be enforced through sanctions. This gives the WTO more power than any other international body. The WTO’s authority even eclipses national governments.

World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF)

When the Bank and the Fund lend money to debtor countries, the money comes with strings attached. These strings come in the form of policy prescriptions called ’structural adjustment policies.’ These policies—or SAPs, as they are sometimes called—require debtor governments to open their economies to penetration by foreign corporations, allowing access to the country’s workers and environment at bargain basement prices. Structural adjustment policies mean across-the-board privatization of public utilities and publicly owned industries. They mean the slashing of government budgets, leading to cutbacks in spending on health care and education…. And, as their imposition in country after country in Latin America, Africa, and Asia has shown, they lead to deeper inequality and environmental destruction.”

In addition to dominating our political and economic system, the Economic Elite have already created their own private military. Their private military is now more powerful than the US military. As mentioned earlier, private mercenaries now outnumber US soldiers and receive the lion’s share of military spending.

Corporations like SAIC, Blackwater, Bechtel, Raytheon and Halliburton are composed of the most elite worldwide intelligence and military officers. These are the highly profitable and powerful entities that the Economic Elite turn to when national militaries and intelligence agencies - like the CIA, FBI or other government run entities - can’t get the job done.

For instance, SAIC, a “stealth company” that most people have never heard of, is considered to be the brains of the entire US intelligence apparatus, more powerful than the much more popularly known CIA, NSA and FBI - all agencies that SAIC is deeply intertwined with. I urge you to research SAIC to get a crash course in how the true power structure functions. You can start by reading an excellent investigative report by Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele titled, “Washington’s $8 billion shadow.”

The Economic Elite dominate US intelligence and military operations. Other than the obvious geo-strategic reasons, the never-ending and ever-expanding War on Terror’s objective is to drain the US population of more resources and further rob US taxpayers, while using our tax money to create a private military that is more powerful than the US military.

I think any logical person can see the ominous implications of having such a vast and powerful private military and intelligence complex, created for and used, in secrecy, by the Economic Elite. Outside of the blatant economic policy attacks, heavily armed and sophisticated covert powers led by small groups of Economic Elite are now a serious risk and present danger.

In conclusion, these economic and government policy forming organizations, along with their private military and intelligence corporations, form the core of the Economic Elite power structure.

“I think one has to say it’s not just simply a matter of capturing people and holding them accountable, but removing the sanctuaries, removing the support systems.” – Paul Wolfowitz

——-IV: The Financial Coup d’Etat

Although most of the Economic Elite live and operate inside the US, they are not concerned for our future. To them, the entire world is theirs and they work intimately with other elites throughout the world against the interests of the US public. Ever since the days of Henry Ford, the Economic Elite have needed a thriving US middle class to increase growth and profits, but now, in the global economy, they view the US middle class as obsolete. They increasingly look globally for profits and they would rather pay cheap labor in countries like China and India. On top of the millions of jobs they have already shipped overseas to increase profits at our expense, they are planning to ship an additional 25% of current US jobs overseas as well.

They now see us as the biggest obstacle to their continued consolidation of wealth and resources. This is why they have stepped up their attack on us.

If you want further proof of this, all one needs to do is study the Wall Street bailout. The entire bailout is strategically designed to eliminate the US middle class. Every time you hear the word “bailout,” you should think “coup d’état.” Here is the definition of coup d’état:

“A coup d’état or coup for short, is the sudden unconstitutional deposition of a government, usually by a small group of the existing state establishment… to replace the deposed government with another…. A coup d’état succeeds when the usurpers establish their legitimacy if the attacked government fail to thwart them, by allowing their (strategic, tactical, political) consolidation and then receiving the deposed government’s surrender; or the acquiescence of the populace and the non-participant military forces.

Typically, a coup d’état uses the extant government’s power to assume political control of the country. In Coup d’État: A Practical Handbook, military historian Edward Luttwak says: ‘A coup consists of the infiltration of a small, but critical, segment of the state apparatus, which is then used to displace the government from its control of the remainder’, thus, armed force (either military or paramilitary) is not a defining feature of a coup d’état.”

The bailout was a financial coup, an intelligence operation to seize control of the US economy and tax system. It is similar to what the Economic Elite have done through the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in many other countries throughout the world. It is clearly a case of economic imperialism. When financial coups are carried out in other countries, they call it a Structural Adjustment Program (SAP). The end result is the theft of working class wealth, the privatization of public functions and resources, rising unemployment, the elimination of the middle class and increasing taxation and debt that turns the overwhelming majority of the nation into a peasant class. This is exactly the track we are on now.

Just look at how they have already done this in many other countries, and then look at the “bailout.”

The success of the coup is clear by the control of the US Treasury by Goldman Sachs criminal masterminds Hank Paulson and Tim Geithner, and the continued control of the Federal Reserve by Ben Bernanke.

In 1970, Hank Paulson began his career in the Pentagon working for Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird. In 1972, he then moved to the White House, where he worked for the Nixon Administration. He was “the assistant to John Ehrlichman during the events of the Watergate scandal for which Ehrlichman was convicted, and sentenced to prison.” After Paulson’s disgraced exit from the political world, he joined Goldman Sachs in 1974, eventually becoming CEO in 1999 when he led an effort to force out Goldman’s previous CEO John Corzine. While leading Goldman, Paulson developed very intimate relations with members of the Chinese elite, visiting the country over 70 times.

In 2004, during his time as Chairman and CEO of Goldman Sachs, Paulson personally led a successful effort to get the SEC to remove the “net capital rule,” which was a “requirement that their brokerages hold reserve capital that limited their leverage and risk exposure.” This was the biggest reason why the economic crisis happened. With the “net capital rule” out of the way, Goldman Sachs and other major Wall Street firms with over $5 billion in assets were free to engage in high risk/high reward behavior. This led to the housing bubble with the creation of high risk speculation, essentially rigged Ponzi-style scams like “mortgage-backed securities, credit derivatives, and credit default swaps… and other exotic structured finance instruments that only highly-trained mathematicians understand, based on models that are beyond the comprehension of most traders.”

After making over $700 million on these shady high risk activities that created a ticking time bomb in our economy, Paulson left Goldman Sachs to run the US Treasury. Shortly after that, the speculative trading scams blew up, and there was the man who played the most pivotal role in causing the economy to crash now running the US Treasury and in charge of “maneuvering” trillions of dollars in national wealth to “fix” the economy. It was time for Paulson, along with his close confidant Tim Geithner, then heading the NY Federal Reserve Bank, and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, to engineer the greatest theft of wealth in history with the “bailout.”

Paulson quickly brought in several former Goldman Sachs partners to help him engineer the coup. A pivotal Paulson asset was former Goldman executive Dan Jester, who Paulson quickly hired as a “contractor.” As Robert E. Prasch recently reported, “Jester was never appointed by Congress or otherwise vetted before taking up his role as the Treasury’s de facto central player in the crucial decisions that marked that fall’s bailout of Wall Street.” Paulson’s most publicized move was the $700 billion Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP). This was a blatant no-strings attached giveaway of taxpayer money, handed directly to Wall Street’s biggest players. To oversee the TARP operation, Paulson brought in Goldman Sachs Vice President Neel Kashkari.

Another egregious unilateral move by Paulson was installing Edward Liddy, one of his former board members at Goldman Sachs, as CEO of AIG. Liddy was the Chairman of Goldman’s Audit Committee, making him the most knowledgeable person regarding Goldman’s collateralized debt obligations (CDOs). Paulson knew these CDOs would go bust because they were based on fraudulent activities, essentially a massive Ponzi scheme. So Paulson and Goldman Sachs covered their risk by insuring them through AIG, making it pivotal to save AIG and have one of his most trusted allies run the company. With Liddy in place, billions of taxpayer dollars were secretly funneled by the Geithner-led NY Federal Reserve through AIG to Goldman Sachs and several other Wall Street elite counterparties. Without the AIG bailout, Goldman Sachs would have collapsed as a result of their own Ponzi scheme.

The assassinations of Goldman rivals Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers, and the forced Bank of America acquisition of Merrill Lynch were all equally scandalous actions as well. The hidden hand of the Bernanke-led Federal Reserve’s secret “black magic” tactics — which created and distributed trillions of dollars — turned Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs into bank holding companies overnight, which gave them access to trillions of dollars to further manipulate the market and create record setting profits.

Every step of the way, the economic terrorist organization led by Paulson, Geithner and Bernanke held our economy hostage by declaring that all their demands must be met or the entire economy would be destroyed, as a result of the very actions the players being rewarded had taken. (I don’t use the words “economic terrorists” as hyperbole. The threat posed by them and the amount of death, destruction and misery they have already caused the United States is much greater than that caused by Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda - it’s not even close.)

Through the crisis, the fundamental structure of the stock market has been proven to be a scam. The Ponzi scheme activities, outright market manipulation and massive worldwide fraud perpetrated by Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley, Citigroup, AIG, the three major ratings agencies and several other Wall Street elite firms are blatant. Just in the housing and oil futures markets alone, the criminal activity and economic theft is in the multi-trillions.

By looking the other way, the SEC, Congress and Presidents Bush and Obama are complicit. An analysis of actions taken, or most often not taken, by the leaders of both the Republican and Democratic parties prove that they are now accomplices. They have not only let it happen; they continue to look the other way and have been stonewalling laws, investigations and prosecutions in what is clearly criminal activity.

If we had a nation of law, none of these things would have happened. This proves to anyone who cares to look that we now live in a Banana Republic. Our democracy has clearly become a farce.

The overwhelming majority of our politicians are now on the Economic Elite payroll. This financial coup started under Hank Paulson in the Bush Administration and has been carried through, without even the slightest hitch, under Geithner in the Obama Administration, and all along Ben Bernanke has been leading the Federal Reserve. Bernanke’s reconfirmation shows you who the co-conspirators are - just look at the members of Congress who voted for it.

All three branches of our government are now complicit in what is literally the greatest theft of wealth in history, along with a mainstream “news” media that keeps going about their “reporting,” as if this wasn’t a crime, business as usual. Nothing to see here…

Obama’s Role

As hard as it is for many Americans to admit, after a year in office it is now obvious, to those who study policy decisions, that Obama’s rhetoric is very far from the reality of his actions. Outside of the tough talk Obama gives concerning “Wall Street Bankers,” all evidence clearly demonstrates that he is their puppet. The list of decisions that he has made to support the Economic Elite at our expense is already extensive.

As mentioned before, the fact that the bailout started under Bush and went straight through without a hitch under Obama is proof enough. On top of this, Obama’s campaign was heavily financed by Goldman Sachs, and prior to the election Obama often spoke with Paulson. An analysis of phone records shows that Obama and Paulson engaged in 26 direct calls prior to the election. “Paulson placed more than twice as many individual outgoing calls to [candidate] Obama (14) as to President Bush (6).”

As soon as Obama was elected, he got rid of all the economic advisors he had during his campaign and replaced them with Wall Street insiders who were committed to “turning the bailout into an all-out giveaway.” He took the main players that caused the economic crisis to begin with, and put them in charge of economic policy.

Right from the start he appointed Tim Geithner, Paulson’s right-hand man, to run the US Treasury. Mark Patterson, a former Goldman Sachs lobbyist, then became Geithner’s Chief of Staff with the direct approval of Obama. Geithner has surrounded himself with many aides that formerly worked for Goldman Sachs, “none of whom faced Senate confirmation.” Obama also allowed Adam Storch, a Goldman Sachs VP, to become “the first chief operating officer of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s enforcement division.” Obama even “nominated Goldman Sachs executive Gary Gensler to head the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, which regulates futures markets.” Gensler was “a high-level Treasury official in a 2000,” when he helped create a “law that exempted the $58 trillion credit default swap market from oversight.” Another major player in the economic collapse was Larry Summers, who Obama quickly appointed as White House National Economic Council Director.

All of this is, in essence, the final stage of a coup d’état, with Obama now serving as their puppet.

Obama clearly has not held the thieves accountable. He has emboldened them in ways that led to record setting profits and bonuses - bonuses that are 100% a direct result of our tax money. He let them take the money, keep the money, and now he lets them continue to make even more money.

Even now, with all his new anti-Wall Street talk, his proposals are extremely misguided and weak.

Obama always deceptively frames the bailout discussion in relation to the $700 billion TARP program. He, along with the mainstream media, always seems to gloss over the fact that the bailout is much more than just the TARP program. TARP is a mere 2% of this multifaceted scam.

His proposal of a tax on Wall Street firms to get some of our tax money back is estimated to bring in $90 billion over the next ten years. That works out to $9 billion a year, compare that to the $150 billion in bonuses handed out by these same firms… just in the past year! The top Wall Street firms would no longer even exist if we didn’t bail them out. Their profits are a direct result of our tax money. If Obama is serious about getting our money back, 100% of the record-breaking bonus money that these thieves gave themselves should be going back into the tax system that it came from to pay down our national debt, lower our tax rates and create jobs.

The $150 billion in bonuses handed out this year cost you $500 of your hard-earned money. For a family of four, that’s $2000 that was taken from you and your family just this year and given directly to Wall Street bonuses. Think about that… Your personal money was taken from you and your family, and given directly to Goldman Sachs CEO Llyod Blankfein. In fact, your direct gift to Wall Street is much more than that; the $2000 your family lost was just for this year’s bonuses, much more of your money was given away in the bailout. The real size of the bailout is estimated to be $14 trillion, which works out to be $46,662 for every man, woman and child in America.

On top of being bailed out with our tax money, Goldman Sachs, which just had its most profitable quarter in its 140-year history, only paid 1% in taxes in 2008!

And now that Obama has given trillions of our dollars to Wall Street, he is all of a sudden so concerned about our national deficit. That is disgraceful! When it came to the Economic Elite he could give away trillions, but when it comes to the social infrastructure of the American public and creating job programs, we all of a sudden have to be tight with our tax money and make “painful choices.” When looking at Obama’s latest $100 billion jobs program, again, compare that to the $150 billion in bonuses. If you want to know if Obama is serious about creating jobs, just look at where he gave his big “Jobs Speech” - at the Business Roundtable affiliated Brookings Institution. Thus again, confirming where his true loyalties lie.

Obama’s sudden change of heart after the Massachusetts Senate election defeat is still more empty rhetoric. His new found support for Paul Volcker, and his proposals to bring back Glass-Steagall type laws to prevent another economic catastrophe sound great on the surface, but then you find out that Wall Street firms have already figured out ways around these proposed laws. While it would be great to have Volcker creating the rules over the Goldman Sachs-led team at the Treasury now, he is himself a former Federal Reserve Chairman who represents JP Morgan Chase interests. Jamie Dimon, current JP Morgan Chase CEO and Business Roundtable member, is considered by Obama to be a possible replacement for Geithner at the Treasury. Replacing Goldman Sachs interests with JP Morgan interests is hardly change for the 99% of Americans who have seen their interests ignored thus far. JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs are two heads of the same monster.

An analysis of the “Volcker Rules” shows you the essence of what Obama is all about. The “Volcker Rules” are just more propaganda. First off, the rules do not go far enough. Simon Johnson testified before the Senate Banking Committee and summed them up by saying: “while the principles behind these proposed rules are exactly on target… the specific rule changes would need to be much tougher if they are to have any effect.” Johnson earlier exposed the “Volcker Rules” to merely be a “marketing slogan.”

Jeff Madrick, writing for the Roosevelt Institute, rightly questioned if Obama’s economists even did their homework when putting together the rule. “What is disturbing is how poorly the Volcker rule has been thought through. When first announced, it sounded like a worthy and needed step in the right direction, and a suggestion the Obama team was waking up to reality. But I also expected more sophisticated details to come. So far, there are none… it looks like they didn’t give it much thought before announcing the plan. This is a critical error in judgment.” Even if the flawed laws make it to the Senate floor, the Banking Committee has come out strongly against them as being too little, too late. To sum this all up, this is another case of Obama trying to make it look like he’s doing something, when in reality, he isn’t doing anything.

This is similar to Obama’s $75 billion taxpayer funded foreclosure-prevention program that has been a spectacular failure in stemming the foreclosure crisis. The Obama Administration knew the program wasn’t working from the start, but they just sat back and let it continue to fail, wasting billions of taxpayer dollars in the process.

Even Neil Barofsky, the special inspector general for the TARP program, said the following in his January 30th report to Congress: “It is hard to see how any of the fundamental problems in the [financial] system have been addressed to date…. Even if TARP saved our financial system from driving off a cliff back in 2008, absent meaningful reform, we are still driving on the same winding mountain road, but this time in a faster car.” Now that the “Too Big to Fail” Wall Street elite know that the government will come in to bail them out, they are engaging in even riskier behavior than before.

As President Theodore Roosevelt once declared in a situation much like our current crisis, “Corporation cunning has developed faster than the law of nation or state. Corporations have found ways to steal long before we have found that they were susceptible to punishment for theft. But sooner or later, unless there is a season of readjustment, there will come a riotous, wicked, murderous day of atonement…. These fools on Wall Street think that they can go on forever! They can’t!”

It is hard to face the fact that we have been so taken advantage of and abandoned by the very people we supported and had put our hope and faith into. Americans need to understand that Obama, along with most of the Democrats and Republicans are not looking out for our best interests.

V: Overcoming the Divide and Conquer Strategy

“The conflicting propaganda of opposing parties is essentially what leads to political abstention. But this is not the abstention of the free spirit which asserts itself; it is the result of resignation, the external symptom of a series of inhibitions. Such a man has not decided to abstain; under diverse pressures, subjected to shocks and distortions, he can no longer (even if he wanted to) perform a political act. What is even more serious is that this inhibition not only is political, but also progressively takes over the whole of his being and leads to a general attitude of surrender.” — Jacques Ellul, Propaganda: The Formation of Men’s Attitudes


The primary reason why the Economic Elite have gained such dominance is their commitment to psychological operations that divide-and-conquer the US public. They use their overwhelming influence over mainstream media outlets and political candidates in very clever ways to divide us.

It is known among political scientists that powerful forces always seek to gain control of pre-existing social and political institutions so they can usurp their powers. The Economic Elite gained control of both the Democratic and Republican political parties because they knew that hardworking Americans loyally followed these parties, and we believed these parties were looking out for our best interests. We have, for the most part, been lifelong Republicans or lifelong Democrats, but until we see that our favored party has been seized by power and greed addicted interests, we will all continue to lose. These are extremely hard truths to face, but until we face them, we will continue our decline.

With half the US population loyal to Democrats and the other half loyal to Republicans, gaining control of both these parties meant total control for them. The past decade is testament to their total control of both parties.

In manufactured public opinion, Obama represented a far left swing in US politics, and Bush represented a far right swing, and these two supposed polar opposites also had a Congress overwhelmingly run by members of their own party. Did we get drastically different policies? In what matters most, in both cases, the results were the same: more money and power for the Economic Elite and the continued decline of the US middle class. This fact is now undeniable.

Yes, there are definite differences in their rhetoric and on some social issues, but this is the key to the psychological operations, to the divide-and-conquer strategy that they use so effectively.

To distract and divide us, they use rhetoric on social issues like religion, gay marriage, abortion, etc., all serious and significant issues that we bitterly disagree on, but in the overall picture, these issues are secondary to the larger, more fundamental political and economic issues that lead to our wealth being stolen from us, and ultimately, our lives being increasingly dominated by a small few.

Bush appealed to conservative Republicans and then ran up the deficit to record levels. Obama appealed to liberal Democrats, but increased war spending and support for Wall Street billionaires. In both cases, the candidates severely divided the US middle class, but in the policy decisions that mattered most, they both sided with the economic top one percent at the expense of hardworking Americans.

Just look at the last few election cycles. In 2006 and 2008 US citizens rose up in record-breaking numbers to kick out the Republicans in power, whom they felt had betrayed them. Now, with the Democrats in power, the consensus seems to be that in the 2010 mid-term elections we will vote for Republicans and kick out the Democrats who have failed to deliver on the much needed and promised changes.

Do you not see the ridiculous nature of this divide-and-conquer strategy? This is a vicious cycle that will continue to lead to our destruction.

Psychological Operations 101: Obama Vs. Fox News

For those of us who are strong enough to see beyond our propaganda-induced preconceptions and prejudices, the insidious nature of the Economic Elite’s divide-and-conquer strategy is on full display in the feud between Obama and Fox News. About half of the country loves Obama and hates Fox News, and the other half loves Fox News but hates Obama. They both use very effective propaganda to seduce their followers. However, as hard as it is for people who love one of them to admit, they both serve the same masters.

Once again, let’s look at Goldman Sachs. They financed Obama’s campaign and he has rewarded them with policies that have led to them making record-breaking profits, instead of investigating them for the many illegal activities they participated in and continue to take part in.

On the other side of this psychological operation, you have Fox News. When was the last time you saw Fox News doing an investigation into the illegal practices of Goldman Sachs? Even the Obama-appointed Tim Geithner, the Economic Elite’s main man on the economy, escapes the significant focus of Fox News’ powerful attack force.

Looking at the Business Roundtable, a significant majority of Obama’s campaign funding came from Roundtable members and, as mentioned earlier, he frequently meets with Roundtable members. On the other hand, Fox News is owned by Roundtable member Rupert Murdoch, and Fox relies heavily on advertising money from Roundtable members. Rupert Murdoch even supported Obama over McCain. As someone who monitors Fox News, I can’t recall the last time I heard Fox reporting on the activities of the Business Roundtable, not that any mainstream “news” companies do.

The list of similarities between the two, when it comes to exposing and holding the Economic Elite accountable, is extensive. So here you have an excellent divide-and-conquer psychological operation. Fox News declares Obama the enemy, and Obama declares Fox the enemy, yet the Economic Elite remain in the shadows, behind the scenes, untouched and continuing their plunder.

Just think of all the misplaced outraged spent on these two puppets. Sure, people have many reasons to like and dislike both, but imagine if all the diehard Obama-haters focused their rage on the people who put Obama in power, and if the diehard Fox-haters stopped criticizing everything Fox says and focused on the Economic Elite who control the media environment in which Fox News operates.

If the Fox-haters and the Obama-haters united and focused their combined outrage on the common forces behind the both of them, we would all be much better off.

The most significant bias in the mainstream media is not the liberal or conservative views propagated to divide, distract, confuse and create apathy among the populace; the ultimate bias is in what is missing from the coverage. The investigative reporting on the most powerful forces within our society is left out of the discussion.

McClatchy, one of the few real journalism news organizations, has repeatedly reported on the illegal activities of Goldman Sachs and the crime syndicate they operate in. Yet, an overwhelming majority of mainstream news outlets ignore these reports and nothing is done to hold Goldman Sachs accountable. In fact, two of the leading figures in the outright theft of our money have recently been lauded in their propaganda press. When you see Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke become the Person of the Year in Time Magazine and Goldman Sachs CEO Llyod Blankfein become the Financial Times Man of the Year, you begin to see where the real media bias lies.

The main bias is in favor of the thieves who stole our country and economy, and own the mainstream media companies. The omni-present mainstream media is the greatest weapon of oppression humanity has ever known.

Although the Internet has had an impact, television news is still by far the most influential news medium. Despite all the new information platforms, this year we have set a new record by watching an average of four hours and 49 minutes of TV per day. We have been subjected to heavy doses of propaganda on a daily basis, for hours a day, every day of our lives.

The mainstream media creates what is known in mass psychology as the “spectrum of thinkable thought.” By constantly discussing and debating surface issues, they limit the range of debate. Having the Republican vs. Democrat paradigm leads us to never debating the underlying Economic Elite who control both of the parties, not to mention their ownership of the media platform on which this debate is taking shape. The more important underlying issues are never discussed, and therefore never enter public consciousness.

The censorship that is most prevalent today is the most dangerous form. Not the censorship of explicit words, sex, or violence, but the censorship of any thoughts outside of elite corporate ideology. Any debate that leads to critical thought on prevailing elite economic dominance is not allowed to enter into the mass media or mainstream public consciousness.

“We must conclude that a changeover is imminent and ineluctable in the co-opted caste who serve the interests of domination, and above all manage the protection of that domination. In such an affair, innovation will surely not be displayed [in the mainstream media]. It appears instead like lightning, which we know only when it strikes.” — Guy Debord, Comments on the Society of the Spectacle

VI: How to Fight Back and Win:
——Common Ground Issues That Must Be Won

Throughout this report, I have presented statistical and fact-based evidence to demonstrate that a strategic attack has been launched against 99% of Americans. Despite the efforts of the mainstream media and most current politicians, awareness of this reality is spreading throughout the United States. A recent Rasmussen poll found that only 21% of Americans think that the government has the consent of the governed. An Opinion Research Corp. survey revealed that 86% believe “the system of government is broken.”

An overwhelming majority of the population has come to the realization that our government doesn’t effectively represent us anymore. It is just a matter of time before people start taking it upon themselves to begin organizing on a mass scale. Our survival instinct will soon overwhelm our conditioned passivity and erupt into a powerful countervailing force. However, the longer we hesitate and delay action, the harder it will be to obtain economic and political justice.

We cannot continue to stand by and watch our nation be raped and pillaged like this. We can no longer remain idle and passive while our families’ futures are destroyed as we are sentenced to a slow death.

It’s time for 99% of Americans to mobilize and aggressively move on common sense political reforms.

We will obviously have many differences on how our country should be run, but we can all come together to dismantle the Economic Elite by making several pivotal political reforms. As long as the game is rigged in favor of the Economic Elite, we will all lose. So let’s find common ground and focus on several obvious battles that we need to win, and can win:

Election Reform

“The right of voting for representatives is the primary right by which all other rights are protected. To take away this right is to reduce a man to slavery.”
– Thomas Paine, Dissertation on the First Principles of Government

* Electronic Voting: First and foremost, no private corporation should be able to tell us who has won an election without providing an auditable paper trail. Many Democrats felt that Bush stole the 2000 and 2004 elections, and many Republicans felt Obama stole the 2008 election. Of course people are going to feel that elections are stolen when you have a private corporation secretly counting the votes; it is the inevitable result when you can’t verify the election results. In the past few years companies that count the votes have been consolidating, and one company, ES&S, now secretly controls the majority of all our votes. As voting watchdog Brad Friedman stated, “With the ES&S takeover of Diebold/Premier, their nearest competitor, the privately-run election Goliath now has an un-overseeable lock on virtually every election in the United States of America.” It is common sense to say that this is way too much power to be put into one private corporation.

* Campaign Finance: The stunning ruling by the Supreme Court to allow unlimited political spending by the Economic Elite has made a bad situation even worse. We must level the playing field by enacting laws to prevent the overwhelming influence of big money interests in controlling politicians who are forced to pander to them for the ever-increasing need to raise more and more money to have any shot at winning public office. Statistics show how much the Economic Elite already dominate this process: over 90% of the time the candidate who simply spends more money on their campaign wins the election.

* The Two-Party Oligarchy: We must end the two-party system by funding and voting for alternative parties. It is absurd and completely outdated to only have two dominant political parties in a technologically advanced nation of 309 million people. The two-party paradigm is obsolete and creates a system easily manipulated, as the past decade proves with the co-option of the Democratic and Republican parties. We can give our money and support to whomever we like - Libertarians, Tea Party, Progressives, Greens, Independents and the many soon-to-be-created political groups. However, it is pivotal that we immediately cease support for both the Republican and Democratic parties. We understand that there are representatives from both parties who are fighting for our interests, but they are very few and easily marginalized by paid-off party leaders.

* Getting on the Ballot: Republicans and Democrats have created rules to make it increasingly difficult for opposing political parties to even get on the voting ballot. We must make this process easier and invite new parties onto the ticket.

* Debate Commission: The Democratic and Republican control over who is allowed to participate in the nationally televised debates gives the two parties an insurmountable advantage over any other parties. If you are not even allowed to participate in them, you have no shot at winning. Along with this, all candidates should be given a fair share of television coverage.

* Voter Registration: If you are a citizen, you should be automatically registered to vote.

Governmental Policy Formation

* Secrecy, Transparency and Accountability: Government secrecy is at the root of most of our current societal and economic problems. When decisions are made in secrecy, corruption will most often be the result. By throwing light and investigation on the government policy process, we can easily expose the Economic Elite’s agenda and limit their influence. As part of this, all legislation and conference reports must be posted online prior to Congressional debate and vote.

* Lobbying: Along with campaign finance, political lobbying is another way the Economic Elite can easily manipulate our political process financially, in what amounts to legalized bribery. In 2009, a record amount of money was spent lobbying Congress, and now with the new Supreme Court ruling, lobbyists will have even more power to manipulate the political process with what amounts to buying the laws of our nation. Lobbying activities behind closed doors must cease entirely and equal time must be given, transparently, to all the parties directly affected by the law being written.

* Shutting the Revolving Door: No politician should be allowed to profit from government laws or policies which they have written or supported. The practice of leaving a major company to become a politician who then creates and/or supports laws that directly benefit the corporation he or she used to work for, or, conversely, politicians who leave public office to take a high-paying job for a company they have benefited, is a grotesque abuse and manipulation of the democratic process. The revolving door between politics and big business is worse than it has ever been and has corrupted the government like never before.

Information Platforms

* Media Concentration: Having a few large multinational corporations dominating the overwhelming majority of our news and information system will never lead to an informed citizenry. Only ten multinational corporations dominate our mainstream media system. These companies are run by 118 individuals who actively work to propagate Economic Elite rule. The people who run these media companies also sit on other corporate boards that often represent a major conflict of interest. Having only 118 people in ten companies dominating a system that creates public opinion for 309 million people is absurd. We must break up this information cartel and support a more diverse and vibrant independent press that fosters real investigative journalism.

* Net Neutrality: The free and open architecture of the Internet is vital to our success. Without an open Internet our most powerful medium for research and communication, and key organizing tool, will be lost. The Internet must be protected from growing forces that seek to control it by limiting our access to information and our ability to communicate on a mass scale.

Healthcare

* Medical Costs: We have disagreements on how to best provide healthcare, but we all agree that whatever the method, the result needs to be lower costs. We have the most expensive healthcare system in the world and we now pay twice as much as other nations. Other than creating huge salaries for health industry-related executives, there isn’t any reason why we should be forced to pay such outrageous sums of money for second-rate care. No American should die due to lack of money, or have to face bankruptcy in order to get life-sustaining treatments.

* Food and Water Supply: Our food and water supply systems have become a major health hazard. The amount of harmful chemicals found in both our food and water have reached record levels and is causing alarming levels of sickness in a growing number of people.

Real Economic Competition

* Most Americans Believe in Competition: If a person works hard, is productive and good at what they do, most everyone believes that they should make more than a person who sits around looking for handouts. However, just as in sports, to maintain a competitive environment you have to have rules in place that prevent people from having an unfair advantage. For those who believe in competition, in capitalism and free markets, you have to acknowledge that what we have now is not a free market based on fair competition. It is a rigged market, where larger institutions like Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan have an unfair advantage. We cannot allow them to be beyond the law, manipulate the market and then receive taxpayer funds to increase profits and risk-taking while smaller companies, outside of Economic Elite circles, have to play by a much stricter set of rules.

You can’t have free market capitalism when you have government policies favoring companies that have more political clout than others. What we have is socialism for the rich and trickle down economics for the rest of us. We have a market systemically designed to funnel money into the pockets of the richest. If the past few years have proved anything, they have proved that our economy is much more like a pyramid scheme than a free market, where the more money you have, the more money you make. So whatever your economic beliefs and theories might be, let’s all come together to admit that our “free market” is an illusion. We need to make the economic playing field fair so we that can have real competition.

* Redistribution of Wealth: Due to the rigging of our economic and political system, vast sums of wealth have been hoarded by the Economic Elite over the past 40 years. This money must be redistributed to the 99% of Americans who have been robbed and exploited. There will be much heated debate over how this money should be distributed, but we all need to agree that we must first hold the Economic Elite accountable and our wealth must be seized from them.

* Investigations and Prosecutions: The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission has the power to reveal the inner workings of the financial coup. We must apply intense public pressure and scrutiny to force the Commission into conducting a real investigation. Another urgent priority needs to be a much wider-ranging look at war profiteering. There has been some investigation, but not nearly enough and hardly any prosecution. These are just two of the many investigations that need to be launched. As long as we keep letting the Economic Elite get away with outright theft in broad daylight, we will never be able to restore a nation of law.

There are obviously other vital issues that need to be addressed, but these are the core common-ground issues that we must urgently rally around and support. Unless we organize and take decisive action on all these issues, we will all suffer the consequences of our collective inaction. Any politician who does not urgently move on these issues must be voted out of office and replaced by people who will aggressively fight on these fronts.

These are the core issues that keep the Economic Elite in power. As famed military strategist Carl von Clauswitz wrote in his study “On War,” it is pivotal to strike at this core structure, at “the hub of all power and movement, on which everything depends.”

To those Americans who feel powerless to change things, I say that your feelings are only a result of your induced delusion. You have become so propagandized that you do not even understand the significant position that you are in. We are not peasants trapped in a Third World existence. We are still a mass of people who have the power to change the course of history. The Economic Elite realize this, which is why they are attacking us with an increased intensity.

Why We Must Take Mass Organized Action Now:
The Devastation Ahead

Market Watch recently ran an article entitled, “Death of American Capitalism: The 10 final scenes.” The article references Charlie Munger, Warren Buffett’s long-time investment partner, stating: “Munger is warning us ‘It’s Over’ for America. Yes, ‘o-v-e-r,’ America’s in decline, at the end-of-days, coming to ‘financial ruin,’ says Munger.”

As a result of the Economic Elite’s attack on us, the inequality of wealth between the economic top one percent and the remaining 99% of the population is the highest it has ever been in our nation’s history. The Robber Barons of the Gilded Age have now been overtaken as America’s most depraved and despotic class.

As this attack continues, social safety nets and important public functions that are already reaching a breaking point will collapse under the weight of prolonged decline. With the national deficit now at an all-time high, economists are expecting major cutbacks in vital government programs and tax increases “that aren’t even imaginable.” President Obama has recently put together a “Deficit Commission” and is prepared to make “painful choices.” Many state economies are already running high deficits and preparing for deep cuts in Medicaid and retirement pensions. Major cuts in Social Security payments are also a real possibility.

On top of the 160 banks that have already failed in the past year, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) has listed another 702 banks as being in danger of failing. These banks “collectively hold more than $400 billion in assets” and the FDIC is already operating at “a deficit of nearly $21 billion as of Dec. 31, or more than double the previous quarter.”

With 30 million Americans now unemployed and underemployed, over the next few months five million people will lose the unemployment benefits which they have been surviving off of. Unemployment benefits in 27 states have already gone into the red. In total 40 state programs are expected to go broke. Even the most optimistic economists believe high unemployment rates will continue for the foreseeable future.

Millions more will be added to the five million families who have already been kicked out of their homes, as the number of foreclosures is expected to reach 13 million within the next few years. Food and homeless shelters are already overwhelmed, and there will be millions more in need of these life-sustaining services. 50 million Americans are currently in need of food stamps for survival and approximately 20,000 new people are added to this total every day.

Despite all the healthcare reform talk, the bill still being discussed will do little to reduce costs and extend coverage to those who urgently need it, as insurance rates continue to rise. The number of Americans without health insurance continues to skyrocket to now well over 50 million, with 45,000 preventable US citizen deaths occurring per year. Due to economic hardship, the number of people suffering from psychological depression has hit an all-time high, as suicide rates keep rising.

With a prison population of 2.3 million people, we now have more people incarcerated than any other nation in the world. Our per capita rate of 700 people imprisoned per 100,000 citizens is higher than the darkest days of the Soviet Union. On top of this, the prison industry is expecting major growth over the next few years, as a “new prison opens every week somewhere in America” and Obama commits more tax dollars for the federal Bureau of Prisons.

All told, the death and destruction wrought by this economic crisis is equivalent to a 9/11 attack every single week! And the attacks continue unabated, with no significant measures taken to defend against them and hold those responsible accountable.

With almost 200 million Americans now living paycheck to paycheck, and over 50 million already living in poverty, people are quickly running out of options. The clock is ticking loudly for them, and time delayed is time closer to death.

At the same time, Americans are arming themselves at an alarming rate. The demand for guns and ammunition has hit a record high, and the gun industry cannot produce enough bullets to keep up with orders. In the past year, 100 new armed militia groups have been formed, as militia members have doubled in numbers. Federal authorities are gravely concerned about the “uptick in militia activities.” One federal authority recently said, “All it’s lacking is a spark. I think it’s only a matter of time before you see threats and violence.”

The recent suicide-bomber who hit the IRS building in Texas will be the first of many violent acts if we don’t demonstrate that justice and the rule of law can be restored in a non-violent manner. Suicide-bombers have already reeked havoc in many countries across the globe. As the last act of revenge and desperation, people throughout the world have increasingly resorted to this method of violence and terror.

Fate has placed us in our nation’s most pivotal moment. If we do not take it upon ourselves to lead in decisive non-violent mass action, our country will soon be torn apart by violence and destruction.

In our nation’s history, the stakes have never been higher. It is vital that we recognize the urgent gravity of the situation. What happens over the next few years will determine the fate of our very way of life, of our families’ very existence. We have been attacked, and we are now at war. This is the unfortunate reality of our current crisis.

Our enemy is extraordinarily powerful. However, we are 99% of the US population, and they are only 1%. If we fight, we win!

“Power concedes nothing without a demand.
It never has, and it never will.”
– Frederick Douglass

“All men recognize the right of revolution; that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist, the government, when its tyranny or its inefficiency is great and unendurable. And oppression and robbery are organized, I say; let us not have such a machine any longer. I think that it is not too soon for honest men to rebel and revolutionize.”
– Henry David Thoreau, On the Duty of Civil Disobedience

“We have no choice left…. A concealed yes drives us that is stronger than all our no’s. Our strength itself will no longer endure us in the old decaying soil. We venture away, we venture ourselves! We know of a new world.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche