"One if by Land and the Lantern is Lit..."
** Doing What the Multi-Billion Dollar Media Won't do **
The Truth will set you free. . . But only if You share it!
It's not about Republican or Democrat, Conservative or Liberal, Right or Left it's about Right and Wrong especially if
it deviates from the Constitution of these united States of America, which includes the Bill of Rights, of which this
country was founded. This is a Government Of, By and For the People. They work for us, The People, and are duly sworn to uphold all
articles of the Constitution. "To preserve, protect and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic."
The people have a duty and obligation to stay informed and keep watch over their government however if they are fed misleading or
incorrect information, by those who would then profit from those lies, then what's a person to do? You need to search out and read
the real news here and from real news sites.
Remember, public awareness drives public opinion.
A Quick Overview of the Stinking Financial Mess
This government of the U.S. is more than totally broke. As David Walker of the GAO tells here and as I have shown on
this website for over four years, we are all in a heap of trouble because of the Bush policies of diverting funds which
were to pay off "future obligations." This was a continuation of Clintons raiding the SS trust fund before him. And that
is just for Social Security and Medicare. There are other debts accumulating.. Ron Paul is the only person that has been
sounding the warning in CONgress for the past 25 years, increasingly so especially during the past 5 years, about this
problem, apparently to deaf ears while the media has been very silent on this matter till now.
2007
September 18 50 4.75
October 31 25 4.50
December 11 25 4.25
2008
January 22 75 3.50
January 30 50 3.00
March 18 75 2.25
Notice (on the chart above) that value of the dollar falls each time the Fed cuts its interest rate, actually it starts
falling just prior on the news that the cut is about to go in. This is a direct cause and effect tantamount to throwing
fuel to the inflationary fire which just makes conditions much worse. The latest and most devastating fall happened
toward the end of February on the mere news that there was going to be another cut.
On top of this they keep adding massive infusions of cash to the market in order to bail out only those most crooked
bankers and investors that have gamed the system the most. They gambled with a leverage/margin of normally 10 to 1 but
Bear Stearns is reported to be in there for over 30 to 1. The problem gets much worse, when they bundle and create SIVs
and CDS' there is a further leverage of leveraged assets. This goes to then 100 to 1 and on and on. In 2005 there were
$72 Trillion in derivatives with leverage reported to be 712 to 1 average. The latest is there are $516 Trillion in
derivatives out there. That is 10 times the GDP of the entire world.
These infusions come out of thin air in that they just print more money but the direct effect is just adding more water
to an already watered down dollar. They are not only prolonging the inevitable fall of these crooks on wall street but
they are rewarding them with our money. It was their gamble and they should lose and go to jail for their reckless
actions.
It was also the incredibly stupid gamble of all those that bought or refinanced homes since 2004 thinking that prices
would always go up. This is the Tulip mania
(madness of crowds) all over again. By mid 2004, for me and many others, the red lights have been blinking like
crazy. It was reported here and many other places that this was going to be the end result of the feds actions of
lowering the interest rate all the way down to 1%. This was done to give an "artificial prosperity" to keep the plebs
happy and kick the already boiling financial mess down the road, they hoped till 2009 for the next president to deal
with.
As currency traders react to each new injection of liquidity and the lowering of US interest rates, the dollar keeps
losing value. It lost 1% this past week compared to the Euro. It has gone down 6% in the past month, 17% in the last
year, and a whopping 31% since late 2005. The Fed should stop cutting rates, which would end that decline.
Our major creditors do not want the weak dollar and thus dump it increasingly. Most intelligent people can see this
relationship however the guy that has his hand on the "money eject button" seems to either not have a clue or is deliberately doing
this to destroy the dollar and your future. Neither of which is a good thing thus Bernanke is just too dangerous to be
allowed to be where he is and do what he is doing. He is quite literally "a weapon of mass destruction."
Now a true free market would have crashed and recovered back in 2004 or so but this is not one of those. To the
consternation of those that thought they were in the know and on top of it all is the fact that there is a thing called
the "Presidents working group on financial markets" - PWG. This is the infamous Plunge Protection Team that was created
just after the 1987 crash. It purpose was to prevent that type of thing from happening again.
Well they have been using it to come in and buy up the market thus boosting prices of those stocks that were sinking and
make it appear that happy times are here again, over and over... Did you ever wonder why banks and financial institutions
were the ones that benefited the most after the last several 3-400 point crashes? Why would anyone be jumping into something
that was all bad news, then the next day the market is up 300. Furthermore, a not well understood result of this is that the
Government now owns a major amount of those stocks that it propped up in the past. So now they cannot allow them to go
down and will do anything to continue this farce and that includes printing money and is the reason for helicopter ben
(Bernanke) to arrive on the scene.
The problem, as it has always been is that all money (National Debt., Wars, excess spending..) has to be
paid back eventually. If they just keep printing it then that dilutes YOUR money and causes inflation which lags for an
amount of time, but it will catch up eventually. Their debts will be left for YOU to pay them back. How they will make
you do that is to destroy everyone except for the mega rich, through extreme inflation -- boom/bust cycles, and then take
their assets for pennies. The bust is in process.
The 1929 crash and depression was similar but different in the way that it was Deflationary because the fed deliberately
pulled the money from the public supply and made cash very sparse. No one had any money and no one could pay anyone and
everything just crashed. Now heli ben (ben from hell?) seems to think that he is studied in the great depression and he states "He will
never allow that to happen again." Thus his intentions to throw money at the problem -- The one that they created in
the first place -- but this one will be an Inflationary depression... if not
Hyperinflationary Depression.
I do not want to blame this all on Bernanke, prior to him, Greenspan laid the perfect foundation for him. In 1999, Clinton and Greenspan
killed the Glass-Steagal act. This was the 1933 FDR Federal Banking act that was put in place to prevent any funny investing
by the banks of their meagre 10% assets. By killing it the banks and large financial institutions have been free to play
the derivatives game to abandon. On top of that in 2003 the Bush admin stifled and killed all investigations made by
Elliot Spitzer and 49 other attorneys General
of the other states into fraudulent loan practices which was the cream of this crop of corruption.
By lowering the interest rate well below the real CPI/Inflation rate the central bank is helping securities firms while
delaying and deepening a bear market and recession. The long term consequences will be devastating for the dollar. Our
status of the worlds reserve currency is pretty much kaput when we are borrowing nearly $3 Billion dollars a day to
fund our extreme expenditures. The creditor nations are just plain tired of funding our reckless spending for illegal
wars, attacking other innocent nations that just happen to be sitting on tons of oil.
Iraq has now cost over $3 Trillion
with a long term cost at upto $5 Trillion
if we were to leave now. We are now running over $600 Billion in deficits a
year with nearly a Trillion in military spending a year, more than the military spending of all other countries in the
world combined. There is an old saying "when in a hole, Stop digging." Instead they have accelerated the digging to an
extreme rate. The Oil connected War Profiteers in the Bush admin are
destroying America with this spending.
For a real shocker, according to a
military budget document FY2007,
on page 69, there were "Total Liabilities Not Covered by Budgetary Resources" of (1,639,720.6) 2007, (1,614,144.3) 2006.
That is over $3.2 Trillion dollars that is kept off the books because it was not funded, yet it was spent!
"The Department expects to receive the necessary budgetary resources to cover these liabilities in future budget years."
In other words, You will Pay for it but you do not know about it because it is hidden on the books for future payment.
If they wanted to help out the economy then they would have left the rates alone back in January especially since they
saw that the other cuts did practically nothing positive yet had major negative effects. And please stop bailing out the banks.
Some of them just need to go away, it was their bet and they lost.
Let them suffer their multi-Billion dollar bonuses.
Now, we the taxpayer will be paying for all this for many years to come. It is just a transfer of money from the poor and middle
class over to the rich and well off in a way that few will see what really went on.
Homeowners must learn that there are risks to using a home as an ATM. Investors who borrowed to flip condos must learn
the downside of such risk. In one of this year's primary debates, Ron Paul said it is not the president's job to run
the economy. I'd add that it is not the government's job either. It is each and every citizen's job to manage our own
affairs, make our own decisions, bear the fruits or painful consequences and learn our lessons.
The fundamental problem is the Fed itself, which purports to be the great savior of the money system but in fact is its
destroyer. By flooding the economy with ever more paper money, it reduces the value of our money – an insidious tax that
the governing elites levy in ways that keep the people in the dark.
And here's the heck of it. When the Fed expands the money supply, it can funnel money to the elites long before the
people are forced to pay the price. As Rothbard explains, those who get the money first are permitted to use it before
prices rise for everyone else. By the time the new money circulates through the economic system and hits everyman’s
pocketbook, the elites who received the first round of injections have made off like bandits.
Ron Paul has explained this to Bernanke
several times in the past several months but Bernanke just says that the American people will not see much of any effect from the dollars
loss of value. That statement is just so completely wrong, how could the rest of congress possibly allow this idiot to continue these
insane actions.
It will be a long slow burn but their intent is to transfer (steal) all they can in these last days -- massive military
spending. There are at least $3.4 Trillion dollars missing from the Pentagon as of mid 2002. The Social Security and
Medicade programs are basically defunct in their future payment ability. The National debt is now $9.3 Trillion dollars,
a massive increase from $5.7T when Bush was 'selected' as our pResident.
The CPI, inflation and unemployment rates are several percent higher than reported.
Consumer Price Index Soars; Inflation Continues To Accelerate - 12%.
The CPI currently does not include food nor energy, furthermore when an indicator gets too
high then it has a lesser multiplier on it and conversely if it goes down then the multiplier is increased. This has the
desired effect of keeping the figure way understated. Now this is a compounded cumulative savings to the government ie:
that a nominal 4% differential over 10 years equates to 54% savings in entitlements and cost of living payments but this
is just a major screwing to the recipient. In just the past 10 years, it is estimated that these payments are up to 70%
too low because of the aforementioned slight of hand.
What is going to happen is when most of the lowly people of the US are totally spent out then they will revalue the
dollar into something called the Amero (as best we know) in the further push to bring in the North American Union. Those
that transfered all their money out of the dollar,
like cheney did in 2005 and since(Millions, mostly scabbed from his
halliburton connections and its War Profiteering during this illegal war), will then come in and buy up everything for pennies on
the dollar -- or whatever it is called then and by paying off those debts with worthless dollars. This is exactly how the
rothchilds made their fortune in the 1800's.
Here we are with the media soaking up the airwaves and papers with tales of Paris Hilton or some other irrelevant nonsense
while there is a systematic treachery in the houses of CONgress with the ominous trail of legislation quietly enacted that
legitimizes the destruction of all that has set us as a nation apart -- protection from unwarranted search and seizure,
habeas corpus, safeguards against military or monarchical rule, renunciation of torture....
A quartet of laws has been signed that lays the complete legal foundation for the takeover of our constitutional
republic. They are the (so-called) Patriot Act of 2001 (extended in 2005); the Military Commissions Act of 2006 (which
allows for the suspension of habeas corpus and the practice of torture and rendition); the John Warner Defense
Authorization Act of 2007, which facilitates the declaration of martial law and nullifies posse comitatus by allowing
the President to station troops anywhere in the country and to commandeer the National Guard without the consent of
local authorities; and, finally, the National Security and Homeland Security Presidential Directive, signed on May 9,
2007, which in the event of a catastrophe would place all governmental authority in the hands of the President.
If we are a nation of laws ... then in light of the laws above, we are no longer the nation we once at least strove to
be.
Please, share this website and these truths to others. There are over 30,000 of the very best links to articles
over the past 4+ years here. This editor has been very selective in linking the closest to the truth articles.
You can go back and see the oldest of them here proving that
what may have been absurd then is now commonly accepted knowledge.
If the majority of the people and those in congress were required to absorb these truths then the United States and the world
would be a much nicer place for everyone. We would not have a runaway government accountable to no one. Runaway inflation at 11+% -
unbeknown to most everyone. No Iraq war for lies, oil, power and the bridge to global domination etc...
Truly, we the people are now in deep with our "I don't know and I don't care", (fed to us AND Taught to our children) attitude
and the bought off and controlled mainstream media feeding us senseless platitudes and placations.
"Who will govern the governors? There is only one force in the
nation that can be depended upon to keep the government pure
and the governors honest, and that is the people themselves.
They alone, if well informed, are capable of preventing the
corruption of power, and of restoring the nation to its
rightful course if it should go astray. They alone are the
safest depository of the ultimate powers of government"
-- Thomas Jefferson
"The moral and constitutional obligations of our representatives
in Washington are to protect our liberty, not coddle the world,
precipitating no-win wars, while bringing bankruptcy and
economic turmoil to our people."
-- Congressman Ron Paul
"Deficits mean future tax increases, pure and simple. Deficit
spending should be viewed as a tax on future generations, and
politicians who create deficits should be exposed as tax
hikers.
-- Congressman Ron Paul
"How can you pursue this policy that you have without further
weakening the dollar? There's a dollar crisis out there, and
people's money is being stolen! People who have saved, they're
being robbed!"
-- Congressman Ron Paul speaking to Bernanke about his
unsound policies at the Fed. 11-8-07
"Americans think their danger is terrorists. They don't
understand the terrorists cannot take away habeas corpus, the
Bill of Rights, the Constitution.... The terrorists are not
anything like the threat we face from our own government in
the name of fighting terrorism.... The American constitutional
system is near to being overthrown"
-- Paul Craig Roberts
"When once a republic is corrupted there is no possibility of
remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the
corruption and restoring its lost principles; every other
correction is either useless or a new evil."
–- Thomas Jefferson on the necessity of the impeachment
provisions to our Constitution
"The World is not dangerous because of those who do harm but
because of those who look at it without doing anything."
-- Albert Einstein
"Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of
truth."
-- Albert Einstein
"Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect
liberty when the government's purposes are beneficial."
-- Justice Louis Brandeis
"Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are
the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty."
-- Thomas Jefferson
"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance."
-- Thomas Jefferson
"All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good
conscience to remain silent"
-- Thomas Jefferson
"When the people fear their government, there is Tyranny;
when the government fears the people, there is Liberty."
-- Thomas Jefferson
"You only have the freedoms you are willing to fight and die for."
-- Thomas Jefferson
"Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later."
-~ Benjamin Franklin
"...advanced forms of biological warfare that can target
specific genotypes may transform biological warfare from the
realm of terror to a politically useful tool."
http://newamericancentury.org/RebuildingAmericasDefenses.pdf
-- neocons own document pg 60 - They Epitomize Evil
"How America looks in the future is largely up to us. 'We the
People' are ultimately responsible for what does or does not
happen in Washington."
-- David Walker, comptroller general of the United States
"Simply stated, America is on a path toward an explosion of
debt. And that indebtedness threatens our country's, our
children's and our grandchildren's futures. With the looming
retirement of the baby boomers, spiraling health care costs,
plummeting savings rates and increasing reliance on foreign
lenders, we face unprecedented fiscal risks."
-- David Walker, comptroller general of the United States
"One cannot wage war under present conditions without the
support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the
press and other forms of propaganda."
-- General Douglas MacArthur
"It is natural for man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We
are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen
to the song of that siren till she transforms us into
beasts... For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost,
I am willing to know the whole truth, to know the worst, and
to provide for it."
-- Patrick Henry
"The cardinal rule of a closing or closed society is that your
alignment with the regime offers no protection; in a true
police state no one is safe."
-- Naomi Wolf
"John Adams wrote, 'Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.' We
stand at a defining moment for America. If we do not act now,
we risk the freedoms that sweat, blood, sacrifice, and loyalty
to inalienable rights have earned us over the past two-hundred
thirty-one years."
-- Naomi Wolf Author of ‘The end of America: letter of warning
to a young patriot.’
"Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a
little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."
-- Benjamin Franklin
"When even one American -- who has done nothing wrong --
is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth,
then all Americans are in peril."
-- Harry S. Truman
"To announce that there must be no criticism of the president,
or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong, is
not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable
to the American public."
-- Theodore Roosevelt
"The Greatest Enemy Of Knowledge Is Not Ignorance...
...It Is The Illusion Of Knowledge"
-- Stephen Hawking
"Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth."
-- Henry David Thoreau
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when
everything the American public believes is false."
-- William Casey, CIA Director (first staff meeting, 1981)
Headlines below are rated: least <= <== <=== most important. These are the most important articles in the past
4 years, about 1 in 10 of what I have read from the most important websites which had already selected the best.
They represent a snap-shot of just how the country got into this state of dis-repair. These are only the least or un
reported articles. Things you probably did not hear on your favorite main-stream media.
The articles and facts are solid proof that the media has not been doing its job otherwise Bush would be a packin.
See Top Sites to find these articles for yourself. It is recommended that you check all the pages
listed at the top for the many issues of concern.
I have broken the news headlines into 2 pieces, putting the "must read" news on this page and the lesser yet still
important news here, so as to not clutter up the major issues going on.
To find specific data: Windows - CTRL and F keys, Macintosh - APPLE and F keys
Makes 'Fahrenheit 9/11' look like 'Bambi.' Aaron Russo goes for the jugular --
the two planks of the communist Manifesto instituted in America in 1913, The Marxist Graduated Income Tax and the Private Central Bank --
the Federal Reserve.
90 minutes of pure demolition evidence and analysis, laced with staggering witness testimonials. Moving from "the myth" through "the analysis"
and into "the players," careful deconstruction of the official story set right alongside clean, clear science. Real Facts.
Must read - Essential News
The time is getting Late, What are you going to Do? We are all responsible. Look in your mirror today and
choose the badge of courage not cowardice. Be the Change you want. Speak out. Say NO to evil.
