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It is also known as the winter solstice in the northern  hemisphere and the summer solstice in the southern hemisphere due to the  seasonal differences.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;LET'S TRAVEL DOWN THE YELLOW BRICK ROAD.......&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;WARNING!!  YOU MUST HAVE YOUR REAL EYES OPEN&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A WARNING, FROM ONE OF OUR “FOUNDING FATHERS” &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people, ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] will deprive the people of all property, until their children wake-up homeless, on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.”&lt;br /&gt;~ Thomas Jefferson ~ 3rd President of The United States (1743-1826)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;1ST SIGN POST&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;"As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression.... There is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such a twilight that we must be most aware of change in the air -- however slight -- lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness." -- William O. Douglas, US Supreme Court Justice from 1939--1975 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.sott.net/articles/show/239161-This-is-Where-the-American-Illusion-Comes-to-an-End-2012-The-End-of-the-World-As-We-Know-It"&gt;This is Where the American Illusion Comes to an End - 2012 The End of the World As We Know It&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;THE JOURNEY BEGINS  ---------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/L/LT_MEXICO_APOCALYPSE_2012?SITE=AP&amp;amp;SECTION=HOME&amp;amp;TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&amp;amp;CTIME=2011-12-20-15-15-48"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Mexico Mayan region launches apocalypse countdown&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With precisely one year left for the world and all of its inhabitants, at least according to the Mayans, not to mention on the day of the Winter Solstice, it is only fitting that US debt, net of all settlements for all already completed bond auctions, is now at precisely $15,182,756,264,288.80. Why is this relevant?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Because the latest annualized US GDP,according to the BEA, was $15,180,900,000.00. Which means that, as of today, total US debt to GDP is 100.012%.Congratulations America: you are now in the triple digit "debt to GDP" club!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(naturally, this is using purely "on the books" data. If one adds the NPV of all US liabilities, and adjusts GDP for such things as today's housing contraction, then the magical triple digit threshold was breached long, long ago).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://harveyorgan.blogspot.com/"&gt;Harvey Organ&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(102, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;=================&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://vimeo.com/25491676"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;'Inside Job'&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; provides a comprehensive analysis of the global financial crisis of 2008, which at a cost over $20 trillion, caused millions of people to lose their jobs and homes in the worst recession since the Great Depression, and nearly resulted in a global financial collapse. Through exhaustive research and extensive interviews with key financial insiders, politicians, journalists, and academics, the film traces the rise of a rogue industry which has corrupted politics, regulation, and academia. It was made on location in the United States, Iceland, England, France, Singapore, and China.&lt;br /&gt;This is about developing our own Karma and being true to ourselves.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;==========&lt;br /&gt; December 23, 2011 &lt;br /&gt;“Over the past few months, those who have been paying attention have witnessed some of the most disturbing developments in modern American history unfold at breakneck speed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This includes the explicit codification of indefinite detention without charge or trial as well as rendition under the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) Fiscal Year 2012, the KBR move to create a team of sub-contractors to activate the so-called FEMA camps on a moment’s notice and the designation of American citizens as the enemy under Continuity of Government (COG) plans created by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Unfortunately, the file revealing the FEMA COG plans, entitled “National Continuity Programs (NCP) Program and Mission Support Services (PAMSS)” was quickly removed from the Federal Business Opportunities (FBO) official website, according to Infowars.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;================================&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.goldseek.com/GoldenJackass/1324501200.php"&gt;Jim Willie CB, editor of the “HAT TRICK LETTER”&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Divergence between paper gold and physical gold price is happening, the process begun.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Actual physical shortages have kept the price up.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The naked shorting of futures has kept the paper price down.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The fraud cases and lawsuits, with no hint of prosecution, provide the levered force to create much wider divergence, as traders and entire firms depart the tainted crime scene that is the COMEX.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Trust has vanished along with private accounts.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At the center of the backdrop for the divergence, apart from the criminal events, is the economic deterioration and asset market downdraft.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It leads to margin calls, loan payment obligations, fading investor confidence, negative sentiment, and a desire to avoid loss.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hence the huge liquidity concerns, selling of good assets that command a strong price, and central bank encouragement of gold sales even with lease.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These forces conspire to push down the gold futures price from the discovery process, called the paper gold price.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These forces, although real, are exaggerated by the Syndicate to explain all. On the other side is the desperation among central bankers to cover debt securities up for sale or rollover funding.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They resort to utter hyper inflation by monetizing the many types of government bonds.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They are obligated to aid their banker cohorts, and thus purchase truckloads of badly impaired sovereign bonds and other collateralized bonds.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Over time these sovereign bonds have proved toxic.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The compelling need to stimulate economies, to redeem toxic bonds, and to recapitalize and nationalize the big banks adds to the monetary inflation outcome. Therefore, two sides are in opposition in a battle to the death of one or the other.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No middle ground can be achieved, not any longer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is the quintessential battle between monetary hyper inflation and restoring bank system integrity to avert collapse.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The insolvency has recently met illiquidity. The battle features strong forces on each side. The divergence between physical and paper gold price is widening.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The incurable speculator junkies committed to the addictive leveraged game rigged by the Forces of Evil seem stuck at the casino tables, where fingers are lost, finally entire hands and arms.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If their practice was to purchase physical, they could benefit from the paper price swoon, and join the Forces of Good team, rather than fighting the evil side on their dominated turf.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To be sure, many aware analysts in the news maintain a small gold position in COMEX that is rolled over constantly.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Many have physical positions but keep with the paper trades as a hobby, better described as an addition to the juice. Leverage cuts both ways. Their continued activity has left them exposed to theft, while knowing the criminality was widespread within the arena.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So many players and firms are departing the arena altogether like Ann Barnhardt of BCM Capital. The divergence between physical and paper gold price is widening.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The desperation of the bad team is growing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The gold cartel has benefited significantly from the fresh Libyan gold supply (144 metric tons) and Greek gold supply (111 metric tons), not to mention the ample Dollar Swap Facility. It is the bankers New Gold, as reported by intrepid Jeff Neilson.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In a fresh sign of bankster desperation, the lease rates for gold have been pushed down to net negative levels.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The fresh supply from the two broken nations has greatly aided the COMEX, providing new cannon fodder.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Perhaps more wars to liberate the oppressed can be conjured up, to release more tyrant wealth. It is not a coincidence that negative gold lease rates came when Libyan gold was made available (heisted) and when Italian sovereign bonds went into critical DEFCON mode.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The gold supply helped to aid the lack of bond demand.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The gold lease story is analyzed more fully in the December Hat Trick Letter.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 51, 102);"&gt;INELASTICITY BLEMISH&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A preface is warranted. The paper Gold market is very different in its internal dynamics from the physical. The paper Gold market shows signs of inelasticity that borders on comical.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Witness the low demand in 2001 and 2002 when Gold had a paper price tag at $300 or less per ounce.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Witness nowadays the amplified selling when the paper price declines. The leverage from the corrupted paper mechanisms forces margin pressures and sales.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The leveraged game goes opposite to the real world of price mechanisms. On the upside, global demand rises with a rising physical price, called the gold fever.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The inelasticity on the supply side is prevalent in the paper market, while the inelasticity on the demand side is prevalent on the physical market.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To confuse the mix, mining firms realize some inelasticity as price falls, they are stuck with a liquidity crunch on their forward sales ruin. A huge amount of money is required to cover their losses, urged on by Wall Street advisors.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Their mining operations suffer from lack of funds, and projects are curtailed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The paradoxical differences in dynamics help to push the gap between the paper and physical Gold price.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The incompatible forces work to rip apart the COMEX.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;The divergence between physical and paper gold price is widening.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;ILLICIT USAGE OF CLIENT FUNDS AS COLLATERAL&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-wGNsYtQejWk/TvNuL2lLPbI/AAAAAAAAAWY/XOdRsR8m4X4/s1600/crony_capitalism_oligarchy.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 312px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-wGNsYtQejWk/TvNuL2lLPbI/AAAAAAAAAWY/XOdRsR8m4X4/s400/crony_capitalism_oligarchy.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5689011904208125362" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The hypothecation battle will bring sufficient publicity to help the divergence along. As more assets are seen as committed, involved, and tainted in the process of grabbing, snatching, and securing collateral, even by illegal means, the physical assets will be removed from the system. Parties will remove accounts and metal from the COMEX in response from basic self-preservation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On the investment and speculation side, harm has been rendered to managed risk. The client funds have begun to flee.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The protection and security of money in private accounts has been under siege in recent weeks since the MF Global crime scene was established and the yellow tape cordon has been put in place.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Investors are pulling money out of hedge funds at a rapid rate. The COMEX will be increasingly isolated.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Clients funds were redeemed to the tune of $9 billion in October, almost four times as much as they pulled in September, according to Barclay Hedge and TrimTabs Investment Research. Investors in October yanked more from hedge funds, setting a single month high over the last two years.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The redemptions are the largest for the hedge fund industry since July 2009, when $17.8 billion was returned. The Barclay Hedge office put lipstick on the corrupt pig by commenting on how investors have lost patience with lackluster investor returns. To be sure, the average hedge fund is down by about 4% this year.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The global hedge fund industry size has been reduced to $1.66 trillion, still sizeable.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is always interesting, if not amusing, to read the spin from the isolated corners. Hedge funds are seeing capital depart for the simple reason of moving away from crime centers. In the process the COMEX is being isolated.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With increased isolation comes the easily recognized fraud. Look for some major stories soon about the raids to the GLD and SLV inventories by their custodians engaged in naked shorting.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Exchange Traded Fund fraud story is analyzed more fully in the December Hat Trick Letter.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;The divergence between physical and paper gold price is widening.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 51, 0);"&gt;DYNAMICS OF PAPER VERSUS PHYSICAL BASIS&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Grand divergence dynamics are becoming clear. Ann Barnhardt explained in detail how the COMEX will go away.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It will not default, but rather fall into irrelevance.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;She laid it out in credible detailed form with numerous factors coming to play. The COMEX might still suffer the shame and spotlight of criminal prosecution.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It will more certainly suffer from being ignored and shunned.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The physical basis market will not respond to the declines in the paper futures market.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The current dominant market will go away due to lost integrity and eroded trust. The consequences and implications of the recent major scandal and coverup are enormous, staggering, and sweeping.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The changes from the MF Global failure and theft of private segregated accounts will come in time, perhaps accelerated by another similar event to slam the message home. The Syndicate has turned desperate, resorting to theft in the open daylight, which has resulted in direct consequences.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hundreds of COMEX clients waited in line for delivery of gold, and had their wallets stolen by JPMorgan. Their Gold &amp;amp; Silver set for delivery found its way into JPMorgan accounts at the COMEX.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The details of the missing silver then reappearing silver is discussed in the December Hat Trick Letter.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The slow mentally overlook this fact.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The alert who point to fraud consider it a smoking gun.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On its face, evidence mounts that JPMorgan simply converted 614k ounces of MF Global client silver into JPM licensed vaults.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Big hats off to the Silver Doctors for excellent financial fraud forensic analysis.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Do not expect prosecution over the crime, for MF Global, for JPMorgan, or for the accomplices in London, not even Jon Corzine.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;The Fascist Business Model in the Untied States does not permit prosecution.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The bigger the crime, the more likely the perpetrator is in control of the government high offices, the financial ministry, the printing press, or the regulators.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ann Barnhardt explained how the COMEX will fade away into oblivion. Its final chapter will be marred by a grand price divergence, where the futures market price declines from shunned avoidance, while the cash physical market price holds steady then rises.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Many including the Jackass had thought that a slew of delivery demands would force a drain in their gold &amp;amp; silver inventory, eventually leading to a slew of lawsuits, together to shut them down as a corrupt enterprise arena.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The MF Global theft reveals the alternative route that seems more clear. The gold cartel led by JPMorgan and secretly by the USFed will not go quietly. They have resorted to theft of private accounts on the open stage.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;The money is not missing. &lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;That is the lie.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is held in JPMorgan accounts in London, where fraud laws are more relaxed. We have seen this Madoff movie before, but it will be shown on the silver screen again. The divergence between physical and paper gold price is widening.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The backlash has begun and will gain strength. Barnhardt offered many cogent arguments with detail on how the COMEX will be ignored from distrust and suspicion of further thefts, as clients remove funds and close accounts.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here are her main points.&lt;br /&gt;They apply to Gold &amp;amp; Silver.&lt;br /&gt;She has the Barnhardt weblog:  http://barnhardt.biz/&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Arbitrage is set to kick in. Players will buy at the cheaper corrupt paper market in COMEX and sell in the higher honest physical market, wherever brokers can match to make deals.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(It is the same phenomenon that ripped the Euro sovereign bond market apart, as the German Govt Bond yields remained much lower than the Spanish and Greek.) They will take advantage of a strong basis, buy at the discount offered by COMEX, and sell into the cash spot physical market.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A linchpin holds the market together. Keeping the futures markets tied to the underlying cash physical market is the fact that the futures contracts permit taking delivery. That delivery mechanism just broke as linchpin in full view. The futures market has lost viability and trustworthiness because of the MFG collapse and theft.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The entire delivery mechanism has been corrupted and undermined. Taking delivery has meant a holding of physical metal bars is stored in a certified vault with your name attached. No longer are such holdings considered safe.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thefts occurred, and lawsuits have occurred to decided upon ownership of bars in dispute.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The de-coupling process comes when arbitrageurs finally lose all confidence in market interaction dynamics, as the cash market will lose connection on price from the futures market. Players will not be willing to take the risk of having their money, positions, and physical metals stolen or confiscated.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As players flee the futures market, the paper futures prices will decline. The cash physical market will hold steady. The divergence will come and be noticed, then be widely publicized. The players will realize that the physical market is the only remaining game to be played with honest rules in effect.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The cash dealers will ignore the futures prices, no longer a valid price discovery, seeing that market demand for their physical inventory is robust, and maintain their prices steady. Later, they will even raise the physical prices.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then later still, the parabolic spike comes for physical Gold &amp;amp; Silver.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;THE GREAT SHUN BY MINERS&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Asset management funds are appealing to mining firms for direct metal supply. They are bypassing the COMEX in a new trend. It is a natural development, as miners seek a fair price and the funds seek a reliable supply. The COMEX is cut out of the process.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Sprott Funds have revealed how they sourced their precious metal from mining firms last year. The official exchanges are being cut off, a form of isolation as a result.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;The divergence between physical and paper gold price is widening.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;See the Ashanti story as typical. The COMEX is seeing reduced supply lines, reduced operations, more criminal implications, horrible publicity, and fewer clients. Criminal fraud does that, as lawsuits will follow like cold rain. The trend shapes up well for higher gold &amp;amp; silver prices. Mark Cutifani is CEO of AngloGold Ashanti, a $16 billion mining firm. He said, "Major [asset management fund] buyers are finding it is hard to get physical gold. People are coming directly to us [for large gold purchases,] people who want tonnes of physical gold, people with serious financial muscle, because they are finding it is very difficult to secure the volume of gold they want.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That is something we have noticed over the last 18 months, and it has been increasing in the last six months. People are finding its hard to get physical gold." The clear message is that the COMEX has no spare available metal at all. Cutifani has good insights into the commodities and precious metals markets, and describes a fascination new trend regarding the global picture.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He pointed out that major gold buyers are emerging from the Middle East and Asia. See the Bull Market Thinking article (CLICK HERE).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://bullmarketthinking.com/mark-cutifani-ceo-of-anglogold-ashanti-major-buyers-finding-its-hard-to-get-physical-gold/&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;NEW MARKETS FLOWERING&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;New gold centers are forming, where the safety is most assured. Hong kong and Dubai have emerged as reliable honest brokers, and will continue to provide valid safe haven. Switzerland, London, and other locations are fading fast.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They are the corrupt centers where fascism has become prevalent, laced through the financial system.Takahiro Morita, the Japan director of the World Gold Council, reported that Japan's gold exports in the 10 months ended October totaled 95.6 metric tonnes, their highest level since 2008, when it registered at 95.5 metric tonnes. People who bought gold and jewelry in the 1980 and 1990 decades are selling back what they purchased, according to precious metals traders. Japan has turned into a big exporter.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Contrast to the official side. Central bank purchases have risen by 114% over the previous quarter. Purchases by central banks could hit 450 metric tonnes this year, concludes the investment research at the council. The volume represents the highest level of central bank buying since at least 1970, perhaps the greatest in recent history.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A veteran gold trader with actual experience in these locations pitched in to explain.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He said, "These are not sales in Japan. They are exports, an important distinction. Many investors are busily relocating their precious metal bullion to Hong Kong and Dubai UAE. Look for Dubai to be the HK of the Middle East.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Chinese have made that decision, and it is being implemented with lightning speed." Most of the relocation from Japan shows up as exports, which require payments.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;October imports into China from Hong Kong rose 50% over September, and up 40-fold from last year. The more attractive fair price paid in Shanghai reached $50 above the corrupt controlled London price.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The arbitrage has been very active.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Chinese gold imports from Hong Kong hit a record.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Financial Times reported Chinese gold imports from Hong Kong hit a record high in October and astoundingly, they accounted for more than one quarter of the entire global demand.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Data showed that China imported 85.7 tonnes of gold from Hong Kong in October, up 50% from the previous month and up more than 40 times from October of last year.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It marks the fourth consecutive month that China's gold flows from Hong Kong have hit new highs. The article noted that the price arbitrage between London and Shanghai was favorable for Chinese imports during late September and early October, giving astute clever traders an edge.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gold on the Shanghai Exchange traded up to $50 per ounce above the main global market based in London, a record price difference.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Purchases from China have fallen since October, as the recent strength in the USDollar has made gold more expensive. Also, considerable new strain has been felt inside China in recent weeks. Conclude that price arbitrage has begun to show itself across international boundaries.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The divergence between physical and paper gold price is widening.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;ONE GOLD EVENT, THE BIG SQUEEZE&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No gold chart will be shown in this article, out of disrespect deserved for the COMEX criminal activity. A story was recounted in recent days from my best source of solid reliable gold information. The aware gold community has overlooked a phenomenon that might be more profound in action here and now. A major squeeze is on that capitalizes on the artificially low COMEX price and the higher honest physical price.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Barnhardt effect can be seen, or at least recounted. A gold trader informed that some multi-$billion purchase Gold orders have been in the process of filling at or near the $1600 price per ounce.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The price must remain near $1600 to complete the orders and permit them to clear.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Call it Agent2000 who seeks the massive amount of Gold, one of the Good Guyz.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The name fits since their goal is to force the Gold price back over $2000/oz after the sale transaction clears. Since so large, the orders take time to fill completely. The low-ball buy orders have been filling for over two weeks.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At the same time, the Agent2000 buyer has enlisted the aid of numerous assistants to push down the paper Gold price by putting extreme pressure on some bad players, some nasty types from the usual list of suspects in the Western banking sector. These bankers are being squeezed out of their gold, as they contend with deep insolvency, reserves requirements, falling sovereign bond values, depositors exiting, and more.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They are players in what has been widely called the Gold Cartel. The Jackass term has been applied in a wider sense, as they have been part of the Syndicate that reaches into the Wall Street banks, the defense contractors, news media, and big pharma.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The other side of Agent2000 is where additional intrigue lies. He (they) have buyers lined up on the physical side some deals ready to close at $1900 per ounce. Later the price will push over the $2000 mark.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The buyers are ready. One must infer that the buyers have a great deal of money ready to devote to the battle.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Maybe some is piled up to escape the clutches of the cartel, removed from the system.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Maybe some is piled up at a major new slush fund to do battle with the cartel at their own game. Maybe some is piled up and kept out of sight from greedy hands in government officials, like off-shore in the Caribbean or sequestered in the Persian Gulf. This story might be perplexing to many in the gold community since the Good Guyz are pushing down the Gold price in order to facilitate a gigantic order that will work toward crushing the cartel by draining their gold.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Their gold cannot be drained without the completion of a great many orders. It is only natural to attempt to achieve the lowest possible price. If the gold cartel insists on pushing the price down, then they open the door for major volume sales at the artificially low and very much bargain price.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is happening, but the gold community does not enjoy the symptoms of the process.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So a huge huge huge buyer of gold is busy, and a multi-$billion order is working through. The buyer demands a $1600 price, while on the other side of the table Agent2000 has a sale lined up for the same metal at a $1900 price on physical.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The trade will take gold bullion from the Bad Boyz hands and put it into the Good Guyz hands. In the process, the COMEX supply lines will be drained more.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is consistent with mining firms removing supply lines to the COMEX. The Agent2000 buyer is pushing price down, squeezing some evil parties hard, crushing testicalia along the way. He (they) describe to the distressed seller at $1600 that pressures will continue until the deal is closed. The seller is in tremendous pain with open distress showing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So many assume the Bad Powerz are pushing down the Gold price.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Not so!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This event and transaction displays how some pain comes in many isolated cases of Good Guyz pushing the Gold price down to empty the Bad Powerz vaults. My source would not reveal the identity of Agent2000 or the location of the squeeze. It seemed like London.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The money is not exclusively coming from China.&lt;br /&gt;Word has it that Russia is also applying the pressure, with some Chinese teamwork.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Competing Currency War has a new major flank.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The divergence between physical and paper gold price is widening.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.goldseek.com/GoldenJackass/1324501200.php"&gt;Jim Willie CB, editor of the “HAT TRICK LETTER”&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;=====================&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-KZOWGj_EjNI/TvNnQwjmmVI/AAAAAAAAAU4/OPTcoTi_4s8/s1600/SHUTYOURMOUTH.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-KZOWGj_EjNI/TvNnQwjmmVI/AAAAAAAAAU4/OPTcoTi_4s8/s400/SHUTYOURMOUTH.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5689004291908868434" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;“Intelligence Is Treason, In a Country Full of Idiots”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“When a government is dependent upon bankers for money,&lt;br /&gt;they and not the leaders of the government control the situation, since the hand that gives, is above the hand that takes …&lt;br /&gt;Money has no motherland; financiers are without patriotism and without decency ... their sole object is gain.”          ~ Napoleon Bonaparte, 1815 ~&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-tJ9ZB-HyNHA/TvNVVzOTP5I/AAAAAAAAAUU/V5DzgRuJvxM/s1600/obama_dream.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 251px; height: 283px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-tJ9ZB-HyNHA/TvNVVzOTP5I/AAAAAAAAAUU/V5DzgRuJvxM/s400/obama_dream.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5688984587314872210" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;BEWARE OF VICIOUS LIES &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102); font-weight: bold;"&gt;This is about developing our own Karma and being true to ourselves.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;As the great global reset draws near&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Consider the things you hold dear&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Will others agree&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;With the value you see?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;If so you have nothing to fear&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;=================================&lt;br /&gt;The Golden End Game – A Thought Experiment&lt;br /&gt;==================================&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is part one of a two part exploration  into what the world might look like after a total or partial collapse of the currency/economic system from the perspective of holding Gold.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As the title explains this is a thought experiment, not a dissertation filled with footnotes and references. Consider it one man’s flight of fancy, so take what you need and leave the rest. Anyone who claims they know what will actually happen is a fool greater than me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;As markets are starting to sink&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;The end could be here in a wink&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;So should I prepare?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Should I even care?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;My PMs will save me!!! (I think......)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 51, 0);"&gt;=======================&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 51, 0);"&gt;“It is natural to man, to indulge in the illusions of hope ...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 51, 0);"&gt;We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth and listen to the song of that siren,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 51, 0);"&gt;  till she transforms us into beasts. ... For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it might cost,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 51, 0);"&gt;  I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst, and to provide for it.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 51, 0);"&gt;   ~ Patrick Henry   ~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 51, 0);"&gt;   Slavery Behind Barbedwire&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 51, 0);"&gt;====================&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When I first entered the business 20 plus years ago the firm I started with had a mentoring program that paired the fresh faced rookie with a veteran for the first 6 months.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The idea was that for a piece of the action paid to the veteran from the rookie’s commissions, the veteran would offer hands-on review, insight and support. While some on both sides of the office divide groused over this arrangement, from management’s point of view it made all the sense in the world because now the office was raising the rookie, not just one or two managers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I found the mentoring system to be beneficial simply because I was coming in quite a bit older than the younger shark chum fresh from the diploma mills. Most of them felt they had the world by the balls, thus as long as they showed up the (fiat) spice would flow.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But I knew these financial chop shops had a tendency to chew up the rookies, and then spit them out once they’d been used and abused.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Since I didn’t want any part of the rookie churn and burn I relished the chance to work with a veteran and develop good habits early rather than be left with trying to break many bad habits later.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Luckily I was paired with an old pro who quickly took a shine to me and showed me the ropes, spending far more time with me then he was ever compensated for.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In fact the experience re-invigorated him and he went on to become the top producer of the office two years running. The more I learned the harder he pushed, reasoning that since I knew this, I damn well better know that.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So he took most of his compensation in the form of my spilled blood and an inner satisfaction that he was making his mark. For me, the processes, morals and methods he taught me are still paying sweet dividends two decades later.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One of his demands was the weekly ritual of a portfolio review of each holding in every client account. When Friday came round he insisted I justify why this or that position was in a client’s account and quite frankly it drove me crazy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I would complain that we had done the same damn thing every week for months and not much had changed. So why was he still asking me the same questions again and again.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And every time I complained he would respond with a question of his own, often dramatizing it by looking out the window or throwing the Wall Street Journal on his desk.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Prove to him that the world was the same one that existed when we reviewed the accounts the last time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And of course he was right; the world was not the same and often quite different from week to week. This trial by fire is something I still force myself to go through every Friday afternoon.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Knowing the client and the world situation, if I can’t justify the position, why the hell is it still in the account? But of equal or greater value to me were my mentor’s questions each time I tried to add a new position to an account.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I hated his probing and poking and often I took it personally. And that bastard knew where all my buttons were and delighted in pressing every single one until I finally wised up and stopped letting him goad me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After we had discussed why I was adding the position, and well before I was allowed to call the client and make the pitch, he always had one final question for me. How was I going to dispose of it if things went wrong in a hurry?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Or in his words, “What’s the end game on that?”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At first I felt his question was downright stupid and my rote answer was always that I would cross that bridge when I got there.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But he never let me get away with my intellectual laziness and he’d ask the same question 6 different ways until I saw all the possible pitfalls based upon the knowledge I had at the time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I can still hear him today. “Don’t ever take on a new position until you have thoroughly considered how you will dispose of it under the worst of conditions.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It forced me to look beyond my nose and consider how circumstances change, and with those changes the ability to sell something that, while saleable today, might not be tomorrow.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Liquidity and desirability can dry up quickly and always when it is least convenient to you and your client.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This perspective broadening exercise was extremely useful beyond my business world because it can and should be applied at all (not just major) life decision points.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;As this Keynesian game nears an end&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;And the Banksters can no longer lend&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;What will we all treasure?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Will gold be our measure?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Or the love of our family and friends?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 0, 153);"&gt;So……what’s the end game here folks?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Regardless of whether we are USA centric or more globally focused, the fact is that we ‘own’ a political, economic and social portfolio that is the foundational basis not only of our wealth and investments, but of our very lives and those of our family, friends and neighbors.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So have we done a fearless and thorough portfolio review or are we simply buying Gold and other precious metals, along with guns and various food stuffs, and hunkering down to wait out the storm?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I don’t pretend to have all the answers, let alone the proper questions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So don’t look to me for instructions when the T-1000 HFT bots crest the ridge and cream our asses. But a little proactive introspection is well warranted here considering we are now entering uncharted territory.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And it is uncharted territory; at least for plebs such as you and me, even though there have been fiat currency collapses throughout history.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This time really is different (as were all the other times for each generation caught in the middle) if for no other reason than the massive use of financial leverage combined with the humongous explosion in global population over the last 100 years.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Don’t get me wrong. I’m basically a hard asset guy at this point in the great unwind. But as I have said in the Zero Hedge comment section several times before, it’s one thing to grow and/or protect your assets and wealth in Precious Metals (PMs) (and other hard assets) and another thing entirely to move those assets to the next game board when this one is reset, replaced or recreated.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I see and hear a great deal of cognitive dissonance in many of the articles and comments discussing PMs as the best vehicle to use when moving to dry land……….that is, when dry land finally does rises from the ocean floor to form the new capitalist capital called Atlantis Redux.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I find that many are kind of fuzzy on how the actual transition/transaction will go down and nearly all just sort of insert “and then a miracle occurs” at some point in the discussion when they recite the precious metals (PM) mantra.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let’s just say for a moment that our Gold, Silver, Platinum and Gold-plated Tungsten have all quintupled in price (as measured in whatever fiat is the favorite at the end) and we are now all sitting pretty.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Do we really honest-to-God no-fingers-crossed cherry-on-top believe that the powers-that-be will simply allow us to mosey up to the cashiers cage and redeem or convert it all for whatever monetary unit reigns supreme? Really?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Because from my point of view it’s just crazy talk to assume that the enemy of the state (Gold and other PM’s) will be welcomed home with a warm welcoming embrace.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now before you bite my head off (remember boys and girls, this is just a thought experiment) understand who this essay is directed towards. Or rather isn’t directed towards.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you are capable of purchasing several LBMA Gold bars and are able to store them overseas and you can easily relocate yourself to where your Gold is, then this rant really isn’t directed towards you. While you may not be a power-that-be, you are in a class above the middle class regardless of your protestations to the contrary.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I’m not saying you don’t share many of the problems others are facing, only that you have a great deal more flexibility to deal with them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the same respect, if you own several Gold Eagles and a couple hundred ounces of Silver, then you are also not to whom I’m speaking.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Most likely you will run under the radar because your small amount of Gold and Silver is being held in the form of the U.S Eagle coin which, while not exactly produced as a numismatic, is a US Mint produced Gold and Silver coin that is considered US legal tender.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So from my point of view, if Gold and Silver Eagles are held in small quantities, they will not be considered an investment, but rather savings or collectibles.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The people I am talking to are those who are converting a substantial portion of their investable assets into physical Gold.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Or who are selling other assets or breaking qualified retirement accounts (IRAs, 401(k)s etc) in order to purchase relatively large amounts of physical Gold and Silver, though the focus of this essay is Gold.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Their intent is not only to grow their PM assets, but to carry the bulk of their wealth over to the Promised Land when the current Ponzi Empire crashes and burns.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You know who you are and unfortunately so do the government goons if you have ever bought any quantity of Gold from an established dealer with a check, a cashier’s check, wire, electronic funds transfer or other traceable method.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And because of Check 21 everything is traceable nowadays (even cash within a few degrees of separation) if you used one of these instruments to gather the cash.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;The End Game is here so I'm told&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Will the last valued asset be gold?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;If so, keep it tight&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;From the thieves in the night&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;For they know every ounce that you hold&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Where I have a problem with the logic used by some is this.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There seems to be a general consensus that Gold is the arch enemy, the Kryptonite if you will, of the out of control fiat creation by central authorities in order to extend and pretend while looting the executive bathrooms of the Gold faucets and monogrammed bathrobes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This understanding, along with a host of others, is always proffered when explaining the reason behind PM manipulation and the entire PM paper racket. And I don’t necessarily disagree with this general supposition.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What I don’t get is the idea that if Gold has been considered ‘contrary’ or ‘dangerous’ to the unfettered debasement of fiat in the past and present, thus the reason for the manipulation, then why would this suppression and resistance to the ‘Golden enemy’ by the powers-that-be suddenly disappear precisely when the powers (or more accurately their agents and puppets) are desperate and have the most to lose?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is clear to me, and judging by the comments clear to many others here on Zero Hedge, that these guys and gals play for keeps, consistently pushing nearly all their chips to the center of the table in an endless game of bluff and intimidation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;More important to me, at least for the purposes of this essay, is that those lovable sociopaths would rather burn to the ground than play to lose or walk away.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This, by the way, is precisely why they rarely lose.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They play for keeps and they’ve been doing so for thousands of years.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They not only have the power, but they know how to use the power they have.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Meaning they are ruthless cutthroat bastards who see you and me as cattle to be consumed or beasts of burden to be used. And I’m being kind for the sake of the weak stomachs among us.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-u60XwN0_gAo/TvNvExBYDZI/AAAAAAAAAWk/SUojEE4SO-E/s1600/BUSHIT_MORPH.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 96px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-u60XwN0_gAo/TvNvExBYDZI/AAAAAAAAAWk/SUojEE4SO-E/s400/BUSHIT_MORPH.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5689012881968336274" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As best as I can tell the general assumption is that when the partial or total collapse comes (not if because we are talking worst case scenario here) the failed powers that be, perhaps inspired by some public hangings and decapitations, will pack up their lawn chairs and vacate the levers of power, allowing more responsible adults and even some advanced children to take over and save the day.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Or at the very least, the expectation is that the new kids on the block will clean up the mess left behind by those traitorous bastards and that they will do so in a reasonably fair, open and egalitarian manner.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let me take a moment to collect my thoughts before rendering my opinion on this matter.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;I DON’T THINK SO!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why am I so confident of this? Well, from studying history of course. And by history I mean good old fashioned world history dictated and approved by the Empire for high school or college textbooks.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You see, from the perspective of long term history, while we may have a new production company and support system for the global Ponzi screenplay, as well as fresh faces to fill the role of puppets, enablers and useful idiots, and even a (relatively) new political system to emotionally and culturally unify us all as we labor away in our hamster cages, the Ponzi is at its central core the oldest con in the books.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Essentially we are all experiencing plantation living at its highest and most efficient evolution to date, where the sole purpose of our existence is to serve our immediate masters who then serve their masters who then serve their masters in an ever narrowing pyramidal hierarchy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This goes on until it reaches the point where at the top we find several hundred to a thousand elite scattered across a number of blood-line families that share the power and spoils.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And there is serious evidence available to be examined by the determined researcher that there might even be another level (or two) above that.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;BTW for the most part, but with certain exceptions, you will not find these elite of the elite on any list of richest people in the world.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I personally suspect that many of those who you do see listed are in fact the public caretakers of the wealth of others and who are paid handsomely to play the role and weather the slings and arrows of public scorn in exchange for growing the assets and guarding the anonymity of the real owners of Mother Ship Earth.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;The Powers That Be are concealed&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Their identities won't be revealed&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;They will hide from the light&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;And continue their fight&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Until all of our fates have been sealed&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;History is full of examples of crumbling empires and nearly all of them seem to share several characteristics. First and foremost in my mind is that regardless of how dire things may seem to be, the collapse progresses much slower than expected.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It always seems like today’s bad news signals the end of the world as we know it….until tomorrow’s even worse news hits the ticker.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Grab Mr. Peabody and fire up the WABAC (pronounced ‘wayback’) machine to travel a few years into the past, say to 2007, and consider some of the headlines we saw and the reactions they provoked.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What were considered Earth shaking events back then are nearly routine today, no big deal really.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is a severely misunderstood and underappreciated, and thus under weighted, counter balancing force to the general insanity level. The (normalcy bias) force is strong in you young Skywalker.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I suspect this isn’t so much because the powers that be are holding it all up, but rather it is the common folk living on the ground floor of this insanity that are doing the heavy lifting.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Never underestimate the desperate desire of those who are chained to the plantation to preserve that plantation even when it would be easier and saner just to walk away.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This Stockholm syndrome conditioned mind is of course exploited by the masters to rape and pillage long past the normal or even expected expiration date of the Empire.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Also, collapse (partial or total) is a relative term. For the financial elite, politically powerful and top tier business people, collapse is just another word for a really severe business cycle downturn.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When conditions become harsh, the script is always the same.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Shed useless eaters, strip all usable assets and sell the estate to the last of the greater fools, then move on to a more favorable business location. So by the time the barbarians are at the gate, the rich and powerful are long gone and have stripped most of the wealth from the kingdom.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the modern era this means that the rape and pillage of the middle class is the purpose and eventual outcome of any severe recession/depression. So of course it is the purpose of the ongoing collapse.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;See ‘The Great Depression’ of the 1930’s for the Cliff Notes on the coming fun and games…exponentially escalated by $708 Trillion (notional value) in derivatives.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But always remember that the explosive firepower released back in the 1930’s is nothing compared to the massive potential energy that is about to be released.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;The real purpose of can kicking is to try to slowly release that energy rather than to allow it to go BOOM all at once. Consider it a form of extended game play for the elite.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;When the global reset is complete&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;And the Kleptos are in full retreat&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Secure family and friends&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;For their game never ends&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;And they'll never accept their defeat&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The true powers that be have a long history of backing all sides in nearly every conflict or collapse.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So it is not a stretch to assume they are supporting the very barbarians who are beating the door down while also relocating their kin from the collapsing empire.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you spend any time studying the blood lines of the rich and powerful, despite our general indifference to this seemingly inconsequential subject matter, to Earth’s owners the blood lines are carefully massaged, managed and manipulated in order to maintain a balance of power and influence among the bickering kings and queens.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Do not underestimate the utmost importance of blue blood hierarchies or of the interconnected web between supposedly bitter enemies and plantations/countries. If it is important to them, then it should be considered life and death to us.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Inside the sprawling plantation the conditioning of the slaves is ongoing and ever changing and relies heavily upon the older, more experienced slaves to indoctrinate and condition the new ‘volunteers’, thus cementing the bond that is often expressed as nation or community…..or more properly ‘misery loves company’. For several thousand years religion was the center of the indoctrination process and controlled by the blue bloods, all of whom had no aversion to donning priest’s robes to spout the all important rites and rituals.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A close inspection of history shows that while the vehicles of power shifted and morphed, the methods used and the personalities involved always remained the same.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Closer to the modern era, there was a shift to the sharing of power between religious centers and blue blood families who presided over kingdoms. Again, there really wasn’t a divide, only the public appearance of division.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mom usually decided which son became King and which became a Cardinal or Pope, thus assuring her it all remained in the family.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Over the last several hundred years the center shifted once again to the façade of central governments organized under ideological memes such as democracy, communism, socialism and of course the more traditional blue blood families aka Kings, Queens and royal families, sometimes along with a quasi democratically elected congress designed to create a false sense of self control for the naïve native slaves.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Regardless of the method or ideology used today, they are all simply more sophisticated methods to organize and exploit the plantation and nothing more. In much of the so called ‘free’ world today, giving the slaves the illusion of freedom of (limited) choice has been found to dramatically increase productivity.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;An intelligent plantation manager will allow any work rules as long as they still maintain order while increasing efficiency because strip mining the human and mineral resources of Earth is the one and only goal of the ruling elite.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Preserving your wealth can be fun&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;The first thing you'll need is a gun&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Trust no one you meet&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Each night soak your feet&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Just in case it is prudent to run&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Regardless of whether the financial elite remain in place or move on during or after the collapse, there will still be some type of procedure set up to exchange the old slave script for the new slave script.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Without a doubt there will be different tiers or exchange rates depending upon which social and/or economic class you reside in. And rest assured the transition will not be fair and it will be used to extract whatever remaining wealth the middle class still holds.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is a given, but it will not be readily obvious or even visible since most of the dirty work will occur behind closed doors and well in advance of the general scrum.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;There is also no doubt, once again predicated by a careful reading of history, that regardless of the leadership actually holding office, when the gates are busted down (or as is more likely the case pulled down from within, often via false flag attacks), in order to placate the increasingly restless slave population, fresh faces will magically appear from the cloning rooms to offer stirring speeches and heartwarming platitudes about how all the slaves must engage in mutual sacrifice and work even harder to ensure that the elite make a clean getaway before the cleansing fires are set and the system is finally rebooted.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I can’t wait for the games to begin because I still have more cognitive room left over for that hope and change thingy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Every crumbling Empire always reaches into the same bag of tricks when the heat is on and the slave nation becomes restless.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After all, the elite must maintain order so that the fleecing can be completed. ‘Order’, especially near the end of the End Game, is usually maintained by a heavy handed police and/or military presence via outright martial law or the stealth version implemented by (executive) decree.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let the head bashing begin.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Desperate puppet leaders will most certainly do desperate things, first to maintain their own illusion of power, then just to save their asses. Count on it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Two tricks of the deception trade that often work hand in hand are scapegoat harvesting combined with war mongering, which usually leads to out-right-war in order to deflect attention and blame those evil elites over there and their supporting band of vicious baby eating enablers, indentured servants and wage slaves. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And while it might be an old trick, even the oldest, it still works every single time it is used because we slaves would rather support the devil we know then to take a chance and actually live free.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Spend enough time in a locked cage under dehumanizing conditions and the jailer no longer needs to lock the door anymore. We slaves will keep ourselves just fine, thank you very much.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While I could extend this list of common denominators for several more pages, let me cut to the chase and list the one commonality that is near and dear to my heart and the core function of every central government that administers the (crumbling) Empire……..to be a blood sucking parasite.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;The bottom line is that governments, Kings and religious orders do not ‘produce’ anything nearly equal to their consumption no matter how you measure it, unless you have been drinking their Kool-Aid. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;These entities will consume from all sources using one or more of the following strategies; regulation, taxation and ultimately confiscation.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;As markets are starting to sink&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;The end could be here in a wink&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;So should I prepare?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Should I even care?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;My PMs will save me!!! (I think......)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;As a reminder of something emphasized in Part One, I am discussing a worst case scenario here.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So please keep this in mind when your brain synapses start firing and you feel compelled to stop reading and fire off a nasty comment.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are thousands of lesser scenarios that could play out here as opposed to only hundreds of worse case scenarios.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What you find below are just my thoughts on the matter, not fact or even hard opinion.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In addition, this essay isn’t directed towards the small PM ‘investor’ who owns ‘small’ amounts of Gold and Silver, for example under 20 ounces of Gold and several hundred ounces of Silver.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nor is it directed towards the whales, those who can purchase and safely store (preferably offshore) several hundred or even thousands of ounces of Gold.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They have similar problems as everyone else, but much more flexibility.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rather this essay is directed towards those solidly middle class people who are converting their ‘wealth’ into Gold and Silver, even going so far as to cash out their qualified retirement accounts (IRA’s, 401(k)’s and qualified annuities) or mortgage their property in order to increase their Precious Metal stash.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I see and hear a great deal of cognitive dissonance among those who promote Gold as the way to salvation, all while ignoring or dismissing the idea of governmental confiscation of said Golden chariots.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It’s not like doing so would be totally unprecedented in the US (or on other plantations for that matter) since President Franklin Roosevelt’s April 5, 1933 Executive Order 6102 did precisely that, promptly followed by a revaluation of said confiscated Gold to push the anal probe that much further up the rear.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What everyone seems to forget is that the United States is not the only plantation bleeding from every orifice while simultaneously ripping open new ones.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is a global party we’re throwing here and everyone who is anyone seems to have accepted the invitation, something many are beginning to regret as they desperately click the ‘un-send’ button.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Actually this isn’t true, since we already know that the blue blood families play all sides against each other, then turn things around and transform former arch enemies in lifelong best girlfriends, the only way this global Ponzi could have progressed to this point in the collapse countdown.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;I guess my point is simple.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today’s (global) disaster isn’t Argentina from 1989-1990 and again in 1999-2002.&lt;br /&gt;Nor is it Zimbabwe from 2004-2009 or even the Weimar Republic from 1920-1923.&lt;br /&gt;While the rest of the world was also (more or less) suffering during those turbulent times, Argentina, Zimbabwe and the Weimar were islands of disaster in a world of relative stability.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;The Kleptocrat game is not chance&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;It resembles a well-rehearsed dance&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;With lifts, dips and spins&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Until treachery wins&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;And the middle-class shits in their pants&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Remember that almost by definition disaster recovery requires relative normalcy somewhere nearby as the staging area from where you send in the life lines and supplies, as well as a place to evacuate the wounded.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So when Norman, Oklahoma suffers a devastating tornado, help comes rushing in from 10-500 miles away.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But what happens if the entire country is simultaneously ravaged by natural (Ponzi) disaster?&lt;br /&gt;Where does the help come from then?&lt;br /&gt;Overseas?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But they are running the same Ponzi as we are here.&lt;br /&gt;So if we go down, they go down just as hard if not harder and vice versa.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One of the staples of the Armageddon genre of disaster porn is the notion that, in a national/global disaster, there is no safe harbor from which to coordinate and launch the rescue ships.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thus everyone goes into survival mode and if you aren’t helping yourself then no one is.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Social rules of order and decorum are quickly abandoned for survival of the fittest and suddenly it is game on Mad Max style.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ironically if you remember the original Mad Max movie, it begins shortly after a terrible global disaster.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Max was one of several cops working with the ‘authorities’ in an effort to maintain some type of order in the rapidly decaying remains of society.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It was all downhill from there.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In response to those who would disagree with my line of reasoning by saying, “CD, you can’t compare a global natural disaster, where there is infrastructure damage, to an economic collapse, where at least initially all infrastructure remains in place and functioning” all I can say is that I disagree.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The active ingredient in my analogy isn’t the level or type of global devastation as much as the equality or uniformity of it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;External rescue requires a more or less untouched area that contains a surplus of resources, financial or otherwise, and the means to organize and deploy them into the underserved disaster area.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Because the Ponzi disease is globally and uniformly distributed around the developed world, in the event of a total or partial collapse, essentially there are no substantial surplus resources that can be gathered and transported from one area to the next.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Everyone is in the same degraded condition. Well……actually there are ‘excess surplus assets’ available after a global economic collapse.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Those assets are called the people’s Gold. But we’ll get to that in a moment.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So any rescue or recovery can only come from in-place assets and organized systems such as the existing military and governmental bureaucracy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thus other than some shifting of leadership positions to create scapegoats and dispel slave anger, not much will change unless an armed and organized revolt is mounted.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While that might eventually come about, it will not initially, thus allowing the military to disperse and dissolve any pockets of semi-organized resistance or even to prevent states from seceding so that they may create their own economic systems and/or preserve local and regional natural resources.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;So who could have guessed Marx was right?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;That the Bourgeoisie class is a blight?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;All our wealth they will take&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;While they let us eat cake&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;We are slaves who must stand-up and fight!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-w2zq5C0Xqt0/TvNtKjfgTlI/AAAAAAAAAWA/L_4YuAbxuNk/s1600/3dflagsdotcom_usa_2fagl.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 132px; height: 90px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-w2zq5C0Xqt0/TvNtKjfgTlI/AAAAAAAAAWA/L_4YuAbxuNk/s400/3dflagsdotcom_usa_2fagl.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5689010782392569426" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There seems to be a never ending stream of comments left on Zero Hedge that are short and sweet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let it all burn to the ground baby so that we can rebuild it from scratch.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I honestly think these people have no idea what that really means because in today’s world of massive financial leverage and staggering amounts of derivative contracts, too big to fail banks using 40 or 50 to 1 leverage and the majority of the slave population living paycheck to paycheck etc., burning it all down just might be an act of compassion compared to what would happen if it all just fell apart.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyone who doesn’t think martial law would be immediately declared and our remaining civil rights forcibly removed in the event of a partial or total economic/currency collapse has been brewing and taste testing their own brand of Kool-Aid.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When order begins to break down, the existing power base WILL attempt to restore order and they won’t be gentle while doing so. And for the most part the plantation slaves will welcome the intervention because they have not prepared for the chaos, having ignored all the warning signs because they relied upon their masters to protect them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So once again let us circle back to the principal question.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What will you do with all that Gold and how will you reintegrate it into any new currency system that is implemented?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;During the first few hours, days, even weeks after the partial or total collapse, on a local basis you will be able to use your Gold (and especially your Silver) in small increments to barter for the goods and services you need to continue to live.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But very quickly, most likely the same day of the collapse, the government will announce draconian banking, price, wage and possibly even barter controls. And they will begin to implement unilateral decisions about what is needed where and when.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you have something the ‘greater good’ needs or wants and if others know about your good fortune, it could very easily be taken from you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On a more practical basis, because the established control system will want to quickly put in place some type of replacement currency system, our Gold and other precious metals may actually escape any attempt at a quick governmental grab and go.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But within days, and at most a week or so, global decisions will be made (correction: they have already been made, they will be implemented after a week) and in my opinion the priority will be to establish confidence in any new currency system or reestablish confidence in the old.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While one can’t know exactly how it will go down, considering that Gold and other PMs will probably have gone through the roof by this point, it is highly likely that Gold, along with other PMs or a basket of commodities (and possibly other new or old foreign currencies) will be used to back any new or renewed currency.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The IMF’s so called Special Drawing Rights (SDR), essentially a global currency, is a perfect example of a cobbled together currency that might gain traction.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;When HFT algos have ceased&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;And those who had most have the least&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Is gold the best bet?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;For a system reset?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;Or will Banksters create a new beast?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now here is where I strongly suggest that, for several reasons, ‘they’ will feel compelled to confiscate Gold from the population. And this works on a global as well as national scale folks.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The principal psychological warfare technique they will us is to vilify and scapegoat those ugly Gold hoarders and evil speculators.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And there is no doubt in my mind that they will claim with absolute confidence and with concocted evidence that these evil Precious Metal terrorists destroyed the old system.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;‘Truth’ will be immaterial at this point and actually counterproductive for those trying to beat back the resurgent Ponzi Hydra. Frightened people are not deep thinkers and they most certainly are not very reasonable.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The emotional pain of collapse must be relieved, so any handy pain killer will be willingly ingested. History is replete with examples of this and a frightened and extremely angry slave population will gratefully latch onto the offered Gold hating piñata rather than soul search and examine their own role in the present disaster.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Depending upon the believability of various figures bandied about, less than one percent of the US population owns Gold as an investment (even less own the physical) and less than 2% own Gold miner shares.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At the peak of the last Gold rush in the late 70’s and early 80’s I believe 8% of the US population owned investment Gold.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Even if the present Gold love affair reaches that level of participation before the End Game commences, this group will still be a small minority and it will be very easy to turn the general population against them/us.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In addition, those who hold their Gold in bank safety deposit boxes or private vaults, at bullion banks or any other private, public or governmental storage facility will find that it will not be there for long.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I suspect that the entities that own or control the facilities will be ordered to close their doors and to turn over the Gold.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So even if we own Gold in ‘real physical’ fund companies such as Sprott, we will soon find that it isn’t available for withdrawal after the fall.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And please don’t talk to me about the rule of law.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We saw how the rule of law was respected when the US ran over the GM bond holders.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let’s get real here folks, under these circumstances the law is what they say the law is.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As well, plantation (country) borders will essentially be meaningless because every modern country will be in the same predicament.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So the smart play for the new political puppets will be to cooperate with every other plantation (even enemies) to reenergize the system as quickly as possible.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The precious metal mining companies will probably be nationalized, even if that just means that all of the output from the mines will be directed to the vaults of the ‘host’ plantation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;China is effectively doing this now.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So the only Gold you can count on is the Gold coins and small bars buried in the sand at the bottom of your fish tank.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Aside from the uncontrolled corruption and unrestrained fiat creation, if the old system collapsed because the general population lost faith in the financial system (ultimately the real reason behind any fiat collapse because it is not the unrestrained fiat printing, but the loss of public faith and belief the printing engenders, that destroys a fiat) and Gold in its role as the ultimate safe haven was the lightening rod that inflamed and focused that loss of faith, it will be incumbent upon the ‘new’ leadership to defuse and deflect any pockets of resistance to the new or reformed currency.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;By making a show of confiscating Gold ‘for the good of the people’ many non Gold holding people will go along with the theft because it essentially helps pull their asses out of the fire.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-4SC6zOTE7sc/TvNns0a7KPI/AAAAAAAAAVE/2FxEPKV_nkA/s1600/CORPORATOCRACY.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 310px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-4SC6zOTE7sc/TvNns0a7KPI/AAAAAAAAAVE/2FxEPKV_nkA/s400/CORPORATOCRACY.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5689004773982546162" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In effect the reckless and imprudent will cheer on the confiscation because backing the theft of others increases the chance they will be rewarded, or at least not severely punished, for their bad behavior.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Moral hazard works wonders for the general population as well as the too big to fail. Because the general population can (and will) be stampeded when the crisis gets ‘real’, this will allow the political puppets to set up tiered currency conversion systems and unfair Gold and other PM reintegration rules.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The rich will get richer and the poor will……well, you know.&lt;br /&gt;We will hear a lot of crying by the rich and powerful about how they just can’t put their glorious talents to work unless they receive special ‘incentives’.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I just can’t wait to hear the imaginative sob stories of the down and out crony capitalists.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;The dollar says, "In God We Trust"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;But the dollar's about to go bust&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;So who betrayed whom&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;That has led to our doom?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;(Twas the one who embraced greed and lust)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While black and barter markets will most definitely spring up as they did in the 1930’s and 70’s, they might be less effective than they were back then unless we use them strictly for locally produced items and services.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And even then I can see many problems and pitfalls.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The one hope I have here is that the underground market for drugs and stolen goods will not go away because of the collapse, particularly since the new Ponzi will once again want to use (inter)national drug money to feed the beast.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This might help to create pathways for black market currency to flow back into the main system which in return sustains the PM reintegration.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We shall see if I am correct.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I see Gold and PM dealers becoming highly regulated and required under heavy penalty of law to report any and all relatively large PM transactions, for example anything over two or three ounces of Gold, thus effectively cutting off Joe’s ability to feed his or her Gold back into the system and extract or convert the wealth they tried to transport from the old system to the new.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It can be done, but only very slowly and at considerable time, money and labor expense.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And most importantly, with no free floating Gold market to set realistic prices, we will once again be robbed in broad daylight.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They don’t need to ‘take’ your Gold, just take its value through price controls.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I expect that one of the national and possibly worldwide changes that will be implemented after the collapse and rebuilding of the financial system might be mandatory electronic fund transfers for things such as paying taxes, utility bills, mortgage as well as insurance and/or rent payments, payments to any local, state or federal agency or contractor as well as any large purchases such as cars, homes, businesses or anything else above an arbitrarily drawn currency amount.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Once these rules and regulations are introduced into the system, most retailers will follow the lead and refuse most or all cash transactions, preferring to use lower cost and more efficient electronic transfers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Expect a higher price or penalty to use cash (which you received when you sold your PMs) to purchase just about anything.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Remember that a vibrant black market can only exist if there is a way to launder the proceeds back into the main system or if there is a parallel alternative currency system that fits the needs of the local users.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This explains the need for drug and organized crime money to blaze a trail into the official money system. I have faith the new Ponzi will open that door for their own purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Throughout history the key to forcing the public to accept new monetary and currency systems is to demand that all payments to the false sovereign master be made in the new script and/or using the new method of payment.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This has the effect of forcing people to adopt the new system, thus validating it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wide spread use by the general population for all their financial business usually quickly follows. The oldest tricks are still the best tricks from the (global) Ponzi point of view.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This will have a two pronged effect on the system, washing out any chance of laundering larger quantities of our Gold by using it for large purchases and more effectively binding the indentured servant and wage slave to the new currency system. If the slave gets too mouthy and begins to complain, just cause a few problems with his or her electronic payment system and watch them quickly buckle.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After all, we all have to eat now don’t we?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Never let a crisis go to waste, especially when you are creating it in the first place.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;** ***** **** AMERICAN SILVER EAGLES   ** ***** ****&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-l3YyrYQxZvE/TvNoRUihk-I/AAAAAAAAAVQ/VwMVVfA9eRU/s1600/American-Silver-Eagle-Proof-Coin.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 258px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-l3YyrYQxZvE/TvNoRUihk-I/AAAAAAAAAVQ/VwMVVfA9eRU/s400/American-Silver-Eagle-Proof-Coin.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5689005401079649250" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;So how will the End Game play out?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;The answer is surely in doubt&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;When all fiat dies&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Will sound money rise&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Or will all assets suffer a rout?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"&gt;BANKSTER CONFESSES AT 100 YEAR JEKYLL ISLAND ANNIVERSARY!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"&gt;Jekyll Island - 1910&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"&gt;Former 'FED' Chairman Alan Greenspan, Admits To Rampant FRAUD &amp;amp; Illegal Activity In U.S. Banking System, While On Jekyll Island Stage With Currant 'FED' Chairman, Ben Bernanke, (From The 'Federal' Reserve's 100 Year Anniversary Celebration of the Overthrow of The U.S. at Jekyll Island). Bernanke looks uncomfortable as Greenspan admits the truth. This is exactly what the Founding Fathers wanted to avoid; A centralised cartel of 'Bankster criminals' looting our country's coffers, while affecting the rights of Sovereign States along with its people. Hence, the Jeffersonian struggle of the Confederate? South against Washington D.C.'s 'proto-Empire' of the time, which only a central bank can make possible. The Rest, (as they say) Is History...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"&gt;Enough Is Enough! - End The FED! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"&gt;It's Past Time, To END The Planned Destruction of Our Republic.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is one of the reasons I feel Silver will be more usable as an alternative unit of currency if this global collapse does transpire.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hopefully Silver is incorporated into any new national/global currency as part of its backing, for this will lend tremendous credibility to using Silver in alternative barter/currency systems.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Silver throughout the ages has always been used as money and not necessarily as a store of substantial wealth.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is why you might consider purchasing 1964 and earlier Silver U.S. coins, junk or not.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is important that we incorporate flexibility and diversification into our wealth transfer vehicles as this is the key to successfully crossing over.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To assume, hope really, that our one and only method, that of Gold, will be successful is wishful thinking at best and foolhardy at worst. For the masters, Gold is a well known and understood escape mechanism and it will not be allowed to pass totally untouched.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We must be different from the masses in order to survive while still being transparent enough that we don’t draw unwanted attention.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And that, in my opinion, is the more realistic path to dry land in this global disaster scenario.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The worst thing that you and I can do when preparing for tough times is to develop a severe case of tunnel vision and focus only on our Golden boat as the exit strategy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The bottom line is that we must try to own the same assets that will be owned and transferred by the financial elite and their henchmen and puppets.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While one of those assets will most definitely be Gold, it will not be their only asset or their most valuable.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While some of these elite alternative asset classes are out of our reach because of our much smaller stash, and there is little we can do to combat the planned inequalities that will be built into any new system, that doesn’t mean we are helpless or that it is hopeless.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On the contrary, just as the elite see the coming chaos as the perfect time to rape, rob and steal, I see it as ushering in a generational opportunity to build family and community ties like never before.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And maybe, just maybe, begin to do some of the hard work we need to do within. Just because we are being buffeted by the fierce rain and wind squalls that precede the hurricane doesn’t mean we can’t use this to our advantage.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However, if we see everything through fearful eyes and with great trepidation we are going to drop the ball and hurt ourselves worse than if we had done nothing.&lt;br /&gt;Regardless of what the bad guys did or will do, if we aren’t right within we will wind up harming ourselves much worse than they ever could.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And so this all leads directly to my final thoughts, including one I have shared many times before and which can never be repeated too often.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Over the years I have found that regardless of my heartfelt desire for a positive outcome or the gentle and considerate methods used, if my intent and motives are not honest or if I’m not honest with myself or others regarding them, rarely is the outcome to my satisfaction.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Bottom line, this isn’t about the bad guys or their enablers, their greed and lawlessness or even what is right or just.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;This is about me and my motives and how square I am with myself and others.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Just because others lie, cheat and steal doesn’t mean I must follow suit in the name of staying alive or even to justify keeping my head above water.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;What this isn’t about is sugar plums and fairy tales or holding hands and singing Kumbaya.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;This is about developing our own Karma and being true to ourselves.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"&gt;To those who seek power and greed&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"&gt;It will soon be your hour of need&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"&gt;What good is your gold?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"&gt;When you’re hungry and cold&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"&gt;And the price for some flour is seed&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So it is with great concern that I have noticed a disturbing trend among the articles and comments posted of late.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have been a ZH contributor for two years now and I watched the discussions about Gold begin as one of several ways to protect our assets.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This conversation began way back when Gold was still largely out of favor even here on Zero Hedge.&lt;br /&gt;And I have slowly seen it morph into a widely accepted concept of wealth protection as more and more began to see without a doubt that we are on a collision course with history.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There is nothing wrong with this and I have no real problem with it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But lately sentiment has changed from preserving wealth to growing wealth.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And now I am beginning to detect the next stage of the emotional escalation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am hearing greed and wanton self interest along with the self satisfied chuckle of the prospect of both making a killing and of being proven right when everyone else told us we were wrong.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am hearing the sound of avarice and lust, of rationalization and justification, of outsized egos and very little perspective.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tunnel vision can take many forms and can strike the best and the worst with the same crushing blow.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have no intention of being self righteous or of calling the kettle black when this pot can be even blacker.&lt;br /&gt;That is not the purpose or intent of this essay because there is no denying that I have also felt the seductive tug of jackpot thinking.&lt;br /&gt;But when our motive for holding Gold and Silver is distorted and warped by greed and self interest, so is our thinking and perspective.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Which means that if there comes a time when the best move forward is to sell most of the Gold and move on to another asset class, one more likely to survive the transition intact, will we be able to see this as obvious and a no brainer?&lt;br /&gt;Or by this time will we so blinded by the Golden glow that we become nothing more than obsessed slaves kneeling in prayer to the almighty God of Gold, seeing nothing but our beloved promised land?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I hope not! From my point of view our most valuable asset is, and will continue to be, an open and flexible mind.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our most valuable asset is, and will continue to be, an open and flexible mind.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;When all markets finally go bust&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;From our greed induced hubris and lust&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;To whom do we turn?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;What skills should we learn?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;It's all just a matter of trust&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;===========================&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-fboaEkWPbl0/TvNV1cP_nfI/AAAAAAAAAUg/L4EYCJ6LvEM/s1600/bush_mccain_2008.bmp"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 288px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-fboaEkWPbl0/TvNV1cP_nfI/AAAAAAAAAUg/L4EYCJ6LvEM/s400/bush_mccain_2008.bmp" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5688985130903772658" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;NO BILL OF RIGHTS&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gerald Celente continues:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“As the bankers take over, and we’re seeing what’s going on, they are throwing out democratically elected governments, we are forecasting there is going to be a severe decline in 2012, particularly in Europe.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They are going to blame the problems in Europe as a reason for the problems going on over here (in the US).&lt;br /&gt;And we have our own (problems) that are as big as Europe’s, even bigger and better.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So that brings us to the next trend, get ready for economic martial law.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They are going to call a bank holiday.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So what we are saying is conditions have become a lot worse.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And a bank holiday is no holiday folks.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can’t get your money out and when you do get it out, you will get it out a little bit at a time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It’s going to be worth a lot less.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That’s what they do with bank holidays, they devalue your money.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So they are going to do it again.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When asked about his new trend prediction titled ‘Battlefield USA,’ Celente responded, “It just became law.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Bill of Rights in the United States has been abrogated.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They passed the new Defense Act and in that Defense Act they have in there, in clear language, anybody can be arrested under the National Defense Authorization Act....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“They authorized the military to go in and take anybody they feel is an enemy of the state, citizen or not, no charges, detain them indefinitely and without a civil trial. No judge, no jury, no trial, no rights of habeas corpus.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is what the United States has become.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Put it all together, it’s going on worldwide.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The merger of state and corporate powers is, by definition, fascism.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now they have put the laws into place where fascism has become legalized.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The military could come into anyone’s home, anyone’s office, into anyone’s life and lock you up.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Take you away, torture you, blow your brains out and there’s no recourse at all.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They are setting us up, they are putting all of the pieces in place because when the banks close and when the economy starts crashing down, now they have the goon squads in place.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So they are putting the soldiers in place.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I used to think they were nuts talking about the FEMA camps, now I don’t anymore.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We have no civil liberties.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We have no rights in this country, they are all gone.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;==========================&lt;br /&gt;“Let It Not Ever Be Said, That No One Cared ... That We Did Nothing.”&lt;br /&gt;~ Texas Republican Congressman, Ron Paul ~&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-vUjEPVrJ4Kg/TvNmhjBUQSI/AAAAAAAAAUs/bm-eID_8_Fk/s1600/SHUT_YOUR_FACE.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-vUjEPVrJ4Kg/TvNmhjBUQSI/AAAAAAAAAUs/bm-eID_8_Fk/s400/SHUT_YOUR_FACE.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5689003480821547298" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;==========================&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Money As Debt-Full Length Documentary&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="315" width="420"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Dc3sKwwAaCU?version=3&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Dc3sKwwAaCU?version=3&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="315" width="420"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I watched this vid the week I completed my Banking &amp;amp; Finance degree.  I was shocked to realise that everything I learned during those 4 years  was a LIE. I also realised that if one of the conspiracy theories  circulating around was true, they all might be true. Don't stop here,  continue with your research, trust nothing if it's not backed by solid  evidence or the logic behind﻿ it is rock-solid. Be prepared to have your  stomach turned upside down, to feel like picking up a gun and start  shooting...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;============================&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;MISSING CHILDREN ARE IN UNDERGROUND BASES&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="315" width="420"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/PU4DiUeeCrM?version=3&amp;amp;hl=en_US"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/PU4DiUeeCrM?version=3&amp;amp;hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="315" width="420"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;==============================&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Congress EXPLICITLY Creating a Police State&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.prisonplanet.com/congress-to-vote-next-week-on-explicitly-creating-a-police-state.html"&gt;If You Thought Police Brutality Was Bad&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;==============================&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“The division of the United States into two federations of equal force was decided long before the civil war by the high financial power of Europe. These bankers were afraid that the United States, if they remained in one block and as one nation, would attain economical and financial independence, which would upset their financial domination over the world. The voice of the Rothschilds predominated. They foresaw the tremendous booty if they could substitute two feeble democracies, indebted to the financiers, to the vigorous Republic, confident and self-providing. Therefore they started their emissaries in order to exploit the question of slavery and thus dig an abyss between the two parts of the Republic.”&lt;br /&gt;~ Otto Von Bismarck, 1876 ~&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“History records that the money changers have used every form&lt;br /&gt;of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible to maintain their control&lt;br /&gt;over governments by controlling money and its issuance.”&lt;br /&gt;~ President James Madison - 4th President of The United States (1751–1836) ~&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“The inability of the colonists to get power to issue their own money permanently&lt;br /&gt;out of the hands of George III and the international bankers,&lt;br /&gt;was the PRIME reason for the Revolutionary War.”&lt;br /&gt;~ Benjamin Franklin ~&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;The Wizard of Oz - The REAL Story, Behind The Story&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;~ The Hidden Symbolism Within “THE WIZARD of OZ” ~&lt;br /&gt;Written by L. Frank Baum, -- It's Much More -- Than a Mere Child's Story.&lt;br /&gt;There's Actually A Real Story ... Behind The Story.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;______________________________________&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What is "Oz" a symbol for? Ounces.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What is measured in ounces? Gold.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What is the yellow brick road? Bricks or ingot bars of gold.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The character known as the 'Straw Man' represents that fictitious, ALL CAPS, legal fiction - a PERSON, the Federal U.S.Government created with the same spelling as your birth name.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Remember what the Straw Man wanted from the Wizard of Oz? A Brain, Remember?!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No juristic person - legal fiction - paper corporation has a brain because he/she has no breath of life.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What did he get in place of a brain?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A certificate: a 'Birth Certificate' for a new legal creation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He was proud of his new legal status, plus all the other legalisms he was granted ... Now he becomes the epitome of the brainless sack of straw who was given a certificate in place of a grain of common sense.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now, what about the Tin Man? Does Taxpayer Identification Number (TIN) recall anything to mind? The poor TIN Man just stood there mindlessly doing his work, until his body literally froze up and stopped functioning.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He worked himself to death, because he had no heart nor soul.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He's the heartless and emotionless creature, robotically carrying out his daily task, as though he were already dead. He's the ox pulling the plow and the mule toiling under the yoke.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These days, his task masters just oil him nightly with beer and place him in front of a hypnotic television, until his very existence no longer has any meaning or value.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;His masters keep him cold on the outside and heartless on the inside in order to control any emotion or feeling that might arise.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Cowardly Lion was always too frightened to stand up for himself. Of course, he was a bully and a big mouth when it came to picking on those smaller than he. (Have you ever noticiced how bullies are really the biggest cowards? They act as though they have great courage, but, in reality, have none at all. They roar, but with no teeth of authority to back them up.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When push came to shove, the Cowardly Lion always buckled under and whimpered when anyone of any size or stature challenged him.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He wanted courage from the Grand Wizard, so he was awarded a medal of "official" recognition. Now, although remaining a coward, his official status allowed him to be a bully, but with officially recognized authority. (He's not unlike the Attorneys who hide behind the Middle Courts of the Temple Bar.) et al ad infinitum.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What about the trip through the field of poppies? Did you notice how this had no narcotic effect on the Straw Man (no brain) or the Tin Man (no heart or soul)?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They weren't real people, so drugs could not influence them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Wizard of Oz was written at the turn of the century, so how could the author have known America was going to be drugged?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Crown has been playing the drug cartel game for centuries.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Just look up the history of Hong Kong and the 'Opium Wars' ... The Crown already had valuable experience conquering all of China with drugs, so why not the rest of the world?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What was the Emerald City? The Federal Reserve System.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Who finally exposed the Wizard for what he really was?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Toto, the ugly (or cute, depending on your perspective) and somewhat annoying little dog. Toto means "in total, all together; Latin in toto."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What was it that the witch wanted after she alleged that the little dog had bitten her?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;TOTO, meaning ... EVERYTHING.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Notice how Toto was not scared of the Great Wizard's theatrics, yet he was so small in size, compared to the Wizard, that no one seemed to notice him?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The smoke, flames and holographic images of Oz were designed to frighten people into doing as the Great Wizard commanded.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Toto simply padded over, looked behind the curtain (the COURT, etc.), saw it was a scam, started barking until others paid attention to him and came to see what all the barking was about. Who was behind the curtain?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Just an ORDINARY PERSON controlling the levers that created the illusion of the Great Wizard's power and authority.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When Toto pulled back the curtain and completely exposed him, the charade was at an end. (The veil hiding the corporate legal fiction and its false courts was removed.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Wizard's game was UP. What was he after all? ... a con-man. A FRAUD.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We can see, in this tale, just how loud the bark from a little dog can be.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How about YOUR bark? How big is it?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Most of us remain silent and wait to be given whatever food and recognition, if any, by our legal master.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let us not forget those pesky flying monkeys. What perfect mythical creatures to represent the Bar Association Attorneys who attack and control the little people for the Great Crown Wizard, the powerful and grand Bankers of Oz: GOLD!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How, finally, was the evil witch destroyed? .... pure, clean water LIQUIDATION!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How, at last, did Dorothy get home? She simply clicked her heels.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;She always had the power, and SO DO WE!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What would it take to expose the Wizard for what he is, tearing away his veils?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We each need only a brain, a heart and soul --- and COURAGE.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then, and perhaps of the greatest importance, we need to learn HOW to WORK TOGETHER.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Only "in TOTO," WORKING TOGETHER as ONE Body of the King of Kings, (whatever name or form that may take for each of us), can we have the freedom given under OUR CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;============&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2550156453790090544"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;LOVE &amp;amp; MONEY&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;============&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-k45Pw7s_bMQ/TvNs4Gs7BQI/AAAAAAAAAV0/fjrUeONazvo/s1600/MONEY%2BMASTER.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 316px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-k45Pw7s_bMQ/TvNs4Gs7BQI/AAAAAAAAAV0/fjrUeONazvo/s400/MONEY%2BMASTER.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5689010465426572546" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Eye Of The Phoenix: Secrets Of The Dollar Bill”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Slavery Behind Barbedwire &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Bankers Manifesto of 1892: (History Repeated)&lt;br /&gt;Congressman Charles A. Lindbergh, Sr. revealed the Bankers Manifesto of 1892&lt;br /&gt;to the U.S. Congress somewhere between 1907 and 1917.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We (the bankers) must proceed with caution and guard every move made, for the lower order of people are already showing signs of restless commotion. Prudence will therefore show a policy of apparently yielding to the popular will until our plans are so far consummated that we can declare our designs without fear of any organized resistance.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Organizations in the United States should be carefully watched by our trusted men, and we must take immediate steps to control these organizations in our interest or disrupt them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At the coming Omaha convention to be held July 4, 1892, our men must attend and direct its movement or else there will be set on foot such antagonism to our designs as may require force to overcome.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This at the present time would be premature. We are not yet ready for such a crisis. Capital must protect itself in every possible manner through combination (conspiracy) and legislation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The courts must be called to our aid, debts must be collected, bonds and mortgages foreclosed as rapidly as possible.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When, through the process of law, the common people have lost their homes, they will be more tractable and easily governed through the influence of the strong arm of the government applied to a central power of imperial wealth under the control of the leading financiers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;People without homes will not quarrel with their leaders. History repeats itself in regular cycles. This truth is well known among our principal men who are engaged in forming an imperialism of the world. While they are doing this, the people must be kept in a state of political antagonism.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The question of tariff reform must be urged through the organization known as the Democratic Party, and the question of protection with the reciprocity must be forced to view through the Republican Party.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By thus dividing voters, we can get them to expend their energies in fighting over questions of no importance to us, except as teachers to the common herd.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thus, by discrete actions, we can secure all that has been so generously planned and successfully accomplished.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TEZw_HIk0D0/TvNr1cGKnKI/AAAAAAAAAVo/BdMedWATJis/s1600/YES.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TEZw_HIk0D0/TvNr1cGKnKI/AAAAAAAAAVo/BdMedWATJis/s400/YES.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5689009320118361250" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Morgan Stanley Bankster - Hits Pedestrian, Then Drives Off - NOT Charged W/Felony! It Seems As Though SOME People ARE More 'Equal' Than Others ... Morgan Stanley banker escapes felony charges for hit and run, “because it could jeopardize his job ...” A financial manager for wealthy clients will not face charges for a hit-and-run, because it could jeopardize his job, it's been revealed. Martin Joel Erzinger, 52, was set to face felony charges for running over a doctor, who he hit from behind in his 2010 Mercedes Benz, then sped off. But now, he'll simply face two misdemeanor traffic charges from the July 3 incident in Eagle, Colorado. (What Do You Think Would Happen, If YOU Did That?!)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The BANK$ER$ Gorged, On A Record $144 BILLION Dollars&lt;br /&gt;In X-mas Bonuses In 2010 -- And No One Bothered To Notice ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Shut Down The "Fed" ... The 'Federal' Reserve Is NOT Federal ... Arrest The Banksters!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EbKTHNhFRpo/TvNwd5i8SFI/AAAAAAAAAWw/_ELl4ToN_hA/s1600/3dflagsdotcom_usa_2fagl.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 132px; height: 90px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EbKTHNhFRpo/TvNwd5i8SFI/AAAAAAAAAWw/_ELl4ToN_hA/s400/3dflagsdotcom_usa_2fagl.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5689014413264963666" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-size:130%;" &gt;God Help America.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-size:130%;" &gt;Know That Reality Is, (Indeed) Stranger, Than Fiction ...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-PE45cTOUFCE/TvNxaNCi0sI/AAAAAAAAAW8/TRJEU9Us24E/s1600/GROWUP.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 262px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-PE45cTOUFCE/TvNxaNCi0sI/AAAAAAAAAW8/TRJEU9Us24E/s400/GROWUP.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5689015449289937602" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-SmJn9__HHJ4/TvOT_QtLTrI/AAAAAAAAAXU/txmXRjf-Rxs/s1600/IWANTYOU.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-SmJn9__HHJ4/TvOT_QtLTrI/AAAAAAAAAXU/txmXRjf-Rxs/s400/IWANTYOU.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5689053469324562098" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;.....NOW WE TRAVEL TOWARDS DECEMBER 21 2012...&lt;br /&gt;ONE YEAR TO GO....&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;GOT SILVER?????&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.linktv.org/video/7156/voices-of-veterans"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.linktv.org/video/7156/voices-of-veterans"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;VOICES OF VETERANS&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.linktv.org/video/7156/voices-of-veterans&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Leaping Real Eyes&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/leaping.realeyes"&gt;http://www.facebook.com/leaping.realeyes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;OCCUPY TUCSON&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://occupytucson.org/"&gt;http://occupytucson.org/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;THE OTHER 99&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ustream.tv/theother99"&gt;http://www.ustream.tv/theother99&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;HARVEY ORGAN&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://harveyorgan.blogspot.com/"&gt;http://harveyorgan.blogspot.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-xWM9u1tcwQk/TvOTrBUiF_I/AAAAAAAAAXI/AXU6U9Y9auE/s1600/REAL_LIES.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-xWM9u1tcwQk/TvOTrBUiF_I/AAAAAAAAAXI/AXU6U9Y9auE/s400/REAL_LIES.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5689053121597282290" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14282204-1404124566685883218?l=leapingrealeyes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://leapingrealeyes.blogspot.com/feeds/1404124566685883218/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://leapingrealeyes.blogspot.com/2011/12/yellow-brick-road.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14282204/posts/default/1404124566685883218'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14282204/posts/default/1404124566685883218'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://leapingrealeyes.blogspot.com/2011/12/yellow-brick-road.html' title='THE YELLOW BRICK ROAD'/><author><name>HU-MYN</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='19' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_2po3B1moCd8/SG1x16B8D-I/AAAAAAAAAHM/Nex_Mj2tywo/S220/leapingsm2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-DueEmf6-WeY/TvKtKkmZsuI/AAAAAAAAAUI/p12tyLxoANg/s72-c/dying-freedom2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14282204.post-3889931332245748490</id><published>2011-11-23T19:25:00.044-07:00</published><updated>2011-11-28T17:27:25.639-07:00</updated><title type='text'>MR TURKEY</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-30QanF-CkRc/Ts2xrpsUAhI/AAAAAAAAATs/NKnRukxWs4c/s1600/truthlies.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 261px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-30QanF-CkRc/Ts2xrpsUAhI/AAAAAAAAATs/NKnRukxWs4c/s400/truthlies.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5678390068668269074" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics." - Mark Twain&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="315" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/foA0MGUbYH0?version=3&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/foA0MGUbYH0?version=3&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="315" width="425"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"&gt;Cleaned birds released - 22 November 2011 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="315" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/3w3G_-YShdc?version=3&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/3w3G_-YShdc?version=3&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="315" width="425"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;9/11 truth movement&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I hope the 9/11 truth movement wises up quickly. We need to go to the second stage of investigations/revelations.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some shadowy group/force is using extremely advanced, super-secret  weapons for some kind of goal (probably having to do with geopolitical  control) and is willing to kill thousands of totally innocent people in a  horriblehttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif way.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We need to find out who... but must of all: WE NEED THOSE TECHNOLOGIES FOR GOOD!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" &gt;===========&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" &gt;   UPDATES&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" &gt;===========&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.truth-out.org/time-retake-politics-one-percent-both-political-parties/1322491435"&gt;Time to Retake Politics From the One Percent in Both Political Parties&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Monday 28 November 2011&lt;br /&gt;by: Dean Baker, Truthout&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.truth-out.org/time-retake-politics-one-percent-both-political-parties/1322491435"&gt;Time to Retake Politics From the One Percent in Both Political Parties&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Monday 28 November 2011&lt;br /&gt;by: Dean Baker, Truthout &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/11/neoconservatives-planned-regime-change-throughout-the-middle-east-and-northern-africa-20-years-ago.html"&gt;Neoconservatives Planned Regime Change Throughout the Middle East and North Africa 20 Years Ago&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Posted on November 28, 2011 by WashingtonsBlog&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;Congress to Vote Next Week on EXPLICITLY Creating a Police State&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.prisonplanet.com/congress-to-vote-next-week-on-explicitly-creating-a-police-state.html"&gt;If You Thought Police Brutality Was Bad … Wait Until You See What Congress Wants to Do Next Week&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Washington’s Blog&lt;br /&gt;Sunday, November 27, 2011&lt;br /&gt;The police brutality against peaceful protesters in Berkeley, Davis, Oakland and elsewhere is bad enough.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;But next week, Congress will vote on explicitly creating a police state.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.rferl.org/content/Russian_Scholar_Warns_Of_Secret_US_Climate_Change_Weapon/2114381.html"&gt;Russian Scholar Warns Of 'Secret' U.S. Climate Change Weapon&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2011/29sep_galecrater/"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Strange Attraction of Gale Crater &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://blacklistednews.com/?news_id=16749&amp;amp;print=1"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;9 Ways The Bankster Occupied U.S. Government Is Waging War Against America&lt;br /&gt;November 26, 2011&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.linktv.org/programs/plunder-the-crime-of-our-time"&gt;Special: Plunder - The Crime of Our Time&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/nov/25/shocking-truth-about-crackdown-occupy"&gt;The shocking truth about the crackdown on Occupy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The violent police assaults across the US are no coincidence. Occupy has touched the third rail of our political class's venality&lt;br /&gt;Naomi Wolf   guardian.co.uk, Friday 25 November 2011&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"&gt;===============================&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.amazon.com/Towers-Evidence-Directed-Free-energy-Technology/dp/0615412564"&gt;Where Did the Towers Go? Evidence of Directed Free-energy Technology on 9/11 [Hardcover]&lt;br /&gt;Judy Wood (Author), Eric Larsen (Foreword) &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.amazon.com/Towers-Evidence-Directed-Free-energy-Technology/dp/0615412564&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="315" width="420"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Ms1uUZX_g2I?version=3&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Ms1uUZX_g2I?version=3&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="315" width="420"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/trouble"&gt;Trouble&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The global economy is heading for a massive amount of trouble in the months ahead.  Right now we are seeing the beginning of a credit crunch that is shaping up to be very reminiscent of what we saw back in 2008.  Investors and big corporations are pulling huge amounts of money out of European banks and nobody wants to lend to those banks right now.  We could potentially see dozens of "Lehman Brothers moments" in Europe in 2012.  Meanwhile, bond yields on sovereign debt are jumping through the roof all over Europe.  That means that European nations that are already drowning in debt are going to find it much more expensive to continue funding that debt.  It would be a huge understatement to say that there is "financial chaos" in Europe right now.  The European financial system is in so much trouble that it is hard to describe.  The instant that they stop receiving bailout money, Greece is going to default.  Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Spain and quite a few other European nations are also on the verge of massive financial problems.  When the financial dominoes start to fall, the U.S. financial system is going to be dramatically affected as well, because U.S. banks have a huge amount of exposure to European debt.  The other day, I noted that investor Jim Rogers is saying that the coming global financial collapse "is going to be worse" than 2008.  Sadly, it looks like he is right on the money.  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margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 246px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-NpuI67i_1kQ/TtFJFZLBB0I/AAAAAAAAAT4/wNkCNwLftkE/s400/Abu-Ghraib-prisoner-abuses.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5679400962096170818" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;===============================&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153);font-size:130%;" &gt;THIS BILL makes the PATRIOT Act look like the Bill of Rights.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;===============================&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;S. 1253 will allow indefinite military detention of American civilians without charge or trial&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;November 26, 2011&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By Madison Ruppert&lt;br /&gt;Editor of End the Lie&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;Will we allow horrors like this to happen to Americans In the United States?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A sinister bill has quietly been introduced, so expansive in scope and dangerous in nature that it makes the PATRIOT Act look like the Bill of Rights.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This bill, the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2012, or S. 1253, has received tragically sparse coverage and I must admit that I was not aware of it until a reader emailed me about it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you think the PATRIOT Act is bad, just wait until you check out sections 1031, 1032, 1033, and 1036 of this horrific bill.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) wrote a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee on July 1st of this year, addressed to the Chairman of the Committee, the “Honorable” Patrick Leahy, and Ranking Member of the Committee, the “Honorable” Charles Grassley which strongly decried the bill.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The title of the four page letter itself reveals the truly dangerous nature of this legislation, “Judiciary Committee Should Assert Its Jurisdiction Over Those Aspects of the Detention Authority Provisions in S. 1253, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012 (Sections 1031, 1032, and 1036), That Affect Civilians Who Are Otherwise Outside of Military Control, Including Civilians Within the United States Itself.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If these provisions are enacted, it would give the federal government the explicit power to imprison civilians, including American citizens, indefinitely with no charges or trial.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This would include individuals apprehended both inside and outside of the United States, meaning that this could give the federal government the ability to openly detain American citizens for their entire lives without so much as a single charge.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While the federal government already murders American citizens abroad based upon the decision of an unlegislated secret death panel within the National Security Council, this would be the first time since 1950 that Congress has explicitly authorized indefinite detention of Americans without charges or a trial.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This provision includes people who had absolutely no role in the attacks of September 11th, 2001, or any hostilities whatsoever and would mandate military detention of certain civilians.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This includes civilians arrested within the United States who would otherwise be outside of military control while also transferring all responsibilities to the Department of Defense.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Instead of the Department of Justice’s Criminal Division, National Security Division, or the United States Attorneys, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Bureau of Prisons, the Marshals Service and/or the state attorneys general handling the prosecutorial, investigative, law enforcement, penal and custodial authority, the Department of Defense would handle it all.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That means that all control would be taken out of the hands of civilians and put into the brutal grip of the American military, essentially this would mean a military takeover of our so-called justice system.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All they would have to do is classify you as a terrorist, no need for actual charges or participation in hostilities; you could be locked up indefinitely for any reason or no reason at all if the Department of Defense saw fit under this NDAA.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is so fundamentally un-American, the ACLU can’t help but right that the provisions are “inconsistent with fundamental American values embodied in the Constitution and in the country’s adherence to the rule of law.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These provisions of the NDAA are so radical that they actually remove much of the protections American citizens have had since 1878 under the Posse Comitatus Act and the Non-Detention Act of 1971.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Section 1031 of S. 1253 would be the first time in more than 60 years that our so-called representatives in Washington would allow indefinite detention of American citizens with no charges or trial without Congressional authorization.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Since 1971 the Non-Detention Act has stipulated, “No citizen shall be imprisoned or otherwise detained by the United States except pursuant to an Act of Congress,” but S. 1253 could make this a thing of the past.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The ACLU points out that while Subsection 1031(c) of S. 1253 claims that it does not apply to lawful residents of the United States or citizens “on the basis of conduct taking place within the United States except to the extent permitted by the Constitution,” glaring loopholes remain.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If the government’s track record is any indicator, we can expect these loopholes to be exploited at every possible opportunity.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Just as the federal government has used the PATRIOT Act’s so-called “Sneak-and-Peek,” or delayed notice, warrants for over 1,600 drug cases and only 15 cases of terrorism in 2006-2009, we can expect the government to use S. 1253 for detaining people for completely illegitimate reasons.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These loopholes allow suspects to be imprisoned without charge or trial, especially citizens or lawful residents who are suspected of some sort of wrongdoing outside of the United States.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The most unsettling aspect  is that the deciding factor in determining if an individual can be detained indefinitely is not any proof of guilt, but instead entirely by officials in the Executive Branch, which, according to the ACLU would be “following some future agency regulations.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This, just like the unlegislated death panel that resulted in the killing of Anwar al-Awlaki and his 16-year-old son, leaves it up to the Executive without any guidelines whatsoever.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is quite shocking how much the federal government is attempting to push us towards a dictatorship with no legal protection whatsoever from being locked up with no hope of a fair trial or even charges.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Indeed the legislation would allow American citizens to be imprisoned “until the end of hostilities” under 2001′s Authorization for Use of Military Force, or S.J. Res. 23.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yet this represents no concrete time frame whatsoever and Section 1031 would allow American citizens and non-citizen civilians who had no role in 9/11 or any other hostilities whatsoever to be detained who would otherwise not be detainable under the laws of war.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Section 1032 puts civilians who would otherwise not be subject to military control into military detention, thus removing the protections of the Posse Comitatus act.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Like Section 1031, this would include indefinite imprisonment of civilians apprehended inside of the United States, Section 1032 does not authorize the military to detain civilians without charge or trial, it in fact it mandates it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The protection against the government using the military for law enforcement activities within the United States under Posse Comitatus would be eliminated under Section 1032 and the ACLU points out that, “all state and federal law enforcement would be preempted by the military.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Previously the state and local law enforcement agencies and the Department of Justice had the primary responsibility to enforce anti-terrorism laws within the United States.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The NDAA would, in the case of many civilian suspects, remove federal state and local law enforcement from the process of investigation, arrest, criminal prosecution and imprisonment and hand said powers over to the military.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The ACLU “strongly urges” the Senate’s Judiciary Committee to conduct hearings on sections 1031, 1032, and 1036 and assert their jurisdiction to mark up these sections before the NDAA makes it to the Senate floor.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They say that the Judiciary Committee should assert their jurisdiction over these provisions in order to prevent civilian law enforcement against civilians who would otherwise be out of the purview of the military to fall into the hands of the military.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The ACLU’s letter does not, however, cover Section 1033 which Human Rights Watch claims would apply to the many detainees already being held for years without trial who have been cleared for release.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In a form letter with the subject, “Stop Militarization of Law Enforcement” they write that Section 1033 would, “force the administration, for example, to continue to hold a Guantanamo detainee simply because they were from a country of an accused terrorist.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I highly recommend that you send out this form letter along with a note written by yourself to all of your supposed representatives, along with as many phone calls as you can afford to make it clear that you do not support the United States being turned into a total militarized police state.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While we are already in dire straights in terms of civil rights in this country, codifying indefinite military detention into law is one of the most dangerous developments since the introduction of the PATRIOT Act.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you even remotely care about the principles of freedom, liberty and justice which this nation is supposed to stand for, you will do us all a favor and stand up against this wholly unacceptable legislation that could represent the end of America as we know it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://endthelie.com/2011/11/25/s-1253-will-allow-indefinite-military-detention-of-american-civilians-without-charge-or-trial/#ixzz1eneBLt8x"&gt;More at EndtheLie.com &lt;/a&gt;- http://EndtheLie.com/2011/11/25/s-1253-will-allow-indefinite-military-detention-of-american-civilians-without-charge-or-trial/#ixzz1eneBLt8x&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;=============================&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;&lt;a href="http://www.tucsonweekly.com/TheRange/archives/politics/"&gt;Arizona Sen. Jon Kyl  aka "Walking Napalm," &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.tucsonweekly.com/TheRange/archives/politics/"&gt;Killed Super Committee's Ability To Make Deal&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.tucsonweekly.com/TheRange/archives/politics/&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wash Post: Kyl, aka "Walking Napalm," Killed Super Committee's Ability To Make Deal&lt;br /&gt;Posted by Jim Nintzel on Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 12:00 PM&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dana Milbank of the Washington Post places the blame for the Super Committee's failure squarely on Arizona Sen. Jon Kyl:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So when the Arizonan was named as one of six Republicans on the debt supercommittee, Democrats feared the worst — and they got what they feared.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It exaggerates little to say that Kyl thwarted agreement almost singlehandedly.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While some Republicans on the panel — notably Reps. Dave Camp and Fred Upton — were, with House Speaker John Boehner’s blessing, prepared to strike a deal, Kyl rallied resistance with his usual table-pounding tirades.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The tragedy here is that Kyl, who has announced his retirement at the end of his term, could have risen above political pressures to strike an agreement to right the nation’s finances for a generation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Boehner’s House Republicans, aware that voters will hold them to account for inaction, were willing to deal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But Kyl’s Senate Republicans, hoping voters will evict the Democratic majority in the Senate, had no such incentive.&lt;br /&gt;The conclusion:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Walking napalm” is how one Democratic aide involved in the supercommittee described Kyl this week. And if the senator makes some mistakes as he burns down the village — well, that’s just a cost of doing business.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Earlier this year, when Kyl was leading an effort to cut off funding for Planned Parenthood, he claimed on the Senate floor that abortion is “well over 90 percent of what Planned Parenthood does.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The actual number is 3 percent.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;An aide to Kyl explained: “His remark was not intended to be a factual statement.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.tucsonweekly.com/TheRange/archives/2011/11/23/wash-post-kyl-aka-walking-napalm-killed-super-committees-ability-to-make-deal"&gt;As Kyl leaves the Senate, he will be remembered as a lawmaker who intended to be not factual but destructive.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 0);"&gt;===============================&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;We Are The 99% - But Are We?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By Michael Albert Monday, November 21, 2011&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One of the most celebrated features of the recent occupation movements has been the slogan, “We are the 99%.” Participants effusively love the slogan, but I have mixed feelings.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Occupation critics bemoan absent demands. I say, patience.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Occupation critics question ubiquitous moralism. I say, would you prefer being immoral, amoral, or moral?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But when occupiers and critics alike say, we love the creative innovation embodied in the 99% slogan, I worry.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Does saying we are the 99% obscure more than it reveals.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Will it ultimately misdirect more than focus the movement?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Could it even distort movement priorities and practices?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yes, saying we are the 99% aggressively pinpoints a very small group who have overwhelming power and wealth in society.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They are owners.&lt;br /&gt;They are capitalists.&lt;br /&gt;They are on top.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And there is policy related benefit, too.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mainstream corrections for economic crisis seek for the 1% to wind up even more securely in power than they were before the crisis.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mainstream policy makers want to get back to business as usual, which not only gave us the crisis in the first place, but also constantly gives us grotesque divisions of wealth, income, and power.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We obviously do not want to get back to business as usual, and saying we are the 99% excellently orients us toward instead redistributing wealth and power.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Even so, I would prefer that we call the 1% capitalists.&lt;br /&gt;Calling them capitalists pinpoints that they own the economy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It highlights that you can’t retain owners but not have owners on top.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To get rid of 1% dominating 99% requires replacing capitalism.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But putting this quibbling aside, virtually every occupier knows the 1% are on top by virtue of owning productive property.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Most people watching and learning from the occupations also know this, or can come to know it, and the 1% label won’t obstruct that from happening.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So saying we are the 99% still stands tall as a slogan which widely communicates previously subterranean sentiments.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now comes the controversy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What about managers?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What about doctors?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What about lawyers and engineers?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What about financial officers?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What about people who earn five six, ten, twenty, and even fifty or more times what the typical worker earns, but who do not own the means of production, do not work harder, do not labor under worse conditions, and do not work more intensely?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In short, what about people who have jobs that are highly empowering and convey very substantial and sometimes incredible wealth and status inaccessible to those below?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A 99er may reply: They are just at the top of our team, but they are still on our team, aren’t they?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They can be fired. They get wages and have to conflict with the 1% to increase their wages. They are upset about the crisis.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So isn’t it good if they come to our encampments and pitch in?&lt;br /&gt;Isn’t it good if they march in our parades and protest along with us?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What’s the problem?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The problem arises when we think of the whole 99% as all being the same type economic actor.&lt;br /&gt;In fact there are differences, some of which matter not only to our lives, but to our activism.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But to highlight the differences will diminish our inclusiveness, replies the 99er.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It doesn’t have to, is my response.&lt;br /&gt;I even think the opposite may be true.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;About 20% - 25% of all economic actors have a relative monopoly on empowering tasks.&lt;br /&gt;About 75% - 80% end up doing jobs composed of only disempowering tasks.&lt;br /&gt;The former group, due to their work, become more confident, more knowledgeable about their conditions and workplaces, and more socially practiced and capable.&lt;br /&gt;The latter group, due to their different work, become less confident, less knowledgeable about their conditions and workplaces, and less socially practiced and capable.&lt;br /&gt;The former have way more power than the latter and parlay that power into more income as well.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Okay, all that seems true, the 99er agrees, but if the 20% - 25% side with us in pursuing our agendas, isn’t that good?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yes. But there are two other possibilities we should not ignore. First, they can side with the owners at the top. Second, they can have their own agenda, different from ours, that they pursue.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Both these possibilities are not only possible, but quite likely for many highly empowered employees, even as some will also side with more typical workers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Okay, says the 99er, but I still don’t see the problem with the slogan. If we want the doctors, lawyers, engineers and others to side with us, why isn’t having one name for us all - 99ers - a good step toward that goal?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why isn’t welcoming the top 20% - 25% under our one large umbrella good?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is, in some ways.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And certainly the opposite approach, treating the empowered employees as enemies, would virtually ensure their absence from our encampments, marches, and protests.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But here is my heresy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I believe there is a very strong dynamic by which if we don’t give some serious attention to the differences between the roughly 20% - let’s call them the coordinator class - and the disempowered roughly 80% - and we can call them the working class - the former coordinators will wind up dominating the latter workers, transforming working class aspirations for classlessness into coordinator class agendas for coordinator rule.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Without going into endless detail here - the point is that the coordinators have a monopoly on empowering work.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They are not smarter.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They are not more industrious.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They are not more worthy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rather, they are elevated by their backgrounds, luck, better schooling, and mostly by their position in the division of labor.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The workers are subordinated by their backgrounds, luck, worse schooling, and mostly by their position in the division of labor.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All this can and must change.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A successful movement needs to attend to it all, not least by fighting to change the division of labor.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For example, what preferences characterize our movements?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What do our movements celebrate?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How do our movements feel to participants?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What do our movements provide participants?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Who do our movements appeal to?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Who makes our movement decisions?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Which people will feel comfortable in and empowered by our movements?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And finally, what do our movements fight for?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If we ask these questions about race or gender issues, the implications are clear.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We know that we are not all one race.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We know we are not all one gender.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We know we need movements that address race and gender inequalities and hierarchies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To attain that focus, of course we don’t argue that white people are the enemy. We don’t argue that men are the enemy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However, we do recognize that there are real privileges to deal with.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We carefully ensure that our movements elevate women and people of color to positions of influence and that our movements reject culture, styles, habits, values, and assumptions not only associated with dominant groups ruling, but off-putting to subordinate groups.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Don’t we need to translate that thinking to issues of class?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Should we settle for having a movement against the 1% and even a movement that calls itself anti capitalist, which nonetheless has a culture, style, habits, values, and assumptions, and, even more so, organization and leadership that takes for granted continued rule by the coordinator class, rather than fighting to eliminate all class division?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I worry that if we don’t even mention this class distinction, if we actively bury it under an all-inclusive 99% label applied to everyone who isn’t a capitalist, we will open the door to not addressing the problems of class inside our own organizing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Inside our movements, it is certainly important that we address issues of private ownership of property.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Otherwise we will not deal with the dynamics of capitalist rule.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But it is also important that we address issues of asymmetrical access to economic power.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Otherwise we will not deal with the dynamics of coordinator rule.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is obviously important that we not have a bunch of capitalists deciding our agendas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is also important that we not have only coordinator class members doing so.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is important that we not adopt styles and approaches comfortable for the 1%, or the 20% - 25%, but uncomfortable for the 75% - 80%.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The 99er may reply, oh, that is all just outdated orthodox marxist rhetoric that would divisively diminish our potentials.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The thing is, it isn’t. And ironically, the opposite is true.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Treating the economy as if there are just two important classes - whether we call them owners and workers or we call them the 1% and the 99% - is itself, in fact, the tired old marxist approach.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To lump everyone who isn’t capitalist into one category - whether we call that category worker or 99er - masks a critically important difference among non capitalists, and obscuring this difference was, indeed, a main problem of marxism because using its two class approach invariably generated old marxist economies in which the (unmentioned) coordinator class ruled over the (celebrated) working class.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But the 99er may reply, okay, fair enough, regarding the long run.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But we aren’t about to win a new economy tomorrow or next week.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And, for now, we need to welcome as many new participants as possible, don’t we?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yes, we do. But the participants we mostly need to welcome and elevate to defining our movements, are working class people.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Use the analogy to racism, again.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We need an anti racist movement, and we certainly need to welcome white participants into it - but only if they are against racism and are prepared, albeit even if only imperfectly and sometimes with reluctance, to not exploit their privileges.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We can’t welcome white people into an anti racist movement in ways that lead to adopting approaches, language, and habits that put off people of color from participating.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By analogy, do we want to welcome doctors, lawyers, engineers, professors, and even managers into a movement fighting against class rule?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yes, by all means, of course we do, but only if they are on the side of working people, and only if they are ready, albeit even if only imperfectly and sometimes with reluctance, to understand and try to overcome their privileges.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We need doctors, lawyers, engineers, professors, and even managers who are ready to respect working class attitudes and culture and choices.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Who are ready to accept working class leadership.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Who are ready to try to spread currently monopolized knowledge, not hoard it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Who are ready to listen, not just lecture.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But what about students, says the 99er?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The same thing applies, doesn’t it?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If a student who hopes to be doctor or lawyer also hopes to put their education and training at the disposal of working people, including trying to break down the obstacles to more people being empowered, that’s wonderful.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Welcome aboard.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But if a student who hopes to be a doctor or lawyer also hopes to become as wealthy as possible and identifies as an elite, and sees the resolution of the current economic crisis, for example, in a return to business as usual, that’s another matter, isn’t it?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sure it is hard, in practice, to deal with such differences and distinctions in ways that avoid recrimination, guilt tripping, and all the rest that we all know can creep in. But with patience, it can be done.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let me give one more example.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Suppose, down the road, a time comes for issuing demands.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Will coordinator class occupiers be okay with proposals that redistribute power and wealth not only from the top 1%, but also from the top 20% - 25%? Will doctors be okay with proposals from nurses that eat into doctors prerogatives?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Will engineers be okay with proposals from workers that eat into engineer’s prerogatives?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What about professors supporting students, even when it eats into professors prerogatives?&lt;br /&gt;Managers?&lt;br /&gt;And though it is harder to navigate the details, what about would-be doctors, engineers, professors, and managers?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If we want a movement that seeks self management, doesn’t that mean we do not want a class division that gives a monopoly on empowering work to a few and then elevates those few coordinators above workers?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If we want a movement that welcomes and empowers working people, doesn’t that mean it must be guided by working class needs and desires?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For coordinator class members who will be okay with activism that benefits mainly workers, their involvement will certainly be highly beneficial to movements seeking real change.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But for coordinator class members who won’t be okay with workers gains reducing coordinator advantages, their involvement could interfere with seeking classlessness and could become a serious barrier to retaining working class participants - just as the involvement of racists and sexists can be a barrier to retaining people of color and women participants.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My worry is that if we adopt slogans that place a big onus on even admitting that there are class differences within the 99%, much less on calmly and supportively delineating those differences and finding respectful ways to address them, then the obstacles and barriers we face could grow to be insurmountable.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My worry with the slogan we are the 99% is that maybe we need to find a way to talk about ourselves which welcomes participation, by all means, but which also admits differences that need to be addressed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The desire to address and deal with differences by eliminating elite positions in a new economy is evident in our movements’ attention to self management and participation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is what our attention to process is ultimately about, getting rid of hierarchies of power and influence.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, without becoming sectarian, without becoming judgmental, without becoming personalistic - can we pay attention to class differences which, if they instead go unmentioned, will get in the way of self management and participation?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I think we can, and that we need to.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153);"&gt;=================================&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102); font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;KARMA&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102); font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;=========================&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 51, 102);font-size:130%;" &gt;Beginning to deepen our understanding of this universal law&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By Yogi Baba Prem Tom Beal Vedavisharada, CYI, C.ay, C.va&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While the term Karma is unique to India its basic principles are found throughout the world.  As an example: the golden rule in Christianity, “Do onto others as you would&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;have them do onto you.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is karma, what you put out will return to you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But is that all there is to karma?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Karma comes from the Sanskrit word Kri, which literally means to work.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is important because in western society karma has become an eye for an eye, tooth for tooth mentality.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is not what is really meant by karma.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Often people will read that karma is cause and effect.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is where we will start our study of karma.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cause and effect is often considered to be literally: do an improper action; have an improper action done to you.  While this can be true, it is more important to&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;remember that we are the sum total of our actions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In other words, think an angry thought become an angry thought.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This illustrates the more serious implications of karma.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You (ego) are the sum total of your thoughts.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Your perceptions are the sum total of your thoughts.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You respond based on the sum total of your thoughts and conflicts.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These thoughts are internal karma.  External karmas are actions that are done to you from others.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The internal karma can influence the external karma and visa-versa.  As an example, if you think unkind thoughts of yourself, you may attract people that re-enforce&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;those unkind thoughts.  If people that think unkind thoughts surround you; you will eventually begin to think similar thoughts.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In Ayurveda it is taught that karma is undigested experience.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In other words, the emotional mind (manas) and ego (ahankara) cannot truly comprehend an experience they can only react.  So if we experience only through our&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;emotions and ego we create a conflict between the conscious and sub-conscious mind.  This conflict will manifest over and over again by the sub-conscious mind until&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;the conflict can be resolved.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This process is not necessarily to punish you, but it is the minds process of resolving conflict. Karma is actually the greatest gift the cosmos could provide.  It is a&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;natural process for resolution of conflicts, ill behavior or choices we have made with an unenlightened mind.  Karma’s give the opportunity to free oneself from these&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;conflicts.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is where the word Kri (work) mentioned earlier comes in.  A person needs to work out the conflicts.  This process calms the mind, enhances peace, and expands&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;awareness.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is important that we cultivate the ability to appreciate karma at work.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If someone has a disease you may say, “how sad”, but in reality the disease may serve him or her as a “wake up call” that changes need to be made.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In that case the disease could be very important to their growth as a person and may mark a point in their life where great physical, mental, and spiritual change took&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;place.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This process can apply on a very practical level for physical health also.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you eat garbage eventually the body’s tissues will suffer from the lack of minerals, vitamins, prana, and other nutrients.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cause and effect.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By eating poorly you are not just creating a conflict, the body is being robbed of vital nutrients (cause) and will result in disease (effect).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The sub-conscious conflict then has occurred with the need to learn to respect and take care of the body.  This may manifest within this lifetime or another lifetime.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Karma is not something to be feared.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is one of the great teachers of the universe.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is a master and a servant to us all.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Do not perform good karma because it is good; perform it because it is who you are.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Do not be a good person for a reward, be a good person because you respect that attribute.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then you will be free from karma and achieve liberation (moksha).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102); font-weight: bold;"&gt;=================================&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;JUST WANTED TO WISH YOU ALL A VERY SPECIAL THANKS FOR ALL YOUR SUPPORT:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;K&lt;/span&gt;INDliNESS AND&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; N&lt;/span&gt;URTURING FOR&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; E&lt;/span&gt;VERYONE &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;E&lt;/span&gt;VERYWHERE&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Arid-zone Ugly Crows &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;K&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;N&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;E&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;E&lt;/span&gt;.  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A Historical Overview&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On Perpetual ZIRP&lt;br /&gt;Bruce Krasting's picture&lt;br /&gt;Submitted by Bruce Krasting on 08/09/2011 17:37 -0400&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I had this to say last week:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Fed could easily attempt to buy some market peace by issuing a statement that the policy of zero interest rates would be extended for a minimum period of one year. I consider this to be a “high probability" to happen in the next 30 days.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I got it right, but I got it completely wrong.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I feared that the Fed could extend the ZIRP language for as long as a year. Not in my wildest dream did I think they could take the extremely risky move of guaranteeing that interest rates will remain at zero for another 24 months.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Having been shocked, my thoughts.&lt;br /&gt;*This action is indefensible on economic merits. This move is not motivated by sound monetary policy. It’s motivated by politics.This is a payback to Obama. Shame on the Fed for mixing politics with money.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*We will not go two years with this monetary policy without inflation (measured by core) exceeding the previously stated commitment by Bernanke that policy would not be allowed to rise above 2%.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bernanke and the dove members that signed onto this policy have lied to the American people.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bernanke has done it on 60 Minutes. He has done it to Congress. Shame on all of them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*The Fed has taken away its ability to react to a situation that would require them to tighten. We are now on a one-way street.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There is no way to turn around anymore. I believe the Fed has abdicated its responsibilities under the dual mandate. The have no ability to react if inflation should pop up in a year from now.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Even worse, they have no policy options should there be a run on the dollar. The possibility of a run on the buck has gone up exponentially as a result.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Should that happen, the Fed will have left us economically defenseless. Shame on the Fed for making us more vulnerable to a speculative attack.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*The stock market run up this afternoon is the Bernanke Put at work. Lets be clear on the consequences of Perpetual ZIRP.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From this day onward every buy and hold investor who acquires Treasury debt with maturities of less than five-years is GUARANTEED TO LOSE MONEY.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So if you accept that, then stocks have to look better. Shame on the Fed for debasing money and punishing savers.&lt;br /&gt;*We have only one monetary policy. Juice stock multiples. This is the farthest thing from “Progressive” economics as you can get.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We have a policy in place that is designed to make wealthy people wealthier. At some point there will be a social cost to this.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The fires and riots in London were triggered by a shooting. Underneath is a rage between haves and have nots.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Shame on the Fed for rigging the outcome for fat cats. Double shame on them for when our streets are filled with rage.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*Zero interest rates also means Zero risk.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I think the change in Fed language will exacerbate recent short-term funding liquidity. I think we will see this appear (again) sooner versus later. I think Zero interest rates discourages leveraged investing. This policy will dry up liquidity in the asset backed market (Shadow banking system).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm looking for evidence of this in the Euro Dollar funding markets.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am also looking for it to occur in the Term Commercial Paper market. Shame on the Fed for setting us up for this systemic risk.&lt;br /&gt;*Brazil, Argentina, Korea, Indonesia are going to scream bloody murder over perpetual ZIRP.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Russia is likely to get downright ugly with their rhetoric.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I wouldn’t be surprised if they took this opportunity to vote with their feet and just abandon the dollar as a reserve holding.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;China will also make noise.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They will make more calls for a new international currency to replace the dollar.&lt;br /&gt;The Central bankers in Japan and Switzerland are puking in the trashcan over this.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bernanke is exporting US deflation to them.Shame on the Fed for pursuing Beggar my neighbor policies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They deserve all the global criticism they are about to get.&lt;br /&gt;*Bernanke bills himself as a student of the Depression.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He has said over and over that he would not make the mistakes that the Fed made in 1937 when a tightening of monetary policy triggered another wave of deflation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I think the history books will look at the Fed and August of 2011 and draw a similar conclusion.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At a critical time in history the Fed has taken action.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The mistake of 72 years ago DID cause a recession that lasted a few years.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The mistakes of 2011 will mark a point in history where America turned a corner downward.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One that will take a few decades to recover from.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The history books will shame Ben.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;Federal Reserve Act of 1913 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Censure Mitch McConnell and John Boehner!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They knew better than to play roulette with the full faith and credit of the US but instead they participated in a Conspiracy of Lies to confuse the public for future political advantage and recklessly cast doubt on the will of the US to live up to its lawful obligations&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These two GOP traitors (the parties) violated their oath to preserve and protect the US Constitution and specifically the 14th Amendment requirement that states, "The debt of the US will not be questioned".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. The above-mentioned parties however did instead knowingly and deliberately call for preconditions on the payment of those debts instead of raising the debt ceiling, which authorizes the US Treasury to pay the bills already allocated by act of Congress&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. The above mentioned parties knowingly and deliberately misled the American public into believing that they could disregard the instructions of the14th Amendment and bring the debt of the United States into question by misrepresenting the debt as a credit card limit increase instead of a solemn obligation for payment of pre-existent obligations already appropriated by acts of Congress to which they themselves have been party and,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. Such acts by the above-mentioned parties have been cited by credit rating agencies and foreign sovereigns as cause for unprecedented and irreparable harm to the interests of the USA and has brought new shame and ill repute to the US Congress and the American system of Government and should be investigated by the US Department of Justice for violation of law or sedition at a time US combat troops are conducting operations abroad and by Congressional ethics process&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(153, 51, 0);"&gt;***************************&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Federal Reserve Act of 1913 concocted legislation, to be foisted upon the People's Congress of the United States, that empowered and commissioned this secret cabal of World-dominant bankers to PRINT UNITED STATES CURRENCY, a usurpation of our Constitution's explicit edict empowering ONLY THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT to print and coin currency.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This world banking empire used their stolen power to print, out of thin air, paper currency which, in no way represents the gold and silver reserves that authentic currency is supposed to represent.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thus, the Rothschilds, the Morgans and the Rockefellers connived the power to pick the pocket of *EVERY* American, from the small child buying a loaf of bread to bring home, to the father of a household, working his life away to feed, clothe and shelter his family.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This monumental, yet secret fraud had swindled untold billions of REAL dollars from the hands of the American citizenry, from the moment of the birth of the Federal Reserve Act (sneaked through Congress on Christmas Eve, 1913) until the day when one courageous President of the United States, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, determined that he shall return the United States Treasury to its rightful task of printing UNITED STATES SILVER CERTIFICATES, notes that represent REAL money, silver held in reserve by the United States Government -- silver which the U.S. Government promises to pay, upon demand, to the bearer of that certificate.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This sterling deed of rescue of America's financial self-determination so angered the supremely powerful Rothschild, Rockefeller, Morgan, and other ensconced banking families, that they ordered the execution of this courageous President John Kennedy who dared serve the interests of his people, the People of the United States of America.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So virulent was the bankers' anger, that they ordained that he shall have his brains blown out in the most public of settings -- on the streets of a major American city, in an open and highly heralded motorcade, amidst throngs of his admiring people.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And, yes, these banker assassins wanted to communicate to the world, in some cloaked manner, that they, the world's banking emporers, were the true rulers over the American People, not this renegade president, whose job it was to take orders from his masters lurking behind the curtain of the world's stage.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So these banker assassins DELIBERATELY left their calling card, not at the scene of their atrocity, but at the TIME of their atrocity: that time was their calling card: NOVEMBER 22nd, the anniversary of the conception of their evil Federal Reserve Act -- November 22nd, 1910, the night when their emissaries began their secret journey from that lonely railway station in Hoboken, New Jersey to Jekyll Island, Georgia, the womb which was to hatch a most ghastly, fearsome and ravenous monster, THE CREATURE FROM JEKYLL ISLAND, the Federal Reserve Act.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);" dir="ltr" id="eow-title" title="Alan Greenspan: WE CAN ALWAYS PRINT MORE MONEY"&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/44036029#44050320"&gt;Alan Greenspan: WE CAN  ALWAYS PRINT MORE MONEY &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);" dir="ltr" id="eow-title" title="Alan Greenspan: WE CAN ALWAYS PRINT MORE MONEY"&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/44036029#44050320"&gt;from 8/7/11 interview &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span dir="ltr" id="eow-title" title="Alan Greenspan: WE CAN ALWAYS PRINT MORE MONEY"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;object height="349" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/q6vi528gseA?version=3&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/q6vi528gseA?version=3&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="349" width="425"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The reason we have a bill of rights was to ensure that states retained there powers and authority, however it states very clearly that any conflict between the 2 will give the federal authority precedence however we have many governors trying to stall legislation, and make a mockery of the constitution.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Situation with Jefferson and Hamilton is still being played out today. Hamilton created the banks and even wealthy landowners were afraid that they would succomb to the financial postering in the late 1700's while Jefferson fought him, and eventually left the Hill because of it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This was why President Washington ran and won reelection to his second term. The alliances that Jefferson accused Hamilton of giving priveleged information to his buddies and leveraging the banks would make them fail.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thats when the buddies became bankers and here we are in 2011.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fascism was born and only fitting that Italy's economy is too large to handle a bailout so it will start a ripple effect, and austerity measures which will result in riots and upheavals worldwide. Remember the movie trading places in the 80's except this time there won't be a happy ending!!!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="349" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/vKVRW5L50TA?version=3&amp;amp;hl=en_US"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/vKVRW5L50TA?version=3&amp;amp;hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="349" width="425"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 204);"&gt;Weapons of Financial Destruction  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Knowing the history of the banksters,&lt;br /&gt;Knowing how, who and when the Anglo American Empire was created,&lt;br /&gt;you will realeyes how the ongoing financial Armageddon will play out...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;‘I theorized in the 3 Coming False Flags that Elite will pick a fight with China way before we accept a 3rd world status. “&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Become aware of how and who and when these financial weapons were created and unleashed upon humanity.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today is a special day for the Jewish Rothschild empire...they were expelled from England in 1290 on this day 9th of AV... So, remember the historical dates and be prepared...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/946703/%20jewish/What-happened-on-the-Ninth-of-Av.htm"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"&gt;What happened on the Ninth of Av?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;"&gt;A Historical Overview&lt;br /&gt;Everything is historically connected.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;The Rothschilds and the Hong Kong Mercantile Exchange&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have been watching the emergence of the Hong Kong Mercantile Exchange with great interest. I recognize the importance of China establishing this new market that now not only trades Gold and Silver, but eventually Food and Oil.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The ability to trade these commodities in both Dollars and Renminbi is a huge step in creating a regional, if not global, reserve currency.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The historical significance of this new exchange in the sea change in wealth and power from the Anglo American empire to Asia, is completely missing in today’s media.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Two years ago in the Sons of Liberty Academy, I speculated about the rise of the anti-Hegemon challenging the power of the Anglo American Empire that has dominated the world for the past few centuries.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The anti-Hegemon is a union of nations that has fallen victim to, or not benefited from, the Anglo American paradigm.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The core of this group includes China, Russia, Iran and Venezuela, but many other nations are learning that there is much to gain from the power vacuum left in the collapse of the dollar.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nations like Brazil, India, Pakistan and South Africa have become closer to the core anti-Hegemon.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Even nations that are supposed allies of the Anglo American empire, like France, occupied Germany, and occupied Japan have much to gain from getting out of the shadow of the Anglo American empire.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.” -Sun Tzu&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The anti-Hegemon has been most wise not to go head-to-head with the mortally wounded beast of the American Empire. They see the mathematical inevitability of the dollar collapsing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Without a functioning currency, America cannot control its global empire.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With each trade agreement and exchange that is opened outside the Anglo American empire, the beast is wounded further.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;China has amassed trillions of dollars and is now spending this money on real tangible assets. The most important part of this investment is that China is investing and creating allies,  while we drop bombs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have studied the Anglo American Elite very closely and I know they would not go down this road without having a plan.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The first part, was the creation of the Petro Dollar standard.&lt;br /&gt;Both oil shocks in the 70′s were completely planned by the Anglo American Elite.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Bilderbergers instructed Henry Kissinger to create an oil crisis to increase the price of oil 400% following the closing of the gold window in 1971.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The new dollars would be recycled back into America’s markets providing a very powerful petro dollar trade.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Admit it, you have always thought it was very odd that the Arabs would be so willing to reinvest their dollars into the great Satan.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now you know it was all a game of power.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What is not as well known, that at the same time the Anglo American Empire started the Petro Dollar standard, they stopped all development of oil in America.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After all, why use our precious and limited resources when we can print little green pieces of paper and get someone else’s oil?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I guarantee you, that as soon as the dollar dies and we are no longer able to import oil for dollars,  America will announce the most amazing oil “finds.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We still have half of the Gulf, both the East and West Coasts, Colorado, the Bakken Field, and most importantly Alaska.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These projects will be up and running in record time to help re-establish the Anglo American dominance.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The end of the Petro Dollar will end our world and the Anglo American Elite will not go down without a fight.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I theorized in the 3 Coming False Flags that Elite will pick a fight with China way before we accept a 3rd world status.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Throughout the most of the last century the Anglo American Elite built up and created enemies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They do this to have wars, that create more debt and control natural resources in order to maintain their dominance.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There is ample evidence that Wall St funded the Bolshevik Revolution and even financed and supported the Soviet Empire up until its final days.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Without their support, Stalin would have lost the war, never been given half of Europe, and starved millions of times over with the utter failure of Communism.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The British funded and created Hitler.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While America was going through the Great Depression, Germany was booming with the creation of Hitler’s dream. Even Benito Mussolini was on the British payroll.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Even more recently Saddam Hussien received billions of dollars of support and was practically begged not to give up the dollar for oil trade.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When he crossed that line, he had to go. (Just like Gaddafi and his gold Dinar dream.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Anglo American elite, more specifically the Rothschilds, have supported both sides of almost every war in the past two centuries.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Rothschilds power is derived off of their ability to lend out more debt.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nothing creates debt faster than war.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Without war, debts would eventually be paid off and control of assets would slip from their fingers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In order to create massive debts, massive threats have to be created. I believe that China will become the next major enemy of the Anglo American Elite.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A little over a decade ago, China was nothing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They were a backwards country that had been closed to the outside world for decades.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With the most favored nation trade status, their exports rose astronomically and trillions went into building up an economic, political and military threat.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Without the Elite building up China, they would have been nothing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When I first looked into the HKMEx I was mainly looking to see if silver manipulators JP Morgan, Goldman or HSBC were involved.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The good news, I did not see that they had any controlling or operational influence in the HKMEx.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The worst thing I guess I found out of the list of board members was President Albert Helmig was a former VP of the NYMEX.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The amount of information on the rest of the board is limited most likely because they are Chinese and English Google is limited.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I then looked a little further to see who was paying the board.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have discovered that Nathan Rothschild along with the People’s Bank of China created the privately owned Hong Kong Mercantile Exchange.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;According to Markets Wiki the HKMEx was founded by En+ Group.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On the face of it, it looks like a Russian company is partnering with China as they strengthen ties inside of the anti-Hegemon.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When you look at the board of En+ Group you see Nathan Rothschild is at the genesis of this new market that looks poised to take down the dollar.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nathan Rothschild has had other deals with “enemies” of the Anglo American Empire.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Recently, it has become apparent that Nathan Rothschild had deep financial ties with Muammar Gaddafi in Libya.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The relationship was interesting since most of the world’s central banks are Rothschild controlled and Libya was one of the few nations not under the Rothschild control. Nat developed a relationship with Gaddafi’s son Saif, then when the time was right, Gaddafi would have to go.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is small potatoes compared to the Rothschild Rape of Russia.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You may vaguely remember the rise of the Oligarchs in Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It was said that these few young men became the richest men in the world when they bought and controlled huge portions of the natural resources and industries in the former Soviet Union for pennies on the dollar.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We were told that they were lucky, smart or cunning.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The reality was that they were merely front men for a much larger power.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Young men like Mikhail Khordorkovsky went from obscurity to owning the Russian equivalent of Exxon Mobil in a few years.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For years these Oligarchs controlled Russia with their wealth and mob like tactics.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Finally, when Vladimir Putin wrestled control of Russia from the Oligarchs it became apparent that the power was never with the Oligarchs, but the Rothschilds.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When Vladimir Putin imprisoned Mikhail Khordorkovsky it was reveled that Jacob Rothschild was the real owner of Yukos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now Jacob’s son Nathan, is partnering with another Rothschild Russian Oligarch Oleg Deripaska in En+ Group with China, what could possibly go wrong?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oleg Deripaska was a manager of a smelter at 25.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Four years later he owned the Sibirsky Aluminium Investment Industrial Group.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That grew into Basic Element conglomerate that controlled…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;■United Company RUSAL Largest Aluminum Producer&lt;br /&gt;■Ingosstrakh oldest insurance company&lt;br /&gt;■GAZ automotive&lt;br /&gt;■Avaikor Aviation&lt;br /&gt;■EuroSibEnergo Power Company&lt;br /&gt;■Glavmosstroy Construction&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In 2008, Oleg was the eight richest man in the world with an estimated worth of $28 Billion dollars. (All of these “richest” lists never show you the real wealth of trillionaire families like the Rothschilds who own Central Banks.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All of Oleg’s wealth came of course through the power of the Rothschilds.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oleg thrived in the chaotic era of crime that was rampant in Russia after the collapse.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Aluminum Wars were probably one of the more violent episodes in the battle for control.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lawlessness in Siberia was rampant as, “politicians, managers or reporters –were run over, shot, had their throats cut or were killed in air crashes.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the midst of all of this violence, Oleg emerged the king of Aluminum.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/20/business/yourmoney/20oligarch.html?pagewanted=3"&gt;Out of Siberia, a Russian Way to Wealth&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is also important to note that the Rothschilds exited the LBMA in 2004.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Rothschilds have been involved and owned gold for centuries. They know more than any other family in the world,  the power of gold.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At the LBMA they and a few other families owned so much gold that they literally met twice a day to literally fix the global price of gold.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So why did they leave the LBMA after 200 years in London and why are they going back in to the game in China?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My speculation is that the LBMA does not have all of the gold they are trading as Andrew Maguire’s testimony proved.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These Anglo American banks are trading and suppressing the real price of gold and silver with multiple paper schemes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My guess is that the Rothschilds simply left the scene of the crime before it comes crashing down.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So why China?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Given the history of the Rothschilds and the fact that their wealth has been tied to buying assets when there is “blood on the streets,”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I think China will be the next to bleed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The heart of the Anglo American empire is the Rothschilds and Rockefellers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They have been actively courting China to join forces with them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These Elitists actually admire the Chinese in their ability to control their citizens and its free reign they give to industrialists.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Whatever the price of the Chinese Revolution, it has obviously succeeded not only in producing more efficient and dedicated administration, but also in fostering high morale and community of purpose.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The social experiment in China under Chairman Mao’s leadership is one of the most important and successful in human history.” -David Rockefeller, statement about Mao Tse-tung in The New York Times, August 10,1973&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.enotes.com/genocide-encyclopedia/mao-zedong"&gt;(65 million died under Mao.)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Some even believe we (the Rockefeller family) are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as ‘internationalists’  and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure—one world, if you will.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If that’s the charge,  I stand guilty, and I am proud of it.” -David Rockefeller, Memoirs, page 405&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Rothschild minion George Soros has been trying the hardest to get the Chinese to play ball with the Anglo American Elite.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Their creation of a New World Order must have China or it will collapse.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Chinese have been wise to take from the Anglo American empire and not give them any control.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They play along while they continue to strengthen their position. Ultimately if the Chinese do not take the offer, they will be handled with the gun.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://dont-tread-on.me/the-3-coming-false-flags/"&gt;(Read the 3 Coming False Flags.)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“If my sons did not want war, there would be no war.” -Baron Rothschild&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Having the Rothschilds involved at the HKMEx really raises my alarm as they create deeper ties inside the Chinese elite.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.iamthewitness.com/DarylBradfordSmith_Rothschild.htm"&gt;If you know anything about the Rothschilds&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;they are very generous and gracious friends when they want something from you, and when they have what they want, they turn the tide and leave you hanging.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They mastered the cycle of lending generously money that they don’t have through fractional reserve banking and then contracting credit markets so that they take ownership of the assets that they loaned against.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The big play they mastered is loaning to both sides of wars and then making sure that the victors are responsible for the defeated debts to be paid.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Don’t dance with the devil.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“I care not what puppet is placed upon the throne of England to rule the Empire on which the sun never sets. The man who controls Britain’s money supply controls the British Empire, and I control the British money supply.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The current Nathan Rothschild namesake Lord Nathan Rothschild.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Rothschild story: A golden era ends for a secretive dynasty&lt;br /&gt;This week NM Rothschild &amp;amp; Sons pulled out of trading in gold, the commodity that made their name in banking&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;James Turk and Eric Sprott, Silver Gurus Talk About Paper Silver Manipulation &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="349" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Lt7EQTv3wy4?version=3&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Lt7EQTv3wy4?version=3&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="349" width="425"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;==========================&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Constitutional Money: Don't Ask, Don't Tell&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[Remarks of RHH prepared for GATA Gold Rush 2011, The Savoy Hotel, London, England, August 4-6, 2011]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Don't Ask, Don't Tell" may in certain situations be an appropriate response, but not to violations of the United States Constitution, particularly by those sworn to uphold it.&lt;br /&gt;Prior to the Civil War, no one -- least of all the framers of the Constitution -- would have doubted Daniel Webster's 1836 statement on the Senate floor:[1]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Most unquestionably there is no legal tender, and there can be no legal tender, in this country, under the authority of this Government or any other, but gold and silver, either the coinage of our own mints, or foreign coins, at rates regulated by Congress.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;This is a constitutional principle, perfectly plain, and of the very highest importance. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The States are expressly prohibited from making any thing but gold and silver a tender in payment of debts; ... [A]s Congress has no power granted to it, in this respect, but to coin money, and to regulate the value of foreign coins, it clearly has no power to substitute paper, or any thing else, for coin, as a tender in payment of debts, and in discharge of contracts. ... The legal tender, therefore, the constitutional standard of value, is established, and cannot be overthrown. To overthrow it, would shake the whole system.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In response to the financial pressures of the Civil War, the federal government issued paper legal tender notes printed on just one side in green ink: the "greenbacks." Reversing itself after a change in its composition, the Supreme Court in 1870 in the Legal Tender Cases upheld by one vote the constitutionality of the greenbacks, but expressly rejected the notion that Congress could make paper money a standard of value or that the greenbacks were anything other than a promise to pay gold dollars at some future though unspecified date.[2]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In 1935 the monetary changes wrought by the New Deal came before the Supreme Court in the Gold Clause Cases.[3] Addressing the devaluation of the dollar from $20.67 to $35 per ounce of gold, the Court noted that the dollar retained its value both in silver and in purchasing power, and then by a single vote allowed the government to evade making payments at the old parity to its bondholders because dollars at the new parity had substantially the same buying power as before.[4]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Forty years ago, on August 15, 1971, President Nixon closed the gold window, severing the link between the U.S. dollar and gold that had existed since ratification of the Constitution in 1789, not to mention unilaterally terminating the post-war international monetary system agreed to at Bretton Woods in 1946.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How did the Supreme Court decided the Fiat Money Cases that must then surely have come before it?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sorry, no such cases exist. They do not exist because unlimited fiat money with no credible link to gold or silver cannot be justified or excused under any plausible reading of the Constitution.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Faced with the indefensible, the Supreme Court -- indeed the entire American legal establishment from the best law schools to the highest levels of government -- adopted with respect to the monetary principles of the Constitution a policy akin to "Don't Ask, Don't Tell."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The few cases that were brought challenging the constitutionality of the Nixon dollar met generally with peremptory dismissal at the trial level, citing without analysis the Legal Tender Cases and/or the Gold Clause Cases, followed by per curiam affirmance on appeal and denial of certiorari at the Supreme Court.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Many of you are familiar with the case Chris Powell describes as Howe v. All the Money in the World, or more accurately, versus All the Fiat Money in the World, also known as the Gold Price Fixing Case.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Although the trial judge dismissed the price fixing claim for lack of antitrust standing, his opinion contained a reasonably neutral and detailed summary of the alleged facts regarding official efforts to suppress gold prices in an attempt to bolster the fiat dollar.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wide exposure of these allegations on the Internet coupled with the technical legal grounds for dismissing them left many with the conviction that the allegations were largely true. So the case could be judged in baseball lingo a sacrifice fly in that it advanced public understanding of the continued monetary importance of gold.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Two earlier monetary cases in which I participated could only be called strikes. The more recent involved an agreement by a city -- a state instrumentality -- to reimburse a developer for the costs of a road and utilities constructed and paid for in 1966, but only if and when the city exercised its right to allow others to use them, which it did not do until 1987. See Walter W. Fischer v. City of Dover, N.H. In 1966, of course, the dollar was still defined by law and international treaty with reference to gold; by 1987 not only had the paper dollar depreciated substantially in purchasing power, but also the United States had resumed issuing gold and silver legal tender coins.[5]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Citing the prohibition against the states making any thing but gold or silver a legal tender, the developer demanded payment in the new gold or silver legal tender coins at their declared face value.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Supreme Court of New Hampshire rejected this demand, and the Supreme Court of the United States denied certiorari, declining yet another opportunity to address the constitutional issues presented by a continuously depreciating fiat dollar.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But it should be noted that enforcement through the courts is not the only possible redress under this prohibition, which is worded in a manner that grants to the states an affirmative power to make gold or silver a legal tender within their borders.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today increasing concern over the future of the dollar has prompted several states to move in this direction.[6]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The older case, like the Gold Price Fixing Case, pitted me against a similar group of powerful defendants: the United States, the Federal Reserve Board, the Federal Open Market Committee, and the Secretary of the Treasury, at the time James Baker.[7]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Taking a leaf from von Mises, who regarded sound money as "an instrument for the protection of civil liberties,"[8] I asserted that the monetary provisions of the Constitution mean to guarantee to every citizen a right to the use and benefits of lawful money, that is, money legally and credibly defined with reference to gold or silver.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Brought in 1985, this case sought to engage the attention of the Reagan administration,[9] which although elected on a platform calling for a return to the gold standard ultimately settled for the ineffective U.S. Gold Commission. See Report of the U.S. Gold Commission, Volumes I &amp;amp; II.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To the surprise of many including the defendants' attorneys, the trial judge at the hearing on their motion to dismiss took an active and apparently sympathetic interest in my case, particularly the argument that secular depreciation in the purchasing power of unlimited fiat money undermined Article III, section 1, of the Constitution providing that federal judges shall "receive for their services, a Compensation, which shall not be diminished during their continuance in office."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But sympathetic though he was, the judge dismissed the case in a brief opinion applying the accepted formula of unexplained reliance on the Legal Tender Cases and the Gold Clause Cases, thus preparing it for quiet burial in an unmarked grave on appeal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To try to avoid this fate, I solicited supporting amicus briefs for my petition to the Supreme Court[10] from three of Harvard Law School's most prominent constitutional scholars.[11]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Two had served as Solicitor General of the United States, the government's chief counsel before the Supreme Court; one had been famously fired as Watergate special prosecutor; another was the former longtime dean of the school; and the third for many years was widely regarded as Harvard's candidate for the Supreme Court. Gracious replies from each, but no help.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;None suggested that I had misread the Constitution or misconstrued the intent of the framers. Rather, in essence their collective view was that there was no possibility the Supreme Court would take the case, that the matter was too political, and anyway, what was so special about money linked to gold?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As one put it: "J. M. Keynes said somewhere that the only reason for the gold standard was as a safeguard lest all the managers of the currency should suddenly go mad at once." Not surprisingly, my petition for certiorari was denied.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So here we are, with American debt and deficits running completely out of control and its banking system on life support from the Federal Reserve. Daniel Webster was right; unlimited fiat money has shaken the American constitutional system to its very foundations.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Constitution established a republic, a democratic form of government in which the powers of the majority and of the government itself are constrained by assorted means, among them a bill of rights, an independent judiciary, the separation of powers, various checks and balances, a reservation of non-delegated powers to the states or to the people, and not least the discipline of gold or silver.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That discipline seeks to restrain the natural spendthrift tendencies of all democracies, preserve equity among successive generations, and in a federal union like the United States, maintain economic and fiscal balance between the federal government and those of the states, provinces or regions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While a number of state constitutions require balanced budgets, the federal Constitution does not precisely because its framers assumed that sound constitutional money would force reasonably balanced budgets over time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Candidate Obama argued persuasively that change would not come to Washington except through new players, but his economic team has featured the same old Keynesians responsible for creating the current economic mess in the first place. Unwilling to break from their orthodoxies, President Obama has continued down the path of saving the biggest banks, making us all slaves to this privileged elite, while at the same time trying to preserve an unaffordable welfare/warfare state.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is long past time for real change; for a new team to include a few economists from the Austrian school; and for a new plan to deal with the nation's debt and deficits -- a plan to repair the nation's money and its credit just as adoption of the Constitution did back in 1787, when the phrase "Not worth a Continental" remained fresh in living memory.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Historically the courts have been almost as loathe to interfere in questions pertaining to war and peace or to management of the armed forces as to monetary affairs. But as the recent repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" in the military shows, this reluctance can be overcome when the president himself leads the effort to vindicate constitutional principles.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then the courts can become his powerful ally, and the threat of judicial intervention on the president's side can push Congress into supportive action.[12]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What is more, continued erosion in the purchasing power of judicial salaries has again made them a hot issue, opening the door to sympathetic consideration by the courts of sound money arguments based on the judicial compensation clause.[13] Indeed, Chief Justice Roberts himself has argued that inadequate cost-of-living increases are threatening the very independence of the judicial branch.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What should the president do?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;First, declare that in his view the Constitution requires money credibly linked to gold or silver, and that absent a constitutional amendment authorizing a central bank and granting it authority to issue a wholly fiat legal tender, the national monetary system must be brought into compliance with the language, intent and wisdom of its framers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Put the blame for the nation's debt, deficits and ebbing economic vitality where it belongs: an addiction to unlimited fiat money. Explain that as with drug or alcohol addiction, the cure will not be easy, painless or quick, but the longer delayed, the worse the prognosis.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Second, commit his administration to working with Congress to develop and put in place "with all deliberate speed"[14] a new monetary system meeting constitutional requirements. The precise details of the new system and the mechanics of its link to gold or silver are less important than making the commitment to restore constitutional money and starting the debate on how to do it. Indeed, rumblings in favor of a return to gold are already beginning to be heard.[15]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Third, declare that his administration will not support a balanced budget amendment or any other amendment designed to excuse or perpetuate the failed monetary system currently administered by the Federal Reserve. Andrew Jackson brought down Nicholas Biddle's bank, and the president can bring down Ben Bernanke's.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As the president himself observed a couple of weeks ago: "At some point, I think if you want to be a leader, then you got to lead."[16] It is a measure of FDR's leadership that he was reviled on Wall Street and branded a traitor to his class.[17] President Obama should aim as high. The restoration of constitutional money would both reform Wall Street more completely than Dodd-Frank ever can and downsize the federal government beyond the worst fears of the president's base.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ironically, the final bill for the Civil War -- the malignant constitutional precedent set by the Legal Tender Cases -- is coming due on the watch of America's first black president, whose election in 2008 fulfilled more fully than many thought possible the promise of the Civil War amendments: the Fourteenth extending equal protection of the laws and the Fifteenth voting rights to all citizens.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No one owes more to the Constitution that he has sworn to uphold than President Obama, and today, win or lose in 2012, the stars have aligned to give him an opportunity to satisfy that debt by restoring the constitutional standard of value, exiting the paper road to financial and economic ruin, and retaking the golden path to a bright and prosperous future for what Lincoln called "the last best hope of earth."[18]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;*****************************&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By Paul Vallely&lt;br /&gt;Friday, 16 April 2004&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/the-rothschild-story-a-golden-era-ends-for-a-secretive-dynasty-756388.html"&gt;THE ROTHSCHILD STORY - A GOLDEN ERA ENDS FOR A SECRETIVE DYNASTY&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;China would be wise not to associate with the Rothschilds and the Anglo American Empire, just look at the Opium Wars.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When the British Empire continued to run trade deficits with China, they tried diplomacy with Lord McCartney and economic inducements, all of which failed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The more tea, silk and porcelain the British imported, the lower the money stock of silver the British Empire had. This was because China was on the silver standard and they would not buy any English goods to off set the trade imbalance. (Sound familiar?)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So what did the British do?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They smuggled Opium into port cities and started a drug trade to create problems for the Chinese Elite, weaken the Chinese populace and get the silver back from the Chinese.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When the Chinese asserted their sovereignty and fought against these drug dealing criminals, it started the two Opium Wars that ravaged China for years.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The British defeated the Chinese and they the signed the Treaty of Nanjing in 1842. The Chinese signed over all of their ports and international trade to the British.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(If you ever wondered how Britain owned Hong Kong, now you know.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Rothschilds controlled Britain at the time and I am sure that they were influential in getting the eight nation army to crush the Boxer Rebellion in 1898.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Anglo American Empire subjugated the Chinese until Mao kicked out all of the Westerners.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;What does this all mean for silver? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I believe that the HKMEx is still a very positive development for the price of physical silver, despite the Rothschild involvement. The Rothschilds are some of the most brilliant men on earth.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There is no denying this, given the amount of power that they have accumulated over many generations.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nat Rothschild is clearly the future of the dynasty.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(Especially since enviro Jesus David de Rothschild has blown his mission for the Global Warming Carbon Credit Scheme.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Rothschilds throughout history have not so much created history, but flowed along with history. They used to study the effect of sunspots on the prices of grain. They have carefully watched political and economic cycles to be in the right place at the right time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All of which I am teaching in the Sons of Liberty Academy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Rothschilds know that the debt cycle is coming to an end and that it is a mathematical certainty.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Even they, cannot prevent this from happening.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So they are preparing for the turn in history.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The fact that the Rothschilds are back in the metals market and they are behind smaller silver contracts being sold in China, is a good thing for the price of silver.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Any more physical demand in a huge market like China can only accelerate the inevitable physical silver default.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The price of silver over the long term cannot be stopped.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At some point the 3 Demands of Silver will force the physical prices of silver to over ride the paper price of silver once and for all.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“You can ignore reality but not the consequences of reality.”-Ayn Rand&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What I am very concerned is the coming crisis between the Anglo American Empire and the anti-Hegemon.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is fun to think about the price of silver when the physical reality sets in, but the economic, political and military reality of what will happen is very disconcerting.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I hope I am wrong about my prediction of the 3 Coming False Flags, but the more time goes by, the more I see that this will not end well.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Anglo American Empire still has the largest military, the strongest propaganda machine and deepest capital markets. They will not just throw their hands up and let the Chinese dictate the future without a fight.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Finally, I would like to touch on another subject that I am sure will play into this, racism.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I believe when this time comes to make China into the next Nazi regime, all of the power used to make Arabs into “animals,” will be turned against the Chinese to make middle America blame those “slant eyed, commie bastards.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Donald Trump has already called China our “enemy.” Video games and movies are trying to make China our new enemy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This will all be done to fuel the fire of ignorant Americans to blame China for all of our problems.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The fact is that our Elite is responsible for all of our problems.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They are the ones running up deficits fighting never ending, senseless wars.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They are the ones that invested and built up China while gutting America.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They are the ones that control both parties.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And sadly they will be the ones to profit off of the next war of the Military Industrial Complex to create a new paradigm.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Elite will blame China while they go back into the shadows retaining power and making more profits.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I know I could have made this article very small and simply said the Rothschilds are owners of the HKMEx, but that would not have put into perspective what is really going on in this world.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I spent 6 years studying and putting together the Greatest Story&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;NEVER Told, the enslavement of humanity by the Elite.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Far to often what is missing from even the best bloggers, is the historical, economic, political, military, emotional and even spiritual perspective of what is behind all of these stories.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I believe that everyone should understand how the world works and the Sons of Liberty Academy is by far the best way to wake up to this reality.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Take time to join today, it is free and it will change your life.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“When you are aware, you can prepare.” -Chris Duane&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;===================================&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;The History of the House of Rothschild&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;by Andrew Hitchcock&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Notes:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hitchcock also wrote a history for the bankers: DarylBradfordSmith_Bankers.htm&lt;br /&gt;One of our listeners added images and photos and turned this Rothschild document into a PowerPoint presentation. It is very large; 67 megabytes: RothschildsTimeline.ppt&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hitchcock has this Rothschild history available as a paper book in the UK:&lt;br /&gt;www.theSynagogueOfSatan.com&lt;br /&gt;The book is sold in the USA by Texe Marrs here.&lt;br /&gt;We  also have an interview with Hitchcock at this page.&lt;br /&gt;Definition of Zionism:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;an organization of Jews whose goal is to create a nation for Jews.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Definition of Judaism:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jews collectively who practice a religion based on the Torah and the Talmud.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Rothschilds have been in control of the world for a very long time, their tentacles reaching into many aspects of our daily lives, as is documented in the following timeline.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However, before you jump to the timeline, please read this invaluable introduction which will tell you who the Rothschilds are as oppose to who they claim to be.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Rothschilds claim that they are Jewish, when in fact they are Khazars.  They are from a country called Khazaria, which occupied the land locked between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea which is now predominantly occupied by Georgia.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The reason the Rothschilds claim to be Jewish is that the Khazars under the instruction of the King, converted to the Jewish faith in 740 A.D., but of course that did not include converting their Asiatic Mongolian genes to the genes of the Jewish people.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You will find that approximately 90% of people in the world today who call themselves Jews are actually Khazars, or as they like to be known, Ashkenazi Jews.  These people knowingly lie to the world with their claims that the land of Israel is theirs by birthright, when in actual fact their real homeland is over 800 miles away in Georgia.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, next time you hear an Israeli Prime Minister bleating about the so-called persecution of the Jews, consider this, every Prime Minister of Israel has been an Ashkenazi Jew.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Therefore when all these Prime Ministers have curried favour with the West for their re-establishment of a Jewish homeland, they have knowingly and deliberately lied to you, as they were never from that region, and they well know it, because it is they who call themselves Ashkenazi Jews.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Book of Revelation, Chapter 2, Verse 9, states the following which would appear to be about these Ashkenazi Jews:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"I know thy works, and tribulation and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The most wealthy bloodline in the world bar none and the leader of the Ashkenazi Jews in the world today is the Rothschild family.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;As you will see in the timeline, the Rothschilds have obtained this position through lies, manipulation and murder.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Their bloodline also extends into the Royal Families of Europe, and the following family names:  Astor; Bundy; Collins; duPont; Freeman; Kennedy; Morgan; Oppenheimer; Rockefeller; Sassoon; Schiff; Taft; and Van Duyn.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However, these are not the only bloodlines to worry about.  You are probably aware of the centuries old pratice undertaken by many Ashkenazi Jews whereby they would change their name, in order for them to appear part of the dominant race of the country in which they lived, so as they could obtain influential positions in that country, which they would then exploit to serve their real masters elsewhere.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There is plenty of evidence to prove the Rothschilds continue that deceptive tradition.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Furthermore the Rothschilds are known to sire many children secretly that they can put into positions of power when required.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This started with the very first man who took the name Rothschild, who had a secret sixth son.  Finally, remember the world is a diverse place, I could if I wanted change my name to Rothschild, or any of the names listed above, and that would not make me part of this family anymore than converting to Judaism in 740 A.D. will make these Ashkenazis Jewish.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Please, therefore, do not automatically assume someone you see with the name Rothschild or any of the names listed above are part of the Rothschild criminal network.  Furthermore and most importantly, the majority of Ashkenazi Jews are innocent and not part of this network.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Check the facts out for yourself first, this article is designed to inform people who the enemy is, not single out people of a particular race or people with a particular surname, who may have nothing to do with this Rothschild criminal network.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1743: Mayer Amschel Bauer, an Ashkenazi Jew, is born in Frankfurt, Germany, the son of Moses Amschel Bauer, a money lender and the proprietor of a counting house.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Moses Amschel Bauer places a red sign above the entrance door to his counting house. This sign is a red hexagram (which geometrically and numerically translates into the number 666) which under Rothschild instruction will end up on the Israeli flag some two centuries later.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1753: Gutle Schnaper, an Ashkenazi Jew (future wife of Mayer Amschel Bauer), born to respected merchant, Wolf Salomon Schnaper.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1760: During this decade Mayer Amschel Bauer works for a bank owned by the Oppenheimers' in Hanover, Germany.  He is highly successful and becomes a junior partner. Whilst working at the bank he becomes acquainted with General von Estorff.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Following his father's death, Bauer returns to Frankfurt to take over his father's business. Bauer recognises the significance of the red hexagram and changes his name from Bauer to Rothschild, after the red hexagram or sign signifying 666 hanging over the entrance door ("Rot," is German for, "Red," "Schild," is German for, "Sign").&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now Mayer Amschel Rothschild, he discovers that General von Estorff is now attached to the court of Prince William IX of Hesse-Hanau, one of the richest royal houses in Europe, which gained its' wealth by the hiring out of Hessian soldiers to foreign countries for vast profits (a practice that continues today in the form of exporting, "peacekeeping," troops throughout the world).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He therefore makes the General's re-acquaintance on the pretext of selling him valuable coins and trinkets at discounted prices. As he plans, Rothschild is subsequently introduced to Prince William himself who is more than pleased with discounted prices he charges for his rare coins and trinkets, and Rothschild offers him a bonus for any other business the Prince can direct his way.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rothschild subsequently becomes close associates with Prince William, and ends up doing business with him and members of the court.  He soon discovers that loaning money to governments and royalty is more profitable than loaning to individuals, as the loans are bigger and are secured by the nation's taxes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1769: Mayer Amschel Rothschild is given permission by Prince William to hang a sign on the front of his business premises declaring that he is, "M. A. Rothschild, by appointment court factor to his serene highness, Prince William of Hanau."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1770: Mayer Amschel Rothschild draws up plans for the creation of the Illuminati and entrusts Ashkenazi Jew, Adam Weishaupt, a Crypto-Jew who was outwardly Roman Catholic, with its organization and development.  The Illuminati is to be based upon the teachings of the Talmud, which is in turn, the teachings of Rabbinical Jews.  It was to be called the Illuminati as this is a Luciferian term which means, keepers of the light.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mayer Amschel Rothschild marries Gutle Schnaper.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1773: Amschel Mayer Rothschild born, the first of Mayer Amschel Rothschild’s sons. He like all his brothers who follow him, will enter the family business at the age of 12.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1774: Salomon Mayer Rothschild born.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1776:  Adam Weishaupt officially completes his organisation of the Illuminati on May 1 of this year.  The purpose of the Illuminati is to divide the goyim (all non-Jews) through political, economic, social, and religious means.  The opposing sides were to be armed and incidents were to be provided in order for them to:  fight amongst themselves; destroy national governments; destroy religious institutions; and eventually destroy each other.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Weishaupt soon infiltrates the Continental Order of Freemasons with this Illuminati doctrine and establishes lodges of the Grand Orient to be their secret headquarters.  This was all under the orders and finance of Mayer Amschel Rothschild and the concept has spread and is followed within Masonic Lodges worldwide to the present day.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Weishaupt also recruits 2,000 paid followers including the most intelligent men in the field of arts and letters, education, science, finance,and industry.  They were instructed to follow the following methods in order to control people.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1)  Use monetary and sex bribery to obtain control of men already in high places, in the various levels of all governments and other fields of endeavour. Once influential persons had fallen for the lies, deceits, and temptations of the Illuminati they were to be held in bondage by application of political and other forms of blackmail, threats of financial ruin, public exposure, and fiscal harm, even death to themselves and loved members of their families.&lt;br /&gt;2)  The faculties of colleges and universities were to cultivate students possessing exceptional mental ability belonging to well-bred families with international leanings, and recommend them for special training in internationalism, or rather the notion that only a one-world government can put an end to recurring wars and strife.  Such training was to be provided by granting scholarships to those selected by the Illuminati.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3)  All influential people trapped into coming under the control of the Illuminati, plus the students who had been specially educated and trained, were to be used as agents and placed behind the scenes of all governments as experts and specialists.  This was so they would advise the top executives to adopt policies which would in the long-run serve the secret plans of the Illuminati one-world conspiracy and bring about the destruction of the governments and religions they were elected or appointed to serve.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4)  To obtain absolute-control of the press, at that time the only mass-communications media which distributed information to the public, so that all news and information could be slanted in order to make the masses believe that a one-world government is the only solution to our many and varied problems.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1777: Nathan Mayer Rothschild born.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1784:  Adam Weishaupt issues his order for the French Revolution to be started by by Maximilien Robespierre in book form.  This book was written by one of Weishaupt's associates, Xavier Zwack, and sent by courier from Frankfurt to Paris.  However en route there, the courier is struck by lightning, the book detailing this plan discovered by the police, and handed over to the Bavarian authorities.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As a consequence, the Bavarian government orders the police to raid Weishaupt's masonic lodges of the Grand Orient, and the homes of his most influential associates.  Clearly, the Bavarian authorities were convinced that the book that was discovered was a very real threat by a private group of influential people, to use wars and revolutions to achieve their political ends.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1785:  The Bavarian government outlaw the Illuminati and close all the Bavarian lodges of the Grand Orient.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mayer Amschel Rothschild moves his family home to a five storey house in Frankfurt which he shares with the Schiff family.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1786:  The Bavarian government publish the details of the Illuminati plot in a document entitled, "The Original Writings of The Order and Sect of The Illuminati."  They then send this document to all the heads of church and state throughout Europe, but sadly their warning is ignored.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1788: Kalmann (Carl) Mayer Rothschild Born.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1789:  Due to the European ignorance of the Bavarian government's warning, the Illuminati's plan for a French Revolution succeeded from this year to 1793.  This revolution was a bankers' dream, it established a new constitution and passed laws that forbade the Roman Church from levying tithes (taxes) and also removed its exemption from taxation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1790: Mayer Amschel Rothschild states,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws."&lt;br /&gt;1791: The Rothschilds get, "control of a nation's money," through Alexander Hamilton (their agent in George Washington’s cabinet) when they set up a central bank in the USA called the First Bank of the United States. This is established with a 20 year charter.&lt;br /&gt;1792: Jacob (James) Mayer Rothschild born.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1796: Amschel Mayer Rothschild marries Eva Hanau.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1798: John Robison publishes a book entitled, "Proofs of a Conspiracy Against All the Religions and Governments of Europe Carried on in the Secret Meetings of Freemasons, Illuminati and Reading Societies."  In this book, Professor Robison of the University of Edinburgh, one of the leading intellects of his time, who in 1783 was elected general secretary of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, gave details of the whole Rothschild Illuminati plot.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He advised how he had been a high degree mason in the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, and had been invited by Adam Weishaupt to Europe, where he had been given a revised copy of Weishaupt's conspiracy.  However, although he pretended to go along with it, Professor Robison did not agree with it and therefore published his aforementioned book.  The book included details of the Bavarian government's investigation into the Illuminati and the French Revolution.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That same year on July 19th, David Pappen, President of Harvard University, lectured the graduating class on the influence illuminism was having on American politics and religion.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At the age of 21, Nathan Mayer Rothschild leaves Frankfurt for England, where with a large sum of money given to him by his father, he sets up a banking house in London.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1800: Salomon Mayer Rothschild marries Caroline Stern.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1806: Napolean states that it is his,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"object to remove the house of Hess-Cassel from rulership and to strike it out of the list of powers."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On hearing this, Prince William IX of Hesse-Hanau, flees Germany, goes to Denmark and entrusts his fortune valued at $3,000,000 at that time to Mayer Amschel Rothschild for safekeeping.&lt;br /&gt;Nathan Mayer Rothschild marries Hannah Barent Cohen the daughter of a wealthy London merchant.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1808: Nathan Mayer Rothschild has his first son born Lionel Nathan de Rothschild.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1810: Sir Francis Baring and Abraham Goldsmid die. This leaves Nathan Mayer Rothschild as the remaining major banker in England.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Salomon Mayer Rothschild goes to Vienna, Austria and sets up the bank, M. von Rothschild und Söhne.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1811: The charter for the Rothschilds Bank of the United States runs out and Congress votes against its renewal.  Nathan Mayer Rothschild is not amused and he states,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Either the application for renewal of the charter is granted, or the United States will find itself involved in a most disastrous war."&lt;br /&gt;However the United States stands firm and the Charter is not renewed, which causes Nathan Mayer Rothschild to issue another threat,&lt;br /&gt;"Teach those impudent Americans a lesson. Bring them back to colonial status."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1812: Backed by Rothschild money, and Nathan Mayer Rothschild's orders, the British declare war on the United States.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Rothschilds plan was to cause the United States to build up such a debt in fighting this war that they would have to surrender to the Rothschilds and allow the charter for the Rothschild owned First Bank of the United States to be renewed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mayer Amschel Rothschild dies. In his will he lays out specific laws that the House of Rothschild were to follow: all key positions in the family business were only to be held by family members; only male members of the family were allowed to participate in the family business, this included a reported sixth secret bastard son&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(It is important to note that Mayer Amschel Rothschild also has five daughters, so today the spread of the Rothschild Zionist dynasty without the Rothschild name is far and wide, and Jews believe the mixed offspring of a Jewish mother is solely Jewish);&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;the family was to intermarry with it’s first and second cousins to preserve the family fortune (of the 18 marriages by Mayer Amschel Rothschild’s grandchildren, 16 were between first cousins - a practice known today as inbreeding);&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;no public inventory of his estate was to be published; no legal action was to be taken with regard to the value of the inheritance; the eldest son of the eldest son was to become the head of the family (this condition could only be overturned when the majority of the family agreed otherwise).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This was straightaway the case and Nathan Mayer Rothschild was elected head of the family following his father, Mayer Amschel Rothschild’s death.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jacob (James) Mayer Rothschild goes to Paris, France to set up the bank, de Rothschild Frères.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nathaniel de Rothschild, the son in law of Jacob (James) Mayer Rothschild, born.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1814: With regard to the $3,000,000 Prince William IX of Hesse-Hanau had entrusted to Mayer Amschel Rothschild for safekeeping, for an account of what happened next we turn to the Jewish Encyclopaedia, 1905 edition, Volume 10, page 494, which states,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"According to legend this money was hidden away in wine casks, and, escaping the search of Napoleon's soldiers when they entered Frankfurt, was restored intact in the same casks in 1814, when the elector (Prince William IX of Hesse-Hanau) returned to the electorate (Germany). The facts are somewhat less romantic, and more businesslike."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This last line indicates the money was never returned by Rothschild to Prince William IX of Hesse-Hanau. The encyclopaedia goes on to state,&lt;br /&gt;"Nathan Mayer Rothschild invested this $3,000,000 in, gold from the East India Company knowing that it would be needed for Wellington's peninsula campaign."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On the stolen money Nathan made,&lt;br /&gt;"no less than four profits:&lt;br /&gt;i) On the sale of Wellington's paper which he bought at 50 cents on the dollar and collected at par;&lt;br /&gt;ii) on the sale of gold to Wellington;&lt;br /&gt;iii) on its repurchase; and&lt;br /&gt;iv) on forwarding it to Portugal."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1815: The five Rothschild brothers work to supply gold to both Wellington's army (through Nathan in England) and Napoleon's army (through Jacob in France), and begin their policy of funding both sides in wars.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;The Rothschilds love wars because they are massive generators of risk free debt.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is because they are guaranteed by the government of a country, and therefore the efforts of the population of that country,  and it doesn't matter if that country loses the war because the loans are given on the guarantee that the victor will honour the debts of the vanquished.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Whilst the Rothschilds are funding both sides in this war, they use the banks they have spread out across Europe to give them the opportunity to set up an unrivalled postal service network of secret routes and fast couriers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The post these couriers carried was to be opened up by these couriers and their details given to the Rothschilds so they always were one step ahead of current events.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Furthermore, these Rothschild couriers were the only merchants allowed to pass through the English and French blockades.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It was these couriers who also kept Nathan Mayer Rothschild up to date with how the war was going so he could use that intelligence to buy and sell from his position on the stock exchange in accordance with that intelligence.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One of Rothschild's couriers was a man named Rothworth.  When the outcome of the Battle of Waterloo was won by the British, Rothworth took off for the Channel and was able to deliver this news to Nathan Mayer Rothschild, a full 24 hours before Wellington's own courier.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At that time British bonds were called consuls and they were traded on the floor of the stock exchange. Nathan Mayer Rothschild instructed all his workers on the floor to start selling consuls.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The made all the other traders believe that the British had lost the war so they started selling frantically.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Therefore the consuls plummeted in value which was when Nathan Mayer Rothschild discreetly instructed his workers to purchase all the consuls they could lay their hands on.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When news came through that the British had actually won the war, the consuls went up to a level even higher than before the war ended leaving Nathan Mayer Rothschild with a return of approximately 20 to 1 on his investment.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This gave the Rothschild family complete control of the British economy, now the financial centre of the world following Napolean's defeat, and forced England to set up a new Bank of England, which Nathan Mayer Rothschild controlled.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Interestingly 100 years later the New York Times would run a story stating that Nathan Mayer Rothschild's grandson had attempted to secure a court order to suppress publication of a book which had this insider trading story in it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Rothschild family claimed the story was untrue and libellous, but the court denied the Rothschilds request and ordered the family to pay all court costs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Back to 1815, this is the year Nathan Mayer Rothschild makes his famous statement,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"I care not what puppet is placed upon the throne of England to rule the Empire on which the sun never sets. The man who controls Britain's money supply controls the British Empire, and I control the British money supply."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He would go onto brag that in the 17 years he had been in England he had increased the £20,000 stake given to him by his father, 2500 times to £50 million.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Rothschilds also use their control of the Bank of England to replace the method of shipping gold from country to country and instead used their five banks spread across Europe to set up a system of paper debits and credits, the banking system of today.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By the end of this century, a period of time that was known as the, "Age of the Rothschilds," it is estimated that the Rothschild family controlled half the wealth of the world.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However something that did not go well for the Rothschilds this year was the Congress of Vienna, which started in September, 1814 and concluded in June of this year.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;The reason for this Congress of Vienna, was for the Rothschilds to create a form of world government, to give them complete political control over much of the civilized world.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Many of the European governments were in debt to the Rothschilds, so they figured they could use that as a bargaining tool.  However the Tsar Alexander I of Russia, who had not succumbed to a Rothschild central bank, would not go along with the plan, so the Rothschild world government plan failed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Enraged by this, Nathan Mayer Rothschild swore that some day he or his descendants would destroy the Tsar Alexander I's  entire family and descendants.  Unfortunately he was true to his word and 102 years later Rothschild funded Bolsheviks would act upon that promise.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Interestingly, world government fanatic and Ashkenazi Jew, Henry Kissinger, did his doctoral dissertation on the Congress of Vienna.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1816: The American Congress passes a bill permitting yet another Rothschild dominated central bank, which gives the Rothschilds control of the American money supply again.  This is called the Second Bank of the United States and is given a twenty year charter.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The British war against the America therefore ends with the deaths of thousands of British and American soldiers, but the Rothschilds get their bank.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1818: Following the French securing massive loans in 1817 in order to help rebuild after their disastrous defeat at Waterloo, Rothschild agents bought vast amounts of French government bonds causing their value to increase.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On November 5th they dumped the lot on the open market causing their value to plummet and France to go into a financial panic. The Rothschilds then stepped in to take control of the French money supply. This was the same year the Rothschilds were able to loan £5,000,000 to the Prussian government.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1821: Kalmann (Carl) Mayer Rothschild was sent to Naples, Italy.  He would end up doing a lot of business with the Vatican and Pope Gregory XVI subsequently conferred upon him the Order of St. George.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Also, whenever the Pope received Kalmann, he would give him his hand rather than the customary toe to kiss, which showed the extent of Kalmann's power over the Vatican.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1822: The emperor of Austria made the five Rothschild brothers Barons.  Nathan Mayer Rothschild chose not to take up the title.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1823: The Rothschilds take over the financial operations of the Catholic Church, worldwide.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1827: Sir Walter Scott publishes his nine volume set, The life of Napolean and in volume two he states that the French Revolution was planned by the Illuminati (Adam Weishaupt) and was financed by the money changers of Europe (The Rothschilds).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1832:  President Andrew Jackson (the 7th President of the United States from 1829 to 1837), runs the campaign for his second term in office under the slogan, "Jackson And No Bank!"  This is in reference to his plan to take the control of the American money system to benefit the American people, not for the profiteering of the Rothschilds.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1833:  President Andrew Jackson starts removing the government's deposits from the Rothschild controlled, Second Bank of the United States and instead deposits them into banks directed by democratic bankers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This causes the Rothschilds to panic and so they do what they do best, contract the money supply causing a depression.  President Jackson knows what they are up to and later states,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"You are a den of thieves vipers, and I intend to rout you out, and by the Eternal God, I will rout you out."&lt;br /&gt;1834:  The Italian revolutionary leader, Guiseppe Mazzini, is selected by the Illuminati to direct their revolutionary program throughout the world and would serve in that capacity until he died in 1872.&lt;br /&gt;1835:  On January 30, an assassin tries to shoot President Jackson, but miraculously both of the assassin's pistols misfired.  President Jackson would later claim that he knew the Rothschilds were responsible for that attempted assassination.  He is not the only one, the assassin, Richard Lawrence, who was found not guilty by reason of insanity, later bragged that powerful people in Europe had hired him and promised to protect him if he were caught.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Rothschilds acquire the rights in the Almadén quicksilver mines in Spain. This was at the time the biggest concession in the world and as quicksilver was a vital component in the refining of gold or silver this gave the Rothschilds a virtual world monopoly.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1836: Following his years of fighting against the Rothschilds and their central bank in America, President Andrew Jackson finally succeeds in throwing the Rothschilds central bank out of America, when the bank's charter is not renewed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It would not be until 1913 that the Rothschilds would be able to set up their third central bank in America, the Federal Reserve, and to ensure no mistakes are made, this time they will put one of their own bloodline, Jacob Schiff, in charge of the project.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nathan Mayer Rothschild dies and the control of his bank, N. M. Rothschild &amp;amp; Sons is passed on to his younger brother, James Mayer Rothschild.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1837:  The Rothschilds send one of their own, August Belmont, an Ashkenazi Jew, to America to salvage their banking interests defeated by President Andrew Jackson.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1840: The Rothschilds become the Bank of England’s bullion brokers. They set up agencies in California and Australia.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1841: President John Tyler (the 10th President of the United States From 1841 to 1845) vetoed the act to renew the charter for the Bank of the United States. He goes on to receive hundreds of letters threatening him with assassination.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1844: Salomon Mayer Rothschild purchases the United Coal Mines of Vítkovice and Austro-Hungarian Blast Furnace Company that would go on to be one of the top ten global industrial concerns.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Benjamin Disraeli, an Ashkenazi Jew (who would go on to become British Prime Minister twice - the only admitted Ashkenazi Jew to do so) publishes Coningsby, in which he characterises Nathan Mayer Rothschild as,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"the Lord and Master of the money markets of the world, and of course virtually Lord and Master of everything else. He literally held the revenues of Southern Italy in pawn, and Monarchs and Ministers of all countries courted his advice and were guided by his suggestions."&lt;br /&gt;1845: The Great American Patriot, Andrew Jackson (7th President of the United States) dies.&lt;br /&gt;Before his death he is asked what he regarded his as greatest achievement.  He replies without hesitation,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"I Killed The Bank,"&lt;br /&gt;This is in reference to the fact he banished the Rothschilds Second Bank of the United States in 1836.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jacob (James) Mayer Rothschild (who by now had married his niece, Betty, Salomon Mayer Rothschild's daughter), now known as Baron James de Rothschild, wins the contract to build the first major railway line across the country.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This was called the Chemin De Fer Du Nord and ran initially from Paris to Valenciennes and then joined with the Austrian rail network built by his brother (and wife's father - all sounds a bit sordid doesn't it) Salomon Mayer Rothschild.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1847: Lionel De Rothschild now married to the daughter of his uncle, Kalmann (Carl) Mayer Rothschild, is elected to the parliamentary seat for the City of London.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A requirement for entering parliament was to take an oath in the true faith of a Christian. Lionel De Rothschild refused to do this as he was Jewish and his seat in parliament remained empty for 11 years until new oaths were allowed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He must have been an invaluable representative for his constituency, bearing in mind he could never vote on any bill as he never entered parliament!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I wonder how he managed to keep his parliamentary seat for 11 years?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1848: Karl Marx, an Ashkenazi Jew, publishes, "The Communist Manifesto."  Interestingly at the same time as he is working on this, Karl Ritter of Frankfurt University was writing the antithesis which would form the basis for Freidrich Wilhelm Nietzsche's,  "Nietzscheanism."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This Nietzecheanism was later developed into Fascism and then into Nazism and was used to forment the first and second world wars.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Marx, Ritter, and Nietzsche were all funded and under the instruction of the Rothschilds.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; The idea was that those who direct the overall conspiracy could use the differences in those two so-called ideologies to enable them to divide larger and larger factions of the human race into opposing camps so that they could be armed and then brainwashed into fighting and destroying each other, and particularly, to destroy all political and religious institutions.  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;The same plan put forward by Weishaupt in 1776.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Eva Hanau, Amschel Mayer Rothschild’s wife dies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1849: Gutle Schnaper, Mayer Amschel Rothschild’s wife dies. Before her death she would nonchalantly state,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"If my sons did not want wars, there would be none."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1850: Construction begins this decade on the manor houses of Mentmore in England and Ferrières in France, more Rothschilds Manors will follow throughout the world, all of them filled with works of art.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jacob (James) Rothschild in France is said to be worth 600 million francs, which at the time was 150 million francs more than all the other bankers in France put together.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1852: N.M. Rothschild &amp;amp; Sons begins refining gold and silver for the Royal Mint and the Bank of England and other international customers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1853: Nathaniel de Rothschild, the son in law of Jacob (James) Mayer Rothschild, purchases Château Brane Mouton, the Bordeaux vineyard of Mouton, and renames it Château Mouton Rothschild.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1854: Caroline Stern, Salomon Mayer Rothschild’s wife, dies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1855: Amschel Mayer Rothschild dies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Salomon Mayer Rothschild dies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Kalmann (Carl) Mayer Rothschild dies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1858: Lionel De Rothschild finally takes his seat in parliament when the requirement to take an oath in the true faith of a Christian is broadened to include other oaths. He becomes the first Jewish member of the British parliament.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1861: President Abraham Lincoln (16th President of the United States from 1860 till his assassination in 1865) approaches the big banks in New York to try to obtain loans to support the ongoing American civil war.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As these large banks were heavily under the influence of the Rothschilds, they offer him a deal they know he cannot accept, 24% to 36% interest on all monies loaned.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lincoln is very angry about this high level of interest and so he prints his own debt free money and informs the public that this is now legal tender for both public and private debts.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1862: By April $449,338,902 worth of Lincoln’s debt free money has been printed and distributed. He states of this,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“We gave the people of this republic the greatest blessing they ever had, their own paper money to pay their own debts.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That same year The Times of London publishes a story containing the following statement,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;"If that mischievous financial policy, which had its origin in the North American Republic, should become indurated down to a fixture, then that government will furnish its own money without cost. It will pay off debts and be without a debt. It will have all the money necessary to carry on its commerce.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It will become prosperous beyond precedent in the history of civilized governments of the world. The brains and the wealth of all countries will go to North America.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That government must be destroyed or it will destroy every monarchy on the globe."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1863: President Abraham Lincoln discovers the Tsar of Russia, Alexander II (1855 – 1881), was having problems with the Rothschilds as well as he was refusing their continual attempts to set up a central bank in Russia.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Tsar then gives President Lincoln some unexpected help.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Tsar issued orders that if either England or France actively intervened in the American Civil War, and help the South, Russia would consider such action a declaration of war, and take the side of President Lincoln.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To show that he wasn't messing about, he sent part of his Pacific Fleet to port in San Francisco and another part to New York.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Rothschild banking house in Naples, Italy, C. M. de Rothschild e figli, closes following the unification of Italy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Rothschilds use one of their own in America, John D. Rockefeller, to form an oil business called Standard Oil which eventually takes over all of its competition.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1864: Rothschild, August Belmont, who by now is the Democratic Party's National Chairman, supports General George McClellan as the Democratic nominee to run against President Abraham Lincoln in this year's election.  Much to the anger of Belmont, President Lincoln wins the election.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1865: In a statement to Congress, President Abraham Lincoln states,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"I have two great enemies, the Southern Army in front of me, and the financial institutions in the rear. Of the two, the one in my rear is my greatest foe."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Later that year, on April 14, President Lincoln is assassinated, less than two months before the end of the American Civil War.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Following a brief training period in the Rothschilds London Bank, Jacob Schiff, a Rothschild, born in their house in Frankfurt, arrives in America at the age of 18, with instructions and the finance necessary to buy into a banking house there.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The purpose of this was to carry out the following tasks.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1.  Gain control of America's money system through the establishment of a central bank.&lt;br /&gt;2.  Find desirable men, who for a price, would be willing to serve as stooges for the Illuminati and promote them into high places in the federal government, the Congress, Supreme Court, and all the federal agencies.&lt;br /&gt;3.  Create minority group strife throughout the nations, particularly targeting the whites and blacks.&lt;br /&gt;4.  Create a movement to destroy religion in the United States, with Christianity as the main target.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nathaniel de Rothschild becomes Member of Parliament for Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire.&lt;br /&gt;1868: Jacob (James) Mayer Rothschild dies, shortly after purchasing Château Lafite, one of the four great premier grand cru estates of France. He is the last of Mayer Amschel Rothschild’s sons to die.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1870: Nathaniel de Rothschild dies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1871:  An American General named, Albert Pike, who had been enticed into the Illuminati by Guissepe Mazzini, completes his military blueprint for three world wars and various revolutions throughout the world, culminating into moving this great conspiracy into its final stage.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The first world war is to be fought for the purpose of destroying the Tsar in Russia,as promised by Nathan Mayer Rothschild in 1815.  The Tsar is to be replaced with communism which is to be used to attack religions, predominantly Christianity.  The differences between the British and German empires are to be used to forment this war.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The second world war is to be used to forment the controversy between facism and political zionism with the slaughter of Jews in Germany a lynchpin in bringing hatred against the German people.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is designed to destroy fascism (which the Rothschilds created) and increase the power of political zionism.  This war is also designed to increase the power of communism to the level that it equalled that of united Christendom.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The third world war is to be played out by stirring up hatred of the Muslim world for the purposes of playing the Islamic world and the political zionists off against one another.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Whilst this is going on, the remaining nations would be forced to fight themselves into a state of mental, physical, spiritual and economic exhaustion.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On August 15th of this year, Albert Pike writes a letter (now catalogued in the British Museum) to Guiseppe Mazzini in which he states the following,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"We shall unleash the nihilists and the atheists and we shall provoke a great social cataclysm which in all its horror will show clearly to all nations the effect of absolute atheism; the origins of savagery and of most bloody turmoil.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then everywhere, the people will be forced to defend themselves against the world minority of the world revolutionaries and will exterminate those destroyers of civilization and the multitudes disillusioned with Christianity whose spirits will be from that moment without direction and leadership and anxious for an ideal, but without knowledge where to send its adoration, will receive the true light through the universal manifestation of the pure doctrine of Lucifer brought finally out into public view.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A manifestation which will result from a general reactionary movement which will follow the destruction of Christianity and Atheism; both conquered and exterminated at the same time."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pike, who having been elected as Sovereign Grand Commander of the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry's Southern Jurisdiction in 1859, was the most powerful Freemason in America.  He would retain that post for 32 years until his death in 1891.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He also published a book on the subject in 1872 entitled, "Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry," in which he candidly states the following,&lt;br /&gt;"LUCIFER, the Light-bearer! Strange and mysterious name to give to the Spirit of Darknesss! Lucifer, the Son of the Morning!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Is it he who bears the Light, and with its splendors intolerable blinds feeble, sensual or selfish Souls?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Doubt it not!"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1872:  Prior to Guiseppe Mazzini's death this year, he makes another revolutionary leader named Adrian Lemmy his successor.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lemmy will be subsequently succeeded by Lenin and Trotsky, then by Stalin.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The revolutionary activities of all these men are financed by the Rothschilds.&lt;br /&gt;1873: The loss making Rio Tinto copper mines in Spain, are purchased by a group of foreign financiers including the Rothschilds. These mines represented Europe’s largest source of copper.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1875: On January 1 of this year Jacob Schiff, now Solomon Loeb's son-in-law after marrying his daughter, Teresa, takes control of the banking house, Kuhn, Loeb &amp;amp; Co.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He goes on to finance John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company, Edward R. Harriman's Railroad Empire, and Andrew Carnegie's Steel Empire.  This is all with Rothschild money.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He then identifies the other largest bankers in America at that time.&lt;br /&gt;They are, J.P. Morgan who controls Wall Street, and the Drexels and the Biddles of Philadelphia.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All the other financiers, big and little, danced to the music of those three houses.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Schiff then gets the European Rothschilds to set up European branches of these three large banks on the understanding that Schiff, and therefore Rothschild, is to be the boss of banking in New York and therefore America.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;N M Rothschild &amp;amp; Sons undertake a share issue to raise capital for the first channel tunnel project to link France to England, with half of its capital coming from the Rothschild owned Compagnie du Chemin de Fer du Nord.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This year Lionel De Rothschild also loans Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli the finance for the British government to purchase the shares in the Suez Canal, from Khedive Said of Egypt.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This was done as the Rothschilds needed this access route to be held by a government they controlled, so they could use that government's military to protect their huge business interests in the Middle East.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1876: Otto von Bismarck states,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"The division of the United States into two federations of equal force was decided long before the civil war by the high financial power of Europe.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These bankers were afraid that the United States, if they remained in one block and as one nation, would attain economical and financial independence, which would upset their financial domination over the world.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The voice of the Rothschilds predominated. They foresaw the tremendous booty if they could substitute two feeble democracies, indebted to the financiers, to the vigorous Republic, confident and self-providing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Therefore they started their emissaries in order to exploit the question of slavery and thus dig an abyss between the two parts of the Republic."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1879: Lionel de Rothschild dies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1880:  Rothschild agents begin formenting a series of pogroms predominantly in Russia, but also in Poland, Bulgaria and Romania.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These pogroms resulted in the slaughter of thousands of innocent Jews, causing approximately 2 million to flee, mainly to New York, but also to Chicago, Philadelphia, Boston and Los Angeles.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The reason these pogroms were initiated, was to create a large Jewish base in America, who when they arrived, would be educated to register as Democrat voters.  Some twenty years later, this would result in in a massive Democratic power base in the United States and be used to elect Rothschild front men such as Woodrow Wilson, to the Presidency, to carry out the bidding of the Rothschilds.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1881: President James A. Garfield (The 20th President of the United States who lasted only 100 Days) states two weeks before he is assassinated,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Whoever controls the volume of money in our country is absolute master of all industry and commerce…and when you realize that the entire system is very easily controlled, one way or another, by a few powerful men at the top, you will not have to be told how periods of inflation and depression originate.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Edmond James de Rothschild has a son Maurice de Rothschild.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1883: After 6,000 feet of tunnel in the channel tunnel project being excavated, the British government halt the project citing the fact that it would be a threat to Britain’s security.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1885: Nathaniel Rothschild, son of Lionel De Rothschild, becomes the first Jewish peer and is takes the title of Lord Rothschild.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1886: The French Rothschild bank, de Rothschild Frères obtains substantial amounts of Russia's oil fields and forms the Caspian and Black Sea Petroleum Company, which quickly becomes the world's second largest oil producer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1887: Opium trafficker in China, Edward Albert Sassoon, marries Aline Caroline de Rothschild, the grand-daughter of Jacob (James) Mayer Rothschild.  Aline Caroline's father, Gustave, together with his brother, Alphonse, took over the Rothschild's french arm following their father Jacob's death.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Rothschilds finance the amalgamation of the Kimberley diamond mines in South Africa. They subsequently become the biggest shareholders of this company, De Beers, and mine precious stones in Africa and India.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1888: Noémie Halphen, future wife of Maurice de Rothschild born.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1891: The British Labour Leader makes the following statement on the subject of the Rothschilds,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"This blood-sucking crew has been the cause of untold mischief and misery in Europe during the present century, and has piled up its prodigious wealth chiefly through fomenting wars between States which ought never to have quarrelled.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Whenever there is trouble in Europe, wherever rumours of war circulate and men’s minds are distraught with fear of change and calamity you may be sure that a hook-nosed Rothschild is at his games somewhere near the region of the disturbance."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Comments like this worry the Rothschilds and towards the end of the 1800’s they purchase Reuters news agency so they can have some control of the media.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1895: Edmond James de Rothschild the youngest son of Jacob (James) Mayer Rothschild visits Palestine and subsequently supplies the funds to found the first Jewish colonies there, this is to further their long term objective of creating a Rothschild owned country.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1897: The Rothschilds found the Zionist Congress to promote Zionism (a political movement with the sole aim of moving all Jews into a singularly Jewish nation state) and arrange its first meeting in Munich.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However due to extreme opposition from local Jews, who are quite happy where they are, this meeting has to be moved to Basle, Switzerland and takes place on 29 August. The meeting is chaired by Ashkenazi Jew, Theodor Herzl, who would state in his diaries,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"It is essential that the sufferings of Jews….become worse….this will assist in realization of our plans….I have an excellent idea….I shall induce anti-Semites to liquidate Jewish wealth….The anti-Semites will assist us thereby in that they will strengthen the persecution and oppression of Jews. The anti-Semites shall be our best friends."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Herzl is subsequently elected President of the Zionist Organisation which adopts the, "Rothschild Red Hexagram or Sign," as the Zionist flag which 51 years later will end up as the flag of Israel.&lt;br /&gt;Edward Henry Harriman becomes a director of the Union Pacific Railroad and goes on to take control of the Southern Pacific Railroad.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is all financed by the Rothschilds.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1898: Ferdinand de Rothschild dies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1901: The Jews from the colonies set up in Palestine by Edmond James de Rothschild, send a delegation to him which tell him,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"If you wish to save the Yishuv (The Jewish settlement) first take your hands from it, and…for once permit the colonists to have the possibility of correcting for themselves what needs correcting."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Edmond James de Rothschild is very angry about this and states,&lt;br /&gt;"I created the Yishuv, I alone.  Therefore no men, neither colonists nor organisations have the right to interfere in my plans."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Rothschild banking house in Frankfurt, Germany, M. A. von Rothschild und Söhne, closes as there is no male Rothschild heir to take it on.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1902: Philippe de Rothschild born.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1905: A group of Rothschild backed Zionist Jews led by Georgi Apollonovich Gapon attempt to overthrow the Tsar in Russia in a Communist Coup.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They fail and are forced to flee Russia only to be given refuge in Germany.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Jewish Encyclopaedia (Vol. 2, p.497) states,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"It is a somewhat curious sequel to the attempt to set up a Catholic competitor to the Rothschilds that at the present time the latter are the guardians of the papal treasure."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1906: The Rothschilds claim that due to growing instability in the region and increasing competition from Rockefeller (the Rockefeller family are Rothschild descendants through a female bloodline) owned Standard Oil, this is why they sell their Caspian and Black Sea Petroleum Company to Royal Dutch and Shell.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is another example of the Rothschilds trying to hide their true wealth.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1907: Rothschild, Jacob Schiff, the head of Kuhn, Loeb and Co., in a speech to the New York Chamber of Commerce, warns that,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Unless we have a Central Bank with adequate control of credit resources, this country is going to undergo the most severe and far reaching money panic in its history."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Suddenly America finds itself in the middle of another typical run of the mill Rothschild engineered financial crisis, which ruins as usual ruins the lives of millions of innocent people throughout America and makes billions for the Rothschilds.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1909: Jacob Schiff founds the National Advancement for the Association of the Coloured People (NAACP).  This was done to incite black people into roiting, looting and other forms of disorder, in order to cause a rift between the black and white communities.  Jewish historian, Howard Sachar, states the following in his book, "&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A History of the Jews in America,"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"In 1914, Professor Emeritus Joel Spingarn of Columbia University became chairman of the NAACP and recruited for its board such Jewish leaders as Jacob Schiff, Jacob Billikopf, and Rabbi Stephen Wise."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Other Ashkenazi Jew co-founders included Julius Rosenthal, Lillian Wald and Rabbi Emil G. Hirsch.  It was not until 1920 that the NAACP appointed its first black president, James Weldon Johnson.&lt;br /&gt;Maurice de Rothschild marries Ashkenazi Jew, Noémie Halphen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1911: Werner Sombart, in his book, "The Jews and Modern Capitalism," stated that from 1820 on, it was the,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Age of the Rothschild," and concluded that there was, "Only one power in Europe, and that is Rothschild."&lt;br /&gt;1912: In the December issue of, "Truth," magazine, George R. Conroy states of banker Jacob Schiff,&lt;br /&gt;"Mr Schiff is head of the great private banking house of Kuhn, Loeb, and co, which represents the Rothschilds interests on this side of the Atlantic.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He has been described as financial strategist and has been for years the financial minister of the great impersonal power known as Standard Oil.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He was hand in glove with the Harrimans, the Goulds, and the Rockefellers in all their railroad enterprises and has become the dominant power in the railroad and financial power of America."&lt;br /&gt;1913: On March 4, Woodrow Wilson is elected the 28th President of the United States.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Shortly after he is inaugurated, he is visited in the White House by Ashkenazi Jew, Samuel Untermyer, of law firm, Guggenheim, Untermyer, and Marshall, who tries to blackmail him for the sum of $40,000 in relation to an affair Wilson had whilst he was a professor at Princeton University, with a fellow professor's wife.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;President Wilson does not have the money, so Untermyer volunteers to pay the $40,000 out of his own pocket to the woman Wilson had had the affair with, on the condition that Wilson promise to appoint to the first vacancy on the United States Supreme Court a nominee to be recommended to President Wilson by Untermyer.  Wilson agrees to this.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jacob Schiff sets up the Anti Defamation League (ADL) in the United States.  This organisation is formed to slander anyone who questions or challenges the Rothschild global conspiracy as, "anti-semitic."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Strangely enough, the same year that they do this they also set up their last and current central bank in America, the Federal Reserve. Congressman Charles Lindbergh stated following the passing of the Federal Reserve Act on December 23,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"The Act establishes the most gigantic trust on earth. When the President signs this Bill, the invisible government of the monetary power will be legalized.......The greatest crime of the ages is perpetrated by this banking and currency bill."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is important to note that the Federal Reserve is a private company, it is neither Federal nor does it have any Reserve. It is conservatively estimated that profits exceed $150 billion per year and the Federal Reserve has never once in its history published accounts.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1914:  The start of World War I.  In this war, the German Rothschilds loan money to the Germans, the British Rothschilds loan money to the British, and the French Rothschilds loan money to the French.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Futhermore, the Rothschilds have control of the three European news agencies, Wolff (est. 1849) in Germany, Reuters (est. 1851) in England, and Havas (est. 1835) in France.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Rothschilds use Wolff to manipulate the German people into a fervour for war. From around this time, the Rothschilds are rarely reported in the media, because they own the media.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1916:  On June 4, Ashkenazi Jew, Louis Dembitz Brandeis is appointed to the Supreme Court of the United States by President Wilson as per his agreed blackmail payment to Samuel Untermyer some three years earlier.  Justice Brandeis is also the elected leader of the Executive Committee for Zionist Affairs, a position he has held since 1914.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The middle of World War II.  Germany were winning the war as they were being financed by the Rothschilds to a greater extent than France, Italy and England, because Rothschilds, did not want to support the Tsar in Russia, and of course Russia was on the same side as France, Italy and England.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then a significant event occurred.  Germany, although they were winning the war and not one foreign soldier had set foot on their soil, offered armistice to Britain with no requirement of reparations.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Rothschilds were anxious to make sure this didn't happen as they were expecting to make far more money off this war, so they played another card they had up their sleeve.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Whilst the British were considering Germany's offer, Rothschild agent Louis Brandeis sends a Zionist delegation from America to Britain to promise to bring America into the war on the side of the British, provided the British agree to give the land of Palestine to the Rothschilds.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Rothschilds wanted Palestine for the following reason.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They had great business interests in the far east and desired their own state in that area along with their own military which they could use as an aggressor to any state that threatened those interests.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The British subsequently agree to the deal for Palestine and the Zionists in London contact their counterparts in America and inform them of this fact.  Suddenly all the major newspapers in America that up to that point had been pro-German turned on Germany running propaganda pieces such as:  German soldiers were killing Red Cross Nurses; German soldiers were cutting off babies hands, etc, in order to manipulate the American public against the Germans.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This same year, President Woodrow Wilson, ran a re-election campaign under the slogan, "Re-Elect The Man Who Will Keep Your Sons Out Of The War."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On December 12, Germany and her allies offer peace terms to end the war.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1917:  As a result of Germany's offer of peace the Rothschild war machine goes into overdrive in America, spreading propaganda which leads to President Wilson under the instructions of American Zionist leader and Supreme Court Justice, Louis Dembitz Brandeis, reneging on his promise to the electorate and taking America into the first world war on April 6.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As per the Rothschild Zionist promise to the British, to take America into the war, they decide they want something in writing from the British to prove that they will uphold their side of the bargain.  The British Foreign Secretary, Arthur James Balfour therefore drafts a letter which is commonly known as the, "Balfour Declaration," which is reprinted below.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Foreign Office&lt;br /&gt;November 2nd, 1917&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dear Lord Rothschild,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have much pleasure in conveying to you, on behalf of His Majesty's Government, the following declaration of sympathy with Jewish Zionist aspirations which has been submitted to, and approved by, the Cabinet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;His Majesty's Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I should be grateful if you would bring this declaration to the knowledge of the Zionist Federation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yours sincerely,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Arthur James Balfour&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Rothschilds order the execution by the Bolsheviks they control, of Tsar Nicholas II and his entire family in Russia, even though the Tsar had already abdicated on March 2.  This is both to get control of the country and an act of revenge for Tsar Alexander I blocking their world government plan in 1815 at the Congress Of Vienna, and Tsar Alexander II siding with President Abraham Lincoln in 1864.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is extremely important for them to slaughter the entire family including women and children in order to make good on the promise to do so made by Nathan Mayer Rothschild in 1815.  It is designed to show the world what happens if you ever attempt to cross the Rothschilds.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;U.S. Congressman Oscar Callaway informs Congress that J. P. Morgan is a Rothschild front and has taken control of the American media industry.  He states,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"In March, 1915, the J.P. Morgan interests, the steel, shipbuilding, and powder interest, and their subsidiary organizations, got together 12 men high up in the newspaper world and employed them to select the most influential newspapers in the United States and sufficient number of them to control generally the policy of the daily press...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;...They found it was only necessary to purchase the control of 25 of the greatest papers...An agreement was reached.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The policy of the papers was bought, to be paid for by the month, an editor was furnished for each paper to properly supervise and edit information regarding the questions of preparedness, militarism, financial policies, and other things of national and international nature considered vital to the interests of the purchasers."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1919:  In January, Ashkenazi Jews, Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg, are killed as they attempt to lead another Rothschild funded Communist coup, this time in Berlin, Germany.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Versailles peace conference is held to decide reparations that the Germans need to pay to the victors following the end of the first world war.  A delegation of 117 Zionists headed up by Ashkenazi Jew, Bernard Baruch, bring up the subject of the promise of Palestine for them.  At this point the Germans realised why America had turned on them and under whose influence, the Rothschilds.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Germans, naturally, felt they had been betrayed by the Zionists.  This is because, at the time the Rothschilds made their deal with Britain for Palestine, in exchange for bringing America into the war, Germany was the most friendly country in the world towards the Jews, indeed the German Emancipation Edict of 1822 guaranteed Jews in Germany all civil rights enjoyed by Germans.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Also, Germany was the only country in Europe which did not place restrictions on Jews, even giving them refuge when they had to flee from Russia after their first attempted Communist coup failed there in 1905.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;Nevertheless, the Rothschilds had held up their side of the bargain to spill the blood of millions of innocents and as a result, Palestine is confirmed as a Jewish homeland, and whilst its handover to the Rothschilds takes place it is to remain under the control of Britain as the Rothschilds control Britain. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At that time less than one percent of the population of Palestine was Jewish.  Interestingly, the host of the Versailles peace conference is its boss, Baron Edmond de Rothschild.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Versailles peace conference is also used as an attempt by the Rothschilds to set up a world government under the pretext of ending all wars (which they create).  This was called the, "League of Nations."  Fortunately not enough countries accepted it and so it soon died.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On March 29th The Times of London reports on the Bolsheviks in Russia,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"One of the curious features of the Bolshevist movement is the high percentage of non Russian elements among its leaders. Of the twenty or thirty commissaries, or leaders, who provide the central machinery of the Bolshevist movement, not less than 75% were Jews."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is reported that the Rothschilds were angry with the Russians because they were not prepared to allow them to form a central bank within their nation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They therefore gathered groups of Jewish spies and sent them into Russia to drum up a revolution for the benefit of the common man, which was actually a takeover of Russia by a Rothschild controlled satanic elite.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These Jewish spies were, in age old deceptive Ashkenazi tradition, given Russian names, for example Trotsky was a member of the first group and his original name was Bronstein. These groups were sent to areas throughout Russia to incite riots and rebellion.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Jewish Post International Edition, week ending January 24th 1991, confirms Vladimir Lenin was Jewish. Lenin is also on record as having stated,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“The establishment of a central bank is 90% of communizing a nation.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These Jewish, Rothschild funded Bolsheviks would go on in the course of history to slaughter 60 million Christians and Non-Jews in Soviet controlled territory.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Indeed the author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in his work, “Gulag Archipelago, Vol 2,” affirms that Zionist Jews created and administered the organized Soviet concentration camp system in which these tens of millions of Christians and Non-Jews died.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On page 79 of this book he even names the administrators of this the greatest killing machine in the history of the world. They are Aron Solts, Yakov Rappoport, Lazar Kogan, Matvei Berman, Genrikh Yagoda, and Naftaly Frenkel. All six are Zionist Jews. In 1970 Solzhenitsyn would be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for literature.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;N. M. Rothschild &amp;amp; Sons’ are given a permanent role to fix the world’s daily gold price. This takes place in the City of London offices, daily at 1100 hours, in the same room until 2004.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1920: Winston Churchill (whose mother, Jenny (Jacobson) Jerome, was Jewish – meaning he is Jewish under Ashkenazi law as he was born of a Jewish mother) writes in an article in the Illustrated Sunday Herald, dated February 8th,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"From the days of Illuminati leader Weishaupt, to those of Karl Marx, to those of Trotsky, this worldwide conspiracy has been steadily growing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And now at last this band of extraordinary personalities from the underworld of the great cities of Europe and America, have gripped the Russian people by the hair of their heads and become the undisputed masters of that enormous empire."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;1921:  Under the orders of Jacob Schiff the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is founded by Ashkenazi Jews, Bernard Baruch and Colonel Edward Mandell House. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Schiff gave his orders prior to his death in 1920, as he knew an organisation in America needed to be set up to select politicians to carry on the Rothschild conspiracy,and the formation of the CFR was actually agreed in a meeting on May 30, 1919 at the Hotel Majestic in Paris, France.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The CFR membership at the start was approximately 1000 people in the United States.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This membership included the heads of virtually every industrial empire in America, all the American based international bankers, and the heads of all their tax free foundations.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;In essence all those people who would provide the capital required for anyone who wished to run for Congress, the Senate or the Presidency.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The first job of the CFR was to gain control of the press.  This task was given to John D. Rockefeller who set up a number of national news magazines such as Life, and Time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He financed Samuel Newhouse to buy up and establish a chain of newspapers all across the country, and Eugene Meyer also who would go on to buy up many publications such as the Washington Post, Newsweek, ant The Weekly Magazine.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The CFR also needed to gate control of radio, television and the motion picture industry.  This task was split amongst the international bankers from, Kuhn Loeb, Goldman Sachs, the Warburgs, and the Lehmanns.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1925:  This year's Jewish Encyclopaedia, states of the existence of Ashkenazi Jews (who represent approximately 90% of so-called world Jewry), with the startling admission that the so called enemy of the Jews, Esau (also known as Edom, see Genesis 36:1), now actually represents the Jewish race, when on page 42 of Volume V it is stated,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Edom is in modern Jewry."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So what they're basically saying is that these Ashkenazi Jews, who represent 90% of the so-called Jewish population, are actually gentiles or goyim themselves.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1926: N. M. Rothschild &amp;amp; Sons refinance the Underground Electric Railways Company of London Ltd which has a controlling interest in the entire London Underground transport system.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Maurice de Rothschild has a son, Edmond de Rothschild.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1929:  The Rothschilds crash the United States economy by contracting the money supply.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1930:  The first Rothschild world bank, the, "Bank for International Settlements (BIS)," is established in Basle, Switzerland.  The same place as where 33 years earlier the first ever World Zionist Congress was held.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1933: On January 30, Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He drives Jews, many of which were Communist out of Governmental positions within Germany.&lt;br /&gt;As a result of this, in July, the Jews hold a World Conference in Amsterdam during which they demand that Hitler re-instate every Jew back to his former position.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hitler refuses and as a result of this, Samuel Untermyer, the Ashkenazi Jew who blackmailed President Wilson,and is now the head of the American delegation and the president of the whole conference, returns to the United States, and makes a speech on radio which was transcribed in the From the New York Times, Monday, August 7, 1933.  In the speech he made the following statements,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"...the Jews are the aristocrats of the world...Our campaign is...the economic boycott against all German goods, shipping and services...What we are proposing...is to prosecute a purely defensive economic boycott that will undermine the Hitler regime and bring the German people to their senses by destroying their export trade on which their very existence depends...&lt;br /&gt;...Each of you, Jew and Gentile alike...must refuse to deal with any merchant or shopkeeper who sells any German-made goods or who patronizes German ships or shipping."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As two thirds of Germany's food supply had to be imported, and could only be imported with the proceeds of what they exported, if Germany could not export, two thirds of Germany's population would starve, as there would be not enough food for more than one third of the population.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As a result of this boycott, Jews throughout America, would protest outside and damage any stores in which they found any products with, "Made in Germany," printed on them, causing stores to have to dump these products or risk bankruptcy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Once the effects of this boycott began to be felt in Germany, the Germans, who had demonstrated no violence towards the Jews up to this point, simply began boycotting Jewish stores in the same way the Jews had done to stores selling German products in America.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rothschild financed IBM, supply machines to the Nazis which produce punch cards to help organize and manage the initial identification and social expulsion of Jews, the confiscation of their property and their extermination.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On November 16, President Roosevelt recognizes the Zionist regime of Stalin in Russia without consultation with Congress even as 8,000 Ukrainians march in protest in New York.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Also this year, President Roosevelt, born of a Jewish mother, therefore satisfying Ashkenazi rules of being Jewish, orders the all-seeing eye to be placed upon all new dollar bills along with the motto, "Novus Ordo Seclorum."  This is latin for, "A New Order of the Ages."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1934: Swiss banking secrecy laws are reformed and it becomes an offence resulting in imprisonment for any bank employee to violate bank secrecy. This is all in preparation for the Rothschild engineered Second World War in which as usual they will fund both sides.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Edmond de Rothschild dies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1936:  With regard to the increase in anti-semitism in Germany, Samuel Landman (at the time, secretary to the World Zionist Organisation), in his 1936 book, Great Britain, The Jews, and Palestine states the following of the United States entry into World War 1,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"The fact that it was Jewish help that brought USA into the War on the side of the Allies has rankled ever since in German – especially Nazi – minds, and has contributed in no small measure to the prominence which anti-Semitism occupies in the Nazi programme."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1938: On 7th November, a Jew, Herschel Grynszpan, assassinated Ernst vom Rath, a minor official at the German Embassy in Paris.  As a result of this German hostility towards Jews in Germany started to turn violent.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Rothschilds Austrian banking house in Vienna, S. M. von Rothschild und Söhne, closes following the Nazi occupation of Austria.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1939: I.G. Farben the leading producer of chemicals in the world and largest German producer of steel dramatically increases its production.&lt;br /&gt;This increased production is almost exclusively used to arm Germany for the Second World War.&lt;br /&gt;This company was controlled by the Rothschilds and would go on to use Jews and other disaffected peoples as slave labour in the concentration camps.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I.G. Farben also created the lethal Zyklon B gas that was used to exterminate the Jews.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On 1 September, the Second world war starts when Germany invades Poland.  This was because the German leadership were a Christian leadership, who understood that Soviet Russia was led by Rothschild funded Communists, and they feared that as the Soviet Union grew in strength, these Jewish Communists would invade and wipe all the Christians off the map.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1940: Hansjurgen Koehler in his book, "Inside The Gestapo," states the following, of Maria Anna Schicklgruber, Adolf Hitler's grandmother,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"A little servant girl…….came to Vienna and became a domestic servant…….at the Rothschild mansion…….and Hitler’s unknown grandfather must be probably looked for in this magnificent house."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is backed up by Walter Langer in his book, "The Mind Of Hitler," in which he states,&lt;br /&gt;"Adolf’s father, Alois Hitler, was the illegitimate son of Maria Anna Schicklgruber…….Maria Anna Schicklgruber was living in Vienna at the time she conceived.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At that time she was employed as a servant in the home of Baron Rothschild. As soon as the family discovered her pregnancy she was sent back home…….where Alois was born."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On the surface, it would appear Hitler was unlikely to be a Rothschild, but then again, when you discover the benefits that the Rothschilds got out of this war, both financially and politically, a Rothschild connection does not appear as outlandish as it may initially seem.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1941:  President Roosevelt takes America into the second world war by refusing to sell Japan any more steel scrap or oil. Japan was in the midst of a war against China and without that scrap steel and oil, Japan would be unable to continue that war. Japan was totally dependent upon the United States for both steel scrap and oil.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Roosevelt knew this action would provoke the Japanese to attack America, which they subsequently did at Pearl Harbor.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1942: Prescott Bush, father of future American Presidents’ George Herbert Walker and George W, has his company seized under the, “Trading With The Enemy,” Act.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He was funding Hitler from America, whilst American soldiers were being killed by German soldiers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jews are also being slaughtered by these same soldiers. Interestingly the ADL never criticizes any of the Bushes for this.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1943: February 18th, Zionist, Izaak Greenbaum, head of the Jewish Agency Rescue Committee, in a speech to the Zionist Executive Council states,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“If I am asked, could you give from the UJA (United Jewish Appeal) monies to rescue Jews, I say, no and I say again no!”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He would go onto state,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“One cow in Palestine is worth more than all the Jews in Poland!”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is not a surprise, the whole idea of Zionist support for the slaughter of innocent Jews was to scare the survivors into believing that their only place of safety was Israel.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How else do you think the Zionists could ensure Jews leave the beautiful European cities in which they live, in order to settle in a desert!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1944:  On 6 November Lord Moyne, British Minister Resident in the Middle East was assassinated in Cairo by two members of the Jewish terrorist group, the Stern Gang, led by future Prime Minister of Israel, Yitzhak Shamir.  He is also responsible for  an assassination attempt against Harold MacMichael, the High Commissioner of the British Mandate of Palestine, this same year.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Interestingly he also masterminds another successful assassination this year against the United Nations representative in the Middle East, Count Folke Bernadotte who, although he had secured the release of 21,000 prisoners from German camps during World War II, was seen by Yitzak Shamir and his terrorist collaborators as an anti-Zionist.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, two further Rothschild world banks are created.  The International Monetary Fund (IMF), and the World Bank.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1945: The end of the Second World War. It is reported that I.G. Farben plants were specifically not targeted in the bombing raids on Germany. Interestingly at the end of the war, they were found to have only sustained 15% damage.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The tribunals held at the end of the Second World War, to investigate Nazi War Crimes, censored any materials recording Western assistance to Hitler.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Rothschilds take a giant step towards their goal of world domination when the second, "League of Nations," called the, "United Nations," was approved this year.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1946:  On July 22 the future Prime Minister of Israel, Ashkenazi Jew, David Ben-Gurion, orders another future Prime Minister of Israel, Ashkenazi Jew, Menachem Begin, to carry out a terrorist attack on the King David Hotel in Palestine, to try and drive out the British.  As a result of this 91 people were killed, most of them civilians: 28 British, 41 Arabs, 17 Jews, and 5 others.  Around 45 people are injured.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Menachem Begin went on to proudly proclaimed himself as, "the father of modern terrorism."  Just to put the gravity of the attack on the King David Hotel into perspective, it was at the time the biggest death toll as a result of single terrorist action ever and was only surpassed over forty years later by the Bombing of Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1947: The British who prior to World War 2 declared that there would be no more immigration of Jews to Palestine in order to protect the Palestinians from their acts of terror against both them and British soldiers, transfer control of Palestine to the United Nations.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The United Nations resolve to have Palestine partitioned into two states, one zionist and one arab, with Jerusalem to remain as an international zone to be enjoyed by all religious faiths.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This transfer was scheduled to take place on May 15, 1948.  The United Nations had no right to give Arab property to anyone, as indeed even thought the Jews owned 6% of Palestine at that time, resolution 181 granted the Jews 57% of the land leaving the Arabs who at that time had 94% with only 43%.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Information collected by the ADL in its spy operations on US citizens is used by the House Select Committee on Unamerican Activities. Subcommittee Chair Clare Hoffman dismisses the ADL’s reports on suspected communists as "hearsay."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1948: In the Spring of this year, the Rothschilds bribe President Harry S. Truman (33rd President of the United States 1945 – 1953) to recognise Israel (Rothschild owned Zionist not Jewish territory) as a sovereign state with $2,000,000 which they give to him on his campaign train.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They then declare Israel to be a sovereign Jewish state in Palestine and within half an hour President Truman declared the United States to be the first foreign nation to recognise it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Flag of Israel is unveiled. Despite tremendous opposition the emblem on the flag is a blue coloured version of the Rothschild, "Red Hexagram or Sign."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This angers many Jews who realise this Hexagram was used in the ancient mystery religions as the symbol of, "Moloch," (described as a demon of unwilling sacrifice and is also interestingly the name of the stone owl the elite worship at Bohemian Grove), and, "Astaroth," (described as the Lord Treasurer of Hell).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Hexagram was also used to represent Saturn, which has been identified as the esoteric name for, "Satan." This indicates that anyone killed in the name of Israel is actually a sacrifice to Satan.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These dissenting Jews believe the, "Menorah," the oldest Jewish symbol should be used and pointed out that the Hexagram is not even a Jewish symbol, but of course as the Rothschild Zionists use it that is what ends up on the Rothschild, I mean Zionist, I mean Israeli flag.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the early hours of April 19, 132 Jewish terrorists from the Irgun gang, led by future Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, and the Stern gang, led by future Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, brutally massacre 200 men, women and children as they are sleeping peacefully in the Arab village of Deir Yassin.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Following the United Nations transfer of Palestine to an independent Jewish state and an independent Arab state on May 15, the Israelis launched a military assault on the Arabs with blaring loudspeakers on their trucks informing the Arabs that if they did not flee immediately, they would be slaughtered.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;800,000 Arabs with the recent memory of the Deir Yassin massacre at the forefront of their minds, fled in panic.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They asked for help from nighbouring Arab states, but those states did not get involved as they were no match for the Israelis whose up to date military hardware had been supplied by the Jewish Stalinist regime in Russia.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Following this assault, the Jews now controlled 78% of the former Palestine as oppose to the 57% that had been given to them illegally by the United Nations.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Palestinians, many of them Christians, were never paid compensation for their homes, property and businesses stolen from them during this illegal Jewish assault, and these people ended up in slum refugee cities of tents.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Futhermore at least half of the Palestinians in their hurry to flee, left their birth certificates behind.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The State of Israel then passed a law that only those who could prove citizenship were allowed to return to Israel, thus meaning these 400,000 Palestinians could not return and lost all their property they had left there.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ashkenazi Jew, David Ben-Gurion, one of the father founders of Israel and its first Prime Minister, candidly describes Zionist aims in his diary (21 May 1948) as follows,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“The Achilles heel of the Arab coalition is the Lebanon. Muslim supremacy in this country is artificial and can easily be overthrown. A Christian State ought to be set up there, with its southern frontier on the river Litani.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We would sign a treaty of alliance with this State. Thus when we have broken the strength of the Arab Legion and bombed Amman, we could wipe out Trans-Jordan, after that Syria would fall. And if Egypt still dared to make war on us, we would bomb Port Said, Alexandria and Cairo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We should thus end the war and would have but paid to Egypt, Assyria and Chaldea on behalf of our ancestors.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1949:  On October 1, Mao Tse Tsung declares the founding of the People's Republic Of China in Tiananmen Square, Beijing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He is funded by Rothschild created Communism in Russia and also the following Rothschild agents:  Solomon Adler, a former United States Treasury official who was a Soviet Spy; Israel Epstein, the son of a Jewish Bolshevik imprisoned by the Tsar in Russia for trying to forment a revolution there; and Frank Coe, a leading official of the Rothschild owned IMF.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1950: Israel passes their law of return, guaranteeing every Jew worldwide the right to dwell in the state of Israel, however the Palestinians even though they had lived there for 1300 years, were denied that right.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;John Davitt, former chief of the Justice Department's internal security section notes that the Israeli intelligence service is the second most active in the United States after the Soviets and of course both Israel and the Soviet Union are run by an Ashkenazi Jewish leadership.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1951: On 1 April the Israeli Secret Intelligence Agency the Mossad, which will go on to terrorize the world, is formed. The motto of the Mossad is probably the most disgusting secret service motto in the world, it is,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;"By Way Of Deception,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt; Thou Shalt Do War."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1953: N. M. Rothschild &amp;amp; Sons found the British Newfoundland Corporation Limited to develop 60,000 square miles of land in Newfoundland, Canada, which comprised a power station to harness the power of the Hamilton (later renamed Churchill) Falls. At the time this was the largest construction project ever to be undertaken by a private company.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1954: "The Lavon Affair."  Israeli agents recruit Egyptian citizens of Jewish descent to bomb Western targets in Egypt, and plant evidence to frame Arabs, in an apparent attempt to upset American/Egyptian relations. Israeli defense minister, Ashkenazi Jew, Pinhas Lavon is eventually removed from office, though many think real responsibility lay with David Ben-Gurion.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A hidden microphone planted by the Israelis is discovered in the Office of the US Ambassador in Tel Aviv.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1955: Edmond de Rothschild founds Compagnie Financiere, Paris.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1956: Telephone taps are found connected to two telephones in the residence of the US military attaché in Tel Aviv.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1957: James de Rothschild dies and it is reported (by the Rothschild owned media) that he bequeaths a large sum of money to the state of Israel to pay for the construction of their parliament building, the Knesset. He states that the Knesset should be,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"a symbol, in the eyes of all men, of the permanence of the State of Israel."&lt;br /&gt;On page 219 of his book, "Tales of the British Aristocracy," L.G. Pine, the Editor of Burke’s Peerage, states that the Jews,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"have made themselves so closely connected with the British peerage that the two classes are unlikely to suffer loss which is not mutual. So closely linked are the Jews and the lords that a blow against the Jews in this country would not be possible without injuring the aristocracy also."&lt;br /&gt;Maurice de Rothschild dies in Paris.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1962: de Rothschild Frères establishes Imétal as an umbrella company for all their mineral mining interests.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Frederic Morton publishes his book, The Rothschilds, in which he states,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Though they control scores of industrial, commercial, mining and tourist corporations, not one bears the name Rothschild. Being private partnerships, the family houses never need to, and never do, publish a single public balance sheet, or any other report of their financial condition."&lt;br /&gt;This attitude reveals the true aim of the Rothschilds, to eliminate all competition and create their own worldwide monopoly.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1963: On June 4th President John F. Kennedy (the 35th President of the United States 1961 – 1963) signs Executive Order 11110 which returned to the U.S. government the power to issue currency, without going through the Rosthchilds owned Federal Reserve.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Less than 6 months later on November 22nd , president Kennedy is assassinated by the Rothschilds for the same reason as they assassinated President Abraham Lincoln in 1865, he wanted to print American money for the American people, as oppose to for the benefit of a money grabbing war mongering foreign elite.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This Executive Order 11110, is rescinded by President Lyndon Baines Johnson (the 36th President of the United States 1963 to 1969) on Air Force One from Dallas to Washington, the same day as President Kennedy was assassinated.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another, and probably the primary, reason for Kennedy's assassination is however, the fact that he made it quite clear to Israeli Prime Minister, David Ben-Gurion, that under no circumstances would he agree to Israel becoming a nuclear state.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz on February 5, 1999, in a review of, Avner Cohen's book, "Israel and the Bomb," states the following,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"The murder of American President John F. Kennedy brought to an abrupt end the massive pressure being applied by the U.S. administration on the government of Israel to discontinue the nuclear program...The book implied that, had Kennedy remained alive, it is doubtful whether Israel would today have a nuclear option."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Edmond de Rothschild establishes La Compagnie Financière Edmond de Rothschild (LCF), in Switzerland as a venture capital house.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This later develops into an investment bank and asset management company with many affiliates. He also marries his wife Nadine and they have a son, Benjamin de Rothschild.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1965: Israel illegally obtains enriched uranium from NUMEC (Nuclear Materials and Equipment Corporation).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1967: The treatment of the Palestinians by the Zionist Jews, finally ignites enough anger in the Arab world for Egypt, Jordan and Syria to mobilise on Israel's borders.  All of these three countries are suddenly attacked by Israel and as a result the Sinai which included Gaza was stolen from Egypt, and the West Bank and the Jordan River stolen from Jordan.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As a result of this, on June 8, the Israelis launch an attack on the USS Liberty with Israeli aircraft and motor torpedo boats, in an effort to blame it on Egypt, to bring America into the war on their side, and of course follow to the letter, their Mossad motto,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;"By Way Of Deception,&lt;br /&gt;Thou Shalt Do War."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As a result of their attack, 34 American servicemen were killed and 174 wounded.  Israel lies as usual, claiming it mistook this warship that was flying a large United States flag, for an ancient out-of-service Egyptian horse carrier El Quseir, that was 180 feet shorter.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They also claim the ship was in the war zone, when it was actually in international waters, far from any fighting.  The Israeli's attack on this warship lasts for 75 minutes during which time they shoot up one of the United States flags, resulting in the sailors desperately raising another one.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the aftermath of this attack, the American sailors who survived are warned by the United States military not to discuss the matter with anyone due to, "national security."  This story gets no prominence in the Rothschild controlled mainstream media and as usual Israel is in no way even rebuked for their crimes by their subservient country of America.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The following day, June 9th, Israel illegally occupies the Golan Heights which it seizes from Syria. This area goes on to provide Israel with one third of its fresh water.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Israeli General Matityahu Peled, is quoted in Ha'aretz (19 March 1972) with the following statement,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"The thesis that the danger of genocide was hanging over us in June 1967 and that Israel was fighting for its physical existence is only bluff, which was born and developed after the war."  Another sickening and deceptive statement but again at least he's consistent with the Mossad motto, "By Way Of Deception, Thou Shalt Do War."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;de Rothschild Frères is renamed Banque Rothschild.&lt;br /&gt;1968: Noémie Halphen, wife of Maurice de Rothschild dies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1970: While working for Senator Henry “Scoop” Jackson, Ashkenazi Jew, Richard Perle is caught by the FBI giving classified information to Israel. Nothing is done.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;British Prime Minister Edward Heath makes Lord Victor Rothschild the head of his policy unit. Whilst he is in that role Britain enters the European Community.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1973: In his book, None Dare Call It Conspiracy, Gary Allen states,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"One major reason for the historical blackout on the role of the international bankers in political history is the Rothschilds were Jewish…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;….The Jewish members of the conspiracy have used an organisation called The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) as an instrument to try and convince everyone that any mention of the Rothschilds and their allies is an attack on all Jews.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In this way they have stifled almost all honest scholarship on international bankers and made the subject taboo within universities.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Any individual or book exploring this subject is immediately attacked by hundreds of ADL communities all over the country. The ADL has never let the truth or logic interfere with its highly professional smear jobs…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;….Actually, nobody has a right to be more angry at the Rothschild clique than their fellow Jews…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;….The Rothschild empire helped finance Adolf Hitler."”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;George J. Laurer an employee of the Rothschilds controlled IBM, invents the UPC (Universal Product Code) barcode which will eventually be placed upon every item traded worldwide and bear the number, 666.  The Book of Revelation, Chapter 13, Verse 17 through 18, states the following in relation to this number,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here is wisdom.  Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The whole Satanic aims of the Rothschilds are now in full view of the world, everything bought or sold carries the mark of the beast, 666.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;N. M. Rothschild &amp;amp; Sons British Newfoundland Corporation, Churchill Falls project in Newfoundland, Canada, is completed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;N. M. Rothschild &amp;amp; Sons also create a new asset management part of the company which traded worldwide. This eventually became, Rothschild Private Management Limited.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Edmond de Rothschild, a great-grandson of Jacob (James) Mayer Rothschild, bought the cru bourgeois estate of Château Clarke in Bordeaux.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1976:  Ashkenazi Jew, Harold Rosenthal, aide to Ashkenazi Jew, Senator Jacob Javits, states,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Most Jews do not like to admit it, but our god is Lucifer."&lt;br /&gt;1978: Ashkenazi Jew, Stephen Bryen, then a Senate Foreign Relations Committee staffer, is overheard in a Washington D.C. hotel offering confidential documents to top Israeli military officials.&lt;br /&gt;Bryen obtains a lawyer, Nathan Lewin, and the case heads for the grand jury, but is mysteriously dropped. Bryen later goes to work for Richard Perle.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1979: The Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty in 1979 was underwritten by United States aid which pledged $3 billion annually to Israel from the United States taxpayer (not even a drop in the ocean when you consider the amount they make off the Federal Reserve).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Shin Bet (the Israeli internal security agency) tries to penetrate the US Consulate General in Jerusalem through a “Honey Trap”, using a clerical employee who was having an affair with a Jerusalem girl.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Baron and Baroness Phillipi de Rothschild in a joint venture with Robert Mondavi, begin the construction of a pyramid in Napa Valley, California, where the leader/founder of the Church Of Satan, Ashkenazi Jew, Anton LaVey, was based. This is known as Opus 1 (which means, the first work), and the front for this temple is that it is a winery.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1980: The global phenomenon of privatisation starts. The Rothschilds are behind this from the very beginning in order to seize control of all publicly owned assets worldwide.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1981: Banque Rothschild is nationalised by the French government. The new bank is called, Compagnie Européenne de Banque. The Rothschilds subsequently set up a successor to this French bank, Rothschild &amp;amp; Cie Banque (RCB), which goes on to become a leading French investment house.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1982:  From September 16 to 18, future Prime Minister of Israel and then Defence Minister, Ashkenazi Jew, Ariel Sharon, orchestrates Israel's invasion of Lebanon, which provided ariel lighting in order to facilitate the killing of between 1000 and 2000 men, women and children in the Sabra and Shatila massacres.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1985: Eustace Mullins publishes, "Who Owns The TV Networks," in which he reveals the Rothschilds have control of all three major U.S. Networks, which are: NBC; CBS; and ABC.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The New York Times reports the FBI is aware of at least a dozen incidents in which American officials transferred classified information to the Israelis, quoting (former Assistant Director of the F.B.I.) Raymond Wannal. The Justice Department does not prosecute.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Richard Smyth, the owner of MILCO, is indicted on charges of smuggling nuclear timing devices to Israel.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;N. M. Rothschild &amp;amp; Sons advise the British government on the privatisation of British Gas. They subsequently advise the British government on virtually all of their other privatisations of state owned assets including: British Steel; British Coal; all the British regional electricity boards; and all the British regional water boards.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A British MP heavily involved in these privatisations is future Chancellor of the Exchequer, Norman Lamont, a former Rothschild banker.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1986: Mordechai Vanunu a technician at Dimona, Israel's nuclear installation, from 1976 to 1985, discovers that the plant was secretly producing nuclear weapons.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;His conscience made him speak out and in 1986 he provided the London Sunday Times with the facts and photos they used to tell the world about Israel's nuclear weapons programme.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;His evidence showed that Israel had stockpiled up to 200 nuclear warheads, with no debate or authorisation from it own citizens. On 30th September 1986, Vanunu was lured from London to Rome. There he was kidnapped, drugged and shipped to Israel.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After a secret trial he was sentenced to 18 years for, "treason," and, "espionage," (something Israel are very familiar with) though he had received no payment and had communicated with no foreign power.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He goes on to be held in complete isolation for 11 years, only allowed occasional visits from his family, lawyer and a priest, conducted through a metal screen. Although he completes his sentence, the Israeli government continues to hold him against his will.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1987: Edmond de Rothschild creates the World Conservation Bank which is designed to transfer debts from third world countries to this bank and in return those countries would give land to this bank. This is designed so the Rothschilds can gain control of the third world which represents 30% of the land surface of the Earth.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On April 24 the Wall Street Journal reveals the, "Role of Israel in Iran-Contra Scandal Won't be Explored in Detail by Panels."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1988: The ADL initiate a nationwide competition for law students to draft anti-hate legislation for minority groups.  That competition is won by a man named, Joseph Ribakoff, whose thesis proposes that not only must hate motivated violence be banned, but also any words which stimulate: supiscion; friction; hate; and possible violence, these must also be criminalised.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This ADL prize-winning paper suggests that not only should state-agencies monitor and restrict free speech in general, but they should also censor all films that criticize identifiable groups.  Furthermore, even if the person making the statement can justify it, for example Christians criticizing homosexuality because the bible expressly forbids it, Ribakoff asserts that the truth is to be no defence in court.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The only proof a court will need in order to secure a conviction of hate speech is that something has been said, and a minority group or member of such group has felt emotionally damaged as a result of such criticism.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Therefore, under these proposals which the ADL will have forced into law all over the world less than 15 years later, Jesus Christ would have been arrested as a hate criminal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This law is designed to protect the Rothschild conspiracy from being revealed in that if you criticize the Rothschilds criminal cabal, you will be targeted as anti-semitic, and thus risk imprisonment.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Philippe de Rothschild dies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1989: Many of the satellite states in Eastern Europe, through the influence of Glasnost, become more open in their demands of freedom from Communist governance in their Republics.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Many revolutions happen in 1989, most of them involving the overthrow of their respective Communist governments and the replacement of them with Republics.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thus, the hold the Communists had over Eastern Europe (the Iron Curtain) becomes very weak. Eventually, as a result of Perestroika and Glasnost, Communism collapses, not only in the Soviet Union but also in Eastern Europe.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In Russia, Boris Yeltsin (whose wife is the daughter of Joseph Stalin’s marriage to Rosa Kaganovich) and the Republican government takes steps to end the power of the Communist party by suspending and banning the party and seizing all their property.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This symbolised the fall of Communism in Russia, and resulted in the start of a mass exodus of 700,000 Jews from the former Soviet Union to Israel.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the Israeli Journal, Hotam (24 November 1989), there is a report of a speech that then Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister, Ashkenazi Jew, Binyamin Netanyahu, gave to students at Bar Ilan University in which he states,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Israel should have exploited the repression of the demonstrations in China, when world attention focused on that country, to carry out mass expulsions among the Arabs of the territories."&lt;br /&gt;The London and Paris Rothschilds announce the launch of a new subsidiary, Rothschild GmbH, in Frankfurt, Germany.&lt;br /&gt;1991:  Following the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait on August 2, 1990, on January 16 of this year the United States and Britain began an aerial bombing campaign of targets within Iraq.  On 24 February the ground campaign commenced which was to last 100 hours until on February 28 when a horrendous war crime occurred.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This crime was the slaughter of 150,000 Iraqi troops with fuel air bombs.  These Iraqis were fleeing on a crowded highway from Kuwait to Basra.  President George Herbert Walker Bush ordered United States military aircraft and ground units to kill these surrendering troops, they were then bulldozed into mass unmarked graves in the desert, some still alive.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;President Bush then ordered a cessation of hostilities.  What was the significance of this slaughter and President Bush declaring the war over on this day?  Well it was the day the, "Day of Purim," fell on this year.  This the day the Jews celebrate their victory over Ancient Babylon, now based within the borders of Iraq and a day when the Jews are encouraged to get bloody revenge against their perceived enemies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At the Bilderberg Conference on June 6 to 9 of this year, in Baden-Baden, Germany, David Rockefeller (a Rothschild) made the following statement,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"We are grateful to the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time Magazine, and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost 40 years.  It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world, if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during those years.&lt;br /&gt;But the world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government.  The super-national sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practised in past centuries."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1992: In March, former Federal Reserve Board Chairman, Paul A. Volker became Chairman of the European banking firm, J. Rothschild, Wolfensohn and Co.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Stephen Bryen, caught offering confidential documents to Israel in 1978, is serving on board of the pro-Israeli Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs while continuing as a paid consultant, with security clearance, on exports of sensitive US technology.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“The Samson Option,” by Seymour M. Hersh reports,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Illicitly obtained intelligence was flying so voluminously from LAKAM (a secret Israeli intelligence unit, a Hebrew acronym for Scientific Liaison Bureau) into Israeli intelligence that a special code name, JUMBO, was added to the security markings already on the documents. There were strict orders, Ari Ben-Menashe recalled, “Anything marked JUMBO was not supposed to be discussed with your American counterparts.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Wall Street Journal reports that Israeli agents apparently tried to steal Recon Optical Inc's top-secret airborne spy-camera system.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On September 16th Britain’s pound collapses when currency speculators led by Rothschild agent, Ashkenazi Jew, George Soros, borrow pounds and sell them for Deutsche Marks, in the expectation of being able to repay the loan in devalued currency and to pocket the difference.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This results in the British Chancellor of the Exchequer, Norman Lamont, announcing a rise in interest rates of 5% in one day and as a result drives Britain into a recession which lasts many years as large numbers of businesses fail and the housing market crashes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is right on cue for the Rothschilds, after they had privatised Britain’s state owned assets during the 1980’s, driven the share price up, and then collapsed the markets so they could buy them up for pennies on the pound, a carbon copy of what Nathan Mayer Rothschild did to the British economy 180 years before, in 1812.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It cannot be overstated that the Chancellor of the Exchequer at that time, Norman Lamont, prior to becoming a MP, was a Merchant Banker with N. M. Rothschild and Sons, who he joined after reading Economics at Cambridge.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1993: Norman Lamont leaves the British government to return to N. M. Rothschild and Sons as a director, after his mission to collapse the British economy to profit the Rothschilds is accomplished.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Former Congressman, Paul Findley publishes his seminal book, Deliberate Deceptions: Facing the Facts About the U.S. Israeli Relationship.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In this book he lists the 65 United Nations Member Resolutions against Israel from the period 1955 to 1992, and the 30 United States vetoes on Israel’s behalf which if not made would have seen Israel have 95 resolutions against them at this point.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No matter, even with Israel’s puppet the United States helping them terrorise others, the 65 Resolutions passed against Israel are more than all the Resolutions passed against all other countries combined.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Not that Israel care too much about the views of the United Nations when you consider that less than two weeks after Israel’s attack on the USS Liberty (an attack designed to sink the Liberty and blame it on Egypt prompting the USA into a war with Egypt on behalf of Israeli Lies, remember the Mossad motto, “By Way Of Deception, Thou Shalt Do War”), the Israeli Foreign Minister, Aba Eban, stated of the United Nations,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"If the General Assembly were to vote by 121 votes to 1 in favor of, "Israel," returning to the armistice lines (pre June 1967 borders), "Israel," would refuse to comply with the decision," New York Times – 19 June 1967.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The ADL is caught operating a massive spying operation on critics of Israel, Arab-Americans, the San Francisco Labor Council, ILWU Local 10, Oakland Educational Association, NAACP, Irish Northern Aid, International Indian Treaty Council, the Asian Law Caucus and the San Francisco Police.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Data collected was sent to Israel and in some cases to South Africa. Pressure from Jewish organizations forces the city to drop the criminal case, but the ADL settles a civil lawsuit for an undisclosed sum of cash.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1995: Former atomic energy scientist, Dr Kitty Little claims the Rothschilds now control 80% of the world’s uranium supplies giving them a monopoly over nuclear power.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Defense Investigative Service circulates a memo warning US military contractors that,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Israel aggressively collects (US) military and industrial technology."&lt;br /&gt;The report stated that Israel obtains information using,&lt;br /&gt;"ethnic targeting, financial aggrandizement, and identification and exploitation of individual frailties," of US citizens.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1996: A General Accounting Office report, "Defense Industrial Security: Weaknesses in US Security Arrangements With Foreign-Owned Defense Contractors," found that according to intelligence sources, "Country A," (identified by intelligence sources as Israel, Washington Times, 22 February 1996),&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"conducts the most aggressive espionage operation against the United States of any US ally."&lt;br /&gt;A pdf file of the report is here:&lt;br /&gt;www.gao.gov/archive/1996/ns96064.pdf&lt;br /&gt;An unformated text version is here:&lt;br /&gt;http://fas.org/man/gao/gao9664.htm&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Jerusalem Post (30 August 1996) quoted the report,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"“Classified military information and sensitive military technologies are high-priority targets for the intelligence agencies of this country."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The report described, "An espionage operation run by the intelligence organization responsible for collecting scientific and technologic information for (Israel) paid a US government employee to obtain US classified military intelligence documents."&lt;br /&gt;The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs (Shawn L. Twing, April 1996) noted that this was,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"a reference to the 1985 arrest of Jonathan Pollard, a civilian US naval intelligence analyst who provided Israel's LAKAM espionage agency an estimated 800,000 pages of classified US intelligence information."&lt;br /&gt;www.washington-report.org/backissues/0496/9604014.htm&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The GAO report also noted that, "Several citizens of (Israel) were caught in the United States stealing sensitive technology used in manufacturing artillery gun tubes."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;An Office of Naval Intelligence document, "Worldwide Challenges to Naval Strike Warfare" reported that,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"US technology has been acquired (by China) through Israel in the form of the Lavi fighter and possibly SAM (surface-to-air) missile technology."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jane's Defense Weekly (28 February 1996) noted that, "until now, the intelligence community has not openly confirmed the transfer of US technology (via Israel) to China."  The report noted that this, "represents a dramatic step forward for Chinese military aviation." (Flight International, 13 March 1996).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Amschel Rothschild, 41, is strangled with the heavy cord of his own towel robe in his hotel room in Paris. French Prime Minister orders the French Police to close their investigation, and, Rupert Murdoch, born of a Jewish mother and so a Jew by Ashkenazi standards, instructs his editors and news managers around the world to report it as a heart attack, if they need to report it at all.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On 12 May United Nations Ambassador and Ashkenazi Jew, Madeleine Albright, when appearing on 60 Minutes, was asked the following by correspondent Lesley Stahl, in reference to the years of United States led economic sanctions against Iraq,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"We have heard that half a million children have died. I mean, that is more children than died in Hiroshima. And, you know, is the price worth it?"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To which Ambassador Albright replied,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"I think that is a very hard choice, but the price, we think, the price is worth it."&lt;br /&gt;Her comments cause no public outcry.  In fact, the holocaust of half a million Iraqi children is positively admired by the United States government when you consider less than 8 months later, President Clinton appointed Albright as secretary of state.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Whilst appearing before the Senate Committee, who were considering her appointment, Albright is literally chomping at the bit for the blood of more Iraqi children and she states,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"We will insist on maintaining tough UN sanctions against Iraq unless and until that regime complies with relevant Security Council resolutions."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1997: An Army mechanical engineer, Ashkenazi Jew, David A. Tenenbaum, "inadvertently," gives classified military information on missile systems and armored vehicles to Israeli officials (New York Times, 20 February 1997).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Washington Post reports US intelligence has intercepted a conversation in which two Israeli officials had discussed the possibility of getting a confidential letter that then-Secretary of State Warren Christopher had written to Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One of the Israelis, identified only as, “Dov,” had commented that they may get the letter from, “Mega,” the code name for Israel’s top agent inside the United States.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;US ambassador to Israel, Martin Indyk, complains privately to the Israeli government about heavy-handed surveillance by Israeli intelligence agents.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Israeli agents place a tap on Ashkenazi Jew and daughter of a Rabbi, Monica Lewinsky’s, phone at the Watergate and record phone sex sessions between her and President Bill Clinton. The Ken Starr report confirms that Clinton warned Lewinsky their conversations were being taped and ended the affair. Interestingly, at the same time, the FBI’s hunt for, "Mega," is called off.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On 29 October Edmond de Rothschild dies in Geneva. Interestingly on the exact same day Anton Szandor LaVey, the founder of the Church of Satan also dies, who in his book, "Satan Speaks," he states in relation to The Protocols Of The Elders Of Zion,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"The first time I read the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, my instinctive reaction was, So what's wrong with THAT? Isn't that the way any master plan should work? Doesn't the public deserve - nay, demand - such despotism?"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Kofi Annan becomes Secretary General to the United Nations. He is married to Nane Lagergren, a Rothschild, who he wed in 1984.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1998: The European Central Bank is set up in Frankfurt, the city from which the Rothschilds originate.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2000: George W. Bush is elected (so they tell me) President of the United States. Bush and his family claim to be descendants of the House of Plantagenet which is descended from the Royal House of Judah.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2001: On September 11th the attack on the World Trade Center is orchestrated by Israel with the complicity of Britain and America, under the orders of the Rothschilds as a pretext for removing the liberty of people worldwide in exchange for security, just as happened with the Reichstag fire in Germany where the citizens were lied to in order to give up liberty for security.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They also will use the attacks to gain control of the few nations in the world who don’t allow Rothschild central banks and so less than one month after these attacks, US forces attack Afghanistan, one of only 7 nations in the world who don’t have a Rothschild controlled central bank.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Less than a week before the 9-11 attack on 5 September, the so-called lead hijacker Mohamed Atta and several other hijackers made a still-unexplained visit onboard one of Pro Israeli lobbyist, Ashkenazi Jew, Jack Abramoff’s casino boats.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No investigation is undertook as to what they were doing there.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is discovered that US drug agents’ communications have been penetrated. Suspicion falls on two companies, AMDOCS and Comverse Infosys, both owned by Israelis. AMDOCS generates billing data for most US phone companies and is able to provide detailed logs of who is talking to whom.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Comverse Infosys builds the tapping equipment used by law enforcement to eavesdrop on all American telephone calls, but suspicion forms that Comverse Infosys, which gets half of its research and development budget from the Israeli government, has built a back door into the system that is being exploited by Israeli intelligence and that the information gleaned on US drug interdiction efforts is finding its way to drug smugglers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The investigation by the FBI leads to the exposure of the largest foreign spy ring ever uncovered inside the United States, operated by Israel.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Half of the suspected spies have been arrested when 9-11 happens.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On 9-11, 5 Israelis are arrested for dancing and cheering while the World Trade Towers collapse. Supposedly employed by Urban Moving Systems, the Israelis are caught with multiple passports and a lot of cash.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Two of them are later revealed to be Mossad. As witness reports track the activity of the Israelis, it emerges that they were seen at Liberty Park at the time of the first impact, suggesting a foreknowledge of what was to come. The Israelis are interrogated, and then eventually sent back to Israel.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The owner of the moving company used as a cover by the Mossad agents abandons his business and flees to Israel. The United States Government then classifies all of the evidence related to the Israeli agents and their connections to 9-11.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All of this is reported to the public via a four part story on Fox News by Carl Cameron. Pressure from Jewish groups, primarily AIPAC, forces Fox News to remove the story from their website. Two hours prior to the 9-11 attacks, Odigo, an Israeli company with offices just a few blocks from the World Trade Towers, receives an advance warning via the internet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The manager of the New York Office provides the FBI with the IP address of the sender of the message, but the FBI does not follow this up. The FBI is investigating 5 Israeli moving companies as possible fronts for Israeli intelligence.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is revealed that prior to the attack millions of dollars of put options on both American Airlines and United Airlines, were traded.  The FBI have promised to followed the purchasers up, but have never revealed their findings.  That is because this would lead directly to Israel, the state behind the 911 attacks.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Following the World Trade Center attack, anonymous letters containing anthrax are sent to various politicians and media executives.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Like the 9-11 attack this is immediately blamed on Al-Qaeda , until it is discovered that the anthrax contained within those letters is a specific type of weaponized anthrax made by a United States military laboratory.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The FBI then discover that the main suspect for these anthrax letters is a Ashkenazi Jew, Dr. Philip Zack, who had been reprimanded several times by his employers due to offensive remarks he made about Arabs.  Dr. Philip Zack, was caught on camera entering the storage area where he worked at Fort Detrick which is where the Anthrax was kept.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At this point, both the FBI and the mainstream media stopped making any public comments on the case.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jewish Defence League Chairman since 1985, Ashkenazi Jew, Irv Rubin is jailed for allegedly plotting to bomb a mosque and the offices of a Arab-American congressman.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He dies shortly after slitting his throat in a suicide attempt, before he can be brought to trial.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One week prior to the WTC attack, the Zim Shipping Company moves out of its offices in the WTC, breaking its lease and costing the company $50,000. No reason has ever been given, but Zim Shipping Company is half owned by the State of Israel (The Rothschilds).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On October 3, Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, makes the following statement to Ashkenazi Jew, Shimon Peres, as reported on Kol Yisrael radio.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Every time we do something you tell me America will do this and will do that....I want to tell you something very clear, don't worry about American pressure on Israel.  We, the Jewish people, control America, and the Americans know it."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2002: Webster's Third New International Dictionary (Unabridged), re-printed in 2002, provides a new definition of Anti Semitism which has not been updated since 1956.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It reads,&lt;br /&gt;"Anti-Semitism: (1) hostility toward Jews as a religious or racial minority group, often accompanied by social, political or economic discrimination (2) opposition to Zionism (3) sympathy for the opponents of Israel."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It was definition (2) and (3) that were added in the 2002 edition, just before the USA decide to invade Iraq under orders from the State of Rothschild, I mean Israel.   Also this year, the Prime Minister of Israel, war criminal, Ariel Sharon, orders the massacre in the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank.  Best get that definition updated to protect these criminals.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The DEA issues a report that Israeli spies, posing as art students, have been trying to penetrate US Government offices. Police near the Whidbey Island Naval Air Station in southern Washington State stop a suspicious truck and detain two Israelis, one of whom is illegally in the United States.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The two men were driving at high speed in a Ryder rental truck, which they claimed had been used to, "deliver furniture."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The next day, police discovered traces of TNT and RDX military-grade plastic explosives inside the passenger cabin and on the steering wheel of the vehicle. The FBI then announces that the tests that showed explosives were, "false positived," by cigarette smoke, a claim test experts say is ridiculous.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Based on an alibi provided by a woman, the case is closed and the Israelis are handed over to INS to be sent back to Israel. One week later, the woman who provided the alibi vanishes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2003: The United States invade Iraq on 19 March, which this year is the holy, "Day of Purim," in the Jewish calendar. This, "Day of Purim," is a day the Jews celebrate their victory over Ancient Babylon, now based within the borders of Iraq, how interesting.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What is also significant is that the previous U.S. led invasion of Iraq ended on the Day of Purim ten years earlier with the slaughter of 150,000 fleeing Iraqis under the current President's father, George Herbert Walker Bush.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Purim is also the time when the Jews are encouraged to get bloody revenge against their perceived enemies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ancient Babylon, I mean Iraq, is now one of six nations left in the world who don’t have a Rothschild controlled central bank. This war is mainly about stealing Iraq’s water supply for Israel and is being fought with the blood of the American military which the State of Rothschild, I mean Israel control.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Israel has always struggled for water, it had to steal the Golan Heights from Syria which provided Israel with one third of its fresh water 36 years before, yet still in Israel water extraction has surpassed replacement by 2.5 billion metres in the last 25 years.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This means the water is far more precious to them than the oil reserves which are the second largest reserves of oil on the planet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamed states in a speech,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Jews rule the world by proxy. They get others to fight and die for them."&lt;br /&gt;The Police Chief of Cloudcroft stops a truck speeding through a school zone. The drivers turn out to be Israelis with expired passports. Claiming to be movers, the truck contains junk furniture and several boxes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Israelis are handed over to immigration. The contents of the boxers are not revealed to the public.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Israel deploys assassination squads into other countries, including the United States. The US Government does not protest.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2004: Two years into an investigation of AIPAC’s (The American Israel Public Affairs Committee – the largest political lobbying group in the USA with over 65,000 members whose only purpose is to use the USA for the purposes of Israel) possible role as a spy front for Israel, Ashkenazi Jew, Larry Franklin, a mid-level Pentagon Analyst is observed by the FBI giving classified information to two officials of AIPAC suspected of being Israeli spies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;AIPAC hires lawyer Nathan Lewin to handle their legal defense, the same lawyer who defended suspected Israeli spy Stephen Bryen in 1978. Larry Franklin worked in the Pentagon Office of Special Plans, run by Richard Perle, at the time Perle (who was caught giving classified information to Israel back in 1970) was insisting that Iraq was crawling with weapons of mass destruction requiring the United States to invade and conquer Iraq.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There were no WMDs, of course, and Perle has dumped the blame for the, "bad intelligence," on George Tenet. But what is known is that the Pentagon Office of Special Plans was coordinating with a similar group in Israel, in Ariel Sharon’s office.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With two suspected Israeli spies (at least) inside the office from which the lies that launched the war in Iraq originated, it appears that the people of the United States are the victims of a deadly hoax, a hoax that started a war using the blood and money of American citizens for the purposes of Israeli oppression.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The leaking of the investigation of AIPAC to the media on August 28th, 2004 gave advance warning to other spies working with Franklin. The damage to the FBI’s investigation was completed when United States Attorney General John Ashcroft ordered the FBI to stop all arrests in the case.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Like the Stephen Bryen case and the hunt for, "Mega," this latest spy scandal seems destined by officials who have their own secret allegiances to protect, barring a massive public outcry.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Police near the Nuclear Fuel Services plant in Tennessee stop a truck after a three mile chase, during which the driver throws a bottle containing a strange liquid from the cab. The drivers turn out to be Israelis using fake identifications. The FBI refuses to investigate and the Israelis are released.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Two Israelis try to enter Kings Bay Naval Submarine Base, home to eight Trident submarines. The truck tests positive for explosives.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The National Director of the ADL, Abraham H. Foxman, publishes a book entitled, "Never Again?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Threat Of The New Anti-Semitism," in which he states that the New Testament's "lie," that the ancient Pharisees were responsible for the death of Christ, has been responsible for anti-semitism throughout the millennia and thus the New Testament of the bible is, "hate speech," and should be censored or banned.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2005: On January 20, President Bush makes the following statement as part of his second inaugural address, "When our Founders declared a new order of the ages."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt; This is not true.  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The founders did not declare a, "new order of the ages," President Roosevelt did when in 1933, he put it's latin translation, "Novus Ordo Seclorum," on the dollar bill.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On 7 July the London Underground Network is bombed. Israel’s Finance Minister, Binyamin Netanyahu is in London on the morning of the attacks in order to attend an economic conference in a hotel over the underground station where one of the blasts occurred, but stayed in his hotel room instead after he had been informed by Israeli intelligence officials attacks were expected.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are now only 5 nations on the world left without a Rothschild controlled central bank: Iran; North Korea; Sudan; Cuba; and Libya.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Physics Professor, Stephen E. Jones of Brigham Young University publishes a paper in which he proves the World Trade Center buildings could have only been brought down in the manner they were by explosives. He receives no coverage in the mainstream media for his scientific and provable claims.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2006: The Edmond De Rothschild Banque, a subsidiary of Europe's Edmond De Rothschild family bank group in France, becomes the first foreign family bank that has obtained approval of the China Banking Regulatory Commission and entered China's financial market.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The ADL ruthlessly leans on governments throughout the world to pass hate crimes legislation, as they are scared that the criminal cabal that is Israel and the Rothschilds is being exposed more and more on a daily basis, predominantly on the internet.  Their job is to protect this criminal network and what better way to do it than by passing laws in which anyone who exposes a Jewish criminal becomes a criminal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;David Irving is sentenced to three years in jail in Austria, for denying the holocaust.  It is important to note that the only historical event you can be arrested for questioning is the holocaust.  This is because this has been the Rothschilds greatest weapon in brainwashing YOU, THE STUPID GOY! is that the Jews are so poor and persecuted when in actual fact they control the vast majority of international finance and international corporations throughout the world.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Resources&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here is a link to 6 pages of autographs from the 1929 Zionist congress with some very interesting names on it.&lt;br /&gt;Main page: www.historyforsale.com&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sources&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Holy Bible - King James Version&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Proofs of a Conspiracy Against All the Religions and Governments of Europe Carried on in the Secret Meetings of Freemasons, Illuminati and Reading Societies - John Robison - 1798&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Life of Napolean - Sir Walter Scott - 1827&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Coningsby - Benjamin Disraeli - 1844&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Communist Manifesto - Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Martin Malia - 1848&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry - Albert Pike - 1872&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Rothschilds, Financial Rulers Of Nations - John Reeves - 1887&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Jews and Modern Capitalism - Werner Sombart - 1911&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Great Britain, The Jews, and Palestine - Samuel Landman - 1936&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pawns In The Game - William Guy Carr - 1937&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Inside The Gestapo - Hansjurgen Koehler - 1940&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Barriers Down - Kent Cooper - 1942&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Mind Of Adolf Hitler - Walter Langer - 1943&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Empire Of The City - E. C. Knuth - 1946&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Jewish State - Theodor Herzl - 1946&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Curious History of the Six-Pointed Star - G. Scholem - 1949&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Secrets Of The Federal Reserve - Eustace Mullins - 1952&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tales Of The British Aristocracy - L. G. Pine - 1957&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Red Fog Over America - William Guy Carr - 1958&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A Jewish Defector Warns America (Spoken Word Recording) - Benjamin H. Freedman - 1961&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Rothschilds - Frederic Morton - 1962&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Illuminati and the Council on Foreign Relations (Spoken Word Recording) - Myron Fagan - 1967&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ben-Gurion: The Armed Prophet - Michael Bar-Zohar - 1967&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Hidden Tyranny - Benjamin Freedman - 1971&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;None Dare Call It Conspiracy - Gary Allen - 1972&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Gulag Archipelago, Vol. 2, Parts 3 and 4 - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - First English translation published 1975.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wall Street And The Rise Of Hitler - Anthony C. Sutton - 1976&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Rosenthal Document - Walter White, Jr. - 1978&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Two Rothschilds And The Land Of Israel - Simon Schama - 1978&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Six Pointed Star - Dr O. J. Graham - 1984&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Last Days In America - Bob Fraley - 1984&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Who Owns The TV Networks - Eustace Mullins - 1985&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy - Seymour M. Hersh - 1991&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A History of the Jews in America - Howard M. Sachar - 1992&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Deliberate Deceptions: Facing the Facts About the U.S. Israeli Relationship - Paul Findley - 1993&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Descent Into Slavery - Des Griffin - 1994&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bloodlines Of The Illuminati - Fritz Springmeier - 1995&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jewish History, Jewish Religion - Israel Shahak - 1994&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Satan Speaks - Anton Szandor LaVey - 1998&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Elite Serial Killers of Lincoln, JFK, RFK &amp;amp; MLK - Robert Gaylon Ross - 2001&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Never Again?  The Threat Of The New Anti-Semitism - Abraham H. Foxman - 2004&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Elite Don’t Dare Let Us Tell The People - Robert Gaylon Ross - 2004&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Codex Magica - Texe Marrs - 2005&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;======================================&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Health/genetics.html&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashkenazi_Jews&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity&lt;br /&gt;http://www.enotes.com/genocide-encyclopedia/mao-zedong&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The President’s Power to Order the Extra-Judicial Execution of an American Citizen&lt;br /&gt;tyrannical&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://harpers.org/archive/2010/10/hbc-90007665&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;tyrannical&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Administration's Response To ACLU/CCR On Targeted Killing.&lt;br /&gt;By Adam Serwer | Posted 09/27/2010 at 03:06 PM&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://prospect.org/csnc/blogs/adam_serwer_archive?month=09&amp;amp;year=2010&amp;amp;base_name=the_administrations_response_t&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;=================&lt;br /&gt;I couldn't find any website for &lt;b style="color: black; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"&gt;Tropos&lt;/b&gt; &lt;b style="color: black; background-color: rgb(160, 255, 255);"&gt;Capital&lt;/b&gt; &lt;b style="color: black; background-color: rgb(153, 255, 153);"&gt;Corporation&lt;/b&gt;, Inc. I think that this story was made up&lt;br /&gt;=================&lt;br /&gt;9 AUGUST 2011&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For those of you who are following the Tropos story on the lack of settlements, here is an update on the defaults  The USA authorities have repudiated international law with respect to the postal union defaults.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Last Monday, I wrote that Tropos would rock the markets in the coming weeks because Tropos has already put the United States into a technical default by serving notice to both Bernanke and the Bureau of Public Debt last July. Since neither party ever repudiated the default, both parties stand  in default now as a matter of law.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It seems that they did not stop with Bernanke but served Notice of Default to the Board of Governors as well:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bernanke FED Notice of Default&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: com="" doc="" 61241149="" 2010=""&gt;  &lt;http: com="" doc="" 61241149="" 2010=""&gt; http://www.scribd.com/doc/61241149/4-Bernanke-Notice-of-Default-July-2010 &lt;http: com="" doc="" 61241149="" 2010=""&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: com="" doc="" 61241164="" delivery=""&gt;  &lt;http: com="" doc="" 61241164="" delivery=""&gt; http://www.scribd.com/doc/61241164/5-Bernanke-Notice-of-Default-Proof-of-Delivery &lt;http: com="" doc="" 61241164="" delivery=""&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tarullo FED BOG Notice of Default&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: com="" doc="" 61241137="" 2010=""&gt;  &lt;http: com="" doc="" 61241137="" 2010=""&gt; http://www.scribd.com/doc/61241137/4-Tarullo-FED-BOG-Notice-of-Default-July-2010 &lt;http: com="" doc="" 61241137="" 2010=""&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: com="" doc="" 61241166="" delivery=""&gt;  &lt;http: com="" doc="" 61241166="" delivery=""&gt; http://www.scribd.com/doc/61241166/5-Tarullo-FED-BOG-Notice-of-Default-Proof-of-Delivery &lt;http: com="" doc="" 61241166="" delivery=""&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Duke FED BOG Notice of Default&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: com="" doc="" 61241140="" 2010=""&gt;  &lt;http: com="" doc="" 61241140="" 2010=""&gt; http://www.scribd.com/doc/61241140/4-Duke-FED-BOG-Notice-of-Default-July-2010 &lt;http: com="" doc="" 61241140="" 2010=""&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: com="" doc="" 61241167="" delivery=""&gt;  &lt;http: com="" doc="" 61241167="" delivery=""&gt; http://www.scribd.com/doc/61241167/5-Duke-FED-BOG-Notice-of-Default-Proof-of-Delivery &lt;http: com="" doc="" 61241167="" delivery=""&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Warsh FED BOG Notice of Default&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: com="" doc="" 61241141="" 2010=""&gt;  &lt;http: com="" doc="" 61241141="" 2010=""&gt; http://www.scribd.com/doc/61241141/4-Warsh-FED-BOG-Notice-of-Default-July-2010 &lt;http: com="" doc="" 61241141="" 2010=""&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: com="" doc="" 61460027="" delivery=""&gt;  &lt;http: com="" doc="" 61460027="" delivery=""&gt; http://www.scribd.com/doc/61460027/5-Warsh-FED-BOG-Notice-of-Default-Proof-of-Delivery &lt;http: com="" doc="" 61460027="" delivery=""&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yellen SF FED Notice of Default&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: com="" doc="" 61241129="" 2010=""&gt;  &lt;http: com="" doc="" 61241129="" 2010=""&gt; http://www.scribd.com/doc/61241129/4-Yellen-SF-FED-Notice-of-Default-July-2010 &lt;http: com="" doc="" 61241129="" 2010=""&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: com="" doc="" 61460026="" delivery=""&gt;  &lt;http: com="" doc="" 61460026="" delivery=""&gt; http://www.scribd.com/doc/61460026/5-Yellen-SF-FED-Notice-of-Default-Proof-of-Delivery &lt;http: com="" doc="" 61460026="" delivery=""&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But it even gets better. Yesterday, I wrote about the US Postal Service defaulting in September. We do not have to wait that long, as Tropos has already served a demand to the Postmaster on July 5, 2010.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;www.scribd.com/doc/61950362&lt;br /&gt;www.scribd.com/doc/61950299&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then on August the 10th of last year Tropos served a notice of default and dereliction of duty.&lt;br /&gt;www.scribd.com/doc/61953060&lt;br /&gt;www.scribd.com/doc/61953178&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In this advice, they were clear that they were advising the BIS and various other treaty signatories to the Postal Union. This is when China paid real attention as what was happening and quickly brought itself up to speed  where Tropos was going.&lt;br /&gt;This is clear in their Notice of Claim to the UPU dated August 10,2010. Their demand to the Postal Union for judgment was being made pursuant to the provisions of international and maritime law applicable to international currency transactions under postal union rules.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;UPU notice of claim&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;www.scribd.com/doc/61950633&lt;br /&gt;www.scribd.com/doc/61950763&lt;br /&gt;www.scribd.com/doc/61950936&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What most concerned knowledgeable parties is the fact  that Tropos was quiet and yet pointed  who got to see the documents? Each of the letters was being sent to NATO and various World Leaders and countries like China, India, Russia and many others. What is clear is that they kept it out of the financial markets, as did all the recipients. Why, is understandable.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Demand for Judgment December 9, 2010&lt;br /&gt;www.scribd.com/doc/61951129&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here is where the plot becomes much more intense. While the protocols being used are historical in nature they are in keeping with International law and applicable to currency transactions. What is clear is a lack of desire on the part of the Postal Union to respond in dealing with the implications of mail and wire fraud.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then on January 6, 2011 Tropos noted the UPU to be in default in its “ failure to apply its rules under international treaty and Admiralty law”.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;UPU Default January 6, 2011&lt;br /&gt;www.scribd.com/doc/61953325&lt;br /&gt;www.scribd.com/doc/61953454&lt;br /&gt;www.scribd.com/doc/61953582&lt;br /&gt;www.scribd.com/doc/61953746&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This failure was precedent setting for all UN members who rely on international law for global currency transactions and affects all individuals or banks acting on instruction of their clients.&lt;br /&gt;Today as we watch the roil of the markets, it is important realize that the actions of Tropos to date have unmasked the lack of a rule of law governing financial transactions and will undoubtedly cause the countries and other central banks to question the lack of rules governing the conduct of the Federal Reserve and the United States let alone the role of the UPU and the BIS and lead to further market turmoil in the vacuum of global leadership. Is it any wonder that voices are being heard for a new world currency outside the control of the US?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Look for this issue to be more acutely in focus in weeks to come.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;9 AUGUST 2011&lt;br /&gt;http://harveyorgan.blogspot.com/&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14282204-8239597110426207178?l=leapingrealeyes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://leapingrealeyes.blogspot.com/2011/08/anglo-american-empire.html' title='Anglo American Empire'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://leapingrealeyes.blogspot.com/feeds/8239597110426207178/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://leapingrealeyes.blogspot.com/2011/08/anglo-american-empire.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14282204/posts/default/8239597110426207178'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14282204/posts/default/8239597110426207178'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://leapingrealeyes.blogspot.com/2011/08/anglo-american-empire.html' title='Anglo American Empire'/><author><name>HU-MYN</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='19' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_2po3B1moCd8/SG1x16B8D-I/AAAAAAAAAHM/Nex_Mj2tywo/S220/leapingsm2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14282204.post-6403966918220754245</id><published>2011-07-15T22:07:00.008-07:00</published><updated>2011-07-15T22:32:00.687-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Exchange Stabilization Fund</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.marketskeptics.com/2011/06/the-esf-and-its-history.html"&gt;What I have been afraid to blog about: The ESF and Its History&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ssrcD5GdPQ&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="349"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/2ssrcD5GdPQ?version=3&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/2ssrcD5GdPQ?version=3&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="349" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImuVUab6WW0&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="349"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ImuVUab6WW0?version=3&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ImuVUab6WW0?version=3&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="349" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Qsll_5-FXc&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="349"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/8Qsll_5-FXc?version=3&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/8Qsll_5-FXc?version=3&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="349" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iK-741ISz94&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="349"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/iK-741ISz94?version=3&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/iK-741ISz94?version=3&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="349" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQf-u2nCVSw&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="349"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/lQf-u2nCVSw?version=3&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/lQf-u2nCVSw?version=3&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="349" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/international/ESF/Pages/esf-index.aspx"&gt;Exchange Stabilization Fund&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Introduction&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Exchange Stabilization Fund (ESF) consists of three types of assets:  U.S. dollars, foreign currencies, and Special Drawing Rights (SDRs), which is an international reserve asset created by the International Monetary Fund.  The financial statement of the ESF can be accessed at "Reports" or "Finances and Operations."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The ESF can be used to purchase or sell foreign currencies, to hold U.S. foreign exchange and Special Drawing Rights (SDR) assets, and to provide financing to foreign governments. All operations of the ESF require the explicit authorization of the Secretary of the Treasury ("the Secretary").&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Secretary is responsible for the formulation and implementation of U.S. international monetary and financial policy, including exchange market intervention policy. The ESF helps the Secretary to carry out these responsibilities. By law, the Secretary has considerable discretion in the use of ESF resources.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The legal basis of the ESF is the Gold Reserve Act of 1934. As amended in the late 1970s, the Act provides in part that "the Department of the Treasury has a stabilization fund …Consistent with the obligations of the Government in the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on orderly exchange arrangements and an orderly system of exchange rates, the Secretary …, with the approval of the President, may deal in gold, foreign exchange, and other instruments of credit and securities.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14282204-6403966918220754245?l=leapingrealeyes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://leapingrealeyes.blogspot.com/2011/07/exchange-stabilization-fund.html' title='Exchange Stabilization Fund'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://leapingrealeyes.blogspot.com/feeds/6403966918220754245/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://leapingrealeyes.blogspot.com/2011/07/exchange-stabilization-fund.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14282204/posts/default/6403966918220754245'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14282204/posts/default/6403966918220754245'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://leapingrealeyes.blogspot.com/2011/07/exchange-stabilization-fund.html' title='Exchange Stabilization Fund'/><author><name>HU-MYN</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='19' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_2po3B1moCd8/SG1x16B8D-I/AAAAAAAAAHM/Nex_Mj2tywo/S220/leapingsm2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14282204.post-4957291048978787323</id><published>2011-07-14T15:33:00.010-07:00</published><updated>2011-07-15T16:55:22.312-07:00</updated><title type='text'>EVERYTHING</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 51, 153);font-size:180%;" &gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;Bastille &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;Day!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 153);font-size:180%;" &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;ONLY A CLOSED MIND IS CERTAIN&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Marko Rodin has come up with a revolutionary system of mathematics involving whole numbers, toroidal constructs and spirituality which proposes to explain life, the universe and everything.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In this lecture he demonstrates the fundamentals and some applications of his system.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 51, 0);"&gt;BUT FIRST LOOK AT THE WORLDS FIRST TIME CLOAK!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-vEV4kn2OeWc/Th9voG4JXAI/AAAAAAAAATk/afSwH6NUN18/s1600/cloak.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 225px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-vEV4kn2OeWc/Th9voG4JXAI/AAAAAAAAATk/afSwH6NUN18/s400/cloak.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5629340794067966978" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Scientists Punch a Hole in the Fabric of Time with a "Time Cloak"&lt;br /&gt;http://gizmodo.com/5821246/scientists-punch-a-hole-in-the-fabric-of-time-with-a-time-cloak?tag=science&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What a preposterous world we live in, where developments in invisibility cloak tech are common enough to elicit yawns.&lt;br /&gt;Fine, you unmovable automatons, how about a time cloak?&lt;br /&gt;Is that something you might be interested in?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Researchers at Cornell have designed, built and demonstrated the first "cloak" that hides events in time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The process relies on similar methods of distorting electromagnetic fields as invisibility cloaks, but it exploits a time-space duality in electromagnetic theory: diffraction and dispersion of light in space are mathematically equivalent. Scientists have used this theory to create a "time-lens [that] can, for example, magnify or compress in time."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The time cloak takes two of those lenses and arranges them so that one compresses a beam of light while the other decompresses it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That leaves the beam seemingly unchanged, but the diffraction and dispersion actually "cloak" small events in the beam's timeline.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Right now, the cloak can only last for 120 nanoseconds, and the theoretical max for the current design measures just microseconds.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But the prospect of being able to exist outside of time, even for just a few microseconds, should be enough to make even the most jaded tech nerd giggle at the possibilities.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204); font-weight: bold;font-size:78%;" &gt;(THIS PAGE UNDER CONSTRUCTION - SO COME BACK FOR UPDATES 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width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14282204.post-1445460793567440390</id><published>2011-05-25T17:32:00.021-07:00</published><updated>2011-06-08T19:22:27.071-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Machines of Loving Grace</title><content type='html'>Adam Curtis - All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/"&gt;ADAM CURTIS BLOG&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;This series of films investigates how people have been colonised by the machines they have built.&lt;br /&gt;Although they may not realise it, the way many people see everything in the world today is through the eyes of the computers. Not just politics and the economy -- but also in the way bodies, minds, and even the whole of the natural world are perceived.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;UPDATE:  JUNE 2011 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;Listen to this Interview before you watch "Machines of Loving Grace"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;Discussing Curtis' latest series of films, "All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Adam Curtis Interview (May 20, 2011)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="349" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/4sKCDl5Br4g?version=3&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/4sKCDl5Br4g?version=3&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="349" width="425"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/wp-content/uploads/BF.0045.Roberts_20110523.mp3"&gt;SERIOUS MUST LISTEN&lt;br /&gt;Mr. Roberts talks about the conflicting, ever-changing and in many ways dubious accounts of the killing of Osama Bin Laden, the Military Industrial Complex’ need for the next ‘black hat,’ the question of China, and more!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;                             &lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-weight: bold;"&gt;***************&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-weight: bold;"&gt;Episode One - Love and Power&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In this episode Curtis tracks the effects of Ayn Rand's ideas on American financial markets, particularly via the influence on Alan Greenspan.&lt;br /&gt;Greenspan joined The Collective in New York which discusses Rand's books, such as Atlas shrugged.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rand's ideas came to heavily infiltrated California, particularly Silicon Valley, and the computer utopian belief (Californian Ideology) that computer networks could measure, control and self-stabilise societies, without hierarchical political control, became widespread.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rand entered into a disastrous affair with a married person in the collective, with the approval of their spouses.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Greenspan persuaded the newly elected Bill Clinton in 1992 to let the markets grow, and cut taxes, and to let the markets stabilise themselves with computer technology.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Although the Asian miracle had lead to long-term growth in South Korea and other countries Joseph Stiglitz began warning that the withdraw of money from the Eastern economies could cause devastation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Curtis shows that the economic crisis that befell the Eastern countries such as Indonesia and South Korea was a direct result of Rand's ideas leading to the transfer of control foreign financial investment from politics to banking institutions leading the housing bubbles to burst, causing large financial losses in the East. However, after each country agreed to IMF bailout loans, foreign investors immediately withdrew their money, triggering massive economic disasters.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To avoid a repeat, China decided to control America's economy via similar techniques. The belief in America was that computers could stabilise the lending of money and that this would permit lending beyond what was actually sustainable, leading ultimately to the 2008 collapse due to a similar housing bubble.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace (Episode 1 Part 1 )&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="349" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/xX5jImWRREc?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/xX5jImWRREc?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="349" width="425"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The underlying argument is that people have given up a dynamic political model of the world -- the dream of changing things for the better -- for a static machine ideology that says everyone is a component in a system, and that the aim is to manage these systems and keep them stable.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From the utopian visions of the worldwide web to the idea of an interconnected global economic system, to the dream of balanced ecosystems, all these ideas share an underlying machine vision of organisation and order.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace (Episode 1 Part 2 )&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="349" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/WnSthwB6oMo?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/WnSthwB6oMo?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="349" width="425"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The films tell an extraordinary range of stories: from novelist Ayn Rand and her tragic love affairs to the dreams and the frightening reality of the hippie communes; from the brutal politics of the Belgian Congo to the doomsday computer model behind the rise of modern environmentalism; from the lonely suicide in a London squat of the mathematical genius who invented the selfish gene theory to Alan Greenspan and his faith in a new kind of global economic system. And there's also the computer model of the eating habits of the Pronghorn antelope.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The series argues that by embracing this new machine ideology something very precious has been given up: the idea of progress and political struggle to change the world for the better.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace (Episode 1 Part 3 )&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="349" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/GhsTYjXhgcg?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/GhsTYjXhgcg?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="349" width="425"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace (Episode 1 Part 4 )&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="349" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/BfYR-x_tUYs?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/BfYR-x_tUYs?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="349" width="425"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace (Episode 1 Part 5 )&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="349" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/CZqOVzbCpWU?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/CZqOVzbCpWU?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="349" width="425"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name="machines2"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt; &lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;(Episode. 2) - Full &lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;59.25 min&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 102);"&gt;Episode Two - The Use and Abuse of Vegetational Concepts&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is  the story of how our modern scientific idea of nature, the  self-regulating ecosystem, is actually a machine fantasy. It has little  to do with the real complexity of nature. It is based on cybernetic  ideas that were projected on to nature in the 1950s by ambitious  scientists. A static machine theory of order that sees humans, and  everything else on the planet, as components - cogs - in a system.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But  in an age disillusioned with politics, the self-regulating ecosystem  has become the model for utopian ideas of human 'self-organizing  networks' - dreams of new ways of organising societies without leaders,  as in the Facebook and Twitter revolutions, and in global visions of  connectivity like the Gaia theory.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This powerful idea emerged out  of the hippie communes in America in the 1960s, and from counterculture  computer scientists who believed that global webs of computers could  liberate the world.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But, at the very moment this was happening,  the science of ecology discovered that the theory of the self-regulating  ecosystem wasn't true. Instead they found that nature was really  dynamic and constantly changing in unpredictable ways. But the dream of  the self-organizing network had by now captured our imaginations -  because it offered an alternative to the dangerous and discredited ideas  of politics.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace (Episode. 2 ) - Full&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="349" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Yq0xVuRG4ng?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Yq0xVuRG4ng?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="349" width="425"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Episode Three -&lt;br /&gt;The Monkey in the Machine and the Machine in the Monkey&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This episode looks at why we humans find this machine vision so beguiling. The film argues it is because all political dreams of changing the world for the better seem to have failed - so we have retreated into machine-fantasies that say we have no control over our actions because they excuse our failure.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At the heart of the film is one of the most famous scientists in the world - Bill Hamilton. He argued that human behaviour is really guided by codes buried deep within us. It was later popularised by Richard Dawkins as 'the selfish gene'. It said that individual human beings are really just machines whose only job is to make sure the codes are passed on for eternity.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The film begins in 2000 in the jungles of the Congo and Rwanda. Hamilton is there to help prove his dark theories. But all around him the Congo is being torn apart by 'Africa's First World War'. The film then interweaves the two stories - the strange roots of Hamilton's theories, and the history of the West's tortured relationship with the Congo over the past 100 years.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name="machines3"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace (Episode. 3) - Full&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="349" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/lXJYkkxh0rk?version=3&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/lXJYkkxh0rk?version=3&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="349" width="425"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Written and Directed by Adam Curtis&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/%20http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This feature is the property of the BBC.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/2011/05/all_watched_over_by_machines_o.html?module=comments&amp;controller=index&amp;action=index&amp;siteName=blog237&amp;forumId=movabletype237_290277&amp;title=ALL+WATCHED+OVER+BY+MACHINES+OF+LOVING+GRACE&amp;limit=100&amp;listNamespace=movabletype237&amp;parentUri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.co.uk%2Fblogs%2Fadamcurtis%2F2011%2F05%2Fall_watched_over_by_machines_o.html&amp;filter=&amp;preset=blog&amp;postStyle=richtext&amp;incHeadAssets=true&amp;comments_page=3#dna-comments&lt;br /&gt;"&gt;COMMENTS:&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;I thought that finale was both horrifying and stimulating. In my  opinion, it may well have been the best episode of the three - although  possibly the most obscurantist in a sense, as the direct connection to  the computing angle seemed a little...ahem...approximate - still,  telling real stories about the actual condition of parts of Africa is a  Curtis trademark, and has been ever since Pandora's Box - and it was a  story well, and bravely, told.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By comparison with the other  episodes, I tended to find the overall tale here much more coherently  constructed, although there were the usual 'sidetracking' moments, of  course - the sequence with Edward Teller talking about John von Neumann  had a terrifying resonance all its own - but was out of place - or, at  least, its only narrative function was to remind us of how von Neumann  founded the science of cybernetics, Hamilton and Price were enthusiasts  for cybernetic principles in the broad sense, and a wider story about  altruism and selfishness vying within the 'systemic' behaviour of the  human being was (approximately) at the heart of the narrative. There was  also some nice use of Dian Fossey's story - although, to be honest, I  might have liked a little more insight into that - in point of fact, I  actually felt, Adam, that you dealt with the same 60's era material  better here on the blog, when you isolated it from the wider context and  looked at it in terms of its formative era.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But the overall tale  was very well told - there were many curious resonances and reversals -  intentional, mainly, I assume - such as Price's desperation to prove  altruism valid, and the irony of early 21st century aid agencies being  seen to have deepened a humanitarian crisis through altruism, or the  curious suggestion that the 19th century social Darwinism and  anthropometrics that came to 'justify' the Hutu/Tutsi divide were  reflected in Hamilton's own predilection for genetic determinism of the  'fittest'. Many astonishing subsidiary stories were only hinted at -  such as the railroading of Lumumba to death, the birth of the  cyberneticist movement and so on - although many of these issues have  already been well dealt with in other Curtis documentaries.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I  didn't find the ending lacking in optimisim, wholly - in the sense that  it serves as a 'cri de coeur' for the whole ethos of the series - that  individuals should stop divesting themselves of responbility for their  actions by relying on the notion that their individual values cannot  influence society.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Of course, the main critique of this attitude is that  stating it is one thing - coming up with a valuable way in which to  enshrine it within society without consistently coming up against issues  such as interventionism effecting more harm than good is quite another!  I suppose the non-comittal diagnosis of the issue is a start, though.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As  to PlanC's comments - I'd advise you to try and catch up with some of  the earlier material in Adam's output - 'Century of the Self', in  particular, comes close to critiquing the whole apparatus that sustains  modern advertising and PR values.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You should also search around on the  blog if you haven't already - as Adam has provided all sorts of  trenchant and interesting commentary on media manipulation of variant  sorts from the 1950's to the present on this very site.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;***********************&lt;br /&gt;INTERVIEW&lt;br /&gt;***********************&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 102);"&gt;Adam Curtis discusses his new documentary "All Watched Over By Machines With Loving Grace" on Jarvis Cocker's Sunday Service.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Adam Curtis on Jarvis Cocker BBC 6 22/05/11 (Part 1)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="349" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/lbITeQpqTFY?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/lbITeQpqTFY?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="349" width="425"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Adam Curtis on Jarvis Cocker BBC 6 22/05/11 (Part 2)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="349" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/q9s-yTFTa-w?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/q9s-yTFTa-w?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="349" width="425"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Adam Curtis on Jarvis Cocker BBC 6 22/05/11 (Part 3)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="349" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/7PKsUWk7gso?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/7PKsUWk7gso?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="349" width="425"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 102);"&gt;====================&lt;br /&gt;MACHINES OUT OF CONTROL&lt;br /&gt;====================&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dr Helen Caldicott - Fukushima Nuclear Disaster-&lt;br /&gt;You won't hear this on the Main Stream News.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="349" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/4ITrXVJMKeQ?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/4ITrXVJMKeQ?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="349" width="425"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nuclear Facts you'd be more comfortable not knowing from a very clued up professional who will not be bought or intimidated into silence: Dr Helen Caldicott, true to style, tells it as it is/as she sees it/like you wont usually hear it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;COMMENT:&lt;br /&gt;She comes across as genuine and like she knows what she is talking  about. If so, is humanity doomed? Why isn't anyone reacting to this? She  rates Fukashima orders of magnitude worse than Chernobyl, for which she  claims there is a cover-up of 1 million deaths. Likewise, she has  shocking things to say about the use of nuclear material in Iraq which  is creating a grotesque hell for the people of Falluja. If what she is  saying is exaggerated, she at least merits being contradicted by other  knowledgible people. But instead, it just gets buried and forgotten. To  think I was just surmising that we don't hear about Fukashima recently  because it has come to lack interest for our short attention spans,  which flit from topic to topic. But this appears to really spell the end  of humanity, and not some fanciful Malthusian Deutshebank gendanken  experiment.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;====================&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14282204-1445460793567440390?l=leapingrealeyes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://leapingrealeyes.blogspot.com/2011/05/machines-of-loving-grace.html' title='Machines of Loving Grace'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://leapingrealeyes.blogspot.com/feeds/1445460793567440390/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://leapingrealeyes.blogspot.com/2011/05/machines-of-loving-grace.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14282204/posts/default/1445460793567440390'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14282204/posts/default/1445460793567440390'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://leapingrealeyes.blogspot.com/2011/05/machines-of-loving-grace.html' title='Machines of Loving Grace'/><author><name>HU-MYN</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='19' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_2po3B1moCd8/SG1x16B8D-I/AAAAAAAAAHM/Nex_Mj2tywo/S220/leapingsm2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14282204.post-6496608613860175566</id><published>2011-05-10T13:33:00.039-07:00</published><updated>2011-05-10T21:42:16.514-07:00</updated><title type='text'>TRUE HUMYNs</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-G3m7RFmUoFc/Tcm8hmYlx3I/AAAAAAAAATQ/fbuVkg4qGo4/s1600/SPECIES.png"&gt;&lt;img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 385px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-G3m7RFmUoFc/Tcm8hmYlx3I/AAAAAAAAATQ/fbuVkg4qGo4/s400/SPECIES.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5605218496664684402" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;A SPECIAL MESSAGE TO ALL TRUE HUMYNs&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A secret war against Humanity using "Hu-manity clones to degrade, control and destroy the TRUE HUMYN speces."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(A species is often defined as a group of organisms capable of interbreeding and producing fertile offspring. While in many cases this definition is adequate, more precise or differing measures are often used, such as similarity of DNA, morphology or ecological niche. Presence of specific locally adapted traits may further subdivide species into subspecies.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;HU-MANITY CLONES are the Global Psychopathic Elites (ALIEN REACTION MACHINES): They look like normal humans, but they are not true Humans!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This new breed (beginning around 270BC) was created, controlled and placed into the highest levels of our society.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Half the harm that is done TO ALL OF US, TO ALL SPECIES, TO MOTHER EARTH is due to Psychopathic elites who want TO GET WHAT THEY WANT, to feel important - They spew intolerance and cruelty to guarantee the cover up.&lt;br /&gt;They do harm, but the harm does not interest them. &lt;br /&gt;Or they do not see it, or they justify it.&lt;br /&gt;Because they are absorbed in the endless struggle  to think well of themselves."&lt;br /&gt;They are obsessed with getting what they want!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;WAKE UP to this UNBELIEVABLE scary truth!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. Control your xenophobic reaction!&lt;br /&gt;2. Inform your self and adjust your belief system.&lt;br /&gt;3. Become aware of the mental, emotional and intellectual impact that these PE's have caused within us all.&lt;br /&gt;4. The huge amount of dis-information, propaganda, lies and treats are expanding every day.  Do not delay your focused attention to this threat.&lt;br /&gt;5. Try to find supporting individuals, create a group of true Humyns.&lt;br /&gt;6. Prepare yourselves for an unimaginable attack upon Humanity... Remember the boiling the frog syndrome; The boiling frog story is generally told in a metaphorical context, with the upshot being that people should make themselves aware of gradual change lest they suffer eventual undesirable consequences&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(Psychopathic elites are all around us. They are having a major detrimental effect on our society, more so than ALL other psychiatric disorders combined.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Few people are aware of this fact!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The PEs (Psychopathic Elites) have a stunning lack of conscious and their objective is self gratification at the expense of others.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PE's are possessed of a cold calculating rationality combined with an inability to ever conceive of others as thinking, feeling beings.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Most of us never witness such an inside view, only victims know the truth and their insights are discounted.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The average person cannot begin to grasp the nightmare of living with or dealing with a PE.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But we all live in a dominated global social structure that is manufactured to deceive and control us...&lt;br /&gt;Think about this, look around, the truth is not hidden from you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They are using your belief system to blind you from the obvious...&lt;br /&gt;Lying, deceiving and manipulation are natural talents, both for an PE-individual or a PE-corporation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Obligations and commitments mean nothing to the PE's.&lt;br /&gt;They don't honor formal or implied commitments....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(This section will be continuously updated...your comments are welcome...)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;**************************&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;How is this new reality for Humanity going to happen???&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.sott.net/articles/show/228283-UFOs-Aliens-and-the-Question-of-Contact"&gt;Be it history, politics, religion, psychology, science, education or  health, we're being lied to in virtually all areas of our lives and our  attention is being vectored away from the truth. As a matter of fact,  those who get too close to the truth are often attacked and ridiculed. &lt;strong&gt;Truth  is no good for business in a ponerized society with psychopaths in  power, steering the ship where pathological traits have become the  accepted norm in our official culture.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We begin here:&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUki-07sp2E"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h2 style="padding-bottom: 8px; text-align: center;" id="watch-headline-title"&gt;          &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUki-07sp2E"&gt;&lt;span style="vertical-align: top;" id="eow-title" class="" dir="ltr" title="Alien abduction"&gt;Alien Abduction&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;This video explores the secrecy surrounding the greatest cover-up of all time, presenting an overview of the UFO phenomenon, aliens, abductions, disclosure, and hyper dimensional realities.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“If the masses started to accept extra terrestrial vehicles (UFOs), it would profoundly affect their attitude towards life, politics, everything. It would threaten the status quo. Whenever people come to realize that there are larger considerations than their own petty lives, they are ripe to make radical changes on a personal level, which would eventually lead to a political revolution in society as a whole.” – John Lennon&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt; Stockholm syndrome&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;In psychology, Stockholm syndrome is a term used to describe a paradoxical psychological phenomenon wherein hostages express empathy and have positive feelings towards their captors. These feelings are generally considered irrational in light of the danger or risk endured by the victims, who essentially mistake a lack of abuse from their captors as an act of kindness.[1][2] The FBI’s Hostage Barricade Database System shows that roughly 27% of victims show evidence of &lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome"&gt;Stockholm syndrome&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="349" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/UqoMNnVDH3k?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/UqoMNnVDH3k?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="349" width="425"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="349" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/KGFswoHN-m8?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/KGFswoHN-m8?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="349" width="425"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="349" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/LOLQvYukqi0?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/LOLQvYukqi0?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="349" width="425"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="349" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/p3axiX6JliQ?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/p3axiX6JliQ?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="349" width="425"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="349" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/C8eEGZB_wNs?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/C8eEGZB_wNs?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="349" width="425"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="349" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/RBR8jCBLndM?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/RBR8jCBLndM?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="349" width="425"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="349" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Qr-D6oR2GZI?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Qr-D6oR2GZI?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="349" width="425"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="349" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/6cbL2qJBpvo?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/6cbL2qJBpvo?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="349" width="425"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;====================&lt;br /&gt;RESEARCH LINKS&lt;br /&gt;====================&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;Books:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;High Strangeness: Hyperdimensions and the Process of Alien Abduction -  Laura Knight-Jadczyk&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;The Wave Series -  Laura Knight-Jadczyk&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;The Secret History of the World -  Laura Knight-Jadczyk&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Bringers of the Dawn – Barbara Marciniak&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;The Ra Material – Carla Rueckert, Don Elkins, and Jim McCart&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;UFO’s and the National Security State: The Chronology of a Cover-up – Richard M. Dolan&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Taken: Inside the Alien-Human Abduction Agenda – Karla Turner, Ph.D&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Masquerade of Angels – Karla Turner, Ph.D&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Into the Fringe – Karla Turner, Ph.D&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;The Love Bite: Alien Interference in Human Love Relationships – Eve Lorgen&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;The Threat – David M. Jacobs, Ph.D&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Operation Trojan Horse – John Keel&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Gods of Eden – William Bramley&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Alien Agenda – Jim Marrs&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;The Stargate Conspiracy – Picknet and Prince&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;DMT – The Spirit Molecule – Dr. Rick Strassman&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;The Active Side of Infinity – Carlos Castaneda&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;In Search of the Miraculous – P.D. Ouspensky&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Gnosis – Boris Mouravieff&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Political Ponerology – Andrew M. Lobaczewski&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;The Mask of Sanity – Hervey Cleckley&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;Websites:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.keyholepublishing.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Richard M. Dolan&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://cassiopaea.org/" target="_blank"&gt;The Cassiopaean Experiment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.karlaturner.org/" target="_blank"&gt;Karla Turner&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ufoabduction.com/" target="_blank"&gt;International Center for Abduction Research&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.alienlovebite.com/" target="_blank"&gt;The Alien Love Bite&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/esp_autor_topper.htm" target="_blank"&gt;Michael Topper and His Work&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.lawofone.info/" target="_blank"&gt;The Ra Material&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.pleiadians.com/dawn.html" target="_blank"&gt;Bringers of the Dawn&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ponerology.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Political Ponerology&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;Articles:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.sott.net/articles/show/165468-Book-Review-The-High-Strangeness-of-Dimensions-Densities-and-the-Process-of-Alien-Abduction" target="_blank"&gt;Book Review: High Strangeness of Dimensions, Densities and the Process of Alien Abduction by Richard M. Dolan&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://cassiopaea.org/2010/09/14/michael-topper-on-stalking/" target="_blank"&gt;Stalking or Precis on The Good and The Evil – The Positive/Negative Realms of Higher Densities by Michael Topper&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://cassiopaea.org/2010/09/25/something-wicked-this-way-comes/" target="_blank"&gt;Richard Dolan’s “UFOs and the National Security State” – Something Wicked This Way Comes by Laura Knight-Jadczyk&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.alienlovebite.com/articles/evelorgen/introduction-to-the-alien-love-bite.html" target="_blank"&gt;Introduction to “The Alien Love Bite” by Eve Lorgen&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.whale.to/b/karla_turner_mufon_1994.pdf" target="_blank"&gt;Expanding the Parameters of the Alien-Human Abduction Agenda by Dr. Karla Turner&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://veilofreality.wordpress.com/2010/12/05/channeled-material-and-the-age-of-transformation/" target="_blank"&gt;Channeled Material and the Age of Transformation by Bernhard Guenther&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;Videos:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veQ-LCjDCAc" target="_blank"&gt;Richard Dolan at the Project Camelot Awake and Aware Conference, Los Angeles, Sept. 2009&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaxtKeWKPBs" target="_blank"&gt;The UFO Cover-Up in 10 Minutes by Richard Dolan&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6009375605030549190&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;emb=1" target="_blank"&gt;Dr. Karla Tuner – The UFO Masquerade&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5186681017576290459#" target="_blank"&gt;Dr. Karla Turner – MUFON conference&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHcuq-GYmRk" target="_blank"&gt;Kerry Cassidy of Project Camelot interviews Laura Knight-Jadczyk&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://cassiopaea.org/knowledge_and_being/#video" target="_blank"&gt;Knowledge and Being with Laura Knight-Jadczyk&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-tObSc2Aex_g/TcnBgmZIdpI/AAAAAAAAATY/Do2uUyCtLAI/s1600/GE.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 272px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-tObSc2Aex_g/TcnBgmZIdpI/AAAAAAAAATY/Do2uUyCtLAI/s400/GE.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5605223977045227154" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="overflow: hidden; position: absolute; top: -5000px; height: 1px;"&gt;&lt;h2 class="title" style="font-size: 35px;"&gt;Forget the Rich: Tax the Poor and Middle Class!&lt;/h2&gt;             &lt;div class="meta"&gt;       &lt;span class="submitted"&gt;Tuesday 10 May 2011&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.truthout.org/forget-rich-tax-poor-and-middle-class/1305035795"&gt;Forget the Rich: Tax the Poor and Middle Class!&lt;br /&gt;Tuesday 10 May 2011&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;General Electric made profits last year of $5.1 billion in the United States and $14.2 billion worldwide, but they did not need to pay a penny of federal income tax. (Photo: Steve Wilhelm/Flickr.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dear Hu-myn&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;THIS MESSAGE WILL BE CONTINUOUSLY UPDATED....&lt;br /&gt;PLEASE STAY TUNED AND PLEASE COMMENT&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14282204-6496608613860175566?l=leapingrealeyes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://leapingrealeyes.blogspot.com/feeds/6496608613860175566/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://leapingrealeyes.blogspot.com/2011/05/true-humyns.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14282204/posts/default/6496608613860175566'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14282204/posts/default/6496608613860175566'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://leapingrealeyes.blogspot.com/2011/05/true-humyns.html' title='TRUE HUMYNs'/><author><name>HU-MYN</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='19' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_2po3B1moCd8/SG1x16B8D-I/AAAAAAAAAHM/Nex_Mj2tywo/S220/leapingsm2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-G3m7RFmUoFc/Tcm8hmYlx3I/AAAAAAAAATQ/fbuVkg4qGo4/s72-c/SPECIES.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14282204.post-4989619242749835743</id><published>2011-04-11T10:31:00.050-07:00</published><updated>2011-04-11T16:01:55.262-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Psychosis'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Collective'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Asylum'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Insane'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Self'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Real Eyes'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Learning'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Happiness'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Machines'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Century'/><title type='text'>Cognitive Dissonance</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lomWTS6lL70/TaNSEl-5XYI/AAAAAAAAASo/NxTbawuycTo/s1600/COG1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 209px; height: 241px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lomWTS6lL70/TaNSEl-5XYI/AAAAAAAAASo/NxTbawuycTo/s400/COG1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5594405400993160578" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Welcome To The Insane Asylum – Our Collective Psychosis&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Chapter One&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All Aboard the Crazy Train.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All amusement park rides have one characteristic in common. Regardless of the twists and turns of the experience, the exit is always at the end. This examination of our collective and individual dysfunction, our insanity, follows a similar path.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We start with the identification of a few of the bigger picture issues, then move closer for a critical inspection of several of the individual and cultural dynamics and end with some guidance towards the lighted exit sign and one possible way out.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I’ve never been more confident in humanity’s ability to finally throw off the chains that bind. But (and there’s always a “but”) this can only be accomplished using the powerfully disinfecting sunlight of awareness and understanding.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is usually achieved through self reflection, self actualization and eventually enlightenment.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A common misperception among many is that the general population is not intelligent enough to become aware and enlightened. The awakening process has nothing to do with our IQ and everything to do with our EQ or Emotional Quotient.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If we can be conditioned by fear and narcissistic naval gazing to be self destructive, we can be encouraged to be emotionally and spiritually healthy as long as we don’t look to our leaders for guidance. In fact, we must not transfer the responsibility for our own well being to others for this is simply an invitation to manipulate and extort us.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There’s no single solution, no magic button to be pushed that makes everything better, allowing us to go back to our comfortable insanity.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ultimately our own unique journey is a deeply personal and individual experience and while the direction is clear, the path is customized by each journey.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There is no softer easier way, no short cut through the maze and no one to walk the path for us. I know this because of my long and at times difficult personal experience overcoming self erected obstacles as well as those placed there by my culture and country.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I’ve tried every path I could possibly imagine before eventually settling on the only one I could find with an exit. That alone should be encouraging to many because until a few years ago I didn’t think there was a way out.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And I’m not alone because many people I talk to still feel it’s hopeless. The question (in my mind at least) is no longer can we save ourselves but what’s the process that must be followed in order to make the lasting changes needed to not only survive but grow and prosper.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Make no mistake about what I’m saying; there will be pain no matter what we do or don’t do. But there is pain during healing as well as pain during destruction and we have a choice.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Swimming in the Shipping Channel of Life&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The answers are deceptively simple, which makes it difficult for most people to accept when we’ve been conditioned to believe that complexity requires complex solutions. Nothing could be further from the truth.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When one finds they’ve dug themselves into a hole, the first rule to follow is to stop digging. Since we’ve been trained all our lives that digging’s what we do, it’s almost heretical to ponder anything else.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Considering how our narrow view benefits certain select “others” we should question everything we believe once we’ve stopped digging and are looking for a way out.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As with all my work, I ask the reader to consume it in it’s entirely, in the order presented and to leave all sections in context.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I’ve broken this essay into multiple parts (5 at this point) for easier consumption. But it really doesn’t work unless it’s read as a continuous thought process.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So I suggest you read each section in order because this isn’t 5 independent articles, but rather one article broken into 5 separate pieces.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Each section won’t necessarily make sense on its own unless you’ve read the preceding sections. Even then it might not make any sense, but I’m only responsible for my insanity. You’re on your own.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This silliness started out as a one or two page blurb but quickly morphed into Godzilla like proportions. Consider it the insane leading the insane and have some fun while expanding your mind.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;May I also suggest that you read each section twice, something I usually do when reading anything new? Reading it the first time trips all the objections my ego comes up with, which exposes my deep conditioning and indoctrination. My ego always defends my consciousness from the inevitable cognitive dissonance I experience when I read something that contradicts what I think I believe.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Basically my ego lies to me and then defends those lies using the pain of cognitive dissonance. The first reading clears out all those trip wires and leads the way for the second reading, which talks directly to the reasoning, common sense and empathy centers of my consciousness.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If I really enjoyed what I’ve read, it gets a third reading for the pure joy of it. And of course to make sure the new conditioning has been properly assimilated.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Have you ever noticed how upon reading something a second time, you’ll often find words, sentences, even entire paragraphs you somehow missed the first time around? It’s amazing how blind we are when our ego gets in the way.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Since this essay discusses subjects that are not exactly consensus opinion, expect to experience a few ego elevator drops.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I also swim pretty far from the pier of the commonly accepted understanding of “reality” in the later sections of this essay so expect some disorientation and wrinkled fingers and toes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The good news is that I’m beginning to find physicists and various other scientists swimming in the “what is reality” discussion philosophers have had to themselves for centuries.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So at least we won’t be alone as we tread water near the shipping channel buoys. I do hope you enjoy reading this as much as I did writing it. I’m sure you’ll let me know in the comments section.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Good, The Bad and The Ugly&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In an alternative universe such as Disney’s Magic Kingdom or Baum’s Wonderful Wizard of Oz, it’s always easy to distinguish the good guys from the bad, the truth from the lie. It usually has something to do with horned red devils and fire breathing dragons, with cotton tail bunnies and bizarre flying monkeys.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We were weaned from mother’s breast with mythical tales of gallant white knights and long haired princesses, ancient stories originally intended to inform us of life’s wisdoms, pitfalls and hazards.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But our modern myths and fairy tales only serve to obscure, propagandize and pacify. Rarely do we question the content of anything we consume that’s entering through our five (six) senses. If a new offering appears to be reasonably consistent with what was recently consumed, access is granted with little or no critical assessment.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Just go with the flow dude because it’s coming straight at you in torrents. After all what harm could a few TV sitcoms and dramas do to us, let alone the news?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I certainly know when someone’s pulling my strings don’t you?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Most of us rarely consider the possibility that much of what we “know” isn’t actually based in reality, but is in effect a shared illusion, an unspoken and shared understanding between the natives. Our modern world is readily accepted and acted upon simply because there’s no serious consideration given to alternatives.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After all, someone’s watching the store, right? We’re placed on an endless tread mill beginning around age 5 (some would say even earlier) and we’re assured this is normal and natural and everything that can be expected.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I know what I know because my parents and teachers taught me, my government and corporate approved propaganda reinforced it and now my TV and Internet are reinforcing the reinforcement. So it must be true simply because it all adds up to a staggering preponderance of evidence.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We’re assured it’s all as real as an eighteen wheeler hard on our ass and trying to pass. Besides, everyone else pretty much believes the same thing we do with only minor variations. They can’t all be wrong! So don’t fight it, just go with the flow.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However, upon closer examination, much of this evidence is validated through circular logic, with Alpha supporting Beta which supports Alpha which supports Beta. On those rare occasions when contrary information enters the system and startles our consciousness, it’s quickly washed out as an outlier or fat finger.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Madness and insanity, or dysfunction for those faint of heart who object to strong terms, is always self reinforcing, self perpetuating, self replicating and tolerates no contradictions. It is pure in form and function.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Unfortunately the world we live in isn’t quite as black and white as our story books, moving media and authority figures would have us believe. Instead, like some choking coal smoke that settles into every crack and crevice, we see nothing but endless permutations of gray wherever we gaze.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It’s not very satisfying, is it?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Where are the clear cut boundaries, where good begins and evil decays?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Where are the brightly colored super heroes to contrast the dark evil villains?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We can’t always tell them apart when they’re all covered in shades of gray.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I Can See Clearly Now, the Gray is Gone.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But wait, I think I know how to see through the haze. All it takes is an adjustment to my perception, a new set of spectacles for my senses. Like an old black and white TV, our most important sensory control knobs are brightness and contrast located between the ears. Between the two, everything can be brought into sharper focus.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I’ll just be the good guy and everyone else can be bad. I can see clearly now, the gray is gone. It’s gonna be a bright bright sun-shiny day.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A consistent theme in various articles and comments are the angry denunciations of those (never ours, always they or them or those) evil bankers and corporations, the complicit mass media, a compliant regulatory authority and droves of corrupt government officials at the highest levels. And don’t forget the dead-to-the-world great unwashed masses.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We complain they’re all engaged in an unprecedented (at least for modern times) take no prisoners thieving and feeding frenzy of those very same masses. And somehow we’re different, separated from the masses and the evil doers by our understanding and awareness of the fix that’s in.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Of course (we tell ourselves) this is being orchestrated by the powers that be, which can usually be found cowering behind the heavy curtains of the control system. They’re the ones pushing the levers and pulling the puppet strings, enslaving us with their fiat currency pushed by the black banking cabal without our consent and against our will.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here’s the proof, in black and white. Can’t you see it, there’s Professor Plum in the parlor with the candlestick?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And all of this may very well be entirely true. In fact, I believe much of it is. But it’s also mostly irrelevant to the one thing many of us are searching for in this filthy stinking mess. While it’s not voiced very often in the articles and comments, the great unanswered questions of this epic disaster are basic.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why is this happening?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How are “they” able to get away with it?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What is it about man that permits this cycle of greed and corruption to build to a climax and then recede, endlessly repeating the same cycle since well before Christ the Son of God or Ra the Sun God?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When will we accept that “they/them/those” won’t fix anything and it’s up to us to lead so that our leaders can follow?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the biggest paradox of them all, the underlying presumption is always that the machine itself works reasonably well if only the madmen were removed from the controls. But who put them there in the first place and won’t they just be replaced with more?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We don’t question the basic systems, only the perceived faults of individual parts and mechanisms. We fiddle with the wires, connections and duct tape while the bomb is still ticking, collectively oblivious to the obvious.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I assure you with absolute certainty that I don’t have all the answers. But I can also assure you with equal certainty that we’ll never find the answers unless and until the questions that really matter are not only asked and examined, but that it’s done honestly and openly.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In a world gone mad, sanity won’t be embraced or embodied until we examine our own insanity. Otherwise all we’re doing is soothing the savage beast within until this cycle ends and the next cycle of madness begins, bringing with it the next turning of humanity upon itself.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While the reader may complain that I ask too much of us, that the problems are too big and the powers too strong; consider that it may only appear that way because we see the issue as one huge problem.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is an illusion.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Icons of Insanity&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I’m using the words insane and madness in this essay not only to grab your attention but because I believe those are the proper words to use. But the inherent problem in using them is that the popular perception of insanity has been shaped by novels and TV. When one sees or hears the words insanity or madness, most people instantly visualize a serial killer randomly stalking victims before slashing them to pieces.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Or maybe one thinks of a totally dysfunctional asylum inmate zonked out on Thorazine, specks of spittle clinging to his lower lip while drool drips down the side of his mouth.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our popular culture is chock full of these images, from A Clockwork Orange to a Freddy Krueger. For the purposes of this essay, wash those images from your mind because our collective insanity is much more presentable and socially acceptable.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Despite these image problems, I’m still going to use the words repeatedly because the reader needs to understand that I do mean deranged, not fully aware, acting strangely or at cross purposes to one’s own long term survival. Some of the words used in the definition of mad or insane help to explain my meaning further, such as mentally disturbed, extremely foolish or unwise, imprudent, irrational, confused, extreme impulsiveness, unsafe, wildly impractical or foolish, ill-advised, dangerous, senseless, reckless, unsound, maniacal, angry or ill-tempered.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You get the picture.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I expect the reader’s ego response to being accused of insanity might be immediate and visceral and quite possibly insulting. I ask that you push past that initial impulse and understand that there are various levels of insanity, including high functioning and socially adapted. If you’ve come this far in the essay, let’s go the rest of the way. It’ll only hurt until the Thorazine kicks in.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our Cultural Insane Asylum– Welcome to the Machine&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The economic, social and political atrocity we’re not only witnessing but living isn’t their insanity, it’s our insanity; individually, collectively and culturally. This insanity, our insanity, is being outwardly manifested in individuals and groups, effectively in all of us to some degree or another.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We our engulfed by our insanity in the same manner some wretched character in a Greek or Shakespearian tragedy is consumed by an angry God, the devil or some other ill-tempered spirit.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today’s modern calamity is the compiled manifestation, expression, reflection and symptom of all the ugly lies, half truths, spin and self deceptions our society leaves unsaid, does not discus, hushes up, hides from view and buries in the back yard of our minds.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our inner dysfunction, while most certainly affecting us personally, is also expressed outwardly through us individually and collectively and in varying degrees and manner. And sometimes it’s focused within certain people and/or groups of people.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Or more accurately, our collective insanity is acted out by or within certain people or groups of people. Does this concept sound farfetched or even crazy? Why is it so easy for us to recognize someone else’s insanity or to see that a group of people are acting crazy or insanely and yet not see it within ourselves or in our own culture?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why can’t we recognize that we might very well have the same insane or unstable tendencies as those we’re pointing towards? Are we pointing our fingers away from us so that we may deny the source?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why do we so easily accept the concept of herd mentality, that people, either physically grouped into crowds or scattered throughout the world, can act as one (think of the markets) yet we reject this concept when it comes to madness, insanity or dysfunction?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why do we readily accept the phrase “The world went mad during WW 2” yet not think it was our own individual madness that we and the world were acting out?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why do we always exclude ourselves in part or whole from those or them?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Maybe we do accept the statement but don’t see how it relates to us. I know a few people who easily accept the idea that the world can/could/did go mad but not him or her.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So are we saying it was everyone else that was insane but not us?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If so, does this not illustrate our own dysfunction, to think we would be immune and not affected by what’s tormenting the entire world? We seem to have this serious mental and emotional block that prevents us from seeing the obvious.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Of course, it’s our ego that’s blocking our vision and awareness, a subject I’ve examined in more depth in a prior article.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.zerohedge.com/article/end-empire-waking-zombie-nations-psychology-consciousness-and-egoic-mind&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Precisely because of our intellectual and emotional inconsistency, helped along by our self deception, we can delude ourselves into thinking we’re OK.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Often we’re encouraged in this self deception by outside forces that fan the flames of self delusion for control and manipulation purposes. One of the many ways is through the display of individuals who are obviously and intentionally different from us.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They’re usually close enough to us for easy comparison thanks to TV and the Internet. But don’t dwell too long on the comparison because that might ignite self reflection. So the control system relies on quick glimpses that satisfy our need to feel superior, and thus separate, before the next manipulative image is presented.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cultural Insanity Reinforcement - American Idol Style&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Consider that a key component of the American Idol talent “competition” is the initial programs, where fool after fool is paraded before us. The canned laugh track encourages us to laugh and mock their inferiority and non conformity, thus enabling us to feel comfortable with our homogenization and normality.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This concept is ripped from the pages of 1984, where the carrot and stick approach is used to corral us into the hamster pens to work another day.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The carrot is acceptance by the welcoming and nurturing hive, where group think is rewarded and uniformity and conformity is applauded. The stick is to publically ridicule anything that the hive considers abnormal and thus subhuman, which of course can’t be a part of the hive.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It’s unthinkable to suffer this, a fate worse than death that of banishment from the hive. See how abnormal those dancing and singing fools are?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Only a crazy person would allow themselves to sing that poorly or act that stupidly on TV.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Carefully mixed in with the fools are the soon to be “discovered” hidden gems, which look just like you and I. Our mediocrity is validated because those gems look just like everyday people who escaped from the streets. “Oh look honey, another slave has escaped. I could as well if I practiced harder on my clarinet and got that boob job.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If I work some overtime for the next few months at the hamster wheel factory ………”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I wouldn’t be surprised if some of the more talented contestants aren’t seeded into the show by the producers. There are many ways to do so.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Regardless, the result has the intended effect; wonderfully talented but tragically and unfairly ignored men and women (invisible nobody’s like you and I) are finally discovered, their hidden talents recognized and validated by the world.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They’ve hit the big time and they fulfill every person’s fantasy through emotional transference, thanks to perseverance and our 50” HD surround sound LCD TV.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And the fools, after being stripped naked and displayed for the crowd to jeer and stone, are thrown out of the hive as unwanted trash, not even worth the nickel deposit, their part of the charade now complete.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Later, as some of the formerly hidden gems rise up the ranks (watch carefully how they’re steadily transformed with coaching, makeup and costumes) we allow ourselves to follow along, nurturing our fantasy that this too could be us. Thus we ascend God like into the glow of the adoring public, enabling us to feel superior while we wallow in our mediocrity.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And don’t forget the text voting, that wonderfully democratic principal that allows us all to participate in the crowning of our next plastic Idol on the dashboard of life. It must be true that I’m a singing fool because my fellow slaves elected me to the throne. The genius of American Idol is not in the music, costumes and coaching, it’s the magic that happens in the editing room and the manipulated voting.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Would Goebbels Like Reality TV?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There’s an extremely good reason why “reality” television shows are so popular. While we’re encouraged to suspend reality while watching regular TV dramas in order to enjoy the program, we consciously know it isn’t real, though unconsciously we make no such distinction.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But with “reality” television it’s real, right? It not only could happen but it is happening. Isn’t that the entire concept of “reality” TV, that it’s real?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Leaving aside the understanding that “reality” TV is highly choreographed and elaborately staged; the illusion is that it’s real. This allows the viewer to be swept up along with the contestants as they morph from cocoon to butterfly, taking fictional character empathy and self identification by the viewer to much higher levels than previously thought possible.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Goebbels, who until now had been the anointed master of the “Big Lie”, must be screaming in a jealous rage as he rots in his grave. And you thought this was just a talent show or a competition of “survival” on a tropical island.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This method of cultural conditioning is highly effective even when the viewer is aware of the dynamic, just as long as that person is somewhat dissatisfied with their life and is searching for meaning and understanding outside of themselves rather than within.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And the higher the IQ and financial earning power of an individual, the higher the likelihood they’ll be searching, particularly among those who are growing weary of our consumer culture.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some are beginning to recognize that we’ve been conditioned to believe happiness can only be found in an automobile or an iPhone. But where do we look when the hive actively discourages exploring anywhere but on the TV.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After all, isn’t that the purpose of American Idol, to inform you of what’s acceptable and what’s not?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Look at the viewer demographics of American Idol for the proof. The average Idol (Idle?) viewer is anything but run of the mill in nearly all the demographics, with higher than average IQ and better than average income.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is you and I folks, not simply the average blue collar beer swilling Joe we like to point to as the problem cattle in the mindless herd. I’ve seen the cattle and the cattle are us.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We as individuals, as a culture and a society, are only as sick as our deepest darkest secrets and lies. And all those buried and unspoken falsehoods surround us like an endless unmarked and unexplored mine field. On top of that, the lies we tell ourselves and each other in order to ignore this mine field add to the dishonesty that we live with and within. They fester inside our psyche, like swarms of virus bots consuming resources and destroying perceptions and pathways.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Have you ever wondered why confession, the purging of the “soul” of past transgressions, is so therapeutic and cleansing?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How could this be unless lies and self deception truly are harmful to the mind/body harmony? I’m not talking religion here, I’m talking inner balance. If one is to believe in personal evolution, isn’t rigorous honesty beneficial to a long and healthy life?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When navigating the jungle of life, you won’t last long if you’re in denial of your situation and are intentionally oblivious to that saber toothed tiger or that inner city bus. Though I guess that’s two ways to ineffectively scatter your seed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So does it really matter whether the dangers are physical or spiritual if the damage is ultimately as severe? I’ve spent some time studying indigenous cultures and very few (if any) developed such a dishonest and deceptive culture as ours is today.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These indigenous cultures flourished for hundreds if not thousands of years and many would still thrive today if they hadn’t come into contact with us. We came in peace, my childhood textbook claimed, written by the “winner” if that matters.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All we wanted was everything we wanted. What so bad about that?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ours is a culture that honors the glory and sanctity of God and humanity. And we constantly remind ourselves of this as we hack our way through one culture after another in a desperate attempt to rid the world of the cancer their sanity and harmony with self and nature represent to our own world. Our culture mocked their medicine men and shamans as primitive witch doctors at the same time we were bleeding people of evil spirits and burning witches.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oops, did I say that with my out loud voice?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That’s sacrilege after all, with the penalty now my choice, that of being burned at the stake or excommunication from the hive.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The indigenous shaman was by far the most important member of their culture, healing sickness they believed could be traced back to a soul/body/spiritual imbalance. But they also guided the individual and the tribe’s consciousness forward, teaching their fellow man of the dangers and pitfalls inherent in any culture that worshiped self above all else.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They warned their members of the hazard of endless accumulation and ego domination rather than harmony with a world in which they must co-exist or perish.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Their spiritual and cultural histories often reached back thousands of years and taped into an ancient wisdom and understanding that withstood the test of time, evident in both their healthy existence as well as the environment they lived within, not on or in spite of.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sounds like deep and valuable wisdom from where I stand and precisely why they were killed as quickly as they were discovered.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They were heretics and would act as strong antibiotics if they were introduced into the European and American cultural virus. We couldn’t even take the chance of trying assimilation, instead relying on the tried and true extermination.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Kill Baby Kill&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We as individuals and as a culture simply cannot destroy living beings, be they human, animal or plant, in such large quantities and with such speed without imbibing a daily dose of lies and self deception to kill the pain of our own sickness and insanity.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To actually comprehend the death and destruction by our own hand with even a minimal level of empathy or compassion would assure its immediate cessation. I wonder if that’s why our soldier’s bodies come home at midnight and the wholesale killing is either sanitized or completely missing from our TV and other mass media.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I certainly don’t have the stomach for this business and I suspect neither do you. While I understand I cannot covet my neighbor’s wife and daughter, I feel no discomfort if I covet his oil and other natural resources.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So as a society we ensure the resulting blood doesn’t splatter us and that death remains at a safe distance when we forward position our home grown madmen to oversee our neighbor’s destruction.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Kill baby kill.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And so slowly but surely, helped along with generous portions of self serving propaganda, the dehumanization of those “savage and primitive races” (today aka as terrorists) is complete and our population is infected with blood lust and material infatuation. And the rest, as they say, is bloody history; though you won’t find this version in any acceptably sanitized school text book.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our culture is plagued with school shootings, serial killers (government sponsored or otherwise) conducting mass murder, state sponsored genocide, fast food obesity and pill popping to kill our emotional and spiritual pain.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And of course don’t forget the constant mindless consumption to placate an emotional and spiritual emptiness that can never be soothed by material balms. But we can die trying, can’t we?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And we call ourselves sane.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The shaman was a healer in the broadest since of the word and the spiritual center and source of wisdom and guidance for the tribe.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The indigenous cultures were dependent upon their shaman to remain spiritually centered and physically healthy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Once they were gone, any surviving tribesmen quickly succumbed to the insanity of the Europeans once their spiritual anchors were uprooted and destroyed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Have you ever wondered why there are hundreds of stories of early European and American settlers in North America that willingly lived among and within these “primitive” cultures?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Once the non natives (the white man) had been thoroughly assimilated into these cultures, why did so many of them want to stay and even fought against their old countrymen in order to remain within their adopted cultural families?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These cultural adoptees talked about being the happiest and most fulfilled they’d ever been and how for the first time in their lives they felt at peace, both with themselves and with those around them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How could this occur in a culture that supposedly had nothing to offer the modern world?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What could these “backward” cultures possibly offer the so-called “civilized” Europeans and Americans that would be more attractive than what they already possessed?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Is it possible that our culture has lied to us about these things and potentially much more? Could it be that our culture isn’t healthy for us, is in fact killing us?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Might it be we’re being used and abused by our own culture for the benefit of others, that this isn’t a natural state for humanity and that this disturbance we feel is the source of our insanity?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I find it very revealing that the North American Indian has the highest rate of alcoholism and drug dependency in this country.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It makes sense when you consider that once stripped of their cultural support and defensive systems, their shamans and nurturing culture, the original source of their strength and spiritual health, that they would seek a substitute elsewhere. Consider how you would feel if you visited heaven and felt the warm embrace of peace and happiness, only to be ripped from its breast kicking and screaming and deposited into hell.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Maybe we should have their descendants consult our technology Gods to find a solution to their spiritual unhappiness and mental illness. You know what; I bet there’s an app for that.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In Chapter Two, we will continue our exploration of our individual and collective insanity, where we spend some time examining that lovable megalomaniac ego inside each of us, why and where it all went wrong, the sliding scale of insanity with lots of finger pointing, how we certify our madness for comfort and support, our mental toxic waste dumps and the first sighting of light at the end of the tunnel.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Or is that just the crazy train express to DC?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here’s one car wreck we can all safely examine as we drive by in our economic suicide machines.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;===========&lt;br /&gt; TWO&lt;br /&gt;===========&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-CJ84AlnH_V4/TaNSjDNwwYI/AAAAAAAAASw/zWbcZp9CddQ/s1600/STUPIDITY.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 216px; height: 234px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-CJ84AlnH_V4/TaNSjDNwwYI/AAAAAAAAASw/zWbcZp9CddQ/s400/STUPIDITY.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5594405924236214658" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Welcome To The Insane Asylum - Our Collective Psychosis&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Chapter 2&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Suicide by Cognitive Dissonance&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I’m always fascinated how I’m able to maintain two (or more) contrary views or beliefs in my mind, often without being aware they represent opposite positions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This of course makes them illogical and unsustainable. Inevitably, when I find myself troubled or irritable, a careful inward search usually finds a cognitive dissonance creating havoc in my mind which is often deliberately hidden from me by my ego.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The sign of this dissonance is invariably the emotional pain or trauma I’m feeling at the moment. Sometimes I experience it as a fight or flight sense of panic that suddenly takes hold.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wow! Where’d that come from?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why is it that every time I find some hidden cognitive contradiction or discord, it’s nearly always being promoted or obscured by my ego?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There seems to be constant conflict between my unconscious, which is all seeing and knowing, my ego, where much of our daily business of living is conducted, and my conscious awareness, which now-a-days isn’t all that aware.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why is my ego constantly shielding me from perceived dangers that may or may not really be harmful? Don’t I want to know the truth, to be aware of my world?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Often when I explore these conflicts I find that some of these dissonances are trivial, almost like little white lies. But the ego doesn’t hide each conflict as a self contained unit, intact and in one place. They’re scattered all over the place because each piece is often used in multiple distortions and deceits, almost like an intelligent operating system conserving scarce resources and hard drive space.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Only in this case, the intelligent operating system, aka the ego, intends to self deceive by way of subterfuge or outright lies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It seems so contrary to common sense for the ego, which is clearly not well suited to managing our affairs on a daily basis, to be front and center 24/7. This conundrum led me to research the subject and much has been written on this by many authors to date.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;An interesting theory is that some catastrophic event or trauma experienced by our ancestors thousands of years ago catapulted our ego forward from its former reserve status as emergency manager in waiting.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Julian Jaynes published some ideas on this subject back in 1976, ideas that are finally receiving the attention they deserve, principally because the science of imaging our brain while performing tasks has substantiated many of Jaynes suppositions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The many suspected reasons for this egoic change are beyond the scope of this article. But it does seem clear that earth’s biological system has suffered severe damage because we (our ego) aren’t cooperating with nature.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As I said earlier, our insanity doesn’t appear to serve our ultimate evolutionary purposes, though there are plenty of people who will argue that human activity is quite natural and normal. Ironically, insanely, we’ve convinced ourselves we’re normal when our actions might best be described as self will run riot.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Many have inferred that our materialism is directly related to our egoic mind.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I’ve often wondered if the sequence isn’t the other way around, that as certain human cultures became more materialistic over the past three or four thousand years, they became increasingly toxic and ill from their growing self centered materialistic way of life.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For the sake of this discussion, assume that materialism is ultimately unhealthy for humans for a whole host of reasons, a view I feel is unquestionably correct.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If so, then the ego would see this materialistic “condition” as a continuous emergency, requiring the ego to remain front and center in order to “save” our consciousness and body from ourselves by shielding us from our most destructive tendencies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This would be similar to our immune system rallying to protect our body from toxins that enter the body, even if we accidentally or intentionally ingested the toxins. The immune system (ego) protects itself by protecting the host, meaning us.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Without the host body, the immune system (ego) has no function or ability to exist, thus it defends us from all attacks, even suicidal attacks by us against ourselves, either individually or collectively.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The ego would be acting in much the same way the computers on those Mars rovers do, where various failsafe modes kick in when things start to go wrong. If nothing else, live to fight another day, even if the one we’re fighting is ourselves.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our immune system doesn’t make value or moral judgments of the crisis or the host and neither does our ego. Nor would we want our emergency back-up system, the ego, to make value judgments in order to determine if it should step in or not because it might just make the wrong one.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When its only purpose is to keep the system (us) alive, nothing else matters if the system is under attack. Maybe the ego is shielding us from our madness in order to protect us for as long as possible from our insanity?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Egoic Moral Suasion&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Interestingly, from another point of view, this could all be a positive feedback loop gone terribly wrong. Maybe it was some ancient trauma that brought forward our formerly waiting-in-the-wings emergency manger to full time duty.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But by being up front all the time rather than in the background, the ego is causing terrible long term destruction and distortions within us primarily because of the extremely blunt and unbalanced tools (mostly fear) it uses to control/influence us.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We must remember that our ego sees itself as a separate entity and not necessarily “us”.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As the ego tries to clean up or control the mess caused by its constant presence, maybe it turned our natural tendency to store supplies for lean times into a materialistic obsession as some sort of a diversion from the chaos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The captain always makes sure there’s plenty of work to keep the crew busy, particularly during unsettled times. Remember that the ego is not bound by logic or rational reasoning, only by the desire for both the ego and the host to survive using the equivalent of moral suasion. Mostly this means fear, which can manifest as greed, lust, gluttony and other not so obvious fear based emotions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I’m basically talking about the 7 deadly sins.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The result might explain our current mad dash into materialism, which is promoted by our ego in order to distract us from the damage caused by the ego being in constant control and doing a poor job of it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In my view, our insanity is caused in part by our out-of-control ever present ego and partly because we have so completely separated from our center, our core being that for yens of thousands of years lived in harmony with nature. These two causes are not mutually exclusive and actually fit quite well together.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;An example of this distraction would be the way we attempt to distract a crying baby with sounds, music or moving objects to divert their attention from their discomfort or trauma. Consider all the brightly colored toys you dangle in front of your son or daughter to quiet them down when they’re loudly letting you know they’re unhappy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The impulse to do this is definitely present in all of us, even if we don’t have children. Sit behind a crying baby on a plane and you’ll do anything to calm the infant short of jumping off the plane or physically hurting the child. This includes silly faces for the baby and angry faces for the mother.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Regardless we need to explain, or at least to understand, man’s suicidal obsession and addiction to materialism if we’re going to cope with our present condition. While there are many people on both sides of this argument, from my point of view man clearly does not co-exist with nature. This is contrary to the actions and behavior of nearly every single plant and animal species on earth, at least those who have not passed into extinction, a path we seem to be following.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I’ve always had a great distaste for the popularly held concept of evolution as “survival of the fittest”. If we look closely we see that in nature, it’s “survival of those who fit best within the whole” that best describes how Mother Nature works. And also our best chance for long term survival.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our delusion that technology alone will save us from ourselves is the best example I can use to illustrate our insanity. Nature in my opinion is the ultimate cooperative effort for the betterment of the whole, an egalitarian state if ever there was one.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Passages in the Bible instructing us to hold dominion over the earth, including everything on it, seems to be a rationalization for breaking the sacred contract all inhabitants of Earth are bound by.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let me step back to the original thought of our ego protecting us from our materialism. Since the ego is the emergency manager of the consciousness and the host body, it would make sense for the ego to see this unnatural materialism as a threat, both to itself and to the host body/consciousness.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Because the ego is currently untethered, the ego would handle this situation the best way it could, using the only tools at its disposal, that of fear, self deception and self deceit. Humans (as we currently are) have existed for tens of thousands of years. So from the ego’s point of view, this short period of insanity (the past couple thousand years) must simply be suffered through until our collective sanity returns. Maybe our ego really is protecting us from ourselves until we get better.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I went insane and all I got was this lousy T-shirt and a megalomaniac ego.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The native cultures of nearly all the continents were rarely as materialistic as the Europeans and Americans, despite possessing equal if not greater intelligence. And, at least for the North and South American native cultures, equal access to natural resources.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So what happened?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why did the Europeans tribes diverge from hundreds of similar cultures scattered throughout the world thousands of years ago, forsaking a more natural and homeopathic relationship with the earth for the naval gazing narcissistic materialistic approach that eventually destroyed (and is still destroying) all those cultures unlucky enough to be blessed with our presence?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Since every other culture had the same opportunity to break off, and for the most part did not, what came over the Europeans? Why were they afflicted with this insanity? From this point of view, our “Material Girl” culture might truly be a mental/spiritual sickness or illness as I’ve been suggesting when I call us insane.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The native American Indians (to name just one indigenous culture) express exactly this opinion, calling it the white man’s disease. Consider that the duties of the shaman were to teach his people how to keep the ego under control and in the back seat of the canoe. How and why did it all go wrong in Europe? It appears that this materialism truly began to fester as Europe came out of the Dark Ages.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While the entire world was also immersed in this Dark Age, the other cultures did not seem to be as afflicted as the Europeans. Look at the Muslim Middle East, the Far East of China and Japan; even Africa and the Americas didn’t suffer as Europe did.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These regions exited the dark ages more or less intact. Was this where the ego virus finally took control and infiltrated the human mind, in Europe during the dark ages? If only we could call upon Sherman and Mr. Peabody and their WABAC (“wayback”) machine for a trip back in time. I suspect we would find that our (winners) history books would need to be revised.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It’s Not Me, It’s You.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Regardless of the reasons for our insanity, the biggest and most destructive lie of all is the one about those/they/them being the evil perpetrators and me/us/we being the innocent victims. We cannot see, let alone conceive, that living among and within our secret lies, self deceptions and illusions is what’s driving us mad and thus how false the perception of “us” and “them” are.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We’re all part of a living breathing economic and social system and while on the surface there are definite distinctions, we’re all co-dependent.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Since nearly all of the intellectual, cultural and religious reference points that supposedly show us we’re sane were constructed by our insanity to feed and reinforce our insanity, how can we trust them?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I suspect this alone would drive us all quickly mad if not for the inner resource we all posses, the capability to recognize and understand “truth” at our very core.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I’m talking about our sixth sense, our gut, our instinct, that natural or innate impulse, inclination or tendency inherent in all of us to one degree or another. And which we’ve been conditioned to ignore, even reject, in favor of a “higher” influence, that of technology by way of cruise ships and cruise missiles, of central air conditioning and central government.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This isn’t an anti technology statement, this is a pro human statement.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Technology itself is neither good nor bad; it’s how it’s applied and the people applying it and using it that I have a problem with. When discussing technology, advocates fail to recognize that humans have used technology for tens of thousands of years. The problem has always been bad cell phone reception. :&amp;gt;) All kidding aside, any tool is technology.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Reed baskets to carry food or possessions, fire to cook and heat, carefully crafted stones used to cut, grind or pound, beasts of burden used to haul or plow the fields or as transportation, nets to catch fish or animals, fur or treated animal skins used as clothing, spears and arrows with stone points and so on.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So the argument that technology is killing us is wrong and missing the point.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I’ve often felt that technology helps hide our growing distance from both each other and ourselves. One need only witness two people texting each other while ten feet apart to understand that statement. Consider how many of us are desperate for human contact yet will phone, text, chat and blog rather than walk outside and meet the neighbor we’ve been living next to for the past 4 years and don’t even know by name. Is this not the definition of insanity, of our collective madness?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I relocated 12 years ago to the region I now live in. After moving in, I walked around to my nearest neighbors, knocking on doors and introducing myself.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You would have thought I was a rapist asking for willing victims the way I was treated.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Worse, I’ve related this story to easily a few hundred people over the past 12 years, including friends, family and clients. And every single person shakes their head in agreement that it’s crazy I was treated this way, as if they never ignored their unknown and unnamed neighbors. It’s always someone else who’s showing signs of insanity, not me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is sheer and utter madness; self centered narcissistic naval gazing taken to the suicidal level. It’s the cumulative concentration I’m talking about, not the individual incidents, which can always be easily explained away, thus maintaining our own denial.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Welcome to the Insane Asylum&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The only way we can sustain our existence while surrounded by this self deception is to lie even more about it, which only serves to drive us deeper into our madness in an endless positive feedback loop of insanity. We’re all on an exponential curve to hell of our own making, nurtured by our insanity and perpetuated by our denial. First we deny, then we deny our denial, then we forget we denied our denial.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Welcome to the insane asylum, where all are welcome and no one may leave, where everyone is both medical staff and suffering patient.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While in theory attendance in the asylum is voluntary, in practice it must be mandatory. However, in order to feed our delusion of freedom, our presence is seductively promoted as optional and cleverly disguised as choice.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Attendance must be mandatory because any sanity within the madness acts as an antibiotic, eating into all the intertwined self deceptions and delusions that form the basis for the madness virus.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sanity quickly disperses the madness by cutting away the illogical and irrational threads that loosely bind our insanity together. Thus the reason why we never step back for a big picture point of view and why so much is left unsaid and unasked.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sanity is a mortal danger to the collective insanity and must be cut out and removed if at all possible. Or at the very least, any sanity must be repressed at all costs. Aberrant thought or acts, defined as anything outside the range of 45 to 55 on a 1 to 100 scale, is quickly cauterized and rushed off the American Idol stage of life.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Welcome to the machine we all claim to hate but from which we derive our subsistence and support. We have become psychotic cannibals eating away at our own sanity in order to remain comfortably insane. Oh the inhumanity of it all.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Just a few people living and acting sanely function as a “sane” super antibiotic powerful enough to kill off a much larger number of the insane faster than a wooden stake to a vampire’s heart. Insanity simply can’t tolerate reason, logic or compassion in precisely the same way truth becomes extremely dangerous to those whose intent is to deceive or to thieve. The leverage gained from a small number of sane people acting to counteract the insanity will be discussed in an upcoming chapter of this essay because it’s one of the keys to our Escape from New York.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I’m Certified Sane. What About You?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To deny that this cultural insanity is a part of us, to deny that it must be recognized and then treated collectively by us is equivalent to claiming that the open cut on our arm isn’t our problem because we didn’t ask for it, didn’t cause it and don’t want it; thus we most certainly aren’t responsible for it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So we ignore it as it progresses from open cut to festering wound to stinking puss filled gash to gangrenous mass to agonizing death.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Since everyone else acts the same way, the herd reinforces our individual and collective behavior as the one and only proper conduct allowed and acceptable.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We’ll ride our righteous indignation, which we concoct to rationalize and justify our inaction, all the way to our grave, screaming at the top of our lungs as we reach for the white light at the end of the crazy train tunnel “See, I told you I wasn’t responsible for it”. Madness! This is madness masquerading as normalcy. And perfectly understandable when you consider that the madmen with the butterfly nets, meaning you and I, are making the rules and running the show.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why would we possibly endeavor to stick our heads out of our protective shells long enough to be decapitated. The genius of our insanity is breath taking, both figuratively and literally.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When considering our (human) behavior, I often apply what I’ve coined the “space alien observer test”. Animal behaviorists study their subjects over long periods of time in an effort to discern not only what’s going on but often the hidden reasons why.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If we attempt to apply these same techniques to the study of ourselves, how does one study humans (us) if we’re all insane? If we accept that much of our behavior is natural and thus reasonable and logical, how can we see anything wrong with what we don’t recognize as abnormal?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you don’t expect to find abnormal behavior and all you do see is “normal” behavior, I suspect most everyone is going to get a passing grade.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The “experts” are particularly susceptible to falling into this trap, having been conditioned and indoctrinated by the very same system they’re now expected to critically examine. I’m a so-called expert, having earned the full gauntlet of personal financial planning and security analyst certifications.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All that this extensive training and testing succeeded in doing was to teach me how to recognize what’s considered “normal” by the consensus and how to remain hidden in plain sight. Additionally I’m accepted by the other financial experts as one of the chosen. Until recently I was regularly invited to the club for drinks and dinner until I exposed myself (by dropping trousers) as a heretic and non believer. Damn, I’ll miss those Cuban cigars.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But all those calculations and charts are extremely convincing and unless I can regurgitate them come test time (and for continuing education) I won’t receive my accreditation as a “sane” expert financial planner/analyst. I occasionally make fun of my officially sanctioned and accredited sanity by saying “Hi, my name is [CD] and I’m a recovering financial planner.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It’s been 12 years since I last planned.” Life’s good since I got clean and sober and interestingly my clients are better off as well, at least financially.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All experts have an inherent conflict of interest. Since experts are officially considered by the hive elders as “sane” they must be the best judge of insanity, right? “Yup, that looks fine to me. Where do I send the bill?” Brings to mind a few Outer Limits programs where the poor sap is left to prove he’s sane after being diagnosed insane by insane people.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The only logical (sane?) way to examine humans is to use non humans as observers, thus the reasoning behind my “space alien observer test”. Of course, this is (for now) simply an intellectual exercise unless any aliens passing as human among us want to volunteer for duty. :&amp;gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Watch yourself carefully for a day or two. You’ll be shocked how nonsensical most of your behavior is and how difficult it would be to explain and rationalize our behavior to non humans, let alone your spouse.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While we believe we spend the day actively engaged, thinking, weighting and considering, it’s surprising how much of our waking moments are spent on auto pilot and disengaged. This is when we’re vulnerable, when we’re distracted and dazed, when any remaining sanity slips and our programming takes over.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I suspect the average person will quickly abandon our little experiment after he or she comes face to face with all the little dissonances and incongruities of daily living. It really is more comfortable back in the ignorant bliss of the collective insanity.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Sliding Scale of Our Insanity&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Many of us saw the 2008 crash coming well before the general population and we should acknowledge our insight and awareness. But this doesn’t mean we’re significantly smarter, more aware or better able to see other “truths”.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And it doesn’t excuse us from our responsibility to fix our collective problems. In fact, our awareness instills in us the responsibility of the first responder. Just because we were the first to spot the burning house doesn’t excuse us from volunteer firefighting duties when the paid firefighters don’t show up.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We don’t get to brandish this honor like a multiyear long insane asylum hall pass or a get-out-of-the-insane-asylum free card.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How many other lies can we truly be aware of if we won’t examine the primary lies within? For many, it’s too frightening to closely examine what we “know” because then we might be required to act. I know this not just from speaking to others but first hand after deep reflection and some soul searching. For a number of years I cooked up one excuse after another to justify doing nothing, including becoming a self appointed Paul Revere and riding from person to person spreading alarm and panic and doing absolutely nothing constructive.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But what a show I put on and it certainly was a soothing balm for my dishonesty. Waking people from their slumber without offering constructive and actionable pathways out of the train crash is cruel and unusual punishment after the fact, something I’ve been guilty of in the past.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My actions were equivalent to performing surgery and removing the anesthesia half way through the operation. In many respects, waking the slumbering without offering a way out can’t be justified morally.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I’m about to experience a car crash and my spouse is sleeping in the passenger seat. Do I wake my spouse to witness the crash or do I ask her to help me navigate around the disaster? If all I have to offer is awareness to the impending disaster, I might as well let her sleep. Or I can grow up and accept my responsibility and lead the way out since I’m already awake.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;BTW the slumbering mass instinctively understands the inherent danger of waking in the middle of major surgery. They also seem to understand that the vast majority of us really don’t understand the problem and have no viable solution to offer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thus it appears to them we simply want someone else to enjoy the show with us as we view our collective suicide.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is why we’re regularly rejected by those we’re trying to awaken. I don’t blame them because given the choice; I’d remain asleep as well. We must be the solution and they will naturally awaken without any prodding by us. More on how t
